Facebook has presented its plans for Oculus, its virtual reality division, and they go far beyond the video games and apps that now triumph on its platform. Oculus was born as the greatest attempt to recover virtual reality, a technology that had fallen into disuse since its inception in the 90s, with state-of-the-art hardware; But … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg has announced the new name of his company, along with his plans to create the successor to the Internet as we know it. The Facebook CEO started the Facebook Connect 2021 kickoff conference with what we were all thinking, why focus now on the future, when Facebook has so many problems in the … Read more
The 500 euro banknotes have been almost like an urban legend for the citizens: they are known to exist, or so they say, but few have had them in their hand. A circumstance that has increased even more during the last three years. At the beginning of 2019 the Bank of Spain stopped issuing these … Read more
Bill Gates is focused today on his philanthropic activities, and after retiring from his positions at Microsoft, at 66 years of age he probably does not have to worry about periods of saturation or special stress at work; known as ‘burnout’. Nevertheless, 28 years ago, when he did run Microsoft, Gates had a ridiculously absurd … Read more
Next Sunday, in many places on the planet the celebration of Halloween night will take place, the most terrifying of the year. Pumpkins, costumes and candies: thousands of children are during these days finalizing with their families the preparations for a party whose origin is often confused. Halloween or Hallowe’en is the contraction of All … Read more
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, has acknowledged that the economic recovery is losing momentum in the face of supply shortages and the lack of certain types of workers in some sectors. The recovery remains strong, but activity is “losing momentum” and “inflation continues to rise (it has not peaked), although it will … Read more
You could see it coming. Apple is suffering from a chip shortage like almost all technology companies, and analysts were somewhat concerned that it might not be able to deliver as many iPhone 13s and other major launches of the year just due to lack of units. But the CEO of the company, Tim Cook, … Read more
28/10/2021 – 9:42 Updated: 13:13 – 10/28/21 Second day of sharp falls in gas prices in Europe. Yesterday Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Gazprom, the Russian energy company, to increase gas pumping next month to refill European reserves. Inventory data in Europe shows that without Gazprom warehouses, European gas stock levels would be in a … Read more
Inflation has taken a further step in Spain to stand at 5.5% per year in October, the highest since September 1992, as published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Prices continue to advance due to the rise in prices of raw materials, which is causing a boom in the energy tariff paid by households … Read more
The Amazon Prime Video docuseries’GEO: Beyond the Limit‘or the fiction of Movistar’Riot gear‘, the latter winner of several awards in the last year, have redoubled interest in these bodies of the National Police in Spain. In the case of the Special Operations Group, the documentary Prime Video narrates its selection process, in which 100 candidates … Read more