Month: May 2025

Bilbao has been filled with English fans by the Europa League final. And is being shattered accordingly

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The football party that is lived these days in Bilbao, where Tottenham and Manchester United will play this afternoon The Europa League UEFA Finalhas come accompanied by something more than sport, emotion and healthy rivalry. Although It is not the dominant tonic Among the thousands of fans who have arrived from the United Kingdom to enjoy the game, some Hooligans have left vandalism scenes, fights and chaos, which has forced Ertzaintza to mobilize. It has happened In Bilbaobut also in other more or less close locations, such as San Sebastián or even Santander. It is face B (much less friendly) of the grand final. Bilbao, capital of British football. Between Bilbao and London there are approximately one thousand kilometers in a straight line and yet the Basque city is today the great capital of British (but European). The San Mamés state will host this afternoon, from nine, The Europa League UEFA Final that will play Tottenham and Manchester United. It is an planned appointment (the protagonists were missing, of course) from July 2021when UEFA announced that it would compensate Bilbao for the withdrawal of rights of The Eurocup 2020 (marked by the pandemic) with the final of the European competition of 2025. Four years later the date has arrived. And with her, as expected, a massive landing of fans of the two teams that will be measured on the grass to lift the cup: Manchester and Tottenham. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Soccer and something else. It has rarely been so easy to hear conversations in English through the streets of Bilbao. Only in San Mamés it is calculated that there will be 49,600 spectators (At least 15,000 followers of each team, another 11,000 neutral and 8,600 distributed by UEFA), although some estimates point out that the landing of British fans who have arrived in the Basque Country these days is much higher. How much? There is who speaks of 50,000 people, who raises that figure above 55,000 and who even slides that the number of mobilized followers could around 80,000. Most of them have been dedicated in recent hours to enjoy quietly from Bilbao or even cities like San Sebastián and Vitoria-Gasteizwhere they stay to avoid the very high prices that hotels have reached in the Biscayan capital. Among British fans there is also another less peaceful profile: hooligans who have dedicated themselves to Slop urban furniture and terraces, Built neighbors either be punching and kickingwhich has even forced to mobilize Ertzaintza. What exactly has happened? Arrives with a look at Instagram, Facebook either X To check it. For hours on the networks you can see videos and images of English Hooligans leaving chaos and vandalism scenes. In Bilbao a group of fans concentrated in the area of ​​Mr. Poza on Tuesday to destroy two traffic lights between songs. And it was not the only controversial scene. The fans also climbed a scaffold to approach the balcony of a house in the historic center. To scare the Hooligans, the owner, visibly altered, had to go out with a cane. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Incidents in San Sebastián and Santander. In the old part of Donostia they also lived Moments of tension Yesterday night, when different groups of fans began to rebuild each other. The result was a massive fight with punches, people on the floor and garbage cubes overturned during which glasses and tables flew. The Basque newspaper Precise that the situation calmed down after Ertzaintza appeared in the area. The regional press even Informs fights Among British fans in Santander bars. A final with hangover. It is not the first time that incidents occur like this during a great soccer final, both in Spain and abroad. Just a month ago there was clashes Between Ultras of FC Barcelona and Real Madrid before the final of the Copa del Rey held in Seville and just a year ago, on the eve of the Europa League final 2023/2024 played in Dublin between the Atalanta of Italy and the Bayer Leverkusen, the Irish authorities deployed an important Security device. Another scene that has occurred in recent days in Bilbao (and other parts of the Basque Country) and is not new is the prices of accommodation fired by an international sports event. Last week the Eitb.eus chain I pointed That flights from London had doubled their prices, reaching stratospheric levels, while hotels, hostels and apartments offered fifteen or twenty times above normal rates for these dates. “I’ll sleep on the street”. Although in part those prices of up to four figures are explained by the operation of the hotels and The operation Of the reserve websites, its impact among fans who have come to the Basque Country is clear. An amateur Chipriot He explained yesterday to The mail His experience: “I arrived last night and slept in a hotel. I paid 180 euros for the room, but today they asked a thousand. So today I sleep at another hotel: 315 euros the room. For tomorrow they asked for 700, so tomorrow … tomorrow I will sleep on the street.” Images | Tiktok and X In Xataka | In 2017, Liverpool signed a star footballer. Without knowing it, I had found the solution for racism in sport

