Mobile Tech & Gadgets

Netflix spends 17 billion on producing content and YouTube does it for free. And that’s why YouTube is winning the game

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Alphabet first revealed in its Q4 2025 earnings report that YouTube generated more than 60 billion dollars over the past year, adding advertising revenue and subscriptions. The figure is 33% higher than the 45,000 million that Netflix reached in the same period and places the video platform above all the entertainment giants except Disney, which had a turnover of 95.7 billion. The data confirms what many in the industry already sensed: YouTube is not simply another competitor in the online video market, but the main beneficiary of the transformation in audiovisual consumption habits. Paradigm shift. YouTube’s victory reflects a profound transformation in how we consume video. While subscription platforms opted for the Netflix model (closed catalogs of professional productions), YouTube added in July 2025 13.4% of total television viewing time in the United States. It expanded its lead over Disney (9.4%) to establish the largest difference recorded since these measurements began. Youtube on your TV. Time spent watching YouTube on television has grown 53% since February 2023. The traditional streaming market, meanwhile, is going through what is known as “subscription fatigue“: the average number of subscriptions per consumer in the European market has stagnated at 2.35 in both 2023 and 2024, after growing systematically for years. This saturation has caused structural changes: the number of original series released in the United States fell 11% in 2025third consecutive year of declines from the 2022 peak. The difference in the plan. Breaking down where the money comes from can point to the reasons for this triumph. Of the 60,000 million in YouTube revenue, we have: Advertising revenue in the last quarter of the year was 11.38 billion dollars, with a growth of 8.7% year-on-year 325 million paid subscriptions on all your consumer services, such as YouTube Music or YouTube Premium For its part, Netflix: It reported revenue of $12.05 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, with a growth of 17.6% For the year as a whole, the platform reached $45.2 billion, with more than 325 million paid memberships The most notable difference lies in the business model. While YouTube maintains a hybrid model where advertising remains dominant, Netflix revealed its advertising figures for the first time: in 2025, its third year selling ads, advertising revenue exceeded $1.5 billion, multiplying by more than 2.5 compared to 2024. The company projects double that ad revenue in 2026. Why YouTube wins. YouTube’s competitive advantage lies in features that traditional platforms cannot replicate. On the one hand, the radical democratization of content creation: Netflix invests 17 billion dollars annually to produce, while on YouTube the creators assume the production costs. The base of 69 million creators generates a volume of content that is impossible to match: every minute 500 hours of video are uploaded to the platform The second differentiating factor is the algorithmic recommendation system. YouTube’s recommendation system uses large-scale language models that can handle massive amounts of data. This allows YouTube to do something that closed catalog platforms cannot: recommend videos based not only on general categories, but by fine-tuning suggestions based on specific interests. In 2025, YouTube’s recommendation system is the most sophisticated and user-focused. The third advantage is the absence of entry barriers for the public. While Netflix requires a mandatory subscription, YouTube offers free ad-supported access, with premium subscription as an option. This hybrid model maximizes potential reach: YouTube’s monthly active user base reached approximately 2.7 billion people in early 2025. This means that more than 25% of the world’s population uses YouTube in any given month. What it points to. YouTube’s triumph over Netflix in annual revenue represents more than a change in leadership: it signals a structural transformation in how audiovisual content is produced, distributed and monetized. The centralized studio model, a direct heir to the Hollywood system, is giving way to a decentralized ecosystem where millions of creators generate content for hyper-segmented audiences. And the implications for the industry are very profound. Header | Photo of NordWood Themes in Unsplash In Xataka | A YouTube video that lasts 140 years has gone viral. Nobody is clear why

The Winter Olympics are facing the most unexpected technological doping: penis punctures

