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YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ subscription offers ad-free viewing for less

The Verge

In Nordics and Benelux (except for Iceland), we’re testing a new offering to give users even more choice: Premium Lite costs €6.99/month But at its current pricing, it costs around 60 percent of the price of a regular Premium subscription, while only offering around a quarter of its benefits.

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Big Tech pledged a billion to racial justice, but it was pocket change

The Verge

That’s more than the estimated GDP of Iceland and Yemen combined, according to the International Monetary Fund ). Theoretically, the company could have made its entire hundred million dollars back the same day it announced the initiative. Apple’s $100 million represents just 0.18 percent of the $55.3

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The quirks and features of YouTube car reviews with Doug DeMuro

The Verge

If you review cameras, a camera company will be like, “Would you like to come to Iceland and use the camera to take pictures of an iceberg?”. This works, and the benefit now is, here’s something I actually possess that I could sell or that I could transition to and the channel isn’t really quite like that. Oh, really? Congratulations.

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In Las Vegas, a former SpaceX engineer is pulling CO2 from the air and turning it into concrete

Fast Company Tech

The other, 4,000-plus miles away in Iceland, is Climeworks, which partners with a company called CarbFix to inject its captured CO2 into Icelands deep rock formations and naturally turn the CO2 into stone. You can imagine that in water-stressed Las Vegas, thats a really interesting side benefit, Meyerowitz says.

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How Camb.ai is breaking language barriers with AI

Fast Company Tech

Thats why weve also put a lot of effort into our capability to translate rare or endangered languages like Icelandic or Indigenous languages like Maleku. Beyond cost savings, what unexpected benefits do you see for AI live translations? Our mission is to redesign the internet for speakers of every language. Thats our vision.

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Proton VPN review: Premium, proven privacy and a free tier with no data limits

Mashable Tech

I used one that routed me through Iceland and the U.S., The average user can disregard this, as they probably won't ever really need to use Tor over VPN, but the activists and journalists who might benefit from this doubled-up privacy method will need to be patient with extremely pokey connections.

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6 Oslo VCs discuss 2021 trends, deal flow and regional opportunities

TechCrunch

At the same time, Norwegian founders would benefit from more investors with an international focus. We expect that about 50% of our investments will be Norwegian, whereas the other 50% will be spread across Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. Investors that are able to identify the right founders can make great investments in Norway.

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