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These are the best offers from the new AliExpress promo

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When it comes to finding good deals and discounts on technology, one place worth checking out is AliExpress. This marketplace usually has promos periodically where it is not difficult to find mobile phones, tablets or other devices at very good prices. That’s just what’s happening right now with their promo. Radiant Discounts. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links We have these offers active until May 22 at 11:59 p.m. It is true that AliExpress usually has a lot of discount coupons, but this time there are only a few. We have made you a selection of five offers and in all of them we show you which coupons you can apply to get these devices at the best price: nintendo switch 2 by 403.39 euros with the coupon ‘ESSS14’, a good purchase opportunity before the price rises. Xiaomi Redmi Pad 2 Pro by 184.31 euros with the coupon ‘ESSS14’, a tablet with very good quality-price. Realme 16 Pro Plus by 356.84 euros with the coupon ‘ESSS14’, a device that stands out for its 7,000 mAh battery. POCO X8 Pro by 258.74 euros with the coupon ‘ESSS14’, a Xiaomi bestseller. Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro by 254.26 euros with the coupon ‘ESSS14’, a smartwatch with autonomy for up to 21 days. nintendo switch 2 We start with a device that is usually the star of all AliExpress promos: nintendo switch 2. This console has hardware that significantly improves on the first console, since it already allows you to play at 4K when we connect it to the dock. Furthermore, it is a very good time to buy it because the price will go up in september. comes out for 403.39 euros with the coupon ‘ESSS14’. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi Redmi Pad 2 Pro If you are looking for a cheap and simple tablet, this one Xiaomi Redmi Pad 2 Pro It is a very interesting option. Its price right now is great (it costs 184.31 euros with the coupon ‘ESSS14’) and in exchange we will get an Android tablet with a 12.1-inch screen and 2.5K resolution that is ideal for both reading and watching movies on the couch. It has a 12,000 mAh battery with which we will have enough autonomy for a full day and, in addition, it has four speakers compatible with Dolby Atmos. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Realme 16 Pro Plus He Realme 16 Pro Plus It has everything to be one of the best mid-range phones of the year. It is a device that stands out for coming with a 7,000 mAh battery, with which we can go two days or more without charging the phone. In addition, it has a 6.8-inch AMOLED screen that has very high brightness and looks great. comes out for 356.84 euros with the coupon ‘ESSS14’. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links POCO X8 Pro And if we talk about the best mid-range phones, it is difficult not to also take into account the POCO X8 Pro from Xiaomi. This device also has a large 6,500 mAh battery and has a MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Ultra combo and 8 GB of RAM that ensure quite good performance. The best thing, without a doubt, is the price at which we can get it: 258.74 euros with the coupon ‘ESSS14’. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro If you want a new smartwatch and your priority is autonomy, this Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro is for you. Its battery lasts up to 21 days, which is truly amazing compared to other watches on the market. Beyond that, it is also a watch that will help you monitor your workouts, your health or your sleep. It also has a very good screen with a peak brightness of 3,000 nits, so you can see it well even if sunlight hits it directly. comes out for 254.26 euros with the coupon ‘ESSS14’. 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 | Xataka, Nintendo, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme In Xataka | Best mobile phones in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and nine recommended models In Xataka | Best tablets in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and seven recommended models

