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Do you want to go sky diving, but the idea of jumping from a flying plane makes you sick? Or maybe you just want to shoot a few zombies, but the lack of a real zombie apocalypse is hindering you from achieving that very dream.

By 2030, the UAE aims to have the world’s largest solar energy plant – supporting the country’s efforts to diversify from oil reliance. The first two phases of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Solar Park are complete, with a third phase underway.

Bottled is an app enabling people to meet one another and learn what it’s like to live in another region or country. Think modern-day pen pals.

There’s a new way to learn a foreign language that more than 1 million subscribers already know about. The Babbel app for web, iOS and Android was developed by 100 linguists and language experts in Berlin. The goal: Tailor foreign language instruction to the learner’s native tongue, and get students to speak the new language as quickly as possible.

Driverless and tech-assisted vehicles emerged as the leading trend at CES this year, but it was the 2018 Nissan Leaf that won top honours in the Innovation Awards’ Vehicle Intelligence and Self-driving Technology category.

Make some extra money from your hobbies by offering your talents to people around you through an app.

Thanks to our iPhones, we take more photographs than ever before – capturing not only special moments, but the more mundane as we go about our days.

Dubai dives into the future of food safety, with new digital platform Food Watch, integrating technology like big data and Internet of things with the food supply chain.

Support Legal, the region’s first legal services platform for entrepreneurs and emerging companies, further democratizes access to legal services with the launch of ScaleUp. Helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses, the platform offers free access to knowhow, practical advice and documents.

Tesla has entered into the region’s solar market for the first time in Dubai. After launching its showroom earlier this year, the company has widely been known for its electric vehicles (EVs). However, Tesla is also a leader in lithium ion batteries.

With the new “8” products – iPhone and Samsung primarily – around the corner, do you NEED to upgrade your phone to the newest product? CNBC had an article earlier this year saying no, you don’t have to upgrade often. Here are ideas for when you should upgrade:

Get your wallets ready and free your calendar, because the most anticipated electronics show is coming back to Dubai this year from the 23rd to 30th of September, and we are ready for it.

Nestpick, a Berlin-based startup, has ranked Dubai #29 in the world for the Startup Cities Index, with the ranking divided into five categories: Startup Ecosystem, Salary, Social Security & Benefits, Cost of Living and Quality of Life.

Let’s face it – Dubai life is hectic, and anything that can make our lives easier – and possibly lazier – is going to be worth checking out. Here are four:

Makers of a new fintech platform called WatStock claim it can predict the stock market for up to 10 days with extreme accuracy.

Another hot summer’s day. Kids at home climbing the walls? Sound familiar?

Parking, it’s one of the biggest bugbears of car ownership in Dubai. But a new app could soon put an end to those parking woes.

Area 2071. No, it’s not a new sci-fi movie. It’s Dubai’s futuristic new home for start-ups and technology companies.

Mark Zuckerberg certainly thinks so, having just launched Facebook’s new augmented reality, Camera Effects Platform. This might sound like a mindless copy of Snapchat’s story and camera features, but Zuckerberg says they’re laying the groundwork for their own ambitious Camera Effects Platform.

Taking fine watchmaking into the digital age, Montblanc has unveiled its first smartwatch – and it’s a beauty. Working with Google’s Android Wear™ 2.0 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon™ Wear 2100 processor, this is an advanced wearable.

Gone are the days of waiting for hours to report a slight ‘fender bender’ accident thanks to the Dubai Police’s smart and seriously savvy app.

With less rainfall than a decade ago the UAE is going through its ground water reserves 20 times faster than they can be replenished. Dubai being Dubai they have obviously taken on the challenge of creating clouds.

Driverless aerial vehicles capable of carrying actual people are set to be buzzing through the skies of Dubai as soon summer this year! No, we’re not kidding.

STEP conference, the region’s largest technology and start-up conference, returns to Dubai for its fifth edition this April. The event brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, investors, tech & media enthusiasts for two days loaded with talks, exhibitions and signature experiences.

It’s that time of year, so we’ve decided to look back at the last 12 months and the global topics that defined 2016 using Google Trends.

For all those YouTube creators out there; great news. YouTube is launching one of its incubator spaces early this year in Dubai’s Studio City.