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Nintendo knows that most people who go to its parks and watch its movies have never touched a video game. and he loves it

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The success of the park Super Nintendo World and of the Mario’s first animated film (with a sequel just around the corner that also promises to break the box office) has confirmed what the company has known for years: that its characters are worth as much inside a console as in an outdoor version. The strategy coordinated by Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario, points towards an entertainment model where the video game is only the origin, not the objective. Not just video games. Shinya Takahashi, senior CEO of Nintendo, He has been repeating a phrase for years which sounds almost like a wake-up call: “People see us as a video game company. But we have always considered ourselves an entertainment company.” The distinction is important: Nintendo was founded in 1889 in Kyoto as a manufacturer of Hanafuda cards. It went through toys, taxis and hotels before reaching video games in the seventies. Software and consoles have been its core business for decades, but they were never the only thing the company thought it could do with its characters. The problem is that for a long time all of the company’s forays outside of video games had been failures. 1993: disaster. The most famous case is the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie from 1993. Nintendo transferred the rights through a simple licensing agreement and did not participate in the production. The result was an experiment that It raised only 40 million dollars with a budget close to 50 and which is remembered as one of the worst video game adaptations in history (although over time it has acquired, thanks to its outlandish production design, a well-deserved cult status). Miyamoto himself acknowledged the root of the problem with that film in an interview, and why it took them so long to try again: “We were afraid of all the failures of IP adaptations of the past, where there is a license and a distance between the original creators and those of the films.” The consequence of that failure was almost thirty years without giving up film rights to its main franchises. Nintendo stopped licensing its IP to external studios and only allowed occasional appearances of his characters in films like ‘Wreck-It Ralph!’ or ‘Pixels’, none with real creative control. New adaptations. When Nintendo sat down to negotiate with Universal and Illumination for an animated film, the conversation started from a different beginning. Miyamoto served as executive producer and was involved in every significant decision, from casting to animating key characters. The same logic was applied to the construction of their first amusement park, Super Nintendo Worldin collaboration with Universal and announced in May 2015. Construction of the park in Osaka began in 2017. The investment reached 351 million dollarsa scale comparable to what Universal once dedicated to the Harry Potter franchise. A real game. Super Nintendo World is designed so that visitors feel like they are in Mario’s world. They wear an NFC bracelet with which they interact with the question blocks, collect coins, complete challenges and end up facing Bowser Jr. as the final boss. There is no controller, but there are game mechanics, score markers, hidden secrets, and a slight internal narrative. Attention to detail permeates spaces such as bathrooms and restaurants. Nintendo is doing well. The financial results support the bet. According to Comcast data released during an earnings call, CFO Jason Armstrong noted that Universal Studios Hollywood (home to one of the two Super Nintendo Worlds in the United States) recorded its best gross profit in that period of the year in its entire history, thanks to the impact of the Nintendo park, and experienced an increase in visitors of 15%. The Super Mario movie has also been extremely profitable: 1.36 billion dollars worldwidebecoming in just 26 days the first adaptation of a video game to exceed one billion. It was the second highest-grossing film of that year, only behind ‘Barbie’. New philosophy. There is a quote from Takahashi that sums up this new business philosophy: “We knew that Mario was adored by video game fans, but the park helped us understand that Mario also has non-gaming fans.” and Miyamoto adds: “There are many people who know who Mario is but have never played the game.” The park’s target audience, according to Takahashi, is not any age group or any specific player profile: “It’s all-encompassing, whether it’s someone who knows Mario from the games or a kid who’s never played before.” Mario is an IP that generates value regardless of whether its audience has ever touched a controller. In other words, he is a much more valuable client, because there are no limits regarding age or hobbies. It doesn’t stop, it doesn’t stop. The expansion continues: Donkey Kong Country opened in Osaka in December 2024, expanding the space of Super Nintendo World by 70%. Epic Universe, Universal’s new park in Florida inaugurated in May 2025has its own Super Nintendo World. And there is a version under construction in Singapore. Takahashi has mentioned that franchises such as ‘Splatoon’ or ‘Zelda’ are part of the expansion plans into new media, although there are hardly any specific announcements. Of course, the sequel ‘Super Mario Galaxy’ arrives on April 1. Video games are just one more link in a chain of dividends that have turned Nintendo into a very different company than it was a few years ago. In Xataka | No one would think of leaving ‘Super Mario 64’ on for 14 months. But whoever does it will find a surprise

