Mobile Tech & Gadgets

A car rental company has fined a customer with 100 euros for smoking behind the wheel. The only problem is that he never did

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Should you smoke inside the car? The debate is a pédiagudo and has gained strength in Spain in recent weeks after the balloon was dropped that smoking could be prohibited from the wheel in our country. The reasons wielded range from the health of the rest of the passengers (especially if the driver travels with children) to the possible distractions that a cigarette can cause. But where Smoking is prohibited It is in rental cars or in shared car services. That is what a driver has discovered to whom a company the carsharing platform Thousandsvery widespread in Berlin, has punished with 100 euros of sanction because it ensures that it briefly smoked up to four times. However, the driver alleges that this is not possible. He says not only that he has not smoked in the car, he emphasizes that he is not even a smoker. A black box for smokers The story is brought by our German companions of Gamestar Tech. They explain that, as in Spain, neither in their carsharing vehicles is allowed to smoke. To control it, cars have a small smoke detector that launches a sound warning when it records that someone inside the vehicle is smoking. According to the company, this notice rang up to four times on a three -kilometer journey that lasted 10 minutes. The driver does recognize that the detector rang but defends himself by ensuring that he is not a smoker and that, of course, he did not smoked inside the car. In your article, Gamestar Tech It shows the activity peaks registered by the smoke detector in which the four, supposed, smoke snacks that the driver expelled. The sanction on the part of the company is 100 euros but the driver says he has no intention of paying it. To try to get rid of the fine, the sanctioned contacted thousands, the carsharing company, but these were limited to showing the report with the four peaks of activity. As in the case of defective AI When reviewing the damage to a rental car, we are facing the evidence that the driver and the company are in unequal positions because one has alleged activity records and the driver has no way to prove that it is A “non -smoker”. Although the case of this driver is the last one, it is not much less unique. In social networks You can read similar complaints of other drivers who have had problems with the service of Miles, ensuring that the detector began to whistle without having reasons for it. In all testimonies a sanction is mentioned by the company of 100 euros. Some even point out that they have charged this amount up to three occasions. In the case of thousands, the detector is designed by Bosch and it is common to find them in rental vehicles. In the Consumer Information Association Austrian highlights the case of a driver who lived a similar situation. This time with a rental car and an economic punishment that reached 300 euros. The Bosch system boasts to be able to discern if a person has smoked or simply has a smell of tobacco impregnated in clothes. Therefore, I should be able to discriminate if really The driver has given or not a draft to cigarette. In addition, they claim to use artificial intelligence to send a signal to the center that manages fleets when the detector has been activated to give notice and, thus, to be able to manage the car cleaning more quickly. Photo | Thousands Mobility and Hans Isaacson In Xataka | Smoking ends on the terraces and beaches: socially makes sense, scientifically not so much

For months Ukraine turned a strategic city into impregnable. Until Russia added a lethal partner to his drones

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The Summer offensive From Russia in eastern Ukraine, launched in May, has been advancing on the battlefield On multiple frontsexploring and attacking with small and fast units as the fighting intensifies day by day. With his advance, Russia has changed The rhythm of warcapturing more and more square kilometers. However, for many months, one of the bloodiest battles has taken place in a single enclave. Prolonged defense. For months, the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk became one of the most fierce epicenters of the war, where kyiv’s forces managed to stop a numerically superior enemy thanks to intensive use of armed drones and staggered defenses that worn thousands of Russian soldiers. This bastion, located on important reserves of coquizable coal and that worked as a key point of the supply lines to the east, has been subject to a constant siege since last year, first through frontal attacks and then through Fence attempts. Fiber as a disruptive. Although the Ukrainian resistance managed to stop these advances, Russia has gone adapting their tactics with greater deployment of drones, finally including the models than We have been talking In recent months: those Drones with optical fiber Impossible to block with electronic warfare systems, capable of achieving objectives up to 25 kilometers after the front line. Human and logistics cost. The price of this slow offensive has been devastating for Moscow: tens of thousands of casualties accumulate around Pokrovsk, with soldiers sent in Precarious conditionssome recruited in criminal colonies with just a week of training, other wounded or poorly equipped. Many were released in almost suicidal wavesadvancing on foot or motorcycles to avoid drone detection, in groups of just half a dozen, replaced again and again after each failure. Russian prisoners They reported that the greatest fear in the battlefield were not tanks or artillery, but Small Ukrainian quadricopters that bombarded from the air without rest, generating psychological terror and nightmares between the troops. kyiv, meanwhile, He suffered the pressure Of a hostile environment, with supply routes subjected to the fire of drones and artillery, which forced to cover roads with protection networks and to face increasing difficulties to supply food and food to the few civilians who remain in the city. Russian adaptation. Underlined a report Reuters that Ukrainian resistance, organized with the experience of units such as called “Da Vinci Wolves” And under the command of General Mykhaylo Drapatyi, he managed to maintain the line during more than a yearapplying counterattacks and hindering enemy logistics. However, Russian numerical superiority, key road control and the introduction of new technologies began to Tilt the balance. The calls “Kill Zone drones” They cover kilometers on each side of the front, making reinforcements and supplies on both sides. Russian advances, although limited in territory, accelerated in The spring of 2025with the greatest Ukrainian territorial losses of the year concentrated in this sector. Pokrovsk’s partial fall, although symbolically minimized by Zelenski, could release Russian military resources and open the door to greater progress in Donbás, approaching Putin to one of its fundamental objectives. Strategic implications. Background, Pokrovsk represents the paradigm of the wear war that today defines the conflict: minimum territorial advances achieved to a exorbitant human costwith drone technology as a decisive factor on the battlefield. For Ukraine, its resistance has been a crucial brake that prevented Russia from consolidating control, Especially Donetskbut the price has been the almost total destruction of the city and the loss of its logistics function. For Russia, the eventual conquest of Pokrovsk would serve to reinforce its control over the eastalthough he has succeeded by sacrificing thousands of soldiers, many of them poorly trained and equipped. If you want, the battle illustrates the transformation of modern combat, where the troops are trapped in a new war era defined by drone swarms, electronic war and mass attacks that make each meter live in a victory … with very little to celebrate. Image | US Air Force In Xataka | The 1500 RAM truck is an American national emblem. For some reason, it is being important in the war in Ukraine In Xataka | We already know what Russia’s trick is to multiply its drones: it is called “cooling units” and comes direct from China

Look for 4,000 volunteers with these requirements

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There was a time when payment cards occupied space in the wallet and could be forgotten at home. Today, most already lives on our mobile. In public transport, that transition is still slower. But if you use the transport fertilizer of the Community of Madrid, there is an important novelty: very soon you can take it on the mobile. No physical cards. At least, in theory. Because it will not be for everyone, or in any way. A pilot test for 4,000 users. The implementation of the digital transport fertilizer starts with a controlled test. The Community of Madrid has invited 4,000 people to participate in the first official pilota phase designed to validate the operation of the app, analyze the behavior of readers on the network and collect data on the real use of the system. Not everyone can access this option immediately. Participation requires prior registration, and those selected will receive custom instructions to download the app, digitize their physical card and start traveling with the mobile. This first phase will have an estimated duration of 12 weeks. How the app works and what do you need to use it. The operation is simple: you digitize your physical card through the new mitarjetatransporte app, and from there you can bring your mobile device to the access or validator lathe where you start your trip, as if it were a physical card. But not any mobile is worth. To join this test you need a device with Android 9.0 or superior, technology NFC and the application Google Wallet installed. The virtual card is not managed from the original app, but is saved directly in Wallet. And if you have an iPhone, for now, you will stay out: this first version is only compatible with Android. The cards that can be digitized. The MY transport card is only compatible with the Personal Public Transport Card (Personal TTP) and, more specifically, with monthly type fertilizers. They are out of this test: The children’s card The blue card Annual fertilizers Non -personal or other users Digitization is designed for individual and exclusive use. Register is not automatic: thus you can participate in the test. Sinning to this pilot test requires a previous step. It is not enough to have the app or compatible mobile: you have to fill out a Official form available on this link and wait confirmation. In that form some key data are requested, such as the model of your mobile, the Android version and the email you use on Google Wallet. Once the application is sent, you will receive a proof. If everything goes well and you are selected, you will get an email from testappcrtm@madrid.org With the download link and the steps to start. You have a two -week margin to complete the process. You digitize your card, but physics stop working. When you activate the virtual card, physics is deactivated. It is not a copy or a duplicate version: the system transfers your payment to the mobile and leaves the original card useless. It is a complete change, although reversible if later you decide to return to the physical format. This measure seeks to avoid fraud and ensure that each payment can only be used from a single support. Therefore, if you are thinking of trying the app, it is convenient to be clear that there is no immediate back: you have to request it if you want to return to the physical card. What tickets and fertilizers can you use from the mobile. During the test, the virtual card allows you to keep the titles already loaded in the physical TTP and acquire new ones from the mobile. The following are available: Personal titles: monthly transport fertilizer Non -personal titles: 10 trips, airport supplement, tourist ticket Annual titles and those associated with non -compatible cards, such as children or blue are out of this version. The system also does not allow the use of simple tickets from the app. What if something fails? Thus the problems are reported. It can happen: this is a test and the consortium needs to know what fails. For that they have enabled a form within the app itself, where you can report errors in the discharge, validation, recharge or general operation. You can also write directly to testappcrtm@madrid.org. It is not necessary for the failure to be serious: even a small detail helps improve the system. If everything goes well, you can also leave comments or suggestions. And if any validator does not work, remember: you can consult and show the balance of your card from the app. That serves as proof in case they ask you to justify that you carry the active fertilizer. Other important limitations that you must take into account. Before throwing you, some limitations should be clear. The virtual card does not replace everything. For example, you will not be able to use it to access free parkings linked to public transport, since the system is not yet enabled at those points. In addition, participation demands commitment: if you do not make real use during the pilot’s weeks, they could cancel you. It is not enough to download the app and leave it there. And an important detail: the link to download the app will only be active for two weeks. If not complete the process within that period, you will have to start over (if you allow it). After the pilot, the digital card will remain active. The use of the digital card does not end with the test. Once the pilot ends – previso with a duration of about 12 weeks – users can continue to use their digitized TTP without returning to the physical card. The objective of the consortium is to progressively extend this option to the set of users. But, for now, there is no confirmed date for its general implementation. This phase will be used to evaluate the system and prepare the ground for its complete deployment. … Read more

Japan has been teaching tsunamis evacuation routes for years for years in the most Japanese way possible: with video games

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The memory is fragile, especially under the panic of a tsunami alert. But the Japanese have shown that they are prepared to evacuate the coastal areas. It is no accident. Japan has been exploring innovative methods for years to train its citizens. Context. He Magnitude earthquake 8.7 near the Kamchatka Peninsula He has put on the entire east coast of Japan, forcing almost two million people to evacuate their homes. Although the waves did not exceed the meter and a half, the sirens reminded the Japanese an uncomfortable truth: when the water approaches, every second and each decision tells. And that is precisely the problem of drills: people do not always pay their attention. Given this challenge, several Japanese universities have been developing and perfecting a solution that unites the most vital need in case of Tsunami with one of the largest passions in the country: video games. The 2011 memory. To understand why Japan has been trying to “gamify” the evacuations, you just have to look back, to the 2011 earthquake. That disaster, which left more than 22,000 dead and missing, revealed the critical failures in the evacuation plans. More than 60% of the evacuees used their car, convinced that they would reach a safe place faster. The result was a predictable chaos: monumental traffic jams that caught thousands of people in flood areas. The reality is stubborn. Although the authorities usually recommend evacuating on foot, recent surveys showed that about 50% of the Japanese would come back into the car against a Tsunami alert. This creates an incredibly dangerous scenario, where pedestrians and vehicles compete in a race desperate for survival. It is in this context where digital drills make more sense. They can recreate the chaos of a mixed evacuation of cars and pedestrians to levels to which a physical simulation does not arrive, managing to train citizens for the real dangers they will face. Virtual reality and unreal Engine. The Nippon Institute of Technology developed a simulator with an aseptic name: application of evacuation training against Tsunamis. Based on real evacuation techniques, it is not an action video game, but a virtual reality application based on the Unreal Engine 4 graphic engine that puts the user in real Japan locations with a high risk of Tsunami. The simulator asks you: “What should you notice in this situation?” and the user must touch on the screen the element that considers a risk or an opportunity. It can be a traffic light, a tall building designated as a refuge, a pedestrian about to crossly cross or a car that skips a stop. To motivate users to practice daily, the app incorporates gamification elements, such as a stamps system for completing training with constancy. Do you really work? To validate their effectiveness, the researchers conducted an experiment with 25 citizens of Nishio. First, the participants carried out a virtual evacuation in an immersive simulator, equipped with a virtual reality helmet (HTC Vive Pro Eye) for foot evacuations and a car wheel. Their behavior was measured and asked what they considered important during an evacuation. The results, published in the magazine GeosciencesThey were revealing. After using the app, the participants were much faster and more effective when identifying immediate hazards in their surroundings, such as pedestrians or other vehicles. However, they still had difficulty detecting important but distant elements, such as a hospital or a high building that served as a refuge. Their attention focused on what they had right ahead, especially the elderly, who took longer to respond and had lower success rates.

