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A pair of robot hands to help in the kitchen By John Biggs From Techcrunch While robots have long been relegated to harsh environments like deserts and nuclear waste dumps, now they will hit the harshest environment of all: your…
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Obama, Biden, Kerry: Energy security is needed in the Caribbean
From Energy Trends Insider For two decades, the United States has virtually ignored the geopolitics of the islands of the Caribbean: since the end of the Cold War, the region had changed from a playground of superpowers in America’s backyard…
Challenging the power of the one percent
By Lydia Alpízar Durán From Caribbean Life SAO PAULO (IPS) – When you are faced with the task of moving an object but find it is too heavy to lift, what is your immediate and most natural response? You ask…
‘Substantial’ El Nino event predicted
By Helen Briggs BBC Environment Correspondent From BBC The El Nino effect, which can drive droughts and flooding, is under way in the tropical Pacific, say scientists. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology predicted that it could become a “substantial” event later…
Religious nonprofits win relief from Alito over contraception mandate
By Marcia Coyle, From The National Law Journal In late-night order, justice temporarily stays Third Circuit ruling. A group of Pennsylvania religious nonprofits, challenging contraceptive insurance under the federal health care law, won temporary relief from an appellate court ruling…
OMG that’s my face: Woman finds a stranger who looks exactly like her
By Tim Chester From Mashable LONDON — Those two people above are different humans, and they’re not related. It might sound unbelievable, but they’re really “twin strangers” and the person on the left, who reckons we all have some, can…
Phones could soon be charged in less than a MINUTE
By Victoria Woollaston For Mailonline Experts build superfast and flexible power pack out of aluminium The flexible aluminium battery was created at Stanford University It consists of a negatively charged aluminium anode and a positively charged graphite cathode along with…
Cayman Islands author goes paperback
South African publisher, 30 Degrees South have acquired the paperback rights in South Africa for a book by Cayman Islands author Peter Polack. The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War covers a key engagement in 1987-88 during the Angolan…
Bermuda: ‘Sensible immigration policy vital for growth’
By Rebecca Zuill From The Royal Gazette The resolution of Bermuda’s immigration policy is “crucial” for the economy, Shadow Minister of Finance David Burt said yesterday. “This is not an immigration issue, this is an economic issue,” he said. “Getting…
