Month: June 2025

It is the fourth blackout in just over a month

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The palm has run out of light. The entire island went to energy zero on Tuesday at 17:32. Two hours later, 50,289 users still without electricity supply because of a breakdown. Energy zero. The origin of the total black in La Palma this June 10 was the “shot of a generation turbine” at the Central de los Guinchos, in Breña Alta, according to an Endesa statement. The failure caused the complete collapse of the system, which as we all know since the end of April It is known as an “energy zero”. The island still had no supply two hours later, according to The breakdown map of the distributor. Red Electric is Informing live of the advances in the replacement of the supply: 6.2 megawatts of the demand had been replaced at 20:10. Emergency Plan. Since there could be people trapped in elevators and others who depend on electricity, the Canary Islands government has activated The “Emergency Plan of the Canary Islands” (Platca) in alert situation. Meanwhile, technicians work at the start of the generation, still without a clear forecast for the complete restoration of the service. Fourth blackout. While it is the first that affects the more than 50,000 palm supplies, this is the fourth big blackout suffered by the island in just over a month. The most popular until now occurred on May 8, when a ruling in a substation of the same central of the Guinchos left 19,526 customers without light for almost two hours. Without light on the beautiful island. Insular electrical systems such as Palma are more vulnerable because they are not interconnected with large continental networks, so a serious failure in a main generation plant, as has happened today in the Guinchos, can more easily cause the collapse of the entire network. But with the energy zero as a drop that fills the glass, the situation has revealed the fragility of the island’s electrical infrastructure. After four blackouts, the question is what structural measures to take to guarantee the stability of the service. Image | E-Distribution In Xataka | Spain has flooded its territory of solar panels. It is a perfect recipe for an old dream: reindustrialization

More and more are those who visit Antarctica. We have just realized the magnitude of the problems they cause

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We often hear about the damage suffered by the Antarctic ice layer, especially as a consequence of climate change. However, the icy continent is not only changing on the surface. The impact of the human being can also be noticed in the depths New images. A team of researchers He has published images of the seabed in the immediate vicinity of the Antarctic coast in which the effects of human activity in the region can be seen. Specifically they show us the impact on the marine soil that the anchors of the ships that arrive in the coasts of the southern continent. The problem is not simply landscape, it also affects the sea life of the seabed. The team showed special concern for the communities of sponges that inhabit this remote region of the ocean. Unprotected environment. The trail of human activity in this region is the result of various changes in the environment of the Antarctic Ocean. On the one hand, climate change has made waters that once remained vetoed to navigation are now accessible not only to oceanographic ships and breakfast but Also to tourist and recreational vessels. According to the team, during the 2022-23 season, at least 195 tourist, scientific and fishing vessels approached the coastal region in which possible to throw the anchor (areas with depths of no more than 82.5 meters). After the trail of ships. The group of researchers used underwater cameras to study 36 points of the seabed located in the vicinity of the Antarctic Peninsula and San Pedro Island (or Georgia del Sur). As explained, The images Captured to different depths showed disturbances both in the seabed and in underwater life, a consequence of the anchors of the ships that arrived in the environment. “The documentation is late, given the importance of these ecosystems and the protection we assign. The impacts of anchoring are infrastudiated and underestimated globally. It is important to recognize and mitigate the impacts throughout all industries and limit planned anchors,” explained in a press release Sally Watson, co -author of the study. Analysis details have been published Through an article In the magazine Frontiers in Conservation Science. Sponges in danger. The anchors are a risk to the life that extends in the seabed. According to the team, the affected areas showed few signs of marine life. What they did find were the traces of colonies of crushed sponges By effect of the arrival of humans. In contrast, in the adjacent areas “marine life flourished”, they emphasize. Especially vulnerable. An added problem is in the fact that life in these cold environments (part of this endemic life of the environment) tends to be slow growth, which makes it especially vulnerable to these types of problems. An example is found in volcano sponges (Anoxycalyx Joubini), A species found by the team in their expedition to which specimens belong that can be considered among the oldest living animals: they can reach 15,000 years of age. In Xataka | Thousands of marine ecosystems depend on only one thing: the pis and the whale droppings Image | Jeremy Stewardson / Matt Mulrennan / Kolossal

Waymo Robotaxis have become a weapon for police control. And in Los Angeles they are burning them

