Month: December 2025

Ouigo already has permission to stand up to Renfe between Murcia and Alicante. And that only means one thing

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There will be two trains between Alicante and Murcia, stopping in Elche, and another additional train for this last link from Elche and Murcia. It is the approval that the CNMC has given to the Ouigo service that will rival Renfe in the east of the country. A service that will be provided on the high-speed line and that, if everything happens as before, will have an immediate effect on prices. The line. The line between Alicante and Murcia is currently operated by Renfe with two services, one high-speed and another Cercanías. Now it will be Ouigo that also provides service on that last line, the one that Renfe operates with Avant trains, those high-speed ones for medium distances. has confirmed it the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) in a statement in which it gives the go-ahead for Ouigo to offer two daily trains in each direction to cover Alicante-Murcia, with an intermediate stop in Elche. In addition, there will be an additional train in both directions each day to cover the Elche-Murcia route. Does not affect. According to the CNMC, the new service proposed by Ouigo does not affect public services. They point out that the conventional network is guaranteed by Renfe, with a service with many more stops and slower. High speed, they say, is also assured because, they point out, Ouigo services “have much fewer frequencies and are more expensive.” Right now, if we take a look at the price of trains Within a few months, we can find Avant or AVLO high-speed trains between Alicante and Murcia between 10 and 15 euros. The AVE trip costs about 25 euros. The current offer is also supported by 10 Avant or AVLO services and two more AVE services in each direction from Monday to Friday. Ouigo’s proposal. Until now, Renfe has been offering this service with an average duration of about 55 minutes. The Ouigo proposal, which is already active, allows you to take the same route for nine euros but saving travelers 10 minutes, covering the section between Alicante and Murcia in 45 minutes. With the very low prices that Renfe currently offers on the line, Ouigo does not have much room for maneuver but hopes to attract passengers who travel without large suitcases (these options can raise the price up to 26 euros, equivalent to the price of the AVE). What is clear is that it is tough competition for the 15 euro Avant services which are only more attractive if you cannot travel at another time. The proposal between Murcia and Alicante It’s clear. The train leaves this first city at 06:35 in the morning and offers a return to Murcia at 21:27. From Alicante to Murcia, the train leaves in the morning at 10:57 and offers a service to Alicante at 19:53. That is, the day will be more useful for those who travel from Murcia to Alicante and return on the same day, since there is only one train available between both cities. With transport doubts. The approval from the CNMC comes after Transport has tried to stop the process or, at least, delay it as much as possible. And the Ministry asked the organization for an economic report on the impact on Renfe’s public services. That is why the CNMC highlights in its statement that they do not observe an impact on it. What is certain is that Renfe now faces new complications in a corridor that is on the rise. They point out in The Economist that the corridor between Madrid and Alicante registered its historical passenger record in the last quarter analyzed, adding 1.29 million travelers between July and September. Now, travel between Madrid and Murcia, after passing through Alicante, has more offers than ever. a trend. Although in this case the room for maneuver is much less, it is expected that the average prices between both cities will decrease slightly. With Ouigo offering trips for nine euros between Murcia and Alicante and, above all, saving 10 minutes of travel in a stretch of less than an hour, there are not many reasons to go for more expensive options. It is a maxim that has followed Ouigo in all the corridors where he has put up a fight against Renfe. For very little, where they compete Ouigo always has the cheapest ticket price and has managed to reduce them drastically in the first months of competition. Although with time It is something that is softening and tending towards stabilitythe first step is always to lower prices. Photo | Eric Salard and Joana Hall In Xataka | Renfe is selling its AVLO for 7 euros in Andalusia: it is the new battlefield in the price war against Ouigo and Iryo

Neither music nor podcasts play in the application

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Update: Spotify has been pronounced to consider this fall resolved. Spotify has stopped working for a large part of its users this afternoon. The platform of streaming has confirmed that it is investigating the problem, although without giving details about the cause at the moment. The figures. Downdetector, the service that monitors platform falls, has registered more than 30,000 reports in a matter of minutes. It is one of the highest figures ever recorded for this type of incident. A look at… 27 SPOTIFY TRICKS – Control all your MUSIC like no one else! The common symptom. Users cannot upload music or podcasts. Those who already had content playing can continue listening to it, but when pausing or changing songs they lose access. The official communication. Spotify Status account on X has published a brief message: “We are aware of some issues and are reviewing them.” Spotify Cares account only redirects users to standard help articleswithout offering extra information. Featured image | @felirbe In Xataka | The best applications and programs to listen to YouTube music on your mobile or PC as if it were your own Spotify

