By early 2025, fiber is available to over 7–8 million of about 9.3 million Dutch households, roughly 75–85% coverage. Fiber take-up reached about 3.2 million lines by end-2024. DSL is rapidly being phased out as KPN replaces copper with fiber and piloted copper network shutdowns in areas where fiber is live. Cable networks cover roughly…
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The maximum altitude for recreational drones in the Netherlands is 120 meters (394 feet) above ground or water. Recreational drones must be kept in visual line of sight at all times, and FPV flights without a spotter are not allowed. Distance rules require at least 50 meters from bystanders for moderately heavy drones (500 g–2…
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Residential Real Estate: Prices, Sales & Rentals House prices are soaring. Spain’s housing market is in a clear upswing, with nationwide price growth accelerating over the past two years. In 2024, home prices jumped about 7% (inflation +4.6%), the fastest annual rise since the 2000s boom globalpropertyguide.com globalpropertyguide.com. By early 2025 the momentum continued –…
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Space and Astronomy Baby Planet Still Glowing: In a landmark observation, astronomers directly imaged an infant planet still hot from its birth. The gas giant WISPIT 2b, roughly five Jupiters in mass and only ~5 million years old, was discovered orbiting within a multi-ring dust disk around a young star scitechdaily.com. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very…
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Key Facts Europe’s EV Market in 2025: A Breakout Year Electric vehicles hit the mainstream in Europe by 2025, marking a breakout year for electrified transport. After years of double-digit growth, EVs now account for roughly 15–20% of new car sales across the EU (and climbing fast) best-selling-cars.com best-selling-cars.com. In the first half of 2025…
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Key Facts Introduction Virtual Private Networks – better known as VPNs – have become essential online tools by 2025. With internet censorship rising, data privacy under threat, and streaming services fragmenting content by region, VPN usage has reached record highs worldwide. Roughly 4 in 10 internet users in tech-savvy countries now report using a VPN…
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Key Facts From Hype to Reality: AI’s Role in Radiology Today Not long ago, headlines confidently predicted that artificial intelligence would overtake radiologists by the 2020s. In 2016, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton famously suggested we should “stop training radiologists” because deep learning would outperform them within five years newrepublic.com newrepublic.com. Similar forecasts in top journals…
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The F-35 has three variants—F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C—and can carry 2× 2000-lb bombs internally (or up to 18,000 lb externally) with a top speed of about Mach 1.6. As of 2025, the F-35A unit flyaway price is roughly $80–$90 million (B/C around $100 million), with production around 150 jets per year and over 1,000 aircraft…
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<li Researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) and Université Paris-Saclay (France) unveiled an organic diradical molecule whose fluorescence hue depends on spin alignment, orange for parallel (triplet) and near-infrared for antiparallel (singlet) spins, in Nature Chemistry with Rituparno Chowdhury as first author. <li A France-based team from C12 Quantum Electronics and École Normale Supérieure…
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Nvidia is developing a China-only AI chip named B30A, based on the Blackwell architecture, designed to outpace the current H20 while complying with U.S. export controls. The B30A will be a single-die design and is expected to deliver roughly half the raw computing power of Nvidia’s dual-die B300 accelerator. The B30A will include high-bandwidth memory…
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