Month: March 2025

Five offers to make the most of the orange days of PcComponentes. Mobile, computers, peripherals and more

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During this week we can take advantage of the many offers he has launched (and will launch) pccomponents in his campaign orange days. Every day there are new offersso it is interesting to see what are the novelties offered by the store. Therefore, in this article we have gathered the five best offers that PCComponentes currently has in mobile, computers, peripherals and more. Lenovo loq by 799 eurosa very complete gaming laptop with 32 GB of RAM and graphic RTX 4050. Xiaomi 14t by 499.98 eurosone of Xiaomi’s mobiles with better value for money in its 512 GB version. Logitech G502 Lightspeed by 69.99 eurosa very complete wireless gaming mouse. MSI Cyborg 15 by 859 eurosan interesting gaming laptop with 1 TB of SSD and RTX 4050 graph. Logitech Pack G29 by 265 eurosa pack that includes a steering wheel, pedals and gaming headphones. Lenovo loq One of the best offers of the Oranges days is found on the laptop Lenovo loqa quite complete gaming team for 799 euros (Before 1,014.06 euros) which costs. Mount a 15.6 -inch antirreflective IPS screen that offers a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels and a 144 Hz refreshment rate. On the internal level we have the AMD Ryzen 7000 processor together with 24 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD, its graphics card is a NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4050 And it comes without operating system. * Some price may have changed from the last review Xiaomi 14t He Xiaomi 14t He has not stopped being lowered during the numerous offers of the stores. PCcomponentes currently has one of the best prices in its 512 GB versionsince it stays for only 499.98 euros. Xiaomi’s mobile comes with a very good 6.67 -inch AMOLED screen, offers a 1.5K resolution and a 144 Hz soda rate, its processor is MediaTak Dimensity 8300 Ultra and its cameras are signed by Leica. * Some price may have changed from the last review Logitech G502 Lightspeed He Logitech G502 It is one of the most popular gaming mice, and its Ligthspeed version (wireless) now has one of the best discounts we have seen to date. Pccomponentes has it for 69.99 euros instead of 159 euros, and stands out mainly for its “infinite” wheel, for the possibility of changing weight (Through small weights), for being compatible with the Logitech G Hub software, for autonomy and for being very ergonomic. * Some price may have changed from the last review MSI Cyborg 15 We can also find a good price on the laptop MSI Cyborg 15a gaming equipment with excellent value for money. Right now it is found by 859 euros; Of course, it will only be offer today, since it is a limited offer of the oranges. Mount a 15.6-inch IPS screen that offers a full HD resolution and a 144 Hz refreshment rate, its processor is the raptor Lake I7-13620H, it has 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD, Your graphics card is an RTX 4050 And it comes without operating system. * Some price may have changed from the last review Logitech Pack G29 If you like driving video games and want Logitech Pack G29. Its price is 265 euros and includes a steering wheel Logitech G29 Driving Force with its own pedals and gaming logitech g432. It is worth mentioning that the steering wheel is Compatible with PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | PCComponentes y Buyadicción (header), Lenovo, Xiaomi, Logitech, MSI In Xataka | Best gaming laptops. Which buy and eight computers recommended from 770 to 3,000 euros In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis

Vodafone displays the largest public Wi -Fi network in Spain connecting all Andalusia. Even the Alhambra

