Because all news isn't depressing.
1. Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa (Wired)
"Search giant Google is intending to build huge wireless networks across
Africa and Asia, using high-altitude balloons and blimps. The
company is intending to finance, build and help operate networks from
sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, with the aim of connecting around a
billion people to the web."
2. Line Up Now for Your .NYC Domain Names (The Atlantic)
"New York City announced Tuesday afternoon that it has officially been
approved for its own top-level domain – the obvious suffix .nyc – making
it one of the first cities in the world to stake out space in the new
and expanding frontier of online real estate. By the end of this year,
and for an unspecified amount, local businesses and residents with a
"bona fide presence" in the city will be able to start registering for
new web addresses like divebar.nyc or walkingtours.nyc."
3. This Plan To End Government Spying Has Grown So Big It Might Actually Work (Business Insider)
"For the most part, it's hard to get too enthusiastic about various
Internet campaigns that try to right the wrongs of this world,
particularly the ones working on online privacy. But a new one
started two weeks ago is really worth watching. It's called, ironically
enough, Stop Watching Us. This one is special because:
It has
big, powerful players including Mozilla, the creators of the Firefox
browser, and Tim Berners-Lee, the guy that invented the World Wide Web...."
First Good News post here: Doctors protest high drug prices and Johnson City Community Cafe
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Good News: Doctors protest high drug prices and Johnson City Community Cafe
Because all news isn't depressing.
"Work to open the nonprofit One Acre Cafe is off and running. Since signing a five-year lease on the former Desert Rose Mexican restaurant building, at 603 W. Walnut St., in early April, the cafe’s board of directors have met twice and approved plans for the building’s renovation and interior design."
1. Doctors Denounce Cancer Drug Prices of $100,000 a Year (NY Times)
"Prices for cancer drugs have been part of the debate over health care costs for several years — and recently led to a public protest from doctors at a major cancer center in New York. But the decision by so many specialists, from more than 15 countries on five continents, to join the effort is a sign that doctors, who are on the front lines of caring for patients, are now taking a more active role in resisting high prices. In this case, some of the specialists even include researchers with close ties to the pharmaceutical industry."
"A UK-based pharmaceutical company has stopped selling a drug to Arkansas
because the US state planned to use it to execute prisoners on death
row... Phenobarbital is used to treat epileptic seizures. But lawyers for six
prisoners on death row in Arkansas say it is untested for use in
execution and risks leaving permanent injuries or causing a lingering
and inhumane death, said the BBC's Caroline Hawley."
3. One for my friends in TN. One Acre Cafe makes progress (Johnson City Press)
"Work to open the nonprofit One Acre Cafe is off and running. Since signing a five-year lease on the former Desert Rose Mexican restaurant building, at 603 W. Walnut St., in early April, the cafe’s board of directors have met twice and approved plans for the building’s renovation and interior design."
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