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Mediumkt launches a new Apple Days with minimum historical prices of the store. iPhone, Macbook, iPad and much more on offer

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Mediumkt has renewed the Apple Daysa campaign centered on offers of devices from Cupertino. There is enough to choose from and many minimum historical prices of the store. In this article we will review its different categories focusing on the best prices. Of course, first of all it is worth mentioning that the campaign will end on May 21 at 09:00 hours. Mac Mini M4 by 629 eurosthe best price we have seen in the store to date in a team that already had a good value for money without being offer. iPhone 16 Pro by 1,049 eurosa much more tight price for one of the best mobiles of the Apple catalog. iPad Air (2025) by 649 eurosa good offer in the iPad Air that has been released this year. iPhone 15 by 709 eurosan ideal price if we are looking for an economic Apple mobile other than the 16E iPhone. MacBook Pro M4 Pro by 2,099 eurosa more tight price for one of Apple’s best laptops. Mac Mini M4 He Mac Mini M4 It is one of the devices with better value for money within the Apple catalog. In recent months we have seen it go down price, but not as much as in the Apple Days of Mediamarkt. Is on offer for 629 euros in its configuration of 256 GB of internal storage (SSD) and 16 GB of unified memory. Apple’s computer stands out in many aspects, but the most striking is its mini format – it is the computer I have and fits in the palm of my hand. Nor does any noise and their M4 chip It offers excellent performance. In addition, it is compatible with Apple Intelligence and includes a total of five ports Thunderbolt. * Some price may have changed from the last review iPhone 16 Pro If we talk about Apple’s mobile catalog, the iPhone 16 Pro It is one of the best, especially if we can also find it at a good price. Although since its launch we have seen it for a fairly expensive price, in the Apple Days it can be found by 1,049 euros (before 1,219 euros) in its configuration of 128 GB. He iPhone 16 Pro It is a high -end mobile that It highlights, above all, for its camerathat weights not to evolve too much with respect to the previous generation continues to offer great experience. In addition, it includes the new camera control buttoncomes with him Chip A18 Pro Apple and is also compatible with Apple Intelligence. * Some price may have changed from the last review iPad Air (2025) In Apple Days we can also find some offers in the field of iPad. One of the best offers is in the iPad Air (2025) That was launched this year. If we choose the configuration of 128 GB, it stays for 649 euros instead of the official price of 699 euros. He iPad Air (2025) that we find offer in Mediamarkt is the one that has been launched this year. Includes a screen 11 -inch IPS Liquid Retina And it comes with him M3 chipso it is also compatible with Apple Intelligence. In addition, it is worth mentioning that thanks to this chip we are faced with a quite powerful iPad. iPad Air (2025, 128 GB, M3, 11 inches) * Some price may have changed from the last review iPhone 15 If the prices of the mobiles of the current Apple generation do not convince us – and neither the benefits of the iPhone 16E-, a good way to make the leap to the Apple catalog is with the iPhone 15. It is still being marketed in many stores and Mediamarkt, during its campaign, it has it for offer for 709 euros In its 128 GB configuration. He iPhone 15 It is a high -end mobile that, despite not being of the current generation, continues to offer good performance thanks to Chip A16 Bionic. Of course, it is not compatible with Apple Intelligence. It stands out, among many other things, for its compact screen Super Retina XDR OLED of 6.1 inches and for their cameras. * Some price may have changed from the last review MacBook Pro M4 Pro If we are looking for portability, and not so much a desktop computer such as the MAC Mini M4, Apple has a good assortment of laptops. If, in addition, we are looking for a lot of power, the MacBook Pro with M4 Pro chip Now it has dropped in price during Apple Days. It still has a high price, but also a good discount that leaves it for 2,099 euros. He MacBook Pro That we can find an offer in Mediamarkt is the one that has a configuration of 24 GB of unified memory, 512 GB of SSD and Liquid Reina XDR screen of 14.2 inches. It comes with the M4 Pro chip that offers great power in practically all times. In addition, it has a fairly light and elegant design and Its theoretical autonomy reaches 24 hours. MacBook Pro (2024, M4 Pro, 512 GB, 14.2 inches) * Some price may have changed from the last review 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 | Mediamarkt and Buyardation (header), Apple In Xataka | Best iPhone. Which to buy and recommended models based on budget, tastes and quality price In Xataka | What iPad Buy. Apple tablets catalog analysis with recommendations depending on the use and budget

