Month: June 2025

Everything to know, what each symbol means and how it affects you

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The day came. From today, Juniode 2025, all mobile phones and tablets will have to have the energy label. Yes, that same label that we are used to seeing In every small and large house appliance. This regulation entered into force on September 20, but it has not been until now that the validity has been full. From today, if a manufacturer wants to sell its mobiles and tablets in European territory, you will have to add the label in the box. It is an interesting change and that we will begin to notice sooner rather than later in the linear of electronics and websites. Thus, we are going to review everything that needs to know about this label, what each symbol means and what the regulation on ecological design that also comes into play. What devices affects. According to Regulation (EU) 2023/1669 of the commission of June 16, 2023this new regulation will apply to mobile phones (with a tactile screen between four and seven inches), wireless landlines and tablets (with touch screen between seven and 17.4 inches). Those devices will have to have their energy EPREL energy tag (acronym for European Product Registry for Energy Labelling). Energy label that we will see from now on mobiles and tablets | Image: European Union What is the label. Virtually identical to what you can find in any appliance and similar to the one you can see on these lines. There are several symbols and their meanings are as follows: A QR code with a link provided by the manufacturer to product -related information. The commercial brand of the device. If the mobile is Samsung, “Samsung”. The identifier of the specific model. For example, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra 256 GB is the SM-S938BZBDEUB. The Energy Efficiency Scale: “A” is the maximum possible score and “G” is the worst. The device efficiency level according to the anterior scale. The autonomy of the battery per cycle measured in hours and minutes per complete battery charge. That is, how much the battery lasts for the mobile. The reliability of the device in free fall: “A” is the maximum possible score and “e” is the worst. The repair of the device: “A” is the maximum possible score and “E” is the worst. Load cycles supported by the phone until the battery reaches 80% of its maximum capacity. In other words, the battery degradation rate. Classification of Water Resistance, Dust and Subsibility. For this indicator the IP certificate. The regulation number. In this case, “2023/1669“ Where will it be shown? The label must measure at least 68 x 136 millimeters, so we will probably find it in the back of the device box. However, the label must be visible in the linear and exposed products, so we will surely find it printed near the plate with the information and the price of the terminal. On the websites, the approach is the same as with the appliances: upload the label as a more product photo and adopt the reduced format for the preview. This is seen the energy labeling in appliances in Amazon (really in any ecommerce, it is something standard). From now on, when we look for a mobile we should see the same | Image: Xataka How all this is measured. The European Regulation establishes that measurements and calculations will be made using harmonized norms whose reference numbers have been published in the Official Gazette of the European Union or other reliable, precise and reproducible methods that take into account the most advanced methods generally accepted. ” While these standards arrive, other transitory test methods have been established. For example, the assigned capacity and autonomy of the battery in cycles is measured with respect to the standard IEC in 61960-3: 2017Rayado resistance based on the standard In 15771: 2010resistance to accidental falls depending on the IEC 60068-2-31, repeated free fall-Procedure 2etc. All this is detailed In Annex IV bis of the Regulation. It is not something “random” or that each brand can do as they want. Fallen tests made to a OnePlus 13 | Image: Xataka What if it is rounded? In fact, the regulation contemplates the possibility that a falsea brand the data. Annex IV establishes that manufacturers should not design their devices to change their behavior if they detect that they are being subjected to rehearsal, ergo that are being investigated. If detected, the device would not pass the certification and could not be sold at our borders. How to measure that? With common tolerances. Suppose a country decides to check if what the X brand says about autonomy per cycle is true. When doing the test, we already know that it is standard, the value obtained cannot be less than the value declared in +3%. If the brand ensures that the battery endures 60 minutes, but the test determines that it endures 50 minutes, the device does not meet the tolerances (in this case the maximum acceptable would be 58.2 minutes) and, therefore, does not comply with the regulation. All this, again, comes detailed in the document. Fairphone 5 | Image: Fairphone That the devices hold more. Another interesting aspect is that the regulation establishes a series of minimums in the call Ecological Design Regulation. This imposes on manufacturers some figures that play in favor of the consumer, who put on the table not a few challenges and that, surely, to speak in the coming months. The main points are the following: Fall resistance: Mobile will have to endure 45 falls from a meter high without a case or protector. In the case of folding, 35 closed and 15 open falls (always with the pre -installed sheet). Rayados resistance: mobile phones must have a minimum level of level four on the MOHS scale. This obviously does not apply to folding. Water and dust resistance: mobile phones, all, must be resistant to objects of more than one millimeter already thickness and water splashes. It would be the equivalent of an IP42 or … Read more

