Month: March 2026

A crew member of the International Space Station lost his speech and NASA does not know why

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Last January, four astronauts had to leave the International Space Station early due to a medical emergency. At the time it was pointed out that it was due to the health problems of one of the astronauts. However, at no time was it clarified which of them it was, in order to preserve their privacy. Over time, NASA has dropped some new data in dribs and drabs. Now, we know who it was and why, but the cause of his illness remains a mystery. The facts: At the beginning of January, NASA announced the cancellation of a space walk that astronauts Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman should have done. Just a few hours later, the imminent return to Earth of the entire Crew 11 was announced. That included both Fincke and Cardman as well as Kimiya Yui, from the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) and Oleg Platanov, from the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos). The return trip was planned to take place in February, but it finally took place on January 15. At that time, NASA had not yet announced which of the crew members was sick. It was only noted that he was stable and that he would have to undergo more tests. Without words in space. Shortly after that mysterious medical emergency, NASA announced that the sick astronaut was Mike Fincke. However, at that time he still did not provide information about the illness that led him and his companions to return home early. Now, finally, we know what happened. As stated by Fincke himself in statements to the mediaon January 7, while eating with his companions, he realized that he could not speak. Thanks to the quick intervention of his colleagues and the remote support of NASA doctors, he was immediately stabilized. However, it was urgent to return to Earth to perform the relevant tests. The episode has not been repeated and it has been ruled out that it was a heart attack or stroke. More tests. Fincke will possibly have to undergo more tests so we can find out why he temporarily lost his speech. However, he himself has reported that NASA suspects that it could be an effect of his stay in space. For this reason, the medical records of other astronauts are being reviewed, looking for an episode similar to theirs. space brain. Living in space can affect your health in many different ways. All organs are susceptible to the effects of microgravity. In the case of the brain, It has been proven that it can even move inside the skull. It is not known for sure what could have happened to this NASA astronaut. However, it seems quite likely that his medical emergency was for this reason. And now what? If all goes well with Artemis II, NASA hopes to travel to the Moon more and more regularly and even build a space base there at some point. Other companies, like SpaceX, have the same dream. Therefore, it is vital to study how microgravity or cosmic radiation can affect the health of future colonizers. All astronauts of Crew 11 Astronauts on the International Space Station have been testing these types of events for a long time. What has happened to Fincke at the moment is a mystery, but logically it is something that must be taken into account. What happened to him will have to be investigated to prevent it from happening again, whether on the International Space Station, on the Moon or at any other point in outer space that humans reach. Image | NASA | Unsplash In Xataka | Spanish technology in the return to the Moon: the system designed in Madrid that NASA will use in Artemis II

How to create simple Claude Skills to have your personalized version of artificial intelligence