This cyclist touched the world record through Eurasia. Then he arrived in Russia, and since then he cannot leave

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The history of sport is full of heroicities and records They seem impossible to beat. Also of moments of great cruelty, where the elite athlete “dies” on the shore, just a few seconds, meters or even centimeters of glory. Therefore, the story of a French cyclist who has been so close to being crowned with A historical deed It is being news these days. TO Sofiane Sehili44 years old, he only lacked Russia, and there it continues. An interrupted epic trip. As we said, Sofiane I was nothing to be crowned in the History books: Nothing less than a bicycle, without assistance, 17 countries from Cabo Dan Roca in Portugal to Vladivostok at the eastern end of Russia in just 62 days, which would have exceeded the 64 -day world record. After about 18,000 kilometers of inhospitable roads, storms, tremendous nights in Mongolian gas stations and China’s infinite steppes, he was at just 180 kilometers of your goal when He was arrested On September 2 by Russian border guards in the Irf region, accused of cross illegally From China despite having a valid visa. Your odyssey, narrated in videos They showed both the pain of pedaling with the feet sunk in mud and wet socks and the joy when contemplating wild horses and lonely landscapes, it has ended abruptly in a cell. The Euroasyatic labyrinth. The arrest occurred after VAryans frustrated attempts to cross the border between China and Russia. In official positions, the step was denied because only Chinese or Russian citizens can enter a bicycle, while in other steps only access by car, bus or train is admitted. After these rejections, Sehili tried to advance by a forest near Suifenhe and, by showing his passport to the Russian guards, It was arrested. Your partner, Fanny Bensussan, confirmed thatafter being rejected at the official crosses, he looked for alternative routes, which precipitated his arrest. The Ussuriysk court ordered its imprisonment until October 4 waiting for trial, without formal charges. From record to hostage. Sehili’s case cannot be separated of a pattern Increasingly evident in Moscow: the arrest of foreigners in what analysts and NGOs qualify as “hostage diplomacy.” Russia has accumulated notable history, such as the basketball player Brittney Grinerthe journalist of the Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich or the consultant Paul Whelanamong others, used as exchange sheets by Russians convicted in the West. French citizens have also suffered this policy, such as the researcher Laurent Vinatierconvicted of not registering as a “foreign agent” and recently accused of espionage at risk of Up to 20 years in jail. In this context, the imprisonment of a resistance athlete, although apparently the result of a border incident is also interpreted as a political movement of international pressure. The human dimension of the challenge. Beyond geopolitics, Sehili’s journey illustrates the hardness of the Ultra-resistance challenges. Throughout his journey, the man faced frozen nights in cement floors, hotels without minimal conditions, constant breakdowns, wind against and the wear of pedaling more than 270 kilometers a day. In his storiesmoments of absolute hopelessness were mixed (when he confessed not to want to move on) with moments of total serenityin which he recognized that these adventures made sense of his life. Human contact, such as the gesture of a Chinese woman who He offered hot food And he introduced his children after a rainy and cold day, worked as small reminders of the value of his trip. Disturbing precedent. That Russia has arrested a cyclist On the edge of a world record, it places resistance sport on unpublished field, where physical and personal challenges can collide with the political interests of the states. Sehili’s image, exhausted but determined to reach Vladivostok, contrasts with the reality of a converted border In political trap. His case, far from an anecdotal, emphasizes how even sports gestures can be trapped in a geopolitical scenario where governments They instrumentalize citizens foreigners to send forces of strength or to prepare future diplomatic exchanges. On the border between sports feat and repressive diplomacy, Sehili’s journey will remain as a symbol of the individual’s fragility in the face of power calculations. Image | Capture/ YouTube In Xataka | An hour, a bike and a cyclist: or how to break technological barriers in the record of the hour In Xataka | A 1978 day, Porsche tried to reach 240 km/h … with a bicycle. And ended up getting it

