Month: March 2026

the best search engines in Europe for those who want more ethics and privacy

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Let’s tell you the best European alternatives to Google and Bing. If you are looking for greater privacy and protection when searching on the Internet, choosing a trusted European provider ensures that they are subject to strict European privacy regulations. In total, we bring you six alternatives, which offer greater privacy and security. Some are environmental or non-profit organizations, others are paid, and there are even some open source. Ecosia It is possibly the most popular European search engine, and is known for your climate mission; since its advertising revenue is used to finance reforestation projects. Ecosia promises to respect your privacy as much as the planet, and only collects the data necessary to offer a quality product. Nothing else. This search engine has an AI search function with smaller, faster models to use less energy while offering accurate answers, all based on some renewable energies with which they feed both their search engine and their AI. Your search results come from Bing or Google, depending on your location, device type, or your preferences. Startpage Startpage is possibly one of the best alternatives to Google, although it is not completely European. It was founded in 2006 in the Netherlands, where its headquarters are still located, although it is a global company. However, having a European headquarters they promise that their users are protected by European privacy lawsincluding the GDPR. This search engine claims to be the most private in the world, including free anonymous viewing. The search results are from the Google engine, but they pass through their own data protection filter that remove users IPblock price trackers and third-party access to ads. Qwant A French search engine, which stands out for your commitment to privacy and not store or sell any type of data about you. Its results index is generated with Bing, although it also adds its own index to the algorithm to improve it. There is nothing from Google. Qwant also has a search engine called Qwant Junior, which adapts its results to the little ones in the house. So that you don’t miss anything if you migrate from Google, it has a partner called Shadow Drive, which offers private cloud storage hosted in Europe. good Good is a non-profit search engine created in Germany. All of its proceeds are donated to charities and other non-profit organizations that have a B Corp certification. Additionally, it is a search engine private and anonymouswithout histories, fingerprints or tracking. For its search results it does not use Bing or Google, but rather uses Brave search engine index. It is CO2 neutral, and has no advertising, nothing. In fact, the way they are maintained is through a voluntary subscription system of 2 euros per month or 19 per year for those who want to support it. Another German search engine, which combines search results from other providers. It is open sourceso that everyone can know how it works, their servers are maintained with renewable energy, and they are a non-profit organization. The most positive part is that they are a search engine committed to privacy and no ads. The negative part is that it is paid. Each search costs one token, and you can buy several packs which start at 500 tokens for 5 euros. Swisscows A Swiss search engine privacy focused and family character. For the latter, it has filters with which it tries to avoid explicit content. For its results it uses Bing’s search index combining it with one of its own. It has two modes, one free and one paid that for $3.80 per month offers total anonymity, zero advertising and exclusive search settings. Therefore, total anonymity is not free as in other models. It also has additional services such as mail, instant messenger, cloud and VPN. In Xataka Basics | 61 European alternatives to Google, X, Gmail, Chrome, Maps, DropBox, Google Drive, WhatsApp and other popular services

Meta was building its AI chips to not be dependent on NVIDIA. Has ended up surrendering to the evidence

