Month: June 2025

It is the advance of Yuan Digital

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China has won The rare earth pulse to the United States granting limited licenses. Trump has celebrated it as a diplomatic victory and his country congratulates himself for ensuring the supply of critical raw materials. Meanwhile, China is using these concessions as a screen for its strategy: consolidate a parallel financial system that can break the hegemony of the US dollar, especially in three key regions. Why is it important. The numbers say what negotiations are not: China is artificially maintaining the yuan against the dollar (1 dollar = 7.19 yuan today) through discrete interventions of the Central Bank. Meanwhile, its trade with Africa is at historical maximums: 295.6 billion dollars in 2024. And at the same time, it is deploying the infrastructure of the Yuan Digital in 16 countries of Asia and the Middle East. Pure geostrategy. The context. Rare earths are lure. China dominates 85% of the chain of these minerals, fundamental in technology and defense. Each negotiation on them generates headlines and concerns, but their great bet is in the payment systems. The United States is focused on tariffs and commercial scales. Meanwhile, China is building financial rails so that its currency circulates around the world without dollars in between. The facts. China already connected its CIP cross -border payment systems with 170 banks in 119 countries. The Yuan Digital Procesa Transactions for more than 7 billion annual yuan and expands by Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. Africa, whose commercial growth with China reached 5% in 2024it seems the next great objective. More than isolated figures is a financial ecosystem that allows to trade without going through the system dominated by the dollar. What’s happening. The Chinese strategy follows the maximum of Deng Xiaoping: “hide the brightness, nourish the dark.” Avoid direct confrontation, but build robust alternatives. Each step is a brick in another parallel financial architecture. Between the lines. Rare earth concessions are calculated. China get a double benefit: Softens commercial tensions that could cause premature reprisals against their financial infrastructure. Project a reliable partner image towards countries that seek alternatives to the system dominated by the dollar. Each geopolitical crisis that erodes even if the confidence in the dollar is a bit – saunciones, Threats of default– Accelerate the search for options. And that is where China presents itself as the answer. Yes, but. The dollar continues to have structural advantages too large to ignore them from good to first: Yuan only reaches today 4% of world payments and has limitations such as Chinese capital controls. This transformation is underway, but it will not happen overnight. The threat. Therefore, the risk for the United States is not an abrupt substitution, but a gradual erosion. If 20% or 30% of world trade have migrated to alternative systems, the country would lose a decisive privilege: to be able to finance “cheap” and exercise geopolitical power through sanctions. A world with a double financial circuit (the western one with the dollar, the sin-centric with Yuan) would reduce the American capacity to isolate its adversaries. The turning point. China is doing something that carries in its DNA: replace without confronting. USA Rare earth negotiations To project cooperation, but at the same time consolidates the infrastructure that can change the monetary map of the world. It is also very Chinese: a decades strategy. Prepare the land so that when the dollar loses credibility, Yuan is ready to earn space. Mandarin patience to draw the financial future of Medio Planeta. Outstanding image | Eric Prouzet and Nuno Alberto in Unspash In Xataka | “In Europe they need seven years. We three”: China has understood better than anyone than the car industry advances at a new rhythm

We have been binding to the suitcases to identify them at the airport for years. Your employees warn that it is a bad idea

