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Eurovision singer and big news stories top Swiss Google searches in 2023

Singer Remo Forrer, the Credit Suisse bank, and the AI software ChatGPT shot up the list of most-searched items on Google in Switzerland this year.

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Nonagenarian Swiss artist Ted Scapa has died

The Swiss artist Ted Scapa has died at the age of 92. The family confirmed a report by the news portal blick.ch to the news agency Keystone-SDA. Scapa was born in Amsterdam in 1931. The illustrator became known to a wide audience through the children's programme Das Spielhaus (The playhouse) on Swiss television in the 1960s and 1970s. As a cartoonist, Scapa drew for the international press for many years and published numerous children's books and cartoon collections. Scapa usually creates a series of pictures on one theme. Scapa lived in Vallamand, canton Vaud, on Lake Murten for many years. Since February 2021, the artist has lived in a retirement home in Bern. How we work This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team. At SWI swissinfo.ch we select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such as DeepL to translate it into English. Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. You can find them here. If you want to know more about how we work, have a look here, and if you have feedback on this news story please write to english@swissinfo.ch.

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Museum Tinguely Basel spotlights 'Big Brother' living container

Playwright Boris Nikitin has placed a replica of the living container from the 2000 TV show Big Brother in Basel's Tinguely Museum.

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Scientists identify wines based on their chemical fingerprint

Researchers in Geneva have been able to determine the exact origin of a wine based on its chemical signature.

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Copyright: Suisa Digital files a complaint against Twitter International

Suisa Digital is suing Twitter International, owner of the X platform (formerly Twitter) for copyright infringement.

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Hackers publish Baden city data on darknet

Hackers have published large amounts of data from the city of Baden on the darknet, it has been confirmed.

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Lugano accepts bitcoin and tether payments for all city invoices

Lugano city is now accepting bitcoin payment for all invoices issued by the city. This includes taxes and other municipal services.

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Swiss initiative aims for global leadership in AI

Swiss universities want to position Switzerland as a leading global centre for artificial intelligence (AI).

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Artificial intelligence used to detect plastic waste at sea

An AI model can recognise plastic objects floating on the water in satellite images. This could make it possible to eliminate this waste using ships.

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'Monsterbank' and 'rubble' named Swiss Words of the Year

“Monsterbank” is the word of the year in German-speaking Switzerland, followed by “Chatbot” and “Ghosting”.

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