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Supermarkets managing to reduce food waste figures

Food waste by Dutch supermarkets continued to decline last year.

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Van Gogh painting could sell for $50 million at Hong Kong auction this month

Vincent van Gogh's late 19th-century painting "Les canots amarrés" (The Anchored Boats) will be auctioned at the end of September for the first time in 30 years.

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Labor union lowers wage demand, but pushing for shorter work week

The CNV aims for a wage increase of between 3.5 and 6 percent in the upcoming collective bargaining season. The union is also campaigning for a two-hour reduction in working hours.

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Extinction Rebellion activists plan overnight stay on blocked A12

This Saturday afternoon, no long lines of cars are entering and leaving The Hague via the A12 highway.

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Verstappen fifth in Baku practice, Russell fastest

Max Verstappen set the fifth-fastest time in the third free practice session for the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

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Excess mortality falls slower than expected in the Netherlands: report

Excess mortality in the Netherlands is not falling as quickly as assumed, according to a new forecast by the Royal Association of Actuaries (AG).

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News Image Megalopolis could have let audiences ask Adam Driver questions during showings

Francis Ford Coppola wanted voice recognition software to let audience members ask Adam Driver’s Cesar character a question during theatrical showings of Megalopolis, according to a Telegraph interview with the director. Then, the software would trigger the theater’s projector to play a clip of “the most relevant response” from Driver. Apparently, it was actually in the works. Amazon had agreed to make a “custom version of its Alexa voice-recognition software” to do this, but the team working on it was laid off during a huge round of layoffs in 2022, writes The Telegraph. Alas. “Imagine!” Coppola beams. “You could see Megalopolis five times in its opening week and it would be different each time! It would have been the future of the...

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News Image NASA’s Starliner astronauts don’t feel ‘let down’ by Boeing’s spacecraft

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke about their continued stay aboard the International Space Station during a press conference held yesterday. The two are now fully incorporated into the ISS crew, as the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that was meant to take them home last week was instead sent back to Earth uncrewed. Early on, the two were asked if they felt “let down” by Boeing. “Absolutely not,” said Wilmore: “This operation is not easy. NASA does a great job — the people at Nasa do a great job — of making a lot of things look easy. Sending probes beyond the edge of our solar system; going in [and] getting samples from asteroids; humans in space. It’s a very risky business and things do not always turn out the way you...

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