November 21, 2016 by: Shawn Donnan and Andres Schipani in Lima US President Barack Obama wrapped up his final official trip abroad with a call for his successor Donald Trump to live up to America’s responsibility as an “indispensable nation” in the world, and to bolster the international order it had helped create. Amid fears that Mr Trump’s election victory on the back of a populist anti-internationalist […]
The event was held on the terrace of the Burj Al Arab in Dubai. A 1996 Ferrari F50. A 2016 Lamborghini Aventador in a head-turning chipped red, white, and black livery. A red and black McLaren 650s. A Bentley Mulsanne. A 1971 Lamborghini Muira SV. A 2010 Pagani Zonda Tricolore. Porsche Spyder 918. A vintage Clement Bayard built in 1913. Ferraris were out in numbers at the […]
England’s Matthew Fitzpatrick sank a knee-knocking birdie putt from four feet on the final hole to seal the DP World Tour Championship on Sunday in a dramatic conclusion. The $1.33 million first prize for the season-ending tournament in Dubai meant the 22-year-old from Sheffield, who carded a five-under-par 67 to finish the tournament 17-under, roughly doubled the amount he had won combined from his other 25 events […]
As the dust settles and Macbook Pro owners begin working with their new laptops, problems begin to crop up. The latest of these involves a graphics card inconsistency that could confuse and even mislead users. Based on initial reports, the problem concerns how some MacBook Pro units purportedly show the wrong graphics card readout. MacBook Pro Readout Glitch The news was first reported by MacRumors, which cited users complaining […]
Huawei has secretly slid in a new variant of the Mate 9, its flagship killer, bringing the total variants to three with the Mate 9 Pro, the Mate 9 Porsche edition and now the Mate 9 Lite, the a new shrunk down version of Huawei’s flagship, specs and size-wise. The Mate 9 Lite has one major drawback, however, and it’s the lack of Leica shooters in the […]
Qualcomm officially unveiled its new Snapdragon 835 processor built on Samsung’s 10nm process, not only boosting performance but also reducing the time it takes to charge a device. The next-generation SoC for mobile devices is the latest and greatest in Qualcomm’s extensive lineup of more than 200 designs, and follows the powerful Snapdragon 820 and 821 processors powering the latest Android flagships. Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 On Samsung […]
Rotana to open 16 hotels in 2017 The UAE hotel company Rotana has announced that it will open 16 hotels next year, including five in the UAE and four in Saudi Arabia. There will also be two hotels each for Turkey and Iraq and the company’s first property in Muscat, Oman. The UAE properties are the Capital Centre Rotana in Abu Dhabi, complementing the existing Capital Centre […]
A day before its official release, OnePlus 3T has already made an appearance at Oppomart. While the item appears to be serving as a placeholder, some of the listed specifications seem to be the real deal and they confirm a number of leaked information in the past few weeks. Confirming OnePlus 3T Leaks For starters, OnePlus is really calling the device as OnePlus 3T. How about the Snapdragon […]
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below. I’m a fan of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s performance as Negan on The Walking Dead, but we’re quickly seeing that a little Negan goes a very long way. After listening to him flippantly speechify for a solid hour in the premiere, and then catching a bit more of him last week in “The Cell,” this week’s chapter began to collapse under […]
By Richard Leong and Jennifer Ablan | NEW YORK NEW YORK Donald Trump’s stunning victory for the White House may mark the long-awaited end to the more than 30-year-old bull run in bonds, as bets on faster U.S. growth and inflation lead investors to favor stocks over bonds. A two-day thumping wiped out more than $1 trillion across global bond markets worldwide, the worst rout in nearly […]
Here are the key questions we are asking at FT Markets ahead of the first full week’s trading after the US election — with the overarching theme being the repositioning across portfolios for president-elect Donald Trump’s transition into power. Emerging markets — remission, or further pain? The prospect of a faster-growing US economy is usually good news for emerging markets. When it comes with the risk of […]
By Yashaswini Swamynathan U.S. stock index futures fell sharply on Friday as investors tailored their portfolios to benefit from president-elect Donald Trump’s proposed policies. The decline on Nasdaq futures was more pronounced. Facebook (FB.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Netflix (NFLX.O) and Alphabet (GOOGL.O) were off more than 1 percent in premarket trading, indicating that Thursday’s selloff in the technology sector was likely to continue. Investors also appeared to be […]
