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There is nothing extraordinary about Hong Kong opening a store 24 hours a day, except that it is run by a humanoid robot.

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China has a particular way of understanding and integrating AI into daily life. While in the US it is committed to leading the large language models, in China the strategy involves creating what they call ’embodied AI’, which we can translate as ‘Personified AI’. China wants to export its strategy and wants to start in Hong Kong, where they will open a store run by a robot. What is happening. It was announced by the Chinese Secretary of Finance, Paul Chan Mo-po, in his weekly blog. In the post, he talks about Hong Kong’s strategy to boost AI and make it an everyday benefit for its citizens. As part of this plan, a convenience store will be opened on the Hung Hom seafront, which will be open 24 hours a day and will be run by a humanoid robot that will be able to offer service in multiple languages. The text does not clarify which company is behind this initiative and simply states that it is a company from mainland China; Among the most prominent robotics companies in China are Unitree and Deep Robotics, although there are many more. According to the announcement, the opening of this store will be their first outside of mainland China and they have chosen Hong Kong as “the first stop in the global expansion of their retail store concept.” Robots working in front of the public. Although it is not clear which company it is, we suspect it may be Galbot. Because? Because at the end of last year my colleague Alex was in Beijing and already He encountered a robot from this company in front of a small beverage store in a shopping center. Alex bought a bottle of water and says the experience was similar to that of a vending machine, but much more expensive and slower. Drones and autonomous cars. During my last trip to China I also came across a similar store run by a robot, but at that time I couldn’t stop to put it to the test. What I was able to experience is what it is like to ride in a Pony.ai brand autonomous taxi and then order a bubble tea to be brought to me by a drone. Both experiences are available in Shenzhen, of course. Taxis are much more integrated into daily life, while the delivery with drones is still a rarity reserved for a few points in the city. The goal behind personified AI. All these examples are part of the push for what the Chinese government calls ’embodied AI’. It is an AI that has a physical presence, that is, it interacts with the environment through sensors and actuators and can take the form of a robot, autonomous car or drone. The government mentions it in its 2025 jobs report and has made it a national priority for a reason: it is the next phase in boosting its robotics industry. In this sense, the fact that more and more robots are seen on the streets of Chinese cities is not a simple technological extravagance, but is part of a more ambitious plan. Robots are the way to sustain industrial growth despite factors such as rising wages or the population aging. Image | Blog of the financial secretariat, China In Xataka | China is preparing a hotel where robots will act as receptionists, waiters, cleaners and security guards: it aims to automate almost everything

It’s about making a movie for a non-existent audience.

