Since Facebook became a global phenomenon, the company has grappled with the question of how to handle the accounts of the deceased. Today, they can be converted into memorial accounts, which the ownership company Meta describes as “a place where friends and family can come together and share their memories of a person’s death.” But now you look on another variant. Recently, Meta received a patent for AI technology that is trained to mimic the way a person normally communicates and continue to post even when the user is no longer able to do so. The technology “can be used…
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The trend with so-called analogue bagsA trend in which users give each other tips on how to reduce their screen time is spreading across social media. The bag is packed with pastimes like sketchpads, books and crossword puzzles so you don’t get stuck scrolling on your phone forever. In Sweden, interest in crossword puzzles has increased since the pandemic and new formats are emerging for younger people. Greta Åberg has Crossword puzzles since she was little. Last summer there were more than usual. As a freelance stylist in the film, television and advertising industry, she temporarily had fewer orders and…
Anyone who has large electricity guzzlers at home will have a lot to gain from shifting their consumption to the night and evening hours when electricity charges are introduced in all power grid areas this year. The new electricity pricing model is about increasing capacity in the power grids while at the same time avoiding large investments that would otherwise have ended up in the laps of customers. Now it’s no longer just important how much electricity you use, but also how much you use at one time. Unnecessarily complicated and ineffective, say the critics. But that’s not all. -…
All of the stones used by curling stars at the Olympics are made from microgranite from the uninhabited Scottish volcanic island of Ailsa Craig, located about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of the mainland. Kays Scotland is the only company licensed to mine the island’s unique granite. The factory is located in the village of Mauchline on mainland Scotland, a few kilometers from the west coast. “We actually say we harvest the granite – not mine it,” says Ricky English, operations manager at Kays Scotland, in broad Scottish English when DN reaches him by phone. Image 1 of 3 Granite…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. And then he was there again in a relay at the shooting range. New relay, new location. Then the first stage of the mixed relay. Now last in the men’s relay. Then he would push Sweden into the competition, now it was a matter of securing a medal. Sebastian wanted to shoot and it was impossible not to think about when he would shoot for the last time in a relay at the start of the Olympics. Then from a standing start. He…
When the US left Afghanistan in 2021, director Shahrbanoo Sadat waited 72 hours with his family at the airport in Kabul. The chaotic scenes as desperate Afghans tried to escape the Taliban were also the hardest to recreate in “No Good Men” – a romantic comedy that mixes love and rebellion on the eve of the Taliban’s return. – The film is a love letter to all the good men I know. A tribute to women and men who defy violence and oppression and still find joy and community. That’s what 35-year-old Shahrbanoo Sadat, who plays the lead role in…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. The AAAS scientific conference takes place every February somewhere in North America and was once a party to celebrate current and exciting research. I called it “Christmas Eve for a science reporter” ten years ago. This year’s conference in Phoenix, Arizona, however, was dominated by how American researchers are now trying to find their way in unknown territory. It started exactly a year ago when Boston hosted the conference. With almost eerie timing, Elon Musk’s so-called rationalization agency Doge announced that same week…
A wider suit helps a ski jumper fly further, but the size of the suit is strictly regulated. The size of the competition suit must be individually adapted to the body of each ski jumper and body scans are carried out to check compliance with the rules. In practice, the rules of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation FI stipulate that men’s suits must be tight in the crotch. Cheating on costumes occurred several times and, for example, two Norwegian jumpers were banned during the 2025 World Championships in Norway because they competed in unauthorized costumes. Early January The German…
In 2016, the word body activism qualified for the new word list. The movement for a level playing field for all body types exploded on social media, with Instagram profiles sharing images of their large thighs and stomachs amassing hundreds of thousands of followers around the world. Today, most body activist accounts have either quit or shifted their focus away from body image. And several of the most influential profiles have announced they have left the movement. One of them is influencer and podcaster Cassandra Klatzkow. When she announced in an Instagram post in 2020 that she was tired of…
“Doing a Bradbury” has become a concept. Win when others fail. Steven Bradbury won gold in the 1,000 meters in Salt Lake City in 2002 after the competition left. For Martin Johansson himself, seventh place is his best Olympic result. He often raced against Steven Bradbury and rarely lost races to the Australian. – Steven was absolutely world class. The worse you make it, the better the story is. At the World Cup he regularly reached at least the semi-finals. We were pretty evenly matched. But he had higher peaks, says Martin Johansson. The competitors fall one by one… Photo:…
