Month: May 2026

China only wants Chinese appliances. So Samsung has had to change its strategy

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Samsung entered China in 1994 with a television factory in Tianjin. In 2006 led the Chinese TV market selling three million units of its Bordeaux model annually. Twenty years later, its share in televisions is 3.62%. The story of Samsung in China is the story of how a market can build its own champions and expel outsiders without having to close the doors. Strategic change in Samsung’s commercial policy in China. Rumors about an exit in its home appliance division were on the table since April, and at the beginning of May the company itself has confirmed it. Samsung is withdrawing from the home appliance market in China to focus on mobile phones and semiconductors. what has happened. Samsung leaves the Chinese market for home appliances and home products. Televisions, AC systems, refrigerators, washing machines, audio equipment and all home-related products will no longer be sold in China. The company will maintain after-sales and warranty services and will continue to “continue to comply with relevant laws and regulations” of consumer protection. “The company will do everything possible to minimize any impact on customers arising from this decision and is reviewing various support measures for its business partners.” The reasons. Samsung has communicated that the decision comes after a “prudent study”, without going into excessive detail about the reasons why it is abandoning the Chinese market in this product category. Despite this, it is clear that the numbers have had something to do with it. Samsung barely had a 3.62% market share in televisions, and did not reach 1% in categories such as refrigerators or washing machines. China is a country in which the local market has greater weight than in any other territory, and the rise of manufacturers such as Hisense, TCL or Xiaomi in these product categories has been noticeable. The Chinese market. The Chinese home appliance market is dominated by domestic manufacturers. In refrigeration, Haier has a 45% share, followed by places like Midea and Hisense. Chinese brands control more than 90% of the television market in Chinawith an important boost in the form of state subsidies. This 2026 is being a year of important renewal cyclewith subsidized exchange programs in order to boost sales of local products. And now what. Samsung’s plan is not to completely close itself to China. It will continue to sell smartphones, tablets and accessories, although for years it has not risen to a top 5 in which only Apple manages to sneak among the national giants. The question that remains in the air is not whether Samsung has lost China. It is whether what has happened in household appliances is a dress rehearsal for what can happen to the rest of the Western manufacturers with a presence in China. In Xataka | The last thing I expected in 2025 was to have a party and for the refrigerator to become a karaoke

Samsung joins the trillion dollar club. AI has made it possible, but it has also made it its enemy

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Samsung has reached a market capitalization of one trillion dollarswith its shares soaring more than 15% in a single day. There is only one other Asian company in that club: TSMC. And it is no coincidence that both manufacture chips. Of course, Samsung’s reality is a little more complex. Why is it important. AI is changing the hardware hierarchy. Who controls the memory that powers data centers largely controls the rate at which the world can scale its AI models. Samsung has been the largest memory manufacturer on the planet for almost a decadeand that, in 2026, is literally worth a trillion. The context. The memory chip business has long been quite cyclical, alternating periods of shortage with periods of overproduction and plummeting prices. But AI has introduced a new variable. Data centers require huge amounts of HBM memory (High Bandwidth Memory) to run their workloads, and the bottleneck is structural: building new manufacturing capacity takes two to three years. That means the shortage isn’t going to be resolved anytime soon, and prices are going to remain high. In figures. Samsung’s first quarter numbers: The operating profit has multiplied by eight that of the same period of the previous year. Revenue has reached an all-time high of 133.9 trillion Korean won. The semiconductor division has generated more than 90% of the company’s total profit. Yes, but. The paradox that makes Samsung different from TSMC or NVIDIA is that it also manufactures smartphones and televisions. And those businesses buy the same memory chips that are now scarce and expensive. He boom that enriches its semiconductor division is cutting the margins of its consumer divisions. Samsung has become, in a way, its own internal rival. Between the lines. This week’s stock market jump is not explained only by the quarterly results. An article from Bloomberg has made public that Apple has held talks with Samsung and Intel to manufacture chips for its devices on US soil, diversifying its dependence on TSMC. If Samsung manages to win that contract, the impact on the semiconductor supply chain would be more than notable. The big question. How long does this last? The bullish memory cycle has an expiration date: as soon as the construction of new factories increases the available supply, prices will fall again. The only scenario in which this does not happen is if demand for AI continues to grow faster than installed capacity. Until now, that’s how it has been. But Samsung has fully sold out production capacity for this year alone, which gives an idea of ​​the pressure on the system. In Xataka | Samsung has just achieved a milestone that has not been recorded for eight years. The problem is that it is a mirage Featured image | Max Whitehead

There is a physical limit to what a cell phone camera can do. OPPO is pushing that limit further than anyone else

