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| Dec 18, 2023 | A new deal gives the US military 'unimpeded access' to Sweden's bases — including a vital outpost in the heart of northern Europe | Military & Defense A new deal gives the US military 'unimpeded access' to Sweden's bases — including a vital outpost in the heart of northern Europe
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| Aug 14, 2022 | Travel From London To Stockholm By Train In Just 24 Hours | British travelers will be able to reach Sweden's capital city in just over one day when a new ... [+] Hamburg-Stockholm overnight train launches later this year. getty |
| Apr 19, 2022 | Vladimir Putin’s Gift to NATO | Vladimir Putin hoped that invading Ukraine would make NATO splinter, but the alliance has been energized and is now set to expand. This is a reminder that the bloc’s growth is a response to—and not the cause of—Russia’s aggression.
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| Mar 25, 2022 | How we got herd immunity wrong | Herd immunity was always our greatest asset for protecting vulnerable people, but public health failed to use it wisely.
In March 2020, not long after Covid-19 was declared a global public health emergency, prominent experts predicted that ... |
| Feb 25, 2022 | The World Reacts to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine | Despite weeks of warning, Russia’s Feb. 24 decision to launch an invasion of Ukraine caught much of the world by surprise. Russian President Vladimir Putin released what appeared to be a prerecorded statement just as the offensive began, wh... |
| Feb 18, 2022 | Sweden's New Smartphone Ban Law Will Prevent Students From Using Handsets in Classrooms! | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 18 February 2022, 11:02 am
Sweden's new smartphone banning law aims to stop students from using their devices during classes. This new bill was proposed on Friday, Feb. 18.
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| Jun 6, 2021 | In no-lockdown Sweden, wearing a mask can earn you suspicion and abuse | Commuters at a train station in Stockholm, Sweden. The country has no mask mandate.
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Sweden, which has taken a unique approach to the pandemic, doesn't have a mask mandate.
Those who wear face masks tell Insider th... |
| Jun 5, 2021 | No-lockdown Sweden broke with most of the world and didn’t require face masks. Those who wear them say they’re treated with suspicion and abuse. | Commuters at a train station in Stockholm, Sweden. The country has no mask mandate. Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images
Sweden, which has taken a unique approach to the pandemic, doesn’t have a mask mandate.
Those who wear face masks tell Insider th... |
| May 13, 2021 | Sweden Pushes Ahead With New Immigration Policy | Sweden's prime minister Stefan Löfven hopes to introduce a new migration bill this summer.Getty Images |
| Feb 23, 2021 | People in France, Germany, and the UK are turning down the AstraZeneca vaccine because they want the Pfizer one instead, reports say | A box with vials of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine. ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images
Some people in France, Germany, and the UK are insisting on a particular coronavirus vaccine.
European officials are struggling to give out AstraZeneca’s ... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | February EU Travel Restrictions By Country: Quarantine, Covid-19 Tests And Vaccination Passports | A snow-covered London during lockdownGetty Images |
| Jan 27, 2021 | Sweden is withholding vaccine payments to Pfizer as it suspects it is being overcharged | Vaccines seen at Östra Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden. Fredrik Lerneryd/Getty Images
Sweden had a contract to buy the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at five doses a vial.
But Pfizer increased the dose size to six on January 8 and started charging ... |
| Jan 27, 2021 | Sweden is withholding vaccine payments to Pfizer as it suspects it is being overcharged | Vaccines seen at Östra Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Sweden had a contract to buy the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at five doses at vial.
