• Monday, 22 July 2019

    Elon Musk wants to put wires into our brains

    Someone tell Elon Musk that Black Mirror isn’t an instruction manual: Elon Musk unveiled during a presentation his frankly bizarre plans to put hundreds of chip implants into our brains (watch, runtime: 18:28). Neuralink is composed of around 1k thread-like...
  • Sunday, 21 July 2019

    Egypt’s first AI college opens in Kafr El Sheikh

    Egypt’s first artificial intelligence (AI) college has opened at Kafr El Sheikh University and is accepting the first class of students this school year, Egypt Today reports. Admission will only be granted to students with strong academic performance in math.
  • Thursday, 18 July 2019

    B Investments’ Giza Systems wins c.USD 30 mn smart water waste project in KSA

    B Investments’ Giza Systems awarded USD 30 mn contract for Saudi water project: B Investments’ Giza Systems has won a c.USD 30 mn contract to supply, install and replace the water waste system in northern and north-western regions of Saudi...
  • Wednesday, 17 July 2019

    IMF: Rise of e-banking poised to ‘surpass’ traditional banking solutions

    Banks could be “left behind” as e-money poised to eclipse traditional currency -IMF: Banks will need to evolve or run the risk of being “left behind” by e-banking solutions offered by big tech companies, according to an IMF report (pdf)....
  • Tuesday, 16 July 2019

    Gov’t offers 250 feddan to the private sector in Egypt’s planned Knowledge City

    The CIT Ministry is offering 250 feddans to private investors in the new capital’s knowledge city, which is planned to house headquarters of tech majors operating in Egypt, reports Youm7. The city is set to be built on 301 feddans,...
  • Monday, 15 July 2019

    TE, Egypt’s Etisalat cooperate on virtual fixed line, bit-stream services

    State-owned Telecom Egypt has signed four agreements with Etisalat Misr to allow the latter to provide virtual fixed line and bit-stream services to its customers through TE’s infrastructure, TE said in a press release (pdf). Under the terms of the...
  • Tuesday, 9 July 2019

    Egypt Post launches new electronic services

    Egypt Post has launched a package of new electronic services, including EasyPay, a card to make transactions and online purchases that can be charged at any of the country’s post offices and has a mobile app, the local press reported....
  • Sunday, 7 July 2019

    Telecom Egypt to launch IPTV services in “days”

    Fixed land-line monopoly Telecom Egypt (TE) is planning to launch Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services in a “few days,” CEO Adel Hamed said, according to Al Shorouk. The company is planning to transform into a “gateway for internet services” connecting...
  • Sunday, 7 July 2019

    Egypt aims to pay employees electronically through new state-backed debit card

    Around 4.5 mn civil servants could receive their salaries through the state-backed “Meeza” debit cards starting August, Finance Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ibrahim said, according to Al Shorouk. Around 270k citizens have already been issued Meeza cards while the ministry has...

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