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

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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. To develop its technology, Climeworks has raised more than $150 million from investors, including the Swiss lender Zuercher Kantonalbank.

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Flytrex raises $40M to build its drone-based delivery service across suburbs in the U.S.

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This is a Series C that brings the total raised by Flytrex to $60 million. It’s mapped out backyards in the communities it serves, so that it knows where to fly and drop off packages so that they are relatively safe for drop-and-go deliveries so that people can walk out of the back of their houses to pick them up.

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After QuizUp and Trivia Royale, Thor Fridriksson’s next act is a mobile MMO

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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. Fridriksson isn’t getting into the weeds on the details of the game — launch is still about a year away — but one thing we do know is that it’s based on real-world map data.

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44.01 secures $5M to turn billions of tons of carbon dioxide to stone

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Peridotite is normally found miles below sea level, but on the easternmost tip of the Arabian peninsula, specifically the northern coast of Oman, tectonic action has raised hundreds of square miles of the stuff to the surface. Third is sourcing the CO2 itself.

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Proton VPN review: Premium, proven privacy and a free tier with no data limits

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It's raised money for privacy activists in Hong Kong. Users can peruse all of Proton VPN's server locations in the form of a list (under a separate "Countries" tab) as well as a map, which is studded with triangles representing places where servers are available. I used one that routed me through Iceland and the U.S.,

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