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The happy outcome of the Nero Alpha that almost ruins an island

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Few Stories about yachts They have caused both stir and the one that has as the protagonist the Alfa Nero and his unexpected relationship with the small Caribbean island of Antigua. This luxurious ship, valued at more than 120 million dollarsbecame an authentic nightmare for the government of the island, after its seizure by order of the US government for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. What they never imagined that a Symbol of wealth and glamor I could put the local economy in check. The sale of Alfa Nero not only was a financial relief, but also brought with it an unusual reward: the citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda for the buyer of the yacht and for his whole family, As published Luxurylaunches. The nightmare of Alfa Nero. The alpha nero is a superyte of 81.3 meters long and 14.2 manga capable of moving at a cruise speed of 15 knots. It has half a dozen suites and capacity for 12 people, in addition to almost thirty crew. Its price reached exceed 67 million dollars In some auctions. In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and as part of international sanctions to Russia, the Russian assets abroadincluding mansions, yates and others Properties that Russian millionaires They had all over the world. Destiny wanted the majestic Alfa Nero to be anchored in the port of Antigua, and there he was already waiting to be auctioned. The problem: a yacht is a luxury. The Government of the small Caribbean island took very little to discover why having a yacht is considered a luxury. Superryate maintenance cost an average of $ 28,000 per week and consumed some 2,000 dollars a day in fuel to keep the air conditioning on and prevent the interior wood finishes deteriorating. A ruin! Having seen the cats it generated, the local government pressed the step to find a new owner for the Alfa Nero, before the yacht ate the island’s budget. However, the yacht already had an owner and demanded lifting the blockade Judicial route. This judicial process caused Millionaires like Eric Schmidt, the Exce of Google, to withdraw its purchase offer for the Alfa Nero. However, the Government managed to sell the yacht with an important discount. 40 million for a yacht and a passport. Finally, and despite the judicial process undertaken for its supposed owner, the controversial sale of the yacht It was signed in March 2024 for an amount of 40 million dollars to a Turkish entrepreneur. Of those 40 million, the government had debt of more than four million for maintenance and mooring expenses for the more two years that remained tied on the island. As they revealed Information of the specialized environment The Yatch Reportthe ancient and Barbuda government included a clause in the sales contract in which the Turkish billionaire Ali Riza Yildirim was rewarded, and his whole family with citizens. This clause is not only unusual, but demonstrates the thanks of the island for having removed a problem that threatened to ruin its finances. A round business. After more than two years without furrowing the seas, the Alfa Nero is already undergoing a complete renewal of its machinery, cleaning the air conditioning ducts and adaptation of the materials and interior spaces. However, the new life of Alfa Nero will not be dedicated to the private enjoyment of a single millionaire. Northrop & Johnson’s brokerage firm confirmed to Boat International That the superyte would be rented in the charter market, and will be put for rent during the summer of 2025 with a price of $ 81,500 per week. In Xataka | Ultrararicos change the ground for a superyte during the summer: so are some of these floating mansions Image | Oceanco Yacht

Green hydrogen consumes huge amounts of water. A new incredibly simple invention allows you to use seawater

