The high-tech world may soon make its way into the backseat of New York’s fleet of yellow taxis, as the Taxi and Limousine Commission begins to consider whether cabs should offer embedded tablet computers as an option for customers’ use while scurrying around the city. It hasn’t been too long since New Yorkers were confronted…
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Brooklyn Science and Math Teacher Awarded Coveted Endeavor Fellowship
Brooklyn teacher Susan D’Auria was selected to receive an Endeavor Fellowship with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA.) The Endeavor Science Teaching Certificate Project, sponsored by NASA, trains educators who are working towards earning a STEM certificate from Columbia University’s Teachers College. A STEM certificate is awarded to teachers who have become proficient in…
High-Tech Startups in New York Gaining Momentum
New York is not known as one of the more influential locales on the technology start-up scene, but there are several signs that New York is trying hard and making up some ground in this lucrative and exciting sphere. New York already has a Facebook presence, and together with other such stellar technology players, New…
New York Mourns Passing of Steve Jobs
New York, just like the rest of the world, is in mourning for Steve Jobs. Technology genius and entrepreneur Jobs died on Wednesday after a long battle with cancer. New Yorkers were out in droves paying their respects and reminiscing about what Jobs has done for the way that we communicate. Apple Store Tributes Outside…
Amazing Medical Breakthrough in the Bronx
Sometimes medicine simply can’t solve a patient’s problems – and sometimes it produces miracles. The later was the case recently for Jesus Barrios who was shot twice in the head. One of the bullets left staple sized fragments in his brain, and he was faced with a lifetime of seizures, infections, vision loss and other…
New Jersey Solar Panels Disturb Residents Aesthetic Sensibilities
For the past year the largest utility in New Jersey, the Public Service Electric and Gas Company, has been installing solar panels across the state, to a mixed reaction from the public. New Jersey a Leading State in Renewable Energy Usage The installation of the New Jersey solar panels is the first and largest of…
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(Got an email asking us to post this information – I hope it’s useful!) IDT Energy is a top supplier of gas and electric service for homes and business. Moving from your current electricity and gas provider to IDT Energy couldn’t be smoother. All you need is a recent utility bill – everything you need…
Governor Cuomo to Review Safety of Nuclear Power Plant
Indian Point Near Seismic Fault Located just 35 miles north of Manhattan, the Indian Point Energy Center is situated close to the Ramapo Fault in New York. Although seismic activity along this fault line is infrequent and the plant is also built to handle the worst imaginable earthquake that the region would most likely experience,…
iPad 2 Flying Off Shelves in New York
With the new iPad 2 going on sale this week, people all over New York – and all over the country – were scrambling to be the first to get their hands on this hot new device. Apple has, apparently, sold approximately half a million iPad 2 tablets over its first weekend and most locations…
New Siren Scheduled to Get New Yorkers’ Attention
New Yorkers can expect to be hearing a new kind of siren coming from New York’s Finest and their patrol cars. Invented by Joe Bader, a vice president of Federal Signal Corporation, a security firm, the Rumbler is a siren that can better penetrate hard surfaces such as car doors and windows and into people’s…
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