The new look of Google Voice across Android, iOS, and web. Google When Google Voice launched in 2009, the free service targeted business users who wanted a second phone number for work, without the burden and cost of carrying around a second phone. At the time, Google Voice lacked key features such as photo, video, and group messaging to truly replace carrier-assigned phone numbers, but it offered […]
Veterans Affairs Hospital in Pittsburgh is currently under water restriction after the discovery of Legionella bacteria in many areas of the hospital. This is not the first time that Veterans Affairs hospital is coping with Legionnaires’ disease outbreak. In 2011 and 2012, at least six patients were declared dead due to Legionnaires’ disease and 22 fell sick. Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Legionellosis is a respiratory disease […]
Newsrooms around the world are experimenting with unmanned drone aircraft to add context to their visual reports. But drones require a high level of skill and safety awareness and, as of 2016, an FAA license to operate commercially. The Poynter Institute is offering a groundbreaking training initiative to give journalists the skills and strategies they need as these powerful tools make their way into newsrooms across the […]
newslide Netflix rules SAG awards Stranger Things was the surprise Screen Actors Guild Awards’ top TV winner, with Shameless star William H. Macy scoring his own upset victory over Jeffrey Tambor of Transparent. Stranger Things, Netflix’s supernatural thriller deprived three-time consecutive winner Downton Abbey of one last trophy for its final year. The streaming service claimed four awards as the traditional broadcast networks were shut out. Macy’s […]
MA’ALE ADUMIM, West Bank — The first babies of Ma’ale Adumim, a hilly city on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem, are now middle-aged. A cemetery finally opened last year, and 40 residents are buried there, most dead of natural causes after long and peaceful lives. That is to say, there is nothing temporary about this place, one of the closest settlements to Jerusalem in the occupied West […]
The growth of electronic trading in fixed income has always been driven by efficiency, but we’ll begin to see data science and analytics fuel new levels of smart trading this year. Marketplaces such as Tradeweb have spent the last 15 to 20 years building out infrastructure to digitise these businesses and organise their trading activity through more streamlined workflows and trading protocols. Yet, even now, a significant […]
(Image: file photo) “No industry, organization size or geographic location, is immune to a data breach.” That’s the bottom line to Risk Based Security’s recently published end-of-year data breach report, which concluded that over four billion records had been stolen during 2016. The report confirmed that three companies accounted for half of the records stolen in breaches reported last year. Yahoo saw over 1.5 billion records stolen […]
While Uber is dealing with fallout from its response to Trump’s Friday immigration order, when it tweeted it would pause surge pricing, which was taken as a form of “strike breaking,” whilst simultaneously profiting off the situation, and its actions were seen as seeking to grab market share from striking taxi drivers, leading to a #DeleteUber meme spreading across social networks, it has a more tangible problem […]
GENEVA U.S. President Donald Trump needs to acknowledge that the extreme interrogation technique known as waterboarding is torture and therefore absolutely prohibited, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture said on Monday. “Without any doubt, waterboarding amounts to torture,” Nils Melzer said in a statement, adding that a U.S. revival of torture would be catastrophic because other countries would also “get back into the torture business”. “I urgently […]
“Everybody said it was going to be too hard, that you’d have to change the whole compiler,” MIT professor Charles E. Leiserson says. “And these guys basically showed that conventional wisdom to be flat-out wrong.” Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Compilers are programs that convert computer code written in high-level languages intelligible to humans into low-level instructions executable by machines. But there’s more than one way to […]
A reconfigurable radio developed for NASA could allow tracking planes permanently, through a space-based tracking system. To send larger quantities of data faster, NASA engineers designed higher-frequency radios that can be programmed from a distance through software updates. The powerful radio communications network designed by NASA allows a series of operations and data transmissions, from Pluto images to tweets from the crew on the International Space Station. However, this […]