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What started as a protest against raids Anti -immigration in the United States resulted in bell battles in the streets of Los Angeles and the mobilization of 2,000 national guard and 700 Marines. This morning. Donald Trump has confirmed that he will double the forces of this first body and, before the doubts about your legality, has confirmed that 4,000 troops will be deployed of the National Guard. For four days, the tension has increased to the point of confronting against the police, attacking various shops and burn cars. And in the middle of this whole fight, there is a clear affected by protests: Waymo. Click on the image to go to the original tweet Waymo, objective of protests No t -shirt, with the face covered and waving a flag of Mexico uploaded to the roof of a completely vandalized Waymo car. It is undoubtedly one of the most representative images of the protests that are being carried out in the United States. “Sometimes an image says everything to say”, Aldo Butazzoni points out in its publicationconservative journalist who is following the disturbances in the street. Getting to the Waymo vehicle roof is no accident. The company that has active a robotaxis service in the city is being one of the companies that are receiving more attacks, seeing how protesters completely destroy their cars. Last June 8, A photograph went viral. He showed at least three vehicles on fire. The company raised the figure to five cars and confirmed that it temporarily paused the service before the protests. In Los Angeles Times They assured that the protesters came to launch shared scooters of the Lime company against vehicles to access the interior. In his photographs a person is also seen trying to break one of the front windows with a skate table. But why this virulent attack on the company? Beyond the obvious damage to urban furniture with the burning of these cars and the intention of making difficulties to the police work, everything indicates that the company is being hard attacked by the protesters for deeper reasons. Since Waymo launched, attacks on the company have been multiple. In July last year, a person was accused of clicking the wheels to 17 Waymo vehicles. But it has not been the only vandalism, the previous months caught fire and destroyed the company’s cars in Los Angeles and San Franciscowhere they also operate. “Waymo lacks humanity. It is expensive and politicians, who have encouraged it, use it as an excuse to stop financing public transport. I hope Waymo collapses. With these words, Elise Joshi, well -known climatic activist, his position against Waymo attacks these days in these days explained in these days A publication in X. The Waymo service has always been surrounded by controversy. Although they are already approaching the 800,000 monthly travelersthe company has had to deal with the opposition of those who see in the service an attack against public transport, one more tool of the great technology of earning money without using people and a problem in day -to -day mobility. In recent years we have seen, for example, how Erobotaxis services caused various mobility problems. Some of little importance, such as almost 600 fines that accumulated Waymo cars for parking where they should not in a single year. But also more serious, like Cruise’s car than parked on top of a woman hit or the vehicles that complicated the work of firefighters. Those derived from the impact of these robotaxis companies are very wide. To the point that there are those who have questioned If they are the cause of more housing problems in cities like San Francisco. Constant surveillance There is another great derivative of why Waymo cars are constantly attacked. Beyond the social or political positioning before the service, when someone vandates a Waymo car ensures that it cannot be used by the police. They point out in Time that police forces are using Waymo cameras recurrently in their research. Each Waymo I-Pace Jaguar has 29 cameras to control everything that occurs around. That makes them a powerful asset for the police. In 404 average They published last April that the Los Angeles Police Department This video uploaded to YouTube To ask for citizen collaboration when locating the driver of a vehicle that would have hit a person in an accident that had nothing to do with the performance of the Robotaxi. In that article, Waymo said that he studied in detail all the requests of the police and that he did not deliver images indiscriminately but in Bloomberg They already pointed out in 2023 that the procedure for helping these vehicles was increasingly common. In fact, the media indicated that not only Waymo has been appealed by the police when collecting information for an alleged crime. Order forces too They would have asked for images To Tesla, according to the economic environment, since their cameras are recording at all times what happens around them. In fact, Elon Musk’s company has been accused of record their own owners in their homes without them knowing it. “We have known for a long time that they are essentially wheel surveillance cameras,” said Chris Gilliard, a merit member of the Carnegie Council for ethics in international affairs to Bloomberg. “We are supposed to be able to make our daily lives without being persecuted unless we are suspected of a crime, and every bit of this technology eliminates that capacity,” he concluded. Photo | Paul Goyette and Waymo In Xataka | I have tried a totally autonomous taxi. This is traveling without driver

