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The US has invested 16 years and 8 billion dollars in renewing the software of its GPS network. Result: a failure of epic proportions

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The Next-Generation Operational Control System project (OCX) was going to modernize the constellation of the United States’ more than 30 GPS satellites. The company RTX Corporation (previously known as Raytheon) managed to win the project in 2010 with a budget of 3.7 billion dollars. The project was supposed to be completed in 2016, but in reality the US has spent $8 billion and 16 years later has an absolute disaster on its hands. 16 years of broken promises. In 2010 the iPad had just appeared on the scene and cloud computing was a somewhat diffuse concept. The project of the US Government was reasonable, and proposed that the OCX system be operational by the time Lockheed Martin’s new GPS III satellites debuted. The development became a chaos of bugs and requirements changes, and to this day it is unclear when, if ever, it will be completed. In Xataka 90% of Iran’s oil industry depends on a tiny island. One that is already on the radar of the US and Israel A fortune invested. The financial management of the project is the first big disaster. The initial budget was estimated at 1.5 billion dollars, but since the award until today that figure has risen to reach almost 7.7 billion of current dollars, to which another 400 million are added to support an improved version of the satellites, the GPS IIIF. This increase is not due in large part to the project suddenly being much more ambitious or more capable, but rather to the costs of having been fixing everything that has gone wrong since they started working on it. Software costs more than satellites. Every time software fails an integration test, the bill runs into tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. That has made the OCX system one of the most expensive and least efficient software projects in recent US military history. In fact, it far exceeds the cost of the satellites themselves that it had to control: the 22 GPS III satellites of the contract signed in 2018 have a budget of 7.2 billion dollars. Satellites of the future controlled by a fairground shotgun. Currently the United States has a fleet of GPS III satellites in orbit capable of emitting much more powerful “M-code” signals and interference resistantsomething that among other things allocates them especially for military applications. The problem is that since the OCX software not workingthey are managing them with control systems inherited from the 90s. It is as if we had a VHS video connected to watch movies on an 8K Smart TV: the potential is there, but one of the components is an absolute bottleneck. {“videoId”:”x8wlh9q”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”United States vs. China: The CHIPS WAR”, “tag”:”webedia-prod”, “duration”:”1611″} The cybersecurity nightmare. One of the big problems of this project has been the cybersecurity requirements. OCX was designed to resist cyberattacks from powers such as Russia or China, but that requirement has become a spectacular technical burden. Pentagon standards have evolved so quickly that they have not been able to be adapted to an architecture that begins to become obsoleteand covering successive patches is locking the system in a complex vicious circle: the software is never finished because more and more vulnerabilities appear. Failed tests. The latest report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has been the final straw. During the tests the system again showed once again instabilitywhich has forced the final delivery to be delayed to the end of 2026 or even 2027. Frank Calvelli, of the Air Force, has expressed his dissatisfaction with that unacceptable management of private industry: the strategic advantage that this project should offer at a time like this is inaccessible due to the disastrous progress of the project. It’s not that difficult. for a long time the excuse for justify the delays was that OCX was “the most complex software ever created for space,” but other players in the sector have shown that achieving these types of technical milestones is possible. SpaceX has demonstrated this with technical “miracles” like its reusable Falcon 9 or with the development of Starship, for example, so those arguments are falling on deaf ears now. Waiting for a better GPS. These problems also affect us end users, who will not be able to enjoy the L5 signals for now. This much more robust frequency will significantly improve accuracy in urban centers with many tall buildings. The irony is tragic: we cannot use extraordinary space infrastructure because the base stations cannot cope with it. While waiting for the problems to be resolved, the learning is clear: the software cannot be a monster that takes 16 years to build In Xataka The GPS in the Baltic has been experiencing interference for months and the culprit is becoming increasingly clear: Russia And while as always, China. While the US crashes against its project to renew the GPS constellation, China has once again managed to “become independent” from Western technology. Your satellite navigation system Beidouit does not replace GPS, true, but It already complements it in 140 countries. Once again China’s long-term view has its obvious result: it has taken 20 years in deploying its constellation, but they already surpass the GPS system in metrics such as signal availability or integrated messaging services. Europe, by the way, also has its own alternative. In Xataka |GPS “dead zones” are spreading around the world: jammers are to blame for confusing drones (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news The US has invested 16 years and 8 billion dollars in renewing the software of its GPS network. Result: a failure of epic proportions was originally published in Xataka by Javier Pastor .