Japan thought he had touched back on his birth crisis. I didn’t know how wrong it was wrong

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He has tried pulling a checkbook And even acting as Celestinabut Japan has encountered a seemingly irresoluble problem: birth. The country has gone from demographic winter to the debacle without palliative. That is at least the reading left by the latest government data, which reveal that in just one year (from January 2024 to January 2025) the population of Japanese citizens has been reduced in More than 900,000 peoplethe biggest fall Since at least 1968. There is only one positive indicator: immigration. A fact: 908,574. Talking about birth in Japan for a long time is to talk about falls, pessimistic forecasts and a future full of unknowns. It is nothing new, but that does not prevent when your government publishes official data, as has happened This Wednesdaythe demographic debacle continues to surprise. And rightly. According to the data of the Ministry of Interior, in 2024 the country lost neither more nor less than 908,574 inhabitants, which leaves the census of Japanese citizens in 120.65 million. Far, far from 126.6 million which it reached in 2009. More than a blow. The data is bad in itself and does not improve when it is put in context. As Remember Kyodo News It is the 16th consecutive year in which the census of Japanese citizens fall, a trend that seems to have no softening visos. On the contrary. The 2024 was the greatest demographic collapse of the statistical series, which starts in 1968. You have to go back to that same decade to find a lower birth record than the one scored last year: 687,689. In the opposite pole, the number of deaths (almost 1.6 million) stood at maximum. A percentage: 59%. Demography is not simple statistical theory, it is directly connected to the country’s economy. And that is something that government data makes it very clear: after years of population debacle and with the Gripada Birth engine, Japan has found that barely 59% of its population It is at work age (between 15 and 64), significantly below the world average, which is around 65%, according to the latest estimates of the OECD. With less and less native population of working age and a society in full aging, the panorama facing the country is the least challenging. In fact there are those who warn that a ‘red line’ is crossing. Some authors point out that 2025 will mark the point at which the population born during The Baby Boom In the late 40s, an age in which the percentage of the working population collapses and increases that of those who require care is exceeded. That turning point even has a name: The “problem 2025”. And what does that suppose? That in practice it is quite likely that from now on Japan will meet “a sudden increase” of elders who need care, which will result in “a significantly greater burden for workforce,” warns An IPEI report. As for what he will mean for public coffers, years ago the government has accounts and already calculated that between 2025 and 2040 the general costs of social care will shoot 60%. How to solve it? The big question. Japan has been deploying a range of measures to encourage their birth and reverse their demographic crisis. And that happens so much to dedicate Millions of resources to programs Pronatality and raising aids as encourage the paternal casualties or ease May young people find a partner. It is nothing new or exclusive to Japan. In South Korea, China either Russia Governments have launched similar campaigns with Disrupt results. In the background, however, a key question underlies, such as I already pointed out in 2023 The BBC chain: Increasing the birth of a country is a matter of money? Do the ‘baby checks’ or the paternal casualties? To what extent do these factors influence and how much depends on more structural ones, such as the difficulties in accessing broad homes, labor philosophy, gender inequalities, the cost of life or simply a cultural change that no longer prioritizes motherhood? A word: immigration. Not all demographic indicators in Japan are in red numbers. Moreover, there is one that grew last year until reaching record values: that of the foreign residentsthose people from other countries with permission to remain in Japan for at least three months. According to government data, your number grew by 10.65% (354,089 people) until adding 3.68 million. The records had never reached such a high figure. In practice that means that foreigners already represent almost 3% of the total population, another figure that had never been achieved before. Japan Times Precise that in 2024 661,800 people were moved from abroad, which shows that the fall experienced by this registry during the pandemic, especially in 2021 and 20022. If there are both Japanese citizens and the foreign population, the total census of residents in the country is taken into account. 124.3 millionapproximately 554,000 less than the previous year. Why is it important? Because the influx of foreigners has served for more than softening the country’s demographic bleeding. It also involves a chute of energy for its economy. 85.77% of foreign residents are of working age, a significant percentage for a country with a birth problem and that has been aging years. The increase in immigration also has certain challenges. Its increase coincides with the rise of the ultra -right party Sanseitowho has campaigned by flying the motto of “The Japanese first.” Image | JJ Ying (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | More and more Japanese women decide to marry men from South Korea. And there is something that explains it: the K-Pop