There was a day that the bird was synonymous with punctuality. May chaos demonstrates to what extent is the past thing

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Delays Delays More delays. And full stations, trains thrown by exasperated roads and passengers. The last month on the Spanish railroad has been especially bad and, in addition, he has assaulted at high speed which, until now, seemed a safe space for expected delays and inconveniences. An alternative. Since 2023, the government has been trying to position the train as the best alternative to the car. A year and a half agothe Executive proposed solutions to end short flights and prioritize the use of the train. That same year, given the increase in life as a result of the Ukraine War, the Government promoted its Public transport aidwhere trains had a leading role with Free fertilizers even. He wanted to take advantage to sell the benefits of this means of transport in the day to day and also, why not, as a tool to travel on vacation. Until this year, The aid has remained active. “Decades”. “The succession of technical incidents have plunged the rail service in a lack of unknown reliability in decades.” This is the first phrase of last statement from the OCU in which reference is made to the measures to be taken if you have been one of those affected by the delays and cancellations that have been experienced in the Spanish railroad in recent weeks. “The days when Renfe returned the amount of the AVE passage to arrive five or 15 minutes afternoons have been far behind and the repetition of incidents have progressively deteriorates the reliability of a service that, once, was exemplary,” they emphasize in the text. “Five or 15 minutes late”. It is no accident that in the OCU they refer to those “five or 15 minutes late.” In June last yearRenfe hardened the conditions to return money to users. Until then, arriving with a delay of 15 minutes allowed to receive 50% of the ticket. If the wait was greater than 30 minutes, the passenger received 100% of the ticket price. That is over. Since July 1, 2024, in AVE, Avlo, Alvia, Euromed and Interity Renfe only returns 100% of the ticket if the delay is more than 90 minutes. And until the delay does not exceed travel time the passenger does not receive at least 50% of the ticket price. It was the confirmation that The punctuality in Renfe was already a thing of the past. Its impact. We collected in Xataka That, in 2023, Renfe already had to pay 42 million euros, According to FACUA data. An amount that I could have ascended up to almost 70 million euros if all affected users had requested compensation. At the moment, there is no data on what has been the amount of last year and how this new policy of commitment to the traveler has affected in the second half of the year. Awful. It is the word that best defines Renfe’s last 15 days but could be extended further back. The difference is that in the last 15 days, delays, cancellations and collapsed stations have been more common than ever. On April 28, of course, the national blackout left all the trains that were circulating inoperative. More than a day later, Three of them remained disappeared. Days later, Copper theft in four points of the Madrid-Sevilla line and an incident of An Iroo train with a catenary caused chaos in the high speed line. More than 16,000 passengers were affected. Óscar Puente, Minister of Transportation, said that copper theft was not the ultimate goal and that the action hid a “Severe act of sabotage”. Doubts were also raised about the Iroo train incident. After ensuring that it was the train that broke the catenary, from the company they claim that This was already broken when the train passed by. More firewood. Last Sunday, incidents in the Madrid-Sevilla line were repeated again. Again, eight trains were affected by what long delays were lived throughout the afternoon. The first one was the most affected, arriving 144 minutes late in Madrid (from Seville) compared to the scheduled time. Given this situation, the OCU has launched the aforementioned statement and has indicated that companies are obliged to meet the following demands: Information as soon as possible. Refreshments from 60 minutes of delay, in quantity appropriate to the duration of the waiting. Accommodation if you have to spend the night. The power to choose whether you continue the trip by an alternative route or if you give up. Refund of the ticket price in case of giving up the alternative route. And they emphasize that the only cases in which the ticket price is not returned are the following: It was notified of the delay before buying the ticket. Alternative transport was taken and the destination was reached with a delay less than one hour. The delay is due to extraordinary circumstances. “Are there incidents? Yes”. “And I apologize but talking about rail chaos is a hyperbole.” With these words Álvaro Fernández Heredia defends, President of Renfe, of whom they ask that his position cease as a result of the delays lived in the last two weeks. According to Fernández Heredia, “two perfect storms come together: the effect of having abandoned the rail for 10 years more actions derived from the entire investment effort,” in an interview with 20 minutes. And he emphasizes that “this Sunday there were seven trains affected and more than 95,000 travelers who were not affected, who were arriving at the time.” Punctual? This is how they look in Renfe. On the occasion of the controversy for hardening the conditions when returning a ticket, from Renfe they published data related to punctuality. According to these, 87% of the AVE arrive in time and the figure grows to 91.5% when we talk about the Cercanías service. Despite this, out of high speed, today they have lived Importance delays in Catalonia. 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Bie million years ago symbiosis between two cells created a new kingdom in nature. We are trying to replicate the meeting