Israel is not only attacking Iran with missiles. He also just steal 90 million dollars in cryptocurrencies

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It is not much less cryptocurrency theft more large in historybut those 90 million dollars are especially significant for whom they are involved and why. Those involved They are Israel and Iran. And why, unfortunately, The war that they maintain both nations. Israel hacking to Iran. The war between Israel and Iran is intensified, and does not only New and striking tactics On the battlefield. It also does it through cyber warmen. A group called Gonjeshke Darande, (predatory sparrow, in a translation from the Persian) Hackeo has been attributed of the Iranian market of Cryptodivisas Nobitex. Possible link to Israel. There is no definitive evidence of a direct link between the Government of Israel and this grip hacker, Sophos experts indicate. Rafe Pilling, Director of Intelligence of Threats in that firm, explained that the cyber attack had all the characteristics of an attack supported by a government. 90? Millions of dollars. The Hacker Group has achieved according to The Guardian steal 90 million dollars, although the page of the Wikipedia Persian edition It indicates that the robbery amounted to 3.76 billion rials, about 47 million dollars, although that money may be stolen from one of the two troonscan wallets destination From Gonjeshke Darende they have also threatened to publish both the company’s internea information and the source code of its cryptodivsis purchase platform. The final amount is not entirely clear, and According to Cointegraph It is exceeding 81.7 million dollars. Cold purses, safe. The attack, They support Nobitexhas allowed to steal the cryptocurrencies of the “hot” purses of the platform, used to facilitate daily transactions. He has not affected cold, safer purses. Nubitex blocked access to the platform as soon as they and those responsible say that “all damages will be compensated through the insurance fund.” In a later message They have revealed that the impact of the attack is “more complex than it was initially estimated.” And above, Internet cuts. From Nobitex they explain that their capacity to respond to cyber attack has also been affected by the cuts in the country’s internet infrastructure, “together with limited access to the facilities due to the current national crisis.” They hope to recover and restore their services in the next 4 or 5 days, but in the meantime the platform is still unable to be accessed. A hacking with political motivation.Yehor Rudytsia, security researcher at the Hacken firm, said in Cintelegraph how this cyber attack is more “a political statement than a robbery with economic motivation.” In fact, according to The Guardian the hackers have “burned” those funds storing them in custom addresses (“Vanity Addresses“) that they do not have a known private password or possibility of recovering. For example, a purse such as” 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Transferring cryptocurrencies to this type of addresses is actually destroying them voluntarily by leaving them blocked forever. The hackers have used directions with variations of the term “Jo *** Osterrorists”. Image | Wikipedia | Art Rachen In Xataka | Iran and Israel are starting another war in the background: that of the false images created with AI

Netflix reinvented the way of seeing series. In France, he has signed an agreement to return to Life TV