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Green hydrogen is the missing piece in the puzzle of decarbonization. In a day like today, in which Spain It has produced 107.3% of the country’s energy demand From renewable sources, a greater storage capacity (batteries or pumping centrals and a more flexible demand is needed. Produce green hydrogen When electricity is very cheap It is the country’s commitment to take advantage of that surplus. There is a problem. While green hydrogen It occurs with solar or wind energy (That is why it is said that it is an energy vector that stores clean energy), the process to produce itwater electrolysis consumes huge amounts of fresh water, an increasingly scarce resource for billions of people in threatened regions For chronic drought. The obvious solution is to use seawaterthe most abundant resource on the planet. But of course, salt and impurities run the equipment and reduce the efficiency of the process. External desalination makers are needed, adding costs and energy consumption; or super -resistant electrolyzers, which are still under development. There is a third way. MIT researchers, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University and Michigan State University joined forces to find an alternative that nicknamed the “triumph of sustainability.” The system, detailed in Energy & Environmental Scienceproduces green hydrogen directly from sea water. It does so using solar energy with impressive efficiency, and generating drinking water as a byproduct. How they have done it. Taking advantage of the entire solar spectrum. The central idea of ​​this new approach, officially called HSD-We (Hybrid Solar Distillion-Water Electrolysis), is to squeeze the maximum solar energy. We know that photovoltaic panels convert only part of sunlight into electricity (The most efficient are around 25% efficiency). The rest of the energy dissipates as a residual heat. What if that heat, instead of wasted, will be used for something useful? Eureka! Simpler than it seems. Like many other systems for the production of green hydrogen, the HSD-We integrates solar panels that turn light into electricity and an electroly of protons exchange membrane (PEM) that breaks down the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The secret is at the rear of the solar panels, they are where the HSD-We has an interfacial thermal distiller coupled that uses the residual heat of photovoltaic cells to evaporate seawater. A simple membrane that absorbs salt water. It is a genius. The best thing is that it works. The electricity of the solar panels directly feeds the electrolyz. At the same time, the residual heat of the panel heats sea water in the interfacial distiller, evaporating it. This pure water vapor (already without salt) is transported by a small air space to the electrolyz, where it is directly condensed in the anode, adding ultra -patrol water for electrolysis. The prototype, tested by the MIT both in laboratory conditions, under simulated sunlight, and outdoors, on a partially sunny day, threw impressive figures. They achieved 35.9 liters of dry hydrogen per square meter of solar panel per hour, using real sea water. In terms of efficiency, The system turned 12.6%a comparable rate or even above current green hydrogen production technologies with drinking water. Cheap hydrogen finally? Beyond technical feat, preliminary economic analysis is also promising. Not depending on external supplies of electricity or purified water, the operating cost is minimal, so the price of hydrogen produced with this system could drastically fall with the scale. While conventional electrolysis fueled by the electricity grid and using drinking water It costs about 10 per kilothis HSD-We system, in exchange for a slightly larger initial investment, could reach 5 dollars per kilo after 3 years of operation and lower the kilo at 1 dollar in 15 years. A price that would undoubtedly change the rules of the game. Image | Nickelgreen In Xataka | Europe waste so much renewable energy that needs green hydrogen. And the country that leads it is Spain

The aid seemed the only way to sell electric cars. Germany is demonstrating that we were wrong