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The Masters of the Universe movie It has good reviews, a seemingly infallible fan base and an 87% audience rating. on Rotten Tomatoes. And after its first weekend it is already one of the biggest box office failures of 2026: it seems that the inhabitants of Eternia cannot escape the curse of their audiovisual adaptations, which has followed them since that distant version of the Cannon of 1987. Although more prosaic issues come into play here than an old and endearing evil eye. The figures. On the weekend of June 5 to 7, ‘He-Man and the Masters of the Universe’ raised 29.3 million dollars in the United States and 25 million in the 86 countries where it was released simultaneously, adding a global total of 54.3 million. It is calculated that Amazon MGM invested between 170 and 200 million dollars in production, which would make it necessary for the film, adding marketing expenses, to earn about 425 million just to recover what was invested. For now, Amazon denies the biggest one: Kevin Wilson, head of domestic distribution at Amazon MGM, stated in a statement that the weekend represented “a very solid start” and that the audience response had been “fantastic.” The sights are set, very clearly, on Prime Video. The eighties. The Masters of the Universe have been starring in the same story for about forty years. In August 1987, Cannon Films, the Israeli-American production company known for its films with Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson and other B-movie action stars, released the first live-action adaptation of the franchise, with Dolph Lundgren in the lead role. The budget was 22 million dollars. The final collection, 17.3 million. The failure, added to that of the tremendous ‘Superman IV’, contributed directly to the bankruptcy of Cannon Films. What is the difference. However, the budget differences between the 1987 version and the 2026 version are very noticeable. In the Cannon Wager, for example, budget constraints prevented Orko or Battle Cat from appearing on screen, and most of the story took place in California, rather than Eternia, which was reduced to a couple of wastelands. The 2026 film has a better billing (although if you ask us, the cast of that one is unbeatable: Lundgren was joined by Frank Langella and Meg Foster) and, in fact, this one recovers sequences that were left out in the eighties, such as Beast Man’s attack on Earth. But it has been of no use. Not understanding. What both versions do share is a commercial logic that has failed: a successful toy should produce a successful movie. When ‘Barbie’ raised 1.4 billion dollars globally in 2023Mattel drew a clear lesson: its toy franchises have economic potential on the big screen. The company launched the development of more than 14 films based on their catalog: ‘Hot Wheels’ produced by JJ Abrams, ‘Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots’ with Vin Diesel, ‘Polly Pocket’, ‘Barney’, ‘Magic 8 Ball’… ‘Masters of the Universe’ is the first big bet of this new era. But that reading of ‘Barbie’ ignores why ‘Barbie’ worked. The box office of Greta Gerwig’s film had nothing to do with nostalgia for the original toys, but rather with turning that starting point into a commentary on gender roles that worked even for an audience that had not held a Barbie in their hands in decades, or even that despised the toy for considering that it conveyed a toxic message, precisely the opposite of that of the film. ‘He-Man’, however, appeals to the nostalgia of a very specific segment of the public, adult men who grew up with the animated series in the eighties, without offering anything to those outside that perimeter. Liminals and parodies. A look at last weekend’s box office shows a panorama that Amazon has not been able to interpret. On the one hand there is the success of ‘Backrooms’. The A24 film, directed by Kane Parsons, cost 10 million dollars and has already been 212 million raised in less than two weeks. His film starts from a internet mythology about liminal spaceswithout a franchise to respect by heart, without decades of commercial history to sell. On the other hand, we have ‘Scary Movie’. The sixth installment of the Wayans brothers’ parody franchise, absent from theaters since 2013, grossed 55 million domestics and 105.5 million global with a budget of only 30 million. The first works because Parsons has an organic connection to the material (twenty years old, YouTuber) and an audience that has followed him from the internet to the living room. ‘Scary Movie’ presents a direct proposal, and although it refers to past hits, it does not appeal to nostalgia and its audience knows exactly what they are going to see. Both films, in different ways, respond to a real demand. And ‘Masters of the Universe’, despite its indisputable virtues, seems designed to respond to a non-existent demand. In Xataka | Something is changing in cinema: films by directors trained on YouTube are eating up Disney films

the largest surveillance device at a sporting event

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He World Cup 2026 which begins tonight will be the largest soccer tournament in history: 48 teams will face each other in 104 matches, distributed in 16 venues in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and more than five million fans in the stands. It’s also going to be one of the most watched sporting events of all time. This is the security apparatus that is going to be deployed in the stadiums. A world cup under the magnifying glass. The event is held in a terrorist risk contextfueled by the conflict between the US and Iran. Of the more than 100 games, 78 are going to be held in eleven American cities, which places considerable strain on security resources at all points in the chain, from travel to the stadium itself. They count in Wired that the Trump administration may use this event to deploy an invasive surveillance system without appropriate safeguards. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has issued a travel warning to attendees to the world cup, in which they specifically warn about “repression of freedom of expression and protest and increased surveillance.” Drones. Both drones and, above all, anti-drone systems will play a key role in the security of events. Stadiums will be no-fly zones, but there are other gathering places that may be targets for drone attacks. The company Fortem Technologies has once again been chosen (already participated in Qatar in 2022) to deploy its kinetic anti-drone technology at US headquarters. Contracts have also been signed with Sentrycs, which will contribute its non-disruptive anti-drone technologyand Axon, which will deploy a full stack of drones and counter-drones in Dallas. Facial recognition. It will be another of the great security systems used during the event, something that already happened during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where more than 15,000 cameras monitored the stadiums. In this edition, the stadiums of Boston, Miami and Atlanta, making up the facial recognition powered by AI to gain access to the premises and make payments, and there will also be facial recognition on Kansas City buses. Robot dogs. In addition to facial recognition in the stadiums themselves, Boston Dynamics robot dogs equipped with cameras will be deployed capable of detecting faces. These robots will be seen at the venues in Dallas, Texas and at the New Jersey stadium, where the final will be held, which has been classified as a “national special security event.” In Mexico, at the Monterrey stadium, they also plan reinforce security with four robot dogs. Command platforms. Lenovo is the official technology partner of FIFA and has announced that will be in charge of managing the command center in which they will monitor the movements of the crowd and manage the devices that each worker will carry. On the other hand, Booz Allen Hamilton will provide his Sit(x) platform of situational information in real time. What if it’s not temporary? In statements to WiredElectronic Frontier Foundation security analyst Matthew Guariglia warns of the risk of this technology being used “to restrict people’s civil liberties and the fact that surveillance infrastructure is precisely that: infrastructure.” That is to say, there is concern that all these supposedly temporary measures will end up being permanent. Additionally, there is concern that ICE performs during the games against the migrant population. The agency’s director has confirmed that ICE will be a key part of the security of the events, but They have not made clear what their role will be. The militarization of sport. As we said, in the previous edition of the World Cup in Qatar there was an enormous security deployment, but also took advantage of this context to reinforce its national security strategy, outsourcing part of that security to allied powers and using the tournament as a test bed for new military and police capabilities. They say in Wired that there is not much information about the companies behind many of the World Cup security contracts, but they are expected to end up in the hands of military industry companies such as Palantir, Anduril and Lockheed Martin. Organizations such as Privacy International fear that these events will be used to normalize mass surveillance tools. Image | Xataka with Gemini In Xataka | Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle: “Citizens will behave because we are recording and documenting everything that happens”

