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There is a country in Europe where one in three inhabitants is a millionaire and only 46% were born there: Monaco

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If you think of a city in Europe that the supercar is already part of the landscape of their streets, luxury stores follow each other on their boulevards and the supereyates are attached to their marinas, you are probably Thinking about Monaco. However, luxury and exclusivity do not remain in the posture of its streets. One of the higher concentrations of millionaire population of all the Mediterranean. So much so, that the majority of its population is foreign and is one of the countries in which it is more complicated to belong to the richest 1% of its population, according to the report ‘The Wealt Report of 2024‘Prepared by the consultant Knight Frank. Monaco’s population is not Monegasca. With an area of ​​just 2.02 km2, the Principality is the second smallest country in the world, only behind the Vatican. According to demographic data, In 2023 it had a census population of 38,367 inhabitants, of which 21,042 citizens They are of foreign originmainly from France, Italy and the United Kingdom. This means that only 46% of the total population is of Monegasco origin. In recent years, the percentage of the population of foreign millionaires It has been decliningbut in the 60s of the last century, they reached figures close to 70% of its population. High density of millionaires. According to Knight Frank’s report, in Monaco there are some 13,400 people of very high purchasing power. That assumes that approximately 35% of its resident population, has a equity available to invest more than one million dollars, discarding the value of its habitual residence from that amount. The economic data They point out that the GDP per capita of the Principality of Monaco in 2023 was 256,580 dollars, compared to the $ 33,500 in Spain, the 44,690 dollars of France or the 99,564 dollars recorded Switzerland. In Monaco it is difficult to be “rich”. Belonging to 1% of the richest elite is not easy in any country, but being in one with the density of a millionaire per m2 that Mónaco has is even more complicated. According to Knight Frank data, to belong to the 1% richest population in Monaco, it will be necessary to have a heritage of more than $ 12,883,000. Instead, for belong to the 1% richest in Spainthe same person would need a heritage of $ 2,468,000 or $ 5,813,000 to be considered part of that millionaire elite in the US. No taxes and no tax havens. For decades, Monaco was considered a fiscal paradise for his low taxation and the fiscal secret that protected its inhabitants. International diplomacy has made small principality open its archives and, with it, left the fiscal paradise lists. Despite that, its residents enjoy a total absence of direct imposition. That is, there is neither IRPF nor societies for companies. Income and assets are not subject to imposition, so there are no taxes on investment income, capital gains, dividends or yields such as worker, freelance or manager of a company. The only taxation that can support those fortunes that have more than 25% of their activity outside Monaco is a 25% tax on benefits. In Xataka | The next border of the super farms is no longer to be Milmillonarios, is to be Billionaires: Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos are candidates Image | Unspash (Lazar Gugleta)

Doñana has been on the edge of the precipice for decades. Now we have an experiment to see if we can rebuild it from scratch

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On July 24, 2015, the Council of Ministers He approved to give him 35 million euros to the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Confederation to buy a farm. Very few intuited it a decade ago, but on that farm was a good part of Doñana’s future. We are about to see it come true. A farm? What farm? The Cortijo de los Mimbral were 1,061 hectares in the Doñana forest crown. Of these, about 968 hectares They were dedicated to the cultivation of orange and the rest were “structures, warehouses, roads interior mobility and boundaries, rafts, etc.”. That 2015, the government bought 922 of them. And he did it with the idea of Recover a water concession. That is, with the idea of ​​reducing by 6.8 hm3 the annual water extractions of the Almonte and Las Marismas aquifer. And it was done. With some controversy with the surroundings of the environment, the closure of the mimbrals was good news for the conservation of the park. And, eye, it is not an area of ​​Spain in which good news abounds. But, beyond that and in practice, the farm had been abandoned for years. Now it’s time to see what we do with her. Because the mimbrals are, above all, an opportunity. We must not lose sight that we talk about a thousand hectares that, for years, underwent quite intensive agricultural processes that denatured their traditional state. The great question of Doñana’s technicians has always been the same,?can go back? Can we restore paradise? That, According to Minister Aagesenit is what is going to try. The great laboratory to recover Spain. To begin with, the General Directorate wants to renaturalize the two channels that cross the farm and seal the drainage channels. Thus, they hope to recover the lagoon and riverside habitats. To do this, they will recover native plant species (and eliminate eucalyptus, acacias or reeds); And they wait Reintroduce the rabbit which is “a fundamental element in Doñana’s trophic chain.” They are just five million euros, but they aspire to be a key piece of a 1,400 million program for the entire park environment. And why do you say from Spain? Because, although we usually talk about desertification because it is the most pressing problem, this is only a particular case of Ecological degradation processes of the soil that limit the capacity of the ecosystems to self -regulate. In the mimbrals you will try something of what We have spoken in recent days: Create solid and living ecosystems where nature can develop (and repair itself) without the pressures of the human world. If the project is successful, a very interesting path will be marked not only to recover the natural heritage, but above all for fight the worst consequences of climate change. Image | Daniel Lobraña González In Xataka | We are reforesting Europe with trees that will not reach 2100. If the pests do not kill them, climate change will do so

