12 million people delivered their DNA to 23Andme. The company broke and its data are about to change hands

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For years, spitting in a tube was the first step of an irresistible promise: discovering your roots, knowing your genetic predispositions, even finding family members lost by the world. Everything without moving home. The company behind that phenomenon was called 23ndmeand achieved something unusual: to turn genetics into a mass consumption product. That story has just turned. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has reached an agreement to acquire the main assets of 23Andme for 256 million dollars, According to the official statement published by the pharmacist. It is a transaction that must still be approved by the Banking Court and by US regulators. At stake is a platform that has managed the DNA of millions of people worldwide. An announced end. The 23Andme fall has not been sudden. In recent years, the company went from being valued at more than 6,000 million dollars to fight for its own survival. His commitment to a more ambitious model – based on developing medicines, offering medical consultations by subscription and expanding digital health services – did not set. As details The Wall Street Journalthe company burned more than one billion dollars and ended up offering part of its assets in limit conditions. The sales agreement does not cover the entire business. Regeneron would keep the essential: the direct genomics service to the consumer, its biobanco of genetic samples and the research and total health divisions. The telemedicine subsidiary Lemonaid Health is left out, acquired in its day for 400 million dollars, whose closure will be made in an orderly manner outside this operation. Privacy: The real battlefield. The operation has re -placed privacy in the center of the debate. Regeneron has promised to respect current data use policies and has committed to undergoing independent scrutiny, as established by the judicial framework of the process. Even so, doubts persist on how one of the world’s largest genetic databases will be managed. The suspicion is not new. In 2023, 23Andme was a victim of a massive data filtration which affected 6.9 million people. As TechCrunch revealedthe attackers accessed the profiles of those who had activated the function of “genetic family”, obtaining names, locations and percentages of shared DNA between relatives. The company attributed the incident to the reuse of passwords by users, but the damage was already done. Anne Wojcicki, the face of an era. The 23Andme story cannot be told without mentioning Anne Wojcicki. Co -founder, visible face, visionary of personalized health and, at the same time, responsible for business decisions that led to collapse. His plan was to convert the company to an integral provider of medical services, but this did not prosper. He tried to recover control, but his power vanished with the beginning of the judicial process. According to WSJtheir actions with preferential vote were annulled and their offers rejected by the Board of Directors. Wojcicki opted everything to DNA as strategic assets. And for a while it seemed right. The company that helped to found transformed the way millions of people related to their health. It also showed to what extent a genetic database can become a mined field of legal, ethical and technological risks. A new stage, the same questions. Regeneron aspires to keep a powerful platform, a still recognized brand and an immense volume of genetic information. In its official statement, he affirms that his intention is to maintain service for current users and continue to develop new ways for personalized medicine. Images | 23ndme In Xataka | We have visited the place where the demographic hopes of Spain are literally deposited: the Semen Bank of Granada

Eating fermented col can seem an unpleasant idea. Science is increasingly clear that it is excellent for your diet

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The Germans call it Sauerkraut and the French Choucroutea term that usually is castelling as sauerkraut. It is a fermented col, a typical preparation in various European countries where it is used as accompaniment in dishes of different kinds. A beneficial preparation. We have been indicated that this traditional preparation could contribute important benefits to our health. Now, a new study by two researchers from the University of California, Davis has found new tests that Chucrut can help our health through digestion. According to the study, the fermented col can help maintain the integrity of our intestinal cells. Good news is that this beneficial effect occurred both with the Homemade Chucrut as with which we buy already prepared. “It doesn’t matter, in a way, if we do Sauerkraut at home or if we buy it in the store; both types of Sauerkraut They seem to protect the intestinal function, ”Maria Marco, co -author of the study, explained in a press release. Three elements. The team compared three elements related to the chucrut and its fermentation process: the “raw” vegetable, the brine extracted from the fermented product, and product itself, the Sauerkraut. Team efforts They focused on the study of metabolites present in this food. Metabolites are compounds that occur when biologically decomposing food and its compounds. When passing through a fermentation process, the chemical changes that occur in a food can be important, hence its flavor and aroma, but also its nutritional value. Nutritional changes. The chemical analysis by the team showed changes in the nutritional profile of the Col after fermentation. They found beneficial metabolites, including lactic acid and amino acids, but also observed a lower carbohydrate contribution. Some of the metabolites found were identical to those generated by the intestinal mcirobioma. The changes found, the team stands out, could explain the digestive benefits often attributed to fermented products. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Applied and Environmental Microbiology. More than probiotics. The study conducted in the laboratory is one more indication in favor of the idea that fermented colm is a healthy food that we can include in the context of a balanced and varied diet. Fermented foods are not just a contribution of nutrients metabolized by the microorganisms responsible for fermentation, they can also contribute to us as Probiotics beneficial bacteria that perform similar processes in our digestive system. In Xataka | We have been studying chocolate and tea compounds for more than 75 years. Now we know that they help control blood pressure Image | Jana Ohajdova

