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After years of debacle, South Korea has managed to rebound his birth. Now it’s time to find out how the hell has done it

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Demographic statistics is nothing more than that: Demographic Statistics. Pure and hard mathematics, with objective and reading data. For years, however, their chronicles in South Korea transmit a dire air, as of announced death. And it’s normal. The country has seen how its birth rate descended to such low dimensions that in 2024 the country had to declare itself in “demographic emergency” and assume officially that it is a “society Super aging“ Now that seems to be changing little by little, which raises two questions: Has Korea achieved out of the demographic hole in which it has been immersed for years? And if so, how? They are key issues for Seoul, but also for other neighboring countries with birth problems, such as China either Japan. What happened? That against all forecast, South Korea Start to get used to to their demographic statistics arrive accompanied by positive signs. That does not mean that they are good at all, the country has managed to stop its demographic bleeding or its fertility rate stands above “Replacement level”; But they are favorable news after all. And that did not happen for a long time. A figure: 20,717. The latest data published by Statistics Korea show that in April they were born in the country 20,717 babies8.7% more than 19,059 counted during the same month of 2024. The data is interesting because it leaves several positive readings. The first is that three years ago the number of monthly lights remained below the 20,000 barrier. The second is that this 8.7% growth shows the highest year -on -year increase in the last three and a half decades. You have to go back to 1991 to find another similar percentage. More babies, more weddings. There are not only more babies. There are also more couples giving the ‘yes I want’. The data Statistics Korea show that in April 18,921 marriages in the country were formalized, which leaves an interannual increase of 4.9%. The data invites optimism for another reason: it is the thirteenth consecutive month in which this indicator is green. It may seem a minor issue, but in the South Korean society couple and birth They go hand in. There are studies that calculate that less than 5% From babies they are born out of marriage. Coincidence or trend? That is the question that surveys the birth data of Korea. Especially since the last years have been marked by the shadow of the pandemic, which modes to take many couples to postpone their wedding plans or even the decision to become parents. In his favor the country has to They are not the first in positive. Seoul already said goodbye to 2024 with a positive birth rate (the number of births 3.6% increased), something that had not happened for a decade. Looking for the causes. At this point, the question is obvious: beyond the influence of the pandemic, is there any factor that explains the rebound in birth in the country? The question is interesting for South Korea, but also for other nations that have been dealing with demographic challenges, such as Japan, China, Russia or many European nations, including Spainwhich in recent years has gained population thanks basically to foreigners. “The increase in births seems to be influenced by the increase in marriages since last year, the growth of the population of women between 30 and 39 years and various birth promotion policies by central and local governments,” Clarify Statistics Korea to the Yonhap News agency. In summary, after the birth rebound in Korea there would be three major factors: more weddings, the effect of the ‘Probebé’ policies and that in the country there are more women in the first section of the thirties. A concept: echo boombe. At least part of the demographic change would therefore be explained thanks to demography itself. And the key is in a certain group of the cohort of the echo boomers. The Guardian remember That the population born between 1991 and 1995 begins to reach the “ideal” age to marry and have children and that group has grown sensitively. If in 2020 there were about 1.51 million women between 30 and 34 years old, now there are already 1.65 million. To its possible effect, the wide range of policies that for years have deployed the South Korean authorities (both regional and state) to encourage the formation of couples and birth rate are added. And that includes from the delivery of generous ‘Baby checks’ to the application of Fiscal incentives, parental permitsinitiatives for Improve food of mothers or even appointment programs (with prize included) to form new couples. Well but not perfect. The latest data from Statistics Korea are good, but they are far from being perfect and of course they do not allow South Korea to launch the bells on the flight. On the contrary. Although birth is emerging, the country’s fertility rate remains at 0.79far from the replacement level that the country needs to keep its population stable without depending on immigration. In addition, although the number of births with respect to 2024 has increased, they remain clearly insufficient to stop the fall of the national census. The reason? Babies are born, but in the increasingly aging Korean society there are also more deaths. The deaths grew 0.8% year -on -year in April until adding 28,785. Images | Nathan Q (UNSPLASH) and Tommao Wang (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | Throughout Europe, birth rate collapses as soon as women begin to earn more money. Except in Sweden

