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The Moroccan Government wants to reinforce its weight in the Sahara by betting on its agricultural muscle, a double objective for which it is looking for allies. His Agency for Agricultural Development (ADA) just launched a call to attract investment partners to help it gain around 1,100 hectares of agricultural land in Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab, land intended for commercial horticulture that will benefit from a new desalination plant. The topic is especially interesting in Spain for two reasons: it focuses on the environment of ancient settlement of Villa Cisneros and can affect the Spanish agricultural sector, which has been complaining for a long time of the Moroccan competition. What has happened? That the Moroccan Executive wants to reinforce its footprint in the economy of Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab, a region located south of the disputed territory of Western Sahara. In fact its capital is Dakhlawhat was once the Spanish settlement of Villa Cisneros. To that end, the ADA has launched a tender with which he intends to attract companies to help him cultivate an area of ​​almost 1,100 hectares that will benefit from a new desalination plant. What exactly has he done? The news has advanced it the diary Les Inspirations Ecowhich a few days ago revealed that the Moroccan Agricultural Development Agency has launched a call to attract investors (both local and foreign) interested in taking charge of 35 agricultural projects spread across Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab and that will cover more than 1,090 h. Specifically, what Rabat has in mind is a public-private collaboration (PPP) formula focused on lands controlled by the Moroccan State and that will be divided into thirty agricultural projects: 28 medium-sized ones that cover 345.6 hectares, three large ones that are close to 170 h, another three that will require aggregation and total 565.1 h and another smaller one (9.8 h). How will they be managed? Through rental contracts. Interested investors will sign agreements with the Moroccan Government for between 25 and 40 years of exploitation (this last period, the longest, is reserved for plots that require investment in processing plants), a period during which companies must pay a rent established by the Government. According to the newspaper The DebateDepending on the size, the rent will range between €640 and €4,250 per year. The Moroccan press also speaks of a connection fee per hectare. That rent is not the only commitment that companies interested in exploiting farmland will assume. The rental fee will increase by 10% every five years from the moment the irrigation system is activated. The investor will also not be able to do what he wants with the land. The idea is that they present projects focused primarily on commercial horticulture (excluding berries). Those who sign the contract will also be obliged to manage and exploit the plots directly, without transferring them to third parties. Why is it important? That Morocco seeks partners to strengthen the country’s agricultural muscle is interesting, but it does not explain why the news has captured the interest of the Spanish press. If he has done it, it is not so much because of ‘the what’ as ‘the where’. As we noted before, the project focuses on Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab, in the area of ​​Western Sahara that Morocco considers part of its territory and the Polisario Front claims as floor of the Sahrawi Republic. Is there anything else? Yes. The call launched by Rabat is part of a much broader and more ambitious initiative: a Dakhla irrigation project that aims to use desalinated seawater to irrigate just over 5,000 hectares. In fact, the almost 1,100 h that ADA offers will benefit from the water from that plant. In general, Rabat has been making an effort to reinforce the economic muscle of Dakhla, which in the process establishes its weight in the region. In the background is the program ‘Generation Green 2020-2030’launched years ago by the Moroccan Executive and which aims to strengthen the country’s agricultural GDP and reinforce its export muscle. Right now Morocco plays a key role as fruit and vegetable supplier of Spain and has managed to expand its export weight in the European Union in products such as the tomato. Meanwhile, Spanish farmers warn of the unfair competition that the country exercises. Images | Hugh Llewelyn (Flickr), Flowcomm (Flickr) In Xataka | Europe has found an energy vein for the next decade: North Africa

