usatoday24 
The Japan government has announced that it will invest 200,000 million yen (about 1.5 billion dollars) to accelerate the development and commercial production of Perovskita solar panels, a technology of Japanese origin that could be their best opportunity for Challenge China in the global market of renewable energies. The bet is monumental. With this strong public investment, the Japanese authorities seek that the production of photovoltaic cells of Perovskita is equivalent to the capacity of 20 nuclear reactors by the year 2040. To achieve this, the Perovskita would mean a paradigm shift in the energy economy of Japan and the global geopolitics of clean energy. Light, flexible and very Japanese. Perovskita is a crystalline material with the ability to absorb a lot of light which can be manufactured in ultrafine layers based on raw materials more affordable than silicon. Perovskita’s solar cells were invented by Japanese scientist Tsutomu Miyasaka while working in Fujifilm. Japan Bet on movies of approximately one millimeter thick. One of the greatest values of this type of panel is its versatility. Due to their fine thickness and reduced weight, they can be installed on complex surfaces, such as roofs with little load capacity, buildings walls, transport stations or even vehicles. In a country with such little flat and usable land as Japan, these advantages could be decisive to boost solar energy beyond the large traditional photovoltaic parks. The equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors. Japan has marked a very demanding calendar. The goal of producing energy equivalent to 20 nuclear reactors by 2040 is framed in the commitment that between 22% and 29% of the country’s total electricity generation comes from solar energy by then. At present, solar energy represents only 10% of its energy mix. To fulfill this road map, the government has granted subsidies of up to 1 billion dollars to Sekisui Chemicalone of the leading conglomerates in the development of Perovskita. They add up to the 500 million dollars already invested in the research and development of technology and other funds that would ensure the supply chain. Iodine is an essential component in the manufacture of Sovskita and Japan solar cells is one of the world’s world producers. The technical and economic challenges. One of the biggest technical challenges for Perovskita solar panels is moisture degradation. Sekisui He says he developed a sealed with specialized resins to prevent water between and accelerate deterioration. As for the economic challenges, the main unknown is how long it will take to lower manufacturing costs to competitive levels, taking into account that producing flexible Perovskita panels is between three and four times more expensive than making crystalline silicon panels, which have been lowering the price year after year thanks to the Huge production capacity of China. Japan hopes that thanks to mass production, the price of these new panels will become comparable to that of traditional ones. Reduce China dependence. In the end, it’s about that. China leads overwhelmingly the manufacture of solar panels conventional silicon, concentrating about 85% of the global production of photovoltaic cells and about 80% of the polysilic that they use. Japan, like other countries, depends largely on Chinese technology. The defenders of the Japanese bet see in the Perovskita a historical opportunity to break that hegemony. This material dispenses with silicon and uses iodine, whose main world producer, next to Chile, is Japan, thus reducing bottlenecks and dependency risks. Not only Japan develops Perovskitas. China too He is trying to win Japan In his own game. There are different variants of Perovskita and, while Japanese laboratories put all their efforts in ultrafine and flexible films, China has quickly advanced in hybrid models (more efficient silicon-butrovskite tandem cells) with thicker glass coated glass modules. Although both regions compete with the same material in mind, the market could end up segmented in applications: in Japan, covered and facades; In China, large solar parks or double -layer panels for urban environments. Image | Toshiba In Xataka | On their way to mass implementation, Perovskita cells have taken another step: 10 times more resistant
In the summer of 2008 Apple made a great launch, one colossal and one that was one of the greatest disasters in its history. You probably remember the first two (the iPhone 3G and, above all, the App Store), but perhaps not what was that disaster. It is normal: they got us almost forgotten about that. That disaster was mobilemethe email platform that sought to compete with Exchange or with the Blackberry systems. However, its operation was An absolute disasterwith service drops and unexpected charges to user credit cards. So terrible was what David Pogue, an known editor of The New York Times, changed the name to Mobilemess (playing with “Mess”, “mess” in English “). Two years later Mobileme was kaput. It was something later when we knew how that disaster was managed internally. In 2011 Fortune published an article in which they precisely told how shortly after the launch, Steve Jobs called the Mobileme team to a meeting: “According to a participant in the meeting, Jobs entered dressed with his characteristic black neck jersey and blue jeans, gathered his hands and asked a simple question: “Can anyone tell me what Mobileme is supposed to do?” After receiving a satisfactory response, he continued: “And why don’t you do it?”