But Pfizer increased the dose size to six on January 8 and started charging... |
| Jan 16, 2021 | Sweden Considers Language Exam Requirement For New Citizens | The government of Sweden wants to make it harder to become a Swedish citizen.Kirill Kukhmar/TASS |
| Jan 8, 2021 | Sweden Ushers In Pandemic Law, Announces New Restrictions | Sweden's Minister for Health and Social Affairs Lena Hallengren said the government needed more ... [+] specific powers to control the coronavirus pandemic.TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images |
| Dec 13, 2020 | December EU Travel Restrictions By Country: Christmas Quarantine And Covid-19 Test Requirements | The EU uses a traffic light map from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control as a ... [+] guideline to the high risk countries from which travel should be limited (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty I... |
| Jul 25, 2020 | Sweden's Covid-19 policy looks like a disaster — but the country is determined to see it through | People sit outside in Malmo, Sweden, in May 2020 by a sign that urges people to keep their distance during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sweden avoided a full lockdown, instead introducing some ... |
| Jun 6, 2020 | In Sweden, people with coronavirus symptoms say getting a test is nearly impossible | Coronavirus blood samples in front of the Swedish flag.
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Sweden lags beyond much of the world in its coronavirus testing rate.
Some residents with coronavirus symptoms say they can't get te... |
| May 24, 2020 | 8 countries have coronavirus death rates above 10% — here's how SA compares | Health workers spray germ-killing liquid into the bodies of residents who will enter urban areas in Palu, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. (Getty)
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| May 22, 2020 | Sweden's per capita coronavirus death toll is among the highest in the world — a sign its decision to avoid a lockdown may not be working | People in Stockholm on April 8. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki
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Sweden never issued a mandatory lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, instead asking its citizens to voluntarily maintain social distance.
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| May 21, 2020 | Simple Ways Fans Can Help Support Musicians During The Pandemic | flat lay of a street musician's gearGetty |
| May 17, 2020 | Europe Travel: Beaches In Greece, Sex In Holland, Tourism Corridors, Traveling Bubbles...But Not For All | Beachgoers enjoying the sun and sea at a public beach during the official reopening of beaches to ... [+] the public in Varkiza, Greece.Getty Images |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Despite Heavy Setbacks, Sweden Sticks To Its Light-Touch Pandemic Strategy, Leaving Its Schools, Cafes And Bars Open | Hey, Let's Stop For A Drink: A cafe in central Stockholm, Sweden, on April 11, 2020. (Photo by ... [+] Anders WIKLUND / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by ANDERS WIKLUND/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)TT News Agency/AFP via G... |
| Apr 14, 2020 | The State Department Should Designate the Russian Imperial Movement as a Foreign Terrorist Organization | On April 6, the federal government took an important step toward confronting the threat of far-right extremist violence in the United States by designating the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and three of its leaders as Specially Designated... |
| Feb 12, 2020 | A victory over Sweden’s colonialism | In late January, the Indigenous Saami reindeer-herding community, Girjas, won a significant legal battle against the Swedish state. The Swedish Supreme Court legally recognised the Indigenous community’s ancestral claim to the land they liv... |
| Jan 8, 2020 | Questions for Klarna as study warns “pay later” schemes damaging millions of shoppers’ credit scores | New research has warned that “shop now, pay later” schemes are affecting shoppers’ credit scores, casting fresh concerns about the credit model popular among millennials.