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Standing out in the mobile showcase is a war that is fought on many fronts at the same time and mobile photography is the most decisive, especially when we enter the super high range with mobile phones that easily exceed 1,000 euros. Until recently, the fight was between the iPhone, the Pixel and the current Galaxy, but things have changed a lot and Chinese companies have advanced to the right. One of those companies is OPPO with its OPPO Find X9 Ultraone of those who is undoubtedly a candidate for the throne of mobile photography. We were in China for the launch of its new flagship, where we were able to visit its new campus in Shenzhen and speak with Jie Liu, Senior Imaging Product Manager at OPPO, who told us more details about the camera. Taking good photos is no longer enough, we want versatility We are at a point where any mobile phone in this price range takes excellent photos. Quality is presupposed, that’s why the battle has shifted to versatility: offer from an ultra wide angle to a superzoom, maintaining uniform quality throughout the range. The OPPO Find X9 Ultra has a 200 megapixel main sensor that allows us, through cropping, to simulate a 2x zoom. It is accompanied by a telephoto lens of another 200 megapixels that is equivalent to a 3x zoom and, again, by cropping it allows us to simulate a 6x. And the big news: a third 50 megapixel sensor equivalent to a 10x optical zoom or 230 millimeters. Of course you can’t miss the ultra wide angle (0.6x), which also in this generation increases the size of the sensor to improve quality. Left: 1x main sensor. Right: 10x telephoto One of the things that caught our attention is how they have integrated a telephoto with that focal length into the body of a mobile phone since, although the camera module protrudes quite a bit from the chassis, it is still not enough for such a long zoom. Jie told us that “to make the module small enough we used a telescope structure, with a new technology called quintuple reflection. This configuration reduces the physical length of the system while maintaining the focal length.” This is the structure of the 10x telephoto. Image: OPPO It is a structure of different prisms that reflects light five times until it reaches the sensor. The problem with this is that the light must travel a longer distance, which results in images with more noise and lower luminosity (the aperture is equivalent to f/3.5). “We have used technologies to reduce the noise caused by these multiple reflections, such as a layer of air between the prisms that reduces noise and loss.” The Teleconverter Claim OPPO has already started the path of teleconverters with the OPPO Find X9 Pro and raise the bar with the Ultra model. This is a photography kit that is sold separately and includes a 300 millimeter objective which attaches to the mobile phone thanks to a special case that also has a handle. It is a strategy copied from the one that Vivo has followed, first with the Vivo X300 Pro and then with him Vivo X300 Ultra (both companies belong to the same parent company, BBK Electronics). When we attach the teleconverter, we can take spectacular photos from very far away, with stunning bokeh that we can only achieve with a lens of these characteristics. This lens is attached to the 200 megapixel telephoto lens, so we can do the cropping “trick” again to achieve a 30x zoom, equivalent to 690 millimeters. The results speak for themselves: Photo with the teleconverter at 690mm or 30x At the moment, OPPO has launched two teleconverters, 200 millimeters in the Pro model and 300 millimeters in the Ultra, two fixed focals. The problem is that they only work with the model with which they were launched, meaning that we cannot use the 200 millimeter teleconverter of the Pro in the Ultra. During the meeting, we asked Jie Liu if the brand has considered launching more lenses in order to expand the range of available focal lengths, and even if there is the possibility of launching a lens with a variable focal length, for example a 200-400 millimeters: “It is a good suggestion and it is our direction of evolution, but this entails many technical obstacles. The solution we have now is temporary to ensure image quality, adding new focal lengths is a consideration for the future.” Teleconverter 300 mm or 13x OPPO wants to replicate in a mobile phone the focal versatility that any camera user takes for granted. The problem is that, although they have managed to integrate a 10x telephoto, the chassis of a phone has physical limits and there comes a point where no more optics can fit inside; andThe natural step is to complement with accessories. While its competition continues to depend exclusively on the integrated sensor, OPPO is already building that ecosystem, although still quite timidly. The photographic kit works more as an attraction, a “look what we know how to do”, and not so much as an accessory for the general public. The OPPO Find look what we know how to doand not so much as an accessory for the general public. The soul of photography Until recently, many Chinese phones suffered from overly aggressive and artificial image processing, but that is changing. One of the things I liked most about the OPPO Find X9 Ultra camera is the image processing, quite natural and realistic in general. Of course, there is AI processing, but Jie told us that it is applied in a controlled manner “always seeking coherent aesthetic results. It is applied to correct unfavorable lighting conditions, reducing artifacts and noise, improving exposure and dynamic range in complex situations.” AI is also used to improve the results of the 10x zoom “to optimize detail and stability.” Portraits are incredible, even at night (taken with 200MP telephoto, 6x). … Read more

Nolan has portrayed Antiquity without colors in ‘The Odyssey’. It is a major error that has been around since the 18th century.

