Month: March 2026

the birth of the most extreme magnetic monster in the universe

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In the vast catalog of violent cosmic events, there are explosions and then there are superluminous supernovae, which are nothing more than the result of a stellar death which is capable of shining up to 100 times brighter than a conventional supernova, challenging our understanding of astrophysics for years, since it is not known where it can get so much energy from. Now we are getting an idea. What do we know? The big news in the world of astrophysics comes from an international team of astronomers who has been able to observe for the first time the live birth of a magnetar, conclusively confirming the link between these highly magnetic stellar corpses and the brightest supernovae in the cosmos. Where. The protagonist of this discovery is SN 2024fav, a type I superluminous supernova detected on December 9, 2024 and located in the Eridanus constellation about 1,000 million light years from us. And it’s not that it is a very common phenomenon, because watching this event is like looking for a needle in an intergalactic haystack. Finding this ‘needle’ is something very precious and that is why, in order not to lose any detail of this brilliant monster, the astronomical community mobilized a network of more than 20 telescopes around the world, including the fundamental contribution of the LOCGT. Thanks to this uninterrupted surveillance, scientists obtained the observational data necessary to reconstruct what was happening in the depths of the explosion. The relativistic screech. The question here is pretty clear: how do you confirm that there is a magnetar inside that expanding fireball? The first thing is to know what a magnetar is, which is nothing other than a very dense neutron star that has a magnetic field trillions of times stronger than that of the Earth. And it is not static, because when born after the collapse of a massive star it can rotate several times per second, reaching high speeds. In order to discover it, the researchers have named what gave them the key ‘relativistic chirp’. In this way, as the newborn magnetar rotates at the center of the supernova, its immense magnetic field acts as a brake, transferring its colossal rotational energy to the ejected stellar matter, causing it to shine with such extreme intensity. What they saw. From here, the researchers precisely detected the temporal signature of this external braking. From here, the light curve of SN 2024afav fit perfectly with the prediction of the energy loss of an incipient magnetar injecting power into the supernova, so we are facing the birth of a magnetar. Its importance. This discovery not only allows us to understand why certain stars say goodbye to the universe with a blinding brightness capable of eclipsing entire galaxies, but also opens a new window to study the behavior of matter subjected to such extreme magnetic fields that modern physics can barely replicate on paper. Images | NASA Hubble Space Telescope In Xataka | James Webb has been detecting red dots in the universe for years: the only problem is that we don’t know what they are

The largest data centers on the planet are guarded by dogs. By robot dogs

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The deployment of data centers to train the artificial intelligence It is a sign of technological power, but also economic power. This year alone, the big Americans are going to let themselves more money than NASA invested to take man to the Moon. More than $670 billion between Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Google to create gigantic data centers. And within that investment, an important part is in safety with dogs. With robot dogs, specifically. It is the culmination of science fiction dystopia. In short. In the age of AI, data centers are the holy grail. We are continually seeing how companies sign contracts for thousands of million dollars with NVIDIA either amd (especially with NVIDIA) to provide them with the platforms with which to train their models. It’s only part of the equation, as there is another monumental investment in power, storage, RAM, dissipation and everything necessary to make these small cities work. Within the investment, there is security, and in BI They have published a report in which they detail that, within the budget, there are companies that are already including spending on robots that patrol both the perimeter and the internal corridors. The goal is security in every sense: patrol to detect threats, but also to identify any problems that occur with the equipment before they escalate and become something more serious. brand dogs. In the report, two companies are pointed out: Boston Dynamics and its dog Spot (with which we were able to play a few years ago) and Ghost Robotics with your Vision 60. Since Boston Dynamicsthe company owned by hyundai For a few years now, they have told the American media that they have been visiting data centers for some time because there is great interest. “We have seen an increase in interest in data centers in the last year, which is probably not surprising given the investment in that space,” Merry Frayne, the company’s senior director of product management, tells the outlet. For these companies, it is tremendous advertising, but also a potential customer in a “new” sector. Because it is possible that the police do not have the budget to get hold of many, but within the billions that are invested in data centers, dogs are just another sheet in the accounting excel. You can mount the sensor you want ‘Patrolling the center. And what is your task? Well… quite a task, really. The representative of Boston Dynamics, and other operators, point out that the dogs are not limited to acting as a “mobile surveillance camera”, but have other tasks: Patrol exterior perimeters to ensure that there are no problems with fences and accesses. Walk through server rooms, cooling rooms, and power rooms to look for anomalies such as water leaks, hot spots that may indicate a short circuit, or accumulations of moisture. Also sensors to detect gases, microphones to analyze noise and, ultimately, the sensor you want to put on it. Capture visual data from everything, such as analog pressure gauges or level indicators. Constantly, and as some robot vacuum cleaners do, map with LiDAR as they pass to see that there are no elements out of place. Some specific centers in which they are already being tested are Novva Data Centers in Utah or Oracle at the Industry Lab in Chicago. And dogs, in addition to cameras, have all kinds of thermal sensors and even conversational interfaces based on models like ChatGPT to interact with people. Measurement of noise levels Object identification Thermal sensors Compensate. It’s really nothing new. We have already seen robot dogs in other industrial sectors such as oil, mining or manufacturing. security forces. In China, in fact, there are deploying to assist firefighters in extreme situations or in institutesbut if in those scenarios they are seen as a tool, here they seem more like a substitute. Because there are those who have done the math and, in a market like the American one, a couple of full-time human guards can cost about $300,000 annually. The initial cost of a Spot ranges from $175,000 to $300,000, depending on the equipment. The cost of a Vision 60 is $165,000. And, as we see, they do much more than a security guard by being full of sensors. Frayne says, “Clients typically start to see a payback on their investment in about 18 months.” Michael Subhan, business director at Ghost Robotics, comments that “instead of having two human guards for $300,000, you can have one human guard and one robot.” A Spots battery charging. And it’s better, since it lasts less than two hours with the standard battery They also get tired. These robots also have their needs. They need to change batteries and install charging points and the environment must be well structured so that the routes are efficient and the sensors such as the LiDAR work well. They can climb stairs and avoid obstacles, but performance suffers in other environments and, in addition, the placement of fixed cameras and sensors in the building must be planned. That is to say, it seems that it is not as easy as saying “I build the center however I want, buy four robodogs and it will work”, but rather that you have to plan the traditional elements and the dogs to achieve a good integration. who are you HUGE Market. Although we have discussed two specific cases in which these robo-guardian dogs are being tested, both Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics have not gone into more details. In the end, it is security, and this falls within confidentiality agreements. Boston Dynamics points out that it is an “emerging market.” And Subhan has mentioned that “in the United States alone there are 5,000 data centers and 800 to 1,000 are currently being built, so we see it as a great market for us.” According to some estimatesthe market for robot dogs and industrial drones is currently around 500,000 units, but is expected to double by 2030, generating a market of 21 billion … Read more