24 years later, it is still immortal

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In 2001, David Allen published ‘Getting Things Done‘. In it he created the GTD method. Almost a quarter of a century later, that method is still relevant. It is an achievement that has happened despite the huge current differences with 2001, and it is even more noticeable if we take into account that at this time dozens of apparently superior methods have been born. Most have died. The question It is not what makes a productivity method good, but what makes it immortal. In the productivity ecosystem, GTD It is the crocodile: it has been practically unchanged for decades because it found the perfect evolutionary formula. Other methods have been disappearing in the meantime: Or nobody talks about them, either they move away from the concept of productive method. Or they have simply not fulfilled adoption expectations. GTD survives because it is not a system, but a Framework: It doesn’t tell you how to live your life, it gives you tools to manage it. A difference important enough. Immortal methods Share a specific DNA: Conceptual modularity. Technological agnosticism. Resistance to perfectionism. Examples? GTD works equally well on paper as in Notion. Pomodoro You only need a stopwatch. Kanban can be implemented with post-ps or with Trello. The extincts often died overing the entertainment. ‘43 folders‘It depended on physical archivators. In full digital era. ‘ZTD’ demanded a bestial transformation. ‘Getting Results Agile’ asked to manage six simultaneous approach areas. When a method needs to be another person or do something analog, it is convicted. Neuroscience knows how to explain why the simplest survives: our brain prefers equivalent to ‘System 1‘That advocates Kahneman: automatic, intuitive, without cognitive effort. The methods that survive explode our biases instead of fighting them. Extinct methods demanded a heroic discipline for our efficient nature. Lost battle from day 1. The next time you want to adopt a new productivity method, those that sweep libraries and proliferate in the form of Reels condensing its content in a minute, Do not ask yourself if it is better than the one you already use, ask yourself if it will survive when the technology changeswhen your motivation runs out and when the novelty disappears. Immortal methods are not the most perfect, they are the most adaptable. Like crocodiles. In Xataka | 99 Undecuted Tips on Productivity Outstanding image | Savannah Wakefield in Unspash

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

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

Mafalda has been international 50 years, but he had a barrier to overcome: the English language

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Published For the first time in 1964the sharpness of his observations, his tragicomic vision of the world and the microcosm of children’s characters that he developed made it a Comic icon in Spanish. However, until now I had not been able to make the leap to another of the most widespread languages ​​on the planet due to a mixture of fear that their stories were very local since it would lose grace with translation. But the universal dimension of the character has finally reached the bookstores. ‘Mafalda’ was a relatively brief series for what are usually the successful comics, only nine years of life: he was born in 1964 and died in 1973, when its quino creator (about which, by the way, it premieres An excellent documentary today in Filmin) He decided that he was going to end. Despite the innumerable reissues and new incarnations (next year we will have Netflix animated series Directed by the Oscarized Juan José Campanella), he has never been continued. Mafalda was born, in fact, a year before his first publication, such as part of an advertising campaign for some appliances that never got to. But Quino liked his creation and recycled it for the pages of the weekly ‘First Flat’. In his stories he told the Simple experiences of a girl, Mafalda, from a series of friends of her age (Felipe, Manolito, Susanita and Miguelito) and the adults around him. As in ‘Peanuts‘,’Calvin and Hobbes‘Or many others, the children’s environment hid the most adult of the reflections. In the case of Mafalda, dyed of sharp social criticism. The development of Mafalda was deeply marked by the tense political situation that Latin America lived in general and Argentina in particular after the coup d’etat of 1976. The unwavering Mafalda’s pacifist position made it an antiauthority symbol, and some of its vignettes (such as Mafalda pointing out the porra of a policeman and saying “This is the stick of abolloing ideologies”) pages, and became symbols of the protests, even appearing with the victims of the tragic San Patricio massacre. 30 languages ​​… less English Mafalda’s international success, which became a reference for the political comic (to such an extent that Quino had to exile for the content of his vignettes) It led her to be translated into 30 languages. And until today ‘Mafalda’ had been read in Poland, Greece, Italy, France, Taiwan and, of course, in all Spanish -speaking countries. However, English was resisted. 50 years later, the ‘mafalda’ strips are going to be published in the United States in a comprehensive collection translated by Frank Wynne, which has faced some problems it details In this interview: Of course, there are word games (milk cream leads Mafalda to wonder about the controls of Birth), but also the political context of the moment. Peronism or the situation in Latin America must be explained to the new readers, although others (Mafalda continually spoke of the Vietnam Guera) possibly relative to them. However, those responsible for this new edition say something we already knew: Mafalda’s concerns are eternal and transcend borders. The brutality of the powerful to submit to the humble, the inequalities, the imbalance between genders … all that is in ‘Mafalda’ and remains valuable today. Anglophones readers will discover it now, but it is never too late for Mafalda to give you some lessons, as a good sabihonda that always was. In Xataka | ‘The Eternaluta’ is a masterpiece of science fiction, but the story of its creator gives him an absolutely unique background

