Month: July 2025

I have tried Nothing Phone (3) and I have one thing: I want two

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I have traveled to London for an end: try the first high range of Nothing. He Phone 1 It was born as a clear mid -range, the Phone 2 As a medium-high, and Nothing Phone 3 is a high range with (almost) all of the law. While the review is cooked, I’m going to tell you What have been my first impressions With the company’s most ambitious mobile to date. Nothing Phone 3 Technical Card Nothing Phone (3) dimensions and weight 160.6 x 75.59 x 8.99 mm 218 grams screen Flexible 6.67 inches FullHD+ resolution (2,800 x 1,260 pixels) 460 PPP HDR10+ Refresco rate: 120 Hz Tactile sample: 1,000 Hz PWM: 2,160 Hz Brillo: 800 nits Maximum brightness: 1,600 nits Pico shine: 4,500 nits Gorilla Glass 7i processor Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 Adreno 825 GPU RAM 12/16 GB LPDDR5X Internal storage 256/512 GB UFS 4.0 rear camera Angular 50 MP, F/1.68, OIS+EIS, Pdaf Periscope 50 mp, f/2.68, ois+eis, pdaf, x3 optical zoom Great angular: 50 MP, F/2.2, EIS, 114º FOV Video: 4k ultraxdr@60fps Front camera 50 MP, F/2.2, EIS, 81.2º FOV battery 5,150 mAh Fast charging 65W 15W wireless load Inverse wiring load 7.5W Inverse wireless load 5W Operating system Android 15 with Nothingos 3.5 5 years of Android updates 7 years of security patches connectivity Dual Nanosi+Esim 5G NSA/SA Bluetooth 6.0 NFC GPS Wifi 7 USB type c others IP68 certification GORILLA GLASS VICTUS rear Footprint reader on screen Essential Space Glyph Interface Stereo speakers price From 799 euros Different, very different Nothing is a company that tries to stand out at a point that has been secondary for years for its competition: design. The philosophy of making fun technology again materializes in one of the most peculiar and unique aspects of the market, and in this Phone 3 they have taken a step further. Review unit is in our hands but, for these impressions, Nothing has only left us touch Stand units. They are not the best conditions to take the photographs it deserves but I say so now: The mobile, in person, is a pass. Its rear is still starring transparencies (although what you see below is a specially careful design, not the internal components of the phone), although the top is more chaotic than ever. Glyph Matrix (the circuit you see on the right, flash, telephoto lens). Nothing follows a clear order. One of the aspects that hits the most is The arrangement of cameras. A year ago they remembered those of the iPhone. Now they don’t remember absolutely anything, because we had never seen anything like that. It clashes, it is weird, and it is difficult to get used to this sought asymmetry. But the mobile fulfills its function: attract attention. We will have to try it in depth and we will explain its operation in the analysis, but the Glyph Matriz looks like Pintaza The second key feature of the rear has to do with Glyph Matrix: A circular micro-read screen in the upper right corner of the device. It is designed to reduce screen use and show the key information as efficient as possible, according to Nothing. Shows specific notifications per app You have games (we will explain it in the review) Progress indicators (such as battery charge, music playback …) Digital clock Chronometer Battery indicator This is one of the craziest and frozen functions of the phone. We have not been able to try it thoroughly but I already anticipate what is most looks, by far. Looking ahead, there are no extravagances in sight. It is a telephone with a well -used front, front drilling and a 6.67 -inch AMOLED panel with 1.5K resolution, and 120 Hz refreshment rate. All good, all correct, continue to circulate. The software is the key, but not the only This phone has a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. Nothing has explained that this processor is the ideal for this phone: balanced in balance, heat and efficiency. It is not the Snapdragon 8 Elite But, honestly, I think he doesn’t need it either. The starting price of Nothing Phone 3 is less than 800 euros, so betting on this platform is a success in the opinion of a server. In the analysis I will deepen its performance, but it is a fast, fluid phone that seems to behave without the slightest problem. And it is that the software helps, a lot. Nothingos based on Android 15 It is a very molona customization (the company has told us that they have almost ready News 4.0 based on Android 16). A kind of pixel rom touched by a team of developers who want to provide the phone with an even more experience nerd. The sounds of the system, the experience with the Glyph system, some aspects of customization … Everything achieves that we connect with the ROM as we do not usually do it in rival systems. In addition, this model will be updated for five years to the following versions of the operating system, and for seven years with the corresponding security patches. This year, Nothing implements functions of AI. Namely: Essential Space: an app that allows you to save notes, reminders, screenshots, voice recordings and organize everything through Ia. Flip to Record: Allows you to record and perform voice transcripts when turning the phone. Essential Search: Contextual search on the phone by Ia. Integration with chat gpt widgets GENERATION OF WINDERS A priori, a somewhat discreet approach to artificial intelligence functions. In the review we will delve into whether it is enough to compete with the best of the moment. A declaration of intentions That a startup like Nothing climbs into the high -end car is a declaration of intent. At no time do they come to compete by volume with the most settled giants in the sector, but demonstrate a very high point of technological maturity by launching a product that touches the tallest Tier in segmentation for price. I really want to use this phone … Read more

