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Demand for desalinated water puts pressure on Gulf ecosystems

Domestic consumption of desalinated water in the region is not only carbon-intensive but contributes to making the Arabian Gulf one of the world’s most salty and potentially most uninhabitable bodies of water, experts say.According to the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, 96 per cent of domestic consumption of water – from drinking water to showers – comes from one of the 70 desalination plants located in [...]

Revealed: UAE's most expensive Valentine's Day packages

1 of 13 Looking to go all out this Valentine’s Day? We spotted the UAE’s poshest hotel and dinner packages. If your budget starts at AED1,840 and ends at AED53,888 per couple, keep reading. 2 of 13 Al Wadi Desert Ras Al Khaimah, is offering a Valentine’s Day ‘Desert Love’ package for AED53,888 per night with a private helicopter or AED33,888 with limousine transfers and a bottle [...]

Trump, TPP, And Taking On China

By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at Market dislocations occur when financial markets, operating under stressful conditions, experience large widespread asset mispricing. Welcome to this week’s edition of “World Out Of Whack” where every Wednesday we take time out of our day to laugh, poke fun at and present to you absurdity in global financial markets in all its glorious insanity. While we enjoy a good laugh, the truth is that the first step to [...]

Showtime February 2017: The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows To Stream

Looking for a show about money, power, greed, and scandal? Then look no further than the Showtime original series Billions starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis. And now is the time to catch up on all episodes since its season 2 premiere is about to air this month. While the hit series will come on after new episodes of Homeland, there are plenty of other fresh titles [...]

10 things to do today: attend Marhaba Market at Deerfields Mall, visit a pet festival in Abu Dhabi and more

Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for February 3, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. Want to see your event listed here? Email us with the details and contact information at [email protected] Abu DhabiOutdoor market Check out the Marhaba Market at Deerfields Mall, which offers family fun and entertainment, as [...]

Snap has finally filed publicly for its massive IPO

It’s here! Snap — which confidentially filed for its IPO late last year — has released its public filing through the Securities and Exchange Commission. This is another incremental step in the process of going public, but it’s probably the most important because we’re finally getting our first glimpse at the financial guts of the company. Snapchat has gone from a zeitgeist-y app among a younger audience to [...]

My Kind of Place: Frankfurt, Germany

Why Frankfurt?The Frankfurt of common conception and the Frankfurt of reality are very different things. Before arrival it tends to be a hazy cross between a giant conference centre churning through huge trade shows and bank HQs in modern glass towers.There is something to this – there’s surely nowhere else in the world that comes down as far on the business side of the business vs pleasure [...]

The Interpreter: The Travel Ban and an Authoritarian ‘Ladder of Violence’

Targeting the weakThe us-versus-them dynamic is “easy for many people to rally around,” said Jonathan D. Weiler, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina. Targeting feared or unpopular minorities is a way of “setting a boundary,” said Sheri E. Berman, a political scientist at Barnard College — a way to distinguish between “us” deserving of protection, and “them” who are a threat. Continue reading the [...]

SSH unveils designs for world's largest children's hospital in Kuwait

Designs have been unveiled for largest tertiary children’s hospital, the largest hospital of its kind in the world, which is to be built in Kuwait. Design firm SSH was appointed by Kuwait’s Ministry of Health and Ministry of Public Works last year, with the project being undertaken by SSH in association with global architects HKS and engineering firm WSP. The hospital will feature a total of 792 [...]

Amazon Video and Prime Video February 2017: The Complete List Of Movies And TV Series Available To Stream

Forget about the flowers, cards and candy because there is nothing better to love this month than Amazon's lineup for what to stream in February. New titles include the latest Marvel movie Doctor Strange starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the surgeon turned superhero, as well as the thriller Desierto about a migrant who leads 13 others along the U.S.-Mexico border starring The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Both [...]

Advanced robotic bat's flight characteristics simulates the real thing

The robotic 'bio-bat' demonstrates self-contained autonomous flight by mimicking morphological properties of flexible bat wings. Credit: Cover photo, reprinted with permission from AAAS. Bats have long captured the imaginations of scientists and engineers with their unrivaled agility and maneuvering characteristics, achieved by functionally versatile dynamic wing conformations as well as more than forty active and passive joints on the wings. However, their wing flexibility and complex wing [...]

AT&T to start rolling out 5G markets in Austin, Indianapolis

AT&T announced on Wednesday that it's rolling out so-called 5G "evolution markets" in Austin and Indianapolis this summer, as part of a broader push to upgrade its networks.This showcase markets will start out with theoretical peak speeds of 400Mbps. That's five times faster than what AT&T currently offers in terms of wireless connectivity, AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch noted at an event in San Francisco on Wednesday. However, [...]

