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Palantir is already worth more than Coca-Cola with the tenth of income. Wall Street has lost its head with AI

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Palantir Technologies has just passed giants such as Samsung, Costco or Coca-Cola, reaching the 411,000 million dollars of stock market capitalization. Why is it important. A company that bills 1,000 million dollars to the quarter is worth more than others that generate ten times greater income. It is the purest manifestation of “Ia washing“What Wall Street consumes. The facts. The data analysis company founded by Peter Thiel in 2003 reported a 48% growth in income to exceed for the first time the 1,000 million quarterly dollars. Their commercial contracts in the United States fired 93%, while the government rose 53%. The benefit grew by 144% to 327 million. In figures. The per (Price to Earnings Ratioprice of the action divided by the benefit of the action) of Palantir reaches 596more than ten times higher than that of Nvidia (57) and almost twenty times Apple’s (31). To justify its current assessment, the company would have to maintain an annual growth of 55% for four consecutive years. Even in that optimistic scenario, it would quote the income of 2029 at 25 times. The context. Wall Street lives a speculative bubble fed by any company that mentions the magical words: ‘artificial intelligence’. Palantir, who for years has been fighting for growing beyond his defense contracts, has reinvented himself as the company that “makes” the AI models in the real world “work. His CEO, Alex Karp, proclamation that “the great language models simply do not work without palantir.” Yes, but. The euphoria hides several problems. The company quotes its future sales to 80 times, a metric that exceeds any historical precedent in the S&P 500. Deutsche Bank, who maintained sale recommendation, admitted that “something special is happening” but recognizes that “the valuation is still very challenging.” It is the same bank as The recommendation has uploaded just not to seem completely out of market reality. Between the lines. Karp used the results conference To attack elite universities and promise that AI will give “super powers” to workers without higher training. A populist speech that fits perfectly with the current political narrative, but that does not justify an assessment that makes Palantir the most overrated company of the most important stock market index in the world. The big question. Can a company that invoice 4,000 million annually the same as Johnson & Johnson, a multinational that generates 85,000 million? Or that Coca-Cola, global icon whose income multiplies by ten? The markets have decided yes, betting that IA will completely transform the economy. Palantir has become the symbol of that bet. With all that that implies when the bubble explodes. Outstanding image | Palantir In Xataka | The seven magnificent face a total war in their own future. And there are three candidates to impose the rest

The most revolutionary and rare writing machine was lost in 1940. Until someone received a message

