Month: September 2025

veto the F-35 that the US sends to Israel

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The first blunt scene took place last week. The decision of the Government of Pedro Sánchez to send the ship Maritime Action Furor P-46 to escort the Global International Flotilla Sumud was a milestone in contemporary Spanish foreign policy. The second, which has been known a few hours ago, has a more “nuclear” range: Spain is vetoing the sending of weapons from the United States to Israel. Solidarity and geopolitics. As we said, sending Furor P-46 It is included in the flotilla safety Integrated by half a hundred civil vessels with activists from 45 countries, including figures such as Greta Thunberg or Ada Colau, which seeks to take help to Gaza and symbolically break the Israeli naval block, after having suffered drones attacks in Greek waters. With more than 65,000 dead Palestinians Since the beginning of the Israeli offensive in October 2023 and a population undergoing hunger, forced displacements and ruins, the Spanish gesture becomes political and moral relevance. Sanchez defended In the UN General Assembly that international law and safety of navigation in the Mediterranean are respected, stressing that Spain will not remain indifferent to a humanitarian catastrophe of this magnitude. The furor P-46 in front of the Italian. The Spanish deployment contrasts with the Italian response under the command of Giorgia Meloni, which despite criticizing the mission as “unnecessary and dangerous,” said two frigates, have sent two frigates, The Virginio Fasan and The alpineboth with anti -submarine combat capabilities, long -range missiles and crews of more than 160 sailors. The furor P-46, on the other hand, is a maritime action ship smaller (2,840 tons, 93.9 meters in length and 51 crew members), armed with a cannon 76 mm pick autumn and two MK-38 machine guns. Although limited in military power against Italian frigates, their deployment transmits a different message: It is not a matter of war, but of symbolic protection of civilians and a commitment to international legality. If you want, even the fact that the machine guns of the fury are of Israeli origin adds a paradox loaded with meanings, placing Spain in a field where diplomacy mixes with symbolic and political pressure. The furor P-46 A historical veto. The other face of the Spanish strategy has been THE VETO TO TRANSIT for the bases of Rota and Morón of American aircraft and ships loaded with armament for Israel. Although the bilateral agreement 1988 defense grants the United States wide prerogatives Use, Madrid retains the last word and has applied the clauses that exclude “controversial charges”. In other words, this has forced, for example, DESCRIBE F-35 fighters Israelis towards the Azores, and even took the official plane of Netanyahu To avoid space Spanish aerial to go to the UN. The measure reflects a will to exercise full sovereignty in strategic infrastructure, unchecking American logic without breaking the alliance. If in 2002 the government of José María Aznar allowed, through A secret orderthat planes with prisoners for Guantanam Mark distance With Washington, aware that Gaza’s political sensitivity does not admit ambiguities. Historical comparative: from Iraq and Libya to Gaza. The current position inevitably recalls Spanish management in previous conflicts. In 2003, Aznar aligned with George W. Bush and Tony Blair in the invasion of Iraq, in a decision that It generated massive rejection in Spanish society and ended up eroding its political capital. A decade later, in 2011, under the government of Zapatero, Spain participated In the intervention of NATO in Libya, sending fighters and frigates in combat operations against Gaddafi, although presenting it as part of a Civil Protection Mission. In both cases, Spain acted as an obedient ally within the Atlantic framework, prioritizing cohesion with Washington and Brussels about the affirmation of its own policy. Loop represents the reverse: Now the nation is placed as a critical voice in the EU, sending a ship Not to fightbut to protect a civil flotilla, and prohibiting the transit of weapons towards a traditional ally in the United States such as Israel. The Mediterranean as a board. The scenario is not accidental. The Eastern Mediterranean has become a space of geopolitical friction where the interests of Israel, Türkiye, Egypt, Greece and now of the European powers converge. With its involvement, Spain seeks to strengthen its profile as Mediterranean power With your own agenda. He Furor shipping P-46 and the Veto to Rota and Morón They place Madrid in the thin line between humanitarian solidarity and diplomatic pressure, between the symbolic gesture and the strategic calculation. The message, a priori, is clear: Spain does not intend to be a mere spectator or a simple appendix of American politics, but an actor who intends to recover space on a board where the EU still seeks a common voice. Giro and projection. The combination of measures configures a Background change In Spanish foreign policy. Of secondary partner in Iraq and Libya, Spain aims to be actor with proper name In Gaza, articulating a strategy that combines three axes: Humanitarian solidarityDefense of International Law and affirmation of sovereignty in its strategic bases. If you want also, when betting on a line different from Washington’s (I had already done it With the “rearme”) and align with a speech closer to European public opinion, the Sánchez government seeks to reposition the nation as moral power in the Mediterranean and as a reference in the defense of humanitarian causes. Of course, it remains to be seen if this strategy will be sustainable in the face of diplomatic pressure and tensions with allied partners, but what it seems indisputable right now is that it marks a historical turn regarding the role that Spain had played in international conflicts during the last decades. Image | Pikiwikisrael, Carlosvdehabsburg In Xataka | The F-35 not only costs a fortune, it has a button that Spain does not like. So he told the US that he doesn’t want them In Xataka | A group of countries is being formed after the decision of Spain: those that are closing the door … Read more

