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On Saturday, June 13, a designer fan (Dyson style) arrives at Aldi with a 20% discount

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Although there are exceptions, for the most part fans do not match the decoration of the house. They are devices that we do not always have in the same room, so they are usually in the middle and their designs are not too elegant. But as we say, there are exceptions. Aldi usually brings many devices to supermarkets, either through its online store or physical stores. And of course, among them there are some fans. In fact, next Saturday, June 13, the Ambiana fan with a quite elegant design that will also be on sale with a 20% discount, going from 49.99 euros to 39.99 euros. However, if you don’t have an Aldi nearby or if the online store sells out quickly, Amazon has a fan with a practically identical design. It’s about the fan Joccawhose price is 59 euros. Jocca – Bladeless fan The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A fan with a good design The Ambiano fan arrives betting on a particular design, but also on a more than decent technical sheet for the little it costs. On the one hand, the minimalist aesthetic will make it go more unnoticed at home; and calm, The blue strip is an LED light, and you can change color or turn it off. This fan does not have blades and incorporates a motor that reduces mechanical vibrations, something to keep in mind if we do not want it to be heard too much, which is interesting to use while we sleep. It has several speeds and comes with an automatic oscillation system, distributing the air evenly throughout the room. ⚡ IN BRIEF: Ambiano fan offer today ✅ THE BEST Your design: It is a very minimalist fan that goes unnoticed at home. Its price: It can be purchased on sale as soon as it reaches the online stores. ❌ THE WORST It helps with the heat, but… After all, it is a fan, so it does not cool the room. 💡 BUY IT IF… You want a fan that doesn’t stand out in your home, that is cheap and that also makes little noise. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You want a device that allows you to cool the room. In that case, it is better to take a look at the air conditionersalthough they are more expensive. You may also be interested Philips Bliss Ceiling Lamp with LED Retractable Fan Blades, 3 Blades, 106 Cm Wingspan, 4500 Lumens, White Light Adjustable from 3000 K to 6500 K, Dimmable to 5%, Remote Control, White The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Cecotec Digital Tower Fan with Timer and Remote Control EnergySilence 890 Skyline. 50 W, 30” (76cm) Height, Oscillation, Copper Motor, 3 Speeds, 3 Modes, 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 | Aldi and Compradicción (header), Ambiano In Xataka | Buying guide for connected fans: recommendations for choosing a “smart” model with WiFi and six models from 50 euros In Xataka | Silent ceiling fan: which one to buy? Tips and recommendations

We have been mapping Antarctica for decades. We have just discovered that its largest basins form a single tectonic “fan”

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For decades, researchers have mapped the frozen continent, finding huge depressions and subglacial lakes that have left us in awe. Until now, these formations were studied as isolated pieces of a geological puzzle; However, a new study has turned this view on its head. The demonstration. This study has been published in Nature Geoscience and has just demonstrated that the great basins of East Antarctica are not independent accidents, but form part of a single, gigantic fan-shaped tectonic province. The tectonic fan. The research team, using a combination of subglacial topography, gravity and magnetism data, proposes that this entire vast region is the result of a distributed rotational extension process. To understand it, we can imagine the Earth’s crust in this area opening and stretching asymmetrically, unfolding as if it were a fan. This colossal tectonic movement makes East Antarctica one of the largest known examples of rotational extension in continental crust on the entire planet. The beginning. The origin of this continental scar is closely linked to the history of our planet, specifically to the tectonic phases linked to the fragmentation of the supercontinent Gondwana and the dramatic separation between Antarctica and Australia. As the land masses separated, the crust stretched and fractured, leaving this “bounced topography” that today lies hidden under miles of ice. Its importance. Beyond the undoubted geological and historical value, understanding this structure has a practical and urgent application, since Antarctica is the great thermostat of the Earth and its stability is key in the face of climate change. The topography beneath the Antarctic ice sheet acts as a mold that conditions absolutely everything that happens on the surface. This is seen, for example, in how the shape of bedrock controls the flow of today’s glaciers and determines how subglacial lake and basin systems are distributed. That is why, if we want to predict with mathematical precision how the Antarctic ice will respond to global warming and how it will flow towards the ocean, we need to know the tectonic “pipe” on which it rests to the millimeter. Its mystery. Although the article Nature Geoscience manages to unify structures as massive as the Wilkes and Aurora basins under the same theoretical framework, the authors maintain scientific caution. The exact age at which this fan province formed and the fine geodynamic mechanism that triggered it remain, to a large extent, open questions, and this means that work still needs to be done to find out exactly when the movements of the Antarctic crust will occur. Images | Tam Minton Nature In Xataka | Antarctica was practically the last corner of the Earth immune to touristification. That’s ending

