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is to beat death

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For centuries, humanity has dreamed of stopping the clock. From the legends of the fountain of eternal youth to the Hungarian Countess Bathory, the myth of prolonging life has spanned cultures and centuries. Today, that promise is no longer spilled in blood or written in stories: it is negotiated in offices with investment funds. Biotechnology in the era of anti-aging. A company founded in California, Altos Labs, leads a new generation from companies that aspire to turn aging into another medical problem. The company has brought together elite scientists to develop partial cell reprogramming experiments, with the goal of reversing diseases and restoring tissues. In the words of its executive directorHal Barron: “The cell is capable of compensating for damage, and if we could recover that capacity, we would be buffering stress.” Although Altos is not the only one. Retro Biosciences has raised 1 billion dollars —with the participation of investor Sam Altman— for trials of drugs that can rejuvenate brain and blood cells. NewLimit, co-founded by Brian Armstrong (Coinbase), got another 130 millionand Cambrian Biopharma added 100 million more in 2021. The interest is clear: longevity has gone from speculative science to an industry with massive capital and the promise of profitability. From scientific utopia to business model. For decades, aging was considered inevitable. Today it is a technological and financial challenge. At a conference on aging in Copenhagen —to which the Financial Times had access— executives at Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, creators of GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic or Wegovy, defined them for the first time as “longevity drugs.” The semantic change reflects a cultural and economic shift: longevity stops being a fantasy and becomes a market. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute on Aging at Albert Einstein College, he explained it like this: “To say that we don’t have drugs that reduce mortality is incorrect. We are successful; we just need to do better.” While scientists measure telomeres, technologists dream of exponential curves. The futurist Ray Kurzweil maintains that we will achieve the “longevity escape velocity” in 2029, the point at which life expectancy will increase faster than we age. What was once science fiction is now listed on the stock market. The business of beating time. The race to live longer is not just scientific: it is financial. How the Financial Times has had accessfunds allocated to longevity research now exceed $5 billion in the last three years. Investors like Jeff Bezos, Yuri Milner or Peter Thiel they have bet by biotechnology startups that promise to extend human life. In fact, Thiel has funded Unity Biotechnologyfocused on eliminating senescent cells, and Bezos, together with Milner, directly promotes Altos Labs. Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, has invested more than 430 million in anti-aging therapies and created the Ellison Medical Foundation. The risk is obvious. Enthusiasm could inflate a bubble. Primetime Partners Co-Founder Abby Miller Levy warned that “Money attracts talent, but not all companies deserve so much funding.” And as capital flows, the ethical question also grows: live longer or live better? Scientist Mehmood Khan, director of the Saudi foundation Hevolution, puts it this way: “People don’t want to live longer; they want to live healthy as long as possible.” Not everything that ages can be reversed. In July, Unity Biotechnology was delisted from Nasdaq after failing trials to eliminate senescent cells, a reminder of how far we are from “curing” aging. Still, progress exists: Northwestern University researchers have developed a biomaterial capable of regenerating high-quality articular cartilage, an achievement that until recently sounded like science fiction. This type of medical innovation—quiet, tangible—contrasts with promises of total immortality. The emotional root. Behind genetic engineering and million-dollar facelifts there is something more primitive: the fear of disappearing. Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, confessed that “Death has never made sense to me.” His investment in biotechnology was born after the death of his adoptive mother from cancer. For his part, Peter Thiel has said that he considers aging “an enemy that can be defeated with enough money and knowledge.” But the fear of dying It’s not just personal: It is also cultural, even political. During a military parade in Beijing, an open microphone caught a conversation between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin about “achieving immortality.” Far from the anecdote, the scene shows how the body has become a form of power. In this century, the body is not only biology: it is also ideology, territory and a symbol of control. While governments seek immortality for their regimes, individuals pursue it for themselves. Altos Labs scientists They study how cells They lose their resilience with age. Deep down, it is the same spiritual logic as always: restoring the lost balance, rewriting destiny. Science versus myth. In a world saturated with anti-aging promises, distinguishing between science and marketing is essential. In Financial Times describe that no regulatory body —not even the FDA—recognizes aging as a disease, which prevents the approval of drugs whose goal is directly to “rejuvenate.” That is why many biotech companies focus on specific pathologies, such as diabetes or Alzheimer’s. Scientist Michael N. Hall, pioneer in the study of cellular aging, I explained it like this: “I do not and would not take anti-aging medications. Eating in moderation is enough.” Calorie restriction, he says, activates the same mechanisms as some experimental drugs. At the opposite extreme, billionaire Bryan Johnson spends two million dollars a year in plasma transfusions and supplement. Between both extremes—the avant-garde laboratory and the almost esoteric ritual—the frontier of longevity moves today. The gender of youth. While powerful men finance laboratories, famous women they finance operating rooms. However, there is a paradox that runs through this entire market of eternal youth. When they try to stop aging, they are celebrated as visionaries. When they do, they are accused of being superficial. The same media that glorify Jeff Bezos or Larry Ellison for investing millions in biotechnology to “defeat time” scrutinize every wrinkle, filler or lift of the actresses who, for decades, have lived … Read more

