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He believes that in 20 years millions of people will live there

June 25, 2026 by usatoday24

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company, does not stand still since the tycoon moved to Florida to be closer to their headquarters. Now Bezos has given an enlightening talk about how he sees the future of the space sector. The businessman believes that millions of people will voluntarily live in space in 20 years. Don’t be sad. During a talk with John Elkann (president of Ferrari and Stellantis) at the Italian Tech Week TurinBezos did not mince his words. The tycoon said he did not understand how “someone who is alive right now can be discouraged” about the future. The reason for your optimism? A near future where artificial intelligence, robotics and, above all, space exploration, converge in “multiple golden ages.” The future of humanity is not only on Earth; according to Jeff Bezos, it is about to expand exponentially through space. The role of Blue Origin. “I think in the next couple of decades, there will be millions of people living in space; that’s how quickly this is going to accelerate,” said Bezos, who I had already confessed in the past his expectation that Blue Origin will end up being bigger than Amazon. This optimism is not just rhetorical. Bezos is investing billions of his personal fortune each year to build new technologies for the commercial exploitation of space: New Glenn, Blue Origin’s heavy rocket successfully completed its first mission for NASA: launching the two probes of the ESCAPADE mission heading to Mars (the probes will set their final course for the red planet in November 2026). Blue Origin He also recovered the first stage of the rocket on the high seas, becoming the second private company in the world to achieve this. However, the year 2026 has been complicated: in May, the fourth New Glenn exploded on its only launch pad during a static power-up, destroying towers and key infrastructure. NASA estimates that the platform will not be repaired before 2028. Orbital Reef, the commercial space station in the form of a luxury hotel for millionaires that will have scientific modules for when the International Space Station is removed from orbit. The project overcame a series of habitability tests with real people within full-scale models of its modules, within the framework of NASA’s space station development program, which foresees that the first private platforms will replace the ISS in the second half of this decade. bluemoon, the lunar module with which Blue Origin It aims to surpass Starship by solving one of the big problems of the SpaceX ship: the evaporation of cryogenic propellants in space. NASA has assigned Blue Moon the mission Lunar Base Ischeduled for fall 2026, which will land at the lunar south pole. Blue Moon will also participate in the Artemis III mission (2027, in low Earth orbit) and in Artemis IV, the first manned lunar landing scheduled for early 2028. The explosion of the New Glenn complicates the launch schedules, although NASA is working to undock the lunar module from the rocket so as not to delay the mission. Other lunar developments, such as the ability to make solar cells from lunar regolith. Bezos was clear: “If you’re going to go to the Moon and stay on the Moon, you need to use the Moon’s resources.” Exploit the Moon and space. One of Bezos’ goals is to turn the Moon into an industrial launch pad. “The Moon is a gift from the universe,” he said, noting that its low gravity makes it cost 30 times less energy to launch a kilogram of mass from the Moon than from Earth. In his vision, the Moon becomes a “rocket fuel depot” that will allow us to explore the rest of the solar system. Bezos’ vision directly connects the space race with the other great revolution of the moment: artificial intelligence. AI is a technology with an enormous energy thirst, and its data centers are becoming a true “energy hole” on Earth. Bezos’ solution: get them off the planet. The proposal is build gigantic data centers of gigawatts in space. The advantages are obvious: “We have solar power there 24/7, and solar power there has no clouds, no rain, no weather.” It’s not science fiction. In fact, Bezos predicts that this apparent science fiction will be economically viable very soon: “We will be able to surpass the cost of terrestrial data centers in space within the next two decades.” Space, he believes, will go from being a place for communications satellites to being the center of heavy industry and data infrastructure. In the end, Bezos’ vision unifies all the revolutions underway. If AI and robotics will take over production, what is left for humans? According to him, the freedom to choose. Bezos doesn’t believe we need to live in space to survive. Robotics technology will be so advanced that “we will be able to send robots to do that job.” So why will those millions of people go? Bezos’ answer is simple: “The majority will live there because they want to.” A version of this article was published in November 2025 In Xataka | The first civilian to take a spacewalk with Polaris Dawn is a millionaire, but he also pilots fighter jets Images | Blue Origin

