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These are all the confirmed guests for the San Diego Comic-Con Málaga 2026

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The countdown to This year’s Comic-Conwhich will be held between October 1 and 4, 2026 in Malaga, has begun. Although there is not yet a complete program, we do have an overwhelming list of fifty confirmed guests, which will grow in the coming months. For now we can open our mouths to a good number of performers and creators who you can see live in Malaga. Here is the complete list of guests so far, which we will expand with successive announcements: Cinema and television Karl Urban Protagonist of ‘The Boys’ and ‘Dredd’, with roles also in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Star Trek’. October 1 and 2. Michael Rooker Actor in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, ‘The Walking Dead’, and legendary Henry Lee Lucas in ‘Henry, Portrait of a Murderer’. October 1 and 2. Sean Gunn Part of the cast of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’. October 1 and 2. Jason Lee— Actor of ‘My Name is Earl’, voice of Syndrome in ‘The Incredibles’ and regular with Kevin Smith. October 1 and 2. Kevin Smith— Director and screenwriter of ‘Clerks’, ‘Dogma’ and ‘Tusk’. October 1 and 2. Mira Sorvino Oscar-winning actress for ‘Mighty Aphrodite’. October 1 and 2. John DiMaggio Voice actor for Bender in ‘Futurama’ and Jake in ‘Adventure Time’. October 2 and 3. Emily Rudd Protagonist of the adaptation of ‘One Piece’. October 2. Iñaki Godoy — Co-star of the adaptation of ‘One Piece’. October 2. Lukas Robert Ettlin Director and producer of the series ‘One Piece’. October 2. Richard Dean Anderson Protagonist of ‘MacGyver’ and ‘Stargate SG-1’. October 3 and 4. Kristian Nairn ‘Game of Thrones’ actor. October 3 and 4. Sean Astin Interpreter of Sam Gamyi in ‘The Lord of the Rings’. October 3 and 4. Elijah Wood— Interpreter of Frodo Baggins in ‘The Lord of the Rings’. October 3 and 4. Deborah Ann Woll ‘Daredevil’ actress and role-player. Date not specified. Casper Van Dien Actor from the ‘Starship Troopers’ saga. Date not specified. Denise Richards Actress from the ‘Starship Troopers’ saga. Date not specified. Dina Meyer Actress from the ‘Starship Troopers’ saga. Date not specified. Michael Ironside Actor from the ‘Starship Troopers’ saga. Date not specified. Jake Busey Actor from the ‘Starship Troopers’ saga. Date not specified. Natasha Liu Bordizzo ‘Ahsoka’ actress. Date not specified. Dan Fogler Actor of ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Fantastic Beasts’. Date not specified. Denise Gough ‘Andor’ actress. Date not specified. Christopher Lambert Actor of ‘Los Inmortales’ and ‘Mortal Kombat’. Date not specified. Kevin Sussman ‘Big Bang Theory’ actor. Date not specified. Ali Plumb Journalist and film critic for BBC Radio 1. Date not specified. Video games, role-playing and board games David Jones Designer of ‘Lemmings’ and producer of ‘Grand Theft Auto’. The four days. Jeremy Crawford— Designer of editions 4 and 5 of ‘Dungeons and Dragons’. October 1 to 4. Reiner Knizia Designer of more than 700 board games. Every day except Sunday. Sleeve Yoichi Takahashi— Mangaka creator of ‘Captain Tsubasa’. The four days. Shin’ichirō Watanabe— Creator of ‘Cowboy Bebop’ and ‘Samurai Champloo’. October 3 and 4. Yoshihiro Ueda— Animation director of ‘Dragon Ball’. October 1 and 2. Akira Yamaoka — Musical composer of ‘Silent Hill’. October 1 and 2. Comic John Romita Jr.— Artist of ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Kick-Ass’. He will sign the second official poster, not yet revealed. The four days. Dan Mora Artist of ‘Batgirl or Doctor Strange’. Date not specified. Michael Golden Artist of ‘Micronauts’ and ‘Nam’. The four days. Stefano Caselli Artist of ‘Avengers’ and ‘Spider-Man’. Date not specified. Rick Leonardi Artist of ‘X-Men’ and ‘Spider-Man 2099’. Date not specified. Juanjo Guarnido Artist of ‘Blacksad’. Date not specified. Pat Mills— Founder of ‘2000 AD’, creator of ‘Nemesis the Warlock’ or ‘Marshall Law’. Date not specified. Laia Lopez Illustrator of ‘Royalty Witches’ and ‘Mystical’. Date not specified. Philip Kennedy Johnson Screenwriter of ‘The Fellspyre Chronicles’ or ‘The Last God’. Date not specified. Carmen Carnero Artist of ‘Captain America’ and ‘Miles Morales: Spider-Man’. From Friday to Sunday. Chris Condon Artist of ‘Ultimate Wolverine’ and ‘The Last Stand’. The four days. Pepe Larraz Cartoonist for ‘The Dynasty of X’. From Friday to Sunday. Álvaro Martínez Bueno — Artist of ‘Justice League Dark’ and ‘Batman’. The four days. Michael Walsh Artist of ‘Comeback’ and ‘The Silver Coin’. The four days. David Messina ‘Catwoman’ artist. Date not specified. Jorge Jimenez Artist of ‘Supersons’ and ‘Superman Rebirth’, author of the gift poster for attendees and a special print commissioned by SDCC Málaga, revealed at Panel Zero. The four days. Others Helen Chen— Art director and production designer on ‘The K-Pop Warriors’ and ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’; author of the first official poster. The four days. Gutting History (Pascu and Rodri) — Live concert and special panel on the closing day. October 4th. In Xataka | The new director of Comic-Con Málaga does not come from fandom, but he has something better: the key to solve their problems

