Month: February 2026

Everyone wants to take away ASML’s throne. Today ASML has decided that the throne is higher

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A team of researchers from ASML They claim to have discovered a way to increase the power of the light source used in their chip production machines. According to their conclusions, this technology would allow chip production to increase by 50% in 2030. Good news for ASML, very bad for its rivals in China and the US. 1,000 watts. Michael Purvis, the ASML engineer who led the research, explained in Reuters that “It’s not a parlor trick or anything like that. We demonstrated for a very short time that it can work. It’s a system that can produce 1000 watts with the same requirements that you might see on a customer.” An almost miraculous process. In its UVE machines ASML needs to create an extremely energetic ultraviolet light. They use a wavelength of only 13.5 nanometers, but to achieve this light the process is exquisitely complex: Microdroplets of molten tin the size of a fraction of a human hair are launched through a vacuum chamber These drops fall one after the other, more than 100,000 times per second A giant carbon dioxide laser shoots at each droplet The impact turns the tin into a very hot gas (plasma) that even exceeds the temperature of the sun. Plasma emits EUV radiation Ultra-precision mirrors manufactured by Zeiss collect that light and direct it toward the chip And it is with that light that the circuits are “drawn” on the silicon wafer with atomic precision Tech drops. What they achieve with the new system is to double the frequency of the tin drops, going to 100,000 per second, which allows more light to be generated. They also use two previous laser pulses instead of one: the first shapes the drop and prepares it. The second converts it into plasma more efficiently. More chips than ever. Currently, the machines UVE photolithography (Extreme UltraViolet) from ASML work with a power of 600 watts. This achievement would allow a 50% increase in the yield or percentage of functional chips obtained from a wafer. It is crucial to turning ASML’s chip production systems into true precision machines. wafers to me. Teun van Gogh, responsible for ASML’s NXE line of EUV machines, indicated in Reuters that the company’s intention is to make it possible for them to use this technology in a much more affordable way. If everything goes as expected, machines that take advantage of this technology will be able to process 330 silicon wafers every hour, instead of the current 220 wafers. The US tries to compete. In the United States, at least two startups, Substrate and xLight, have managed to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to develop machines that compete with those of ASML. Substrate is working in an x-ray based projectwhile xLight —led by Pat Gelsinger and with investment from the US Government— wants to use particle accelerators. And China, of course, too. China takes years trying to create machines like ASML, but so far it doesn’t seem to be succeeding. There is now talk that China has its “Manhattan Project” in this area and it seems to be closer to get your own machine with UVE technology. ASML was already leading. Now it does it even more. In both cases, the reality is clear: today ASML still has no competition. It is the master of the world in this segment, and if you want to manufacture the most advanced chips on the market, you need its machines. This new advance promises to further open the gap with its competitors, who do not have machines that can compete with ASML’s current ones… and who will have even more difficulty having those that can compete with this new advance. The future. Purvis added that this new technique could be improved in the future: “we see a reasonably clear path to 1,500 watts, and there is no fundamental reason why we cannot reach 2,000 watts.” If true, ASML could hold the key to continuing to lead this market for even longer… if rivals fail to turn the tables. And it seems complicated that they do it. Image | ASML In Xataka | Global tension cannot withstand ASML. He is going to build a huge campus equivalent to 50 football fields

The US tried to burden Huawei with vetoes. Huawei’s response: thank you very much for everything

