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Alphabet spins off laser-based Internet backbone provider Taara

Ars Technica

Alphabet is spinning out laser-based Internet company Taara from its moonshot incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up that provides high-bandwidth services to hard-to-reach areas in competition with Elon Musks Starlink network of satellites.

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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) Use a premium hosting service for your website. Customer service can be unreliable and slow to respond. If your website has been taken offline or your data compromised in a cyberattack, you are going to need fast-responding, knowledgeable customer service. and requires no maintenance.

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‘Space junk’ is clogging the atmosphere—and it’s going to make weather forecasts and internet access much worse

Fast Company Tech

If this trend continues, it could have ripple effects for everything from weather tracking and broadband internet access to national defense. Just this past year, Parker notes, Space Xs satellite service Starlink which operates around 60% of all active satelliteshad to perform 100,000 collision avoidance maneuvers to prevent space collisions.

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20 Crowdfunding Services for Nonprofits Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits in North America, Europe, and Australia have a multitude of online fundraising services to choose from mostly thanks to their government’s efforts to build digital records and databases of legally verified nonprofits.

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“MyTerms” wants to become the new way we dictate our privacy on the web

Ars Technica

Author, journalist, and long-time Internet freedom advocate Doc Searls wants us to stop asking for privacy from websites, services, and AI and start telling these things what we will and will not accept. The websites, apps, or services you visit are the second party. Read full article Comments

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Protecting the Future of the Internet

Fast Company Tech

With a quarter of the global internet powered by Cloudflareits network provides service to over 300 cities across more than 100 countriesthe company is at the helm of delivering content and connecting millions.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starlink internet service leaving beta in October

The Verge

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s Starlink satellite internet network would come out of its open beta phase next month. That’s two months later than the August date Musk gave at Mobile World Congress , when he also said he expected the service to have “possibly over 500,000 users within 12 months.”.

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