The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

I mostly wrote about local and touring bands, with some outdoorsy stuff sprinkled in here and there. 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. And the — jawbone?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Timmy came to the National Aquarium after being found on a local beach with a spinal injury. 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. Draco won, closely followed by Mo, again!

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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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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

That’s more than the estimated GDP of Iceland and Yemen combined, according to the International Monetary Fund ). million in stock and free advertising as well as a $250,000 fund to rebuild local businesses. Theoretically, the company could have made its entire hundred million dollars back the same day it announced the initiative.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

New to the crew is Taylour Paige as Axel's hard-headed daughter, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a local ally, Nasim Pedrad as a flustered real estate agent, and Kevin Bacon as a smirking antagonist. This is the case for this outrageous offering, which stars Jack Black as infamous scammer /local celebrity Jan Lewan. The sparks will fly.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

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. The company expects to be one of two facilities in the world to deliver certified credits for carbon stored this year.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 10, 2025

But the company has also found unexpected demand in markets like video advertising and the localization of interactive smart toys. 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. To power its growth, Camb.ai has raised $15.5

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Users have myriad location-spoofing options and should never struggle to find a reliably fast local server location. I used one that routed me through Iceland and the U.S., At the time of writing, Proton VPN had the largest and most globally diverse server network out of all the VPNs I've tested.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Greenland also guards part of what is known as the GIUK (Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom) Gap, where NATO monitors Russian naval movements in the North Atlantic. ” A Chinese-backed rare earth mining project in Greenland stalled after the local government banned uranium mining in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Local investors tend to invest 50% to 90% of their fund into local startups, “but we do look at deal flow in all Nordic countries,” said one. How much are you focused on investing in your local ecosystem versus other startup hubs (or everywhere) in general? The decline in infections locally and the rollout of the COVID vaccines.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

Nearly 40 percent of Icelanders are using a contact tracing app, the highest number of any country. Ordering food from local businesses is a nice way to support the restaurant industry in your area. One Grubhub user tried to order pizza from a supposedly local restaurant that turned out to be an undercover Chuck E. for shame.

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