SEOUL Oil prices dropped to their lowest in three months on Monday despite OPEC efforts to curb crude output, dragged down as U.S. drillers kept adding rigs. Brent crude LCOc1 had fallen 35 cents, or 0.68 percent, to its lowest since Nov. 30 at $51.02 per barrel by 0231 GMT. It closed the previous session down 1.6 percent at $51.37. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) CLc1 […]
HPE and SUSE, a top Linux distributor, have a complex relationship. First, HPE spun and merged its non-core software assets with Micro Focus. Micro Focus owns SUSE, a major Linux provider. Now, SUSE has finished acquiring cloud assets of HPE’s OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Stackato, HPE’s Cloud Foundry implementation. SUSE will develop clouds while HPE will sell, support, and maintain them in their […]
March 13, 2017 by: Lucy Hornby and Archie Zhang in Beijing and Jane Pong in Hong Kong Sceptics about China’s economic statistics have taken a special pleasure in revelations of faked data in the north-eastern province of Liaoning dating at least to 2011. Along with an officially reported contraction in its economy last year, they have given the impression that Liaoning’s economy is unusually troubled. That impression may be […]
The anti-Dutch remarks from Turkey inflamed tensions among the Turkish community in the Netherlands, who protested in Rotterdam until the early hours of Sunday, when they were dispersed by police officers wielding batons and water cannons. The police arrested 12 people, and seven were injured, including a policeman, whose hand was broken. Continue reading the main story Though Turkish law technically bars the practice, Turkish ministers are […]
Tim Berners-Lee, Web Foundation founder and the inventor of the world wide web, has published his take on what needs to be done to ensure the future of the web fulfils his vision of an equalising platform that benefits all of humanity, including tackling fake news, political advertisement, and data sovereignty. Marking 28 years since Berners-Lee submitted his original proposal for the world wide web, the now-53 […]
WASHINGTON White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said on Sunday that the Federal Reserve “has been doing a good job” and the Trump administration respects its independence, even if the U.S. central bank raises interest rates this week. Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, told Fox News Sunday that the Trump administration will keep working to reduce barriers to job creation no matter what the Fed […]
Now that a little of the hype has disappeared from the release by WikiLeaks of allegedly more than 8,000 internal CIA documents, and the sorts of hacking the American spy agency was up to, what has changed in the world of security? Unlike the Snowden documents, which fundamentally shook the world of many people with and without an interest in the world of cybers, this cache offers […]
Charlie Osborne | ZDNet Neural networking could pave the way for AI systems to be given a capability which we have, until now, considered a human trait: the possession of common sense. While some of us may have less of this than others, the idea of “common sense” — albeit a vague concept — is the general idea of making fair and good decisions in what is […]
Photo Ahmed Daqamseh, in sunglasses, was welcomed home in the village of Ibdir in northern Jordan after being released from prison, where he served 20 years. Credit Numan Alquzaa/European Pressphoto Agency The fragile treaty between the two former enemies was not even three years old when a Jordanian soldier went on a shooting rampage and killed seven Israeli schoolgirls visiting a park in a border area known […]
When it comes to renewable energy in Saudi Arabia, there still remains more than a hint of scepticism. Multi-billion dollar plans have come and gone and the kingdom has made little progress developing renewable energy capabilities to harness its advantageous climatic conditions. In 2010, the King Abdullah Centre for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KA-Care) was established to develop the country’s renewable and nuclear capabilities, as the country […]
Ransomware has become one of the most notorious threats on the web. Image: iStock No wonder ransomware has become one of the biggest menaces on the web; a third of organisations across the globe which became infected by the file-encrypting malware in the past 12 months gave into the demands of hackers in order to regain access to their locked data. With attacks of this kind being […]
Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk has been transitioning his company into the clean energy business and its name change in February only serves to highlight that idea. In fact, Musk is very keen on promoting solar energy as the best source of renewable energy and his enthusiasm and confidence seems to rub off on his colleagues. Lyndon Rive, vice president of energy products at Tesla, said in a […]
