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Enroll an old car as a historical to circulate in Madrid or Barcelona seems like a great idea. He does not always work

June 9, 2025 by usatoday24

If you are thinking of entering Madrid with a vehicle without sticker, we have bad news: Since January 1, 2024 You can’t move through the capital unless you are a neighbor. And, it remains to be seen, if you can do next year because the intention was to prevent it this year but the City Council ended back. Nor can you do it in Barcelona at any time. Specifically, a vehicle without environmental label cannot circulate through the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) Monday to Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. In order to do so, you must ask for an authorization with, at least 24 hours in advance and may not do so more than 24 days a year. Although there are more low -emission areas in Spain (ZBE) and, in fact, we should have restrictions on all municipalities of more than 50,000 inhabitants. The truth is that only Madrid and Barcelona apply Hard restrictions. The rest of Spanish cities barely restrict access to a small part of them. In parallel, a door was opened to those who have a car without sticker. “What if I do historical?” The reason must be sought in the new Historical Vehicle Regulation, which allows these vehicles circulating through the ZBE … although there are important nuances to take into account. A historical vehicle for my zbe … more or less When the new one was taken a few months ago Historical Vehicle Regulations It was specified that there would be no City Council or any other institution that could prevent the movement of these cars. In fact, the following was specified: “The new regulation urges the municipalities to, in the exercise of their powers for the regulation of urban roads and for the restriction of circulation to certain vehicles in these roads for environmental reasons, establish formulas in their municipal ordinances that allow circulation to those owners who make a sporadic or non -common use of their historical vehicles.” However, aware of the implications that this could have, the following was also specified: “The use of historical vehicles will be occasional and in no case as a means of daily transport to minimize their environmental impact, and the use of historical vehicles to make public transport of travelers or merchandise and for agricultural activities or works and services is generally prohibited.” For the government, that “occasional use” has a number: 96 days a year. But with this figure an obvious question also arises: how are you controlled these 96 days a year? No one knows it and the regulation itself does not collect it. Thus, there are those who have had an idea. If I can use the historical car 96 days a year It means that I can circulate eight days every month with the vehicle. It is possible that, if we do not go to the city center every day because, for example, we telework, those eight days a month are more than enough to cover our tickets to Madrid or Barcelona. In fact, if we discount the month of vacation, we almost added one more day to each month. Taking into account that, right now, cars without label They add up to 25 years in the case of gasoline, you don’t have to go much further back to have a historical vehicle. Of course, you must meet the following requirement, as specified in Motorpasion: “To have been manufactured or enrolled for the first time 30 years ago, having stopped producing its specific type and being in its original state, without having undergone any fundamental change in its main characteristics or components. As a novelty, it is also required that they are in a correct state of maintenance and conservation.” That is, whoever wants to access the city center can be made with a car that has been enrolled before 1995. A second generation Seat Ibiza, for example, but it cannot have been subjected to fundamental changes or replace its main components. That said, can we circulate with him through the great Spanish Zbe? Well, in Madrid, technically, we can because the Municipal Mobility Ordinance that includes all the information related to Madrid 360 invites us to circulate with such a vehicle. Of course, you have to take some things into account: We cannot park in regulated parking areas since no label without label can do it. If we access more than 96 times a year (access controls it) we can be playing a fine since when it comes to registering it as a historical one, a responsible statement in which we promise not to move the car more than 96 days a year. The fine for not complying is 200 euros (100 euros with soon payment) which is reflected in the Traffic law, motor vehicle circulation and road safetyin its article 76 Z3. In Barcelona, the matter is more confusing. At the moment, nothing has been approved that allows the entry of historical vehicles in the ZBE of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona in the restricted schedule only to cars without stickers. It is known that has been working on it But nothing has been completed. The problem is that, as with the obligation to have a ZBE in all municipalities of more than 50,000 inhabitants, the new regulation urges the municipalities to specify in their mobility ordinances the passage to these vehicles through their restricted areas but does not establish a term or punishment If this is not carried out. When lifting Zbe’s own we have already lived what happens when this happens. A good part of the municipalities of more than 50,000 inhabitants have not carried out these changes and an important part has barely restricted access to a few streets or, like Seville, to areas of very little affectation by traffic. Photo | In Xataka | DGT tags: what sticker corresponds to me and what advantages or restrictions I will find

LaLiga IP blocks threaten next season. So Cloudflare has presented an appeal in the Constitutional