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I do it. And you may too. Arrives with the billing zone of any airport in the world to verify that we are many, manywho tied tapes, scarves or cords to our bags to differentiate them. A striking colorful color. An old bracelet. A loop with a name. It doesn’t matter. The idea is that we can clearly identify our suitcase of those of the rest of the passengers. Mark it in an unmistakable way (or so we believe) so that according to Asome by the conveyor belt we know that it is ours. It turns out that it is not as a good idea as it seems. Well on paper … But not so much in practice. Although we are many who add tapes to our Trolleys Billed to identify them at a glance, that trick has its weak points. And the most curious thing is that it is the airport employees themselves who They are warning it. Hanging a tape or handkerchief of the ASA may help you locate your suitcase and expedite billing, but workers in charge of managing luggage can be a real complication. One that ends up lengthening the security controls of your suitcase … and affecting your Planning travel. “It can cause problems”. The warning was released recently John, in charge of luggage at Dublin airport, a huge infrastructure for which only last year they paraded near 32 million passengers. With their respective suitcases, of course. In statements To the Irish magazine RSVP Magazinethe airfield employee warns that, at least in certain cases, the signals we use to differentiate our invoiced luggage complicate the controls. To the manual. “The tapes that people bind to their bags to help identify them can cause problems when scanning them in the luggage room,” Clarifies the employee Dublin, and warns: “If the suitcase is not able to scan automatically, it can end in manual processing, which could mean that it does not reach the flight.” Result? A trick that seeks to speed up the trip and avoid losses at the airport would end up becoming the opposite: a big problem. Adds and continues of advice. It is not the only advice left by the employee of the Dublin terminal. So that the passage through the airfields is the most comfortable, fast and quiet as possible RVSP Magazine leaves three other ideas almost as easy to apply as unleashed the ties that we have been able to hang from our Trolleys. The first is in fact very simple: also remove the stickers of old flights. “They can cause confusion with the scanning process,” says John. The second is to place the wheels of the suitcase up to prevent damage while driving it. And the third, somewhat more picturesque but equally crucial: avoid the mazapanes in the travel bags, no matter how fond of these sweets based on almond. The reason? “It has the same density as some explosives, so they will remove the suitcase and call it from the plane.” Travel with luggage … and tricks. John’s is not the first advice on airports and luggage. He is not even the first to expedite the tedious process of waiting for our suitcase to appear for the conveyor belt. The newspaper a year ago The Sun published Two others to get your suitcases and other packages to appear in the luggage collection room: The first It is to place a sticker that identifies them as “fragile”, which will help them to be of the first to be discharged; The second is to make the Chek in and bill Later as possible. The latter, of course, is not suitable for cardiac … and can lead to more than one scare if the traveler does not calculate the times well. Images | Gary Bembridge (Flickr) and Friend Jad (Flickr) In Xataka | The airlines continue to charge for the hand suitcase despite the historical fine and they already warn: they will raise prices *An earlier version of this article was published in June 2024