“A green awning on the terrace is like having a radiator over the window”

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With the arrival of the hot months, the facades of the buildings display their particular summer armor: the awnings. In Spain the scene is quite characteristic when you are walking down the street and, curiously, the color that triumphs in our country It’s green. And although it seems like the perfect shield against heatstroke, a recent technical warning has shaken what we thought we knew about the protective effect it has. Voices against him. One of the most important It’s Jordi Martí’stechnical architect who posed a rather important analogy that has collected Decosfera: having a dark green awning is “like having a radiator in front of the window.” And its premise is based on an undeniable principle of materials physics, since the absorption of social radiation is very different depending on the color. This is something that happens in the world of fashion and is in the mentality of society, since in summer normally choose to wear light colored clothing by better reflecting heat. But wearing dark clothes in the middle of summer is actually a bad idea, since sweat is guaranteed. It happens on awnings exactly the same, since while light colors (such as pure white) reflect most of the light radiation and heat up less, dark colors are true thermal sinks. This means that a dark green awning can absorb between 80% and 90% of solar radiation, a figure that in the case of black tarps is close to 98%. According to Martí, the fabric heats up drastically and generates a stagnant “heat pocket” under the awning. And this is a problem because under the awning is our house, which begins to accumulate all the energy and results in an increase in heat, when we want to have the opposite effect. It is studied. To support the scientific basis of this position, the work of Hubertus Pöppinghaus, a German architect who is a reference in the study of shadows and radiation, is often used. In this case, through the use of thermal imaging cameras, Pöppinghaus analyzed the behavior of different materials, evidencing the temperature peaks that dark fabrics reach. And among his conclusions he makes it clear what the tarps we use should be: The outer face must be reflective with a light color so that visible solar radiation bounces and does not accumulate heat. The inner side should be dark, since this drastically reduces the reflection of shortwave solar radiation bouncing off the street and sidewalks, decreasing the total heat flow. The industry does not agree. Here the Spanish Association of Shading and Dynamic Solar Control wants to deny this statement relying on the wavelength of the radiation. And the energy that the sun sends to the Earth arrives in the form of direct solar radiation, mainly short wave, penetrating through the window panes and heating the interior of the houses. But when an awning, whatever its color, intercepts that exterior radiation, it stops the blow and, indeed, heats up. By doing so, the energy that the canvas re-emits to the environment is no longer short-wave, but long-wave infrared radiation, and here is the fundamental detail that dismantles the “radiator effect”: standard window glass is opaque to long-wave radiation. In other words. For the industry, it is physically inaccurate to state that the dark awning transfers heat from the outside to the inside through the glass, since the thermal radiation emitted by the hot canvas hits the glass and does not penetrate the home. According to AESSO, what is truly lethal for energy efficiency is letting the sun hit the glass directly and, therefore, any system that provides shade is positive. Images | Elisabeth Fossum In Xataka | Popular wisdom is not always right: the great heat myths that we should avoid in summer

In 2014, Larry Page bought two private islands for $23 million. The problem is that they already had an owner and he won’t let them go.