This is the “danger zone” we enter after the massive death of corals

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The Earth has officially entered a grim new era. climate reality. According to a shocking new reportthe incessant increase in heat in the oceans has pushed the corals from around the world beyond its limit, causing a unprecedented large reef mortality because of this climate change. Something that is not good news at all. This event, according to scientists, marks the first climate tipping point we have passed as a planet, directly threatening the livelihoods of nearly a billion people. The report. This data has been collected in the “Global Tipping Points Report 2025”, prepared by an international consortium of more than 200 researchers. And the truth is that they are not at all positive, since they suggest that even in the most optimistic scenario, where global warming does not exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, practically all warm-water coral reefs will exceed a point of no return. This makes their loss “one of the most pressing ecological losses facing humanity,” although the disappearance of corals is only the tip of the iceberg. Experts point out that since 2023 we have witnessed how the temperature has increased more than 1.5 °C compared to the pre-industrial average. In this way, exceeding the 1.5 °C limit now seems quite inevitable and could occur around 2030, something that puts our planet on the brink of an abyss. What are ‘turning points’. These points are nothing more than critical thresholds. Once crossed, the climate system is pushed into a new paradigm, triggering effects that will go on in a chain. Specifically, we talk about events such as widespread death of the Amazon rainforestthe collapse of the Greenland ice sheets or the collapse of the circulation of Atlantic southern overturn (AMOC). The Amazon, in particular, is in a critical situation. The report warns that not only warming threatens the forest, but also the combination of this with deforestation. With 1.5°C warming, only 22% deforestation would be enough to reach its point of no return. The current figure is already at an alarming 17%. All is not lost. Despite the bleak outlook, the report identifies a silver lining, which is nothing more than a paradigm shift that, unlike the negative ones, triggers a cascade of beneficial changes. Since 2023, the world has seen very rapid progress in the adoption of clean technologies, especially in two key areas: velectric vehicles and photovoltaic solar energy. Accompanied by a drastic drop in battery prices, these factors are beginning to reinforce each other, accelerating the energy transition in a way that few anticipated. The problem. According to the report’s authors, it lies in governance systems. From national policies to multinational agreements, such as the from Pariswere not designed to address turning points. They are designed to manage gradual, linear changes, not abrupt, cascading collapses on multiple fronts at once. But these turning points are really threatening, so they point to a series of immediate actions to be taken in all countries to avoid a catastrophic situation. In this case they point to the following: Reduce emissions of short-lived pollutants such as methane and black carbon. Accelerate efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Making global supply chains sustainable. Develop mitigation strategies for climate impacts. The message is clear and forceful: what we have done so far is not enough. Researchers urge not to look away. As Milkoreit concludes, “even having a reader have the courage to stay with the problem is work, and I want to recognize that work.” Images | quinguyen Chris LeBoutillier In Xataka | In the fight against climate change, we have developed the air conditioning revolution: ionocaloric cooling

