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It is the second consecutive explosion and the greatest setback in the recent history of the rocket

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Starship’s eighth flight was going to be a repetition of the previous launch, which Spacex could not complete because The ship ended up disintegrating On the Atlantic Ocean. However, exactly the same thing has happened again. The ship has exploded again. And in the same flight phase: eight minutes after takeoff, when Starship 34 was about to turn off to start its suborbital trajectory to the Indian Ocean. Like the Starship 33, the ship lost control when several of its engines (first three, and then a room) went out or exploited. Then he began to turn on his axis until he exploded, either because he ended up disintegrating, as his predecessor, or because the flight termination system was activated, self -controlled the rocket for security. The reentry was seen from Miami. The videos of the remains of the ship by disintegrating in the atmosphere soon appeared. From Bahamasfrom the Turkish Islands and Caicos and from Dominican Republic, last timebut also from Cabo Cañaveral and Miamisince the explosion occurred when the rocket was traveling at 20,000 km/h, while the flight from flight 7 exploded more than 21,000 km/Hy, therefore, further. As It happened in Januaryimmediately They began to deviate Also the airplanes. The areas where remains of the rocket can fall are delimited and, when an incident occurs, Spacex warns the authoritiesthat close the airspace, asking the pilots to deviate to other airports if necessary. Twice the same stone? According to the Spacex researchStarship 33 had failed by a “stronger harmonic resonance phenomenon” than expected. Vibrations that caused an oxygen leak in the lower part of the rocket, which in turn triggered a fire, which in turn exploded the engines. Spacex did a test of On a one -minute land To try to better understand the problem, and tried to mitigate the effects of these vibrations improving the ventilation of the lower part of the ship, to avoid an accumulation of gases. Although it is not confirmed that the Starship 34 has failed for the same reasons, in An image of the direct A small fire has been seen, and in another The explosion of an engine. Something happens with the Starship Block 2. Put to find guilty, the greatest setback in the recent history of the Starship program coincides with a change of version. Starship 33 and Starship 34 are First block models 2, which represent the second generation of the ship-cohete. Two meters higher than the previous generation, has methane deposits and liquid oxygen of greater capacity, improvements in the thermal shield, renewed front alerons and changes in propulsion subsystems. Whatever it is, something has failed in this iteration, and Spacex now has more data to solve it. Images | Spacex, In Xataka | Spacex had been abruptly canceling for almost two years a starship launch. Until now

The Fyre Festival was the most ruined festival in history. Now his ideologues want to celebrate it in Mexico