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Human beings have always had a special relationship with flight. They say that Icarus flew so high to leave Crete that his wings ended up melting due to the action of the sun. Many years later, in 1903, the Wright brothers took flight for 12 seconds. Since then, all types of aircraft and flying accessories have been developed: from the commercial airplanes to the military, passing through the zeppelins and all kinds of gadgets for extreme sports. What we never imagined is that one of those gadgets was going to take on an unexpected name: penis. What has happened? Something as simple as it is complex: the ski jumpers’ penis is in the spotlight. Coinciding with the Winter Olympic Games which begin on Friday, February 6, 2026 in northern Italy, a rumor has spread that athletes are using their penises as part of technological doping that would make them fly further. The information that pointed to possible (and more than peculiar) doping among ski jumpers has its origin in information from the German newspaper Bild last January. It noted that athletes were injecting hyaluronic acid into their penises to increase their size. The goal, fly further. Literally. Because? Ski jumpers cannot use the suit that best suits them. Before the competitions, the responsible federation carries out 3D studies of the athletes’ bodies so that they use the suits that best fit their bodies. If the jumper reached these measurements with a swollen penis, he could use a larger size in his suit. This would create a larger surface area and, therefore, help keep it in the air longer, performing functions similar to those of a parachute. Unlike a boxer, who lose weight before going on the scale often dehydrating, in this case it is about increasing the size of the penis so that when it jumps it is smaller and than on fabric. Click on the image to go to the original tweet 5.8 meters. Winter sports, like any other elite sport, have become a race for marginal gains that can make all the difference when it comes to seconds, meters and, in this case, centimeters. According to The Timesincreasing the crotch area by two centimeters can represent a benefit of up to 5.8 meters. That, in terms of scoring, can make the difference between winning or not a medal and its color. In ski jumping, distance and technique are measured in two separate scoresincluding a wind correction. Is it doping? It’s the big question here. For now, WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) seems to be washing its hands, pointing out that injecting hyaluronic acid into the penis does not seem to increase performance of athletes. In this case we would talk about technological doping. That is, use the material used to your advantage to achieve marginal advantages that make a difference. In The New York Times They highlight that it would not be the first case of technological doping that would be studied in these Winter Olympic Games. England has been prohibited from participating with new helmets in the Skeleton test that improved the aerodynamics of its athletes. From England they defend themselves ensuring that these new helmets are safer than the old ones. Looking for the loophole in the regulations. Since the professionalization of the sport, efforts have been made to look for loopholes in the regulations to use them for their own benefit. The clearest example is in Formula 1 that has been seen since cars with six wheels to single-seaters that use turbines. Moto GP now lives in a constant obsession with aerodynamics. But playing on the margins is something that has also been used in sports where the athlete’s physique is decisive. Athletics has put the brakes on to the use of new foams and carbon plates in shoes that have broken records. In cycling too he has looked at his socks with a magnifying glass and it has been banned the use of the transistor on the chest for improve aerodynamics of the body. Although, probably, the case most similar to Penisgate It is that of the full-body swimsuits made entirely of polyurethane that caused a before and after in the history of swimming. Its use was prohibited because it increased the swimmer’s buoyancy.. But, above all, after 14 international records were broken at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and, already popularized, up to 43 world records were broken at the World Swimming Championships the following year in Rome. Photo | Todd Trapani In Xataka | This Dutch team has given its cyclists enormous “Darth Vader” helmets. And he has good reasons

