Greece

China’s leading EV maker, BYD, is expanding its presence in Europe by launching its best-selling Atto 3 and Seal in Greece. BYD said more models are launching soon. BYD expands in Europe, launches two new EVs in Greece BYD is “just getting started” in Europe, according to the region’s CEO, Michael Shu. After dominating its home market, BYD is taking its best-selling EVs overseas to challenge legacy automakers. Although BYD began selling EVs in Europe in 2021 (in Norway), the company only sold…

Back in school, we all had that one subject that somehow was magically able to put us to sleep. Be it due to the teacher’s monotone voice, dry information, or a poorly ventilated classroom – either way, those academic hours seemed to have lasted a decade. Oh, how we wished we could watch TV or play computer games instead. Well, one teacher found a way to incorporate a popular video game into his lessons, capturing the attention of his students and millions of people online.More info: TikTokMiddle school teacher used an…

All Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce) wants to do is get to the coastal Greek town of Malia, get some quality time with her BFFs — Em (Enva Lewis) and Skye (Lara Peake) — and spend the next few days getting royally fucked up. This unholy trinity of 16-year-olds have just finished their final exams back in London, and now they’re heading to one of those sunbaked Mediterranean resorts favored by British teens looking to blow off steam. The plan is to use “party” as a verb as much as possible, and the fact that they manage to…

Photograph of Athens, Greece at night, captured on September 17, 2022, by an Astronaut onboard the International Space Station.Stark contrasts between light and dark indicate the interface between urban and natural areas in the Greek capital.An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of Athens, the capital city of Greece. The city lies on the complex coastline of the Attica Peninsula in Southern Greece. Streets meander through the city like illuminated rivers, and the urban sprawl…

Deadly floods, heatwaves and storms have unfolded against the backdrop of what climate scientists say is set to be the world’s hottest year on record, with observations stretching back to the 1800s. The world, on average, has seen about 1.46 degrees Celsius (2.63 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming above pre-industrial temperatures this year, with global greenhouse gas emissions hitting new highs. Every new benchmark brings crippling economic losses and…

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A young woman in an Athens flea market sees a stranger buy two mechanical horses, which dance when their tails are pulled up. Both women are wearing the same coat, a green trench, tightly belted. The watcher, too, covets the horses. As she greedily observes the transaction, she is compelled by the sense that she is looking at herself, “that she and I were the same person. She was me and I was her.”From Dostoevsky to Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the doppelganger is among the delights of literature and film alike. In The Jolly…

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King will be back in North American cinemas next month, to celebrate 20 years since Peter Jackson first debuted his Oscar-winning film. Its return to the multiplexes comes at a time when we seem to have more JRR Tolkien-inspired fantasies to choose from than a 1980s branch of Games Workshop. As well as Gollum and co returning to the big screen, we have the baffling, utterly superfluous yet sumptuously filmed and geekily delightful small screen The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power…

Greece has become the seventh EU country to introduce a principle called “router freedom.” This means consumers of any Internet Service Provider (ISP) can now use a modem or router of their choice, instead of equipment provided by the ISP. The freedom of choice for routers and modems is regulated in the EU by two primary sets of rules. The first one comes from the Net Neutrality Regulation in 2015, which establishes the people’s right to choose their own digital equipment. The second one is is…

The Petsas Well, with bones highlighted. Credit: Meier et al., 2023, PLoS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) A large Bronze Age debris deposit in Mycenae, Greece, provides important data for understanding the history of animal resources at the site, according to a study published March 1, 2023, in the open-access journal PLoS ONE by Jacqueline Meier of the University of North Florida and colleagues.…