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About one billion years ago an event happened that would change our planet forever. It was not the first time that an event of this Tupo was happening, in fact, when something similar happened millions of years before, the ban was opened to the appearance of complex life on earth. This time it was the time of the plants. All because one cell managed to swallow another. 1+1 = 1. A team of researchers He is trying to recreate In a laboratory the conditions that gave rise to the appearance of the unicellular organisms of which all past and present plants evolved. The project, baptized as 1+1 = 1, has an objective that goes beyond the study of the evolution of these organisms, could give rise to new tools to use both in biotechnology and medicine. A first radical change. To better understand the experiment, we must return to these two key moments in the evolutionary history of the Earth’s Vira. The first of the events that would mark these changes took about 2,000 million years ago, although the estimates vary. This change occurred when a simple, prokaryotic cell, swallowed another and turned it to its organelle. The engulmed cell had the ability to produce energy from chemical compounds, which became a useful tool for the “host” cell, which made it its private energy center, The mitochondria. Having such a source of energy was what allowed this cell to evolve, generate an independent nucleus and then give rise to complex life. Second act. About a billion years after the appearance of the first eukaryotic cells, the story was repeated again: one cell swallowed another and turned it into something of its own, another organelle. On this occasion, the swallowed cell was cyanobacteria, an organism capable of performing photosynthesis. When integrating into a eukaryotic cell, cyanobacteria went to become a chloroplastallowing his guest to enjoy the advantages of photosynthesis. This change gave way to a new kingdom of life, that of plants. From symbiosis to total union. The integration process between cells was slowly surely: first individual cells would have become a symbiotic relationship. A relationship that, over the years (millions, perhaps) would give rise to total integration. Replicate the process From beginning to end in laboratory it may not be feasible, so the work focuses on the first steps, in creating a “synthetic symbiosis” that allows us to investigate the processes that gave rise to the formation of complex cells. The team responsible for this project wants to observe the process closely, Replicating this synthetic relationship between two organisms in controlled conditions. The chosen microorganisms are a bacteria, Burstar Parameciumand a unicellular algae, Chlorella vulgaris. The relationship they seek to replicate the nature symbiosis, in which the bacteria acts as a algae host. New tools. To carry out the experiment, the team turned to microchips designed specifically for this, which allow studying cells closely maintaining control of light, temperature and nutrient availability in these cells. To “force” symbiosis, the team put the bacteria under stressful conditions and studied interactions with the other organism involved. Methodological details can be consulted In an article Posted in the magazine Lab on a chip. More common than it seems. We have proof of two occasions in which these advanced symbiosis changed the course of life, but the relationships between unicellular organisms that give rise to endosimbiosis do not seem to be something strange. In recent years We have seen similar cases discovered in nature, for example The case of the algae Braarudosphaera Bigelowiiwhich absorbed a newly discovered cyanobacteria called UCYN-A. In Xataka | Luca, this was the ancestral microorganism that all current living beings emerged Image | Witting et al. (2025), Forschungszentrum Jülich / Degleex Ganzorig

