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Nokia, Qualcomm and the Finnish teleoperator Elisa achive a new record speed on commercial 5G networks. The record breaking throughput goes to 8Gbps on a commercial mmWave spectrum network in downtown Helsinki.
The city of Vantaa has been experimenting with applying computer vision and artificial intelligence to traffic lights. The results for the pilot have been published in mid June 2020.
The aim of a pilot project was to understand the real time situation in a given intersection to improve efficiency of traffic traffic flow and improve detection of pedestrians and cyclists.
Finland has invested heavily in the fifth generation 5G cellular networks. All of the nordic country's three operators have a working 5G mobile coverage. Currently all networks are using the medium band, sub 6 GHZ, but now the country pushes forward with mmWave (millimeter wave) networks.
Finnish financial daily reported that Finnish poker player Pauli Äyräs came fourth in the Super High Roller Bowl Online poker tournament and cashed in 487,500 US dollars. He pledged on Twitter that he is spending it all on Tesla stock.
Finnish telecom operator Elisa has deployed the world's first commercial liquid cooled 5G base station. The technology has been developed by Nokia and allows using the waste energy of the mobile network device to heat a building or hot water. Liquid cooling can reduce base station energy consumption by 30% and CO2 emissions by up to 80%.
The epidemiology and medicine center (Centrum för epidemiologi och samhällsmedicin, CES) in Stockholm has undertaken a study to see if snusprotects from a serious cocronavirus infection. Their hypothesis is that nicotine in the commonly used tobacco product curbs the virus causing the covid-19 disease.
https://ruttplanerare.se/eskilstunaThe US eCommerce giant has bought three large plots of land in central Sweden. The company plans to build a total eight buildings, each with 25,000 square meters of floorspace. The company will give details in a press event held tomorrow in Sweden.
Plastic drinking straws are a common product filling the oceans with plastic waste. Finnish company Sulapac has now developed the world's first biodegradeable straw that will enter mass production in the spring of 2019.
Finland will deploy the European Union Galileo satellite positioning system in the beging of 2020. One of the key features of the new is better protection against signal jamming. This was recently brought up after wide scale GPS jamming operations in northern Finland during the NATO war games.
Iron Sky The Coming Race is finally headed to movie theaters. The production has been delayed by legac action, as well as funding problems.