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Cake day: June 5th, 2023
  • Otter@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•New service in Japan to allow mobile users to use other carriers’ networks during outagesEnglish
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    28 minutes ago

    Both factors are related, I couldn’t find the article I was looking for but this one touches on it too. There’s a section for cell phones specifically

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_syndrome

    The term “Galápagos syndrome” was originally coined to refer to Japanese 3G mobile phones, which had developed a large number of specialized features that were widely adopted in the Japanese market, but were unsuccessful abroad.[6][7] While the original usage of the term was to describe highly advanced phones that were incompatible outside of Japanese networks, as the mobile phone industry underwent drastic changes globally, the term was used to emphasize the associated anxiety about how the development of Japanese mobile phones and those in the worldwide economy went along different paths.

    When a technology advances quickly and gets adopted in the local region (ex. Japan), it can be difficult to change when other parts of the world move forward with a different standard.

    The opposite can also happen, where a region is slow to change and then haphazardly moves forward when the benefits are proven elsewhere. American payment systems for example

  • Otter@lemmy.catoWorld News@quokk.au•Syria unveils plan to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons
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    5 days ago

    It sounds like they are inviting international cooperation and investigators to help them take care of it, so it should be real

    An international taskforce backed by the United States, ⁠Germany, Britain, Canada and France, among others, will track down all remaining elements of the program and destroy ​them under the supervision of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Syria’s ambassador to the United ​Nations, Ibrahim Olabi, said in an interview.

    As many as 100 sites in Syria need to be inspected to determine what toxic munitions remain and how they should be destroyed, OPCW experts have said.

    It will require a time-consuming and costly operation to prevent the ​proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in a region fraught with conflict and political turmoil. The expanding U.S.-Israeli war ​on Iran and broader regional security concerns will make the timing of the mission uncertain, but all the more necessary ‌to prevent ⁠future use, officials said.

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