Month: March 2026

create and update an Excel with your personalized movements, totals and balances

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Let’s explain to you how to create an Excel with your monthly movements wearing artificial intelligenceand from your bank statements. We will go far beyond the spreadsheets that your bank can generate with your expenses. The AI ​​will list what you spend and what you earn, and at the end of each month it will show you your total balance. But we are also going to ask that at the end of each month there be custom totals for specific expensessuch as Amazon purchases, Bizum movements, etc. This is something quite complex to do, and after testing we are going to give you the guide using Claudebecause it is by far the one that has given us the best results. The prompt that we are going to tell you you can also use it in ChatGPTwhere it will give you very good results. The only difference is that in ChatGPT You won’t have a button to save it to Drive, but at least you can download it. As to GeminiGoogle’s AI gives the worst results with this prompt, I would try to avoid it. In Claude we are going to seamlessly generate different pages for each month, it will use color coding, and we will tell you that add a button to save it to Google Drivesomething quite useful, although you can also ask it to simply allow you to download the file. Get your bank statements first The first thing you have to do is download a document with all your banking transactions from your bank application. In some cases you will already be able to download it in Excel, but our idea is to make one with AI in which specific totals are also calculated at the end of each month. Many banks will allow you to choose the time periods you want to take into account when downloading expenses. Here, you should keep in mind that AIs usually have a limit in the context of your requests. This means that it is better to cover shorter periods of time. For example, you will be able to download statements for each month or every two months, because then you can ask the artificial intelligence to update your spreadsheet with the new data from each extract. If you use Claude, link your Drive account One of the positive aspects of Claude is that you can add and activate the connector Google Drive. The connectors are used to connect Claude to other services, in this case Google Drive. You’ll have to give the AI ​​access to your entire Drive, so be careful if you’re looking for maximum privacy. In our case, this will help us be able to create a save button in Drive our document. Thus, not only will you be able to view the spreadsheet directly in Claude, but you will also be able to download it or save it to your cloud. Create your spreadsheet Now let’s get to work. Open Claude and attach the document with your banking transactions that you have downloaded from your bank application. When you do it, you have to include the prompt explaining what you want. We have used this: “This is a statement from my bank. From your data, I want you to generate a spreadsheet showing the total expenses for each month. Each month must be separated, and you must list all expenses and income with negative and positive signs. At the end of each month you must show me a box where I see the total to know if I have had a positive or negative balance. At the end of each month I also want you to make two extra boxes where you show me the total expenses on Amazon purchases, and the balance of Bizum movements. Each month should then be separated on a different page within the spreadsheet. Additionally, I want you to use a color code, to put the rows that represent an expense in red and an income in green. The spreadsheet should be a .xlsx file, and I also want you to generate a button so I can save this document directly to Google Drive. Also, from now on, every time I share a bank statement with you in this conversation, you will update that document to add the data.” As you can see, we have asked for it to be a multi-page spreadsheet, one for each month, and to use color coding. We have also requested boxes for extra balancessuch as the total spent on Amazon or the balance of movements in Bizum. You can also ask for other types of balances, but it is better that stick to requests that the AI ​​can identify. This means that perhaps if you ask it how much you spend on subscriptions, it may not be able to identify all of them correctly or it may charge you more than necessary. It’s best to include specific expenses with a name that appears on your statements. If you want to include subscriptionsto give you an idea, in another conversation you can ask him to identify your subscriptions from your bank statements. And after doing so, you can include in your prompt that puts the monthly expenses of those specific subscriptions in a cell. Claude will take a few minutes to do everything and will show you each step he takes. In the end, you will have a document with the Excel XLSX format that we have requested. If you click on it you will open it directly in Claudealthough you will also have a button to open it in the application compatible with the format you have by default. When you click on the file that has been generated, in Claude it will open in the same chat. If you use ChatGPT you will have to download it. When you open it, you can check that everything is the way you like it, and check the totals and expense list. That’s it, you will … Read more

date, time and where you can see it on your mobile or television if you are in Spain

