Egypt, represented by the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), has kick started its participation at the 38th GITEX Technology Week 2018, scheduled to take place from 14 to 18 October 2018 at the Dubai World Trade Centre in UAE. The event will explore the latest trends, showcasing products and innovations from across the world. GITEX aims to bring together the most innovative, exciting, and ambitious tech giants and start-ups to exhibit products, innovative solutions, and ideas to an audience of thousands of visitors and hand-picked international investors.

Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] is to connect passengers and drivers directly to emergency services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as part of a wider rollout of largely existing safety features over the next few weeks. The ride-hailing company, which plans to go public next year and could be valued at $120 billion according to a Wall Street Journal report, said the safety features would be gradually introduced on its app in 23 European countries, including the United Kingdom, and in other markets such as Saudi Arabia.

Without intervention soon, the amount of plastic littering the world s oceans is expected to triple within a decade, a new UK government report warns. The “Foresight Future of the Sea” report from the UK Government Office for Science said our oceans have seen “unprecedented change as a result of direct human activity and climate change.”

The number of mobile subscribers in Egypt decreased in the second quarter (Q2) of this year by 3.4% compared to Q1 (q-o-q). According to a report issued by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), the number of mobile subscribers in Egypt declined from 99.1 million in Q1 to 95.7 million in Q2 of 2018, a decrease of 3.4 million consumers.

A new method of analyzing images from CT scans can predict which patients are at risk of a heart attack years before it occurs, researchers say. The technology, developed by teams at Oxford University and institutions in Germany and the United States, uses algorithms to examine the fat surrounding coronary arteries as it shows up on computed tomography (CT) heart scans.

The Ministry of Environment and Cairo University revealed on Tuesday that they are cooperating to launch an instantaneous observatory station to monitor air pollution in Kafr al-Sheikh governorate, as part of Egypt s sustainable development strategy 2030. The ministry would install the station over the university s faculty of agriculture. Director of Cairo University Center for Environmental Risk Reduction Fatma al-Zahraa said that the station aims to monitor environmental problems in view of scientific, economic and social perspectives, with the aim of finding solutions to them.

EU ministers battled Tuesday over the extent of emission cuts to be imposed on carmakers, in the wake of a warning by UN experts on the dangers of global warming. Auto-making giant Germany in a fierce resistance succeeded in imposing a compromise plan tabled by Austria, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.

Egypt s first smartphone maker is looking to enter the broader African market by the end of 2018 or early 2019 as it seeks to boost exports, its sales director said. Silicon Industries Corporation (SICO), which already exports to the Gulf, aims to start selling phones in Kenya, Morocco, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique and Ghana, Sales Director Mahmoud Ali told Reuters.

Five years after he was paralyzed in a snowmobile accident, a man in the US has learned to walk again aided by an electrical implant, in a potential breakthrough for spinal injury sufferers. A team of doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota say the man, using a front-wheeled walker, was able to cover the equivalent of the length of a football pitch, issuing commands from his brain to transfer weight and maintain balance — all previously thought impossible for paralyzed patients.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was on Wednesday awarded to two Americans and a British man. Frances H. Arnold (US) of the California Institute of Technology, George P. Smith (US) of the University of Missouri, and Sir Gregory P. Winter (UK) of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology will share the award. The three scientists helped develop proteins that "solve humankind s chemical problems," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said, adding that they "have taken control of evolution and used it for purposes that bring the greatest benefit to humankind."

From truck drivers to lawyers, security guards to chief executive officers, web-marketing to neuroscience, artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to change people s lives, major professions, and industries. It is happening, and is scaling up every day. Designing and developing AI solutions is becoming increasingly affordable, and it is not limited to any location, business discipline, or patented technology. The ability to get actively engaged in the field of AI simply comes down to the fundamental capabilities that any established society, business, or group have access to; human intelligence, knowledge, and ability to make sense of available data. This might seem to be an oversimplified statement, but this is the reality that every individual engaged in a discipline affected or likely to be affected by AI should realise. However, this article is not intended to advocate the school of thought which warns that robots will take over the world, or that interest groups that think AI are a threat which will drive people out of their jobs. It is rather an attempt to put the topic into a reasonably realistic context, away from the hypes driven by some of the colloquial noises surrounding the topic.

