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Sweden's government is rushing to put forward a temporary pandemic Bill that would give it powers to shut shops, private museums and by law limit the number of people in gatherings, news agency TT reported on Tuesday.
Sweden has shunned lockdowns throughout the pandemic and has preferred to work with voluntary measures aimed at promoting social distancing and good hygiene. The government has lacked powers to enforce many of the recommendations by sanctions.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/coronavirus-swedish-government-gives-up-on-voluntary-covid-19-restrictions-seeks-powers-to-implement-lockdowns.html
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Million-dollar houses are now being sold in one of Auckland's lowest-income suburbs and a local politician says Government failure is allowing the market to drive further inequality and hopelessness.
Last month an unremarkable 1960s weatherboard house on less than a quarter acre section in Ōtara in South Auckland sold for $1.01 million.
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Read more: 'People have given up': Even basic homes in Otara now cost $1 million
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/12/people-have-given-up-even-basic-homes-in-otara-now-cost-1-million.html
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A look at Rocket Lab’s private mission to Earth’s twin and how NASA decides what planets to visit. Mars has been the bell of the planetary ball in the last few decades but that’s not to say other planets in the solar system, like Venus, haven’t had a fair share of attention over the years.
NASA last sent a spacecraft to orbit Earth’s nearest neighbor in 1990. Russia, formerly the Soviet Union, sent a whole slew of mostly successful missions to Venus, and Japan has an orbiter there now.
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Read more: There’s more than 1 way to send a spacecraft to Venus
- Article: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/12/16/theres-more-than-1-way-to-send-a-spacecraft-to-venus/
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The Warehouse Group will repay its $68 million wage subsidy.
The group - which includes retailers such as The Warehouse, The Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming and Torpedo 7 - claimed the money back in April as the lockdowns slashed its earnings.
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Read more: Warehouse Group to repay $68 million wage subsidy
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New Zealand's stock exchange (NZX) has admitted its cyber-security wasn't up to scratch when it fell victim to a spate of cyberattacks this year.
The spy agency admitted on Monday it was caught off-guard by the attacks on numerous organisations.
But security experts say that was just the tip of the iceberg of cyber-crime targeting our country and not even our government is immune.
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A system originally developed to collect distributed strain and temperature measurements on aircraft has been enhanced to support future NASA space missions. Two companies were selected by NASA through the 2020 Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity to further develop and commercialize the technology.
The Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS) developed at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, uses sensors that are the size of a human hair to monitor vehicle structural and thermal response. Much of the technology effort to advance FOSS for use on airplanes and rockets was funded by the Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Center Innovation Fund.
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Read more: Armstrong Collaborates with Companies to Mature Fiber Optic Technology
- Article: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/afrc-collaborates-on-fiber-optic-tech.html
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Data is fast defining the geostrategic power of nation states and the nature of their societies, writes Nicholas Dynon. According to speakers at the NZDIA IDEAS 2020 event, this presents big challenges for New Zealand.
Humankind is moving in faster and in ever more connected ways towards a future in which data – the building blocks of information – will be the single most important measure of a nation’s geostrategic power. It’s a process that’s already begun.
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Read more: Information Domain: New Zealand in the age of information competition
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2020/12/20/information-competition/
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Police in Wairarapa have admitted to illegally taking photos of youths after RNZ alerted them to multiple reports of officers stopping and photographing young Māori on the street.
Whānau describe their sons walking alone in broad daylight, when police have approached and insisted they take their picture.
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Read more: Questions raised after police officers stop youths to take their photos
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/433285/questions-raised-after-police-officers-stop-youths-to-take-their-photos
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