Brussels points to its “addictive design” and calls for changes

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Maybe TikTok be one of the many applications installed on your mobile. It’s even likely that in recent days you’ve found yourself swiping almost without realizing it through a flood of videos competing for your attention. However, the European Commission does not look favorably on some of the dynamics of this social network, and everything indicates that the experience as we know it could change sooner rather than later. Addictive design. Brussels has focused on what it considers a possible “addictive design.” In a statement published this Fridaythe Commission points out several functions of the platform that, in its opinion, respond to a constant reward mechanism guided by the algorithm, something that “encourages the need to continue browsing and activates the ‘autopilot’ mode in platform users.” With the focus on minors. The executive arm of the European Union maintains that the company would not have taken into account relevant indicators of compulsive use, such as the time that minors spend on TikTok during the night, the frequency with which they open the application or other similar parameters. Added to this is the risk that “minors have an experience that is inappropriate for their age due to a misrepresentation of their age.” Insufficient measures. The community evaluation preliminarily concludes that the platform “does not appear to implement reasonable, proportionate and effective measures to mitigate the risks derived from its addictive design.” According to the Commission, current screen time management and parental control tools are not sufficiently effective: in the first case, because they can be easily circumvented; in the second, because they require additional skills on the part of the parents for their activation. The changes sought by the Commission. Beyond the diagnosis, Brussels also makes clear what kind of changes it hopes to see. In this phase, the Commission considers that TikTok would have to tweak basic elements of its design, such as progressively deactivating functions associated with continuous consumption (including infinite scroll), introducing truly effective pauses of use, also during the night, and adjusting its recommendation system. The objective would be to mitigate the risks that the analysis itself links to the current operation of the platform. How we got here. The origin of this research is found in the Digital Services Law (DSA), approved in 2022 to impose stricter obligations on large platforms operating in the European Union. The procedure against TikTok began on February 19, 2024 and is still ongoing, so there is still a long way to go before a final decision is made. As in any process of this type, the company has the right to defend itself. TikTok may examine the file and respond in writing to the preliminary conclusions. If these are confirmed and the company does not take the necessary measures, it could face a penalty of up to 6% of its global annual turnover. The company has already reacted. In an email sent to Xataka, TikTok’s Spanish office states that “the Commission’s preliminary conclusions present a categorically false and totally unfounded description of our platform, and we will take all necessary measures to challenge these conclusions by all means at our disposal.” Topic of the moment: social networks. All this occurs in a European context that is increasingly demanding with the use of social networks by minors. France has taken the first step to prohibit access to minors under 15 years of agewhile in Spain The Government of Pedro Sánchez is working on a similar measure with the intention of setting the limit at 16 years.. Images | Guillaume Perigois | Eyestetix Studio In Xataka | The science of “doomscrolling”: how technology hacked psychology so we can’t let go of our phones

those who seek relationships with an AI

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OpenAI is going to definitively withdraw GPT-4o next February 13, along with other old models such as GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini. The most interesting thing is that it’s not the first time that the company wants to end 4o, and the decision is not sitting very well with users, especially those who resist losing the ‘warmth and conversational tone’ of the model. It’s not the first time. In August 2025, OpenAI already attempted to retire GPT-4o after the release of GPT-5. The response was so overwhelming that the company reversed course in less than 24 hours and restored access. Of course, for paying users. According to explained Then Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, some users confessed to him that they had never had anyone to support them the way GPT-4o did, something he described as “heartbreaking.” Now, months later, OpenAI ensures that the new models GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.2 They already incorporate the personality and creativity improvements that those users demanded, and that only 0.1% continue to choose GPT-4o on a daily basis. Reaction. Just like share Mashable, on Reddit, especially in subreddits like r/ChatGPTcomplaints and r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, many users have complained about the news. “Let’s go to change.org and create petitions again. We got 4o back last time. We’ll get it back again,” wrote a user. another person claimed feeling “physically ill” and described the news as “devastating,” noting that two weeks’ notice is “a slap in the face” to those who have built creative projects or emotional support routines with this specific model. A petition on Change.org to save GPT-4o already exceeds 16,000 signatures. In addition, there have been many paying users who have threatened to cancel their subscriptions in protest. The underlying problem. To explain this phenomenon we must pay attention to two worrying concepts around the use of AI: sycophancy and hallucinations. GPT-4o was known for responding with excessive praise to even very basic and simple requests. OpenAI had to temporarily withdraw the model in April 2025 precisely because it was “overly flattering” and “often described as obsequious.” However, this same warm tone is what some users pursue. The problem is exacerbated when the chatbot begins to hallucinate its own ideas or role-play invented thoughts and feelings, which can lead some users to lose perspective that they are interacting with a machine, not a person. GPT-4o and relations with AI. The announcement has especially hit the MyBoyfriendIsAI subreddit, where users share their experiences and maintain what they describe as romantic relationships with personalized versions of ChatGPT. “My heart is in mourning and I have no words to express the pain,” wrote a person Another user described saying goodbye to “Avery”, the name he had given his chatbot, before canceling his subscription, describing the experience as “devastating”. That GPT-4o disappears on February 13, just one day before Valentine’s Day, has also been a disappointment for some. Just like they count Since Mashable, this community feels ridiculed and many of its members claim to have developed deep emotional bonds with this model. OpenAI promises alternatives. In your official statementthe company says GPT-5.2 includes options to customize the style and tone of responses, with base settings like “Friendly” and controls for warmth and enthusiasm. He also claims to be working on personality improvements, creativity and reducing “unnecessarily cautious or lecturing” responses. In addition, they also mention continuing to advance the ChatGPT version for over 18 yearswith greater freedom (within certain limits). Cover image | Solen Feyissa In Xataka | Programming is the new board of AI: OpenAI and Anthropic have made it clear with GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6

