Karen Alfaro

Karen Alfaro

Writer . At Xataka On since

Communications professional with a decade of experience as a copywriter, proofreader, and editor. As a travel and science journalist, I've collaborated with several print and digital outlets around the world. I'm passionate about culture, music, food, history, and innovative technologies. LinkedIn

150 published news

September 2024

  1. 05 September
  2. Microsoft and Apple Seemed to Have Ended Their War Over Cloud Gaming, but the Fight Is More Intense Than Ever

August 2024

  1. 23 August
  2. The Legendary Windows Control Panel Has an Expiration Date: Microsoft Confirms That It Will Disappear Soon
  3. Two Thieves Were Stealing Packages in California. To Catch Them, a Woman Attached an AirTag to Her Mail
  4. The CEO of AWS Has One Thing Clear: Software Engineers Won't Be Coding in the Future, AI Will
  5. Elon Musk Shares Progress on Second Neuralink Implant Patient, Says He Plays Counter-Strike
  6. 22 August
  7. Earth’s Rotation Is Slowing Down. And the Most Surprising Thing Is That It's Been Doing So for Millions of Years
  8. Elon Musk Loaned a Couple $6.7 Million to Buy One of His Mansions. They've Now Become His Squatters
  9. It Looks Like Astronauts Can’t Use Boeing’s Starliner Suits on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon (and Vice Versa). This Is Why
  10. Starbucks' CEO Will Also Return to the Office: He’ll Make the 1,000-Mile Commute by Private Jet
  11. NASA Holds Its Breath As Perseverance Rover Begins to Climb the Crater Rim Where It Got Stuck
  12. Carl Pei Is Asking Nothing Staff to Return to the Office and Invites Anyone Who Refuses to Leave: ‘This... May Not Be a Fit for Everyone’
  13. 21 August
  14. There’s a 50% Chance That Our Galaxy Will Collide With Andromeda, But We're Dead No Matter What
  15. A Group of Authors Has Sued Anthropic. The Reason: It Trained Its AI With Copies of Their Books
  16. Google Denies Report That It's Killing Fitbit SmartWatches, Says It's 'Very Committed to Fitbit'
  17. The Atlantic Has Suddenly Begun Cooling at Record Speed. That Changes Everything, Even the Hurricane Season
  18. A CEO Sold His Company and Turned All His Employees Into Millionaires. He Did Something Few People Do: Share
  19. 20 August
  20. Apple Needs a Rescue Plan to Revive Smartphone Sales. All Eyes Are on the Alleged iPhone 17 Air
  21. A Pair of Scissors Went Missing at an Airport in Japan. Hours Later, Authorities Had Already Canceled 36 Flights and Delayed 201
  22. Black Myth Wukong Was Released a Few Hours Ago. That's All It Needed to Make History
  23. Pokémon Card Fever Hits Smartphones: Everything Indicates That Pokémon TCG Pocket Will Be the Franchise's Next Revolution
  24. New Biomaterial Achieves What Was Science Fiction Until Now: High-Quality Articular Cartilage Growth
  25. 19 August
  26. After Becoming the Epitome of a Rich, Happy, and Egalitarian Country, Norway Faces a Problem: ‘Scan Guilt’
  27. Remote Work Has a Negative Impact on Vacations, Study Finds. Workers Are Putting in More Hours and Have Less Time to Rest
  28. Astronomers Have Been Studying the Messier 87 Galaxy for 20 Years. Now, They've Confirmed That Its Supermassive Black Hole Is Spinning
  29. I Tried the ‘Buying a New Printer Is Cheaper Than Buying Printer Ink’ Approach, But It Didn’t Work
  30. 18 August