Russian drones bother for $ 2,400

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From a time to this part the Shahed word an important hole has been made in the Military scope. We talk about a Iranian combat drone that in the Ukraine War has erected as important actor in Moscow’s offensives. In fact, Russia has such a capacity that even the technology for North Korea for add it to your army. Meanwhile, in Ukraine an unprecedented decision has been made: civilians can go armed in search of the Shahed. The reward is up to $ 2,400. Volunteers and weapons of another time. I counted this week The New York Times A live scene on the periphery of Kyiv. While the night fell on the Ukrainian fields, a group of civilians armed with old machine guns and tablets prepared to face one of the greatest challenges of modern conflict: the Drones swarms Russians Yes, they are volunteers (teachers, journalists, construction workers) who travel rural roads in trucks, With rudimentary equipment and tons of determination, to protect the capital of Ukraine from unmanned air attacks that They intensify every week. In one of the surveillance points in the city of Pereiaslav, about 80 kilometers from Kyiv, the led group By Mykhailo and Sofia It is organized every night with a mixture of military routine, camaraderie and resignation before a threat that does not give truce. Invisible fear. While latest generation anti -aircraft systems such as Patriot missiles They defend urban nuclei, Kyiv’s exterior protection is based on a network of mobile units Like Pereiaslav. These operate in the rings farther from the capital, with the task not only to tear down drones, but also to alert the interior layers of the defense system on imminent attacks. The volunteers, formed very basically by the army and supplied with armament of past times as Maxim machine guns From World War II or Czechoslovacos models of the 50s, they patrol areas where enemy drones are detected that try to evade radars following the course of the Dnieper River. In their twelve shiftswhich combine with day work, trust coffee, the acquired experience and a strong coordination with other units to survive. Sophisticated threat. And here that old man appears again acquaintance. Russia has perfected your aerial strategy through the massive use of Shahed and imitations droneswhich uses in waves to exhaust Ukrainian defenses before launching cruise or ballistic missiles. In recent attacks there have been record figures for Up to 472 drones and lures in one night. These tactics include flights, unpredictable trajectory changes and a Increasing use of Decoyswhich greatly complicates the defense work of poorly equipped units. Despite its limitations, the Pereiaslav unit He told the Times which has managed to demolish more than 30 drones since its creation in 2024. its weapons, although “vintage”, remains effective against low -height objectives, while it is increasingly frequent that drones fly to altitudes that their weapons cannot reach, leaving volunteers in a role of observation and coordination. Civil resistance. We talked about volunteers who even received any economic stimulus. The protagonists of this improvised defense are citizens who have transformed their lives into A double day: During the day they teach, they work in works or write reports, and when the night arrives they become sentinels. Yaroslav, For exampleHe is a University Professor of Computer Science and examines his students during the day, but at dusk he monitors the sky with night vision prismatic. Sofia, experimentist, has dedicated her life to work with unity after witnessing how Russian drones flew over her city without opposition. Without salary or stable logistics support, the group depends on Personal donations to acquire from bulletproof vests to fuel. They told the Times They now have Browning machine guns Americans mounted in a vehicle … who are still learning to drive. The reward comes. In recent weeks something has changed, as They explained in Insider. In a bold attempt to reinforce their defensive capacity in the face of Russian drones, the Ukraine government has approved a new program that allows these civilians to actively participate in the interception of unmanned aircraft in exchange for a remuneration that can reach The 2,400 dollars per month. The measure was formalized by the Ukrainian Parliament and Announced by Taras Melynchukrepresentative of the Cabinet before the Supreme Rada, who stressed that the main objective is strengthen aerial defense of the country at a time when Shahed drones waves They punish Ukrainian infrastructure and cities too often. A fortune in the face of salaries. The figure is not trivial. The economic incentive offered by the Government amounts to 100,000 grivas per month, equivalent to approximately $ 2,426, a figure that represents a very income superior to the average salary of the Ukrainians before the war, located at just 14,577 grivnas (about $ 353) according to Official data of January 2022. Even taking into account the increase registered by employment portals as work.uawhich place the current salary average in about 24,241 grivnas, the payment for collaborating in anti -aircraft tasks represents considerable remuneration for a population that has seen its deeply affected economy after three years of conflict. It is worth everything to break down. The plan contemplates the integration of non -mobilized civilians who can act independently Under military supervision, allowing them to use not only equipment provided by the Ukraine Armed Forces, but also their own private vehicles, hunting weapons, light weapons and other available means. This decision is aligned with the tactics that have already proven to be effective and that place us in a dystopia that approaches a civil War scene: mobile units of civilians who patrol at night armed with machine guns mounted on trucks or personal cars, shooting against Russian drones from the ground. Although officially these units have heavy armament as the M2 browningit is not unusual that I also know Use shotguns To tear down FPV drones in combat areas. Supervision for volunteers. To the big question, where the money will come from for the Rewardsthe Government has explained that … Read more

