Month: November 2025

an AI-based search engine

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I am one of those who likes to organize vacations from start to finish and every year the search begins in the same place: flights. Skyscanner is my reference website, but now a tough competitor has just emerged. Google just launched its AI flight search engine worldwide and it does so at a striking moment in which the European Union accuses it of abuse of a dominant position, precisely because enhance your travel tools. Google flight deals The truth is that they haven’t put much thought into naming their new tool. Flight offers or Flight Deals live within the already known Google Flights. If you enter, you will see a notice that tells you “Do you have flexibility? Discover the best flight deals with AI”, from there you can access this new search section. You can do searches like this. Instead of having the classic fields of origin, destination and dates, here we only have a text field where we can do searches with natural language. For example, I have asked you to suggest cheap destinations where you can eat well for a few days of vacation that I have at the beginning of the year. We can also fine-tune with various filters such as passengers, the class in which we want to fly or if we do not want to make stopovers. I find it to be a pretty useful tool if, like me, you have a few days off and aren’t sure where to travel. Instead of looking at destination by destination, you can give it the key information and let it search for you. Of course, there is still room for improvement. In my case, he has not clearly understood the dates on which I can travel (I told him between January 1 and 5 and he suggested flights starting on the 5th). Skyscanner gives us the option to select “anywhere” as a destination and then filter by price. The results are very similar to those we obtain with Google’s proposal, but Flight Offers allows us to make a flexible and at the same time more specific search. In Skyscanner it only allows us to enter the exact date or explore an entire month. Google’s tentacles and dominant position Google entering new market niches is not something new. The company’s strategy involves integrating more and more functions into its search engine and offering specific search and comparison tools, even if it means threatening the business of others. We have the most recent and striking case with the AI Overview integration in the search enginewhich is reducing visibility to the media from which this AI draws to give its answers. The result has been traffic drops of up to 50%but Google keeps going and they have even launched the AI Mode. If we look back, there have been many more similar cases. In the early 2000s there were many websites where we went to make currency or unit conversions, but when Google integrated it directly into the search engine, there was no longer a need to enter those websites. There are cases that have ended in fines for Google. This is what happened when they started showing Google Shopping results at the top, burying the results from other websites. The European Union ended up fining the company for 2.4 billion of dollars for abuse of dominant position. Also They had to pay 465 million euros to Idealoone of the platforms affected by these changes. In the spotlight The announcement of Flight Offers comes at a somewhat delicate time. Google is being investigated for a new antitrust case in the European Union, specifically in the online travel sector. He is accused of unfairly favoring services like Google Flights and Google Hotels in the search results. The fine could reach up to 10% of your annual income. Google responded to the accusations and made changes to their services to comply with the Digital Markets Act, also known as DMA. Among these changes was the inclusion of a box at the top with links to specialized platforms, hotels and airlines. However, Google took the opportunity to show its disagreement, ensuring that these requirements harm European consumers because it forces them to use “cumbersome solutions.” Images | Google In Xataka | Microsoft 365 will have cheaper versions around the world. It is the result of antitrust pressure from the European Commission

