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After an eventful Qualifying, Chris Medland selects the key things to look out for during the 2026 Austrian Grand Prix.
Matt Youson takes a look at the different strategy options that are available to the teams on race day in Austria.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Een concert van Lil Kleine in het Olympisch Stadion in Amsterdam is zaterdagavond voortijdig gestopt wegens het slechte weer. Een bezoeker van het concert heeft dat laten weten aan het ANP.
Op enig moment zei de artiest tegen het publiek dat hij in zijn oortje te horen kreeg dat hij van het podium af moest. Boven het stadion was donkere lucht te zien met weerlicht.
Kort erna kregen bezoekers te horen dat ze het stadion moesten verlaten om veiligheidsredenen. Daarmee eindigde het concert rond 22.15 uur, terwijl het oorspronkelijk zou duren tot 22.45 uur.
Zaterdagavond is in het hele land code oranje van kracht vanwege zware onweersbuien. Het onweer volgt op een aantal zeer warme dagen.
LONDEN (ANP) - Het Verenigd Koninkrijk heeft aangekondigd geld vrij te maken voor het opzetten van een nieuwe gezamenlijke vloot met Nederland. Het Nederlandse ministerie van Defensie heeft bevestigd de intentie te hebben om samen te werken met de Britten om nieuwe zogenoemde amfibische transportschepen te verwerven.
Amfibische transportschepen zijn bedoeld om militairen te ondersteunen bij operaties op water en op land. Troepen kunnen daardoor bijvoorbeeld ook ergens aan land gaan waar geen haven aanwezig is. Nederland heeft op dit moment twee van dat soort schepen.
De Britten kondigen de nieuwe gezamenlijke vloot aan als onderdeel van een investeringspakket van ruim 500 miljoen pond (580 miljoen euro). Die plannen hadden al maanden geleden moeten worden gepresenteerd, maar werden steeds uitgesteld. Begin deze maand stapte minister van Defensie John Healey op omdat er in zijn ogen te weinig geld werd vrijgemaakt voor investeringen in defensie.
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De nieuwe minister Dan Jarvis verdedigt de huidige plannen. "We investeren in nieuwe aanvalsdrones, hogesnelheidsboten en amfibische transportschepen om onze commando's de uitrusting te geven die ze nodig hebben om onze tegenstanders een stap voor te blijven en ons te verdedigen."
Het Britse ministerie van Defensie benadrukt dat de focus van het leger meer komt te liggen op het Hoge Noorden, omdat die regio steeds belangrijker zou worden voor het VK en de NAVO. Er zal bijvoorbeeld ook worden samengewerkt met Noorwegen aan schepen die gebruikt worden om tankers uit de Russische schaduwvloot te onderscheppen.
De precieze plannen van het VK moeten voor de NAVO-top van 7 en 8 juli worden gepubliceerd.
When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried hundreds of papyrus
scrolls. They were rediscovered in the mid-1700s, remembers Smithsonian magazine, "the only
surviving collection of its kind from the Greco-Roman
world..."
"But when scholars tried to unroll them, the carbonized manuscripts
crumbled to dust."
Every generation that followed faced the same dilemma: They could wait for
technology to advance, abandoning hope of reading the ancient texts
in their own lifetime. Or they could try to open the scrolls
themselves — and risk destroying them.
In recent years, researchers have settled on a third option. Using
advanced imaging and artificial intelligence, they're deciphering
the scrolls without needing to unroll them at all.
The Vesuvius Challenge
has accelerated the process by turning it into a public competition,
complete with cash prizes. In 2023, a student won $40,000 for
deciphering a
single word — "purple" — from an unopened scroll. Later,
contestants would identify 2,000 Greek characters from one scroll ($700,000) and the title of another ($60,000). Now, for the very first time,
researchers have recovered all
surviving text from a single scroll. The nearly five-foot-long
segment includes roughly 20 columns of ancient Greek philosophy,
accessible for the first time in nearly 2,000 years.
"The tech actually does look like magic, but it's not," Brent
Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky, said
at a press
conference. (The article points out that Seales partnered with two Silicon Valley investors in 2023 to launch the Vesuvius Challenge, and is now hailing "the restoration of lost voices from the ancient world."
Seales has been working on virtually unwrapping the
scrolls since the early 2000s. The process involved imaging the
bundles of papyrus using technology similar to CT scanners, isolating
thin layers and then stitching them together.... "We've developed
a systematic and a repeatable approach," Seales told the audience.
"Now it's only a matter of time until we read all of the
scrolls."
scrolls. They were rediscovered in the mid-1700s, remembers Smithsonian magazine, "the only
surviving collection of its kind from the Greco-Roman
world..."
"But when scholars tried to unroll them, the carbonized manuscripts
crumbled to dust."
Every generation that followed faced the same dilemma: They could wait for
technology to advance, abandoning hope of reading the ancient texts
in their own lifetime. Or they could try to open the scrolls
themselves — and risk destroying them.
In recent years, researchers have settled on a third option. Using
advanced imaging and artificial intelligence, they're deciphering
the scrolls without needing to unroll them at all.
The Vesuvius Challenge
has accelerated the process by turning it into a public competition,
complete with cash prizes. In 2023, a student won $40,000 for
deciphering a
single word — "purple" — from an unopened scroll. Later,
contestants would identify 2,000 Greek characters from one scroll ($700,000) and the title of another ($60,000). Now, for the very first time,
researchers have recovered all
surviving text from a single scroll. The nearly five-foot-long
segment includes roughly 20 columns of ancient Greek philosophy,
accessible for the first time in nearly 2,000 years.
"The tech actually does look like magic, but it's not," Brent
Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky, said
at a press
conference. (The article points out that Seales partnered with two Silicon Valley investors in 2023 to launch the Vesuvius Challenge, and is now hailing "the restoration of lost voices from the ancient world."
Seales has been working on virtually unwrapping the
scrolls since the early 2000s. The process involved imaging the
bundles of papyrus using technology similar to CT scanners, isolating
thin layers and then stitching them together.... "We've developed
a systematic and a repeatable approach," Seales told the audience.
"Now it's only a matter of time until we read all of the
scrolls."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
⚽️ Kick-off time: 7.30pm EDT/12.30am BST/9.30am AEST
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⚽️ DR Congo v Uzbekistan – live updates from Group K
Let’s begin with the tangible stakes ...
If Portugal win this game, they win Group K, and Colombia will be second, resulting in these matchups:
Portugal: July 3 in Kansas City vs. the third-place team in Group L, if that team qualifies. Should the Group L team fall short, they’ll face the third-place team in Group I, which is Senegal.
Colombia: July 2 in Toronto vs. the runner-up in Group L (England, Ghana or Croatia).
Continue reading...⚽️ Kick-off time: 7.30pm EDT/12.30am BST/9.30am AEST
⚽️ Third-place table | Player guide | Group tables | Mail Bryan
⚽️ Colombia v Portugal – live updates also in Group K
Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s at look at who needs what as the group stage tilts toward its conclusion:
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