In the middle of the heatwave, Italy is debating whether it is “idiotic” to pay €95 for an ice cream cone

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would you pay 95 euros for a cone ice cream? It may seem like a far-fetched question, but in Italy a thorny debate is heating up that has among its protagonists: Flavio Briatorethe Piedmontese businessman famous for his connection with the Alpine F-1 team. In recent days, the tycoon has heated up the networks by calling “cretin” (idiot) who spends dozens and dozens (and dozens) of euros on a cone ice cream, a comment that was not liked in a shop in Apulia known precisely for that: selling ice cream with gold for €95. As we said, the debate is served. What has happened? To understand the controversy we have to go back a few days, when a story began to circulate in the Italian press. explosive statement from Briatore that has little to do with his usual business: ice cream. Although the businessman is known above all for his connection with Formula 1, years ago he promoted a chain of exclusive pizzerias call Crazy Pizza. Perhaps that is why the ‘Pomeriggio Cinque’ program contacted him to talk about summer and food. Everything was perfect, until Briatore harshly criticized those who buy cone ice cream for 70 eurosenough to enjoy a good seafood dinner. What exactly did he say? He assured that anyone who spends so much money on a cookie and cream cone is a “cretin”a word that in Spanish could be translated as “idiot.” In recent days this outburst has been repeated again and again on Italian networks and media such as Daily of Puglia, Il Messaggero either Leggoamong many (many) other newspapers, fueling the debate about whether, matters of tone aside, Briatore is right: Is it crazy to spend 70 euros on an ice cream cone, no matter how luxurious and tasty it may be? Before continuing, one detail must be clarified. On Monday the newspaper The Republicone of the most read in Italy, accurate that in reality Briatore’s words are not new and his controversial video dates back to 2024. In any case, it doesn’t matter. His statements have now gone viral, the debate has permeated the country and, above all, it is now that the other interested party has responded: a business in the Puglia region that effectively sells ice cream at seafood prices. Of course, now its star product, the one that Briatore criticized, is no longer sold at 70 euros. That was his launch price. Now it costs a whopping €95an increase supposedly forced by the increase in the price of its ingredients. What business is that? Mokambo Gelateriaan artisanal ice cream shop located in Ruvo di Pugliaa city in Apulia of around 25,500 inhabitants. Although it is not a particularly populous town and is far from moving the hordes of tourists who visit Rome, Florence or Venice every year, Mokambo has managed to become a popular reference in its sector. And one of the reasons is its most exclusive product: Lo Scettro del Re (King’s Scepter), an ice cream launched in 2018 for 70 euros. Since then he has given a lot of talk. @nick_radogna Ho Mangiato il Gelato D’oro is €70 🍦Second is it worth it? #gelato ♬ suono originale – Nick Radogna What have their owners said? Basically they have taken advantage of their renewed media pull to show off their chest. Both since your profile on Instagram, where they accumulate 24,000 followers, as in interviews with Italian media. For example, a few days ago one of the business owners, Vincenzo Paparella, chatted with Corriere della Sera to respond to Flavio Briatore. “I think he simply hasn’t understood who we are. He probably imagined that we are one of those who take a normal cream ice cream, put a gold leaf on top and sell it at an exorbitant price. If that were the case, he would be absolutely right to criticize it. But our project is totally different,” claims. What the famous ‘King’s Scepter’ offers, claims the Italian ice cream maker, is not a simple cone with cream, but “a gastronomic experience” with “a journey, a history, a work of research and experimentation.” But… What is the ice cream like? A gourmet product in every rule. The ‘Scepter’ incorporates a sheet of 24-karat edible gold, Iranian saffron, Bronte pistachio and fresh whipped cream. In theory, its ingredients include freshly milked milk from the Murgia area and free-range eggs. Of all these products, the one that makes it most expensive is Sargol saffron of Mashhad, in theory the reason why right now it is charged 95 euros. The ice cream parlor of course offers cheaper items, such as cones for five euros. And is it sold? Although not everyone can spend 95 euros on a cone that can be enjoyed in a matter of minutes, Paparella claims that the ‘Scepter’ has achieved surprising success. “In this time we have received more than 2,000 people who have come from all over the world just to enjoy this experience,” presume the ice cream man In fact, they have 148 people with reservations to try it between now and September. It is not a negligible figure if we take into account that, beyond the price, Ruvo di Puglia is not exactly a well-known destination. What is the underlying debate? “The numbers speak clearer than any controversy,” ditch Paparella. And he is right. We may consider it expensive or not, but the undeniable thing is that the ‘Cetro’ has a market and there are people willing to travel to a remote town and spend almost 100 euros to taste a cone. At its core, the debate is old and quite simple: does the gourmetization? Is it demand that determines prices? Curiously, as was remembered these days in the Italian press, the controversy has now arisen from the hand of a businessman (Briatore) who is no stranger to the world of luxury. Images | Mokambo Gelateria In Xataka | Spain’s favorite ice creams are from Mercadona and have no “brand”. And there is a … Read more