The US government prepares a law that threatens death its business abroad

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The strip and loosen of Nvidia and the US government has no end. The soap opera starring the GPU for artificial intelligence (AI) H20 It has finished, but another one is already taking shape. In the middle of last April the US Department of Commerce imposed new restrictions to The export to China of this chipwhat in practice caused that it stop arriving at the Chinese clients of this company. Three months later and after arduous negotiations Nvidia got the license again I needed to sell the H20 GPU in China. Currently Chinese clients from Nvidia They are not buying this chip Because the administration of the cyberspace of China (CAC), which is the main Internet regulatory body in this country, This GPU is thoroughly investigating Because he suspects that he could incorporate a rear door of difficult location by Chinese experts. Nvidia has denied it, but it seems that this GPU is sentenced in China. Be as currently the company led by Jensen Huang has a major problem. And he doesn’t have it in China. He has it in the US. Last Tuesday, American legislators presented a bill in which they propose to demand chips designers for the US to prioritize the national orders of these GPU before giving them to foreign buyers. However, this is not all. In addition, this bill explicitly proposes that exports of the highest range IA GPUs are denied. If this initiative thrives the business of Nvidia, AMD and other US companies abroad will suffer a lot. The Trump administration has changed strategy about China and Nvidia As expected, Nvidia has not stayed with crossed hands. A spokesman for this company has made the following statement to Tom’s hardware: “Our sales to customers around the world do not deprive the US customers. The Chinese chips industry has advanced a lot during the last five years, and will surely continue to do so From one thing we can be sure: everything that is happening in the US has China as a backdrop. The Chinese industry of integrated circuits has advanced a lot during the last five years, and certainly will continue to do so. It is very likely that in 2026 Chinese manufacturers have their own extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment (UVE). And currently Huawei, Moore Threads, Cambricon Technologies and other Chinese companies have GPU for some scenarios They compete with the Nvidia and AMD chips. The independence of the Chinese semiconductor industry is underway. The best output given this juncture for the US is none other than to deliver to China in a controlled way advanced chips for AI, but less powerful than the most capable that design Nvidia, AMD or brains. In this way this Asian country may relax a bit its ambition for development and independence. This is exactly what the Trump administration is doing by allowing Nvidia to give your GPU your H20 again, as Chris Miller holdsthe author of ‘The chips war’in his Newsletter. The Chinese government He is urging Chinese companies that are dedicated to the development of large models of AI to use in their servers integrated circuits of Chinese origin, so it is reasonable to anticipate that Nvidia will gradually lose presence in China. Even so, this company will continue with good health because His robustness in the global market It is undeniable. What is not clear is what will happen if the bill we have spoken a few lines outstands. The US is interested in continuing to sell its chips abroad, but this initiative defends that the best exclusively should be left. China already knows what this measure implies, but now it is possible that other countries also try it. Even if they are US allies. Image | Gage Skidmore | Nvidia More information | Tom’s hardware In Xataka | Ten Chinese companies in Chips and IA have allied with a common goal: to put an end to the domain of Nvidia

With only two electric cars, Xiaomi is getting out of the “Valley of Death.” Others cost more than a decade

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The Xiaomi Su7 has surprised the entire industry And he has led the company to do such rare things as telling its customers in a hurry that buy cars from competition. The play hides a strategy, but it is a great example of how good it goes to the company with its second car and bets on luxury, The Yu7. While they hope to make the leap to Europe in 2027, he has achieved kneel. Lost 800 million In his first year he sold cars. Great news that already pointed to what was coming later: the Break Even When losing $ 500 per car sold is good news. Xiaomi has presented the Financial Results of the Second Fiscal Quarterwith great news for your car section. The Auto Division has commercialized 81,302 vehicles in the period and lost 41 million dollars. It is a loss of $ 507 for each car sold. It is very good news for the speed at which the company is approaching profitability. The photo. In the last quarters, Xiaomi comes from losing, on average, 1,376, 905 and 507 dollars respectively, after coming from losses of 5,250 in the third quarter of 2024. That is, it now loses a tenth of what I lost until November. And it is not the only positive figure that the results bring along with sales growth: the gross margin has grown from 15.4% of the second quarter of 2024 to 26.4% of this year. This contributes to having launched the Su7 ultrawhose launch has helped the average sale price up 10% in one year. With him they wanted to eat Porsche in his field, And they got it. According to its financial results, Xiaomi is very close to starting to earn money with its car section. Why it is important. Tesla is the only pure manufacturers of electric cars that He has managed to get out of the “Death Valley” the initial period in which Startups They burn money to espuertas without hardly generating money. Brands such as Rivian, Lucid, or Ford (in their electric division) have accumulated losses exceeding 22,200, 11,000 and 10,500 million dollars respectively. That Xiaomi only loses 41 million dollars per quarter with such competitive prices speaks of the balance that has its commitment just over a year after having launched. How are they getting it. Not all companies have The support that Xiaomi has had In his car crossing. In this sense, according to Bill Russo, CEO and founder of Automobility, a determining factor of Xiaomi’s success has to do with its production agility, which has benefited widely from producing with Beijing Auto, a state company that already had a huge production scale before the arrival of Xiaomi. The company was able to access a production chain already components of high quality already available in the market thanks to investments made by the matrix and its founder for years in companies such as companies such as Momenta. Another of the keys, according to John Helveston, a professor specialized in the Chinese electric vehicles industry: it is an achievement to manufacture an electric in such a short time, but attention must be paid to evolution. “The car industry is hard and success is measured in years of resistance, not in the speed of the first launch,” he told us. Xiaomi has passed in a year of being present in 30 cities with 87 stores to be in 92 with 335 stores. Image: Xiaomi. Xiaomi had a long way carved. Yes, even being new in the electric car sector. On the one hand, although you can buy online cars, by its already extensive distribution network In China: 335 sales centers in 92 cities, and growing at a dizzying pace. It is no longer the company we met for selling extremely cheap technology. Although it maintains a part of that bet, in recent years too He has focused on the premium with the support of luxury brands such as Leica. It is much more path of of some brands when arriving in Spain. The challenge. Among such good news, Xiaomi faces a problem: long waiting times and limited calendar. This explains that in China, the Su7 be the king of resalecosting more than new and with up to 10 months of waiting. To a limited production they also faced for years fAbricante as Teslaand Xiaomi has the best example of how to grow. In 2024 he achieved sell 4 million vehicles (In front of the 350,000 that Xiaomi hopes to sell this year). Xiaomi has a plan factor growth for his future cars and be able to face international expansion. It will be a crucial moment, for example companies like Novo Nordisk knows well: the problems for Ozempic in the United States began When they could not deal with demand. Cover image | Xiaomi In Xataka | Intel is closer than ever to be chopped. A giant is interested in buying its chips factories

