SpaceX is about to go public promising to bring AI to space. What really sells is satellite Internet

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SpaceX has confidentially registered with the SECthe US regulator, its application to go public, in what could become the largest public offering in history. Why is it important. The valuation of Musk’s company exceeds one and a half billion dollars, and the objective is to raise between 50,000 and 75,000 million euros before the end of June. To put it in perspective: the IPO of the Arab oil company Saudi Aramco in 2019until now the largest in history, raised just over 25,000 million. Furthermore, this news has been presented as a milestone in space exploration, but if you read between the lines, the real story is different. Between the lines. The story that SpaceX is going to sell to Wall Street mixes rockets, Mars and AI. It is the perfect cocktail to attract capital in 2026, but analysts who have looked at the numbers and quote Reuters are a little cruder: the $1.5 trillion valuation is only supported by starlinkthe satellite Internet service that already has nine million subscribers and generated $8 billion in revenue in 2024 alone. SpaceX billed between 15,000 and 16,000 million dollars in 2025, with about 8,000 million in profit. Starlink accounts for the clear majority of that revenue and almost all of the margins. The orbital data centersthe great promise of the IPO, are still an unproven concept. As said market strategist Shay Boloor: “Starlink is the only reason this assessment is defensible.” The contrast. SpaceX was born in 2002 with a mission: to make humanity multiplanetary. Mars as a destination and reusable rockets as a means. That narrative has had to give some ground. And Wall Street, which has been buying anything with the word AI for years, hears that and opens its wallet. The money trail. This year, SpaceX absorbed xAI, Musk’s AI startup and now also the parent company of X. Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter in 2022 and since then, X and xAI are projects that consume a lot of cash, especially the latter. SpaceX’s IPO, according to The New York Timesis proposed among other things to pay the debt that Twitter incurred when Musk bought it and to finance xAI’s data centers. In other words: the jewel in the crown finances loss-making companies. The big question. Can SpaceX trade at $1.5 trillion with markets shaken by war? The Nasdaq just suffered its worst week in almost a yearwith the war between the United States and Iran in the background and oil skyrocketing. Some bankers have pushed SpaceX to keep between 15,000 and 20,000 million in cash before exiting. For what may happen. The moment of debut can be decisive for the worse even if the fundamentals are great. What is certain is that if the operation goes ahead, Musk, who owns about 42-44% of SpaceX, will almost certainly cross the threshold of a trillion dollars of personal wealth. He would be the first billionaire in history. In Xataka | Seven of the ten largest fortunes in the world in 2026 are due to AI: this illustrative graph makes it very clear Featured image | SpaceX

the symbol of the Spanish electric car boom faces a difficult horizon

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In its day, Wallbox was one of the great hopes for him electric car in Spain. A symbol with unicorn aspirations with Spanish capital, listed in New York and a simple initial purpose: to sell electric chargers. A purpose that gradually escalated to end up focusing on the comprehensive management of domestic energy. The problem? Since last year the company has a value less than that of your debthas laid off a third of its staff and urgently needs a financial boost. One who doesn’t know where to find. The situation. At the beginning of this month, Wallbox activated the pre-bankruptcy process. The company owes nearly 170 million euros to entities such as Banco Santander, BBVA, CaixaBank, or the Official Credit Institute. The pre-bankruptcy status prevents creditors from executing their debts, so this shield is a small temporary ball to negotiate debt and reach agreements. Dates? Evolution of the Wallbox share. Javier Lacort. The hope. Wallbox closed the 2025 fiscal year with losses worth 103.19 million euros, 32% less than in 2024. The company reduced its labor and operating costs by 25%, managing to stop the debacle in its adjusted EBITDA. What happened. In 2021, Wallbox was listed on the New York Stock Exchange with a valuation of more than 1 billion. Four years later, the company was worth 37 million. The company has been adding year-on-year losses that have plummeted its stock. It has reached a price below the dollar The situation led to massive layoffs and cost reduction plans Since 2024, the company has focused the strategy on reduce operating losses and get creditors to sign a new financing plan. According to Wallbox, 85% of them support the plan but HSBC, one of the giants behind the financing, is reticent about the new roadmap. Buying time. Wallbox is buying time with its pre-bankruptcy request, trying to refinance the 170 million debt. Although the situation is critical, all is not lost. The company is managing to cut net losses and affirms that its strategy is aimed at “a more efficient, resilient and future-ready organization.” We have until summer to check it out. Image | Wallbox In Xataka | Install an electric car charger at home: how much does it cost and steps to follow