Mobile, sound bars and more with discounts of almost 50%

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If you are thinking of renewing any of your technological devices, such as every Monday, in Xataka Selection, we want to offer you a selection with some of the best chollos in technology. These are some of the devices that have very good Discounts on Amazon And they may interest you. Smart TV LG OLED55C44LA.AEU by 899 euros: 55 -inch and Webos OLED. Xiaomi Redmi 15 by 139.99 euros: With 6.9 inches screen and Xiaomi Hyper OS. Sound bar Samsung HW-C430/ZF by 109 euros: With power of 200 W and Bluetooth 4.2. Monitor LG 32GS95UV-W by 693.32 euros: 31.5 inches and 4K resolution. Power Bank Anker 737 by 84.99 euros: 24,000 mAh and with bidirectional load. SMART TV LG OLED55C44LA.AEU This offer is ideal for those who are thinking about renewing their old TV. With a 10% discountnow you can get this LG OLED55C44LA.AEU, which is number one in sales, by 899 euros. This LG firm TV rid an OLED panel of 55 inches with 4K processor. They have 144 Hz of soda (resulting perfectly for gaming) and works under the operating system Webos 24. It is compatible with AirPlay, Alexa and Google Assistant and the only one compatible with NVIDIA G-SYNC/AMD FREESYNC. LG OLED55C44LA.AEU, 55 “, OLED 4K The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Xiaomi Redmi 15 This Redmi 15 of Xiaomi It is one of the last cheap releases of the Chinese manufacturer. Its usual price is about 180 euros, but now you can take it for 139.99 eurosin its 128 GB version. This cheap mobile from Xiaomi mounts a 6.9 -inch screen with FHD+ resolution and 144 H soda rate. Its processor is the Snapdragon 685 and mounts a system of Dual 50 MP Chamber. Works under the Xiaomi operating system Hyper Os and its battery admits fast charging to 33 W. Xiaomi Redmi 15 – 6+128GB smartphone The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Samsung HW-C430/ZF sound bar Now that autumn has arrived, if you want to mount your own home cinema, a sound bar is the perfect accessory for your TV. If you don’t want to spend much, now in Amazon you have a 36% discountthis one of the Samsung firm. It is available by 109 euros. This sound bar with wireless subwoofer offers a 200 W RMS Power and sound in Dolby Digital. It has connectivity Bluetooth 4.2 And it also incorporates a game mode, so that you can enjoy your video games with the meona audio quality. Samsung sound bar HW-C430/ZF The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links LG 32GS95UV-W monitor For those who are riding their setup and want to have a MONITOR WITH VERY TOP CHARACTERISTICSthis of the LG firm now has a 27% discount on Amazon. Now, you can take this LG ultragear 32gs95UV-w by 693.32 euros. This monitor Mount a 31.5 -inch OLED panel with 4K resolution. It has dual mode technology (240/480 Hz) and offers Pixel Sound -type surround sound. In addition, it incorporates Micro Lens Array+technology, which provides 37.5% more shine. LG 32GS95UV -W – ULTRAGEAR OLED GAMING MONITOR, 31.5 ”, 4K UHD The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Power Bank Anker 737 The last of the Amazon chollos that we want to introduce yourself is ideal if you always have the concern of running out of battery in your devices such as mobile, tablet or even the laptop. Now you can take this Anker Power Bank With almost 50% discount, for 84.99 euros. This anker 737 is a Power Bank which offers ultra -powerful bidirectional load. It is equipped with Power Delivery 3.1 technology and offers powerful ultra load of up to 140 W. has digital screen And it has a capacity of 24,000 mAh, which allows you to load, for example, up to five times an iPhone 13. Anker Power Bank Fast charging 737 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 | Webedia, Anker, Xiaomi, LG and Samsung In Xataka | Best vacuum robots in quality price. Which to buy depending on the use and five recommended models In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K

Jeff Bezos asked his parents for savings from his life to found Amazon. They only asked him one question: “What is the Internet?

