Month: September 2025

The 96,000 positions that 2% of GDP in defense aspire to create

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A few months ago, Spain He promised to increase your investment in defense to 2% of GDP. According to data of the Industrial and Technological Plan for the Security and Defense presented by the Government, that effort implies mobilizing 10,471 million euros in 2025 and take a big step and place at the level of commitments assumed with NATO, but without touching social spending or increasing taxes. These investments in the defense industry, beyond moral or political debates, can be an opportunity to An impulse to industry national, directly affecting the reactivation of factories and companies that for years have been references in technology and production. More qualified employment. The estimates, both of the Government and the different sectoral employers, indicate that, between direct and indirect jobs, 96,000 new jobs such as sectors such as aeronautics, robotics, programming and manufacturing will be created. This change not only It implies more workbut also an investment in continuous training and new opportunities for young people seeking to join the labor market. Specialties such as telecommunications engineering, aeronautics, electronics or cybersecurity experts are between The most wanted profiles In this sector, but also specialized profiles in the manufacture of weapons such as welding, assembly specialists or sheet experts who leave the different degrees of FP. Chords to the qualification. This requirement of highly qualified personnel is also collected in the wages that this sector offers. According to KPMG data published by Fifodiesthe average salary of the employees of the defense sector are 85% higher than the Spanish average, which stood at 25,896 euros per year. This implies that, on average, the qualified employees of this sector would be charging salaries of 47,907 euros per year. Most of these well -paid jobs have occurred in the aeronautical subsector, followed by the Naval, which are the ones that have grown the most In recent years and lead sales figures by monopolizing 74.5% of the total sector billing. A booming sector. The defense industry, together with aeronautics and security, is living a moment of great impulse in which, given The technological pressure that we are seeing in conflicts Like Ukrainean important effort is being made in R&D. That implies more research and Capture employees with high qualification. According to data of Aesmide (Association of Contractor Companies with Public Administrations), in 2023, the defense -related sectors reached a turnover of 13.9 billion euros, of which 1.2 billion were to the aerospace sectorwhich registered a reinvestment in R & D+I of 15.5% of its turnover, according to The annual report De TEDAE (Spanish Association of Technology Companies for Defense, Security, Aeronautics and Space (TEDAE). Within this figure, defense and security they contributed more than 8,000 million, and the impact on employment was 115,000 direct jobs and 95,000 indirects distributed in different parts of the country, with Madrid, Andalusia and the Basque Country in the head. The opportunities are not only in Spain. However, Spanish companies They are not the only that have been launched to the qualified talent hunt: the increase in defense spending has been activated throughout the continent up to 30%, So, according toor published by The confidentialthe whole sector in Europe will compete for capturing that talent. That battle for talent has made educational initiatives oriented to train new professionals that nourish the demand for labor that this sector will live in the coming years. Spanish giants wake up. The spin of Spain towards a greater investment in defense is promoting reference companies in the sector such as Indra and Navantia to expand their templates to respond to new demands. The steel industry, key to the manufacture and maintenance of military equipment, is also reactivating and plans to generate thousands of indirect jobs thanks to the increase in demand for the production of pieces and systems. Last July, Indra announced Its intention to incorporate 2,400 new employees into their defense divisions. 65% of these places would be destined for experienced personnel in the sector, while 35% of vacancies were reserved for young talent. For its part, Navantia has begun to incorporate new personnel with 45 new vacancies for its chopped Puerto Real in Cádiz, before the increase in orders for orders new patrolmen for the army. In Xataka | Italy has activated the “rearme” in Europe: the longest pendant bridge in the world will connect sicily for tanks Image | Unspash (Evgeny Opananko, Anfal Shamsudeen)

