Best in the world

MALLORCA has been chosen as one of the best holiday destinations in the world by a leading international luxury tourism and lifestyle publication.

Condé Nast Traveler places the island among the nine top destinations on the 27th edition of its yearly Hot List for 2023, drawn up between the magazine’s seven publications throughout the world.

“The Spanish island that best reflects Mediterranean hedonism continues to perfect its roadmap towards present and future luxury, focused on exclusivity, sus‐tainability and exquisite service,” reads the Mallorca entry on the Condé Nast Traveler website.

INVESTIGATORS at the Balearic Islands University are using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse past epidemics to predict future outbreaks.

The scientists are working jointly with colleagues from Catalonia Open University to check massive amounts of archive data referring to cholera, the plague and Span‐ish flu from 1918.

Their overall aim is to de‐velop new prediction tools and evaluate the long‐term consequences of epidemics.

Before the first cases of Covid became public, an AI‐based algorithm developed by a Canadian company had reportedly already detected