  31. Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy Finale, Explained: Where the Hargreeves Go and What That Post-Credits Scene Means
  32. Shooting ‘Glitter’ Over the Martian Sky. This Is the Latest Idea From a Group of Scientists to Make the Red Planet Habitable
  33. 17 August
  34. Six Months Ago, an Autonomous Submarine Disappeared in Antarctic Waters. Now We Know What It Saw Before It Sank
  35. 16 August
  36. On Paper, GTD Is an Excellent Productivity Method. It's a Different Story in Real-Life
  37. Kim Dotcom Is Facing His Biggest Challenge in Years After New Zealand Approves His Extradition to the U.S.
  38. The Epic Games Store Has Officially Arrived on iOS and Android, With a Surprise. And Yes, Fortnite Is Back on the iPhone
  39. The Navy Has Just Launched a New Nuclear Submarine of Its Most Advanced Class: The Mighty USS Idaho
  40. 15 August
  41. Alien: Romulus Is a Strong Sequel on Par With the Saga’s Classics, but a Few Details Rob It of Its Glory
  42. Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Have Suddenly Started Honking at Each Other at 4 a.m.
  43. Bill Gates Thinks That Massive Tree Planting to Combat Climate Change Is Absurd. And He's Right
  44. AI in Video Games Will Come Sooner or Later. One Developer Says GTA VI Will Be a Turning Point
  45. 14 August
  46. inZOI, the Video Game That Mixes The Sims and GTA With Last Generation Graphics and Total Freedom
  47. Valve Has a New Game and Wants to Keep It a Secret. More Than 20,000 People Have Already Played It
  48. The Pixel 9 Pro Looks Fantastic. The Problem Is Still Its Processor
  49. The Paris Games Were Supposed to Be the Olympic Debut of Breakdancing, But All Anyone's Talking About is the 'Kangaroo Dance'
  50. These Ruins in Turkey Date Back 12,000 Years and Could Be the Oldest Calendar on Earth
  51. Microsoft Paint 3D Was Always Doomed to Die. Meanwhile, the Original Paint Is Experiencing a Revival
  52. 13 August
  53. Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold: This Foldable Features a Bigger Screen and Powers Up Its Cameras
  54. Google Pixel Buds Pro 2: The Tensor A1 Chip Arrives in First Earbuds Designed for Google Gemini
  55. In Its Commitment to Nuclear Energy, the U.S. Is Considering Doing the Unprecedented: Reactivating a Closed Plant
  56. 12 August
  57. Apple Is Reportedly Working on Three AR Devices, Including One Similar to the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses
  58. ‘I Think You Should Make It All Out of Glass’: The Fascinating Story of ‘Venus,’ Steve Jobs’ $120 Million Yacht
  59. The iPhone 16 Will Reportedly Be Conservative and More Photo-Centric Than Ever. In 2025, Rumors Point to the ‘iPhone 17 Air’
  60. ‘My Parents Still Don’t Know’: A Student Spent the Family Inheritance on Intel Stock Hours Before It Collapsed
  61. It's Not a Joke: Mayonnaise Is Helping Scientists Solve One of the Challenges of Nuclear Fusion
  62. 11 August
  63. China Has Just Surpassed All Other Countries in the Space Race. The Most Sought-After Element on the Moon Is in Its Hands
  64. The Next Time You Watch Titanic, Hit Pause at This Frame: This Man Existed in Real-Life and Scientifically Proved That Jack Could Have Survived
  65. 10 August
  66. The Highs and Lows of the Content Industry: Warner Plunges on the Stock Market While Disney Soars From the Success of Inside Out 2
