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There is still a year left to witness what will be the “eclipse of the century.” On August 2, 2027, the phenomenon will be visible from practically all of Spain, but only in the south of Andalusia, Ceuta, and Melilla will the Moon completely cover the Sun, plunging the day into night. Still recovering from the eclipse of last August 12, reservations for houses, apartments, and rooms have already skyrocketed in provinces such as Cádiz, Málaga, Granada, and Almería. And, with them, the prices.

This Saturday, the Costa Daurada woke up to the consequences of the torrential rains that during the past night have caused several injuries, material damage, and flooding in municipalities along the coast of Baix Penedès and Tarragonès. In just a few hours, up to 200 liters per square meter were recorded, leaving behind serious impacts: from people trapped in their vehicles to tourists who were finishing their vacations and have been left without accommodation or, in some cases, without a way to return home.

Those who reach that age to start asking for help say that aging happens by landings and not by steps. One day you are fine and the next you have a drop you didn’t expect. You probably won’t be the first to notice it, but the friend you meet on the street who,…

Technology offers students a temptation that is hard to resist: getting better grades with less effort. But that shortcut can take a toll on learning.

The University of Ghent has announced the adoption of “measures” against Nathan Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher at that center who instigated the public lynching of former University of Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism and found dead in mid-month at his home in London.

The Australian parliament has just passed a law that will force four major tech companies – Meta, Google, Microsoft (LinkedIn), and TikTok – to compensate media outlets for the use they make of the information. The Australian Government’s approach, which has received opposition support, is that the existence of digital platforms has left news companies in an inferior position when negotiating possible compensation for the use of their information. The new legislation will become a corrective factor for the protection of journalism.

Meta sits in the defendant’s dock in the trial held in Oakland (California), for the lawsuit claiming that the Facebook and Instagram applications of Mark Zuckerberg’s company knowingly harmed the mental health of children and adolescents. All for business, would be their motto according to the attorneys general of 29 U.S. states and an internal witness.

The American laboratories Merck and Moderna announced this Wednesday positive results in the final phase of clinical trials of their experimental messenger RNA vaccine against skin cancer, aimed at patients with high-risk melanoma who had the tumor completely removed by surgery. “This is the first announcement of positive phase 3 results (…) for an mRNA-based cancer therapy,” Merck and Moderna state in a joint statement.

The American laboratories Merck and Moderna announced this Wednesday positive results in the final phase of clinical trials of their experimental messenger RNA vaccine against skin cancer, aimed at patients with advanced stage melanoma. “This is the first announcement of positive phase 3 results (…) for an mRNA-based cancer therapy,” Merck and Moderna state in a joint statement.

ChatGPT ads will arrive in Europe next week. Six months after testing them in the United States, free access to OpenAI’s popular chatbot will also have advertising. The company has announced that the ad-supported version will expand to 31 European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Austria. The Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans will continue to be ad-free.