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HONOR Pad 8

The all-new HONOR Pad 8 delivers unrivalled entertainment experience in a sleek and compact design. Boasting an impressive 12-inch 2K HONOR FullView display, 8 Speakers with DTS: X ULTRA, and Multi-Screen Collaboration, the HONOR Pad 8 pushes industry benchmarks to help users stay entertained to the maximum.

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Additionally, the HONOR Pad 8 comes with the latest HONOR Magic UI 6.1 based on Android 12, offering a range of enhanced, customized features to provide a smart experience to users like Multi-Screen Collaboration, HONOR Share, APP Extender and Multi-Window Viewing.

Inspired by the sky at dawn, the HONOR Pad 8 is available now in classic Blue Hour in UAE markets via HONOR Online Store and Sharaf DG at an affordable price of AED 1199 with free gifts worth AED 248 including HONOR Flip Cover and HONOR CHOICE X2.

Kingston IronKey Keypad 200

Kingston Digital Europe today announced the release of the Kingston IronKey Keypad 200 (KP200), the industry’s first drive to deliver the latest FIPS 140-3 Level 3 security for your data.

The IronKey Keypad 200 is built with robust protection and flexibility of use in mind — offering XTS-AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption in a feature-rich and OS-independent alphanumeric keypad. KP200 incorporates a built-in rechargeable battery, so users can unlock the drive using the keypad for easy-to-use PIN access, without using software. Once unlocked, users can access their data by plugging the drive into any device that supports USB Type-A Flash storage, making it a plug-and-play device across IT ecosystems.

KP200 is FIPS-140-3 Level 3 (Pending) certified for military-grade security, and the drive’s circuitry is coated with tamper-evident, tough epoxy to prevent access to its internal components without damaging them. For another level of protection, the keypad is coated with a protective polymer layer to prevent the analysis of fingerprints on the keys.

KP200 supports a multi-PIN option, allowing the use of separate Admin or User PINs. KP200 locks the User PIN after ten failed login attempts, but if both PINs are enabled the Admin PIN can be used to restore a User PIN and access to the drive. If the Admin PIN itself is incorrectly entered ten times in a row, the built-in Brute Force attack protection will crypto-erase the drive, permanently destroying the data and resetting the device. Additionally, KP200 can safeguard against malware from untrusted systems with two different Read-Only modes, empowering Admin to write-protect the drive during a specific session or globally across all User sessions.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series

NVIDIA unveiled the GeForce RTX 40 Series of GPUs, designed to deliver revolutionary performance for gamers and creators, led by its new flagship, the RTX 4090 GPU, with up to 4x the performance of its predecessor. The world’s first GPUs based on the new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, the RTX 40 Series delivers massive generational leaps in performance and efficiency and represents a new era of real-time ray tracing and neural rendering, which uses AI to generate pixels. Additionally, the RTX 40 Series GPUs feature a range of new technological innovations, including: • Streaming multiprocessors with up to 83 teraflops of shader power — 2x over the previous generation. • Third-generation RT Cores with up to 191 effective raytracing teraflops — 2.8x over the previous generation. • Fourth-generation Tensor Cores with up to 1.32 Tensor petaflops — 5x over the previous generation using FP8 acceleration. • Shader Execution Reordering (SER) that improves execution efficiency by rescheduling shading workloads on the fly to better utilise the GPU’s resources. As significant an innovation as out-of-order execution was for CPUs, SER

improves ray-tracing performance up to 3x and in-game frame rates by up to 25%. • Ada Optical Flow Accelerator with 2x faster performance allows DLSS 3 to predict movement in a scene, enabling the neural network to boost frame rates while maintaining image quality. • Architectural improvements tightly coupled with custom

TSMC 4N process technology results in an up to 2x leap in power efficiency. • Dual NVIDIA Encoders (NVENC) cut export times by up to half and feature AV1 support. The NVENC AV1 encode is being adopted by OBS, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, Discord and more.

LOGITECH RIGHTSIGHT 2

Logitech is creating more equitable work experiences for hybrid workers with RightSight 2 software that now simultaneously presents both a close-up view of the individual speaker and a view of the entire meeting room during video calls. With RightSight 2 auto-framing technology, far-end participants can follow the active speaker while also getting situational context from the group, such as one person gesturing to another or writing on a whiteboard.

As the workforce adapts to a long-term hybrid environment, Logitech continues to advance its software intelligence to deliver the immersive, inclusive experiences that remote participants would have if they were physically in the room. RightSight 2 is Logitech’s latest innovation in an ongoing goal to make meetings more equitable now and in the future.

