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Minister of Communication and Information Technology Abdullah Al-Sawaha addressing the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. — File photo
40% of smartphone material made by Saudi Arabia
Saudi Gazette reportBarcelona — Saudi Arabia manufactures some 40% of innovative material used in smartphones, according to Minister of Communication and Information Technology Abdullah Al-Sawaha.Addressing the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona last month, Sawaha said, “95% of smartphones displayed here in MWC are made by chipsets that are made in partnership with Saudi Arabia.”ARM, the chipset manufacturer owned by SoftBank and Vision Fund of Saudi Arabia, makes the innovative material that goes into smart phones along with SABIC, the second largest global petrochemical company.“I’m going to share with you a story of how a nation is transforming at light speed leveraging its factor based economy and its leadership as the 18th largest economy to leapfrog into the future...
March 04, 2019

40% of smartphone material made by Saudi Arabia

Doctor Antonio Lacy of Hospital Clinic de Barcelona delivers a speech at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on Wednesday. — AFP
Doctor performs first 5G surgery in step toward robotics ‘dream’
BARCELONA, Spain — Next-generation wireless technology is taking the medical world a crucial step closer to robots performing remotely-controlled surgery, a doctor in Spain said on Wednesday after carrying out the world’s first 5G-powered telementored operation.Doctors have telementored surgeries in the past using wireless networks but blazing fast 5G increases image quality and definition which are crucial for medical teams to take decisions with as much information, and as few mistakes, as possible.“This is a first step to achieve our dream, which is to make remote operations in the near future,” said Doctor Antonio de Lacy, after providing real-time guidance via a 5G video link from a Barcelona congress center to a surgical team which operated on a patient with an intestinal...
February 27, 2019

Doctor performs first 5G surgery in step toward robotics ‘dream’

Roblox, the game platform teaching young kids to code
PARIS — With its Lego-like avatars and easy-to-learn coding for budding programmers, the online gaming app Roblox has cornered the market in younger gamers, with 80 million monthly users, many of them under 16. Now the platform, which has already taken the United States by storm, is setting its sights on Europe and Asia to become a global giant. Kids log on to the mobile app after school to guide their avatars through obstacle courses full of pitfalls, escape from jail, dive into a treasure hunt or even to build their own adventure park. None of it is very original, content-wise, and its simplistic, blocky style cannot compete with the lush aesthetics of the big studios' games, but its 3D user-generated games are aimed at younger players, and at teaching them coding skills for the...
February 15, 2019

Roblox, the game platform teaching young kids to code

Around half of those between the ages of 12 and 35, or 1.1 billion people, are at risk due to
Turn down the volume: WHO takes aim at harmful smartphone use
Geneva — More than one billion young people risk damaging their hearing through excessive use of smartphones and other audio devices, the UN warned, proposing new safety standards for safe volume levels.In a bid to safeguard hearing, the World Health Organization and International Telecommunications Union issued a non-binding international standard for the manufacture and use of audio devices.Young people are particularly prone to risky listening habits.Around half of those between the ages of 12 and 35, or 1.1 billion people, are at risk due to “prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds, including music they listen to through personal audio devices,” the UN health agency said.WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed out that the world already has “the technological...
February 13, 2019

Turn down the volume: WHO takes aim at harmful smartphone use

David Aguliar poses with his prosthetic arm built with Lego pieces during an interview with Reuters in Sant Cugat del Valles, near Barcelona, Spain. — Reuters
Brick by Lego brick, teen builds his own prosthetic arm
SANT CUGAT, Spain — David Aguilar has built himself a robotic prosthetic arm using Lego pieces after being born without a right forearm due to a rare genetic condition. Aguilar, 19, who studies bioengineering at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Spain, is already using his fourth model of the colorful prosthetic and his dream is to design affordable robotic limbs for those who need them. Once his favorite toys, the plastic bricks became the building material for Aguilar's first, still very rudimentary, artificial arm at the age of nine, and each new version had more movement capability than the one before. "As a child I was very nervous to be in front of other guys, because I was different, but that didn't stop me believing in my dreams," Aguilar, who is...
February 07, 2019

