Month: April 2025

Price increases on all products

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The penultimate week of April seemed to start with some more calm in relation to the Commercial War Between the United States and China. Nothing is further from reality. DHL Express has announced A temporary suspension of all shipments of more than $ 800 to US consumers (whatever the country from which it is sent). It is the Geopolitical context Perfect for a plan that two of the great Chinese giants of electronic commerce, Shein and Temu, materialize a plan they had before even the entry into force of the tariffs: up the price. DHL suspend shipments. DHL will suspend all deliveries worth more than $ 800 in the United States from Monday and “until new notice.” According to the company, the change in its deliveries policy responds to much more strict customs controls. Although the measure arrives in full context of commercial war and tariff changes, the end of the exception of the “minimis” carries Since the beginning of the year, and giants like Shein and Temu prepared to move card. The “minimis”. MINI What? That DHL has suspended shipments according to this concrete figure is not something arbitrary. For years, trade between China and the United States has benefited from an exception coined to the Latin term “minimis”. This expression refers to all those packages with a value below $ 800. This type of low -cost parcels could enter the United States free of taxes, a mechanism that platforms such as Temu or Shein have been taking advantage of for years to offer especially low prices on their platforms. The position of Shein and Temu. The new Trump measurement package ends the minimis, closing the legal back door that both companies used. Both Shein and Temu have sent a statement to their users with a practically identical message: Prices will rise. “Due to recent changes in global trade standards and rates, our operating expenses have risen. To continue offering the products that you love without compromising quality, we will make a price adjustment as of April 25, 2025. Until April 25, prices will remain the same, so you can buy today at today’s rates. We have replaced existers and we are ready to ensure that your orders come without problems during this time. We are doing everything possible to maintain low prices and minimize the impact on you. Our team is working very hard to improve efficiency and stay faithful to our mission: make fashion accessible to all. “ May 2. Both Temu and Shein will raise prices as of April 25, but the key date at the legal level is May 2. This is the day in which the exemption of customs rights (minimis) is eliminated for shipments worth less than $ 800. If this is added to this that every product imported from China is subject to a tariff of more than 100%, the price increase was simply inevitable. What can we expect outside the United States. Although Shein and Temu are going to be especially beaten in the United States, we can expect a direct impact (to a lesser extent, yes) worldwide. Global operating costs will cause a generalized increase in logistics costsand it is not ruled out to compensate for this possible reduction in margins and sales in the United States through increases in the rest of markets. Image | Daniel Torok In Xataka | Before panic for US tariffs there are technological ones doing something uncommon: product collection

The Canary Islands have seven islands, but only one has escaped from the hordes of tourists. His secret is on earth, literally