His way of moving already begins to be familiar

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Humanoid robotics has ceased to be a field reserved for clumsy videos and laboratory experiments. Five years ago, Boston Dynamics marked a before and after with his robots Dancing to the rhythm of ‘do you love me?’. Since then, other companies have wanted to demonstrate that their automatons too They can move with ease. Now it is Tesla who claims that prominence with Optimusits bípedo robot, in a series of videos that, according to the company, show real advances without special effects. In The first of the recordings Shared this week, Optimus executes a brief sequence of rhythmic movements, trained entirely by simulation. Milan Kovac, Project Engineering Director, explained in X that The robot was trained with reinforcement learning and that the visible cable in the back did not support the automaton. I was only there for security, in case of fall. “It is an initial result that will become more stable very soon,” he added. Shortly after A second demonstration arrivedthis time without cables. Optimus appears moving more fluently, with steps that refer to contemporary dance. Kovac said that Everything is at real speed, without CGI, learned in simulation and transferred to the physical robot. He also explained that to achieve this it was necessary Improve the simulation modelapply techniques such as Domain Randomization and refine the hardware energy profile. “This is not just fun, it is applicable to practical situations such as the agile control of the full body,” he concluded. Real movements, nothing of CGI Tesla states that these advances are not simply an aesthetic exhibition. According to Kovac, all this simulation work aims to improve the ability of the robot to walk more solidly and adapt to demanding tasks in the physical world. Choreography, in that sense, is a way to try and show progress. Although videos have generated enthusiasm, Tesla is not alone in this race. Unitree Robotics, for example, has been showing their robots on social networks for months, From synchronized choreographies even boxing fights against humans. In that context, Optimus adds to a tendency in which the expressive movement becomes In a presentation letter For advanced motor capabilities. All this happens while Tesla continues to work on its ambitious goal of creating an autonomous robot of general purpose. Optimus is designed to execute repetitive, boring or dangerous tasks. To make it possible, the company develops dedicated technology, But it also relies on the advances related to their cars. For now, what we have seen are short demonstrations without complex interaction with the environment, but if the promises are fulfilled, the dance will only be the beginning. Images | Elon Musk In Xataka | Gemini’s conquest began in Android mobiles. Now you will flood your TV, your watch or even your car

This model that Openai presents as an improvement against GPT-4O would not reach Chatgpt. But now it’s here

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When OpenAI presented GPT-4.1 Last April he said that the model would be available only through the API. In other words, that your access would be limited to professional users who develop applications. But this has just changed. GPT-4.1 land in chatgpt. The artificial intelligence startup (AI) Hannounced that “By popular request”, GPT-4.1 will be available in its chatbot application. This alternative has begun its deployment among the users of the Chatgpt Plus, Pro and Team payment plans. Those who use the Entertainment and Edu alternatives will have access “in the coming weeks.” And what about Free users. As we have just seen, GPT-4.1, at least for the moment, it will be limited to those who take out the wallet. But Openai is deploying among all, including the free ones, to GPT-4.1 Mini, a more leading version (and less capable). There are more changes. The positions in the model selector are changing. The firm led by Sam Altman has decided to eliminate GPT-4o Mini. The natural replacement is GPT-4.1 mini that we have just spoken. More capable than GPT-4o. At least according to what OpenAI says, GPT-4.1 is more capable than GPT-4O. If we take into account this, this means that the company is opening a new flaggpt model. Stands out in: Ability to follow instructions. In the Benchmark Multichallenge in Scale, a test that evaluates how well a model follows instructions, GPT-4.1 reaches 38.3%, with an improvement of 10.5 points compared to GPT-4O. Long context. In Video-Mme, a test focused on the understanding of long and multimodal contexts, GPT-4.1 marks a new maximum: 72.0% in the “Long without subtitles” category, surpassing GPT-4O in 6.7 points. PRogramation. GPT-4.1 achieves a 54.6% score in Swe-Bench Verified, improving at 21.4 points to GPT-4O and in 26.6 points to GPT-4.5. An alternative to O3. In the scope of programming, Openai says that GPT.4.1 can become an alternative to O3, its most advanced reasoning model available at this time. This is interesting because GPT.4.1 is not a reasoning model per se, but OpenAi seeks to combine the capacities of its standard models with the reasoning models in the future. Images | OpenAI + Photoshop | Levart_photographer In Xataka | OpenAi plans a future IPO. It is the definitive step to become a profit company

900 people are driving at the same time and democratically a virtual car on Google Street view