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Vodafone and the Junta de Andalucía have announced in the MWC 2025 – and among mutual praise – the implementation of the largest public Wi -Fi network in Spain, connecting 3,100 administrative venues in 700 Andalusian municipalities. The Vuela Plan offers free Internet access for 8 million citizens and public employees through an infrastructure that has required 27,000 access points and 800 km wiring. Why it is important. The network guarantees universal Internet access throughout Andalusia, in view of “overcoming the digital divide” and modernizing public administration. The infrastructure allows any Andalusian to connect to the Internet for free to any of the administrative venues, from small municipalities to hospitals, through historical buildings such as The Alhambrawhere the installation works were extended for almost a year to respect their patrimonial value, according to the announcement of the Teleco. In figures. The project has meant a massive technological deployment that we do not remember precedents in the Spanish public administration. 27,000 Wi -Fi access points. 4,500 concentrators installed. 800 kilometers of wiring. 700 connected municipalities. 82 Coordinated organizations in the deployment. In detail. The plan flies, announced by Antonio SanzDirector of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification of the Junta de Andalucía, Structure connectivity in three different networks that fulfill specific functions according to the type of user. The Vuela network offers public access with safe authentication for citizens. The corporate network connects public employees in the 5,500 headquarters allowing mobility between buildings. The third is dedicated to IoT devices to manage sensors, hospital equipment and asset location. During the presentation, the counselor has talked about increasing the utility for the citizen and “being more agile”, coming to talk about the ability to attract Digital nomads. “No one is left behind.” Between bambalins. The deployment has had to overcome several technical and logistics challenges to respect the characteristics of each space. It has been necessary to adapt the installation to hospitals with strict protocols, remote municipalities or protected historical buildings. The network has a dedicated core that guarantees professional benefits, similar to those of any commercial operator. And now what? The network solves the poor connectivity that affected many administrative buildings, as stated during the presentation, and responds to the demand for a Wi -Fi network. Now citizens will have internet in health centers, libraries and public offices where there was not before. O It was limited to the cable for employees. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | European telecos in front of their existential battle: “If our hands unleashed, we will score goals”

For the first time, a private company has managed to reach the moon successfully. And it has been after resurgence from bankruptcy

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The early morning of March 2, the Blue Ghost ship of Firefly Aerospace fell gently on the lunar surface. It was the First time in history that a private company achieved a completely successful moon landing: in vertical and with the solar panels well -oriented to survive the 14 days that a lunar day lasts. Blue Ghost nailed the moon landing. Preceded by the failures of the Beresheet ships (From the Israeli company Spaceil), Hakuto-R (of the Japanese ispace), Pilgrim (of the American astrobotic) and Odysseus (also American intuitive machines), Blue Ghost landed in a stable position after a descent maneuver designed to dodge rocks and dangerous geographical accidents. The lunar module touched soil in the Mare Crisium region, near the volcanic formation of Mons Latreille. The instruments and sensors on board reported that Blue Ghost was at an optimal angle, and the first images of the shadow projected by the Firefly Aerospace ship showed that it had perched on the lunar surface vertically. A respite for NASA. The historical achievement of the Texana company is also an achievement for NASA, which breathes quiet after the first round of the CLPS program (Commercial Lunar Payload Services), designed to send regular missions to the Moon in commercial ships. Intuitive machines I could achieve the second in a couple of dayswhen its new Nova-C module athens tries to alunize in the South Lunar Pole after Nova-C Odysseus overturns in February 2024. The Ghost Riders. On board the Blue Ghost module of Firefly there is a series of instruments, experiments and technological demonstrators, mainly from NASA, that will drill the soil to collect samples, investigate how the dust rises to mitigate the problems they represent in future lunar missions, and measure the level of radiation and the magnetic activity in the environment. Blue Ghost will display and operate these loads for 14 terrestrial days, equivalent to a lunar day, before the lack of sunlight and the very low temperatures compromise their batteries. An eclipse of earth. Blue Ghost has already given us overwhelming images of the Dawn on the moon or the Planet Earth in the firmament. “We are all in that image,” Firefly engineers recalled during the press conference. But the best will come in the last days of mission. Among the planned mission milestones are the capture in high definition of a total eclipse on March 14, when the earth blocks the sun from the perspective of the ship on the moon, as well as a recording of the lunar twilight on March 16 in which we will see the lunar dust levitating. The Renaissance of Firefly Aerospace. The Firefly feat is especially remarkable taking into account the recent history of the company, marked by a bankruptcy, an internal scandal and a sound change in property. Firefly was saved by the Ukrainian inverter Max Polykovwho invested around 200 million dollars and resurrected the company. However, Polykov was forced by the United States government to sell its majority participation in 2022 for a symbolic price of 1 dollar. And all for geopolitical reasons. Since then, Firefly was under the majority control of the private capital firm AE Industrial Partners. His current CEO is Jason Kim, who assumed the company’s management in October 2024 after his predecessor, Bill Weber, retired from An alleged inappropriate relationship With an employee. Image | Firefly Aerospace In Xataka | In 2011, a collector bought in Morocco a meteorite. It has turned out to be a direct test of thermal water on Mars

