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We send you a free VPN so you can watch football for free. Sincerely, the US Department of State

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The US State Department has announced one of the most unusual moves in recent digital diplomacy: the launch of freedom.gov, a portal designed to help citizens in Europe and other regions circumvent content restrictions imposed by their own governments. Among many other implications, this would allow LaLiga’s indiscriminate IP blocking to be avoided, which would make freedom.gov a great way to watch football for free via IPTV. What irony. what has happened. The Trump administration, under the direction of Undersecretary of Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers, has announced this project that would offer VPN-type tools to route traffic through US servers. According to Reuterswhich cites three sources familiar with the plan, the launch was scheduled for the Munich Security Conference, but was delayed for reasons that the State Department has not clarified, although some of Rogers’ team’s own lawyers are known to have expressed internal reservations. Europe censored, and rightly so. The DSA The initiative is a frontal attack on the most recent European digital regulations, and especially the Digital Services Act (DSA). In the EU, large technology platforms face million-dollar fines if they do not quickly eliminate hate speech, disinformation or terrorist propaganda. For exampleX (formerly Twitter) received a fine of 120 million euros last December for non-compliance with the DSA. This protection of this type of speech was also clearly reflected in the efforts that Germany made in 2024: nearly 500 removal orders of content related to terrorism, which ended up resulting in more than 16,000 deleted contents. The freedom of expression argument. From the perspective of Washington—or more specifically, the Trump administration—these laws are a cover to silence conservative voices. Freedom.gov is like a shield under the umbrella of freedom of speech. One that would allow any citizen to access content blocked in their country. The domain, which was apparently registered on January 12, currently only displays the National Design Studio logo, the words “fly, eagle, fly” and a login form. The promise at the moment is that said platform will not track the activity of its users. The networks breathe fire. The comments on social networks have been numerous. Reception of the news mixes disbelief with sarcasm and the indignation. In Bluesky and Maston the most repeated criticism is that of double standards: the US trimmed funding the Tor project while at the same time building a portal for European citizens to access prohibited content. Renee DiResta, journalist for The Atlantic, summed it up well with the question: “Is the State Department going to set up a Nazi website?” Other comments opt for humor and compare this initiative with the 4chan platform (“4chan.gov”, they said some), known for its controversial lack of censorship. Transatlantic tension. Brussels maintains that its regulations protect European democracies from extremist propaganda, a strong argument considering that the continent experienced totalitarianism firsthand. That an ally like the United States actively encourages disobedience to local laws and invites Europeans to bypass blockades is disturbing. The paradox is notable: the same country that for years warned of foreign interference in its internal processes is now studying offering tools precisely to do the same in Europe and other regions. This affects Tebas and LaLiga. The measure could have a curious side effect and become the worst nightmare for Javier Tebas and LaLiga. Tebas, president of that organization, has for years led the most aggressive legal crusade in Europe against illegal streaming football broadcasts. He has been pressuring operators for years to indiscriminately block IPs corresponding to IPTV services. The effectiveness of these measures depends on a fundamental assumption: that users do not have easy, free and reliable access to a VPN. Thebes knows this, and in fact These days he has attacked two suppliers of this type of services alleging that new court orders force them to also block said IPs. Freedom.gov threatens precisely that scenario. If the portal ends up functioning as a secure tunnel to American servers, any fan of soccer broadcasts in Spain would have a couple of clicks away with a perfect tool to mask their IP, avoid their operator and transparently access the illegal IPTV channels that LaLiga was blocking with its legal efforts. Therefore, there would be no need to pay a subscription to NordVPN or its rivals or configure anything: just enter the freedom.gov domain. LaLiga Indian in November 2024 that in Spain “live sports content is pirated more than 25% above the European average”, which amplifies this potential impact. The irony is extraordinary. A foreign policy maneuver designed to promote the Trump Administration’s peculiar vision of freedom of expression could turn the Washington government into the ideal solution for “free football” in our country. Image | Chris Robert | Peter Glaser In Xataka | Football has become the anchor of operator subscriptions. And LaLiga is making more money than ever