Egypt successfully hosted the first e-commerce summit in the Middle East to deliberate on the future of the business landscape in the region. The event s organiser is leading tech agency, Robusta, targeting retail groups, corporates in different sectors, industries, brands, and supporting and complementary functions ranging from payments and logistics to branding and advertising.

After monthly inflation rate exceeded 13% in Egypt, instalment payment became the magic solution for the Egyptians to overcome high prices and meet their daily needs. In this context, the online shopping platform Jumia announced signing a cooperation deal with Aman for electronic payments to provide the company with instalment payment services in a bid to stimulate trade movement and ease burden on citizens. Payment facilities become very common recently, hence Jumia aims to allow its customer to purchase online unique and diverse products through instalment payment service. Jumia s customers can choose “Instalment payment” option and fill required application on its website to get any product while the first instalment to be collected after two months of purchase.

The mobile market has lost some 800,000 clients in June, reaching 95.7 million down from 96.5 million in May. According to a report by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Internet market added about 1.6 million new clients in June.

Facebook revealed on Friday that up to 50 million accounts were breached by hackers, dealing a blow to the social network s effort to convince users to trust it with their data. The social network is investigating the extent of harm done when hackers exploited a trio of software flaws to steal “access tokens,” the equivalent of digital keys that enable people to automatically log back into the social network.

As part of its vision to contribute to the development of the smartphone market equipped with the modern artificial intelligence techniques, KMG is set to launch its new strategy within the Egyptian market, aiming to meet the needs of users, bridging the gap of smartphones with high specifications and competitive prices and developing the after-sales service, according to a senior company official. Karim Ghoneim, the chairperson of KMG, announced that the company is ready to launch new brands of smartphones in the Egyptian market soon; pointing out that the company has succeeded since its launch in achieving great success stories either with Infinix phones, ranked third in the Egyptian market, or Meizu company, which has achieved noticeable growing growth rates here.

After monthly inflation rate exceeded 13% in Egypt, instalment payment became the magic solution for the Egyptians to overcome high prices and meet their daily needs. In this context, the online shopping platform Jumia announced signing a cooperation deal with Aman for electronic payments to provide the company with instalment payment services in a bid to stimulate trade movement and ease burden on citizens. Payment facilities become very common recently, hence Jumia aims to allow its customer to purchase online unique and diverse products through instalment payment service. Jumia s customers can choose “Instalment payment” option and fill required application on its website to get any product while the first instalment to be collected after two months of purchase.

Chinese companies accounted for 37% of feature phone shipments during the second quarter (Q2) of this year, according to a report by Counterpoint, (which provides reports on the global smartphone and tech industry with detailed analysis materials). Notably, itel gained the largest market share among Chinese companies of 15%, followed by HMD—owner of Nokia—with a market share of 14%, while TECNO Mobile has 6%, and Symphony Mobile has 2% market share.

Google celebrated its 20th birthday Monday, marking two decades in which it has grown from simply a better way to explore the internet to a search engine so woven into daily life its name has become a verb. The company was set to mark its 20th anniversary with an event in San Francisco devoted to the future of online search, promising a few surprise announcements.

Global waste growth will outpace population growth by 2050, with most of the trash being generated in urban areas. The World Bank said urgent action is needed to prevent untreated waste from clogging the streets. Global waste is set to swell to 3.4 billion tons by 2050 from around 2 billion tons in 2016 with the greatest increase projected to be generated in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report released Friday by the World Bank.

A recent study from the Business Software Alliance confirmed that the piracy rate in Egypt has dropped by two percent, reaching 59 percent. The study also proved that Egypt has succeeded in lowering the use of unlicensed software, which have dropped in value from US $157 million in 2015 to $64 million in 2017.