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Sweden did not believe Russia’s economic data. He has found the proof he was looking for by observing Moscow from space

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

If the question is how Russia’s economy is doing, the answer surely depends on who you ask. A few weeks ago, The New York Times published a report where he explained the tensions that exist between the Russian elites as economic growth slows of the nation. They signed up the sanctions and the war itself, but in the face of rhetoric, Moscow responded that they would endure all threats. Sweden was not so clear, and claims to have evidence of the real situation. Stagnation and signs of slowdown. As we have told other timesthe war economy that Russia launched at full speed after the invasion of Ukraine appears to be showing signs of significant slowdown. In fact and as the Times emphasizedeven generating tensions among the country’s economic elite as the conflict enters its fourth year. According to recent official data, many civil sectors have stopped growing and have even begun to declinewhich has exacerbated economic uncertainty. The Russian currency, the ruble, fell three weeks ago to its lowest level in two yearsand companies face difficulties in obtaining new loans or receiving payments from customers, reflecting an increasingly restrictive financial environment. Rise in interest rates. The response of the Central Bank of Russia has been a drastic rise in reference interest rates, reaching 21% in October, the highest level since the fall of the Soviet Union. Despite efforts to contain inflation, the economic growth forecast for the new year has been revised downwards, standing between 0.5% and 1.5%well below the 3.5% to 4% recorded in 2024. In the background, the elephant in the room: the slowdown occurs despite the continued record government spending to finance the warwhich indicates that economic stimuli are no longer having the same effect. Economists and officials have begun to warn about the imminent risk of so-called stagflationa dangerous combination of price increase without economic growth. The impact of sanctions and the Russian response. The strict economic sanctions imposed by the West in response to the invasion of Ukraine have limited Russia’s ability to maintain its military-spending-fueled growth. In this regard, the Kremlin has insisted that it has withstood the impact of sanctions, but slowing growth and rising inflation indicate otherwise. Civilian businesses, in particular, have been hardest hit by the economic crisis. For example, Russian Railways, the country’s largest employer, reported a 9% drop in cargo volume transported last October compared to the previous year. To counteract this decline, the company has announced a price increase of more than 10% and has reduced its investment plans for 2025 by a third. Despite this, experts consider that the crisis is not yet serious enough enough to force President Vladimir Putin to reconsider his ambitions in Ukraine. Conflict Central Bank and the industrial elite. One of the main points of conflict within the Russian economic elite is the relationship between the Central Bank of Russia and the country’s leading industrialists. The bank’s governor, Elvira Nabiullina, has implemented a strict monetary policy to curb inflation, which has generated criticism from businessmenwho argue that record-high interest rates are stifling growth. In response to these, Nabiullina recently defended his strategy before Parliament, arguing that all the country’s economic resources are being used to the maximum and that macroeconomic stability should not be sacrificed for accelerated growth. However, its position has become increasingly isolated in an environment in which Business interests demand more flexible measures to sustain their operations in a context of growing uncertainty. Distrust in official figures. And in the face of domestic rhetoric, Western officials have expressed skepticism about the veracity of the economic data provided by the Kremlin, arguing that the official figures do not accurately reflect the reality of the Russian economy. In this regard, the Minister of Finance of Sweden, Elisabeth Svantesson, expressed during the World Economic Forum in Davos that Russia is presenting an image of economic stability that does not match the real situation. According to Svantesson, government statistics, which put inflation at 9.5%are not credible considering that the Central Bank of Russia has raised interest rates to 21%a discrepancy that suggests much greater inflationary pressure than is officially recognized. Furthermore, the continued flight of capital is another indicator of the country’s economic difficulties, which a priori contradicts the Kremlin’s narrative of resistance to Western sanctions. The “trick” of space. Thus, and given the lack of confidence in Russian data, Western officials have resorted to alternative methods to assess the nation’s economic health, including in the equation analysis of night satellite images of Moscow. Svantesson pointed out that city lighting in 2023 was visibly dimmer compared to 2021which, in his opinion, suggests lower energy consumption and, therefore, a decline in economic activity. In fact, comparative photographs from media like Business Insider showed that, although factors such as cloud cover and time of day can influence perception, in general a pronounced decrease in illuminated areas is observed, especially in the suburbs of the capital, which could point to this deterioration in the level of life and possible cuts in the electricity supply. Manipulation of the economic narrative. Svantesson went a little further, and even emphasized that the Russian government’s official narrative seeks to convince Ukraine and its allies that sanctions have not had the desired impact. However, the data (and alternative data, such as the analysis of night lights), suggest that the economic reality is somewhat different from the image projected by Moscow. The minister concluded that, although the exact state of the Russian economy cannot be known with certainty, what is clear is that “the official version promoted by the Kremlin is not true.” Image | POT In Xataka | The end of the war is very far away for two reasons. One is arriving in Ukraine from the US, the other is an unprecedented figure in Russia In Xataka | Russia already knows how to respond to the sanctions that block its international trade: with cryptocurrencies

