Starliner astronauts will return home 287 days later. Another ship change has forced to modify the plans

NASA has decided to advance the return of the CREW-9 mission and, with it, that of the Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams astronauts, who left for the International Space Station on June 5, 2024 in the Boeing Starliner ship. Despite Elon Musk and Donald Trump messagesreason is not political, but operational. A few days of advance. If new delays on their trip, Butch and Suni will not return will return home on March 19. Taking into account that they were launched to space for a week, it is nine months after planned. But if we stick to The last date that NASA managedastronauts will return with a few days of advance. Context. In June 2024, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left towards the ISS aboard the Starliner space capsule, Boeing’s alternative to the Crew Dragon ship of Spacex. It was the first manned trip of the Boeing spacecraft, and it was assumed that the last certification test before starting to transport astronauts regularly to the International Space Station. However, shortly after its launch, The Starliner experienced serious problems in its propulsion systemwhich forced to suspend his return. The situation lasted several months until NASA decided that the ship returned empty. This accident left astronauts at the space station and forced NASA to find a different solution for its return. What they are waiting for. Once the destiny of the Starliner, Wilmore and Williams decided, they became part of the permanent crew of the ISS. They work in the experiments in orbit and the maintenance of the station. They have even made space walks: Wilmore has two on this mission, and has become The woman with more hours of extravehicular activity. So that they could return, NASA He booked two empty seats on the Crew-9 mission of Spacex. The Crew Dragon ship in which they will return to Earth has been coupled to the ISS since September Station maintenance. And the CREW-10 mission is not yet ready. Another change of ship. The CREW-10 mission was supposed to take off in a new Crew Dragon ship, called C213, which has not yet flown to space. However, a technical incidence, apparently related to the ship’s batteries, forced to delay its first flight at least until the end of April. Instead of continuing to delay the calendar (and with it, the return of Wilmore and Williams), NASA has opted for a logistics maneuver: Reassign to the CREW-10 mission an already tested shipthe C210 ‘Endurance’, which was preparing to fly with the private axiom-4 mission in spring. Thanks to this ship change, Crew-9’s return not only is not delayed, but is ahead of a few days. New dates. NASA plans to launch the CREW-10 mission on March 12, 2025, which would allow the CREW-9 to return on March 19 with Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board, along with their companions Nick Hague (NASA) and Aleksandr Gorbunov (from the Russian agency Roscosmos). This change of dates responds, as we have seen, to a technical and operational issue, but explains why Elon Musk and Donald Trump published on social networks that Spacex would rescue the two astronauts “abandoned in the ISS” as soon as possible. A propaganda narrative of what was really happening after the curtain. Image | Suni Williams during a space walk (NASA) In Xataka | It is not that Elon Musk has managed to introduce its influence on NASA. Is that he has entered sweeping

China has great plans with its “new silk route.” An unexpected corner of the world threatens to truncar them: Myanmar

