Saudi women no longer need a man’s consent to carry out certain activities, local media reported on Friday, but activists said the royal order does not go far enough. Saudi Arabia has some of the world’s tightest restrictions on women, and is the only country where they are not allowed to drive. Under the guardianship system a male family member, normally the father, husband or brother, must […]
Earlier in the week we shared Pierre Andurand’s hedge fund note blame-casting his fund’s dismal drawdowns on “CTA flows eclipsing the gradual improvement in fundamentals.” The market sell-off is missing the larger picture, he proclaims. “Market participants remain extremely focused on micro developments like US crude inventories while the big picture has been telling us a different supply story for quite some time,” he wrote. “In fact, […]
Image: Sarah Tew/CNET After three years of hard work and very little in the way of system maintenance, my MacBook Pro was starting to feel tired. But all it took to bring a spring back into its step was 20 minutes and MacPaw’s CleanMyMac 3. Must read: iPhone 8: Here’s what we think we know about Apple’s 10th-anniversary iPhone I’m normally wary of “system cleanup utilities” because, […]
Iceland says its geothermal power station at Reykjanes can produce clean energy independent from fossil fuels by generating electricity from the heat stored inside the earth It’s named after a Nordic god and drills deep into the heart of a volcano: “Thor” is a rig that symbolises Iceland’s leading-edge efforts to produce powerful clean energy. If successful, the experimental project could produce up to 10 times more […]
DUBAI // Almost 1,000 animals at Dubai Zoo will be relocated to the new Dubai Safari Park, which 4,000 creatures will call home when it opens. The 119-hectare park is tentatively due to open in late 2017 in Al Warqa 5. It will replace Dubai Zoo and offer animals a better quality of life. Timothy Husband, the park’s technical director, said that some of the animals will […]
Not what you want to see at the start a long work day or business trip! Picture this: You’re leaving your home or office in 20 minutes and your smartphone’s battery is almost dead. How do you get the maximum amount of charge into the device in the shortest amount of time? Here’s the best method I’ve found, and it works well for iPhone and Android smartphones, […]
Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, In Part One of this article I detailed how propaganda has been utilized by the Deep State for decades to control the minds of the masses and allow those in control to reap the benefits of never ending war. In Part Two I will discuss recent events, false flags, and propaganda campaigns utilized by the Deep State to […]
ABU DHABI // Construction of the first nuclear reactor of the UAE’s atomic plant has been completed, although its operation will begin next year, said the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec). Enec and the Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) have completed the initial construction activities for Unit 1 of the Barakah plant. The operating systems have been handed to Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, a subsidiary of […]
Four of the six battery backups that sacrificed themselves to save our gear. Beep. “Honey.” [Sixty seconds go by.] Beep. “Honey.” [Another sixty seconds go by.] Beep. “Honey, something’s beeping.” And thus began what was supposed to be the end of my evening. Here’s one for your wall of weird. About 12:30am on Thursday, my wife and I finally finished up what had been a long work […]
Significantly, the agreement to establish the de-escalation zones has not been accepted by all opposition groups, and it left loopholes for Syria to continue undiminished attacks on the rebels, factors that combined to hinder the last attempt by Iran, Russia and Turkey to forge a cease-fire. Continue reading the main story Nevertheless, one of the representatives of the Syrian opposition groups at talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, Col. […]
Saudi Arabia should urgently review its definition of terrorism under a law used to prosecute non-violent journalists and human rights defenders, a United Nations special rapporteur said on Thursday. After a visit to the kingdom, Ben Emmerson told reporters that a 2014 counter-terrorism law contains an “unacceptably broad definition” of the crime and does not comply with international rights standards. “I strongly condemn the use of counter-terrorism […]
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Italy is increasingly dependent on the ECB to hold down bond yields as foreign investors dump Italian bonds like mad. Eurointelligence bills this as “Further Evidence of Capital Flight in Italy“. In a column earlier this week, Federico Fubini notes that, according to the Bank of International Settlements, in 2016 international banks reduced their exposure to Italy by 15%, or over $100bn, […]
Dubai-based DP World and the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) have signed an agreement to develop the logistics sector in India. The agreement comes as a result of the visit to India in February 2016 of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, DP World Group chairman and CEO, a statement said. DP World announced at the […]
People touch specially woven Project Jacquard fabric being used in new ‘smart’ Levi denim jackets A young man in a white t-shirt pulls on a dark blue denim trucker jacket, tucks his smartphone in an inside pocket and puts in-ear headphones in his right ear. He mounts a fixed-gear bike with flat, slightly curved wide handlebars. Riding through the streets of San Francisco, he occasionally taps or […]
“Something is off,” warns RBC’s head of cross-asset strategy Charlie McElligott in the introduction to his latest market noting that the swing in US fiscal policy optimism is coming at a critical time as the China’s liquidity tightening is spooking the reflation story. SUMMARY: Movement on US fiscal policy is currently driving US rates and equities higher, counteracting the tremendous negative implications of this ‘Chinese tightening / […]