The bird to Andalusia has stopped again. This time he has touched Malaga in an July to forget at high speed

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The president of Renfe, Álvaro Fernández Heredia said, just a few days ago that Renfe “tried not to leave anyone behind.” Only a few months ago, Oscar Puente, Minister of Transportation, took a breast out of the company’s punctuality. Yesterday, the high speed line in Malaga suffered delays again. It is the last case in a summer that seems to accumulate problems. The latest. The detachment of a vault and water leaks. That is the reason why the bird was delayed yesterday on its way to Malaga. They point out in The worldthat the problem was in an aquifer that borders the tunnel and that caused the filtering of water. Quickly, Adif went out to make clear that the structure of the tunnel and official sources were not compromised indicated to local media as South newspaper that no cut in the line had occurred or the passengers had to be evacuated. Everything was solved taking the trains to the farthest path of the affected wall. “Minimum affectation”. With these words, according to COPERenfe defined the impact that this last incidence has had. The company assured that the delay did not exceed half an hour and that it was because the trains had to circulate at low speed and in a unique way. For the Popular Party it is a “negligent action” that should force Pedro Sánchez, president of the Government, to face. Beyond political proclamations, the truth is that the Malaga case is the last one of a summer in which Adif and Renfe are focusing the debate on the reliability of their service. Click on the image to go to the original tweet The eyes set in Adif. The involvement in the high speed line was taken yesterday by Renfe but also ouigo and Iro. It has been in Adif in whom they have put their eyes since they are responsible for the maintenance of the roads. In fact, in Malaga today They remember that that of the aquifer is a problem that has been maintained since 2005 when the works “pricked” the same and since then Adif pays compensation to the neighbors for the damages caused. José Ramón Carmona, general secretary of the PP of Malaga, pointed out that the problem is the “investment abandonment and the absence of maintenance in the rail network that entails a serious infrastructure degradation.” The situation is delicate because the leaks of these aquifers directly affect the Abdalajís Valley, where the tunnel was built. They explain in eldiario.es That the tunnel was built with a stagnant lining, formed by a reinforced concrete ring inside by prefabricated dovelas. It has a thickness of 35 centimeters and concrete of different resistance was used in two different sections to avoid leaks while releasing the pressure that water can cause. A summer to forget. Adif claims begin to be constant in a summer that is being to forget. The most controversial case focused the looks the first days of July when A train was stopped 13 hours On the tracks, without assistance and with an old woman who ended at the hospital. So, The Government and Adif They pointed out that the problem was originated by an ouigo train whose fault resulted in a domino effect that ended with the Renfe train abandoned to its fate. In Ouigo they pointed that nothing would have happened if Adif had maintained the facilities correctly. And Adif defended himself by ensuring that they would put an ongoing plan to solve the possible problems in their catenaries. Days later, A train stopped In Toledo for a problem in the infrastructure, which once again stopped travel between Madrid and Andalusia. Beyond Adif. To problems directly linked to Adif, other incidents that have stopped circulation in recent months or weeks must be added. We have had delays and cancellations for uncontrollable phenomena such as torrential rains either Fire next to the tracks But also for him copper theft which came to derive in the collapse of the Andalusian bird and in the accusation of Boicot by Óscar Puente, Minister of Transportation. Balls out. In spite of everything, the leaders of Renfe and the bridge itself have long since defended that the train situation is not as bad as we imagine (or we see). RENFE President himself He presumed days agopointing out that the company is among the best in Europe and criticized those who defined the last days as “rail chaos”. In December 2024, Bridge defended exactly the same in a session in the Congress of Deputies. The truth is that passengers do not seem to see it like this and have negatively highlighted Renfe’s performance in recent months. Renfe also has expanded the times To return the money in case of delay. And in The confidential They collected how delays in high Spanish speed have shot themselves in recent years. Photo | Falk2 and Adif In Xataka | Two years after Renfe competition entered, the data indicate something: trains are cheaper than ever