Kimi K3 forces Trump to resume his plan to stop Chinese AI

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The Trump Administration likes to veto things. Now they seem to want to do it with the AI ​​models of Chinese companies, which are becoming increasingly competitive. The launch of Kimi K3 seems to have been the trigger for this new plan to be activated, but there is a problem: vetoing those models is a terrible idea. This comes from afar. The US Department of Commerce I had already studied last year included several Chinese AI startups, including DeepSeek, in its famous Entity List. With this they wanted to limit the access of these companies to sensitive hardware and technology developed in the US. Companies at risk for using Chinese models. Recently it has even been proposed drafting an executive order to hold US companies responsible for security breaches that appear due to using Chinese models in their systems. The objective was always the same: to discourage the use of these Chinese models as much as possible. Why US companies use Chinese models. The reason is simple: Chinese open weights like DeepSeek V4 or Kimi K3 allow companies to download and run them on their own servers, dramatically reducing inference costs and keeping all data private. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong himself has indicated that use models such as GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7 in local production, which has allowed them to cut their total spending on AI in half despite the fact that token consumption has skyrocketed. Duopolies without competition. David Sacks, White House AI advisor, posted a message on X on Sunday in which he warned of the risk of using these models: “We are at a critical turning point in AI policies. The leading laboratories with proprietary models, which are already a duopoly in terms of revenue from their AI models, want the government to eliminate Open Source competition.” A Axios report reveals that indeed both OpenAI and Anthropic could have part of the responsibility in promoting this ban. This could be a shot in the foot for the US.. An analysis published in The Washington Post raises an argument worth considering. Treating open models as a security threat is confusing competition with a danger that must be contained. This text recalls how the Sears chain was not allowed to ban Walmart, nor IBM to ban Compaq or Dell, nor traditional airlines to veto the operators that lowered prices. In each case the same thing happened: an established company ran into a rival that was lowering costs, so it had only two options: compete or lose. Linux and Open Source have already shown the way. As the author of the article says, open source eliminated the barriers of commercial software, which locked users into an alternative from which they had no way out. That did not make these companies disappear, but rather boosted competition. Red Hat, MongoDB, Android or Kubernetes showed that “giving away” the product was not incompatible with building profitable businesses around that product. Danger, duopoly. That analysis shows that almost all companies prefer a scenario in which open models remain available. The only ones who have a direct interest in maintaining closed models are precisely Anthropic and OpenAI, because their businesses depend precisely on there being no free (or very cheap) competitive alternatives. If they are so good, why are they afraid? What’s ironic is that if Anthropic and OpenAI really claim to be so far ahead of Chinese AI companies, they shouldn’t have to worry about the competition. Nor would they have to ask the government for help to stop their competition. The US antitrust laws themselves exist precisely to prevent a market from falling into the hands of one or two companies. This veto would precisely allow them to create that monopoly (or duopoly) to lock users and companies into it. In Xataka | A few days after the Kimi K3 “shock”, Alibaba has launched Qwen 3.8: it is the sign that the US has a problem

“Exercise tells the muscles to cleanse and reset”

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The effects of physical exercise for older people They are more than proven. It helps them improve their cardiovascular health, improves mobility, reduces fractures and, in general, provides a long list of benefits. It is good at all stages of life, but when we get older it becomes essential. However, as well studied as this is, until recently it was unclear why it is so beneficial. Knowing the reason is necessary, as it can help squeeze those advantages even more. Now, a team of scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, in collaboration with Cardiff University and Singapore General Hospital, has taken a big step in this directionby discovering the molecular pathways that cause both the deterioration of muscle health in advanced ages and the benefits of physical exercise for older people. Molecular pathways that suffer. This study is supported by previous research, which already pointed to the possible involvement of the mTORC1 pathway, involved in the regulation of the synthesis and elimination of muscle proteins. This pathway must maintain a balance between the synthesis of new proteins and the elimination of those that are damaged. However, it has been seen that, as we get older, this pathway becomes deregulated, tipping the balance towards the synthesis of new proteins. Damaged proteins that should normally be removed accumulate, causing stress on muscle cells and leading to a progressive loss of strength. This pathway, in turn, is regulated by another, called DEAF 1. As these scientists have seen, when its activity increases, the expression of genes in the mTORC1 pathway increases, causing this imbalance towards protein synthesis. Furthermore, what these scientists saw in experiments with fruit flies and mice is that the activity of DEAF 1 is regulated by the activity of a group of proteins that also exist in humans: FOXOs. They keep them in line. The problem is that FOXO activity decreases with age, giving free rein to DEAF 1 and, with it, an imbalance in the synthesis and elimination of muscle proteins. The role of physical exercise in older people. In their study, these scientists have seen that physical exercise reactivates FOXOs proteins. Therefore, physical exercise in older people aid to maintain balance in the synthesis and elimination of muscle proteins, improving muscle mass and increasing the benefits associated with it. Also stem cells. DEAF 1 does not influence muscles only by deregulating protein synthesis and elimination. It is also related to the synthesis of muscle stem cells. This normally decreases with age. Therefore, finding ways to maintain good activity levels is key. Physical exercise in older people also helps in that sense. It is not the same for everyone. In their study, these scientists have seen that, unfortunately, physical exercise does not always seem to be a good tool alone. There are people for whom it is enough, while others must resort to additional strategies to improve their health. This is the path through which they must continue studying. Not just for seniors. This study is not only aimed at studying the benefits of physical exercise in older people. Its authors believe that it can also be useful for patients who have lost muscle mass due to recovering from surgery, a fall, or diseases such as cancer. Be that as it may, the initial key is to understand the mechanisms that reduce the muscle health of older people. According to one of the authors of the studyPriscillia Choy Sze Mun, “physical exercise tells the muscles to cleanse and reset.” Logically, we will have to study more. To begin with, it would be necessary to verify that, no matter how much the mechanisms are shared, what has been seen in mice can be extrapolated to humans. If so, we would have key knowledge to improve physical exercise programs for older people. Knowledge is power and, in science, knowing the whys of things is very powerful. Images | Magnificent In Xataka | In the fever to train strength, the gym has faced competition: more and more people train on the street

