Writer at Xataka. I studied education and music, but since 2014 I've been writing about my passion: video games and technology. I specialize in product analysis, photography, and video. My body is 70% coffee.
103 published news
March 2025
- 31 March
- Forget Your Go-To Cocktail: Drinking Coffee Is All the Rage at Daytime Raves
- China Is Breaking Records in Its Pursuit of Oil. Its Latest Feat: Drilling Asia’s Deepest Vertical Well
- Pooping Outside Your Gut’s ‘Goldilocks Zone’ Might Be a Sign of Poor Health
- 24 March
- The World’s Smallest Microcontroller Is the Size of a Black Pepper Flake. It Opens Up ‘Unlimited Possibilities’
- Chinese Researchers Discover a Way to Recycle 99.9% of Electric Car Batteries: The Glycine in Your Protein Shakes
- 23 March
- We’ve Been Domesticating Avocados Since the Pleistocene. It Took Us 8,000 Years to Perfect Them
- 22 March
- We Thought There Were 8 Billion People on Earth. Researchers Say the Real Number Could Be Much Higher
- 17 March
- Interchangeable Heads and Terrifying Faces: These Five Puppets Are Turning Archaeology Upside Down
- 16 March
- Canada Wanted the U.S. to Get a Taste of Its Own Medicine, So It Targeted Coffee: Don’t Say ‘Americano,’ Say ‘Canadiano’
- 15 March
- Airlines Always Let You Bring a Parachute on Board. The Only Problem: It’s Useless
- This Fly Larva Turned Its Butt Into a Termite’s Head. The Big Question: What Will It Look Like as an Adult?
- 10 March
- BYD Debuts a James Bond-Like Car That Can Launch a Drone. Now the Question Is: What For?
- 08 March
- Meet China’s ‘Water Dragon,’ the World’s Largest Amphibious Aircraft
- While the Rest of Japan Shrinks, Tokyo Grows. This Phenomenon Has a Name: Ikkyoku Shūchū
- We Spent Years Trying to Reinvent the Wheel. It Turns Out It Was as Easy as Replacing It With Pilates Balls
- 07 March
- One Key Fact Explains Why China Might Challenge America’s AI Dominance: DeepSeek Is 8.5 Times Cheaper to Run Than ChatGPT
- 05 March
- Eggs Are Getting So Expensive in the U.S. That Some Companies Have Found an Unusual Solution: Renting Out Chickens
- 02 March
- This Curious Image Puts Humanoid Robots Side-by-Side in a Pseudo Police Lineup
- 01 March
- Thousands of Years Later, the Great Wall of China Is Still Revealing Secrets: It Turns Out It’s Older Than We Thought
- BMW Doesn’t Want to Hear Anyone Talk About Solid-State Batteries: ‘There Is Still a Long Way to Go With Lithium-Ion’
- It May Look Like Toothpaste, But It’s Actually Coffee in a Tube. This Is the Quick Caffeine Fix That You Can Even Spread on Toast
- Meet the ‘Tesla of the Seas,’ a Start-Up That Wants to Reinvent Container Ships With Sails
- With These Solar Panels That You Can Install Like Stickers, China Wants to Conquer Every Surface
February 2025
- 25 February
- ‘Not Mission Critical’: The U.S. Is Reportedly Starting to Dismantle Its Electric Car Charging Network
- 24 February
- There Was a Time When Poop Powered the Economies of Half the World. This Is the Rise and Fall of Guano
- A Startup Claims to Have a Solution That Could End China’s Monopoly on Rare Earth Elements: Hard Drives
- Saudi Arabia Resumes Work on the World’s Tallest Skyscraper After a Seven-Year Delay. We’ll See How Long It Lasts
- 23 February
- Researchers Have Been Smelling 5,000-Year-Old Mummies for Months to Recreate the Scents of Ancient Egypt
- Meta Has the Key to Lead in the AI Era: A Submarine Cable That Will Circle the Earth More Than Once
- 22 February
- The World’s Longest Sea Bridge Is in China and Features an Unusual Material: Bamboo
- 16 February
- Chinese Submarines Are Known for Being Very Noisy. That May Change With This New Generation of Vessels
- The New Space Race Has Created Junk That Acts Like a Boomerang. It’s Also Raised the Risk of Colliding With Aircraft
- 15 February
- Communicating With Your Cat Has Never Been Easy. A Study Claims to Have Found the Key: Blinking
- 10 February
- The Glass of Wine Before Bed to Help You Sleep Has a Very High Price That Goes Far Beyond Empty Calories
- 09 February
