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the ice cream maker that my seven-year-old self always wanted to have at home

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“Haaaaaaaaaa make ice cream, in the Famoplay refrigerator, soooo delicious, strawberry, chocolate and vanilla.” I have few memories of my childhood (unfortunately), but I remember that ad from the year 2001 as if it had been broadcast during the World Cup break a few days ago. I remember that seven-year-old Jose glued to the black tube Sony in his parents’ living room, thinking, greedily, about how cool it would be to have his own refrigerator at home. It never happened. Today, 25 years later, the 32-year-old Jose, who has gray hair and is getting married in a few months, has been able to try out a refrigerator. One that, surprise, leaves the Famoplay refrigerator at the height of the bitumen. Because the Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl It has little of a toy. It is one of those appliances that no one needs, that most will only use a few months a year (an ice cream in December always fits in, I said), that is a whim like the top of a pine tree, but that is a true marvel. Today, seven-year-old Jose smiles. ✅ Buy them if… You are patient enough to wait a day to eat the ice cream. You have little ones and you are looking for a culinary activity to do together. You have space at home and 350 euros that you don’t need. ❌ Don’t buy it if… You want to make ice cream on the spot and from scratch. You have a small kitchen or limited space. You want a silent device. The essentials in 30 seconds The Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl is like the Ninja CREAMi, but with a dispensing system similar to what you would find in a frozen yogurt store. In addition, it has more programs designed for soft ice cream recipes. The idea and operation, however, are identical: you make the recipe, pour it into a container, freeze it and process it in the machine. In a normal Ninja Creami you eat the ice cream from the tub and in the Scoop and Swirl you have more options. The grace of the model in question is the lever. If you make soft ice cream or frozen yogurt, you can put the tub in an extruder that, by pulling the lever down, allows you to extract it through a nozzle and pour the product into a cone or tub. The machine works really scary, so much so that it is complicated, if not impossible, take issue. The only “but” that can be said is that it is large (although not heavy) and greedily noisy. Otherwise, the performance is exceptional and has lived up to each and every one of the recipes I have made these weeks. Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl Ice cream maker with 2 tubs and 13 functions prepares ice cream, soft serve, gelato, smoothies and more, and has the option to add extras, stone/gold, NC701EUSTGD The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Our experience with the Ninja CREAMi Scoop & Swirl Image | Xataka How it works. Unlike ice cream makers, which cool and churn at the same time, the Ninja Creami processes solid blocks already prepared in a tub. That’s why it is “small”, because it doesn’t need a compressor. It has a blade called Creamerizer that, roughly speaking, moves downwards and “scrapes” and “combs” the frozen product. The technique is similar to the one followed to make slushies, except that by varying the rotation speed, depth and frequency of descent (hence the different modes) different textures can be achieved. It is also the reason why it makes noise, a lot of noise, not suitable for having an ice cream at nap time. In this video you can hear the noise it makes. Shall we make ice cream? That is the question that must be asked before anything else. Understanding the machine as a magical system that makes ice cream is a mistake. It requires some planning and patience, as the tubs need to be frozen for at least a day. It’s not so much “I’m going to eat ice cream,” but rather “I’m going to make the ice cream I want to eat tomorrow.” In the photos you are seeing a tub of açaí that I prepared the day before. You need another machine. A mixer, specifically. Although it may seem like it, the Ninja Creami is not a mixer. Doesn’t beat. Mixes hard ingredients into already processed preparations, but does not beat. Ideally, you should make the recipes in a blender and then pour them into the container. A mini negative point is that the tubs are small, 480 ml each, so if you make ice cream for four it is better to prepare two tubs and be cautious. The recipes. The machine includes a little book with some recipes of different types (it is not in Spanish, as a note) to try all the modes, and TikTok is full of ideas. In any case, in the long run I have ended up using only two modes: ice cream for ice cream and frozen yogurt for my açaí preparations. As for the recipes, you can get as exquisite as you want. It will depend on how deep your pantry is and how much you want to buy products that you are going to use sporadically. If you don’t want to complicate your life, take note: 100 ml of whipping cream (minimum 35% MG), 200 ml of whole milk, 70 grams of powdered sugar, two tablespoons full of pure cocoa powder and a teaspoon of vanilla extract. There you have a super simple chocolate ice cream. If you don’t like chocolate, replace it with two tablespoons of vanilla extract and you will have vanilla ice cream. Homemade açaí preparation | Image: Xataka How do the ice creams come out? In short, and assuming you don’t mess up the recipe, they come out spectacular. The texture and flavor are brutal. I’m not … Read more