Apple believed that I was conquering China. Actually China conquered her

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There are books that arrive at the right time to make you rethink what you thought were to know. ‘Apple in China: The Capture of The World’s Greatest Company‘, just published by Patrick McGee, he is one of them. Your central thesis It smells awkward truth: Apple did not conquered China. It was China who conquered Apple. For years we have seen this relationship from our perspective: not China and not American, but western. Apple brought innovation, jobs and modernity to China. Silicon Valley’s classic story exporting democratic values ​​through trade. But McGee turns that narrative around. And when he does, everything takes on another meaning. More uncomfortable. More real. On March 15, 2013, the exact moment in which Apple understood the rules. After a campaign orchestrated on Chinese state television, Tim Cook was forced to publish an apology letter in Mandarin for iPhone guarantee policies. That was a symbolic genuflection that revealed the true nature of power in that relationship. The CEO of which It was already the most valuable company in the worldPublicly forgiveness to an authoritarian regime. From the western perspective, he was humiliating. From China, it was probably logical: a multinational adapting to local customer service standards. The trap was perfect because Apple had fallen in love with something that only China could offer: ability to climb without limits. Pasa from zero to 200 million iPhone manufactured a year required impossible industrial coordination anywhere else. Apple was completely delivered: it formed 28 million Chinese workers, invested $ 7.3 billion in own equipment within foreign factories, sent its best engineers. McGee makes a devastating comparison: A private company investing in a country more than the greatest industrial effort of the American state. But Apple built that cathedral without understanding what land erected it. Without a single executive residing permanently in China. No diplomatic strategy. No contingency plan. While Apple taught its industrial secrets, Beijing did not trap, it simply applied state capitalism strategically. Used their advantage (giant market + industrial capacity) to achieve technological transfer and know-how That then be able to explode. It is not very different from what the United States does with Tiktok or Huawei. Over the years, the balance was reversed. In silence. It was no longer Apple who imposed conditions: Apple adapted. One after another. Noiseless. Without public protests. What was the alternative? Lose access to 20% of its turnover and dismantle a supply chain that had taken decades to perfect. No CEO would come out of a board of directors after proposing this idea. The book has an important weakness: It is deeply western in its sources: McGee builds his narrative mainly from Apple internal documents and testimonies of American executives. There is barely Chinese perspective. We do not know what Beijing really thought, what its internal strategy was, or how they see this relationship from the other side. It’s like counting the cold war only with pentagon files. Chinese workers appear more as a statistical resource than as actors of their own destiny. And there comes the paradox. Instead of transforming China, Apple ended up transformed by it. The most controversial decisions of the Cook era – centered, transfer of data, silence against repressions – are the calculated price of continuing to operate in the largest consumer market in the world: 1.4 billion. It is a price that Apple continues to pay each quarter. Tim Cook inherited an Apple admired for its creative independence. AND In his legacy It will be triggered financially, expand it towards the services and diversify catalog in vertical and horizontal. But will also leave an Apple cornered by its logistics units. Today Try to diversify towards India and Vietnambut structural damage is already done. Not only because most of its chain continues in China, but because Apple learned to bend. And to each market, someone else dictates the conditions. Especially when it has no alternatives. “Apple in China” is not really a book about Apple. It is a book about power in the global era. On how The company that believed that the excellence of the product guaranteed strategic independence discovered that in geopolitics, margins do not vote. Behind the iPhone that we carry in the pocket there is more than technological innovation. There are calculated assignments, silent adaptations, a reheilibrium of power so progressive that it was barely noticed until it was irreversible. If the Chinese market could redefine the rules for Apple, what multinational company really controls its destination? Outstanding image | Patrick Fore in Unspash In Xataka | The decline of the “Apple culture”. Blind devotion has evolved towards critical enthusiasm

The Accessibility Law enters into force this month and wants to change everything. From the ATM to Amazon