why understanding these acronyms is the difference between buying an air purifier or an expensive fan

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At first glance buy a purifier air can be a simple task, but as soon as we start reading the specifications… we can easily get involved, especially with some of them such as the type of filter. Here we must be especially careful because it is possible that we find HEPA filters or HEPA type filters, and they are not the same. In fact, with each of them we will have a totally different experience. How a HEPA filter works HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Airor air with high efficiency particles) is a quality standard for filters, so if we see it in a purifier we can know that it meets rigorous tests to guarantee efficiency in retaining particles such as dust, pollen, mold and even bacteria or viruses. If we get a little more technical, bacteria measure between 0.5 and 5 microns while viruses measure between 0.02 and 0.3 microns. HEPA filters must be capable of retain at least 99.97% of particles having a size of 0.3 microns (particle size most difficult to physically filter). If it is not capable of this, it is not a HEPA filter. However, you have to be careful because this is where HEPA type filters come into play. What is a HEPA type filter If we see that a purifier has a HEPA type filter, we may think that it meets the standard we have discussed. But this is not the case, and they can be much less efficient. The expression “HEPA type filter” is usually used as a claim for some purifiers, generally inexpensive, although it is more normal to see them in other devices such as robot vacuum cleaner. These filters They are not as effective because they have not been tested with the tests that HEPA filters are subjected to, and it is possible that they do not even comply with the European standard that defines the different kinds of HEPA filters that we can find. Can they retain bacteria? Yes, but they do not have certified efficiency. How purifiers work The purifiers have a fairly simple structure: Inside there is a motor, a fan and a box where the filter is located.. Its operation is summarized in that the motor makes the fan move to attract particles and deposit them in the filter. However, it is worth mentioning that the filtering process is more complex. Inertial impact: affects large, heavy particles that travel at high speed. The particles cannot change direction quickly, so they continue straight until they collide with the fibers until they become stuck. Direct interception: some medium particles that follow the air flow pass very close to the fibers until they come into contact with them and remain adhered, which is known as direct interception. Brownian diffusion: on the contrary, small particles do not follow the air current in a straight line, so they continually collide with the gas molecules in the air. This movement increases the probability that the particle ends up hitting a fiber and becoming stuck. HEPA-type filters can retain certain particles, but they do not have certified efficiency. It’s not that they are useless, but they simply may not be as effective as HEPA filters. The good and the bad of both options, face to face hepa filters hepa type filters THE GOOD 🟢 They are capable of better filtering dust particles, bacteria or viruses. They are usually found in cheap purifiers, being interesting for devices whose purification function is secondary. THE BAD 🔴 They are found in more expensive purifiers, so they are aimed at devices whose purification function is the main one. They are less efficient than HEPA filters. Ideal for: People looking to improve the air quality in their home. Economical devices whose purification function is secondary. What purifier should I buy then? At this point you may have wondered whether or not it is worth buying a purifier with a HEPA type filter, and the truth is that it is, although it depends on what we are looking for. 👉 Choose a purifier with a HEPA filter if: You want to retain large and small particles for a cleaner home, from dust to viruses and bacteria. 👉 Choose a purifier with a HEPA type filter if: You only want to retain large particles such as pet hair, dust or lint. Recommended models Philips 2200 Series He Philips 2200 Series It is an air purifier with a HEPA filter that has a fairly small format. It incorporates a three-layer system composed of a prefilter, a HEPA NanoProtect and active carbon to capture 99.97% of particles up to 0.003 microns (3 nanometers) through NanoProtect technology, a technology that allows even smaller particles to be captured thanks to electrocharging. It can be controlled from your mobile phone to program routines and is capable of capturing odors, bacteria, viruses and larger particles. Philips 2200 Series Air Purifier The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool HP1 Dyson purifiers are quite well known for the format that many of their models have, such as the Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool HP1. This purifier with a HEPA filter is capable of capturing particles down to 0.1 microns thanks to its H13 filter and can also be controlled from a smartphone. In addition, it also has a function to heat the air in winter or cool it in summer. Dyson Purifier Hot+Cool HP1 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links If neither of these two models convinces you and you want to explore other options, you can take a look at our air purifier guide. Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. 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A fan secretly recorded 10,000 concerts over 40 years with a dictaphone. Internet Archive is digitizing everything