The survey, conducted in the UK by comparethemarket.com, reveals that... |
| Oct 11, 2019 | Accountability for Islamic State Fighters: What Are the Options? | President Trump’s sudden announcement that the U.S. would withdraw forces from along the Syria-Turkey border has already had dramatic consequences. Turkish armed forces launched an invasion into northern Syria dubbed “Operation Peace Spring... |
| Dec 19, 2018 | Music Festival That Banned Cisgender Men Found Guilty of Discrimination | Statement Festival billed itself as the first music festival in the world exclusively for cisgender women, nonbinary and transgender people. Now the Swedish authorities have found that it is in breach of discrimination law for describing it... |
| Nov 5, 2018 | A Swedish ISP has blocked Elsevier’s website in protest for forcing it to block Sci-Hub | Bahnhof’s page blocking access to Sci-Hub. (Screenshot: TechCrunch)
A little known fact about Swedes: when they get angry, they will often scribble down a note on paper — sometimes anonymously — and leave it where it will be seen, rather th... |
| Nov 5, 2018 | Bots distorted the 2016 Election. Will the midterms be a sequel? | Tiffany Olson Kleemann Contributor
Tiffany Olson Kleemann is the chief executive officer of Distil Networks. She formerly served in executive roles at Symantec and FireEye and was deputy chief of staff for cybersecurity operations under Pre... |
| Oct 24, 2018 | Businesses Broke Ground on Blockchain. What Can Civic Groups Learn? | At best, blockchain has been a trial-and-error technology. For every successful cryptocurrency, there are a dozen cases like Civil, which had to cancel its initial coin offering after failing to gain traction on a plan to use blockchain to ... |
| Oct 9, 2018 | China’s Human Rights Abuses Against Uighurs in Xinjiang | During a 2013 trip to Kazakhstan, Xi Jinping announced the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI)—China’s ambitious plan to enhance its “friendship” with the rest of the world through expanded investments in infrastructure and trade. Xinjiang, a ... |
| Oct 4, 2018 | Long May She Reign: 8-Year-Old Girl Pulls Pre-Viking Sword from Lake | An eight-year-old girl in Sweden has discovered a pre-Viking era sword, according to The Local, a Swedish English-language digital news site. The girl, Saga Vanecek, was going for a swim in a local lake when she stepped on the sword.
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| Oct 2, 2018 | Confused Swedish Ad Board Says 'Distracted Boyfriend Meme' Is Sexist | It’s pretty difficult to have been on the internet over the past year or so and not come across the distracted boyfriend meme. It has been everywhere. And, unlike many other memes, this one’s popularity has shown little sign of waning. If s... |
| Sep 27, 2018 | Beijing calls Swedish satire show racist after it warned Chinese tourists not to eat dogs | A part of the show warning Chinese tourists not to defecate in public.
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A Swedish satirical TV show last week appeared to mock Chinese tourists, warning them not to mistake dogs for food or to defecate in public.
China's em... |
| Sep 11, 2018 | Controversial contraception app approved in U.S. drawing scrutiny overseas | European regulators are ramping up their scrutiny of a controversial app that its backers hail as a side-effect-free alternative to hormonal birth control pills — and which the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. just cleared last mont... |
| Aug 24, 2018 | LeoVegas Introduces BankID for Customers in Sweden | LeoVegas is one of the largest operators on the market. With its vast operations and rich portfolio of iGaming products, the company is definitely a favorite among gamers of all stripes. Even though LeoVegas has had a bit of trouble in Ital... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | Everything we know about the fatal wildfires in Greece | At least 74 people, many of them children, have been killed by devastating wildfires raging east of Athens, Greek authorities said Tuesday.
The fast-moving blaze forced many locals to race into the sea into a desperate bid to escape the fla... |
| Jun 18, 2018 | Swedish Wish customers will get their orders faster | Swedish postal service PostNord has signed a deal with Wish, so customers will no longer have to pay VAT or handling fees upon the arrival of parcels to Sweden. Instead, shoppers will now be charged VAT at the point of purchase. As a result... |
| Feb 17, 2018 | Sweden to probe for local cobalt and lithium mining | Sweden is exploring the option to dig for cobalt and lithium on its own territory in an attempt to revive its traditional mining areas. The government in Stockholm has reserved 10 million kronor (1m euros) for the project, with results expe... |
| Jan 19, 2018 | Sweden is bracing its citizens for war with Russia | The Swedish government will distribute leaflets to the country’s 4.7 million households later this year explaining what to do if war breaks out with Russia, the Civil Contingencies Agency in Stockholm said Thursday.
The announcement comes i... |
| Jan 12, 2018 | These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Happy Friday!
This week, we tracked 56 tech funding deals worth more than €286 million, as well as 8 M&A transactions across Europe, Israel, and Turkey.
