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Lynk demos global satellite connection for ordinary phones and prepares for commercial launch

TechCrunch

The company just demonstrated a two-way data link this week and announced its first network partners in Africa and the Bahamas — if everything goes well it may not be long before you can get a signal anywhere in the world. Not a lot of data, of course — but more than enough for an SMS, a GPS location, a weather report, or the like.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

In our eighth annual research report, Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2021: Data to Drive Decisions , developed in partnership with Candid , we dive into how philanthropy and other donors supported natural hazards, severe weather events and complex humanitarian emergencies in 2019. . 18 at 2 p.m.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

According to the World Resources Institute , As occasional reports arise of locally acquired malaria in Europe and the U.S., Flooding from extreme storms like hurricanes will also become more frequent. there is increasing concern that malaria could creep into places that havent seen it in living memory.

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Go read this Daily Beast story about Sergey Brin’s secret disaster relief team

The Verge

The story opens detailing how GSD provided disaster relief in the form of medical care and road-clearing crews after Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas last year. The Daily Beast ’s Mark Harris has a wild story about Global Support and Development (GSD), a disaster charity founded by Sergey Brin that’s being run by his former bodyguards.