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Many may not know, but WRITE MACHINES Not only were they important in the past, the present would not be auctionally similar without these tools. In fact, in 1980 Apple made a decision that few understood: declare him War to the machine to write Several centuries before, in China, someone devised the most revolutionary of all these machines. The problem is that there was only one and lost. Until now. Lost keys. THE HISTORY LA had the New York Times. It all started in 2007, when Tom MullaneyProfessor of Chinese History at Stanford, prepared a presentation about the disappearance of Chinese characters and wondered how something printed could be forgotten. That doubt led him to A revelation: How had a writing system as vast as the Chinese mechanized? He did not remember ever seeing a Chinese typewriter, and when he knocked down in his office to look at old patents, a trip that would last for years began. Discovered that, although scarce, they had existed dozen different models Chinese writing machines, each with ingenious solutions to try to represent thousands of ideograms in a portable frame. One is missing. From there, Mullaney launched a kind of hunting global: He called collectors, heirs traced on ancestry.com, visited churches, museums, even stores. Over time He gathered a collection Of unique devices, some rescued by very little of oblivion, aware that each one was an unrepeatable piece of the history of mechanized writing. However, there was a machine that could not find, not even dreaming of recovering: the legendary mingkwai. Lin Yutang’s mingkwai writing machine, as illustrated in its patent application The impossible machine. The Mingkwai It was created in the 40s by Lin Yutanga Chinese intellectual based in New York who feared that China, if it did not modernize their way of writing, It would be behind in front of foreign powers. To solve the dilemma of how to represent thousands of characters with a few keys, Lin devised a Revolutionary mechanical system: Any combination of two keys activated gears that showed up to eight possible characters in a central window that baptized as the “magical eye”, allowing the user to choose the right one. With only 72 keys, Lin had built an interface that allowed to generate tens of thousands of charactersa kind of chimeric keyboard capable of typing an entire universe. He baptized his creation as Mingkwai, which can be translated (freely) as “clear and fast.” Lost. The problem is that your demonstration before Remington executives It was a disaster: The machine failed and Lin ended up ruined. Along the way, the only prototype was sold to Mergenthaler Linotype, a Brooklyn printing press. From there, the trail It was lost. In his book The Chinese Typewriter (2017), Mullaney wrote that it was most likely to have ended in a landfill. Until, by chance, something extraordinary happened. Lin Yutang The reunion. We arrive at January 2025when Jennifer and Nelson Felix, from Massopequa (New York), reviewed boxes stored after her death. Suddenly, they found A wooden box containing something strange: a typewriter with Chinese keys. Nelson, fond of sale on Facebook, He published some photos In a specialized group without imagining that I was going to detonate a storm of messages. In less than an hour, hundreds of comments, many in Chinese, shouted at one thing: “Contact Tom!” While giving a talk in Chicago, Mullaney He began to receive a waterfall of notifications. As soon as he saw the photos, the man knew that he had to do with the mingkwai. Fear of losing it. The Times told that the historian did not feel jubilation with the news, but rather fear. If someone bought it on eBay and turned it into a lamp or a coffee table, it would disappear forever. What did he do? He wrote to the couple urgently, he told them the history of the machine and asked them to consider sell it to a museum. Jennifer, incredulous, understood in a short time that the object of more than 50 kilos was not just junk. “It was lost half a century,” he explained to Times. “We didn’t want it to be lost again.” From the basement to the campus. The story charged an unexpected turn when Mullaney discovered that Jennifer’s grandfather, Douglas Arthur Jung, had worked on Mergenthaler Linotype And he probably saved the scratch machine when he took it with him. For decades, the family had preserved it without knowing what it was. In April, the couple accepted Sell to Stanfordwhich acquired it thanks to a private donor. When he finally arrived in California, Mullaney witnessed his unpacking with expectation. There, in the University warehouse, he discovered that his mechanism was even more delicate and sophisticated of what I imagined. The machine not only survived: He spokeor something similar. He began to wonder what engineers could discover if they were carefully dismantled. Could, perhaps, replicate it? Does Lin’s thoughts unravel in 1947, when he believed that a typography could save his nation? A recovered story. The History of the mingkwai It is more than that of the rescue of an exotic and rare machine. If you want, it is even a metaphor of ideas that, without interlocutors, run the risk of disappear forever. Mullaney understood that it was possibly the last one who could understand what these machines represented: the linguistic dilemmas of a civilization, the technological aspirations of a nation then marginalized, or even the desperate elegance of a visionary inventor. The mingkwai was a device that No one wanted In his time, too advanced already too clumsy, the result of an idea too big for an era that still did not know how to translate it. But when finding it, complete and still capable of astonishing, the professor not only recovered a museum piece: he rescued from oblivion an entire chapter in the history of human writing. Image | StanfordCampbell, Brobough & Free, American Memory Digital Item Display In Xataka | In 1980, Apple made … Read more

NASA lost the best camera in Jupiter. A suicide plan has served to recover it successfully