If you love fine dining, then no doubt you have had caviar more than once. The coveted, tiny, black sturgeon fish eggs are synonymous with sophistication and luxury. So it is surprising to learn that – unbeknown to diners – the caviar served at upscale brunches and five-star restaurants often does not taste how it should. “Throughout the UAE, from some of our most renowned customers we […]
Mr. Faily has been directly affected by the order. Though he holds dual British and Iraqi citizenship, he said information he had received from the American Embassy in Baghdad indicated that he would not be allowed to travel to the United States in the coming weeks to participate in a long-planned conference, he said in a telephone interview from Iraq. Continue reading the main story The edict […]
Aberdeen Asset Management and Franklin Templeton Investments are among asset managers pushing Mexican authorities to overhaul two practices they say are harming investor confidence in a country that has been in global crosshairs since US president Donald Trump took office earlier this month. Cartica, a US-based asset manager focused on emerging markets, is leading a charge from the firms to push listed Mexican companies to give at […]
Doha – January 30, 2017 Ultra Luxury, a brand new exhibition, debuting in November 2017, aims at catering to the growing luxury markets in Qatar and GCC. Ultra Luxury will provide a platform for global luxury brands to meet and showcase their products and services to a highly targeted and sophisticated group of VIP visitors. The exhibition will take place over 4 days at the Doha Exhibition […]
Researchers have combined genetic engineering, super-resolution microscopy and biocomputation to allow them to see in 3D the protein machinery inside living cells. The study unveils key functional features of an assembly of proteins that is vital for animals and plants. (via WSJ)
LONDON Britain and the United States have a strong relationship and should continue working together, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday when asked about a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit to be cancelled. Over a million people in Britain have signed the petition in a grassroots backlash against Trump’s immigration policies. It says the visit, due to take place […]
©2017 National Public Radio, Inc. NPR report titled “What makes a good pitch? NPR editors weigh in” by Alison MacAdam as originally published on training.npr.org on January 27, 2017, and is used with the permission of NPR. Any unauthorized duplication is strictly prohibited. Pitching is hard. Every one of us has gotten excited about an idea, prepped it, pitched it … and been shot down. It’s disappointing […]
DUBAI Years after he fled political persecution in his native Yemen, a new life in the United States was finally taking shape for democracy activist Abdulraqeb al-Duais. But U.S. President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries has upset his plans to bring his family over to the United States – where he has political asylum – and has left him in limbo in Malaysia. […]
Yet a new update is beginning to roll out for Pokémon GO, although the latest isn’t as sizable as the ones before it — just some minor but welcome changes to the popular mobile gaming app. Pokémon GO Update Niantic took to Pokémon GO‘s official website on Saturday to announce that a new version of the app has arrived for both iOS and Android platforms. Trainers are advised […]
Vodafone is in talks about a merger of its Indian operations with rival Idea Cellular, a deal that would create a mobile network with around 370m users and form one of the largest telecoms companies in the world. The British mobile operator said in a statement on Monday that it was “in discussions” with Aditya Birla Group about an all-share deal. Vodafone shares rose more than 3 […]
“Singapore companies are confident of their ability to detect a sophisticated cyber attack,” read an enthusiastic press release earlier this month. “80 percent of the Singapore respondents share that sentiment, surpassing the global average of 50 percent.” On face value, that sounds like a big thumbs-up for doing business in Singapore. But let’s dig down into this. First, though, some background. The press release was from the […]
DraftKings was just approved for a Controlled Skill Games License from the Malta Gaming Authority, which is the entity that runs gaming in Malta – a small island nation south of Italy. While this may not sound like a big deal, (especially considering Malta has a population of under 500,000 people) the nation is part of the European Union, meaning DraftKings can now expand into some other […]
This artist rendering provided by Airbus shows a vehicle in their flying car project, Vahana. Even before George Jetson entranced kids with his flying car, people dreamed of soaring above traffic congestion. Inventors and entrepreneurs have tried and failed to make the dream a reality, but that may be changing. Nearly a dozen companies around the globe, some of them with deep pockets like Airbus, are working […]
