El fundador de SpaceX, Elon Musk, habla durante una rueda de prensa posterior al lanzamiento después de que el cohete SpaceX Falcon 9 en Cabo Cañaveral, el 2 de marzo de 2019.
Cuando se trata de la limpieza del hogar, siempre se busca la practicidad. Por eso, las aspiradoras de sin cable se presentan como una gran opción para mantener los suelos impecables. El poder abarcar más superficie o no tener que ir enchufando y desenchufando el dispositivo para pasar de una habitación a otra son algunas de sus grandes ventajas.
Si alguna vez te has propuesto reciclar y no lo has conseguido, puede que no tener el cubo de basura correcto influya en ese resultado. Por eso, desde EL PAÍS Escaparate hemos seleccionado uno de los contenedores que mejor te permitirán separar los residuos.
Open Fiber, la fibra FTTH arriva a Verona e Vicenza: buono da 100 euro per chi attiva una nuova linea
La fibra ottica FTTH di OpenFiber arriva nelle province di Verona e Vicenza, offrendo a famiglie, professionisti e imprese di 23 comuni veneti l’accesso a una connettività ultraveloce e stabile. Il servizio è oggi disponibile in oltre 61mila unità immobiliari e abilita servizi digitali avanzati, dallo smart working alla telemedicina, fino al cloud computing e alle applicazioni per smartcity. L’iniziativa si accompagna alla campagna “La fibra che ti premia”, che mette a disposizione un voucher da 100 euro per i nuovi utenti residenziali. Potranno beneficiarne coloro che, dal 4 maggio al 31 dicembre 2026, attiveranno una connessione in fibra ottica tramite uno degli operatori partner di OpenFiber. Il premio potrà essere convertito in un Buono Regalo Amazon.it, in una gift card MediaWorld, in buoni carburante Enilive o Q8 oppure, tra le novità dell’edizione 2026, in buoni spesa Coop e Conad. La richiesta del voucher dovrà essere presentata entro il 31 gennaio 2027.
Per aderire all’iniziativa è necessario verificare la copertura del proprio indirizzo sul sito di Open Fiber, scegliere un operatore partner e procedere con l’attivazione della linea. Una volta completata l’installazione, sarà possibile richiedere il premio compilando l’apposito form online. Ai fini della validazione della partecipazione, è importante che l’installatore applichi sulla borchia ottica l’adesivo con il codice identificativo. La rete realizzata nei comuni interessati utilizza la tecnologia FTTH, Fiber To The Home, che porta la fibra ottica direttamente all’interno degli edifici. Si tratta dell’infrastruttura più performante disponibile sul mercato, in grado di garantire velocità di connessione fino a 10 Gigabit al secondo.
“Con la disponibilità della fibra ottica FTTH e con iniziative come ‘La fibra che ti premia’, vogliamo accompagnare cittadini e famiglie nel passaggio verso una connettività più moderna e performante, riducendo concretamente il divario digitale nei territori“, dichiara MaurizioBua, Regional Manager di OpenFiber. “La rete realizzata in Veneto è un’infrastruttura abilitante per lo sviluppo economico e sociale, capace di sostenere nuovi servizi digitali, lo smart working e l’innovazione delle imprese locali“.
La fibra ultraveloce consente di utilizzare contemporaneamente più dispositivi connessi, garantendo bassa latenza e maggiore stabilità anche nelle attività più complesse. Tra i servizi abilitati rientrano il lavoro ibrido avanzato, le videoconferenze in alta definizione, l’accesso a piattaforme cloud e applicazioni professionali, lo streaming in HD e 4K/8K, il gaming online e l’intrattenimento digitale. La rete FTTH rappresenta inoltre un’infrastruttura strategica per la digitalizzazione delle imprese, grazie a servizi come databackup, cybersecurity e strumenti di collaborazione evoluti. Allo stesso tempo, sostiene lo sviluppo della telemedicina e dei servizi sanitari digitali, dai consulti da remoto al monitoraggio dei pazienti, oltre a favorire l’accesso ai servizi digitali della Pubblica amministrazione, all’identità digitale, alle pratiche online e alle soluzioni per le smart city.
