Tag: DUBAI

Back in January, an Israeli hit squad assassinated Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh at a hotel in Dubai. Presumably operating under Mossad, the 11 assassins disguised themselves as tennis players in order to gain access to the hotel and do the deed, but, according to a new investigative report from GQ, they used a decidedly 21st-century technique to track their target. According to investigative ...

Multi-billionaires in Dubai and Abu Dhabi may soon have more trouble doing business on the go, as officials in the United Arab Emirates have announced that, as of October, BlackBerry users will no longer be able to send e-mails or instant messages within the country. As the New York Times reports, Sunday's announcement comes after a lengthy standoff between the Middle East nation and Research in ...

Dubai, the Las-Vegas-of-the-Middle-East-turned-economic-wasteland, is rejecting full-body scanners at its airports because they "contradict Islam," according to Brigadier Pilot Ahmad Mohammad Bin Thani, who is the head of airport security for Dubai police. Concerned about the "privacy of individuals and their personal freedom," Bin Thani remarked to the Associated Free Press that Dubai will use ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Photographer Gerald Donovan snapped the world's largest panoramic photo last month in Dubai. He hooked up a Canon 7D to GigaPan's Epic Pro camera mount, and snapped ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/12/08/building-sized-x-rated-led-display-makes-us-blush/'; Abu Dhabi, the nearby Emirate of Dubai and the next decadent Shangri La of the Middle East (largely built, like Dubai, on unscrupulous slave labor), has just vomited forth another architecturally outrageous beacon of bad taste. The recently completed Yas Hotel is covered by a canopy of 5,000-odd ...

Ever walk onto the beach on a sunny day, only to have to hip hop your way to your towel or risk burned tootsies? It's part of a day at the beach, right? Not so, according to the designers of a new luxury hotel in Dubai, the Palazzo Versace, which will weave pipes of coolant through the sand in order to keep it cool on those hot desert days of days. The luxury hotel is set to open sometime in ...

By this point, you should fully understand that "Dubai" and "world's largest" go hand-in-hand, so it's quite fitting that said city is receiving the planet's most humongous LED screen. Designed by UAE development company Tameer Holding, the 33-story high display will reportedly be "embedded on an intended commercial tower in the Majan district of Dubailand," where it will stand tall and blast ...

As we learned from 'Wall-E,' people with half a mind for themselves probably won't be kosher with living with 1.1 million or so other inhabitants within a pyramid. That being said, there's always the brainwash approach to getting 'em in there, and if hordes of people were ever filed into the conceptual Ziggurat, Mother Earth would surely appreciate it. The 2.3-square kilometer building would ...

Dubai has become synonymous with architectural excess, but the latest creation being proposed for the commercial mecca is something that must be seen to be believed. David Fisher, an Italian architect, has designed what can only be described as the world's first spinning skyscraper. The 80-story residential tower -- to be called the Dynamic Tower -- changes shape as each floor rotates ...