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The great technological technological ones give the teleworking, but the data tell a different story: it has doubled

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In recent months, the great US technological ones They have hardened your policies return to your offices and Eliminating teleworking optionswhile They bet for the accelerated development of AI. However, the Spanish labor market does not follow the same trend with respect to teleworking. The data collected for the report ‘V Telework radiography in Spain September 2025‘ Prepared by Infojobs, they reveal that although it is true that the percentages have fallen with respect to the records from 2020 to 2022, the teleworking has remained stable at levels that double those recorded before 2020. Teleworking in Spain. While in Silicon Valley the headlines proliferate on the end of teleworking, In Spain, work flexibility takes a different path. The data collected by the Infojobs Employment Portal indicate that Spain has maintained sustained growth in terms of Teleworking adoption. 25% of workers currently perform their activity with some remote work formula or in hybrid format. The Last data Of 2024 of the Active Population Survey, they point out that 7.8% of the total active population worked at least half of its weekly day from home, compared to 7.6% who claimed to do it occasionally. In absolute figures, this represents a total of 3.2 million people, placing the percentage of teleworking in Spain around 15.4% of the total employed people working remote. This figure is well above 6% registered in 2019 by the INE, or of 8.3% that was recorded just before pandemic. Source: Infojobs Hybrid work: the balance between flexibility and availability. One of the keys to Teleworking success In Spain it is in its Evolution towards hybrid formatsin which face -to -face days with teleworking days. According to the Infojobs report, 44% of those who telework do so using this hybrid model with between one and four days of remote work. 24% telework two days per week, while 21% of employees who claim teleworking maintain 100% remote activity. The availability of options It has been varying In recent years and, at present, 46% of companies offer some remote work format. Of that group, only 11% of the companies maintain a 100% remote model, marking a decrease with respect to the 12% registered in 2024, but compensated for this fall with more employment offers with hybrid work, which rises from 33% to 35% in just one year. Source: Infojobs Leading sectors on teleworking. While many sectors have experienced an increase in the number of Job offers with teleworkingthe commercial and sales sector leads both in number of workers who exercise remotely and in the volume of new vacancies (39,184 published offers). In the opposite pole, the sectors with less remote work offers are the pharmacist (283 vacancies) and graphic design and arts (499 offers). As for the weight of teleworking by sectors, the sector that most remote employment offers has published is that of computer science and telecommunications (68%) followed closely by legal (58%) and finance (52%). That is, seven out of ten programmers, computer engineers or people, work under some remote work model. According to the study, the sectors with the lowest incidence of teleworking are those inevitably face -to -face, such as tourism and restoration, artisans and trades or health and health, which record values ​​below 1%. Who and where he works remotely. Among the most demanded profiles with teleworking options are, as indicated by sectoral data, IT analysts, Backend and Border developers, ICT consultants and fullstack engineers. All of them with teleworking options between 75 and 90% of the published offers. From the geographical point of view, a curious phenomenon happens and the concentration of teleworking is based on the nature of the predominant industry in that area, instead of allowing disintegration throughout the national territory. This phenomenon is due to hybrid work that, although it allows you to reduce displacements to the office, maintains anchoring with the territory by reducing the chances of workers to move to live outside the community in which the company for which they work for. The greatest proportion focuses in Madrid (40%), followed by Catalonia (19%) and Andalusia (11%), areas with strong presence of technological, commercial and financial companies. In Xataka | Working from anywhere was Teleworking: Not notifying these location changes can make you fire you Image | Unspash (Rodeo Project Management Software)