build luxury cruise ships. And he’s doing it at full speed

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For decades, Europe has been without a doubt the world reference in the construction of cruise ships with four outstanding shipyards: in Italy, Germany, France and Finland. However, beneath those luxurious interiors hide ambitious works of engineering in the form of small (relatively) cities that navigate the oceans. China was already an authority in the construction of freighters and container ships, but cruise ships resisted it. three years ago timidly entered the sectorbut he is burning stages in record time. The Adora Flora City is almost ready. Last Friday the Love Flora City (in Chinese, Aida Huacheng), left dry dock in Shanghai. In short: only your test trips and final delivery are ahead of you on your roadmap, although tickets can now be reserved for their first cruises at the end of the year from Guangzhou. Everything is going as planned and at printing speed too: it was assembled in just nine months. This impressive luxury cruise ship has been built by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co. at the city’s shipyard and with Guangzhou Nansha as its home port. It is 341 meters long and 37.2 meters wide and inside there is capacity for 5,232 passengers, distributed in 2,144 cabins. Your design is inspired on the Silk Road and Lingnan culture, with floral motifs throughout the ship in a nod to Guangzhou. However, Huacheng is “City of Flowers” the nickname of Guangzhou. Why is it important. Because building a cruise ship is one of the most complex projects in naval engineering, which demonstrates its scarcity and the seniority of the classic European shipyards, and China has demonstrated both its technical power and its enormous learning capacity. And in what way: China has stepped on the accelerator on its learning curve. From the first to the second cruise it has shortened construction deadlines and reduced its external dependence, with a near date to be completely independent. Aid from the West has been a double-edged sword (for the West): it has helped create a competitor that, based on precedents in other sectors, can change the naval industry drastically. Context. Adora Cruises was born in 2015 as a joint venture between CSSC and Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise operator in the world. China provided shipyards and the market and Carnival provided its experience and the brand. But the pandemic disrupted plans, the relationship cooled and Carnival ended up withdrawing completely. When it was born, its goal was for the ships to be operated by the Asian division of Aida Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival (hence its name Aida). At the beginning of this year, Adora integrated with other state operators under the China Cruises brand in a movement in which, although Adora maintains its recognizable name, it seeks to optimize its operational performance and consolidate its presence in the Chinese market. It is already an entirely Chinese project. The first cruise. He Love Magic City (Aida Modu) was the first large cruise ship manufactured entirely in China. Among its specifications, a length of 323 meters, capacity to accommodate up to 5,246 passengers on its 14 decks and 2,125 cabins with a style that combines Western with Chinese. In this case, assembling the helmet cost them a little more: 11 months. detaching from Fincantieri. But while for the Adora Magic City intensive technical support from the Italian shipyard Fincantieri, with the Flora City, Chinese engineering is almost on its own. The construction and coordination of work is now entirely Chinese. Ficantieri and the RINA classification society are still in the project, providing licenses, the design platform and some parts, but they are no longer supervising. What’s coming As reported by XinhuaLast Friday, China Tourism Group and CSSC signed a memorandum of understanding for the construction of a new cruise ship. Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding plans to accelerate the construction of a cruise ship assembly base and already has in mind the date to deliver the first independent, that is, 100% Chinese, large cruise ship: in 2030. The idea is to pave the way to enter the mass production phase. In Xataka | We believed that the most incredible thing about megacruises is their size. It turns out that the real miracle is their kitchens In Xataka | From trips for honeymooners and retirees to Gen Z phenomenon: this is how cruises are being saved Images | Adora Cruises