The star Movistar Plus promo returns to see the start of LaLiga, the Champions League and more

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When a streaming platform releases a new promo, it’s always worth checking out. Movistar Plus has started a few minutes ago one that, although it is true that it is not new, is its star promo: It’s three months at half price without any permanencemaking it the best time to try what it offers. During these three months, its price is 4.99 euros per month. Monthly subscription to Movistar Plus (for three months) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Three months with many sporting events This promo lowers the price of the Movistar Plus Free Plan with movies, series, documentaries and sports from 9.99 euros to 4.99 euros per month for three months. The best of all is that, since it has no permanence, we can test the platform during this time and, if it does not convince us, unsubscribe. It is important to note that the offer is available for both new subscribers and old subscribers without an active subscription. Plus, you can share it with a friend or family member. If we sign up today, we will be subscribed until October 21, paying a total of only 14.97 euros. In exchange, we will be able to see how LaLiga EA Sports starts with great games like the Atlético de Madrid-Málaga, Elche-Barcelona or Real Madrid-Málaga. Also several Champions League matches and the entire LaLiga Hypermotion. Obviously, The platform lives not only on football. Without leaving the sport, we can also watch the 1,000 Masters in Canada and Cincinnati, as well as the US Open. In addition, also the start of the Endesa Basketball League or the Euroleague. To all this we can add an enormous number of movies, series and documentaries where, for example, there are several true crime very interesting to see. ⚡ IN SUMMARY: Movistar Plus offer ✅ THE BEST Three months for less than 15 euros: It is a great price if we take into account that, in addition, we will be able to see the start of LaLiga and other competitions. Without permanence: Since we do not have permanence, we can take advantage of the promo and unsubscribe before it ends. ❌ THE WORST YesOnly for new or old customers without active subscription: If you already have an active Movistar Plus subscription, you will not be able to benefit from the promo. 💡 SUBSCRIBE IF… You want to try what Movistar Plus offers or watch a lot of sporting events taking advantage of the fact that several competitions start now in August. ⛔ DO NOT SUBSCRIBE IF… You already have many streaming platforms or you are not interested in football at all. You may also be interested XIAOMI TV F 65, 65 Inch (165 cm), 4K UHD, Smart TV, Fire OS8, Alexa Voice Control, HDR10, MEMC, 120Hz Game Boost Mode, Compatible with Apple AirPlay The price could vary. We earn commission from these links TCL TV 55Q7D Pro 55” SQD-Mini LED, 4K HDR 2000 nits, 480 Dimming Zones, Google TV, Dolby Vision IQ and Atmos, 2.1 Onkyo, 144Hz, Apple AirPlay 2 and Alexa 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 | Movistar Plus In Xataka | Movistar Plus+ activates its Free Plan with complete programs and a lot of content, regardless of which operator you are In Xataka | Movistar Plus for non-Movistar customers: what it is, how much it costs, channels, additional services and how to contract it

