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“If you put in 95% effort, it’s 0%,” a 22-year-old CEO defends the 996 day as a voluntary “product”

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In late 2024, Daksh Gupta, founder and CEO of a small Silicon Valley AI startup, wrote a tweet that lit up the networks against him. He said that his startup did not offer work-life balance and he was looking for employees who were capable of committing to such a level with his company that he did not care. work 100 hours a week with weekends included. In his day, he defended this time requirement with a phrase that went viral: in such a competitive market, according to statements collected by Inc.com: “No one cares about the third best company, not even the second best in any software category. If you put in 95% of your effort, it’s like you’re not putting in any effort at all.” The origin of the misunderstanding. Months later, the young CEO has returned to give explanations about that controversy on the podcast The Peel with Turner Novakand what counts changes the photo quite a bit. Gupta says that the famous “996” model (from nine in the morning to nine at night six days a week) was not even born as a company norm. The statements came from an interview for him San Francisco Standard about the social life of the young founders of Silicon Valley. They asked him what they did for fun, and he summarized the fashion of the moment: “996, lift weights, don’t drink, don’t do drugs, run, eat meat and eggs and marry young,” said Gupta. Someone took that phrase out of context. He became the headline, and the headline became controversial. However, Gupta does not deny that the “996” shift model is being applied in his startup. He acknowledges that his team works from nine to nine thirty at night, and a good part of the weekend. But he rejects the “996” label without nuance. In his opinion, that term: “implies imposition and sounds like a 2008 factory in a third world country,” says the young CEO, and that implies something that he wants to avoid at all costs: imposition. Work, according to Gupta, is a product. The central idea defended by the CEO of Greptile in the interview with Turner Novak is that the jobs in his company are, literally, “a product.” It offers high salaries, an unusually generous stock package for a startup in its expansion phase, and tough technical projects in a small team. In exchange, he asks for total surrender. To avoid surprises, he says he treats each candidate “like an investor.” It teaches them the company’s revenue, growth, customer satisfaction. It lets them talk to employees and investors before signing anything. “The product is that: if it appeals to you, then you should join us. I’m going to be very transparent about what it is,” notes Gupta. Anyone looking for a comfortable schedule and stability, according to Gupta, simply doesn’t fit: “that’s not the product here,” he sums up bluntly. He is not the only apostle of extreme effort. Despite being a rather unique approach to the employee/shareholder concept, Gupta has not invented any formula that is not already applied in other Silicon Valley companies. Lucy Guoco-founder of Scale AI, advocates 90-hour weeks as the desirable standard. Other young founders have changed the parties and social life by 92 hour dayswithout alcohol involved. Great sharks of Silicon Valley like elon musk and Sergei Brin have been asking for years between 60 and 80 hours per week to your templates. The curious thing is the moment. China banned 996 by law five years ago. The People’s Supreme Court declared it illegal in 2021, after several employee deaths for excess hours. Silicon Valley is resurrecting, almost proudly, the same workday model that Beijing dismissed as a tremendous mistake. The other side of the argument. Not the entire ecosystem applauds. Suranga Chandratillake, Partner at Balderton Capital, believe that this speech comes mainly from investors who never founded anything and only seek a quick return on their investment at the expense of overexertion by employees. Amelia Miller, from the employment platform Iveegoes further and assures that requiring seven days of work without a break is directly a bad sign when it comes to investing. The numbers give him part reason. According to CB Insightsthe exhaustion of the founding team is behind 5% of the startup closures analyzed. It is not the main cause, but it is not an anecdote either. Meanwhile, OpenAI publishes reports calling for four day weeks thanks to AI, just when other companies in the sector demand the opposite from their engineers. That contradiction, for the moment, remains unanswered. In Xataka | Working more than 60 hours a week is not healthy: Japan is starting to learn it the hard way Image | Unsplash (Paymo), The Peel