Snapchat Lets Users Create QR 'Snapcodes' That Launches Websites

Snapchat is making the platform more appealing for businesses thanks to its new feature that automatically launches any website after a user scans its unique QR code. As part of its most recent update the popular photo and video app is now allowing users to create their own custom QR codes known on the platform as Snapcodes, which will then go to their website when scanned. To [...]

Holly to bolly: Polish fans buy Tom Hanks iconic 'toddler' car, Ellen DeGeneres slam Trump's immigration ban and more

newslidePolish fans buy Tom Hanks iconic ‘toddler’ carResidents of a city in southern Poland have bought American Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks an iconic communist era “toddler” car after he shared a photograph of himself with the automobile on social media last year.It all started with a picture of Tom Hanks and the words which the actor posted on Twitter: “I got a new car! Hanx”.The photo shows [...]

The Triumph Of The Technocrats

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, We cannot advance until we dump the Technocrat Class and decentralize the power that the Liberal Establishment happily concentrated into the hands of corporate cartels and the central state. Those who don't yet understand our centrally-planned cartel-state system will benefit from reading How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul (The Atlantic). I've presented related analyses in three recent essays: The Protected, [...]

Where to watch the Super Bowl 51 in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

American football fans can watch Super Bowl 51 live in a handful of pubs and restaurants across the UAE that will open in the early morning hours to show American football’s biggest event. On Monday, the New England Patriots will take on the Atlanta Falcons in Houston, Texas — which is 10 hours behind the UAE. Set your alarm — kickoff time is 3.30am — and go [...]

India polls: will Narendra Modi's demonetisation gamble pay off?

Millions of Indians are preparing to vote in the biggest test of public opinion since prime minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetisation of 500 and 1,000-rupee notes three months ago – a move which has plunged the country into an unprecedented cash crisis and sent the economy into a tailspin. Over the next four weeks, starting today, a series of regional elections will be held across India [...]

Panama Papers: Court is in session, Pakistan holding its breath – The Indian Express

Written by Anees Jillani | Published:February 1, 2017 12:31 am Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (File Photo) Since January 4, a five-member Bench headed by the second seniormost judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan has been hearing for three hours every day petitions alleging corruption by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, filed by the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran Khan, and the head of the [...]

Saas platform GRABR launches BLINK, secure content distribution platform for brands

London, UK based SaaS platform GRABR has launched BLINK, a secure mobile content distribution platform for brands, broadcast media, music labels, event organisers, news outlets and public services.The software as a service (SaaS) platform, launched in 2016, allows brands to create their own social networks and build communities to engage directly with consumers.BLINK is a suite of marketing tools that enables brands to securely distribute content on [...]

PC industry struts its stuff at the BETT 2017 educational technology exhibition

Photo: Jack Schofield Microsoft was very prominent at last week's 33rd annual BETT (British Education, Training and Technology) exhibition in London, as much for its hardware as for the ubiquitous Windows 10 operating system. Of course, for many visitors, robots and robotics will have left the most lasting impression, especially the ones who met Pepper. For the select few invited to private demos, however, Microsoft's HoloLens trumped [...]

Academics build ultimate solar-powered water purifier

From the top left corner, moving clockwise, the four images depict: University at Buffalo students performing an experiment, clean drinking water, water evaporating, and black carbon wrapped around plastic in water with evaporated vapor on top evaporated water. Credit: University at Buffalo. You've seen Bear Grylls turn foul water into drinking water with little more than sunlight and plastic. Now, academics have added a third element—carbon-dipped paper—that [...]

New smartwatch software may now verify your signatures

Credit: Tel Aviv University The handwritten signature is still the most widely accepted biometric used to verify a person's identity. Banks, corporations, and government bodies rely on the human eye and digital devices such as tablets or smart pens to capture, analyse, and verify people's autographs. New software developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev now enables smartwatches, currently worn by [...]

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed meets Italian foreign minister during Sea Palace Barza – in pictures

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, receives Angelino Alfano Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy (C). Seen with Dr Anwar Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, during a Sea Palace barza. Mohamed Al Hammadi / Crown Prince Court — Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy [...]

10 things to do today: Attend the Shop My Closet pop-up event, register to take part in The Buggy Run, and more

Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for January 31, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun.newslideAbu DhabiFitness offerBodytree Studio will celebrate Valentine’s Day throughout ­February with Bring a Buddy to Bodytree, which offers two-for-one prices for drop-in classes, including all morning yoga classes, from Sundays to Thursdays at 8.30am, Zumba on [...]