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According to the RAE, the resilience It is the ability of a material, mechanism or system to recover its initial state when the disturbance to which it had been subjected has ceased. According to the tech industry, resilience is… Huawei. After nearly half a decade of frontal attack by the US administrationthe Chinese company has just achieved its second best result on record to date. 127 billion dollars. Huawei Technologies record more than 880 billion yuan ($127 billion) by 2025, according to company executives. This is the second highest figure recorded for the company, after the historical figure it achieved of 891 billion yuan (129 billion dollars). which he obtained in 2020. China’s role. After the fight launched by the United States government, China’s national plan with Huawei has been clear: make it the main actor in the country. During the last year, the company managed to take first place in mobile phone sales, surpassing Apple according to IDC data. The Harmony Tsunami. The United States banned Huawei from the Android ecosystem. The answer was not to improvise an alternative, but to do something much more ambitious: build your own with HarmonyOS. That has been the key to not being buried. Huawei didn’t just develop a replacement for Android; has managed to develop a complete and integrated ecosystem. A system that connects mobile phones, smart watches, tablets and even electric cars under the same architecture and services. HarmonyOS has permeated, according to Huawei itself, in more than 100 million smartphones (sales estimates five years ago gave Huawei barely 10 million after its crisis), and this is just the beginning. Ambition. Huawei has doubled its artificial intelligence infrastructure in recent years, betting on its internally designed Ascend chips and becoming a key player to train some of the great AI models. Together with its partner SMIC, and without access to the EUV machinery of the Dutch ASML, Huawei has managed raise the attention of companies like Intelwhose executives warned a few days ago that the blockade of Huawei was having exactly the opposite effect to that desired. Summing up. There are several pillars that support Huawei’s rise: Strong support from the Chinese Government A clear strategy to achieve technological self-sufficiency Massive and sustained investment in R&D, even in critical moments of the veto Building an enabling ecosystem that unites hardware, software and services. An ecosystem, also, open to other manufacturers Yes, but. Huawei continues to face the challenge of having practically disappeared in the smartphone and tablet market in Europe, as well as convincing in China that its high-end phones are a better alternative to the iPhone (Huawei is gaining in sales, but in high-end the iPhone continues to reign even in China). Despite this, the paradigm change is clear: Huawei is obtaining the same income as in 2020 despite having lost muscle outside its native country. It is the best proof that trying to isolate it from the Western world may not have been the best idea. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Catalonia wanted to create the mother of networks for its public headquarters with Huawei equipment. He thought better of it

This is the plan to keep our energy cheaper

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Fifty megawatts. That is all the power in batteries that Spain managed to connect to its electrical network in the last three full years from 2023 to 2025. However, in an unprecedented twist of the script, only in the 31 days of January 2026 did the sector has plugged in more than 57 megawatts. It’s not an anecdote, it’s the starting signal. After years of administrative paralysis and debates about how to manage the flood of green energy, the energy storage sector in Spain has begun to wake up. With the aim of reaching 22.5 GW of storage capacity in 2030 marked by the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC), the country faces what is probably the largest structural transformation of its electrical system in decades. Nature’s warning. The Spanish electrical system has just gone through a monumental stress test. As we have been documenting in Xataka during the last weeksthe concatenation of Atlantic storms and historic wind production pushed water reserves to record levels and sank the wholesale price for dozens of hours, even into negative territory. The oversupply was such that nuclear plants like Trillo They stopped operating when they were not married in the market. Beyond the meteorological anecdote, the episode exposed a structural failure: Spain has the capacity to generate enormous quantities of clean and cheap electricity, but it lacks enough “electronic reservoirs” to move that energy over time. The result is renewable waste, zero prices and a system forced to absorb surpluses at any cost. The transition no longer depends only on installing more green megawatts. It depends on knowing how to manage them. The numbers reveal the magnitude of the moment. At the end of January, Spain had less than 100 MW of operational batteries, but more than 11,600 MW with access permission granted and almost 14,000 MW in processing, according to the latest APPA Renovables report. More than 25,000 MW on the exit ramp. The technology and investors are ready. The only obstacle left to overcome is a regulatory framework that seems stuck in the past. The clash against the 20th century. The barrier is not technical, but bureaucratic. José Carlos Díaz Lacaci, CEO of SotySolar, explains it clearly in statements to Xataka: “The problem is not technical/technological, it is that a regulation from the 20th century continues to be applied that understands the battery as a final consumer, when in reality it is an asset of system flexibility.” Currently, the regulations treat the charging of a giant battery as if it were the consumption of a factory. “Or what is the same: we are applying rules of a one-way highway when what is needed is bidirectionality on that road and regulation by traffic lights,” illustrates the SotySolar spokesperson. The frustration in the sector is palpable. A battery does not “consume” electricity in the classic sense: it moves it over time to return it when the system needs it. However, you are required to have firm demand access as if you were an end user. As long as there is no specific regulatory figure for storage – with its own framework of tolls, access and remuneration – the deployment will continue to advance, but without the industrial scale required by the PNIEC. The paradox is that the market already behaves as if that figure existed. Operational data shows that the batteries charge during hours of solar surplus and discharge during peak demand naturally. “The regulator knows perfectly well what the graphs say,” says Díaz Lacaci. “It is not a question of whether it works, but of giving it legal certainty.” Two ways to a big stack. To absorb this renewable avalanche, Spain has to activate its two large storage lungs. On the one hand, large-scale batteries (BESS) offer a response in milliseconds and allow the grid to be stabilized with a precision that no other technology matches. And the queue of projects is historic. According to APPA dataIn addition to the more than 25,000 MW in permits and processing, there are 92,620 MW of demand access requests in the transmission network, much of them linked to storage facilities. It is an unmistakable sign of investment appetite. The international context reinforces the thesis. Spain It is the second country in the world in battery storage projects for the electrical grid, only behind the United States, with 16,000 MW planned until 2030 and an estimated volume of 2,000 million euros in development. However, the current business model remains fragile. Without a capacity market that rewards the constant availability of these assets – and not just energy sold punctually – the viability of large-scale financing is complicated, leaving many of these projects waiting for a clear framework. The muscle of hydraulic pumping. On the other hand, the other lung is hydraulic pumping. Reversible reservoirs act as the country’s heavy battery, Spain has around 6 GW of installed capacity and the PNIEC plans to reach around 10 GW of seasonal storage in 2030. In times of overproduction and plunging prices, these plants use cheap electricity to lift water to a higher reservoir and store it as potential energy. In January 2026 alone, pumping consumption exceeded 771,400 MWh in the national system, according to data from Red Eléctrica. However, its expansion is not guaranteed either. As Antonio Hernández, partner at EY, explains, in statements collected by Expansionachieving the objectives will require approving capacity markets adapted to pumping, reducing the tax burden and establishing hydraulic concessions with sufficient horizons to recover the investment. The risk of capital flight. Time plays against us. Today, the business model for batteries in Spain is complex. They live on “highly specialized niches” in adjustment services, a scheme that is “profitable as artisanal projects”, but which is “unsustainable for the industrialization of storage”, warns the CEO of SotySolar. This regulatory limbo has a real cost. “Regulatory uncertainty always penalizes, and capital, indeed, is very sensitive to that factor,” warns Díaz Lacaci. The industry is aware that international funds are already freezing projects … Read more

