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TikTok pledges €12B European investment as Norway data centre nears completion

The social media giant wants to dispel fears that Europeans are being spied on TikTok has promised to invest €12bn as part of an ongoing push to appease European regulators, who have raised suspicions that the app’s user data is being monitored by the Chinese government. In response to repeated allegations of this nature, the short-form video app…

Saudi Arabia announces 300% increase in installed renewables capacity, and 43.9 million trees planted since launch of Saudi Green Initiative

It is a whole-of-society initiative to oversee and unite the Kingdom’s efforts to combat climate change, drive sustainable innovation and accelerate the green transition The third edition of the Saudi Green Initiative (SGI) Forum took place today in conjunction with the twenty-eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention…

A Life-Extension Drug for Big Dogs Is Getting Closer to Reality

The FDA has yet to approve any drugs for life extension. But biotech company Loyal is now a step closer to bringing one to market—for dogs THERE’S A WELL-ESTABLISHED inverse relationship between a dog’s size and its expected lifespan. Bernese mountain dogs and Great Danes live just six to eight years, for example, while corgis can…

International tourism to end 2023 close to 90% of pre-pandemic levels

According to the latest data from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), an estimated 975 million tourists traveled internationally between January and September 2023, an increase of 38% in the same months of 2022 UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili said: “The latest UNWTO data shows that international tourism has almost completely recovered from the unprecedented crisis of COVID-19 with many…

New Era of Innovation

Quantum technologies are a new stage in the development of scientific and technological progress, which promises revolutionary changes in various areas of human activity. Let’s take a look at what quantum technologies are and what prospects they offer: Quantum technologies are based on the laws of quantum mechanics, which describe the behavior of particles at…

Pushing the frontiers of art and technology with generative AI

“I believe by using AI, whether generative or otherwise, we have the opportunity to find the language of humanity,” media artist Refik Anadol told an MIT audience Many people are scrambling to predict how AI will impact society. But living in a world of ubiquitous computing has already changed us in ways we might not…

Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin investigated babies’ ability to process phonetic information during their first year Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That’s because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic information, in their first months. Phonetic…

The Smart City Journal confirms its international leadership

Esther Fuldauer is the new Global Manager of IT and Content, while Nuria Sala joins as the Vice President of Smart Health. The Smart City Journal (www.thesmartcityjournal.com) has reaffirmed its international leadership in the sector, breaking its records this November, with nearly 700,000 accesses (676,847) and notably an impressive number of new visitors (57,719). These…

Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council launches ‘AI71’: New AI Company Pioneering Decentralised Data Control for Companies & Countries

New Company to foray into multi-domain AI advancements, with an initial focus on Medical, Educational, and Legal sectors In an era of rapid advancements across artificial intelligence (AI), Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) is making yet another bold stride with the launch of its new AI company, AI71. The entity builds on the…

2023 European Capital of Innovation announced: Lisbon and Linköping are the winners of this year’s iCapital Awards

The European Commission has revealed today the winners of the European Capital of Innovation Awards (iCapital), with the main prizes going to the cities of Lisbon and Linköping Moreover, the 1st and 2nd runners up have been also announced as follows: The European Capital of Innovation category: Lisbon (Portugal) - winner Warsaw (Poland) - 1st runner up Lviv (Ukraine) – 2nd runner up The…