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Microsoft's Windows Server on ARM move: More questions and answers

Earlier this week, Microsoft acknowledged that it has been working to bring Windows Server to ARM. But the way this announcement unfolded was rather confusing. Once the dust from the initial wave of press releases cleared, it turned out that Microsoft officially announced that it has been working with Intel, AMD, and two ARM vendors (Qualcomm and Cavium) to support Project Olympus, Microsoft's next-generation cloud-hardware design it [...]

How Saudi women are uniting to inspire new generation

Saudi women from adventurers to inventors are hoping a unique conference in Riyadh on Saturday will highlight their changing role and inspire younger women to push for new opportunities in the ultra-conservative kingdom. The event comes at a time when reforms are slowly changing women's lives in one of the world's most gender-segregated countries - where women live under the supervision of a male guardian and cannot [...]

Modi leads BJP to landslide victory in state elections

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a landslide victory in state elections in the bellwether state of Uttar Pradesh, an affirmation of his enduring popularity midway through his term.The Hindu nationalist BJP won 324 of 403 state assembly seats in India’s most populous state, a magnitude of victory not seen in state polls there since 1980. The decisive mandate in a state [...]

When This All Blows Up…

This report marks the end of a series of three big trains of thought. The first explained how we’re living through the Mother Of All Financial Bubbles. The next detailed the Great Wealth Transfer that is now underway, siphoning our wealth into the pockets of an elite few. This concluding report predicts how these deleterious and unsustainable trends will inevitably ‘resolve’ (which is a pleasant way of [...]

White men an 'endangered species' in UK boardrooms – Tesco chairman

LONDON The chairman of Britain's biggest retailer Tesco has said he was joking after telling an audience of aspiring non-executive directors (NED) that white men were "an endangered species" in UK boardrooms.John Allan, who became Tesco chairman in 2015, told the Retail Week Live conference earlier this week that women and people from an ethnic background were in an "extremely propitious period" when it came to getting [...]

Waymo Wants To Stop Uber From Using 'Stolen' Self-Driving Car Secrets, Asks Judge For Court Order

Alphabet's Waymo is requesting for a preliminary injunction to keep Uber from pushing through with its self-driving car plans and thus stop the ride-hailing service from using allegedly stolen secrets. This move follows the lawsuit Waymo filed back in February against Otto, a self-driving truck startup, and Uber, the startup's parent company. The case argues that the defending party has stolen more than 14,000 confidential documents, including info [...]

Turkey says all deals with EU in jeopardy if no visa liberalisation

ANKARA Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday deals with the European Union, including an agreement on stemming the flow of migrants, would be jeopardised if the bloc failed to implement promised visa liberalisation for Turks. Cavusoglu, speaking to CNN Turk television, said Turkey would present a final text to the bloc "and either it will all be cancelled, including the visa liberalisation and migrant deal, [...]

State Department Urges Coroner To Keep Russian UN Ambassador's Cause-Of-Death Secret

Following the unexpected death of 65-year-old Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin, conspiracy theorists were stirred up as the ongoing Russophobic Deep State war combined with the deaths of nine Russian diplomats in the last year raised many coincident-questioning eyebrows. Now, as The Hill reports, pouring further fuel on that fire, the State Department asked the New York Medical Examiner not to publicly release information [...]

U.S. forges ahead with South Korea missile defences, despite upheaval

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The U.S. military said on Friday it plans to forge ahead with building the THAAD missile defence system in South Korea, separating the issue from a political crisis in Seoul that saw President Park Geun-hye's removal from office on Friday.The United States started deploying the first elements of its advanced anti-missile defence system in South Korea on Tuesday [...]

No GTS, no glory: driving the latest Porsche 911s in Cape Town

The middle ground isn’t exactly a term that many sports-car manufacturers would like associated with their tarmac-gobbling wares, but that’s exactly how Porsche positions the premium on-road niche in its long-celebrated 911 range. But its pitch explains everything: the GTS is a notch below the try-not-to-get-killed madness of the GT3, marrying sporty intent with everyday usability, making it the most-aggressive 911 this side of its race-ready road [...]

Can A Gluten-Free Diet Help You Dodge Diabetes? New Study Says No

There is a growing hype about going on a gluten-free diet today. With more and more celebrities swearing by it, people get inspired to raid supermarket aisles for expensive gluten-free alternatives. Aside from weight loss, one of the purported health benefits of a gluten-free diet is the reduced risk of diabetes, which is considered one of the leading causes of death in the United States. But a new [...]

Iran’s Top Leader Appears to Rebuke President as Election Nears

Photo Tajrish Square in Tehran. The Iranian economy did not get the boost many had hoped for after the nuclear deal. Credit Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times Iran’s top leader criticized the pace of national economic growth on Thursday in what appeared to be a rebuke of the president, who had forecast prosperous times after the 2015 accord that lifted international sanctions in exchange for [...]

