On Thursday 7 September 2017, an earthquake of magnitude 8.1 hit the southern coast of Mexico, with its epicentre located at 87 km (54 miles) southwest of the town of Pijijiapan (state of Chiapas), according to the data provided by USGS. There are 16,917 inhabitants in Pijijiapan, and is 57 meters above sea level. According […]
This weekend we received the news that Patrick Ponce (USA) set a new Rubik’s Cube World Record with 4.69 seconds during ‘Rally In The Valley 2017’ competition, which was held in Middletown, Virginia, United States, on September 2, 2017. This record has been registered officially by the World Cube Association. The previous record was held […]
The ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’ (ARWU), which is popularly known as ‘Shanghai Ranking’, is one of the three most influential lists of the best universities, which is produced yearly by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy since the year 2003. The ranking of 2017 was published this week, and the first position was for the Harvard […]
A footage published on YouTube shows a Mexican woman pressed up against the glass panels of the doors of the subway in Monterrey (México), outside the car, while the train is speeding along. The passengers are watching her astonished. It’s still unknown the reasons of this incident, which happened on Monday 17 in the night. […]
It happened yesterday in the small town of El Rubio, in the Mexican State of Nuevo León. A person recorded the following footage of a tornado being formed in the sky above his head, just when the column just contacted the surface of the Earth, and scaring watching people. Someone can think than that person […]
A Mexican entrepreneur creates a new Trump-branded toilet paper, promising help for Mexican deportees with each purchase, and with the attractive slogan “Softness Without Borders” Antonio Battaglia, a Mexican attorney and entrepreneur based in Guanajuato, was so angry with Donald Trump’s position on Mexican inmigration and trade, that he decided to fight him with a […]
Find out why virtually all the onshore wind farms winning the first auction in Germany are small projects developed by grassroots initiatives and cooperatives, which are very popular across the country. On Friday, Germany unveiled the results of their first onshore wind auction held under the new Renewable Energy Sources Act, which came into force […]
According to the governor of the province of Río Negro, Alberto Weretilneck, there is a Chinese commitment with the Argentine government to finance the construction of the fifth Argentine nuclear power plant in Patagonia. “The National Government agreed in China to install in Río Negro the fifth nuclear power plant in Argentina. The contruction will […]
A UK cybersecurity researcher founds how to halt the spreading of one of the most dangerous malwares of the last years. The method? Just spending 10.60 dollars in registering a very long domain which is consulted by the Wannacry ransomware During the last hours, a ransomware called WannaCry affected lots of world wide organizations like […]
Mexico City (CDMX) will be the first city in Latin America where Airbnb, the online vacation rentals marketplace company, will pay taxes for their operation. Starting on June 1st, Airbnb will start to charge 3 percent of accommodation tax on each reservation made in Mexico City, as indicated by the Airbnb’s Head of Global Policy […]