Movistar is already giving away its Pixel 10a. In addition, you have movies and great games like Real Madrid-Benfica for 9.99 euros per month

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Free is always good. Most companies have devices that we can get at a good price or without paying anything, although most of the time they are mobile phones that have been available for a few months. We say in the majority and not always because Movistar is there, which puts the new Google Pixel 10a and allows us to get it for 0 euros per month. And, also, movies and football like tomorrow’s great game for 9.99 euros per month. You have the Google Pixel 10a, iPads and more in the Movistar catalog If we take a look at the Movistar page, we can see that it has a fairly large catalog of devices. All we have to do is go to the filters (they are just on the left) and, within the price section, select only those that cost 0 euros. There we can find everything: from various TVs to Dyson vacuum cleaners, including, of course, a lot of mobile phones. We are going to focus on this Google Pixel 10a, which was announced just a few days ago. If we take a look at your file on the Movistar websitewe can see how it will cost us 0 euros per month with both the ‘Premium Pack’ and the ‘Advanced Pack’, whether we are already customers or if it is a new registration. The mobile will be our 24 months, which can be extended for another 24 months. In all that time (4 years) we will not pay anything for the mobile and, when the term ends, we can keep the device by paying 1 euro. This phone has what it takes to be one of the best mid-range phones of 2026. This version, with 256 GB of capacity, will offer you a pure Android experience with seven years of guaranteed updates and a lot of AI from Gemini. In addition, it is compact, so it is perfect for you if you don’t like carrying a large cell phone with you. You have movies, series and football for less than 10 euros per month Beyond cell phones and other devices, we cannot lose sight of Movistar Plus+. You can hire it without having to have anything with Movistar and, furthermore, it does not have any type of permanence: you can try it for just one month and unsubscribe at any time. In fact, it’s a good time to give it a try now that tomorrow we will be able to see the great game Real Madrid-Benfica for alone 9.99 euros per month (although we can get it for only 39 euros per year if we have Cultural Bonus). Monthly subscription to Movistar Plus+ The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Of course, the platform doesn’t only have football. In fact, their catalog has a lot of gems like ‘The Tigers‘, ‘Sirat‘ or others that will arrive soon, like ‘Sundays‘ (premieres next February 27). All rounded off by series like ‘Poquita Fe’ or ‘El Centro’, making it a very complete platform that, remember, you can share with a friend or family member without problem. You may also be interested Samsung TV 65 Inch Neo QLED QN80F 4K Mini LED Smart TV with Vision AI, Quantum Matrix Technology Core, Motion Xcelerator 144Hz and Gaming Hub The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Pixel 10 – Free Android Smartphone with Gemini, Advanced Triple Rear Camera, 24+ Hour Battery and 6.3″ Current Screen – Indigo, 128GB 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 | Movistar In Xataka | Movistar Plus+ for non-Movistar customers: what it is, how much it costs, channels, additional services and how to contract it In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price: which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs

The debate format that has been radicalizing opinions in the US for years. arrives in Spain. Xokas is its protagonist

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The Galician streamer The Xokas sat opposite several ideological rivals in a debate produced and presented by Ibai Llanos on YouTube. The format, which draws directly from the Anglo-Saxon model popularized by Charlie Kirk and ‘Turning Point USA’, leaves open a few questions about the politicization of streaming entertainment and the risks of a genre that turns ideas into spectacle. The Xoqué? If you have been under a virtual rock in recent months and have no idea who El Xkoxas is, here are some facts: Gonzalo Pérez grew up like streamer during the pandemic years, the same period in which platforms like Twitch They multiplied their user base in Europe. Millions of confined people found in these new communicators a company that traditional television did not offer them, and creators like El Xokas capitalized on it. Its followers are mostly young men, between 16 and 30 years old, a very important fact to understand the drift towards incendiary political opinions that its content is having lately. It becomes politicized. The transition of gaming to the political commentary It was not a leap, but a gradual change. Xokas incorporated opinions on current affairs, criticism of what he called “single thinking” and positions on cultural debates (feminism, identity, political correctness) that generated more opinions for and against than any video game game. The search for controversy is a strategy that YouTube algorithm rewards to a greater extent than neutral content. Its truthfulness or independence are aspects completely unrelated to success. Consequence of this drift: He doesn’t invent anything. The “political streamer” is a figure who has come a long way outside of Spain. Figures like Tim Pool either Steven Crowder In the United States they created a template that El Xokas is now repeating: they build a base audience on entertainment topics and when they grow, they pivot towards political commentary, without losing followers along the way, and gaining many new ones. Until recently, our ecosystem of creators declared itself apolitical, with successful streamers like Ibai or El Rubius absolutely oblivious to this type of controversy (and although it is often easy to detect the colors, never declared, of creators like AuronPlay, TheGrefg or Illojuan). The model that Kirk invented. And so we come to the debate of ‘Xokas vs. 8 haters’: eight people critical of the streamer’s career debate with him one by one, with Ibai as host and referee. They talked about Xokas’ personality, politics, economics or feminism and four days later, the video has exceeded four and a half million views. It is a format copied from the debates that Charlie Kirk, A conservative debater, he was organizing until his death since 2012: he in the center, progressive students rebutting him one after another, with Kirk responding to each argument before moving on to the next. The format problem. Different studies have pointed out problems with the format, which make rhetorical ability the true value of these discussions: whoever speaks faster and with more confidence seems to win even if their data is incorrect. In the absence of real-time verification mechanisms, the appearance of handling authentic data matters more than actually doing so. The central debater has an advantage due to the confrontation with successive rivals, which eliminates the pressure of arguments: every time a rival finds a line of argument, time runs out. This Spanish version has some added problems: the title itself already generates an editorial reading: naming the critics as “haters” implies that Xokas is the one who is right: if he debates against “haters”, any argument they raise is associated in advance with bad faith, not with reasoning. Politics, on YouTube. A recent Reuters report documents that Spain follows the European trend of shifting information consumption towards video platforms. Those under 35 years of age are the group furthest from traditional formats and, therefore, are more exposed to political opinion mediated by content creators. That is, the public conversation about taxes, feminism or freedom of expression occurs in environments where the editorial rules are different, more wild and less regulated than those of a conventional medium. History of controversies. To get an idea of ​​how the Xokas positions may be affecting younger people, these are some of the controversial opinions they have expressed: Critical in 2021 to ElRubius and TheGrefg for going to Andorra to pay less taxes. Less than a year later, he threatened to leave if they kept uploading them to him. His trick stolen from “a friend” to flirt with drunk girls was the one who generated more criticism outside the streaming environment, and motivated the famous video of the Ministry of Equality in which he was actively identified as one of the main sources of sexist attitudes of mass reach in Spain. In March 2022, it was discovered that her Twitter defender @CathyVipi, which she used to insult critics and competitors, he carried it himself. He stated that the majority of people who cannot change their physique are “undisciplined and lazy“, rejecting the influence of genetic or psychological factors. It was criticized how opinions of this type can affect young followers. After invest in Knoweatsa home-prepared food company, publicly attacked Wetaca (direct competition) in a live broadcast. Wetaca responded on social media by recovering previous statements from Xokas in which it said that “eating healthy is stupid“. Controlling the narrative of all these controversies is essential for El Xokas and his occasional ally Ibai. For this, nothing better than a trap debate. In Xataka | China has solved the mystery of why there are people who go bankrupt watching streams: the “榜一大哥”

