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Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for March 28, 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 & Dubai Film […]

California is known far and wide for it’s wacky regulations.  In fact, just last fall we wrote about SB 1383, a very significant piece of legislation signed into law by Jerry Brown which requires a 40% reduction in methane gas emissions from cow flatulence by 2030 (no, really…you can take a look here: “Here Are Some Of The Ridiculous New State Laws That Will Take Effect January […]

The beauty industry is notorious for packing its products with unpleasant chemicals, so why not create your own, organic alternatives? Mascara is one of our absolute beauty essentials and can easily be made at home. Start by placing two teaspoons of coconut oil, four teaspoons of aloe vera gel and a teaspoon of grated beeswax into a small saucepan over low heat. Stir until all ingredients are […]

Investors are flocking back to European equities and propelling a rally across continental stock markets as money managers downplay fears around the upcoming French elections and fallout from Brexit. The shift — which follows a torrid 2016 when investors pulled roughly $100bn from the asset class — has been driven by hopes of a synchronised global economic expansion accelerating. European stock fund managers received $1.5bn in the […]

Major internet service providers (ISPs) on Friday said they don’t plan to sell their customers’ web browsing data, even after Congress cleared the way for them to do so. The statements from Verizon, Comcast and AT&T follow the congressional vote to repeal federal regulation that would have prevented ISPs from selling consumers’ personal information. “We have committed not to share our customers’ sensitive information (such as banking, […]

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is officially out of the bag, and it’s one of the most powerful smartphones of 2017, rocking top-notch specs and features all around. The latest Samsung flagship is bound to go head-to-head with other high-end smartphones racing for the top spot, so let’s see how it stacks up against Apple’s iPhone 7 from last year and the recently released LG G6. Samsung Galaxy […]

Annual rent: for a two-bedroom apartment in the Abu Dhabi Mall area: Dh145,000 Features: This brand-new, 150-square-metre apartment is set in an iconic building right next to Abu Dhabi Mall. Pros: The apartment consists of a modern, open kitchen, with all ­appliances included, a large living room with floor-to-ceiling windows and a great balcony. Two master bedrooms and a huge amount of storage make it perfect for […]

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RBC’s head of cross asset strategy Charlie McElligott dons his full wonksh equity analyst hat today, exposing “The April Effect,” and the specific risk of “nasty double whammy” of levered long-short unwinds should momentum stall. Quick note of warning as we transition into the new quarter, with potential for major thematic / sector / factor reversals in stocks.  The following observation regarding April seeing a seasonal ‘momentum’ […]

Kingston’s Data Traveler is among only a handful of drives certified to work with Windows To Go. Can you imagine being a modern business traveler on a 12-hour transcontinental flight without access to a portable PC or even a tablet? I can’t either. And yet that’s the unpleasant reality the Trump administration has forced on some passengers who are booked on nonstop flights to the United States […]

If binge-watching Netflix movies and TV shows is your forte, you could get paid for it if you’re also good with languages and translations. Netflix is looking for people to help with translating subtitles and it launched a new program called Hermes, designed to address the challenge of finding good subtitle translators in different countries worldwide. Help Create Netflix Subtitles Through Hermes, Netflix wants to find collaborators who will […]

Couple one key colour with recurring design elements to create a bedroom that’s consistently calming. newslide Frame of reference Dress it well and your bed can become a focal point of your room. We like the classic blue paisley pattern on this quilt and sham set from Pottery Barn. The pieces are made from 100 per cent cotton voile and feature a solid ivory colour on the […]

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground,” said Teddy Roosevelt. If the Washington Post is to be believed, Rex Tillerson believes you should keep your eyes on the stars. Or the nearest water fountain. Or a family photo on your desk. Maybe just on your iPhone, a passing squad car, anything but him. In a less than solicitous profile, The Washington Post […]

With Adam Rawnsley   Looking for a deal. Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has offered to be interviewed by the FBI and House and Senate investigators examining the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia, in exchange for immunity from prosecution, “but has so far found no takers,” according to the Wall Street Journal. In a statement on Thursday evening, Flynn’s lawyer Robert Kelner, […]

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 […]

ABU DHABI // The war against human trafficking is being hampered by factors including a lack of unified laws in the countries affected and political differences, a summit has heard. “Different legislation definitely affects the path of the investigation,” said Col Hamad Al Zaabi, the Ministry of Interior’s deputy director of federal investigations. “In the country of origin they lack organisational structures, procedures and measures, so it’s […]

As we enter the final week of games across the Manx hockey divisions, it’s time to look at the potential permutations in some thrilling relegation and promotion battles. It’s showdown time in the PwC Men’s Premier League at Castle Rushen High School, as Partitionware Castletown A h 21 […]

The Portland (Maine) Press Herald is not the first local news organization to do a big project on the heroin epidemic. Last year, the Palm Beach Post documented more than 200 deaths in 2015. The Cincinnati Enquirer has a reporter dedicated to covering the heroin epidemic. And students at Arizona State University did their own investigation. “We definitely are aware of what our peers are doing,” said […]

Submitted via Priceonomics A quick spin through LinkedIn reveals that the quality of peoples’ profile photos is rather uneven. Some photos appear to be from highly professional photoshoots while others are grainy pictures captured from old cell phones. Is there any pattern in the data around professional networking photos? What professions have the highest quality photos? Do people that are fresh on the job market tend to have […]

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 […]

Any sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from reality. That’s an extreme paraphrase of Poe’s Law, but it applies to so much of our world today. Including the management of Twitter. On Thursday, Twitter announced more changes to the way it works. Soon after, an image started circulating which supposedly explained these changes. And it was so confusing. “Replies now part of Timeline. Timeline and TimelLine are now […]

DUBAI // Children in the UAE are at low risk from the measles outbreak sweeping southern Europe thanks to a stringent national immunisation programme, doctors said. This week, the World Health Organisation warned that the disease was spreading fast wherever immunisation coverage had dropped, and particularly in Italy and Romania. In January, Italy reported more than 200 cases, while Romania reported more than 3,400 cases and 17 […]

The welcome From the coastal road that runs most of the length of Sharjah city, it’s not difficult to spot the new Sheraton, which dominates the skyline. Access to valet parking is up a quite narrow, steep driveway. The valets whisk luggage to the room while check-in is completed. I’m then pointed in the direction of one of two main sets of lifts. The neighbourhood About as […]

By Michelle Nichols | NEW YORK NEW YORK The United States’ diplomatic policy on Syria for now is no longer focussed on making the war-torn country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, leave power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Thursday, in a departure from the Obama administration’s initial and public stance on Assad’s fate. The view of the Trump administration is also at odds with European […]

Why Hamburg? The recent opening of Hamburg’s state-of-the-art concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, has transformed Germany’s second biggest city from an under-the-radar destination into one of Europe’s current hotspots. And the Elbphilharmonie is only the tip of Hamburg’s vibrant music scene. There is Germany’s oldest Opera House, a concert hall dedicated to Brahms, plus dozens of live music clubs in the St Pauli neighbourhood, still going strong since […]

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