Mobile Tech & Gadgets

The number of smartphones produced by each technological company in the world, illustrated in this graphic

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The world of technology is fierce. Although in almost all segments we have several brands in Liza, it is one or two that lead. We see it on video games with Nintendo and PlayStationin Nvidia graphics cards or on televisions with Samsung and LG. In the world of mobiles it is not different and, although there are multitude of brandsthose that are distributed by the cake are Apple and Samsung. It is something that It was not always like thatand in this graph prepared by Visual Capitalist We can see the evolution of mobiles produced by the different manufacturers in the last decade, as well as those that survived and those that remained on the road. Dance of two. Although the graph, which reflects the data of Trendforceleave out Many Chinese giantswhat is clear is that the global market is dominated by two players: Apple and Samsung. It is estimated that, between the two, more than 40% of the world smartphones market dominated, highlighting Apple in Income and Samsung in total market volume, and in the Visual Capitalist graph, what we see is not the total market, but the evolution of the units produced by the selected brands. That is the reason why we do not see others like Xiaomi or a huawei that now sells, above all, in China, but for a while He played the reign to Apple and Samsung. Apple Samsung 2015 215.3 million 321.5 million 2016 225.5 million 309 million 2017 225 million 312 million 2018 200.5 million 292.6 million 2019 190.4 million 287.5 million 2020 214.6 million 276 million 2021 239 million 272.8 million 2022 225 million 245.4 million 2023 222.4 million 227.55 million 2024 222.5 million 225.8 million The ones we lost. But, although the graph is not complete, it is interesting for a reason: it allows us to see the evolution of many historical brands outside the two largest today. Thus, we can see how Nokia in 2015, already low Microsoft’s mantle, It was small compared to what it wasbut he kept planting. The same with Sony and, to a lesser extent, Asus and HTC. Nokia and Sony are still there, although with a volume very far away they handled, but the biggest batacazo without counting a Blackberry which was lost in 2018 was LG. The South Korean occupied a privilege position until it vanished in 2021, when they decided abandon completely The smartphones business. Google Sony Nokia LG 2015 – 29.5 million 30 million 66.5 million 2016 450,000 16.4 million 15 million 74.7 million 2017 3.65 million 13.5 million 14.8 million 56.1 million 2018 4.55 million 6.95 million 14.3 million 39.3 million 2019 4.75 million 4.2 million 9.5 million 33 million 2020 4.05 million 2.85 million 6.7 million 30.2 million 2021 6.45 million 2.7 million 3.3 million 3 million 2022 8 million 2.6 million 3.1 million – 2023 10.3 million 2.8 million 780,000 – 2024 10.5 million 2.45 million 160,000 – Google. It seemed that Asus was going to have his time, especially in a few years in which they innovated with their Reversible Chamber Systems – The Zenfone Flip– And some phones like the Zenfone 10 that bet on gross power in a contained size when The rest of the market was going to huge diagonalsbut the adventure did not curdle. Like that of a Sony converted into a niche brand with its Ultrapanoramic screens and powerful recording and editing tools, but that produces fewer units. In the graph we can see a very different story, that of Google. The company has been supporting others such as Samsung, HTC or Asus since 2010 to create His Nexusbut in 2016 they made the leap to their own mobiles with the Google Pixel. That first Pixel was revolutionary in the Android market and, although they have not opted for power, they have been consistent when creating mobile phones with very Good camera systems and one Applied to photography. They have also relied to being the entrance door to New Android versions of each yearand in the graph we can see how they go from having a marginal position to be one with increasing presence. Also in advertising, with series such as Last season of ‘You’ In Netflix in which the characters use brand devices. And the Chinese? They are the great absent of this comparison. Taking data from 2023, Xiaomi shipment about 146.1 million smartphones worldwide, which represented a slight annual decrease in global computing, but a light Growth in a premium segment in which they want to strengthen. Oppo (including Realme and OnePlus) sent about 100 million units and from Huawei there are no data, but after years of sanctionsin 2023 and 2024 They returned strongly to the Chinese market. In fact, although the figures say that the iPhone 15 It was the best -selling mobile of 2024 and Samsung also appears well stopped on the list, last year The great victory went to Chinawith its main brands rising in a spectacular way. And you have to wait for 2026 to see the full photo of 2024. In Xataka | The long goodbye of Huawei in Spain: of strategic partner to Technology Non Grata

