Granada has suffered 348 earthquakes since Friday, 37 of them felt by the population

Granada has suffered 348 earthquakes since Friday, 37 of them felt by the population

The seismic episode affecting Granada and its metropolitan area, which had its maximum impact with the very shallow earthquake of magnitude 4.8 that occurred on Saturday, August 15, has already recorded 348 tremors since Friday, most of low magnitude (less than 2) and all at very shallow depths (less than 10 kilometers). Of these, 37 have been felt by the population.

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Musk accuses Altman of “stealing a charity” in OpenAI lawsuit

Musk accuses Altman of “stealing a charity” in OpenAI lawsuit

A federal court in Oakland, California, has become a new trial of the century. There, the case of Elon Musk against Sam Altman is being heard over the dispute about the existential meaning of OpenAI, the company that popularized the use of artificial intelligence with ChatGPT just over three years ago, an oral hearing that has the potential to reconfigure the AI industry.

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A new scientific method allows identifying the oldest library on the Iberian Peninsula in a Roman villa in Córdoba

A new scientific method allows identifying the oldest library on the Iberian Peninsula in a Roman villa in Córdoba

Everyone thought that this was just another room in an ancient Roman villa built in Fuente Álamo (Puente Genil, Córdoba). Some speculated that the room could even be a mithraeum, a temple dedicated to the Persian-origin god Mithras and built to imitate a cave. But the space was actually the oldest library on the Iberian Peninsula.

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Yayoi Kusama dies, the parachutist of the polka dots

Yayoi Kusama dies, the parachutist of the polka dots

Yayoi Kusama, who in her Japanese adolescence had to sew parachutes for the Imperial Army, landed in 1950s New York as an unidentified provocative object. Actually, she arrived in Seattle, but the veteran Georgia O’Keeffe, who kindly responded to her letters, wisely advised her to move to the Big Apple. There she did not go unnoticed, but she did not achieve great success. Among other things because, according to her, Andy Warhol stole a lot of her ideas.

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Illa defends diversity from Singapore as a "source of wealth" against discourses of fear

Illa defends diversity from Singapore as a “source of wealth” against discourses of fear

President Salvador Illa delivered a conference this morning at the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), the country’s chamber of commerce and main business organization, as part of the institutional tour of Southeast Asia. From that forum, he warned of the “discourses of fear towards the different” heard in Catalonia, in allusion to the far-right, and contrasted them with the ethnic and religious diversity that prevails in Singapore.

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