We listed every single deal in our weekly newsletter (note: the full newsletter is ... |
| Oct 22, 2017 | Can We Stop Terrorist Vehicular Attacks? | Editor’s Note: Among the many terrifying forms of violence ISIS and other terrorist groups are using, one of the newest, and deadliest, is the use of cars and trucks to run down innocent people. So far, governments have struggled in vain to... |
| Sep 10, 2017 | PewDiePie, the world’s most popular YouTuber, is back making more racist comments | PewDiePie, the world’s most popular YouTube broadcaster with over 57 million subscribers, is back once again making racist comments.
The broadcaster, real name Felix Kjellberg, lost a lucrative contract with Disney earlier this year after p... |
| Aug 16, 2017 | ‘D–k Pic Locator’ is every perv’s worst nightmare | Originally Published by:
No matter how sophisticated our technology gets, we humans stay the same.
We all carry incredibly powerful computers in our pockets that can tap into the vast history of human knowledge at any given time. And they c... |
| Jul 13, 2017 | Frustrated Foreign Fighters | Returned foreign fighters pose a significant terrorism threat to their home countries, but policies that aim to block the flow of foreigners frustrate some of these would-be jihadists. That frustration poses new problems.
Foreign fighters g... |
| Apr 10, 2017 | Топ-менеджер Spotify погиб при теракте в Стокгольме | Отдел новостей 10 апреля 2017, 10:32 Топ-менеджер Spotify погиб при теракте в Стокгольме
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| Apr 3, 2017 | Bosses are already tracking employees with microchip implants | Originally Published by:
Some workers have been implanted with microchips that allow the companies that employ them to track their every move.
Swedish company Epicenter will embed a chip into about 150 workers, so bosses can monitor toilet ... |
| Feb 24, 2017 | A Swedish town could give employees paid time off to have sex | Matthias Hangst/Getty Images
Sweden supporters enjoy the atmosphere prior to the UEFA EURO 2016 Group E match between Republic of Ireland and Sweden at Stade de France on June 13, 2016 in Paris, France.
Sweden isn't just good at helping par... |
| Dec 8, 2016 | Stockholm Syndrome | When it comes to tech startup co-working spaces, Stockholm has an embarrassment of riches – and not just in numerical terms (there are thought to be at least 20 in the city), but in the sheer variety of what’s on offer too. Whether founders... |
| Sep 19, 2016 | Tech.eu Podcast #58: Amazon Echo comes to Europe, Northzone closes €300 million fund, an interview with Funding Circle and more | The Tech.eu podcast is a weekly show where Robin Wauters and Roxanne Varza discuss the most interesting stories from the European technology scene.
You can find the latest episode below. Subscribe to the podcast today and don’t miss new epi... |
| Sep 11, 2016 | Swedish Woman Completely Flips Out, Lands in Jail Over Pancetta in Bolognese Sauce | Please. Don't blame the Bolognese.