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In 1995, Jeff Bezos decided give up your stable job and well paid as an analyst on Wall Street to set up a book sales business online. At that time, Jeff Bezos was not the millionaire who is today, so he went to see his parents and asked them for help to invest in Amazon. His father’s first question was clear and direct: “What is the Internet?” Miguel and Jacklyn Bezos did not know much about that new technology, but they knew that their son was determined to squeeze it to the maximum. According to the writer Brad Stone in the book “The dream store. Jeff Bezos and the Amazon era“Bezos warned his parents:” There is a 70 % chance that you will lose everything. I just want to make sure I can return home for thanksgiving if this doesn’t work. “ Without hesitation, the Bezos invested a good part of the savings of their entire life in their son’s project. Today, that initial investment has grown 15,500% And it is worth more than the GDP of Iceland and Maldives together, making their father so rich (his mother died a few weeks ago) that, as he counted The Wall Street JournalMiguel Bezos is hiring a CEO to administer the assets of his Family Office. The origin of a historical fortune In the middle of the nineties, Mike Bezos, of Cuban origin and with family ties in a Small Valladolid municipalityhe decided to trust family savings to his son Jeff and, incidentally, becoming the first investors after the Amazon Foundation. According to documents Of the US Stock and Stock Exchange Commission (SEC), the initial investment of the Bezos was through the purchase of 582,528 Amazon shares to, only a few months later, expand your investment by buying 847,716 more shares. In total, 1,430,244 shares at a purchase price of 17 cents per share. That leaves a total investment of 243,141.48. Such and as it revealed Bloombergit is a fortune for a couple formed by a single mother who had to raise her son alone with a poor salary while studying A race, and a Cuban immigrant who arrived in the US with 16 years. After thirty years, if the initial investment had remained intact, it would amount to about 72.6 billion dollars. However, after different sales and donations of shares, the family heritage of Jeff Bezos’s parents exceeds 40,000 million dollars. CEO is sought for fortune According to The Estimates of The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, Aurora Borealisthe company that is responsible for managing the heritage of Miguel Bezos, was founded in 2020 and, if it were a person, would take 48 position among the greatest fortunes of the List of Millionaires of Forbes. Aurora Borealis, is currently one of the Family officers most relevant in the world for its heritage volume. The company manages assets of very diverse kinds, from those foundational actions of Amazon to investments in funds and projects of philanthropy through the Bezos Family Foundation. The growing heritage of the father of Jeff Bezos has reached levels that have become necessary to professionalize the team that manages it from Aurora Borealis, Speaking as CEO To Valeria Alberola, an executive with experience in the management of great heritage. As a reference, the new Amazon Fortuna Fortuna manager managed the Family Office of the Walton familyfounders and owners of the Wallmart supermarket chain. His goal, get Miguel “Mike” Bezos even richer. The history of Miguel Bezos’ fortune is not only relevant for facilitating the foundation of one of the world’s largest companies, it is also a unique phenomenon since it is not usual for a family loan of just under $ 244,000, ends up making millionaires to the founder’s parents, and not to external investors. Was A risky bet That he went well, but he could also have left Jeff Bezos banished from thanksgiving dinners and his parents with a serious economic problem. In Xataka | Technological millionaires presume ecological awareness. Their superyates and private jets tell another story Image | Flickr (George W. Bush Presidential Center)

The new King of the AI ​​Open Source is Alibaba. And its strategy is simple: to be tired

