23 Oct 2026, 07:05 UTC≈2,020 views72 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
There are taxis in Dubai with nobody in the front seat.
Fully autonomous RT6 vehicles from Baidu's Apollo Go began operating here, carrying more than 40 sensors each — high-precision lidar, multi-band radar, cameras — making decisions in live traffic.
The first ride was taken by the Crown Prince, to a government summit.
Public rollout was set for the first quarter of 2026.
The driverless metro took fifteen years to…
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19 Oct 2026, 07:05 UTC≈4,130 views122 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
Dubai just approved a AED 34 billion metro line that nobody will ever see.
The Gold Line runs 42 kilometres and 18 stations entirely underground — the first fully buried line in the network, at depths reaching 40 metres.
It links Al Ghubaiba in the old city to Jumeirah Golf Estates, crossing Business Bay, Meydan and Mohammed Bin Rashid City.
Approved 22 April 2026. Tunnelling machines will do the whole thing.
Dubai…
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16 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC≈5,100 views112 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
Dubai is about to let you pay rent monthly. Interest free.
Under a Land Department scheme launching this month, a participating bank pays your landlord the full year upfront. You then repay the bank across twelve months at zero interest.
No more chasing four cheques. No more emptying an account every January.
Officials say no city has implemented this inside its rental system before.
Dubai's landlords have always b…
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12 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC≈6,260 views128 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
Dubai cut a canal through the most expensive land it owns.
3.2 kilometres of water driven from Business Bay out to the Gulf — not reclaimed seabed, not empty desert, but the built-up middle of the city. Opened November 2016.
It turned Downtown and Bur Dubai into an island.
The waterfall under Sheikh Zayed Road switches itself off when a boat passes beneath.
Most cities build around what is already there. This one m…
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9 Oct 2026, 07:01 UTC≈6,670 views110 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
Dubai counts its population in real time.
Nine government bodies — residency, transport, electricity, health, municipality, land, education, economy — now feed one live census system, updated continuously rather than every ten years.
That's why the city can tell you its population to the individual person on a given afternoon.
Most countries publish an estimate and wait a decade to correct it.
Cities run on data. T…
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5 Oct 2026, 07:01 UTC≈7,430 views139 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
Dubai finished the world's first air taxi station before the taxis arrived.
The vertiport sits near Dubai International, built by the transport authority with Skyports, designed to plug straight into the metro and bus network.
Six locations are planned. Early fares were quoted from around AED 350 for a flight of roughly fifteen minutes.
Aircraft are electric and, they say, far quieter than a helicopter.
The hard pa…
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2 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC≈7,290 views144 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
Dubai wants a quarter of all journeys driverless by 2030.
Not a pilot. A stated target: 25 percent of every trip taken in the city, with no human at the controls.
The metro already runs that way. Taxis are starting. Air taxis are next in the queue.
A dedicated command centre is already wired into the city's traffic systems.
Most cities are debating whether to allow this. This one has put a percentage on it.
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28 Sept 2026, 07:01 UTC≈8,250 views164 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
17,000 piles are already in the ground.
That is the current state of Al Maktoum International — plus 45 million cubic metres of earth moved and 10 million work hours committed in fifteen months.
No terminal. No roof. No photographs worth publishing yet.
AED 13 billion of contracts have been awarded this year, with AED 55 billion more due before December.
The most expensive thing being built in this city today is st…
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25 Sept 2026, 07:03 UTC≈8,460 views158 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
A villa in Dubai sold to 169 people in under five minutes.
It went out as tokens on a Land Department platform — AED 1.75 million split into fractions, bought by investors from 40 nationalities before most people finished reading the listing.
Settlement in dirhams. Title registered with the Land Department, not offshore.
Minimum entry on the current platforms is around AED 2,000.
Property has always been the slowes…
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21 Sept 2026, 07:05 UTC≈8,870 views204 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
Dubai added 161,335 people in seven months.
The population clock read 4,741,335 on 30 July 2026 — up from 4.58 million at the end of 2025.
That is roughly 760 new residents every day, arriving with luggage and a lease.
Growth dipped in the first quarter, then accelerated again in the second.
Cities argue about whether people are leaving. This one publishes a live counter.
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18 Sept 2026, 07:05 UTC≈8,850 views191 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
The most copied chocolate bar on earth is named after a city, not a brand.
Dubai chocolate was invented here in 2021 — milk chocolate, pistachio and tahini cream, shredded kadayif pastry. A Filipino chef and an Egyptian-British engineer, working from a craving.
Social media found it in 2024. Within months it was being imitated on every continent.
Most people eating it have never been here.
Dubai exported a flavour …
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14 Sept 2026, 07:02 UTC≈9,280 views218 reactionsread 25 October 2026 Photo
One mosque in Dubai lets anyone walk in. That is the entire point of it.
Jumeirah Mosque opened in 1979 in Fatimid style — a gift from one ruler of Dubai to his son.
Six days a week it runs guided visits for non-Muslims under a programme called Open Doors, Open Minds.
Coffee and dates first. Then questions, including the difficult ones.
The most photographed building on that road is also the one that answers back.
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