the best deals on technology that you can’t miss

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This 2025, the Black Friday It will officially take place next Friday, November 28, just after the Thanksgiving holiday. However, many stores start their particular sales campaigns much earlier. Amazon is one of them and it just kicked off a few minutes ago, with several days of discounts on all types of devices. And if we don’t want to wait any longer to get some of their best deals, we can now take advantage of all of these: Kindle by 91.99 eurosthe basic model of the family that is now even cheaper Fire TV Stick 4K Select by 29.99 eurosthe most current Fire TV Stick Echo Dot by 29.99 eurosa best-selling speaker from Amazon Kindle Colorsoft by 184.99 eurosone of Amazon’s newest readers, with a color screen Kindle Like every year, the Kindle Don’t miss your appointment with Amazon’s Black Friday. A best-selling e-reader whose current price (91.99 euros) is difficult to miss if we want to brand new or give away one of these devices while spending relatively little. It has a 6-inch screen, 16 GB of storage that can fit hundreds of books and a backlit panel with which to read comfortably even when we are in the dark. Its incredible autonomy lasts for weeks of use on a single charge. Amazon Kindle (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Fire TV Stick 4K Select Among the large number of devices with which we can provide intelligent functions to televisions somewhat old, and even to improve the performance of many of them, the Amazon Fire TV Stick They are one of the best options on the market. This Fire TV Stick 4K Select has a brutal quality-price ratio and, for 29.99 eurosa purchase not to be missed. It comes with a remote control, is compatible with 4K televisions and allows you to interact with Alexa with just the touch of a button. Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Echo Dot Get hold of the latest generation of this cheap speaker from amazon It’s cheaper now. By 29.99 euroswe get a device that combines an alarm clock, a music speaker and an assistant through Alexa. It allows you to interact with it to, for example, pause music or snooze alarms, with just one touch. And if we prefer to use it without microphones, we can easily silence them with a button in the upper area. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Kindle Colorsoft Another Kindle reader that could not miss its appointment with Amazon’s Black Friday is also one of the most recent: the Kindle Colorsoft. Now reduced to 184.99 eurosis close to its all-time low price and is ideal for those who want to enjoy graphic novels in digital format. Similar to Paperwhite in terms of features (7-inch backlit screen at 300 ppi, 16 GB of storage and autonomy of weeks), but with an aspect as different as its color panel. Amazon Kindle Colorsoft (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | amazon In Xataka | The best quality-price mobiles. Their analyzes and videos are here In Xataka | Cheap gaming laptops. Buying guide for gaming computers with best recommendations for less than a thousand euros

will arrive in space with a prototype spacesuit for ESA

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Until now, when we thought about Decathlon, a breathable t-shirt, a hiking backpack or that idea of ​​making sport accessible to everyone came to mind. That same company, founded in 1976 in Francehas taken an unexpected step: has collaborated in the development of EuroSuit, a spacesuit prototype that will be tested on the International Space Station. It is not about opening a new market, but about participating for the first time in a European space exploration project together with specialized players in the sector. The mission in which this prototype will be tested has its own name: εpsilon. This is how he baptized the European Space Agency the first expedition of Sophie Adenotscheduled for 2026 and destined for the International Space Station. The name refers to the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet and represents the idea that, in space exploration, each individual contribution can be small, but significant. The accompanying emblem, featuring a hummingbird and surrounded by tiny dots, reinforces that message: great achievements require many discrete contributions. A usability evaluation, not a presentation. EuroSuit is a prototype of an in-vehicular suit that will be tested on board the ISS through a series of planned test sequences: checking whether it promotes mobility, whether it adapts correctly to the body, whether it can be manipulated without assistance and whether it maintains reasonable performance in real conditions. What is sought is not to launch a definitive product, but to obtain data that allows us to know if this type of European design can advance towards an operational suit. The prototype does not arrive at the International Space Station as an individual project, but as part of the program coordinated by the CNES for the εpsilon mission. From Toulouse, the Cadmos center supervises both EuroSuit and other experiments focused on physiology, medical technology, radiation or control of microorganisms. This structure allows us to observe how the devices behave in real conditions of use and collect valuable data for future missions. EuroSuit will be evaluated in that context, with the same rigor as the rest of the tests. When textile knowledge enters orbit. Spartan Space leads the development of EuroSuit and Decathlon brings its expertise in textiles, mobility and functional design. The project is presented as a collaboration that allows adding capabilities without the need for all actors to come from the aerospace sector. The objective is to check if the practical approach to sports equipment can be useful in operations within the International Space Station and if it makes sense to continue with this development model for future European missions. As it is an intravehicular suit, EuroSuit is not intended to replace the pressurized suits used in extravehicular activities or to accompany the astronaut throughout their stay in orbit. It is located in another layer: that of operations within the ship that require protection, comfort and ease of use. It is designed so that the astronaut can put it on and take it off in less than two minutes, without assistance, something unusual in this type of clothing and which could be relevant in case of emergency. Images | THAT | Decathlon In Xataka | This woman has been accused for years of committing the only crime that has taken place in space. It was all a lie