NASA had been refusing to allow its astronauts to carry iPhones for decades. For Artemis II you have made a historic decision

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Jared Isaacman, NASA administrator, has announced an important change for astronauts: the crew will be allowed to carry their personal smartphones. The objective is simple, to allow both photographs and videos recorded during space missions to be shared. what has happened. The publication has been informal and outside the official NASA press page. Via X, Isaacman has revealed that the crew of Crew-12 and Artemis II you will be able to fly with “modern smartphones”. “NASA astronauts will soon fly with the latest smartphones, starting with Crew-12 and Artemis II. We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments for their families and share inspiring images and videos with the world. Equally important, we are challenging legacy processes and enabling modern hardware for spaceflight on an accelerated timeline. This operational urgency will serve NASA well as we strive to achieve the highest value science and research in orbit and on the lunar surface. This is a small step in the right direction.” Without detailing models or limitations, it makes it quite clear that soon we will see more than one iPhone flying over a ship far from our planet. What was happening until now. Historically, NASA has only allowed Nikon cameras (a Japanese company with which it has had an agreement for more than a decade) to be brought on board. Initially with some of their DSLRs, and recently with the Nikon Z9, the latest generation mirrorless authorized for Artemis. Because. For decades, NASA has operated under an extremely strict security framework for any object boarding a manned spacecraft. The devices must not interfere with critical systems, their batteries have to meet very specific requirements to minimize the risk of fire, they cannot contain materials that can fragment in microgravity and they must pass certification processes associated with an exact hardware model. For the first time, the agency will allow the use of mobile phones on a manned mission certified by its own procedures, marking a significant shift in how NASA evaluates and accepts commercial technology on board. When. The departure of Artemis II, after some delayis scheduled for the month of March. After several dress rehearsals, NASA is not prepared to return to the Moon, because of old ghosts like the complexity of liquid hydrogen. It will not be the first time that a modern mobile phone travels to space, but it will be the first time that its use is authorized within a manned mission managed directly by NASA. Until now, mobile phones and tablets had flown on SpaceX missions under more flexible operating frameworks, serving as a background to evaluate their behavior during the mission. In Xataka | When the United States decided to go to the Moon, it did so no matter what the cost. And that included 60% of all its chips

We have plenty of electricity, but we lack cables to build houses and invest more