“If our hands unleashed, we will score goals”

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The top managers of Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange and Deutsche Telekom have joined forces in the MWC 2025 With a clear message: or Europe allows the consolidation of the European sector or telecos will die slowly against American and Asian giants. A cry of help that intensifies last year’s tone and raises the debate from the business to geopolitical. According to its unanimous message, Europe is trapped in a contradiction that is gradually suffocating its telecommunications sector. While regulators applaud the multitude of operators as a sign of healthy markets, financial figures tell something very different: a fragmented, weakened and unable sector to compete on a global scale. The new president of Telefónica, Marc Murtra, It had already been direct about it in the inaugural session of the Mobile World Congress 2025: “It is time for large European telecommunications companies to consolidate and grow to create technological capacity,” he said a few hours before. And during the CEOs panel of the sector, it was even more graphic: “We operated in a fragmented market, it’s like playing football with a hand tied to the back. If we unleash our hands, we will score a few goals.” From the regret to strategic warning It is not a new theme, but has reached a critical point. The combined stock value of all European telecos has been joining while that of the Americans, such as AT&T, have been growing for years. Meanwhile, giants such as Microsoft, Apple or Alphabet – which use telecommunications networks as highways for their services – exceed them alone the billion dollars of valuation. Long The change in tone is evident to the MWC 2024, when the CEOs of these same telecos also demanded regulatory changes, but With a more focused approach to asking for contributions to Big Tech. This year the speech has hardening and reoriented towards the existential need for consolidation for survivaltransmitting more urgency and appealing directly to European technological sovereignty. The Vodafone CEO, Margherita Della Valle, said it without windows: “Europe needs a new pact, which passes through a European regulatory framework.” And he added that “the time has come to move from Marmota to the European Digital Renaissance,” in allusion to repeated regulatory change requests that make year after year without results. The European regulatory trap European rules have created A perfect trap: They prioritize the immediate benefit for the consumer (low prices) sacrificing the future viability of the sector and its ability to invest. This vision, anchored in ideas of the 90s about competition, ignores that the world has completely changed. Murtra, in his first public act as executive president of Telefónica, has been devastating in his diagnosis: “We must be aware that the excessive fragmentation of European TMT, excess regulation and insufficient profitability of the sector have weighed Europe, which has been technologically lagging behind.” The CEOs of the four major European operators during the panel in the MWC 2025. Image: Telefónica. Tim Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, was the most explicit when putting numbers to the disadvantage: “In the US, the average income per customer is at 42 euros per mobile and 58 euros for the fiber, while in Europe 15 euros are entered for the mobile and 13 euros for the fiber.” And he added a rather revealing fact about the bureaucratization of the sector: “I have told how many regulators served as Deutsche Telekom. Do you know how many? 270 regulators. We have media regulation, cybersecurity, privacy, telecommunications … at the local level and European level.” In the United States, consolidation has left three major national operators that compete with each other, but with enough size to spend massively in infrastructure. In Europe, with 34 main and 351 virtual operators, no company reaches the size necessary to compete globally. Each European country has 3 or 4 average operators, but the problem is another: each operator is usually strong only in some markets. The result is a European industry with tight margins, little investment capacity and a constant drop in its value. Deutsche Telekom has only been able to grow thanks to his American T-Mobile subsidiary. “Today we make 65% of our income in the US,” Höttges revealed, admitting that his company’s solution has been precisely “to fold the bet” in the American market. Consolidation: inevitable but blocked The consolidation of the sector is mathematically inevitable. Technology markets tend naturally towards structures with few actors due to economies of scale. Resisting this only delays the inevitable while weakens everyone. However, European regulators remain firm: in the last five years They have blocked or imposed very hard conditions to almost all important fuses proposals. The operation between O2 and Three in the United Kingdom It was rejectedthe TPG and Vodafone fusion In Australia it took years to approve, and here in Spain we saw how The Orange-Másmobo union only crystallized after concessions that risked their profitability. Della Valle highlighted the British case as an example of what should be: “In the United Kingdom, Vodafone has just launched a massive investment plan to build one of the best networks in the world. 11,000 million invested. Why could we do this? Because we had managed to scale through a fusion.” This resistance comes from European institutional cultureto. The commission has built its reputation as a consumer defender, maintaining seemingly competitive markets, mainly measured by the number of companies competing. Changing this would mean that the policies of the last two decades have been counterproductive. The price of doing nothing The effects are already noticed. Investment in new networks per inhabitant in Europe is much lower than in the United States. European 5G coverage (81%) It is delayed with respect to the American and China (More than 95%). Christel Heydemann, CEO of Orange, has stressed that “today our investors punish us when we invest more. What we want are investments that we know that they will boost scale, and the scale brings a smaller cost for jigwhich means lower prices for consumers and ability to … Read more