has a new life on land as a luxury hotel

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There are people who dream of have your own boatbut their stories don’t always end as they imagined. Clyde Stires began to raise in 1987 a yacht at his California home because he couldn’t afford to buy it. He threw it into the sea seven years later, although its story had a bitter end when the Kaleidoscope was stolen in Mexico. Chris Willson bought an old cruise shiprenamed it Aurora, invested a fortune and more than ten years to turn it into a floating dream, but it was finally scrapped. Some boats accumulate effort, years and enthusiasm, but destiny is not always on the side. Among all those marine stories, one appears that has taken an unexpected direction. It is what was once considered the oldest active passenger ship in the world. It was born in 1914, the same period when shipyards were still working with rivets and before welding became popular in shipbuilding. Today it no longer travels the oceans, but it is still standing: it is stranded on a small artificial island off Bintan, in Indonesia, and has been converted into a luxury hotel known as Doulos Phos The Ship Hotel. It does not sail, but continues to receive passengers. From onion cargo ship to hotel stranded on artificial island Its history began far from tourism and any pretension of luxury. When left the shipyard in 1914his name was SS Medina and transported onions and other products along United States trade routes. Decades later, he would be recruited for World War II, performing logistical support tasks. After the conflict, it was converted into a passenger ship and adopted a diesel engine, which allowed it to extend its useful life. Later, as a mission ship and floating library, it visited more than one hundred countries and survived an attack in the Philippines in 1991. The age that made it special also left it at a disadvantage compared to modern maritime safety standards. Updating it involved changing a good part of its structure, installing new fire protection systems and adapting the cabins to current standards. It was too expensive an operation for its owner, who took it to a dry dock in Singapore, where it was waiting for offers. The most likely involved its scrapping. However, a Singaporean businessman named Eric Saw submitted the winning bid.acquired it for 900,000 euros and decided to try to give it a second life. After purchasing the boat, the new owner faced a problem that was not technical, but geographical: he had nowhere to put it. He tried to get Singapore to grant him a permanent space, but negotiations were unsuccessful. Keeping it in dry dock was expensive. and it didn’t offer a way out either. The opportunity came in Bintan Resorts, a tourist area jointly promoted by Indonesia and Singapore, where they proposed taking it as a heritage attraction. There he proposed an unusual idea: instead of keeping it afloat, permanently installing it on land, on an artificial island shaped like an anchor. Moving a 6,800-ton ship to dry land is not a common operation. First, a section of the coastline was emptied to make a provisional “channel” and allow the hull to approach the area where it would be stranded. On that land, a concrete base was prepared, anchored by piles that crossed the ground until reaching firmer layers. The movement was done with winches and enormous air cushions that acted as rollers. The initial plan contemplated a much shorter operation, but progress was slower and the maneuver ended up extending to seven weeks. Converting a century-old ship into a hotel involved completely redesigning its interiors. The old shared cabins, with bunk beds and barely any space for movement, gave way to spacious rooms with private bathrooms, air conditioning and services typical of modern accommodation. Fuel tanks were removed, bulkheads were pierced and new electricity and water networks were deployed. Today it has 93 cabins spread over several levels, including the Executive Suites, the Family Suites and the so-called Master Mariner, located on the upper deck with a terrace, outdoor jacuzzi and private dining area. Although the interior was completely transformed, the goal was not to erase its past. Key elements were preserved such as the engine room, the propeller shaft of more than 60 meters, several lifeboats and some original cabins enabled as “experience cabins”. The decks remain passable and guests can access iconic spots such as the fo’c’sle, the same space in the bow popularized by the movie Titanic. Original rivets recovered during the renovation were also incorporated into the interior decoration as a reminder that this is a 1914 boat. The project does not stand alone as a business. The investment exceeded 15 million euros and the owner maintains that his objective is not to recover that amount. He has declared that this is a conservation project and that He only earns a dollar a year in salary.. In addition, it states that the proceeds go to charitable activities. Keeping the boat, even out of the water, remains an ongoing challenge, because the rust never completely disappears. Painting and repairing the hull is an ongoing process. The owner maintains that the modifications made could be reversed, allowing, at least in theory, the ship to be returned to the sea if someone wanted it in the future. Images | Doulos Phos In Xataka | We believed that the most incredible thing about megacruises is their size. It turns out that the real miracle is their kitchens

This woman has been accused for years of committing the only crime that has taken place in space. It was all a lie