five destroyers a day are getting closer every day

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In the midst of the Korean War, American General Douglas MacArthur came to define Taiwan as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier”. It was not a metaphor about his army, but about his geographical position: whoever controls the island controls one of the main accesses between the China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. More than seventy years later, that location continues to condition the strategy of the great powers. Five destroyers a day. Just a few years ago, seeing several Chinese warships surrounding Taiwan was synonymous with a diplomatic crisis or extraordinary military maneuvers. Today it happens practically every day. Beijing has managed to transform the exceptional in routine and, with this, it has taken a decisive step towards a much more ambitious objective: to progressively isolate the island without having to fire a single shot. The fence is no longer prepared, it is practiced. I was counting a few days ago the wall street journal that the Chinese Navy maintains permanently between five and six ships of war around Taiwan, a figure that increases when other units are incorporated occasionally. The ships remain in the area for approximately two weeks before being relieved by others, allowing a growing number of crews to accumulate experience in a scenario that could become a future battlefield. More than a show of force, the deployment constitutes continuous training for an eventual blockade or invasion. Each patrol serves to learn and wear out. The constant presence of these ships forces Taiwan to answer over and over again with its own naval and coast guard units. Each incursion involves hours of monitoring, fuel, maintenance and crews on permanent alert. While the island consumes resources to react, China collects information on how Taiwanese ships move, how long they take to respond, what communications they use and what their movements would be in the event of conflict. Control the waters. The new step consists of extend the pressure towards the east of Taiwan through patrols of its Coast Guard. This area concentrates intense maritime traffic and would have enormous strategic value in a hypothetical blockade of the island. Beijing no longer limits its activity to the strait that separates it from the continent, but rather projects its presence towards the western Pacific to reinforce its message that it also considers those waters under its jurisdiction. Beyond surveillance. I remembered the new york times in a report that the Chinese coast guard does not act solely as a maritime police force. In recent months they have gone so far as to require information from merchant ships about their destination, crew or cargo, trying to exercise an authority that Taiwan completely rejects. This type of action allows Beijing to rehearse control mechanisms of maritime traffic using armed civilian organizations, a strategy much more difficult to respond militarily than an exclusively naval deployment. The real objective. Because China does not need to completely close access to Taiwan overnight to upset the balance in the region. It is enough to gradually increase the intensity of their patrolsexpand the areas where it operates and accustom shipping companies, fishermen, governments and armed forces to coexist with that constant presence. If that situation ends up being perceived as the new normal, Beijing will have advanced an important part of its strategy without having formally initiated a blockade. The blockade before the war begins. Be that as it may, current operations show that a blockade no longer has to consist of suddenly closing all access to the island. can be built gradually through permanent patrols, inspections, military exercises, coast guard presence and psychological pressure on maritime traffic. From that perspective, China seems to have understood that the isolation of Taiwan does not begin the day a war is declared, but much earlier, when the siege becomes a part of the everyday landscape and each new step is less surprising than the previous one. Image | Coast Guard News In Xataka | The US moved its aircraft carriers away from Asia to protect them: China has just published a manual to hunt them from 3,000 km In Xataka | Taiwan has been inspired by Ukraine by giving its citizens a weapon against China: “It’s like acquiring a new skill”

Xbox wants to have 1 billion players a day. It’s what 25 Steam would do on their best day