RightSight 2 combines audio and video intelligence to detect people’s placement in the room and the location of their voices. Speaker View is a new mode that uses the two-camera system in Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini to render a picture-in-picture view of the active speaker and the whole group. The active speaker is framed using the main camera that pans and zooms smoothly as the speaker changes, while the wide-angle AI Viewfinder frames the room, ensuring remote participants can see and hear all meeting exchanges clearly. IT admins have the flexibility to toggle between Speaker View and Group View (RightSight’s original implementation of auto-framing) to best suit their teams.

RightSight 2’s Speaker View is compatible with all of Logitech’s major cloud video conferencing partners, giving IT teams assurance that their Logitech video collaboration ecosystem will adapt to the evolving needs of their hybrid workplace. The feature will work as picture-in-picture mode with Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android and Windows, and seamlessly integrates into Zoom Rooms multi-stream technology—which shows each of the speaker and room streams in separate, individual tiles.

THE SHOW GOES ON

SUNIL PAUL, MD OF FINESSE, ON HOW THE REGION’S BIGGEST TECH SHOW – GITEX – HAS EVOLVED OVER THE YEARS

When one sees the sprawl and dazzle of GITEX today, it is hard to believe that the most important ICT event of the region started life in the previous century as a predominantly hardware exhibition spread across two halls of Dubai’s exhibition centre. Over the years, it has come to occupy 10 exhibition halls of Dubai World Trade Centre, comprising a million feet of exhibition space

Along the way, it has earned many other superlatives - the oldest and largest tech show in the Middle East; the longest-running ICT event in the region; the world’s third largest ICT fair; one of the most influential tech events on the planet, and so on. Last year, amid the Covid-19 wave, the 40th edition of Gitex Technology Week earned the sobriquet of the world’s only live, in-person tech show while reinforcing Dubai’s success in combating the pandemic and steady return to normal.

GITEX expanded in scope and space since 1997, so has Dubai, solidifying the emirate’s standing as a tech hub for the Middle East and Africa region. From hardware to software to cutting edge areas like AI, 5G, Blockchain, Cloud, Big Data, Cybersecurity, what one sees in GITEX is, in a short span of time, embedded into the city’s processes. For example, it didn’t take long for block chain to jump off the presentation screen at GITEX into the processes of the City’s land department. In 2017, Dubai Land Department became first government entity in the world to carry out all of its transactions through the Blockchain. GITEX reinforced Dubai’s role as a hub for cutting edge ICT as evidenced by initiatives like Smart Dubai, and more recently, the creation of the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority to control digital assets like non-fungible tokens (NFT) and crptocurrency.

Over the years, GITEX has served as a launching pad for important technologies and breakthroughs. In 2018, UAE’s telecom giant Etisalat allowed visitors to experience 5G with the world’s first flying car as a showstopper. Virgin Hyperloop One showcased how its technology – which features electromagnetically levitated pods travelling through low-pressure tubes at speeds of up to 1,223kmph – can improve mobility across the world. In 2016, when Virtual Reality was all the rage, GITEX achieved a Guinness World Record for most participants riding in a virtual reality roller coaster in one hour. In 2009, Microsoft chose GITEX and Dubai for the global launch of Windows 7. Last year’s GITEX offered a peek into the world of home robots with cognitive abilities,

GITEX also mirrors the growing techdriven entrepreneurial space in Dubai, and its growing stature as a fertile ground for small businesses and startups with friendly policy environment and funding. The 40th edition of GITEX last year hosted the region’s largest tech start-up event - this year, UAE was the top-funded and most transacted market in MENA in the first half, accounting for 50 per cent of all the investment accumulated by the region, according to MAGNIT.

GITEX is also responsible for attracting the global IT giants to set up their regional headquarters in Dubai, and last two years, many emerging players have shifted lock, stock and barrel to the city and the UAE, thanks to its successful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to multiple media reports from India have said that between 8,000 and 10,000 members of the Indian Web 3.0 startup ecosystem, including workers, founders, and investors, have relocated to Dubai. In fact, the City is on its way to becoming India’s proxy IT capital in emerging IT technologies.

Beyond the technology extravaganza, there are also hard numbers of how GITEX has contributed to Dubai’s economy and sustainably supported the country’s diversification agenda that has been identified as a strategic priority in the UAE Centennial 2071 Strategy. The GITEX Technology Week Economic Impact Assessment 2019 Report, issued by Dubai World Trade Centre, showed that for every AED 1 spent by an attendee at GITEX, 4.5 times the revenue impact was generated across Dubai’s wider economy. The 2019 event, generated AED 1.6 billion economic output and added AED 919 million to Dubai’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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