Natalie Bezděková
The World Health Organization (WHO) has taken a groundbreaking step that could reshape the future of obesity treatment and access to modern medicines worldwide. For the first time, it has added weight-loss drugs – specifically semaglutide and tirzepatide – to its official List of Essential Medicines for adults. This list is a crucial reference f...
The Caribbean island of Anguilla may be small and hard to spot on a map, yet it has become one of the most surprising players in the digital economy. The reason is not its tourist resorts or exports, but the two-letter internet domain .ai, assigned to the island back in the 1990s. At the time, it was nothing more than a formal country code for t...
Payment giant PayPal recently found itself at the center of an unexpected storm. At the end of August and the beginning of September, Europe experienced a disruption with massive financial consequences. It wasn’t a hacker attack or cyber sabotage – the cause was a human mistake and a misconfigured internal process. Yet the outcome looked dramati...
A unique type of business has developed in Japan called yonigeya, which translates as "night movers." These companies offer a service that at first glance seems like something out of a movie: they help people disappear without a word in a single night. No arguments, no goodbyes—just an empty apartment waiting for unsuspecting neighbors in the mo...
Manasi Mishra recently shared her disappointment on TikTok: after completing her computer science degree, she was invited to interview by only one company—the fast food chain Chipotle. Her story is not unique. Twenty-five-year-old Zach Taylor graduated with a degree in computer science from Oregon State University at a time when job offers in...
When we pull out our phones and scan a QR code today, few people realize that behind this simple black-and-white image is a modest Japanese engineer. In 1994, while playing the strategy game Go, Masahiro Hara came up with an idea that changed not only industrial production, but later also the everyday lives of millions of people. His employer...
ChatGPT is one of the most widely used artificial intelligence systems in the world today. Billions of users interact with it every day, whether at work, school, or for entertainment. And while ChatGPT can be used for free, the difference between the free and paid versions is growing. The free account only offers limited access to the latest fea...
At the beginning of the year, a traveler from London rented an apartment in Manhattan, where she planned to stay for about two and a half months during her studies. However, after a few weeks, she gave the neighborhood a poor review and decided to terminate the lease early. Shortly thereafter, she received a message from the host about alleged d...
A picture of life by the sea or in the sunny south of Europe does not have to be just a dream for the rich. In recent years, it has become apparent that the prices of some properties in southern countries are surprisingly affordable – sometimes even lower than a garage or a small cottage in the Czech Republic. Those interested in a second home, ...
