Month: July 2025

Tiktok and Instagram have become an immense compilation of stolen videos. And they have no idea how to solve it

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Open Tiktok (or your trusted short videos platform) and the following appears: a clip extracted from a podcast uploaded by random account @user97567, a video to a split screen with a talk up and Parkour in Minecraft below and a compilation of cat videos that upload @funnycatslolhaha. What do all these clips have in common? That none is proper. All that content It has been stolen to its original creators And the problem is that no platform seems to know how to solve it. Context. When you go up to the Internet, controlling its distribution is extremely complicated. In the same way that no one can prevent you from copying and hitting this text on a blog, preventing someone from downloading A YouTube video, A Tiktok, A reela content in general, it is not an easy thing. On many occasions the platform itself allows and, if not, it is possible to resort to third -party tools that sometimes can even remove the water brand. 21 Instagram tricks – Tutorial with all secrets! So that. Profiles that rectify content of other users do not do so for love of art. They do it with two possible objectives: monetize the account using dedicated platform funds or inflate the figures to sell them. Surely names Babronazi o PostureoEspañol make the bell sound. It is also possible that it is a fans account, in which case the reason may be more innocent. Be that as it may, these accounts are promoted based on stealing content from other users and republicing it after a slight modification (if any). The typical “for you”: Memes accounts, cat videos and accounts with zero units of own content | Captures: Xataka In fact, there are profiles and courses specialized in what is normally known as “network automation”. Roughlythis system consists of combining AI tools, videos of other creators and fast editing templates to generate a huge volume of videos and monetize the account. It is one of those practices to “generate passive income“, among quotes, how strong they usually hit in a certain segment of the population. The reality, however, is much more complex. Solutions. Few, unfortunately. Some users have found to embed a water mark within the video itself a way that, if any discharge tool can eliminate what generates the platform, that remains. However, the reality is that social platforms have failed to stop the distribution of original content by third parties. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Tiktok are full of that content. The algorithm mixes it with the original content and serves it to users, which consume it. To all purposes, the platform is gaining because its objective (increase retention) is achieved. The creator, although it can be relatively benefited in terms of exposure, loses the gain that, potentially, could have had his profile of having published said content. Image | Xataka What are platforms doing. Given this situation, some platforms have tried to take measures with greater or lesser success. YouTube has it well tied. Although it is possible to continue up and monetizing “reused content”, that is, the typical video reacting to the new song of X or the video of another creator, the platform does not allow monetizing what it considers “non -authentic content” (mass made videos) or clips extracted from a podcast that is not yours. This applies to both long videos and shorts. Instagram allows Upstate third parties and does not hit. Now, if you detect that someone has uploaded a video of another person, you will automatically add an “original content of” content and link it to your profile. Politics, however, is … complex. The material edited materially, see “a person appears in a superimposed video and adds new information, such as comments”, is allowed and distributed as normally. Facebook has been more permissive (to the point of allowing direct monetization of videos with non -original content), so far. THE META PLATFORM has announced which will adopt in its reels a policy similar to that of Instagram. However, there are no mechanisms to prevent a reused content page. Tiktok It has some guides That, on paper, they exclude from ‘for you’ the “reproduced or non -original content that does not incorporate new or creative changes.” The reality, however, is that it is enough to add subtitles or make some edition for the video to be distributed as normally. Another issue is intellectual property. This is a swampy terrain and the platforms usually cover their backs in their policies prohibiting it, directly. When we upload a video to Tiktok or Instagram we grant a global license so that this video is exploited, but the rights of said video remain ours. We could, in theory, put a copy of Copyright to all the accounts that we see to use our content, but that is an intense job and, speaking in silver, putting doors to the field. We can find the same in other sectors. For example, models uploaded to 3D printing repositories are, unless it is marked, for personal use. That a Makerworld model is downloaded has no commercial license to exploit it in your Etsy store. However, this a practice known and persecuted by the community, but against which it is difficult to fight. In summary. The accounts that use third parties will not disappear and combat this practice does not seem easy. That is a full -fledged paradox, since the platforms encourage users to raise original content, but at the same time they do not protect it completely. And not only that, but the user does not care in excess because, after all, they go to these platforms to entertain themselves. It is indifferent if that entertainment comes from the most worked video in the world, a compilation of funny babies, the Senimous Iteration of Tung Tung Tung Sahur or a video of a boy dancing on a kayak. Cover image | Xataka