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Six years ago, his face went around the world. Astronaut Anne McClain appeared in all the media as the alleged perpetrator of the first crime committed outside of Earth. Now we know it never happened. A little context. In August 2019, NASA opened a file to investigate what It seemed like the first crime committed in space.. Astronaut Anne McClain had been accused of identity theft and irregular access to her ex-wife’s financial records while she was on the International Space Station. Specifically, her ex-partner had accused her of “guessing” his credentials to spy on his bank account from space. He had made it up. Six years later, Summer Worden, McClain’s ex-wife and former US Air Force intelligence officer, has pleaded guilty to lying to federal authorities in a twist that definitively closes this unfortunate chapter for the astronaut. According to the official statement From the prosecution, an investigation revealed that Worden had voluntarily shared his credentials with McClain since 2015. The bank account in question had been open since 2018. Worden allowed McClain access until January 2019, at which time he changed the passwords, something he hid to incriminate his ex-partner. Custody of a child as a motive. The accusation came amid a messy divorce and a dispute over custody of a common child. McClain always maintained his innocence, arguing that he had simply reviewed the family finances to ensure there were sufficient funds for the child’s care, something he routinely did with Worden’s consent. The damage to his reputation was immediate and had ramifications and rumors beyond the legal. It coincided with NASA postponing the first all-female spacewalk in its history, starring McClain and Christina Koch. The reason was the lack of suitable suits, but the shadow of the accusation and public scrutiny always loomed over that decision. Redeemed. The resolution of the case comes at a sweet time for Anne McClain. The astronaut has continued working for NASA and, last March, she had the opportunity to return to the ISS as commander of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission. The sentence against his ex-wife will be handed down in February 2026. The maximum penalty is five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Image | POT In Xataka | How many times have we gone to the Moon and why have only 11 military aviators and one geologist set foot on it in all of history?

This year the Three Wise Men bring something very special to children: children’s cosmetics

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There’s barely a month left until Christmas and the first catalogs are already in hands of thousands of families. But this year, among dolls, constructions and car tracks, something unexpected has appeared: construction kits. skin care aimed at girls. unicorn masks, jade rollers “to play spa” and even “children’s” serums. On TikTok, creators like Mommy of three and Alottameg They accumulate thousands of views criticizing the fact that these products are promoted as toys. The alarm has gone off: what is facial care being part of the letter to the Three Wise Men? A global phenomenon that reaches children’s catalogs. What the Christmas brochures show is not an anecdote: it is part of an international trend. According to The New York Timesactress Shay Mitchell launched Rini, a brand of masks aimed at girls as young as 4 years old, whose promotional images caused massive rejection on networks and among dermatologists. And the data increases the tension. A Nielsen IQ study has pointed out that American households are spending more than $2.5 billion annually on beauty products for girls between 7 and 12 years old. In Spain, in addition to the boom on TikTok, stores already include children’s spa kits in their toy sections. More and more girls are asking for jade rollers, creams and creams on their Christmas lists. glowmasks peel off or antioxidant serums. dand the Sephora kids to the toy aisle. According to Yale Medicinemany children and preteens are “obsessed” with creating skin routines copied from TikTok and Instagram: scrubs, serums, masks, night creams… Even without having acne or any dermatological problem. Dermatologist Kathleen Suozzi explains that: “Our study shows that 20% of tweens and teens spend more than $50 a month on products they don’t need, sometimes layering five or more products.” The phenomenon has a