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Screen time We are not talking about unhealthy screen use of young people

In Screen Time, Tech reporter Rutger Otto writes on the internet every week. This time it is about the advice of the government about screen use by young people (and parents). Smartphones have been indispensable in our lives for years. Facebook has been around for 21 years, Instagram 15 years and ticks about 8 years. […]

Economics

Fewer ‘annoying questions’ from banks when customers use cash

Banks will ask customers fewer questions when they use cash. Criminals like to use cash because it is difficult to trace, but customers find the questions annoying. Banks need to better assess the risks of, for example, money laundering. If customers stay below a certain amount and there are no “risk-increasing factors,” they should not

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Former chairman Ton Heerts also becomes the supervisor at Chaotic FNV

FNV will face former chairman Ton Heerts as a temporary member of the supervisory board, the Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled on Friday. The trade union has been in crisis for months. Recently, former minister Lodewijk Asscher, among others, joined the supervisory board as chairman, which must organize elections for a

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After forty years, Windows says goodbye to feared ‘blue screen of death’

Computer users will have seen it before: the blue screen indicating that something went wrong with the Windows operating system. After more than forty years, Microsoft is changing the error message: the iconic blue screen is turning black. It is a result of changes that Microsoft is implementing to the operating system. This should ensure

Economics

Schiphol removes misleading price tags at perfumes from stores

Schiphol has removed all misleading price tags from the perfume shops at the airport. Offers on the website and in folders have also been adjusted. The airport did this after complaints from the Consumers’ Association. The Consumers’ Association found after investigation that consumers were being misled with fake discounts on perfumes, alcohol and electronics. The

Economics

China and US agree on a provisional trade agreement

China reports that a preliminary trade agreement with the United States has been finalized. The precise details of those agreements have now been worked out, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce reported on Friday. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick also reported on Thursday that the deal was finalized and signed. China pledges to resume supplying

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Cabinet and the Groningen region are released 130 million euros for AI factory

In Groningen komt een AI-fabriek waar bedrijven en kennisinstellingen kunnen experimenteren met kunstmatige intelligentie. Het demissionaire kabinet en de regio investeren 160 miljoen euro in het project. Ook Brussel is om een bijdrage gevraagd, waardoor de totale investering op 200 miljoen euro moet uitkomen, meldt demissionair minister Vincent Karremans (Economische Zaken) aan de Tweede Kamer.

Economics

Sickness absence in elderly care received record in 2024

The absenteeism rate in elderly care reached a record high of 9.4 percent last year. The high dropout rate of employees costs the sector 1.6 billion euros, Intrakoop has calculated. The purchasing cooperative of the healthcare sector points out that absenteeism is nowhere as high as in healthcare. In combination with a structural staff shortage,

Economics

Prices Douwe Egberts possibly up to 25 percent up after increasing JDE Peets

JDE Peet’s, the company behind brands such as Douwe Egberts, Pickwick and Senseo, increases his prices again. CEO Michiel Muller of Onlininesupermarkt Picnic confirms this after reporting from the Financieele Dagblad. The newspaper managed to lay hands on a document that supermarkets use internally in price negotiations. This showed that coffee in the store could

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