Microsoft bet 80 billion that you would play hundreds of titles. It failed because you just wanted to play the same old game.

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I have dozens of games in my library. Do you know how many I play? to two: from time to time I play a FIFA (I’ll always continue to call it that, I’m afraid) and if I get around to it I’ll hit the old ‘Battlefield 1’ that still has me conquered. In recent years I have enjoyed ‘Ghost of Tushima’, ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’ or ‘Sifu’, for example, but while I was spending hours on those half a dozen titles, many others that I have in my library are simply collecting dust. Surely many of you play many more games and invest much more time in this, and Microsoft was surely thinking of you when it configured its future strategy. Xbox’s ambition was great until it wasn’t The idea in 2020 was clear, and those responsible for Microsoft said that There were 2.8 billion gamers in the world and they wanted to conquer them all. As? Well, with two great projects: Spend a million in buying video game development studios to constantly grow the catalog, and, of course, Create the ‘Netflix of video games’ with Xbox Game Pass Both ideas seemed to make a lot of sense and many gamers, especially those of us who were from Xbox, felt excited by that ambition. Xbox Game Pass seemed to be really exceptional for gamers and a nightmare for Sony, and although the operation to buy Activision Blizzard and franchises like ‘Call of Duty’ It was exceptionally expensive.the play again seemed like a fantastic bet for players of all types. But lo and behold, it wasn’t. These days we have known that Microsoft has spent close to $80 billion on agreements that would give it access to titles such as the aforementioned ‘Call of Duty’ or ‘Skyrim’, so that these video games could be available from day 1 or almost from the first moment on Xbox Game Pass. They wanted to create a catalog that would allow gamers to play hundreds of titles, including the most recent “triple A” titles, as part of the subscription to that service. They were wrong. And we also thought that the idea made sense. less is more The truth is that the strategy has not worked out well for them. The company has announced that will lay off 3,200 employees in its Xbox division20% of its staff, and will also allow five development studios to leave the company to follow their own path again. Maybe the answer wasn’t having more games. Steam already gave a strong clue at the beginning of 2025 when it pointed out that its platform It had become a video game dump.: Of 19,000 titles in 2024, almost no one played 80% of them. As in many other areas, the long tail theory prevails: interest is concentrated in a handful of contents that, on their own merits (perhaps seasoned with some luck) become absolute successes. The reality for the vast majority of gamers is the same: there are too many games on the market and people simply don’t have time to play all of them. Let’s be handsome or uglyWe insist, there is no time for so many video games. My colleague Jose García wrote in 2021 his particular reflection on how many we have become new digital Diogenes When it comes to video games: we get countless new games (most of them free) on Epic Games, Steam or GOG, but we have them collecting virtual dust in our library because we will never play many of them. My situation was also reflected in another text by Isra Fernández: Being a gamer after having children is complicated. The Netflix of video games was a utopia The picture that this situation paints for us is one that we intuited and made sense, but that we deceived ourselves by rejecting. Creating the Netflix of video games was impossible because video games are radically different to series or movies. While one consumes series or movies once and abandons them probably forever, gamers return to the video games we like again and again. We don’t spend an hour or two on them, but dozens and even hundreds of hours both in solo games and in games against other players on the internet. The way of consuming both content is precisely what destroys the illusion that a Netflix of video games makes sense. Xbox Game Pass offers us hundreds of titles so we can try them (and buy them) if we want, but we rarely do. I myself enjoyed Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for three years, and although I tried around twenty titles during that time, I always ended up returning to my classics. The options were wonderful, but I just didn’t have time for them. because when I wanted to play, I wanted to go back to my FIFA or my ‘Battlefield 1’. Microsoft itself already accused the problem when it gave us the worst news two years ago by raising the price of Xbox Game Pass. That was not enough, because a few months later he uploaded it again. The service was becoming more exclusive than ever, and it was doing so for one simple reason: they weren’t making enough money with it. But there is another problem that It is not just about consuming, but about producing. The “Netflix rhythm” is also unviable: there four scriptwriters start writing and in six months the platform releases a series that people devour in a weekend. In video games things are different, with increasingly longer and obscenely expensive developments. The famous availability of games available on “day 1” does not help either. That AAA video games worth 70 or 80 euros are available for free to subscribers was wonderful for us, but a shot in the foot for the company’s accounts. Building loyalty was important, but that was killing income for developments like these in which a lot of time and money is invested. The conclusion is clear in retrospect: Microsoft’s strategy was fantastic for … Read more

