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6634 cases of dispute with service providers, more than half have been closed at a happiness rate exceeding 82% 06 May 2017 The Telecommunications Regularity Authority (TRA) revealed today the Statistics for the Customer Happiness Center during the first quarter of 2017. Which included the number of cases handled by the customer happiness team, as well as the incoming calls and the frequently asked questions, whether related […]

Whirlpool’s acquisition of Yummly could mean access to more recipes on smart appliances, such as this Jenn-Air double wall oven. Chris Monroe/CNET Whirlpool has bought the recipe website and app Yummly for an undisclosed sum, a move the company said will further strengthen the development of its smart kitchen products, the appliance manufacturer announced this week. The move gives Whirlpool access to more than one million recipes […]

By Jonathan Stempel | OMAHA, Neb. OMAHA, Neb. Warren Buffett on Saturday faulted Wells Fargo & Co’s (WFC.N) previous management for failing to take action immediately upon learning that its employees were signing up customers for bogus accounts, causing a national scandal. Buffett spoke at the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N), which he chairs, and where he and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger are fielding five […]

United Airlines has some serious competition when it comes to the lousy treatment of passengers, as Delta Air kicked an entire family off a flight and threatened them with jail and foster care. Airlines recently came under heavy scrutiny after United Airlines dragged and bloodied a passenger off an overbooked flight. The whole thing was caught on camera and went viral, drawing more attention to how passengers are sometimes […]

The campaign team of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron says it has been the victim of a “massive and co-ordinated” hacking operation ahead of Sunday’s election. Around nine gigabytes of data were posted online to Pastebin, a document-sharing site that allows anonymous posting. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for releasing the files.  The documents, posted on Friday night, appeared to contain details of emails […]

Microsoft has shown how Windows Defender ATP detected anomalous updater behavior. Image: Microsoft Microsoft is warning software vendors to protect their updater processes after discovering a “well-planned, finely orchestrated” attack that hijacked an unnamed editing tool’s software supply chain. As Microsoft’s threat response group explains, the attackers used the update mechanism of a popular but unnamed piece of editing software to gain a foothold in several high-profile […]

Published May 6, 2017, 10:00 PM By Dr. Jun Ynares, M.D. Dr. Jun Ynares, M.D. “So, would you favor the revival of mandatory ROTC?” This was the question asked me by a fellow local government official recently. He attended the closing ceremonies of the 2017 Palarong Pambansa held in San Jose, Antique, and had listened to the speech which President Duterte delivered on that occasion. My fellow […]

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The UAE on Friday delayed the start-up of its first nuclear reactor until next year for further safety checks because regulators have not yet granted an operating licence. The reactor, one of four being built at the $20-billion Barakah plant west of Abu Dhabi by a consortium led by Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO), had been due to begin operating this year. But UAE nuclear regulators are […]

Johnson & Johnson recently lost in a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims to have contracted ovarian cancer after using the company’s Baby Powder and Shower To Shower powder for 40 years. The company seems to have been the target of similar lawsuits claiming is talc-based products cause ovarian cancer, especially after some studies showed that talcum powder can increase the risk of ovarian cancer when applied to the […]

You couldn’t rain on Wall Street’s parade. Despite Friday’s Manhattan downpour, a rebound in oil prices and an upbeat jobs report helped the S&P 500 log a new closing high. The benchmark index rose 0.4 per cent to a fresh high of 2,399.27 and was up 0.6 per cent for the week in its third consecutive weekly rise. The rally was led by the energy sector, which […]

The Week in Fact-Checking is a newsletter from the American Press Institute and Poynter. Want it in your inbox every week? Subscribe here. In 2016, U.S. fact-checkers drew record traffic — but the Pants-on-Fire candidate still became the Pants-on-Fire president. This complicated reality could have led to big changes to the ways fact-checking is conducted in America. Yet the formats, tone and methods adopted by fact-checkers have […]