ELON MUSK: “If the Demential Project of Expenditure is approved, América Party will be founded the next day.” It has just been approved

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Just a month ago, Elon Musk left The Oval Office giving a virtual door to Donald Trump, who reproached that without the millions he had donated to his campaign Today would not be president. In addition, he accused the president of appearing In Epstein’s listlinking Trump with the networks of prostitution and abuse of minors. More calm the spirits, the CEO of Tesla said that its political stage had come to an end And he was going to dedicate all his energies to solve the serious difficulties that the car manufacturer is going through. The promise It has lasted a month. Musk now not only returns to the political field, but has even proposed to create a new political party: America party. It will be that the goat always pulls the mountain. The origin of the idea: a survey. The distancing between Musk and Trump was made public when both They starred in a discussion in X. In that context, Musk launched A survey to your followers asking them if he should create a new political party that represented 80% of voters who do not feel identified either with Democrats or with Republicans. The result was overwhelming: 80.4% of the participants supported the idea of ​​a new game, although the proposal was pause at that time. In Musk’s words: “Our country needs an alternative to Democratic-Republican Unipartisanism so that people really have a voice.” Musk’s criticisms of Trump’s “great and beautiful law.” Since the presentation of Trump’s new budget law, popularly known as the “great and beautiful law” (One Big Beautiful Tax Bill), Musk was especially critical. Touch the image to go to the original message Such and As you collect the BBCMusk denounced that these regulations perpetuate the United States dependence on the debt, raise the expense roof and expand tax exemptions for large fortunes and companies, while cutting health benefits and services for the most disadvantaged. Musk did not hesitate to qualify the law as “a disgusting abomination”, And he added: “Shame for those who have voted it, they know they have done wrong. They know it.” While the new budget law is being debated in the Senate, Musk insists on his offensive and attacking this law on this occasion on this occasion. With A message in xthe millionaire has threatened to boycott the re -election of all those who support the new law in the next primary of the Republican Party, ensuring that “they will lose their primaries next year even if it is the last thing he does on this earth.” For Musk, who have campaigned to reduce government spending and now vote in favor of the greatest increase in debt in history “they should bend the head of shame.” Trump without hair on the tongue. Donald Trump has not remained silent before Musk’s attacks to his bill. From your social networkTrump recalled that Musk “has had more subsidies than any other human being in history, without subsidies, should close the store and return home in South Africa.” In addition, the president has threatened to send to DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency that Until now Musk had directedto review all the Magnate contracts, ensuring that Cularing on satellitesrockets and electric cars “would save a fortune.” Trump has also stressed that Musk knew from the first moment that the Budget Law was a fundamental part of his campaign, a campaign that Musk himself “had supported with such vehemence.” Vox Populi, Vox Dei. Making use From the popular judgment in Latin, “the voice of the people is the voice of God”, Musk took the survey on the creation of a new party again out of the manga ensuring that If the law is approved, the next day it would found the America party. “Our country needs an alternative to Democratic-Republican Unipartisanism so that people really have a voice,” wrote the millionaire. Touch the image to go to the original message As advances The avant -gardethe law has just been approved, so we are waiting for the next Musk movement. Of course, one of the options does not seem to be to keep your attention In Tesla’s problems either of Spacex. In Xataka | We knew that the CEO of large companies were very well paid. What we didn’t know was how much their salary had risen Image | Flickr(Gage Skidmore)