The world trembles over Hormuz oil while ignoring what feeds 50% of the planet

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Geopolitics has a curious tendency to make us focus our attention on a specific point and not look at everything around us. With the scale of the tension in the Strait of Hormuzall eyes were on crude oil and the price of gasoline; However, experts warn that fertilizers are also in the spotlight. And the reality is that its collapse can cause a lack of food in our crops, since the vast majority depend on it. An invisible engine. Although the world seems to have forgotten about the fertilizers that arrive through the Strait of Hormuz, the reality is that we can affirm that humanity cannot exist without organic chemistry. And it is no wonder, because more than half of the food produced worldwide is available thanks to mineral fertilizers, as the IFDC points out. If we go further, the studies point out that nitrogen fertilizers Synthetics sustain the diet of almost half of the world’s population. And the worst of all is that, without this mineral contribution, global harvests will be directly reduced by half, so we are not talking about a product that improves performance marginally, but rather we are talking about the pillar of a food system that supports 8 billion people. A bottleneck. In this context of absolute dependence, the media focus is paradoxical. International attention and logistical surveillance focus almost exclusively on fossil fuels, ignoring the fact that fertilizers are a highly concentrated industry and closely linked to natural gas. But organizations like UNCTAD and media like EFE they have put figures to disaster by estimating that a third of global maritime fertilizer trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz. This means that logistical interruptions in the Persian Gulf directly affect millions of tons of agricultural inputs, which for the UN It is undoubtedly a major impact on global food security. There are no reservations. In recent weeks we have seen how different governments have announced with great fanfare the release of thousands of barrels of oil in national reserves. A strategy that has been built in recent years to be able to cushion this type of geopolitical shocks, but with fertilizers there is no such thing. It has consequences. The analyzes of the experts point out in this case that the interruption of the fertilizer chain has a full impact on the field, since any interruption has a full impact on the bank. Here both the FAO and the World Bank They have been warning for months that the suspension of shipments from the Gulf can skyrocket food prices almost instantly, severely affecting countries that depend on food imports. But the problem is that right now there is a significant lack of infrastructure, since we are seeing that the sector is dominated by a few players such as Russia, China, India and the United States. This, added to the shortage of long-term storage networks, makes us think that the price of food may suffer a large increase in the coming weeks, as well as have a bad harvest of 2026. Measures to alleviate it. The Government of Spain recently approved a new text that, in addition to lower energy-related taxesalso opted to inject money into the primary sector. In this case, direct aid was offered to partially compensate for this increase in fertilizers with the aim of ensuring that the increase was not transferred entirely to the shopping basket. Images | James Baltz Jonathan Cooper In Xataka | You’ve probably never heard of urea. The missiles in Iran are destroying their production, and that will affect your food