Steve Jobs discovered that meetings were a huge problem. Larry Page confirmed that solving it was not easy

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He excess meetings At work it has been a obstacle to productivity For decades. Although today it is A very debated topicalready in 1986 Steve Jobs He identified him as one of the great enemies of efficiency in technology companies. Decades later, Larry Page, co -founder of Google, also faced this problem by assuming CEO in Eric Schmidt replacement. At that time he realized the challenge of solving that problem without causing others Even worse. Jobs and Page attempts to change the meetings culture They showed that, although the solutions seem simple, putting them into practice is much more complicated than it seems. Steve Jobs and the problem of meetings In 1986, Steve Jobs realized that frequent and unproductive meetings were negatively affecting the creativity and efficiency of the equipment, as recognized in the letters collected in the book ‘Make submission Wonderful‘. Jobs noted that, instead of helping to advance, many of the meetings in Next They became a waste of timebraking innovation and quick decision making. Jobs promoted the idea of ​​minimizing meetings (and even prohibit them on Thursdays) and only call them when they were really necessary. According to Jobs, The key I was to keep small and focused teams, avoiding large groups where most attendees did not contribute anything relevant. This philosophy later helped Apple maintain its agility and response capacity, in addition to inspiring the CEO of another great technological: Google. Larry Page and the challenge of changing Google In 2011, Larry Page took the command of Google as CEO, at a time when the company already had 30,000 employees and increasingly ambitious challenges. Such and As I counted Jacob Votko, former employee of Google who lived in the first person those changes, Page realized that the excess meetings was affecting the company’s capacity To innovate quickly. The former employee had an anecdote in the Larry Page had criticized large companies as Yahoo! Because it took weeks to update their main page, while in Google they did it in hours. However, now that Google had grown up, Page wondered if in a startup someone would be making jokes about the slow decision of Google. To combat this problem, Larry Page He sent an email To the entire company with new Rules for meetings: Every meeting must have a “decision maker.” You can discuss issues, but once determined, each one executes them as if the decision were their own. Each meeting must have a clear purpose, structure and agenda. If you have nothing to contribute, don’t go All must be punctual, and pay full attention to the meeting (not other background tasks) Celebrate meetings in groups of less than 10 people and broadly spread the notes Establish a maximum duration of 50 minutes instead of an hour and respect those time limits The difficulties of applying new rules Although Page’s instructions were clear, Votko said that the implementation of these measures was not simple. Many employees continued to extend meetings until they were impossible for them to continue because others needed the room. In fact, some teams even tried to take advantage of the 10 -minute holes between meetings to carry out rapid meetings in which they did not even sat, generating friction with users who extended their meetings beyond the regulatory 50 minutes. According to published Business InsiderLarry Page established that no decision should wait for a meeting, and if it required a meeting, it should be summoned urgently. That generated some confusion and organizational chaos since it was interpreted as that these meetings had preference over others, demonstrating that changing such entrenched habits requires much more than simple rules. To reinforce these changes, Larry Page divided Google into seven large groups of product, each with a clear person responsible. The goal was that each of them will act like a startup internal In this way, decision -making would be expedited and unnecessary bureaucracy and unnecessary meetings would be avoided. More than a decade later, great technological ones try again apply the same recipes To prevent someone, in some startup, not get rid of his slowness When making decisions. In Xataka | Working in Google was a dream for many. Paradise in the technology offices is now fading Image | AppleFlickr (Niall Kennedy), Unspash (Rodeo Project Management Software)