25% of its staff wants to leave, according to La Información

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

The electrical marketing company Holaluz is not going through the best of times, not even in terms of your financial statusas well as his relationship with the staff, who are currently immersed in an indefinite strike due to the substantial change in their working conditions. Among those changes: eliminating teleworking. As a consequence of the loss of this type of work and other acquired social benefits, around the 25% of the workforce has decided not to accept the new conditions imposed by the energy company and terminate your contract, as published The Information. 25% of the workforce does not accept the changes The measure involves the departure of some 52 Holaluz workers until January 31, the deadline for employees to communicate their refusal to accept the substantial change in their working conditions. Union sources consulted by The Information They point out that 14 of those employees have already formalized their departure from the company. These same sources assured that the number of applicants for termination of their contract may rise to 70 workers, which would represent 30% of the energy marketer’s workforce. The Works Council itself would have been affected by this reduction in personnel, going from seven representatives to only three members, maintaining the union representation of UGT and CGT that called for the indefinite strike. Terminate the contract in the event of a substantial change Given the lack of agreement in the negotiation of working conditions and the in-person working day model that Holaluz proposed to its staff in September 2024, the company presented a Substantial Modification of Working Conditions (MSCT) for your entire workforce. This proposal implies acceptance by the company that there will be a substantial change in the working conditions under which its employees were hired and, therefore, opens the door to the application of the article 41 of the Workers’ Statute. Section 3 of this article specifies that “if the worker is harmed by the substantial modification, he will have the right to terminate his contract and receive compensation of twenty days’ salary per year of service, prorating by month the periods less than one year and with a maximum of nine months.” This means that those workers who decide not to accept the new Holaluz conditions will be able to terminate your contract and receive compensation for his departure. After suffering a serious financial setback that had the energy marketer on the verge of bankruptcy for much of 2024, it finally obtained financial support of Icosium Investment which, with a capital injection of 22 million euros, managed to keep the company afloat. According to sources of The Informationall the changes in working conditions announced, including the elimination of teleworking, respond to an effort to adjust expenses estimated at 250,300 euros in 2024. Teleworking was a red line According to what was published by The Informationthe company considered that, after an internal evaluation, teleworking was considered “a measure incompatible with the negative situation in which the company finds itself” and, therefore, it opted for a 100% in-person model. This change led to the call for an indefinite strike starting January 14. According to company sources asked by Xataka, “of 227 employees, the strike has been monitored by 37 people (16% of the workers) who have participated at some point in the strike. Of the total workers, 2% (five employees have supported 100% of the hours during the first week). Analyzing the total hours of the strike (taking into account that the call is two days per week, with four hours each, adding up to a total of eight hours per week), 130.25 strike hours have been recorded out of a total of 1,816 possible hours (227 workers x 8 hours). This represents 7.2% compliance with the hours called for the strike. For their part, union sources confirm that, in the absence of an agreement, as of January 28, the strike will be indefinite for the entire day, and not for hours as has happened until now. Holaluz assures that the company’s operational situation is completely normal and confirms that they have opened new job offers to cover the sick leave of those who have not accepted the substantial modification of their working conditions. “It has been a very hard year and returning to the office is essential to recover the cohesion of the team and recover the enthusiasm. After all the difficulties, we have to row and form a team together,” sources close to Holaluz assure. In Xataka | “It is not a hidden layoff”: Amazon’s CEO has denied that returning to the office is an excuse to reduce his workforce Image | Hellolight