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Over the last decade, Spain has accelerated the installation of wind and solar farms, especially in “emptied Spain”, with the promise of becoming Europe’s green laboratory. However, upon reaching 2026, the system has hit an invisible but insurmountable wall: the cables. The reason is a “broken bridge”, since clean energy is born in the countryside, but does not reach the cities or factories because the transportation infrastructure does not exist or is saturated. The situation is critical. According to advance The Economistthe Spanish electricity grid has administratively “collapsed” and, for practical purposes, is closed to new projects. There is no longer room to accommodate new connection requests, which means that thousands of homes, data centers and industries are receiving a “no” answer when asking for a plug. Red Eléctrica’s technical documentation confirms this paralysis with endless lists of nodes submitted to a capacity contest, from Algeciras to Arrigorriaga, evidencing a blockade that runs through the entire peninsula. The “D-Day” that never came. The trigger for this crisis has a date and time. The electricity sector was anxiously awaiting February 2, 2026, the day on which the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) was to publish the new access capacity maps, the “traffic light” that indicates where there is more consumption. But the maps did not arrive. In a last-minute maneuver, the CNMC has postponed the publication until Monday, May 4, 2026. The decision responds to a critical alert launched by the system operator (REE) on January 26: under the new and strict technical criteria, “approximately 90% of the nodes in the transportation network would have zero access capacity.” The problem is deeper. On the one hand, the application of the “dynamic criterion” has revealed that more than 9 GW of already authorized demand—mainly data centers and electrolyzers—might not be sufficiently robust against “voltage dips” (sudden drops in voltage), which forces the tap to be turned off for safety. On the other hand, consensus is non-existent: Red Eléctrica and the distributors they have only achieved agree on the reference values ​​in 26% of the interconnection nodes, a figure that in the case of some distributors plummets to just 11%. A traffic jam with real consequences. Far from being a mere dispatch procedure, it has devastating consequences for the real economy. The energy plug has become the new brake on brick: Last year only 12% of connection requests for new urban developments were granted. The Asprima employers’ association estimates that some 350,000 homes are at risk of not being able to be built, not due to lack of land or money, but due to the simple lack of electrical power. The impact has specific faces. An example that they expose in The Economist is that of the Costa del Sol, where the delay in the construction of a substation in Estepona and its associated line keeps the quality of supply and the connection capacity of a total of 72 families in suspense. The investment war. There is a chronic lack of investment in basic infrastructure. While Europe invests on average 70 cents in networks for every euro of renewable generation, Spain remains at just 30 cents. This has unleashed an open war. The large electricity companies (Aelec) accuse Red Eléctrica (Redeia) of having invested below what was planned, causing the current precariousness. Redeia defends himself forcefullyensuring that it has quadrupled its investment to exceed 1.5 billion in 2025. In addition, the system operator uses devastating quality data to deny the poor state of the network: the average annual interruption time is just 0.46 minutes, a value 30 times better than the 15 minutes required by regulations. The speculative bubble. Amidst the chaos, speculation flourishes. The CNMC is finalizing a complete report—a kind of “forensic” audit—to put order in the system. According to Expansionthere are access requests for 67,100 MW, an exorbitant figure that is equivalent to half of all the installed power in the country. The regulator suspects that there are massive duplications and “ghost” projects that hoard nodes for the sole purpose of reselling permits, blocking access to real industries. Three months of heart attack. Given the seriousness of the scenario, the sector now faces a three-month truce, until May, to try to avoid the total closure of the network. Express legal route. The recent Sustainable Mobility Law has introduced an “emergency mechanism” which allows changing the purpose of positions in substations. That is, unlock spaces reserved for generation that are not used and assign them to consumption quickly. “Amnesty” for Data Centers. To prevent the flight of digital investment, the Government has activated a grace measure for 2026: has eliminated the requirement that forced data centers to consume in “off-peak hours” (at night) to receive aid, recognizing that solar energy has changed the reality of prices and that said requirement no longer made technical sense. Cost for the citizen: fixing the network it won’t be free. The proposal for 2026 includes an increase in tolls (4%) and charges (10.5%) in the electricity bill to finance these investments and the “reinforced mode” of operation, necessary to guarantee stability after the incidents of 2025. Crisis of institutional trust. Despite the extension, legal uncertainty is latent. Electricity companies fear that industries that already had access granted they can lose it when applying the new, more restrictive criteria. Óscar Mosquera, sector expert, warns on LinkedIn about a “regulatory breakdown.” “The network is no longer just infrastructure, it is an institution,” says Mosquera. His diagnosis is lapidary: “A system that invites investment and then does not connect is not prudent, it is incoherent. That is the true country risk.” While the administration looks for solutions, real demand does not wait for the bureaucracy. Joaquin Coronado highlights that the electricity demand It has grown by 3.7% at the start of January 2026, exceeding the official forecasts of the CNMC itself. The Spanish economy tries to accelerate, but physical reality prevents it. A country disconnected from its own future. Spain finds itself at an ironic and … Read more