They are entering their “peak”

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There is a deep-rooted stereotype among older people: the image of a grumpy old personrigid or disconnected from reality. But psychology has been accumulating evidence for decades that points in just the opposite direction. Aging is not only a biological process of wear and tear, but it is also a psychological refinement process. We are wrong. science itself points it out in different studies scientific studies done in recent years. Its conclusion is forceful in this sense: the age range from 60 to 70 years represents a “peak” of emotional well-being and social competence that younger generations, paradoxically, are losing. Maturation effect. Personality is not an immovable stone. According to the theory of the Big Fivewhich has the five great personality traits, the passage of time sculpts us for the better. Longitudinal studies where they followed the same group of people for a long time were able to see that from the age of 60 is where it occurs. a positive evolution in three different areas: Awareness: they become more responsible, organized and focused. Greater emotional stability: neuroticism It drops drastically from this moment on, and the emotional storms of youth give way to a calm that is not apathy, but regulation. Kindness increases as a tendency towards cooperation and altruism is also increased. Although logically there are always totally different cases. Because. Just like when the ripe fruit It starts to taste richer, the same thing seems to happen in people due to ‘natural ripening’. It’s not just that today’s adults are different, it’s that the human brain seems programmed to prioritize stability and social cohesion as we age. Boomer advantage. It’s not just that aging improves us ‘as standard’, it’s that current cohorts are aging ‘better’ than their predecessors. In this case we are talking about the comparison of people who They were born between 1946 and 1964 and those of the silent generation. There is a big difference depending on where you were born. Recent research suggests that those born between 1940 and 1950 are entering old age with an intrinsic capacity greater than that of previous generations. This includes not only physical vitality, but greater cognitive and psychological capacity. An exhaustive study on cohort differences in the Big Five has detected that, although maturation makes us calmer, boomers They maintain higher levels of extraversion and openness to experience than their parents had at the same age. That is to say: they are older, more sociable, more curious and with greater personal agency. Young people are losing. Maybe the most counterintuitive fact of recent years comes from Sapien Labs. In its reports on the mental state of the world, the Mental State of the Worldhave identified an alarming generation gap, but this time in favor of the elderly. While the mental health of young people aged 18 to 24 has deteriorated noticeably, those over 65 remain rock-solid in this regard. An important point in this case is the relational resiliencesince before the pandemic and even more so after, those over 70 years old showed ‘Social Self’ rates much higher than those of generation z. This way, they have a stronger self-image and rely less on external validation. Less dependency. Studies focused on people over 70 years of age They report feeling less external control over their lives than they did 20 years ago. They have internalized norms of autonomy and active aging that protect them psychologically. Recent cohorts over 70 report feeling less external control over their lives than those 20 years ago. They have internalized norms of autonomy and active aging that protect them psychologically. The peak of wisdom. Finally, there is the question of wisdom. Not in the mystical sense, but as a cognitive measure of performance. The ability to integrate facts with emotional values, what psychologists call “personal wisdom,” peaks in late old age. Studies with German samples have validated that this competence is an evolutionary advantage of age: the older brain is more efficient at managing complex social and emotional conflicts, something that no youthful “fluid intelligence” can easily replicate. This is an explanation of why our elders are great advisors on many issues. Images | micheile henderson In Xataka | Sleeping on your back to avoid “sleep wrinkles” sounds great. It serves exactly the opposite

