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A superhero in the Holocaust: A great novel finally comes to the big screen... in the form of an opera

Iker Seisdedos García — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:48:55 GMT

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is one of the great American novels of the turn of the century, and, as its millions of readers will concur, prime material for a screen adaptation. On February 24, a quarter of a century after its author, Michael Chabon, won the Pulitzer Prize, this story of comic book superheroes and Holocaust victims finally arrives in theaters… in the form of an opera.

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John Ternus, the swimmer leading the race to succeed Tim Cook at Apple

Daniel Soufi — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:00:00 GMT

John Ternus, 50, is the perfect candidate. Apple, which has been preparing for Tim Cook’s succession for some time, doesn’t seem to have planned any surprises in choosing its next leader. Ternus, with a solid and brilliant career inside the company, where he is senior vice president of hardware engineering, gives off that aura of the impeccable student who gets straight A’s, wins the swimming meets, and, on top of that, is liked by everyone.

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Connecting with customers

Another sign that could hint at a potential succession is that in September, John Ternus was the one welcoming customers at Apple’s Regent Street store in London. That was the role Tim Cook played during the 2019 reopening of the Fifth Avenue store in New York.

Altair 8800, the first personal computer to make it big

Pablo G. Bejerano — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 GMT

By August 1975, 5,000 copies of the Altair 8800 had been sold. It had been more than half a year since the machine had gone on sale, initially as a niche product. But it soon gained popularity among enthusiasts of computers, which had until that point been contained in massive metal closets. The first personal computer had arrived, and at a competitive price point. Its success created the perfect breeding ground for the birth of companies that would bring computing into the home.

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Apple falls back on the iPhone: 3 billion sold since 2007 and $200 billion in annual revenue

Santiago Millán Alonso — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:41:59 GMT

Apple announced its third-quarter earnings last week, reporting revenue of $94 billion between April and June, a new all-time high for this period and up 10 percent year over year. What’s more, Apple reported a historic operational and industrial milestone: it has now sold 3 billion iPhones since the product was launched in 2007 in a move led by its co-founder and CEO, the late Steve Jobs.

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Can ayahuasca change a man? The rise of trips against misunderstood masculinity

Anxo F. Couceiro — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:52:50 GMT

Drugs, like any product, go through marketing phases. Just as cocaine, before it alarmingly permeated all layers of society, was perceived as a yuppie pastime and glorified as entertainment for the upper classes or an accessory for charismatic characters in the most commercial cinema of the 1980s and 1990s, and in recent years ketamine has come to be considered the drug of Generation Z, now the turn of rebranding has come to ayahuasca, an ancient Amazonian plant that has psychoactive properties after its decoction. We are no longer just talking about the exotic anecdote of the adventurer who spent a sabbatical year in the jungle or the murky ritual of another friend who became a hippie, but rather a kind of trend among Silicon Valley executives, a recurring topic of conversation in the sphere of podcasts of men talking to men (and lately certain men can’t stop talking), and a substance of renewed pharmacological interest for modern psychiatry.

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James Robinson, Nobel laureate in Economics: ‘You cannot achieve an inclusive economy with an authoritarian regime’

luis alberto peralta None — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:01:42 GMT

For James Robinson, economics and political science are inseparable. He has been convinced of this ever since he and his old friend, economist Daron Acemoglu, read The Rise of the Western World by Douglas North (who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993) in their high school years. According to Robinson, this book provided him with an economic and historical analysis of the institutional changes that enabled the emergence of modern Europe. “It convinced us that institutions had been the driving force of the industrial revolution and economic growth at that time,” explains the economist and political scientist. Since then, he has focused his work on exploring this perspective further and applying it to contemporary contexts.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s image makeover: Why the Meta CEO no longer dresses like a tech nerd

Beatriz Serrano — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:00:45 GMT

“Welcome to the Zuckaissance! Meta’s CEO discovers street style,” writes journalist Helen Rumbelow in an article for The Times, analyzing the striking changes in Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance in recent months. “Mark Zuckerberg has finally ditched his drab gray hoodie and embraced life as ‘the gangsterist tech bro’ billionaire,” she notes. Indeed, the once-discreet tech guru is not just making a fashion statement; he has recently shared with his followers that he has purchased not one, but two Porsche cars. He now frequently adorns himself with gold chains like a rapper, and wears trendy oversized sweatshirts, featuring bold statements like Carthago delenda est (Carthage must be destroyed).

