In een woning aan de Mijnsherenlaan in Rotterdam-Charlois is maandagavond een steekpartij geweest. Daarbij is iemand gewond geraakt. Het slachtoffer is gecontroleerd door ambulancepersoneel, maar het is onbekend of hij naar het ziekenhuis moest.
Prinsjesdag begint eerst plaatselijk met mist. Verder verloopt de dag nazomers met veel zon en het blijft droog. In het westen van de regio begint de dag eerst nog met wat meer bewolking. Later verschijnt er wel meer sluierbewolking. Het wordt warm, met een middagtemperatuur van ongeveer 24 graden. De wind is matig van kracht en komt uit het zuidwesten.
Capitals star is long-time supporter of Russian leader
Ovechkin is NHL’s all-time leading goalscorer
Alex Ovechkin, the NHL’s all-time leading goalscorer, has appeared in a campaign ad for the United Russia party, which supports Vladimir Putin, as he prepares for the new hockey season.
The Russian business newspaper Vedomosti published images of the Washington Capitals star alongside pro-Putin figures such as Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, the leading parliamentary candidate on United Russia’s list, and Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the propaganda network RT.
Continue reading...The drone, which reportedly entered from Belarus, was shot down near Pratkunai village in central-southern Lithuania
Nato fighter jets shot down a drone over Lithuania after an alert was issued in the capital, Vilnius, and surrounding region, while Poland scrambled fighter jets less than a day after retrieving a suspected Russian drone adrift in its waters.
The Lithuania drone was shot down near the central-southern village of Pratkunai outside the city of Kaunas, said emergency authorities early on Tuesday. The drone came from neighbouring Belarus and was heading west, according to information from Lithuania’s crisis management centre that was reported by national radio LRT.
Continue reading...Rhys becomes first actor to win lead acting awards for different shows in the same night, while Hacks’ Smart is the first woman to win for every season of a show
Matthew Rhys has become the first actor in 78 years of Emmys history to win multiple lead actor awards for performances in different shows in the same year, for Widow’s Bay and The Beast in Me.
The 51-year-old Welsh actor won outstanding lead actor in a comedy for Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay and outstanding lead actor in a limited series for his role in Netflix’s The Beast in Me at the ceremony on Monday night. With his 2018 win of outstanding lead actor in a drama for The Americans, he is the first male performer to win all three lead acting categories.
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Het proces-Clancy slaat de postnatale psychose plat tot een ziekte – stond de vrouw die haar drie kinderen doodde machteloos tegenover de stemmen in haar hoofd? Maar wat vrouwen als Lindsay Clancy wellicht beter zou helpen is als we de zijns-crisis na de bevalling niet als stoornis, maar ook als volkomen logisch zouden bestempelen.
Voor de kat bellen we de ambulance, maar van een varken knippen we onverdoofd de staart af. VVD-staatssecretaris Silvio Erkens presenteerde afgelopen vrijdag plannen om het dierenwelzijn in Nederland te verbeteren. Goed nieuws, zou je denken. Maar voorlopig mag het dierenleed van dit kabinet nog wel even blijven bestaan.
LOS ANGELES (ANP/RTR) - Jean Smart won haar vijfde Emmy Award voor haar vertolking van een vasthoudende stand-upcomedian in Hacks, terwijl Matthew Rhys de eerste werd die tijdens één ceremonie twee prijzen voor beste hoofdrol in de wacht sleepte. De Hollywoodsterren waren maandagavond in Los Angeles, waar de beste televisieproducties van het afgelopen seizoen werden bekroond.
Dankzij deze nieuwe trofee is Smart de eerste actrice die de Emmy voor beste actrice in een komedieserie won voor elk seizoen van de serie. Het laatste seizoen van Hacks was dit jaar te zien op HBO Max. "Wat een geweldig avontuur is dit geweest!" zei Smart op het podium, nadat ze de makers van de serie had bedankt.
