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Long live Mario, the longest-running video game plumber

This is Mario, an Italian plumber (but designed by a Japanese) who stars in more than 100 titles of different video games.With more than 25 years behind him , this character seems not to lose a bit of agility and continues to reign platform games. The landlord who named the character They say that Nintendo in the United States was working on distributing its games when the owner of the warehouse claimed the payment of the rent, which was being delayed. At that time, Donkey Kong was the most successful title of the Japanese factory, although it was already worked on other characters, such as Jumpman. The owner of the Nintendo headquarters in the United States was named Mario. Nintendo staff jokingly started calling Mario the character Jumpman , which already appeared in some games, and ended up giving the name to character. The first title in which Mario appeared was in Donkey Kong Jr, the sequel of which, until then, was the most successful video game of the Nintendo factory. ...
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The kiosk and the town doctor, “influencers” on Instagram

The scenario in which we live is global but our reality is local.We care what happens out there, but we also want to find out about the everyday things that happen around us. Nadia Molero, from Secrets of Valdemorillo We want to hear from family, friends or acquaintances.Sometimes we even, less and less, talk to our parents, and they update us on events in the neighborhood or town in which we grew up. In the era of the "influencers", where there is a fierce struggle to discover how Instagram algorithms work to get followers and sell a product, it's hard to find accounts that don't want to sell nothing, not even oneself. We don't move for art's sake. And the future is no longer what it was.These days we talk about the possibility that Instagram will stop giving information on the number of followers and the number of likes.This would change the picture, but it's just an unspecified possibility. The "town account", on Instagram and Faceb...
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No kidding: selfitis exists and can be a problem

Sometimes one thinks that social networks were created to share photos of faces putting on little bones and images of dishes overflowing with appetizing foods or, better, of faces putting little bones in front of plates overflowing with appetizing foods in the same shot.is to see faces, faces, faces...all of them smiling, as if looking at the smartphone mirror was the height of happiness.And it does not seem that there are so many beautiful and happy people, or maybe yes, that you go Namely.What envy. Well, what we're going to do: Janarthanan Balakrishnan psychologists from the Thiagarajar School of Management in India; and Mark D.Griffiths, of the Nottingham Trent University, in the United Kingdom, have published an article in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction entitled 'A study on' Selfitis', which names this mania of going around the world taking pictures of oneself, as if beyond our curls the world had been destroyed by that meteorite th...
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Gucci and Instagram: a good color scheme

Angelica Hicks, in New York, in front of one of her creations for Gucci Instagram has become a powerful promotion tool for brands and, especially, for fashion firms. Influencers with Lovely Pepa, Paula Ordovas or televisions Dulceida and Pelayo Diaz count their followers for millions and the photographs that go up to this network become references of the «fashion» for young and not so young people who look for them inspiration before going shopping. However, this soundbox function of what brands decide is evolving and companies like Gucci are already starting to recruit talent on Instagram to shape their collections and build a community that complements and reinforces their promotional actions. Gucci in search of inspiration and talent Alessandro Michele , the creative director of Gucci, has been one of the pioneers in the use of shared intelligence that finds a fertile ground in social networks.Since his appointment in 2015 he has promoted the search for Instagram insp...
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Wikispaces closes and the BNE tries to save Spanish wikis

A couple of months ago, Wikispaces already warned its users: it closes next July .The US wikis service will progressively close its sites, from free to premium, that will disappear at the beginning of next year.Secondly, you can read on their website, the complete technical review that they have carried out over the last twelve months on the infrastructure and software they use to serve Wikispaces users confirm that the investment required to adapt the infrastructure and code to modern standards is very substantial. wikispaces closes for economic reasons »We have explored all the possible options to maintain Wikispaces, but we have considered that it is no longer viable to maintain the service in the long term.Therefore, with a little nostalgia, we will begin to close this year», the statement continues. Wikispaces is a free web hosting service that was founded in 2005 and, since then, has been used by educators, businesses and people around the world.Now, for economic reasons, ...
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These are the 7 reasons that explain that Tesla is the company of the moment

On March 31, the technology company Tesla launched the Tesla Model 3, a smart car designed for a wider market than we had used until then, being a kind of version «affordable »Of its previous model, the sedan Model S. With a price that goes from $ 35,000 , a few days later, the reserves rose to 276,000 cars, which means between double and quadruple what the company had planned, in the words of Elon Musk himself, CEO of Tesla. This massive demand has meant that, on the one hand, Tesla can "die of success", since it does not have the means to manufacture such a number of vehicles.On the other hand, Tesla has achieved what has never been seen: Dozens of buyers in car dealerships .Then the question is: what are Tesla's secrets? Let's look at some of the reasons that explain this success 1.Opportunity Luck or business vision, the truth is that Elon Musk was right in 2009 when he decided, with a guaranteed loan of 465 million dollars that the US Department of Ene...
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Science confirms: parachutes do not save lives by jumping off a plane

Science has done it again.He has given us an unthinkable headline again.We have to jump off a plane and there are no parachutes.Can we survive? According to the latest study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of California, among others, the parachute does not make a difference.Their data confirms what scientists at the University of Cambridge had already described in 2003. Related But how is it possible? Most readers who have entered this article have been caught by what is now known as a clickbait headline.That is, a headline that induces clicking, but the linked content is not It corresponds exactly to what is advertised.That if, this time, it goes with good intentions. SERIOUSLY DOES PARACAIDES NOT SAVE LIVES? Most of us take it for granted.We have seen it in movies and series.We have read it in fiction novels and they have told us that this is really the case.If it is time to jump from a plane, better grab the closest parachute, but maybe they...
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