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There are festivals and then is the Fyre Festival. What happened several years ago on an island in Bahamas will remain for the Annals of History, a non -chaotic festival that ended with its founder in jail and with two documentaries about their won legend as “the worst” of the events of this type in modern history. In fact, there will always be the doubt of whether the productions of Netflix and Hulu always They scam us telling the scam. Be that as it may, for May everything is “almost” ready for the second part. Context: The first failure. The first edition of the festival took place in 2017 and became a epic dye disaster When the attendees, mostly wealthy young people who had paid thousands of dollars for a luxury experience in the Bahamas (with VIP packages that reached 400,000 dollars), they found an event without infrastructure, without musical acts and with deplorable accommodations. The catastrophe (and fraud) was Such proportions which resulted in Millionaire losses For attendees and investors. Its founder, Billy McFarland, was arrested shortly after. In 2018, it was declared guilty of fraud and fraudwith a sentence of six years in prison and A 26 million debt of dollars, although it was released after fulfilling just under four. In spite of everything, McFarland has enthusiast The Today Show program. The second part. This is how we get to these days, although with a certain Leave Vú In the slogan: luxury, exclusivity and exorbitant prices. That is what promises again Fyre Festival 2. Now, with a new scheduled edition from May 30 to June 2, 2025 in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. According to The festival websiteattendees can enjoy avant -garde experiences, musical shows on the beach and world -class hospitality. In fact, tickets They are already on sale From this week, with prices ranging from $ 1,400 to 1.1 million dollars. The latter, The “Prometheus” packageincludes tickets for eight people, flights in “Fyre Air” from Miami to Cancun, helicopter transport and accommodation on a yacht or a four -bedroom villa. Also supposed exclusive experiences such as diving with whale sharks and sessions of Mixology. The first doubts. However, something does not just quad. The details are rather scarce From the official page: Official artists or suppliers have not been announced so far. In fact, if we go to the web we find something very rare: GPS coordinates From the event they point to a point in the sea, west of Isla Mujeres. In Mexico they know nothing. However, what makes all alarm signs jump is that from Isla Mujeres they are not aware of the event. In this regard, Edgar Gasca, from the Island Directorate of Isla Mujeres, was blunt to affirm: “We have no knowledge of this event or contact with any person or company about Him. For us, this is an event that does not exist”. In fact, Gasca He explained to the Guardian that upon learning of the announcement he investigated with the Ministry of Tourism of Quintana Roo and with the hotels that would supposedly offer accommodation for the event. The answer? Everyone denied having been contacted by the organizers. One of these hotels, Isla Mujeres impression, assured the British environment that has not received any request or communication from the festival and that are currently investigating the situation. Even the municipal president of Isla Mujeres, Athena Gómez Ricalde, has expressed his bewildermentaffirming that the only thing he knows about the festival is what he has read in networks: “They are trying to take advantage of the peace and tranquility we have built here for their own benefit.” A doubtful strategy. McFarland has tried justify lack of details ensuring that attendees knew that “they were taking a risk” when buying tickets and that the event is no longer under their direct control, but in the hands of new partners. Local authorities, however, suspect that the organizers’ strategy is Simply announce the eventmeasure interest and then try to obtain permits on the fly. GASCA described this naiveunderlining that to organize a great magnitude event, prior municipal authorization is required. Given the controversy, the Government of Isla Women has issued A public statement denying the existence of permits for the event. The organizers insist. Despite the official refusal, the Lostnight producer company also issued a statement ensuring that the festival will take place from May 30 to June 2, 2025. According to this statement, the event will have “exclusive places, high -end hotels and compliance with local regulations.” For its part, Unik Travel, another company involved, said there ESTABLISHED CONTACT WITH THE AUTHORITIES municipal and state to guarantee the legality and success of the festival. However, again, none of these statements has been accompanied by concrete evidence. Second parts …: With all this panorama it is little less than a recklessness to buy one of the tickets. The Multiple alarm signalsadded to the lack of transparency and the refusal of local authorities, have generated serious doubts about the viability of the Fyre Festival 2. For Gasca, The situation is clear: “This festival will not happen. There are red flags everywhere.” As proof of the lack of planning, Gasca has indicated what we commented before: that the festival coordinates on its website lead to a location In the middle of the oceanbetween Cancun and Isla women, which illustrates, at least, the precariousness of the project itself. Thus, it is reasonable to think that Netflix already It has a bale The second documentary. Image | Fyre Festival In Xataka | Has the documentary that the Timo of the Fyre Festival counted us? This is what we know In Xataka | A luxury festival that charged $ 12,000 per entrance becomes an uncontrolled yerm

The only space launch of history without men occurred in 1963 in the USSR. Katy Perry will be in the second