characteristics, price and technical file

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After five years of life and after having launched several terminals of range averageNothing has finally thrown the pool with its first high -end smartphone: the Nothing Phone (3). The London firm thus goes to compete in the League of the Greats, league in which brands such as Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus, Honor, Vivo and Company are found. Its proposal is clear: a terminal with a radically design to everything in the market (which by the way, says goodbye to some extent of the characteristic colored LEDs), a clean operating system and a engine that, at least on paper, promises a fluid, solvent and more than enough experience for the vast majority of users. Made the presentations, we will know this terminal better. Nothing Phone Technical Card (3) Nothing Phone (3) dimensions and weight 160.6 x 75.59 x 8.99 mm 218 grams screen Flexible 6.67 inches FullHD+ resolution (2,800 x 1,260 pixels) 460 PPP HDR10+ Refresco rate: 120 Hz Tactile sample: 1,000 Hz PWM: 2,160 Hz Brillo: 800 nits Maximum brightness: 1,600 nits Pico shine: 4,500 nits Gorilla Glass 7i processor Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 Adreno 825 GPU RAM 12/16 GB LPDDR5X Internal storage 256/512 GB UFS 4.0 rear camera Angular 50 MP, F/1.68, OIS+EIS, Pdaf Periscope 50 mp, f/2.68, ois+eis, pdaf, x3 optical zoom Great angular: 50 MP, F/2.2, EIS, 114º FOV Video: 4k ultraxdr@60fps Front camera 50 MP, F/2.2, EIS, 81.2º FOV battery 5,150 mAh Fast charging 65W 15W wireless load Inverse wiring load 7.5W Inverse wireless load 5W Operating system Android 15 with Nothingos 3.5 5 years of Android updates 7 years of security patches connectivity Dual Nanosi+Esim 5G NSA/SA Bluetooth 6.0 NFC GPS Wifi 7 USB type c others IP68 certification GORILLA GLASS VICTUS rear Footprint reader on screen Essential Space Glyph Interface Stereo speakers price From 799 euros From Glyph Interface to Glyph Matrix Nothing Phone (3) | Image: Xataka One of the things that have characterized Nothing mobiles since its inception is the Luminous Interface Glyph. It was the house’s mark, but that was. In this new model Nothing has opted for something different: Glyph Matrix. It is a small micro-read screen located in the rear that allows you to consult the number of pending notifications, the remaining battery level and even access functions such as a mirror, a stopwatch or whatever you want. Development tools are public and are available for developers to make their own. The rear is transparent, it is protected by Gorilla Glass Victus And it has no camera module. The lenses are arranged in an apparently messy, but surprisingly harmonious way, resulting in an aesthetic as little, different. As for buttons, to highlight that of Essential Space and the Glyph sensor located in the back. This will serve, for example, launch animations on the screw. Glyph Matrix is ​​customizable and allows us to consult a single glance mobile And speaking of the screen, Nothing has mounted a flexible AMOLED panel of 6.67 inches with FullHD+ resolution (2,800 x 1,260 pixels), 120 Hz of refreshment rate and up to 4,500 brightness nits in HDR content. According to the company, the panel occupies 92.89% of the front, which is not to say little. On paper, the screen points ways, but we will get out of doubt as soon as we can throw the glove. At last a high -end nothing Nothing Phone (3) | Image: Xataka It has taken, but Nothing has finally mounted a high -end processor. It is not the Snapdragon 8 Elitebut it is not that the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 It is short. This eight -nuclei socio and four nanometers have a prime core Cortex-X4 at 3.2 GHz and seven Cortex-A720 yield nuclei to 3 GHz, to which we have to add up to 16 Gigas RAM and up to half Tera of internal storage. Without being the most, the experience should be absolutely fluid and the terminal should develop without problem even in heavy tasks. The operating system is Android 15 with nothingos 3.5. Beyond the minimalist design to which the firm has already accustomed us, the system proposes three novelties: Essential Search (to look for all kinds of content on our mobile), Flip to Record (to record and transcribe meetings) and Essential Space (the space of AI to save everything). It should be noted that Nothing promises five years of Android updatesseven years of security patches and that Android 16 will be available in the third quarter of this year. Finally, it is important to talk about the battery, a section in which Nothing has made an important leap. Because? Because thanks to the Silicon-Carbon technologyNothing has managed to implement a 5,150 mAh battery, the largest on a nothing phone to date. All this without the thickness rising in excess. We will have the opportunity to talk about autonomy, but what we know at the moment is that the fast charge has a power of 65W and that the wireless load amounts to 15W. A complete camera Nothing Phone (3) | Image: Xataka Before knowing the versions and prices of the terminal, proceeds to quickly review the cameras. Nothing has mounted four sensors, three behind and one in front, 50 megapixels each. The system is enhanced by Truelens Engine 4, the Qualcomm Motor that allows you to process images in less time and obtain brighter and better colors. The main camera has OIS and EIS and two -increase digital zoom. The wide angle, meanwhile, has 114º field of vision and yes, we also have a periscopic lens to be able to approach the subject without losing quality. Nothing Phone (3) | Image: Xataka This lens proposes OIS and EIS, Optical zoom of three increases, digital zoom of six and up to 60 increases if we expand to the maximum. It is no longer a matter of quality, which we will verify in due time, but of options and versatility. An interesting aspect is video recording. Thanks to Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 the device can … Read more

Private jets and premium travelers contaminate a lot, so Spain already plans what to do with them: charge them much more