. During the next half hour, Jobs rebuked the group. “You have stained Apple’s reputation,” he told them. “You should hate them for having disappointed you mutually.” Public humiliation especially enraged Jobs. Walt Mossberg, the influential gadget columnist from the Wall Street Journal, had criticized Mobileme. “Mossberg, our friend, doesn’t write good things about us anymore,” said Jobs. In the act, Jobs appointed a new executive to direct the group. “ History showed how for Jobs that ruling, now practically forgotten, had a capital importance. But that was the Apple before. Something smells in Apple John Gruber, well -known analyst and responsible for the Dary Fireball blog, I published this week A worrying analysis of Apple’s situation. It was titled “Something is rotten in the state of Cupertino”, and in it explained how different this Apple is now to which at that time managed Steve Jobs. This expert focused on what happened with Apple Intelligence in general and with the new version of Siri enhanced by the particular. In Apple they are clear followers in generativeand it does not seem that this will change in the short term. Apple Intelligence functions are limited and very modest, and while the greats of technology and various startups do not stop surprising us with new advances and increasingly striking functions, in Apple they continue with an approach that seemed interesting (very focused on privacy) but that is being disappointing in its exasperating deployment. But the really worrying thing is what happened with Siri. After the wwdc last year They announced that “Siri will be able to offer intelligence adapted to the user and the information of his device. For example, a user can say:” Play that podcast that Jamie recommended you, “and Siri will locate and reproduce the episode, without the user having to remember if he was mentioned in a text or in an email.” But both that and other promising options of Siri were only part of an empty speech, because There was never a public demonstration of those options. The only place where we could see it was in a pre -recorded demo “Not live,” in which Siri did all that Apple said he could do. As Gruber explained: “What Apple showed about the next” personalized Siri “in the WWDC was not a demo. It was a conceptual video. Conceptual videos are shit, and a sign of a company in disorder, if not in crisis.” Not only that: in September They returned To promote that future theoretical with an advertisement in which Siri understood the personal context – in what situation we were – to respond to a request. A few days ago Apple announced without more than that option it would not arrive until at least next year. Apple not only did not demonstrate in public these new Siri options, even in a preliminary version: the only thing we could see were conceptual videos about how the characteristic should work. And that announcement with Bella Ramsey – actress famous for her role in ‘The Last of Us’— has been withdrawn from YouTube this week without more. Are Too bad signsand all point to the same: to a fiasco. One worrying, because Apple did not do these things. He has rarely promised the launch of products and then back. It happened for example With the famous wireless load basebut this was a minor accessory. Siri’s dimension had, which is a theoretically crucial component for Apple to compete in the AI field. And that leads us to ask what is happening in Apple. In the last 30 years the company has managed to build an enormously solid reputation and extraordinary credibility. People choose their products because they “simply work” – with many quotes -, and despite some more or less important slips –Hello, butterfly keyboardhello Throttling-, their products continue to stand out for their reliability. Apple’s credibility begins to make waters But that credibility staggers now and joins other signals that can be worrisome. We have been waiting for years for Apple to throw its new disruptive product, but They have never achieved it. It was not his Apple Watch – despite being a very popular product, such as the airpods – and of course They have not been the vision pro. Supposedly They canceled their ‘Project Titan’ And its intentions – just officers – to develop an ‘Apple Car’, but it is even more striking that the fact that two years have arrived since Chatgpt arrived and the most powerful company on the planet can only boast an assistant who Rewrite the emails or that generates cartoons. It is terrible. Source: Trendline. Apple’s situation also seems to be reflected in sales that remain colossal, but also They seem to have stagnated … Read more