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Buying a private island is not as easy as it seems. Especially if someone had already bought it before you. That is, broadly speaking, what the American justice system has been discussing for more than a decade, when Larry Page bought two of the five private islands that it has in the Virgin Islands area. The case has a little bit of everything: companies that negotiate in the shadows, a furious New York real estate developer and one of the co-founders of Google who, according to the documents that are coming to light in the trial, did everything possible so that no one knew that it was he who bought the island. Twelve years later, the dispute over ownership of the islands is still open, but the islands, meanwhile, remain in the hands of Larry Page. Two islands, two buyers. Great Hans Lollik and Little Hans Lollik are two small private islands in the archipelago of the US Virgin Islands. They are just over two kilometers from the north coast of the main island, Saint Thomas, and are located in a privileged enclave because they are surrounded by coral reefs and practically uninhabited, except for a few herds of invasive goats. In 2014, a company based in Palo Alto (California) appeared out of nowhere and bought the two islands that were for sale, closing a transaction worth $23 million, according to collected Business Insider. The problem is that a New York developer named James Eckel had been negotiating the purchase of the property for months. He had even offered 9 million dollars. The deal had not been closed, but he claimed to have a contract that gave him preference in the operation. When the Palo Alto company put its generous offer on the table, the seller chose 23 million and the developer was left hanging. That didn’t sit well with him. Trial for negotiating behind his back. From Eckel’s perspective, the seller (a company called Liberty Bankers Life Insurance Company) had committed to him in a sales contract, which he then ignored when a better offer appeared. So he went to court to claim ownership of the islands. What came next has been a decade of pilgrimage through the courts of Texas and the Virgin Islands. In 2019, a court of appeal of Texas ruled that Eckel was only entitled to compensation for economic damages, but not to ownership of the islands. But that didn’t close the case. The family office which manages Page’s estate and through which the purchase was made, sued Eckel’s company (called Great Hans LLC) to have the courts officially declare that the islands belong to him without any legal burden, so that the developer could not claim ownership again in the future. That process remains unresolved today, despite the fact that Page’s lawyers have been asking the judge to act for years. The opacity of fortunes. The most striking thing about the case is not only the dispute over the ownership of the islands. This is the time it took to find out who the real buyer of the properties was because they found themselves behind a thick corporate framework that protected his identity. The company that acquired the islands was Virgin Island Properties LLC, a limited liability company without a name behind it to reveal who put up the money with which the purchase was made. In fact, as as highlighted Business Insiderit took months of court proceedings and investigations for Eckel’s lawyers to reach Wayne Osborne, the man who manages the assets from Page since 2012. Osborne then confirmed that the purchase was for Page. In his statement he also explained that the islands had been acquired without the intention of building on them, and that the agent who negotiated the transaction (Gil Simon) did not reveal to the seller the identity of the actual buyer. It is a common practice in the operation of companies who manage large assets like that of the co-founder of Google: no document of the operation directly or indirectly mentioned Larry Page. The family office most discreet in the technological world. This trial has served as a window, albeit a very small one, to see how they work management structures of one of the family office most hermetic that exist…even for such a discreet area how is the one of the family office. The company that manages the 290.9 billion dollars of the second richest man in the world It’s called Koop and is based in Palo Alto. His philosophy is total opacity and to achieve it, employees sign confidentiality agreements before entering, LinkedIn profiles are deliberately vague and internal security is supervised by a former CIA agent, as revealed in a exclusive research of Business Insider in 2022. The entire society is organized so that Page does not appear in any of the documents of his own purchases. That is, keep the millionaire as far away as possible from his possessions, so that it is difficult to unravel the corporate network that is woven between the property and who really owns it. In fact, these companies do their job so well that when the judges in the Epstein case tried to locate Larry Page in 2023 to take a statement Regarding his role in the plot, a private investigation firm was unable to find a mailing address for him. It is not that Larry Page did not have a habitual residence, but that everything was designed so that he could not be linked to any real address. In Xataka | The most luxurious “hotel” in the world costs $70,000 a night because it’s not a hotel: it’s an LVMH private island Image | Flickr (Scott Beale / Laughing Squid)

If you thought that Renfe was taking… Germany is spending 100,000 million euros so that its trains arrive on time

