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This is how Q&As work with Xataka editors included in Xataka Xtra

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The best way to summarize Xataka Xtra It is with one word: “community”. The community has been one of the cornerstones of Xataka since its inception and in this new adventure we wanted to take it one step further. We have Discord, where we spend the day talking about the things we like; and El Consultorio, a direct line with the in-house experts to resolve your doubts and questions. Today we present to you the Q&As with Xataka editors. When we hold events we normally do them with a predetermined theme. The clearest example is Xataka Live. But many times we simply want to talk to you and for you to talk to us without an agenda. Talk, simply chat about whatever is appropriate or what interests us at that moment. That is precisely what we propose with the Q&As. Q&A sessions are one of the exclusive advantages of Xataka Xtraour new community for subscribers that includes giveaways, discounts, exclusive newsletters and more. How to have coffee with friends These meetings, exclusive for subscribers of Xataka Xtrawill have a monthly cadence and will be carried out through Google Meet. The first will take place soon and we will notify you both here and on our Discord server, where we are also waiting for you if you are subscribed to Xtra. And what can we talk about? Whatever we want. Has a new game come out that we’re all hooked on and want to discuss? Forward. Do we want to talk about anime and convince everyone to watch One Piece once and for all? Go ahead too. Shall we talk about the latest releases from company X? Of course. Shall we put an end to the debate of potato omelette with or without onion? There would be more to go, even though there is only one correct answer. The idea is that it is a meeting of xatakeros in which we can talk about what we would talk about when leaving the office, on the street or having a coffee on any given afternoon. Needless to say, participation is not mandatory, far from it. It is an advantage that we include in the subscription to Xataka Xtrabut under no circumstances is it necessary to attend all the sessions, or none in fact. As we said before, the first session will take place shortly, so don’t go too far. See you at the Q&As! More information | Xataka Xtra

Samsung is already thinking about a future with OLED screens everywhere. Included in a collar or foldable console

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One of the most entertaining activities you can do at the Mobile World Congress is to walk around the Samsung Display stand. This is Samsung’s division, one of the many it has, in charge of research and development of panels. If today we have the TriFold in the market is because, years ago, We saw its prototype displayed here. That’s why taking a look around their stand is so entertaining, because it lets you see what developments the company has in the works. Whether they see the light or not is another story, but the proposal is nice. OLED panels everywhere. Samsung is, along with LG and BOE, one of the few companies capable of produce OLED panels. That’s why it makes sense that the company wants to put them everywhere. Not only on premium mobile phones, where they are already practically omnipresent, or on televisions, but on every possible gadget, be it a controller, a console or a virtual assistant with AI. This is how Samsung makes money: the secret is in the IPHONE This smartphone unrolls and allows the diagonal of the screen to be increased | Image: Xataka From tiny to conventional size. One of the prototypes we have seen is a vertically rollable phone. The device has a motor that unfolds the screen upwards and hides it downwards, as if it were a blind, and allows you to have a compact phone and, if you want to play or read, a more elongated panel. Very interesting, although with some flaws. The main one is that, rolled up, what in another context would be an aluminum edge would, on this occasion, be a screen, one that is also very exposed to all kinds of misfortunes in the pocket, dirt, knocks, etc. It is striking as a concept, but perhaps it makes more sense on a laptop where, in fact, we are already starting to see them. This tablet unrolls to the side | Image: Xataka Here we can see the unwinding system | Image: Xataka What’s more, Samsung is in it. We have also seen this same roll-up panel technology in a type of tablet and a laptop. The latter is very reminiscent of the Lenovo proposal and unroll the screen to go from 13 to 17 inches. This format, still in its infancy, has a lot of potential if we think of a device that combines productivity and versatility. Samsung Rollable Laptop Concept | Image: Xataka On the tablet, which could also be understood as a portable external monitor, the panel goes from a panoramic format to a 4:3 format that is practically 1:1, something that can be somewhat useful when having several applications open and in office tasks. Without a doubt, where the roll-up format is going to shine is in medium/large panels. Whether we see them on the street or not… only time will tell. Laptop with vertical folding screen | Image: Xataka Laptop with vertical folding screen | Image: Xataka From big to bigger. One of the most curious prototypes has been this trilaptop. Unlike the TriFold, which has three screens, the two folds of this device come in the form of a keyboard and foldable screen. By default, it is a normal laptop, but if we unfold the screen it is like putting another 13-inch panel on top. Useful, very useful, especially for programming. In addition, the unfolded screen is not excessively thick, so the laptop, at least in theory, should not weigh more than necessary, although it will be heavier than normal. Folding console prototype | Image: Xataka So far the normal. Now let’s go with the most peculiar concepts. The first is a folding console. This device, which is clearly reminiscent of a Nintendo Switch, has a Fold-type folding panel that, at least in theory, seeks to make a portable console even more portable. The concept is interesting and I can imagine a console like this in a few years, although perhaps the price would be higher than the 400-550 euros that we are used to seeing. Console controller with integrated screen | Image: Xataka The second is a controller with a central screen. Central touch panels are not new, see Sony’s DualShock and DualSense, but adding a screen opens up a whole range of possibilities. That screen could be part of the HUD, offer actions, provide contextual information or serve to interact with the game in some way through gestures or quick touches. Very curious, it is one of those ideas that I wouldn’t be surprised to see implemented sooner rather than later. Necklace with OLED screen | Image: Xataka Nice necklace. But the concept that takes the cake is the necklace. It is, like everything else, a concept, but the idea is curious. What if, in the same way that you can change the watchface of your necklace, you could change the image of your necklace? The device is big, huge, something that is normal if we want the screen to have some prominence. In a few years will we see a diamond necklace with a GIF of a diamond spinning around? I have no proof, but I have no doubt either. Flexible Micro-LED Panels | Image: Xataka Space for Micro-LED. Samsung has also taken the opportunity to show some advances in Micro-LED, a technology called to be the Holy Grail of panels: OLED blacks, LCD brightness, without degradation or bloombing. The problem is that they are very expensive because their manufacturing is extremely complex. At the moment, we have only seen them on televisions whose prices exceed an average Spanish salary, but Samsung already seems to be working on bringing them to smaller formats. The key, of course, is the excellent color reproduction and brightness, which, in this case, amounts to 7,000 nits. Micro-RGB panel example | Image: Xataka Be that as it may, what is clear is that we are heading to a world full of screens where there were previously printed canvases. Samsung wants … Read more

