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Will Alphabet's internet balloons really help Puerto Rico?

Will Alphabet's internet balloons really help Puerto Rico?

10 October 2017

Google’s parent company wants to use its Project Loon tech to help restore the island’s hurricane-damaged mobile networks. But is it charity or business strategy?
A gun in a gun shop

The US will not ban guns so must learn how to live with them

4 October 2017

The political reality is that the US will never be rid of its weapons. The country must realise its gun epidemic is a public health crisis, and treat it as such

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