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Alibaba qwen3 -omni has become the new jewel of the AI ​​Open Source segment. This model, launched last week by the Chinese giant, manages to compete in various benchmarks with some of the best models of OpenAi or Google. But the important thing is not so much as the fact that it alibba Not stop taking AI models at a frantic pace and almost strenuous. QWEN models succeed. The QWEN3-OMNI-30B-A3B-INSTRUCT model is one of the variants of the QWEN3-OMNI family newly launched by Alibaba. This version has become the most popular model in the Ranking of available models in Hugging Face. Since it appeared there, almost 100,000 times has been downloaded, but it is not alone. The new QWEN3-Max-Thinking manages to match or overcome models such as Grok 4 or GPT-5 Pro. They do not stop launching models. As they point out In SCMPto date Alibaba has published more than 300 Open Source models that have served for other developers and companies to launch their own. In fact, it is estimated that there are more than 170,000 derived models, which seems to have managed to have Alibaba right now the world’s largest ecosystem. The data were shared in The APSARA conference Organized by Alibaba Cloud in Hangzhou last week. Some recent examples of that frantic rhythm: Alibaba Copa the ranking. Although they were released in April, the QWEN3 models have not stopped renewing in recent months with new capacities in the generation of text, images, audio and even video. The improvements in multimodal behavior have helped create this new “OMNI” family – which precisely handles all kinds of entrances and exits – and with it with it returns that yield They even rival with the best proprietary models of firms such as Google and Openai. Models for all tastes. If one looks That rankingfive of the first 10 models are from Alibaba. Tencent has two others, IBM Granite surprises in fourth position and also We have Deepseek-V3.1-terminus Already a voice text model called VoxCPM. Source: The Atom Project. Llama, missing. Meanwhile, the traditional dominator of said scope, The Meta Llama Modelis totally missing from the first positions of this ranking and appears in position 41. OpenAI and its GPT-Oss-20b model It is also quite displaced (position 30). The responsible for The Atom (American Truly Open Models) Project recently revealed A study in which they highlighted how accumulated discharges of Open Source models already come from Chinese models than US models. Llama was the most downloaded open model until recently. Now that position is occupied by the Models of the Qwen family of Alibaba. Source: The Atom Project. Be careful, downloads are something else. It must be said that the ranking focuses on “trending” models, that is, those whose recent popularity is high. The Openai model has in fact downloaded 6.71 million times, while Alibaba’s most downloaded model is QWEN3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct, with 2.63 million downloads. Llama-3.1-8b-Instruct surpasses both (for now) with 7.18 million. In The Atom Project, yes, they point out that the accumulated discharges of the different flame variants have just fell below those of the Qwen variants. The reason is simple. Alibaba does not stop getting more and more models. Alibaba’s strategy has been overwhelming, and since in April it launched the first QWEN3 models, it has not gone from maintaining a frantic pace of launching of improved and derived versions such as QWEN3-Next, QWEN3-OMNI or QWEN3-MAX, in addition to specific models for generation of images as qwen-image-editordirect competitor of the famous Nano Banana, from Google. In Xataka | There are many “internal” races within the great AI race. And the Open Source is winning Alibaba

much ado about nothing

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The impact of generative AI on companies has been one of the most discussed issues in recent years, with promises of Transform whole sectorscreate new Business opportunities And, above all, throw uncertainty about The professional future of millions of workers. However, a recent MIT report has brought to light a less optimistic reality: most of the great experiments with generative the generative in companies, do not achieve The expected resultsalthough it is being invested in them huge amounts of money. In other words: a lot of noise and few nuts. The “failure” of AI in companies. The figures are clear. According to the study ‘The Genai Divide: State of Ai In Business 2025’ Prepared by the MIT, only 5% of the generative the pilot projects in large companies reach a positive and measurable impact on their income. The rest, an overwhelming 95% of the projects, fails to effectively transform any essential part of the organization or obtain a return on investment, which doubts the global fever for adopting AI accelerated. It is important to underline that the report considers “failure” the absence of economic return derived from the transformation of the company. That does not mean that the project of I do not provide productivity increases of its employees or in the improvement of their products, as can be inferred from the term “failure” used in the study, such and as they detail in Futuriom. Chatgpt does not transform, but it is very helpful. As detailed in the study, the problem of poor transforming success of AI projects in companies is not related to the quality of AI models themselves, but rather what researchers call “learning gap”, both for tools and for companies themselves. The authors of the study emphasize that failure lies in poorly oriented business integration. The generalist models, such as chatgpt or co -pilot, are effective as assistants to Improve productivity of employees on a personal level. However, they fail to adapt to the specialized workflows of companies, and stagnate when they try to replicate on a larger scale. That is, they work very well in the demos, but when they must face the variables of Day -to -day processes fail. According to the report, 80% of the companies considered using a generalist model to perform a certain task in the company, of these, 50% finally launched a pilot project, and 40% of them were successfully implemented, which is a very high percentage. However, Its effect is not transformative since it is raised as a tool to support employees and does not generate a measurable direct return (it is an indirect return in productivity). The key is the specialized AI agents. Instead, the AI agentsmuch simpler and specialized in performing a single task, if they manage to transform the area in which they are already applied They imply automation and make human supervision unnecessary. So I explained it to Fortune Aditya Challapally, the main author of the report: “Some large companies and startups have seen their income from zero to 20 million dollars grow in a year because they choose the problem to be solved well, they execute precisely and collaborate with partners who really use their tools.” As detailed in the report, 60% of the companies surveyed investigated the possibility of implementing this model. Of those, only 20% tested it in a pilot project. Only 5% ended up being implemented and completely automate that task. It is what the study considers “success.” The AI ​​Stop the Accelerator, does not change the car. The analysis shows that more than half of the budget allocated to generative in companies is invested in projects for sales and marketing, in which the investment made is not being recovered in a measurable way (which does not imply that they are a failure). The authors emphasize that the true return on investment comes from the automation of internal processes and back-offce. In those cases, the investment in AI begins to recover immediately since all operating expenses are annulled with the automation of the process and everything is return. In other words, what MIT researchers have discovered is that while betting on support tools is how to step on the accelerator of a car to go faster, automate the tasks With ia agents It’s like changing the entire car. The Gartner consultant, It is less optimistic And he estimates that in a few years 40% of those “cars” will crash. The report also indicates the difference between the solutions created by companies and the tools acquired from specialized suppliers. Only 33% of internal systems achieve some success, while external solutions reach positive rates around 67% of cases. The “Shadow AI” and the impact on work. The researchers detected what they called “Shadow AI” or unofficial use of tools such as chatgpt by employees. That evidences both the interest in using AI to reduce the workload and the Lack of a corporate strategy Clara for AI. For this reason, the measurement of the real impact of AI in productivity and the benefits it provides is still a pending subject for companies that wish to justify their investment. Finally, they emphasize that, according to the low successful figures in the implementation of AI as a means of automation and its implementation as an assistant, the disruption in employment is already visible in areas such as areas such as customer service and administrative tasks. However, thanks to that role as “assistant” and not as “performer”, instead of finding us Before millions of layoffsthe trend between companies that have integrated is not to cover the positions that are vacant, especially concentrating on works that were previously outsourced for being considered of low added value. In Xataka | Some researchers created a company where all employees were AI agents. They did not make a quarter of the work Image | Unspash (Shelter, Flipsnack)

