Cuenca High Life News Updates

By Cade Metz In a landmark settlement, Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors and publishers after a judge ruled it […] The post In landmark case, AI developer Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion for copyright infrigement appeared first on… Read more »

The price of a gallon of diesel fuel increased from $1.80 to $2.80 Friday following President Daniel Noboa’s decree eliminating the subsidy that had been in place since 1974. According […] The post Noboa announces elimination of the diesel subsidy appeared first on CuencaHighLife. Read more »

By Isabelle Knevett It’s nice to think that as a society we are continually learning and getting smarter as the years go on. But what if science is actually showing […] The post Why is human intelligence in decline? Three cognitive areas where the downward trend is strongest appeared first… Read more »

By Samuel Franks What does an out-of-work Nazi war criminal on the run from the law do for a living when he’s hiding out in Latin America? According to a […] The post On the run in Latin America, ex-Nazi ‘Butcher of Lyon’ preferred Cuenca for R&R and secret meetings… Read more »

I’ll admit something that may sound odd in this wired world: until a few days ago, I had never heard of Charlie Kirk. His name only reached me because of […] The post The debater I never knew until he was gone: Considering Charlie Kirk appeared first on CuencaHighLife. Read more »

The city of Cuenca and the Azuay Province Prefecture may have the final say about the future of the Loma Larga gold mine. On Thursday, President Daniel Noboa invited the […] The post Bowing to opposition, Noboa turns responsibility for Loma Larga mine over to local authorities appeared first on… Read more »

By Julia Vargas Jones and Michael Rios Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been found guilty of attempting to overturn the country’s 2022 election with a plot prosecutors say included […] The post Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro convicted of plotting coup, sentenced to 27 years in prison appeared first on… Read more »

By Donovan Frasier Several websites, including Vox, Cheezburger and Elite Daily, recently compiled a list of things Baby Boomers do that mystify, confound and drive Millennials crazy. Here’s a selection. […] The post Why do Baby Boomers have so much trouble with remote controls and take so long with self-checkout?… Read more »

By Beatriz Magaloni and Alberto Diaz-Cayeros In the past five years, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has become Latin America’s most celebrated authoritarian. He has won plaudits — including from U.S. […] The post Does the Bukele model have a future? El Salvador’s police state will soon face a reckoning appeared… Read more »

While President Daniel Noboa leads a Thursday morning march for “peace and justice” in Guayaquil, government protesters are planning their own afternoon marches and rallies in the country’s largest cities. […] The post Noboa’s ‘peace and justice’ march in Guayaquil will be countered by anti-government rallies appeared first on CuencaHighLife. Read more »