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June 15, 2021

Semi Permanent to debut region’s first creativity festival in Abu Dhabi

Semi Permanent Middle East 2021 will take place at the emirate’s cultural hub Manarat Al Saadiyat, with the venue given an innovative design makeover by leading LA-based design studio Perron—Roettinger. The festival will then feature an immersive, multi-sensory schedule of inspiring performances, talks and experiences across three days in October 2021.
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May 26, 2021

Abu Dhabi’s ATRC appoints Dr. Arthur Morrish to lead ASPIRE

ASPIRE is driving the creation of future transformative technologies in Abu Dhabi. It brings together exceptional people, ideas, resources, and technologies to solve complex challenges through a rigorous discovery and inquiry-based approach.
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April 27, 2021

Abu Dhabi’s Miral embarks on a digital transformation journey with Oracle

As an entity with multiple IT solutions, Miral saw the need to unify its business processes, aiming to enhance its operational efficiency and business resilience, as well as meet the needs of its rapidly-growing workforce.
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April 20, 2021

Abu Dhabi’s TII unveils UAE’s first secure cloud technologies programme

TII said that its secure cloud technologies programme aims to advance Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), including fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), a form of encryption that permits users to perform computations on encrypted data without first decrypting it.
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April 18, 2021

Abu Dhabi’s District Cooling regulatory framework activated

The Abu Dhabi Department of Energy issued the District Cooling Regulations and the District Cooling Applicability Regulations, approved by the Abu Dhabi Government in September 2019, making the Emirate of Abu Dhabi the first jurisdiction in the Middle East and North Africa region to set up a comprehensive regulatory framework for District Cooling.
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April 15, 2021

talabat to roll out “talabat Patrol” rider safety initiative in Abu Dhabi

talabat understands the pivotal role that riders play for the business and the community and ensuring their safety is on top of the company’s agenda. Through this continued collaboration with Police Traffic Departments in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, talabat has also been providing riders with road safety training to ensure their continued adherence to rules and regulations
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April 6, 2021

DoH announces 95% of Abu Dhabi based hospitals now connected to Malaffi

This milestone means that over 35,000 doctors, nurses and other members of care teams have access to Malaffi and are able to make better-informed, more efficient and safer decisions thanks to access to important medical information, such as patient visits, medical conditions, allergies, procedures, lab results, radiology reports and medications, collated from 37 different EMR systems.
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March 30, 2021

Abu Dhabi’s TII unveils first post-quantum cryptography library in UAE

The library is a collection of algorithms to safeguard confidential data and information. With the rise of quantum computers, classic cryptographic algorithms are no longer sufficient to ensure secure data storage and secure digital communication.
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March 25, 2021

Abu Dhabi’s TII to build UAE’s first quantum computer

A quantum computer uses quantum mechanics phenomena such as ‘superposition’ and ‘entanglement’ to generate and manipulate subatomic particles like electrons or photons - quantum bits also known as ‘qubits’.
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March 11, 2021

NYU Abu Dhabi study predicts motion sickness severity

These findings suggest a number of strategies to mitigate motion sickness in VR, including reducing or eliminating specific sensory cues, and ensuring device settings are personalized to each user.
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