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Visie 2040 : Europees actieplan voor hogesnelheidstreinen – publicatie
De Europese Commissie heeft een uitgebreid vervoerspakket goedgekeurd, het zal onder meer de uitrol van het Europese hogesnelheidsspoorwegnet versnellen.
Concurrentievermogen en duurzaamheid zijn de leidende beginselen van dit pakket, dat tot doel heeft het vervoerssysteem van de EU efficiënter, onderling verbonden, toegankelijker, schoner en veerkrachtiger te maken. De gepresenteerde maatregelen hebben betrekking op twee belangrijke gebieden: het spoor, waar Europa al het voortouw neemt op het gebied van duurzaamheid, en brandstoffen, waar Europa nu meer moet investeren in zijn energietransitie. Het nieuwe actieplan voor hogesnelheidstreinen bevat de stappen die nodig zijn om tegen 2040 een sneller, interoperabeler en beter verbonden Europees netwerk tot stand te brengen. Het heeft tot doel de reistijden te verkorten en het spoor een aantrekkelijker alternatief te maken voor korteafstandsvluchten, waardoor het aantal passagiers toeneemt en de regionale economieën en het toerisme worden gestimuleerd. Voortbouwend op het trans-Europees vervoersnetwerk (TEN-T) voorziet het plan in de aansluiting van grote knooppunten met snelheden van 200 km/u en meer. Passagiers kunnen van Berlijn naar Kopenhagen reizen in vier uur in plaats van de huidige zeven uur , en van Sofia naar Athene in zes uur in plaats van de huidige 13 uur en 40 minuten. Nieuwe grensoverschrijdende verbindingen zullen ook snellere en eenvoudigere reizen mogelijk maken, zoals Parijs-Lissabon via Madrid en betere verbindingen tussen de Baltische hoofdsteden.
Connecting Europe at High-Speed: Cities and Railways unite for a European high-speed rail network
In 6 uur van Parijs naar Madrid: EU zet in op netwerk van snelle treinverbindingen
EU onthult transportpakket van 550 miljard euro om hogesnelheidstrein te versnellen
Emissions Gap Report 2025 – publication
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) ‘Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target‘ finds that available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leaving the world heading for a serious escalation of climate risks and damages.
The sixteenth edition of the Emissions Gap Report finds that global warming projections over this century, based on full implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), are now 2.3-2.5°C, while those based on current policies are 2.8°C. This compares to 2.6-2.8°C and 3.1°C in last year’s report. However, methodological updates account for 0.1°C of the improvement, and the upcoming withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement will cancel another 0.1°C, meaning that the new NDCs themselves have barely moved the needle. Nations remain far from meeting the Paris Agreement goal to limit warming to well-below 2°C, while pursuing efforts to stay below 1.5°C. Reductions to annual emissions of 35 per cent and 55 per cent, compared with 2019 levels, are needed in 2035 to align with the Paris Agreement 2°C and 1.5°C pathways, respectively. Given the size of the cuts needed, the short time available to deliver them and a challenging political climate, a higher exceedance of 1.5°C will happen, very likely within the next decade. The report finds that this overshoot must be limited through faster and bigger reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to minimize climate risks and damages and keep returning to 1.5°C by 2100 within the realms of possibility – although doing so will be extremely challenging. Every fraction of a degree avoided means lower losses for people and ecosystems, lower costs, and less reliance on uncertain carbon dioxide removal techniques to return to 1.5°C by 2100. Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement ten years ago, temperature predictions have fallen from 3-3.5°C. The required low-carbon technologies to deliver big emission cuts are available. Wind and solar energy development is booming, lowering deployment costs. This means the international community can accelerate climate action, should they choose to do so. However, delivering faster cuts requires would require navigating a challenging geopolitical environment, delivering a massive increase in support to developing countries, and redesigning the international financial architecture.