Your participations are increasingly problematic and there is no good solution

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It may be The voting systemit may be the opposition of some rebel televisions, but what is indisputable is that Eurovision has a problem with Israel. A hot potato that generates controversy and division between fans and is the main reason that this year, a couple of days after the celebration of the contest, we have stopped talking about music. However, the history of Israel and Eurovision goes back far back in time. Why does Israel participate in Eurovision? Israel is not a European country and yet Participate in full in the contest. This is due to the fact that it belongs since 1957 to the European Broadcasting Union (URU), the organization that produces and regulates the festival, an international corporation of broadcasting of ownership and public service, but without linking to the European Union. Countries such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Australia participate under the same conditions. A long history. Israel debuted in the contest in 1973, being the first non -European country to do so. Since then, he has competed more than fifty. They have won in four: 1978: Izhar Cohen & The Alphabeta with ‘A-Ba-Ni-Bi’ (157 points). 1979: Gali Atari & Milk and Honey with ‘Hallelujah’ (125 points). 1998: Dana International with ‘Diva’ (174 points). 2018: Netta with “Toy” (529 points: 212 of the jury and 317 of the Televoto). Thanks to this they have had the opportunity to celebrate the contest three times, in Jerusalem (1979 and 1999) and Tel Aviv (2019). They resigned to do so in 1980, for coinciding the festival with the day of the memory of the Jewish holocaust. His career is especially remarkablereaching Top 10 on twenty occasions. Comparisons with Russia. Israel’s presence in Eurovision has been criticized since 2023, when The war started in the Gaza Strip. The first thing that was accused of Eurovision was of a certain hypocrisy for not expelling Israel as it had done in 2022, vending Russia After the invasion of Ukraine. The justification of Eurovision was that the contest is a competition between public broadcasters, not governments, and that Israeli public television (Kan) continues to meet the requirements of editorial independence and public service that, however, considers that Russian public chains have lost. Songs with problems. Already that same 2023, the song with which Israel participated in the contest, ‘Hurricane’, played by Eden Golan, He gave problems because it was suspected that its lyrics contained evening allusions to the attacks of October 7. The lyrics and the video clip used metaphors that reminded the young people fleeing from the attack at the Nova Music Festival, where Eden was one of the survivors. Finally, Israel maintained its participation after threatening to retire Yes ‘Hurricane’ was disqualified. Too many interests. But if your participation is so problematic, why don’t Eurovision exclude Israel? This is a network of interests where the sponsorship and financing of the festival stands out: since 2020, the main Eurovision sponsor is Moroccanoil, a company of cosmetics of Israeli origin that performs 80% of its production in Israel and has a continuous presence in the contest, from its appearance in all the curtains and scenarios to the styling of the artists. The brand has been accused of manufacturing in occupied Palestinian territories. Different sources point out that Moroccanoil would withdraw a very juicy sponsorship if Israel was expelled from the contest. The Eurofans protest. Next to the controversial votes, in social networks A series of videos have been seen that they result in the idea that the televoto has little to do with the desire of the authentic fans of the contest: constant boos In Israel’s performance, Palestinian flags that they have not been able to be hidden by realization, expulsions of spectators In essays … the contrast between Eurofans (even among those who advocate The impossible: that the contest is apolitic) and the televoto mediated by pro-Israeli media and organs is more pronounced than ever. It has its fans. But of course, there is the other side of the equation: we cannot forget that, despite the protests of many Eurofans, Israel has won the contest with authentic classics. Especially notorious was Dana International’s performance in 1998, which was a step forward in the LGTBI representation in Eurovision, giving to a large extent the contest we know today. Eurovision is largely its LGTBI audience, and Israel took a giant step in its day in that direction, something that many followers still remember and thank. It is also unfair to say that the entire televoto, however broken the system, was mediated by political interests: the trajectory at the Israel Festival demonstrates that their themes have genuine defenders: the controversy of its presence only dates back a couple of years ago, but historically Israel has gone well stopped the voting since the seventies. The protests of Spain and Belgium, in short, are exceptions: most European governments support Israel’s policy, and that also influences the positioning of their voters in Eurovision. Header | RTVE In Xataka | Film rooms are becoming “show rooms” of all kinds. The best example: Eurovision