imitate what android had already done

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When Apple presented Apple Intelligence I was quite confusing. One of the companies referring to the world of technology was shouting at the four winds that had practically nothing relevant on the table. One of the most striking novelties, that of A Siri with contextual understanding And capable of executing local Apple models in a conversational context, it ended up delaying without a date in view. The rest of the functions? Warm and little innovative. Meanwhile, Samsung pushed from Google’s hand to create A AI tool suite for mobile to which nothing could not be reproached. Something they recently achieved with the family Samsung Galaxy S25the maximum current reference in artificial intelligence. Apple has shown how AI for mobile. Even missing a lot of what they promised in their daywe already know how Apple understands the AI ​​for mobiles. Its approximation is local, Leaving third parties like OpenAi The complex process (consultations that require search in Siri, contextual analysis of the screen), and centralizing in its own model the native functions of AI that execute their apps (translations, call filters, minor editions of image). It is an AI in which developers will have a lot to do: their models will be accessible so that applications can use artificial intelligence locally and without connection. But this local approach is not enough, Apple has failed to contribute a single function that was no longer present on Android. Arrive late when the rest arrives soon and well. Apple is usually said that it is late, but it is well. The problem is to be late and well when your rivals arrive soon and well. The functions presented yesterday by Apple have been present at Android for some time. The translation of real -time calls was already present in One UI. Text translation on screen is a native Gemini function that already implement manufacturers such as OnePlus and Samsung. The contextual analysis of the screen is a function that Google premiered with “Roda to search”and that has currently advanced to the point where Gemini can talk with us in real time about what he sees on our mobile. Intelligent summaries also have been hand in hand with Gemini. Apple’s approach, in functions such as spam detection, is enough less fine than Google’s. The company analyzes by means of patterns in the call to determine whether or not spam and warns us on the screen of the potential risk. Apple has opted to block all calls from unknown numbers and force the interlocutor to give explanations about who he is and what he wants. Good to block fraudulent calls, annoying for important emergencies and calls from numbers that we do not have stored on the agenda. Samsung and local execution. One of Apple’s most applauded points and its AI is the local approach. Here they seem to be in the lead, although more for demerit of the rest of their rivals than by the operation of their models. Currently, the AI ​​on Android is divided into two: Samsung and the rest of the manufacturers. The rest of Oems bet on implementing the functions of Gemini Nano With little care, so the Internet connection is mandatory. However, manufacturers such as Samsung have been allowing users for two years to use local. Advanced functions such as image generation do not work, but the elimination of sound, light generative editions (allowance) or transcripts work at home. For Apple is not what, is how. Apple has always been pragmatic. He knows that his models are more than valid for the execution of simple tasks, and delegates the complex tasks in OpenAi. It also does it, relying on three pillars. It is optional. It is private. It is interchangeable. For Apple, Private Cloud Compute It is fundamental. The company has designed an architecture that, in case of needing Internet connection for complex tasks, is extremely careful with the data launched to the server. This data shipping is encrypted from end to end, and not even company employees have access, according to Apple. A local, private and jealous with the data is a more limited AI, and Apple is willing to deal with it. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Apple has decided not to lead the AI ​​revolution. Instead, he has chosen to be his best host

