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Who should host Pope Luna’s skull

August 25, 2025 by usatoday24

In life Pedro de Luna y Gotor (1328-1423), Aka Benedict XIII, Aka Pope Luna, was a figure as fascinating as controversial. However attracted that it was his life (and it was) what probably never imagined the famous “Antipapa” Aragonese is that with the passing of the centuries his skull would end up starring in a worthy story of a Thriller of Dan Brown and facing two villages that have been throwing in A legal pulse to clarify who deserves to host the relic. Now that story writes a new chapter. What happened? That incredible as it may seem, Pope Luna, a character who died more than 600 years ago, is starring in a heated legal dispute Between two Aragonese villas: Illueca and Sabiñán. The two locations are separated for 15 minutes by car and together do not reach 3,500 neighbors, but when it comes to Pope Luna they maintain two postures in an irreconcilable appearance: both claim to be the place of legitimate rest of the remains of the “antipapa”. Why is it news? The lawsuit between Illueca and sabiñán on account of Pope Luna’s skull, which is the little that is preserved from his body, is nothing new. Both locations They have been Battleing to clarify which of the two you have the most right to be the resting place of the skull, something that already led to the fact that in 2023 To the Superior Court of Justice of Aragon was pronounced in favor of the Consistory of Sabiñán. The novelty, like He has just revealed The Aragon newspaperIt is that the Illueca City Council does not seem willing to give up and has hired a lawyer to reopen the process. To achieve this, it proposes to submit a new demand, something that, as the regional newspaper progresses, will happen In September. What do you argue? What he resolved does plus two years Aragonese justice is that Pope Luna’s relic belongs to the Sabiñán City Council. Now Illueca focuses on his claim from another angle and argues that the key is not in whom he is the legal owner of the remains, but what was the original will of the “antipapa”. “We are not going to instigate the judge to say who is the owner of the skull, but to say who can better fulfill the will of Pope Luna’s descendants,” Comment to The newspaper Jorge Español, the lawyer signed by Illueca. It is not the first case on heritage that reaches your office. Spanish already became famous for defend to the City of Sijena in front of the Generalitat. And where does the dispute come from? To solve that question before, you have to know the peculiar (and attributed) history of the bones of Pope Luna. After his death in 1423, in Peñíscola, his nephew claimed the body and transferred it to the Castle Palacio de Illueca, the same town where the “Antipapa” was born in 1328. There, in his native villa, the bones of the controversial Pope Luna remained the following centuries until at the beginning of the XVIII ended up desecrated. It is said that Between 1701 and 1707 The French troops that supported Felipe V in the war of succession took the remains of his grave and that from the evil bones of Pope Luna only the skull was recovered, a skull fragment that moved to the Argillo Palacein Sabiñán. There it rested as many centuries until with the arrival of the 21st century the skull again starred in another truculent chapter. What happened? That in April 2000 someone stole the relic. The skull was guarded in a wooden urn located inside a chapel, but that did not prevent this spring for more than 25 years ago for two young people to loot it. The skull ended up hidden in a booth while the looters tried that the mayor of Illueca pay them a rescue of one million pesetas. The news of the robbery went around the world, but did not last too long. Months later the police recovered what was left of the head of the “antipapa”. To confirm that those bones were effectively those of the deceased Pedro de Luna underwent an exhaustive exam that included carbon dating 14 and a digital exam. The results were favorable and after years of analysis (and a trip to Florida through) the relic moved to the Provincial Museum of Zaragoza. In 2021 He returned to Sabiñán already with the label of good of cultural interest (BIC). To guard the remains It was conditioned The Chapel of Santa Ana of the Church of San Pedro Apóstol. And what is the situation now? It depends on whoever is asked. A few years ago justice confirmed that the relic is owned by the City of Sabiñán since He received it of the Olazábal-Bordiu, the family of the Palacio de Argillo. The truth is that this was the town where the remains of the “antipapa” rested between the 18th century and the theft of 2000. But Illueca sees things differently. Your lawyer remember that to understand the history of the relic well, it does not come with the 18th. It is time to go much further, to the fifteenth century, when the Aragon crown authorizes the transfer of the body to Illueca at the request of the Pope’s nephew, which, the town maintains, gives a track of what the desire of the relatives was. Why is it important? That the skull of Pope Luna is generating such a stir and in front of two neighboring villas is not explained only by its patrimonial value or as Bic heritage. The key is who was the protagonist of the story and the enormous fascination that continues to generate more than six centuries after his death: Pedro de Luna y Gotor, also known as Benedict XIII or Pope Luna, was one of the great figures of the end of the Middle Ages. He was proclaimed high pontiff in Aviñón, in 1394, … Read more