Whoop is already worth 10 billion and wants to be your doctor

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Whoop just closed one $575 million Series G which values ​​it at 10,000 million. Among its new investors there are profiles that contextualize this company well: the Mayo Clinic, the sovereign fund of Qatar, LeBron James and Cristiano Ronaldo. Capital, health and sports. Quite a declaration of intent about what market Whoop is serious about. Between the lines. The market for elite athletes has never been worth $10 billion. Whoop knows this and that’s why it has been transforming for years: hired its first medical director in 2022obtained authorization from the US FDA to record electrocardiograms, integrated blood test analysis (forgive the redundancy) into its platform and has gone from selling bracelets to selling subscriptions of between $149 and $359 a year that combine hardware with health services. The bracelet is the hook. The personal health platform is the business. And it’s getting clearer. The money trail. With 2.5 million active subscribers and reserves that exceeded $1 billion in 2025, doubling those of the previous year, Whoop was not in any financial emergency, it did not need this money to survive. It needs it to scale: the 575 million will finance an international expansion throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Persian Gulf, and will almost double its current workforce of 800 people with 600 new hires. The logic is that of any subscription company that has found a fit between its product and the market: grow before someone else does. Yes, but. The road is full of corpses. In recent years we have seen the birth, growth and fall of Pebbleto Jawboneto fitbitalso to other examples of independent hardware beyond health, such as Human AI either Magic Leap: The consumer hardware sector has destroyed capital with remarkable efficiency. And Whoop doesn’t play in a quiet niche: the Apple Watch is the wearables best seller in the world and includes increasingly advanced health functions, Xiaomi and Huawei are breathing down your neck, and Google still has Fitbit although Your future only passes through the Pixel Watch. Additionally, Whoop cannot yet compete with the sports market that requires a screen to view exercise tracking (Garmin, Suunto, Coros, etc). Competing against companies with ecosystems of billions of users and enormous balance sheets is a peculiar gamble for a Boston startup, no matter how well funded it is. But no one can take away from him what he has achieved so far, which is a lot. The big question. Whoop’s answer to that problem is the same as any company that can’t win on generic hardware: specialize until comparison is impossible. His recent integration with Soaak Technologieswhich uses the bracelet’s real-time physiological data to adjust sound frequency compositions to the user’s state, points in that direction: building a third-party ecosystem that makes switching platforms increasingly expensive. The goal is not to be the best-selling bracelet, that is a lost war. It is being the health platform to which the most things are connected. Go deeper. An IPO is on the table. In November, its founder, Will Ahmed, spoke about the possibility of this operation over a two-year horizon. With 575 million fresh in, Whoop can afford to wait for the right time, wait for a quieter time than this warlike spring of 2026, and show up when it has more users, more recurring revenue, and a fuller story to tell. The question is not whether it will go public. It will come out. It’s whether the market will continue to believe in those 10 billion when that time comes. In Xataka | The Nike Mind 001 are the strangest shoes I have ever tried. And that is precisely why they are being sold Featured image | Whoop

How the TUR rate continues to be the great refuge for consumers

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In a macroeconomic context where the word “inflation” continues to make headlines and the Third Gulf War threatens energy stability, Spanish households receive an unexpected respite. Starting this Wednesday, April 1, 2026, the Last Resort Rate (TUR) for natural gas will experience a drastic reduction that will lower the bill for more than three million families. The long-awaited descent. The individual rate without taxes will decrease on average by 16.6% regarding prices set last January 1. This fall consolidates the regulated tariff not only as the most economical option on the market, but as the great protective shield against the energy crisis for domestic economies. The good news isn’t just for individual households, however. Homeowner communities and energy service companies will also notice the relief. The neighborhood TUR will register cuts in its variable term that will range between 10.8% and 16.7%, depending on the consumption segment. All this is supported by the Official State Gazette (BOE). In its resolution of March 27, 2026, the General Directorate of Energy Policy and Mines certifies the new prices. Thus, the monthly fixed term is 3.93 euros for TUR 1 (only cooking and hot water) and 8.11 euros for TUR 2 (which includes heating), with variable terms of 3.82 and 3.61 cents per kilowatt hour, respectively. So how does it affect my pocketbook? To translate it into real euros, we have the analysis of expert platforms that have analyzed the official data. According to Sergio Soto, energy expert Roamsfor an average home in Spain with gas heating (the usual TUR 2) and a consumption of about 660 kWh per month, the approximate cost will plummet to 37 euros per month. “The new revision represents a saving of about 7.16 euros per month for an average household,” explains Soto. To put it in perspective, this same receipt was around 46 euros at the end of 2025 and 44 euros in the first quarter of 2026. For their part, the simulations developed by the experts of Papernest They allow us to see the impact depending on the type of family: Households with low consumption (up to 3,000 kWh/year): They will go from paying about 18.23 euros in January to 15.11 euros in April (a saving of more than 3 euros per month). Households with average consumption (about 9,000 kWh/year): They will see their bill fall from 48.32 euros to 39.54 euros per month (almost 9 euros in savings). Households with high consumption (about 20,000 kWh/year): The drop is notable, going from 101.40 euros to 82.43 euros (almost 19 euros of monthly respite). The small print. That gas fell by 16% while the price of a barrel of Brent has risen by 4% and the euro has appreciated slightly against the dollar seems like a magic trick, but it responds to three very specific technical and political factors: The “lag effect” of the market: Sergio Soto details that the regulated rate is reviewed quarterly and is based on an average of the gas costs in the wholesale markets of the previous months. In other words, the TUR does not reflect today’s volatility, but yesterday’s calm. This system acts as a buffer, allowing consumers to now benefit from gas that was purchased at a good price before the war. The end of winter: The TUR’s own methodology has an ace up its sleeve in April since the seasonal gas component disappears. During the winter, the calculation includes a surcharge because demand skyrockets. When spring arrives, that factor is eliminated, and the price begins to depend exclusively on the “base gas.” This simple mathematical adjustment makes the raw material cheaper by 16%. The real hero. As the study of Papernesta household can save almost more due to tax decisions than by lowering the gas itself. Royal Decree-Law 7/2026 extends extraordinary conditions fundamentals: VAT at 10%: It will be valid until June 30, 2026. This means that if we had the usual VAT of 21%, the reduction for an average customer would not be 16.2%, but a discreet 7.8%. (Or as they calculate in Roamsthe average bill would not be 37 euros, but 40.50 euros). Hydrocarbon tax: It remains at the legal minimum allowed (€0.00108/kWh). The zero-cost canon: The BOE expressly collects that a storage fee of zero euros is applied for reservations that exceed 20 days of consumption. This fee at zero cost will be subsidized by the state with 45 million euros, directly impacting downwards the variable term that we all pay. A real descent, but with spring nuances. The data is resounding, the official documents support them and the analysts agree: the regulated gas rate has suffered a spectacular drop. However, you have to apply a dose of realism when looking at the mailbox at the end of the month. As they conclude from Papernestthis reduction comes into effect on April 1, just when the Spanish begin to turn off their radiators. This means that the gas drop comes when it is least consumed. In the short term, the real day-to-day savings will be less noticeable because, simply, we will use many fewer kilowatts than in January or February. However, the medium-term impact is undeniable. Understanding our rate, monitoring our consumption and being attentive to the expiration dates of tax reductions (like that June 30 for VAT) is vital for the financial health of the household. Although the international context continues to hang in the balance, the conclusion is unanimous: today, the regulated market (TUR) continues to be the safest and most profitable refuge to light the stove and heat the water in Spain. Image | Photo by Henry Kobutra on Unsplash Xataka | Until now, every bus in Spain belonged to its father and mother: the Government wants them to be more like the AVE