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For four decades, Chicago club owners would see a guy with deep pockets walk in and turn a blind eye. Aadam Jacobs didn’t sell anything or bother: he simply recorded. Every week, several concerts. Every year, hundreds of tapes. Forty years later, that absurd and methodical habit is one of the most valuable and unique sound files of rock history. Who is it. Jacobs, who is now 59 years old, began recording concerts in 1984 with a dictaphone-style device that his grandmother lent him. He was 17 years old and was already recording songs from the radio when he realized he could do the same live, simply hiding a recorder in a pocket when entering the room. Jacobs does not consider himself an obsessive archivist, but simply a music fan. His reasoning was simple: if he went to several concerts a week anyway, why not document them? More and better. Over time the equipment improved: from the Sony cassette it went to DAT (digital audio tape) and from there to solid state digital recorders, although in the first years he admits that he used quite mediocre material because I didn’t have money for anything else. At first, the venue owners tried to stop him from recording, but over time he became a regular figure on the Chicago music scene and many began to let him in for free. A profile of him in the ‘Chicago Reader’ in 2004 he described it as one of the city’s cultural institutions. What’s in the boxes. What has happened with the Aadam Jacobs Collection, which is the name that has ended up being given to all of their recordings, is especially valuable to fans of indie and punk rock from the 1980s and early 2000s, when the scene hit the big time. mainstream thanks to nirvanazo. The catalog includes early performances by REM, The Cure, Pixies, The Replacements, Depeche Mode, Sonic Youth and Björk. There are also rarities, like a 1988 concert by rap pioneers Boogie Down Productions, or a 1990 performance by cult group Phish. The star: Nirvana. Nirvana’s recording from 1989, when the group was completely unknown, may be the most interesting of all, taken two and a half years before the release of ‘Nevermind’. But there are also hundreds of performances by smaller groups that have no other sound documentation of their career. Engineers reviewing the recordings acknowledge some surprise at the good quality of many of the recordings, especially given that Jacobs was not using professional equipment. How it started. After appearing in a 2023 documentary, the Internet Archive contacted Jacobs to propose preserving the collection in its live music collection (Live Music Archive), since analog tapes have a limited lifespan. Gradual demagnetization, fungus and mechanical deterioration of coil mechanisms mean that the risks of loss increase with each passing year. Internet Archive volunteer Brian Emerick travels to Jacobs’ house once a month and picks up 10 to 20 boxes, each containing 50 to 100 tapes. He transfers the analog recordings to digital files, which he then sends to other volunteers for mixing and mastering. Emerick estimates that it has digitized approximately 5,500 performances since the end of 2024, and that the project will still take several years to complete. An exception. Jacobs’ tapes have survived through a mix of personal obsession and luck, which has ended up leading them to a repository where they will remain for posterity. He smartphone has democratized concert recording, to the point where it is practically impossible for a live show not to have its corresponding digitalization. But democratizing is not preserving: most of that material ends up buried in forgotten backups or online platforms that change their terms of service frequently. Jacobs was methodical despite his amateur status, and that is what has saved this true musical treasure. In Xataka | The first chorus decides everything: streaming is making today’s songs much simpler

