Qatar said it would provide $1.25 billion in aid to shore up Tunisia’s post-revolution economy as regional and Western partners pledged extensive financial backing at an investment conference on Tuesday. The money from Qatar, announced by the emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, is the biggest single offer of aid to Tunisia since a 2011 uprising ushered in a democratic transition but also years of economic uncertainty […]
A thrilling ride is about to begin for NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Engineers have been pumping up the spacecraft’s orbit around Saturn this year to increase its tilt with respect to the planet’s equator and rings. And on Nov. 30, following a gravitational nudge from Saturn’s moon Titan, Cassini will enter the first phase of the mission’s dramatic endgame. (via WSJ)
ICANN became independent on October 1, 2016 after the expiration of an 18-year contract to manage the technical functions of the internet address system which ensure that users arrive at certain websites The internet address system gatekeeper, independent after a split from the US government, is now in a phase where “the grassroots are in charge,” its top executive said Tuesday. Goran Marby, president and chief executive […]
Part of the reason for Donald Trump’s triumph in the US election was that, as he would say, his cyber was the strongest. In the first social media election, Trump rallied a world’s worth of hackers and extreme digital natives to his side. If he can keep that anarchic crowd on board, he’ll not only have the world’s best cybersecurity, he’ll have a cyber army. […]
For six and a half years, Donald Trump battled fraud allegations against his now-defunct Trump University, claiming it duped students into thinking they’d get personal access to the real estate mogul and the secrets to his success. After both sides vowed to go to trial, the litigation settled for $25 million the week before Thanksgiving, days before a trial was set to begin in San Diego. As part of the […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has demonstrated its memory-driven computing architecture The Machine, bringing its vision for the future of computing closer to fruition. The idea behind the project, which has been running for five years, is to combine memory-driven computing, photonics, and a new fabric that can together deal with vast amounts of data. The working components that HPE showcased included compute nodes that share a pool […]
Everything across the utilities landscape should be connected, instrumented, and measured, according to Cisco Australia CTO Kevin Bloch, in order to move forward from automating operations to augmenting human decision making and predicting the future using the Internet of Things (IoT). Speaking at Utility Week in Sydney on Tuesday, Bloch stressed the importance of connecting everything possible to the IoT so as to make use of the […]
A weather service might not seem like the most important iPhone app, but consider how big an impact the state of the sky has on your daily life. The Weather Underground app does an excellent job of giving you the most important information about the weather right now and in the immediate future, and lets you drill down for more information, too. It remains my Editors’ Choice […]
Construction contracts worth AED 3 billion awarded for eight residential projects and all requisite infrastructure Nearly 5,000 residences currently under construction with over 2,000 homes ready for hand-over in 2017 750-acre (31 million sq ft) development is anchored by a central square, the size of 16 football fields, Vida Townsquare Dubai hotel and Reel Cinemas cineplex 29 November 2016Construction contracts worth AED 3 billion awarded […]
Dubai’s state-owned utility firm has signed a power purchase agreement with Abu Dubai Future Energy Company, better known as Masdar, for the 800MW third phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) said the agreement was signed by Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, managing director andCEO of DEWA, and Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and chairman […]
Industry eyes opportunity to reinvest at higher yields and leave low rate era behind ©Noam Galai/WireImage/Getty Donald Trump may be just what the global insurance industry needs. Shares in several of the sector’s largest companies have outperformed the market strongly since the US election, on hopes that a prolonged squeeze on their returns is finally drawing to a close. Years of ultra-low rates have eaten away at […]
Farmers in India are enjoying a privilege denied to the rest of their countrymen–permission to use old 500-rupee currency notes to buy seed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this month announced the replacement of high-denomination bank notes worth 500 rupees ($7.33) and 1,000 rupees ($14.66), to get rid of corruption, eliminate counterfeit money and make people pay taxes. The move has led to a cash shortage, with […]
