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Grandmothers have always taken chairs to the street to chat. In Granada they have encountered a problem: the police

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Santa Fe is A municipality of the Vega de Granada (Granada) of Luenga Historia and somewhat less than 15,000 neighbors that has just sneaked into headlines From the whole country for a peculiar motive: to have declared war on such an entrenched custom, as grenadine, as summer and apparently as peaceful as taking chairs to the streets to chat the fresco during the sunsets of the summer. Or so They interpreted it The networks until the mayor has been forced to take the floor to calm the spirits. The controversy has stirred a curious question: Can the grandparents continue enjoying long talks forming corrosons on the sidewalks, sitting to the fresh? The origin of everything: a tweet. The check From the Local Police of Santa Fe in X it does not reach the thousand followers, but holds the dubious honor of having published one of the most controversial tweets of recent weeks. The reason? On Tuesday, May 27, early in the afternoon, the police station launched A message in his profile in which he warned about the risks of placing chairs on the sidewalks to chat. “We know that taking chairs or tables at the door is a tradition in many villages, but public roads are regulated. If the police ask to withdraw them, do it out of respect and coexistence. With civism and common sense there are no discomfort,” he said The messagewhich in a matter of a few days has accumulated 6.5 million visualizations, around 6,000 responses and It has been replicated in media All Spain. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Why’s that? More than for the message itself, for the image that accompanied him and the association of ideas he suggested. The notice of the Local Police of Santa Fe included A photograph in which you could see a group of six old women sitting quietly in the semicircle in front of a house, on the sidewalk. Plastic and folding chairs. Pleasant chachara. And a group of elders enjoying the fresco of the sunset after a hot day. An almost traditional scene that we have been seeing in the streets (both in Santa Fe and other peoples) and cinemas without to date having generated the slightest controversy. And the scandal arrived. It doesn’t matter that the rest of the Santa Fe Local Police publications accumulate just a handful of Likesor comments. The famous grandmothers’s tweet ended up viralizing, jumping to media like South Canal, ABC, The Spanish either local newspapers and unleashing a heated debate in X in which the sneer and indignation were combined. “Enough impunity for grandparents who take the fresco when the afternoon falls. All the weight of the law”, Ironiza A user. “Handling and misrepresented”. The controversy climbed to such an extent that a few days ago the mayor of Santa Fe, Juan Cobo, granted An interview To the Cope chain to clarify what they allow and what do not allow municipal ordinances and what the police really wanted to convey with their famous message. The talk It has hung in full On the official website of the City Council and basically clarifies that the elderly of their breaks on the sidewalks have never wanted to deprive. “It has misrepresented. It seems that there are no more important news,” He lamented The mayor. A for “uncivic” attitudes. Although The tweet of discord It was accompanied by the photo of a group of old women sitting on chairs on the sidewalk, smiling and in peaceful attitude, Cobos nuances that the message was actually intended for other people: those who occupy the public space of the town with “uncivic” attitudes. From there, he says that no one in Santa Fe pretends to prohibit the elders of the town that they continue to take chairs to the sidewalk at sunset to hold quiet conversation and at schedules in which they do not bother the rest of their neighbors. “No one will prohibit our elders from going to the door, feel and enjoy the fresco. Not much less. This is intended for those who, doing uncivic acts, put themselves at the doors with the excuse of taking the fresco, cut the streets, put barbecues, sing, touch the guitar and leave everything in that way,” Cobo precisewhich ensures that the municipal police station receives an “avalanche” of calls from people who complain about that kind of behavior. The key: the regulations. The mayor It goes further And remember that what is and is not allowed is regulated in an ordinance prior to its arrival at the Consistory, a rule that seeks to guarantee “the coexistence and rest” of the residents of the people. “What they are doing is to remember that there is an ordinance, that the fresco can be taken, but without disturbing others,” The councilor insists In reference to the tweet. “People who get up at five at six in the morning have the right to rest.” “Our elders who have the absolute certainty that they will be able to continue taking the fresco as until now,” The first mayor remarks Before complaining that the news about the supposed war of Santa Fe against afternoon on the sidewalks has come out of mother, with statements that he believes “manipulated.” In summary: the elders of the people can continue enjoying such an entrenched, so peculiar tradition that there are Who thinks which deserves to be a World Heritage. Image | Santa Fe Local Police (X) In Xataka | Aragon wanted his children to eat more fruit at school. So he went to look for her 10,000 kilometers away