The risk of collapse of the Ría de Arousa

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Seafood “Made in Galicia” has jumped today The headlines of The Guardianbut for a reason that will hardly glad any of the workers who are dedicated to slaughter on their coasts to collect berobe, clam or mussel. In a public act and with official data In hand, Platform in Defense Da Ría de Aruous (Pdra), brotherhoods and groups of mussel producers have just launched a ‘sos’ in the face of the collapse of the amount of seafood they extract from the estuary. Their data reflects a clear billing fall, but also something else: in its coastal strip today much clam, shoes and mussels that years ago. What happened? That in the Ría de Aruous, The most extensive from Galicia and usually generous In mollusks and crustaceans, a full -fledged ‘SOS’ has just launched. A few days ago the Platform in Defense Da Ría (PDRA), Brotherhoods and professionals in the musical sector organized a press conference To share a series of data that reflect to what extent the catches have lowered on their coasts. They are not the first to raise their voice. The sector has already Some time handling data worrying At the regional level. Two months ago Vigo lighthouse He informed that the sector has had to deal with the worst mussel harvest of the decade, with a 23% drop in 2023; and in October The Galician mail He spoke that in the Galician markets a 46% less octopus had been auctioned, attending to their weight. DATA FOR REFLECTION. The data broken down by the brotherhoods and PDRA are strong enough to have called attention of the British press. And rightly. Beyond the prick of sales, which in 2024 stayed in 69 million In the rains of the estuary, far from the average of 85.2 million recorded the previous five years, the seafood collection balances are alarming. In 2024 the production of berobe descended to minimums, with a 93.7% drop with respect to the average of the 2019-2023 five-year period. In net terms, he stayed in just 19 tons. And things were not much better in the captures of fine and slug clam. If compared to the same period, more than 85%were reduced. In general, the production of bivalve fell 44.7% With respect to the 2019-2023 period. “Progressive deterioration”. For the pdra the reading that these figures leave is clear: they speak of a gradual degradation of the area, a reality of which they have been warning. ” “(The estuary) is suffering a progressive deterioration that is reflected year after year, in the loss of tons of bivalves, millions of euros, of Permex and with the seafood banks without recovery capacity”, They warn. World power. What happens on the Galician coast arouses interest beyond the autonomous community or Spain because, such as remember The Guardian and claims the own Xuntaits sector plays a key role internationally. “Galicia is the first world power in cultivation and marketing of mussels and is placed second after China in terms of production and extraction of this bivalvo,” they point out from the regional executive before recoding that by their coast they are distributed 3,337 batsmost in the Aruous estuary. Of them usually starts around 40% of the European production of the Bivalvo. A campaign to forget. The balance for those responsible for managing the bats is not precisely flattering either. Waiting for last year’s final data, 2023 left a balance of 178,065 tons of mussels sold for just under 120 million euros, the lowest figure in the last quarter of the century, Remember eldiario.esand far from the good results harvested in 2022. Xunta herself recognizes that it is normal for the bats to be distributed by Galicia every year more than 250,000 tons. And what is the reason? Producers They speak of the contamination generated by the wastewater treatment stations (WWTP) and spills of the factories, a diagnosis in which Marta Martín-Borregón seems to coincide, by Greenpeace Spain, in statements a The Guardian. “The main cause is the contamination from the waste expressed to the estuary, coming from agriculture and factories, such as canvas.” “The waters of the estuar are normally cold and the currents contribute many nutrients. With the warm -up of the seafood there are no assembly in warm waters.” That scenario, Martín-Boregón emphasizesit goes especially to the mussels and threatens the “collapse” of the sector dedicated to the marshal. When analyzing the fall in production of bats They are usually pointed out the lack of seed and the high temperature. “We need to help us”. The phrase It is on this occasion of María del Carmen Besada Meis, responsible for the Fishermen’s Brotherhood of San Martiño, in the Ría de Arousa, and that these days he shared his frustration with the British press. In his opinion one of the keys to the situation with which they have to deal with is Climate change And the torrential rains of recent years, but cries out: “What we would like is for someone to come and do adequate investigation.” “We are shellfish, we do not know what the solution is, so we need scientists to help us,” emphasize. Hence, Pdra, Brotherhoods and Mussel producers demand the Xunta de Galicia that intervene “urgently” in the sanitation and regeneration of the Ría de Arousa. Those affected demand that the problem addresses “Serious” And they show their rejection of two projects that, according to their critics, would affect the regional ecosystem: the Altri plant projected in Palas de Rei and the Tour and pine mine. Images | Jose Luis Cernadas Iglesias (Flickr), Juantiagues (Flickr) and Manuel MV (Flickr) In Xataka | Spain loves Galician Cigalas very much. So much that it has taken them practically to extinction