The many joys that RTVE is receiving In terms of audience They have a reverse in the form of Continuous conflicts with the Treasury. And it seems that we have a new drama in perspective: there is a mismatch in VAT contributed by the entity that could cause, According to the worldan “economic breakdown” of up to 739 million euros. Millions in losses. It is being a complicated year for RTVE in economic matters. In January of this year, President José Pablo López appeared for the first time before the Parliamentary Control Commission and recognized losses of 30 million in the budgetary exercises of 2023 and 2024, which would have to be covered with the reserve funds destined for this purpose by the SEPI. However, its management has been valued very positively: in May 2024 its predecessor in office, Cascajosa Concepción, already warned of the red numbers of RTVE’s accounts, which some media like the world They encrypted in those 30 million that have not increased during López’s management. More tensions. However, the conflict with the Treasury due to VAT is somewhat greater. “A disparity of criteria is maintained in relation to the supported VAT that must be considered deductible” affirms the memory of accounts, and that refers to a conflict that dates back to 2018, coinciding with the arrival of the PSOE to the Government YLA controversial entry into the presidency from RTVE by Rosa María Mateo. It was then that the Treasury initiated an inspection against several public televisions when they considered that they had to pay VAT for the subsidies they received TVE believes he doesn’t have to pay. Since then, RTVE considers that it is not obliged to pay the VAT that is claimed, relying on a judgment of the European Court of Justice around a case in Bulgaria that supports the exemption of VAT. This same criteria was applied in Spain in 2024 in the case of the Television of Castilla-La Mancha. But RTVE’s problems with VAT do not end there: not only is the problem of how this tax pays, but how it deduces it. VAT deductions. There are three open procedures with TVE on this last topic, and understand three periods: From January 2015 to October 2017 November 2017 to December 2021 From January 2022 to December 2022 TVE’s forecasts are always optimistic, and believes that the Treasury must reintegrate money into the three processes: 255 million, 151.95 million and 42 million, respectively. There are precedents: in June 2024, the National Court sentenced that the Treasury had to return 140 million euros to RTVE, relieveing in this way The complicated RTVE accounts. Changes, changes. All these conflicts coincide over time with a very marked tone change in the chain: José Pablo López has appointed as TVE number 2 to Sergio Calderónwhich is undertaking a renewal of the contents that It is not going to end in Broncano (An acquisition of the previous directive), but already plans to attack the afternoons of the chain, giving it somewhat more modern airs. All if the budgets, immovable since 2009they allow it. Header | RTVE In Xataka | The controversy between Pablo Motos and David Broncano will not end soon: both of them are working
Let’s explain How it works and how to avoid the scam of the false winner On Facebook. It happens when you participate in some kind of raffle in this social network, and the scammer will respond to your comment to make you believe that you are the person you have won. We are going to start the article explaining the way in which these deceptions work and some of the variants you can find. And then we will tell you how you can avoid falling into these traps. How this scam This deception works When you have participated in a Facebook contest Require you to leave a comment. You know, one of those in which you ask you to mention something or leave a comment in some way to participate. So what the cybercriminal does is answer your message saying that you have won. Will use an account in which or hide who is or directly get through the artist or entity that is doing the raffle. In your comment, it is normal for this person I leave you a link To supposedly access your prize. This link will take you to a website designed to deceive you and steal data with forms to fill out to collect your prize, and in some cases also to steal your account or steal money. This type of deception has been on Facebook for a long time, and There are several different types to those who can face. His way of proceeding is similar, but his ability to deceive yourself by making someone vary. There are some that are quite simple and easy to distinguish, but there are others in which cloning names and profile photos, and it can be easier to snack in them. In the end, with what these scammers play is with your desire to carry a contest. When you receive the notification you will see the falsified name and image image and some first words of congratulations, and that can push you to press and act in a precipitous way. How to avoid this deception The most important thing if someone responds to a comment with which you participate in a contest and tells you that you have won is Verify the information with the real account in whose publication you commented. When these raffles are made, a publication is always made announcing the winners, and if they have not done it verifies the times and how long they have given to participate. The important thing is that Don’t rush clicking on links. In fact, normally They will not tell you to tell you that you have wonjust a new publication is going to be made. Therefore, by default you should suspect these messages. Be very careful if you write to you by private message That I get to Messenger. In many cases the scammers will write you directly. Do not trust if apparently it is the same accountbecause both the name of an account and its profile image usually falsify you. In case of doubt, Contact the original account in whose publication you have commented. Tell them the message you have received, because they can confirm that it is a hoax, and you will even help them to notify the rest of the participants not to fall into these scams. In any case, the measures can be summarized in cold blood and verify the results of the contest in which you have participated. Especially cold blood, don’t get carried away by emotion. In Xataka Basics | How to configure your Facebook or Instagram account to be able to recover it if you lose it or hack you