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As of June 28, many things will change, from the ATM menu, through the gas station’s payment terminal, to the website where you make your purchases online. The reason? It is the day that the European Directive on Accessibility. The objective of this standard is to facilitate the use of these elements, especially by people who have Some type of disability sensory or motor. Products and services it affects. The text details products that will have to adapt to the new frame. Banks automatic ATMs are an example, but will affect all types of hardware equipment and also at the software level. These are the main ones: Computer equipment for general use: computers, tablets, smartphones and their operating systems. Self -service terminals: ATMs, ticket vending machines, shift dispensers and their operating systems Telecommunications: smartphones and other equipment to access telecommunication services. Also telephone and internet services. Electronic readers Audiovisual Communication Services: As streaming or digital television platforms, Transport services: Websites, mobile applications, electronic tickets and real -time information about the trip. Electrical, water or gas services. Banking services for consumers. Electronic books and software for reading. Electronic commerce: online stores and sales platforms. Emergencies: 112 calls. The three commandments of accessibility. The regulations affect countless equipment and the requirements vary for each of them. However, all have a common framework that has three major objectives: that they are available by more than one sensory channel (visual, auditory or tactile), that are easy to understand and that can be perceived by all users. ATMs, payment terminals and the like. ATMs that meet the regulations must meet a series of specific requirements. For example, they will have to offer an auditory option for blind users, in addition to allowing the use of headphones for a matter of privacy. The keys and controls must be noticeable to touch and the screen and all its elements will have the proper contrast. Image: CaixaBank Web pages and online stores do not get rid. In this case, apply the UNE Standards 139803 and WCAG 2.2. The requirements A must meet (there are three levels, for example for public websites they will have to meet the AA level). Some of these requirements include that the page give us alternatives to the text (videos, images and audio), which can be navigated using only the keyboard, that the structure is easy to understand, with expansable texts up to 200%, well -labeled buttons and forms (nothing to ‘click here’, the user has to know where it goes) or that all the images have alternative text to be described to blind users. Online trade pages such as Amazon must meet the same requirements as web pages, but they must also make the purchase process accessible through a sound and visual notice, for example by adding something to the cart or paying the purchase. Another aspect is that they will have to facilitate details about the accessibility of the products they sell. Amazon already has a section where these requirements detail To their sellers, but we still do not know what changes will make on their website from the 28th. We have contacted them to learn more details and update when we have an answer. The hardware still has margin, the websites no. The application of the standard is June 28, but that does not mean that all affected products and services will change that day. In the case of ATMs and the like, those that were installed before that date may continue to be used “until the end of their useful life from the economic point of view, although without exceeding ten years after their commissioning.” There are 47,000 ATMs in Spain and the cost of updating each unit could amount to 3,000 euros. Of course, all who install new ones must comply with the regulations and also the entities must inform their users of which they are updated and which are not. However, according to SHOPPRESthis margin would only apply to hardware products that are already in the market, online stores must adapt on the 28th of this month, except for an exception: to be a microenterprise. To be considered microenterprise, it must have less than 10 people on staff, provided that less than 2 million euros per year is billed. Of course, online stores that are launched after June 28 must already meet the requirements. The magnifying glass of iOS There is already much advanced. Many companies have already integrated these standards in their products, so on the 28th we will not see a radical change everywhere. For example, in banking, Ing already meets The standard UNE 139803: 2012 on its website, although they do not mention anything of the ATMs and the attention offices. In the case of Caixabank, the entity highlights that Your ATMs are accessible (although without detailing whether they comply with the new standard). In the case of computer equipment or devices such as smartphones or tablets, operating systems such as iOS, Android either Windows They have numerous as a magnifying glass to expand the content, screen readers, contrast settings and size for the text and much more. Of course there are lags that must take advantage of the new standard if they do not want to face a fine. This is the case of state websites, if we look at the last Web Accessibility Observatory Reportthe thing did not paint well in the late 2024. More than half of the websites did not even comply with level A. Cover image | Pxhere In Xataka | Why the fines from Europe to Google are so relevant to the future of your privacy, we tell you in this video

The Samsung Galaxy S25 for less than 670 euros, a Garmin clock at a demolition price, computers and more. Hunting bargains

