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UK eyes a “hybrid navy” for the future. Navantia already has an autonomous proposal: the LASV75

June 2, 2026 by usatoday24

The classic image of a navy is still easy to recognize: large ships, large crews and long campaigns far from port. But the future that is being drawn around the Royal Navy adds another layer. It is no longer just a matter of building larger or more sophisticated ships, but of combining them with autonomous platforms designed to take on specific missions alongside them. That’s where it comes in Navantia UKthe British subsidiary of the Spanish Navantia, with the LASV75: a proposal for that “hybrid marine” that the United Kingdom wants to explore. The concept appeared on the scene in the Farnborough Combined Naval Eventan event for the naval sector held in the United Kingdom. According to Navantia, the LASV75 has been designed in the country and is framed in a very specific idea: combining manned warships with unmanned escorts and autonomous technologies, including drones. The announcement also comes after the British subsidiary to complete the acquisition of Harland & Wolff assetsa movement with which it has reinforced its industrial presence beyond Spain. LASV75 is, in essence, a large autonomous ship surface conceived from the beginning to operate without a crew. Naval News details that the concept is based on a 75-meter modular hull and a displacement of more than 1,000 tons, a scale that distances it from the idea of a small naval drone. The company proposes it as a platform capable of accompanying conventional ships, acting as escort or serving as support in broader operations. The key is that it is not born as an adapted boat, but as a design thought from the keel to function without personnel on board. A proposal for a navy with manned ships and autonomous escorts The usefulness of the LASV75 is not understood as that of a vessel specialized in a single task, but as that of a platform that changes depending on what it carries. It will be prepared for possible missions such as surveillance, escort, electronic warfare and attack-related operations, always linked to the installed payload. This precision helps us not to oversize the concept: it is not that the ship can do everything by itself from day one, but that Navantia UK presents it as a modular base for different missions. The promise is in that capacity for reconfiguration. Thinking about an autonomous system for relatively controlled waters is not the same as thinking about a platform capable of sustain presence in tough scenarios. Simon Jones summed it up at Farnborough with the example of the North Atlantic: to have a persistent and credible capability in severe cold conditions, you think you need something of this size. The other piece of the concept is how all of those systems connect to the ship. In the mockup presented during the event, a deck prepared for different payloads, interchangeable sensors and a modular mast arrangement could be seen. Everything is designed with standard interfaces, aligned with NATO, so that the modules are as interoperable and interchangeable as possible. It is a relevant detail in an allied naval force. For a proposal like this not to remain an attractive model, something more earthly is needed: shipyards capable of manufacturing it with rhythm, precision and scale. Navantia UK is investing 157 million pounds (about 181 million euros) in its four British centers, Appledore, Arnish, Belfast and Methil, with the intention of turning them into some of the most advanced facilities in Europe. Among the improvements is an automated panel line in Belfast, designed to make large pieces of steel faster, safer and more accurately. The idea is to bring these shipyards closer to the concept Shipyard 5.0 that the company already applies in Spain. The account raised by the company is not only about technology, but also about manufacturing. If, as Navantia suggests, an unmanned vessel can be built at a significantly lower cost than a conventional one and, furthermore, be produced with a certain amount of repetition, it fits better in a navy that seeks to increase its presence without multiplying human and industrial costs. The company adds to this logic a specific objective: to reduce the usual design and construction times of large naval vessels by up to 30%. So we are looking at a ship with a date of entry into service? Not really. What Navantia UK has taught It’s a concepta proposal to enter a conversation that is already open: what navies will be like when large manned ships have to coexist with autonomous escorts, interchangeable sensors and platforms designed and built with shorter deadlines. There the company plays a double card: the accumulated experience of a Spanish group with programs such as the F-100 frigates and the S-80 submarines, and a British industrial base that wants to gain weight in the future hybrid navy. Images | Navantia In Xataka | Four years ago, Spain was left without an essential weapon for war. Airbus is rebuilding it in Seville

We know exactly what AI costs, but we are unable to measure what it produces. And that is a serious problem

