There is a fever to see the weddings of others in social networks. And that is causing them to throw rice shovels to the bride and groom

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As always, fashion is not new but social networks bring it in the fore. In recent weeks, very particular wedding videos flood Tiktok and Instagram. In them, the old habit of throwing some stab of rice to the bride and groom is being replaced by throwing dozens of kilos of rice with the help of shovels. A maximization of The old customs that has a simple explanation beyond that everything is worth in order to create viral content: the spectacularization of weddings. More rice. Already in 2023 we read that In Galicia The guests had launched 200 kilos of rice to the bride and groom with blades and wheelbarrow. And last year, also in Galicia, a wedding was viralized in which The bride and groom were buried in confetti. Broak rice and confetti mixture had A recent wedding with the virtually indistinguishable boyfriends under a hell of paper and cereal. AND The most viral and next time It has been that of a couple who has also been buried under kilos of rice thrown with blades towards them. The impact on networks of the latter has been impressive: 35,000 I like and almost 5,000 comments record the importance of networks in the spread of these phenomena. Weddings: more and better. The progressive spectacularization of weddings is something that is in the same nature: since the nineteenth century, real weddings consolidated alliances and exhibited institutional power, and it is something that has not stopped seeing since then. The advent of social networks and the possibility of making everyone have our moment of glory, with thousands of people attending from the other side of the screen to the links if the hook is striking enough, has turned the weddings into events where everything is calculated to imitate those of the celebrities and nobles, who remain the mirror in which to look (at least, the mirror of a high percentage of people They decide to organize a wedding). More show, more price. In 2023 we talked How the price of a wedding had shot in recent years, already around 20,000 euros. To that amount we must add the honeymoon, and all this in a country, Spain, where the average salary is lower than that of other countries that entered this comparison. An amount where dress and accessories of the bride, photos and video, music, groom suit, organization, flowers … This does not make more weddings: after the pandemic: after the pandemic: after the pandemic There was a very remarkable rebound of the quantity, with a zipper of 20’5%, but in 2023 it descended again until it was similar to previous years. But although there is no more, they are more visible. Tatus and crazy cotillion. The thing goes furtherbecause this spectacularization in search of the most shocking or more glamorous wedding includes “syringes” with sucksneons, makeup kiosks, Thematic tattoos… what is known as a Glitter barwhere the least daring can opt, if it is not a tattoo, for a less permanent makeup. And everything often often oriented to provide good performance in social networks. Weddings keep liking. Weddings are still a notorious care center for a high number of people who come to social networks (primarily, women) to see foreign weddings. Influencers Like Ale Navas, Carla Vico or Claudia Jiménez They have recently married And the process in their networks, with millions of followers and covering from the hand request to the boyfriend’s trip, have broadcast with great detail. They are the mirror in which couples looking for dream weddings comparable to those of these are looked Influencers. The success of dating programs such as ‘Love Is Blind’ in Netflix, whose center are blind weddings, are the proof that weddings continue to generate interest. The cm of the wedding. But not just Influencers They monopolize the interest of weddings in social networks. Everyone wants to turn their wedding into something memorable or viralizable, and thus arise professions like him Wedding Social Manager (a cm focused exclusively on the wedding) or, as usual in the weddings of Influencerscontent creation (videos, photos, ReelsStories, moments when boyfriends and guests replicate memes in vogue) expressly thought for networks. Behind it there is a Spectacularization of the ceremony and the party whose ultimate goal is to look like Influencers successful … and something else. The wedding as show. Becoming a wedding into a spectacular party is also an incentive for boyfriends and guests, which perhaps consider the wedding of their friends or cousins ​​if they cannot talk about it in networks for months. Hence the content is favored Instagrameable of the wedding (the tatus, the avalanches of rice) in the face of more traditional issues (more classic photos and videosbut that cannot be shared). Our Devotion for gossip Do the rest: we love to frequent social networks to comment on the bride’s dress, something we have been doing since the heart press exists. But now we can carry it out putting people as conventional as oneself. Header | Tiktok In Xataka | Asturias has just celebrated three weddings from Sologamia: when the “yes I want” is actually a “yes (me)”

bananas prices are in the clouds and the explanation is as simple as it is difficult to solve