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Let’s tell you how you can watch the 2026 Oscars galaso you know the options available in case you want to see it. This is the 98th film awards ceremony, which will take place again at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. We are going to start this article by telling you the exact date on which the gala begins, with the day and time it is in the Spanish time zone. And then, we will tell you the methods you have to be able to see it live if you want. When are the Oscars 2026 The 2026 Oscars gala will take place Sunday March 15. It is in the United States, and the start time will be 4:00 p.m. Pacific time and 7:00 p.m. Eastern time, and it will last approximately three and a half hours. But in Spain, the start time will be from 01:00 from Sunday to Monday00:00 hours in the Canary Islands. It will end around 04:30 or 05:00 in Spanish time. Regarding the schedules of the rest of the American countriesin Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico or Nicaragua will begin at 5 p.m. In Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Panama or Peru it will be at 6 p.m., in Bolivia, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic at 7 p.m., and in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay from 8 p.m. The red carpet It will start a couple of hours earlier. This means that starting at 11pm or midnight on Sunday you will be able to start watching all the Hollywood celebrities parade as they arrive at the gala. How to watch the Oscars in Spain In Spain, the Oscar ceremony will once again be broadcast exclusively by Movistar, specifically in Movistar Plus+ and his channel dedicated to the Oscars on dial 15. His special Oscar night It will begin at 10:30 p.m., and an hour later they will begin broadcasting the red carpet, and then move on to the live signal of the gala. Like every year, you will have all the information in in Espinof and Sensacineour half-brothers dedicated to cinema where you will have the information minute by minute. Also, on Monday morning you will have the summary with the winners in Xataka. In Xataka Basics | The 14 best services and apps to follow and control the series and movies you watch and have all their information

The Balearic Islands welcome an invasive plant that until now was impossible in its waters

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In October 2023, a group of divers were fully immersed in the Bay of La Palma when they found something that should not be there: a tropical marine plant rooted in the bed, where we usually find either sandy bottoms or Posidonia meadows. The notice from the Balearic Center for Applied Biology was confirmed through dives by the CSIC-UIB and CEAB-CSIC teams and the discovery was published in Mediterranean Marine Science. The presentations. The name of tropical marine plant is Halophila stipulacea and it is a seagrass and not an algae (unlike algae, it has roots, stems and leaves), much smaller than the native Posidonia Oceanica, with which it now shares spaces. And although it has appeared about 3 kilometers from the port of Palma, on a sandy bottom, it is foreign: its origin comes from the Indian Ocean, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, although as a good tropical came to the Caribbean. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 was its one-way ticket to the Mediterranean, however in these 150 years its expansion was only recorded in the eastern area, never as far west as the Balearic Islands. It is already a total colonization. Context. The waters of the Mediterranean Sea are warming more than the global average: between 1982 and 2019, its surface temperature increased by 1.3 °C compared to a global average of 0.6 °C, according to MedECC data. In summer, the temperatures of the Mediterranean Sea recorded in the Balearic Islands They are around 30 °C. This point is important because it marks a milestone: the conditions of the Mediterranean are changing. That is, Halophila may have reached this far west before, but it did not have favorable conditions to survive and now it does. As explains Andrés Arona, first author of the study and Imedea researcher, is “a clear indication of the ‘tropicalization’ of the Mediterranean.” Why is it important. To begin with, because Halophila Stipulacea acts as a biological thermometer of real change in the Mediterranean. A tropicalization that opens the doors to some species and closes them to otherslike Posidonia or corals. But it also matters because the worrying precedent of the Caribbeanwhere its rapid colonization of large areas reduced biodiversity, altering the ecosystem. Something that is already happening in the eastern Mediterranean. Potential environmental impact. Given its presence in degraded sandy bottoms, its effect is ambivalent: it can increase structural complexity, although it can also displace the fauna typical of these bottoms. The greatest risk, however, would be if it came to compete with native phanerogams such as Posidonia oceanicasomething it has already done with other species in the Caribbean, where it colonized large areas in less than 20 years. The difference between both plants is not trivial. in words from Imedea researcher, Fiona Tomàs, “Posidonia is like a sequoia, Halophila is much smaller”: Posidonia generates a structural complexity that supports breeding habitats for hundreds of species and accumulates carbon in another order of magnitude. Halophila It does not generate anywhere near that architecture or that carbon storage. A change in species dominance would profoundly alter the ecosystem. What can be done. The good news is that this detection has been early and the sooner the warning comes, the more room there is to take action. The not so good thing is that it is a plant with its seeds and that the most definitive thing would be for the Mediterranean to reverse its tropicalization, but that means stopping the global warming. Little joke. In Xataka | The Ebro is filling with brown prawns, an invasive species that we are going to find more and more on our plates. In Xataka | The US has such a big problem with Asian carp in its rivers that it has decided something extreme: electrocute them Cover | Benjamin Guichard and Mariya Oliynyk

