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Norway Company Can’t Produce Ukraine Ammunition Because of TikTok
“The chief executive of Nammo, which is co-owned by the Norwegian government, said a planned expansion of its largest factory in central Norway hit a roadblock due to a lack of surplus energy, with the construction of TikTok’s new data centre using up electricity in the local area,” reports the Guardian. “Elvia, the local energy provider, confirmed to the Financial Times that the electricity network had no spare capacity after allocating it to the data center on a first-come, first-served basis. Additional capacity would take time to become available.” “We are concerned because we see our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos,” Morten Brandtzaeg told the Financial Times.
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Norway Finds a Treasure Trove of Minerals in Its Seabed
A recent study from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate found large amounts of valuable metals and minerals on the seabed of the country’s continental shelf, Reuters reported. The rare earth metals, copper, and other materials would be a boon to Europe’s ability to produce energy transition technologies, but…
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HomePod Mini Available to Order in Finland, Norway, and Sweden
HomePod mini pricing is set at €109 in Finland, 1,249 kr in Norway, and 1,295 kr in Sweden, compared to $99 in the United States.
Apple previously announced that the HomePod mini would be available in these countries starting December 13 and orders can be placed in advance. Apple said the HomePod mini will also be available in South Africa starting December 19 and in Denmark next year.
Apple first released the HomePod mini in the U.S. and select other countries in November 2020. With Siri, the smart speaker can be used for listening to music, controlling HomeKit smart home accessories, setting a timer, and other tasks. Beyond new colors, the device has not received any hardware changes since launching two years ago.
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Man wrongly spent 21 YEARS in jail over rape & murder of girls, 8 and 10, after he was falsely convicted in Norway
A CONVICT who wrongly served 21 years in prison for the rape and murder of two young girls has been cleared of his crimes.
Viggo Kristiansen, now 43, was falsely convicted of the slaughter of eight-year-old Stine Sofie Sorstronen and Lena Slogedal Paulsen, 10.
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The dropping of the charges, following a re-examination of the evidence, has been branded one of Norway‘s “most serious miscarriages of justice“.
Stine and Lena’s bodies were found dead after they went swimming in a lake in a wooded area in the south of the country.
On the day of their murders on May 19, 2000, the two girls had gone to visit their fathers, who lived in the same block of flats close to the woods where the lake was.
Kristiansen was sentenced by two different courts in 2001 and 2002 to a maximum possible sentence of 21 years with the option to extend.
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A court at the time heard that Kristiansen had lured the pair away into a secluded area while pretending to be looking for lost kittens.
The verdict claimed that Kristiansen had raped the girls before stabbing them both in the chest and neck.
Their naked bodies were found covered with leaves and hidden between two large rocks, while their blood-soaked swimsuits were stuffed in a nearby muddy drainpipe.
He was purportedly helped by his co-defendant Jan Helge Andersen, who told the court at the time that Kristiansen was the main perpetrator.
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But the new investigations reportedly indicate that Kristiansen wasn’t involved at all and that the crimes were solely the work of Andersen.
The gruesome nature of the killings sent shockwaves throughout Norway, where such violent crimes are highly unusual.
But when the case was reopened last year, Andersen’s testimony was discredited, after DNA evidence was shown not to support his insistence that multiple people had been involved in the murders.
The new report also noted that Kristiansen’s phone was well away from the scene of the crime at the time he was alleged to have carried out the murders.
Attorney General Jon Sigurd Maurud told reporters: “The case has had profoundly tragic consequences, especially for Kristiansen – who has served more than 20 years in prison and has thus been deprived of large parts of his life – and for his relatives.
“I, therefore, want, on behalf of the prosecution, to offer my sincerest apologies for the injustice that has been inflicted.”
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Norwegian police forces who carried out the investigation at the time also apologised.
Kristiansen’s father, Svein Kristiansen, gave an emotional statement after learning of his son’s innocence.
He told the Norwegian publication VG: “This is what we have been waiting for for 20 years. Finally, we believe in what we have stood for all along.
“It is just a great pleasure. Finally, we can go ahead with getting Viggo into society,” he added.
Kristiansen was released from prison last year and may be eligible to request compensation of more than 30 million Norwegian Kroner (£2.5m) from the state, according to his lawyer.
“If the court of appeal announces an acquittal, this will be one of the biggest legal scandals in Norwegian history,” Justice Emilie Enger Mehl told reporters.
Andersen, who received a lighter jail sentence of 19 years for cooperating with investigators at the time, now faces further probes into his actions, the prosecutor added.
It comes after Stine’s brother Kristoffer spoke publicly for the first time about his sister’s murder.
He told Norwegian TV channel NRK that he had been wracked with guilt about his sister’s death for more than two decades, explaining that he was meant to go swimming with the two girls on the day they vanished.
But instead, he had gone home to build a new computer with his father, telling the girls to go swimming alone.
The way police handled their investigations into the “Banaheia Murders” was criticised at the time, after it was found cops applied controversial suggestive question techniques, holding “informal conversations” with Andersen before his lawyer arrived.
During this time, the interrogator told Andersen that police “knew” there was more than one perpetrator in the murders and suggested to him that Kristiansen may have been involved.
FBI agent Gregg McCrary testified in court in 2011 and said about the police’s interview technique: “It’s a very alarming way to interrogate a witness. The police must never give the name of possible perpetrators or ask leading questions”
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He added that it seemed obvious that Andersen had been “guided” into implicating Kristiansen since his testimony changed from interrogation to interrogation.
Gisli Gudjonsson, a Professor of Forensic Psychology at King’s College London, also wrote in his report that the initial police interrogator “most likely ruined the case”.
Bird exits Germany, Sweden, Norway and ‘several dozen’ US, EMEA markets
Shared micromobility company Bird is exiting several markets across the world as it struggles to build an economically viable business, according to a regulatory filing. Bird said it will “fully exit Germany, Sweden and Norway, as well as wind down operations in “several dozen additional, primarily small to mid-sized markets” across the U.S., Europe, the […]
Bird exits Germany, Sweden, Norway and ‘several dozen’ US, EMEA markets by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch