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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 […]

  ABU DHABI // Police in the UAE are targeting young adult drivers after statistics revealed almost half of traffic accidents were caused by motorists aged between 18 and 30. The Ministry of Interior said 45 per cent of traffic accidents last year were caused by motorists in that age group, compared with 47 per cent of accidents the previous year. Road safety experts said the ease […]

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 […]

Thanks to a new radar technique employed by NASA, India’s first lunar probe that went missing about eight years ago has finally been found. Chandrayaan-1 The Indian Space Research Organisation launched its first moon probe Chandrayaan-1 in October 2008 but less than a year after the spacecraft successfully entered lunar orbit, technical problems started to emerge. By August 2009, controllers lost contact with the spacecraft. After about […]

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 […]

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Biologists are part of an interdisciplinary team which has developed novel biosensors that enable pharmaceutical products to be detected more effectively in water. These sensors can measure two types of pharmaceutical substances – beta-blockers and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) – in real-time and in low concentrations. (via WSJ)

Publications have been wildly awash with numerous reports this week of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s hacking efforts to spy on American citizens through the use of different tools outlined in WikiLeaks’s document dump, causing a widespread maelstrom in the embattled narrative of data security. No, The CIA Can’t Crack Your Encrypted Messages While the hacking tools were legitimate worries themselves, no less worrying was the assertion that the […]

NEW YORK For most Americans, daylight saving time means only one thing: losing an hour’s sleep. So what is the point? This is actually a reasonable question, according to a growing body of scientific research. Daylight saving time is the practice of moving clocks forward by one hour during summer months so that daylight lasts longer into evening. Most of North America and Europe follows the custom, […]

UK and Gulf scientists will be working together on eight cutting edge research projects, thanks to $3.4 million in UK government funding allocated to research projects in areas ranging from nanotechnology to cyber-security. The funding will strengthen scientific ties between the UK and the Gulf region in order to find solutions to shared global challenges, a statement said. The project is led by the Department for Business, […]

Electrical and computer engineering researchers have created a magnetic tunnel junction that can be switched by a pulse of light lasting one trillionth of a second—a new record. This advancement holds promise for the development of new, optically controlled, ultrafast magnetic devices for innovations in information storage, processing, and communication. (via WSJ)

In order to develop new materials, material engineers need to be able to predict how fast impurity atoms diffuse, or spread, in a crystal over a range of temperatures. Using new computational techniques, researchers have constructed the first exact model for diffusion in magnesium alloys. While magnesium is the lightest structural metal, this new model could mean big things for material engineers, as it can also be […]

Hedge funds run by women have outperformed a broader benchmark of alternative investment managers over the past five years, raising fresh questions about why there are so few female portfolio managers. The HFRI Women index has returned 4.4 per cent over the past five years, compared with a 4.2 per cent return for the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index, a broader gauge of hedge funds across all […]

While CNBC and the financial media continue to rave about stocks being near their all-time highs, beneath the surface of the market we are seeing signs of big trouble. Consider the following… As Michael Batnick noted last week, the S&P 500 as a whole is just 1.6% off its all time highs, but the average stock is down 9.6% from its 52-week high. Put another way, while […]

ABU DHABI // From exploring the ocean’s depths and deep space to supporting emergency personnel in natural disasters, researchers believe robots are the key to solving many of the world’s most difficult challenges. Unmanned systems have the potential to transform military operations, the way first responders fight fires and how researchers explore the ocean depths, experts have said. The world will also witness greater human-machine collaboration, artificial […]

UAE theme park visitor spending is set to grow six-fold from $105 million in 2016 to $637 million by 2020 as the country opens several new parks as it chases ambitious tourism targets, according to a new report. The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions said the UAE is the dominant market in the Middle East and North Africa, the world’s fastest growing region for theme […]

Raising more money on Kickstarter isn’t the only goal.Image:  WDnet Studio/stocksnap By Emma Hinchliffe2017-03-11 16:19:51 UTC Every Kickstarter project wants to meet its fundraising goal. But a new study suggests that raising a ton of money doesn’t predict how much success a crowdfunding project will ultimately find.  Researchers at North Carolina State University found that the number of people who supported a project on Kickstarter — rather […]

A significant new chemical attribute of plutonium has been found by researchers: the identification and structural verification of the +2 oxidation state in a molecular system. (via WSJ)

This report marks the end of a series of three big trains of thought. The first explained how we’re living through the Mother Of All Financial Bubbles. The next detailed the Great Wealth Transfer that is now underway, siphoning our wealth into the pockets of an elite few. This concluding report predicts how these deleterious and unsustainable trends will inevitably ‘resolve’ (which is a pleasant way of […]

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has looked for many different signs of alien life, from radio broadcasts to laser flashes, without success. However, newly published research suggests that mysterious phenomena called fast radio bursts could be evidence of advanced alien technology. Specifically, these bursts might be leakage from planet-sized transmitters powering interstellar probes in distant galaxies. Source

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss | NEW YORK NEW YORK The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday denied a request to list what would have been the first U.S. exchange-traded fund built to track bitcoin, the digital currency. Investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have been trying for more than three years to convince the SEC to let it bring the Bitcoin ETF to market. CBOE […]

Retailers in the UAE need to offer more rewards and offer a personal service to customers to thrive in a marketplace where competition is becoming more intense, according to a new report. New research from ICLP said that despite efforts to engage millennials, retail brands in the UAE are still failing to truly understand this customer base, with only 4 percent of UAE consumers feeling devoted to […]

AJMAN // Four electrical engineering students have designed a one-of-a-kind smart bed for disabled people. The students at Ajman University of Science and Technology saw the problems paralysed people face and came up with the smart bed idea and decided to use it as their senior project. They combined four essentials that paralysed patients need into one bed: a manual and auto controller used to flip the […]

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