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Growing numbers of young voters are signing up to the Māori electoral roll as debate flares over the need for dedicated seats ahead of November’s election

More young people have signed up to vote in Māori electorates, new figures from the electoral commission show, as New Zealand prepares for an election this year.

The rise comes after years of tense relations between Indigenous New Zealanders and the centre-right coalition government. The latest figures show 58% of eligible 18- to 24-year-olds have registered for the Māori roll, up from 50% in 2023.

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Investigation concludes actor will not face criminal charges, with Ritchson also declining to pursue a potential charge against his neighbor

The Reacher star Alan Ritchson will not face criminal charges in relation to a widely publicised violent confrontation with a neighbor, after Tennessee police found he was acting in self-defense.

In a video obtained by TMZ on Sunday, the 43-year-old actor appeared to strike Ronnie Taylor several times as Taylor kneeled on the ground in a suburban neighborhood in Tennessee. Ritchson’s two children could be seen nearby sitting on motorbikes and watching the incident unfold.

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V&A South Kensington, London
The Italian designer loved to shock and this dazzling show is like sashaying through a party in 1930s Paris with Schiap and her darling friends Cocteau and Dalí

Naked mermaids and prancing horses, silk carrots and unshelled peanuts, gilded elephant trunks, drums and masks – and those are just a few of the buttons. The V&A’s lavish spring show is a weird and wonderful tumble down the rabbit hole that is Schiaparelli, fashion’s house of surrealism.

Elsa Schiaparelli designed clothes to be witty, not just pretty, and that lively spirit runs through this show. A shoe becomes a hat, bones grow on the outside of a dress, a telephone dial becomes a compact mirror. A stroll through the galleries feels less like admiring a beauty pageant lineup of frocks, and more like taking a turn through a 1930s Paris cocktail party with Schiaparelli and her friends Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau: bracingly avant garde, mildly unsettling, all visual puns and in-jokes and never a dull moment. Turn a corner from a Man Ray painting of a lit candle wearing a harlequin coat and you encounter a mannequin perched on a ledge, wearing a jacket that sprouts gold palm trees at the shoulders. It is wild, and it works.

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Non-coated silicone implants found to lead to higher levels of scarring, infections and necessity for further operations

Women with breast cancer who have reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy are much less likely to have complications if they have a polyurethane-coated implant, according to research.

About 55,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year, of whom about 30% have a mastectomy. Many of these will subsequently have radiotherapy.

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Need for abstinence before fertility treatment questioned as study finds sperm deteriorates as it stays in body

Encouraging men to have more frequent ejaculations may boost their fertility, according to researchers who found that sperm deteriorates over time as it remains in the body.

The longer men went without sex, the more their sperm showed signs of DNA damage and oxidative stress, and the more tests rated the sperm as less viable and poorer swimmers.

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Experts warn of ‘over-diagnosis’ dangers as social media prompts the worried well to seek out unnecessary and expensive scans and blood tests

Medical tests are marketed on social media as a way to empower people to take control of their health, but experts are warning to be wary of the harms influencers don’t mention.

Three controversial tests – full-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, blood tests for testosterone levels and the Anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) or “egg-timer” test, which surveys a woman’s egg count – are the focus of a campaign backed by the University of Sydney based on its own research trying to combat misinformation online.

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Linux gamers are seeing massive performance gains with Wine's new NTSYNC support, "which is a feature that has been years in the making and rewrites how Wine handles one of the most performance-sensitive operations in modern gaming," reports XDA Developers. Not every game will see a night-and-day difference, but for the games that do benefit from these changes, "the improvements range from noticeable to absurd." Combined with improvements to Wayland, graphics, and compatibility, as well as a major WoW64 architecture overhaul, the release looks less like an incremental update and more like one of Wine's most important upgrades in years. From the report: The numbers are wild. In developer benchmarks, Dirt 3 went from 110.6 FPS to 860.7 FPS, which is an impressive 678% improvement. Resident Evil 2 jumped from 26 FPS to 77 FPS. Call of Juarez went from 99.8 FPS to 224.1 FPS. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands saw gains from 130 FPS to 360 FPS. As well, Call of Duty: Black Ops I is now actually playable on Linux, too. Those benchmarks compare Wine NTSYNC against upstream vanilla Wine, which means there's no fsync or esync either. Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games.

The games that benefit most from NTSYNC are the ones that were struggling before, such as titles with heavy multi-threaded workloads where the synchronization overhead was a genuine bottleneck. For those games, the difference is night and day. And unlike fsync, NTSYNC is in the mainline kernel, meaning you don't need any custom patches or out-of-tree modules for it work. Any distro shipping kernel 6.14 or later, which at this point includes Fedora 42, Ubuntu 25.04, and more recent releases, will support it. Valve has already added the NTSYNC kernel driver to SteamOS 3.7.20 beta, loading the module by default, and an unofficial Proton fork, Proton GE, already has it enabled. When Valve's official Proton rebases on Wine 11, every Steam Deck owner gets this for free.

