Month: September 2025

A plan with 1,000 companies and billions at stake

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For decades, when there was talk of technological innovation, there was an inevitable destination: Silicon Valley. From that strip of northern California advances were promoted that marked the lives of millions of people worldwide. There were companies that today are part of our day to day, such as Apple, Google, Nvidia, Adobe or Netflix, and there a cultural imaginary was also forged that made Silicon Valley synonymous with synonym of modernity. The term not only defines a place, it is also a brand What have we seen in series, movies and even the way we think about technology. Today, however, other regions of the planet begin to claim their space, with the ambition to balance, or at least approach, to the symbolic and economic weight of that Californian cradle of innovation. And in that struggle, one of the most striking movements comes from China. Shanghai has put A project that seeks to transform Zhangjiang, into Pudong, in what we could interpret as its own Silicon Valley of artificial intelligence. The goal is as specific as huge: create an ecosystem with 1,000 new companies from here to 2030, reach an industrial volume of 100,000 million yuanes, one 12,000 million euros to change, and raise an innovation center with global influence, According to the Xinhua state agency. They are figures that impose respect. If the announcement came from any other part of the world, it could sound more to aspiration than tangible plan. Because gathering a thousand artificial intelligence startups In just five yearsmoving more than 10,000 million euros in such a short time and also pretending world influence is not precisely a simple task. But we talk about China, a country that in recent years has proven to be able to turn its ads into realities. The transformation of its technological industry is evident. China is no longer limited to being the world factory That supplies the devices we use every day, also innova. And he does it hard. There are cases like Deepseek in the field of artificial intelligence or Unitree Robotics In Robotics, companies that have climbed positions until they become international referents. China is no longer limited to being the world factory. There is another key element: resilience against external restrictions. The United States has imposed severe limits to Chinese access to the most advanced technology, From nvidia leading chips Until the Lithography Machinery of Advanced Nodes of ASML. And, despite this, China has managed to respond. Huawei’s example, who managed to develop a 5G chip in full technological fencehe surprised his own and strangers in Washington and showed the country’s ability to advance even under pressure. This context feeds an inevitable question: can Zhangjiang become the Silicon Valley of artificial intelligence? For now there are no definitive answers. What we do have is a plan with clear goals. If it will end up being a new Silicon Valley or not, only time will say it. But the movement is already underway and deserves to be followed closely. Shanghai’s commitment to convert Zhangjiang into a magnet of companies, talent and capital To land the promise, it is convenient to go down to the facts: on September 16 it was inaugurated in the heart of Zhangjiang Science City the call Zhangjiang Artificial Intelligence Innovation Townthe starting point from which to understand what the project is, where it unfolds and what goals has been set for the next few years. It is not about lifting a technology park from scratch, but to integrate existing spaces such as Moli Community, a residential and innovative area, AI Island, a park specialized in artificial intelligence, or the Moli Twin Towers. The idea is clear: that this concentration works as an innovation engine, test terrain for new applications and fertile space for startups and large companies. In official words, ambition is to build a place of “low cost of innovation and high intelligence density”, With an eye on attracting talent and accelerating the implementation of artificial intelligence in specific scenarios. The project is displayed by a planned surface of 2 square kilometers, According to China News. The heart of the area brings together more than 700,000 square meters of industrial spaces and is based on 1,000,000 square meters of facilities. Less than 3 kilometers are added 7,000 homes aimed at talent. The sources that we have consulted do not clarify whether these figures correspond to new work or existing resources. The plan has set two clear horizons. By 2027, the goal is to have gathered more than 500 new artificial intelligence companies, complete the registration of 100 large models and have consolidated between three and five companies with a vocation of global leadership. The second milestone arrives in 2030, with the aim of reaching the 1,000 new companies and an industrial volume of 100,000 million yuan. The inauguration of September 16 marked the beginning of that road. The premiere was not symbolic. At the inauguration The first twenty companies were presented. They do not reach a desert, because since July 28, when the concept of the initiative was announced, more than forty companies had already joined. To attract companies and talent, Pudong has launched what he calls the “Ten high quality measures”From Zhangjiang AI Innovation Town. The menu includes rentals from 1 yuan (0.12 euros) per square meter and day, free accommodation between one and two weeks for equipment in the initial phase, low -cost youth apartments with a Maximum 2,000 yuan (239 euros) per month for three years, and a system of coupons that cover up to 100 percent in computing services, models or linguistic corpus, with stops of one million yuan per category. To this are added support for “AI demonstration scenarios” of up to 10 million yuan (1.2 million euros), among other incentives. Capital is also part of the design. The inauguration announced the Zhangjiang AI Innovation Town Link Fund, a fund of 2,000 million yuan created by Hillhouse Venture and the Pudong Public Investment Group. Its function is to … Read more

