Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo y Borja Sémper, las dos almas del PP, ocuparán las dos posiciones más destacadas de la lista de Madrid al Congreso, la que encabeza Alberto Núñez Feijóo. La diputada madrileña será la número dos tras el líder del PP, mientras que el parlamentario vasco irá como el número tres, el mismo en el que concurrió en las pasadas elecciones generales de 2023. Es Álvarez de Toledo la novedad y quien escala en la lista, porque en las últimas iba en el puesto seis, coincidiendo con el ascenso de los perfiles más duros en el PP para competir con Vox.
Dopo Adorazione è tra i protagonisti di un’altra serie di grande successo disponibile su Netflix, Minerva – La Scuola. Interpreta Francesco, un ragazzo di periferia che cerca nella vita militare un’occasione per costruirsi un futuro e trovare il proprio posto nel mondo, finendo però per scontrarsi con un ambiente che considera la sua sessualità qualcosa da reprimere.
Un ruolo che, racconta Luigi Bruno a Vanity Fair, gli ha fatto “ritrovare il legame di tenerezza con mio fratello più piccolo, considerando che per lui sono un po’ un mentore, una guida”. E quando gli si chiede chi siano invece le sue guide, la risposta arriva senza esitazioni: “Ho la fortuna di avere al mio fianco delle persone, la mia famiglia, il compagno di mia madre, gli amici, che sono fondamentali per me. Per tutta la mia vita ho avuto un fortissimo rapporto con mia madre: mi ha cresciuto da sola. Poi, a un certo punto, nell’adolescenza è entrato il suo compagno, una persona molto legata a noi che ci fa tanto bene. Penso di avere una spiccata sensibilità femminile grazie a lei, una donna molto forte e indipendente”.
Elon Musk says he'll give every child in the US a piece of his space company, SpaceX.
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Elon Musk said he's going to give every child in the US a share of his space company, SpaceX.
That would amount to $10.7 billion, based on SpaceX's stock price and the 72 million US children.
Governments and billionaires have previously explored ways to spread corporate ownership.
Christmas came early: Elon Musk wants American children to own stock in his space company, SpaceX, next year.
Musk wrote on X around 1 a.m. Monday that he planned to make the donation next year — "the first of many," he said. SpaceX went public this summer.
Giving one share to each of the estimated 72 million US children would cost roughly $10.7 billion at SpaceX's closing price of $147.92 on Friday. Musk's 4.77 billion SpaceX shares were worth about $706 billion at that price, so the gift would reduce his holdings by about 1.5%.
President Donald Trump said on Truth Social on Monday that the shares would be transferred through Trump Accounts, tax-advantaged investment accounts for eligible American kids launched this summer. Under temporary Treasury rules, donated shares generally cannot be sold for five years.
"This is exactly what was envisioned when we created TRUMP ACCOUNTS," Trump said. "Bringing together the GREAT PRIVATE SECTOR, Elon and so many more, to invest in our children."
The White House said nearly 70 million Trump Accounts have been created. Numerous entities have agreed to contribute, including a $6.25 billion donation from billionaire couple Michael and Susan Dell for children in lower-income zip codes. In July, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell and her husband pledged personal SpaceX shares worth at least $321 million, prioritizing lower-income communities.
The White House, Elon Musk, and SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Musk's plan to give away SpaceX stock raises questions about a new kind of billionaire philanthropy: Gifting people shares in a company instead of cash.
Giving millions of children a stake in SpaceX could give them money to use later in life — but the value is tied to a single company's stock. And history shows that efforts to spread corporate ownership can yield uneven results, from big investment returns to stakes being sold for quick cash.
Here are other historical efforts to share wealth or spread corporate ownership among everyday people.
US Sen. Mike Gravel's 1978 share proposal to Alaskans
Senator Mike Gravel (D) represented Alaska from 1969 to 1981. He ran for president in 2008 and 2020.
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In 1978, US Sen. Mike Gravel proposed a statewide ownership corporation that would have given Alaskans, including children, stakes in major energy and other business projects. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was one potential investment.
The idea was that Alaskans would benefit from an economic boom and any rising asset values. However, the plan never materialized.
Alaska instead developed a dividend system that draws on its preexisting Permanent Fund, a state fund established in 1976 with oil royalties that invests in stocks, bonds, and other assets. It began paying annual cash dividends to eligible Alaskans in 1982.
The Permanent Fund still continues today, with a $1,200 dividend distributed to every eligible Alaskan adult and child who applied in 2026. The initial dividend this year was set at $1,000, but recipients also got an extra $200 energy-relief payment.
Eastern Europe's 1990s mass privatization experiment
In the early 1990s, governments across Central and Eastern Europe used voucher programs to turn citizens into shareholders of former state-owned companies.
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Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, several countries in Central and Eastern Europe used voucher programs to transfer former state-owned companies into the hands of everyday people.
Russia began distributing privatization vouchers to roughly 144 million people in 1992. Russians could use them to buy shares in former state companies, exchange them for shares in investment funds, or sell them for cash.