All of this is what makes NTSYNC such a big deal, as it's not simply a run-of-the-mill performance patch. Instead, it's something much bigger: this is the first time Wine's synchronization has been correct at the kernel level, implemented in the mainline Linux kernel, and available to everyone without jumping through hoops.

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Google is expanding Android Automotive from the infotainment screen into the broader non-safety "brain" of software-defined vehicles. With its new Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, the in-car experience will feel "much more cohesive and the latest features will reach your driveway faster," Matt Crowley, Android Automotive's group product manager, writes in a blog post. "From a truly integrated voice experience to proactive maintenance reminders, your car will become a true extension of your digital life," Crowley adds. The Verge reports: With its new software, Google is promising faster over-the-air software updates, better voice assistants, and more proactive vehicle maintenance alerts. Non-driving functions like climate control, lighting, and seating adjustment would fall under Android's control. And the system would move beyond basic infotainment to create a unified ecosystem for features like remote cabin conditioning, digital key management, and personalized driver profiles.

For automakers, the new system promises less expensive software development costs and an opportunity to focus on what matters most to them: branding. By providing the "foundational code and a common language for their software," Google says automakers will be free to design cool experiences for their customers. Google says its already working with companies like Renault Group and Qualcomm to bring its new software-defined vehicle version of Android Automotive to more cars. A variety of automakers already use regular Android Automotive, like Volvo, Polestar, General Motors, Nissan, and Honda.

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OFF space is a project that focuses on space analyses and definition through a practical and theoretical research practice, based on a selection of collective exercises that consider all physical and abstract dimensions of a space in order to reflect on its activation. The project departs from the space of Rumore and initially defines its approach by questioning basic elements like shape, structure, limits, or even function, to then step into a deeper critical dimension that intends to reflect on the creation and purpose of new learning methods and how space itself can become a fundamental learning element or rethink today's contemporary teaching practice.

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 25-03-2026 01:15 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 11.3°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 4.6°C / Max 11.4°C | Kans op neerslag 80%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 4.6°C, Max 11.4°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 7.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 80%, 🧭 1002.7 hPa ↗️ +3.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 39.2 km/u (10.9 m/s), richting: → 279°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 10.9°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 100%, 🧭 999.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 36.7 km/u (10.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 219°
• 03:00: 10.6°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 100%, 🧭 998.4 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 38.5 km/u (10.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 244°
• 04:00: 9.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 100%, 🧭 998.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 35.3 km/u (9.8 m/s), richting: → 257°
• 05:00: 8.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 90%, 🧭 998.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 39.2 km/u (10.9 m/s), richting: → 259°
• 06:00: 8.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 75%, 🧭 998.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 36.0 km/u (10.0 m/s), richting: → 264°
• 07:00: 8.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 67%, 🧭 999.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 33.8 km/u (9.4 m/s), richting: → 268°
• 08:00: 7.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 74%, 🧭 999.8 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 29.2 km/u (8.1 m/s), richting: → 275°
• 09:00: 7.1°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 1.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 88%, 🧭 1000.4 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 294°
• 10:00: 6.7°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 2.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 98%, 🧭 1001.2 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 295°
• 11:00: 8.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 98%, 🧭 1001.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 23.0 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 303°
• 12:00: 8.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 93%, 🧭 1002.1 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 21.2 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 302°
• 13:00: 8.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 88%, 🧭 1002.7 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 22.7 km/u (6.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 299°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 26 maart: Min 3.1°C, Max 6.7°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 3.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 58%, 🧭 1016.0 hPa ↗️ +13.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 27.4 km/u (7.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 335°
• vrijdag 27 maart: Min 3.6°C, Max 10.5°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 25%, 🧭 1021.5 hPa ↗️ +5.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 15.0 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 230°
• zaterdag 28 maart: Min 5.8°C, Max 9.8°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 30%, 🧭 1020.9 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 16.5 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 304°
• zondag 29 maart: Min 4.9°C, Max 9.1°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 6.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 20%, 🧭 1022.1 hPa ↗️ +1.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 31.7 km/u (8.8 m/s), richting: → 249°
• maandag 30 maart: Min 5.8°C, Max 9.6°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 5.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 48%, 🧭 1011.7 hPa ↘️ -10.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 28.4 km/u (7.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 296°
• dinsdag 31 maart: Min 7.5°C, Max 10.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 29%, 🧭 1021.1 hPa ↗️ +9.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.5 km/u (6.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 311°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 11.3°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 5.2°C (-6.1°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 36.7 km/u (10.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 225°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 68.0 km/h (18.9 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 87%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 999.0 hPa ↘️ -0.8 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 9.6 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:32 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:03

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 72 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 11.3 μg/m³
• PM10: 16.1 μg/m³

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'HP IQ' can chat, share files, and record and summarize meetings

You’ve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot. Now, get ready for HP IQ, a local AI and collaboration application HP Inc. hopes will make its business laptops stand apart.…

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