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The Norwegian colony that has taken over a town in Alicante and even has its own constitution: L’Alfas del Pi

July 21, 2026 by usatoday24

Avenida del Albir smells of saltpeter and marinated herring. There is brunost in the supermarket, that curious brown Norwegian cheese. There are also bags of salmiakki, the Finnish salty liquorice. A blond man walks with a bunad accompanied by two others in T-shirts. The three of them are sweating buckets. Even a dental clinic has its sign in Swedish, but it is not a residential neighborhood in Oslo or Stockholm, it is L’Alfàs del Pi. It is an Alicante enclave of 20,000 inhabitants that operates as a Viking base, the twelfth Norwegian county, under the harsh sun of the Mediterranean. A demographic delirium. The National Statistics Institute marks little more than 21,000 inhabitantsbut almost 30% of the census comes from Norway. Let’s add another 20% between Finns, Swedes and Danes. Official figures fluctuate depending on the season: many residents do not register their municipal register for tax reasons (there are only about 2,5000 registered Norwegians). However, visual reality does not lie. There are runes and several shop windows of local real estate agencies that ignore the euro and value villas directly in crowns. On the Costa Blanca. And here May 17 is celebrated with devotion. Because this day is celebrated as Norwegian Constitution Day. The party paralyzes the town and thousands of people parade through the central streets. Blonde children wave their flags and marching bands play the national anthem. The Spanish mayor, Vicente Arques Cortés, politician and educational psychologist, delivers institutional speeches in perfect Norwegian. Without them, “there would only be olive trees, almond trees and goats,” resume in which is, along with London, the largest colony of Nordic subjects on the planet. A diplomatic link of eight centuries. Already in the 13th century, King Haakon Haakonsson ‘the Elder’ traveled to Spain to marry his daughter to Philip, infant of Castile, fifth son of Ferdinand III and brother of King Alfonso X the Wise. According to the story, in the end the princess fell prey to melancholy for living so far from her birth home. His remains lie in the Collegiate Church of San Cosme and San Damián de Covarrubias, which gives rise to the pilgrimage route of San Olav. That marriage sealed one of the first great diplomatic ties between the Scandinavian kingdoms and the Iberian Peninsula. Princess Christina of Norway never adapted to the climate, the language or a Castilian court radically different from the fjords where she had grown up. He died just four years after arriving in Castilla, at only 28 years old. Their pain sealed a relationship that there will be those who consider began with the retirees of the Costa Blanca. Mafias and violence. In return, the event pages of L’Alfàs del Pi have a separate space. Because, apparently, they don’t just import peaceful retirees, they also attract outright terror. In this small Scandinavia, the Swedish and Norwegian mafia clans control a good part of the European drug trafficking from here. It has been known for a decade that clubs like Den Norske Klubb They are “problematic”. The bikers of Hells Angels They established operational bases in Alicante years ago and control a good part of the nightlife. Million-dollar money laundering schemes are still being investigated. To the recent news of sale of vapers for minors or the 17 people arrested by a criminal gang that stole jewelry at gunpoint is added to all that hashish that arrives in speedboats from Morocco, or the cocaine that enters through the ports of Valencia and Algeciras. Scandinavian organizations buy merchandise on Alicante soil. They then send it to northern Europe through complex logistics networks. Live and die without speaking Spanish. He Europol Report (SOCTA – Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment analyzes the expansion of Scandinavian criminal networks in southern Europe and concludes that “drastic measures” are required. Organized crime brings fresh blood and settling of scores. And the Home Office has published several crime balances of the UDYCO (Drugs and Organized Crime Unit) on this social problem. The Norwegian Costa Blanca Club, the Norwegian school, the monumental Protestant church and other services have been established so that the Norwegian resident can live comfortably without needing to pronounce a single word of Spanish, as happens in Fuengirola with the FinnsTorrevieja with its concentration of Russians and Ukrainians u Orihuela with the thousands of british that houses An oasis for good and bad. The vast majority of Norwegian residents are part of a community that has been settled for decades. Movies like ‘Luger‘ (2025) flirt with an idea that too often is just pure xenophobia. They have cultural associations such as the Volunteer Center-Frivilling, schools funded by Norway, sports clubs, press in their language, specialized shops and social life that has disrupted the local economy. The heat, and not only that of the sun but that of coexistence, explains why the municipality continues to be a reference for Scandinavian emigration in the Mediterranean. However, the municipality is also a victim of that other side. Local agents, for example, collaborate daily with Kripos, the Norwegian national police, which has already uncovered cases such as the network that operated paying with monero tokens. The Nordic noir, not as cold, but just as calculated in the palm-lined streets of L’Alfàs del Pi. Over the past few years, police helicopters have mapped the thermal signatures of the crypto mining farmsused to finance crime. How are you happening now to Belgiumthe Alicante networks served for the heyday of EncroChat (2020) and Sky ECC (2021), two networks from which European mafias moved with more than 800 criminals involved. Images | EFE/Pablo Miranzo In Xataka | “I won’t take the car that day.” Mallorca fears that there is something worse than mass tourism: mass eclipse tourism

