Zo’n dertig schilderijen van Jan Steen in de Leidse Lakenhal illustreren wel zijn artistieke veelzijdigheid maar niet veel van zijn persoonlijk leven.
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Na de verloren bekerfinale in 2025 tegen Go Ahead Eagles, een trauma voor AZ, waren de Alkmaarders zondag oppermachtig in de finale tegen NEC. „Dit kan niet meer fout gaan”, klonk het na de 3-0.
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Cabaretier Ayoub Kharkhach heeft de Annie M.G. Schmidtprijs gewonnen met het lied ‘Handen van goud’. De prijs voor het beste theaterlied wordt jaarlijks uitgereikt tijdens het Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival.
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Zondag gingen de Bulgaren voor de achtste keer in vijf jaar tijd naar de stembus. Oud-president Rumen Radev presenteerde zich tijdens de campagne als corruptiebestrijder en boekte daarmee succes: zijn partij werd volgens exitpolls met afstand de grootste.
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Bookmakers are keeping a close eye on McLaren after an impressive team performance in Japan.
In October and through November, America's EV sales reached their lowest point since 2022 after government subsidies expired, remembers Time. "But first-quarter data for 2026 shows that used EV sales were 12% higher than the same time last year and 17% higher than the previous quarter.
"One factor likely helping push buyers toward these cars is high gas prices, which recently topped $4.00 a gallon for the first time in four years," they write — but it's not just in the U.S. Instead, they argue the conflict "is driving a global surge of interest in electric vehicles..."
In the U.K., electric car sales reached a record high, with 86,120 vehicles sold in March... The French online used-car retailer Aramisauto reported its share of EV sales nearly doubled from February 16 to March 9, rising to 12.7% from 6.5%, while sales of fueled models dropped to 28% of sales from 34%, and sales of diesel models dropped to 10% from 14%. Germany's largest online car market, mobile.de, told Reuters that the share of EV searches on its website has tripled since the start of March — from 12% to 36%, with car dealers receiving 66% more enquiries for used EVs than in February.
South Korea reported that registrations for electric vehicles more than doubled in March compared to the prior year, due in part to rising fuel prices and government subsidies... In New Zealand, more than 1,000 EVs were registered in the week that ended on March 22, close to double the week before, making it the country's biggest week for electric vehicle registrations since the end of 2023, according to the country's Transport Minister, Chris Bishop.
In America, Bloomberg also reports 605 high-speed EV charging stations switched on in just the first three months of 2025, "a 34% increase over the year-earlier period," according to their analysis of federal data. A data platform focused on EV infrastructure tells Bloomberg that speedier and more reliable chargers are convincing more drivers to go electric and use public plugs.
"One factor likely helping push buyers toward these cars is high gas prices, which recently topped $4.00 a gallon for the first time in four years," they write — but it's not just in the U.S. Instead, they argue the conflict "is driving a global surge of interest in electric vehicles..."
In the U.K., electric car sales reached a record high, with 86,120 vehicles sold in March... The French online used-car retailer Aramisauto reported its share of EV sales nearly doubled from February 16 to March 9, rising to 12.7% from 6.5%, while sales of fueled models dropped to 28% of sales from 34%, and sales of diesel models dropped to 10% from 14%. Germany's largest online car market, mobile.de, told Reuters that the share of EV searches on its website has tripled since the start of March — from 12% to 36%, with car dealers receiving 66% more enquiries for used EVs than in February.
South Korea reported that registrations for electric vehicles more than doubled in March compared to the prior year, due in part to rising fuel prices and government subsidies... In New Zealand, more than 1,000 EVs were registered in the week that ended on March 22, close to double the week before, making it the country's biggest week for electric vehicle registrations since the end of 2023, according to the country's Transport Minister, Chris Bishop.
In America, Bloomberg also reports 605 high-speed EV charging stations switched on in just the first three months of 2025, "a 34% increase over the year-earlier period," according to their analysis of federal data. A data platform focused on EV infrastructure tells Bloomberg that speedier and more reliable chargers are convincing more drivers to go electric and use public plugs.
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NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of "personalized messenger RNA vaccines" which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. "The goal is not to eliminate existing tumors, but instead to stamp out lingering, undetected cancer cells, and later any new cells that form before they can cause a recurrence."