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Before streaming changed everything, watching TV was to follow very clear rules: Wait for your program to startendure the ads and accept the offer of the moment. This was the game. But then platforms like Netflix arrived, promising something different. And for a while, it was. Suddenly, it was no longer necessary to wait on Thursday night to see the new chapter of your favorite series. There were no advertising cuts. And if you wanted to see three episodes in a row, you could do it without anyone preventing it. Everything pointed to a new way of consuming content: freer, more personalized. But time has done his own, and little by little that new television has begun to resemble that before. Life TV in Netflix The ads arrived first “Although only for those who don’t pay the most expensive plan.” After, live sports and contents in collaboration with traditional chains. Now, the last step: a lifetime television, with linear channels included. And it is not a metaphor. Netflix has signed an agreement historical with Tf1the main private chain in France, to incorporate its channels in open directly into the platform. From the summer of 2026, Netflix users in France can see live The five linear channels of TF1as well as access more than 30,000 hours of content on demand through TF1+. This includes from games of the French team to realities, contests, entertainment programs and local production series. For Netflix, it is a strategic movement: integrate what was previously its direct competence and, incidentally, expand its offer in the French market. For TF1, it is a way of approaching an audience that has been moving away from traditional television for years. And for the spectator, another symptom that the borders between open television and platforms on demand are increasingly diffuse. Among the programs that TF1 issues is Secret Story, one of its most popular realities The agreement arrives at a key moment. While Netflix leads the global streaming business with dozens of own productionstraditional chains drag largely a sustained loss of audience and advertising income. This type of alliances could allow both parties to gain time. But ask a question. In the end, is the great streaming revolution ended by rediscovering the usual television? For now, there are no public details about how income will be distributed or if Netflix has paid anything to integrate these channels into its platform. Nor is it clear if we will see similar movements in other European markets, such as Spanish. What seems evident is that traditional streaming and television are intended to be. And when that happens at all, perhaps we can no longer distinguish where one begins and the other ends. Images | Xataka with Grok | Netflix | Tf1 (1, 2) In Xataka | YouTube risked a lot trying to be more like Tiktok. 200,000 million visualizations have proved him right

Since his arrival, Zepbound was predestined to unseat Ozempic. The big question is why it is taking so long

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In innovation, arriving first is a tremendous push when Develop a groundbreaking product. However, it is not a guarantee of success. This is a lesson that Danish pharmaceuticals Novo Nordisk is learning in their own meats. The last years have been marked by success the drugs of the GLP-1 family as Ozempic, Wegovy either Zepbound. The name refers to the peptide similar to glucagon-1 or LPG-1 (a hormone segregated in our body when we eat) since this type of formulas contain active compounds that “mimic” this hormone. In origin, drugs such as Ozempic or Zepbound were designed as diabetes treatment since one of the functions of the GLP-1 hormone It is to warn the pancreas of food entry to accelerate insulin production. However, the success of these treatments occurred due to a side effect also related to this hormone: and it is that the second of the messages transmitted by the LPG-1 is addressed to the brain, and it is the one that triggers the feeling of satiety. This is why agonist drugs of GLP-1 receptors also have a slimming effect. Companies that had compounds such as semaglutid New brands with which to market your compounds reorient to weight loss: Wegovy and Mounjaro. Throughout this process, the drugs of the Danish pharmacist, Ozempic and Wegovy, left with a kind of advantage, but there was a problem. The problem: the “recipe” of the American pharmaceuticals Lilly showed better results where these more treatments have highlighted, weight loss. The apparent reason is that just as the semaglutida is a simple agonist of the GLP-1 receptors, the tirzepatida is a double agonist of the GLP-1 receptors and of the receptors of the polypeptide gastric inhibitor or insulinotropic peptide dependent on glucose (GIP). If this were not enough, the magnitude of success reached an unexpected level, which had a serious involvement: Supply problems. This was not an exclusively economic but also health problem, we reconnected that before a product focused on weight loss, Ozempic was a diabetes treatment. A demand High and dissatisfied It is a great opportunity for the entry in play of new competitors, and this was precisely the panorama that the American pharmacist Lilly was found. A at odds Lilly launched Mounjaro in 2022 and success was vertiginous: the recipes shot and the new product seemed to quickly unseat their competitors. However, three years after launch it seems that the anticipated has not yet been Sorpasso. In fact, after a final stretch of 2024, some analysts wondered what was happening, why the success of Lilly’s formulas is postponing so much. However, In an article for Biospacethe consultants Gary Stibel and Riley McCarthy, of New England Consulting Group gave another key. For them the key to Ozempic’s persistence was in the marketing. In his article, Stibel and McCarthy indicate that Lilly attributed his difficulties when reaching the expected volume of sales to the high manufacturing costs and “fluctuating” levels of inventory in a high demand context. That is, that Lilly also managed to deal with the success of his own product. In the United States pharmaceuticals can announce more or less conventional medications that are only administered under medical prescription. According to these consultants, part of Ozempic’s success is due to these consumer -oriented campaigns. Although ultimately the choice of medication falls on the person in charge of signing the recipe, the patient’s weight can also be decisive. Regardless of campaigns of marketingit is difficult to overestimate the value of first such a lucrative market. Ozempic monopolized headlines and covers for months, and has become a few years in a kind of vulgarized brandthat is, a brand that has become an entire category of products. Something that in the short term can be a great advantage but long entails the erosion (even legal) of the brand itself. 2025 seems to draw a most hopeful panorama For the American pharmacist, but anticipating what will happen in the medium and long term is difficult for several reasons. Both pharmaceuticals continue to work with greater or lesser success in new formulas, double and even triple agonists that could unseat the products already settled. Laboratory results are difficult to predict and will depend in part with the future of these pharmacists. Another important factor is that we do not know the roof of this market. The calculations From the consulting firm Goldman Sachs they expect this roof will be reached at the beginning of the decade that comes, standing at about 120,000 million dollars around 2035. There is room for growth: according to the consultant the market volume in 2025 will be about 28,000 million dollars. This volume will have to be distributed with New formulaseven with generic alternativesthat could not take long to arrive after the threat that hits the Canadian patent of the Semaglutida. The expiration of the patents of these formulas will aggravate the need for the pharmaceuticals involved in introducing These new formulas that contribute something new to an increasingly competitive market. In Xataka | “Ozempic face”, “Ozempic language” and “Ozempic teeth”: the other very visible effect of consuming the medicine to lose weight Image | News Oresund