five models from 99 to 345 euros

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Book Day will be celebrated on April 23, so many brands and stores have begun to launch some offers on electronic book readers (eReaders) to start the month reading. Do you want to devour that novel that has been on your wish list for so long? Well, let’s review what the best offers we have available right now. Kindle by 99 eurosAmazon’s basic eReader for reading frequently. Pocketbook Verse by 118.90 eurosa reader that has the particularity of having physical buttons, as well as a touch screen. Kindle Colorsoft by 199 eurosan eReader with a color screen for reading comics and magazines. Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition by 229 eurosa vitaminized version of Colorsoft that includes two additional features. Kindle Scribe (2022) by 294.99 eurosthe ideal eReader if you are going to use it only at home. Kindle Colorsoft (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Kindle If you tend to read every so often and are not looking for the best possible reading experience, the Kindle It is the perfect model both for what it offers and for its price, especially now that it has dropped to 99 euros (before 119 euros). This model comes with a six-inch anti-glare screenit has 16 GB to store many books and it weighs little, so you can hold it with one hand. In addition, it has an adjustable front light and its autonomy is weeks. Kindle (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Pocketbook Verse If you are looking for something similar, El Corte Inglés has on offer the PocketBook Verse by 118.90 euros (before 135 euros). It stands out mainly because it includes a button panel with which you can turn the pages or move through the menus, an interesting point to avoid getting your screen so dirty, which is touch screen so that we can also use it in this other way. Its diagonal is also six inches, it comes with 8 GB of storage, although more can be added with a microSD card of up to 128 GB and it has access to eBiblio to be able to loan books online. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Kindle Colorsoft On the other hand, if you want to read books, but also the occasional comic or magazine, the most interesting model is the Kindle Colorsoft. 199 euros (before 269.99 euros), an eReader that comes with a color screen anti-reflective seven inches. Its color panel also allows you to better view the covers and illustrations of the novels and even underline text with various colors to differentiate the characters. Additionally, although it is not a model that is on sale, the Kobo Clara Color is a very interesting alternative. It offers a very similar reading experience for a slightly lower price, as this model costs 169 euros. Of course, its screen is a little smaller, six inches. Kindle Colorsoft (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition One step above we have a proposal similar to the previous one from Amazon, but with a couple of additions. He Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition right now it costs 229 euros (before 299.99 euros) and differs from its basic model (Colorsoft) in that in this case it comes with automatic adjustment of the front light, wireless charging and 32 GB of storage instead of 16 GB. Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Kindle Scribe (2022) If you are only going to read at home and prefer a larger reader to see the print better, the Kindle Scribe (2022) It has also dropped in price to 294.99 euros (before 399.99 euros). It is an eReader with a 10.2-inch screen, similar in size to what we normally see on tablets. It includes a pencil to take notes, its weight is 433 grams (you will have to use it with two hands) and its battery offers a autonomy of up to 12 weeks. The Kindle Scribe has a newer version released in 2024. It has also dropped in price to 344.99 euros (previously 479.99 euros), but the differences between both models, from 2022 and 2024, are so small that it is not worth betting on this eReader. The biggest difference is found in the pencil, which in the current generation is of better quality. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Amazon, Pocketbook In Xataka | Which Kindle to buy: buying guide with recommendations to get it right with Amazon e-book readers In Xataka | The 25 best science fiction books