This is no longer about ideas, it goes from industry

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Everything indicates that coexistence with Humanoid robots It will cease to be exceptional sooner rather than later. Before crossing with style androids’The Bicentennial Man‘, we are likely to see in our day to day more contained versions, functional and charismatic, such as the robot of’Sunny‘, The Apple TV+series. Although resorting to science fiction to imagine the future does not convince everyone, it remains a useful tool to put an image to what could be to come. ‘Her‘, with Joaquin Phoenix and the voice of Scarlett Johansson, he did more than a decade ago: He anticipated with disturbing precision the type of link that begins to come true today with Chatgpt’s most advanced voice modes. China wants to be in the center of that revolution. It has been incurred in artificial and robotic intelligence for years, two industries that advance more and more united. This week, as a statement of intentions, He has exhibited More than 150 robots in an international summit held in Shanghai. A sample of force, but also a track of what is coming. Futurist showcase to realities laboratory The WAIC 2025 It hasn’t been another fair. For four days, Shanghai became a showcase of the present – and not only of the future – of humanoid robotics. Hundreds of robots paraded through the event, in what is already considered the most ambitious alignment ever gathered in China. More than 80 specialized companies participated in the exhibition, and at least 60 models made their world debut. But it was not just a matter of numbers: the relevant thing was to see how these machines begin to acquire form, functions and meaning beyond the laboratory. The new robotic fold arm, fed by the VLA de Tencent language model, was one of the protagonists of the event. His proposal goes beyond mechanical precision: Combine vision, language and action in the same system. The robot understands what is asked, analyzes the context in which it is located and generates movement plans autonomously. You can reject absurd orders, adjust your movements if you detect errors and respond in a consistent way during a conversation. All this allows you to face dynamic tasks with unpublished flexibility in industrial robots. Unitree, meanwhile, opted for motor expressiveness: from calligraphy to boxing, through a new humanoid robot designed as a personal assistant. Deep Robotics focused on real deployment: its quadrupeds are active in more than 600 environments, from electrical installations to educational centers. Keenon, with his Bípedo Xman robot, points to the services sector. And Cyborg Robotics presented the country’s first heavy load humanoid, aimed at demanding industrial tasks. Humanoid robotics lives a turning point. According to Jiang Lei, one of the key voices in the development of corporate in China, told Global Times that The industry is going from theory to practice. The new generations of robots no longer only observe or execute scheduled routines: they perceive their environment, adjust their movements in real time and face complex tasks with a precision that already touches the millimeter. That opens the door to real applications in sectors such as health, trade or logistics, where the margin of error is increasingly narrow. Click to see the original publication in x Although the achievements are visible, the challenges persist. The United States maintains leadership in fundamental aspects of humanoid movement, such as biomechanics and locomotive autonomy. But many believe that China is beginning to stand out on other fronts: large -scale production capacity, massive access to data and iteration speed. It is not just a matter of algorithms: it is a matter of system. China not only wants to make robots: wants to export them. And he has taken advantage of the event to highlight it. In emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, its offer Technology is finding fertile terrain. There, the demand for automated solutions for electronics, semiconductors or industrial processes is growing, and Chinese manufacturers are trying to respond with solid, reliable and competitive proposals. Images | Artificial World Intelligence Conference (WAIC) In Xataka | Entering Google or Apple was always the dream of university students thanks to their salary and conditions. Now it’s a nightmare

