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Hosted under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the eagerly awaited Dubai Business Forum, a key annual event for international business leaders and economic

You can no longer have a discussion about the future without hearing the words 'artificial intelligence'. But what does ChatGPT and similar technology mean for the media and when will print be consigned to the past?

The historic Valletta campus of the University of Malta will be hosting an international conference on museum futures this month. MUŻE.X ‒ Shaping Museum Futur

SHARE My first encounter with email was through Kermit. The year was 1994 and Kermit was a black-and-white interface, not particularly appealing, but a computing protocol that was effective at transferring files and text from one computer to another. Columbia University brought Kermit to life in 1981 and ceased hosting him in 2011. Looking back, it would have been impossible to predict the extent to which something like Kermit would impact us and future generations. Hindsight is good, foresight...

Imagine this. You see a photograph of a horse. A snapshot. This horse looks like it’s suspended in the air, hooves not touching the ground in mid-stride. Pure levitation. This is one frame of the animal running at full speed. But with the understanding of movement removed, we only see and appreciate that particular moment. That frame is what change often looks like. We think of change as an end state that is different to the original state. For example, the horse reaching a finish line versus...

I tried to find a doctor, a lift, moral support, painkillers, a chair, ultimately clenching my teeth and venturing on. And that is when it dawned on me: events that happen in the real world occur also in that microcosm that is the airport: life, work, shopping, injuries, entertainment, finding and losing things, running between boarding gates, milling about in shops, laughing, crying, arguing, experiencing anxiety, frustration, elation and even birth and death. At the airport, in the time in an...