We believed that the J-20 was Beijing’s great furtive jewel. The new images of the J-50 show that there was something else in development

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“We will strive to achieve the fundamental modernization of national defense and the Armed Forces by 2035, and to make the popular army a World Class Force in all aspects for the middle of this century. ”With these words, Xi Jinping drew in 2017 A military horizon that then sounded ambitious. It could have been in rhetoric, in a gesture designed to dazzle. But in this China the plans are rarely artifice fires: they become state projects, with short and medium term goals conceded into strategies that look forward to decades. And the truth is that a good part of those goals have already begun to materialize. China is not characterized by hurry, although it advances with a speed that surprises. In 2003 he put his first Taikonauta in orbit when the United States and Russia (with the Soviet inheritance in between) accumulated half a century of experience in the space race. Two decades later, Beijing has raised its own orbital infrastructure and a program that does not give brake signals. The same happens on the mainland. In the early 2000s there were no high -speed trains in the country. Today it manages the most extensive network on the planetan example of accelerated transformation. And in defense, which is the focus of this analysis, the jump is equally forceful: Shipyards capable of throwing large -scale ships, aircraft carriers with electromagnetic catapults and last generation combat fighters. J-50, from rumor to the images As Twz collectsthe most clear images have appeared so far from a heavy poacher attributed to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. In the public conversation it is identified as J-XDs and, unofficially, such as J-50. The material is not verified, but fits with less clear previous shots and does not show obvious indications of manipulation. We see a design without a tail that analysts framed in the next combat generation. J-50 The plane dispenses with tail surfaces, presents tilting pales that appear deflecting down and mounts 2D nozzles with vector thrust and folded bordering. The nose is long, of diamond geometry. Air shots are trapezoidal and adopt a DSI scheme. Under the nose a fairing appears for the electro-optical system and the cabin is a car. Today we do not know if the photographed is a technological demonstrator or a configuration closer to production. There are also no confirmed data on definitive sensor packagepropulsion or calendar. As a context, in parallel there have been advances of the J-20s Biplaza and the J-35 Naval. The focus, in any case, is in this design without a tail that suggests a parallel development to that of J-20. J-20s The photographs provide form, but leave unanswered key issues. It is unknown which propeller equips the plane, what will be its sensor configuration, what communications or electronic warfare systems and what arsenal is planned for him. In any case, EJ-50 becomes the clearest sample that Beijing is willing to experiment with radical concepts in military aviation. A design without a tail, with mobile wounds and vector nozzles, involves entering a land that few have dared to explore. The unknown is how much of what we see corresponds to an isolated prototype and how much is part of a long -distance program. What seems out of doubt is that China wants to position yourself at the forefront of the next generation of poachers. Images | RUPPRECHTDEINO In Xataka | The US has a message for those who turned their backs on F-35: now it will fly alone with its own drone army

The entire planet looks intrigued at the cars factories of China and Morocco. Meanwhile, another power grows in the shadow: Türkiye