Rhys won de prijs voor beste acteur in een komedieserie voor de horrorkomedie Widow's Bay, te zien bij Apple TV, en de prijs voor beste acteur in een miniserie voor de psychologische Netflix-thriller The Beast in Me.
Reservations are now live for Valve's "Steam Frame" VR headset (with its Linux-based SteamOS and an ARM CPU). "It starts at $1,059 for 256GB or $1,299 for 1TB," reports CNET, "and every purchase includes a copy of Half-Life: Alyx if you don't already own it."
Reservations are open through Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. PT, "with customers randomly assigned a place in line after the reservation window closes."
CNET's editor at large even argues that the Steam Frame "isn't necessarily the future of XR, as much as it's a framework for evolving beyond the present." Their review calls it an "ambitious" VR headset that "feels like an experiment in progress."
The ability to run other apps in windows can make Frame feel, at times, almost like a computer. Linux apps in desktop mode range from Chromium to Firefox to a bunch of other tools. I watched YouTube in one window while playing Portal 2 in other, and started to marvel at how flexible Frame could be. But VR games require a full immersive takeover of the headset... The Steam Frame can convert games intended for both PC VR and even Android APK files, using a conversion tool called Lepton... I haven't sideloaded anything yet, but Steam Frame in theory could be a Rosetta Stone for VR gaming, even tapping into some Android XR titles, but not out of the box...
2D games can be projected onto a near-range or farther-off theater mode screen that can be dragged around, resized and turned into a curved or flat monitor, much like with the Apple Vision Pro, Samsung Galaxy XR or Meta Quest. You can download any game in your Steam library to test, even if it's not technically listed as "Great on Frame" yet...
But the name "Frame" suggests a framework, something Valve's team acknowledged when I spoke to them during my review process... "We want this to be your PC, and people mod it, take it apart, make accessories for it," says Jeremy Selan, a software developer on the Steam Frame team. "We'll be putting out the CAD for all these [Steam Frame] systems. This is entirely based on open-source technology stacks based upon SteamOS. Our hope is that this isn't just one device, that this would be sort of the root of a growing SteamOS ecosystem. It already encompasses gaming and Proton and SteamOS and those Linux gaming capabilities. This is going to lay the foundation for a new sort of evolutionary tree of that, to also bring it into the VR and XR space."
Reservations are open through Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. PT, "with customers randomly assigned a place in line after the reservation window closes."
CNET's editor at large even argues that the Steam Frame "isn't necessarily the future of XR, as much as it's a framework for evolving beyond the present." Their review calls it an "ambitious" VR headset that "feels like an experiment in progress."
The ability to run other apps in windows can make Frame feel, at times, almost like a computer. Linux apps in desktop mode range from Chromium to Firefox to a bunch of other tools. I watched YouTube in one window while playing Portal 2 in other, and started to marvel at how flexible Frame could be. But VR games require a full immersive takeover of the headset... The Steam Frame can convert games intended for both PC VR and even Android APK files, using a conversion tool called Lepton... I haven't sideloaded anything yet, but Steam Frame in theory could be a Rosetta Stone for VR gaming, even tapping into some Android XR titles, but not out of the box...
2D games can be projected onto a near-range or farther-off theater mode screen that can be dragged around, resized and turned into a curved or flat monitor, much like with the Apple Vision Pro, Samsung Galaxy XR or Meta Quest. You can download any game in your Steam library to test, even if it's not technically listed as "Great on Frame" yet...
But the name "Frame" suggests a framework, something Valve's team acknowledged when I spoke to them during my review process... "We want this to be your PC, and people mod it, take it apart, make accessories for it," says Jeremy Selan, a software developer on the Steam Frame team. "We'll be putting out the CAD for all these [Steam Frame] systems. This is entirely based on open-source technology stacks based upon SteamOS. Our hope is that this isn't just one device, that this would be sort of the root of a growing SteamOS ecosystem. It already encompasses gaming and Proton and SteamOS and those Linux gaming capabilities. This is going to lay the foundation for a new sort of evolutionary tree of that, to also bring it into the VR and XR space."
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