The Japan islands closest to Taiwan have begun to evacuate the area. They have been preparing for the worst for two years

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For decades, Ishigaki It was a back of peace where the greatest concern of its inhabitants was to protect their climate crops and pests. However, for a while to this part The growing tension between China and Taiwan (and United States)has turned the small Japanese island, located only 300 km from Taiwan, into a potential conflict point. Like Ishigaki, to rest of Sakishima Islandsfrom Okinawa’s prefecture, the same thing happens to them, and they are preparing for the worst. The case of Ishigaki. A few years ago, the island has already “armed.” The installation of anti -mushroom missiles and anti -aircraft in the enclavepart of an ambitious military modernization plan in Japan, sought to strengthen the defense of the country, but it could also make Ishigaki a target in case of a confrontation in the region. Farmers like Tetsuhiro Kinjowhose greenhouse is now in the line of fire, They related to New York Times if they can continue living in peace or if the paradise that they have built will disappear under the crossfire of the powers. Of the economic opportunity to the military threat. Japan has long been to see China as an opportunity for economic growth To consider it a direct threat to your safety. For years, the relationship between the two countries It was marked by territorial disputescommercial tensions and the memory of World War II, but always with a political position that avoided confrontations. However, the hardening of Beijing’s control over Hong Kong and Xinjiang, their growing dominance in global supply chains and their aggressive movements in the Eastern China Sea They have generated a change in Japanese perception. The Taiwan inclusion in Japan’s White Bile for the first time reflected Tokyo’s growing concern on the future of the island and its impact on regional stability. The dilemma In the background, the Possibility of a conflict in Taiwan It generates a strategic dilemma for Japan. Some analysts fear that a war in the region not only will bring direct clashes, but serve as pretext for China to try to seize the disputed senkaku isletswhich manages Japan but Beijing claims as his. This concern has given a new impulse to the political sectors that seek to review the Pacifist Constitution of Japan, a historically controversial issue, although increasingly backed in the current context. Not just that. The passage of time does not seem to appease tension Between Taiwan and China, but quite the oppositeso Japan has decided to prepare its closest islands to an eventual geopolitical conflict of major words. Evacuation plans. Before the growing possibility of that crisis In Taiwan, The Japanese government has been designing evacuation plans since 2023 For approximately 120,000 residents of the Sakishima Islands chain, in Okinawa prefecture. The strategy seeks Move the population to the Kyushu region and Yamaguchi prefecturealthough it faces serious logistics challenges, from the availability of transport to the preparation of adequate infrastructure to receive the evacuees. Planning has accelerated as China shows a more aggressive position In the Eastern China Sea and the South China Sea, increasing concerns about a possible invasion of Taiwan and its repercussions in Japan. Logistic challenges No doubt, the Japanese government has identified multiple obstacles for mass evacuation in case of conflict. The plans include The authorization of airports and ports in Fukuoka and Kagoshima as a key exit pointsalthough the estimated time to complete the evacuation of the entire population would be at least six days, a figure that experts consider optimistic and difficult to meet in an emergency scenario. In addition, the lack of adequate infrastructure in local ports and airports, such as the need for clues of at least 3,000 meters and greater depth in the docks to receive large ships, has been pointed out as a critical problem. Maybe for all this, Maritime transport is contemplated as an essential alternativeespecially for those who cannot fly for medical reasons (plus: adverse weather conditions could complicate their viability). In parallel, A plan has begun to improve the capacity of shelters on the mainlandincluding the construction of underground facilities to provide temporary refuge for approximately two weeks in case of attack with ballistic missiles. Drills and tests. As we said, since 2023, the Nation has carried out simulation exercises to evaluate the viability of evacuation and improve coordination between local and national authorities. In March 2024 and This same week of 2025 exercises have been carried out of mapping under the Civil Protection Law, recreating an imminent attack scenario with part of the population participating in the drill. In addition, at the end of 2024 the authorities tested A model case in which 1,000 residents of Tarama Island were evacuated to refuge facilities in the prefecture of Kumamoto. Tests, in short, that have allowed identifying failures in coordination and the availability of resources, which has led to the review of the protocols. In this regard, one of the most urgent problems is the supply of food and supplies for a displaced population of that magnitude, a challenge that will require exceptional logistics to guarantee the efficient distribution of resources. Security evacuating. One of the biggest risks identified in these plans is The vulnerability of evacuation transport to possible attacks. In this regard, a government official has warned that The airplanes and ships that move to the civilian population could become military objectiveswhich would make an essential significant reinforcement of Japan’s air and naval defense. In addition, this has revived The debate on the strengthening of the country’s defensive capabilitiesparticularly in a context where Japan has increased its defense budget and has reinforced its military cooperation with the United States and other allies. An uncertain scenario. Thus, the growing approach to Japan in mass evacuations planning reflects a change in their security perception, going from a deterrence to deterrence to a most active preparation against possible military contingencies. While tensions in the Taiwan Strait continue to climb, the nation is in a career against time to ensure that its population is … Read more

