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We’ve been all-in from the get-go. Committed to total transparency about electric vehicles’ climate impact, and our progress towards a sustainable mobility. When we published our first Polestar 2Life Cycle Assessmentin 2020, including its full methodology, we encouraged other car makers to become more transparent about their products’ climate impact. Instead, several well-known brands released their own report that attempted to contradict ours. The Astongate scandal, as it became known,now has its own Wikipedia page, where you can read about how their greenwashing campaign quickly fell to pieces....

I used to do sales, and I found three words very helpful: “I don’t know.” The internet is full of articles for salespeople offering alternatives to saying those three words, all with elaborate ways to avoid admitting ignorance. And I get it: telling someone you don’t know something is hard, especially when you’re trying to convince that person to give you money. But that’s why saying “I don’t know” is so powerful....

Well, it seems that a story wepublishedlast week was an elaborate hoax. Along with the BBC and many other media organizations, we reported that a Canadian “psychometric testing” company called AptiQuant had established a link between IQ and the browser of choice. To cut a long story short, users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer were found to have a lower IQ than those using other browsers, such as Firefox and Chrome....

The US has been hard at work developing what has been dubbed,Internet in a Suitcase, a system that in theory, would enable citizens to get online regardless of what their governments might have to say about that. The idea is to sneak the components into the country disguised as harmless hardware, after which it can be assembled and provide wireless access to its users. The need for this technology has become more than apparent as repressive governments repeatedly attempt to deprive their citizens of Internet access, as was seen both inSyria,LibyaandEgypt....

Chicisimo, the Spanish startup that offers a ‘Last.fm for fashion’ product which lets users share their personal fashion choices with the rest of the world, is today ‘gamifying’ itself through the addition of awards for the best user advocate for different brands. As wereportedearlier this year, Chicisimo works by users uploading photos of their favourite clothes, tagging them with data about the brands, items and colours being worn. Others can then comment and vote on uploaded photos – it’s a social network based around fashion....