The number of internet users worldwide surpasses 6 billion, according to figures updated through October 2025. This means that 3 out of every 4 people connect to the internet for various reasons.

Technological evolution, the democratization of internet access, and the rise of social media have contributed to this increase in users, who seek to stay in touch with family, conduct research, shop online, or simply be entertained with music, videos, or digital games.

The Digital Report 2026 indicates that “the number of internet users worldwide increased by 294 million (+5.1%) in the last year, but the differences between countries are enormous.” Of the more than 6 billion people connected, 96 % do so via mobile devices.

According to the report, “the ranking of countries with the highest internet penetration is led by Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates, where 99 % of the population is connected. This is a very different reality from that of other countries such as Burundi (11.1 %) or the Central African Republic (12 %). Data for North Korea is less readily available, but the study places internet penetration among its inhabitants at less than 1%.”

Regarding the raw data on the total connected population, China leads with 1.3 billion users, followed by India with 1.02 billion. Interestingly, India is precisely the country with the highest number of “unconnected” users, with 440 million people who still do not use the internet. As for Spain, its penetration rate is 96.4 %, placing it in 18th position.

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The Venezuelan Minister of Science and Technology, Gabriela Jiménez, announced through her Telegram account the country’s commitment to the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Jiménez stressed that the development of nuclear energy is aimed at benefiting humanity, in fields such as “medicine and the study of animals and plants.” She also stated that “there are numerous and diverse peaceful applications of nuclear energy.”

 

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The official asserted that Venezuela “has advocated for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and nuclear threats,” noting that the country became, in 1955, “the first in Latin America to have an institute dedicated exclusively to nuclear science and research, now the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC),” in addition to having a research nuclear reactor.

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The Olympus robot dog, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), will be the new rover the organization will use to explore Mars and collect information using artificial intelligence.

The quadrupedal design model has been conceived to operate in low-gravity environments. It can jump over obstacles, stabilize itself, and “adapt to terrains that pose a real challenge for rovers, like Perseverance.”

Olympus was developed by researcher Jørgen Anker Olsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. “It consists of a system of double articulated legs that end in a padded surface.”

The robot offers additional traction and is capable of going through places that are difficult for other exploration equipment to access.

Olympus conducts successful test in the Netherlands

The Olympus robot was tested at the ORBIT headquarters in the Netherlands, “where the same microgravity conditions as those found on Mars are simulated using floating platforms on a millimeter-precise floor.”

Researchers managed to position the robot dog upside down on one of the platforms to recreate an environment with a gravity equivalent to 38 % of Earth’s.

Thanks to its AI reinforcement learning system, Olympus was able to correct its posture and make controlled jumps, then land stably on all four legs.

According to the robot’s developer, Jørgen Anker Olsen, “Olympus was able to move from wall to wall and orient itself after each jump to always land on all four legs.” These capabilities will be very useful for exploring the surface of Mars, “delving into its depths, such as Martian lava flows, volcanic caverns that would be too dangerous to explore by flying probes.”

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The high power consumption of cryptocurrency mining in Norway has led the government to consider a temporary ban on the activity.

Due to the impact of crypto mining on the energy sector, the government will start an extensive investigation next fall that could trigger a temporary suspension.

The Nordic country’s authorities have also announced that they will assess “whether this activity compromises the electricity supply necessary for essential sectors of the economy and the general population.”

The government has the power to suspend crypto mining if the activity creates critical situations that put maximum strain on the electrical grid, according to the Planning and Building Act.

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Bancamiga created an educational program called “Creating ideas. Together for Venezuela”, which promotes among young students the generation of ideas for the country, and focuses on supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the 2030 Agenda adopted by the United Nations Organization (UN).

The project was developed with the participation of more than 300 young people and adolescents, between 12 and 15 years of age, high school students from Caracas in sectors such as Catia, Antímano, Petare and Las Mayas.

This unprecedented program by Bancamiga seeks to generate a positive impact on Venezuelan society, with the purpose of stimulating creativity and citizen participation, opening opportunities for new generations to be agents of change that contribute to the construction of a more sustainable and equitable future.

Bancamiga is committed to joining forces to achieve the SDGs, as it is a common goal of the UN member countries in the search to ensure that all people enjoy well-being with social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Bancamiga promotes teamwork

The program “Creating Ideas. “Together for Venezuela” included two work sessions or workshops, implemented in partnership with the civil association Aprendo y Emprendo, where students first learned about the SDGs and how to apply them, promoting initiatives and activities that can contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.

In a second work day, through a practical and collaborative approach, students identified and addressed problems in their environment, with the purpose of generating innovative ideas that promote positive change in their community.

In addition, the project methodology promoted critical and creative thinking in young people, encouraging the formulation of ideas aimed at solving problems and providing them with tools to transform their reality.

Likewise, the program allowed them to develop skills such as research, communication, teamwork and problem-solving, which will be useful to them throughout their lives.

Young students committed to humanity

Bancamiga supports the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development that was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015, establishing an action plan that seeks to overcome the greatest challenges to the quality of life of the planet’s inhabitants, the preservation of the environment and prosperity.

The United Nations Member States committed to mobilize the necessary means for its implementation through alliances and urged both the private sector and civil society to do their part to achieve global goals.

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With a $20 million fund, Google.org will support the search for solutions to global problems and challenges in areas such as health, innovation, sustainability and artificial intelligence, among others.