A teenager in Mexico created a Hombres G fan website in 1998, with the band already separated. 9 years later they filled Las Ventas

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In 1998, Mexican Francisco Romero was 15 years old, had a new computer and a school assignment to complete. Looking for the best grade, he created a website about his favorite group: Hombres G, a Spanish band that by then was already dissolved. What began as an academic exercise ended up becoming the band’s first digital fan community, with thousands of members spread around the world. And it was also the trigger that convinced David Summers and his team to return to the stage. How it all started. In 1998, having internet at home in Mexico was not common: just a marginal fraction (2-3%) of the Mexican population had access to the network under these conditions. Even so, Francisco Romero, a teenager who had just gotten his first computer, embarked on completing a school project in which students were asked to create a web page. Romero chose the Hombres G as the subject of his project. He had arrived at the Madrid group, which had already been dissolved for five years, through friends from high school. And since finding documentation about the band was difficult (there were only two pages about Hombres G on the internet), he decided to create a community. Meeting point. The web, as Romero himself explainswas titled Club ‘We’re still crazy… so what?’, in reference to ‘We’re crazy… or what?’ title of one of the group’s first albums. The success was immediate: in its first five months, it received hundreds of requests from Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Peru and Japan (in times before algorithms and search engines crashed). They wrote to him, above all, from fans who had not had a space to talk about the band for years, to which they had not stopped listening since the last album they had released in 1993, ‘Bikini history‘. The contact. At the end of 2000an anonymous user left him a complimentary message on the page, to which Romero responded politely. Three days later, another message arrived from the same sender, who turned out to be one of the band’s two guitarists: “Please don’t give out my email, I’m Dani Mezquita.” Later they established telephone contact, which ended up leading to more frequent conversations. The significant fact: Mezquita was then working as marketing director at DRO East West, the Warner Music label that released almost all of the band’s albums. From his position he had noticed something: at the end of 2000, a compilation of Hombres G was the third best-selling album in Mexico at that time. A group without activity, without tour, without active label, without a single public appearance in years. That is, they had an active and completely underserved fan base. With these data on the table, and as told in the documentary ‘The Best Years of Our Life’ (released in theaters scheduled for April 30), the members met and proposed a modest return, with three or four concerts in Mexico. It gets out of hand. From there the expectation skyrockets. The reunification tour ended adding 70 performances during 2002 and 2003including a concert in Las Ventas before 20,000 people and several cities in Latin America and the United States. The album that accompanied the comeback, ‘Dangerous Together’, was initially released only in America, which says a lot about where the weight of the comeback was leaning. When he arrived in Spain he ended up obtaining the Platinum Record. In gratitude for Romero’s importance in this return, he has continued working continuously with the band from Mexico. And so we come to the present: on April 25, 2025, Men G performed before more than 60,000 people at the GNP Seguros Stadium in Mexico City. All within the framework of a tour titled ‘Thank you, Mexico Tour’. A name that makes it clear to what extent the very survival of the group is owed to a modest student from the city. In Xataka | Three millennia of pop: the oldest song in the world is 3,400 years old and we can still hear it

A Harry Potter fan fiction was so successful that it changed the names of its protagonists. And thanks to this he earned 3 million dollars

