Visual journalism · Pablo González
I report, verify, design and code every piece
Twelve pieces on business, economics and technology. The charts are built for each story; they do not come out of a template.
12 pieces · 26 charts and interactives
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Economy · Business
Nobody wanted to buy Netflix, and they had their reasons
Blockbuster could have bought it for $50 million. Yahoo negotiated for Google and walked away from the table. Kodak invented the digital camera and never pushed it. Microsoft laughed at the iPhone. Not one of them was an idiot.
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- 01 Economy · Business−35.4% Casio made itself smaller to survive It has spent fifteen years walking away from businesses: displays, semiconductors, phones, printers and even the consumer digital cameras it invented itself. Now, for the first time since the previous plan, it says it wants to grow again.
- 02 Economy · Business13× Tim Cook: the man who made Apple 13 times bigger (and who nobody took seriously) On 1 September he stopped running Apple. He took it over with revenue of $108 billion a year and left it at $416 billion. This is what he decided, what worked and what did not.
- 03 Economy · Spain19% Three questions about money, and only 19% of Spaniards get all three The cliché is half true: half the country does not have three basic concepts down, and on one of them Spain has gone backwards. They are the same three questions the OECD asks everywhere, so you can take the test yourself.
- 04 Science · Health Three and a half cups a day: 15% lower risk of dying (with two caveats) The big studies of recent years all point the same way: drinking coffee in moderation is linked to a lower risk of dying. Risk, not years of life: none of them measures that. With two caveats almost nobody tells you about.
- 05 Science · Health At last, a drug treats the cause of narcolepsy, not just the symptoms The FDA has approved Orzeyful, the first medicine that restores the signal keeping people with type 1 narcolepsy awake. A target science had been chasing for twenty years.
- 06 Technology · Consumer1 in 5 Your next PC, phone or console costs more because of AI: how the memory crisis reaches you The memory in your next computer, phone or console has doubled in price in a year. This isn’t a passing spike: the cause is artificial intelligence, and it won’t be fixed before 2027 at the earliest.
- 07 Science · Health Red light: what it really does, and what is just marketing Light therapy is in fashion and the lamps sell themselves. The evidence says it works for a few very specific things, and barely at all for almost everything else.
- 08 Economy · International211.4% → 33% Argentina under Milei, without picking a side: what has really improved and what has got worse Inflation has gone from 211.4% to 33% in two years. There is a budget surplus for the first time in more than a decade. And at the same time, poverty stopped falling and utility bills have multiplied. This is what the numbers say, not the narratives built to persuade or to radicalise.
- 09 Economy · Business Apple wants you to rent your next iPhone Apple has launched a US programme to pay for the iPhone —and other devices— by the month, through Klarna. Owning the device turns, step by step, into one more subscription.
- 10 Science · Health Musk has spent years promising to restore sight. A Spanish team already has (and the man who did it urges caution) While Neuralink announces it will cure blindness within six to twelve months, a Spanish team has already made two blind people perceive shapes and letters, and in China the first commercial brain-computer interface has left the laboratory.
- 11 Economy · Business−99.4% The fall of GoPro explained: the mistakes that made the brand disappear from the streets In a decade, the American company went from staging one of the most celebrated tech IPOs of its era to losing 99.4% of its value: from a closing high of $98.47 to $0.60 in August 2026. The story of how a few decisions changed the fate of a company that looked impossible to stop.