Cayman Islands College observatory continues to reach for the stars
Since its opening in February 2012, the UCCI Observatory has been an active site on campus. Hundreds of school students, from pre-K to seniors, have toured the Observatory and been impressed with images taken through the various telescopes. A number…
New arrangements for online filing with CIMA from January 2015
Grand Cayman: Entities regulated by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) will soon have access to a new online, automated method for submissions of mandatory financial returns, change requests and new licence applications. While this will be phased in slowly,…
The worst social media brand blunders of 2014
By Erin Carson From Tech Republic Sometimes social media goes awry. Here are 2014’s top 5 brand mistakes to learn Mistakes on social media play out like bad horror movies. You cringe, cover your eyes, and thank your lucky stars…
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Cayman Islands fuel pump prices slowly fall According to the Cayman Islands petroleum inspectorate’s latest price updates of all of Cayman’s gas station prices, on Christmas Eve both Walker’s Road and Mike’s Seven Mile Esso were selling regular gas for…
Atom smasher will renew hunt for strange particles in 2015
By Charles Q. Choi LiveScience From Fox News In 2015, the world’s most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, will restart. The particle accelerator has already discovered the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” and when it comes back…
Linux, the overweight king of cloud: Will this change anytime soon?
By Nick Hardiman From TechRepublic Nick Hardiman argues that the problem with Linux is that multi-purpose distros, which are great for cloud computing jobs, are making the server OS fat. 625px-linuxtuxlarryewing.png Image: Wikimedia/Larry Ewing Sadly, Linux has become old, fat,…
Valve on kids’ medicine bottles could prevent overdose deaths, but costs money
By Kate Cox From Consumerist Valve on kids’ medicine bottles could prevent overdose deaths, but costs money to install so never mind Acetaminophen, best known under the brand name Tylenol, is an incredibly common medication for children. While it’s safe…
How the original iPhone forced Google to completely rebuild Android
By Chris Smith From BGR The day Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone model (January 9th, 2007,) Google’s Android team, which had been secretly working on a smartphone for two years, took a “kick in the stomach,” The Atlantic revealed….
World’s smallest pacemaker can be implanted without surgery
Susan Young for MIT Technology Review From Mashable Pacemaker surgery typically requires a doctor to make an incision above a patient’s heart, dig a cavity into which they can implant the heartbeat-regulating device, and then connect the pulse generator to…
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From Panama to Ferguson: Countering the devaluation of black lives
By Janvieve Williams Comrie From AlJazeerra The 25th anniversary of the US invasion of Panama is a reminder that US state “I was 11 years old when the invasion happened. It did not matter that there were Christmas lights blinking…