A Huawei router was not supposed to need a whopping 12,000mAh. It was supposed

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Earlier this month, Huawei held its HarmonyOS Smart Home event in China. An event in which, mainly, it presented to the world some of the home devices that it is preparing to continue advancing as a brand (mainly in China) during 2026. Among the devices presented, one of the most curious (and most covered) was the Huawei WiFi Xa very curious portable router with a gigantic 12,000mAh battery. What is. With its unusual X shape, the Huawei WiFi X is a portable, foldable router with an arrangement of 16 antennas that, according to the company, improves reception by 13% compared to conventional ones. It allows 5G connection and has been developed jointly by Huawei and China Mobile, supporting speeds of up to 5.3 Gbps download and 1 Gb upload. what else. Another of the key points of this router is its 1.8-inch screen, with OLED technology. This shows real-time information related to the battery level, number of connected devices, and is complemented and connected with the Huawei home app to be able to check this data from the phone. The Powerbank. This device has a gigantic 12,000mAh battery with 66W fast charging. Figures that are more reminiscent of a PowerBank than a wireless router. According to Huawei, it can transmit uninterruptedly for 20 hours, and with just 10 minutes of charging, for nine. Why is it important. Beyond the curiosity of the X design and the huge battery, Huawei boasts of being a benchmark in the WiFi 6 router industry. It has a system of four receiving antennas and four sending antennas (4×4 MIMO), low latency, and direct association with China Mobile, key in its native country. It also has interoperability with HarmonyOS. Huawei long ago left its system behind as a mobile-only solution, to create a complete software ecosystem that even powers routers. This is a device, in principle, aimed at China. However, the company has previously brought to Spain quite peculiar routers such as the Mesh X3 Pro system, a WiFi 7 with a theoretical speed of 3,570 Mbps and a 2×2 MIMO system. In Xataka | After six years of silent planning, Huawei is ready with its big move: dethroning NVIDIA

A crew member of the International Space Station lost his speech and NASA does not know why