What cars can circulate and which ones rest on May 31

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Another week, the Sabatino does not circulate today. That means, as surely you know, that some cars rest and have to stay at home. Which is it? That is what we are going to explain why not all cars have the same restrictions. Ok but first of all … Why do these restrictions apply? Because every day the restrictions of today do not circulate, a system designed by the CDMX Ministry of Environment (Sedema) to try to reduce the pollutants of the air we breathe. This solution affects our cars with a very basic system: less cars in circulation is the same as less pollution in the environment. Of course, restrictions do not apply to all cars equally. Neither the same days nor with the same aggressiveness. Of course, keep in mind that they are restrictions that only apply in the 16 mayors in Mexico City and in the following conurbation municipalities of the State of Mexico: Atizapán de Zaragoza Coacalco de Berriozábal Cuautitlán Cuautitlán Izcalli Chalco Chicoloapan Chimalhuacán Ecatepec de Morelos Huixquilucan Ixtapaluca La Paz Naucalpan de Juárez Nezahualcóyotl Nicolás Romero Tecámac Tlalnepantla de Baz Tultitlán Chalco Valley What cars and plaques affect the Sabatino today Having all this clear, what are the restrictions that apply? Basically, we cannot circulate with our car if it is affected by it. That, as you see in the superior image, applies every day but on Saturdays there are special limits. And, using the hologram and plate number, every working day of the week there is someone who runs out of the car. But the thing changes on Saturdays because there is some extraordinary restriction that expands the number of cars that must stay at home. Thus, a day like today the following conditions can be applied. Cars that can circulate every Saturday Cars that have to rest every Saturday Cars that rest on a Saturday yes and another no+ These restrictions, however, do not apply all day. At night they do not take into account and, therefore, are active between 05:00 and 10:00 p.m.. That is, at night we can move freely and without being afraid of fines. Once we have analyzed all this, the most important thing is to be clear who cannot move with today does not circulate sabbatino. To do this, we will look first at the hologram and then to the plate number. With Saturday restrictions for cars with hologram 2. In this case, every Saturday the car stays at home. There is no discussion here and we have little to look. If the car has hologram 2, it will not be able to move. On the contrary, cars with hologram 0 and 00. In this case, as are the least pollutants they can move freedom. But what happens to hologram 1? They are in nobody’s land. Solution: One week you can move cars whose plaque ends in torque number and the following week will rest. On the contrary, the same goes for the plate finished in odd number. This Saturday, May 31, 2025 We are in the fifth month of May. This means that, as the five is odd, it will be cars with hologram 1 and plaque finished in odd number those who have to stay at home. However, there are some exceptions that must be taken into account because those cars can move with total freedom: Those that work for electricity, natural gas or are hybrid Those who have disabled plate All those dedicated to urban transport services (includes funerals) Those who offer school or passenger transport Those destined for public safety and/or civil protection In case of breaching these restrictions, the fine will be 20 to 30 times the unit of measurement and update (Uma), which is equivalent to 1,924.40 pesos and even 2,886.60 pesos. Photo | Wander Fleur In Xataka | Contamination is not only making you live less and worse. You are also making you darker