name in digital culture: Sephora kids. The academic study of Rachel Wetstone and Jane Grant-Kels details that Girls between 8 and 12 years old show routines of between 6 and 12 products on social networks, many of them designed for adult skin. In these videos, exfoliating acids, retinoids, concentrated vitamin C and steps that imitate a 10-step adult routine are repeated. Beyond the skin risks, the authors warn of the ethical effects: premature aesthetic pressure, misinformation and economic exploitation of an extremely impressionable public. When skin care becomes a feminine role. In parallel, children’s advertising has been pushing girls towards the field of aesthetics for years. The Women’s Institute analyzed toy advertising in the Christmas campaign and found that: In 38.5% of advertisements aimed at girls, archetypes linked to beauty or the role of caregiver/mother/wife appear. The color pink dominates in almost a quarter of toys for girls, while boys appear linked to vehicles, action, professions such as pilot, police or military. 11% of advertisements sexualize girls, while no examples of sexualization of boys were detected. In that context, that sets of skin care As a toy “for girls” it is not an anomaly, but one more piece of a puzzle: that of a female childhood associated with aesthetics, beauty and body care from a very young age. As we already explained in Xatakathe Alpha generation (born after 2010) is growing up under an “early ritual” of aesthetic care, driven by algorithms that serve them videos of perfect skin, filters and routines, often before they have reached puberty. Dermatological risks. There is broad medical consensus here. According to KidsHealthmost children and teens only need three things: a mild soap, a fragrance-free moisturizer, and sunscreen. For their part, acne-prone adolescents can use versions oil-free of moisturizer and photoprotector, but always with medical advice. In addition, they emphasize that anti-aging products (anti-wrinkle, blemishes, firmness…) are not necessary and can cause just the opposite: acne, irritation, burns or eczema. However, between different sources The ingredients that most worry about trends in preteens are: Retinoids and retinol, which can cause severe irritation, peeling, and photosensitivity. AHA/BHA acids such as glycolic or salicylic acids, associated with redness and chemical burns in children’s skin. Fragrances, one of the main triggers of allergic dermatitis in children Drying alcohols, which damage the skin barrier Chemical sunscreens, more irritating than mineral ones Comedogenic oils such as coconut, cocoa or lanolin, which clog pores and can aggravate cosmetic acne. There is a psychological impact. From Yale Medicine describe how some children They begin to feel a real compulsion to maintain long routines, to the point of affecting sleep, social time, or even school performance. The Wetstone and Grant-Kels clinical study points to growing anxietyconstant comparisons, and teenagers who feel “insufficient” if they don’t replicate the routines they see on TikTok. For their part, the case of girls between 10 and 12 years old who speak openly of fear to “get old”, a meaningless concept at his age. And some come to think that “without products they are not worth enough”, a symptom of what several experts They are already beginning to identify it as infantile cosmeticorexia. It is not the first controversial toy. But the first with real assets. For example, children’s makeup cases have existed for decades: barely pigmented shadows, almost transparent lipsticks, peelable nail polishes. They were toys. However, the current difference is twofold: on the one hand, the products imitate real cosmetics, with active ingredients (although in low concentration) and claims typical for adults: illuminates, blurs pores, anti-aging, repairs barrier. On the other hand, they are not sold only as a game, but as a routine, as a habit of care and self-care. That is, as something that is not used from time to time, but every day. As The Guardian detailsdermatologists already treat 10-year-old girls who use vitamin C, retinol and exfoliants “because they saw it on TikTok.” This is not a mask with friends: it is the idea that they should “take care of themselves” to avoid non-existent wrinkles. Is this really a toy? Christmas catalogs raise an uncomfortable question: at what point did a face mask become a normalized children’s gift? It is not … Read more