The owner of Mercadona believes that in a few years kitchens will disappear from homes. The consumption of precooked foods proves him right

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The forecast sounded so far-fetched, it clashed to such an extent with the gastronomic tradition of Spain, that it generated a considerable stir. Just a year ago, during the presentation of Mercadona’s accounts, Juan Roig surprised by predicting death (almost) imminent of domestic kitchens. “I said it and I maintain it: in the middle of the 21st century there will be no kitchens,” cried the businessman. In the future imagined by Roig we go from making our own food in the vitro at home to taking it already prepared from supermarkets, which have become an absolute reference for food. The sector data They confirm that, no matter how dystopian Roig’s prophecy sounds, it seems to be coming true. A percentage: 3.8%. Spain is a benchmark for the Mediterranean diet. But also, and increasingly, a country of families who are no longer willing to spend hours and hours in the kitchen. That’s what it suggests at least. the last balance of the Spanish Association of Prepared Meal Manufacturers (Asefapre). According to the data of the sector, in 2025, ready-made foods “reinforced their weight in the shopping basket”, with an increase in consumption of 3.8%. In total, 715,052 tons of prepared meals were sold, “a new record,” recalls Asefapre, which consolidates the trend of the last decade. Translated into hard and fast euros, sales rose to 4,309 million, with an annual increase of 5%. A figure: 18 kilos a year. To give us an idea of ​​what this growth means, Asefapre calculates that last year each Spaniard ate on average about 18 kilos of prepared dishes. As a reference it is almost the same amount of fish products that we Spaniards consume in our homes (another thing is the restaurants) throughout 2024. The difference between precooked and fish is that the demand for the latter takes time to increase. low hours (both fresh and frozen) while the former grows at a good pace. The latest balance sheet of the employers’ association reflects an annual increase of 4.7% in the consumption of prepared foods, a growth rate that comfortably exceeds that of food as a whole (0.6%). What do we eat? Asefapre segregate your data of sales, which offers us an interesting vision of what exactly we Spaniards consume. The cake goes to “refrigerated” products, with a sales volume of 330,602 t shipped in 2025, 5% more than the previous year. In second place are “frozen products”, with sales that amounted to 297,023 t (+2.5%). The “dishes prepared at room temperature”, very common in some supermarket chains, are quite far behind, with 87,426 tons sold, but they leave an interesting fact: their demand grew by 4.1%. From pizza to potatoes and pasta. If we go down to detail we see that what we Spaniards like most (at least it is what we demand most) are pizzas, the leading producer in the sector with a sales volume that amounted to 131,600 tons. They are followed by frozen potatoes, with 98,056 t, and pasta-based dishes, which totaled 72,405 t. The three categories grew, with sales increases ranging between 2.6 and 7.2%. Beyond the Spanish market, one fifth (21.4%) of the industry’s production ends up being exported. More than just strategy. At this point the question is obvious: Why do we buy more and more pre-cooked foods? What leads us to feed ourselves with prepared dishes, whether frozen, refrigerated or food sold at room temperature ready for consumption, like what Mercadona offers in its supermarkets? The answer is complex. On the one hand there is the sector’s strategy, which has increased and perfected its range of products, adding foreign dishes that aim in part at the growing population immigrant living in Spain. Beyond the efforts of the industry, the increase in consumption of prepared dishes also responds to profound changes at a social and cultural level. They increase the single-person householdsit gets complicated conciliation between professional and family life and even change the kitchen structure in the houses. Also our way of thinking, as Asefapre herself remembers: today it no longer ‘squeaks’ at us that they serve us a pre-cooked dish on Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve or that in families there are no longer people willing to lock themselves between the stoves. Of new grandmothers and homes. “Grandmas are not like they used to be and prefer to go walking with friends, do pilates or travel,” he reflected during the presentation of the balance sheet the president of Asefapre, David Aldea. It is not the only cultural change he cited. Added to this are others, such as the fact that it is increasingly easier to find “homes with fewer members” or homes in which the space dedicated to cooking has been reduced to a minimum. The trend seems to confirm Roig’s prediction, which a year ago I already confirmed the good progress of Mercadona’s business line for ready-to-eat dishes, launched in 2018. “It is profitable and continues to grow.” Images | Andalusian Government (Flickr), Mercadona and Asefapre In Xataka | Mercadona has grown so much in Spain that for the US it is no longer just a supermarket chain: it is a “cultural phenomenon”