A super -governor who will be connected to telescopes and laboratories

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Supercomputing has never been just a matter of science. Since its origins, these colossal systems have represented national power, reflecting the technological, scientific and even military capacities of the countries that develop them. Now, The United States has presented His next big bet in this field: Doudna, a superorous who should see the light in 2026 and who promises to be more than ten times more powerful than Perlmutterthe current flagship of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A tribute to science that changed biology. The new system has been baptized in honor of Jennifer DoudnaBerkeley’s biochemistry professor and one of the scientists who promoted CRISPR technology, Recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. It is not a minor gesture: the choice of the name symbolizes the fusion between biomedical research, artificial intelligence (AI) and computational power. Three axes that, together, aim to define the scientific advances of the next decades. What is exactly Doudna and what will you do. Doudna will be the next super -tider of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (Nersc), a center of the United States Department of Energy located in Berkeley. Its design is in charge of Dell Technologies and will use the new platform Vera Rubin de Nvidiawhich will integrate ARM processors of general purpose. At a technical level, it is designed to execute large -scale hybrid work loads: high fidelity scientific simulations, training models of artificial intelligence, real -time data analysis and quantum algorithms. The machine will not be limited to executing tasks faster: it is designed to integrate into scientific workflows where the data comes from telescopes and laboratories. The objective is clear: to transform the way in which science is done, allowing to adjust experiments almost instantly and accelerate processes that took weeks or months. A project that wants to make a difference. Those responsible for the project are explicit: Doudna is presented as a key piece in the American strategy to lead the development of AI. Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy, It came to compare it with the Manhattan projectensuring that this supercomputer will be fundamental to win the Global AI race. Beyond the headline, the fields of application that are being prepared are ambitious. Nersc has already identified more than twenty scientific teams that are adapting their workflows for this system. The key tools are already on the table: from Frameworks such as Pytorch, Tensorflow and Cuda-Q to the Holoscan development kit, all optimized for the coherent architecture of Rubin and the NVLink interconnection. Why is it important at the national (and world) level. In a context of growing technological competition, especially with China, these types of systems represent more than a scientific resource. They are strategic infrastructure. Japan, with his escape; China, with its most recent Sunway Oceanlite; And now the United States, I already had Frontieramong others, it is reinforcing its muscle in this area with Doudna. The election of Dell against HPE also breaks with the usual dynamics of the great contracts of the Department of Energy, which until now had favored the latter in their three most recent exaescala systems. A jump in energy efficiency. In addition to gross power, one of Doudna’s great achievements will be its efficiency. According to NvidiaThe system will offer between three and five times more perlmutter performance. This is possible thanks to improvements in chips design, dynamic load balancing and new optimizations at the system level. When will it come and what is known about deployment. Douda’s launch is scheduled for 2026. We know that it will be built with servers Poweredge and advanced liquid cooling technologies of Dell, in addition to high -speed connectivity through the network Nvidia Quantum-X800 Infiniband. It will be located at the Berkeley Lab facilities and connected directly to the rest of the Energy Department centers through the scientific network ESNET. What has not been revealed, for now, is the official budget. Unlike the super -terrorist The Captain, which cost 600 million dollarsthe Department of Energy has not advanced any figure on the total investment in Doudna. Nor has it specified how many nodes or how much exact memory the system will have in its final configuration. But it has been made clear that it is designed to climb and adapt over time. Images | Nvidia (1, 2) | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory In Xataka | The EU wants to shorten distances in the race for the AI ​​with 750 million euros. And they are good news for Barcelona