The artificial skin that feels heat and cuts is already real. It is the first big step for robots to look more like us

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Can a robotic hand like that of Optimus or that of 1x get to feel like ours? Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University College London believe they have taken an important step in that direction. They have developed one Artificial skin Composed of a single flexible material, capable of detecting temperature, pressure, cuts and multiple simultaneous touches. All without rigid layers or sensors distributed inside. And the most promising, according to its creators, is that it can adapt to complex forms and promises a relatively simple manufacturing process: it is enough to melt it, pour it into a silicone mold, remove the internal positive and place it as a glove on a robotic structure, as shown in This demonstrative video. The nucleus of this technology is a driver hydrogel that, when combined with electric impedance (EIT) tomography, allows you to continuously register what happens on its surface. When a stimulus occurs – contract, heat or pressure – the fields are altered. The system detects not only the type of stimulus, but also its location and environmental conditions. All this is interpreted through automatic learning, with latencies that depend on the number of active channels, explain in the article published in Science Robotics. A soft membrane, millions of data The best example of the system is a robotic hand of real size, hollow inside, fully covered with this artificial skin. Instead of distributed sensors, use exclusively 32 electrodes placed on the wrist. This configuration was sufficient to extract more than 1.7 million information channels, derived from 863,040 different combinations. During the tests, the hand was exposed to different stimuli: a human finger, a thermal probe, the impact of a scalpel. In all cases it was able to distinguish the type of interaction and locate it with an average precision of about 25 millimeters above its entire surface. The interesting thing is that a sensor is not necessary for each type of stimulus. The membrane itself reacts differently depending on the intensity or nature of the contact, and it is the model of the one that identifies the most relevant signal between hundreds of thousands of possibilities. In addition to touch, this skin is able to monitor the environment. During a 100 -hour test, the system registered variations between 19 and 25 ° C and between 38 and 72% relative humidity, as details The official note of the University of Cambridge. All this with a design without rigid components, which facilitates its integration into Prosthesis, technical clothing, control surfaces or collaborative robots. Applications ranging from rehabilitation and remote exploration to the automobile sector. Of course, this development does not start from zero. In recent years we have seen other proposals that seek to endow robot sensitivity, such as This synthetic skin capable of replicating pain, This other that presumes to approach human skin as never beforeeither A capable of self -backing and recycling. What distinguishes the work of Cambridge and UCL is its radically simplified approach: a single flexible layer, without mechanical components, which centralizes all sensitivity and interprets it by software. Challenges remain in front: improve the resolution in areas far from the electrodes, reinforce the resistance of the long -term hydrogel. But paradigm shift seems to be underway. Everything indicates that it is a matter of time until we see robots not only more advanced in mobility and interaction, but also closer to us in appearance and physical sensitivity. An artificial skin like this opens the door to a new generation of machines that not only execute tasks, but also “feel” the surrounding environment. Even so, we are far from reaching the level of realism that proposes’Detroit: Become Human‘. Images | Cambridge University (1, 2, 3) | Quantic Dream In Xataka | Figure 02 has worked only for an hour. The shocking thing is that your brain already remembers and your hands “feel”

We know exactly where and when the longest solar eclipse will occur in history: our great -great grandchildren will see it