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A Harry Potter fanfic has just become one of the most successful publishing releases of the year. ‘Alchemised‘, SenLinYu’s debut novel, sold 300,000 copies during its first week in bookstores and reached number one on The New York Times bestseller list. But the real impact came days before its publication, when Legendary Entertainment paid more than $3 million for the film rights, setting a record for a debut novel. How it was done. The story behind the book is as notable as its figures: ‘Alchemised’ was originally titled ‘Manacled’, and was a fanfiction that mixed the universe of harry potter with ‘The Handmaid’s Tale‘ by Margaret Atwood, focusing on the relationship between Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy. Over 18 months, SenLinYu transformed his viral story (which racked up millions of reads on the fanfictions Archive of Our Own) in a completely original work, eliminating all traces of intellectual property of JK Rowling and Atwood of the text, but trying to preserve the core of the narrative. The result: Favorite Debut Novel of 2025 at the Goodreads Choice Awards. What is it about? Alchemised follows Helena Marino, an alchemist and healer who awakens after 14 months as a prisoner of war of the necromancers, the victorious side in a devastating civil war. Helena discovers that her mind has been magically altered, erasing crucial memories from a part of her life she doesn’t even remember owning. The book has a violent and dark approach, and that is why SenLinYu rejects the “romance” label despite the love component: “I didn’t write this book with the idea that it would be seen as aspirational.”he states. The author’s past. The appeal of the book lies precisely in that uncompromising darkness. SenLinYu, of Japanese descent, injects into her fantasy elements based on the real horrors of war (her maternal grandmother was in American concentration camps during World War II) and has sought to recover ignored historical perspectives, particularly the experiences of Soviet women on the Eastern Front. That combination of epic fantasy and anti-war criticism has connected with readers who seek more mature and disturbing narratives than those usual in the genre. The paradigmatic case. The path of fanfiction The publishing phenomenon has an inescapable antecedent: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. In 2009, EL James began publishing chapters of ‘Master of the Universe’ on Fanfiction.netreimagining the relationship between Edward Cullen and Bella Swan from ‘Twilight’, without vampires but with a domineering billionaire. Reader reaction was so positive that James self-published the story in 2011 after removing explicit references to Stephenie Meyer’s saga and renaming the protagonists Christian Gray and Anastasia Steele. The leap came in March 2012, when Random House acquired the rights of the novel in a seven-figure contract. The result was more than 150 million copies sold globally and a film trilogy that grossed $1.3 billion at the global box office. Even then Jennifer Bergstrom, executive at Simon & Schuster, declared that “the fanfiction It has definitely become part of what we publish. This is changing the industry at a time when traditional publishing needs it most.” For the first time, major publishers were publicly acknowledging that online communities of amateur writers were a legitimate talent pool. Other successes. The success of ‘Fifty Shades’ was not an isolated case. Anna Todd wrote a story about One Direction’s Harry Styles on Wattpad in 2013, publishing it in serial format under the title ‘After’. The story accumulated more than 1,000 million readings on the platform before Simon & Schuster offered him a contract with which sold more than 10 million copies and generated five movies. More recently, Ali Hazelwood transformed her fanfiction of Star Wars centered on Rey and Kylo Ren in ‘The Love Hypothesis’, which It will soon be adapted to film. The journey here. This transformation of fanfiction into a bestseller would not have been possible without the digital ecosystem that supports it. Archive of Our Own It houses more than 13 million works and has become the most important archive of transformative writing. ‘Manacled’ by SenLinYu It was the second most read story in the entire history of the web when it was removed in January 2025, having accumulated more than 10 million views and 84,000 kudos (the equivalent of “likes”). This phenomenon has forced the traditional publishing industry to rethink its methods of attracting talent. Literary agents and editors now systematically scour Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, and Fanfiction.net, identifying high-impact stories before offering contracts. Removing references to other people’s intellectual property is now a standardized process, and thanks to this, trends such as videos on ‘Manacled’ accumulated millions of views years before ‘Alchemised’ hit bookstores. A whole tide of public before the official publication of the book. In Xataka | JK Rowling against fandom: How the Harry Potter universe lost its magic

The Star Destroyer is the terror of Star Wars. But as one fan has calculated, building it in real life wouldn’t be cheap.