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Meta faces a crucial year. While its competitors were laying the foundations for AI, Meta was burning money in the metaverse. That, along with a totally different approach to what Google or OpenAI were doing with AI, caused Zuckerberg’s company to pass a few years in the gutter. After reorganizing the house and sign the AI ​​A-TeamMeta was preparing so much a great model as new own chips for training. The thing… hasn’t turned out as expected. MTIA. Within the different Meta teams focused on artificial intelligence, there is one known as MTIA. It comes from ‘Meta Training and Inference Accelerator’ and its objective was research and design own chips training for artificial intelligence. Having your own chip makes all the sense in the world, since it is designed based on the needs you have. They have another advantage: you are not dependent on anyone else. If NVIDIA doesn’t have enough chips, it doesn’t matter because you have yours and can continue scaling data center systems (and those of Meta are immense) to continue the training and inference tasks. Meta was not going to be in charge of manufacturing, something that the highly reputable TSMCbut the program got off to a bad start. This is very difficult. Reuters He already mentioned it last year. After testing his first in-house developed training chip, Meta realized that things were not going well. It was underperforming what they expected, and it was also worse than the competition. They did not throw away the chips, but instead referred them to other systems (such as those for recommending Facebook and Instagram based on algorithms). The problem is that the performance of the training chip, the one really important for the AI ​​career, was not enough. Strategy change. In The Information They echo a statement from Meta stating that the company remains committed “to investing in different silicon options to meet our needs, which includes the advancement of our MTIA division” and they urge us to remain attentive to news that will be shared throughout this year. However, in the same medium it is noted that Meta has greatly lowered its expectations with its chips. The idea was to have two chips. On the one hand, Iris, a single instruction training chip that is easy to design, but from which it is difficult to extract all the juice in these training tasks. artificial intelligence training. On the other hand, Olympus, a chip that would be completed towards the end of this year and that would be the central part of Meta’s training clusters. According to The Information, there were many internal doubts about the stability of Olympus, its intricate design and profitability, so they have left it in the drawer to focus on more “simpler” chips. The evidence. In the end, if you can’t beat your “enemy”, join him. The sources consulted by The Information point out that, in addition to other complications, the training software was not as stable as what alternatives such as those from NVIDIA offer. And all of this has ended up causing two multimillion-dollar agreements. In a period of just a few days, Meta signed agreements with both AMD and NVIDIA so that both can supply them with chips to train the AI. It’s a win-win for everyone because Meta receives what he needs, NVIDIA has another client on a list it dominates and AMD continues to make a name for itself in the sector thanks to agreements like this one or the one they signed last year with OpenAI. In addition, Meta secures several sources so as not to depend only on one company. In fact, it is also estimated that they have signed an agreement to rent TPU units from Google. The competition. Meta’s objective, therefore, is to diversify its portfolio of AI chip suppliers as much as possible while continuing to investigate its own chips of which, supposedly, we will learn details later. They may continue investigating Olympus or a variant or decide on another approach. Because what is clear is that they must develop something ‘own’. NVIDIA and AMD are suppliers, not competitors as such. The real competition is OpenAI, X and Google, and the last two have their factories at full capacity. Google with its TPUsprocessors designed exclusively for AI, and xAI with its own chips that they abandoned and picked up more recently. Objective: dethrone NVIDIA. And all this occurs in a world in which everyone is ‘friends’, but enemies at the same time. I already say that NVIDIA is a hardware supplier, but they practically control the AI ​​​​computing market and are moving both in hardware and software. It is logical that other companies are investigating alternatives to boost their own AI. Added to the list is an Amazon that is also manufacturing some chips called Trainium3 UltraServer and OpenAI with its agreement with Broadcom to manufacture chips. It is, as I say, a curious scenario: everyone needs each other, and there is the “circular economy” of AI, but at the same time everyone wants to be independent. The problem is that NVIDIA has a huge advantage in this and has both the technology and the contracts with memory companies… and the contacts with which it ends up manufacturing the best chips: TSMC. In Xataka | Trump ordered the Pentagon to stop using Claude for being a “Woke AI.” Right after he bombed Iran using Claude

OpenAI had to choose between being the star app of the US army and its users. And the users have chosen for it