Nitazenos have returned to worsen everything

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Fentanyl has been the main protagonist of the “opioid epidemic“That for decades affects the United States and whose echoes have already been noticed in other countries. However, other drugs are also flourishing in the middle of a crisis that does not seem to send. A “new” risk. An American researchers group has caught attention about the risk involved in nitazenos in the context of this opioid crisis. According to the equipment, these compounds are much more powerful than drugs such as fentanyl and can also go unnoticed in Tests common, what could be contributing to the “emerging” character of this drug described by the group. Nitazenos are an opioid category created in the 1950sbut never approved for pharmacological use. “For patients, especially those with opioid use disorder or those exposed to illegal substances, nitazenos pose a serious threat would be often hidden,” ” pointed in a press release Shravani Durbhakula, co -author of the study. “Since these drugs do not appear in routine toxicology exams, sanitary could ignore a critical piece in diagnosis during overdose treatment. Patients can also neccess higher or repeated doses of naloxin to reverse their effects.” At least since 2019. According to The team stands outbetween 2019 and 2023, the Toxicological Monitoring System of the North American State of Tennessee, TN Sudors (Tennessee State an animal Drug Overdose Reporting System), detected this substance in 92 deaths due to overdose. In the 92 deaths registered in the state of Tennessee, the Nitazenos were found in conjunction with other substances, generally fentanyl or methamphetamine. This suggests that many of the people who consume the substance do so without even knowing that they are doing it, having used as adulterants. Rapid expansion. The study of these substances has led the team to alert about their “rapid expansion In the illicit market. ”The difficulty when detecting nitazenos, which may appear in different formats, is an added problem when treating overdose caused by these substances. The team’s work has been accepted for publication in the magazine Pain Medicinealthough for now your previous manuscript can be consulted. Never tested. More than half a century ago we know the Nitazenos but after their development they were never approved for medical use, they were not even clinically studied properly, the equipment recalls. Studying them could now help us better understand their effects, especially in the long term. It could also help us better understand how to respond to them, for example through naloxone, the drug usually used to avoid opioid overdose. They also highlight the role of other strategies, especially education, as well as the introduction of tests that are able to detect this substance quickly. Fighting this “emergency in public health” requires collaboration between health personnel, security forces and community organizations that can implement damage reduction strategies, Durbhakula comments. In Xataka | The legal opium business: how Spain has become a world power and drug vampires Image | James Yarema

There are 225 hours from Oktoberfest, but only 222 beer. The remaining three hours are an agonizing wait for Germany

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September 20 was the largest public festival pistolt. Held in Theresienwiese, Munich, all in The oktoberfest is hyperbolicand the liters of alcohol and the size of the beers that are going to be dispatched will not be less. However, few moments better define those party desires As I wait that has taken place before the start of this Bacchanalia German that will total 225 hours. It’s just three hours, 180 minutes, but for most they are an eternity. The ritual wait. There is something almost liturgical in those first hours without beer from the Oktoberfest, a collective voltage Remembering the early morning prior to a great family party, when the last details are refined and the house seems to contain your breathing. In Munich, in the Prado de Theresienwiese, that pause is Puebla de Pretzels, soft drinks and board games, and thousands of crowded bodies that have run, camped or paid by a hole to ensure a place under the canvases of the great lying. The ceremony It is simple and strict: The doors open at nine, the enclosure is filled with expectation and tiredness in equal parts, and it is not until the mayor wields the shooter and nailed the first tap at twelve o’clock when the crowd exhales and the drink, literally and symbolically, begins to flow. Those minutes (three exact hours In which beer is still promise) they distil a delicious anxiety, attendees occupy their place not because of the drink itself, but because of the experience that the jug makes possible: band music, dance on tables, the conversation that becomes collective anthem. The social mechanics of the first third. The history I remembered this weekend The New York Times on the occasion of the start of the massive festival. The waiting ritual also reveals a unwritten economy and a complex social choreography: groups that keep hours in the tail, young people who transform their patience into income selling accesses, families that play cards to spend time and waitresses who, before becoming Athletes Of the napkin and the jug, they are the guardians of that temporal border between emotion and ethyl catharsis. The seats within the historical tents They rarely reserve For the general public. Most are first arrivals, and competition for a good table can involve entire nights on the street. Inside, stories are shared, instant fellowship networks are woven, it is purchased A great pretzel To simulate composure and You drink prosecco In somewhat shy sips that are, in reality, the prologue. And when the countdown reaches its end, the explosion It is ordered ” of Festbier On the wooden tables. The Oktoberfest numbers. The truth is that the Oktoberfest is not just a party: it is An economic engine and a cultural scenario that moves millions of visitors. The price of a jug It may seem high For those who measure it in liters and cents, but the real value of the experience combines tradition, gastronomy and show. Young people who repeat the visit year after year are part of a generation that sees at the festival A seasonal rite: A place to measure resistance and find community. At the same time, demand Create microeconomies: Plazas Belings In the row, improvised services, street vendors that capitalize on the wait with pins or memories and the hotel industry that collapses and reconstructs around the dates. The emotional and physical cost also weighs: the posterior euphoria is accompanied by fatigue and the inevitable account count and, of course, hangover. Rituals and practices. The tentseach with Your personality and clientele (The historical ones where tradition weighs, preferred by young people, which attract everyone …) are microcosm with their own codes. There it is sung, dance on the tables, gigantic bread is shared and liters are consumed in a choreography that requires skill: measured gestures not to overwhelm the jug, deployment of synchronized toasts, greetings that cross languages. The role of the waitresses is central; As we said, they are the invisible army that maintains the rhythm, joining physical strength and memory of usual faces. And that First “O’Zapft is!” (It is already open!) Not only frees beer, releases social permissiveness: for a few hours, the unwritten rule of the decorum softens and the city is allowed to dance on tables with the solemnity of a carnival. Youth, businesses and limits. As in every great local event, he is accompanied by the same endemic evils: young people who monetize their patience, resellers that make early entrance into business, and a tension between the tourist who wants the rite and the place that lives it as a mass consumption. If you want, the phenomenon remembers how traditions, when They become globalThey acquire New layers: they become show, they are marketed and sometimes They disfigure. However, they also guarantee a continuity: the people who return every year, the families that transmit outfits and songs, the employees who see their most intense season in October. It is a fragile balance between authenticity and the fair, between cultural heritage and global market. Euphoria and memory. Oktoberfest Live from that transition (from tense calm to the runaway euphoria), and in that march it may summarize its charm: it is not the intake itself that defines the event, but the social fabric that is assembled Around waiting. It is the collective experience where the expected gesture of the mayor, the first tap and the first jar make of catalysts of a temporary communion. Sensation of sharing something that transcends the glass and stays like memory. And while some counting liters, others keep anecdotes, small evidence that a festival can be simultaneously industry, tradition and catharsis, although yes, always starting (as every year) with the same expectant calm of three hours that announces, inevitable, beers. Image | Tammy lo, RB Photo In Xataka | You can now party with shoes that guarantee be repellent to beer and vomit In Xataka | It is not that Germany is promoting the working day of four days, … Read more

China has built a space empire in 30 years after being expelled from ISS. Your revenge is about to complete

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If the space race of the last century was decided on the moon, that of this century could be a few years after its final act. The space is again the great theater where the two greatest economies in the world demonstrate their technological muscle, and China He has been preparing a master function to close your arc of redemption. A little paint in the face. This story has a clear origin: 1994. That year, China requested to join the International Space Station program with the other partners, But the United States vetoed its entrancearguing that the Asian country was not trustworthy. China developed its own manned space program, but in 2011, the United States Wolf amendment was a second blow, prohibiting NASA from any type of cooperation with Chinese counterparts. In parallel, China suffered the consequences of a world increasingly dependent on navigation satellites. In 1993 he had a first affront when the United States deliberately turned off GPS satellites on the Chinese ship Yinhe, leaving it drifting for 33 days. In 1996, a new blackout made the GPS guidance of a Chinese missile fail. In 2003, China invested 230 million euros to join the Galilean satellite navigation system of the European Union, but also ended up being expelled from this project. Of isolated to self -sufficient. Instead, China started a long -term plan to build, piece by piece, everything they had denied. In 1999 he launched the Shenzhou ship 1. In 2003, it became the third country, after the Soviet Union and the United States, to independently send a man to space: Yang Liwei aboard the Shenzhou 5. In 2007, China undertaked at the same time its lunar career and its own navigation network. The Chang’e 1 probe began to orbit the moon, and the Beidou-1 satellite meant the first stone of an alternative system to the American GPS. Similarly, in 2011 he launched Tiangong-1, the embryo of what would be his future space station. In 2022 he was no longer interested in ISS: China put the Tiangong Space Stationthat since then It is permanently inhabited. Even in areas such as planetary defense, China is replicating and improving Western missions. After the success of NASA’s dart mission, will launch its own mission to divert an asteroidwith a key improvement: a second ship that will observe the impact in real time and measure the live result. The first milestones. China’s space exploits have been growing in complexity. In 2020, the Chang’e 5 probe brought samples of the visible face of the moon for the first time in 44 years, and of a geologically younger area than the samples of the Apollo missions, so that They also interested NASAdespite the law that prevents them from collaborating. It was not until 2024, with the Chang’e-6 mission, which China achieved an impressive unpublished feat: bring to Earth The first samples of the hidden face of the moona tremendous effect in the new space race that now seeks to repeat on Mars, going for the first soil samples of the red planet. While NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is in a limbo, China plans to launch its Tianwen-3 probe in 2028 and bring samples of Mars in 2031, foreseeably advanceing NASA. He could do it alone, but in a brilliant geopolitical movement, he has invited agencies around the world to join with their own instruments, which leaves the United States in an awkward position. Sorpasso in sight. Beyond the robotic missions, the most important milestones at stake are the missions manned to the moon. While the NASA Artemis program accumulates numerous delays and cost overruns, China advances firmly towards its objectives of stepping on the moon and establishing a lunar base. NASA has already arrived six times to the surface of the moon between 1969 and 1972, but the new lunar race does not go to put a flag, but to control resources. The one who arrives first and establishes a base in the South Lunar Pole It will have a key advantage to select areas with ice water and establish the communication protocols of the cislunar space. Nervousness in Washington. The United States reaction to China’s spatial advances show that the Sorpasso It is possible. The Wolf amendment has fallen short, and now NASA has hardened its position, prohibiting Chinese citizens Access to all its facilities, programs and even zoom meetings. The agency alleges reasons for “cybersecurity.” At the same time, NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, has adopted A belligerent rhetoric against China: “We are in a second space race. We will win the Chinese on the moon.” You can intuit the fear of a defeat, and one of the strategic movements of the United States to avoid it will be to install a nuclear reactor on the moon before China does, to be able to declare an “exclusion zone”, de facto controlling the most valuable areas. In 30 years, China has gone from being a spatial outcome to an undisputed leader who marks the rhythm in the exploration of the 21st century. The veto that had to stop her became the fuel of her ambition. His space empire is no longer a promise; It is a reality that orbits our heads and perches on other worlds. Revenge, patient and meticulous, is already served. Image | Xinhua In Xataka | While NASA faces the cancellation of 41 missions, China is making authentic virguerías in space

It is a trap for privacy

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In 2022 Kenn Dahl car insurance raised him 21%. He had not had any incident with his Chevrolet Bolt, so he asked his insurance agent and he gave him a advice: look at your lexisnexis report. This company based in New York is a gigantic data broker that has a division that is responsible for Collect information about drivers and then supplies it to insurance companies. And that’s where Mr. Dahl decided Ask for your report to the company, which was obliged to give it to it due to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Your car is cool When he received it, Mr. Dahl was amazed. That 258 -page report had more than 130 pages dedicated to each moment in which he or his wife had driven the car in the previous six months. Included details of 640 journeys with their start and end hours, the distance conducted or Even accelerons and brakes. The only thing that did not reveal was the specific places from and where it had gone. Kia Connect is a service that informs the driver of his “driver score” to (theoretically) offer custom automobile insurance. The system does not stop collecting data on your driving. As explained in The New York Times, more and more manufacturers make use of all kinds of sensors and systems that collect information about drivers, and do so without their express knowledge and, of course, without their consent. And modern cars can even have systems that “describe” the driving of who takes them, something that allows manufacturers to collect that data … and sell them. There are more users who have noticed this type of Massive collection of data in your cars. In those of General Motors the Smart Driver onstar system is used that users can deactivate, as several drivers who commented on the situation years ago In Reddit either In a forum Dedicated to “Chevy” Bolt. Other manufacturers make use of this type of systems and activate them by default, such as the Kia Connect system From the KIA aimed at obtaining a “score” that helps your car insurance to adjust to your way of driving and reward the most reliable drivers according to the data collected. In Peugeot support forums even There is talk of the “Private Mode” of driving that when activated “prevents data and/or the position of the vehicle.” But as they also point out in that information, if one deactivates it, it stops accessing functions such as connected navigation, remote control or Mirror Screen function. According to a study of 2023 of the Mozilla Foundation, 88% of the brands analyzed by them inferred additional data from the information they collected. And among those inferred data, something disturbing: they could confirm a profile of personal beliefs and even sexual activity. Not only that: in this study 19 of the companies analyzed (76%) They sold those personal data to other companies. The good thing about the Tesla is that they have cameras. The bad, too The suspicions that can emerge in this type of data collection can go even further, especially if we remember What happened to the Tesla. Between 2019 and 2022 groups of employees of Tesla They privately shared videos and images taken with the cameras of customer cars. In some of those videos, Tesla customers had been captured in pregnant situations. For example, an ex -employed from the company could see the video of a completely naked man approaching one of those cars. In others, even accidents such as a Tesla who ran over a bike child who was fired. That video, said one of the former employees in the Reuters reportspread through those internal networks “like gunpowder.” The Tesla are only One more example of that massive data collection. According to The Guardianthe sensors and cameras of the car get location data – although Tesla does not store them unless they are of an accident – habits and type of driving (speeds, brakes, accelerons), and other data. For example, diagnostic information and car use and data related to infotainment systems such as navigation history or voice commands used. It is possible despite disable the function that transfers part of that information to the Tesla servers, but in doing so we can also lose some functions of the vehicle. The European Data Protection Committee published in 2021 Their guidelines on the processing of personal data in this environment, and according to said regulations manufacturers must minimize data collection and prioritize their local treatment. In addition, control tools that allow you to exercise access, rectification and suppression rights are urged. The requirements are there, but at the moment its compliance seems as little erratic. In Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) they recently provided tips when consulting What data your car has and how to avoid That they are shared, but of course the situation could be aggravated, especially considering that the renewal of the mobile park causes that more and more users have cars with all these options … and voracity when it comes to collecting data. Image | Jonas Leupe

polished design and battery for up to 21 days. Their official store premieres them with discouragement