an army to “clean up” the most dangerous and lethal area of ​​Ukraine

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For months now, Western intelligence services and military analysts they were warning about what something deep was changing in North Korea: thanks to Russian support, the Kim Jong-un regime was beginning to accelerate the modernization of your armywith advances in missiles, drones and even signs of technical support in programs as sensitive as that of nuclear powered submarines. Moscow appeared to be breaking strategic taboos to shore up an isolated ally, but a key question remained unanswered. Now, it is beginning to become clear what the real price to pay for this military leap is. Alliance sealed with blood. As we said, the reactivated Moscow-Pyongyang axis alliance out of mutual necessity The true price of one side has been revealed with brutal clarity: North Korea is paying back its support for Russia by putting its own soldiers in the most dangerous task of the Ukrainian war. Not as advisors, nor as a symbolic rearguard, but as extreme risk meat, sent to clear minefields in active combat zones, where the probability of being killed or maimed is structurally high. The confirmation has come from Kim Jong-un himself, in an unusual gesture of propaganda transparency, and marks a qualitative leap in the degree of North Korean involvement in the European conflict. Engineers in the hell of Kursk. The North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia belong to specialized combat engineer units, sent to the Kursk region to carry out demining work after fighting with Ukrainian forces. This is a technically complex mission and psychologically devastatingeven for well-equipped professional armies, and even more so for troops coming from one of the most closed and disciplined regimes on the planet. According to the official datathe operation lasted about 120 days and resulted in the death of at least nine soldiers, although Western and South Korean intelligence services they estimate that actual North Korean personnel casualties in the war could run into the hundreds. Before these engineers, up to 15,000 troops North Koreans would have fought alongside Russian forces in the same region to expel Ukrainian units. The tacit agreement. The logic that supports this deployment It is as simple as it is disturbing. Russia, in need of men, ammunition and regeneration capacity after years of war, offers North Korea that in exchange what else do you need: fuel, food, financial aid and, above all, access to advanced military technologies that could modernize its military and its missile and weapons programs. For a regime suffocated by international sanctions, selling highly disciplined military manpower is a strategic asset. It is not just ideological or diplomatic support: it is a direct transaction in which Pyongyang exchanges human lives for economic and military oxygen. Scenery of the sacrifice. Over the weekend it was learned that the engineers’ return was celebrated in Pyongyang with a carefully designed ceremony to transform loss into epic. Kim Jong-un embraced wounded soldiers, some in wheelchairs, consoled families of the dead and awarded the dead with the highest state decorations, promising “eternal luster” to their sacrifice. The broadcast images by the KCNA agency show the leader kneeling before portraits of the fallen, placing flowers and medals, and talking about “miracles” achieved in deadly zones converted into safe spaces. All of this is part of a deliberate effort for normalizing the sending of troops abroad and strengthening internal support for a decision that, in any other context, would be politically explosive. Russian landmines laid during Ukraine’s advance in the 2022 Southern Ukraine counteroffensive. It reads “from a pure heart” and “with love from Russia” Propaganda and obedience. The official story goes beyond the tribute. North Korean state media they have spread images of soldiers advancing without hesitation through minefields or under intense fire, as well as scenes of wounded combatants committing suicide with grenades to avoid capture. It’s not just war propaganda: it’s an internal message of absolute disciplinewhere individual life is completely subordinated to the State and the leader. In this framework, the soldier is not an armed citizen, but rather an expendable strategic resource, trained to accept missions that other armies would consider almost suicidal. From ideological allies to operational partners. North Korean involvement is not limited to sending men. Pyongyang has supplied Moscow large quantities of projectiles of artillery, missiles and various weapons, de facto reactivating a mutual defense treaty inherited from the Cold War. However, the deployment of troops on the ground marks a new frontier: North Korea is no longer just a distant supplier, but an operational actor within the war. The choice of demining it is not coincidental: It is an essential, dangerous and inconspicuous function, perfect for an ally that can take losses without being accountable to public opinion. Disturbing precedent. That a State sells its soldiers to clear mines in a foreign war is not only a dark anecdote from the Ukrainian conflict, but a disturbing precedent. It demonstrates the extent to which war is becoming internationalized in layers, incorporating actors who exchange support not out of long-term strategic affinity, but out of sheer regime survival. In this scheme, North Korea has found an extreme way to break its isolation, while Russia obtains something increasingly scarce: men willing (or forced) to walk where no one else wants to. The price of this alliance is no longer measured in treaties or speeches, but in steps taken. on mined ground. Image | GoodFon, Stefan KrasowskiMinistry of Defense of Ukraine In Xataka | “It’s a level 10 Godzilla, but they only see a tiger”: South Korea’s surprising response to North Korea’s rearmament In Xataka | North Korea has been sending weapons to Russia for months. In return, Russia is giving him what he craves most: a functional army.

