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The sleep revolution is not going to stop at the U.S. border. Now a few months out from its November debut, Arianna Huffington’s wellness startup, Thrive Global, is hiring additional journalists and preparing to expand to Italy, India and Eastern Europe. The expansions, joint ventures with Gruppo Espresso, The Times of India and The Antenna Group, respectively, fit into a strategy to “chronicle the culture shift around […]

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, The general public truly lives in two separate worlds. We have the world of the mainstream media, popular culture and political rhetoric; a world which constantly and desperately seeks to twist or destroy any legitimate measure of reality, leading people into a frenzied fog.   Then, we have the world of concrete facts; an ugly, brutal world that upsets many people […]

Planning that lunch meeting just got a bit easier on your iPad if you’re a die-hard Google user. Yes, you can finally say goodbye to Apple’s calendar and download Google Calendar optimized for the iPad.  It features everything available on the desktop and smartphone versions of the app. And it can bring up your Google Calendar listings from your iPad home screen. It also supports Split View.  […]

By Se Young Lee and Anjali Athavaley | SEOUL/NEW YORK – SEOUL/NEW YORK – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) unveiled its Galaxy S8 flagship smartphone as it battles to regain the market leadership it lost to Apple Inc (AAPL.O) after the embarrassing withdrawal of the fire-prone Note 7s. Boasting some of the largest wrap-around screens ever made, the long-awaited S8 is the South Korean technology company’s first […]

29 March 2017 Under the patronage of H.E. Sheikh Al Fadhil Bin Mohammed Al Harthy, Secretary General of the Council of Ministers, the first edition of Smart Cities Summit was launched on Tuesday at Oman Convention and Exhibition Center in the presence of a number of excellences, high officials and diplomats. The summit was attended by delegations from Dubai, Qatar, The Republic of Korea, KSA, USA, Belgium, […]

If you’re like me, you’ve been building presentations for years. You probably started out making standard (4:3) size decks. These days, there is increasing demand for widescreen (16:9) decks. Different projects and clients demand different size decks. Sometimes it’s easy to mess up on a widescreen project, and build a deck in the standard size, the way you’ve been accustomed to doing it since the days of […]

Samsung launched its new Galaxy S8 smartphone with a bombastic event in New York, promising a “new beginning” for mobile handset design as well as for the Korean company amid a series of corporate crises. The Galaxy S8’s signature feature is a new “infinity display” which wraps around the edges of the device to give a larger screen in a smaller body. Claiming the biggest design breakthrough […]

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In this Friday, March 24, 2017, photo, new Samsung Galaxy S8, left, and Galaxy S8 Plus mobile phones are displayed in New York. The Galaxy S8 features a larger display than its predecessor, the Galaxy S7, and sports a voice assistant intended to rival Siri and Google Assistant. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Samsung seems to be playing it safe with its first major smartphone since the embarrassing recall […]

It may lack the pen of the resurrected Galaxy Note 7, but the narrower screen of the Galaxy S8 is far from its only mode of input. The S8 marks the debut of Bixby, Samsung’s voice agent designed to compete head on with Alexa, Cortana, Siri and Google Assistant, the last of which is also supported by the S8. I’ve written before about how these voice agents […]

Good morning. Here’s our morning roundup of all the media news you need to know. Want to get this briefing in your inbox every morning? Subscribe here. Donald Trump is temporary ratings gold, which is either evidence of renewed civic engagement or merely the decline of Western civilization. Variety reports that Fox News “finished far and above its competition in the ratings for the first quarter of […]

Google lives and dies on open-source software. Without Linux, there would be no Google. The company both uses and makes open-source code every day of the year. In 2017 alone, Google has open-sourced Chrome for iOS; Upspin file-sharing; E2EMail, experimental end-to-end email encryption; and the Guetzli JPEG encoder. There’s only one problem. How do you find all these projects? Google finally has given us the answer: Google […]

When was the first time you smoked weed? For those who’ve never indulged (or perhaps never inhaled), the question might seem too personal for an interview. But, for the millions of Americans who smoke marijuana, it could be an entrée to a host of interesting questions: Where are you from? Who’d you hang out with when you were in high school? What was your relationship with your […]