Your factory will grow to make more cars

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The world automobile industry, and especially the European He is not at his best. They move in a scenario in which a crisis have converged Electrification derivedthe pressure of the Asian manufacturers and the imposition of Tariff policies who have staggered All strategies commercial However, in the midst of all that chaos, a European brand looks at the future with optimism and closes one of its best years in sales and benefits, making public His intention to expand his production: Rolls-Royce and his personalized cars division. Make unique rolls-royce The British luxury car manufacturer announced an investment of 300 million pound High customization level in their finishes by its richest customers. The brand is part of the BMW Group and, just as other luxury cars manufacturers such as Lamborghini, Ferrari, have highlighted or bugattithe personalization market of its cars has triggered the profit margins, while they have encouraged sales. According to the Rolls-Royce Sales Report, the manufacturer sold 5.712 units in 2024: the third highest annual sales registered, although in reality it represents a 5% drop with respect to 2023. However, taking into account the Sales fall context generalized throughout the sector, staying in those figures selling luxury cars is a milestone. As Chris Brownridge, executive director of Rolls-Royce, recognized in An interview for CNBCmuch of that success is due to the complex customizations that demand Your ultra -up clients. “We have customers in every corner of the world and this increase in demand for more complex orders by our clients is something that we must satisfy. Therefore, Goodwood investment is something that demonstrates the health of the organization, but also demonstrates The trust we have in our growth plans, “said Rolls-Royce manager. As its person in charge indicates, “what we intend – and we will – is to manufacture more special commissions and more extraordinary cars”, so the intention of this expansion is not to manufacture more cars, but to give greater coverage to the exclusive customization orders of the Bespoke programs and Coachbuild with which the final price of the car can double. Rolls-Royce customization office in Seoul The Roll-Royce plan is not limited to providing more space and resources to the workshops that carry out these customizations, but also plan Expand the number of private offices In which customers, prior exclusive invitation, can customize their vehicles to the slightest details. It would be the equivalent of going to a tailor to make you a custom car. Exclusive cars: the lifeguards of European luxury brands Personalization in Rolls-Royce only limits the budget of its customers. The British brand has come to develop An exclusive painting For one of his customizations called Lunaflair, in which they have spent a year and will only look A Rolls-Royce unit. Brands like Ferrari, stood out in Your report of benefits of the third quarter of 2024 the Consolidated personalization growth in it Atelier Ferraridivision that the brand has created to respond to the exclusive requests of its customers. Alessio Soligo, head of sales for southern Europe in Lamborghini, said that “each customer wants their custom suit. Above all, for supercar, customers want to have the possibility of customizing their car and Lamborghini offers them a wide range of possibilities to achieve it. “ Tim Bravo, director of communication of the brand, assured that 90% of the cars that come out of His factoring of Sant’agata Bolognese He does it with some type of customization and an average increase in its price of 20%. In Xataka | The most luxurious customization of Tesla Cybertruck was not sold as expected: $ 60,000 in gold at the balance price Image | Rolls-Royce