The new great models of generative the AI ​​do not stop delaying. It is a dangerous indication that we have touched the roof

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We expected to have GPT-5 available at the beginning of the year, but OpenAi gave us GPT-4.5. The generative AI model, which theoretically represented a remarkable leap with respect to its predecessors, ended up disappointing and the company announced that it will eliminate it from its API in July. It was too expensive and simply did not compensate. That was already a bad sign of AI advance, but there is more. And GPT-5, what? It was expected that GPT-5 will arrive in the middle of the year. Sam Altman has been creating Hypebut in December we knew that the arrival of that model was being problematic. The jump in benefits I wasn’t being expected And the cost of developing it is huge. What did they do in Openai? Delay it and launch in its place GPT-4.5 That, as we have seen, it was one of the great disappointments in the history of Openai. Bad signal one signal. Behemoth is delayed. As indicated In The Wall Street JournalGoal will delay the launch and deployment of its most ambitious model to date, call 4 Behemoth. This “monster” with 288,000 million active parameters (two billion in total) is the third member of the newly presented family calls 4. However, according to WSJ “Company engineers are having difficulties in significantly improving” their capabilities. It should have arrived in April, but now it is estimated that it will arrive in autumn, or even later. Frustration. Sources close to the company indicate that managers are frustrated with the performance of the team that is developing calls 4 Behemoth. “Significant management changes” are already contemplated that would raise internal movements (and who knows if layoffs) as a result of these bad results. And not that the available flame models 4 are having a good receptionlet it be said. Bad signal number two. Unbalanced. In WSJ also highlight how the first flame version was created by its fundamental research team, formed by academics and researchers. Since then 11 of the 14 researchers have left the company. Anthropic does not advance either. We also expected a “round” leap in Claude, the Chabot of the generative of Anthropic, but in February the company presented Claude 3.7. It is true that this model Yes offered striking benefitsbut at the moment its Opus version, the most ambitious, still does not appear, and nothing is known about Claude 4.0. Bad signal number three. Jumps not, at most jumps. What we are seeing in recent months are not significant leaps in the capacity of the models, but striking improvements only in some sections or effective characteristics. It happened with Gemini 2.5 Pro, especially powerful in programming and that has allowed Google to win integersbut also with Openai and the famous images that imitate Studio Ghibli Oa Grok 3, who has become more famous for his lack of censorship that for its accuracy or quality (which is not bad). Deceleration. All this triggers the debate on a potential “deceleration” of AI: the climb no longer seems to work so well, and that of using more GPUS and more data to train models is not offering the expected return. Jaime Sevilla, CEO of Cophai, I did believe That the rhythm of improvement was being expected, but these delays of course make the future progress of generative the AI ​​again. The agents and the AI ​​that “reason” are hope. The models with “reasoning” capacity Yes, they have allowed us to propose striking improvements in some areas, and companies have launched to present this type of variants and deep research modes For specialized uses. The other great hope of 2025 are the agents of AI capable of completing task sequences autonomously to solve a problem, even connecting to other services or data sources. At the moment we already have outstanding examples in the schedule of programmingbut practical applications for end users are limited. Image | Goal In Xataka | There are too many AI models. That raises a true death sentence for Anthropic and Claude

It seemed that LaLiga could not be further blocking domains. Until it touched the festivities of the City of Madrid

