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A web3 clone of Wikipedia may help Russians, but it’s dividing the tech community Decentralization can have drawbacks Building a web3 Wikipedia Proponents of Web3 argue thatblockchaincan eradicate censorship. Among the supporters areSwarm, anEthereum-based decentralized storage platform, andKiwix, an offline reader for online content. The pair want to add a mirror version of Wikipedia to a peer-to-peer network that’s always available — even when internet access is restricted. Kiwix says Wikipedia’s entire collection of 6 million articles with images can be compressed into just 80Gb, which could then be hosted on Swarm as a read-only snapshot....

A weenie telescope past Saturn may be better than a beefy one close to Earth Small but mighty A tiny telescope far from home The scientific strength of a telescope far from Earth would come primarily from its location, not its size. Plans for a telescope in the outer solar system would put it somewhere beyond the orbit of Saturn, roughly a billion or more miles from Earth. We’d need only send a very small telescope – with a lens roughly the size of a small plate – to achieve some truly unique astrophysical insights....

A weenie telescope past Saturn may be better than a beefy one close to Earth Small but mighty A tiny telescope far from home The scientific strength of a telescope far from Earth would come primarily from its location, not its size. Plans for a telescope in the outer solar system would put it somewhere beyond the orbit of Saturn, roughly a billion or more miles from Earth. We’d need only send a very small telescope – with a lens roughly the size of a small plate – to achieve some truly unique astrophysical insights....

A year of escooters fighting fuckwit riders and government crackdowns Micromobility providers and private companies are struggling with accidents and regulations Cities forced to respond to escooter accidents and casualties In November, Paris introducednew rulesfor hire escooters to be limited to speeds of 10 kmph throughout the capital, with only a few areas remaining limited to 20 kmph. It followed an accident where a pedestrian washit and killedby an e-scooter....