convincing Nvidia and Qualcomm of the superiority of their 2 nm

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Samsung is retaking the course little by little. Jay Y. Lee, the president of this company, sent in the middle of last March An internal statement in which it synthesizes very precisely What this company faces: “Our technological advantage has been compromised in all our businesses. It is difficult status quo instead of generating disruptive changes. “ The Samsung subsidiary specialized in the manufacture of semiconductors is largely the company’s engine, and to recover health it is essential that its competitiveness increases. However, to carry it out it is necessary that its integration technology of 2 nm pelee from you to you both with the equivalent lithography of Intel, and, above all, with that of TSMC. However, Samsung’s starting point is favorable. And it is because He has been working in which it is undoubtedly The most important photolithography in its history. Samsung is already testing its 2 Nm node for Nvidia and Qualcomm At the beginning of January 2025, several very reliable Asian media collected that Samsung had already started the evidence of 2 Nm semiconductor production with the purpose of consolidating the first agreements with several clients. The Japanese chips designer for artificial intelligence (AI) Preferred Networks (PFN) and a South Korean company specialized in the design of neuronal processing units (NPU) were already interested at that time when Samsung manufactured their designs in their new 2 Nm node. It is perfectly assumed that both Samsung and TSMC manufacture 2 Nm chips for NVIDIA and QUALCOMM There is no doubt that at the delicate moment this company is going through, having several agreements tied before its competitors initiate large -scale production with equivalent photolithographs is very important. However, this is not all. And is that just five months after that news the South Korean medium Chosunbizwhich in the matter of semiconductors does not usually give stitch without thread, ensures that Samsung has already started the tests in its 2 Nm node For Nvidia and Qualcomm. This test process does not guarantee that Samsung is finally going to manufacture integrated 2 Nm circuits for these two US companies, but their interest in the technology of this South Korean company is an oxygen ball. There is no doubt about that. In any case, if Samsung finally reaches an agreement to manufacture the GPUs for Games and the Nvidia and the Qualcomm, TSMC, TSMC does not have to stay in the stake. It is perfectly assumed that both Samsung and TSMC manufacture 2 Nm chips for these two US companies. On the other hand, and this is also very important, Samsung has expressed his intention to produce 2 nm semiconductors in its Texas factory (USA), which can help you so close agreements with US chip designers and dodge US tariffs. Image | Samsung More information | Chosunbiz In Xataka | This is the chips war: a former SK Hynix employee is suspected to deliver stolen technology to Huawei

Barajas airport has become the “home” of 500 people. If you want to solve it, it has a close example: the Prat