June 9, 2025 by usatoday24

Cloudflare does not give up. The company, at a open war against LaLiga, has just presented According to Bandancha an appeal before the Constitutional Court with an objective: that cease IPS blocks Sorted by LaLiga. What happened. As they point out in this medium, Cloudflare has presented an appeal before this body to challenge the LaLiga order and “establish the illegality of the disproportionate blockages of LaLiga.” Amparo resource. As Point out The Constitutional Court of Spain itself is responsible for managing this type of judicial requests that aim to “protect the violations of the rights and freedoms” recognized in the articles of the Constitution. Adds to rootedcon. The RootedCon Organization announced on May 16 that there had been an appeal for amparo after “exhausted all the legal routes within our reach” to try to convince the judge of the “serious anomaly” that these blockages suppose. “That resource is joined by the one who has just presented Cloudflare, and revives a situation that remains without solving. A nightmare for users and companies. In March many users broke the Internet. We soon discovered the reason: LaLiga had begun to order indiscriminate blockages of IPS to fight illegal soccer broadcasts through IPTV services. There began a terrible situation in which They paid and pay fair for sinners. Worst of all, these problems threaten to continue in the future, although both cloudflare and rootedcon have tried to stop such blockages in the courts of justice. What will happen next season. LaLiga prepares for the 2025/26 season, and Everything points to keep the IPS blockages that have tormented users in recent months. The sentence (No. 310/2024, of December 18, 2024 of the Commercial Court No. 6 of Barcelona) in which this body will continue to be valid until season 2026/2027, which predicts more and more blockages not only next season, but also the following. The situation is unsustainable for thousands of users and companies Affected Cloudflare and rootedcon lost the first battle. Spanish justice dismissed in March the Nullity requests Independent filed by Cloudflare, Rootedcon and other plaintiffs against LaLiga. That was a hard varapalo for the legal battle of these entities, which have now attended the consitional court in the hope that the matter can finally be solved. LaLiga hid things. As revealed in Bandancha, in the appeal presented by Cloudflare it is indicated that “LaLiga did not inform the Court that the IP addresses she proposed to block were shared among thousands of websites”, something that has precisely been the great origin of the problem. In addition, they stand out, “LaLiga obtained the locking order without notifying the cloud service providers involved, hiding the foreseeable damage for the general public. Damage to third parties. The blockages supposedly violate the Criminal Code by causing damage to third parties and “make inaccessible computer data”, but instead of trying to affect less users and moderate, what they did in the last stretch of the season was intensified. These blockages cause thousands of websites domains to be inaccessible to users of different operators, and have affected media, business websites, Important resources For the operation of many websites and even public services Like the Madrid City Council. Waiting. In Xataka we have contacted those responsible for Cloudflare, but the company at the moment has not officially pronounced on this resource. From Rootedcon they already told us how they had confidence that the Constitutional Court offered a solution to the problem. Even so, if that resource does not progress, they said, “we do not rule out Europe.” This seems, can go for long, and in the meantime, IPS blocks will probably continue to torment us all. In Xataka | We knew that LaLiga IPS blocks have been massive and indiscriminate. What we didn’t know was to what extent

Today Apple has its most complicated event in many years

June 9, 2025 by usatoday24

For decades, WWDC has been a triumphal showcase for Apple. A moment of glory where the company took chest to developers, press, partners and fans. Cook took the stage with the confidence of who knows that he will impress and Federight deployed charisma and Pompadour between demos that worked perfect. The public applauded with almost religious fervor. That time is over. Today’s WWDC (seven in the afternoon, Spanish peninsular time) will be the most complicated in Apple’s recent history. The reason: The company arrives of credibility. A year ago They promised a revolution with Apple Intelligence and a new Siri. They showed dazzling videos where AI understood the personal context, anticipated needs and executed tasks between apps. It was the future and Apple was going to put it in the palm of the hand. But That has not happened. Months later, the best functions were silently postponed. Then, indefinitely postponed. The announcement came with the typical discretion of those who do not want to make noise about a failure. The new Siri that was going to change everything was a mirage. Meanwhile, Chatgpt, Claude and Gemini continue to evolve, but in another league. Apple’s AI stays in anecdote. And the problem transcends AI. Apple today faces an audience that is no longer the same. Developers are historically their most condescending audience (fans apart), but many of them have already lost patience. Epic has starred in a five -year war which exposed the rentist practices of the App Store. The EU forced changes that Apple resisted until the end. 30% commissions They are no longer accepted Like the natural price of paradise techbut as an abusive toll. Blind devotion has become informed skepticism. Of the ancient evangelists there are still some left, but many have become critical observers that applaud the successes but already point out the errors. The iPhone is still excellent, but it is no longer a mystical revelation. It is a product Premium In a saturated market, manufactured by a company that a year ago promised more. This WWDC is not going to be another power exhibition, but a credibility examination. A scenario in which Apple is not used to handling. And another demo of unreal concepts cannot be affected, he cannot promise what he cannot deliver. You cannot trust that your last story gives you indefinite white checks. You must demonstrate, step by step, that you still know how to innovate without fooling. The twilight of the “Apple culture” It is not the end of Apple, but its forced maturation. The company that was once the technological rebel must learn to be a responsible giant. Its most sophisticated users no longer seek blind faith, but tangible results. And that, paradoxically, could be the best that has happened to the company in a long time. In Xataka | Blackberry sold more phones than ever in 2011. It is a disturbing reminder for Apple and its indifference to AI Outstanding image | Apple

