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Tamara was the background of the junk television barrel of the two thousands. Netflix has managed to reinvent it completely

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The nostalgia It has absolutely unsuspected vericuetos. Who gets out of fashion Retro video gamesthe eighty cinema franchiseseven the looks that we thought we would not see anymore It is one thing. But recover an absolutely dependent television fauna from a very specific point of our pop culture (realities absolutely outdatedthe sagas of characters that seemed fiction but were very real, the excessive and openly feast aesthetics of the beginning of the century) is something very different. Superstar. The culmination of this return from that literally indescribable area of the two thousands has worked with the series’Superstar‘, a highly fictional chronicle of those years produced by the Javis, created by Nacho vigalo and issued by Netflix. Tamara and Margarita Sixdedos, Leonardo Dantés, Paco Porras, Tony Genil, Loly Álvarez and Arlequín make up an absolutely locked microcosm in itself and that is equally eccentric in the series. And a concert, tip. In a line curiously parallel to the argument of the series (which, we insist, is far from being a biopic to use), this new wave of interest in tamarism has the most unexpected effect of all: A YURENA MACROCONGERthe artist previously known as Tamara, on March 23, 2026 at the Vistalegre Palace in Madrid. The event will be titled ‘Yurena: the concert that was never’ and its promoter describes it as “A unique event that rewrites the story of an artist to which television turned into a phenomenon and time, in legend. “ Reinvent the past. The main characteristic of the series is that (unlike previous incursions of the Javis in certain areas of the past, such as’Poison‘) At no time is it intended to be a reliable portrait of what happened, but each episode focuses on one of the characters involved to tell that so television that is “its truth.” To the extreme: if one of them said he had Michael Jackson eating macaroni at his house, we see him; If another said that he was kidnapped by a sect that abused him and revealed plans for the underground control of Spanish reality, we see it. And what remains. Because the Spain of that time gives for much more: of the imitators of Chiquito de la Calzada (an indescribable phenomenon already in itself) to the guests of the program of Jesús Quintero, going through the fauna of the film of Jesús Cárdenas or the Guirigais that each night were mounted in the programs of Javier Sardá and Pepe Navarro. A true lack of control, noisy and subversive, which is portrayed and analyzed in ‘superstar’ with a very personal author, Vigalondo, where they are, on an absolutely novel plane, Tamara and David Lynch. Maybe the only honest way of seeing it. The return. Of course, ‘superstar’ has not entered the most watched international top of Netflix, because tamarism is an absolutely Spanish phenomenon, incomprehensible beyond our borders. But it has served to unleash a new wave of tamarist claim: the concert in Vistalegre will be its culmination, although as the artist says, She has never stopped acting. Because tamarism never left, it continued in our subconscious, waiting for the time to come back. Header | Netflix In Xataka | Netflix premiered the first scene generated with AI in an original production, and nobody realized: the moment has arrived

Mazda wants to reinvent the electric car with an electric car that is not entirely electric. In China they have improved the idea