NASA wanted to keep a key antenna active. A culture of “personal heroism” ended up achieving the opposite

June 25, 2026 by usatoday24

There are infrastructures that seem made to escape the problems of the Earth. The Deep Space Network from NASA is one of them: a network of giant antennas designed to communicate with probes and ships that travel far beyond our immediate environment. But even a system designed to talk to deep space depends on something much closer: trained people, clear procedures and decisions made under pressure. What a space agency investigation has just pointed out is not only a costly breakdown, but a weakness that is difficult to ignore in a network that we take for granted. The Goldstone Incident. The episode occurred on the DSS-14 antenna, a 70 meter facility located in the Goldstone complexin California. NASA published a version with redacted parts of the final report on the incident recorded on September 16, 2025, which left the antenna out of service since then. The damage occurred when the structure rotated beyond its limits and stressed cables and hoses, including those for the fire suppression system. The consequence was a flooding of the base with more than 750,000 liters of water containing glycol and estimated damages between 4.1 and 4.6 million dollars. The incident chain. The report does not allow each step to be reconstructed with complete clarity, because the public version hides almost all the details of the six critical events identified by NASA. The failure did not appear suddenly. First there was a hydraulic limit system that stopped working at an unspecified time, then an anomaly on September 15 during a communication with Juno and then maintenance and diagnostic tasks. In this process, the antenna was taken several times to its rotation limits, until the safety margin ended up disappearing. The weak point. If this story is surprising, it is because it takes place in a place where we tend to imagine everything measured, written and reviewed down to the last detail. But the NASA investigation describes something much more earthly: insufficient training, procedures that were not up to par, and too much reliance on undocumented routines within the facility. In a network like the DSN, designed to maintain communications with very distant missions, this changes the reading of the incident. It was not just an antenna that turned too much, but an organization that, at that particular point, had left too much room for the informal. Misunderstood heroism. The report also points out a work culture based on what he calls “personal heroism,” an expression to describe teams willing to do what is necessary to keep the antenna going. On paper it sounds like a compromise, but research presents it as part of the problem. That drive led some people to take on tasks outside their qualifications, work long hours until they accumulated fatigue, and skip tests that could delay their return to operations. The conclusion is harsh: having agreed to leave the antenna in a failed state would probably have prevented the outcome. Specific duties. The report includes 20 recommendations, with one especially clear idea: NASA needs to encourage technical rigor over “personal heroism.” From there, internal correction measures come in, such as reinforcing training and reviewing procedures. Additionally, the agency is looking for similar scenarios beyond the Deep Space Network itself. Deep Space Network. DSS-14 is not just any antenna within the Deep Space Network. It is one of the three 70-meter antennas in the network, the largest category within a system made up of 14 antennas distributed between California, Australia and Spain. In early 2026, it looked like the antenna would return to service in May, before being taken out of operation in August for a major upgrade scheduled until October 2028. NASA, however, now maintains that it will remain out of service, although the DSN will remain operational thanks to the other antennas in the network. Images | POT In Xataka | Voyager 1 will reach a light-day distance in November, but this will be its last major record