The new economy values ​​the story more than the numbers

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The risk capital always has something perverse in its arithmetic. Nothing has closed a 200 million dollar round that triggers its valuation up to 1.3 billion. Its total sales since 2020 are barely 1,000 million, so Tiger Global, who leads the round, is paying in tomorrow what the company has not yet billed throughout its history. More than investment seems theology. Because Carl Pei does not sell phones but the promise of being the anti-establishment. That transparent design, with LED guts flashing like a mechanical heart, is marketing that disguises itself as a message and cause. Each nothing sold is someone saying “I am not like you, user of iPhone”, “I am not like you, who has an android without personality.” It is a rebellion against technological conformism, despite the fact that the mobile leaves the same Chinese factories financed with the same risk capital. But it works because Investors do not buy market share (Nothing does not reach 1% world), but narrative. Same reason why a telephone more sanitized that is never worth half than before: he Storytelling Milagros work. And Nothing’s is that perhaps the technological David can, someday, stagger Goliath. Carl Pei’s genius is, rather than in his narrative, in his Timing narrative: Launches the company just when OnePlus, its previous creationit was becoming predictable and one more. Promises be Ai first When the rest promise the same. Talk about smart glasses, humanoid robots and electric cars before demonstrating a profitable smart watch. He is the perfect entrepreneur for the era of the business fomo: credible enough not to look like a charlatan, ambiguous enough For each investor to project their own fantasies “X100”. In addition, the cast of investors says everything. Tiger Global leads, but there are all the usual suspects: Is patient capital disguised as Intelligent capital. They know that nothing probably never justifies that assessment with a balance in hand, but in the casino of the SeeNTURE CAPITAL You just need a file to fall into the correct number. The interesting thing is that PEI has built something real. Its products are at least competent. Some even good. Not everyone can say the same. He has created a brand that has fitted in that group with Apple-Samsung duopoly, to whom the Pixel leaves them cold and felt as a stab the rise in xiaomi prices. Careful, History is repeated. PEI has shown that a hardware company can be built from London: there is life beyond Silicon Valley, Suwon and Shenzen. The problem is not nothing, it is a system in which the history that you tell about your company is worth more than the company. Where “disruptive potential” is a blank check and where numbers are only for accountants. The lesson here is to understand that In the economy of attention, memorable design and narrative COhere they are worth more than the market share. Nothing has converted statistical inconsequence into cultural relevance. And that, in 2025, is quoted at 1,300 kilos. Outstanding image | Nothing In Xataka | Nothing Phone (3), Analysis: it was very bored of the usual mobiles. Until the first high -end nothing arrived