Spacex aborted the rocket takeoff for the first time from flight 1, two years ago

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Spacex has aborted the eighth launch of Starship when there was half a minute for takeoff. Although it is a rocket in tests, this type of last minute cancellation had only happened once. A two -year run. The last time Spacex aborted the launch of a starship loaded with propelants was in April 2023. A frozen valve in Booster 7 frustrated the first attempt to launch the rocket. Almost two years have passed and now both Booster 15 and Starship 34 have given problems. The company stopped the countdown to take off of flight 8 while checking both stages of the rocket. For a moment, the clock worked again and it seemed that Spacex had solved all the setbacks, but seconds later it ended up aborting the takeoff. “Too many unknowns.” As usual, Elon Musk has been the first to offer details of what was happening between scenes. “Too many question signs around this flight”, wrote. “We were 20 bars below the required pressure level.” Musk mentioned the “Ground Spin Start Pressure”, which is the necessary pressure in the gas that is injected into engines so that the turbine turbine turns quickly enough to generate complete combustion and turn on. The next attempt. “The Starship team is determining the next best opportunity available to fly,” Spacex published After the interruptus launch. It will need to disapprove both stages of the rocket and examine them, Musk said, so the company will take one to two days to try again. In 2023, the company took 48 hours to have its facilities for a second attempt. 4,900 tons of propellants. That is the monstrous amount of methane and liquid oxygen that fits in a starship. Spacex will have to replenish the propellants in their tanks farm for a new launch attempt, which normally implies a truck parade towards the platform. First Starship from Florida in 2025. Although there has been no launch, Spacex has had time to announce a new Starships factory at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gigabay will have 24 work areas and cranes of 400 tons larger than Starbase. It is expected to be operational in 2026. While building these new facilities, Spacex will transport Texas Starships to Florida and wait for the first launch of the rocket from Florida in 2025, provided that the Government approves its environmental review.

LaLiga IPS blockages are based on a mysterious judicial sentence. Rootedcon is trying to legally cancel it