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Another day in the video game industry, this Monday Microsoft announced layoffs at Xbox. 1,600 at once, five studios to make a living and another 1,600 layoffs over the next few months. To carry out the restructuring, what is known as “Xbox reset”Microsoft put Asha Sharma at the head of the company who came from one of the company’s AI divisions and who arrived with a clear mission: to break with the past. After weeks of good words, drastic decisions began and, in a release gigantic, justified the decisions of layoffs and restructuring (the consequences of which we still do not fully know, since we have been learning about layoffs in different Xbox studios for two days). There are interesting data, such as extreme bureaucracy within Xbox that had complicated things in recent years, the enormous investment in Game Pass and the fact that caught my attention the most: the number of daily players that Xbox wants. Because Sharma talks about wanting a billion people to be “entertained” with Xbox every day. And, after wondering what it means to have a billion people every day on your platform, I have only been able to come to one conclusion: I would like to see how they do it. The Xbox of a billion players and the old woman’s account I don’t say this in a defiant sense, but out of genuine curiosity. I would like to see how Xbox, or any company, for that matter, is able to bring together a billion people a day on its platform. Sharma comments that they see themselves capable of achieving that goalbut the point is that there are many more stimuli than ever and, furthermore, setting these goals only has one consequence: when they are not met, there will be more ‘resets’. Let’s go in parts. The changes they are making seek to ensure that “Xbox has a bigger future, not a smaller one.” Furthermore, he notes that “the next decade of games will be bigger, more global and more creative than anything we’ve seen before.” Said like this, you may think that they are going to invest a lot (they themselves say that they are going to invest a lot, but with a better focus and discipline), but there is a problem: are there really that many players willing to be on your platform? What is an Xbox? Answering the first question, players… there are. We are more than 8,000 million people throughout the world and esteem what’s there around 3 billion people who play video games. This in total, not on a daily basis and, furthermore, you must keep in mind that everything is mixed here: the accounts include everything from the most ‘Eat’ of ‘Call of Duty’ to your grandfather who plays ‘Candy Crush’ or a Facebook game. Responding to the second, Sharma says they want a billion people entertained with Xbox. And not only those who have a console count (whose sales are quite poor), but also those who play from PC and Xbox games on Steam and platforms like PS5. That is, everything that has the Xbox seal. That said, let’s tell why one billion people seem to get it “easy” Yes, you have so many franchises and you are present everywhere, but things get complicated if we put the magnifying glass on the few games that can really help the company achieve those figures. They are all estimates, but we would talk about 110 million monthly players in ‘Minecraft’, between 70 and 90 million (counting mobile phones) monthly in ‘Call of Duty’ and between 200 and 300 million players diaries in ‘Candy Crush’. There we see the dimension of mobile games, really, and how they crush those on more traditional platforms. ‘World of Warcraft’ too would enter there, with about 9 million monthly players. These are figures that many companies would like, but they are far from those 1,000 million a day that Sharma points to. To further contextualize, Steam, which is another of the huge video game platforms, had its historical peak of players a few months ago, reaching more than 42 million. In the last 24 hours, almost 39 million people connected and, as we see in graphs like Steamdb, they are very stable… and in growth. Well, Sharma wants the same as they would get 25 Steams every day. As a player, I would love to have so many people because it would allow, perhaps, the industry to be somewhat more sustainable because there would be many more players among which smaller studios could find their place to grow, but the problem I see with these accounts is that, publishing that you want there to be 1,000 million people on your platform, the only result (the most likely, at least) is failure. And when you fail in such a large company when you have set this as an objective, the manager is not the one who pays the bill: it is the employees. It’s something we see constantly and We come from three years of constant layoffs in the industry to be optimistic about the issue. What we have seen these days is that they are changing the strategy in that sense. They are releasing the smaller studios that do not sell to bet on what makes money. An example is King (‘Candy Crush’) and Mojang (‘Minecraft’), which They will report directly to herwith Sharma being the one who will make the decisions to achieve the objective. Another thing is whether people who watch the ‘Fallout’ series, a game series whose license belongs to Xbox, count as “people entertained by Xbox.” We just have to wait and see what happens, but it is evident that Xbox’s turnaround is there, releasing studios that were developing games with soul to bet on what makes money. After all, it is the objective of every company. In Xataka | The best time to buy an electronic device was yesterday. The second best time is today

Germany toughens its labor reforms by requiring a sick leave certificate from day one: “It is a competitive disadvantage”

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In Germany, take a sick leave After the pandemic it was as easy as picking up the phone, describing what hurts you and hanging up with the leave already processed. That procedure his days are numbered. Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants Germans to go to a doctor’s office again from the first day they feel unwell, and for him to be the one to prescribe sick leave with proof from the first day. The measure has opened a debate that, although it may not seem like it, we also have in Spain. What exactly changes in Germany. Since Germany implemented distancing measures during the Covid-19 pandemic, a worker could call his or her doctor, tell him or her the symptoms, and receive treatment. lower part without leaving home. Merz’s plan erases them with a stroke of the pen. From now on, proof must be requested in person from the first day of sick leave. Previously, it was only necessary after the third day of illness. As and how I collected the BBCChancellor Merz argued that “we cannot afford this competitive disadvantage caused by long periods of absence from work.” The reform, agreed between his party and the SPD, has clashed with unions, who speak of a “culture of mistrust” towards employees, and with family doctors, who fear seeing their offices overflowing with workers with a simple cold. Spain, an uncomfortable mirror. The German debate sounds distant until you look at the data here. Work absenteeism in Spain reached 7.2% of the agreed hours in the first quarter of 2026, its highest level in five years, according to the Randstad report Research. That is equivalent to more than 1.6 million of people who are absent from their jobs every day. In Germany the data follow a similar pattern and, according to the IGES report For the DAK-Gesundheit mutual insurance company, the average sick leave time is 19.5 days per year per worker, with mental health as the fastest growing cause. Justified and unjustified, two very different things. However, the term absenteeism is misleading and lumps together those who do not go to work due to a diagnosed illness and those who do not report to work by their own decision. He justified absenteeism It includes medical leave, legal permits or a justified appointment with the specialist, and the company cannot sanction you in any case. Unjustified absenteeism is a very different thing and includes absences without warning or giving any explanation, something that can end in a sanction and even dismissal. In Spain, almost eight out of every ten absences come from a temporary disability recognized by a doctor. It should be noted that temporary sick leave is not assigned by the worker himself, but is prescribed by a doctor. Only two out of ten workers miss work without justifying it. The real bottleneck: saturated healthcare. Many sick leave are not prolonged because the patient decides to extend their convalescence. They lengthen because the medical system takes time to treat you. According to data from the Ministry of Health, in 2025 there were more than 853,000 people in waiting list surgery in Spain, with an average delay of 121 days to undergo surgery. Added to this are more than four million people waiting for an appointment with a specialist. The result is easy to imagine: someone on sick leave due to a hernia or a knee can spend months on sick leave waiting for the test or operation that would return them to work sooner. While Germany tightens downward access, in Spain the bottleneck of absenteeism is a few steps further: in a waiting room. In Xataka | Germany has recovered a measure from 1889 to avoid the collapse of its pensions: work until age 70 Image | Unsplash (Maheshkumar Painam, Vitaly Gariev)