Your pension tells a very different story

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In Spain, those who have worked as self -employed are that, upon reaching retirement, The amount of your pension It is significantly lower than that of its equals employees. This situation, a priori, seems entirely unfair, since, for setting a more or less close example, an autonomous electrician who works alone, will charge a salary similar to a salaried electrician for his work, and both pay a social security price that will then determine the amount of his Retirement pension. However, the main difference between the two is that, in the case of the wage earner, a part of that price is assumed by the company that hires it, while the autonomous does not do so in the same way. That difference is what causes the self -employed to retire a pension much smaller than employees. Difference of pensions between employees and autonomous. The difference between retirement pensions of salaried workers and self -employed remains considerable in 2025. According to the official data Of the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security, the average pension of the self -employed is 1,008.8 euros per month, while the employees of the general regime receive 1,665.5 euros per month on average. A relevant aspect is that this difference is even greater depending on gender. Autonomous men receive an average pension of 1,150.10 euros after retirement, while women receive 863.97 euros. This inequality is also due to the quoted years and the sections chosen during working life according to the data collected by Social Security. On average, this is a monthly difference of 657.72 euros in the retirement pension and more than 9,200 euros a year between both groups. The monthly quota: key to inequality. The pension gap between salaried and self -employed workers remains stable in the historical data, and has an obvious reason: most self -employed opt for the minimum contribution base to maximize their monthly fee. As can be seen in the lower picture, in the case of wage earners, both company and worker assume a certain percentage of the price for the employee, starting from a contribution base, being the company who assumes most of that cost and enters it in the Social Security on account of its employee. GUY Company Worker Total Common contingencies 23.60% 4.70% 28.30% Intergenerational Equity Mechanism (MEI) 0.67% 0.13% 0.80% Unemployment (indefinite contract) 5.50% 1.55% 7.05% Unemployment (temporary contract) 6.70% 1.60% 8.30% Fogasa 0.20% 0% 0.20% Professional training 0.60% 0.10% 0.70% However, the calculation of the self -employed contribution base is not made based on the salary he receives as in employees, but based on their net benefit and, depending on that amount, is welcomed by the adequate fee section. That section defines its minimum contribution base, although the autonomous can choose to quote for a larger base. Broadly speaking, so that a salaried salaried salaried salary is 1,600 euros, its contribution base must be about 2,000 euros. On the other hand, the autonomous electrician who works only from our example that receives the same net salary of 1,600 euros, will have a monthly fee of about 300 euros, but Your contribution base It will be about 960.78 euros. That implies that both charge similar wages, but the autonomous quotes for a much lower contribution base. Quotation sections and its minimum and maximum bases. THE PROBLEM: Most quote the minimum base. According to the Ministry statistics, of the 3,436,929 freelancers that exist in Spain, 2,858,865 are quoted for the minimum base for their net income or by 1.5 of the minimum base. Only 72,935 would be quoting for a base near what an salaried worker would have, which would be something close to 3 times or more than the minimum base. Returning to the example of our autonomous electrician with a net profit of 1,600 euros, it would be limited to a maximum price of 1,700 euros, which would mean an increase in its monthly fee to about 534 euros. The self -employed do not pay more quotation. In a first glance it may seem that an autonomous has a greater economic pressure than a wage earner. However, both contributions are close to 30% of the contribution base (it is an approximate percentage since it varies depending on the type of contract, sector, etc.). The main difference is that, as can be seen in the quotation box above, in the case of the wage earner the company assumes a higher percentage than the wage earner (although all part of the Gross Employee salary), while the autonomous is a company and employee in turn, which is perceived a greater impact on the relationship between net benefit and contribution base. How to save that gap. Since the totality of the quota of the contribution falls on the autonomous, to excessively elevate the monthly fee (and therefore its contribution base) to collect a retirement pension near a wage earner it is a great considerable economic effort. So it is best to increase the price base progressively as it is approaching The retirement ageto quote for the largest possible base in recent years to raise the amount of the pension. The amount of the final pension is calculated on the contribution basis of the last 25 years quoted (300 months) and, if the base has always been low, the resulting benefit is insufficient compared to employees, which are quoted according to their real salary. Therefore, in more than 60% of the Spanish provinces, the Medium Retirement Pension Of the self -employed barely exceeds 1,008 euros per month and in no community the autonomous retirement pension is equal to the minimum interprofessional salary in 2025. In Xataka | Germany has had an idea to retire does not become urban legend: pension plans for six -year -old children Image | Unspash (Matt Bennett)

The curious story of how an eight -year -old girl unwittingly discovered the paintings of the Altamira cave