purifies it and sells it as CO2 to make soft drinks

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In Garray, a town of Soria, the smoke of a biomass plant is no longer lost in the air. There they have mounted a plant capable of catching the CO₂, clean it and sell it as if it were any other industrial product. The result is called “Co₂ Green” and today travels to refreshment factories, greenhouses or chemical companies. What was previously a residue is now a raw material. Short. The Life Co₂-Intbio project He has joined The Garray Biomass plant, underway since 2013, with a system to capture, clean and liquefied CO₂. It was developed for four years With a budget of 8.9 million eurosof which the EU contributed 1.9 million. The consortium is leaded by the Natural Heritage Foundation of Castilla y León, together with Metal Carbides, Garray Bioelectric and Enso Operations & Maintenance. According to project documentationthe objective is to demonstrate the technical and economic viability and create new value chains for a “green” commercial co₂. More in depth. The key is in the connection between the biomass central and the capture plant. Biomass provides biogenic combustion gases and energy/steam; The new plant, Designed by metal carbidessubject them to a process of chemical absorption with amines, followed by filtering, cooled and distillation. The result is liquefied and purified to food quality, Certificate under the FSSC 22000 standard. The complex has the capacity to produce up to 33,000 tons per year of “CO₂ Green”, which is distributed to beverage, greenhouses and chemistry companies in the area. In addition, proximity avoids long -distance transport: the project monitoring tool estimates a saving of about 295 tons of CO₂ per year only in logistics. And the plan includes a potential stop of up to 50,000 t/year if production is extended, According to the project itself. The first of its kind? Here it should clarify. This type of installation applies to a very concrete niche within carbon capture, since these are biogenic emissions, from biomass. In other words, it is not about the centrals that are dedicated To capture and store (CCS) nor of Direct air capture (DAC)but they transform it into a commercial product. Some media They mention it as the first European installation in operation dedicated to capture and value biogenic CO2 with food use at an industrial scale. However, other countries begin to explore this road: in Denmark, the Kassø project of European Energy This year began to produce e-methanol Using Co₂ captured a biogas plant, and the Tønder Biogas plant announced the first biogenic supply for that chain, According to information published by the company. The difference of Soria is that it already operates at an industrial scale and its CO₂ is not buried, but is used in the local economy. Another type of capture. Europe does not start from zero. In Norway, the Northern Lights consortium (Equinor, Shell, Totalenergies) injected the first tons of CO₂ into the Aurora submarine reservoir, 2,600 meters under the seabed. In parallel, the Heidelberg Materials cement inaugurated the Brevik CCS plant, the first large -scale industrial capture in the cement sector. There the co₂ of the furnaces is captured, liquefied and sent by boat to Northern Lights for storage. In other words, Brevik captures and dawns storage, Two pieces of the same CCS chain. New advances. Garray demonstrates that capturing biogenic and using it is technically and commercially viable in Europe. While Norway opens the way to large -scale geological storage, Castilla y León shows that the use of CO₂ can activate local economy and cut emissions tangible. The difficult – and decisive – will be climbing without self -enhanced: apply this tool where it provides value, replicate it in other parts of Europe and, above all, accompany it of what remains the most urgent task: emit less greenhouse gases. Image | Freepik Xataka | The plan to clean the air capturing as a blow of reality has just received: the earth does not have as much space as we believed

Google has just integrated its AI in Chrome. It is the beginning of the end of the traditional browser

