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In About-Face, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Criticizes Chinese Regime for Internet ... - 0 views

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    "Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg-who in the past openly pandered to Chinese officials, likely in an effort to ensure the social media giant's entry into the Chinese market-recently made a speech at Georgetown University in which he criticized the Chinese regime for its internet censorship, striking a remarkably different tone. "
blakefrere

SpaceX Starlink Targets 200K Terminals in India, Eyes Asia Growth - 0 views

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    Starlink has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in India called Starlink Satellite Communications Private, with a a "stretch goal" to deploy 200,000 Starlink user terminals in more than 160,000 rural districts in India by December 2022. Starlink is also in talks with two telecommunications companies in the Philippines, where it also wants to launch its satellite service. This project would result in Internet availability to more people - Starlink wants to introduce its internet to schools in and near to the capital city of New Delhi.
cferiante

Beijing Unleashes Sweeping Bid to Remold Society - 0 views

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    "China's tech behemoths are handing months of profits to the regime in Beijing to demonstrate loyalty to the Communist Party. Popular actors have been erased from internet history with their devoted online fan groups disbanded. Young gamers now are allowed no more than three hours of playtime per week."
jamesm9860

A novel approach for assessing the ports' environmental impacts in real time - The IoT ... - 2 views

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    The article discusses emissions at ports around the world and focuses on a measurement of a port's affects on the environment through a measurement called Port Environmental Index (PEI). The PEI consists of standards that will allow the tracking of emissions and effects on the environment for the port over time. The internet of things (IOT) will allow real time monitoring. (alterenate link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X20308888)
lizardelam

How Working From Home Could Change Where Innovation Happens - WSJ - 0 views

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    The paradoxical result of widespread remote work is that it represents both a centralization and a decentralization of where new technologies are built. That is, even as workers disperse geographically, more of them are doing their work in a single place: the internet. This change is already helping Silicon Valley giants break through logjams like regional housing crises in order to poach talent wherever it lives. The world has never managed hybrid work before. We're going to see a huge issue with culture and connection. How can you be connected and motivated. New slick tools aren't enough. Humans need and require human engagement.
ingridfurtado

Roundtable on the Future of Corrosion Control: Part 1 - 2 views

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    New materials can be seen as a disruption but,at the same time, innovation to the corrosion control industry workforce.Legislation,Legislation, Internet of Things and Microbiologically influenced corrosion are a few of the main changes perceived by experts that may might affect the corrosion industry and its workforce.
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