If you don’t optimize your resume, the AI ​​will filter it out, leaving you out. If you use AI, a human recruiter will leave you out

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The use of AI in hiring processes personnel is increasingly widespread, both by human resources departments with the use of automatic ATS filtering of candidates (Applicant Tracking System) and by candidates to, precisely, overcome AI filters. However, using AI to optimize resumes may have overwhelmed recruiters searching for candidates. that stand out from the restnot clone resumes. The boom in CVs generated by AI. The implementation of AI systems has radically changed the way we find employment. Simply copy and paste the job description into ChatGPT, you get an optimized resume for that specific offer, filled with keywords that exactly match the terms that the bot waiting on the other side of the Submit button will select. As and as they described From the Manfred technological employment platform, this means that each offer receives a flood of identical applications, where everyone repeats the same terms. According to a survey According to the consulting firm Hays, at the end of 2024, 40% of professionals were already using AI for their CV that year, 3% more than in 2023, and they expect it to reach 80% in five years. As a result of this increase, recruiters receive hundreds of profiles that pass the filters and appear to be the ideal candidates, but fail. at the first human glance. Companies want to hire people. As and how I collected Washington Postrecruiters have developed the ability to identify these “synthetic” resumes. Patterns such as the absence of synonyms, mechanical repetitions or an excessively polished tone reveal the use of AI in your writing. according to human resources experts. According to a survey conducted by the employment assistance platform Resume.io, 49% of hiring managers reject resumes suspected of being generated by AI. The recruiters interviewed in the article Washington Post They are in favor of using AI as an assistance tool to “cover gaps” and make the writing of the resume more complete. But delegating it completely to AI generates rejection because, in reality, they don’t know who they are hiring. “If this is how you apply and this is how you work, I don’t want to hire you,” said Joseph Eitner, director of human resources at Eaton Capital Management, a New York investment firm. “Job seekers should use it to enrich their work. They should not use AI for the entire process,” said Ron Sharon, chief information security officer at financial consulting firm PTMA Financial Solutions. Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI developers, positioned itself along the same lines in its job offers, urging its employees not to use AI to complete the application form with the aim of getting to know their candidates better and emphasizing that it did not matter if they did not have the appropriate training since the form was not going to pass any AI filter. A game where everyone loses. The use of AI in preparing resumes and cover letters has increased in response to ATS filtering systems. Candidates simply hope to pass the initial filter and advance through the selection process to reach the interview phase and meet face to face with an interviewer. In this sense, it is the companies and recruiters themselves who they have created the monster which they now repudiate. According what was published by Forbes82% of companies use AI to scan candidates’ initial applications, creating a race between algorithms to optimize for each other. Along the way, the candidate loses his “humanity” but the company also loses its culture and values. Candidates cannot be blamed for adapting to a technology present in a good part of open personnel selection processes. The process is broken. Huntr’s Q2 2025 ‘Job Search Trends Report’ points out that 85% of candidates looking for a job take more than nine months to find a job. For its part, a meta-analysis of the sector revealed that 63% apply for more than 337 vacancies, of which only 2% manage to interview with a human recruiter. On LinkedIn, they only respond to 3.3% of the candidates. This constant bickering It exhausts companies and candidates alike, complicating the search for suitable candidates for open positions. Currently, companies are experiencing a contradiction in their hiring processes, as they claim adaptability and attitude in their candidates, but surely those candidates were discarded in the first filter because his CV was not optimized by an AI. In Xataka | If your chair limps during a job interview, it’s no coincidence: they’re evaluating more than just your resume. In Xataka | The latest trend to ace job interviews: training with ChatGPT as a recruiter Image | Unsplash (Vitaly Gariev)