It will impose tariffs from 25 to 100% to the chips manufactured in Taiwan

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Donald Trump is fulfilling his word. During the electoral campaign he promised that he would make the decisions that were necessary to reinforce the business of US companies within the US. And he also assured that he would sanction tariffs all those countries that threaten the interests of the nation that leads since January 20. As soon as he has been in the government for a week, and he is doing both. “In the very close future we will impose tariffs on foreign production of computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceutical products to return the manufacture of these essential goods to the US (…) went to Taiwan; now we want them to return. We do not want to give them Millions of dollars in the ridiculous Biden program. 100%”, Donald Trump declared yesterday during a conference that was held in Florida (USA). This measure of the Donald Trump’s government has not taken TSMC offset The express mention to Taiwan that the US president has made a few hours ago is a very clear allusion to TSMC. On this Asian island there are other semiconductor manufacturers, such as UMC, but its relevance in the chip market is much lower than that of the company currently leading CC Wei. TSMC dominates the integrated circuit market with A quota of approximately 60%so your leadership in the chip manufacturing industry is indisputable. TSMC has been leaching its strategy for more than four years to extend its semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure beyond Taiwan’s borders Anyway, the passing step that the US administration is going to give will not take TSMC by surprise. This company has been outlining its strategy for more than four years to extend your manufacturing infrastructure of semiconductors beyond the borders of Taiwan. And he is doing it for two reasons. On the one hand it is an effective way to protect your business if at any time it is triggered A war conflict between China and Taiwanand their plants on the island were useless. But, in addition, TSMC is significantly developing its infrastructure in the US. His plan is that their new Arizona factories not only serve to protect their business from a possible conflict between China and Taiwan; They also protect it from the foreseeable US tariffs. The first of these plants is already producing integrated circuits in the N4 lithographic node, which belongs to the Finfet family of 5 Nm. In fact, he is about to deliver Apple’s first chips games. The second Arizona factory will be operational in 2028 and will produce circuits integrated in N3 (3 Nm) and N2 (2 Nm) nodes. And finally, the third factory will not be listed at all until the end of this decade and will produce chips in the N2 (2 nm) node. So far the most advanced TSMC integration technologies were only available In its Taiwan plantsbut, as we have just seen, Soon they will also be in the US. And in this way it will solve two problems of a stroke: it will be fought from the tariffs that the Trump government will approve and will reinforce its production infrastructure beyond its country of origin. One last note: in addition to the US, TSMC is building New plants in Japan and Europe. Image | TSMC More information | C-Span In Xataka | Intel’s plan in front of an unattainable TSMC: beat Samsung and consolidate as the second largest chips manufacturer

The DGT will install 122 new radars in 2025. Locations and when they will begin to fine the 24 radars that are already active