“In inheritances it is a mistake not to ask for the deceased’s life insurance certificates”

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When a family member dies, the pain of loss is joined by an avalanche of legal and administrative procedures that must be fulfilled in a certain order. Therefore, between the mourning and the paperwork, there is a document that runs a serious risk of not being processed: the application for life insurance certificates. This certificate indicates whether the deceased had contracted any type of life insurance. This, which at first glance may seem obvious, can be a procedure that involves the loss of thousands of euros. for the heirs for not claiming compensation from the insurers. The failure that, surprisingly, is very common. As Manuel Hernández García, lawyer and director of Vilches Abogados, said, in a video from his YouTube channel, not requesting this life insurance certificate is one of the most common mistakes in inheritances. “On many occasions, families do not request life insurance certificates,” recalls the lawyer. The curious fact is that “insurance companies have an obligation to transmit this information about the deceased’s life insurance to state agencies.” That is, insurers are obliged to communicate in which insurance policies a specific person appears as a beneficiary, but they are not obliged to notify the heirs directly. A simple procedure but not for the impatient. The file in which all life insurance beneficiaries are collected is called the Registry of Death Coverage Insurance Contracts. It was created by Law 20/2005 and today it is managed by the Ministry of Justice. Anyone interested can request the insurance certificate and it includes the name and surname and what policies the deceased had in force. However, and this is one of the reasons why this certificate is often left behind in the inheritance process, it cannot be requested until after fifteen business days since death. Any attempt to apply earlier will result in your automatic denial. The procedure is done through the form 790 and can be processed online, by mail or in person, with the death certificate at hand. The registry responds within a maximum of seven business days. Some death insurance policies include administrative coverage in which they are responsible for requesting this certificate. Five years, not one more. We come to one of the most delicate parts of the process since insurance companies are obliged to indicate in that certificate what insurance each deceased has, but not to notify the heirs who are beneficiaries of it. As indicated by the insurer Aegonhe article 23 of the Insurance Contract Law establishes that heirs have a maximum period of five years from death to claim life insurance. After that time, the money simply remains in the hands of the insurer. Sure, how sure? The key is that much of that “forgotten” money does not come from life insurance policies themselves, but from “invisible” policies included in third-party services. Credit cards, banking and financial loan services, home insurance, vehicle insurance, which in addition to offering the main coverage, also allocate part of the coverage to insuring the service provider. According to the last Social Insurance Report, In Spain, 22 million people have taken out risk life insurance and many people are unaware that they have this coverage. Notaries as a last resort. The Registry creation life insurance also imposed an additional obligation for notaries, who must include the certificate from the Insurance Registry of the deceased before the award of the inheritance and must warn the heirs if there is any policy that covers said death so that it is recorded. In Xataka | Lawyers and notaries agree: “When making a will it is wise to leave specific assets to each child and the home to only one” Image | Vilches lawyersUnsplash (Romain Dancre)