The European motorcycle has it more difficult than ever

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KTM has dodged the bullet. Or, rather, it has made them extract before bleak. Of being One of the main manufacturers in Europe went on to face a critical financial situation and insurmountable without external help. Factory closures, stop in the production and commitment of a complete restructuring plan to get out of the hole. KTM has been rescued from bankruptcy, although its future is still in the air. Why is it important. KTM is One of the historical brands in the world of motorcycle. An Austrian with almost a hundred years of history, and a wide presence in the main best -selling segments in the world: trail and naked. It is one of the few companies with a presence in Moto GPand one of the few European survivors with BMW and Triumph. In a nutshell, losing KTM was losing a European giant. Where bankruptcy comes from. The KTM crisis It is mainly due to a simple reason: they sold a lot, but They did not earn enough money. It is a company that did not hesitate to make strong investments to grow in emerging markets, development for new models and participation in competitions such as GP. This ended up translating in motorcycles notably more expensive about its competition. A snowball that resulted in a global reduction in the demand for their motorcycles, overproduction problems (they failed to sell everything they made) and a debt of more than 2,000 million euros. Safe. As they collect in Motorpasionthe Austrian company has confirmed obtaining the necessary financing to carry out its restructuring plan. “Piere Mobility Ag and KTM AG have received financing commitments, subject to the execution of the corresponding agreements, which They will guarantee that the fees of the quotas can be fulfilled on time. “ An oxygen ball in the form of 600 million euros that KTM had to deposit to avoid bankruptcy. It is news that It was ahead in February 2025after This plan is approved and be waiting for the deposit. The person in charge. Although KTM has not directly expressed who is responsible for this economic injection, all eyes are in Bajaj Auto. This Indian giant has 49.9% Piere Bajaj Ag (KTM matrix), and has been injecting millions for more than two years to keep its production line afloat. Bajaj is also interested in keeping KTM alive. The group is in full expansion in Europe with their own bass motorcycles, and rescuing KTM is a good plan to stay in a privilege position within the motorcycle world. What happens now. KTM is obliged to meet a restructuring plan. What we still do not know is how they plan to reverse this situation to be a competitive brand again. Adjusting the production to the sales forecast, reviewing the price strategy and focusing on low -cost models aim to be three of the pillars that, or not, will have to start cementing. Although KTM will continue producing flagship models In Austria, India will be the country of choice for its motorcycles of 125 and 390, at the hands of Bajaj Auto. The European motorcycle, more and more exception. There are currently only three European brands in the best -selling top 10 motorcycles in April 2025. The first is BMW, which occupies the seventh position. In positions ten -nine, Rieju (Spanish) and Piaggio (Italian). At the head, the historical Japanese Honda and Yamaha (have been unquestionable leaders in each category for years) … followed by The Chinese, Zontes and Voge. The paradigm shift is clear: China will inevitably conquer the motorcycle market, where the adjusted price has not yet been lost. India keep pressing. Although the looks are put in China, India has a lot to do in the future of the motorcycle industry in Europe. Bajaj Auto is not only behind KTM, it also produces motorcycles for one of the most prestigious brands in Europe: Triumph. Speed ​​400 and Scrambler 400x are produced in India, in Bajaj plants. Royal Enfield, who despite his name, has been India for years, has tripled sales in 2024with a very aggressive strategy of prices and balanced models in the middle displacement segments. Two names and two examples of how the future of the European motorcycle happens, less and less, through Europe. Image | KTM In Xataka | In his obsession to end the noisy motorcycles, the EU has just knew the coup of grace

The University of Oxford has found reservations of an energy source for 170,000 years. And he has the recipe to exploit them

