DigitalOcean, provider of Cloud Services, raises $50M to achieve a $1.15B Valuation, making it into the ranks of unicorns, reports Crunchbase.
Author: Andreas
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Bring us to your leaders
Bring me to your leaders Es sind die merkwürdigsten Gestalten, die einem zu Zeiten der Pandemie immer noch (oder schon wieder) vom Wegesrand anstarren.
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.org will not be sold
The EFF reports, the sale of .org to a private equity company will not happen. That’s great news to the internet.
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Was ist das?
Was ist das? Vollkommen unklar, was in der Provinz für merkwürdige Gerätschaften in der Gegend rumstehen.
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Smalltown Skyline – 13.05.2020
Smalltown Skyline Nicht gerade in Frankfurt am Main, aber manchmal ist es einfach die Perspektive. In Zeiten den Lockdown nimmt man ja, was man kriegen kann…
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Papercraft
For those bored in isolation, you can now build your own vintage computer. From paper. Following the instructions from Rocky Bergen, an artist and designer. Should work well with kids, too!
C64 Papercraft, by Rocky Bergen Link: Papercraft.
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Contact tracing.
“Health Officials Say ‘No Thanks’ to Contact-Tracing Tech“, titles Wired. In all these recent debates about how to handle Covid-19 going forward, in particular in Germany, it may be worthwhile looking beyond borders.
Later last month, Engadget reported, that Israel stops phone tracing to enforce Corona quaranties. While Israel seemed to look at phone location information, the Wired article suggests multiple US states and cities evaluated the benefit of other contact tracing technology. The result seems to disappoint:
States like New York, California, and Massachusetts, and cities like Baltimore and San Francisco, have looked carefully at cutting-edge contact-tracing solutions and largely said, “No thanks,” or “Not now.”
via wired.Foreign perspective is an interesting one, too. Foreign Policy titles “Germany’s Angst Is Killing Its Coronavirus Tracing App“. Which, after all, may be the exact outcome.