The question now is whether the deceased would agree

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The possibility of “resuscitating” the dead is something that We have already seenbut with artificial intelligence tools the thing goes beyond a simple Deepfake. Imagine being able to maintain a conversation with a loved one who died every time you want. Well, with its virtual version. It sounds like Black Mirror episode, but the trend is growing. This opens new doors for duel and memory, but also raises legal and ethical questions about control and consent about digital identity after death. Duel technology. The ‘Grief Tech‘Use technology to help people cope with the loss of a loved one. As? Creating digital versions with which they can interact. It is one booming trend. In China, the Deepfakes of loved ones They are increasingly popular. The emergence of increasingly advanced artificial intelligence tools allows the result to be more realistic. There are companies doing business with this, such as HEREAFTER AI either Sence ai That based on tattered conversations and memories, they create a chatbot with which to hold a conversation. Others take it further and create an interactive video-Avatar. This is the case of Re; Memory, You, Virtual Only either Storyfile. The latter has helped the Lista family, protagonists of this NYT reportto create an avatar of his father who suffers from terminal cancer. These virtual ghosts have also been used for other purposes, such as This created from a murdered young man to cause a greater impact on the jury. Why this happens. Save memories of our loved ones when they die is something that humans have done For millennia. Objects, photographs, videos or an avatar with AI, all respond to the need to remember the link we had with that person. However, it is not the same to look at a photo than to maintain conversations with a digital replica of a dead loved one and raises doubts of its consequences, both at the psychologic and ethical level. The duel in the AI ​​era. This type of digital chatbots or avatars can be comforting at specific times, questions about their effect on long -term mental health arise. The loss of a loved one is a very painful process and, if complicated, can lead to weakening symptoms. In statements a EuronewsDr. Kirsten Smith, a clinical researcher at the University of Oxford, said: “There is evidence of multiple studies that indicates that the search for proximity (behaviors destined to restore closeness to the deceased person) is related to worse results in mental health.” Some of these ‘Grief Tech’ services as it is already in mind and are presented as a temporary tool to help process the loss. In their case they offer a payment model for each session with the chatbot and also its use time is limited. What does the law say. Who decides who can be resurrected with an AI? The truth is that there is no legislation that prevents creating one of these ‘posthumous avatars’. The works created by a person are protected by the Intellectual Property Lawbut not your voice, photos or videos. He General Data Protection Regulation in force in the European Union does not apply directly to deceased persons and, in the case of the call Digital willit focuses on user profiles on social networks and accounts of different services That do not resurrect me with ia. In Ars Technica They talked about this subject and raised the question: can you put in the will that they do not “resurrect” with ia? We do not know if someone has done it, but it may not serve much without clear legislation. If someone creates a ‘digital ghost’ of a deceased without permission, family members could request that it be eliminated, the problem is that it is the relatives themselves who request it (which would be the most logical). Cover image | Gemini In Xataka | Chatgpt is taking some people to the edge of madness. Reality is less alarmist and much more complex

