Science & Technology

The Estonian National Criminal Police and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, suspects related to a $575 million cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering case in a joint operation this week. According to court documents, Potapenko and Turõgin, both 37, allegedly defrauded hundreds of...

Fermi Energia, which is developing a nuclear power station in Estonia, will begin a preliminary geological study at one of the possible sites for a compact reactor in the village of Letipea, in the municipality of Viru-Nigula. In November, Steiger Engineering will drill three 90 mm diameter holes at depths...

New York-based designer, entrepreneur, and artist Valev Laube launched the limited NFT collection bringing his large-scale digital landscape to Rarible. New York City-based digital designer and entrepreneur Valev Laube is making a limited number of his large-scale digital landscape prints available as non-fungible tokens (NFT) on Rarible Marketplace, marking a...

Häly Laasme On June 4, 2021, the United States National Energy and Utility Affordability Coalition (NEUAC) announced the final nominees for the Sister Pat Kelley Achievement Award. Häly Laasme, the State of Delaware's Energy Assistance Director, is one of the three finalists. The award recognizes a person with exemplary achievement...

The Estonian American Discovery Foundation (EADF) has opened applications for the 2021 EADF Discovery Awards, dedicated to supporting discovery and invention in culture, science, humanities and history by Baltic and/or Baltic heritage artists, filmmakers, performers, scientists, researchers, educators and inventors of all kinds. Three (3) awards will be awarded to...

Tallinn, Estonia, January 11, 2021 – Estonian company Crystalspace, partnered with the University of Tartu's Tartu Observatory and Krakul, has been selected by Maxar Technologies, a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, to build two cameras that will act as a stereo pair to monitor the...