Golden M Group has announced that Coin M will be the first of its kind in the Middle East A new gold-based, Sharia-compliant cryptocurrency is expected to enter the UAE market before the end of 2019. A new gold-based, Sharia-compliant cryptocurrency is expected to enter the UAE market before theContinue Reading
Hyundai releases car with solar panel roof Image copyrightHYUNDAI Hyundai has released a version of its Sonata hybrid that has solar panels to help charge its battery. The Korean car maker said up to 60% of the power for the car’s battery could be supplied if the solar roof wasContinue Reading
Scientists estimate Earth’s total carbon store Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionCarbon is all around us – in the trees and in the rocks There are 1.85 billion, billion tonnes of carbon on Earth, with more than 99% of it resident beneath our feet. Scientists from the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) projectContinue Reading
Facebook faces legal fight over facial recognition Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionFacebook should have done more to tell people it was collecting facial data, say Illinois users A US court has thrown out an attempt by Facebook to stop legal action over the way it collected images of people’s faces. The caseContinue Reading
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES As genome sequencing costs continue to fall and artificial intelligence gets to work on analysing all this new data, the era of personalised medicine draws closer. More than half of Icelanders have now had their precise genetic make-up sequenced and analysed. Tens of thousands of their genomesContinue Reading