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Read Full Issue IMAGE OF THE DAY- The central band of the Milky Way in Egypt’s White Desert: NASA’s Astronomy picture of the dayyesterday featured a captivating image of the Milky Way Galaxy shot by Amr Abdulwahab in Egypt’s White Desert National Park. The image took three days to create by capturing composite images “with the same camera and from the same location,” with Abdulwahab enlisting the help of “an even more experienced astrophotographer,” NASA notes.
House hunting in Egypt is about to get a lot easier: Our friends at Coldwell Banker Egypt launched Meta Egypt — a new virtual reality real estate platform that makes it possible to virtually scout out properties — with Estate waves, according to a statement (pdf). The EGP 150 bn metaverse-based platform currently has 450 real estate projects and over 30k residential, commercial, and administrative units from 100 real estate development firms across the country. The platform will also provide services seeing consumers meet up with real estate development companies, markets, finishing and interior design firms as well as real estate financing institutions and banks.
Should Apple be bending over backwards for foldable phones? It’s currently the only global smartphone brand currently without a foldable device in its portfolio, says Bloomberg. Google launched the Pixel Fold this week and Samsung has already sent to market several iterations of their Galaxy Z — choose from the Fold or Flip. So, with folding phones currently commanding higher prices, opening the door to new features and helping lower-tier brands step up into the premium range, is Apple slow to enter a promising market?
iSheep could be queueing up for a foldable Apple product soon: As the dominant smartphone manufacturer, Apple has the power to make or break the future foldables industry, says Neil Mawston, research director at Strategy Analytics. The brand has reportedly been working on a foldable product for several years and is known to favor entering an established category with a more polished product. Yet, they have been too slow on the uptake say analysts. “It is unthinkable that Apple has not been experimenting with flexible display technology in its product development labs for a decade or more,” said CCS Insight analyst Ben Wood.
