Why do RSS readers look like email clients? “When we applied that same visual language to RSS (the unread counts, the bold text for new items, the sense of a backlog accumulating) we imported the anxiety without the cause.”
Monarch says he has remained focused despite early criticisms of his beliefs, in new film Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision
King Charles has revealed he “wasn’t going to be diverted” from his environmental campaigning despite criticism in the past in a new documentary showcasing his philosophy of “Harmony”.
In the Amazon Prime Video film, his first project with a streaming platform, Charles recalls past attacks on his outspokenness on the environment, saying: “I just felt this was the approach that I was going to stick to. A course I set and I wasn’t going to be diverted from.”
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2018 Masters champion will be eligible for PGA Tour
Patrick Reed has delivered the latest high-profile blow to LIV Golf by announcing he will leave the circuit before the start of its 2026 season.
The 35-year-old American former Masters champion joins Brooks Koepka by instead focusing on the PGA Tour. Reed will spend his immediate time on the DP World Tour, where he won the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday. Reed tees up in Bahrain from Thursday.
Continue reading...The author, whose family has been impacted by dementia, says provision in living wills could clarify intentions when a person declines to the point they are ‘alive and dead all at once’
Legalised assisted dying should “gradually” be extended to dementia sufferers, the author Ian McEwan has said.
McEwan was “shocked by the snow-drilling attempts” by those opposed to the UK’s assisted dying bill, he told a public book event in London, citing its more than 1,000 amendments. MPs and peers backing the bill now believe it is “near impossible” for it to pass the House of Lords before the end of the session in May due to alleged filibustering.
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De Nederlandse staat beschermt inwoners van Bonaire onvoldoende tegen de gevolgen van klimaatverandering, oordeelde de rechtbank Den Haag in een zaak die Greenpeace samen met inwoners van Bonaire had aangespannen.
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AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Bij de zogenoemde entrada in de buurt van station Bijlmer ArenA voor aanvang van de wedstrijd tussen Ajax en Olympiakos in de Champions League worden veel rode fakkels en vuurwerk afgestoken. Een verslaggever ziet dat veel fans toekijken bij de sfeeractie van de harde supporterskern, die rond 18.00 uur begon. Rond de Johan Cruijff ArenA geldt een veiligheidsrisicogebied, wat onder meer inhoudt dat bezit en afsteken van vuurwerk niet zijn toegestaan.
De wedstrijd van woensdagavond (aanvang: 21.00 uur) is aangemerkt als "hoogste categorie risicowedstrijd". De Amsterdamse driehoek van burgemeester, politie en justitie houdt rekening met verstoringen van de openbare orde. Binnen het veiligheidsrisicogebied kunnen mensen preventief worden gefouilleerd en gezichtsbedekkende kleding is verboden.
De verslaggever hoort dat er vuurwerkbommen worden afgestoken. Ook dragen mensen gezichtsbedekkende kleding. Er wordt met vlaggen gezwaaid en gezongen. De aanwezige ME grijpt vooralsnog niet in.
Aan de Berenplaat in Spijkenisse is woensdag een zwaan uit het water gehaald, die vermoedelijk is besmet met vogelgriep. Het dier had symptomen van het virus en wordt ingeslapen. Dagelijks krijgt Zwanengroep Zuid-Holland twee tot drie meldingen binnen over zieke vogels.
AI agents were still in a nascent stage when I first started hearing the term ‘AI agents’ , it felt like one of those concepts which everyone nodded to but very few could clearly explain. Today, almost every other engineer seems to be building, experimenting with, or at least talking about agentic AI in some form. What was once a vague concept has quickly become a hands-on playground for technologists.
UPS said today it plans to eliminate an additional 30,000 operational jobs this year as the shipping giant continues to wind down its partnership with Amazon -- previously its largest customer -- and push forward a broader turnaround strategy under CEO Carol Tome.
CFO Brian Dykes said on an earnings call that the cuts will be accomplished through attrition and a voluntary separation program for full-time drivers. The company also plans to further deploy automation across its network. UPS has identified 24 buildings for closure in the first half of 2026 and expects to reduce operational hours by approximately 25 million as the Amazon relationship unwinds.
Last year, UPS eliminated 48,000 jobs -- 34,000 operational and 14,000 management -- and closed 93 buildings. The company expects $3 billion in total savings from the Amazon unwind.
CFO Brian Dykes said on an earnings call that the cuts will be accomplished through attrition and a voluntary separation program for full-time drivers. The company also plans to further deploy automation across its network. UPS has identified 24 buildings for closure in the first half of 2026 and expects to reduce operational hours by approximately 25 million as the Amazon relationship unwinds.
Last year, UPS eliminated 48,000 jobs -- 34,000 operational and 14,000 management -- and closed 93 buildings. The company expects $3 billion in total savings from the Amazon unwind.
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Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived there, two new studies indicate, pushing back the established time for such activity. From a report: The evidence includes a 500,000-year-old hammer made of elephant or mammoth bone, excavated in southern England, and 430,000-year-old wooden tools found in southern Greece -- the earliest wooden tools on record.
The findings suggest that early humans possessed sophisticated technological skills, the researchers said. Katerina Harvati, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tubingen in Germany and a lead author of the wooden-tool paper, which was published on Monday in the journal PNAS, said the discoveries provided insight into the prehistoric origins of human intelligence. Silvia Bello, a paleoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum and an author on the elephant-bone study, which was published last week in Science Advances, concurred.
The artifacts in both studies, recovered from coal-mine sites, were probably produced by early Neanderthals or a preceding species, Homo heidelbergensis. Homo sapiens emerged in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, and the oldest evidence of them in Europe is a 210,000-year-old fossil unearthed in Greece. By the time Homo sapiens established themselves in Britain 40,000 years ago, other hominins had already lived there for nearly a million years.
The findings suggest that early humans possessed sophisticated technological skills, the researchers said. Katerina Harvati, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tubingen in Germany and a lead author of the wooden-tool paper, which was published on Monday in the journal PNAS, said the discoveries provided insight into the prehistoric origins of human intelligence. Silvia Bello, a paleoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum and an author on the elephant-bone study, which was published last week in Science Advances, concurred.
The artifacts in both studies, recovered from coal-mine sites, were probably produced by early Neanderthals or a preceding species, Homo heidelbergensis. Homo sapiens emerged in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, and the oldest evidence of them in Europe is a 210,000-year-old fossil unearthed in Greece. By the time Homo sapiens established themselves in Britain 40,000 years ago, other hominins had already lived there for nearly a million years.
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