2025-10-28 17:35:45
Spotify raises UK prices by £1 after previously raising them in April 2024; the Premium individual monthly plan will now cost £12.99 (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spo
Spotify raises UK prices by £1 after previously raising them in April 2024; the Premium individual monthly plan will now cost £12.99 (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spo
Cryogenic In-Memory Computing with Phase-Change Memory
Davide G. F. Lombardo (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Siddharth Gautam (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Alberto Ferraris (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Manuel Le Gallo (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Abu Sebastian (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Ghazi Sarwat Syed (IBM Research Europe, Ruschlikon, Switzerland)
Predictive Criteria for Electrospray-Assisted Droplet Dynamics in Aerodynamic Flow Fields
Ethan Kahn (Unaffiliated, Z\"urich, Switzerland)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22676 …
You know that you’re teaching in #Switzerland when you catch the majority of students running the live broadcast of today’s #ski competition in a separate window while doing learning tasks
#AcademicChatter
Rolex says Trump “joked” his invite to their private box at the U.S. Open was to get favorable tariff terms for Switzerland,
a quip that “brought a round of laughter all around
https://meidasnews.com/news/exclusive-rolex-cour…
Switzerland proposes regulations forcing service providers to collect user IDs and disable encryption, threatening its status as a haven for privacy tech firms (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/switzerland-digital-privacy-law-proton-priv…
Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter
Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter
Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter
"Climate change linked to landslide that buried Swiss village"
#Switzerland #Climate #ClimateChange
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Beethoven and Schubert from the Chiaroscuro Quartet and cellist Christian Poltéra
Beethoven's 'Razumovsky' String Quartet and Schubert's String Quintet in C, D.956 performed in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l0b5
"If there is one magic ingredient for Switzerland’s enduring economic success, I found, it is that its businesses often combine blue-collar know-how with white-collar innovation. Switzerland, like Germany, built its 20th-century industrial economy on training and valuing all types of workers—those that work with their hands and those that work at a desk."
Beyond Anthropomorphism: Enhancing Grasping and Eliminating a Degree of Freedom by Fusing the Abduction of Digits Four and Five
Simon Fritsch (Soft Robotics Lab, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Liam Achenbach (Soft Robotics Lab, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Riccardo Bianco (Soft Robotics Lab, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Nicola Irmiger (Soft Robotics Lab, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Gawain Marti (Soft Robotics Lab, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich, Swi…
»Schweiz plant Überwachung schlimmer als die USA:
Die Revision des Schweizer Überwachungsgesetzes VÜPF würde sich direkt gegen VPN- und verschlüsselte Chat- und E-Mail-Anbieter mit Sitz in der Schweiz richten.«
Ja dem ist so und doch ist dies den meisten Scheizer*innen nicht mal im Ansatz bewusst, denn anscheinend hat ja niemensch was zu verbergen.
😡
Baidu and Swiss Post's PostBus plan to launch Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicle service in Switzerland, testing in December ahead of rollout by Q1 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/baidu-expands-robotaxi-push-swit…
Transparent and Fair Profiling in Employment Services: Evidence from Switzerland
Tim R\"az
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11847 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…
Federation problems is just something we have to live with in the Fediverse.
Federating has its pros and cons.
I'm Swiss. We know these things.
#switzerland #fediverse #justswissthings
Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave US for Switzerland (Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/10/10/nobel-winning-economists-duflo-and-banerjee-will-leave-the-us-for-switzerland_6746307_19.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p143#a251010p143
The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks on universities.
https://www.
Trump U.S. Open invitation from Rolex comes after slapping tariff on Switzerland
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/trump-us-open-invitation-rolex-tariff-switzerland.html
Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance https://therecord.media/switzerland-digital-privacy-law-proton-privacy-surveillance
A century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRejcPw/?igsh=Zm51d2Qzb2xtNHM4
Rumble plans to roll out a bitcoin tipping feature, developed in partnership with Tether, to its 51M creators in December; Tether has invested $775M in Rumble (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/25…
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror,
murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci
and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had
five hundred years of democracy and peace -- and what did they produce?
The cuckoo-clock.
-- Orson Welles, "The Third Man"
Switzerland is covered in solar PV — if the Swiss can see the economic benefits, then sunnier countries can get over themselves
#Switzerland #Swiss #Schweiz
«Hayek, whose company is the world’s largest watchmaker, said the CEOs’ visit sent a signal of weakness. Instead, he suggested that Switzerland — the seventh-largest investor in the US — should retaliate by threatening to cut investment, or ditch a deal to buy US-made F-35 jets.
“Are we William Tell,” he quipped in reference to the Swiss hero of folklore, “or are we a vassal?”»