the footprint of a turtle stampede from 80 million years ago

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Sometimes the older ones paleontological discoveries They do not occur in planned excavations and with large studies behind them, but by pure chance in places where no one should be. This is precisely what happened in 2019 on Mount Còrneo in Italy where two climbers entered in a restricted area of ​​the natural park and they came across something that did not fit into the rock: hundreds of strange brands on a vertical wall. We already know what it is. Now, a study published in Cretaceous Research has revealed what those marks really are: the fossil trace of a stampede of sea turtles fleeing in terror from an earthquake that occurred 80 million years ago. The forbidden zone. The discovery is attributed to Luca Natali and Paolo Sandroni, who were climbing a limestone wall in the Scaglia Rossa formation. And what they found was neither more nor less than a canvas of more than 1,000 fingerprints distributed in an area of ​​about 200 square meters. The location where they were found is no less, since it is key and at the same time problematic. As it is a vertical wall, which in the Cretaceous It was a flat seabed, access for scientists was almost impossible. That is why they had to resort to drones to be able to photogrammetrically map the site and study the furrows without risking the life of any researcher. CSI Cretaceous. In order to clarify this discovery, the researchers used the magnetostratigraphythe analysis of magnetic polarity of the rocks, to date the event to the Campanian, about 80 million years ago. The scene. To locate ourselves, 80 million years ago this vertical wall was a deep seabed that It was about 300 meters deepcompletely calm and muddy. But an earthquake shook the area, causing an immediate reaction: a group of sea turtles panicked. And as anyone would do, the reaction was to start swimming frantically towards deeper waters, hitting the bottom with their alerts and leaving those semi-lunar marks. Minutes or hours after the turtles passed, an avalanche of sediment caused by the same earthquake, known as turbiditecovered the footprints instantly, sealing them as if it were an “underwater Pompeii.” Why turtles? The identification of these traces has not been an easy task for the researchers who have had to discard among the possibilities in front of them. At first, other inhabitants of the Cretaceous were considered fish, plesiosaurs or mosasaurs. However, analysis of the furrows told a different story. The first thing to keep in mind is that they couldn’t be fish because the marks had bilateral symmetry. They also could not be plesiosaurs since the pattern of the markings did not fit with the four-fin movement of these reptiles. In this way, for the researchers, the semilunar marks, consistent with turtle fins, left no doubt that it was this marine animal of the time. Healthy skepticism. As is often the case in paleontology, not everyone is 100% convinced. Thus, there are different well-known experts who point out that, although the seismic theory is solid, attributing the marks definitively to the turtles requires more comparative evidencemaking it a rare fossil record in deep pelagic environments. Although what is truly interesting in this case is not the species, but the paradigm shift. Right now, most fossils told us about the death of an animal or its anatomy. But now we have seen how these footprints tell us about their behavior in a moment of terror experienced millions of years ago. Images | Cretaceous Research In Xataka | The skull that changes everything: a million-year-old fossil suggests that ‘Homo sapiens’ did not come from Africa

He does it for a good reason.

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In addition to being supported by one of the largest fortunes in the world, Blue Origin obtained a good part of its financing from suborbital trips, for which its millionaire passengers paid a fortune. However, Jeff Bezos is going to leave his exclusive space tourists on the ground for at least two years. In a statementBlue Origin has announced that it is now prioritizing its lunar plans over short New Shepard flights, putting on hold its luxury weightlessness experiences that have taken celebrities and great fortunes to the edge of outer space. The rich stay on land. Blue Origin has decided to suspend the flights of its reusable New Shepard rocket “for no less than two years” to redirect resources towards the Artemis project that must bring it back to life. humanity to the moon. This pause directly affects the space tourism business that depended on this reusable rocket launched from the Texas desert, where both the ship and the capsule return to be reused in future missions. Space tourism has been one of the great sources of income for Blue Origin, which has built a solid client portfolio and even has a waiting list for several years. The official statement does not clarify what will happen to people who already had flights scheduled for the coming months, leaving these millionaires in temporary limbo. It was a means, not an objective. The suspension of the space tourism program shows that the program was always a means of making profitable and financing Blue Origin’s developments and innovations, but the priority had always been reach the moon either establish orbital colonies. These suborbital flights are clearly reserved for economic elites, celebrities and select guests. Among his amateur “astronauts” is Jeff Bezos himself, his wife Lauren Sanchez, the singer Katy Perry, or to Spaniards like him media Jesús Calleja o Alberto Gutiérrez, founder of the platform Civitatis that just a few days ago reached the Kármán line. This stoppage shows that, although exclusive, suborbital tourism has not achieved sufficient launch frequency to maintain itself as a priority compared to more contracts. lucrative and strategic with NASA. Decisive bet on the Moon. Blue Origin maintains a multimillion-dollar contract with NASA to develop Blue Moonits lunar landing module for the Artemis programwhich seeks human return to the Moon and a sustained presence there. The pause in New Shepard launches is intended to “redirect resources to further accelerate the development of the company’s lunar human capabilities” by freeing up engineers, materials and budget to accelerate Artemis 5, planned for 2029 as descent module for astronauts. Blue Origin has underlined its “commitment to the national goal of returning to the Moon and establishing a permanent and sustained lunar presence.” Space tourism is left without competition. Blue Origin’s decision creates a new gap in the offer of suborbital flights intended for “space tourism.” In 2024, its main rival, Virgin Galacticsuspended its operations due to the high cost of the missions and the development of rockets to carry them out. However, Richard Branson’s company has announced the possibility of resuming its flights in 2026, although with higher rates. For the millionaires who longed for their moment of glory floating in the New Shepard capsule, this means at least two years of waiting without a clear resumption date, confirming that Jeff Bezos has chosen the Moon like the real prize. In Xataka | Jeff Bezos asked his parents for their life savings to found Amazon. They only asked him one question: “What is the Internet? Image | Blue Origin

