TechSpot

JULY 16, 2024

According to the most recent data from 2023, Iceland continues to lead with an Internet penetration rate of nearly 100% (99.9%). Following closely are New Zealand, Bahrain,

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TechSpot

AUGUST 29, 2021

Following their ongoing lawsuit against Chinese hosting provider Chuangshiji Technology Limited, China's Supreme Court has sided with Genesis Mining and ordered the return of more than 485,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) to the Iceland-based cloud mining company.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Image: Inspired by Iceland. Mark Zuckerberg’s extensive video about Facebook / Meta’s pivot to the metaverse has become something of a meme , but perhaps the best parody of the presentation was done this week by, of all places, the country of Iceland. The Icelandverse looks great. Seriously, look, it’s right here.”. Introducing, ?Icelandverse?

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Digital Trends

MAY 24, 2021

DJI's FPV drone launched in March, the same month that a volcano in Iceland started to erupt. In this video, the two come together with spectacular results.

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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.

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The Verge

AUGUST 2, 2021

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 The new “ Premium Lite ” plan was spotted by a user on ResetEra , and YouTube subsequently confirmed the test offering in a statement given to The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2021

World Update V is focused on the Nordic region (specifically Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), bringing stunning vistas to an already visually impressive title.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

It will also be available in Chile, Indonesia, and the United Arab Emirates soon.

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Medium Technology Section

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Lessons from Iceland to increase connection and joy Continue reading on Medium

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The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

With the problem settled, Facebook Dating is now offered in over 50 countries, including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, (..)

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The 2021 edition of Worlds just wrapped up earlier this month in Reykjavík, Iceland, after originally being planned for Shenzen, China. ( The competition moved countries due to the pandemic.)

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Learning a new language can be fun Whether you're trying to maintain your Spanish or French, or you've been meaning to master Chinese or Icelandic, Qlango is available right in your pocket anytime you want to work on your skills. That means you can pick up new languages for the rest of your life for less than $1 a piece.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

This will be the second major League of Legends tournament to take place in Europe this year, following May’s Mid-Season Invitational hosted in Reykjavik, Iceland. Worlds is typically a big annual showcase for Riot, with past events including an opening ceremony powered by holograms and a mixed reality stage.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 8, 2021

Disney+ offers content in 16 languages, including English, Spanish, Dutch, Cantonese, Icelandic, and Japanese. But how do you change between languages? We explain here.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Preply supports 50 different languages, including Spanish, English, French, as well as niche languages such as Icelandic, Tibetan and Catalan. “Our customers think that our way of learning a foreign language is much more effective than language learning apps,” Bigai said.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

Riot is currently holding League of Legends and Valorant tournaments in Iceland , while the Overwatch League is planning to hold multiple live matches in China. In 2020, the pandemic forced most esports competitions across the world to shift to online competition. However, this year, some in-person events have slowly started to return.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

Buyers on the platform can source seafood from 13 different countries, although Iceland, Watt said, is the biggest sourcing country at the moment. Indeed, that software, called Sea.Store, was effective and others started asking to use it, too. As for buyers, France currently accounts for 95% of all sales.

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The Verge

JUNE 2, 2021

Valorant is also coming off of its biggest competitive tournament to date, with an event in Iceland, and Riot says that more than 1 million concurrent viewers tuned in to the finals on May 31st. The developer claims that the PC version of the game, which launched last year , currently averages 14 million monthly players.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This year’s iteration of Worlds will take place in Iceland starting October 5th ; it was originally slated for China but was forced to move due to pandemic-related restrictions. Even if you aren’t into competitive League , it’s usually worth tuning in for a bit to see the technical wizardry on display.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We started off with a one-month trip to Iceland, where we worked from an Airbnb with a beautiful view of the mountains. I remember speaking to one of our investors from Iceland, and he remarked on the view in my background — he didn’t realize I wasn’t in Paris and didn’t mind at all.

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The Verge

JULY 26, 2021

That’s all there in the Xbox version, too, including the most recent Nordics update that includes hand-rendered airports and points of interest across Scandinavia, Iceland, and Finland.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Flytrex’s first-ever service was launched in Reykjavik , Iceland in 2017, but the first U.S. The early version of the service so far seems to have found willing customers on both sides of the marketplace. pilot started only about a year ago, in September 2020 in Fayetteville, NC. It has since expanded to a second location, Raeford, NC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The company already has a collaboration with an Icelandic company called Carbfix, where the Climeworks technology is used to capture carbon dioxide and store it in mineralized basalt. The only limit to the company’s ability to capture carbon dioxide is the availability of power, according to Gelbad.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Icelandic serial entrepreneur is two-for-two in creating viral mobile games, but has thus far struck out in turning those into viable businesses. QuizUp founder Thor Fridriksson is at it again. Today, he’s (kind of) coming out of stealth to announce his third attempt: Rocky Road.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

” Other mineralization efforts have broken ground on the concept, so to speak, such as a basalt-injection scheme up in Iceland, so it isn’t without precedent. Third is sourcing the CO2 itself. The atmosphere is full of it, sure, but it’s not trivial to capture and compress enough to mineralize at industrial scales.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Iceland gets most of its electricity from hydroelectric and geothermal power. The way it handles this wicked problem is likely to provide insights to the rest of the world. As a start, it was the first country to allow the sale of cell-cultured meat last December.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

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 Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This year, Worlds takes place in Reykjavík, Iceland , at the Laugardalshöll indoor sporting arena. Think of it sort of like the Champions League in soccer; all year long, teams compete locally for the chance to face off against the best from other regions.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

I listen to everything from political post-punk to the gorgeous instrumental work of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds, but everything in the Sonos lineup really shines regardless of the genre. Elsewhere on my desk, I have one of Anker’s wireless Qi charging pads for my iPhone X and a Sonos One.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 28, 2021

Keen to get some amazing shots, this pilot flew his DJI drone so close to a lava-spewing volcano that part of the machine melted.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 7, 2021

Aerial filmmaker Stefan Forster has created an extraordinary piece of work that captures the breathtaking beauty of a volcanic eruption.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We received votes from all over the world including Iceland, Estonia, Israel, Germany, Poland, Chile, England, Brazil and Australia, with the most international votes coming from the United States. We continue to run our Penguin of the Month posts, and in October 2019 we repeated our Penguin of the Year online campaign.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2021

Additionally, the feature is currently only available to people in Australia, Canada, the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Enhanced playlists are available on both Android and iOS and are set to roll out over the next month to Spotify Premium subscribers in the following countries: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, (..)

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Google One’s VPN service is expanding to 10 new countries this week: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The Pixel’s Security Hub is also planned for more Android devices.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can screenshot it you don’t get to hang out with your friends anymore. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome.

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