- Radiation Hasn’t Created a Superhero, But It’s Bestowed Unexpected ‘Healing’ Powers on a Common Material: Concrete
- 08 February
- Sugar Has Long Been the Main Ingredient in Soft Drinks. It’s Also Contributed to a Silent Pandemic
- 06 February
- The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: A Look at Status Symbol Erased by the iPhone
- 01 February
- While Dogs Became Useful, Cats Became Irresistible: New Study Explores the Mystery of Feline Domestication
January 2025
- 28 January
- Chernobyl Is Full of Radioactive Dogs. Researchers Say It Has Nothing to Do With the 1986 Nuclear Accident
- 27 January
- Malaysia Painted Glow-in-the-Dark Markings on Its Roads to Enhance Nighttime Visibility. There Was Just One Problem: The Cost
- 25 January
- These Newly Discovered Baths in a Pompeii Villa Give Us a Glimpse at the Dark Side of Roman Luxury
- 20 January
- Roasting Coffee at Home Using an Air Fryer? You Won’t Understand It Until You Try It
- 19 January
- Saudi Arabia Is Wasting So Much Money on The Line That It’s Created a $27 Million Deficit
- While Searching for Treasure, They Found Gold. This Is the Dmanisis Gora, the Mega-fortress in the Caucasus Mountains Built 3,000 Years Ago
- 18 January
- There’s a Problem With Traditional Bricks. Sugarcane and Sand Alternatives Might Be the Solution
- 14 January
- The U.S. Is Set to Reopen an Antimony Mine That’s Been Closed for 30 Years in Response to Challenges Posed by China
- 13 January
- The Ever Given Blockage Was a Multi-Billion Dollar Disaster. It Also Had a Significant Negative Impact on the Environment
- 11 January
- A Recent Study Finds That Morning Coffee Can Lower the Risk of Death
- 10 January
- These Are the Companies That Dominate the Chips and Semiconductor Industry. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. Takes the Cake With Nvidia
- 04 January
- Google Has a Stunning Interactive Map of Submarine Cables That Lets You See the Skeleton of the Modern World
- 01 January
- This iPhone Has No Cameras, but It’s Real. In Certain Places, It’s What You Need if You Want to Take Your Phone to Work
December 2024
- 30 December
- A Filter Made of Squid Bone and Cotton Could Be the Solution to Our Microplastics Problem
- 22 December
- China Was Short on Land for a New Airport. The Solution: Building It on a Massive Artificial Island
- 17 December
- Data Centers Consume So Much Water That It’s Becoming a Problem for Big Tech
- 16 December
- The Study of Two Wines From 1,500 Years Ago Reveals an Intriguing Truth: Choosing One Over the Other Was Already a Symbol of Social Status
- 08 December
- China’s Great Green Wall Reaches New Milestone: Containing One of the World’s Largest Deserts
- 07 December
- The Gordie Howe Bridge: The Longest Cable-Stayed Bridge in the U.S. Upon Completion and the Heart of a Cross-Border Drama
- 03 December
- Jaguar Type 00: A Concept Car That Breaks With the Past and Paves the Way for the Future
- 01 December
- Meet the Vespucci Espresso Machine: A La Marzocco Coffee Maker So Unique That It’s Impossible to Buy
- China Has Developed a Stealth Material That Could Make Fighters Invisible. It’s the ‘Key for China to Win Future Wars,’ Developers Say
November 2024
- 24 November
- A Look Inside the Varna Necropolis: The Greatest Treasure of Antiquity and the Mystery of a Civilization
- 16 November
- China Launches a New Type of Lifeguard: Autonomous Boats Equipped with Cameras and AI Systems
- AI Energy Consumption Is Often Overestimated, Officials Say. There Is a More Pressing Matter: Air Conditioning
- 09 November
- Researchers Have Just Reinvented the Brick. It’s Just Like It Was Thousands of Years Ago, but With a Modern Twist
- 05 November
- Nintendo Alarmo Isn’t Just an Alarm Clock. It’s Also a New Way to Play Doom
- 04 November
- Believe It or Not, Saudi Arabia Is Fully Committed to Neom. Now, It’s Constructing a Massive Cube That Could Fit 20 Empire State Buildings
October 2024
- 21 October
- In Their Relentless Fight Against Alzheimer’s Disease, Scientists Have Discovered an Unexpected Ally: Coffee