Spain is going from pre-spring weather in one week to “African heat” in the next

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It’s been cold. The first half of May has been marked by negative thermal anomalies of up to 10 degrees below normal, but that is over. According to the modelsthe entry of an anticyclonic ridge of Saharan air is going to revolutionize the Spanish meteorological situation in a matter of days: on Friday the 22nd the forecasts indicate July highs. We are talking about 36-37 °C in the Guadalquivir and Guadiana valleys, more than 30 in the entire southern half of the peninsula and, keep an eye on the data, the first tropical nights of the year. I mean, things are getting serious. What is the news? The protagonist of this week’s story is once again the polar jet. However, instead of a cold air mass, the undulations of the jet will place a warm African ridge above our heads. The process It will begin on Tuesday the 19th and will last until at least the 22nd.. After Friday, the models mark the appearance of a DANA in the Cantabrian Sea; However, it is too early to say precisely. What is going to happen? Let’s go in parts: Between Monday the 18th and Tuesday the 19th It is going to recover progressively. 30 degrees will appear on Tuesday in the Ebro valley, the interior of Murcia and the southern half of the Valencian Community. He Wednesday 20 The 30 will arrive in Madrid, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha, the interior of Andalusia, the Region of Murcia, the Ebro valley and the interior of Catalonia. Sevilla will score 33-34 without problems. He Thursday 21 in the Guadiana and Guadalquivir valleys 34-36 °C will be reached. 36 are expected in Seville, 35 in Badajoz, 34 in Toledo and 32 in Madrid. He Friday the 22nd All of Spain will be above 30. Only the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Galicia and Asturias are spared. That day we will experience the first tropical nights of the year on the southern plateau and the Guadalquivir valley. That is, the thermometers will not drop below 20 degrees. Is it something strange? Yes and no. What’s interesting about this episode It’s not the heat itself.. We have already seen Mays like this recently. What is interesting is the magnitude of the swing: we are going from anomalies of -10 °C to anomalies of +10 °C in a single week. And this is something that neither the human body nor crops assimilate easily. Image | BenBaso In Xataka | The Gulf Stream is dying. Someone’s idea to solve it dates back to the 1950s: closing the Bering Strait

How to create a pack of Chibi stickers from your photo with Gemini or ChatGPT and then use them on WhatsApp or wherever you want

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Let’s explain to you how to create a “Chibi” style sticker packthat Japanese style in which a face is caricatured with a big, adorable head. Let’s do this using artificial intelligenceand a prompt that you will be able to use both Gemini as in ChatGPT. Once you have generated your sticker packall you have to do is cut out each one of the image and use it as you want. For example, you can use the methods we have told you to convert any image into sticker directly on WhatsApp. The positive part of the prompt that we are going to tell you is that it will make you a series of stickers defined with pre-established expressions that you will be able to edit together with the prompt. And although it was created by OpenAI for ChatGPT, you can use it by hand both in this and in any other AI that generates images, such as ChatGPT. Create a sticker pack from your photo To create a sticker pack from your photo, you first have to upload a photo in which your face can be seen well and your features. If it’s a selfie, better, because then the AI ​​can use your features to compose the pack. Once you have attached your photo to the ChatGPT and Gemini writing field, write the following prompt. You have to send both things at the same time, the photograph and the prompt. The command to use is the following: Using the uploaded photo, create a pack of adorable, illustrated chibi stickers. Clean white background, vertical format with a thick white border. Create various tender expressions: laughing, crying, sleepy, surprised, confused, eating, grumpy, cute expressions… Each expression must include a tender text, for example: Good morning! Whatee? / Huh? / I remind you! / What a dream / Wow! Approved! / Brilliant! / Hey, you! Achís! / Angry! / Huh??? / Good night :3 / Too cute / Am I cool now?! Once you send the image along with the prompt, AI will create a set of stickers from your photograph, and it will put them all into a single image. Now all you have to do is digitally cut out each one and use it to generate your sticker for your messaging app. In Xataka Basics | How to create a character in ChatGPT and Gemini to use it in all the images you make with artificial intelligence

Ukraine has opened the missile that devastated kyiv. They have found 100 reasons to be angry, and not exactly with Russia

