Bloomberg Users of the WeChat instant-messaging platform can have their content censored even if they leave China or switch to an overseas phone number, according to a research group. WeChat accounts registered with a mainland China-based phone number have keywords filtered out or messages blocked anywhere in the world as long they keep the same user name, according to ...

  Relaxnews Soft-launched as a June 2015 computer game, the very well-received “Lego Worlds” is now heading to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for February 2017, as Warner Bros challenges the era-defining success of Microsoft-owned “Minecraft.” When you’re making a game that takes on “Minecraft,” recognizable branding isn’t enough. Fortunately, the studio charged with developing “Lego Worlds” has a long ...

  Washington / AFP Malicious software designed to attack Android smartphones has breached the accounts of more than a million Google users, security researchers said. The report by Check Point Software Technologies said the malware dubbed Gooligan targets devices running Android 4.0 and 5.0, which represent nearly 74 percent of mobile devices using the Google-powered operating system. The attacks can ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Their Highnesses the Supreme Council Members, on Wednesday, attended the UAE Commemoration Day ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan sent a cable to Brazilian President Michel Temer extending condolences over the plane crash which involved the players of the Brazilian Chapecoense football club. In the cable, HH Sheikh Khalifa expressed sincere sympathies to President Temer and the families of the victims. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed ...

  Abu Dhabi / EMIRATES BUSINESS The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, on Wednesday announced that a new fault ride through (FRT) transient management system, which can support the electric power grid during grid faults, developed by a team of its researchers has been issued a patent ...

  DUBAI / WAM Obaid bin Humaid Al Tayer, Minister of State for Financial Affairs, has met with Jorg Gasser, Swiss State Secretary for International Financial Matters, to discuss ways to boost mutual cooperation and trade relations. During the meeting, both parties discussed mutual relations in fields of exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, and agreed on the need to ...

  Dubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS RAKBANK announced the arrangement of a five-year US$15 million long term loan facility to Seylan Bank, a financial institution based in Sri Lanka. Seylan Bank has secured the loan for general expansion of its portfolio growth in Foreign Currency Banking Unit (FCBU). The long term funding would also assist in further improving the Asset Liability ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Airports, operator of Dubai International (DXB), the world’s busiest international airport, and Dubai World Central (DWC), was voted as the Travel and Tourism Company of the year at the Arabian Business Achievement Awards in Dubai recently. The awards seek to recognise and reward outstanding corporate leadership across a range of sectors, with nominations being drawn ...

  DUBAI / WAM The Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), Integration in UAE skies conference, hosted by the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), has taken a number of important decisions, including one to host the Joint Authorities for Rulemaking of Unmanned Aircraft system (JARUS), plenary meeting in the UAE in 2018, and hosting the first Drone Air Show in 2018. Other ...