then he returned them

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There are companies that make money selling clothes. And then there is Inditex, which also has a turnover of millions of euros building nursing homes for its own founder. Zara’s parent company earned an additional 49 million euros thanks to the orders that Amancio Ortega placed with Goa Invest, the group’s construction subsidiary, according to the annual report of the group deposited with the CNMV. As and as highlighted Vozpopuliwhat is striking is not so much the amount of the figure as the path that this money takes in the financial framework of the company: it leaves Ortega’s pockets, enters the coffers of Inditex and, for the most part, returns exactly to the starting point in the form of dividends. The numbers of the works. Inditex’s annual report reflects that the textile parent company charged 49 million euros to “Pontegadea Inversiones, Partler Participaciones, Partler 2006, or related entities or persons.” In other words, the charge was made to Amancio Ortega’s real estate holding company and other companies in his family business network for the concept of “provision of construction services.” This figure represents an increase of seven million more than what Ortega’s companies paid last year to Inditex, and 9 more than what they paid in 2023. In addition, Ortega paid another two million to Inditex for “other concepts.” Despite being a real estate company, Pontegadea hates doing constructionso the bulk of that bill corresponds to the work that Goa Invest, a subsidiary construction company of Inditex, is carrying out to build and launch seven comprehensive care centers for older people in Galiciaa project promoted entirely by the Amancio Ortega Foundation. The seven centers are part of a commitment by the founder of Inditex to reduce unwanted loneliness and isolation among the elderly, of whom five have been delivered. Amancio Ortega, Zara’s landlord. However, the amount paid to Inditex for these concepts has a very specific destination: pay rent. Inditex allocated those same 49 million euros (three million more than the previous year) to pay rent for the commercial premises where the stores of the group’s different brands are located, whose ownership is in the hands of Pontegadea Inversiones and Partler, the two companies that, between them, retain more than 59% of the capital of Inditex as representatives of Amancio Ortega. To that sum should be added the million euros paid to Rosp Corunna, the property company of Sandra Ortega, eldest daughter of Amancio Ortega and owner of 5% of the group, also for the rental of premises to Inditex brands. However, if the analysis is extended to all the group’s accounts, it is found that those 49 million paid to Pontegadea is like a drop in an ocean, since they barely represent 4.5% of the total allocated to leases, which as a whole amounts to 1,085 million euros annual. Residences for the elderly, a 90 million project. The construction project for senior centers started in 2019when the Xunta de Galicia and Flora Pérez Marcote, wife of Amancio Ortega and vice president of his foundation at that time, reached a collaboration agreement with an initial budget of 90 million euros, but the planned investment has been expanded to 180 million euros. The seven facilities will be distributed among the main Galician cities and, once in operation, they will be integrated into the Xunta’s public elderly care network. At the same time, the Amancio Ortega Foundation promotes another initiative to combat loneliness among the elderly: the installation of Amazon speakers with Alexa and integrated artificial intelligence in residences and private homes. The program, named Network Voicesaccompanies 26,000 elderly people daily and had an initial budget of 15 million euros assumed entirely by the foundation. A modest figure for Inditex. To understand the real magnitude of all these movements among the companies in the family business ecosystem around Amancio Ortega, it is convenient to place them against the results of the company as a whole. Inditex registered a historical net profit of 6,220 million euros in its last fiscal year, which represents an increase of 6% compared to the previous year and exceeds the barrier of 6,000 million euros for the first time. Compared to that scale, the 49 million in rents that Pontegadea receives are, in relative terms, a modest figure within the financial machinery of the most powerful group in world fashion. Money changes pockets, yes, but without leaving the family perimeter. In Xataka | Amancio Ortega: the billionaire who lives like a neighbor (except for private jets and superyachts) Image | Wikimedia Commons (Nemigo), GTRES

Artemis II takes off successfully and humanity returns to the Moon after more than 50 years

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Artemis II It has taken off successfully and we are not facing just any launch. What we have seen marks the return of beings humans heading to the Moon more than half a century after the last missions of the Apollo program, a milestone that for decades seemed reserved for the history books. This time, furthermore, it is not just about returning, but about taking a crew further from Earth than any human being has gone in more than half a century, in a mission designed to validate NASA’s deep exploration system in real conditions. To understand the dimension of this takeoff, it is worth stopping for a moment at what exactly Artemis II is. The mission represents the first crewed flight of NASA’s new exploration system, which combines the Orion spacecraft, the SLS rocket and the Kennedy Space Center’s ground systems. For approximately ten days, the astronauts will evaluate the behavior of the ship in real deep space conditions, something that until now had only been tested without people on board. NASA itself raises it as an essential step to pave the way for future missions designed to return to the lunar surface. The journey that returns humans to the lunar environment Before reaching this moment, what we have had has been a countdown with some tension. In the hours before, the teams had to review an anomaly in a temperature sensor of a battery of the abort system, which NASA attributed to an instrumentation problem and which, according to the agency, would not affect the launch. Added to this was another incident in the flight termination system, the safety mechanism that allows the rocket to be destroyed if it deviates from its trajectory and poses a threat, a problem that placed the mission in “no go.” Both setbacks were left behind before takeoff and are now part of the background of a day that finally went ahead. The planned flight path of Artemis II Over the next few days, what we will see will be a relatively short, but very demanding mission. After launch, the spacecraft will first enter a high orbit around the Earth for about 24 hours to check that all systems are working correctly, before beginning the journey to the Moon. From there, the crew will perform various maneuvers, including a manual control test and approach to the upper stage of the SLS, to validate Orion’s behavior in real situations. The plan is to circle the Moon and return without setting foot on our satelliteon a journey of about ten days designed to rehearse each key phase of the trip. The crew of Artemis II If you look at the crew, What we find is a very measured mix of experience and symbolism. Reid Wiseman is the mission commander, accompanied by Victor Glover as pilot and Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen as mission specialists, four profiles who have already experienced space first-hand. Together they have accumulated 660 days in orbit and 12 spacewalks, which fits with a mission in which every decision counts. Added to that is something that also weighs: Koch will be the first woman to travel to the Moon and Hansen the first non-American to do so, opening a new stage in who is part of these trips. There is a detail that touches us a little more closely and that we should not lose sight of. Part of this mission also passes through Spainspecifically by Tres Cantos, in Madrid, where Airbus Crisa has designed, manufactured and validated the Thermal Control Unit of the European Service Moduleintegrated into Orion. This system is responsible for supplying air and water to the crew and maintaining the temperature within appropriate levels for both the astronauts and the equipment. It is a discreet piece within the whole, but without it it would not be possible to sustain a mission like this in safe conditions. In development. Images | POT In Xataka | The Artemis II astronauts will carry out experiments in what will be their own study models

