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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

There’s a lot of chatter these days about Web3 — a decentralized version of the internet that operates outside the confines and grips of social media and technology giants. “This could be a log-in credential, but it could also be a vaccine record, diploma, hotel reservation, driver’s license, etc.

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Life-Like Identity: Why the Internet Needs an Identity Metasystem

Phil Windley

Summary: Sovrin is an identity metasystem that provides the Internet's missing identity layer. Digital identity is broken because the Internet was built without an identity layer. The idea was made famous by a New Yorker cartoon that says, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”. The Problems with Digital Identity.

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Amazon’s Project Kuiper and Verizon join forces on satellite and cellular connectivity

GeekWire

Last year, Amazon received the Federal Communications Commission’s conditional go-ahead to deploy 3,236 satellites that would provide broadband internet access across the globe from low Earth orbit, or LEO. We look forward to partnering with companies and organizations around the world who share this commitment.”.

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Building Identity Systems on the Sovrin Network

Phil Windley

Perhaps the most familiar example of a metasystem is the internet. The internet is not so much a communications system as it is a system for building communication systems that all interoperate. For example, I may have a credential representing my drivers license and one representing my employee ID. Drivers license.

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SpaceX to acquire small satellite startup Swarm Technologies

The Verge

36 SpaceBee smallsats launch to space aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in January 2021, during SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission with 107 other satellites on board. SpaceX’s much different Starlink program aims to beam broadband internet into rural areas that lack fiber or physical internet connections.

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Amazon reveals a secret about its Project Kuiper satellites: They’re using laser links

GeekWire

-based space consulting firm called Alliance Velocity , said the successful OISL test is a big step forward in Project Kuiper’s drive to launch its 3,236-satellite constellation and make broadband internet access available to tens of millions of people around the world who are underserved.

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Flight delayed? Blame a spaceship.

Vox

There were 54 licensed space launches overseen by the FAA last year, but the agency thinks that number could grow in 2022 thanks to the rise in space tourism, growing demand for internet satellites, and upcoming space exploration missions. And the frequency of launches is picking up.