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Let’s explain to you how to create your own Claude Skilland thus have a personalized version of the artificial intelligence from Anthropic. The Claude’s Skills They are a series of instructions that you can upload to a chat so you don’t have to repeat them every time you want to give a specific compliment. Let’s start the article by reviewing what exactly the skills of Claude. And then, we are going to tell you step by step how to create a skill in the simplest way possible. What exactly are Claude’s Skills? Skills or abilities are a system with which you can create Claude customizations. With them, you can add a command layer to the generic versionand thus be able to use a version of the AI ​​adapted to what you want. A skill is an encapsulated procedurethe way to tell Claude how to perform specific tasks, under what conditions and with what rules you want him to do it, without having to repeat these instructions in every conversation. Imagine that you use Claude to repeatedly do specific tasks. Every time you want to do one of these tasks in a new chat you will have to describe what you want, something that can be tedious, especially when the instructions are longer and more complex. Skills allow you to encapsulate these instructions, so that when you activate one, these instructions are implicit in what you ask of it. When you write the prompt, Claude will first read the ability and take into account what you ask of him there. For example, imagine that you like to analyze the SEO of something you write about. So, every time you go to ask for this analysis you have to give the instructions to Claude, but If you load a Skill you do not need to give the instructionsand you can simply activate it and write the text you want to analyze. How to create your own Skills To create your own Claude skill, you need to open the AI ​​and click on the section Personalize that you have in the left column. Remember that Skills are a paid function. When you click on Personalizeyou will access two different options. On this screen, you must click on the option Skills that will appear next to the connectors. You will enter the Skills page, where by default you will see several examples of those created within Claude himself. Here, click on the + button above, and in the menu that opens choose the option Write the instructions for the skill to create one in the simplest way. This will take you to the screen where you will have to fill out the three fields necessary to create your Skill. You will have to give it a name, instructions and a knowledge base in the event that the latter is necessary. Three fields to define your new Skill The first thing you have to do is give your skill a name. This is the distinctive name it will have, and with which it will appear in your list of created Gems. It is recommended that it be a clear and distinctive name. The name will appear as if it were a file, with hyphens instead of spaces and in lower case. Then you will have to specify description. It’s a short description that will appear overlaid when you mouse over it in the skills list. Therefore, you have to write a short summary of what you do. Claude will look at your skills in each prompt you write, to use it in case he detects that you have referred to one of them with the task you have asked of him. That is why it is important to have useful and direct information in the name and descriptionso that both the AI ​​and you can distinguish what each one is for. Then comes the most complex part, because you will have to write detailed instructions of skill. This is the most important step, because it serves to define the role, tone and rules that this automation must follow. You have to specify everything you can when you are going to write these instructions. These are some of the most important aspects to include in the instructions when you go to create your Skill: Personality: You will have to say what their role is, the character they should play and the tone they should use. For example, you can ask them to act like a rigorous but friendly college professor, or a light-hearted, Reels-focused content writer. Whatever you want, but this personality is important to define to establish behavior. Objective and rules: It is also equally important to specify what the main task of the Gem is, and what rules to use. For example, you can say, “Your job is to review the texts to find spelling and grammar errors and improve the structure,” for example. You can also say things like “Never talk about topics other than…” to make him focus on that specific task. Format: This is optional, but you will also be able to define the structure of the answers. For example, you can ask that I always start with a summary and then list in several points, or whatever you think is necessary. In the end, the point is to define a response structure that is useful and in line with the tasks you want this Gemini customization to perform. If you don’t clarify by writing the instructionsyou have the option of using Claude himself to help you write them. To do this, open the AI ​​in another browser tab, and in a chat ask it to generate instructions for creating a Skill, adding a couple of instructions from which to start. And that’s it. Once you have created a Skill, all you have to do is choose it from the menu from Claude’s new chat. You will have to press the + button, go to Skills, and choose yours. Once … Read more