The philanthropic branch of the technology company announced the creation of this investment fund to support the different scientific projects that apply AI as a key tool.

Google.org has indicated that the initiative “promises to accelerate discoveries in areas such as rare diseases, sustainability and experimental biology.”

With this fund, it will provide financial support “to academic and non-profit organizations around the world that are using AI to address increasingly complex problems at the intersections of different scientific disciplines.”

Maggie Johnson, vice president and director of Google.org, indicated that she will work with internal leaders from Google DeepMind, Google Research, as well as other AI-focused teams and external experts to identify and announce organizations.

She added that they will provide $2 million in Google Cloud credits “for all organizations and free technical expertise from Googlers.”

The creation of this fund joins more than $200 million that Google.org has disbursed to organizations that have used AI to accelerate their scientific work in the last five years.

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Venezuelan doctors Ernesto Medina and Jon Paul Rodríguez, from the Ecology Center of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), obtained this Tuesday a distinction awarded by the Research.com site, as the best scientists in ecology and evolution in the world.

This was stated on social network X by the sectoral vice president of Science, Technology, Education and Health, Gabriela Jiménez Ramírez, who highlighted the work of both researchers, and affirmed that their “contributions are exceptional in the knowledge and teaching of ecology.”

The Research.com site takes stock of the careers of researchers who could be worthy of this recognition, establishing that “only those with a notable career are considered, with at least 30 articles cited more than 30 times in their area of ​​study.”

In this sense, it is important to highlight that Dr. Ernesto Medina achieved the number two position in Venezuela and 4,932 on a global scale. First place was awarded to Jon Paul Rodríguez, “also a researcher at IVIC and current president of the Venezuelan NGO Provita.”

Los doctores Jon Paul Rodríguez y Ernesto Medina, investigador e investigador emérito del Centro de Ecología del #IVIC, obtuvieron los lugares #1 y #2 para Venezuela en la tercera edición del ranking de los mejores científicos en ecología y evolución realizado por… pic.twitter.com/cxTS02agjQ

— Gabriela Jiménez (@Gabrielasjr) May 7, 2024

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The collection of data about space has been accompanied by NASA through the Hubble telescope, which has been in orbit for 34 years, after being launched on April 24, 1990.

POV: Inside the firing room in 1990 during the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery.

Discovery launched #OTD as part of the STS-31 mission. With five astronauts onboard, its primary goal was to deploy @NASAHubble. The rocket launch itself can be seen through window on the top left. pic.twitter.com/Dyd9oKAjsk

— NASA's Kennedy Space Center (@NASAKennedy) April 24, 2024

Hubble continues to offer invaluable data to science every day for a better understanding of the universe, stars, planets and galaxies.

“Among their findings are planet-forming disks around nearby stars, chemical exploration of the atmospheres of planets in other systems, the first supermassive black hole in a neighboring galaxy and even evidence of an accelerating universe.”

The most recent image captured by Hubble is that of the Little Dumbbell Nebula 3,400 light years away in the constellation of Perseus.

Hubble's 34th launch anniversary is this week! 🥳

We're celebrating with this new image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula. Located about 3,400 light-years away, this nebula formed when lobes of gas expanded out from a dying star at the center.

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— Hubble (@NASAHubble) April 23, 2024

From the observations of the space telescope, 44,000 scientific articles have been published and its work in space continues, making it possible to collect information on “the phenomena of the solar system, supernova explosions, the composition of the atmospheres of exoplanets and dynamic emission of the galaxies.”

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The U.S. government reported that it will auction more than $130 million in Bitcoin, which were seized during the investigations against the trading platform Silk Road.

The notice was made on the website of the U.S. Department of Justice, where authorities indicate that they will put on sale two lots of confiscated bitcoins on that occasion: The first of them has about 2,800 bitcoins valued at almost 129 million dollars, and the other smaller one has about 58 BTC worth about 3 million.

These BTC lots were owned by Ryan Farace, one of the people arrested and prosecuted in 2018 as part of the Silk Road investigation, who was charged with conspiring and laundering Bitcoin funds used for drug trafficking.

Investigations revealed that Farace and his father carried out activities to launder more than 2,874 BTC, which they tried to send to an unknown person for the purpose of exchanging them for fiat and transferring them to an offshore account.

This discovery contradicted his testimony, as he claimed that while working for Silk Road he never had contact with BTCs related to the platform’s operations on the Dark Web.

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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple Labs continue to face trial before Judge Sarah Netburn of the Southern District Court of New York. The SEC requires Ripple to disclose its 2022 and 2023 financial statements and its institutional sales contracts for XRP, the cryptocurrency the agency considers a security.

The SEC filed a lawsuit against Ripple in late 2020, accusing it of selling unregistered securities. In July 2021, Judge Analisa Torres ruled in favor of the SEC, finding that XRP’s sales met the Howey test and were securities sales.

Ripple objects to the SEC’s application, arguing that its financial statements and post-suit conduct are irrelevant to the case. Ripple also states that it does not intend to claim that it cannot pay fines.

The SEC insists that Ripple’s financial statements are relevant for calculating the amount of a deterrent fine and for assessing the feasibility of precautionary measures. The SEC argues that the Securities Act (presumably 1933) allows preventive action to be taken when a breach is about to occur.

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