Marvel wants, above all, an event the size of ‘Endgame’

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After attendees at CinemaCon last April had the opportunity to see it in full, the first trailer for ‘Avengers: Doomsday‘ is finally within reach of all fans. The film comes as the culmination of seven years and three phases of multiverse narrative of the MCU since the premiere of “Avengers: Endgame”, so the expectations surrounding this first look were enormous. The main protagonist of the trailer is, without a doubt, Robert Downey Jr., who returns to the MCU in a completely different role than the one that made him famous: Doctor Doom. It is precisely he who begins narrating the preview, before the focus shifts to Thor, and the images show the Marvel heroes meeting as Doom prepares to unleash a war that crosses the multiverse. The images of Downey Jr. as Doom have been dosed with a dropper, so the little that this trailer shows is one of the great attractions of the trailer. Text in development

Spain became accustomed to losing in the 20th century. In the 21st century, Spain FC is the best team in the world

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Spain is the best team in the World of the 21st century. I know it’s difficult to assimilate. For a country that has built its history on the story of Tassotti elbowof the Cardeñosa rulingfrom those sung by Arched and Zubizarreta or of Gamal Al-Ghandour heistbeing the best is something that almost catches one off guard. But turning the story around, becoming the best is not a matter of luck. Spain is not the best by chance. The best. When we closed our eyes, Spain had in its record an almost forgotten Euro Cup won in 1964 with a goal from Marcelino in the final minutes. When we open them and close the blink, Spain has become one of the most important teams in history: two World Cups, four European Championships and only one lost final between both tournaments since 1964. In the 18 years that separate the 2008 Euro Cup and the 2026 World Cup, barely a blink in the history of football, our country has won two World Cups and four European Championships. That is, he has risen to the top of the podium in five of these 10 events. He has also been champion of a UEFA Nations League and runner-up on two other occasions. Beyond selection. Dominance in Euro Cups and World Cups goes far beyond national team competitions. In the last 25 years, Spain has added 11 Champions League and three runner-up finishes (Valencia’s in 2001 and Atlético de Madrid’s two against Real Madrid). When a Spanish team has reached the final so far in the 21st century, it has always won, except in the case of Valencia. In the Europa LeagueSpain has won 12 titles and two runners-up (Espanyol and Athletic Club de Bilbao played against Sevilla and Atlético de Madrid in those years). Again, if a Spanish team reaches the final, the Spanish team wins. In the Conference LeagueOf the five editions played, Spanish teams have added two runners-up finishes (Real Betis and Rayo Vallecano). In the European Super Cups (winner of the Champions League against the winner of the Europa League), Spain has 14 titles and nine runners-up (only Sevilla on three occasions and Villareal on one occasion have lost against foreign teams). There have been five finals between Spanish teams, three of them in consecutive years. Because? Analyzing Pedro Porro’s goal against France in the semifinals of the 2026 World Cup, the team’s second, Tierry Henry, former French soccer player for Arsenal and FC Barcelona, argued that this was the result of a way of playing that Spain has instilled in its players since they were children. A way of playing that has been installed in the DNA of most of the youth teams in our country. Spain has been dominating the European youth categories for years. The under-19 team has achieved 10 Europeans so far in the 21st century and two runners-up finishes. The European under-21 (it is played every two years unlike the previous one) has brought us three championships and two runners-up. At the Olympic Games, Spain was a finalist in 2020 (played in 2021) and won the 2024 ones. Of that last team, four players won the absolute World Cup yesterday and another five were present in the silver medal in Tokyo in 2021. Fermín López (champion in Paris in 2024) would surely have been added to them, not on the list due to an injury in the final stretch of the season. With an average of 26.7 years, Spain is the sixth youngest team in the World Cup. The goal. On October 13, 2007, Spain began to write its recent legendto. That day against Denmark, Sergio Ramos (then right back) completed a play built for more than a minute by chaining 28 passes. Many consider that this was the germ of the new Spanish football philosophy. Until then, Spain had built his story about “the Fury” and testosterone. Luis Aragonés found a new formula. He built a team around the ball with players who could not compete physically but surpassed their rivals in technique, positioning and knowledge of the game. The first Spain was structured around the backbone of FC Barcelona, ​​which already played the best association football in the world. In 2009 and 2011 he won the Champions League. Xavi, Iniesta, Pujol, Piqué and, later, Villa, consolidated a backbone that won Euro-Champions-World Cup-Champions-Euro Cup in five years. The association. Luis Aragonés’ greatest merit was believing in the idea and surrounding these players with similar associative profiles but who contributed their own style. To Silva, Jesús Navas, Fernando Torres, Spain became favorite 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 and he complied. But the merit was supporting the idea among the youngest players and getting the idea of ​​the game to penetrate the teams and their quarries. This has allowed Spain to win its last championship with its biggest star, Lamine Yamal, playing a discreet role and without large clearly differentiating individuals in world football. The secret is that Spain has managed to make its team play like a football club. It has maintained a base that it has been able to adapt (such as the commitment to wingers in the 2024 Euro Cup) to the circumstances of each moment in the last two years but that has taken flight throughout this championship, returning to its roots, managing itself around the ball. Fresh air. Spain’s victory also brings fresh air to a world football that has turned to physicality and individualism. Few teams have known how to play like a football club and only in the most conservative approaches have teams really worked on the same concept. However, all the favorites have given ground to individualities in the World Cup with the most names in history. Faced with an event where the four French attackers, Erling Haaland, Lionel Messi, Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane, have shone, Spain has been able to build a block without big names of its own and without huge World stars but … Read more