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The weekend has been starring two old known faces: LaLiga matches and blockages associated with them. Domains such as the Social Network X (T.com), Vercel Web addresses and even services related to the Madrid City Council were affected without an additional solution to navigate by VPN. The Madrid City Council is no longer fought. A direction that little suspicious seemed to be related to the illegal broadcast of football matches, Statics.sanisidromadrid.comwas blocked on Saturday, May 10. Reason? Blocking in compliance in the judgment of December 18, 2024 by the Commercial Court N6, a message that we know firsthand. The address belongs to the Madrid City Council, and is nothing more than the showcase for the San Isidro festivities held between May 9 and 15. The website of the City of Reus (Reus.es), was also inaccessible during that Saturday X and Redsys. The website of the San Isidro Festivities program was not the only Rocambolesco case. The social network itself X It was inaccessible during the game hoursas well as some domains related to Operations resolved by Redsys. The latter may end up affecting web payments (not receiving confirmation of an order, erroneous notifications related to payment, etc.) in which the operation does not finish registering correctly when the URL is blocked. The Vercel case. LaLiga found Vercel The best way to beat Cloudflare. A paradigmatic case in which Malte Ubl, Cto de Vercel, published an article on his blog criticizing IP blocks… to update it three days later ensuring that “we are working closely with LaLiga to quickly eliminate the illegal streaming contents.” 🇪🇸🚫 Update on LaLiga’s Blocks. We’ve Been Working with their team to get a interrupted access in Spain to the @sercel Global CDN. Vercel have set up a dedicated inbox for LaLiga to File Reports. Sadly, The Just Blocked Another Vercel CDN IP Without Using This Mechanism. To … https://t.co/31gy5b8u0k – Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) May 11, 2025 Not even allying with LaLiga has been enough. During this weekend numerous Vercel web directions have been blocked, with its CEO making its position new public about what a football organization should and should not be able to do. Far from finishing. LaLiga blocks They are going to moreand there is no reasons to think that the situation can be reversed. He Domino effect is increasingand while Justice endorses The random blockages will continue to be produced. Cloudflare described them as “clumsy and ineffective”at open war with the organization. Despite the evidence that the affected domains are not related to illegal practices, this problem will continue to generalize by service providers. More than 15,000 affected domains. There are lists which already register more than 15,000 URLs affected by LaLiga domains in networks such as Digi. A look at it makes it clear that, in its vast majority, blockades are not related to websites that broadcast emissions illegally. Faced with a reality inevitablethe LaLiga blocks do Pay fair for sinnersaffecting Business Billingto The daily life on the weekend and with the use of VPN As the only temporary patch. In Xataka | LaLiga redouble her offensive against illegal football streaming: Twitch and other greats just joined her crusade

He ended up seeing how they touched him

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There are stories that begin with a stroke of luck and end with a lump in the throat. Chris Willson’s started In California in 2008When, sailing through Lacraigslist, he found an unusual advertisement: a German cruise in the 50s, abandoned in a port of the Delta del Río Sacramento, was for sale. Willson, an American entrepreneur dedicated to technology, came there simply out of curiosity. He met a deteriorated ship, but with a lot of charm. Without giving him many laps, he decided to buy it. A historical transatlantic renamed at dawn But that was not just any ship. It had been built in 1955 in Hamburg by the Blohm & Voss shipyard and originally baptized as Wappen von Hamburg, becoming the first great German transatlantic after World War II. With about 89 meters of length And 85 cabins, in his best times he crossed the Atlantic several times. In addition, it appeared as the headquarters of ‘Specter in from Russia with love’, one of James Bond’s films, and served as inspiration for a series called ‘Vacation in the sea’. The first night Willsson was on board was surrounded by garbage and chaos. But in his first dawn on the ship he decided to baptize him as Aurora. From that moment he began to give his life to the project. He moved to live on the ship, brought together a group of volunteers and began an artisanal restoration that would last more than fifteen years. The objective was clear: turn it into a floating museum. Financed the project with own resources, sporadic works as a consultant and, later, thanks to donations and a community that grew around Your YouTube channel. But not everything was so good. The Aurora changed several times of location and ended up in an area known as Herman & Helen’s Marina. There the local authorities began to perceive it as an environmental riskespecially after the nearby sinking of another military ship. The eviction notifications followed, and the last one was the definitive one: to avoid collapse, Willson had to face works whose cost amounted to a millionaire figure. Surpassed by institutional pressure and without sufficient funds, Willson decided to sell the ship in October 2023. The buyer, whose identity did not transcend, promised to continue the project. But that would be the beginning of the end. The sinking of the project of your life Only seven months after the sale, the Aurora began to sink. San Joaquin County authorities discovered a waterway in the helmet and a diesel leak that forced them to intervene urgently. Although the ship was refloated, it no longer sailed again. In December 2024, after an operational complex that involved several agencies and specialists, it was towed without navigation to Mare Island, north of California. There began its destruction. The cranes torn the steel structure piece by pieceuntil making it disappear. In April 2025, there was nothing left. From a distance, Willsson contemplated the entire process. “It is probably one of the saddest things that I have had to witness in this life,” declared in an interview with CNN Travel. “It’s hard to see how fifteen years of work are completely lost.” Although he no longer had legal link with the ship, the outcome affected him deeply. The entrepreneur says he kept the ship safe for fifteen years, he managed to show his history to the world, but he could never enjoy sailing as he had once dreamed. During all that time, Willson estimates that he invested “more than one million dollars” in his pocket. The city of Stockton assumed part of the control of operations, although it has not yet revealed the final cost of the scrapping. Everything indicates that the invoice will be millionaire. According to Naval Historian Peter Knego, who documented the process, the costs could be between the 10 and 20 million dollars. The authorities have already announced investigations to determine who allowed the ship to reach that State, and do not rule out undertake legal actions to recover expenses. Meanwhile, the emotional part of the project is still alive. On the official website of Aurora Restorration Projectfollowers and volunteers share memories of their visits to the ship. Images | Peter Knego/Midshipcinema | Chris Willsson/Aurora Restorration Project In Xataka | 40 million dollars, a superyate and four gift passports: the happy outcome of the Alpha Nero that almost ruins an island

