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Pakistan's digital health transformation runs through its provinces as much as its federal institutions, and what reaches national scale is what was first made to work at the grassroots. The Pakistan Digital Authority (PDA) held an introductory meeting with Dr. @AzraPechuho , Minister for Health, Sindh. @Saflain , Executive Director, Digital Innovation Lab (Health Sector), shared progress on the Digital Sectoral Plan for the health sector, presented findings from the nationwide consultative workshops, and sought the Minister's guidance on the way forward. The Minister made the case for a bottom-up approach to digital transformation. Existing data systems at the grassroots should be strengthened first, so that the sector has a robust foundational architecture beneath it and the health system is ready to support digital health solutions at scale. She also underlined data security and patient data privacy as the sector moves forward. A plan built with the provinces is a plan built to work, which is why co-creation is not a stage in the process but the whole method. PDA will continue engaging provincial stakeholders to refine the Digital Sectoral Plan so that it reflects the priorities and needs of Pakistan's health system.

The Mark V suitcase suit up will always be peak Iron Man. Nanotech completely ruined the visual style of his armor. The practical weight and moving gears felt real. Now he taps his chest and magic CGI covers his body. It looks weightless and lazy.Did nanotech ruin Iron Man's suits

Roger Federer told Dartmouth's graduating class the number he thinks explains his whole career: "In tennis, perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches." Then he asked them to guess a second number: "Now, I have a question for you. What percentage of points do you think I won in those matches? Only 54%. In other words, even top-ranked tennis players win barely more than half of the points they play." What that does to you over a career: "When you lose every second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot. You teach yourself to think, okay, I double-faulted, it's only a point. Okay, I came to the net, then I got passed again, it's only a point." It applies to the good ones too: "Even a great shot, an overhead back-end smash that ends up on ESPN's top-10 playlist. That, too, is just a point." The part that matters is what he does with the point once it ends: "When you're playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world, and it is. But when it's behind you, it's behind you. This mindset is really crucial, because it frees you to fully commit to the next point at the next point after that. With intensity, clarity, and focus." And his definition of the best players alive: "The best in the world are not the best because they win every point. It's because they know they lose again and again and have learned how to deal with it." - Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) on Dartmouth Commencement (@dartmouth) Refusing to carry the last point is the same skill as refusing to carry the day's open loops to bed. That one is the sixth fix in my new cortisol piece.

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🇩🇪🇵🇾 A German commentator called Paraguay a "third-class team" before kickoff, saying Germany were on "a different level" and the match would feel like a domestic cup game. Germany then failed to score, missed 3 penalties, and went home. Schadenfreude is a German word. Ironically, it's how much of the world feels about Germany today. Writer: Julie

اعتمدنا مجموعة من المشاريع والمبادرات التطويرية الجديدة التابعة لبلدية دبي، وذلك في إطار جهودنا لتطوير منظومة المرافق والخدمات الحضرية، وتعزيز جودة الحياة في الإمارة. وتشمل المشاريع "سوق دبي للصقور"، كأول مشروع من نوعه في المنطقة يحتفي بتراثنا الأصيل بروحٍ مستقبلية، ومشروع "إضاءات خور دبي" بطول إجمالي يبلغ 8 كيلومترات، ليقدّم تجربة بصرية ليلية جديدة تعيد إحياء قلب دبي التاريخي بتقنيات متطورة. كما اعتمدنا أول تجربة عالمية لتصميم حديقة بالذكاء الاصطناعي بالشراكة مع المجتمع، إلى جانب توظيف الذكاء الاصطناعي وتحليل البيانات لإشراك أفراد المجتمع في تصميم مساحات دبي المستقبلية … تواصل دبي الاستثمار في الأفكار النوعية التي ترتقي بجودة الحياة وتدمج التراث بالابتكار والتاريخ بالمستقبل وتوظف الذكاء الاصطناعي لخدمة أهل دبي وزوارها.