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The new trailer of ‘The Odyssey’ by Christopher Nolan It has everything that is expected from the director: enormous ambition, armies of extras, a Trojan horse, a cyclops, and its share of controversy. Beyond the anachronistic armor, both this and the previous trailer have highlighted how the film is bathed in a color filter (or non-color, rather) that turns Ancient Greece into a twilight, joyless place. What is significant is that this is not an innocent choice. Color missing. The new trailer, which makes the visual muscle of the film very clear (four months of filming at sea, 250 million dollars budget) has unleashed opinions that speak of “lack of color“, or of a proposal “dark, dirty and full of black armor.” Nolan affirms which has sought a realistic approach to the Greek epic, with locations in Greece, Morocco, Sicily and Iceland, practical effects and without the artificial shine of the classic Hollywood peplum. However, its approach is also a visual convention. Dirty past. The phenomenon is more than studied among experts in historical representation. The blog ‘Tragedy and Farce’ analyzed it in depth in 2021documenting how historical cinema has come to systematically associate the past with dirty browns, metallic grays, and unpolished armor. The trend became so dominant that it ended up filtering into epic fantasy: the Gondor of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ works with a completely desaturated palette that contrasts with the vivid colors of the rest of the saga. The story. What is significant, as said the historian Patricia Gonzálezis that this is how a story is constructed: we are sent the message that the past was dark, brutal and primitive, and modernity consists of color and light. Going from black and white to technicolor, a bit in one inverted and less innocent version of ‘The Wizard of Oz’. The past is different from the present, it is described to us as distant and pre-rational, and at the same time it is romanticized in the military: man against the world, his own against what is foreign, the epic of noble violence. A message ideologically loaded to the brim, although there are authors like Nolan who, when adopting it, have no intention of launching an explicit political message. What archeology knows. Since 1981, the Liebieghaus Polychromy Research Projectin Frankfurt, analyzes traces of color preserved in classical sculptures and architectural fragments thanks to a combination of techniques including ultraviolet photography, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, and chemical analysis of pigments. Their conclusions are that the marble and bronze sculptures were painted with bright reds, deep blues, greens and gold. His physical reconstructions were shown to the public for the first time between 2003 and 2004 in Munich, the Vatican and Copenhagen, under the title ‘Gods in Color’. Polychromy was not limited to sculptures. Clothes were dyed, walls were painted, weapons of the elite were decorated, tapestries told stories with intensely colored illustrations captured with complex and intricate techniques. It must be taken into account that the very term “polychromy” It was coined by the theorist Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy in 1814. from the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The origin of the problem. In the Renaissance, restorers convinced that the paint covering the sculptures was accumulated dirt removed it, and by the 18th century there were hardly any visible traces left. It was then, in 1764, that the German historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann published his ‘History of the Art of Antiquity’, which for generations established the canon of classical beauty. in itWinckelmann maintained that color contributed to beauty but was not beauty, and that the whiter the body, the more beautiful it was. Liebieghaus Polychromy Research Project Winckelmann and the neoclassicists who followed him built on that historical accident an entire aesthetic ideal, that of white marble as the pinnacle of civilization and art. Museums displayed the sculptures in their deteriorated state as if that were their original appearance. Today’s public, upon seeing the polychrome reconstructions of the Liebieghaus, reacts with discomfort, but in reality this rejection is the result of two centuries of conditioning. White history. The most important Nazi propaganda forum on the internet, Stormfront, uses images of the Parthenon as iconography, invoking a “white history”. Identity Evropa, an American far-right organization, uses classical white marble sculptures in its propaganda. “Molon labe”, the legendary roar of Leonidas at Thermopylae, is today the slogan of armed Nazi militias. Before all that, Hitler banned any representation of classical art other than white marble in Nazi Germany. Sparta and Rome serve to sustain racialized narrativesxenophobic and Islamophobic, with the whiteness of marble as a central element of the imagination. A gray, violent and militarized past fits perfectly into that story: epic, where the hard man prevails (hence the famous “Roman Empire” in which men, apparently, they can’t stop thinking), separated from the “soft” present… Nolan is not propagating Nazi ideas, of course, but his imaginary, absolutely contrary to historical reality (is there anything more luminous and colorful than the Mediterranean?) is born from these trends that date back to the 18th century. Therefore, the decision of filming in Western Sahara It is not only economic: it is necessary to erase the light of classical history. In Xataka | This song is so important in Nolan’s ‘Inception’ that Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack revolves around it