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The War between LaLiga and Cloudflare The IPS blockages ordered by LaLiga to fight against illegal soccer matches leave thousands of websites, but for a few days there are an effort specifically aimed at trying to end the problem. Rootcon against the sentence in which LaLiga is shield. Those responsible for Rootedcon They organized two weeks ago an initiative to collect data and testimonies of those affected. These are companies or people who have seen how their websites – totally legitimate – have been harmed and have ceased to be temporarily accessible during those IPS blockages. That may also have caused economic losses, but the situation persists without being a solution on the horizon. Legal Arthimañas. That is precisely what Rootedcon is trying to do, which has announced that he has raised: “An incident of nullity in the Commercial Court number 6 of Barcelona, ​​against Judgment No. 310/2024, dated December 18, 2024, achieved through legal arthingswhich is used by the League to force operators to block and restrict Internet access in their fight against “piracy” at the request of the football company. This ruling, and the way in which it is being used, violates fundamental rights and limits free access to information, a right that we consider unnegotiable. “ Request for nullity for the sentence. In Xataka we have contacted those responsible for Rootedcon, who have explained that this process is not a legal lawsuit as such, but a petition so that this sentence on which LaLiga is supported is annulled. This sentence has been difficult to locate, and according to rootedcon it should be annulled by violating fundamental rights. There is damage to third parties. As we already explained, the procedures in which LaLiga is shielded They are debatable at the legal levelespecially because the Article 21 of the Civil Procedure Law (LEC). According to this text, the search should be rejected when it involves damage to third parties not demanded in the procedure. Here many affected have not demanded have been –all economically harmed companies and individuals-, but still the measures (the IPS blocks) have been executed anyway. Defense of Freedom of Expression. For rooted with this conflict is being used “to justify actions that limit access to content in the network” and that constitutes “an injustice against freedoms of expression and information.” As they explain in their communication, this blockade “is massive and not only affects the assumptions cybercriminals, but economically impacts the activity of many organizations and companies.” There are currently more than 140,000 websites using Cloudflare services. Not everyone has been affected by the cuts, but of course a part of them. Source: Builtwith. About 140,000 affected potentials. An analysis of the IPS blocked in Cloudflare shows how these IPS are being shared at the moment For more than 140,000 websites. Not everyone is inaccessible, of course: it depends on the services that these websites have hired with this company. However, in that list are all kinds of companies: from the media (El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, RTVE) to large companies such as Carrefour, Decathlon, Idealist or Pccomponent) and of course websites of more modest projects that are also losing business opportunities for those blockages. And among them, football team websites. Ironically, lalaiga -instructed locks They are also affecting to the websites of First Division equipment. A systems administrator called Jaume Pons has been tracking these blockages for some time and last weekend he warned how the Girona FC online store It was inaccessibleas had also happened to the Valencia CF website either To Kelmesponsor of the Spanish RCD. The legal battle continues. Blocks too. The situation remains worrying for users and companies that legitimately use Internet services in our country. They have become involuntary victims of a Legal battle between LaLiga and Cloudflare that at the moment does not seem to have a solution. The latter began legal actions against LaLigabut there have been no changes in the way of acting of LaLiga, which continues to order these blockages and affect thousands and thousands of users. Image | Madrid athletic In Xataka | This is how Ech works, the Technological Shield of Cloudflare that has put the operators between the sword and the wall

NEW ZTE NUBIA NEO 3 GT 5G, Features, Price and Technical Card

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The last family games smartphones cloud neo de zte They have arrived in Spain. And his new flagship model will also do so. This Chinese manufacturer has taken advantage of the Mobile World Congress celebration to publicize the cloud neo 3 gt 5ga mobile designed from scratch to convince players that, as we are about to check, has some very interesting characteristics. I propose that we start taking a look at your screen. ZTE engineers have opted for a 6.8 -inch OLED panel that is capable of working at a maximum refreshment frequency of 120 Hz. In principle this cadence fits well with the needs of the players, so nothing to object to here. Its resolution is 2,392 x 1,080 points. In any case, so far we have only scratched the surface. In the most interesting of this mobile we have not yet investigated. Zte cloud neo 3 gt 5g: technical specifications Zte cloud neo 3 gt 5g screen 6.8 -inch OLED with a maximum soda of 120 Hz resolution 2,392 x 1,080 points Soc Unisoc T9100 main memory Up to 24 GB of dynamic RAM storage 256 GB Main Chamber 50 Megapixels Improved with Neovision ai Photography sound Stereo DTS: X ultra battery 6,000 mAh fast charge 80 watts price From 349 euros ZTE has worked in the cooling of this mobile for games We are going with your soc. The chip integrated in this smartphone is a unisoc T9100. Agglutina Eight Arm nuclei with the following configuration: 1 x Cortex-A76 to 2.7 GHz, 3 x Cortex-A76 to 2.3 GHz and 4 x Cortex-A55 to 2.1 GHz. The nuclei of the latter cluster are high efficiency and the remaining four high performance. On the other hand, the integrated memory controller is compatible with LPDDR4/4x chips of up to 2,133 MHz. And graphic logic, which in a mobile like this is very important, is an ARM Mali-G57 with four nuclei at 850 MHz. ZTE engineers have put a multicapa heat dissipation system As we indicated in the specifications table, the main memory can be extended taking a portion of the secondary storage system up to 24 GB. On the other hand, games are one of the most demanding apps with hardware. In fact, they usually keep the GPU and several CPU nuclei working at the maximum clock frequency during long -time periods. This scenario has caused ZTE engineers to have a multicapa heat dissipation system capable of maintaining both the SOC and memory always below its maximum temperature threshold. We will check it if the opportunity to analyze this smartphone is presented. In this detail photograph we can see the game trigger housed next to one of the corners of the frame. Although it is not seen in the image, at the lower end there is another identical trigger. Although this device has not been designed to attract attention to photography enthusiasts, its main camera does not look bad. At least on paper. And it incorporates A 50 megapixel sensor that works side by side with a processing algorithm by means of artificial intelligence (AI). Zte, as expected, has not forgotten the sound. This mobile incorporates two speakers, although it is capable of processing audio DTS: X ultra. Before concluding it is worth it that we stop for a moment on your battery. It proposes one with a capacity of 6,000 mAh and a fast charging system of 80 watts. It doesn’t look bad. ZTE NUBIA NEO 3 GT 5G: Price and availability ZTE has confirmed that this smartphone for players will arrive in Spain during the month of April with a starting price of 349 euros. In Xataka | Nubia Z70 Ultra, Analysis: I came by the power and I stayed for the multimedia experience

