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In the Presence of Football Greatness

In the Presence of Football Greatness

The story of the 1995 Cayman Islands Shell Caribbean Cup Team July 1995 will be forever ingrained in the annals of Cayman Islands football history and will hold ever-lasting memories for members of the Cayman Islands Senior National Football Team...

Europe looks to Nordic space race to scale back US dependence

Europe looks to Nordic space race to scale back US dependence

Two small spaceports in the far north of Sweden and Norway are racing to launch the first satellites from mainland Europe into space as the region looks to reduce its reliance on US players. US President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies and...

Story Applications First MetOp Second Generation satellite fuelled 24/07/2025 1531 views 29 likes Read

Story Applications First MetOp Second Generation satellite fuelled 24/07/2025 1531 views 29 likes Read

Applications 24/07/2025 1530 views 29 likes The journey to launch is picking up pace for Europe’s MetOp Second Generation weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package. Specialists at Europe’s...

Elon Musk says xAI is targeting 50 million 'H100 equivalent' AI GPUs in five years — 230k GPUs, including 30k GB200s already reportedly operational for training Grok

Elon Musk says xAI is targeting 50 million 'H100 equivalent' AI GPUs in five years — 230k GPUs, including 30k GB200s already reportedly operational for training Grok

Leading AI companies have been bragging about the number of GPUs they use or plan to use in the future. Just yesterday, OpenAI announced plans to build infrastructure to power two million GPUs, but now Elon Musk has revealed even more colossal...

Stockholm, we have a problem: Norway blasts Sweden in space race

Stockholm, we have a problem: Norway blasts Sweden in space race

The hot phase of the European space race started with the wrong kind of bang. A German rocket, touted as the Continent’s first attempt at an orbital launch from its own soil, took off from Andoya in the Arctic north of Norway but lost power after...

Could the Amazon Soy Moratorium collapse?

Could the Amazon Soy Moratorium collapse?

The Amazon Rainforest, which stretches across Brazil and has sections in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, is the largest forest on Earth. Containing around 10% of the world’s species, it is often...

Story Enabling & Support New agreements for next decade of launches at Europe’s Spac… 10/07/2025 379 views 4 likes Read

Story Enabling & Support New agreements for next decade of launches at Europe’s Spac… 10/07/2025 379 views 4 likes Read

Enabling & Support 10/07/2025 313 views 4 likes Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana with Vega-C and Ariane 6 launch facilities in the background The Guiana Space Centre, known in French as Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), European Spaceport in...

Aruba: Black Gold and Boas

Aruba: Black Gold and Boas

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. There’s a chasm as large as any sweep of Caribbean sand between how we’d like to imagine a place became a dream holiday destination and the hard realities of what triggers such an...

Macron declares July 12 annual Dreyfus commemoration day

Macron declares July 12 annual Dreyfus commemoration day

PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron has declared July 12 a French day of national commemoration for Alfred Dreyfus, a French army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 in a notorious act of antisemitism. "From now on, there will be a...

Expert backs proposed rocket launch site in Sabah: Space centre could prevent brain drain

Expert backs proposed rocket launch site in Sabah: Space centre could prevent brain drain

Expert backs proposed rocket launch site in Sabah: Space centre could prevent brain drain Published on: Saturday, July 19, 2025 Published on: Sat, Jul 19, 2025 By: Audrey J Ansibin Text Size: Dark Mode: Off Pic (left): Logesh Kumar Selvakumar....

Settler Colonialism in light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 2)

Settler Colonialism in light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 2)

As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolution. Originally published in Saïd Bouamama's blog. Resistance by the colonized The...

Investing in Space: The market’s taking off

Investing in Space: The market’s taking off

Digital generated image of a futuristic financial dashboard with holographic displays of various stock market graphs and data visualizations. The scene includes detailed graphs with line and bar charts, real-time data feeds, and transparent...

Cassava Witches' Broom Disease Takes Flight in South America

Cassava Witches' Broom Disease Takes Flight in South America

Alliance researchers and partners, including Embrapa, Brazil’s largest agricultural research organization, launched a rapid response plan to slow the spread and mitigate potentially devastating consequences for food security and livelihoods. In...

Taekwondo Glory For T&T

Taekwondo Glory For T&T

Team Trinidad and Tobago delivered a strong showing at the 14th Lie’s International Taekwondo Tournament, also known as the Suriname Open, held on June 28th 2025 at Utopia Heritage. Competing against athletes from Suriname, French Guiana, and...

Defence Force resume C’bean Cup preparation

Defence Force resume C’bean Cup preparation

After a brief break, Tier I champions Defence Force have resumed training as they prepare for the upcoming 2025 CONCACAF Caribbean Cup. Four Trinidad and Tobago football clubs have qualified for regional competitions next season. TTPFL champions...

Scientists send enormous satellite into space to scan over a trillion organisms around the globe: 'We can actually look inside'

Scientists send enormous satellite into space to scan over a trillion organisms around the globe: 'We can actually look inside'

The European Space Agency has deployed a one-of-a-kind satellite with the ability to scan more than a trillion complex organisms in the world's rainforests. The successful April launch was spotlighted in June in the Environmental Defense Fund's...

Sentinel-5A is expected to improve Europe’s global view on air quality

Sentinel-5A is expected to improve Europe’s global view on air quality

This new satellite will become one of the most crucial components of the Copernicus Earth Observation programme, solidifying its position as the world’s most advanced system for monitoring air quality and emissions. Sentinel-5A will join the...

Earth 'does contain alien life' and it could mean another planet can host humans

Earth 'does contain alien life' and it could mean another planet can host humans

Experts are using alienlike creatures in the ocean as a template for what other life may exist in space. A NASA-funded team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are now investigating whether one of Jupiter’s moons has...

Europe Eyes Nordic Space Race To Reduce Reliance On US

Europe Eyes Nordic Space Race To Reduce Reliance On US

Two small spaceports in northern Sweden and Norway are competing to launch mainland Europe’s first satellites, as the region seeks to scale back its dependence on U.S. space providers. U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies and the...

See Vega-C rocket's 3rd stage hoisted for upcoming launch | Space photo of the day for July 3, 2025

See Vega-C rocket's 3rd stage hoisted for upcoming launch | Space photo of the day for July 3, 2025

Since its first launch in 2012 from French Guiana, Europe's Vega rocket system has been instrumental in helping put multiple satellites in low Earth orbit with only a single launch. What is it? The Vega-C rocket — a more powerful variant developed...

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