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The Canarian archipelago is officially seven islands: Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro. In addition, we have four islets and a series of Roques (next to a centenary dispute for tiny lands, although that It is another story). The curious thing about the islands is that almost all, to a greater or lesser extent, have ended under the influence of mass tourism. With the exception of one, whose nature gave an “advantage” over the rest: iron. Shine without looking for it. Ironthe smallest, western, less visited and better preserved from all the Canary Islands, has begun to attract the attention of a time to this part, although surely, despite many stores. First was the Netflix series Iron in 2019 the one that put it on the audiovisual map. Later, during the pandemic, he once again occupied headlines in half the world. The reasons: to be one of the first territories of Spain in get out of confinement In June 2020, and for having registered alone A COVID-19 case during the health crisis. Thus came the international recommendations that placed it between the Best destinations in Europe In 2021, but the island continues as is, it has barely changed its leisurely way of life, or its resistance to the transformations that did shape the rest of the archipelago in recent decades. His secret is a paradox: What does not have He does it more strong to the hordes. The island of “No”. The peculiarity of the island resides in what it has decided Do not have: Without chain hotels, without tourist complexes, without elevators or buildings of more than two floors, the island also does not have extensive beaches, although it possesses A network of puddles (natural pools) of an incomparable beauty. Here its geography is key, since reaching it outside the archipelago already implies at least two journeys (by plane, via Tenerife or Gran Canaria, or in Ferry, via Tenerife), since there are no direct international flights or maritime connections from the peninsula or abroad. With just 11,000 inhabitants And a surface that is equivalent to half of Ibiza, the traffic is very small and the sensation remains to be in a territory where modernity has barely touched essential things. And yet, since 2018, iron almost completely self-abused with renewable energies, thanks to its hydro-eolic power plant Gorona del Vientoconsolidating itself as a world reference in sustainability. Indomitable nature. While the major islands of the Canarian archipelago face a growing social resistance to the Mass tourismIron has deliberately adopted a radically different model. Instead of joining the urbanization spiral, direct flights and mass tourism, the island has opted for a strategy of leisurely growthintegral sustainability and an intimate bond with nature. Arising from the ocean 1.2 million years ago For violent underwater eruptions, the island displays an abrupt and wild geography where impressive cliffs, volcanic boilers and dense laurisilva forests coexist with undulating meadows, centenary pine forests and abrupt black rock costs that make it a paradise for hiking, contemplation and, ultimately, an unstable instance. To get an idea, in 2023 Just 20,300 visitors They arrived on the island (in contrast to the more than 6.5 million that Tenerife receivedFor example). Sabinar Tourism to last. There is more, of course. As we said before, since 1997, iron develops an ambitious Sustainable Development Plan which has oriented its tourist model towards a way of traveling with limited impact, focused on the valuation of the natural environment and local culture. They have been created Seven Visitors and Museums CentersInfrastructure has been improved without breaking the landscape balance (the first asphalted road came in 1962 and even today there is only one traffic light), and activities that privilege contact with the environment have been encouraged. In this regard, Davinia Suárez Armas, insular director of Tourism and Transportation, summed up the BBC The spirit of the island: grow without deteriorating the quality of life of residents or compromising their natural resources. In fact, it is possible to travel in less than an hour from the warm coast of the South to the Capital of Valverdecrossing microclimates ranging from arid plains to humid fog forests, where more than a hundred endemic species thrive, including criticism El Hierro giant lizardwhich motivated the entire island to be declared Biosphere Reserve in 2000 and Geoparque in 2014 for Unesco. Resistance symbols. Among closed curves, volcanic landscapes and pastures whipped by the wind, it appears The pasturewhere the most famous trees of the enclave grow: the Sabinares twisted for centuries of Alisios winds, turned into living symbols of the Herreña resistance. In that sense, self -sufficiency has been part of the island DNA since the arrival of The bimbachesBerber people settled around 120. Without rivers or natural lakes, they learned to collect water from the fog, especially from legendary tree Garoéwhose location is traveled today through the Water route. Plus: this 16 -kilometer circular path San Andrés connectsthe tallest town on the island, with deposits, aljibes and remains of primitive hydraulic technologies, all witnesses of a history marked by water scarcity and migratory waves, especially towards Venezuela. The Virgin Downfour -year party dedicated to the Virgen de los Reyes (who, according to tradition, ended the Great drought from 1741), keeps that spiritual legacy that mixes need and faith alive. Self -sufficiency. In 2014, the island opened Gorona del Vientothe pioneer central that combines wind and hydraulic energy thanks to its privileged geography. The system pumps desalted water from a coastal deposit to a volcanic boiler at 700 meters of altitude when there is a surplus of wind, and releases that flow in times without wind to generate electricity with hydraulic turbines. In August 2015, he first managed to supply the entire island for four hours. In 2024, he beat a global record: 24 consecutive days operating exclusively with clean energy, which avoided the emission of 13,708 tons of CO₂ and the consumption of more than 4,500 tons of diesel. Yet, Climate change … Read more

Vestager stopped the mergers but Ribera wants to bless them. Europe plays its last letter in telecos