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The European Union has more than A year applying the “compensatory rights” to the Chinese electric vehicles. This rate really applies to all manufacturers they produce in China and then bring their cars to European soil. The goal? That companies manufacture in Europe. But if all eyes point to China, other countries make their way. Morocco is not the only one that is consolidating as the springboard Star to Europe: Türkiye is asking for a step. And it is not something that are taking advantage of Chinese brands: also European. Trampolines. The Chinese automotive industry has a simple objective: to conquer the world with its electric cars. Companies have experience, technology, ships to transport thousands of cars of a tacada and are leaders in the manufacture of the most important: The batteries. China has launched some strategies to meet that plan, such as expand its factories in Europe, associate with European companies and create Kits that are manufactured in ChinaThey are transported disassembled and remembered in the final car on European soil. But, they are also taking advantage of “empty” in those compensatory rights. The combustion car is its ‘Trojan horse’but also countries like Morocco and Türkiye. In both, the labor is cheaper than in Europe and most importantly: they have commercial treaties with the EU, which allows those ‘tariffs’ to skip. Touchstone. It is calculated that The investment in Morocco is about 10,000 million dollarsa figure that contemplates not only manufacturing, but also the exploitation of key minerals for battery production. Morocco has huge deposits and China does not want to miss another portion of a chain that dominates with iron fist. In the case of Türkiye, there are examples like Chery investing $ 1,000 million for a plant in Samsun that will have a production capacity of 200,000 electric and hybrid vehicles every year. SWM Motors too will open A plant in Eskisehir to create hybrids and gasoline, and Byd will have one of its biggest factories In the West in Manisa. Besides, Not only will they be dedicated to manufacturing: In the case of Byd we also talk about an R&D center. Not only China. But it’s not just that China looks at Türkiye: Europe does not lose sight of them either. Brands like Renault and some from Stellantis produce There models for both the local market and Europe (The new Clio, for example). Moreover, the European Union, through funds such as Horizon Europe, intended 1,000 million euros in the 2021-2027 framework for the development of the automotive sector in Türkiye, especially for electric mobility, the development of load infrastructure and initiatives such as the manufacturing and recycling of batteries. Win-Win. Obviously, the situation is beneficial for all parties. On the one hand, China wins a springboard to European soil and the possibility of introducing their cars at very attractive prices in a local market that is upwards. The estimate is that Türkiye is the Major Market Fourth of electric cars for sales in Europe during the first half of 2025, only behind Germany, the United Kingdom and France. This is something favored by the State thanks to reductions and a series of advantageous tax conditions and tax exemptions if an electric car is purchased. And Türkiye, with that money, promotes the transformation of the sector with new R&D centers and strategic agreements with Europe to further reinforce its position. Toggg. And eye, Türkiye, Following The example of Europe put an aggressive tariff on Chinese electric cars, but with a condition: if manufacturers began to invest in local production facilities, they would be exempt from that import tax. But in all this there is an asterisk: Chinese companies, with their high capitalization and strong technology, can offer advanced vehicles at very competitive prices that overwhelm local producers like Toggg. There are already those who points That this competition, instead of healthy, could suppress the growth of the local ecosystem, being a danger if, at some point, Chinese companies decide to leave the market. And the United States? Apart from this issue, it is evident that the country is playing its letters well as the “bridge” between the East and West is, also in terms of critical raw materials to create batteries –part of the rare earth that China controls-. And, if you are wondering what happens to American companies, the truth is that their giants are not investing directly in Türkiye, but they are doing it through the calls Joint Ventures. They do not want to make too much outside the United States (something that recent tariff Otosan to create cars on Turkish soil and sell them both in that market and in the Middle East. In the end, as they say, a scrambled river, fishermen’s gain. And everything indicates that Morocco and Türkiye are those fishermen. In Xataka | Family and friends keep asking me if “it is worth buying a Chinese car.” This is my answer

In 2024 an asteroid loaded with precious metals psó touching us. The goal is now to hunt the next one with a giant bag