Chile wants a tunnel under the Strait of Magellan to link Tierra del Fuego with the continent. The project exists, the agreement with Argentina does not

June 18, 2026 by usatoday24

Today, if a person wants to cross from Chile or Argentina to the island of Tierra del Fuego, they depend on ferries and barges. Normally, about 600 vehicles and around 2,000 people They cross the island every day. The extreme southern region of Patagonia is also a complicated area in meteorological terms, which leads to the suspension of maritime transport services every now and then. Hence, it makes all the sense in the world that they are considering building an underwater tunnel that connects both regions. The idea is to build an underpass of about 3.7 kilometers in the First Angostura, thus replacing ferry transportation. The project has existed on paper for a long timebut now it has just gained some political momentum. What exactly is proposed. The project would consist of an underwater road tunnel that connects Punta Delgada, in the continental zone, with Bahía Azul, on the Big Island of Tierra del Fuego. This section, known as First Angostura, is the point where the Strait of Magellan narrows to the maximum, making it the most technically reasonable place to attempt a work of these characteristics. Why is it resurfacing now? The project has been included since June 2025 in the Extreme Zones Development Plan 2025–2035 of the Magallanes Region. The governor of Magallanes, Jorge Flies, has been the main person responsible for restore some visibility to the initiative in recent weeks, according to some media reports. What the technicians say. Francisco Hernández, academic at the University of the Andes, counted to the Uruguayan edition of El País that the work is technically possible, but warns that it should not be seen “as a simple work.” The media also points out more difficulties than the length of the route, including the detailed study of the geology of the seabed, the water pressure, the currents or the seismic behavior of an area located very close to the mountain range. Depending on the results of these analyses, the project could be executed with a TBM-type tunnel boring machine or using conventional rock excavation techniques. According to account According to La Nación, Norwegian engineers have already reviewed the proposal in a preliminary phase and concluded that the conditions could be favorable. cHow much does it cost and who pays. The estimates oscillate between 500 and 1.5 billion dollars. As it is a binational project, Chile and Argentina would have to agree on the distribution of the investment, the management model and long-term maintenance guarantees. The media also points out that viability does not depend only on engineering, but on there being a firm agreement between both countries on who pays, under what conditions and with what operating scheme. What point is it really at? For the moment, the tunnel is nothing more than a proposal included in Chile’s planning. There is no official confirmation of the start of works, no definitive agreement between the two countries, nor guaranteed financing. The next step would be to complete the geotechnical and geophysical studies that allow the design, costs and security, evacuation and emergency systems to be refined. Until then, we will have to wait to find out if the project finally comes to fruition. Cover image | Vincent Etter and Ricardo Gomez Angel In Xataka | With 3,500 tons and 15 meters in diameter, China already has the largest tunnel boring machine in the world for high-speed trains

In two days, on Netflix, the first stop-motion film made in Mexico arrives with the seal of Guillermo del Toro

