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Seeing the United Arab Emirates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Summit pulled together experts on roughly seventy different topics to discuss the current and future state of major issue areas: areas as varied as water, mining, nanotechnology, governance, economic development, economic meltdown (kidding) and so on.

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The First AI Center of Excellence Announced in the United Arab Emirates – Powered by DataRobot

DataRobot

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China’s Baidu could launch commercial self-driving taxi service in UAE: report

TechNode

Chinese tech giant Baidu is considering deploying its autonomous ride-hailing service in the United Arab Emirates and has been in discussions with the local government, people with knowledge of the matter told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

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To Dubai on an Emirates Airbus 380

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My current business trip started by heading for Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was easier to say yes than usual: I'd never been to Dubai or the region, and the government of Dubai and Emirates airline offered to fly me there business class!

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Gulf states using COVID-19 contact tracing apps as mass surveillance tools, report says

The Verge

The study analyzed a collection of contact tracing apps, which are designed to inform and monitor physical contact between people in the event someone contracts COVID-19, from 11 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, France, Iceland, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.

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New analysis further links Pegasus spyware to Jamal Khashoggi murder

The Verge

New forensic analysis indicates that representatives of the United Arab Emirates government installed Pegasus spyware on the phone of Hanan Elatr, wife of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, just months before her husband was killed. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

Candid

For 20 years, the global communications firm Edelman has studied the influence of trust across government, media, business, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Respondents in six wealthier nations—the Netherlands, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and Japan—fewer than half of respondents trusted NGOs.