Can't help but wonder if this might be relevant to the legal challenge to the orange toddler's #tarriff actions. It must be hard for the Thomas wing of the courts to ignore these abuses.
Swiss gold and Rolex gifts to Trump raise questions over personalisation of US presidential power
Die Tessiner Nationalrätin Greta Gysin und der Waadtländer Nationalrat Raphaël Mahaim, beide Abgeordnete der Grünen, haben bei der Bundesanwaltschaft Strafanzeige erstattet. Sie fordern eine strafrechtliche Untersuchung jenes Treffens schwerreicher Schweizer Geschäftsleute mit US-Präsident Donald Trump Anfang November in Washington, das mutmasslich den Durchbruch im sogenannten Zollstreit zwischen den USA und der Schweiz gebracht hat.
https://www.woz.ch/2548/korruptionsvorwurf/gruene-zeigen-team-switzerland-an/!1MRADPBSF5BG
It's a beautiful day for a trip to Milan from Zurich.
#SBB #traintravel #switzerland
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- The Mendelssohn Octet
Exclusive music-making including Mozart's Prague Symphony from Switzerland and highlights from this year's Bath Mozartfest.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mcr4
"Swiss unemployment stands at a mere 2.8%, meaning the country is near full employment. And, its median salary of approximately over $90,000 per year, is about 50% higher than in the U.S. despite having a similar GDP per capita."
https://fortune.com…
Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
The Swiss government could soon require service providers with more than 5,000 users to collect government-issued identification, retain subscriber data for six months and, in many cases, disable encryption.
🇨🇭 https://
I always enjoy having visitors from no-matter-which EU country discovering that no, Switzerland is not part of the EU, only Schengen
“There’s no roaming, right? I need to print and screenshot everything in advance?!”
Sure, there’s roaming, it only has a different price tag. And can you imagine, when I visit you, I pay the same absurdly high fees
If Switzerland has to invest $200B in the US, perhaps they could turn Nevada into a Cocoa plantation and bring down the price of chocolate.
1,000 Swiss glaciers already gone, and the melting is speeding up #Switzerland
Wow, already 3 years on the #Fediverse, meaning I have been running my #Mastodon instance just as long... crazy how fast time flies by...
My instance here in Switzerland is still small, so if someone needs a home, you may join!
I just realized that the International Organization for Standardization ISO uses a picture from Switzerland to illustrate their popular standards page about ISO8601.
But do you know where it was taken?
https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html
"Für jede Trafostation eine LEG" [‘A local energy community for every transformer station’]
It is fascinating how local energy communities are encouraged in Switzerland (so not governed by EU law, that also creates that role), and how the (local) utilities are also actively involved in this.
https://www.
European countries proposed an alternative Ukraine peace plan on Sunday that omits some of the pro-Russia points made in the original US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected.
The counter-proposal emerged as US, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland.
The 28-point US document leaked last week demands Ukraine hand over territory to Russia, limits the size of its army and agrees not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes.
A…
Deep Learning for Operational High-Resolution Nowcasting in Switzerland Using Graph Neural Networks
Oph\'elia Miralles, Daniele Nerini, Jonas Bhend, Baudouin Raoult, Christoph Spirig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00017
@… it's funny you say that! I really like the concept of a common Waschküche as is standard in Switzerland, as you can get 6 really good industrial washing machines and a person to maintain them for like a tenner a month, rather than every flat having to spend €600 on some shitty consumer-grade Siemens crap.
🍝 The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-1957-spaghetti-grows-on-trees-hoax.html
Switzerland is covered in solar PV — if the Swiss can see the economic benefits, then sunnier countries can get over themselves
#Switzerland #Swiss #Schweiz
"Value each part of a corporate ecosystem, from the factory worker to the competitor next door. Be altruistic and self-interested at the same time: if you have success, invest your proceeds in nascent and innovative companies.
And don’t try to save pennies in manufacturing or other built-up know-how by outsourcing, if it could lose you pounds (or billions of Swiss Francs) down the line."
"Switzerland forecasts 1.5 GW annual solar growth through 2027"
#Switzerland #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Glossar »Nachhaltigkeit in der Werbebranche«
https://www.designerinaction.de/kreativwirtschaft/glossar-nachhaltigkeit-in-der-werbebranche-zum-downloaden/
"Der Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) und die IA…
The USA has only a million elevators, about as many as Italy, and they cost four times as in Switzerland.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250827193631/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevato…
Trump’s Tariffs Leave Swiss Farmers With Too Much Milk - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/switzerland-tariffs-trump-milk-cheese-cows.html
I like my individualized mail addresses. I just received a phishing mail to update my data with a Swiss payment system (TWINT) - but it was sent to an address I created for a doctor's appointment system (Onedoc).
The message also contains my postal address from the time I created that account.
