From truck drivers to lawyers, security guards to chief executive officers, web-marketing to neuroscience, artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to change people s lives, major professions, and industries. It is happening, and is scaling up every day. Designing and developing AI solutions is becoming increasingly affordable, and it is not limited to any location, business discipline, or patented technology. The ability to get actively engaged in the field of AI simply comes down to the fundamental capabilities that any established society, business, or group have access to; human intelligence, knowledge, and ability to make sense of available data. This might seem to be an oversimplified statement, but this is the reality that every individual engaged in a discipline affected or likely to be affected by AI should realise. However, this article is not intended to advocate the school of thought which warns that robots will take over the world, or that interest groups that think AI are a threat which will drive people out of their jobs. It is rather an attempt to put the topic into a reasonably realistic context, away from the hypes driven by some of the colloquial noises surrounding the topic.

Egypt successfully hosted the first e-commerce summit in the Middle East to deliberate on the future of the business landscape in the region. The event s organiser is leading tech agency, Robusta, targeting retail groups, corporates in different sectors, industries, brands, and supporting and complementary functions ranging from payments and logistics to branding and advertising.

After monthly inflation rate exceeded 13% in Egypt, instalment payment became the magic solution for the Egyptians to overcome high prices and meet their daily needs. In this context, the online shopping platform Jumia announced signing a cooperation deal with Aman for electronic payments to provide the company with instalment payment services in a bid to stimulate trade movement and ease burden on citizens. Payment facilities become very common recently, hence Jumia aims to allow its customer to purchase online unique and diverse products through instalment payment service. Jumia s customers can choose “Instalment payment” option and fill required application on its website to get any product while the first instalment to be collected after two months of purchase.

The mobile market has lost some 800,000 clients in June, reaching 95.7 million down from 96.5 million in May. According to a report by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Internet market added about 1.6 million new clients in June.

Facebook revealed on Friday that up to 50 million accounts were breached by hackers, dealing a blow to the social network s effort to convince users to trust it with their data. The social network is investigating the extent of harm done when hackers exploited a trio of software flaws to steal “access tokens,” the equivalent of digital keys that enable people to automatically log back into the social network.

As part of its vision to contribute to the development of the smartphone market equipped with the modern artificial intelligence techniques, KMG is set to launch its new strategy within the Egyptian market, aiming to meet the needs of users, bridging the gap of smartphones with high specifications and competitive prices and developing the after-sales service, according to a senior company official. Karim Ghoneim, the chairperson of KMG, announced that the company is ready to launch new brands of smartphones in the Egyptian market soon; pointing out that the company has succeeded since its launch in achieving great success stories either with Infinix phones, ranked third in the Egyptian market, or Meizu company, which has achieved noticeable growing growth rates here.

After monthly inflation rate exceeded 13% in Egypt, instalment payment became the magic solution for the Egyptians to overcome high prices and meet their daily needs. In this context, the online shopping platform Jumia announced signing a cooperation deal with Aman for electronic payments to provide the company with instalment payment services in a bid to stimulate trade movement and ease burden on citizens. Payment facilities become very common recently, hence Jumia aims to allow its customer to purchase online unique and diverse products through instalment payment service. Jumia s customers can choose “Instalment payment” option and fill required application on its website to get any product while the first instalment to be collected after two months of purchase.

Chinese companies accounted for 37% of feature phone shipments during the second quarter (Q2) of this year, according to a report by Counterpoint, (which provides reports on the global smartphone and tech industry with detailed analysis materials). Notably, itel gained the largest market share among Chinese companies of 15%, followed by HMD—owner of Nokia—with a market share of 14%, while TECNO Mobile has 6%, and Symphony Mobile has 2% market share.

Google celebrated its 20th birthday Monday, marking two decades in which it has grown from simply a better way to explore the internet to a search engine so woven into daily life its name has become a verb. The company was set to mark its 20th anniversary with an event in San Francisco devoted to the future of online search, promising a few surprise announcements.

Global waste growth will outpace population growth by 2050, with most of the trash being generated in urban areas. The World Bank said urgent action is needed to prevent untreated waste from clogging the streets. Global waste is set to swell to 3.4 billion tons by 2050 from around 2 billion tons in 2016 with the greatest increase projected to be generated in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report released Friday by the World Bank.

