Artificial intelligence could better predict climate change impacts, some experts believe
Artificial intelligence (AI) is used to track patterns that could help tackle climate change challenges. All signs point toward a
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Online security experts warn against online voting in territorial elections in Northern Canada
Security experts have a message for election officials in the Northwest Territories: don’t use online voting. Officials recently announced online
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Canada’s Northwest Territories to use online voting in general election
In a move to increase voter turnout, the Northwest Territories will soon become the first jurisdiction in Canada to use
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New Canadian satellites to improve data collection across the North
Three Canadian Space Agency satellites being launched into orbit Wednesday from Vandenberg, California, will connect with Inuvik (Northwest Territories), more
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Could telecommuting keep Finland’s small towns viable?
Heli Siirilä had long dreamed of living in the countryside. Now she does. A project chief living in the west-coast
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Norway asks Sweden to take part in carbon capture project
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has produced a ‘Climate Action Roadmap’, setting forward the path it believes the government should
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Why a man from Northern Canada created a Twitter bot that monitors temperature trends
Will Gagnon says it was a vulnerable moment that led him to eventually create a Twitter bot to raise more
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Norwegian aluminium giant Norsk Hydro hit by ransomware attack
Norwegian aluminium giant Norsk Hydro announced Tuesday that it was crippled by “an extensive cyber-attack” on its servers, forcing it
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Russia, Norway talk Arctic GPS jamming in Oslo
Norway and Russia agree to look at the establishment of a new military communications channel. “We recognise Russia’s right to
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Russian military to get fast, secure internet through trans-Arctic cable
A several thousand-kilometer-long fiber optic cable is to be laid along the Russian Arctic coast as part of the Armed
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Canada is testing drones for Arctic surveillance
The federal government in partnership with a Nunavut-based private drone-operating company and the University of Alaska Fairbanks is in the
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Laptop with health data stolen from Northern Canadian gov was unencrypted
This is the final story on the stolen laptop files. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2. The Northwest Territories government’s
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Northwestel wants to improve broadband to small communities in northwestern Canada
Northwestel is promising better phone service and faster internet for communities along the north Alaska Highway, in northwestern Canada, as
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Northern Canadian gov tweaks hunting permit lottery to fix system errors
The Yukon government (northwestern Canada) says its lottery system for hunting permits has been fixed, after problems in 2018. The
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Northern gov employee given privacy training weeks before laptop with health data stolen
This is part 2 of three stories on the stolen laptop files. Here’s part 1. Part 3 is scheduled for next
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