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Every time you connect to Roadtrip Internet You will be at a different point from the United States. At the time of writing these lines, specifically, I am in Freeport, a town located in Cumberland County, Maine. Internet Roadtrip is a collective experience that uses the exhaustive map of Google Street View to organize an online experience of collective discovery. Instant in instantaneous. How Internet Roadtrip works. Very simple: you just have to connect to The game websiteand we will meet the controls of a vehicle. We and the rest of the people who are connected at that time, normally between 700 and 900 co-conductors. Every nine seconds, the web asks that it be voted in one of the possible addresses, and the one that has the most votes is the one followed. And so on to infinity. At this time the thing is not exciting, because the Maine road It seems never to end and can only be circulated in one direction, but the thing improves: cities, crossings of roads and depopulated areas are some of the key moments of the trip. Gagá Radio Until touching the horn or the station that is heard in the car (although the unwritten rule, which is discovered after chatting for a while with the rest of the travelers, is that they do not skip stations) are actions subjected to vote. The stations are real and come from authentic stations that broadcast from sites near the places through which the car passes: thus attentive to irrelevant detail is this trip through deep America, and it is that placidity and democracy of decisions that this website has turned into the relaxing internal experiment par excellence of the moment. Internet belongs to everyone. The trip does not have been going too long: it left last Tuesday from Boston, and for the moment the car has failed to leave the next state. Its developer, Neal Agarwal, recognizes in 404 average that its inspiration was another recent and counterintuitive collective experiment: ‘Twitch plays pokémon ‘an experiment that has already turned a decade And in which visitors to the game’s Twitch channel tried, based on continuous voting, advance in a game of ‘Pokémon’. The result was much more erratic and demential than this internet Roadtrip, where Google brands are followed, that is, there is no way to end upside down in the gutter. Some precedent. It is not the first time that the Internet embarks on such a trip: in 2018, the writer and photographer Matthew Musprat toured the United States using only Street View, side by side and crossing sixteen states … while physically lived in Rwanda. Before him, like They counted in Wired When detailing Muspratt’s feat, a couple of people traveled from San Francisco to New York in ninety hours, at clicking, as quickly as they could and carefully plan the trip. Muspratt’s trip had some contemplative, stopping to observe the landscapes whenever he wanted. More and more sophisticated. Pandemia promoted this type of virtual trips in its day out of necessitybut initiatives like Internet Roadtrip are made for pure pleasure. Technology also provides new ways to face it. For example, You can travel in time Until eighty years in the past with the historic images taken by Google. Or Google’s AI can be used to generate routes from photos Taken on a trip. Although the authentic dream of Agarwal is that these collaborative trips can really be made, with an autonomous car controlled remotely. For that. But maybe not too much. In Xataka | The Google Maps car captured a man with a sack in a remote town in Soria. There are now two detainees for murder

of nuclear veto to small renewable support reactors

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The blackout that affected Spain and Portugal on April 28 He has revived the debate of renewables and nuclear. An discussion that has overreach the borders of the Iberian Peninsula and the country’s reference country is discussing it: Denmark. Short. Lars Aagaard, Minister of Climate, Energy and Public Services of Denmark, has confirmed in the Politiken environment that the government is evaluating the possibility of raising the veto to nuclear energy. In addition, he has indicated that the evaluation process will take a year and focus on the pros and cons of reviving nuclear energy. The nuclear past. Denmark made the decision to close the door to the nuclear in 1985. That period was marked by the accidents of Three Mile Island and, a few years later, Chernobil, so he ended up sealing the Danish rejection of a technology seen as dangerous and unpredictable. And what do you want? The Danish minister has mentioned that the analysis will focus on small modular reactors (SMR), a technology that promises shorter construction times and lower financial risks than large traditional plants. However, many SMR are still in the design phase or waiting for regulatory approval, What a question raises about its short -term availability. A little note. SMRs are advanced nuclear reactors with a power capacity of up to 300 electric megawatts per unit, which represents about a third of the generation capacity of conventional nuclear reactors. These reactors can be assembled at the factory and transported to the installation site, which facilitates its deployment in areas with limited infrastructure or in combination with renewable sources to provide a generation of flexible electricity and low carbon emissions. The Danish energy matrix. More than 80% of electricity From the country comes from its wind farms on the high seas, consolidating as a totally renewable country. In addition, it is interconnected with its neighbors, Sweden and Norway, which supply hydroelectric and nuclear energy almost immediately. Voices found. The debate on nuclear energy has polarized the Danish Parliament. As has detailed The Financial Times, four right -wing games have requested to meet with the minister to support nuclear as reinforcement of the electrical system. While the most environmentalist sectors have warned about the risks inherent to nuclear energy and the possibility of diverting funds and care of renewable energy investments. On the border. Neighboring countries the discussion is lived differently. On the one hand, Sweden has Three reactors in operationbut the current government He is trying to reopen More nuclear plants. On the other hand, Finland Inaugurated a central which has evidenced budgetary problems around nuclear projects. For its part, Norway, although a little further from Denmark, has chosen to focus on hydroelectric energy, staying outside the nuclear debate. Forecasts Denmark is at an energy crossroads. With a matrix based on renewable energy, the country must decide whether to continue betting solely on them or consider nuclear energy as a strategic complement. The experience of its neighbors, advances in SMR technology and the global context of energy crisis will be determining factors in a debate that promises to be long and controversial. Image | Andy Dingley Xataka | China’s energy paradox: an ‘electrostate’ that continues to feed on coal