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Last Saturday there were 295% more uninstallations of the ChatGPT mobile app in the United States. Many users felt terrible that OpenAI reached a theoretically unethical agreement with the US Department of Defense to replace Anthropic, and they have punished it with a “Cancel ChatGPT” movement on social networks which has also had an impact on those uninstallations. what has happened. The consulting firm Sensor Tower, which monitors the status of mobile application stores, has indicated that the ChatGPT uninstall rate has increased by 295% on Saturday, February 28 compared to the previous day. Normally, the uninstall rate is around 9% from one day to the next, but that day it was clear that many users decided to get rid of the app at the same time. The reason is obvious. The Pentagon vs. Anthropic. The pentagon it had been months working with Claude, Anthropic’s AI, which was already used on classified documents. Anthropic had made it a condition not to use its AI for mass espionage and the development of autonomous weapons, but the Department of Defense (DoD, which many now call the “War Department”) wanted Anthropic remove those limitations. Anthropic refusedand that’s where OpenAI comes in. and opportunistic. Sam Altman first praised Anthropic’s stance. A few hours later he announced that they had reached an agreement with the DoD to replace Claude with ChatGPT. This has been widely criticized for OpenAI’s lack of ethics and opportunistic attitude, and led to a “ChatGPT cancellation” movement which has had an immediate impact on the downloads and uninstallations of this chatbot. Altman wants to clear things up. He OpenAI announcement It was unclear whether OpenAI actually imposed the same limits that Anthropic had imposed, but Altman soon announced that had added amendments to the agreement to avoid any confusion. Apparently they have been added protections against mass surveillancebut nothing is mentioned about the development of lethal autonomous weapons. Punishment for OpenAI. Not only has it been noticeably uninstalled, but in the opinions of the ChatGPT app many users have given a single star out of five in a very high proportion: those bad opinions grew by 775% on Saturday and then by 100% on Sunday according to Sensor Tower. Five-star reviews fell by 50%. Claude has overtaken ChatGPT in downloads as a result of the latest events with the Pentagon. Source: Appfigures. And Claude already surpasses it in downloads. Another consultancy that monitors the download market, appfiguresindicated that on Saturday Claude’s downloads surpassed those of ChatGPT in the US for the first time. In fact, Claude has become the most downloaded app in at least six countries outside the US: Belgium, Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway and Switzerland. Streisand Effect. We are facing another case of Streisand effect: trying to censor certain information or a certain company ends up being counterproductive. The Pentagon tried to make Anthropic the bad guy, but what has happened is that the company is now seen as the great defender of ethics and “AI alignment.” This has made people perceive it as a more morally respectable option than ChatGPT. But Anthropic has problems. According to Reuters Several US government departments and agencies have made the switch to OpenAI and have begun to stop using Anthropic models for their work. That is already a problem for Anthropicbut even more so is the fact that their recent investment round, in which they raised 60,000 million dollars, could be in danger. If the DoD decides to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” its contracts and agreements with dozens of companies would be at risk, and its own future as a company would be at risk. It would be an extraordinary measure and it seems unlikely that the US would go to that point, but nothing is certain today. Image | Village Global In Xataka | The war between Anthropic and the Pentagon points to something terrifying: a new “Oppenheimer Moment”

reproduce an Arabic design from a thousand years ago

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Luxury car manufacturers know that some of their millionaire customers They are going to make special requests to customize your cars. In fact, at Rolls-Royce they are these “whims” are so common They have even had to expand their customization workshop. However, there are requests that exceed any expectations. Rolls-Royce just presented he Phantom Arabesquea unique car in the world that reached its owner from the Middle East after five years of hard work in the brand’s workshops. It’s not that it took them five years to make it: it’s that they took that long just to perfect a completely new technique just to decorate the hood. The most curious thing is that the design that decorates the hood is more than a thousand years old. An Arabic design transferred to metal The result of five years of testing and development by Rolls-Royce is the first laser-engraved bonnet in the history of the brand, and of motorsport. In fact, it is such an innovative process that the brand has patented it. The reason for such a deployment of R&D is a client’s request from the Middle East who asked the brand to decorate the hood of their new Phantom with a design present in Arab architecture for more than a thousand years. Inspiration comes from mashrabiyaa classic element of Middle Eastern architecture that consists of a carved wooden lattice placed on windows and facades whose function is triple: to provide privacy, let in light and allow air circulation to cool the buildings naturally. A solution as elegant as it is functional, developed centuries ago and which today appears laser engraved on the hood of one of the most exclusive cars in the world. This Phantom Extended was ordered through the Dubai Private Office, one of five “private offices” that Rolls-Royce maintains in strategic luxury destinations. In the Rolls-Royce statement, the project’s chief designer, Michelle Lusby, explains that the objective went beyond the visual. “Mashrabiya is one of the Middle East’s most well-known and enduring design languages. For the Phantom Arabesque, we were inspired not only by its beauty, but also by the privacy, light and airflow it creates. Our goal was to interpret those qualities in ways that felt both culturally rooted and unmistakably Rolls-Royce.” Five years shooting lasers at a hood The hood design of this exclusive unit It is not a simple paintingbut has been subjected to a technical process as elaborate and precise as the design of the Arab lattices itself. First, a dark paint is applied to the hood, several layers of clear varnish are sealed, which will serve as a base for the work of art. It is then finished with a lighter top coat. The laser is fired on this last layer, reproducing the mashrabiya pattern at a depth of between 145 and 190 microns. Enough to affect this last layer of paint and showing the dark tone of the underlying paint. The effect is a surface with a three-dimensional texture that changes its appearance depending on how the light hits it and that can also be perceived by touch since, in fact, the design is sculpted on the paint. The technique is inspired by sgraffito (sgraffito) Italian, an artistic practice of revealing contrasting layers of color by precisely removing the upper surface. Adapting it to the body of a Rolls-Royce and giving it the precision required by a design as complex as that of arabesque architecture, required five years of work by the brand’s Exterior Surfaces Center, where new materials and paints are developed and then used. on such exclusive orders like those of this Phamtom Arabesque. Tobias Sicheneder, general manager of that department, sums it up: “laser engraving allows us to create a surface that is both technically precise and visually alive. The Phantom Arabesque is the first example of a technique that opens up completely new creative possibilities for future customers.” The mashrabiya pattern is not limited to the hood: it also appears on the illuminated door sills, which reproduce a cross section of the engraved design, and hand-embroidered in black on the leather of the front and rear headrests Without a doubt, a unique piece as well as its price will have been unique. In Xataka | Rolls-Royce wanted to make its Specter more scoundrel and sporty: the result is a limited edition that costs $490,000 Image | Rolls-Royce