The “Death whistles” Aztecs were always a mystery. Until we discovered why they give us so many chills

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The “Death whistles” Aztecs have surprising peculiarity: their intimidated appearance, but much more does its sound. Although the artisans manufactured them in the shape of a skull and figures that are today interpreted as references to Mictlantecuhtlithe Aztec King of the underworld, it is his loudness that has been intrigued by archaeologists for years. Not surprisingly if one takes into account that when we take one of these instruments to the lips and blow, something occurs similar to a human cry. It’s hard to listen to it without feeling uncomfortable. A group of researchers wanted to go further and investigate why we feel what we feel when we listen to the whistles of Aztec death. The answer can be key to understanding a piece that is still involved in mystery. Death whistles? Exact. His name imposes, but not as much as his appearance and sound. The “Death whistles” Aztecs are instruments made with clay between three and five centimeters and skull form, a peculiarity that experts interpret as a reference to Mictlantecuhtli, the lord of the underworld. They also include Figures of the Snake of Fire and Owls. Experts believe that the original pieces were manufactured Between 1250 and 1521. Wars or rituals? The first references about them date from End of the 19th centuryalthough probably the most famous specimen was found between 1987 and 1989 in the Ehécatl-Quetzacóatl templein Mexico City. There the archaeologists located the skeleton of a human sacrifice with a whistle, which has given wings to the different theories that try to explain what they were used for. There are those who think that the Aztecs used them in wars to scare their enemies and who believe that their use was basically ritual and symbolic. According to them, the sound would accompany the dead on their trip to Mictlánthe Aztec underworld. To that last theory contributes that death whistles have been found in places where ritual burials and human sacrifices were made. Another interesting clue is that the piece located next to the skeleton recovered in Ehecatl-Quetzcalcóatla circular sanctuary dedicated to the god of the wind, Ehecatl. Today several copies are preserved in facilities of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) or the Berlin Ethnological Museum. And how do they sound? Here are A few examples So you can check it. Depending on how they are used, whistles produce a siseo or a much deeper, intimidating sound, similar to a human cry. Recently a group of researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH) set out to go nevertheless and answer two big questions: why do they sound like they sound? And why listening to them produces such an overwhelming feeling? Their conclusions were reflected in An article Posted in November in Communications Psychologya magazine of the prestigious Nature Group. How have they done it? With a combination of techniques. The team obtained recordings from several whistles, including two recovered in Tlatelolcohe performed computerized tomographs To create 3D objects and resorted to replicas of whistles made of artisans with clay simulating the characteristics of the originals. Then they registered the sounds and reproduced them to a group of volunteers. To document their reactions well, scientists submitted them to a neuroimaging study. The objective: find out how their brains reacted. What did they find out? To start they discovered that the whistles have “A unique internal construction”with two opposite cameras that generate turbulence in the air and produce that kind of shout that, if archaeologists are right, accompanied the ritual victims in their descent to the underworld. “The whistles have a very unique construction, and we do not know any comparable instrument of other pre -Columbian cultures or other historical and contemporary contexts,” Explain Sacha Frühholz, the professor of cognitive and affective neuroscience who directed the study. The Aztecs are also known for making instruments that imitated the sound of the wind or the songs of the birds. What did they feel when listening to it? That is the most interesting part of the research. The volunteers described the sounds as “extremely chilling and terrifying”, According to verifies The UZH. “The brain regions belonging to the affective neuronal system responded strongly to the sound, which once again confirms its intimidating nature. The team also observed brain activity in regions that associate the sounds with symbolic meaning.” In summary, the volunteers called him “very negative” and “frightening.” “Given the aversive/terrifying and associative/symbolic sound nature, as well as the locations of the excavations known in places of ritual burial with human sacrifices, its use in ritual contexts seems very likely, especially in rites and sacrificial ceremonies related to the dead,” They conclude The experts, who recognize in any case a handicap of their experiment: the test was done with listeners of modern Europe who did not know that they were going to listen to the sounds produced by the old Aztec instrument. Did they find out anything else? Yes, something interesting. The volunteers perceived the sounds of whistle as hybrids, between the natural and the artificial. “They were classified at the psychoacoustic level as a hybrid mixture of voice sounds and screams, but also caused by technical mechanisms,” says research, which slides that this double quality could influence the reaction of the listeners: sound evoked shouts of a human nature, but also tones generated with artificial objects. Images | Sascha Frühholz, UZH and Wikipedia In Xataka | We have found a historical treasure in Mexico. The board game with favorite beans of the Maya and Aztecs