Mediamarkt starts its friday network with a ton of technology offers

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Many users wait for the most important events of the year to renew their devices. This, generally, always implies waiting for Black Friday. The problem is that this event is only in November, so maybe we are not good to wait so long. The good news is that different events are coming out in other stores And in fact now Mediamarkt has its own version of this: Your call FRIDAY NETWORK. Offers in technology with exclusive discounts on the app This Mediamarkt event is one of the best that this store carries out throughout the year. The friday network, which will be available from today Until next June 20 at 9 amit has offers in virtually any category that occurs to us: from telephony to television, through home, mobility and even video games. The offers will be available for 10 days (or until they are exhausted, of course), but only today and until tomorrow at 9 in the morning we have the opportunity to take us An exclusive 15% discount If we make the purchase from the Medamarkt app. That is the only requirement for this and the discount will apply automatically when putting the product in the cart. These are some of his best chollos As we have said above, there are many offers that Mediamarkt have available and that is worth it. To facilitate the task, we leave you below a selection of five of the most prominent: Google Pixel 9athe most recent of this range of phones, by 599 euros. Samsung Odyssey 3Dwhich allows you to enjoy 3D video games natively without glasses, by 1,199 euros. Kingdom eats Deliverance 2in its version for PlayStation 5, by 49.99 euros. Smart TV Philipswith QLED and 55 inches technology, by 449 euros. Huawei Fit 4recently released smartwatch and with gift headphones, by 149 euros. Google Pixel 9a We start this selection with a current, powerful and very compact mobile. He Google Pixel 9a It is a device that stands out for mounting the Google G4 tensioner (the same as its older brothers), to have A 6.3 -inch poed screen and for having a good rear camera system. Right now we have it reduced to the 599 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Odyssey 3D With regard to gaming monitors, few are as special as the Odyssey 3D of Samsung. It is a device that allows to play any game compatible with 3D effect, without the need for glasses or any viewer. In addition, it is a 27 -inch option, 4K resolution and an update frequency of 165 Hz. It has discounts: 2,141 euros go on to cost 1,199 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review Kingdom eats Deliverance 2 If we talk about the best video game releases of what is going from 2025, it is impossible not to put this fight in the fight Kingdom eats Deliverance 2. We are facing a deep medieval RPG, With an outstanding graphic section And with a freedom that will allow us to play as we want. It is an outstanding title that now, in its PS5 version, goes out for 49.99 euros. Kingdom eats Deliverance II * Some price may have changed from the last review Smart TV Philips Betting on a Philips television is having ambilight at home, an lighting that greatly increases the immersion in what we want to see. This model, with QLED technology and 4K resolution, has 55 inches, a great diagonal that is perfect for almost any instance. Besides, is compatible with Dolby Atmos and has HDMI 2.1 (as well as VRR), so it is perfect for gaming. It comes out by 449 euros. Philips Ambilight 55pus8510/12 * Some price may have changed from the last review Huawei Fit 4 We close this selection of offers with the Huawei Fit 4a sports court smartwatch that the Chinese manufacturer premiered very recently. It is a device designed to be resistant but very light, since its sphere barely weighs 27 grams. In addition, it comes with 1.82 -inch AMOLED screen (with 2,000 maximum brightness) and a lot of sports modes. It comes out by 149 eurosa price for which we will have to put the clock in the cart. In addition, it comes with Freebuds se2 as a gift. Huawei Fit 4 + Freebuds Se2 * 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 | Buying, Mediamarkt, Google, Samsung, Sony, Philips, Huawei In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K

After mobiles, cars and chips, China is launching its biotechnological offensive. And the West will not be able to block it with tariffs

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China has just achieved something historical: that an American pharmacist pay 5,000 million dollars for a Chinese drug against cancer. It is the highest figure ever paid by a Chinese medical innovation. Why is it important. This news It is the perfect example of how, in the middle of a war for semiconductors, chips and rare earths, China is beginning to lead an even more strategic industry: biotechnological. Medicines do not know borders or tariffs. The context. In 2011, China approved the first oncological drug developed at home: an improved copy of a western medication. Fourteen years later, a Chinese biespecific antibody threatens best -selling medication in the world, Keytruda, of Merck, which invoice 29.5 billion dollars annually. What has happened. Chinese transformation into biotechnology follows a recognizable pattern. First arrived Betta Pharmaceuticals Pume: A “I” version of Western therapies. It worked equally well, it cost less, but never left China. Then came Beigene Brukinsa: The jump to “I better.” It became the first Chinese oncological drug approved by the US FDA. Today it is sold in 65 countries and generates 2.6 billion dollars a year. The third step was Carvykti by Legend Biotech: A cell therapy that genetically modifies patient cells to attack cancer. Johnson & Johnson associated to take her worldwide. In the foreground. The fourth act is underway with ‘Ivonescimab’ by Akeso Biopharma. This biespecific antibody simultaneously attacks two targets of cancer. Summit Therapeutics He opted 5,000 million dollars for himmaking it the greatest operation of Chinese pharmaceutical license in history. The bet is huge: Ivonescimab intends to dethrone Keytruda as world oncological standard. Global clinical trials will decide if China can create next Blockbuster medicinal. In figures. The numbers show the speed of Chinese advance: 2011: First approved Chinese oncological drug. 2019: First FDA approval for a Chinese drug. 2024: Chinese pharmaceutical licenses grew from 35,000 to 46,000 million dollars. Only five Chinese drugs have achieved FDA approval. Between the lines. Biotechnology implies unique geopolitical advantages against semiconductors. The medications are not blocked with sanctions: they save lives regardless of their origin. Western governments cannot prohibit Chinese oncological drugs without enraging patients, doctors and society in general. China understands and is attracting global pharmaceutical talent with mass financing and flexible regulations. The result: Chinese laboratories developing therapies that Western multinationals buy for a lot of money. Yes, but. Success is not guaranteed. 90% experimental drugs fail in clinical trials. Ivonescimab must demonstrate superiority against Keytruda In non -Chinese patients, something we should not give for granted. In addition, geopolitics can complicate things. Legend Biotech broke links with its matrix for American pressures. And the weather does not help. What is happening now. China has replicated in biotechnology its classic manual in technology: Attract expatriate talent. Generously finance startups. Create national champions Climb globally. The difference: medicines generate less political resistance than chips. It is possible that a striking scenario may occur: Western patients depending on Chinese medical innovations. Irony is perfect: China dominates an industry where its success directly benefits Western citizens. But of course, who captures the economic value is her. Deepen. Akeso’s case is especially emblematic. Its founder, Michelle XiaI felt frustration seeing how the best treatments took decades to reach Chinese patients. And decided to invest the equation: create in China therapies that the rest of the world would need. In Xataka | China is already a power greater than Europe in one of its key industries: the development of medicines Outstanding image | Akeso