- First-Class Seats Are a Thing of the Past. Airlines Are Now Focused on Offering Business Class Seats That Go Beyond Luxury
- 12 October
- South Korea Recycles 97% of Its Food Waste. The Key: Either Pay to Recycle or Get Fined
- 07 October
- In Just Two Years, We’ve Gone From a Buttonless iPhone to an iPhone With the Most Buttons Ever. It’s an Excellent Decision
- 05 October
- The U.S. Lost a Destroyer in World War II. Almost 80 Years Later, Underwater Drones Found It at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean
September 2024
- 30 September
- What Apple Giveth to You, Apple Taketh From You: The Simple iPhone 16 Setting That Improves All Your Photos
- The Worst Drought in 70 Years Has Increased the Price of Colombian Coffee. It Looks Like It’ll Get Worse in 2025
- 24 September
- Bill Gates Knows Exactly What He’d Do if He Was 20 Years Old: A Startup 100% Dedicated to AI
- 21 September
- This Is Transgenic Wood, a Sustainable Alternative to Concrete That Has the Potential to Revolutionize Construction
- 10 September
- According to This Chart That Ranks Countries by Beer Consumption, China Is Beer Country
July 2024
- 16 July
- The First Commercial Aircraft ‘Made in China’ Has Been a Success. It’s Preparing to Take On Airbus and Boeing
- Someone Put an Apple AirTag and an Android Tracker in the Mail. The Results Aren't Good News for Google
- 15 July
- We've Gone From Robot Dogs to Dominate the World to Robot Dogs to Help Blind People. This Is China's Robot Guide Dog
- 12 July
- America's Hypersonic Aircraft Has Been an Open Secret Since 2007. China Used the Intel to Get Ahead
- 08 July
- As It Turns Out, There’s Another Terrestrial Species That Can Heal Wounds and Perform Surgical Amputations: Ants
- 02 July
- The Tour de France Has a Team Dedicated Exclusively to One Crucial Task: Erasing the Penises Painted on the Roads
- 01 July
- This Interactive 'Google Maps' of World War II Is the Best Way to Immerse Yourself in the Conflict's Battles
June 2024
- 30 June
- Japan Has the Key to the Next Evolution of Robots: Wrapping Them in Human Skin
- 11 June
- A Comparison of the Militaries of the World's Global Powers, Illustrated in a Handy Chart
- 10 June
- All the Games Unveiled at Xbox Showcase 2024, Including the 14 Best Upcoming Titles
- Microsoft Announces Three New Xbox Series Consoles for 2024, Including the Rumored Xbox Series X All Digital
- 09 June
- In 1955, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Felt Its Name Was Too Complicated to Reach Foreign Markets, So It Changed It to 'Sony'
- 04 June
- Persians Already Invented Air Conditioning Thousands of Years Ago: This Is How Their 'Wind Catchers' Worked
- 01 June
- After Thousands of Years, Researchers Have Discovered a New Cat Color. It's Called ‘Salty Licorice’
May 2024
- 28 May
- The Biggest Mayan Discovery 'in Decades' Has Sparked a Profound Realization: We Know Very Little About Its Civilization
- 27 May
- Texas Was an Oil Giant, Now It’s a Solar Energy Titan: The State Already Produces More Energy Than California
- We Knew That Mexico's Mummies Were Creepy, But Now We Know That They're Also Biohazard Risks
- 25 May
- Geisha Is the Most Exclusive Coffee on Earth. It Has Unexpected Origins
- 22 May
- Every Once in a While, We Come Across 1,700-Year-Old Roman Dodecahedra. We Still Don’t Know What They Were Used For
- 21 May
- Venice’s Downfall Won’t Be Tourism or Sea-Level Rise, but Rather the Tree Trunks It Was Built On
- 15 May
- There's a Problem With the Mayan Ruins: They’re Becoming Inaccessible Due to Violence
- 13 May
- U.S. Military Shows Off Its Manta Ray Robot. It’s Huge, Autonomous and Ready for Long Underwater Missions
- The U.S. Has Long Debated Banning Decaf Coffee. The Fight Has Reached a Critical Moment
- 07 May
- Apple Watch Series 9 Review: Restrained Ambition for What is Still the iPhone’s Best Companion
- 05 May
- This Is Ocean Farm 1, the Giant 360-Foot Wide Cage That Can Farm 1.6 Million Salmon
- 04 May
- iPhone 15 Pro Review: A Look Beyond the Spec Sheet
April 2024
- 17 April
- Best Mid-Range Smartphones 2024