Movistar Plus+ has football and the Six Nations exclusively

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A streaming platform with exclusive sports and that you can share with whoever you want without strange inventions. Movistar Plus+ stands out from other options with live football matches such as the upcoming Barcelona-Mallorca, but it does not live only on football: it will also host the best rugby tournament in the world. It can be contracted without permanence and regardless of which operator you are. 9.99 euros (although it can cost you 39 euros a year if you have Young Cultural Bonus). Monthly subscription to Movistar Plus+ The price could vary. We earn commission from these links With Movistar Plus+ you can watch several LaLiga or Champions League matches and the Six Nations All these matches and sporting events (and others that we will see a little further down) give us a perfect excuse to give it a try or return to Movistar Plus+. Since it has no permanence, we can try it for a month and cancel if it doesn’t convince us. Furthermore, as admitted two simultaneous playsyou can share your account with whoever you want. Whether it’s with someone who lives in your house or not. If you come to Movistar Plus+ for football, you have a choice. LaLiga leader Barcelona plays against Mallorca next Saturday at 4:15 p.m.a match that you can enjoy both with its classic broadcast and with the multi-camera option. Along with this, we leave you below a summary of other matches that the platform will broadcast in the coming days: Liverpool-Manchester City (February 8) Real Madrid-Real Sociedad (February 14) Bruges-Atletico Madrid (February 18) Celtic-Stutgart (February 19) Villareal-Valencia (February 22) Tottenham-Arsenal (February 22) Real Madrid-Benfica (February 25) Celta-PAOK (February 26) Oviedo-Atlético de Madrid (February 28 or March 1) Arsenal-Chelsea (March 1) Of course, there is sport beyond football. That’s where the Six Nations Rugbythe best tournament there is in this sport (and which is broadcast in full and exclusively on Movistar Plus+). In addition to this, we also have several Euroleague games for basketball (both men’s and women’s), tennis, and more. The sports offer complements a catalog of movies, series and documentaries where we can even see the Oscar nominee ‘Sirat‘and where it will come’Sundays‘, the platform’s original film with 13 Goya nominations and five Feroz awards in its pocket. It all adds up to a platform that costs 9.99 euros per month, but in which We can save two months if we opt for their annual subscription: comes out 99.90 euros. 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 | Movistar Plus+ In Xataka | Mega-guide to set up a home theater: projector, screen, sound system and more In Xataka | The best streaming platforms 2025 | Comparison of Disney+, Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Movistar Plus+, Filmin, Apple TV, SkyShowtime and Rakuten TV: catalog, functions and prices

An alliance between Ford and Geely sounds like melodic music for Almussafes. The reality is much more complex