Spain is going to continue fishing for eels until we have no more eels to catch

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A few days ago, the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge he took to the Wild Flora and Fauna Committee the proposal to include the European eel as “in danger of extinction” in the Spanish Catalog of Endangered Species. That, in practice, means prohibiting fishing and marketing. Also that of the eel, its juvenile phase. As expected, the world championship has been messed up. And not because there is debate on the topic. For many years, scientists They are clear that the eel is on the limit. In fact, there are many communities that already prohibit fishing (some for more than a decade). And yet most of it fell this Tuesday the proposal. Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Murcia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands, where the species is exploited, have voted against. Others such as Catalonia, the Basque Country, Navarra, La Rioja, Extremadura, Aragón, Castilla y León, Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia have abstained. It is the third failed attempt after those in 2020 and 2024. This has many readings, but the most obvious is simple: as Miguel Clavero says“Spain will continue fishing for eels until they become extinct.” It is also the most realistic. Because yes, a working group has been created between the Ministry and the CCAA to share data and discuss measures; but experts assume that it is just a way to save time. The thing is, it’s time we don’t have. And why isn’t eel fishing prohibited? The economic context is also simple: this fish moves little volume, but a lot of value. This is a premium product that generates a lot of money. For this reason, the sector is only willing to accept temporary moratoriums (such as this year in Euskadi), despite the fact that since the 60s the population has fallen by more than 90%. A problem that is also European. And that’s the other part of the problem, of course: lgovernance is fragmentedthe decline It is multifactorial (fishing, yes; but also river barriers, pollution, loss of habitats…) and the ‘revival’ of anti-scientific discourses when they touch the pocket. And without meaning to, that is what has turned this issue into a central issue for the entire European continent. After all, the extinction of the European eel is the chronicle of a death foretold. But also a portrait of our helplessness, of our inability to conserve what is valuable in our rivers. It is a portrait of ourselves. Image | Phil Robston In Xataka | China has mobilized 1,400 fishing boats to create a 300-kilometer “barrier.” Not good news for Taiwan