June 10, 2026 by usatoday24

There are projects that are literally made with a lifetime’s savings. ‘I’m Frankeldathe first stop motion animated feature film produced entirely in Mexico and which comes with the seal of Guillermo del Toro’s production, comes to Netflix this June 12 with more than one hundred hand-built puppets, four years of craftsmanship. The beginning of its story dates back to 2021 and a semi-unknown anthology miniseries. It was in that year when the Mexican studio Cinema Fantasma, founded by brothers Arturo and Roy Ambriz, premiered on HBO Max (not available in Spain) ‘The Hidden Scares of Frankelda’, a stop motion anthology miniseries starring a ghost writer who tells horror stories to children. The success of the series led to the jump to feature length, initially as a 30-minute special, which grew to become a two-hour film. The Ambriz brothers ended up financing the production with their own savings. We will meet Francisca Imelda in 19th century Mexico, a writer of horror stories whose texts are ignored and dismissed by those around her. Forced into silence, she adopts the pseudonym Frankelda and continues writing until a tormented, supernatural-looking prince, Herneval, guides her on a journey into her own subconscious. Turned into a ghost, she discovers that The monsters he invented have come to life and threaten the balance between fiction and reality.. Just like explained Roy Ambriz: “When Mary Shelley published her books, she had to do so under the name of her husband, Percy Shelley. So we asked ourselves: how many Mary Shelleys would there have been in Mexico?” After seeing a provisional montage, Del Toro congratulated the creators and sponsored the project. The director was already in contact with the brothers since 2015 and the short film ‘Revoltoso’, which he produced. In ‘Soy Frankelda’ he served as creative advisor. It is a role in which the director fits perfectly, since he not only won the Oscar with his own version of ‘Pinocchio’ for Netflix, but he has supported the art of stop motion in very diverse ways, such as with the creation, together with the platform and the Parisian animation school Gobelins, of a stop-motion studio-laboratory. In Xataka | Today on Netflix, 6 seasons of a brutal and fast-paced action series with an impeccable score

Benicio del Toro and James Cameron have been obsessed with adapting a “cursed” work for decades: ‘Prometheus’

May 21, 2026 by usatoday24

In March 2011, Guillermo del Toro resigned. He sent an email to his team announcing that the project to which they had dedicated years of work was definitively cancelled. Behind them were more than three hundred pieces of conceptual art, a script they had worked on for almost a decade, James Cameron as producer and Tom Cruise as star. The novel that inspired it, a classic of literary horror, is still waiting to be adapted ninety years after its original publication. Foundational text. HP Lovecraft He published ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ in 1936 in installments in the magazine ‘Weird Tales’. The story follows a team of researchers who travel to Antarctica and discover, within a colossal mountain system, the remains of a civilization that predated humanity. Its builders, known as “the Ancients” are organisms whose existence makes it clear that humanity does not occupy any special place in the universe, as happens in so many other stories by the author. It is a scheme that laid the foundations (after multiple experiments in the form of stories) of the cosmic horrorand its influence on cinema is obvious in movies like ‘Alien’ or ‘The Thing’. Marked at eleven years old. Guillermo del Toro discovered the short novel as a child in Mexico and it became an obsession that stayed with him for decades. In 2002 he began working on an adaptation with Matthew Robbins, screenwriter and frequent collaborator of the director on projects such as ‘Mimic’ or ‘Pinocchio’. They completed a script but difficulties began when they tried to finance it: Warner Bros. rejected the project, and Del Toro chained films while the project returned again and again to the drawer: ‘Hellboy’, ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’, ‘The Hobbit’… Ready. In 2010 the project took a little more shape, for the first time in its eventful career. James Cameron, fresh off the success of ‘Avatar‘, came in as a producer and Tom Cruise began talks to play the protagonist. The film would be shot in native 3D and distributed by Universal. In 2011, Del Toro was hurriedly working on a new version of the script to shoot that summer, but before that, in March, Universal archived the project. The reason was, mainly, the exorbitant budget of 150 million for a horror film for adults in which Del Toro did not want to reduce the violence. Curiously, Universal next financed ‘Pacific Rim’, which cost $190 million but, yes, had much less exaggerated violence. The coup de grace: ‘Prometheus’. In April 2012, del Toro published in the forums of their official website a text that related ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ with ‘Prometheus’, the feature film by Ridley Scott. According to the director, they had an identical premise, very similar scenes and an absolutely parallel final revelation. That is: explorers of unknown places discover an ancient alien civilization and realize something devastating about their own origins. More attempts. Despite the disappointment of ‘Prometheus’, Del Toro did not completely abandon the project. When he joined Legendary Pictures, he considered the possibility of making a PG-13 film, that is, with less violence. When he later signed a contract with Netflix in 2020, he submitted the project to the platform, but it was not accepted. In November 2022posted on Instagram 25 seconds of CGI footage prepared by Industrial Light & Magic for the 2011 version. The clip showed the Ancients in spectacular fidelity to Lovecraft’s description. Later would recognize than a feature film stop motion could be a viable format for the project. At the end of 2025, del Toro released ‘Frankenstein’ on Netflix, another project he had been wanting to do for decades. The film was a success in the awards season (nominated for nine Oscars and won three), with audiences and critics. Perhaps it is also, without us knowing it, an open door for one of the most deservedly legendary projects of modern fantasy cinema. In Xataka | HP Lovecraft wrote 75,000 letters in his entire life. And they give a definitive insight into all its secrets

For 120 years, scientists considered the Omiltemi rabbit extinct. Meanwhile, in Sierra Madre del Sur they were hunted for food.