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The tools The generative is fine, but an AI that is fully integrated into our browser can be even better, Perplexity comet It is a good example. If we join the AI ​​with The most used browser in the world The potential is huge. Google has just announced one of the biggest updates for Chrome, one in which AI is the absolute protagonist. Why is it important. Microsoft Copilot in Edge, Perplexity comet, Brave… The career of the browsers with AI already has a route, but few have the draft that Chrome has (largely because it is the one that comes by default in Android). In fact, we have seen attempts to bring the AI ​​Chrome as Chatgpt Search extension either Claude’sbut Google has just taken a step that marks a turning point, not only for AI browsers, but for how we look on the Internet. Understand the context. To access Google AI you will not have to open a new tab, it will be enough to press the button that appears in the upper right corner of the browser. When joining Chrome, we can ask questions and answer taking into account the context of all the eyelashes that we have open at that time. For example, we can ask you to summarize and organize the information if we are investigating a specific topic, such as the best itinerary for a trip. It also integrates with other Google products such as Calendar, Maps or YouTube. Ia mode. It is activated in the address bar, what Google calls Omniboxand promises to change the search experience. According to Google, we can ask complex questions and deepen more on a topic, directly in the same place where we do the “normal” searches. The example that Google sets is that we are looking at mattresses and we can ask you about the guarantee policy of a specific model. At the moment this mode is activated manually, but as they point out in Ars Technicait is a step towards becoming the default mode. Goodbye to the history. One of the advantages offered by integration with Gemini is to be able to find pages that we have visited more easily. Now we have to open the record and look for it, but with Gemini we could ask something like “In which page were I looking at that gray sofa that was on offer?” And you will find it directly. Agricultural functions. This will still take a few months, but Google already anticipates some agerentic functions that promise to save us a lot of time. According to Google, “will convert 30 -minute tasks into three clicks.” Among the examples they put is to arrange an appointment in the hairdressing or make the purchase. The browser will be able to add items to the basket or send emails in our name, without having to intervene. Security. The update also improves the detection of possible fraudulent sites and will show notices to prevent us from falling into a SCAM. It will also facilitate the change of passwords that have appeared in data leaks so that we can do it in a single click, although only in places that support it. Availability. At the moment, Gemini in Chrome is available in the United States for users who have configured the English browser, both in Windows and Mac. Google says that it will reach iOS and Android apps soon. And most importantly: for the moment It can only be used if we are subscribers of Gemini Pro or Ultra. In Xataka | In case we didn’t have enough subscriptions, AI wants to add one more to our lives: your Internet browser

The spectrum belongs to the operators and will have to negotiate with them to display their satellite mobile network

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In January we knew that Starlink activated the direct cellular connection for mobileregardless of whether or not they have satellite connection. So that the system, called Starlink Direct To Cell, Offer mobile internet to any mobile, you must do it through the frequencies that are in use by mobile operators. Here comes the delicate. The situation. As our partners say Xataka mobilefor a company for a company like Starlink or Project Kuiper de Amazon Give us mobile connectivity, you need to do it through the frequencies that are already used for classical mobile networks. The problem is that these bands are licensed by Movistar, Vodafone and Orange. A possible route. Taking into account that Starlink and company are competitors, it is expected that the operators will want an agreement in which they do not be harmed. A possible route would be to negotiate the use of the bands with the regulatory agencies, thus jumping to the operators, but it will not be possible. The GSMA has spoken. It is the Association of Mobile Operators and organizer of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Have published A statement in which they give a series of guidelines for coexistence between land operators and satellite operators. The document establishes that Starlink and company must negotiate directly with the operators, who are the owners of the land spectrum. Marking territory. With this statement, the GSMA does not want to stop the arrival of satellite mobile connectivity services, but to mark its territory and defend what has cost so much to achieve terrestrial operators. To put it in context, in 2021 The 700 MHz band was auctioned and Spanish operators paid more than 1,000 million euros for their hole. It has all the meaning that they are who negotiate who uses their spectrum. Starlink has already negotiated similar agreements with operators from other countries such as the United States, Australia, Canada or Switzerland, so it is not something alien to the company. Of the satellite to the mobile. To offer internet to any mobile, Starlink uses a network of satellites that operate in the Leo orbit. These satellites fly lower to facilitate connectivity, about 360 kilometers from the surface. According to Starlink herself, they already have more than 600 satellites from their Direct To Cell network that add to the more than 8,000 satellites they have in orbit. If you want to continue expanding it to more countries, they will have to reach new agreements and pay what corresponds to use the frequencies. Cover image | Wikipedia, Apple In Xataka | China increasingly dominates technology on earth. There is a place where it is still far from the West: space