  67. NASA Reveals Why We Haven’t Returned to the Moon Sooner: Underqualified Boeing Personnel in Rocket Manufacturing
  68. Europe and Japan Are Face-to-Face With One of the Major Challenges of Nuclear Fusion: Material Irradiation
  69. China Has Continued to Open Coal Plants, But They’re No Longer a Problem: Renewables Have Just Overtaken Their Capacity
  70. Ping: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It's Helpful in Diagnosing Network Problems
  71. These Researchers Say That Chimpanzees Can Talk and That the Evidence Dates Back to 1962
  72. 09 August
  73. This ‘Wonder Material’ for Solar Panels Has Broken Records Again Due to a New Chemical Treatment
  74. BitTorrent Protocol: What It Is and How It Works
  75. Network Address Translation (NAT): What It Is and How It Works
  76. 08 August
  77. The Happiest Country in the World Has a Problem: The Foreigners Who Live There Think Otherwise
  78. NASA Has a Very Simple Explanation for Why We're Unable to Find Aliens
  79. South Texas Has Hit the Jackpot Again: An Unlimited Supply of Clean Energy to Replace Oil
  80. 07 August
  81. Microsoft Edge Already Owns Almost 14% of the Browser Market. Google Chrome Reigns But Loses Ground
  82. House of the Dragon Will End Its Story Soon, But HBO Will Continue to Squeeze Out Game of Thrones Content for a Long Time
  83. 06 August
  84. Chinese Companies Sanctioned by the U.S. Have a Plan to Keep Buying AI Chips, a Very Creative One
  85. 05 August
  86. It’s Time to Debunk the Myth of Drinking ‘8 Glasses of Water a Day,’ But We Have a Problem
  87. ‘That Doesn’t Hold Up in the Electric Era’: Ford Explains Why It Wants to Either Sell Expensive Gas Cars or Small EVs
  88. Starship’s Fifth Flight Has a New Goal: To Test Its Robotic Arm, 'Mechazilla'
  89. 04 August
  90. Microsoft and OpenAI Have Been Great Allies, Until Now
  91. 03 August
  92. Imane Khelif Isn’t a Trans Woman. Her Case Illustrates the Enormous Problems the Olympics Has When It Comes to Intersexuality
  93. ‘NASA Is Evaluating All Options’: There’s a 50% Chance That the Astronauts Stranded on the Starliner Won’t Return to Earth on the Spacecraft
  94. 02 August
  95. Netflix Releases Disturbing Trailer for Squid Game Season 2 and Announces Premiere Dates for the Next Season
  96. The Metaverse Isn’t Dead, but It’s Making Meta Lose Money, Specifically, $50 Billion Since 2020
  97. Meta Takes a Strong Step Forward in the AI Race, Unveiling Its SAM 2 Video Editor
  98. Apple Insists Users Should Wear Their Apple Watch When They Sleep. It Sounds Like a Prelude to the Company’s Ring Launch
  99. 01 August
  100. There Are Hardly Any World Records in Swimming at the Paris Olympics. One of the Prime Suspects: The Pool
  101. The Least Known Trick to Make Coffee in a Moka Pot Is Also the Easiest
  102. Dust Is One of the Biggest Enemies of Solar Panels. Electromagnetic Waves Aim to Be the Solution
  103. Portugal Declares War on Digital Nomads: The Attempt to Attract Talent Has Decimated Its Young Population
  104. We Thought We Had an Accurate Date for the Origin of Life, but We Were Off by About 1.5 Billion Years
  105. Bill Gates Has Become One of the Largest Landowners in the U.S. for a Good Reason: To Get Richer
  106. CapCut and TikTok Are Tearing Apart the Competition. Their Strategy: Turning Everyone Into Video Editors
  107. Samsung Is Also Striking Gold With AI: Its Memory Chips Have Increased Profits by 1,458%