How PHOLED technology can end burn-in on OLED screens

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For years, OLED technology has been the indisputable reference in terms of image quality. Perfect blacks, infinite contrast and the precision of individually dimmable pixels are its hallmarks. However, since their origin, these panels have had a problem inherent to the nature of the materials used in their manufacture: uneven wear of your pixelsor what the industry calls “burn-in” or screen burn-in. This burning leaves a constant mark on the screen of television channel logos, banners and even icons if they were used as monitors. Now, the industry believes it has found the missing piece to solve this OLED problem. It is called PHOLED and its proposal revolves around something very specific: the color blue. The weak point was always the same: the diodes An OLED panel works based on organic light-emitting diodes when current passes through them. Each pixel generates its own color without the need for backlighting, which explains its superior contrast levels and depth in blacks compared to technologies such as LCD or MiniLED because it literally turns off its pixels, something LCD-based technologies cannot do. The problem with OLED is that not all colors age the same. The blue subpixel has greater degradation than red and green because, of the three primary colors, blue has the shortest wavelength and requires the most energy to be emitted stably. To make an analogy, it is as if a blue car needed to go in second gear and 5,000 rpm to reach a speed of 50 km/h, while the green and red car circulate at the same speed, but with third gear engaged and at 2,500 rpm. After a while, the blue car’s engine would suffer greater wear and tear of materials. Pixels of a WOLED matrix This historical limitation has forced develop intermediate solutions like LG’s WOLED panels, designed precisely to overcome this premature degradation by adding a fourth white subpixel that allowed the blue subpixel to “reduce its revolutions.” That uneven wear is the root of the burn. ​What exactly changes with PHOLED PHOLED (Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diode) stands for “Phosphorescent OLED,” and the key difference is how the light is generated. The current OLED panels (especially high-end ones) already use phosphorescence in the red and green subpixels. However, blue is still fluorescentwhich are less efficient because they only take advantage of 25% of the electrical energy they receive, compared to the nearly 100% efficiency offered by phosphorescence. ​What PHOLED achieves is to extend that phosphorescence to the blue subpixel, something that had not been viable for more than two decades. The reason why it has cost so much is precisely that high energy demand for blue. The molecules involved in the process have to manage much higher energy levels, which until now made them unstable or too expensive to manufacture. produce on an industrial scale. The benefit of achieving this is threefold. Being more efficient, the blue subpixel needs less energy to emit the same intensity of light, therefore the heat it generates is reduced. Less heat means less stress on the organic material, which in turn extends its useful life. If all subpixels age more uniformly and more slowly, the risk of screen marking will be drastically reduced. That is, lower consumption, less heat and more durability for the panel. PHOLED versus the current OLED and MiniLED Compared to conventional OLED, PHOLED introduces measurable improvementsLG Display has confirmed that its implementation with a double-stacked Tandem structure (which combines a blue phosphorescence layer with a blue fluorescence layer to maintain stability) manages to reduce energy consumption by around 15% compared to current panels. At the brightness level, by making better use of the available energy, the panel can reach higher brightness levels without penalizing lifespan. Some estimates speak of screens up to three times brighter than current OLEDs once the technology fully matures. In terms of durability, by matching the efficiency of blue with that of red and green, the panel maintains its performance for longer and more homogeneously, so wear is more progressive and “natural.” Compared to MiniLED, which is still a very precise LCD backlight technology, the leap is of a different nature. MiniLED can reach very high brightness levels, but it can’t turn off individual pixels, so it doesn’t reach the pure black or extreme contrast of OLED. PHOLED maintains these advantages and reduces the main historical weakness of this technology. Why is it not already on the market? He blue phosphorescent diode It has been the great technical challenge of the sector for more than two decades. It wasn’t just about making it work, but making it stable, durable, and scalable to produce high volume displays at reasonable costs. Universal Display Corporation (UDC), the world’s leading supplier of OLED materials, has been operating since 2022. setting marketing deadlines that have repeatedly had to be delayed. The situation changed in May 2025, when LG Display advertisement to be the first company in the world to verify the mass production level performance of phosphorescent blue OLED panels, eight months after starting the collaboration with UDC. Although the achievement achieved with the panels PHOLED is now a realityAt the implementation level, it has not yet been developed as much at the scaling level. That is, it is still very expensive to manufacture. Therefore, its deployment is expected to be progressive. As has already happened with other display technologiessuch as OLED or MiniLED, in all likelihood the first devices to incorporate screens with this technology will be those of reduced sizesuch as mobile phones, tablets and laptops, where production requirements are more manageable. Then monitors will arrive and, finally, televisions, where size and cost requirements are more demanding and the price of the product is more likely to skyrocket, so it is necessary to start from a more developed manufacturing technology. However, the most relevant thing is that, for the first time, the industry has a solution to the biggest problem that OLED presented. This solution is not an intermediate patch (like WOLED), software or … Read more