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A year ago, astronomers saw how an asteroid entered the orbit of our planet and accompanied us for almost two months. This “mini-luna” baptized as 2024 PT5 was a warning sign for an industry that never ends up detachment: space mining. The passage of the rock full of rare metals lit the fuse of a new race to not let the next one. The new objective of space mining. The idea that asteroids are floating treasures is not new. According to NASA’s calculationsthe metals contained in the asteroid belt could be equivalent to 100 million dollars for each person on Earth. The problem has always been the same: the prohibitive cost of reaching them. But this type of “mini-lunas” like 2024 PT5, that we are able to detect with current technologythe rules of the game change when approaching us, becoming much more affordable objectives. The Plan: Not Atrices, capture. Landing in an asteroid is a logistics nightmare. They turn at high speed, do not have a significant seriousness that maintains an anchored ship and are covered with a powder that would stuck any machinery. Therefore, the new strategy is not to perch on them, but to capture them in full flight. This is where concepts that seem taken from a science fiction film come into play. Companies like the Tethers Unlimited disappeared They worked on satellite designs capable of launching a gigantic network to catch an asteroid and tow it to a stable orbit. The company failed, but its idea prevails: stop the rotation of asteroids to process them. NASA to hunt asteroids. One of the companies that leads this race was founded by a veteran of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of La NASA, Joel Sercel. The plan of Transaster It is a three -phase technological deployment: Detect: its Sutter telescope system has been designed to find small, dark and fast objects, such as asteroids close to the earth that until now went unnoticed. Capture: His proposal is called Capture Bag, and is a kind of giant inflatable bag designed to completely wrap the asteroid. Process: Once trapped, they would use a technology called optical mining. It consists of using concentrated sunlight with a kind of magnifying glass on an industrial scale to heat the asteroid. This allows you to extract water (in the form of ice) and separate precious metals such as platinum, cobalt or nickel. Precious metals … and precious water. Although metals are the fat prize, the most valuable short -term resource is water. As Joel Serce explains In an interview for Caltechwater is the “oil” of the solar system. It can be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen to create rocket fuel. Extract water from an asteroid and store it in orbit would create the first “space gas stations”. Being quantifies it: 100 tons of water extracted from an asteroid the size of a house, enough to fill a pool, they would have an approximate value of 1,000 million dollars in space. Simply because of the cost that would mean throwing so much water from the earth. To move these loads, Transastra is developing a fleet of tugs called worker bee whose engines can use that water as propellant. Waiting for the next mini-luna. The passage of 2024 PT5 was a lost opportunity. “If we had had our systems in operation, we could have gone for it,” he confessed to being. The industry was not ready, but the starting gun has already sounded. The next time a cosmic treasure approaches the earth, there may be giant networks or bags waiting for it. The 21st century gold fever does not look underground, but towards the stars. Image | NASA, JPL In Xataka | The Earth has lost its miniluna, but posed for a photo before leaving (and promised to return soon)

A tax on tourist dogs

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It cannot be said that Italy is not trying with all its strength to fight against mass tourism. First they were higher ratesthen Input rates That, by the way, they went out so well that folded them. Then they attacked directly to the groups of 26 people (or more) and fertilized one of the symbols of the new times: Keyboxes To make auto check-in. The latest: chase the dogs of the hordes. Record the best friends. In the alpine city of Bolzanoentrance door To the dolomites And fate increasingly pressured by mass tourism, the City Council has decided to transfer the invoice of the cleaning and maintenance overrun to an unexpected group: The dogs. From 2026, visitors traveling with their pets must pay a Daily rate of 1.50 euroswhile residents will pay an annual tax of 100 euros per animal. The plan, driven after the implementation of a canine DNA record aimed at identifying owners who do not collect excrement, aims to finance exclusive green areas for dogs and reduce the impact of their waste on public roads. Controversial measure. The promoter of the measure, the provincial counselor Luis Walcher, argues That cleaning should not fall on the entire community when, in their words, “the only dirt of our streets is that of dogs.” However, associations such as ENPA They denounce That the rate makes animals “taxpayers”, punishes both families and responsible tourists and transmits an opposite message to the hospitality culture that characterizes the region. After the failed project of canine DNAThey point out that the Administration opts again for punitive solutions instead of strengthening civic education and effective control. Other measures in Italy. We have gone counting. The Bolzano initiative joins a Restriction series increasingly common in Italy, where mass tourism He has stressed cities and Natural enclaves. Venice, for example, became the first major city of the world to apply An access ticket Diario for single -day visitors, with the aim of decongesting the historic center and raising funds for municipal services. In Florence, the opening of New tourist rentals In its old town, declared a World Heritage, to stop the expulsion of residents. Cities Like Rome and Milan have hardened the rules of coexistence for tourists, with fines for bathing in historical sources or drag bags with wheels on archaeological areas. On the coast of Sardinia, limits have even been introduced to access to beaches Fragiles like the hairs or Cala Goloritzé, with daily quotas and sanctions to whom you take sand of souvenir. Tourism, coexistence and perverse effect. The measure arrives in a context in which other tourist cities of all of Europe they have opted to tax To visitors to contain The impact of tourism massive in its urban fabric. In Bolzano, however, the decision opens A singular debate: Is it legitimate to transfer animals, an inseparable part of many traveling families, the label of “responsible” for the deterioration of public space? Who criticize the measure alert that, far from improving coexistence, It can discourage a respectful tourism and even foster abandonments. The case thus becomes a mirror of the tensions that are going through European tourism: between preserving the quality of life of residents, sustaining the attraction of destinations and not breaking the delicate confidence link with whom they visit themaccompanied (or not) by their dogs. Image | Dusan Ristic In Xataka | Italy Veta One of the great symbols of mass tourism: the use of keys to make auto check-in is prohibited In Xataka | Venice was so fed up with the hordes of tourists that an entry rate was invented. It has gone so well that he will double the days

