“Get Palestyled” – that is the motto of a UAE label best known for its handbags decorated with Arabic calligraphy and colourful hand embroidery that is produced by women in refugee camps in Jordan. Palestyle, previously stocked at stores including Bloomingale’s Dubai and S*uce, has had a quiet few years while undergoing restructuring and rebranding. Now, however, it is back on track for the new year, with […]
Digital transformation must be one of the most over-hyped, least concrete terms around. Like every such term, it can mean different things to different people. It can also be a huge stress-generating, money-squandering machine for organizations. Because “if you’re not doing it, your company will die and you will lose your CIO or IT leadership job. You’ll be disrupted! Or fail the wrong side of the Innovator’s […]
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has signed an exclusive contract with DP World to provide taxi services to lift tourists from and to The Hamdan bin Mohammed Cruise Terminal at Rashid Port in Dubai. The RTA’s Dubai Taxi Corporation will provide taxi and VIP limousine services to greet tourist disembarking the growing number of cruise liners arriving in the emirate. The RTA said it has also […]
For the first time, biomedical engineers have woven a ‘smart’ fabric that mimics the sophisticated and complex properties of one nature’s ingenious materials, the bone tissue periosteum. Having achieved proof of concept, the researchers are now ready to produce fabric prototypes for a range of advanced functional materials that could transform the medical, safety and transport sectors. (via WSJ)
130 entries from more than 40 nations discussed the most critical solutions to mitigate climate change risks over the next decade 14 January 2017 Abu Dhabi, UAE – Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, has announced the winner of its fifth annual Engage Social Media Contest. This year’s contest received 130 entries, a record level of participation in the five years of this competition, with submissions coming […]
Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com, Is there a coup underway, while America is in the transition period, and before Trump swears in as the 45th president of the United States? How real is the clash between the rogue Manhattan billionaire and the intelligence gang behind the throne? Who will win the struggle for power over foreign policy? These are serious times and require serious considerations. The […]
The mysterious dimming of the Tabby’s Star may not be due to an alien megastructure looping around it. Researchers of a new study suggest that the star may have eaten a nearby planet, which could explain why it erratically loses its brightness. Erratic Dimming Of Tabby’s Star The brightness of stars periodically dips by about 1 percent, which can be attributed to a planet orbiting around it. Scientists, […]
Not only is Kim Kardashian one of the most beautiful women in the world, she is one of the most high-profile too. This month, she returned to social media for the first time since she was robbed at gunpoint in Paris on October 3. With the eyes of the world’s media on her, and determined to make a fresh start after a traumatic year, Kardashian made her […]
CNET/CBS Interactive Apple’s iPhone 8 and Samsung’s Galaxy S8, which are rumored to launch later this year, will have the highest level of water and dust resistance, according to Korea Herald. Sources speaking to the newspaper said the iPhone 8 will gain IP68-rated water resistance, up from the iPhone 7’s IP67 rating. The iPhone 8 will be Apple’s tenth iPhone, and it’s said to be stacked with […]
Investors have returned to the world of debt in a cooling of the Trumpflation trade that pummelled bond markets and propelled equities to record highs after the US election. The shift, which has included fresh inflows to municipal, Treasury and emerging market bond funds over the past week, dovetails with a near month-long rally in haven US Treasuries and fatigue in benchmark stock indices. Municipal funds, which […]
By David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The incoming U.S. administration’s tough talk against China has set the stage for showdowns on everything from security to trade and cyberspace, but contradictory signals are sowing uncertainty over how far President-elect Donald Trump is prepared to go in confronting Beijing. Highlighting the contested South China Sea as a potential flashpoint, Trump’s Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson […]
Revolutions are only relevant until the next revolution comes along. Over the past decade, the smartphone revolution has fundamentally upended daily life. Walk through any public space and you will find people of all backgrounds transfixed by pocket-sized, rectangular obelisks. These little wonder slabs magically connect us to the rest of humanity and are personal windows into the digital ghost dimension that flows beneath civilization’s surface. […]