It is the most symptomatic movement of the AI ​​boom

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NVIDIA it’s been a couple of years being the mortar of the artificial intelligence industry. There is a picture that explains it better than a thousand words: Their H200 chips feed the data centers that are used to train artificial intelligence and are object of desire even from some of the Chinese Big Tech, but they are already preparing a new generation called Rubin. And if there is anyone who is clear that these future chips should be the bricks of their new data centers, it is Mark Zuckerberg. The reason? They are necessary to achieve “personal superintelligence”. And that belief is what has inspired a multi-million dollar agreement. Yes, another one. NVIDIA’s future is bright for Meta There is no specific figure, but in The Wall Street Journal there is talk of an agreement valued at “tens of billions of dollars”. Goal is chasing a type of iartificial intelligence focused on everyday usebeyond with a chatbot. They trust it so much that They have assembled the AI ​​Team A and, to stop having promises and get products, they are going to make a all-in in future NVIDIA technology. Jensen Huang’s company has GPUs like the H200 with Blackwell architecture, but they are already finalizing the development of something else: Your new Rubin architecture And the Grace CPU. Grace is especially interesting because it marks the first massive deployment of NVIDIA CPUs based on ARM architecture. But it’s not just the GPU and the CPU: NVIDIA is going to provide all its ecosystem of hardware and software to Meta. “The complete NVIDIA platform”, as it has been called Huang. And there is something curious about this whole thing that perfectly exemplifies what is happening in the artificial intelligence arms race: companies are buying hardware that doesn’t exist to power data centers that only exist on paper. NVIDIA not yet is mass manufacturing its Rubin GPUs because it depends on Samsung provides HBM4 memories which are now starting to be mass produced. One of the leaders of SMIC, the great Chinese hope for semiconductors, described the process as “creating huge roads when there are no cars running on them yet.” He also noted that “no one has really thought about what exactly those data centers will do, but companies would love to build the entire capacity of the next 10 years in just one or two years.” As we said, there are no specific figures for this agreement, but Meta has dropped his wallet. In 2025 they invested 72 billion in AI and the forecasts were 115 billion for 2026. We say “were” because they have redesigned the plan to increase to 135,000 million to expand data centers and try to meet the Superintelligence Labs goals. At Xataka we always try to provide context when we talk about certain quantities, but it is so exaggerated that I can’t think of how to contextualize it. Well, yes: 135,000 million only Meta, it is less than the 650,000 million that will be spent this year between Amazon, Google and Microsoft. There’s the context. Images | NVIDIA, Mark Zuckerberg In Xataka | Western Digital has sold all its hard drive capacity by 2026: AI is devouring physical storage

Thousands of CEOs admit that nothing is changing (yet). The productivity paradox of the 80s resurfaces with force

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AI will make us more productive, the studies said and AI advocates. It is a discourse that is already well known and seemed reasonable: models allow us to automate routine tasks and use that time on other productive things, right? Well, the truth is, (at the moment) no. And what is happening is curiously the same thing that happened 40 years ago. The productivity paradox. In 1987 the economist and Nobel Prize winner Robert Solow realized of a singular paradox in the so-called “information age”. The transistors, microprocessors, and integrated circuits discovered in the 1960s were supposed to revolutionize businesses and dramatically increase productivity. What happened was just the opposite. Productivity growth did not accelerate, but rather slowed down: between 1948 and 1973 it was 2.9%, but since 1973 that growth was only 1.1%. So much chip for nothing? It seemed that way, at least those first few years. History repeats itself: AI is of little use. As they point out in Fortunethat paradox has resurfaced just now that we are suffering exactly the same thing with AI. A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) reveals a striking conclusion after surveying no less than 6,000 CEOs, CFOs and other managers from several countries: they see very little impact of AI on their real operations. AI is not changing anything. Although two-thirds of the managers surveyed indicated that they used AI in their processes, this use was very limited: about 1.5 hours per week. 25% of participants indicated that they did not use AI at all at work. Nearly 90% of the companies that participated highlighted that AI has not influenced their hiring or productivity in the last three years. But they are optimistic. The use of AI by these executives appears to be very limited at the moment, but those same companies are still waiting for a substantial impact. In fact, they expect productivity to increase by 1.4% in the next three years. Another paradox: these first years AI was supposed to cut hiring by 0.7%, but respondents revealed a 0.5% increase in those hiring. The data confirm that at the moment, little. The truth is that the vaunted AI revolution has still not become a reality, at least in terms of productivity and economic return. Economist Torsten Slok recently indicated that “AI is everywhere except in macroeconomic data: you don’t see it in employment, productivity or inflation data.” His thesis: the impact of AI is currently almost zero. In fact, except in the case of technology’s “Magnificent Seven,” there are no signs of profit margins or revenue expectations. But these revolutions take time. The revolution that semiconductors brought us took a while to crystallize, but it ended up doing so: in the 1990s and 2000s were produced productivity improvements such as an increase of 1.5% between 1995 and 2005. There are experts who they point because in fact this change in trend has already begun to occur: in the US, GDP in the fourth quarter grew by 3.7% despite the fact that there were job cuts. That points to an increase in productivity. Slok also pointed to this possibility, and theorized that the impact could end up having a “J” shape, first slowing down and then exploding. Let them tell the steam engine. Previous industrial revolutions, such as the one that produced the steam engine or, even more importantly, electricity, took their time. The initial delay disappeared over the course of subsequent decades because these technologies needed time to spread to the rest of the productive sectors. Excessive optimism does not help, of course, and at the moment what is reasonable seems to lie somewhere in between: neither “AI is useless” nor “AI will do everything for us.” Perhaps the only thing AI needs—in addition to improving—is for us to give time to time. It is not in vain that many describe it as “the new electricity.” Image | The Standing Desk In Xataka | Until now “software was eating the world.” Now AI is eating software