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There are 421 people, most live in terminal 4 of the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport. More than half are registered in Madrid and almost four out of ten say they have a job. This is the radiography of the Syntch that inhabit the largest airport in Spain. The data exposes them The country who has had access to an internal document of AENA in which the situation in which the hundreds of people who night night after night In their facilities and that have attracted the focus of today in recent days and weeks but also, unintentionally, they have become a policy throwing weapon between administrations. The ASAE union data (Aena Enaire union alternative) raised the figure to half a thousand people in February. According to your calculations, 500 people were exceeded Those who spent the night at the airport. For days, local, regional and state administrations indicate on the contrary as the cause of the situation in which hundreds of homeless who are calculated that they live in the airport. Some and others They are pointed out as guilty of not finding a solution to the problem. And on the debate of the Madrid airport floats the shadow of what was lived in Barcelona. El Prat airport has been found in the same situation for years and gradually the homeless number living in these facilities has been reduced although always taking into account that specific rebounds occur. This is how administrations have worked. Coordination to reduce the problem Although Madrid and Barcelona They are not the only airports Where this situation occurs, the Catalan airport is known for having launched various performances over the years to try to alleviate the problem. In one of the last counts 108 people were counted living in him El Prat Airport. As in Madrid, some of them spend the day at the facilities while others leave during the day and return at night to shelter from the cold. The situation, however, seems to have improved in recent years although measures have been taken for more than a decade. In Europa Press They point out that the first time it was acted to reduce the non -roof number at the airport was in 2011 when the “then Department of Social Welfare and families constituted a working group with the Barcelona City Council that initiated the social intervention and accompaniment at the El Prat airport.” The situation remained stable but in 2022 the problems returned and the game of competencies and administrations began. The avant -garde He explained in a report that a non -counted number of people lived in one of the airport parking lots, which was being renovated. The voices that expressed themselves in the report made it clear that the administrations had turned their backs. And that year, in 2022, the Generalitat stopped financing these assistance teams and in 2023 the Barcelona City Council did. Then it was alleged that the Consistory of the city of Condal did not have the Competencies To act at the airport. In 2024 no administration did his job at the AENA facilities. That neglect, they point out in Europa Press It caused a rebound in the people who did life. At the end of 2023, 177 homeless people were counted. It has not been until 2025 when the administrations have launched an operation to reduce the without roof number at the airport facilities and have tried to redirect them to the Social Services circuit. That social services circuit depends on the municipalities. Lluís Torrens, who was Secretary of Social Affairs and Families of the Generalitathe has assured The country that the competitions are very clear and that giving support to homeless people is the responsibility of the municipalities. In the Prat, the City Council of Barcelona and that of El Prat had to coordinate to give a way out to these people since the emergency services of El Prat could not support due to lack of means. There, Aena and the municipalities managed to clarify the powers with the intervention of the Generalitat. Torrens, responsible for the actions, defends that it is the consistors who have to put the means but that if necessary the Regional Administrations They are the ones that have to intervene to coordinate the efforts and even provide economic resources to the municipalities if they do not have the necessary means or facilities to absorb people who leave the airport. As for Aena, in February a first drill was launched to try to accompany the homeless people to the social services circuit and try to shelter them outside the airport. It was AENA’s security employees who, together with the police, asked the homeless to leave the facilities. In a joint work, they were explained that they would have to leave the facilities to clean the environment. In Diari ara The march of these people was narrated. In the eviction no confrontation was detected but these people were explained that they could not re -enter the facilities if it was not with a boarding card to take a plane. The device remained a few days and since then groups of social teams are maintained to serve these people. Since then, the without roof number spent at the airport has been reduced to about 50 individuals. At the moment, in Madrid Aena has made the same decision to ask for the boarding card to those who try to access the airport but are only being carried out in the lower intensity time. That is, at night. The Madrid City Council has described this decision as A “patch”. Manuela Bergerot, spokesman for more Madrid in the opposition, points out the measure as “an arbitrary prohibition to people who do not have a boarding card to be able to pass to the airport or who do not seem companions. It is the entrance door to institutional racism.” From the Community of Madrid they point out as main guilty To Aena and the central government. “The … Read more

The government has a red button against Airbnb and has activated it in 65,000 floors

