Technology news about Estonians
The Nordic telecom giant, Telia, and Estonian robotics company Cleveron are teaming up to bring self-service pods that carry Telia’s most popular products to Estonian small towns where having traditional service officers is not viable. According to a statement by Cleveron, Telia will set up a self-service pod in a …
Estonian cyber security company CybExer has been awarded a three-year contract by the Luxembourg Directorate of Defence for the acquisition of a cyber range – an IT-systems’ simulation environment for enhancing an organisation’s cyber defence capabilities through training and testing activities. The Directorate of Defence of Luxembourg recently decided to …
Estonian cyber security company CybExer to build a cyber range for Luxembourg Read More »
A group of Estonian entrepreneurs and education activists will launch a new school that helps solve the country’s growing demand for software developers. Jõhvi Coding School is based on the internationally acclaimed 01 Edu platform and will open its doors in the fall of 2021. The school is aimed at …
Jõhvi Coding School to diversify the Estonian education scene Read More »
Estonia, as the coordinator of the Nordic-Baltic cooperation format NB8 – Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden – will bring together young people from eight countries to develop green ideas as part of international cooperation. During the idea creation day, “Empowering Youth on 21 November: Green Together”, …
Estonia brings together young people to develop green ideas Read More »
An Estonian company has launched the production of natural copper coating, claiming it destroys viruses and bacteria on the surface in two hours and the novel coronavirus pathogens “in as soon as five minutes”. The company, named Metroprint Systems, named its product Copper Shield and it is already being used …
Estonian company claims its copper product destroys the coronavirus in five minutes Read More »
Estonian-founded ultracapacitor producer Skeleton Technologies completed a €41.3 million financing round; all existing investors participated in the equity raise and were joined by European entrepreneurs and international investors. This series D financing brings Skeleton’s total funding to over €93 million since its inception. “It builds on a strong year for …
A Brazilian-founded Estonian startup, OriginalMy, that operates in the field of governance and cybersecurity was chosen as one of the best companies at the Annual Investment Meeting, one of the leading investment events in the world, held from 20-22 October in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The startup was awarded …
The self-driving shuttle bus now officially in the streets of Tallinn emerged from a university robotics course. This article is published in collaboration with Research in Estonia. It feels like being in a giant toy car. There’s almost no sound, no steering wheel, no pedals, and, well, no driver either. Unless …
Tallinn’s new self-driving bus emerged from a university robotics course Read More »
A good digital government is built on good math, not just good people, according to cyberlaw scholar and legal philosopher Helen Eenmaa-Dimitrieva. This article is published in collaboration with Research in Estonia. Every Estonian citizen has an ID number written on a card they use to communicate with the government. They slip …
Algorithms run the Estonian state – and people trust it Read More »
Garage48, Startup Estonia, the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu and several cyber security-related startups and organisations held a virtual hackathon from 23-25 October; participants from 14 countries joined it to bring usable solutions to burning topics in just 48 hours. The aim of the fourth cyber …
Participants from 14 countries join a virtual Estonian cyber security hackathon Read More »