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Today is Friday of hunting bargains. The stores have launched some powerful campaigns during these days – like the FRIDAY NETWORK by Mediamarkt—, but it is just today, or actually last night, when the English Court has launched its own with offers that, at least, should be in mind: a new Save the VAT. In this article we will review some of the best offers of the week that are still available. Samsung Galaxy S25 by 665.38 euros in its 256 GB configuration when registered in Mediamarkt. Samsung Galaxy Book3 360 by 768.97 eurosa convertible computer with a 13.3 -inch screen and Windows 11 operating system. Google Pixel 9a by 453.69 eurosa very tight price for Google’s mobile. Garmin Forerunner 255 by 185.93 eurosa sports clock that we have rarely seen it so cheap. Western Digital My Passport by 103.30 eurosa hard drive with 5 TB of storage. Samsung Galaxy S25 If we talk about mobile, one of the best discounts is found in the Samsung Galaxy S25. When registering in Mediamarkt (essential to see the discount) you can get an additional discount that leaves the mobile by 665.38 euros in its 256 GB configuration. Gets much cheaper than 128 GBand much more than 512 GB. He Samsung Galaxy S25 It is a most remarkable mobile in this price range. An important point is that, like the previous generation, it will have Seven years of software updates. In addition, it sets a good processor (Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy) and has a good photographic section. Samsung Galaxy S25 (256 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Galaxy Book3 360 If what you are looking for is not a mobile, but a good laptop, in the English Court we can find the Samsung Galaxy Book3 360 by 768.97 euros. It is a convertible that mounts a 13.3 -inch touch screenits processor is an I5-1340p Evo and has both RAM and 512 GB of SSD. In addition, it comes with Windows 11 Home. * Some price may have changed from the last review Google Pixel 9a Although the Google Pixel 9 launched last year, this year the brand has launched a more economical review: the Google Pixel 9a. Since its launch we have found it with the occasional offer, but it has now been when you have received one of its best discounts. It is reduced in El Corte Inglés by 453.69 eurosalthough it is also available at the same price in other stores. He Google Pixel 9a It is another mobile that will receive software updates for seven years. It is a 6.3 -inch Poled Dispact Terminalinternally comes equipped with the Google Tensioner G4 processor and has a good photographic section. * Some price may have changed from the last review Garmin Forerunner 255 Garmin is a renowned brand in the field of sports watches and although they are usually found due to quite high prices, there are also economic models. He Garmin Forerunner 255 He is one of them and has now dropped in price in El Corte Inglés 185.93 eurosone of the best we have seen to date. The Garmin Forerunner 255 is a sports clock that mounts a 1.3 -inch touch screen. Its construction is resistant, It offers an autonomy of up to 14 days in smartwatch modeallows payments through Garmin Pay, has GPS and has more than 30 activity profiles. * Some price may have changed from the last review Western Digital My Passport Finally, although the SSDs have gained special relevance against HDD, we still find a good assortment of hard drives at a very good price. A good example is the Western Digital My Passport which is usually found on an offer very frequently and has now dropped in price in El Corte Inglés 103.30 euros. And, eye, what is the 5 TB configuration. Western Digital My Passport (5 TB) * 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 | Samsung, Google, Garmin, Western Digital In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | What is the best portable computer to work in 2025. Tips and recommendations

OpenAI has cut the price of O3 80%. And as a gift to the sector has sent a price war that will destroy margins