In two years, pork became 29% cheaper on farms and 7% more expensive in supermarkets. The question is obvious

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When we go to the supermarket for fruit, meat, fish or any other food we find labels that inform us of their prices, but that figure is only the last in a long (and complex) chain of costs in which not all the links move at the same pace. That is the idea that they wanted to emphasize the farmers on account of pork: according to their calculations, they charge 29% less today than in 2024 while the supermarkets sell it to us 7% more expensive. The question is obvious: where is this differential, which according to industry estimates has given a jump of 179%? What has happened? That the Coordinator of Farmers and Ranchers Organizations (COAG) just report “the growing gap” between what farms charge for pork and the prices that end customers end up paying in supermarkets. After analyzing the market for two years (from April 2024 to the same month of 2026) and calculate what is called the Price Index at Origin and Destination (IPOD), the agricultural organization has detected two trends that move in opposite directions in the production chain: while ranchers charge less for their product today than two years ago, supermarkets sell it at a higher price. How much more expensive? COAG assures that in April 2024, farmers received 1.83 euros for each kilo of pork. In April 2026 (latest data available) this indicator had dropped to €1.3/kg. The striking thing is that (always according to COAG data) the “destination price”which the consumer pays in the supermarket, evolved in the opposite direction. From €6.45/kg in 2024, it went to €6.9/kg. What does that mean? Basically, while producers saw the price of their goods decline by 28.9%, the rates at which meat is sold in supermarkets grew by 6.9%. Are there more indicators? Yes. The organization not only records the rates that are charged at one time or another. It also calculates the “farm-supermarket differential,” an indicator that basically shows how wide the margin is that separates both ends of the production chain. Their conclusion is even more revealing: while in 2024 the differential was 252%, last month it rose to 431%. The COAG speaks already of “a growing and unjustified gap between what the rancher charges and what the final consumer pays” in the supermarket. “The data show that the drop in the price at origin has not been passed on to the consumer at any time. Quite the opposite: while the rancher was suffering a continued drop in income throughout 2025 and early 2026, the price in the supermarket not only remained stable, but continued to grow,” argues the coordinator, who denounces the effect of this double trend: “A net transfer of income from the producer to the distribution chain and the meat industry.” What do the supermarkets say? Coincidence or not, the COAG report It comes just a few days after Asedas, the Spanish Association of Distributors, Self-service and Supermarkets, publicly complained of the “systematic distortions” and “simplistic approaches” that are often used when analyzing the prices that govern the different phases of the production chain. A speech that “generates confusion” and leads to thinking about “hidden intermediaries.” “There are no abusive margins, the price of the final product is fully justified by real costs, risks assumed and investments made,” they argue from the association, which has presented a study precisely on how to “precisely” compare origin-destination prices. In the analysis, prepared by Manuel Hidalgo, professor of Economics at the Pablo de Olavide University, it is appointment among others the IPOD made by COAG. “It constitutes the most paradigmatic example of how a methodologically deficient approach can generate distorted perceptions about the real functioning of the agri-food chain.” What do they argue? The study signed by Hidalgo warns that the IPOD, “far from providing clarity to the debate, introduces significant distortions” and is based on “a conceptually erroneous premise: the idea that the agri-food chain can be analyzed through a simple binary comparison between two points.” The economist warns of “value creation processes” and remember that more actors than farms and supermarkets participate in the chain that brings food from the fields to the tables. Throughout the report, Hidalgo denounces other errors, such as comparing the lowest prices at origin with “the highest observed” on the shelves, that there are comparisons based on unrepresentative samples or that gross margin and net profit are wrongly equated. And what do they propose then? Alternatively, the economist poses a calculation formula that exemplifies with several products. One of them is olive oil, which is tracked from its price at origin (€2.35/l) to that applied in stores (€7.5/l). In between, it indicates the transformation and distribution phases, during which the oil incorporates an “added value” of €5.15 and a commercial margin. “This increase is not speculation, but the sum of necessary services,” concludes the analysis, presented by Asedas and Caea. What’s happening with the market? Beyond the interpretations of some and others about where the margin of money that separates what is paid on farms and in supermarkets ends, one thing is clear: the Spanish pork market is going through a complex moment. Farmers have been greatly affected by the cases of African swine fever detected at the end of last year in Catalonia, which made China ban the entry gender from Barcelona. In general, the data from the Interporc employer association show that in 2025 exports generally fell by 3.4% annually, dragging down turnover, which contracted by 300 million euros. The impact of swine fever it didn’t take long in letting yourself feel with price drops and the search for new markets. A complex scenario that, months later, was followed by the hangover from the Iran war, which, as in many other sectors (including agricultural ones) was felt with an increase in price of fuels. With this backdrop, and for the sake of a more precise ‘photo’ of what is happening with prices, COAG demands something else from the Government: that it publish updated … Read more