What it is and how to activate or deactivate subtitles or dubbing made with AI

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Let’s explain to you how to activate or deactivate YouTube automatic translationa function that uses artificial intelligence to create subtitles or dubbing in your language. So, it doesn’t matter what language you’re watching a video in, because you can always know what they’re saying. Let’s start by telling you how to activate AI subtitles in your language, something available in almost all videos. Then we will tell you how to activate dubbing in your language made by artificial intelligence, something that is slowly arriving, but that is currently available in very few videos. Subtitles in your language with AI To use this option, the first thing you have to do is activate subtitles for a video on YouTube. It doesn’t matter what language they appear in, just click on the subtitles button, which has the rectangle icon with lines of text, and they will appear. Now Click on the options button and choose the option Subtitleswhich will take you to the screen where you can see the languages ​​in which subtitles are available. Here, click on the option Automatically translate which you will see at the bottom. This will take you to a screen where you will have to choose the language that you want to use, such as Spanish. And that’s it, from now on the AI ​​will generate subtitles in your language, although it is very possible that it will make translation errors. If you go back to the options and click on Subtitlesnow it will appear from which language it is translating to which other. Automatic AI dubbing To generate a dubbing created by artificial intelligence, when you are watching a video click on the options button. You have to see if the option appears Audio tracks. If it appears you will be able to generate an AI dubbing, and if it does not appear you will not be able to. When you click on audio trackyou will see the language in which the YouTube video audio is available. Below, you will see the option to Automatically foldedwhich will allow you to choose the language you want the videos to be dubbed into. You will have to go to the settings and choose your preferred languages ​​there so that they are displayed in the automatic dubbing options. In Xataka Basics | Block a YouTube channel in 2026: why you can’t and what options you have

