Author: UAE Gazette

Over 100 countries and territories will wear custom adidas national jerseys at the Esports Nations Cup (ENC), equipping every team competing across 16 of the world’s most popular esports titles. The inaugural four-week event is set to take place starting November 2, 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. National team jerseys will be revealed in the coming weeks.

WPS Office lets me draft something faster, then finish polishing it in a few clicks. It’s far more efficient than general AI tools,” said Nasser Almandhari, a UTAS student, citing the app’s translation feature in particular. “It gives me exactly what I want, and I don’t have to constantly switch between apps to get there.”

Rather than viewing the summer break as time away from learning, Dubai has turned it into an opportunity to strengthen prevention, discipline, safety awareness and positive values among young people through Dubai Police’s Hemaya International Centre. This year, the centre’s Summer Student Programme graduated 1,402 students from 31 nationalities, bringing the total number of graduates since 2018 to 10,792 students representing 175 nationalities. The initiative is part of Dubai’s wider vision of creating a safe, resilient and future ready society by investing in young people through preventive education, practical skills and community partnerships.

Keeping GPUs Fed Across Every Environment
Andromeda is on a mission to make high-performance compute available to every team building at the frontier, so breakthroughs are driven by ideas, not hardware access. The company works with leading AI labs, data centers, and cloud providers, routing training and inference jobs across the global supply chain. Andromeda operates across more than 50 compute providers worldwide, routing training and inference workloads through a growing global fleet of managed clusters. Every cluster on Andromeda’s platform must meet the same quality benchmarks regardless of who operates the infrastructure; the company certifies each cluster across GPU, storage, network fabric, and security before it reaches a customer. That standard exposed a hard problem: each provider brought its own storage environment and performance varied cluster to cluster. With WEKA, Andromeda achieves significant performance gains on existing hardware, deployment in minutes, consistency across every provider, and lower storage costs.

During the first six months of this year, e& recorded strong growth in its consolidated revenue, reaching AED 38.1 billion, representing an increase of 11.6 per cent year-on-year (YoY). Consolidated net profit reached AED 6.0 billion, marking YoY growth of 2.4 per cent, excluding the gain on the sale of Khazna and the impact of the Maroc Telecom (MT) settlement in 2025. EBITDA in H1 2026 reached AED 17.7 billion, a YoY increase of 13.1 per cent, resulting in a strong EBITDA margin of 46.5 per cent.

Innodisk, a leading global AI solution provider, introduces the DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM to support the rapid growth of generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and robotics applications. With an industry-leading data rate of 12800 MT/s, this advanced memory module delivers exceptional bandwidth efficiency and scalability to meet the growing processing demands of AI-driven innovations. Breaking the Memory Wall with Advanced Architecture The growing complexity of AI and HPC workloads has exposed the limitations of traditional memory architectures, often referred to as the “memory wall”—a bottleneck where memory bandwidth fails to keep up with processing speeds, leading to inefficiencies. The DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM overcomes this challenge with its innovative Multiplexed Registering Clock Driver (MRCD) and Multiplexed Data Buffer (MDB) architecture. By enabling simultaneous two-rank access, this breakthrough design increases bandwidth by 60% compared to traditional DDR5 8000 MT/s RDIMMs, significantly improving data transfer speeds and computational efficiency. By reducing the load on the memory controller and lowering latency, this module enhances AI model training, large language models (LLMs), and robotic automation applications. Optimized for AI and Data-Intensive Workloads AI workloads require faster and more efficient memory solutions. The DDR5 12800 MT/s MRDIMM eliminates memory bottlenecks, ensuring that CPU and GPU speeds are not hindered by slow memory access. Its high-speed architecture

“I’ve had the privilege of working with Vicky on multiple transactions over the years and have long admired her professionalism, strategic judgment, and extraordinary ability to create value through partnerships,” said Robert Whitehead, Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Continuity Biosciences. “As we advance our clinical and preclinical programs and expand our strategic partnering activities, Vicky’s experience will be invaluable. We are delighted to welcome her to Continuity.”

European Emergency Response and Market Impact as Fourth Heatwave Sparks Wildfire Crisis Brussels, Belgium / RankWire.AI / – Across Western Europe, mounting concerns for environmental and public health intensified on Thursday as vast plumes of wildfire smoke crossed international borders. Official alerts from Emirates News Agency confirmed that a fourth heatwave poses a significant threat to France and Spain, with smoke from wildfires complicating operational efforts for emergency responders and health authorities. Meteorological agencies in both countries issued warnings that the extreme heat expected will aggravate current fire conditions and lead to widespread evacuations that have already displaced over 300,000 residents and tourists across the Iberian Peninsula and southwestern France.

H.E. Dr. Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi, former President of INTERPOL, has been appointed as Chairman of Alif Holding, an Abu Dhabi-headquartered intelligent industrial technology group. The Group focuses on government and public-sector projects, with systems engineered to meet security and reliability standards. Dr. Al-Raisi’s experience in digital transformation and global digital security governance aligns closely with the Group’s focus on government and critical infrastructure. As Chairman, he will provide guidance on the Group’s long-term strategy, governance framework, and risk and compliance standards.

Starbucks stock pops as third quarter earnings beat estimates Seattle, Washington / RankWire.AI / – Specialty coffee giant Starbucks Corporation reported fiscal third-quarter 2026 financial results on Wednesday that handily surpassed Wall Street forecasts across earnings and comparable store sales. Market trading disclosures showed that Starbucks stock pops as efforts to revive third place pay off 2026 outlook improves, sending shares up more than five percent in extended trading on the Nasdaq stock market. The Seattle-headquartered retailer delivered consolidated net revenues of $9.3 billion for the 13-week period ended June 28, 2026, driven by an 8.1 percent surge in North American store sales and sustained margin expansion across global operating segments.