DAMAC Properties and Paramount Give the Emirates a Hollywood Makeover

While Dubai is touted as the most popular destination for luxury hoteliers and builders, DAMAC is going the whole stretch by bringing in Hollywood’s Paramount Hotels and Resorts across four different destinations in the gulf. Offering an unmatched experience inspired from the movies of Paramount, the hotels slated to…

Improve Your Reception with Sonos Boost

Improve Your Reception with Sonos BoostSonos has unveiled the Sonos Boost, an accessory that provides enterprise-grade wireless performance for your Sonos system, improving reliability even in homes that have wireless connectivity problems. Boost connects directly to your router to create a dedicated network, allowing all your Sonos speakers and …

Designer viruses could be the new antibiotics

Flickr user: Creativity103 Bacterial infections remain a major threat to human and animal health. Worse still, the catalog of useful antibiotics is shrinking as pathogens build up resistance to these drugs. There are few promising new drugs in the pipeline, but they may not prove to be enough. Multi-resistant…

Android Lollipop confirmed for NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet

As if you needed another reason to want the NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet, here’s one: this tablet will be getting Android 5.0 Lollipop as soon as NVIDIA can muster it. This means everything we discussed yesterday in our Android Lollipop guide: everything a Nexus needs to know and likely more. NVIDIA has …

ASUS Padfone X Mini arrives on AT&T

ASUS has some stunning hybrid devices that are unique and live in a niche all by themselves. I am talking about the Padfone range that sees a smartphone coupled with a tablet dock, where the user can slot the smartphone into the rear of the dock to turn it into…

Guilty Gear Xrd: Sign U.S. release date announced

Guilty Gear Xrd: Sign will launch for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 in North America on December 16, Aksys Games announced. The western release will arrive less than two weeks following the game’s December 4 launch in Japan. The Arc System Works-developed fighter features 3D character models that look like 2D sprites …

NFL consultants send newsletter on Ebola to all teams

(Reuters) – The NFL’s infectious disease consultants, in a newsletter sent to team doctors and trainers outlining the primary facts of the Ebola virus, said they do not currently recommend screening for possible contact with infected patients. The newsletter, to be shared with players and staff, was written by the Duke …

Cain is able: Royals center fielder wins ALCS MVP – SFGate

SFGateCain is able: Royals center fielder wins ALCS MVPSFGatePhoto: Matt Slocum, AP Kansas City Royals' Lorenzo Cain holds up the MVP trophy after the Royals defeated the Baltimore Orioles to win the American League baseball championship series Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Kansas City, Mo. The Royals …Listen to the joyous sounds …