the European anti-F-35 vanishes

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Europe has been promising for years that, this time, it will take the definitive leap towards a real military autonomywith its own projects capable of competing with the great powers and reducing external dependencies. But sometimes great strategic dreams are not broken by lack of ambition, but by something much more difficult to harmonize: very different interests, priorities and visions under the same flag. The dream of the great European fighter. we have been counting. He Future Combat Air System It was born as the great commitment of France, Germany and Spain to develop a sixth-generation fighter capable of competing with the F-35 and the emerging models of China and Russia, integrating, among other technologies, advanced stealth, artificial intelligence, swarms of drones or a digital combat cloud. It was clearly the symbol of European strategic autonomy and the most ambitious attempt to overcome the industrial fragmentation of the continent, where several models of previous generation combat aircraft coexist while other powers advance with more integrated and technologically superior platforms. Trapped between two giants. But what should be cooperation is turned into rivalry. Dassault, backed by Paris, demanded absolute leadership of the development of the central aircraft, while Airbus (supported by Berlin and with Spanish participation) defended a balanced distribution. The dispute over who controls design and contracts has been eroding political trust and has delayed key decisionsto the point that the very pillar of the common fighter could be derailed, even if other parts of the system survive. The technical clash that separates Berlin from Paris. The visible trigger is the divergence on the plane’s profile. From the sidewalk in France you look for a device with nuclear capacity and suitable to operate from aircraft carriers, consistent with its strategic doctrine and its autonomous deterrence. It happens that from the sidewalk of Germany the perspective It’s very different. Berlin maintains that the Bundeswehr does not need such capabilities “right now” and questions whether it makes sense to design a single aircraft for such different requirements. The discussion is no longer marginal: it is structural, because it forces us to decide between a common model or two different variants. Word of Merz. In an interview with the German political podcast “Machtwechsel”, Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that the impasse reflects fundamentally different military needs, much more than political ones. “This is not a political dispute. We have a real problem with the requirements profile. And if we cannot resolve it, we cannot maintain the project,” he declared. Not only that. “The French need a nuclear-capable aircraft and an aircraft carrier in the next generation. The Bundeswehr does not need it for now. France wants to build just one and adapt it to its own specifications. But that is not the aircraft we need. There are other countries in Europe, Spain at least, but also others interested in talking to us about it, Merz settled. Germany opens another door. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has gone further by publicly stating that if the disagreement is not resolved, and it does not appear that it will be, Germany could look for other partners in Europe and even reconsider whether it will need a manned fighter in two decades. In fact, Berlin has already compromised purchase of more F-35s Americans to cover their role in NATO’s nuclear deterrent, reducing their dependence on FCAS and weakening the political urgency of keeping the program intact. The finishing touch to the Spanish dream. For Spain, the FCAS was much more than an airplane: it represented decades of industrial workload, technological consolidation and a way to not depend exclusively of US platforms in the future. The German ambivalence It directly hits that strategy, because without the financial and political weight of Berlin the project loses critical mass and credibility. If the common hunt is fragmented or abandoned, Spain will be faced with an uncomfortable dilemma that has slipped in recent weeks: assuming a secondary role in a reduced version, seeking new alliances or even ending up strengthening its integration with systems such as the F-35, with the consequent impact on industrial sovereignty and strategic autonomy. Fragmented Europe. If you like, the FCAS case also exposes a broader problem: Europe spends figures comparable to the great powers, but invests less in research, duplicating systems and prioritizes national interests on economies of scale. The inability to agree on a single new generation fighter illustrates that structural weakness. If the project ends up breaking down, not only will an industrial program fall, it will possibly also deal a blow to the narrative of a Europe capable of building its own defense architecture without depending on Washington. Image | RawPixel In Xataka | Spain has a dilemma that is difficult to solve: call the US or be the last with a fighter jet in danger of extinction In Xataka | France and Germany have agreed to give Spain the worst news: one in which the F-35 and its “button” are the winners

China looks at Spain and Spain is willing to be a European delegation of Chinese factories