For years they leaked murders and violations for Facebook in Barcelona. Now they claim 4 million to the goal for psychological damage

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Goal had a moderation center in Barcelona that was responsible for monitoring its contents. Had. Telus Digital, the subcontracting company, closed its facilities in April. Now, twenty -nine of their then content moderators They have filed a criminal complaint against Meta and its Barcelona subcontractor for the mental damage suffered after years filtering external material. Why is it important. It is the first criminal accusation admitted in Europe against the technological giant for the sequels caused by the moderation of content. Workers claim 150,000 euros of compensation each. Almost 4.5 million euros in total. The facts. For years, these employees had to visualize murders, decapitations, rapes, child pornography, live suicides and terrorism for eight -hour days. His rest time was set in five minutes per hour while processing up to 800 videos a day. The consequences they expose were tranquatic stress transport, panic attacks, suicidal ideas, nightmares and phobias. An employee has been in psychological treatment for six years and has temporary disability since 2022. Between bambalins. The complaint ensures that Mal CCC Barcelona Digital Services, then absorbed by Canadian Telic Digital. The American matrix set schedules, productivity and quality demands, requiring 98% success in moderation decisions. The best performance workers were “promoted” to high priority tail, where the most disturbing content arrived. Yes, but. Companies knew that many employees would lead to “serious psychic pathologies” but did not implement protection measures. During the hiring process they deliberately hid the nature of work, limiting themselves to verifying knowledge of languages. The day -to -day detail arrived later. The context. In 2023 it was uncovered that between 20% and 25% of Télus template was decline, many for psychological reasons. Meta definitely closed the Barcelona center a few weeks ago, dismissing the entire squad after dispense with moderation servicesthat now remain in the hands of the users themselves, as in X. The complaint accumulates to another filed in 2024 by a worker, already admitted by the Court of Instruction 29 of Barcelona. In the United States, Goal paid 52 million dollars to more than 11,000 moderators in 2020an average of $ 4,700 per person. In Xataka | Four AI companies are monopolizing the intellectual future of humanity. They are not good news Outstanding image | Greg Bulla in Unspash

Years ago Lisbon set out to be a tourist capital. Now it has become the greatest tourist hell in Europe

