Alaskan Inuit dialect added to Facebook’s Translate app
Facebook added Inupiaq, an Alaskan Inuit dialect, as a language option thanks to a grassroots project started by an Alaskan
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At Republican lunch, U.S. senators mesmerized by live stream of Alaska bears
Thousands of people around the world are again thrilling at the sight of brown bears fishing at Brooks Falls (Southwest
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New fibre optic line to ensure reliable internet access in Northern Canada
A nearly 800-kilometre fibre optic network will be built to connect Inuvik, N.W.T. and Dawson City, Yukon, which the federal
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Healthcare facilities in rural Alaska struggle to pay internet bills
A program that provides millions of dollars in federal subsidies to help pay rural Alaska healthcare facilities’ high internet bills
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Alaskan Senator cites rural Alaska in vote supporting “net neutrality”
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski joined two other Republicans who broke GOP ranks to vote with Democrats on Wednesday in an
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Blog – Faroe Islands host Arctic Circle Forum, trumpet “infrastructure miracle”
Situated halfway between Iceland and Scotland, the Faroe Islands are so remote from most people’s minds that even the customs
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Live seal cam returns to mesmerise Finnish viewers
If the Twitterverse is to be believed, the sight of a seal lolling on a waterside rock can be quite
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Northern Sweden to host more Facebook servers
Facebook buys land for its third server hall in the town of Luleå, in Northern Sweden. Facebook already has two
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Russia to link military installations with trans-Arctic cable
Starting in Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula, in Northwestern Russia, the fiber-optic line will provide state-of-the art tele- and data
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Ex-CEO charged with fraud in Alaska broadband project
The former chief executive of an Alaska company working on a massive fiber optic project in the Arctic is charged
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Finland storm knocks out mobile networks
This weekend’s power cuts in Finland, caused by heavy wet snow on power lines, have also caused severe disruption to
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Arctic-spanning fiber-optic project moves ahead in Alaska
Alaskans are playing a bigger role in an international project that seeks to link Europe and Asia with a fiber-optic cable
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Verizon to bring more competition to Alaska’s communication industry
Verizon wireless, which touts itself as the nation’s largest 4G LTE network with more than 103 million customers, is gearing
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Sweden’s rural development programme gets cash injection
The Swedish government wants to spend several billion krona on preventing rural businesses from closing, Industry Minister Annie Lööf announced
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Strict security at Facebook’s server in Sweden’s Far North
This Spring, Facebook opened its first ever server outside the United States – in the northern Swedish town of Luleå.
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