A VHS tape, an AI and eight seconds of audio. That is all a woman needed to recover her lost voice

August 25, 2025 by usatoday24

At some point from the 90s to a young Sarah Ezekiel they recorded her with a video camera and kept that recording In a VHS tape. In that little Sarah appearance he only spoke eight seconds, but almost three decades later those eight seconds have ended up being an incredible gift. One that He has returned his voice. Sara Ezekiel lost her voice in 2000, before smartphones became massive and allowed us, among many other things, to capture video easily. A motoneurone disease caused that both capacity and mobility in his hands lost just when he was going to have his second child, a child called Eric. As indicated in a BBC interview“I thought it would be fine, but after Eric was born, I quickly deteriorated.” In a few months he lost control of his hands, and shortly after he was incapable of any type of intelligible conversation. His marriage ended shortly after, and Sarah, in the care of his two children, found himself in a terrible situation. Eric, now 25 years old, just remembers his mother being paralyzed. Aviva, her 28 -year -old daughter, remembers when she realized that her mother was different. “I have that memory of asking him to prepare some strawberries and see that he was not able to cut them. He had to ask someone.” Five years after diagnosis, Sarah found A break Thanks to the Ocular monitoring technology. He could build words and phrases with the movement of the eyes, so that a voice synthesizer offered a synthetic voice similar to what for example I used Stephen Hawking. That was the beginning of a new life that adapted with joy. He became a volunteer of the association to affected by his illness, and painted again thanks to that same technology. And a few years later a small milestone began to take shape. The AI and the “miracle” of the cloning of the voice A company called Smartbox He had announced what was going to provide cloned voices Free for a million people at risk of losing their voice or those who had already lost it for diseases such as cancer or motorcycle. They asked Sarah a voice recording to rebuild her, but the only thing Sarah had was an old VHS tape in which they had recorded her daughter Aviva and in which she spoke just eight seconds. That recording was a disaster. Image quality was bad, but In addition the sound was distortedwith people mixing when speaking and a television sound at full volume. Simon Poole, one of those responsible for Smartbox, thought it would not be possible. However, Poole managed to isolate Sarah’s voice thanks to the Voice Isolator application of Elevenlabs, Specialized company in This type of solutions. The problem is that the result lacked intonation and personality, and also had a strange American accent. To try to solve it, he used another application trained with thousands of voices to fill holes of this type of recordings and that could help recover a voice like Sarah’s. After achieving a result that he believed appropriate, he sent several phrases to Sarah with his cloned voice. He called and heard her how Sarah, hearing those phrases, almost broke out to cry. One of Sarah’s old friends, who met her before losing his voice, was “impressed by how realistic he sounded.” His daughter Aviva said he was also impressed although he admitted that he had to get used to her. “Hearing her now daily still surprises me.” For Eric “it has made an incredible difference”, because that voice can also include an intonation that shows that your mother is cheerful or angry. Sarah misses her authentic voice, but as she said, “I’m happy to be back. It’s better than being a robot“ Image | Gabriel Petry | Ursula Castillo In Xataka | The AI was already able to clone voices and faces. Now also clon our way of writing

