By Alastair Macdonald and Jan Strupczewski | ROME ROME Europeans must contain their squabbling and carping about the EU if the Union is to survive, leaders warned on Saturday as they marked the 60th anniversary of its founding in Rome by signing a formal declaration of unity. Four days before Prime Minister Theresa May, absent from the ceremony in the Italian capital, delivers an unprecedented blow to […]
BAGHDAD The United Nations expressed profound concern on Saturday over reports of an incident in the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul that caused a high number of civilian casualties. “We are stunned by this terrible loss of life,” Lise Grande, the humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, said in a statement. Local officials and residents said on Thursday that dozens of people were buried in collapsed buildings […]
ANKARA Turkey’s foreign ministry summoned Switzerland’s deputy ambassador to Ankara on Saturday over a protest in the Swiss capital Bern against President Tayyip Erdogan, the state-run Anadolu agency reported, Anadolu said some 250 people, including supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), staged a rally earlier on Saturday in Bern calling for a ‘No’ vote in an April referendum in Turkey that could give Erdogan sweeping […]
I’ve been asked several times over the past few days about how to wipe an iPad ready for resale (presumably because Apple has a new iPad out). Instead of repeating myself over and over, I thought that a post was in order. It’s in fact dead easy. Tip: Remember to do a backup via iTunes first … there’s no going back from a wipe! If you paired […]
Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] suspended its pilot program for driverless cars on Saturday after a vehicle equipped with the nascent technology crashed on an Arizona roadway, the ride-hailing company and local police said. The accident, the latest involving a self-driving vehicle operated by one of several companies experimenting with autonomous vehicles, caused no serious injuries, Uber said. Even so, the company said it was grounding driverless cars […]
25 March 2017 Abu Dhabi, UAE – Etihad Airways is reassuring passengers of its highest level of service to minimise disruption following the introduction of a new US travel directive on electronic devices. Effective March 25, passengers on all US-bound flights from, or transiting through, Abu Dhabi International Airport will not be permitted to carry electronic devices bigger than a smart phone or mobile into the aircraft […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that the highly anticipated Tesla solar roof tiles will be available to order starting in April. As global warming poses increasingly worrisome threats, the race is on to find cleaner energy solutions to reduce the carbon footprint and protect the environment. Tesla is among the most avid clean energy supporters and it’s been making notable efforts in the field, aiming to deliver environmentally […]
SINDELFINGEN, Germany German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, a key figure in Berlin’s handling of the euro zone crisis and Greece’s bailout programmes, won a ringing endorsement from his conservative party on Saturday to stand in September’s federal election. With 95 percent support, 74-year-old Schaeuble secured first place on the conservative Christian Democrats’ (CDU) list of candidates in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg for the federal election to […]
DUBAI // Style and elegance were the order of the day for the thousands of spectators who defied a barrage of rain to witness the Dubai World Cup at Meydan on Saturday. Upwards of 60,000 people gathered and millions more watched on television the world’s richest race day, when Arrogate underline its status as the world’s highest-rated horse by scooping the US$10 million (Dh36.7m) Dubai World Cup […]
An Uber self-driving car has crashed in Arizona, dealing another setback to the US ride-hailing company after a spate of adverse publicity over internal management failures. The SUV was in a collision with another vehicle and rolled on to its side on Friday evening, according to local police. On Saturday, Uber said its vehicle was not carrying any customers at the time of the crash, but provided […]
Authored by Johnny Hopkins via The Aquirer’s Multiple blog, One of our favorite investors at The Acquirer’s Multiple – Stock Screener is Howard Marks. Howard Marks is Chairman and Co-Founder of Oaktree Capital Management, the world’s biggest distressed-debt investor. He’s known in the investment community for his “Oaktree memos” to clients which detail investment strategies and insight into the economy, and in 2011 he published the book The Most […]
GENEVA U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has written to the foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey and Iran to urge them to “undertake urgent efforts to uphold the ceasefire regime” in Syria and to smooth the way for peace talks, a statement said on Saturday. “The Special Envoy recalls that the joint efforts of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey […]