Ryanair has left several death injured in Spain. Now we know that he has more passengers than ever

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Ryanair is not weighing, at all, his departure from some Spanish airports. The Irish company is flying more than ever in our country, as certified by the data related to the first semester. The company accumulates more passenger volume in Spain, is one of the airlines that grows the most and expands its distance from competitors. More passengers, more. In the first semester of 2025, Ryanair has accumulated in Spain 32.64 million passengers. It is a 6.6% higher than that registered in the same period last year when it accumulated 30.63 million passengers. It is, with great difference, the airline that moves more traffic from our country. The data collects them AENA which also points out that in the first semester more than 181 million passengers have moved at Spanish airports, the figure is 4.7% higher than that registered in the same period of 2024. Leaders. The data of the first semester of the year also leave other readings. Ryanair has added more than two million passengers compared to the same period of 2024. No other large airline has grown so much in our country in absolute terms of travelers. In fact, the variation with respect to last year is 6.6%, lower than the sustained in previous semesters and also lower than other companies Lowcost such as Easyjet (+13%), Binter (+8.6%) or Wizzair (+22.8%). However, none of them approaches the numbers of the Irish company. A year ago, Ryanair surpassed Vueling in 8 million passengers in a single semester. Today that difference is closer to the 10 million passengers since the Spanish airline has only grown in some 400,000 travelers compared to the first semester of 2024. In full withdrawal. Growth is even more striking if we consider than Ryanair has closed 12 routes in Spain And now offer 800,000 places less than only a few months ago. The company fulfilled its threat to leave some regional airports as a demonstration of force before the fine that the government imposed For the collection of hand luggage, practices that the Executive considers abusive. At his departure, Ryanair prioritized regional airports. In them, their business volume was low and, in fact, maintained some routes for Commercial agreements with local entities. He knew that retiring from these spaces could cause almost deadly damage to some airfields. To show that of Valladolid that in the first half of the year he has registered 41,725 passengers between January and June, about 56,000 passengers less than in the same period of 2024 when 100,000 travelers were toured in six months. The Lowcost. The other striking fact, which we have already advanced, is the growth of the Lowcost in front of any other company. Regarding the same semester of 2024, no airline grows both in passengers and the cheapest options. Airlines that make greater reach flights are more sensitive to geopolitical fluctuations and facilities (or not) to travel. Iberia, for example, Avaca Its 0.7% setback to a fall in travelers to North America. On the contrary, Eurowings (Lowcost from Lufthansa) and Transavia (from Air France-KLM) have also grown in Spain more than 4%. Photo | Wolfgang Weiser In Xataka | Michael O’Leary, Ceo de Ryanair: “I don’t want money. They fly without suitcases”

Falling from 10,000 meters without parachute was a safe death. Until Vulović appeared