NVIDIA postpones Tesla’s great promise to the next decade

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

Autonomous driving. That eternal promise that is supposedly worth billions of euros, that we are always brushing with our fingers and that, in the end, never seems to arrive. The last to express their doubts have been those responsible for NVIDIA. “It’s super difficult”. The words are from Ali Kani, head of NVIDIA’s automotive division, who spoke with the magazine Coach about the future of autonomous driving. “It’s something typical of the next decade. We are not close. It is super difficult,” Kani assured journalists. The question referred to “truly autonomous cars” of which the head of NVIDIA. It is clear that “we will not see them in this decade.” Kani pointed out that cars currently do not have the power or the technology necessary to implement autonomous driving in the short term. A new way of working. Regarding how they work at NVIDIA, Kani assures that what they are doing “is very different” from what they did a year ago. He assures that they are “working on large language models such as GPT Chat with video.” And he emphasizes: “no one was doing this three years ago.” The problems. Basically, we do not have enough computing power to guarantee autonomous driving in the short term. “This type of model needs a lot more computing power, a lot more memory bandwidth. You need more LiDAR sensors and radars, redundant algorithms to make sure it’s safe. All of that has to work in parallel, which means more computing.” Furthermore, NVIDIA is clear that it is not just a matter of raw power. It’s also about giving a good image to potential customers and showing that you can travel safely. “The industry needs to go slow with this. If one company makes a mistake, the entire industry is set back a few years. So we have to act in the most responsible and don’t take any shortcuts. You can only do it when you have proven that it is really safe,” concludes Kani. A different approach. If we take what NVIDIA claims as a reference, the company works in a completely different way than Tesla tries to do. Technology makes it clear that radars and LiDAR sensors continue to be essential, components that Tesla wants to eliminate to trust everything to the use of cameras and recorded images. What Elon Musk’s company defends is that It has a huge fleet of vehicles already on the streets and that everything recorded by them allows their algorithms to learn faster than the competition. They hope, therefore, to spend less money and time to go beyond where Waymo or Cruise have gone. In 2027. The perspectives that come to us from NVIDIA are also very different from the promises that Elon Musk has made about his Tesla Cybercab. According to the owner of Tesla, his fully autonomous cars should be on the streets in 2027 despite his claims “Be unoptimistic with deadlines”. Then he said that next year he will be manufacturing his robotaxis. A promise that, as on so many other occasions, doesn’t seem too realistic. However, Musk is confident in his approach to Donald Trump to open the hand with the tests of autonomous vehicles and deploy their services more quickly. The eternal promise. The truth is, whether we’re talking about Tesla or any other company, the promise of the fully autonomous car always seems to be about to arrive. And it never seems to end. Waymo keeps going but Cruise has fallen by the wayside and has joined a long list of failed attempts. The truth is that Cruise has managed to launch the service in limited spaces but it is also true that the behavior of its cars it was easy to manipulate and who has lived in a eternal controversy of accidents and encounters with San Francisco emergency services. During all this time, Tesla has not managed to make its Autopilot a truly autonomous service and requires human attention. Ford’s BlueCruise also needs it, although in this case can be driven without hands on previously mapped roads. Mercedes does not require it but your system is limited to very specific circumstances. And a bag of millions. Despite everything, there are billions at stake with autonomous driving. Or that’s what they promise us. One of the most optimistic forecasts is that of Tasha Keeney, director of investment analysis at ARK, who quantified in one of his analyzes collected by The Wall Street Journal The value of a robotaxis service like the one Tesla is looking for could account for 60% of the company’s income in 2029 and raise its valuation to $800 billion. Photo | tesla In Xataka | Tesla promises a robotaxi without a steering wheel in 2026. General Motors already tried it with Origin and canceled its project this same year

What is Perplexity, how it works and what the Pro version of this artificial intelligence search engine is like

