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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

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Take Africa in particular: The continent is less a component of the cable network than an extension of it. Even as Google and Meta set their sights on building entirely new lines that will drastically boost the continent’s capacity, those lines hug well-trodden, predictable routes. Meta’s plans are even more ambitious.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water. Her system uses an image-processing algorithm with a real-time deep neural network that filters through images and video of the water to detect rip currents. The invention earned her $400. According to the. Her method has the ability to evolve with new data.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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For more than a decade, European courts have documented and declared illegal routine European state border agency actions that include navy vessels pushing migrant boats back into international waters and abandoning them there. funds a bevy of projects that aim to stop people from reaching international or European waters.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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The award is sponsored by Google. People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. Her team’s research program included projects in Australia and Africa. space program; she initially aimed for a career in the aerospace industry.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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The US and China take the lead in scaling up the technology, given their large markets, tech-friendly regulatory environments and industry giants, such as Google and the State Grid Corporation of China. Some don’t manage, and political tensions rise in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Dirty nationalism. ?Elections

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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During a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October 2019, Representative Maxine Waters D-Calif.) Waters said, “That’s not a commitment.” Google also has a huge base of both consumer and business users. The Final Pillar Elias Stein Pillar 4 is financial inclusion. Apple is another obvious example.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

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Eleven euros for a bottle of water? I could almost taste Africa in the air, tajines everywhere you looked. A bus took me to Tarifa, and after a quick check-in, I was on the ferry crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, and just 36 hours after leaving Amsterdam, I was in Africa, a whole new world waiting to be discovered.