that buying a yacht is as cheap as a car

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The man who turned JD.com into the Amazon’s biggest Chinese rivalhas just announced his next project. This time it’s not about packages or deliveries in 24 hours: this time it’s about yachts. Yes, those luxury boats that until now only the richest could afford among the rich. However, his plan is not make yachts for millionaires. That can do any. The challenge is to manufacture yachts that any minimally wealthy family can afford. Their goal is to manufacture yachts at the same price as a car. The “Chinese Jeff Bezos.” Richard Liu is popularly known as the “Chinese Jeff Bezos” for having converted your company JD.com into an online commerce giant with its own logistics capable of overshadowing the almighty Amazon. According to ForbesLiu has an estimated net worth of around $5.5 billion, placing her as one of the China’s biggest fortunes. Liu wants to replicate that philosophy of scale and efficiency that he has honed at JD.com in a completely different sector: boat manufacturing. For this purpose, Sea Expandary has been created. a new company which will not be managed directly by him since he will have his own independent CEO. The planned initial investment is around 5 billion yuan (about $723 million), and the goal is so ambitious that it is hard to believe: that any salaried worker can have his own yacht, just as happened with the car decades ago. Price is what changes the rules of the game. The most striking fact of the proposal is the target price for the boats they manufacture. As I collected Asian outlet SCMP, Liu has stated that: “I hope that one day we can build yachts priced at 100,000 yuan (US$14,502), so that they can enter homes like cars do. Yachts must be difficult for ordinary wage workers and ordinary consumers.” To put that figure in context, according to boat insurance portal Admiral Marine, a small entry-level yacht can easily cost between $50,000 and $200,000. The ambition is that this boat will have enough space on board for a family and that its price will not be an obstacle for Chinese households to buy one. Making boats is complex. Building ships is not an easy task. The nautical sector continues to be one of the most artisanal and labor-intensive, with long production cycles and greater flexibility must be applied in the customization of finishes and uses. To reach that price, Sea Expandary would have to radically industrialize the process, limit the variants it offers to its customers and optimize the supply chain. Furthermore, the new company not only aims to be cheap, but also sustainable. Liu has announced that all Sea Expandary yachts will operate with what he has called new energy technologies that focus on the electrification of engines and renewable energy generation systems. This is a positioning that fits well with the industrial policies that China has been promoting in the renewable energy sector that is already is applying in cars. It’s a good business. The yacht market in China is in full boiling. According to the market outlook By the end of 2025 there were 9,850 vessels registered in the country, and more than half of the total fleet had been registered in the last three years. The Chinese Ministry of Transport said that growth is expected to continue over the next five years. The global yacht market, for its part, exceeded $9.83 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach $14.98 billion in 2035, with compound annual growth of more than 4.3%. China is late to this sector compared to Europe or the US. However, China arrives with a more than proven competitive advantage: its industrial-scale production capacity, lower manufacturing costs and the support of public policies. Liu knows this, and he said it bluntly: “Only by doing this can we truly compete with the world’s leading yacht manufacturers in Europe and the United States.” In Xataka | The ultra-rich trade land for a superyacht during the summer: These are some of these floating mansions Image | Flickr (Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2018), Pershing

Tell me what your budget is and I’ll tell you which Bluetooth headphones I recommend you buy

