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Covid-19: UAE reports 3,933 new recoveries

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 148,587 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Monday, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary ...

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Banker merry-go-round is same tired old faces

Some time last year I had a revealing conversation with a director of a European bank about succession planning for the chief executive officer job. The board member let slip that the real reason a woman might be on the candidate list was because the company simply had to be seen ticking that box. The director quickly tried to correct ...

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Will the future be decentralised?

On the internet, as a friend recently reminded me, everything looks permanent until it isn’t. As technology evolves, the most profound and destabilising change is likely to be the transition from centralised internet services to decentralised ones. Centralised services typically are run by companies or institutions, such as Facebook, Twitter or Amazon. There is a command structure and a boss, ...

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