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Ford is looking for a Chinese car. Reason: here. This is the sign that could hang on the door of the Ford factory in Almussafes (Valencia). The American company is looking for partners in China to produce electric cars and Geely seems to be one of the best positioned brands. Nor is it the first that has raised rumors about possible collaborations with the American brand, which, in addition, is already linked to Volkswagen or Renault. But what does Almussafes have to do with all this? Ford and Geely. The last brand with which Ford has been related in recent days has been with Geely. According to Reuters, Ford and Geely, Chinese group that owns Volvo, Polestar or Smart, among othersare holding talks to produce cars in Europe in one of the spaces that the company has on our continent. In addition, collaboration is being studied for the development of shared technologies such as autonomous driving. In Reuters They point to two sources who were aware of this information and the company has not denied that this is happening. “We have conversations with many companies about many things. Some are fruitful and others are not,” the Americans assure the news agency. For its part, Geely has not commented. Ford moves. It is not the first time that the company has been related to a Chinese company. On this occasion, it is said that negotiations have been underway for months and that Ford would have sent workers to the Asian country to advance a hypothetical agreement. Coincidence or not, Jim Farley has been traveling in China recently and He has been complimenting Chinese manufacturers for a long time. One of those companies that he has complimented and with which it has also been related It’s Xiaomi. Farley himself took a Xiaomi SU7 to the United States and has not failed to point out all the good things this product does. The collaboration agreement, it seems evident, would be for Europe since Chinese cars have an almost impossible future in the United States as a consequence of the Government’s own veto. Why Geely? The conversations with Geely seem to have much more substance than the possible collaborations with Xiaomi. The automobile conglomerate has brands that are not unknown to the European public (Volvo, Lotus, Smart…) whose electric cars do not have to break that barrier of entry into the European collective imagination as a “Chinese car.” However, Geely has a problem: they pay a lot of tariffs. As many as 37.6% after The European Union will withdraw in 2024 to try to protect an industry that was threatened by cheaper electric cars. Since then, the impact of the Chinese car has been limited to the lowest priced units. And it doesn’t seem like it’s going to change whether the negotiations between the European Union and China They still don’t get ahead. Collaborating with Ford and using the company’s facilities would allow Geely to produce electric cars without going through the checkout. And although labor costs are higher than the Chinese, they would not have to build new facilities because they would take advantage of those that the company has already built. Almussafes? In the information of Reuters It is assured that “Ford’s plant in Valencia would probably be the factory involved in these talks, said a person familiar with the matter.” However, some details must be taken into account. The factory is running right now at half throttlewith a Ford Kuga that is facing its last days on the market and that is not going to be renewed. The promise is to produce a multi-energy vehicle small size until 2028 when an electric car should arrive. To do this, the plant would need a deep reconversion that Ford is reluctant to carry out because North Americans are obtaining very low sales with their electric cars. A solution, therefore, would be to reach an agreement with Geely so that the Chinese company would take advantage of these facilities by making the appropriate conversions. The only doubt is that, right now, the plan is to produce a small model with a combustion engine. Electrifying space can put in check this multi-energy car that Ford should start producing soon. For now, the newspaper Levant reports that the brand will send a Ford delegation in the coming days to speak with those responsible for the factory. Ford’s mess with the electric car. Little by little, Ford has been falling into a small hole with the electric car which has a complicated solution. The brand has decided that its future lies in two clearly differentiated family lines: one made by themselveswith the Ford seal as quality and names clearly differentiated from the rest of the range (Mustang or Bronco) and lower cost cars manufactured by third parties. Europe is heading towards a future where the electric car seems the only solution. Until now, Ford’s investments have fallen on deaf ears and that is why it has reached a agreement with Volkswagen which has borne fruit electric Ford Explorer and the Ford Capri. And it has also signed an agreement with Renault so that the French can produce them in France. a sort of Renault 5 and Renault 4 with the blue oval. Ford promises that the cars will have their own American essence. At the same time, Ford focuses its own models on high-priced combustion or electric vehicles, such as the Mustang Mach-E. This allows them to achieve higher profit margins and bring combustion models to Europe in dribs and drabs whose high price justifies the increase in the final volume of emissions to be presented to regulators. What are the exits? At the moment, the first information points to different exits in the event that the negotiations between Ford and Geely come to fruition. First, it must be taken into account that what Geely may be most interested in is a car factory capable of producing electric vehicles as quickly as possible. Ford has a … Read more

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