Czechoslovakia used a similar system, allowing adults to buy low-cost voucher books and use the points to bid on company shares or invest through funds. After Czechoslovakia split in early 1993, the Czech Republic continued its voucher program, while Slovakia canceled its planned second wave of voucher privatization.
Other countries, including Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Baltic states, adopted their own versions of mass privatization.
The programs were designed to rapidly create broad public ownership. But many recipients sold their vouchers for cash amid economic uncertainty, rather than retaining shares.
Evžen Kočenda, a professor at Charles University's Institute of Economic Studies, said that the program was a good idea at the time, given the region's poor economy, but that ultimately, the vouchers were not 'real money,' but rather a financial asset.
Kuwait's 2019 national stock exchange privatization
Kuwait privatized some of its national stock exchange, Boursa Kuwait, to its citizens throughout 2019.
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Kuwait privatized Boursa Kuwait, the operator of its national stock exchange, in 2019, and gave Kuwaitis the opportunity to purchase a stake in the company.The only requirement for registration was that the individual was a Kuwaiti citizen.
Those who participated — about 83,000 of the country's 4.4 million — were initially allocated up to 70 shares each. The initial public offering share price was set at 100 Kuwait fils, roughly $0.33 per share.
Following the privatization, Kuwaiti citizens and private-sector investors together owned roughly 94% of Boursa Kuwait. The Public Institution for Social Security held the remaining 6%.
The Kuwaitis who participated saw a huge return on investment: When Boursa Kuwait debuted on the public market in September 2020, its shares rose more than 10-fold from their 100-fils IPO price, closing at 1,055 fils, or about $3.41.
Today, the privatization is widely regarded as a major success in the investment world, and Boursa Kuwait has described it as the Middle East's only privately owned stock exchange.
Aitana (San Clement de Llobregat, 27 años) está viviendo uno de sus mejores años en lo profesional desde que saltó a la fama en 2017 por su participación en Operación Triunfo. Su éxito Superestrellaacompañó a la Selección Española de Fútbol hasta la final del Mundial, ha estado de gira por España con Cuarto Azul y desde hace unos días se encuentra en Latinoamérica con el mismo tour. Pero además de por su música, la cantante también vive un dulce momento por su relación con el youtuber Daniel Alonso, conocido en redes como Plex. Durante su parada en Buenos Aires, Aitana ha acudido al podcastNadie dice nada, donde, además de hablar de su carrera, ha revelado detalles hasta ahora desconocidos de su historia de amor.
New surveys show that increases in premiums and deductibles are forcing people to forgo treatments or doctor’s visits while budgets are strained by higher food and gas prices.
Companies are announcing enormous new data centers to power the AI boom. Some promise facilities bigger than anything the industry has built before.
There's just one problem: Most of these projects may never happen.
Bernstein Research analyzed thousands of planned US data centers and concluded that only about 35% of the announced capacity is likely to get built. That's roughly 170 gigawatts of data center capacity out of a total of almost 500 gigawatts.
The rest? A significant chunk of it belongs to a category the industry has a wonderfully dismissive name for: "Bragawatts." These are ambitious announcements, often from newcomers with little experience building data centers, that have a slim chance of becoming reality.
"Press releases are cheap…concrete is not," Bernstein analysts wrote in a research note.
Bernstein began its analysis with more than 7,000 data center projects across North America, drawing on information from Aterio, a company that tracks construction through satellite imagery, permits, and other records. The analysts narrowed that to more than 5,000 projects (partly by excluding thosealready canceled).
Then they assessed the chances of these remaining projects being completed. The analysts considered factors such as whether construction had started, whether electricity was available, and whether the companies involved had successfully built data centers before.
The results revealed a striking divide.
The 'bragawatt brigade'
Kevin O'Leary.
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Experienced operators including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta landed at the top. Bernstein gave these companies perfect scores of 5 out of 5 for their development credentials. Other data center specialists, such as Digital Realty, Equinix, and CoreSite, got top marks, too.
O'Leary Digital, associated with celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary, ended up at the bottom,with a credibility score of 0.35 out of 5, according to Bernstein. His company has announced 15 gigawatts of data center projects, and Bernstein estimates that only 489 megawatts, or about 3%, will actually materialize.
Although the term "bragawatts" has been doing the rounds in the data center industry lately, it's unclear who coined it, Bernstein analyst Madison Rezaei told me.
"I wish I could take credit for that," she said. "I believe I originally heard it from an Equinix executive, but I don't think he owned it either."
She said that whilesome ambitious newcomers could succeed, they haven't yet demonstrated they can deliver.
"It's not that all of these guys are sort of terrible and not going to deliver, but we just have lower confidence because we don't know them," Rezaei said.
O'Leary Digital responds
O'Leary Digital disputed Bernstein's assessment, saying the research doesn't account for substantial work that occurs before construction begins.
While acknowledging that O'Leary Digital is a young company, CEO Paul Palandjian said the team has decades of experience building major infrastructure projects and that its proposed 15 gigawatts of capacity would be built in stages over several years.
