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Project Loon authorized to deploy balloons in Puerto Rico to provide emergency service

Last week, the Project Loon team revealed that it was exploring the possibility of deploying balloons to provide “emergency connectivity” to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

Earlier today, Alphabet’s X division was granted permission by the FCC to provide emergency LTE coverage to the island.

Freelance journalist Mark Harris spotted that Project Loon was granted permission earlier today by the FCC to provide the coverage to Puerto Rico.

At the time, they noted that deploying to Puerto Rico would be harder than their previous emergency deployment to Peru as they did not have existing infrastructure in place.

In the latter country, Project Loon was already testing with a local carrier before the nation encountered heavy flooding.

Project Loon works by having telecommunication partners beam up service to a balloon, which in turn gets relayed across a network of balloons and then directly to LTE devices on the ground.

To deliver signal to people’s devices, Loon needs be integrated with a telco partner’s network — the balloons can’t do it alone. »

Trump’s administration deleted data on Puerto Rico’s crisis from FEMA’s website

Authored by vox.com

The Trump administration has removed statistics from a federal website that revealed how dire the crisis in Puerto Rico remains in the wake of Hurricane Maria, according to a new report.

The website was set up to document the federal response to the hurricane.

But as Vox’s Alexia Fernández Campbell has reported, the Trump administration has been slow to respond at virtually every step:. »

MARS: Journey to the Red Planet

Authored by absolute-knowledge.com

50,000 years ago we arrived in Australia; 14,000 years ago – North America; 4,000 years ago – in the Pacific Islands; In 1821, we checked Antarctica on the list and in 1969 we stepped on the moon.

Because Mars has a lot in common with our planet, many people considered leaving Earth and starting a new life on our neighboring planet.

Is like you wish to cut the air with a knife and spread it on a slice of bread.â. »

Equifax Collects Your Data, and Then Sells It

Authored by inc.com

Equifax had more than $3.1 billion in revenue last year, largely from selling data to other companies.

Equifax, Experian and TransUnion make most of their money selling bulk lists to banks and credit card companies.

The credit companies get information, such as whether you've paid your bills on time each month, largely for free. »

Perpetrators of genocide say they’re ‘good people’

Authored by news.osu.edu

Rather than acknowledging their role, they emphasized what good people they were and talked about their good deeds and admirable character traits.”.

The United Nations created the ICTR and, between 1995 and 2015, 75 individuals were tried for planning and executing the violence.

“Rather than acknowledging the bad things they had done, the defendants often tried to talk about their traits and actions that proved what good people they are,” Nyseth Brehm said. »