The recently unveiled Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus flagships will not be compatible with Google’s Daydream VR headset. Both phones, sporting gorgeous, near bezel-less displays, is decidedly perfect for virtual reality experiences given the screen’s vibrance and pixel density. A great display is one of the de facto requirements of smooth VR experiences, and it’s a shame that the Galaxy S8’s awe-striking display won’t tandem Google’s own VR […]
Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for April 3, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. Ellen Fortini rounds up 10 things to do today in the UAE. Want to see your event listed here? Email us with the details and contact information at [email protected] newslide Abu Dhabi Comedy show Beat […]
By Alexandra Ulmer | QUITO, Ecuador QUITO, Ecuador The Venezuelan Supreme Court may have amended part of its explosive decision to take over the opposition-led congress, but it still gives embattled leftist President Nicolas Maduro broad new powers over the OPEC nation’s vast oil wealth. The reversal on Saturday came after political leaders worldwide and street protestors at home accused the pro-government court of effectively making Maduro […]
The Project Zero Prize sought bugs that gave an remote code execution on multiple Android devices when only the phone number and email address of the target device were known. Image: Laurent Delhourme, Getty Images/iStockphoto Google’s Project Zero bug-hunting group hoped that launching a special six-month hacker prize with a top payout of $200,000 would uncover novel remote code execution (RCE) attacks on Android. However, the prize […]
newslide Canadian PM offers Matthew Perry rematch Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau got into the April Fools’ Day spirit over the weekend with a lighthearted tweet aimed at former Friends star — and classmate — Matthew Perry. Justin Trudeau and the actor, who played Chandler Bing on the hit sitcom, both attended Rockcliffe Park Public School in Ottawa. In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk […]
AMATRICE, Italy Britain’s Prince Charles paid a visit on Sunday to one of the towns in central Italy devastated by a major earthquake last August, a day after locals protested against the government because of aid delays. The 6.2 magnitude earthquake killed nearly 300 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. More than 45,000 aftershocks have rattled the region, including an even stronger 6.6 magnitude quake […]
The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, is getting ready for its 2018 launch. Engineers are readying the JWST so that it can be dispatched to Houston, Texas, for additional tests, before it embarks on its space odyssey. The JWST is the successor of the Hubble and will be placed inside a massive thermal vacuum chamber. This chamber has previously been used for testing the Apollo spaceships […]
Earlier this month, Harvard Ph.D. Jerome Corsi of InfoWars (@jerome_corsi) and a CPA “who worked for two years for a major U.S. accounting firm as an outside auditor for Freddie Mac,” confirmed a 2012 scheme hatched by the Obama administration to funnel hundreds of billions in dividends from Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prop up the failing Obamacare program – by paying subsidies to insurers to remain in the system. If you need […]
GENEVA: The UN on Friday said “incremental” progress was made during a fifth round of talks between Syria’s warring parties, but warned the “real peace negotiations” had yet to begin.Syrian government and opposition representatives had been “serious and engaged” during the latest nine days of talks in Geneva, UN mediator Staffan de Mistura told reporters.He said all sides were “keen and ready to return to Geneva for […]
Microsoft announced yesterday that it will be opening its third IoT & AI (Internet of Things and artificial intelligence) Insiders Lab. The new lab, located in Munich, Germany is set to open in April and will provide an EMEA point of presence to round out the existing labs in the Americas (Redmond, Wash.) and Asia (Shenzhen, China). Mission possibleThe mission of the labs is to provide facilities […]
Kuwait City, April 1st 2017: KAMCO Investment Company, a leading investment company with one of the largest AUMs in the region, acted as the acquisition advisor to Qurain Petrochemical Industries Company KSCP (“QPIC”) on the acquisition of 20.5% of National Petroleum Services Company KSCP (“NAPESCO”). The transaction has been successfully completed throughout multiple stages that was initiated in the third quarter of 2016 and finalized in March […]
BEIJING China called on the United States to respect international trade rules and improve cooperation and dialogue in reaction to two new orders by U.S. President Donald Trump calling for an investigation into trade abuses. Any U.S. trade enforcement measures should comply with generally accepted international trade rules and differences between the two countries should be handled properly, an unidentified spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Commerce said […]