Mediamarkt has this 65 -inch Samsung TV at outlet price

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If the time has come to retire your old TV, there are many alternatives you have in the market. Mediamarkt, is celebrating its “La Baja Baja” campaign and one of the chollos on televisions that are worth it is this. Now you can get the SAMSUNG TQ65Q64DAUXXC more than half of what it usually costs, since it is available for 551.65 euros. SMART TV SAMSUNG TQ65Q64D 4K ULTRA HD 65 “HDR QLED * Some price may have changed from the last review A perfect TV to mount your own home cinema One of the outstanding things on this Samsung TV is its Airslim designso it offers a very thin aesthetic and with reduced frames, thus contributing avant -garde and elegance in the hall of your home. In addition, he admits VESA Support Assemblyin case you want to hang it on the wall to enjoy a greater feeling of immersion. It has a 65 -inch qled panel with RUHD 4K ESOLUTION And it is compatible with formats HDR10+, HLG and HDR. Its processor is compatible with AI and reproduces up to 110 tones of color, certified by Pantone, so the image experience you enjoy will be totally realistic. In the audio section, it incorporates a 2.0 channel speakers systemwith a power of 20 w and compatible with Dolby Atmos and Q-Symphony, an exclusive audio technology of the Korean firm. In the connectivity section, integrate three HDMI 2.0 portstwo USB ports, wifi 5, Bluetooth 5.2 and audio optical output. It comes with Tizen operating system and is compatible with the vocals Alexa, Bixby and Google Assistant. The best gadgets to maximize this TV Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K (last generation) * Some price may have changed from the last review SAMSUNG SOUND BAR HW-S700D/ZF 2024 * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Samsung In Xataka | Best sound bars in quality price In Xataka | HDMI cable types: what are there and what are different

The strange effect that soap operas have had in Brazil’s demography

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It is evident, by pure common sense, that the most widespread pieces of popular culture can impact tremendously on the behavior of large masses of recipients. Songs of pop artists, ultrataquilla films or literary best-sellers can create fashions, modify customs, generate trends. And among those strong molders of public behavior, few are as strong as television. And within television, contests, news, Talk Shows, realities And yes, soap operas. Telenovelas change people. A couple of studies, ‘Soap Opeas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil‘(‘ Culebrones and fertility: tests from Brazil ‘) and’Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian novels‘(Television and divorce: Tests from Brazilian soap operas’) analyze the impact of snakes on different aspects of the personal life of their spectators. Specifically, these programs have made fertility rates fall (more than 60% from the seventies) and multiply divorces (five times more from the eighties) in recent decades. The fault is from TV. And in the meantime, the number of families owned by television devices have multiplied: by ten, specifically, currently reaching 80% of the country’s homes. Of course, the figures of all this are not necessarily linked directly, but as the studies explain, “the authorities of these countries often have difficulty educating the population in social social and public health matters, due to The high illiteracy rates and the limited circulation of newspapers and Internet access. ” That is, the influence of television on a population with high illiteracy indices is unquestionable. The role of Globe Rede. Both studies emphasize the importation of the growth of Globe linethe most important media group in the country and the fourth largest commercial network in the world. In the nineties, 98%grew, reaching 17.9 million homes when in the mid -sixties, it still did not exist. It is to this expansion to which these complete studies allude, using demographic data related to the increasingly widespread television signal and the unstoppable growth of snakes as a favorite genre in Brazil. How the study was done. The fact that the expansion of Globe is so well documented over the years allows us to contrast with demographic data to put in relation, for example, birth rates with television expansion. It was thus detected that fertility and birth figures were lower in Brazil areas covered by Rede Globo. In fact, these studies calculate the specific percentage: the probability that women in areas covered by the television signal would become pregnant decreased a 0’6. Similarly, and this data is defining, there are no differences in fertility rates in different areas of the country before the arrival of television. The descents of fertility rates were accentuated in years after the issuance of series where social mobility of women was represented. What is seen on television. The soap operas (who see from sixty to eighty million Brazilians regularly) put the viewers in contact with a very specific family model: small, white, well economically positioned, urban (the plots are usually developed in large cities such as river of Janeiro and São Paulo) and consumerist. According to Alberto Chong, economist and co -author of both studies, “the constant exhibition to smaller and less recharged families that television shows may have created a preference for having less children.” That is, the novels present a more desirable family model, and that models the behavior of women, in the image and likeness of what they see in the “novels”, as the snakes are called there. Other data. The studies have analyzed 115 snakes (such as ‘Vale Tudo’ or ‘Dancing Days’) issued between 1965 and 1999 during maximum audience. Studies have counted that in series, 62% of female characters have no children, and 21%, only one, which undoubtedly also supports the theories of these studies. And as an anecdote, there is influence, of course, in the choice of names of children: the probability that the 20 most popular names in an area that received the globe signal included one or more characters names from a series of that year was 33%. In Xataka | The softer of image of your TV is your worst enemy: maybe you should calibrate your TV

For the first time in decades, the United States has just approved a new analgesic does not opioid

