Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 6:23pm
Zaha Hadid wins bid to design the King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station in Saudi Arabia.
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Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 3:43pm
Today in technology-and-human-rights events, an electronic tracking system has been put in place in Saudi Arabia. It tracks women, mostly those making cross-border movements, and it alerts their husbands, etc.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 12:01pm
Everybody, meet the new Kingdom Tower design, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's latest design. You might know the Kingdom Tower as the soon-to-be world's tallest building and the tower that's going to make the Burj Khalifa look like a midget.
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 11:12am
How high does a tower need to reach before it's considered too high? If you think relaxing up on top of the Burj Khalifa's At.mosphere won't give you vertigo, try Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Tower — a structure that will extend one mile upwards — almost twice the height of Dubai's tallest.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 11:26am
There have been plenty of rumors about when Microsoft's Project Natal controller-less system would be hitting the shelves. Perhaps it wasn't meant to be leaked in this way, but Microsoft's marketing manager in Saudi Arabia was asked during an interview...
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Monday, November 30, 2009 - 2:15pm
Defending an oil tanker from pirates is a tricky business. On the one hand, you've got cargo worth upwards of 100 million in black gold; then again, you really don't want bullets and RPGs whizzing around when your vessel is...