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It seemed the premature end of the mission. The Junocam, the camera that has given us the most spectacular images of Jupiter and his moons, was dying. The relentless radiation of the gaseous giant had degraded the sweat sensor Juno turning his photos into a noise knead and corrupt lines. We had to try. With an overfruit of the moon ío just around the corner, the NASA team played the whole for the whole with a risky maneuver: cook the camera slowly at 600 million kilometers away to try to repair it. Although all at the control center endured breathing, the play worked. And not only that, but the miraculous rescue has sat a precedent for future space missions. Jupiter’s best photographer. Trying it was worth it because Junocam is not any camera. Is responsible for those Jupiter images that seem impressionist paintings and that, curiously, they are prosecuted by a community of fans on Earth. But its location is priced: it is out of titanium “bunker” that protects the main electronics of the Juno probe. NASA engineers knew that their useful life would be limited in one of the most radioactive environments of the solar system. The Calvary of the Junocam. The juno probe, that arrived in Jupiter in July 2016was designed to last until 2018, but its success has led NASA to extend the mission several times. During the first 34 orbits, Junocam worked perfectly. From orbit 47, radiation ravages began to be evident. For orbit 56, in November 2023, the situation was critical. “Almost all the images were corrupt,” admits NASA In a statement. The planet Jupiter and the moon ío photographed by Juno before and after repair A repair to all or nothing. Diagnosing the failure of a component at millions of kilometers is a titanic task. Repairing is a miracle. The clues pointed to a damaged voltage regulator at the camera power supply. With few options, the team resorted to a process called annealing or Annealing. The idea was, in essence, to heat the material and then cool it slowly, with the hope that heat would repair microscopic defects at the atomic level. “The annealing can sometimes alter a material such as silicon at the microscopic level, but we did not know if this would solve the damage,” explains Jacob Shaffner, chamber engineer. Forged on fire. NASA sent a command to Juno so that the only heater in the Junocam raised its temperature at about 25 ° C, much more than usual. The result was a success … temporary. The camera sent sharp images for several orbits. But Jupiter does not forgive. As the probe entered the radiation belts, the damage returned more strongly. “After orbit 55, our images were full of stripes and noise,” says Michael Ravine, head of the instrument. With an upcoming one Near Iro of íoonly one option was left. The only thing they had not tried was to take Junocam heater to the fullest and see if a more extreme recovery would save us. The reward. The first week there were no improvements. The tension in the equipment was maximum. But just a few days after the encounter with ío, the images began to improve dramatically. By the time Juno went to just 1,500 kilometers of the most volcanic moon in the solar system, the camera worked almost as well as the day of its launch. The success of the maneuver allowed Juno to capture very unprecedented and unprecedented images of the northern pole. The images revealed mountains covered with sulfur dioxide frost and Lava rivers that allowed scientists to rebuild geological formations as fascinating as A lava lake with a glass mountain Inside. This achievement is the culmination of an extended mission that has led Juno to explore Jupiter’s great moons. First it was Ganímedes in 2021the largest satellite of the solar system, and then Europe in 2022. I was as follows on the list, and losing the main camera would have been a hard blow. The repair, of course, is not eternal. NASA informs that noise has begun to reappear in orbit 74. But the lesson learned is incalculable. Images | NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSS In Xataka | The NASA Juno probe sends six photos of its passage through ío, the most inhospitable moon of the solar system

15 years lost and has appeared among the ashes of a fire

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The motor and basketball world have joined by the unexpected return of an authentic jewel: Ferrari 512 TR that belonged to Michael Jordan. For decades, this car was considered A lost mythwhich fed stories and legends Between basketball fans and car collectors. Now, after more than a decade of mystery, the iconic Italian sports is again news thanks to a successful search that has only increased the legend of this unit. The story of this Ferrari is a journey that mixes success, mystery and a Miraculous survival in front of nature. Jordan’s Ferrari: Symbol of an era In 1992, in full ARIGE OF YOUR CAREER With the Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan was frequently photographed leaving a Spectacular Ferrari 512 Tr. This car did not go unnoticed, not only because of its design and the rumble that generated the 428 hp of its V12 engine, but also because of its Personalized registration: “M-Air-J”, a direct wink to its popular owner. The Ferrari became part of the Fans collective imaginaryrepresenting The luxury and the sports success that surrounded the 23 of the Bulls in those years. His presence in the streets of Chicago and in the media reinforced the image of Jordan as a superstar capable of turning everything he touched into gold. This Ferrari, with its unmistakable registration, was silent witness of one of the most glorious stages of world basketball. In 1995, Michael Jordan decided to sell his Ferrari to Chris Gardner, the successful businessman whose life inspired the movie “In search of happiness“, starring Will Smith. Touch the image to go to the original message Gardner, aware of the weight of the legacy, chose to play the same game as the star of the bulls, installing a personalized registration in which he read: “Not MJ”, making it clear that the jewel no longer belonged to the athlete. In 2010, Gardner auctioned the car for $ 100,000 and, since then, the Ferrari whereabouts became an absolute mystery. No one knew anything else about the destiny of Deportivo that one day went from Jordan. During the last 15 years, the Ferrari 512 TR of Michael Jordan He remained hidden feeding all kinds of rumors and speculation. The search and the miracle of survival The Classic Car Dealership for Collectors We are curatedco -founded by the Spanish entrepreneur Jordi Ricartbegan an exhaustive search for Ferrari based on its frame number. Luckily, they have left the story of their search documented In a video. After more than a decade of research, They managed to locate it In California. The owner, a collector who had acquired him at the 2010 auction, led him only a few months, before receiving a diagnosis of cancer that led him to leave the car parked at his house while undergoing treatment. The story took an even more unexpected turn in early 2025, when devastating forest fires They razed the area where the collector lived. Surprisingly, while surrounding houses were reduced to asheshis remained intact and, with her, his collection of cars. Jordan’s Ferrari, beyond a layer of dust by ash, It was in perfect conditionas the concessionaire showed On your Instagram profile. Touch the image to go to the original message However, although the historic Ferrari 512 TR is preserved in a reasonably good state to have passed through three owners who have used it, the 15 years locked in a garage They have taken its toll on their mechanical components. For this reason, the concessionaire, now the fourth owner of the vehicle, has decided Send it back to Maranello’s factory of which he left more than 33 years ago, for a Complete restoration of its mechanics. The budget for this operation amounts to $ 200,000. The future of Jordan’s Ferrari is yet to decide. Its new owner contemplates the possibility of organizing a tour so that, after its restoration, the spectacular sportsman is reunited with its three previous owners and, perhaps, exhibit it at the Ferrari Museum or in the prestigious Pebble Beach Rally. After this tribute to the protagonists of its history, the car could go to auction, where it is estimated that could exceed one million dollars. Perhaps, fate wants to close the circle and that it is Michael Jordan himself who finally recovers it. In Xataka | Ferrari will never put stickers in its supercar: Each shield of its cars and charges it as an extra In Xataka | They are founders and ultra -ups, but they have not always driven luxury supercoches: a review of the cars of the Tech millionaires Image | Ferrari, Flickr (Zach Catanareti)