We have been talking about “time immemorial” all our lives as if it were a remote past. Well it’s a specific year

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You’ve heard it a thousand times. Someone is talking about a custom, a tradition, a deep-rooted habit and suddenly, to underline that idea, they pompously claim that it dates back to “immemorial times”. You, too, have probably uttered that phrase more than once. What you may not know is that “immemorial times” does not take us back to a very distant and diffuse past of which there is no written record, but to a date very specific and not so remote: the summer of 1189. That is, just under 840 years ago. To understand it you have to travel to medieval England. Of laws and customs. It’s easy to forget when you get a fine, but living in a world regulated by clear laws is a fortune. For example, if you believe that your neighbor has taken something that belongs to you, you know exactly what to do: find a lawyer, go to court and appeal to legislation that applies equally to everyone. In medieval England the thing was more complicated. Justice was dispensed, but in a way that would seem rudimentary to us today. “Until 1275 law in early medieval England was constantly evolving and was based largely on the idea of ​​long usage, custom and royal decrees,” explains Amy Irvine in Histoy Hit. “The legal framework was decentralized, with no unified or systematic legal code for the entire country. Individual regions and communities had their own local courts and were governed by customary laws developed over time. These rules were often unwritten and passed down from generation to generation.” putting order. Over time that framework evolved. An important change came with the ratification of the Magna Carta of 1215, which placed certain restrictions on royal authority. Another (key) was completed in 1275, with the Statute of Westminstera document that codified the laws in force throughout the kingdom. Throughout his 51 chapters The statute addresses issues such as criminal legislation, the rules that regulate commerce or an issue that may seem minor to us today but in its day played a fundamental role: consolidated rights. As Irvine recalls, during the reign of Henry II (1154-1189), as the legal system consolidated, more and more people began to defend their rights, claiming legitimacy over plots or grazing areas. What arguments were they using? The custom. Often those who claimed a right relied on the fact that they had enjoyed it for a long time. The problem was how to prove it. The Statute of Westminster wanted to clarify that point with an ingenious solution, one that played with the idea of ​​’memory’. “Immemorial” times. Basically what the statute of 1275 did was divide history into two large blocks, at least for legal purposes. What divided them? The ‘legal memory’. On the one hand, there was the vast period that came to be considered ‘time immemorial’. On the other hand, the valid ‘memory time’. Today it may sound far-fetched to us, but it made sense in the eyes of medieval Englishmen. At that time one of the arguments usually used in property trials was oral tradition transmitted from one generation to another. That is, someone claimed a piece of land arguing that their father, grandfather, great-grandfather… claimed that they already farmed on that plot of land. The Statute of Westminster wanted to put some order in this mess, establishing a time of ‘legal memory’, a border between an oral company and another regulated in writing. What exactly did he do? “It became the date of legal memory,” explains Russell Sandbergprofessor at Cardiff University, in statements reported by IFL. That is, he established a framework that anyone who wanted to defend that something had happened “since” time immemorial “had to adhere to.” The change also had important advantages for English landowners, who until then had to go back several centuries, until the norman conquest of 1066, to demonstrate the validity of their property titles. One year: 1189. The next question is obvious: What barrier separated ‘immemorial’ time from the time of legal memory? What year made the difference? The answer is 1189, the year of the coronation of King Richard I of England, better known as Richard the Lionheart. Taking into account that the Statute of Westminster dates back to 1275, this means that legal memory was limited to 86 years, a reasonable time to use the testimonies of parents and grandparents. ‘Immemorial time’ thus became limited (at least in the eyes of medieval English law) to any time prior to the summer of 1189. When exactly? It is not easy to define it. There are those who set the exact border July 6 1189, the day of Richard I’s accession to the throne after the death of Henry II. Others delay it until his coronation, September 3 of that same year. Laws… and something more. That 1189 was chosen as the temporal border also has a symbolic reading: by choosing that date, Edward I paid tribute to his predecessors, the monarchs Henry II and Richard I, which in a way also served to reinforce his legitimacy on the throne. The truth is that the formula worked and still today is used frequently the concept of “time immemorial”, although those who use it do not always have Richard I and medieval legislation in mind. For the RAEFor example, “immemorial” is that time “so old that there is no memory of when it began.” Images | Andrik Langfield (Unsplash) and Wikipedia In Xataka | In the Middle Ages it was common to sleep inside wooden closets. The big question is why we stopped doing it.