BYD sales have fallen 41% in China. It is the biggest symptom that something much more serious is happening in your industry.

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They are very specific days but the data is the data. And the data says much more because of what it hides than what it says at first. BYD has fallen 41% in sales during the Chinese New Year holidays. The problem is that the Chinese market seems to be slowing down. And BYD isn’t the only company feeling it. 41%. This is, as we said, how much BYD sales have fallen in China during the month of February 2026 compared to the same period in 2025. The data is provided by CarNewsChina where it is also noted that it is 9.5% less than last January, so the trend does not invite optimism. In the middle they point out that this fall coincides with a Chinese New Year that in 2026 has completely departed the month of February. These are days in which sales inevitably fall because citizens live immersed in the largest migration in the world and this year has been one of the longest festive periods in recent years. In 2025, these festivals occupied the last days of January so that during the remainder of the month they were able to reach cruising speed, which exacerbates the decline. The price war. BYD’s low sales are exacerbated by a stagnating local market. To continue encouraging sales, BYD, Tesla or Xiaomi are offering financing for seven years. Something common in our country but a rarity that is becoming consolidated in China and that makes another detail clear: there is no room to continue lowering prices. Already in January, the China Passenger Car Association announced that sales had fallen 13.9% compared to the same month in 2025. The situation was more complicated among “new energy” vehicles, as plug-in hybrids, electric and extended-range electric vehicles are called. In this case, the drop reached 20%. Obviously, for BYD, Tesla or Xiaomi, who only offer electric or plug-in cars, the former, the situation is more delicate. A must-see. Exporting has become an almost obligatory outlet for BYD. Although its sales have decreased in the local market, exports have exceeded 100,000 units and that represents a growth of more than 50%. And there are already four consecutive months with shipments of this volume, they point out in CarNewsChina. Although BYD’s progress had been slow in Europe until recently, in 2025 they grew 270% on our continent. January has also been a good year (they almost triple their position compared to January 2025, they point out in The Energy Newspaper) and is a boost to a policy that has opted to give more for less money within plug-in vehicles. If we talk about Spain, one of the most important countries for BYD right now outside of China, BYD has placed two electric cars among the 10 best-selling cars so far this year and another two among the five best-selling plug-in hybrids. Much more than a symptom. Although we have focused on BYD sales, what is clear is that in 2026, car sales will not start in China. In The New York Times They reflect the drop in the company’s share price, which has lost part of the support of investors. But the problem goes beyond the brand’s headquarters. Mike Smithfrom Washington and Lee University, points out to the American media that 40% of the vehicle production generated by China is not being used, according to his calculations. This is not the first time that there has been talk of Chinese overproduction of automobiles. The constant evolutions in the product have made products launched just a few months before obsolete, pushing the price war even further. And with a country overproducing cars and evolutions at a dizzying pace, it is logical that the customer stops purchasing, expecting a better car at a better price in the short term. Photo | EEYAUT Waihung on Wikimedia In Xataka | Same car, three names, three prices and one reality: China has chosen Mexico as the spearhead of its exports