Christopher Nolan explains why he filmed ‘The Odyssey’ in IMAX

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Christopher Nolan has not chosen the 65mm IMAX format for ‘The Odyssey’ as a simple technical boast. In reality, for this director it is a narrative tool at the service of a mythological scale story. Homer’s poem tells of endless sea voyages, storms, monsters and a journey that tests the limits of human endurance. Nolan wanted the viewer feel that immensity in a physical waynot just intellectual. And the only way to achieve this, as the director himself explained, was to completely fill the visual field of the movie theater. This ambition explains why, unlike previous works such as ‘Batman: The Dark Knight’, ‘Interstellar’ or ‘Oppenheimer’where IMAX is reserved for certain sequences of great impact, in ‘The Odyssey’ this format is maintained throughout the entire footage. Nolan has thus broken his own habit of alternating formats according to the intensity of each scene. The Homeric epic demands that the feeling of grandeur never wane, not even in the most intimate passages of the plot. IMAX’s 1.43:1 aspect ratio, much more vertical than the usual widescreen image in commercial cinema, is the key to this decision. By filling the viewer’s peripheral vision, this format generates a sense of depth similar to 3D without the need for glasses, something Nolan considers essential to convey the magnitude of the landscapes and battles. The director has summed up his philosophy with a forceful phrase: it sought to offer the public “something new and exciting”, an experience that no other format could give with the same intensity. IMAX demands as much as it promises The heart of this creative ambition is an exceptional negative. The IMAX film format, technically known as 15/70, uses 15 perforations per frame compared to the usual four for 35mm, which increases the size of the negative tenfold. The result is a horizontal resolution that is around 18,000 theoretical pixels, compared to the 1,920 pixel width of a high definition home screen (which together with its 1,080 vertical lines makes up the Full HD standard), and a sharpness that Nolan considers unsurpassable even compared to productions shot directly in digital. Filming with this technology for an entire feature film has required developing new equipment. IMAX cameras are traditionally very noisy for filming dialoguesso the team created a silencer they call blimp (we can translate it as soundproof casing). The resulting camera, named ‘The Keighley’ after veteran IMAX executives Patricia and David Keighley, weighs about 300 pounds packed into its soundproof casing. Nolan maintains that the resulting image retains a quality superior to that of any digital production. In addition, the physical support adds another layer of demand. The celluloid tape had to be recharged every two and a half to three minutes, and a mirror system had to be installed so that the actors could see each other around this bulky device during filming. This celluloid also advances horizontally through the projector using a technique called rolling loopand a single 45-minute roll can weigh 140 kilos and exceed 4,600 meters in length. Nolan maintains that, even when this negative is scanned to digitize it and adapt it to rooms with laser projectors, the resulting image retains superior quality to that of any production born in digital. This conviction explains his insistence on defending celluloid against the advance of digital tools, a position that he has maintained consistently throughout his entire career. All this technical demand has a very high cost during the exhibition process: only about 40 theaters around the world can project IMAX in its full combination of 70 mm and giant screen, and finding trained personnel to handle these prints is increasingly difficult in an industry focused on digital for almost two decades. Spain, despite having several digital IMAX theaters and with projection in traditional 70 mm, it does not have any that combines both technologies, so the Spanish public will have to settle for digital versions that crop the image to a more panoramic aspect ratio, losing some of the visual information that Nolan captured at the top and bottom margins of the frame. In Xataka | The brutal collection of ‘The Odyssey’ confirms that the most profitable franchise of the moment is not Marvel or DC: it is Christopher Nolan In Xataka | One theory says that Ulysses was held in Perejil. And that we owe the name of Spain to it

The Norwegian colony that has taken over a town in Alicante and even has its own constitution: L’Alfas del Pi