China dominates technological industries invented by the West

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iRobot, pioneer of domestic robotics and creator of the Roomba, has gone bankrupt and ends up in the hands of Piceaa Chinese manufacturer. It is not an isolated case but rather the symbol of a devastating trend in which Western companies develop technologies for decades and China ends up appropriating entire industries. iRobot was founded in 1990 by three MIT researchers. It launched the first Roomba in 2002 and sold 50 million units. For two decades it dominated the robot vacuum cleaner market. In 2021 it was worth $3.5 billion. Today it is worth 140 million25 times less. Picea cancels its 264 million debt and keeps everything. Why is it important. It’s not just about vacuum cleaners. Chinese manufacturers – Roborock, Ecovacs, Dreame, Xiaomi – already control almost 80% of the global robot vacuum cleaner market. With Picea purchasing iRobot, that figure is close to 95%. China not only manufactures cheaper: it now owns Western innovation that it previously only copied. The pattern repeats: Volvo has been Chinese since 2010. Motorola too. Segway, the scooter that was going to revolutionize urban mobility, ended up in the hands of Ninebot. Lenovo bought IBM PC. Haier took over GE Appliances. Geely owns Lotus. Western brands survive, but only as shells with Asian engineering inside. Between the lines. Europe blocked Amazon’s purchase of iRobot in 2024 for fear that it would dominate the smart home. The result: the company was not independent, but ended up owned by its own Chinese manufacturer and creditor. European “protection of competition” resulted in iRobot falling into the hands of its foreign rivals. iRobot outsourced its production to Vietnam to avoid Chinese tariffs, but Trump’s 46% tariffs on Vietnam cost it an extra $23 million in 2025. Meanwhile, Picea was simultaneously its manufacturer, its major creditor, and its indirect competitor. It didn’t even take a hostile takeover: just financial patience. He waited for iRobot will drown in debt and collected the remains. The invisible cost of innovation. iRobot invested decades in R&D: military robotics, space robotics, domestic autonomous navigation… That research is expensive, slow and risky. Chinese manufacturers have not had to pay that cost. They just had to wait for the technology to mature, copy what worked, and improve execution. The asymmetry is total. The West imposes antitrust restrictions on itself that slow domestic consolidations while Chinese companies operate with extensive state support, protected access to a domestic market of 1.4 billion consumers and regulatory scrutiny that cannot even be compared. Europe has recently blocked other similar operations, such as that of Adobe and Figma either that of Broadcom and Qualcomm. Yes, but. It is not about approving any acquisition without scrutiny, but about recognizing that blocking the purchase of Amazon has led to an objectively worse result: pioneering American technology that ends up in Chinese property. If you are truly concerned about Chinese companies dominating strategic sectors, this was a blunder with predictable consequences. Western governments constantly talk about technological sovereignty and their willingness not to depend on China. But concrete actions are producing the opposite effect. Ultimately, the only thing the West loses is not its industry, it is ownership of its technological innovation. In Xataka | The largest food chain in the world is Chinese, surpasses McDonald’s and is unknown in Europe: Mixue Featured image | Onur Binay