Telecinco hits rock bottom in the most spectacular way in a black summer, and signs the day with the lowest audience in its history

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Thursday, July 2, should have been just another day of the summer after-dinner meal. And like a domestic thriller TV movie, it became the worst in Telecinco’s 36-year history. The stars have aligned in the negative to reach the disastrous milestone, since not only is it the icing on the cake of a collapse in audiences that has been brewing for years, but the stratospheric audiences of the World Cup mean that, for the moment, Telecinco is going to have a very difficult time raising its head. Not six. Telecinco closed on July 2 with 5.97% screen share: the worst daily data in the chain since records exist. That same afternoon, Spain beat Austria 3-0 in the round of 32 of the World Cup 2026 and brought more than nine million viewers to La 1, which closed the day with 26.7% share and 63.7% during the match itself. The golden minute arrived at 10:51 p.m., with 10,447,000 people watching Spain advance to the round of 16. Not just football. As we said a few days ago, not only football is to blame: it is that Mediaset’s entire summer plan to recover audience is leaking: that same day ‘Love… or whatever arises!’ it signed a minimum with 5.1% and 439,000 viewers; ‘Summer moves’ fell to 5.8% and 431,000; and that collapse also dragged down ‘El Diario de Jorge’ (7.4%) and ‘Allá tú’ (7.6%). Even the prime time suffered the blow: the series ‘She, damn soul’ scored its minimum number of viewers in its third episode. However, ‘First Dates’ surpassed a repeat of ‘El Hormiguero’, which corroborates Carlos Sobera’s dating show as one of Mediaset’s most reliable assets. Because it was already coming off an ominous June: the month closed with an 8.3% share, the worst June in the history of the network and also the worst month in the regular season, even ahead of the previous negative record, 8.4% in December 2025. Not even heavyweights like the final of ‘Survivors’ or the outcome of ‘Temptation Island’ managed to reverse the figure. Downhill and without brakes. Since the chain he let Paolo Vasile go to reinvent himselfdid not find a substitute for the formats that sustained its leadership, such as ‘save me‘, which also went through its own via crucis. The 2025-2026 season closed with an 8.9% average quota, the worst in its history and the fifth consecutive record to set a new low. He contrast with La 1 It is especially striking: in five years, the public channel has gone from 8.8% to 12.1%, while Telecinco has done the opposite, from 13.1% to 8.9%. Great summer plan. ‘Love…or whatever comes up!’ It debuted on June 22 with 6.8% and 632,000 viewers. ‘The Peace Show’ started with 7.8% and 638,000. ‘Summer moves’ premiered with 7%. None of the three has exceeded 8% since then. Meanwhile, Antena 3 maintains the after-dinner atmosphere with ‘Sueños de libertad’ above 14% on average and La 1 exploits the World Cup to lead a month of June that had been belonging to Atresmedia for 22 months. The figures are unequivocal: it is not that people have stopped watching traditional television. It is a specific problem for Mediaset. The last puff. The fourth piece of the plan remains: ‘From Monday to Friday’, presented by Santi Acosta and Beatriz Archidona, two faces that already lead ‘From Friday’ in prime time on Fridays for three seasons. The program inherits the slot from ‘Jorge’s Diary’ from 6:15 p.m. adds a team of 16 collaborators in which faces from the extinct ‘Sálvame’ coexist (Lydia Lozano, Karmele Marchante, Rosa Benito, Terelu Campos, Antonio Rossi), which points to a timid attempt to recover what was the last great success of Mediaset’s afternoons. His only problem: he faces, in his debut, nothing less than an afternoon of warming up for a game in Spain. In Xataka | Telecinco has ‘El Rosco’ but does not have ‘Pasapalabra’. Antena 3 has ‘Pasapalabra’ but does not have ‘El Rosco’

