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Development projects to bring homes and jobs to outskirts of Abu Dhabi

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 732-bed [...]

How journalists should handle the next 100 days of Trump’s presidency – Poynter

This past Saturday marked 100 days since Donald Trump became president, and many news organizations marked the occasion with data-intensive packages that measured his progress and made it really easy for the public to understand what's happened so far. Some highlights: The Guardian published an interactive making it really easy to analyze the first 100 days by putting the numbers in context. They also published daily briefings [...]

Did Amazon, Google Maps Disappear From Your Apple Watch? You’re Not Alone : TECH : Tech Times

The Apple Watch launched with much fanfare. But the recent disappearance of some of its apps happened almost unnoticed. Big-name apps such as Google Maps and Amazon have pulled their support for Apple's wearable Apple Watch as Apple prepares for the launch of Watch Series 3. The wearable fitness tracker has just launched watchOS 3.2 last March, so the absence of some apps may come as a surprise to [...]

wasl launches Dubai’s second luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel project

02 May 2017wasl Asset Management Group, one of the largest real estate development and management companies in Dubai – has announced the launch of the city’s second luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel, which is due to open in November 2020. The new location in Dubai’s Commercial District of Sheikh Zayed Road will complement wasl’s Mandarin Oriental hotel on the waterfront at Jumeira Beach, which will open in the [...]

Central system to be set up for monitoring UAE drone use

DUBAI // A central system for monitoring drone use in the UAE is being set up as part of new standards for unmanned aerial vehicles. The system would involve a mandatory serial number to be used by potential manufacturers, reported Wam, the state news agency. The surveillance system was part of new regulatory standards for commercial and recreational drone use endorsed by the Emirates Authority for Standardisation [...]

UAE approves new plan to regulate use of drones – Transport

New regulatory standards for commercial and recreational use of drones have been endorsed by the Emirates Authority for Standardisation & Metrology (ESMA), including a surveillance system for detecting unmanned aerial vehicles in the UAE. Dr Rashid Ahmed Bin Fahad, chairman of ESMA, said in comments published by state news agency WAM that the new standards envisage a central system to monitor any drone operating in the UAE [...]

Detecting walking speed with wireless signals

WiGait uses wireless signals to continuously measure a person's walking speed. Credit: Jason Dorfman, MIT CSAIL We've long known that breathing, blood pressure, body temperature and pulse provide an important window into the complexities of human health. But a growing body of research suggests that another vital sign - how fast you walk - could be a better predictor of health issues like cognitive decline, falls, and [...]

SpaceX Successfully Launches Spy Satellite And Nails Rocket Landing In 1st Mission For Defense Department : SCIENCE : Tech Times

SpaceX successfully launched a secretive spy satellite toward orbit on Monday morning, following a slight delay. Elon Musk's commercial rocket company was supposed to launch the spy satellite on Sunday, but a sensor problem postponed the launch. The operation went smoothly on Monday, marking SpaceX's first flight for the U.S. Department of Defense. The successful liftoff was from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX [...]

Panama Papers investigation wins Pulitzer prize | World news

The Panama Papers investigation into the offshore secrets of the rich and famous has been awarded a prestigious Pulitzer prize. The prize was given to the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), together with two US titles, McClatchy and the Miami Herald. The judges cited a series of stories from the Panama Papers and the “collaboration of more than 300 reporters on six continents to expose [...]

With Series A funding from Benchmark, Prefer takes the wraps off its new marketplace

Between Thumbtack,  Yelp Angie’s List, and Amazon, it wouldn’t appear that the world needs a new platform that matches customers with service professionals. That’s not the way that Julio Vasconcellos sees it, clearly. Vasconcellos has spent the last year-plus working on a services platform called Prefer that relies exclusively on trusted referrals, replacing the wisdom of crowds with the wisdom of one’s friends when it comes to hiring a babysitter or accountant or housekeeper. In [...]

How New Trend Called ‘Stealthing’ Is Actually A Sex Crime : HEALTH : Tech Times

The practice of "stealthing" refers to men secretly removing or damaging condoms without their partners' knowledge. Apart from the health concerns associated with this practice, the experience is jarring for the victims, and leaves them feeling violated, confused, and upset. Alexandra Brodsky, fellow at the National Women's Law Center, studied the phenomenon back when she was a student at Yale Law School and detailed her findings in [...]

‘The Circle’ imagines a dark future without journalists in-frame – Poynter

Perhaps it’s telling that journalism is so absent in The Circle, the movie based on the Dave Eggers novel that paints a dark picture of a future that has nearly arrived. Emma Watson plays Mae Holland, a recent college graduate who takes up the faith of the Silicon Valley digital-life media company she works for called The Circle. Holland comes to believe that omnipresent artificial intelligence embedded [...]

