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  • NASA announces two missions to Venus.

    According to the European calendar, $ 20 million each will be spent on missions to Venus in 2028 and 2030.
    NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the missions "give us an opportunity to explore a planet we have not seen in more than 30 years."
    The last exploration of the planet, took place in 1990.
    NASA is said to have made the decision to carry out its missions after conducting various assessments and verifying their scientific significance.
    Administrator Nelson explained that the two missions were aimed at understanding how Venus could become a lead-burning world.
    Venus is the second hottest planet from the sun, with temperatures up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit and a melting pot, according to the BBC.

    August 16, 2021

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  • Facebook imposes accountability on political advertisements in various countries, including Ethiopia.

    Facebook has announced that it will increase accountability and control over social issues, elections and political advertisements, including in Ethiopia and Kenya.
    According to the company, Facebook advertisers in Ethiopia on social issues, elections and politics will be licensed and held accountable for Facebook content. This will allow Facebook users to have more control over the ads on their pages.
    It is also enables users to control their social and political advertisements by identifying their own interests and opinions.

    August 16, 2021

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  • Ethio Telecom has officially launched 4GLTE Advantage Internet service in Harar, Aweday and Haremaya towns.

    With the growing demand for the program, access to technology and awareness is needed. She also said that the institute is developing infrastructure to monitor the digital economy and modernize the trading system.
    It is also planned to make 4GLTE Advanced accessible in 103 cities in the current budget year.

    August 16, 2021

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  • Jeff Bezos, founder and owner of Amazon, the world's largest online shopping mall, has made a successful space trip.
    Jeff Bezos' journey was a carefully crafted 6-seat New Shepherd.
    Jeff Bezos owns a company that specializes in aerospace and submarine manufacturing , and he flew with three other people on the New Shepherd.
    Willie Fank, 82, and Oliver Daemen, 18, and Mark Bezos, Jeff Bezos' brother, are said to have traveled.
    The space shuttle from West Texas lasted 11 minutes, reaching 100 miles [100 km] in space, and they were able to test gravity and see the shape of the earth.
    This trip made Jeff Bezos the world's second-largest investor in space travel.
    For the organization, Blue Origen was the first person to fly into space, and has made 16 trips so far.
    The New Shepherd is a memorial to the spacecraft, the first American astronaut to do so 60 years ago.
    It will be remembered that the investor left the earth and spent an hour in space and returned safely to Earth.

    August 16, 2021

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  • The FDRE Planning and Development Commission exchanged experiences with the African Economic Commission on the Digital Monitoring and Reporting System (D ~ MRS).

    It is said that this exchange of experiences is intended to transfer useful techniques from one to another and to fill in the gaps that exist.
    The IPRT, developed by the African Economic Commission with the help of WebNar, was presented by Dr. Tadele Ferede, and the Digital Monitoring and Reporting System (D ~ MRS) developed by the Planning and Development Commission, Solomon Tesfaselassie, Adviser to the Planning and Development Commission.

    Following this, discussions were held on the two digital monitoring and reporting systems and explanations were provided by both sides.
    Finally, the two institutions discussed issues related to this and continued to work together.

    August 16, 2021

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