the mathematics of the crisis no longer add up

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We have been in the Third Gulf War for a month and what everyone feared has happened: the WTI barrel has broken the $100 barrier. It is normal for panic to spread. Experts get tired of repeating that, if we add inflation, in previous crises things looked worse. Okay, they’re right. But the drama right now isn’t what’s ticking on the quote screen. The problem is that there is no raw physicality. The ships do not arrive, the inventories are emptied and, no matter how much we stretch the numbers, the mathematics of oil has been blown up. A chasm of 8 million. The reality of the current oil market is summarized in a subtraction that continues to produce negative balances. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led to the immediate loss of 20 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil and refined products. So far, the market has managed to absorb this blow, but the accounts are clear and terrifying: after exhausting the first defense shields, the world faces a net deficit of approximately 8 million barrels per day. To put it in perspective, that figure exceeds the combined consumption of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. The mirage of temporary patches. If the world has lost a fifth of its oil and gas supply, why haven’t we seen a total collapse from day one? The answer lies in a series of emergency “patches” that, although effective, have an expiration date. According to Bloombergthe market has been protected by several layers of cushioning. The first has been the diversion of routes: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been quickly redirected part of its exports through pipelines that bypass Hormuz to exit through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Oman. The second has been the record release of 400 million of barrels of the strategic reserves of the member countries of the International Energy Agency. Furthermore, the United States temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil that was stored in ships on the high seas, injecting more crude oil into the market. The efforts are finite. As energy analyst Javier Blas explainsthese joint measures have managed to absorb 60% of the loss of supply (about 12 million barrels per day). But the reserves are empty. As Paola Rodríguez-Masiu, chief analyst at Rystad Energy, warned: “The system has gone from being cushioned to being fragile.” The black hole is not going to stop, because the escalation does not let up. An Iranian drone recently attacked to the Kuwaiti supertanker Al-Salmi, fully loaded, in the same anchorage area of ​​the port of Dubai, showing that no vessel is safe. Besides, as reported exclusively The Wall Street JournalPresident Donald Trump has told his advisers that he is willing to end the US military campaign without reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The administration assesses that forcing the sea lane to open would extend the military mission beyond its planned time frame of four to six weeks. We enter “demand destruction.” For Washington, the strait is a bigger problem for Europe and Asia than for the United States. With no new supplies in sight and reserves running out, the market has only one way out, and it is the most painful of all: demand destruction. If there is no oil for everyone, someone has to stop consuming it. The impact will be brutally uneven. How to analyze Financial Timesdeveloping economies are the first to fall. Unlike advanced economies, which rely more on the service sector, the developing world depends on manufacturing that is highly energy intensive. When prices rise, rich countries simply pay more and hoard available cargoes on the spot market, leaving poorer nations in the dark. Rationing has already begun. On the Asian continent, the lack of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Middle East is forcing machinery to stop. In fact, the blockade has already exploded the myth of LNG as a “bridge fuel”, forcing Asia to burn coal in desperation and resurrect nuclear energy to avoid a large-scale blackout. Pakistan has closed schools to save energy, the Philippines has experimented with shorter work weeks, and across the region, fertilizer, steel and ceramics factories are shutting down their kilns. But the energy shock will not stay in that part of the world, but it is traveling towards the West. Europe faces an imminent shortage of diesel – the fuel that powers the global economy – in the coming weeks. If the Strait of Hormuz remains closed until the second quarter of the year, oil could skyrocket to $200 per barreltriggering a stagflation shock (high inflation with economic stagnation) not seen since the 1970s. The final verdict. A month into the crisis, the consensus in the energy industry is terrifying: the world has not yet understood the gravity of what is coming. Government tools to cushion the blow have been exhausted. As Mike Sommers confessedCEO of the American Petroleum Institute: “The playbook is pretty empty right now.” The crude oil does not flow and the mathematics is exact. There is a shortage of 8 million barrels a day in the world. As Jeff Currie crudely summarizedformer director of Goldman Sachs and current strategist of the Carlyle Group: “The main message is that the energy transition is going to be imposed on us in a very painful way and that it is going to happen very quickly.” That is to say, the leap towards a world without oil will not come in a planned and orderly manner, but rather through blackouts, inflation and the forced closure of industries. There are no longer valid patches; The global market is about to crash into a wall of physical scarcity. Image | Unsplash and Unsplash Xataka | That there are dozens of A-10s heading to Iran suggests something: the US has rescued its most “brute” plane for an impossible mission

