Chris Medland picks out five key things to keep an eye on when the lights go out for the season opener at Albert Park in Melbourne.
Matt Youson takes a look at the different pit stop and tyre options that are available to the teams for the season opener at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne.
The drivers and teams report back on all the action from final Practice and Qualifying in Melbourne for the 2026 Australian Grand Prix.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Een nieuwe repatriëringsvlucht van Muscat in Oman naar Amsterdam is uitgesteld "vanwege de veiligheidssituatie". Dat meldt het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken over de vlucht van Corendon, die zaterdagmiddag zou vertrekken.
Zaterdagochtend landde wel een ander vliegtuig uit Muscat op Schiphol. In die repatriëringsvlucht, uitgevoerd door KLM, zaten 281 mensen, onder wie 263 Nederlanders.
MIAMI (ANP/RTR) - President Donald Trump heeft Iraniërs gedreigd met nog zwaardere aanvallen waarbij ook meer groepen mensen of plaatsen doelwit worden. Trump zei dat "gebieden en groepen mensen die tot nu toe niet als doelwit werden beschouwd, serieus worden overwogen voor volledige vernietiging en zekere dood". Dat is volgens hem het gevolg van de houding van Iran.
Hij zei ook dat Iran zaterdag heel hard getroffen wordt. Naar aanleiding van uitspraken van zijn Iraanse ambtgenoot Masoud Pezeshkian zei Trump dat Iran "zijn verontschuldigingen had aangeboden en zich heeft overgegeven aan de buurlanden in het Midden-Oosten".
Pezeshkian heeft zaterdag Arabische landen inderdaad zijn verontschuldigingen aangeboden voor Iraanse aanvallen. Hij heeft gezegd dat Iran alleen landen aanvalt waarvandaan Iran wordt aangevallen. Als landen in de regio niets te maken hebben met de aanvallen op Iran, zijn ze ook geen doelwit. De VS hebben tal van militaire steunpunten en bases in de Golfstaten.
Veel mensen voelen druk om hun ‘grote doel’ te vinden, maar blijven vooral steken in nadenken, lijstjes en online tests. De zogeheten spaghetti-methode draait dat om: niet eerst je roeping formuleren, maar al doende ontdekken wat je leven zin geeft.
De metafoor is simpel: je gooit spaghetti tegen de muur en kijkt wat blijft plakken. De Amerikaanse arts en auteur Jordan Grumet beschrijft hoe je dat ook met je leven kunt doen: door kleine, bewuste experimenten te doen met activiteiten die nét buiten je routine liggen, en daarna eerlijk te evalueren wat energie gaf en wat niet. Die microproefjes vormen ‘purpose anchors’: concrete momenten of bezigheden die merkbaar nieuwsgierigheid, plezier of betrokkenheid oproepen.
Dat is geen soft psychologisch speeltje. Een groeiende hoeveelheid onderzoek laat zien dat mensen met een sterker gevoel van doel en zingeving niet alleen gelukkiger zijn, maar ook langer leven en gezonder zijn. In een grote Amerikaanse langetermijnstudie hadden mensen met de hoogste mate van ‘purpose’ een 46 procent lagere kans om in vier jaar te overlijden dan mensen met de laagste score. Ook rapporteerden zij minder slaapproblemen en meer optimisme. Zingeving is, kortom, een gezondheidsfactor geworden.
Tegelijkertijd blijkt uit recent onderzoek dat een meerderheid van jongeren en jongvolwassenen aangeeft weinig of geen gevoel van betekenis te ervaren, en actief op zoek is naar zingeving. De spaghetti-methode is een nuchter antwoord op die existentiële onrust: geen belofte van één ultieme levensmissie, maar een praktische uitnodiging om maand na maand een paar nieuwe dingen te proberen, te kijken wat blijft plakken – en dáár stap voor stap meer van te doen.
The Global Times reports: China's first domestically developed quantum computer operating system, Origin Pilot, has been made available for online download, the Global Times learned from the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center on Wednesday. A Chinese scientist said while several quantum computing operating system efforts are underway worldwide, this is the first developed in China where it is seen as part of China's broad effort to achieve technology independence and to achieve technology advance in quantum computing.
The center said the release marks the world's first open-source quantum computer operating system available for public download, which is expected to lower development barriers and support the growth of China's quantum computing ecosystem. Developed by Hefei-based Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co, the company behind China's third-generation superconducting quantum computer, Origin Wukong, Origin Pilot was first launched in 2021 and has gone through multiple rounds of iteration and upgrade.
The developer describes it as an integrated quantum-classical-intelligent computing operating system compatible with major hardware approaches, including superconducting qubits, trapped ions and neutral atoms. It is now deployed on the company's Origin Wukong series and is available to external users, the company said. Guo Guoping, chief scientist of Origin Quantum and director at the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center, told the Global Times that a quantum operating system is the "soft heart" of the quantum computing ecosystem. He said the decision to make Origin Pilot available globally marks a shift in China's quantum computing industry from closed-door tech innovation to broader open-source ecosystem development. Dou Menghan, head of the research team, said: "Users can quickly integrate with quantum chips of multiple physical types and, using autonomous programming frameworks such as QPanda, execute quantum computing jobs across different physical quantum chips to support both research and commercialization needs."