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Two months have passed since Financial Times He advanced, on the eve of MWC 2025the plan of the new European Competition Commissioner, Teresa Ribera, to rewrite the rules of the game. That short period has been enough to certify that Ribera does not look like much Margrethe Vestager. Or at least he wants to evolve his legacy not only to continue it. Where the Danish saw concentration, the Spanish sees competitive muscle. Vestager raised the low price dogma to legislative totem. Ribera, in his first three months in office, added three axes: Innovation. Reinvestment. And environmental and social criteria. He has also made it clear that the price will no longer be the only Lighthouse in Brussels. The underlying message: a company that breathes can think about the future. An asphyxiated, no. Why is it important. This year’s MWC was the one chosen by European telecos to close ranks and launch a joint proclamation: consolidation or inconsequence. Europe has 34 operators for 450 million citizens. The United States has 3 operators for 335 million. The stock market value of telecos in Europe has fallen 40% since 2015 with a slight recovery in recent months. Without scale it is difficult for investments to arrive for the 5g Stand-Alonethe universal fiber or the AI ​​at the network level. European digital sovereignty is settled on mud. And Ribera lands coinciding with the Clean Industrial Deal and the Draghi report claiming “continental champions” capable of standing face and Chinese. He Timing It couldn’t be better for those who want to move. The name. Marc Murtra, about to fulfill his symbolic first hundred days in front of Telefónica, has smelled the blood: Everything is ready to go to sign smaller fish if Brussels open the window. And Ribera is in it. What is cooked. Three keys: Domestic consolidation. Each country could go from four or five large networks to two or three. The reason: Relieve Capex duplicities. Cross -border mergers. The real objective. The union Telefónica-Vodafone He has put on the table again. AND Digi Figure as tactical piece. Repricing stock market. With a regulator predisposed to bless size and investment, telecos could sell a growth story, not just survival. Narrator’s voice: Investors love growth stories and flee from survival. Between the lines. Ribera speaks of “being able to reinvest” and “lead green standards.” Translated from Bruslense: Yes to the scale, but with environmental and social counterparts. The turn fits with the new Brussels compass: Geoeconomy over dogma Low Cost. And the clock runs: Nvidia, Openai or Tesla will not wait for Europe to decide how much their cables cost. The next. If Ribera converts the words into an official guide before summer, 2025 could close with the first large paneurpeo marriage of the decade. And with the definitive confirmation that the Vestager era – define the competition only for the price of the minute – already belongs to the history books. In Xataka | 100 years after his birth, Telefónica faces the greatest existential dilemma in its history: what wants to be older Outstanding image | European Commission, Xataka

How to prevent Instagram from using your data to train goal AI

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Let’s explain How to prevent Instagram from using your data To train Goal AIits artificial intelligence assistant. This is that blue circle icon that has appeared and that we cannot remove, and in addition to that the social network will start using your data to improve it. Instagram will use Your publications, your photos, your personal tastes and even your private messages (except if you are under 18) to train your artificial intelligence model. This will be activated by default, but not to inflict the laws, an option is hidden in its configuration to tell you that you do not want you to use your data. Prevents Instagram from using your data to train your AI The first thing you have to do is enter the Instagram configuration by clicking on the three -stripes icon. Once within the menu of Configuration and activitygo down to the whole, and click on the option Information What do you have within the section More information and help. This will take you to the information options screen. In it, click on the option Privacy Policy That you have in second place. This will take you to a screen where many things about privacy on Instagram will be explained. In it, click on the link Oppose you which will appear highlighted within the text. This will take you to a page where you have an explanation of the information used to train ai ai. Here, Below you have a form With a writing field where you have to follow the steps to indicate how data processing affects you and why you do not want to allow them to be used. There is a good alternativeand that is that the Citizen8 group has created this website. In it, you have two links to which An email and its text are generated To ask Facebook or Instagram not to collect your data. You just have to make sure to send it with the email account with which you have the record with them and voila. In Xataka Basics | Artificial Intelligence Guide: Main characteristics of the main models of AI, points for and against, and comparative

European banks have already defined their plan to depend less on Visa and Mastercard

