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Cayman Islands utility company and government regulatory authority provide additional CORE generation
The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) and Caribbean Utilities Company, Ltd. (CUC) have completed additional revisions to the Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) programme which has been in place since February 2011. CUC and the ERA have agreed to an additional 2 Megawatts…
Gadget of the week
This BMW-designed racing wheelchair for the Rio Olympics is like a carbon-fiber spaceship By William Fierman From Business Insider Looking more like a carbon-fiber spaceship than a piece of racing equipment, a new wheelchair designed by BMW of North America…
Space photo – England
Space photos captures the beauty of England at night By Tim Chesteruk From Mashable LONDON — Astronaut Tim Peake’s photography is coming on in leaps and bounds. Within days of his epic Aurora Borealis snaps, the British astronaut has posted…
Listen to live music
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio Hearing adjustments I had mentioned in an earlier post how our hearing gets used to a certain sound and we adjust to that as normal. One of my readers posted what I think is a…
Sperm donors wanted: UK government seeks to address shortage
BY BLATHNAID HEALY from Mashable LONDON — The world’s first national sperm bank opened its doors in Britain [in October 2014] calling for “very special men” to help reduce the shortage of sperm donations in the UK and address the reliance on…
Supercomputers
Supercomputer speed records: World’s fastest machines of the past 15 years By Nick Heath From Tech Republic Supercomputers are perhaps the pinnacle of computing – machines capable of doing in seconds work that would take a PC years to carry…
Through human and conventional openings, successful breaches happening at dizzying speeds
By Ricci Dipshan, From Legaltech News Hackers and cybercriminals are posing as employees to access company systems and finding success exploiting in traditional weak spots Law firm cyberthreats may have evolved over the past year to rely more on insider threats…
Royal College of Physicians says E-cigarettes can ‘prevent almost all the harm from smoking’
By Jacob Sullum From Forbes In 1962, two years before U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released his famous report on the health hazards of smoking, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) covered the same subject in a report that went…
Apple: Blind Faith
By Courage & Conviction Investing From Seeking Alpha Summary On August 11, 2015, I did the unthinkable – I published a negative Apple article on Seeking Alpha. At the time, AAPL was trading at $119. In that article, I specifically…
University of Florida held the world’s first brain-controlled drone race
By Fitz Tepper From techcrunch Drone races are nothing new. But while they started as an ad-hoc activity within the drone community, the sport has now taken on a life of its own with highly elaborate events and a partnership with ESPN. Similarly, brain-computer interface (BCI) technology…