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In a world that seeks to leave behind fossil fuelsthere is a gas that has begun to be outlined as the promise of A clean future. Its potential as an inexhaustible source of Green energy It has aroused both enthusiasm and frustration: producing it without contaminating is still expensive and technologically complex. However, a group of scientists could have found the key to hydrogen under our feet, from the very depths of the earth. Clean gold underground. We have told it On other occasions. Hydrogen has been long promoted as a key piece in the transition to a future without emissions, but also as an essential resource for modern life: in addition to being a clean fuel, it is indispensable for produce fertilizers that support half of the world’s population. The problem? That 99% that is used today It comes from hydrocarbonswhich represents around 2.4% of global carbon dioxide emissions. With a projected demand of 90 million metric tons in 2022 to some 540 million in 2050the challenge is monumental. Until now, cleanest solutions (Like electrolysis with renewable energies or carbon capture) have failed to be economically competitive. Here appears the new Oxford study Posted in Nature: The earth could have solved the problem for us millions of years ago. An unexplored reservoir. In this way, Oxford researchers together with professors at the University of Durham and Toronto have revealed that the continental cortex of the Earth has generated, throughout the last geological millennium, sufficient hydrogen amounts to supply the energy needs of humanity For at least 170,000 years. This immense reserve, natural and emission free, remains largely trapped undergroundintact. Although until now the measurements were sporadic and scattered, the New job It offers for the first time a coherent framework, a “map” if you want, to locate these reservoirs: a “Exploration recipe” (They call it) that details the types of rock, temperatures, fluids and geological conditions necessary for hydrogen to form, migrate and be trapped in exploitable deposits. The approach is not theoretical: it is designed to guide the commercial search for natural hydrogen globally, with the potential to radically transform existing energy models. Ingredients, processes and threats. Such as Professor Chris Ballentine explained in a statementleader of the study at the University of Oxford, finding hydrogen in the earth’s crust is like baking a sufflé: if one fails in any component (quantity, temperature, time or type of rock), the result will be useless. The study Identify the factors that allow a geological hydrogen system to be viable: from the chemical reactions that generate it, to conditions that destroy itlike the presence of certain underground microorganisms that feed on it. This biological threat, indicated by the co -author Barbara Sherwood Lolar, forces to avoid areas where underground bacteria can consume hydrogen before it can accumulate in usable concentrations. Ubiquitous, diverse and list source. There is much more, since The work It also disassembles previous myths on the origin of hydrogen, discarding as unfeasible the sources from the mantle terrestrial and focusing attention on common formations of the continental cortex. These can be both recent (of some millions of years) as an eldest, and are distributed globallywhich greatly expands the geographical exploration potential. Plus: the crucial, They sayIt is not to find a specific type of rock, but to understand the interaction between the chemical, thermal and historical conditions that favor the generation and storage of gas. From theory to action. Aware of the strategic value of their findings, the authors have founded the Snowfox Discovery Ltd.a company dedicated to locating natural hydrogen reserves with social impact. Its objective is clear: to find competitive, clean and sustainable sources of hydrogen, capable of replacing highly polluting current production and feeding the global energy transition without the need for expensive industrial processes. Yes Geological recipe Developed by these researchers, it can be repeatedly repeated in different regions of the planet, we would be facing the closest to an energy revolution … underground. One that does not require new futuristic technologies or dreams of merger, but simply learn to hear THE SECRETS THAT THE EARTH He has been whispening For hundreds of millions of years. Image | Rita Willaert In Xataka | Green hydrogen consumes huge amounts of water. A new incredibly simple invention allows you to use seawater In Xataka | The doors of green hydrogen from Spain have found its starting point: the Basque Country

What are the novelties of the new Google artificial intelligence models capable of thinking and speaking

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Let’s tell you What are Gemini’s novelties 2.5the new version of the family of Google artificial intelligence models. This model comes with two different flavors, Gemini 2.5 Pro with all functions and Gemini 2.5 Flash, a lighter version. In this new launch they stand out above all Your “thought” mode and your ability to speak generating audio natively from their answers. But we will explain all this next. As always, these two versions are available for all users, both free and payment. However, payment will have the possibility of using versions without limitations, and interacting with them for a longer time instead of having limited interactions such as free users. GEMINI 2.5 NEWS The main novelty of Gemini 2.5 is its advanced “thought” capacity. With her, before sending you the answer she is generating again, as if she are thinking, and analyzes the data better so that it is as successful as possible. This increases the time it takes to respond, but reduces errors. Here are differences depending on the model. The Gemini 2.5 flash model simply incorporates An internal reasoning process Before generating the answer. In addition, both the Flash and PRO version allow you to access a summary of the internal reasoning process that has been carried out. Gemini 2.5 Pro instead has a deeper reasoning capacity called Deep Thinkwhich allows you to address more complex problems more precisely, especially when creating code or with mathematical and logical problems. A native audio output is also added, allowing you to imitate Google Assistant being able to respond in voice. This is available in Pro and Flash versions, offering a more natural conversation experiencesince you can answer you with your voice. You can also adjust the accent or tone, such as asking for a dramatic voice when I tell you a story. With this movement, we can see that Gemini’s future seems to be to replace Google Assistantsince the new capabilities that you have obtained point to better interactions with users. Another novelty is to be able to practice a more affective dialogue, which means that You can detect emotions in your voiceand thus adjust your answers to this context in a more natural way. In addition, you can also ignore background conversations when you talk to AI to know that you should only answer you. As usual with the launch of a new artificial intelligence model, the context window has also been expanded to be able to analyze very extensive documents, complete code repositories or very long conversations. And security has also been significantly improved, to avoid injecting indirect instructions. In Xataka Basics | Gemini Advance functions that become free in March 2025

