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Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch Thousands of Satellites in Internet Space Race

The request to FCC would bring their total sats to 7,774. SpaceX has already launched 1,700 Starlink sats. The move would see a total of 65,000 stats. 06 November 2021 | Staff | MyBroadband Amazon.com Inc.’s Kuiper Systems LLC asked U.S. regulators for permission to launch another 4,538 satellites that would bolster its constellation as…

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Actress Zhao Wei removed from Chinese ‘internet’

It is bizarrely easy for authorities to ‘remove’ material from the Chinese ‘internet.’ Offending material can disappear within seconds of being posted. Or, as in this case, retroactively. 30 August 2021 | EAMON BARRETT | Fortune Late on Thursday evening, China’s video streaming giants scrubbed their archives of anything to do with Zhao Wei—a billionaire…

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One (or more) of 426 Submarine Cables enabled you to read this post

Photo: Screenshot HMN Technologies Submarine Cables As of early 2021, there are approximately 426 submarine cables in service around the world. These cables provide the internet connections that reach around the world. 16 August 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media I will admit, when I first read the article below indicating that Facebook and…

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So you wanna be an Influencer?

Photo: Shutterstock/GaudiLab It looks so easy, this working hard at hardly working influencer thing. But failure to follow the rules could mean the difference between millions of dollars and no genuine influence at all. 02 August 2021 | Rebecca Mardon, Hayley Cocker and Kate Daunt | The Conversation Using social media celebrities to advertise products…

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Watch: Euronews ‘Witness’ (new series)

16 July 2021 | Euronews Euronews is pleased to announce the launch of Euronews WITNESS, a series that takes you inside the most burning crises and conflicts unfolding across Europe and around the world. Our correspondents will be on the ground meeting those who trigger the crises and those who suffer the consequences. Euronews Witness is…

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Hope Not Hate Report: Over 2,000 abusive posts directed towards England during games

Photo: Harry Kane (centre) and Raheem Sterling (front) have been two of the main targets for abuse. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters 27 June 2021 | Caelainn Barr, Paul MacInnes, Niamh McIntyre and Pamela Duncan | The Guardian England’s footballers have been subjected to sustained abuse online during their matches at Euro 2020, an exclusive analysis by the Guardian can reveal. A study…

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Inside The Shady World Of Influencers Promoting Cryptocurrency

28 June 2021 | MATT BINDER | Mashable India Everyone knows Kim Kardashian, the influencer and reality TV show star, but do you know Kim Kardashian, the cryptocurrency advocate? Earlier this month, the billionaire mega star posted something a bit out of the ordinary to her Instagram Stories. Kardashian was promoting a new alternative cryptocurrency,…

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No to soda pop, but $1m per Instagram post is okay?

Photo: Cristiano Ronaldo (pictured) removed the Coca-Cola bottles from the press conference in front of him, before he claimed: ‘Drink water’. (Images: Twitter) Surely the act of replacing a bottle of Coke with a bottle of Coke Water is not activism. It is a brand-based ‘influencer’ system run amok. Coca-Cola scored more ‘free’ press from…

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Could a coffee mug of DNA one-day store all of the world’s data?

Most of the data we produce are stored in exabyte data centers. Could storing this data as DNA be an answer for the future? 10 June 2021 | Staff | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY via Eurekalert CAMBRIDGE, MA — On Earth right now, there are about 10 trillion gigabytes of digital data, and every day,…

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China’s ‘splinternet’ will create a state-controlled alternative cyberspace

Photo: One of the world’s first exhibitions of blockchain art – Virtual Niche: Have You Ever Seen Memes in the Mirror? – was held in Beijing in March. Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Beijing is using blockchain to build a new internet and many developing countries are likely to sign up 03 June 2021 | Flavia Kenyon | The…

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