Memory prices have started to fall in some markets. There is still a long way to go to close the AI ​​crisis

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There is a scene that repeats itself every time the market gives a truce, even if it is minimal: it is enough for the price of a key component to begin to fall for the feeling that the worst is over. This is exactly what is happening now with DDR5 memory. In recent weeks falls have been recorded in the retail channel of several markets, and that has reactivated an inevitable question among those who have been following the evolution of prices for months: whether we are facing the beginning of the end of the memory crisis or simply a one-time adjustment. An extended pressure. To understand what we are seeing now, it is advisable to broaden the focus and look at the recent path of the market. The rise in memory prices It has not only hit the user who wants to update their equipment, but also manufacturers, distributors and assemblers, in a context marked by supply and demand tensions that have been conditioning purchases and strategies for months. Therefore, we are facing a pressure scenario that has ended up affecting a good part of the hardware market. Where and how much prices are falling. Beyond perception, what there is right now is a measurable change in some shop windows. TrendForce aims to clear declines in the retail channel in several regions. In Europe, the German market recorded a monthly drop of 7.2% in March 2026, while in the United States there have been discounts of more than 20% on specific 32 GB DDR5 kits. The most striking case is China, where 16 GB modules have fallen between 25% and 30% from the peaks at the beginning of the year. A correction. Behind this adjustment there is a much more earthly explanation than it might seem. According to the analysis firm and the industry sources it cites, the main factor is less traction in consumption after months of high prices, which has led many buyers to delay decisions and distributors to accelerate the release of inventory. Added to this is a common lag between the spot market and contracts, which can take between one and two months to translate into actual shipments. The noise around TurboQuant. In parallel with this correction, an element has appeared that has fueled the debate in the market. TurboQuanta compression algorithm from Google, has been interpreted in some recent coverage as a sign that the pressure on RAM could relax. However, the most prudent readings They point in another direction, pointing out that this is an incremental improvement and not a change capable of alone altering structural demand, especially in memory for servers and loads linked to artificial intelligence, which remains high. End of the crisis? All this fits into an idea that the sector itself repeats quite clearly. From Taiwan-based memory manufacturers, contract prices have remained stable despite volatility in the retail channel, and demand in segments such as servers, DRAM and HBM remains strong, partly supported by multi-year agreements with large customers. In this context, the current correction is interpreted as a specific adjustment, not as a sufficient turnaround to consider the current episode of tension resolved. Caution and more caution. What we are seeing in some markets is a temporary relief for the consumer, yes, but everything indicates that it is a correction within a cycle still stressed by underlying factors that have not disappeared. The most optimistic forecasts speak of a progressive normalization towards the end of 2026 in some segments, while others place it even further. With this scenario, ending the memory crisis would be getting ahead of events that, for now, are still far from being confirmed. Images | Andrey Matveev In Xataka | AI urgently needs memory, so Samsung and SK are going to inject $1 billion into China

