Starting next year, Swiss Facebook users can transfer photos and videos from Facebook to Google Photos. Facebook will announce that on Monday. The service is currently available in Ireland. By giving users the option to export their Facebook photos to Google Photos, Facebook wants to ensure more openness of online platforms. The service is part of the Data Transfer Project. …

People in their twenties and thirties in the Netherlands think more conservatively about issues such as abortion and euthanasia than generations that preceded them. This is the conclusion of researchers at Tilburg University. The research will soon be published in the scientific journal Mens en Maatschappij. In obtaining the results, use was made of data from a European study that …

The cabinet wants to give telecom companies ample room to hang up antennas for 5G, the newest generation of mobile communication, in public places. But municipalities fear cluttering of the streets and problems with the management of street furniture on which the new antennas must be hung. They also foresee a flood of complaints from citizens about alleged health risks. …

Walt Disney Studios has entered into a partnership with software giant Microsoft, Variety reports on Friday. The film studio will work in the future in Azure, the Microsoft cloud, in order to make films easier and faster. “There are so many benefits of working in the cloud,” says Jamie Voris, tech boss at Walt Disney Studios. “We can be on …

Large blockbusters are coming back to the cinema in a new 4DX cover. Cinema operator Pathé is introducing 4DX Rewind this week, giving top films from recent years an extra ‘fourth dimension’. This includes films such as Interstellar, Mad Max: Fury Road and Guardians of the Galaxy that are shown for the first time in a special ‘experience cinema’. Pathé …

A Nijmegen professor has won an Ig Nobel Prize for his study of dirty banknotes. He discovered that Romanian banknotes hold almost all bacteria the longest, while notes from Croatia and India are surprisingly clean. The Ig Nobel Prizes are meant for research that first makes you laugh and then makes you think. They were awarded last night at Harvard …

September 12 is the International Day of Migraine. A good thing that this day is there, thinks neurologist and migraine expert professor Gisela Terwindt. Because despite the fact that 18 percent of men and 33 percent of women have it, there is a big taboo on brain disease. Eight questions about migraine You say there is a taboo on migraine. …

The hurricane Dorian crossed the Bahamas on Sunday night. The eye of the storm has now passed the Abaco Islands. Wind speeds of up to 295 kilometers per hour are measured. This makes Dorian one of the toughest hurricanes to ever hit the US coast. The hurricane is heading for the US state of Florida, where thousands of people have …

The sexual preferences of people are partly determined by genes, but there is not one specific gene that makes someone homosexual, a large study shows. Nearly half a million people participated in the study, about which the renowned scientific journal Science published yesterday. Previous studies among twins and family members had already shown that sexual preference is genetically influenced, but …

An Australian woman experienced the horror of her life when she walked through her house and suddenly saw a giant spider on the wall. Laree Clarke did not want to hurt the animal, but rather did not want it in her house and she called on the internet for help. “Is there anyone who could remove this from my house,” …