June 2, 2026 by usatoday24

We know very well the cost of developing AI: mammoth data centershe electricity consumption skyrocketedhe tech capex through the roof… The problem is that it seems that all this is not having a return, or not enough to justify tremendous investment. The fear of the bubble is justified, but maybe we were wrong and the problem is another: that our measuring tape is broken. The hidden production. In an extensive and in-depth analysis in the newsletter Semianalisysuse the term ‘dark output’ in reference to the economic value that AI is generating, but which current measurement systems do not see well and therefore does not have an impact on GDP. This hidden production has two aspects: Hidden production by substitution: These are jobs that used to be done by a human for a price and that can now be done by AI for a fraction of that cost. There is a very graphic example with the writing of wills, a job that historically cost $400, which had dropped to $150, and in a single year AI has plummeted to $0.50. The work is done, but the economic transaction disappears from the data. New production that remains hidden: On the other side are the jobs that were not done because they were too expensive, but that AI has made so cheap that they can now be done. The example that Semianalysis provides are the bibliographic reviews whose price was up to $2,000 and that made them a very exclusive service. Now with AI you can do one of these reviews on all types of projects. The problem is that the economic trace is non-existent, except for the use of tokens or payment of subscriptions. Why it is important. The thesis of the analysis is that we are not facing a bubble, but that we are not measuring well the return that AI is producing and that is a problem that goes far beyond a simple statistical debate. Macroeconomic data is the metric by which investors detect real growth, central banks adjust interest rates, and companies decide whether to hire or automate. Making decisions of this caliber based on inaccurate data can have serious consequences. The difficulty of measuring it. Services and intellectual labor are much more complicated to measure than physical goods. It is very easy for a furniture factory to measure whether new machinery allows it to manufacture more chairs in less time. AI is helping to do tasks such as programming, writing documents, summarizing them or creating briefings and the way we measure it is the tokens consumed. The problem is that consuming more tokens can result in enormous benefits for the company, but they can also produce bad code and bad summaries. The value is in the production, in the output, not in what we spend to get to it. Precedents. Something similar happened during the computer boom in the 80s and 90s. At this time, macroeconomic data were not capable of detecting what the computer revolution was bringing. The solution did not arrive until 2013, when R&D and investment in intellectual property were included in GDP accounting. The result was that 3.6 trillion dollars were added retroactively, showing that in the year 2000 alone it represented 30% of the GDP. The other precedent is the so-called care economy, in reference to all the domestic and care work carried out mainly by women without receiving remuneration. The International Labor Organization estimated in 2018 that 16.4 billion hours of unpaid care work were performed, which would be equivalent to 11 trillion dollars or 9% of global GDP. Yes, but. That it is necessary to update our measuring tape does not detract from the fact that investment in AI infrastructure is truly dizzying. In 2025, big tech companies will invest $410 billion in AI and in 2026 the plan is to exceed the 650 billion dollars. The chief economist of Golman Sachs said that the contribution of all this crazy investment to US GDP was “basically zero.” In this sense, it is as risky to say that we are facing a bubble about to burst due to excess spending, as it is to assume that there is immense invisible wealth justifying every dollar invested. Image | Xataka with Gemini In Xataka | “The biggest mistake of all time”: Bill Gates let slip 400 billion when Microsoft didn’t buy Android

Anti-mosquito repellents have been effective for 40 years. Now mosquitoes are learning to appreciate them