The Police have arrested two minors as alleged perpetrators of a leak. Data from Pedro Sánchez and ministers were included

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Two minors have been arrested by the National Police for their alleged involvement in a massive leak of personal data that included information from President Pedro Sánchez, ministers such as Margarita Robles and José Manuel Albares and members of the CNI. Police sources confirmed the arrests The Vanguard and The Countryin an operation linked to the publication of that data on the Internet. The arrests were carried out on September 26 in two different points: Catalonia and Castilla-La Mancha, as detailed by La Vanguardia. Both are part of the open investigation to clarify the origin and scope of the leak, which affected Government and CNI authorities. The investigations focused on reconstructing the path of the data and determining how its dissemination occurred. How the arrests were made. The General Information Commissariat of the National Police was in charge of the arrests. The details of the operation are not known, but it was probably kept under wraps until the agents managed to identify the suspects and arrest them in Catalonia and Castilla-La Mancha. Minors and degree of involvement. Those arrested are two minors, according to the aforementioned media. One of them appears as the main person involved in the leak, while the other would have had less responsibility. Researchers are now working to define the participation of both and clarify how they accessed the data that ended up published on the Internet. Screenshot of the message posted by N4t0x The message and the tool. The investigation focuses on a message spread by the user who called himself N4t0x, who claimed responsibility for the leak on a cybercrime forum. In it he claimed to have achieved, together with other people, “a mega leak of personal data of the vast majority of Spanish politicians” using a tool called SpainData. In the publication, the group detailed that this tool allowed information on the entire population to be consulted and announced that the leak would be “free and public.” Scope and verification. Although the N4t0x group claimed to have obtained information from the entire Spanish population, these claims have not been officially verified. The police sources cited by the media have limited themselves to confirming the investigation and the arrests, without specifying the content or magnitude of the files. Nor has it been proven that the SpainData tool works as the author described in his message. Investigation under secret. On September 22, 2025, RTVE.es reported that the National Court was secretly investigating a new leak of personal data attributed to N4t0x, which affected President Pedro Sánchez, several ministers and members of the CNI. Judge Antonio Piña, of central court number 6, assumed the first proceedings and decreed the secrecy of the proceedings. Days later, on September 28, Europa Press pointed out that The Information Services and the Spanish justice system had intensified the search for alleged actors involved such as N4t0x. Images | National Police (1, 2) | Screenshot In Xataka | If your home is robbed and you have the recording, this security camera company will pay you for it