El verano ya está a la vuelta de la esquina y una gran mayoría ya estamos mirando de reojo las ansiadas vacaciones de verano. Están los que se van al pueblo, los que se calzan las zapatillas de senderismo y se van a la montaña, los que aprovechan para hacer los grandes viajes con los que llevan soñando toda la vida y, luego, estamos los que ansiamos el descanso estival para pasar unos días en la playa, descansando y disfrutando de una vida pausada y relajada. Cuando empiezas a organizar todo lo que necesitas para disfrutar de las vacaciones en el mar, un accesorio que nunca puede faltar es la nevera portátil. Ya no es solo porque ayuda a conservar mejor los alimentos y las bebidas frías, sino que también aporta comodidad y orden para que no te olvides de nada.
Ancient Greek is among the oldest languages in the world. Credit: Maurice Flesier / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Hundreds of diaspora academics are calling on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) to reverse its exclusion of the Greek language. In an open letter, hundreds of professors, academics, authors, educators, researchers, publishers, and members of the global intellectual community expressed their deep concern. They urged Amazon to “reconsider its current policy and demonstrate leadership in protecting linguistic and cultural diversity in the digital age.”
The signatories brought together by the International Hellenic Association (IHA), point out that Amazon ironically derives its name from Greek mythology and language. They emphasize that “the exclusion of Greek—one of the foundational languages of global intellectual history—is not merely a technical omission, but a cultural loss whose consequences extend far beyond the Greek-speaking community itself.”
Why the Greek language should be restored by Amazon’s Kindle
The letter, bearing the signatures primarily of Greek diaspora academics mobilized by the IHA, highlights several critical points regarding Amazon KDP, a self-publishing platform allowing authors to distribute digital and print books globally:
A striking contradiction: Amazon KDP currently supports publishing in numerous regional and minority languages with significantly fewer speakers than Greek (e.g., Cornish, Manx, North Frisian, Romansh, Corsican). Meanwhile, Greek, a language spoken by an estimated 13 to 15 million people worldwide, remains excluded. Therefore, this policy cannot be justified by commercial or demographic metrics alone.
A continuous legacy: Greek occupies a unique position in human history. With over 3,400 years of uninterrupted written tradition, it is one of the world’s oldest living languages. It is the language of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Archimedes, and the New Testament—the very bedrock of philosophy, democracy, medicine, mathematics, political thought, theology, literature, and the sciences.
A living vessel of values: Greek is not just a historical relic. It is a vibrant language and a living intellectual tradition. For millennia, it has served as the matrix for human-centric values. Words such as democracy, philanthropy, politics, ethics, dialogue, philosophy, history, and theory are not just linguistic artifacts but represent monumental achievements of human civilization.
The language of democratic principles: Greek articulates the foundations of civic life with unparalleled precision. Terms like demokratia (democracy), isegoria (equal right to speak), isonomia (equality before the law), and isopoliteia (equal civic rights) embody the principles of citizen participation and political inclusion. These concepts carry a specific original context that remains fundamentally untranslatable, serving as cornerstone concepts for modern societies.
A language of moral resistance: Hellenic literature and thought gifted humanity a vocabulary of moral resistance against arbitrary power. In Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound, the concept of philanthropos tropos (the philanthropic way) stands in defiance of tyranny, presenting the love for humanity as a moral and political choice. This legacy remains deeply relevant in the digital era, wherein access to language also equates to access to memory, education, and cultural dignity.
Greek Language Day
Consequently, Greek is far more than a tool for communication or commerce; it is a treasury of wisdom, virtue, and beauty. Its global significance has been internationally recognized by UNESCO, which officially declared February 9th as World Greek Language Day, honoring its timeless contribution to global civilization.
Excluding Greek-language publishing from one of the world’s most influential digital platforms creates artificial barriers for Greek-speaking authors, educators, students, and publishers worldwide. Simultaneously, it undermines the broader principle of linguistic diversity in the global digital landscape.
For years, Greek authors and publishers have relied on Amazon for the international distribution of literature, academic research, and educational materials. In turn, Greek consumers have consistently supported Amazon’s products and services throughout every stage of its technological evolution, the open letter by Greek academics says.
No hay nada que dé más pereza en la cocina que pelearse con el papel film: se pega donde no debe, se arruga, se rompe y, cuando más lo necesitas, acaba hecho una bola de plástico. Pero igual que ya hemos incorporado pequeños aliados como las básculas inteligentes, la olla multifunción o el hervidor de infusiones para hacernos la vida más fácil, hay otro básico que está ganando terreno en nuestras cocinas.
Como es costumbre, desde EL PAÍS Escaparate te traemos las ofertas de Amazon que no te puedes perder durante estos días. Corre y echa un vistazo a cada una de nuestras propuestas porque los precios pueden cambiar en cualquier momento.
