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FDA halts Juno’s gene-altering cancer trials after three deaths
By David Lumb From engadget Company stock plummeted 27 percent after the suspension. The Food and Drug Administration has temporarily halted a cancer-treating study after three patients died of swelling in the brain. Biopharmaceutical company Juno Therapeutics had been testing an…
IRS seeks court order to make Facebook turn over info related to asset transfer
By Kelly Phillips Erb From Forbes The U.S. Department of Justice filed a petition this week to force social networking company, Facebook Inc., to turn over information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about the transfer of assets to Facebook’s Irish…
Second 2016 CTO regulation roundtable takes place in London
From Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) Now held as roundtables, the Regulating ICTs series organised by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) registered participants from Bangladesh, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Ghana, Mauritius, Montserrat, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. LONDON, 08…
Drones are about to fill the skies within the next 5 years
By BI Intelligence From Business Insider The fast-growing global drone industry has not sat back waiting for government policy to be hammered out before pouring investment and effort into opening up this all-new hardware and computing market. A growing…
Cayman Islands International college is a candidate for second accreditation
The International College of the Cayman Islands is well on its way to earning a second stamp of approval from an international accrediting body. The U.K. based Accreditation Service for International Schools, Colleges and Universities has announced ICCI as a…
Cayman Islands planning on releasing GM mosquitoes next week
Additional control measures to combat Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever, are set to begin in West Bay next week. Operational roll-out of a technique involving genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes will come a week…
3D printed rifles
Great, now 3D-printed rifles can fire larger, deadlier rounds By Andrew Tarantola From engadget In 2013, Defense Distributed created the world’s first 3D-printed handgun, the .38-caliber Liberator. The following year, they unveiled an AR-15 receiver capable of firing hundreds of…
Early hair dryers
Early hair dryers looked like terrifying sci-fi experiments By Chris Wild from Mashable 1928-1948 Early hair dryers – Settle in, you’ll be here awhile. Before the invention of hair dryers, women and men would often attach hoses to the exhaust…
Gadget of the week
Samsung app helps Alzheimer’s patients remember their families By Jon Fingas From engadget If you’ve seen Still Alice, you know how important a smartphone can be for an Alzheimer’s patient — it helps jog memories that might otherwise be lost….
2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast Update predicts increase (now 15) in named storms
By Chris Dolce and Jon Erdman and Linda Lam From The Weather Channel Hurricane Season Forecast Increased Meteorologist Danielle Banks explains why the total named storms, hurricanes and category 3 or higher hurricanes have increased by 1. Story Highlights The…