It turns out that in France there is a road that the Atlantic floods twice a day. By crossing it, you risk a ransom

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On the Cantabrian coast in the summer it is relatively common for a tourist’s vehicle to end up taking a dip when they park where they shouldn’t, but in the Passage du Gois In France there is no surprise factor: the road sinks when the tide rises, something that happens twice a day. Given the risk, it would be worth considering closing that route and using the alternative Noirmoutier bridgebut there are many people here who have come to play: in 2021 exactly 387,823 vehicles passed by, according to data from the Noirmoutier Tourist Office. If you’re one of those people who ventures out, the landscape is already iconic: the Tour de France has started there on several occasions. Now there is a road, now there is not. The Passage du Gois is 4,125 kilometers long and runs through Bourgneuf Bay, literally in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. On one side is the island of Noirmoutier and the connection with the rest of the continent takes place in Beauvoir-sur-Mer, near Nantes. This infrastructure belongs to the D948 network of the Vendée department. The passage or not is determined by the tides: according to the tidal coefficient That day, the road is covered by between 1.30 and 4 meters of water at each high tide. The Passage du Gois on Google Maps To pass or not to pass, that is the question. Step recommendations from the local tourist office are enough to make you think twice before crossing: if the tide coefficient is high, you have 90 minutes before and after low tide. When the coefficient is low, the margin is reduced so much that it is recommended to cross only at the exact moment of low tide. If you measure wrong, you’re risking it: four kilometers can be fatal. The good news is that Since the 19th century there have been nine safety beacons where you can leave the car and wait for the tide to go out or the emergency services to arrive. Spoiler: every year there are cars that end badly. Everything is signposted, but the authorities They have encountered another enemy unexpected: the GPS, which does not indicate low tides or weather conditions. Be very careful if you are one of those people who follows what Google Maps says to the letter. The movements of the tides in the Passage du Gois. Marine Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service Why build a road there?. Short answer: because nature put it there. Not so short answer: the origin of the Passage du Gois is geological: it was formed by the convergence of two opposite currents, one from the northwest influenced by the Loire estuary and another from the south influenced by the Atlantic. Both are found on the island and slow down there, producing a phenomenon known as wantijthat is, the deposition of particles at that point of collision of the currents, which causes the seabed to rise until it forms that natural back on which the roadway was planted. Building it was not easy or fast. Paving the road lasted five yearsfrom 1935 to 1939, which sounds truly outrageous even though it is almost a century old. The reason is that the works had to be carried out during low tide, which greatly limited the daily work time to two daily periods in a period of about two hours. From then on, the road was passable for vehicles on its already characteristic cement slabs. Since then, several sections have been subject to different paving tests that have never come to fruition. A future that looks very blue black. The Passage du Gois floodable road is neither the first nor the longest, but it is one of the first candidates to disappear in the immediate future. Considering sea level rise projections provided by the IPCC of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will be between 0.38 and 0.77 meters by 2100, with different emissions scenarios starting in 2050. This implies that roads like this will see their safe operating window progressively reduced, making it increasingly unviable and dangerous. In Xataka | “We have six kilometers that have melted due to the heat”: in the face of extreme temperatures, France needs to Spanishize its roads In Xataka | If we already feared about the state of our roads, we have one more reason to worry: the price of asphalt is skyrocketing Cover | Pinpin and Florian Pepellin

A millionaire went to bed one day being the richest man in the world the next day he was bankrupt… twice