If the question is how the struggles of the Roman gladiators were, the answer was in Serbia: they included bears

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Archaeologists (and also novelists and Of course Hollywood) Imagine the Roman amphaters full of gladiators, weapons and wild animalsbeasts captured to submit them in the circus sand. One thing is however imagine or intuit it based on what historical and mosaic stories tell us, and another very different is to find palpable evidence. That is what has achieved A team of archaeologists in Serbia, near the remains of the Roman amphitheater of Viminaciumformer province of Moesia. And the story he tells is fascinating. Much more than bones. What the researchers have found in the vicinity of the Viminacium Amphitheater, a wide venue built towards the second century DCoval, with high walls and capacity for some 7,000 people, was part of the skull of a brown bear. Nothing else. Nothing less. For the common of mortals the bones could have gone unnoticed, but Nemanja Marković and the rest of the researchers who They have just published his findings in AntiquityThey saw something else: a story that tells us about beasts, gladiators and struggles. Why’s that? Because beyond the characteristics of the bones, which reveal to what kind of animal they belonged to, the skull retains marks that tells us about its last days in Viminacium. What did he do, what treatment he received, where he lived and what the bear died. Thanks to the application of bone analysis techniques, radiographs, microscopic analysis and DNA sequencing, the first thing the archaeologists found is that the skull belonged to a Ursus arctosa male of about six years that the hunters probably arrested in the same region, in one of the forests that extend through the Balkans. The fact is interesting because it suggests that the Romans had a hunting network that supplied animals for their shows. It is nothing new. Other studies They have revealed how the Empire counted of a sufficiently greased, broad and efficient system to bring lions to Britannia. All for the purpose of supplying the amphitheaters where the elites and the people were distracted. What the wounds reveal. If the bones tell us things, much more do their wounds and brands, the great source of information to which Nemanja Marković and his colleagues have resorted. The first thing that caught their attention was an injury in the front of the skull, a broad wound in which the scientists appreciated two indications: one of healing, another of infection. That already tells us about a serious injury that the animal suffered for a season. The next question is evident: how was it? The other protagonist: the Venatore. To answer that issue, researchers have looked directly at the amphitheater and a very concrete type of show: the fighting between beasts and Venators (either Bestiarii), fighters who dedicated themselves to the sand with animals to delight the public. “The Roman amphitheats also organized ‘Beast Cacerías’ (Venation), which faced people against animals, a show that lasted from the republican period to late antiquity, ” They remembered Recently in Plos One The authors of another study that found another evidence of that kind of shows in Roman Britannia: the pelvis of a relatively young man (he was not more than 35 years old) who showed a clear and deep dentellada de León. Unraveling the story. “We cannot say with certainty if the bear died directly in the sand, but the evidence suggests that the trauma occurred during the shows and the subsequent infection significantly helped his death,” Marković explains in Live Science. The finding is relevant because until now historians only had references to use bears in this kind of shows. Do not test palpable. “This study provides the first direct osteological evidence of the participation of brown bears in Roman shows.” Not just that. Beyond the front wound caused perhaps by the spear of a Venatore, The researchers observed something else. The bear jaws also seemed to show traces of infection. And above all their canines were spent. The reason? The study slides that could be due to prolonged captivity during which the animal was dedicated to biting the bars of its cage. “It is likely that he has been in prison for years, not just weeks,” says the expert, which leads him to think that he participated in several Viminacium shows, where they came to reside several tens of thousands of people. One last mystery. That’s how it is. The bones hide a last mystery, a question that remains by driving at the archaeologists table: the skull of the brown bear was among the remains of a small building close to the entrance of the amphitheater. Was he buried there? And if so, why? “Previous investigations suggest that the dead animals in the sand were dismembered nearby, their meat was distributed and the bones were ruled out near the amphitheater, not buried in a formal animals cemetery,” Comment The Serbian researcher. “The fact that this bear was buried and not discarded as other animal remains suggests that the spectators or organizers of the games attributed some symbolic value. Perhaps respect, perhaps superstition. What is clear is that his death was not anonymous or banal,” Marković ditch in statements collected by National Geographic. Archaeologists too They discovered Part of the skeleton of a leopard in the same construction and bones of other wild animals, including brown bears, near the amphitheater. When analyzing these bone remains, the researchers dated them between approximately 240 and 350 AD Images | 🇸🇮 Janko Ferlič (Unsplash) and Wikipedia 1 and 2 In Xataka | The incendiary arrows are the favorite weapon of medieval fictions. They really didn’t serve anything