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Avenida del Albir smells of saltpeter and marinated herring. There is brunost in the supermarket, that curious brown Norwegian cheese. There are also bags of salmiakki, the Finnish salty liquorice. A blond man walks with a bunad accompanied by two others in T-shirts. The three of them are sweating buckets. Even a dental clinic has its sign in Swedish, but it is not a residential neighborhood in Oslo or Stockholm, it is L’Alfàs del Pi. It is an Alicante enclave of 20,000 inhabitants that operates as a Viking base, the twelfth Norwegian county, under the harsh sun of the Mediterranean. A demographic delirium. The National Statistics Institute marks little more than 21,000 inhabitantsbut almost 30% of the census comes from Norway. Let’s add another 20% between Finns, Swedes and Danes. Official figures fluctuate depending on the season: many residents do not register their municipal register for tax reasons (there are only about 2,5000 registered Norwegians). However, visual reality does not lie. There are runes and several shop windows of local real estate agencies that ignore the euro and value villas directly in crowns. On the Costa Blanca. And here May 17 is celebrated with devotion. Because this day is celebrated as Norwegian Constitution Day. The party paralyzes the town and thousands of people parade through the central streets. Blonde children wave their flags and marching bands play the national anthem. The Spanish mayor, Vicente Arques Cortés, politician and educational psychologist, delivers institutional speeches in perfect Norwegian. Without them, “there would only be olive trees, almond trees and goats,” resume in which is, along with London, the largest colony of Nordic subjects on the planet. A diplomatic link of eight centuries. Already in the 13th century, King Haakon Haakonsson ‘the Elder’ traveled to Spain to marry his daughter to Philip, infant of Castile, fifth son of Ferdinand III and brother of King Alfonso X the Wise. According to the story, in the end the princess fell prey to melancholy for living so far from her birth home. His remains lie in the Collegiate Church of San Cosme and San Damián de Covarrubias, which gives rise to the pilgrimage route of San Olav. That marriage sealed one of the first great diplomatic ties between the Scandinavian kingdoms and the Iberian Peninsula. Princess Christina of Norway never adapted to the climate, the language or a Castilian court radically different from the fjords where she had grown up. He died just four years after arriving in Castilla, at only 28 years old. Their pain sealed a relationship that there will be those who consider began with the retirees of the Costa Blanca. Mafias and violence. In return, the event pages of L’Alfàs del Pi have a separate space. Because, apparently, they don’t just import peaceful retirees, they also attract outright terror. In this small Scandinavia, the Swedish and Norwegian mafia clans control a good part of the European drug trafficking from here. It has been known for a decade that clubs like Den Norske Klubb They are “problematic”. The bikers of Hells Angels They established operational bases in Alicante years ago and control a good part of the nightlife. Million-dollar money laundering schemes are still being investigated. To the recent news of sale of vapers for minors or the 17 people arrested by a criminal gang that stole jewelry at gunpoint is added to all that hashish that arrives in speedboats from Morocco, or the cocaine that enters through the ports of Valencia and Algeciras. Scandinavian organizations buy merchandise on Alicante soil. They then send it to northern Europe through complex logistics networks. Live and die without speaking Spanish. He Europol Report (SOCTA – Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment analyzes the expansion of Scandinavian criminal networks in southern Europe and concludes that “drastic measures” are required. Organized crime brings fresh blood and settling of scores. And the Home Office has published several crime balances of the UDYCO (Drugs and Organized Crime Unit) on this social problem. The Norwegian Costa Blanca Club, the Norwegian school, the monumental Protestant church and other services have been established so that the Norwegian resident can live comfortably without needing to pronounce a single word of Spanish, as happens in Fuengirola with the FinnsTorrevieja with its concentration of Russians and Ukrainians u Orihuela with the thousands of british that houses An oasis for good and bad. The vast majority of Norwegian residents are part of a community that has been settled for decades. Movies like ‘Luger‘ (2025) flirt with an idea that too often is just pure xenophobia. They have cultural associations such as the Volunteer Center-Frivilling, schools funded by Norway, sports clubs, press in their language, specialized shops and social life that has disrupted the local economy. The heat, and not only that of the sun but that of coexistence, explains why the municipality continues to be a reference for Scandinavian emigration in the Mediterranean. However, the municipality is also a victim of that other side. Local agents, for example, collaborate daily with Kripos, the Norwegian national police, which has already uncovered cases such as the network that operated paying with monero tokens. The Nordic noir, not as cold, but just as calculated in the palm-lined streets of L’Alfàs del Pi. Over the past few years, police helicopters have mapped the thermal signatures of the crypto mining farmsused to finance crime. 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Leroy Merlin reduces this portable air without works with which to alleviate the heat waves this summer (and also the cold of winter)