If the question is how to survive the tsunami of information in the age of AI, the answer is simple: learning not to read

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This morning I counted the open tabs on Day, my browser. Twenty-five. There was a Counterpoint analysis there that I opened five days ago to read “as soon as I can” but that I haven’t touched yet. A very good looking thread from X. Three newsletters to medium scrollwaiting for me like half-done homework. And so on a few more things. I’ve been writing about technology for fifteen years. My job is literally to read, filter and think about what I read. And yet, or precisely because of that, it is increasingly difficult for me to distinguish when I am informing myself from when I am simply moving my eyes. We have been treating reading as a virtue in itself for centuries. “Read more” has always been the universal advice, the automatic response to almost any shortcoming. AND tmade sense when the problem was the scarcity of sources. But the problem began to be different and we continued the same, with the same reflection. The mistake is that we have transferred the respect and moral inertia that we had for a good book to formats that do not deserve it. We read an endless thread of X, a marketing PDF or a newsletter inflated feeling that passing your eyes over that text is a meritorious act by default. It is no longer. Or at least, not always. I know this goes against me. AI has broken the equation in a way that borders on absurd comedy. Today anyone generates a ten-page report on any topic in three minutes. Any creator inflates an idea of ​​a paragraph until it fills a thousand words without adding a single new piece of information, just trash. And the great paradox is something we saw coming a long time ago: Our best defense is to use that same technology. We live in a loop where A machine lengthens a text to make it seem important, and we use another machine to summarize it for us in three bullets and thus save us the procedure. Some give the badge and others neutralize it. The amount of text available is no longer related to the knowledge it contains. There are more words than ever because it is easier than ever to generate them, but It is not at all clear that there are more ideas. What is growing is the pressure to consume them all. I feel like, often, that fear of being left out seems like intellectual curiosity when what’s underneath is simple FOMO. Traditional functional illiteracy consisted of deciphering the letters but not understanding a word of what they said. The new one looks more like the opposite: We understand each text perfectly, but we have lost the ability to decide if it deserves to be read.. We don’t filter. We do not rule out. We don’t say “this is bullshit that doesn’t give me anything.” Not enough. And we don’t do it because discarding information is something that we continue to feel like a loss, like an act of laziness that gives us away. But it is just the opposite. The ability to not read (identify in three seconds that something is not worth your next ten minutes) is today an act of intelligence that contributes almost as much as reading itself. And for that you need to develop your own red flag. In my case, if a text promises a revelation but the first paragraph is pure introductory nonsense, get out. If I sense grandiloquent adjectives and filling robotic structures, out. If there is not a single piece of data before the first scroll, on the run. I don’t even mention the monoline structure so common in X and LinkedIn. There, it directly catapults. When ChatGPT arrived, many of us thought that the risk of AI was that people would stop reading. It may be worse: that you read more than ever without thinking more than ever. Let it process without digesting. Accumulate information like someone who accumulates open tabs, with the vague promise of returning to them. We know he won’t. We never go back. I know this because I haven’t closed those twenty-five tabs all week and in the end I will close them all at once, without reading them, with a mixture of relief and guilt. But I have begun to understand that closing tabs suddenly after having selected the most interesting thing is a very healthy practice. In the end, the new functional illiterate is too much like my browser this morning: overloaded with tabs, full of promises to read, and completely unable to process a single more idea. In Xataka | There is a generation working for free as a documentarian of their own life: they are not influencers but they act as if they were. Featured image | Xataka

Is it a good time to buy the Samsung Galaxy S25 or will it drop in price? This is what the data tells us

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According to the price that the Samsung Galaxy S25 since it was launched and seeing how its predecessor (the Galaxy S24) performed in the market, this is how we value, at the moment, the purchase of the S25 in its 256 GB versionwhich is the one we have analyzed. 🔴 alert (don’t even think about it) Samsung Galaxy S25 Verdict At this moment it is almost at its launch price official RRP 869 euros (Samsung store) Target price “on the street” Don’t pay more than 729 euros (Powerplanet) Next release You can now buy the Samsung Galaxy S26 at the official price of 999 euros in the Samsung store. Our recommendation Don’t buy it. After having reached its historical minimum, now this Samsung mobile is practically at its launch price, being a moment in which you will pay 200 euros more than two months ago for a terminal that is already more than a year old. Regret cost High. The mobile phone has been on the market for more than a year and has a successor. Buying it now would be throwing away your money, as it is expected to drop back to the lowest price it reached a few months ago. In fact, it is already starting to decline in some stores, but not at a considerable rate. Samsung – Samsung Galaxy S25 12GB + 256 GB free mobile. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Why is the traffic light red? The price of the Samsung Galaxy S25, in March 2026, has reached a critical rebound situation after more than a year on the market. That is, the price went down after its release, but now it has started to rise suddenly until almost reaching its initial selling price. Therefore, we find ourselves in this situation: Uncertainty after the launch of the new Galaxy S26: After reaching its maximum price peak again, we now have to wait for the Samsung Galaxy S25 to drop again after the recent launch of the S26 (something that already happened to the S24). Everything indicates that in a few months the Galaxy S25 will drop and its price will stabilize. Future purchase: This means that, at the moment, the purchase of the S25 is more on impulse, since there are really no good offers for this model. The ideal is to wait a few months in case you want to get the previous generation of Samsung’s flagship. Expert Buyer Tip: The Samsung Galaxy S25 has suffered a “bullwhip effect” in recent months and its price has skyrocketed. With the launch of the new Galaxy S26, the price curve will surely end up going down. So if you can wait, the price of Samsung’s previous flagship will eventually drop until it stabilizes. Price history and change prediction The graph above compares the prices that the Samsung Galaxy S25 has had compared to its predecessor (the Galaxy S24) over the course of a year. This is what we observe: This is how Samsung makes money: the secret is in the IPHONE Unusual instability: The S25 market is being totally unstable. While in months nine and ten it reached its historical minimum price (being the best purchase option). After this, it has experienced a rebound that places it almost at the launch price. It is more expensive than its predecessor: Right now, the S25 is 21% more expensive than the Galaxy S24 at the same point in the cycle. The recommendation, therefore, is none other than to wait. Drop expected: It has already been shown that the S25 can drop considerably, so buying it at the prices it is at now, at this point in the life cycle, is paying an unjustified premium for a model that already even has a new replacement (the Galaxy S26) on sale. The best Samsung Galaxy S25 deals now: Keep in mind that many of the offers we find are no longer available once we publish the item, either because they end or because stock runs out, so make sure before buying. Right now, we have not found very good offers for the Samsung Galaxy S25 (except in a few stores). Samsung – Samsung Galaxy S25 12GB + 256 GB free mobile. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links The successor to the Galaxy S25 As we have already indicated, the new successor to the Galaxy S25 is now on sale. Specifically, the Samsung Galaxy S26 It was launched at the end of February at the price of 999 euros for the base 256 GB model. So, as you can see, for what the previous model costs right now, the current one is a good purchase option. Samsung Galaxy S26, 256GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Is the Samsung Galaxy S25 for you now? If you are not sure whether or not you should buy the Samsung Galaxy S25, this is what I would take into account: ✅ BUY IT TODAY IF: You need to change your phone, you want one from Samsung and you like the previous model more than the new Galaxy S26. ⛔ I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT IF: Can pay a little more for the new one Samsung Galaxy S26 to enjoy some of its new features. 💡 Good alternatives to the Samsung Galaxy S25 that I would buy If you still have doubts about purchasing this Samsung mobile, these are some of the alternatives that I would take into account: Xiaomi 15: by 665 eurosthis Xiaomi mobile stands out for a major battery than that of the Galaxy S25 and charges at 90 W. Its photographic system is signed by Leica and offers more natural image processing. Xiaomi 15 5g 6.36″ 512 GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Pixel 10: If you prioritize the photo and the pure Android experience, this is a good model and even more so at the price it has now (588 … Read more

