Twenty-five people have been taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after attending an illegal rave in a bunker in the Norwegian capital, Oslo ~health Article 189 words 9 votes
Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction ~science chemistry physics.quantum Article 337 words 11 votes
Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts ~enviro climate change Article 237 words 10 votes
TietoEVRY, a software company from Finland, has developed a new font called Polite Type which uses machine learning to rewrite offensive language into more inclusive forms ~tech Article 322 words, published Aug 21 2020 10 votes
Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito throws MLB's first no-hitter of 2020 season ~sports.baseball Article 208 words 6 votes
Uber and Lyft both threaten to suspend their services in California unless the ruling requiring them to classify drivers as employees is overturned ~transport Article 375 words 18 votes
Apple becomes first US company to reach a $2 trillion market cap ~finance business Article 126 words 12 votes
Ubisoft fires former Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director following an investigation ~games Article 327 words, published Aug 14 2020 8 votes
United States Postal Service (USPS) files patent for a blockchain-based voting system ~tech Article 368 words 24 votes
AMC Theatres to offer fifteen-cent tickets for older films on first day of reopening ~movies Article 298 words 8 votes
Denmark's vegan party says it has enough support to run for parliament – the party, founded in 2018, reached the 20,182 declarations needed on Thursday ~news denmark politics Article 267 words 13 votes
US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent) ~tech social media Article 303 words 19 votes
Southampton midfielder Pierre-Emile Højbjerg will complete his move to Tottenham Hotspur this weekend, with Kyle Walker-Peters heading the other way ~sports.football Article 240 words 2 votes
Beirut hit by massive explosions, killing over 135 people and injuring over 5000 ~news lebanon.beirut Article 219 words 37 votes
Epic Games closes a $1.78 billion funding round, with the company's valuation now at $17.3 billion ~games Article 158 words 5 votes
Virginia touts nation's first contact tracing app with Apple-Google tech ~health Article 216 words 6 votes
The extraordinary story of Thomas Quick, the Swedish serial killer who never existed ~life Article 398 words, published Jul 27 2020 4 votes
Owners of a US B&B have removed a Norwegian flag from outside their business after being accused of promoting racism from people who thought it was a Confederate flag ~news norway usa.mi.st johns Article 306 words 17 votes
Anti-Putin protest in Russia’s far east attracts thousands for a fourth weekend ~news russia.khabarovsk politics Article 321 words 9 votes
UAE starts operations at Arab world's first nuclear power plant ~enviro energy Article 352 words 4 votes
Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become world’s most valuable company ~tech apple Article 151 words 12 votes
A Norwegian man on Saturday set the new world record for singing Elvis Presley songs for fifty hours, fifty minutes and fifty seconds straight in an online competition ~music Article 381 words 6 votes
Survey of 760 US museums shows extreme financial distress from the pandemic, with almost all reporting that they have a year or less of financial operating reserves remaining ~arts Article 292 words, published Jul 22 2020 9 votes
Disney delays ‘Mulan’ release indefinitely, pushes back all upcoming ‘Avatar’ and ‘Star Wars’ movies by a year, and more ~movies Article 337 words 9 votes
Hundreds of unreleased prototype games are playable for free on the Internet Archive ~games Article 319 words 5 votes
Yelp says more than half of restaurants temporarily closed are now permanently shuttered ~food restaurants Article 270 words 9 votes
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller 'Tenet' delayed indefinitely ~movies science fiction Article 398 words 16 votes
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder arrested in connection with $60 million bribery scheme ~news usa.oh crime politics.usa Article 156 words 19 votes
China blows up dam as death toll from flooding rises ~enviro energy.renewable Article 320 words 12 votes
Greta Thunberg has been awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the €1m prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change ~enviro Article 278 words 13 votes
An app lets you de-stress by screaming at the Icelandic wilderness from afar ~life Article 242 words 9 votes
eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces ~finance business Article 350 words 6 votes
Twitter disables video in Trump retweet after Linkin Park files copyright complaint ~tech social media Article 372 words 10 votes