Every year millions of packages are lost during shipments. So there are companies that are selling them to weight

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Only in the United States They lose or steal 1.7 million packages every day. In Spain the latest data from the TDI logistics group They revealed that more than two shipments were lost per minute. The curious thing is where at least part of them end: they are shown to weight. Millions of lost packages. According to They indicate to EFE From the employer of the logistics sector one, in Spain more than 3.3 million packages are sent per day, and the cases of loss involve a tiny fraction of 0.001% (about 3,300 per day). A simple error on the label or lack of centralized information can cause these problems, and that is where some companies recover them to resell them. Reversing weight. Services such as Crazy Day Factory, My Mystery Package, Merkandi, LotesDevolutions, or King Colis are dedicated exactly to the same thing: acquiring those lost packages to often resell them as part of surprise boxes that are sold to weight. As they point out in the confidentialin Kink Colis for example they establish a price of 1.99 euros per 100 grams in standard packages and 2.79 euros in the premium type. A lot of noise and few chollos? In King Colis FAQ, a French startup, they explain that buying this type of surprise packages can be very profitable, because one “can contradate state -of -the -art technological devices to clothing or accessories of recognized brands.” However, they also warn: “Not all lost packages necessarily contain treasures. There is a part of chance!” You don’t know what you buy. One acquires these packages to weight, but does not really know what he is buying. As they revealed in the nationalin stores such as my mystery package open ephemeral stores throughout the year in different municipalities to give out these packages, but there is a key requirement: the package cannot be opened until after buying it. And that implies risks. These lost packages are not checked and therefore can be damaged, be defective or have a much lower price than the buyer ends up. In Lotes Devolutions they explain that those products that put on sale – which are returns, not lost shipments – do not go through a previous check, which can end up causing a disappointing surprise effect. Packages are sold repaired without visible brands to eliminate commercial references, turning the purchase into a riddle … or a bet. The psychology of surprise. The surprise boxes such as those offered by all these businesses take advantage of known phenomena of human psychology. Several researchers published in June 2024 A study in which they revealed how the stimulus-organism-response (Sor) causes that impulsive purchase out of curiosity without intervening conscious thinking. We think quickly instead of thinking fast, as the Nobel Prize Daniel Kahneman in his famous’ stood out in depth.Think quickly, think slowly‘. Previous experience. In Xataka we were able to meet this type of business last year, when we went to an old warehouse on the outskirts of Madrid to try to locate some cholt between the chaos of Amazon returned products that a company put on sale. There was no surprise effect here and the proposal is something different, but the conclusion was already clear: we had no luck and after hours of search we went out empty. Finding chollos, whether by surprise or not, is not easy. Image | Chuttersnap In Xataka | The end of free online returns: Zara, Pull and Bear and more stores begin to collect them

The drones of the greatest attack against Russia lost the signal before reaching the target. Ukraine had an ace in the manga