Zain Saudi Arabia announces strong full-year financial results for 2016

Riyadh, 09 March, 2017Mobile Telecommunication Company Saudi Arabia (Zain Saudi Arabia) announced its financial results for the full financial year ending December 31, 2016. Key Performance Indicators for the 12 months ending 31 Dec 2016: Compared to Full-Year 2015, Zain Saudi Arabia reported: Advertisement Revenues increased by 3% to SAR 6,927 million,Gross profit grew by 11% to SAR 4,401 million.EBITDA also grew by 10% to a level [...]

Beat the heat: Ten outdoor activities to do in the UAE before it gets too hot

I’d like to say it isn’t so, but we all know the countdown to the onset of summer has already begun. Make the most of all the great outdoors has to offer with 10 of the best al fresco activities across the four compass points of the UAE.newslideBeach sportsDubai’s meandering shoreline is awash with outdoor experiences, and the newest kid on The Beach, opposite Jumeirah Beach Residence, [...]

Trump finds he needs friends on the Hill

Two days into a frantic battle to repeal and replace Obamacare, Donald Trump’s White House is struggling to win over fellow Republicans in Congress. The strength of resistance to the new healthcare bill within the party points to a broader problem for Mr Trump — almost two months in to his presidency he is struggling to control the legislative agenda. “The White House doesn’t have a plan [...]

Trump administration sends judges to immigration detention centres -sources

By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities across the United States, according to two sources and a letter seen by Reuters and sent to judges on Thursday.The department is also considering asking judges to sit from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., split between two rotating shifts, to adjudicate more cases, the sources said. A notice [...]

Nasdaq Dubai and Bourse de Tunis sign MoU for collaboration on listings and Islamic finance solutions

Tunis and Dubai, March 9, 2017 – Nasdaq Dubai and Bourse de Tunis have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore collaboration possibilities, including initiatives regarding existing and future issuers and listings on the two exchanges.Ways to promote Islamic capital markets products and solutions will also be considered under the MoU, together with supporting potential links between central securities depositories in the respective jurisdictions. The MoU [...]

Senate votes to kill Obama contractor rule

The Senate voted Monday to kill an Obama administration rule aimed at curbing labor violations among government contractors. Two years in the making, the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule was targeted by Republican lawmakers 10 days after Donald Trump’s inauguration. The House voted to excise it on Feb. 2, and Trump can seal its fate with his signature. Before the Senate vote – 49-48, along party [...]

Cisco Jasper: Connected cars the fastest-growing IoT sector

Cisco's Jasper is making a big play into connected cars, a sector the company currently sees as its largest growth industry in the Internet of Things (IoT) space.According to Jasper MD for Cisco ANZ Tom Fisher, Cisco's cloud-based IoT platform Jasper is now powering nearly every connected car in the world. "Our largest vertical is the connected car market," Fisher told ZDNet."Practically every single car manufacturer in [...]

China gives greenlight to dozens of Trump trademarks

By Adam Jourdan and Eric Walsh | SHANGHAI/WASHINGTON SHANGHAI/WASHINGTON China has granted preliminary approval for 38 trademarks linked to Donald Trump, documents on China's state trademark office show, giving the U.S. President and his family protection were they to develop the "Trump" brand in the market.The trademarks - which in theory cover a wide sweep of businesses from hotels to mobile libraries and escorts - underline the [...]

Among Questions for Trump on Iran: What About American Prisoners?

“Every day that goes by, my concern for my father and Siamak increases,” Mr. Namazi said this week in a telephone interview from Dubai, where he lives. He expressed particular anxiety about his father, who has a heart ailment, saying that an Iranian prison cell was “no place for an aging old man.” Continue reading the main story Last month, on the anniversary of the elder Mr. [...]

Opera to bring a new dimension to legend of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt

A rare opera by Franz Liszt has been meticulously restored by a senior lecturer at Cambridge University in England.David Trippett said he discovered the manuscript for the Hungarian composer’s Sardanapale in an archive in Weimar, Liszt’s long-time base in Germany, and spent two years restoring it.Sardanapale is based on an 1821 tragedy of the same name written by the British poet Lord Byron. Long thought to have [...]

Jewish leaders express frustration with investigation into threats

NEW YORK More than 140 Jewish community centre leaders sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday expressing frustration with the progress made in identifying whoever is responsible for this year's wave of bomb threats against Jewish interests.The letter, sent by the JCC Association of North America and signed by 141 of the group's leaders, came as two more community centres received threats of [...]

How to address the challenges of covering the opioid epidemic

  New York –  Pat Beall said she and her colleagues at The Palm Beach Post had been consistently reporting on Palm Beach County’s growing opioid epidemic, highlighting the lives of a few of the victims and the toll their death took on families and the larger community. But it wasn’t enough. Each story would get a little attention, but within a day or two the latest [...]