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Analgesics usually appear among the most consumed drugs in Spain and other countries in the world. These medications aimed at relieving pain also have a somewhat darker side if we look at countries like the United States, plunged into an entire epidemic of opioid addiction. Good of the FDA. Now, the US agency in charge of regulating drugs in the country, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), announced yesterday the approval of A new drug In the country. It is an analgesic not opioid, the first to reach the US in decades. We still have information about its hypothetical arrival in Europe. The drug is focused on the treatment of pain between moderate and severe in adult patients, according to explained in a press release the agency responsible for its approval. A curious detail indicated by the agency is that those who undergo this treatment must avoid grapefruit, something relatively common With certain treatments. “Approval (…) is an important achievement in public health in acute pain management,” indicated in the same note Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, Director of the Center for the Evaluation and Research of Medicines of the FDA. “A new therapeutic class of non -opioid analgesics for acute pain offers an opportunity to mitigate certain risks associated with the use of opioids (…) and provides patients with another option.” Suzetrigine This is suzetrigine (Suzetrigine), which will be marketed in 50 mg pills for oral administration under the name Journavx. The new drug has been developed by the company Vertex Pharmaceuticals. It is administered in several doses: an initial of 100 mg and successive doses of 50 mg every 12 hours, dosage calculated through the clinical trials that gave rise to their approval. Essays that also indicated that, even though an effective compound, the new analgesic has a moderate pain reduction effect. “It is not a mate in effectiveness,” explained in statements collected by AP Michael Schuh, from the Mayo Clinic, who was not involved in the development of the drug. “But it is a mate in the fact that it is a very different route and mechanism of action. That’s why I think it shows a great promise. ” How do you know where it hurts? Suzetrigine works in our body focusing on sodium channels which exercise as a way in the pain signaling system of the peripheral nervous system. This is a different route from that used by other analgesics such as opioids, which act in the area of ​​the brain that processes pain. The new drug hinders the arrival of the signal to the brain. More than a quarter of a century later. According to Explain the US chain CNNthis is the first analgesic approved since 1998, the year in which the agency approved Celebrex (Celecoxib), an anti-inflammatory non-steroid inhibitor of the COX-2, an enzyme responsible for accelerating the formation of substances that cause in our body inflammation and pain. Investor interest. Waiting for stock markets to open in the US, everything seems to indicate that approval will imply the recovery of the company’s market value In December last year After a bad provisional results of closing of the year. The stock market contribution of the company was gradually recovering throughout January and the announcement could confirm the “return to normal” in the figures of the company on the stock market. An epidemic. In the US, analgesics are the type of drug More prescribed in hospitals And among them it is the opioids that represent almost half of the pain recipes. The epidemic is a consequence of a multitude of factors and has as the protagonist the fentanil, a synthetic opioid approved for pharmacological use but whose use as recreational drugs ravages in North America. By using different mechanisms that opioids and not generating sensations of euphoria, excitement or similar, experts believe that it will not generate dependence or addiction. This could help reduce the impact of the crisis if we take into account that the dependence on opioids in numerous cases began with its pharmacological and non -recreational use. In Xataka | In full world crisis of Fentanil, another medicine grows and worries doctors in Spain: Gabapentina Image | Towfiqui Barbhuiya

Hotels televisions are very limited. LG and Samsung want to solve it in a very simple way

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Hotel televisions serve for rather little. As a general rule, these screens serve to see a handful of channels that may not be interested in theme or language, or to consult information about the hotel. Be that as it may, the reality is that if we want to see something before sleeping we depend quite the mobile, the tablet or the laptop. How to solve it? Very easy: activating Google Cast, something that LG and Samsung You will do on your televisions from now on. Hotels and TVS. As a general rule, the televisions that we find in the hotels have activated the “Hospitality mode” or “Hotel Mode”. This mode serves to apply the same configuration to many televisions and limit functions such as the maximum volume, the canal list, the configuration menu, the installation of apps or Access to the HDMI port. On some occasions, the HDMI block is as simple as hitting the television to the wall. Reasons for using this mode? Several. One is clear and it is to prevent some guests can bother others by putting the highest TV of the account, for example. Another is to prevent the user from being discharged, log in and forget about closing it and another, no less obvious, is that if the hotel has a system of Pay Per View open the HDMI port or the casting It means losing money. The counterpart is that the host can be forgotten to connect a Fire TV stick or a chromect, a laptop or even a console that is the case. There are guides To unlock televisions, but perhaps it is not interesting to expose something wrong and you have to give explanations to the establishment. Image | Unspash The Korean proposal. If the user wants to see something on TV, what less than to give him the option. Thus, LG and Samsung have chosen to open Google Cast on their next hotels. These will be presented at the ISE 2025 in a few days. This technology is already commonly used in all homes and, basically, allows content to be broadcast on the TV just by clicking a button. Google Cast adds to Apple Airplay, technology that reached TVs for LG hotels in 2023. General recommendations. Be that as it may, it should not be forgotten that hotels wifi networks may not be so safe and/or robust as the network of our house. So, It is convenient to use a VPN whenever possible and avoid entering personal information. Cover image | Unspash In Xataka | The new hotels record promises that they will not ask us for more data. Nor the hoteliers themselves are convinced

