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Samsung is partnering up with SLG Design and Strap Studios to give every Gear S3 classic or frontier owner out there more ways to personalize their smartwatch. That said, these watch bands throw in a touch of style in the mix, creating a perfect blend of fashion and functionality out of the Samsung wearable. Strap Studio (Photo : Strap Studio) With 15 straps made out of Italian leather […]

Wednesday 06:00 GMT Overview Bourses across Asia were higher, taking their cue from Wall Street’s return to near record highs and rally in Europe led by Italian banks. European bourses are expected to open firmer, with spreadbetters predicting the UK’s FTSE 100 will add 30 points to 6,810 and Germany’s Dax to gain 60 points to 10,835. US index futures suggest the S&P 500 will shed 1 […]

Picture it: rumours of a renminbi devaluation keep growing. Residents rush to open accounts offshore as experts warn Beijing will get off on the wrong foot with a relatively new US administration if a big depreciation happens. Official denials are made regularly — until a devaluation of about 50 per cent follows in short order. That was China in 1994. Today the idea of a similarly brutal, […]

The recently released stable version of the Android 7.1.1 Nougat update is fixing some Google Pixel and Pixel XL owners’ LTE Band 4 connectivity problems. This comes hot on the heels of when some users in North and South America reported that their Phones by Google had an issue with making a stable connection via the frequency last month. The Sweetest Android Is The Fix Those who have updated […]

December 6, 2016 by: Mark Wiedman and Richie Prager This is part of a series on the global rise of exchange traded funds How do you buy or sell bonds if the middleman is not there any more? As any bond investor will tell you, buying or selling bonds is harder and more costly than in long memory. Since the crisis, regulators have squeezed the investment bank […]

NoHold, a Milpitas, California-based artificial intelligence (AI) company that pioneered chatbots in the 1990s, has launched a “quickstart” platform targeted towards small to medium size businesses (SMBs) and individuals interested in creating virtual assistants quickly, easily, and cheaply. The Sicura Quickstart platform allows SMBs and individuals to create a virtual assistant automatically by uploading word documents, tables, PDFs, and images. No programming or advanced technical skills are […]

Investment in Manufacturing Innovative Medicines Supports the Kingdom’s “Vision 2030” Aspirations 06 December 2016 Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), known as Merck & Co, Inc. in the US and Canada, has today highlighted the initiation of the manufacturing investment agreement with Pharma Pharmaceutical Industries (PPI). This deal enables PPI to exclusively manufacture many of the MSD medicines approved by the Saudi Food & Drug Authority and distributed […]

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Submitted by William Nardi via TheCollegeFix.com, Be careful what you say at Virginia Tech. Chances are, it could be a microaggression. Multiple groups at Virginia Tech have collaborated to collect “microaggression testimonials” from students, who came up with roughly 50 different expressions that offend them. The examples are currently displayed on the “Microaggressions: #hokiesspeakup” Facebook page. While the campaign lasted through the Spring semester, several posters reminding student […]

By Julia Love and Stephen Nellis | SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO Apple Watch sales appear to have rebounded for the holidays from mid-year doldrums on a redesign, price cuts and strong promotions, but analysts say long-term demand has yet to be proven. The Watch is Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) first new product under Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and is seen as a barometer of whether the company […]

By Phil Stewart and Amy Tennery | WASHINGTON/NEW YORK WASHINGTON/NEW YORK U.S. President-elect Donald Trump urged the government on Tuesday to cancel an order with Boeing Co (BA.N) for a revamped Air Force One – a prominent symbol of the U.S. presidency – complaining that costs were out of control. It was the latest example of Trump using his podium, often via brief Twitter messages, to rattle […]

The 2016 edition of the Samsung Galaxy A5, released in January of this year, received a patch in early November to fix a critical security issue. Samsung did not disclose any specific details regarding the issue that the November update solved, perhaps to ward off attackers from looking for similar exploits. Unfortunately, it seems that there are more of such vulnerabilities in the Galaxy A5, as Samsung […]

The battery-driven hybrid EEG/EOG-based brain-machine interface. Solid gel electrodes – attached to a noninvasive mesh cap worn on the head – sent measurements of electric brain activity and eye movement to a computer tablet, which then translated these quantities to control signals for the robotic hand attachment. Credit: Nicola Vitiello, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy Scientists have developed a mind-controlled robotic hand that allows people […]