May 5, 2026 by usatoday24

When in 1904 Edward William Nelson identified the first Omiltemi rabbits, he did not know that this was going to be one of the last confirmed sightings of what, for decades, has been considered one of the most endangered mammals in the world. The bug. It was a large, nocturnal rabbit, with dark reddish hair, long ears and a short tail. But not much else was known because zoologists had frepeatedly scratched in finding and studying it. And yet, if they had asked the inhabitants of the Sierra Madre del Sur (in the Mexican state of Guerrero), they would have been able to add one more thing: that they are very rich. Because while scientists were looking for these bugs, neighbors hunted them and integrated them into their usual diet. Where are those rabbits? We must not fall into simplifications, since 1998 we already suspected that the rabbit was still alive and there. That year, some local hunters gave researchers the skin of a killed specimen: that is, we had physical proof that the species still existed. Therefore, the species was not officially extinct; What appeared in the species lists is that we did not have enough data to know what was happening with it. Now, after a long investigation with traps and sampling, we do have them. He wasn’t dead… Between 2019 and 2024, a team led by José Alberto Almazán-Catalán (the Institute for the Management and Conservation of Biodiversity) carried out a specific search for the rabbit under the program Search for Lost Species by Re:wild. They visited 10 areas and obtained records in 7 of them. The conclusion of this work (and I quote verbatim) is that the Omiltemi rabbit “is a rare species, but not only is it not extinct, but it is much more common than previously believed.” The data matches with the graphic material that Fernando Ruiz-Gutiérrez published in the Mexican Journal of Mastozoology. And then? Well, although the situation has not changed, it has revealed everything that we do not know. It is now evident that the distribution reaches an area up to three times larger than previously suspected. It is also true that, without suspecting it, the communities in the area have been hunting (and even breeding) these rabbits for decades without knowing that they were Omiltemi rabbits. And it is curious how this type of news helps make clear how little we know about the world around us. The initiative Search for Lost Species from Re:wild has already ‘recovered’ 13 species around the world. Some of them, like Winton’s golden molethey had gone 86 years without confirmed records. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than your philosophy dreams of,” Hamlet tells Horatio and, if we apply it to contemporary science, we see that this is still the case. Image | Re:Wild In Xataka | Spain is witnessing a shocking phenomenon: three invasive species are feeding each other to conquer the country