The US threatened to take the Rota base to Morocco. Spain has buried it with an unbeatable offer: more territory

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Since the Madrid Pacts Since 1953, the US military presence in southern Spain has been one of the silent pillars of Western security architecture. Throughout the Cold War, the crises in the Mediterranean and the successive enlargements of NATO, this relationship has survived changes of government, diplomatic tensions and strategic redefinitions without losing its structural weight. Therefore, an idea that had gained strength It worried Spain. The threat that shook the board. It happened in the summer of 2025, when from circles close to the Republican Party slipped the idea of ​​moving the Rota and Morón bases to Morocco in response to the Spanish refusal to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP. As the days passed, the debate stopped being rhetorical and became a strategic question of first order. The proposal suggested that Washington could punish an ally considered insufficiently committed by relocating key assets to the Maghreb, in a context of increasing US support for Rabat and internal tensions in NATO over burden sharing. However, beyond the political noise, the real viability of this maneuver depended on much deeper factors than a simple temporary decision. The first reason: anti-missile shields. Rota is not an interchangeable base, but an essential node of the NATO missile shield together with Romania and Poland, integrated into a system of sensors, radars, satellites and command centers that requires millimeter coordination and reaction times of between five and twenty-five minutes. Not only that. Also houses Aegis destroyers equipped with SM-3 missiles and is part of the technical framework whose nerve center is in Germany, all in allied territory fully integrated into the Atlantic Alliance. The simple idea of ​​moving that capacity to Morocco would imply rebuild from scratch critical infrastructures, redesign the legal and operational framework and, above all, locate sensitive parts of the system in a country that does not belong to NATO, with the legal and political complications that this entails. Morocco is not NATO territory. Rabat has offered in the past ports and military facilitiesand its weight as a strategic partner in the Maghreb and the Sahel has grown exponentially hand in hand with US support for the Sahara and normalization with Israel. However, it is one thing to strengthen cooperation and quite another to replace a structural base already established by facilities outside the allied legal and military umbrella. They remembered in Infodefensa that implementing equivalent capabilities there would require extremely complex bilateral agreements, multimillion-dollar investments and institutional guarantees difficult to match those of a European partner, in addition to altering the logistical balance that allows the United States Navy operate with continuity in the Mediterranean, the eastern Atlantic and Africa. A second irrefutable reason. As they said this morning in Spanishfar from reducing its weight, Rota has begun an expansion valued at more than 400 million of euros, a work that involves new docks, semi-buried magazines and maintenance contracts that can reach 90 million annually with up to six destroyers deployed. In this way, Spain has not only authorized the increase from four to six Aegis vessels, but is adapting the infrastructure to double docking capacity and consolidate the base as a high-tech anti-aircraft and anti-submarine node. In political and strategic terms, the operation amounts to a kind of reinforced transfer of territory and operational sovereignty, although assuming, of course, that the base converts Spanish soil into a potential target in the event of conflict. Broken as a structural piece. In short, the presence of thousands of American soldiers, the agreed ceiling in the bilateral agreement and the local economic impact show a relationship that transcends governments and cycles politicians. So that the hypothesis of a transfer If Morocco were to be moderately credible, clear signs of withdrawal should be observed, such as a reduction in ships or a halt in investments, and the truth is that exactly the opposite is happening. There was already a compelling reason why the United States could not take the base to Morocco: its irreplaceable integration in the NATO architecture. And now Spain has just added a second one that is even more difficult to ignore, by reinforcing and expanding that presence with investments and effective transfer of strategic space that consolidate the Rota base. as a structural piece of Washington’s device in Europe. Image | NavyUS Navy In Xataka | In 1953 the United States decided to put a naval base in Rota. Now the facility looks to its future with uncertainty In Xataka | If the question is whether Spain can deny the US its bases to provide air support to Israel, the answer is not so simple.