#databreach
Why do I always get that urge of "Someone is wrong on the internet!" when @… posts about Switzerland? 🙄
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[2/2]:
- Transparent and Fair Profiling in Employment Services: Evidence from Switzerland
Tim R\"az
Probing the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 using the evolution of its spectral and aperiodic timing properties
Aman Kaushik (TIFR, India), Yash Bhargava (TIFR, India), Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India), Maurizio Falanga (ISSI, Switzerland,University of Bern, Switzerland)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01207
June 2nd to 4, 2026, the #WritingResearch community will meet in #Winterthur, #Switzerland, for the
Friendly reminder for my fellow German #NixCon visitors: Vodafone and O2 do not have free roaming in Switzerland, but anything on the Telekom network does.
#NixCon2025
Europe pioneers lead-cooled nuclear reactors for clean energy at sea, revolutionizing maritime decarbonization. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate
🚨Job alert 🚨 Position in #mineralogy and #petrology at Uni Fribourg, Switzerland
https://www.unifr.ch/geo/en/department/job
Characterisation of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers as charge readout operated in pure argon
G. Eurin (IRFU, CEA, Universit\'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), A. Delbart (IRFU, CEA, Universit\'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), R. De Oliveira (CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland), A. Drozd (CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland), P. Granger (IRFU, CEA, Universit\&…
Mad science.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/0729235/scientists-grow-mini-human-brains-to-power-computers
>Scientists Grow Mini Human Brains To Power Computers
Maybe Switzerland could have waited for Trump to discover that he can’t make Swiss watches in the US either.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-coffee-beef-fruit-4fe084c2724ec6d92096efa263fdcf76
Maybe Switzerland could have waited for Trump to discover that he can’t make Swiss watches in the US either.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-coffee-beef-fruit-4fe084c2724ec6d92096efa263fdcf76
Now with a map indicating the availability and pricing of BMW's #V2G bidirectional wallbox. Do the price differences reflect national support schemes?
https://www.
Who woulda thunk that studying the Star Wars galaxy map would make me understand Switzerland better? #Aargau #CoinDrop
https://www.
Die #Klimakrise trifft die #Schweiz:
Der #Griesgletscher in der #Schweiz hat zwischen 20…
12th Low-Level RF Workshop (LLRF2025)
Dmitry Teytelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07603 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07603
Spin dynamics in natural multiferroic pyroxene NaFeSi$_2$O$_6$
Oleksandr Prokhnenko (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin f\H{u}r Materialien und Energie, Berlin, Germany), Stanislav E. Nikitin (PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland), Koji Kaneko (Materials Sciences Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan, Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan), Chihiro Tabata (Materials Sciences Research Center, Japan A…
"Ghana, Switzerland partner on $200 million rooftop solar rollout"
#Ghana #Switzerland #SolarPower #Energy
Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics, which is building AI models to enable human-like robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks, raised a $16M seed (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/04/mimic-raises-16m-build-a…
@… Regarding quotes, I'd add that in Germany and Austria, guillemets are an alternative to „…“ and are used like this: »…«
In Switzerland, only «…» are used for all national languages, but they are only spaced in French.
@… Regarding quotes, I'd add that in Germany and Austria, guillemets are an alternative to „…“ and are used like this: »…«
In Switzerland, only «…» are used for all national languages, but they are only spaced in French.
Saturday was beautiful in the #swiss mountains, while the city was in the clouds.
Got a very nice close-up show by a bearded #vulture!
#birdwatching #Switzerland #hiking
Temperature Optimisation in Data Centres
Vlad C. Coroam\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26163 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26163
From inside the aircraft I flew in this morning. According to the inflight map:
1, 2: Somewhere over and near Zvornik, #Bosnia. The river in 2 should be #Drina.
3: Somewhere over #Switzerland with a view of the #Alps.
#photography #amateur #flying #travel #sunrise
Across the aisle, two couples sit together: 2 british people (in their late 40s) somehow related to the movie/TV business, 2 americans (in their 70s). Talking about places they’ve been, like Prague and entire Slovakia 🧐
Now the younger woman is musing wanting to go to Switzerland once, bc it’s such a dark energy, like the place where Hitler shot himself?
Is she mixing up Hitler with Bruno Ganz?
Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message:
“Do you have any idea how lucky you are to have thousands of people who can tell you you’re wrong?”
He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland.
Some are still struggling with his choice.
https://www.
Our conference is preceeded by a «research school» for junior researchers (typically: PhD students). The RS starts in the afternoon of day 1, then two full days (day 2 and day 3), and ends around noon of day 4 (with transportation to the main conference).
What is a typical program for such a #ResearchSchool? I can also include tourist activities or some hiking (it‘s in Switzerland,…
"Swiss glaciers shrank by a quarter in past decade: study"
#Switzerland #Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange