Month: August 2025

The bathers have always seen the sea shells as an innocent souvenir. And that is taking its toll on the beaches

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A shell measures only a few centimeters. Not that, in some cases. That is why it is normal to take a small snail or a valve home seems a harmless act and without the greatest significance. It is. The problem is when that small act is multiplied by thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or thousands of millionswhich adds to the visits that humanity makes to the beaches of the planet over a year. With that data on the table the ‘stolen’ shells to the sands do become a challenge, one capable of even Alter ecosystems. Granite granite is made a beach … And it gets rid. A quick (and devastating) calculation. In the world we live around 8,000 million Of people and (almost) we all share a hobby: go to the beach, take long walks through the sand, sunbathe, bathe and why not? Go home with a little shell in your pocket as a memory. After all, what’s wrong with? The act is innocent if we look only at what we do, but the thing changes when we expand the perspective and we put accounts, which was recently a Florida researcher in An interview with The country. “There are almost 10,000 million visits to beaches annually and almost certainly, Explain Michał Kowalewski, a researcher of specialized in the study of invertebrates. “Let’s say that a shell is collected for every hundred visits, which sounds at little, but even so we would be talking about 10,000 tons of shells that disappear from the beaches every year.” In summary, a full -fledged marine plunder with which several Olympic pools could be filled to the top. Are there more calculations? Yes. A few years ago Kowalewski participated in A study Together with experts from the University of Barcelona (UB) that helps to understand what the bathers take home Conchas. Its analysis is interesting because part of a very concrete sandal, the Saolu Long Beachin Tarragona, where the influx of tourists has triplicate Since 70. To know how that boom is affecting the area, experts compared two samples of shells taken with enough margin: the first data of 1978-1981, the second of 2008-2010. What did they find out? That that greater pressure from the bathers was taking its toll on the Reserve of Conchas. And for worse. “The increase in tourism on the Mediterranean coast is related to a 70% decrease in shells during the tourist season of July and August and 60% the rest of the year,” summary From Ub. The area in which they focused their efforts is interesting because the influx of tourists increased 2.7 times during the study period and the analyzes show that the abundance of shells along the coast fell almost to the same extent, 2.6. Is everything due to tourism? The studypublished in 2023 in the academic magazine Plos Oneemphasizes the influence of tourism and its considerable increase between the end of the 70s and early 21st century, but that is not the only factor that has influenced the beach ecosystem. During the three decades that passed between both samples the urban environment of the beach was altered with new hotels and also varied the use and maintenance of the environment. “The correlation could also respond to the increase in water turbidity because there are more recreational vessels or for organic pollution, or the elimination of shells for daily cleaning services, among other reasons,” They recognize Catalan experts, who insist on the need for “more studies”, especially in areas where tourists look actively for their great view, as in the coast of Florida, the Philippines or Indonesia. Why is it important? Because shells are more than whims of nature or potential souvenirs. “They are not there by chance, they are part of the natural gear that keeps our beaches alive and stable,” Clarify in The country Fernando García, one of those responsible for the Malacological Collection of the National Museum of Natural Sciences. The shells help the sands retain their firmness and resist erosion and even influence the acidity of the water. Much more than souvenirs: homes. “The disappearance of shells could have a significant impact on the natural environment, causing alterations in the stabilization of the coastline and a decrease in the production of carbonated sediments, among others,” Underline in the UB. Not to mention that the shells serve to look more than look in our nightstand. There are birds that use them to build nests and serve as a refuge for different organisms. An extra reason: the law. There is one more reason to think twice to fill the shell pockets. In addition to damaging the environment can damage our economy. As I remembered recently Legal, technically the Coastal Law It does not allow “elements of the maritime-terrestrial public domain” and that includes mollusks, stones, sand and shells. “This activity can lead to a sanction of up to 60,000 euros according to the value of the damage “, warns. “Irreparable damage”. At the beginning of 2022 the Cabildo de Fuerteventura recognized that in just four months (and not precisely high season) the island authorities had seized more than 4,500 kilos of shells, rholites, stones and sand at the airport. Hence, remember the local population and tourists “the importance of avoiding practices such as the plundering of materials.” “Every year the Environment personnel return thousands of kilos of this type of Majorero landscape materials that recover from the plunder at the Fuerteventura airport,” insists The organism, which points out that the most seized material is white sand (640 kg) and black (309 kg). “Insular ecosystems are fragile, so any bad condition can be as irreparable damage.” Images | Carlos Alejo (Flickr) and Art of Hoping (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | The beach of the crystals: Galicia has one of the most fascinating sands in Spain by chance

China’s first avant -garde lithography machine is not the biggest US problem. They will be the other two that are on their way

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The semiconductor industry is strategic for great powers. Without exception. Its technological development is closely linked to its ability to manufacture or acquire avant -garde chips, hence the US and its allies are deploying Successive packages of sanctions They pursue stop the technical progress of China. In this situation the country of Xi Jinping only has one option: invest in its chips industry for become independent of foreign technologies. And he is doing it. Two of its largest investments They arrived in 2014 and 2019before the technological war of which we are witnessing was unleashed. In 2014, the Chinese government injected about 19,000 million dollars into its chip industry, and in 2019 this figure increased to touching 27.5 billion dollars. However, these investments pale in front of China at the end of 2023. And it is that just two years ago the government approved An investment of 41,000 million dollars expressly dedicated to manufacturers of lithography equipment. The achievements are beginning to arrive. As we explain yesterdayPulin Technology, one of the many Chinese photolithography machines, has sent one of its clients its first avant -garde team using nano -impression lithography technology (it is known as NIL by its denomination in English Nanoimprint Lithography). On paper this machine will initially produce 5 nm chips, and in the future You can reach the 2 nm. However, this is not all. China has at least two other extraordinarily ambitious and promising projects. Nil lithography is already ready. And the UVE photolithography is on its way NIL lithography is not entirely comparable to the extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE) implemented by the Dutch company ASML in its most advanced machines. Its operating strategy is very lowered by the cost of these equipment, but also entails the execution of several sequential processes that make it slower than UVE and UVP lithography. For this reason, the Pulin team is not the end of the road to China. And all probability during the next months will see other photolithography solutions developed by Chinese companies. In the middle of last March several Asian media collected a photograph taken at the Huawei Research Center in Dongguan, in the province of Canton, in which it appeared The prototype of a UVE lithography team Designed and manufactured entirely in China. Presumably this machine is similar to those produced by ASML, which invites us to anticipate that for 2026 the country led by Xi Jinping will have the ability to produce on a large scale advanced chips using this technology. However, China’s plans do not end here. Greater resolution in practice implies that it is possible to produce semiconductors with more transistors, and, therefore, more sophisticated and powerful And it is that the Chinese Academy of Sciences is finishing the one that is undoubtedly the most ambitious project of those who are developing the Chinese semiconductor industry. According to Dr. Kiman expert in the manufacture of integrated circuits who has worked in Samsung and who currently investigates for TSMC in the US, China is about to reach a “Deepseek” in the field of integrated circuit industry. This simply means that it is preparing to reach a disruption that has the potential to place this Asian country at the same height as the US, Taiwan or South Korea. However, China’s strategy to produce avant -garde chips is very different from what their rivals have used until now. Each of ASML UVE machines incorporates its own ultraviolet light source, but the Chinese Academy of Sciences seeks to generate this important radiation to produce advanced chips using a syncrotronwhich is nothing other than a circular particle accelerator that is used to analyze atomic level the properties of matter, such as various types of materials, or even proteins. It’s called heps (High Energy Photon Source or high -energy photons source), it is in Beijing and we can see it in the cover photography of this article. An important note before moving forward: the ultraviolet light (UV) is responsible for transferring the geometric pattern that contains the design of the chips to the Silicon wafer. This means, in broad strokes, that the UVE light has the ability to make possible the manufacture of integrated circuits with a greater resolution than the deep ultraviolet light (UVP) that use the previous generation lithography machines that China has in their hands. And a greater resolution in practice implies that it is possible to produce semiconductors with more transistors, and, therefore, more sophisticated and powerful. A priori we can think that a particle accelerator has nothing to do with the manufacture of integrated circuits, but we would be overlooking something very important: the Heps syncotron has the ability to produce high power UVE light. In fact, it is a source designed to generate a large amount of radiation. China’s plan is to place several semiconductor manufacturing plants around the particle accelerator to which the syncotron will deliver the UVE light in the same way that a power plant delivers electricity to its customers. That simple. The date on which China plans to start this megaphabric avant -garde semiconductor, but, as we can see in the photograph, is already very advanced, so we can take it for granted, will not be leaked soon. Image | Dr. Kim In Xataka | TSMC acknowledges that it has been considered taking its factories out of Taiwan. It is impossible for a good reason

Samsung has found the formula for Apple depending on them: Texas

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Samsung has just won a very important battle against Sony for the control of the image sensors of the iPhone. And the key has not been technology, but geography. Why is it important. Apple has announced An extra investment of 100,000 million dollars In the United States (regarding Middle Billón Original) and has chosen Samsung as a partner to make three -layer image sensors for the iPhone 18. Sony, its exclusive provider for years, produces only in Japan. With the 100% tariffs that Trump plans to impose on foreign chips, Apple urgently needed a national alternative. The context. Samsung will operate a production line of 10,000 monthly wafers in its Austin factory since March. It is the first time that he will manufacture image sensors in the United States. The three -layer stacked sensors What will they use are so advanced that There are only two companies that can dominate them on a commercial level. One is Samsung. The other is Sony. Between the lines. This agreement marks the definitive reconciliation between Apple and Samsung after years of wars for patents that led the first to abandon the second as the main chips manufacturer. Sony’s supply problems in 2023 and 2024 reopened the door, but it has been Trump’s tariffs who have closed the deal. The threat to Sony. The Japanese manufacturer has reduced its estimate of the impact of tariffs on their accounts. From 100,000 to 70,000 million yen – 581 to 406 million – in this fiscal year. But the reality is harder: without facilities in the United States, it will progressively lose market share in the most profitable business of mobile sensors. Deepen. Samsung not only wins this contract. The strategy of expanding your capacity in the United States has also given you The 16,500 million agreement with Tesla for AI chips. Samsung is making very intelligent maneuvers: it is turning Trump’s protectionist policies, originally harmful to its business, an advantage against Asian rivals without a American presence. In Xataka | Tim Cook has admitted that Apple is “very open” to acquisitions in AI. These are our candidates Outstanding image | Samsung

His name is N8N, he is German and has converted the automation of workflows into something sexy

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For many years Jan Oberhauser worked for special effects (VFX) companies in the film and television industry. In those works he realized that automating certain tasks allowed simplifying his work and that of his colleagues in a remarkable way, and that was when he decided to take a complete turn to his career: he created an automation startup he called which he called N8N and has ended up becoming the last and promising European unicorn. There is nothing. Thus N8N was born. The company founded by Oberhauser He was born in 2019 In Berlin, Germany. Its objective: create a workflow automation platform that stood out for being Open Source – they prefer to use the term “Fair Code“,” Fair code ” -. In addition, you could and can be used in both autohosped mode (anyone can be mounted on its PC/server) and directly through its” key in hand “systems with the traditional SAAS scheme and its Subscription plans. The code is available In Github. What does this platform do. Basically, Automize everything. For this, it makes use of integrations of all kinds in third -party web applications and services, but also internally developed tools and, for some time, AI models that have become one of the star ingredients of those automation. The possibilities are practically unlimited, but to give some examples, N8N allows: That upon receiving an email in Gmail the sender leakes, the attachments are saved in Google Drive and you will notify you in Slack That if any event occurs in an app or service, you are sent an alert in slack, whatsapp or discord Download SDE files a FTP server, convert them to another format, process them and then distribute them by messaging channels A big ifttt. In essence N8N is something like a IFTTT Supervitaminazo: It is possible to chain all kinds of tasks so that “if this happens, you do this another.” However, the goal is to capture not only to end users – in Reddit There is a community Very nourished and enthusiastic of them – but to business users, for whom it raises a clear alternative to very popular automation platforms such as Zapier either Make (In both cases, no autohosped solution). Something that seems boring and cumbersome apparently becomes something fun, almost sexy – as they demonstrate Some YouTube video tutorials-, with N8N. N8N has not stopped growing. In 2020, a few months after being created, he already captured a small investment round of 1.5 million dollars. A year later They raised 12 million dollars more in a new round, and since then they have not stopped growing, but their true explosion has taken advantage of the boom of generative AI. A German Unicorn. Four months ago and after a new financing round of 55 million euros, N8N had a notable assessment of 350 million dollars. But as they indicate In Bloombergthis assessment could now be triggered to the 2.3 billion dollars thanks to a recent additional round in which the Risk Capital firm will lead with an important participation not yet defined.N The French Mistral either The Spanish Freepik. AI agents as a key ingredient. The company already exceeds 40 million dollars of recurrent income (subscriptions), and has benefited from the aforementioned AI and the phenomenon of the AI agentswith the difference that here these agents are really One more piece of those flows Automation. When you define one of those flows, they can “call” any model of AI to perform any task, and from it, that the exit ends up being the entrance of a new stage of the workflow. The power of the system, which was already remarkable, is now multiplied with the help of that option. In Xataka | “Ai Fluency” will be the new “user level office” in employment offers. The problem: you will have to learn on your own