Taking the Chinese machines out of their factories

August 25, 2025 by usatoday24

TSMC and the US government have been stormy relationship for many years. Probably since this Taiwanese chips manufacturer, The Major on the Planetsnatched the leadership of the semiconductor production industry to Intel. “Our goal is to be number 1. Without exception. And to be it you have to spend three times more than your next competitor. ” Morris Changthe founder of TSMC, He pronounced these words In 1997. Intel dominated the chips industry. Currently the market share of this Asian company Broken 60% And in its client portfolio Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Broadcom or Qualcomm, among other US companies are sheltered. This is the reason why the US market is very important for TSMC. However, today This country cannot do without this company. Intel It has advanced lithography nodesbut the competitiveness of his Taiwanese rival is difficult to match. Even so, the Trump administration is exerting pressure on TSMC difficult to support. TSMC has decided to stop using Chinese machines in its avant -garde nodes He has just confirmed it Nikkei Asia. According to this means of Japanese communication, the TSMC Board of Directors has decided to stop using wafering processing equipment of Chinese origin in its most advanced lithography nodes. Its integrated circuit manufacturing plants are full of machines of the Dutch company ASMLthe Japanese Tokyo Electron and the American Apply materialsbut TSMC also uses Chinese equipment. TSMC is a customer at least of the Amyc and Mattson Technology companies Pulin Technology, Naura Technology, Amec (Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China), Mattson Technology or Piotech Inc. are some of the Chinese manufacturers of lithography equipment and most important wafering processing machines. TSMC is customer At least from Amec and Mattson Technologybut it seems that it will not be for a long time. The decision to dispense with their machines seeks to avoid possible US restrictions that could in interrupt the production of semiconductors. Until now the US government He is doing everything in his hand to prevent the most advanced chip manufacturing equipment from arriving in China, but, according to Nikkei AsiaHe is about to take another step. And it is that several US legislators led by Senator Mark Kelly have proposed to put a law that will prohibit companies that receive federal support and tax loans buy teams of “worrying foreign entities.” There is no doubt that they are very serious. Otherwise TSMC, which He has received subsidies of the US administration, I would not have made this decision even before Senator Kelly’s law thrives. More information | Nikkei Asia In Xataka | Intel was about to snatch Apple as a client from TSMC. Having achieved its story would be another

Having an AI browser that does things for you sounds good. Until a hacker uses it to steal all your money

August 25, 2025 by usatoday24

Ask the AI to make a summary of that article that you just saw in Reddit can be very expensive. It is what They just revealed Those responsible for Brave, who have discovered a surprisingly simple way to hack the browser of the perplexity comet to do not only what the user asks, but what an attacker has managed to convince him to do. The danger of leaving everything in the hands of AI is evident. What happened. Brave’s experts, a browser that competes with Chrome or Firefox and also has AI functions, wanted to analyze the risk of using an agetic browser like the one It offers perplexity right now with Comet. And what if they have done it. The browsers with ia promise a lot. Thanks to tools like Comet – Openai too has its chatgpt agentheir of Operator-, It is possible that the browser becomes a kind of digital butler and do things for us autonomously when visiting websites. Thus, you can summarize a news, tell you which song appears in that YouTube video, look for offers, answer emails or complete purchase processes. A priori the advantages are huge, but be careful, because there are also important risks. But be careful to let go of the steering wheel. However, delegating everything in the browser can raise a real threat to the safety and privacy of our data. If we trust them too much, these browsers may have access to all our data, since theoretically they will benefit from access to our email, but also to banking and financial data and even health. What happens if the amazing model or makes mistakes? Or worse: What happens if someone modifies the content in a malicious and invisible way for ia agents to follow malicious instructions? Having the AI. That is just what They discovered in Brave When trying a simple technique. They published a malicious comment on a Reddit thread, and then asked Comet to summarize the article. When they went to do it they verified how Comet did not know whether the content of that thread could or not contain malicious instructions: he simply met them and followed them. And in thread, as can be seen in the video, there were some simple instructions that stole the credentials of their perplexity account and even intercepted the verification code that the platform sent to the user to log in the service. Result: Automatic account by the attacker thanks to the AI. How the attack works. As Brave experts explain, the problem is that the way of hacking this type of browse is not hacking the browsers, but hacking the content, something that is very, very simple. The steps are the following: Configuration: An attack writes Malicious instructions in some content on the web. If you control that site, you can hide instructions using blank text if the background is also white, or in comments or other invisible elements. They can also do it directly “injecting” those instructions through comments in publications on social networks such as Reddit or Facebook. Activation: A user sails to that website and uses the browser with AI. If you do something simple as “Summarize this page“Or ask that certain information be extracted, these malicious instructions are activated. Injection: As the AI processes the information on the page, see those malicious instructions and follow them. It is not able to distinguish whether the content has a malicious purpose or not, and considers everything as part of what you should do at the request of the user. Exploitation: these malicious commands and instructions indicate to the navigator’s tools to perform various actions, such as navigating the user’s bank account, Extract stored passwords In the browser or collect information to a remote server controlled by the attacker. Possible solutions. Those responsible for the study indicate that to protect themselves from these types of problems, agricultural browsers must first differentiate between what the user has asked for and what the user content is. The content of a website “should always be treated as non -reliable.” In addition, the browser with AI should necessarily ask for the user’s interaction to perform certain actions, how to access passwords or perhaps send an email. Restrict permissions to the agetic browser and make good use of Two -step verification systems “With mobile applications such as Google Authenticator, for example,” are also adequate ways to mitigate a problem that can put in many problems the deployment of these tools. Outstanding image | Perplexity, Xataka with mockuuups studio In Xataka | I have tried day, the browser that replaces ARC and bets everything to AI. It hasn’t come out as expected