In return, the salary rises up to 42,000 euros a year

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Last May, Denmark agreed extend retirement age ordinary up to a minimum of 70 years due to the increase in the life expectancy of the population. At the same time, the politicians who approved that measure enjoyed a life pension for the simple fact of having occupied a seat in folketing (Danish Parliament) for at least one year. The difference in criteria was so overwhelming, that Danish politicians have had no more alternative to cut their own privileges and eliminate that regulation. Golden Retirement for politicians. To date, the Danish legislation established that, with a single year of public work as a parliamentarian, the politician acquired the right to collect a life pension of some 35,000 monthly crowns. That is equivalent to about 4,692 euros per month until the end of their days. Unlike the rest of the population that before the reform could be withdrawn at age 67, the Danish parliamentarians were allowed retire at 60 years. Taking into account that According to dataFrom the OECD, the life expectancy of Denmark is 82 years on average, leads Danish politicians to charge a generous pension for about 22 years. Everything, for a single year of public service. Reforms for the one who comes behind. After the reform applied in the law that regulates the Viability of the pension systemeight parliamentary groups have agreed to sign a great pact with which these life pensions are revoked with 81 votes in favor and 21 against. The measure carried above the table Since 2016. However, politicians have decided that the measure will apply for the first time to the politicians who are chosen from the next elections, so future parliamentarians will adopt the “Almindelig Arbejdsmarkedspension” (normal labor market pension). Those who have already acquired that right providing their service in this legislature maintain their life pension, so the absolute purpose of the measure will not be achieved until 2090. “Our agreement makes the whole system much more understandable to citizens and, therefore, also guarantees greater acceptance,” He affirmed the leader of the parliamentary group Leif Lahn. More cuts … In addition to the cuts planned in the life retirement of the parliamentarians, the agreement also contemplates reduce the “compensation for dismissal“That those politicians who are not re -elected receive. Currently, deputies receive their full salary for two years after the end of their parliamentary work, while ministers and senior government charges receive three years of salary at the end of their legislature. With the new measure, this compensation is trimmed at one year of salary for all. According to They published Danish media, it is estimated that, with this agreement, the Danish coffers will save 20% in the expenses allocated to the members of folketing and the government team. Which is about 4.02 million euros. … and more increases. The change puts an end to the “golden” pension system and the Danish parliamentarians will be governed by the same labor regulations as the rest of the country’s workers, and will contribute 18.07% of their salary to the state pension fund, and will receive that same percentage of their salary for pension. However, such and As they point out from Dr. The cut in parliamentary pensions brings a large asterisk: politicians will receive a salary increase in return. Thus, future deputies will receive 948,000 crowns per year (about 127,090 euros) to 1,080,000 crowns (about 144,780 euros to change). A general increase of almost 18,000 a year. Salary increase for the Government. The salary increase will also affect the highest levels of the government. For the ministers, the rise will go from the 1,702,000 crowns per year (228,150 euros per year) currently charged by the Prime Minister, to 2,016,000 crowns (270,241 euros) that will charge in the following legislature. That is, an annual increase of 42,000 euros. For the positions of greater responsibility in the government, the salary will go from 1,920,000 crowns (257,386 euros) to 2,481,000 crowns (332,591 euros per year). In Xataka | If your dream is to retire at age 52 with 100% of the pension, Spain offers you a road: a high -risk job In Xataka | There is a man who has been working for the same company for 86 years. And you have no plans to retire Image | Unspash (Hannah Thiel), Flickr (News Oresund)

