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Cyberattack has kept an entire nation's government offline for over a month

TechSpot

Since early November, the government of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu has been offline due to a cyberattack. Details on the nature of the attack are still unclear, and only around 70 percent of government services have been restored after a month.

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Wingcopter raises $22 million to expand to the U.S. and launch a next-generation drone

TechCrunch

Wingcopter CEO and founder Tom Plümmer explained to the in an interview that the addition of an SV-based investor is particularly important to the startup, since it’s in the process of preparing its entry into the U.S., based drone production.

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Colombia is the 2nd Happiest Place for the Planet

Have Fun - Do Good

According to Ode Magazine , The Happy Planet Index , a project of the New Economics Foundation , ranks Colombia as the 2nd happiest place for the planet. The HPI is calculated by adding the country's life expectancy with its life satisfaction divided by its ecological footprint. The top ranked countries were: 1. Colombia 3. Costa Rica 4. Dominica 5.

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

The Verge

The organization got its start in 2015 after Cyclone Pam pounded Vanuatu. Making landfall at remote islands north of Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila, the Dragonfly’s team reportedly moved 62 metric tons of fresh water ashore, treated over 250 patients, facilitated three medical evacuations , and built shelters in multiple villages.

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Plastic straws symbolize a global pollution crisis but Trump wants them to stay

Fast Company Tech

In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtles nose sparked outrage worldwide and countries and cities started banning them, starting with the Pacific Island nation Vanuatu and Seattle in 2018.

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