Apple finally released iOS 10.3 to the public just as expected, introducing a number of new features into the mix — including the highly anticipated Find My AirPods feature. The Apple AirPods have stirred great interest ever since they were announced, albeit the long delays until launch caused some serious frustration among fans. The wireless earbuds finally hit the scene late last year aiming to offer a superior audio […]

A typical office scanner can be infiltrated and a company’s network compromised using different light sources, according to a new paper by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Weizmann Institute of Science. “In the paper, “Oops! I Think I Scanned Malware,” we demonstrated how to use a laser or smart bulb to establish a covert channel between an outside attacker and malware installed on […]

Tesla Motors and SpaceX boss Elon Musk says Neuralink will explore software on implantable devices for the human brain. Image: James Leynse Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk has created another out-there venture called Neuralink, which will develop tech to enhance human brain capacity. Details of Musk’s new medical research company were reported by The Wall Street Journal on Monday. Musk plans to reveal more details in […]

Lenovo-owned Motorola could have a new smartphone in the pipeline, dubbed the Moto X 2017. A series of leaked images have surfaced online, which suggest that there is a possibility that the company may soon announce the next-gen Moto X smartphone. The leaked images of the alleged Moto X 2017 were posted on Google+ on March 28 by a user called Jerry Lin. Two images show off the next-gen Moto […]

Can I make this LED bulb a user interface to my home? Image: Simon Bisson First, a confession. I always wanted one of those internet-connected rabbits. You know the ones: they’d glow yellow if it was sunny, drop an ear if the NASDAQ had conniptions, and make burbling noises when a friend was trying to Skype you and you’d turned off all your speakers. What they were […]

Jordan’s state media say public and private sector officials from Saudi Arabia and Jordan have signed 15 economic agreements, including establishing a joint fund that will launch an estimated $3 billion worth of investments in Jordan. The Petra news agency says the agreements were signed after a meeting late Monday between Saudi King Salman and Jordan’s King Abdullah II. Planned projects include reconstruction and rehabilitation of a […]

Dawn is the time to see Angkor Wat. Waiting in the dark as the exquisite 11th-century temple is conjured out of the Cambodian jungle feels ridiculously thrilling. As the sun rises above the tall, minutely carved, lotus-like towers, and the ornate magnificence of the buildings is reflected in the great ornamental lakes, you get a sense of how 19th-century French explorer Henri Mouhot must have felt when […]

For Truecaller, an app that offers real-time caller ID and spam protection, the past two years have been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride.  On one hand, the eight-year-old service continues to grow strongly in developing markets, and has also chalked out plans to attract people globally. On the other hand, several features that made Truecaller so popular are now shipping out of the box with iPhone […]

Dubai, UAE, 27th March 2017 Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC (“du”) today held its General Meeting at Al Salam Tower, Dubai Media City, where the proposed final dividend of AED 0.21 per share for the 2nd half of the fiscal year ending 31 December 2016, was approved, bringing the annual dividend payment for 2016 to AED 0.34 per share. This includes an AED 0.13 per share interim […]

A video-based social network with categories ranging from motor sports to singing has been launched in Dubai to encourage users to “rate, create and participate” in video content. HighlyRated.com was created by entrepreneurs Acer Jamal and Stefan Cudby following the rapid rise in demand for online video content. According to the co-founders, the idea came about when the duo found their friends posting videos on other social […]

Wells Fargo revealed Monday that it will soon allow customers to initiate ATM transactions using NFC-based mobile wallets such as Apple Pay. The news comes as part of another announcement that Wells Fargo has activated card-free transactions on its fleet of 13,000 ATMs across the US. Starting Monday, customers can use the Wells Fargo mobile app to generate a one-time use code that can be entered into […]

Kuwait is seeking to follow its Gulf neighbours in its bid to gain emerging-market status. The nation’s Capital Markets Authority plans to extend its settlement cycle for stock trades by the end of April to three days from two for foreigners and zero for local traders, Vice-Chairman Mishaal Al-Usaimi said at a conference in Kuwait City. The regulators are also planning to introduce short-selling and derivative products […]

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