Author: Arabian Media staff
Image: Supplied The UAE banking sector stands at a pivotal moment in its digital transformation journey. As one of the most technologically advanced banking markets globally, the region faces both unprecedented opportunities and evolving security challenges. Recent regulatory changes from the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) are reshaping the landscape, requiring financial institutions to rethink how they protect customers and maintain trust. Beyond SMS and OTPs For years, SMS and email one-time passwords (OTP) have served as the backbone of digital authentication across banking channels. These methods, while convenient, are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated threats such as SIM swapping,…
Image: Getty Images Cyberattacks rarely come out of nowhere. Most hackers do their homework and are constantly looking for clues that a company’s guard is down. While we’re all told to fix weak passwords and update old software, there are quieter, more overlooked signs that signal, “Hey, we’re an easy target”. One such sign is your ever-growing digital footprint. As businesses adopt new tools, including cloud platforms, apps, and third-party services, their exposure increases. If your security team isn’t keeping up, attackers might find old logins, forgotten test sites, or exposed cloud storage. Therefore, it is necessary to keep an…
Image: Supplied The UAE’s banking sector sits at the intersection of a national digital agenda and a thriving, diversified economy, using technology as both a growth engine and a resilience strategy. Forward-thinking regulation amplifies this shift: the Central Bank of the UAE, alongside innovation-friendly financial centres such as Abu Dhabi Global Market and Dubai International Financial Centre, has fostered test-and-learn sandboxes, pragmatic guidelines for digital onboarding and e-KYC, and clear rulebooks for emerging models such as open banking, digital assets and embedded finance. Guided by an ambition to deliver world-class digital services and seamless experiences, banks are re-architecting core systems around cloud,…
Plastic recycling has fallen short. Only about 9% of all plastic is recycled globally, which sounds pretty bad until you compare it with textiles. Only 0.5% of those are recycled. One of the biggest challenges is that textiles are seldom one material. Buttons and zippers complicate matters, but spandex is even worse. Novel synthetic blends have made for clothing that’s a dream to wear but a nightmare to recycle. “The challenge to recycling is that you can never predict your waste,” Stwart Peña Feliz, co-founder and CEO of MacroCycle, told TechCrunch. “Your waste has infinite number of contaminants.” MacroCycle has…
Robots can be programmed to do a variety of tasks, like packing boxes and even performing surgery. But each individual movement or task requires its own specific training process, which makes it hard for robots to adapt in real-world scenarios. Mbodi wants to make training robots easier and quicker with the help of AI agents. The company will be showcasing this tech as one of the Top 20 Startup Battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. New York-based Mbodi built a cloud-to-edge system, a hybrid computing system using both cloud and local compute, that is designed to integrate into existing robotic…
Pytho AI is coming out of stealth with an ambitious pitch to the Department of Defense: turn mission planning that takes warfighters days into a process measured in minutes. The startup was founded by Michael Mearn, a former Marine human-intelligence officer whose teams located insurgents, IEDs, weapons, and other intel. The idea for the company came from watching planners spend days building mission plans for a single operation, he told TechCrunch. Pytho AI is a Top 20 Startup Battlefield finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. As he explains it, war plans aren’t just for large-scale conflicts, what one might think of…
Even before a building accepts its first occupant, it has racked up a steep carbon debt. Worldwide, the materials and construction required to erect buildings contributes 11% of global carbon emissions, according to the World Green Building Council. Some places have begun experimenting with multistory timber buildings, and while they’ve recently reached new heights, timber buildings won’t be replacing skyscrapers anytime soon. But one Chilean startup thinks that there’s still room for wood to find a place. “We’re more into hybrid buildings,” Andrés Mitnik, co-founder and CEO of Strong by Form, told TechCrunch. His company has developed a new engineered…
If you’ve ever had a PET scan, you know it’s an ordeal. The scans help doctors detect cancer and track its spread, but the process itself is a logistical nightmare for patients. It starts with fasting for four to six hours before coming into the hospital — and good luck to you if you live rurally and your local hospital doesn’t have a PET scanner. When you get to the hospital, you’re injected with radioactive material, after which you must wait for an hour while it washes through your body. Next, you enter the PET scanner and have to attempt…
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When Demetri Maxim was seven years old, his mother’s kidneys stopped working. She was put on dialysis, which meant that she had to go to the hospital four times a week to have her blood filtered by a machine since her own kidneys could no longer function independently. Two years later, Maxim’s mother received a kidney transplant. Although the surgery was successful and allowed her to lead a relatively normal life, it wasn’t the end of his family’s struggle with kidney disease. It turned out that Maxim had inherited the disease, Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), from her. About one in…