- More tourists are thought to be prioritizing milder temperatures or even off-season travel to avoid spending their time away in oppressive heat.
- Europe is currently experiencing some of the hottest temperatures of the summer so far, with yet another heat wave expected to push the mercury close to record-breaking levels in the coming days.
- Data from the European Travel Commission found that the popularity of Mediterranean vacation destinations dropped by 10% compared with last year.
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- Amazon will invest $120 million in a satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- Project Kuiper is Amazon’s plan to build a network of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit, to provide high-speed internet access anywhere in the world.
- The 100,000-square-foot processing facility will serve as one of the final steps before the satellites reach orbit, preparing them for launches on the rockets of ULA and Blue Origin.
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- The European Union sent four Canadair water bombers to help Greece fight wildfires that have been raging for a third day on Wednesday.
- It comes as a scorching heatwave continues to grip southern Europe, with temperatures in Spain, France and Italy climbing to fresh record highs.
- Italy’s capital of Rome recorded its hottest day ever on Tuesday, as temperatures in the city center rose to a staggering 41.8 degrees Celsius (107.24 Fahrenheit).
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- Johnson & Johnson sued the Biden administration over Medicare’s new powers to slash drug prices, making it the third pharmaceutical company to challenge the controversial provision of the Inflation Reduction Act.
- The lawsuit filed in federal district court in New Jersey argues the Medicare negotiations violate the First and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
- Earlier suits brought separately by Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb, as well as by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and PhRMA, the pharmaceutical industry’s largest lobbying group, made similar arguments.
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- Fervo Energy drills deep wells and pumps water into them. The water grows hot from the heat of the earth, then Fervo pumps it back to the surface, where a turbine converts that heat to electricity.
- On Tuesday, it announced the completion of a 30-day test where temperatures in the well reached roughly 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
- The firm, which signed a partnership with Google in 2021, has just started construction on a 400-megawatt project that it expects to be online by 2028, which would power approximately 300,000 homes.
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