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In 2014, after the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, international investigators spent months reconstructing fragments metallic weapons scattered among fields and roads to identify the weapon responsible. One of the biggest surprises was not just the missile itself, but the enormous amount of information that they could reveal small pieces seemingly insignificant. Ukraine has been “surprised” for some time by what is inside Russian war technology, but the latest perhaps exceeds anything seen before. The 100 components that should not be there. It we have been counting with numerous intercepted drones and missiles by kyiv, but the latest “unboxing” has set off alarms. The reason? When the Ukrainian teams they began to analyze the remains of the Kh-101 missiles that had hit residential buildings in the capital, they hoped to find Russian technology, perhaps Chinese parts or improvised systems to avoid sanctions. What they found was much more uncomfortable for the West: more than one hundred components manufactured by American and European companies inside each missile. Chips, microelectronics and systems produced years after sanctions began, including from this same 2026continued to appear in some of the most advanced weapons in the Russian arsenal. For Ukraine, the discovery has ended up generating a particularly bitter sensation: the missiles that they devastate the cities Ukrainians continue to partially depend on technology designed and manufactured by the same countries that support kyiv militarily. The Kh-101 is mounted on pylons The great crack of sanctions. He Kh-101 case is revealing one of the biggest problems of modern technological warfare: sanctioning does not necessarily mean cut off the supply real. Russia continue accessing to Western microelectronics through re-exports, intermediaries, opaque distributors and commercial networks that are extremely difficult to control. Some pieces even arrive from china as clones or compatible copies of Western designs. The result is that Moscow has achieved maintain and expand its missile production despite economic isolation. Ukraine maintains that many of the components found were fOpened in 2024 and 2025years after the sanctions packages that were supposed to strangle Russian military capacity. The feeling in kyiv is that there is a huge difference between announcing restrictions and making them actually work. The missile that Russia does not stop perfecting. Yes, because the Kh-101 has become a of the central pieces of the Russian air campaign. Launched from strategic bombers and designed for long-range flights at low altitude, Moscow has multiplied its production since 2022 to levels far above those before the invasion. But also, Russia is continually modifying the missile to make it more difficult to intercept. Ukraine assures that the new versions incorporate anti-interference improvements, more sophisticated navigation systems, double charges reducing fuel and even fragmentation munitions with zirconium elements to increase damage. kyiv continues to intercept a good part of them, but each new development forces spend more resources defenses and demonstrates that Russia maintains sufficient industrial capacity to sustain a prolonged technological war. The Western Paradox. Also it we have been counting. The history of the Kh-101 reflects, one more timean extremely uncomfortable contradiction for Europe and the United States. As the West delivers anti-aircraft systems, intelligence and economic aid to Ukraine, part of the global technology industry it keeps leaking towards the Russian military machine. In practice, some Western companies may end up seeing their own chips end up inside the missiles which then force the use of expensive Patriot or NASAMS interceptors also financed by the West. That paradox explains much of the Ukrainian frustration. For kyiv, the problem is no longer just Russia, but the inability of global trade chains to prevent critical technology from ending up feeding the Kremlin’s military production. The industrial war of the 21st century. He analysis of the remains The attack on kyiv is also leaving a deeper conclusion about how modern wars work. No great power today manufactures advanced weapons completely isolated of the global market. Missiles, drones and guidance systems depend of an international network of microelectronics, software and components extremely difficult to control. Russia has shown that even under massive sanctions can still access much of that global technological infrastructure. And Ukraine has discovered something equally disturbing: that in the wars of the 21st century, open a missile enemy is no longer only useful for studying its military technology. It also serves to discover to what extent the connected world continues feeding indirectly the war he is trying to stop. Image | Office of the President of Ukraine, Russia MoD In Xataka | Russia has been advancing at a snail’s pace in Ukraine for months. That’s about to change because of one season: summer. In Xataka | The war in Ukraine has entered such a crazy phase that soldiers are shooting at their own drones

Bandai Namco has presented its financial results and there is an anime that has given them more money than ‘One Piece’ and ‘Dragon Ball’