Earning $180,000 a year is no longer enough to live in San Francisco. The AI ​​boom has eaten up the technological middle class

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In San Francisco you can earn $180,000 a year and not make ends meet easily. The AI ​​boom It is making what would be a huge salary anywhere else become mere pocket change, preventing entry into an impossible real estate market and a standard of living unattainable for the majority. Silicon Valley’s dream is to move. In it New York Times They tell the story of Katrine Razniak, a LinkedIn recruiter, and her partner Adam Woodbury, a software engineer. They have been in the city for five years and earn 180,000 and 185,000 dollars respectively, but despite this they are not able to get something as basic as an apartment for two. They spent months looking for a one-bedroom apartment to move in together on a budget of $5,000 a month, but it was impossible. They say they saw one for $5,200 and the waiting list already had 30 interested parties an hour after the open house. Buying a house is not an option either: The median home price is $1.7 million.. Given this situation, the couple is considering moving to another state where their salaries would allow them to live as an upper class. The new elite. While Katrine Razniak and her partner have to continue living in shared apartments, there is a new technological upper class that can afford to live comfortably in the city. They are the new millionaires of the AI ​​boom, employees of companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, with stratospheric valuations and stock options. In October of last year, when OpenAI was worth $500 billionwe already talked about that the city’s real estate market was exploding. Employees began selling stocks and buying homes like there was no tomorrow, causing prices to skyrocket. There is no improvement in sight. Not even a year has passed and Sam Altman’s company worth 852 billion dollars and Anthropic aims for 900 billion. To put it in context, when Uber went public in 2019 it was worth 82 billion, we are talking about ten times that amount. The imminent IPO of the two companies, added to the recent IPO of SpaceX, aims to create new fortunes, until 20 new billionairesaccording to estimates. Working in technology is no longer a guarantee of success in San Francisco, now you have to work in AI (and own stocks). It’s not just the rent. The median salary in San Francisco is also higher than the rest of the country and has been growing over the past six years, going from $153,000 to $196,000 today. However, everything else has also gone up. Aside from housing, life in general isn’t exactly cheap either. According to data from Cost of Living Indexthe cost of living in San Francisco is 65.6% higher than the rest of the United States. Katrine Razniak says her monthly spending has grown by $1,000 without changing her lifestyle, causing her and her friends to replace restaurant outings with home-cooked dinners. The housing problem in San Francisco. Spain is going through a housing crisis unprecedented, but we are not the only country facing this situation; Canada, Germany, Mexico, China o The United States are also suffering from it. In San Francisco specifically, the housing market is absolutely broken. As we said, the average price of a home is 1.7 million dollars, more than triple the national average of $450,000, and the rent is already the most expensive in the entire country, even ahead of New York. The demand is very high and the construction of new buildings is stagnant and the little that there is at a decent price ($5,000 a month is decent) flies in a matter of seconds. Image | photoholgic in Unsplash In Xataka | Sleeping capsules for 800 euros a month: the housing shortage in San Francisco is reaching the extreme

To the question of which Spaniard has the highest quality semen, the answer is clear: it is not the people of Madrid.