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There is very little left until Amazon ends its Spring Sale Festival, so if you want to take advantage of this campaign to buy some Bluetooth headphones, we are going to make it a little easier for you. In this article we have compiled five of the best deals we’ve found during these last few days. There are several price ranges ranging from 80 to 199 euros, and we also wanted to take the opportunity to bring together various headphone formats. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Five offers on Bluetooth headphones Before we delve into commenting on the Bluetooth headphones that we have added to this list, let’s first review what their prices are: Sony WH-1000XM5SA by 199 eurosit is one of the best prices it has had to date. AirPods 4 by 149 eurosApple’s best value headphones. Soundcore Space Q45 by 79.99 eurosone of the best purchase options for less than 100 euros. Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless by 179 eurosheadphones with a large battery. Huawei FreeClip by 120.20 eurosthe lowest price these headphones have had since their launch. Sony WH-1000XM5SA The Sony WH-1000XM5SA by 199 euros? That’s right, this is the price we find on Amazon (also in other stores) in this version slightly different from the originals. Don’t worry, just change the case that instead of being rigid is soft. A small price to pay for how little they cost right now. The sound offered by these headphones is quality, but the best thing is their active noise cancellation, which is one of the best we have tested. They are also very comfortable headphones and their battery lasts very well for up to 30 hours of use. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links AirPods 4 Unlike what we find on many other occasions, this time Amazon has decided to lower the price of Apple headphones. In this case the one of the AirPods 4 that are found by 149 euros (they are also on sale those without noise cancellation). The battery is not bad, especially if we take into account the charging case (up to 30 theoretical hours). They have spatial audio and conversation detectionThey are quite comfortable and sound very, very good. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Soundcore Space Q45 If you want to pay little and have something of quality, my personal recommendation is the Soundcore Space Q45. They are the ones I use every day and for less than 100 euros they don’t have much competition. Of course, now they cost 79.99 euros. They sound very good, active noise cancellation is pretty good for how little they cost Right now (its official price is 149 euros), the battery lasts about 30 or more hours and they have a multipoint connection to avoid having to unpair them to use them on another device. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless One step above we have the Sennheiser Momentum 4 in its wireless version, which has dropped on Amazon to 179 euros. Its design is very beautiful, but the interesting thing is found in the battery: according to the brand, up to 60 hours of autonomy. In addition, they also have active noise cancellation (adaptive hybrid). Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless Special Edition The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Huawei FreeClip If you have tired of the traditional and are looking for something fresh, the Huawei FreeClip They are headphones open-ear perfect for enjoying music without missing what is happening around us. Their recommended price is 199 euros, but right now they are on Amazon for 120.20 euros. They come with noise cancellation for calls, according to Huawei itself, they take about 60 minutes to charge (headphones and case) and offer a autonomy of up to nine hours of useso you can use them for a full work day. 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 | Sony, Apple, Anker, Sennheiser, Huawei In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which one to buy and 21 models from 15 euros to 470 euros

Europe has found a hole that has been sending sensitive material to Russia for years: a “Mercadona” from Germany