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An electric that is not electric. Or that, at least, it is not completely electric. In Spain we are not very accustomed to seeing extended rank electric cars, a proposal that makes a lot of sense in some conditions and that they want to exploit in China. A proposal that Mazda already put on the table. What is an EREV? Extended Ranger Electric Vehicle, for its acronym in English. Or extended autonomy electric vehicle, How we know him in Spain. They are particular electric cars because they are halfway between the plug and electric hybrid. In general, it is a car designed by and to be used as an electric car on a day -to -day basis. Unlike a plug -in hybrid where when the battery is over the car works like a hybrid to use, the idea with the EREV is to always have the feeling that we are using an electric car. It would be something like an electric with a “emergency” combustion engine. Mazda is clear. Although in the market we have seen some other incursion, perhaps the company that has emphasized the system is Mazda. Although the Mazda 6e He is going well in sales and can be a hard rival for him Tesla Model 3 In Europe, the Japanese have insisted on several occasions that they are not completely clear that the future must be exclusively electric. He Mazda Ionic spfor now, only a prototype, affects this idea of extended autonomy electric. Designed for completely electrical use but with a small rotary engine that allows you to pull it when you need to work with gasoline. If, for example, we want to leave the weekend and make a mountain port. Although it has not been a great success, the idea has already explored it with the Mazda MX-30an electric of very contained autonomy (just over 200 kilometers on the highway) to which a rotary engine that recharges the battery when it is emptied. Thus, the engine acts as an electricity generator but is still decoupled from the wheels so the touch is the same as with an electric. Works in that case as a series hybrid. Why do they insist? When Mazda has influenced the disadvantages of the electric car, he has emphasized two issues: Large batteries are more expensive: Following Toyota’s philosophy of 1-6-90Mazda specifies that a battery to give autonomies of hundreds of kilometers forces them to make prices more than they would like. Large batteries are heavier: and that threatens its philosophy of Light Sports rather than powerful. That is why they prefer to explore the combination of two engines (thermal and electrical) for a possible new sports launch and that is why they bet on a rotating, very compact and low weight engine. In China they buy it. Mazda is not alone in this idea. As we said, in Europe we have already seen cases such as Mazda MX-30 but in its day BMW also tried with a BMW I3 Rexa car that was undoubtedly an advanced in his time. In Spain you can also buy the LEAPMOTOR C10 REEVa Chinese car distributed by Stellantis that has this peculiar technology. And in China these cars are the most common. They are vehicles that enter the Nev category (which in the country covers plug -in hybrids and electric). They have a multitude of options and even It has been rumored that the next Xiaomi will set up this structure. The advantages, as we said, smaller batteries (lower price) and electric touch. Or take it to the next level. But the last step of an EREV is to ensure that yes or yes, it becomes an electric for 99% of situations and that the combustion engine really provides support exclusively in emergency situations. This is what It will present the Chinese company IM Motors next August. Your proposal It is that of a 66 kWh battery car, equal to or superior to many electric cars that are already sold as an option for day -to -day Peugeot E-3008 It exceeds it by little, with 73 kWh). It is what they call an outstanding “super rank” car because, without intervening the electric motor, I would already deliver 450 kilometers of autonomy (according to the Chinese homologation cycle). And with all the advantages of an electric. Because the idea is not only that the car works almost as an exclusive electric vehicle or that the touch of it is the electricity even if it has a combustion engine pushing, the battery may work at 800 voltsso extremely high recharges are expected. The recharge power has not yet been revealed but the 800 V batteries allow to exceed 250 kW, powers that in Spain are unusual and available at a few points but are more than usual in China. In fact, IM Motors will be the company that offers the extended rank electricity with the largest market capacity but only a few months ago than Catl already put on the table The same structures with 4C ultra -grape load, that is, that can multiply the battery capacity by four. n The case of IM Motors, will have to load more than 264 kW of power to match the load of the catl option. Photo | Im Motors and Mazda In Xataka | Hybrid, plug or electric hybrid: which to buy depending on the use and advantages of each

After decades of success, the restaurant day menu faces its great crisis and a dilemma: reinvent or die