Goodbye to the windows for passengers, hello to the immersive screens

June 9, 2025 by usatoday24

A fuselage that seems sculpted by the wind. Not a single cabin window. And a clear objective: revolutionize private aviation. He Phantom 3500 It is not a conventional plane And that shows from the first glance. Otto Aviation has been perfecting this design for years, first with the Celera 500L as a test bench, and now with a model that wants to go further. On paper, what it proposes is not less: a plane capable of radically overcoming other comparable executive jets. The technical key of the project is the Laminar flow. Otto proposes an approach based on perfectly profiled surfaces, designed so that the air moves better. This aerodynamic optimization seeks to reduce resistance and improve flight efficiency. According to the companyone of its great objectives is to reduce fuel consumption significantly comparable Jets. In combination with sustainable fuels (SAF), Otto aspires to achieve a much lower carbon footprint. No windows, but with digital views and very real ambitions The operational figures that OTTO handles point high. The Phantom 3500 aspires to an autonomy of up to 6,482 km, an 51,000 feet cruise altitude (15,544 m) and a sustained consumption of 435 liters per hour. This places it, on paper, below models such as Bombardier Challenger 350 or the CITATION Latitudewhose average values of consumption are around 1,135 liters. Part of the advantage is in its large surface wing and optimized profile, which improves support and allows to operate from shorter clues than usual. Inside, it also uncheck. The cabin completely dispenses with passenger windows. Instead, Otto implements a system called “Super Natural Vision”, Based on high -definition screens that show the outer environment in real time. The objective is not only of stimulant. The civil sphere is not the only one in which Otto wants to leave a mark. In previous materials, the company has suggested military applications, especially in logistics or deployment missions from remote tracks. He has also collaborated with Darpa agency in several projects. In parallel to technical development, the company works with FAA to obtain the certification of the plane. Paul Touw, CEO of Otto Aviation, recently declared Flightglobal That the first flight could occur in 2027, although the entry into service is not expected before 2030. To expedite the processes and contain the costs, Otto is integrating simulation tools developed by Galorath, which allow estimating technical and economic impacts before moving on to production. However, as we point out above, the Phantom 3500 is not part of zero. Is the direct evolution of Celera 500L, a platform that served as a technological demonstrator. The design has been deeply reformulated, but the base principle remains intact: maximize efficiency without giving up real benefits. If you get your goals, Otto will not only put a new type of plane in the air. It could inaugurate a whole new category in executive aviation. Images | Otto Aviation In Xataka | The old Low Cost airline dream to squeeze their passengers remains the same: vertical seats