June 2, 2026 by usatoday24

Summer is practically upon us and this means that mosquitoes are also beginning to be the order of the day. Here one of the great allies we have to spend a good night is the repellent that keeps mosquitoes away from our skin, but the problem is that now these little insects seem to have unlocked a new and disturbing achievement: relating repellent to the best place to bite. A new problem. A recent study published in the magazine Journal of Experimental Biology points out that the classic repellent made up of the synthetic molecule N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide It has stopped repelling mosquitoes and started attracting them. In this study, the researchers focused on the Aedes aegyptithe infamous mosquito yellow feverdengue and Zika. From here, what they did was design a highly controlled laboratory environment with meshes, heat sources that simulated human warm blood or sugar rewards. But they combined all these ideal conditions with the presence of the smell of repellent. The result. From several cycles of exposure to these environmental conditions, they could see that mosquitoes had the ability to learn and create an association between the repellent and the presence of a good place to bite. This means that if a mosquito dares to cross the barrier left by the repellent and manages to bite, or feed on sugar in this case, its brain is reprogrammed and the repellent goes from being a “danger” signal to a “there is food here” signal. In fact, the data showed that, after this conditioning, more than 60% of mosquitoes They went back to searching for the smell of the repellent, ignoring its original repulsive nature. It takes years. Although the jump to “attraction” is novel, the reality is that entomologists have been keeping the fly behind their ears for some time. Without going any further, in 2013 a study already showed that mosquitoes developed tolerance to repellents. In this case, it was found that three hours after a first exposure to DEET, the insects ignored the repellent. And now we know a little more about what exactly happens neurobiologically. You have to use it well. These results have occurred in a very controlled environment and forcing scenarios that are very specific with guaranteed rewards. But in the real world we find greater chaos and a mosquito that smells the repellent and cannot bite, because the concentration is high, it does not receive the “reward” of blood, so that learning is not consolidated. That is why researchers point to the need for the repellent to be applied within the time frame and in adequate concentration. But this does not mean that we do not have to redesign public health strategies adapting them to this plasticity that mosquitoes have, since we are not just talking about an annoying bite, but we are talking about the fact that the mosquito is a transmitter of very important diseases such as malaria or Zika. Images | Erik Karits In Xataka | Mosquitoes attack me in summer and I tried these TikTok tricks to get rid of them

reach 600 km of autonomy

June 2, 2026 by usatoday24

The largest battery manufacturer in the world already has a date to make the definitive leap to sodium batteriesa chemistry that has been promising for years to unseat lithium in the entry-level range. Wu Kai, chief scientist at CATL and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, confirmed at the Equipment Powerhouse Forum, held on May 30, that the manufacturing problems that were holding back production are now resolved, according to they counted from the Chinese media Sina. The goal is to reach 600 kilometers of autonomy on a single charge. Why does it matter? Sodium is much more abundant and cheaper than lithium, so each battery made with this chemistry reduces dependence on a scarce and volatile raw material. For the consumer, this may end up translating into more affordable prices for the electric car, precisely in the segment where the electric car dominates today. lithium iron phosphate (LFP). Of course, for CATL these batteries would be intended to rival the entry-level LFPs, but they will not be a substitute for the premium segment. In detail. The company is not going to limit sodium to just one product. Your roadmaps they point to integrate it into passenger cars, commercial vehicles, battery exchange networks and energy storage infrastructure. The first versions will be used for economical cars and storage systems, while the company is simultaneously developing higher density cells to get closer to that 600 km figure that is currently reserved for more expensive configurations. The news follows a recent milestone that saw CATL close a 60 GWh supply contract, the world’s largest order for sodium batteries to date, according to they point from CarNewsChina. Competence. All of this is happening while CATL crushes the competition in traditional chemistries. According to data of China EV DataTracker, in April 2026 installed 29.06 GWh of batteries for electric vehicles, giving it 46.6% of the national market. Of that volume, almost 19.53 GWh were LFP and 9.53 GWh were nickel-manganese-cobalt ternary packs. Sodium does not replace these lines, but rather opens a parallel production path. Between the lines. It is worth remembering where this comes from. CATL has already presented its Naxtra range of sodium batteries, with a version for passenger cars that reached 175 Wh/kg of energy density, the highest recorded in this chemistry, according to the company itself in 2025 and promising about 500 km of autonomy and more than 10,000 charging cycles. In addition, sodium provides a safety advantage, since by eliminating materials prone to combustion, it reduces the risk of fire compared to other chemicals. And now what. Sodium is just the short-term part. Looking ahead, CATL is already reorienting its research towards lithium-air batterieswhich use oxygen from the air as a reagent and promise energy densities much higher than those of current systems, whether liquid or solid-state electrolyte. We will have to wait to find out more information about it. Cover image | CATL In Xataka | Starting in July, all new cars manufactured will incorporate an annoying novelty: many more beeps

