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How will hyperspeed and AI tech shake up the Middle East?

This week’s Inspire Middle East goes high-tech as we focus on the big and small innovations that will be impacting tomorrow’s world.

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Chinese firm breaks world record with over 1,300 dancing drones

Lighting up the sky of Chinese ancient city of Xi'an, 1,374 illuminated drones broke a Guinness World Record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles simultaneously airborne.

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Japanese engineers build robot that transforms into car

Japanese engineers unveiled on Wednesday a robot that transforms into a car that can actually carry people on board, in what they said was the first-ever such accomplishment in the history of robots.

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Teleprometheus: medical information at your fingertips

In partnership with the European Commission

Better training can help professionals in Intensive Care Units (ICU) avoid errors in treatment and this is what Teleprometheus brings to the table.

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Spotlight

Spotlight on the future of transport in Poland

The success of economies in the future will depend on how well they adapt to new modes of mobility, as well as storing the energy needed to drive them

World News

Deleting a Facebook account is almost impossible, says expert

Want to delete your Facebook account? You might run into more trouble than you thought as it turns out erasing all traces of a Facebook account is almost impossible..

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Me and Mario: robots that care

Futuris travels to Ireland to see how a new robot could transform elderly care.

World News

Cannes film festival bans red carpet selfies

The prestigious film festival in southern France has also banned movies from streaming service Netflix

Spotlight

Start-up success in Poland

Start-ups in Poland are riding the country's continuous economic growth. A survey by Startup Poland says that some of the main sectors include big data, IoT and biotech.

United Kingdom

‘Space harpoon’ to capture orbiting junk heads to ISS

The British-designed satellite is equipped with a net for capturing space litter and a harpoon for spearing and hauling in bigger objects.

Business Planet

Supercharging the future

Business Planet travels to Germany to meet experts and entrepreneurs revolutionsing the way we store energy.

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European research teams find new ways to map the seafloor

Armed with what looks like a small army of autonomous robots, a European research team are finding new ways to explore the seafloor.

Germany

How has digitalisation transformed travel marketing?

We went to its chief marketplace to find out

New Zealand

Robots and racism: We discriminate against 'darker-coloured' humanoids

Humans have similar automatic biases towards 'darker-coloured' robots as they do toward 'people with a darker skin colour', according to new research from the University of Canterbury.

World

VR, cinema and jazz: discovering creative industries at the Abu Dhabi

Creative concepts in the capital: Luminaries gather at the Abu Dhabi Ideas Weekend

Business Planet

One of a kind medical devices... and how to get them financed

This week Business Planet travelled to Rome where an innovative young company Echolight has developed a new way to help Europe's ageing population with the help of EU funding.

Focus

EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel calls for a "humans in command" approach to digital transformation

At he Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society outlined her vision for a of successful evolution.

Spain

The 5G revolution will not be televised... it will be live

Cristina Giner reports on the latest technology being readied to make us all go faster at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Spain

New algorithm could count demonstrators 'more accurately'

Could this be the tool that ends all debates about the number of people who attend a demonstration?

World News

4YFN at the MWC: a good place for a start-up

Four Years from Now is a startup business platform which puts 650 startups in touch with 700 investors.