Witch Hunt Starts Against the Christian Governor of Jakarta
Police finish Ahok probe as Dec. 2 rally looms Source: The Jakarta Post By Callistasia Anggun Wijaya and Agnes Anya Jakarta | Sat, November 26, 2016 | 07:49 am The […]
The hygge conspiracy
Source: The Guardian Inescapably and suddenly, Britain has been invaded by hygge. The Danish word, previously unknown to all but the most hardcore Scandophiles, is now the subject of an avalanche of books, hundreds of Identikit newspaper features, and endless department-store winter displays. Every story on the subject explains that […]
Out Of Memory Error
Source: Tedium By Ernie Smith Computers often seem like they’re above the supply chain. Putting aside hot devices like the latest iPhone and the different variants of the Microsoft Surface, it’s generally easy to get a computer of some kind that will allow you to do all sorts of interesting […]
I Was Imprisoned in a U.S. Internment Camp. Bigotry Put Me There.
Source: Time BY Norman Y. Mineta & Ann Burroughs Norman Y. Mineta is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum and the Secretary of Transportation under George […]
Russian propaganda may have fueled fake election news fiasco
Source: Cnet.com by Carrie Mihalcik All that fake news you saw during the election may have been part of a “sophisticated” Russian propaganda campaign. The abundance of fake news in the lead up to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory earlier this month has become a hot button issue, entangling tech giants […]
Google’s New Feature May Drive Customers Away And Other Small Business Tech News This Week
Source: Forbes BY Gene Marks CONTRIBUTOR I write about technology developments for small business owners. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Google’s new feature may […]
Saudi Aramco to supply more oil to Asia in January
Source: Economic Times SINGAPORE: State oil giant Saudi Aramco has agreed to supply some customers in Asia with incremental crude that will load in January, as it holds to a […]
Jaguar Land Rover wants to build electric cars in Britain
Source: Economic Times LONDON: Britain’s biggest carmarker Jaguar Land Rover said it wants to build electric cars in Britain in what would be a further boost to the UK automotive […]
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund posts $20.9 billion investment gain in July-September quarter
Source: Economic Times TOKYO: Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund, the world’s largest pension fund, posted a gain of 2.37 trillion yen ($20.9 billion) in the fiscal second quarter thanks to […]
Stunned tech sector ponders future under Donald Trump
Source: Economic Times WASHINGTON: After disbelief, anger and grief, the US tech sector is looking to come to grips with the presidency of a man described by many of its […]
iPhone Call Logs Easy Pickings on iCloud, Says Russian Security Firm
Source: Tech News World By Peter Suciu Russian digital forensics firm ElcomSoft on Thursday reported that Apple automatically uploads iPhone call logs to iCloud remote servers, and that users have […]
TO KEEP THE CRANBERRY INDUSTRY IN ITS BIRTHPLACE, A FARM TURNS TO DRONES, DATA, AND AUTOMATION
Source: The verge By Andrew Liptak Keith Mann faces the same problem each year: frost. The icy condensation is detrimental to his crop in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the […]
Germany is worried about fake news and bots ahead of election
Source: The Verge By Amar Toor Angela Merkel this week warned that fake news and bots may influence Germany’s national elections next year, days after she announced plans to seek a fourth term as the country’s chancellor. In a speech to parliament on Wednesday, Merkel said that fake news and […]
Toyota’s battery ‘breakthrough’ can lead to more range, longer life
Source: Cnet.com By Andrew Krok Toyota’s battery ‘breakthrough’ can lead to more range, longer life 5 Enlarge ImageThe closest thing Toyota has to an EV is the 2017 Prius Prime plug-in hybrid. I don’t count the Mirai since it’s impossible to own in much of the world. Photo by Toyota […]
Amazon could be eyeing Arab counterpart Souq.com
Source: Cnet. com Amazon.com is reportedly in talks to acquire the Arab world’s version of itself, Souq.com, for about $1 billion. The deal, which Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing people familiar with matter, would help the retail giant gain traction in the fast-growing Middle East market. Amazon is considering a […]
A lower nuclear threshold It’s time to start worrying about the bomb again
theworldin.com: The possibility of a nuclear weapon being used in anger for the first time since 1945 is still, mercifully, extremely remote. But in 2017 the chances of it happening can no longer be discounted entirely. The inconvenient truth is that nuclear weapons are a greater danger now than at […]
OIC elects new secretary-general
ARAB NEWS | Published — Friday 18 November 2016 Newly elected OIC Secretary-General Yousef Ahmed Al-Othaimeen. (Photo courtesy of Saudi-US Relations Information Service.) JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s former Social Affairs Minister Yousef Ahmed Al-Othaimeen was elected on Thursday as the new secretary-general of the Jeddah-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). […]
Life in the Perspective of Quranic Revelation
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Life in the Perspective of Quranic Revelations—A Brief Introductory Chapter HE HOLY QURAN makes a wide range of observations covering the entire span of creative processes pertaining to both the evolution of life and the preparatory stages preceding it. Some of the […]
The Quran and Extraterrestrial Life
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad The Quran and Extraterrestrial Life HE vision of the universe that the Quran presents is poles apart from the one held by the philosophers and sages of all the past ages. At the time of the Quranic revelation, it was Greek astronomy […]
Ahmadi man gunned down in suspected sectarian attack in Karachi
IMTIAZ ALI — DAWN KARACHI: A member of Ahmadi community was shot dead in suspected sectarian attack in Gulzar-i-Hijri area on Sunday evening, according to Sachal police and the community official. They added that as Shaikh Sajid Mehmood, 55, came out from his home in Kaneez Fatima Society off Superhighway, […]