Most of us have seen it before: the cartoon of a man tapping away frantically at his keyboard while his wife asks him from the bedroom if he is coming to bed. “No, I can’t,” he says. “This is important.…
In our weekly recap on Sunday, we as editors look back at the past seven days. We do this at the suggestion of our cartoonist Albert Jan Rasker. He chooses a subject, makes a drawing, and we take it from…
The pandemic accelerated digitalization efforts. Fortunately, most of the technology needed for the digitization process already existed. Its adoption has only been accelerated. Digitalization obviously comes with a host of benefits, but it also poses major new challenges. We are…
The climate is changing, and we are all going to notice the consequences, all over the world. There are plenty of plans to prepare for this or even to reverse the process. But what can you, as an alderman of…
The start-up Autoscriber (based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands) was awarded a pre-seed investment from LUMO Labs last year for their AI-enabled speech recognition software that records and summarizes conversations between healthcare professionals and their patients. This software should take the…
In the Belgian city of Ghent, steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal is switching part of its coal used for steel production to biocoal. This is an alternative to coal that is made from wood residues. The Dutch company Perpetual Next makes the…
The Brussels-based start-up Nutrinomics recently managed to secure 550,000 euros in investments to expand its patient platform Zest. People living with cancer or chronic diseases can receive nutritional advice through this app. This helps them improve their quality of life.…
The mobility of tomorrow is green. There is no debate about that. What that green mobility will look like is another story. In the laboratories of Delft University of Technology, research is being conducted across a large number of areas.…
The tropical rainforest is home to many animals, such as the elephant, tiger and orangutan. Yet every second, the Dutch environmental organization Milieudefensie has calculated that approximately 169 trees are cut down in tropical forests. Also, more than one billion…
Six youngsters against 33 European countries – it’s like David vs. Goliath on a global scale. But the case of the six is a serious one: they want all those countries to take more robust measures against global warming and…