Building for Earth: The rise of planet-scale investing
Global energy transition investment hit US $2.1 trillion – but that’s only 37% of what’s needed. Here’s where investors can build for Earth.
Global energy transition investment hit US $2.1 trillion – but that’s only 37% of what’s needed. Here’s where investors can build for Earth.
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Critical industries are supported by an invisible architecture – energy, finance, and logistics now depend on AI systems that make decisions faster than humans can react. And building resilience into that architecture is becoming one of the tech industry’s most urgent challenges. The team over at Black Hat MEA recently
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Saudi Arabia is looking to make its mark in the electric vehicle space. The kingdom took an early lead a few years ago in the global EV space with a strategic $2.9 billion investment in California-based Lucid Motors Inc., a luxury electric-vehicle startup, through the Public Investment Fund. In
By 2025 there will be an estimated 41.6 billion connected devices in the world, according to market research company International Data Corporation (IDC). That’s five devices for every single human on the planet. The repercussions of such a statistic are far-reaching. The Internet of Things (IoT) – essentially the
As global governments and technology experts prepare to converge on Riyadh for LEAP 2022, the city has become known as one of the few in the Middle East that is transforming its technology landscape and adopting smart mobility solutions, which will have massive impact on the economy, environment and ultimately
The career progression for many young people in Saudi Arabia followed a fairly predictable path – graduate from college, land a lifetime gig at a large organization or the public sector, the end. That was then, this is now. A new generation of young Saudis is daring to break the mold
While we regularly hear about artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain, quantum technology has received less public fanfare lately, despite the tech’s potential to revolutionize computing as we know it. The idea behind modern quantum technology has its roots in the work of renowned physicists
Drop the word ‘robotics’ into a conversation and the chances are you’ll trigger a discussion about humanoid robots or movies such as Blade Runner. Yet robotics technology is revolutionizing everything from security to space exploration. In a world where natural-language processing has enabled computers to understand human speech and
Kingdom was in the middle of the third and final phase of its bold three-phase digital transformation strategy when COVID-19 struck. E-governance dominated the first two phases of the programme. In contrast, the current chapter, due to conclude in 2022, focuses on digital transformation in healthcare, education, e-commerce, and smart
For decades, materials scientists have taken inspiration from the natural world. They identify a biological material that has some desirable trait, such as the toughness of bones or conch shells, and reverse-engineer it. Then, once they have determined the material’s ‘microstructure,’ they try to approximate it in human-made materials.