The search for survivors continues in Nepal and Tibet after last week’s floods in the Himalayas, which left a trail of destruction in the towns and villages of the country’s valleys, as well as across the border in China.
At least 20 people are missing due to a major flash flood in the Grand Canyon that forced the evacuation of dozens of people and swept large rocks, metal structures, and other debris into the Colorado River that runs through it, according to the National Park Service.
A drug that simulates the effects of physical activity on the human body has been well tolerated, with no significant side effects, and has shown signs of efficacy in the 88 volunteers who tested it in its first clinical trial, according to the American biotechnology company Enveda in a statement.
The Magnificent Seven –Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla– maintain their strength with a combined profit of $557 billion –or €480 billion– in the first half of the year, once Nvidia’s results are known. It is more than triple (258%) compared to the same period in 2021, before ChatGPT and the AI fever emerged, which have benefited them and at the same time cast doubt on them, without disrupting their stability for now. A colossal figure despite covering only six months. Behind the strong rise is mainly Nvidia, which has gone from being just another listed company to a monster: it earns 28 times more, with over $100 billion up to June.
Widows have always had a reserved seat in the world of investments. The Scottish Widows investment fund was created in the early 19th century to assist women who lost their husbands in the Napoleonic wars and today manages more than 200 billion euros. In Spain, the dividends from the elevator company Zardoya were once known as “the widows’ dividend,” for being as reliable as leaving a pension.
The judicial investigation into the alleged homicide of Isak Andic has not stopped for summer vacations. Media coverage of the case has plummeted, but some have continued working. The Mossos d’Esquadra are scientifically reconstructing the route in Montserrat that on December 1st was taken together by the Andic family therapist, Maria Julia Lüderwaldt, and a former collaborator of her practice, Johana, a British English teacher whose name is the only detail known. Investigators have reasonable suspicions that the two women walked that morning along the Camí de les Feixades, the same path that thirteen days later Isak and his son Jonathan Andic walked, where the father died after falling down a ravine nearly one hundred meters deep.
It has been some time since technology experts issued the warning that the use of AI was completely out of control and that this will have negative consequences for humanity itself. More and more voices are calling for a moratorium on the development of AI, but…
Imad Maarmi, a 35-year-old Algerian, is in a limbo called the Temporary Stay Center for Immigrants (CETI) of Ceuta. After being intercepted up to 12 times by the Civil Guard or the Moroccan Navy when trying to swim across the Tarajal border breakwater, he managed to set foot on the shore of the autonomous city last July 10. Three weeks before the mass crossing. At that time, the CETI was not yet overcrowded. Nor was Ceuta in chaos.
It is the third week that I have to talk about Ceuta and I would like not to have to do it again for a long time. Not because I have nothing to say about Ceuta, a city I have visited on several occasions, but because it would be a sign that the very serious crisis this city is experiencing…