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Bizum It is a sensational tool for online payments in Spain, but it has a problem: it is not international. Or at least not much. International online payments in the European Union depend largely on two big names: Visa and Mastercard. There is no European system Made in Europe that allows the rapid shipping of money, but it is something that the European payments initiative (EPI) wants to solve. His proposal already has a name, Wero, and his plan is as follows. Context. The European Payment Initiative It was founded in 2020 by 16 banking entities such as BBVA, Santander, Deustche Bank, Grupo ING, Unicredit and BNP Paribas. Its objective is to create a payment system and a European interbank network or what is the same, a platform capable of competing against Visa, Mastercard or PayPal. These are of American origin, so the idea of ​​EPI is to promote the independence and sovereignty of payments. For members “it is no longer a future project, but a need facing all European countries,” as they have exposed in a letter. The problem. That there are many local solutions, but none at European level made in Europe. For example, if we think of payments and money shipments between individuals in Spain and Andorra we have Bizum, but in Italy they have Bancomat, in Portugal they use MB Way, in Sweden it has Swish, in Switzerland they use twint and in other places, such as Germany and Austria, the use of PayPal It is widespread. The proposal of EPI with Wero is “to respond to this challenge through a unique payment solution, all in one, instantaneous and paneuropea, capable of covering over time all cases of payment use that consumers and professionals require.” A second, Wero? That is the name that this “European bizum” received in September 2023. It makes a certain sense: the word consists of “We” (us) and has similar pronunciation to “euro.” In addition, he approaches the word “Vero”, which is “truth” in Latin. He threw himself First in Germany Back in July last year, in France in September and in Belgium in November. Wero is integrated into the banks of the banks, so the experience is, for all purposes, nailed to Bizum’s. Image | Wero And what does it propose? According to exposes the EPI“A unique, safe and avant -garde paneurpea payment platform, with multipurparacities, which can work in all European markets for local and cross -border transactions.” That is, a kind of visa and bizum of Europe for Europe. Although it is not well known yet, Wero has the endorsement of the European Commission and 40 million registered users. In addition, it is already fully functional in both P2P and P2Pro transactions (individuals to companies). However, the reality is that the deployment is being slow. It is normal to be a project of these characteristics, however. For summer of 2025, the EPI plans to launch the payments in electronic commerce in Germany and Belgium to later do so in France and the Netherlands “laying the bases and test points for a viable European solution.” At the end of 2026, EPI intends to add the omnicanal payments, payments at the point of sale or in stores and invoices payments. The idea is to use QR codes and NFC technology. Bizum is international. The efforts are there and Wero is promising. However, and as far as Spain is concerned, it should be noted that Bizum has been international for just a few weeks. At the beginning of the month, Bizum confirmed that it was going to be integrated with Bancomat and MB Way, the payment solutions of Italy and Portugal, respectively. Banco Santander, Abanca and OpenBank already support international shipments. Caixabank, BBVA and Banco Sabadell will do it soon. Cover image | Wero

It cannot guarantee that their avant -garde chips will not arrive in China

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TSMC faces a crossroads. At the current situation of tension between the US and China this Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer, The Major on the Planethe has chosen to develop drastically Your production infrastructure In the country led by Donald Trump. This strategy will allow you dodge future tariffs which presumably will apply to the integrated circuits produced abroad. However, this is not all. In addition, having more manufacturing plants and more advanced packaging centers in the US will allow TSMC to better protect your business if in the future it is triggered A war conflict between China and Taiwan. In these circumstances it is evident that the company led by CC Wei is interested in sustaining an affable relationship with the US. However, their ties are currently committed because of the integrated circuits manufactured by TSMC that are arriving in China. TSMC has been sincere with the US This semiconductor manufacturer is subject to an investigation by the US Department of Commerce Since October 2024. The organization that then led Gina Raimondo suspected that this company could have secretly reached agreements with Huawei to take care of the manufacture of its semiconductors for smartphones and applications of artificial intelligence (AI). In December 2024 TSMC broke its commercial relationship with Powerair, a Singapore company that, apparently, was responsible for delivering to Huawei the chip manufactured by TSMC that appeared on the card for the Ascend 910b. Interestingly, this was the second company presumably responsible for getting to Huawei Integrated circuits produced by TSMC. In 2023 this last company stopped offering its manufacturing service to the Chinese Chips Design Company Sophgo to illegally mediate with Huawei. TSMC could receive a fine of one billion dollars, or even more, from the US Department of Commerce However, their problems did not end here. At the beginning of last March the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies), An American organization that is dedicated to elaborating strategies that seek to guarantee the security of the US, accused TSMC having manufactured indirectly for Huawei for 2024 no less than two million chips of the Ascend 910. With these integrated circuits this Chinese company could have produced a huge amount of units of its ascend 910c solution, which is currently its hardware for the most advanced. As we explain in early April, TSMC could receive a fine of one billion dollars, or even more, of the Department of Commerce. US regulation establishes that in this context the sanction can ascend twice the value of the transactions that have violated export restrictionswhat could place this fine as one of the highest in history for this type of infraction. TSMC has recently published its last annual report and has not let out the opportunity to explain to the US Administration What is your position in this conflict: “Our role in the semiconductor supply chain inherently limits our visibility and the information we have about the final use or the end user of the products that incorporate chips manufactured by us. This limitation hinders our ability to fully guarantee that the semiconductors we produce are not diverted to an endless use or user avoid controls. ” It is likely that the US responds to this TSMC statement very soon. We will keep you aware of everything. Image | TSMC More information | TSMC In Xataka | The US tariffs are already hurting two of the companies that support Taiwan’s economy: TSMC and Foxconn