The map of Spain’s exports, a much more industrial country than you think

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In a global world but with tariffs where China is the factory of the world and Germany is the engine of EuropeIt is easy to fall into historical clichés when we talk about the Spanish state and the great Mediterranean classics such as olive oil, ham or wine, but the reality is that Spain exports many more products to the world. Yes, those typical ones appear on the list, but there are other less known ones that are ahead. And if we open the range to products and services, we cannot miss a sector in which it is a world power: tourism. He Atlas of Economic Complexity from the Harvard Kennedy School is a very useful tool from the popular Harvard University, which takes the international trade data that different states report to the United Nations to display them in a single graph after cleaning them with the Bustos-Yildirim method. It includes data from 250 countries and territories, classified into 20 categories of goods and five categories of services, covering more than 6,000 products. The result is an x-ray of what Spain sells to the world and what it reveals does not always coincide with the image we have. The last period of time collected by the Atlas of Economic Complexity is 2024, where we see that the Spanish state exported 590,000 million dollars in more than a dozen sectors. And there is a clear dominant: the service sector. What does Spain sell to the world? 2024 Edition. Harvard Atlas of Economic Complexity Travel and tourism takes over the top left corner, worth $107 billion. It is pure tourism: according to the World Travel & Tourism Councilthat is the spending of international tourists within the territory, 10.9% more than the previous year. It is followed by a generic “Business” and if we take into account other pink portions such as insurance, financial services, transportation or the mixed bag of “Not specified”, we find that this pink band of services is 163,000 million dollars of the total, that is, Services account for 28% of everything that Spain exports. There is life beyond services The second largest rectangle on the graph corresponds to cars, with a value of $37.1 billion. It’s in the upper right corner, in purple: the car is also the first manufactured productbut in third place and well behind two categories of services. As we saw in this map of the European automobile industrythe gold of the sector in the old continent belongs to Germany, but Spain takes the silver, with a share of 16.4% and almost two million cars assembled per year. Next to it is the rectangle of engine parts, with 10,000 million dollars. However, if we add the set of cars, parts and commercial vehicles, the set adds up to about 65 billion dollars. That is to say, that automotive is the second sector that Spain exports the most. From this point on the difference is no longer so much and in fact it can be divided into two. On the one hand and in pink, the chemical block, with medicines as the most prominent industry (more than 12,000 million dollars). The total is around 37 billion dollars. Yellow corresponds to food, which together represents about 45 billion dollars. Here exports are scattered with pork, olive oil, wine or citrus being the most relevant. Outside of these sectors, the most notable is petroleum and refined oil, with just under 9 billion dollars and below 3%. Minerals, machinery, metallurgy, electronics or textiles have even less influence. A global and deeper reading of the map makes it clear that Spain is, in terms of exports, a tourist and agri-food power with a notable automobile and chemical industry. Dependence on tourism is a double-edged sword in that it allows us to take advantage of Spain’s competitive advantages, but at the same time it depends on external factors, such as COVID or emerging markets that can absorb demand with lower prices. And although it is money that comes in without the need to manufacture anything, it does not add complexity: there are no patents or exportable technologies. Furthermore, the quality of employment is lower than other sectors. In short, it is a structural issue: no rich country sustains itself by selling good weather and that is the best invitation to reindustrialize. In Xataka | Who has seen you and who sees you, Spain: Google Maps to find out how it has changed from the 50s to today In Xataka | Wealth inequality by country, explained in a graph: Spain among those where the wealth gap has grown the most Cover | The Atlas of Economic Complexity

Until 1868, an “independent” microstate inhabited the Iberian Peninsula between Portugal and Galicia: Couto Mixto

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If you travel to Santiago de Rubiasa village in the municipality of Calvos de Randínin Ourense, you can enjoy a few things: good landscapes, good food, a Romanesque church with paintings dating from the 16th century and a bronze statueinstalled since April 2008 on one side of the atrium, which shows an old man with a mustache and shaggy sideburns, wearing a hat, cape and a cane. Next to it you will find a plaque that identifies it as Delfin Modesto Brandon. This Delfín Modesto was not an Indian who returned from the Americas with his pockets lined with money, nor a confused pilgrim on his route to Compostela. Nor a particularly popular neighbor or priest. If he is still remembered today in Calvos de Randín it is because he was the last of a long and interesting line of statesmen. Of course, of a different state to Spanish or Portuguese. In the 21st century we remember Delfín Modesto because he was the last judge with executive and judicial powers of Mixed Coutoa republic that for several centuries survived as an independent territory on the peninsula. Independent of the Spanish and Portuguese courts, with its own system of administration, rights and privileges. A true historical rarity, a political hiatus in the middle of Raya that managed to survive for nearly seven centuries and there are those who point out even as one of the first European democracies. Of Couto Mixto we know better its characteristics and how it was governed and ended than its origins. Its birth usually dates back to the 12th century, to the time of the Treaty of Zamorafor which Alfonso I of Portugal (Afonso Henriques) and Alfonso VII of León They achieved an agreement that is usually marked as the birth of the Portuguese kingdom. With this backdrop and taking advantage of the birth of a new and above all extensive border between both kingdoms, Couto Mixto was created, a small portion of territory located in the intermediate basin of the Salas River who managed to stay outside the designs of Spain and Portugal. That particular “microstate” was made up only three villas: Rubias dos Mixtos, Meaus and Santiago de Rubiás, where the locals decided to establish their capital and administrative center. Small but independent Couto Mixto was small, so much so that its extension barely reached the 27 square kilometers and it did not have more than a thousand inhabitants in its census. It was probably this peculiarity, added to the fact that the place was not especially prosperous or central, that allowed it to survive with its special status for several centuries without Spain or Portugal paying it much attention. And this despite the fact that the microstate was a real rarity on the peninsular map. Because of its characteristics. And for his government system. As remember Tourism of Galiciaan organization that today promotes the place precisely for its historical interest, functioned as a kind of “federal republic” with two great administrative figures: a representative of each of the three towns, which they called “home of agreement“, and a chief judge (“xuiz“) who was elected every three years and exercised the highest authority. Its inhabitants also enjoyed a series of rights that, at least in certain aspects, made them privileged. They could choose between receiving Spanish nationality, Portuguese nationality or renouncing both and remaining as a citizen of Couto Mixto. Furthermore, they were exempt from fulfill military service. The microstate I didn’t have to provide soldiersbenefited from an interesting tax exemption and boasted freedom of trade and cultivation. Another of its oddities is that the small “microstate” enjoyed the “right of asylum”, which was applied in all cases except those of blood crimes. If we add to that peculiarity that it welcomed the “Privileged Path”a road of about six kilometers that linked Couto with the neighboring Portuguese town of Tourem and it was exempt from military or fiscal control, it will be understood why over time it became an interesting point for smuggling and fugitives. No matter how small, cornered, and ancient Couto was, it was not destined to survive forever. A few centuries after being established, Spain and Portugal decided to shelve that territorial anomaly. The negotiations were fruitful in Lisbon Treatywhich in 1864 allowed both countries to definitively establish their common border. The pact defined the Raya from the mouth of the Miño River to the union of the Caia and the Guadiana. And it swept away the microstate, which was incorporated into Spain, deprived of its privileges. Perhaps the tiny republic no longer exists, but its memory remains. In the atrium of the church of Santiago de Rubiás, the nerve center of the old republic, where its inhabitants met to decide relevant issues for the microstate, it has been built since 2008. the statue of Delfín Modesto Brandonhis last judge. Inside the church there is also a replica of the ark that guarded the archive of the old republic, a chest that could only be opened with three keys, one for each “home of agreement“. Their neighbors continue to meet even today in the atrium to celebrate a symbolic act in which they name their honorary judges. In Xataka | When the USSR declared war, Finland decided to protect its roads in a peculiar way: with flying trees In Xataka | There was an advanced civilization high in the Andes that based its dominance on one thing: feces. In Xataka | In 1888 an English doctor dissected a corpse down to its nerves. And illuminated forensic science along the way Images| Wikimedia (map by José de Castro López (1863)), Portasxures and Wikipedia (Fabio Mendes)