As far as we know, the agency that supervises AI in Spain is not supervising anything. What it does have is an Ideas Laboratory

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The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA) is close to completing its first year of operational life. This organization has activated several initiatives with results that are still difficult to specify, but one thing is clear: supervise, what is said to supervise, does not seem to be supervising anything. The danger, once again, is to continue the European drift: it is good to try to avoid the risks imposed by AI, but what Europe and Spain need is something else. Neither supervises nor sanctions. The great paradox of the agency with official headquarters in A Coruña is that, after months of operation, it has not yet exercised its theoretical sanctioning power nor has it audited a single critical algorithm of Big Tech. For now, its work has focused on “early access” to the regulations. The eternal criticism. Although the European AI Law already allows systems that violate fundamental rights to be banned from February 2025, the AESIA has not opened a single relevant file. Alberto Gago, its director, recently declared in El País that “We are sure that no prohibited AI operates in Spain.” The work is currently very different: it is limited to pedagogy and accompaniment, leaving the work of regulatory “bite” for a future that at the moment seems far from coming. Meanwhile, the real AI market continues to be defined by companies from the US or China, which do not stop releasing new models with practically no regulatory restrictions, while Spanish and European companies have the yoke of a regulation on their heads that threatens to block them before they can even launch projects of this type. At the moment he only writes manuals. In fact, she has now become a free legal consultant for a dozen companies from a “regulatory sandbox” recently created. This initiative, which boasts of being one year ahead of the mandatory deadlines of the European AI Law, wants to act as a controlled space where companies can test their AI systems. Of the 200 applications, 12 projects were selected, but the result of this effort consists of the writing technical guides that help companies comply with these regulations. The sandbox also raises doubts regarding things such as its duration, which is one year and may be too long for how fast this segment moves. A civic center as a temporary headquarters. AESIA should already be using the facilities of the La Terraza building, but said location continues under a concession from RTVE and this It does not theoretically end until 2034. It is difficult to project an image of international technological sovereignty when the agency’s main office operates from the Casa Veeduríaa shared space with neighborhood activities. This provisional headquarters coexists with neighborhood workshops and association meetingsfar from the massive data centers it aims to oversee. The image of a cutting-edge regulator working among this type of activities is probably not the most appropriate in terms of its operational credibility. Thirty professionals against the billion dollars of Big Tech investment. There is a worrying disproportion between the ambition of the government narrative and, for example, the actual staff currently available at AESIA. During the launch announcement, 80 highly specialized employees were promised, but the figures August 2025 indicate that there are barely 30 professionals on staff covering all areas. The work seems mammoth if an organization like this wants to supervise all the models that will come into operation in our country. Currently on their official website they appear two calls to cover permanent and temporary positions, in addition to six calls for officials. The Ideas Laboratory. Last April got started this “multidisciplinary faculty” to anticipate ethical challenges regarding gender, minors and misinformation. Although the topics are vital, the purely academic format clashes with the extreme speed at which the AI ​​industry moves. It is especially peculiar that the organism emits Christmas toy recommendations as global corporations redefine geopolitical power through massive language models that now threaten even unbalance the pillars of the economy. Good intentions are of little use. There is an evident mismatch between the philosophical mission of this laboratory and the technical reality. Although this citizen pedagogical work is interestingly necessary, it should not be the main function or the greatest achievement of a high-level technical supervision agency. The AESIA is behaving more like a citizen service department than as an organization capable of analyzing how the algorithms that grant us credit or diagnose diseases work. ALIA, a compromising example. We have a first worrying case with ALIAthe AI ​​model developed at the BSC. This model has been certified by AESIA, which indicates that it complies with the regulations. However the boot and evolution of said model continues to be erratic and worrying, although it is true that the resources available to the project are very far from those of startups in the US or China. The rigor of the certification is debatable and calls into question whether AESIA will have the capacity to oversee the most advanced AI models. In Xataka | This is not a normal update: MareNostrum 5 will spend 129 million euros to become the Spanish AI supercomputer