The company said it has secured binding agreements covering about 11,000 acres in Utah and 13,000 acres in Alberta, obtained a 30-year development agreement in Utah, and made progress on planning, engineering, and permits at both sites. It also said the projects would generate their own electricity.
The company said its early development work is funded, additional capital is committed to reaching key milestones, and experienced engineering and construction partners are involved.
"We would rather be judged on milestones than on a model," Palandjian said.
'An announcement in search of a project'
Opponents of the proposed La Osa data center attend a Pinal County Board of Supervisors meeting in Florence, Arizona, on August 26.
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Other low scorers in the "bragawatt" brigade included Vermaland and Joule Capital Partners, according to Bernstein analysis based on Aterio data.
Joule has announced 50 data center projects with a combined capacity of 11.7 gigawatts. Bernstein estimates that only about 11% of that capacity will actually get built. Almost all of Joule's planned capacity remains at the announcement stage, with little evidence of construction progress or of major customers committing to use the facilities, Bernstein wrote in a July note to investors.
The analysts gave Joule a credibility score of 2.05 out of 5, placing it among the lowest-ranked developers in its database.
"An announcement in search of a project," the analysts wrote.
Vermaland has announced plans for a massive data center project in Arizona. Bernstein estimates that only 4% of its proposed 2.2 gigawatts of capacity will get built. The company is primarily a landowner, not a data center developer. Its proposed $33 billion La Osa project near Eloy had already been sharply scaled back amid local opposition and without construction approval. In late August, regulators formally rejectedthe project. Even before that, the analysts gave Vermaland a credibility score of 0.75 out of 5.
Joule and Vermaland didn't respond to emails seeking comment this week.
A yawning gap for data centers
Sergio Toro, CEO of Aterio, sees similar patterns in his firm's voluminous, detailed data.
Aterio's tracking shows that roughly 30 to 40 gigawatts of new data center capacity get announced each month. Yet only about 7 gigawatts begin construction each month, while 2 to 3 gigawatts actually start operating.
This leaves a yawning gap.
Many announced projects get withdrawn before construction begins — and before real money has been spent.
"They just make the announcement, but they didn't get their approvals. Or they make multiple filings in multiple locations to see which one gets selected," Toro told me. "That's why we track with satellite if there's real movement on the ground or not."
Indeed, Bernstein analysts wrote recently that the amount of "stranded" data center capacity has surged. These are projects that are either canceled, delayed, or not approved.
The AI boom's three tiers
Toro sees three broad groups competing to build AI infrastructure.
At the top are the established technology giants, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. They've built data centers for decades and generally deliver on their commitments. Most of their projects will get done, he said.
In the middle are "neoclouds," newer companies such as CoreWeave that rent out computing power specifically for AI. Although they're more vulnerable to financing problems and delays, many are making solid progress, especially because some of these players already have access to electricity.
"We see them advancing quite well," Toro said. "Sometimes we see some delays, but it's not something significant or any kind of big capacity that is at risk."
Then come the newcomers making extraordinary promises. That's where most delays and cancellations happen, Toro said.
Even Amazon needs a backup plan
A technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana.
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Not every project that disappears was a fantasy, though. Even a top player like Amazon struggles sometimes to secure electricity and other supplies on time for these huge projects.
The biggest, most experienced tech companies deliberately pursue more potential data center capacity than they need because they know some developments will fail or get delayed.
Major AI companies were committing to three or four times the space and electricity they needed over the following two years, Jeffrey Moerdler, a data center lawyer, estimated during an interview with Bernstein analysts.
His reasoning: Of data center projects that haven't started construction, roughly a third will arrive on schedule, another third will be delayed, and the remainder won't happen.
Rezaei and Toro estimate that the top players don't over-commit that much — more like double the capacity they need at most.
The strategy provides a "Plan B," as Toro put it, in case of delays involving electricity, equipment, permits, local opposition, or other factors.
Texas has a ghost problem
The Decker Creek Power Station in Austin.
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This helps explain another extraordinary number.
Data center companies have requested connections for roughly 450 gigawatts of electricity demand on Texas' main power grid, more than five times the grid's roughly 85 gigawatts of existing capacity, according to Toro and others.
Many of those requests are placeholders rather than firm construction plans. Toro calls them "ghost projects."
These speculative projects clog the waiting lists for electricity connections, making the electricity shortage look a lot worse than it actually is.
"Developers routinely spam projects across several sites, and many are speculative builds with no customer yet," Ryan McEntush, a partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, wrote in a recent blog. "Often these new developers have never even plugged in a GPU, let alone a power plant."
Texas has paused applications to review and weed out projects that aren't serious. Toro, from Aterio, expects this to favor the established players at the expense of the bragawatts.
The real AI boom
None of this means the AI infrastructure boom is imaginary.
Aterio tracks thousands of buildings, including major projects already under construction. Bernstein estimates that nearly 80% of the capacity the largest technology companies are directly developing is credible.
And when speculative projects disappear, Rezaei doesn't expect a wave of unpaid debt. Many will fail before building begins, the stage when developers borrow serious money through project financing.