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The radars save lives and in 2025 we will continue with the installation of 122 new devices on the Spanish roads, of which 17 fixed and 7 section entered service this January 21 With these words, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Minister of the Interior, confirmed that The DGT will install more than a hundred radars This year 2025 on Spanish roads. Thus, the head of Interior stressed that the fulfillment of the speed limits “is key” to avoid accidents. The DGT has been defending that installing New radarsas well as the use of vans and even camouflaged motorcycles With mobile radars, you should improve accident figures on roads. The organism has been doing special emphasis on speed although Distractions are the main cause of accidents With mortal victims on our roads. Be that as it may, what is certain is that the DGT aspires to deploy 122 new radars on Spanish roads. All new radars and where will they start fine Although in its information the DGT has also made it clear that its intention is to install a greater number of section radarsfor now, the 24 new radars that already work on Spanish roads are mostly fixed. As you can check in the list below, only seven of the 24 new speed controllers They are stretch. The rest, the 17 new radars are fixed. This is confirmed by the DGT that, in addition to its locations, has confirmed that they came into operation on January 21. That does not mean, however, that they are already sanctioning with fines that can reach the 600 euros and six points in the driving card. At the moment, the cinemometers will pass a first test phase in which only the drivers will be notified that have exceeded the maximum allowed speed. That period lasts a month and, later, the drivers will be sanctioned. As for its locations, the DGT confirms that the 17 fixed radars are found in the following places: Province Road Kilometer point (PK) Almería A-1050 1+200 decreasing Almería AL-3117 1+400 growing grenade N-432 425+950 decreasing Malaga A-7054 3+500 growing A Coruña AC-221 2+550 growing A Coruña AC-841 9+800 decreasing Asturias N-634 377+850 growing Asturias GJ-10 0+250 growing Lugo LU-862 74+150 decreasing Ourense N-525 237+880 growing Pontevedra N-550 84+150 growing Alicante N-332 89+050 decreasing Alicante CV-86 13+800 growing Alicante CV-905 7+050 decreasing Alicante A-77a 0+420 growing Valencia V-31 6+125 d Valencia CV-410 3+510 c The seven new section radars are found in the following locations. PROVINCE ROAD PK Start PK End Almería A-370 8+400 c 9+400 c Malaga MA-20 9+300 c 10+300 c A Coruña AC-552 26+275 c 27+300 c Asturias AS-12 2+150 d 0+850 d Ourense OU-536 25+850 c 28+040 c Valencia A-3 347+100 c 349+150 c Valencia V-23 3+330 d 1+600 d In addition, remember that in Xataka We tell you how to know Where are all radars. In this way, we will avoid falling into one of the 50 radars that most fine in Spain. Photo | DGT In Xataka | The roads of Spain are plagued with empty radar boxes: they work according to the DGT

Pebble returns in 2025. The simplest smart watch on the market will return to its roots

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The founder of Pebble, Eric Migicovsky, has announced The return of one of the most influential smart watches in history. A decade after cementing the market, it returns with a similar vision – but not the same – to the original: do the right thing, but do it well … and sustainably as a company. Why is it important. In a market dominated by the Apple Watch and other increasingly complex and complete watches, focused on health and sports, Pebble proposes to return to its roots: A screen e-paper Always active, a week of autonomy and physical buttons instead of touch screen. Without much more. Between bambalins. Google, current owner of the brand after the purchase of Fitbit, who in turn was the one who bought what was left of Pebble in 2016, has decided to release the source code of Pebbleos. That allows Migicovsky to create a “spiritual clone” of the original clock under another brand. Original Pebble. Image: Pebble. The new device will maintain the essence of Pebble: notifications, music control, alarms, time, calendar and basic monitoring of activity. No electrocardiograms or blood oxygen measurement. Against the complexity of the watches of the present. The device still has no name. Migicovsky has only announced one domain: Repebble.com. Yes, but. The big difference is in the business model. Migicovsky will finance the project personally, without external investors or Kickstarter campaigns, thanks to the businesses he has done since he left Pebble. “The keyword is’ sustainable,” he said about it. One of Pebble’s mistakes ten years ago was growing in excess. When the skinny cows arrived, the cost structure was unassumable. Deepen. The market of Wearable It has changed a lot since 2012, but there is an active community of Pebble users that keep the original devices alive: Rebble. The question is whether this minimalist approach can find its hole in 2025, when the industry is committed to complexity and advanced functions. The new Pebble points to a specific user niche, not to a massive presence. In fact there are the shots of the sustainability that Migicovsky poses. Outstanding image | REPEBBLE In Xataka | Thus Pebble failed: “The biggest mistake was not to react when we knew that the Apple Watch was going to arrive”