An Australian company has discovered “very encouraging” lithium and rubidium amounts in Salamanca. The potential is huge

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West of the province of Salamanca, near the border of Spain with Portugal, a finding that the Berkeley Australian company He has cataloged “very encouraging”. Significant amounts of lithium, essential for the manufacture of batteries, and rubidium, a scarce and strategic metal. The news. The Berkeley Energy mining group has found important concentrations of lithium and rubidium in a site in the province of Salamanca. These explorations are part of the Conchas project, which covers an area of ​​31 kilometers covered by sediments of the Cenozoic in the Ciudad Rodrigo region. The announcement, cataloged as “very encouraging” by the company, has fired its price 21% In the Australian bag. Why it is important. Lithium is the gold of the 21st century: an essential metal for the manufacture of batteries that has gone from feeding our electronic devices to boost electric vehicles and energy storage from renewable sources, so its demand is still increasing. But rubidium, in particular, is a metal of enormous strategic value. Because it is scarce and the time critical for sectors such as defense, medicine, telecommunications, Quantum computing and renewable energies. It is in atomic watches (GPS, missile guidance), photoelectric cells (night vision systems, Perosvkita solar panels), tomographies, ionic propulsion, data transmission … and its production is dominated by China. Now what. Berkeley has identified thick and shallow areas of lithium and rubidium, which facilitates its possible extraction, but not everything is said. The company will expand the polls and test the samples extracted to evaluate its metallurgical potential, a key step when determining the economic viability of the project. The results of these tests are expected to know this same quarter to define the following steps. It is not the only project. The Essential Metals Limited Australian company (Australia is one of the leading countries in lithium extraction) found high grade lithium to Villasrubias, a town in Salamanca that historically dedicated itself to tin extraction. “Perhaps it is the region, not only of Spain, but of Europe, which has the greatest number of critical raw materials identified, and that are listed by the European Union, due to their economic importance for the development of green energy and for the risk of dependence on third countries “, A project spokesman said. The environmental impact. Known for claiming one billion dollars in damages to the Spanish government after this prohibit the research and use of uraniumBerkeley has the support of the markets in the face of the discovery of lithium and rubidium, but will have to detail the environmental impact of its extraction if the project will continue. The extraction of lithium, in addition to altering the landscape, requires large amounts of water and can release heavy metals and acids in the soil. It would not be the first time that a project is filed for the risk for neighboring peoples, as has happened Until twice in Ávila Duela denunciation of environmental associations. Image | Bybyk (CC BY-CC 4.0), DNN87 (CC BY 3.0) In Xataka | In Salamanca there is a high -tech nuclear fuel bars factory that exports to all of Europe: we have visited it

