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Sri Lanka’s cannabis-seekers are gathering on Facebook

The Verge

Facebook groups have become a gray market for the country’s weed dealers One weekend about a year ago in Balangoda, a misty mountain town outside Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, Sanjana was supposed to meet a dealer she found on Thriloka Wijaya Pathra , a Facebook group for cannabis users in Sri Lanka. Sanjana didn’t hear back.

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Pillow wants to make crypto saving and investing easy for new users

TechCrunch

We saw a pattern of problems repeating,” the two told TechCrunch. Around this time, the two met Mishra, who was head of business for Indian delivery startup Dunzo, and started talking about how to solve the onboarding problem at scale. You would need a strong technical background to transact seamlessly in crypto,” they said.

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A SpaceX rocket slamming into the Moon is a reminder to clean up our deep space junk

The Verge

The vehicle lofted a particularly valuable satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration called DSCOVR, which monitors solar winds coming from the Sun to better predict space weather. I sort of repurposed it when junk of this sort started to become a problem,” Gray says.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

This is politics – we need the good and the bad; the cyber army, the 10,000 bloggers claimed to be trained by the national guard, etc. Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out. Which causes a lot of Iranian politics to take place outside of the country. It can be broad but shallow.

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The tier list: how Facebook decides which countries need protection

The Verge

They created dashboards to analyze network activity and alerted local election officials to any problems. Miranda Sissons, Facebook’s director of human rights policy, told me that allocating resources in this way reflects the best practices suggested by the United Nations in its Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

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Trump’s new tariffs: How key U.S. trading partners are reacting

Fast Company Tech

The agreement, first tranche of which is expected to be in place by the fall, would focus on enabling both nations to boost trade, investments and technology transfers in addition to deepening supply chain integrations, it said. ” He added that Vietnam was still overcoming the consequences of the long war between the two nations.

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