If your shitty boyfriend disinvites you to a birthday party for his son, all because his family says they don't want you there, don't hurl a plate of spaghetti Bolognese at his head. And—above all else—don... |
| Jul 29, 2016 | Badass Swedish Cop Takes Down Pickpocket While Sunbathing | A pickpocket made the unwise decision to try to steal from a group of off-duty police officers, and the result was brilliantly captured in a viral Instagram picture shared by the Swedish police officer Mikaela Kellner, who tackled the rogue... |
| Jun 17, 2016 | A Journey to the 'Epicenter' of Sweden's Creative Tech Boom | A former bank building in what used to be Stockholm's red light district might be the last place you'd expect to find a bustling innovation hub, but if there's one thing Epicenter thrives on, it's changing perceptions. At just about a year-... |
| Apr 6, 2016 | Swedish Court: Wikipedia Hosting Photos Of Public Artwork Is Copyright Infringement For Some Reason | Wikimedia has, of course, a somewhat tortured history when it comes to copyright and artwork that appears on Wikipedia. Whether it’s political logos, German museum art, and this goddamned monkey, Wikipedia often finds itself targeted over u... |
| Feb 26, 2016 | Secret Bunkers and Sex Contracts: A Horrifying History of Swedish Kidnappings | This article was originally published on VICE Sweden
Kidnappings might not be that common in Sweden, but when they do happen, they are pretty fucked up. So much so that Stockholm syndrome, a peculiar phenomenon in which hostages develop pos... |
| Feb 24, 2016 | Ed-tech in Sweden – a black hole? | “Ed-tech is boiling over here in Sweden”, says Jannie Jeppesen, founder of Ed-tech Sweden. But the community remains a black hole for Swedes – and even ed-tech companies themselves. Ed-tech Sweden is now launching the first ever mapping of ... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | The convenient store of the future is always open and has no employees | More On: apps
Apple, Google block Alexei Navalny's app in act of 'political censorship' Pawp online vet platform gives you a $3,000 emergency fund for your pet Andreessen Horowitz Citizen app offer had 'too many strings attached': sources P... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | The convenient store of the future is always open and has no employees | More On: apps
Millennials miss cheap luxuries as prices skyrocket How I lost $650,000 of crypto in seconds Woman reveals plan to catch date lying about height: Genius or evil? Grocery apps try to shed NYC delivery hubs' 'crackhouse' reputat... |
| Dec 7, 2015 | A Pizza-Hating Couple Tried to Shut Down Their Neighborhood Pizzeria | Who wouldn't want to live next to a pizzeria?
The savory smell of cooking dough, burning wood, and the slow sear of toppings can induce hunger in almost anyone. Almost.
READ: Why I Hate Pizza
Last week, reports emerged of a Swedish couple t... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | Sweden's Terror Threat Level Has Been Upped to Its Highest Point Ever | The Swedish Security Service (SAPO) announced on Wednesday that the nation’s terror threat level was at the highest point since the system had been in use.
The threat level is now set to “high” or a level four, the second highest level in S... |
| Oct 9, 2015 | A Rotten Fish Party Sent Stockholm into a Panic | Fermented is a nice way of saying rotten.
And many of our favourite foods are basically delicious decay. Every year, the average South Koreans eats 40 pounds of spicy, rotten cabbage, better known as kimchi. Booze is rotten fruits or grains... |
| Sep 11, 2015 | NATO is Two Properties Away From a Baltic Monopoly, and Russia Is Freaking Out | Sweden and Finland may be getting closer to joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as Russia continues its aggressive posturing in the Baltic Sea.
Last week, after 200 years of Swedish neutrality, the country's Center Party s... |
| Aug 31, 2015 | Europe’s top tech news, August 2015 | Enlarge reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating
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| Aug 13, 2015 | FactCheck: is ridesharing no safer than hitchhiking? | Ridesharing. It’s no safer than hitchhiking. – full page advertisement by the NSW Taxi Council.
Allowing illegal taxi services to operate unregulated puts the public at significant risk. – NSW Taxi Council CEO Roy Wakelin-King, interview, T... |
| Apr 24, 2015 | Watch The First Donut In Space | It’s hard to believe that a month ago humans were unable to launch a donut into space. It was March 2015 and the world was in turmoil. Space travel was but a dream for even the richest pastry and we humans would never be able to grasp the c... |
| Jan 15, 2015 | Activist pulls off clever Wi-Fi honeypot to protest surveillance state | Gustav Nipe, seen here in this 2006 photo, is the chairman of the Young Pirates.
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| Dec 16, 2014 | Anonymous Allegedly Attacking Swedish Servers For Pirate Bay Shutdown | Anonymous is attacking Swedish government servers, including police services, in retaliation for the shutdown of the The Pirate Bay, a bit torrent aggregator. The attacks, mostly denial-of-service efforts, have been most recently aimed at t... |
| Jul 26, 2014 | Pirate Bay Founder’s Religious Rights Spark New Complaint | It’s been almost two months since former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde was located on a farm in Sweden and spirited away by a specialist police unit.
