Last week in the Spanish city of Seville I spoke to an audience of pharmacists about the future of their profession and of healthcare in general. Pharmacies are an extremely complex sector: Spain is one of the countries with the highest ratio of pharmacies per inhabitant, which are an important…

Last October’s agreement between Hertz and Tesla whereby the car hire giant would buy 100,000 Model 3 vehicles was huge news on the markets, and largely responsible for Elon Musk’s company reaching a trillion dollar valuation for the first time. What does Hertz’s decision to buy 100,000 Tesla Model 3 mean? The announcement that car rental giant Hertz is to buy 100,000 Tesla Model 3s was yesterday’s big financial story…medium.com

The launch of a virtual or distributed power plant installation in California by Tesla in collaboration with the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, illustrates a trend in energy management: more and more consumers are opting for the installation of solar panels on their homes — in California and many other…

After a several months disciplining so-called influencers, many of whom have been fined or have disappeared from public life, the Chinese government has published a series of eighteen rules and guidelines for this type of activity, including 31 explicitly defined activities, ranging from the celebrating luxury and extravagant lifestyles to…

Friday’s US Supreme Court ruling overturning the 49-year landmark Roe v. Wade, thus ending a woman’s right to abortion, which immediately became illegal in thirteen states (Arkansas, North and South Dakota, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming), has polarized the country, as well as raising…

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has confirmed in Cannes that, as it had already announced to its employees, it will launch an advertising-supported tier later this year “for folks who say, ‘Hey, I want a lower price and I’ll watch ads.’” Supposedly, ad-free services will remain for those users willing to…

Google’s news aggregation service, Google News, is returning to Spain after an eight-year absence prompted by the stupid position of the previous government in 2014, combined with the narrow-minded demands of the country’s traditional media. This is is essentially good news, because Spain being one of the only democracies without…

We’re still in that place where it’s good idea to measure one’s words when talking about “the end” of the pandemic. …

The cultured meat sector is being seriously beefed up: last week, and still pending exact location, US company Good Meat’s plans for the construction of the world’s largest factory/laboratory to produce meat in bioreactors, more than doubling the amount produced in Israel by Future Meat. A quick search online shows…