19+ hour ago  (1077+ words) For those looking to move beyond the default envelope of cash this Eid Al Adha, tech gifts have quietly become the more interesting option: useful, slightly indulgent and increasingly reflective of how people actually live now. These are the gifts…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (592+ words) As millions of pilgrims prepare to travel to Saudi Arabia for Hajj, Madinah is becoming the site of one of the region's most ambitious digital infrastructure experiments. Beneath the city sits a live urban twin designed to model crowd movement,…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (864+ words) The Gulf's AI ambitions depend on something surprisingly fragile: a handful of undersea cables running through some of the world's most volatile waterways. Countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE have spent billions building AI infrastructure, attracting hyperscalers and positioning…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (213+ words) This year's record-breaking edition of Watches & Wonders saw more than 60, 000 visitors navigating 84, 000sq m of floorspace to view timepieces from 65 brands across seven days. As can be expected, navigating such high traffic at Watches & Wonders can be an exercise in survival…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (869+ words) Detecting a human heartbeat from kilometres away sounds like science fiction. A recent New York Post report claimed the CIA used a secret system called Ghost Murmur during a rescue operation in Iran, allegedly identifying a hidden pilot through heartbeat…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1214+ words) Google just wrapped its keynote address at its annual I/O developer event. The company showed off a swath of new agentic AI features and some demos of its upcoming Android-powered smart glasses. As it has in the past few…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (540+ words) WIRED Middle East When I started working on this issue, I wanted to focus on how the region has become one of the global focal points for technology, and where that might take us. Since then, the world has turned…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (506+ words) For decades, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) lived at the edge of science fiction and academia: electrodes, experimental prototypes and grant-funded labs attempting to decode flickers of neural intent. In 2025, that boundary shifted. Not in Silicon Valley or Boston, but in Abu…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1053+ words) The revelations triggered controversy over a major breach of Iraqi sovereignty. In response, the Iraqi Army and Popular Mobilisation Forces launched Operation Imposing Sovereignty across the Najaf and Karbala deserts. But the operation exposed a bigger problem: Iraq does not…...

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