IBM will display in San Sebastián your System Two With 156 cubits heron processor, The most powerful quantum computer in Europe. Operational at the end of the year, will make Spain one of the six world nodes of quantum computing, together with the US, Canada, Germany, Japan and South Korea. The Basque system will exceed The recent German IBM installationwhich operates with Eagle processors of 127 cubits. Why is it important. Quantum computing promises to transform the science of materials, physics and medicine solving unabordable problems for conventional systems. He System Two It already reaches the “quantum advantage”, executing impossible operations for traditional supercomputers. Its modular design will allow expanding capabilities while the mitigation of errors progresses, the greatest challenge of this technology. In figures. The Basque Government will invest 50.8 million euros in the project, part of a regional strategy of 120 million. The performance of the new processor is spectacular: 16 times more precise and 25 times faster than its predecessors. With 156 cubits, the Heron processor inaugurates what IBM calls “it was of quantum utility.” The context. The announcement coincides with the recent presentation of the first quantum computer with 100% European technology in the Barcelona Supercomputing Centercreating an axis of quantum excellence in Spain. Barcelona bets on European technological autonomy with a system developed by Qilimanjaro and GMV. San Sebastián is associated with IBM to access the most advanced technology in the market. Both strategies complement and position Spain in the European avant -garde. And now what? The IBM-Euskadi center will be available for scientists, educators and companies through its open source software Qiskit. Remote access will allow researchers from all over the world to take advantage of their abilities. According to Lehendakari Pradalesthis infrastructure “will be key to the digital transformation and economic development of the Basque Country”, facilitating international collaborations. Deepen. The quantum race accelerates. IBM plans for 2029 Your “Starling” systemwith complete errors correction, multiplying the possibilities of practical application. With two development poles in San Sebastián and Barcelona, Spain emerges as a power in a field that will define the global technological future in the coming decades. In Xataka | Europe wants to lead chips research of less than 2 nm. ASML is the cornerstone of your plan Outstanding image | IBM
Several weeks after its launch it is still very difficult to find in the stores a family graphics card GeForce RTX 50 with a price aligned with its official cost. The easiest model to get with a price Similar to the marked by Nvidia It is the GeForce RTX 5070but the others or have an important extra cost or are not available. In this scenario it is understandable that users who have decided to get one of these graphics cards are disappointed. Many of you have clearly expressed it in The comments of our articlesand forums dedicated to PC hardware are full of users They complain due to the low availability of the new NVIDIA graphics cards. Given the circumstances, the company led by Jensen Huang has been forced to face with the purpose of appeasing players and trying to explain what is happening. This is Nvidia’s response As we can see in the graphics that we publish on the cover of this article, Nvidia says that during the first five weeks after the launch has distributed twice the graphics cards of the GeForce RTX 50 family that on its day of the range GeForce RTX 40. However, this explanation deserves a calm analysis. And, as they point out in Tom’s hardware and Redditthis comparison does not scrupulously reflect what is happening. During the first five weeks of the launch of the GeForce RTX 40, only the RTX 4090 was available Jarred Walton, one of Tom’s hardware editors, explains very well: During the first five weeks after the launch of the GeForce RTX 40, only the RTX 4090. This graphics card arrived on October 12, 2022, and the RTX 4080 landed on November 16, just five weeks later. All users know that RTX 4090 is not an adequate graphic solution for a wide range of players or for its price or for their benefits. However, during the first five weeks after the launch of the GeForce RTX 50 family, the four graphics cards that are currently available: the RTX 5090, the RTX 5080, the RTX 5070 TI and the RTX 5070 arrived. The first two landed together on January 30, 2025, while the GeForce RTX 5070 TI arrived on February 20. Finally, the GeForce RTX 5070 appeared almost at the end of this period: on March 5. If we have all this present it is reasonable to conclude that the comparison made by Nvidia It is not balanced. Not even accepting the possibility that this company has added the RTX 4080 to the figure of the GeForce RTX 40 family. Hopefully both availability and prices are normalized as soon as possible for the good of users. Image | Nvidia More information | Tom’s hardware In Xataka | If Nvidia lived only from PC GPUs, she would be about to die of success. And US tariffs don’t help