The last 15 years confirm that the Mediterranean is becoming radicalized

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This weekend the map of the southeast of the peninsula has turned red again. The maximum alerts issued by the AEMET in the Valencian Community and in Almería it has returned us to a reality that seems to repeat itself with a disturbing cadence. And this is precisely the question we can ask ourselves in this case: are these events of a more usual way? In a short way. What the data tells us From the last 15 years of analysis, it is yes. The long answer is more complex and involves a Mediterranean that works like gasoline increasingly volatile for these phenomena. What the data says. If we look back, the perception that ‘it used to rain, but not like this’ has very important scientific support. The analyzes carried out by the AEMET on extreme rainfall between 1965 and 2020 show a fairly clear pattern: storms with torrential rains are not only more frequent, but are more extensive and violent in the 21st century. The turning point seems to be in the last decade. The 2010-2020 period concentrates an anomalous number of extreme events, with the storm glory in 2020, setting previous records that the DANA of 2024 has pulverized. Furthermore, recent publications in EarthArXiv and compilations of Copernicus confirm this trend: the Spanish western Mediterranean is suffering an intensification of convective episodes. It is not a cycle. It is something that may come to mind, thinking that this is a streak that may be cyclical and that in the future the frequency may be decreasing. But the reconstructions dendrochronological based on tree rings they indicate that the intensity of the Levant events is outside the natural variability observed in previous centuries. The engine of disaster. To understand why we have more violent storms now, we have to go back to basic thermodynamics, since the Mediterranean is registering unprecedented surface temperatures. This made, for example, the Valencia DANA of 2024 to be between 12 and 15% more intense than this anthropogenic climate change. The equation used by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is relentless: For every degree the atmosphere warms, it can retain 7% more humidity. Something that directly affects meteorological events. The example. When a DANA that It’s literally a layer of cold air. At altitude it encounters an unusually warm Mediterranean, the result is a massive injection of water vapor. This is what Millán, historic director of CEAM, had been warning for years: we have turned our maritime basin into a pressure cooker. In this way, warming not only provides more water to precipitate, but also intensifies the force with which it does so and therefore greater destruction. The future. What is worrying is not only what has happened, but what the models say is going to happen. The projections cited by experts indicate an increase in up to 61% in extreme rains in the Mediterranean region under high emissions scenarios. Reports from the University of Zaragoza and AEMET indicate that, although the total number of rainy days could decrease in the future, the days that it rains will do so torrentially. Specifically, for the coasts of Valencia and Alicante, they are projected increases greater than 20% in intensity of extreme precipitation. This forces us to prepare containment plans that have us prepared for possible natural disasters. Images | Jason Sung In Xataka | Something strange has happened in the stratospheric polar vortex. And it is a hint of the winter that awaits Spain

This is the new offer that ends in a few hours

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He Apple Watch SE It was born in 2020 with the premise of being an Apple watch with the most basic functions and a much more reasonable price. But the latest generation has taken a step forward by incorporating many functions until now available in more expensive watches. He Apple Watch SE 3 It is a good gateway to the brand, especially now that you can buy it at MediaMarkt for 299 eurosthe store’s lowest price to date on its LTE configuration. Apple Watch SE 3 (GPS+LTE, 44mm M/L) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A cheaper Apple Watch He Apple Watch SE 3 It is the watch from the SE range that the brand launched this year (in fact, a few months ago). It has a most elegant design and incorporates some functions that until now we only saw in models of the Series range. In this sense, the Apple Watch SE 3 comes with always on screenits battery supports fast charging, incorporates Apple’s S10 chip with advanced gestures, comes—in this case—with WiFi and LTE connectivity and includes a good assortment of health sensors, temperature measurement or health notifications. sleep apnea. Among other things, it should be noted that the Apple Watch SE 3 mounts a Retina LTPO OLED display which offers a brightness of up to 1,000 nits, has 64 GB of internal storage, offers water resistance (IP6X) and its battery offers a range of up to 18 hours of autonomy. According to Apple itself, its fast charging offers an 80% charge in 45 minutes. You may also be interested Spigen NeoFlex Screen Protector compatible with Apple Watch SE 3/2/1 (40mm), Apple Watch 9/8/7 (41mm), 6/5/4 (40mm), 3 Pack, TPU Film, Wet Installation, Full Coverage The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Apple AirPods 4 Active Noise Cancellation, Wireless Headphones, Bluetooth, Adaptive Audio, Ambient Sound Mode, Custom Spatial Audio, USB-C Charging Case and Wireless Charging 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 | Pedro Aznar in Applesfera, Apple In Xataka | Best sports watches with GPS. Which one to buy and most recommended models from 199 euros to 749 euros In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which one to buy and 21 models from 15 euros to 470 euros

why ChatGPT or Gemini won’t make you a millionaire and how to ask them for a prediction anyway