Sunde’s destination was Västervik Norra, the prison allocated to him following the fina... |
| May 27, 2014 | Spotify was hacked: Download the next update, Android users | Password carousel begins yet again.
Today, music streaming platform Spotify revealed that a security breach has taken place, affecting one of the service’s Android users.
Only that one user’s personal details were accessed, Spotify claims, ... |
| May 15, 2014 |
Stockholm start-up smackdown: investors feel the sting | Three Stockholm entrepreneurs gave four well-heeled investors a taste of their own medicine last week, rewriting the standard start-up narrative and exacting sweet revenge – with surprising results. The Local and business accelerator STING ... |
| Apr 15, 2014 | Putin’s Actions in Ukraine Give NATO a New Purpose | More than two decades after the Cold War supposedly came to a peaceful conclusion, Russia’s encroachment on Ukrainian sovereignty and its outright annexation of Crimea have occasioned a retro flashback. A byproduct of this geopolitical turm... |
| Dec 3, 2013 | How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the PISA | It’s hard to surf the web this week without coming across news headlines shrieking about the most recent PISA scores: Among them: "PISA Results show 'educational stagnation' in the US" and "Sweden tumbles in global schools ra... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Sweden's Version Of The NSA Almost Indistinguishable From The 'Original' | All the news that’s rolled in over the past few weeks has converted former suspicions into a truism: intelligence agencies break laws. It’s not just the NSA blowing past legal boundaries in its quest for more data. The GCHQ has severely dam... |
| Jun 10, 2013 | MPAA Still Hunting for Cash as Pirate Bay Financier Set to go Bankrupt | Following their earlier convictions for copyright infringement, Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, former site spokesman Peter Sunde, and financier Carl Lundström owed considerable amounts in damages.
After an appea... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Sweden Axes the Word ‘Ungoogleable’ After Google Intervenes | Google has successfully pressured the Swedish Language Council to remove a new word because it risks turning “google” into a generic term.
It’s a testament to Google’s dominance that most people simply say “google it” when they really mean ... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | ‘Ungoogleable’ is no longer a word in Sweden after legal pressure from Google | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Mar 26, 2013 | ‘Ungoogleable’ is no longer a word in Sweden after legal pressure from Google | Officially speaking, “ungoogleable” is no longer a legitimate word, according to a recent decision by the Swedish Language Council.
The council opted to remove the word from its official list after facing legal pressure from Google, who did... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Google forces a new Swedish word out of (official) existence | reader comments 90 with 62 posters participating
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The Swedish Language Council has nuked a word from its list of new terms for 2012 at Google’s request, according to a repor... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Google Got in a Fight with Sweden Over The Word ‘Ungoogleable’ | Found with the assistance of Google.
These big tech companies really do think of themselves as nations unto themselves, don’t they? For example: Google. Even as chairman Eric Schmidt jets around the world, lecturing nations on the benefits ... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Nearly 2,500 Swedes Form Giant Human Facebook Like on Ice | Ever wondered what nearly 2,500 people standing on a frozen lake in the shape of a Facebook “like” looks like? Of course you have.
Well, wonder no more. In an attempt to set a world record, 2.493 residents of Luleå, Sweden gathered atop a f... |
| Mar 2, 2013 | Video: Pirate Bay Founder Thanks Supporters From Inside Prison | For years and despite overwhelming odds and opposition, The Pirate Bay has continued its work, spurred on by the ideals of its founders and the early vision of Piratbyran.
