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\"Predator_Drone_021\"<\/a>Stories from Ukraine have sobered the widespread adulation previously given by gushing journalists to social and communicative media since the revolutions in the Arab world. We previously reported on the text message sent to Ukrainian protestors, reading \u201cDear user. You have been registered as a participant in a mass disturbance\u201d. Technology occupies an uneasy position as a tool in the hands of revolutionaries and governments alike; perhaps as useful to the oppressor as to the liberator. In Venezuela, the lack of online coverage of the protests is considered highly suspicious; but rumours of government censorship equally so. Today in Around the World, more sad news from Kiev: plus WhatsApp\u2019s Ukrainian roots, a MOOC expos\u00e9 \u2013 and how the arts of war are used for peaceful purposes. Read on\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

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20.02.2014<\/b><\/p>\n

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UKRAINE<\/b>: as police storm the Maidan, the protestors\u2019 tech tent burns, one of its staff is beaten nearly to death and a journalist is killed (TECH CRUNCH<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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EAST AFRICA<\/b>: \u00a0<\/b>Amazon\u2019s demonstration of a drone delivery system may well have been a mere PR stunt: but developments in Kenza, Uganda and elsewhere show that the unmanned flying vehicles could well be the solution for infrastructure problems (WIRED<\/a>) as well the anti-poaching drive (THE AFRICA REPORT<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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USA: <\/b>smartphone extensions get even smarter \u2013 a cheap 3-D printable attachment is now capable of spectrographic analysis to test water for poisonous mercury (COEXIST<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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UKRAINE\/USA<\/b>: WhatsApp is bought by Facebook. The success of the App, which stores as little data as possible on its users, arises from its founder\u2019s aversion to bugged or recorded conversation in Communist-era Ukraine (INQUIRER<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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UK<\/b>: who takes part in \u201call-inclusive\u201d MOOCs? Once again, the research indicates they\u2019re mostly men, mostly graduates, mostly from developed countries (GUARDIAN<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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and in other news\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

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THAILAND<\/b>: the 2011 floods left 800 dead. Now, children can learn essential flood survival skills (even dealing with runaway crocodiles) in a new smartphone game. And the children playing have even given it their seal of approval (GUARDIAN<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Stories from Ukraine have sobered the widespread adulation previously given by gushing journalists to social and communicative media since the revolutions in the Arab world. We previously reported on the text message sent to Ukrainian protestors, reading \u201cDear user. You have been registered as a participant in a mass disturbance\u201d. Technology occupies an uneasy position […]<\/p>\n

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