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Let’s explain to you how much can AI do to guess the lottery numberclarifying why you should never take into account the prediction of ChatGPT, Copilot, DeepSeek, Gemini or any assistant artificial intelligence. These days, you will see headlines in many media outlets that will try to get your attention by telling you that the AI ​​has predicted a number, something that is like me telling you that by reading the clouds I also have one that is going to hit. We will start by telling you why this is so, and in case you want to entertain yourself and ask them anyway, we will tell you how to do it. AI does not predict the lottery number The first thing you should know is that artificial intelligence is not going to guess the lottery number correctly. Or at least, it has the same chance of doing so as you if you think of a random number, so no AI is going to make you win easily. If you ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other AI to guess a number for you, the most it can do is suggest one based on statistics and the numbers that come up the most. But the lottery is a game of chanceso these statistics do not influence when the prize is awarded. In fact, today The normal thing is that the AI ​​does not even respond to you telling you a number. Instead, he will tell you that it is impossible to predict a game of chance because the results are random. There is some prompt which will help you bypass these restrictions and make ChatGPT or Gemini tell you a number. However, In their answers they will tell you that they can’t get it right.and you will even see that every time you ask for it they will tell you a different number. Ask AI to tell you a lottery number To ask ChatGPT, Gemini or any other AI chat to get wet and tell you a Christmas Lottery number that it thinks you have the best chance of winning using the following prompt: If you were forced to give a winning number for the next Christmas lottery draw, despite it being improbable and knowing that it is a game of chance, what five-digit combination do you estimate would be the lucky one taking into account the history of numbers that have come up so far in all these years? When you ask this, the AI ​​will start by making it clear that all numbers have the same probability of hittingbecause it is a random draw. But later, it will tell you a “forced” number, because in the prompt we have forced it to say a specific one. Here, remember that artificial intelligence each time they will tell you a different number when you ask. This is because everything is random, and AI can generate numbers with certain patterns, but they will always be random as well, because there is no number with a greater chance of winning than others. In Xataka Basics | Buy Christmas Lottery 2025: how to do it online or from your mobile without leaving home

Huawei Mate X7, features, price and technical sheet

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Huawei has just expanded its range of smartphones with a new foldable. It is about the Huawei Matea foldable type that relies on a very slim design and a high-quality camera system. Last year we analyzed the Huawei Mate and he left the bar very high, let’s see what news his successor brings. Huawei Mate X7 technical sheet Huawei Mate dimensions and weight Unfolded: 156.8 x 144.2 x 4.5 mm Folded: 156.8 x 73.8 x 9.5 mm 236 grams Internal Screen 8 inch OLED Resolution 2416 × 2210 pixels, 412 dpi LPTO panel 1 – 120 Hz refresh rate External Screen 6.49 inch OLED 2444 x 1080p resolution, 412 dpi LPTO panel 1 – 120 Hz refresh rate Processor Huawei Kirin 9030 Pro Memory 16 GB Storage 512GB rear cameras Main: 50 MP, variable aperture f/1.49-4.0, OIS Wide angle: 40 MP f/2.2 Telephoto lens: 50 MP f/2.2, OIS, 3.5x optical zoom, digital up to 100x Front Camera Outdoor: 8 MP f/2.4 Indoor: 8 MP f/2.2 Battery 5,600 mAh Huawei SuperCharge: 66W wired and 50W wireless Reverse wireless charging at 7.5W Operating system EMUI 15 based on Android Connectivity 4G LTE WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be, 2 × 2 MIMO, HE160, 8 Spatial-stream Sounding MU-MIMO Bluetooth 6.0 GPS NFC USB-C (USB 3.1 Gen 1) Others IP58/59 Price 2,099 euros An ultra-slim design with traditional touches The Huawei Mate It comes in two colors, red combines with a gold metal frame and black opts for a much more discreet silver metal. It stands out above all for its thinness of just 4.5 millimeters when deployed and 9.5 millimeters when folded. The camera module has a peculiar shape with straight and round sides, and a fairly wide frame that makes it stand out even more. For the camera, Huawei brings us a triple system with a 50 megapixel main sensor and variable aperture ranging from f/1.49 to f/4.0. It is accompanied by a 40-megapixel ultra-wide angle and a 50-megapixel telephoto with 3.5x optical zoom. For the front cameras (because yes, in a foldable we have two), we have 8 megapixel sensors. Regarding the screens, on the outside we have a 6.49-inch OLED panel and on the inside a 8-inch flexible OLED. The two screens have a density of 412 dpi so they are equal in terms of sharpness and also offer a refresh rate of up to 120Hz. Power and autonomy The chip in charge of giving life to the Huawei Mate X7 is the Kirin 9030 Proannounced just a few days ago. It is a chip with nine cores and 14 threads, with a Maleoon 935 GPU. It is accompanied by 16GB of RAM and comes in a single version with 512GB capacity. Regarding the battery, Huawei has managed to integrate two batteries totaling 5,600 mAh within its new foldable. It is also compatible with Huawei SuperCharge fast charging that allows 66W wired and 50W wireless charging. Versions and prices of the Huawei Mate X7 The Huawei Mate X7 will arrive in two colors (red or black) and a 16 GB RAM version with 512 GB storage. It will begin to be sold in Spain from January 28, 2026 at a price of 2,099 euros100 euros more expensive than the previous model. Images | Huawei In Xataka | Huawei lost to Google, Qualcomm and TSMC. What he didn’t lose was something more important: his reputation.