Its productivity shot 40%

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Japan is a country known for its demanding work culture and its endless working days. Loyalty to the company and the commitment to the results led employees to put at risk your life With extreme trends. However, the division of Microsoft in Japan decided to break those rigid schemes and Implement a summer With the work week four days for its entire template. The experiment exceeded all expectations on productivity and labor well -being. Microsoft challenges Japanese work culture Despite Japan’s reputation for his “culture of presentism” and the custom of working long hours, Microsoft dared to launch A pioneer initiative In 2019. In August of that year, the company gave its 2,300 employees five consecutive free Fridays, maintaining the full salary and without demanding time compensation. According to the companyThe objective was to “experiment how they can achieve the same results with 20% less work time,” said Takuya Hirano, then president and executive director of Microsoft Japan. The measure adopted by Microsoft was especially innovative because it advanced To the global trend to explore work models more flexiblelong before the pandemic accelerated the debate on the Working Day and Teleworking. The experimentknown as “Work-Life Choice Challenge 2019 Summer”, sought to improve productivity and creativity by changing the way time was used in the company. In other words, he sought to optimize his processes by eliminating those more unproductive tasks of the day. An unexpected leap in productivity and efficiency The big surprise came when reviewing the data collected during the test: productivity, measured in this case by sales per employee, increased by almost 40% with respect to the same period of the previous year. The key to this increase was in the OPTIMIZATION OF WORK TIMEespecially in which employees dedicated to meetings. During the experiment, a New standard for meetingssetting them by default in 30 minutes, instead of 60 minutes as usual. This cut was a 46% increase in short meetings. In addition, many of them were performed in remote format instead of face -to -face, which further expedited processes. The company itself acknowledged that “the time of its meetings and the number of participants in Japan were well above the global average”, so that cut was decisive for the success of the test. According to the 4 Day Work Week organization, which has supervised most pilot tests carried out in the world, including that of Valencia“The substantial increase in productivity observed in the study underlines the effectiveness of a condensed work schedule to optimize employee performance.” Cost reduction for the company The experiment not only Productivity improved of Microsoft, but also registered a savings in your operational costs of the company’s offices. During the trial period, paper printing was reduced by 58.7% and energy consumption fell 23.1% compared to the same month in three previous years. One of the keys to this success was the intensive use of digital platforms such as Microsoft Teamsthat the company had launched in 2017, and that allowed to centralize communication and meetings in a single virtual space. Microsoft took the opportunity to demonstrate to its corporate clients that efficiency goes through adopting alternative digital tools and models. “Microsoft has been a pioneer in Asia in its intention to offer alternative work models that attract talent to their ranks and also to retain it,” They stood out In its official statement. In Xataka | Three Spanish companies tell us how it has gone after implementing a job utopia: the four -day week In Xataka | The myth says that Germans work more than the Spaniards. The data tell a different thing Image | Flickr (Qso4you.com)

more expensive light and marketers to the limit

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It has been a month since the great blackout that left the entire Iberian Peninsula. Since then, the national electrical system has been operating under a new extreme surveillance protocol: “reinforced operation.” Its goal is simple, but ambitious: avoid another total collapse. Its effect, however, begins to feel in the pocket of companies, marketers and consumers. Reinforced operation? Electricity and the Government have chosen to contain renewables and activate backup technologies such as gas, hydraulics or nuclear to gain stability. These sources, although more predictable, are also more expensive. But this operational turn has a price: renewable energy is being left out, cheaper, in favor of more expensive conventional technologies. As He has collected Five days, this new strategy has triggered the participation of traditional plants in the so -called adjustment markets or technical restrictions. So is there a contradiction? After the blackout, many pointed to the low inertia of the system, associated with the high penetration of renewables, such as the great culprit. However, like has collected this medium In an analysis by Matías Zavia, the peninsular electrical system counted in the moments before collapse with an “according to European recommendations” levels: 2.3 seconds, above the minimum threshold of 2. Both Minister Sara Aagesen and Secretary of State Joan Groizard have confirmed this data in parliamentary headquarters. The technical explanation that gains force points to a chain of failures: anomalous oscillations, Almost simultaneous generation surgeons and disconnections. It was at that critical moment, with the peninsula already isolated from France, when the low inertia aggravated the final fall. It was not the cause, but the collapse accelerator. In the absence of the official report, planned for the coming months, the blackout is emerging as a complex structural failure, not as a simple excess photovoltaic. The real problem: a shooting price. Since this reinforced operation was activated, the costs of the electrical system have shot. According to El Confidencialthe so -called restrictions techniques and Adjustment services – requirements necessary to maintain the stability of the network – have been remarkable. The problem is that these costs are initially assumed by marketers, especially the smallest and independent, which do not have their own generation capacity and have to buy this energy in markets managed by Red Electric. According to data the Independent Energy Marketers Association (ACIE), collected by the confidentialthe average cost of technical restrictions has gone from € 11/MWh in April to € 24/MWh in May, and at specific times it exceeds € 30. This pressure has led to several marketers, such as totalenergies, Moeve or Factorenergy, to send a letter to Red Eléctrica requesting clarity and a temporary forecast of these extraordinary measures. It has already been seen in the light bill. Starting with the almost 10 million consumers host of the regulated rate (PVPC) that have seen how their receipt At least four euros rose in May. And what began as an extra cost for companies, also begins to move to private clients and companies of the free market. In B2B contracts, some marketers have begun to introduce an “antiapagon rate”. As it picks up fiftiesthe client assumes up to € 12/MWh in adjustment costs, and what exceeds that figure is impact at the end of the month. In the case of households, where contracts cannot be modified easily, companies choose to raise the price of the megavatio in renewals or new offers. The dilemma is clear: raise prices or assume losses. A market to the limit. Independent marketers denounce that Red Electrica has increased costs without offering clarity on how they are calculated or until when they will be maintained. This uncertainty prevents planning and leaves those who do not have financial muscle to cover this volatility, According to El Confidencial. The pressure of the sector has also reached the institutional level. Acie, which brings together 20% of the market, has sent formal letters to Red Eléctrica and the Ministry for Ecological Transition asking for explanations and collaboration, such as He explained Fifodies. To date, they have not received a response, which increases the tension between the operators of the system and the most vulnerable actors in the electricity market. With an ignition system … The risk is not only a more expensive invoice, but a more concentrated and less competitive market. If independent marketers continue to carry costs without certainty or regulatory support, many will not survive. And if they disappear, consumers will have fewer options, more dependence on large electricity and less power to negotiate prices. The reinforced operation maintains the system on, yes. But it can also be extinguishing an essential part of the market: its diversity. With the technical report even on the horizon, what happens in the coming months will mark not only the stability of the network, but also who can continue to compete in it. Image | Pixabay Xataka | The more you know about the blackout in Spain, the less guilty the lack of inertia seems to be renewable