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Openai has moved token: the same day as presented O3 pro The price of O3 cut 80 %. It may only be segmentation, but very possibly it is also an advance of the price war that starts when the rivals already touch their performance and internal efficiency allows us to serve Tokens for cents. The new step is like this (prices per million Tokens): ENTRANCE EXIT OpenAi O3 $ 2 (before $ 10) $ 8 (before $ 40) OPENAI O3 PRO $ 20 $ 80 Gemini 2.5 Pro $ 1.25 $ 10 Claude 3.7 Sonnet $ 3 $ 15 Deepseek R.1-0528 $ 0.55 $ 2.19 That price narrowing comes because quality already converges in practice: almost all models “reason” comparable in common tasks, and hardware and inference efficiency improvements (on the side of OpenAi and the rest) reduce the marginal cost of serving each Token. The result is manual: The price becomes the main lever and segmentation appears as a containment dike —How the creation of O3 Pro, designed for customers willing to pay a lot due to low latencies, huge contexts or formal audits. For developers this is fertile land. 2 dollars a million tokens, AI ceases to be a luxury expense and looks like a CDN: Payment for use, without permanence contract. Yes tomorrow Gemini either Deepseek They offer better value for money, change is reasonably simple in infrastructure and Prompts. The blocking effect is transferred to the layer that surrounds the model (tools, data, user experience), not the model itself. At the contrary end of the cost spectrum, Apple has integrated its foundational models directly into operating systems. Any app can be invoked at home, free and without counters from Tokens No invoices at the end of the month: AI becomes as invisible as GPS or camera. It is another function. The play Remember the emergence of WordPress in the early 2000s. At that time, publishing online required or a lot of knowledge or a lot of money to pay someone to have it. WordPress loaded that barrier and democratized the publication. Twenty years later we gave the xataka legend to its creator precisely because of that. And now what? Possibly, an adjustment downward the margins in the base models and a migration of the business towards higher level services: observability, management of the management Fine Tuningprivate data accommodation, vertical agents … exactly what happened with the cloud when the price of the gigabyte sank and the value moved to the management layers. The “magic” of AI is blurred, but its usefulness – now much more affordable – opens the door to a much wider market. Just what Openai needs. In Xataka | O4-mini is much more than another model of AI. It is the Tesla Model 3 of OpenAI Outstanding image | Ilgmyzin in Unspash

This and much more in 1×10 crossover

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“Greenpeace did not save the whales, they were saved by oil.” Is one of the headlines that frequent us Taramonaluxury guest in this 1×10 crossover that as always present Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia. That is the great highlight of the program, with a long interview in which this disseminator tells us about diverse science and technology issues. Among them, how the AI ​​revolution will be accompanied by That other robotic revolution with domestic machines that accompany us in all kinds of scenarios. Taramona also opens an important reflection with that potential “world without money“In which solutions such as Universal basic income. It is an important debate – and much less resolved – that tries to foresee what will happen in society if the machines and the AI ​​are responsible for producing almost everything. Another of the issues that give us time to review is the Resurgence of nuclear energy And how the debate about your safety now returns to today. The reason, of course, is that AI will need a lot of energy and nuclear power plants They are a potential solution To that demand. But in addition to Taramona, there are two fun and striking sections to close the program. The first, the ‘unpopular opinions’ by Miguel, who raises disturbing questions such as If tech influencers use the technology they recommend or an equally intriguing: If your mobile always listens to you. And if you want to know what it feels like to go from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.2 seconds in a Porsche, there is Jaume to tell us. He does it from Valencia, where he had the opportunity (and luck) to try several models in the Ricardo Tormo circuit. Enjoy it! On YouTube | Crossover

A Spanish hospital has been responsible for taking the new step

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The ATP molecule, adenosine tryphosphate or adenosine trphosphate, It is fundamental For complex life on earth. This molecule is responsible for storing energy in cells and can now be key in a new task: end alopecia. A new study. A team of researchers from the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid has published a new work in which a treatment cell -based treatment and ATP molecule are studied. The team evaluated this technique in mice to reverse alopecia, and He did it successfully. Androgenic alopecia. The new technique seeks to try to reverse androgenic alopecia, the common baldness that affects a high proportion of the population. It is estimated that 80% of men and 40% of women experience this form of hair loss throughout their lives, according to the data provided by the team responsible for the new study. The team induced alopecia in mice through the administration of dihydrotestosterone molecule (DHT), a compound that the human body produces naturally and whose proliferation is associated with hair loss. A combined technique. The new technique to reverse alopecia combines the use of stem cells derived from adipose tissue with the ATP molecule. As explained by the team responsible for testing the mechanism, this combination is capable of stimulating hair regeneration by adding to the regenerative capacity of the cells the energy push of the molecule. “This synergy favors the recovery of the hair follicle, promoting hair growth,” explained in a press release Eduardo López Bran, work co -author. A first success. As detailed by the team, the technique managed to reverse induced alopecia in 100% of males and 90% of females treated totally or partially. In both males and females, total hair recovery occurred in 50% of cases; While in the rest of the successful cases (50% in males and 40% in females), the reversion was qualified as “intense.” The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Stem Cell Research & Therapy. Continue with the trials. For now the trials have only been performed with animal models. This indicates that the way to confirm the effectiveness and safety of this human treatment is long and lacking any guarantee of success. Despite this, the results are “promising” for the team, so in the future we could see new essays, this time in people as participants. In Xataka | The industry wants us not to fall hair never again. And it is getting closer to getting it Image | Abraham Sánchez Martínez

