Fast Company Tech
MARCH 31, 2025
After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. And this isnt just an Icelandic issue. As a wheelchair user, Thorleifsson knows firsthand how exclusion can be built into a city.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
A startup hailing from far-flung Iceland is emerging as one of the key players in the race to distribute one of the key coronavirus vaccines around the world. It has largely Iceland-based investors, including Sjova and VIS. Frumtak , a VC firm in Iceland, first invested in Controlant in 2011. government, the CDC, U.S.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2021
The business is one of the lynchpins in the Norwegian government’s efforts to capture and store carbon emissions safely underground under a plan called The Longship Project. There is growing awareness of the need to build capacity to remove CO 2 from the atmosphere to achieve net zero by 2050.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
As such, the EC said that it has received requests from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden to look at the deal and determine whether there is a case to answer.
The Verge
JUNE 16, 2020
The study analyzed a collection of contact tracing apps, which are designed to inform and monitor physical contact between people in the event someone contracts COVID-19, from 11 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, France, Iceland, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
The difference is that people and governments are pushing corporations and funds toward net-zero, and this movement is not going away. Iceland gets most of its electricity from hydroelectric and geothermal power. Is it another clean tech bubble? As a start, it was the first country to allow the sale of cell-cultured meat last December.
Futurism
MARCH 28, 2025
He identified South Africa, where the government declared in 2024 that it's open to the " significant potential " of genetic editing, as a good place for those trials to take place. Before that, He wants to send two Chinese colleagues to the US to conduct trials on mice and monkeys.
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