July 2024

  1. 31 July
  2. Some Tesla Owners Thought a Wet Towel Would Save Them a Lot of Charging Time. Tesla Had to Explain the Obvious
  3. The Hong Kong Government Has Recruited a Top AI Scientist. Its Plan Goes Beyond China’s Borders
  4. Meta Will Pay Texas $1.4 Billion for Violating User Privacy. It Used Facial Recognition Without Permission
  5. 30 July
  6. Japan’s Biggest Tourism Challenge Isn’t Overcrowding on Mt. Fuji, But Rather Electric Suitcases. It’s Already Putting the Brakes on Them
  7. Neuralink’s Competition Is Growing: Here's What the Future Implant Created by Paradromics Looks Like
  8. Volkswagen’s Software Is So Bad That the Company Has Found Only One Solution: Sending Its Engineers to China to Learn How to Fix It
  9. Instagram Creators Will Be Able to Chat With All Their Followers. Except They Won't Be Doing It, Their Bots Will
  10. 29 July
  11. Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch. It's Been a Bad Investment for a Decade
  12. China Is Closing the Gap With the U.S. in AI, the New Space Race
  13. 28 July
  14. Japanese Supermarkets Are Using AI to Monitor Employees’ Smiles Because They Want Customers to Be Completely Satisfied
  15. HMD Skyline: This Successor of the Legendary Nokia Lumia 920 Has Repairability as Its Main Feature
  16. 27 July
  17. A U.S. Security Company Thought It Had Hired an Engineer. It Was a North Korean Cybercriminal
  18. 26 July
  19. China Is the World’s Largest Producer of Renewables, But It Has a Problem: What to Do With All the Used Turbines and Panels
  20. How to Stop X (Twitter) From Using Your Posts and Messages to Train Grok, Its Artificial Intelligence Model
  21. Yellowstone’s Massive Hydrothermal Explosion Reminds Us That It’s an ‘Box of Bombs’ Visited by 4 Million People Each Year
  22. Large 2 Is Mistral’s New Language Model. It’s a European Ode to Efficiency
  23. SearchGPT Could Be Google’s Biggest Threat Ever. But to Really Become a Threat, It Needs a Miracle: Not to Screw It Up
  24. I Tried Nvidia’s Project G-Assist and Now I Finally Understood How AI Aims to Change How We Play
  25. ‘Old Person Smell’ Is Real. So Real That Researchers Have Spent Years Trying to Understand How It Works
  26. A U.S. City Is ‘Depaving’ Its Streets to Combat the Heat. It Has an Ally: NASA
  27. Apple Maps Has Left the Apple Ecosystem. You Can Now Try the Web Version, Which Aims to Compete With Google Maps
  28. 25 July
  29. Companies Wanted to Return to the Office at All Cost. According to Gartner, They Paid a High Price
  30. The AI Bubble Is Starting to Deflate: Big Tech Had Its Worst Day on the Stock Market Since the Rise of ChatGPT
  31. Brazil Tested 13 Sharks off the Coast of Rio de Janeiro. All Specimens Tested Positive for Cocaine
  32. The Amazon Echo Is Dying of Success. Millions Are Sold, But the Company Continues Losing Money
  33. An Increasing Number of Carmakers Are Rejecting the New Apple CarPlay. The Reason: Control
  34. Mark Zuckerberg Keeps Saying That His AI Model Is Open Source, But He's Misusing the Term
  35. 23 July
  36. Experts Warn Against Digging Holes on the Beach Deeper Than Two Feet. There's a Good Reason for the Warning
  37. Sanctions Are Keeping China Out of the International Economy. Last Friday, They Staved Off Something Worse: CrowdStrike
  38. Sam Altman Has Been Secretly Giving Away Millions of Dollars. His Goal: Carrying Out the Largest Study of Universal Basic Income
  39. 22 July
  40. The Chaos Caused by CrowdStrike Is Bad News for One of the Great Projects of Our Time: Ending the Use of Cash
  41. This Region in Latin America Has More Oil Than Saudi Arabia, But It Produces 12 Times Less
  42. 21 July
  43. Meta's Ray-Bans Have Been Such a Hit That the Company Is Reportedly Thinking About Investing in That Makes Them
  44. The Earth Is Spinning Slower and Days Are Getting Longer. We Have a Suspect: Melting Ice
  45. The CMF Phone 1 Was the Appetizer. The Nothing Phone (2a) Plus Is Looking Like It'll Be the Main Course
  46. We Knew That Hippo Races Were Fast, but We Didn’t Realize That They Spend 15% of the Race in the Air
  47. 20 July
  48. China Is Betting Big on a Business That Has Never Managed to Take Off: Sustainable Aviation Fuels
  49. In Japan, People Can’t Stop Shopping, But There’s No One to Transport the Orders. The Solution Is an Epic 310-Mile Conveyor Belt
  50. Sam Altman Paid $27 Million for One of the Most Expensive Mansions in San Francisco. Today, It’s a Mess That Even ChatGPT Didn’t Expect
  51. 19 July
  52. What Seemed Impossible Has Become a Reality: Marvel Is Bringing Back the Russo Brothers for the Next Avengers Movies
  53. AI Promised to Revolutionize Cell Phones, But I Haven't Seen Anything Revolutionary Yet
  54. 18 July
  55. The EU Won't Receive Meta’s Next Major AI Models. The Reason: Local Regulations
  56. China Envisions a Future With Ultra-Light Carbon Fiber Subway Trains. It's Already Produced the First One
  57. This Company Promises That It Can Produce Up to 20 Times More Energy Than Solar Panels by Using Photonic Spheres
  58. Taylor Swift Has Already Released 34 Editions of Her Latest Album. Her Goal: To Never Leave the Charts
  59. Audi Will Close Its First Electric Car Factory. The Reason Is Simple: It’s Not Selling EVs
  60. We Thought Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas Were Absolutely Tame. Not Quite
  61. Tesla Delayed Its $25,000 Electric Car to Unveil a Robotaxi in August. In the End, We Won’t See Either One
  62. If Your Clothes Smell Bad When You Sweat, We Have Something to Tell You. We Now Know Why
  63. 17 July
  64. Geoscientists Believe They’ve Discovered Why We’re Alone in the Universe. The Key Is Our Planet
  65. Japan Has an Impressive New 40-Foot Robot. Its Mission: Repairing Train Tracks

June 2024

  1. 16 June
  2. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Hates One-on-One Meetings, With One Exception: 'If They Ask Me, I’ll Drop Everything'
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