Hurricane Irma; Florida Keys Web Cams; Beach Cams; Live Feed

St. Petersburg and skyline

Key Largo Marina ; Refresh browser at site for updated images, or, Live streaming and webcam controls (under image).

Key West Web Cam Live; again, refresh browser at site for image updates, or, Live streaming and webcam controls (under image).

Key Deer cam. Webcam controls available.

Sugarloaf Key. Site auto-refreshes.

Keys Sunset Cam.

Key West Seaport - Live Cam

Galleon Marina, Key West. Auto-refresh. Scroll down in the "window within the window".

Ft. Lauderdale Beach Cam

Hunting Beach Pier. - at 9:26PM MST people are still walking around the pier. <<<--------------------------------------

More Live Cams:

Panama City Beach Cam; lit 

Irma, Live/Real Time images 

Multiple Key West Traffic Cams (live).  See note above image; click to refresh all.

Fort Myers Airport Cam

Cape Coral Webcam

Miami Cam; and others

Breaking...Mayor George Neugent, Monroe County, "Get out of The Keys Now!"

"Nowhere in the Florida Keys will be safe." 

Story at: CBS News: 8:49PM MST - 2 minutes ago.

Cool News

A few minutes ago at Cool News, Mayor George Neugent stated get out of the Keys now. Gave final "get out" time as 7-8AM Saturday morning.

Other discussions: the bridges to/from the Keys could be flooded by 6-10 feet of water. Possibly Keys accessible by boat only. 

Talk of winds up to 200 miles an hour.

Tech News

Long Island Tech News: Red Bull heir still evading police arrest. Appears to be living life just fine.
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From "The Department of Why?" - ArsTechnia: Logitech releases the first trackball mouse in almost ten years.
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C|Net: Mazda's next gen high tech, 2020 and beyond.

...the Skyactiv-X technology works by making a gasoline engine operate something like a diesel engine under certain conditions. At low engine speeds, traditional gas combustion is used, igniting the air-fuel mixture with spark plugs in the combustion chamber. As the revs climb, Skyactiv-X switches off the plugs and relies solely on the high pressure in the combustion chamber to ignite the gasoline without the need for a spark.

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Tech Crunch: Facebook sold political ads to a Russian company in 2016.
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Tech News World: Vivaldi CEO alleges Google retaliated for privacy criticism.

Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner, the brains behind both the new Vivaldi browser and the early Opera browser, on Monday accused Google of retaliating against his company after he questioned its customer privacy practices.

Vivaldi's Google Adwords campaigns mysteriously were suspended just two days after von Tetzchner's criticisms of Google's handling of customer data appeared in a Wired article this spring, he said.
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[It] That was the second time that Google suspended Vivaldi's AdWords campaign in 12 months[.]

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Gizmodo: The "inventor" of Email had his lawsuit tossed out of court.

...Shiva Ayyadurai, the self-identified “inventor of email,” was tossed out by a Massachusetts judge today, concluding a baseless suit filed against Techdirt back in January. According to the site, the judge also “rejected Ayyadurai’s request to file an amended complaint.” 

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Tech nostalgia. BetaNews: It was eleven years ago today that TDK developed Blu-Ray. 
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Whoa! BGR: Epson unveils a 130-inch screen-free TV. Price: $ 3 Grand.
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Webopedia: Do you know the five generations of computers? Six if you include the abacus.  😎
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What is this, you ask?

Image credit: Dinara Kasko

It's a cake. New Atlas: A 3-D cake at that.

[Dinara] Kasko initially created a series of different 3D-printed geometric molds comprised of six different models based on simple geometrical figures. The result was a set of several small, concrete-like objects, that when cut open revealed a complex and delicious cake.

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MIT Tech Review: Shoplifting; in the autonomous, self-check out age.
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You know IPO stands for Initial Public Offering. MIT Tech Review: What is an ICO? Initial Coin Offering.

...an ICO does indeed work similarly to an initial public offering. Instead of offering shares in a company, though, a firm is instead offering digital assets called “tokens.”

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Live Science: A virtual tour inside of a volcano.
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Science News: Machines are learning "fairness."