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Neither ‘Dragon Ball’ nor ‘One Piece’. The anime that has given the most money to Bandai Namco in its last fiscal year will be a whopping 47 years old in 2026, and it is not associated with fantastic adventures for all audiences, but with plastic models that have little to do with pirate ships and the nonsense of the Monkey King. In fact, for a time it was considered a mere niche for collectors. The annual results that the company made public on May 13 reveal a figure that rearranges the ranking in a surprising way. The top. ‘dragon ball‘ and ‘One Piece‘are the most commercial franchises in Japanese entertainment; an idea that seems to have settled in the heads of fans with implacable firmness. However, the Bandai Namco’s latest financial results They deny it: ‘Mobile Suit Gundam‘ is the company’s most profitable intellectual property, with 254.3 billion yen in total group sales. ‘One Piece’ registered 139.3 billion and ‘Dragon Ball’, 138.0 billion. That is, there is a distance of 115 billion yen between Gundam and its most direct competitor in Bandai Namco, a figure that is approximately equivalent to 730 million euros. The nuance. Important and significant: Bandai owns ‘Gundam’ directly. ‘Dragon Ball’, ‘One Piece’ or ‘Naruto’, on the other hand, are intellectual properties that the company exploits under license: the complete rights belong to their authors, publishers and studios. Therefore, although the benefits for Bandai Namco from the licenses are astronomical, they do not fall one hundred percent on the company, as is the case to a greater extent with ‘Gundam’. That is, we do not have to read this Bandai ranking as an absolute list of global popularity. What is this due to? surprise? In 2022 Bandai Namco released ‘Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury’ (you can watch it on Crunchyroll), first ‘Gundam’ with a female protagonist. As confirmed then by the president of Bandai, Masaru Kawaguchi, the gunpla (name given to the models of the series) of the Gundam Aerial broke the initial sales record in the history of the franchise. Fiscal year 2023 ended that year with 131.3 billion yen for ‘Gundam’, the highest historical figure up to that time. SEED arrives. The next step was ‘Gundam SEED Freedom’ in 2024: film-sequel to a cult 2002 series of the franchise. You can see it on Netflix (and the series on Crunchyroll), and grossed 5.38 billion yen at the Japanese box office, becoming the franchise’s most popular film in its more than four-decade history. The 2025 financial year closed with ‘Gundam’ earning 153.5 billion yen, still below ‘Dragon Ball’ that year but already establishing the trend. The trigger: ‘GQuuuuuuX’. The final leap came with ‘Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX’. The bizarrely named series was co-produced by Sunrise (the historical studio of ‘Gundam’) and Khara, the studio of Hideaki Anno who made ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’, and which made a previous film version on January 17, 2025. Result:more than 3 billion yen at the box office and 1.8 million viewersthe second highest-grossing film in the history of the franchise, only surpassed by the aforementioned ‘SEED Freedom’. The world premiere of the series on Prime Video definitely impacted the numbers: only in the first quarter of fiscal year 2o25 ‘Gundam’ creceived 81.2% compared to the same period of the previous year. The power of synergy. Unlike other companies like Disney, which usually focus on a main launch (series, movie) around which secondary businesses sprout (merchandisingvideo games), Bandai Namco has been applying for years what they themselves call “IP synergy”: a model that coordinates releases of anime, video games, merchandisingphysical events, collectible cards, all supported with the same strength. ‘Gundam’ is the latest and most perfect example of that strategy. In this way, for example, in fiscal year 2026 the ‘GQuuuuuuX’ series, the expansion of the model lines, Premium Bandai launches and the Gundam Next Future Pavilion at the 2025 Osaka World Expo, an event for which Bandai is responsible for much of the growth. Bandai Namco believes that its toy and model arm, which has grown 12.9%, is the leader of all the company’s business segments. Another primary difference with the company’s North American and European counterparts. In Xataka | The 26 best anime of all time and where to watch them

What they are, what frauds can reach you from unknown numbers and what you can do about it

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Let’s explain to you What it is and what you can do about spam on WhatsAppdifferent types of fraudulent advertising and scams that can reach you from unknown numbers through this application. So, if we didn’t have enough with SMS spam, now it seems that it is also happening in this other application. This is a growing trendand we are going to start by telling you how this type of fraudulent messages work, so that you know the way of those who use them to send you spam or even online scams to steal your data. Then, we will tell you how you can try to combat these types of messages. How this type of messages works We have already become accustomed to receiving spam calls of various types, especially fraudulent calls. Obviously, our emails are also full of fraudulent messages, and it is common for there to be SMS fishing campaigns. Now, there is a new trend that is that these fraudulent messages reach us through WhatsApp. It is about messages we receive from unknown numbers. These messages have everything from fake job offers to fake messages from your supposed bank, to supposed family members with financial problems and more. The attackers’ idea is to communicate by an app that we consider something more personal like WhatsApp, and play with our feeling that if it is a message through this application it must be from someone who knows us. This greater credibility that we give to WhatsApp messages is what scammers use to try to make us fall into their traps. And how do they get our WhatsApp? Well, it’s simple, every year there are many massive leaks of service data, and these may include our phone number. They can also directly buy it from those typical half-unknown websites where you can register and give your number, and then they do business with their users’ data. Once scammers obtain phone numbers of hundreds of people, they begin to send massive WhatsApps. Same as SMS spam, but within the WhatsApp app, because your account there is linked to your phone number. What can you do about it? The best advice we can give you is do not give away your data happily to any application or web page. It is very tempting to register on unknown pages or applications that we come across from time to time, and also others where they may be doing a promotion or giveaway. Here, note that the more services you put your data into The more likely it is that these will end up being used for bad purposes. Therefore, try to reduce this habit of registering to sites as much as possible, and use common sense when registering on pages or applications, especially those less known. It is true that possibly by the time you read this you will have already registered on several sites, but that does not mean that you cannot try to decide to start taking better care of your data from now on. And for when data and account leaks are unintentional, I recommend that you change your passwords periodically. Thus, if your username and password are leaked from a web page, it will be easier for them to not be able to enter it and obtain other personal information about you or steal your account. And finally, the most important thing: never trust a WhatsApp that comes to you from an unknown number. Treat these messages like SMS or emails, never trust them because if a company does it, it is possibly a scam, and if it is someone who claims to be a person who knows you, try to ask them questions about various things that only you and that person can know.