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At the beginning of the year, The Nightmare of the Canary Islands banana lasted 24 months. From January 2023 to October 2024, only in three months of the 22 the banana has had a “remunerative” price. The situation was terrible, almost unsustainable. And then, the penultimate week of February arrived. Since then, continuous increases in the price of the Canarian bananas have created a situation that we have not seen for a long time: up to four euros per kilo in the supermarket and 1.5, in origin. The banana is in the clouds. What is happening here? That is, how is it possible that the situation has changed so much in such a short time? And the answer, although it is the product of two different situations, is surprisingly simple. The first is the week cuttingl. As analysts recognize, on the islands, the weekly bananas cutting has been reduced. At the beginning of March (the latest estimates available), The figures were “Below eight million a week and even seven, which means much less embedded fruit.” That, by pure offer-demand, tends to raise prices. The second is banana scarcity. Because yes, the banana (the “banana dollar”) is the main competitor in the peninsular Spain of the Canarian banana. In fact, As Román Delgado explained in the Canary Islands now“Last year, half of the market share of this fruit in Spain has already been clear.” Well, the shortage of Canarian banana has coincided with banana shortage. The result is that, well, prices have shot. Above all, because the demand has remained. So Sergio Cáceres has recognized itManager and director of Marketing and Communication of the Association of Organizations of bananas producers of the Canary Islands (ASPROCAN), the organization that brings together 100% of the Canarian producers. And it is not uncommon: as we have learned with olive oil, The inelasticity of demand It is the main trick of national producers in times of crisis. So … the problem is already solved? The answer is also simple: no. Of none menra. To start because There are not two good months that can ‘cure’ the wounds caused for 24 bad months. Current prices are a good news, but teaching producers accounts requires some commercial stability. And not four euros per kilo. It doesn’t take so much. Just have remunerative prices for a prudential time. Secondly, for something that is closely related to this: the market is terribly volatile. The commercial chaos of recent weeks makes anyone really know what will happen to product flows worldwide. Who can assure that all bananas will not reach Europe in Europe that cannot be sold in the US (for tariffs)? Carpen Diem. Anyway, it would be fool not to celebrate that the islands have left their peculiar silver nightmare. It only remains to expect prices in the supermarket to begin to normalize and the increases do not erode the demand. In the coming years, we will have to make many decisions around the agricultural sector and the better we get to them, the better. Image | Kamila Maciejewska | Doğan alpaslan demi̇r In Xataka | If the question is what to do with the millions of bananas that Canary Islands throw every year, there are already those who are clear: wine

They only needed sun and plant waste

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After staying the practically empty gas reserves, Europe is trying to find a way to reach November with the fully controlled situation and Without relying on Russia. To do this, he has put his goal to import gas from USA either Accept an offer from Chinabut, perhaps, the key is closer than they imagine: in Extremadura. A pioneer gas plant. A year ago The construction began of a 100% renewable natural gas pioneer center in myjadas, Extremadura. This project, developed by the German company Turn2X, will begin operating in May. Totally renewable. The myjadas plant will use a technology known as Power To Gas (P2G). This process consists of combining green hydrogen – obtained by water electrolysis with renewable energy – with biogenic carbon dioxide – proceeds of the decomposition of plant waste or biomass. By together both elements through the reaction of Sabatier, high purity synthetic methane gas is obtained. This synthetic natural gas, created without resorting to fossil sources, has been successfully tested in the Extremadura gas distribution network, According to the newspaper. But let’s not confuse. Although in Spain there are already several plants that They generate biomethanea renewable gas obtained by decomposing organic waste, the case of myjadas goes further. While the conventional biomethane captures the gas generated during the decomposition of waste, this new project does not start from organic matter. Methane is synthesized from scratch by the combination already described, which opens a new route for renewable gas production. The choice of Extremadura. Although the project is not exempt from challenges for The cost of green hydrogen and large -scale production, the choice of Extremadura as an epicenter responds To the numerous sunny hours which offers the territory. In addition, as the German company has detailed, regional agencies have proposed investments and aid throughout the process. Going further with hydrogen. The great bet of Spain and Europe is being green hydrogen. Specifically, in Spain It is positioning himself As one of the great players in this sector, with projects such as the H2Med, a corridor that will connect the Iberian Peninsula with France and Germany to transport renewable hydrogen. Turn2x initiative is significant, since it demonstrates how green hydrogen can go beyond its use in the industry and become a key raw material for other energy sources, such as renewable natural gas. Spain is not only betting on green hydrogen: it is transforming it into concrete solutions. And Extremadura is, today, one of his most promising laboratories. The implementation of this plant not only validates a disruptive technology, but demonstrates that the country can lead the transition to a renewable natural gas, less dependent and more sustainable. Image | Turn2x Xataka | An island in Japan has revolutionized its vehicles. They have turned cow droppings into hydrogen fuel

