Author: Dubai News Staff
JAKARTA: A 22-member medical team from Saudi Arabia has been in Indonesia since early May in a bid to capacity build doctors in new techniques in cardiac procedures on adults and children. This is done by the Kingdom’s aid agency; KSrelief, and is run out of the Adam Malik Central General Hospital in Medan in the province of the North Sumatra. They include; surgeon, specialist nurse, perfusionist, and respiratory therapist from King Faisal Cardiac Center in Jeddah, KSA and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center in Riyadh, KSA. These experts, who are considered to be some of the best Saudi…
Meta and Google are now said to be in early stages of acquisition talks with major Hollywood studios so they could get their hands on content for their advanced AI video generative model; cash is reportedly being offered in large amounts to license copyrights. Bloomberg said that these tech firms have offered to fund projects in tens of millions of dollars to get partnerships with studios. The goal is to leverage the massive trove of high-quality data from these studios to fine-tune their AI models – thus improving their model’s capacity to generate scenes from text prompts. Microsoft funded Open…
Speaking at the 150th session of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO), Qatar’s Minister of Public Health and WHO’s Chair of the Executive Board, HE Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari said that Qatar will remain a steadfast partner of WHO in the future as well, with a voluntary contribution for the programmed work of WHO in 2024 to the amount of 4 million USD. This was made recently when Qatar joined other high-level celebrations of the first WHO Investment Round dubbed “All for Health, Health for All” in which HE Dr. Al Kuwari represented the country. In…
Muscat: Salam Air to begin flight operations from Muscat to Cairo from Saturday, June 15 in 2024. This new service will provide three weekly frequencies to Sphinx International Airport Cairo which will improve the connectivity prospects between the Sultanate of Oman and Egypt. As for this new route, it is a great achievement in the process of developing the opportunities of connecting the two countries – Oman and Egypt. There is a belief that the matter will promote cultural and commercial interaction between the two countries. In his turn, Captain Ahmed Al Shidhani, acting Chief Executive Officer at SalamAir reiterated…
In 2023, Disney shuttered the highly-publicized luxury hotel “Star Wars: of “Galactic Starcruiser” at Walt Disney World. This shut down raised emotions such as drama and ridicule among Disney enthusiasts, as the grandeur of the promises that the hotel had made got lost in miscommunication with some of the guests. Today, however, a year later, a recently uploaded four-hours long video by Jenny Nicholson attracted millions of viewers and became a kind of the final revelation of the hotel’s misfortune. One of the most popular individuals for this phenomenon, Nicholson, is a YouTuber who closely examines fandom culture in her…
If the so-called Prime Day marks the starting point of back to school sales, kind of marketing event, then the Memorial Day is gradually becoming the starting point of the Amazon Prime Day. Amazon began the holiday sales with the prime day deals a week before the Memorial Day sales starting 24th of May with minimum 40% discounts on headphones, tv, clothes and ring smart doorbell. This early sales trend is, however, not exclusive to Amazon only since similar trends can be witnessed in major retailers including Best Buy, Lowe’s, and Target among others who initiated the start of serious…
This ambiguity of Netflix’s statement regarding the renewal of the 3 Body Problem series became a cause of concern among the fans after the completion of the first season. In the recent upfront presentation of the streamer, Netflix sought to reassure the viewers saying “more episodes” to conclude the science fiction drama series, though the possibility was indecisive. David Benioff, Dan Weiss and Alexander Woo the show runners of the series have now come out in the open to clarify that the series would be produced for enough seasons to give a proper adaptation of renowned author Liu Cixin’s trilogy.…
PORTLAND, Maine(A. P. ): While the hero in the film Aquaman seems to be careless as oceans ascend, audiences do not have that luxury. This is according to a study carried out by Colby College and Good Energy that revealed that most of Hollywood’s blockbusters between 2013-2022 neglect climate change. The study selected 250 films and then put forward the concept of a ‘climate reality check’; the climate change test; the survey asked if the films depict an awareness of climate change. Less than 4 percent of the films discussed climate change in more than two scenes, and only about…
This UEFA European Football Championship is forthcoming, and the games will be held in Germany starting June 14, 2024. Here are the best fan zones in Dubai to enjoy the action:Here are the best fan zones in Dubai to enjoy the action: Coca-Cola Fanzone by McGettigan’s This is one that is an indoors fan zone situated at the Agenda in the Dubai Internet City. Choices available can only be a standing area, premium area, and a VIP section. On arrival to the stadium, be ahead of time to watch and listen to Deacon Blue band perform before the main event…
The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Abu Dhabi (IIT Delhi – Abu Dhabi) that offers Under Graduate programs for the first time has announced admissions to Bachelor of Technology (BTech). IIT Delhi’s first campus abroad will offer BTech in Energy Engineering and BTech in Computer Science commence in the September 2024. The branches of study will be: The BTech in Energy Engineering will deal more with sustainability and energy production issues, on the other hand the BTech in Computer Science and Engineering will deal more with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and right practical hands on computational thinking and problem solving…