Your DNA does not resemble anything we know

June 8, 2025 by usatoday24

A few days ago a really fascinating story was known. In 1958 someone found a skull in China dating 300,000 years, and after a recent study a surprising conclusion was reached: that “homo” did not look like None that we know. Something similar has happened in Colombia. 21 human remains have scientists with frown. Crossing roads without heirs. Colombia, essential point of passage in the migration of Homo Sapiens from Central America to the south of the continent More than 14,500 yearshas now revealed a forgotten chapter of his human past. An international team of researchers has recovered 21 remains DNA humans found in five archaeological sites of the Altiplano Cundiboyacensea plateau located in the center of the country. What they discovered It is amazing: an old group that inhabited this region about 6,000 years ago that has no genetic relationship With no current living population. Its lineage disappeared completely, without a trace in later generations. Plus: It is an extra rarity in South America, where the genetic persistence of native peoples usually has continuity, even partial. The study compared old DNA with more recent records Two worlds separated by millennia. According to the analysisthis first community was composed of hunters-gatherers, and its presence was extinguished totally about 4,000 years before of the arrival of a new genetically different human group, which was established in the same region approximately 2,000 years ago. The latter, direct ancestors of some current indigenous populations, probably spoke Chibcha languages and showed a more developed material culture: ceramics, advanced agriculture and a sedentary way of life. This group remained in the area until European colonization in the 16th century. The demographic replacement was absolute: the DNA of the ancient hunters-gatherers did not survive in any hereditary line of the subsequent inhabitants of the Altiplano. For scientists, this suggests a population change Complete in the area of Bogotá, an unusual phenomenon that raises more questions than answers. Genetic puzzle. The discovery not only highlights the Total disappearance of a human group, but also clarifies the genetic history of South America, which was believed more linear. Previous studies They had already hinted unexpected connections between old South American populations and regions As remote as Australia. The Colombian case reinforces the idea that the first migrations south of the continent were more complex and diverse than was thought. The fact that this ancestral population does not have modern correlation in the current DNA suggests that, at some point, conflicts, epidemics or other processes still unknown could have caused their disappearance, Without miscegenation nor genetic absorption by later peoples. Human map Which The investigation It makes it quite clear is that Colombia, located in the narrow step between Central and South America, is and was key to understanding how the continent was populated. The finding of these genomes ( first old published In the history of the country) it opens new ways to investigate the prehistoric settlement of the region and shows how much there is still to be discovered. That a complete human lineage has been extinguished without leaving genetic offspring raises unknowns as deep as revealing, and makes the Colombian highlands a territory loaded with Enigmas to solve. As the researchers point out, it is really just the beginning: under the Andean surface, most likely, secrets still rest to rewrite the human history of South America. Image | PexelsKrettek et al., Science Advances, 2025 In Xataka | In 1958 we found a skull with 300,000 years in China. The problem is that we do not know what “homo” belongs In Xataka | The “ghost species” with which our ancestors were settled and disappeared without (almost) leave a trace

one with its own underwater hydrogen factory

June 8, 2025 by usatoday24

When electric cars still crawled, a series of manufacturers launched Develop another propulsion technology: The hydrogen fuel battery. It is something that You have experienced comings, coming and changes of plans in recent years, but although it seems that It is not the future of utilitiesIt makes sense in industrial and commercial vehicles. And another sector in which it has potential is … in the submarines. The Spanish Navy is so sure that its Crown jewelthe S-80 class submarinesthey will be the only ones in the world that work with a system that manufactures their own hydrogen. Class S-80. Manufacturing a submarine from scratch is not simple, and Spain knows it well. The Carthaginense Isaac Peral was the inventor of the electric submarine, a precursor of the modern submarine, but Spain did not have its own underwater models during the expansion of this transport class. Since the 60s, the country built submarines under foreign licensebut at the beginning of this century, something changed and it was decided that it was time to have its own model: the Class S-80. After years of development, delays, flotability problems and billions of euros of extra costs that forced to prolong the useful life of obsolete submarines, the first submarine of this class, the S-81 Isaac PeralHE delivered to the Navy for its assessment in November 2023, with three others planned for the coming years. The mess of propulsion. Although in a submarine there is no more important system than another, we can say that propulsion technology directly affects the type of missions they can undertake. And there are three great technologies right now. The cheapest is conventional: submarines diesel-electricalthat can be submerged a few days because they need to recharge fuel, being a limitation for stealth operations. On the other hand, propulsion submarines through a nuclear reactor. It is the most expensive and also the most advanced for stealth operations. France, for example, has the Barracudawhich can be submerged up to 270 days. It is a complex technology to develop a submarine from scratch. There are also purely electric, such as those who They are adopting Japan and South Korea with batteries that offer a underwater autonomy of two or three weeks, or those that assemble AIP systems. Aip. Called independent air propulsion systems, AIPs generate electricity to feed the engine and recharge submarine batteries. The most common systems include fuel batteries that convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity. There are variants, such as Stirling engines that use liquid fuels in this process and closed cycle vapor turbines. It is a system that allows submerged autonomies of 20 days or more, and this is where the S-81 Isaac Peral is special because it does not store hydrogen in its batteries: it manufactures it. As? Using Bioethanol That, by means of a reformer, it becomes hydrogen that is used in a fuel pile together with liquid oxygen to produce electricity. Diagram of an AIP system of the submarines of India Best Aip. They are funny acronyms that respond to Bio-Ethanol Stealth Technology and is not really new, but of interesting application in a submarine. As our partners comment Motorpasionit was in 1991 when, in the laboratory of catalytic processes of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires, they developed a method for obtain hydrogen from ethanol. In a submarine, it makes all the meaning: the risk of storage hydrogen is eliminated, aboard is produced and the waste (CO₂ and water) is expelled to the ocean in the form of carbonated water that does not increase the acoustic or thermal firm of the ship. This system, according to Manuel Corral Iranzo, under the command of the S-81 since the delivery in 2023, in statements to The debateit is “worldwide pointer” and it is something that has many advantages. Ethanol “is a matter not as dangerous as hydrogen and is easily obtained. It is a revolutionary system and no other country or any other submarine has this hydrogen production system on board,” he says. It is not yet mounted … There is a problem: this revolutionary system, which is clearly the jewel of the Crown of the S-80 class, is not prepared. As we read in Defensein parallel to the delivery of the first submarine in November 2023, the factory tests of the Best Aip system began to pass. The submarine was delivered without this oxygen generation system, which will be installed in its first large technical stop. When? Well this update is planned by 2029-2030. At the moment, the submarine has three diesel generators of 1,100 kW each and a main electric motor of 3,500 kW. After the S-81, the next one that will be delivered at some point in 2025, and after Another delayis the S-82 Narciso Monturiol. Nor will the Best Aip system will have, but it will be implemented in its technical stop of 2031 if there are no delays. Those who will have the factory best AIP will be the S-83 and S-84, dated by 2026 and 2028 respectively. Images | Angeldr88, To Guy Named Nyal, Navy, Martinvl, India Ministry of Defense In Xataka | In the nineteenth century, Spain designed the first “launcher” to defend against the US: the submarine of Sanjurjo Badía