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The last Huawei event, held on September 19, left us a new batch of products. Without detracting from what is presented, it is clear that the new Huawei Watch GT 6 and Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro are the two devices that most attract attention: two new watches that have a lot to offer and stand out for offering One of the best autonomies in the market. We tell you more about them. The new Watch GT 6 are already here Huawei watches that carry the last name “GT” in their name are more oriented to the Sports activity and trainingespecially outdoors. The new Huawei GT 6 and Huawei GT 6 Pro have very similar characteristics, although there are a number of differences between them we will talk about later. First, turn to talk about everything they share. As we have already advanced above, these two new Huawei watches have one of the best autonomies that we can find on smartwatches. According to the manufacturer, both watch gt 6 They are able to offer up to 21 days of autonomya figure that increases autonomy in a week with respect to the previous Watch GT 5. Another point that is worth highlighting is Your ultraprecistent GPS. Being able to measure our training, control our routes and know what our position is precise is key if we practice sports such as cycling or trail running. Thus we will go safely, even if we go through remote or complicated areas, in addition to that we can control our progress as we continue training. Although it has more than 100 sports modes, it may be the most highlighting the two that we discussed right above. In addition, it also has A very advanced fall detection function which will issue a SOS alert in case you detect a sudden. It is also able to detect several very interesting health related parameters, such as emotional and stress state. All these functions are present in both models, although now it is time to talk about the differences that the GT 6 Pro model has regarding the Huawei Watch GT 6 base. These focus mainly on the materials in the sphere: while the Huawei Watch GT 6 has an aluminum structure, The Pro model is committed to titanium. In addition, the latter also has an available titanium strap that is not in the other model, although we will talk about that next. Huawei’s official store has exclusive discounts, gifts and colors The two new Huawei watches are already available to buy and, as usual, the best place to do it right now is the official store of the manufacturer. Now we will see what is the price of each model and what are the gifts or the different straps that are available (several exclusive of this store), but before it is time to talk about a discount: if we use the code A60xatakawe will have a direct discount of 60 euros. First, let’s talk about Huawei Watch GT6. The price of the 46 mm version of this version is 249 euros And, in addition, we will take the Huawei Scale 3 They are exclusive to the Huawei store. These are the exclusive clock and belt combinations: Huawei Watch GT 6 GT 6 Brown + Black Black Black Black Black and brown compound leather. Huawei Watch GT 6 GT 6 Green Correa + Negra Black vegan leather and composed of green nylon and fluoroelastomer Huawei Watch GT 6 GT 6 (41mm) White + Pink Correa Huawei Watch GT 6 GT 6 (41mm) purple + green strap Huawei Watch GT 6 GT 6 (41mm) Brown + Rose Correa Huawei Watch GT 6 (46 mm) The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links On the other hand, we have the Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro. This version of the clock can be purchased from 379 euros For versions with black fluorolastometer and brown belt compound material. The titanium strap version, perhaps the most elegant of all, has a somewhat higher price: 499 euros. It should be noted, finally, that We can also benefit from the A60xataka Code. The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links 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 | Huawei In Xataka | The best smartwatch: their analysis and videos are here In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis

The pre-bodas and post-boda boom arrives

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If you have had a wedding recently, you have most likely experienced it in your own meats: marriages are no longer a single day. Or every time they are less. Today is usual that the key moment of ‘yes I want’ is preceded and followed by a series of faustos that include commitment parties, farewells, prebodas and post -bodies, a succession of celebrations that increase the invoice and lead some to talk about ‘Endless Wedding’ either Weddings “Marathon”. The ‘great day’ is increasingly great and less day. A fact: 32%. A few months ago the specialized portal weddings.net did a curious exercise. As part of your Sectorial Report of 2025, in which it describes services, prices and trends related to the world of weddings, inquired how they now last on the celebrations. And his conclusion was surprising. Only 32% It lasts one day. The usual thing is that several days last. To be more precise, the 38% Of the couples celebrate two -day weddings, 28% prolong the event for three days and 2% even spend the four days. It is difficult to assess how that trend has evolved in recent years, but it helps to take a look at the Wedding.net report of 2019. There the platform indicated that it had not yet arrived in Spain “the international trend of weddings that last several days”, and sentenced: “It will take, it requires a cultural change.” Why are weddings lengthened? Good question. Complicated answer. And it is complicated because it does not enter a single factor at stake, but a sum of them. One (fundamental) is the growing visibility we have of the weddings of other countries through networks. And that includes both celebrations of anonymous and Celebritiesincluded Paris Hilton either Jeff Bezosevents marked by luxury and that continued for several days. Another reason (much simpler) is that weddings change because we do it. Every time we get married later (If in 1976 the Middle Ages was 25.8 years today exceed 38) and it is not strange that the bride and groom have spent part of their lives outside their native cities, on another tip of Spain or even abroad. That implies that friends include friends who can arrive from hundreds or thousands of kilometers. Extending weddings is a way to enrich your experience and, above all, reinforce contact. A pre -wedding for example serves that guests who don’t know each other can break the ice before the big day. Two words: ‘Destination Weddings’. The expansion of weddings coincides with another upward phenomenon, ‘Destination Weddings’ (fate weddings), links that are at the same time a tourist getaway. The bride and groom choose to marry the city where they live, in another municipality, community or even abroad, moving the ceremony (and guests) to iconic places such as the Greek islands, the Italian coast, Las Vegas or Ibiza. The objective is to enrich the experience, which is in turn promoting a business with respective growth. A few months ago Future Market Insights consultant published A study which estimates that the market of ‘fate wedding’ will reach this year globally the 36.8 billion dollars, considerably above the 23,000 million which projected in 2022, but still far from the 68,200 million that provides for them to be reached in just a decade. According to its calculations, the business will evolve with an annual compound growth rate (CAGR) from 6.4% to 2035. Of prebodas and post -bodies. In that ‘expansion’ of the celebrations there are two fundamental words, increasingly present in the celebrations: the Prebodas and postbods. The big day is still the same, that of ‘Yes I want’, but it is common for the eve of the bride and groom want to organize a first celebration so that guests can know each other and feel more relaxed the next day. Especially the youngest. That leads them to organize (increasingly) prebodas. “We do it because we feel like gathering our friends, especially those who come from outside, to catch up and thank them for the effort to come,” Comment to Eldiario.es Martín, a 30 -year -old man who will marry in a few months in Mallorca. “I also think it is positive because the wedding day you have to greet a lot of people, and so you take away that part,” Reflect. He is not the only one who thinks like that. In 2021 Aldara and Pablo, a couple who had married that same summer, related to The country How when planning the celebration they realized something: taking into account the number of guests, they would have three minutes to be with each one. Nothing else. Its solution was to expand the wedding, extending it to 48 hours: the first day they organized a ceremony “in its own way.” The second consisted of a “groove”, in his words, with a party in the pool that followed his time through the City Council, where they gave the formal ‘yes’. That the party does not stop. Prebodas triumph. And also the post -bodies, celebrations that follow the big day. I know confirmed a few years ago to S fashion A firm that is dedicated precisely to organize links: “A pre -wedding party has been almost mandatory if there are many guests from outside, but what we are noticing is an increase in post -basket celebrations. Brunch To fire the guests, for example, they are increasingly popular. ” There is nothing written about the post -bodies, but the usual comment From the sector, they consist of a pecking or a family reunion, closer, less formal than the day of the ceremony, and that they do not organize too late. The other figure: 24,618 euros. The celebrations change … and upload their cost. The last wedding yearbook shows something else: weddings continue to take care in our country. According to your calculationsthe average bill of marrying in Spain has risen from 21,056 euros in 2022 to 23,750 in 2023 and 24,618 in 2024. That is, in a couple of … Read more

The Warner platform either has enough to ban shared accounts and increases prices

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There is no platform that is not hugging the Price climb as a way of falling the crisis of audiovisual content in general and of the platforms in particular. HBO Max is one of those who are having a more changing trajectory with Mutations in the name And the approach, and is one of the last to raise their prices, after Netflix or Disney+ did it almost a year ago in both cases. How is the thing. A few months ago, with the name change, HBO Max has already announced new prices that affected new customers. These new rates affect ancient subscribers. From of the October 23, 2025the prices will increase, leaving like this: Basic plan with ads: 6.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 3.49) Standard plan: 10.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 5.49 euros) Premium plan with 4K content: 15.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 7.99 euros) Annual Plan: 109 euros a year. Why do they do it? This decision, according to the communication that HBO Max has sent to his subscribers, is made because “we are increasing the price in the light of the acquisition costs, creation of content and product development, to allow us to continue investing in the quality content and in the product experience that we strive to offer our customers.” At the same time, they also warn that the conditions of use have been updated, including aspects of content visualization and accessibility functionalities, reasons why they can make changes in the service and other issues. Luxury series. David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros, declared a few days ago, In an interview with The Hollywood Reporterthat the price of HBO Max is below its real cost. And although the platform does not compete with others such as Netflix or Disney+ in terms of the amount of content, it can boast of being one of the most budget invests in its series. For example, ‘The Dragon House‘It costs 200 million dollars per season. And the future series of ‘Harry Potter‘promises a visual luxury at the height of the films. All this was wielded by Zaslav to justify new increases. Direct and indirect increases. Although the bad press that this type of decisions carries causes the platforms to be relatively restrained with the increases of their prices, the truth is that in recent years they have significantly increased the ways of having income. The main two have been the advertising inclusion before and during the programs, with different rates depending on whether or not the ads are eliminated, and the prohibition that accounts are shared Beyond the subscriber’s home, a flying that Netflix has already given and that other platforms have only implemented in a warm way. In Xataka | Video games have fired their number of users, and come from an unsuspected place: television series