Flow-lithography is a lithographic method for continuously generating polymer microstructures for various applications such as bioassays, drug-delivery, cell carriers, tissue engineering and authentication. A team of researchers has demonstrated the use of a wobulation technique to enhance the resolution of flow lithography produced nanostructures. (via WSJ)

ABU DHABI // The UAE Space Agency issued the Arab world’s first national space policy in the capital on Tuesday – the first step to formulating laws for the industry. “The policy is just like a torch guiding us to where we have to go,” said Dr Mohammed Al Ahbabi, the agency’s director general. “Our space laws will have elements designed for tomorrow’s technologies and industries, such […]

Speaking at the session were H.E. Saeed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA; H.E. Dr. Aisha Butti bin Bishr of the Smart Dubai Office; Academic Researcher Vivek Wadhwa; and Bibop G. Gresta and Dirk Ahlborn of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. Dubai, December 6, 2016  A panel discussion exploring “Future Cities” and the role that knowledge plays in that regard concluded the sessions of day one of […]

The US Supreme Court has thrown out a $399m patent damages award against Samsung to Apple, in a unanimous verdict in favour of the Korean electronics group. The five-year-old case between the two smartphone market leaders could now continue for much longer, after the justices ordered the lower Federal Circuit court of appeals to reconsider the basis upon which the damages were originally calculated.  While the decision does not […]

Popular web hosting company GoDaddy has acquired start-up company WP Curve, which offers services and support for WordPress sites. GoDaddy Buys WP Curve Dan Norris and Alex McClafferty created WP Curve three years ago as a catch-all services provider for WordPress sites. It offers services such as boosting security, increasing search engine traffic and more. It has almost 1,000 subscribers and over 44,000 orders completed since its conception. Specific details […]

A man holds up his mobile phone showing a M-Pesa mobile money transaction page for the photographer at an open air market in Kibera in Kenya’s capital Nairobi (Reuters/Noor Khamis). This post features a conversation with Georgia Levenson Keohane, executive director of the Pershing Square Foundation, adjunct professor of social enterprise at Columbia Business School, and author of Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance is […]

By Crispian Balmer | ROME ROME When former Italian president Giorgio Napolitano tapped Matteo Renzi as prime minister in February 2014, he urged his younger colleague to change the constitution in order to make it easier to govern Italy. Early this year, Napolitano fretted that Renzi was taking the wrong approach in doing so. A referendum on the constitutional changes had been called. But instead of focusing […]

Image: Dropbox Dropbox on Tuesday announced the launch of Dropbox Mobile Offline Folders. The cloud-based file sharing service provider says the new premium feature will let users stay on task on their smartphones even when data and Wi-Fi is unavailable. With mobile offline folders, users can tag an entire folder to have its contents synced automatically to their phone or tablet, as opposed to marking each individual […]

Solar panels, which convert sunlight into electricity, are a key player in the fast-growing renewable energy sector, which also includes water- and wind-generated electricity The climate-friendly electricity generated by solar panels in the past 40 years has all but cancelled out the polluting energy used to produce them, a study said Tuesday. Indeed, by some calculations, the so-called “break-even point” between dirty energy input and clean output […]

06 December 2016 Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, today announces that it is launching a combination order ticket for all clients trading contract options. The combination order ticket will enable clients to deploy multi-legged option strategies by simultaneously placing orders to buy and/or sell different options from the same order ticket. Georgio Stoev, Futures and Listed Options Product Manager, said: “Instead of trading […]

Pouncer: Next year the compay plans to demonstrate the drones being launched from a C130 Hercules cargo aircraft.” Illustration:Windhorse Aerospace A UK company is developing lightweight and edible food drones to bring supplies to hard-to-reach areas in times of disaster. The Somerset-based Windhorse Aerospace last week presented its Pouncer design to Priti Patel, the UK’s Secretary of State for International Development. The drone is nine feet wide, […]

There are differences in the way men and women observe visual information, reports a team of researchers from Queen Mary University of London. From the way the people scan the faces, it is possible to tell if the participant was a male or a female with accuracy of 80 percent, notes the researchers.  ( Cindy Ord | Getty Images for Garrett Leight California Optical ) A team […]

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