When tourists discover what are back traumatized

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In the broad (and increasingly disputed) international tourism map a few points are more iconic than the Guiza necropolisin Egypt. And it’s normal. After all, his great pyramid Seven wonders of the ancient world and an archaeological jewel that attracts every year to millions of tourists. The problem is that, as they know Other great destinations distributed By AsiaAmerica or Europe (including Spain), in tourism there is nothing easier than dying successful. And that is what Egypt wants to avoid. A huge business. A few months ago, when taking stock of 2024, the government of Egypt I took chest for its ability to attract tourists from other countries. According to its data last year the country achieved a “record” of 17.5 million of visitors, almost one million more than in 2023 despite the fact that, as Remember your minister From the bouquet, Sherif Fathy, the area is affected by “the geopolitical situation of the region.” His goal is to shoot that short -term figure until reaching 30 million visitors before the decade ends. Egypt’s data may be far from other destinations, such as Spain either Japanbut it is enough for tourism to be one of the great economic pillars of the country of pyramids and pharaohs. Only during the first semester of 2024 the industry generated income from 6,600 million of dollars (some sources speak of a global impact much greater) and the government itself recognizes that its contribution to the national GDP Approaches 10%although there were years in which this percentage reached either exceeded 20%. The sector It is key also as a source of foreign exchange. THE GREAT CLATING: Giza. Throughout its Egypt geography it has important claims, such as Karnakhe Valle de los Reyes, Abu Simbel or the temple of Luxor. However, if there is an iconic (and photographed) point it is The necropolis of the Guiza Plateau, with its Famous Celebrrimas pyramids, just a few kilometers from Cairo. Every year they visit them millions of touristswhich in turn generates an important transfer of buses chartered by tour operators, cars, tourists and professional guides. The result: collapse, long lines and the movement of street vendors. To avoid it, the government has drawn a plan with which it wants to improve the organization on the plateau and end the chaos, as reported A few days ago News Week. Among other measures he has decided to set a new access on the Cairo-Fayum road, reorder the environment and The presence of animals Shot, open a visiting center, restore several graves, boost online ticket sales and also bet on ecological transport in the deposit. “Rooted problems”. One of the key figures behind the changes is the Orascom Pyramids firm, which is investing millions of dollars in the transformation of the area to make it a tourist reference. “This is the world’s largest monument, the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world,” Amin Gazzarin claimspresident of Orascom Pyramis Enerinment (OPE). “The process is complex and challenging due to the need to address deeply rooted problems in the area.” The authorities have already launched A first phase Pilot, as a test, so that the renewed area in the surroundings of the pyramids opens at the beginning of July, coinciding with the implementation of the Great Egyptian museum. The country want to end In addition, end the image of horses and camels in bad conditions in the necropolis. The goal: better manage the flow of visitors, reduce congestion and influence your sustainable destination message. New times, new approach. That Egypt has decided to modernize the script plateau to Improve experience Of its millions of visitors, planting face to chaos, the unusual street sale, congestion in access and betting on ecological transport, with electric buses instead of the traditional Horses and camelsIt is no accident. Egypt is no stranger to something that Spain has proven Already in its own meats: to be an attractive tourist destination it does not arrive with having a great heritage and paradisiacal landscapes. Massification and poor management may make a destination simply end up dying of success. And in recent years, Egypt has found criticism of certain aspects that tarnish the experience of tourists and excursions to places like Guiza or Luxor. “They ruin the experience”. In networks They can be found Tourist complaints about the resale, attitude and harassment of certain vendors, pressures to accept services or poor infrastructure. Not long ago, in A Reddit thread On places that travelers would not return, a user cited Cairo. The reason? “Of course the pyramids are beautiful, but scammers and resellers ruin the experience.” In February Egyptian Streets warned that these problems have become more pressing for Egyptian tourism now than networks such as Tiktok amplify the bad experiences of visitors. Beyond the pyramids. Moreover, in his article Mohamed Khairat warns of negative comments on aggressive sellers, poorly illuminated deposits, women who claim to have felt harassed or even problems at Cairo’s own airport. “Terminal 1, used by airlines Low Costis outdated and chaotic “, Khairat warns. “There is no clear guide on where to go, which leaves disoriented tourists.” The problem is aggravated because at certain points only cash payments are accepted in dollars or euros, which is an extra difficulty for foreigners. The treatment of animals, in the focus. Another key issue is the treatment of animals. In the tourist areas of Egypt it is usual to meet merchants that offer rides in carriages thrown by horses, donkeys or camels. Your figure It has generated controversy In some cities in southern Spain. And of course he also does in Egypt, where Peta has already raised the voice To denounce the situation of at least part of these animals, “sick, injured or hungry” and that their owners deal with “if they were tools.” His criticisms have had an effect. Both institutional and in the sector itself. In autumn the Egyptian government He presented a program Focused precisely on “animal welfare” in its main tourist points, including … Read more

