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Something more than just another trial of the century for Mark Zuckerberg. Meta appeared this Tuesday before a court in Oakland (California) to face a high-risk oral hearing with great transformative capacity for its networks due to accusations that it deliberately introduced tools into Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users, regardless of the harm. “Looking the other way was more profitable,” according to the lawsuit.

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for teenagers today, a version of its artificial intelligence chatbot that contains stronger safety measures, “including features that encourage healthy use and additional controls for parents.” It is a version of the popular AI that has been “designed to help teenagers learn, think critically, deepen their understanding, and use AI with confidence,” the company explained on its blog. The system will not work in the European Union for the time being.

Granada has shaken again. Another intense earthquake, measuring 4.8 in magnitude, shook the Andalusian province this Tuesday, three days after a similar tremor that caused material damage and panic among its inhabitants. The new seismic event, accompanied by several aftershocks, with its epicenter in the municipality of Gójar, has caused cracks and falling cornices, debris, and facade elements, as well as three injuries, according to the emergency services report. The tremor has been felt in municipalities of Málaga, Córdoba, Jaén, and Almería. Also, much more lightly, in cities such as Ciudad Real, Puertollano, Albacete, or Madrid, according to information provided by the National Geographic Institute.

The residents of the metropolitan area of Granada went out of their homes again this Tuesday due to “fear and caution” after the province recorded a new seismic sequence with five earthquakes in less than an hour, three of them widely felt by the population and three with magnitudes above 4, as part of the seismic series affecting the area since last August 15. Awaiting further information, for now the regional authorities have reported that three minor injuries have been recorded.

Granada is experiencing a period marked by a succession of several seismic movements, both in the capital and in the province. Since last Friday, more than 300 earthquakes have been recorded, although most have not been felt by the population. However, the earthquakes of greater magnitude, 4.8 on Saturday and 4.7 this Tuesday, have caused some material damage and triggered calls to emergency services.

The professional association Unión de Militares de Tropa (UMT) has reported in a statement that at least 14 soldiers deployed in Ceuta have suffered an outbreak of scabies. The UMT directly points to the “poor conditions in which the personnel were housed last Saturday, August 15” in some old military facilities.

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.

In 2022, Agustí Rovira, a resident of Valldoreix (Barcelona), became the first nonagenarian to receive a kidney transplant in Spain. Normally his candidacy would have been discarded due to age, but the specialists at the Clínic hospital concluded that the patient’s good physical condition and the optimal state of his arteries and blood vessels guaranteed the viability of the transplant. In the near future, the ID will not be, as it has been until now, the determining factor when deciding treatments, but the degree of frailty of the patients.

Recently, a peptide has transformed medicine. Drugs based on glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a hormone released by the intestine after a meal, started as treatments for diabetes before proving especially effective in helping people lose weight. Since then, they have also shown benefits in treating heart, kidney, sleep apnea, and other conditions. Now, pharmaceutical companies are betting that two other peptides, orexins, could follow a similar path in various brain-related diseases.

The commercial boom of pop and lovintage design can lead someone to feel nostalgia for some elements of the past. A bottle of Vernel, another of Delial, Yoplait yogurts, or the first Matutano ham-flavored chips. Faced with this reality, the nostalgic citizen can turn to collector websites to find these objects or — unfortunately — take a walk along the Spanish coasts. With a bit of luck, they might find designs from decades ago buried in the sand after being returned by the sea.