Telecinco audiences have been in free fall for four years and their recovery has come with an unexpected format: blind weddings

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He success of ‘Married at First Sight’ on Telecinco and the more than 410 million dollars generated by ‘Love Is Blind’ on Netflix show that realities Romantic and friendly blind weddings are no longer entertainment to watch on the sly and feel guilty. Now they generate very profitable franchises and, in the case of Mediaset, a welcome boost of oxygen to their disastrous audiences. Getting married without knowing each other: the origins. Well, the origins are the traditional weddings of convenience, but let’s talk about TV. In 2013, the Danish public channel DR3 broadcast the first episode of ‘Gift ved første blik’, where a panel of experts in psychology and compatibility paired strangers who would meet for the first time at the altar, getting legally married before starting to live together. The success in his country was immediate and generated the ‘Married at First Sight’ franchise, which has had 35 different versions before reaching Spain, where it was already seen in 2015 on Antena 3. In 2026 it reached a new version on Telecinco. The hearings. The result in terms of audience has been very stimulating for the Mediaset channel, after months of trying with launches and schedule changes that have not quite worked out. The premiere recorded a 13.9% audience share and nearly 947,000 viewers, leading its time slot, with a devastating 22.2% in the age group of 25 to 44 years. The following weeks consolidated and even improved those numbers, reaching 14.2%. 44% of viewers who saw the premiere repeated in the second broadcast, which indicates a level of loyalty that Telecinco needs like breathing. For this reason, it has already announced the renewal for a second season. We already know the context: Telecinco is going through a very serious audience crisisclosed 2025 with a 9.4% average annual share (the worst result in its history), which may end up impacting its advertising revenue. That is why in 2026 Mediaset is adopting a conservative policy, returning to its realities classics and experimenting just enough with programs like this one, new but with proven formulas. Blind dates. Meanwhile, Netflix finds success with a very similar format: ‘Love Is Blind’, which the platform premiered in 2020. In it there were no experts who matched the contestants, but rather a group of single men and another group of single women who got to know each other on dates without seeing each other physically, until couples were formed and we saw them becoming intimate in coexistence. Thirty million households watched it in the first four weeks of broadcast. The franchise has already spread to eleven countries, from Brazil to Japan. The figures for ‘Love Is Blind’. The data analysis company Parrot Analytics has estimated that he reality has generated more than $410 million in global subscriber revenue since its premiere. The secret of these stratospheric figures (and other realities platform romances like ‘Jugando con fuego’) is in its structure: fixed format, rotating casting with each season. It’s like a fictional franchise, but at a much faster pace, because each season is produced before the previous one ends. The cost of between 100,000 and 500,000 dollars per episode makes these programs much more attractive to platforms than fiction. When Netflix saw what it had on its hands (‘Love Is Blind’ remained among Netflix’s ten most viewed titles in the United States for 86 days in 2022) it did not put all its eggs in the same basket: it diversified the bet into different countries, each with its regional peculiarities, which multiplies income without doing so proportionally to the cost because, for example, the advertising is done. Furthermore, unlike the binge watching Common on Netflix, episodes are released weekly, which keeps the conversation going on networks. A historic format. They are not the first programs of this type: ‘Blind Date’, on ABC in 1949, when there were hardly any televisions in American homes, and ‘The Dating Game’ in the sixties They exploited similar starting points. What ‘Married at First Sight’ brought was the panel of experts that gave a pseudoscientific excuse to the fooling around between strangers and the inevitable marital quarrels. But what makes them a financial triumph is the economics of their production, which has turned Netflix’s proposal into one of the most profitable ideas in the history of the platform. In Xataka | Spotify and Netflix join forces, entering unexplored territory that has nothing to do with music, movies or series

If the question is how much of Europe is within range of Iran’s missiles, the answer is simple: a fairly large