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If you travel in Premium mode, it will have to pay (even more) premium prices. That is the idea that several countries shuffle, including Spain, which have discussed a unique possibility: to impose special rates both to private aircraft and jets and passengers traveling in the premium classes. New taxation for the air sector. As indicated In Reutersthe debate has occurred during the UN conference On development financing held these days in Seville. There has been where Spain and other countries have discussed the impact of the air sector on the environment and how to try to mitigate the problem. And the solution they have found is clear: special rates for them. A disparate group. Countries that are inclined to this option form a singular group. They are Spain, France, Kenya, Benín, Sierra Leone, Somaia, Barbados, and Antigua and Barbuda. All of them advocate the introduction of “a specific rate to executive class bills and private airplanes.” Pedro Sánchez, president of Spain, also added that “the specific rate for this type of flights” is intended to address pollution and climate change. Private jets and premium passengers, under examination. The proposal is based on the experience collected by the road map of the COP28 (Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) and the COP29. The objective for COP30 is “a better contribution from the aviation sector to fair transitions and resilience, with special attention to premium passengers.” Premium travelers coalition. The French executive has published A statement explained that today the aviation sector contributes to 2.5% of CO2 emissions, and remains one of the industries that grow the most in this type of emissions. In the G20 the average price of the kerosene in 2021 was 9 euros/ton, compared to the 79 euros of the diesel and 68 euros of gasoline. Private jets, horror. But the problem is aggravated for private jets and “premium travelers”: 1% of luxury aircraft passengers pollute more than 50% of commercial aviation. Emissions generated by private jets have increased significantly: 46% From 2019 to 2023. What does the European Commission say. According to that statement, the European Commission “will continue to provide technical support to this initiative.” France has been fighting this problem for some time, and that three years ago I cricked that “two -speed effort“. Its rulers criticized that while they were required to neighboring countries that were Press the energy belta wealthy minority I took private jets for routes that could be covered with less comfortable alternatives, but also less burdensome and pollutants. Taxes to fight climate change. The Global Solidarity Levies Task Force (GSLT) is an association led by France that also supports this initiative that is part of the so -called Pact for Prosperity, People and the Planet (4p). In the statement The GSLT includes statements by Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sánchez. For this body this type of tax can raise “vital taxes for the weather.” Tax. From Greenpeace Remember That “flying is the most elite and polluting way to travel, so this is an important step to ensure that the great consumers of this little taxed sector pay the part that corresponds to them.” It would thus be taxed by those industries that most contaminate, and private flights are of course a problem in that area. Other countries could join. The coalition indicated that it should work to “improve the mobilization of internal income of developing countries.” Member countries will work so that other countries join this initiative so that “air bills are applied, including high -end, and to tax private planes based on best practices, at the same time guaranteeing ascending harmonization and greater progressivity in countries that already have such levies.” In Xataka | Your own private jet for 111 euros: the company that has devised the “blablacar” of luxury flights

The Bakery of Madrid that has gone from the hands of the bread

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In Spain there are More than 10,000 companies Dedicated to elaborate bread, a long, very long business list in which different profiles and approaches are included. In that wide martemágnum of flour, yeast and cereals (and despite the fact that the sector has been betting for some time The specialization) It is likely that there is no business like the one just riding in Chamberí Fabián Leónfinalist of ‘masterchef’ and Foodie. At least if we talk about the theory. After all, he presumes, having created “the bakery of the future” (aka Fu.ba). The initiative is interesting because it tells us about something much broader: a trend that bets on re (re) gastronomic invention, the spectacularization of food, the story and the rethinking of concepts apparently as basic as the bread bar. All this accompanied by generous prices. “We bake future”. Fu.ba is a bakery newly opened In the Chamberí area, Madrid, although anyone who reads His manifesto (Yes, he has manifest) He probably feels that the business is dedicated to anything but baking bars, cakes, hagazas and cookies. “In a world of ultra -processed, we chose the real. Mother. Drops limited. Ingredients that feel good, “starts. “We do not follow trends. We follow the rhythm of the body, the sun and the earth. Here the bread is ritual, energy and community. We are solarpunk, neo-ancestral and a little witches. We are the GLitch In the matrix of food, “the business continues as a presentation. The full manifesto can be consulted on its website And it hasn’t taken Generate comments in x o Bluesky. And if there were doubts, those responsible are responsible for underlining it: “We do not bake bread. We bake future.” Reinventing bread (functional). Behind the project is Fabián León, finalist of the first edition of ‘Masterchef’ and a influencer Gastronomic with more than 570,000 Followers on Instagram. Recently related to the magazine Elle that the initiative connects with a personal experience: two years ago he was diagnosed with a disease that made him “a radical turn” and led him to undertake “a personal crusade” to find healthy foods to help him. “I realized that some foods were affecting me, specifically gluten, as well as refined sugars, alcohol … I suppressed everything and ran out of options,” Share. “The gluten -free bread that had was very bad, when I went to a specialty coffee there was nothing and for a person who likes to eat was a drama. I was sure there had to be recipes or ways for bread to be good. I started investigating what they did in other societies.” And a couple of years later … The result of that search could be seen on his Instagram profile in May, when he published A video With announcement included: “I open my first bakery of the future. After two years imagining it, today the bakery that only lived in my head.” “Breads, cookies, biscuits, brownies and a thousand more things that are not only good, but they feel good. Sin gluten, without refined sugars, made to build you, but without giving up enjoyment.” Bread with story (and something else). Beyond the media impact From Fabián León or his promise of a “bakery of the future”, the case of Fu.BA is interesting for another reason: connects with a greater gastronomic tendency than, beyond the food itself, incorporates a series of extra ingredients: spectacularization, a story worked, a background message that seeks to transcend what the food itself and especially the promise of the “reinvention” is reinvent something as elementary and basic as the bread bar or cookies. Fu.ba is also the example of how the discourse of “reinvention” can be taken to the extreme, moving it passing with elements that have little or nothing to do with food. In Fu.BA highlights the rhetoric of his manifesto, the aesthetics of the premises, for which He handled of the architect Irern Serraor even the staging of The inaugurationwith DJ and a sculpture made with bread. Of the future maybe, but not cheap. Of backdrop, prices. The bakery of the future may bet on the “functional pan” (“not only feeds, does something for you”, promises Fu.ba) and reniegue of gluten, refined flours and other industrial substitutes; But, without being private, it is not cheap. At least if we compare their prices with those of other conventional bakeries. The “Mollet of the Future” costs two euros; the “Hogaza of the future” five, or 7.5 if you want the option of 750 g; and the “baguete of the future” 3.5. For 500 g of “Power Power”, with tapioca flour and comprehensive rice, among other ingredients, 6.5 is paid. Images | Wearefuba and Instagram 1 and 2 In Xataka | We knew that freezing the bread was comfortable, cheap and fashionable. What we are not sure of is that it is “so good” for health