everything we know and think we know so far about the next Google mobile

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Let’s collect you everything we think we know about the future Google Pixel 11the family of mobile phones that is the successor to the current ones Pixel 10. As is usual in the industry, weeks and months before the launch of the most anticipated mobile phones, the Internet is filled with all kinds of leaks, and we will tell you the most interesting and plausible. We are going to start by talking to you about the possible presentation dates of the new Google Pixel 11, because based on experience we can already narrow the range quite a bit. Then we will tell you the models that there may be, to finish by going into the features that have been leaked. Finally, you should know that the Pixel 11 will be the first to arrive with Android 17 serial. And as usual, you will also do so enjoying some exclusive featuresin addition to being one of the first where you can try all the other new features of the operating system. When do we think the Google Pixel 11 will come out Although historically Google used to present its phones in the months of October, the strategy has been changing to have a greater role, advancing the presentations by a few months. We will update this article periodically to add new leaks. We hope that the Pixel 11 will be presented in mid-August 2026during the “Made by Google” event. As we have seen in the latest models, the normal thing is that The launch is at the end of the montha couple of weeks after the announcement. What models are expected to exist? As we have seen in Google internal documents that have been leaked, it seems that the current structure of four high-end devices. They would be the following: Pixel 11 (codename “cubs”) Pixel 11 Pro (codename “grizzly”) Pixel 11 Pro XL (codename “kodiak”) Pixel 11 Pro Fold (code name “yogi”) In addition to this, months later a version 11a will arrivewhich like all those in the A range will have less power and will be more economical, although it will maintain some of the characteristics of its older brothers. What do we know so far Now, we are going to compile everything that has been leaked so far about the different components of the future Pixel 11 family. We are going to touch on what we know about the camera, the processors and other of its internal components. Design, size and screens According to the latest CAD-based renders leaked by OnLeaks and Android Headlinesit is expected that Pixels maintain their design languageand that there are no drastic changes in its appearance. This means that the edges and rounded corners will remain flat. The change that does seem to occur is that screen bezels will be thinner. The iconic horizontal camera module that makes these phones so recognizable will also be maintained, although in this case it seems that the panel will be made of completely black glass. Regarding the dimensions, everything points because they will be almost the same size as the previous generation. The only thing that will change is that they are expected to be a little thinner, going from 8.5 to 8.4 millimeters on the Pixel 11 Pro. As for the displays, we can expect a 6.3-inch LTPO OLED panel, while the Pro XL model will be 6.8 inches. So far everything is normal, no news, although some media such as Mobiflip suggest that Google could release new Samsung M16 OLED panels. This would be a major change, and would mean more maximum brightness and greater energy efficiency. Finally, on the Mystic Leaks Telegram channel, which specializes in leaks, the term is mentioned “Pixel Glow”. This would be an addition of RGB LED lights like the one you can find on mobile phones like those from the manufacturer Nothing. This term was mentioned in a leak where the cameras of the Pixel 11 Pro are also detailed and that the Tensor G6 processor will be used. Cameras and photography As for the main cameras, it is expected that there will be continuity with a triple camera with a 50 megapixel main sensor, an ultra wide angle and a 5x telephoto lens. We will also have improved AI processing for aspects such as cinematic blur, low light video and surely other aspects. Yes, more changes are expected on the front of the device, especially in biometrics. One of the first leaks pointed out that Google could bring back the infrared camera that we last saw on the Pixel 4, allowing the device to have 3D facial recognition at the level of Face ID of iPhones. With this, the Pixel could authorize payments and unlock the screen with your face even in the dark. However, this so-called ‘Project Tuscany’ of the infrared camera has barely appeared in leaks, so it is still early to know if it is true. Processor and memory The processor is possibly the field where the Pixel 11 will change the most. The leaks say that the new Tensor G6 will be manufactured by TSMC, the same manufacturer as the Pixel 10 after years of trusting Samsung, and that a 2 nanometer process will be used. Tensor processors have always followed Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips, and with this change Google hopes surpass them in power and efficiency. In fact, there are leaks that suggest that the new Google chip will have 15% higher performancein addition to an improvement in thermal and energy efficiency of 30%. This would help a lot to improve the autonomy of the device. The leaks also talk about 12 GB of RAM as a base, with which to help run the advanced functions of Gemini directly on the device in a fluid way. Additionally, we also expect a new Titan M3 security chip. Battery and connectivity We hope that the battery of the next Pixel 11 will be about 5,000 mAh for the base modeland greater capacities for the XL … Read more

DeepSeek V4 has given China the boost it needs against the US. Four chip makers are the big winners