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At the doors of summer, with the influx of international travelers in record levels and housing and Tourist massification converted into almost daily debate issues (yesterday motivated A protest In the Canary Islands), the government wanted to launch a resounding notice to the holiday rental platforms. The Ministry of Social Rights and Consumption has just claimed Airbnb to block Around 66,000 ads “illegal” tourist apartments spread throughout Spain. The message is clear: the State has the tools to regulate the offer in the holiday rental market. And has decided to use them. What happened? That the Ministry of Consumer He just remind you to Airbnb that must block almost 66,000 ads of tourist floors offered on its website. To be more prices 65,935 publications that, in the opinion of the technicians of the department of Pablo Bustinduy, can be considered “illegal.” It is not the first time that the Government is aimed at the rental platform to claim that you eliminate those publications, but now it does so with a draft argument in its favor: a favorable sentence of the Superior Court of Justice. Why’s that? As Remember from consumptionover the last months its technicians have sent three resolutions to Airbnb in which they order the platform that eliminates 66,000 ads of floors. Those responsible however share the consumption criteria and have resorted to the order before justice. Now the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid has ruled. And he does so giving him consumption in a resolution that affects a first batch of 5,800 ads of houses distributed by Andalusia, Madrid, Catalonia, Valencian Community, Basque Country and the Balearic Islands. Enough for the government to have launched a statement emphasizing the need for Airbnb to block all the ads that it considers “illegal”, the 65,935, something that has already demanded from the offices of Ireland. Why do you want to block them? Because in the opinion of the Government these publications do not respect the rules that holiday accommodations must comply with if they want to announce. “Specifically, the regulations of the different autonomous communities are violated where consumption has detected these ads. In all cases it is complete housing for tourist use, advertisements of individual rooms appear,” specify From the ministry. To be more precise, consumption considers that they fail three key guidelines. The main one is not to include the license or registration number, an obligation collected in several autonomous regulations and that supposes “the most common infraction” detected by the Ministry. The second is that the ads do not require whether the house is renting a company or particular. Finally, officials have also detected that (at least in some ads) a license is included that does not correspond to that issued by the authorities, the third infraction. What does Airbnb say? Which is willing to battle. In statements collected by The reasonthe platform says that “it will continue to resort all the decisions that affect this case” and accuses consumption of having used an “indiscriminate methodology”, including both “ads that show licenses” and “others that might not need it, as seasonal leases.” “He has also deliberately ignored resolutions of the supreme that make it clear that not all Airbnb ads require registration number.” Is it the first touch of attention? No. The Government (as well as other administrations regional) It has been aware of tourist floors, among other reasons for Tensions which generates in the residential market. One of its most ambitious initiatives is A unique registry of holiday rentals that seek to centralize the management, that all the registered floors have a license and that platforms such as Booking or the Airbnb Velan itself because the homes announced comply with the guidelines set by the Law for Rent. The notice launched by consumption is important for another reason, beyond the possibility of withdrawing almost 66,000 homes from the tourist rental market. It is a new touch of attention that is added to the sanctioning file open to late 2024 to a tourist floors rental platform for breaching advertising or activated regulations Last February. Why is it important? For the debate generated over last years around tourist rental and its impact on the price of housing and for the legal situation in which there are many apartments that are leaving for travelers. Just two months ago The country It echoed of a calculation of consumption that reveals that only 7% of the tourist housing ads offered in Madrid have a license. The Executive crossed the advertising of 16,335 tourist apartments in the city with the information of 1,131 permits in force granted by the City Council. Its conclusion: there are 15,204 homes outside the law. Image | Erwan Hesry (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | “My savings were there”: Spanish cities are already beginning to regulate their tourist floors

There are 100 bones and none is where

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In archeology, bones and bone fragments are usually time capsules capable of revealing a specific moment in history hundreds, or even thousands of years. Without going far, last summer there were two findings that revealed us dark scenes of the past. In one of them, 64 bones clarified that the Maya did not walk around the time to sacrifice children. Shortly after, the DNA of another area said that Mayan prisoners of war passed through a species of ritual violence. An inaccessible cave for much of the year has thrown another dark secret. The underground altar. In the heart of the Guatemalan jungle, under the old archaeological site of Two batteriesthe so -called Cave of Blood, rediscovered in the 1990s, has revealed A macabre landscape and deeply enigmatic: hundreds of fragmented human remains, scattered without anatomical order and marked by signs of ritual violence. This cavity, inaccessible for a good part of the year due to seasonal floods, can only be explored at the dry season (from March to May), which suggests a ceremonial use linked to the replicas by rain, key to an agricultural civilization such as the Mayan. The findings, presented In Society For American Archaeologyhave baffled archaeologists not because of their brutality, but for their symbolic complexity: what is offered to the rain God are not bodies, but parts, carefully dismembered and arranged, as if the fragmentation itself was the essence of the sacrifice. Ritual and violence in the gloom. The bioarcheologist Michele Bleuzetogether with the forensic anthropologist Ellen Fricano, has analyzed the bones found in the cave and suggests that the observed does not correspond to traditional funeral practices, but to a ritual of deeply sacrificial character. The evidences are multiple and forceful: unpublished bones, trauma inflicted around the moment of death, brands of beveled edge tools (probably axes), and even symbolic elements such as red ocher and obsidian blades. In a corner of the cave they found themselves four cranial calo stacked, an image that evokes a ritual act than a practical need. Among the remains were identified both adults and children, which opens disturbing questions about the role of these victims within the social and religious structures of the Mayan world. On the right a fragment of cranial bone extracted with a beveling instrument, and the left, a linear drawing of a human skull that shows the area of ​​origin of the fragment. The bone was found in the Cueva de Bleed The sacrifice time. Plus: The seasonality of the blood cave is not a minor detail. Your limited access at the end of the dry season It coincides with dates of still in force religious celebrations, such as Santa Cruz Dayon May 3, when contemporary Mayan communities go to caves to ask for rain. This temporal coincidence reinforces the hypothesis that the place served as Scenario of invocation rituals and offering to the god of rain. In a culture where the relationship with climatic cycles was vital, the delivery of human lives (or, in this case, of their fragments) could have been conceived as A sacred transactionnecessary to ensure the continuity of the crops and, therefore, of the community. Mystery open to science. Despite the forcefulness of the material evidence found, archaeologists face Many questions. Namely: who were these people? What was their origin? Were they chosen, captured, offered by their own families? In that sense, research has just begun. The team led by Bleuze plans to perform ancient DNA analysis and stable isotope studies to try to rebuild not only the identity of sacrificed individuals, but also His vital trajectoriesits food, its genetic ties and its place within society. What has become clear is that, be the ones who were, the individuals were treated in a wayAdarally different To the rest of the Mayan population, which implies a complex conception of the human body as a vehicle of meaning, power or connection with the divine. Ritual will. Beyond your name evocativethis cave of blood is A ritual capsule Cattered over time, a kind of underground altar where, according to the findings, violence was merged with devotion, and where the act of dismembering was transformed into a kind of supply gesture to natural forces. Seen that, and According to expertswhat for the modern observer may seem a brutal scene, was, for the ancient Maya, an act loaded with meaning, a dialogue with the gods forged in bone and blood. Now the other mystery through science remains to be known: decipher the story of its victims. Image | Mike RoweMichele M. Bleuze In Xataka | Mayan bones that tell a terrifying story: that of ritual violence against prisoners of war In Xataka | 64 bones DNA under an underground chamber clarifies who the Maya sacrificed: children and adolescents