This is the new offer on one of the best Apple watches

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After the price increase on more than 20 Apple deviceswe have seen very few offers (in general) within the brand. However, there are exceptions such as the one being carried out by the Apple Watch Series 11which has fallen again to its historical minimum price of 349 euros. Apple Watch Series 11 (S/M) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Historical minimum price on the Apple Watch He Apple Watch Series 11 It can be found on sale quite frequently, what is unusual is finding it at this historic minimum price. However, right now Amazon has it for sale at this price in their 42mm configuration with sports strap in size S/M. In any case, we are talking about one of the best watches that Apple has in its catalog right now. His OLED screen with 2,000 nits of maximum brightness It is perfect to be able to use the watch even outdoors, since the screen looks great in broad daylight. In addition, it is worth mentioning that it includes the always-on display function. Of course, the watch is water resistant and, in addition, its battery supports fast charging, so that with a 15-minute charge it can provide a range of up to eight hours. On the other hand, it also comes with a good assortment of sensors, as is the case of the blood pressure or sleep apneaamong others. ⚡ IN SUMMARY: Apple Watch Series 11 offer today ✅ THE BEST The build quality and its screenwhich looks great outdoors. All your health sensors. ❌ THE WORST The batterysince it offers a theoretical autonomy of up to 24 hours. 💡 BUY IT IF… You are looking for a watch that is beautiful and very practical to keep track of health metrics. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You want to avoid having to charge the watch every day, since its battery does not offer much autonomy. You may also be interested Apple Watch SE 3 GPS with 40 mm Star White Aluminum Case and Star White Sports Band – Size S/M. Training and sleep monitors, Heart rate monitor, Always-on screen The price could vary. We earn commission from these links HUAWEI Watch FIT 5 Pro Smartwatch, Accurate GPS, ECG, 3000 Nits, Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Pedro Aznar in Applesfera, Apple In Xataka | Best mobile phones 2026. Which one to buy based on use and six recommended models In Xataka | Best wireless over-ear headphones. Which one to buy and five recommended models

Even Elon Musk surrenders to the open Chinese AI model Kimi K3. It is not for less