Morgan Stanley has almost doubled its 2026 shipment forecasts

June 25, 2026 by usatoday24

When we think of humanoid robots, it is easy for the first name that appears to be Optimus. Tesla has managed to install its robot in the technological imagination before even turning it into a product that anyone can buy. But that is precisely the nuance that makes this story interesting: while the robot from the firm led by Elon Musk is still awaiting public sale, some Chinese manufacturers are already closer to specific commercial uses. What we have seen at fairs, events and first deployments points to a career that is beginning to be measured less by promise and more by deployment. Morgan Stanley’s jump. The clearest signal comes from the US bank. Morgan Stanley has raised for the second time this year its forecast for shipments of humanoid robots in China and wait that 50,000 units are reached in 2026. The figure almost doubles its previous estimate, located at 28,000 units, and leaves the first forecast from January, when it spoke of 14,000, even further away. The adjustment is not minor: in a few months, the entity has gone from a cautious expectation to a much more ambitious reading of the pace that the sector is taking. The small print. Morgan Stanley’s forecast does not mix all scenarios. The calculation includes only external sales and leaves out robots produced for prototypes, pre-sales tests or internal use, an important nuance when we talk about an industry still in the initial deployment phase. The bank also estimates that the Chinese humanoid market will reach $2 billion in 2026 and grow to $15 billion in 2030. By then, its forecasts point to 446,000 annual shipments. The change of pace. Morgan Stanley attributes this revision to a combination of factors that go beyond investor interest. In a note collected by CNBCSheng Zhong, an analyst at the entity, summarizes it this way: “Commercial verification, political support and supply chain response point to faster adoption of humanoids in China.” The phrase well summarizes the substance of the matter: we are not just talking about robots that generate attention at a fair, but also about commercial signals, public support and suppliers capable of responding. Where is the success? The bank is seeing clearer signals in factories and logistics, but also in unattended stores, interactive business services, restaurants and convenience stores. It makes sense: these are scenarios where tasks can be better defined, the environment is more controllable, and the economic return is easier to measure. The long-term scale. The background context is broader than this year’s review. Morgan Stanley Research estimated that the global humanoid market could exceed $5 trillion by 2050, including sales, supply chains, repair, maintenance and support. He also projected more than 1 billion humanoids in use by then, with about 90% destined for industrial and commercial tasks. The idea fits with what we are seeing in China: not just AI models on screen, but physical systems capable of acting in real environments. Images | UBTECH In Xataka | We believed that Adobe was threatened with death by AI. It turns out that it is one of the few companies that is making money from it

The White House app downloads itself on official phones and cannot be deleted

June 25, 2026 by usatoday24

Donald Trump’s Administration recently released a new official White House app for iPhone and Android. In principle, nothing too strange: many governments have public apps to disseminate statements, broadcasts, alerts or institutional information. But this one has not exactly arrived clean of noise. Questions first arose about its content. Later, due to the decision to take her to official federal employee cell phones. And now the controversy has escalated: several workers cited by WIRED They claim that the app appeared on their work phones and that, after deleting it, it was installed again. The testimonies point to several federal agencies. Employees of the Department of Agriculture, the Department of State and the Department of Labor claim that the application appeared on their devices, and they did so on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The most specific phrase comes from the USDA: “I deleted it as evidence and it came back immediately,” said one of its workers. Another employee, this time from the State Department, said that he deleted it from his phone, but that in less than 24 hours it had reappeared. A public app on official mobile phones There is a good part of the crash. The application, presented by the White House as A way to receive “real-time updates, live events and direct access to the Presidency” does not seem like an internal tool for public employees. WIRED points out that it is, apparently, the same version available to the public in Apple stores and Googlealthough from Spain, at least on iPhone, we have not been able to download it. Within the app there is a social section with publications from the White House, messages from Trump on Truth Social and videos from official accounts on platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. It also includes a news section with statements, official documents and selected articles from different media. That content is what has led some employees to describe the situation in much harsher terms than a simple computer complaint. One of the workers cited summed it up like this: “They are injecting pure and simple propaganda directly into our veins.” The phrase points to the heart of the conflict: it is not only that an app has reached an official device, but that the content that appears in it is perceived, at least among those employees, as an extension of the Administration’s political message. The White House, for its part, defended the measure before the technology publication with an argument focused on utility and security. Its spokesperson, Olivia Wales, stated that the application “does not require anyone to create an account or enter data” and He maintained that any information within the app is “secure.”He also added that government devices often include pre-installed applications that add value to employees’ daily work. The case has echoes of other recent attempts to bring state applications to mobile phones, although the comparison requires caution. In India, the Government ended up withdrawing the mandatory pre-installation of Sanchar Saathia public anti-fraud and mobile security app, and officially explained that would no longer make it mandatory for manufacturers. In Russia, Reuters reported that MAXa messaging service supported by the State, had to come pre-installed on mobile phones and tablets sold in the country. The difference is important: those cases looked at the consumer market; The American one affects official work phones. The underlying question is not whether the White House can manage the official cell phones that it gives to its employees. The question is what does it mean to use that ability to place on those devices? a public political communication app. A federal employee may have his ideas, sympathies or preferences, but his role within the Administration should not involve coexisting with political messages in a tool designed for work. That is why the protest reported by WIRED has a broader reading than a complaint about an automatic download: some workers reject that an official cell phone ends up becoming another channel for the presidential message. Images | White House | Screenshot Play Store and App Store In Xataka | Inside the field, thousands of cameras record and monitor everything that happens in the World Cup. Off the field, too