from virtual astronauts to saliva on pieces of paper

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Conducting experiments in space is complicated. There are not many resources, much less study subjects. Therefore, sometimes these must be the experimenters themselves. This is precisely what the crew of Artemis II will have to do in the next 10 days. if everything goes well. One of its missions will be to carry out experiments on how the conditions of outer space affect human health. And they will prove it on themselves. Background. It is well known that stays in space, no matter how short, can affect human health. Just look at the recent example of the astronaut who lost his speech on the International Space Station (ISS). for reasons still unknown. For this reason, a good part of the experiments carried out in these facilities are aimed at exactly that: analyzing how issues such as microgravity, isolation or cosmic radiation affect human health. Interesting discoveries have been made, but the reality is that carrying out experiments in low Earth orbit, where the ISS is located, is not the same as on the Moon. A mission to protect them all. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen They will have several missions in their 10 days of travel. To begin with, they will have to test the proper functioning of the ship and its viability for the lunar landing that will take place on Artemis III. They will also take photographs of the far side of the Moon and other measurements of scientific interest. And, finally, they will serve as study subjects in a series of experiments on the effects of space on human health. This time yes: further from low Earth orbit. space dream. The first study that they will carry out in this sense will be ARCHeRa set of experiments aimed at analyzing how space affects factors such as sleep, stress, cognition and teamwork. To monitor it, they will wear activity bracelets, whose measurements will be added to those taken on Earth both before and after the mission. The combination of all this information will be very useful to understand how the isolation and stress of a mission like this affect the astronauts’ minds. Immune health. On the International Space Station it has been proven that some viruses, such as varicella zoster, are more likely to come out of latency. These are viruses that the immune system is not able to completely eliminate, but rather remain latent in the body. In the case of varicella zoster, for example, they stay on their nervesimmersed in a kind of lethargy from which they may never emerge. If they do, it is usually due to a lowering of their defenses. Therefore, it is believed that space could affect the immune system. To check this, Artemis II crew members will take samples of wet saliva and blood before and after their trip. They will also take dried saliva samples during the duration of the mission.. Astronaut depositing dry saliva sample Dry saliva is obtained by depositing the sample on sheets of paper specifically for this purpose. Not just any role is worth it. It is the best way to store saliva samples in space, where they cannot be refrigerated normally. Once all samples are analyzed, the goal will be to study immune biomarker levels for possible declines caused by space. Virtual astronauts to examine radiation. It is also important to check how radiation affects the health of astronauts. On trips like this, they will not leave the ship, which has adequate shields so that the radiation does not cause them damage. However, in future moon landings, especially if lunar bases are established, that feared exposure to radiation could occur. To study what the effects would be and design effective protection systems, AVATAR has been launchedan experiment that consists of manufacturing a virtual astronaut for each of the crew members. Artificial bone marrow All of them have provided samples of cells from their bone marrow that have been grown on a chip the size of a USB memory stick. Thus, a small artificial bone marrow has been obtained with the characteristics of each of them. These will be exposed to radiation while the astronauts remain safe. Because it is a part of the body with many dividing cells, it is especially susceptible to radiation. Therefore, you can see much better what the effects would be. In addition, they can be compared with cell samples taken from the astronauts themselves once they return from the mission. Measures for the future. All these experiments will serve to better protect astronauts who travel to the Moon in the future. For example, measures could be sought to address sleep problems or suits that better protect against radiation. In addition, thanks to the AVATAR system, the chips could be sent before the astronauts go to space. Thus, the specific effects on their health would be checked and appropriate first aid kits would be designed for each of them. All this will be possible thanks to the fact that Wiseman, Glover, Koch and Hansen will simultaneously act as scientists and study models. Images | NASA | Emulate | freepik In Xataka | Artemis II will take NASA to the Moon half a century later. He will do it with the help of the University of Seville

Microsoft’s problem is not having lost a quarter of its value in three months. It’s just that he’s been wrong for a long time.