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Semen also has geography. And in Spain, Madrid does not fare well. Let’s assume that semen quality has been declining for decades. In Spain it has fallen 28% in just 15 years, a 78% if we value the last two decades. That is to say, a concentration of sperm is produced so low that it is less than half of what it was in the 70s. And it continues in constant regression. With this breeding ground, the question is: and which region is coping best with this decline? Alcohol and coffee have nothing to do with each other. The investigation analyzed 386 men seen in seven Spanish fertility clinics—such as the Bernabeu Institute—between 2024 and 2025. After adjusting variables such as body mass index, exercise, and alcohol, tobacco, or coffee consumption, the authors observed that men from the north recorded the best seminal parameters, even when their habits were similar to those of other regions. This gives us a clue to talk about pollution, environmental inequality and public health. The results have been presented at the 42nd congress of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). AND In it we can find clear differences in semen quality depending on the area in which the donors live. Those who win this game are the residents of the north, with Asturias and Cantabria far ahead of Madrid and the center of the peninsula. But there is fine print. More agile, faster. The total count of motile sperm is striking, almost double in the north than in the central area. In data: 94.35 million on average compared to 50.11 million in the central area. This index talk about health: “the northern region also presented the highest average sperm concentration (80.96 million/ml) and sperm motility (44.79%), compared to 55.4% in southern Spain and 53.4% ​​in the center.” If diet, exercise or substance use alone do not draw this map of semen quality, what does? The first conjectures point to a population that breathes worse, drinks and involuntarily incorporates into its body part of the atmospheric pollution, a mixture of industrial and agricultural toxins, where endocrine disruptors in plasticspesticides and everyday cosmetics. Out of the pot. Beyond Spain, the pattern repeats itself: studies with fertile men In cities such as Copenhagen, Paris, Edinburgh and Turku, they already showed in the early 2000s that the Finns had the highest sperm concentrations while the Danes recorded the lowest values, with also variations in mobility depending on the city. If we take a look at the retrospective analyzes of French donors found significant differences within the country itself in volume, concentration, and total number of sperm. The north wins again. In general, the men of the nordic west They have worse semen quality than those from the Baltic area, in parallel with a higher incidence of testicular cancer, another marker of male reproductive stress. Does better semen equal more pregnancies? Not necessarily, but almost. Let us keep in mind that, although the relationship with fertility is not linear, below certain thresholds of concentration and mobility, the probability of spontaneous pregnancy decreases considerably. To understand what “better semen” means, it is worth going down a level. According to the World Health Organization, reference values ​​are measured in concentration (millions of sperm per milliliter), ejaculate volume, percentage of motile sperm and proportion of sperm with morphology considered normal. It is necessary to distinguish between progressive sperm (the vanguard that advances efficiently), versus non-progressive and completely immotile ones. In morphology, the shape of the head, middle piece and tail (flagellum) is evaluated, since anatomical alterations can make fertilization difficult. Plastics and fertility. By the way: nitrile and latex gloves release plastic microparticles and contaminate environmental measurements does not invalidate that the presence of endocrine disruptors in human tissue does not affect male fertility. The evidence is solid. For example, a 2023 study that analyzed 6 human testicles and 30 semen samples found microplastics both in tissue and fluid: around 0.23 ± 0.45 particles per milliliter in semen and 11.60 ± 15.52 particles per gram of testicle, with sizes mostly between 20 and 100 microns, finding polystyrene in testicles and polyethylene and PVC in semen. The problem is broader. The taboo of male fertility, treated as a private matter, has obscured problems that can be investigated as a collective indicator. And this deterioration does not respond, or not only, to individual behavior. The greatest weight lies in the place you livenot in the genes you carry. A cardinal clue: of course smoking, drinking or moving more or less matter, but it does not depend so much on personal decisions. A debate that is more political than folkloric (and health and regulatory). A cocktail of bisphenol A, methyl, ethyl, propyl and butylparabens, benzophenones and phthalate metabolites is directly associated with significant reductions in total and progressive sperm motility. Therefore, Asturias beating Madrid is not something to celebrate, but rather to raise the alarm about the qualities of the water – it will not be that good -, what pesticides are used nearby and what mix of chemicals goes through daily life. The tip of an iceberg that does not lie in who comes out better off, but rather in the cost of those who come out worse off. Images | Unsplash (1, 2 and 3) In Xataka | We already know how much we Spaniards masturbate at work (and what is more important: which communities win) In Xataka | If you are worried about the quality of your sperm, science has a clear recipe for you: ejaculate more

mercilessly invade our privacy

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Goal has released Muse Image and Muse Videothe first generative AI models for images and videos from its Meta Superintelligence Labs division. With the image model it certainly wants to stand up to GPT Image 2.0 from OpenAI and of course the famous Nano Banana 2 from Google. The most striking thing in fact is not the model itself, which seems competitive in both image and video, but how it has been integrated into Instagram. He did it like a beast and with a clear threat to our privacy… again. Muse Image and Muse Video come into play. The new models are available for free in the United States from the Meta AI application, and also through Instagram Stories and WhatsApp (where it is available in some additional countries, although they do not detail which ones). It has various effects that can be used directly in Instagram Stories, and on paper performance and quality of both models is promising. The problem is not that, but Meta’s habit of sneaking in its products in a forced way and threatening our privacy. Just tag yourself. If your Instagram account is public, anyone can write a prompt in Meta AI, tag your username, and generate an image using your real image without you giving your explicit permission for that specific use. Goal presents that option like something casual: “Whether you want to design a custom event invitation, prototype a collaborative creative concept, or generate a custom graphic, tagging a username allows Meta AI to use public photos to create a post-ready image.” You will have to opt-out. Meta assumes that you are going to want the entire world to be able to tag you and use your image to create AI images, so if you want to avoid that you will have to be the one to prevent it. In the Instagram help they mention the topicand to prevent your photos from being used like this you have to follow the steps: Enter the Instagram mobile app Tap on your profile and within it on the three lines at the top right Go to “Share and reuse” and look for the “Allow people to create content with yours and reuse it” section There you can disable the existing switches for “Posts” and “Reels”. Meta doesn’t mention it in the release. In Meta’s official announcements it is indicated that with Muse Image “creative experiences on Instagram and WhatsApp are enhanced”, but the privacy problem is not indicated. Once again Meta simply encourages using these features without thinking that perhaps users have no interest in anyone using their images. Better to prevent. Instagram makes it clear on its help page that you won’t receive notifications when someone creates AI content using your photos: “you won’t receive notifications about content created using the AI ​​options in Meta,” they explain. Someone could be generating AI images of your face right now and there’s no way to find out unless you stumble across them by chance. Goal being Goal. Meta’s decision is the same one that has already been seen in Meta—and other companies— on other occasions. We must actively choose to disable certain options (opt-out) instead of giving prior consent (opt-in) for our data to feed the AI ​​models. Google Search for example already stores the content uploads we make, for example when we do a reverse image search, and uses that data to train its AI models. In Xataka | How to prevent Meta from training its artificial intelligence using your Instagram data