Buy the new Renault 5 Turbo Electric or a Porsche 911

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He RENAULT 5 TURBO 3E It already has a market exit. The most radical electric version of the small French car promises to be a before and after in a category that is still to be developed: that of the sports electric car. He will do it with figures that scare but are up to what he promises. Because if you were thinking about picking up the phone and reserving one of the 1,980 units that Renault will put on sale, you should know that the deadline has already been opened. The price to be paid: 50,000 euros. With that payment you will have preference to one of the first 500 units that are put in the market and, in addition, a special price: 155,000 euros. As Renault has revealed, those interested will have to fill out a form On this website. It is requested that a specific dealership be selected and, later, it will be the brand that is responsible for contacting the client. Once this first procedure is over, the client can customize his order throughout the next year and wait for one of the first deliveries in 2027 when the car will be launched definitively. In this customization process you can contact a meeting with the Renault design team to define all kinds of details. The company specifies that the seats, doors panels, the dashboard can be customized … but you can also opt for classical decorations such as the red grenade or black, yellow and white classic that pay tribute to the winner of the Corsica Rally in 1982 and that we have seen in the promotional images. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than the announcing A unique car in the market The French have also taken the opportunity to confirm that the Renault 5 Turbo 3E will star in a tour of the dealers of Madrid, Paris, Brussels and other European cities. Finally, this summer we will see at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, one of the great appointments for speed lovers. The Renault 5 Turbo 3E serves the company to test to what extent the gum of nostalgia can stretch. The price is so high that it equals that of a Porsche Taycan GTSa 700 hp car that accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.3 seconds and has a battery with a size of 105 kWh for what it can do without clearing more than 500 real kilometers without stopping to recharge. Therefore, Renault’s bet cannot be more passionate. It enters an unknown land for the company offering, without any doubt, the most expensive electric car of the moment in relation to the price and size of its battery. Of course, it is also a car that promises to open a before and after in its category. The Renault 5 Turbo 3E is pending approval but has already announced that it will offer 540 hp of power that will deliver them with two rear engines. Its 4,800 NM motor pair breaks all the schemes for a car just 4.08 meters long. Until now, the most expensive and powerful options among electric cars have represented huge gigantic berling or SUVs. The biggest problem has been to introduce a battery large enough to feed powers of hundreds of power CV in a small car. This Renault 5 Turbo 3E will mount a 70 kWh battery with 800 volts structure promising loads of up to 350 kW (right now the fastest loads are about 250 kW and are totally exceptional). They hope to go from 15 to 80% capacity in 15 minutes. In addition, there was another problem added to the sportsmanship of electric cars. The weight was too high. Renault has done everything possible to file kg using carbon fiber. The result is a 1,415 kg car. There are 100 kg less than, for example, the last Volkswagen Golf R. And a few kg more than one of the last Renault Mégane RS Trophy-R. It only remains to be known to what renault 5 turbo 3e is a pump dynamically and, above all, if Renault will place the 1,980 limited units that will be put on sale of this new Culogordo at a price of 155,000 euros of departure. Photos | Renault In Xataka | Renault 5, new car of the year in Europe: the electric car triumphs among critics while stagnating among the public

An unexpected buyer is turning houses, temples and abandoned factories from Japan into tourist accommodations: China

