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- Europa wil Big Tech temmen met een nieuwe wet. Wat houdt die in en wat merkt de gebruiker ervan?
- Vrijdag worden nieuwe EU-regels van kracht om gebruikers van internetdiensten te beschermen. Meer transparantie, minder illegaliteit – om te beginnen bij de negentien grootste techbedrijven.
- Open Food Facts
- A collaborative, free and open database of food products from around the world.
- The Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream Album Review
- Today we revisit the alternative titans’ 1993 album, where Billy Corgan discovered the larger-than-life sound that would reshape rock for decades to come.
- Burning Man festival-goers trapped in desert as rain turns site to mud
- Tens of thousands of ‘burners’ urged to conserve food and water as rain and flash floods sweep Nevada
- De toekomst van mensenrechten: hebben we recht op een leefbare planeet?
- Klimaatverandering wordt binnen nu en vijf jaar de belangrijkste oorzaak van mensenrechtenschendingen wereldwijd.
- A Canadian study gave $7,500 to homeless people. Here’s how they spent it.
- The results show the power of cash transfers to reduce homelessness.
- To Pee, or not to Pee? A linguistic landscape analysis of toilet signs in the public sphere
- In this article, we will examine six different pictures of toilet signs in public spaces, intended to be an original alternative to classic toilet signs, and how their understanding is conditional.
- ‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate?
- Extreme weather is ‘smacking us in the face’ with worse to come, but a ‘tiny window’ of hope remains, say leading climate scientists
- Denis Villeneuve Teases Possible Dune: Part Three Based On Dune Messiah
- Bluesky, AT Protocol, and the exciting possibilities of URLs as usernames
- Smartphones de klas uit. Mag Magister ook weg?
- Why planting trees to offset carbon emissions doesn't really work, according to experts
- New research questions the environmental integrity of carbon trading, a multi-billion dollar industry
- Klimaatexpert Clive Hamilton: ‘Het is al te laat’
- Terug naar vroeger kan niet, zegt de Australische klimaatexpert Clive Hamilton. Alleen met radicale technische oplossingen kunnen we de schade nog wat beheersen.
- Wally
- Wally's AI Framework provides a high-quality comprehensive audit in minutes while saving enormous time and expense when compared to manual audits.
- Rail Baltica awarded €928m additional funding
- will connect Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland while improving and updating the link to Western Europe
- Get your work recognized: write a brag document
- Samuel L. Jackson Talks Marvel, Racists Like Trump, and His FBI Threat
- Screen icon discusses new show Secret Invasion and so much more, including being an usher at MLK’s funeral and the FBI making a threat on his life
- Considerations for TV user interface accessibility
- challenges people with disabilities may face when interacting with TV apps and considerations for people designing and developing TV app interfaces.
- Hollywood AI Crisis: Will Artificial Intelligence Eliminate Acting & Jobs?
- 24 CSS mix-blend-mode Examples
- ‘Gigantic’ power of meat industry blocking green alternatives, study finds
- Analysis of EU and US shows livestock farmers receive about 1,000 times more public funding than plant-based and cultivated meat
- Everyone has JavaScript, right?
- Blocking feature to be removed from former Twitter platform X, says Musk
- Loss of protective feature may bring it into conflict with safety guidelines on App Store and Google Play
- “Aantrekkelijk en geloofwaardig alternatief voor de auto”
- Frankrijk is van plan om zijn spoornet te versterken met een investering van zowat 100 miljard euro tegen 2040. Dat heeft premier Elisabeth Borne aangekondigd.
- Want to cope with heatwaves? Look to Japan's creative cooling solutions
- As extreme heat hammers the globe, one traveller discovers a wealth of cooling solutions, from high-tech underwear to ancient philosophies, on a journey round Japan.
- Germany's Love of Autos Puts the Brakes on Berlin's Car-Free Dreams
- While Germany’s capital has made progress in building bike lanes and restricting traffic, national political shifts show that automobiles still reign supreme.
- Tips for Taking Photos With Your Cellphone
- A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer shares tips on how to use your smartphone to shoot, arrange and edit your landscapes, portraits and other travel photos.
- The World’s Largest Landowners
- have you ever thought about who owns the most land in the world? Some properties are owned by major organizations, while others are owned by private landowners.
- Bluesky rolls out feeds with custom algorithms
- The idea is that you can subscribe to feeds that have algorithms tuned to showcase different kinds of posts
- Barbie: Hollywood Taking Wrong Lesson; Make More Women Films, Not Toys
- An introduction to @scope in CSS
- "Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet
- Read why WEI is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.
- My Two Decades Living as an American in Europe
- Moving there gave me access to all the other ways to see.
- The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity
- The elite are trying to whip everyone back to the office to avoid a commercial real estate crash.