During the past few weeks, I’ve talked with my colleague Ren LaForme about two video tools: one for making videos interactive and one for shooting with your phone. We’re going to stay with easy things you can do yourself with video for a bit longer. What’s our tool this week? The first week we talked about this really cool tool to take video out of the standard […]
By Regis Duvignau and Bernard Grollier | CAMBO-LES-BAINS/SAINT-DENIS-DE-LA-REUNION, France CAMBO-LES-BAINS/SAINT-DENIS-DE-LA-REUNION, France Francois Fillon’s aides used an umbrella to shield him from eggs thrown by protesters in south-west France on Saturday as the beleaguered conservative fell further behind centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-rightist Marine Le Pen in opinion polls. The contrast between former frontrunner Fillon, embroiled in a financial scandal, and new poll favourite Macron was striking as […]
Apple’s drawings show an iPhone-like device docking where you usually find a touchpad on a laptop, with its touchscreen facing up to act as the touchpad. Image: Apple A new patent application from Apple shows it toying with the idea of a laptop powered by an iPhone that’s docked face up where the touchpad is normally positioned. The idea that a smartphone is a pocket-sized computer has […]
KINSHASA Militia fighters decapitated about 40 police officers after an ambush in central Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said on Saturday, the deadliest attack on security forces since an insurgency erupted in the region last year. The Kamuina Nsapu militants struck on Friday as the police convoy drove from the city of Tshikapa in Kasai province to Kananga, the capital of Kasai-Central province, said Francois Madila […]
BEIJING A Chinese court has ruled in favor of Apple in design patent disputes between the Cupertino, California company and a domestic phone-maker, overturning a ban on selling iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus phones in China, Xinhua news agency reported. Last May, a Beijing patent regulator ordered Apple’s Chinese subsidiary and a local retailer Zoomflight to stop selling the iPhones after Shenzhen Baili Marketing Services lodged […]
EVEN if it threatens to affect the legislative agenda of the 17th Congress, House Speaker Pantaleon D. Alvarez has vowed to pursue an impeachment case filed against Vice President Maria Leonor G. Robredo, justifying that, in doing so, the lower chamber is only doing its mandate under the 1987 Constitution. “Whether it will affect or not [our legislative agenda], we are mandated by the Constitution to process all […]
WASHINGTON The U.S. military acknowledged on Saturday that U.S. aircraft struck at the request of Iraqi security forces a location in West Mosul where dozens of civilian casualties allegedly occurred. U.S. Central Command said in a statement that it took the allegation seriously and has opened an investigation “to determine the facts surrounding this strike and the validity of the allegation of civilian casualties.” (Reporting by Roberta […]
ABU DHABI // The countdown to the Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019 officially began in the early hours of Saturday morning as the Winter Games came to a close in Austria. The capital won the bid to host the 2019 Games last year after the board of directors unanimously voted in Abu Dhabi’s favour. The event will be the region’s first sporting event for athletes […]
Schroders has become the first FTSE 100 company to publish details of its gender pay gap as pressure mounts on the financial services industry to stamp out imbalances in how much men and women earn. Schroders found that fixed pay for its female staff was 33 per cent less on average when compared to salaries for male employees at Europe’s second largest listed asset manager. It also […]
25 March 2017 Shanghai – Palm Jumeirah and its latest iconic creation – PALM M 360 – are pulling in the crowds in Shanghai, where Dubai developer Nakheel is exhibiting more than USD1.6 billion of real estate. The world-famous island is proving to be the star attraction at the three-day Dubai Property Show, taking place in Shanghai for the first time. Nakheel and its diverse range of […]
Martin Fink’s vision starts with petabyte-scale memory systems. One of the keynotes at the recently concluded Non-Volatile Memory Workshop 2017 was given by Martin Fink, a 31-year HP veteran and newly appointed CTO of Western Digital. Martin ran HP Labs, and HP’s high-end server business, and has been thinking about memory-centric computing for years. If the terms “memristor” and “polymorphic computing” ring a bell, you can thank […]
CAIRO Four Egyptian soldiers were killed in an explosion that hit their armoured vehicle on Saturday in the northern Sinai peninsula, where the government is battling an Islamic State-led insurgency, security sources said. The incident occurred about 20 km (12 miles) south of the Mediterranean town of al-Arish. An insurgency in Egypt’s rugged Sinai region has gained pace since the army toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the […]