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Singer Katy Perry will be one of the next six people to cross the space border aboard a Blue Origin rocket. He will do it in spring with five other women. Among them, Lauren Sánchez, the fiance of Jeff Bezos. A crew composed of women. The Blue Origin NS-31 mission It will be the first with an exclusively feminine crew. Organized by Lauren Sánchez to “inspire the coming generations,” he will take six notable women above the Kármán line, the border of the space to 100 kilometers above sea level. Katy Perry: Pop star with 143 million albums sold and more than 115,000 million views Lauren Sánchez: journalist, helicopter pilot and promised of Jeff Bezos, the owner of Blue Origin Gayle King: journalist, co -presenter of “CBS Mornings”, editor of Oprah Daily and presenter of Gayle King in The House Aisha Bowe: former NASA rocket scientist, Executive Director of Stempoard and founder of Lingo Amanda Nguyen: Research scientist in Bioastronautics, and future first Vietnamese woman to go to space Kerianne Flynn: produced the movie ‘Lilly’, which portrays the trajectory of Lilly Ledbetter, the activist who achieved the right salary law in the United States The second space flight without men. Only the Soviet Union had made a space launch without male crew. It was on June 16, 1963 aboard the Vostok 6 capsule. We refer to the historical flight of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman who traveled to space. While Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission will be a 10-minute suborbital flight with six crew, Valentina Tereshkova flew alone and orbit the earth for almost three days, completing 48 laps around the planet. The United States did not send a woman to space, astronaut Sally Ride, until 1983. NS-31. The mission will take place in spring. Little New Shepard rocket of liquid hydrogen will take off from the Blue Origin facilities to the west of Texas. Then he will separate from the ship in which the six crew members will go, who will make a parabolic flight of a few minutes experiencing the ingatherness. This mission will be the eleventh manned flight of the New Shepard program. To date, the program has led 52 people above the Kármán line. On the last flight the Spanish television presenter Jesús Callejaas part of a mediaset and Amazon Prime Video documentary. And what Katy Perry says. The singer has shared the news On Instagram With the following message: “If you had told me that it would be part of the first female crew in space, I would have believed you. Nothing was above my imagination when I was a girl. Although we did not grow much, I never stopped looking at the wonderful and hopeful world.” “Hard work to live my life in that way yet, and I am more motivated than ever to be an example for my daughter that women should occupy space (intentional words game). That is why this opportunity is so incredible, so that I can teach the youngest and most vulnerable among us to reach the stars, literally and figuratively. I feel honored to be among this group diverse of heavenly sisters.” Images | Katy PerryBlue Origin In Xataka | The Calleja effect: Going to space is going from a great aspiration of humanity to a “Ryanair with rockets”

THE THIRD SPANISH IN THE HISTORY TO GET IT

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If flickering, you miss it. Jesús Calleja will become this afternoon In the third Spaniard to cross the line of Kármánthe border of space. The suborbital flight aboard the Blue Origin Unique perspective. Date and time. The NS-30 mission From the New Shepard rocket, which features television presenter Jesús Callej Tomorrow, local time. Madrid, Spain (UTC+1): 16:30 Mexico City, Mexico (UTC-6): 9:30 Buenos Aires, Argentina (UTC-3): 12:30 Bogotá, Colombia (UTC-5): 10:30 Lima, Peru (UTC-5): 10:30 Where to see it live. As usual, Blue Origin will make a narrated retransmission of the launch From its websitehis YouTube channel and his Official X Profile. The broadcast will begin 35 minutes before takeoff; At 15:55 in Spain, unless some delay occurs. Telecinco will also issue it live with special coverage From 15:45 that will feature Raúl TorresCEO of the Spanish PLD Space Company, as one of the guest commentators. The phases of the flight. Half an hour before takeoff, with the New Shepard rocket already vertically, Calleja will climb to the space capsule along the launch tower stairs. They will fly next to him The investor and former Technological CEO Lane Bess, the media businesswoman ELAINE HYDE, the reproductive endocrinologist and founder of Ivirma Richard Scott, the physicist and researcher of Wall Street Tushar Shah, and a sixth anonymous crew. In T-0, the New Shepard rocket will turn on its be-3pm hydrogen and liquid oxygen engine and will rise for two and a half minutes to separate from the capsule. While the propeller returns to land, the capsule makes a parabolic flight above the 100 km of altitude in which the crew will experience the feeling of ungravation and privileged views of the earth. After about three minutes, the capsule returns from the space and opens its three parachutes to land, 10 minutes after takeoff, in an area near the launch site. If you see a dust rightly at the time of landing, do not worry: they are the retrocohetes that cushion the impact. Next week in the documentary. This Calleja adventure is part of a new documentary called ‘Calleja in space’produced by Mediaset, which has already released two episodes in Amazon Prime Video and four waiting for the space launch. Next week what they roll today will be broadcast. Image | Blue Origin In Xataka | Jesús Calleja will fly to space on Tuesday: it will be the third Spaniard in the story that crosses the line of káman