AI chips have always wanted to become more and more powerful. TSMC has just pointed out the true limit: efficiency

June 2, 2026 by usatoday24

More performance? It is the first thing we usually ask of a new chip, almost without thinking about it. We have done it for years with the processors in our devices and we do it now with the chips that support much of the deployment of AI. More computing power, more speed, more scope to do things that previously seemed out of reach. But this logic begins to encounter a very specific limit: energy. What is making its way now is a less flashy idea, but increasingly difficult to ignore: progress will not only be measured by how much a chip calculates, but also by how much energy it needs to do it. The clearest clue comes from TSMC. We are talking about the largest contract chip manufacturer in the world, a company that does not sell processors under its own brand, but rather produces semiconductors designed by other players in the industry. According to ReutersKevin Zhang, senior vice president of business development, explained at a conference in Amsterdam that his customers are paying more and more attention to performance improvements that do not increase consumption. The pressure comes from very different profiles, from smartphone manufacturers to AI data center operators, all with a concern that we have seen growing in recent times: electricity cost and energy availability. The key is in the manufacturing. TSMC has not simply described a change in priorities. He has also placed it on his technological calendar with A14a future manufacturing technology planned around 2028. The firm expects that this process offers more than a 20% improvement in performance and, at the same time, reduces consumption by up to 30% compared to N2, the process that the company takes as a reference in that comparison. The key is that we are not talking about a specific processor, but rather the method with which subsequent chips can be manufactured. Not everything is about miniaturizing. For decades, reducing the size of transistors has been one of the great ways to gain performance and efficiency in chips. That logic doesn’t go away: transistor density remains within TSMC’s roadmap. What Zhang points out is that in the face of energy pressure from AI, other solutions, such as advanced packaging, chip stacking, and photonics, are also gaining weight. In parallel, as we pointed out a few weeks agoTSMC has decided not to use High-NA EUV, the lithography associated with ASML’s most advanced and ambitious equipment, in its A13 and A12 processes planned for 2029. The battle is also in the data. Huawei enters this conversation with Tau Scaling Lawa proposal that seeks to improve performance by accelerating the movement of data within the chips. The idea shifts part of the focus from the transistor to architecture and integration, two areas that gain weight when manufacturing smaller components is not enough. Along the same lines appears LogicFolding, which Huawei presents as a possible step beyond traditional 3D stacking, but which will depend on new design tools for folded architectures and better dissipation solutions for devices ranging from smartphones to AI data centers. Where are we going? TSMC does not speak for the entire industry, but its position makes the message carry. The firm suggests that, at least in its roadmap and in conversations with its clients, energy efficiency is gaining prominence that was previously more hidden behind performance. And it’s not a concern limited to AI data centers. Huawei, for its part, shows that the problem is also being addressed from architecture and integration, not just from the manufacturing process. The common point is not a closed conclusion, but an increasingly visible tension: chips will have to continue to be more capable, but each leap will be more difficult to justify if it increases consumption, heat or costs. Images | Xataka with Nano Banana In Xataka | Samsung has just achieved a milestone that has not been recorded for eight years. The problem is that it is a mirage