a TCL QD-Mini LED TV with Dolby Atmos and a beautiful

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MediaMarkt continues to add more and more offers in its outlet found on eBay, and many of the devices we can find are brand new, so they are not used or reconditioned. It is the case of the TCL 50C6KSa smart TV that 389 euros It has a good technical sheet. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, Google TV… The TCL 50C6KS is a smart tv QD-Mini LED that can now be found in the MediaMarkt outlet for a fairly reasonable price. It is a completely new TV, so as the store itself mentions, it is unused, unopened, undamaged and in original packaging. The TV stands out mainly because it comes with a QLED panel that is compatible with both Dolby Vision as HDR10+so that you can enjoy the high-quality content offered by streaming services. In this case, it has a 50-inch screen with a 60 Hz refresh rate and, of course, offers 4K resolution. Internally it comes with a pair of speakers that offer a combined power of 30W, and the audio system is compatible with Dolby Atmos. Your operating system is Google TVso you have access to a large number of apps, and it comes with a Game Master mode dedicated to video games. ⚡ IN BRIEF: TCL 50C6KS offer today ✅ THE BEST bgood value for moneyespecially because of how complete its image and sound sections are. Your operating systemwhich allows you to download a large number of apps. ❌ THE WORST Yesu refresh rate which remains at 60 Hz, so you will not take advantage of features, such as 120 Hz, of the current generation consoles. 💡 BUY IT IF… You are looking for a balanced television that allows you to have a good experience playing video games, but above all watching movies and series. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You want to get the most out of your PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series and you are looking for a television that offers a refresh rate of 120 Hz so that the television looks much smoother. You may also be interested Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus, compatible with Wi-Fi 6, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos and HDR10+ The price could vary. We earn commission from these links TCL Q65H 5.1 Channel Sound Bar for TV, 580 Watts, Home Theater, Surround Cinema Sound, Sound Expansion, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, Bluetooth 5.3, HDMI eARC, Single Remote Control, USB 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 | TCL In Xataka | Best home theater projectors. Which one to buy and five recommended models from 299 to 18,000 euros In Xataka | Mega-guide to set up a home theater: projector, screen, sound system and more

Congratulations, you already program without knowing how to program. Now prepare to wait six weeks for Apple to listen to you

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James Steinberg is a New Yorker, 35 years old, and has two professions. The first, cat sitter. The second, develop applications through vibecodinga technique in which knowing what one wants and iterating with AI manages to replace (in part) deep knowledge of areas such as software architecture or programming. Steinberg is not the exception, but the new norm in a phenomenon in which amateur programmers are saturating the software distribution system. Let them tell Apple. Wanting is power. There was a time when publishing an app on the App Store was a rite of passage for an engineer or software developer. After months of fighting with Swift or Objective-C, the app was ready and all that was missing was the blessing of the App Store and its strict terms of use. Today that wall has fallen, because since the vibecoding has appeared, the creation of software is no longer about being able to do things, but about wanting to do them. However, this democratization of programming comes at a price: before the problem was writing code, but now the bottleneck is get the App Store to validate it. The growth rate of apps published in the App Store has grown extraordinary since the end of 2025. The impact of vibecoding is evident. Source: BI. The explosion of agentic software. Data from the consulting firm Sensor Tower confirm that we are facing an extraordinary situation. In January 2026, the volume of new apps launched in the App Store in the US grew 54.8% compared to the previous year. A very similar figure had already been recorded in December: a 56% increase compared to the same month in 2024. Here there is not suddenly a batch of experts fresh out of university programming as if there were no tomorrow, but rather a bunch of “amateur programmers” who have used vibecoding to program their apps in a matter of minutes or hours and who have uploaded them to the App Store. Apple has a problem. When Steinberg or any other developer tries to publish their app on the App Store, they run into a problem: Apple’s validation process is dragging out and the average wait time is around six weeks to achieve the desired “green light.” Apple, aware that this saturation can damage its reputation, has wanted to come forward with figures to calm the market’s spirits. Apple says one thing, developers another. According to the company, 90% of the proposals it receives from all these programmers are reviewed in less than 48 hours, and the average wait is, according to the company, 1.5 days. In the last twelve weeks, Apple employees have analyzed more than 200,000 weekly shipments, which seems to make it clear that, at least according to them, the bottleneck is not that big. The developers don’t seem to be of the same opinion, and in forums and social networks there is talk of how reviews of existing updates take up to a week and new releases enter a kind of administrative limbo that exasperates this new legion of programmers. Apps that are AI Slop? A potential reason for this slowdown in deadlines may not only be the quantity of apps, but their quality. Both among traditional programmers and probably within Apple itself, there is a fear that this new batch of apps “vibecodeadas” is largely another variant of the “AI slop” or “AI Slop” that has already been presented in the form of images or videos. For some experts, many of these apps are mediocre, have been generated with little supervision and simply seek to monetize search niches. The strict terms of the App Store may be criticizable, but they are a kind of retaining wall that could flood the App Store with absolutely irrelevant apps. The App Store facing the dilemma. Forrester analyst Dipanjan Chatterjee indicated in Business Insider that “this is not a problem that Apple can get out of by rejecting apps. As AI accelerates the creation of applications, the company will have to evolve from artisanal surveillance to curation at scale.” Or what is the same: either Apple automates part of the process, or waiting times will continue to increase. The other option: tighten the entry criteria for apps created with AI so much that it disproportionately penalizes the developers who use these tools… of which there are more and more. Wanted vibecoder. What seemed like a hobby for hobbyists is becoming an increasingly striking economic ecosystem. According to Business Insiderplatforms like Lovable already publish job offers in which they are looking for “vibecoders professionals”, which seems to validate this new type of programmer, no matter how much the traditional market criticizes him. But. This avalanche of applications created with AI may be striking, but comments from professional developers usually agree on the same thing: these apps are more difficult to maintain in the long term. Even Linus Torvalds, who had partially fallen into the networks of AI, I warned him: “AI will be a tool, and it will make people more productive. I think vibe coding is great for getting people to start programming. I think (the code it generates) is going to be horrible to maintain… so I don’t think programmers will go away. You’ll still want to have people who know how to maintain the output.” Image | James Yarema In Xataka | Vibe coding wants to help Open Source. But developers don’t want AI botches