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Lisbon is the mecca of the cream cakesfado, sardines and tiles, but if we talk about real estate market it is undoubtedly the city of change. Little (or nothing) has to do with today’s Lisbon with that of two decades ago, the prior to the financial crisis. The Portuguese capital has managed to sneak into the international investment map and establish itself as Tourist destinationbut it hasn’t left him for free. On the way it has become the city More “uninquerable” from Europe, with a real estate market more focused on Expats or tourists than in their neighbors. The former buy houses to use them as second residences Or in search of high profitability while the latter, the Lisbon, have seen how housing became so careful that many have renounced the perspective of renting whole floors and are content with rooms. Lisbon, “Insequible” city. The Lisbon real estate market fit several adjectives: it is dynamic, attractive For investors and with upward valuesbut there is another peculiarity in which it stands out about the rest of European metropolis: the Insequibility. According to Numbeopresents the ‘worst’ relationship between the average price of housing and available family income. At least from the perspective of the native population interested in buying a house. The platform assigns to the Portuguese capital An index of 21.1, above other large (and faces) European metropolis, such as London(18,6), Paris (16,9), Munich (15), Vienna(14,9) o Barcelona(12.5). Madrid occupies for example the 53rd position of The tablewith a result of 11.6 points. Prices and income. It is not so much that housing is More expensive in Lisbon that in those other cities as of their relationship with income in a country where minimum wage It is maintained low (despite Your progressive ascent) and the half -gross salary was around 2024 1,600 euros/ month. “In a country where 60% of taxpayers earn less than 1,000 euros per month, finding a rent below that price in the capital is only possible if you are willing to live in 20 m2 or less,” warns Agustín Cocola-Gantresearcher at the University of Lisbon, in a tribune of The Guardianin which it analyzes the challenges of the city. A percentage: 176%. Number data is not the only ones that reflect the change that the Lisbon real estate market has experienced during the last decade. Some calculations show that housing was more than 176% in a matter of a decade, between 2014 and 2024, a percentage that would be even more pronounced in the historic center. According to idealistIn 2015 the M2 in the sale market cost 2,206 euros. Today it would exceed 5,700. In the case of rent it passed From € 8.4/m2 to € 22.4/m2 During the same period. And the forecasts managed by the sector show that these values ​​will continue to climb. “It is expected that housing prices both in Lisbon and Porto will continue to grow in 2025, supported by an ongoing recovery after the previous market corrections,” Comment The Savills. “The market remains stable, with a constant growth that signs it a positive perspective for next year.” Although the Lisbon case is especially interesting, the price increase It expands to the whole of Portugal. Looking back. At this point the question is obvious … why is that increasing? How has Lisbon became the most unassumable city in terms of housing price? For cocola-grant The key is in the years after the financial crisis of 2008, when Portugal adopted a shock plan that, among other objectives, set out to make Lisbon a more appetizing destination for tourists and real estate investment. The formula to achieve this had little novelty, remember The expert of the University of Lisbon. The government flexible the rental market, turned to fiscal policy to attract investment funds and applied incentives to capture buyers who do not reside in Portugal, a formula that It has also been tested In Spain. In 2012, the country deployed its Golden Visa program in Portugal, which allowed him to accumulate an investment of thousands of millions of euros. Between tourists, nomads and Expats. The country not only set out to capture real estate investment. Another of its objectives was to claim as a destination to Digital nomadsstudents and travelers and tourists, both those interested in staying in hotels and in apartments through temporary rentals. The result was that thousands of homes The city began to be announced on Airbnb, displacing traditional tenants and Tensioning The market. The digital Mesagem of Lisbon remember that only between 2014 and 2018 the local accommodation (the short -term rentals) grew at a 100% annual rate in Lisbon, especially in certain areas, such as Mercy either Santa Maria Maior. “Dramatic levels”. Cocola-Gant Point out that in the Historic Center of Lisbon the airbnb rents have risen to “dramatic levels” and in the most tourist neighborhoods about 70% of the homes have a short -term rental license, a density that would exceed that of others cities hyperturistifiedsuch as London or Barcelona. Not just that. The hotel offer has shot, tripling since 2010 and with dozen new projects on the horizon. Hi, Gentrification. The researcher at the University of Lisbon Explain That, given the low interest rates and given the fiscal advantages offered by Portugal, investors were interested in Lisboeta real estate park. After all, the country offered them good conditions and houses that were revalued over time and were well received in the rental market. That investment allowed rehabilitating real estate, but had its ‘face B’: a Gentrification Until then almost unknown in much of the city. “Despite the improvements, the city center lost 25% of its population between 2011 and 2021”, Precise. According to their calculations, only 56.5% of the homes that were built or reformed throughout those years ended up becoming main residences. In other words: a good part of that work that allowed to rehabilitate the city resulted in homes that are empty today, are dedicated to temporary rental or are used as second residences. … Read more