The first fotonic cubal immune to errors is already ready

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The development they have experienced Quantum computers During the last decade it is amazing. This discipline is no longer attractive only for the research centers linked to some of the most prestigious universities on the planet; The governments of the United States, China, Germany, France, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, Canada or Russia are some of those who have openly manifested The strategic character that has for them Quantum computing. However, a good part of the greatest advances that we are as witnesses come from the private company. Google, Intel, Honeywell or IBM are some of the companies that are bidding to make possible the innovations required by the challenges that this computing paradigm has placed in front of us. Experts agree that There is still much to dobut the two greatest challenges that need to be overcome to make the tuning of fully functional quantum compute error correction that guarantees that the results we read are the correct ones, and also the scaling of the number of cubits. In fact, both challenges go hand in hand. Xanadu invites us to tie the future with more optimism than ever Xanadu’s trajectory started in 2016, but what placed this young Canadian company in the center of the debate in early June 2022 was the article published in Nature in which Jonathan Lavoie, his scientific heading, and his team explain how they achieved achieve quantum supremacy. Interestingly, in their project they used a programmable quantonic quantonic processor that they baptized as borealis and is able to operate at ambient temperature. The Lavoie team managed to solve in just 36 microseconds a problem in which a classic supercommer pertrected with the best available algorithm would have invested 9,000 years. However, this is not all. In addition, these researchers assured that their technology had allowed them minimize your hardware imperfections and reach a computational advantage in execution time 50 million times higher than that they have thrown other computers that also resort to photonic quantum processors. Xanadu’s quantonic quantonic processor can be manufactured using the same photolithographic technology used in the production of chips that reside inside our computers and smartphones Whatever the most shocking thing is that at that time, exactly three years ago, Lavoie and his team assured that they intended to be ready before this decade is a quantum computer of a million cubits endowed with the ability to amend their own errors. One of the greatest buzas in favor of the Xanadu scientific team is that its photonic quantum processor can be manufactured using the same photolithographic technology used in the production of the chips that reside inside our computers and smartphones, which opens the door to its mass manufacturing. However, the most interesting thing is the strategy that the team led by Lavoie has devised to make possible the scaling of its quantum hardware until it is able to bring together one million cubits. What he pursues is, in broad strokes, interconnect his quantum processors using a fiber optic network with the purpose of can exchange quantum information and face the same problem in a coordinated way. The most obvious advantage that this approach puts on the table is that, if everything goes as Xanadu researchers have planned, nothing will prevent them from continuing to climb their quantum hardware beyond one million cubits. In any case, these scientists have not wasted time for the past three years. Just a few hours ago they have published an article in Nature in which they describe with great detail the characteristics of their new silicon photonic cubits resistant to errors and integrated into a chip. It is the first time that a team manages to demonstrate the proper functioning of a quantum integrated circuit like this. Very broadly, your strategy is to overlap many photons to encode information in a way resistant to errors. This does not imply that quantum computers endowed with the ability to correct their own mistakes are already ready. To be viable using photonic technology it is necessary Optimize manufacturing and packaging processes with the purpose of mitigating optical losses throughout the platform. Anyway, there is no doubt: this achievement of Xanadu is very important. We will follow the track closely. Image | Xanadu More information | Nature In Xataka | Bitcoin encryption and other cryptocurrencies will fall. And those responsible will be quantum computers

If the question is what you can play on Nintendo Switch 2 from day one, the answer is: To all this