When a cyberattack knocked out Romanian hospitals, doctors recovered a classic: pencil and paper

June 25, 2026 by usatoday24

Computer technology has arrived to make our lives easier. In the health field, for example, hospitals are increasingly interconnected. Doctors in many countries around the world have access to electronic medical records and patients to paperless prescriptions. All of this can be fantastic, as long as it works well, of course. Romania experienced it in February 2024, when part of its health system was caught in a virus attack. ransomware which affected the Hipocrate platform used by hospitals throughout the country. Two years later, a reconstruction of the BBC It allows us to better understand what happened, how many hospitals were really infected and how the crisis was contained. The problem was especially delicate because Hippocrates was integrated into very different tasks of daily hospital life. The platform was used to register patients, order tests, view results, manage medications, and organize supplies. In practice, its fall left many centers without one of their main coordination tools. The ransomware variant identified was BackMyData. As usually happens in this type of attacks, the files were encrypted, renamed and unusable for system administrators. There was talk of a ransom of 3.5 bitcoins, about 175,000 euros at the exchange rate at the time, in exchange for the supposed key to recover the information. As new notices came in from hospitals, Romania’s National Cyber Security Directorate, the DNSC, made a drastic decision: ordering more than 100 hospitals to they will disconnect from the network. The measure left them without digital tools, but it allowed them to isolate the problem and gain time. Over time, the photography of the incident has become more refined. The number of hospitals directly infected by BackMyData was 26. The operational impact, however, was much greater: more than 100 hospitals were left offline or without normal access to their digital services. Inside the hospitals, the response was much more earthly. Some doctors asked the lab to deliver results on paper, others turned to offline spreadsheets, and many went back to register patients by hand. It was not a metaphor: for several days, part of the Romanian healthcare functioned with analogue tools. Romania chose not to pay the ransom and focused recovery on available backups. The strategy allowed operations to be recovered, at least essentially. According to updated information, most hospitals returned to almost normal operation in about five days. While there were no deaths or serious injuries to patients, the outage left work pending for weeks. All the information written down on paper had to re-enter the systems and some data was lost forever. Romanian authorities have not publicly attributed the attack to a specific group. There was later an international operation against a gang related to the BackMyData ecosystem, with four Russian citizens arrested outside Russia, but the BBC does not present it as a direct resolution of the case. Those days left an image that is difficult for many to forget: modern hospitals, useless screens and doctors doing something as old as writing to continue providing care. This case, however, also showed that backups and recovery plans are essential in the interconnected world we live in. Images | Pixabay | Tima Miroshnichenko | Miguel Ausejo In Xataka | Spotify will not let you log in with your username and password. It is a wonderful idea to protect your account

Today on Disney+, the film that, despite exceeding one billion at the box office, has left the continuity of its franchise up in the air