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Electric car sales do not take off without state aid. And it has logic if we take into account that we are talking about a technology that forces the driver to Make some adaptation And, according to what cars we buy, force him to plan your trips. The electric car has many advantages. In Spain, with current prices and rates, an electric car can be much cheaper That one of combustion shortly time. In fact, The more trips and kilometers dothe car comes out. To this we must add the advantages Undoubted for day to day such as the absence of vibrations, of noise, the comfort of having the entire torque to a throttle pedal … but they are advantages that the client has to discover and that it is normal that it does not encourage it when the disbursement will be of tens of thousands of euros. To foster change, states have focused on giving purchase aid. It is a good way to lower the price and leave it at a cost closer to combustion models, especially when electric were sensibly more expensive than gasoline or diesel. They are decisions for which the reference countries have opted in the electric car market. He did it Norway, he did (and he does) China And Germany did it. And the German case showed us that without purchase aid, Electric car sales are deflated… or deflated. Because they have grows again. What if we have been looking at the wrong place? Direct aid to purchase At the end of 2023 justice forced Germany to withdraw aids to the purchase of electric cars. The reason is that funds had been diverted to combat the crisis derived from the coronavirus to the promotion of the electric car. Without destiny for that money, the government had preferred to reinvest it in the game of electric mobility. For justice, this was illegal and therefore I ordered the aid to immediately withdraw. Overnight, aid fell to the purchase that extended to all cars up to 65,000 euros. Last year, in 2024, a reduction in subsidies was already expected but buyers could expect a mattress of 4,500 euros in cars of up to 40,000 euros and 3,000 euros in which a price of between 40,000 and 65,000 euros appears. The help was complemented by manufacturers with 2,250 euros and 1,500 euros, respectively. That is, savings in the first case could be up to 6,750 euros and in the second of up to 4,500 euros. Figures similar to those we see in Spain with the MOVES III PLANrecently reimputed until the end of the year or exhaust the funds available. Last year, the fall in electric car sales was considerable. In its first year of direct aid to the purchase, Germany enrolled 27.4% less electric cars. A blow to European accounts with the main electric car market by volume falling from 524,219 tuition from 2023 to 380,609 units enrolled in 2024. By market share, the German electric car fell from 18.4% to 13.5%. However, everything has changed in these first months of 2025. They collect in Motorpasion than the 17% of cars Enrolled in Germany are electric. Compared to the month of March of last year, 35.5% have been grown and the trend indicates that it will continue to grow. It is very good news because they lack direct aid to the purchase of cars of this type. What the State is doing is to encourage the purchase of this type of fleet cars. Companies can deduce up to 40% of the value of the car in the purchase of new cars. A decision that has triggered sales since company vehicles reflect 67% of new car registration in Germany. The strategy is not new in Europe and focuses on the importance of aid beyond lowering the price of cars. In Norway, they stood out that if they have made the electric car Your best selling technology It has been because for years they have given themselves constant subsidies related to the property of the electric car. Not paying some taxes or road toll have been definitive attractive for implementation. Yes indeed, 1.8 billion euros have been raised. Belgium has been the other great country where the electric car has exploded in sales in recent months. In Belgium they already exceed 30% quota electric car market. Last year, to February 2024, they exceeded 20% market share and in 2022 they barely exceeded 8%. The secret is in the aids that, again, are given to companies. Depending on income, a company can be deduced up to 100% of the electric car fee. The percentage will fall over the years but prevent maintaining this economic incentive until 2031. In Bloomberg They explain that in a country where the company car is usually used as an incentive when changing work, promoting the purchase of this type of cars is key to popularize them and reach sectors that did not expect to make the leap for a few years (or did not expect it at all, as one of those interviewed in the article recognizes). The strategy contrasts with the one we have been carrying so far in Spain. Our country has also joined the delivery of purchase aids but, in addition to not being direct at the time of signing the contract, Each extension It has been a birth. The suspension for two months In the last extension of the Moves III Plan it has been the best example. Photo | Volkswagen In Xataka | The electric car is sweeping so much in China that the natural step is already raised: stop calling it “electric”

Europe is so desperate for housing that there are already people asking for rehabilitating factories like houses

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More than the progress of the economy, unemployment, emigration, politics or corruption. If there is something really We are worried To the Spaniards, something that takes away our dream, is housing. The CIS says it in Your latest barometerbut it is something that is perceived in the street: only a few weeks ago tens of thousands of people mobilized in almost 40 cities to show their discontent anger precisely because of the escalation in the price of houses, with rentals Beating records and the cost of m2 Nailing with the values ​​prior to the real estate bubble. With that backdrop (which It is not exclusive from Spain) There are those Believe That part of the solution to the housing crisis is right before our noses: the thousands of square kilometers of unused industrial areas distributed throughout Europe. “Urban Regeneration”. Proof that housing worries, in Spain (and many other countries), is that every time studies, comparative and statistics are published that either put the thermometer to the sector or venture to propose solutions. Does A few months It was done by the Systemiq company with a report that insists again and again on the potential of the “Urban Regeneration” To alleviate, at least in part, the housing problem of Europe, where prices in cities They have climbed until hinder access to homes. And what does “urban regeneration” understand? “Transforming infra -utilized land and obsolete buildings into compact and dynamic places to live, work and do business,” he explains The study Before stressing that it is “a strategy that could relieve the housing crisis in Europe and at the same time revitalize its cities.” That last nuance is not accidental. The company recalls that it grows above all the interest in housing located in urban environments, which leaves cities in the face of the challenge of finding the ground with which to cover the demand. A fact: 19,000 km2. Systemiq’s study is just that: a study. With their biases, strengths and weaknesses. However, it is interesting to approach an approach that over the last years It has sounded In the sector and even big promotions residential And it is among other things because it provides some illustrative figures. According to the authors of the report, in Europe there are approximately 19,000 square kilometers of “abandoned industrial land” and between 200 and 300 km2 of offices “available for conversion in attractive areas”. All this, the firm recalls, while in Europe you seek precisely new developments. “The demand for housing in dynamic cities is booming, just like that of mixed and alternative spaces, such as coexistence developments or new types of work spaces,” The technicians add of system. Enough for more than 10 years. “The appropriate locations for urban regeneration could satisfy most, if not the totality, the demand for new buildings provided in Europe for the next 10-15 years and would save cities about 20% of the planned infrastructure costs,” The report abounds. Its authors even throw themselves with some calculations and projections in the future, although without specifying how they get to them. In his opinion, “a fraction” of that wide area, around 300 square kilometers of empty offices and commercial premises and between 1,000 and 1,500 km2 of “vacant lots”, to meet the European land demand for a decade or decade and a half view. The key would go to allocate to spaces for housing and commerce. The report It also estimates that during that same period a total considerable investment would be reached that would be around four or six billion. Is it a new proposal? No. The country appointment For example, a 2024 JLL manager report that identifies 20,529 km2 of wasteland in Europe that could be used for that purpose. “His analysis suggests that the re -urbanization of a small part of those lands in the region would create between 713,750 and 1,247,500 new homes,” Comment to the newspaper Laura Nolier, from the Ginkgo firm. A few years ago the organization Habitat for Humanity He also performed A study in which he explored the potential of empty spaces to face the lack of housing. As remember The Archdily Specialized Website, Habitat technicians chose the United Kingdom as a pilot study area. His study ended up locating about 7,000 commercial and businesses in England, Scotland, Wales that were in the hands of local authorities and carried out without use for more than a year. Only empty office spaces could be transformed, according to their calculations, in more than 16,000 residential units. Commercial disuse spaces would give for 3,500. Beyond the theory. Not everything is theory. There are public administrations and promoters who have already opted to give a second life to empty buildings. In recent years, both inside as Out of Spain They have converted into homes office buildings, quarters, temples, Factories of different guys either Wineries that they have ended up reopening like luxury residences. Any initiative has even gone further by raising the transformation of an entire industrial zone into a residential area, as is the case In Vallecas PuenteMadrid. Are all advantages? No. Urban regeneration projects or give a second chance to industrial spaces and offices for homes to also face challenges. Both urban and architectural, normative and bureaucratic. In fact there are projects that directly They stay along the way and others end with a questionable result, such as Terminus Housein Essex, a rehabilitated office building as a block of floors. For frustration of his tenants, he ended up with tiny apartments and away from basic services. Opportunities and challenges. “A change in land use may imply urban impact studies, municipal approval and compliance with specific regulations. Depending on the city, there may be restrictions,” warns in The country Juan Antonio Gómez-Pintado, of the promoter Corporation Vía Agora. To those challenges are added the licenses, certifications, the need for technical studies, the possibility that the soil is contaminated and, the case, the adaptation of constructions that were originally thought for residential use. 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Bonzibuddy’s story, Windows camouflaged spyware

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If you used a computer in the late 90s or early 2000s, you will surely remember Clippy in Office 97 OA Rover, that animated puppy that appeared in the Windows XP search engine. They were times of sympathetic, colorful, a bit clumsy virtual assistants … and, in general, harmless. But not everyone worked with the same intentions. In The new episode of ‘Xataka presents’ of our YouTube channel We review the curious case of Bonzibuddythat purple monkey -shaped assistant who promised to help you with everyday tasks as you released jokes and read you Correos. “An alleged virtual assistant in the form of a purple monkey who promised to make your life easier,” tell our classmates. But after that harmless appearance something quite different was hidden: “steal information and send it to the Bonzi Software database.” And that was only the beginning: deceptive ads, alterations in the system configuration and a payment version that did not solve precisely anything. “When installing a back door, Bonzi Buddy allowed other malicious programs, such as viruses, will infiltrate the system“, is explained in the video.” In 2014, a YouTuber brought it back in a video where Windows XP destroyed with malicious programs. And suddenly, Bonzi Buddy was famous again, “our teammates point out. What was Bonzibuddy? What happened to its creators? Why in 2014 did it circulate online thanks to a youtuber that decided to test it in an environment full of malware? It is a story that puts many questions on the table. And that says a lot about the time, about how we saw technology … and about what Vulnerable that we were when they introduced us something as fun and harmless. If you want to know how far this peculiar assistant came, you have all the details in our video. Today we have better defenses against malware, since Windows Defender to him Antivirus integrated into macOS, Without forgetting the tools of third parties that work quite effectively. At the time, Bonzibuddy had it much easier to sneak into computers. Its history is still a valid reminder: you never have to lower your guard. Sometimes, malware comes with a smile. Images | Screen capture In Xataka | In 1995, Microsoft believed to have found a way to humanize Windows: it called Bob and ended up being a loud failure In Xataka | Public administrations turn the tortilla: Midni promises to be another success with Midgt and my citizen folder