The worst nightmare of the Atlantic Alliance is more than an investment issue

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That Donald Trump is not a NATO enthusiast is nothing new. He already showed him during His first mandatewhen he slid the possibility that the US took a step back in the Atlantic Alliance, and has underlined it several times since then, like candidate and elected president. But as the relationship It is tense With Europe and within its own team Voices are raised in favor of Washington to break with the Treaty of 1949a question arises, increasingly stronger: what would happen if the US is detached from NATO? To answer it, you need to review a little recent history, geostrategy … and also mathematics. An NATO without the US? Only the fact that The question this On the table It is already significant. Especially since the clouds that overshadow the future of the US in NATO do not arise from speculation or rumors, but from comments from high positions of Washington, including Trump himself, who in December, still as elected president, He complained that the Atlantic Alliance is “taking advantage of the US.” “They take advantage of us in trade, our cars or our foods are not taken. They do not wear anything. It’s a shame. And we defend them, so the blow is double,” Trump charged during An interview In NBC News. And when the journalist asked him if she would consider excluding NATO US in case she concludes that her treatment towards the US is not “fair,” repliedresounding: “Yes, of course.” The continuity in the alliance, he stressed, is conditioned to the whole of its members “pay their bills.” A background rumor. It was not the first time that there was talk of NATO’s departure. It hasn’t been the last. Six years ago The New York Times public that in 2018 Trump already threatened with the withdrawal of NATO. And that was during his first term. The second has started just a month And it is already marked by distancing between Washington and some of its historical allies, such as Canada or the EU. The clearest (and graphic) test was the negotiating table created by the US and Russia to end the Ukraine War without reserving a seat for Ukraine or the Union. The trend seems to also go in Crescendo, without visos that it will break. In the last days We have seen Europe closing rows Around Ukraine, Trump and Zelenski showing Prime Time Your total lack of harmony Already Elon Musk, Trump’s great ally, Chairing the debate on the output of the US USA. Yesterday the businessman shared a tweet that he said “it’s time to leave NATO and UN” next to the next harvest message: “I Agree”. An NATO without the US? The same question of the principle, but with a different sense, that of viability: Is a NATO with Washington in profile or in which the US directly step back? A few days ago, during An interview In the BBC, the NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, asked if the rest of the allies could replace the US hole in case he withdraws his military support from Ukraine, his response was revealing: that scenario is not raised. Click on the image to go to Tweet. A “100%risk”. After insisting that the US “wants to bring Ukraine to a lasting peace”, the high position of NATO slid: “We go beyond this issue. It is crucial that we all remain together in this: USA, Ukraine, Europe, that we take Ukraine to Peace. That is exactly why Trump struggles, so we all fight.” Zelenski, who It has been ambitioning for some time The adhesion of your country to NATO, a perspective that seems farther today, after contacts between Moscow and Washington, is even clearer. In Another talk Recent with journalists, he warned of the consequences that Trump would have to step back in NATO, not only for his country, but for the whole of the continent: “The risk of Russia from occupying Europe is one hundred percent if the United States withdraws from NATO.” Weight question. The key is the weight that Washington has in NATO. The agency’s estimates by 2024 provided that the US be The third country of the alliance that higher percentage of its GDP allocated to defense, 3.4%, only behind Poland and Estonia. Washington’s commitments go beyond the North Atlantic Treaty and given the size of its economy, it is estimated that US defense spending represents near two thirds of NATO total. As for costs, the body applies A cast Based on national income and the US stands out again as one of the greatest taxpayers, with almost 16%, like Germany. The United Kingdom is in third place with 11% and France occupies fourth place, with just over 10%. Of percentages to dollars. World Population Review has created A map in which the contribution of each country attached to NATO in 2023 is even more graphic, both in the percentage of GDP and in funds dedicated to investment in defense. The US stands out with 3.49% and 860,000 million of dollars, well above From the second country, Germany. As a picture is worth a thousand words, it is good to take a look at the graphic prepared in 2024 by Visual Capitalist to understand the weight of US investment in defense compared to the other 31 countries of the Alliance. The other approach. It matters what the United States contributes, but it also matters to what extent the rest of the countries attached to NATO contribute. Trump has already publicly demanded the rest of the nations that raise their contribution until reaching 5% of his GDP, even above what the US himself allocates. And he does not seem willing to change his strategy. “I told the countries ‘I will not protect them unless you pay,’ and they started paying. That amounted to more than 600,000 million dollars,” He presumed In December. The 5% barrier is well above the 2% that NATO itself has been marked, the latter percentage that probably not to … Read more