A year of the Panama Papers

22 February 2016 – Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia posted the first major hint that the biggest scandal in Maltese history was about to break. “It’s traditional to eat lamb on Easter Sunday, so Konrad Mizzi and his estranged wife Sai Mizzi Liang will be getting theirs from New Zealand, courtesy of their fixer Brian Tonna, who has a desk at the Auberge de Castille”. [...]

U.N. rights boss concerned at due process in Turkey purges | Reuters

GENEVA U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein voiced deep concern on Monday at mass arrests and sackings and renewal of the state of emergency in Turkey, saying terror should not be tackled at the expense of human rights. "It is highly unlikely that the suspensions and detentions will have met due process standards," Zeid told a news briefing after the latest round of suspensions [...]

Trump’s war on the media is straight out of a dystopian dictator’s handbook

President Donald Trump was a distracting entertainment from the moment he launched his campaign in June of 2015 — until he wasn't. His opening speech, in which he called Mexican immigrants "rapists" and told the world he would be the best jobs president "God ever created," was looked at as the ravings of a man whose outsized ego was too big to be anything but hilarious.  News [...]

Ludwig von Mises’ Century Of Validation

Authored by EconomicPrism's MN Gordon, annotated by Acting-Man's Pater Tenebrarum, Seeing the Light It has been said that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”  No one quite knows who first uttered this remark; it has been attributed to Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, and has even been said to be an Ancient Chinese Proverb.  What [...]

Swiss boarding school enters Dubai’s market

DUBAI // A new boarding school in the emirate will compete with some of the best and most exclusive in the world as it prepares to open its campus this year.The first of three planned boarding houses at the Swiss International Scientific School’s Al Jaddaf campus is being built and on track for completion before the academic year starts in September.Consisting of 50 en-suite rooms that can [...]

British PM May sets out plans to protect pensions during takeovers | Reuters

LONDON British Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to protect workers against irresponsible practices over pensions on Sunday, promising new regulations on how schemes are handled during corporate takeovers.May's Conservative party will give regulators power to examine takeover proposals that threaten the solvency of a company pension scheme, and the regulator could be empowered to block takeovers if it is not satisfied with the arrangements. May set out [...]

Zurich says biggest MidEast life cover payout is $1.5m – Banking & Finance

Heart attack and stroke were the most common reasons for life and critical illness cover claims by men in the Middle East, while cancer was the leading cause for claims by women, according to new research. Zurich International Life’s latest claim statistics revealed that the majority of claims made by men are from those aged 40 and above, whereas for women, the majority of claims were paid [...]

Welcome to the new season of Pakistan’s Game of Thrones!

To understand the dynamics of Pakistani politics, one needs to watch the popular drama series Game of Thrones. Based on George R R Martin’s series of novels A Song of Ice and Fire this drama serial focuses on the moves and conspiracies to win power games. I am sure if the writer or director sees Pakistan’s version of Game of Thrones they would forget their own drama series. [...]

Using math to investigate possibility of time travel

After some serious number crunching, a researcher says that he has come up with a mathematical model for a viable time machine: a Traversable Acausal Retrograde Domain in Space-time (TARDIS). He describes it as a bubble of space-time geometry which carries its contents backward and forwards through space and time as it tours a large circular path. The bubble moves through space-time at speeds greater than the [...]

Stephen Hawking issues familiar warning to China against AI

(Image: Hawking.org) It's a pet obsession that both physicist Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur Elon Musk -- two people credited with pushing the boundaries of technology and science in pioneering ways -- have in common: Rampaging intelligence, borne within machines, could end the human race if utilized dangerously. "I believe there is no real difference between what can be achieved by a biological brain and what can be [...]

NSA stops controversial program that searches Americans’ emails

(Image: file photo)The National Security Agency is set to stop using a highly classified program that in part collected Americans' emails and text messages without a warrant.Details of the program were largely overlooked when it was first disclosed in documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013. The leaks provided a small but critical window into how the US government carries out surveillance on Americans, who are [...]

Off target in 2016, global elite regroup at Milken conference | Reuters

By Lawrence Delevingne | BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Titans of U.S. industry and Wall Street gather in Beverly Hills this week to discuss how to navigate - and profit from - hot topics such as U.S. tax reform, the upcoming French election and Chinese economic growth. U.S. President Donald Trump’s first 100 days and the next 1,000, as well as the outlook for liberal democracy [...]