Indian online payment firm Paytm says it has added 8 million new users in the two weeks since the government announced the replacement of the country’s highest-denomination bank notes. In a bid to root out corruption, counterfeit money and tax evasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Nov. 8 announced the replacement of notes worth 500 rupees ($7.30) and 1,000 rupees ($14.60). That move has resulted in a […]
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Don’t you think it fair and reasonable that anyone accusing me of being a shill for Russian propaganda ought to read my ten books in their entirety and identify the sections that support their slanderous accusation? I was amused to find my site listed on the now-infamous list of purportedly Russian-controlled propaganda sites cited by The Washington Post. I find […]
26 November 2016 The Information & Communication Technology Fund (ICT Fund) signed a sponsorship and collaboration agreement with the American University of Sharjah to provide 15 scholarships for distinctive students. This agreement coincides with the UAE Innovation Week, which takes place from 20-26 November 2016. The offered scholarships fund the bachelor studies of programs related to the ICT sector, including Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science. […]
Nov 25, 2016 11:33 am IST Another day, another set of late-evening twists in India’s experiment in warp-speed currency replacement. Indians can no longer exchange their voided 500- and 1,000-rupee bills for newly minted currency at banks and post offices, after the Ministry of Finance tightened its crackdown on cash Thursday night. Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi abruptly invalidated the big bank notes this month, millions […]
Nov 25, 2016 12:35 pm IST We’re going to be live on Facebook at 9.30 a.m. India time Monday discussing India’s ongoing cash crunch and want your questions. The government’s crackdown on the hoarding of notes has left many Indians hungry for cash, and some with sackfuls of large bills they are unable to spend or deposit. Others have found inventive ways to get around the shortage. […]
The National has teamed up with Grow Your Food, an initiative supported by Dubai Municipality, to create this comprehensive, UAE-specific planting guide. Committed to getting the UAE to start planting its own produce, Grow Your Food has been running a series of seed-planting workshops, offering advice on what, when and how to plant basic herbs and vegetables, according to organic principles. The workshops have been led by […]
In experiments with magnetic atoms conducted at extremely low temperatures, scientists have demonstrated a unique phase of matter: the atoms form a new type of quantum liquid or quantum droplet state. These so called quantum droplets may preserve their form in absence of external confinement because of quantum effects. Source
So I began dressing, even making coffee, in a shed beside our house. This allowed me to roll from bed and out the door in silence, wearing little more than my underwear. I’d programmed the coffee maker outside to begin brewing precisely nine minutes before my bedside alarm rang. The timing, perfected over weeks, ensured a piping-hot beverage but spared my wife the familiar — but singularly […]
AstraZeneca announced Nov. 22 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has lifted the hold concerning new patient enrollment for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (also known as HNSCC) clinical trials involving durvalumab as monotherapy. The Phase III KESTREL trial is now open for patient enrollment again, with recruitment for the EAGLE trial also likely resuming. Those taking part in the HNSCC trials will be chosen from […]
By Stanley Carvalho and Agnieszka Flak | ABU DHABI/MILAN ABU DHABI/MILAN Alitalia could cut up to 2,000 jobs as controlling shareholder Etihad Airways pushes for sweeping changes to turn the loss-making airline around, according to sources close to the matter. The Italian carrier may also ground at least 20 planes to cut certain unprofitable routes on domestic and regional services where it is struggling to compete with […]
|By Arabian Post Staff| Emarat Dzayer Group, a Dubai-based diversified business conglomerate, and Groupe Imetal, a Government of Algeria undertaking, has signed an agreement to develop a US$1.6 billion (Dh5.87 billion) steel plant in Algeria’s Annaba Province. The agreement was signed on Tuesday in Algeria, on the sidelines of the Algerian-Emirati Investment Forum in the presence of Abdel Malek Sellal, Prime Minister of Algeria, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed […]
LONDON Britain made fewer cars last month for the first time in more than a year, driven by slower domestic demand and prompting the industry’s lobby group to renew its call for the government to maintain free trade as Britain leaves the European Union. Overall output fell by an annual 1 percent to 151,795 units in October, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said on […]