Four years later, still giving blind sticks

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Netflix will stop offering some of its most notorious games to the subscribers of the service: a total of 20 titles among which are some of those of which more fame had won the catalogjust those who had made many who were facing an entry operation in the video game industry comparable to that with which Netflix broke into the film and series business. The fall of these titles, however, puts the entire plan in question. They leave. The quality of the games that Netflix has offered its subscribers as part of its plans always has been on the rise. Began with a few Very modestbut soon included undoubted packaging titles And that they had already had an important and very awarded career on traditional platforms, such as ‘Hades’, ‘Katana Zero’ or ‘Braid’. Now many of them leave the platform from next July 14. This is the complete list of those who disappear. Battleship Braid, Anniversary Edition Carmen Sandiego Cocomelon: Play With JJ Death’s Door DID OUT: MERGE CAFE Dumb Ways To Survive Ghost Detective Hades Katana Zero Lego Legacy: Heroes Unboxed Ludo King Monument Valley Monument Valley 2 Monument Valley 3 Rainbow Six: Smol Raji: An ancient epic Sponebob: Bubble Pop Fun Ted Tumblewords The Case of The Golden Idol The Rise of The Golden Idol Vineyard Valley Down in ambition. This movement enters into what has been Netflix’s recent relationship with video games: officially sold a commitment to the very important environment, and was indisputable with catalog games such as ‘Hades’, ‘Monument Valley’, ‘Sonic Mania Plus’, ‘Oxenfree’, ‘Reigns’ or ‘The Almost Gone’. To this certain steps were added to go beyond mobile phones, with games on televisions using A smartphone like command. However, in October of last year this ambition He received the first stick: Netflix announced that it closed its only AAA study, Team Blue. Looking for a voice. At this time, Netflix has been playing all the sticks: he has entered known franchises as ‘gta’ (which withdrew almost entirely a few months ago of its catalog) or ‘Street Fighter’, has published modern milestones and classics of the indie, mobile entertainments for all audiences and adaptations of their own series. In March, Alain Tascan entered as president of this area of ​​the platform and was clear: “We need to find our voice“. They have not yet made it clear if they are doing well with being a (remarkable) Publisher of indie prestige games or want something else. Because that more, with the closed AAA study … What would it be? The netflix of video games. On paper, that is the logical aspiration of the platform: differentiate from giants such as Xbox or Sony without specific associated hardware, and settle as a platform without platform. A huge catalog of titles that can be played on any device. Tascan declared The Verge A couple of days ago That the key to the success of monsters such as ‘Fortnite’ is in the cross-play that makes the same profile and departure can be continued on different devices. But technically that is not quite simple … And above all, who needs to do that with ‘World of Peppa Pig’ or the ‘Buscaminas’? Cheaper technology. A loss of access to exclusive titles can give rise to possible changes in the perception of service valueso that is what Netflix may need to work below. But Tascan points in his statements that in the next five years the technology of streaming It will improve enough to set their ideas: a first step they have taken it with the aforementioned launch of titles that are played only on television with the mobile as command, but its impact has been very limited. Will you continue trying to new Netflix options or will you wait for technology to live up to your ambitious ideas? In Xataka | Streaming is first and foremost a western industry, but who is dominating it is a Japanese art: anime

Years ago the “Paypal Mafia” redefined our vision of the Internet. Today the “OpenAi Mafia” points to the same with the AI