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More than 400 billion packages circulate around the world every year, and the international postal system is designed to move them as quickly as possible. To achieve this, many shipments cross borders with simplified controls and risk-based reviews, not full inspections. That logistical efficiency, designed to speed up commerce and everyday correspondence, sometimes generates unexpected cracks in much larger systems. An unexpected hole. Since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has lifted one of the sanctions regimes wider of its history with the aim of economically isolating Russia and hindering access to technology that can feed his military machine. Advanced electronics, sensitive components or certain industrial equipment are theoretically blocked to prevent them from reinforcing the Kremlin’s war economy. However, the practical application of these restrictions faces a constant problem: the more complex the sanctions system, the more ingenious They become the routes to avoid it. And in this case the weak point has appeared in a place so everyday that it is difficult to believe. A clandestine channel in the supermarket. The story was told in a report in Politico. Apparently, in several Russian chain supermarkets throughout Germany, among shelves of sweets or freezers, advertisements have appeared that promote a logistics service specialized in sending packages from Germany directly to Russia. What at first glance seems like a postal service for the Russian diaspora has become an unexpected crack within the European sanctions system. Customers may drop off boxes that supposedly contain clothing, books or small personal items. No one inspects the contents and, for a few euros per kilo, the package begins a journey that ends in Moscow or St. Petersburg. In this apparently innocent flow, even sensitive electronic components whose export is prohibited. The inherited logistics network. The middle counted that behind this circuit is LS Logistics Solution GmbH, a German company created by former employees by RusPostthe subsidiary that the Russian state postal service had established in Germany before sanctions forced it to close. After the invasion of Ukraine, that structure did not completely disappear. It was reorganized under a new namekept part of its staff and continued to operate from Germany with a similar system. The result is a kind of parallel postal network that collects packages throughout Europe and concentrates them in a warehouse near the Berlin airport, from where shipments to Russia are organized. The seal trick. The key to the system is an apparently bureaucratic detail. The packages do not have labels from the Russian Post, but from the state postal service of uzbekistan. Since that country is not subject to European sanctions, the shipment can take advantage of special rules that protect international postal traffic. In practice, this means that packets move with lighter controls than traditional commercial shipments. This administrative difference, designed to facilitate mail between citizens, becomes a back door for sensitive goods to cross borders without raising too many suspicions. A kilometer trip through Europe. The route of the packages illustrates chow it works the system. After being picked up from supermarkets or delivery points, they spend a day or two in Germany before moving to a large logistics warehouse near Berlin airport. From there they are loaded onto trucks that cross Poland on the A2 highway and continue to Belarus. Even though this country is also sanctioned for its support to Moscow, the packages continue to advance thanks to your status international postal mail. After traveling more than 2,000 km, they end up arriving at addresses in Moscow or Saint Petersburg. The problem of sanctions. Plus: the episode also reflects a challenge that those who design economic sanctions are well aware of. Officially blocking trade is relatively simple, but preventing alternative routes appear It is much more complicated, and that is already we have told it in the drone war in Ukraine. Each new restriction forces the creation of more complex control systems, while those who try to circumvent them constantly search new legal cracks or logistics. The result is an endless game of adaptation in which authorities try to close holes just as new ones begin to appear. Always one step behind. They finished the report explaining that European authorities are already reviewing the case and have strengthened the rules to pursue sanctions violations. Be that as it may, the discovery of the network itself demonstrates to what extent the system can make fun. As governments design increasingly strict legal frameworks, makeshift logistics networks continue to find ways to move sensitive goods across of unexpected routes. And in this case, the blind spot that allowed this channel to Russia to be kept open was not in an industrial port or a large cargo terminal, but in something as everyday as the check-in counter. a supermarket. Image | flowcomm, RawPixel In Xataka | In 2022, the war in Ukraine sent supermarket prices soaring. Iran threatens to make it child’s play In Xataka | The EU has a perfect plan to suffocate Russia. The problem is that now it needs its oil to survive

All the lighthouses that illuminate the coasts of the North Atlantic, gathered in an impressive interactive map