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Renew or die. That is the maxim that the Government claims to follow in its plans and projects related to the automobile industry in our country. Some plans include the electrification of current plants and attracting more investments. Investments that, everything indicates, will come from China if the rumors take shape. Sweeping for home A few days ago, the Government ended up confirming the details of the Auto+ Planthe new aid system for the purchase of electric cars. With them it is confirmed that, now, The maximum discount for an electric car will be 4,500 euros But to obtain it it will be necessary to meet two requirements: the car has to be assembled in Europe and its battery too. Shortly after, Jordi García Brustenga, Secretary of State for Industry, defended the Auto 2030 Plan during the event Future: Fast Forwardorganized by 50 companies directly related to the automobile industry. There he presented the main lines of the future of the Spanish automobile: electrification and embrace of new investments. Wherever they come from. an obsession. “We are in favor of electrification and we will continue taking steps in the coming years in this obsession,” defended García Brustenga in statements collected by Europa Press. In them he stressed that the Government acts with the certainty that the electric car is the vehicle of the future. And to walk that path, the Government says it is open to taking the hand of anyone who does so in that direction. Asked about possible investments by Chinese manufacturers, the Secretary of State for Industry responded: “The Government’s position is to welcome these investments and we want to do it well, not with quick permits, but rather with compensation that represents advantages for both sides. It is important that these competitors have the Spanish value chain, technology and workforce” Because? The automobile industry is, after the agri-food industry, the one that produces the most in our country and it is the industry that it exports more products than it produces. Its weight translates into 10% of GDP and we are the second largest vehicle manufacturer in the European Union, only surpassed by Germany. It is logical, therefore, that the Government maintains its attention on the sector, which has focused enormous amounts of money in the form of subsidies taking advantage of European funds. The latest project, the Auto 2030 Plan, is based on 25 measures that focus on attracting investments to produce batteries and components for future vehicles in our country, new factories and the modernization of current plants. The project seeks to maintain the privileged position of our country. And between 2019 and 2024, 400,000 vehicles per year have stopped being manufactured on our soil, according to the information published by Anfac in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry. Furthermore, competitiveness has been lost in the market and we have suffered more with the cuts, since our industry is based on assembly and not so much in product development. Chinese interest. In the recent past, Spain has undoubtedly attracted Chinese interest in landing in Europe. Our country has repeatedly been considered one of the main candidates to host a new BYD European factory. The latest rumor is that Ford would be interested in sharing space with Geely in Valencia. But beyond collaborations, CATL does have it going the construction of a plant to produce batteries in Zaragoza and feed the Stellantis factory. Precisely, on the land of the latter the Leapmotor carsthe Chinese company that this automotive group distributes in Europe. And from 2024the Chery Group keeps the old Nissan plant in Barcelona alive with Ebro. Later Jaecoo and Omoda models should arrive. And not only from a manufacturing point of view. Spain has turned its ports into China’s gateway to Europe. 81% of vehicles exported from China to Spain and 13% to Europe They entered through Barcelona during 2024. He port of Santander was chosen by BYD in the first steps it took in our country. An approach. The Government’s position has been varying. So much so that we have gone from supporting tariffs on Chinese electric cars, that are still validto abstain from voting and put ourselves in profile so as not to compromise investments. Investments that China, everything indicateshas ordered arrests in the countries that finally supported this protectionist measure and that have remained in Spain after a Pedro Sánchez’s trip to the Asian country where he praised the Chinese automobile industry. Spain was risking the future of new investments and the future of the Iberian pig in one of its most important markets. Yes, but. For now, it is clear that Spain has made a strong commitment to attracting Chinese investments. The plan, everything indicates, has gained strength taking into account that it only proposes to deliver the maximum purchase aid to those who manufacture on European soil. Despite this, there are those who are questioning that these investments really impact the economy or, at least, impact as much as we are told. And CATL, like BYD is doing in Hungaryseems to give the bulk of your labor pool to Chinese employees. Likewise, at the moment at Nissan plans remain unconsolidated for Omoda and Jaecoo to drive cars through their doors. On the table was the intention to give the final assembly to cars that They arrived in kits already almost assembled. It is the same thing that is proposed for the Santana factory in Andalusia. Those plans have been delayed after the European Union has not ensured that serve as a bridge to skip current tariffs. Photo | Moncloa In Xataka | “They assemble Chinese cars with Chinese components and Chinese personnel”: the EU is beginning to suspect the manufacturers’ plants