The return to the PcComponent school reaches big

August 25, 2025 by usatoday24

There is very little left to end August and start September with the return of classes and work, for many people. So, to take advantage of the return of the routine, PCComponentes offers very interesting discounts by Your campaign Tour of Colewith discounts of up to 40% in technological products such as computers, peripherals, components, office material and much more. Besides, offers payment facilitiessince you can buy the device you want through multiple methods for more comfort: card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Paypal, Transfer and Financing Options (Consult Web conditions). It also has additional services So you can put the installation of an operating system on your computer or have remote assistance to configure your smartphone. You still have time to find the laptop or desktop What do you need before classes or work begin, thanks to Flash offers. Given that You can choose from a selection of the 10 best daily promotions per limited time and find exclusive units in multiple categories and brands. Although the best thing is that from 50 euros of purchase you will have free shipping. Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 portable Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 15irh8 Intel Core i5-13420h/16gb/512GB SSD/15.6 “ * Some price may have changed from the last review If you want to change computer to study, work or enjoy gaming, now you can find discounts of up to 40% in desktop computers and in portable. This laptop comes with a Intel Core I5-13420H processor with a 16GB RAM and a 512GB storage SSDfor fluid performance in multitasking and demanding applications. In addition, it has a 15.6 ″ FHD IPS screen with up to 300 shine nits and USB-C connectivity, HDMI and card reader. An ideal Lenovo laptop for students and professionals who perform daily tasks, since it has a good balance between power and portability. Although it has no operating system. You can find it reduced by 419 euros (instead of 669 euros). PCCOM WORK APTROLING COMPUTER PCCom Work Core i5-12400 / 32GB / 1TB SSD + Monitor 23.8 ” + Keyboard + Mouse * Some price may have changed from the last review You also have this desktop equipment with a tower that rides a Intel Core i5-12400 processor accompanied by 32GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSDwithout operating system. It has varied connections such as HDMI, Displayport, USB, etc. This device is suitable for tasks such as edition, intensive office or demanding multitasking. Is reduced by 559 euros (instead of 663.43 euros). Tablet Lenovo Tab M11 Lenovo – Tablet Lenovo Tab M11 Full HD, 11 ‘, 128 GB + 8 GB, Wi -Fi, Lenovo CoB Pen + foundation. * Some price may have changed from the last review On the other hand, if what you need is a Tablet, a smart watch or a wearablenow you will find them in this campaign with up to 40% discount. If you want a tablet to study and take notes, then this one of Lenovo is Prefect. It has a mediatek Helio G88 processor, with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of expandable storage. Its battery is 7,040mah, so it endures a lot, it also has an 11 -inch HD+ screen with a 90 Hz soda rate. It also has four speakers with Dolby Atmos and Android 13 as an operating system. And the best, includes a case and a Pen Stylus optical pencil. You can find it reduced by 189 euros (instead of 259 euros). Gaming Drift Dr35 chair Gaming Drift DR35 Black-Red * Some price may have changed from the last review Study and work requires ergonomic, lifting tables and accessories that improve day to day, therefore, take advantage of now that they have up to 40% discount. This chair is designed for long sessions in front of the computer, has a reclining support up to 135 °, has adjustable lumbar and cervical cushionsas well as a robust synthetic skin structure with dense foam. Therefore, it is ideal for both studying and working since it offers ergonomic support adaptable to different positions. It is reduced by 89.99 euros. Samsung Odyssey G3 monitor Samsung Odyssey G3 G30d 24 “LED FullHD 180Hz FREESYNC * Some price may have changed from the last review And finally, another of the most important devices for your study, work or setup gaming is A good monitorso take advantage of these discounts of up to 40%. This Samsung monitor has a Panel goes 24 ″ with FHD resolution, ideal for gamers since it offers a soda rate of up to 180 Hza response time of 1 ms (MPRT), and AMD Freesync to avoid torn in the image. Its design is without borders on three sides, accompanied by an adjustable ergonomic support. You can find it reduced by 94.99 euros. Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | PCComponents In Xataka | Best gaming laptops: which to buy and eight recommended computers from 770 to 3,000 euros In Xataka | This is the gaming tower that I would buy. Computers with better value for money recommended by Xataka

