Rubio denies European leaders coming to White House to 'keep Zelensky from being bullied': https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/rubio-denies-european-leaders-coming.html
The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its #Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometres away, using two optical grounds stations developed for this purpose in Greece: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Europe_s_first_deep-space_optical_communication_link
[Part 2] The GÉANT (GN5-2) Above-the-Net Services Incubator is proud to award 4 projects set to advance digital services for European R&E 🎉
The awarded initiatives address service development priorities across three areas of strategic importance for the GÉANT community: Digital Research Environment (DRE), Object Storage Infrastructure, Data Movement Infrastructure.
👏 Big congratulations to the organisations leading these initiatives.
➡️ Meet the awarded projects:
Im März 2022 hat eine kommunales Gremium in der südschwedischen Kommune Staffanstorp den rechtswidrigen Beschluss gefasst, Geflüchtete, die über einen UNHCR-Beschluss nach #Schweden gekommen sind, nicht aufzunehmen. Vor ein paar Tagen hat die Staatsanwaltschaft gegen die Politiker*innen, die nicht formal Bedenken gegen den Beschluss erhoben hatten, Anklage wegen schwerer Dienstvergehen erhoben.…
»The layers of the electronics industry chain are heavily interdependent and long-term strategic advantages can only be achieved when all layers are available and provide state-of-the-art products. Increasing foreign penetration into the European industry chain, accomplished for instance by offering instant profits, decreases its strengths and creates undesirable dependencies.«
–Egon Hörbst, then executive director at Siemens AG Corporate Research, in IEEE Micro, August 1992.
It occurs to me that the wellspring of malcontent that NZF and ACT are tapping into with their demonisation of their 'woke' strawman is the sense of displacement & discomfort many of the older generation feel - like Aotearoa is increasingly not the sort of place they remember growing up in, where they knew their where they stood.
Their anger with tangata whenua's waxing cultural representation & immigrants from non-European cultures is fascinating for its irony. 1/…
NEEEEEEEEE!!
EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as… | T&E
https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/eu-cave-in-on-vehicle-trade-rules-will-cost-european-lives…
"Europe’s summer is getting longer: Heat now lasts up to 5 months in cities like Athens and Tirana"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange
MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch to change how we see our atmosphere: #MTGS1 satellite has been designed to generate a completely new type of data product, especially suited to nowcasting rapidly evolving storms, with three-dimensional views of the atmosphere, while Copernicus Sentinel-4, which consists of an instrument mounted on the MTG-S1 satellite, will be the first mission to monitor European air quality from geostationary orbit.