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‘Star Wars’ is full of iconic ships. From the Millennium Falcon and its Kessel Corridor in just 12 parsecs to silhouettes identifiable at a glance such as the X-Wing or the TIE Fighter. We associate ‘Star Wars‘ with frenetic combats in space, but we also have iconic mastodons, authentic galactic monsters like the unmistakable Imperial Star Destroyer. Well: now we not only know how much it impresses us, but also how much it would cost us. What is a Star Destroyer. This 1.6 kilometer long, wedge-shaped beauty exhibits measurements and characteristics that make it a mini space station of considerable power. Let’s see: Approximate mass: 40 million metric tons Engines: Three KDY Destroyer-I ion engines and Cygnus Spaceworks Gemnon-4 units Maximum speed in atmosphere: 975 km/h Hyperlight Capability: Yes, with a class 2 impeller Heavy and medium turbolasers located in batteries throughout the ship Ion cannons to disable enemy systems 30 torpedo launchers or missile slots Ability to deploy 72 TIE fighters, as well as AT-AT and AT-ST ground vehicles Estimated total crew: between 37,000 and 60,000 people It functions as a small floating city, with areas for operations, daily life, maintenance and storage So the money what. Although less monumental than the Death Star, Star Destroyers require immense resources to construct. Estimates based on scientific analysis and data from the saga and collected on the website Gamestar They suggest that building, maintaining, and even disposing of when the time comes for a single Star Destroyer could cost a fortune. Used as a basis for comparison the price it costs to build a real aircraft carrier: between 13,000 and 17,000 million dollars each. And that’s just the beginning. We’re not just talking about construction itself. Resources and construction time skyrocket when considering mass production, as the Empire deploys dozens of destroyers to maintain its dominance. In addition, training and supplying personnel generate recurring costs. And maintenance, of course: refueling, repairing war damage, technological updates and replacing parts, which requires the construction of strategic space bases. We are going in parts, breaking down this authentic black hole of pasta. The initial transport. Transporting 40 million tons of construction material to space is logistically complex and expensive. With an extremely optimistic price of 10,000 euros per ton, the initial cost would be around 400 billion euros. In the long term, the cost could be reduced to about 200 euros per kilo, equivalent to about 8 billion euros. If we talk about current technologies (that is, no teleportation or similar), the realistic cost for this volume would be around 40 billion euros. What the material costs. The construction of the Star Destroyer would likely use high-strength, low-alloy steels, the cost of which is estimated at around €90 billion. More advanced systems such as propulsion, weapons and other high-performance components would require more expensive special alloys, adding at least an additional 110 billion euros. Altogether, conservative estimated costs for materials would be around €200 billion in total. To ride. The Star Destroyer is significantly more expensive to manufacture than mere materials, as labor and countless tests can cost five to fifteen times as much. The construction cost is estimated at around 2 billion euros. Furthermore, adding the costs of research, testing, infrastructure and development, especially in new energy and propulsion systems, could conservatively add another 5 billion euros to the total budget. The invoice. In short, these gentlemen will have to go and digest: the total expense to build and maintain the imperial Star Destroyer is estimated at around 15.2 billion euros, assuming transportation costs. Without including development expenses, the cost would be around 14 billion euros. But we can go up: if additional elements such as technical reserves, energy systems, lifetime maintenance and scrapping are considered, the joke can approach 40 billion euros. To put it in perspective, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier cost around 12 billion euros, so a Star Destroyer would cost almost four thousand times that amount.​ In Xataka | Adam Driver launched a Star Wars movie project about Kylo Ren. Disney rejected it because they didn’t understand it.

Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, is a Tai Chi fan and millionaire. That’s why he gave himself the gift of starring in a martial arts movie

