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Earbuds and watch come into one: Huawei Watch Buds

KUWAIT: What if you could have a smartwatch and a pair of earbuds in one device? Sounds too good to be true, does it? Well, it’s not. The recently launched Huawei Watch Buds does just that. It’s a sleek and smart watch that hides a pair of earbuds inside its body. Whenever you feel like jamming to some tunes, chatting with your mates, or talking to the virtual assistant, just pop up the cover, take the earbuds out and pop them in your ears....

Eaman Al-Roudhan and Mohammed Al-Marzouq with Waleed Al-Khashti and Academy GM Martijn Belgraver.

Zain Strategic Partner of region’s first Rafa Nadal Academy

KUWAIT: Zain, Kuwait’s leading digital service provider, announces the extension of its Strategic Partnership with the Spain-based Rafa Nadal Academy in collaboration with Tamdeen Sports, a subsidiary of Tamdeen Group. The academy is the first of its kind in the Middle East, and only the second branch of the most famous tennis center in the world; Rafa Nadal Academy in Majorca, Spain.The partnership was announced at the academy’s HQ in Sheikh...

DALLAS: Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors scores on a layup against Maxi Kleber of the Dallas Mavericks at American Airlines Center on March 22, 2023. — AFP

Warriors win as Mavs cry foul

LOS ANGELES: The Golden State Warriors boosted their hopes of an automatic playoff berth with a crucial road victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday as Ja Morant made a smooth return from suspension for the Memphis Grizzlies. Steph Curry finished with 20 points as the Warriors clinched only their ninth away win of the season to edge past the Mavericks 127-125 at Dallas’ American Airlines Center.A back-and-forth battle saw the lead change...

CHENNAI: Australia’s players celebrate after winning the third one-day international (ODI) cricket matchnbetween India and Australia at the M A Chidambaram Stadium on March 22, 2023. — AFP

Yadav fails again as Australia stun India to win ODI series

CHENNAI: Australian spinners Adam Zampa and Ashton Agar turned the match to hand India their first one-day international series defeat at home since 2019 in a thrilling third and final match in Chennai on Wednesday. Left-arm spinner Agar removed in-form Virat Kohli (54) and the world’s top-rated Twenty20 batter Suryakumar Yadav for his third consecutive golden duck with the first two balls of the 36th over to leave the hosts reeling at 185-6...

In this file photo YouTube personality Jake Paul attends the fight between his brother Logan Paul and former world welterweight king Floyd Mayweather in an eight-round exhibition bout at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida. - AFP photos

Celebrities Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul charged for touting crypto

Actress Lindsay Lohan, YouTuber Jake Paul and six other celebrities were charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for touting cryptocurrencies on social media without disclosing that they were paid to do so. The charges come as part of a case targeting entrepreneur Justin Sun for marketing Tronix and BitTorrent crypto assets without registering with the relevant authorities, and for manipulating crypto trading on his platform. Lindsay...

This handout photo shows Finnish TikTok cleanfluencer Auri Kananen wearing pink gloves and making victory signs as she sits on a pile of trash and food remains in a flat in Helsinki, Finland.- AFP photos

‘Cleanfluencers’ sweep TikTok, drawing millions

Marie Kondo may have admitted defeat, but a new generation of “cleanfluencers” is taking social media by storm, with millions watching them scour filthy homes and dole out cleaning hacks. Digging through a mountain of trash, Auri Kananen uncovered a rotten piece of pizza on the floor of a Helsinki flat, with insects devouring it. “I love cleaning, I love dirt,” declared the 30-year-old Finn, who has far more social media followers than...

US Photographic artist Roger Ballen poses for a portrait at the Inside Out Centre for the Arts in Johannesburg.-- AFP photos

S Africa art show highlights destructive ties between Man and Nature

A lioness towers over a seemingly dead hunter, her paws pinning his body to the ground. A woman dressed in black, her face replaced by a leopard’s head, sits flanked by three prowling wild cats. The two installations are part of the latest exhibition by 72-year-old American photographic artist Roger Ballen, which opens in Johannesburg, South Africa, next Tuesday.Renowned for his thought-provoking work into the human psyche, Ballen said the...

Tourists and guests swim in the water of the Gellert Spa. - AFP photos

Cold shower for Hungary’s famed hot baths

Hungary’s grand thermal baths are struggling to stay afloat, buffeted by rocketing energy bills. For many tourists a highlight of a trip to Budapest is a relaxing soak at one of its many ornate bathhouses. The capital boasts an array of spectacular venues, from neo-baroque pools where bathers can play chess to sumptuous art nouveau confections and exotic Ottoman-era hammams. But running the energy-guzzling baths “costs 170 percent more than...

Mina Abdullah refinery

Refineries get ‘advanced ranking’

KUWAIT: Mina Abdullah and Ahmadi Refineries have got an ‘advanced international ranking’ of risk engineering quality, the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) said Wednesday. This came in line with the study made by ‘Marsh’ company, a world leading insurance broker and risk advisor, KNPC Deputy CEO. Fuel Supply Operations and spokesman Ghanim Al-Otaibi said in a statement to KUNA.He added that the two refineries got this advanced...

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Grand Mosque opens its doors for night prayers

KUWAIT: The Grand Mosque re-opens its doors for night prayers in Ramadan after three years’ suspension due to maintenance work as well as COVID-19 pandemic. The Grand Mosque is considered to be one of the Islamic cultural landmarks in Kuwait, as it is the largest mosque in Kuwait, with an area of 45,000 square meters and a capacity for more than 60,000 worshipers.It was taken into account while designing the mosque to have it represent the...

JOHANNESBURG: A woman holds up a placard reading ‘We want water, its our human right’ as residents protest outside the offices of Johannesburg Water’s Southdale Depot in the south of Johannesburg on World Water Day. — AFP

Humanity lifeblood is under threat: UN

UNITED NATIONS: The future of humanity’s “lifeblood”—water—is under threat worldwide, the UN secretary-general warned Wednesday at the opening of the global body’s first major meeting on water resources in nearly half a century. “We’ve broken the water cycle, destroyed ecosystems and contaminated groundwater,” Antonio Guterres said at the three-day summit in New York, which gathers some 6,500 participants including a dozen heads...

TOULOUSE: Photo shows screens displaying the logos of OpenAI and ChatGPT. – AFP

Google launches ChatGPT rival in US and Britain

SAN FRANCISCO: Google has invited people in the United States and Britain to test its AI chatbot, known as Bard, as it continues on its gradual path to catch up with Microsoft-backed ChatGPT. Bard, ChatGPT and other similar artificial intelligence apps churn out essays, poems or computing code on command and have taken the world by storm as the biggest new thing in tech since the advent of the iPhone.Google CEO Sundar Pichai told staff that after...

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GUBA, Ethiopia: This general view shows the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Guba, Ethiopia.--AFP

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WASHINGTON: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on January 31, 2024. — AFP

Meta CEO: US pressure on COVID posts was ‘wrong’