Kuwaiti telecommunications group Zain has reached the final stages of selling its mobile transmitter towers in the country, the company’s vice chairman Bader Nasser al-Kharafi said on Sunday. The company is awaiting approval from the telecommunications regulator, Kharafi said at a shareholder meeting. He did not give details of the planned sale. Sources told Reuters in March last year that Zain was narrowing the field of potential […]
Chinese leasing companies have taken ownership of hundreds of vessels in deals worth tens of billions of dollars in the latest sign of the industry’s rapid transformation amid a long-running financial crisis. The deals made by Chinese companies, including the leasing businesses of ICBC, China Minsheng Bank and Bank of Communications, have provided badly-needed financing for shipowners as miserable trading conditions dominate most shipping sectors. Although there […]
Our round-up of the week’s best comment and analysis from the Financial Times focuses on the European Central Bank strategy, green investment and the future of India’s economy. The selection is taken from our Markets Insight and Smart Money columns, written by industry contributors and FT commentators. Olivier Garnier, a group chief economist at Société Générale, looks at the European Central Bank’s exit strategy from ultra-loose monetary […]
On Feb. 22, astronomers announced that the ultra-cool dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1, hosts a total of seven Earth-size planets that are likely rocky, a discovery made by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in combination with ground-based telescopes. NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope also has been observing this star since December 2016. Today these additional data about TRAPPIST-1 from Kepler are available to the scientific community. (via WSJ)
12 March 2017 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, in collaboration with INTERPOL, today released research on cybercriminal activity in West Africa, “Cybercrime in West Africa: Poised for an Underground Economy,” as part of its ongoing Cybercriminal Underground Economy Series (CUES). Scams targeting individuals and businesses have grown exponentially since 2013. West African cybercriminal activity is […]
This chart shows the fraction of JavaScript library versions with distinct known vulnerabilities, each represented by colors, out of the total library versions in brackets. Image: Northeastern University An analysis of over 133,000 websites has found that 37 percent of them have at least one JavaScript library with a known vulnerability. Researchers from Northeastern University have followed up on research in 2014 that drew attention to potential […]
The Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine rebuilt its data warehouse on the Google Cloud Platform, taking advantage of pay-as-you-go pricing to make sure it was the right move. (via PCMag)
Here are the main questions facing investors and markets as a new trading week beckons. What will the Federal Reserve say?Sometimes words matter more than action. A quarter percentage point tightening is all but baked in after the February jobs report, when 235,000 jobs were created — eclipsing market expectations. Of greater importance is whether Fed officials indicate a willingness for a faster rate of tightening in […]
Saudi King Salman’s stop in the Maldives on his month-long tour of Asia brings into focus how this tiny archipelago – best known for high-end tourism and an existential battle against climate change – has emerged as a key player in a regional struggle for influence. Both Riyadh and Beijing are currying favour with the strategically located 820km-long chain of Indian Ocean atolls, in efforts analysts believe […]
12 March 2017 Dubai, UAE – The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management (EAHM) and ALE, operating under the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise brand, have announced a partnership to build a new technology education module. The two organizations have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the module which is aimed at educating students at EAHM on technology and how IT plays an important role in the hospitality industry. The module will be a […]
Everspin has shipped over 60 million MRAM chips in the last eight years. So why haven’t you heard of them? MRAM is a different type of nonvolatile memory, with unlimited durability, good speed – 35nsec reads and writes – 20+ years of data durability, lower power consumption than flash, byte addressability, and the ability to endure extreme temperatures. It also costs much more than flash. As such […]
Google’s self-driving unit, now called Waymo, is going after Uber, and it’s making it clear. It’s stepping up its legal attack on the popular ride-hailing company, most recently by asking a court to block Uber from leveraging technology, which it allegedly stole from Waymo to get ahead in the race for driverless cars. Waymo’s Uber Lawsuit The two, both Silicon Valley companies, are duking it out over […]