vegetation is migrating northwest

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If we look at the Earth from space, in addition to distinguishing the shapes of the continents, great milestones of nature and some other human construction such as the greenhouses of Almeríawe can also observe how time and the seasons pass: the terrestrial vegetation follows a seasonal pattern, a kind of green wave that runs across the surface of the planet from north to south. Thus, in the boreal summer, the maximum of greenery moves towards the north. In the southern summer, towards the south. From space we can also observe climate change and its effects. Without going any further, the peninsula it cracked after from the torrent of rain at the beginning of the year and that green belt is also moving. Specifically, 14 kilometers a year, according to has determined a research team from the University of Leipzig, the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research and the University of Valencia. The discovery. The green wave is moving northwest and it does it faster and faster. The southern hemisphere takes the cake: between 2010 and 2020, displacement accelerated to 14 kilometers per year. Furthermore, it does so in a way that the scientific community did not expect: the center of global vegetation is moving north in both hemispheres. That it would do so in the northern hemisphere was expected, but that it would do so in the south was not (based on the patterns, one would expect it to move south). But it is also moving towards the east, breaking all schemes. Why is it important. It is the first global metric of biological cycles expressed in kilometers, a magnitude as clear and intuitive as sea level or temperature and that works as if it were a compass. What this indicator says is that the north and south amplitude of the green wave is reducing: if you put a point on the map representing where the center of gravity of all the vegetation on the planet is, it would be moving towards the northwest. The planet “greens” in an increasingly asymmetrical way. They explain that in a high emissions scenario, the eastern shift will end up dominating over the north at the end of the century. This involves a profound reconfiguration of where and when the Earth’s biosphere functions, which will affect carbon cycles, migrations and ecosystems. Context. Global warming takes spleen the arm the global greeninga widespread increase in vegetation documented since the 1980s and concentrated especially in the northern hemisphere. The reason is global warming (as winters are shorter, plants have more time to grow), carbon dioxide that acts as fertilizer and that countries like China and India have intensified their agriculture. In fact, they are the drivers of change. Why east? It is a direct consequence of the above: in short, because East Asia, India, Europe are “pulling” the center of gravity of global greenery towards the east. And South America does just the opposite: the vegetation there is losing strength, due to causes such as deforestation, droughts or changes in land use. Not only has East Asia become greener in recent decades, we know it now drags the center of gravity of the entire Earth’s biosphere. How have they done it. To arrive at this metric and its effects, they have taken satellite data from 1982 to 2020 and have validated the results with six models of the Earth system of the CMIP6 projectwhich coordinates the simulations of the most advanced climate models. From here, the research team has calculated the center of mass of all terrestrial vegetation in 3D Cartesian coordinates (called a centroid), weighted by greenness indices. They have called the moment of maximum hemispheric greenness viridistice, like the solstice. The resulting trajectory summarizes the dynamics of biological cycles in a single curve. In Xataka | Spain today has 12 more days of “extreme risk” of fires per year: the cause is neither arsonists nor ranchers In Xataka | A plant from the Red Sea has appeared in the bay of Palma. It is a bad omen for the future of the Mediterranean Cover | Harsh Kumar

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