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In May, conversations between Moscow and Beijing about the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline They hired again. Russia pressed the accelerator to close the deal, but China stopped: it rejected a route through Mongolia and discussed each price and deadline figure. The project, again, was caught in mutual distrust. Meanwhile, in Europe the agenda was another. Brussels He accelerated his strategy to cut the dependence of Russian gas and expand renewables. That movement left Moscow with less margin: without Europe, I needed a buyer in a hurry. And all the roads took to Beijing. A turn in Beijing. The board has moved in September. During the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Beijing, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping announced that they had signed a memorandum to build the Power of Siberia 2. According to Reutersthe document is legally binding, it is not just a declaration of intentions. The gas pipeline, once completed, will allow transporting 50 BCM of annual gas from the Yamal Arctic deposits to northern China through Mongolia for 30 years. However, As Wall Street Journal saidthe essential points have not been closed: price, financing and construction calendar. Beijing, who has never been in a hurry, thus keeps the pan for the handle. But something begins to move. Although the big project has no date, something began to change. Reuters reported that Gazprom and the CNPC closed an immediate increase in current shipments: the Power of Siberia 1 will pass from 38 to 44 BCM per year, and the Sakhalin gas pipeline will rise from 10 to 12 BCM. Returning to the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline. So far what is known is that it will depart from the Russian Arctic deposits – the same ones that were supplied to Europe – and will travel Siberia to Mongolia, before reaching northern China. Its capacity: 50 BCM per year, equivalent to almost a third of everything Russia sold to Europe before the invasion of Ukraine. According to Financial Timesthe infrastructure could come into operation in the early 2030s, although the agreement does not specify dates. There is much at stake. The Power of Siberia 2 is not just a bilateral agreement: it can reorder the dynamics of the world gas market. As Financial Times explainedits entry into operation of the gas pipeline would withdraw 50,000 million cubic meters of demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) of the international market. That absence will weigh on investment plans in new export plants, especially in the United States, but also in Qatar and Australia. “For those who are about to make final investment decisions, this announcement is disturbing,” Anne-Sophie Corbeau, a researcher at the Center on Global Energy Piss in Columbia, said for the British environment. China reinforces its energy security. In this context, the biggest beneficiary is China. This new gas pipeline ensures a supply in a context marked by supply volatility from the Middle East. According to Wall Street JournalBeijing would import around 100 BCM of Russian gas per pipe each year, which would represent approximately 20% of its total consumption. A significant figure, but far from an absolute dependence. A less encouraging panorama for Moscow. As Reuters recalledRussia went from exporting 177 BCM of gas to Europe in 2018-19 to just 31 BCM to China last year. Therefore, with the Power of Siberia 2 you can compensate for part of that volume, but not the income: Gazprom has admitted that the prices for Beijing will be lower than the Europeans, According to Bloomberg. In short, Russia wins a strategic client but loses pricing power; China ensures a stable supply without compromising its maneuvering margin; And the global gas market will have to adjust to a map in which Asia becomes the center of gravity. United States in the mirror. The agreement comes After the Alaska Summit With Donald Trump, in which confrontation with China and Russia was exacerbated. As Bloomberg highlightedthe Power of Siberia 2 memorandum is interpreted as a direct challenge to the global order led by Washington. For Washington, the agreement is a double blow: China could reduce the purchase of American liquefied natural gas, and the Moscow-Pekín alliance is reinforced at a time of maximum tension with the Trump administration. The Summit in Beijing, with Russia, China, India and North Korea on the same board, is interpreted as an cornerstone of an alternative block to the Euro -Ratlantic axis. Chronicle of an announced break. Just a few days ago, Europe announced that it entered September With an unexpected energy mattress: gas deposits are already 76% of their capacity. In addition, within two years, the total cutting of Russian gas dependence by the European Union has been established. In that context, Brussels has set 2027 as the deadline to definitively cut the energy relationship with Moscow. The Power of Siberia 2 symbolizes that rupture: the gas that previously lit heating in Berlin or Paris will now have a destination in Shanghai or Beijing. An unequal relationship. Despite the rhetoric of friendship, the relationship is clearly asymmetric. As explained by Alexander Gabuev, from Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, cited by WSJChina “has all the letters”: controls the rhythm, price and conditions. Russia, isolated and sanctioned, needs Beijing much more than the other way around. Besides, As Reuters recalledChina advances towards a more electric and renewable model, which in the medium term can reduce its gas dependence. Russia runs the risk of investing billions in a project that the true beneficiary will be the Asian giant. Image | Unspash and Kremlin Xataka | Putin’s not so secret plan to survive without Europe: a giant gas pipeline to China