June 24, 2026 by usatoday24

‘Avatar: Fire and Ashes’the third installment of James Cameron’s billion-dollar saga, lands in Disney+. A film that opens with a statement against AI, introduces the franchise’s first major Na’vi villain, and leaves the future of two sequels in the airsequels that, despite the extraordinary collections of the franchise’s films, are still not guaranteed to survive. The film picks up where ‘The Way of Water’ left off: the Sullys, grieving the death of their eldest son Neteyam, try to protect another family member while facing two simultaneous threats. The RDA returns with reinforcements and the Mangkwan, known as the People of Ash, also appear: a volcanic Na’vi clan that has renounced the spiritual entity that underpins the entire cosmology of Pandora. It is the first time in the franchise that the Na’vi occupy the role of antagonists, which breaks the moral structure of the first two films: until now, only humans were the aggressors. The film’s visual effects were carried out by Wētā FX, the New Zealand studio that was linked to Peter Jackson. The team signed 3,132 visual effects shotsand the rendering process accumulated 1.248 million computing hours. One of the key technical innovations for the film was Kora, a set of tools for chemical combustion simulations, developed to solve a problem they had already identified in ‘The Way of Water’: photorealistic fire was extraordinarily difficult for artists to handle. Kora makes creating these types of images remarkably easy. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $347 million worldwide, and has already grossed $1,490. It is Cameron’s fourth film to exceed one billion, after ‘Avatar’, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ and ‘Titanic’. The three films in the saga total more than $6 billion at the global box office, making it the first trilogy in history to reach that figure. However, calculations say that Disney needed to exceed one billion to make a profit, and that figure is increasingly being exceeded more closely. Without a doubt, an obstacle in the way of an ambitious story that may not tell everything that Cameron has in his portfolio. In Xataka | Today on Prime Video, a disaster movie that lost 45 million in theaters but is sweeping streaming

how to protect your files with post-quantum encryption today

June 24, 2026 by usatoday24

Quantum computers will acquire the ability to break classical cryptography in a relatively short period of time. At the end of last March, a group of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California at Berkeley and the emerging company Oratomic published a scientific article preliminary in which he explored the capabilities of quantum computers of neutral atoms. These machines are an alternative to quantum computers with superconducting and ion trap qubits, and are still in an experimental phase. These scientists have estimated that Shor’s algorithm can be implemented using a quantum computer equipped with between 10,000 and 20,000 qubits of neutral atoms. In fact, in their article they even propose a design with which in theory it would be possible break bitcoin encryption in a few days using 26,000 qubits of neutral atoms. In any case, these researchers are not the only ones who in recent months have alerted us to the ability of quantum computers to violate classical cryptography. In that same period, the group of artificial intelligence Google quantum published a study in which he demonstrates that the elliptic curve encryption used by Bitcoin or Ethereum, among other cryptocurrencies, can be overthrown using far fewer resources than initially estimated. According to these researchers, a quantum computer with less than half a million physical qubits will be able to decipher the algorithms used by current cryptocurrencies in a few minutes. In short, the scientific community has agreed that classical encryption technologies will be vulnerable before the arrival of large-scale quantum hardware. We can now protect our data Cryptography is the art of protecting our information through mathematical transformations. In this way, an encrypted message is incomprehensible to anyone who does not have the correct key. For decades, Internet security has rested on a seemingly solid principle: certain mathematical problems are so difficult to solve that no conventional computer could attack them in a reasonable amount of time. Post-quantum cryptography brings together a set of cryptographic algorithms designed to resist attacks from both classical and quantum computers. However, as we have seen, quantum computers are going to overturn this premise sooner rather than later. Fortunately, we have the post-quantum cryptographycommonly known as PQC due to its English name (Post-Quantum Cryptography). This technology brings together a set of cryptographic algorithms designed to resist attacks from both classical and quantum computers. The most important thing is that these algorithms run on conventional hardware. They do not require quantum computers to operate and are designed to replace current standards on the same processors we use today. In 2024, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published an initial set of standards that includes a post-quantum key exchange mechanism and several post-quantum digital signature schemes. The three standards published by NIST have clear functions. ML-KEM is based on the CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm and is a key encapsulation mechanism. Its function is to establish securely encrypted communication channels, replacing the classic protocols that the browser and the operating system use today to protect our connections. On the other hand, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA are digital signature schemes. They serve to verify that a message or file comes from who it claims to come from, without any quantum computer being able to falsify that signature. The three standards rely on mathematical problems that quantum computers cannot solve efficiently with current knowledge. The good news is that we don’t have to wait for our operating system to update. Some of the most used applications have already incorporated these standards in a way that is transparent to the user. Encrypted messaging app Signal implemented ML-KEM-1024 in its PQXDH protocol in 2024. Since then, every conversation protects session keys with post-quantum cryptography without the user having to configure anything. It is the clearest example that the transition has already begun, and that it can be completely invisible to users. How to encrypt your files with a certified tool To protect the files stored on our computer, the most accessible and audited tool available today for home users is VeraCrypt. It is free, open source and compatible with Windows, macOS and Linux. Its encryption is based on AES-256, a symmetric algorithm that NIST maintains as a standard and that remains resistant to quantum attacks. And the quantum threat does not affect all cryptography equally: Shor and Grover’s algorithms effectively attack asymmetric cryptography (RSA, elliptic curves, etc.), but symmetric cryptography with 256-bit keys retains sufficient strength against any quantum computer. In practice, AES-256 offers quantum security equivalent to 128 bits – enough to protect any personal file for decades. Using VeraCrypt takes just a few minutes. Once we have downloaded it from its official websitethe process involves creating an encrypted container: a file that acts as a password-protected virtual disk. On the main screen we will select Volumes/Create New Volumeand then Create an encrypted file container. The strength of symmetric encryption ensures that no next-generation quantum computer will be able to access content by brute force Next, we will choose the location and size of the container, select AES as the encryption algorithm, and set a strong password. Once created, that container is mounted as if it were another unit of the computer. In this way, any file that we drag inside is automatically encrypted. When you unmount the volume, the data is unreadable to any person or machine that accesses the disk without the password. To protect our passwords, the most reliable domestic option is KeePassXC. It is an open source manager, without connection to external servers and with periodic independent security audits. Stores all passwords in a locally AES-256 encrypted database that is only opened with a master password or additional key file. The cloud alternative is Bitwardenwhich also encrypts the data with AES-256 before sending it to the server. In both cases, the strength of symmetric encryption ensures that no next-generation quantum computer will be able to access the content by brute force. Whoever wants to complete this strategy can do so … Read more

