A robot beat Bolt in the 100 metres, then crashed into a wall: China is racing (literally) toward humanoid robot dominance
Nine point three nine seconds. That’s how long it took a humanoid robot to run the 100 metre dash at the second annual Humanoid Games, the machine-versus-machine sports competition held in Beijing in mid-August 2026, a time that would, on paper, beat Usain Bolt’s human world record. Right after crossing the line, the robot slammed […]
4.851 billion euros and a moratorium on the table: Canary Islands tourism faces its own reflection
One hundred and eighty-one euros a day. That’s what every tourist arriving in the Canary Islands spent on average in the second quarter of 2026, up from 157.9 euros in the same period of 2025. It’s a jump that official figures analysed by the regional press attribute not to more visitors, but to higher-value tourism: […]
1.794 kilowatt-hours per cubic metre: how the Canary Islands landed in the water world record books
In an archipelago with no rivers, where rain is more a date on the calendar than a seasonal certainty, almost every drop of fresh water arrives through an industrial process. It’s against that backdrop, far from trivial, that a piece of news slipped past most people outside technical circles: a Canarian pilot plant now holds […]