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A few minutes by car from the precious, fresh and walkable Cantabrian town Santillana del Mar is one of the great national treasures, the Altamira cave. Closed to the public now for obvious reasons, but visited through a recreation made to the millimeter baptized as NeocuevaAltamira retains an impressive collection of Paleolithic paintings, the oldest with more than 30,000 years of history. And like many other great discoveries, we arrive at her by chance. This is its story. Modesto Cubillas. Although the discovery of the Altamira cave has always been involved in a certain controversythe Ministry of Culture of Spain He attributes it To Modesto Cubillas in 1868. The story that Cubillas was hunting when his dog fell through some rocks while chasing a dam. When attending his aid, he met the caverns, to which he did not give greater importance for 1) to be common in the region and 2) be covered with vegetation. The first visit. Cubillas told what he had seen his neighbors, but the thing was there. It was not until 1875 when Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, naturalist, Spanish prehistoriator and great -great grandfather of Ana Botín (president of the Board of Directors of the Santander Bank), visited the cave for the first time to meet zero units of things that called him attention, beyond black lines to which he did not give importance. Input of the Neocueva that recreates the original entrance | Image: Xataka But yes … Years later, Marcelino attended the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1878 And there he could see prehistoric objects. How were, how to identify them. Armed with new knowledge, he decided to return to the cave with the little girl María San de Sautuola y Galantehis daughter of only eight years. That was in 1879. The innocent curiosity. While the father was looking for remains at the entrance of the cave, little Maria, motivated by the innate curiosity of a girl of her age, decided to continue forward and enter the gallery. Upon arriving at the bottom, Maria shouted “Look Dad, oxen” while pointing to the roof. They were not oxen, but bison, but the error was normal: the oxen were the shot animals used in the area. Marcelino identified the species represented as the bison, which was then considered extinct in Europe, but did not find bones of the animal in the cave. Given the unusual of the cave, whose realistic paintings extended throughout the roof, thus being one of the most important and large discoveries of the moment, all kinds of debates were generated. From the denialism of discovery to accusations that it had been Marcelino himself who had painted the figures. The years, however, would be right, although this could write rivers and ink rivers. They were not oxen, they were bison | Image: Xataka And he got. The news of the discovery of the paintings soon arrived at the nearby corners. Hundreds and hundreds of people approached the cave carrying, in an entire exercise of irresponsibility as a result of ignorance, candles, candiles, compasses and strings. The visitors took the remains to their home, chopped the ground to find more and the cave began to deteriorate. Thus, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuloa decided to place a wooden door on the hole that made the entrance. Puerta that paid from his own pocket and after obtaining the authorization of the village of Vispieres, headlines of the cave. In return, he invited them to a snack that took place, curiously, inside Altamira. In the lower image the signed document can be seen and the promise of making a snack. Later, in 1880, the wooden door was changed to an iron fence and a guard was appointed. Authorization signed by the neighbors to put a wooden door at the entrance of the cave | Image: Xataka Entrance is not the original. An important note: the hole that was covered with a fence was not the original entrance. The great mouth of the cave where the inhabitants of Altamira made life collapsed 13,000 years ago. That entry remained covered until its discovery in 1869. Thanks to the stability of the inner atmosphere, the paintings have been able to preserve well for millennia. The current entrance was built in 1927 and the closest to the original mouth is the entrance to the Neocueva. THE VISITS PROBLEM. Returning to La Cueva, in 1910 the City Council of Santillana del Mar created a conservation and defense board of the cave that, back in 1917, allowed the visit with a guide. In 1924 he was declared a National Monument and the rest can be imagined. The number of people who accessed the cave increased more and more, being the 60s and 70s the most dangerous. Only in 1973 more than 174,000 people accessed inside. Such was the influx of people who, after a study and A debate that reached the Congress of DeputiesIn 1977 he closed. Panoramic roof of the Altamira cave | Image: Xataka Closed. Altamira closed its doors until 1982, when it was reopened with a limited capacity of 8,500 people a year. The interest of the people valued the idea of creating a visitable replica, something that happened in 2001 with the Neocueva located in the newly opened National Museum and Research Center of Altamira. In 2002, the cave closed the public again Waiting for impact studies. It would be reopened in February 2014 and until August of that same year, admitting five people per day for 37 minutes to study the impact of possible visits. The sign. It is not known what it means, but dates from 36,000 years ago | Image: Xataka The hand. 22,000 years old | Image: Xataka The rampant horse. 22,000 years old | Image: Xataka The goat. It is a pyrenaic goat (it is known by the horns). 18,000 years old | Image: Xataka Standing bison. 18,500 years old | Image: Xataka The deer. It is curious, because the belly is about a … Read more

The amazing story of the Paypal Mafia, weddings with AI and much more in Crossover 1×12

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Many of the great technology companies that we currently know (and its founders) have a common origin: PayPal. Elon Musk, founder/co -founder of OpenAi, Spacex, Neuralink and owner of x; Pether Thiel, president of Palantir and first Facebook external investor; Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn or Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, who They founded YouTubeThey are just some of the key names. This group is known as PayPal Magic And its history is most curious, as curious are weddings and Relations with artificial intelligence How much noise are doing recently. Or the fact that an ancient technology as old, as are the infrared sensors, continue not only live and place, but being a very important piece of day to day. All this and much more we debate it in the New Crossover episodealready available on YouTube. Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia return to the controls of this scheduled where some guests will accompany us and, small spoiler, a new face. During the program there is also space for cars. In this case we talk about OMODA 5 EV And we know better the technology that runs through their veins. From the hand of Javier Pastor we talk about that mysterious device on which they are working, in principle, Jony Ive and Sam Altman of which we only know that it is not a wearable. We hope you like it! On YouTube | Crossover

The data suggests that Germany works less hours than Spain. The reality of your labor market tells another story

