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For years, Amazon has been working to become the go-to place for online shopping. But what happens when shoppers don’t have to go to Amazon at all? That’s the question as AI shopping agents start to change the way people discover, compare, and buy products. And while Amazon builds walls, some of its competitors are going for a different strategy. In a report from The Wall Street Journal, Amazon swiftly shut down Meta’s new Muse AI shopping agent from being able to purchase items on its platform, citing safety concerns. Meanwhile, Walmart and Shopify have struck deals with Meta, buying…

Chairperson of Sharjah Book Authority underlines during the opening of the 16th edition of the Sharjah Publishers Conference that the strength of the publishing industry lies in stakeholder solidarity and everyone’s ability to reinvent how they work 1433 publishers from 126 countries taking part from November 1–3 Artificial intelligence, audiobooks, publishing rights and international markets lead the discussions PublisHer Lounge is leading a specialised programme that is combining training, networking and professional mentoring for female industry professionals. The Boardroom Exchange programme is enabling participants to connect with global publishing executives and explore prospects with international partners. The 1st day of…

Apple recently unveiled the new entry-level MacBook Pro with an M6 chip, alongside the touchscreen model, which the company is calling the “MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display.” The entry-level model does have some upgrades besides the chip, like a longer battery life and a 12MP Center Stage camera system, but it completely missed out on many of the core design overhauls that the premium model carries. That said, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has reported that next year’s model will come with a redesign similar to the OLED model. What could change with the M7 MacBook Pro? According to Gurman’s latest…

Day 1 roundtables examine intellectual property, international market expansion and evolving routes to readers Screenshot Sharjah, November 1, 2026 Publishers examined opportunities to generate greater value from books through translation rights, screen adaptations and international sales across 30 roundtables on the opening day of the 16th Sharjah International Publishers Conference, organised by the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), with more than 1,433 publishers participating in the conference. Held over four rounds, the discussions addressed rights acquisition and development, access to new markets, distribution and the use of technology in publishing. Seven of the day’s roundtables were delivered in Arabic. Translation rights,…

Established customer access, omnichannel infrastructure and corporate relationships position the company as a strategic partner for fintechs seeking to scale in the UAE Dubai, UAE, 01 November 2026: Al Ansari Exchange, the UAE’s leading remittance and foreign exchange company and a subsidiary of Al Ansari Financial Services PJSC (DFM: ALANSARI), will highlight its customer reach, digital offerings and corporate relationships at Dubai FinTech Summit 2026. With a legacy spanning more than 60 years, Al Ansari Exchange has built a trusted presence serving individuals and businesses across the UAE. As a Silver Sponsor, the company will explore how its customer access,…

Ever wonder just how powerful Apple’s market status is? To give you an idea, here’s a passage from a searing report published by The Wall Street Journal published a few days ago: “Around the end of 2015, Sandisk refused Apple’s requests to send additional supply because it already had customers willing to pay more. Blevins threatened a Sandisk salesman with retaliation, saying he would have Sandisk’s chief executive, Sanjay Mehrotra, “crawl on his knees” back to Apple, according to a person familiar with the call.” For years, I’ve heard anecdotes about Apple’s immense bargaining power in the supply chain. After…

A security researcher has uncovered a serious vulnerability in Android that allows an attacker to remotely crash a smartphone using a specially crafted text message. Dubbed “SMS of Death,” the flaw can disrupt cellular services, disconnect ongoing calls, and even leave a phone stuck in a reboot loop. The troubling part is that the recipient doesn’t have to interact with it at all. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-58882, was discovered by security researcher Mark Blaszczyk, who first notified Google about it in May. On October 29, he published his findings alongside a working demonstration, after successfully reproducing the attack on…

Microsoft is giving Windows 11 Search a sizeable upgrade, turning it into something more useful than a place to hunt for missing files and applications. The company has announced new Insider Preview builds for the Beta and Experimental channels, bringing expanded Search capabilities alongside a new privacy policy for commercial customers. The update is part of Microsoft’s effort to make Windows Search more action-oriented. Instead of simply showing links to settings or applications, Search can now let users perform certain tasks directly from the results panel. That could mean adjusting screen brightness, changing cursor size, or even sending a text…

I’m an avid movie watcher, and some of my favorite movie nights have cost me absolutely nothing. This weekend’s picks are all free to stream, and they don’t hold anything back. One traps you in a room with grieving parents, another throws punk rock at suburbia, and the last might wreck you beautifully. We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best free movies, and the best movies on Amazon Prime Video. Mass (2021) Genre: DramaMDb: 7.5/10Rotten Tomatoes: 95% Two sets of grieving parents meet in…

AI has managed to do something rather unexpected: it is making people afraid of sounding like themselves. As detection tools such as Pangram increasingly influence debates over whether a piece of writing was created by a human or a chatbot, authors and students are changing their language to avoid raising suspicion. That means fewer familiar writing habits, more deliberate imperfections and, in some cases, people second-guessing perfectly ordinary sentences. A Bloomberg report has highlighted how AI detection has moved beyond catching machine-generated content. It is now influencing the way people write, even when they claim they have never used AI.…