The extreme cold has not touched Spain for two years and experts fear that we are about to see a third. With all that implies

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Spring is just around the corner and, we like it or not, this means that we can start drawing conclusions. The first is that every minute that passes is more likely to finish winter without seeing any “cold wave.” And that is not even what most worries meteorologists. Because the real problem is that it would be the second consecutive winter without cold waves and a third would be at hand. With all that this entails. Isn’t it a bit precipitated to give the winter for dead? The truth is not. Although this week an extremely cold mass of air will cover a good part of Europe, Spain will escape from it. And on March 1 (which is when climate spring begins) is very close to be able to house realistic hopes about an extreme cold episode. And, in the background, what we are going to see this week summarizes very well what has been going on two winters: we have not suffered powerful cold irruptions. They have all stayed north. It is a story that is repeated again and again. But it’s not so weird either, right? That is true. The cold episodes become more and more rare in Spain. In fact, this January can only be described as very warm (Although we have suffered a handful of cold nights). A example that Roberto Granda puts It is that of Molina de Aragón. The average minimum between 1991 and 2020 is -3.3º, but this year it has been at -0.3. The data speak for themselves. In the end, As I pointed out A few years ago our partner Javier Pastor, “is not that it is very cold now, it is that we do not do it because it is no longer so common.” With this in mind, the question begins to be … how long can this last? “Unusual and worrying.” That is, what would happen if the winter of 2026 is still on the same line? The answer, According to Samuel Biener de Meteoredit is summarized in those two words: “Unusual and worrying.” Because we have documented other consecutive warm winters (those of 97 and 98, those of 2000 and 2001 or those of 2023 and 14); But we have not seen three consecutive yet. And we know it will arrive. Because, As Biener points outwarm winters are being increasingly frequent. It is a matter of time that we fit three. And what is the problem? More than a problem (that too), we talk about a fear: that warm winters stop being an anomaly and become the norm. That change is a large-scale disruption of the country’s socio-ecological system. It is no accident that, a few months after the drought, The data begin to be so bad. Again. Not only climatic pressures They hit us stronger than everthe thing is They don’t let us replenish. And that will lead us to the edge of the precipice again and again. Yes it’s true. The current climate is full of paradoxes: Historical ice minimums live with snow maximumstudies on The weakening of the Gulf current They coexist with others that point to nothing has changed in substantial terms and thus a long etcetera. However, there is something that Yes we know is that we are vulnerable And if we don’t prepare ourselves, Let’s be much more. Image | ECMWF In Xataka | Spain faces the driest climate in its last 1,200 years. The fault is the Azores Islands

the injury that sows doubt after the two titles he won ‘touched’

