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MediaMarkt ends the month of its Great Anniversary with its Day without VAT that, despite its name, lasts more than one day: from yesterday night until tomorrow at 9 a.m. (peninsular time) we will find significant discounts on technology and electronics 17%. In this article we collect the best deals of the Day without VAT from MediaMarkt.

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WhatsApp will let you choose in the messages that disappear: the day or the following week

Last year WhatsApp finally introduced disappearing messages or, as they are called in the application: temporary messages. The option was a bit disappointing for those looking for ephemeral conversations such as Snapchat or secret chats from other applications, because the period in which the messages disappeared was one week.

Apparently more ephemeral features are on the way. On the one hand, the application has been working on photos that can only be viewed once. On the other hand, it will let you choose what messages disappear the next day when activating temporary messages.

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characteristics, price and technical sheet

Huawei likes to start with 5G and then complete with 4G versions, perhaps for those who give less importance to this aspect. We see it with the high-end lines for some time and also in the Nova, now presenting the Huawei Nova 8 Pro 4G months after the Huawei Nova 8 and 8 Pro with 5G.

The surprise is that we see exactly the same processor, so what they have not placed on this occasion is the modem that provides the possibility of connecting to the latest generation network. Otherwise it is almost a clone of the first Nova 8 Pro, although with a slight improvement in the battery.

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Green hydrogen is one of the EU’s big bets for the energy transition: these are its strengths (and weaknesses)

The green hydrogen it has become one of the fundamental pillars of the recovery funds of the European Union. Some funds that will become the largest stimulus package ever financed through the EU budget, with a total of 1.8 trillion euros of economic injection to rebuild Europe after COVID-19.

The energy transition is one of the axes of this recovery, with 30% of the budget allocated to the fight against climate change. And this is where green hydrogen has started to gain ground, growing in interest and rising to the public debate as one of the fundamental pillars for the decarbonization of the economy.

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When Russia put satellites into orbit … launching them by hand

November 3, 1997 was marked in aerospace history. That day, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov was outside the Mir space station removing an old solar panel. Before returning to the interior of the station, he took a small satellite and waited for the space station to orient itself correctly. Once he had a suitable field of vision, he launched the satellite to orbit the Earth with his bare hands. It was the first satellite in history to be launched by hand, and not the only one.

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