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A few weeks ago the veteran articulist David Sharrock published in The Times A wide report about Madrid gastronomy. So far not surprising. That in Spain we enjoy a good kitchen, with large dishes, chefs, restaurants and ingredients is no surprise. The funny thing is that in his analysis Sharrock does not talk about that. The focus focused on another symbol of homeland cuisine, one that passes through low hours and faces the complex challenge of adapting to the 21st century: THE DAY MENU. Sharrock warns that the lifelong menu is “threatened by modern life.” And he is not the only one who thinks like that. A figure: four million. The menu of the day is an institution in the bars of Spain. And for several reasons. The first, its long tradition, which can be traced at least 60 years agowhen in the time of Fraga Iribarne as Minister of Information the Francoist Government established that a good part of the food stores offered a menu at a fixed price. The goal: to enhance tourism. The second key that demonstrates to what extent the formula of the daily menu has penetrated in Spanish gastronomy is its level of implementation. The Spain hospitality association estimates that some are dispatched every day four million throughout the country, which leads to its general secretary, Emilio Gallego, to claim your acceptance. “The menu of the day remains a spectacular success formula,” he says. A price: € 14. Hospitality in Spain has not only calculated how many menus are served daily in the country’s restaurants. At the end of last year he published A report in which goes beyond and analyzes its prices, profitability and the differences between regions. Your main conclusion? That at least in 2024 the average cost of the menu of the day in Spain was around 14 euros, although there are cities in which this figure is quite higher. In Bilbao, for example, the average was 15.5 and Barcelona in 15.1, although there are those who clarify that it results today “Almost impossible” Find a menu in the center of Barcelona for less than 16 euros. Are all strengths? No. The menu perhaps enjoy a long tradition and is rooted in the hospitality of Spain, but on its horizon they appear clouds. And one of them (and the most important) is found in its price. Although its rates increased by 19.5% between 2016 and 2024 (which in practice translates into 11.7 to 14 euros), hospitality in Spain remember that this accumulated increase remains below the general CPI (23.4%) and is much lower than that of food and beverages or the one that In your day They reached certain key products in kitchens, such as olive oil. Between 2023 and 2024 the menus did rise above the general price index, but despite that rebound, of 80 cents on average, the collective recalls that there are many hoteliers to which it is difficult for their businesses to give benefits. To be more precise, They cite a study which reveals that 42.3% of entrepreneurs claim to have experienced a “loss of profitability” during the last year, especially due to the increase in salary costs, food and supplies. At the end of 2024 almost a third of the restaurants (32.5%) admitted that their menus had not increased that year. “Totally in danger”. The hospitality data of Spain give a track of the first great challenge facing the menus for their survival: profitability. To succeed, a menu of the day must offer a range of attractive dishes and a certain variety, but it must also convince in another crucial aspect: the price. The key is how to fit that list (high quality, variety and low price) and at the same time the business gets more than cover costs. A few months ago a hotelman from Vigo I recognized to The country That, despite the fact that his bar was small and that he takes care of almost everything, so that his offer is “viable” needs to sell at least 40 daily menus at a price of 15 euros. “Below that figure, it will only serve to cover costs.” “It is totally in danger, and fortunately, because it is not a sustainable model for the hotelier,” Point to the same newspaper Paco Cruz, The Food Manager, speaking precisely about the state of health of the menus. In his opinion, the formula is profitable basically in certain businesses, with a good flow of clients and experience. The AI, to the rescue. “The customer of the menu of the day wants first five, five seconds and variety every day. But what do you do with what is left over? If everyone asks for the same, what about the dishes that are not requested? The losses are brutal and that is unsustainable from any point of view: economic, ethical and environmental,” Add Cruz. The challenge is so complex that there are those who have already sought help in AI, as Fusion was checked in Madridwhere chef Eneko Atxa and physicist Eneko Axpe presented a tool designed to design attractive menus … and above all profitable. Objective: efficiency. “Inflation is almost 40%. The diner says they are charging me more, 19.5, but the hotelier has a hard time doing 39.2 more,” recalled During the ATXA presentation before adding to that price increase the increase in rentals and energy. The objective of the delight tool is precisely to look for “an orderly efficiency” in the menu, maximize the benefit and seek maximum efficiency in the number of chefs, customers and purchase. “The menu is an immaterial good in our culture and one of the challenges and problems facing hoteliers and diners,” Axpe points out. Cost of costs (and something else). Although inflation and imbalance between the rise in prices and salaries is one of the great challenges of the menu of the day, it is not the only one. As Sharrock points out in Your chronicle of The Times The format … Read more

reinvent the ways of playing

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The multiplayer has been present in video games since the beginning of time: and the legendary ‘Spacewar!’ or ‘pong’, grandparents of current video games, were designed to be enjoyed in company, although always with competitive spirit. But for a while to this part, and at the time of the infinite branching that video games have lived in an entire panoply of styles, arguments and public, cooperative multiplayers are living a new golden age. ‘Split Fiction’, point and apart. The new EA game makes it clear that we live an ideal time for those players who prefer to build together a story or a game experience, rather than play to kill (which is also very good). And it does not come out of nothing: its creators, Hazelight Studios, already revolutionized the cooperatives a few years ago with the fabulous ‘It Takes Two’, setting a game form that favors, in its mechanics and its aesthetics, the joint construction: through the split screen, the players have to cooperate to advance in platform areas, fight with enemies or overcome joint challenges laser). He always cooperated. Almost from the same medium origins we find cooperative games. Already in the golden age of the Arcades, titles such as ‘Joust’, ‘Mario Bros.’ or ‘Gauntlet’ promoted collaboration to overcome common enemies. But later, in the nineties, it should be remembered that one of the most famous genres of the time, the Brawlers Street or ‘I against the neighborhood’ were eminently cooperative. ‘Final Fight’, ‘Double Dragon’, ‘Golden Ax’, ‘Cabal’, ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’, ‘The Simpsons’ and many more had a very clear mechanic: he takes a friend (or more) and survive this infinite wave of donkeys with crest. Ech me a hand. Collaborating in the resolution of a problem is a mechanic that has only evolved to current games and video games. Anyone who has solved a ROOM escape In the company of a group of colleagues or have played epoces of collaboration in board games such as ‘Gloomhaven’ will know about the unique levels of satisfaction (many of them studied by science, both at the level psychological as behavioral) that is achieved with this type of mechanics. The new wave of cooperative games. However, the times of diversification of styles and players, and also the popularization of games not exclusively oriented to the public Hardcore has led to the appearance of a New cooperative games styleoften frantic, accessible aesthetics and arguments with a daily point, which sweep sales and become fans of specific fans. They are titles such as the kitchen game Fast, brief, fun and with more depth and addictive load of what it seems. Fresh times. These games (and his competitive classmates, that a Mario Kart is still a Mario Kart) encourage the local game, the push -ups on the couch and the screams live at the time when the multiplayer seemed to have definitely cooled direct relationships playing before the screen. That is why they are especially appropriate for couples of players, and we return to It Takes Two, they have been qualified as ‘Couple therapy’ In video game format. Header | EA In Xataka | 104 Multiplayer games for PC, consoles and mobiles with which to play with friends