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In recent decades, the missile range It has become a silent measure of a country’s strategic power. Every few hundred kilometers added to their radius of action change not only technical maps, but also political calculations, alliances and perceptions of security. In this game of distances, Europe already it doesn’t appear that far away as before. From 1,300 to 3,000 km. It we count yesterday. Iran has built its deterrence on a missile family medium range (the Shahab-3, Sejjil, GhadrEmad or Khorramshahr) with ranges that start at 1,300 kilometers and are around 2,000–2,500 kilometers in most configurations, although certain variants of the Khorramshahr could approach 3,000 if they reduce payload. That threshold is what changes the European map, and the reason is very simple. With 2,000 kilometers, the eastern Mediterranean and southeastern Europe are clearly within the radiusand with 3,000, the arc of threat extends into the heart of the continent. The difference, therefore, is not technical, it is strategic. The eastern Mediterranean. Cyprus has been the clearest sign that the border is no longer theoretical. British bases of Akrotiri and Dhekeliaused as logistics and aerial projection nodes, are fully within range of both ballistic missiles and long-range drones such as the Shahed-136. In fact, Greece enters in the same arch, with Souda Bay in Crete within 2,300–2,400 kilometers from Iran. Athens, Sofia and Bucharest are among the capitals that fit comfortably within the 2,000 kilometer radius. Türkiye and Iraq: the exposed belt. Türkiye is located in the first critical strip. Incirlik, just over 1,000 kilometers from Tehran, is high value target for its role in allied architecture and its link to the nuclear sharing scheme. Kürecik, with its AN/TPY-2 radar, is the forward “eye” of the anti-missile shield and therefore a logical target in any prior suppression scenario. In Iraq, bases like Ain al-Asad or Erbil, in addition to the NATO mission in Baghdad, are not only within ballistic range, but also in the radius of drones and networks of militias supported by Tehran. Central Europe: the gray area. When the second and third arcs of the map are projected, cities appear like Budapest, Vienna or Bratislava on the periphery of the estimated range. Bucharest clearly enters the range of 2,000–2,500 kilometers, which places the base Aegis Ashore of Deveselu in a sensitive position within the maximum Iranian perimeter. If Khorramshahr really reached 3,000 kilometers, and that remains to be seen, the threat contour would touch cities like Berlin and Rome. Of course, just another hypothesis, but the pressure is expanding from the eastern flank towards the political center of Europe. The pieces of the shield and their limits. The Aegis Ashore system in Romaniathe one located in Poland and the Arleigh Burke destroyers in the Mediterranean they form the backbone of defense against Middle Eastern vectors. Germany, furthermore, has added the Arrow 3 system to reinforce its upper interception layer. However, any attack would have to fly over monitored airspace. like Türkiye, Iraq or Syriawhich adds operational complexity and interception windows. The shield exists, there is no doubt, but it does not eliminate the risk equation. Drones and saturation. Impossible to ignore it. Beyond ballistic missiles, Iran has turned attack drones into strategic multipliers. With ranges of up to 2,000–2,500 kilometers and costs much lower than missiles, they can be launched in waves to wear down defenses. Its previous use against British facilities in Cyprus demonstrates that the geographical barrier is no longer an automatic shield. The combination of expensive and cheap systems complicates defense. Underground and asymmetrical doctrine. As we count yesterday, the construction of “underground cities” to store and manufacture missiles is part of a strategy designed to compensate for the absence of a modern air force in Iran. Since 1979, sanctions pushed Tehran to invest in rockets, tunnels and technological alliances with other states, turning the missile into your main tool of deterrence. This asymmetric logic does not seek to equal the West in air and sea, but rather to impose cost and vulnerability from land. What changes strategically. As long as the effective range remains around 2,000 kilometers, the threat is mainly concentrated in the eastern Mediterranean and southeast Europe. If the actual ceiling is close to 3,000 km, the european political map enters the calculation. The difference between 2,400 and 3,000 kilometers is not a technical nuance, because it is the line that separates the periphery of the continental core. In that margin, a priori, the perception of risk for European capitals and the credibility of allied deterrence are at stake. Image | Mahdi Marizad, Defense Intelligence Agency, Mehr News Agency In Xataka | The arrival of the B-2s to Iran can only mean one thing: the search for the greatest threat to the United States has begun In Xataka | Iran has just attacked a base in Europe: the paradox of Spain is that it condemns the war, but the US does not need to ask to use its bases