The Chinese government praises the 3 Nm Xiaomi chip as a milestone on the road to self -sufficiency. The problem is that China does not manufacture it

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The Soc Xring O1 is objectively A milestone in the history of Xiaomi. And it is because it opens a par for this Chinese company that until now had remained closed. This chip It has been designed by Xiaomi itselfand the first device we will run into it will be The 15S Pro smartphone which will presumably be presented by this company at the event that will celebrate tomorrow. During the last days this SOC is caughting a lot of attention because the first performance tests that have seen the light reflect that their power will be only slightly lower than that of the Snapdragon 8 Elite of Qualcomm. It sounds very good, but this chip above all has a characteristic that we cannot ignore: it is manufactured using the integration technology of 3 Nm. China considers it a victory, but it is objectively a half victory South China Morning Post (SCMP), which is a Chinese media that belongs to Emporio Alibaba, has confirmed that the central television of China (CCTV) and the newspaper ‘Diario del Pueblo’, both closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party (PCCH), have praised the effort that Xiaomi has made during the development of the Soc Xring O1. In fact, this company has invested approximately 1.9 billion dollars in the tuning of this chip. Xiaomi has invested approximately 1.9 billion dollars in the tuning of this chip According to SCMP This semiconductor marks a milestone in China’s campaign towards technological self -sufficiency amid the export controls of the strictest advanced semiconductors in the United States. But This statement requires many nuances. In fact, it is reasonable to consider it a half truth. As I mentioned a few lines above the competitiveness of the socx xring O1 does not only reside in the design of its microarchitecture; also clearly plays in his favor the fact that he is manufactured in The 3 Nm node of TSMC. This Taiwanese integrated circuit manufacturer, The Major on the Planetcan produce chips for Xiaomi because this last company is not included in the “blacklist” of the US. However, it is evident that the integration technology used to manufacture this SOC does not belong to Xiaomi. It belongs to TSMC. And if the US Department of Commerce decides tomorrow to introduce Xiaomi into its list of vetoed entities will cease to access the Lithographic Vanguard nodes of TSMC. If this semiconductor had been manufactured by SMIC or another Chinese manufacturer of integrated circuits using a 3 Nm lithography the success of Xiaomi, and, as a consequence, of China, would be irrefutable. But for the moment there is no chips manufacturer in the country led by Xi Jinping that has the necessary technology for produce this type of avant -garde semiconductors. China will acquire this capacity in the medium termthere is no doubt about that, but the statement that argues that the soci -soup o1 “marks a milestone in China’s campaign towards technological self -sufficiency” is nothing more than a message from marketing sponsored by Chinese authorities In full confrontation with his American counterpart. Image | Xataka More information | SCMP In Xataka | China is about to have the ability to make 5 Nm chips, although it faces a difficult solution problem

The problems of nuclear fusion are falling behind each other. Optimism cornering denialism