Machine-learning programs can introduce biases that may harm job seekers, loan applicants and more[.]
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... the inner workings of an algorithm could make the difference between someone getting parole, an executive position, a mortgage or even a scholarship. So computer and data scientists are coming up with creative ways to work around the black box status of machine-learning algorithms.

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Science Magazine: Why people are willing to die fighting for a cause.

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Image: straightfromthea.com

ZD Net: Here come the flying taxis. (The story itself is a 46 second video. The bad news...you have to sit through a 30 second ad before the story starts).

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Extreme Tech: Hurricane Irma is LARGER than the state of Ohio.

World News Links - September 6, 2017

(If links don't load on first click, try again. All sites seem to be slow in loading. Maybe heavy traffic due to hurricane.)

Metro: Trump's Florida mansion in path of hurricane Irma.

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Washington Times: Trump wants unified front with UK and Australia for North Korea

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The Telegraph: Trapped in eye of Irma, man tweets images of damage.

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Daily Mail: Will Disney World close doors because of Irma?

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Metro: Elon Musk says Artificial Intelligence will trigger World War III

"China, Russia, soon all countries w strong computer science. Competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3 imo."
 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 4, 2017

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Gold News: America's date with doom?

Congress has until Sept. 29 to raise the debt ceiling.

Should it fail, the dreaded "X date" follows shortly thereafter.

The"X date" – when the national collection box starts running dry – and the United States Treasury can no longer meet all its expenses.

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Gold News: Is crypto-currency purely speculative? 
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China Dialogue: The race for nuclear fusion

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Daily Mail: Economics professor commits suicide

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The Scotsman: Social media uproar over jogger shoving schoolboy out of his way

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9 News: Car and cyclist road rage caught on camera

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BBC: Serial abuser rapes victim more than 900 times

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Business Insider: Mercedes to compete with Uber
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Metro: Story and pics of a man who got the bends

He rose too quickly causing the nitrogen that had dissolved in his blood to form bubbles. That nitrogen swelled into large sacks inside his body, causing great pain and swelling.

The effect is known as decompression sickness or ‘the bends’ and is one of the dangers most feared by divers.

Image: CEN

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IBT: Is the Zika virus a cure for brain cancer?
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Smithsonian: An inside look at Pyongang

...what does one see on a visit to North Korea?

That’s what British photographer Tariq Zaidi was eager to uncover.

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Sydney Morning Herald: Possible major breakthrough in quantum computing

World News Links - September 4, 2017

The Telegraph: How other countries reported on Kimmy's nuclear missile test.

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Live Mint: China to Trump: "Stop threatening North Korea on trade."

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The Guardian: Annihilation of North Korea brings more problems than it solves.

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Bloomberg: North Korea's oil lifeline in the bulls-eye for destruction. 

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The Outline: Blame Imperialist America and Trump...for Everything.

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Raw Story: 'Morning Joe' - Supporters of Trump fed up with his antics.

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The Guardian: Another stabbing in London.

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YLE: Human chain prevents deportation of Afghan family.

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Times of Israel: French consulate receives envelope with mystery substance.

Several people near the consulate complained of a burning sensation in their eyes, according to reports.

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Daily Mail: A camera that sees through the body.
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YouGov: Majority of French approve of UK exiting the EU.
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BBC: Car crashes into Long Island laundromat.
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BBC: Do you call a plumber or animal control?  Finding a python...in your toilet.

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The Independent: Italy's cocaine king arrested after 23 years on the lam.

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The Independent: The predicted path...so far...of Hurricane Irma.

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Business Insider: A sauna made from snow.

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Energy Voice: Exxon Texas refineries restarting.

Let's Hope They're Wrong About Irma

NOAA home page is Here.

And from the NOAA regarding Hurricane Irma:

...HURRICANE IRMA RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING OVER THE EASTERN ATLANTIC... 

The Jeff Bozos Peoples' Republic (WaPoo):

Hurricane Irma is expected to become a formidable cyclone[.]
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Irma is forecast to intensify significantly[.]

From WMGT 41 - NBC Macon, GA:

“Irma is forecast to become a major hurricane by tonight [Aug 31] and is expected to be an extremely dangerous hurricane for the next several days,” [warned the (National) Hurricane Center].
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“The good news is we have lots of time to watch this develop,” said [Dennis] Feltgen [of the NHC].

NOAA