TSMC is focusing on the lucrative AI industry, so Apple is looking for a new girlfriend. Found it at Intel

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In 2023, Apple completed its transition and made all Macs in its catalog work with its Apple M-series chips. It was the end of a relationship that began in 2005, when Steve Jobs announced the transition from IBM PowerPCs to Intel chips. Then things went wrong and Apple ended up separating itself from Intel in its products, but once again there has been an interesting twist of the events. Intel does not know how to be a foundry. The integration of the Apple M1 in 2020 was the real beginning of a logical strategy: Apple wanted to design its own chips for its Macs as it had already done in its iPhone or iPad, and the result was extraordinary. The curious thing is that Apple negotiated with Intel to manufacture the iPhone chips, but Intel rejected the opportunity. When Morris Chang, founder of TSMC, asked Cook why he hadn’t chosen Intel to make those chips, responded “Intel just doesn’t know how to be a foundry (chip factory)”. TSMC turns to AI. The relationship between Apple and TSMC has been one of the most important in the semiconductor industry. TSMC makes virtually all of Apple’s advanced chips, from iPhone processors to Mac M chips. That dependence, however, has become uncomfortable for two reasons: Chip shortage: The rise of AI has made the demand for this type of chips extraordinary. TSMC is prioritizing customers with the highest volume and margin in the most advanced nodes, and there Apple competes with NvidiaAMD and other manufacturers looking for 2 and 3 nm chips. Geopolitics: 90% of the world’s advanced chip production is in Taiwanand any escalation of existing tensions with China could paralyze the supply chains of Apple and the vast majority of technology firms on the planet. Diversifying manufacturers is therefore a strategic necessity. Intel gets interesting. It is true that Intel is not the only alternative that Apple was exploring, and Samsung was another candidate to work closely with the Cupertino firm. However Intel has a first important advantage with the 18A nodeits next-generation manufacturing process that experts consider comparable to TSMC’s 2nm process. Apple has been considering this node for entry-level M chips for months. Intel will not be manufacturing Apple’s most advanced chips at the moment, but this is a potential first step so that it can be verified that Intel can indeed accomplish the task and then also manufacture its most ambitious designs. Lip-Bu Tan turns the tables. Intel’s new CEO took over in early 2025and since then the company has taken promising steps when it was in a situation really worrying. has reached agreements with Nvidia to develop x86 chip sets with RTX graphics, for example. It also collaborates with Tesla to manufacture chips with an even more advanced node14A, for Elon Musk’s future TeraFab. Preliminary agreement. Official details of the deal are not yet known, but in The Wall Street Journal they claim that said agreement exists although it describes it as preliminary. It is not currently clear which chip or chips Intel will manufacture or in which photolithographic process. It is expected that the 18A node will be used for those entry-level M chips, but it is not ruled out that the 14A will not be part of this new commercial relationship. Be that as it may, if the agreement is closed as it seems, we would be facing a definitive boost to this new strategy of foundry traditional approach—manufacturing chips for third parties—that Intel is adopting. The circle closes. Intel lost the contract for iPhone chips because it refused to manufacture them for not having enough marginand thus passed up the opportunity to be a de facto partner in probably the most lucrative product in the history of technology. He then tried correct the errorbut he didn’t succeed. Then Intel would lose the Mac chip business, which would be another major setback. Now it seems to be taking flight again, and its promising future—along with other factors—have made Apple want to work with it again. It seems that Intel, after all, is learning to be a foundry. Image | Fortune CEO Initiative In Xataka | The US’s problem in the AI ​​and humanoid race is not China: it is all of Asia and it is greatly disadvantaged

I have tested the Logi Dock, the combination of USB-C hub, speaker and microphone for video calls. It’s a sum that makes a lot of sense.