A company is creating 3,000 a week

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This new podcast creation company has reached a conclusion that from the business point of view has no fissures: investing money in a sophisticated and that works without stopping generating content instead of signing podcasting personalities, much more expensive and slow. INTECTION POINT AIhowever, also puts on the table the most immediate dilemma facing the creation of content for the Internet: quality or quantity? Who they are. The Startup Inception Point AI is led by the former WonderyDective (a traditional podcasta platform) Jeanine Wright, and is betting on a Massive audio content generation strategy using 84 Autonomous AI systems (including models such as Plexity, Claude and Gemini) to produce and climb podcasts at high speed and low cost. The premise is to avoid the high spending of signing famous as presenters and, instead, create “talents” one hundred percent artificial. The numbers. Each episode costs Inception Point AI approximately 1 dollar, and integrates programmatic advertising. With only 20 listeners per episode, there are already benefits, without counting general expenses. Under the podcast network QUETE PLEASE PODAST NETWORK has launched 5,000 programs with more than 3,000 weekly episodes, and since September 2023 the network has reached 10 million downloads. Each episode has been producing for a team of about eight people, since it occurs with the idea until it is ready to be released. The programs, of very different formats, are presented by half a hundred characters generated by AI, with names such as Claire Delish (gastronomy), Nigel Thistledown (nature and gardening) or Oly Bennet (alternative sports) .. INTECTION POINT has already begun to produce short videos and establish profiles in social networks for them, with the intention that someone can become influencer digital. Slop content. INTECTION POINT AI seeks to position itself as a complementary, non -substitute option, but nevertheless, its low cost and the idea that everything is automated has once again put the issue of the theme of the issue of the table Slop content or junk content: Material produced through generative tools, prioritizing speed and quantity on value, novelty or precision, and is characterized both by its banality and the ease with which it expands on the web. The phenomenon arose in 2022 Together with the deployment of large generative models (LLMS and the graphic), and has been consolidated despite controversies such as the integration of systems such as Gemini in Google. But is this content “garbage”? Although we cannot qualify exactly Slop What does Inception Point do, its content fits with many aspects in the definition: as explained in The Conversationhe Slop It is a material ocean that overflows the user’s ability to filter the relevant and erodes the general quality of information on the network. Here we have absence of originality (From the moment there are no humans creating, but machines that regurgitate existing content), embrace a standardized aesthetic (as demonstrated by the chilling images of the broadcasters), volume and speed are valued above precision and algorithmic exploitation is favored, that is, it is material designed to capture attention and be monetized. Field paid for the Slop. Podcasts are spaces where the content created by AI can bloom without barriers. There are data that talk about access to podcasts mainly through smartphonesespecially during activities such as driving or exercising, with 38% of listeners listening while driving; And that 23% listen to podcvuts more than ten hours a week, which points to possible listening while other activities are done. Therefore, a light content, which does not require total attention, can find here where to expand, since unlike YouTube and social networks, it does not need full attention to be enjoyed. Header | Cory Vincent in Unspash In Xataka | I have asked the AI ​​any bullshit and now I am writing a news about her

