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Review of Guido Van der Werve, Montevideo, Amsterdam
World Press Photo under pressure as picture-taking evolves
Rotterdam round-up: hybrids and affinities
Boycott urged for Epson ink jet printers
Plastic bridges on the rise
Could your voice betray you?
Review of Yto Barrada, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Outspoken Dutch film director slain
PC as power plant
Tinkebell's revenge
A minor problem: no cigs for kids
Attention, cows: please speak into the microphone
High-speed walkways
The doctors were real, the patients undercover
Better vision for the world, on a budget

Review of Guido Van der Werve, Montevideo, Amsterdam

The mix of high production values and macabre undertones catapult his works from throwaway one-liners into more nuanced examinations of irony and solitude.

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World Press Photo under pressure as picture-taking evolves

The proliferation of cameras in more and more devices, like cellphones, is gradually turning everyone into an aspiring shutterbug. But World Press Photo is open to professionals only, which explains why some of the biggest news photos of 2004 were conspicuously absent.

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Rotterdam round-up: hybrids and affinities

Though Rotterdam plays host to weighty institutions, many local artists indicate that they nonetheless go abut their work much as artists do in cities that don’t boast such a rich cultural infrastructure.

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Boycott urged for Epson ink jet printers

The boycott suggested that Epson ink cartridges prematurely block printers from churning out more pages even when there is enough ink to keep going.

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Plastic bridges on the rise

New design and construction techniques mean that bridges can be put together in a matter of days—and they can even be made out of plastic.

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Could your voice betray you?

Beyond their applications in law enforcement, lie-detector tests are being used in everything from telemarketing to matchmaking. But the technology's reliability is still a matter of debate.

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Review of Yto Barrada, Witte de With, Rotterdam

Throughout a series whose scope almost recalls The Beatles’ White Album, in which every song sounds different than the one before, we witness Barrada’s hand at nature photography, photojournalism, painterly landscapes, and more.

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Outspoken Dutch film director slain

Writer-director Theo Van Gogh, a descendant of the artist Vincent Van Gogh, was attacked Tuesday morning as he rode his bicycle through Amsterdam's tree-lined streets.

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PC as power plant

When the technology first appeared, U.S.B. meant keyboards, joysticks and the like. But manufacturers began cottoning to U.S.B.'s ability to provide a power source, leading to a host of gizmos that have nothing to do with computers: radios, reading lights, even massage balls and air purifiers.

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Tinkebell's revenge

Dutch artist Tinkebell gets lots of hate-mail, so now she's turned the tables on the senders: by using some clever Internet sleuthing, Tinkebell uncovered the identities behind the e-mails, and compiled them in a book with their names, addresses, (naked) photographs, LinkedIn accounts, phone numbers, Facebook pages, and more.

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A minor problem: no cigs for kids

Customers will still be able to buy tobacco from the machines using cash or coins, provided they insert the AgeKey-encrypted card beforehand, which electronically "unlatches" the machine.

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Attention, cows: please speak into the microphone

Though it all sounds very Dr. Dolittle, the sounds that many animal species make can be analyzed and identified using many of the same techniques that have allowed human voice recognition to make the leap from high-tech novelty to valuable application.

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High-speed walkways

New moving walkways have been given a speed boost. But will pedestrians in airports and shopping centres be able to cope?

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The doctors were real, the patients undercover

It had all the markings of a television detective show. Posing as patients, three undercover observers got themselves admitted as patients to a locked psychiatric ward to investigate conditions on the inside. And a remote team monitored the project via hidden cameras and microphones from a command center in a nearby hotel.

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Better vision for the world, on a budget

Self-adjustable spectacles, which let untrained wearers set the right focus themselves in less than a minute, greatly reduce the need for trained optometrists, who are rarely available in Africa and many parts of Asia. But the competition is sometimes palpable amongst the companies that want to be the first to distribute adjustable glasses in the millions...

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