For researcher Amber Simpson, parents can help teach them at home

June 24, 2026 by usatoday24

In the minds of most people learning mathematics resides in schools, institutes and universities. It is such a consolidated association that It’s hard to question it. However, research published in Mathematical Thinking and Learning shows that the mathematical learning It does not begin or end at school: it also happens at home, spontaneously and often completely unnoticed by the families themselves. The researcher who led this study is Amber Simpson, associate professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership at Binghamton University, in New York (USA). Its starting point was a specific question: what happens to the STEM learning (YesscienceTechnology, Engineering and Mathematics or Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) when the children come home? To answer it, Simpson and his team designed twelve engineering kits called MAKEngineering aimed at children between second and sixth grade. Each kit posed an open challenge using household materials. One of them, for example, proposed building the prototype of a house capable of protecting animals from an extreme weather phenomenon typical of their region. Seven families from the US participated in the study and provided recordings in which they were seen addressing the challenges together. The data was very revealing. Children used geometric reasoning, informal measurement, and proportional reasoning in a natural way during this experiment. Mathematics is also at home The biggest surprise of the study has nothing to do with the children. It has to do with the parents. There is a widespread assumption that parents lack the necessary knowledge to support their children’s mathematical learning. However, Simpson denies it: Caregivers do have this knowledge, but they exercise it in a way rooted in their usual ways of acting, and not in the school format. They are mathematics hidden in everyday practice, and precisely for this reason they go unnoticed. The participation of twins provided a very revealing perspective on their interaction dynamics. The study also identified another very important finding: the role of siblings. Those who worked together on the kits assumed both supportive and dominant roles, but remained involved in the design at all times. Amber Simpson has a separate article currently under review dedicated to this phenomenon. Interestingly, the participation of a pair of twins provided a very revealing perspective on their interaction dynamics. Simpson argues that non-school mathematics has a legitimate place alongside classroom mathematics, so both should be taken into account equally. The challenge now is to translate these discoveries into practice. To achieve this, these researchers have developed training kits for teachers and have verified that it is essential that teachers themselves first face these tasks before proposing them to their students. Widespread implementation of these kits in the classroom has not yet occurred, but this is precisely what Simpson and his colleagues propose. And his study is not just an academic argument that reveals where learning takes place; it is above all a vindication of value of what families are already doing without even knowing it. In any case, the question that Simpson leaves in the air has more scope than it seems: if mathematics is already happening at home, perhaps the problem is not teaching more, but learning to see what is already there. Within our reach. Image | Kampus Production More information | Mathematical Thinking and Learning In Xataka | The arrival of AI in mathematics goes beyond a “revolution”: it is reaching where human mathematicians did not dream