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Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, is known worldwide for having founded a technology empire in China, but he also made his first steps in the world of cinema. And of all genres, martial arts. An eccentricity that was allowed to be filled with top stars of the genre and that, however, was more than just an idea to massage the ego: Ma has been practicing Tai Chi for 30 years. The man, the legend. Jack Ma, born in 1964 in Hangzhou, China, is the founder in 1999 and former CEO of Alibaba Group, one of the largest e-commerce conglomerates in the world. He founded the company with the goal of connecting Chinese companies with international buyers, revolutionizing digital commerce. His vision turned Alibaba into a global e-commerce and technology giant. He is currently dedicated to philanthropy and education, while his company has been facing a fall of influence very considerable. 22 minutes of tollinas. In 2017, before retiring from Alibaba, Jack Ma starred in and co-produced a martial arts short film titled ‘Gong Shou Daoo’ (literally, “The Art of Attacking and Defending”): 22 minutes depicting Ma as a Tai Chi master facing off against a series of rivals, all of whom are legendary actors in Chinese action cinema. People like Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Natasha Liu Bordizzo and boxing champion Zou Shiming, among others. Everyone involved agreed to participate free of charge, motivated by the promotion of Chinese culture and martial arts globally. All for Tai Chi. Jack Ma, as we have mentioned, has been practicing Tai Chi for thirty years, and used the film to highlight the philosophy and values ​​of this martial discipline, focusing on balance and harmony. The project arises from the intention of preserving and disseminating this discipline, and reflecting on the screen Tai Chi as an art with a physical and a spiritual aspect. Result: more than 170 million views when it was launched in 2017. But it’s okay or what. Let’s see, a movie in which Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa share the bill cannot be bad even if it wants to. But also, the fan has the opportunity to meet Jet Li again, who has been semi-retired from action movies for years, in a reasonably extensive role with fights. Ma is neither the most forceful nor the most expressive actor, but for that gift to fans alone, he has our thumbs up. If you want more Tai Chi. Speaking of Jet Li and speaking of Tai Chi, the choreographer of the film is Ku Huen-Chiu, chosen very consciously by Ma. Apart from a rich career with films in his filmography such as a sequel to ‘The Matrix’, ‘Kill Bill’ and several classics of Hong Kong action cinema from the nineties, Ku Huen-Chiu participated in the filming of ‘Tai Chi Master’, a marvel by Li and Michelle Yeoh directed by none other than Yuen-Woo Ping, one of the great Chinese action choreographers of all time. So if you think Tai Chi is something for old people in the park, check out that hilarious dynastic martial epic and you’ll change your mind. In Xataka | Jack Ma was the richest man in China. Until he fell out with the government and stopped being one

This Spider-Man’s animation fan is not official, but recovers a villain that we have always wanted to see in the movies

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The Fan-Filmslike any other form of fiction born of the fan culture, it is an abyss where the best and the worst place has a place. The lack of technical and economic means often compensates with enthusiasm, imagination and impudence, and in many occasions the results rival in ambition and findings with official adaptations. This is the case of ‘Spider-Man: Mask of the Chameleon’. The chameleon mask. This animated film of Spider-Man whose footage is around two hours and what can you see Free on YouTube It is a production made by a single animator and completely outside Disney. And the point is that the result is not bad: with an animation style that takes good game of its limitations, with a style Cel-Shading which reminds that of many video games a few years ago, however they enjoy a certain expressiveness and iconic forcefulness. The action sequences are well planned and openly inspired by Sam Raimi’s films trilogy, and dubbing work, although it has an amateur point, defends itself. The chameleon returns. The film takes up one of the most iconic villains of the Marvel Lanzes: the chameleon, which here executes a plan that replaces, with its skills to clone any foreign physique, to the mayor of New York. Other MCU characters such as Hulk and, of course, all the usual secondary peaplia of Spider-Man, such as JJ Jameson and even in a post-Credit sequence, a villain who anticipates future appearances. A villain with history. Interestingly, the chameleon was the first villain that Spider-Man faced, nothing less than in number 1 of his collection, in 1963. Since then he has been part of villain galleries such as the six incidents and twelve claims, but he has never had an adaptation of importance in the cinema: he was fleeting, almost like a cameo, In ‘Spider-Man: Far from home‘, as in’Kraven the hunter‘, since he is half the brother of the protagonist, but without confrontation with Spider-Man and winning his physical imitation powers only at the end of the film. It has appeared, yes, in innumerable animation series and in a handful of video games, including a fleeting cameo on a secondary mission of ‘Spider-Man 2‘. World fan. Spider-Man is one of the Marvel characters with more activity within the fan world. If we look out This IMDB list that lists a more or less definitive list of fan-films of the character (and that starts no less than in 1969, with a short), we will find 265 titles. If you stay wanting more after ‘Mask of The Chameleon’, we advise you ‘Spider-Man: Lotus‘(two spectacular times in real image),’The Green Goblin’s Last Stand‘(A character of the character’s fan-films) or’Spider-Man: Cake Day‘(Only eight minutes, but with great special effects). Abbiselafa Pictures. The head of ‘Mask of The Chameleon’ is Rasmus Ziegler, a Danish who on his channel Abbiselafa Pictures He has presented a few animation projects, although this ‘Spider-Man’ is the most ambitious to date. In your catalog we can find ‘Nightfall‘, a Batman fan-film focused on a group of thieves who are being persecuted by the dark gentleman; and one Episodic adaptation of ‘Dracula’ From Bram Stoker who, unfortunately, was unfinished. In Xataka | All spider-man games ordered worse to better