We wanted electric cars and solar panels. The Hormuz blockade has returned us to the era of coal and nuclear energy

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The Third Gulf War has caused what decades of climate summits tried to avoid: the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has erased 20% of the world’s supply of oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) in one fell swoop. Faced with the imminent threat of a large-scale blackout, governments around the world have put their energy transition plans in a drawer. However, to keep the lights on and the economy afloat, the immediate response has been to look back to the past: burn coal by the piece and resurrect nuclear power. The mirage of “bridge fuel.” Asia buys more than 80% of the crude oil and gas that transits through Hormuz, but the problem goes far beyond a simple ship jam. This crisis has destroyed one of the great pillars of the energy transition. As explained The New York TimesLiquefied Natural Gas (LNG) was sold during the last decade as the perfect “bridge fuel”: less polluting than coal, more reliable than intermittent renewables and capable of being transported by sea to any corner. That bridge just blew up. The damage is far from being repaired, and it is estimated that the infrastructure attacked It will take years to operate again. Added to this is that Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a kind of maritime “VIP discotheque”deciding by hand which ships can cross. No one can depend on LNG ships to guarantee their sovereignty. The main problem: live without pantry. But there is a technical factor that has turned this crisis into an immediate catastrophe: lack of storage. Unlike the West, most Asian countries lack underground gas stores, leaving them completely exposed to supply disruptions. While nations like South Korea can last up to 52 days and Japan about three weeks, Taiwan walk on a wire extremely fragile, with a legal security threshold of just 11 or 12 days of reserves. Without a “pantry” to store the LNG, Asia has no room for maneuver: if the ship does not arrive on Monday, the blackout begins on Tuesday. This structural vulnerability is what has forced an unconditional surrender to coal. Coal’s dirty lifesaver. As Jonathan Teubner, the aforementioned analyst, perfectly summarizes by Financial Times: “No coal ship passes through the Strait of Hormuz.” That is the key to everything. Being a cheap, abundant resource that does not depend on the troubled waters of the Middle East, the most polluting mineral has returned with a bang. According to FortuneSouth Korea has removed the 80% operational cap for its coal plants, a decision that has drawn the ire of environmental groups who accuse the government of using “energy security as a pretext.” Thailand, for its part, is restarting plants it had dismantled last year. From Seoul to New Delhi: the dilemma of the powers. Japan, one of the world’s largest gas importers, has also bowed to the evidence, allowing its least efficient coal plants to operate at full capacity for a year. Energy desperation is such that in Japan There are already voices demanding cancel the emissions trading system, calling it a “death sentence” for the coal plants they now need to survive. In India, the situation is critical. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned of a “major challenge” ahead of the summer. To avoid massive blackouts, New Delhi has commanded giants such as Tata Power and Adani Power operate at full capacity, while Bangladesh seeks multi-billion dollar loans. Sam Chua, analyst at Rystad Energy, sums it up in Financial Times: We are not seeing a transition, but a brutal “destruction of gas demand.” Although it is not that simple: the money wall. This coal revival has a glass ceiling. As experts point out in Japan Timesthe banking sector flatly refuses to finance the construction of new coal plants for fear of being left with “stranded assets” (stranded assets) in the face of global climate commitments. That is, countries are squeezing their dirty old infrastructure to the last drop, but they can’t build new ones. Charcoal is the assisted respirator, but not the cure. The atom as a shield: the great redemption of uranium. Panic too has broken atomic taboos. Taiwan, whose government promised a “nuclear-free homeland” in 2016, has announced plans to restart two decommissioned reactors. The Philippines has charted a fast track to atomic energy by 2032, and Vietnam has just struck a deal with Russia to build its first reactors. Uranium is no longer seen as a threat, but rather as the only way to protect the electricity supply against maritime blackmail. The domino effect reaches Europe. What started as an emergency solution in Asia is already infecting the West. The crisis has forced the European Union to break its own historical taboos, admitting that Europe committed a “strategic mistake” by moving away from atomic energy. Brussels has already put 200 million euros on the table to develop Small Modular Reactors (SMR) by 2030. This shift shows a continental fracture: while France entrenches itself protecting its nuclear investment of 300 billion euros and blocks energy interconnections with the Iberian Peninsula, Europe assumes that it cannot guarantee its future solely with the sun and the wind. War rationing in the 21st century. While the plants uproot, the daily suffocation hit the streets. Philippines has declared a “national energy emergency.” In South Korea, the government implores families to take short showers and Samsung has prohibited its employees from driving to work based on the license plate. In Thailand, officials operate with work weeks for four days and they are prohibited from wearing ties in order to raise the temperature of the air conditioning. The collapse is so severe that Thai ambulances have taken to Facebook to beg gas stations to reserve diesel for them to save lives. The collateral damage. The scope of this blockage transcends the electricity bill. If the conflict lasts until June, Bloomberg alert that the barrel could touch $200, a price designed to cause “demand destruction.” This would lock global inflation at a chronic … Read more