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History is full of names that they lose their fortunes for an achievement of bad decisionsbut also of others who lost their assets due to a stroke of bad luck. The story of Nelson Bunker Hunt is one of the latter, who not only lost his fortune once due to a stroke of bad luck: he lost it twiceand neither time was the fault entirely his. The name of this millionaire is barely known today, but between the late 70s and early 80s, he was synonymous with enormous wealth: the richest man on the planet, owner of oil wells in the Libyan desert and such a large portion of the world silver market that he managed to twist the arm of Wall Street. A coup colonel and a bad Thursday in 1980 reminded him that no fortune, no matter how enormous, is safe from history. From Arkansas to the Libyan desert after the black gold Nelson was born in 1926 in El Dorado, Arkansas. His father, H. L. Huntwas already an oil magnate with fifteen children from three different women. Nelson wanted to match him, at least in terms of wealth, so he went looking for oil outside of Texas. His first attempts in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan They were a total failure. But the third time’s the charm and in 1961 he tried his luck in Libya. A stroke of luck led the young entrepreneur to obtain Concession 65, a huge area of ​​32,400 square kilometers of desert land to exploit the Sarir sitewhich still today continues to be the largest oil field of the country. That made him a multimillionaire almost overnight. As and how did he count the BBCfor more than a decade, Sarir generated billions of dollars for Hunt’s company. Muammar al-Gaddafi It all ended in 1973, when a colonel named Muammar al-Gaddafi took power and nationalized all its oil wells without prior notice. Over time, that same site served to amass the dictator’s personal fortune, which some researchers even valued at more than 200,000 million of dollars. However, Hunt lost the goose that laid the golden (black) eggs of his oil empire due to a coup d’état, and bad luck, that he did not see coming. Silver as an unexpected refuge Far from giving up, Hunt He reinvested what was left of his fortune on ranches, in breeding thoroughbred horses and in new oil businesses. Together with his brothers Herbert and Lamar, he began buying silver in the mid-seventies, as strategy to protect your fortune against inflation. What started as an investment in a safe haven soon became an obsession. By 1979 the Hunts controlled about a third of all the money deprived of the planet. The price of silver went from trading at six dollars an ounce to exceeding $49.45 thanks to the position of power over the silver market exercised by the Hunt brothers. Which implied that his fortune was also growing in the same proportion. The Hunt brothers’ control of the silver market reached levels that even Tiffany’s published an advertisement in it New York Times accusing them of artificially make any silver object more expensivefrom baby spoons to photo reels. “We find it unacceptable for anyone to hoard billions, yes, billions, of dollars in silver and therefore drive up the price so high that others have to pay artificially high prices for items made of silver,” the article read. According what was published for the BBCthe silver magnate reportedly told Time magazine in January 1980 that “silver seemed safer than oil concessions abroad. And precious metals were a good hedge against paper money.” Anyone has a bad Thursday Thursday, March 27, 1980 would be a day that would be burned into Hunt’s head. His arrived second major financial disaster. That day, known as Silver Thursdaythe price of silver plummeted below $11 in a matter of hours. The Hunts’ silver position, valued shortly before at more than $4.5 billion, was transformed into a debt of $1.7 billion, as detailed Britannica. A group of New York banks had to set up an emergency line of credit to prevent the Hunt bankruptcy from dragging down half of Wall Street with them. Years of trials later, the Futures Trading Commission fined them each $10 million and a lifetime ban to operate with raw materials. In 1988, Nelson Bunker Hunt officially declared bankruptcy. His assets, then valued at just 150 million, were completely liquidated to pay debts and back taxes. He had to sell up to his 580 purebred horses. When asked by Congress about his fortune, he replied with dark humor: “a billion dollars is not what it used to be.” He spent his last years in a modest house in Dallas, and died in 2014 in a residence, at 88 years old. His brother Herbert had better luck: sold his assets in Montana for $1.5 billion in 2012 and died in 2024 with a assets of 4.7 billion dollars, according to Forbes. Nelson, on the other hand, went down in history as the man who He was the richest on the planet and ended up with nothing… twice. In Xataka | In the 19th century, a US millionaire set out to invade countries on his own: he founded two republics of which he was president Image | Hall of FameUnsplash (Mohamed Fsili, Scottsdale Mint, Colton Sturgeon), Flikr (Esther Vargas)

Prime Day has left us new minimum prices for several Corsair keyboards: all of these are still available

