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How Dubai Quietly Built the World's Fastest Border Crossing
From the first e-gates in 2002 to a 2025 AI corridor that clears travellers without a passport check or even a gate, Dubai Airport has spent two decades turning immigration into a walk-through experiment. Here's how the technology actually evolved — and the trade-offs that come with it.
Read Article →Roomba's Long Goodbye: How iRobot Invented an Industry — and Lost It to China
iRobot, the company that invented the home robot vacuum in 2002, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2025 and is being taken over by its Chinese contract manufacturer, Shenzhen Picea Robotics. Here is how the pioneer of robot vacuums lost its own market to the Chinese rivals it helped build.
Read Article →Abu Dhabi Just Taught an AI to Understand Emirati — And It's Beating Models 19 Times Its Size
Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute has released Falcon-ASR, Falcon-Emirati, and Falcon-OCR-Arabic, a trio of AI models built specifically for Emirati dialect, not translated or approximated from Modern Standard Arabic. Early benchmark results suggest the UAE's bet on dialect-specific AI, rather than one-size-fits-all Arabic models, may be paying off.
Read Article →The $35 Million Phone Call: How a Cloned Voice Became the UAE's Favorite Scam
In 2020, fraudsters cloned a company director's voice to steal $35 million from a Dubai bank manager. Six years later, cheap AI voice synthesis has turned that rare heist into a routine tactic — one the UAE government is now fighting with public warnings of its own.
Read Article →Skype Is Gone: The Rise, Reign, and Quiet End of the App That Invented Video Calling
Microsoft pulled the plug on Skype in May 2025, 22 years after a band of Estonian engineers built the app that made free global video calling normal. Here's how it got bought twice, sidelined by its own owner, and why the UAE spent over a decade fighting its VoIP calling feature.
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