China has too many open fronts. On the one hand, the Technological War With the West who is serving to boost your technology industry. On the other hand, the Commercial War which is making natural resources monopolize. Also his impulse to renewable energiesbecoming the main power and growing so much that their companies have beenNzarzado in a price war. To add more pepper to the matter, its great project of the new silk route encounters an unexpected enemy: a neighboring country at war since 1948. New Silk Route. For hundreds of years, the Silk route connected the Southeast Asia with the Mediterranean. It was a series of commercial routes open by China that not only allowed a trade between many countries, but a way of expanding their influence abroad. With the decline of China due to Opium wars Already new commercial routes, in the nineteenth century, the silk route passed to the background. In the 21st century, with the new Chinese economic splendor and the desire to recover that international influence, the country impulse The initiative of the new Silk route. In 2013, President Xi Jinping advertisement His intention to revitalize the old commercial ties between Asia, Europe and in North Africa, this being one of China’s most ambitious strategies. Milmillonaria investment. The advantages seem obvious. Currently, the vast majority of world trade depends on a few maritime routes. The Portenero ships They are a ‘cheap’ solution to transport tons of goods, but they depend on a few points of passage that, if they see interrupted its activity For any reason, They cause world chaos. With a land transport, not only another route is achieved to move merchandise, but you can shorten times. With a land transport from Southeast Asia to Germany, the merchandise would take about two weeks to arrive. With the same route by sea, time is dilated until just over a month. China, being the great producer of the world, has sought to increase its position with this rail transport, something for which you have had to invest Much money in infrastructure deployment and in route width adaptations with certain paths, such as the old Soviet lines with a different path width. HE esteem that this investment has been almost a billion of euros not only in a railroad, but in ports, airports, stations and other infrastructure. Criticism. Countries around the world They benefit of these investments promoted by China. Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Malaysia or Vietnam have received important investments in land and maritime infrastructure. Russia has also improved its rail connections, improving trade between two countries (that they are needing so much). Italy and Greece have also received investments in ports. Egypt, more of the same with the strategy of the Chinese economic and commercial cooperation zone. And Panama also signed a agreement for the expansion of the train line (which just had fall After Trump’s arrival) It is one tremendous strategy both for sea and land that involves many countries and, as expected, it does not do it Too much grace. The reason is that they consider that it is a strategy from China to gain influence on developing countries, something that can play against US interests in countries, especially the Middle East, in which they have military facilities. Myanmar. The problem is that they have encountered a civil war. Myanmar, previously Burma, has been in crisis for two centuries. In the nineteenth century there were the Anglo-Birian wars, which continued in 1948 with the civil war of Myanmar. They achieved the independence of the United Kingdom, but their society was fragmented and a tremendous civil war that persists to this day began. Everything was intensified with the 2021 coup d’etat to overthrow the democratic government, which has led to a new war situation with millions of internal displacements in recent years. And, in that lack of lack of control, with internal struggles to control territories and commercial roads, China has encountered an important stumbling block in the development of its new silk route. Rare earth. China and Myanmar share more than 2,100 kilometers of border, being the Chinese province of Yunnan is the most affected. And the problem is that the presence of military groups and ethnic tensions is preventing China Agreements of the new silk route. The area, in addition, is rich in Rare earthsomething that China dominates and wants to continue controllingso the country is showing warm with the situation of its neighbors. China’s role. As we read in BBCChina did not want to get wet in this whole matter, which is now splashing. When the army gave the coup d’etat, Xi Jinping did not condemn him and continued to sell them weapons. However, he also did not recognize the military as the new heads of state. In fact, experts already consider that China is pressing so that things are again as before, not because they want to return to democracy or peace, but because they want to continue developing their commercial strategy. From the Myanmar regime it is suspected that Beijing is playing two bands supporting both the army and the rebels, who use Chinese weapons. But, the only thing China can do right now is to wait and press on both sides to achieve a peace agreement that allows them to continue with their businesses. Meanwhile, and as always, the people are the one who is suffering the consequences, with more than three million displaced and thousands of dead since 2021. Images | Rowanwindwhistler In Xataka | China has been building a megapuerto in Peru for eight years. It has just been released to revolutionize South America

Apple plans to present the iPhone is 4 in the next few days, according to Gurman. The arrival of the expected mobile is approaching

Apple last updated the iPhone se Three years ago. In March 2022 A new device appeared that retained the lines, the LCD visualization panel and the Touch ID of The previous generation. It was a continuous bet that did not risk too much. This may be about to change, At least according to what Mark Gurman says. Bloomberg analyst points out that Apple plans to present the iPhone se 4 next week. Shipments, according to the sources consulted, would begin at the end of the month. We are facing a rumor that does not go unnoticed because it is one of the most anticipated phones of the Cupertino company, mainly for what its review promises. What to expect from the iPhone se 4? Rumors about the device have been accumulating for a long time, all before the silence that Apple usually. Recall that the apple signature does not usually provide No track about your products until the day of your presentation. However, Gurman’s reputation allows us to carefully contemplate the following unofficial information. It will have a bigger screen with Face ID Will release design without the classic starting button Will equip an A18 chip like the one that has the iPhone 16 Will stop using the modem made by Qualcomm How could it be anticipated, the iPhone will be compatible with Apple Intelligence. Gurman does not need the amount of RAM that the phone will have, but we could assume that it will arrive with 8 GB to support this feature that has become central for the firm led by Tim Cook. What has been confirmed that it is that It will arrive with USB-C port. Nor are there details about the price, data that we will know if it finally occurs within a few days. As a reference, the iPhone 3 reached the market in 2022 at a price of 529 euros. This year also promises to be interesting for the rest of the family’s products, with the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro receiving important updates. Images | AB In Xataka | Samsung Galaxy S25+, Analysis: When you are really great, continuity is the right decision … but with extra with