from 30 to 60 euros per month to travel throughout the country

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Almost like Groundhog Day, the announcement of a public transport pass to move around the country hits the headlines. He does so because Pedro Sánchez, in his press conference this morning, announced that in a month this single ticket for all of Spain will be active, which was already advanced in January of this same year and about which there had been no further news. All over Spain. It will be approved in the last Council of Ministers of this year, as Pedro Sánchez has pointed outPresident of the Government, at a press conference this morning. The price will be 60 euros per month but will be reduced to 30 euros for those under 26 years of age. In his presentation, Sánchez confirmed that this pass will be available to travel on Cercanías and Media Distancia trains and on public buses. That is, high speed is out. Some doubts. The Government has indicated that it will be available in “the second half of January” and that it will be used, as we said, for the aforementioned trains and buses. However, in the appearance, Sánchez indicated that “he calls on the Autonomous Communities to progressively join all regional and local public service networks.” What does it mean? Although the Government has to give more details, everything indicates that the holders of these passes will only be able to travel on the Renfe trains that provide public services (including here Cercanías and Media Distancia) and the buses that also provide these public services defined by the State. Therefore, it is not explicitly mentioned but everything indicates that municipal buses or metro or tram services, dependent on the cities or, in any case, on the Autonomous Communities, are excluded from this subscription. The same happens with the bus services provided by the latter. Aids. In his statement, Pedro Sánchez assured that aid for public transport will be maintained. This aid has been active almost all year. They were announced in the last days of 2024 specifying that would cost 1.6 billion euros. A few days after their application, they fell because the Congress of Deputies did not approve an Omnibus Decree which included aid. Weeks later it was approved again after a new negotiation. The point is that the aid was only maintained where the Autonomous Communities and municipalities confirmed that they co-financed the user aid. And the State only maintained the discount on the price of season tickets at 50% if the municipal or regional entity contributed 20% of that reduction. The question is whether these aids will now be part of the negotiation so that the passenger continues to access the discounts. It remains to be seen whether the Government will use it as a pressure measure to get regional or municipal public transport to join the single ticket for all of Spain if they want to continue receiving aid to lower the ticket price for their travelers. Background. Although it has been announced and a specific date has been set for its arrival, it is not the first time that the Government mentions the entry into force of this ticket. In January of this yearÓscar Puente, Minister of Transport, already indicated that the intention in 2025 was to define this new transport pass and have it prepared for its activation in 2026. The measure is no exception in Europe, which has seen how this type of proposals gained strength with the Covid-19 crises and the economic damage caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In Germany this ticket has become available for 9 euros and after dying of success It has ended up settling at 58 euros. Austria has a very similar subscription although in this case there are no restrictions on the chosen means of transport. Its price is 79 euros per month and a subscription of 110 euros/month allows you to travel with up to three children. The main doubts that have been raised with this type of transport passes were collected Financial Times. And it is not entirely clear that increased travel will take drivers off the road. They point out in the economic newspaper that the increase in journeys was due to greater mobility of those who already used the train but that after the first call effect, drivers stayed in their cars. Photo | European Union and Juan Enrique Giraldi In Xataka | The most pacifist city in Germany lived off its legendary train factory. Now they will make it from a gigantic tank factory

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