Bukele turned Bitcoin into legal tender in El Salvador. It has just reversed

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In June 2021 Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, raised a singular option: Bitcoin turned into legal tender in his country. The country’s Bitcoin Law was approved shortly after, in September, but made it involved in controversy and uncertainty. Now, three and a half years later, Bukele has been forced to back down. Bitcoin is no longer a legal tender in El Salvador. As they point out In the countrythe Salvadoran Parliament has approved a reform to the Bitcoin Law and causes it to cease to be considered official currency. It can continue to be used freely by users, but Bukele’s ambition in this area is thus truncated. IMF pressures. The reason for the decision is simple. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) had been pressing El Salvador for two years and urging him to “mitigate the risks of Bitcoin.” The country chaired by Bukele urgently needed a loan of 1.4 billion dollars, but had to give in this reform. Today was the deadline to do it if I wanted such credit to be granted. Bitcoin returns to the background. With this measure the Bitcoin ceases to be considered as legal tender, and for example, it cannot be used to pay taxes. Its adoption and acceptance goes from being mandatory to voluntary. He never set. There are hardly any data on Bukele’s initiative, which was the only one who with his active profile on social networks such as Twitter/X spoke of the theoretical success of his measure. During approval They occurred Citizen protestsand the data suggest that their use by citizens has been reduced. Wallet goat. The controversial digital wallet Created by the Government tried to promote the use of Bitcoin with a singular promotional measure: each person to install it was given. Public shops and institutions had the obligation to accept payment in Bitoin. In spite of all this, the acceptance of citizenship was always very limited mid -2022 The fall of Bitcoin was especially for El Salvador, which was about to enter bankruptcy. In 2024 only 8.1% of the population acknowledged having used the tool, they indicate in the country. A Wallet goat vulnerability also caused A value of $ 840,000. Criticism and complaints. El Salvador media as the lighthouse indicate How most Salvadorans did not use bitcoin to make transactions “and more than 70 % responded that they did not benefit their economy in a survey.” In addition to corruption in the adoption of Bitcoin, with duplication or falsification of identities to collect the 30 dollars or violation of international laws against money laundering, they point out in the country. Bukele barely comments. The president of El Salvador is very active in X, but has not commented on the issue. What he has done is comment The condemnation of corruption of the American senator Bob Menéndez, who had opposed the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador. Only A brief message in X of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador confirmed the modification of the Bitcoin Law. Lack of transparency. As they point out in the country, opacity and lack of transparency regarding the initiative has been remarkable. There was no official information until recently, when the Salvadoran government launched a website called Bitcoin Office. According to this website, El Salvador has 6,049.18 BTC, equivalent to about 605 million euros. In Xataka | The man who has been fighting for 10 years to look for the 765 million he lost on a hard drive says goodbye to his dream

income grows, the iPhone and sales in China fall

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Apple beats records again. The most valuable company in the world He has just presented the results of the first quarter of 2025 (covered by October, November and December 2024, Here in PDF) and the figures give vertigo. Apple has entered 124.3 billion dollars, 4% more than the same quarter of the previous year. Good news for the company that arrives accompanied by some peculiar data that is worth reviewing. The iPhone falls. A little, at least. He iPhone This quarter has generated 69,138 million dollars, a small reduction with respect to the same quarter of last year, whose sales amounts to 69,702 million. It is a drop of almost 1%. The same happens with the division of wearables, home and accessories, which having generated more income than the Mac or the iPad, has been below the anterior quarter: 11,747 million in the Q1 of 2025 compared to 11,953 million of 2024 The fall is 0.98%. The Apple Intelligence case. According to Tim Cook, “during the quarter of December, we observe that in the markets in which we had implanted Apple Intelligence, the interannual performance of the family iPhone 16 was superior to the markets in which we had not implemented Apple Intelligence“It is a” positive indicator “for future sales of the iPhone in countries where Apple Intelligence is not available, Cook has assured. One of those countries is China (really Apple talks about Greater Chinawhich includes continental China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), where sales have fallen. Total revenues have been 18,513 million dollars, 11% less than the same quarter of the previous year. Apple Intelligence is not available in China or Chinese, although from the firm they have ensured that they plan to launch more languages ​​in April, being the simplified Chinese one of them. iPad Pro (2024 | Image: Xataka Speaking of the Mac and iPad. It has been a great quarter. Both the iPad and the MAC have grown 15%, something that makes sense if we take into account the good performance of the Apple M4 and that in 2023 they did not launch a single iPad model. In that sense, 2024 has been a year of renewal with iPad Air with M2 and the iPad Pro with M4. Only iPad have generated 8,088 million dollars, a figure that increases to 8,987 million in the case of Mac. Subscriptions work. To anyone’s surprise, subscriptions (whose profit margin is high) have been one of the Great growth engines for the company. This division, which includes names such as Apple Music, the App Store, Apple TV+, ICloud or Apple Care, has generated 26,340 million dollars, 14% more than the previous year. Cover image | Xataka In Xataka | If the question is I buy the iPhone 16 already or I wait for the iPhone, the answer is: there is no certainty

In the 90s Japan he created his own “Truman show.” A real one, starring a naked, alone and famel