Generate day energy and hunt asteroids at night

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At the time they seemed the future of solar energy for their ability to follow the sun with oscillating mirrors. Today the solar concentration plants, which direct the light by heliostats towards a large central tower, They cannot compete with photovoltaic prices collapse. But when a door closes, sometimes a window opens to the universe. Short. A pilot project in the United States has begun to take advantage of these gigantic mirrors when the sun falls for the Planetary Defense. For the day, heliostats generate energy concentrating sunlight in a tower connected to steam turbines. At night, they defend the planet of potentially dangerous asteroids. The figures are devastating. The thermoelectric solar energy has lost the battle against photovoltaic by win. In 2023, the world installed the record figure of 345.5 gigawatts in solar panels, but the solar thermos I barely added 0.3 GW in total. And what is worse, since then construction is not started of no new plant. Although Spain, the world leader in concentration technology, maintains its centrals working, other projects are canceled or reconvisaged. Morocco has replaced the Termosolar part of the MEGACOMPLEJO NOOR MIDELT by photovoltaic after qualifying it as “immature and face technology”. And iconic projects, such as the gigantic Ivanpah plant in Californianow face their closure for not being able to compete with the low price of photovoltaic kilowatt. Save the planet, and incidentally investment. Given this panorama, what can be done with these huge and expensive infrastructure? John Sandusky, scientific researcher at Sandia laboratories, has been turning an idea for almost 20 years. “Heliostat fields do not have a night job. They are simply there, without using,” Explain in a statement. “We have the opportunity to give a night work at a relatively low cost to find objects close to Earth.” The proposal is not to use heliostats to take photos of the sky. Its optical quality is not enough to form crisp images such as a telescope. The genius of the proposal, embodied in a Study of the late 2024 That has already been put into practice, lies in using what these mirrors do best: concentrate light. A lot of light. How it works. The traditional method seeks in the long exposure images the steles that the asteroids leave when moving against the fund of fixed stars. Sandusky’s method is radically different and is based on frequency analysis. Instead of aiming at a fixed point, the plant’s software causes the heliostats (mirrors designed to follow the sun) oscillate, sweeping a small portion of the sky at a constant and repetitive rate. The light of the stars, swept at this constant pace, generates a signal in the tower receiver with a specific and predictable frequency. It is the “tone” base of the sky. If an asteroid crosses that field of vision, moves at a different angular velocity from that of the stars. This makes the light that reflects generates a signal with a slightly different frequency from that of the “tone” base. It is a tiny change, but measurable with current technology. And can be used to detect asteroids due to its speed relative to the stars. From theory to practice. A team has demonstrated its viability using a single heliostat, and is already working to climb the project to a large solar plant to increase sensitivity and to detect smaller and more distant objects. Even tracking satellites and other objects in the cislunar space, to sell the idea to the space force. Sandusky’s idea is a masterful example of lateral thought. Instead of building new and very expensive observatories, it reuses a multimillion -dollar infrastructure that would otherwise be inactive half of the time. A technology that fights to survive in the competitive energy market and that could find a second life, a second job. Image | Pexels In Xataka | It was inaugurated in 2014 as the largest solar thermal energy plant in the world. Will close after setting fire to birds

Someone has made a ranking with the greatest fines in the history of Spain and an old suspect is in the lead: Ryanair