a star bar in a galaxy that is too young and gaseous

June 2, 2026 by usatoday24

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. He has found a phenomenon in the Universe that contradicts the physics known until now. In this case, the discovery consists of a star bar in a galaxy that should not host a structure of this type. The good thing is that, properly understood, this discovery can help unravel a mystery for which there was no explanation. We will have to modify what we knew about galaxies, but in exchange we have answers to questions that we did not have before. A stellar bar in GN20. Many star bars are known in the nearby Universe. It is even known that there are some in our Milky Way. However, they are not found at points close to the Big Bang because they are slow to form, so they could not have been born so early. Furthermore, in those early stages of the Universe there was a lot of gas in the galaxies, the movement of which is believed to inhibit the formation of stellar bars. All this is what makes the find so rare. recently described by a team of scientists from Leiden University. And, thanks to James Webb, they have found one of these structures in GN20, a very old massive galaxy rich in gases, which formed about 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. It is a galaxy that is too young and has too much gas to already host a formed star bar. Nothing fits. Let’s clarify concepts. Star bars are elongated arrangements of stars found at the centers of galaxies, rotating as a rigid unit. With this rotation they drag the gas around them and lead it to the galactic nucleus as if it were a funnel. This possibly serves to feed the galaxy’s central black hole. The detection is clear. The authors of the study have confirmed that they are looking at a star bar using three different methods. To begin with, it was carried out a technique called isofocal analysis. This consists of drawing a series of imaginary lines on a galaxy that join points with the same brightness. It is something similar to what is done on topographic maps with contour lines. Once this is done, changes in brightness can be detected that indicate the presence of specific structures. In this case, the galaxy’s light is stretched and rotated in a way that corresponds to a star bar. But that’s not all, its existence has also been proven with an independent mathematical analysis and with observations from the NOEMA telescope. Once this structure was detected, it had to be seen as clearly as possible. That’s where James Webb comes into play, whose near-infrared camera is capable of go beyond the veil of gas and dust which makes observations in the oldest stages of the Universe difficult. An impossible size. With all these observations, it was also possible to measure the galaxy, which extends over 7 kiloparsecs or, which is the same, 22,800 light years. It is too big for known physics. On the one hand, because of what we have already seen. To grow so much it should have started forming a long time ago and, supposedly, in the youngest stages of the Universe such a structure could not be formed. And, on the other hand, because such a large star bar should collapse according to the description of current models. Gas to the rescue. These scientists have discovered that, curiously, this galaxy has survived so long thanks to gas. We have seen that, normally, gas makes its formation difficult. But that happens when the gas moves slowly and orderly. However, in this case, in the inner disk of the galaxy there is highly turbulent gas that would act as a shield thanks to a phenomenon known as radial shear. Shear what? Normally, gas in galaxies moves in concentric circles, so that those in the center move faster and those outside move more slowly. This is known as differential rotation. In this case, however, there are turbulent movements, with the gas moving in a disorderly manner, in such a way that in different rings it rubs, drags and mixes. That’s radial shear. This, broadly speaking, helps the bar grow instead of hindering its formation. Two key points. When entering with the James Webb to observe the star bar closely, two important details were seen. On the one hand, at the point where it coincides with the outer disk of the galaxy, to the south, there is a large accumulation of gas that acts as a hot spot for the formation of many stars. On the other hand, in the center the bar contributes to sweeping a lot of material into the black hole of the galactic nucleus. What it teaches us. All of this makes us rethink the physics of star bars, but it also helps scientists understand something that until now was a mystery: inert elliptical giants. These are very large and young galaxies that They are already inactive. That is, new stars are no longer forming within it. With everything discovered in GN20, the authors of the study that has just been published consider that the star bars could be the reason. By creating star-forming hot spots and sweeping material into the black hole, they essentially make the galaxy live very fast. Create a lot of stars very quickly and use up your fuel early. They live fast, die young and leave an enigmatic corpse that, perhaps, is no longer so enigmatic. Image | NASA | Leindert A. Boogaard et al (2026). In Xataka | James Webb has just discovered oxygenated water in the most unexpected place we could think of: Pluto’s moon

Amazon had everything ready to attack the Starlink monopoly. Until Blue Origin exploded into pieces