SoftBank plans to invest up to $ 25,000 million in Sam Altman’s company

SoftBank is discussing something important: they plan to invest up to 25,000 million dollars in Openai. That would make the Japanese company the greatest financial support of Chatgpt. The movement also occurs at a very significant moment. Stargate. The good relationship between both companies has recently been strengthened with the announcement of the Project Stargate, the initiative that states that several companies (including Openai and Softbank) invest 500,000 million dollars to create a large infrastructure of AI data centers in the AI ​​data centers Joined. And then there is the hardware project with Jony Ive. We knew that Sam Altman and Jony Ive had gathered to talk about jointly developing a hardware device with AI. Later it was learned that Softbank was too very interested in the project and had invested in it, although since then There have been barely details About those efforts. The relationship with Microsoft cools. But it is also that in recent months we have seen how the alliance between Openai and Microsoft also lost strength. The Colossal Microsoft investment In early 2023 seemed to unite them forever, but nothing is further from reality. A year later Microsoft began looking Your plan b for stop depending on itand soon it was clear that this was a relationship dated Cacudity. Microsoft is A clear rival of OpenAi, and the non-dilio between them is already teaching seams. SoftBank as a new girlfriend. All this seems to make Softbank come right in time to become the new OpenAi wealthy girlfriend. According to Financial Times The Japanese company plans to invest between 15,000 and 25,000 million dollars in Openai, but attention: that departs from the approximately $ 15,000 million that will contribute to Stargate. OpenAi Manirrota. Sam Altman’s company continues burning money as if there were no tomorrow. The October 2024 round with which he managed to lift 6,600 million dollars It would fall very short next to the one Openai. Many other AI startups are receiving important rounds, but the OpenAi company with SoftBank would be a new record. And then there is arm. There is another important element of this potential new alliance. ARM, Absolute Pilar of the development of mobile chips for years, also wants to become a company that offers powerful AI chips, and that could be an important element of the alliance and perhaps its implementation in Stargate. Image | Wikimedia |Wikimedia In Xataka | Stargate impossible accounts: the challenge of finding 500,000 million dollars for the largest IA project

announces an increase in the cost of all its plans, including ads

In October of last year, the streaming platform did not even bother to apply another increase in prices. subscription prices in Spain. And now the cost of using your platform is going to increase on numerous fronts, as also applies an increase at the price you will pay to add an extra member to the plan so that you can continue playing your content. And while other content platforms like Spotify have only effective an increase in the last 12 years, Netflix has been applying one after another and without knowing for sure if this will be the last, since since it began to block shared accounts it has not stopped modifying the price of its subscriptions. Anyone who thought that 2025 was going to be left without a price increase can now abandon that idea, since the platform with the highest number of subscribers just announced another change to their subscriptionsalthough for now they will stay in the United States; It will not take long for them to be applied in the rest of the countries, as will happen in Spain. The company just announced an increase after a recent earnings presentation and the increase was verified through its website. First, the basic plan with ads goes from $6.99 to $7.99 in the monthly subscription, while the standard ad-free plan goes from $15.49 to $17.99 per month. Which results in a increase of 2.50 dollars and approximately 16.49% applied to the ad-free subscription, which was once the platform’s basic subscription before advertising came to the multimedia content that Netflix offers to its users. Scene from the second season of ‘The Squid Game’. Netflix’s premium plan also receives a raise and now it remains at $24.99 per month from the $22.99 that it has been costing the subscriber’s pocket each month. Here an increase of 2 dollars in the premium is applied to apply 8.70%. But there is more, and the platform has not forgotten the cost for the subscriber to add a new member to their plan so that they can enjoy their platform. Yeah I used to charge $7.99 a month for an extra member for ad-free playback, now goes to $8.99. Netflix The Free Android Yes, according to The New York Times, add an alternative to this experience with the option of paying $6.99 per month for an extra member, but to play the platform’s content with ads. What remains to be seen is when this increase will be applied in Spain as in the rest of the countries, which could take a while. The reason is unknown, but The Wrapat the end of last year, reported that in its own country users are consuming 23% less streaming services to reach an average per citizen of 42.38 dollars, when the previous year, in 2023, they reached the figure of 55.04 dollars per month.

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