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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. Now, the team plans to expand the initiative to Paris and Lviv, Ukraine. Ukraine has a lot of people coming back from the war that need access.

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How the tech industry is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

TechCrunch

On February 24, Russia launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine after months of a military build-up on its borders. News outlets in Ukraine are also reporting outages caused by cyberattacks, which the Ukrainian government says it has “unambiguously linked” to Moscow. GET IN TOUCH.

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Ukraine internet outages spark concerns of broader blackout

The Verge

The Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) project at Georgia Tech reported partial outages starting just before midnight on February 23rd and continuing into the morning of February 24th. Outages are affecting the Triolan internet service provider, which services a number of cities and other areas across Ukraine, including Kharkiv.

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What happened when this entrepreneur put her startup on hold to help Ukraine, and told VCs to donate

TechCrunch

When Russia invaded her home country of Ukraine, U.K.-based based tech entrepreneur Irra Ariella Khi , co-founder of Zamna , set up a fundraising page to directly support people inside Ukraine. Khi’s father (aged 70) and godmother (aged 82) are both in Ukraine, as are her stepsister and her children. It’s now matched £2.25

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A top Wikipedia editor has been arrested in Belarus

The Verge

The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of Belarus (GUBOPiK) has detained prominent Wikipedia editor Mark Bernstein, according to the Belarusian publication Zerkalo. The arrest comes after Bernstein’s personal information was shared on GOBUPiK’s public Telegram channel. The channel has since been made private.

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Daily Crunch: Russia fines Google $374M for ‘illegal content’ over its Ukraine invasion

TechCrunch

Much of it was on YouTube and was related to the country’s invasion and subsequent war with Ukraine. Like a museum, but on the blockchain : Despite his usual misgivings for crypto tech, we spot Haje covering a rare blockchain story, about Arkive, and its building of the world’s first decentralized museum. Big Tech Inc.

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Russian disinformation campaign claims Stalker 2 is being used to locate Ukraine war conscripts

TechSpot

The campaign involves a video featuring what appears to be a watermark from tech publication Wired, writes 404media. The clip, which is spreading on Telegram and being emailed directly to journalists, claims that an embedded program was discovered in the code of Stalker 2 that collects player data and transmits. Read Entire Article