FRANKFURT German prosecutors expect the first rulings this year in legal cases resulting from the Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) emissions scandal, Automobilwoche magazine reported on Saturday. “We hope to conclude lawsuits … this year,” Klaus Ziehe, spokesman for the Braunschweig state prosecutors office in Lower Saxony state, where Volkswagen is headquartered, was quoted as saying by the magazine. Ziehe said there were four lawsuits with 47 persons indicted, although […]
Event will gather together CEOs, CMOs, Presidents and VPs from across the region and beyond Riyadh KSA, April 1 2017: For the first time, Saudi Arabia will host the ‘Top CEO Conference and Awards’ – an event which will see CEOs, CMOs, Presidents and VPs from across the Arabian Gulf region and beyond gather together on 10th and 11th April 2017 at Bay La Sun Hotel & […]
LONDON All 12 people arrested in connection with the March 22 attack that left five people dead close to the British parliament have now been released without charge, London’s Metropolitan Police said on Saturday. British-born Khalid Masood sped across Westminster Bridge in a car, killing three pedestrians and injuring dozens more, before running through the gates of parliament and stabbing a policeman to death. He was then […]
Earlier this month I was given a genuine introduction to Fado in the Lisbon neighbourhood near where Mariza was raised and the music genre is said to have been born. In a dimly lit intimate nook in Alfama — the oldest district of Lisbon whose name is derived from either the Arabic Al hamma, meaning hot fountains or baths, or Alfamm, meaning the mouth — which barely […]
Celebrations marking the Hindu festival of Holi stretch across cultures and continents in 2017, the coming of spring announced by cosmopolitan crowds playfully throwing brightly coloured dyes at one another. But few Hindus or Indians, even, will ever experience Holi with the intoxicating intensity or carnalistic force as the residents of Mathura, a town in Northern India known as the birthplace of Krishna. For eight days and […]
Attackers are using fake airline booking confirmation messages to steal corporate credentials. Image: iStock Cyberattackers are carefully crafting individual phishing emails puporting to be from airlines and financial departments to deliver malware and are even mimicking internal corporate travel and expenses systems in order to steal personal details from specifically targeted victims. While cybercriminals using the lure of fake travel itineraries is to dupe those in sectors […]
For the first time, researchers have performed all manufacturing stages for a flexible in-moulded LED foil -in roll-to-roll process. The purpose of this demo is to prove the suitability of the technique for the highly cost-effective manufacture of products such as flexible LED displays containing printed electronics. (via WSJ)
Rackspace CEO Taylor Rhodes: “Amazon is a tornado.” Rackspace CEO Taylor Rhodes is disarmingly honest about the ride the company has been on in recent years. This is what happens, he says, “when the world’s largest bookseller comes into your industry.” It wasn’t Amazon’s bookselling ability that caused Rackspace headaches, of course, but its cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS). Rackspace started out as web hosting […]
President Jacob Zuma has sacked Pravin Gordhan, his finance minister, and eight other cabinet members, threatening turmoil for South Africa’s fragile economy and setting the stage for the biggest crisis yet for the ruling African National Congress under his leadership. Mr Zuma’s decision to fire Mr Gordhan as part of a late-night cabinet reshuffle sent the rand down 2 per cent on Friday, taking the currency’s decline […]
By Praveen Menon and James Pearson | KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR Three North Koreans wanted for questioning in the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of their country’s leader were believed to be returning home with the coffin of the victim on Friday after Malaysia agreed a swap deal with the reclusive state. Photographs obtained by Reuters from Japan’s Kyodo news agency show Hyon Kwang […]
One of the few regrets of Vint Cerf, who is often referred to as the ‘father of the Internet’, is the fact that encryption using public cryptography was not baked in the original ARPANET design. While the early Internet was meant to meet a number of requirements such as resilience and openness, encryption was not one of them. Some of this was because of the high cost […]
By Ingrid Melander and Johnny Cotton | PARIS/MALESHERBES, France PARIS/MALESHERBES, France A 90-minute train ride from the Gare de Lyon station in Paris traces a political gulf between big-city voters and the rest, a divide that has shaken up Britain and the United States and has an outside chance of doing the same in France’s upcoming vote. The further you go, the greater the support for the […]