Some of those missing data centers were never really coming in the first place.
Gen Zers are less likely to have at least one kid than older generations were at the same age.
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Gen Zers are much less likely to have at least one kid than older generations at the same age.
Not wanting kids, affordability problems, and medical challenges are plausible reasons.
Having at least three kids is becoming less common across income percentiles, except in the top 1%.
Birth rates in the US have been falling for decades, but there's been an especially large drop in the likelihood of Gen Zers in their 20s having a kid compared with their older peers at the same age.
For 26-year-old Gen Zers, the likelihood of having at least one kid was 26%, down from 47% for millennials, 50% for Gen X, and 46% for boomers at that age. There were also differences between Gen Z and older generations in the probability of wanting another kid.
That's based on an analysis by a group of researchers published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Julie Hotchkiss, a research economist at the Atlanta Fed, told Business Insider the analysis controls for education, partnership status, and some health conditions. The analysis uses National Survey of Family Growth data up to 2023.
From affordability challenges to concerns about the future, there are several likely reasons behind the lower probabilities. Hotchkiss said that a lower desire to have kids is one explanation.
Gen Zer Brooklen Farley said in an as-told-to Business Insider essay in 2023 that she decided during college she didn't want to have kids. Farley is worried about issues like the economy and climate crisis.
"Many people call us Zoomers, but honestly, a lot of us are doomers: We feel pessimistic about the future and don't want to subject our children to it," she said.
The research also notes that there's been a rise in medical challenges related to having kids. The researchers looked at impaired fecundity, or trouble becoming pregnant or carrying to term. The average probability of impaired fecundity at 26 was 18% for Gen Z compared to 10% for boomers at that age. The probabilities are higher for older ages — the likelihood for 40-year-old millennials was about 30%, higher than the 26% for Gen Xers at that age.
"If we want to talk about birth rates, we can't just talk about preferences," Hotchkiss said. "It's not just that darned younger generation not wanting, just being selfish and not wanting to have children. There's also really a very real medical issue that needs to be addressed."
Another problem is all the financial costs that come with being a parent. LendingTree found the cost of raising a kid for over 18 years adds up to $303,418 after tax exemptions and credits, or about $17,000 a year.
Affordability issues aren't just a Gen Z problem. Surrounded by a large family growing up, millennial Lizzie Lawson said in a Business Insider essay that she assumed she would also have a large family one day.
"When I was a kid in the early 2000s, my dad was an electrician and sole provider for our growing family of eight," Lawson said in a Business Insider essay, adding that her family got by with the help of coupon cutting and hand-me-downs. "Money was tight, but we also owned a house in a safe suburb, and my parents sent six kids to Catholic school from K-8."
Lawson, a college instructor whose husband is a physical therapist with $100,000 in student loans, said the economy is different from the one she grew up in.
"We can't afford to have one of us stay at home, and there aren't enough coupons in the world to cover the rising cost of day care," she said.
Having large families is rarer than in the past
Michael Konczal, vice president of policy and research at the Economic Security Project, said in his newsletter that across income percentiles, families with at least three kids have become less common since the 90s, except at the top 1%.
"A third kid isn't new for them; what's new is that it has become rarer for everyone else," he said. "Compared with the 1990s, families with three or more kids became less common overall and among the rest of the top 10%. The top 1%'s estimated share barely changed, though the uncertainty is substantial. Maybe all the stresses that made childbearing more difficult over the past 30 years just bounced right off the 1%?"
The US fertility rate has cooled to 1.6 births per woman, below the 2.1 replacement rate, which Hotchkiss said would translate to slower population growth. The Congressional Budget Office projects that just a few years from now, the number of births in the US could fall below the number of deaths, which could have implications in future decades.
"Over time, the negative net contribution of births and deaths increasingly offsets the positive contribution of net immigration, until population growth slows to zero in 2056. The population is projected to shrink thereafter," the CBO said.
Javier Milei ha sembrado la discordia a su paso por Madrid. La izquierda le ha recriminado hoy a Isabel Díaz Ayuso que se abrazase efusivamente con el presidente argentino, al que ha llamado “lunático” y “tarado”. La presidenta de Madrid no ha hecho una defensa personal del histriónico mandatario, pero ha señalado que la economía argentina es la que más crece de toda Hispanoamérica, según ella. Milei llegó a España, exageró la situación política y se subió de vuelta al avión. El país quedó envenenado.