Its offerton leaves it in less than 2 euros per month and with a gift included

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Although very little is missing for summer to begin officially, the heat is already with us. That time comes in which many take advantage to make a getaway somewhere for a few days, most times in hotels. It may happen that one of these sites has very bad coverage, What leads us to use the wifi in its place And that is something that can house certain dangers. Are public Wi -Fi networks They can be controlled or intervened by a criminal who wants to steal information. The easiest way to protect us in them (and on the Internet in general) is with a VPN and very few have as cheap as Ipvanish is: it can come out from 1.97 euros a month. And eye: Because now comes with insured gift. IPVANISH VPN Subscription – Monthly * Some price may have changed from the last review An extra security layer and with a gift eSim A VPN is one of those things that are ever to take installed, either on PC or on the mobile. With it we will make sure that our Internet traffic is encrypted and safe, far from any possible danger. This ipvanish is fast, It has no transfer limits And we can install it in virtually any device where we need it. Another of those key points that you have is that, in addition to being safe, it is tremendously simple to use. Its application is intuitive And it is designed so that we do not have to complicate. You don’t have to configure just anything, just install it where we need it and use it. The promotion that is active IPvanish is not only related to the price, but also comes with insured gift. If we hire any of your plans, We will get a SIM for free with 3 GB of data. One of these will come great if we plan to travel and, once let’s activate the promo, we will have 30 days to spend that data as we want. As we have explained above, we can get with ipvanish from 1.97 euros a month. That means that two full years of the service will come out for only 47.30 euros, a discount if we take into account that its usual price is 11.99 euros per month. Between the price and the ESIM as a gift, A great moment to get a VPN for this summer. Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Anastasiia Nelen in Unspash In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public wifis and what you should do to protect yourself In Xataka | The best solutions to protect your data and your company’s computer equipment

The Spanish festivals are in crisis for Israel. Meanwhile, Spring Sound has included bombings in Gaza in its poster