is in very bad condition

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The International Space Station, that orbits the earth since 1998it does not go through your best moment. In fact, according to the Security Committee that advises NASA, it is entering a critical phase that threatens to put its last years of life at risk. Maximum concern. The experts of the Aerospace Security Advisory Panel (ASAP), an independent committee created to advise NASA on security issues, expressed their “deep concern” for the aging orbital station at a public meeting on April 17. “The International Space Station has entered the riskiest period of its existence,” said Rich Williams, a member of the Committee, According to the SpaceNews chronicle. Williams did not refer to new problems, but to an accumulation of technical problems and budgetary deficits that now pose a critical threat to operations aboard the station. Cracks that do not close. One of the persistent problems we have covered in Xataka They are the air leaks in the Russian module Zvezda. Specifically, in a small transfer tunnel (called PRK) that connects the main module with an coupling port. The cracks were detected in 2019, but the air leak has been increasing since then, reaching its highest level in April 2024. Despite the years of joint research between NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, there is still no clear solution, or consensus on the root cause of leaks. A meeting in Moscow. The Committee considers leaks one of the “most concern” points of the ISS, with a Risk level “5 of 5”the most serious of the classification, since August 2024. Williams said there is a meeting in Moscow this month to discuss new mitigation measures. For now, the space agencies have limited the repairy of the affected tunnel and keep the hatch that connects it with the rest of the station. Fear of unexpected fall. The current plan is that the International Space Station be withdrawn in 2030 or 2031. NASA has commissioned Spacex The development of a special ship (the USDV) to tow the station to the Pacific, where it will resent the atmosphere safely. The Security Committee indicates that there is no emergency plan to exorbit the ISS before that this vehicle is ready. “If the exorbitous international space station before Spacex delivers the USDV, the public risk for the disintegrated remains of the ISS will increase several orders of magnitude,” Williams said. Let’s not forget that we talk about a structure of about 450 tons. Other age aches. To these “main” concerns we must add the lack of spare parts. Keeping enough spare parts for critical systems, such as vital support, becomes increasingly complex, since some components are about 30 years old, and their original suppliers no longer exist. Similarly, space costumes for extravehicular activities, some designed in the 70s, are also giving problems. In June 2024, A refrigerant leak forced to cancel a space walk for fear of repeating the 2013 incident in which Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned When his helmet began to fill with water. To these we must add the scares of the spacecraft that supply the station, such as the Boeing Starliner ship failure, the nauseabundo smell detected after the arrival of the MS-29 shipthe delays of the Dream Chaser of Sierra Space and the cancellation of the Mission Cygnus NG-22 of Northrop Grumman for the damages suffered during the transport of the ship. A matter of money. According to the ASAP panel, all these risks have a common denominator: “a great budget deficit.” Although experts did not detail the exact nature of the deficit, the data shows a slight reduction in the budget of operations and maintenance of the International Space Station (from 1,030 million dollars in 2023 to 993 million in 2024). Already in its 2024 annual report, the Committee had warned that the costs of the exorbitant vehicle (the USDV) and the financing of future commercial stations could exert pressure on NASA’s capacity to safely carry out the normal and contingency operations of the ISS. Elon Musk proposed as a solution exorbiting it early, in 2027. Image | POT In Xataka | “Did you say, from Irigoyen?”: When an Argentine taxi signal sneaked into the International Space Station