“Lo que ocurrió en 2006, en aquella primera manifestación de hombres contra la violencia, fue impactante. Pensábamos que iba a ser algo absolutamente marginal, pero fue la primera en la que yo he percibido que la gente se sumaba de manera entusiasta. De alguna manera, dimos luz a la posibilidad de que ocurriera algo que hasta ese momento no tenía nombre”. Este es el principal recuerdo que Ritxar Bacete, antropólogo, trabajador social, especialista en género, masculinidades, feminismo, políticas de igualdad, paternidad positiva y economía del desarrollo, tiene de la primera manifestación de Hombres contra las violencias machistas que se celebró en Sevilla el 21 de octubre de hace 20 años y que se repite cada lustro, la última esta tarde en la capital andaluza. Eso que “no tenía nombre” es un movimiento para reivindicar el papel de los hombres en la eliminación del machismo y sus violencias, que, como las piezas del dominó, ha multiplicado el marco teórico, la militancia, los espacios y las políticas públicas que se han institucionalizado, como Gizonduz, el Servicio para el trabajo con hombres y masculinidades por la igualdad del Gobierno Vasco, constituido en 2007, o el programa específico sobre masculinidades igualitarias, desarrollado desde 2023 por la Diputación de Cádiz, y cristalizado en medidas concretas, como el permiso de paternidad. “Han pasado cosas muy serias que no hubieran sido posibles sin esa movilización”, abunda Bacete.
Ajax e Atalanta entram em campo nesta quinta-feira (22), às 16 horas (de Brasília), na Johan Cruijff Arena, na Holanda, pela segunda rodada da primeira fase da Conference League.
O time holandês perdeu na estreia por 2 a 1 para o Hajduk Split, na Croácia. O Ajax inicia a segunda rodada da competição na vigésima quinta colocação.
Já a Atalanta, na primeira partida pelo torneio, venceu em casa o Pafos por 3 a 1. A equipe italiana está na quarta posição e busca manter o 100% de aproveitamento.
O jogo desta quinta-feira terá transmissão ao vivo da Cazé TV (Youtube). O CNN Esportes acompanha em tempo real.
Onde assistir a Ajax x Atalanta pela Conference League
A pesar de que la posibilidad de la cancelación se planteó, Manifest fue rescatada por Netflix tras la insistencia de su comunidad de seguidores. Fue en esa plataforma donde finalmente la serie principal pudo llegar a una conclusión. Sin embargo, ni siquiera ese será el final. Y es que el próximo capítulo de este universo está aún más cerca tras conocer nuevos detalles sobre el spin-off titulado Arrivals: A New Manifest Mystery.
Creada por Jeff Rake, la serie dramática sobrenatural se centra en los pasajeros que iban a bordo del vuelo 828. Todo se complicó cuando, tras desaparecer durante más de cinco años, intentan recuperar su vida mientras intentan comprender las visiones que les fueron dadas después del misterioso suceso que experimentaron.
Un misterioso accidente aéreo desencadena la trama del spin-off
Protagonizada por Melissa Roxburgh y Josh Dallas, Manifest se emitió durante tres temporadas en NBC antes de ser cancelada. Netflix decidió dar a la producción una segunda vida, por lo que se pudo ver su cierre con el estreno de la última temporada en 2021. Algo más tarde, se anunció un spin-off que funcionaría como una serie derivada.
La información de Arrivals: A New Manifest Mystery, que ha sido revelada a través de un rumor, sugiere que contará con seis personajes principales. Todos ellos estarán encabezados por Zoe, una trabajadora social que se enfrenta a la confianza y los lazos familiares tras haber crecido en casas de acogida. El resto de personajes que completan el elenco también tienen nombre: Mike, Billy, Wes, Sloane y Joe.
Curiosamente, de todos los personajes mencionados, Joe es el único del que no se dan muchos detalles sobre su personalidad, aparte de cierta conexión que comparte con Sloane y Wes. Dado que este último se describe como alguien que vive al margen de la sociedad, existe una alta probabilidad de que sea él quien desempeñe un papel fundamental en el enigma que planteará la propuesta de Netflix.
Además de los primeros detalles sobre los personajes, el rumor revelaría que se espera que la producción de Arrivals comience con la entrada de 2027 y se extienda hasta junio de ese mismo año. El principal cambio notable con respecto a la producción de Manifest es que esta última tenía su sede principal en Nueva York.
En este sentido, parece insinuarse un cambio de ubicación para el spin-off. Eso sí, la sinopsis de la serie sitúa su acción en Denver.
Cuando un misterioso avión se estrella en Denver, los pasajeros no recuerdan quiénes son, de dónde vienen ni por qué están allí. Una joven trabajadora social y un agente novato del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional se unen a los recién llegados para intentar detener una catástrofe que amenaza con acabar con la humanidad. Todos descubren que forman parte del mismo misterio que intentan resolver.
La sinopsis que se insinúa para el spin-off de 'Manifest'
La decisión de dar luz verde a este proyecto se produjo unos años después de que Netflix adquiriera los derechos de Manifest. Lo cierto es que se tradujo en un enorme éxito para la plataforma, ya que alcanzó un total de 130 millones de visualizaciones. Además, el hecho de que Jeff Rake mantuviera al público informado sobre sus planes es lo que alimentó las teorías de los espectadores, siempre deseosos por ver más.
Il DKR GR FC Hilux di Toyota debutterà nella Dakar Future Mission 1000: celle a combustibile da 400 kW e Dania Akeel alla guida.
