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• Taiwan taps European satellite firms to protect wartime communications

  08-08-2023 18:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  As fears of war with China escalate, Taiwan is seeking European support for its communications systems. The island nation recently tapped services from two satellite firms on the continent: the UK’s OneWeb and Luxembourg’s SES. To avoid disruption during a potential conflict, SES will implement a medium-earth orbit (MEO) satellite network, Taipei’s digital ministry announced last week. SES confirmed the project to TNW on Monday. The company said it aimed to give Taiwan “
  
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• The career crossroads: 6 signs you’ve outgrown your job

  08-08-2023 16:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  We all know that feeling of nervous excitement on the first day of a new job. There’s so much potential ahead of you: to grow, to learn, to be part of a workplace, to make new friends.  But not every job is supposed to last forever, and some have a shorter timespan than others. In recent years, we saw what was called the “great resignation”, but sometimes you just get the sense that you’ve done all you can in a role, and it’s time to move on. So how can you te
  
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• ESA satellites capture the extent of Europe’s wildfires

  08-08-2023 16:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  In recent weeks devastating wildfires have swept across Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, causing several fatalities, the displacement of thousands of people, and widespread damage to infrastructure.   More than 260,000 hectares of land across the EU has already burnt since January — an area the size of Luxembourg. Many fires are still raging across swathes of southern Europe and beyond. In response to the increasing threat of wildfires, the European Space Agency has released
  
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• Norway fines Meta 1 MILLION crowns per day over data harvesting for behavioural ads

  08-08-2023 14:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta’s litany of European privacy sanctions in 2023 just got a little longer. After a €390mn fine for illegal personalised ads, another €5.5mn hit for similar violations in WhatsApp, and a GDPR record €1.2bn for unsafe data transfers, this week yet another punishment arrived — and the sentence did not disappoint. Norwegian regulators have demanded a gloriously round figure that would make Dr Evil proud: 1 MILLION crowns (€89,000) per day. The penalties are d
  
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• 6 Best LinkedIn Alternatives for Creative Freelancers & Agencies

  08-08-2023 14:30 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  Before there was Facebook, X, Snapchat, or TikTok, there was LinkedIn. Launched in May 2003, two decades on it has over 900 million users in over 200 countries, the lion’s share of the online recruitment market, and is recognized as the go-to professional social network. With its extensive user base spanning diverse industries, LinkedIn offers a wealth of opportunities to grow your professional network and explore new business ventures.
  
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• Germany’s Marvel Fusion to build $150M laser facility in US

  08-08-2023 11:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Scientists are edging closer to a fusion energy system that doesn’t rely on magnetic field-based tokamak reactors or twisty stellarators. German startup Marvel Fusion has teamed up with Colorado State University to build the world’s first facility dedicated to commercialising inertial confinement — a type of fusion reaction produced by slamming atoms together many times per second using high-intensity lasers. Interest in this type of fusion has increased since scientists at th
  
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• YouTube Announces 1080p Premium for Desktop

  08-08-2023 03:00 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  The new Premium resolution promises better quality videos and reduced compression.
  
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