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We had not had such a moved season of festivals for years. With the vast majority of the great musical events of summer marked by controversy Related to the KKR Investment Fund, the Spring Soundwhich is celebrated this week in Barcelona, ​​has decided to position itself with an installation halfway between political exhibitionism and the commercial hook. That is pure spring Sound, too. The tunnel. Spring Sound has installed in the PARC of the Fòrum A 15 -meter tunnel that replicates the sounds of the bombings in Gaza. The name of the installation is ‘Unsilence Gaza’, it is the work of the Palestinian sound engineer Oussama Rima and has been done in collaboration with the NGOs Casa Nostra, Casa Vostra and Novact. These have stated that “in spring sounds the sound is emotion, connection, pleasure. But sound can also be the opposite: it can become a weapon.” To this have added a chilling fact: bombings can reach 170 decibels, “much more than the human body can bear.” But … how much of genuine commitment and how much for winking for the gallery in this installation? The problem with KKR. KKR is an American investment fund, one of the world’s largest private capital companies, and whose most criticized activities There are real estate investments in Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, such as Jerusalem Este, Gaza and the West Bank. In 2024, the Fund acquired Supersruct Entertainment, a company that organizes some eighty festivals worldwide and that in Spain is behind events such as Sónar, Arenal Sound, Viña Rock, FIB or Monegros. The reaction of the groups. The response was not long in coming from numerous groups, which They canceled their participation In many of the festivals, and in some cases they launched communications clarifying their exact relationship with KKR. Seventy bandsfor example, they demanded that Sónar a more compromised positioning. Voices have emerged that They ask for the boycott from the festivalsand some like Sónar himself have lost poster heads as ark. At the same time, others Artists like Kase.O either Angelus Apatrida They have decided to keep their commitments to the festivals, which has generated controversy and discomfort with some sectors of their fans. More than festivals. Spring Sound does not have those ties with the KKR, which allows him to adopt a more combative position with respect to Gaza. But he does it in the PS style: for a few years, the festival is giving up the Transformation of Spanish festivals into more than encounters to listen to music. In many of them, the poster becomes something completely secondarybelow socialization: it started years ago with the transformation of the Benicàssim festival at the unavoidable point of meeting of the indie girl Before British invasionand Spring Sound partly collects his witness. And with Noria. Perhaps the spring element that shows the most this option is the Noria that was installed in 2013. Since then they have worked in that direction by approaching the festival more to an leisure center than something else: Food Trucks and gastronomy positions, workshops and activities (many of them oriented to children), Conferencesmultidisciplinary exhibitions, handicraft, fashion and merchandising. An authentic brand and advertising exhibitor, which is the clear current orientation of spring, which in a sense questions its political meaning. It is not Kkr, but. Spring Sound has dodged the summer controversy that has affected practically all its competitors, but it cannot be said that she does not have her own economic commitments. In fact, after its financing There is the American Investment Fund The Yucaipa Companiesled by businessman Ronald Burkle. In that sense the spring Sound is matched with the rest of the festivals: It is a more turned event into a financial asset for foreign billionaires with the excuse of culture. And that it is a business they have never hidden it, as their progressive name changes demonstrate to Estrella Damm Spring Sound or San Miguel Primavera Sound as they were dancing their main sponsors. Ethics of income. Spring Sound financing has always generated innumerable ethical conflicts, as detailed This article by El Salto: Advertising of companies such as SEAT either Spotify while the claim of labor rights is raised; accusations of Purplewashing and Pinkwashing; Propaganda of brands of dubious ethics, for example linked to NFTS … and, in general, marketing of culture, which is always problematic. It spoke in depth by cross in A series of three controversial articles about the birth and evolution of the festival, and that made clear its abundant contradictions. It does not leave Barcelona. The reason that spring sounds so consciously the flag of Catalanity (and with it, of a certain political activism) is precisely that He has not managed to leave Catalonia. The international spring expansion Sound has been a failure: it closed All its Latin American editions In 2024 after the fiasco that supposed The 2024 edition in Madrid. Actually, the latter was the result of a tense Pulse with the Barcelona City Council where interests much more substantial than music were at stake. A series of sticks for the Financial of the Festival, which retains only the first of its first international expansions, Porto, Out of Barcelona. Intermediate point. Spring Sound is a first -order tourist attraction for Barcelona (left 272 million euros in the city in 2024according to a study by the MKTG Spain consultant). Thus, he plays (despite those nonsense with Madrid that They did not set For reasons that have nothing to do with their catalanity) not to lose their purely Catalan identity, with actions of the foundation linked to local training (many of their courses have joined the autonomy study programs). And within that identity is the claim in favor of Gaza, which maintain constant and explicit in aspects such as the programming of Radio Primavera Sound, where they do not have fear of positioning yourself. Business is Business. Spring Sound is a business, and that is why you have to take any type of positioning with tweezers: remember the … Read more

Piri Reis drew in 1513 the most incredibly precise map in America. So much that it included regions still not discovered