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The fine imposed by the Government of Spain to Ryanair is the highest in the history of our country. The more than 100 million euros of sanction exceed all the records we had until a few months ago. To get an idea, the highest fine until then was just over three million euros. These are the most large fines and the companies that have received them. The highest. Without any discussion and without competitors. Ryanair received a sanction of 107.78 million euros last November 2024 on the occasion of his hand luggage policy. The sanction did not arrive alone and also punished Vueling (almost 40 million euros) and Easyjet (almost 30 million euros) for the same issue. However, Ryanair’s traffic volume is so high That by punishing the same fact repeatedly, the economic amount for the company is very high. So much so that, as we see, the two companies that accompanied him in it were well below the punishment to the Irish airline. Unprecedented. The list with the 15 toughest fines imposed by Spanish entities to companies operating in our country has collected Facua. This classification shows how, before the sanction to the airlines, the toughest fine had been for Unicaja and had stayed at 3.17 million euros. At that time, the Junta de Andalucía punished Unicaja in a package that extended to other banks that had imposed land clauses to their customers in mortgages. Rapier It was considered abusivehe entailed a very small fine with Ryanair’s. Despite being the first until very recently, Ryanair’s fine is 3,400%. Who appears? In addition to the aforementioned airlines, Norweigan was also part of that package and slipped between the 10 largest sanctions in our country. In between, Movistar (receivable in the time of the calls), CaixaBank (soil clauses), Vodafone (seven fraud among which is the deceptive advertising) and Endesa (for applying illegal rates for the rental of their light counters). It should be noted that, in addition, Movistar is the company that repeats the most in the ranking, adding up to three fines, the aforementioned and two other sanctions worth 1.53 million euros. Vodafone also repeats with a second fine of 1.19 million euros. Volotea, the fifth and final sanctioned airline, also appears here with a fine of 1.4 million. Banco Mare Nostrum (BNM) and Caja Rural de Granada are two other financial entities that close the breakdown. Has there been any consequence? Yes, although Ryanair has camouflaged him In response to rates, supposedly abusivefrom Aena at airports. Its response has been the abandonment or partial exit of some regional airports. A change of strategy propitious to the company And that, in addition, it has served to press the government, aware of the importance of these spaces. While Ryanair has been winning passengers in Spain, now he faces new fines. Some of the routes survived by the commercial agreements that Ryanair maintained with municipalities and other entities for advertising that acted as Covering line of the line. That has caused the complaint of, among others, The Mayor’s Office. Who is right? It remains to be seen. At the moment, the sanction is imposed but in Spain justice has proved both to the government and the company Despite judging the same fact: the possibility or not of Ryanair to charge for hand luggage. Until now, aerial regulations force airlines to let a lump pass that allows the “essential” to transfer. That, according to the government, cannot enter the brief measures that The company applies. Ryanair alleges otherwise And emphasize that there is no paper that proves the minimum size that the backpack has to have. The latest changes. Everything indicates that Europe is going to put on the side of Ryanair. The institutions are advancing in a new regulation to fly in which you want to stipulate a minimum measure for cabin luggage. This is slightly higher than that forced by Ryanair and The company has already made the changes to adapt to the regulations. It remains to be seen, to leave that new regulation ahead, the company would end up claiming Spain the money of the large fine with which it has punished it. This listing list shown can completely change if your claims get ahead. Photo | Nejc Soklič AND FACUA DATA In Xataka | Ryanair’s new competition does not come from any European airline: it comes from India and has an ambitious plan