Com financiamento acima de 12 mil milhões de euros e talentos da OpenAI, a Prometheus ambiciona acelerar a invenção em áreas como motores a jato, robótica e medicamentos.
He elegido este modelo de Smartia porque me parece muy cómoda para cocinar a diario, tiene buena visibilidad de pantalla y la experiencia general y con la app es muy fluida.
Soy periodista especializada en prueba y recomendación de productos y, en los últimos años, he analizado y comparado todo tipo de dispositivos, herramientas y artículos de consumo, poniendo a prueba sus prestaciones, funcionamiento y rendimiento en condiciones reales. A lo largo de este tiempo han pasado por mis manos desde gadgets y pequeños electrodomésticos hasta dispositivos de cuidado personal y tecnología aplicada al día a día, siempre con el objetivo de entender qué ofrece realmente cada producto más allá de sus especificaciones.
Además, estoy especializada en moda y belleza, un sector en el que sigo de cerca las tendencias y en el que he probado cosméticos, herramientas y productos de cuidado personal de todo tipo. En cada análisis busco ofrecer una visión clara, práctica y honesta que ayude al lector a elegir con criterio entre las distintas opciones del mercado.
Es curioso. Con todo el mundo hablando de la IA en clave de destrucción de empleos, lo cierto es que el gigante Amazon parece demostrarse como esa excepción que podría confirmarnos la regla. De hecho, es que la empresa con base en Seattle está contratando más que nunca y captando talento para su filial de Web Services, aprovechando sobre todo los despidos masivos en Meta.
Lo hace además en un entorno complicado, con los empleados reconociendo que ahora con la adopción de la IA trabajan más que nunca para analizar y corregir procesos que la involucran, sumando una rotación altísima, quejas al sistema salarial de la compañía y en plena reorganización interna para mejorar las sinergias entre equipos y reducir la burocracia.
Y ahora llega el último capítulo de toda esta historia contada por los compañeros de Business Insider, que mencionaban en una reciente nota a la mismísima Julia White, directora de marketing de Amazon Web Services, pidiendo en una reunión interna de la empresa a sus empleados que intenten "reclutar" a los trabajadores despedidos de Meta para cubrir las vacantes que continúen abiertas en AWS.
"Si tienen amigos, familiares o colegas —y, como saben, Meta acaba de despedir a 8.000 personas—, avísenles. Nosotros tenemos puestos de trabajo vacantes y necesitamos a los mejores talentos."
Julia White, directora de marketing de Amazon Web Services
Con algunas divisiones de Amazon en pleno recorte, otras como AWS se "pelean" por captar talento
Decía Julia White a sus empleados, preguntada por la rotación y los posibles cambios en las compensaciones precisamente para mejorar la retención del talento, que la mayor dificultad en este entorno era precisamente la contratación.
Al parecer, sólo la unidad de marketing de AWS cuenta con más o menos unas 160 vacantes en estos momentos, algo que para la directiva de la empresa norteamericana "es demasiado". Por eso, es que están haciendo hincapié en que deben acelerar.
Otras divisiones de Amazon, sin embargo, están recortando puestos, con más de 30.000 posiciones eliminadas en varias rondas de recortes en los últimos meses, incluyendo curiosamente algún despido en este mismo departamento de Amazon Web Services e incluso en robótica o en comercios minoristas.
Dicen desde Amazon, directamente desde el despacho de su CEO, Andy Jassy, que estos despidos tenían como objetivo reorganizar profundamente la compañía a todos los niveles, buscando un cambio cultural y no sólo organizativo, que les permita reducir niveles jerárquicos y burocracia para ganar sinergias entre equipos y una mayor velocidad de desarrollo.
Las "áreas estratégicas" seguirán creciendo, aunque Amazon se centrará "en contratar y desarrollar mejor el talento en un mercado muy competitivo". Tienen claro, eso sí, que los problemas de Amazon y la rotación más elevada de su plantilla no se centran sólo en las compensaciones, siendo éste "uno de los factores pero no el principal". Los empleados buscan oportunidades de crecimiento personal y profesional, además de mejorar su calidad de vida a nivel general junto con otros aspectos.
Así pues, AWS se centrará ahora en "atraer, retener y motivar al talento de más alto nivel" evaluando periódicamente qué se ofrece y qué necesitan los empleados, eliminando esa estructura "profundamente compartimentada" para pasar a un modelo operativo más colaborativo en el que los equipos aprendan nuevas formas de trabajar juntos y buscar objetivos comunes.
