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  • Google adds new AI functionality to Chromebook (Plus) laptops

    Google is equipping its Chromebook and Chromebook Plus laptops with new AI functionality, which should be available immediately. The internet giant also provides a preview of future AI functions. According to Google, Chromebook Plus users will immediately have access to two functions that the company had already promised when announcing the Chromebook Plus brand. With…

  • Renders show Motorola G85 smartphone with curved screen edges

    Renders have appeared of the as yet unannounced Moto G85 smartphone from Lenovo subsidiary Motorola. Compared to the current G84, it is noticeable that the phone has curved screen edges. The G85 has thinner screen edges than the G84, as can be seen in the renders by EvLeaks, a pseudonym of telecom journalist Evan Blass.…

  • OpenAI starts training 'GPT-5'

    OpenAI has started training the model that will likely be released as GPT-5. The model's training could take months. OpenAI wants to work towards 'general artificial intelligence', a system that is smarter than humans. The successor to GPT-4 should, among other things, form the basis for chatbots, picture generators and digital assistants, writes The New…

  • BASE offers fixed internet and TV subscriptions throughout Belgium

    BASE will launch a fixed internet and TV subscription throughout Belgium through parent company Telenet on June 3. It is also possible to take out subscriptions for internet and TV separately. Until now, BASE was only active in the mobile market. According to BASE, there are two subscriptions for fixed internet. With the cheapest subscription…

  • Hanna Stjärne quits as CEO of SVT

    Published 29 May 2024 at 11.42 Media. At the turn of the year, Hanna Stjärne leaves SVT to take over as CEO of the Nobel Foundation. This is announced by SVT today. Share the article TwittraShare Hanna Stjärne has been CEO of SVT since 2015 and has previously had a long series of managerial assignments…

  • Pig thrown at mosque in Skövde

    Published 29 May 2024 at 12.59 Domestic. A mosque in Skövde has had a pig thrown against its facade. Share the article TwittraShare It must have all happened sometime during the night, according to the police. The matter is currently classified as incitement against a group of people, but other criminal classifications may be relevant.…

  • Here Greta is dragged away during Ebba Busch's visit to KTH

    Published 29 May 2024 at 14.22 Domestic. The police have detained a large number of Palestine demonstrators at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. One of those removed was Greta Thunberg. Share the article TwittraShare The police were alerted after 12 o'clock on Wednesday that people were behaving in a disorderly manner at…

  • Sisters are suspected of gang rape

    Published 29 May 2024 at 15.53 Domestic. Two sisters with an Arab background are suspected of a gang rape in Rissne this weekend. Share the article TwittraShare The women – one in their 20s and the other in The 25-year-olds – are two of a total of seven people who were arrested on suspicion of…

  • Clear: People born in 1957 are compensated

    Published 29 May 2024 at 17.12 Economics. The Riksdag voted yes to the government's proposal that people born in 1957 should be compensated for the increased age limit for increased basic deduction. Share the article TwittraShare The increase in the age limits in the pension system and in the tax legislation has meant that people…

  • Rumor: Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra gets better telephoto lens and ultra-wide-angle camera

    The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra will reportedly retain four rear cameras, two of which will be upgraded. The telephoto lens with 3x zoom and the ultra-wide-angle camera are said to each have a resolution of 50 megapixels in the new Ultra model. These claims are made by leaker Ice Universe on the Chinese social medium…

  • Square Enix shares teaser of Dragon Quest III remake three years after announcement

    Square Enix has shared a short teaser video of the upcoming HD-2D remake of Dragon Quest III. The publisher announced the remake in 2021, but has not provided any updates on the progress of the game for a long time. In the context of Dragon Quest Day, Square Enix posted a teaser video on the…

  • In June, all Dutch municipalities will be connected to Messages about your Neighborhood

    On Friday, June 21, 2024, all 342 Dutch municipalities will be connected to the Messages about your Neighborhood email service. This is reported by the Ministry of the Interior. Last week, IT manager Logius connected the 258th municipality in the Netherlands to the service. According to the Ministry of the Interior, approximately eight percent of…