June 2, 2026 by usatoday24

On April 20, 2023, the inaugural flight of SpaceX’s Starship took place. Less than four minutes later, the space vehicle explodedbut that was not what was amazing. The amazing thing was that all the company staff celebrated that explosion applauding wildlyas if it had been an extraordinary success. And the truth is that it was, because this launch was part of the company’s incremental philosophy: it doesn’t matter if the rockets explode, because (for the moment) that is what they have to do. When the Blue Origin rocket exploded last weekthere was very little to celebrate. And that is a big difference between both companies. This was not an explosion “by design”. There is a critical difference between the Starship prototype explosions and that of the New Glenn: intent. While SpaceX uses its tests to push its rockets to the limit and learn from those often controlled destructions, the New Glenn that exploded a few days ago was theoretically a production vehicle intended to complete operational missions. It’s one thing to lose a rocket with no payload that is designed to learn from mistakes, but quite another to lose one with a payload that real customers depend on. Blue Origin runs out of ramp. The economic impact of this accident goes beyond the cost of the lost vehicle. The fundamental problem is that Blue Origin currently has only one operational launch pad for the New Glenn, the LC-36, and damage to the tower and support systems could paralyze the company’s activity for months. In a recent update the company indicates who is already working on that ramp “And we have a good reconstruction plan in place.” Bad news for Kuiper. This explosion has also left in the air the deployment of the first 49 satellites of Amazon’s Juiper network, which depended on this launch. The company needs to put thousands of satellites into orbit to compete with Starlink, and every month of delay in the New Glenn is a month of advantage for Elon Musk. NASA and the lunar calendar. But the New Glenn is also a key piece for the logistics of NASA’s Artemis missions. The explosion may force the space agency to rethink its priorities and even delay missions to the Moon planned for the coming years. NASA is running out of plans B, and is increasingly dependent on a single supplier (SpaceX) when that is precisely what Blue Origin could have mitigated. Reliability pays off over time. We have a good example of SpaceX’s trial and error strategy with the Falcon 9. Today it is one of the most reliable rockets in the world with a success rate of over 99%: to date it has carried out 644 missions, of which 641 have been successful. Failures like that of September 2016 They served to learn and mature, and a decade later the Falcon 9 have become almost “boring” due to their reliability. Blue Origin seems to have wanted to skip stages by coming to market with a product that wanted to be perfect, but reality has shown that it is very difficult to achieve that reliability without stumbling. And this setback has been big. The opportunity cost. It is estimated that the economic losses of the destroyed vehicle they hover 150 million dollars, but the true cost is in the penalties for delays and the loss of confidence of future customers. The technical and reputational debt that Blue Origin faces is notable, and it remains to be seen how a company that needed success more than ever will react. Monopoly by accident. The clearest consequence of this setback is also striking: the winner is SpaceX, which is even more dominant than it was in the space launch market. The explosion of the New Gless is terrible news because it eliminates competition, and without a rival that can guarantee launches, access to space will continue to be a bottleneck controlled by a single company and, of course, by its founder, Elon Musk. The tycoon, yes, published a message in X upon hearing about the explosion saying “I’m sorry to see this, I hope you recover quickly.” Image | Blue Origin In Xataka | In 2018, Elon Musk put his own car into orbit. Eight years later it is still circling the Earth