lock up China without a single shot

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Japan is a country made up of more than 6,800 islands, although only about 400 are permanently inhabited. Many of them are small, remote and barely appear on the map, but their location places them in some of the most strategic points of the planet. The invisible barrier. It is evident that international views have been marked by the war in ukraine and now in Iran but, in the meantime, Japan has been raising a kind of “invisible barrier” fortified on a chain of islands off China that completely redefines the balance in the Pacific. It is not a single base or a large visible deployment, but a dispersed network of military positions stretching from southwestern Japan to remote points of the ocean, creating a continuous line of surveillance, detection and potential attack. This strategy turns small islands, many almost uninhabited, into key pieces of a system designed to stop the Chinese advance without the need for open war. From forgotten territory to the first defensive line. It we have counted in recent years. For decades, these islands barely had a military presence, but that has been changing radically in recent times. Places like Yonagunia few kilometers from Taiwan, have gone from having no troops to hosting radars, electronic warfare systems and permanent military unitswhile other positions have been reinforced with new bases and military equipment. There is no doubt, this turn responds to a crystal clear reality: if China tries to act on Taiwan, these islands would be the first objective or the first shield, and Japan is no longer willing to leave them exposed. One of the Type 12 models installed on the islands by Japan Missiles, radars and drones. The real change is in the type of capabilities deployed, which turn this chain of islands into a system offensive and defensive at the same time. As? For example, Japan is deploying long range anti-ship missilessystems capable of hitting hundreds or even thousands of kilometers, along with advanced radars and drones that allow you to detect and track targets in real time. Not only that. Added to this are new weapons such as hypersonic projectiles and cruise missiles that extend the range to the interior of the rival territory, thus marking a clear break with its historical policy of limited defense. Lock up China without firing a shot. Beyond protecting his territory, he recalled this week the wall street journal in an extensive report that the network has a strategic objective much more ambitious: complicate China’s movements at sea in a kind of trap. We are talking about a group of islands that is part of what is known as the “first chain”a set of narrow sea passages that any Chinese fleet must pass through to project power into the Pacific. By deploying weapons at these points, Japan turns each transit at a riskraising the cost of any possible operation and creating a kind of encirclement that limits freedom of maneuver without the need for direct confrontation. The definitive jump. In short, all this reflects a profound change in Japanese strategy, which has gone from passive defense to an active deterrence with the ability to strike from a distance if necessary. The introduction of rocket missiles attests to this. Type 12 long rangethe Tomahawk purchase and integration with US forces, all indicative that Japan no longer just wants to resist an attack, but prevent it threatening key adversary objectives. If you like, we are facing a delicate balance, because reinforces securitybut it also turns these Japanese islands into possible targets, increasing tension in an increasingly unstable region. Image | NARA, Tokoro_ten In Xataka | A single island houses 70% of the US military bases in Japan. There is a compelling reason for them not to leave: China In Xataka | China is sending drones to an island 100 km from Taiwan. The problem is that Japan and the US are filling it with missiles