Patients still have surgery to remove tumors. After that, the mRNA vaccines are personalized for each individual using genetic material taken from their unique tumor cells. In the clinical trial, after getting the vaccine, the patients also received chemotherapy, which is standard post-op treatment for operable pancreatic cancer... [The article notes that less than 13% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer live for more than five years, making it "one of the deadliest cancers."]
[E]xperts have long believed that people with pancreatic cancer could not generate an immune response against tumors. But after nine doses of the personalized vaccine, [clinical trial participant Donna] Gustafson is one of eight people in the 16-person Phase 1 trial who did just that, producing an army of immune cells called T cells that seek out and destroy tumor cells... [Dr. Vinod Balachandran, a vaccine center director who is leading the trial, said] it was unclear whether the immune response would last and lead to the patients living longer... New data collected during the trial's six-year follow-up period shows that it may. Those findings will be presented Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting in San Diego. Six years after treatment, Gustafson and six others who responded to the treatment are still alive...
More research is still needed. Genentech and BioNTech, the two drugmakers behind the vaccine, have already launched a larger Phase 2 clinical trial... Another team is working on an off-the-shelf vaccine that targets a protein called KRAS that is present in as many as 90% of pancreatic cancers. In a small, early trial, about 85% of the participants mounted an immune response to the protein.
Patients still have surgery to remove tumors. After that, the mRNA vaccines are personalized for each individual using genetic material taken from their unique tumor cells. In the clinical trial, after getting the vaccine, the patients also received chemotherapy, which is standard post-op treatment for operable pancreatic cancer... [The article notes that less than 13% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer live for more than five years, making it "one of the deadliest cancers."]
[E]xperts have long believed that people with pancreatic cancer could not generate an immune response against tumors. But after nine doses of the personalized vaccine, [clinical trial participant Donna] Gustafson is one of eight people in the 16-person Phase 1 trial who did just that, producing an army of immune cells called T cells that seek out and destroy tumor cells... [Dr. Vinod Balachandran, a vaccine center director who is leading the trial, said] it was unclear whether the immune response would last and lead to the patients living longer... New data collected during the trial's six-year follow-up period shows that it may. Those findings will be presented Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting in San Diego. Six years after treatment, Gustafson and six others who responded to the treatment are still alive...
More research is still needed. Genentech and BioNTech, the two drugmakers behind the vaccine, have already launched a larger Phase 2 clinical trial... Another team is working on an off-the-shelf vaccine that targets a protein called KRAS that is present in as many as 90% of pancreatic cancers. In a small, early trial, about 85% of the participants mounted an immune response to the protein.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
"Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators," reports TechCrunch, "over posts it alleges are defamatory..."
The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, YouTube, and Instagram along with dozens of content creators, and seeks takedown of the content as well as broader restraint on what it describes as false or defamatory material related to the company's devices. In its over 60-page filing, Motorola has sought a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from publishing or sharing what it describes as false or defamatory content about its products, including reviews, videos, comments, and boycott campaigns.
The complaint cites hundreds of posts across platforms, including videos alleging device issues and phones catching fire. But it is also targeting unfavorable product reviews and user commentary that the company alleges are false or defamatory. In a statement after publication, a Motorola spokesperson said it had initiated legal action "in the interest of public safety" against what it described as demonstrably false claims that its devices had exploded or caught fire.
One online creator told TechCrunch "they expect more such legal action in the future, as evolving rules around online content increase liability for creators and platforms — a trend reflected in recently proposed changes to India's IT rules aimed at tightening oversight of online content."
A Motorola spokesperson "said the company did not seek to suppress legitimate reviews or criticism and was reviewing the scope of the proceedings, adding that it apologized to creators affected inadvertently."
The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, YouTube, and Instagram along with dozens of content creators, and seeks takedown of the content as well as broader restraint on what it describes as false or defamatory material related to the company's devices. In its over 60-page filing, Motorola has sought a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from publishing or sharing what it describes as false or defamatory content about its products, including reviews, videos, comments, and boycott campaigns.