We have been trying to reinvent the wheel for years. It turns out that it was as simple as replacing it with pilates balls

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I have always seemed curious the saying “We are not going to reinvent the wheel.” It is used when trying to develop a solution from scratch instead of taking advantage of an already proven and works well. And I say it seems curious because We have reinvented the wheel On many occasions, and we continue to do so. Two examples are wheels without air And, above all, the solutions for vehicles operating on land like Mars. Although circulars, its technology and design have nothing to do with the wheels we use daily. And, okay, I accept that, being circular, we are really changing the materials, not reinventing the object. But what if instead of making circular wheels … we made them spherical? Because that is precisely what the engineer and youtuber James Bruton has built: some omnidirectional wheels that solve current problems They have motorcycles and that would also be very interesting if they apply to vehicles such as cars and trucks. Let’s welcome the wheel II To reinvent the wheel, the system should not be just an improved version of the original. As I commented, the Antipinhazos wheels They are not a completely reinvention, but a technological improvement. What Bruton has achieved could be described as a reinvention (although he has side more than one attempt). The reason? In its motorcycle prototype of the future, we not only have the two balls that make contact with the ground, but a system of three rotary mechanisms for each wheel that are really applying the necessary force to move the balls and, therefore, the vehicle. More than the spheres, the key to the peculiar movement of this vehicle are systems that rotate in opposite directions and all the time balance each other to achieve movement. Each of these mechanisms is driven by an electric motor that transfers the power, but also introduced a self -evaluated system similar to that of a Segway. In this way, it is not necessary to rely on the floor with the legs when the vehicle stops, and it is not necessary to maintain the balance in a “manual” way. Its advantages? You can go back without boosting with your legs. It has lateral displacement. You can make diagonals and turn on your axis. For a parking lot, this is great. In the video it is very interesting to see that the noise it makes is minimal, that it reaches some speed and that the mechanisms that rotate the balls are working all the time to give speed to the vehicle and to maintain balance. Imperfect, but with potential Now, it is not perfect. In the video we can see that the youtuber has trouble going straight and There seems to be a quite pronounced difficulty curve both to go forward and to take a curve. In a road situation, it would be something really dangerous because, in addition, we do not have a conventional handlebar, but a bar that remains fixed and controls rotating the handle. There is also a time when it accelerates more of the account and the balls are shot. Wow, something like that would need your own driver’s license if applied to the real world, but if the problems were solved, it is a very interesting system for motorcycles due to automatic balance. For cars and trucks it would not be a bad idea either, since they could park much more simplely. Seeing this invention, the Audi of the movie ‘I, robot’ that has similar wheels and It was a real prototype. Also the Byd video parking in parallel Thanks to nailing the front wheels and making the rear turn slowly to “skid” until the car is aligned in the parking lot. Will we adopt wheel one day like these? Whatever happens, the truth is that it is interesting how we continue to find new ways to improve something that has implanted so many years. Images | James Bruton In Xataka | Bridgestone has set out to literally reinvent the wheel (and is already testing it in electric cars)

After 24 years of saga, it seemed impossible to reinvent the wheel. ‘Civilization VII’ has achieved it