The USB-A ports are not going to disappear so please, manufacturers, stop eliminating them from their equipment

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My Logitech keyboard has a wireless receptor in the form of USB-A adapter. The same goes for the Anker webcam that I use, which is great and that connects to my equipment with its cable with a USB-A connector. The wired mouse I use to play, surprise, also uses that port. In fact, the Mac Mini M4 that I use daily to work has a great paste: It has no USB-A connectors. On its front there are two great USB-C ports, but I do not use them as such: I have long bought two USB-A (female) adapters to USB-C (male) to be able to use my peripherals easily in that equipment. That has long been the constant appearance of the front of my Mac. It is no longer as stylized as they conceived in Apple, but I don’t care, because what is is practical. I have some USB-C peripherals, yes, but they are the least, and despite the advantages of the USB-C connector, the reality is that today many peripherals-trays, keyboards, webcams, pendrives, etc.— They are still betting on the well-known, old and good USB-A connector. The dichotomy of the industry: do we kill the USB-A, yes or no? It doesn’t matter if it is more speaking, more rough and zero reversible. In his favor he has played the fact that he is recognizable and that he managed to give a simple answer to the problem of differentiation. In USB-C there is no easy way to know if a cable offers better transfers and supports better load capabilities than another. In USB-A connectors, look if The inner color of the connector. Color Standard Speed Special characteristics White USB 1.x 1.5 – 12 Mbps None Black USB 2.0 Hi-Speed 480 Mbps None Blue USB 3.0 Superspeed Up to 5 Gbps None Red USB 3.1 Gen 2 & USB 3.2 10-20 Gbps Always on Yellow USB 2.0 & USB 3.0 480 – 5 Gbps Always on, Power Liabilities Delivery Orange USB 3.0 Up to 5 GPBS Always on, Power Liabilities Delivery The connector USB-C has been imposed In the mobile devices segment. The same European Union chosen it as the standard of iure that They had to use all manufacturersincluding an Apple that surely did not like the idea. The funny thing is that this same company has been an ultranza defender of the USB-C connector in its Mac and MacBooks. Apple went through a terrible stage in which the number of connectors minimized to the maximum –The infamous MacBook He only had a USB-C port— and that made many complain about The #Donglelife condemnation although in the end it was not so much. The funny thing is that Apple ended up reconciling with connectivity, and both the Mac Studio and the MacBook Pro are an example of it. The first to They tell With USB-A ports (surprise!), While the latter include SD card reader and HDMI port but, pity, no USB-A ports. The laptops loved (alone) to the USB-C connectors That unique obsession with not including USB-A ports in laptops is common in the segment and is not limited to Apple’s MacBook. You have to search well among the available models of HP, Lenovo or Dell to find equipment that has USB-A ports. Even “big” teams like the Dell XPS 16 They pass olympically from that port. The manufacturer goes further and, anticipating the complaints, gives us the option of buying a USB-C adapter to USB-A (additional 25 euros) to be able to connect peripherals of this type to their laptop. Arch. Fortunately those ports Yes they are available For example, in its gaming laptop alienware range, something logical if we consider that it is much more normal to connect gaming peripherals that usually use the USB-A connector. There is no doubt that the USB-C connector has important advantages. Murphy’s law is usually complied with the USB-A connectors: We often try to connect on the side that is not. That does not happen with the USB-C connectors, wonderfully reversible, but it is also possible to combine data transfer with the video signal. But with everything and with that, the USB-C connector and those cables have their own problems, among which it stands out the chaos of variants that exist. That is a separate problem that does not especially affect that other reality we are talking about: the USB-A connector is still used by all types of manufacturers for all types of peripherals. And that is why it is striking to see how most portable manufacturers (and some desktop equipment, such as the Mac Mini) continue to be obtained with a forced update that has not been produced. Some brands have been trying to forget the port and USB-A connectors, but again and again the peripheral market prevents it. It is true that adapters and the Dongles They solve the problem acceptably. But it would not be to see from time to time no gaming teams that recovered those ports. That, I’m afraid, it’s going to be difficult. Image | Bram van Oost In Xataka | Clariating with USB-C ports is an impossible mission. A new labeling system wants to end the mess

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