La Toyota Hilux a idrogeno si prepara alla Dakar 2027. GAZOO Racing ha completato la costruzione del prototipo DKR GR FC Hilux e avviato i test dinamici in vista dell’esordio nella categoria Dakar Future Mission 1000. Al volante ci sarà la pilota saudita Dania Akeel. La novità è soprattutto tecnica: un sistema elettrico a celle a combustibile da 400 kW, alimentato da idrogeno compresso, porterà nel rally-raid un laboratorio per verificare prestazioni, affidabilità e resistenza in condizioni estreme.
Dakar 2027, una sfida dedicata alle nuove tecnologie
La Future Mission 1000 è la categoria della Dakar riservata ai veicoli sperimentali e alle tecnologie di propulsione alternative. Per Toyota sarà la prima partecipazione a una competizione motoristica con un veicolo FCEV a idrogeno di questo tipo. La scelta del deserto non è casuale: calore, polvere, vibrazioni e percorsi mutevoli permettono di raccogliere dati difficili da riprodurre in un normale ciclo di collaudo.
Come funziona il DKR GR FC Hilux: 400 kW e fuel cell
Sotto la carrozzeria del DKR GR FC Hilux lavorano due stack di celle a combustibile integrati in un unico sistema ad alta potenza. L’idrogeno reagisce con l’ossigeno nelle fuel cell per produrre l’elettricità destinata alla trazione: non si tratta quindi di un motore termico che brucia idrogeno. La potenza complessiva dichiarata è di 400 kW. Per l’alimentazione vengono impiegati quattro serbatoi ad alta pressione, derivati dalla tecnologia della Toyota Mirai, con una capacità totale di 8,4 kg di idrogeno.
Telaio da competizione e sospensioni con 350 mm di escursione
La base tecnica è quella del DKR GR Hilux utilizzato nelle competizioni rally-raid. Restano il telaio tubolare, la cellula di sicurezza, l’impostazione delle sospensioni e l’impianto frenante. Le sospensioni a doppi triangoli offrono 350 mm di escursione, una misura pensata per affrontare fondi molto irregolari. Le dimensioni dichiarate sono 4,50 metri di lunghezza, 2,30 metri di larghezza e 2,10 metri di altezza; il peso complessivo rimane inferiore a 2.500 kg. Sono previsti pneumatici TOYO TIRE Open Country M/T-R.
Fibra naturale, raffreddamento ed elettronica sotto esame
La trasformazione della Hilux da corsa riguarda anche materiali e gestione termica. Alcuni pannelli in fibra di carbonio lasciano spazio a componenti in fibra naturale, mentre debutta un circuito di raffreddamento ad alta tensione specifico per il nuovo gruppo propulsore. In un veicolo fuel cell la capacità di controllare le temperature è decisiva per mantenere prestazioni costanti e salvaguardare l’affidabilità. La centralina IAV Dragoon coordina l’elettronica del sistema fuel cell.
Dania Akeel guiderà il prototipo nei test e alla Dakar
Il programma sportivo sarà affidato a Dania Akeel, pilota saudita impegnata nel rally-raid dal 2021. Al debutto alla Dakar ha chiuso fra i primi dieci della classe T3 e nel 2025 ha conquistato una vittoria di tappa nella categoria Challenger. Ha inoltre ottenuto successi di tappa nel World Rally-Raid Championship e vinto per due volte la FIA Middle East Baja Cup, nel 2024 e nel 2025, con una Hilux schierata da Overdrive Racing. L’esperienza su terreni differenti sarà importante per interpretare le reazioni del nuovo sistema di trazione.
Dallo sviluppo in Europa ai test prima del debutto
Per realizzare il DKR GR FC Hilux, il centro di ricerca e sviluppo europeo di Toyota, vicino a Bruxelles, ha lavorato insieme a Overdrive Racing, che gestisce il programma TOYOTA GAZOO Racing W2RC e ha sviluppato l’Hilux da competizione. Hanno contribuito anche TOYOTA RACING GmbH a Colonia e Toyota Motor Corporation. La costruzione è terminata e il prototipo è entrato nella fase dei collaudi dinamici: i risultati serviranno a validare l’integrazione fra telaio, propulsione elettrica, stoccaggio dell’idrogeno ed elettronica di controllo.
Emissioni allo scarico e obiettivi della tecnologia a idrogeno
Durante la marcia il sistema FCEV non produce CO₂ allo scarico: la reazione elettrochimica genera acqua. Questo dato non significa però che l’intero ciclo di vita del veicolo sia privo di emissioni, perché il bilancio dipende anche da come viene prodotto e trasportato l’idrogeno, oltre che dalla costruzione del mezzo. La sperimentazione alla Dakar rientra nell’approccio multi-tecnologico di Toyota, che considera differenti soluzioni di propulsione in funzione delle applicazioni e delle esigenze d’uso.
Accanto allo sponsor Jameel Motorsport, il progetto coinvolge partner tecnici come DENSO, TOYO TIRE, IAV e PRF. Il traguardo industriale va oltre la classifica: raccogliere informazioni utili per migliorare celle a combustibile, sistemi di raffreddamento e robustezza dei componenti. Se le verifiche confermeranno le aspettative, l’esperienza del rally-raid potrà contribuire allo sviluppo di future applicazioni stradali e sportive dell’idrogeno Toyota, senza anticipare risultati che soltanto i test e la gara potranno misurare.