Within China they are clear what they think of the US technological veto

June 8, 2025 by usatoday24

On May 29, the Office of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce gave the order to its national EDA software companies (Electronic Design Automation): They had to stop selling their products to China. The movement sought continue torpedoing its semiconductor industryone in which this software is key to continue advancing in advanced lithographic processes. China’s response is being clear: they see it as one of the greatest growth opportunities in its history. The context. The semiconductor industry is one in which the software is key to automating verification designs and processes. The margin of error is minimal, and there US companies such as Cadence, Synopsy and Siemens They have been key for years. These three companies dominate, in a combined way, 74% of the Global EDA market. The United States has informed these three companies to stop selling their software to Chinese groups, in an attempt to isolate it from an essential tool to continue advancing in chips manufacturing. Why is it important. The EDA software is the highway that each chip passes before entering production. The United States wants to stop the development of China in semiconductors, warned that the country has been preparing its greatest counterattack for years. At the beginning of September 2023 the Chinese government approved a item of 41,000 million dollars specifically intended for those companies that produce the equipment involved in the manufacture of integrated circuits. China has invested billions of dollars to have your lithography teamsit is clear that prefers to prioritize its technology to adapt the existingand is about to Achieve self -sufficiency in the development of your own 5 nm lithography. The performance by wafer is still low but something is clear: sooner or later, China will be the world leader in chips. The answer. Although the EDA industry stars three US companies, Chinese local companies have been moving forward in the development of this type of software. Specifically, there are three other big names playing in the country of Xi Jinping: Empyrean Technology, Primarius Technologies and Semitronix. After knowing the news and the new US export restrictions, the action of each of these three companies shot over 20% in the case of companies such as Primarius. Yang Lianfeng, president of that company, He counted In an interview that EDA national suppliers are seeing in this movement “the best development opportunity in history”. A national counteroffensive. Yang points out that China will not try to replicate the American EDA software. It will establish its own ecosystem, making this mosquadilla an opportunity to strengthen its self -sufficiency in national semiconductors. Young companies such as Industrial Univista Software Group, founded by former Synopsy and Cadence executives, They have made free disposal free tests of its Eda Univista Archer platform. This company, founded in 2020, serves more than 200 Chinese companies for integrated circuit design, and struggle to be the fourth name in the list of companies that aspire to lead in EDA. The limitations. China wants to answer these new restrictions as soon as possible, but the way will be complex. The race to jump to the two nanometers is crucial, one in which Nvidia, ASML and TSMC have been working for years. Companies like Xuanjie, the Chips Design Unit founded by Xiaomi, would have trouble jumping to this lithographic process. Their chips are manufactured by TSMC and the Xring 01 It is based on the TSMC three nanometers process. But the designs are their own and without access to American Eda tools, currently, it does not seem possible to break this barrier. The American veto hits right in the most critical bottleneck in the chain, but also pushes China to accelerate in its national substitute. In Xataka | China promised them very happy monopolizing rare earths. The problem is that he did not think of the smugglers

