28 July Weather in Cayman & Tropical Report, 1 dist in Atlantic
Jul 28 Friday 2017 Tropical Report Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Fri Jul 28 2017 For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: 1. Cloudiness and showers in the central tropical…
Tobago gears up to fight sargassum invasion
By Jewel Fraser IPS News From Caribbean News Service PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jul 25 2017 (IPS) – As Tobago’s tourism industry struggles to repel the sargassum invasions that have smothered its beaches with massive layers of seaweed as far…
Worst cholera epidemic on record in Yemen finally slowing after 400,000 infected
From WN Yemen’s cholera outbreak is close to hitting 400,000 cases on Tuesday but there is new hope according to the World Health Organization that the three-month-old epidemic is beginning to slow down, according to Reuters. WHO data provided to…
Scientists wary new crack of Larsen C ice shelf will challenge stability of remaining ice
From WN The giant crack that caused an iceberg to break off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf between July 10 and 12 – resulting in an iceberg the size of Delaware and weighing a trillion metric tons – might…
China is launching an ‘unhackable’ quantum messaging service
By Rachel England From engadget China has been active in the field of quantum cryptography lately, and now it’s gearing up to use the technology in an “unhackable” government messaging service. While existing internet and telephone cables can easily be…
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Former Personal Assistant to Members of Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly jailed Former Personal Assistant to Members of Legislative Assembly, Roy McTaggart and former MLA Winston Connolly, Christine Rae Smith, was sent to prison yesterday (Wed 26). Smith was the ring…
What Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg both get wrong about AI
BY PETE PACHAL From Mashable Artificial intelligence — software with the ability to observe, analyze, and act on its own — will play a big part in shaping our future. But will it destroy it? It’s a serious question, at…
Nanobots can swim your bloodstream faster by doing the front crawl
By Tom Regan From engadget With invasive surgery sometimes being a literal pain in the ass, it’s no surprise that scientists are working tirelessly to minimize the need for such procedures. Now, however, China’s Harbin Institute of Techonology is hoping…
26 July Weather in Cayman & Tropical Report, 1 dist in Atlantic
Jul 26 Wednesday 2017 Tropical Report Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Wed Jul 26 2017 For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: 1. A few showers and thunderstorms south of…
The tech that makes ‘near-miss’ air collisions almost impossible
By Davide Crivelli, The Conversation From Business Insider The sky is a crowded place. In June 2017, there were on average 33,000 flights every day over Europe alone. Surely then, it’s not surprising that we hear of “near-misses” between passenger jets, and of “hero…