The complaint cites hundreds of posts across platforms, including videos alleging device issues and phones catching fire. But it is also targeting unfavorable product reviews and user commentary that the company alleges are false or defamatory. In a statement after publication, a Motorola spokesperson said it had initiated legal action "in the interest of public safety" against what it described as demonstrably false claims that its devices had exploded or caught fire.
One online creator told TechCrunch "they expect more such legal action in the future, as evolving rules around online content increase liability for creators and platforms — a trend reflected in recently proposed changes to India's IT rules aimed at tightening oversight of online content."
A Motorola spokesperson "said the company did not seek to suppress legitimate reviews or criticism and was reviewing the scope of the proceedings, adding that it apologized to creators affected inadvertently."
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"Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports the Associated Press. "All without a warrant."
The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices. The state is allowed more than 250 queries a month using the tool, which allows officers to track a device's location over long stretches of time and enables them to see what Fog calls "patterns of life," according to company documents from 2022. It can help them deduce where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit, according to privacy experts... Traditionally, police must obtain a warrant from a judge to access cellphone location information — a process that can take days or weeks. And while cellphone users may be aware that they are sharing their location through apps such as Google Maps, critics say few are aware that such information can make its way to police...
Other agencies in Nevada have been known to use technology similar to Fog. In 2013, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department acquired something known as a cell-site simulator that mimics cellphone towers and can sweep up signals from entire areas to track individuals, with some models capable of intercepting texts and calls. Police have not released detailed information about the technology since then.
"Police in other states have said the technology (and its low price tag) has helped expand investigatory capacity," the article adds.
But it also points out that Fog Data Science has a web page letting individuals opt out of all their data sets.
The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices. The state is allowed more than 250 queries a month using the tool, which allows officers to track a device's location over long stretches of time and enables them to see what Fog calls "patterns of life," according to company documents from 2022. It can help them deduce where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit, according to privacy experts... Traditionally, police must obtain a warrant from a judge to access cellphone location information — a process that can take days or weeks. And while cellphone users may be aware that they are sharing their location through apps such as Google Maps, critics say few are aware that such information can make its way to police...
Other agencies in Nevada have been known to use technology similar to Fog. In 2013, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department acquired something known as a cell-site simulator that mimics cellphone towers and can sweep up signals from entire areas to track individuals, with some models capable of intercepting texts and calls. Police have not released detailed information about the technology since then.
"Police in other states have said the technology (and its low price tag) has helped expand investigatory capacity," the article adds.
But it also points out that Fog Data Science has a web page letting individuals opt out of all their data sets.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
HANNOVER (ANP/DPA) - De Braziliaanse president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva heeft uitgehaald naar de Verenigde Staten vanwege de oorlog die het land samen met Israël voert tegen Iran. "Waanzin", aldus de Braziliaan, in een toespraak bij de opening van Hannover Messe, een grote handelsbeurs in de Duitse stad.
"We zijn getuige van een cruciaal moment in de wereldwijde geopolitiek, dat gekenmerkt wordt door twee paradoxen: terwijl astronauten naar de maan vliegen, worden vrouwen en kinderen willekeurig gedood bij de bombardementen in het Midden-Oosten", aldus Lula.
Ook noemde Lula het in zijn speech onaanvaardbaar dat in de 21e eeuw honger, ongeletterdheid en een gebrek aan toegang tot elektriciteit nog onopgeloste problemen zijn voor miljarden mensen, terwijl tegelijkertijd 2,7 biljoen dollar wordt uitgegeven aan oorlog.
ROTTERDAM (ANP) - Een container die zondagavond verkeerd is neergezet op een schip op de Maasvlakte bij Rotterdam, lekt een giftige, bijtende stof. Het schip zelf heeft ook schade opgelopen, vertelt een woordvoerster van de veiligheidsregio. "Er is een gat ontstaan in het dek, boven de machinekamer. De stof lekt daar naar binnen", schetst ze de situatie.
Het gaat om een relatief klein lek, dat volgens de hulpdiensten geen gevaar oplevert voor de omgeving. Ook de 22 bemanningsleden van het schip zijn veilig. De woordvoerster weet niet om welke stof het precies gaat, maar het is volgens haar alleen bij aanraking schadelijk.
Hoe het precies misging, is niet geheel duidelijk. De hulpdiensten dachten eerst dat de container uit een kraan was gevallen, maar dat blijkt niet te kloppen. Volgens de woordvoerster is de container gaan schuiven, waarna de problemen ontstonden.
