While most Pacific islands have escaped the worst of COVID-19, a cornerstone of their economies, tourism, has taken a big hit. By June 2020, visitor arrivals in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu had completely ceased, as borders were closed and even internal travel restricted. In Fiji, where tourism generated about 40% of GDP before the pandemic, the economy contracted by 19% in 2020. One economic alternative lies just offshore. The... Read more âș
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Astronomy is all about data. The universe is getting bigger and so too is the amount of information we have about it. But some of the biggest challenges of the next generation of astronomy lie in just how weâre going to study all the data weâre collecting. To take on these challenges, astronomers are turning to machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to build new tools to rapidly search for... Read more âș
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The announcement of Windows 11 was one of Microsoftâs biggest surprises in years. Not because itâs unusual for a company to update its OS, but because this specific company promised Windows 10 would be the âlast version of Windows.â The idea was to deliver âWindows as a service,â after all. Instead of major, paid OS updates every few years, we got a variety of free, bite-sized updates every few months.... Read more âș
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This is adapted from Big Spam, TNWâs twice-weekly newsletter. Subscribe to it (and our other great newsletters) here. When I found out Amazon was opening a hair salon near my home in east London, I immediately suspected some nefarious intent. Was Jeff Bezos reselling the chopped locks as wigs on Amazon? Or distilling Remy human hair into some form of demonic life extension therapy? I decided to investigate. Credit: Thomas... Read more âș
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TLDR: The Deeper Connect Nano serves as your own private VPN device, securing web traffic across your entire network safely under your surveillance at a one-time-only charge. Over 31 percent of all internet users worldwide use a VPN for either professional or personal reasons. But how many of those millions of users actually know and trust their VPN provider? Do you know your VPNâs country of origin? Do you know... Read more âș
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Ahead of the upcoming launch of the first escooter from Ola Electric, the companyâs Chairman and CEO, Bhavish Aggarwal, posted a video on Twitter today. And now we have the first actual glimpse of the two-wheeler. The video shows Aggarwal taking the escooter for a ride on the streets of Bengaluru, India, where the startup is based. Took this beauty for a spin! Goes 0-60 faster than you can read... Read more âș
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The US military has released previously classified photos and films related to unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings, which mostly show something blurry moving strangely. Still, I hear that a friend of a friend has gone from thinking thereâs a 1% chance that UFOs are aliens to now believing it is 50%. Is he rational? People are constantly seeing things in the sky they donât understand. The vast majority are aeroplanes,... Read more âș
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Python 3.10 development has stabilized and we can finally test out all of the new features that will be included in the final release. Weâll cover some of the most interesting additions to Python â structural pattern matching, parenthesized context managers, more typing, and the new and improved error messages. Check out the video version of the article here: Structural pattern matching Structural pattern matching is an incredible feature to... Read more âș
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Sending a Slack message to a colleague in a different time zone is tricky business. You donât want to disturb them during their late hours, but you wouldnât want them to miss your message amongst others. Thankfully, the work messaging platform has been rolling... Read more âș
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This article was originally published by Christopher Carrey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates, follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. The UK city of Leicester is installing 30 âlivingâ bus shelter roofs as part of a new programme to revamp its infrastructure... Read more âș
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If intelligent aliens visit the Earth, it would be one of the most profound events in human history. Surveys show that nearly half of Americans believe that aliens have visited the Earth, either in the ancient past or recently. That percentage has been increasing. Belief in alien visitation is greater than belief that Bigfoot is a real creature, but less than belief that places can be haunted by spirits. Scientists... Read more âș
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The ultimate goal of the internet, or rather Twitter, is to shitpost your way into the sunset. And if youâre hesitant to do it on your main profile currently, Twitter is exploring new ways you do that without thinking about damage to your public image. A designer from the Twitter team showed some concepts that depict different profiles â called âFacetsâ â for different kinds of tweeting. The first idea... Read more âș
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On June 25, 2021, the Pentagon released a much-anticipated report on UFOs to Congress. The military has rebranded unidentified flying objects as unidentified aerial phenomena âUAPs â in part to avoid the stigma that has been attached to claims of aliens visiting the Earth since the Roswell incident in 1947. The report presents no convincing evidence that alien spacecraft have been spotted, but some of the data defy easy interpretation.... Read more âș
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Space company Virgin Galacticâs founder Richard Branson is set to become the first billionaire to escape the earth and reach space. Heâs set for a test flight on July 11 â nine days before retiring Amazon chief Jeff Bezos does the same. Branson will take flight in VSS Unity along with a crew of six, consisting of pilots and space mission specialists. This is the companyâs fourth test flight, but... Read more âș
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Japanese car giant Nissan has invested $1.4 billion in an EV hub in the UK, to supercharge its European electric future and give a massive boost to the British automotive industry. The company announced today its plan to build a huge battery plant in Sunderland that is said to produce 10,000 vehicles per year, including a new-generation electric crossover. Who and how Nissan has partnered up with the Chinese battery... Read more âș
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TikTok will soon give users the option to create longer videos. The company is extending the maximum length of clips from 60 seconds to three minutes. Up front: TikTok has been testing the expanded format since late last year. Over the coming weeks, the company will start rolling out the option around the world. Product manager Drew Kirchhoff said the change would pave the way for richer storytelling and entertainment... Read more âș
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Boris is the wise olâ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech â from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! I was talking to a woman the other day about how much she liked the company she worked for. Itâs fun and modern in most ways, but... Read more âș
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TLDR: This ProWritingAid Bundle comes with the AI-powered ProWritingAid app plus access to courses, coaching, and other material from the ProWritingAid Academy, all for $199.99. Writing is usually a pretty solitary business. Sure, the end result is hopefully spread far and wide, read and considered, and the catalyst for all kinds of talk and thoughtful examination. But the process of sitting down, opening a digital document or uncapping a pen,... Read more âș
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TLDR: The 2021 All-in-One Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Bundle offers the training in becoming an ethical hacker, defending vulnerable computer systems from cyberattack. North Korean hackers infiltrated computer systems for a South Korean nuclear research institute, the latest in a string of attacks against South Korean targets. Closer to home, a new report says hackers have methods for gaining access to Peloton exercise bike cameras and mics. And in-development... Read more âș
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee has sold an NFT of the original source code for the world wide web for an eye-watering $5.4 million, but the winning bidder could be in for an unpleasant surprise: a security researcher has spotted errors in the code. Up front: The NFT market exploded in 2021, bagging artists and celebrities whopping sums for digital tokens that authenticate ownership of collectibles. Berners-Lee hopped on the bandwagon amid... Read more âș
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