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The use of flying drones in police work is becoming more common in Finland. Most common tasks are finding missing people and crime scene investigation using onboard cameras. The authorities continue investing in the devices.
Plans about the Certum Phone smartphone were first released at the Mobile World Congress 2018 industry convention in Barcelona. Now Zero Reception, the Finnish company behind the Android powered smartphone says it's ready to start it's crowdfunding program on Indiegogo.
Tampere University of Applied Sciences, TAMK, has made an agreement to start offering education in Egypt. The first students will begin studies in January of 2019.
Helsinki-Vantaa has been voted as the best airport in Northern Europe. The news come from Finavia, the organisation developing, maintaining and operating Finnish airports.
Finnish national broadcasting company, Yle, today released their news writing robot's source code as open source. The robot writes complete articles from ice hockey reports.
A dog owned by a Finnish business man infuriated the Nazi officials during World War two. Documents show that months before Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941 the Nazis were spending time investigating a dog imitating the Führer.
Telecom network operators in Finland will start blocking access to web site with illicit content. The Swedish operator Telia already started applying the blacklist of sites with child abuse materials. Others are considering following suit.
Finnish national broadcasting company Yle created a list of all car makes that received the most speeding tickets out of the top 30 brands. When put into proportion to the number of cars on roads in Finland, three German manufacturers topped the chart: BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz.
Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO) told that there were a number of cyber attacks against Finnish businesses in 2017. Many of these attacks were sponsored by Nation States, with the intention to acquire information on critical infrastructure as well as results R&D efforts.
Lappeenranta University of Technology is providing Junior University courses to high school students. The collaboration between LUT and high schools is expected to deepen in the coming years as the courses expand to all schools in the city.