Elon Musk’s public endorsement this week of a potential $3.5 trillion merger between SpaceX SPCX.O and Tesla TSLA.O has rattled some insiders involved in the discussions, who worry his comments could invite shareholder scrutiny and delay the process by several weeks, according to a person with direct knowledge of the talks.
The disclosure created a “mess” for the process, as it could lead to questions about how well Tesla shareholders’ interests would be represented, the person said. The concerns reflect similarities some participants see with Tesla’s 2016 acquisition of SolarCity, which sparked years of litigation over Musk’s role in the deal.
Musk, who serves as CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla and owns significant stakes in each company, this week told investors that the two companies were examining what would be the largest corporate transaction in history and revealed that both had formed special committees to evaluate it. The backlash to those remarks is reported here for the first time.
The parties have hired advisers, but discussions are at an early stage, three sources familiar with the matter said. SpaceX approached Tesla in recent weeks, and the companies have been discussing a range of transaction structures, including a SpaceX acquisition of Tesla or a merger under a newly formed holding company, the person familiar with the matter said. They are weighing different forms of merger consideration, including an all-stock deal, the person said. These details of the talks have not been previously reported.
Tesla, SpaceX and Musk did not respond to requests for comment.
SolarCity deal raises legal concerns
In related-party transactions such as a SpaceX-Tesla merger, independent board members typically oversee the process to safeguard public shareholders’ interests.
That issue loomed large in Tesla’s 2016 acquisition of SolarCity, which triggered years of litigation after shareholders alleged the world’s richest man had influenced the process to bail out his investment in the struggling rooftop solar company. At the time, Musk owned roughly 22% of both Tesla and SolarCity, which was founded by his cousins.
Shareholders argued that Musk’s involvement and public support undermined the deal’s fairness. Central to the case were claims that despite his minority stake, Musk was a controlling shareholder of Tesla due to his ties to board members and domineering style.
The Delaware Supreme Court later noted that plaintiffs’ contention of the absence of an independent committee, together with “certain other facts concerning Musk’s involvement in and public support for the transaction,” warranted the finding of unfair dealing.
The courts ultimately upheld the acquisition as fair, though it took several years for the case to be resolved and Tesla directors settled allegations for $60 million.
Musk excluded from merger negotiations
Musk owns nearly a fifth of Tesla and just under half of SpaceX, and analysts have said a merger would give him control of the combined entity. On Tuesday’s call with investors, Musk acknowledged that as a conflicted party he cannot be part of the discussions of the special committees. Advisers are also in contact with his lawyers to ensure Musk is recused from the merger discussions, the source familiar with the talks said.
Eric Talley, a law professor at Columbia University, said a merger could benefit shareholders by eliminating the need for Musk to divide his time between the two companies. He added that any legal challenge may be harder to predict than the SolarCity case because Tesla is now incorporated in Texas rather than Delaware.
“The Texas thing is a wild card. No one knows how Texas deals with cases like this because Texas never dealt with cases like this,” Talley said, noting that Texas has sought to establish itself as a business-friendly alternative to Delaware, and Musk’s comments so far were not necessarily problematic.
Ultimately, he said, litigation risk would hinge on the terms of any transaction.
“Who’s going to get the better side of this deal? And that’s usually what gives rise to litigation,” Talley said.
Public comments could delay historic deal
People involved in the process worry Musk’s public endorsement of the merger and disclosure of talks could intensify investor scrutiny, as interested parties typically avoid expressing views publicly while independent directors evaluate a deal, the source said.
The SolarCity case could become a reference point for investors and courts assessing any future SpaceX-Tesla transaction if advisers fail to fully insulate the special committees from Musk’s influence, the source added.
A tie-up between Tesla and SpaceX would be the biggest deal in history, creating one of the world’s largest industrial and technology groups. It would surpass Musk’s acquisition earlier this year of his artificial intelligence company xAI by SpaceX, which ranks among the largest corporate transactions ever announced.
A deal of this size would also face scrutiny from global regulators, especially due to Tesla’s business in China and SpaceX’s work in US defense and AI.
Rand Wacker, a Box executive, loves a good side project.
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Rand Wacker, a Box product executive, wants his potential hires to go beyond being just AI-literate.
Wacker likes when candidates show him their side projects, especially if they've monetized them.
He's dipped his toes into building, too, with an Apple TV app that evokes the feel of old-school TV.
Knowing how to use AI is only enough to get a foot in the door for interviews, according to a Box executive.
Rand Wacker, Box's vice president of product strategy, said that for candidates applying for a job at Box, AI literacy is a bare-minimum requirement. Having a fully developed side hustle or project — something he practices himself — is what gives potential hires a leg up in interviews.
Case studies, which he said used to be a staple in Box interviews, are now a relic of the past. Now, he expects candidates to be prototyping out their ideas.