MediaMarkt celebrates its 27th anniversary with all these offers on LG, Samsung, Xiaomi and more TVs

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MediaMarkt is celebrating a new campaign, but it’s not just any one. He 27th anniversary from the store has brought numerous offers on televisions, so in this article we are going to review the best deals that can be found until next July 16, the date on which the campaign will end. First of all, we recommend taking a look at the numerous offers that the store has launched on television standssince they are accessories that generally do not drop in price, or at least not too much. LG OLED65B6ELC by 1,399 eurosan OLED TV with a free sound bar. TCL 75C8K by 1,399 eurosa QD-Mini LED TV with a 75-inch diagonal. TCL 65C6K by 569 eurosone of the brand’s televisions with the best quality-price ratio. Samsung TQ85Q6FAAUXXC by 999 eurosa simple TV, but with a diagonal of 85 inches. Xiaomi TV S Mini LED 65 2025 by 549 eurosa television with Google TV and a refresh rate of up to 144 Hz. Xiaomi TV S Mini LED 65 2025 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LG OLED65B6ELC If you are looking for a home cinema experience, MediaMarkt has launched one of the best offers of its anniversary campaign with the LG OLED65B6ELCwhich is now priced at 1,399 euros (although the store does not offer a discount, it has dropped in price). The television incorporates a 65-inch OLED panel, reaches a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz and is compatible with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. And that’s not all. With the purchase of this television, you can get a sound bar LG S40T totally free. You just have to click on the “buy pack” button to add it to the cart. LG OLED65B6ELC + gift sound bar The price could vary. We earn commission from these links TCL 75C8K For the same price, although without a gift sound bar, we have the TCL 75C8Ka smart TV that, for 1,399 eurosincorporates a QD-Mini LED panel that has a diagonal of 75 inches. Its audio system is signed by Bang & Olufsen, it comes with Google TV operating system, its refresh rate is 144 Hz and it is compatible with Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and Dolby Atmos. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links TCL 65C6K From the same brand, but with a much lower price, we have the TCL 65C6Ka quite attractive smart TV for the 569 euros which you have right now on MediaMarkt. We are talking about a television that also incorporates a QD-Mini LED panel with a diagonal of 65 inches. It comes with Google TV, its refresh rate is 120 Hz and it is compatible with Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and Dolby Atmos. In this case, the speaker system is signed by Onkyo. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung TQ85Q6FAAUXXC On the other hand, if you are looking for a huge television, be careful with this offer from MediaMarkt: the model Samsung TQ85Q6FAAUXXC has fallen to 999 euros. It is a television that in this case incorporates a QLED screen of no less than 85 inches. It also offers a 50 Hz refresh rate, is compatible with HDR10+, includes Filmmaker mode to watch movies and series and works with both Alexa like with Google Assistant. Unlike previous TVs, more than for video games, it is interesting for movies and series. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi TV S Mini LED 65 2025 Finally, we can also find on offer the Xiaomi TV S Mini LED 65 2025a smart TV that, for 549 euroshas a 65-inch QD-Mini LED panel, reaches a refresh rate of up to 144 Hz, is compatible with Dolby Vision IQ and Dolby Atmos and comes with Google TV operating system. Xiaomi TV S Mini LED 65 2025 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 | MediaMarkt and Compradicción (header), LG, TCL, Samsung, Xiaomi In Xataka | Best home theater projectors. Which one to buy and five recommended models from 299 to 18,000 euros In Xataka | Mega-guide to set up a home theater: projector, screen, sound system and more

New York has discovered that its highest paid employee is not the mayor, it’s a plumber. It seemed impossible until they checked their schedule.