China’s “Peak Oil”

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In the middle of the war escalation between Iran and Israel, a scene attracted all global attention: China ordered his oil tankers Leave the Ormuz Strait, the artery where a fifth of global oil travels. It was a cautious reaction, yes, but revealing. More than 80% of the Iranian crude is destined for Chinese refineries, and yet Beijing opted for diplomatic silence rather than confrontation. The urgent yielded to the strategic. And maybe there is the true story. Because while moving away from tensions in the Middle East, China is approaching – step to a pace – to an energy milestone that reconfigures the global board: its oil demand is about to reach the peak. Or maybe he has already done it. From global leader to consumer in pause. For more than two decades, China promoted a good part of the global oil growth. From YOUR INCOME TO THE WTO In 2001, each stretch of highway built, each inaugurated refinery, each expanded city or megaproject launched added pressure on the world’s world demand. According to the Financial TimesChina has been responsible for more than 50 % of the increase in global demand since 2000. Its economic expansion was also an energy expansion. However, that trajectory begins to be invested. The International Energy Agency estimates that the demand peak It will be reached in 2027while key actors in the sector in China advance it considerably: Sinopec foresee which could happen before 2027 and CNPC claims that it has already surpassed in 2023. An accelerated paradigm shift. China’s energy turn does not occur in a vacuum. It is part of a much deeper technological, social and economic transformation, which manifests itself at all levels of daily life. Just see how tourist videos have been viralized by paying with the palm of the hand In supermarkets either Metro stations. What until recently seemed science fiction, in China it is already routine. That same vertiginous rhythm is happening in the energy system. On the one hand, an internal technological revolution: electric vehicles, heavy transport electrification, trucks that work with natural gas and high -speed trains. On the other, a structural change: the real estate crisis has reduced the demand for heavy machinery, construction materials and petrochemicals, sectors historically linked to oil consumption. The consequence is clear. Crude imports fell in 2024 for the first time in two decades – exchanging the pandemic -, According to Financial Times data. An unequivocal sign that oil is ceasing to be the growth engine that was for more than 20 years. But there is a production record. Paradoxically, China is producing more oil than ever. In March 2025, it reached a historical maximum: 4.6 million barrels per day, According to Global Times. Besides, He has just completed The drilling of the deepest vertical oil well in Asia, with 10,910 meters deep. Contradiction? Not exactly, since China drills when there is need. The point is that 72% of the oil it consumes is imported. For Beijing, that dependence is a weakness. Therefore, for years, more than 80,000 million dollars investigate annually to revitalize old deposits. The objective is not to grow without brake, but to guarantee a stable domestic supply. CNOOC has assured in Reuters Having reached a replacement ratio of 167%reserves, which allows to maintain internal production for at least a decade. In other words, less oil to consume, but more own oil to control. The end of an era. According to Bloomberg analystsis finishing the oil supercycle that defined the markets for more than 20 years. As China decoupled from intensive raw growth, pressure on OPEC, large oil companies and exporting countries – as Saudi Arabia, Iraq or Russia – becomes stronger and louder. Morgan Stanley lo has clearly summarized for the Financial Times: “The world we knew, where oil rose every time China grew, is disappearing.” To begin: an electro -speaking. China is not only slowing its crude oil consumption, it is building an economy driven by electrons. Since Xi Jinping assumed power in 2013, the country launched a “Energy Revolution” based on electrification, technological innovation and energy sovereignty. Today, 10% of your GDP It is linked To clean industries: electric vehicles, batteries, solar panels, intelligent networks, wind turbines. Today, the Asian giant is the world’s largest producer of electric cars, and its two great champions —Byd and Catl – reinvote about 5% of their revenues in R&D. Also, like have detailed in Bloomberghas already deployed 40 tension ultraalt transmission lines, which connect the mega west solar plants with the east industrial centers. The country plans to invest another 800,000 million dollars in the next five years to consolidate its electricity network. The goal? Reduce oil dependence without compromising growth. After the peak. With China outside the center of demand, India and other emerging countries will absorb part of the growth, but without reaching the scale of the Asian giant. According to the IEAthe global oil demand will reach its maximum in 2029, but without China, the market will lose its main engine. “Even if other economies continue to grow, the Chinese decrease marks the beginning of a structural decline in world demand for crude oil,” He explained Ciaran Healy, an IEA analyst. While their ships turn around in Ormuz, their economy accelerates in another direction. Not towards a price war. But towards a model where power is not measured only by fossil reserves, but by transformation capacity. The oil era does not end, but its dominant role in the world economic model is retreating. The rules of the game are changing. Image | Unspash Xataka | The hope against the increasingly extreme heat waves comes from China: a material that lowers the temperature automatically

Some of the hottest countries are the ones that have the most pleasure for the spicy. It has all the meaning of the world