Influencers have stopped having normal lives

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The last controversy on the Spanish Internet comes from the hand of Lola Lolita and the creator of content Nil Ojeda. A documentary about the day to day of the popular influencer has unleashed the controversy by The behavior of its protagonist. And, above all, puts on the table how our relationship with the Celebrities From the Internet: from people who could be our friends and whose main value was closeness, to an exhibition of economic power that greatly moves them away from most of their audience. What happened? The video corresponds to the series 21 days between millionairesin which Ojeda spends full days with different people of high economic high status, usually very young. In less than 24 hours, the episode dedicated to the influencer Lola Lolita It has unleashed negative reactions that have not occurred in those of others of the protagonists of the series. Some of your comments They have been considered class or haughtyreceiving special attention a conflict generated by the purchase of luxury bags. As part of a “personal favor” that Lola asks in the episode, she requests that you buy a Saddle de Dior bag valued at about 4,000 euros. However, Nil decides to distribute the budget and proposes to buy two Louis Vuitton bags (about 2,000 euros each), for Lola and one of his companions, Leto, which causes Lola’s anger. Finally, Lola chooses the East West onthego bag from Louis Vuitton, of 2,800 euros. Reaction against. Criticisms accuse her of abuse not only the rest of the people who make up the group but also to the workers of the luxury shops to those who come. It is a behavior that Some content creators Specialized in this type of material have not seen how especially surprising, if the personality and trajectory of Lola Lolita is known, which has starred in numerous controversies: Ha trivialized breast cancertheir relationship with brands and different campaigns It has been problematic And, in general, he has led a life, like that of so many others Influencers“alien” to normal and the day -to -day problems of most of its followers. The origin of the influence. If for something the case of Lola Lolita is useful to be able to contrast it with the first Influencersthat in a very primitive version they began to appear on blogs and YouTube around the change of the 10th semi-stirred names as Chusita Fashion Fever, Inesmellamn either MUZSKA89 They were the Pioneers of Youtuber stardom, whose main characteristic was its naturalness before the Chamber or addressing everyday problems. Digital democratization allowed, very shortly after, people like Elrubius, Vegetta777 or Loulogio became referents. Anyone could be. Instagram arrives. The next step in evolution occurred in 2012, when Instagram arrived in Spain and people like María Pombo and Marta Pombo, already closer to What we understand today as influencer And, of course, much more on the line of Lola Lolita. Often linked to the fashion world, their recurring themes became travel and lifestyle with luxury exhibition, often with sponsorships and paid advertising. Tiktok and pointers in the format, such as Marta Díaz, finished consecrating the brief video as the preferred format of the public. He soon arrived professionalization, and with it, new generations of creators as disparate as Georgina Rodríguez or Ibai Llanos. To the elite. Many of those mentioned (María Pombo, Georgina), more others such as Dulceida, Gala González, Marta Lozano or Alexandra Pereira have built empires with millions of followers and millionaire contracts. Often its content goes to the time of a lifestyle completely to normal: exclusive trips, very expensive fashion, unattainable marks, luxury and exclusive consumption. They thus become aspirational funnels very different from the first influencers, but also have a negative side: their occasional lack, halfway between the character and genuine behavior, of any type of empathy or contact with everyday reality. The bubble. The life of Influencers Millionaires usually pass in a bubble of privileges, exclusive trips and collaborations with luxury brands. Sociologist Silvia Muelas tells that “The media survival of these characters depends many times on their ability to generate controversy or show excesses, which leads to an exhibition of self -destructive or disconnected behaviors of reality.” But it is not only about isolation, but that fame or money makes them little empathic: the escape from influencers to Andorra, headed by Elrubius, Not to pay taxes; THES OF THEGREGF as homemade; Willyrex’s phase like NFT Adalid… The arrival of money seems to have taken away many of them from normality and has led them to out of control that is giving birth to a generation of influencers as detached from normality such as Lola Lolita. Header | Nil Ojeda In Xataka | The Prado Museum closed its doors so that Dua Lipa could create content. That has generated a furious debate

