Category Archives: News

Obama’s Community-Broadband Plan: 4 Ways to Understand His State of the Union Pitch

Posted on January 20, 2015 by StevenTorresRamos

You’re going to hear words in tonight’s State of the Union address about “community broadband,” Internet connections built by cities or counties for their citizens. After the State of the Union, if you stay tuned in to the news, you … Continue reading →

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Google’s first test market for Project Ara will be Puerto Rico

Posted on January 14, 2015 by StevenTorresRamos

Want to get your first taste of Project Ara, Google’s modular phone project? You might have to move to Puerto Rico. That’s because Google has designated the US territory as the market pilot site for Project Ara. Why Puerto Rico? … Continue reading →

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Dear Parents, You Are Being Lied To | IFLScience

Posted on January 12, 2015 by StevenTorresRamos

In light of recent outbreaks of measles and other vaccine preventable illnesses, and the refusal of anti-vaccination advocates to acknowledge the problem, I thought it was past time for this post.Dear parents,You are being lied to. The people who claim to be … Continue reading →

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The Soaring U.S. Outbreak of Vaccine-Preventable Disease, Visualized

Posted on December 9, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

Mealses, mumps, polio, rubella, whooping cough… All diseases that are eminently preventable by vaccination. But, as this data visualization shows, while their incidence has decreased by 57 percent around the world between 2008 and 2014, in the U.S. it’s soared … Continue reading →

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Lockheed Martin’s new fusion reactor can change humanity forever

Posted on October 15, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

This is the interior of an invention that could change civilization as we know it: A compact fusion reactor developed by Skunk Works, the stealthy experimental technology division of Lockheed Martin. It is the size of a jet engine, power … Continue reading →

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Puerto Rico declares chikungunya epidemic – DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG

Posted on October 2, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

“This 2006 photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquiring a blood meal from a human host at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The Aedes aegypti mosquito is … Continue reading →

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Get Office products FREE for Students

Posted on September 29, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

Get Office free from your schoolOffice 365 Education for Students is available for free to students who are enrolled at qualifying schools. Install Office on up to 5 PCs or Macs and on other mobile devices, including Windows tablets and … Continue reading →

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Obama Awards Borinqueneers With Congressional Gold Medal – NBC News.com

Posted on June 11, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

WASHINGTON, DC — A U.S. Army segregated unit composed mainly of soldiers from the island of Puerto Rico distinguished itself in World War I, World War II and Korea. But it was not until Tuesday that these soldiers, most of … Continue reading →

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Obama honors Puerto Rico’s ‘Borinqueneers’ – The Washington Post

Posted on June 11, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

June 10, 2014 11:23 AM EDT — President Obama signed a bill on Tuesday that awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th Infantry Regiment “Borinqueneers,” who came from Puerto Rico and served in World War II and Korea. The … Continue reading →

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Microsoft won’t leave XP out of today’s major Internet Explorer security update

Posted on May 1, 2014 by StevenTorresRamos

Late last week Microsoft announced that it had discovered a serious security flaw in Internet Explorer (versions 6 through 11!) that left users vulnerable to attack. Nefarious characters could use malicious sites to infect a target machine and even take … Continue reading →