Three watches for less than 200 euros to run. We face them on the ground and we already have a winner

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Going to run with a smartwatch sounds tempting. But when prices range from less than 200 euros up to about 900 euros, it is normal to ask if it is worth paying more. What do we lose when we opt for a cheaper model? And what do we continue to win? In our new video we face three affordable watches that seek to offer us several answers. That is why in Xataka We have prepared a new video For our YouTube channel With one of our favorite formats: the Versuswhere we compare face -to -face devices to discover which one deserves more. In this new comparison we face them Garmin Forerunner 55he Amazfit Active 2 and the newcomer Huawei Watch Fit 4. For several weeks, our partner Mario Arroyo has run about five times a week with each of them. “I have been testing what are the three best watchesTo start running and I’m going to tell you why this is the best ”, starts in the video. The goal is clear: check which best meets in key aspects such as comfort, drums, sports functions, experience of use and mobile applications. As for comfort, the three models fulfill well, although one of them feels “slightly thicker and heavier.” The biggest difference is in the way of interacting: Huawei and Amazfit bet on Amoled touch screens, while Garmin resorts to buttons. At first it may seem uninitive. “Uncle, it is very little intuitive,” said Mario, but soon found an unexpected advantage. After running, the analysis comes into play. The apps of the three offer data and statistics, But with clear differences. Garmin Connect is the most technical and deep, while Huawei Health and Zepp (Amazfit) are more visual and intuitive. In this Versus We will try to discover which one that can help us continue to progress. Mario also explores which proposals fall short as smartwatch, as well as related to autonomy. “I have trained a lot with them for a lot of time to be able to make the most precise possible comparison and having so many an hour training, I think they are very good data,” he summarizes. Will anyone stand out? You can discover all the details and the final conclusions In the new Versus On the Xataka YouTube channel. Images | Xataka In Xataka | iPhone 16E vs Samsung A56: the mid -range duel that many asked (and finally we have)

The most powerful telescope in Europe has seen something rare while observing two brown dwarfs: a perpendicular planet

