It sounds almost too good to be true. While dreaming of a sun-drenched holiday in the Maldives, you instruct an AI agent to make it work. Within minutes, you’ll find your flight tickets in your mailbox. This future is closer…
In the wake of escalating trade tensions and the imposition of US export controls, Beijing’s strategic move to offer subsidies for domestic AI chip purchases is a clear signal of its commitment to the semiconductor industry, specifically in the realm…
Europe is an important market for electromobility. Tesla sells many vehicles here – and is the market leader, not least because of its “ecosystem”. However, the first quarter of 2024 showed that the parameters are currently shifting. In some key…
In our Sunday newsletter, we, the 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. Dutch pension funds are…
Bysco, an industrial start-up based in Nantes, France, aims to recycle and process 20 tons of byssus threads annually. Byssus threads are the bundles of fine threads that mollusks such as mussels use to attach themselves to their surroundings. According…
A happy coincidence of circumstances and perseverance. That typifies both the realization of 70-year-old Jan Ploeger’s doctoral research and the subject: the intellectual marriage of bicycle and train. It shows why this is a unique success, how it came about…
For some, Kings Day means strolling around the streets. The other drinks an oranjebitter in his favourite regular pub. For my grandmother, Kings Day meant a tompouce on the sofa with the television on. And for me it means, well,…
Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam is set to lead a transformative European genomic research project, the Genome of Europe, with €20 million in funding from the European Commission. This pioneering initiative, orchestrated by Professor André Uitterlinden, aims to compile a vast…
Investigating crime scenes is essential for police services to determine exactly what happened. Unfortunately, this often involves manual work that takes a lot of time. KU Leuven has developed a new tool called ‘HemoVision’ that, using smart algorithms, can analyze…
Amsterdam’s Westpoort Warmte introduced a new heating and cooling technology that combines district heating with cold storage, known as hybrid cooling and heating storage. Westport Waarmte, a collaboration between the city of Amsterdam and energy company Vattenfall, distributes and supplies…