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

Let’s explain to you what is Perplexitythe popular conversational artificial intelligence search engine. It is a tool that seeks to revolutionize the way you find content on the Internet, although currently chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot either Gemini They are also capable of using AI for these searches, although they do not specialize in it. We are going to start the article by briefly explaining what exactly Perplexity is and its internal workings, as well as the difference compared to conventional search engines. Then, we will tell you in a simple way what the external functioning of the search engine is like, and the functions they have. We will finish by talking to you about its paid version. What is Perplexity Perplexity is a conversational search engine that works through artificial intelligence. seeks to offer an easier to use alternative to Googleand in which you will not have to go in and out of links to find the answers you are looking for. The main difference with conversational search engines is the way you interact with it. While with Google or Bing you have to type keywords to find the content, with Perplexity you have to ask a question with natural languageand the AI will understand what you are trying to find, and offer you the answer. It is able to do this because inside the search engine we have an artificial intelligence system that, like ChatGPT or others, has been trained to analyze your text and understand natural language with whom you are asking something. With this, when you ask it a question it extracts the meaning of the words and how they work together, and allows more precise searches. On Google, when you want to write more specific things and ask very long questions, the results may be very bad because it tries to find content with all the words. Perplexity understands the concept of what you want to findand with that performs more precise searches. Furthermore, this search engine is respectful of its sources. Unlike ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini, the web pages from which the information was obtained do not seem hidden. Instead, it shows them at the top, and you can click to go directly to specific pages or click on the box where they all are to display them as a list. In this way, Perplexity also allows you verify information more easily. Artificial intelligence systems sometimes make mistakes or hallucinations in their response, and having sources of information nearby will make it easier to verify that what they say is true. How Perplexity works Perplexity’s home page is similar to other artificial intelligence search engines and chats. Upon entering perplexity.aiyou will have a search field where you can write what you want to find. Below you will also have some suggestions for questions in case you don’t know how to start using it. Below the search field you have several options. With the Focus option you can choose where to search of what you want to find. For example, in addition to searching the web, you can search in academic documents, or social networks, you can search videosand even receive better answers to writing or mathematical problems. You will also have options to upload a PDF file and perform internal searches, or to activate Pro mode, which is the paid version of Perplexity. For these two functions you will first have to create an account, although not necessary for simple searcheswhich you can do without a user account. When you ask a question, Perplexity will compose an answer based on the information it has found on the Internet. But on top of this answer you have a Sources section with the pages Where did you get the information from? On the right, you can also display images or videos, to see those that are related to the search you have performed. In the section of Sources you have four paintings. The first three are links that take you directly to the pages from which the most information has been obtained, and the fourth allows you open a list with all sources that you have used and the articles from which the information with which you have generated the response came. This way, you can enter the one you want just as you do with Google. For some questions you will be answered with graphics or images, especially for quick ones that you can ask, such as what the weather is like today or tomorrow in a certain city. Perplexity vs Perplexity Pro Perplexity has a paid version called Perplexity Pro. In exchange for a monthly payment of 20 euros, you will have advanced functions, such as choose the AI model you want to usebeing able to choose, in addition to their own, other much more famous ones. This is the table with the differences: Perplexity perplexity pro queries Fast and unlimited Fast and unlimited Pro consultations 3 a day 300+ a day AI models Standard Perplexity Standard Perplexity GPT-4o Claude-3 Sonar Large (Llama 3.3) and more… Profile You can create one to customize responses, but it’s optional. You need to create one before subscribing to the pro. Upload and analyze files Only with account Limited Unlimited View responses No Yes, using Playground AI, DALL-E, SDXL and more API Credits No 5$/month As you can see, the main difference is that you can make daily Pro queries with which to obtain better results, and you can compose the answers with other artificial intelligence models like GPT-4o and others. Thus, you do not depend on the advances of the Perplexity model, and you can use other more advanced ones. There are also advantages when it comes to uploading files and analyzing them, which is an unlimited function, and composing images to visualize the responses, something that in the Pro version you can do… and using different image-generating AI models. In Xataka Basics | News of the ChatGPT search engine in December 2024: everything announced by … Read more

We spoke with the creators of ALIA, the 100% Spanish AI, to understand its future