People are using AI on Tiktok to “travel in time” to some of the greatest catastrophes in history

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Fever for the past (not because of history in its purest form, but for the sensations that were lived in other times) is increasingly strong, and now that the Millennials They are starting to experiment What gene x has been suffering in their flesh for years (nostalgia for what has been lived and not lived since you get up until you go to bed), it was only a matter of time that tools such as AI were added to fashion. Only this time nostalgia leads us to moments when technology (not already AI, but directly the electric current) had not invented, and gives rise to Trends how to live in the first person the black plague. What happened, happened. Dawn in Pompeya The day of the eruption of Vesubio, Work in Chernobyl In 1986 or be one of the witchcraft In the 17th century Salem are some of the historical hits of the videos generated by @timetravellerpovTiktok user who already has 472,000 followers and eight million ‘like’ accumulated in their creations, despite the short life of the account, which began at the beginning of the year. Of course, he already takes advantage of his fame to announce Video creation courses for AI similar to yours. The other face of the story. The most curious thing about the account is that not only publishes videos of historical facts that we cannot have lived for obvious reasons, but much more everyday experiences and that have nothing of historical transcendence (although emotional): being A teenager from the eightiesa small child In Great Britain of the Two Miles Or the most curious of all, for the recent facts: recall in the first person (like all these videos) what was Covid confinementwhich undoubtedly any user of the account will have recent. Millions of people in misfortunes. Of course, these are not the most visited videos, but the very viralized Chernobyl and The black plaguewith 32 and 24 million reproductions, which far exceed the most common between 1 and 3 million of the rest of the channel videos. It is clear that users want to experience unattainable misfortunes of the near or remote past, almost in tourist planand they begin to demonstrate with the comments of the videos, which usually have a tone close to “calm, which was a moment running for my life in Pompeii.” The problem of historical fidelity. It is clear that the primary objective of these accounts is entertainment, and not reflect in a reliable way what the past was. Some historian has already pointed out some gazapos of these videos (especially in their imitators): in one of the many on the black plague, houses with architecture other than the real or train tracks appear, something impossible in the fourteenth century. Others such as Pompeya favor the spectacular when we have records that speak of a different experience. The danger of these videos, beyond that they can spread erroneous visions, is in the malicious use: “People could manipulate the story; (…) and create a video that supports the denialists of the Holocaust,” says historian Amy Boyington For BBC. Imitors sprout. Of course, success has been born a good number of imitators, all more rough and less careful than @timetravellerpov, which despite its factual mistakes has more careful animations and more realistic setting, and flees (relatively) from the morbidity. They are accounts like @Chron0.viewwho has dared to portray crazy things such as Kennedy’s murder from the president’s point of view or 11-S attacks from within the Twin Towers. Some, like @the_pov_lab It exceeds the original account and almost all, of course, have their own version of life during the black plague. Header | @timetravellerpov In Xataka | The Humane Ai Pin debacle is a problem for the industry: who will trust a pot now

Someone has stolen $ 1.5 billion in a cryptocurrency market. It is the greatest crypto hacking in history