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The reduction of working hours and how to face it is an issue on the debate table in a good part of the world. In Spain, the reduction of working hours is in Parliamentary Processing Phase and it is expected that at the end of the year a working day of 37.5 hours per week will be carried out. Countries like Germany, United Kingdom or Portugal have performed pilot tests of the four -day work week to evaluate The effect of that reduction. However, why is the reduction of working on if, according to 2023 data of Eurostat, in Spain the Real workday Average is already 36.4 hours a week, while in Germany is 34 hours a week? The key after that figure is in the quality of the employment of each country and reveals that, even if it may seem, a worker in Germany does not work less hours than in Spain. The middle days. In response to Eurostat data, indeed, the days in Germany seem to be shorter than in Spain, with 36.4 hours a week in front of the 34 hours of Germany. However, if we segment that data by type of day, the expected thing would be for working hours to maintain the same proportion. Nothing is further from reality. By differentiating the Eurostat data Between full time and part -time day we find that the average number of usual weekly hours in the main employment in full -time is 40.2 hours a week in both Spain and Germany. Something similar happens when differentiating the part -time Where Spain leaves an average of 20.3 hours a week, while on average part -time workers in Germany do 21.8 hours. So, if the days of Spain and Germany are not so different, why is there such a remarkable difference in the average? The key is in the quality of the labor market. Precariousness. According to him Press report Prepared by an expert council appointed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy in 2022, 42% of workers in Spain suffer some kind of precariousness (Submployment, temporary contracts, low wages, etc.). Despite that, after the 2022 labor reform, it changed The contract model expanding the use of the contract full -time indefinite. According to the 2023 INE data13.3% of the workforce in Spain worked part -time. That is, the data indicate That in that year, 15,454,000 employees worked full -time, while 2,580,900 did it part -time in Spain. Instead, the German labor market is much more fragmented in that aspect. In 2023, 31% of this country’s workers worked part -time, According to data of the Federal Statistics Office. This difference in full -time employment and part -time contracts makes a big difference in the calculation of the final average of weekly hours worked, since both variables are taken into account. Active retirement. To this is added the enormous success in Germany of the model of “Minijobs“, in which workers complement studies or retirement with part -time jobs for a few hours a week. official dataaround 13% of retirees between 65 and 74 years in Germany, they continue working, either out of economic necessity or by personal choice. On the other hand, in Spain that percentage drops to 4.08% of the retirees who choose to continue working with some or none modification in your workday. Average working life in Europe. Source: Eurostat That makes, according to Eurostat dataGermany’s working life is 39.6 years, while in Spain it is 36.3 years on average. That is, a good part of German workers work less hours a week in part -time jobs, but they do it for more years than Spanish workers. In Xataka | Some researchers have analyzed the working day in Spain: the same thing that 40 years ago is worked, but in worse jobs Image | Eurostat

The broken bones of a dog from 16,000 years ago tell an important story: it was already our pet

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Although sometimes we forget it when We look at certain dogsthese animals were wild one day. It is not clear to what exact time Dog domestication beganbut what is evident is that, for humans, it was A ‘technological’ revolution. There are hypotheses that point to a domestication that would have occurred 40,000 or 20,000 years ago, but the most consistent tests point to Some point 14,000 or 17,000 years ago. There are several deposits in which evidence of the existence of the dog has already been found as a domestic animal, being the specimen found in Guipúzcoa the oldest known to date. In 2021, however, we found more than archaeological remains of a domestic dog: we find the proof that, in the stone age, Humans already worried about these animals. Maybe Not as much as nowbut there are those who think it was when we started to be ‘Pet Friendly’ as a species. The Paleolithic dog and the two sides of our early coexistence with them The discovery occurred when a group of speleologists was exploring the Cave of Baume Traucade to the south of France. In a cavity about 160 meters underground, they found something unique: a practically complete skeleton of an adult bitch. And the analysis Recently published It allows us to know all the details of the copy. The researchers consider that it is the remains of a dog of about 26 kilos of weight and a height to the cross of about 62 centimeterssimilar to that of a current Husky. With about 16,000 years old, it is in the category of “Paleolithic dog.” This represents the transition stage between the Wild and domesticated specimens. Even so, as impressive as their conservation, taking into account their age, they are the brands they found. Mietje Germonpréfrom the Institute of Natural Sciences of Belgium, led the analysis and Comment That the humans of the Paleolithic began to collect wolf puppies from their burrows and to raise them at home as ‘pets’. The good condition of its bones allowed a comparative analysis with Lobosmodern dogs and other prehistoric fossils, but above all something caught attention: trauma marks. The team of researchers found evidence of several broken vertebrae that had healed, indicating that those humans of the past were already worried about caring for dogs when they were injured. However, the story of this specimen has a traumatic end. Literally. In addition to the bones that managed to heal, the researchers also found two sharp wounds in the scapulae that did not heal. This suggests that they occurred shortly before the animal’s death and, above all, that those wounds were produced by human weapons. It is impossible to know if he died at the hands of the tribe that took care of it or a rival faction, but it seems clear to infer that, in those early years of domestication, The relationship between dogs and humans was tensewith interest on the one hand, but fear and violence on the other. And, although finding that moment in which the dog ceased to be a wild animal and became our best friend is fascinating, it is also to verify how that company during millennia is causing that Dogs continue to evolve. The key? Our relationship is now not so based on work, but in closeness. Image | Paul Bill In Xataka | There is someone whose brain is synchronized when you look into his eyes. And that someone is your dog