those of Amancio Ortega, Rafael del Pino and Juan Roig

March 25, 2026 by usatoday24

Unlike what happens in the United States, fortunes of millionaires in Spain They have been simmering for decades. They grow slowly, but without stopping. In Spain, only three surnames concentrate wealth that far exceeds 166.25 billion euros and, year after year, it reinforces its position in global rankings. Names like Amancio Ortega, Rafael del Pino or Juan Roig They appear in the headlines every day, but they are only the visible head of some family clans that They have made their fortune grow for generations. According to pointed Forbes At the end of 2025, the 100 largest fortunes in Spain together amounted to 292.1 billion euros. This represents some 16.6 billion euros more than the previous year. Of that total, almost 57% is in the hands of three families of millionaires represented by Amancio Ortega, Rafael del Pino and Juan Roig. The Ortegas: the clan that monopolizes the podium Amancio Ortega is the greatest fortune in Spain and the only Spaniard who competes on a sustained basis with the richest people on the planet. The Forbes millionaires listcurrently places him in 13th place in the world, with an estimated fortune of 120.55 billion euros (130.2 billion dollars at the current exchange rate). Adding the assets of his daughter Sandra Ortega Mera, the second largest fortune in Spain with about 12,144 million euros according to Forbeshe Ortega family clan exceeds 132,550 million euros. The origin of this wealth has two main pillars. The first is the 59.05% of Inditex that it controls through Pontegadea Inversiones and Partler Participaciones, which in 2026 will report a record dividend of 3,234 million euros. For her part, Sandra Ortega controls 5.053% of the shares of the company that her father founded. The second great pillar of the family fortune is Pontegadea, the real estate and investment holding company founded by Amancio Ortega to reinvest the dividends from Inditex, in real estate securities distributed throughout the world, managing a valued real estate asset at 122,000 million euros. The Del Pino family and Ferrovial The second position in the ranking of the richest families in Spain corresponds to the Del Pino Calvo-Sotelo clan, with a joint assets estimated at 18,250 million euros. Rafael del Pino, president of Ferrovial, increased his personal fortune up to 8,000 million euros in 2025, while his sister María del Pino adds another 5.5 billion of euros to the family total. The younger brothers, Joaquín and Leopoldo del Pino, contribute an additional 2,150 and 2,600 million euros. The source of this wealth is the 20.45% stake that Rafael del Pino controls in Ferrovial through his Dutch company Rijn Capital, an infrastructure company listed simultaneously in Madrid, Amsterdam and the New York Nasdaq, whose market capitalization exceeds 39.5 billion euros. Ferrovial closed 2025 with revenues of 9,627 million euros, 8.6% more than the previous year, and a net profit of 888 million euros. The Roigs and the power of Mercadona The third position in the ranking of the richest families in Spain is occupied by the Roig clan, with one of the most striking increases of the year. The joint fortune of the family of the founder of Mercadona amounts to 14,440 million euros in 2025. The main amount comes from Juan Roig’s personal wealth, which went from 5.78 billion euros in 2024 to 7.9 billion euros in 2025, an increase of 36.7% in a single year. According to ForbesIn 2026, Roig’s fortune is estimated at around 9.29 billion euros. His wife, Hortensia Herrero, has a personal assets estimated at around 5,150 million euros. Juan Roig and his wife Hortensia Herrero control almost 71% of Mercadona, while his brother Fernando Roig owns another 9% of the company’s capital. Valencian supermarket chainwhich is equivalent to 2,390 million euros Mercadona is the main supermarket chain in Spain, and closed in 2025 generating a net profit of 1,729 million euros and a turnover of 41,900 million euros. This increase in income has caused the personal assets of its founders to also grow. In Xataka | There is a 50-ton “nuclear reactor” in a bunker in Fuenlabrada: it has been donated by Amancio Ortega Image | Wikimedia Commons, , GTRES, Ferrovial

In Mejorada del Campo there is a cathedral built from scratch by a single man. Now it has closed due to lack of permits

February 12, 2026 by usatoday24

There are crazy projects and then there is the one undertaken 65 years ago by Justo Gallego on a plot of land in Mejorada del Campo, a town in 25,000 inhabitants of the Community of Madrid. In October 1961 Justo, a farmer and former monk without the slightest experience in architecture, embarked on the titanic task of building a temple from scratch. At first it was going to be a hermitage, but over time the project aimed at something much more ambitious: a Christian cathedral. A cathedral built without formal plans and with more will than means. Against all odds the temple is a reality today. In fact, it has not been the technical or logistical challenges that have complicated the dream of Justo, who died four years ago. Their big problem is municipal permits. The same ones that have now led the Mejorada City Council to close down the building. What has happened? That the one known as ‘Justus Cathedral’ has had to close its doors. The City Council of the municipality in which it is located, Mejorada del Campo, has ordered the cessation of all public use of the building, a veto that will be maintained in theory until its current managers (the Messengers of Peace organization) obtain the permits that it now lacks. What does that imply? The news has advanced it The Worldwhich clarifies that the Madrid City Council has made the decision after verifying that the building was operating without permits. On their website, Messengers of Peace confirm that the cathedral “will remain closed while waiting for the license to be processed.” Until then you will not be able to receive visitors or engage in any other public use, including the distribution of food for vulnerable people. The NGO has already contacted Cáritas to use its Mejorada del Campo facilities and that the municipal veto does not stop the work that was being carried out in the cathedral. Why now? The ‘Justus Cathedral’ is not new, it has been a popular icon for years (in 2005 it appeared in an Aquarius spot) and Messages of Peace took over the premises five years ago. So… Why is it closing now? The explanation must be sought in municipal offices. A few weeks ago a foundation consulted the City Council about the necessary permits to organize an artistic exhibition in the temple. By doing so, he launched the administrative machinery that ended up leading to the closure order. And what is the reason? That in reality the temple does not have the necessary permits. “Urbanism confirmed that the cathedral lacks licenses and that there was no processing in progress, which prevented the activity and led to the opening of a file that concluded with the closure order,” they explain from the Town Hall The World. The decision was transferred a few days ago to Messengers. In reality, the NGO had already moved to regulate the situation of the building, but did not present a key document: an architectural project endorsed by the Official College of Architects of Madrid. The Europa Press agency clarify Once this administrative requirement is met, the City Council will review the closure. The NGO already anticipates that it will deliver “as many documents as are required.” Why is it news? That a temple ceases its activity due to lack of municipal permits is curious, but it would not have made it past the pages of the local Madrid press. If the closure of the ‘Justus Cathedral’ has awakened so much interest It is because it is not just any cathedral. In fact it is not a ‘cathedral’ as such. Last September the NGO itself I remembered that in reality the building houses a “social center” that does not have official recognition by the Catholic Church as a cathedral. It has not even been consecrated as a temple. “It is a community space that welcomes social, cultural and spiritual initiatives,” needed then Messengers of Peace. The clarification was not free. It arrived shortly after skip the controversy for the opening of a mosque in the building. The decision generated such a stir that the NGO founded by the media Father Angel had to clarify that it is a “inter-religious prayer space” located in an annex at the request of the Muslim community. Are there more reasons? Yes. Beyond its religious status or uses, the Mejorada temple generates interest for his story. After all, it is not every day that you see a cathedral building built basically by the efforts of a single man, a farmer with no experience in masonry who in 1961 began building it to fulfill a religious promise. Without plans. With more will than means. In the 90s the temple was already so advanced that it began to arouse curiosity beyond Madrid: in 2004 Justo received an invitation to participate in an exhibition in New York, in 2005 he starred in an Aquarius campaign and in 2017 it reached the pages of The New York Times. The former monk died in 2021 and the property was passed to Messengers of Peace for completion. Images | Messengers of Peace, Wikipedia and M. Peinado (Flickr) In Xataka | It has been difficult but he has achieved it: the Sagrada Familia has just become the roof of Christianity in the world