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The authentic core of experience with a console: games. We already have one Switch 2 In our hands and we are already starting to taste its catalog, but there is much more on the horizon. And although the fat The rest of the exclusive Announced by Nintendo at the time, they are to come, for the moment we have at our disposal a good selection of titles. These are all the games with which you can throw the first hours at the Switch 2 controls. Mario Kart World The undisputed launch course, which you may have if you have acquired it in pack with the console. The idea of ​​the open world, but In our tests In first the truth is that everything seemed ‘Mario Kart’ to the nth power: fun, perrearies, superb graphics and all focused on accessibility, immediacy and revelry. Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour A technical demo on the possibilities and secrets of the console, a little in the style of the ‘Astro Bot’ of PlayStation 5, but also with a controversial point: it costs 10 euros. Even so, along with ‘Mario Kart’ and until next month, he is the only exclusive First Party of the console in its launch. The last Zelda, in Switch 2 edition The best Nintendo games in recent years, in graphically improved versions. ‘Breath of the Wild‘ and ‘Tears of the Kingdom‘They will have 60fps resolution, improved textures … and the Companion app ‘Zelda Notes’, which allows from any smartphone Receive aid to solve the multiple challenges of the games. If you have them, it is a good idea to access this improvement, and if you are missing, or think about it. Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition One of the games that promises to squeeze the technical specifications of the Switch 2, in an edition that includes The main game and the excellent expansion Ghost Liberty. The first impressions we are having are highly positive, with a free edition of Bugs and superior to those of other portable deviceslike Steamdeck. Yakuza 0 – Director’s Cut A new version of this review of the origins of the franchise, originally launched in 2015: improved graphics, new scenes, unpublished multiplayer mode and Spanish translation. All madness and countless options for the series games, in a perfect opportunity to resume the franchise. Hogwarts Legacy The best -selling game last year, in an edition of Switch 2 that does not bring news (except for the inevitable visual face washing with respect to the first switch), but which presents a new opportunity to enter the magical world of Harry Potter. If you escaped at the time, here you have it again, to take the Magi in your pocket. Fortnite An essential of this first batch of games given its gratuity, which includes all the extras of rigor and also, apparently, has a very remarkable technical finish, and that puts it up to the PS5 or Xbox series versions, with very notable visual effects. Let’s add the resolution at 60 fps and the possibility of playing with the exclusive mouse controls of the console and we will have the best option to play ‘Fortnite’ in portable format. Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer It is not the new ‘Mario Kart’, but huh: one of its most significant grandparents, an authentic classic of the driving arcades dating from 1993. Among the improvements, Time Attack mode and improved graphics. The art of a good skid, here and now. And what about the musicte: another dimension. Gamecube games: ‘The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker’, ‘Soul Calibur II’ and ‘F-Zero GX’ Three Classics of Gamecube will be available for all users signed to Nintendo Switch Online with the expansion package. The adorable link Cel-Shadingviolence with swords, furious speed … These three classics of the Nintendo cubic console come with online game in the case of ‘Soul Calibur’ and ‘F-Zero’, and all have improved graphics and customization of controls. Fast Fusion Of course, if yours are the driving arcades, Switch 2 has an imposing catalog: to the aforementioned classics and, of course, ‘Mario Kart World’, adds Fast Fusion, an exclusive switch 2 clearly connected with F-Zero or, more specifically, with Wipeout. Up to 4 simultaneous players with a single game, infarction speeds, aggressive futuristic driving and a novelty: the possibility of creating new ships combining others. And besides … Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster: The classic 3DS classic JRPG with renewed graphics, new content and interface redesign Deltarune Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4: The hopeful chapters 3 and 4 of the acclaimed new game of the creator of ‘Undertale’. With the first two also available, of course. Fantasy Life I: The little thief of time: Mixture of JRPG and simulation to the ‘animal crossing’, in a sequel to the very popular title of Level 5 that reaches Switch 2 with better graphics and load times reduced. Hitman World of Assassination – Signature Edition: The three adventures of agent 47 launched between 2016 and 2021, which are far from being dead, because the new content does not stop arriving. Includes all DLCs. KUNITSU-GAMI: Path of the GodDDESS: This mixture of Hack’n’Sash and Tower Defense It is one of the indie games (although it is signed by Capcom) more raptors last year. Nubunaga’s Ambition: Awakening: Reissue with all the extras included from the latest delivery of the strategy saga set in feudal Japan. Puyo Puyo Tetris 2s: Sonic Himself It makes an appearance in this game that includes multiple options for the competitive game and that proposes the fusion of two of the best known (and addictive) puzzles of history. Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma: Farm and action management: shock of gender apparently incompatible but that meet in this game that also has graphic adventure elements … and dating play. Sid Meier’s Civilization VII: Last delivery of the acclaimed strategy saga, which acquires the extra point of so many games on this list: possibility of portable game, but with mouse Sonic X Shadow Generations: The … Read more

Today’s cars are more expensive because they have filled with technology. And that has another added cost: go to the workshop

