Yearly Archives: 2025

Spain’s Benidorm embraces its Franco-era mass tourism model

[ad_1] Some 2.8 million foreign visitors headed to Benidorm on Spain’s Mediterranean coast in 2024. Photo: Jose Jordan / AFPSource: AFP Fifty years after General Francisco Franco’s death, Benidorm still clings to the mass tourism model it pioneered under his dictatorship, even as protests against overtourism sweep other Spanish holiday …

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Anthropic hires new CTO with focus on AI infrastructure

[ad_1] Anthropic has a new chief technical officer, former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil. Patil started at the company earlier this week, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as chief architect. As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of its core …

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Amazon to resume drone delivery following crash in Arizona

[ad_1] Amazon will restart its drone delivery service in Arizona beginning Friday as two federal agencies continue to investigate a crash that occurred earlier this week. Amazon suspended operations in the West Valley of the Phoenix Metro area — currently its only commercial market — following a crash Wednesday. Two …

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