De hulpdiensten werken aan een plan om de container van boord te krijgen of de bijtende stof over te pompen. Dat gaat vermoedelijk nog uren duren.
HOUSTON (ANP) - Een van de wetenschappelijke instrumenten aan boord van de ruimtesonde Voyager 1 is uitgeschakeld. Het apparaat heeft vrijwel onafgebroken metingen verricht sinds de lancering in 1977. Zeven andere meetinstrumenten waren eerder al uitgezet, twee doen het nog. Volgens de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA moet de stap energie aan boord sparen en het leven van de verkenner zo lang mogelijk rekken.
Het instrument is de LECP. Die meet geladen deeltjes als ionen, elektronen en kosmische straling. Wetenschappers hebben zo een beter beeld gekregen van de samenstelling van het heelal. Hetzelfde instrument zit ook in een andere sonde, de Voyager 2. Daar is het apparaat vorig jaar uitgeschakeld om energie te besparen.
De Voyager 1 is het verste object dat door mensen is gemaakt. Hij vliegt op ruim 25 miljard kilometer afstand van de aarde. In 2012 verliet hij ons zonnestelsel en bereikte hij de eindeloze ruimte tussen de sterren.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse marine heeft "een gat in de machinekamer" geschoten van een onder Iraanse vlag varend vrachtschip, schrijft president Donald Trump op Truth Social. Het schip zou volgens Trump geprobeerd hebben de Amerikaanse zeeblokkade bij de Straat van Hormuz te doorbreken.
Toen de bemanning geen gehoor gaf aan waarschuwingen van de Amerikaanse marine, beschoot een oorlogsfregat het schip, dat vervolgens in beslag werd genomen, aldus Trump. De onderschepping zou hebben plaatsgevonden in de Golf van Oman.
Deep lying creator is an excellent Manchester City story and confirmed why he is England’s best left-back
It’s not over, not over, not over yet. Although, let’s be honest, it kind of is over. Isn’t it, don’t you think, at the end of a day when Manchester City and Arsenal dished up the one thing nobody was expecting at the Etihad Stadium, a thrillingly open game of attacking football?
There were three images at the final whistle that seemed to capture the essence of City’s 2-1 win here, and not just in terms of the game, but the balance of energy, feeling, vibes.
Continue reading...Prime minister to deliver high-stakes statement to MPs over vetting controversy that has put his position in peril
Keir Starmer will deliver a high-stakes statement to MPs on Monday as he struggles to overcome fears inside his government that the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal could yet cost him his leadership.
In what is set to be a dramatic showdown, the prime minister will set out how Mandelson was able to take up his role as UK ambassador without the Foreign Office revealing it had overruled the decision to fail his vetting.
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SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - posted a photo:
Miyoshi, sera.
Una donna lavora come ha sempre fatto.
Gira lentamente gli spiedini, senza fretta.
Il tempo si vede nelle mani, nel locale, nei gesti.
Il profumo esce in strada e ti ferma prima ancora di capire perché.
三好、夜。
女性はいつも通りのやり方で働いている。
ゆっくりと串を返し、急ぐことはない。
手や店、動きの中に時間が見える。
香りは通りに広がり、理由もなく足を止めさせる。
Miyoshi, evening.
A woman works the way she always has.
She turns the skewers slowly, without rushing.
Time shows in her hands, in the place, in the gestures.
The smell reaches the street and stops you before you even realize why.
SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - has added a photo to the pool:
Miyoshi, sera.
Una donna lavora come ha sempre fatto.
Gira lentamente gli spiedini, senza fretta.
Il tempo si vede nelle mani, nel locale, nei gesti.
Il profumo esce in strada e ti ferma prima ancora di capire perché.
三好、夜。
女性はいつも通りのやり方で働いている。
ゆっくりと串を返し、急ぐことはない。
手や店、動きの中に時間が見える。
香りは通りに広がり、理由もなく足を止めさせる。
Miyoshi, evening.
A woman works the way she always has.
She turns the skewers slowly, without rushing.
Time shows in her hands, in the place, in the gestures.
The smell reaches the street and stops you before you even realize why.