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Novak Djokovic faces this Friday a new semifinals of grand slamin search of his eleventh crown of the Australian Open and the 100th title of his career. Your rival will be Alexander Zverevbut all eyes are still on the detail that marked their victory in the quarterfinals against Carlos Alcaraz: the injury he suffered in the first set. Was it legitimate? The situation has generated controversy. During the broadcast of the match, John McEnroe hinted that the Serbian’s physical problems might not be entirely true: “This is not the first time we have seen this. Don’t be fooled,” said the winner of seven majors during the Channel Nine broadcast. Even Alcaraz himself expressed his doubts about it. The truth is that Djokovic has already won his last two titles in Melbournein 2021 and 2023, surrounded by injuries that raised questions: an abdominal injury and a tear in the thigh, respectively. Now, the question is whether history will repeat itself. Djokovic took the day off this Wednesday after spending 3 hours and 37 minutes on court in his victory over Alcaraz. During the match, he felt discomfort in his left thigh and needed to be bandaged after the ninth game of the first set. “I’m not going to go into details because I’m still in the tournament, but it’s a similar feeling to 2023,” said the Serbian, recalling the three-centimeter tear suffered in the days prior to the tournament two years ago. That injury would not prevent him from lifting his tenth title in the Rod Laver Arena. Given the doubts about the veracity of his physical problems, Craig Tileydirector of the Australian Open, already had to come to his defense in 2023. On that occasion, Djokovic declared: “When others get injured, they are victims. If it’s me, I’m pretending. I don’t need to prove anything to anyone. I have the resonance this year and the abdominal one. They will be in my documentary if I feel like showing them. In 2021, when he won his ninth Australian crown, controversy was also present. Djokovic mentioned an abdominal tear that occurred in the third round against Taylor Fritzbut that did not stop him from winning the remaining four games to win the trophy. This is how he ‘played’ with Alcaraz The most recent case, that of Alcaraz, shows how Djokovic’s mental games can throw his rivals off balance. Despite having shown physical problems at the beginning of the match, the Serbian ended up winning 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 and 6-4. After the match, Djokovic explained on the court: “If I had lost the second set, I don’t know if I would have continued playing. I started to feel better. When the medications stop taking effect, we will see what the reality is tomorrow.” Later, at a press conference, he admitted that his behavior during matches can affect his opponents: “I understand that it is not comfortable playing against someone who you don’t know if he is going to retire or not. Is he moving? Is he running? What is happening?” For his part, Alcaraz did not hide his discomfort with the situation. “In the first set it was already seen that he was having physical problems, that it was difficult for him to move. When I won the first set, I was thinking about attacking the second, not letting him breathe,” explained the Murcian. Carlos Alcaraz laughs next to his box during the match against Djokovic EFE Less innocent, the pupil of Juan Carlos Ferrero He emphasized that the Serbian’s problems disappeared as the match progressed: “Everyone has seen the problems he had in the second set and then they disappeared, and in the end we played a great third and fourth set.” Alcaraz hinted at his doubts about Djokovic’s statements: “Someone who was thinking about retiring if he had lost the second set would not have played that way.” Although he did not want to go into details, he added: “I’m not going to go into details.” In that same press room, minutes later, Djokovic spoke about his injury in a huddle with the Serbian press: “Now I have a lot of work to do with Miljan (Amanovic, his physiotherapist). And it is necessary because we have to evaluate the situation of the injury to work as much as possible immediately. That is my main concern for the next game: to be physically fit, because a victory like this lifts you up emotionally and mentally,” said the Serbian. This Thursday it will be tested. Djokovic’s history is full of ‘miraculous’ recoveries. In the past Roland Garros, for example, he left the tournament and just two days later he underwent a small intervention on his right knee. That put his participation in the Paris Olympics in doubt, but he competed and ended up winning gold. Seamless. Now, with the eyes of the world on him, Djokovic will look to write another chapter in his story in Melbourne. If anything has become clear over the years, it is that his physical and mental strength makes him one of the biggest challenges for any rival, even when he seems to be ‘touched’. Let Zverev tremble and Jannik Sinner.

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