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The spicy is not considered a taste of use but it is a key element in many gastronomies. You can draw attention to the fact that some of the countries with the greatest love of The spicy are among the warmer countries in the world, something contraintuitive if we attend to the main effect of this seasoning has a lot to do with The heat. There are various types of spicy but we refer to a concrete one, The spicy food scorching containing capsaicin. Capsaicin is a molecule that occurs naturally in some plants of the genre Capsicumthe plants that give us all the variety of peppers, chillies, chiles or ñoras, although these fruits not always contain perceptible concentrations of this compound. It is often considered that plants of this genre synthesize this compound as a defense mechanism to protect their fruits and with them their seeds. However today the human being cultivates different varieties of plants in order to control the Capsaicin concentrations And, with this, control the degree of itching that causes the fruit. Very often this is done in order not to reduce the presence of the molecule but to create even more spicy varieties. Exist Many hypotheses about why the fond of spicy and spices in certain countries closest to the tropics, although there are no scientific arguments that support any specific. For example, the idea that these condiments are used to avoid the proliferation of pathogenic microorganisms is practically discarded. What we do know is that, under certain conditions, the spicy can help us reduce the temperature, by contradictory that seems. Capsaicin works activating nerve receptors in charge of letting us know for the sensation of burned. In other words, this compound deceives us by making us think that we are abrasing ourselves. In that deception is the great utility of spicy foods With high temperatures: the sensation of heat can make us break to sweat when we eat the spicy, which makes it easier for our body to expel part of the heat that is accumulating. Something similar we can experience When we drink a hot drink when the thermometers indicate an increase in temperatures. Of course, there is a “but”. Sweat is mostly water that transports part of our body heat outside our skin. Once there this water evaporates, taking the heat. But not always: in high humidity conditions, sweat takes to evaporate, which implies that the spicy or hot drinks only work when we do not exceed certain levels of humidity in the environment. It should also be remembered that sweat makes us lose water, so replenishing it is indispensable. The food, an ally It is not necessary to resort to spicy if what we want is to feed and face the high temperatures. Some meals they can help us reduce heat In our body and, above all, they can help us stay hydrated, something fundamental when heat squeezes. In this sense, fruits can be especially useful. Fruits such as watermelon and melon can give us a significant amount of water when we consume them, but also do vegetables such as tomato, cucumber and lettuce. Hot drinks can help us in some contexts but in general avoiding very hot food can be a good idea, especially if we have to cook at home, since this will imply that we will be generating residual heat in our own home, heat that can take time to fade if we do not ventilate with property. The spicy, hot drinks and fresh fruit can be ways to maintain our thermal comfort in extreme circumstances but a heat wave requires that we take different measures to ensure our physical well -being and thus not take a scare. Avoid high insolation hours or those in which the temperature reaches peaks, looking for the shadow, keeping us hydrated, and Avoid demanding activities On physical level as exercise are also precautions to take on days like those we are living during this heat wave. In Xataka | Popular wisdom is not always right: the great myths of heat that we should avoid in summer Image | Qurratul Ayin Sadia / Alvin

“In five years we will be one of the three main manufacturers in the world, I am convinced”