Who will manufacture the consoles now

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Do you remember those non-tan-lejanos times in which the video game scene was a real field planted with pots, each with its characteristics, its catalogs and its peculiarities? Only in the 1990s there were 32 different consoles in the market… And that without counting the laptops! But the times have changed, and that park diminishes dangerously to approach a point where we possibly only have a console with our own hardware before us. To content. The news that has made the most veteran fans to get the beards have come directly from Sony’s senior vice president: Sadahiko Hayakawa states that are gradually changing their video game business of a hardware -centered model “to a model that expands the community and increases interaction.” Hayawaka says that all Sony is reorienting “creation” rather than the device factory, since games, music and cinema have ended up adding 60% of the company’s total benefits. The manager has mentioned the recent purchase from Bandai Namco As an example of this reorientation in the search, for example, of profitable IPS. It has been seeing. Sony has been launching signs that point by steps in this direction for a while. The clearest, the launch of ‘2’ Helldivers in Xbox Series X and S A year after his arrival exclusively to PS5 and that of ‘Lego Horizon Adventures’ on Switch. The purchase of Bandai Namco also points in that direction: franchises such as ‘Dragon Ball’ are too juicy (and universal) and to limit the potential millionaire bemnefits with an exclusivity. It is sought. Another sign of this change is the Rumors linked to a work offer in PlayStation About the games will be carried at PC in just six months after their departure in PlayStation. If so, titles such as ‘Death Stranding 2’ would be in PlayStation before the end of the year. Finally, there has been job offers In search of multiplatform development directors and accounts management in which, literally, “design and execute a global commercial roadmap that expands the PlayStation Studios titles beyond the limits of the hardware of the company itself.” Xbox was first. Sony and Microsoft are going to par, and Microsoft has taken much more determined steps in that direction: Xbox emblematic games such as’ Gears of War ‘,’ Forza Horizon 5 ‘E’ Indian With excellent sales results (Seven of the twenty best -selling games in PlayStation They are Xbox properties). Have expressly spoken of give up permanent exclusivities. And his slogan “Play wherever you want “ It could not be clearer: Xbox’s future intention is to sell a platform, not a machine. Nintendo to yours. The only one that remains unperturbed to events is Nintendo, and has achieved it with a strategy that they explain GREATED OUR COMPANIONS OF LIFEXTRA: Game prices do not change. It doesn’t matter if you buy the new ‘Mario Kart’ the departure day or a year later, they will cost the same. Punishment for late? It may be, but above all, a prize for those who arrive first, who are going to play longer for the same price. And so, the sales of the games from day one have multiplied, which has strengthened the company’s bases and has strengthened it in the economic. Nintendo can allow you to be the only one in the patio, you do not need to beg for other systems. The million dollar question. Obviously it is … Who will manufacture the consoles now? And the answer is evident: nobody. The future is from the cloudand in that sense Xbox is betting all its chips. As they claim, Game Pass is leaving profitablerather than selling games in boxes, and one of the most powerful aspects of the subscription is to be able to run its titles on any screen. If PlayStation also launches something like that (not necessarily with its own platform, but generating material for others), we can be before the death sentence not only of the physical format, but directly from traditional consoles. A confusing future. Nothing screams more “transition stage” than this was that we have had to live. From Microsoft literally disintegrating all the possibilities that we see a new box called “Xbox” to Nintendo remaining faithful to its screens, its franchises and its prices, through a Sony that enters a phase of change confessed, it is difficult to predict what the future will bring us. It is clear that there will be more screens than ever. What is not clear is what they will be plugged in. In Xataka | PlayStation 6: All the information we know (or we think) so far

