Who would want the right to be forgotten?

BBC An EU court ruling has taken step towards giving people the “right to be forgotten”, forcing Google and other search engines to remove certain links from search results. But what kind of things do people normally want to be forgotten online, asks Chris Stokel-Walker. Mario Costeja Gonzalez wants Google to stop displaying a search

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Egyptian satellite to monitor construction of Ethiopia’s disputed dam

Officials in Cairo hope that the satellite’s findings will strengthen their position in the debate over Ethiopia’s projected hydroelectric dam Ahram Online , Wednesday 30 Apr 2014 A new Egyptian satellite will track the construction of an Ethiopian hydroelectric dam

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Russia launches a spy satellite for Egyptian military

By Russian Space Web  April 23, 2014 A Soyuz rocket with Egyptsat-2 satellite around one hour before launch on April 16, 2014. A Russian rocket launched a new-generation surveillance spacecraft Wednesday designed to give the Egyptian military a powerful “eye in

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Africans pay twice as much to send money Home

April 17, 2014 By Massoud Hayoun Al Jazeera Sub-Saharan African expatriates working in the U.S. and Europe pay twice as much to wire money home than their Southeast Asian or Latin American counterparts, according to a report from a British economic

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Africans pay twice as much to send money Home

April 17, 2014 By Massoud Hayoun Al Jazeera Sub-Saharan African expatriates working in the U.S. and Europe pay twice as much to wire money home than their Southeast Asian or Latin American counterparts, according to a report from a British economic

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Ethiopian Amrote Abdella Microsoft’s director for virtual capital and startups

09 April 2014 By LILLIAN KIARIE Nation Media Kenya Microsoft’s director for virtual capital and startups, Amrote Abdella, is scaling great heights at just 32. She has held top positions at international corporations, including the World Economic Forum and World

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Ethiopian Amrote Abdella Microsoft’s director for virtual capital and startups

09 April 2014 By LILLIAN KIARIE Nation Media Kenya Microsoft’s director for virtual capital and startups, Amrote Abdella, is scaling great heights at just 32. She has held top positions at international corporations, including the World Economic Forum and World

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EU launches flagship space project

April 3, 2014 A clean getaway for the Soyuz carrying Sentinel-1a By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News A Soyuz rocket has launched from French Guiana with the first satellite in the European Union’s new multi-billion-euro Earth-observation programme. The Sentinel-1a

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US ‘secretly built Cuban Twitter’

April 3, 2014 BBC ZunZuneo was reportedly introduced with information about everyday topics such as sport and weather The US created a text-message social network designed to foment unrest in Cuba, according to an investigation by the Associated Press news

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Wired:A Giant Basket That Uses Condensation to Gather Drinking Water in Ethiopia

28 March 2014 BY JOSEPH FLAHERTY Wired Around the world, 768 million people don’t have access to safe water, and every day 1,400 children under the age of five die from water-based diseases. Designer Arturo Vittori believes the solution to this catastrophe lies not

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