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Suddenly, the hostess Vesna Vulović Recover knowledge. He is bite and can barely move due to his partner’s inert body. Half of Vesna remains on the plane, and the other half is out. What had just happened was going to challenge physics for decades: no one, neither before or after, had been able to survive a free fall without parachute from 10,000 meters high after the explosion of a commercial flight. The question since then is simple: how the hell managed to leave alive? The wrong flight. On January 26, 1972, Vesna Vulović, a young 22 -year -old Yugoslava flight Jat company for a confusion of names with another partner. The itinerary included several scales between Stockholm and Belgrade, and nothing presaged that it would be the most extraordinary and tragic flight of his life. The accident. After taking off from Copenhagen to Zagreb with 28 people on board, the plane reached cruise altitude. Minutes later, at 4:01 p.m., while the then Eastern Germany, He disappeared from the radar suddenly. An explosion at the front of the luggage compartment left the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 in two to more than 10,000 meters high. What followed was a brutal vertical fall, a bleak scenario in the snowy mountain of Srbská Kamenicein the then Czechoslovakia. There was only one survivor: Vesna. Silence: an attack. Just a few hours after the accident, Czechoslovacos secret services They took control absolute of the place. Access to press was not allowed, much less civilians. The next day, an unidentified man, in a somewhat strange Swede, called the Kvällsposten newspaper ensuring that he was Croatian and a member of a nationalist group that had placed the bomb. The Yugoslav government immediately pointed to The UstachaCroatian ultra -right organization. Ten days later, the remains of a alarm clock supposedly linked to an explosive were presented as proof. Black boxes were never found, there were never arrests, or claims by any organization. An McDonnell Douglas DC-9 by Jat Airways identical to the accident The documented miracle. As we said, the official report indicated the cause of the accident Like a bomb placed by a Croatian nationalist group, although the culprits were never identified. Even so, the authorities closed the case in 1974 attributing it to an explosive attack. The official story argued that Vesna fell from More than 10,000 metersprotected by a series of improbable factors: a catering cart that kept it trapped in the fuselage, the friction of the air that damping the fall and the so -called terminal speed (maximum speed that reaches a body moving within an infinite fluid under the action of a constant force), the snow on the slope of the mountain that reduced the force of the impact, and finally a part of the relatively intact plane protected from the final blow. That was so amazing that even the mythical Mythbusters reached Recreate the case And they concluded that the possibility of surviving was not void, although, of course, tiny. Tributes. Vulović suffered multiple fractures, entered a coma for almost a month and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. However, he managed to recover, walk again and even fly again. In fact, the woman was honored in London By the book Guinness With a record that remains: that of the person who has fallen without parachute and has survived (prize, by the way, delivered by Paul McCartney himself). The doctor. Over the years, Vesna shared Some memories rebuilt from what they told him. In her words and those of the man who rescued her, a former German army doctor named Bruno Henke, she was in the central part of the plane, not in the tail, contradicting the official theories that explained their survival. Henke, a neighbor of the area, argued that he found it in the middle part of the plane, at the height of the wings. He found her head down, with the torso out of fuselage and legs inside. Vesna always He believed his testimonyIn fact, he had a close relationship with Henke. Vulović (right) during his visit to Czechoslovakia, November 1972 Something does not fit. Let’s recapitulate: Vesna’s body, as we said at the beginning, was partially inside and outside the fuselage, with that “miraculous” cart literally nailed to his back. And here appears one of the great doubts, because that incongruity undermines the physical hypotheses about how he could survive, since a person in the middle zone of the device could hardly have remained within it After an explosion that left it at two high. Herself He pointed out thatas the plane was half empty, it probably moved among the passengers, according to the service protocol. To do everything a little more complicated, Vesna’s amnesia about everything happened on that date prevented verifying the details. Boom. In 2009, the story He took a turn unexpected. An investigation by journalists Peter Hornung-Andersen, Pavel Theiner and Tim Van Beveren, published by Tagesschau and issued by the ARD chain, He unearthed documents Dak For mig fighters of the Czechoslovak Air Force when it flew to low height, just 800 meters from the ground. According to This versionthe plane descended by an emergency and was confused with an aerial threat when entering a restricted area, perhaps linked to a Soviet missile base, or coinciding in the airspace with the plane of the Soviet leader Breznev’s own leader in official visit to East Germany. The demolition would have been Undercover by the Police Secret, which built the history of the “world record” to hide the incident. This version was based on official documents, testimonies of witnesses who saw the plane flying whole before exploding, and what is doubtful, the apparent physical impossibility of surviving a fall from such a height. The official silence. Czech authorities They denied categorically the alternative version without offering contrary evidence. They never explained the absence of black boxes or responded with documentation to refute the new findings. A general came to declare that “at least 200 people should … Read more

At his departure from Valladolid, Ryanair has left an unexpected death injured: airport coffee