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

This Monday it was announced release of ALIA language models. The initiative has been in development for years and it is now that the first fruits are beginning to be seen, still modest, but promising. To learn more details about ALIA, at Xataka we have spoken with Martha Villegas (@MartaVillegasM), head of the Language Technologies Unit of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). This has allowed us to clarify the status of the project, its objectives and its next challenges. To compete with ChatGPT, nothing The first thing we wanted to know is how ALIA had been created, and here Marta Villegas clarified that the model is based on the Llama architecture – Meta’s Open Source model –, “but the model has been trained from scratch and with zero initial weights“. This is important because ALIA is not a Llama-based model that has undergone a refinement or “fine-tuning” process. In those cases, this expert explained, “you start from a model trained with other data and with initialized weights, and you do it to adapt that model to your needs, either because you have more data and you want it to be better or because perhaps you want to adapt it to a particular domain. But here, he told us, “the vocabulary (set of tokens) is completely different.” In other models the corpus or training data set may be mostly in English, which causes the set of admissible tokens to be calculated through English. That, Villegas indicates, would make it adapt less efficiently to other languages. That is precisely what has been sought with ALIA: reduce the relevance of English to increase the number of 35 languages of the European Union and, especially, Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician. How ALIA has been trained The ALIA training process began with some experiments in April 2024. It is necessary because as Villegas explained, “training is not pressing the button after feeding the data and that’s it.” It had to be taken into account that MareNostrum 5the supercomputer located at and managed by the BSC, had just come into operation at full power and there was high demand to use it. MareNostrum 5 In this training process, the ALIA project has had gradual availability of the computing capacity of MareNostrum 5. Although for a short period of time they had access to 512 of the 1,120 specialized nodes of the supercomputer, 256 nodes were used for many months and since September They are using 128 nodes, “which is a lot,” Villegas highlights. During the training process, he told us, there are so-called “checkpoints”, in which it is possible to evaluate how the training process is going. These “pauses” also allow certain training data to be updated, as in fact happened in that process in which at a given moment they introduced a new corpus with high quality that allowed them to replace some data they had. This is just the beginning: it’s time to “instruct” and “align” ALIA Villegas explained to us that ALIA is a foundational model: it is not prepared to be an alternative to ChatGPT. The latter is based on GPT-4, a much more ambitious foundational model that involved much more investment. Here we must differentiate the foundational model from the “educated” and “aligned” models with which we usually interact. As this expert told us, “ALIA-40b is a foundational model that is not instructed or aligned. For a model to be a ChatGPT and understand the conversation and have a certain memory and be “politically correct,” the foundational model (which only learns to say the next token) is “instructed” by passing a bunch of texts.” Even so, the goal is to gradually consider these options. “In March, the instructed version of ALIA-40b is expected to be launched, with a first set of open instructions,” Villegas told us. These instructions are going to be subcontracted – the ones that allow these models to be instructed – and a million euros are going to be invested in that set of instructions from scratch. This data will also be published so that it is available to institutions and developers: if it has been paid with public money, explains Villegas, it is logical that this data will also be public, something that does not usually happen with other AI models from private companies. While training AI models provides guidance on how to respond and defines the context and purpose of those responses, alignment solves problems such as avoid discriminatory biasprevent misinformation or protect privacy. Precisely this lack of alignment means that using these models in this initial phase can produce responses with errors and biases that are precisely mitigated to a great extent with this alignment phase. ALIA and the competition: it is neither a rival of ChatGPT nor does it intend to be In fact, Villegas highlights, “the objective is not to compete with ChatGPT, for that we would need 5 billion dollars.” ALIA-40b “is a good model, and a chatbot can be made in the future because the intention is to instruct and align it, but that will take time.” Within the ALIA family we have the Salamandra models (2b and 7b), smaller and more modest but which already have first instructed versions. Its performance and capacity still have room for improvement, but they are good starting points for the future. It was inevitable to ask how ALIA then intends to compete with other models, both closed and developed by private companies and Open Source models. For her “There is a demand for intermediate models that each person can then adapt to their specific use case, not everyone can use ChatGPT for reasons such as privacy or use case.” Villegas also wanted to highlight how these smaller models can have exceptional performance in specific tasks, and can work at levels of security and not sharing important data. The objective is not to compete with ChatGPT, for that we would need 5,000 million dollars Not only that, he reveals: “we also took out the … Read more

