Wildflowers as Pesticides
A Beautiful Solution: UK, Switzerland Experiment With Using Strips of Wildflowers as Natural Pesticides BY RAIN NOE From Core77 Pesticides are bad for humans, and they’ve been linked to everything from birth defects to cancer. They’re not much better for…
BVI Gov’t launches ‘BVI Open for Business’ app
Reproduced courtesy of BVINEWS.COM From OECS Thursday, January 11, 2018 — At a time when visitors have been invited back to the British Virgin Islands, Government has launched a ‘BVI Open for Business’ app. The app is an interactive map…
Top benefits of real-time tracking for public transport
The advancements in GPS and cloud technology have made real-time tracking a viable solution for many fleet organizations today, including city bus companies. Where cities and public transport groups have started to implement GPS tracking into their city bus operations…
Cayman Islands Government & Motorola Agreement signed
The Cayman Islands will soon be home to the most modern radio system for public safety and emergency communications in the Caribbean, after signing an agreement with Motorola Solutions on Thursday, 14 December 2017. During a press conference the Ministry…
2 ex-Tesla engineers are using an old trick from Elon Musk to build their new startup
By Danielle Muoi From Business Insider Self-driving cars rely on high-definition maps to know exactly where they are even if GPS fails. Tesla collects data from its cars to build these maps for its Autopilot and self-driving-car efforts. Two former…
New Mercedes S
New Mercedes S-Class packs a crazy amount of futuristic tech BY STAN SCHROEDER From Mashable Ask any Mercedes enthusiast, and they’ll tell you that the company’s S-Class is the car to beat in the luxury class. It’s so far ahead…
Keep your drone out of no-fly zones or NASA will ruin your toy
BY MOLLY SEQUIN From Mashable Drones let us do cool things like take neat pictures from overhead views and pretend to be a pilot. But they’ve also been used for more nefarious purposes, like helping prisoners escapeand spying on people….
New tech can wirelessly charge electric cars and smartphones
From DNA India Stanford scientists have developed a way to wirelessly deliver electricity to moving objects, an advance that could charge electric vehicles, smartphones and medical implants on the go. If electric cars could recharge while driving down a highway,…
US Marines are trying out a throwaway delivery drone
By COLIN DAILEDA From Mashable The U.S. Marine Corps is reportedly testing an innovative new way of getting care packages to its troops in the field: disposable drones. The Tactical Air Delivery gliders, as they’re calling them, would be able…
Bike-sharing companies are flooding the market, but this one insists its bikes are smartest
BY YVETTE TAN From Mashable Singapore now has a third bike-sharing company in just a few months. One of China’s largest bike-sharing firms, Mobike launched here on Tuesday, adding to the growing list of bike-sharing companies that have mushroomed. Like…