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It seems like not so long ago when many celebrated Microsoft’s commitment to Azure. The decision of Satya Nadella Focusing on cloud computing soon began to translate into good financial results, propelling the Redmond company to achieve record revenue figures. But there was something more relevant in that movement: the realization that it could generate enormous benefits beyond Windows. That strategy, started in 2014ended up marking a before and after that became especially visible in 2019, when the firm reached for the first time a market capitalization of one trillion dollars. However, not even the most long-term oriented strategists, like Nadella, are free from errors. Microsoft has been chaining questionable decisions for some time that have ended up having a direct impact on its quarterly results. Specifically, the company has lost almost a quarter of its value in just three months. To put it in context, we are talking about its largest quarterly drop since the 2008 financial crisis. A decline of this magnitude, logically, does not go unnoticed. From cloud leadership to a strategy under pressure If we want to understand why the story has gone wrong, we have to start with the most obvious: the market has reacted harshly and, above all, selectively. In the first quarter of 2026, Microsoft lost about 23% of its stock market value, according to CNBCwhile the Nasdaq lost around 7%. It is not a minor movement, among other things because we are talking about a drop of a magnitude that has not been seen in almost two decades. This gap compared to the rest of the sector begins to point out problems that go beyond the general context. For a time, the commitment to OpenAI was seen as one of Microsoft’s great strategic successes, and it is not difficult to understand why. The company has invested around 13 billion dollarss to integrate this technology into Azure and into products like Copilot, which allowed it to place itself in a very advantageous position in the race of the artificial intelligence. However, with the passage of time we have also begun to see the other side of that decision: a very high technological dependence and a growing pressure to justify that deployment. As the months have passed, that close relationship has also quietly begun to change. Although Azure remains a key partner for OpenAI, the company led by Sam Altman has started to open your infrastructure to other actors to sustain the growth of its models, which increasingly require more computing capacity and energy. This does not break the alliance, but it does change its meaning, because Microsoft no longer concentrates with the same clarity all the strategic advantage that it had achieved in the first phases of the agreement. If we go down to the field of the product, where all these bets should materialize, the case of Copilot is especially illustrative. Microsoft has tried to make this assistant the axis of its new value propositionintegrating it into Microsoft 365 and a good part of its ecosystem, but the adoption It is not going at the expected pace. According to The Information, almost no one uses Copilot. What we have seen is that bringing artificial intelligence to the daily life of companies is more complex than it seemed on paper. Added to all this is a tension that is not always seen, but is very present in the backroom of this race: that of how to distribute resources in an environment of growing demand. Microsoft is investing massively in infrastructure to sustain the rise of AI, but at the same time it has to decide how it allocates that capacity between Azure and its own services. In January, CFO Amy Hood came to point out that Azure’s growth in the December quarter would have been even greater if the company had allocated more chips to the cloud instead of distributing some of that capacity among services like Copilot. Attrition is not limited to artificial intelligence, and that should also be taken into account. Also this year we have seen notable drops in income and in various areas of the Xbox ecosystemin a context also marked by previous price increases in Game Pass and on the consoles. It may seem like a minor front next to Azure or Microsoft 365, but it helps complete the picture of a company that has been opening too many flanks at the same time. What we have seen is that even in areas where it had a consolidated position, Microsoft is finding it more difficult to keep pace. Put all these pieces together, and what begins to emerge is an increasingly evident disconnect between Microsoft’s operational strength and the way the market is valuing its strategy. The company remains the fourth most valuable on the planetcontinues to grow, with revenue up close to 17% year-on-year in its last reported quarter and with Azure advancing 39% in the December quarter, but that strength is not translating to its price or valuation. Images | Xataka with Nano Banana 2 In Xataka | The ghost of IBM: Satya Nadella’s great challenge is to prevent Microsoft from becoming a technological fossil

The pink Moon is here and again there are fake photos everywhere

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Like every April, this week the pink Moon will shine in the sky, one of the moons with the best press of the entire year. These days, the media is filled with news crowned with photos in which we see a beautiful pink moon. The problem is that if we go out to look at the sky we will not be able to find it; since, basically, it does not exist. The confusion. With exceptions, every month has only one full moon. Astronomically speaking, these have no name. However, Sometimes they do receive names from popular culture. In fact, there are many full moons that are named after Native American tradition. They gave names to the moons taking into account natural phenomena that took place in that month. In the case of the Pink Moon, it coincides with the flowering of pink phlox. The fields were dyed pink, hence the name. This year the Moon began to be seen on the night of March 31 and will remain in the sky until April 2. Afterwards, it will begin to decrease. Either way, don’t expect any color change. nothing special. There are some moons named after colors that do have something special from an astronomical point of view. For example, blue moons They refer to the second full moon of the few months that exceptionally have two moons in this phase. It is something that normally happens every 2.4 years, although there are exceptions. For example, In 2018 there were two blue moons in one year just two months apart. Moons that are colored. It is normal to see the Moon in its characteristic grayish-pearlish color. However, sometimes, depending on how the light is dispersed around it, we can see it with yellow or orange tones. This depends a lot on the time of year. For example, the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox In the northern hemisphere it can appear more orange because it rises at a narrower angle to the horizon. The amount of particles suspended in the air also influences. And, of course, if a lunar eclipse occurs, we can see the moon in a more reddish tone. The famous blood moon. Other named moons. The Pink Moon itself has many more names, depending on the culture that names it. For example, the Celts knew it as the Moon of New Buds, also because of its relationship with the beginning of spring. On the other hand, in Anglo-Saxon culture it is known as the Egg Moon, because it happens at Easter time, when everything is decorated with the famous colored eggs. In short, there are many names for the same Moon, whose color may depend a little on the place from which you look at it, but always without leaving the usual tones. Image | BiaAurelio (Wikimedia Commons) In Xataka | Light pollution is a growing problem. So researchers have put it on a map

