F1.com delves into the various upgrades the grid's 11 teams are planning to introduce at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.
Mercedes driver George Russell finished fastest in Free Practice 1 for the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, beating McLaren's Oscar Piastri and Ferrari's Charles Leclerc to the top spot in Spain.
Live coverage of Friday's first Formula 1 practice session for the 2026 Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix in Spain.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De politie heeft meerdere personen aangehouden wegens de explosie in Amsterdam die plaatsvond in de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag. "Inmiddels hebben we meerdere personen aangehouden en zijn er een aantal auto's in beslag genomen", meldt de politie in een update. Waarvan de aangehouden personen verdacht worden, is niet bekendgemaakt.
De explosie vond plaats aan de Osdorper Ban in Amsterdam-West, in een bijgebouw van een flat. In het getroffen pand waren een sportschool en een fysiotherapiepraktijk gevestigd. Zeker zeven mensen raakten gewond, van wie twee ernstig. Honderden flatbewoners werden geëvacueerd.
Eerder vrijdag meldde De Telegraaf op basis van getuigenverklaringen dat kort na de ontploffing een auto met hoge snelheid wegreed. De krant schreef ook dat in de ochtend al een auto in beslag was genomen.
Ruim dertien uur na de explosie zoekt de brandweer nog naar eventuele slachtoffers in het puin. Wat betreft de explosie is nog niet duidelijk hoe die is veroorzaakt. Netbeheerder Liander zei geen aanwijzingen te hebben dat het gaat om een gasexplosie.
NEW YORK (ANP) - De beurzen in New York gingen vrijdag verder omhoog na de stevige koerswinsten een dag eerder. De hoop op een spoedig einde aan de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten en een snelle heropening van de Straat van Hormuz bleef zorgen voor optimisme bij beleggers. Verder ging de aandacht vooral uit naar de beursgang van Elon Musks ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX.
Van het aandeel SpaceX was nog geen openingskoers bekend. Openingsindicatoren wijzen echter op een flinke koerssprong ten opzichte van de introductieprijs van 135 dollar per aandeel. SpaceX haalde met de verkoop van meer dan 555 miljoen aandelen, tegen de vaste verkoopprijs van 135 dollar per stuk, 75 miljard dollar op, waarmee het de grootste beursgang ooit is.
De Dow-Jonesindex noteerde kort na opening van de markt 0,5 procent hoger op 51.107 punten. De brede S&P 500-index klom 0,1 procent tot 7404 punten en techgraadmeter Nasdaq zakte 0,1 procent tot 25.788 punten.
Decision to not overturn fallen crypto mogul’s 25-year prison sentence was handed down by three-judge panel
Sam Bankman-Fried on Friday lost his bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence over the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded.
The decision was handed down by a three-judge panel of the New York-based second US circuit court of appeals.
Continue reading...‘Late life’ male celebrities are turning the need for spectacles into a style statement as they refuse to disappear into fashion invisibility
A heart-throb for more than 40 years, Brad Pitt is no doubt used to people looking at him. But this week, that gaze was distracted by an addition to his face – aviator-style glasses.
Worn to watch the tennis at Roland Garros and with a pink trenchcoat when out for dinner in Paris, these retro glassesare more typically worn by younger men. That’s changed recently – they’re now becoming central to a makeover for men entering their “late life” era, but who aren’t willing to submit to the fashion invisibility associated with ageing.
Continue reading...This collection of ‘art meets theatre meets activism’ by more than 80 writers can feel overwhelming, writes our critic, but it devastatingly conveys the cumulative horror and anger of abuse against women
Can social media bring on the revolution? Maybe not, but it was vital for the collective action behind this theatrical event, conceived on a WhatsApp group for playwrights shortly after the release of the Epstein files. Members of the group were angry that the world was not talking nearly enough about the impact of Jeffrey Epstein’s actions on the girls and women he abused. They were also concerned that America’s war with Iran was serving as a distraction from the violence that lay festering in these files on the paedophile-financier. So when British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz sent out a prompt, scores of writers responded.
That was four months ago. This week, more than 80 of those writers have mobilised a creative response under the lead direction of Lucy Morrison along with Hannah Hauer-King, Madeleine Kludge and Tessa Walker. It takes place across 15 spaces, cupboards as well as open plan areas, on the upper storey of an office in London, currently occupied by Theatre Deli, a company that takes over empty locations.
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Pokemon Go players' optional location scans reportedly helped train Niantic Spatial's visual positioning system, which uses camera imagery and 3D maps to navigate when GPS is unavailable or jammed. According to DroneXL, that technology is now being paired with Vantor's drone navigation software for military and intelligence use, raising questions about whether gamers understood that footage collected for in-game rewards could eventually support defense systems. From the report: The pipeline runs from a mobile game to the battlefield in three steps. Players scanned the physical world. Niantic Spatial turned those scans into a 3D map that lets a machine locate itself by sight when satellite signals fail. And in December 2025, Niantic Spatial announced a partnership with Vantor, the defense and intelligence firm formerly known as Maxar Intelligence, to fuse that ground-level system with Vantor's aerial navigation software for use in GPS-denied operations.
I have spent years covering how drones lose their way the moment an electronic warfare unit switches on a jammer, a problem that has spread from the battlefield into civilian airspace, from Ukrainian workshops cycling through navigation generations to American programs scrambling for alternatives. The unsettling part of this story is not the technology. It is where the training data came from, and whether the people who supplied it would have agreed had anyone explained the destination. "Now as part of Scopely (the Saudi-owned company that acquired Niantic last year for $3.5 billion), Pokemon GO data is not shared with Niantic Spatial," a company spokesperson said in a statement to Kotaku. "AR Scans collected through Pokemon GO were submitted voluntarily by players who opted into the feature and were subject to the applicable Terms of Service and Privacy Policy at the time. The discontinuation of AR scanning and the end of data sharing with Niantic Spatial were part of the transition planning associated with Pokemon GO's move to Scopely."
I have spent years covering how drones lose their way the moment an electronic warfare unit switches on a jammer, a problem that has spread from the battlefield into civilian airspace, from Ukrainian workshops cycling through navigation generations to American programs scrambling for alternatives. The unsettling part of this story is not the technology. It is where the training data came from, and whether the people who supplied it would have agreed had anyone explained the destination. "Now as part of Scopely (the Saudi-owned company that acquired Niantic last year for $3.5 billion), Pokemon GO data is not shared with Niantic Spatial," a company spokesperson said in a statement to Kotaku. "AR Scans collected through Pokemon GO were submitted voluntarily by players who opted into the feature and were subject to the applicable Terms of Service and Privacy Policy at the time. The discontinuation of AR scanning and the end of data sharing with Niantic Spatial were part of the transition planning associated with Pokemon GO's move to Scopely."
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The advisory comes as suspected hacker Denis Obrezko made his initial appearance in U.S. court after being arrested in Thailand last year.