discounts of more than 30% on TVs, cell phones and more

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We have just started March, a new month in which Amazon is one of those stores that surprises us with offers on a multitude of products. If you want to know what are the best deals in technologythese are some of the ones we have found. smartphone Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro by 319.99 euros: 6.77 inches and with a 200 MP camera. Super automatic coffee maker Krups Essential by 298.99 euros: compact and with integrated grinder. Wireless headphones Anker Soundcore Q20i by 31.98 euros: headband and noise cancellation. air fryer Ninja Max by 149.99 euros: 9.5 liters and with six cooking functions. Smart TV TCL 55V6C by 299 euros: 55 inches and with Google TV. Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro Smartphone One of the flagships of the mid-range is this terminal from Xiaomi’s Redmi family. Its recommended price is 349.90 euros but, now, it has dropped to 319.99 eurosthus obtaining a 9% discount. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro is a smartphone with a good and generous screen 6.77-inch FHD+ AMOLED. Its brain is the MediaTek Helio G200-Ultra processor, which is accompanied by 8 GB RAM and 256 GB of memory. It also stands out for its photographic system, with a 200 MP main lens. XIAOMI REDMI Note 15 Pro – 8+256GB Smartphone The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Krups Essential super-automatic coffee machine Compared to the well-known capsule coffee makers, super-automatic machines have been gaining ground in kitchens. It is true that they tend to be expensive models, so finding one on sale is a good opportunity to get a machine of this type. Now, this Krups Essential has a 36% discount and you can buy it for 298.99 euros. This coffee maker Super-automatic has a very intuitive digital display and comes with a milk and frother accessory. Its integrated grinder is highly precise and one of the things it also stands out for is being compact and elegantbeing perfect for small kitchens. Krups Essential, Super-automatic coffee machine The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Anker Soundcore Q20i Wireless Headphones If you are looking for some wireless headphones headband without spending a lot, these Anker They are a good option and even more so now that they are on sale. Its recommended price is 49.99 euros but you can take them, right now, for 31.98 euros. For the price they have, don’t think that you are giving up good features. They offer three listening modes (noise cancellation, normal and transparency), have connectivity Bluetooth 5.0multipoint connection, its battery lasts up to 60 hours and you can also use it by cable. Soundcore Q20i Wireless Bluetooth Headphones with Hybrid Active Noise Cancellation by Anker The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Ninja MAX Air Fryer The Ninja firm has been achieving great success within the small appliancesespecially thanks to their innovative (in terms of design) air fryers. Now, on Amazon, this Ninja MAX has gone from costing 229.99 euros to 149.99 euros. This air fryer of Ninja is double and offers a 9.5 liter capacity. It is sold exclusively on Amazon and has six cooking functions. In addition, in addition to the two drawers, it comes with two racks with non-stick bases and a recipe book. Its design stands out for its golden stone color, which will give a very elegant look to your kitchen. Ninja MAX Dual Compartment Oil-Free Air Fryer The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Smart TV TCL 55V6C If you are looking for a cheap TV but with good features, this TCL 55V6C is a great option and even more so now that it is on sale. Before it cost 449 euros, but now it has a 33% discount. This allows you to buy it for 299 euros. This TCL TV mounts a panel 55 inch Direct LED with 4K HDR resolution. The operating system under which it works is Google TV and is compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. TCL 55V6C 55″ Direct LED Smart TV 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 | Xiaomi, TCL, Ninja, Anker and Krups In Xataka | Home alone: ​​buying guide for smart devices to take care of your home when you go on vacation In Xataka | Best iPhones. Which one to buy and recommended models based on budget, tastes and quality-price

We have been obsessed with doing more hours of sports for years. Science points out that we were wrong