Murtra’s first results are solid, but his story is still weak

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Telefónica has published The results of a first quarter That, on paper, I should satisfy the market: They rise income (+1.3% organic). They improve margins in their large markets: Spain, Brazil and Germany. Reduce debt. And reduces capex. But the net benefit of continued operations falls 26% and the free cash flow is negative. The result: a company that advances, but does not take off. Yes, but. The accounting collapse defines it almost entirely Argentina’s departure and The flight of Peru: 1,731 million euros less. It was something anticipated. However, it is not just an accounting issue: Telefónica grows less than cuts. And that weighs. The margin improves due to divestments, but not for a better exploitation of its assets. Of course, an important fact: Telefónica is winning more for each euro that invests, with a 0.4% growth in its operational profitability. Between the lines. It is a latent paradox: Telefónica is worth less despite being more efficient than before. Win less, but manages better. Its fundamentals improve, but not their story. Neither does your quote, which has returned to maximum of the last three years But it still does not reach vertical takeoff. The market seeks in a great telecus more than simple execution: wants vision, impulse, growth. Marking Agenda. Telefónica Tech, the Division of Technological Developments to which the company is entrusted to be perceived as a technological And not as a simple teleco, it has grown again above the group (+6.6%) and its annualized billing already equals a median Ibex: 2.1 billion euros. But Telefónica still does not break down its profitability or presenting it as an autonomous unit. So it is still relatively invisible. It is a promising active locked in an opaque showcase. It is its most aligned division with the future, but the least visible for analysts. There is a better showcase, or at least one clearer, for Telefónica Tech. Without an autonomous story or separate accounts, the market can hardly put a price. In detail. In Spain, Telefónica has managed to consolidate what seemed unlikely: grow. Thus the good inertia continues Achieved by Emilio Gayo, promoted to CEO. Income and margin have risen around 2%, The terminals take off with almost 18% more, and the Churn –cancellation rate– It remains stable at 0.9% despite Price increases. On the other hand, The agreement with Vodafone for FiberPass deployment It adds 3.65 million potential homes. The convergent ARPU (the average customer income of combined packages) rises to 92.3 euros, the largest in the group. That is the Premium user, the one who pays the most, and the one that costs the most. No other region where he has a telephone presence approaches an ARPU like this. Spain is no longer a ramora but an engine, the business breathes again at home. The ARPU is, in any case, a company’s commercial health thermometer. And of its ability to revalue from within. The big question. Why do you not revalue, if you run well? Possibly because execution without illusion is not enough. Because perceived growth matters as much as the real. And because without narrative, the numbers do not shine. And that’s what it is about: to shine. In Xataka | The EU has spent years fiercely fighting monopolies. Teresa Ribera has other plans for telecos Outstanding image | Telefónica

The history of the iPod that saved it is a story of secrets and technical miracles