The earth’s crust is disappearing under California. The test is in its earthquakes

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The border between the mantle and the land cortex is a region that attracts interest of numerous geologists. Being so close and so far from the reach of the instruments that these scientists use perhaps a certain mysticism to this region, but above all, because the dynamism of The interactions Among the outermost layers of our planet makes this border a specially active region at the geological level. Scratching the bark. Now, a new study He has revealed A new aspect of this interaction. He has done it in the Sierra Nevada Californiana, or rather under this Sierra, where they have found evidence of how the mantle “pela” the earth’s crust. Delamination Geologists believe that, from time to time, fragments of the lithosphere end up detaching themselves and sinking into the upper layers of the terrestrial mantle. This process is known as alamination or sinking of the lithosphere and could be responsible for the notable differences in the thickness of the oceanic crust in contrast to the continental cortex, among other characteristics of the geology and geography of the planet. Generally, this process is seen as a “drip”: the heaviest rock of the cortex loses consistency and ends up detaching from the lithosphere to sink into the mantle, composed of less dense materials. However, Maybe this delamination is more abruptsomething like the terrestrial mantle “pelara” the cortex. Seismic waves. As usual in this type of studies, the team analyzed the way in which seismic waves move through the interior layers of the Earth in order to study factors such as the composition and density of these layers. Sierra Nevada is a seismically active region, which implies a greater ease to compile data in this way. The researchers responsible for the study They combined various sources of seismic data in their study, starting with this analysis, called the receiving function. The team combined it with the exhaustive catalog data of the Advanced National Seismic System (COMCAT). In this catalog they detected the presence of a “band of seismicity” in the region, located from 40 kilometers under the surface, which concentrated small earthquakes of magnitudes between 1.9 and 3.2. Break, I don’t drip. Thanks to the differences detected through the receiving functions, the equipment was able to find a differentiated layer in the mantle, a not so differentiated layer as it extends to the north and that is consistent with the hypothesis that part of the lithosphere in the South Zone broke out of the cortex several million years ago. The small earthquakes on the other hand, could be indicative that this detachment was made for breakage instead of drip, according to the authors of the study. The details of this analysis were published In an article In the magazine Geophysical Research Letters. Strengthening the hypothesis. The evidence is not yet conclusive as the team admits, but they add to the already numerous that support the hypothesis that the discontinuity of Mohorovičić (the border between the cortex and the upper mantle of the earth) is not abrupt under the mountain range from Sierra Nevada, but rather gradual. In Xataka | We knew that Yellowstone hid an immense volcano but not the place he would explode. Until now Image | Arttower

Deepseek does the same as Openai’s most advanced models with much less resources. The key: “Reinforcement Learning”

