Bloomberg One of the world’s most conservative investors has found an unlikely new ally in one of its most flamboyant politicians: Donald Trump. The unconventional president-elect’s victory is helping Japan’s giant pension fund in two important ways. First, it’s sending stock markets surging, both at home and overseas, which is good news for the largely passive equity investor. Second, ...

  Bloomberg It’s burglar catnip: a large, unoccupied home late at night, with iPads and laptops strewn temptingly around. Sure enough, one man did break in—exactly as the police had planned. Arrested, he protested his innocence, at least until law enforcement shined a black light in his direction and he glowed like a neon-yellow beacon. The bait he’d lifted was ...

  Peter Jeffrey / Bloomberg Who wants to work in 250-degree heat or scuttle into the center of a nuclear disaster to measure radiation levels? These fools do! They are robots from Siemens built like spiders, with a hive mind and 3D printers, so when they land on the moon they can, you know, build a city there, splitting up ...

  Relaxnews From Ford and GM to BMW and VW, 2016 has been as much about trying to solve consumers’ mobility issues as it has been about trying to sell people new cars. And as technological innovations continue to come thick and fast and urban areas become even more crowded, this could well prove to be the shape of automotive ...

  Emirates Business Citrix has announced new capabilities in ShareFile, its enterprise file sync and share offering, which enables customers to manage document workflows, increase productivity, and more collaboration across teams and customers. The benefits of becoming a digital office are well-documented, and businesses have much to gain from adopting technology that streamlines employees’ workflows and routine processes, while maintaining ...

  Relaxnews French start-up Gaspard has developed a connected intelligent liner pad, which uses a system of sensors to help prevent pressure sores for wheelchair users, people of reduced mobility or patients hospitalized for long periods of time. Morgan Lavaux, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who developed this innovative product, was himself the victim of an accident that left him paraplegic. Now, ...

  Copenhagen / AFP It may be past its sell-by date, but for many Danes it’s a tasty proposition: A supermarket in Copenhagen selling surplus food has proved to be so popular it recently opened a second store. After launching in the gritty inner city district of Amager earlier this year, the “Wefood” project earlier this month drew a long ...

  Frankfurt / DPA It’s too soon to sound the all clear, but international conservation organizati-ons have recorded a modest rise in the number of mountain gorillas in the volca- nic mountains of central Africa. Estimates put the number in Congo, Rwanda and Uganda at 800. This means that they are still highly endangered, but the population has risen from ...

  DUBAI / WAM Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said that the private sector has played a key role over the last four decades in the UAE’s development. He said the UAE is keen to enhance public–private partnerships (PPP) based on the principle of creating ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM In collaboration with the Martyrs’ Families’ Affairs Office at Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s Court, the Central Bank of the UAE has issued a new silver coin to mark Commemoration Day as a day of pride and remembrance. The measure comes as part of #The_UAE_Remembers campaign, launched by the Martyrs’ Families’ Affairs Office to provide a ...