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Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle. Like Wordle, Connections, and the Mini Crossword, Strands can be a bit difficult to solve some days. There’s no shame in needing a little help from time to time. If you’re stuck and need to know the answers to today’s Strands puzzle, check out the solved puzzle below. How to play Strands You start every Strands puzzle with the goal of finding the “theme words” hidden in the grid of letters.…

Dubai, which is renowned for its uber-luxurious living, is set to offer another marvel — mobile or floating villas that will cruise the turquoise waters of the Arabian Gulf. To build these floating villas that will resemble houseboats in terms of flexibility, as many as 48 aquatic vessels are being repurposed by a marine construction group. The villas will be completely manufactured in the UAE. A two-bedroom villa will come for Dh29 million; a three-bedroom for Dh 32 million while a four-bedroom villa will cost Dh46 million. On Monday, Khaleej Times had the exclusive opportunity to tour the first villa,…

A Barbie that spent six months orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station will go on public display for this first time this week at the Design Museum in London. It will be part of a new exhibition marking the 65th anniversary of the Barbie brand, set to open on Friday in partnership with the doll’s creator Mattel. The Barbie was made to resemble Samantha Cristoforetti, the first female commander of the ISS. On the mission in which she was accompanied by her lookalike Barbie, Cristoforetti became the first European woman to complete a spacewalk. There will be videos…

When it comes to rockets, a “static-fire engine test,” by definition, means that the rocket should remain on the ground and not move. But during such a test in China on Sunday, that clearly didn’t happen. Chinese commercial company Space Pioneer fired up the engines of its Tianlong-3 rocket for a static-fire test only to see the vehicle lift off. The clamps designed to hold the rocket in place during the engine test had catastrophically failed, causing the rocket’s powerful thrust to send the vehicle skyward. And the situation only got worse. After climbing a short distance into the sky,…

UAE resident Maha L was frustrated after failing her driving test nine times in a row. The Emirati then decided to switch to a different driving school in another emirate and passed on her first attempt. “It felt like my instructor at the first school was deliberately failing me even though I did everything right in my lessons. I can’t understand how I failed nine times there but passed so easily in another emirate on my first try,” she said. Long-circulating rumours among sceptics have suggested that some driving schools deliberately fail students to extract more money from them. Frustrated…

At an empty concrete lot in southwest China, Loulee Wilson scoops a handful of stones into a bag — a memento from the site where she believes she was abandoned as a baby. Wilson, an American college student, was born in China but given away by parents presumed fearful of violating the country’s one-child policy, under which families were punished for having additional children until the strategy was ended from 2016. Soon after her birth, she was found outside a now-demolished factory in the town of Dianjiang, brought to an orphanage and later adopted by a couple in the United…

Organizations globally across industries have been forced to confront a new reality where employees, impatient with the pace at which their senior leadership has been adopting and deploying Artificial Intelligence across operations, have decided to bring their own AI tools to work. This is one of the key findings of Microsoft’s fourth annual Work Trend Index (WTI) Report. The report, titled “AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part” conducted in partnership with LinkedIn, provides a comprehensive view of how AI is not only reshaping work, but also the labour market more broadly. It revealed that three in…

Hurricane Beryl strengthened to a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm late Monday, the US National Hurricane Center said, as it continued to pummel the Caribbean. “Beryl is now a potentially catastrophic category 5 hurricane,” the NHS said in a bulletin at 11pm. “Fluctuations in strength are likely… but Beryl is expected to still be near major hurricane intensity” as it moves into the Caribbean on Tuesday, towards Jamaica, reported AFP. The Indian cricket team won the T20 World Cup, with emotions running high, as the team ended their 11-year wait for the trophy, and beat South Africa with a seven-run…

-Under The Theme: International Relations and the Positive Global Citizen Concept Dubai, UAE –1stJuly 2024:“DIHAD+ Rome,” a distinguished global initiative dedicated to advancing humanitarian aid and development, was hosted by Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, renowned globally for its academic excellence. This event attracted top professionals and experts and was held under the theme “International Relations: The Positive Global Citizen Concept.” It highlighted the importance of the role of individuals and communities in fostering a more interconnected world and how positive actions at the local level can ripple out to create meaningful positive change on a global scale.  The…

Philips just launched a slew of new products, headlined by the Philips Home Access 5000 Series Palm Recognition Smart Lock. The device works not just with a physical key, PIN code, or Philips mobile app, but also with the built-in palm scanner — making it one of the most futuristic smart locks of 2024. According to Philips, the scanner works by tracking “unique palm vein patterns,” making it nearly impossible to hack and offering families an ultra-secure way to lock their front door. Setup is just as easy as most other smart locks, thanks to built-in Wi-Fi so you can…