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Ryanair’s impact is not only counted by the number of flights he leaves in an airport. Not at least where they are a key piece in the operation of a regional square such as Valladolid, where Its march has reduced by 60% The number of travelers who pass through their facilities. Last January, the company announced that this summer would close operations at the Valladolid airport. The decision entered into the Pressure measures that the company is applying against the government for discrepancies related to the collection of hand suitcases or rates that Aena Cobra for operating in the facilities. This pressure tool translated into a reduction in operations in seven airports. In Vigo, for example, Ryanair has eliminated their seats by 61% available. But the highest figure is not always the one that does the most damage because you have to pay attention to the specific impact that the company has on the airport. And in Valladolid it was huge. So much that the volume of travelers at the city airport has been reduced by 63.2% According to data offered by AENA. But the company’s march not only has a direct impact on the offer of flights that are now available the Valladolid. It impacts the workers of the airport itself. Like those of its cafeteria. Three workers dismissed due to lack of work The story brings it first hand The North of Castile. The local media has interviewed César Carreras, a cafeteria dealer of the Valladolid airport who says that with the march of Ryanair, 80% of the clientele has vanished. In less than a year, Carreras has seen how the airport was emptied without Ryanair’s operations (which stopped operating on March 28) but with The previous flying of Vuelingwhich stopped offering the Valladolid-Barcelona route in June last year. Right now, Binter is the only company that operates the airport but has no daily trips. “This month They only work two days a week“, says the head of the cafeteria. Specifies that travelers have left but that there is also an employee hole, since only four workers of all employees that the company maintained in Valladolid remains in the facilities although performing other work. He explains that only the days that there are flights and just for three hours are exploding to cafeteria because the rest of the day the airport remains practically empty. He explains that now he only works the cafeteria and that he has had to fire three employees. At the moment, it remains in the concession because it would have “problems” to leave it and because it can give the service itself since it has another open business. When Ryanair announced that Valladolid left and Jerez and what reduced its operations I already talked about the decision would leave “Half -empty regional airports” although he blamed the march and reduction of operations to the alleged high rates of Aena. Those Aena rates They are the ones used to maintain the minimum services of an airport (security, cleaning …) and from the company ensure that they are extremely low in regional airports because there are multiple discounts to make them attractive. At the moment, they say, they are operating just two euros per passenger. What has long resonates is the fine that the Ministry of Consumption imposed on Ryanair for the collection of the hand luggage suitcase. For the Government, the allowed dimensions are extremely reduced and do not cover the definition of “essential” to which it obliges European regulations. Consequently imposed a sanction of more than 100 million euros. That fine was the one that precipitated everything, since Ryanair understands that without a more concrete definition he has no reason to let in the cabin that They exceed 40x20x25 cm measures collected in its most basic rate. Therefore, they assure that the collection for the cabin trolley It is perfectly legal. Something that seems, It will be ratified in a few months by the European Union itself. Photo | Fred Rivett and Fahmi Fakhrudin In Xataka | Curves are coming in summer: Ryanair wants more controllers in Spain and if he does not get them there will be delays

Huawei is China’s winning horse and is even leading where he seemed to death: in mobiles

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2025 will not be an easy year for telephony. The consultants They are checking down Growth forecasts of giants such as Apple and Samsung, hoping that the geopolitical impact of the commercial war will translate into higher prices in key markets such as the United States. The growth perspective in global shipments is especially low, and will be mainly starring Chinese manufacturers. Among them, there is one in which all expectations are set. One with the potential to shake the industry. All eyes put in Huawei. There is no worldwide manufacturer that grows more shipments than Huawei. It is something that We warn at the beginning of the yearin a global photograph of Canals that showed some interannual contraction for Apple and Samsung numbers (they lost 1% compared to 2024), and in which Huawei grew no less than 36%. A wild figure, taking into account that its local rivals such as Xiaomi, Honor or Live grew by about 15%. Less than half of what Huawei was achieving. An unstoppable trend. Ethan qiAssociate Director of Canalys, expects the Chinese manufacturer to remain a leader for 2025. Although not much further in its analysis regarding the relaxation of bottlenecks so that Huawei can stock up on critical components, there are several key points that explain why the Chinese company has all ballots to lead world growth this year. Among them, how will tariff pressure, Chinese technological nationalism of Huawei consumers play in favor of Chinese companies, The thrust with SMIC for the manufacture of Kirin chips and the turn Towards a domestic supply chain for close the circle. Without fear of own hardware. After the American veto, Huawei has focused all its efforts on achieving a product without external dependence. And he has achieved it. Huawei Mate 70 was the company’s first phone with Kirin 9020, A chip developed in silence and who planted the United States, a country that could not understand how were 5g chips developing despite the sanctions. Although this processor is manufactured under the lithographic process of 7 NM of SMIC, and notably below those manufactured by TSMC with its N3E lithographythe demand for mate 70 It has been high in China. However, if Huawei wants to continue pushing on national soil, he needs to prioritize a very concrete product: the mid -range mobile. The mid -range as a key. In Spain we are not the only ones who bet on quality-price mobiles. At the beginning of 2025, the Chinese demand of smartphones concentrated on the strip of 2,000 to 5,000 yuan (240 and 609 euros to change). Here Huawei places his Nova rangeone of its main sales engines in China. National policies of Subsidies Sales continue to warm up of smartphones, having added two to three percentage points to their growth in the first quarter of 2025, according to estimates. Huawei, together with the support of its local suppliers and SMIC, is at its best to aim with this family of products to its national soil. All to pure 80. Although the growth of Huawei in China will depend on a good part of the efforts that focus on their best -selling ranges, all eyes are now put on The pure huawei 80his Flagship family and a great opportunity to demonstrate what their efforts are being materialized to achieve self -sufficiency. They will be presented on June 11, and They already have more than 200,000 reservations without even having gone to the market. The great hope. Huawei’s role is key in China. He is not just the protagonist in the race to lead the manufacture of smartphones with SMIC, It is because of its potential to create chips for iaas his family Asce 910. This chip will play a key role in the effort for reduce national dependence with American manufacturers such as NVIDIApointing in front of their A100 and H100. Presumably, SAQC technology will allow SMIC to manufacture 3 Nm chipswhile they would be About to achieve capacity to make 5 Nm chips No need for access to equipment extreme ultraviolet photolithography asml. A way to travel that leads to an inevitable destination: sooner or later, China will be the world chips leader. Image | Huawei In Xataka | Best Mobile Huawei (2025). Which to buy and recommended models based on budget, tastes and quality price