The second opportunity of the flight that exploded in the last attempt

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The highest rocket in the world will take off again after some Unexpected vibrations made it explode during the seventh launch. Starship’s eighth flight will be a repetition of the previous one to try everything Spacex left in the inkwell, and can be followed live. Date and time of launch. Like the two previous flights, the eighth Starship launch It is scheduled to take off from Texas in the afternoon. The objective is that the reentry of the ship takes place in the hours of dawn to capture with more light the sparkling maneuvers. The launch window opens at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 3; local time in Starbase, Texas. In other cities: Madrid, Spain (CET, UTC+1): Tuesday, March 4 at 00:30 Mexico City, Mexico (CST, UTC -6): Monday, March 3 at 5:30 p.m. Buenos Aires, Argentina (Art, UTC -3): Monday, March 3 at 8:30 p.m. Bogotá, Colombia (COT, UTC -5): Monday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. Lima, Peru (Pet, UTC -5): Monday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. Santiago, Chile (CLST, UTC -3): Monday, March 3 at 8:30 p.m. Caracas, Venezuela (Vet, UTC -4): Monday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. How to see it live. Spacex will broadcast live flight Through its website and his Official X Profile. The broadcast will begin 40 minutes before takeoff. On YouTube, the channels of Nasaspaceflight, Lab Padre and Everyday Astronaut They have also enabled live broadcasts with their own cameras since the surroundings of the launch platform. In Spanish it will broadcast it Space borderoverlooking Baghdad, on the other side of the border, in Mexico. They will also be narrating it in Spanish Mission control, Manuel Mazzanti and Spacexstorm. Two pending demonstrations. A “stronger harmonic resonance phenomenon” phenomenon caused a liquid oxygen escape in the flight 7 starship, which ended up disintegrating over the Atlantic Ocean, near the Turkish and Caicos Islands. As a repetition of the failed launch, Spacex hopes to complete a series of demonstrations that were left without doing in January: First load deployment: Once the scheduled speed and altitude have been reached, the Starship 34 will turn off its engines, open the gate of its load bay and display four “simulators” of Starlink satellites; wooden models that will be your first useful letter New re -obsolete in space: Spacex first demonstrated in the sixth flight the ability to readele a raptor engine in the emptiness of the space, today it will verify the behavior of the engine before the ninth flight, where it will be crucial to redeem the ship to extend it in a controlled way All eyes put in the reentry. More delicate will be the time of the atmospheric reentry. This could be the Starship’s last ametering before trying to catch the ship With the arms of the launch tower, as has already happened twice with the Super Heavy propeller. However, Spacex still does not have a definitive design for the thermal shield, so it will test different modifications on this flight. Areas of the ship without thermal tiles to measure how the heat fuselage endures the heat. Metal tiles of various kinds, even with active refrigeration, an addition that had been discarded Because of its complexity and is on the table again. New sensors, redesigned front alerons, improvements in propulsion subsystems and a more precise adjustment of the edges between tiles to avoid hot points complete the list of novelties of the ship. Starship 34 is the second ship of a new version that Spacex calls Starship Block 2and that more than 100 tons of load will be able to launch at orbit. In Xataka | Spacex already knows why the last starship exploded and wants to turn the page, so he will try to repeat the flight this Friday