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If you are looking for a quick way to air-condition your home without getting into construction trouble or having to call installers, Leroy Merlin has just reduced one of those air conditioning devices that not only saves you the summer, but also the winter. It is about the Equation Cool&Heat 9K portable air conditionerwhich you can buy today for 259 euros. EQUATION Cool&Heat 9k 2236 fg/2150 kcal heat pump portable air conditioner The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A 4-in-1 penguin ideal for any time of the year The great advantage of this portable air conditioner It is its enormous versatility. We are not looking at the typical noisy device (it is not silent, mind you) that ends up collecting dust in the storage room as soon as September ends. By integrating a heat pump systemthis device is capable of becoming an efficient heating system for the winter months. To this, we must add its functions of fan (ideal for sweltering but not extreme days) and dehumidifierwhich makes it a key ally to combat environmental humidity that makes the thermal sensation at home much heavier and more annoying. with his refrigeration capacity of 2,236 frigoriesit is perfect for medium-sized rooms and another of its great assets is its philosophy Plug & Play. Forget about having to call an installer or drill holes in the wall; You just have to place the device near a window, place the hose with the sealing kit included and connect it to the power to start cooling any room in your home. Furthermore, having a compact design, multidirectional wheels and integrated handles, you can easily move it around the house according to your needs, keeping the living room cool during the day and moving it comfortably to the bedroom at night. This portable air conditioner comes equipped with a very intuitive LED display and a remote control so you don’t have to get up from the sofa or bed when changing the mode or speed of the air flow. It also incorporates a Night Mode and a 24-hour programmable timer. ⚡ IN BRIEF: offer for Equation Cool&Heat 9K portable air conditioner today ✅ THE BEST Zero installation complications: You save community licenses, technicians at home, drilling walls and hundreds of euros in labor. It’s just arrive, unfold the window kit and plug it in. Use 365 days a year: The inclusion of a heat pump prevents the device from being a useless “junk” during the winter, guaranteeing the return on investment throughout the year. ❌ THE WORST Sound level… As in all portable air conditioners, the compressor is inside the device itself and not on the façade, which generates a continuous noise level (between 50 and 65 dB) that can bother light sleepers. Efficiency compared to a fixed split… Although it cools quickly and directly, it consumes a little more energy than a fixed inverter system to maintain the same temperature in the long term. 💡 BUY IT IF… You live for rent. It is the definitive solution if your landlord does not allow work to be done or if you do not want to invest money in a property that is not yours. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You need absolute silence in the room to fall asleep, the constant hum of the compressor can be uncomfortable at night. You may also be interested EVVO Clima Silent – Portable Air Conditioner up to 14000 BTU with Heat Pump The price could vary. We earn commission from these links INFINITON | Portable Air Conditioner | PAC-S10 | 3000 Frigorias 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 | Webedia and Leroy Merlin In Xataka | Silent ceiling fan: which one to buy? Tips and recommendations In Xataka | Best portable air conditioners 2026. Which one to buy and six recommended penguins

Spain has won the World Cup. Good luck finding the exact video of that moment you want to see again.

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Spain is world champion again. And one of the questions that struck me this morning was how complicated it is, paradoxically, to find specific moments from this 2026 World Cup as opposed to how easy it is to locate those from the 2010 World Cup. It is a question that has nothing to do with the scoreboard but with how the Internet has evolved. In 16 years… will it be as easy to find the moments of 2026 as it is now to find those of 2010? The panoramic. In 2010, YouTube was the home of online video. Any recording of the South Africa final, made with TV or mobile cameras, ended up uploaded there, indexed on a platform designed to locate specific videos, with title and date. In 2026 that exercise is more difficult, and that difficulty is going to get worse. The video no longer lives in one place, now it also lives on TikTok, on Instagram, in private accounts, in stories that disappear after 24 hours, in whatsapp groups that never reach the search engine. Why is it important. We assume that we record and share more than ever, so we assume that everything is archived somewhere. It’s not like that. A fan records the goal from the stands with his cell phone, uploads it to TikTokgoes viral, a TV cuts it out for its news citing the source… and there the trail ends. That video may never make it to YouTube. The account that uploaded it may be private. It may not be easy to locate later using the TikTok search engine. And there may never be a record of that shot anywhere else. Between the lines. All platforms have become video platforms, but each one has a different purpose and editorial line, and that makes finding something specific a more complex task. Or impossible. It is a phenomenon similar to what has happened with text search, although for different reasons: content and communities have been divided into fragments that do not communicate with each other. The rise of newsletterscommunities locked in Discord or Telegram, etc. A centralized search engine indexes text designed to be found. An ephemeral video app indexes immediate attention, but not long-term memory. They are opposite design goals. Yes, but. For the occasional user it is much more difficult to locate moments in this atomization. For the user hooked on specific platforms, it is not so much because they know how to navigate them and know where to look within each one. That means that the problem is not only technological, but also one of skill and time invested in learning the logic of each application. And now what. In 16 years, someone will want to see moments from this World Cup, like the anthem played by tubas, or Ferran’s goal recorded from a very specific seat. If that video never reaches a platform with an archiving vocation, that person will find an empty space. The collective memory of that World Cup will largely depend on editorial decisions that none of the platforms involved took with the archive in mind, but rather with the minute in which that video retained attention. In Xataka | Shy of the world, we are losing the Internet Featured image | FIFA