How to use it to ask the time today and how to program that forecasts appear

August 25, 2025 by usatoday24

Let’s tell you How to use Gemini as a time applicationso you don’t need to use any more. Because opening your mobile application is easy, but it is even easier to invoke the artificial intelligence of Google to directly ask the question with your voice. Let’s start by telling you how to ask the time information to Gemini And what information shows you. But then we will go to the most interesting, schedule a routine so that show you the information of a certain time every day Without having to do anything. Gemini tells you the time easily For Gemini to tell you the information of time, you must Ask him How is the weather today?. You can do this by voice and directly written in a chat with AI. In Android you can Change the assistant to Gemini To invoke it keeping a side button, and you can simply ask the question. When you ask Gemini, you will be shown a module where you can see the temperature in real time in the location where Google detects that you are. It will also tell you the evolution of temperature during the next few hours, the minimum and maximum, and the probability of rain. If you invoke Gemini by voice, this information will be shown on a card that overlaps the screen. You can also ask for other detailshow to ask for time including wind and humidity speed, time in other locations or on specific days. Configure regular time warnings But not to have to ask you manually, you can configure Gemini so that Every day I send you a notification With the time report at the time you want. The process to configure this is very simple. First, you have to enter the AI app and click on the microphone. So, you have to say the following prompt: “Give me, every morning at 10, a full report of the weather forecast of my town.” Here, this prompt can modify it to choose the time you want, the periodicity, or even specify the information you want to appear. You can also add concrete data that you want to be mentioned. When you do this, you can verify when you want if the routine is configured correctly. For that, click on your profile image up to the right, and in the menu that opens, choose the option of Scheduled actions That will appear. This will show a screen where you can see the routines or automatisms configured in Gemini. On this screen you can check them, but also pause or erase them To leave everything to your liking. In Xataka Basics | The best prompts to save work hours and do your homework with chatgpt, gemini, co -pilot or other artifici intelligence

Becue jellyfish into “Cyborgs”

August 25, 2025 by usatoday24

Investigate the seabed today It is a real challenge for science for the need to have expensive and Submarine spectators that resist high pressure to which they can be exposed. But now, a research group has found The way to obtain real -time data On the temperature, pH and health of our seas in a sustainable and efficient way. And this future is closer to what it seems and its protagonists are unexpected allies: Cyborg jellyfish. Turn a jellyfish into an oceanic explorer. In a laboratory of the University of Colorado in Boulder, the engineer Nicole Xu and her team are converting to the jellyfish Luna (Aurelia Aurita) in the final oceanic explorer. And it is not dealing with science fiction. What is discussed in this case is a great innovation in the Biohbrid robotics field which promises to revolutionize the way in which those areas of the planet can be studied that are inaccessible. A “pacemaker” to guide the explorer. The idea, as bright as simple in its concept, consists in equipping these jellyfish with a small microelectronic device. This device works in a way similar to a Cardiac pacemakers. The research leader, Nicole Xu, points to what is sought is to stimulate “the swimming muscle to cause contractions and direct animals towards a certain direction.” By selectively activating each muscle, researchers will be able to determine the direction of the jellyfish, making it a remote control vehicle capable of carrying sensors to collect crucial data. The objective is to send them to remote areas of the ocean, too deep or dangerous for conventional human exploration and obtain vital information on the impact of climate change in the deepest waters of the planet. The jellyfish stands out for being ‘Simplona’. Among all the living beings that exist, the jellyfish has been selected. The reason is quite simple: they have maintained their simple structure For more than 500 million years And they are the most efficient swimmers on the planet. Precisely as invertebrate, it lacks brain or spinal cord and its nervous system is based on a pair of superimposed neural networks, which simplifies the interaction with the device that will be installed. In other animals with great nervous complexity, the process could become too convoluted and not be a success. Extreme resistance and harmless beings. Although during this summer they have been protagonists of our coasts, this concrete type of Medusa have been found in the most extreme depths of the earth. Here is included for example Mariana pitwith a depth of almost 11,000 meters under the surface. Another positive point that can have the use of this jellyfish is how easy it is to work with them, since the efficient cells of their small tentacles cannot penetrate human skin, so they are harmless to us. So much so that researchers have already tried to work with these jellyfish successfully in 2020 in shallow waters, and now the goal is to go to the next level. Ethics and future: beyond exploration. Nicole Xu’s work does not stop at the control of jellyfish. Your team is also deeply committed to Ethical considerations To be able to work with these invertebrates. And although the ‘scientific tradition’ pointed out that invertebrates could not feel pain because they have no nociceptors, the most recent scientific evidence suggests something different. Studies suggest that some invertebrate species If you can feel painalthough in this case the XU team points to that all signs are positive. They do not show an increase in mucus secretion (a stress indicator) and are even actively reproducing, with small polyps (baby jellyfish) covering the wall tanks walls. That is why they are concluding that their studies are not causing suffering in these living beings. Beyond exploration. The XU team sees great potential in the study of these animals. Analyzing the flow of water around it with biodegradable particles such as corn starch, they seek to unravel the secrets of their incredible efficiency. The researcher herself points to the following: “There is something really special in the way Luna’s jellyfish swim. We want to unlock that to create more energy efficient new generation vehicles” In this way, what begins in a dark aquarium illuminated with neon lights could not only give us the keys to understand the health of our oceans, but also inspire the next generation of submarine robots. We know very little of the seabed. The background of our seas remains a great mystery, to the point that We know more information from the planet Mars itself. Research right now focuses on this part of our planet using advanced technology such as THE MAPEADO TO SEEK GANNES or even determine why There is a great structure in the seabed of Peru. Images | Marath Gilyadzinov In Xataka | Thousands of people are hooked to the most popular streaming of the moment: see rare fish at 3,900 meters under the sea