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I have been working from home for nine years. It wasn’t long ago that I realized that my laptop, a 2021 MacBook Prois the answer to a question that no one has ever asked me: “what do you want, power or flexibility?”. I answered flexibility, but I didn’t know until it was too late. The MacBook Pro is always on the table, but sometimes it also travels or I take it to the cafeteria when my head demands a different environment. It is a desktop computer that from time to time has to go outside. Logitech, who knows a lot about peripherals and how we work, has understood this very well. The Logi Dock is not just a hub of ports to compensate for the fact that recent laptops are not as generous in ports. It is a value proposition that goes beyond: it is an operations center that stays on the desktop while the laptop comes and goes. One USB-C cable to connect everything when you arrive, one to disconnect everything when you leave. That, in practice, has a higher value than what appears on a specification paper. Behind the dock there…: HDMI 2.0 (4K, 60Hz, HDR). DisplayPort 1.4 (4K, 60Hz, HDR). 2 USB-A (USB 3.1 at 5 Gbps). 2 USB-C (USB 3.1 at 5 Gbps) 1 extra USB-C on the side with 7.5W fast charging. and USB-C upstream dedicated to 100W for the laptop. All in a single connection strip that you never touch again. What it does not have is Thunderbolt, Ethernet or card reader. View of the ports of the Logi Dock. A side USB-C is missing, designed primarily for charging the mobile phone. Image: Xataka. There’s that USB-C on the side. Image: Xataka. Immediately the most important question about this product appears, which deserves a completely honest answer. A hub USB-C generic costs between 30 and 80 euros. This dock right now it costs from 276 euros on Amazon. What justifies paying five or ten times more for the Logi Dock than for a simple hub USB-C? That’s the gist. The short answer is that it depends on whether you need what’s extra, not whether you appreciate what’s equal. Ports are ports. What sets the Logi Dock apart from any other hub random are two things: the speakers and the microphone. And that changes the equation… for a specific user profile. In my case, I have had it connected to the MacBook Pro M1 Pro and the Huawei MateView 28 inches. Keyboard, mouse, Scarlett 2i2 interface with the Rode PodMic for the podcastand charging the laptop at 100W. A cable from the Mac to dock. Everything resolved. I start with what does not have a hub anyone and it does have the Logi Dock: the speakers. My Huawei monitor has a built-in speaker that does the bare minimum. And those on the MacBook, which stays closed to one side, are “trapped.” With a hub Generic would have solved the connectivity, but not the audio: the Logi Dock provides good speakers and a microphone designed to not sound boring during video calls. The buttons are designed to be used as quick access during video calls, and also to join them directly with Logi Tune. Image: Xataka. Image: Xataka. The Logi Dock’s 55mm drivers with their side-mounted passive radiators produce full-bodied sound, some bass, and enough clarity to listen to music while working. It is not an audio monitor. But it doesn’t pretend to be either. In the video calls in which I have used them, giving up the headphones, the microphone beamforming six capsules works well. My interlocutors do not complain and background noise is reasonably attenuated. The real argument for the Logi Dock is not that it is the best at anything, but that He’s good enough at everything at once. The texture of the fabric mesh, in macro photo. Image: Xataka. Three months of use have also shown me where it is weak. No Thunderbolt, no Ethernet, no card reader… The touch buttons on the top panel work fine, but calendar integration via Logi Tune is the most dispensable part: with the Mac you already have your notifications, and join a meeting with a tap on the dock It is a shortcut that in practice you almost never use. It sounds like a function forced in to reinforce its proposal and better justify its existence. In my opinion that value is not there. What you do use, every day, is the most difficult to quantify: the absence of friction. He dock It’s been plugged in for months and has never given me a single problem. does not ask drivers to reinstall or annoying updates, the ports work well and there is no audio that is lost when waking the Mac from sleep. Is it worth paying five times more than a hub generic? If your desktop already has good speakers and a microphone, or if you simply prefer using headphones, probably not. Buy the hub cheap and you will save. But if in your case the Logi Dock becomes the only real speaker on the desk, the microphone in meetings and the only cable that connects and disconnects the laptop every day, then the comparison is no longer with a hub of 60 euros. It is with “a hub “more speakers, more microphone, plus the convenience of everything coexisting without conflict in a single block.” And that last comparison is won by the Logi. Featured image | Xataka In Xataka | The Nike Mind 001 are the strangest shoes I have ever tried. And that is precisely why they are being sold This device has been provided for testing by Logitech. You can consult how we do reviews in Xataka and our relations policy with companies.