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It’s good, it’s pretty and it’s (quite) cheap. We met him a few days ago, but Kimi K3the new open AI model from the Chinese startup Moonshot AI, is causing a sensation. So much, so much, that they have had to pause new subscriptions because they cannot handle so much demand. Another turning point for Chinese AI. Kimi K3 is the largest open weights AI model ever published, with numbers that probably rival those of the frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI, which do not provide information on the size of their models. Those 2.8 billion parameters make a difference and are a good part of the reason why this model represents a real leap in quality according to all the benchmarks that are being published. “Awesome”. Elon Musk himself published a single “Impresionante” on his X/Twitter account as answer to the very complete analysis Artificial Analysis performance. Its agentic behavior surpasses that of Opus 4.8 and only Fable 5 surpasses it, but in a specific benchmark it goes even further and is the best of all the models evaluated by this firm, including those from OpenAI and Anthropic. Source: Artificial Analysis. More tests. In programming it is better than Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, but inferior to Fable 5 or GPT-5.6, and all the independent tests validate these results: we are facing a model that at least on paper competes directly with the best that both Anthropic and OpenAI had until now. No Chinese model had come so close until now: GLM-5.2, although notable, competed more with GPT-5.5 and Sonnet 5 than with the US frontier models. Source: Artificial Analysis Gigantic… and not so cheap. DeepSeek showed that it was possible to access really capable models at a very affordable price, and recently GLM-5.2 proposed exactly the same: it is possible to achieve 90% capacity of frontier models such as Opus 4.8, but at 20% of the cost. The curious thing is that with Kimi K3 the trend changes: it is a more affordable model than Fable 5 or GPT-5.6, but not as much as one might expect: the cost per million input/output tokens is 3/15 dollars, while in Fable 5 it costs 10/50, Opus 4.8 costs 5/25 and GPT-5.6 Sol costs 5/30. Tokens everywhere. One of the factors that probably influences that quality/price ratio is the large number of tokens that Kimi K3 seems to use when answering. It is a model that “thinks a lot”, and that, although it undoubtedly improves the precision and capacity of the model, also causes it to generate higher bills for the user. Artificial Analysis’ own report goes further: the cost per task in its test battery is $0.95, at the level of GPT-5.6 Sol’s $1.04 and certainly cheaper than Fable 5 ($2.75), but also much more expensive than Grok 4.5 ($0.31) or GLM-5.2 ($0.47). The pelican test. Analyst Simon Willinson was able to test the model to perform a test to evaluate the behavior of all these developments: having the model generate an SVG image of a pelican on a bicycle. In their tests the image was of very good quality, but it generated almost 17,000 tokens for the response with a task cost of 25 cents. It is not that this test is too conclusive, but it does reveal that for a simple task, the result, although outstanding, is not especially efficient in token consumption. Cybersecurity, the unknown. Unlike the latest models from Anthropic or OpenAI, Moonshot AI does not seem interested at the moment in its use in the field of cybersecurity. There is no mention of those potential capabilities in the notes of launch, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t deliver. Vercel’s CTO, Malte Ubl, explained Although it is not the most advanced of AI models in this area, after running several tests it seemed like a model that can be very useful when finding and correcting vulnerabilities. Demand, through the roof. The expectation generated by this model has been such that the company has announced that pause new subscriptions. This will allow them to be able to deal with all requests to use it without harming the experience for both old and new users. A striking decision that seems to make a reality clear: they cannot cope. In Xataka | The gigantic Qwen 3.8 is another worrying sign for the US: its AI advantage is evaporating