There are people trying to kill migraine with surgery. Neurologists are putting their hands on their heads

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Migraine is a relatively common neurological disorder among our population that can have dire consequences for those who suffer from it. as it can become disabling for several days in a row. This means that patients’ search for treatments has become desperate to avoid having to being locked in a dark room for several days without being able to go to worksince there is no cure. The problem is that the treatments that are proposed are sometimes not the best. Among these measures we have, for example, the famous piercing in the ear that promises control headaches or even botox therapy. But the reality is that now an operation is emerging that continues to raise doubts. What does it consist of? When suffering from disabling pain, the main thing for many patients is to eradicate it, and the reality is that they do not care how to do it. That is why trigger point decompression surgery, popularly known as “migraine surgery,” is beginning to become popular in the United States. And while in the United States it is gaining more and more ground, the Spanish Society of Neurology has raised the alarm due to its proliferation in private clinics by offering great results against this disease. His story. The story of this surgery does not begin in a neuroscience laboratory, as happens with other techniques that are put into clinical practice. To understand this technique we have to go back to the beginning of this century with the surgeon Bahman Guyuron who noticed something strange: many patients on whom he performed the lifting from the front, that is, the frontal stretch, they reported that after the operation their migraines had disappeared. From there, the theory of extracranial trigger points was developed. The hypothesis is that migraine is not just a brain event, but can be triggered by compression of peripheral nerves in the face and neck due to muscles or blood vessels. Surgery in this case basically consists of releasing these nerves through decompression or cauterization. of four specific areas of the skull: In the forehead region. At the temples. On the back of the head. In the nose area. The discussion. It is not logically conflict-free. On the one hand, there are American surgeons who They assure that between 70% and 95% of patients improve or eliminate their symptoms. However, when we turn to rigorous scientific literature, the numbers become considerably nuanced. The magazine Frontiers in Neurology, who analyzed the data of 627 patientsrevealed a very clear reality. Only 38% of patients undergoing this operation recorded a remission of headaches after 6-12 months. And this is a very controversial figure, since private clinics promise figures that are not what independent studies point out. The study explicitly warns that more elaborate and transparent tests are neededsince the risk of bias in patient selection is high. That is, those patients who are giving the best results are chosen, giving a success value that is not totally real as it does not follow the quality standards expected in a study. In Spain. Our country has gone up in arms against these types of surgeries that seem like a miracle, and the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN) He does not see the physiological basis behind it that explains its effect. The first thing they see is that the studies are too small (which leaves the results obvious), but they also point out that migraine is a disease of the central nervous system and that “decompressing the nerves” outside the skull lacks biological plausibility. Specifically, the conclusion reached in the SEN is the following: There is no scientific evidence that currently supports that surgery has a therapeutic role for migraine. Therefore, any migraine patient is not recommended to undergo surgery for this disease. Migraine has been studied in depth, and there is no solid evidence that these nerves are compressed in migraineurs. And they go further by pointing out that “migraine has no cure, but there are many scientifically based therapeutic developments and more are to come.” Placebo effect. To understand it, we must know that surgery is an intervention that is imposed on anyone, and the simple fact of going through an operating room generates in a patient the feeling or expectation that they will be cured. That is why this is about measuring in the control groups, which are those patients who enter the operating room, but who do not receive nerve decompression (although they think they do). In these cases it has been seen that patients point out that their migraines have improved, when this is not the case. All motivated also because measuring the intensity of pain in a patient is not easy at all, as it is tremendously subjective, since each person perceives it in a specific way. Your application. In Spain, the technique moves in limbo. It is not financed by social security nor endorsed by the Network of Health Technology Assessment Agencies (RedETS), but it is offered on the private market with prices ranging between $5,000 and $15,000. But the recommendation of specialists in this case is that “any patient with migraine is not recommended to undergo surgery for this disease.” The only exception they make is that you are going to participate in a clinical trial. Images | Adrian Swancar Akram Huseyn In Xataka | Splitting an ibuprofen in half to take 600 mg instead of 400 is a bad idea: it destroys a key piece of its engineering

TikTok wants us to disconnect from TikTok. Without leaving TikTok

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Today there is an asset that is almost as valuable as our money: our attention. Apps and services try capture our attention for as long as possiblesometimes using dark patterns to get it. If there is an app that is a tremendous attention eater that’s TikTok; has even been responsible for the appearance of the term ‘doomscrolling’. Now they want to give us tools to combat it. Wellness news on TikTok The app has just announced new measures focused on “relaxing, disconnecting and building healthier digital habits.” For this they have added a new section called ‘Time and well-being’ where we can see the time we have spent in the app and also do some extra exercises. Image: TikTok TikTok already allowed us to check the usage time and set daily limits, but now this section has been renewed with more functions to promote disconnection. The first is an affirmations journal, where we can put how we are feeling and share it if we wish. It also has a meditation section with guided breathing exercises and also a section with relaxing sounds. In addition, there are several badges that we can get after checking various settings and watching a video with tips for having healthier digital habits. Disconnect from TikTok, but without leaving TikTok TikTok’s proposal to prevent us from falling into an endless spiral of ‘doomscrolling’ is to give us tools to disconnect, of course also within its application. A seamless plan. Furthermore, they are tools with a high gamification component which in the end end up adding screen time and promote new habits to continue using the app, such as sharing your “daily affirmations” or getting the medals they give us after completing tasks. The functions come at a time when there is a strong debate about the impact of technology on adolescent mental health. There are several countries betting on a radical solution: Completely block social networks for minors under 16 years of age. AI companies are also facing public scrutiny following several controversial cases, such as teen’s suicide causing ChatGPT to launch parental controls. Prevention measures are coming, but the doubt of its true effectiveness It’s still in the air. Cover image | Cottonbro Studio, Pexels In Xataka | People Blaming ChatGPT for Causing Delusions and Suicides: What’s Really Happening with AI and Mental Health

characteristics, price, engine, charge, autonomy and technical sheet.