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The cryptocurrency market had been encouraged again months ago. Everything seemed relatively quiet, but two serious events in this segment have brought us again those sensations of distrust and insecurity. And it will not be easy to get rid of them. A historical theft. Last Friday someone managed to hack the market for the sale of BYBIT cryptodivisas. The firm He quickly warned how they had detected “unauthorized activity” in their systems. It was the greatest cryptocurrency hacking in history: it is estimated that the attackers (s) managed to steal $ 1.5 billion in the form of ETH. The previous most important robberies had been the 470 million dollars stolen in the Mt Gox hacking In 2014, the 530 million coincheck In 2018 or 650 million from Exploit Ronin Bridge In 2022. Lazarus group as suspicious. At the moment the firm does not know how the hacking was performed, but apparently the company’s laptops were not compromised and the problem affected Safe, the “cold” purse of the platform. Cybersecurity consultant Arkham Intelligence indicates that Lazarus Group had been responsible, a statement based on The investigation of the expert in this area Zachxbt. Bybit says to be covered. Ben Zhou, CEO of Bybit, highlighted How his criptomoned sale market had enough reserves to cover hacking and cryptocurrency withdrawal – especially, especially, Stablecoins– Although for a few hours They blocked some functions of their purses to guarantee their safety. A few hours ago Zhou indicated how they had managed to cover virtually all funds. Panic in Bybit. The theft has caused many users to withdraw funds in Bybit for fear that these funds will also end up being stolen. As indicated In Coindeskin the hours following the HACKEO Bybit he saw how their clients withdrew 4,000 million dollars in funds. Of the 16.9 billion dollars managed in crypto assets in Bybit, the firm went to manage 11.2 billion dollars According to defillama data. Can Ctrl-Z do to the block chain? Some users asked if it would be feasible to make a kind of “roll-back” of the Ethereum block chain. That would allow us to undo the changes made by hackers and return the status of that great book of accounts to how it was before hacking, but it is not clear that this is possible. Experts indicate according to Coindesk that something like this would be possible, but the interactions between the Smart Contracts and their internal architecture make it not easy. It would be necessary to reach a consensus, and could even cause a division of the Ethereum block chain in two. Just when in the US the thing was encouraged. The robbery occurred just the day Coinbase had managed to reach an agreement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission leave the demand without also being issued. Donald Trump’s re -election had promoted the value of cryptocurrencies, but since his appointment we have lived several worrying events. Memecoins, Trump and Milei. The scandals have been especially primed with the Memecoins created or supported by Trump and especially by Javier MileiPresident of Argentina. Both grew in a brilliant value and then collapsed in a mysterious and disturbing way, which points to possible fraud in which a few privileged were winning while hundreds of thousands of people lost their investments in these cryptodivisas. Distrust and insecurity, the eternal condemnation of crypts. The scandals with these memecoins and the spectacular bykit hacking return us the constant feeling of insecurity and distrust that the cryptodivisas have always generated. The institutional interest and a certain tranquility in recent times seemed to have softened that environment, but these new events will probably make more people think twice before investing in this type of assets. It is a bad idea to leave your cryptocurrencies in an “Exchange”. The truth is that these robberies have confirmed that their security measures can end up being insufficient to protect their customers’ funds. The most recommended form of experts to save these cryptocurrencies is do it in physical pursesdo not leave them in the purchase market for sale of cryptocurrencies (“Exchange”). Image | KANCHANARA In Xataka | A British did not let his album search with Bitcoins in the trash for years: now he considers buying the landfill

The iPhone 17 point to one of the greatest redesign in their history. One that shouts “android” to the four winds

