Javier Márquez

Javier Márquez

Writer

At Xataka On since

I've been in media for over a decade, but I've been marveling at the possibilities that technology brings us much longer. I believe we live in a world where the digital revolution is changing everything and that Xataka is the best place to write about it.

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172 published news

April 2025

  1. 24 April
  2. The iRobot Roomba Max 705 Is Ready to Conquer Homes With Pets Using One Major Weapon: Power
  3. Nvidia’s AI Chips Are All the Rage. However, Gamers Are Still Complaining About Issues With Its Graphics Cards Months Later
  4. Nintendo Has Its Eyes on Discord as It Hunts Down Pokémon Leaker. It Won’t Give Up Easily
  5. Being Friendly to ChatGPT Isn’t Cheap: This Is How Much It Costs OpenAI Every Time You Say ‘Please’ and ‘Thank You’
  6. 23 April
  7. Logitech and Anker Are Starting to Show the Consequences of Trump’s Tariffs: They’ve Raised Prices on Some Popular Products
  8. 20 April
  9. Microsoft Once Believed It Had Discovered a Way to Humanize Windows Through a Program Called Bob. It Was a Total Failure
  10. 19 April
  11. An Old Dream, a Boeing 727, and an Unusual Decision: This Is How an Engineer Transformed an Airplane Into His Home
  12. 18 April
  13. Some People Are Using OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini to Find the Location of Photos. It’s a Privacy Nightmare
  14. 17 April
  15. New Fantastic Four Trailer Reveals More Than Visuals—It Hints at Marvel’s Plan to Escape the MCU Slump
  16. Another Blow to Google’s Empire: Judge Finds Part of Its Ad Business Illegal
  17. 11 April
  18. Boeing Might Be the Next Victim in Trump’s Trade War. The Winner: Airbus
  19. China’s Next Move Amid Tariff War With the U.S.: Cutting Hollywood Film Releases
  20. 09 April
  21. Bombardier Global 8000 Is Set to Enter Service: This Is the World’s Fastest Civilian Aircraft Since Concorde
  22. Trump’s 104% Tariff on China Officially Comes Into Effect. Apple Is No Longer the World’s Most Valuable Company
  23. 08 April
  24. China Has Become Hostile Territory for Microsoft. Its First Joint Venture in the Country Ceases Operations and Lays Off 2,000 Employees
  25. 04 April
  26. Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Preorders. Trump’s Tariffs Begin to Impact the Video Game Industry
  27. 03 April
  28. A Google Innovation Was Crucial for the GPT Models. The Company Reportedly Has a New Plan to Stop Benefiting Its Rivals
  29. 02 April
  30. One Million New Users in One Hour: Studio Ghibli-Style Images Have Boosted the ChatGPT Phenomenon Again

March 2025

  1. 28 March
  2. The Latest ChatGPT-Made Image Fever Is ‘Melting’ OpenAI’s GPUs. As a Result, The Company Is Limiting User Access
  3. 27 March
  4. The AI Infrastructure Boom Is Starting to Crack: China Has Hundreds of Unused AI Data Centers, and It’s Not the Only One
  5. 26 March
  6. Some European Companies Seek to Cut Ties With Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Cloud Services. It Won’t Be Easy
  7. 25 March
  8. Boeing’s Had a Rough Few Years. The Air Force Just Gave It a Prime Opportunity to Recover: The New F-47 Contract
  9. 12 Million People Gave Their DNA to 23andMe. The Company Just Went Bankrupt, but There’s a Bigger Problem at Stake
  10. 21 March
  11. OpenAI’s New Voice Models Can Now Talk Like Customer Service Agents. Their Next Destination: Call Centers
  12. 17 March
  13. While All Eyes Were on Silicon Valley, a Danish City Was Quietly Shaping Its Future. Today It’s Established Itself as the Capital of Robotics
  14. 15 March
  15. A 19-Year-Old Hacked an iPhone and Got Hired by Apple. He Lost the Job Over a Missed Email
  16. 14 March
  17. Meta Has Started to Shut Down Its Independent Fact-Checking Program. It’s Replacing It With a Tool That Uses X’s Algorithm
  18. 13 March
  19. Taking AI Beyond the Screen: With Gemini Robotics, Google Enhances Robots’ Interaction With the Physical World
  20. Intel Has a New CEO: Lip-Bu Tan Takes Up the Role at a Crucial Time for the Tech Company
  21. 12 March
  22. Las Vegas Transformed Entertainment With The Sphere. Its Creators Now Want to Take This Innovative Concept a Step Further
  23. 11 March
  24. A Group of North Korean Hackers Pulled Off the Biggest Crypto Robbery in History. This Is How They Did It
  25. 05 March
  26. New Apple MacBook Air (2025): More Power, New Colors, and a Lower Price
  27. Monopoly Keeps Evolving: The Latest Version of the Board Game Ditches Cash for a Mobile App
  28. 02 March
  29. Xi Jinping Has His Own Version of Air Force One. This Is How China Outpaced the U.S. With Its Presidential Aircraft

