Windows 11 expected to arrive October 20

San Francisco: Microsoft, which unveiled Windows 11 last week, might roll out the OS on October 20, the media reported. A screenshot showed a Microsoft Teams message from Stevie Bathiche of the Surface Team to Microsoft’s head of Windows and Devices, Panos Panay, saying “can’t wait for October!”. And the official promo materials from Microsoft […]

When do electric vehicles become cleaner than petrol cars?

You glide silently out of the Tesla showroom in your sleek new electric Model 3, satisfied you’re looking great and doing your bit for the planet.  But keep going – you’ll have to drive another 13,500 miles (21,725 km) before you’re doing less harm to the environment than a gas-guzzling saloon. That’s the result of […]

Onsi Sawiris, influential patriarch of Egypt’s billionaire dynasty, dies at 90

Dubai: Onsi Sawiris, the head of a family of billionaire businessmen who launched multinational companies under the Orascom umbrella, has died. He was 90. His death in the Egyptian resort city of El Gouna was announced Tuesday by the Sawiris family, which didn’t give a cause. Born in 1930, Sawiris was raised in Sohag, Upper […]

The Seychelles talks bonds that are blue at Expo 2020 Dubai

Dubai: An archipelago of 115 islands, Seychelles is a blue haven surrounded by nature’s prized possessions underwater and on land. Yet, even this nearly untouched piece of paradise in the Indian Ocean has been vulnerable to coral reef bleaching, overfishing and rising sea levels due to climate change. While the Seychelles Pavilion, situated in the […]