A new battle is raging between Facebook and Apple. The upcoming IOS update for Apple devices gives users the ability to protect their data. “Facebook lives on advertisers and advertisers use this data. So, of course, Facebook will suffer,” says Internet expert Krijn Schuurman in De Nieuws BV. Apple is committed to better protecting users. So, in the new version …

HILVARENBEEK – GPs at two practices in Hilvarenbeek are extremely disappointed. There would be no room for a new health center on the site of the old Hispohal. “The gap cannot be bridged,” says Councilor Leon van de Moosdijk. Which is certain anyway: houses are being built on JF Kennedylaan’s now vacant lot. How many and what type of houses …

California and Arizona supply over 90% of American lettuce. If you live anywhere east of these two states, your leafy greens have come a long way to get there. How is it possible? The short answer is collaboration and the right technology: Equilibrium Modified Atmosphere Packaging, or EMAP. Modified atmosphere packaging is a technology that slows the respiration of fresh …

Stage manager: Brad Bird★★★★ Ronald roversMarch 4, 2021, 1:00 A nine year old boy who lived with his mother in the 1950s in the woods near Rockwell, Maine. A towering robot that collapses from space on Earth and cannot call home. A beatnik artist and a secret agent in a raincoat. These are the ingredients of this animated blockbuster that …

It’s not easy for sports clubs to give all the teams a space to train these days. It is notable, among others, the KNHB hockey association. The curfew and age limit for group sports lead to puzzles among sports clubs. “Of course, we already had to take into account the curfew and now it is also allowed to play group …

People like predictability. From time immemorial, we have tried to capture reality in clear models that give us control of our world. At least that’s the idea. This sense of control, according to Theo Kocken, is largely an illusion. And in this illusion lies another great danger: Companies that believe that all risks can be eliminated ignore the fundamental uncertainties …

In the historic city center of Dordrecht there is a building with a surprisingly elongated and zigzagging space. Architect Olivier van den Hoven transformed the building into a house with long views and different atmospheres at the same time. Most people in Dordrecht know the building as the workshop of the Hageman sailboat. The national monument has a special history, …

online via livestream from Permeke, De Coninckplein 26, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium Past summers, with high temperatures and little rain, have confronted us with the dry fact that Flanders is vulnerable to water scarcity. Global warming adds even more: the pressure on our water supplies will increase in the years to come. In the run-up to World Water Day (March 22), …

Regardless of who you’re on the phone with or the nature of the conversation, there’s a good chance that one of the two parties wants to hang up before the other. This is what the American researchers say after an analysis of nearly a thousand telephone conversations. A thousand conversations The researchers listened to conversations between strangers, family members and …

The old facility at the Pottelberg site in Kortrijk was completely obsolete: the buildings had an institutional character, outdated sanitary facilities and rooms that were much too small. The obsolete parts were therefore demolished and replaced by new buildings. Three residential houses The residential program is organized into three houses with a maximum capacity of 12 places, which house both …