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When the river sounds, water carries, and in the world of phone leaks it is a standard that is usually met. A few weeks ago, Jon Prosser revealed The alleged design of the iPhone 17 Air and iPhone 17 Pro. Two telephone that would arrive, according to the filter, with a redesigned chamber module and that, everything is said, reminds some family models little of Xiaomi. A week later, new information based on Factory CAD supposedin which it is confirmed that the design, at least in this initial stage of product development. The iPhone carry without a remarkable design change from the family iPhone 11at least in relation to the camera modules. There have been dances in the respective to the position of the cameras and their size, but the rear remained unchanged since the year. iPhone 11 Pro | iPhone 16 Pro This design, which seemed immovable, would be about to change in the next generation iPhone 17. In this, regardless of the number of cameras, the module will be the main differential feature for the design of the new product line. iPhone 16 Pro according to Prosser and Majin Bu iPhone 17 Pro. Image: SonnyDickson All leaks are aligning in one direction: that of the iPhone 17 with a redesigned camera module and with a larger volume. According to leaks of alleged covers for this phone, with them the design will barely mean a change. Without it, the cameras will cease to be the only element that protrudes, to become part of a gigantic island … in the Android style. Xiaomi little x6 pro. One of the points we have criticized for 2024 has been the unnecessary of oversizing the camera modules to give them prominence. If the leaks are fulfilled, Apple will do exactly the same. Samsung was one of the few companies that had not joined the fashion with Apple, with a clean rear in which only the cameras stood out (as is inevitable). Another curious movement that is rumored is the return to aluminum throughout the iPhone 17 family, reserving the titanium frame for the iPhone 17 Air. This rumor is not yet solid and would be quite difficult to justify, given the good results (especially in weight reduction). This Apple’s decision would make a certain meaning: unifying the design of the family, regardless of the model we buy. Similarly, it will allow the iPhone 17 Air, who will allegedly land with just a camera, shine with some packaging despite having such a scarce photographic section. Image | Prosser, Majin Bu, Sonny Dickson

In a strange turn of events, Jesús Calleja will be the third Spaniard in history to travel to space

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The television presenter Jesús Calleja will travel to space in a Blue Origin ship, the Jeff Bezos Aerospace Company. Tells it in A new documentary called ‘Calleja in space’which has already released two episodes in Amazon Prime Video waiting for its launch in the New Shepard rocket. The space flight does not yet have an assigned date, but it will be broadcast live in Telecinco. The launch of Jesús Calleja. The famous Spanish adventurer has an assigned seat in a New Shepard mission in Blue Origin. Presumably the NS-30, which although it has not been announced, is the following mission in the calendar. The New Shepard is a 15 -meter high suborbital rocket (18 with the spacecraft in which passengers go). Although he is not able to put the capsule into orbit, it was the first rocket in the world that He managed to demonstrate a propulsive landingwhich has allowed Blue Origin to offer a regular space tourism service for millionaires. How will the flight be. The New Shepard will take off from Texas. Calleja and five other travelers will access the capsule at the top of the rocket along the launch tower stairs. The rocket will take off and accelerate to overcome the Kárman line, the most accepted border between the earth and the outer space, 100 kilometers above sea level. While the rocket returns to the surface to land, the ship separates and makes a parable in space during which travelers experience about three minutes of microgravity and enjoy panoramic views of the earth. Next, the capsule begins its atmospheric reentry and opens the parachutes to land, 11 minutes after takeoff. The third Spanish in space. Once you cross the line of Kárman, Jesús Calleja will become the third Spaniard to have traveled to space. The first two Spaniards to achieve this were: Pedro Duque: As astronaut of ESA in 1998, aboard the discovery space ferry, and 2003, aboard a Soyuz ship Michael López-Elegría: as NASA astronaut in 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2009, and as Axiom private astronaut In 2022 and 2024 Pablo Álvarez, career astronaut in ESA since 2022it has not yet flown to space, but it is planned to do so for a mission of six months before 2030. Sara García, reserve astronaut in ESA of the same promotionit could also be called for a shorter mission, such as those of Axiom. How much has the flight cost. The cost per seat of a New Shepard space tourism mission is confidential and surely varies from customer to customer. That said, there was a specific figure that ended up leaking thanks to a transaction made by crypto. Moundao, an organization to “decentralize access to space”, moved 2.5 million dollars in cryptocurrencies To pay two seats aboard the New Shepard. That is: he paid 1.25 million dollars per seat. The first was used by Coby Cotton, of the YouTube channel ‘Dude Perfect’, on the NS-22 Mission of August 2022. The second, by the cardiologist Eiman Jahangir during the NS-26 mission August 2024. Two points. Most likely, Jesús Calleja has not paid the space flight of his pocket, or ruined along the way to his producer, Zanskar Productions. The documentary is co -produced by Mediaset Spain and It is broadcast in Amazon Prime Video streamingwhere it has other sponsors, such as Generali. Maybe Prime Video has been able to access a lower price than usual for the Calleja seat in exchange for all this advertising, but does not have to. Blue Origin is a private company that is only linked to Amazon for being owned by Jeff Bezos, also the founder of the technological giant. Image | Prime video In Xataka | If the space industry wants to democratize tourism, it must overcome several challenges. Like space smells good