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The maps have been, They are being and will bea key piece in the history of mankind. The cartographers carry thousands of years profileing the land From our planet, a silhouette that has gone changing over the centuries and with Europe and Asia as the undisputed protagonists in cartography. However, from the 16th century, the obsession changed to the west: now we wanted to map America. 500 years before, Nordic explorers have already stepped on the American continent, reaching the coasts of what is now Canada and part of the United States and shaking your vision on a map. This Viking document perfectly reflects that ‘perfection’ of the European silhouette and the sketch, or La Mancha, which was the American continent. And, among all the incipient maps of America, the most intriguing may be that of Piri Reis. The reason is that It is very precise for its time And the author said he was based on lost maps, supposedly, drawn by Christopher Columbus. The mysterious Piri Reis map In the Era of the discoveriesExplorers such as Columbus, Magallanes or Vasco da Gama found their best ally on the maps. They helped cross the oceans, but as they did, they were capturing their vision of the ‘New World’ in maps to help in the planning of future expeditions. The map of Juan de la Costa of 1500 is considered the first that includes a representation of America. It has important accurate, but it is the only one made by a witness of the first two trips of Columbus and the terrestrial profile, unequivocally and despite errors, it is America. A few years later, in 1507, the Enigmatic map of Waldseemüllerin which the name “America” ​​was used for the first time. Again, there were errors in the profile of the Eastern coast of South America, but these two explorers were not the only ones who mapped the continent at this time. In 1513, the Ottoman Piri Reis not only mapped the same territory, but did it with a past accuracy and detailing territories that should not be there (because they had not been discovered). In this mapwe find the following: The east coast of South America to Argentine Patagonia. The Falkland Islands. Antarctica Here are several details that surprise and invite you to lift an eyebrow. Piri Reis was a admiral and cartographer who, from a young age, participated in several battles in the Mediterranean, cartographing the territory and its islands. However, in 1501, only nine years after the discovery of America, his uncle and captain Kemal Reis of the Ottoman fleet captured several Spanish ships near the Spanish coast. Questioning the crew and looting the ships, discovered that one of them had been in the New World during Columbus’s journey and had a map drawn by himself that represented the American profile. As he was not a cartographer, he took it to Piri to study it. Thus, the cartographer got to work and, having as a source That Map of Columbusother Portuguese maps and several cards, began in 1511 to design its map. He did it on gazelle skin and surprises that Piri, really, did not travel to the New World, but that he drew everything based on the sources that had gone to an expedition. As well as knowledge of Ptolemaic Mapamundis. The most controversial of the matter? To start, the Falklands. As many times throughout our history, the discovery of the islands has several boyfriends. Numerous maps after 1520 suggest that the Falklands were first sighted by Magallanes, but Portugal also wants merit and attributes it to Américo Vespucio’s trip of 1504. In the map of Waldseemüller the islands are already intuited, but it is in the Piri Reis that are represented in a much more faithful way to reality. Identified as ‘Il de Sare’, the islands have compared with the Malvinas, located east of the Magallanes Strait. The Horn of Argentina is more stretched than it should, also the Caribbean, but surprises how well represented the entire eastern area of ​​the continent is. Creatures … strange On the other hand, and the strangest thing is Antarctica. The first thing is that it is represented without ice, something impossible, since it has been covered by that white mantle. The second is that, officially, it was discovered in 1820. Apart from this, the cartographer made some descriptions of some of the areas and represented both animals and mythological creatures, something normal at the time. Chiripa and controversy For years, Piri Reis’s map was in the shadow. However, in 1929, a group of scholars had the commission of organizing the archives of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. The idea was to turn the palace into a museum, so you had to clean the basements and classify everything found. On a wall of the Ottoman Empire section, hidden and forgotten, the director of the national museums, Halid Edhem, found the map. Due to the mentions of Fuentes such as Cristóbal Columbus as it represented unknown details for the Ottomans of the early 16th century, the map was studied almost from the first moment. It is a Turkish national pride since 1933, but there is a problem: although it has extremely well represented areas, others, such as Stretched Caribbean Islands or the Union of Argentina with Antarcticaadded to the intrigue to know how an Ottoman who did not travel to a new world that, when the map was made, was in an extremely early phase of exploration, have raised controversy over the years. The most accepted theory about the map profile. There are those who say that Argentina’s horn is an error of the maps of the time, but also that having run out of space to draw would have motivated that elongated form Theories have been generated on the existence of ancient civilizations with advanced cartography abilities -controlled and without foundation. This may be because, although Piri cited reliable sources, he also referred to the “former kings of the sea.” … Read more

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