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When Ebay bought PayPal In 2002 for 1.5 billion dollars, there was an internal earthquake. In the four years following the acquisition, only 12 of the company’s original employees were left. Paypal was a boiling talent, Entrepreneurship And brilliant people, and who “Ebay escaped” They ended up redefining the technological world. Now we are attending a similar phenomenon, but with another company: OpenAi. PayPal Mafia. This was baptized by the group of bright ex -employed PayPal who left the company to found your own startups. These projects ended up becoming true business and technological successes, and showed that in PayPal there was a lot of talent waiting for their own opportunity to undertake. The most outstanding examples of that mafia Paypal already make clear the dimension of that phenomenon: Elon Musk: The clearest example of how far the members of the PayPal Mafia arrived. He founded or co -founded SpacexOpenAi, Neuralinkand The Boring Company, in addition to buying a majority participation in Tesla and Acquire Twitter (Now x). Peterthiel: is the president of Palantirhe created the Founders Fund Investment Fund – which would later attract former partners like Ken Howery or Luke Nosek – and was the first Facebook external investor. Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim: these three former PayPal employees YouTube co -founded Reid Hoffman: He founded LinkedIn Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman: Yelp co -founded Yishan Wong: He worked on Facebook and became CEO of Reddit for a season David O. Sacks: Founded Geni.com and Yammer They redefined the Internet. These engineers and entrepreneurs were a fundamental part of the transition to an internet focused on consumers, something surprising especially after the bubble of the Puntocom in 2001. Rarely in history there has been a phenomenon in former employees of the same company end up creating one or several companies even more successful than the one they left, but there is a previously relevant previous example. The eight traitors. In 1957 eight engineers, fed up with his boss in Seticonductor Laboratory Shockley, decided to lite the blanket and create their own semiconductor company. They called her Fairchild Semiconductor Corp, and those employees They went down in history like the eight traitors. Fairchild had a huge success, but ten years later his engineers also looked for new roads. Three of them –Gordon MooreRobert Noyce and Andy Grove – ended up joining in 1968 to create a legendary company: Intel. The other Paypal Mafia is the OpenAi mafia. Those phenomena seem to be now having a new iteration, but this time the company of which all this new movement is starting is OpenAi. This company has become absolute reference in the field of AI, but on the way to achieve this there has been a true internal war and many conflicts between several of the engineers and their CEO, Sam Altman. Those internal tensions were the ones caused the dismissal and later return to the company of Altman In November 2023, but the company was not the same since then. OPENAI MAFIA members. Actually the divisions that occurred in Openai began very soon, almost shortly after the startup were formed. In fact, the first member of that “Openai Mafia” was also from the Paypal Mafia: It is none other than Elon Musk. It is a clear example, but not the only one, and the members of that OpenAi mafia are the following: Elon Musk: OpenAi co -founder that ended declaring war on the company and Sam Altman. Co -founded XAI Dario and Daniela Amodei: these brothers co -founded Anthropicthe company that develops the family of Ia Claude models. John Schulman: After being one of Openai’s main researchers, he left the company to join Anthropic. Others former investigators and engineers Openai like Tom Brown, Jared Kaplan, or Sam McCandlish also joined the company later. Jan Leike: This researcher who worked in Deepmind and OpenAi He left this company and joined Anthropic in May 2024. His work focuses on the development of a “safe” (“super -align”) and scalable. Ilya Sutskever: Openai co -founded and it was her Chief Scientist, but in 2024 left the company To create your own startup, Safe Superintelligence. Look Murati: Openai’s exco also decided leave the company something after Sutskever, and just Create Thinking Machinesanother startup of AI. Bob McGrew, who also left Openai recently, have joined that project. Josh Tobin and Vicki Cheung: These engineers also came out of Openai to found Gantry, another startup of ia. David Luan: After being one of the top engineering responsible for OpenAi, he ended up co -founding Adept AI Labs. Andrej Karpahty: After working on Tesla’s autonomous driving systems and then in OpenAi, this expert and disseminator ended up founding Eureka Labs. Many promises, few realities. The fundamental difference between these two “mafias” is that while in the PayPal Mafia those companies that founded its creators were absolute balls, the situation of those startups that Openai exingenier have created is an absolute unknown. Safe Superintelligence Ya raised 1,000 million dollars in 2024 and it is rumored that Thinking Machines soon It will lift 2 billion of dollars. None of them have launched any product for the moment, and in these new companies there is a lot of expectation – and, talent is supposed – but little else. The future will say whether the impact of these former OpenAi employees is comparable to that of PayPal’s ex -employees. 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Russia in five years