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Are you looking for a new keyboard? This Prime Day has left us with quite interesting offers, both in full keyboards and in reduced format. Many of them have flown, but the good news is that there are still several available, especially when it comes to the Corsair brand. Corsair K65 Plus Wireless 75% RGB Hot Swappable Mechanical Gaming Keyboard – Pre-Lubricated Corsair MLX Fusion Tactile Switches – PBT Keycaps – QWERTY ES – Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links All these discounted keyboards will only be discounted for a few hours, specifically until 11:59 p.m. tonight. In order to access these offers, we must be Amazon Prime users, although we can use 30 day trial period. Below, four Corsair keyboards that are still available at a very good price: Corsair K70 Pro TKL by 129.99 eurosan all-time low for this Corsair keyboard in a reduced format and with a wrist rest. Corsair Vanguard 96 by 129.99 eurosin 96% format and with LCD screen. Corsair K55 RGB Pro by 44.95 eurosa very economical membrane option. Corsair K65 Plus by 109.99 eurosan all-time low for one of the best compact keyboards out there. Corsair K70 Pro TKL The first of these keyboards is the K70 Pro TKL, one of Corsair’s high-end keyboards. It is very oriented towards gaming, since it has a very good response time compared to other models of the brand. It is designed to be long-lasting, resistant and has two buttons at the top right to change pro mode if we want to have one for playing and another for working. From 159.99 euros it now costs 129.99 eurosits historical minimum. CORSAIR K70 PRO TKL RGB Magnetic-Mechanical Wired Gaming Keyboard – Pre-Lubricated MGX Hyperdrive Adjustable Switches, Simultaneous SOCD and Quick Trigger, 8,000 Hz, QWERTY – Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Corsair Vanguard 96 As an alternative to the previous one, we have this Vanguard 96. This one has a numeric keypad, but in 96% format. That means it’s a little narrower than conventional keyboards, which is perfect if you’re looking to cut down on some desk space. It also has a wrist rest and has an LCD screen that will allow us to consult useful information while we play. Costs 129.99 eurosits new all-time low (and a good discount compared to its RRP of 179.99 euros). Corsair Vanguard 96 Wired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard – 96% Format, MLX Plasma Linear Switch, 8000Hz, LCD Screen, Virtual Stream Deck, G Buttons, SOCD Flashtap, QWERTY ES – Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Corsair K55 RGB Pro Not all users like mechanical keyboards or don’t want to pay what they cost. This K55 RGB Pro is a cheaper alternative (especially now, when it costs 44.95 euros). It is a membrane keyboard, so it does not make that noise characteristic of membrane keyboards. Despite this, it is resistant and also has a wrist rest. It is not its historical minimum price, but it is barely 8 euros away from it. Corsair K55 RGB Pro Gaming Keyboard with Membrane Keys – Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Corsair K65 Plus Finally, the Corsair K65 Plus, one of the brand’s best-selling keyboards. It is especially recommended if you are looking for something very compact (75% format) and, since it is wireless, it can also be used to take it on a trip. It has Corsair MLX Fusion switches, which offer quick response and a ‘hammered’ sound. Costs 109.99 eurosalthough Amazon currently indicates that delivery will take place on July 20. Corsair K65 Plus Wireless 75% RGB Hot Swappable Mechanical Gaming Keyboard – Pre-Lubricated Corsair MLX Fusion Tactile Switches – PBT Keycaps – QWERTY ES – Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | corsair In Xataka | Best keyboards for writing and working at value for money. Which one to buy based on use and seven recommended models In Xataka | Five things to consider before buying a Bluetooth keyboard

The Xiaomi 17 Ultra cheaper than ever, offers on Sony headphones, new sales on Kindle and more. Hunting Bargains on Prime Day