Renfe is choking the liberalization of high speed. With vicinity you have another plan: delay it as much as possible

August 25, 2025 by usatoday24

Spain has to liberalize the vicinity service. Not because the government wants, because it is a European commandment since the fourth rail package was approved, back in 2016. However, Spain is resisting as much as possible to apply these changes. Now, the CNMC has notified again: it touches liberalization. Obligated. Yes, Spain is obliged to liberalize the vicinity service. In fact, I was obliged that, as afternoon, on December 25, 2023, all services were tendered through public tender. Last year, in 2024, contracts should have been awarded. At least, if the deadlines had been met since In 2016 the fourth rail package will be approved. Last year, in the last part of the year, The CNMC pointed out which had “launched a public consultation to gather information on public traveler transport services on rail (near and medium distance) and their next tender.” The previous deadlines could be extended as long as there is already a contract in force on the previous dates. In secret? That detail about the deadlines is important. According to ABCthe current Renfe contract extended from 2018 to 2027. Arrived 2026, at least 3% of the value of the contract related to the Cercanías service should be taken to public tender. However, they say in the newspaper that the Government and Renfe signed (without making it public) an adend to the current contract to delay this first step of liberalization to 2028. The intention is, therefore, to maintain the service of nearby in possession of Renfe. It calculates this means that the value of that 3% of the contract now exceeds 1,000 million euros. What dates are handled? If everything follows its course and there are no more news, the intention is that the liberalization of the service begins in 2028. First with a pilot test, they explain in The economistwhich would last until 2033. From then on, liberalization should be definitive. To carry out this addendum, it was assured that “it has not been possible to determine the public service obligations that will be bidding before January 1, 2026”. Therefore, this extension was signed in the contract that takes liberalization for a year beyond what was initially planned when it was expected that Cercanías would have been liberalized in 2032. Although the Government was already aware that in 2023 this fourth European rail package began to apply that is committed to liberalization, in 2018 signed the agreement with Renfe that maintains its monopoly until the next decade entry. It is not the first time. The delay in the liberalization of vicinity is not the only case in which the government moves in gray spaces for the liberalization of a rail service. Nor Óscar Puente, Minister of Transportation, has been in favor of this type of interventions. In the Madrid-Galicia line, for example, great results are being achieved for Renfe, to the point they have managed to do Go back the offering of airline tickets. However, the government knows that Renfe will keep the monopoly for a while in the corridor since the particularity of the road jump forces to produce very specific trains that Renfe has monopolized. Now companies like Ouigo have a huge waiting list if they want their own. And as we said, Bridge has been the first to criticize the system. He points out that as Renfe has the obligation to operate as a public service is at a disadvantage because Ouigo or Iryo, the two companies that have entered to work in Spain, can choose the most profitable runners but Renfe is obliged to serve in, for example, the Madrid-Extermadura line that is less profitable. Damage. The arrival of Ouigo and Iro to the Spanish railways has hurt Renfe, especially as far as prices are concerned. Yes it is true that Puente does not lack reason when it points out that, really, the three companies do not operate in exactly the same conditions but also should be remembered other data. The arrival of both companies has punctured the bubble of the High speed prices by train. Never before has it moved so much volume of passengers in this type of lines but we must bear in mind that, since the arrival of the French and Italian company, prices have fallen and have never been so cheap. Are there cases in Europe? Yes, Spain would not be the first country to liberalize its vicinity services although there are important nuances because the prominence of the companies that until they were not so long ago is very strong. In Germany, Berlin S-Bahn that operates 15 lines was awarded in 2021 through public tender … which took a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn (the German Renfe). However, The Saale-Thüringen-Südharz network (STS) It has 575 kilometers operated by Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland GmbH, a private operator. In France, Renfe lost the tender in the Nantes-Burdeos and Nantes-Lyon who took SNCF (the French Renfe). In the Italian Piedmont, Renfe has managed partially. However, in the United Kingdom they have had a liberalized system for decades. Now, tired of the bad state of trains and the bad service offered The government is trying to reverse the situation and return to a monopoly to resume public service reins. Photo | Germán Poo-Caamaño and Jornal.cat In Xataka | With high speed in war, the French owner of Ouigo and Renfe are already preparing for the following battle: Cercanías