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DeepSeek V4 It is the catalyst China needed. This model of artificial intelligence (AI) developed by the quantitative hedge fund specialized in trading algorithmic High-Flyer has been designed natively to live with Chinese chips. This is exactly the strategy that the Chinese government supports in response to the pressure that the US is putting on China. The Administration led by Donald Trump prevents the most powerful GPUs from Nvidia, AMD or Cerebras from reaching this Asian country. And Beijing has decided to do without them. The challenge facing the Chinese government is that it is much easier to set this goal than to put it into practice. This is the scenario in which DeepSeek V4 has emerged as the asset that China needs. And its arrival has led, for the first time, to several Chinese AI chip designers achieving something that until now had only been within the reach of Nvidia: guaranteeing full compatibility with the latest High-Flyer AI model from day 0. A great opportunity for Huawei, Cambricon, Moore Threads and Hygon DeepSeek V4 has marked a turning point. Its adoption in China is likely to be very notable, which has caused AI chip designers to compete among themselves to ensure full compatibility with this model from the moment it arrives. None of them wants to miss the opportunity to grow in the largest market on the planet if we stick to the most relevant indicators, such as purchasing power parity or the volume of population with the capacity to consume. Huawei is one of the companies that benefited most from the arrival of DeepSeek V4 Huawei will surely be one of the companies that will benefit the most from the arrival of DeepSeek V4. And its entire portfolio of GPUs for AI is compatible with this model. Nevertheless, your Ascend 950PR chip has been established as the main inference solution. A note before moving forward: inference is broadly speaking the computational process carried out by language models with the purpose of generating responses that correspond to the requests they receive. China’s three largest internet groups (Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent) have placed orders for several hundred thousand Ascend 950PR processors following the launch of DeepSeek V4, according to Reuters. However, Huawei is not the only Chinese company that has won the lottery with the arrival of this AI model. Cambricon Technologiesthe Chen brothers’ company, has already completed the adaptation to the framework open source vLLM inference framework and has published the code on GitHub. Besides, Moore Threads has worked closely with the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Academy to run DeepSeek V4 on its MTT S5000 card using the FlagOS software stack. And Hygon has carried out a deep optimization of this model in its DCU platform with the purpose of consolidating its hardware as an attractive option for industrial use. The competitiveness of DeepSeek V4 outside of China is unclear because is less capable than its more advanced American competitors, but its future within the borders of its home country appears to be guaranteed. Image | Huawei More information | SCMP In Xataka | The US’s problem in the AI ​​and humanoid race is not China: it is all of Asia and it is greatly disadvantaged