what these skills are, what they are for, how they are used and who can use them to create their own Claude

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Let’s explain to you What are Claude’s Skills?also called Skills in Spanish. This is a method with which you can create custom versions of Claudean alternative to GPTs of ChatGPT or the Gems of Gemini. Skills are a very powerful feature, and also very open to be shared on the Internet. Its uses are as many as you can imagine. They are a series of instructions that you can add or generate, and that artificial intelligence will read before answering your questions. What are Claude’s Skills? Skills or abilities are a system with which you can create Claude customizationsor own versions of artificial intelligence. The skills are something similar to ChatGPT’s GPTs, but much more complete. They can be simple files like a GPT, but they can also be folders of instructions, scripts, or other resources. What you are going to achieve with this is that instead of using the generic version of Claude, when you use it loading a skill you interact with a version that is much more personalized and adapted to what you need, or that takes into account a specific context. Skills teach Claude how to complete specific tasks in a repeatable manner. In short, a skill is an encapsulated procedurethe way to tell Claude how to perform specific tasks, under what conditions and with what rules you want him to do it, without having to repeat these instructions in every conversation. For example, you can create a specific skill to teach you the rules of a board game you want to learn to play. Or you can also create it to help you improve your writing, to review your texts, or to teach mathematics to your children. They’re like skills that you set up and load whenever you want. When you activate a Skillwhen you make a request to Claude the AI ​​will first read the file for this skill, incorporating its instructions into the context window. If these instructions refer to other files, Claude will also read them, or if the instructions mention executable scripts the AI ​​will also execute them. What are Skills for? To understand what Skills are for, you must first take into account how Claude’s memory works. AI keeps some key data about you and how you want things, but does not remember the contexts from one conversation to another. In a chat you can give detailed instructions to do something, but when you open a new chat you will be starting from scratch. And this is where Skills come into play. If you usually or want to do recurring tasks with Claude, you don’t need to give detailed instructions every time that you are going to do it in a new chat. You can create a skill that contains all the precise instructions you need, and then load it whenever you want or are going to use it. This allows you to do several things. In the most practical case is to create a type of specific applications. For example, imagine that you like to analyze the SEO of something you write. So, every time you go to ask for this analysis you have to give the instructions to Claude, but If you load a Skill you do not need to give the instructionsand you can simply activate it and write the text you want to analyze. You can also use it to maintain your brand’s tone of voice when writing contentsuch as writing emails or making posts on social networks. You can use it to have a specific formula active when analyzing data, or generating code that follows your team’s internal standards. A Skill can be a simple set of instructions, but it can also be much more complex and include dozens of reference files. So, there are many ways you can schedule it. How to use Claude’s Skills In Claude you will find two types of Skills. One is the pre-designed ones, those created by Anthropic itself to give its AI capabilities to do specific things, and which are activated automatically when you ask to do something for which there is one of these skills. And secondly there are custom skillswhich are those created by any user writing instructions in Markdown. It doesn’t require any programming knowledge, because you can create them by typing the instructions, upload one you created outside of Claude, or even ask Claude to create one following your request. There are two methods to use Skills. The first is to mention it, add it explicitly so that what you write next takes these instructions into account. But they will also be activated automatically when you ask it to do something for which there is a Skill, such as creating web artifacts. 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Spain awarded 20 million euros to Stellantis to create jobs in Galicia. Europe has prevented the money from being delivered