The US will revoke the visa of Chinese students to protect their AI industry. The risk is that he ends up wounding her death

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China is by far the largest world graduate producer in Stem races (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), both in absolute and relative terms to the global total. The phenomenon is an exceptional magnitude, but there is a country that has just been slaughtered in their noses: United States. What happened. As they pointed out In The New York Times A few days ago, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, advertisement that the Trump administration “would aggressively revoke” the visas of Chinese students. In these visa cancellations, those students with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (PCC) or those who study “critical fields” that did not define clearly but probably include that of AI will be included. Source: The New York Times. Impact. In 2024 in the United States, 20% of the visas granted to students went to young Chinese students. The measure is worrying for American universities, which depend on international students who pay the full cost – without scholarships – for their annual income. In addition, this decision affects both students who want to ask for a visa from now on and those who are already studying in the country. In total there are about 275,000 Chinese students in all types of university careers. Uncertainty. It is not clear what criteria will be followed to revoke these visas and not as quickly these measures will begin. Nor is it known if China will retaliate, although the number of US students in China is much less significant. In 2020 USA He already expelled to 1,000 Chinese students with ties with Chinese military schools. A massive practice. A report Published by the State Department and the NGO called the Institute of International Education indicated last year that China was the second country with the highest share of international students: only India “exports” more students. In the 2023-2024 COURSE, it received 1.1 million international students, of which 331,000 came from India (23% more than the previous year) and 277,000 from China (4% less than the previous year). Source: CSET. China is absolute power in Stem. If there is a “graduate” graduate producer “(science, technology, engineering and mathematics), that is China. Collected data By cset They reveal that in 2020 China led the number of graduates in these disciplines, with a total of 3.57 million students. Only India approaches with 2.55 million students, but for example in the US the figure is four times lower than in China: 820,000 graduates. Source: CSET. And the one that is most dedicated to these disciplines. Not only is it that China has the greatest number of Stem graduates in the world: it is that the percentage of students who choose these disciplines is also the largest in the world. 41% of students are launched to Stem Carreras. They are followed by Russia (37%), Germany (36%, Iran (33%) and India (30%). In the US, only 20%of students bet on scientific careers. Source: Macro Polo / Paulsen Institute. And that includes AI. In People’s Daily They pointed out A few days ago how approximately 50% of the main researchers of AI are trained in Chinese universities. The worrying thing for the US is not that: they depend a lot on them. A report of the Paulgo Institute of Chicago (USA) recently revealed that 38% of AI experts that develop their professional career in the US They have formed in Chinese universities. They are in fact more than those who have a strictly American origin (37%). China does not stop betting on Stem Education. Between 2012 and 2022 the budget spending of the Chinese government in education increased from 2.2 billion yuan (268,167 million euros) to 4.85 billion yuan (591,187 million euros), more than double. Several Chinese elite universities They have announced His intention to expand his curricula with the objective of prioritizing the strategic needs of the country, and here the AI ​​- who You start teaching in schools– It’s key. Imminent danger. This domain has a direct impact on the capacity of innovation, technological development and industrial competitiveness of China, but also of the countries that allow Chinese students to study and then work in international companies. Cut your wings to that talent is to cut them to innovation. The US will get just the opposite of what it intended. The analyst Alberto Romero explained How these measures are probably designed to protect national security – which Chinese students do not end up “spying” for China. “However, instead of helping the US to enhance their industry, what can happen is that they weaken it. Not only that: that revocation of visas can precisely help China meet their strategic objectives. Nvidia already notified with the hardware. The US opted to veto the export of its advanced chips from AI to China. The shot has come absolutely for the cylinder headand instead of preventing Chinese development and innovation, it has put a rocket. They do not seem to have learned the lesson, and revoke the visas to Chinese students can end up being an even bigger shot that comes out of an even bigger cylinder head. Image | Zixi Wu In Xataka | China has declared the war on private school: why he predicted the prolific “tutorials”

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