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The challenges raised by the nuclear fusion intimidate. And it is to replicate on our planet and small scale the same reactions that take place in The interior of the stars It is a titanic challenge. Even so, The human being has already traveled A very important part of this path. There is a belief that defends that in the field of nuclear fusion we have barely advanced since World War II, but, as we will see in this article, it is not so. There is much to do, but we have advanced a lot. In order for electric power plants equipped with fusion reactors to be viable, it is necessary to solve problems that are still dealing with engineers. And it is that the challenges posed by nuclear fusion right now reside in the field of engineering, and not in that of basic science. In fact, Spain will actively participate In the search for the solution to one of these problems thanks to IFMIF-DONES (International Fusion materials irradicion facility demo-eraned neutron source), The installation that is under construction (Granada). Its purpose in broad strokes will be to develop a source capable of producing high energy neutrons with the intensity and volume of irradiation necessary to test candidate materials to be used in future fusion energy plants. This is one of the pending challenges, but many others have already been left behind thanks to the great work that scientists have carried out in experimental reactors, such as the already “retiree” JET (Joint European Torus), which is housed in Oxford (England). Let’s trust the reactor JT-60SA of Naka (Japan), and, above all, ITER (International Thermonuclear Experctor reactor), are up to expectations. Eurofusion and the University of Texas have made two new relevant contributions We can imagine in an intuitive way a nuclear fusion reactor as a pressure cooker in which two essential ingredients are cooked: deuterium and trity. To ensure that the nuclei of these two hydrogen isotopes merge and release the neutron that will ultimately allow us to obtain a large amount of energy it is necessary to confine them in an extremely hot plasma. In fact, so that this process takes place, a temperature of at least 150 million degrees Celsius must reach. Scientists know how to do it, so submitting the deuterium and tritium nuclei at the pressure and temperature to get me to merge is no longer a problem. What still represents a challenge is to achieve Keep turbulence under control. Otherwise, the plasma will be destabilized, its density in the critical regions will be affected and the support of the fusion reaction over time will not be possible. The mechanisms that govern this process are very complex, but little by little physicists and engineers who work in fusion energy are getting them better. The QCE (‘Quasi-Continuous exhaust’) regime is characterized by eliminating periodic instabilities that occur on the edge of plasma In broad strokes what they intend is to minimize turbulence so that the loss of plasma energy is minimal. Two of the tools that these technicians have are the artificial intelligence (AI), which is playing a very important role in understanding the mechanisms that govern plasma behavior, and Rebco superconductor magnets. In fact, The sparc fusion reactor that is building the American company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) uses them. Precisely Eurofusionthe European organization that is responsible for promoting and supporting the scientific research necessary to bring to fruition The European Nuclear Fusion Planhas recently made an important contribution in this field. And it has shown that in the reactors Tokamaklike Jet or Iter, it is possible to use an operation mode known as Qce (Quasi-counts exhaust) that is characterized by eliminating periodic instabilities that occur at the edge of plasma, and, at the same time, it supports high density in this region of gas and preserves a very high level of energy. Gradually the confinement and stabilization of plasma are no longer a problem. The other recent contribution in which I propose that we investigate it briefly has been carried out by a team of researchers from the University of Texas and the National Laboratory of Los Alamos, both in the US. In the article they have published in Physical Review Letters These scientists propose the creation of a magnetic confinement system without leaks ten times faster, according to their calculations, than the standard method without sacrificing a precision apex. This innovation is important because it helps to resolve the containment of high energy particles within the reactor, and, therefore, to avoid the loss of temperature and density in the critical regions of plasma. Yes, as I mentioned a few lines above, much remains to be done in the field of nuclear fusion, but definitely every day we are one step closer to commercial fusion energy. Image | Fusion for Energy More information | Eurofusion | Texas University In Xataka | Iter has faced one of the great challenges of nuclear fusion: prevent plasma from 150 million ºC to destroy the reactor

In 1999, a manga predicted that Japan would suffer a great cataclysm in 2025. And now there are tourists canceling their trips

