Denmark's left-leaning parties have agreed to change the country's sexual violence laws to allow sex without explicit consent to be prosecuted as rape ~news denmark politics crime law Article 162 words 21 votes
ThinkPad X1 Carbon with Fedora preloaded available for purchase ~tech linux Article 364 words 22 votes
Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea ~humanities.history Article 332 words 8 votes
Arizona university prevents potential Covid outbreak by testing feces ~health Article 364 words 8 votes
Johnny Depp files for defamation case delay to film ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ ~movies Article 344 words 11 votes
A next-generation version of The Witcher 3 is in progress, and will release as a stand-alone purchase as well as a free update for owners of the existing game ~games Link 9 votes
Taiwan to change passport, fed up with confusion with China ~news taiwan china Article 336 words 14 votes
Chicago Sky's Courtney Vandersloot sets a WNBA record with eighteen assists in a win over the Indiana Fever ~sports.basketball Article 315 words 4 votes
The Outlaw Ocean Music Project - Hundreds of musicians from around the world creating EPs inspired by "The Outlaw Ocean", a non-fiction book by Ian Urbina ~music Article 245 words 11 votes
Airline pilots landing at LAX report "a guy in a jetpack" flying alongside them ~transport Article 372 words 17 votes
Porn star Ron Jeremy charged with sexually assaulting four women ~news usa.ca.los angeles crime Article 322 words 8 votes
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
Violence erupts in Malmö after anti-Muslim activity – right-wing extremists had burned a copy of the Quran and a Danish politician was barred from entering the country ~news sweden.malmo denmark Article 236 words, published Aug 10 2020 9 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
Sweden is beefing up its military presence in the Baltic Sea amid concerns over increased Russian activity in the region and heightened tensions in Belarus ~news sweden politics russia belarus Article 319 words 13 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
US universities seek ways to protect students and faculty from being prosecuted by Chinese authorities ~life education.higher Article 399 words 7 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
Private equity firm Blackstone Group will acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion, placing a big bet on family-tree chasing as well as personalized medicine ~finance business Article 273 words 17 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
Poland Supreme Court validates presidential election results ~news poland politics Article 376 words 7 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