Public health needs to recruit 100,000 nurses

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Training professionals implies an important effort, not only on the part of people who dedicate much to study and train to develop a certain profession, but for the whole of society that has dedicated public resources to provide them with that training. For that reason, the talent leak formed in Spain, in any field, always It’s bad news. The worst part is that, as in the case of nursing, that talent leak It is contextualized in a paradox: while the General Nursing Council records record figures in nursing requests to leave Spain for their bad working conditions and high temporality, public health Recognize a deficit of 100,000 nursing professionals. Nursing makes the bags. Spain lives a black year for nursing. According to published The reason Based on data from the General Nursing Council (CGE), more than 1,000 nurses have requested documentation to leave to work abroad only in the first six months of 2025. This figure could mark a historical record at the end of the year. The CGE data They point out that, in all 2023, the figure of output requests was 1,473, while in 2024 they added a total of 1,350 requests. According to Daniel Ayuso, general secretary of the General Nursing Council (CGE): “We are training them and in the end they are migrating elite professionals abroad because the working conditions of our country are not being adequate.” The reasons for the talent escape. The causes of this migration have a name: precarious contractshigh temporality and low wages. According to The latest data Facilitated by the CGE, in 2024 10,824 new contracts for 5,802 nurses were signed, of which 77.7% (8,408 contracts) They were temporary. According toGuadalupe Fontán, coordinator of the Spanish Nurse Research Institute, “over the years, the number of contracts has been increasing, but instead the number of people hired is significantly lower than the number of contracts. This is due to the fact that, to the same person throughout the year, many short -term contracts are made. In addition, although indefinite contracts have grown, the percentage of partial days are maintained.” It is estimated that around 50% of professionals of the health sector is located in Interinity situation. These data draw a scenario in which the migration of nursing staff is contemplated as a way to obtain a stability and working conditions that do not find in Spain. Destination countries. In 2023, the main countries of destination for Spanish professionals They were Norway (336 professionals) and the United States (226 nurses). Since the entry into force of Brexit, the United Kingdom has progressively reduced its interest and now registers 92 applications. Ireland, France or Canada are among the new destinations for nursing staff formed in Spain. The paradox: Spain urgently needs them. This massive output coincides with the Official recognition In the report “Current situation and estimate of the need for nurses in Spain, 2024” by the Ministry of Health, of a structural deficit: it is estimated that, to achieve the European standard, Spain I should hire to 100,000 more professionals in the coming years. Currently, the Spanish ratio is 6.36 nurses (nurses, in female, because 85.5% are women) For every 1,000 inhabitants, far from the European average located at 8.19, According to the latest data national and European. Experts warn that this shortage not only overloads professionals, but also reduces The quality of care and puts patient safety at risk. Ayuso argues that, to reverse this situation, it is necessary to “invest in nurses, in training, in creating new places in universities, in retaining talent so that it does not go out of our borders, in recovering those who have left out.” The deficit is greater depending on where you live. The president of the CGE has put the focus on the inequality Territorial of the situation: “Citizens cannot be allowed to receive better attention than others based on the autonomous community in which they reside.” There are regions such as Navarra, with 8.92 nurses per 1,000 inhabitants, which are located above the European average. Below the 8.19 in Europe, there is a Basque Country (8.09), Canary Islands (7.55), Castilla y León (7,49), Aragon (7,4), Asturias (7,34), Melilla (7,24), Extremadura (7,15), Ceuta (7,10), Cantabria (6,77), Madrid (6.54), La Rioja (6,51) Catalonia (6.5). In the welfare vagon with the lowest ratio of nurses per 1,000 inhabitants are Murcia, which barely reaches 4.99, Galicia (5.16), Valencian Community (5.56) and Andalusia (5.56) In Xataka | Talent scarcity has chronified to an extreme point: 75% of companies do not find what they are looking for Image | Unspash (Craig Pattenude)