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Samantha Tang is a yoga teacher, is 34 years old, resides in Hong Kong and is in love with Japan. So much so that since the Pandemia ended, he tries to visit the country once a year. Until recently, August was planned on the beaches of Wakayama80 km from Osaka. “I had,” in the past. Despite his passion for Japanese culture, Tang has recognized the CNN that he will postpone his plans for a peculiar reason: “Everyone talks about an earthquake.” Your case is not unique. Japan has found that a surprising number of tourists are canceling their trips to the country for fear of suffering a natural disaster. The most curious thing is not that “frightened” of tourists, but what has unleashed it. Behind psychosis is not the government, a seismological organism, a team of physicists and geologists or a revolution, but a manga comic. THE KEY: A 1999 comic. If Tang has rethink his next trip to Japan, just like others Assiduous and passionate travelers of Japanese culture is largely by a comic released a few years ago. To understand it you have to go back to 1999, when Ryo Tatsuki published ‘WATHI GA MITA MIRAI’ (‘The future I saw’), a manga in which the author talks about prophetic dreams. The work could pass without sorrow or glory through the libraries of the country if it were not because in it Tatsuki predicted a great disaster that would occur in March 2011, month and year in which Japan suffered A great earthquake With thousands of dead and injured. That coincidence gave a huge reputation to the comic. He began to talk about him on social networks, he commented on TV programs and his specimens were revalued. And why does it matter now? The work ended up becoming so famous that the Asta Shinsha publishing house signed Tatsuki to publish a new version, a “complete edition” that was launched in 2021 and ended up becoming a bombing. The company ensures that in total more than 960,000 copies. The book has also been published in Chino and has reached other points in Asia in which it has become popular, such as Thailand or Hong Kong. The point is that this new enlarged version includes a prediction that has shaken Japanese tourism and has put on guard not a few travelers in Asia, especially superstitious. 2025. The comic ensures that “the real disaster will arrive in July 2025” (an idea that includes on its own cover) and leaves Sound passages as the following: “I dreamed with a great disaster. The waters of the Pacific Ocean south of the Japanese archipelago will rise.” Such prophecy (of course) has no scientific support and the author herself has recognized in An interview with Mainichi Shimbun that people should act “taking into account the opinion of experts”; But that has not avoided that the influence of manga (and its prophecy) has spread. A manga … And something else. Although Tatsuki’s comic has played a decisive role is not the only thing that explains that the fear of a natural disaster has downed (and remote) apart from tourists who planned to travel to Japan this year. The ball has been enlarged after an alleged “psychic” Japanese predicted that an earthquake would hit Tokyo’s bay April 26 (something that obviously did not happen) and Qi Xian Yua Feng Shui teacher with some impact on Hongkonese TV, will advise people to stay away from Japan. If that is added the social networks speaker, the result that I commented Tang With the CNN: “Everyone talks a lot about an earthquake.” “It is better to avoid it. It will be very problematic if an earthquake occurs,” coincides Oscar Chu, another Hong Kong traveler, who usually visits the country of the rising sun several times a year but has decided to rethink his 2025 trip. Beyond the prophecies. Predictions and prophecies on the margin, the truth is that Japan is located in an area of ​​special seismic activity, the Fire belt Del Pacífico, already throughout the last decades, has suffered earthquakes such as the one that hit the Kanto region in September 1923, the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji, Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku (2008) or that of 2011, which caused damage mainly at the northern end of the country. At the beginning From this same year he suffered another in the southwest area, although with a rather lower intensity, of magnitude 6.9. Not long ago Japan issued Another alert and the government He has recognized that there is a high probability that an earthquake shakes the Nankai pit (located to the south of the country) throughout the next three decades. TO mid -April Even the Chinese embassy encouraged its travelers to take precautions. Reality, like They recognize the authorities Japanese, is that “with current knowledge it is difficult to predict an earthquake specifying date, time and place.” How has it affected tourism? Although it is difficult to anticipate the Ladies, the fear climate largely fed by the Tatsuki comic, it is being felt in the Japanese tourism sector. Especially in demand from other points in Asia, such as China, Thailand or Vietnam, important markets for the country. WWPKG travel agency, based in Hong Kong, He has assured to the CNN that the reservations to visit Japan during Holy Week fell to half. And forecasts for the coming months are not better. Greater Bay Airlines, an Hong Kong airline, He has chosen directly For reducing their services with the Japanese region of Sendai and the city of Tokushima, cutting both in a weekly frequency. The reason: a drop in demand between rumors of an upcoming disaster in Japan that add to the economic uncertainty generated by the tariff war initiated by the United States. A BOOM SECTOR. The big background question is how this suspicion will affect the growing tourism sector of Japan, which has been moving in historical figures and has even generated tensions in the busiest points, such as the surroundings of the Mount … Read more