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For decades, the main message that medicine has conveyed to us is that physical exercise should be a priority and it has been summarized with one word: move. Accumulating hours of activity per week has been the great objective that many have had; However, a new study has come to turn this around, to give great importance to the type of exercise and how varied the training menu we follow is when we go to the gym. More and more complete. As we investigate more, the way we exercise is changing, and now a study published at the end of 2026 has suggested that combining different types of exercises reduces the risk of mortality, regardless of whether we do a lot or a little sport in total. That is why the message we must keep in mind is that, instead of doing many hours of a single exercise, it is worth diversifying a little between different modalities, dedicating a little time to each of them. How they have done it. To reach this conclusion, the research team used data from two large groups of people to bring together more than 100,000 people who were followed for more than thirty years. In this way, with different questionnaires, the team measured the active time that each of the people to be analyzed had, establishing a minimum threshold of 20 minutes of activity per week to estimate that someone was really doing it and that it was significant. The objective was to find a correlation between activity levels, the number of these activities and, above all, how they reached adulthood and even when they died in the event that they had not reached the end of the study. The results. The most striking finding is that the group of people who practiced a greater variety of exercise had 19% less total mortality compared to those who limited themselves to a single repetitive routine. But the most important thing is that this good effect of variety in activity is independent of the total volume of time invested in playing sports. That is, the mere fact that exercise is varied has a protective effect in itself, reducing the risk of dying from cardiovascular, respiratory, cancer and other pathologies by between 13% and 41%. The best sports. The study also broke down the individual impact of each discipline, showing a non-linear dose-response relationship, making the greatest benefits noticeable at the beginning, when we went from doing nothing to doing something. In this way, the best sports according to science are the following: Walking: 17% less risk. Racquet sports (such as tennis): 15% less risk. Rowing and calisthenics: 14% less risk. Weight lifting: 13% less risk. Jogging/Easy Running: 11% less risk. Cycling: 4% less risk. Its limitations. Logically, this note has important limitations, since the data were self-reported by the participants with questionnaires and the population analyzed was not too varied, being mostly white, so we must look to see if these percentages may vary by demographics. However, the consensus is clear, since just as nutritionists have been recommending for years that we eat a “rainbow” of different vegetables instead of gorging on just spinach, sports science is now asking us for an “omnivorous movement diet” in which we combine different types of exercise on a daily basis. Images | Anastase Maragos In Xataka | Neither walking nor running: science suggests that the squat is the true “drug” for healthy aging

Scientists have connected 200,000 human neurons to a chip. And he made them play ‘Doom’

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If they tell us that human neurons are playing ‘Doom’, the first thing we would think of is science fiction. However, that is exactly what the Australian company Cortical Labs has shown with your CL1 system: about 200,000 live neurons grown on an array of electrodes on a chip, capable of receiving information from the game and responding through electrical patterns. We are not talking about conventional artificial intelligence, but rather biological tissue interacting with software through an interface designed for that purpose. Human neurons and ‘Doom’. The demo isn’t just launching the game and letting something random happen. In the material shared by Cortical Labs, those responsible explain that the system receives signals from the video game environment and generates electrical patterns that translate into the character’s actions. This is a form of learning in which the system modifies its response depending on the result obtained. The key here is not skill, but the ability to adapt, which, according to the company, they are managing to train and mold in real time. How the interaction loop is established. For the experiment to work, it is not enough to display images on a screen. According to CTO David Hogan, an independent developer managed to convert the game’s visual signal into “electrical stimulation patterns” that are applied directly to the cell culture. These stimuli provoke electrical responses in neurons, and certain firing patterns translate into specific actions within ‘Doom’. In this way, the system creates a closed loop in real time in which each decision has an immediate effect on the virtual environment. look back. In 2021, the same company managed to make a system based on more than 800,000 neurons play ‘Pong’an experiment that required years of scientific work and specific training. That precedent laid the foundations for what would later become the CL1, the equipment presented at the Mobile World Congress in 2025 as the world’s first commercial biological computer. As we explained at the time, the system combines neurons grown on silicon with software called biOS, responsible for exchanging electrical information with living tissue. It is advisable to adjust expectations. The system, it should be noted, falls far short of advanced human performance. Brett Kagan of Cortical Labs emphasizes that the experiment is not intended to replicate a miniature brain, and rejects the direct comparison: “Yes, it is alive, and yes, it is biological, but it is actually used as a material that can process information in very special ways that we cannot recreate in silicon.” The emphasis, therefore, is not on skill, but on the type of processing that this biological substrate allows. Starting point. In the video, the team encourages researchers and developers to interact with the CL1 open API. Cortical Labs hopes to address progressively more demanding tasks than a classic video game, although the video itself also recognizes that there is room to fine-tune the feedback of successes and errors. For now, what we have is a proof of concept that shows potential, but whose path will depend on what others manage to build on this platform. Images | Cortical Labs In Xataka | Sam Altman has spent his entire life saying one thing and doing exactly the opposite. And this time it didn’t even take 48 hours.

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