[NEWS] Five sci-tech links: Mount Agung, rural Internet, Wacom, space mining school, seeding life

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• Global News considers if the Mount Agung eruption in Bali could, through the injection of dust into the atmosphere, lead to global cooling.


• VICE examines how rural electric cooperatives in the United States are adding broadband Internet to the list of services they provide.


• VICE profiles Wacom, the Japanese company with decades of investment in touchscreen technology now finally paying off.


• Wired notes that the Colorado School of Mines is now offering a program for space miners.


• Universe Today shares a speculative plan for using self-replicating robots to seed life on potentially suitable exoplanets across the galaxy, focusing on ones with natural oxygen atmospheres.