the Dutch philosopher convinced that saving snails is saving ourselves

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Before the arrival of Westerners, in Hawaii there were more than 700 species of snails that were nowhere else. Since then, these Pacific islands have suffered all the human processes that have existed and to have occurred: from the most orthodox colonization to a totally accelerated globalization through rapid urbanization, intense militarization and tourism, a lot of tourism. The result can be summarized in just one figure: today, 60% of those snails have become extinct and those who remain are in frank decadence. Chronicle of many foretold deaths. By the early 20th century, populations were decimated, but still abundant. The boom in rats in the archipelago, the rapid changes in habitats and, above all, the arrival of the pink wolf snail (a foreign predator) have meant that the 200 or 300 species that survive do it in very isolated areas or, directly, only in ‘conversation labs‘. In one of them, in a trailer on the outskirts of Kailua and in the care of David Sischo, director of the snail extinction prevention program of the state, lived George (the last known individual of the species Achatinella apexfulva). He died there on January 1, 2019. That shocked those who were in the archipelago and, among them, Thom van Dooren. The cuckoo species trap. This professor of environmental humanities at the University of Sydney was dedicated to the study of everything that birds could teach us, he realized George’s trick. The same trap as Sudan or what other animals. He realized that “There is value in saving charismatic speciesamong other things because they are very useful for raising awareness among the population and raising funds. But, as recently explained in an interview“we cannot forget that mass extinction also and above all affects invertebrates, which constitute 99% of animal life and are essential for pollination, soil fertilization or the nutrient cycle.” What we can learn from snails. For van Dooren, what the snails are “slowly and gently” teaching us is to think in the long term, to use the forces of others and to understand that if we do not think about the systemic (the preservation of habitats), we will have to fight very difficult battles one by one (apply “violent care” to species to avoid their extinction) But, above all, it gives us three very specific ideas: Being late is a problem: if we act when the problem is already “stopped”, everything is more difficult. If we have to ‘triar’, we have already arrived late: When we put ourselves in “emergency mode” we have to prioritize what can be saved over other considerations because we have limited time and resources. And intensive interventions do not fix the cause: we can rescue, replace, conserve… but if we do not change the underlying pressures we are only postponing the end. Snails can teach us precisely that: that at the end of the day, the important thing is to be clear about what we want and value. From there, it’s time to act accordingly. If not, we are condemned to live in our particular ‘Noah’s ark’. Image | Marina Grynykha | BBVA In Xataka | They identify the smallest species of land snail in the world: it is around 0.5 mm high and its discoverers needed brushes and a microscope

How to create songs in Google Gemini using its Lyria component

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Let’s tell you how to create music with Geminithe artificial intelligence from Google. Gemini has just implemented the Lyria model within its AI assistant, which is capable of generating songs from your prompt of text. With this, Gemini begins to compete with Suno and other tools for create songs with artificial intelligence. It is true that Lyria in Gemini is still a little far from what the competition offers, but it is capable of generating amazing results. It will create both the music, the lyrics and the voice of a song. You just have to describe what you want, and the AI ​​will sing in your language without problems. The songs it generates are just 30 seconds longsmall musical clips that you can share. How to create music in Gemini Let’s tell you the two methods you have to create music using Gemini. One of them is a method with which the AI ​​tries to help you step by step to configure your musical style, so that it is faster, and the other is just invoking the creator with a prompt Make music with Gemini from its tools The first method is choose the option Create music from the Chrome tools menu. Simply click on tools and choose the option Create music. The option may also appear in the suggestions that appear below the writing field when you start a new chat. This will take you to a screen where you will be able to choose musical style that you want to use for your song. Each of these styles or pre-generated songs to work from has a button to listen to them, and you will only have to click on the style you want to continue. Now you simply have to write a prompt describing the song what do you want to do. When you do, you’ll see Gemini start thinking and summon Lyria, and then she’ll generate a song for you that you can play and even share. You will also have the option to regenerate the result or write a new prompt in which you request the changes you want to make. In this prompt you can give all kinds of details, such as musical style, subgenre, language, rhythm, theme, and you can even add the letter or tell it only words or phrases that you want the lyrics to include. You can specify structures, music speeds, whatever you want. Create a song in Gemini with a single prompt The second method is simply directly writing a prompt with everything. Here, the only important thing is that at the prompt indicate that you want a songand then describe how you want it to be. When you do this, when processing your request Gemini will realize that you have requested music or a song, and will directly run the Lyria tool to generate it. In just a few seconds you will have your song. Then you will be able write more prompts to request changes on the created song, or directly to compose a new one. In this prompt you can give all kinds of details, such as musical style, subgenre, language, rhythm, theme, and you can even add the letter or tell it only words or phrases that you want the lyrics to include. You can specify structures, music speeds, whatever you want. In Xataka Basics | How to Improve Gemini Answers: 14 Steps to Ensure Higher Quality and Better Sources

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