Now they need more than two million euros to buy a flat

June 2, 2026 by usatoday24

Madrid has become one of the favorite cities by the great Latin American fortunes, and this migratory movement of millionaires to Spain is already being noticed in international rankings. The latest report ‘The Henley Private Wealth Migration Report‘from the consultant Henley & Partners places the Spanish capital among the main destinations for millionaires from the other side of the pond. The capital is no longer only gaining visibility for its offer of urban life and its luxury real estate marketnow it also does it as the formula to own a “pied-à-terre” in a city on each side of the Atlantic that the map is changing of demand in the most expensive neighborhoods of the city. A magnet for large assets. According to data from the report of Henley & PartnersMadrid brings together nearly 34,900 millionaires, about 5,900 more people than three years ago, which equals growth of 20%. The consulting firm considers millionaires to be individuals with investable liquid assets of $1 million or more. This report points out the possibility that Madrid could welcome 200 more millionaires in the next twelve months. In the last decade, the number of millionaires in the capital has grown 3%. Of the almost 35,000 millionaires who live in Madrid, 72 can be considered centimillionaires, that is, with assets of more than 100 million dollars, and eight billionaires with assets of more than 1,000 million dollars. Your home remains your most valuable asset. Data of another study from the consulting firm Knight Frank points out that Latin American investors maintain a relevant weight of 26% in real estate purchase operations prime from Madrid, while those from the United States rise to 8% and the United Kingdom to 5%. Henley & Partners explains in its report that Madrid is positioned as one of the cities that best consolidates the most determining aspects in the migratory decision of foreign millionaires: stability, private education and quality of life for families with large assets. The pressure is noticeable in the real estate market. As and as highlighted cnnof the 44,680 foreign residents of the Salamanca district, the most exclusive area of Madrid, about 21,740 come from Latin American countries. This high demand has caused the price of housing in those areas to skyrocket. According to report data annual Diza Market, in 2014, with one million euros you could buy 2.88 standard homes in the prime areas of Madrid, while in 2026, the same investment barely covers 1.17. That pressure on prices has been shifting to other areas of the cityand postal codes such as Ibiza- Niño Jesús have registered an increase of 195.1% in the prices of their properties since 2014 or Aravaca 119.2%. The square meter has skyrocketed. The study by the real estate consultancy Diza has detected a strong rise in prices in the high-end housing market during the first quarter of 2026 in the most exclusive neighborhoods, which have gone from having an average price of 4,166 euros/m2 in 2014, to 11,928 euros in 2026. The average amount of each operation in these prime districts of the capital is around two million euros, and more than half of them are carried out under the ownership of family officesSICAVs, Socimis or other investment vehicles. Spain is fashionable among millionaires. Madrid is not the only one that monopolizes the arrival of large assets Latin Americans and the United States. All this, despite the fact that in April 2025, the Government ended with the “Golden Visa”which allowed foreigners to obtain residency in Spain through a real estate investment of at least 500,000 euros. Just like the report highlights of Henley & Partners The Costa del Sol maintains its appeal among centimillionaires, remaining in 56th place on the list of places with the largest population of millionaires with more than 100 million dollars, while Barcelona is located just on the edge of the top 100 cities with more millionaires. In Xataka | Madrid has been filled with Latin American millionaires, so Spanish millionaires are creating clubs without them Image | Unsplasg (Florian Wehde)

Someone thought it was a good idea to bring a Bluetooth device called “Bomb” onto a plane. What had to happen happened

June 1, 2026 by usatoday24

Imagine that you are sitting in that modern torture chamber that we call “economy class” on a transcontinental plane when, after an hour in the air of the eight-hour trip from New Jersey to Mallorca, the aircraft turns around to land at the point of origin because the bomb threat protocols are activated. Now stop imagining because that is precisely what happened this past May 30 when the United Flight Boeing 767 that covered the Newark – Palma de Mallorca route thad to turn around with 12 crew members and 190 passengers of which one was the owner of a Bluetooth device with a peculiar name. “Bomb”. The “Bluetooth bomb” He United Flight 236 It should be just another conventional flight, but those who took the one last Saturday experienced an unusual adventure. When the ship was flying over the Atlantic and in a period Between 60 and 90 minutes after takeoff, someone noticed a disturbing detail: searching for Bluetooth networks, They found a device called “BOMB”. If someone was carrying a bomb with a Bluetooth connection, I highly doubt it would be visible to everyone and, on top of that, it would be called “Bomb”, but it was enough for the situation to explode. The crew, using the public address system, repeatedly asked that the Bluetooth devices be turned off, even threatening with turning around, but after seeing that there were still some lights left and that the “bomb” was among them, the maneuvers began. In coordination with the company’s operations center in Chicago, it was decided that it was best to declare a state of bomb emergency and return to Newark. The plane landed as if nothing had happened, but on the ground there was a significant police and security deployment that forced the passengers to vacate the ship, leaving their hand luggage behind. Image | Flightradar24 As part of the procedure, it was now the security forces that were going to be in charge of inspecting that luggage again. It has not really emerged what the device was, but what is clear is that there was no real explosive device. United has not given detailsbut different media indicate that a 16-year-old passenger had a device named with that name. Some say it’s a Fitbit, others say it’s a Bluetooth speaker. No details have been given about the consequences. that the passenger will have to face and everything has remained an anecdotal situation and a story that those 212 people will tell at some point. Now, there are interesting readings. The first is that there are devices for which you can change the name of the Bluetooth connection. For example, we can call our cell phone whatever we want, just like Wi-Fi networks, but there are others that are not easy to change the name of. A speaker or headphones usually have the name they come from the factory, unless they have an app that explicitly allows you to change the identifier. This is important because there are speakers like the Bombbox from JBL and, above all, the Hama Bomb 3.0 that have ‘BOMB’ in the name. Obviously, it doesn’t just say that and there are numbers and the brand, so it would be easy to deduce that it is a totally different device than a bomb. Also, if this were the case, the device would be turned off and not searching for Bluetooth all the time, so what makes the most sense is that it is a mobile phone with that ‘nickname’ for Bluetooth. That said, when the crew asked to disconnect the Bluetooth, if the person had headphones on they might not even notice and, if they did, it was a message that could be interpreted as “put the phone on.” airplane modeThere are cell phones that, when they activate airplane mode, deactivate all wireless communications, but there are also those that only deactivate Wi-Fi, the mobile network and leave Bluetooth to allow connection with headphones. This is for trying to find an explanation for a bizarre story like few others that had a happy ending for the passengers, being able to board a new flight the morning of the next day, but which could be very serious for the funny or clueless owner of the device. Because it is one thing to take longer to take off, but having a plane turn around, relocate all the passengers and the company pay compensation… is not cheap. AND I’m sure someone at United Flight isn’t happy at all.nor were those who were on that flight and who had zero information about what was happening, even having to go to reddit to find out about the movie and report the company’s compensation: a $15 bonus to spend on food. Moral: take a look at what your devices are called. In Xataka | Airplanes have circular windows for a reason. It took two plane crashes to find out.