Flying to Mallorca costs only the Caribbean, the problem is that the airline business is no longer your tickets: it’s your clothes

June 8, 2025 by usatoday24

This week We counted That, if you have not reserved your vacation in the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands or one of those other “hot” points of the Mediterranean coast, the same may come out, or even cheaper, a stay in the Caribbean. The paradox is that the fault is not of the flights, it is from the hotels. In fact, the price of flying, without more, has not shot how it is usually pointed. What has really changed is the airline business model. Your ticket is no longer as important as what you wear. A billionaire business. It The BBC counted In a report this week that put figures to the business. What was once a standard service (billing a suitcase without cost, choosing a seat or receiving food on board) has been transformed by airlines into a colossal source of income. With the rise of low-cost companies in the mid-2000s, headed by Flybe And then replicated by giants such as American Airlines, collection was institutionalized by invoiced suitcases, a trend that today includes hand luggage (the last resolution in Europe It will bring tail) and with ideas increasingly “creative”. The result is a market of “accessory rates” that only in the United States generated more than 7,270 million dollars in 2024 by billed luggage, and that will globally reach the 145,000 million this yearrepresenting 14% of the sector’s income. This phenomenon has caused indignation between consumers and politicians, who accuse the airlines of applying the so -called Like “Junk Fees” (junk rates) camouflaged in the price End of the ticket. The luggage fever (hand). Given this scenario, millions of passengers have chosen to travel Only with hand luggageshooting the demand for small suitcases that meet the strict dimensions imposed by the airlines. He counted the medium British that marks Like Antler They have seen the searches and sales of compact models increase massively, while in social networks (Especially Tiktok) The content related to “luggage tricks” and suitcases tests in real airline meters has been popularized. Here are influencers Like Chelsea Dickensonwho have turned these types of videos into the core of their online activity, generating more impact than the content on the destinations themselves. In other words, the phenomenon demonstrates how the industry has even influenced consumption habits prior to trip. The legal controversy. We have been counting it. The growing collection even for hand luggage has caused a Formal reaction in Europewhere consumer organizations Like Beuc They have denounced a Several airlines (including Ryanair, Easyjet, Vueling and Wizzair) before the European Commission. They claim that these charges violate a 2014 judgment of the EU Court of Justice that establishes that hand luggage, if it meets reasonable weight and security requirements, cannot be an additional cost. However, the concept of “reasonable requirements” remains that gray area that still lacks a firm legal definition and that the airlines are grabbed, which allows them to continue applying charges according to their own criteria. In fact and as we said, the European Union has approved This week his position in favor of the regulation that will continue to allow airlines to charge for the hand luggage that travels in the cabin (yes, with the vote against Spain). The case of Indigo. The BBC counted that, in the face of the globalized tendency to monetize each service, some airlines, such as Indian Indiathey have remained out. Its executive director defends a policy of not charging for invoiced suitcases, arguing that prevents endless ranks and unnecessary conflicts in the shipping doors. Its operational model, which allows changes in just 35 minutes, demonstrates that an efficient logistics does not require squeezing the passenger for each basic service. This alternative, although marginal, emphasizes that there can be another type of relationship with the client in the air industry, challenging the dominant narrative of the sector. Between efficiency and abuse. In summary, the evolution of luggage collection reflects a paradigm change: the air trip has been fragmented in copper parts, leaving the passenger in a constant search for How to avoid paying further. While airlines defend their model in response to competition and the need for income, consumers and legislators question to what extent this strategy erodes the experience of flying. Thus, the hand luggage boom and the appearance of those “triprs of the trip” eager for visits reflect a culture of the minimum luggage as a form of economic resistance. If you want also, as forced adaptation to an increasingly hostile environment for the common traveler. Flying has ceased to be expensive, because what we carry with us is the real business. Image | Stockcake In Xataka | After the battle between the EU and the airlines for hand luggage, the rates and sizes remain for this 2024 In Xataka |

The price of negative light is a problem. It is also the biggest opportunity to reindustrialize Spain in decades