Let’s tell you what are the payment functions that become free In Gemini. As artificial intelligence chatbots evolve, it is common for every so often to be free, although with some limitations. Meanwhile, payment users also receive more and better functions. In step of the new functions that reach the payment version but they also do it to the free one more limited, the owners of the AI allow you to verify its operation. Thus, if you like to the point that what they give you free is short, you may have more disposition to go to the payment version. Payment functions that become free Here are in format ready the novelties that arrive at the free version of Google Gemini. In each of them we will give you a small explanation so you can understand what it is about. You have these functions both in the web version and in Gemini’s mobile app. Deep Research: It is Gemini’s deep search, with which he does an investigation of what you ask to offer you more broad and precise results. This function can only be used a limited number of months a month that Google has not specified. 2.0 flash and 2.0 flash thinking: These become the predetermined models of Gemini. Gemini 2.0 flash and 2.0 flash thinking They are the “small” versions of the latest models launched by Google, much more capable and, in the case of the second, the answers to try to offer better results analyzed what you ask and the context in which you do it. More apps connected: Google Calendar, Tasks and Keep applications become compatible with the 2.0 Flash Thinking model. This means that you can make requests related to your content on them. Gemini Gems: The Gemini Gems You can use them without being a payment subscriber, and allow you to use gemini versions adapted to concrete tasks and create your own adaptations. Come on, you can make Gemini a programming assistant, a professional counselor and more. In Xataka Basics | Gemini guide: 36 functions and things you can do with Google’s artificial intelligence
Although of less popular than traditional laptops and desktops, minipcs constitute an alternative when we need a computer of compact dimensions. But that is small does not imply that it will be little powerful. In the market we find proposals of the most diverse that fit different needs. Herein Minipcs purchase guide you will find the keys when choosing one and some of the most interesting models of the market.
In the summer of 2022, those responsible for the Atapuerca site, in Burgos, made known An important find. It was about what seemed to be the face of the oldest hominid found throughout Europe and lived more than a million years ago in the north of the Peninsula. Almost three years later, we know new details about this primitive human. Pink Details such as the name with which they have baptized the individual to whom these bones belonged: Pink. The study has corroborated the initial estimates of the team responsible for the finding, which at the time already indicated that we are facing The oldest human in Europe of which we have record. The new estimates date the remains in a period that goes Between 1.4 and 1.1 million years ago In time. This implies that the fossil is several hundred thousand years before the oldest remains of the deposit (belonging to a Homo antecessor), dated about 860,000 years ago. Homo affinis erectus. An important fact that still remains to be elucidated about the species belonged to this individual. The new work confirms that the individual did not belong to the species Homo antecessoras the remains found in the Great Dolina. The specimen would have belonged to an old Homo erectus. That is why the remains have been classified in a “provisional” way as a member of the species Homo affinis erectus. “Homo antecessorShare with Homo sapiens a more modern -looking face and the projection of the bones of the nose, while Pink’s face configuration is more primitive, with features that remember Homo erectusespecially in its nasal, flat and poorly developed structure ”, explained in a press release María Martinón-Torres, director of CENIEH. June 2022. The fragment was found by Edgar TéllezMember of the Atapuerca research team, in June 2022. cataloged as ATE7-1, the remains were found in the stratum TE7 of the elephant’s chasm. After more than two years of analysis, the details of their study have been published in the form of Article in the magazine Nature. Clues about a way of life.The TE7 level can give us important clues about the environment in which Pink developed. It has recovered stone tools and animal remains with cuts of cuts, which would have been used by these presumable human inhabitants of Atapuerca and Europe. As explained by the team responsible for the study, these brands indicate that the inhabitants of Atapuerca in the lower Pleistocene not only knew the resources available in their environment, they were also able to take advantage of them “systematically”. A piece of a huge puzzle. The finding is just one more piece in the huge puzzle of human evolution and the dissemination of gender species Homo throughout our planet. We know that various waves of several species left their original continent, Africa, towards Eurasia, but the routes that followed have been hidden over time. Another important clue in this regard is precisely on a very different access route: Caucasus. A fossil gurpo found in Georgia They were so far the only track of the adventures of the H. erectus out of Africa. The oldest hominile fossils found outside the African continent were five skulls with around 1.8 million years old. These fossils were classified as H. erectusbut there are also certain doubts about this classification due to some important differences in their characteristics. This will suggest, Ann Gibbons explains In an article in the magazine Sciencethat more than one species HomoI could have left Africa in this era. The Atapuerca fossil would not belong to this species strictly, and now it gives us a new clue with which to advance in the resolution of the enigma complex. In Xataka | We just found the lost link of human evolution: the first bone toolbox Image | Iphes