the Chinese return to their stores

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In Shanghai, during the Lunar New Year, the lines in front of the original Louis Vuitton store that emulates the bow of a cruise ship stretched around the corner. Luxury brands have managed to once again draw the attention of Chinese customers to fashion and cosmetic products, after a sharp drop in sales which was consolidated with the tariff war between the US and China. As a result, brands such as L’Oreal, LVMH and Burberry saw a large part of their income coming from the Asian market. they collapsedand with them their quotes. As examples of this financial debacle, just say that Bernard Arnault, president and main shareholder of LVMH, was the richest man in the world in 2023, according to Forbes, and now occupies ninth position among the greatest fortunes in the world. The blow that no one expected. The year had not started badly. Reciprocal tariffs of up to 20% on European goods they threatened with making luxury bags and watches that come out of the artisan workshops of European luxury brands more expensive. They arrived just when the sector I was hoping to land in the United States after weak years in China. Brands such as Rolex or TAG Heuer, manufactured only in Switzerland, were especially exposed to price increases due to tariffs. Added to that was another unexpected front. The war in Iran suddenly stopped purchases in great luxury centers like Dubai. Middle East has a weight 6% in LVMH sales. According to collected France24LVMH’s financial director, Cécile Cabanis, acknowledged that this demand was still “very low” at the beginning of the year. The blow subtracted about one percentage point to the growth of the group in the first quarter. China activates its luxury consumers. Meanwhile, something was changing in the pockets of the wealthiest Chinese consumers. The ChiNext, the Shenzhen technology index, broke the record of the 2015 bubble in May. It rose 26% so far this year. This indicator is increasingly important for consumption because brick-and-mortar is no longer the only refuge for family savings in China, and there are more and more investors. If the stock market makes profits, the consumption of luxury products it shoots. According to McKinsey, the weight of the house The savings of Chinese households has fallen greatly since 2016. Then it was around 90%; last year it was only a third. Money migrates to stocks and funds. “For the first time in several years, there are encouraging signs in China’s consumption,” resume Daniel Zipser, partner at McKinsey in Shenzhen. The figures that confirm it. According to the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, sales cosmetics grew by 5.6% between January and April. General consumption remains lukewarm, but high-end cosmetics and beauty products they already emerge on sales charts. L’Oréal reported sales growth of between 5% and 9% in China during the first quarter. On Alibaba platforms, the ten most expensive beauty brands sold 39% more in those same months. The cheaper ranges, on the other hand, fell. LVMH itself noticed this in its physical stores. In the first quarter, the region that includes China grew 7% in organic sales, according to the company’s own reports. Louis Vuitton and Burberry also rebounded in Chinese brick-and-mortar stores. Ralph Lauren grew more than 50% in the country thanks to the New Year. They are the first green shoots. The rebound in sales in China tells only part of the story, but it does not mean that luxury brands have overcome the slump. The war in the Middle East continues to weigh on the most profitable business in the sector. Cabanis warned that the environment will continue to be very volatile in the coming months. In addition, the tariff tension left its mark on the purchasing habits of Chinese customers and many of them they started using local brands versus foreign ones. It is a nationalist turn that also touches fashion. “Full consumption recovery will take time,” warns Morningstar analyst Jeff Zhang in statements to Bloomberg. The rebound is real, but no one in the sector dares to call it a victory yet. In Xataka | The millionaire heir of Hermés adopted his gardener. Your fortune has evaporated before it reaches your garden Image | Flickr (Trump White House Archived)

A company from Valencia manufactures Mercadona mochis. They have grown to 165 million euros