A recent study from the Business Software Alliance confirmed that the piracy rate in Egypt has dropped by two percent, reaching 59 percent. The study also proved that Egypt has succeeded in lowering the use of unlicensed software, which have dropped in value from US $157 million in 2015 to $64 million in 2017.

German business software giant SAP published Tuesday an ethics code to govern its research into artificial intelligence (AI), aiming to prevent the technology infringing on people s rights, displacing workers or inheriting biases from its human designers. “SAP designed these guiding principles to steer the development and deployment of our AI software to help the world run better and improve people s lives,” the firm said in a statement.

A Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon, Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first man to fly on a monster SpaceX rocket around the Moon as early as 2023, and he plans to bring six to eight artists along. Maezawa, 42, will be the first lunar traveler since the last US Apollo mission in 1972. He paid an unspecified amount of money for the privilege. “Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the Moon,” Maezawa said at SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory in Hawthorne, California, in the middle of metropolitan Los Angeles, late Monday.

Germany on Monday rolled out the world’s first hydrogen-powered train, signalling the start of a push to challenge the might of polluting diesel trains with costlier but more eco-friendly technology. Two bright blue Coradia iLint trains, built by French TGV-maker Alstom, began running a 100-kilometre (62-mile) route between the towns and cities of Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervoerde and Buxtehude in northern Germany — a stretch normally plied by diesel trains.

Company regained first place in the tablet sales in Egypt during August, after raising its market share to 42.4%, equally with Samsung. Notably, Apple s share grew by almost 5% compared to July, when Apple s market share was 37.2%. According to the Statcounter report, Samsung s market share in the Tablet PC market fell to 42.4% in August from 45.5% in July.

Google announced the launch of a new feature on its Search homepage and app, which allows people to look for jobs available right on its main search results page. Starting today, users will find a series of results from across the web on the main Google Search results page, after entering a job-related query in Arabic, (for example, marketing jobs in Riyadh), which meet their specific needs. The results will include details under each job position, such as salary information, employer reviews, and ratings, as well as different job options to apply for, or using a location filter to locate jobs in areas that are most convenient for the user.

The Dryve car rental platform agreed with Uber, a peer-to-peer ridesharing, to offer vehicles for its licensed drivers, in partnership with French AXA multinational insurance. According to dryve, car owners can earn EGP 5,000-12,000 per month. Last month, Uber Egypt and Nacita AutoCare announced the launch of the first Rent to Own vehicle solutions programme in the Middle East and Africa.

We tend to think of bots, whether they re Twitterbots or (ro)bots on other platforms, as being negative — automated artificial intelligence systems, programmed by bad actors who want to misinform the public or influence elections. But you and your co-author, Mike Cook, have decided to take a more positive look at the creative side of bots. Why? Tony Veale: Well, yes, there is a malignancy at the heart of the public image of bots — that they re simplistic, zombie-like, that they behave badly and are quite dangerous when they behave in concert on behalf of bad actors. But there s a very large community of people who build bots as a form of creative expression, and their bots are artistic tools, if you will. They are a form of automated art, a "meta-creativity," where you build something that s created for you.

Whether it s to help fighter pilots gun down the enemy, or guide rescue teams to an accident site, flight simulators have been used to help pilots practice their skills for almost as long as we ve been flying. The simulators show us the way, help us plan routes, highlight places we should avoid, and train us how to calculate distances and risk. And as our flying machines continue to advance, so do the simulators. One of the earliest flight simulators was little more than a wooden barrel on stilts. Today s simulators, meanwhile, ride on hydraulics, the cockpits boast as near to real instrumentation as possible, and the entire flight can be mapped out on a huge wrap-around screen.

Middle East ride-hailing firm Careem said on Sunday it had started a service in Sudan, one of few international companies to enter the country since US economic sanctions were lifted last year. Sudan is grappling with an economic crisis as a foreign currency shortage and an increasingly expensive black market for dollars weakened its ability to import and made prices soar.

Following a successful three-month trial of its first electric bus, Alexandria will receive 14 new buses from the Chinese BYD company by mid-September, according to CNN Arabic. The coastal Egyptian city will become the first in the Middle-East to operate electric buses, as a part of a government initiative to manage air pollution.