47% of vacancies ask for a degree of FP

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The weight of professional training in the Spanish labor market is gaining ground little by little, even imposing itself to the demand for university degrees. According to the Adecco 2024 Infoempleo report, 46.96% of the job offers published during the last year asked the candidates have a FP titlewhich means an increase of five percentage points compared to the previous year. This growth consolidated FP uprising trend as a priority way to access a job in Spain. FP gains land to university titles. according to The report ‘Adecco 2024 Infoempleo: Supply and demand for employment in Spain‘, the vacancies aimed at university degrees They have receded strongly against the promotion of the demand for profiles with FP degrees. In 2024, university profiles only represented 21.42% of the new job offers published in Spain, which represents a 6.1 percentage points with respect to the 2023 records. The authors of the report emphas To technical needs Already the shortage of qualified labor. More upper cycles, less than average degree. However, despite the global increase in the requests for professional training specializations, not all degrees have evolved the same in the labor market. Study data reveal that companies have increased the demand for candidates with higher degree training cycles, monopolizing 33.03% of offers that demanded professional training. This data is an increase of 7.31 points with respect to the data recorded in 2023. In contrast, the job offers that demanded 2.25 points in the same period, staying in 13.93%, marking a trend among companies to demand candidates with a greater professional specialization. Old habits, new needs. A striking fact is that 75.93% of vacancies requesting a FP degree in their job offers does not specify the specific professional family of that degree. All they ask is for the candidate to have a Title of that formative levelwhich leads us to the old habits of human resources departments to request a university degree in positions that did not require it. In those offers in which more concrete requirements are established, the most demanded professional areas are administration and management (6.29%), followed by electricity and electronics (4.5%) and mechanical manufacturing (2.61%). According to the authors, the rise of the FP is also explained by changes in the productive sectors. Offers are increasingly oriented towards areas such as industry, Construction and logistics, to the detriment of the most generalist services, which have lost weight in a remarkable way. For example, the services sector concentrated 23.97% of vacancies in 2023, but in 2024 this percentage fell to 18.38%, a drop of 5.5 points. Madrid and Catalonia lead the demand for FP. If we take into account the geographical distribution of the demand for graduates in FP, some clear differences come to light. Madrid concentrates 27.67% of the offers aimed at FP graduates, standing as the community with the most demand for the third consecutive year. Just behind is Catalonia, with 25.45%, followed by Andalusia, with 9.78%. Only these three communities total 62.68% of the total employment offer for professional training profiles in Spain, highlighting the importance of the FP in the main industrial poles of the country and its High demand for qualified personnel. In Xataka | Find work in less than nine months: the FP begins to fulfill its great promise to end youth unemployment Image | Unspash (Syd Mills)

There are only two places in Spain from which you can see the eclipse of the 21st: the Spanish Antarctic Bases

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Eclipses have given much to talk about in recent months. In April of last year millions of Americans saw an eclipse whose total concealment path furrowed from south to north the country. Something closer, in March of this year we had a small snack of the row of eclipses that we can see in the coming years. But some eclipses go unnoticed. A new eclipse. On Sunday there will be a new partial eclipse of Sol. The eclipse will begin approximately At 17:30 UTC7:30 p.m. Spanish peninsular (CEST); and will last almost until 21:54 UTC, or 23:54 Cest. Like other solar eclipses, this occurs on dates close to a lunar, in this case The last day 7 September. The beginning of the eclipse will be given on Pacific waters, near the Samoa archipelago. While being a partial eclipse there will not be a moment of total concealment, it will be at 19:42 UTC (21:42 CEST) when I know the moment of maximum concealment. According to Explain the National Geographic Institute (IGN), the maximum magnitude of the eclipse will be 0.86, but the inhabited settlements can only see the sun disappear in Something more than 72% of its surface. As Ign explains, after 264 minutes of eclipse, the sun will shine fully, being the waters of the ocean, near the Antarctic Peninsula the last to see the solar concealment. The eclipse of the antipodes. Sunday’s eclipse will be almost a tracing that was seen on March 29, only will run through the antipodesthe opposite side of the globe. The partial eclipse will be visible in the islands of New Zealand and other archipelagos of the southern Pacific. Almost “refile” can also be seen on the west coast of Australia, including Sydney and on the island of Tasmania. A very small fraction of humanity will be the one that this eclipse can see. In addition to those that inhabit the mentioned areas, in Antarctica the eclipse may be seen by those residing in some bases, including the Spanish located in the Southern Shetland Islands. The areas where the eclipse will be seen are best in the south of New Zealand and in some areas of the Antarctica continent, specifically in the region known as Earth of Oates, as well as in some small archipelagos located in the region. Waiting for a turn. Meanwhile we are waiting for the three eclipses, two plots and one annular, visible in Spain and part of Europe Between 2026 and 2028. The first of these eclipses will be the August 12 of 2026 and will be a total eclipse. The second will happen on August 2, 2027 and will also be total. The last will be annulled and will arrive on January 26, 2028. Meanwhile the world will see other eclipses. The following, for example, will arrive February 17 of 2026. It will be annulled but it can also be seen only from the southern hemisphere, with its annular phase only visible from Antarctica. February 7, 2027 an eclipse, also cancel, It will travel part of South America and can be seen partially from much of Africa and southern Spain. In Xataka | Spain is very excited about the three eclipses that will arrive between 2026 and 2028. The government is worried Image | NASA/AUREY GEMIGNANI / SNOWSWAN