This worker combined three jobs for a year. They threw it out of the three the same day

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We don’t know if We will run out of work because of AI, But for the moment we do know that There are people carrying the concept of multi -employment to another level. Many share their experience in the Reddit Overemployed community And there has been a case that has caught the attention. A worker tells that he had three simultaneous jobs and, without waiting for him, on the same day he has lost them all. According to the worker, the fault has LinkedIn. What happened. The worker himself tells in This Reddit publication. He is dedicated to sales in the technological sector and during the last year he has been hired in three companies at the same time. The companies were not aware of this situation and thought that the employee was with them exclusively. Everything was going well until one of his bosses tried to look for him on LinkedIn and, not finding him, he began to suspect. LinkedIn’s chivato. The boss who looked for him in LinkedIn did not find him because the employee had been in charge of blocking the whole world of company No. 2 not to discover him. However, he did not count on the boss to contact the hiring agency, which he had not blocked and that he could access the profile where he put that he had another job in company No. 1. Not only did they say goodbye, they also contacted the company No. 1 that, in less than an hour, also fired him. Unemployed. He still had a job, a company in which he had been working for two years. Nor could he keep it. Those responsible for the company Nº2 contacted them and at the end of the same day he had lost all three works. In this case it was not for LinkedIn, but because the worker mentioned the company No. 3 in his curriculum. In its publication, the now unemployed gives congratulations to the Human Resources Department “respect your dedication to ruin my life.” There have been more cases. He is not the only one that combines several jobs in secret. In the same community of Reddit we can find many more cases and in Xataka we have also treated them, such as that of this Barcelona company that He discovered that one of his employees had another job. There are even those that even exceed the protagonist of this article and reach the four jobs at the same time either This engineer who was winning a fortune Thanks to teleworking and chatgpt. Remote work. Obviously, these people do not have full -time face -to -time jobs. At the moment Teleworking is falling capebut the figures are still higher than prepandymia. This has allowed some people to decide to combine several jobs without their employers knowing it. The trick of some workers is do the minimum in each job so as not to have too long days. The role of AI. Many of these multi -employed admit to using AI tools, like this I assured Vice that “AI does 80% of my work” and he only dedicated himself to more complex tasks or refine what AI had done. Others use the Slack messages, write emails or take notes in meetings. By saving these tools for a long time, This engineer He managed to complete the work in less time, allowing him to get up to two additional works with which he has paid the mortgage and the university of his children. Image | Vlada Karpovich, Pexels In Xataka | Four different works already: how teleworking and chatgpt are facilitating “multi -employment”

Taking spectacular photographs of the Perseids seems impossible. NASA has a guide to demonstrate otherwise