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On June 1 and the agreed time, trucks parked for weeks in several points from Russia They opened their doors. A swarm of more than 100 advanced drones thus began a mission that was destined for several air bases in Moscow. Upon reaching the designated objectives, explosive loads were automatically activated. The mission was historic for The sophistication level in the Uncianned war. In fact, the drones even lost every signal before achieving the goal. And at that time the algorithms came into play. The face that changes the war. We had slipped it weeks agobut now it has been The Financial Times The one described that AS in the Ukraine manga so that the Spiderweb operation was a success. The war in Eastern Europe has entered a new phase marked by accelerated integration of artificial intelligence In attack and defense systems, and in “Spiderweb”, where the drones successfully attacked Russian military airfields even beyond the Arctic Circle, it was key. A new generation. The operation, carried out by the Ukraine Security Service (SBU), not only evidenced Kyiv’s technical and strategic capacity for enemybut exposed the growing importance of Automation On the modern battlefield. Behind the attack was a new generation of drones designed by the First Contact companydirected by Valeriy Borovyk, whose flagship, The Osastands out for its sophistication, high -end materials and autonomous navigation capabilities resistant to adverse conditions and interference systems. These devices, five times more expensive that conventional drones were scheduled to continue their flight following pre -established routes even After losing signal and automatically detonate when reaching the goal. SBU map that illustrates drone transports in trucks from Cheliábinsk to the five target air bases Assisted autonomy. He counted the medium that the development of these drones has not been exclusive to a single company. Yaroslav Azhnyuk, creator From The Fourth LawHe explained that both Ukraine and Russia are expanding their deployment capacity of autonomous systems in early stages, although still with partial human intervention in the terminal guidance. For a year, Adehnyuk He has delivered To the lines of the Front Systems with these experimental functions, and other Ukrainian companies have followed the same path. The idea of ​​delegating final decisions to AI in environments where signals can be easily blocked by the enemy has become a tactical need rather than a technological ambition. In parallel, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine recently announced the activation of carrying drones capable of Fly 300 kilometers and launch two free FPV, thus expanding the operational dimension of these tools in strategic depth. Invisible war. We had already talked about the term With optical fiber. In this war of wear, technology not only responds to advances but also to deficiencies. The lack of anti -aircraft missiles, artillery or ammunition has forced Ukraine to reinvent continuously. Civil foundations like The Prytula Foundationheaded by Bohdan Danyliv, they have contributed hundreds of fixed wing interceptors They have managed to demolish almost 250 Russian drones, demonstrating how improvised solutions have compensated for the shortage of traditional systems. Russia has not been left behind. He has identified Ukrainian drones and has counterattacked with improved modelsmany of them equipped with autonomous technology, optical fiber and even components from American video game consoles, According to services of Ukrainian intelligence. This evolution reveals a technological career in which the borders between civil and military are increasingly blurred. The Russian challenge. It We have explained: One of the most surprising turns has been the effectiveness of Russian drones connected by fiber optic cable, a seemingly rudimentary solution but brutally effective in front of Ukrainian interference systems. This technology, which allows operators to control drones without worrying about electronic blockages, has been decisive in the recent Russian offensive In the Kursk region, where they have made faster advances than at any other time since November. The Ukrainian reaction has been slow. Oleksandr Yakovenko, director of Taf Drones, recognized having underestimated the potential of this technique, and your company now tries to recover land by increasing production to 10,000 fiber optic drones per month, although he admits that they would need to manufacture at least 70,000 to match the Russian offensive capacity. New war balance. It seems clear that drone war It is no longer a complement to the conflict, but its central operating core. In an environment saturated with interference, scarcity of resources and geostrategic pressure, Ukraine and Russia face in a duel where innovation is not a luxury, but A vital imperative. Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, improvised production networks and unexpected adaptations such as the use of cables or video games are redefining the limits of the possible. Seen, the question that looms over the coming months does not seem to be who has more drones, but who will adapt faster in a war where intelligence, in any of its forms, has become the decisive factor. Image | Ssu.gov.ua In Xataka | The Ukraine War is getting rid, first of all, with drones. And that is leaving an infinite fiber optic trail through the field In Xataka | We suspected that Ukraine drones attack had been destructive. Space images have revealed how much

The United States has lost almost all its advantage in the face of China. And in just over a year