A tsunami that caused thousands of dead

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He Magnitude earthquake 8.8 Registered this morning on the Kamchatka Peninsula, it reminded many of the earthquake and subsequent Tsunami that devastated a segment of the Japanese western coast in 2011. However, to find a precedent closer to the recent event we have to go back further in time, as of November of the year 1952. Some precedents. Specifically to November 4, 1952at 18:58, Spanish peninsular time, 3:58 am in the Kamchatka Peninsula. It is estimated that this day, the failure that separates the Pacific and North America plates slid generating an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 (it must be taken into account that the logarithmic nature of the scale implies that the difference between both events could be remarkable). The event happened almost 73 years ago is maintained as the largest earthquake recorded in the region, although the archives of the United States Geological Service (USGS) also highlight an earthquake that occurred in 1923 that reached magnitude 8.4. Both the Today’s earthquake Like 1952 they had their OSONRO EPICENTROS (At a distance of only 30 kilometers from each other), unlike the one that occurred in 1923, whose epicenter was in the coast of the Peninsula. The consequences of an earthquake. The 1952 earthquake was not only the largest registered in the region, it was also the fifth largest earthquake measured by the instruments of the geologists. This event also unleashed a powerful tsunami with waves of up to 12 meters captured on the nearby Paramushir Island. The NCEI records (National Centers for Environmental Information), body responsible for preserving data and geophysical information of US institutions, indicate that the 1952 event cost the lives of between 4,000 and 14,000 people, with estimates that place the number in about 10,000 deaths. Despite its magnitude, there is no direct record of direct damages cause of the earth movement in itself. As on other occasions, it was the posterior tsunami that wreaked havoc: the estimates of the NCEI indicate that 99% of the victims of the event would have died as a result of the tsunami. More than earthquakes. Kamchatka is a geologically active region. In the environment in which the earthquakes of 1952 and this year were given, the Pacific plaque moves in the west-northwest direction, at a speed of about 80 mm a year with respect to the North American plate. This implies that between the two earthquakes the plates moved about six meters, Remember the USGS. Proof of the geological activity of the region are also the numerous volcanoes located in the Peninsula. The volcanoes of the region They are still active (As you have seen during the last incident), but also make up an interesting ecosystem that led Unesco to include them in your list of the World Heritage. In Xataka | Uploading to a roof in case of Tsunami only makes sense in one place: in Japan they take us decades of advantage Image | USGS / US Navy

They are boycotting investments at their CEO

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Spotify has just announced your quarterly financial resultsand arrive with bittersweet news, although not as much as the revolt that is created within their own catalog: some bands They are abandoning the platform After the linking of its CEO with the arms industry has been discovered. A new blow to the image of the platform, powerful and influential as fewbut that does not finish finding the approval of many artists. The problem. The main conflict is in the link of Daniel EK, founder and CEO of the platform, with the ‘Start Up’ German Helsing, a company specialized in military software based on artificial intelligence that develops a combat drone called HX-2, which can achieve objectives 100 kilometers away. The financial support from EK to Helsing is frontal: Through prima matter, an investment fund that co-created in 2021, EK injected 100 million euros that same year to the war company. To this has joined another 600 last June. The reaction. This is what has made many groups raise the voice against this investment. Already in 2021, people like Darren Sangita or Skee Maskbut now, after calling for the boycott of the experimental deerhoof and Xiu Xiu, it arrives the abandonment of a couple of independent bands of international fameKing Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Mexicans Café Tacuba. The phenomenon is especially striking because the former are greatly prolific, with 27 albums since 2012. This will make abandonment take time, having to coordinate a good number of stamps and distributors. Other frightened. King Gizzard and Café Tacuba are the last to leave, but there have been many other groups and soloists who did it before. Neil Young was a notorious casedenouncing that Joe Rogan’s podcast, produced by Spotify, was delivered to the misinformation about COVID-19. He was followed by relevant artists such as Joni Mitchell, James Blunt or Crosby members, Stills and Nash. Even more media was almost Taylor Swift, which In 2014 he eliminated all his platform musicclaiming that the transmission service did not pay enough to the artists. Snoopp Dogg did this year for similar reasons. Practically all the aforementioned artists They have ended up returning to the platform. An organized rebellion. Especially in alternative environments and more politically committed, certain discomfort with the platform is being developed, which undoubtedly has parallels with the negative of many artists To participate in festivals this summer linked to the Israeli Investment Fund KKR. In the case of Spotify, There are already manifestos that They list alternatives to the platform, and that have more catalog, better prices or, simply, an ethic more in line with the philosophy of the groups or subscribers. The accounts. All this comes at a key moment for Spotify, which has announced 86 million losses and the announcement of the expansion in 857 million of the Actions repurchase plan (all in contrast to a benefit of 274 million in the same period last year). On the other hand, users continue to grow: assets have risen 11% and ‘Premium’ subscribers, 11.6. Undoubtedly, the most important data is the rise in the business figure, 10% more, reaching 4,193 million. How are those millionaire losses possible? Spotify blames him for the impact of financial costs associated with staff and marketing. We will have to see if the abandonment of artists, none extremely massive at the moment, ends up affecting their accounts even more. Image | Xataka – Sampaio Czar in Unspash In Xataka | An artist published an album with 30 songs of 29 seconds exact each. Its goal: to highlight spotify

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