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One more shift and I leave it. When we talk about a shift strategy game, specifically one of the saga ‘civilization’that phrase is a cliché. That is why it is less true, and something that I have discovered in recent days with the analysis of ‘Civilization VII’ is to what extent I missed that feeling that I had for months with the fifth installment and that lost some magic With the sixth. It is always difficult to talk about a strategy game because what it offers is very different from what we can live in an adventure or action title, these being more linear and anchored experiences, in general, to which developers want you to live. In a ‘civilization’, the strategy has to do, but it doesn’t matter the plans you make because the artificial intelligence of the game is there to punch. And from the last game of the remarkable saga of Sid Meier I have two things to say. The first is that I thought I was tired of the franchise formulasince I have been with this experience for many years and, despite being the VI in the market, I kept playing every time to V (For me, the best). The second thing I have to say is that I was wrong. I didn’t know to what extent. Who wants historical fidelity Every time a game with historical dyes is launched, there is no lack of those who argue that any detail that comes out of what is considered ‘historical fidelity’ is something that ruins the experience. I read some comments of this style when it was learned that in this game we could have Isabel I of Castilla as the leader of the Han of Chinabut let’s be serious: we are in a saga in which it is goal to launch the atomic bomb with Gandhi. We cannot come now with historical fidelity. I admit that it is shocking for those who carry several deliveries of the saga, but choosing leader and civilization separately is something that changes everything. If the saga already allowed us, more or less, to do what we would like, Now freedom is total. Each of the leaders has some attributes and their own tree, but each civilization also has its characteristics. Taking advantage of that mechanics is what will help us to have a better or worse in the game (not in fun, but in terms of frustration) but I think, otherwise, it is pure ‘civilization’. This is: to found the capital of our empire, building buildings of production, fun, research, economy or military in the adjacent boxes; Found new cities and try to conquer the map. All this in shifts and while we make crumbs with some neighbors who, many times, are quite touches noses. I think the best thing I can do is tell you about my first game. I started with the Vietnamese Trung Trắc, who faced the Han dynasty. Well, my civilization, precisely, was that of Han. Attributes: militaristic and scientific. “It serves me,” I thought, so … to work. As I knew it was the game for the analysis, I wanted to give it pepper (I regretted immediately) and I started in medium difficulty, with huge map and founded my capital next to a volcano (they enter into the erupting destroying buildings from time to time). I started expanding and soon I founded two other cities: one mining company and one agricultural, all with the sea, so it could happen in the future. I continued advancing my city and creating only some units, Until I met Benjamin Franklin. All good at first. Also with Machiavelli, whom I met shortly after. And with José Rizal things also like silk. “I am a pacifist,” I thought, although Trung is doing the military. To Machiavelli, no water When I followed my ball expanding and strengthening my relationship with the three, Machiavelli and Benjamin went their heads and declared the war mutually, also Rizal. He supported whoever supported, two were going to be angry, so I did what any militarist shark mind would do: I supported Rizal, who lived much further, and went into war with Machiavelli and Benjamin. Both. I wanted to stay its cities, so it came from pearls. I started to fortify my cities and reinforce the borders. I created a siege ballist and destroyed one of the cities of Machaiavelo. It was the one hundred and peak turn and my enemy were no longer two dead as Italian and the American, but … the crisis. I knew that crises were a mechanics of the game, but I was so concentrated that I didn’t see him coming. And it arrived, as if it were Lehman Brothers in 2008. Aid The crisis reached my empire with social discontent and an economic hole due to the number of units it had to maintain. I did what a leader does: look for oil in a foreign nation And keep pressing my enemies without paying attention to my people when, suddenly, everything ended. Antiquity came to an end and the era of discoveries came. It was necessary to decide what civilization to make the leap and chose the Norman (total, put to burst historical fidelity …) and discovered something curious: the crisis had vanished. My units had made the leap to their most current versions of the new age, the buildings had changed design, some that no longer served were gone and all the wars had vanished (although the relationship with the enemy leaders did not improve). He had to start over a new era, one that rewards you with juicy resources if you are going to explore new continents, where there will also be other factions with which to decide how to relate. And there I was, with the crisis resolved as if by magic, with a city of Machiavelli in my possession, having demonstrated to Benjamin how the Chinese are spent controlled by a Vietnamese and with a new … Read more

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