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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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Natural Cycles wants to create wearable birth control

The Verge

It falls under the broad category of fertility awareness birth control methods, where people track when they’d be ovulating and use that information to figure out when they’d have the best chance of conceiving. That has some drawbacks: it removes the app another step further from the body literacy that underlies fertility awareness methods.

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The best air purifier for 2025

Engadget

Weve tested over a dozen air purifiers that range from $150 to $1,200 but the most effective method for getting the green light from our air quality monitors is completely free: opening the windows. Its designed and made in Sweden and each unit comes with an impressive certificate of performance.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me.

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek explains how the company plans to help artists (and itself) make money

The Verge

Because what we realized is that we’re no longer this kind of small startup from Sweden. So we’re looking at a number of different KPIs (key performance indicators) to kind of evaluate if this is working or not, but ultimately, it’s all about creator retention and user retention. What are the metrics of success for an exclusive show?

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How to Improve User Experience (and Behavior): Three Papers from Stanford's Alexa Prize Team

Stanford AI Lab Blog

These models perform well when evaluated by crowdworkers in carefully-controlled settings–typically written conversations with certain topical or length constraints. In this work, we conduct a large-scale quantitative evaluation of response strategies against offensive users in-the-wild.

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Hormona wants women to track their ‘hormonal health’ with at-home testing

TechCrunch

after a period of early testing with “a few thousand” women in Europe (it’s been beta testing in Sweden). This isn’t the first quantified health startup we’ve seen that’s using urine testing as the method for acquiring biomarker data. Today it’s announcing the launch of its app in the U.S.

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