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The Perseids are already here and, although there are still a few days to reach their peak of activity, it is convenient to keep in mind some clues and tricks if our intention is to capture them in a photograph. Because as more than one will have proven, this is not always easy. AND Who better than NASA to point to any of these tricks. The first step: plan. If we want to get a good image of this rain of stars, the first thing is to think where and when. The Perseids or Tears of San Lorenzo can be seen for several weeks of summer, approximately between June 17 and August 24, and reach their peak of activity around August 11 and 12. Where and when it is also important when it comes to circumventing the great enemy of astrophotography: light pollution. First, it is convenient Avoid full moon And the phases in which it reflects the most light, since, although we do not perceive this light, it reduces the contrast that our eyes require to see the fleeting stars. It is also important flee from light pollution that generate the lights of cities and other settlements, so perhaps we should plan a trip to the field if we want to see these stars. Finally, we must also know where to look. Perseids owe their name that seem to radiate The constellation of Perseus. Knowing how to locating this constellation in the sky is very useful when restricting the angle to which to aim the objectives of our cameras and increase the probability of capturing some of these flashes. Second step: the team. A tripod can be helpful. Photography will require a long exposure. Maybe they are just a few seconds, but our pulse or any other involuntary movement could spoil a perfect shot. If we do not have a tripod we may resort to a “homemade” solution, such as supporting our camera on some rocks, but that will subtract maneuvering capacity. It can also be useful pertrech In order not to have the chamber trigger and thus avoid additional vibrations, but we can also dodge this requirement with the camera timer. Regarding the lens, NASA’s recommendation is in angular. Since we do not know when and where the next flash will happen, it will be best to cover a lot to increase our chances of success. Third step: Prepare. Once in position, we can start looking The constellation of Perseus. Orient our camera towards it will increase the chances of capturing the flashes of this rain of stars. The approach, best manual. The reason is that cameras self -effect systems can be lost in night darkness. Since we will not have to change the focal point, this does not imply any problem once we have taken the ideal approach. We will have, of course, to walk with an eye: sometimes focusing on infinity is not the best option, so it is a good idea to try small adjustments until you find the ideal approach. There is still a detail. We had said that capturing a rain of stars requires long exhibitions. Calculate how long can also require adjustments, but NASA also has a trick to facilitate work: Rule 500. It is about dividing 500 by the focal distance of the lens, and using the figure as time, in seconds, that our open shutter will remain. This value represents the maximum time that we can maintain the exposure before the terrestrial rotation makes the background stars begin to spread. If we have a 20 mm lens, we will have that 500/20 = 25 seconds of maximum. Experiment, enjoy. Rule 500 can be a good start, but we will still have to adjust our ISO and opening values, which will also allow us to play with shorter exhibitions. We can make small changes and verify how each one affects the quality of the image or its aesthetics. He last advice that NASA It has for those who are encouraged to photograph the persistes (or any other rain of stars) is simple: enjoy. These astronomical events offer us an opportunity to see the night sky in a different way, in advance generated by the unexpected flashes that cross the night sky on some summer nights. In Xataka | What are they and how exactly the Perseids are formed, the most fascinating astronomical phenomenon that we can see today Image | Fatih Turan

Now you can get an iphone in liquidation from 249 euros, before the arrival of the new iPhone 17

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For the first half of September, the Presentation of the new iPhone. This makes, now, it is a good time to think about buying one of the previous models (or even the current one, the iPhone 16) at a very good price. For example, you can opt for a Ancient Reconditioned iPhone Model And what can you get from 249 euros. These are some of the cheapest smartphones we have found. iPhone 12 by 249 euros: With 6.1 inches screen and A14 Bionic chip. iPhone 13 by 305 euros: With A15 Bionic and 128 GB chip. iPhone 14 by 366 euros: With MAGSAFE load and 6.1 -inch screen. iPhone 15 by 534 euros: The first iPhone with USB-C port. iPhone 16 by 701 euros: With OLED screen and compatible with Apple Intelligence. iPhone 12 Despite a few years old, this iPhone 12 is a good option if you don’t mind not having the last smartphone launched by the bite apple company. Now, you can take it reconditioned in backmarket by 249 euros in his 128 GB version. He iPhone 12 It has screen Super Retina XDR OLED of 6.1 inches and compatible with Dolby Vision. Its brain is the Apple A14 Bionic processor and has a double 12 MP rear camera and a front (also 12 MP) with Truedepth technology. * Some price may have changed from the last review iPhone 13 Another of the Reconditioned Cheap Apple mobiles that you can buy is the iPhone 13. At the moment, in backmarket it is available reconditioned, and in its 128 GB version, by 305 euros. This iPhone 13 It has the same screen as the previous model, although with True Tone technology and reaches a maximum brightness of 800 nits. Its processor is the Apple A15 Bionic Chip. It also has 5G, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC and Wifi 6. * Some price may have changed from the last review iPhone 14 The next of the Apple mobiles that we recommend, if you do not want 128 GB of storage internal For alone 366 eurosright now. He iPhone 14 It is the same as its predecessor, although it is available in other different colors. Its screen is 6.1 inches and its brain is the A15 Bionic chip. Comes with Face id and its battery admits rapid charge Magsafe at 15 W and cable to 18 W. * Some price may have changed from the last review iPhone 15 Although the iPhone 15 It was released two years ago, it is still a good purchase option today. Now, you can take the 128 GB version reconditioned, by 534 euros In Back Market. With a 6.1 -inch screen and one of its main novelties was the incorporation of the Dynamic Island. It has a double rear camera of 48+12 MP and has also been a pioneer in Apple devices, being The first to incorporate the USB-C portleaving the lightning connector behind. * Some price may have changed from the last review iPhone 16 Waiting for the new iPhone 17, the iPhone 16 is the most current we can buy right now. In Back Market, you can acquire this model, with 128 GB of storageby 701 euros. He iPhone 16 It is a terminal that mounts a 6.1 -inch OLED screen compatible with HDR. Its main novelty is the incorporation of the camera control button. In addition, it integrates the A18 chip, which makes this mobile compatible with Apple Intelligence. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some iPhone accessories that may interest you ESR for Magsafe Portfolio, cardboard for 5 cards * Some price may have changed from the last review Iniu wireless charger 3 in 1 travel * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Jose García (Xataka) and Apple In Xataka | iPhone 16E vs iPhone 16. What Apple’s mobile choose according to your tastes and needs In Xataka | Best iPhone. Which to buy in 2025 and recommended models based on budget, tastes and quality price