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The entire world is wondering how it is possible that the models of AI of Deepseek They have become overnight the great protagonists of today in the field of artificial intelligence. The answer is relatively simple. These models have managed to demonstrate that You can do more with much less. Both Deepseek V3 and Deepseek-R1 are comparable to GPT-4 or O1 OPENAI respectively, but it is estimated that their training has been much less expensive and its inference, of course, is: the prices of the Deepseek API are up to 35 sometimes lower than those of OpenAi, but that makes one wonder how it is possible. The answer is clear, and it is because we have at our disposal the technical reports of these AI models. Precisely his study has allowed us to clarify What are the techniques that this Chinese R&D laboratory has used to develop these models so efficient and capable. Many techniques, a single objective: efficiency There are several differences that make Deepseek’s new model especially efficient. Its creators explain in detail in the detailed Technical Report that is publicly available. Here are the most relevant: Deepseekmoe (“Mixture of experts”): In models such as GPT-3.5 the entire model was activated in both training and inference (when we use it). However, not all model components are necessary for our requests. The MOE technique – already introving with Deepseek V2 – precisely divides the model into multiple “experts” and only activates those that are necessary according to the request. GPT-4 is already a MOE model. But as we said, Depseekmoe even went further and differentiated between even more specialized experts, in addition to using some somewhat more generalist experts that could contribute value in certain requests. Managing all those specialized or generalist experts not only benefits inference, but also the training phase, making it more efficient. This technique is similar to the so -called “Time Scaling test” that also adjusts the size or complexity of a model during efficiency. Deepseekmla (Multi-Head Latent attention): It is another substantial improvement-even more than the previous one, and also introduced with Deepseek V2-that affects the way in which memory is managed in these models. Normally it is necessary to load both the model and the entire context window – the one that allows us to write prompts and include long texts, for example. Context windows are especially expensive because each token requires both a key and their corresponding value. With the improvement introduced with this technique, what was made possible was to compress that warehouse of keys and values, dramatically reducing memory use during inference. Auxiliary -los-Free Load Balancing: If we imagine a model like a great orchestra, each musician is an “expert” within the model. To play a complex piece, not all musicians are necessary all the time. Traditionally the so -called “auxiliary losses” were used to make sure that all musicians played enough, but these losses could interfere with that interpretation of the musical piece (model training), which could degrade general performance. With Deepseek V3 the model is able to balance the work of each expert dynamically. That does the simplest, direct and efficient training by eliminating “auxiliary losses.” In addition, the elimination of interference allows the model to learn better and with less resources … and get better results. Multi-Token Prediction Training Objective: Often predicting the following word depends on several previous words or context. With this technique instead of predicting only the following word, the model learns to predict several words at the same time. That makes more natural and understandable and less ambiguous texts generate, but also accelerates training by reducing the number of steps necessary to generate the complete text sequence. FP8 Mixed Precision Training: The use of Numbers FP8 allows significantly reducing memory consumption and accelerates calculations. Some critical parts of the model continue to use FP32 training to guarantee precision, but there is another additional benefit of FP8: the size of the models is reduced. Other models use techniques such as quantization or parameter pruning. Although Openai does not give data on GPT-4 in this section, the assumption is that it works with BF16, more expensive in terms of memory. Although FP8 theoretically leads to less precise models, other complementary techniques such as fine-grained quantization are used to reduce the negative impact of values ​​that come out of the common, which makes a stable training possible. Cross-Node All-to-Lall Communication: During training it is necessary to constantly exchange information between all nodes (computers) connected in training data centers. That can become a bottleneck, but these new Deepseek V3 techniques include efficient communication protocols, data traffic reduction and efficient synchronization to accelerate training and, once again, reduce the costs of that process. Reinforcement and “distillation” learning as keys But in addition to all these techniques, those responsible for Deepseek V3 explain how they pressed it with 14.8 billion tokens, a process to which a supervised adjustment followed (Superved Fine-Tuning, SFT) and several stages of Reinforcement Learning (Reinforcement Learning, RL). The SFT phase-which is mentioned in the Deepseek V3 report-was completely omitted in the case of Deepseek-R1. However, learning by reinforcement is an absolute protagonist in the development of both models, especially in R1. The technique is well known in the field of artificial intelligence, and it is as if we trained a dog with prizes and punishments. The model learns to respond better by giving rewards if you do well. Over time, the model learns to take actions that maximize long -term reward. In Deepseek, learning for reinforcement is used to break down complex problems in smaller steps. In it Deepseek R1 technical report It also indicates how this model makes use of RL techniques directly on the base model, without the need for supervised training. That saves computing resources. The call also comes into play here Thought chain (chain-of-though)also mentioned in the technical report. This refers to the ability of a language model to show the intermediate steps of its reasoning. The model not only … Read more

It flirts with the high range, but is price of mid -range. Samsung’s tablet that I want to travel touches its minimum price