Apple will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of iPhones in 2017. The company is said to skip the iPhone 7s name and call its anniversary model iPhone 8. The rumor mill of the next iPhone has already started and undoubtedly it will be an upgraded version of the current-gen iPhone 7. Here is a comparison of Apple’s current and upcoming flagship smartphone. Design Rumors claim that Apple […]
By Catherine Cadell | SHENZHEN, China SHENZHEN, China Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said it racked up more than $5 billion in transactions in the first hour of its annual ‘Singles’ Day’ sales blitz on Friday – a third more than in the first hour of last year’s spree. The 24-hour event held annually on Nov. 11 offers a benchmark for Alibaba’s performance and an […]
By Makiko Yamazaki | TOKYO TOKYO Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp swung to an operating profit in the July-September quarter, driven by strong demand for NAND flash memory chips from Chinese smartphone makers. That boom in demand has been a blessing for Toshiba, which is seeking to recover from a $1.3 billion accounting scandal by turning itself into a company more focused on chips, nuclear energy and social […]
Tech giant Google is aiming to ensure no one is using so-called “fast-charging” technology on Android devices, according to the latest version of the Android Compatibility Definition for Android Nougat. That means that Google doesn’t want original equipment manufacturers producing mobile devices that ship with the Android operating system to offer fast-charging technology. That would include a wide array of charging standards currently on the market, including […]
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, receives Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, at the launch of the UK-UAE Year of Culture at Al Jahili Fort. Ryan Carter / Crown Prince’s Court – Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, watches as calligrapher […]
Carnegie Mellon University plans to announce on Wednesday that it will create a research center that focuses on the ethics of artificial intelligence. The ethics center, called the K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies, is being established at a time of growing international concern about the impact of A.I. technologies. That has already led to an array of academic, governmental and private efforts to explore […]
By David Shepardson | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON AT&T Inc may bypass a powerful telecommunications regulator by offloading a Time Warner broadcast station, analysts say, as the telecommunications giant braces for what is expected to be a lengthy and tough antitrust review of its proposed $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner Inc. Dallas-based AT&T said late Saturday the deal would need approval of the U.S. Justice Department and […]
By Se Young Lee | SEOUL SEOUL Samsung Electronics’ (005930.KS) worst-ever recall could cost the company as much as $17 billion after it halted sales of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 for a second time, spelling an almost certain end for the ill-fated premium model. Samsung announced the recall of 2.5 million Note 7s in early September following numerous reports of the phones catching fire and on […]
By Alexandria Sage | SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO California will allow companies more leeway in testing self-driving cars on public roads while restricting how the nascent technology is advertised under revised draft regulations released on Friday. In one of the biggest changes, the new regulations would allow for the absence of a driver in some instances, provided there is two-way communication with the vehicle. The […]
Enterprises will soon be able to speed their Ethernet networks by up to five times their current speeds without having to replace their existing infrastructures thanks to a new networking standard announced this week. The standard, officially known as IEEE 802.3bz, defines 2.5 and 5 Gigabit Ethernet speeds over the existing installed base of twisted pair copper cabling. The new networking protocol will help companies continue to […]
Unveiled at Apple’s special event in San Francisco today, the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus can be ordered starting this Friday and are set to hit the market on September 16. The latest generation of Apple’s smartphones (pictured above) will introduce a number of new features, including water and dust resistance, an advanced 12-megapixel camera and an A10 Fusion chip architecture billed as twice as […]