June 8, 2025 by usatoday24

See the wholesale price of light to zero euros or even negative has ceased to be an anecdote for become a daily phenomenon In Spain. Symptom that renewables dominate the energy mix, is a growing obstacle to the profitability of electricity, but is still cheap energy. And as such, it is the best opportunity to reindustrialize Spain in a long time. Why it happens. “Zero or negative prices are a symptom of abundance of renewable resources to generate electricity,” analyst Pedro Cantuel, who works in Ignis’s energy management, explains to Xataka. In the central hours of the day, when photovoltaic production is massive, renewables flood the network with a practically null marginal cost, which collapses prices in the wholesale market. The time to reindustrialize. The abundance of cheap energy puts Spain in a competitive advantage position against its European neighbors. If Spain can offer clean energy to a very low cost, it becomes a magnet for industries that devour electricity, such as data centers, metallurgy or new green chemical industry. “In the European context, I think this can happen, since Spain could offer more competitive electricity than some of its neighbors,” explains Sergio Fernández Munguía, engineer of the renewable sector and author of Windletter. “In a global context, industrial electricity in Spain is still expensive because the invoice includes many other items beyond the cost of electricity.” Who has to adapt to who. The industrial model of the twentieth century was based on a premise: the energy was available 24/7 at a more or less stable cost. The renewables have broken this scheme: their production is intermittent. The traditional solution is to store that energy with batteries or pumping centrals, but the high cost of these facilities has dragged their deployment. Fernando Rodríguez, an industrial engineer of the energy sector, believes that the true revolution is not only to attract the usual industries, but to create those of tomorrow. The solution, according to Rodríguez, is that the industry adapts to energy until there is economic storage, and not vice versa: “The industry of the future will have to work with greater inventories, as was the case before the imposition of the imposition of the Just in time“ Flexible and modular manufacturing. The idea is to design industrial processes that can operate in full load when energy is almost free and reduce its activity or stop when it is expensive, without losing efficiency. It is already happening in adaptable industries such as recycling, large -scale 3D printing or desalination, which can program their consumption peaks for maximum solar generation hours. Concrete cases? In the United States, the Alcoa Warrick aluminum giant already adjusts its production to the available renewable generation. In Germany, the School of Engineers of Munich and Linde have designed an ammonia plant that works both 100% and 10% of its capacity, adapting to the production of Hydrogen Grandolytic. The industry will be where renewables are. Rodríguez believes that an industrial relocation will be necessary, and gives as an example the failure of the German “electric highways, a project to carry wind energy from the north to the industrial south that will end up costing more than 140,000 million euros. “Industrial companies must relocate near the new centers of gravity of electric production,” he explains. In Spain, this means taking factories to areas with more sun and wind, creating development poles in places that until now were not industrial foci. If energy is free, who will build the central? The cheap energy avalanche has an inevitable counterpart that puts the entire system at risk. If prices are zero, producers’ income are also. “Negative or zero prices discourage new investments,” confirms Sergio Fernández. “Especially in photovoltaic, those who are making numbers for new plants will see that their expected income in the market is lower than a few years ago and, therefore, also their profitability.” A nipe castle. This problem not only affects future renewable plants, but also the support that guarantees that we have light when there is no sun or wind: combined gas cycles. “As the price of the wholesale market falls,” says Fernando Rodríguez, “the growing opportunity cost will leave investments to generation, transport, distribution and marketing without investors and without financing.” The long -term danger is evident: a total break in the investment that leads us to an obsolete and unable to meet future demand. Without a robust system, there is no possible competitive economy. To take advantage of the industrial opportunity, Spain has to strengthen its nipe castle, and it is not enough to touch the prices artificially. The attack plan. The first bottleneck is the electricity bill. Although energy in the wholesale market is cheap, the invoice is still expensive. For Pedro Cantuel, the solution goes through a “drastic reduction in the final invoice eliminating taxes, bringing system charges to the general state budgets and reduce regulated costs.” The second problem is oversupply. How is demand increased? Cantuel proposes to “encourage electrification to replace the consumption of winter gas with electricity.” And at an industrial level, support great consumers “with the same mechanisms that our German or French competitors have, facilitating the connection of new demand to the network. Spain before its historical opportunity. A turning point that can allow the country to reindustrialize sustainably and become an energy power in Europe. But time runs, and it is essential to “create a national long -term plan that provides stability and certainty to the sector,” claims Cantuel, who defines as a priority “set clear rules for storage and new vectors, such as hydrogen.” The relationship between electric and the government is enquisted by the 7% tax on the generation. Consumers complain that the distribution toll “far exceeds real network costs.” Defining the rules of a competitive New Spain requires a country plan that puts all interested parties to row in the same direction. Without an ambitious and coordinated plan, today’s abundance could become the precariousness of tomorrow. In Xataka | The light price is … Read more

We can read the first stories of ‘Mortadelo’ written by Ibáñez. And they are quite different from those we know

