https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Planes were gradually taking off again Saturday after global airlines, banks and media were thrown into turmoil by one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years, caused by an update to an antivirus programme. https://www.thelocal.no/20240721/flights-resume-after-global-it-crash-wreaks-havoc Sun, 21 Jul 2024 08:44:31 +0200 flights-resume-after-global-it-crash-wreaks-havoc Businesses across Europe - including airports, airlines and other transport operators - have been hit by major IT problems caused by a rogue software update. https://www.thelocal.no/20240719/breaking-european-travel-services-hit-by-major-global-it-glitch Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:46:53 +0200 breaking-european-travel-services-hit-by-major-global-it-glitch US tech giant Meta on Tuesday asked a Norwegian court to defer a ban on behavioural marketing based on users' personal information, which has landed it a heavy fine in the country. https://www.thelocal.no/20230823/meta-to-fight-norways-daily-1-million-kroner-data-fines Wed, 23 Aug 2023 11:20:35 +0200 meta-to-fight-norways-daily-1-million-kroner-data-fines Norway’s climate-friendly Green party wants American innovator Elon Musk’s Hyperloop transport concept to be up and running between two Scandinavian capitals within 20 years. https://www.thelocal.no/20170522/norwegians-want-futuristic-vacuum-train-between-oslo-and-copenhagen Mon, 22 May 2017 19:39:45 +0200 norwegians-want-futuristic-vacuum-train-between-oslo-and-copenhagen Norway on Wednesday unveiled plans to build the world's first sea tunnel to pass through a mountain, avoiding dangerous waters that intimidated even the Vikings. https://www.thelocal.no/20170405/norway-to-build-worlds-first-ship-tunnel-at-sea Wed, 05 Apr 2017 18:28:19 +0200 norway-to-build-worlds-first-ship-tunnel-at-sea A Norwegian news site has launched a new feature to try to sift out the number of trolls commenting on its articles by having readers take a quiz on the story before they can vent their opinions about it. https://www.thelocal.no/20170302/norwegian-news-site-sifts-out-trolls-with-quiz-for-commenters Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:10:05 +0100 norwegian-news-site-sifts-out-trolls-with-quiz-for-commenters A team of scientists in Norway are set to research the possibility of growing plants and food crops in outer space, it was revealed on Friday. https://www.thelocal.no/20141121/norway-to-grow-food-crops-in-space Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:33:28 +0100 norway-to-grow-food-crops-in-space Scientists at a Norwegian university have come up with a novel way to use your body language and mobile phone to create special musical playlists based on your emotional state. https://www.thelocal.no/20141114/new-mobile-tech-makes-music-to-suit-moods Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:31:00 +0100 new-mobile-tech-makes-music-to-suit-moods Norway’s information technology overseer, the Datatilsynet, is considering a “Danish style” ban on cloud computing for government agencies, saying subscriptions to remote data storage, software and retrieval could put citizens' private data at risk. https://www.thelocal.no/20111005/norwegian-town-faces-data-cloud-ban Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:04:44 +0200 norwegian-town-faces-data-cloud-ban Over half of all Norway’s 335,000 companies hiked their budgets for information technology, or IT, in 2011, according to a study commissioned by some of Norway’s 500 largest private and state companies. https://www.thelocal.no/20110908/norway-it-budgets-soar-as-cloud-grows Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:00:40 +0200 norway-it-budgets-soar-as-cloud-grows Norwegian browser and mobile services outfit Opera has bought up specialist US-based programming house Handster Inc. for an undisclosed sum. https://www.thelocal.no/20110919/opera-buys-app-store-developer-handster Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:11:59 +0200 opera-buys-app-store-developer-handster