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Too much electronics. It was one of the usual criticism when electronics began to take the controls of cars mechanics and it became difficult to know what was failing without a diagnostic machine. Since then, the weight of electronics has not stopped growing but in the last five years its weight is so great that facing a breakdown compromises any pocket. And there is data. 60%. That is what has grown up for repairing a vehicle in the last five years, according to A study by Valuepenguin.comspecialized in personal finance, collected by Automotive News. The data is problematic because this is united an extra cost in the price of insurance and, therefore, a general increase in the maintenance of the vehicle. The data refers to the US market where they indicate that the average cost of having a new vehicle was $ 12,297 per year in 2024, experiencing a increase in $ 115 compared to 2023. Here you take into account the price of paid monthly payment, insurance, fuel … Less accidents but more expensive. The study ensures that the evolution of the systems have helped to report 25% less notices to insurance but, also, an increase in them because repairing the technology of a new car is extremely expensive and complex. Thus, the average cost of insurance in the United States is $ 2.101 a year. In Motorpasion They collect that these repairs are extremely expensive when we go to the most advanced security and driving help systems. Repair or replace the digital mirrors of a Audi e-tron It costs between 800 and 1,500 euros. Parking sensors (exposed if you park on the street) may have a cost of between 275 and 900 euros if they have to replace them, according to 20 minutes. And the prices of the rear view camera are around and exceed 1,000 euros. Too complex systems. The biggest problem facing who has had an accident with a new car is that the number of establishments where you can repair your car are scarce. They point out in Automotive News that manufacturers force the workshops to start an extremely exhaustive protocol to calibrate the systems. And it has logic because “a misaligned sensor in a single grade can divert its operation between 1.68 and 91 meters,” according to Hami Ebrahimi, commercial headquarters commercial for Calliber Collisionspecialists in the repair of safety systems for the vehicle. They ensure in the middle that adapting the facilities to be able to carry out these repairs can have a cost of between 600,000 and 1 million dollars per workshop. That are also not used. The paradox is that it is not entirely clear to what extent these systems are being used. According to JD Powerthe reports of unhappy customers because they do not fully understand how to activate driving aid functions or have problems with them have shot themselves in recent years. This leads customers to omit their use. Cars have been filled with a very expensive technology, Little used And that, in addition, it is extremely expensive to repair. And it is important to do these repairs because, as they point out in Automotive Newsthe interconnection of systems means that if, for example, we do not repair the sensors of a bumper we will be disabled by emergency braking functions, an aid that is only visible when you need it most. And that are mandatory. At least in Europe, where institutions force our New cars arrive as standard With the following security assistants: Reverse camera with cross traffic alert Emergency braking Lane output alert Smart Speed ​​Assistant Fatigue and drowsiness detector Black box Belt alert in the rear seats Systems to install an breathalyzer Increasingly complicated. All this results in maintaining a car is increasingly complicated. First because these systems have helped a Increase the vehicle of departure but also to a rise in insurance that In Spain they are marking records In 2025. To this we must add the fuel price increase. Issues that especially affect the low range and the prices of second -hand cars. The first because the floor of the price of the car has risen with systems that, According to brands like Daciathe client turns off just get on them. The second because the increase in the new car Raise the used price And, in addition, it makes it difficult to The client passes through any workshop to solve the possible problems that arise over the years. Photo | Maxim Hopman In Xataka | The purchase of a new car is now very expensive. And the industry knows that it can’t hold it

How to copy just a part of a message on WhatsApp on the mobile instead of having to copy everything

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Let’s explain How to copy fragments of a WhatsApp messageso that you do not have to copy it whole and then have to go erarating things if you only interest a part. It is like a second layer when copying a message, since you first have to highlight the entire message and then you can choose inside the part to copy. This is a function that is starting to arrive but it is not yet for everyone. We already have it enabled in WhatsApp for iPhone, but for Android it is not yet. Therefore, many users will have to wait or install the version WhatsApp beta To try to receive it before. Yes, this is something that you have been able to do on whatsapp web or in the application desktop versions, since you can select the text fragment directly with the mouse. However, the novelty is that a method is already beginning to reach the mobile. Copy only a part of the message on WhatsApp The first thing you have to do is enter the chat from which you want to extract a fragment of one of the messages that have been written. Once inside, hold the message from which you want to extract the fragment. That will make the complete message you have chosen be highlighted, and that the options to answer, forward etc. appear. Do not do anything, and instead keep your finger on the message itselfand not about any of the options. With this, within the message you have highlighted, the options for select a specific fragmentwith buttons at the beginning and end of the selection you can move. When something is selected, you will be able to copy it or share this fragment. In Xataka Basics | How to create Stickers on WhatsApp with your photos from the stickers section itself