Wallbox was the Milmillonaria hope of Spain to conquer electric loaders. Now it is sunk

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Wallbox was born with – loved – unicorn aspirations: an industrial technological, with Spanish capital, quoting in New York, and selling loaders for electric cars to the world. Today is less than its debt, it has fired a third of its template and struggle not to be expelled from the parquet. He is desperately looking for financial oxygen and industrial credibility, but he has not yet found either one or the other. What has happened. Wallbox 3,000 million dollars came to asserttoday its capitalization is around 95 million. The reasons: Constant losses. 112 million in 2023, 152 million in 2024. Stock market collapse. Your action It has fallen more than 95% since its debut. The NYSE Warning. It has been quoting below the dollar. Cuts. Mass layoffsplant closures and cost reduction. Key directors output. A few days ago, Justin Mirro and Paolo Campinoti They presented their resignation. Between bambalins. Wallbox has not stopped capturing money in recent years. Since 2021 he has accumulated more than 370 million in rounds, with Members such as Iberdrola, Generac, Riberas or the Puig family in capital. But your business model is still unburgated. Now has hired Houlihan Lokey to restructure debt and capital to avoid collapse. It is not yet known if that will sell assets, incorporate a new investor or more drastic movement. Yes, but. Although Wallbox has improved margins, reduced operational losses And it has grown in the United States, still without a clear profitability horizon. Says that it is close to Break Even (match income and expenses) in adjusted Ebitda, but has also admitted that the losses will continue. And the most worrying: You will need more capitalbut he has already burned a lot. In figures. In 2024 … 164 million in revenues. 152 million in losses. 300 dismissed employees (35% of the workforce). Almost 200 million of living debt. 95 million in stock capitalization dollar. $ 0.30 is the current price of your share. The context. With the sales of the electric car growing somewhat slower than expected, the startups of the sector have run out of the fundamental ingredient of their road map. And many have stayed on the road. Arrival, Proterraeither Lordstown Motors They are broken or suspended. Nikola continues to operate with a value 99% lower than that of its peak. All have something in common: promising products and a powerful narrative, but hardly sustainable business models if their environment does not grow rapidly. Between the lines. The problem is not electrification, but the calendar. The startups bet everything at “when” and not “yes.” And that “when” has been delayed. Wallbox had deployed factories in Texas, Germany and China with the expectation of a demand that has not yet arrived. And this not only affects Wallbox. The Spanish case is representative of a kind of industrial bubble: public and private investment aligned, but based on projections that are not consolidated. In Xataka | Selling a second -hand electric car is a very bad idea. Unless your car is an xiaomi su7 Outstanding image | Wallbox

