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Here are the three resources we've prepared for today:

• Explore Woopdo, a new digital wellbeing platform

• Severance and The Penguin, the series with the most nominations at the 2025 Emmy Awards

• Live broadcast of Iceland's volcanic eruptions

Explore Woopdo, a new digital wellbeing platform

Our first topic today comes with the following personal note from Clara:

I'm excited to share some personal news with our On The Net Today readers. Woopdo, one of the companies I co-founded, is entering its seed funding round this fall. 

While 60% of young adults report feeling lonely despite 7 hours of daily screen time, we're building something different. Woopdo is an AI-powered platform that creates guided real-world experiences called woops, designed to help people reclaim one hour a day for authentic connection.

We're currently in active conversations with investors and partners who share our vision of technology that brings people together rather than isolates them. This is a $4M seed round with smaller ticket sizes available for angel investors through August.

We're aiming to build more than an app; and actually create a new standard for responsible technology that prioritizes human wellbeing.

If you're interested in learning more about the project or exploring possible avenues for collaboration, we'd love to hear from you. If you know someone who might also be interested, please forward them this message.

We also have a brand new website for this era and I'd love your thoughts:

• I'm an investor → fill this form out directly to receive our private landing for investors.

I'm super excited to be sharing this with you all here, I know this incredible On The Net Today community will have amazing notes, feedback, or contacts that could help us along this journey. Thank you for being part of this with me! 😊 

Links:

• Woopdo

• The science behind Woopdo

• I’m an investor

Severance and The Penguin, the series with the most nominations at the 2025 Emmy Awards

This week, the nominations for the 2025 Emmy Awards have been announced, the most prestigious awards in television, which have reached their 77th edition and will be presented on September 14 in the city of Los Angeles (United States).

The list of series and TV programs with the most nominations this year is headed by the series Severance, from Apple TV+, which has achieved a total of 27 nominations and is the favorite in the drama category.

In second place is The Penguin, a series offered by HBO Max, with 24 nominations, while The Studio, from Apple TV+, and The White Lotus, from HBO Max, have obtained 23 nominations each. The new comedy The Studio has broken the record as the most nominated debut.

Other series with a high number of nominations are Andor, The Last of Us, Hacks, Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Shrinking, Paradise and The Pitt.

In this edition of the Emmys, the platforms Apple TV+ and HBO Max have become the main protagonists by achieving a large number of nominations.

We offer you below the official links of the series with the most nominations:

• Severance (Apple TV+)

• The Penguin (HBO Max)

• The Studio (Apple TV+)

• The White Lotus (HBO Max)

• Andor (Disney+)

• The Last of Us (HBO Max)

• Hacks (HBO Max)

• Abbott Elementary (ABC)

• The Bear (FX/Hulu)

• Shrinking (Apple TV+)

Links:

• Official Emmy Awards website: Television Academy

• This year's nominees, by categories

Live broadcast of Iceland's volcanic eruptions

In the last four years, Iceland has already experienced a total of 12 volcanic eruptions after the volcanic systems of the Reykjanes peninsula - near the country's capital, Reykjavik - became active again in 2021.

The most recent eruption, this past Wednesday, occurred in Grindavík. The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) has explained that the magma pushed the earth's crust and opened a fissure between 700 and 1,000 meters in length.

• Residents and tourists, evacuated in Iceland after a new volcanic eruption in Grindavík – Euronews

Iceland's volcanic eruptions can be followed live through various web cameras.

For example, Iceland's public television has offered live images of this volcanic eruption these days using several webcams

But much more impactful has been this live broadcast carried out on Wednesday for five hours, available on YouTube, of images captured with a drone by Isak Finnbogason, from Iceland FPV:

Yesterday, Thursday, the volcanic activity was reduced very considerably, so that the state of emergency was lifted. 

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