Ryanair has been carefree for time for delays on his flights. And in Zaragoza a judge has decided to make him pay

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There are sentences that seem anecdotal but, basically, have their importance. When a judge opts in favor of one side or another it is important because he is not only offering his vision of a fact, he is raiding the way for, in the future, his sentence is taken as a sentence for a similar case. When these decisions are made by a superior court, it is called jurisprudence And it serves, as we said, to apply the same criteria in the future. In spite of everything, the conclusions of the lower organs are also important because they can serve as the basis for defense or accusation later. That is why it is important to attend to the results that Ryanair is receiving in the courts. In recent months, with the Fund government finemost of the news that arrives are related to the collection by the cabin suitcase. Sentences that are important because, even, Justice itself does not seem to agree. Despite this, the company continues to receive complaints for another series of reasons. A few days ago the case of an old man who was prevented from returning to Spain was viracied because Ryanair workers assured that the document with which he was flying was not valid. They defended that the permanent ID, that in Spain it is given to people with more than 70 yearsit could not be used as a legal document to fly. Now we have known that Ryanair has received a new varapalo. You will have to compensate a passenger for the delay of a flight. Not because of the fact of being late, specifically because the judge who has led the case is clear that the company did not put all possible means to ensure that the flight left in time. Lighting, which is gerund The news brings it eldiario.eswho echoes the judgment of the Court of First Instance number 10 of Zaragoza. Its headline has confirmed that Ryanair will have to disburse 250 euros to compensate for a passenger who saw his flight delayed in three hours. The important thing here is that the judge points out that nothing extraordinary did not happen so that The flight will be delayedpulling the main defense argument of the company. This allegation is what the airlines usually use to try to deny compensation due to a flight delay, such as It can be read on the company’s own website. According to the claims platform. (who has led the defense of the passenger)many times they are told passengers that “they have no right to compensation because the incidence has occurred due to a cause of force majeure that was unpredictable for the airline, but that in many occasions the end of this argument is to avoid economically compensating passengers because in reality such extraordinary circumstance has not been produced.” In this case, the defense of the passenger claimed that the company could have had an alternative plan if they had taken the appropriate measures. Something that the judge coincides who in her letter has stressed that the company was aware that the flight was going to be delayed because in its previous route the plane was already traveling late. However, he did not launch any alternative plan and limited himself, exclusively, to delaying the next flight. For the judge, aware that the flight between Porto and London already circulated with a “serious delay”, the company should have contemplated how it could prevent the flight between London and Zaragoza from being delayed. Instead of letting the dominoes fell, in Ryanair, they should have sought a way to Avoid this last delay But, instead, they simply maintained their initial plan and waited for it to be replicated on the flight of the affected passenger. In her letter, the judge also emphasizes that “the fact that a plane is assigned to several flights in a short period of time only obeys a business decision, cost reduction, etc. but that gives rise to assume a clear risk that an incidence in one of them affects all the remaining flights assigned to the aircraft.” That should not be a reason, however, to correct the problem. The judgment of this Spanish court follows the line of the decreed by the Court of Justice of the European Union (TJUE) That last year he sentenced that airlines have to compensate passengers whenever they fail to demonstrate that they took all reasonable measures to avoid a delay, even in the face of “extraordinary circumstances” that has been based on what their defenses have been based so far. Photo | Ryanair In Xataka | Ryanair has found a new formula to win more for a ticket: force you to 100% digital shipment

Saudi Arabia wants to become a new power in data centers. Nothing is clear that I can do it