This is a review. The author is responsible for the opinions in the text. Exhibition Nick Cave: “The Devil. One Life” Kulturhuset, Stockholm Shown until May 31st It’s beautiful, dark and funny. Yes, the encounter with Nick Cave’s seventeen figures in the Kulturhuset’s exhibition “The Devil. A Life” lives up to all expectations. If you enjoy Cave’s regular activities as a musician, songwriter and sometimes writer, you can easily identify with the series of small, finely modeled ceramic objects that tell a great story about Hin’s Cave, from birth to death and subsequent forgiveness. The very presentation of the sculptures,…
The lawyer who was banned from Italian doping for the Olympics: “I just learned the spelling for biathlon” Shortly before the Olympic Games, Italian biathlete Rebecca Passler tested positive for the banned substance letrozole – and was excluded from the home games. On Monday she trained in the Olympic Arena in Antholz after the ban was lifted pending an investigation. Passler could start in the women’s relay on Wednesday, although several Italian newspapers speculate whether this is too risky for the team. After an appeal to the Italian Anti-Doping Agency (Nadab) Court of Appeal, the biathlete received the green light…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. The statement was widely shared on social media during the ongoing cold Swedish winter. In a classic interview with Expressen from 2006, Pär Holmgren, MP politician and former SVT meteorologist, looked to the future. The Vasaloppet (which was stopped in 1932, 1934 and 1990 due to lack of snow) would not survive its 100th anniversary in 2022. Rereading Holmgren’s interview 20 years later, I don’t understand how he dared to be so sure. A heavy snowfall triggered well-functioning snow clearing on the roads…
– Can we take off the Romeo sign? There is a lot of activity when Oscar Zia is about to be photographed on the circus stage. Surrounded by scenographer Marcus Englesson’s tall wooden structures – inspired by William Shakespeare’s legendary Globe Theater in London – Oscar Zia poses friendly for the camera, even if it becomes “a bit twitchy” to smile on command. After director Edward af Sillén’s approval, a huge turquoise sign is lowered with the name “Romeo” in large, bright letters. Oscar Zia stretches out his arms and smiles again. Since breaking through on the talent competition “X…
This is a joke. The author is responsible for the opinions expressed in the text. A political slogan recently appeared whose wording reached the level of pure name and news: “If the Social Democrats leave the Social Democrats, the Social Democrats leave the Social Democrats.” It was about the internal resistance to the S’s rapprochement with the SD on migration policy, and it sounds like a real party revolution. But also as a fairly well-established tradition at this point, perhaps as Swedish as the stable Swedish popular movement once was. Most recently, it was the Liberals who had the same…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. At the end of November last year, Michael Claesson, perhaps our toughest commander ever, said that we could expect a Russian NATO attack in the Baltic states or any other part of Europe at virtually any time (Politico, November 19, 2025). He considered it likely that Russia intended to test Article 5 of the NATO Charter in the near future. On January 13, in an interview in Svenska Dagbladet, he repeated his Article 5 warning and specified his identity. It could be an…
It took about six minutes for Lucas Raymond to go from hero to scapegoat. In Saturday’s game against Slovakia, the 23-year-old initially put in a classy performance as he extended Tre Kronor’s lead to 5-2 – but in the final minutes he was sent off for slashing after clubbing an opponent. It was expensive. In the following power play, Slovakia reduced the score and made the final score 3:5. The goal saw Sweden lose first place in the group and instead finish third, which in turn means that Tre Kronor will have to play the round of 16 against Latvia…
A few hours after the Tre Kronor women took the ice in the semifinals against the USA, it was time for two new teams to take the ice at the Santagiulia Arena in Milan. In the other semifinal, Canada and Switzerland met, and Canada was as big a favorite as the USA against Sweden. For Switzerland, who surprisingly won the quarter-final against Finland, it was their first ever Olympic semi-final and it was a far more exciting game than most had expected. Back Mira Jungåker is ready to do whatever it takes to go home from Milan with a bronze…
The angriest of all was Jessica Adolfsson, who doesn’t mince her words and says she sees red when her goalkeeper is attacked. – I consider myself the bodyguard of my goalkeepers out there and carry out this role with honor. If they touch my goalkeeper, they will suffer for it, she says. Emma Söderberg had only been on the ice for a few minutes and had just replaced Ebba Svensson Träff when the situation arose. American Abbey Murphy beat the Swedish goalkeeper at the edge without backing down or slowing down. – I had just played the puck away. It…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. In The Godfather (1972) he had the dullest costumes and the most anemic lines, and yet the character Tom Hagen gave him his first Oscar nomination and a big break. Robert Duvall’s Tom Hagen was the legally trained consiglieri and advisor to mafia boss Vito Corleone. As a seconded agent, in one scene he is insulted by a shouting, swearing boss of a film company who will not comply with Don Corleone’s request. “Thank you for dinner and have a very nice evening,”…