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Photo by Lukas Kloeppel on Pexels.com It’s no surprise that Norway is leading the world in EV adoption, but 2023 saw the country reach new heights with electric vehicles taking a record 82% market share, and Tesla with a whopping 20% market share. And despite Tesla’s ongoing labor disputes in the region and blocks on imports, Tesla’s sales in Sweden grew by 9% in December. In Norway, the American EV maker is leading the charge with 20% market share, a huge jump from last year’s 12.2%,…

Arkon Energy, a data center infrastructure company, closed a $110 million private funding round to expand its operations, the company’s CEO Josh Payne shared exclusively with TechCrunch. The round was led by Bluesky Capital Management and included participation from Kestrel 0x1 and Nural Capital. The company launched in 2021 and began with a 5-megawatt site in Australia. It’s since grown to over 130 megawatts and has expanded into other countries and regions like the U.S. and Europe. “These sites appeal to both…

Akron Energy, a data center infrastructure company, closed a $110 million private funding round to expand its operations, the company’s CEO Josh Payne shared exclusively with TechCrunch. The round was led by Bluesky Capital Management and included participation from Kestrel 0x1, Nural Capital and Florence Capital. The company launched in 2021 and began with a 5-megawatt site in Australia. It’s since grown to over 130 megawatts and has expanded into other countries and regions like the U.S. and Europe. “These sites…

Picture yourself in a rapid train and before your gaze, scenes waltz away, revealing mere snippets of the world outside. Falling into a trance, you attempt to get hold of your thoughts, reaching for the Rasa, yet it slips away like sand. This is exactly what Jon Olav Fosse reads like, similar to a mental battleground where thoughts fight for attention, guided by what he calls “Langsam Prosa” – a deliberate embrace of unhurried, slow prose. And in words which form an intimate and unique connection to the reader.…

TikTok has promised to invest €12bn as part of an ongoing push to appease European regulators, who have raised suspicions that the app’s user data is being monitored by the Chinese government. In response to repeated allegations of this nature, the short-form video app launched Project Clover in March. While it might sound like a secret military sting operation, the programme is pretty mundane.  Essentially, Project Clover aims to build three massive data centres on the continent to keep…

Meta Platforms is breaking European data privacy rules in Norway, the country's data regulator told a court on Wednesday, in a case that could have wider European implications.Meta has been fined one million crowns (roughly Rs. 8 crore) per day since August 14 for breaching users' privacy by harvesting user data and using it to target advertising at them.So-called behavioural advertising is a business model common to Big Tech.The owner of Facebook and Instagram is seeking a temporary injunction against the order, which…

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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA mayor in Norway, who was supposed to destroy motorbikes used in the latest Mission: Impossible movie, has admitted he set out on a cheeky mission of his own – to keep the bikes as mementos.Mayor Jan Ove Tryggestad has been kept two of the mangled bikes secret for almost three years, after they were used in a death-defying stunt in Dead Reckoning that involved franchise star Tom…

Meta will face a hefty fine over advertising practices that violate user privacy, Norway's data protection authority said Monday, unless the Facebook and Instagram owner takes action to comply with the law. Norwegian regulator Datatilsynet says that behavioral advertising - a common marketing model that profiles users by collection information like their physical locations, among other data - without consent is illegal. Because of this, Datatilsynet imposing a "temporary ban" of such practices on Facebook and Instagram.…

Datatilsynet, Norway’s Data Protection Authority, will temporarily ban behavioural advertising on Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram due to privacy violations. The ban will apply from August 4 and last for three months – or until the US giant addresses the legal requirements. If Meta doesn’t take action, it risks a fine of up to €88,600 per day. The decision follows the latest ruling by the EU’s Court of Justice (CJEU), which deemed Meta’s behavioural advertising practices incompatible with…