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“Today it is almost impossible to imagine it, but there was a time when Apple was about to disappear”Thus, our new episode of ‘Xataka presents’ starts, with a direct squeak to the history of one of the most admired companies on the planet. And it is not just a good beginning: it is a reality that many people have forgotten. In this series we have already explored other curious stories of technology, Like Bonzi Buddythat purple virtual assistant who promised to help and ended up becoming a digital nightmare. When we think today in Apple, we think of leadership, in innovation, an ecosystem that many try to imitate. But there was a time when all that seemed a mirage. Apple was against the strings. And if he managed to survive, it was thanks to a series of decisions that, seen in retrospect, seem almost miraculous. What decisions were those? What product was so important that the company’s trajectory changed completely? And above all, how was it possible that A seemingly simple device (A music player) will end up being the turning point of an entire era? If you are passionate about technology as well as us, this video is a mandatory trip. Because we don’t talk only about iPod. We talked about vision, of risk, of moments when everything could go wrong. How a company without experience in pocket products, without know-how In lithium batteries or portable software, he threw himself to the unknown … and won. “The iPod was that product and it was a success,” says our partner Jota García in the video. But getting there was anything but easy. After the purchase of NextSteve Jobs had returned to Apple with a clear mission. The IMAC had already been a first blow on the table, but it was not enough. Napster stirred the foundations of the music industry. The CDs began to lose ground. The world asked for another way of consuming music. Jobs, as always, didn’t want to settle. “He didn’t want to make another partner of the pile. He wanted to do the best. The most elegant, the fastest, the simplest.” Hence an unusual piece: “A 1.8 -inch Toshiba hard drive, compact, light and with 5 GB of capacity.” And from there a phrase was born that would end up defining a whole generation: a thousand songs in your pocket. And did you know that the name “iPod” was not even Apple’s idea? Or that the project was almost secret and was about to be canceled more than once? In the video we break up step by step how Apple went from the “P-68” to the device that would change everything. “They had no experience by manufacturing pocket products. They did not handle lithium batteries, they did not have software for portable devices … ”. The Apple at that time was not the Apple now. It was a vulnerable company. And yet it was launched with everything. The rest is history … but a story with many nuances. Because when Jobs presented the iPod, not everything was ovation. “The day Apple presented the iPod … almost nobody cared.” It cost $ 399, it worked only with Mac, and many media criticized him openly. And yet, there was the magic: Apple’s story was beginning to rewrite, although few knew it yet. In the video we relive that moment, and also how, step by step, Apple broke his own rules to change his destiny. In addition, we navigate the history of the iPod until its disappearance and his legacy on the iPhone. But that story not only serves to understand the past, it also helps us to contrast two very different times. That Apple that improvised to survive Today is one of the most valuable companies in the worldbut still making strategic decisions not to be left behind. In full career for artificial intelligence, he has presented Apple Intelligence and has announced the integration of Chatgpt In their operating systems. All that, as then, with one goal: to continue in the race when the direction of technology changes again. Did you have an iPod? Do you remember the song you listened to most? Leave it in the comments. And give the play. Because if you ever thought that everything had already been told about Apple … You haven’t seen this video yet. Images | Xataka In Xataka | If Apple does not want to be left behind in the AI ​​race, you have a very obvious option at your fingertips: Buy Anthropic

‘The Eternaluta’ is a masterpiece of science fiction. But the story of its creator gives him an absolutely unique background