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Last January, four astronauts had to leave the International Space Station early due to a medical emergency. At the time it was pointed out that it was due to the health problems of one of the astronauts. However, at no time was it clarified which of them it was, in order to preserve their privacy. Over time, NASA has dropped some new data in dribs and drabs. Now, we know who it was and why, but the cause of his illness remains a mystery. The facts: At the beginning of January, NASA announced the cancellation of a space walk that astronauts Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman should have done. Just a few hours later, the imminent return to Earth of the entire Crew 11 was announced. That included both Fincke and Cardman as well as Kimiya Yui, from the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) and Oleg Platanov, from the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos). The return trip was planned to take place in February, but it finally took place on January 15. At that time, NASA had not yet announced which of the crew members was sick. It was only noted that he was stable and that he would have to undergo more tests. Without words in space. Shortly after that mysterious medical emergency, NASA announced that the sick astronaut was Mike Fincke. However, at that time he still did not provide information about the illness that led him and his companions to return home early. Now, finally, we know what happened. As stated by Fincke himself in statements to the mediaon January 7, while eating with his companions, he realized that he could not speak. Thanks to the quick intervention of his colleagues and the remote support of NASA doctors, he was immediately stabilized. However, it was urgent to return to Earth to perform the relevant tests. The episode has not been repeated and it has been ruled out that it was a heart attack or stroke. More tests. Fincke will possibly have to undergo more tests so we can find out why he temporarily lost his speech. However, he himself has reported that NASA suspects that it could be an effect of his stay in space. For this reason, the medical records of other astronauts are being reviewed, looking for an episode similar to theirs. space brain. Living in space can affect your health in many different ways. All organs are susceptible to the effects of microgravity. In the case of the brain, It has been proven that it can even move inside the skull. It is not known for sure what could have happened to this NASA astronaut. However, it seems quite likely that his medical emergency was for this reason. And now what? If all goes well with Artemis II, NASA hopes to travel to the Moon more and more regularly and even build a space base there at some point. Other companies, like SpaceX, have the same dream. Therefore, it is vital to study how microgravity or cosmic radiation can affect the health of future colonizers. All astronauts of Crew 11 Astronauts on the International Space Station have been testing these types of events for a long time. What has happened to Fincke at the moment is a mystery, but logically it is something that must be taken into account. What happened to him will have to be investigated to prevent it from happening again, whether on the International Space Station, on the Moon or at any other point in outer space that humans reach. Image | NASA | Unsplash In Xataka | Spanish technology in the return to the Moon: the system designed in Madrid that NASA will use in Artemis II

How to create simple Claude Skills to have your personalized version of artificial intelligence