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On July 16, 2186, the Moon will align perfectly between Earth and the Sun, creating an unprecedented eclipse. Unless Millionaire eccentric determined to rejuvenate Be successful, none of us will be here to see it. But our descendants will want to spend that day somewhere in Colombia, Venezuela or Guyana. 7 minutes and 29 seconds. The longest total solar eclipse in history will exceed in almost two seconds the duration of the record until now: the eclipse of June 15 of the year 743 AC, which reached a totality of 7 minutes and 27 seconds on the Indian Ocean, near the current Kenya and Somalia. No eclipse will have lasted so much From before 4000 ACand none will do it until after 8000 AD, so we can be sure that it will be a really unique astronomical event. The total solar eclipse of longer duration in an interval of 12,000 years. The moon will obscure South America. The historical solar eclipse of 7 minutes and 29 seconds will not occur on the mainland: the strip of totality will reach its largest duration over the Atlantic Ocean. However, northern South America will also enjoy extraordinarily long totalities. Especially in Colombia (from Cali to Puerto Ayacucho), Venezuela (from the Orinoco to Imataca) and Guyana (throughout the northern half of the country, including Georgetown). The show will not be limited to that narrow strip. Virtually all South America, including the entire Brazilian territory, can observe a partial eclipse of great magnitude. The eclipse will also be partially visible from Mexico to Paraguay, and west of Africa. In Spain, the Canary Islands will barely touch at sunset. Why it will last so long. The reason for this extreme duration is a “perfect storm” in the positions of the three bodies. The Earth will be at its point farther from the sun (its aphelium), which will make the solar disk look slightly smaller. The Moon, meanwhile, will be at its closest point to Earth (its perigee), so its apparent album will be larger. And finally, the eclipse trajectory will pass very close to Ecuador Earth. This combination maximizes the time that the shadow of the moon takes to sweep the surface of the earth. How we are so sure. Eclipses’ prediction is one of the most successful feats of computational astronomy. The scientists feed their superorders with the current positions and speeds of the Earth and the Moon, and then use Newton’s Movement Laws to know what will happen within several centuries or even millennia. These algorithms are actually models that integrate gravitational equations to project their positions in the future. And they do it with amazing precision, usually with a margin of error of less than one minute over hundreds of years. Primo brother of a recent eclipse. The total solar eclipse of 2186 belongs to the same “lineage” as the great eclipse of North America of April 8, 2024, The Saros 139 cycle. A cycle of Saros is a period of approximately 18 years, 11 days and 8 hours, after which the Sol-Tierra-Luna geometry is repeated almost identically, producing a very similar eclipse but displaced about 120 degrees to the west. The discussions among the eclipses enthusiasts already fantasize about how the hunting of this event will be in 2186. There is talk of flotles of cruises positioned in the Atlantic and flights in hypersonic airplanes to pursue the shadow and further extend the experience of totality. Although we can only imagine it, it is a fascinating reminder of how science allows us to travel in time and be witnesses, at least on paper, of the wonders that the cosmos reserve for future generations. Image | THAT In Xataka | Two European ships synchronized in space to create an artificial eclipse. It is a before and after in solar science

comes from India and has an ambitious plan

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Ryanair is an airline Very criticizedbut to which he always turns. It is something that the company itself boasts in your social networks Because, in some way, the price weighs a lot in every purchase decision and if we talk about transport, even more. The success of the Low Cost It is indisputable, but it is no longer alone. Now he will share space with Indigo, the Low Cost India that has been operating in Europe for a few days. Indigo? Perhaps the name is not as familiar to us in Europe as Iberia, KLM or Delta, but Indigo is one of the most important airlines in the world in general and Asia in particular. In global termsis the seventh airline for daily flights and the novena by volume of passengers and routes served. In India, his native country is the most important airline With a market share of 64.1%. The whopping 2,200 daily flights to more than 130 destinations, the majority domestic and some international operates. Indigo Boeing 787-9 | Image: Indigo And speaking of international. The airline has long been operating international flights (since 2011, specifically), but in February 2025 he announced an ambitious expansion plan throughout the globe. The first destination, due to relative closeness and commercial interests, could be none other than Europe. It should be noted that the company already operated India-Europa flights with a scale in Istanbul and code shared with Turkish Airlines, but not its own flights. That was until March, when Indigo advertisement His first destinations to the old continent: Manchester and Amsterdam. Three weekly flights Bombay address that began in July with significantly lower and unique prices. In fact, Indigo has the only Manchester-Indian route without scales. And how about? The Indigo approach is similar to Ryanair: cheap flights in exchange for losing benefits, see free seat selection, seats themselves or the non -existent infotainment system. Although the price of flights depends on infinite factors, we can make a case now, in full high season. A Manchester-Bombay flight on July 17 with Indigo costs 608 euros to change, lasts nine and a half hours and has no scales. Without being cheap flights, Indigo flights are much more interesting in every way. Manchester-Bombay flight simulation with Indigo | Image: Indigo How much? The most cheaper option That Skyscanner gives us a price of 509 euros, but also three scales with three different airlines and a route that lasts 37 and a half hours. The most sensible optionwith Qatar Airways and a scale in Doha, there are 924 euros. The difference is evident. India is strong. With this announcement, Indigo not only becomes an important Europe-Indian knot, but allows to expand connections with the rest of the world. Not surprisingly, India is one of the emerging markets What’s most are growing. Be that as it may, Indigo aims to become a global airline For the year 2030 And to materialize those plans, two things will need. A321neo LR 34 of Jetstar | Image: Jetstar Airplanes … The company already has Some Boeing 787-9 by Norsse Atlantic Airway (It is a long -range plane like those used, for example, KLM) and three more non -determined that will be added to the fleet at the end of the year. In addition, by 2027 the company expects them to deliver the 69 Airbus A321 XLR and the 30 A350-900long -range aircraft for your expansion plans. and alliances. Indigo, Air-France KLM and Virgin Atlantic have been collaborating since 2022, but in June 2025 They added to their memorandum of understanding A Delta Air Lines. So that? To reinforce links and connect the domestic network in India with destinations in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. Recently, too He signed a collaboration With Jetstar to reach Australia and New Zealand. We are not only talking about international flights, but of transatlantic flights with codes shared with Amsterdam as a connection center. Cover image | Indigo

