Dutch law still insufficiently protects people against digital discrimination. This is what Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, professor of ICT and law at Radboud University, argues today during his inaugural lecture. Whether you are taking out a new car insurance policy, applying for…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the future, but to use this software in our day-to-day lives there is a need for faster, cheaper, and more efficient hardware. Start-up Axelera AI has developed a test chip that could make this possible: the…
More than twenty Dutch cities were already covered in the first eight episodes of this heat island series. Still, the biggest one was missing so far: Amsterdam. Episodes nine and ten are going to change that. This week is entirely…
The Eindhoven Medtech Innovation Center (e/MTIC) aims to accelerate medical and technical innovations in healthcare. For example, by securely sharing more relevant data. Ph.D. students, experts, and scientists from the Catharina Hospital, TU Eindhoven, Máxima MC, Philips, and the Kempenhaege…
When hearing the word photosynthesis, our memory probably recalls elementary school days, when we likely first learned about it. For those who may have forgotten, it’s the phenomenon that allows leaves to capture sunlight to convert water, carbon dioxide, and…
Glass manufacturing takes a lot of energy and is a polluting and expensive process. With the exception of beer bottles, glass containers are destroyed after single use. One person throws away an average of 27 kilograms of glass each year…
The pressure on healthcare providers is getting worse. Doctors are unable to give their patients their full attention because they spend a lot of time doing administration. Jacqueline Kazmaier and Koen Bonenkamp came up with a solution to this: Autoscriber.…
The start-up community Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) Rotterdam now has something to celebrate with a glass of champagne. The proportion of women entrepreneurs there has risen up to 20 percent, double what it used to be. “You can keep talking…
In the last opera Puccini composed, he tells the story of an Oriental fairy tale about a stunningly beautiful yet cold-hearted princess: Turandot. She presents three riddles to every prince who wants to marry her. If the prince gets the…
A battery that is not only stretchable but also biodegradable. We’ll have to accept the fact that the energy density is disappointing for now, but this is obviously what we would like – at least for some specific purposes. Most…