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Agenda 10-11-2025 – COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference Belém – November 2025
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations – publication
The tech giant YouTube deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos in early October by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with their channels’ archives. The accounts belonged to three prominent Palestinian human rights groups: Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. The three human rights groups’ account terminations cumulatively amount to the erasure of more than 700 videos, according to an Intercept tally. The deleted videos range in scope from investigations, such as an analysis of the Israeli killing of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, to testimonies of Palestinians tortured by Israeli forces and documentaries like “The Beach,” about children playing on a beach who were killed by an Israeli strike. Some videos are still available through copies saved on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine or on alternate platforms, such as Facebook and Vimeo. The wiping only affected the group’s official channels; videos which were produced by the nonprofits but hosted on alternate YouTube channels remain active. No cumulative index of videos deleted by YouTube is available, however, and many appear to not be available elsewhere online.
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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
YouTube verwijdert 700 video’s met documentatie van Israëlische misdaden
Towards a future space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design – publication
Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design: Project Suncatcher is a moonshot exploring a new frontier: equipping solar-powered satellite constellations with TPUs and free-space optical links to one day scale machine learning compute in space.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a foundational technology that could reshape our world, driving new scientific discoveries and helping us tackle humanity’s greatest challenges. Now, we’re asking where we can go to unlock its fullest potential. The Sun is the ultimate energy source in our solar system, emitting more power than 100 trillion times humanity’s total electricity production. In the right orbit, a solar panel can be up to 8 times more productive than on earth, and produce power nearly continuously, reducing the need for batteries. In the future, space may be the best place to scale AI compute. Working backwards from there, our new research moonshot, Project Suncatcher, envisions compact constellations of solar-powered satellites, carrying Google TPUs and connected by free-space optical links. This approach would have tremendous potential for scale, and also minimizes impact on terrestrial resources. We’re excited about this growing area of exploration, and our early research, shared in a preprint paper “Towards a future space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design,”, which describes our progress toward tackling the foundational challenges of this ambitious endeavor — including high-bandwidth communication between satellites, orbital dynamics, and radiation effects on computing. By focusing on a modular design of smaller, interconnected satellites, we are laying the groundwork for a highly scalable, future space-based AI infrastructure. Project Suncatcher is part of Google’s long tradition of taking on moonshots that tackle tough scientific and engineering problems. Like all moonshots, there will be unknowns, but it’s in this spirit that we embarked on building a large-scale quantum computer a decade ago — before it was considered a realistic engineering goal — and envisioned an autonomous vehicle over 15 years ago, which eventually became Waymo and now serves millions of passenger trips around the globe.
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2025-11-04, Lief dagboek
Dinsdag; Wat eten we vandaag?; COP30 / Emissions Gap Report; Allereerste live stream; 2025 United States elections; Dutch Podcast Awards.
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Dutch Podcast Awards 2025 (TV webcast)
Met de Dutch Podcast Awards probeert BNR om een podium te bieden aan podcasts in Nederland. De winnaars komen tot stand via stemmen van het publiek en een onafhankelijke vakjury. Er zijn verschillende categorieën maar de hoofdprijs is de award voor de ‘Beste podcast van Nederland’.
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#TheEarthshotPrize2025
The Earthshot Prize is a global environmental award that is rewarded to five winners each year for their contributions towards environmentalism.
The prize will be awarded annually from 2021 to 2030 to five individuals or organisations who create impactful and sustainable solutions addressing the planet’s environmental challenges. Each winner receives a grant of £1 million to continue their environmental work. The five categories were inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals; they are ‘restoration and protection of nature’, ‘air cleanliness’, ‘ocean revival’, ‘waste-free living’ and ‘climate action’. Each area is supported by the UN Sustainable Development Goals and scientifically agreed international measures. Submissions are open to any individual, team, organisation, or government with workable solutions. The Earthshot Prize Council is responsible for determining a winner from each category every year. There is a five-stage process to select a winner for each Earthshot, designed alongside the Centre for Public Impact. Nominations are screened with an independent assessment process, a panel of experts then make recommendations to the Prize Council, who select the final winners, narrowed from fifteen finalists. Shortlisted finalists will also receive resources for “tailored support” and connections with organisations to expand their work.
Allereerste live stream ter wereld (1994) 2025
Op 4 november 1994 werd vanuit podium Simplon in Groningen de allereerste live stream ter wereld geproduceerd.
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De allereerste live Internet uitzending ter wereld kwam uit Nederland
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