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Having a tablet is very useful in various situations, either to take it on a trip, to see multimedia content (and in streaming) at home or to study and work. But … which one to choose? There are many models, but now one of the most interesting, and what would choose myself, is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Fe. Because? Basically because it now has one of the best discounts to date: it can be found in Mediamarkt by 399 euros In its 256 GB Wi -Fi version. Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Fe (Wifi, 256 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review A off -road tablet that touches its minimum historical price The Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Fe It is a standard size tablet that has some most interesting specifications. Regarding your screen, riding a 10.9 -inch LCD panel which offers a 90 Hz soda rate and a resolution of 2304 x 1440 pixels. Besides, comes with a S-PENwhich is quite useful for various tasks. Internal level we find the processor Exynos 1380and is accompanied by 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of internal storage; A quite good figure if we have in mind download multimedia content and do not want to depend on cloud services. On the other hand, Its battery is 8,000 mAh and supports fast chargingIt has Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity and Wifi, but not with 5g. Its dual speakers are compatible with Dolby Atmos And the tablet has IP68 certification With dust and water resistance. In addition to all this, while on the front we have a 12 MP camera that is ideal for video callon the back we find a single 8 MP camera. Other tablets that have a good value for money Lenovo Tab P12 – Tablet of 12.7 “3k (MediaTak Dimensity 7050, 8 GB of RAM, 128 GB Expandable up to 1 TB, 4 speakers, wifi 6 + Bluetooth 5.1, Android 13) Conte Pen Plus – Gray * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ Tablet Android, 64 GB Storage, Wi -Fi, 11 ”screen, Gray Sound (Spanish version) * 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 | Samsung In Xataka | Best tablets. Which to buy and 9 recommended models for all pockets and needs In Xataka | Best Samsung mobiles: which buy and recommended models based on budget, tastes and quality price

The EU has finally become independent of Russian gas. Now faces an equal uncertain dependence: the US LNG

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In the last five years, the supply of liquefied natural gas in Europe depended mainly on Russian reservesrepresenting almost 40% of imports thanks to their competitive prices and an extensive network of gas pipelines. However, Europe has sought to reduce the dependence on Russian gas by the Ukraine War, facing an uncertain energy panorama. Also, still imports Russian LNG record amounts By boat and Hungary and Slovakia oppose restrictive measures. The reserves, which had reached historical levels before winter thanks to storage policies, are now beginning to descend. Given this situation, Europe has chosen to diversify its sources and increase LNG imports from other countries, being the United States one of the emerging suppliers. However, this transition will not be easy. Short. At the time he assumed, in less than 24 hours, Donald Trump signed an executive order with the different measures that Ipso facto was going to take. In addition, the issue of gas and tariffs to Europe comes before assumingbut now the president of the United States has launched a warning to the European Union demanding that more oil and liquefied natural gas be bought or, otherwise, will face the imposition of tariffs. This threat occurs in a context of commercial and energy tensions, where the US seeks to gain ground in the European market, which has historically depended on Russia’s energy imports. However, the EU does not have a centralized purchasing power that allows it to negotiate large -scale contracts, since it is individual companies that decide where to buy the gas. Evolution of European LNG imports in recent years The evolution of the gas supply. This graph represents the supply of LNG in Europe, which has experienced notable changes such as more than 15 years ago liquefied natural gas came in most countries such as Qatar and other producers. However, Russia’s agency was marking over time. However, the position of the United States as a supplier of Europe is from 2020, which is observed how it is consolidated. This was due, in large part, to the sanctions and commercial restrictions imposed on the Kremlin, which forced the EU has diversify its sources. In the last year, US imports have reached historical levels, even exceeding traditional suppliers. Europe’s position. Although Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has shown its willingness to replace Russian gas with American LNG, the EU does not have the centralized purchase capacity on a large scale, so each member country negotiates it independently. For its part, Hungary and Slovakia, more aligned with the Kremlin For their energy treatment, they may not share these EU measures. However, Brussels aims to reduce the dependence of Russian fossil fuels for two years, but the high price of American LNG compared to Russian gas remains an important obstacle. In addition, the EU is struggling to protect its industries and reduce high energy prices, especially in countries such as Germany, which depend on gas for its industry. And Russia? Despite the Ukraine War and the sanctions imposed by the United States and the EU, Russia remains the largest gas supplier for the latter. The reason is because European companies continue to import large volumes of Russian LNG due to the lowest prices and the lack of short -term affordable alternatives. For its part, the Kremlin is looking for new markets for its energy and is approaching more to the Asian continent. Commercial relations. The production capacity of American LNG is increasing, and more natural gas plants are expected to enter into operation in the coming years. By 2026, the United States, Canada and Qatar may meet much of the European LNG demand, thus reducing the need for Russian gas. In addition, the EU seeks to reduce its natural gas consumption by 25% by 2030, modifying import and market patterns. However, prices will remain a considerable obstacle for total change to American LNG. Image | Unspash Xataka | Russia has managed to make fun of Europe’s sanctions: I just had to disguise its gas with Azerí flag

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