Most people do not realize how many tech giants are already deep bear market territory. Tech Stocks From Record Highs: 1. Coinbase, $COIN: -69% 2. Oracle, $ORCL: -57% 3. Salesforce, $CRM: -57% 4. ServiceNow, $NOW: -56% 5. Netflix, $NFLX: -48% 6. Palantir, $PLTR: -48% 7. Microsoft, $MSFT: -37% 8. Meta, $META: -32% 9. Arm Holdings, $ARM: -27% 10. Broadcom, $AVGO: -26% 11. Marvell Technology, $MRVL: -20% 12. Nvidia, $NVDA: -19% 13. Amazon, $AMZN: -19% 14. Alphabet, $GOOGL: -17% 15. CrowdStrike, $CRWD: -15% 16. Apple, $AAPL: -14% 17. Taiwan Semiconductor, $TSM: -12% The S&P 500 won't tell you this.

BREAKING: The S&P 500 erases losses and turns green.

What just happened? In just 27 minutes, the Nasdaq 100 just fell -1,000 points and the S&P 500 erased -$1 TRILLION without any major headlines. The Nasdaq opened +1% higher then fell -3% between 9:30 AM and 9:57 AM ET. What does it all mean? Let us explain. (a thread)

Hamdan bin Mohammed: As part of our efforts to enhance quality of life and urban services across the emirate, I have approved a new package of Dubai Municipality projects. These projects include the 'Dubai Falcon Market', the first of its kind in the region, celebrating our heritage with a future-forward vision; 'Dubai Creek Lighting', an 8 kilometre project that will transform the historic heart of Dubai, offering a unique nighttime experience; and the world’s first AI designed park, developed with community participation, and leveraging AI and data to shape the future of Dubai’s public spaces. Dubai continues to invest in innovative ideas that bring together heritage, technology, and quality of life for residents and visitors alike.

Dubai-it. It means delivering something exceptional with excellence, speed and impact, transforming bold ideas into reality, ambition into achievement, and vision into results the world can see. Inspired by the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Dubai’s remarkable development journey, Dubai-it has become a philosophy of action that drives innovation and progress. Today, we launch the Dubai-it Award, an annual recognition of individuals, projects, companies and institutions that embody this approach. The award celebrates achievement while inspiring the next generation of transformative success.

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On April 1, 1999, Mark Cuban sold a streaming company called Broadcast .com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion. He became a paper billionaire overnight. Yahoo had paid him in stock, not cash. He spent the next 6 months trying to figure out how to keep it. Cuban owned about a third of Broadcast .com going in, which left him holding 14.6 million Yahoo shares worth roughly $1.4 billion at the time. By law, he couldn't touch any of it. The deal came with a standard 6-month lockup that prohibited him from selling or hedging a single share. He had to sit and watch. What he watched was a tech market getting more disconnected from reality by the week. Companies like Pets .com and Webvan were burning through investor money with no path to profit and trading at valuations that didn't make sense to anyone who looked twice. Cuban looked twice. He decided the crash, when it came, was going to take everything down with it. Including Yahoo. Including him. So he started planning. The moment his 6-month lockup ended, Cuban put on a financial structure that's now famous in trading circles. A zero-cost collar. A collar works like this. You sell call options on your stock, which gives someone else the right to buy your shares from you at a fixed higher price. That caps your upside. You use the cash from selling those calls to buy put options, which give you the right to sell your shares at a fixed lower price. That gives you a hard floor under the downside. The two trades balance each other out so the whole package costs almost nothing to put on, hence the name. Effectively, Cuban locked in something close to his $1.4 billion. If Yahoo's stock went down, his puts paid out. If it went up, he'd hit the cap and be cashed out at the higher price. Yahoo's stock kept rising at first. It hit his cap. He got cashed out, in cash, at the high level he'd set. Real dollars, not paper. A few months later, in March 2000, the dot-com bubble burst. Yahoo's stock fell from a peak of roughly $237 a share to about $13 over the next 2 years. Almost every other dot-com paper billionaire watched their fortune disintegrate. Many of them had not hedged because they didn't think the prices would fall, or because they thought hedging was a sign of weakness, or because they were emotionally attached to the company they'd just sold. Cuban kept his $1.4 billion. He once called the trade "one of the top 10 trades of all time on Wall Street." People remember the sale. They don't remember the collar. The headline was the $5.7 billion sale to Yahoo. The thing that actually mattered, the move that decided whether Cuban kept his fortune or watched it disintegrate like everyone else's, was a piece of derivative paperwork most people couldn't even read. Plenty of founders sell at the top. What separated Cuban is that he understood selling was only half the trade. What you do with the money in the moments right after the windfall matters more than the windfall itself. Cuban put it more simply. "The whole market cratered and I was protected."