Huawei’s long goodbye in Spain: from strategic partner to unwelcome technology

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

Telefónica has awarded Nokia the last part of its 5G core, completing the elimination of Huawei from critical Spanish networks, according to advances Expansion. Why is it important. This move culminates the unofficial banishment of the Chinese giant from critical telecommunications infrastructure in Spain. An explicit government veto has not even been necessary. The context. In 2019, Telefónica had chosen Huawei for its 5G corea decision that was surprising at the time, but international pressures, with the United States at the helm, have been forcing an immediate change of course. The operator announced shortly after a strategy multicore which, in practice, has meant the beginning of the end for Huawei in its Spanish critical infrastructures. The estimated value of the new contract with Nokia is 15 million euros for six years. Huawei’s current presence in the 5G cores of the three large Spanish operators has been reduced to 0%. In Xataka Pallete’s impossible equation: he reduced Telefónica’s debt by half… while its stock market value plummeted behind the scenes. The replacement strategy requires caution and precision, following a meticulous schedule by phases and regions, in order to avoid any interruption of service to users while the transition is completed. The entire process will take more than a year given its difficulty: this movement involves modifying critical infrastructure. The current situation. The three large Spanish operators have expelled Huawei from their network cores: Telefónica divides it between Nokia and Ericsson. Orange awarded it to Ericsson. Vodafone chose Nokia. The money trail. Huawei’s exit from the Spanish market has been accelerated not only by corporate decisions but also by public policies. Although it maintains an important presence in the radio networks of some operators – such as 70% in Vodafone-, his exclusion of public aid for rural 5G through an indirect veto has been decisive. This Government strategy, which requires avoiding “high-risk suppliers” to access public funds, led Huawei to file a lawsuit before the National Court. {“videoId”:”x88i2zx”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”Telefónica Smart Buildings”, “tag”:”telefónica”, “duration”:”41″} Go deeper. The 5G network core is the brain that manages all connections and user data, turning it into critical infrastructure for national security. This has ended up becoming a case study on how geopolitics also changes the technological map of a country without the need for direct prohibitions. It is enough to press the appropriate buttons. In Xataka | Huawei is ousting Apple right where it hurts most: it does not stop selling high-end mobile phones in China Featured image | Huawei (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’) ; instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news Huawei’s long goodbye in Spain: from strategic partner to unwelcome technology was originally published in Xataka by Javier Lacort .

Ana Rosa in the mornings

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

Ana Rosa Quintana returns to the mornings. The one that was absolute winner of Mediaset mornings For 18 years he abandons his fleeting experiment in the afternoons, in which attempts have been made to raise the low rates of Telecinco after the disappearance of ‘save me‘. It is an important change (and desired by the presenter, who has never felt comfortable in her new format), and above all, it is further proof of the need that Telecinco has to strengthen some proposal from your grill beyond the realities. Failed afternoons. Two years ago, Alessandro Salem, CEO of Mediaset at the time, asked Ana Rosa Quintana to try to fill the space left by ‘Sálvame’. Despite a good first year, it has not been able to stand up to Sonsoles Ónega, much more established, and the essential traveling companions who reinforce and continue the bet have not had much better luck: ‘Jorge’s Diary’, the vehicle for Jorge Javier Vázquez, after the disappearance of ‘Sálvame’, has not been able to find a space; and ‘Chain Reaction’ has done well while it has had its Mozos de Arousa, but once they are gone, the program fails to maintain interest. And that’s without talking about the current battle for access. prime timewhich with ‘La Revuelta’ and ‘El hormiguero’, Tele5 already considered lost. Again in the mornings. The reformulation of the mornings starting on February 3 will not be total, and both Ana Terradillos and Joaquín Prat, who were previously part of Ana Rosa’s team, will maintain the spaces with which Tele5 covered the slot after the presenter’s passage in the afternoons. Mediaset talks about “a remodeling of the network’s morning slot”, and there will be changes in the formats and durations, but both ‘The Critical View’ by Terradillos and ‘Let’s See’ by Prat will continue. Total domination. ‘TardeAR’ continues without Ana Rosa (perhaps the name change will be inevitable, but it is enough to dispense with the capital letters), although its current presenters, Frank Blanco and Verónica Dulanto, continue. With this change, the one that is undoubtedly the big winner is Unicorn Content, owned by the presenter, who, as stated in a statement about the change, will be on TeleCinco “from first thing in the morning until three o’clock, and then ‘TardeAR ‘from 5:40 p.m. to eight o’clock.’ A true absolute mastery of the channel grill. Bad figures. The afternoon, as we have mentioned, had not worked for Ana Rosa for a while. On December 17, ‘TardeAR’ made 10.7%, and since then, more than a month later, it has always remained below 10%, sometimes with figures as low as 7.7% this Monday , which may have precipitated his return to the mornings. To his rival on Antena 3, Sonsoles Ónega, it happens just the opposite: rarely falls below 10% share since last summer, and sometimes it reaches figures such as the 12.7% that was the maximum in October 2024, taking two and a half points ahead of Ana Rosa. What is left for Telecinco. Safe tricks, very few. It seems more or less guaranteed that the mornings will be yours again (although right now They’re not doing so well either.), but at the cost of the afternoon being extremely destabilized, with a program that is already in free fall in audiences, and that without its main supporter, may continue to decline. But the worst comes at night: although ‘Big Brother’, ‘Temptation Island’ and others realities they work well (without being infallible), the lack of a powerful product at the time of ‘El Hormiguero’ and ‘La Revuelta’ prevents there from being a carryover effect, and many times the public has to join their proposals “from scratch”. prime timewhich has made ambitious bets like ‘Next Level Chef’ puncture loudly. Header | Mediaset In Xataka | Broncano, Giró and Buenafuente: the plan of the new director of TVE to turn the ratings war upside down

