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Electric cars outnumber petrol vehicles in Norway, a global first

TechSpot

Norway has become the first country where electric cars outnumber petrol-powered vehicles. As of September 16, 2024, the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) reported that out of 2.8 million registered passenger cars, 754,303 are electric, surpassing the 753,905 petrol cars. Read Entire Article

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Telenor Builds Norway’s First AI Factory, Offering Sustainable and Sovereign Data Processing

NVIDIA AI Blog

Norways first sustainable and secure AI cloud service demonstrates how countries can maintain data sovereignty while advancing green computing initiatives. Building on 170 years as a telecommunications provider, Telenor opened Norways first AI factory in November.

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The New Miradi

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Miradi is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP), a consortium of global environmental organizations committed to improving the practice of conservation. Miradi was built in partnership with these global conservation groups and input from users around the world.

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals. I next attended a session on global biodiversity, and ended up talking to two of the three speakers afterwards about our Miradi project and about the software idea from my friends at Waste Concern. Today was an example of this.

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Morgan Sully believes We Operate Better Together

Amy Sample Ward

Working from this premise, this travel documentary project seeks to answer the question: How is global social change made where media, technology and creative people meet? Let Morgan know of any cool places worth checking out in England, Holland or Norway. We operate best together. Share this post with anyone you know. Write to him! -

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Spacemaker, AI software for urban development, is acquired by Autodesk for $240M

TechCrunch

publicly listed software and services company that targets engineering and design industries, has acquired Norway’s Spacemaker , a startup that has developed AI-supported software for urban development. real estate technology fund Round Hill Ventures and Norway’s Construct Venture. Autodesk, the U.S.

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Two European companies are mapping a future service for direct air capture to sequestration of CO2

TechCrunch

It would mean the realization of a full-chain carbon dioxide removal service that the two companies called a necessary component of the efforts to reverse global climate change. The first issue is the need to set a global price for carbon dioxide emissions that would make the projects economically viable.

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