Following the elections, calls for significant restrictions on the influx of asylum seekers and migrants are increasing. Employers in North Brabant and Zeeland express concern about the hostile tone of the debate on migration. It is important to pay more…
Technology developer and manufacturer Demcon has become technology partner and co-shareholder of ReGEN Biomedical: a company developing technology for growing biological tissues for regenerative medicine and pharmaceutical screening. This also gives a new impetus to an innovative tissue factory, Demcon…
John Bloebaum had no ambitions whatsoever to become a police officer. He ended up at the Police Academy at age seventeen purely by chance. His twin brother (with the same last name, same date of birth and the same initials)…
Een AI-model dat is getraind op slechts 61 uur uit het leven van een kind is erin geslaagd een fundamenteel taalelement te begrijpen: het verbinden van woorden met de objecten die daarbij horen. Een baanbrekend onderzoek, geleid door de Universiteit…
In a groundbreaking study published on Science Today, an AI model trained on a mere 61 hours of a child’s life has astonishingly grasped a fundamental language element: connecting words to their corresponding objects. This research, spearheaded by New York…
The EU Commission has unveiled a package of economic safeguards to fortify the bloc’s economic security, addressing the challenges of geopolitical strain and rapid technological evolution. The initiative includes a legislative proposal to intensify foreign investment screening, ensuring all member…
In our Sunday newsletter, we, as editors, reflect on the past seven days. We do this on the initiative of our cartoonist Albert Jan Rasker. He chooses a subject, draws a picture, and we take it from there. Albert Jan chose…
No less than 1,963 prompts yielding 7,852 images, edited and rendered by more than 900 computers. These renders were processed with various generative AI techniques, with RunwayAI to process the frames. The whole video covers 25,957 frames at 1,000 MB…
In the heart of Amsterdam, Oscar Kneppers is quietly brewing a marriage between academia and entrepreneurship that may ultimately result in hundreds of new companies valorizing science for society. The CEO of the Amsterdam Center of Entrepreneurship (ACE), appointed a…
Edwin Hermkens, co-founder and CTO, is leaving MedApp. He is stepping down three years after the company was acquired by publicly traded Redcare Pharmacy (formerly Shop Apotheke). Hermkens started MedApp together with Pit Janssen in 2015, from TU Eindhoven. Together,…