What he really likes to see is candidates showing him a product they've built themselves using AI, even if it has nothing to do with Box's business. He said he's had potential hires show him mobile apps that they've built, gotten onto the App Store, and are monetizing to some degree.
"They're running this little side hustle overall," he said. "And it shows the passion."
He said that people who explore and experiment with AI are the ones who win in the AI world, as they figure out how to use it most effectively in their personal and professional lives.
He practices what he preaches
Wacker, who's spent almost 30 years in the software engineering and product management fields, said he started out as a "computer nerd" and loved playing around with software tools and building things.
As he progressed in his career, he said he had less time to experiment with building, but AI has recently allowed him to test small ideas he didn't have time to explore before vibe coding existed.
He recently made an app to bring back old-school TV because he missed the days when he'd turn it on, pick one of three cable channels, and it would play a random movie from a random point.
"These days, whenever I'm trying to find something to watch on the weekends, it's decision fatigue. Which of the six streaming services do I go to? What are the 20 million titles I scroll through?" he said.
Using Cursor, he built an Apple TV app that would access his entire movie library, pick a random movie, and play it from a random point.
Working on these kinds of projects is a great way to learn the tools available on the market, get ideas for how to use them in other areas, and scratch the itch to create something of his own.
Wacker is one of many executives who have dipped their toes back into building and writing code in recent years. Leaders who haven't written lines of code in decades have started experimenting with AI coding to stay closer to their products and feel like individual contributors.
En el Senado también se juega una parte de la próxima legislatura: su mayoría puede retrasar leyes y, si alcanza los tres quintos, decidir los nombramientos de órganos como el Tribunal Constitucional y el Consejo General del Poder Judicial que corresponden a esta Cámara.
No es la primera vez que sucede. Hace dos años, en junio de 2024, en la anterior visita de Javier Milei a España, Isabel Díaz Ayuso incomodó a Génova al otorgar al presidente de Argentina la medalla internacional de la Comunidad de Madrid, en un acto con toda la pompa del que fue ajeno el líder del PP. Ahora, en plena precampaña electoral, la presencia del histriónico mandatario latinoamericano vuelve a ser incómoda para el PP, salvo para la presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, que ha vuelto a reivindicarlo como un referente, al recibirlo calurosamente y exhibir complicidad con un abrazo mientras el líder de su partido lo ignoraba y ponía tierra de por medio con un acto en Sevilla centrado en las políticas de vivienda. Los populares son conscientes de que los insultos de Milei en Madrid a Pedro Sánchez, a quien llamó este miércoles “impresentable dictador”, pueden activar al electorado progresista, pero confían en que el impacto de la visita del presidente argentino se diluya porque aún faltan 40 días para la cita con las urnas. “Menos mal que ha venido ahora y no el 21 de noviembre, porque si llega a venir la última semana de campaña el escenario sería distinto”, admite un dirigente.
La presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, se reúne con el presidente de la República Argentina, Javier Milei, en las instalaciones del Canal de Isabel II de la capital, este miércoles.
Este octubre se cumplen seis meses desde que el PP inaugurase la segunda ronda de Gobiernos autonómicos con Vox. María Guardiola, baronesa extremeña, cedía de nuevo ante la extrema derecha incluyéndola en su Ejecutivo y desataba la caída del resto de fichas del dominó: Aragón, Castilla y León y Andalucía. En todas los pactos, los populares dieron cancha a la formación de Santiago Abascal, cuya agenda ultra ha ido avanzando en los boletines territoriales desde entonces hasta hoy. Medidas que se han acelerado con el inicio del curso político, así como con la paulatina aprobación de los Presupuestos autonómicos en plena precampaña de las elecciones generales del 29 de noviembre en la que, según las encuestas, la alianza de PP y Vox puede alcanzar una mayoría de gobierno.
Netflix necesita más y más youtubers para que la llama siga ardiendo. Este lunes, la plataforma de streaming anunció que retransmitirá en exclusiva La velada del año de Ibai Llanos hasta 2029, pero el español es solo el último creador de contenidos de la plataforma de Google al que Netflix ha echado el guante en su estrategia de los últimos meses. Llanos es parte de un engranaje que va mucho más allá.
Los Ortiz dormían vestidos por si la casa ardía esa noche. Los Ortiz, o los Brennan, o los Washington, da igual, podría ser cualquier apellido, podría ser un apellido como el tuyo, exactamente igual que el tuyo. Vivían en South Bronx, en edificios de casi cien años, de fachadas de ladrillo con cuatro o cinco o seis plantas y ningún ascensor, y se acostaban con la ropa del día siguiente puesta, con los zapatos puestos, los niños sobre todo, porque bajar tres pisos en calcetines por una escalera en llamas podía suponer la diferencia entre vivir o morir. Las madres dejaban una bolsa junto a la puerta con documentos, una foto de la familia, el dinero en metálico que tuviesen disponible, siempre la misma bolsa, lista, como la gente que vive cerca de un frente de guerra. Porque, de algún modo, la década del fuego de Nueva York fue un frente de guerra.
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