Maje’s Elina Kousourna: “We need to succeed in instilling pride among our teams in selling at full price”

Published September 30, 2025 Like the SMCP Group, Maje posted sales growth in the first half of 2025. At the helm of the accessible‑luxury womenswear brand, which generated €458 million in revenue in 2024, Elina Kousourna has been quietly conducting in‑depth work for the past two years. Previously in charge of the group’s menswear label…

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The first operating system for quantum networks has been built

QNodeOS is an operating system that can connect different types of quantum computers Studio Oostrum/Blijft eigendom van fotograaf Linking quantum computers to each other just became easier, as researchers have created the first operating system for quantum networks. “You don’t make a quantum network useful by only building hardware,” says Stephanie Wehner at the Delft…

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Why dad never looked like his parents

Family photo Matthew’s father, pictured as a baby in the late 1940s Matthew’s dad had brown eyes and black hair. His grandparents had piercing blue eyes. There was a running joke in his family that “dad looked nothing like his parents”, the teacher from southern England says. It turned out there was a very good…

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