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American leadership in AI wobbles. The data of the AI Index 2025 Stanford reveals that China has trimmed the technical advantage of the United States to levels that seemed difficult to reach. Above all, because it has taken a little over a year to close most of the gap. Why is it important. The United States maintains the volume –40 notable models against 15 Chinese at the end of the year in the Epoch list-but China has shown that quality is no longer American monopoly, and that almost-convergence rewrites the rules of geopolitics in the most promising and strategic technology of the 21st century. The figures. In January 2024, the best American model exceeded Chinese in 9.26% in Benchmarks of chatbots. Just over a year later, that advantage has collapsed to 1.7%. Convergence is repeated in reasoning, mathematics and programming. The case Deepseek It is a perfect example. While Google spent 192 million dollars on the specific training of Gemini 1.0 Ultrathe Chinese startup said they have achieved competitive results with just 6 million. That caused A media and stock market earthquake At the beginning of the year. The contrast. They are two different approaches: The United States dominates for quantity and resources: it leads private investment (150,000 million dollars in 2024) and concentrates the most valued companies in the sector. China is responding efficiently: less models, much lower costs, equivalent results. The narrative of “Chinese technological backwardness” falls apart. Yolanda Gil, co -director of AI Index, He explained Thus his surprise: “I hoped that a more efficient version of the LLMS appeared at some point. We simply did not know who would build it or how.” Yes, but. American hegemony persists on other fronts. American companies continue to create the most influential models and monopolize global investment. And Europe is relegated: only three notable models in 2024. All French. The shadow of Mistral. The background. This race reflects a broader battle for the future of the digital economy. China demonstrates that efficiency can compensate for huge spending, challenging the “brute force” model that has characterized US development of AI. In Xataka | Openai is going better than expected thanks to payment users. And that marks an evident direction Outstanding image | Aerps.com in Unspash

The British who lost 700 million in Bitcoins when he threw his album has just achieved what anyone saw coming: his own series

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In the world there is only one hard drive that nobody has been able to find, but many remember. Contains between 7,500 and 8,000 bitcoins and, According to its owneris buried under tons of garbage in a Newport landfill, Wales. James Howells It has been trying to recover it for more than a decade because its digital assets exceed 700 million euros. He has not succeeded. However, its story is now more valuable than ever: an American producer has bought exclusive rights to turn it into docuserie, podcast and, if everything goes as planned, also into content for social networks. Howells is a computer engineer. He lives in Wales and has been obsessed for years with the idea of ​​recovering that device, which ensures that he keeps the private keys of a digital fortune generated in 2009, when the price of cryptocurrency had not yet risen. At that time, Bitcoin was a newborn experiment. It used to undermine from domestic computers and its value was so low that no one imagined what it would be. Howells was one of the first to get on that wave, and also one of the first to lose everything without having sold anything. A landfill, a digital fortune and an obsession without end to view As told the Guradian years agomore than a decade ago, while cleaning at home, confused hard drives. He threw the wrong. Shortly after, seeing how the price of Bitcoin raised, he realized what he had done. “Do you know when you throw something in the trash and you think ‘it’s a bad idea’? It really happened to me,” he told the newspaper. Since then he is convinced that the device ended up in the Docksway Municipal Villagemanaged by the Newport City Council. And since then, he has also tried to recover it by all possible means. Over the years he has presented different proposals to find the album. In 2022 came to raise an operation of 10.7 million euros To execute with a team of data recovery specialists, environmental engineers and specific machinery. Its plan included the use of artificial intelligence, a robotic arm to sift waste and even Boston Dynamic robot dogss. He also offered part of the money with the authorities and the citizens of Newport. But nothing worked. Authorities have always refused. They allege that environmental risks are too high, that the operation does not guarantee results and that the public cost, in case of failure, would be unassumable. In January 2025the British Superior Court rejected the claim of Howells, claiming that There was no “realistic possibilities” successful Shortly after, the resource was also dismissed. Howells represented himself in the view, using AI tools to prepare his case. It was not enough. Now plan Bring the case to the European Court of Human Rights. And meanwhile, consider another option: Buy the landfill. The City Council has announced that it will close during the 2025–2026 year and plans to convert part of the land in a solar park. For Howells, that decision disassembled one of the key arguments used against him in court: to suspend the activity of the landfill to dig would cause damage to the neighbors. If the closure is already underway, he maintains, there should be no more obstacles. He says he talked to investors and ensures that he has support to acquire the installation “as it is.” This whole route is the one that has captured the attention of Lebula producer based in Los Angeles specialized in multiplatform stories. As we point out above, he has acquired the exclusive rights of Howells’s history to develop what they have entitled ‘The Buried Bitcoin: The Real-Life Treasure Hunt of James Howells‘, a project that will combine different formats and channels. The objective is not only to tell the past, but also to follow in real time the next steps of the protagonist. The initiative includes “a premium format docuserie”, a narrative Póstcast and a short content strategy for social platforms. Lebul defines the project as “a live treasure search” that mixes technology, judicial drama and personal ambition with a very current backdrop: the promise of cryptocurrencies. As explained by the company, CGI effects and high -level narrative resources will be used to recreate the key moments of history and show the technical plan proposed by Howells. “This is not just content,” said Reese Van Allen, president of Unscripted Entertainment in Lebul. “It is a real -acting technological thriller With almost one billion dollars at stake, and Lebul is proud to bring it to the world. “The company affirms that the project has already aroused the interest of streaming platforms, global sponsors and relevant figures of the crypto ecosystem. At the moment, however, we do not know what service we could see, if it becomes a reality. “After seeing the documentary, people will understand that it is not crazy” Filming is scheduled for the summer of 2025, with an estimated premiere between October and November. The producer has also confirmed that the story will include the purchase attempt of the landfill, the last judicial failures and the current state of the conflict with the City Council. For Howells, this project represents a unique opportunity: “It is the first time that I will be able to clearly teach what we want to do in the landfill. After seeing the documentary, people will understand that it is not crazy,” told the BBC. The case has caught the attention of dozens of producers over the years. According to Howells himself, He received more than 200 proposalsincluding some winners of the Bafta and the Emmy. Until now he always said it was not the time. The legal battles were open, and the story still had no shape. Lebul’s announcement marks a change. For the first time, its history becomes a media project with calendar, budget and ambitions digital distribution. Is the hard drive really there? Is it still intact after more than a decade underground? Will you keep private … Read more