How to connect Google Drive U OneDrive to Chatgpt to upload files from the cloud and ask the AI ​​about them

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Let’s explain How to upload files from your cloud to chatgptconnecting your Google Drive U OneDrive accounts. With this method, you can upload texts, PDFS or other documents and then make Chatgpt questions related to them. This is a slightly hidden option, because It is only available in the web version of chatgpt. Therefore, in the mobile application you will not find it, you have to resort to the browser. We have been able to prove the function both in the free version and chatgpt version, although it is possible that some users still do not have it. Connect Google Drive U OneDrive to Chatgpt What you have to do is start a new chat with chatgpt. At this beginning of the conversation, click on the + icon To upload files. This icon has it down to the left. When the menu is opened, click on the option Add from applications That will appear. When you do, choose the options for Connect Google Drive either Connect Microsoft OneDrive. Choose the option you want. This will take you to a page where you have to choose the Google Drive U OneDrive account that you want to connect. When you do, you must Confirm that you want to give chatgpt access to the Google or Microsoft account. You will have to give him permission to do it. Now, it returns to chatgpt, clicks on Add from applicationsand inside you will see that The account you have connected already appears available. For example, you will put Google Drive as an option instead of connecting it. Click on the cloud from which you want to upload a file. This will lead you to a document where you can navigate the folders and choose the file What do you want to attach to chatgpt. Do it and choose that one you want to make a pergund. Once you have chosen the file, you can Ask Chatgpt what you want On this document, which will appear on the screen as added. When you do, the AI ​​will answer the question looking only at the data in the chosen file. In Xataka Basics | The best PROMPTS to save working hours and do your homework with Chatgpt, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