  • Online.nl increases internet, TV and telephone prices by a few euros per month

    Provider Online.nl will increase its package rates by a few euros per month as of July 1, 2024. The Maximum Internet subscription with 100Mb/s download and 30Mb/s upload increases by more than 10 percent, from 43.50 euros to 48 euros per month. The new prices can be viewed on the adjusted website. Rate list from…

  • BIPT: mobile subscription prices in Belgium have fallen significantly in recent years

    Prices for mobile subscriptions with at least 5GB of data have fallen sharply in Belgium since 2019, according to research by BIPT. The cheapest mobile subscription with 10GB data currently costs 15 euros, while five years ago this was 27 euros. According to the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications, the decrease is greatest…

  • SD withdraws from M

    Published 28 May 2024 at 07.49 Domestic. The Sweden Democrats clearly increase in the latest survey from Indikator Opinion, which was done for Ekot. Share the article TwittraShare The Sweden Democrats increase by 1.6 percentage points from the April survey to 22.5 percent of the votes in May. The moderates are at 18.3 percent. It…

  • The government and SD: Deport gang criminals – without them being convicted

    Published 28 May 2024 at 09.18 Domestic. The government, with the support of SD, appoints an investigation into strengthened protection against foreigners who pose a security threat to Sweden. It is proposed, among other things, that gang criminals without Swedish citizenship should be able to be deported even without a conviction. Share the article TwittraShare…

  • Suspected bag killer is hiding abroad

    Published 28 May 2024 at 17.51 Domestic. Farid Vaziri, 23, is suspected of murder in Värmdö and is internationally wanted. Now the police are going out with a name and picture – and are asking for the public's help in finding him. Share the article TwittraShare On March 10, a 35-year-old man was found dead…

  • Google rolls out Shazam and SoundHound-like feature for YouTube on Android

    Users of YouTube and YouTube Music on Android can identify songs by humming, singing, whistling or playing a recording with the latest update. The function is comparable to Shazam and SoundHound. The function can be used via the magnifying glass in the YouTube and YouTube Music apps on Android devices. Next to the microphone icon…

  • Leaker: Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 gets monolithic chip design

    Nvidia leaker kopite7kimi claims that the upcoming GB202 GPU will have a monolithic chip design. This GPU would be used for the upcoming GeForce RTX 5090. The layout of the memory modules of the RTX 5090 has also been made more compact, according to rumors. Kopite7kimi answered a question from an out of the GeForce…

  • Microsoft Automatic Super Resolution only works with Snapdragon X-socs

    Microsoft Automatic Super Resolution appears to be limited to Copilot+ computers for the time being. A Microsoft support page shows that at least a Snapdragon X processor is required to run the upscaling technology. According to Microsoft, the Snapdragon X processor must also have a Hexagon GPU and an integrated GPU. The recently announced Qualcomm…

  • LosslessCut 3.61.1

    Version 3.61.1 of LosslessCut has been released. LosslessCut is a cross-platform and open source program that can cut parts from videos. It does this without decrypting and re-encrypting the videos, so it works quickly and without any loss of quality. It is ideal for removing less interesting parts from images shot by action cameras or…

  • Essent will introduce feed-in costs for customers with solar panels from 1 July

    Essent will charge feed-in costs from 1 July to customers with solar panels that supply more electricity than they consume. The company uses scales per 250kWh for this. Essent wants to distribute the costs associated with the return of electricity fairly. Essent has published a table listing the scales. This table shows that customers with…

  • The armed forces blow up life-threatening climate-friendly gas buses

    Published 28 May 2024 at 10.46 Domestic. In Kalmar, the Armed Forces are dedicated to blowing up gas-powered minibuses that otherwise risk spontaneous explosion. Share the article TwittraShare The buses that are destroyed belong to the same model as that bus from Skånetrafiken which was recently taken out of service after exploding. The defense will…

  • “Ausländer raus” – the trend is spreading in Germany

    Scroll for video… Published 28 May 2024 at 12.17 Foreign. The trend of chanting “Ausländer raus” (out with the immigrants) is spreading like wildfire through Germany – much to the dismay of those in power. Share the article TwitterShare The group of wealthy young Germans on the island of Sylt who sang about sending immigrants…