The Chinese giant, Huawei, will introduce its MateBook X Pro laptop into Egyptian market, as the tech firm is seeking to rule out Apple s MacBook Pro from the market. The laptop has a 14in screen squeezed into a 12in laptop frame, a discrete graphics processing unit (GPU), and a camera which pops up from beneath the keyboard. The new thin and light laptop follows Huawei s 2017 MateBook X, and looks strikingly familiar to Apple s top-of-the-line notebook. With an aluminum body, the company has improved the notebook s features, which impressed the audience in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018, where the laptop was officially released.

Pristol Braille Technology, a British tech company, plans to launch a new e-reader for the visually impaired people that would enhance their reading experience and spare them from lugging around hefty Braille books. The device, called Canute 360, will be available for customers by the end of the year, Bristol announced. The device is a desktop e-reader which will support all six-dot Braille codes, and will include 360 cells, and three page-navigation buttons. It was originally developed for educational purposes.

Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one. The moon, Earth and sun will line up this weekend for the only total lunar eclipse this year and next. At the same time, the moon will be ever so closer to Earth and appear slightly bigger and brighter than usual _ a supermoon. "This one is particularly good," said Rice University astrophysicist Patrick Hartigan. "It not only is a supermoon and its a total eclipse, but the total eclipse also lasts pretty long. Its about an hour."

LG Electronics announced its strategy for 2019 which focuses on customer satisfaction, especially the after-sales service which is a key factor for buyers of electronic devices in Egypt, as LG is looking forward to acquiring a larger market share. LG will also invest $15m in Egypt, the most populated Arab country with millions of customers. The company s investments in Egypt are estimated at $240m. In 2018, LG Egypt exports reached about $200m.

Farmers find it difficult to recognise signs of crop diseases quickly enough to protect the crops. Recently in Tanzania some farmers started to use a device directly in the field to find viruses before they spread. The device is invented by a British technology company called Oxford Nanopore, and it analyses the DNA from plants, identifing the information of viruses DNA in the infected plants, making it easier for farmers to change to more resistant crops for common viruses in their area.

In the latest example that internet dominance is as fragile as an eggshell, a photo of a regular egg dethroned Kylie Jenner s birth-announcement post and became the most liked photo ever on Instagram with a new record of more than 26 million likes. The photo of the egg was posted to an account called @world_record_egg on 4 January, with caption says Let s set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram. Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner! We got this.

The world s oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said Thursday. The findings in the US journal Science, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, debunk previous reports that suggested a so-called pause in global warming in recent years.

Egypt ranks towards the bottom of a list of countries for Internet connection quality and speed, according to tests carried out by Speedtest, Akamai Technologies and OpenSignal, the three top agencies measuring Internet quality, with some results showing Internet speeds in Egypt to be slowing down. This is in spite of increases in the number of Internet subscribers and the launch of infrastructure projects to raise Internet quality. The results come at a time when the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has announced its readiness to provide 5G Internet services in the country.

Per Gartner, the world s leading information technology research and advisory company, estimates that cybercrime is expected to cost the world $6tn by 2021, and corporations are spending more money each year on security products and applications, related to protecting customer data and proprietary information. In 2019, worldwide spending on information security products and services is forecasted to grow by 8.7% to $124bn. Mega corporations such as Facebook, Under Armour and Marriott had millions of customer records stolen last year, which has caused significant harm to the companies reputation. Moreover, even small businesses were targeted by cybercriminals. In fact, they were the target of half of the attacks.

Abu Dhabi International Airport announced on Monday activating Super-Fi service that will increase internet upload and download speeds for the travelers at the airport. Super-Fi sees upload and download speeds of up to 200mbps per user, among the fastest airport internet services available in the world. The move comes as part of Abu Dhabi Airports commitment to customer experience and digitalisation strategies. The Super-Fi internet access has been installed and tested throughout the airport s three terminals. It will now provide millions of travelers with improved online connectivity.

German authorities on Tuesday said a 20-year-old hacker had confessed to stealing and leaking private data from hundreds of politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, because he was “annoyed” by some of their public statements. The young German, who lives with his parents, was taken into custody after police searched the family home in the western state of Hesse on Sunday.