founded two republics of which he was president

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At present, millionaires are focused on Your own space career for “save humanity“Of itself. In the nineteenth century, the millionaires concentrated all that impetus in conquering territories of third countries independently, using Your own private army and governing their colonies as former feudal lords. That was the case of William Walker, considered by many as “last great filibuster“, which acted as an independent mercenary that conquered territories in Mexico, Nicaragua. William Walker: The Central American dictator The story of William Walker is a story of ambition, power and the formation of Latin American identity. Born in Tennessee in 1824, Walker was the son of very influential entrepreneurs in local politics. He studied medicine, journalism and law. However, he abandoned these professions to become a filibuster, a kind of private mercenaries that encouraged revolutions not authorized by any country in order to take the territories and their resources. To understand the context of private invasions of countries, it is important to know the concept on which the DOCTRINE OF MANIFESTO DESTINATION. This doctrine, one of the pillars United States foundational. This 19th century doctrine justified the territorial expansion of the United States through North America, based on the belief of being a “chosen” nation with the divine right to extend its civilization. This idea is associated with annexation to the United States of territories such as Texas and California, and wars such as Mexico and Spain, promoting the idea that expansion was obvious and predestined, reflected in the phrase “by divine or God authority.” This ideology influenced intervention and expansionism policies, whose maximum expression It is the famous phrase of Thomas Jefferson: “America has a hemisphere for itself.” The Sonora desert, part of the Republic of Sonora. With only 29 years, in 1853, Walker recruited 32 American slave mercenaries and launched into the conquest of the southern borders of the country which Hernán Cortés, in search of power and wealth. The incursion were not bad and the cities of La Paz and Ensenada in Mexico conquered, self -proclaiming president of the Republic of Sonorawhere he hastened to impose a new permissive legislation with slavery to obtain a rapid profitability of his conquest. His presidency lasted little, since five months later, the Mexican resistance and the lack of supplies forced him to withdraw. To a scrambled river, invading gain Far from demotivating itself after the failure of the first foray into private colonialism, William Walker allied with the Democratic Party of Nicaragua, which at that time was in full territorial dispute over the control of the Central American country with the legitimist party. Walker saw the opportunity to put a trick in the matter and offered to the local bourgeoisie to help them militarily to achieve their goals, and incidentally, to gain their own economic interests a little more. After winning the battle in Granada with an army of mercenaries called “The immortals“He was symbolically elected president, imposing American policies and customs. William began to apply his colonialist policy in the area by initiating a government policy by decrees, in which slavery was restored, the English as an official language And the arrival of Americans was encouraged, in addition to changing the constitution and flag of the country. It also established by decree that all the assets of the “enemies of the State” would be confiscated in favor of the Republic and distributed by a specially generous special board with the interests of William Walker and the United States. There is in fact the “germ” of the Panama Canal. Given the strategic nature of the area, this conquest did not go unnoticed by the United States, which rushed to recognize the legitimacy of the new republic created by William Walker. The US interest in the control of this area was based on the importance of creating a Interoceanic Commercial Route that will connect the Atlantic with the Pacific. Immediately the traffic route that connected both oceans through the San Juan River in the south of the country was established. The return of the hero. Attenny by the pressures of commercial interests and their neighboring countries, the Walker government is overthrown and the millionaire must return to his native Tennessee acclaimed as a victorious hero. His banishment would not last long, since, three years later, William Walker returned to the streets and already planned the conquest of Honduras. This coup adventure lasted less than the previous one. Walker is arrested by the British troops settled in the area and is quickly delivered to local authorities in Trujillo, where without further delay he is judged and sentenced to death. In Xataka | Gregor MacGregor, Prince of Poyais: The Scottish soldier who became a millionaire selling (twice) a false country Image | Wikimedia Commons (Mathew Benjamin Brady, Nicaragua-Cia_wfb_map.p), Pexels (ABODI VESAKARAN) *An earlier version of this article was published in May 2024

The Prado Museum closed its doors so that Dua Lipa could create content. That has generated a furious debate

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Even the most venerable institutions are taking notes of the latest trends in communication, and that is why dean museums (but not necessarily anchored in the past and the analog) undertake promotion and communication strategies that come out of the normal. The latest: Pop influencers and stars visit Museums. Often, with the buildings closed for them alone. Dua Lipa likes Bosco. This happened with Dua Lipa, who, taking advantage of the fact that he was going through Madrid with the Radical Optimism tour, published some of his leisure plans through the city. One of them was look at the one who affirms that it is his favorite picture‘The Garden of Delights’. Of course, he did it with the closed building, in a promotional maneuver that was conveniently redifested by The Prado Museum account. Dua Lipa is not the first or the only one. What can be done. These types of actions are a content very desired by museums, since they give them a lot of visibility between an audience that is not the usual of their social networks. Among the activities that are usually carried out and that are analyzed in studies like this company Evespecialized in innovative museum projects, highlights private visits with the closed museum, advertising campaigns in which celebrities lend their image, special events and, as is the case, mutual creation of content for networks, disputed in struggle for every second of attention. More cases. As we say, the case of Dua Lipa is not the only one. In 2020 the influencer Italian Chiara Ferragni visited the Uffizi gallery of Florence, in a session for the magazine ‘Vogue Hong Kong’ and with a guided tour of the director of the Pinacoteca. The museum knew how to make good use of the influence of the influencer when comparing its physique with the Renaissance muse Simonetta Vespucci. The photos of other celebrities of high turns, Jay Z and Beyoncé are also controversial, when they are photographed by eclipsing works of art Like Nefertiti’s headimage for which they needed a special permit of the Berlin Museum Neues. Museums are modernized. Actions such as these obey a task of modernization of museums, which of course affect their contents in social networks. El Prado, in fact, has been Very praised for its studied mixture of entertainment and dissemination with a relaxed tone. They started with house experts that explained the intrígulis of the Great works and his restorationbut they currently have a very varied content, with all kinds of disseminators expanding the meaning of the works. It is one New form of art criticism. International tendency. It is a modernization of networks that other museums, such as Carnegie Museum of Art wave Tate GalleryThey have also put into practice. Pioneer was the New York Metone of the first artistic institutions with a Tiktok account and that reached a remarkable impact before the pandemic with initiatives such as #Metgalastyle, where they asked users to create their own content inspired by the famous annual gala. The complaints. Of course, sometimes so isolated proposals from your consumer-type as some of these can collide with the usual ones. For example, Dua Lipa’s videos have been Very criticized In networks because they see how he takes photos in the museum, something that is prohibited for normal users. But there is more: there is talk of a Banalization of artif the Influencers And your concern for Figure in the foreground and ahead of the works (as Beyoncé does) is the correct form to disseminate this type of contentand if This type of digital strategies They end up damaging institutions rather than spreading their catalogs. In any case, it is another symptom of the popularization of culture and how after a while, Art molar again. Much of the fault is the trends that dictate Influencers And superstar, but also, let’s not take me out of merit, that the Instagram account of El Museo del Prado is frankly well. Header | The day we understood a Goya picture thanks to an old photograph