Brick by Lego brick, teen builds his own prosthetic arm

'Quantum leap' in AI-related patent filings: UN
GENEVA — The UN noted Thursday that patent filings for artificial intelligence-based inventions have exploded in recent years, with more than half of all such patents filed since 2013. New data from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) documented a massive recent surge in AI-based innovations, indicating that such technologies have taken a giant step out of the theoretical realm. "There has been a quantum leap since about 2013," WIPO chief Francis Gurry told reporters in Geneva. "We can expect a very significant number of new AI-based products, applications and techniques that will alter our daily lives, and also shape future human interactions with machines we created," he added in a statement. Artificial intelligence is a key element of many...
January 31, 2019

'Quantum leap' in AI-related patent filings: UN

A woman uses her iPad for a Facetime conversation in Rome on Tuesday. A newly discovered FaceTime bug lets people hear and even see those they are reaching out to on iPhones using the video calling software, sparking privacy fears. — AFP
iPhone FaceTime bug lets callers eavesdrop
San Francisco — A newly discovered FaceTime bug lets people hear and even see those they are reaching out to on iPhones even if the other person hasn’t answered their phone.When a phone number is dialed on FaceTime -- the iPhone’s internet-based voice and video calling feature -- the caller can swipe up from the bottom of the screen and tap an option to add a person, according to video demonstrations.If the caller then enters their own number as that of the added caller, a group call begins even though the person being called hasn’t even answered.The caller can then eavesdrop on the person being called, and in some demonstrations even watch them through the camera app. Declining a call breaks the connection.The bug, initially outlined by Apple product and review website...
January 29, 2019

iPhone FaceTime bug lets callers eavesdrop

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO), Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C44) launches off onboard India’s Defense Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) imaging satellite ‘Microsat R’ along with student satellite “Kalamsat” at Satish Dhawan Space center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh state, on Thursday. — AFP
India launches pint-sized satellite designed by students
SRIHARIKOTA, India — A lightweight satellite designed by students that can be held in the palm of the hand has been launched by Indian scientists, burnishing the country’s credentials in miniature design technology.The 10-centimeter (four-inch) cube satellite, named Kalamsat V2, weighs just 1.2 kilograms (2.6 pounds), according to students from the private Space Kidz India group who designed the celestial unit.It was launched from the Sriharikota space center in southern Andhra Pradesh state on Thursday, drawing praise from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.“Heartiest congratulations to our space scientists for yet another successful launch of PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle). This launch has put in orbit Kalamsat, built by India’s talented students,” Modi tweeted.The launch was...
January 25, 2019

India launches pint-sized satellite designed by students

WhatsApp
WhatsApp limits text forwards to 5 recipients to curb rumors
JAKARTA — Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger service is globally limiting the number of times a user can forward a message to five, in a bid to fight “misinformation and rumors”, company executives said on Monday.“We’re imposing a limit of five messages all over the world as of today,” Victoria Grand, vice president for policy and communications at WhatsApp, said at an event in the Indonesian capital.Previously, a WhatsApp user could forward a message to 20 individuals or groups. The five-recipient limit expands globally a measure WhatsApp put into place in India in July after the spread of rumors on social media led to killings and lynching attempts.WhatsApp, which has around 1.5 billion users, has been trying to find ways to stop misuse of the app, following global concern...
January 21, 2019

WhatsApp limits text forwards to 5 recipients to curb rumors

A technician looks at collision at the CMS experiment in the control room of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, in this file photo. — Reuters
Mega tube under Geneva enters race to succeed CERN collider
By Tom Miles GENEVA — A proposed 100-km particle accelerator under Geneva has joined an international quest to develop the successor to the Large Hadron Collider to help unlock humankind's knowledge of matter. The existing collider (LHC), which started up in 2008, smashes protons together in a 27-km circuit beneath the Swiss-French border. It helped scientists discover the long-sought Higgs boson — a particle that supplied the missing piece of the standard model of physics by explaining why objects have mass. The FCC, or Future Circular Collider, proposed by more than 150 universities and science institutes, would be a huge tubular circuit almost four times as long, with 10 times more power than the LHC at CERN, the European Centre for Nuclear Physics. The proposal came out of...
January 16, 2019

Mega tube under Geneva enters race to succeed CERN collider

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