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Vienna No Longer the Most Livable City in the World: Copenhagen Takes Top Spot
Vindobona
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Vienna, once the undisputed number one, had to concede defeat to the Danish capital Copenhagen in this year's ranking by the EIU, the research and analysis division of the Economist Group. Vienna had held the title of the world's most livable city...
Women can be drafted into the Danish military as Russian aggression grows
New York Post
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July 1, 2025
Peering across a dense stretch of woodland outside of Denmark’s capital with camouflage paint smeared across her face, 20-year-old Katrine scans the horizon for approaching threats. After nearly four months of military training, the young soldier...
Tesla sales drop in Sweden and Denmark, while Model Y boosts Norway deliveries
Regional Media News - Iowa
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July 1, 2025
By Amir Orusov (Reuters) -Tesla’s sales dropped for a sixth straight month in Sweden and Denmark in June, underscoring the challenges the EV-maker faces as competitors gain market share and CEO Elon Musk’s popularity declines. However, in Norway...
Why is U.S. losing its appeal
Independent (Uganda)
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July 6, 2025
US President Donald Trump Beijing, China | Shao Xia | The Economist recently featured an article titled “How China Became Cool” — a rare departure from its typical tone on China. The article highlights not only China’s growing global appeal, but...
Scientists ‘freeze’ light into a supersolid using ‘quantum theatre’
The Hindu
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June 29, 2025
Light always travels at 3 lakh km per second in a vacuum. It cannot be trapped and solidified because the particles of light, photons, have no rest mass and don’t interact strongly with each other. Generally, light exists only as a particle or...
Building a More Inclusive Future in Biotech
Technology Networks
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Although progress has been made in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) across the biotech industry, LGBTQ+ professionals still face significant challenges. These ongoing barriers highlight the continued need for efforts to build truly...
My Own HomeDistressed sale ends in bargain for French entrepreneur
The National News
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My Own Home takes you inside a reader-owned property to ask how much they paid, why they decided to buy and what they have done with it since moving in Laurie Fersing, a French entrepreneur who has her own facilities management company, has lived...
Denmark’s Plan to Fight Deepfakes: Give Citizens Copyright to Their Own Likeness
Gizmodo
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June 28, 2025
Here’s a weird potential future: When you’re born, you are issued a birth certificate, a social security card, and a copyright. That possibility is emerging in Denmark, where officials are considering changes to the nation’s copyright laws to...
Lyon joins Denmark & Germany in ditching Microsoft software for open-source tools
WindowsReport.com
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June 30, 2025
Another major European city is cutting ties with Microsoft. Lyon, the third-largest city in France, is officially ditching Windows, Microsoft Office, and SQL Server in favor of open-source alternatives like Linux, OnlyOffice, and PostgreSQL. This...
Italy's beach concessions: the need for urgent reform
Meer
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July 6, 2025
The Italian government is guilty of repeatedly delaying the process of assigning beach concessions by tender, continuing a protectionist policy that goes against the principles of the Bolkestein Directive.1 The Bolkestein Directive is an EU law...
The 10 best British TV shows of 2025 (so far), and where to stream them
Mashable
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July 6, 2025
As always, British TV has kicked off the year with a swathe of excellent TV shows that have destroyed us, lifted us up, made us cackle, and provoked cultural conversation. We'd love to go outside, truly, but with the streaming schedule we've had,...
Scientists Decode DNA of Greek Feta Cheese
Greek Reporter
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June 28, 2025
Scientists Decode DNA of Greek Feta Cheese. Credit: Zone 41/Wikimedia Commons/ CC-BY-2.0 According to the Academy of Athens, scientists decoded the DNA of the famous Greek Feta cheese. Recently, scientists from the Biomedical Research Foundation...
Deadly Salmonella Variant Persists: Researchers Highlight Potential Solutions
Bioengineer.org
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June 30, 2025
Salmonella Dublin: The Silent Menace Threatening Global Dairy Farms and Human Health Salmonella is often associated with poultry, but a less known and insidious variant—Salmonella Dublin—poses a significant threat to cattle herds worldwide, as...
Media Framing Fuels Refugee Stigma
Psychology Today
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Every day, newspapers publish stories that represent migrants and refugees in highly politicised ways with a focus on tragic events, numbers of migrants entering a country, and their implicit threat to the host country’s culture and well-being....
Denmark to give citizens copyright protections over their own image and voice to combat AI-deepfakes
New York Post
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June 28, 2025
Legal code getting a face lift. Denmark is expected to pass legislation granting citizens copyright protections over their own image and voice to combat the rise of artificial intelligence-created deepfakes, according to a report. A broad...
Denmark seeks to make it illegal to spread deepfake images
1News
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Denmark is taking steps toward enacting a ban on the use of “deepfake” imagery online, saying such digital manipulations can stir doubts about reality and foster misinformation. The government said in a statement that a “broad cross section” of...
German BSI Head: Tech Sovereignty Needs Technical Solution
Bank Information Security - New Jersey
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Cloud Security , Security Operations Claudia Plattner Says Complete Switch to European Technologies Is Unrealistic Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 30, 2025 Clouds over Berlin. (Image: Shutterstock) European ambitions to replace foreign tech...
I was coughing up blood… Three months later I rode Tour de France
Yahoo Sports
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Training for Tour de France success is a task that would make an ascetic’s eyes water. As part of his bid to topple defending champion Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard spends three weeks in May putting the hard miles in on Spain’s Sierra...
Danish monarch pledges increased investment in Nigeria’s port infrastructure
Business Day
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June 28, 2025
L-R: Terminal Manager, APM Terminals Apapa, Steen Knudsen; Queen Mary of Denmark; Marketing Officer, GIVO Africa, Adetomiwa Isiaka and Managing Director of Freee Recycle Limited, Ifedolapo Runsewe during a demonstration to the Queen when she...
Denmark Grants Citizens Copyright Protection for Facial Features, Voice, and Body
Top News
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In a move that could set a precedent for digital rights across the globe, Denmark has unveiled a legislative framework that grants individuals intellectual property rights over their own physical likeness—including their faces, voices, and bodies....