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Who is the company behind Mercadona’s addictive dochis? From battle ice cream to vegan mochis and plants in Cheste, if you have heard of Estiu you will have heard of a success story to be very proud of. Helados Estiu went from being the typical discreet cheap ice cream factory to a central player in the most powerful supermarket in Spain. “Estiu” is summer and in the summer was when they moved, one from 1997, to the highway Manises-Ribarroja km 11.1. From there they sell dozens of liters of ice cream every year and now they are destroying that Trojan horse that is “dochis”, their own version of mochis with crushed cookies. Yes, I have two boxes in the freezer. The white label has known how to bet on the Japanese dessert and has been eaten, in industrial volumeto other legendary companies in the sector such as Frigo or La Lechera. Manufacturing for the leader. Helados Estiu was born in 1983 with a clear idea of ​​producing battle ice creams, a summer campaign and always low prices. During the first decades it worked with various partners, national and European, without completely taking off. It is in 2013 when the large injection of capital begins to expand lines and improve structures: warehouses are expanded, water efficiency is improved, formats are diversified and logistics automation is implemented with Pallet Shuttle. Not for nothing was the ‘mini chocolate cookie’ a hit that ate Maxibon’s toast. But the turning point came in 2002, when they closed their supply agreement with Mercadona and entered the circuit of “screw supplier” by Hacendado. From that turning point today come things as different as chocolates, sandwiches, frozen cakes and the coconut and mango mochis that serve as a bridge between Japan and the supermarket aisle. Can a single manufacturer really shape what a country eats? It seems so. And they are addictive. Or that’s how their numbers explain it. In 2019 it had a turnover of around 61 million euros and sold 27.7 million liters of ice cream. In 2023 it was already at 138 million euros (+30% over 2022), 44 million liters and a average staff of 473 people51% more than the previous year. In 2024 it will reach around 150 million in turnover, 45 million liters and 8.8 million in profit. In 2025 it will reach 165 million, with more than 46 million liters sold and exceeding the 9 million in net profits. The white label, the cat in the water. In the Spanish ice cream market, white label rules. In 2024, Kantar estimated the value share of private labels in ice cream at 68.5%, compared to names that previously seemed untouchable such as Frigo, La Lechera or Häagen-Dazs. In mass consumption, private label has gone from representing 20% ​​of the value in 2003 to touch 44% in 2024and experts see room for it to approach 70% in many categories. And Mercadona is the epicenter of this shift, with a food distribution share that represents a third of the Spanish market, and with those Hacendado ice creams with a wide and very high rotation of styles and flavors. And its price has cost it: the plant in Cheste cost more than 31 million euros, with specific lines for mochis and vegan ice creams, and another 26 million investment is expected in three years. In exchange, of the 65 types of ice cream that Mercadona sells in Madrid, 22 are manufactured by this Valencian company. 34% of the ice cream catalog of the giant Juan Roig. Mochi is the passport. It is true that for the average consumer, Estiu does not exist. What you see is a black cream-flavored chocolate, the mini-sandwich (so you don’t feel so guilty consuming twice as many calories as the standard format) or the coconut mochi at 2.90 euros for a box of six. Estiu entered this format eleven years ago, replicating the Japanese sweet with rice dough and filled with coconut, mango or pistachio ice cream under the Hacendado brand. The invention worked so well that they ended up exporting it: Wao Mochi is the own brand that, in 2019, began selling in Holland, Ireland, Ukraine, Finland, Latvia, Germany and Armenia. At first it was almost an experiment, a small fraction of the business. Vawaii, its vegan ice cream brand, occupies the plant-based niche and today more than 26,000 boxes of frozen mochis are sold daily in its three main flavors, and with that surprise called Dochi Cheesecake. Although the favorite of many is still the banoffee: banana, the crunchy cookie and the dulce de leche filling. The best of the flash remains. Growing by selling cheap, this has been its key. None of this would make sense without a very aggressive pricing policy. All their ice creams are systematically below the benchmarks of famous manufacturers, between 2 and 4 euros for complete boxes of 6 products. A frozen hook, a treat for the after-dinner meal that has built a small empire and aims to continue growing. Ironically, mochis travel from hot Spain to Finland. Images | Summer Ice CreamFlickr (Nina Ding) In Xataka | Fernando Sáenz, one of the best ice cream makers in the world, puts the dots over the i’s: “Mercadona has changed the palate of the Spanish people” In Xataka | Italy has taken the “gourmetization” of ice cream to the extreme with a €95 cone. Now the country debates whether that is “idiots”

What is this tool and what is it for to control your browser automatically?