Holy Week has become a huge marketing campaign. Now you have even board games

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The Easter week It is not only a meeting point for Catholics throughout Spain, which They share a faith and customs indicated in cities such as Seville, Malaga or Zamora. It is also a key moment for the country’s economy: promoted by institutions, backed by tourism and in constant evolution in search of new commercial forms, Holy Week also moves millions. And commerce, services and, now, internet, know it well. Economic engine It is absolutely indisputable that Holy Week is an economic engine for different cities in Spain, which receive income in sectors as diverse as tourism and hospitality (with Figures in Seville that are around 95% occupation and influx of two million people), trade, crafts and, of course, the expenses derived from processions, such as rental rents. In Seville there is talk of 415 million euros In income these dates, in Malaga 393 million And in León, 5 million. Complex relationship. There are, of course, tensions between those who defend recollection and religious feelings as keys to living Holy Week and those who see it as a unique possibility of economic impulse. But this conflict is not new: Already in 1972 A critic to the situation denounced that “there is a tourist map, a commercial gear that lacks any point of contact with faith”, so it can be said that we are facing a clash that comes from afar. But now it is taking new forms. New ways to explain Holy Week. The arrival of new forms, beyond the traditional ones, to commercially exploit the holidays is also the result of a change in the perception of Holy Week. Few have known how to read that change in tradition as the Channel 101TV from Seville, which of course is broadcasting live multiple processions, but that has found a particular dialectic with The ‘A Cielo’ program. It is a kind of chiringuito of jugones in the brotherhood where a group of experts in images, brotherhoods and traditions analyze with a light tone but very felt the Holy Week … throughout the year and with the viral apollo of the social networks. Boarding Board Games. Among these new ways of getting commercial performance of Holy Week highlights the new industry of board games. They are very simple games, often with an innocent point, but in other aspects they have some complexity and even adapt mechanics of non -religious games. Artes Cañete is the brand that is responsible for the simplest and most handmade, such as the Oca brotherhe Party Game Cofrade meetingthe card game inspired by the rhythms and codes of the steps There it was And my particular favorite, the Who is who cofradewith editions for seven Andalusian cities and where you have to identify a wide variety of images of steps. One step further. But of course, Holy Week gives for a lot of fun, and we have recently seen games of a certain complexity: The Holy Meeting It is a game of charges of collecting and stealing steps. Certain similarities have Processions and Cofrade Citywhere strategy and resource management are involved in a struggle to be the most noticeable brotherhood. And finally, there is the elegant GO CERC a skill game with die -cut steps and in which you have to go collecting promises with a throne miniature. Products for all. It is debatable if Holy Week and its relationship with industry and tourism has not been, for decades, a commercial product. But it is clear that the last times, new technologies and the Internet have taken a special turn. Only then have they been able to be born Escape Rooms Holy Week theme, Immersive experiences 360 or 3D printing businesses Brotherhood products. The market continues to evolve so that the passion does not vain.

