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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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This year, Worlds takes place in Reykjavík, Iceland , at the Laugardalshöll indoor sporting arena. The location means that if you’re in the US, games might take place in the morning or early afternoon. No fans will be in attendance at the matches themselves due to COVID-19 restrictions. Whoever wins advances to the Group Stage.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2021

The r/WallStreetBets subreddit’s own moderators made it private for a little less than an hour on Wednesday evening, Reddit confirmed to The Verge — but now, it’s back, with a new post from the moderators themselves that doesn’t quite explain why it vanished in the first place. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome.

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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 ). That would buy you popcorn and a movie (if you weren’t currently sheltering in place). We found that huge disparities between racial justice commitments and profits weren’t exclusive to Apple.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

Whereas all the other kinds of stuff that Wired covered, I’m reading more in all these other places. Plus travel time to get to the places where the cars are. If you review cameras, a camera company will be like, “Would you like to come to Iceland and use the camera to take pictures of an iceberg?”. And then that’s it.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

They play the Icelandic musical duo Fire Saga, who find themselves in the Eurovision spotlight. That problematic premise, which wouldn't have felt out of place in a Porky's movie 40 years ago, turns out to be a bit of a Trojan horse, slipping in a sly, sweet friendship story between the two instead.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

meaning that it handles both carbon capture and storage in one place. (As 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. As a bonus, it also generates clean water.)

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Operator is now out in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the UK and most places where ChatGPT is also available, OpenAI has announced. Operator is now rolling out to Pro users in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the UK, and most places ChatGPT is available.

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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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Finland Denmark Iceland Sweden Netherlands Costa Rica Norway Israel Luxembourg Mexico Australia New Zealand Switzerland Belgium Ireland Lithuania Austria Canada Slovenia Czech Republic The five countries where people were most unhappy? Here are 2025’s top 20 happiest countries in the world.

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Engadget

MARCH 27, 2025

Because the eclipse will occur in many places during sunrise, viewers may get the chance to see the famed devil horns the crescent of solar light emerging from behind the moon. Some places with maximum obscuration will have a shorter eclipse duration because the partial eclipse will start before sunrise.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

Traveling to a new place takes us out of our comfort zone and helps us get a new perspective on our life back home. But nothing is quite as transformative as your very first trip to a new country. The highs of new sights, smells, people, foods, and experiences leave you changed in a way that’s hard to describe.

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Engadget

MARCH 28, 2025

Most of Europe will only see around a 20 percent obscuration (with the exception of Greenland and Iceland), for example, while the extreme northeastern part of the United States will see up to 89 percent of the sun covered. (In other words, how much of the sun is covered by the moon depends on where you are and when youre looking.)

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

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., Another speed test showed that it resulted in a 7.7

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines deposited by the glacier over centuries. Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

It’s still the best place to build a company in this country. We expect that about 50% of our investments will be Norwegian, whereas the other 50% will be spread across Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. We are not so hard hit in Norway, so Oslo will likely not see much exodus.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

When I did the job at Facebook, I was told I was making the world a better place for animals and young people. Nearly 40 percent of Icelanders are using a contact tracing app, the highest number of any country. Google Stadia is a lonely place. I asked him what he thought of the payout he might now be eligible for. “I Talk to us.

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