This is how new models differ

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Mark Zuckerberg says Within five years we will use smart glasses And less the smartphone. We do not know if it will be so, but what we do know is that Goal wants to be the leader in this wearable category And they just made it even clearer with new intelligent glasses models, three to be exact. This is the catalog of glasses with the finish line. Goal Ray-Ban Display They are the most advanced model of the catalog and solve one of the shortcomings that had been dragging smart glasses, add visual information. The new ones Goal Ray-Ban Display are The first ones that have an interior screen that only you can see. On the screen, which is in the right lens, information is projected as maps if you are following a route, a video call, preview the photos we take with the glasses and even for real time translation. There is not everything left, the goal Ray-Ban Display They also come with what Meta calls “neural bracelet”. They work through electromyography and are able to translate muscle activity into concrete actions. For example, if we make the gesture of clamp with the thumb and the index it will be like clicking with the mouse, while if we use the thumb and the heart the action will be to go back. At the moment the new goals with finish screen They will only be sold in the United States, where they will cost $ 799 and arrive in very limited units. It is expected to reach more countries in early 2026, although for now we do not know if Spain will be among the chosen countries. Ray-Ban Meta 2nd Generation Are the successors of the Ray-Ban Meta original As for the design, the first generation was available in the Wayfarer and Skyler models, but the new one also arrives in the Headliner model. The second generation improves some key features such as the camera, which now is capable of recording in 3k and its battery lasts double. According to goal, up to 8 hours with a single load. They are only two improvements, but their impact on the price is quite remarkable. While the first generation had a starting price of 329 euros, the new amounts to 419 euros. Oakley Meta Vanguard Are the successors of the Oakley Meta HSTNa model with sports aspirations, but a design too ‘Lifestyle’ that left them in no man’s land. The new ones Oakley Meta Vanguard They bet on a much more aggressive look and a Sports design that adapts to the face. You can choose different colors, the bad thing is that they do not offer the option to wear graduated lenses. It has a 12 megapixel panoramic chamber and records 3K video to 30 frames per second or FullHD at 60 frames per second. The speakers located in the pins have also been improved and target states that They have been optimized so that we can hear them well even if there is wind. The battery reaches 9 hours and also have a load case that can extend autonomy up to 36 hours. Beyond design, glasses also have functions oriented to sports such as Integration with Strava and Garmin. They can also be connected to Apple and Android health to obtain summons of training directly in the Meta AI app. If you also have a Garmin watch, you can ask the glasses details about the training, such as your heart rate. The price is much higher, specifically 549 euros compared to the 439 euros that cost the Oakley Meta HSTN. Meta smart glasses specifications Finally, we leave you a table with the key specifications of the models of glasses with AI that target has in its catalog, including the ones we already knew. For the first and second generation Ray-Ban we have taken as a reference for dimensions and weight the Wayfarer model. Ray-Ban Meta 1st Gen Ray-Ban Meta 2nd Gen Goal Ray-Ban Display Oakley Meta HSTN Oakley Meta Vanguard weight Glasses: 48g standard, 50g large Case: 133g Glasses: 51g Standard, 53g Grande Case: 133g Glasses: 69g standard, 70g large Bracelet: 42g Case: 169g Glasses: 53g Case: 213g Glasses: 67g Case: 258g Crystals supported For sun in several tones Transitions (they darken alone) Transparent Graduated lenses For sun in several tones Transitions (they darken alone) Transparent Graduated lenses For sun in several tones Transitions (they darken alone) Transparent Graduated lenses Prizm (mirror) Transitions (they darken alone) Transparent Graduated lenses Prizm (mirror) AUDIO Double speaker (76.1db) Five microphones Double speaker (76.1db) Five microphones Double speaker (76.1db) Six microphones Double speaker (76.1db) Five microphones Double speaker (82.1db) Five microphones camera 12MP ultra angular FullHD 30FPS video 12MP ultra angular 3K 30FPS Video, FullHD 60FPS 12MP ultra angular FullHD 30FPS video 12MP ultra angular 2203 × 2938 pixels at 30fps AUTONOMY 4 hours 36 hours with load case 8 hours 48 hours with load case 6 hours 24 hours with load case Neural Band up to 18 hours 8 hours 48 hours with load case 9 hours 36 hours with load case MEMORY 32 GB 32 GB 32 GB 32 GB 32GB others IPX4 resistance IPX4 resistance IPX4 resistance Monocular screen, 600×600 px, 90 Hz Neural bracelet with gestures using EGM IPX4 resistance IP67 resistance Compatible with Strava and Garmin price From 329 euros From 419 euros From 700 dollars, just use From 439 euros From 549 euros Images | Goal In Xataka | After mobile phones, cars, robots and AI, the next great technological avalanche of China arrives: the glasses

In case Spain did not have enough problems with sun and beach tourism, add a new business: wedding tourism

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There are those who travel to disconnect, to learn about new landscapes, cultures or traditions, to whom he guides his appetite or simply who wants to enjoy relaxing days on a distant beach with a soda in his hand. To all of them is now added a type of tourist difficult to classify and seeks something totally different: marry. Your trips feed the flourishing (and millionaire) Industry of Rinning Weddings And they are already The pillar of some balearic farms. The ‘yes I want’ as a new rising tourist asset. Two words: Rinning Weddings. The concept is not new, but a quick search on Google is enough to verify that little by little gains strength in Spain. The Rinning Weddings or ‘destination weddings’ are neither more nor less than what the term suggests: couples who, instead of getting married in the city in which they live or in which some of the bride and groom are sought, choose to give the ‘yes I want’ far away. In another city or region. It may even that in another country, including destinations as exotic as Las Vegas or some Greek island. The idea is very simple: that the wedding is more than a wedding for boyfriends and guests, that is also a getaway. A juicy business. It is not easy to provide precise (and updated) data on how many Spanish partners travel to other countries to marry and how many foreigners Spain choose as the scenario for their bodies. In any case something is clear: with Spanish tourism Breaking records and approaching the barrier of 100 million Of visitors, it is a juicy business. And clearly on the rise. In February, Future Marketin Sights consultant published A broad study that estimates that The global market The wedding tourism will be around 36,800 million dollars, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.4% throughout the next decade. They are high values, but above all they exceed those who handled only a few years ago. His Calculation for 2022for example, pointed to a business volume of ‘Solo’ 23,000 million. “The Rinning Weddings They are one of the most popular and most dynamic segments in the global wedding industry, in which couples opt for personalized experiences in exotic places around the world, ” The authors collect of the study. “More and more boyfriends choose to exchange their votes in picturesque and culturally rich places, often with a group of friends and family. The market covers a wide variety of services and destinations offers.” How does Spain affect? As Spain sits top of the world ranking of tourist destinations and even dreams of crowning it (something feasible already in 2040according to the estimates of Google and Deloitte), our country is also reinforced on the map of the Rinning Weddings. On the Internet they can be found A good number of websites in English dedicated to Organize weddings In Spain or what They promote the peninsula and the islands as “An ideal destination” so that the bride and groom exchange alliances. The Canary Islands, Malaga, Marbella or Mallorca usually appear on their list, although in reality the market is very wide. A few years ago Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca) launched a baptized initiative ‘Ciudad Rodrigo Wedding Friendly’ I was looking for precisely position the town on the map of wedding celebrations. As the main asset he used his rich historical heritage. A quick search in The Wedding Travel Company It shows in any case that couples determined to marry their city have an extensive list of alternatives in Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Portugal or the United States, to quote only some countries on their vast list. “We specialize”. To understand the phenomenon The confidential He has spoken With some representatives of the Mallorca sector, one of the hot points of national tourism. And their data and statements are striking. Finca is Cabàslocated just over 20 kilometers from the urban center of Palma, explains that practically 100% of the weddings they do are tourists. And the director of the farm They are brownlocated not much further from there, it agrees that about 98% of the links that host them also lead. “There is a lot of American, a lot of German, a lot of British,” Confirm Yesssi Morel, Wedding Plannerfor whom, beyond the attractiveness of Spain or the costs, the key of the island pull in the destination wedding market is the approach that the sector has adopted. “I think we put everything very easy to foreigners. We are specializing a lot. Every time weddings are perfected more.” As for costs, statista data Before the pandemic show that Spain is one of the countries where the most expensive weddings are celebrated ($ 23,400 on average in 2019), although in reality the data is not much higher than that of Italy and is below the $ 29,000 that were reached that same year in the US. “They seek to save and in Mallorca they have the same wedding with the same quality they could have in the US, but at a lower cost,” Morel clarifies. And how does Mallorquines affect? That is the other big question. In a market that looks at the foreign client and the American couples with a wide budget, what options do they have left? The topic is interesting because, as remember the Wedding Plannerforeigners who plan to marry their home usually follow certain patterns: they reserve well in advance and have no problem in celebrating their ceremonies any day of the week. That (of course) forces the locals to adapt. “The Mallorcan marries only on Saturday and usually prefer certain months, such as September. If they do not escape, they run out of dates,” Confirm The wedding organizer. “Farm owners believe they have a treasure in their hands. They have seen a reef.” Images | Carlo Buttinoni (UNSPLASH) and Camila Cordeiro (UNSPLASH) Via | The confidential In Xataka | The end of the open bar: how weddings are leaving behind their only ‘collective … Read more