The bombers were not alone

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Since June 1 was revealed The Spiderweb operationthe undercover attack that Ukraine had been prepared 18 months in an offensive with unprecedented drones on the air bases of Moscow, a question has been in the air: the reach of the offensive. Many figures have been said about Affected bombersalthough each side differs in the way of reflecting it. Now, satellite images offer a vision without a doubt of the real magnitude of damages. Surgical operation with AI. Now we know that the offensive has marked a turning point in the war by revealing, with images from the official space and videos, the hole to the most strategic assets of Russian aviation. As We already countcoordinated by the Ukraine Safety Service (SBU), the operation used advanced drones equipped with Artificial Intelligence Algorithms That, in cases of signal loss, they completed their missions autonomously following preprogrammed routes. Explosive loads were automatically activated when reaching the designated objectives, a capacity that combines technological autonomy with surgical precision, and that underlines a New sophistication level In the unmanned war. Debris cleaning at the Olenya Air Base as of June 4 Visual confirmation of damages. Initially, the Ukrainian authorities announced the destruction of up to 41 aircraftincluding strategic bombers TU-95ms and Tu-22m3as well as early alert planes A-50. However, the New datathen confirmed in parallel in a Washington Post analysisverifiable confirm the destruction of at least Eight Tu-95ms and four Tu-22m3which represents a significant loss, even if it is less than the first statements. A closer view of two TU-95ms aircraft destroyed in Olenya Belaya In the Belaya Air Base, high -resolution satellite images show the calcined remains of three Tu-95ms and four TU-22m3, all apparently located in active operating areas, indicating that they were fully functional units. In Olenya, in northern Russia, impact and fire brands confirm the destruction of At least five aircraftincluding three TU-95ms and an AN-12 transport plane. He counted the post That although these types of images are complex to interpret, the experts of the Middlebury Institute, together with independent consultants, identified patterns consistent with Total or severe destruction of aircraft. Besides, Videos from drones Ukrainians show a TU-95 line parked before the impact, and it was possible to verify intense fires in areas where, Until May 22several Tu-22 were visible. These evidence underpin the statement that Belaya was the main objective of the attack. Olenya, seen after drone attack, in June 4 images Blow to command capacity. The attack also pointed against the vital A-50 Alert aircraft at the Ivanovo base, although at the moment there is no clear images that demonstrate total destruction. Yeah There are videos in which drones are observed directly reaching these platforms, whose number was already limited before the war. Of the nine A-50 assets that Russia possessed at the beginning of the invasion, at least two had already been destroyed and Another was damaged In Belarus. If new losses are confirmed in Ivanovo, it would be a critical blow to the Russian air detection capacity, because these devices are not only scarce, but also extremely difficult to replace. Another Tu-22m3 destroyed in Belaya Damages to be confirmed. In other bases such as Dyagilevo and Ukrainka, the images They do not show obvious damage for now. However, the possibility of minor damage due to shrapnel cannot be ruled out, since this type of impact is not always visible from space. Some analysts They have confused the placement of tires on the wings of the airplanes (Russian tactic to interfere with the guided systems) with calcined remains. The final confirmation will depend on future images, although the active cover -up of Moscow and the displacement of aircraft could hinder the most precise analysis. That said, many experts conclude That, if there had been an aircraft destruction, it would not have been hidden in such a short time, suggesting that the bases were probably attacked, but without effective or significant successes. Military impact Beyond the numbers, the relevance of the attack lies in its symbolic and strategic character. And, the destroyed bombers were not alone. They were armed With missiles of KH-101 cruise and ready to launch attacks against Ukraine. This not only validates its legitimate objective status, but also underlines the real vulnerability of the most expensive and valuable assets of the Kremlin. The fact that there is no practical way to replace TU-95ms or TU-22m3, both out of production for decades, converts each loss into A permanent wound For Russian strategic aviation. The satellite evidence and the SBU videos show the drones directly impacting the aircraft loaded with missiles. Repercussions and strategy. No doubt, the attack forces Moscow to Reconsiderate deeply The posture and dispersion of their bombers, which must now operate from farther and less vulnerable bases, reducing their effectiveness and response time. The operation He has sown concern visible even among Russian crews, some of which have begun to Paint references to the aircraft destroyed in their own ammunition. If you want also, this internal psychological reaction betrays the scope of the coup: the Ukrainian assault has broken the feeling of invulnerability that surrounded Russian strategic aviation, and has shown the world that not even its nuclear bombers are safe from an asymmetric, precise and technologically advanced war. Image | Maxar Technologies In Xataka | The undercover operation of Ukraine has left an irreparable hole for Russia: its nuclear deterrence has jumped through the air In Xataka | In 2024, Ukrainian trucks disguised as “house” entered Russia. Now they have dynamited their main air bases

Japan has been a test laboratory for years to encourage birth. And he doesn’t have good news for the world

