The US-China trade war is becoming a fight over the future of the internet, and global consumers are feeling the brunt of the impact.
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While most of chatter around 4IR centers on seemingly limitless technological potential, there’s one opportunity that has been curiously overlooked: the role of gender.
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Facebook is taking steps into the realm of content moderation, but it is missing a balanced global viewpoint.
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The internet has problems. Innovation can fix it.
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What will Dubai’s Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution in partnership with World Economic Forum mean for the knowledge economy?
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Silicon Valley courted schools with visions of the digital future of education. Now students are pushing back. Is this EdTech’s moment of reckoning?
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The UAE is poised to provide a global payment solution to solve the challenges of the future. This is where Dubai’s next unicorn is going to emerge.
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Art is subjective, reactionary, and culturally specific. AI is objective, mathematical and universal. What happens when the two collide?
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We face a defining moment in which digital technologies can break down barriers to the creation and experience of art. Is this the end of authenticity?
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We are losing serendipity in our digital lives. Might the experience of browsing through libraries and farmers markets show a new path forward?
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Uber is acquiring Careem for $3.1bn. When the deal is sealed, it will be the largest technology sector transaction in the Middle East since Amazon acquired Souq.com in 2017 for $580mn.
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Can the new breed of super-apps survive global attempts at regulating internet monopolies?
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The number of adults who read at least one novel, short story, poem, or play in the last year fell from 57% in 1982 to 43% in 2015. Should we be alarmed?
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Are monopolized platforms the future of social media and the internet as we know it?
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In today’s data-rich cities, urban planners are now able to build detailed resident profiles to design experiences for a segment of one
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Instead of focusing on the latest telecom advert promising faster speeds, we need to focus the discussion on 5G around the politics of data.
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Driverless cars pollute less than standard models, but they still tax our infrastructure and our health. Bikes can offer a better solution.
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Facebook and Google dominate more than half the world’s internet advertising market, wielding incredible power over how we engage online. But the regulation debate is heating up.
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Professor Shoshana Zuboff sounds the alarm on “surveillance capitalism,” where data is packaged and commercialized, often outside the public eye.
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One thing has become glaringly clear around the world over the last year: Trust is in short supply.
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