where to see free matches, and where the payment

August 25, 2025 by usatoday24

The new football season is already underway, and we have to solve the puzzle to know how much and where can we see the gameseither with the Payment alternatives or with the free. Because seeing full football does not fall from 100 euros, so it is convenient to know the alternatives. Let’s start by telling you What matches you will be able to see for free and whereso that you have a notion of open matches. Then we will review what the payment options are and how much each of them offers. Where to see free football Although it is less and less There is still open football which you can enjoy without having to pay any subscription. Of course, they are just a few concrete games, and if what you want to see is LaLiga, then it is a purely anecdotal. These are the alternatives: Ten: This TDT channel will offer a free LaLiga Hypermotion (Second Division) game every week, as well as one of LaLiga F. RTVE: Autonomous television maintains competitions such as the Copa del Rey and the Champions League, and you can also see the final of these championships for free. Dazn: This channel will issue A game per day of LaLiga EA Sports (First Division) Without cost, to cover the hole left by goal Play when he stopped issuing open meetings. You must have an account in the service, although open matches you can see without paying. Regional television: Some regional channels such as Aragon TV, TVG (Galicia), Canal Sur (Andalusia) or Canarian television among others will broadcast matches of some of the teams in the region in Second Division. Therefore, with a DTT antenna working correctly to watch public television, TEN and your regional, and with a basic Dazn subscription you can see some first, second and women’s league games, in addition to the great finals. It’s not all football, but it’s free. Where to see football paying But let’s go back to reality, because if you want to see all football or much of it, then you will have to opt for a payment platform. Here are two options, Open platforms not to have to change operator or those linked to specific operators. These are the open platforms that broadcast football: Movistar Plus+: It is priced at 9.99 euros per month, and includes a match of each day of LaLiga EA Sports, a Champions League match, another of the Premier League and the entire Spanish Second Division, LaLiga Hypermotion. It also includes Argentine, Brazilian or Saudi leagues, in addition to the channels of cinemas, original series, and other sports such as Euroleague, tennis, rugby, padel, NFL and golf. Free Orange TV: It is priced at 7.99 euros per month, and includes a match of each day of LaLiga EA Sports, a Champions League match, three LaLiga Hypermotion games and one from the Italian series, in addition to its 80 premium channels and the subscription to Skyshowtime. Dazn Soccer Plan: Its price ranges from 14.99 euros per month with permanence of one year, or 29.99 euros per month if you hire without permanence. You can see all the Bundesliga, Premier League and complete series, in addition to Almost half of LaLiga matches. As for closed platforms, Movistar and Orange have all footballbeing the only operators that offer it on their televisions with their own decoder when you hire a package with its convergent fiber, series and television rates. Meanwhile, other operators such as Digi, Lowi, Vodafone, Yoigo, MásMóvil, Finetwork, Euskaltel, R or Telecable They offer you all LaLiga Hypermotion from 3 euros per month, but not including the rest of international competitions or the entire first division. Here, Digi TV is the only one that includes up to 10 games of each day of the first federation, which is the former Spanish second B. In Xataka Basics | Where to see LaLiga EA Sports 25/26, Football of the First Division in this next season