Michael Lynton is stepping down as chief executive of Sony Entertainment to become chairman of Snap, the owner of messaging start-up Snapchat that is heading towards an initial public offering this year with a likely valuation of about $25bn. Mr Lynton has had a long friendship with Evan Spiegel, Snapchat’s founder, and was also an early investor in the company. “I have been involved with Evan and […]
By Kylie MacLellan | LONDON LONDON The British government must publish a detailed plan for Brexit by mid-February setting out its position on future membership of the European Union’s single market and customs union, a committee of lawmakers said in a report published on Saturday. Parliament’s Exiting the EU committee, made up of lawmakers from several parties including Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives and opposition Labour, also […]
There is a reason Rolls-Royce Motors appointed its youngest-ever chief executive in 2010. “I don’t want to say the brand would die, but the brand would never have had the success it has had over the last couple of years if we hadn’t rejuvenated it,” CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös boasts. He is probably right. Until a couple of years ago, the English automobile brand was predominantly known as […]
The digital humanities is the most exciting field you haven’t heard of—unless you happen to work on a college or university campus. For everyone else, I’ll risk censure and offer the pithiest definition I can muster: digital humanities is an interdisciplinary field in which scholars and educators bring computational tools and methods to humanistic inquiry. (For a more thorough definition, I recommend curious readers visit […]
The slideshow published by the Belfast Telegraph on Monday, juxtaposing photographs from the life of Martin McGuinness before and after the Northern Ireland peace process, eloquently bookended the story of a man regarded by some as a hero and by others as a symbol of the mindless sectarian violence that killed more than 3,500 people and marred the lives of countless thousands more during 30 years of […]
13 January 2017 Manama, Bahrain: Batelco, Bahrain’s leading digital services provider officially launched EasyPay, the first of its kind mobile payment service, in partnership with Ithmaar Bank, a Bahrain-based Islamic retail bank, and Arab Financial Services (AFS), one of the region’s leading electronic payments outsourcing service providers, at Seef Mall, Manama, on Thursday 12th of January 2017. The new service was announced by the three leading organisations […]
Throughout the presidential campaign and since Donald Trump’s election, former diplomats, retired generals, and foreign-policy analysts have attempted to decipher, explain, and predict his foreign-policy strategy. Will he pursue the big-stick model of Teddy Roosevelt? Embrace a neo-Nixonian “madman” strategy? Is Trump actually a champion of foreign-policy realism, or perhaps no realist at all? But all those questions make the same mistake — they assume the incoming […]
Below the street, in their dressing rooms, the Housewives breathed through the tension. They had lived their reality on camera and watched the results. They had heard their Housewife colleagues talk about their behavior in on-air interviews. And they had built within themselves a caldron of anger, resentment and oh, yeah?s to what they had seen. So as not to dilute their fury, so as not to […]
By Ingrid Melander | PARIS PARIS Every week, a small group of Marine Le Pen’s aides brainstorm on how to achieve what many say is impossible: change how most French people view her to get her elected president in May. The “Idea-Image” committee of Le Pen’s far-right National Front (FN) consists of about 10 party officials and supporters. It held its first meeting in October as the […]
By David Ingram and Nate Raymond | NEW YORK NEW YORK A scandal that could complicate the South Korean political ambitions of former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon features an unlikely central character: a New York fashion designer whose wedding was broadcast on reality TV and who authorities said falsely touted ties to Middle Eastern royalty. Malcolm Harris, who has dubbed himself on social media the “curator of […]
The same biologists who recently found that bacteria resolve social conflicts within their communities and communicate with one another like neurons in the brain have discovered another human-like trait in these apparently not-so-simple, single-celled creatures. Source
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Wearable sensors that monitor heart rate, activity, skin temperature and other variables can reveal a lot about what is going on inside a person, including the onset of infection, inflammation and even insulin resistance, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. An important component of the ongoing study is to establish a range of normal, or baseline, […]