February 2025

  1. 27 February
  2. Chinese Scientists Develop a Camera They Claim Can Identify Faces From Space
  3. 26 February
  4. Google Challenges Microsoft With a New AI Coding Assistant. Its Star Feature: It Offers Much More Free Use Than GitHub Copilot
  5. 25 February
  6. Alef Aeronautics Debuts a Flying Car That Can Actually Fly. The Problem: It’s More Like a Drone Than an Actual Car
  7. 18 February
  8. WinRAR Finally Accepts a Harsh Reality: When Most Users Don’t Pay for Your Software, Sell Them Bags and Jackets Instead
  9. 17 February
  10. This Is Silver Bullet, an Ultra-Secure Aircraft Pod That the Air Force Often Uses Instead of the ‘Doomsday Plane’
  11. 14 February
  12. Elon Musk’s Bid for OpenAI Has Disrupted Sam Altman’s Plans: He’s Now Willing to Withdraw on One Condition

January 2025

  1. 31 January
  2. Italy Blocks DeepSeek: The Chinese Chatbot Is Facing Its First Big Challenge in Europe
  3. 30 January
  4. Macs Have Included a Built-In Antivirus for Many Years. This Is How XProtect Works in the Background
  5. 28 January
  6. DeepSeek Is the Hot New AI Model on the Market. There’s One Problem: No One Knows How It Handles User Data
  7. 24 January
  8. OpenAI Launches Operator: The Future Where AI Can Perform Online Tasks for You Is Here
  9. 22 January
  10. Instagram Is Going All-In to Attract Tiktok Talent With Purported Incentives of Up to $50,000
  11. The U.S. Embarks on an AI Conquest With a Historic Announcement: A $500 Billion Initiative With Tech Giants
  12. 21 January
  13. Instagram, Bluesky, and X Are Competing for TikTok Refugees. How? By Launching New Video Features
  14. 17 January
  15. TikTok on the Brink: Supreme Court Delivers Major Setback as Ban Nears
  16. The U.S. Doesn’t Want to Lose AI Data Centers. To Keep Them Around, It’s Going to Offer Up Federal Land
  17. 14 January
  18. Mastodon Is Distancing Itself Further From Meta and X: The CEO Is Resigning and Turing the Platform Into a Nonprofit
  19. 13 January
  20. A Look at How Samsung Surpassed Nokia and Motorola With the Launch of UpRoar, the World’s First Phone With an MP3 Player
  21. 08 January
  22. AI Is Transforming the Stock Photo Industry. Getty Images and Shutterstock Are Merging in Order to Resist
  23. 07 January
  24. The U.S. Makes an Unexpected Move by Adding Tencent and CATL to Its List of ‘Chinese Military Companies’
  25. 06 January
  26. No Need to Wait for the Tesla Bot: This Roborock Vacuum Includes a Robotic Arm for Cleaning and Manipulating Objects
  27. Intel Starts the New Year With New Powerful and Efficient Core Ultra Processors. Will It Be Enough to Regain Its Leading Position in the Market?
  28. An Indian Village Goes Offline for a Few Hours Daily. The Goal: Promoting Digital Detoxification
  29. 03 January
  30. A Half-Ton Metal Ring Fell From the Sky in Kenya. Its Space Agency Confirmed What Many Already Suspected