The questions you have sent us (and your answers) about this steam vertical plate

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Let’s answer Your doubts about the Rowenta Aerosteamthe vertical steam iron to be able to iron with one hand. We have been testing it several days, and now we bring you a video with all the answers to the questions that you have been sending us about it to it Our Instagram profile. Q & A Rowenta Aerosteam No one likes to ironand that’s why there are several brands that are trying to innovate to do this domestic work a little easier. Rowenta’s last proposal is this steam brush with which to be able to iron using a single hand. We start the video answering the most essential question: how it is used. Plug the iron, because it has cable and not battery. Then fill your water tank and press the ignition button. When it is hot, we can choose the ironing mode, and then you pass it in a garment that you have hanging so that the wrinkles are disappearing. From this answer other questions arise, and we tell you how long does it take to warm upthat from when you press the button until it is ready they can be about 20 seconds. We also tell you that your water tank is 100ml, which is usually always given to iron a garment. That the deposit is not very large helps that this plate does not weigh much, which in fact is something you have asked us, and this device of about 32.5 cm long weighs between 1.2 or 1.3 kg. But even so, for how the weight is distributed, it is very easy to use and makes it well balanced in your hand. Then we turn to a flash round to answer several questions related to the accessories, with whether you have to keep the button or its price, also giving yourself A discount code In case you are interested. We also talk about your power, or whether it is suitable for all types of tissues. Then, we end with doubts about whether it has turbo, something we take to explain all your waysand if the results are like those of conventional plates, but it is best to see the complete video to see all the answers we give to the questions you have sent us. This content is a collaboration and sponsorship between Xataka and the brand, but there is no pact on the script or the selection of the issues. The editorial content is prepared entirely by Xataka.

An engine that the United States tried to build without success in the Cold War

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The new space race has brought back the attempts to develop rocket engines much faster. And it is not NASA, but the European Space Agency who is chasing the old dream. Context. The thermal Nuclear Propulsion Motor (NTP) is an almost as old idea as the space race itself. In the same 1961 speech with which John F. Kennedy promised to take a man to the moon, he also requested funds for the Nuclear Rover rocket with the promise of “an even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space.” More than 60 years later, space nuclear dream is still a unfulfilled promise. Europe wants to try. Interplanetary trips twice as fast. That is the central promise of nuclear propulsion, and ESA believes that it is an attainable future to reduce the nine months of earth-marte travel to half. With the help of the heavyweights of the French space and nuclear industry (CEA, Arianegroup and Framatome), ESA has concluded in his study alumni that technology offers “huge increases in performance” and “can be operated safely.” Meanwhile, in the United States. NASA has had to end its last attempt to develop an NTP engine. He Draco projectdirect heir to the initiatives of the 60s (the Rover and Nerva projects), has fallen into the Trump administration cuts. The justification of the White House for cutting is that they are “expensive investments” and “there are other alternatives.” The news has fallen as a jug of cold water for those involved. Bhavya Lal, former associated administrator of the NASA, He said to Spacenews: “We have spent almost 20,000 million dollars in space nuclear energy since the 50s and the only system we currently have is a radioisotope generator the size of a 100 watt bulb.” Many possibilities. One thing is the generators of the Martian Rovers or the Voyager and New Horizons probes, which use the heat of passive disintegration of the plutonium to generate some electricity with their small radioisotope generators (RTG), and a very different one is an active fission reactor to generate a massive thrust (a NTP rocket engine). New Horizons illustrates the difference well. It was one Mission to explore Plutobut it passed through the dwarf planet without the capacity to enter its orbit, obtaining just 24 hours of data. With nuclear propulsion, I could have orbized for years, and the scientific return would have been immensely superior. Oh, irony. Jared Isaacman, Trump’s nominated to direct NASA that was removed when Elon Musk lost its influence on the White Househe was a supporter of the development of this type of engines. The NTP are “exactly the type of thing in which NASA should concentrate its resources,” he said on one occasion. Now, Without Isaacman And with the Canceled Draco project, Europe embarks cautiously on the path of nuclear propulsion while the United States step back. Kennedy’s promise is still waiting. Of course, the things of space go slowly, and there are still a few viability studies before the European thermal nuclear propulsion engine takes shape. Image | POT In Xataka | Electronuclear and Nuclear Fusion Propulsion are the options of science to take us to deep space