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“The only person who really understands what Tuman felt, for what happened, it’s me.” The phrase is Volume Hamatsuaka ‘Nasubi’, a 49 -year -old Japanese comedian, and the Truman who refers to is not The former president from the US or the author of ‘In cold blood’ nor any other character of flesh and blood that has used that name ever. No. Nasubi talks about the truman who plays Jim Carrey in The movie 1998 directed by Peter Weir in which the adventures and misadventures of a man who star in a Telerreality program is narrated Without having the slightest idea. If you have seen it, you know how delusional your argument is. If not, there goes a quick summary: Truman Burbank is a thirty -year -old who leads his whole life as the star of a very popular reality whose existence does not know. Everything in his life is false, pure dare, figures and script. Your family, actors. His friends, actors. His work and home, a set. All 100% designed material for Prime Time. Although he doesn’t know so that he reality Be much more real. With such a story the logical thing would be to think that Nasubi exaggerates when he says that he is “The only person” capable of empathize “really” with the character of Truman; But the truth is that he knows what he is talking about. The Japanese comedian was not born and grew up on a television set, but at the end of the 90 realityin his country as popular as bloody and crazy. And without knowing it. Last year his experience was rescued in a documentary, ‘The Contest’directed by Clair Titley, and now recovers it ABC News To probably remind us one of the most delusional stories in television history. An aspiring famous comedian Nasubi’s case started in 1998 with a stroke of luck. Throughout his childhood he had aspired to become A famous comedian In Japan, so a good day decided to appear at the casting of a reality of the country entitled ‘Hisunu! Denpa Shōnen ‘. There he met another twenty loop comedians who had to choose between several cards. In Nasubi’s, who was about 22 years old, put “winner”. A luck. Or so he believed. The fact is that this card gave him the right to make the producers put a headphones, they bandaged his eyes and put him in a car without giving him explanations. “Then they took me to a room and forced me to undress completely because they wanted me to start from scratch. They took all my clothes“, Relatize ABC News. In it tiny apartment In which they left him alone and in leather he found a woner, a phone, a ball, blank postcards, a radio, a television without connection, a pillow, a gas burner, a shower and the services fair and essential for survive. And for fair we talk about heating, running water and electricity. Nothing else. No clothes. No food or bottled water. And of course Nothing company In his peculiar confinement. What explained to him? What was the goal? Nasubi was only told a part of the project. Incomplete and, so it is deduced from His testimonydiffuse enough so that he did not know what he participated in. The idea was that the young man complete a challenge that consisted of surviving with what he won in the raffles of magazines and radio programs. Hence the postcards, the ball and the magazines. The contest would end when the symbolic sum of one million yen (around 6,100 euros to the current change). If that happened they would give him a cash prize; Although what Nasubi really ambition was the other promise of the contest: launch your comedian career. Were you guarantee that it was to achieve it? None. The young man was given a camera with which he had to be recorded more or less Every two hours And I also knew that I was being filmed. With all that material, they explained, a comic program could then be mounted that perhaps (and only perhaps) would be broadcast on Japanese television. The promise was enough for Nasubi to continue without having an exact idea of What was really doing with videos. The promise of the prize and fame sufficient. After all ‘Hisunu! Denpa Shōnen ‘ It was a popular program that was broadcast on Nippon TV between 1998 and well entered 2002. If I wanted to leave at some point, Nasubi had the open apartment door. No one prevented him from crossing her. But he didn’t. Apart from the obvious motivation, which had been left totally naked, one of the questions that have been asked since then is why he moved on. The young man Recognize ABC News that “felt silent pressure.” “The person I was talking with was a very famous television producer, so I thought it would be better for my future in the entertainment industry not to go against him. I was trying to make me a name.” “I think there are many reasons,” explained last year to the BBC Tiley, director of the documentary on Nasubi. “One is very stoic and that is due to its place of origin, Fukushima, and her parents, who were very strict. He is also a very loyal person. He did not want to get into trouble and He was very young and naive. It is still incredibly confident. There is also that samurai spirit of ‘I will prevail and endure’ “. Endured. What if he endured. Nasubi was 15 months Living only in that apartment, naked, subsisting with what he earned by participating at a distance in magazine or radio raffles. The young man He came to recognize to To This American Life that during the first days he lost so many kilos that the producers ended up intervening to bring bread and water. Although that help lasted little. Only until he started earning money. What I got however It didn’t always serve … Read more

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