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Something is happening in Japan for a while to this part, a phenomenon that began with waves of Chinese tourists who came to the nation To stayand then extended through zones, where the proliferation of “new chinatowns” was giving rise to neighborhoods with Chinese than Japanese. The theme became something more serious when this “chinification” reached one of the national bastions: Pop culture. The latest: Beijing is buying its most traditional architecture and turning it into Resort tourist. Kyoto as shuttle. He told him Nikkei weekend In an extensive report. In a Japan where modernity threatens to eclipse centuries of tradition, the figure of Yuichi Ishikura embodies a phenomenon as unexpected as decisive: the Rescue of the architectural heritage traditional by Chinese citizens. Born in the province of Fujian and raised from adolescence in Kyoto, Ishikura found her vocation after a personal experience in a guest house during her university studies in the United States. Upon his return to Japan in 2015, with just 23 years, he acquired his first Machiya (Typical narrow and deep wood housing built since the EDO period) for just over 10 million yen. He transformed it into a tourist accommodation and, in just three years, he had recovered his investment. Since then he has renewed More than 60 properties Similar, including the Shichikutei house, near the Kyoto station, and has declared its intention to become the number one operator of Machiyas throughout Japan. The threat of the Machiya. It is not a trivial theme in Japan. The Kyo-Machiya are architectural jewelry of the old capital, and are disappearing to the alarming rhythm of about 800 a yearpressed for the high cost of its maintenance, inheritance taxes and the real estate voracity that replaces them with apartments and floors. And while the Japanese seem to resign themselves to that disappearance, foreign investors (especially of Chinese origin) They are turning that crisis into the opportunity. Here, like Nikkei explainedFigures like Lee Wendy, a native restorative of Shanghai who have rehabilitated 40 Machiya and perfectly reflect this trend. The phenomenon has grown so much that, according to a study by the city of Kyoto, a 30 % of the accommodations Under municipal license are in the hands of some 500 foreigners, many of them Chinese buyers who have converted these traditional houses in tourist accommodations without losing their aesthetic or historical value. Temples for sale. The phenomenon is not limited to houses. In rural areas such as Shiso, in Hyogo Prefecture, Buddhist temples They have also started Change hands in the absence of successors priests. One of these temples, acquired by a Chinese buyer after the death of the main priest in 2017, has generated local controversy for the informal use of the enclosure. Meanwhile, other temples have had to publicly go out to Define rumors Sales disseminated on platforms as Rednotea Chinese social network in which deceptive ads circulate that promise tax benefits for acquiring religious properties. One of the most popular cases was the Jisso-in Monzeki templewith 800 years of history, which He denied categorically Be for sale, after detecting false publications aimed at Chinese investors. The fiscal attractiveness. Behind this fever for acquiring temples, sanctuaries and Japanese traditional houses Nikkei had That there is a double attraction: on the one hand, the cultural and architectural value that represents for many Chinese citizens a difficult heritage in their native country. On the other, and equally important, the favorable fiscal conditions For religious institutions in Japan, which attract investors with commercial vision. Real estate sector executives in Osaka confirm that they have intermediate in the sale of religious properties to companies based in Hong Kong and are currently promoting other enclosures in Kyoto and Nara. And the sake. The phenomenon has gone much further. The conservation of the cultural legacy has also reached other spheres. In 2019, Zhou Chunbao, Shanghai businessman, Matsuoshuzojo acquireda historic Sake distillery in the saga prefecture that was on the verge of closing due to management problems. Motivated by their desire that the Chinese people know the Japanese culture through the Sake, Zhou revitalized the company and its production, which in 2022 reached regional recognition by winning the highest award in the Junmai Daiginjo category. Zhou’s intervention saved from oblivion a local institution whose history goes back at the end of the Edo period, at a time when the sake industry is It has drastically reducedwith a 40 % decrease in the number of distilleries and a 20 % drop of its historical volume of national sales. The “soul” of Japan. Thus, and while the tangible heritage of Japan (from traditional houses to centenary temples and ancestral distilleries) faces a slow but constant disappearance due to the lack of successors, it seems that it is a generation of Chinese investors who are willing to assume the challenge of keeping it. What for some represents a loss of cultural control, for others it becomes an unexpected form of continuity. Thus, in the face of the passivity or inability of certain local sectors, new heirs (Chinese) are arranged not only to invest capital, but also to revalue with sensitivity and pragmatism that for centuries has been the material essence of Japanese identity. Image | GIVE CRUSE In Xataka | Japan is living something unpublished in its most emblematic neighborhoods: the “chinification” of anime and video games In Xataka | A phenomenon that has already happened in New York is spreading throughout Japan: neighborhoods with younger than Japanese