24.1% of stress rotation and burnout

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Detachment and job dissatisfaction have grown in a technological field shaken by changes of different kinds: template reductionschanges in working hours and changes in Labor policies. That has resulted in an increase in labor rotation in 2025. Stress and The lack of motivation They put the icing on a situation in which more and more employees look for a new job, according to survey data ‘Employee Experience Report 2025‘ of Nailted. Not just losing an employee. The last Employee Experience Report de Nailted, which includes the opinion of more than 32,000 employees in 126 companies. Such and As they point out From Manfred, this data reveals that the increase in template rotation is the direct consequence of a decline labor commitment and an increasingly deteriorated employee experience. “We are in a moment of emotional wear on the teams, and we must act with head (and with data),” warn the authors of the report. “When someone leaves, not only changes a name in a database: knowledge, relationships and part of the culture of the team are lost.” Employees do not find their place. In 2025, labor rotation They have reached 24.1% compared to the 19.19% registered in 2024. The authors point out this data as an alarming figure that reflects emotional wear in equipment that not only affects the stability of companies, but also puts at risk the continuity and quality of technological projects. Of this total, 8.73% of the outputs correspond to voluntary outputsslightly less than 9.39% of the previous year, motivated mainly by dissatisfaction and discomfort in the job. On the other hand, layoffs encouraged by companies have increased considerably, reaching 8.87% compared to 6.98% of 2024. These variations reflect a context of template settings On the part of the companies, and a scenario of uncertainty for cooling the labor market, which makes employees looking for a new job, think twice before changing. ENPS: A thermometer that alerts the commitment. One of the values ​​that the Nailted study calculates is the ENPS index (Employee Net Promoter Score), which measures employees’ emotional commitment to their companies on a scale of -100 to 100, being 0 a neutral assessment. The data suggests that this index has suffered a significant fall in 2025, standing at +17, which represents a drop of 9 points compared to the previous year and the worst data of the historical series. To put it in perspective, in 2021 the index reached +32 and in 2023, after a massive wave of layoffs in the technological sector, it remained in +36. This sustained descent reflects a clear loss in the satisfaction and emotional bond of workers with their companies. As the report points out, “less people would recommend your company as a good place to work”, a symptom confirming the Increase in labor rotation. Stress as a trigger. The increase in rotation is closely linked to the increase in work stress. In 2025, 18.12% of employees declare work Under high stress, while 29.7% experience it occasionally. This constant pressure contributes to emotional wear that directly impacts the motivation and job satisfaction. Consequently, aspects such as feeling satisfied with the work, speaking positively about the company or feeling proud of the work carried out have decreased in different percentages compared to previous years. Reading is aggravated when only 58.89% of workers feel that their company supports them to Manage stresswhich represents a decrease of 5.98% compared to 2024, evidencing an increase in the feeling of abandonment of companies in terms of well -being. This is not paid. To the fall in the perception of the welfare of the workers, the salary injustice is added. Barely 43.21% consider that Your remuneration is fair In relation to their experience and responsibilities, a figure that has dropped 4.22% in one year. This negative perception It is one of the main causes that feed the rotation, since it directly affects the motivation and commitment of employees, deriving in the Burned worker syndrome either Burnoutas well as in an increase in “Silent resignation“That is, just do what is strictly necessary not to be fired. In Xataka | The harsh reality of wages in Spain: the most frequent gross salary in 2023 did not exceed 16,000 euros a year Image | Unspash (Annie Spratt)

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