While today the site is as strong as ever, there have been costs alo... |
| Dec 18, 2012 | Sext Instagram account incites riot | Swedish teenagers rush the doors of a high school attempting to assault the girl who collected sexual accusations. reader comments 59 with 41 posters participating, including story author
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| Nov 10, 2012 | Are Games Really That Persuasive? | Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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| May 31, 2012 | German ISP claims to deliver 4.7Gbps download speed in field test | reader comments 34 with 26 posters participating, including story author
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| May 10, 2012 | No, Folks, File Sharing is Not a Religion | The U.S. Constitution, enacted in 1787, guarantees freedom of religion for its citizens. Sweden’s Constitution Act, passed in 1974, grants the same freedom, but having been ratified in the electronic age, explicitly extends the right to exp... |
| Feb 1, 2012 | Supreme Court Denies Appeal For The Pirate Bay Founders | Despite significant questions raised on some of the specifics of the lower court’s ruling against the folks behind The Pirate Bay, the Swedish Supreme Court announced today that it would not hear the appeal in the case. In theory, this mean... |
| Oct 10, 2011 | Musicians get new app to sell music on Facebook | CD Baby offers free application to make it easier for its members to sell to Facebook fans
One of the largest online distributors of independent music has officially launched a music-buying application on Facebook. CD Baby announced Monday ... |
| Aug 30, 2011 | Swedish Teenager Turned Over To Police By School Headmaster For File Sharing Acquitted By Court | Last week, there was a lot of attention to criminal charges brought against a 15-year-old kid in Sweden, after his school’s headmaster turned him over to the police after discovering some downloaded films and file sharing software on his co... |
| Jul 14, 2011 | Swedish Occupational Psychologist First To Recognize The Debilitating Effects Of Heavy Metal Music | Sweden, home of an unofficial pirate religion, an official Pirate Party and shockingly reasonable infringement fines has upped the ante on every country wishing to fill the local papers with ONLY “weird news” features. Via Marginal Revoluti... |
| May 15, 2011 | The Local Receives SEK10M Equity Financing | The Local, a Stockholm, Sweden-based online publisher, has received a SEK 10m equity financing.
The round was led by Almi Invest with participation from existing investors. The Local is owned by the Sixth AP Fund, IQube, and other private i... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | Swedes may soon exchange postage stamps for SMS codes | reader comments 33 with 29 posters participating
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| Oct 18, 2010 | Thief Steals Computer… Then Sends Its Owner USB Stick With All His Lost Data | Losing a computer can be quite traumatic, especially if you’re not good about backing up your data. So, imagine the surprise from a professor who had his laptop stolen (without having backed up his data), only to find a week later that the ... |
| Sep 8, 2010 | Rather Than Whine About Used Markets, Why Not Enable Them Yourself? | We were recently talking about how so many in the video game industry seem so antagonistic to the used video game market, despite widespread evidence that a healthy secondary market helps the primary market in a variety of ways. Reader John... |
| Aug 3, 2010 | Pirate Bay Founder Appeals “Political Gagging” Court Order | In May this year the Swedish Court of Appeals confirmed an earlier ruling by the District Court which prohibited two Pirate Bay founders, Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, from operating the site. The pair faced a 500,000 kronor ($70,000... |
| Jul 21, 2010 | People Aren't Buying Blank CDs Any More, So Collection Agency Demands Media Levy Expanded To Mobile Phones | We’ve always found the concept of blank media “levies” to be strange. They’re a kind of “you must be a criminal” tax, that aims to shoehorn in an unworkable business model in a way that highly distorts an actual market. But, of course, then... |
| Jun 25, 2010 | ‘No Evidence’ Anti-Piracy Group Hacked FTP Server | The very first court case to test Sweden’s fledgling IPRED anti-piracy legislation has not progressed as smoothly as entertainment companies might have hoped.
Soon after IPRED became law in 2009, five book publishers aided by anti-piracy gr... |
| May 4, 2010 | Guy Sues Google Because It Points To Articles He Claims Are Defamatory | Not this again. Michael Scott points us to the news of a guy in Sweden who is suing Google because he doesn’t like the links it provides when people search on his name. Indeed, it’s possible that there are defamatory blog posts about the gu... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | How to be the world’s greatest ISP | reader comments 94 with 79 posters participating
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Internet Service Providers are a modern day necessity, but that doesn't stop many of us from hating them sometimes. In many... |