The best way to play PS5 without turning on the console

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For players from PlayStation 5one of the ideal accessories that allows you to play video games without having a console is PlayStation Portal. If you had been thinking about time and you had never decided to make the jump, now in Aliexpress you can buy Portal PlayStation by 183.48 euros Applying the code ‘MES10‘During the purchase process. PlayStation 5 Remote Player Portal | Distance player * Some price may have changed from the last review You can have a PS5 in your pocket with PlayStation Portal The Portal PlayStation It has one 8 -inch tactile LCD screen and Full HD resolution, in which you can enjoy your PS5 video game games. The command is integrated into the screen and has its own functions of Sony, such as haptic vibration and adaptive triggers. You should know that it does not allow you to download games or enjoy them in physical format. This means that you will always have to have an Internet connection to enjoy everything PlayStation Portal offers. As for its battery, it has a capacity of 4,370 mAh and offers a Autonomy of about 5-6 hours. Today, there are many video games that allow you to play in the cloud through PlayStation Portal, through the subscription service PlayStation Premiumso this device is a good investment if you are looking for entertainment for your trips, for example. You may also be interested in these other accessories for PS5 Mars Gaming MPS5-B2, RGB support for standard and digital PS5 Slim * Some price may have changed from the last review Powera Dual fast charger for 2 x dualsense wireless controls * 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 | John Tones (Xataka) and Sony In Xataka | PlayStation 5 Pro vs PlayStation 5: These are all the differences between the two Sony consoles In Xataka | Two years ago I bought a PS5. I wish someone would have told me that I also needed these accessories

Extract rare land of old batteries without going through China

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The efforts to electrify the world bring with them a growing demand for materials to make batteries. Materials that, to a large extent, depend on China. In full United States trade war against the Asian countrya solution is gaining strength: old battery mining. And a known name, that of JB Straubel, co -founder of Tesla, leads the race with his company Redwood Materials. Context. The world needs more batteries. The demand does not stop growing between the electrification of transport, with more than 57 million electric vehicles in circulation, and the energy transition, which requires large storage systems to compensate for the intermittent nature of renewable sources. The problem, in full tariff climb, is that most of the materials necessary to manufacture these batteries come from China. Especially rare earths, which explains the United States interest in Greenland and the Recent pressures on Ukraine. But these bets to produce materials outside China can take several years. An alternative. Urban mining. There is a huge amount of batteries already imported in countries such as the United States (electric cars, electric scooters, electric bicycles, consumer electronics) that contain a valuable metal mine. These materials can be recovered by recycling, which now seems like a very lucrative business. Unlike plastic recycling, which comes out much more expensive than the virgin material, the high value of batteries metals makes its recovery economically viable. Material redwood. Founded by JB Straubel (Tesla co -founder and one of Elon Musk’s trusted men), Material redwood It is one of the pioneer companies in this field. Your business model focuses on collecting batteries at the end of your useful life and Extract the relevant elements to create new batteries High quality. A few days ago was associated with Limewhich has a gigantic fleet of bicycles and electric scooters, to recycle its batteries. For Lime, whose batteries usually last about 500 cycles (between five and seven years), this alliance not only solves the problem of what to do with the inventory of old batteries, but also reinforces its sustainable company image. Almost everything is used. Redwood states that its recovery rate is up to 95-98% of materials To manufacture new batteries. The scale is significant: in 2024, he recycled 20 GWh of old car material, scooters, electronic devices and production residues; enough to produce about 250,000 batteries for electric vehicles. Together with Redwood, a recycling company, reuse companies have also appeared, Like the Canadian Moment Energy. His proposal is to take advantage of the batteries of withdrawn electric cars that still retain around 80% of their ability to create stationary energy storage systems. Give them a second life. They have collaborated with companies such as Mercedes-Benz Energy and have just received a subsidy of more than 20 million dollars from the United States Department of Energy to build the first “gigafactoría” of battery reuse in Texas. Although the recycling process and the logistics of collection of old batteries remain complex and expensive, the high value of the recovered materials, especially now with geopolitical pressure, is promoting these solutions that transform old batteries into a strategic source of resources or reuse for other uses. “Urban Mining” is a way to skip China and, therefore, a lucrative business. In Xataka | In the middle of the electric car, a Canadian company has smelled money: a battery recycling gigafacto

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