Finish the work of the machines

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The scene took place several weeksbut Ukrainian soldiers keep remembering her because they can’t believe what they saw. A drone had sighted two Russian soldiers trapped in a shelter, who went out at the entrance of the hiding place and wrote a message in blue cirilic letters in an improvised white poster while he was crowded frantically towards the machine: “We surrendered,” he said. What followed was a scene where The drone directed them to the Ukrainian forces. Because drones do practically everything that the soldiers did before. General panorama and accelerated advance. The drone war in Ukraine has gone from being an emerging tactical factor to become The defining element From the conflict: what began as tests and specific operations has evolved until reforming the way in which the line is maintained and the rear is protected. The concrete and symptomatic example We described at the beginningWhen an air recognition detected the entrenched Russian soldiers, a land vehicle loaded with explosives that forced the surrender was launched and, for the first time, the offensive action culminated No direct human contact (soldiers that are paid by robots), a milestone that symbolizes the speed and depth of technological and doctrinal change in the Ukrainian theater. Innovations and expansion of the “lethal zone”. The little ones (but Very economical) Aerial ammunition (FPV Kamikazes) and land robots have extended the so -called “lethal zone” much further From classic rifle or mortar distances: today soldiers and columns can effectively attacked six, nine and even tens of kilometers of the contact line. That widening has transformed geometry Of the fight: the advanced mechanized lose operational mobility, the great formations become rare because of their vulnerability, and the dominant tactic are light and scattered units that minimize losses. The human consequence It’s brutal: populations of cities near the front collapse, logistics routes They become insecure and many routine missions (supply, evacuation) become dependent on unmanned platforms. Logistics robots and more. The UGVS proliferation (unmanned land vehicles) and cargo drones has turned logistics into a Army within the Army: from A 2K targan That evacuates a soldier even swarms that distribute ammunition, the objective is to preserve human lives replacing maximum risk tasks. Many brigades finance and buy these systems with civil donationsIn fact, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense plans mass shipments of tens of thousands of robots. At the same time, offensive capabilities of terrestrial robots (assaults, withdrawal of enemy material, mining/remote demining) have experienced A qualitative leapallowing operations that previously demanded specialized human teams and that today are executed in large part by machines. The role of elite units. Here appear the specialized regiments in unmanned systems that have become a strategic place: they are a priority objective of Russian attacks, but also the factors that maintain or break local fronts. His commanders They describe operations that destroy the enemy “view” (pilots and control capabilities), the “sting” (attacker drones) and logistics (deposits, workshops), a comprehensive strategy that seeks to suffocate Russia’s operational capacity for back as well as containing it in the front. Production, scale and career. We have counted before. War has shown that the advantage is not only tactical but also industrial: It is estimated that Ukraine and Russia, before 2025, produced huge amounts of FPV. The scale required to support a sustained offensive rhythm is astronomical (hundreds of thousands of units per month, according to some responsible). The Kremlin has ordered a great industrial ramp-up. And Ukraine It also seeks to multiply Its manufacturing and appeals to civil-military industrialization to achieve parity. This mass competition makes drone a new strategic wear vector: who produces more and maintains resilient supply chains will reach decisive advantages over time. Disruptive technologies. Two technological advances have marked a before and after. First, drones Tethered by fiber optic: They are wired, they are immune To radio interference And they can only be neutralized by direct fire, which makes them lethal and psychologically devastating infantry. Second, The integration of AI For guided and semi -autonomas that allow a drone to close the mission even losing the link with the operator. This raises precision and reduces the dependence of human control in saturated electronic warfare environments. In addition, chains of repeaters and transmitters are tested that extend the control radius up to 40 kilometerschanging the operational border of air systems. Limits and human dependence. Even with the technological revolution, there are Clear limits: The weather, the hardness of the land and the electronic warfare continue to favor classical systems such as artillery and human work in certain missions. For example, artillery is still irreplaceable in adverse conditions. In addition, remote operators They are not exempt Danger: when detected, they become priority targets and suffer counterattacks with conventional and unconventional weapons. War continues to need human capital (technicians, analysts, gunners), although their profile and exhibition change. Moral and strategic impact. No doubt, the displacement of lethal tasks to machines It raises dilemmas Moral and practical: the capture of prisoners induced by robots, the theft of weapons by UGVs, the automation of the clearance of mines, all reconfigures unwritten rules of combat and forces new doctrines, legal procedures and systems of responsibility. Strategically, the proliferation of drones has contributed to stagnate Russian advances on several fronts and has led to Ukrainian operational successes, but has also encouraged an offensive escalation In other areas (Mass bombing, Shahed launches) that maintain an asymmetric and devastating character. Future perspective. The majority of analysts agrees that if production can climb and the AI ​​is integrated with greater sophistication, the war will not only become more robotic but also more distributed and less predictable: We will see more frequent in -depth attacks, covered launches by nurse platforms, and eventually swarm formations and coordinated tasks between heterogeneous types of UAS and UGV. Nevertheless, They remembered in Insider That experts in the Ukrainian field insist on a practical warning: drones will not replace artillery or adverse time infantry, they are tools that, well used, preserve lives, but … Read more

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