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Turn the bus and face a huge industrial -looking door. Two inputs controlled by a garita under a gray structure topped in its upper area with three letters and their explanation with Hanzis (The Chinese characters that give it name). The bus takes various streets, turns left and right. Finally, take a last turn and leave us under a roofed space. To our left, a huge staircase guarded by two gigantic lions guarded by an immense and lonely esplanade. In the background five buildings are drawn that with its height, of no less than 30 floors, break with the plain of the square. To our right, the entrance door to an immense hall after the demonstrations of some of the more dotteras technologies of the Chinese car market. Yes, that one He is arriving in Europe and who aspires to become a reference. Will make it clear to us Stella Li, BYD Vice President. We ask what the company expects in the next five years, what will be after five years. Look with the decision he faces any as he asks to be done: “We will be one of the three main manufacturers in the world. I am convinced.” A meteoric career The image that projects the headquarters of Byd in Shenzhen (China) is the same as the one that gives off a good part of the city. The immensity of the plazas of Soviet reminiscences are mixed with gigantic skyscrapers of somewhat decadent appearance in their wrapping but that, without a doubt, welcome inside the gears that move the latest technology of the country. The gears are human that live in these buildings. More than 17 million people that push to make Shenzhen a megaciudad that drinks from a clearly communist appearance past and now lives from wild capitalism that permeates all corners. It is the city of shopping centers full of ultra -realistic falsification stores but also that of skyscrapers who play with breaking your neck, immense headquarters of Chinese banks, and dozens of skyscrapers that are thrown into an orgy of lights, colors and music three times a day to demonstrate the world that they have enough strength to wear their LED panel buildings and put them to dance to the rhythm they want to dance. The rhythm of the gears that hide under these last glazed moles are clear: money and technology. Crossing the huge glazed doors of the Byd headquarters already gives us an idea of ​​what we are going to find inside. Next to the marble and columns that never seem Byd manufactures in vertical integration, Much of its success. And it is that of the batteries that began to manufacture in 1994, the year in which the company was founded, it has passed to a giant that has already manufactured more than 10 million vehicles, which exceeded four million cars produced in just one year in 2024 and that is much more than that. It is a company that also manufactures luxury vehicles, subway cars, buses and an enormous amalgam of components for them, from the batteries to the semiconductors or heat pumps. “Our integral approach to production and batteries give us a unique competitive advantage. We hope to have a solid presence on all continents, with Europe as one of our priority markets”, Stella Li emphasizes us who knows where we want to go with that question where they will be in the next five years. That vertical integration is all that they want to teach us in our visit to the central headquarters. Start with a factory miniturization. The classic miniature trains game is made up of the rails through which vehicles that move the doors and other parts of the chassis move. We will see it with our own eyes the next day but we will get an idea of ​​how chassis and mechanical set marry to give way to the end of the line to a little Yangwang U8 in miniature, the huge SUV of more than five meters that is able to float on water. Later, at the end of the visit itself, we will have the opportunity to get on one and check The maximum luxury that proposes byd. Vehicles as excessive as well finished, topped with materials that fit the precision of the best models in the market. And with the eccentricities of the Chinese market claims, such as the drones parking that carries one of the vehicles parked at the entrance. We have entered for your past, we will go out for your future. Among others, the load of 1 MW for electric cars, a technology that Byd already has available in two carsbut that, Stella Li recognizes us, is thought above all for trucks and car fleets. Live, the system overwhelms, connecting to the same car two hoses that provide 500 kW each. The great advantage, in addition, is that if the car does not admit this type of load, the supplier can nurture two cars to a maximum of 500 kW, powers with which we do not dream in Spain for the moment. At the moment, they will put just over 4,000 points on the street. All byd patents We were notified The strategy is based on pillars of all kinds: a huge variety of products that seem to be cannibalized, its own technology sustained by an almost inconceivable variety of patents and a groundbreaking attitude towards the designs of the market in which enormous equipment and low prices are combined. That patent reaíla is proud throughout a wall that could well measure 20 meters. From top to bottom, talked with the certificates of each of them. They are, of course, those that allowed Byd to create LFP batteries that, they show us proud, They can be crossed by a nail and Do not burn in the process. The NCM facing the same test on your right does not run the same fate. A flash shakes the room and the heat of … Read more

AI as chatgpt is possible thanks to the indiscriminate use of online content. Cloudflare just said that it is over

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The great IAS we use daily like GPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Company exist and are able to do what they do thanks, in large part, in large part, to the content available on the Internet. Companies such as Openai, Google and Anthropic, to mention some, have tracked (and track in real time) the web in search of content that answers the user’s questions. And they do it, unless there are specific agreementswithout offering consideration to the creators of said content beyond a link. It is a practice that is in question from the birth of this technology. Blog articles, Wikipedia, books, User generated content, even personal data. The trackers, those automated bots, do not leave anything behind and today Cloudflare has said that it is over From today, Cloudflare will block by default Scrapers of AI, something that has more implications of what it might seem. Let’s start at the beginning. Web Crawlers. This technology is not new and, in fact, it is thanks to it that the foundations on which the Internet is based (the web search) exists. Surely it is familiar about “The Google Spider“, that bot that tracks the entire website in search of content to index and offer the user. It is only one of the thousands and thousands that exist and that generate 30% of all traffic worldwide. This technology was capital to shape the Internet we know and the relationship with content generators was symbiotic. The economy of the click was born: the creator generates a content, Google Lo Indexa, the user finds it through Google, Google generates income with the advertising of the search engine, the creator receives free traffic and generates income thanks to advertising, affiliates, etc. With AI, the movie is quite different. Data. The AI ​​models need information to feed, be trained and be able to answer questions. To do this, the big companies that we all know tracked the website, They extracted all the content they could and used it to develop technologies such as Chatgpt. What is the problem? That content could be protected by copyright, which led to the fact that The New York Times sue Openai For this same reason since the companies of AI had to sign agreements with the means to access their content. Image: Solen Feyissa Ias connected. AI was evolving and, as expected, It ended up connecting to the Internet. Not only did he give answers based on finite training data, but could be connected to the network to search for the response in the media, blogs and online pages in real time (or almost in real time). The user no longer had to click on a link. The AI ​​searched, analyzed and generated the answer, making traffic towards the media and blogs. The user no longer accesses the original content, does not click on the links. Instead, it consumes a derived product generated by AI To this technology the Ai Crawlers or what is the same is given life: the trackers ia. They are the digievolution of the bots that shape the Internet we know. Among them are OPENAI GPTBOT, META-EXTERNALAGENT META, CLAUDEBOT OF ANTHROPIC O BYTESPIDER DE BYTEDANCE. With them the symbiotic relationship that we mentioned above begins to deteriorate because the user no longer accesses the original content, does not click. Instead, it consumes a derived product generated by Ia. The biggest example: new previous views generated with AI that appear on Google every time you do any search. Volume of daily requests of the main AI Bots | Image: Cloudflare Put the brake … or not, I’m just a .txt. How to solve this indiscriminate tracking and without consideration? The first proposal was Update the Robots.txt file to indicate to the bots that cannot extract the content of a website. This file and one of the most used resources to administer the activity of the bots, but has a small problem: its compliance is voluntary. IA companies can follow the instructions, or can ignore and extract the content. In addition, it may happen that we touch what we should not and that our website disappears from Google. Every website who wants to be on Google must allow Googlebot, its spider, to indicate to the bots that cannot extract the content of a website. This file is one of the most used resources to administer the activity of the bots, but it has a small problem: its compliance is voluntary. IA companies can follow the instructions, or can ignore and extract the content. Cloudflare is planted. We arrive at the recent announcement made by Cloudflare. The platform (The middle internet depends on) has announced that, from today, the blockade of the AI ​​Crawler will be active by default. To do this, Cloudflare offers direct management of robots.txt to avoid problems such as the aforementioned. The key, of course, is that Cloudflare will be in charge of maintaining the updated blockages according to the IA panorama. This, although it is activated by default, is voluntary and can be completely deactivated in the adjustments. To pay. Cloudflare’s other proposal is Pay per crawl. Since AI will continue to need access to the content of a website, why not give the creator the option to charge for such access? Pay Per Crawl, which is currently in Beta, allows domain owners to define a fixed price at request. If an AI Crawler wants to extract the content of that domain, you will have to pay for it. On paper, this tool has the potential to change the current panorama, but everything will depend on the scope, its adoption and what measures take the tracker operators. Cover image | Solen Feyissa In Xataka | I have asked the AI ​​any bullshit and now I am writing a news about her