You are building a Data Center in Tents

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Mark Zuckerberg already has the galactics he needed for his Superintelligence team. Getting talent was only part of the plan. The other is what to do with him, and putting it to work requires one thing: computational power. The goal has been in a hurry and, while progressing in different directions, it has begun to build data centers in outdoor tents. As amazing as it sounds. In the finish line they are marking their own rhythm to lift data centers. Given the emergencies that have entered them to add computational capacity, they needed to build data centers as quickly as possible, and the shortcut has been to build them in outdoor tents. This is something that confirmed Business Insider A company spokesman. That they are doing it does not mean that it is common: it is not about adding power without more, but doing so that the integration of the equipment does not put at risk the energy and cooling sustainability of the system. It is surprising that they will use tents, especially in summer, given The difficulties they add to heat management. Zuck making Musk. Zuckerberg’s measure reminds another rival in the race for winning artificial intelligence, and is not accidental. Elon Musk already made the madness of installing 100,000 NVIDIA GPU in 19 days, something with which Jensen Huang hallucinaba himself. In SEMIANALYSISthe first means to reveal the pharaonic finish lines, said that the design of the finish lines is influenced by the speed with which Musk has operated in XAI and in Tesla. Facebook in its beginnings was the company that led the “Move quickly and break things“And now shows that philosophy is still alive, as in OpenAi. The great plan. While finishing tents, Mark Zuckerberg announced They were going to “invest hundreds of billions of dollars in computing to build superintelligence.” In practice, he mentioned the construction of two mega data centers. The first will be Prometheus, which they intend to use since next year. Second, they will build ‘Hyperion’, with which he presumes that he will have A size similar to Manhattan and a capacity of up to 5 gigawatts over the next few years. The tents are provisional until they reach the fixed power they pursue. For contextualizing the numbers, in SemiSalysis Remember that, so far there is no Clusters NVIDIA H100 and H200 operations of more than 200 megawatts. Why so much haste. The context is everything. Goal was very well positioned in the artificial intelligence career, despite the fact that its great commitment of the decade was metaverso, where I was burning huge amounts of money. However, everything changed with flame 4. The last great language model of the company not only disappointed in its principlesbut has been overshadowed by such powerful competition as O3, Claude 4 either Gemini 2.5 Pro. In the finish line they are so aware of the lost competitiveness that His artificial intelligence by default to program is Claude. Yes, above Code flame. In any case, investors do not seem worried about The spectacular goal stock cycle. Having the best thing will be much more than talent and models. The goal plan to put the head of artificial intelligence shows that the race will have many legs. First, Zuckerberg has done with the talent of his great rivals. In second place, acquiring de facto Scale aihave ensured to have quality data. But it is not enough. Access is needed to a brutal calculation capacity, which will obtain with the aforementioned data centers. And that is where the race also becomes energy: goal goes launched by nuclear energyreaching nuclear AT THE CLOSURE. And goes further, with the construction firm of a plant that will use a technology focused on Take advantage of underground heat without leaks. Images | Mark Zuckerberg | Goal In Xataka | We have calculated how much money the Big Tech are being spent on data centers. The numbers are dizzy

The United States is convinced that the Chinese army already uses its chips for ia. Nvidia has a different opinion

