Dropbox didn’t tell anyone about a giant hack for four years
By Chris Smith From BGR We get it, companies get hacked all the time. And they’re not too eager to share details about data breaches, but they ultimately have to release details about it so that affected users can protect…
HBO premiere’s new Hollywood blockbusters this September
MIAMI, Fla. – August 29, 2016 – HBO is home to the biggest blockbuster films premiering exclusively every Saturday night at 22hrs*. Through agreements with four of the largest film studios worldwide – Warner Bros., Disney, Sony Pictures and Universal…
World’s largest tomato fight
Streets of Spanish village splattered with tomatoes after the world’s largest food BY BRITTANY HERBERT From Mashable The streets of Bunol are splattered with red after the world’s largest food fight. The annual Tomatina fiesta took place on Wednesday in…
Alaska and Delta airlines approved to commence service to Havana
From Caribbean News Now WASHINGTON, USA — On Wednesday, Alaska Airlines and Delta Air Lines were both approved by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to operate scheduled services to Havana, Cuba. In Delta’s case this will represent a resumption…
Has Caribbean Tourism Taken a Hit Since Zika?
By Neil Gladstone From Oyster In December 2015, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that cases of the Zika virus had been confirmed in Puerto Rico. In February 2016, President Obama requested nearly two billion dollars in emergency funding…
Donald Trump: Mexico will pay for wall, ‘100%’
From BBC US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has insisted Mexico will pay for a border wall “100%”, in a major immigration speech. He told a cheering crowd in Arizona that he would secure the border, and left open the…
BM’s Watson sorted through over 100 film clips to create an algorithmically perfect movie trailer
By Clinton Nguyen Movie trailers are often a bit formulaic. In fact, since many of them are edited so predictably, it seems even a computer can put one together. For the film “Morgan,” which is due out in theaters on September…
A spacecraft got smacked by a bit of space debris, but it’s fine
BY MIRIAM KRAMER From Mashable An Earth-gazing satellite keeping an eye on our planet from above appears to have been whacked by a little piece of natural or human-made space debris. Engineers working with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Copernicus…
Jamaican national appointed to head World Bank Group operations in the Caribbean
From Wired Ja Online News KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug 31, CMC – The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has appointed Jamaican Judith Green as the head of its operations in the English-speaking Caribbean. Her appointment makes…
Nassau Grouper Rules Put in Place by Cayman Islands
From The Fishing Wire On Monday, August 15, 2016, the Cayman Islands government enacted a comprehensive set of regulations aimed at recovering Nassau Grouper, an endangered Caribbean reef fish. The new regulations are based on more than a decade of…