Dacia Spring does not have it easy, but his letters play well

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What if they told you that you can have an electric car for less than 9,000 euros? He Dacia Spring It is, today, the cheapest 100% electric model you can buy, provided you can host you currently available public aid. But one thing is the price and a very different real experience. In the new 24/7 episode, Mario Arroyo has used it for a whole monthwithout garage or cargo point at home, and with both urban and interurban routes. How much do you spend? How do you behave? Who really compensates? You have answers for all that. He full video is now available On the Xataka YouTube channelwhere our partner has documented in detail his experience. From the first day he has used it as a main car in real journeys: to work, to the airport, to make the purchase, even for getaways inside and outside Madrid. “The idea of ​​this video is to experience what it is to have a 100% electric car designed for Ciudad in full 2025,” he explains. He has tried it in varied conditions, with its limitations and also with its advantages. As we can see, Dacia Spring does not promise great luxuries. The version that our partner has tried is the Extreme, with a 48 kW electric motor, about 65 hp, and a useful battery of 26.8 kWh. According to the brand, that gives for about 220 km of autonomy. “Basically I will tell you that it has more than enough strength to move around and even to make a short road by road.” Now, to what extent does that autonomy figure be sustained in real use? And how does it behave? The answers may not be so obvious. The experience changes when we leave the city. In highway or circumvaluation sections, the spring shows its limits. Our partner describes it like this: “When the steering wheel turns, you feel a small Zig Zag, as if the car staggered a little.” At 100 or 120 km/h speeds, lack of stability is noted and can affect driver’s confidence. Even so, he assures that for short and everyday paths he has not had major inconveniences. In the video we analyze it in detail. Another key challenge has been the recharge. Without charge point at home, all experience has depended on public stations, with its advantages and also its frustrations. “It is not the simplest process in the worldhonestly, ”says our partner, who has used apps as Electromaps To find points available. Between slow charges, out -of -service stations and limited powers, experience reveals both what works and what still needs to improve in Spain. After almost a month of use, the video breaks down all the paths, consumptions, times and load prices to make a direct comparison with a combustion car. “For short and usual journeys I think the option to choose from,” says our partner. Now, that comes with very specific conditions: having access to domestic load, not needing great displacements and assuming a simple construction, focused on the basics. Is the final urban electric or an intermediate step along the way? We invite you to discover it In the last video posted on the Xataka YouTube channel. Images | Xataka In Xataka | China has taken the next step to dominate the electric car industry: bet on their own chips

YouTube risked a lot trying to be more like Tiktok. 200,000 million visualizations have proved him right