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Amazon has been launching more and better offers as Prime Day has progressed, and now we are on the last day. There are many offers, so in this article we have put together the five best in different categorieswhether mobile phones, headphones or televisions. Sony WH-1000XM5 by 197 eurostop quality-price headphones. Xiaomi 17 Ultra by 1,169.99 eurosthe lowest price that the Xiaomi mobile has had. LG OLED C5 by 849 eurosa perfect television for consuming film, series and video game content. Fire TV Stick HD by 19.99 eurosa device to turn almost any dumb TV into a smart one. Kindle by 95.95 eurosthe e-book reader drops in price again during Prime Day. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Sony WH-1000XM5 Amazon has many offers on Bluetooth headphones, but few are as attractive as the one from the Sony WH-1000XM5. They may not be from the current generation, but these headphones are still very good: they sound very good, they are quite comfortable, they have one of the best noise cancellation on the market and right now they are at a price of 197 euros (before 238 euros). The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi 17 Ultra He Xiaomi 17 Ultra It was launched very recently and we have seen very few offers so far. However, during Prime Day it has dropped in price, and quite a bit: Amazon has it for 1,169.99 euros (before 1,499.90 euros). It is, without a doubt, one of the candidates for best mobile of the yearit has one of the best cameras we have seen so far and incorporates the best Qualcomm chip. In addition, it includes a silicon-carbon battery with a capacity of 6,000 mAh. Xiaomi 17 Ultra (16GB, 512GB) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LG OLED C5 He LG OLED C5 It is the television that we recommend the most due to its excellent quality-price ratio, especially now that it is on sale on Amazon. It is a smart TV that incorporates a good 55 inch OLED panelits refresh rate is up to 144 Hz (via VRR) and it is compatible with both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. Its price has dropped to 849 euros (before 896.69 euros). The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Fire TV Stick HD Amazon has been lowering the price of some of its devices as the days go by, and the Fire TV Stick HD It is the first of the examples that we are going to see in this list. Right now it is at a price of 19.99 euros (previously 44.99 euros), which is the lowest it has been to date. This device is ideal for converting any dumb TV that has an HDMI port into a smart one, so you can enjoy streaming platforms. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Kindle He Kindle It is the second and last of the examples that we are going to see in this list, and it is that, although we already saw a good price on the first day of Prime Day, right now it has dropped even further until it remains at 95.95 euros (before 119 euros). It is the perfect eReader for those people who want to make the leap to digital books without spending too much money on a reader. It is also compact so you can read it practically anywhere and has a good battery. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Sony, Xiaomi, LG, Amazon In Xataka | Best mobile phones 2026. Which one to buy based on use and six recommended models In Xataka | Best electronic book readers (e-readers) in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and five recommended models

ESA has photographed the heart of our galaxy like never before. And he did it in a single day

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The center of our Milky Way is something like a sunset at Santorini Castle. Everyone wants to photograph it. Well, in this case, all astronomers. The reason, basically, is that it has a large concentration of stars, so there is a lot of material to dig around and find possible exoplanets. Unfortunately, most of the photos that have been taken so far did not have the ideal resolution for this type of search. However, thanks to the Euclid Telescope, designed by ESA to study dark matter and dark energynow we have the largest and most detailed photo of this point of our galaxy that has ever been done. There is light beyond the darkness. Studying billions of distant galaxies allows Euclid to see how the Universe has expanded and, in the process, determine the possible presence of dark matter. But in this case it has not been used for that. The astronomers have taken advantage their ability to focus on large areas of sky sharply and have taken 9 photographs of regions larger than a full Moon. With all of them they have made a mosaic in which more than 60 million stars, as well as nebulae and star clusters, can be observed more clearly than ever. A catalog of microlenses. The goal of this photograph is to detect gravitational microlensing. These are formed when two stars align in front of an observer (the telescope) in such a way that the gravity of the nearest star bends the light of the one behind it, acting as a kind of magnifying glass. If the nearest star also has a planet orbiting around it, its own gravity also contributes to that process. Therefore, light bends in an asymmetrical way, which serves as an indicator for the search for exoplanets. Logically, to study this phenomenon, catalogs with many stars are needed. Nothing like one this precise. It takes time. It takes at least 20 days to detect such irregularities in the bent light. So a single glimpse of Euclid won’t do that. However, this very precise catalog will be used so that, when launched into space the Nancy Grace Roman telescopethis has a starting point from which to start working. By comparing the same area, not only can microlenses be detected, you can also see how they have varied over time. This makes it possible to detect exoplanets and, by seeing how fast they move, calculate their mass. Previous steps. Catalogs like this have already been made before, although much less precise. In fact, 300 exoplanets have been detected using the microlensing method. The problem is that ground-based telescopes have always been used; which, having the Earth’s atmosphere in the middle, take the images with less sharpness. For example, the telescopes at the Keck Observatory have been widely used. However, what Euclid has photographed in 26 hours would have taken these telescopes more than 2,000 hours of observation. However, Euclid will start from some of those previous steps. For example, thanks to data taken by the Keck observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope (this one is in space, but analyzes smaller areas of sky), it has been possible to calculate the mass of two already known icy exoplanets. The changes in the location of the stars have been seen and the calculations have been made. In summary. Euclid has made the most complete catalog of stars in the center of our galaxy in history. But in reality, their success is largely based on teamwork. A work that is already carried out with the Keck observatory and Hubble, but also with the telescopes that are to come. Especially the Nancy Grace Roman. Image | THAT In Xataka | Caltech has published the “strongest evidence yet” that an unknown planet exists in the solar system

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