The first commercial biological computer in the world

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The Mobile World Congress edition that is being held this week in Barcelona is full of smartphones, tablets and other devices with which users are familiar. However, too We are holding some surprises. The team that stars this article is possibly the most exotic device of this fair. It is, neither more nor less, than the first Biological computer commercially available, and has been developed by Cortical Labs, an Australian biotechnology company. Biological computing is a branch of computer science that studies, on the one hand, how we can use elements of a biological nature to process and store information. And, on the other hand, how we can inspire ourselves in the mechanisms of biological evolution to develop new algorithms that allow us to solve complex problems. If we stick to the hardware this discipline resorts to molecules derived from biological systems, such as proteins or DNA, to carry out calculations, store and recover the information. And if we enter the field of software, in particular in the artificial intelligence (AI), biological computing proposes to address some computer problems inspired by the strategy used by biology to solve some challenges. In any case, the CL1 computer, which is the biological machine that has put the team of Cortical Labs researchers ready, is framed in the biological computing branch that seeks to develop new hardware trained to process and store information. CL1 is a dream come true This sophisticated computer has been possible thanks to a large extent to the advances that have occurred in recent years in the field of Nanobiotechnology. The most precise definition of this discipline, and also the most accepted by scientists, describes it as the technology that allows us to accurately manipulate proteins to assemble more complex functional structures. The first biological computers for research had the ability to carry out calculations manipulating the RNA (ribonucleic acid) of a bacteria. In broad strokes what scientists have done so far to develop these machines was to take advantage that DNA molecules behave in the same way as a digital circuit to implement with them The same logical operations that conventional silicon processors carry out. This manipulation of DNA is possible, precisely, thanks to the advances experienced by nanobiotechnology in recent years. DNA manipulation is possible thanks to the advances experienced by nanobiotechnology in recent years Once the biological circuit was prepared, they introduced it into a coli Escherichia bacterium identical to those residing inside our stomach and intestine, and without which we could not carry out the correct digestion of food. The E. coli bacteria is simple and innocuous enough so that researchers can manipulate it effortlessly, and when manipulated DNA crosses the bacteria cell wall, the molecular machine of the cell itself translates it into a messenger RNA (MRNA). The interesting thing is that this RNM indicates to the ribosome of the cell what to do to synthesize a protein preferred by researchers. Ribosomes are the organelles or components of the cells that are responsible for the synthesis or manufacture of proteins. And now comes the most surprising: the RNM that tells the ribosome how to manufacture the protein It is only activated in the presence of a specific entryand when it does trigger the production of the protein, which is the exit. This behavior is exactly the same as a transistor. CL1, the biological computer of Cortical Labs, does not work exactly so, but the strategy in which we have just investigated is useful to understand how it works. And it does so thanks to the cultivation of real neurons in a nutrient -rich solution that allows them to grow healthy on a silicon chip that sends and receives electrical impulses. However, not everything is hardware in this machine. The person responsible for interacting directly with neurons is a biological intelligence operating system called ‘BIOS’ And it is that responsible for interacting directly with neurons is a biological intelligence operating system called ‘Bios’ (Biological Intelligence Operating System) that has been developed by Cortical Labs. This software sends information directly to neurons about its surroundings, and the latter react emitting electrical impulses. In any case, the most important thing is that CL1 neurons are programmable, and, therefore, it is possible to display code on them. However, this machine is not intended for a domestic use scenario. Its purpose is to be used by researchers to, for example, better understand how neurons process information without experimenting with animals. It can even help neuroscientific to understand how learning works in real time or the mechanisms that trigger some neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, props, the consumption of CL1 is much more restrained than that of a conventional computer. It sounds good, right? Image | Cortical Labs More information | Cortical Labs In Xataka | We already know at what speed our brain processes: just 10 bits per second

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