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“Donald, you have taken us to a crucial moment for the United States, Europe and the world. Europe is going to pay, as it should be, and it will be your victory.” With those words he went in A private message Mark Rutte, NATO general secretary, Donald Trump, who did not hesitate to make praise public. In the background, that summit that It is taking place With the expense in defense of the 5% of GDP For European countries as the main theme. Spain still He has not said yesbut there is something that aims to tip the balance definitely. Reinforced commitment. I told it in Exclusive Guardian. Rutte would have confirmed that the 32 member countries have accepted significantly their defense expenditure, even 5 % of GDPand they would have done it for a very simple reason: in direct response to the growing threat which represents Russia. The decision, taken on the eve of the Alliance Summit in the beech that is taking place, is based on the conviction that Moscow could be able to attack an NATO member within a period in a period three to five years. Rutte also stressed that Russia already produces four more times Ammunition that all NATO Board, despite having a much lower economy in size, which requires an immediate increase in the resources assigned to defense and security. The new goal It breaks down In that announced 3.5% for direct military expenditure and an additional 1.5% for cybersecurity, intelligence and other strategic aspects. The warning of Germany. The threat is not new. A few weeks ago he was the head of the German General Staff, General Carsten Breuer, who launched one of the more overwhelming warnings to date from NATO breast: Russia could be in a position to launch a direct attack against one or several alliance members, in particular the Baltic states, before 2029. He did it within the framework of the Shangri-La Security Summit in Singapore, where Breuer said that Russian military accumulation is of such magnitude that an aggression cannot be ruled out even before that date. The general explained that Russia would be producing around 1,500 tanks a year And more than four million artillery rounds of 152 mm, many of which are not allocated to Ukraine but to strategic reserves and new military structures oriented towards the West. According to allied intelligence services, these data reflect not only capacity, but a clear intention to prepare for a direct confrontation With NATO. Screenshots of the text message sent by RUTTE to Trump, published by the president of the United States in his social network Systemic threat. Breuer explained That Kremlin does not see war in Ukraine as an isolated conflict, but as part of a structural escalation against NATO. Hence recent hybrid attacks such as cable sabotage submarines in the Baltic, cyber attacks against European public transport, and unidentified drones on key infrastructure in Germany. The Russian objective would be to prove the strength of allied defenses and identify vulnerable points, such as the known “Suwalki runner”that strategic strip between Poland and Lithuania that connects the Baltic states with the rest of the NATO flanked by Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. In Breuer’s opinionit is essential that all the members of the Alliance understand the seriousness of the moment: while in Germany “smoke is only seen on the horizon”, in Estonia “the heat is already felt and the flames are seen.” The strategic plant. Had yesterday in a exclusive the independence kyiv A Russian maneuver that has been brewing to the heat of war in Ukraine. Apparently, its strategic missile plant In Votkinsk It has expanded massively, avoiding international sanctions with the help of suppliers from China, Taiwan and Belarus. This state installation, key to missile production Iskander-M short -range and intercontinental missiles such as The Yars and The Bulavaha tripled its production In a year and currently accumulates a sufficient arsenal to hold attacks for at least two years. In addition to building new facilities, hiring more than 2,500 workers and acquiring 7,000 industrial equipment, many of them imported through intermediaries, growth has been funded by Government subsidies Russian. Despite Western sanctions, the plant has received advanced Chinese and Taiwanese machinery through disguised commercial routes. China in the shadow. Not just that. The medium stressed that, in addition, Chinese companies supply Key supplies such as titanium and fuel components. For Ukrainian intelligence, this industrial reinforcement not only seeks to replace what is used in Ukraine, but also prepare for prolonged war and expand the global nuclear attack capacity. Votkinsk, in that sense, represents the epicenter of An expanded network of Russian war production that already transcends the Ukrainian conflict and points to a prolonged confrontation scenario with the West. Missile transfer in Moscow Trump and cohesion. As for the meeting in The Hague, despite the historical tensions between Trump and the NATO, Rutte He has assured That the US president (who has publicly questioned the very existence of the Alliance) is “absolutely committed” to her, although he made it clear that Washington expects more effort from its European partners. The friction: Spain. We have already coming counting. The 5% proposal that is expected has not been adopted without disagreements. Spain He has refused Officially to formally join the common objective, considering it “unreasonable”, and has offered an alternative commitment to spend 2.1% of GDP, arguing that your national defense industry allows you to save significant costs. This position generated Trump’s criticism, which He accused Spain of being a partner that brings little, as well as from Poland and Belgiumwhich warned that granting exceptions mine the NATO unity. Routte, however, minimized tensions, insisting that there are no special treatment, although the final statement of the summit allows Madrid for some flexibility to achieve its capacity commitments. Ukraine, between racks. It is the other elephant in the summit room. Amid the growing Russian military pressure and budgetary debates, Rutte rejected Ukraine It was marginalized. Although this … Read more