- Experts Say AI Girlfriend Apps Are Training Men to Be Even Worse
- Lonely people are increasingly turning to fake AI girlfriends for companionship, but some people believe these AI chatbots are harmful.
- CNet Deletes Thousands of Old Articles in Futile, Wrong-Headed Attempt to Game Google Search
- Bronze Age Pyramid Found in Kazakhstan Is First Ever on Asian Steppe
- A giant 4,000-year-old Bronze Age pyramidical structure with links to a horse cult has been uncovered in the ochre-tinted earthen steppes of Kazakhstan.
- Chronotrains
- Visualize where you can travel by train in Europe on this interactive map.
- Review: EgoFit Walker Pro – an under-desk treadmill
- Thinking of getting something similar
- Is decentralization the future of social media?
- Meta’s adoption of ActivityPub could expose a lot more people to the power, and perils, of decentralized social networks..
- 'Indiana Jones' Star Mads Mikkelsen Has Been a Bad, Bad Boy
- The legendary Danish actor knows in his bones how to play a memorable villain (see: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny). But his more recent status as a niche heartthrob? Why, that's another story...
- UK almost ‘flying blind’ on Covid this autumn, experts say
- As cases rise, scientists say country is mostly in the dark about how infections could play out in coming months
- Just normal web things.
- A plea for us to get back to building websites that can do normal website things.
- Blot – A blogging platform with no interface.
- Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t
- For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic
- A study of baby-food containers shows that microwaving plastic releases millions upon millions of polymer bits.
- The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project
- One day in Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project, a brief, casual moment of carelessness killed one scientist and severely injured another.
- What would the internet of people look like now?
- Maybe we just ditch the algorithms.
- ‘They found ways to do the impossible’: Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve for ever
- Control director Anton Corbijn’s new film tells the chaotic, tragic story of the creative duo behind some of the most recognisable covers of all time
- Sinéad O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56
- Michael D Higgins leads tributes to Irish musician, saying the country has lost an ‘extraordinarily beautiful, unique voice’
- Christopher Nolan Breaks Down ‘Oppenheimer’ With Professor Brian Cox
- As the long-awaited biopic reaches cinemas, we hosted a discussion with the celebrated director
- Gulf stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests
- A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis
- Twitter is being rebranded as X
- The mathematically correct way to tie your shoes
- Math can explain why your laces spontaneously come untied — and how to stop it.
- Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble
- Energy firms have made record profits by increasing production of oil and gas, far from their promises of rolling back emissions
- Oppenheimer: visueel spektakelstuk over de ‘vader van de atoombom’
- Women Share Their "I'm The Client, Not My Husband" Experiences
- World experiences hottest week ever recorded and more is forecast to come
- There is a good chance that the month of July will see the highest global temperatures for 120,000 years
- Sarah Silverman Files Lawsuit Against Maker of ChatGPT
- The comic's suit questions if AI models can function without training themselves on protected works.
- Time to Break Up Hollywood
- Hollywood is trapped in a death spiral, with streaming giants struggling to profit while smothering the industry itself. Finally the writers stood up. But will it be enough?
- VanMoof ebike mess highlights a risk with pricey smart hardware
- If the company goes under, and the servers go offline, that could leave ebike owners unable to even unlock their bikes
- HTMX is the Future
- A new approach is to put the ability to deliver this UX back into the hands of engineers that built websites before the SPA-craze, leveraging their existing toolsets and knowledge, and HTMX is the best example I've used so far.
- AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
- Generative AI models are changing the economy of the web, making it cheaper to generate lower-quality content. We’re just beginning to see the effects of these changes.
- 'A deadly problem': should we ban SUVs from our cities?
- Statistically less safe than regular cars and with higher CO2 emissions, campaigners argue the heavily-marketed cars have no place in urban areas
- Earth shatters heat records, faces uncharted extreme weather
- Scientists say to brace for more extreme weather and probably a record-warm 2023 amid unprecedented temperatures.
- Mark Rutte: Dutch coalition government collapses in migration row
- Can we now please all vote for someone else, finally?
- Why has Threads, Meta’s answer to Twitter, not launched in the EU?
- Meta’s new app has been listed in the US and the UK, but has no foreseeable launch date in the EU yet as the company worries about the bloc’s privacy regulations.
- GitHub achievements that did not make the cut
- The islands' councillors will consider a motion to investigate alternative forms of governance.
- June Extremes Suggest Parts of the Climate System Are Reaching Tipping Points
- June 2023 may be remembered as the start of a big change in the climate system, with many key global indicators flashing red warning lights amid signs that some systems are tipping toward a new state from which they may not recover.
- Orkney council to look at proposals to become territory of Norway