An empire of 44,000 million is trembling

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The protectionist measures imposed by the Trump administration against Chinese products They threaten Shein’s business model in the United Stateswhich represents 28% of its global turnover,, precisely when the company was preparing its IPO in London, and once had already received green light from British regulators. Evil Timing. Why is it important. The Shein model is based on ultra -grape production in China with very tight margins. Tariffs will force you to choose between raising prices – losing your great claim and competitive advantage – or absorbing the cost and seeing your margins, which do not have much idem, drastically reduced. In figures. Shein billed around 12,500 million euros in the United States last year, which represents more than a quarter of its total income estimated at 44,000 million euros, 55% more than in 2023. The latest. The Trump government has eliminated a key tariff exemption for Shein’s business model. Until now, the company could send products from China to US consumers without paying tariffs provided that the order was less than 800 dollars, known as rule “of minimis” that was threatened Since Trump was re -elected. As of May, these shipments must pay a fixed rate of $ 75, which will increase to $ 150 in June. Between bambalins. According to Reuters, Shein is encouraging her biggest suppliers to move her production to Vietnam to dodge tariffs, although Shein denies it. They would not be the first to take a similar step. According to the testimonies collected by the agency, some Chinese manufacturers have seen their reducted orders up to 50% since the Chinese New Year, a few weeks ago. Several factor owners in Guangzhou, an area known as “Shein villages“They confirm that their orders are decreasing. A manufacturer named Li, who has been working with Shein for five years, says his orders have fallen in half. Yes, but. Shein continues to grow in other key markets such as: Germany (6.6% of its turnover) United Kingdom (6%) France (5.4%) ¡Spain! (3.6%, approximately 1,580 million euros) And now what. Shein must now convince investors that she can maintain her business model and growth prospects despite the coup in her main market. The IPO in London, which still requires the approval of Chinese regulators (already has that of the British), will be the definitive proof of market confidence in their ability to adapt. The contrast. While Shein invests 10,000 million yuan (1,370 million dollars) in industrial projects in southern China, including a logistics center of 500 million dollars in Guangzhou, according to Reuterssimultaneously seems to be diversifying its production towards Vietnam. The Cut He informs that Shein will implement “price adjustments” as of April 25, recognizing that “due to the recent changes in the rules and tariffs of global trade, our operating expenses have increased.” In Xataka | Boeing, trapped in the commercial war. China paralyzes the deliveries of its airplanes and Airbus gains ground, according to Bloomberg Outstanding image | APPSHUNTER.IO in Unspash

