Gadget of the week
You might actually want to wear these smart glasses By Pete Pachal From Mashable LAS VEGAS — Consumer smart glasses that don’t make the wearer look like a complete dork are getting closer to reality. Osterhout Design Group, which makes…
This is not the attention law schools want
By Zoe Tillman, From The National Law Journal Scandals put law schools in damage-control mode. Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law this week found itself on a list no law school wants to be on. Differing in size, location…
Local pollutants compound threats to coral reefs
By Leila Lemghalef From Caribbean360 NEW YORK, United States, Friday February 6, 2015, IPS – A recent study suggests that one of the multiple threats to coral reefs contains both the problem and solution. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI),…
Fitch expects to rate Red Dorsal Finance 2015-1 Variable Funding Notes ‘BBB’; Outlook Stable
Fitch expects to assign the following rating to the proposed issuance of senior secured variable funding notes (VFNs) by Red Dorsal Finance Limited (RDFL), a LLC incorporated in the Cayman Islands: — Series 2015-1 senior secured VFNs ‘BBB (exp)’; Outlook…
One of the world’s largest activist hedge funds has made a $152 million bet on Britain’s solar power industry
The Telegraph From Business Insider One of the world’s largest activist hedge funds has made a bet worth nearly £100m on Britain’s solar power industry, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. Elliott Capital Advisors, the UK arm of the American hedge…
Drones are great for spying — on endangered birds and wildlife
By David Bird for The Conversation From Mashable Drones, robots and unmanned submarines used to be for military use only. But these days the technology is rapidly advancing and becoming more available for emergency services, farmers, film-makers or the public…
Zuckerberg, wife give $75 million to San Francisco General Hospital
By Greg Botelho, From CNN Kevin Systrom founded Instagram, the photo-sharing network, with Mike Krieger in 2010. In 2012, Facebook snapped it up for more than $700 million. (CNN) San Francisco General Hospital will soon have a new name and…
The black experience: portraits of a community
From The Guardian A fascinating collaboration between the V&A and the Black Cultural Archive charts the changing lives of black people in Britain and tells us much about who we are today In 1988, I bumped into a friend walking…
UPDATE: Early hour raid in North Side/Police Operation in West Bay/UPDATE: Murder arrest
Two Arrested – Accessory after the fact to murder From RCIPS Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:34 PM Around 3:00pm Tuesday 10 February 2015, a 29 year old male and a 24 year old female of West Bay were arrested by…