I have tried the new Android design 16. If this is what awaits the Google system … that they have my sword

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Yesterday was one of those days that are marked forever in the technological calendar. We may not be aware of the impact that everything presented yesterday will have, but Google marked a before and after not only in the future of Gemini and Android, but in how we relate to consumer electronics. While showing us how they will work Android XR glassesthe Project Beam holographic callsand the Ai mode in the searchThe company launched one of Android’s greatest resideños to date. The Google Pixel selectable can already enjoy Android 16 With this change in design, and we have tried it. The launcher. He launcher It is one of Android’s most iconic parts and, and Google never dares to change it too much. It remains almost equal to what we had seen so far, with some small aesthetic change in the search, voice and icons Google Lens of the application drawer. The notification bar. Android (at least in Google’s native interpretation) does not give up to the iPhone control center, unlike the rest of customization layers. We continue to have a quick access bar above and, just below, notifications. This panel has completely redesigned: we have new icons, new easier design and access to the notification history and the notification configuration menu. And yes, the mythical battery icon is now horizontal, Android has lost one of its greatest hallmarks and now looks more like iOS. Android 16 does a better job with complementary colors. The color palette. Something that can be seen instantly with Material 3 It is a better integration of automatic issues. From the arrival of Youthe Android color palette adapts to the colors of the wallpaper. With Android 16 this remains so, but integration is even deeper and (to taste a server) more aesthetically. The icons, the transparency of the notification bar … absolutely all the elements of the system mix the colors of the Wallpaper so that everything looks good. The multitasking. At least in this beta, it is much easier to interact with the apps that we have in Multitasa. We continue without having the button to remove all the apps in an accessible way, but there are interesting options. We can quickly select the contents of an app in multitasking without even having it open in the foreground. We go to multitasking, click the image button, and we will have quick access to Google Lens, copy, share and save. We can also capture screen or select some concrete area of ​​the app. In the drop -down, we have the divided screen options, pause the app, the app, capture, select or close. The adjustments. This is, by far, the point that I liked of Android 16 and Material 3. I cross my fingers to be just a matter of beta and that there are changes in the final version. The adjustments are worse about what we had previously, going fast and at the foot. Even having tried this beta in a Pixel 9 Pro, everything is too compacted and small. It is difficult to distinguish between the sub -rush, and it becomes quite tedious to find adjustments that we saw before with the naked eye. Nor does I fall in love with the design too much. Now it is simpler and more minimalist, but there is neither a especially clear order, nor has it taken too careful at aesthetic level. The best is missing, apps. I have stayed with the desire to try one of the reasons for being of the new version of material 3: apps. This redesign makes sense when apps adapt to it, both aesthetic and functionalities. Live activities are not available in this beta, and there is still work to do. Be that as it may, this new version is good news. Android is more consistent than ever at the aesthetic level (waiting to see how they solve the design of the adjustments), and prepares For a revolution by Gemini. It will not be the one who stays outside this ship. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Google has put a price on the future of AI: $ 250 per month

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