December 2024

  1. 23 December
  2. What Happened to NeXT? A Look at the Company Steve Jobs Founded After Leaving Apple and Ultimately Became Its Salvation
  3. 18 December
  4. Elon Musk Is Reportedly Not Allowed to Attend Some Meetings at SpaceX. The Reason: His Security Clearance
  5. 13 December
  6. Russia Has a New, Digital Iron Curtain: Officials Successfully Cut Off Multiple Regions From the Global Internet
  7. 12 December
  8. Google Flexes Its Muscles, Unveiling an Impressive AI Agent That Can Browse the Internet for You
  9. 09 December
  10. DeepFlight Super Falcon: This Is the Fascinating Personal Submarine That Flies Through Ocean Depths Like an Airplane

November 2024

  1. 28 November
  2. OpenAI Is in Trouble Again as Initial Excitement Wanes for Sora Due to Delays and Controversies
  3. 27 November
  4. Tesla Is Looking for Workers to Grow Its Teleoperation Team, Which Operates Its Robotaxis and Humanoid Robots
  5. 26 November
  6. A Declassified Report Has Put F-35 to Shame and Prompted Sharp Words From Elon Musk
  7. 18 November
  8. Elon Musk Is Taking His Legal Battle Against OpenAI and Microsoft to a New Level: He’s Just Accused Both Companies of Trying to Eliminate the Competition
  9. 15 November
  10. Spotify Wants to Compete More Directly With YouTube: It’ll Start to Pay Creators for Popular Videos
  11. 14 November
  12. Trump Has Promised Budget Cuts During His Administration. However, NASA’s JPL Is Already Laying Off Staff: This Is Why
  13. 13 November
  14. With 70 Million Users, Netflix’s Ad-Supported Plan Is a Complete Success
  15. 07 November
  16. One of China’s Best-Kept Secrets, Revealed: This Is the New J-35A Fighter, a Rival to America's F-35
  17. 05 November
  18. AI Doesn’t Just Consume a Lot of Energy. It Also Generates a Massive Amount of E-Waste

October 2024

  1. 31 October
  2. Doom Isn’t the Only Game That Can Be Played in the Most Random Places. Now, Someone Has Played Sonic on a Calculator
  3. 30 October
  4. The Company That Built Jeff Bezos’ Yacht Has an Idea to Create Even Larger Vessels: Using Container Ships
  5. 28 October
  6. The Software for the F-22 Raptor Is So Complex That Upgrades Are Tested on a Uniquely Modified Boeing 757
  7. 26 October
  8. Titan Is Selling What It Claims Is the World’s Most Powerful Desktop PC. Its Biggest Issue: The Price
  9. 25 October
  10. Anthropic Is One of the Few Companies That Can Keep Up With OpenAI. The Proof: Claude Can Now Write and Run Code
  11. 24 October
  12. The Latest Windows 11 Update Is a Nightmare for Some Users. These Are Some of the Biggest Issues They’re Encountering
  13. 17 October
  14. Elon Musk Surprised Jensen Huang by Installing 100,000 Nvidia GPUs in Just 19 Days. It Normally Takes Years
  15. 15 October
  16. We Thought We Were Seeing the Future at Tesla’s Presentation. Now, All We Have Are Questions About How Optimus Actually Works
  17. 09 October
  18. A Company Established a Large Bitcoin Mine in Texas. Local Residents Say the Noise Is Ruining Their Lives
  19. More Than 50 Million Windows Users Face Security Risks Because They’re Using Outdated Versions of the Operating System
  20. 08 October
  21. The Epic v. Google Ruling Marks a Historic Shift for Android: The Play Store Will No Longer Have Exclusivity
  22. 06 October
  23. The Rise and Fall of Commodore: The Giant of the 1980s That Revolutionized Computing and Fell Into Oblivion
  24. 04 October
  25. Google Is Following in Microsoft’s Footsteps: It’s Exploring the Use of Modular Nuclear Reactors for Its AI Data Centers
  26. After Historic Funding Round, OpenAI Still Needs More Money. It Plans to Borrow up to $4 Billion
  27. 03 October
  28. OpenAI Makes Its Biggest Goal of the Year a Reality, Closes $6.6 Billion Investment Round
  29. 02 October
  30. Microsoft’s Recent Actions Confirm What Everyone Suspected. The Company Isn’t Just OpenAI’s Partner, It’s Also Its Competitor
  31. 01 October
  32. Shenzhen Organized a Show With More Than 10,000 Drones. It Was So Impressive That It Broke Two Guinness World Records