Over 47 years, the Dubai World Trade Centre has helped position Dubai as a global hub for business and leading industry events. In 2025, it achieved a record AED 25.03 billion in economic output, up 12 percent year on year, by hosting more than 108 major events that attracted 2.18 million participants, including 947,000 international visitors. These results highlight Dubai’s role as a global meeting point that connects economies and drives sustainable growth.

We rebranded Onchain City to @NaytiveHQ and made a very serious, definitely-not-cheesy video to celebrate. We started by building for the onchain world. What we learned is that the future is global.

The airline lost my bag for 72 hours. They handed me a $50 “courtesy” voucher at the baggage desk and smiled like they’d done me a favor. I kept the voucher. Then I opened my laptop and used a 1999 international treaty they never mention at check-in. Total recovered: $1,650. Here are the three legal weapons most passengers never know they have.

The longest road in the world that a person can walk... The longest theoretically walkable road on Earth stretches from Cape Town to Magadan, spanning roughly 22,387 km (13,910 miles) without the need for any boat or air travel. The route passes through about 17 countries, crossing Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and into Siberia via connected roads and bridges. Even at an ambitious pace of 12 hours of walking per day, the journey would take around a year to complete. At a more moderate schedule of 8 hours per day, it would extend to roughly a year and a half of continuous travel.

Dubai hosts the MENA Blockchain Week (MENABCW), running from May 18 to May 24, 2026. The initiative brings together 40+ simultaneous events, 5,000+ attendees, and 100+ speakers.

Press release just dropped. 3 DAYS TO GO! 🔥 🇦🇪 Dubai didn't wait. It built. 🇦🇪 MENA Blockchain Week 2026 (MENABCW) is the region's first decentralized, city-wide Blockchain initiative, a coordination layer uniting founders, investors, institutions, and policymakers across Dubai under one unified ecosystem. This is not a conference. Not a summit. This is an ecosystem infrastructure. Built for everyone! MENA Blockchain Week (MENABCW) aligns with the UAE’s Proud of UAE initiative and the D33 Agenda, reinforcing the nation’s resilience and its leadership across the region. 🎪 40+ events across the city. 👥 5,000+ attendees. 🎤 100+ speakers. 🔥Dubai is the anchor. 🔥The movement starts now. 📍 Dubai | May 18 – May 24, 2026 Learn more: menablockchainweek.ae/post/m… 🔗 Register NOW for free with a full agenda here: menablockchainweek.ae THE WEEK AT A GLANCE ​📅 May 14 — Launch Event: Community Resilience Summit ​📅 May 18 — Day 1: Builders & Community Day ​📅 May 19 — Day 2: AI & Blockchain Innovation ​📅 May 20 — Day 3: Payments & Digital Banking ​📅 May 21 — Day 4: Regulation, Security & Compliance ​📅 May 22 — Day 5: RWA & Tokenization ​📅 May 23 — Day 6: Creators Day & Workshops ​📅 May 24 — Day 7: Trading & Exchanges Day The Forces Behind the Movement Organizer: SkyNet X Solutions @SNXS_ae Destination Partner: Dubai Business Events @DubaiDET Founding Partner: Hadron Founders Club @Hadronfc Strategic Partners: Binance @binance, Polygon @0xPolygon, DBCC, Association for Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (ABAI), The Dubai Digital Asset Association (D2A2), MENA Fintech Association @TheMENAFintech, Ghaf Labs @GhafLabs Community Partners: Dubai Ethereum Community Hub @EFetheverywhere, Unbox Community, Tech Valley @TechValleyUAE, Bitcoineen @bitcoineen, Philipine Blockchain Week @philippinebc_wk Media Partners: Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph, Luna PR @LunaPRofficial, DXtalks @dxtalks, Unlock Blockchain @unlockbc, Fifreedomtoday @fifreedomtoday, BEST IN MEDIA @bestinmediaclub #MENABCW #UAE #Dubai