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In 1927, Al Capone’s accountants were not the ones who ended up putting him in court. They did it own financial records. When investigators began to review income, schedules and money movements, they discovered that the accounts told a very different story than the official one. Because many of the most striking investigations did not begin with a complaint, but with something simpler: carefully looking at a time sheet. The highest paid employee. The story begins last yeara time when, to everyone’s surprise, the highest-paid municipal employee in New York was not the mayor, nor the police chief, nor the head of the firefighters. No, it was Jakub Markowskia plumbing supervisor for the municipal public housing authority who entered $465,000. The figure immediately attracted attention because it practically placed him at the top of a workforce of some 350,000 public employees. A possible explanation and something more. The first investigations confirmed that a good part of that salary came from the crazy figure of almost 2,560 overtime hours accumulated during a single fiscal year. Translated into practice, it represents an average close to seven extra hours a day for an entire year, an extraordinary workload even for a service used to dealing with urgent breakdowns. However, when reviewing the municipal documentation an unexpected detail appeared: during that same period there was also at the head of two private companies plumbing workers who worked on dozens of jobs spread across some of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the city. It’s not the salary, it’s the time. That discovery completely changed the focus of the case. The New York Department of Buildings is now investigating whether the compatibility between both activities respected the regulations municipal and whether Markowski had the necessary authorization after being promoted in 2024 to a supervisory position related to fire safety. Not only that. Investigators are also analyzing whether he could exercise the direct supervision required by law in especially sensitive jobs, such as gas installations, while accumulating such a volume of activity. More and more doubts in the hours worked. The investigation also tries to clarify how their companies really worked. counted the new york times that, although Markowski was listed as a licensed plumber, several contractors recalled dealing primarily with another businessman, Robert Tarnawa, whose exact relationship to the work remains under scrutiny. Precisely this point is especially relevant because New York legislation requires that certain works be supervised directly and continuously by a licensed plumber. A case at the worst moment. The context doesn’t help either. The New York Housing Authority manages more than 240 residential complexes where nearly 300,000 people live and has a huge investment deficit for repair badly damaged buildings. In recent years, furthermore, the organization has been involved several scandals related to bribery, extortion and fraud overtime, which has increased scrutiny over any possible irregularities in the management of its resources. More questions than answers. To date, Markowski has not been formally accused of any wrongdoing and authorities insist that the investigation remains open. Nor has the details of the specific tasks that justified his thousands of overtime hours been made public, information requested by the own The New York Times through transparency legislation. What has become clear is that the story of New York’s highest-paid public employee has ceased to be that of an exceptional salary and has become that of an agenda that the authorities are examining minute by minute. As shared in the Times Attorney April McIver: “Allowing a single person to run a private plumbing company while serving as a city supervisor and logging more overtime than any other city employee is not only wasteful, it raises serious questions about the integrity, safety and oversight of the New York Housing Authority’s operations.” Image | sam valadi In Xataka | New York has launched its new and revolutionary garbage containers. Spain has been using them for years In Xataka | For decades we climbed this New York skyscraper without knowing that the screws that held it in place could not hold.

Galician depopulation is filling the cemeteries with anonymous tombstones. There are those who want to solve it with QR codes