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We complain a lot about Renfe (and a good part of those complaints, with reason). But although it may seem otherwise, Germany has been neglecting its railway network for decades at decadent levels. And just as they count According to the Financial Times, only six in ten long-distance trains arrive on time. However, the country already has a plan in mind, a plan that involves investing some 100,000 million euros in solving its punctuality problem. The problem. In 2000, 84% of German long-distance trains arrived on time. Today that figure has fallen to 60%. Already last year, an analysis The Financial Times placed Deutsche Bahn, the German public operator, below even the most late railway operators in the United Kingdom. Just like account The German Transport Minister, Patrick Schnieder, even warned in March that the situation threatened to erode public confidence in the institutions. In his own words, he assured that if the State is not capable of guaranteeing basic services, “democracy is harmed.” How we got here. According to the media, this deterioration has been the result of a series of poorly made decisions over two decades. In the early 2000s, the German government considered taking Deutsche Bahn public. The plan never materialized, but to improve the balance sheet for that hypothetical exit, network maintenance was cut. To this was added that between 2005 and 2010 the budget for railway infrastructure was, adjusted for inflation, 20% lower than in the mid-nineties, according to calculations from the FT itself. The icing on the cake came in 2009, when Germany constitutionalized the so-called “debt brake“, which forced the State to balance the accounts every year. This caused investment spending to systematically lose the battle against social spending. The current state of the network. Just like account According to the FT, 16% of the assets of the German railway network are classified as deficient or directly inadequate. There are bridges dating back to the time of Kaiser Wilhelm II and signal boxes installed in the 1960s that are still in service. In fact, according to DB InfraGo, the Deutsche Bahn division in charge of maintaining the network, 80% of all delays are directly caused by deterioration of the infrastructure. You have to open the tap. In 2025, Chancellor Friedrich Merz took advantage of a constitutional loophole to create a fund of 500 billion euros to renew the country’s infrastructure over the next twelve years. The railway is one of its top priorities since, of that total, Deutsche Bahn has committed 107 billion euros until 2029. However, Philipp Nagl, CEO of DB InfraGo, recognize to the FT that needs at least 130,000 million to cover the accumulated delay. And as he comments, every year, more assets reach the end of their useful life. How it is being executed. The strategy is being extremely drastic, closing entire sections of the network for months to rebuild them from scratch, instead of patching section by section. Furthermore, it is an atypical way of doing things at Deutsche Bahn, which historically had a tradition of keeping lines open while carrying out construction work. “With that method it would take forever,” explains Nagl to the FT. The number of active works on the network has grown by a third since 2024, to exceed 28,000 in 2026. The immediate consequence is more chaos in the short term. And the punctuality goal has been lowered to 70% and postponed until 2029. A real example. In one of the busiest corridors in the country, the one that connects Cologne with the Ruhr Valley, along which up to 280 trains circulate daily, the line has been closed since February. According to account In the middle, the 55,000 regular travelers must resort to more than 200 replacement buses, many of them stuck in traffic jams. In return, 81 kilometers of track, 50 detours and 12 stations are being renewed in five months. The person in charge of the project, Arno Jaeger, defined the medium as “a monumental task” with a budget of 800 million euros. To speed up the work, specialized heavy machinery is used. In fact, one of the machines, colloquially nicknamed Mamut, renews two kilometers of track per shift, four times faster than if they did it through the conventional method. It’s about operators. Beyond Deutsche Bahn, there are private competitors waiting for their chance. And just as account FT, FlixTrain, the railway arm of the Flix group, has reserved 2.4 billion euros to buy up to 65 high-speed trains that it wants to deploy from 2028. The Italian high-speed operator Italo has also announced its intention to enter Germany with an investment of up to 3.6 billion if it gains access to the network for several years. Both point to 2028 as a key year. Cover image | Deutsche Bahn In Xataka | The Spanish west has a forgotten train that it wants to recover. The problem: neither Madrid nor Europe are interested

The United Kingdom is experiencing a new invasion. The problem is that they are octopuses and they are devouring everything they can find.