The center said the release marks the world's first open-source quantum computer operating system available for public download, which is expected to lower development barriers and support the growth of China's quantum computing ecosystem. Developed by Hefei-based Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co, the company behind China's third-generation superconducting quantum computer, Origin Wukong, Origin Pilot was first launched in 2021 and has gone through multiple rounds of iteration and upgrade.
The developer describes it as an integrated quantum-classical-intelligent computing operating system compatible with major hardware approaches, including superconducting qubits, trapped ions and neutral atoms. It is now deployed on the company's Origin Wukong series and is available to external users, the company said. Guo Guoping, chief scientist of Origin Quantum and director at the Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center, told the Global Times that a quantum operating system is the "soft heart" of the quantum computing ecosystem. He said the decision to make Origin Pilot available globally marks a shift in China's quantum computing industry from closed-door tech innovation to broader open-source ecosystem development. Dou Menghan, head of the research team, said: "Users can quickly integrate with quantum chips of multiple physical types and, using autonomous programming frameworks such as QPanda, execute quantum computing jobs across different physical quantum chips to support both research and commercialization needs."
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Wie zaterdagochtend een rondje door de Rotterdamse Tarwewijk maakte, zag ongetwijfeld een wandelend campagnebord voorbijkomen. Aan dat metershoge bord zat niemand minder dan burgemeester Schouten vast. Op pad om Rotterdammers naar de stembus te lokken voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen.
Zou jij een vreemde laten bepalen wat er voor de rest van je leven op je huid staat? Aankomende zaterdag kan het: van middelvinger-zwaaiende katten tot abstracte eenden. Het is gratis, het is permanent en kunstenaar David Shrigley heeft de volledige macht.
The Kremlin said Putin reaffirmed Russia’s position that hostilities must stop immediately and that disputes surrounding Iran and the wider Middle East should be resolved through diplomatic means rather than military force.
⚽ FA Cup fifth round news from the 12.15pm GMT kick-off
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Mansfield have not been as far as the fifth round for 51 years, when they were beaten by Carlisle. Their record FA Cup run was in 1969 when they reached the quarter-finals, losing to Leicester. The 3-0 defeat of Bobby Moore’s West Ham in the fifth round that year is Mansfield’s proudest moment.
Mansfield’s goal-filled FA Cup journey this season (so far):
First round: 3-2 v Harrogate (h)
Second round: 2-2 (3-1 pens) v Accrington (a)
Third round: 4-3 v Sheffield Utd (a)
Fourth round: 2-1 v Burnley (a)
We can watch Arsenal for their last 10 games. It would just frighten the life out of us. We’ll do some rudimentary work on corners. We know roughly how they’re going to come in, whatever their personnel. But if top Premier League teams can’t deal with them, I don’t know how a bottom-half League One side is meant to. I don’t want the players worrying unduly. There’s only one ball coming in at any one time. Deal with it.
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Lucy Bronze will make her 145th England appearance this afternoon, taking her up to third in the nation’s all-time appearance list. She now only sits behind Jill Scott (161) and Fara Williams (172) for caps achieved.
Lucy Bronze and Lauren James return to the England starting line-up this afternoon, with Esme Morgan also replacing Lotte Wubben-Moy in defence. A very strong XI from Sarina Wiegman.
Continue reading...Seeing people walking their pets in a snowstorm melted the heart of this New York-based photographer
Had Adela Ramirez’s puggle Teddy still been alive, she would have been out walking him in the snow. Instead, she was at home, in the art studio of her New York City apartment, watching from a window. “My view consists of the Empire State Building, which is art deco, the B Altman Building, which is Italian renaissance revival, and the beautiful Church of the Incarnation, which is neo-gothic. I’m originally from Texas, but have lived in New York for 40 years,” Ramirez says. “I always feel privileged when the universe seems to say, ‘Today I am going to present you with a fabulous snowstorm – enjoy the performance!’”
As Ramirez watched, she noticed that there were no cars or pedestrians; only dog walkers were braving the storm. “People were playing chase, carrying them across icy parts, giving them their necessary daily walk. That’s what we do,” she says. “It made me miss Teddy. He was half beagle, half pug, with an underbite and a princess attitude. He loved the snow, and had a winter coat and boots, but made it clear that he couldn’t be expected to walk in it. He would lift his paws and look me straight in the eye, as if to say, ‘Mom, please carry me.’ We had to say goodbye to him last spring. He’d been my loyal boy for 10 years.
Continue reading...Mickey says his stint as a handyman transformed into a lucrative sex business due to the region’s ‘self-denial’
A western Texas fracker starring in a podcast about how his attempted moonlighting as a handyman turned into lucrative sex work largely solicited by distracted oil industry professionals’ housewives says he believes his region’s repressive sexual attitudes gave his side gig an opening to flourish.
“There’s an inherent kind of self-denial,” the subject of The Handyman of West Texas, identified only as Mickey, said in a recent interview. “We all have these thoughts. But we lie to ourselves and try to conform to … how you’re supposed to be repressing your own pleasure.”
Continue reading...'There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall'
Brits are worried that AI will dehumanize public services, leading to less human contact and oversight as well as job losses, according to people questioned by pollster Ipsos.…