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Let’s explain to you how to create your own Claude Skilland thus have a personalized version of the artificial intelligence from Anthropic. The Claude’s Skills They are a series of instructions that you can upload to a chat so you don’t have to repeat them every time you want to give a specific compliment. Let’s start the article by reviewing what exactly the skills of Claude. And then, we are going to tell you step by step how to create a skill in the simplest way possible. What exactly are Claude’s Skills? Skills or abilities are a system with which you can create Claude customizations. With them, you can add a command layer to the generic versionand thus be able to use a version of the AI ​​adapted to what you want. A skill is an encapsulated procedurethe way to tell Claude how to perform specific tasks, under what conditions and with what rules you want him to do it, without having to repeat these instructions in every conversation. Imagine that you use Claude to repeatedly do specific tasks. Every time you want to do one of these tasks in a new chat you will have to describe what you want, something that can be tedious, especially when the instructions are longer and more complex. Skills allow you to encapsulate these instructions, so that when you activate one, these instructions are implicit in what you ask of it. When you write the prompt, Claude will first read the ability and take into account what you ask of him there. For example, imagine that you like to analyze the SEO of something you write about. So, every time you go to ask for this analysis you have to give the instructions to Claude, but If you load a Skill you do not need to give the instructionsand you can simply activate it and write the text you want to analyze. How to create your own Skills To create your own Claude skill, you need to open the AI ​​and click on the section Personalize that you have in the left column. Remember that Skills are a paid function. When you click on Personalizeyou will access two different options. On this screen, you must click on the option Skills that will appear next to the connectors. You will enter the Skills page, where by default you will see several examples of those created within Claude himself. Here, click on the + button above, and in the menu that opens choose the option Write the instructions for the skill to create one in the simplest way. This will take you to the screen where you will have to fill out the three fields necessary to create your Skill. You will have to give it a name, instructions and a knowledge base in the event that the latter is necessary. Three fields to define your new Skill The first thing you have to do is give your skill a name. This is the distinctive name it will have, and with which it will appear in your list of created Gems. It is recommended that it be a clear and distinctive name. The name will appear as if it were a file, with hyphens instead of spaces and in lower case. Then you will have to specify description. It’s a short description that will appear overlaid when you mouse over it in the skills list. Therefore, you have to write a short summary of what you do. Claude will look at your skills in each prompt you write, to use it in case he detects that you have referred to one of them with the task you have asked of him. That is why it is important to have useful and direct information in the name and descriptionso that both the AI ​​and you can distinguish what each one is for. Then comes the most complex part, because you will have to write detailed instructions of skill. This is the most important step, because it serves to define the role, tone and rules that this automation must follow. You have to specify everything you can when you are going to write these instructions. These are some of the most important aspects to include in the instructions when you go to create your Skill: Personality: You will have to say what their role is, the character they should play and the tone they should use. For example, you can ask them to act like a rigorous but friendly college professor, or a light-hearted, Reels-focused content writer. Whatever you want, but this personality is important to define to establish behavior. Objective and rules: It is also equally important to specify what the main task of the Gem is, and what rules to use. For example, you can say, “Your job is to review the texts to find spelling and grammar errors and improve the structure,” for example. You can also say things like “Never talk about topics other than…” to make him focus on that specific task. Format: This is optional, but you will also be able to define the structure of the answers. For example, you can ask that I always start with a summary and then list in several points, or whatever you think is necessary. In the end, the point is to define a response structure that is useful and in line with the tasks you want this Gemini customization to perform. If you don’t clarify by writing the instructionsyou have the option of using Claude himself to help you write them. To do this, open the AI ​​in another browser tab, and in a chat ask it to generate instructions for creating a Skill, adding a couple of instructions from which to start. And that’s it. Once you have created a Skill, all you have to do is choose it from the menu from Claude’s new chat. You will have to press the + button, go to Skills, and choose yours. Once … Read more

the mathematics of the crisis no longer add up

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We have been in the Third Gulf War for a month and what everyone feared has happened: the WTI barrel has broken the $100 barrier. It is normal for panic to spread. Experts get tired of repeating that, if we add inflation, in previous crises things looked worse. Okay, they’re right. But the drama right now isn’t what’s ticking on the quote screen. The problem is that there is no raw physicality. The ships do not arrive, the inventories are emptied and, no matter how much we stretch the numbers, the mathematics of oil has been blown up. A chasm of 8 million. The reality of the current oil market is summarized in a subtraction that continues to produce negative balances. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led to the immediate loss of 20 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil and refined products. So far, the market has managed to absorb this blow, but the accounts are clear and terrifying: after exhausting the first defense shields, the world faces a net deficit of approximately 8 million barrels per day. To put it in perspective, that figure exceeds the combined consumption of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. The mirage of temporary patches. If the world has lost a fifth of its oil and gas supply, why haven’t we seen a total collapse from day one? The answer lies in a series of emergency “patches” that, although effective, have an expiration date. According to Bloombergthe market has been protected by several layers of cushioning. The first has been the diversion of routes: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been quickly redirected part of its exports through pipelines that bypass Hormuz to exit through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Oman. The second has been the record release of 400 million of barrels of the strategic reserves of the member countries of the International Energy Agency. Furthermore, the United States temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil that was stored in ships on the high seas, injecting more crude oil into the market. The efforts are finite. As energy analyst Javier Blas explainsthese joint measures have managed to absorb 60% of the loss of supply (about 12 million barrels per day). But the reserves are empty. As Paola Rodríguez-Masiu, chief analyst at Rystad Energy, warned: “The system has gone from being cushioned to being fragile.” The black hole is not going to stop, because the escalation does not let up. An Iranian drone recently attacked to the Kuwaiti supertanker Al-Salmi, fully loaded, in the same anchorage area of ​​the port of Dubai, showing that no vessel is safe. Besides, as reported exclusively The Wall Street JournalPresident Donald Trump has told his advisers that he is willing to end the US military campaign without reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The administration assesses that forcing the sea lane to open would extend the military mission beyond its planned time frame of four to six weeks. We enter “demand destruction.” For Washington, the strait is a bigger problem for Europe and Asia than for the United States. With no new supplies in sight and reserves running out, the market has only one way out, and it is the most painful of all: demand destruction. If there is no oil for everyone, someone has to stop consuming it. The impact will be brutally uneven. How to analyze Financial Timesdeveloping economies are the first to fall. Unlike advanced economies, which rely more on the service sector, the developing world depends on manufacturing that is highly energy intensive. When prices rise, rich countries simply pay more and hoard available cargoes on the spot market, leaving poorer nations in the dark. Rationing has already begun. On the Asian continent, the lack of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Middle East is forcing machinery to stop. In fact, the blockade has already exploded the myth of LNG as a “bridge fuel”, forcing Asia to burn coal in desperation and resurrect nuclear energy to avoid a large-scale blackout. Pakistan has closed schools to save energy, the Philippines has experimented with shorter work weeks, and across the region, fertilizer, steel and ceramics factories are shutting down their kilns. But the energy shock will not stay in that part of the world, but it is traveling towards the West. Europe faces an imminent shortage of diesel – the fuel that powers the global economy – in the coming weeks. If the Strait of Hormuz remains closed until the second quarter of the year, oil could skyrocket to $200 per barreltriggering a stagflation shock (high inflation with economic stagnation) not seen since the 1970s. The final verdict. A month into the crisis, the consensus in the energy industry is terrifying: the world has not yet understood the gravity of what is coming. Government tools to cushion the blow have been exhausted. As Mike Sommers confessedCEO of the American Petroleum Institute: “The playbook is pretty empty right now.” The crude oil does not flow and the mathematics is exact. There is a shortage of 8 million barrels a day in the world. As Jeff Currie crudely summarizedformer director of Goldman Sachs and current strategist of the Carlyle Group: “The main message is that the energy transition is going to be imposed on us in a very painful way and that it is going to happen very quickly.” That is to say, the leap towards a world without oil will not come in a planned and orderly manner, but rather through blackouts, inflation and the forced closure of industries. There are no longer valid patches; The global market is about to crash into a wall of physical scarcity. Image | Unsplash and Unsplash Xataka | That there are dozens of A-10s heading to Iran suggests something: the US has rescued its most “brute” plane for an impossible mission