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When explorer John Cabot returned from Newfoundland in 1497, assured who had found seas so full of fish that they could captured with simple baskets weighted with stones. That abundance seemed inexhaustible, but more than five centuries later, British waters are once again starring in a story of marine overpopulation, although with very different protagonists. An unexpected invasion. For decades, encountering a common octopus off the coast of south-west England was a rare event for even the most experienced divers. However, in just a few years the situation has changed. radically. What started as a striking increase of sightings has become the largest population explosion of octopuses recorded in at least 75 years. The animals have colonized extensive areas of the British coast, expanding from Devon and Cornwall to Wales, Dorset, Sussex and even Scotland, becoming one of the most surprising marine phenomena that the United Kingdom has experienced in recent times. Perfect weather and conditions. Scientists believe that this expansion is the result of several factors that have coincided at the same time. The juvenile octopuses probably arrived from breeding areas around the English Channel and northern France, but the real difference has been the progressive warming of British waters. Mild winters and warmer breeding seasons have allowed them to survive in much greater numbers and, more importantly, to begin to reproduce successfully in UK waters. The appearance of juvenile specimens confirms that they are no longer simply occasional visitors, but rather a population capable of completing their entire life cycle on these coasts. The big losers. The massive arrival of octopuses is having devastating consequences for part of the traditional fishing. These animals are extraordinarily efficient predators and consume huge quantities of seafood every day. Fishermen began finding empty traps, missing lobsters and ruined catches. In some areas, those who depended on crustacean fishing have seen plummets in between 70% and 100% of their catches. In fact, some businesses have closed and some owners have even sold their boats. The researchers they calculate that octopuses are consuming tons of seafood daily, altering a food chain that had been functioning relatively stable for decades. The same plague that ruins some enriches others. The paradox is that the crisis has also generated an economic opportunity unexpected. Where lobsters and crabs were once caught, octopuses now abound. Many fishermen have quickly adapted their gear and have begun to catch them to supply a growing demand in European markets. The result has been spectacular. Brixham recently sold more than 100 tons of octopus in a single day, generating more than half a million pounds in sales. Some professionals claim that they are obtaining income several times higher than what they achieved with traditional fishing, causing a real fever to catch octopuses along the coast. A reorganized ecosystem. The phenomenon goes far beyond the fishing economy. Octopuses are profoundly altering the relationships between species. While they consume large quantities of crustaceans and mollusks, they have also become food for seals, conger eels and Risso’s dolphins. The researchers describe the situation as a complete reconfiguration of the marine ecosystem, a process in which each change triggers new ones. The feeling among scientists is that British waters are going through a period of ecological transition in which the rules that seemed established for generations are no longer valid. The big difference from previous invasions. Although similar population explosions were already recorded at the beginning of the 20th century, in the 1930s and 1950s, researchers believe that this time the situation can be different. In previous episodes, the octopuses ended up disappearing when conditions changed again. Now, however, winters cold enough to drastically reduce their populations have been going on for more than a decade without production. Evidence of local reproduction and the presence of young specimens suggest that octopuses may have ceased to be occasional visitors and become permanent inhabitants of British coasts. Preparing for a new reality. The magnitude of the phenomenon is already forcing the authorities to react. In Cornwall, for example, they study emergency restrictions to limit the number of boats dedicated to capturing octopuses for fear of excessive exploitation of a population that, paradoxically, seemed inexhaustible just a few months ago. Meanwhile, scientists, fishermen and resource managers are trying to understand what this transformation really means. The big lesson is that ocean warming not only changes temperatures or currents, but can change them completely. who dominates an ecosystem. And on British shores, the new protagonists seem to be animals that until very recently were a rarity and that are now devouring everything in their path. Careful, Galicia. Image | prilfishPixabay In Xataka | We knew that octopuses were very intelligent. But not to the point of having a “brain” in each arm In Xataka | The most intimate secret of octopuses: their ‘loving arm’ not only fertilizes, it also tastes the female