sell more pigs in China

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There is no war without collateral effects. AND Commercial They are no exception. In full climb of the tariff pulse between the US and China, with Gravel crossings of more than 100% to their exports and the uncertainty of how these rates will affect the Milmillonario Comercio Between both countries, the Spanish pig sector seems to have encountered an unexpected “Window of opportunity”. The reason? The US is a relevant supplier of pork for China, but from now on it will be penalized by tariffs, leaving an important (and tempting) hollow in the Asian market. And Spain already It has moved token (with agreements to the highest level) to expand your presence in Chinese butchers. A percentage: 125%. At the end of last year, when Trump (then still elected president) already loved the tariffs to China, Canada or Mexico, from Beijing They launched a notice To navigators: “No one wins a commercial war.” Months later already waiting to see how the tariff pulse evolves, time seems to prove him right. Washington has raised 145% (including 20% for fentanyl) The rates imposed on Chinese exports to the US while the Xi Jinping Executive has reacted by increasing its own to the goods “Made in USA “ 125%. A sector: the pig. This crossing of encumbrances has made the commercial war (extendable to other countries) be intensified between Washington and Beijing, with derivations to multiple sectors. Among all there is one that Spain looks with special interest: pig. The reason is very simple. China is A huge producerbut also a great market that matters every year hundreds of thousands of tons and mobilizes thousands of millions of dollars. And to show a button: according to Reuters, in 2023 China received pork (including casquery) by value of 6,000 million. In that generous flow of swine merchandise to the Chinese market, the US plays a relevant role. The forecasts for 2024 passed through the US It was consolidated as one of the large pork exporters worldwide, with a global flow of 3.24 million of metric tons. In one of its latest balances, US Meat Exportation (USMEF) states that, although last year pork exports to China/Hong Kong descended 6%, they exceeded the 467,200 tonswith a value of approximately 1,140 million dollars. One question: And now what? The big question after the application of 125% tariffs to US exports to China and the battery of Bureaucratic countermeasures displayed by Beijing is … how will they affect that flow of pork directed to the Chinese market? Will it remain competitive or leave a hole? The question is specially interested in other great producers who have already managed to get a place in the butchers of the Asian giant, such as Brazil or the EU. And within the latter Spain stands out. This same week AHDB published A report In which he points out that in 2024 China imported 1.06 million tons of pork, 31% less than the previous year, and about 1.15 million tons of “spoils” (casquería), the latter product and has grown up 4% interannual. According to their data, among the great exporters include the EU-27 (with a key weight from Spain), Brazil and the United States. A country: Spain. As Publish today The country The scenario that have opened the trade war and the 125% tariffs applied by Beijing to the US interests, and much, the Spanish pig sector. After all, the Asian market knows well and in the past it has demonstrated its ability to work on it with figures much higher than the current ones: in 2020, after China had to Sacrifice a good part From his cabin for an outbreak of swine fever, Spain triggered his export there until he added a record volume, with an assessment of 3,117 million of euros, according to The country. Since then the flow of Spanish pig exports to China was reduced in a sensitive way until it was around 1,066 million of euros in 2024. Different factors have entered at stake, such as The general fall in pork imports in China coinciding with the recovery of the Chinese cabin or the increase in the Spanish pig for the impact of the Ukraine War (influenced the cost of feeding the cattle) or the effects of the Swine respiratory syndrome nationally. A advice: “Be attentive”. With that backdrop, the sector sees with a special interest both the tariffs from China to the United States and The steps Qua is already giving Spain to recover land in the Asian market. A few days ago the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Spain and the General Administration of Chinese Customs signed a protocol for the export of pigs that, In the words of the Moncloa“It will allow expanding the list of authorized products that are exported from Spain.” “You have to be attentive to the opportunities that arise in this changing future. The export protocol signed on Thursday is another sign that China wants to open its market to new suppliers,” Guiseppe Aloisio reflectsGeneral Director of the National Association of Meat Industries of Spain (ANICE). Although it assumes that part of the hole will probably be assumed by Brazil, it also believes that the new scenario can open an “opportunity sale” to Spain. A but: demand for dumping. Not everything is opportunities and advantages. And not only for the interest of other great producers such as Brazil (or even Russia) in the Chinese pig market. Maybe Spain and China have approximate positions in recent days, but it does not so much the prospects of the European (and Spanish) pig sector were tarnished by another Beijing movement: The investigation Open in 2024 to EU imports for the suspicions of unfair competition, a movement that was once interpreted as a replica to The decision of Brussels of Apply tariffs To Chinese electric cars. The key is whether with the beginning of the commercial war that process has gone to the background. “Research Antidumping They are framed in a new … Read more

TSMC will manufacture its best chips on American soil, although presumably they will be 30% more expensive