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The figure of the solitary lighthouse keeper in charge of the thankless task of keeping his tower operational and in good condition at the service of the boats has long been a rare sight: they are in danger of extinction in front of the automated towers, both in terms of lighting and other auxiliary tasks within of the DGPS differential system. There are (almost) no lighthouse keepers, but the lighthouses look like never before. Only Europe’s 90,000 kilometers of coastline They are a veritable garden of lighthousesbut one thing are lighthouses (that iconic tall tower with a light on top) and another is lights for maritime signaling, where large lights, small lights, beacons or buoys enter. The reference technical standard is IALA Recommendation E-110, as collects and translates into Spanish Puertos del Estado. If we talk about maritime signage, things change there and the figures increase: there are 23,217 lights in the northern seas alone, according to OpenStreetMaps. It must be considered that this is open data, provided by the community, with areas very well mapped and others not so well. The lighthouses of the North Seas, as we have never seen them If we stick to the northern seas, the lighthouses drop to around 2,500 units. Although his thing is teaching and business, Wharton University professor Ethan Mollick has condensed all this information into an interactive map using vibe coding: Lighthouse Atlas. Lighthouse Atlas This map of the northern seas is more than a mere cartography of that maritime signage: it is interactive, making it a tool as visual as it is impressive for the possibility of playing with zoom, filtering or the information it shows. If you also hover over the lights, you can see more data such as their name, color range or frequency. In addition to being able to filter to see only the headlights (‘Major lights only’), as Mollick explainseach light has the correct color, each flashes with the appropriate frequency, and its brightness has been scaled according to OSM data. You can also see how far away they are visible. How far are the light signals seen in the Atlantic, between the Spanish and French states Thus, the size of the points serves to get an idea of ​​how close or far the vessels can be to view the signals. For example, on these lines you can see how much the signals of the muga between the Spanish and French states illuminate. Especially striking because of how congested the Norwegian coast is, as can be seen numerically. in the database from Norsk Fyrhistorisk Forening, the company that compiles a detailed map of locations along the entire Scandinavian coast. However, of the historical 212, it has about 150 operational. It is not the only one: Scotland and the Isle of Man, the coasts of Denmark and the Adriatic Sea, on the coasts of Greece and Türkiye are also well nourished. In Xataka | A man bought a desert island in 1962: he planted 16,000 trees and turned it into an anti-rich sanctuary In Xataka | All the lighthouses of Europe, with their different patterns and colors, gathered in this fantastic map Cover | Lighthouse Atlas

BYD is already studying entering Formula 1, according to Bloomberg. And it is not a whim, it is a necessary step

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To understand a leak you have to imagine (or be clear about) who is behind it. But also how and when the information has been leaked. And in this case, of course, there is little that is coincidental. BYD is studying its entry into Formula 1, according to Bloomberg. In the week in which Formula 1 arrives in China and the sport seeks new markets. The rumors. BYD is studying its ability to compete in Formula 1 and/or the World Endurance Championship (WEC) according to Bloomberg. The media outlet points to “people familiar with the matter,” who point out that the company calculates how much money an investment could take where no success is guaranteed. For the information of Bloomberg It seems that internal investigations would be in their early stages. And the media points out that there would be two possibilities, from creating your own team to buying one already on the grid, a more common option. Because? On BYD’s side, the reason is clear: trust. The company needs to open up to new markets but, in addition, its plans for the next five years include a rapid expansion. The company has also seen how its sales have collapsed in China and there are those who anticipate a stagnation in sales if the State does not return the purchase aid of recently recalled electric cars. Entering one or both of the competitions would give the company a layer of credibility and confidence in the face of possible new competitors. Competitions continue to be a huge laboratory where solutions and ingenuity can be developed that can then be applied on the street, but they also help create history and brand image. Chinese companies need a boost in this last sense to give credibility to their proposal. At the moment they are doing it by following all the challenges that traditional manufacturers once set themselves. That’s why Xiaomi has sought its own record at the Nürburgring. That’s why BYD boasts of having the fastest car in the world. Jumping into competition is only a natural step in strategy. Formula 1. Why would BYD be interested in Formula 1 when the championship is not going through its best moment? For several reasons: With the change in regulations, the battery and electric motors are more important than ever. Right now, the type of motorization is aligned with a proposal with which BYD can take advantage on the street. Despite criticism, it remains the queen category of motorsports. Neither the World Endurance Championship (except the 24 Hours of Le Mans), nor the World Rally Championship, nor Formula E, nor the American competitions (Indycar or Nascar) attract so many viewers to television. Formula 1 has gained enormous weight among young people in the United States. Your documentaries Drive to survive They have increased interest in a population group that may be interested in their vehicles. The country also already organizes two Grand Prix, which would serve as a showcase where, at the moment, they cannot sell their cars. Formula 1 aims to once again attract the Chinese public. This weekend F1 returns to Shanghai, which has been sowing the seed since 2004 (with the 2020-2023 break due to the Covid-19 crisis). If Formula 1 is interested in gaining followers in the country, BYD would be a great tool. And the problems? The problems for BYD are also several and almost all of them are linked to the fact that it is impossible to guarantee the return of investments in competition in terms of success. And it is difficult to measure its social impact in the short term. Bloomberg points out that a year in a championship like Formula 1 or the WEC is equivalent to investing about 500 million euros. The company does not have a previous competition structure. That leaves two possibilities: create it from scratch with inexperienced engineers or buy existing equipment. Neither option is cheap. The future of Formula 1 is uncertain. The current regulations do not convince either drivers or fans. Some teams even supported freezing the change or not giving so much weight to the batteries and others like Audi, which had already made the investment to enter it, refused. The doubt is whether the sport will maintain the current rules as they are or if they will move away from a proposal that fits with BYD’s philosophy. Just as BYD has a lot to gain in image, it can also lose it. Both Formula 1 and the WEC are dominated by Western teams, failing could mean a step back in the communication strategy. The WEC. The World Endurance Championship could be a logical and alternative option to Formula 1 that seems to have fewer risks. The organizers seem willing to open their hand with the type of motorization used, so there are not so many regulatory restrictions in that sense. This has once again attracted brands such as Ferrari, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Ford or Genesis (Hyundai). In addition, it would allow him to grow and gain experience without having so many spotlights on him. Endurance races are an excellent opportunity to test the reliability of advances that can then be replicated to a greater or lesser extent on the street. A success would be excellent publicity and a failure would not attract as many eyes. Photo | BYD and Drew Bates In Xataka | From BYD to Xiaomi: all the Chinese cars that are already sold in Spain, Europe and those to come