a ventilation system to install them closer to furniture

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When placing a refrigerator it is important that we take into account the separation that we should leave with the furniture so that it can ventilate well and not overheat. And this is something that Haier has taken into account with its new refrigerators with which you will not have that problem: Haier Cube 83 7which has a price of 1,449 euros in the official store Haier FD 83 7which has a price of 1,419 euros in the official store. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links New Haier refrigerators The new Haier refrigerators belong to the range Space-Fita series of models that are aimed at greater integration in the kitchen. And it is not only useful by design, but also by convenience because having greater integration also means greater space savings. The reason is that these refrigerators have the technology bottom cooling (front cooling) that, instead of expelling heat from the sides or the back, have a condenser located at the bottom left that expels heat from the bottom right. This allows them to be placed closer to furniture, without overheating and quietlyalthough there is a limit: it is advisable that there be a separation of four millimetersa distance that in practice is very little perceptible, and 59 centimeters with respect to the wall. On the other hand, it is worth mentioning that both refrigerators are designed to be silent, have antibacterial technology and, in the case of the Cube 83 7, it has a water dispenserwhich prevents us from opening the refrigerator door to drink cold water. In addition, both come equipped with drawers Direct Accesswhich allow quick and easy access to frozen foods, as well as having a much better view of the contents of the freezer without cold air quickly escaping. You may also be interested Hisense RF632N4WIE – No Frost Stainless Steel French Door Combi Refrigerator, With Dispenser, No Frost, 2 Meters, Drawer, 337 Liters, Air Flow System, Stainless Steel Finish, 485 Liters The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung Bespoke AI Combi Refrigerator 203cm Twin Cooling Plus™ 387L Class A Inox RB38C607AS9/EF 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 | Haier In Xataka | American refrigerator or 70 cm Combi? Be careful with making mistakes when buying liters that you may not be able to use In Xataka | No Frost vs. cyclical (Static): why your refrigerator dries food and when it pays to buy a ‘low frost’ one

They both believe that time proves them right.

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The US and China have signed a technological truce. However, as Chris Miller, the author of ‘The Chip War’in your newsletterthey have not signed peace at all. What they have agreed is a strategic pause in which both powers believe that time is on their side. Each one has their own theory of how they will win the game. And these theories are radically different, as can be expected in the current confrontation scenario. The Administration led by Donald Trump has made an important concession: has allowed Nvidia to deliver its second chip to some of its Chinese customers for artificial intelligence (AI) more powerful, the GPU H200. Their most advanced hardware is still subject to strict restrictions. However, this maneuver does not reflect any type of generosity: selling the H200 generates income for Nvidia and its allies, while the truly strategic chips (Blackwell and Vera Rubin) remain, in theory, out of Beijing’s reach. The Trump administration’s logic is this: if AI is going to be the engine of the economy and geopolitical power for decades to come, the US only needs to maintain its advantage on the technological frontier long enough for that advantage to become structural. At the base of its strategy lies the conviction that the general artificial intelligence (AGI) will transform the world irreversibly. The truce gives it time to consolidate that advantage and for its AI models to prove their economic value before China can catch up. The structural fragility of the truce The way in which the Chinese Government is reading the current situation is very different. When Chinese leaders talk about “major changes unseen in a century,” they mean a rebalancing of the industrial world order, not a revolution in language patterns. The most eloquent proof is the one that Chris Miller points out: If Xi Jinping was genuinely worried about running out of computing power, he would have accepted the H200 GPUs that Trump is so keen to sell him. And he hasn’t. Behind the scenes each party sharpens its knives for a new wave of supply chain conflicts China is playing with a different logic. Xi Jinping has warned to provincial governments that they should not treat AI as an uncontrolled spending race: “When developing new quality productive forces we should not rush or launch all at once (…) China must not abandon the old for the new. New technologies must be integrated into existing sectors.” This is not skepticism about AI. In fact, the Chinese leader has described it as an “epoch technology” comparable to the Industrial Revolution or the birth of the Internet. What he defends is a clear prioritization: first the industrial bases, then the digital superstructure. The inherent problem with a truce in which both sides believe they will win is that it is inherently unstable. Neither side has confused the technological truce with peace. China has continued to ship some rare earths to the US, while Washington has postponed several previously delayed restrictions looming over Chinese chipmakers. Still, behind the scenes each party is sharpening its knives for a new wave of supply chain conflicts. China’s current industrial push spans semiconductors, AI, biotechnology and batteries, and is focused on capital-intensive and relatively job-poor sectors. This strategy suggests that the Chinese government is willing to accept certain internal social costs in exchange for accumulating strategic capacity. The US, for its part, is betting that this capability will become irrelevant if AI rewrites the rules of the game before China can deploy it. Both bets are coherent. Both can be wrong. And that, more than any tariff agreement, is what makes this truce so provisional. Image | Gage Skidmore | Wikipedia More information | Chris Miller In Xataka | The condemnation that afflicts China: after decades of manufacturing a competitive desktop processor, it is six years behind

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