Samsung is playing his future with the Galaxy S26 processor. Exynos 2600 is in critical phase

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Samsung needs a plan to make its chips cast competitive again. Korean sources They point out that the smartphone industry giant is working on its new Exynos 2600 processor, with the aim of installing it in the Galaxy S26 series next year. It will be your first processor manufactured in the process of two nanometers, something that translates quickly: risk. The race for the two nanometers. We know Samsung It has been drawing a plan for years Not to be the last in the career of the two nanometers. Kye Hyun Kyung, general director of the Samsung semiconductor division, predicted in 2023 that his company would exceed TSMC and its other competitors (Intel) over the next five years. It is something that They also predicted in Intel. But, except geopolitical crisis in Taiwan and While China works on its own UVE lithography teamsTSMC seems simply unbeatable for now. Samsung, Intel and TSMC will begin this 2025 the massive production of chips with 2NM lithographic process, but the starting points are very different. Samsung keeps moving forward, but slowly. Korean sources point out that Samsung Foundry has started mass production of exynos 2600 chip TSMC 2nm lithography. In Europe it is key to be a leader (or at least, be up to it) in semiconductors for smartphones. Samsung has not taken long to give up its own processors when the performance has not been enough, and has even made artificial distinctions between members of their family S: in 2023 the S24 arrived with exynos, The ultra model, with Qualcomm. It is not being easy. Samsung has reached a 50% wafer performance for its 2 nm lithography. They remain far from the minimum necessary (70%) to make it viable to produce it on a large scale, but there is still more than half a year for the end of 2025. On the other hand, both Intel and TSMC They have shown confidence in which their nodes have enough maturity to enter mass production. In fact, TSMC already has its eyes on its 1.4 nm lithographyscheduled for 2028. Samsung will have to demonstrate that your They cannot afford to lose. Samsung He is losing money with his semiconductor division. Business Post Korea sources They collected a rumored complete restructuring of the samealready 2024 we knew that Samsung Electronics had delayed reception of some of the key ASML teams for its new chips plant in Taylor Texas. This plant is Samsung’s trick to attract US clients who do not want to depend on Taiwan or Korea. The sources pointed out that their facilities were not yet prepared to house EUV systems, fundamental to manufacture under advanced lithographic processes. Both this new factory and the lithography of 2 Nm will be key for the Samsung division to face the current situation. At a time when China drives its own nodes with SMIC and ASML faces restrictions to sell your most advanced machinesthe global industrial balance in chips depends on how many players can manufacture in this process. Future steps are already given. At the end of 2024, Samsung made the greatest change ever made in its dome. It is a movement that talked about Samsung’s position both in semiconductors and in key components to fight with giants such as SK Hynix (DRAM memories, NAND, HBM, etc.), One of the main HBM memories suppliers for NVIDIA. To lead, Samsung needs customers, and to attract them you need to recover your competitiveness. This is no longer only technical or economic: it is also geopolitical. Samsung not only competes for buyers, but for being a strategic partner for the West, a reliable alternative to TSMC. With Google betting on TSMC and abandoning exynosThe company needs to give a blunt message: launch its S26 family with its own processor. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Best Samsung mobiles: which buy and recommended models based on budget, tastes and quality price

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