"Hay demasiadas transferencias de información y poca comunicación directa. Estamos en la fase de perfeccionamiento para asegurarnos de que sea eficiente".
Julia White, directora de marketing de Amazon Web Services
Xena, played by Lucy Lawless. Photo: Screenshot from Season 2, episode “Return of Callisto.” Courtesy: Studios USA Television
Xena the Greek warrior princess, who started as an antagonist of Hercules, captivated audiences around the world more than twenty years ago. One of the joys of looking back at Xena is its playfulness. It features some badass female characters and at times offers a serious message about female solidarity and feminism.
By Amanda Potter
Xena the fictional Warrior Princess, played by Lucy Lawless, captivated audiences around the world for six series with her high kicks, sword skills, and distinctive war cry. The series followed her as she fought her way through armies, monsters, and gods alongside her soul mate and moral compass, Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor).
Xena travelled across space and time, taking us from ancient Greece to Rome, Egypt, Britain, China, India, Scandinavia, and finally to Japan, where it all came to an end twenty years ago on June 18, 2001.
Starting life as an antagonist of Hercules in three episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena was so popular as a character that she was given her own spin-off series that ran from 1995 to 2001. At the time, Xena: Warrior Princess was considered groundbreaking, as it starred a strong female action heroine and was the only popular adventure, action, science fiction, or fantasy show that featured female leads without male counterparts.
On the twentieth anniversary of the final episode, it is worth revisiting this great show and exploring why it was loved by a broad spectrum of viewers, from young girls drawn in by an active female role model to ancient history buffs, sci-fi fans and the LGBTQ community.
The Fictional Greek Warrior Princess and the Amazons
A reformed warlord from ancient Greece, Xena was not an Amazon but a friend to the tribe of warrior women. To ancient Greek writers, the Amazons were women who fought and behaved like men and were unnatural barbarians. They have since been adopted as positive female role models who break with misogynistic stereotypes of womanhood—they live in a self-sufficient, female-dominated society as warriors and intellectuals. The term “Amazon feminism” is now used to describe a branch of feminism that promotes female physical prowess as a way to achieve gender equality.
Before Xena, the Amazons featured in the 1970s Wonder Woman television series. Not quite the feminist icons we expect today, these women wore pastel-colored negligees as they adopted a peaceful life—without men—on Paradise Island.
In Xena, while the Amazons may also have been attired in revealing costumes made of furs and skins, their separatist society valued martial, as well as academic, skills. An Amazon tells Gabrielle that the Amazon world is based on “truth and an individual woman’s strength.”
The Amazons from Greek mythology lived apart from men at the edge of the known world and fought bravely against male heroes such as Hercules, Theseus, and Achilles. In Xena, the Amazons also lived in a matriarchal society and were skilled fighters who could hold their own against men.
The Amazons in Wonder Woman (2017) can be seen as Xena’s big-screen descendants. The costumes and fighting prowess of Penthesilea (Nina Milner) in the BBC drama Troy: Fall of a City (2018) has tinges of Xena. The leadership ability of the immortal Amazon Andy (Charlize Theron) in the Netflix film The Old Guard can also be seen as inspired by Xena.
But while Troy: Fall of a City and The Old Guard are aimed at older audiences, Xena was popular across all age groups. For instance, episodes of Xena were broadcast in the UK on Channel Five’s Milkshake! Saturday morning slot in the ’90s and early 2000s for young viewers. This led many young girls to adopt Xena as their role model.
The Xena subtext
Xena was also popular with gay and lesbian viewers. In the 1990s, openly gay relationships were mostly missing from popular US television series. However, Xena’s relationship with Gabrielle was interpreted as friends and lovers as much as hero and sidekick. Series producers began to play with this idea, for example, putting Xena and Gabrielle together in a sexy bath in season two fan-favorite episode “A Day in the Life,” so that for many, the subtext became the main text.
Although a lot of fans were dismayed that Xena died in the final episode, they were treated to a long goodbye kiss between Gabrielle and Xena’s ghost. Series producers never openly made Xena and Gabrielle a lesbian couple. But LGBTQ+ fans championed their relationship, which is believed to have paved the way for the openly gay relationships we see in television series today.
One of the joys of looking back at Xena twenty years afterward is its playfulness when compared with dark sci-fi fantasies like Game of Thrones. It features some badass female characters and at times offers a serious message about female solidarity and feminism, but doesn’t take itself too seriously. Some of the special effects may now seem dated, but the storylines still ring true, and the characters of Xena and Gabrielle can continue to be inspirational for a new generation of young female viewers.