Authored by John Solomon via Circa.com, During his final year in office, President Obama’s team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents in the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election. The data, made available this week by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, provides […]
Authored by 720Global’s Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums” – Alan Greenspan The ability to see beyond the observable and the probable is the most important and under-appreciated characteristic of successful investors. For example, visualize a single domino standing upright. With this limited perspective, one can establish what the domino is doing in the […]
Figure 1: An X-ray diffraction image of a chip package containing four multi-stacked silicon die. The thickest silicon die (300 µm thick) is the large flat stripe, which experiences the least warpage as it is glued to the package lead frame (lead frame not imaged). The three “wiggly” strips are individual transmission section images for each of the three remaining die (each 50 µm thick) stacked upon […]
The likes of Shoreditch in London and Williamsburg in New York are now so well-known that they’re starting to lose their hipster lustre, but constant change means that even the world’s most famous cities have new areas which make them worth revisiting. Here are several to watch in 2017. Somerville, Boston Technically a separate city, Somerville has gone from blue collar to every coloured collar you care […]
Metadata is not ground truth. In the space of all possible partitions of a real-world social network, the lower peak corresponds to the social group partition given by the metadata. The higher peak corresponds to a leader-follower partition within the network. Image courtesy Peel, Larremore, and Clauset. Credit: Santa Fe Institute Community detection is an important tool for scientists studying networks. It provides descriptions of the large-scale […]
The biggest names of the Indian film industry will be walking the red carpet in Abu Dhabi for this year’s South Indian International Movie Awards. Last year’s event was held in Singapore, while the event in 2015 was held in Dubai. This marks a first for the ceremony to be held in the capital. The award celebrations will be held at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre […]
Don’t open that email. Journalists and others on Wednesday were ensnared in what appears to be a widespread phishing attack from the address “[email protected],” while others took to Twitter to warn others: icymi: Someone Is Spreading a Massive Google Doc Phishing Email Right Now https://t.co/Y2HVIKejlp via @lorenzofb — Carl Franzen (@carlfranzen) May 3, 2017 This may be spreading through asking authorizing apps. DO NOT AUTHORIZE APPS WITHOUT […]
ABU DHABI // The UAE on Wednesday hailed a meeting in Abu Dhabi between two rival Libyan leaders as a significant breakthrough in talks aimed at ending the conflict. The UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs voiced optimism over the meeting between Fayez Al Sarraj, prime minister of Libya’s UN-backed government, and Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the country’s most powerful military commander, the state news agency, Wam, reported. […]
Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for May 4, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. Aarti Jhurani rounds up 10 things to do today in the UAE. Want to see your event listed here? Email us with the details and contact information at [email protected] newslide Abu Dhabi Film screenings Catch […]
In its bid to make the United Arab Emirates city the “safest electronic city in the world,” the Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) is looking to expand its Emirati-only workforce by 50 percent this year. The centre, which has a budget of millions of dollars, monitors and researches potential electronic incidents that may affect governmental institutes. To do that, the relatively new center, established in 2014, is […]
The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair completed its 27th edition on Tuesday. On the surface the event did what it was designed to do. Thousands of books were sold, literary awards were handed out, a new publishing house was announced, publishing deals were signed and authors’ works were snapped up in languages ranging from Chinese to Turkish. But it is only when you spend a serious amount […]
China plans to launch its own online encyclopaedia next year, hoping to build a “cultural Great Wall” that can rival Wikipedia as a go-to information source for Chinese Internet users who Beijing fears are being corrupted by foreign influences China plans to launch its own online encyclopaedia next year, hoping to build a “cultural Great Wall” that can rival Wikipedia as a go-to information source for Chinese […]
For the first time ever, Red Hat will align its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), development and release dates with a third-party: Amazon Web Services (AWS). This alliance underlines just how important the cloud is to Red Hat as it moves from being a Linux distributor first to being a cloud services provider first. Red Hat is partnering closely with Amazon to fly Red […]
ABU DHABI // Two major development projects will bring thousands of homes and jobs to an underdeveloped area on the outskirts of the capital. The Dh4 billion Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City is 90 per cent complete and will open soon, while construction is under way on a Dh2.5bn Emirati housing neighbourhood near Abu Dhabi International Airport. The first of the homes will be ready by 2019. The […]
According to recent polling by Elabe, he would take 65 per cent of the vote in a second-round run-off against Le Pen. It is expected that Macron – a centrist – should be able to attract a wider spectrum of second-round voters than Le Pen, pulling in left-leaning voters from Hamon and Mélenchon as well as those leaning to the right that voted Fillon in the […]