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The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, recently granted An interview to the CNN medium, where he could speak without capujos about the current context of his company, about Nvidia’s position in the AI racethe benefits of this technology, and other relevant topics of current affairs. In addition, he has also provided his opinion about The commercial war with China and restrictions, as well as the possible use of American technology in Chinese military terrain. Chips for the Chinese army. The United States has shown concerns in the past about whether advanced Nvidia chips would be used by the Chinese army. Those concerns gave rise to The restrictions of chips A100 and H100. Despite this, There are indications that the chips would also be reaching the Chinese army. Nvidia is not worried. Huang It has subtracted importance To Washington’s concerns about the military use of its artificial intelligence chips by China, arguing that the Chinese army cannot depend on American technology that can end up being restricted at any time. Their statements come while the company promises to resume sales of Its H20 processors to the Chinese market and days after meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House. Huang’s position against Washington. In the interview, the manager defended that “we do not have to worry” about the military use of American technology in China, since “they simply cannot trust it.” His argument is that Beijing will avoid depending on US components due to the risk of future limitations. Huang added that China already has “a lot of computing capacity” and does not need Nvidia chips to develop its military capabilities. The restriccions have hit Nvidia. US administrations have maintained export controls on the most advanced semiconductors for fear of strengthening Chinese military capacities. These measures, applied in a bipartisan manner, have cost Nvidia billions of dollars in potential revenues. According to the company, restrictions made them lose approximately about 15,000 million dollars in sales After the latest restrictions imposed by the Trump administration to prohibit their chips to China. The company affirms which also had to amortize 5,500 million in inventory. Between Washington and Beijing. It is clear that the company is making extraordinary efforts to maintain a balance between Washington and Beijing. His CEO openly criticizes control policies, arguing that They are counterproductive For American technological leadership. His thesis is that for the United States to maintain its dominant position in AI, American technology must be available globally, included in China, where half of the world’s developers are located. American senators They have warned him specifically that avoids meeting with companies linked to the Chinese army or intelligence organizations during your visit to Beijing. Meanwhile, Nvidia faces Huawei’s growing competition and other Chinese chip manufacturers, although the country’s technology companies continue to demand their processors due to their platform CUDA. And now what. Nvidia has announced that you will request licenses for Resume Sales of the H20 Chip to Chinawith the US government ensuring that it will grant them soon. The company has also developed a new processor specifically designed to comply with current regulations: the RTX Pro GPU, which is part of the architecture Blackwell and is completely adapted to export controls. China represents 13% of the total income of Nvidiaabout 17,000 million dollars, which explains why Huang maintains its favorable speech towards the Chinese market while sailing among the geopolitical pressures of both countries. The H20 chip had been developed specifically for the Chinese market after the restrictions of the late 2023, becoming the most powerful product legally available until its effective prohibition in April. Cover image | Nvidia In Xataka | The Nvidia’s supercomputer costs millions of dollars. And to work we use a switch with three kilometers of cable

These dancers are one of the most disturbing traditions of La Palma and had a decade without appearing. Until now