China has a new hydrogen pump. It is so destructive that it seems nuclear

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The hydrogen pump is The most terrifying weapon created so far by the human being. A conventional atomic bomb as the ones that launched the USA about the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and with which The Second World War concluded In 1945, it triggers a very powerful explosion and the release of a huge amount of energy by firing a uranium -235 or plutonium -239 nucleus. However, a hydrogen pump is even more devastating. It is also known as the thermonuclear weapon, and, very broadly, it uses a small atomic fission pump as a detonator device for induce fusion of the fuel composed of two hydrogen isotopes: deuterium and tritium. The energy that is able to release one of these bombs can be much higher than that of a conventional atomic weapon. In fact, the “Tsar bomb”which is the most powerful thermonuclear weapon so far, was thrown by the Soviet Union on the Barents Sea in 1961 and reached a power of 50 megatones. China has just tested a new type of hydrogen pump To understand with some precision how the bomb that China has developed works and why it is not a nuclear weapon it was necessary to briefly review what are the principles of operation of atomic bombs and thermonuclear weapons. The Complete Prohibition Treaty of Nuclear Essays approved by the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 1996 prohibits any type of nuclear test. Unfortunately, this agreement has not come into force because it has not been ratified by all countries that have nuclear weapons. This weapon uses magnesium hydride (MGH₂) because it is a chemical compound capable of storing hydrogen in a solid way In any case, as I mentioned, the bomb that China has tried is not a nuclear weapon. Unlike the hydrogen pump in which we have investigated a few lines above this weapon uses as a magnesium hydride fuel (MGH₂) because it is a chemical compound Able to store hydrogen in solid way. This fuel is stable from a thermodynamic point of view, but it has a peculiarity: it reacts in a violent way when it comes into contact with water or acidic substances, releasing hydrogen. Once its release has occurred, this chemical element enters into combustion, reaching a temperature of up to 1,000 degrees Celsius. However, its destructive capacity is not the consequence only of the temperature reached by the fireball it produces; His devastating power is also linked to the fact that he calls her lasts for more than 2 seconds. It may seem little time, but it is not. It is a long time. In fact, the flame of a TNT explosion hardly lasts 0.12 s, so its destructive capacity is much lower. Of course, the explosion of this hydrogen pump is approximately 60% less powerful than that of a TNT device in terms of pressure. What China has carried out for the moment is just a test, but this country already has a factory capable of producing 150 tons of magnesium hydride per year. It is evident that this nation is serious with this weapon. Presumably it can be used to destroy drone swarms, end objectives endowed with state -of -the -art shields or ravage a wide area of ​​land, among other possibilities. Hopefully neither China nor any other country decides to use this type of weapons in the future. One last note: we do not know what the appearance of this pump is, although it weighs 2 kg, so it is not very large. Of course, the explosion you can see in the cover image of this article is real. Image | 705 Research Institute | PFC Lukas J. Blom More information | SCMP In Xataka | In the Cold War, USA designed something more intimidating than the atomic bomb: a nuclear missile that pursued goals

We have discovered that cutting the consumption of an amino acid is related to more life expectancy. In mice, yes

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Virtually anything, in excess, can end up being harmful. Water is no exception and amino acids, the “bricks of life” are not. This was demonstrated by a study conducted from one of those compounds. In moderation. In study, conducted in mice, noticed that cutting the intake of isoleucine in the diet of animals helped increase the life expectancy of rodents by 33%. Isoleucine. Isoleucine is one of the essential amino acids. Amino acids are essential molecules for life as they represent The links from which proteins are created. We know thousands of proteins, all of them composed from about twenty amino acids. Our body can synthesize more than half of the amino acids that it requires to create proteins, but nine of these amino acids, the so -called essential, we must obtain them from our food. This is the case of isoleucine, an amino acid that we can find in a diversity of foods such as eggs, soybeans, meat and fish. A previous track. The study started from a Previous indication. A study conducted ten years ago in the state of Wisconsin observed that the diets of people with obesity were richer in this amino acid than the average population. In mice. For Study this correlationthe team went to the laboratory and studied its effect on mice. Laboratory animals divided into three groups: one control, to which no food restrictions were applied, another whose diet was altered to reduce the presence of amino acids, and another whose diet was normal in the presence of amino acids except in Isoleucine. The amount of isoleucine that this group received was ⅔ less than the standard. The mice were six months when they started these diets, which would be equivalent to an age of 30 years in humans. Analziating results. The team observed that the two groups of mice with amino acid restiring lost body fat at the beginning but those who had all the restricted amino acids lost it again soon. More important, the team observed that mice in this diet with less isoleucine increased their life expectancy: 7% in females and 33% in males. Another relevant detail that they observed is that the mice in this diet would ingest more calories. Possibly, they point out, to compensate for the lack of nutritional contribution of this component. Despite this, they also burned more of these calories, which led them to maintain a lower body mass than the rest of the study mice. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Cell metabolism. And what about humans? The team responsible for the study was likely that the restriction of this amino acid can have a similar effect on humans. For now that possibility is little more than speculative but the fact that the greatest presence of this amino acid in the diets of people with obesity is already observed implies another indication of the existence of some relationship. Beyond the biological differences between one species, the human diet is much less controllable than that of laboratory mice. The field of nutrition is extremely complex, with an infinity of nutrients, some of which interact with each other. He effect of other factors As our physical activity or tobacco consumption also affect our health and our life expectancy, making it difficult to elucidate the net impact of a nutrient on the human body. In Xataka | We believed that creatine was one of the most useful supplements to gain muscle mass. We are no longer so sure Image | Moerschy