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Neither The aid. Nor the facilities for access education. Nor the improvement of working conditions. Not even attempts for Exercise “Casélro” and create new couples. The repeated attempts of the Japanese authorities to reactivate their Merm Birth They are clicking on bone and have not prevented the country from closing 2024 with a bleak demographic panorama. Its fertility rate is minimal, births have fallen below the barrier of 700,000 per year and the number of deaths far exceeds the babies. Thus, the country faces a question that They have been Considering analysts: what can a government really do to encourage birth? Can you avoid collapse by looking for everything to the measures of Economic cut? Birth. 2024 has not been a good year for Japanese demography. His Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare has just confirmed it in A balance Desorator and confirms that, despite all its efforts, the country has not yet found the appropriate key to avoid collapse. Among all their data there are two special worrying and that give an idea of ​​the descending drift that is drawing its birth: the fertility rate and births. Last year the global fertility rate (the number of children that a woman would have if she lived until the end of her fertile life) It stood at 1.15. A bad result twice. Not only is it 0.05 points less than in 2023, but it leaves that indicator in historical minimums. This is the lowest recorded data From at least 1947which further away to Japan from the one known as Replacement ratethe necessary number of children (2,1) to maintain a stable population without taking into account immigration. In Tokyo that indicator It does not arrive Even 1. A fact: 686,000 babies (and down). The other devastating fact for Japanese demography is that of the number of births. In 2024 the Japanese Ministry of Health accounted for 686,000, 5.7% less that in 2023. It is the first time in addition (at least since 1899, when the official registration began) that the number of annual lighting was below the 700,000 barrier. The Japanese authorities already had the birth would cross that psychological red line, but they expected it to do so within several years. The forecasts of the National Institute for Research of the Population contemplated that 2024 be closed with some 755,000 new babies And that the births would not fall below the barrier of 690,000 to a decade and a half, in 2039. The predictions were pessimistic, but they have fallen short: that threshold crossed 15 years earlier than expected. ASAHI remember In fact, the 2024 data has coincided with the worst projection drawn by the body. Losing population. The data of the Ministry of Health show only the photograph of the native population resident in the country, excluding both foreigners born in Japan and Japanese born outside their borders; but reveals a serious problem in the demographic engine of the nation. The reason is simple: more Japanese die than they are born. The 686,061 babies scored in 2024 remain away from the 1.6 million of deaths (1.9% more than in 2023). That translates into a negative balance of 919,237 people, around 70,000 people more than the previous year. To understand what this data supposes in practice, Nikei Slide that equivalent more or less to lose all Kagawa in a matter of 12 years. That hole also adds to those that Japan has been suffering over the last years. After all, it carries almost two decades supporting more death than births, which is reflected in Evolution of its total population. A small ray of light: marriages. Among all these negative data the balance of the Ministry of Health leaves one in positive: the number of marriages. The organism registered 486,0632.2% more than in 2023. They remain at low levels and below half a million, but leave the first increase in two years. And that is very relevant to birth. Although in Spain and other EU countries it is increasingly common That couples have babies without going through the altar, in Japanese society births outside marriage or de facto couples are still rare: Nikei remember which in 2023 represented 2.5% of the total. A matter of state. Japan is not the only nation that dealt with birth problems. Something similar happens to South and China. And like them the Japanese authorities have deployed A wide fan of measures to try to reverse the trend that include from children’s subsidies or measures that facilitate education for initiatives to Promote creation of new couples. “Focusing children related to children and parenting is something that cannot expect or postpone,” warned two years ago! Fumio KishidaJapan’s Prime Minister until last October. The problem worries enough to Tokyo for its executive It would be proposed Raise public aid by son to levels similar to those of Sweden and thus avoid that the nation lost “its ability to operate as a society.” That same year the government announced An ambitious plan to encourage birth to deploying a millmillionaire investment. Can you solve with money? That is the question that leaves the last demographic balance of Japan and that have been raising analysts for a long time, both inside and outside the nation. Are economic -economic policies enough to encourage birth? There are those who indicate that at least these strategies must be accompanied by deeper changes and even A rethinking of certain ideas and attitudes rooted in their culture. In 2023 Tomas Sobotka, deputy director of the Institute of Demography of Vienna, He pointed out some keys that feed the demographic crisis and that go beyond subsidies or married policies. The list includes the delay in the age of motherhood, cultural and social changes that lead to young people choose to remain single and without children, a change in the homes themselves, the greatest presence of women in the labor market and a philosophy of life that prioritizes professional ambitions and leaves little time available for parenting. … Read more