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Today, in things that we did not know that there were in other star systems: a planet that orbits perpendicular to its two stars. It is as strange as it sounds. A different planet. We have seen everything in the exotic exoplanet gallery that the observable universe offers us, but a new surprise has forced astronomers to readjust their expectations. Using the Vary Large Telescope del Southern European Observatory (ESO) In Chile, astronomers have found the first exoplanet known in a polar orbit around a binary system of stars: two young brown dwarfs. Orbiting at 90 degrees. Baptized as 2m1510 (AB) B, this world has two Tatooine style soles, something extremely common when it comes to more massive stars, but not so much in the case of brown dwarfs. However, what is common is that orbits its two host stars in a way that until now had only theorized: turning perpendicular to them, in a polar orbit of 90 degrees. We sensed that they could exist. Astronomers had already detected planetary training discs in polar orbite and theory suggested that They could form stable planetsBut finding them was another story. 2M1510 (AB) B is the first credible test that this configuration exists. And the most curious thing is that the team was not actively looking for this type of planet, they found it while refining the orbital and physical parameters of the two brown dwarfs, seeing that the path of the two stars was being pushed and pull in unusual ways. It is not a usual system. The planet is not the only rare in this neighborhood, taking into account the host stars. Brown dwarfs are larger than giant giant planets, but too small to maintain nuclear fusion which characterizes the stars “really”. But the rarity does not end there. These brown dwarfs form an eclipsest binary, which means that from Earth we can see how they hide each other. 2M1510 (AB) is an incredibly infrequent system: the second pair of eclipsessing brown dwarfs known to date. With more than 5,800 exoplanets confirmed to date, only about 16 orbit around two stars. That one of them does precisely around a system as atypical as a binary of eclipsessing brown dwarfs, and with a polar orbit, it is a real cosmic jewel. Image | THAT In Xataka | These real images were unthinkable before the Webb Telescope: they are planets orbiting other stars to 130 light years

The most frequent gross salary in 2023 did not exceed 16,000 euros a year

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Salaries have been in the center of the political news before a consumer market With upward prices and a Mermous purchasing power for inflation in recent years. The National Statistics Institute (INE) has published the consolidated data of the ‘Salary Structure Survey’of 2023 and leaves a worrying fact: the most frequent gross salary in Spain does not exceed 16,000 euros a year. Downward wages. According to the data obtained by the INE on a base of 220,000 workers surveyed, the most frequent salary in Spain In 2023 it was 15,574.9 euros gross per year, a figure that received 4.6% of the total employees. This data is especially striking because it is a considerable decrease compared to 2021, but an increase with respect to 2022 that was 14,586.44 euros. Between 2018 and 2020, the INE data placed the most frequent salary at 18,468.9 euros per year, which shows a clear setback in the most common retribution. The second most frequent remuneration is already at 19,500.29 euros gross per year, salary that recognizes 4% of workers. In addition, the statistic indicates that one in four employees (25.6%) charged between 14,000 and 20,000 euros per year in 2023. In contrast, only 10% of employees earned more than 49,836 euros gross that year, while three out of four had a gross salary of less than 34,992 euros per year. The INE emphasizes that “many more workers appear in low values ​​than in the highest salaries.” The SMI effect. The main reason that explains the downward difference in the most frequent salary from 2021 is the Progressive Increase of SMI. This increase has caused salaries to be drastically reduced by the SMI, which In 2023 he set in 15,120 euros per year, which meant an 8% increase compared to 2022. This climb has made many workers who previously charged that amount They have seen their salary increased Until that level, making salaries in the strip of less than 16,000 euros more frequent. The average salary improves a bit. The concentration in low salaries in the strip between 14,000 and 16,000 euros has also promoted the average annual salary per worker. In 2023 it increased by 4.1% compared to the previous year, standing at 28,049.9 euros. This increase is the tenth consecutive year of growth, although the average salary is still well above the most frequent salary and medium salary (which divides the number of workers into two equal parts) that reached 23,349 euros per year. Gender differences. The salary difference by gender remains evident in the labor market of Spain. The average annual gross salary of men was 30,372.49 euros, while that of women stood at 25,591.31 euros per year. Although the salary of women grew 5.1% compared to 3.4% of men, women continue to charge only 84.3% of the average male salary. However, this difference is not attributable to discrimination because of gender since “it is reduced if similar jobs are considered.” Actually, the difference is derived from the greatest incidence of Part -time work among women (21.1%) against men (6.6%), resulting in a lower annual salary. The salary goes by sectors. The data of 2023 have revealed that the sector with the greatest annual remuneration was that of supply of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning, with an average salary of 54,447.9 euros. This leaves this labor sector between The best paid with almost double the national average. They are followed by financial and insurance activities, with 48,922.8 euros per year. At the opposite end, hospitality workers, who received 16,985.78 euros and those of other services with 19,751.59 euros, figures well below the averagealthough both sectors experienced increases compared to 2022. Rich community, poor community. In the breakdown for autonomous communities, the Basque Country leads the ranking with an average salary of 33,504.9 euros, followed by Madrid (32,219.6 euros) and Navarra (31,199.6 euros). This average denotes a labor market with a predominance of employment in banking, industrial, technological and added value services, which offers higher salaries and, therefore, raises the salary average of these communities. On the opposite side, Extremadura (23,684.2 euros), the Canary Islands (24,033.5 euros) and Castilla-La Mancha (24,885.6 euros) registered the lowest wages, regions in which the low wages of the hospitality and agricultural sector have reduced the average salary. However, all regions increased their average salaries in 2023, highlighting Extremadura (8%), Navarra (6.9%) and Murcia (6.2%). In Xataka | The average salary in Spain has grown up to 1,987 euros. Inflation leaves us with 578 euros more a year in the pocket Image | Unspash (Tecnic Biopross Solutions)