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Netflix’s new science fiction series, ‘El Eternalauta’, has a very emotional story for comic fans: not only is it based on a legendary cartoon whose adaptation to cinema and television has been frustrated on countless occasions, but its creator owns a biography that makes its humanistic background, but tragic. This is the story of ‘The Eternaluta’ and its creator, Héctor Germán Oesterheld. The production that opens Netflix is ​​an Argentine series, such as the original comic, and has the prominence of an international fame actor like Ricardo Darín. It has occurred under the supervision of one of Oesterheld’s grandchildren and is the end point of a long list of attempts to adapt a comic that in Argentina has an extraordinary fame. Hence the prestige of the directors who tried to adapt it on previous occasions. In 1998, he assumed the Adolfo Aristarain project (‘A place in the world’, ‘Martín (Hache)’) among other directors such as Gustavo Mosquera (which ended, yes, embarking on a long journey to stand up a biopic of Oesterheld, which has not yet curdled). The project was frustrated due to lack of financing. In 2008 the possible adaptation was reactivated, in a film that would direct Lucrecia Martel (‘The Holy Girl’). Martel distanced himself from the project due to conflicts with the Oesterheld family and the adaptation was canceled. Finally, Netflix began the production of its ‘eternalauta’ in 2020although the filming was interrupted by the pandemic. THE IMPORTANCE OF ‘THE ETERNAUTA’ With a very modern point of view, the story of Oesterheld, drawn in its first phase, in 1958, by a superb Francisco Solano López, tells an extraterrestrial invasion that begins when a mysterious lethal snow on contact with the skin annihilates most of the human beings. The offensive will increase with the appearance of insectoid beings, cascarudes, servants of higher intelligences that will unleash a mixture of intrigue and action where we will have even walks through parallel dimensions. Cascarudos are not the last border of the alien invasion: the protagonist and an impromptu land resistance group will face an alien disturbing who has numerous fingers around the hand (which wins his appeal of hand), and that It is only the servant of even superior and unknown aliens. It would be said that Oesterheld senses an alien presence in the way of Lovecraft, with entities for those who do not assume the slightest threat, but nods them at our level and injects them very understandable intentions. This stage is published in Spain By comic planet. ‘The Eternaluta’ Illustrated by Solano López The adventures of ‘The Eternaluta’ would not end there. A decade later, in 1969, and with Radicalized Oesterheld in his political commitment, the author would script By Penguin). It essentially tells the same story, but with explanations for the invasion much more politicized. Later, in 1976, an official sequel would arrive, set in a desolate and apocalyptic future, a consequence of the ravages we saw in the first installment. I would draw her again Solano López. After her, with missing Oesterheld, we would see multiple sequelae, often with the participation of the original cartoonist. But … What does ‘the Eternaluta’ have to have become an absolute classic of the Argentine comic? When Oesterheld did not know what his destiny would be, the first ‘eternauta’ can be read as a local version of ‘The War of the Worlds’, but with bulls references to the policy of the moment: In 1955 Perón had been expelled from the Argentine government in a coup d’etat led by military. This first version of history is more humanistic than politics, and as Roberto Bartual details In your newsletter on comics And he launches the message that “there are good and bad on all sides”, allowing even demonstrating some compassion for the villains. It has all the meaning that this white and harmless version is the one that takes the Netflix series as a reference. ‘The Eternaluta’ Illustrated by Breccia However, the authentic combative content of ‘The Eternaluta’ would come in the second version that Oesterheld would re-guide and illustrate Breccia: in it, invading aliens have reached a pact with foreign powers. In the 1969 version, the villain of history is imperialism that a few years later would cause coups in Chile in 1973, and later again in Argentina, in 1979. The humans of this version of ‘El Eternalauta’ are the countries of Latin America fighting for their independence. And there is more. The sequel ‘El Eternalauta II’, again with Solano López to the drawings, tells how men and women live in caves to escape the invasion. It is impossible not to think about the authentic oesterheld, which This second part of ‘The Eternaluta’ ended in hiding. The end of the story is absolutely bleak and turns the iconic eternal, with his diver glasses to protect himself from lethal snow, an anti-authoritarian resistance symbol. Even much later, in the demonstrations against the Financial Corralito at the beginning of this century, posters were seen with the images of the Eternaluta remembering their rebel spirit and, above all, denouncing the leaders of any sign that betray their own. ‘El Eternalauta II’, illustrated by Solano López Oesterheld’s fate The radicalization of the creator of ‘The Eternaluta’ would start shortly after the publication of the first version of the story: Oesterheld would begin to fill their stories of criticisms of capitalism and colonialism, reaching a script to political sign as clear as a biography of Che in 1968, before his collaboration with Breco. In the seventies he would join the Montoneros (the second part of ‘El Eternalauta’ ended in hiding, dictating the scripts he later received Solano López, exiled in Spain), and the last thing that was learned of him is that he was arrested in 1977 by the military dictatorship. It was last seen in a clandestine detention center, and as happened with so many other Argentines, from that moment to be part of the list of arrested and missingvictim of Argentine state terrorism. … Read more

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