millionaires love it

June 24, 2026 by usatoday24

Where would you live if money were no problem? There are those who will say that they would go to the countryside, where there is no Internet connection, to live life and take care of a garden and some chickens (spoiler: it is quite sacrificial), but the reality is rather different. The millionaires of the world have other preferences and a recent report by the firm Henley & Partners has shed a lot of light on the matter. It turns out that millionaires care little about the field, the garden and the chickens. Your favorite destinations are others. The report. He “Henley Private Wealth Migration Report 2026” is a report that measures the structural competitiveness of countries to attract and retain the fortunes of millionaires. Each country receives a score from zero to 100 based on several factors, such as tax treatment, quality of life, geopolitical stability, etc. The higher the score, the more “interesting” that country is to live, invest or deposit capital. That score, as a curious fact, is called “Wealth Mobility Competitiveness Score”, which sounds much more fancy that “competitiveness index in terms of asset mobility”. Panoramic of Singapore | Image: Song Kaiyue A little house in Singapore… According to the report, the most interesting country for millionaires is Singapore, whose score is 79.5. The reason, the firm argues, is that it is a country “with political stability, solid institutions, deep capital markets and sustained demand for assets with international mobility throughout Asia.” Their proximity to Hong Kong and China clearly makes them win points economically. …another in New Zealand… With a score of 75.8, New Zealand is attracting investors thanks to the “relaunch of its Active Investor Plus Visa Programme, stable legal and regulatory environment, geopolitical stability and its position as a safe destination away from geopolitical hotspots,” the report states. Panoramic view of Mount Cook in Canterbury, New Zealand | Image: Donovan Kelly …and of course, spend the summer in the Cayman Islands. Not because of its beaches, not because of how beautiful the Pedro St. James Castle is (now converted into a museum), not because of how good Seven Mile Beach is, but because, according to the report, “a leading jurisdiction in wealth structuring, supported by a neutral fiscal framework, legal certainty and a sophisticated financial services ecosystem.” This is what it means to be a tax haven.which allows you to achieve a score of 74.3. The other contenders. There are a total of 16 countries that equal or exceed 70 points. The three mentioned above top the list, but it is worth highlighting the large presence of European countries with Cyprus, the Netherlands, Italy, Latvia, Switzerland, Greece and Monaco. The report places special emphasis on Italy, a country considered an “example of success” thanks to its “single tax regime for new residents, a favorable tax framework for inheritance matters and access to the EU market.” Here is the list of the top countries: Those who do, but with doubts. The report also includes some countries that have implemented changes in their policies and regulations and that, therefore, are “creating pressure on their long-term competitiveness.” Among those countries are Germany (69.7), France (65.7), Norway (69) and the United Kingdom (68.3), countries that are debating or have already applied wealth taxes, or that are facing political uncertainties. The most striking case is that of the United Kingdom, which “faces competitiveness pressures that began after Brexit and have accelerated with recent tax reforms.” The paradoxical case of the United States. It is one of the main creators of wealth, but it is not attractive to maintain it. The reason, the report states, is “taxation based on citizenship, fiscal complexity and the long processing times for immigration files.” The norm, the firm explains, is that large American fortunes want to go to European countries and, to a lesser extent, Latin America and the Caribbean. And what does this tell us? Beyond curiosity, this report could be understood as a canary in the mine for millionaires. An increase in the migration of the wealthy population could be an indicator of the health of a country’s economic policy, while a greater outflow (in the case of the United States) would be an indicator of the opposite. However, it is not a perfect indicator nor can it be understood as such. The relationship “millionaires are leaving” = “the country is going badly” is not direct and may respond, for example, to a risk diversification strategy. It is what the report calls “sovereign portfolio” and, in essence, it is an idea that responds to something simpler: uprooting. The great fortunes are not attached to their country of origin, but diversify their residence, citizenship and business interests in different countries. It is, however, a short-term strategy that understands that states do not change, when this is not the case. What is an advantage today, in the long run, implies simultaneous dependence on several legislative and regulatory systems that, in short, increase the risk. Not to mention that a good country is not only one that has greater fiscal competitiveness, but also one that provides a solid social system. Cover image | Diego F. Parra In Xataka | Luxury homes in the US are selling like hotcakes and experts think they know why: AI