Everything blew in favor of Xiaomi with its first electric car. Until his clients began to see the qualities of SU7

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A hood that does not work and some bumpers that deform with heat. More than a year after launching Your first electric carmonths after knowing all the details of Your most provisional version And, confirmed, a few days after it is revealed Your next electric SUVXiaomi is faced with his first major media crisis in his journey in the car market. Until now, the Chinese company had achieved surprise To everyone. The production of its first electric car I barely gave to meet all the demand. So much so that the producing plant where their cars come out has become A tourist attraction. When we were still rubbing our eyes, the Xiaomi Su7 Ultraan electric car of stratospheric benefits that exceeded those of the Porsche Taycan more powerful and that was sold at a price much lower than the German model. But the honeymoon is over. A few days ago Lei Jun, CEO of the company, said it was facing one of the toughest moments at the business level and personnel that he remembered. In recent weeks, news that have were just a grain of sand have been accumulating. Today they have a small mountain to save. A hood and some pieces that deform When Lei Jun referred to the fact that one of his worst weeks had passed at the head of Xiaomi, he referred, among other things, to the death of three people aboard his car. It is not entirely clear but it seems that the car caught fire after crashing when it carried the activated driving assistance system. Although a fatal accident is a crisis that all companies have to pass They put a car on the street or a Autonomous Driving Systemin China an investigation immediately began to know what had happened. Shortly after, the company itself began to capo the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra. Maybe for Avoid risksan update reduced by more than 600 hp the maximum power of Deportivo Electrico and it was warned that to unlock it, a test should be passed in a circuit. The complaints were so sound that the company reculled and unlocks the car again. Days later Xiaomi faced a new fire. Now he had more than 400 demands on the table because some of the first owners of the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra complained that the Specific hood of more than $ 5,000in reality, it was worthless. Despite promising that it served to get the heat from the front zone, its structure was useless before this task and requested the refund of the value of the car. From Xiaomi they have rejected this option and proposed to deliver to the buyers the original hood and those who kept it They would receive 20,000 credits In the brand store. However, many of them have refused to do so, claiming that the products have 60 days of withdrawal and that they want them to return the car’s money. In Carnewschina They explain that the question of deceptive advertising demand is being a thorny issue in China. Beijing regulators have already failed in favor of the company, noting that they have not incur It should be double because they were deceived. It is known that the company has stopped the deliveries of the sports electric car and that those who had a reserve made have been asked to contact the company. If not, the order would be suspended. Likewise, they have moved to those who reserve the car that the waiting times are no longer the same with what they had so far. Capós that deform and an alleged defamatory campaign In the middle of all this strip and loosen between consumers and company, in the last days images have been viralized that talk about the supposed poor quality with which Xiaomi cars are auctioned. With different images, some owners are pointing out that one of The car’s hood pieces are poorly tight and that, even, it can bulge as a result of heat. Accompanied by images that you can see in Carnewschinasome Xiaomi cars owners point out that this piece is misaligned with the lighthouse and that it can deform. The reasons to which it points are diverse, from a piece of worst quality than the rest of the car to a bad assembly or deformations due to extreme heat. At the moment, the company has confirmed that it will repair all the necessary interventions and has stressed that the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra is not affected because, according to the company, they use better quality pieces. In fact, the company has transferred to the owners the recommendation to stop the car in extreme climate situations and not take refuge under a tree in case of strong storms. In addition, they have a claim for these phenomena from the application itself. However, from Xiaomi they believe that the flood of news that has arrived in a few weeks is not accidental. The technological giant points out that he is suffering an attack towards his image to reduce the impact of the launch of the Xiaomi Yu7, an electric SUV that they will present on May 22. As reportedthere are 10,000 accounts in social networks that work with bots to defame the company through rumors or false information. Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, shared in his social networks the statement of the company’s legal team: “Internet is not a space without law. Xiaomi will decide legal measures to protect our legitimate rights against slander and malicious attacks.” Photo | Lei Jun on Twitter In Xataka | All cars depreciate immediately as soon as they leave the concessionaire. All but one: the Xiaomi Su7

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