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Incredibly strange parties there are in Spain to give and take. And in summer, with the multiplication of patron saint parties And typical of each town, they are increasing. However, those of Santa Cruz de La Palma They are not strange because of their aesthetics and development, but also because of their frequency: the dance of the dwarves is celebrated every five years … but it was not seen ten. Dwarves to accompany the Virgin. With a denomination that has already been outdated but that, obviously, is still used by tradition, the dance of the dwarves has viralized in social networks by its comic visual spectacularity. This is the most famous number of the traditional parties of the descent of the Virgen de las Nieves, which takes place in the Canarian town of Santa Cruz, in La Palma. In these parties the image of the Virgen de las Nieves moves from her sanctuary in the mountain to the city on the coast. A series of popular acts are celebrated around the act, including dance. How dwarves dance. The image of the dwarves dancers (in reality, people of average height hidden after huge Napoleonic tricorn) has become popular so much that it has become a symbol of the entire island of La Palma. The music that dance is a polka composed in 1925 by Domingo Santos Rodríguez, and that lasts more than ten minutes. Then the dance is repeated again and again, between parade and dances in different places. This year they have come to be dancing for thirteen hours without stopping. Lustral dances. The feasts of the Virgin’s descent take place every five years, but the descent and dance of the dwarves had been held for a decade, since it coincided in the previous edition with the pandemic. Therefore, this year the reunion with the 24 dwarves has been special: since it is a show especially aimed at children, to whom the dwarves scare and increase in the parade, for many of them it was the first time they saw them. This year the celebration has recovered an element that was not done since 1925: before its transformation into dwarves the dancers appear dresses as kings. It has also been the first time that two women dance as dwarves. Viral dance. The ten -year waiting generated considerable expectation in networks, which has set in figures never seen before in the celebration. In Tiktok videos were published with the label #Dwarves2025with thousands of visualizations and comments. On Instagram, only online broadcast had more than 340,000 visualizations. Canarian public television also made intensive use of social networks, which exponentially increased scope and visibility of the event this year. Disturbing dwarves. The mystical component of the dwarves and the magical element of the narrative of the act (with the kings metamorphicing in dancers) sister this holiday with those of other locations where the macabre and the mysterious also prevail. For example, the Vijanera de Silió, in which 75 symbolic and pre -Christian characters represent ancestral forces in conflict; or the pilgrimage of Santa Marta de Ribarteme, in As Neves, where people who have survived a disease parade in coffins carried by relatives, as offering to the Virgin. In the Spanish parties we have abundance of monstrous cryoatures at our parties: the Castrillo Colacho of Murcia in Burgos, for example, is a demonic character of grotesque face and yellow and red suit, and jumps on babies placed in mattresses in full street during the eighth of the Corpus. And the piornal jarmplas is a character disguised with a cornuda mask and multicolored ribbons that becomes white from collective anger, with neighbors throwing tons of turnips, in an experience between the carnivals and the terrifying. Next to this, some chotescos heads that dance polkas are a children’s game. Header | Santa Cruz de la Palma City Council – Carlos Acieg In Xataka | In 1975 a photographer launched himself to document the popular festivals of Spain. The resulting book changed everything

Upon sleeping mouth looks like a great idea against sleep apnea. It is not at all

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The Manchester City player, Erling Haaland, captured all eyes not for that signing frustrated Madrid, but for speaking openly about a practice that, according to him, even uses when he trains: cover your mouth. And in Tiktok, thousands They recommend this trick “Because he changed his life.” We talk about Mouth Tapingthe last cry of nightly self -care. It promises a deep sleep, less snoring, better breath and even a more defined jaw. But are we facing a miraculous solution or a risky fashion disguised as well -being? The viral routine. What began as an alternative advice to improve sleep has become a viral phenomenon thanks to Morning Routines of influencers like Ashton Hall and The celebrities Morning Sheeds. In all videos they show how they use medical tape or mouth bandages with their mouths closed, ensuring that it improves their rest and health. In Tiktok, the hashtag #Mouthtax It exceeds 96,700 publications and continues to grow. However, the phenomenon has evolved faster than science that supports it. And that worries the specialists. Healthy fashion or risky practice? For some doctors, these types of trends are the perfect example of how the Internet can turn an apparently innocent idea into a health risk. So have explained in a DW reportin which Dr. Brian Rotenberg, otolaryngologist and author of an analysis published in PLOS One has explained that this trend is promoted as a magical solution, but there is no solid evidence that supports it. From Spain, Dr. Carlos O’Connor Reina, member of the Spanish Sleep Society, It coincides with statements for webconsultas: “Nasal breathing is healthier, yes, but if a person uses these tapes with a nose that does not work correctly, we are talking about a very important health problem.” There is a higher risk: sleep apnea. The main risk of Mouth Taping It is that many people use it without knowing that they suffer from sleep apnea, a potentially serious condition in which breathing is repeatedly interrupted while we sleep. Dr. Rotenberg Lor it summarizes like this: “Sealing the mouth can represent a serious risk of suffocation in people with nasal obstruction or gastric reflux.” And there are more problems. Experts cited in CNN They have pointed out that the indiscriminate use of Mouth Taping It can cause a sensation of drowning or claustrophobia, microdespertar and sleep fragmentation, worsening of the non -diagnosed apnea, risk of suffocation if there is nasal congestion, polyps or diversion of the septum, night anxiety or respiratory anguish, and skin irritation or allergic reactions. Better without tape. We know that breathing through the mouth is not ideal. Dry the throat, favors snoring and can make sleep quality. Nasal breathing, on the other hand, filters and moistens the air, protects the airways and helps to sleep better. But it is not necessary to turn to a tape in the mouth to get it. Physicians recommend safer alternatives: consult an Otorrino, review possible nasal obstructions, practice exercises to strengthen tongue and palate, sleep sideways or wear nostrils if indicated. The speech pathologist Ann Kearney, from Stanford University, has explained in CNN That the position of the tongue is also key: “If you do not correct the tongue correctly, nasal breathing is not achieved just by covering your mouth. The tongue must go forward and forward to open the airway.” A more defined jaw … One of the most popular promises that They can be observed Lately it helps “sculpt the face.” According to a GQ articlespecialists have indicated that this has no scientific basis. “There is no evidence that it strengthens or defines the jaw,” says Dr. Leah Totton in the middle. At most, adequate nasal breathing can favor lingual posture and have a minimum long -term effect, but does not modify facial features. Nasal breathing yes, but not with tape. Nasal breathing is key to health, but the Mouth Taping It is not a universal or harmless solution. Like many fashions that are born in social networks, it may seem simple, but their risks are not. If you have problems sleeping, snoring or breathing through your mouth, the answer is not on a tape, but in a medical consultation. Image | Tiktok Xataka | Raise at 3:52 am, put your face on ice, scrub a banana: the male “Morning Routine” taken to the extreme

