Keep your distance and stay at home as much as possible. That’s the urgent advice to all Dutch people right now. Far from ideal, yet still feasible for most of the population. But what if you don’t have a home?…
Quite a few innovative solutions for tackling the coronavirus have implications for our privacy. Technology offers a lot of possibilities, but do we want that at the expense of our privacy? Legal privacy expert Jeroen Terstegge, partner at Privacy Management…
The distance to be kept between each other when out walking, running and cycling ought to be much greater than the recommended one to two meters. Otherwise, airborne droplets in another person’s wake may still cause infection. A study by…
Door Vonk, co-founder and CCO of ‘Tired of Cancer‘ ran her own consultancy firm for many years. There, she raised funds for all kinds of projects, mainly charitable organizations such as the Ronald McDonald Children’s Fund. Through her work for…
The disappearance of coral (reefs) due to global warming is high on the agenda at practically every climate conference. This is not just because corals are so beautiful and colorful. Nor because lots of lovely fish swimming around them. Coral…
That photonic chips have considerable advantages over electronic chips was already well known. Data transfer can take place faster and more cheaply and, moreover, without the heat production that large data centers now suffer from. Until now, however, this could…
Philips will be doubling the production of hospital ventilators in its manufacturing sites in the U.S. as early as next month. Ultimately, a four-fold increase must be reached by the third quarter of 2020 for supply to the U.S. and…
Millions of tons of food are thrown away on a daily basis, the majority of which is edible. A Swiss start-up is looking to change this within the hospitality industry by helping commercial kitchens manage their food waste through AI…
Polish scientists are developing a simple corona screening test which can even be used at home. A test like this is very important if large groups of people are soon to be tested at airports and large train stations. At…
The fact that many more people have contracted the corona virus than the official figures suggest will hardly raise any eyebrows. It is even neatly stated each day on the RIVM (the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the…