There are two suspicious companies of the theft of critical data of TSMC and none of them is China: the two are Japanese

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TSMC leadership has a price. This Taiwanese company is The largest semiconductor manufacturer on the planet and has built its success on the tuning of Extremely competitive integration technologies. Your most advanced photolithography is currently The 2 Nm; In fact, it is about to start the large -scale manufacture of chips of this class. All probability of their competitors, they could know their most sophisticated processes, especially those that are linked to their 2 nm node. And, apparently, some of them are trying to get this information. As We explain three days agothe Taiwanese authorities have arrested three TSMC employees because they have allegedly stole commercial secrets of this company. As we can expect, behind this detention is TSMC itself, as He has revealed The Taiwan Superior Prosecutor’s Office in a statement. According to Nikkei Asiathose responsible for this company have realized that two employees and a former employee have been made with critical information about their photolithography of 2 Nm. This information is very valuable. In fact, it could be used by a competitor to optimize its own semiconductor manufacturing processes. Two unexpected suspects: Tokyo electron and rapidus corporation The research has not yet determined if this stolen information has reached another company, but United Daily News ensures that researchers have registered the offices of the Japanese company Tokyo Electron. The latter is specialized in the design and manufacture of wafering processing equipment, and currently its most ambitious project is the tuning of wafering engraving machines by plasma. These equipment are involved in the definition of the pattern that will later be transferred to the wafer. Rapidus is making a chip manufacturing plant in northern Japan in which it plans to produce 2 Nm semiconductors According to SCMPTokyo Electron has confirmed that he has fired an employee of his Taipéi subsidiary (Taiwan) for being involved in the theft of TSMC’s critical information. This Japanese company also ensures that He is collaborating with the Taiwanese authorities They are carrying out the investigation. “That Tokyo Electron is located in the center of attention for this incident is an unfortunate accident,” has declared ASUSHI OSANAIProfessor at the University of Waseda (Japan). However, this company is not the only Japanese company that has been involved in this conflict. And is that Money.udn.com maintains that some of the TSMC employees who have been arrested have delivered to Rapidus corporation Hundreds of photographs and data linked to their most advanced process integration techniques. This company is intended to compete from you to you with TSMC, Intel or Samsung in the chip production market. Interestingly, it is very young: it was founded on August 10, 2022 by the Japanese government with an initial capital of 7,346 million yen (just under 46 million euros) contributed by, and here comes the interesting, Sony, Toyota, Nec, Softbank, Kioxia, Denso, Nippon Telegraph and Mufg Bank. Rapidus is currently putting a circuit manufacturing plant integrated in northern Japan, in the city of Chitose (Hokkaido), in which it plans to produce 2 Nm semiconductor. The first prototypes of these chips are already ready, but large -scale manufacturing It will not arrive at best until 2027. Anyway, as in relation to Tokyo Electron, the possible implication of Rapidus in the theft of data to TSMC has not been officially confirmed. In fact, it is possible that the authors of this crime have acted on their own and have offered the stolen information to Rapidus without this last company having requested or accepted. Those responsible for the investigation will have to settle. More information | Money.udn.com | SCMP In Xataka | South Korea fears US reprisals. To avoid their old lithography equipment, they take dust on a warehouse