A Chinese lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon on Thursday, in a global first that boosts Beijing’s ambitions to become a space superpower. The Chang’e-4 probe touched down and sent a photo of the so-called “dark side” of the moon to the Queqiao satellite, which will relay communications to controllers on Earth, China’s national space agency said on its website.

Half of the factories in the industrial cities are “air polluting,” Egypt’s Ministry of Environment said on Sunday, adding that 20 percent of the vehicles whose emissions have been measured are “violators,” as well as 59 percent of the public buses belonging to the Public Transport Authority (PTA). The Ministry of Environment has received about 6,200 complaints of water pollution in various governorates, it said in a report, adding that it is working on controlling air and water pollution, with some plans and procedures having already been implemented.

2018 was a year full of news reports about exposing users personal information of big names in technology industries, either through hackers or third-party developers like what happened in Cambridge Analyticas case, in which the political consulting firm harvested profile information of over 50 million Facebook users. The big tech companies usually have legal agreements to enable users to use their service, most people do not read them however. During Mark Zuckerbergs testimony before Congress over the Cambridge Analyticas scandal, one of the representatives had a printed copy of Facebooks agreement terms to use the service—it was pretty thick. Here is a simple explanation of the information that big tech firms usually collect.

A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule some four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away. The US space agency will ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark historic flyby of the mysterious object in a dark and frigid region of space known as the Kuiper Belt at 12:33 am January 1 (0533 GMT Tuesday).

Spanish travel technology firm Amadeus IT Group signed a cooperation protocol with EG Gate portal to provide a range of logistic and digital services in the fields of e-commerce and tourism via its digital platform. The protocol was signed by Khaled Gad, the general manager of AMADEUS Egypt and Minas Ibrahim, CEO and managing director of EG Gate. This cooperation aims to make AMADEUS’s content available on EG GATE’s platform to attract international tourism to Egypt, in addition to promoting Egyptian tour companies’ content on EG GATE’s platform using the latest technological implements, in the tourism and traveling field. It also targets marketing Egyptian tourism globally via a database of 500,000 international tour companies, which cooperate with AMADEUS.

Japan said Wednesday it is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission and will resume commercial whaling next year, sparking criticism from activists and anti-whaling countries including Australia. The announcement comes after Japan failed earlier this year to convince the IWC to allow it to resume commercial whaling. Top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said the commercial hunts would be limited to Japan’s territorial waters.

weed out inappropriate content. The US internet watchdog Common Sense says the combination of mature content and privacy risks means users should be at least 16. “Because the age limit is so low, you attract a greater assortment of dangerous characters, and users lying about their age,” Solis said.

Leading mobile messaging application WhatsApp told Ahram Online that the company "cares deeply about the safety our users," after being asked about an advertisement it unrolled in a number of Arab media outlets over the past few weeks. WhatsApp has addressed "security and privacy" in a number of full page ads in Arab newspapers, including Egypt s state-run Al-Ahram newspaper and Akhbar Al-Youm and pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. “WhatsApp cares deeply about the safety of our users and these ads are designed to inform people about ways to protect their account," a WhatsApp spokesperson told Ahram Online on Monday.

The scientific journal Nature published a report saying that Egypt is among the countries with the highest increase in scientific research production in world in 2018, the state-owned al-Ahram newspaper reported on Monday. Emerging economies showed a significant increase in scientific research production for 2018, according to estimates of the publishing services company Clarivate Analytics. Egypt and Pakistan topped the list, where Egypt achieved a rise of 21 percent, while Pakistan’s increase reached 15.9 percent.

The total number of Spotify users reached over 191 million around the world. The company was prompted by the increasing number of internet users and youth under 30-years-old to enter the local market. The app has over 40m songs and 3bn lists. The platform receives revenues through subscriptions and ads. Michael Krause, general manager of Spotify in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), said that the focus on the Egyptian market was due to the growing number of youth under 30-years-old compared to Europe, as well as the increasing number of internet and mobile users.