Cuba is now open for business — this morning, John Kerry is in Havana to officially inaugurate reopened diplomacy between the nations by re-christening the U.S. embassy there. There’s still plenty of debate about the pros and cons of the move: Kerry isn’t going to meet with dissidents, which has…
Last year, we answered a pressing social media question in South Florida: Namely, who was behind the 50 most followed Miami Twitter accounts. The result was a surprising list full of celebrities, athletes, politicians, media outlets, a few social media superstars, and even a good showing of people over 40. When…
For decades of Cold War deep freeze, communications between Miami’s exilios and their relatives back in Cuba were beyond primitive. Family updates came only from newly arrived relatives who survived the raft trip to America. Back in Havana, radio signals that bounced past censors or the odd smuggled foreign newspaper…
Upstairs in a beige church on McKinley Street in Hollywood, a 60-year-old with a full head of dark hair launches into a PowerPoint presentation full of big ideas and a bigger vocabulary. First, Bill Faloon gives a shoutout to Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine. “We need to put…
Dane Christensen, a 25-year-old documentary filmmaker, is accustomed to onlookers being unfamiliar with his drone. He has traveled with it across North America from Hawaii to Mexico to film weddings, documentaries, short films and more, and most don’t know what to make of the flying robot. But until last month,…
Miami Beach is losing its free public wi-fi system. But the bigger news to many Beach residents is likely that the city actually had a free public wi-fi system to begin with — it does. It’s just terrible. The Miami Beach city commission voted in fall of 2013 to…
It’s been 10 months since Uber launched in Miami, but its still unclear exactly how popular service is in town and how much its really cut into the business of traditional taxis. Today, Certify, a company that specializes in business travel and expense management software, released data that gives us…
File this under things we all sort of knew, but now have academic research to back it up. A recently published study by a research at the University of Miami has confirmed that staying friends with your ex-partner on Facebook can make a breakup that much harder, especially for those…
Pitbull’s “Shake Señora” begins playing. A boxy white robot that looks straight out of some ’60s sci-fi movie starts moving multiple joints to the rhythm. Its single camera-eyed head nods to the beat. “Oh, I love dancing to Pitbull,” it explains. “This is awesome.” This all happens at the 5:42…
Those of you with Apple iPhones running iOS 8 were probably notified today there’s an update to the operating system. Most of the updates are relatively minor, but there’s one big one that may very well be a result of a class-action lawsuit brought upon the tech giant by two…
Apple’s iPhone has come in standard memory sizes for a while now, starting at 16 GB of storage. The problem, according to two Miami residents at least, is that the operating system itself keeps getting bigger and bigger, thus taking up more space and leaving customers with less room to…
Miamians will soon be able to get super high-speed Internet. AT&T announced today that it’s bringing its ultra-fast “GigaPower” network to the City of Miami. The broadband Internet service features speeds of up to one gigabit per second, which is the same speed as Google Fiber. To put that in…
Miami’s burgeoning tech scene is about to get a big addition. Microsoft has announced that it will open its first American “innovation center” downtown this June. The center will operate out of Miami’s Venture Hive, with the goal of not only aiding and adding some sizzle to Miami tech scene…
Let’s have a moment of silence for all our dearly departed smart phones. Because, apparently, in Florida there were a lot that left us this year. According to Squaretrade’s annual “Clumsiest States Index,” Florida led the states in damaging and destroying iPhones this year. (Well, technically Washington, D.C., came in…
Have you ever wanted to take a trip down one of Florida’s beaches without leaving your computer? Well, that’s kind of sad, but starting next year you’ll be able to. Visit Florida, the state’s tourism and marketing arm, has teamed with Google to use their street mapping technology to capture…
Next time you’re sprawled out on a towel on South Bech or lying in a hammock under a palm tree on Key Biscayne, don’t be alarmed if a man comes stumbling by wearing a backpack with more than 15 cameras sticking out in every direction. He’s probably not a Girls…
You know, we here at New Times are always looking for ways to spit, polish, and shine up our sites to provide you with a better news-seeking experience. We know, that makes us really awesome, but beyond that, it makes you awesome for keeping up with us. Where can you…
With voter registration for the November presidential election closing on October 9, if you haven’t done so already, you may not make the deadline — unless you have a smartphone and happen to be standing next to one of ten Rock the Vote bus bench posters scattered between Morningside and…
Living in Miami actually makes it much easier to quickly judge whether reports of Fidel Castro’s demise are true. Just open your window: Are horns honking? Are fireworks exploding? Is anyone running down your street yelling El hijo de puta está muerto?!If not, then Fidel is probably not dead. Such…
What if your smartphone has secretly tracked everything you’ve done for the past two years: every Google search, every website, every key stroke — not to mention everywhere you’ve traveled? Sounds like a paranoid fantasy from Enemy of the State, but that’s exactly what a secret bit of phone software…
Do you camp out by the newsstand every year waiting for our Best of Miami issue? Ever wish while you were on the road — whether driving through Kendall thirsting for a great bar or spending a work week in K.C., Sacramento, or D.C. — that some of that New…
Is there a market for a Hispanic focused news, opinion and aggregation website? A veteran journalist for the EFE News Agency, the leading Spanish language news service in the world, seems to think so. Emilio Sanchez, EFE’s former bureau chief in Washington D.C. and Miami, is now at the helm…