September 2024

  1. 26 September
  2. Meta Quest 3S: Mark Zuckerberg Introduces a Mixed Reality Headset for $300
  3. 25 September
  4. Researchers Find a Unique Way to Store Data for Millennia: 5D Memory Quartz
  5. 20 September
  6. We Finally Know How Thirsty Artificial Intelligence Is: It Needs a Small Bottle of Water to Send a 100-Word Email
  7. 19 September
  8. Cybercriminals Are Using a New Method to Steal Google Passwords: Full-Screen Mode
  9. 18 September
  10. Russia Has Been Camouflaging Some of Its Fighters and Bombers With Tires for Months. A U.S. Military Officer Believes She Knows Why
  11. 17 September
  12. Some Thought This Moment Would Never Come: A Company Is Ready to Test an Aerospike Engine in Flight
  13. 16 September
  14. A Man Designed His Dream Yacht but Couldn’t Afford It, so He Built It Himself at Home
  15. 13 September
  16. OpenAI Unexpectedly Releases o1, Its First Model With ‘Reasoning’ Capabilities to Solve Difficult Problems
  17. 12 September
  18. Chinese Scientists Claim to Have Achieved a Technological Feat With Stainless Steel Once Thought Impossible. It Took a Lot of Imagination
  19. 11 September
  20. Microsoft Launches Xbox Game Pass Standard, a New and More Affordable Subscription. We Break Down the Price, Benefits, and How to Subscribe
  21. OpenAI Is Fine-Tuning the Details of Its Next Major Release. Strawberry, an AI That ‘Thinks,’ Will Reportedly Arrive in Two Weeks
  22. 10 September
  23. The iPhone 16, a New Apple Watch, and All the New Products Announced on Apple’s September Event
  24. 06 September
  25. No One Understood How an Unknown Musician Became a Millionaire in Such a Short Time. What the FBI Found Is a Warning to Others in the Industry
  26. 05 September
  27. Elon Musk Used Starlink to Bypass the X Ban in Brazil. 48 Hours Later, He Changed His Mind
  28. 04 September
  29. Microsoft Mistakenly Added an Option to Uninstall the Controversial Recall Feature in Windows 11
  30. Sony Will Shut Down Concord’s Servers 14 Days After Its Release. The Game Was in Development for Eight Years
  31. 03 September
  32. 1X Has Developed a Humanoid Robot Called NEO Beta. It’s So Advanced That the Company Is Already Testing It in the Real World

August 2024

  1. 29 August
  2. Denialism Has Reached One of the Last Remaining Areas of Science Untouched by It: Eyeglasses