convert your M-30 to cycle and walk

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He Boulevard Periphérique It is a sort of Parisian M-30. The French city has, like Madrid, a ring road with a length of 35 kilometers. It was designed in 1958 to unclog traffic in the city center with a clear objective: it was faster to go around the city center at a sustained speed than to pass through the center of it. Both projects have grown with parallel lives. The Parisian highway was not completed until well into the 1970s and Madrid began construction of its own in that same decade. But, over time, they have experienced the same problems. Quickly, the highway was absorbed by the city itselfcreating a kind of urban highway. This has caused a series of issues. The first is pollution, both from vehicle emissions and the noise generated. But also social problems with architectural walls that make pedestrian or bicycle passage difficult and that break the internal cohesion of the city. Madrid has solved part of this problem with Madrid Ríoburying a part of it and, now, covering the Sales step. In Paris they have encountered a similar situation. The Boulevard Périphéric was built on the remains of the old Thiers wall, a defensive fortification completed in 1844 that at the beginning of the 20th century was totally useless and made it difficult for those who lived outside the wall to enter the city. What they didn’t imagine is that They were about to create a new wall. The city has been debating for years what to do with this bypass. Measures have already been taken to try to reduce traffic. The latest proposal involves converting it into a real boulevard, with its trees, its pedestrian crossings and its bike lanes. A new mayor’s office, an old project During Anne Hidalgo’s mayoralty, the city has taken various measures to reduce traffic in the city center, calm the passage of vehicles and penalize those who reach the heart of Paris by car. Thus, a project has been implemented to multiply the number of bike lanes, reduce the trips that pass through the interior of the city and punish those who arrive with an SUV to the Eiffel Tower itself. Hidalgo has taken over from Emmanuel Grégoire, who has managed to maintain control of the city in the hands of the socialists. And now a new melon opens: What to do with the Parisian M-30? Under Hidalgo’s mandate, the highway had already taken the first steps toward becoming a true boulevard. So, speed has been reduced to 50 km/h but the traffic jam is so serious that most drivers said they couldn’t notice the difference. But the intention of the new Government is to go further. The new mayor has not hidden At no time does he want to go deeper into the path designed by Hidalgo, reducing the volume of vehicles circulating through the city. And, above all, converting the current ring road into an urban boulevard. That is: transform the road into a road limited to 30 km/h, create a bicycle lane that runs along the entire length and leave space for pedestrians. It is a project for which Parisian environmental parties are also betting which, in addition, support the creation of traffic-signalized zebra crossings, instead of raising pedestrian crossings with bridges. This “changes everything because the road is a circular highway, and from the moment it is broken (the traffic lights are installed), it is no longer the same model,” their representatives point out. Reconverting the image of Boulevard Périphéric is an old ambition of the environmentalist and socialist parties since they have been talking for more than a decade about the chaotic traffic that is experienced every day in Paris but also about the social gap that exists between those who live inside and outside it. Already in 2015, Guardian dedicated an article to the problems generated by this urban highway. The intention of the new Government team is to have the project completed before the end of its mandate. That is to say, in the first years of the next decade, Paris has changed the morphology of this space completely. However, since The Figaro They warn that bureaucracy can play against them and that everything would get stuck if the police force issues an unfavorable opinion on the measure. Photo | Romain DC on Wikimedia and Johan Mouchet In Xataka | The cities with the worst rush hour in the world, explained in these graphs

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