There was a time when Japan was the king of TVs. All its giants have ended up surrendering to the evidence

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Not so many years ago, talking about Japanese televisions was talking about the kings of the market. Not so much for volume but for quality. The Sony Trinitron were (and still are) to play retro video games) legendary, but there were the technologies of Sharp, Toshiba or the plasma from Panasonic. However, first South Korea and now China have run over Japanese brands. And Panasonic is the latest “victim.” And it may be for the best. The Panasonic case. Bluntly: Panasonic, which was once on the podium of the great Japanese manufacturers, has just announce that the Chinese company skyworth From now on, it will be in charge of producing and selling its televisions. At the catalog presentation event for this year, representatives of the Japanese brand they commented that the new partner “will lead sales, marketing and logistics while Panasonic provides expertise and quality assurance.” Speaking to FlatpanelsHD, Panasonic said Skyworth will take care of everything, but the resulting product will still be one that will have the “Panasonic” name. Turn towards China. The company had been outsourcing the production and functions of its models for years. mid-range and entrybut now that loss of identity is complete. With the move, the firm hopes to once again become one of the largest in both Europe and the United States, and the curious thing is that this announcement comes just a few weeks after Sony will outsource the production of its televisions to TCL. It is a symbolic turn because the Japan that previously led the technological conversation was gradually eclipsed by South Korea, Taiwan and, now, China. Both TCL and Skyworth are Chinese companies and, although TCL is much better known, Skyworth is not exactly small. Headquartered in Shenzhen, it has intermittently strained in the conversation of the main television manufacturers Android TV. It makes… sense. In statements to FlatpanelsHD, both companies will jointly develop the high-end OLED TVsand the movement has a very clear reading: it is a win-win for both companies, but as in the case of Sony-TCL, one wins -much- more than the other. Chinese companies have made a very strong investment in recent years in plants capable of producing an enormous quantity of large-inch panels. Televisions are manufactured from what is known as “mother glass”plates that, the larger the size, the more derived large-inch televisions will be produced. And if more televisions can be produced at a time, they can be sold at a lower price. TCL has state-of-the-art factories focused on that large-inch production, which helps explain why they sell 65- and 75-inch models at ridiculous prices. Therefore, with these associations, the Japanese hope that the muscle of the Chinese will help them achieve greater penetration. But, of course, it is undeniable that the names ‘Sony Bravia’ and ‘Panasonic’ are much more powerful than those of any Chinese brand, and now it is TCL and Skyworth that can exploit it in the market. Tears in the rain. In the end, as they say, of those muds, these muds. Panasonic, which was once one of the spearheads in terms of television technology thanks to plasma, had not made much of a splash for years in a conversation dominated by LG, Samsung and, by leaps and bounds, the Chinese. They were, along with Sony, the stronghold of a Japanese industry that had already seen how giants like Sharp, Pioneer or Toshiba they stayed in the gutter to be, in some cases, rescued by… Chinese companies (Toshiba by Hisense) or Taiwanese (Sharp by Foxconn). As they say, ‘mistakes were made’ and Panasonic held on for too many years to a plasma technology which was impressive, but also very expensive to produce and a huge ship that could not correct course when better LCD and OLED panels began to come out. As we say, we have to wait to see what this translates into in terms of market share, but in Japan it is a blow. Only with the joint venture of Sony and TCL, esteem that 50% of the Japanese market will be controlled by Chinese capital. The last pride they could hold on to was Panasonic. In Xataka |

What is and how does the Google application work to take photos with filters from old camera rolls?

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Let’s explain to you what it is and how to use Snapseed Camerathe new camera application created by Google. This is a Snapseed feature that has so far reached the iPhone first, and it remains to be seen how long it will take to also reach Android. We are going to start the article by explaining what exactly this application is, or rather this function within an application. Then, we will tell you step by step how you can use it to give your photos a touch of personality. What is Snapseed Snapseed is an application created by Google to edit your photos and to be able to improve them. It is one of the oldest applications there is for this function, to edit all aspects of the photo such as brightness, contrast, saturation, etc., and also to crop it. One of the features that has always made Snapseed popular is that it is designed for one-handed use, with all settings being accessible and very easy to use with just your thumb. But of course, we live in times in which the processing of photos in the camera applications of any mobile phone already improves them automatically, so this type of applications has had to innovate. First, Snapseed has introduced a feature to enhance photos with AI without having to do anything. The app is simply responsible for making all the settings. And then, Snapseed Camera has also arrived. What is Snapseed Camera Snapseed Camera a feature within Snapseed. Specifically, it is a function for take photos directly with the appso it tries to be an alternative to the camera application on your mobile. The main feature of this camera is that it has preset filters to take the photo with them. You choose a filter, you see the result in a real image, and you decide to take the photo with them. But Snapseed Camera goes beyond that, because offers vintage camera filtersthose old photo reels. It also has some presets with preset settings, and allows you to make changes to textures and other types of adjustments before taking the photo, as if it were a professional camera. How to use Snapseed Camera To use Snapseed Camera, you have to enter the Snapseed app. In it, At the top right you have a camera iconand when you click on it you will go to Snapseed Camera with its options for taking photos. Now you will go to a screen where you simply have to slide to the sides to explore the filters of different movies that you have available. Every time you select a new one you will see the changes on the screen. And that’s it. Once you have selected the filter, you just have to take the photo and it will be added to the application gallery. You can also activate a pro mode to make changes to zoom and other aspects. In Xataka Basics | ChatGPT Images: what it is and how to use it to create images with artificial intelligence from your photos