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“The Cayenne Electric marks the beginning of a new era for Porsche.” This is how it starts release that the German company has shared to detail the characteristics of its new SUV. And although it is a speech that sounds familiar to us from any presentation of any type of product, in this case it could not make more sense. On Halloween, Porsche presented its resultsand the figures were not good: losses of 967 million euros when, in 2024, they had had profits of 4,000 million. What has happened in these twelve months is that China has revolutionized the car scene with their electric. The Taycan has not been enoughwe had to react, and the answer is this Porsche Cayenne Electric. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than advertised? And it combines three elements that work: it is an SUV, it is electric and it is Porsche’s best-selling model. The new 100% electric Cayenne It has rained a lot since Porsche will launch the Cayenne in September 2002. It became the dream of many as it was one of the cars that James Bond could drive in the video game ‘all or nothing‘, and also the one preferred by the masses. The SUV has maintained its visual identity throughout the generations, and the electric one does not change too much a formula that has been proven to work. It is a little bigger: 55 millimetersto be exact. It measures 4,985 mm long, 1,980 mm wide and 1,674 mm high. The difference between the previous model and the electric one is greatest in the wheelbase, which is now 3,023 mm (13 millimeters longer than the previous one). And the trunk has a capacity of 90 liters for the front and between 781 and 1,588 liters in the main one, depending on how we configure the seats. If some sensations of the brand’s sportiness were already transmitted in the fuel models, in the new Cayenne Electric Porsche points directly to the Formula E. Before we get into that, it will arrive in two versions. On the one hand, the Cayenne Electric as access to the range: All-wheel drive. 408 HP (300 MW) in normal mode. 442 HP (325 MW) in Launch Control mode. Acceleration 0-100 in 4.8 seconds and maximum of 230 km/h. On the other hand, the Cayenne Electric Turbo: All-wheel drive. Up to 1,156 HP (850 MW) with Launch Control and 1,500 Nm of torque. In normal mode, 857 HP (630 MW) with ‘Push-to-Pass’ function that activates another 176 HP for 10 seconds. Acceleration from 0-100 in 2.5 seconds, from 0-200 in 7.4 seconds and maximum of 260 km/h. In addition to the power that each one delivers, there are important differences in both cooling and regeneration. The Turbo model, to withstand that power, has a direct oil cooling system for the rear axle motor. The goal is to ensure continuous high power. The ‘normal’ Electric model wants to be more efficient, and for that it has an energy regeneration system that returns charge to the battery with a power of up to 600 MW during braking. They claim that, in daily driving, around 97% of braking operations can be managed solely by electric motors. To get that one-pedal drive, wow. Both have adaptive air suspension as standard, but then there is the universe of extras. Both can be equipped with rear axle steering, something that turns the rear wheels 5º. Screens to power Inside, as it could not be otherwise, LEDs and screens reign. Even Mazda has given up on this and Porsche has ambient LEDs, a panoramic roof with variable light control and the aforementioned screens. On the front we have what they called Flow Display: a curved OLED panel integrated into the center console. It is complemented by a 14.25-inch fully digital instrument panel and a larger 14.9-inch instrument panel for the passenger. On the moon we have a head-up display that projects an effective 87-inch screen, showing information about what we have up to ten meters in front of the vehicle. Now, they have made an effort to comment that the most used controls, such as the climate control and the sound system volume controls, are physical. These screens are customizable using widgets, and we can also control some options using voice commands. They ensure that the software has a system of AI that “understands complex and interrelated queries, recognizes context and responds like a real interlocutor.” Arrives with ‘MagSafe’ Let’s go with the battery. This is a newly developed 113 kWh battery that allows a combined WLTP range of up to 642 km for the Cayenne Electric and up to 623 km for the Turbo model. For charging, it incorporates 800 volt technology with direct current charging capacity of up to 400 kW. According to the company, in these ideal conditions, it allows you to go from 10% to 80% in 16 minutes. In 10 minutes, you should have a range of 325 kilometers in the Cayenne and 315 km in the Cayenne Turbo. Now, the most peculiar thing is its inductive charge. It’s another extra, and one they focused on during the presentation at the IAA in Munich in early September. It is a platform on which we align the car so that it begins to charge with a power of up to 11 kW. You simply have to attach the plate to the ground and, when we park on it, the process begins. Price and launch of the Porsche Cayenne Electric Once the presentations are made, it’s time to look at the portfolio. The company has commented that orders are now accepted for the new model, which will arrive in the two aforementioned versions at the following price: Cayenne Electric: 108,296 euros. Cayenne Turbo Electric: 169,124 euros. And if you don’t want an electric one, Pôrsche assures that they will continue developing the Cayenne with hybrid and combustion propulsion systems “well into the next decade.” Of course, without additional details. … Read more