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The future of the video is brief. You just have to look at the disproportionate growth of short video platforms such as The Almighty Tiktokwith 1.6 billion users on a global scale and a sustained growth that will lead to 113.2 million in the US in 2023 to 121.1 in 2027. So it has nothing strange that the rest of video apps go behind, behind, exactly the same with Netflix and its competitors in streaming. Many of Tiktok’s rivals are going well: YouTube, for example, not to grow thanks to its open tiktokization. Shorts better. YouTube Shortsthe section of short videos of the platform (no more than 60 seconds – then extended to three minutes – and with vertical format) has reached a new maximum when averaging 200,000 million daily viewsas announced by the CEO of YouTube, Neal Mohan, during his speech at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2025. It represents a growth of no less than 186% compared to the previous year: in March 2024 the platform spoke of 70,000 million daily visualizations from the launch of Shorts in 2021. Now, with Ia. In this growth context, Mohan made another announcement that can make an important difference between Tiktok and YouTube: the arrival of I see 3 To YouTube Shorts this summer. The Google video generation model will allow users to create funds and clips, something that already did the previous version, Dream Screen, but I see 3 exceeds it in many aspects, from the technical quality to the audio implementation also generated by AI. The usual youtube is eaten. The rise of YouTube Shorts has been generating a debate about the possible “cannibalization” of the traditional long YouTube content. As in Tiktok, Shorts favors content discovery and rapid consumptionwhich has captured the attention of younger audiences and with mobile devices as the main platform. The expansion of the maximum short duration of 3 minutes in 2025 reduced the gap between both formats and has allowed content creators to develop more complex ideas, tending a bridge between the traditional YouTube and shorts and between Shorts and Tiktok, a platform that has been experiencing with the Creation of videos of up to 30 minutes. He lacks a boil. Although growth is unstoppable, the truth is that Tiktok has an unmatched capacity to discover new videos to the user. All thanks to a much more refined algorithm, as anyone who spends some time on both platforms and demands not an avalanche of videos for anyone, but content thought a little more specifically for him. At the moment the trends, musical discoveries or memes continue to be born in Tiktok, and shorts are following the wake, still without algorithm. There are multiple reasons for it to be like this: The Tiktok algorithm Analyze thousands of user behavior signals (likes, comments, visualization time, repetitions, all to customize the content that appears in you). The possibility that any creator, however unknown, is viralize is what favors experimentation and creativity. In that same way, applied to music, Tiktok has revolutionized how songs are discovered and popularized: The platform is now the main way for new themes and artists to be known, thanks to how the platform reuses music, favoring the creation of Challengesmemes or choreographies. There is a game. YouTube, however, has some advantages over Tiktok, all structural and business. On the one hand is the eternal fear that Tiktok is prohibited In territories such as the United States, which would allow Shorts (and Instagram) to occupy that space. Besides, Monetization is much more worked On YouTube, where money reaches the creators more robust and predictable. It is a negligible detail, and has made Influencers and Streamers They end up returning to the platform after passing through others, thanks to the advantages offered by YouTube (and despite the inevitable ups and downs). In Xataka | The PAU is over, so the true students’ festival has begun: react to their notes on Tiktok

The silence about who really failed in the blackout

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At 12:33 of April 28, the peninsular electrical system collapsed. Zero voltage. Zero electricity. In seconds, millions of people were left without supply. The light returned in hours, but opacity continues. Who failed? Why did the power plants that charged for maintaining stability acted when they needed them most? The official report details it with technicalities. The companies involved are covered by confidentiality. But the data reveals an awkward truth: when everything went out, many were not where they should. They charge to stabilize. But nobody acts here. The issue is that the Spanish electricity market, certain conventional -nuclear, gas and coal – centrals receive additional payments for being available to stabilize tension when there are imbalances. The days of the blackout were several programs, but, According to the reportmany of them were indispensable by maintenance tasks, recharges or breakdowns, just when the system more needed them. The system warning. On April 22 and 24, anomalous oscillations were already registered in tension. On the 28th, the situation worsened: two great oscillations – a fast and one slow – destabilized the network completely. From the Electric Red Documentthe epicenter was a photovoltaic plant in Badajoz, which oscillated without control. From there, the tension collapsed in a waterfall. Some plants tried to coupled, but they did not arrive on time. The system fell in 30 seconds. In the most structural part. Each great electric has its own support strategy: Endesa is committed to nuclear, Naturgy for gas, Iberdrola for hydraulics. But all share something in common: the centrals that give stability to the system are in the hands of the same actors that dominate the traditional electricity market. The worrying thing is not that they charge to be available to act, but that, when they do not, there is no clear consequences. The official report Recognize that information It was confidential, voluntary access and that most companies did not allow disseminating their data. No responsible, without sanctions, without reform. Everyone is blamed, nobody responds. What has followed is a reproach chain: the government blames Red Eléctrica; Electric network blames electric; The electricity blames the Government and Red Eléctrica. And meanwhile, citizens still do not know which company failed to comply with one of the most critical moments for the electrical system. A pattern that is repeated. As has pointed out Eloy Sanz, the professor and researcher at the Rey Juan Carlos University, in their social networks the great electricity maximize benefits according to their technological convenience. Renewables, which should lead the transition, are subordinated or used as alibi. The result: a vulnerable system, without accountability. An inevitable conclusion. The report proposes some technical measures and recommendations to the National Security Council. But it does not demand sanctions or identify responsible. There is also no clear measure to force companies to make their failures public. There is not even a reform of confidentiality mechanisms. One thing is clear: the 28th was not just an electric blackout. It was also a responsibility blackout. Image | Pxhere Xataka | In a desperate attempt to avoid the blackout, Ree tried to start a gas center seven minutes before the disaster