a TCL QD-Mini LED TV with Dolby Atmos and a beautiful

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MediaMarkt continues to add more and more offers in its outlet found on eBay, and many of the devices we can find are brand new, so they are not used or reconditioned. It is the case of the TCL 50C6KSa smart TV that 389 euros It has a good technical sheet. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, Google TV… The TCL 50C6KS is a smart tv QD-Mini LED that can now be found in the MediaMarkt outlet for a fairly reasonable price. It is a completely new TV, so as the store itself mentions, it is unused, unopened, undamaged and in original packaging. The TV stands out mainly because it comes with a QLED panel that is compatible with both Dolby Vision as HDR10+so that you can enjoy the high-quality content offered by streaming services. In this case, it has a 50-inch screen with a 60 Hz refresh rate and, of course, offers 4K resolution. Internally it comes with a pair of speakers that offer a combined power of 30W, and the audio system is compatible with Dolby Atmos. Your operating system is Google TVso you have access to a large number of apps, and it comes with a Game Master mode dedicated to video games. ⚡ IN BRIEF: TCL 50C6KS offer today ✅ THE BEST bgood value for moneyespecially because of how complete its image and sound sections are. Your operating systemwhich allows you to download a large number of apps. ❌ THE WORST Yesu refresh rate which remains at 60 Hz, so you will not take advantage of features, such as 120 Hz, of the current generation consoles. 💡 BUY IT IF… You are looking for a balanced television that allows you to have a good experience playing video games, but above all watching movies and series. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You want to get the most out of your PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series and you are looking for a television that offers a refresh rate of 120 Hz so that the television looks much smoother. You may also be interested Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus, compatible with Wi-Fi 6, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos and HDR10+ The price could vary. We earn commission from these links TCL Q65H 5.1 Channel Sound Bar for TV, 580 Watts, Home Theater, Surround Cinema Sound, Sound Expansion, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, Bluetooth 5.3, HDMI eARC, Single Remote Control, USB 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 | TCL In Xataka | Best home theater projectors. Which one to buy and five recommended models from 299 to 18,000 euros In Xataka | Mega-guide to set up a home theater: projector, screen, sound system and more

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