Nintendo has a fantastic idea to avoid speculation with the reserves of the Switch 2: that you are a fan

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After waiting, maybe, too much, yesterday was finally presented Nintendo Switch 2. We already have All the details from the new Nintendo hybrid console, but the funny thing is that just after the event, The hangover began. It is when we met the price of the console and the significant price increase of the games, the controversies’Game key cardsand his Retrocompatibility. The other big question was where and when you could book Nintendo Switch 2. And the answer is that Nintendo opens a fairly restrictive invitation system (and that makes sense half). Switch 2 by invitation. The launch of Nintendo Switch 2 will occur on June 5. We do not know if the dantesque situation of the first switch will be repeated, With stock breakage every two by three Because Nintendo did not supply and, just in case, the Japanese confirmed in their online store that can be reserved from April 8. However, that reservation will not be as simple as clicking on the corresponding button and expect to get to us. As says the company itself, “initially only the subscribers of Nintendo switch online that they receive an invitation will have the opportunity to book the Nintendo Switch 2 console in My Nintendo Store. “And it has a lot, but that a lot of small print. Requirements … curious. Nintendo does not invent anything with this system that we have already seen in many other products. The mobiles of the first years of OnePlus are the clearest example, but there are a number of conditions that we must meet if we want to reserve a Switch 2 on the company’s website. We must demonstrate that we are “fans”, so to speak, fulfilling the following: Be subscribed to Nintendo Switch online before March 31, 2025. Therefore, if you subscribe now, you don’t care. Having spent some time playing switch titles that have bought. Priority will be given to those who have accumulated a longer game time. Share use information with Nintendo. Have agreed to share information with Nintendo and receive offers. Have agreed to receive emails and advertising messages from Nintendo and not have withdrawn the consent on the day the invitation is invited. More small print. It is … too much, with some questionable points such as, above all, the last one, but even the small print has even smaller lyrics. For example, if you meet all that, but you have an online family account of which you are not the main holder, you will not be considered for the invitation. “In the case of family subscriptions, only the person who has bought the subscription will be taken into account for the invitation. The rest of the members of the family subscription will not qualify for the invitation process,” says the company. Antibots system. They are too restrictive, but they also comment that “it is possible that the selection criteria relax” later, but that they do so to give “priority to the most enthusiastic players of Nintendo Switch“. And, in a way, although it is something that we can raise an eyebrow, it makes sense to combat a scourge in the world of video games (which often foster the companies with stock too low): the bots and the resale. If you are in the world of video games, you will know that every time something limited comes out, it is usually exhausted in seconds and, almost instantly, they appear in stores like Wallapop with inflated prices. We saw it very recently with the PS5 30 anniversary edition, and it is something that has also been seen a lot with elements of Nintendo itself. With this system, the problem of user bots that tracks the web accumulating reservations to resell the product is removed. It makes sense, but. The lagoon of this system is that Nintendo Switch 2 is available to book … almost in any trade. You can reserve it in Amazonbut also in stores like Game or Mediamarkt. In Xtralife they are pending Open reservations And in Fnac you can reserve the same packs as in the rest of the shops: the basic and the one that carries’Mario Kart World‘. Therefore, although Nintendo wants to “reward fans” for Nintendo Switch 2 reserves, it is still a machine that, logically, is now available in almost any video game trade and should not be waiting for April 8 to reserve it. What is not known is what will happen once the reserves are exhausted and if we will return to the situation of the first months of Switch. In Xataka | The new Nintendo Switch 2 is a message to the other companies: games above technical specifications

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