open one with cows

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Do zoos make sense in the 21st century? The debate is old. And it has already led to some cities rethinking the model of their zoos (just as they have done with the circuses), renouncing to have wild animals in captivity and even the use of that label. With that backdrop, in Villagarcía de Camposa small town of Tierra de Campos (Valladolid) by just 300 neighborsthey have had a peculiar idea: open a new zoo of several hectares. Of course, there are only cows and oxen. What happened? That in the province of Valladolid they have just done something less and less common in a Spain (and Europe) in which The debate About animal welfare has been gaining ground: release a zoo. That would be striking in itself, but the new enclosure assures also that it is “unique” in Europe. In it you will hardly see bears, lions, elephants, giraffes, hippos, kangaroos, chimpanzees or any other of the exotic species that urban zoos usually populate. No. The new Valladolid installation is consecrated solely and exclusively to cows, oxen and calves. Only beef Nothing else. With you, bos taurozos. The enclosure occupies about 17 hectares, is located in Villagarcía de Campos, less than an hour by car from the city of Valladolid, and its name is a presentation card: “Bos Taurozos”, combination of the species Bos Taurus and Mountains Torozosthe environment in which the center is located. The enclosure either It is presented As a conventional zoo, it is rather a “interpretation center of the Bos Taurus Iberian “,” the animal species that brings together all the beef rates of the peninsula, “their promoters highlight. Those who visit it will be in fact with copies of more than 30 different races of cattle that inhabit Spain and Portugal, from the CACHENA Galician either Sayaguesa to the Black Andaluza, retinta, Blanca Cacereña, Menorcan either Albera. And that to quote only some of the varieties that inhabit the nearly 17,000 square meters (m2) of Valladolid field that Taurozos occupies. A walk between great rivers. If their ‘inhabitants’ are not what one would expect to be normally in a zoo, the structure of Bos Taurozos is not usual in this kind of enclosures. The park is divided into a dozen areas baptized with names by Ríos of the Iberian Peninsula, such as Miño, Duero, Ebro, Guadalquivir, Tajo or Guadiana. The reason? ‘Order’ the different races so that visitors have a more precise idea of how they are distributed throughout the territory. “You can see the cattle of each of the races that live on their banks”, Explain The park, which offers the possibility of “knowing in the first person each of the 32 Bóvidas races in Spain and Portugal, live and first person.” Who is behind? Two siblingsCarlos del Amo (30 years) and Alicia (33), who make up the third generation of a family linked to the livestock and native of the neighboring town of Villabrágima. In their day to day they are responsible for managing hundreds of cattle In several farms and work with the Alistana Sanabresa and Sayaguesa races, but both had a dream that went further: claiming livestock diversity. Neither easy nor fast. “We decided to set up this business because we believe there are many breeds that are being lost and people don’t even know that they exist,” Explain Alicia a The Spanish. “Many do not know that we have so many races with very different characteristics.” However, achieving his dream and gathering about thirty varieties in Bos Taurozos has not been a simple task. The brothers report that to achieve certain specimens, such as the Marshaen, subject to quotas, they have needed to move “A large amount of permits”. In other cases, logistics did not make it easy either. For example, they wanted a Menorcan cowbut the idea that the animal had to spend several days of “suffering” aboard a ship and then travel in a truck frightened them, so they opted for an imaginative solution: implement an embryo in one of their cows. Cattle and something else. To complete its offer and be more attractive to visitors, Bos Taurozos also incorporates extra activities, points Valladolid Diario. In addition to walking between 32 races of different cows, people can enjoy adventure sports, such as archery, horseback riding or paintball. The enclosure also incorporates a Bicycle service free and plans to include an leisure and restoration zone with foodtruck. The price for those who want to visit their peculiar zoo? 10 euros adults and eight children. The little ones do not pay. Images | LOMIG (UNSPLASH) and Bos Taurozos In Xataka | Cantabria wants more visitors in the Cabárceno Park. So you will create a large alpine slide to travel at 40 km/h