In a newly released image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has displayed many distant galaxies that were previously unseen or faintly seen. One is the galaxy cluster Abell 370 with a huge assortment of galaxies in different shapes guarding it and bound by mutual gravity in the immense cluster. Located at 4 billion light-years away and belonging to Cetus constellation, Abell 370 is a huge galaxy cluster imaged in the Frontier […]

Iceland says its geothermal power station at Reykjanes can produce clean energy independent from fossil fuels by generating electricity from the heat stored inside the earth It’s named after a Nordic god and drills deep into the heart of a volcano: “Thor” is a rig that symbolises Iceland’s leading-edge efforts to produce powerful clean energy. If successful, the experimental project could produce up to 10 times more […]

DUBAI // Almost 1,000 animals at Dubai Zoo will be relocated to the new Dubai Safari Park, which 4,000 creatures will call home when it opens. The 119-hectare park is tentatively due to open in late 2017 in Al Warqa 5. It will replace Dubai Zoo and offer animals a better quality of life. Timothy Husband, the park’s technical director, said that some of the animals will […]

Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, In Part One of this article I detailed how propaganda has been utilized by the Deep State for decades to control the minds of the masses and allow those in control to reap the benefits of never ending war. In Part Two I will discuss recent events, false flags, and propaganda campaigns utilized by the Deep State to […]

By Dan Levine and Joseph Menn The city of Portland, Oregon plans to subpoena Uber Technologies Inc to force it to disclose software that helped its drivers evade local transportation regulators, a city official said on Friday. Uber has acknowledged using the software, known as Greyball, to circumvent government officials who were trying to clamp down on Uber in areas where its service had not yet been […]

NASA engineers have come up with a highly creative solution to improving the functionality and durability of materials used in space. It’s called “space fabric,” and it’s not only fashionable but also extremely versatile — soon to be an interstellar must-have. Shielding spacecraft from the harshness of deep space and protecting astronauts in their exploratory missions on alien planets has just gotten a lot easier thanks to this […]

By Mark Hosenball and Phil Stewart | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The U.S. Defense Department is finalising a lease on a privately owned apartment in New York’s Trump Tower for the White House Military Office to use for supporting President Donald Trump without providing any benefit to Trump or his organisation, according to a Pentagon letter seen by Reuters. The Military Office carries and safeguards the “football,” the device […]

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Uber’s use of Greyballing, we get the first look at the rumored Amazon Echo device and Facebook shuts down its VR filmmaking division. All this on Crunch Report. Read More Via ASDA Alltop

Raphael Domjan, who initiated the SolarStratos project, Raphael Domjan, shakes hands with pilot Damian Hischier after the first test flight The first solar plane aimed at reaching the stratosphere made an initial low-altitude test flight over Switzerland Friday. The SolarStratos, a super-light, sleek, white two-seater aircraft with long wings covered with solar panels, took off from Payerne at 8:00 am (0600 GMT), according to an AFP photographer […]

04 May 2017 Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Global boxing icon Mike Tyson unveiled his future strategic plans for his franchise of fitness centres called the Mike Tyson Academy (MTA) at an exclusive press conference held today at Ossiano at Atlantis The Palm, Dubai. The team behind this highly anticipated project showed a preview rendering for the academy that illustrated the models for the four proposed gym […]

Many corporate leaders love BYOD, telling employees “Bring Your Own Device” to work, and with good reason. When employees use the device they’re most comfortable with to get their work done, they get more done faster. They will work from home, during their commute, and most any time they feel the need to. Beyond getting more and better work from their employees, employers eliminate investments in computing […]

By Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON A draft of President Donald Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy demands that U.S. allies shoulder more of the burden in combating Islamist militants, while acknowledging that the threat of terrorism will never be totally eliminated. The 11-page draft, seen on Friday by Reuters, said the United States should avoid costly, “open-ended” military commitments. “We need to intensify operations against […]

Johnson & Johnson has again lost in one of its legal battles that raise questions over the safety of its talc-based products. J&J Ordered To Pay More Than $110 Million To Virginia Woman Diagnosed With Ovarian Cancer On Thursday, May 4 a Missouri jury ordered the company to pay more than $110 million to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after using Johnson & Johnson […]

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