has ended with closed stores, fights and tear gas

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In 2026 it is no longer strange see long lines of people who spend the night outside the stores of a certain brand waiting for the launch of one of their products. What is not so common is to see them at the doors of a youth watch store to a watch that costs 400 euros. Triple that of the average of their watches. The launch that occurred this weekend was not just any launch, what all that people who were waiting patiently at the doors of the shops I longed for the Swatch Royal Popa watch that emerged from the alliance between Swatch and Audemars Piguet, a Swiss firm whose royal oak from which this model is inspired, starts at 20,000 euros. Such a fuss has been made to achieve this, that even the police have had to use tear gas in some stores. Luxury watchmaking for generation Z Swatch has been partnering with luxury Swiss watch brands for years to bring haute horlogerie to a generation Z more familiar with smartwatches than with traditional mechanical watches. From there collaborations such as the MoonSwatch with Omega in 2022, with Blancpain and now with the prestigious Swiss manufacturer Audemars Piguet. According to published the medium of fashion and trends #Legendthe MoonSwatch series created by Omega for Swatch sold more than one million units in its first year and generated around $275 million in revenue. Given such success, the Swiss brand wanted to replicate the recipe with the Royal Pop by Audemars Piguetand get a “luxury” watch adapted to the taste of generation Z. The Royal Pop transfers that haute horlogerie aesthetic to eight pocket models with Swatch’s characteristic colors, at a price between 385 and 400 euros. A seemingly simple and affordable proposal to wear a luxury piece on your wrist that, however, has exceeded the capacity of Swatch stores from all over the world, to the point that the brand had to make a call for calm from their social networks. MoonSwatch with developed by Swatch and Omega Going for a 400 euro watch that already costs 2,500 on Wallapop The collection was put on sale with a restriction of one watch per person per day. That limitation, far from slowing down demand, triggered it. In Barcelona, ​​hundreds of people had been camping for days in front of the store and the Mossos d’Esquadra they had to intervene and order the closure of the premises. In Paris, the police used tear gas to control about 300 people, and in Milan there were fights between clients and security. The local press from Seville said that long queues also formed in the center of the city. According what was published by The Wall Street Journal, Most stores sold out in a matter of minutes and Swatch preemptively closed stores in the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe. A few hours after the launch, Royal Pop was already appeared on Wallapop for a resale price of between 600 and 2,500 euros, and on eBay some pieces were ordered for 17,000 euros. The dynamics of this second hand massive sale has been identical to that of the launches of limited edition sneakers or other exclusive products: buyers with knowledge of the market grabbed the first places in the queue days before their launch and bought and resold immediately, taking advantage of the shortage in the first units. According to collected Reason Whysome of those who were legitimately interested in the watch complained about the way in which Swatch had organized the launch: “What happened in the stores in Madrid is a shame. Zero security control, mafias sneaking people by the dozens into the first positions and zero concern for those truly interested in the watch and not in resale. It’s time to sell the collection and never touch a Swatch again,” declared one of the people waiting in line at a store in the capital. A success as a product, a failure as a brand The Royal Pop chaos is a case of success and failure at the same time. If you look up the definition of “dying successful” in a dictionary, a Swatch logo will appear. The collection created together with Audemars Piguet has been a resounding success and shows that Swatch’s recipe to try to attract generation Z to the world of luxury watchmaking is the right one. As and as they point out in Marketing InteractiveWith this strategy, both brands win because Swatch ensures large sales in the present, while Audemars Piguet positions itself as an aspirational brand for a new generation of potential. buyers in the future. The problem is that the management at the Swatch points of sale has been a disaster lacking any foresight, to the point of requiring the intervention of the police to avoid greater evils. This lack of foresight in such a strategic launch makes the customer feel reluctant to participate in the next campaign because they do not want to have to spend days camped in front of the store to get their unit, even more so when the product is targeted to an audience who, in the near future, aspires to wear an Omega, Audemars Piguet or Blancpain watch on his wrist. In Xataka | Some OT contestants did not know how to read a clock hands. Science has clues as to why it is becoming more common Image | Swatch