Microsoft wants to dominate AI to gross power blow

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Think of a complex so extensive that it could be confused with an industrial city, where each square meter is designed so that the artificial intelligence Do not stop for a moment. Thus the new Microsoft campus in Wisconsin (United States) is configured. The goal they announce is overwhelming: Render ten times more than the fastest supercomputer of the moment, a message with which they want to make it clear that the battle for AI is played on the computer scale. A data center of this type does not resemble that of a traditional cloud where emails or web pages are housed. It is conceived to train and execute large -scale AI models, such as those that drive applications such as Chatgpt either COPILOT. According to the American company, the project will materialize at the beginning of 2026, after an initial investment of 3.3 billion dollars. When the cloud becomes concrete, steel and many chips The cloud does not float in the air. It rises on concrete soils, with metal structures, pipes and cables that travel underground kilometers. This is how it actually materializes, and Fairwater It is intended to be the most ambitious sample of it. According to Satya Nadellathis campus will become a strategic piece to hold loads that demand each time More energy and computing capacity. In the IA competition, having data centers of this scale is more than a matter of competitive advantage. Fairwater’s key is how it organizes all that calculation power. The company explained that each rack integrates 72 GPU Nvidia Blackwell, Linked through NVLink and NVSWITCH to share up to 1.8 terabytes per second and access 14 terabytes of grouped memory. Of course, he has not detailed the exact number of racks that the campus will have and has limited himself to talking about “hundreds of thousands of accelerators” in total. Together these systems will work as a single supercomputer capable of processing 865,000 tokens per seconda figure that gives an idea of ​​the magnitude of the project, and will be part of a global network of the Azure Network Wide Network Wide Network Beyond the technology that houses, Fairwater impresses with its physical dimensions. It rises on a land equivalent to more than one hundred hectares and adds more than 110,000 square meters of built area. Civil works, according to Microsoft, has required huge figures: 75 kilometers of foundation piles 12,000 tons of steel structure 193 kilometers of medium voltage electric wiring 117 kilometers of mechanical pipes Refrigeration is one of the great challenges of any data center, and in Fairwater becomes even more critical for the chips density it houses. According to data from the Wisconsin Climatology Officethis state presents a Very marked thermal amplitude: In winter, minimum temperatures can fall below 0 ° C with abundant snow, while in summer stockings greater than 25 ° C are reached with high humidity. This variability forces us to have infrastructure that does not depend on a favorable climate, unlike locations in northern Europe where constant cold becomes a natural ally. That is why Microsoft has opted for a liquid refrigeration system in closed circuit that only requires water once during construction and then reuses it without loss. According to the company, more than 90% of the capacity works with this method, supported by the second largest water coolers in the world and in 172 six -meter -high fans that help dissipate heat. The rest of the infrastructure takes advantage of the outer air, but changes to water in the hottest days, when the temperature and humidity exceed what the environment can offer. It is a design designed to maintain efficiency throughout the year in a place where the weather does not always play in favor. Behind Fairwater there are more components designed to sustain datasets massive No bottlenecks. Let’s look at some of them: Total capacity in exabytes “Five soccer fields” size systems More than two million reading/writing operations per second in each cloud storage account Its own system that accelerates access to data and reduces latency, guaranteeing that GPUs never stop Enough optical fiber to give 4.5 turns to earth. Fairwater is, for the moment, a project under construction and many of its promises must still be tested. Microsoft states that when starting at the beginning of 2026 it will be able to perform until ten times more than the fastest supercomputer of the world, although it does not need which one refers to. The true magnitude of Fairwater will only be known when we enter into operation and we can contrast if those figures are fulfilled beyond paper. Images | Microsoft (1, 2, 3, 4) | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 In Xataka | Huawei has a plan to advise Nvidia in China: a supernod of 15,000 processors

The first, a resounding ‘yes’ to orange. The second, Apple has been treading strong