Amazon, Mediamarkt, Fnac and more

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The day has arrived. The Nintendo Switch 2 It has been officially launched and can be found in some stores. Reserve it in recent days has been a complicated task because the console was exhausted in practically all stores. Fortunately, with the official launch the thing has changed, since there are units in stores like Amazon or Mediamarkt. In this article we will review some of the stores where you can buy the console. * Some price may have changed from the last review Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World * Some price may have changed from the last review Stores where you can buy the Nintendo Switch 2 Amazon Booking the Nintendo Switch 2 on Amazon has been a titanic task, especially in recent weeks. Now that it has already been launched, you can buy without, apparently, no problem, and as mentioned by the same store You can receive the console tomorrow (June 6)although it can vary depending on the time you buy the Switch 2. In addition, Amazon allows the console to be financed in four installments (23.39% TAE) or four installments (23.4% TAE) in the case of choosing the pack. These are the two available settings: Nintendo Switch by 469 euros (provisionally exhausted). Nintendo Switch + ‘Mario Kart World’ by 509 euros. Mediamarkt Although Mediamarkt has been one of the few stores that has regularly maintained open reserves, in recent days the Nintendo Switch 2 was completely exhausted. However, after its official launch, it has added units again. He also mentions that the delivery date is June 6, but we remember that the date can vary depending on the time we buy the console. Mediamarkt also allows financing the console, in this case in 10 installments (20.69% TAE) or 12 installments (20.71% TAE) In the case of choosing the pack. It can be found in two configurations: Fnac One of the stores that has maintained stock of the Nintendo Switch 2, at least in recent days, has been FNAC. The store has returned new units – yesterday they sold out promptly – and mentions that you can receive it in 24 hours for a price of 2.99 euros of shipping costs or for 0 euros if you collect the console in store. FNAC supports PayPal paymentso you can finance the console from this platform. Switch 2 can be found in two configurations: Carrefour From afar, Carrefour is one of the stores that has maintained the stock to reserve the Nintendo Switch 2, although there is a great “inconvenience”: you can receive the June 16 console. In addition, it is worth mentioning that if you are going to buy the console from Carrefour, there are third -party stores that have the console with a very high price, You must choose the option that says “Sold by Carrefour”. The store allows the console to be financed in 10 installments (7.38% TAE) or in 10 installments (6.9 TAE) in the case of choosing the pack. It can be found in two configurations: PowerPlanet Finally, PowerPlanet is also another of the stores that stock has had during these last days, although it has been somewhat irregular because at certain times it was exhausted. However, after the official launch has added new units. You can receive the console on June 10 and you can select a large range of options to finance it. Of course, it is worth mentioning that prices are quite high in the store: Irregular stock stores XTralife Xtralife is one of the stores that have had the most packs to book the Nintendo Switch 2. Unfortunately they are exhausted and for the moment you cannot buy the console in the store. However, it is foreseeable that today, or in the next few days, he can receive stock, so It should be aware in the event that you want to buy from this store. These are the packs that the store has (for the moment without stock): The English Court The same happens, to some extent, with the English Court. The store this morning had no stock, but right now has added console units along with the video game of ‘Mario Kart World’. If you want to buy the console from this store, these are the configurations: My Nintendo Store The official Nintendo store carries without having stock for a few days and for the moment it still does not add new units. However, as in the rest of the stores, if you prefer to buy it from the official store, it is worth mentioning several things: for now there is no stock, but if you want to buy it here You may need a Nintendo Switch Online account To do so, since it was one of the requirements to reserve the console. Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | 3Dgos, Nintendo In Xataka | The best accessories for your switch: covers, transport bags, batteries, and more In Xataka | What Micro SD card for Nintendo Switch buy. Better recommendations and 10 outstanding models

China has emerged a new problem with its rare earths: smuggling

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China is deploying police, customs agents and even spies to stop the smuggling of its increasingly precious Rare earthcritical minerals on which it maintains an official embargo. Why is it important. The Asian giant The world production of these materials is obsessively controllingessential for the car, technological and military industry. Its new anti -policy campaign aggravates even more the shortage that US and European companies are already suffering, who are not finding short -term alternatives. The context. China cut legal exports of seven types of rare earths –and magnets manufactured with them– last April 4. The measure is part of a pressure strategy for the United States to reduce tariffs on Chinese products and allow the sale of sensitive military technology to China. Yes, but. Smuggling had historically been an escape valve. Chinese organized crime unions came to traffic half of the country’s annual production before 2010. Multinationals such as Boeing, Volkswagen and Toyota depended on supply chains where legal and illegal production was mixed, according to a report from The New York Times. Between bambalins. Senior customs, trade, police and intelligence services met on May 9 to Plan the offensive. Three days later, representatives of eleven national ministries and seven provinces issued a joint statement: the control of strategic mineral exports is “related to national security.” In detail. The new license system demands thorough documentation. Complete traceability. Chinese companies have to certify not only who buys the material, but how it will be used at each subsequent stage of production, including photographs of final products. This information, in addition to avoiding smuggling, can also become a detailed map of the use of rare earths abroad for the Chinese government. And that would facilitate future attacks directed against specific companies and countries: they will know who will produce what. The facts. Traditional smuggling routes have been complicated: With the scarcity getting worse outside China and prices shooting, the potential benefits for smugglers willing to assume the risk are enormous. But new security measures make the game more and more dangerous. Outstanding image | Lio voo In Xataka | China has executed three master moves to break the technological dependence of the West. The sanctions were his best gift

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