Starship has arrived in space, then has lost control. Spacex is costing horrors to get out of the bump

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Long faces once again in Spacex, despite the advances that Starship’s ninth flight has achieved with respect to its predecessors. And the thing has ended badly for the ship anyway. First Super Heavy. The highest rocket in the world took off seven minutes late at 18:37 of May 27, local time in Starbase. The takeoff was perfect, with 33 of the 33 Raptor engines roaring at the same time, which marks the first reuse of a super heavy propeller. Booster 14 had first flown on flight 7. Although they were restored between Misiones, 29 of their 33 Raptor engines were second hand. One of them, on 314, has taken off today for the third and last time, moving forward in the rapid reuse objective of the two starship stages. Raptor 2 Restored Motors for Flight 9, including 314 with the reference to the PI number Disintegrated in full return. Two and a half minutes after takeoff, the ship turned on its six engines and separated from the propeller. Spacex has tried for the first time a super heavy turn in a controlled direction to save fuel. It has gone well. Next, Booster 14 initiated a more aggressive return sequence, with a higher angle of attack. Six and a half minutes after takeoff, when the propeller had to turn on its engines, it exploded in the air. Due to the experiments in the return maneuver, an explosion was not out of the pools, but it was the worst scenario in this flight phase. The data that Spacex has collected will help to avoid being repeated. Starship has reached space. Meanwhile, the upper stage of the rocket, the Starship 35 ship, continued its trip, reaching for the first time in three attempts a suborbital trajectory that would take it from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean. Although the failure streak of the two previous missions has broken (7 due to a harmonic response that caused propellant leaks and 8 for a hardware failure in a Raptor engine), the ship ended up failing anyway. It is the third prototype of the second generation of Starship. All have failed. Starlink satellite models (center) that were left without going out for the gate (right) The gate has not opened. One of the objectives of this flight was the deployment of eight new generation Starlink satellite models, which would have meant the first time Starship released a useful load. Scheduled for about 18 and a half minutes after takeoff, the test could not be carried out because the cargo bay gate, a mechanism that Spacex knows as “fish dispenser”, did not finish opening, forcing the attempt to leave, as happened on flight 3 of Starship. The ship has lost control. The other similarity of flight 9 with flight 3 is that Starship lost control 30 minutes after launch. The ship began to rotate uncontrolled after Spacex detected a leak in some of the fuel tank systems, many of which are used for the attitude control of the vehicle. As on flight 3, Spacex had to cancel another of the important experiments of this mission: the redempted of one of the Raptor engines in the space flight. But the worst of the failure was not to prove, once again, the improvements and experiments related to the thermal shield and the new ailerons of the ship. Spacex lost contact with Starship 35 during the reentry, thus ending a mission with more shadows than lights. The third second generation starship It has ended like its two predecessors: disintegrating.

When Ibáñez lost Mortadelo’s rights in 1985 he created a new magazine where they would have another name: ‘I and I’ ‘