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Let’s explain to you What is Playwright and what is it for? this free open source tool. With it you can make a web browser work on its own without anyone touching it, and it’s something you’ve probably heard about in the context of artificial intelligence and the AI agents. This is an increasingly present element in the world of AI, and it is worth knowing about it. Therefore, even if you don’t have technical knowledge, we are going to try to explain it to you in a simple way. What is Playwright Playwright is an open source tool created by Microsoft. It is an automation program that allows you control a web browser using code, so that it does things on its own, such as opening pages, clicking buttons or filling out forms. The beauty of this program is that it does not control its own browser or anything like that, but you can use it in the browsers on your computer. It is compatible with Chromium, Firefox and WebKitbrowser engines such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. Come on, you can use it on them to automate tasks. This is a completely free and open source project that Microsoft maintains on GitHub with the Apache 2.0 license, and an active community. You can access the project with its official website playwright.dev and its repository at github.com/microsoft/playwright. What is Playwright for? The use for which this tool was created is perform automatic tests on web pages. For example, if a company develops a website or app, they can have Playwright do things on it to check that everything works, and also when making changes to some elements. Thus, they can try from the purchase button to the registration button. You can also test web applications or web games, and check how they work in different browsers to see that they all work correctly. But since it is a tool to control browsers, its uses have ended up being many more than testing websites and tools. For example, it can be used for visual regression testing, accessibility auditsAPI testing or performance checks. It can also be used for web scraping tasks, which is extracting data from web pages automatically, or taking screenshots. And also you can create scripts automaticallybecause it has a recording mode that records the actions performed in the browser to generate the code to execute them whenever you want. And of course, you can also use it with artificial intelligence. Playwright has become the fundamental piece that many agents use to navigate the Internet. They do this with the Playwright MCP component, which uses the Model Context Protocol so that agents can know the navigation functions and use them. In practice, this means that tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or VS Code can use the Playwright MCP to control your navigation, converting what you ask them with natural language into actions. You ask the AI ​​to go to a website and download a form, and the agent will use Playwright to access the website and do what you ask. In Xataka Basics | Artificial intelligence on your PC: the best free tools to install AI models like DeepSeek, Llama, Mistral, Gemma and more

a goal from Spain is enough

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The Spanish National Team has once again given us another historic moment to remember with its 1-0 victory against Argentina in the World Cup final, proclaiming itself world champion for the second time. And the curious thing is that the celebration has not only been seen and heard, it has also been measured. The seismologist Jordi Díaz Cusí, researcher at Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), have shared on your X account a graph with the records of the institute’s Educational Seismic Network during the final between Spain and Argentina. In it, vibration peaks can be seen right at the moments of the first goal, Mikel Merino’s disallowed goal and the final whistle, captured by seismometers distributed by different institutes and centers in Catalonia. What exactly does the graph show? In it we can see the records of nine stations, from the GEO3BCN building itself in Barcelona to institutes in Santa Coloma de Farners, Sabadell, Olot, Banyoles, Mollet, Santa Coloma de Gramenet or Torroella de Montgrí, over a period of just over half an hour. Vibrations generated by the moments of Spain’s goal, Merino’s disallowed goal and the final whistle. Image: CSIC Three arrows indicate the key moments of the match: Ferran’s goal, the disallowed play and the end of the match. In some stations, such as that of the Vallès institute in Sabadell, the lines are triggered very visibly at those moments; In others, the change is much more discreet. The difference, above all, depends on how many people were celebrating near each sensor. The same happened with the measurements detected by the seismic sensor of the Royal Observatory of Madrid. And just as share the National Geographic Institute-OACNIG in its X account, the Argentina-Spain match made the city of Madrid vibrate last night. How a seismometer notices a goal celebration. They are designed primarily for earthquakes, but they also have other uses, since they are devices so sensitive that they register any vibration that is transmitted through the ground, as well as that generated by our activity. Jumps, shouts, applause or firecrackers produce mechanical waves that travel through the terrain and reach the sensor, just as the passage of the subway or traffic on an avenue does. This was already documented years ago in a study from the institute itself (then ICTJA-CSIC), which analyzed how the seismic station installed at its headquarters “detected the vibrations generated by phenomena such as subway circulation, traffic and the celebration of goals during the matches played at the Camp Nou.” In that same study, for example, the signal generated by Barça’s three goals against Bayern Munich in the first leg of the 2015 Champions League semifinals was analyzed. What network has captured this data. The GEO3BCN-CSIC Educational Seismic Network is a scientific dissemination project that has been underway for several years. It is made up of Raspberry Shake seismometers installed mainly in secondary schools in the provinces of Barcelona and Girona, which they manage together with the teachers of each center. According to explained Jordi Díaz himself, when the network was expanded a few years ago, the objective was “to make seismology known to the students of the centers involved.” According to collect the Tutiempo.net portal, there are around 18 stations of this type spread across the network. It’s not the first time. This type of publication has almost become a tradition at the institute every time there is a high-profile match. It already happened in the 2024 Euro Cupbecause when Spain was proclaimed champion, the seismometers in Madrid and Barcelona recorded the vibrations associated with the goals of Nico Williams and Mikel Oyarzabal. Beyond the anecdote. Although a goal graph does not contribute anything to earthquake research, the institute itself has pointed out in the past that these educational stations also have real scientific utility. And if a local earthquake occurs, they can provide complementary data to that of permanent seismic networks. Cover image | RTVE In Xataka | A century of tectonic energy released in just 39 seconds: the unusual “seismic double” that has shaken Venezuela

Spain has just won its second World Cup. It’s the perfect time to ask your boss for a raise.

