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Daring Fireball: Google Is Shutting Down Its URL Shortener, Breaking All Links
How much money could it possible cost to just keep this service running in perpetuity? Tim Berners-Lee wrote his seminal essay, “Cool URIs Don’t Change” back in 1998. It’s bad enough when companies go out of business, taking their web servers down with them. But Google isn’t struggling financially. In fact, they’re thriving.
Google continues to make a mockery of “Don’t be evil.”
Kottke: Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!”
55 years ago today, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon and went for a little walk. For the 16th year in a row, you can watch the original CBS News coverage of Walter Cronkite reporting on the Moon landing and the first Moon walk on a small B&W television, synced to the present-day time. Just open this page in your browser today, July 20th, and the coverage will start playing at the proper time. Here’s the schedule (all times EDT):
4:10:30 pm: Moon landing broadcast starts …
eoPortal: Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM)
The Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) of Space Norway’s HEOSAT is a dual satellite mission that aims to provide internet connectivity to the Arctic. The pair of satellites will together provide constant broadband coverage over the North Pole and high-latitude regions that existing satellites do not pass over. The satellites are constructed by US-based company Northrop Grumman. A growing interest in the Arctic is being cultivated through economic benefits and changes in climate, which calls for the development of better infrastructure.
Globe: Supreme Court rules governments cannot shield themselves from lawsuits prompted by bad legislation
But he encountered laws passed by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government that made convicts of some criminal offences permanently ineligible for pardons. These laws were later deemed unconstitutional and overturned by the courts. Mr. Power then claimed he was personally owed damages for Parliament having passed such laws in the first place.
Globe: Corus Entertainment announces layoffs at Global News
Corus Entertainment Inc. is cutting jobs at its Global News division as it seeks efficiencies across the company and battles adverse trends in the media industry.
The cuts came a few days after Corus said it stands to lose programming next year due to an arrangement struck between Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc., which will see Rogers pick up rights to content such as HGTV and Food Network.
“As part of our ongoing evaluation of our business and continued enterprise efficiency review across Corus, we have made some changes at Global News today, and as a result, certain roles have been impacted,” Corus spokesperson Anna Arnone said in a statement.
“These changes correlate with the current economic and regulatory reality we, and other media organizations, find ourselves in. We are continuously working to improve the way we gather, produce and deliver award winning content.”
Last Updated: 20.Jul.2024 16:18 EDT