Here are all the degrees related to technology and science with their cutting notes

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In just a few days the University Access TestAka the Pau. It is a very marked date for the more than 300,000 students who have been preparing for at least two years to face these exams. It is not for less. Pau marks the end of one stage and the beginning of another, one that means making the leap to the university world and prepare for the professional world. If, after considering the different options, you have decided that your future is to study a university degree, the same doubt arises that arose to many at the time: which one to choose. If you usually visit Xataka or you like what we are dealing with on this website, it is possible that You are interested in technology, science, engineering, space or health. Thus, we have filtered each and every grades of each and every one of the faculties and cities so that, at a glance, you can see the offer of degrees, where they are taught and its cut -off note. The degrees of degrees related to technology and its cuts of cuts That the following table with its 1,021 cells does not intimidate you. Using it is really easy. In the upper part you will see a search engine. In it you can introduce the name of the degree, such as “computer engineering”, “artificial intelligence”, “mathematics” or “biotechnology.” You can also search for a city. In any case, and choose the filter you choose, You can order the offer of degrees by cutting note. By default, order is from highest to minor. If you are looking for another degree or want to know other cutting notes, RTVE has a very useful search engine on its website. How you can check, the degree with the greatest cutting note is the double degree of physics and mathematics at the University of Seville: A 13,764. The lowest is the minimum to approve: a five. The offer of degrees that can be accessed with the minimum note is wide and includes endless engineering. In fact, the vast majority of engineering between five and eight on average, and the number of places is usually wide. And that is good news. According to the study “The employability of young people in Spain 2024” of the CYD Foundation on work outputs according to the university career, engineering (electrical, industrial electronics, software development, telecommunications, etc.) are those that offer better working conditions in terms of Stability in contractssalaries and affiliation rates. On the other hand, the Emerging jobs and sectors report 2024 highlights the Professional boom in AI. The demand for data engineers and Machine Learning has grown 625% since 2019, and that of artificial intelligence engineers an annual 83%, both with very low competence of candidates for offer. Last year they enrolled to do 341,831 students and 90.2% approved. That is, 295,250 students took a five or more. Another thing is the average note. In 2024, the average grade of those presented to the general and specific part (necessary to aspire to remove a note greater than ten points) was 7.05 nationwide. If we talk about the degrees contemplated in the upper table, The average note is 8.87 points. Image | Flickr (University of Seville) In Xataka | Pau, EBAU or EVAU 2025: What are the dates in each autonomous community for the selectivity exam

I had no idea how to execute a local AI and I just did it in five minutes with my Android. It has been a disaster