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A curious fact: each and every one of the mobiles that I have bought throughout my life have been black. All, if exception. More matte, more Glossymore curved or more flat, all blacks. And it is curious, because at no time have I thought about changing it. Today I write this from London, just a few hours after having tried the iPhone 17 Pro First hand in Apple’s central offices, with an idea that does not stop around my head: how beautiful the orange is, how good the new flagship of Apple has and, above all, how much you have to demonstrate. While the analysis arrives, here is a contact. It is much more beautiful in person than in the photos | Image: Xataka Orange: Yes. Although having a matte black available, I would surely think about it, we must recognize that Apple has done a sensational job with the “cosmic” orange. The firm has realized that the iPhone focused on the most professional public does not have to be boring and this touch of color stands out, much, on dark blue and silver. It also highlights that huge camera module, closer to what we see in some high -end Android mobiles than the previous iPhone Pro, and the double finished of the rear. Apple returns to aluminum For the unibody chassis, according to the company, thermal issues, but the rear, what we touch with the hand, is Ceramic Shield. The touch, as in the iPhone Airit is very, very pleasant and, in theory, this material should endure the scratches better. However, all this cares little if we are going to put a case. It is something more big than the previous model, enough to be noticed | Image: Xataka In hand. It feels very similar to iPhone 16 Pro I was wearing in his pocket. The dimensions are not very different and the weight is similar, although slightly greater and all cases: 0.4 millimeters higher and width, five more grams and, yes, half a thicker millimeter. It may seem little, but those 0.5 millimeters are noticed. The touch is also different because, well, we go from titanium to aluminum and Ceramic Shield, although it does not feel less premium. That Apple has well dominated. Speaking of design. One of the keys of the iPhone 17 pro is The steam chamber. This is something that we have already seen in some high -end Android terminals and that now reaches Apple’s models. The idea of ​​this system is to dissipate heat better and maintain sustained performance, but it has two challenges ahead. The first, to be up to summer. The second, be able to refrigerate the device when the user puts an case. Now imagine matte black | Image: Xataka This will not only have an impact when we play or execute heavy tasks, but the cooling system will have to answer when we put the camera to work. If you usually record video with the mobile in 4K you will perfectly know how it heats up when you use it for a long time. This camera sees better and further … Although we have not had the opportunity to try the camera as we do in an analysis, we have been able to struggle with it to see what we can expect. On the one hand, Apple has mounted a 48 megapixel sensor under all the lenses, something that will sit in fear of telephoto. We can make four increases optical zoom and up to eight increases with “optical quality”, as well as digital zoom of up to 40 increases, 25 if we talk about zoom in video. Photo taken with the wide angle (x0.5) | Image: Xataka Photo taken with the angular (x1, automatic) | Image: Xataka Photo taken with Zoom X2 (automatic) | Image: Xataka Photo taken with Zoom X4 (automatic) | Image: Xataka Photo taken with Zoom X8 (automatic) | Image: Xataka Photo taken with Zoom X40 (automatic) | Image: Xataka The result is good, within that the light was the one that was, although when carrying the zoom we will see the seams. Anyway, this is something that we will investigate more during the analysis. … but it’s not the most powerful zoom. Be that as it may, and although the camera points ways, it is no secret that other brands such as Alive, Oppo, Samsung, Google either Xiaomi Zoom systems with more scope are already set up, up to 200 increases in some cases. Here not only the camera comes into play, but the processing that applies the ISP of the processor. Each brand adopts a different approach and Apple has preferred to be more conservative. Personally, I doubt that no one misses having more digital increases, especially if the final result falls into an AI system that artificially recovers the details causing, in some cases, unwanted artifacts. Anyway, and as we pointed before, we will see it more detail when we can try this camera thoroughly. Image | Xataka The square sensor. This does seem absolutely disruptive and that is available throughout the iPhone 17 series seems to me a success. The cameras sensors are 4: 3, that is, slightly rectangular. That is why to get a horizontal selfie you have to rotate the phone. The inner chamber sensor of the new iPhone is squarewhich allows you to take photos or record video horizontally holding the phone vertical. It works at a thousand wonders and surely let’s not see it becoming a standard of the high Android range. The same as always. The iPhone 17 Pro is a expensive phone and, as such, it is normal to ask if it really is worth it. The answer will depend on the profile and why we use the terminal. If we want to use it to record and we know what we are doing in edition, the iPhone 17 PRO promises strong emotions thanks to the prorew prorew format, for example. It also has the … Read more

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