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This year’s Black Friday deals have seen some impressive discounts on laptops. Left behind in the aftermath is a deal still going for a 17.3-inch HP laptop, which is a pretty good laptop to consider if you’d like one with a larger screen than you’ll find in most laptops. It’s seeing a Black Friday discount of $250, which brings its price down from $500 to just $250. This makes it some good competition for many of the best budget laptops, but you’ll need to act quickly, as this deal ends at tonight. Free shipping and an extended return window are…

The weather in the UAE will be fair to partly cloudy in general, according to the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM). There is a chance of convective clouds forming over some eastern areas, bringing light rainfall. It will be humid by night and Monday morning with a probability of fog or mist forming over some internal and coastal areas. Temperatures will drop to 21°C in Abu Dhabi and 23°C in Dubai. Both emirates will see a high of 30°C. Light to moderate winds will blow and the sea will be slight in the Arabian Gulf and in the Oman Sea.

Vetoon Phoome’s family feared the Thai farm worker had been killed by Hamas in last month’s attack on Israel, until they found out on Saturday he had been freed along with other Thai hostages in Gaza. “He told me not to cry, to tell mother I’m coming back,” Vetoon’s sister, Roongarun Wichagern, told Reuters after an emotional reunion with him via video call. Vetoon, 33, who has been living in Israel for five years, was one of 10 Thai hostages freed by Hamas during the first truce of a seven-week-old war that started with the Palestinian group’s October 7 assault…

Artificial intelligence employed by the US military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces’ missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers’ fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space. Now, the Pentagon is intent on fielding multiple thousands of relatively inexpensive, expendable AI-enabled autonomous vehicles by 2026 to keep pace with China. The ambitious initiative — dubbed Replicator — seeks to “galvanise progress in the too-slow shift of US military innovation to leverage platforms that are small, smart, cheap, and many,” Deputy Secretary of Defence…

Bose makes some of the best headphones on the market, and if you’ve been thinking of picking up a new set of headphones, then Bose is a great option, especially if you need good Active Noise Cancellation (ANC). Luckily, there are a lot of great Black Friday deals floating around on headphones, including on one of Bose’s bests, the QuietComfort 45 (QC 45). While the QC 45s usually go for $329, Amazon has discounted them heavily down to just $200, and not only that, but this is the lowest price these headphones have ever been, so if you like them,…

Remember the Israeli boy who spent his ninth birthday as a hostage in Gaza? Ohad Munder was among four young children freed from captivity on Friday. He returned with his mother and grandmother to Israel on the first day of the four-day truce and prisoner exchange. Footage released by Schneider Children’s Medical Centre showed Ohad running down a hospital corridor straight into his father’s open arms, as the pair were reunited after almost 50 days without any contact. His father then lifts him up. The four children were all in relatively good condition, Gilat Livni, the centre’s Director of Pediatrics…

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter has been more successful than anyone dared hope, lasting far, far beyond its originally planned five flights. The little helicopter recently made its 66th flight and has even weathered the tough Martian winter. With its success, NASA is now investigating the possibility of more helicopters for future Mars missions, and the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) recently shared a peek inside its testing of new Mars helicopter hardware. One of the biggest challenges in flying a helicopter on Mars is the extremely thin atmosphere, which is just 1% the density of Earth. That means that a…

The UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber, the president of the forthcoming UN climate conference in Dubai, is “cautiously optimistic” that the pivotal talks will be successful, he told AFP in an interview on Saturday. Jaber, CEO of Emirati oil giant Adnoc, said he would hold “everyone” accountable for keeping within reach the target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting the rise in the Earth’s average temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Excerpts from the interview: Q: COP28 is due to start in Dubai in five days’ time. How far are we from reaching a consensus? A: I…

Seventy people have died in widespread flooding in Kenya that has also driven tens of thousands of people from their homes, President William Ruto said on Saturday, describing it as an “emergency situation”. Kenya and neighbouring Somalia and Ethiopia, countries that are only just emerging from the worst drought in four decades, are now experiencing devastating flooding caused by rains linked to the El Nino weather pattern. Ruto said the cabinet would hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss recommendations on how to manage the crisis. “Unfortunately, we have lost 70 people across Kenya because of these rains and…

England batter Joe Root has opted out of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, announced his franchise Rajasthan Royals on Saturday. “England batter Joe Root will not be taking any further participation in the IPL, it was confirmed on Saturday,” said a statement from the team. Root, one of the most decorated international cricketers for England, made his foray into the IPL set up last season, when the Royals picked him at the 2023 mini-auction. He made his IPL debut in the 2023 edition, playing 3 matches for the franchise. Root scored 10 in only one inning he played. Kumar Sangakkara,…