These are the autonomous communities that maintain the discounts

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

Yesterday, January 22, 2025, the Government failed to carry out the Omnibus Decree that contemplated the pension increasethe extension of the MOVES III Plan and its aid to the electric car or the public transport subsidywith free or discounted multi-trip passes and tickets. The latter has had a direct consequence among those who use public transport daily because they have seen how the same transport passes that were discounted yesterday have now returned to their official prices before the discount. Óscar Puente, Minister of Transport, assured yesterday that public transport passes acquired before the refusal was given Omnibus Decree of the Government will maintain the advantages until the end of the first quarter (when said subscriptions had to be renewed) since the user had the “acquired right” with the purchase of the titles. However, those who had not obtained the titles before yesterday’s vote will not have these purchase aids. Aid that also affects regional titles. In the latter case, the transport subsidy is maintained if the town councils or autonomous communities responsible for them undertake to extend their contribution. Some of them have already confirmed that this will be the case. The autonomous communities that will maintain aid for public transport in 2025 Just a few days ago, with the first hours of 2025, the Government confirmed that it was extending aid to public transport until June 30, 2025. A measure that It would cost us 1.6 billion euros and that came with another promise: a single public transport ticket for all of Spain starting in the second half of the year. Aid for public transport, however, reached citizens through two sources. In those of state ownership (such as free quarterly subscriptions for Media Distancia with predefined origin and destination, the 50% reduction in the price of Avant multi-trip tickets or the free state-managed bus lines), the aid has been completely eliminated as it does not have the support of the Congress of Deputies. However, passes and multi-trip tickets of municipal or regional extension within the same autonomous community had double funding in the aid. The responsible organizations that wanted to benefit from the aid had the obligation to offer these multi-trip passes and tickets with at least a 50% discount. In order to apply this discount, the regional government was obliged to commit to a minimum aid of 20% of the original price and the State would support with the remaining 30% until reaching that minimum 50% reduction. Without the contribution of the State and the extension of aid, the autonomous communities and town councils have three options: Eliminate aid for public transport Maintain your minimum contribution of 20% or the one you have been applying until now Assume the State’s part and maintain the 50% discount, accepting that the entire final amount has to come from its coffers. In this context, some autonomous communities have already confirmed that they will maintain their aid to public transport in one way or another: Community of Madrid: It will maintain the 60% discount that its users already enjoyed. The regional government matched the State contribution and, therefore, the reduction in the final price was 60%. Government spokespersons in the region have confirmed that They will maintain the aid “for the moment” and therefore the prices They are still the ones you find in this link.Catalonia: At least temporarily, aid for public transport in Catalonia is maintained. It has been confirmed by Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) who claim that prices are maintained at a 50% discount “until the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility officially publishes or communicates” the withdrawal of its 30% state aid. From then on, the ATMs of Barcelona, Lleida, Tarragona and Girona will maintain the 20% aid that corresponded to them until now but the state contribution will be lost. the Basque Country: As stated EFEaid for public transport in the Basque Country will also remain at a 50% discount until the Government of Spain confirms the withdrawal of its part of the aid. At this time, 20% of Basque aid is provided, 10% by the Autonomous Community and the remaining 10% by the provincial councils and town councils. Regarding the application in each City Council, in Bilbao the 50% discounts are maintained on the barik card and in temporary titles until February 20. After this date, if the State does not maintain its 30% aid, the reduction will be 20%. In San Sebastián it has been confirmed that the 50% discounts are maintained although no date has been specified and in Vitoria they will be maintained, at least, until January 31, according to Basque Chronicle. Valencian Community: According to The Sixththe Generalitat Valenciana is studying to what extent it can maintain transport aid, which, for the moment, will continue to receive a 50% discount until next December 31. Andalusia: As stated Seville newspaperthe Junta de Andalucía will maintain, at least, the 20% discount on the price of passes and multi-trip tickets that it already supported with its funds. This discount is active throughout the Autonomous Community and, therefore, also in the Metro services of Seville, Málaga and Granada.Galicia: Pick up ABC that the Xunta de Galicia will also maintain transport aid at 50% until the end of January. From then on, the aid will be reduced to 20% corresponding to the section provided by the autonomous communities.Asturias: The Principality of Asturias has confirmed in X that the CONECTA card is used throughout the Autonomous Community will continue to maintain exactly the same current rates. The card can be recharged monthly up to a maximum of 30 euros (unused money is returned) and with it you can take trips that are divided into zones. Prices can be consulted at this link.Castile and León: Pick up EFE that the Junta de Castilla y León has confirmed that it will maintain public transport subsidies that depend on the regional contribution. Thus, the Avant service will maintain a 20% discount and metropolitan transport a 20% discount. Rural transport will … Read more