July 2024

  1. 16 July
  2. Japan Already Has Its Own ‘Her,’ and Some Are Already Having Romantic Relationships With It
  3. 15 July
  4. ‘It Can Destroy Anything:’ The U.S. Has Finally Completed the Upgrade of the AH-64 Apache Helicopter
  5. 13 July
  6. Gyro Monorail: A Railroad Engineering Marvel That Traveled on a Single Track and Never Lost Its Balance
  7. 12 July
  8. Millions of People Don't Know That Their Information Has Been Published on the Dark Web. Google Has a Free Tool to Check
  9. 11 July
  10. You Can Now Buy an $8,000 Foldable House. It Takes 11 Minutes to Assemble and Can Hold up to 8 People
  11. It Was So Hot in New York City That a Swing Bridge Got Stuck Because Its Steel Expanded Too Much
  12. 10 July
  13. 'As Easy to Use as an ATM': Ammo Vending Machines Are Now Available in Some U.S. Supermarkets
  14. Microsoft Is Increasing Xbox Game Pass Pricing Worldwide, Announces a Cheaper ‘Standard’ Plan
  15. 06 July
  16. Warner Bros. Unveils First Trailer for Dune: Prophecy. The Dune Universe Is Expanding with a Promising Prequel
  17. 05 July
  18. The U.S. Continues to Fall Behind China in the Race for Generative AI Patents, With China Overwhelmingly Leading the Field
  19. Figure’s Humanoid Robot Can Already Work Autonomously, So BMW Put It to Task
  20. 04 July
  21. The Japanese Government Has Just Achieved an Unusual Victory in 2024: Eliminating the Use of Floppy Disks
  22. 03 July
  23. A South Korean Local Government Hired an AI Robot for Administrative Tasks. It ‘Took Its Own Life’ After a Year
  24. 02 July
  25. Google Is Making a Significant Change to Chrome’s Security That Affects Thousands of Websites. They Have Four Months to Comply

June 2024

  1. 28 June
  2. The Creators of ‘Sam Altman Leads the Committee That Oversees Sam Altman’s Actions’ Have Unveiled That GPT-4 Is Overseeing GPT-4
  3. BlackBerry Has Reinvented Itself, and It's Done So Well That It’s Making More Money Than Analysts Thought
  4. Thousands of South Korean Users Can’t Explain How Their Devices Got Infected With Malware. The Main Suspect: Their Internet Provider
  5. 27 June
  6. Some Companies Are Training Their AI Models on Reddit Data Without Permission, And Reddit Is Declaring War
  7. 26 June
  8. The Wait Is Over: The ChatGPT App for Mac With GPT-4o Is Now Available for Free to All Users
  9. 25 June
  10. The War Over AI-Generated Music Continues to Escalate: Major Labels Are Suing Suno AI and Udio
  11. 35 Years Ago, Sony Introduced the World’s Largest CRT Television: A 43-inch, 400-Pound TV That Cost a Fortune
  12. Julian Assange Is Now Free After Reaching a Deal With the U.S.
  13. 21 June
  14. Claude 3.5 Sonnet Is Aiming at GPT-4o's Jugular by Letting Users Create Web Pages and Games (for Free)
  15. U.S. Authorities Have Just Announced a Total Ban on Kaspersky. The Russian Antivirus Company Is Facing Its Worst Moment
  16. 20 June
  17. The Rise of Artificial Intelligence Is Reigniting an Old Concern Among U.S. Companies: Chinese Spying
  18. The Legend of Zelda, Metroid Prime 4, and Mario & Luigi: Here Are All of the Best Announcements From Nintendo Direct
  19. 18 June
  20. We Thought OpenAI’s Sora Was Light Years Ahead of the Competition: Runway's Gen-3 Alpha Has Just Proven Otherwise
  21. An Apple Enthusiast Used a $7 Raspberry Pi for a Fantastic Project: Creating an Original Macintosh
  22. 15 June
  23. A Developer Has Just Taken the Concept of ‘Retro’ to a New Level by Creating a Physical Winamp Player
  24. 14 June
  25. A Student Used a Hidden Camera and AI to Cheat on a University Exam. Now, He’s in Jail (and He Failed the Test)
  26. 13 June
  27. This Is How One of the Most Famous Windows Screensavers, the Hypnotic Network of Moving 3D Pipes, Was Born
  28. When Using ChatGPT at Work, We May Be Exposing Confidential Information: Here’s What You Can Do to Avoid It
  29. 12 June
  30. HP CEO Provides Details on the Significant Decline in Printing Since the Pandemic: It’s Bad News for the Company’s Business
  31. 11 June
  32. ‘Unacceptable:’ Elon Musk Threatens to Ban Apple Devices From His Companies After OpenAI Deal
  33. Apple Intelligence, iOS 18, Siri With ChatGPT, macOS 15 Sequoia, and Everything Else Announced at WWDC 2024
  34. 08 June
  35. AEVEX Aerospace Unveils Its Latest Vehicle: A Terrifying ‘Kamikaze’ Jet Ski That Crashes Into Enemy Ships and Explodes
  36. 07 June
  37. OpenAI Has Just Undertaken a Challenging and Ambitious Journey: Understanding AI’s ‘Black Box’
  38. We’re Getting Closer to Having Night Vision in Our Daily Glasses. A Specific Material Is Proving to Be the Key
  39. 05 June
  40. ‘We Sincerely Apologize:’ Toyota Acknowledges Wrongdoing in Additional Safety Tests and Halts Production of Three Models
  41. 02 June
  42. FBI Dismantles a Botnet With an Army of 20 Million Zombie PCs. They Were Infected by Rogue VPNs