which cars can circulate and which rest on March 14

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This Saturday the Hoy No Circula Saturday scheme is reactivated, the tool with which the Environment Secretariat of Mexico City (SEDEMA) limits the circulation of certain cars in the Valley of Mexico to reduce pollution levels. Those who plan to use their vehicle must verify in advance the completion of the license plate and the verification hologram before entering the road. The limitations are not limited to the 16 municipalities of CDMX, but also extend to several suburban municipalities of the State of Mexico, where the scheme is applied under the same conditions. The program also operates in: Atizapan of Zaragoza Coacalco de Berriozábal Cuautitlan Cuautitlán Izcalli Chalco Chicoloapan Chimalhuacan Ecatepec de Morelos Huixquilucan Ixtapaluca Peace Naucalpan de Juárez Nezahualcoyotl Nicolas Romero Tecámac Tlalnepantla de Baz Tultitlan Chalco Valley Also, remember that if your route passes through any of these locations, the Saturday No Circulation Day also applies. What cars and license plates does Hoy No Circula Saturday affect? The objective of the program is to take part of the vehicle fleet out of circulation to cut emissions, but on Saturdays specific criteria are applied that are added to the scheme from Monday to Friday. Not all car owners rest on the same weekend: the hologram, the last digit of the license plate and whether Saturday corresponds to an odd or even week determine which cars stay parked and which can drive. According to the Secretariat of the Environment of Mexico City (SEDEMA), this Saturday scheme complements the regular calendar of the Hoy No Circula program in the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico. It is worth remembering that the Today it does not circulate on Saturdays, it does not operate 24 hours a day. The application hours go from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., so that outside of that period—at night and early morning—the program does not impose restrictions on the circulation of vehicles, unless an environmental contingency or other extraordinary provision is decreed that temporarily extends the usual limits. In the case of March 14, 2026, the calendar indicates that it is the second Saturday of the month, which is why it is considered an “even week.” Under this configuration, vehicles with hologram 1 and license plates ending in an even number are those that must remain out of circulation during program hours. If your car meets that combination, you will have to leave it stored until after 10:00 p.m. On the contrary, cars with hologram 0 and 00 maintain permission to circulate without restrictions within the framework of Today No Circula Saturday. Those with hologram 2 cannot circulate under any circumstances on Saturdays. In addition to the previous cases, remember that there are a series of exempt vehicles that can circulate without being affected by these limitations. These are: Electric cars, natural gas or equipped with a hybrid system Vehicles with plates registered for people with disabilities Units intended for urban public transport service, including funeral services Vehicles dedicated to school or passenger transportation Units assigned to public security and/or civil protection tasks Those who decide not to comply with the provisions of Hoy No Circula are exposed to a significant financial penalty. The fine for violating the program ranges from 20 to 30 times the Measurement and Update Unit (UMA), which is equivalent to approximately 1,924.40 pesos at the minimum and up to 2,886.60 pesos at the maximum. Added to the economic impact is the possible immobilization of the vehicle and the time spent resolving the situation before the authorities. In conclusion, if you are going to travel by car this Saturday through CDMX or through the suburban municipalities of the State of Mexico included in the program, it is advisable to check before starting what hologram your vehicle has, what the ending of your license plate is and if the calendar shows an even or odd week. Hoy No Circula Saturday focuses on removing the most polluting cars from circulation, but at the same time it forces people to better plan trips and evaluate mobility alternatives when the vehicle must rest. Photo | Valerie Kaarna In Xataka | The countries that pollute the most in the world, gathered in a detailed graph