In which communities it can be done and how to do it in the 2026 declaration

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We are going to explain how and where you can have one deduction for living in a municipality at risk of depopulation in your Income 2025, which is the declaration we make in 2026 to account for the last fiscal year. You can now request and submit your draft online and from the mobilebut if you live in a small town or rural area with few inhabitants or with a tendency to aging and emigration, you should pay attention to this before confirming it. We have already told you what they are the most important boxes that should be reviewed in the income. And we also have guides on how to deduct you home insurance, gym fee, vet expenses, glasses and contact lenses, school supplies either the rent of your habitual residence. Now it is the turn of a deduction specifically designed to stop the depopulation of the rural interior. Being able to benefit from this deduction It depends on the autonomous community in which you live.because it is only available in a few and conditions change. But before going into the details of each one, there are a series of general requirements that are repeated in practically all of them. Requirements in addition to the community where you live Although each autonomous community establishes its own conditions for this and other deductions, there is always a series of common requirements that are repeated in practically all of them. These are the requirements that you should know about how to request the deduction or if you can do so. Have a habitual residence: No, this help is not for when you have a second residence in the town and go on weekends. The deduction is only for those who live there permanently, when you spend the greatest number of days of the year in that town and have it registered as your habitual residence. The municipality must be on the official list: It’s not enough that it’s a small town. The municipality must be registered on the list of those that are in depopulation or demographic risk of the autonomous community to which they belong. The deduction does not appear in the draft: Like almost all regional deductions, this one does not fill itself out. If you commit the draft without reviewing it, you will lose it. You have to add it manually in Renta Web. Deductions for each autonomous community We start with this table where we summarize the autonomous communities where you will be able to receive the deduction for living in a municipality at risk of depopulation, as well as the amount. This way, you will have everything clear at a glance. Community deduction Rent limit Additional requirement Cantabria 20% of the full regional fee (max. €500) No limit Under 40 years of age and residence throughout the calendar year Estremadura 15% of the full regional quota €28,000 (individual) / €45,000 (joint) Municipality with less than 3,000 inhabitants Valencian Community €330 (plus up to an additional €264 with children) No limit Municipality included in the Municipal Cooperation Fund against depopulation Deduction for living in a municipality at risk of depopulation in Cantabria In Cantabria you have a deduction of 20% of the full regional quotaalthough with a maximum of 500 euros in the deduction. Come on, if you have a regional quota of 2,000 euros, 400 will be deducted, and if it is 3,000 or more, the limit is 500. In order to apply this deduction you must be a person under 40 years of age and reside in that municipality habitually. You must have lived during the entire last calendar year, so you have no deduction if you moved in the middle of last year. If you are going to do joint taxationthe deduction is applied to each of the taxpayers in the family unit that individually meets the requirements. Each one may apply it separately even if the joint declaration is made. Deduction for living in a municipality at risk of depopulation in Extremadura Extremadura has a different approach. Apply a deduction of 15% of the full regional quotabut without any type of limit or maximum amount. Furthermore, it is not intended that you live in the town on a list, but rather that you live regularly in a municipality with a population of less than 3,000 inhabitants within the autonomous community. However, yes there is an income limit to be able to access the deduction. Within this limit, the sum of the general tax base and savings must not exceed the 28,000 euros in individual taxation nor the 45,000 euros in joint taxation. If you are going to do joint taxationthe amount of the deduction is the amount that corresponds to you when you are entitled to it. Come on, the 15% will be applied to the proportional part of the full regional quota that corresponds to you within the family unit. Deduction for living in a municipality at risk of depopulation in the Valencian Community The Valencian Community is where this deduction is easiest to understand, but it is also the one that gives the least money. You receive a fixed amount of 330 euroswhich grows by 132 euros if you are entitled to the minimum for descendants for one person, by 198 euros if it is for two, and by 264 euros if it is for three or more. The deduction is incompatible with regional deductions for birth, adoption or foster care for the same descendant. Furthermore, to opt for it you must live in a registered municipality in the Municipal Cooperation Fund against depopulation What documentation should you keep Although in none of the autonomous communities you will have to attach any document to verify your data, it is possible that the Treasury will ask you for supporting documents during the following four years. Therefore, it is advisable that you have saved documents that prove that you have lived in that municipality in 2025, which is the year for which … Read more

SpaceX faces a neighborhood rebellion in the heart of Texas

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SpaceX bases its success on repeating, repeating and repeating. Only in the month of May there are six launches scheduled. But that’s not all, testing of engines and other components carried out at the company’s industrial complex in McGregor, Texas, is the order of the day. Therefore, it is not unusual that more than 150 citizens from South and Central Texas have sued Elon Musk’s company for damage to their homes. Cracks in the walls and shattered glass. In total there have been two group demands. One of 80 South Texas residents and another that includes 77 people residing in the center of that same state. In all cases they complain about the damage caused by the shock waves from the SpaceX tests. Neighbors warn of cracked walls, broken window glass and continuous vibrations. One of the owners even claims that his house has suffered serious damage to the foundation.. A question of engines. The McGregor Test Center is the most active rocket engine testing facility in the world. That is where SpaceX tunes up the Raptor and Merlin engines that propel its ships into space. The problem is that they are very powerful motors, which are firmly connected to the ground. For this reason, as they point out in one of the lawsuits, “kinetic and acoustic energy cannot be spent raising a vehicle into the atmosphere.” Rather, “it is propelled violently outward through two destructive paths: an acoustic wave that hits aboveground structures or a sustained seismic tremor from the ground that physically shakes the underground foundations of homes.” Up to two million dollars. In total, each of the two lawsuits, filed in the 414th State District Court in Waco, asks for up to $1 million in compensation from SpaceX for damages to Texan neighbors. At the moment, Elon Musk’s company has not made any statements to the media. From a city of its own to friction with neighbors. Initially, SpaceX advertised its facilities as a job and even identity opportunity for Texas residents. Your Starbase reached the category of cityfor all the people, many of them workers, who lived in the surrounding area. But what happened recently shows that, in reality, SpaceX has more and more detractors among people who live near its facilities. It is not for less. Seeing how the home that costs so much to obtain is in danger is not a dish of good taste for anyone. From employees to neighbors. In recent times, SpaceX has also received many lawsuits from employees. To avoid them, the company has managed to be classified as an air transport company, since this allows it to be regulated under the Railway Labor Law and, in the process, make it much more difficult to file a complaint or carry out a strike. In short, Elon Musk’s space agency has given employees the slip, but can it do the same with its private Fuenteovejuna? Image | MagnificentGage Skidmore In Xataka | SpaceX is preparing the largest IPO in history: the fact that it is doing so right now is no coincidence

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