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Tomorrow, November 20, our Xataka NordVPN Awards 2025which you can follow from our website. In them we will reward the most important devices and technologies of this year and for the first time we will present the special Xataka Award to the best Spanish technology company. The winner is Freepik, the Malaga company that has gone from being a bank of images and graphic resources to competing directly with Adobe and Figma. Omar Pera, its CPO, will accompany us during the gala. The pivotal moment: when DALL-E 2 changed everything Founded in 2010 in Malaga as a simple search engine for free images, Freepik served millions of users with a simple business model: facilitating access to graphic resources. “We started the company because we were making web pages and it took us a long time to find the image we wanted,” its CEO, Joaquín Cuenca, explained to us in an interview at the beginning of the year. The launch of DALL-E 2 in 2022 It was the turning point. Cuenca’s first reaction was visceral: “This makes what we are doing obsolete.” But he quickly came to a more important conclusion: “I saw him as unstoppable.” There was no debate about whether generative AI would transform their industry, but rather how to respond. The company went from marketplace from static content to develop your own video generation, editing and production tools. And the impact has been brutal: “Almost 50% of new subscribers, their first action is to do something with AI. A year and three months ago it was 0%,” Cuenca told us in February. “And more than 50% of existing subscribers are already using AI on Freepik.” Today Freepik serves more than 150 million monthly users with a complete ecosystem of tools: Freepik, Flaticon, Slidesgo, Wepik and Magnific AI. They already exceed 800,000 paid subscriptions. Own technology to avoid lawsuits Freepik developed F Liteits generative model trained exclusively with 80 million of its own commercially licensed images. It is a strategic bet to avoid the lawsuits that companies like Midjourney and OpenAI are having to face. Solid legal ground as a competitive advantage. Magnificenta Murcia startup purchased in 2024, went viral for its ability to increase the resolution of images without distorting details. Mysticits star model, competes with Ideogram and Midjourney. Regarding the latter, Cuenca is clear: “We have a lot of respect for Midjourney,” but he considers that Freepik is superior in adherence to the prompt because “Midjourney takes a lot of artistic license.” They are also clear about their position regarding OpenAI. For Cuenca, DALL-E “was a diversion from OpenAI”: “If you have the possibility of getting the best language model in the world in your company, everything else is a distraction. With that potential, starting to make images makes no sense.” It is precisely that distraction from the giants that opened a window of opportunity. The stone in the shoe Freepik’s commitment is to build an all-in-one platform instead of forcing the use of different applications: generation with several models, video with Google I see 3 (they became the first in the world to integrate Veo), complete editing, audio, conversion to SVG… “AI is very well aligned with what we want to do, and in fact helps us expand the catalog of things that we can solve for the user,” explains Cuenca. They no longer compete as much with Getty or Shutterstock as with Adobe and company. Video is the next frontier. “The video is now where the image was in 2023,” Cuenca told us. It still requires many iterations to achieve the desired result, but the room for improvement is enormous. Democratization from Malaga, without complexes Freepik believes that AI democratizes the creation of visual content, allowing businesses of any size to produce more engaging material without the need for large budgets or specialized equipment. And he does it from Malaga, without complexes. Although it has an office in San Francisco, its center of gravity remains in Andalusia. “From Malaga to Madrid is nothing, it’s two hours or so,” explains Cuenca, who considers that the real problem of Spanish entrepreneurship is not location: “We lack people who have good ideas, that is the main brake.” Freepik competes globally from there. It is one of the great successes of Spanish technology, and without a doubt the greatest national reference in generative AI. In just two years, Freepik completely reinvented itself: from distributor to developer, from marketplace to ecosystem, freemium An essential subscription for hundreds of thousands of creative professionals. A transformation that makes it worthy of the first special Xataka Award for the best Spanish technology company. Featured image | Xataka

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