a documentary that delves into what ‘Michael’ did not want to tell and an excellent Spanish thriller

June 1, 2026 by usatoday24

If you thought that ‘Michael’ fell a little short when it came to offering a complete portrait of the artist, this week Netflix has a docuseries that promises to reveal some of the secrets left to tell. This, without a doubt, is going to be a dark week on Netflix, because it is joined by an excellent Spanish-style thriller and a British series that recovers a very controversial real case. Series Michael Jackson. The verdict The premiere of this three-part docuseries comes at the most controversial moment possible: it coincides with the renewed interest in the figure of the artist after the success of the biopic ‘Michael’, who was accused precisely of whitewashing his figure and avoiding the controversial lawsuits for abuse that surrounded him in the last years of his life. The series reconstructs the 2005 trial based on testimonies from jurors, journalists, eyewitnesses and individuals linked to both the prosecution and the defense. There are dimensions of the case that the public never saw and this documentary tries to provide more material to continue the discussion between the artist’s fans and those of ‘Leaving Neverland0, whose director, by the way, does not agree at all with the conclusions of this Netflix proposal. Premiere: Wednesday June 3 He witness ‘The Witness’ seeks to continue the success of ‘Adolescence’, and moves in the same terrain: created by Rob Williams, the series reconstructs the murder of Rachel Nickell in 1992 from the point of view of her partner, who becomes a single father and decides to focus his entire life on protecting his two-year-old son, the only witness to the crime. The series focuses on an investigation peppered with errors and decisions that generated great controversy at the time. It stars Jordan Bolger, who we remember for his excellent participation in ‘Peaky Blinders’. Three episodes for a high-grade true crime miniseries. Premiere: Thursday June 4 Other series New Amsterdam – June 1 My Hero Academia (Season 6) – June 1 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit – June 1 Evergood – June 2 The King of Queens – June 4 Full time fans – June 4 This is how you will learn – June 5 Movies The unknown Adapting the novel of the same name by Rosa Montero and Olivier Truc, this thriller shows us the discovery of a gagged woman in a container in the port of Barcelona who does not remember her identity. He survives an assassination attempt in the hospital and becomes the center of a police investigation that revolves around his amnesia. Gabe Ibáñez (‘Autómata’) signs this film for exclusive release on Netflix that stands out for its spectacular cast, which includes people like Candela Peña, Ana Rujas, Pol López and Manolo Solo. Premiere: Friday June 5 Other series Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express – The Movie – June 1 The drawback – June 1 The murder of Rachel Nickell – June 4 Poldi – June 4 Oh, mom! – June 4 Mexico 86 – June 5 Turbulence in the office – June 5 The babysitter – June 5 The High Knights -June 6 In Xataka | Stephen King unequivocally recommends Netflix’s new number 1: it is “an absolute pleasure”

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