Constant Internet blockages by LaLiga

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Today, there is LaLiga First Division game. There is also Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On Friday no (there is second division), and the weekend, of course, there is both Saturday (the classic, end of the Copa del Rey) and Sunday. That will have a more than likely consequence: indiscriminate blockages of IPS Almost all week. Or all. The situation does not change. The indiscriminate blockages of LaLiga IPS continue. One weekend after another legitimate companies and users are suffering the collateral effects of these measures, which try to combat illegal soccer broadcasts through IPTV services. Today, there is a game of day 32, and tomorrow the 33rd day begins. There are matches every day of the week (Copa del Rey on Saturday, day 34 Sunday). Source: LaLiga. From Cloudflare to Vercel. The cuts have especially affected Cloudflare, a gigantic CDN that makes use of IPS that shares thousands of websites, and all of them are affected by these IPS blockages. In recent days we have seen how other similar suppliers have also been affected, and Vercel is the clearest example. Vercel against LaLiga. Guillermo Rauch, Ceo de Vercel, indicated last week How your company had been affected by these IPS blockades: Spain is censoring the Internet by blocking the IPS of the CDN of @sercel, which is the entrance door of millions of applications and websites. We are working hard to mitigate the problem and restore freedom of expression as much as possible, since they are not very communicative, reserved and are not intimidated by user complaints. “They have blocked us without further ado”. The chief engineer of this company, Matheus Fernandes, explained how the blocking process It had been confusing – “They have blocked us without more telling us why” explained in x– And he had affected legitimate companies again. Meanwhile, Javi Velasco, another company engineer. He tried to clarify How communication with LaLiga had been strange. What LaLiga says. Our mobile Xataka companions They received a series of communications of LaLiga in which they said the following: LaLiga detected a very important pirate broadcast brand with streaming website, which also offered IPTV services, hosted in Vercel. From LaLiga a notification was sent to said company to be deactivated. However, this request was not processed until 24 hours later. With the Vercel company, LaLiga has followed the same process as with any other company where pirate soccer broadcasts are housed. Numerous contact requests that have not been attended have been sent and then working with the Internet service providers, the IPS blockade has been requested where illegal content retransmission has been detected. LaLiga summons any technological company, whose infrastructure is used by cybercriminals to perform illegal retransmissions, to get in touch to reach a collaboration agreement. In the end this gets worse. Which is passing between LaLiga and Vercel —The versions of both parties do not block – it is a replica of what has already happened with Cloudflare. Be that as it may, that fight of LaLiga against those emissions that violate intellectual property are affecting many users. They continue to pay fair for sinners. Blockades that do not end when the games end. These blockages, which should not exist in this indiscriminate format, also last much more than they last from the parties. As Velasco explainedthey received a first report from LaLiga on April 12 and requested more data – often there are reports of illegal websites that are not real – but LaLiga did not answer. Instead, their IPS were blocked without more. The two Vercel IPS remained blocked for days even though matches were no longer issued. Quic.cloud is in the same. Another CDN provider called Quic.cloud has also been affected by the blockages and is in the same situation as Cloudflare and Vercel. On your website have published a statement indicating that “we have tried to contact LaLiga to be able to discuss the situation, but we have not been successful.” This week will be problematic. All these blockages that already affect other CDN service providers seem to indicate that LaLiga measures are not less, but more. That all this week there are broadcasts of First Division football matches propose continuous blockages again, which can make thousands of websites again inaccessible and that many users cannot access them. #Laligagate. Protests for all these problems They are starting to get together in a hashtag In social networks, #laligagate. Ofelia Tejerina, president of the Association of Internet users, recommended those affected by LaLiga blockages to aim the affected domain To this listwhich also shows an estimate of laliga losses. Image | LaLiga In Xataka | Rootedcon is willing to reach the Constitutional if he has to do it: “LaLiga has hacked the law” with IPS blocks