They do not run easy times For coffee lovers. Not even cocoa. Both goods have seen how their prices They shot themselves until reaching Historical values Fruit of a “perfect storm” in which bad harvests and the imbalance between supply and demand are mixed. And although there is who predicts That by the end of the year we will see the occasional price drop (Arabica coffee), today the operators are not having it easy. In fact there are already some who, given the shortage of liquidity, are being seen With difficulties To move the merchandise. It is the nth proof of how the sector is. What happened? That the escalation in coffee and cocoa prices is noticing beyond costs, The demand either The accounts of the sector. A few days ago Bloomberg revealed How the rise in futures markets Of both products is depleting the liquidity of some operators, which is already reflected in their logistics. As? According to the agency, there are companies that are finding problems to finance international merchandise movements. How does that affect the market? Bloomberg’s analysis is clear: to guarantee its position for the future and before the escalation of prices, there are operators who have had to mobilize great sums in the New York Stock Exchange. And that translates into a significant amount of cash blocked, which complicates financing the cargoes that transport grain from the production areas to the consumption points. As a backdrop are The difficulties with which it is part of the industry with the cash flow. What is the problem? “The market in cash and the availability of financing”, Clarify Pam Thornton, with a long experience in the raw materials and cocoa market. To the lack of liquidity it is also added that, in a clearly upward market, some suppliers that have sold at lower prices are breaking their commitments. Another handicap that affects the coffee sector is the shortage of containers and the lack of incentives for reserves. The situation is complicated because many companies sell at the same time with both products, coffee and cocoa, which leaves them in a difficult position when facing cash scarcity. An example aforementioned by Bloomberg herself is Olam Groupdedicated to both grains and that in just one year he has seen how his circulating capital shot 68%. The cause, as explained by the company: the “strong unprecedented increases” in the price of goods. Did prices upload so much? Yes. Specialized platform graphics such as Investing either Training Economics or of one’s own World Bank They are eloquent. The futures of Arabica coffee and cocoa In New York they have descended in recent weeks, but they still remain high if the entire historical series is taken into account. The causes respond in both cases to a sum of factors, including bad harvests in producing areas such as Western Africa, Brazil or Vietnam. In the specific case of cocoa prices 28% have fallen In 2025, but still the future negotiated in New York shot both last year that they remain at levels far higher than the average of the last decade. If we talk about coffee, They remain quite above of those of a year ago. Are there more indicators? Yes. Last week Reuters warned of the complicated situation faced by world coffee trade. In his analysis he even speaks of “paralysis”, with merchants and toasters throwing the brake and reducing their activity to minimums due to the increase in prices. “Normally we would be exhausted, but so far we have sold less than 30% of the production,” a manager of a manager of Elcafe ca does A few daysduring the Convention of the National Coffee Association of the US. “The great price increase is eaten the liquidity of the customers. They do not have all the money to buy what they need,” he adds. There are already signals They point out that Arabica coffee could be reduced sensitively by the end of 2025, both for the behavior of the Brazilian harvest and the effect of prices on the demand itself, but for the moment the industry is forced to be conservative. The footprint in the silos. Reuters points out another equally interesting effect: coffee stores close to US ports, which receive grain from the center or south of America, remain in half of their normal volume and in some cases they are even pretending them. “Some storage companies are returning the silos to the owners, canceling the rental contracts in advance,” Explain An executive of the sector. Images | Kelsen Fernandes (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | 2025 promised to be a calamitic year for the price of coffee. We would love to tell you that the forecasts were wrong
Enter your account data and we will send you a link to reset your password.
Here you'll find all collections you've created before.