a system governed by AI agents

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The way we use mobile apps could be entering a new stage. Until now, the Android experience has been based on something very simple: opening applications and performing step-by-step actions within them. However, Google is exploring a different model, in which artificial intelligence acts as an intermediate layer between what we ask for and what apps can do. In that scenario, we won’t always be the ones scrolling through menus or completing processes manually. In many cases, it will be enough to express what we want to do so that the system will try to solve it for us, coordinating different phone functions. The next step in Android. In a post on the official developer blogthe company presents new capabilities designed so that applications can work directly with assistants and AI systems. These functions are designed so that tools like Gemini can discover and execute certain actions within some apps. The project is still in an early phase, but it suggests a very specific direction: begin to reconfigure Android as an environment in which artificial intelligence can help complete tasks. What do we understand by agent. In the field of AI, an agent is a designed system to move from response to action. While early digital assistants functioned as consultation tools, agents attempt to understand an intention and plan how to carry it out. To do so, they combine several capabilities: understanding natural language, evaluating the context and deciding what steps are necessary to fulfill a request. It is not just about generating text or suggestions, but about organizing a small chain of decisions oriented towards a specific objective. If we follow the reasoning that Google presents in its publication, the change does not only affect AI, but also how applications are conceived within Android. For years, the main objective of any app was to get the user to open it and complete all the necessary actions within it. However, now that criterion is beginning to shift. In this new scenario, success begins to be measured less by getting us to open an app and more by its ability to help complete a task, even when the user does not directly interact with its entire interface. One of the first pieces of change. The first path that Google proposes to move in this direction goes through something it calls AppFunctions. It is not a user-visible function as such, but rather a set of tools with which developers can expose functions and data of their apps to intelligent assistants such as Gemini. The example mentioned by the Android blog itself is quite illustrative: on the recently introduced Galaxy S26 seriesGemini can access Samsung Gallery features to locate specific photos based on a natural language request, such as asking to show images of a pet. In that case, the assistant interprets the request, activates the corresponding Samsung Gallery function and returns the result without requiring the user to manually navigate through the gallery. The other way of Google. Along with direct integrations, the company is preparing a second formula to extend this model to more applications. As he explains, it is an interface automation system that will allow Gemini to take care of generic multi-step tasks without depending on a specific connection between the app and the assistant. Instead of relying on a function previously exposed by the application, the AI ​​acts directly on the interface. Google notes that this initial preview will be tested on the Galaxy S26 series and some Pixel 10within the Gemini app and with a limited selection of delivery, grocery and transportation applications in the United States and Korea. The company also ensures that the user will be able to follow the process through notifications or a live view, resume manual control at any time and receive notifications before sensitive actions, such as a purchase. Looking to the future. If Google’s announcement makes anything clear, it is that Android is beginning to prepare for a different stage. The functions presented are still in development and their deployment will be gradual, but they point to a specific direction: an operating system in which artificial intelligence plays an increasingly active role in the way we perform daily actions on mobile phones. Pixel and Samsung appear for now as the most visible references, although Google suggests that it wants to bring these capabilities to more manufacturers as the ecosystem evolves. As is often the case with these types of changes, the final result will depend on how the tools, integrations and the response of the users themselves evolve. Images | Google In Xataka | The iPhone has been a “made in China” phone for decades. Now it is changing countries at full speed: India

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