that and more in the new crossover episode

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The tariffs threaten our pockets, but who will probably be first will be the American public. It is there where price increases are already beginning to cause debates on in areas of all kinds, including technological. Are people prepared for an iPhone of 2,000 dollars? That is what Crossover’s companions have asked in a series of interviews in the streets of Miami, and that has given rise to responses of all kinds. Young Americans seem It will happen with the Switch 2. But in this new episode of Crossover there is room to talk about other current issues, including the new Nintendo console. There is also a place for the ‘Un Popular Opinion’ section, which as always comes full of controversial questions. For example, if Android is poor or if the electric car is a luxury. This week there is a special surprise: Mario Arroyo, from the Xataka team, arrives with a different section: a challenge between him and Jaume Lahoz. Specifically, both face a frantic career in electric karts and then count their impressions. Thus, an episode of the most complete we expect. You can share your impressions, suggestions and ideas about this and future episodes both on YouTube and here, in your home. Thank you! On YouTube | Crossover

Only five people in the world have seen this new color. The trick: laser in the retina

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It is estimated that the human being is able to see around ten million different colors, According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. This is what we know as a visible spectrum, that is, those wavelengths to which Our eyes respond. Although there are exceptions, we all see more or less the same, but since last Friday there are five people in the world capable of seeing a color that the rest of mortals cannot see. The key: very precise laser surgery to stimulate concrete retin cells. Context: How do we see? As we said before, our eyes see the visible spectrum, that is, the wavelengths between 380 and 750 nanometers. Below the 380 we have ultraviolet light and above 750 infrared. This is possible thanks to some cells located in our retinas called cones, photoreceptors that react to concrete wavelengths and send signals to our brain, which is responsible for processing everything: Cones S: short wavelengths, that is, the blue. Cones M: Medium wavelengths, that is, the greens. Cones l: long wavelengths, that is, the red ones. S, M, L and all together. The cones do not react only to a concrete and exact wavelength, but their ranges overlap. The M cones will react to the longest blue wavelengths, as well as the S s will react to the shortest green zone lengths. According to Ren NG, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing Sciences of the University of California, “there is no light in the world capable of activating only Mons M. If they are activated, be sure that one or two more types will be activated too.” The experiment. In the above is the key to the experience whose results were published last Friday in the Science Advance Magazine. What if we manage to stimulate concrete cones alone and exclusively? That was what the researchers from the University of California did: map the retina, look for cones m and excite them with small doses of light, laser. It is a technique baptized as Oz, in honor of ‘The Oz Wizard‘And the Emerald city. This is the closest representation to the “Olo” color that can be made on a screen | Image: Xataka OLO. After undergoing the experiment, the study participants were able to see a new color they called “Olo.” Of the five participants, three of them were co-authors of the study (the aforementioned Ren NG was among them) and two were colleagues from the University of Washington. This “Olo” is defined as “a bluish green with unprecedented saturation.” According to NG, the closest way to represent “Olo” on a screen is with the Hexadecimal #00FFCC, but with saturation that we cannot understand why, literally, our brain has never received that signal. The closest way to represent “OLO” on a screen is with the Hexadecimal #00FFCC How to verify it? To verify that all participants saw an alien and hidden color to the rest of mortals, made chromatic correspondence experiments comparing “Olo” with a bluish green laser that saturated or unraveled by adding white light. Everyone agreed that adding white light to “Olo”, Ergo unleashing it, the color of the laser was achieved, thus confirming that “Olo” is outside the visible spectrum of the human eye. And for what? It is an excellent question. The reality is that, for the moment, it does not have a practical utility beyond demonstrating that the procedure works. In Scientific American They collect the testimony of the principal researcher and his team, which imagines some screens capable of scanning retinas and broadcasting images and videos in impossible colors. However, it may make more sense in other lands. For example, allow the blind people to see certain colors or “simulate”, in quotes, how you see an animal in our own eyes. The problem, of course, is that the Oz effect is temporary, not permanent. Cover image | Amanda Dalbjörn In Xataka | All the colors you see on the web are wrong. And your browser has the fault

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