The Machada del One overcoming the container record on board

October 4, 2025 by usatoday24

Much of the world economy moves by boat. HE esteem That between 80% and 90% of merchandise trade around the world is transported by boat, and to sustain that spine, we need huge ships. There the Porteneroauthentic titans that seem a lie that are maintained on the water and that are capable of transporting, of a tacada, a couple of tens of thousands of large containers. There are no larger ships than the “new” Megamax class. And within it is one who has just burst the transport record: The One Innovation. Megamax. It is the largest class of modern boring partners. It emerged as a natural evolution of the ULCV, or ‘Ultra Large Container Vessels’, because it seems that wearing 20,000 TEU was not enough for current trade. Teu means ‘Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit’, a standard for containers that allows us to compare between ships and that means that if a ship can transport 20,000 TEU, it can move 20,000 containers. If the ULCV moved that amount, the megamax can between 21,000 and 25,000 TEU, being able to load 24 rows of containers … wide. It is an absolute barbarity and is touching the limit of what a channel like Suez’s can house: if they were wider, accidents could occur Or, directly, Do not go through the channel. And taking into account the Importance of these few points in world tradeor widen the passages, or accommodate the ships … One Innovation. Is the name of Third type of largest container of the world. Its capacity is 24,136 TEU and is only behind the OOCL Spain (and the rest of the OOCL megamax class) with its 24,188 TEU and the MSC Irina (and the rest of the MSC Megamax) with its enormous Capacity for 24,346 TEU. To house so much load, the dimensions They are up to it: 399.95 meters long. 61.4 meters wide. Depth of 33.2 meters. 16.5 meter draft. It is like a Empire State Buildingbut horizontally and floating. And it has the ability to transport 25 container levels (imagine a container pyramid, go), with 24 rows along, another 24 wide and 2,000 of those containers having connection with cooling systems. The other ships look like toy Record. Reaching the maximum capacity of each ship is complex. In fact, the three mentioned are extremely similar in size, but that one can with 200 containers more than another respond to issues of logistics and internal organization rather than to the dimensions of the ship. How to play a game of ‘Tetris‘Superoptimized, ultimately. Well, despite being the one that has the most capacity, the One Innovation has just beat the capacity record on a trip. Again. If a couple of years ago you already set the 22,000 TEU brand, this September He did it again with 22,233 teu loaded in a single operation in the port of Singapore (One of the most important on the planet). Complex logistics. In terms of capacity, it represents 92% of their maximum, so they can continue experimenting to load even more. Now, this is not something that can be done in any port. The One Innovation is designed for the Asia-Europa route, being able to stop in strategic ports such as Xiamen, Singapore, Rotterdam, Southampton or Algeciras. It is a connection between the main Asian and European centers, for which a very specific machinery is needed that manages to load and download huge amounts of containers. And this is something that not all ports are designed or can face. We talk about channels about 20 meters deep, cranes of about 70 meters of range and lengths between 450 and 500 meters so that ships can dock. That without counting the necessary defenses in case there are accidents or calculation failures. Necessary (and we will surely go more). As we say, ships of this size are necessary and are constantly used both for efficiency when moving a lot Energy efficiency. Instead of making multiple trips, in one and thanks to that massive capacity, it can move load through the world. In addition, they seem essential if the wishes of the ‘are fulfilled’New Silk Route‘That China is promoting to create more efficient trade routes between Asia and Europe, but also with Africa, a region in which China has enormous interest both for its resources as for enhance markets such as cars. Images | Shotbyp4ul, Kees Torn In Xataka | The European supply chain depends 100% in China in many cases. This chart illustrates its vulnerability

