BT to remove half of the UK’s remaining telephone boxes
By Matt Brian From engadget The company spends £6 million a year on phone box upkeep, which includes removing human waste. With the majority of Britons now carrying a smartphone in their pocket, demand for static, boring telephone boxes has…
Watch out for eye damage with those LED eyelashes you’re wearing to the club, doctor warns
BY VICTORIA HO From mashable Perhaps you should think twice before jumping on the LED eyelash bandwagon, an ophthalmologist is warning.The latest clubbing fad has people affixing LED strips above their eyes. Powered by a small battery tucked into the…
16 Aug Weather in Cayman & Tropical Report, 1 H/cane & 3 Dist Atlantic
Aug 16 Wednesday 2017 Tropical Report Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Wed Aug 16 2017 For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on…
What does “Climate-Smart Agriculture” really mean? New tool breaks it down
By Desmond Brown IPS From Caribbean News Service PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug 15 2017 (IPS) – A Trinidadian scientist has developed a mechanism for determining the degree of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) compliance with respect to projects, processes and products….
High-tech cities
The 25 most high-tech cities in the world Part 1 By Chris Weller From Business Insider Cities are the way of the future. In less than 35 years, the World Health Organization estimates that two-thirds of the world population will…
After Charlottesville, more web service providers ditch The Daily Stormer for TOS violations
By Natasha Lomas From TechCrunch The Daily Stormer, a U.S. white supremacist website which self-bills as “The World’s Most Genocidal Republican Website” and includes a discussion board on “Nazi lifestyle”, currently appears to be offline. The companies that usually enable…
Childhood exercise may protect against memory loss in old age
By Andy Coghlan From new Scientist Can exercise during childhood protect you against memory loss many decades later? Exercise early in life seems to have lifelong benefits for the brain, in rats at least. “This is an animal study, but…
Qualcomm’s new depth-sensing camera is surprisingly effective
By Cherlynn Low From engadget The IR-based system could be the next dual camera. Dual cameras are so passé. Qualcomm is getting ready to define the next generation of cameras for the Android ecosystem. It’s adding three new camera modules…
A drone landed on Britain’s biggest warship and nobody cared
By Mariella Moon From engadget It touched down and lifted off with nobody batting an eyelash. The Pentagon has already approved a policy giving military bases the right to shoot down drones that get too close. A lot of other…
Tracking a solar eruption through the solar system
Ten spacecraft, from ESA’s Venus Express to NASA’s Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the Solar System while three other satellites watched, providing a unique perspective on this space weather event. Scientists working on…