May 2024

  1. 30 May
  2. ‘We Learned About ChatGPT on Twitter:’ Former OpenAI Board Member Reveals Another Possible Reason for Feud Between Board and Sam Altman
  3. Boeing Won’t Delay Starliner’s First Crewed Flight Again: The Company Plans to Launch It Even Though It Has a 'Small Helium Leak'
  4. 29 May
  5. Someone Has Found a New Use for the Flipper Zero: Controlling Taylor Swift’s Tour Wristbands
  6. 28 May
  7. We Thought ChatGPT Was Great for Programming. A New Study Finds That Half of Its Answers Are Wrong
  8. Microsoft Said Recall Only Worked on the New Copilot+ PCs. Someone Just Activated It on a Regular PC
  9. What Happened to Creative Technology, the Company That Created the Legendary Sound Blaster Cards?
  10. 25 May
  11. Someone Bought an Old Boeing 737 and Did What Anyone in Their Right Mind Would Have Done: Turn It Into a Mansion
  12. 24 May
  13. Windows XP Is One of the Most Dangerous Operating Systems: This Is How Easy It Can Get Infected With Malware
  14. Russian Army Is Turning Armored Vehicles Into ‘Turtle Tanks’ to Protect Themselves From Ukrainian Drones
  15. 23 May
  16. Two Programming Languages From the 1950s Are Once Again Among the World’s Most Popular
  17. Airbus’ New Half-Plane, Half-Helicopter 'Racer' Completes Its First Public Flight
  18. 21 May
  19. HP OmniBook X and EliteBook Ultra: Great Battery Life and Snapdragon X Chips to Unlock All of AI's Potential
  20. Microsoft Surface Pro and Surface Laptop: The AI-Powered ARM Revolution in Windows Has Begun
  21. 17 May
  22. ChatGPT Wants to Rule the Office. It Can Now Create Charts From Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive Files
  23. Microsoft Bets on Accessibility Once More with Proteus, the New Xbox Controller for Gamers with Disabilities
  24. The U.S. Army Has Spent Billions of Dollars on Laser Weapons. Now, It’s Officially Using Them in Battle
  25. 15 May
  26. OpenAI Co-founder Ilya Sutskever Unexpectedly Leaves the AI Company
  27. 14 May
  28. OpenAI Introduces GPT-4o: A Surprising Free AI Model That Works With Voice, Text, and Image at Once
  29. OpenAI Is Close to Making ‘Her’ a Reality. Its New Voice Model Keeps You Company (and Could Make You Fall in Love)
  30. 11 May
  31. OpenAI's Sam Altman Teases Monday Announcement: “It’s Not GPT-5 or a Search Engine"
  32. 10 May
  33. Apple Apologizes for iPad Pro Ad That Crushed Creativity With a Hydraulic Press
  34. A Seattle Startup Just Did the Impossible: It Connected a Device to a Satellite Via Bluetooth
  35. Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery Join Forces With New Bundle to Crush Competition
  36. 07 May
  37. NASA’s Europa Clipper Is Sending a 'Message in a Bottle' to Jupiter With 2.6 Million Names
  38. New $1.6 Billion Legends Tower in Oklahoma City Set to Be Tallest Skyscraper in U.S.
  39. 04 May
  40. China Claims Its New Tech Can Detect the F-22 Raptor, the U.S. Army’s Invisible Plane
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