Three years after the Fiasco del Metaverso, Zuckerberg has another burning nail for the goal: digital glasses

September 19, 2025 by usatoday24

Mark Zuckerberg believes that in 2030 we will not get the smartphone out of his pocket because We will do almost everything from the glasses. That is his particular new obsession, and he has all the meaning of the world because Meta is in a delicate position. And if one It is cornered In the future that does not control, better create one that can control. Glasses, glasses and more glasses. The presentation this week of the promising Goal Ray-Ban Display and his small sisters (Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) and Oakley Meta Vanguard) It is a clear message to the world. Zuckerberg He sees us all Taking glasses in the future, and the new options of their connected glasses are precisely aimed not only to make them more with them, but to get more and more forget about the device that has governed our life for two decades: the smartphone. An event to redraw the target of Meta. In the presentation event of the Zuckerberg glasses, he also confirmed that new silent transformation of his company, which first focused on social networks and then bet on everything to the Metaverso. Now the proposal is different and Zuckerberg made it clear in the event saying the following: “Our goal is to create glasses with an attractive design that offer personal superintelligence and a sense of presence through realistic holograms. The combination of these ideas is what we call” metaverso. “ Metaverso V2.0. Suddenly the metaverse now is different from that before. In that metaverso that seemed A bad copy of Wii Sports We have moved to another in which virtual reality is totally displaced. Four years ago, when Facebook changed its name by goal, there was not even talk of artificial intelligence as part of that platform. Now it is a fundamental part, logically. Metaverso 1.0 – who is careful, is still alive and Also losing money– It has remained In the background. Killing smartphone is going to be (very) difficult. Of course, we will need a device in which to be able to do all those things that Zuckerberg proposes, now the candidate is in many cases the mobile. If not as the center of experience, yes as an important element. Will the smartphone give prominence to the glasses or other hardware products? It seems difficultbut of course both goal and others – Hello, OpenAI+Jony Ive– They are willing to achieve that goal. It is normal: if they achieve it, they can control something they have ever managed to control: the hardware. But. If something has characterized Mark Zuckerberg it is his ease to change focus. After the success of Facebook later seemed to focus much more on WhatsApp Supervitaminar –Do you remember Libra?– Or Instagram. Then, of course, his obsession with metoverso would arrive, and more recently With superintelligence and AI glasses. If there is a new technological fever, the Facebook founder usually goes for it. What will be next? And it will have a lot of competition. It is not that Zuckeberg achieves that we use the glasses more than the phone: no one is going to let it do it alone. Google works tirelessly on Android XR and has already shown us that you will have products in this segment, and Apple also seems convinced that the shots will go here. Not to mention Amazon or – major words – of Chinese manufacturers. All of them are going to put it very difficult at the finish line, but one thing is true: if they manage to move the mobile focus on the glasses, there at least they will predictably have part of the cake. Image | Goal In Xataka | The new finish lines will allow to cross a line: seem present while you are completely absent

Cantabria feared to become “La Ibiza del Norte”. For his horror, he already has “the Magaluf del Norte”