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‘Buy your mom an iPhone’: How Apple went from protesting against Microsoft to establishing a monopoly

Miguel Jiménez Cabeza — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 10:00:23 GMT

Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked in 2022 if Apple was going to fix problems with its messaging service between iPhones and Android phones. “It’s tough, not to make it personal, but I can’t send my mom certain videos,” he was told. “Buy your mom an iPhone,” Cook replied. The exchange is included in the lawsuit that has been filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and attorneys general in 16 states against the tech giant, which is accused of violating antitrust laws by abusing its position of dominance. Prosecutors have compared the lawsuit to other landmark cases, such as the one they brought against Microsoft. Then, Microsoft complained about the abuses of its rival. Now, it is Apple that is accused of illegal monopolistic practices.

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US sues Apple for monopolistic practices with the iPhone

Miguel Jiménez Cabeza — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:09:15 GMT

The United States is continuing its crusade against big tech. Be it via the Department of Justice (DOJ) or the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Joe Biden’s government has launched an offensive against what it considers illegal monopolistic practices by companies such as Alphabet (Google), Amazon and Microsoft. The latest chapter of this battle is a major lawsuit against Apple for the digital fortress it has built around its flagship product, the iPhone.

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Apple becomes the first big tech company with a gender-equal board of directors

Miguel Jiménez Cabeza — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:46:44 GMT

Apple — which has been the most valuable company in the world over the last decade (although on Friday it was dethroned by Microsoft) — will have a board of directors with four men and four women at next month’s shareholders meeting. If, as is likely, the shareholders ratify the proposal, the company founded by Steve Jobs will become the only large tech company (a list that includes Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta among others) that has an even split of male and female directors.

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Steve Wozniak hospitalized in Mexico due to a stroke

Almudena Barragán Gaspar — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 01:51:16 GMT

Apple scientist and co-founder Steve Wozniak was hospitalized on Wednesday in Mexico City as a result of an ischemic stroke.

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Walter Isaacson, biographer: ‘Elon Musk has multiple personalities. At times, he’ll be funny. Others, he gets into “demon mode’

Miguel Jiménez Cabeza — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 08:00:20 GMT

Elon Musk tweeted in August 2021 that Walter Isaacson was writing his biography. The deal, as the writer tells it, was that Isaacson would spend two years by Musk’s side. He would attend all kinds of meetings, have access to his inner circle and many of his texts messages and communications... Essentially, he would become Musk’s shadow. And the business magnate would not have any control over the book he wrote nor would he be able to read it in advance.

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The conspiracy of fools: do you have to be a total jerk to succeed in life?

Miquel Echarri — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 16:27:45 GMT

In 1985, according to the most illustrious of Steve Jobs’ biographers, Walter Issacson, the Apple visionary hit rock bottom. He had just turned 30 and had already conceived of objects as unique as the Apple Lisa, the first personal computer with a graphical user interface, but his creations seemed to be of no interest to the world. Depressed by poor sales and cornered in an office next to the broom closet, which he referred to as “my Siberia,” the youngest billionaire in the United States offered his resignation to the board of directors of Apple, the company he himself had founded 11 years before, and it was accepted.

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From Steve Jobs to Will Still: When talent beats qualifications

Miquel Echarri — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:24:20 GMT

When it comes to doing a job you don’t have the qualifications for, it very much depends on what it is. Nobody in their right mind would trust a dentist, a lawyer or an air-traffic controller who doesn’t have some sort of certificate that confirms they know what they’re doing. But some of the best journalists, architects, filmmakers and even scientists have been daring dilettantes, astonishing autodidacts or, generally, free spirits for whom sitting at a desk for the duration of a university course was out of the question.

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