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The career of whom he manufactures The most capable smartphone It will not be alone in its components: AI has become an essential absolute To win this battle. Gemini He is the absolute protagonist, both in Android and in an iOS in which The presence of AI is insignificant. A complete and capable assistant, with the requirement of being permanently connected to the Internet. Google, Gemini’s mother, has decided Give 100% local models a chance in Android. Including those of its competitors. I, who had never executed a local AI on a PC, I have been able to achieve it on my phone in five minutes. 10 Google applications that could have triumphed Installing Google ai Edge Gallery Google has released an open source app so that any user can interact with multimodal AI models. It is completely free, has no publicity, and its only limitation is that it is not published in Google Play Store. You have to Download it from github. It is as easy as clicking on the link and downloading the file, which weighs 115 MB. Once you have downloaded it, click on it and install like any other app. Depending on the customization layer you use and the browser from which you download it, it is possible that the system asks for the occasional permission. Give it without fear, since it is a clean Google app. Once installed, the app will be in the application drawer or desktop of your phone, depending on your layer. Just open it and download the available models to start using it. Using the local AI in my Android This application allows you to use four predetermined models of the local AI: GEMMA-3N-E2B-IT-Int4 GEMMA-3N-E4B-IT-IN4 GEMMA3-1B-IT-Q4 Qwen2.5-1.5b-Instruct Q8 Each of these names is very likely to sound to Chinese, but there is a very simple summary. Gemma are the Google models, and the number behind “E2B, E4B, 1b”, refers to the parameter number of each model (2 billion, 4,000 million, 1,000 million). This means that, in order, Gemma 3 1b is the fastest, but more basic model, followed by E2B and with E4B to the head as the most complete. On the Qwen side, it is a Chinese model developed by Alibaba, with 1.5 billion parameters, and quite logical precision. These are the models that the app brings, but we can install models on our own. What I win and what I lose using the local The Google app is designed to execute three scenarios of use: Images questions: problem solving, identifying objects, etc. Prompt Lab for summaries, rewriting texts and code generation. Ai Chat: Multi -urnal conversations with AI The local AI is somewhat more limited in these scenarios of use, but in return it is more private. It runs 100% on your phone, without connection to servers. This minimizes response latency, something that I wanted to verify with a fairly simple test: the translation of a text not too extensive. “If the computing power on each chip continue to grow exponentially, Moore real Demanded Were Useful in Business Applications, Too. Defense Contractors Thought About Chips Mostly As a Product that Could Replace Older Electronics in All The Military Systems. “WHEN US DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT MCNAMARA REFORMED MILITARY PROCUREMENT TO CUT COSTS IN THE EARLY 1960S, CAUSING WHAT SUB IN THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY CALLED THE” MCNAMARA DEPRESSION, “FAIRCHILD’S VISION OF CHIPS FOR CIVILS SEEMED PRISON Off-The-Shelf Integrated Circuits for Civilian Customers Even Sold Products Below Manufacturing Cost, Hoping to convince more customers to trym. “ Chatgpt (4th): 5 seconds Deepseek: 19 seconds The local Google (Gemma 3 1b): has not understood the instruction. Google local (Gemma 3 E2b): 26 seconds. Google local (Gemma 3 E4b): 34 seconds. Google local (Qwen 2.5): 16 seconds. The results are quite irregularand that is that the app is in its initial stage. The main problem I have found is that sometimes it is difficult for him to execute the model, even in cases of light models such as Qwen. In a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra I had to restart the app on some occasion, since I did not execute the prompt. I have also wanted to prove how simple problems solve with the visual understanding of images, using the heavy model E4B of Gemma. It has also been quite disaster. In the first attempt I have asked him to solve all the problems. He has succeeded. In the second, I have asked him to solve only the first. He was wrong and, after telling him that it was wrong, he has err. Yes, he does a good job recognizing elements in the images, but it still has a hard time going further (Google just lets his Gemma models choose for these tasks). The conversational assistant works well, with its limitations, but well. It serves to talk and help us with any task that we can think of that you do not need a real -time search on the Internet. If you are especially jealous with your privacy, and want to execute the without any server connection, it is a relatively valid alternative. Google has this app as a test laboratory. At least for now it is not a real alternative, much less, to Gemini. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Artificial Intelligence on your PC: The best free tools to install models of AI as Deepseek, call, mistral, gemma and more

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