He has given so many failures that he has sued the brand

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Aston Martin has in its catalog one of the Few hyper -sports with which you can quietly walk its 1,155 hp through the low -emission areas of the country Thanks to the Eco Tag which provides you with an electric motor. Such and as they comment in Motorpasionthe nuance is that it is a car that costs more than three million euros, so for most mortals and motor lovers it becomes an unattainable dream. For some who could pay their price, the dream has become a nightmare that was about to cost his life. A jewel with surprise According to published The German newspaper Handelsblatta wealthy German motor fan paid three million euros in 2022 for one of the 150 units of Aston Martin Valkyrie that the British firm manufactured. In the words of its owner, and after traveling only 441 kilometers with him “I’m fed up with Aston Martin.” The problems of this owner with the Valkyrie began from the first kilometers, when a Electrical failure notice. It is not the first time that this model records that ruling that, in fact, has been plagued by technical problems since even Before putting on sale. In case the fault of a newly released car It was little misfortunethe car suffered damage during transport to the workshop that was going to check that breakdown. Once repaired, the car returned to a failure in the Rocket Locker system, which is responsible for maintaining the constant pressure in the hydraulic system of the suspension of the car, preventing it from sinking when it remains inactive for a long time. The user affirms that the system failed and the car simply sank Staying without suspension. Again, the user had no choice but to regret the three million that the car had cost him, ensuring that Valkyrie had more defects “than all my other cars together.” The drop that filled the glass and almost ends with his life However, the final ruling arrived in 2024, when the owner was about to be rammed by an ambulance that it was at full speed and with the lit mermaids: the noise that the huge engine generates its 6.5 -liter atmospheric engine developed by Cosworth inside the cabin prevented him Hear the siren of the ambulance. As the owner of the Valkyrie reported, “only thanks to the rapid reaction and skill at the wheel of the ambulance driver a fatal accident was avoided.” The acoustic insulation system of the Aston Martin Hyperdeportivo It is practically non -existent, so the manufactured has devised a system of headphones that connect with external microphones. These headphones do the double function of isolate from rumble of the 12 -cylinder monster that is installed after the granting, and reproduces the sounds that capture the external microphones. The system simply did not work and the owner of the Valkyrie did not warn the presence of the ambulance until literally had it. Given such a succession of failures, Aston Martin’s refusal to recognize them as such and try to put a solution, the millionaire chose to sue the brand and request the revocation of the purchase, so that the brand owed Buy the car again. Given the request of the owner’s lawyer, the brand just claimed that the Valkyrie are very complex vehicles that require special service and a very careful handling, indicating that it had been delivered as an “impeccable vehicle.” From Aston Martin they indicated that, in the event that the owner could return the car, he was They would be discounted about 64,000 euros as compensation for the 441 km he had traveled. That is about 145 euros for each kilometer traveled. Legal jurisdiction problems The last problem that the owner of the Valkyrie has encountered is not mechanical, but administrative. His lawyer has initiated his legal claim by filing a lawsuit in a Aquothers Court, in Germany. However, from Aston Martin they claim that the correct form is to do it through a court in the United Kingdom, since it was in that country where the purchase was made and one of the Purchase contract clauses. The owner’s lawyer, on the other hand, argues that as a private European consumer, the consumption regulations allow him to pursue the demand in his place of residence, regardless of the country in which the purchase of the car was made. At the moment, and after almost Three years chaining technical failuresthe hypercoche dreamed by many continues to parked in the garage of its owner that does not conduct it from its incident with the ambulance. You have to be careful what you want. In Xataka | 35% of Monaco’s inhabitants are millionaires. The car of its car is a Porsche 911 race of 150,000 euros Image | Aston Martin

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