They could be from the new Glyph rear of their next mobile, the Phone (3)

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

Just yesterday the British manufacturer returned to the fray with the Pokémon which will be linked to some of the mobile phones that it plans to launch this year. There are several possibilities and everything seems to indicate that they would be the Phone (3) and the (3a), and if anything has to modify or change Nothing is the back, precisely what seems to be drawn in some sketches that the British company has shared. If there is a manufacturer that likes to play with mystery with its imminent launches, this would be Nothing, and since it began its journey as a new mobile manufacturer, started posting images of insects to give clues about your next Phone (2) or the same Phone (2a) from last year. In that game he now finds himself publishing five images from his Instagram account in which you can see a series of sketches that draw part of the design concepts of some of the mobiles which he plans to launch this year. They can look like pieces of a puzzle or simply loose concepts that throw ideas about the change that must occur on the back of your mobile. And it is precisely that he received a lot of criticism with the Nothing Phone (2) when it was launched, since the back was very similar to Phone (1). These criticisms led me to play with another “Glyph” in the design of the next Telephone (2a) that he launched last year in Spain, so it is possible that those sketches made with erratic linesbut that draw shapes, be they part of the back of the next Phone (3) or (3a). Nothing’s sketches nothing The Free Android Of them there is an image that does not fit into the rest or in some way it cannot be related, and that is that they look like two boxes with an oval shadow that do not make it clear what they are referring to; which could be part of the rear with which it can move away from the design of previous mobile phones and thus powerfully draw attention again as it has done with many of its technological products. Be that as it may, mystery once again surrounds a Nothing Phone (3) mobile that was anticipated by Carl Pei himself at the beginning of the year in an email that he sent to his employees to make it clear that this year his commitment is going to be greater. In fact, he announced that Nothing was looking for capital to invest in the technology necessary to bring generative artificial intelligence to its new premium; and even more so when this time it wants to elevate the mobile phone category to catch up with those from Samsung, Apple and others. All five images are available from your account at instagram.

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