Now we know everything that the new North Korea resort offers for 2,000 dollars. There is only one rule: be Russian

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The first time we listened to the idea there was talk of setting up a Benidorm species North Korean version. That first outline mutated until woning already North Korea in a holiday place. The doubt since then, and more after Its inaugurationIt was knowing what attractions this resort had in one of the most isolated enclaves in the world, and what guests would go to the call. All that and something else has just known. Exclusivity and Russians. I told this week The journal wallstreet through a trip that has lasted seven days. The coastal complex by Wonsan Kalmaone of Kim Jong’s emblematic projects to exhibit an image of modernity and prosperity in North Korea, opened its doors to foreign visitors for the first timealthough very selectively: Russian citizens could only access. Conceived in 2018 and announced by the leader himself in his New Year speechthe project was inspired by leisure destinations Like Benidormwith plans for hotels of high height, casino, shopping centers and an aquatic park. According to the Official propagandait is a sample of the “policy centered in the people” and the large investments of the regime in social welfare, although satellite images show that a good part remains unfinished. Pompa and reopening. The partial reopening of borders In Februaryafter the total closure by the pandemic, it has served at the same time to strengthen cooperation political and military With Moscow, in a context in which Kim has promised Unconditional support to the Russian war against Ukraine. The Journal told that the inaugural visit of 13 Russian tourists It coincided With the arrival of Foreign Minister Serguéi Lavrov, housed in the best hotel and personally received by Kim on his private yacht. Experiences. The group of the first visitors, composed of experienced travelers and High purchasing powerhe started his tour with three days in Pyongyang before moving to Wonsan. Although the initial plan was to fly, they were redirected on a 10 -hour train trip to cover the 120 kilometers to the eastern coast, a change attributed to preparations for the preparations for the Arrival of Lavrov. Once at the resort, they met deserted beachesan extremely attentive service and disposal of the staff to satisfy any request, from preparing custom breakfasts to deliver chairs and speakers in the sand. And more. The beaches, apparently, They are segregated For premises and foreigners, the aquatic park remains closed to the latter and payments are made with recharged electronic bracelets only in dollars, euros or yuan. Prices ranged from 60 cents of a beer and the $ 465 of a model of a HWASong-17 missilewhile some activities, such as the use of aquatic motorcycles or quads, were free due to the absence of fixed rates. The visitors claimed to have enjoyed an unusual freedom to take photographs, documenting curiosities such as imported Heineken beer, war toys and buses with propaganda slogans. Of inside doors. The Arrival of Lavrov It altered the routine of the complex, which was filled with North Korean visitors apparently belonging to the elite, identifiable by its careful clothing and latest generation mobiles, something uncommon in the country. More. The hotel staff apparently showed behaviors that They surprised to tourists, such as ignoring “not disturbing” posters or reducing the temperature of hot water without consent. In a striking episode, the medium that dozens of North Koreans were equipped with swimsuits And they threw themselves into the sea next to the Russian visitors, including the group’s own guide, who did not know how to swim and spent hours clinging to one of them. Objectives and projection. What’s doubt, Wonsan Kalma It is not only an leisure center, but a propaganda instrument that the regime uses to demonstrate that it can offer luxury and recreation despite international sanctions and internal precariousness. In the domestic sphere, access to North Koreans is expected to be used as Loyalty Award Politics, reinforcing the official narrative of prosperity under the direction of Kim. The initial restriction of Russian visitors underlines the narrow tune strategic with Moscow and adds an element of exclusivity that enhances its symbolic value. In this way, experts point out that attracting international tourism in volume It will be difficultsince most travelers interested in North Korea seek their capital, their ideological monuments and military enclaves, Not a vacation on its beaches. It does not seem to import much in Pyongyang, where the regime plans to receive a second group of Russian tourists shortly, using Wonsan as a showcase of his political alliance and as an outgoing exterior. A place where the hospitality and the staging reinforce the message that, even under sanctions, North Korea can offer experiences that it intends to present as exclusive and luxurious. Image | Clay Gilliland, Heute In Xataka | North Korea has built a resort so great that it now faces another problem: find tourists to fill it In Xataka | After years with its closed borders, North Korea has opened to foreign tourism. The price: more than $ 600

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