June 8, 2025 by usatoday24

They are lThe most famous characters in the history of Spanish comics And his indisputable supervants, and yet to enter his very extensive work is a real odyssey. Between apocryphal authorsthousands and thousands of published pages, different formats and editorial misadventures that included, in their day, A magazine with Mortadelo and Filemón on the cover that could not name themtracing misadventures these icons demand time and patience. Luckily, things are changing. We all know the long stories of Mortadelo and Filemón, The albums that were published from the master ‘Atomic sulfate’. For many years, until the mid -1990s, the stories of the agents were divided between these periodic appearance albums and short stories (very often made by without accrediting cartoonists) on the other hand, which were published in Bruguera’s magazines. That, the brief and self -clusive history, was in fact the only format of Mortadelo and Filemón, between its creation in 1958 and its first album in 1969: short stories, costumbristas, and where all the paraphernalia of parody of the stories of spies did not exist. This first decade of the characters of the characters immerses us in an era different from the usual for Mortadelo and Filemón, which at that time starred in stories with the subtitle Information Agency. For them, names with useful use were considered, such as “Mr. Chloro and Mr. Yesca, detective agency”, “ocarino and pernal, special agents” and “sequin and trust, fine detectives”. As seen, the reference to the detectives was the order of the day, because they were a parody of Sherlock Holmes and Watson. In his first adventures, Philemon even had a pipe (and in a specific story he wore the coat and cap characteristic of the Baker Street detective). Who already looked uniquely similar to the current one was Mortadelo, but with a curious difference: then I already changed appearance, but I took the costumes of a bombin. This is an idea that, apparently, invented the distinguished Manuel Vázquez, creator of Anacleto, as he declared in an interview. He also had an sleepy gesture that would end up losing over the years. Both would end up softening their aggressive initial features, such as the Aguileña Filemón nose. Finally saved The edition of the short stories of Mortadelo and Filemón has always been immersed in chaos: meaningless selections, mixing apocryphal authors with originals from Ibáñez (although in this first decade, the unique author was him), from different eras and without context of any kind. Penguin Random House seems to have realized the treasure that he hosted in his catalog when he bought the rights of The entire Bruguera background And, after a couple of years with more or less compilations to use, it has begun to edit characters such as Anacleto, Saccharine, Superlópez Or, finally, Mortadelo and Filemón, chronologically. In that context we get the volume ‘The first 200 cases of Mortadelo and Filemon‘, A compilation that, for the first time, collects the first three years of the characters Without skipping a story. An Tebeíl archeology event that is accompanied by abundant texts that contextualize the proposal, at the hands of two experts such as Antoni Guiral and Jordi Canyssà. In this volume we can see not only how Mortadelo and Filemón were almost seventy years ago, but how Ibáñez’s humor was at the time: welcoming the Bruguera humor codes of a page, with ambiguities and gags bathed in a much more domestic style and of gentle costumbrista criticism. We have had the opportunity to talk to Guiral and Canysssà about this great edition, and we have asked them about what must have been a hard review and documentation work. Guiral tells us that “although there was information about when Ibáñez began to publish in Bruguera and what was the first published cartoon of Mortadelo and Filemón, we have started from scratch. That is, we have reviewed all the publications of Bruguera since 1957 to verify, really, what was the first Ibáñez joke published, which was the first signed and what was the first cartoon of the published series.” Canysssà continues to say that “it has been necessary to restore those pages to clean the drawing line as much as possible, because we must take into account that at the time they were published with low quality paper and with many printing deficiencies.” In that sense, says Guiral, “The main inconveniences have been to locate all Bruguera magazines and try to make reproductions the most faithful to the originals without losing quality. There is no public entity that has all this material, unfortunately, so we have had to resort to our collections and those of some private collectors. “ Canysssà adds that “it would have been ideal to be able to scan some of these pages from the originals, but, unfortunately, or they were lost, or destroyed, or are locked in a warehouse without being consulted. In ‘The first 200 cases …’ we could locate and scan a single original of this era. We reproduce it in the book and it is a real jewel. Without a doubt, the most interesting thing about this compilation is that Open the door to more systematic editions of the classics of our comic. Guiral acknowledges that “if it were for us, we would continue to collect all mortadelo and philasemón in chronological order. Everything will depend on whether this first volume works commercially speaking.” Canysssà concludes that “the public’s support is the key. Many pages are missing, many comics until they reach the long adventures of Mortadelo and Filemón that are so popular and that they constantly reissue. Header | Penguin Random House In Xataka | ‘Exterminius’: the alien photonovela that traumatized a generation from the pages of ‘Mortadelo’

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