While the heat ‘Spanishizes’ Europe at full speed, Spain begins to ask itself a key question: whether it will have to ‘saharize’ itself

June 24, 2026 by usatoday24

During recent summers, as heat waves have spread their tentacles across the continent, we Spaniards have seen ourselves vindicated. At last, Germany discovered the napFrance would fall in love with the blinds and England would have to admit that dining late has its benefits. It was seen, let’s face it, as a cultural victory. We did not have the other side of the coin: that climate change is a treacherous animal and, while Europe flirts with our habits, customs and solutions, we are being forced to abandon them. The question was not whether we will manage to ‘Spanishize’ Europe; It was whether we are going to have to ‘saharize’ Spain. What we are doing is not enough… In the midst of a heat wave, it becomes evident that many of the things we have been doing no longer work. But the truth is that the heat is no longer “an isolated episode.” According to the State of the Climate of Spain 2025 According to AEMET, the average temperature has risen 1.75 °C since 1961. In 2025, 25 records were broken for warm days and none for cold days (when one would expect five of each) and, as far as we know, summer lengthens by about nine days per decade. The consequences have changed radically and can be seen with a single piece of information: the The need for refrigeration in Spain has multiplied by 2.6 between 1982 and 2022. In this sense, Royal Decree-Law 4/2023 has already certified the obvious: the Spanish working day has to be legally subordinated to the thermometer and to the AEMET notices. In Xataka Experts agree that opening windows at night and closing them during the day is no longer the best strategy against heat. …and, in fact, we are stopping doing many things. The nap is a good example: only 16% do it daily and the 60% of Spaniards never sleep. It is due to the social evolution of the labor market, it is true; but also because at certain temperatures, the nap is no longer restorative and we can only turn on the air conditioning. When talking about ‘Saharanization’ there is a controversial component, of course; but there is also a grain of truth. There is extremely striking thingsfor an average Spaniard (like drinking hot drinks because they help regulate body temperature more efficiently than cold drinks) that make all the sense in the world in a very hot climate. And it is reasonable to think that there are many of those things that we will tend to adopt. It has always been said that Islamic culture tended to conceive houses ‘inwards’ and gave a lot of weight to internal domestic life, but do we really believe that it is a free decision and not a cultural adaptation to a very warm environment? {“videoId”:”x8006fc”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”How to sleep when it’s very hot and you don’t have air conditioning”, “tag”:””, “duration”:”217″} There is more, much more. Because the signs are there. Cities are reacting: Barcelona has gone from 197 climate shelters in 2021 to more than 500 this summerwith coverage of 99% of the population within less than ten minutes walk; Bilbao, for its part, has around 131 spaces. Leisure also changes and Summer bookings to Norway up 37% while the north of the peninsula gains tourists. That is, it is no longer whether we change “habits, customs and solutions” but how we do it. We should talk more about this because that is where a good part of our near future lies. Image | Sam Williams In Xataka |ENT doctors agree: “Sleeping with air conditioning forces the nose to work excessively” (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news While the heat ‘Spanishizes’ Europe at full speed, Spain begins to ask itself a key question: whether it will have to ‘saharize’ itself was originally published in Xataka by Javier Jimenez .

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