This is how SETI managed to isolate 100 possible alien technosignatures

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For more than two decades, millions of desktop computers around the world shared their computing power while they were ‘at rest’ with a common goal. This was nothing more than searching for extraterrestrial technological signatures in the noise of the cosmos. Now, the team behind SETI@home has published the final analysis of its dataclosing a fundamental chapter in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A cosmic funnel. The data analyzed by SETI@home come from observations made over 14 years using the iconic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. During this time, the project operated by collecting data while the telescope was targeted by other astrophysical research. The immense amount of data recorded by this telescope was divided into small packages that were distributed over the Internet using the platform BOINC. In this case, more than five million volunteers lent the computing power of their PC processors to analyze these frequencies in the background with the legendary screensaver in the form of graphics with a latent pulse that crowned some PCs from the 2000s. All this thanks to a collaborative work that I started by installing a small application and giving up part of the processing power. What was seen. The result of all this information was nothing other than statistical outrage. Specifically, more than 12 billion initial detections were identified, and volunteers from there looked for energy spikes, narrowband pulses and signals with repetitive structures over time. The analysis focused on a 2.5 MHz band around the 1.42 GHz frequency, known as the hydrogen transition line, considered the logical “radio channel” for an interstellar civilization. The sieve end. Finding an alien signal in that mountain of data requires, first, discarding our own technological screams that we have in space. The second phase of the project consisted of cleaning those 12 billion detections from radio frequency interference. Aviation radars, television stations or even mobile phones constantly pollute the radio spectrum, not allowing us to see what is in the background. How it was done. The truly interesting thing about this project was how they managed to Separate the wheat from the chaff in a sea of ​​millions of datasince the researchers designed complex algorithms with a very ingenious technique called ‘birdies’. The ‘birdies’ are nothing more than software-simulated alien technosignatures that the team artificially injected into the database. Its importance lies in that they simply serve to test the sensitivity of the system, since if the anti-noise filters erased the ‘birdies’ or failed to group them, it meant that the algorithm was failing, since it would also be eliminating possible data that pointed to extraterrestrial life. The result. In this way, the researchers were able to go from having 12,107,039,965 in their database to selecting 100 specific signals, which is where some type of communication with an extraterrestrial could be found. A titanic cleaning task, and it is where one of the most important points of all this research lies. The role of China. The problem with all this is that the Arecibo radio telescope in December 2020 prevented the original source of the data from being able to verify these findings. Fortunately, the gigantic rFAST adiotelescope in Chinacurrently the largest and most sensitive of its kind in the world, has taken over for the final stage. In this way, with a database of 100 signals and with 23 hours of observation time dedicated to the FAST, the different locations began to be re-observed. And it is not a quick process, since each re-observation at the Chinese telescope lasts about 15 minutes and includes a slow scan with the 19 beams of the FAST receiver. This is fundamental, because the sensitivity obtained in these new measurements is substantially better, reaching between 2.0 and 2.5 times the capacity of the original Arecibo data. The outcome. After all this, the question seems obvious: Does this mean that we have finally contacted an extraterrestrial intelligence? We must be honest and emphatic: no. To date, none of the signals analyzed or reobserved have been shown to be a repeatable or conclusive alien technosignature. However, from a technological and astronomical point of view, SETI@home has been a historic triumph, as it not only democratized computer science and pioneered the immense power of distributed computing for the masses, but it has established an open source framework and new documented sensitivity limits for the future. The use of high-computational birdie injection for end-to-end testing of analysis software is, in fact, a pioneering advance in radio astronomy. Images | SETI@Home Leo_Visions In Xataka | TRAPPIST-1 was the most promising solar system to search for life. Now our joy is in a well

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