25 years ago, Europe was close to panic at the barbarism of Japanese motorcycles. So Japan limited them to 299 km/h

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The 90s were one of the golden times of motorcycling. A time when there was no Electronic controls, Anticontamination regulations No concern for security. Where now we see chaos and lack of control, a few years ago motorcycle manufacturers saw a test field to launch the fastest vehicles in the world. So much so, that the brands themselves had to put a limit to stop competing fiercely between them. What was happening. The motorcycle market has changed. Currently what is sold the most They are scooters and comfortable motorcyclesl, the SUV made motorcycle. In the 90s, the icons were the Japanese sports of Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki. There came a point where virtually great street sports car reached vertigo speeds. In the early 90s, Honda launched her CBR900RR Firebladeone of the fastest production motorcycles in the world. It soon being overcome by the kawasaki ZZR1100 and later by the Hayabusa. A race to step on the grass of the neighbor that ended up uncontrolled. The 300 km/h. Motorcycles like Hayabusa ranly passed the 330 km/h, and in fear that governments imposed new regulations and prohibitions against such powerful vehicles, the industry decided to self -control with A gentlemen pact. The industry wanted to continue selling supercardives, but I did not want to intimidate the regulatory agencies with motorcycles that began to get closer to the barrier of the 400 km/h than to that of the 300. A secret pact. The gentlemen’s pact among motorcycle manufacturers is an open secret, although given the nature of the agreement there were never official statements. It is rumored that BMW began conversations with both Japanese and Italian manufacturers. Interestingly, when BMW did not have a single motorcycle capable of competing for being the fastest. Be that as it may, in the early 2000s the pact began to be fulfilled: the motorcycles launched by manufacturers, such as the Kawasaki ZZR1200 Or Honda’s proposals, did not exceed 299 km/h. But the sports market demanded speed and muscle, flying through the air the pact. It didn’t last long. Just seven years later, Italian as MV Agusta They left the pact in the air, with models such as the F4 R exceeding 300 km/h. It is something that BMW itself also did with its S1000R And, again, the fastest sports race began. Honda CBR1000RR-R-SP, much more than 299 km/h, although the scoreway says otherwise. What remains of the pact. Although there are numerous street motorcycles that exceed 300 km/h, the Japanese keep the pact alive. Manufacturers like Honda do not mark speed beyond 299 km/h, although the motorcycle is really running beyond her. The same happens with Yamaha. Versions such as the New Hayabusa or the Kawasaki H2, motorcycles that could touch the 400 km/h, remain electronically limited to 299 km/h. The Japanese respect and tradition keep the pact almost intact, maintaining the exceptions for circuit such as the Kawasaki H2R and its 400 km/h … with the house motorcycle. There are also those who dedicate themselves to prepare motorcycles to pass from 440 km/h. Luckily, they can’t step on the street. Not only in motorcycles. The pact among Japanese giants was not the only one decades ago. In the 80s and until well entered the 2000, manufacturers such as Nissan, Honda, Subaru and Toyota They signed a pact so that their cars had no more than 280 hp nor exceed 180 km/h. It is especially striking to upload a Japanese of almost 300 hp, and see that Your marker is tarado in those 180. The measure arose in response to the growing concerns for road safety in the country, an agreement not formalized before the public, but evident when analyzing car after car. This is still the limitations at 250 km/h in large part of current sports. Image | Austin Hervias In Xataka | Chinese motorcycles are sweeping in Spain: who is who in this brand puzzle

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