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Taiwan’s silicon shield It has definitely fallen. The government of this island was determined to protect its economic interests preventing TSMC from manufacturing integrated circuits abroad using your most advanced lithography nodes. This plan entered into conflict with the expansionist strategy of the semiconductor manufacturer most important on the planetespecially at a juncture in which the US is forcing the displacement of chips manufacturers to their own territory. “Since Taiwan has regulations that seek to protect their own technologies, TSMC cannot produce 2 nm chips abroad today,” Jw Kuo saidMinister of Economic Affairs of Taiwan, on November 8 during a meeting of the Taipéi Economy Committee. “Although TSMC PLANS MANUFACTURE 2 NM CHIPS Abroad in the future, its central technology will remain in Taiwan. “ Kuo’s statements reflected at that time that TSMC could not produce integrated 2 Nm circuits in the US or Europe until it was ready its lithography A14 (1.4 Nm). From that moment the latter would remain in Taiwan and could move the production of 2 Nm chips to other countries. For TSMC this restriction was a problem. And it was because the demand for its most advanced integrated circuits is very high because of the undoubted success that semiconductors are having for applications of artificial intelligence (AI). Chips manufactured by TSMC in the US will be 30% more expensive, according to Walter Bloomberg Finally, the Taiwan government has moderated its protectionist strategy. Jw Kuo He pronounced again In the middle of last January to declare that TSMC may produce 2 Nm chips in its US plants, although the Taiwanese administration will cautiously evaluate the use of this technology in the country led by Donald Trump. “Private companies must make their own commercial decisions covered in their own technological progress (…) TSMC is building factories in the US with the purpose of serving their US clients because 60% of the world’s chips designer companies are based precisely in the US. “ Lisa su and CC Wei have taught the first EPYC ‘Venice’ chip produced in the N2 (2 nm) node of TSMC Today, just four months later, we can be sure that the manufacture of integrated 2 NM circuits on a large scale in the TSMC plants in Arizona (USA) will arrive. Lisa her, the general director of AMD, and CC Wei, the president and general director of TSMC, have taught the first Epyc Chip ‘Venice’ produced in node N2 (2 nm) of this last company. This CPU has been manufactured in Taiwan, but both managers They have confirmed their commitment When strengthening the production of the plants that TSMC is putting ready in Arizona. The first of these factories is about to produce large -scale chips, but its plan does not end here. The second plant will be operational in 2028 and will produce integrated circuits in N3 (3 Nm) and N2 (2 Nm) nodes. And finally, the third factory will not be listed at all until the end of this decade and will produce chips in the N2 (2 nm) node. At the current situation and under the pressure of the US government, which is Pertrechado with its tariff policyit is very likely that the production of 2 Nm semiconductors in Arizona arrives long before 2028. It is not official information, but in the current circumstances it is a very reasonable forecast. However, there is something else that is worth not overlooking. According to G. Dan HutchesonAnalyst in Techinsights, producing a 300 mm wafer in the new Arizona plant costs TSMC less than 10% more than manufacturing that same wafer in one of its Taiwan facilities. It is explained by something that we should not overlook: the cost derived from labor represents less than 2% of the total cost. However, according to the financial journalist Walter Bloomberg TSMC will increase the price of integrated circuits produced by 30% in the US to compensate for the costs triggered by tariffs on the production equipment of imported chips from Europe and Japan. The Government led by Donald Trump has not yet revealed how the import tariffs of photolithography machines used by TSMC, Intel or Samsung plants in the US will affect the import tariffs. Will do it within a period Not exceeding two months. But it seems that Bloomberg assumes that the increase in chips will arrive. We’ll see. Image | TSMC More information | Walter Bloomberg | Tom’s hardware In Xataka | The US confesses its worst nightmare: if China invades taiwan and controls TSMC the US economy will go to pique

Your Android mobile will begin to restart only every three days if a condition is met. It’s excellent news

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Google is deploying a new security function inherited from iOS. The source code I made believe that this characteristic would be exclusive to Android 16but now we know it will be universal. Your Android mobile will restart every three days, automatically, if it remains inactive during that period. A function that a priori may seem lower, but whose impact is much higher than it might seem. What will happen. The new notes of Google system versionrelated to the updates of Google Play services, refer to a new exclusive function for mobile phones. “(Telephone) With this function, your device will restart automatically if it remains blocked for 3 consecutive days.” The explanation cannot be easier: if you do not use your phone for 72h, that will restart automatically. It is something that It has been happening in iOS from version 18and that addresses a main reason. Why will it happen. That your Android will restart every three days if you do not use it is not a whim, it is a security measure. A newly restarted phone is a safer phone. ROMs as Grapheneos They restart the phone every 18h (even if we are using it), and is one of the most recommended practices to protect the mobile. The importance of restarting. Security reports point out that We should never have the mobile on 24/7. Restart the phone eliminates certain processes and data stored in memory. Some of these temporary data are precisely those used by attackers to exploit system vulnerabilities. Restarting the phone is not a magical solution, but one of the best ways to keep the mobile somewhat more protected. In addition, in the case of Android, it is something that can help your useful life. During the week we accumulate apps processes and processes that do not close, and restarting the phone everything returns to its initial state. The face b. It is more than likely to have a secondary mobile. A mobile of work, one that you use as GPS, or any telephone oriented to specific functions. Many of these phones are almost always lit and we may have not restarted months. If this is the case, make sure you know the unlock code and the PIN code of the SIM card, since in each restart you will be required. And if you forget the pinyou just have to use the Puk or contact your operator. If you forget the mobile unlock codeyou are in trouble. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Restart the mobile: how necessary or recommended it is to do it

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