high technologies

Türkiye to boost high tech aspirations

Türkiye to boost high tech aspirations

Türkiye is gearing up to introduce a new investment program targeting its aspirations of making the country a global hub in emerging technology fields. The "HIT-30: High Technology Investment Program" will be introduced …

Adana to host Teknofest 2024 in October

Adana to host Teknofest 2024 in October

Türkiye’s premiere technology and aviation festival Teknofest will be held in Adana on October 2-6, chairperson of the T3 board of trustees and the chairperson of Teknofest's board of directors Selçuk Bayraktar …

7th TEKNOFEST kicks off in Istanbul

7th TEKNOFEST kicks off in Istanbul

Today, the Aerospace and Technology Festival TEKNOFEST opens its doors to science and technology lovers for the 7th time in Istanbul

Sberbank releases GigaChat able to communicate

Sberbank releases GigaChat able to communicate

Russian lender Sberbank said it had released technology called GigaChat as a rival to ChatGPT, initially in an invite-only testing mode, joining the artificial intelligence chatbot race. Sberbank said what sets GigaChat apart was its …

Kuwait unveils AI-generated virtual news presenter

Kuwait unveils AI-generated virtual news presenter

A Kuwaiti news outlet has unveiled the country's first ever virtual news presenter generated using artificial intelligence, with plans for her to read online bulletins. Kuwait News stunned social media users by uploading a …

Musk may produce his own smartphone

Musk may produce his own smartphone

Businessman and new owner of Twitter Elon Musk said that he could create his own smartphone if the Google or Apple app stores boot Twitter and also block the ability to use it in existing smartphones. “I certainly hope it does not …

Baku and Ankara to create joint technopark

Baku and Ankara to create joint technopark

The Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of Azerbaijan and the Ministry of Industry and Technology of Turkey signed a joint memorandum of understanding. Minister of Digital Development and Transport of Azerbaijan Rashad Nabiyev …

Israel becomes global gaming superpower

Israel becomes global gaming superpower

The Israeli gaming industry is relatively young, but it has already managed to record global successes in the form of companies such as CrazyLabs, Plarium and Playtika

Intelligent mobility laboratory to be created in Baku

Intelligent mobility laboratory to be created in Baku

The Baku Transport Agency (BTA) and the program for Innovative Governance of Large Urban Systems (IGLUS) of the Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the creation of a Intelligent Mobility Lab in Baku. …

Drones vs plastics

Drones vs plastics

The planet is drowning in plastic pollution. Plastic has been found on the world's tallest mountain peak and its deepest ocean trench. It's washed up on the shores of Antarctica and on the beaches of remote, uninhabited islands in the South Pacific

Iranian Supercomputer Passes Tests: ICT Minister

Iranian Supercomputer Passes Tests: ICT Minister

Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said a homegrown supercomputer has passed the tests and will be unveiled soon, Tasnim news agency reports.  In a post on his Twitter …

What will Kazakhstan be like by 2025

What will Kazakhstan be like by 2025

The government of Kazakhstan recently released its National Development Plan Through 2025, which complements the government’s primary objective of becoming one of the world’s 30 most developed nations by 2050, The Diplomat writes. Overall, the plan is a continuation of Nur-Sultan’s current strategy of economic diversification, which includes heavily investing in technology; increasing exports of manufactured goods; and the development of “new” industries like transport and logistics, aerospace services, engineering, information and communications technology (ICT), and even medical tourism

Digital future as an alternative to unemployment or migration in Tajikistan

Digital future as an alternative to unemployment or migration in Tajikistan

The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified development challenges and sharpened the view on opportunities to overcome them. Evidently, policymakers were confronted with the healthcare system’s limitations, and the socio-economic impacts from the crisis directed the focus on social assistance, agriculture and food processing, and the need for accelerating reforms necessary to develop more of a partnership with the private sector, World Bank writes

China overtakes U.S. as Europe’s main trading partner

China overtakes U.S. as Europe’s main trading partner

China dethroned the U.S. last year to become Europe’s top trading partner for the first time, data from the European statistics office has shown, CNBC informs. European Union exports to China grew by 2.2% last year and imports rose by 5.6%. In comparison, exports to the U.S. dropped by 8.2% and imports fell by 13.2%. The latest figures, released Monday by Eurostat, showed that China now has an even bigger role in how European economies perform