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If you have been thinking for a while about going to your boss’s office to ask him a salary increasewe have good news: that time is today. At least if your boss is a soccer fan and a supporter of the Spanish National Team. We don’t say it, it says it a study prepared by US economists who have found a clear relationship between the happiness caused by the successes of a person’s team and their predisposition to be more generous or risky when it comes to spending. After all, sport may be passionate (Of course football is.), but passions often creep into business as well. Why do you decide what you decide? It sounds strange, I know; But that is the question that a group of US economists asked themselves a few years ago, including Judd Kesslerfrom the University of Pennsylvania, or Andrew McClellanfrom the University of Chicago. To be more precise, the team attempted to clarify the relationship between a person’s mood and their financial decisions. “While angry people are advised to ‘think it over’ before making angry decisions, they are rarely advised to consider how incidental happiness influences their behaviors or giving,” slide. What does it have to do with sport? A lot. If something knows Spain today is that a sporting success can bring hundreds of thousands of people to ecstasy and raise the general mood of a country. Having your team achieve a victory triggers your dopamine levels and that is something that Kessler and his colleagues knew well, so in 2013 they went to a bar on the Upper Esat Side, New York, with a group of American football fans and, once there, they started watching games. And that for what? To do science… although in an unconventional way. What the economists did was put their ‘Indoas pigs? two live NFL games. In the first, held in December 2013, the Dallas Cowboys they faced Philadelphia Eagles. In the second, in January 2014, the New Orleans Saints and Philadelphia Eagles. During the commercial breaks, the economists gave them questionnaires to assess how the game affected them on an emotional level (basically whether they felt more or less happy) and then a series of questions related to their greater or lesser willingness to make donations, purchase items or place bets. It was not a simple theoretical exercise. At stake were real dollars with which researchers compensated experimental subjects for their time. What did they discover? More or less what common sense dictates: when the person interviewed was ecstatic because things were going well for their team, they showed considerably fewer qualms about donating or spending money. It may seem obvious, but researchers claimit is one thing to have an intuition based on experience and another to have a study with academic parameters that demonstrates it. And taking into account that we are talking about something as serious as the factors that influence economic decisions, that is not a minor nuance. “We have observed that what happens in the game influences the subjects’ incidental happiness, and that changes give rise to predictable variations in their decisions,” they explain researchers, who claim to have developed a system that incorporates mood into economic models. As a reference, the matches altered the emotional state of 81% of the subjects. Did they go further? Yes. The study results were published first in June 2020 and a few months ago at Cambridge University Press. In their paper, Kessler and his colleagues confirm that “changes in incidental happiness significantly affect” most economic decision-making (two of the four included in the questionnaire) and that the happiest people are those who donate the most to NGOs, spend on consumer goods and take greater risks. “We observed variations in the economic decisions that the participants made throughout the game. 30 of the 64 participants (47%) change the amount they decide to donate; 36 of the 64 participants (56%) change the maximum amount they are willing to pay for a consumer good, and exactly the same number, 36 of the 64 participants (56%), change the maximum amount they are willing to pay for a lottery,” points out the article of 2020. Is the relationship so clear? The economists are clear. “We observed that when subjects’ mood improves, when they report feeling happier, they donate more to charities and may be more willing to pay more for a good, be less risk-averse and more confident,” Kessler points out and colleagues: “A person who is in a good mood can be modeled as equivalent to a person who feels richer.” Images | Wikipedia, Vitaly Gariev (Unsplash) and EmbedSocial (Unsplash) In Xataka | We believed that there is only one Erling Haaland. Until Peru got imaginative when baptizing its babies

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