An ancient necropolis in England has revealed what was Rome’s great weapon in Britain. And it has little to do with his army

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The Roman Empire was forged with swords, strategy and hordes of legionaries, but the eternal city had an even more effective resource than its military power: its magnetism. Sometimes, before the soldiers, what reached the future conquered territories was the commercial influence of Rome. The clearest example has just been offered to us by Essex, United Kingdom, where archaeologists They have found a necropolis with several copper vessels, amphorae, nails, brooches and even a delicate molded glass bowl, an exclusive piece. The important thing, however, is not so much the ‘what’ as the ‘when’. Experts believe that those pieces that tell us about a connection with Rome are prior to the invasion of Britain in 43 AD, so they reveal a previous cultural, diplomatic and economic contact between both worlds. What has happened? What archaeologists have discovered an ancient necropolis south of the United Kingdom which confirms that, before the Roman invasion of 43 AD launched by Emperor Claudius, the region was already permeable to the influence that came from the other side of the English Channel. It is a key detail because it tells us both about the Iron Age in modern-day England and about Rome’s ability to extend its cultural influence beyond its military power. What have they found? A cemetery near Chelmsford, Essex. When excavating the area, researchers from UCL Institute of Archeology They located the cremated remains of more than a hundred individuals buried there about 2,000 years ago. To be more precise, the tombs appeared in an area surrounded by a ditch and, according to expertsdates for the most part from the 1st AD, so it “marks the transition towards Roman domination in Great Britain.” Why is it important? As they delved deeper, the archaeologists saw two clearly differentiated types of graves: there were the most common ones, which numbered in dozens and basically consisted of urns with the remains of the deceased; and then a handful of burials were identified that, due to their characteristics and decorations, reveal a higher social status. There are only five, but they have been revealing. Revealing why? Because, in addition to cremated remains, funerary trousseau was deposited in the tombs that reveal the social status that the deceased had enjoyed in the East Anglia of the Iron Age. Experts located vessels made of copper, ceramic wine amphorae, horseshoe nails, brooches and even a detailed molded glass bowl, an exceptional piece as it is probably one of the first to arrive in Britain. And is that important? Yes. Because of its origin and (above all) the history it suggests to us. “These exceptional grave goods are likely to reflect diplomatic contacts and economic exchanges between Iron Age peoples in Britain and the Roman Empire, which were already taking place before the Roman conquest of 43 AD,” reflect Angus Forshaw, one of the experts leading the UCL Archeology excavations. In the case of the amphorae, Forshaw believes they may have arrived in Britain filled with wine for local elites. As for the bowl, he believes that it was probably “a very prized personal possession” of the deceased, which is why it ended up in his grave. “The period surrounding the Roman conquest was a time of immense political and cultural change. These burials could have been a way for different Iron Age communities to signal their identity, their power and their supposed loyalty to Rome,” duck Samara King, from Archeology South-East. And now what? There is still a lot of work ahead. The experts of Archeologym South-Eastt are in charge of cleaning and analyzing in detail the different objects extracted from the necropolis. They also examine the Essex site and its dozens of tombs to learn more about the people who were buried there, especially those who occupied the most elaborate tombs. In principle, experts believe that the burials have certain parallels with others located in the area that are reminiscent of cremations discovered in Stansted and Stanway, as well as sites in Hertfodshire. Furthermore, its focus is not only on the graves. Excavations have revealed more Iron Age structures, including three previously unknown settlements with their moats, cultivation and wells spread over 11 hectares. Images | UCL and Wikipedia In Xataka | 90 years ago, archaeologists in Mexico encountered the greatest enigma of pre-Hispanic America: a Roman head

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