The best history of superheroes in recent years returns to prime video with its third season

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There will be those who prefer, of course, the two great, Marvel and DC. There will be those who are more decided by bilious versions of the superhero cosmos, such as the sensational ‘The Boysand his Spin-off ‘GEN-V‘, although here we prefer to see this successful Amazon series as a satire that uses superheroes as a backdrop, rather than as a purely superhero story. But The truth is that superheroes do not end up exhausting: In fact, DC has recently returned with the hilarious’Monster command‘, spiritual sequel to also magnifgic ‘The Pacifier’. Perhaps this last series by James Gunn is the only one capable of shadowing ‘Invincible‘, which now premieres its third season In Prime Video: genuinely superheroic, but with absolutely adult content regarding the conflicts that the violence it shows, it has become an impressive appointment for gender fans. From the aesthetics to the background, all ‘invincible’ is both a love letter to superheroes and a question of their main topics. The series continues at the point where the previous season stayed: we meet Mark’s father, Omni-Man, who is apparently repentant of what happened in the past, and Mark will test its almost omnipotence to the limit. All among absolutely devastating action pan: this is one of the most frantic and violent seasons of the series. Meanwhile, Mark will ask what exactly distinguishes a hero from a villain and will undertake a search for his own identity that will have such fun moments as the adoption of a new suit and as emotional as the protection and education of his brother. That baby of the second season? He has become a teenager who does not know prudence, but devastating super powers. Header | Prime video In Xataka | The new Spider-Man series arrives at Disney+, but it has something that is raising controversy: its animation style

The boom and fall of Blackberry, the status symbol that the iPhone turned into history

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Before the absolute domain of the format imposed by smartphones with any screen without space for the keys, in half the world who left the cod was nokia. In the other half was Blackberry. Its mobile phones, with a reliable QWERTY keyboard and technology to the last, were synonym for quality, even status. Not only public figures had a Blackberry, but their use in business environments was practically mandatory at certain levels, and the company got that His models were desired by the general public. In that area, they had a very special model: the Blackberry Pearl 8100. It was something similar to what is currently happening with the iPhone, but beyond ‘Fardar’, having a Blackberry allowed access to a free instant messaging service among its users. At a time when SMS kept costing money (unless they were included in the rate) and were not as immediate as a chat, Blackberry Messenger It was consolidated as a kind of Microsoft Messenger to talk to friends and family. In 2009, everyone wanted to have a Blackberry mobile and dominated the market with almost 21% share. However, nothing lasts forever and, as soon as the iPhone and the Android mobiles They began to popular, the company’s sales fell into dive. The reason for his success was that physical keyboard that had stopped making sense and to which the brand He wanted to cling without successeven testing hybrid alternatives and Systems like Blackberry 10 To compete against Android. Spoiler: They did not set. And that is only a tip of the Blackberry iceberg, a story that my partner Ana Boria tells perfectly in the video we leave to lead this article, with the perfect storm that led to the loud fall of the mythical Blackberry. And it is curious because, many years later and already in 2025, there are users who continue to remember the fantastic times of that innovative Blackberry and, especially its keyboard and touchpad with those who differentiated themselves from the competition. From outside, as someone who never had a Blackberry, I can only say that it is even sorry for the story of a company that, obviously, was buried by a progress that did not see coming and who did not know how to adapt. Although … well, it’s not like so many other companies that disappeared without a trace. Although their attempts to return to the mobile segment did not work, at least they managed to reinvent themselves in other fields. AND It seems that nothing is going to him. In Xataka | Commodore boom and fall, the giant of the 1980s who revolutionized computer science and fell into oblivion

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