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In 67 years of life, Mortadelo and Filemón have lived a relatively placid existence: always under the authorship of its creator, Francisco Ibáñez, and published by the successive publishers who have held their rights. Sure? Well, not quite. Basic and officially, this is so, but in his career we find numerous potholes. Secret cartoonists who replaced Ibáñez without their permission, fighting for the rights of the characters, long seasons without charging … or the six criticism weeks in which the author published his creatures avoiding mentioning them. This is the story of ‘I and me’. The schism started in 1985, when Francisco Ibáñez left Bruguera, the editorial veteran who had been publishing the characters since 1958. The reason was the author’s discontent with the treatment of the editorial: he lived under asphyxiating work pressure, having to produce about forty weekly pages of Mortadelo For headers who multiplied: ‘Mortadelo’, ‘Super Mortadelo’, ‘Mortadelo Gigante’, ‘Special Mortadelo’ … It was in 1973 when the publishing house, without its permission and in need of more volume of stories, began to resort to cartoonists that they will imitate their stories to generate more stories of mortadelos. That purpose set in a study led by cartoonist Blas Sanchís, who came to have more than fifteen cartoonists and screenwriters under the name of Bruguera Equ. His work was not exactly small: They generated as many pages as the legitimate creator of the characters and even complete albums as ‘The Treasury’ or ‘The infallible growing’ comes. Bruguera Equipo developed a “Calcar Machine”, a template system that allowed copying the teacher’s comics. Although the general consensus is that, except frankly inspired copies, such as Casanyes, the stories of Bruguera Eiers lacked the grace of the originals. And most importantly: Ibáñez did not see a hard for any of it. This uncomfortable situation resulted in a legal battle, with Bruguera refusing to recognize intellectual property to Ibáñez and finally, Ibáñez marching halfing the story ‘the security preb’. The cartoonist’s march was not made public until 1986, When the press published the rupture And Bruguera had been editing things like ‘El Cochecito Leré’, a story that had previously been created for the German market (where the characters were as popular as in Spain), and performed entirely by the Bruguera Equ. In any case, Bruguera would not give much more war: he closed in 1986. Grijalbo arrives and stays with the pair of bald Bruguera’s cartoonists were very disputed in that situation, and Ibáñez was not the only discontent, because they had been charging intermittently since 1982. With Bruguera in free fall, he and others like Raf (‘Sir Tim O k Grijalbo to get the magazine ‘Guai!’, A clear imitation of the Bruguera style, but where they could not use their classic characters. Ibáñez created in this new magazine ‘Chicha, Tato and Clodoveo’, which would repeat some plot schemes of ‘Mortadelo and Filemón’, already ‘7, Rebolling Street’, a clear double page imitation of ’13, Rue del Percebe ‘. But the situation would take a new turn when in 1987 Law 22/1987 on intellectual property and copyright, which would recognize the property of the characters for the benefit of the cartoonist. Ibáñez had a free way to use them and would do it in a new Grijalbo magazine expressly created for it in 1987 … but that legally could not use the name of the characters in the header, because with that use they belonged to Bruguera. The solution was to call the magazine ‘I and I’, in what would be a very strange commercial decision: Mortadelo appeared as a claim (and Thus had been publicized In the magazine ‘Guai!’), But not mentioned on the cover. Ibáñez would not get away from the ghost of the apocryphal cartoonists, because their ‘chicha, tato and clodoveo’ would continue in their original head, but made by other artists without accrediting. Only six numbers later, the magazine closes, it is not clear why: the most possible reason is that Grupo Z (new owner of the rights of Bruguera, which would exploit from its seal editions b) pressed to Grijalbo. Six months later, in December, Ibáñez for editions B, which in all this time had been publishing since 1986 Mortadelo stories illustrated by apocryphal cartoonists, such as ‘The Transmutant Ray’. They are black times for the characters: Although Ibáñez’s return at number 49 of the new ‘Mortadelo’ in February 1988 occurs in style, with the incredible cover of the character disguised as Tejero, the stories give an important downturn. Until 1991 we are in a Transition stage that, as it was later known (at that time it was an absolutely silenced issue), They would continue to perform anonymous equipment. Many of them would be drawn for what would be their apocryphal par excellence, Juan Manuel MuñozIbáñez trusted man who It would help you for decades to finish the character’s albums, until the death of the cartoonist. The volume of work that Editions B demanded was so high that Ibáñez was forced to record the scripts in cassettes to save time. As of 1991, however, Ibáñez will regain the complete authorship of the characters. The editor of edition B of that time, Julia Galán, demanded an improvement of the quality of ‘Mortadelo and Filemón’ to rescue them from the creative crisis they were going through, and the result were, since 1996 and with the disappearance of the magazines, long stories that would have been filled with references to the presenta certain levish continuity in characters and scenarios from one album to another and more cool arguments. Thus would remain until the death of Ibáñez in 2023, with Mortadelo and Filemón converted, despite these potholes, in absolute history of Spanish humor. Header | Grijalbo In Xataka | ‘Exterminius’: the alien photonovela that traumatized a generation from the pages of ‘Mortadelo’

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