August 6, 2025 by usatoday24

There are slogans that pass without penalty or glory and others that capture such an idea that end up rooting or even (in networks) viral. It happened little over a yearwhen Thousands of Cantabrians They went out to protest against the Tourist From his community to the shout of “We do not want to be the Northern Ibiza!” Now the controversy returns to the same region before another threat that has been summarized in an equally powerful phrase: there are those who warn that one of its most famous sand, the strut, runs the risk of becoming “The Magaluf del Norte”. The debate is served. A place: El Puntal Beach. Cantabria has 284 kilometers of coast, but few places in that large coastal strip are as emblematic as the beach of The Puntalin Somo (Ribomontán to the sea), in the middle of Santander Bay. The space is included in the Natura 2000 Network Within the dunes of El Puntal and the Estario of Miera, which stands out for its 49 plant formations. Twenty of them are also priority and the area of special interest is distributed in the area. A word: Megabotellón. Despite that environmental value and being a Protected spacethe sand becomes sometimes a great Botellodrome. People are in the area and the beach becomes an outdoor parties space. It is nothing new. It has happened relatively frequently during the summer months of recent years. In July 2020in full pandemic, the Civil Guard imposed dozens of complaints after evicting a bottle With hundreds of young people. And in August last year it happened Something similarwith a Macrobotellón that brought together thousands of young people who left in their path a lot of garbage. And what happened? That the story It has been repeated again. A few weeks ago the sand was filled with thousands of young people who crowded the beach and left long tails to move by boat from Santander. It is not necessary to imagine it. The local press and The networks They spread images of a strut to the flag, a massive party that the mayor of Ribamontán to the sea, Francisco Asón, watched with impotence. “We are in contact with the Civil Guard because they have already warned us that this is the hecatombe,” I recognized To the EFE agency. Party … And something else. The problem is not just saturation. Much of the controversy causes it what leaves behind: bags, cans, bottles … a large amount of garbage scattered on the sand, as a Cantabrist denunciation, which the next day visited the same beach to show in A video dirt. The recording speaks for itself. “The bottles in the strut begins to be unsustainable. We cannot look elsewhere while deteriorating one of the most beautiful and fragile environments of the bay,” Crows Daniel Fernández, socialist spokesman in Santander. Click on the image to go to Tweet. “Bottle, noise and dirt”. In recent days the controversy has been climbing with reproaches of political parties, institutions and environmentalists. At the end of July several counselors of the Government of Cantabria and the mayor of Ribamontán to the sea sent A letter To the Government delegate to claim that it ends the “mass and illegal” concentrations, parties that, “fill with bottles, noise and dirt a protected space.” The situation seemed relax Last weekend, but that has not prevented more and more voices from asking for solutions. One of the most overwhelming is that of Ecologists in Action, which warns of the situation of El Puntal, its “irreparable footprints” and the “risk” that the bottles represent. “A natural space turned into a shitwith bottles, plastics, food remains and butts dispersed by the sand “, emphasize The organization before crossing out “inadmissible” that the authorities allow the beach to become “a landfill.” “It is not a recreational space without norms, it is a public good of high environmental value whose conservation is a collective duty. It is not enough to send a cleaning team the next day. That does not repair the damage,” he remarks. The northern Magaluf? Just like a year ago Voices were heard rejecting that Cantabria becomes “the North Ibiza”, in recent days those that compare the situation of El Puntal with MagalufMallorca beach wrapped in controversy for the videos that show The excesses with drugs or sex in public spaces. “They have turned a protected area into the Magaluf del Norte”, complaint Cantabrist “Hundreds of tourists come to our natural environments to use them as their private club and turn them into landfills.” They are not the only ones that point in that direction. The PSOE He has claimed Measures to protect the coast “Ante Avalachas” such as El Puntal and speaks of “more than 4,000 people from Botón”. United Left too He has demanded that all administrations meet to “put an end to lack of control” in the Arenal, a measure that proposes to extend to other natural spaces in the region. “Cantabria is fashionable”. Not all institutions share the tone or focus the focus on the same point. The regional president, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, considers “a serious irresponsibility to alert tourism phobia” and asks not to transmit “a distorted image” of what happens in the community. “Cantabria is fashionable and lives a splendid and excellent moment. We are not the Northern Ibiza. Much less Magaluf,” the leader emphasizes in statements collected by eldiario.es. His executive claims to the Government Delegation that reinforces the controls. “It must act when there is a security problem.” Images | Cantabrist 1 and 2 and Federico Jordá (Flickr) In Xataka | The north of Spain has been complaining about mass tourism for years. Asturias has discovered the bitter consequences of losing it

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