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It is one of the most unknown parishes in Pontevedra, a small town that has been shedding its inhabitants until it is left with barely 700. We are talking about Cerpozones (Cerponzóns), near the town of Alba or Tilve, the northern corner where they have wanted to take a curious step to preserve their own history: place QR codes (quicktime response) on cemetery tombstones. You scan a tombstone in Galicia and a life appears. “Linguistic restitution act“The O Chedeiro Neighborhood Association has been responsible for reformulating the usual text that can be found on the tombstones of the San Vicenzo cemetery. Why? Because they want the most distant generations, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, to be able to discover what story there is behind the names engraved in the marble. Read the past to understand the present. The first QR premiered in the family pantheon of Juan José Esperón-Recareyneighbor, writer and secretary of the association. The scan opens a direct link to the blog ‘O Roque de Cerponzóns’, where the life of this family crossed by emigration, agricultural work, sociability in taverns and the daily history of the parish is documented. In this blog you can discover the life, for example, of Jesús Recarey Lorenzo, tram conductor and conductor who dedicated a life to daily mobility, or Carmen Recarey Cochón, owner of the Rums tavernthe social center of the parish. Cerponzóns has also recently been the headline of several news stories for the documentary ‘A cardboard suitcase‘, as part of an initiative to preserve the memory and discover the history of this parish. The family has already changed the inscriptions on the tombstones from Spanish to Galician and this time they wanted to do something special, inspired by the Association of Officials for Linguistic Normalization of Galicia, which proposes using QRs with information in Galician about the deceased to remember names and experiences. Much better than a DEP When the grave is an interface As ironic as it may seem, this Pontevedra movement rhymes with many other actions carried out on the other side of the world. In Japan, the funeral company Ishi no Koe (literally “The voice of the stones”) has developed marble tombstones with embedded QRs that give access to websites with photos, videos, family testimonies and records of who visits the tomb and how many times said code has been scanned. These high-tech tombstones They are around $10,000. And the same with automated columbariums in china: In cities such as Shanghai, Shenyang or Fujian, cemeteries have been offering QR stickers on tombstones for years that, when scanned, show obituaries, photos, videos and music of the deceased, in the context of Grave Sweeping Day (Qingming) and a growing culture of “virtual mourning rooms“Well, and the candles are so automated that they light themselves at night. In Europe we can also find similar examples of this adaptation to the times. Denmark was one of the pioneers: In 2012, a tombstone company began offering porcelain plaques with QR codes for access to biographies within Roskilde Cemetery. The service cost about 100 euros and was sold as a way to preserve local stories and make the visit to the cemetery more interesting. I remember, in fact, on a visit to Berlin that its three Jewish cemeteries already had similar systems for being able to follow the sentences as if it were karaokeand even some masons were changing or repairing the codes for more robust plates. Although it is easy to consider it an experiment to understand digital grief. In the United Kingdom there are dozens of companies like Digital Gravestones or StoneCode Lite that sell packages of digital memorials. These include a website with photos, biography, timeline, cemetery location on Google Maps, condolence book and QR plate or weather-resistant NFC tag, with classic, minimalist or modern models and hosting from one to five years. There it is nothing. The truth is that an easy-to-read epitaph has an imprint that cannot replace a QR code. However, creatives such as historian Frederick Meza, designer of Memorial QR, consider that this is a more useful and practical form of documentation, archiving, and also to promote necrotourism and historical pedagogy of relevant figures: dignitaries, former mayors, artists and party founders, etc. Too much data for a place of mourning? Songs, poems and digital condolence books, this model also opens a debate: what about privacy? That anyone can scan and access that information may bother certain family members who prefer to preserve and reserve their past. However, the digitization of cemeteries has been unstoppable after the pandemic. In Spain, the cemeteries, with their cypress trees and flower crowns, are extremely quiet places where a certain decibel threshold is rarely violated. It is clear that QR codes are not just a gadget, but a way to expand the tomb from the name-date to the complete story, something very useful for anchoring biographies to local contexts, minority languages ​​or family genealogies that were previously lost in scattered papers. The parish of Cerponzóns has managed to manage its story through its blog, but the friction is still there: who decides what is told and who reads it? Or, more specifically: what happens when a public cemetery becomes an archive accessible to anyone curious, is it safe? It remains to be known how passwords are managed and what will become of technical continuity to verify whether great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren will truly know about their ancestors without entering broken links 50 years from now. Images | Unsplash (Brett Jordan, Waldemar Brandt), Tourism of the Council of Redondela In Xataka | Spain has more pets than children, so Malaga has inaugurated something inevitable: the first cemetery for dogs In Xataka | Burying a loved one is expensive. Some cemeteries are already beginning to offer an alternative: fertilizer for plants

How to know if you have been blocked on iMessage

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We are going to explain several methods with which you can know if someone has blocked you on iMessage. Let’s do it with several tracks. Not all of them are decisive, although some are clear proof that you have been blocked. Even so, it is useful to know all of them to carry out checks if you have suspicions. iMessenger is the technology to send messages between iPhone users for free. An instant messaging integrated into the Messages application where you also receive SMS, and that you can use on mobile phones as well as on Macs and Macbooks. Find out if you’ve been blocked on iMessage We are going to give you a list of the methods with which you can know if a person has blocked youas well as the explanation of what exactly to look for and how to interpret the clue. We will do it in a list format so that it is easier to understand everything quickly. See if messages are delivered: When you send a message and it reaches the person you sent it to, the message status appears below the message. Deliveredand when the person reads it it appears as Read. If the messages are not delivered, it may be because the cell phone is turned off, without coverage, or because you have been blocked. Messages are delivered from a different number: If you have dual SIM, then there is a quick check related to messages being delivered. If they do not deliver with the number that this person knows about you but with the other number they deliver immediately, it is clear that they have blocked you. Look at the color of the messages: When you send a message and it is iMessage, the bubble color is blue. Meanwhile, the RCS also free and SMS are green. If when you go to write to the person the message stops appearing in blue and as iMessage, it may be that they no longer have an iPhone, that they have deactivated iMessage, or that they have blocked you. The contact disappears from the suggestions list: When you click on the write a new message button, the first thing is to write the contact’s name. When you start doing this, contact suggestions appear. If a contact doesn’t appear as a suggestion when you type their name, it may be because you deleted the contact, changed their settings, or they blocked you. make a call: The trial by fire. If you call this number but the answering machine immediately goes to the first ring or you cannot call, it means that it has blocked you. In Xataka Basics | How to schedule messages in iMessage and set the day and time they are sent

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