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Donald Trump has made a unique tour of several countries in the Middle East, and among the agreements that are considered surprising: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar want to invest billions of dollars in the construction of data centers for ia. The question is whether they will do so. Chips for strategic alliances. The Biden administration had largely limited the number of advanced chips from which these countries could access, but Trump’s mandate is changing things. As they point out in The New York Times, AI chips seem now to be a useful argument to strengthen relations with countries with this Trump newspaper “has deep financial ties and business. “Qatar already plans donate a Boeing 747-8 which could end up being used as the new Air Force One. Saudi Arabia on the one hand. Nvidia and AMD have reached an agreement to sell their professional GPUS to Humain. This newly created company – it belongs to the country’s public investment fund – It has the objective to create a large data center in Saudi Arabia. The agreement with AMD raises An investment of 10,000 million dollars in infrastructure in the next five years. Humain will supervise the development of these data centers, while AMD will provide chips and software. Arab Emirates attached to the other. As indicated In Bloombergthe Trump administration is considering reaching an agreement that would allow United Arab Emirates to import a million Nvidia chips. Eau could thus buy 500,000 of those chips per year until 2027. A fifth would be reserved for the G42 firm of Abu Dhabi. Saudi data centers. Nvidia, meanwhile, will sell 18,000 Your GB300 chips To Saudi Arabia. This was announced by Jensen Huang on Tuesday, which will contribute clearly to the Humain projects, which propose with data centers with a joint “1.9 GW” power “in 2030. Those 18,000 chips will apparently be part of the” hundreds of thousands “of which the Saudi project will be nourished. Possible “resale” to China? The United States restricted the sale of advanced chips from AI to China in 2022, and there are those who fear that countries in the Middle East end up serving as intermediaries so that the chips that the US allows you to sell there ends where they should not. G42 theoretically cut ties with Huawei to reach an agreement of 1.5 billion dollars with Microsoft, but the suspicions about the situation persist. Saudi Arabia and its megaprojects. As points The analyst Ed Zitron, countries of the Middle East such as Saudi Arabia have been talking about all kinds of megaprojects for years, but one thing is their promises and another realities. It occurs with the Jeddah Tower, MUKAABhis Pharaonic airport And of course The Line and his futuristic city, Neom. All these projects still have a long way to go, and this new Saudi ambition, although more “contained” in terms of dimensions, is equally complex for a country without experience in this area. There is energy … Countries like Saudi Arabia have abundant energy resources and in fact there are A strong investment in solar energy. Its application to provide power to those data centers, yes, it is not so easy, as they are discovering In the United States. … but no (much) water. The problem is that these data centers dissipate a lot of heat and the desert environment is not exactly the idea for this type of facilities. Extraordinary cooling solutions are needed and the country has scarce water resources. Desalination plants are A pillar of its strategic plan, and innovations may also go into play in the field of refrigeration such as closed circuit systems or Direct liquid cooling. Image | Neom In Xataka | New York Bitcoin miners are buying old power plants. New Yorkers are not happy

The relays are turning the plan into an open war

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Installing a relay seems easy. Until it is. In this new installment of ‘Domotize or die in the attempt‘, Ana Boria faces one of the key steps of the connected home: Convert traditional switches into manageable devices from the mobile. It seems a simple technical step, but it is enough to see the video to understand that things are not so simple. “New relay, allegedly well installed,” Ana starts. What follows are tests, errors, stairs and an application that keeps the settings … if you insist enough. Because sometimes it is not enough to do well: you have to keep “five times” and go through several menus so that the changes are applied. Lost hours for a design failure that would end up despairing anyone. While Ana Lidia with the installation, the opinions of her co -workers are divided. Mario has it very clear: “Ana Boria, You are looking at the RAE Success and your name comes out“But Ana’s boss is not so convinced:” Too head and persistent has been. “ And, in between, Alex, his partner, who enters the scene when things are complicated at all. There is a scene that summarizes everything: “If there are flames, you let me know,” he says just after making changes in the electrical panel. There are no surreal moments. Relays that do not fit on the switches. “Cosos Naranjitas” that seemed good idea, But they can no longer be returned (Spoiler: They bought them solely). Attempts to put everything as it is. Tests that lengthen more than the account and end phrases like “I have gone to goat.” Self -imposed zancadillas and an installation that, at this rhythm, goes for many more days than expected. Are there relars to install? Yes. How long does it take in each? It depends on the day, humor and whether the application wants to collaborate. ¿And the smart lock? ‘Domotize or die in the attempt’ is a reflection of what many of us could live if we aspire to achieve the same results as Ana. How is this story moving forward? Find out in our video. Images | Xataka In Xataka | There is a new fever among ultra -ups: fed up with technology, they want houses as “dumb” as possible

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