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20,660,434 euros. That was the aid that the Government of Spain granted in 2017 to PSA (now Stellantis after its merger with FCA) as “regional incentives for the correction of territorial economic imbalances.” Just two years later, the European Commission already doubted the appropriateness of this aid. Almost a decade after its delivery, Stellantis will have to return the money. 20.7 million euros. It was the money given by Mariano Rajoy’s Government in 2017 to the automobile conglomerate PSA. The company, then directed by Carlos Tavares, had been looking for money framed within the “Industrial Plan 2014-2020” in which funds from the European Union were available. The Spanish subsidiary of PSA, known as PCAE, requested aid of 392 million euros in 2014 to carry out the necessary actions to modernize the plant and launch a new model. The aid program was expanded, with another 100 million in subsequent years because PSA was going to produce a new vehicle platform and a new SUV car in Vigo. In 2017, shortly before Mariano Rajoy left Moncloa, the Government of Spain provided the aforementioned aid of 20.7 million euros since it corresponded to the maximum percentage allowed with respect to the investment that was planned to be used. many doubts. In 2019the European Commission was already beginning to doubt the legality or compatibility of this aid. In a document submitted thenquestioned whether the subsidies provided were meeting the criteria to create employment in the area. In said letter, PSA was already invited and the Government of Spain has explained the reason for this aid. In that document, the European Commission questioned whether the positive effects of the aid outweighed the negative ones and, therefore, that the decision to financially support the company with those more than 20 million euros was not economically doping its commitment to our country instead of taking production to the Trnava plant (Slovakia) with which Vigo competed. According to the European Commission, it believed that both plants were competing on equal terms and that the socioeconomic context of the Slovaks was no worse than that of Vigo. Furthermore, they pointed out that the defense that this aid helped preserve employment in Galicia in the face of a possible relocation to Morocco (a position defended by Spain) was not sufficient because PSA had already previously relocated other vehicles that were previously manufactured in Spain. Seven years of research. Already in 2020, Europe continued to defend that the Commission had its doubts “regarding the contribution of investment projects to the development of the region in question”, as they stated in elDiario.es. Then it was thought that the company’s true intention was to improve the factory facilities with the sole objective of improving the company’s competitiveness but that it had nothing to do with an improvement in innovation and local investments. There were even doubts about the compatibility of being able to deliver these aid to a company like PCAE (the Spanish subsidiary of PSA). One of the most compelling reasons presented by the European Commission is, as they point out in The Worldthe choice of the Vigo company to the detriment of the Slovaks. And it is considered that opting for a more economically developed region to receive aid contravenes the principles of cohesion of the European Union, which prevents the delivery of this type of subsidies. Case closed. Now, the Government of Spain has notified the European Commission that it is withdrawing the subsidy of 20.7 million euros. He has done it because he cannot prove its legality. As the money has not yet been delivered, the European Commission has closed the investigation, they explain in the Galician media. praza.gal. At this time, Spain has not been able to demonstrate that the number of jobs increased after the aid was granted nor that it represented an economic boost in the region. In fact, it was possible that the number of jobs could even be reduced, as they point out in Motorpassion. During this time, the money has not been delivered because it remained frozen with the European investigation. Now we know that Stellantis will not charge it. Photo | Stellantis In Xataka | The Stellantis factory in Figueruelas has been looking for a reconversion plan for years. You already have it: make Chinese electric cars

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