The Tartessian civilization is one of the great enigmas of the peninsula. Now he is revealing himself from a town in Badajoz

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Guareña is a town in Vegas Altas del Guadiana, Badajoz, with just over 6,600 inhabitants. Historians have long known that there, not far from the mouth of the Burdalo Riverit hides an archaeological sitebut its scope was not clear until just over a decade ago. After a first survey, in 2014researchers began to recover pieces and unearth structures that 12 years later have become a fascinating window to one of the most enigmatic peoples who inhabited the southwest of the peninsula: the Tartessians. Since then they have not stopped exploring the deposit (known as Casas de Turuñuelo) in search of treasures like the one that has just surfaced now, during its eighth campaign. What has happened? That we just found a new test (the umpteenth) of the enormous archaeological wealth of Turuñuelo Housesthe Tartessian site located in Guareña, province of Badajoz. Although the eighth exploration campaign started in late April and will not be completed until the end of May, the researchers have found a discovery that has captured the interest of media such as RTVE or Extremadura Channel. In recent days, both media have reported on the discovery of an altar in the shape of a bull’s skin, a characteristic piece of the Tartessian culture that joins another of the same style located during a previous excavation. The structure appeared in a hallway attached to what is known as ‘room 100’ of the site. When analyzing it in detail, the researchers verified that it still has remains of ashes from the sacrificed animals on it. Why is it important? For several reasons. One, it allows us to better understand how the Casas del Turuñuelo site was structured. Two, it confirms its enormous archaeological wealth and (most importantly) its usefulness for knowing the tartessiansthe civilization that prospered in the surroundings of what are now the provinces of Huelva, Seville, Cádiz and Badajoz between approximately the 9th and 5th centuries BC From the Guareña City Council remember In fact, the site is part of the Tartessian culture of the 5th century before our era and “stands out for being one of the most relevant enclaves of said civilization in the Iberian Peninsula.” Proof of its importance is that among the ruins of Casas del Turuñuelo they have been recovered the first reliefs of human faces from Tartessos, which among other things confirms that this ancient culture was not aniconic. Are they your only findings? No. Since surveys began in the area in 2014, the Guareña site has not ceased to amaze us, becoming a real box of surprises… and an archaeological treasure. This explains, among other things, that from the Institute of Archeology (CSIC-Junta de Extremadura) they will consider the creation of a work team with specialists from different disciplines and successive campaigns will be promoted. Only the first three allowed part of a majestic building with two floors, a patio and three rooms to be recovered. And what did they find? In one of these rooms (‘100’), a room of around 70 square metersthe first altar was located in the shape of a bull skin and a bathtub or sarcophagus located at the southern end, attached to the wall. Not only that. Archaeologists have rescued bone and ivory tableware and plates that once decorated a now-lost wooden box. Another area full of surprises is the interior patio, 125 m2, rectangular in plan and connected with a three-meter-high staircase. There archaeologists discovered remains of dozens and dozens of animals, probably related to sacrifices: at least 52 horses, four cows, four pigs and a dog. Bronze weights, unguent jars, remains of a Greek sculpture and bowls were also recovered in the same area. Is it a deposit further? The answer is again ‘no’. And not only for the enormous fascination that generates Tartessos. In just eight campaigns, archaeologists have obtained authentic historical jewels in Casas de Turuñuelo, such as the two ritual altars in the shape of bull skin or the sculptures of faces, “the first human representations of the Tartessian culture”, remember from the CSIC. The site also reserved for us an engraving with combat scenes on a slate plate, an alphabet from 2,500 years ago and the marble altar oldest Greek (at least among those known to date) from the western Mediterranean. Are there more surprises? Yes. As if that were not enough, the structures of the site also keep some secrets that make them unique. For example, part of the stairs that connect to the interior patio are made up of steps made from lime mortar ashlars. It may seem like a minor detail until you discover what it represents. the oldest example known throughout the Iberian Peninsula for “manufacturing lime in an anthropic manner”. The big question now is what treasures remain to surface in Casas del Turuñuelo. Images | Building Tartessus, Junta of Extremadura and CSIC In Xataka | Almost 2,000 years ago a Celtiberian soldier visited the most remote frontier of the Roman Empire. Then he returned to Soria with a souvenir

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