Tourism of juice and sandwich expands through the Basque Country French

August 25, 2025 by usatoday24

“I had never seen so many people doing picnic on the beach!” The phrase is from Sébastien Meric, manager of the Taverne Basque, a restaurant of Saint-Jean-de-Luzin Nueva Aquitaine (France), and although a priori it may seem a positive comment hides a feeling that worries the hoteliers of this village of the Atlantic Pyrenees as well as those of Other destinations From Spain: they arrive (almost) as many tourists as in 2024, but they think about it much more when it comes to their portfolios. And that is a problem. What happened? That with the summer campaign already advanced, the hoteliers of San Juan de Luz, a small commune of France famous for its traditional beaches, port and architecture, recognize having a bittersweet taste. It is not so much that tourists have stopped visiting the town and that they no longer do it with the same joy. So I know They recognized A few professionals recently to the newspaper Sud Ouestto which they admit their concern about what is promised a “mediocre” summer. Why’s that? To start because Julio has left a puncture in the influx of tourists. According to the Departmental Tourism Agency of the Atlantic Pyrenees, last month the flow of visitors in the Basque Country French descended -1%a fall that was even more pronounced if we talk about overnight (-4%). In the whole of the Atlantic Pyrenees the demand remained stable (+1%) thanks in part to a warmer and dry meteorology of the usual. Sud Ouest Precise That, according to the Julio Tourist Barometer, San Juan de Luz lost about 55,000 visitors, a fall that is largely related to the lower influx of visitors from other parts of Europe with respect to last year (Dutch, Spanish or Germans) but also from travelers from other regions of the country itself, such as Paris or the department of Hauts-de-Seine. From the City of San Juan de Luz, this decline in visitors, which relate to circumstantial factors, reduces importance in any case. “Time has been unpredictable and beaches have been closed by jellyfish,” Clarify The organism, “it is better to wait at the end of summer to draw conclusions.” Is there anything else? Yes. And that is perhaps the most interesting idea than comment The hoteliers of the region A Sud Ouest. Beyond the fluctuations in the influx of travelers, the really curious thing is that businesses perceive a contraction in spending. “Before we made a lobster barbecue per 100 euros, now we make chuletones with blue cheese sauce for three times,” confesses a restaurant, recalling that this is the second summer that does not meet expectations. “Last year we thought it was for the Olympic Games or Bayonne partieswhich coincide with those of Pamplona, but this year is the same. ” detects New habits among veraneantes. “I had never seen so many people doing picnic on the beach!” A third place specifies that this year has encountered an “excess template.” And what is the reason? The big question. The Agite Du Tourism 64 perceive “For the first time in many years” a decrease in the influx of customers with a high level of income (-2%) in the French Basque Country, a trend that the organism believes compensated by an increase in equal extent of the middle-class clientele. The regional press points out other hypotheses, such as a decrease in the purchasing power of tourists or the changes in the legislation that regulates tourist floors. The New standard It puts certain limits to holiday rentals of second residences, which limits their offer and forces tourists to use hotels in which the average price per night in high season, slides Sud Ouestcan perfectly be around 170 euros. A higher expense in the accommodation would leave visitors (especially families) with less margin when it comes to allowing other extras during their vacations, such as meals or dinners in restaurants. Why is it important? Although Saint-Jean-de-Luz is located in France his data and especially the testimony of his hoteliers are interesting because they show us another perspective of tourism. One that is not exclusive to Atlantic Pyrenees. He last balance The INE reveals a considerable rise in the total spending of international tourists (+5.5%) and the average daily expenditure, but in some regions there are also hoteliers who have alerted a billing drop. They did recently in Diario de Mallorcathe hoteliers of Port de Sóller, in Mallorca, where they have detected a puncture of the demand in full high season. “We have gone from not having workers to overcome us,” admits the owner of two restaurants that he has had to do without employees. “This is a rebound effect after the madness after Covid. We return to the situation we had before the pandemic, but with much narrower margins.” Images | Tourisme Pays Basque Office (Flickr) and Cylk34 (Flickr) In Xataka | The north of Spain has been complaining about mass tourism for years. Asturias has discovered the bitter consequences of losing it

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