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Taste of Cayman Food & Drink Festival 2020 moved to 2021
Taste of Cayman Food & Drink Festival 2020 which was postponed shortly before it was to take place on 4 April, and was rescheduled to 24 October 2020, has been postponed for this year and will return on Saturday, 17…
Online auction raises over $48,000 for Cayman’s Acts of Random Kindness
Provenance Properties Cayman Islands hosted an online auction of art and luxury home goods which raised $24,000+; funds were matched by R3 Cayman Foundation. Provenance Properties recently hosted an online auction to raise funds for the nonprofit organisation, Cayman’s Acts…
Floating, spherical store
Apple’s New Floating, Spherical Store in Singapore By Rain Noe From Core77 You could be forgiven for thinking that Apple has colluded with Singapore’s ultra-wealthiest citizens to provide a catastrophic-global-warming-event escape pod. The city-state’s newest Apple store, Apple Marina Bay…
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Jamaica: Development Minerals Industry stakeholders grateful for grants
BY: DOUGLAS MCINTOSH From JIS Stakeholders in Jamaica’s development minerals industry have expressed gratitude for the provision of grants totalling €51,000 (approximately J$9 million) to 12 small-scale artisans and miners, to support their businesses and fund emergency responses to the coronavirus…
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TikTok’s Holocaust trend
TikTok’s Holocaust trend has been called out by the Auschwitz Memorial BY AMANDA YEO From Mashable The Auschwitz Memorial has addressed the trend of teens on TikTok pretending to be Holocaust victims, calling it “hurtful and offensive.” However, the museum also warned against…
Property tech startup Habi raises $10M to drive expansion in Latin America
By Kristen Karosec From TechCrunch When Brynne McNulty Rojas moved to Bogotá, Colombia four years ago, she encountered a fragmented real estate industry that lacked a central database for consumers to find or compare homes. Rojas was struck by the magnitude…
It takes an estimated seven nuclear plants to power our bitcoin mining
By Andrew Tarantola From engadget Turns out that plugging a bunch of computers into our electrical grid that do nothing but draw current and hash through algorithms has had some negative environmental impacts. Recent studies suggest that Bitcoin-related power consumption…
Urban Planning Fail: Stretching EV Charging Cables Across the Bike Lane
By Rain Noe From Core77 Because clotheslines are more fun when they’re electrified One of the smartest conventions urban planners have adopted in recent years is protecting bike lanes with rows of parked cars. It increases both safety and bicycle…
Normalize sending audio messages instead of text messages
BY NICOLE GALLUCCI From Mashable Sometimes when life gets you down you just need to record an audio message of yourself screaming into your phone and smash that send button. It isn’t the most emotionally rational move, but boy is it…
3 Sep Weather in Cayman & Tropical Report, 1 TS, 1 TD, 3 Dist
3 Sep Thu 2020 TROPICAL REPORT ATLANTIC Tropical Weather Outlook Atlantic – Caribbean Sea – Gulf of Mexico Tropical Weather Outlook (en Español*) 800 AM EDT The Sep 3 2020 TS NANA INLAND OVER SOUTHERN BELIZE TD OMAR REFUSES TO GIVE IN TO…