What began as a patch after the blackout is already the new normality of Spain: more energy through gas

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After the blackout of April 28, which exposed the fragility of the electrical system at times of high renewable penetration, Red Electrica has imposed a new way of operating: A reinforcement system based on greater activation of combined gas cycles. What was born as an emergency measure has become a new normality. Spain returns to gas, not due to lack of renewables, but because – for now – it cannot only trust them. And it will stay for a while … Since the end of April, the system operator maintains a reinforced operating mode to guarantee stability. Such as has confirmed ELECTRICAL TO ELECONOMISTA.es, this measure will remain in force while the technical solutions agreed to avoid new incidents are implemented. The incident report concludes that there was a lack of dynamic control on the network, unexpected disconnections and vulnerabilities in tension regulation. The first changes are already underway: Royal Decree-Law 7/2025 He has started A battery of reforms, from the incentive of storage to the flexibility of access for hybrid facilities. However, the sector coincides: the total implementation will take time. Some urgent measures have a deadline until September, but others – as the reform of adjustment services or changes in the distribution network – will be extended until June 2026. Reinforcement, therefore, is not transitory. Renewable yes, but they are not enough. And this situation occurs in a fairly paradoxical context. Spain is producing more energy than ever: in May the lowest wholesale prices in recent history were recorded –With many hours in negative prices-, thanks to the thrust of wind, solar and hydraulic. So, the question comes back: why does it return to gas? The key is in the foul storage and demand variability. The renewable generation is abundant during the day, but it falls dramatically at dusk, just when consumption remains high by heat waves. No batteries or pumping To store the surplusThe system needs firmness. And that firmness, today, gives it the gas. They have just launched an “antiapages insurance.” The government is aware of the risk. That is why he has formally activated the implementation of capacity markets, a tool that had been studying for years and now accelerates after the blackout. It is a mechanism that remunerates for being available, not only to produce, and that seeks to keep firm technologies operational – like gas or storage – to guarantee the supply even in critical conditions. After the authorization included in Royal Decree-Law 7/2025, the Ministry for Ecological Transition You can give way to the specific resolution that sets two key parameters to activate these mechanisms: the lost load value (Voll), at € 22,879/MWh, and a reliability standard (Lole) of 1.5 hours a year. The objective of the Executive is clear: launch the first auctions before the end of 2025 and ensure that the gas plants that requested their closure (9,000 MW in total) can remain available while a structural solution arrives. And prices rise again. June closed with an important rebound in the wholesale price of electricity, after the historical minimums of April and May. The heat wave, the increase in demand and the greater participation of the combined gas cycles fired the average cost in the market to levels not seen in months. The consumers’ invoice with regulated rate has noticed it: it has been the third consecutive monthly climb, According to the official CNMC simulator data. In addition, in the free market, some marketers are transferring these cost overruns to their customers, even without a contractual clause that allows it. This has motivated A FACUA WARNINGwhich remembers that raising rates unilaterally is illegal if it is not expressly foreseen in the contract. In some cases, surcharges of up to 6 % per year have been notified under the argument of greater technical costs, which could constitute an abusive clause according to consumer defense regulations. Structural challenge. The April blackout uncovered deficiencies that were already there: an excessively centralized system, little storage, few micro -redes and little local reaction capacity to disturbances. The solution does not go through abandonable, but by complementing them. The gas, for now, plays that role. But the challenge is to do so in the future the storage, demand management and a more robust network. That requires difficult time, investment and political decisions. Image | Pexels and Pixabay Xataka | Broady in April, more expensive invoice in May: thus has affected the system reinforcement

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