Amanda Potter is a Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University. The article was published in The Conversation and is republished here under a Creative Commons License.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is addicted to money. The major labs developing AI models are intoxicated with the dollars that will finance the technology’s evolution. The three leading companies in the sector, Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX, have announced in recent days plans to go public to raise more funds in an endless race. Other long-established tech multinationals such as Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon have also launched financial operations in what is shaping up to be the biggest capital raising effort in the sector’s history.
Amazon and Sony among firms that may have sourced coltan, used in phones, from supply chains controlled by the M23 rebels, says Global Witness
Leading global brands including Amazon, Ericsson and Sony are “likely” to have sourced minerals linked to a militia accused of widespread sexual violence, summary executions and torture, a new investigation claims.
The companies allegedly, but unknowingly, acquired coltan smuggled from mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that are occupied by the M23 militia, which has committed myriad atrocities in eastern DRC.
Hace tiempo que los difusores de aromas dejaron de ser un simple capricho decorativo y se convirtieron en uno de esos pequeños gestos cotidianos que cambian por completo una casa. Basta con encender uno al final del día para que el ambiente resulte más agradable, acogedor y, por supuesto, más relajante. Hay quien los utiliza para crear un rincón de calma antes de dormir, quien recurre a aromas cítricos para trabajar con más concentración y quien simplemente disfruta de esa sensación (casi de hotel) que son capaces de crear en cualquier estancia.
Tech company received infrastructure relief as its five biggest UK divisions generate £32bn in revenues
Amazon’s main division in the UK was handed a £7.6m tax credit last year by HM Revenue and Customs, despite profits at the retail-to-streaming company surging by more than a quarter to £355m.
Amazon UK Services – which employs 66,000 staff, the vast majority of the company’s 75,000 employees in Britain – said it owed £9.1m in “current tax” last year.
Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) in the Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor, one of the largest contiguous, intact forests in the Amazon and home to the world’s highest concentrations of PIACI, are under threat by extractive and large-scale industrial activities, which pose an existential threat to its inhabitants and the ecosystems they depend on. This is according to a new report co-authored by Earth Insight, the Regional Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the East (ORPIO), the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) and the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP). The report finds that oil and gas blocks overlap with 10% of the 16-million-hectare (39.5-million-acre) corridor, including almost 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres) of intact tropical moist forest, 907,000 hectares (2.2 million acres) of Key Biodiversity Areas and 713,000 hectares (1.8 million acres) of protected areas. “Pressure from hydrocarbons is increasing on the Peruvian side of the Yavarí Tapiche corridor,” Edith Espejo, senior program manager at Earth Insight and author of the report, told Mongabay over WhatsApp messages. “Our report serves as a warning for the irreversible harm that could take place if these oil blocks move into this corridor. Mining concessions within and on the peripheries of the corridor also pose a threat of encroachment and contamination of waterways.” A critical corridor for ecosystems and Indigenous communities The Yavarí-Tapiche Corridor covers Brazil’s western border states of Amazonas and Acre and Peru’s Loreto and Ucayali departments in the Amazon…This article was originally published on Mongabay
Landowner Carlos Roberto Simonetti gets three harvests per year from the corn, soy and cotton plantations on his 17,000-hectare (about 42,000 acres) farm called Fazenda Natureza Feliz, or Happy Nature, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. Over the course of four years, he would also get what he calls a fourth harvest, this time from the forested areas of his property, located where the Cerrado savanna meets the Amazon Rainforest. That’s because Simonetti would receive regular payments for protecting native vegetation beyond what the law requires, as part of a pilot project for payment for ecosystem services (PES) run by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), an NGO, in the states of Mato Grosso and Pará. The program, called CONSERV, gives landowners financial incentives to keep the forest standing even in areas which they are legally allowed to clear. The pilot project, which initially ran between 2020 and 2024 on 23 different properties, protected 20,707 hectares (about 51,170 acres) of land in the Cerrado and Amazon biomes with funding from the governments of Norway and The Netherlands. Ongoing contracts funded by Soft Commodities Forum members – agribusiness companies committed to preserving the Cerrado – are protecting a further 7,000 hectares (about 17,300 acres) in the states of Mato Grosso and Maranhão. IPAM is now seeking to scale up the program without relying on donations. The risk of legal deforestation The idea for CONSERV goes back to 2016, when an internal IPAM report calculated that around 1.5 million hectares (3.7…This article was originally published on Mongabay
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