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According to UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report 2023, 5 billionaires moved to the Emirates in 2023 while 2 joined the billionaire club as the wealth of the UHNWIs has grown immensely in the past couple of years, driven by strong growth in the key strategic sectors such as real estate, travel and tourism, retail and overall economy as well. The total wealth of the billionaires has grown by 157 per cent to $99.4 billion in 2023 as compared to $38.7 billion in the previous year. Its economy grew sharply in 2022 after the pandemic, with GDP expanding by 7.6 per cent.…
Animal, directed by Kabir Singh/Arjun Reddy fame Sandeep Reddy Vanga, is all that it promised in its snazzy trailer and more. Let’s get some basic questions out of the way. Is it a mass ‘entertainer’ taken 100 notches above the Pushpas, KGFs and Jawaans of the world? Yes, it is. Is the movie as stylised, edgy, and inventive as it appears in the trailers? Yes, 100% per cent. Does it have impressive performances and adrenaline-pumping BGM? Yes! Does it have brutal, stomach-churning, toe-curling violence? Gosh, yes! Does it go deep into the dark, deadly, cyclic nature of violence in a…
Free over-the-air television is one of the best-kept secrets in tech. OK, it’s not really a secret at all, given that it’s been around for decades — quite likely longer than you’ve walked this earth. But the point stands. In a world in which subscription fatigue is a very real thing, the ability to watch the most basic of live TV — the legacy broadcast networks — for a relatively low-cost, one-time price is tempting, indeed. One of the major players in that space is Tablo, which significantly revamped and simplified its lineup of over-the-air (OTA) DVRs in 2023. You…
I’ve never been a fan of prebuilt PCs. And no, it’s not just because I’m a DIY PC-building snob. In the past, building my own was not only fun — it was also easier and cheaper. But for all sorts of reasons, this year more than ever, my eyes have been opened to why people keep turning to ready-made desktop PCs instead of trying to build one on their own. Even with top-notch components readily available, building a solid PC is only becoming harder year after year. Without pointing any fingers (yet), the blame falls on several culprits — and…
More than 110 nations pledged to triple the world’s renewable energy within seven years at UN climate talks on Saturday as the United States pushed to slash methane emissions and boost nuclear capacity. Leaders at the COP28 conference in Dubai threw their support behind voluntary pledges aimed at ramping up alternatives to fossil fuels. A massive deployment of solar, wind, hydroelectric and other renewables is crucial in efforts to displace demand for planet-heating coal, oil and gas and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The nearly 200 nations negotiating a COP28 climate deal face tougher talks over the next two…
Philippine forces were on high alert on Sunday after a bomb killed four people and wounded several during a Catholic Mass in a university gymnasium in the south of the country, an attack the authorities called terrorism. “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the senseless and most heinous acts perpetrated by foreign terrorists,” said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. “Extremists who wield violence against the innocent will always be regarded as enemies to our society.” The blast in Marawi, a city besieged by militants for five months in 2017, followed the killing of 11 combatants in a military operation on…
Philippine forces were on high alert on Sunday after a bomb killed four people and wounded several during a Catholic Mass in a university gymnasium in the south of the country, an attack the authorities called terrorism. “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the senseless and most heinous acts perpetrated by foreign terrorists,” said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. “Extremists who wield violence against the innocent will always be regarded as enemies to our society.” The blast in Marawi, a city besieged by militants for five months in 2017, followed the killing of 11 combatants in a military operation on…
Netflix may have some truly great movies, but the vast majority have made-for-TV quality at best, and the cheese factor is extremely high. All of the made-for-Netflix romances tend to play out in the same way, and many of these “Netflix originals” are so similar that they tend to blend together. It’s not as if Netflix is unaware of this. If you type “cheesy movies” into Netflix’s search bar, the results will give you most of their holiday romance films. From there, we narrowed the choices down to the five cheesy Netflix movies that you should watch right now. All…
Fifty oil companies representing nearly half of global production have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations by 2030, the president of this year’s United Nations climate talks said on Saturday, a move that environmental groups called a “smokescreen”. Methane emissions are a significant contributor to global warming, so sharply reducing them could help slow temperature rise. If the companies carry out their pledges, it could trim one-tenth of a degree Celsius (0.18 degrees Fahrenheit) from future warming, a prominent climate scientist calculated and told The Associated Press. That is about how much the…
In some ways, 2023 was a quiet year when it came to laptops. After coming off the high of PC sales during the peak of the pandemic, 2023 was the year of the correction. Many of the most popular lines received minor upgrades, and there weren’t many significant technological innovations that pushed laptops forward. Even so, there were five trends in 2023 that are worth looking back on and that point toward what’s coming in the future. Some prominent lines remained largely unchanged Manufacturers tend to perform major updates to their lines every few years. Sometimes, as in 2023, things…