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Americans David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work revealing proteins' secrets through computing and artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is already being used by banks and affecting the way they interact with customers.

"Using AI technologies in the banking system has led to significant changes and improvements… in fields such as security and fraud prevention, risk management and automatization of procedures," says Nikos Christodoulou, head of consulting services at Deloitte.

Authorities are intensifying efforts to combat digital addiction by meeting with children who spend extended periods playing video games.

The initiative is part of a broader strategy to address various forms of addiction, Family and Social Services Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş told daily Hürriyet on Aug. 31.

Meteorological balloons play a crucial role in weather forecasting in Türkiye, where they are released into the atmosphere at nine different locations across the country with domestically produced devices.

Globally, nearly a thousand such points exist where these balloons are launched.

Hellenic Police (ELAS) announced on Sunday the arrest of a 44-year-old man in the Kolonos area of Athens, for the repeated rape of a 16-year-old girl.  

The arrest took place in Kolonos on Thursday, with officers arresting the suspect in his car.

Potato farming is among the fields feeling the impact of climate change most strongly in Greece.

According to Eurostat, potato crops in Greece covered 20,260 hectares in 2000 and are now dangerously close to half that as a result of heat and drought.

Farmers of PDO Naxos potatoes, meanwhile, saw a yield of just 1,800 tons this year from 4,000 in 2023.

Large and destructive wildfires are showing us once again the importance of protecting the environment. It is no longer a theoretical issue or something that concerns a few scientists.

Attica has lost valuable forests in recent years. The effects of natural disasters have a direct impact on the economy, on tourism and on everyone's lives. 

The Athens Observatory's Meteo unit, the Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development and San Jose State University's Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC) on Thursday signed a memorandum of cooperation to share know-how and engage in joint research on studying wildfires.

The National Meteorological Service (EMY) said in an updated emergency weather report on Sunday said that the heatwave will continue mostly unabated until Thursday, when it will post a moderate decline.

Sunday's thermal surge prevailed throughout the country with temperatures reaching up to 45 degrees Celsius in Thessaly, central Greece.

The new cases of COVID-19 in Bulgaria in the last 24 hours are 19, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

During the last 24 hours, 924 tests were performed, of which 2 percent were positive. There are 1,420 active cases, and 23 people have been reported as cured.