An indie group is petalling in Spotify. All normal except for one thing: they are made with ia

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A couple of months ago we talked about tools as powerful as Suno Ai that allowed to create practically indistinguishable songs of a generated by humans. There is nothing strange that, a few weeks later we are already seeing musical groups generated from Musical Models of AI, and that not only manage to deceive the public but also generate millions of listeners and, therefore, substantial amounts of money in benefits. The new case (and surely will not be the last one) is that of the false Folk The Velvet Slown band. Lie folk. The first calls for attention to the legitimacy of The Velvet Sundown took place in Reddit (in this and in this thread), where attention was called to the possible absence of the band despite its more than 550,000 monthly listeners have already been recommended by the platform algorithm. The reactions went from indignation to resignation, and at that time a boycott call was made to Spotify, for not clearly noticing the nature of these contents. How to detect it. Shortly after, the music expert Chris Dalla I explained in Tiktok How it was possible to distinguish The Velvet Sundown from a royal band: certain metal nuances in the voices, typical of when they are generated by AI, very little original titles (‘Dust on the Wind’, very similar to the legendary ‘dust in the Wind’ of Kansas), the clear origin by means of both the images of the group and of the description of the same (with false quotes or abundance of scripts. of chatgpt texts in English). And then, of course, there is the total absence of information about the band or its members on the Internet. There is no digital footprint prior to the appearance of the group in Spotify. The definitive test: Deezer. Deezer is one of the few platforms of streaming of music that has recognized the problems of an excess content generated by AI (18% of all that rises to digital platformsaccording to your own report). That is why they launched a tool that warns their listeners of the possibility that they are listening to artificially generated music. In the case of The Velvet Slown, His verdict is unequivocal: The possibilities that your songs have composed with Suno, you or other similar tool are very high. Why have so many reproductions. However, The Velvet Sundown does not have too many listeners signed to their profile: just 11,000 at the time of writing these lines. Where do all your listening monthly come from? Basically, to appear on playlists who arrive thanks to five very specific users, according to the investigation Musically: Extra music, Collective Solitude, Kultpop!, In-Between and Lost Records. These profiles have included the entire records of The Velvet Slown in very often lists, although their themes (for example, the Vietnam War) have no apparent relationship with the music of the band. But these appearances in lists lead them direct to the weekly discoveries of the algorithm. The juicy royalties. What generates this is an avalanche of Royalties whose legitimacy is, in the best, doubtful, since they are often used Bots to inflate the statistics (There are already, in fact, cases giving tumbos in court for this issue). The use of bots is not demonstrated with this new non-base, but the objections around it go rather by the ethical point of view: with its somewhat artificial success (based on “deceiving” the algorithm forcing its appearance in Playlists very listened to) are removing space to authentic bands. And money: reproductions are paid in Spotify between 0.003 and $ 0.005 for each listening, so that money is not going to real musicians. The precedent: the girls. At the end of 2024a Spanish band generated entirely by AI became the musical controversy of the moment. The girls obtained some impact with their first album, ‘Last bath’, and became interviewed by media such as eldiario.es. Those responsible, from anonymity, stated when they were discovered to be responsible for the lyrics, but not music or interpretation. In this case, they disappeared from Spotify by decision of their Altafonte distributor, although in a few days they returned to platforms, already self -managed. Those responsible fled forward with A manifesto in which they turned the project into an idea of ​​collaborative philosophy, trying to provide a certain experimental entity to the girls. Only seven months later, possibly their authors have managed to strain many other experiments on platforms … and are charging for it. In Xataka | Spotify has found the best use of AI: generates playlist from any text, such as chatgpt

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