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the only autonomous community that continues to be a leader in its region thanks to jotas, folklore and walks in the countryside

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It is a unique phenomenon among regional television stations: together with TV3but with much more modest programming (and budget), it is the only channel of its type that is the most seen in its autonomy above the national generalist television networks. Neither Telemadrid, nor Canal Sur, nor TVG can boast of such a feat: what Aragonese people like to see most is television that talks about Aragon. A special case. Aragon TV It began its official broadcasts on April 21, 2006 after a long and complex political and technical process that lasted more than two decades, from the first legislative attempts in the 1980s to the final implementation. The first attempts to create autonomous television ran into multiple obstacles, both political and legal. This extensive process made the late birth of Aragón TV a unique case in the field of Spanish regional television. Grow without stopping. A few days ago we saw this amazing tweet from @hugo_cnm which visually made the situation very clear in terms of audience: Basically, Aragón TV has experienced a sustained growth in audience, reaching a historical record in 2024 with 11.6% annual screen share, an outstanding figure for regional television. In the recent months of 2025, it continued to grow with shares greater than 12%, leading key schedules such as after-dinner hours and surpassing other regional channels (except TV3 in Catalonia, which is the most watched with shares closer to 13-14%). In addition, its news programs reach peaks of up to 30% or more in share, being the most viewed in Aragon and with a quality recognized nationally. Aragon against Catalonia. As we sayTV3 has a more notable general audience, but there are days like last October 11, to which the aforementioned tweet refers, in which Aragón TV soars, reaching 27.1% on recent key days (now we will see why), and with very strong audiences in slots such as after-meal (18.9%). ETB2 and Canal Sur Andalucía complete the podium in the most viewed regional list. What Aragón TV does stand out above all its competitors is that it is the autonomous one with greater penetration and loyaltyfar exceeding the average of the autonomous communities in Spain.​ But… what does Aragón TV broadcast? The network stands out for entertainment programs with a strong local component such as ‘Oregon TV‘, one of its historic and longest-running formats (almost 20 seasons), which makes humor with native content, in the style of its clear reference, ‘Polónia’. Another successful program is ‘Jotalent‘, a talent show focused on the Aragonese jota, which scored an 18.7% share in its last season with 200,000 viewers between DTT and internet. Or ‘Giving it my all’, also focused on regional dance and songs. But beyond humor and information, Aragón TV offers a varied range of cultural, social and leisure programs, often focused on rural life: ‘Here and now’ (morning show with more than 36% of share), ‘Pasados ​​por agua’, ‘Aragón Connection’, ‘The countryside is ours’, and programs on gastronomy, routes, history, environment and Aragonese heritage. It is a programming that contrasts with the usual general programming, and where the demand for rural life plays an important role. Without getting wet. Aragón TV also responds to an avowed editorial strategy that avoids delving into territorial or political controversies (something, without a doubt, much easier to carry out than on TV3), focusing on inform and entertain from close proximity and the representation of the average Aragonese. Its programming is oriented towards the proximity and plurality of the territory, with strong dishes that burst the audiometerssuch as the retransmission of the Pilar Festival: during the ten days of the festivities, Aragón TV averaged a 20% screen share. On October 12, Pillar Daythe broadcast of the Offering of Flowers reached 29.9% of sharethe network’s third best historical record, with 692,000 unique viewers. In the first section of the Offering, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., the audience reached an impressive 44.5%, and in the second section, 30.8% with peaks of up to 60.5% share. The news program Aragón Noticias 1 achieved a season record with a 43.8% share on that day. To all this we must add more than 500,000 views on its digital platforms. In Xataka | In the midst of the housing crisis, in Zaragoza they have had an idea: build a building in pieces like a giant LEGO

does everything the other way around in Spain, is losing a fortune… and plans to open more stores

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Costco has announced that it will continue opening warehouses in Spain despite accumulating 150 million euros in losses since its arrival in 2014, according to reports Digital Economy. The Spanish subsidiary recorded another 7.5 million losses in 2024, although its sales shot up to 607 million. The company already operates five centers (Seville, Getafe, Las Rozas, Sestao and Zaragoza) and is looking for new land. Its latest establishment in Zaragoza started with 15,000 members on the day of its inauguration. Why is it important. Costco represents the complete opposite of the model that dominates Spain: Mercadona triumphs with medium storesa reduced assortment and no membership. He doesn’t even have his own card. Costco is committed to large stores of more than 15,000 square meters, buying in bulk and charging a membership fee. It is the clash between two philosophies: the Spanish one that lives in your neighborhood and offers small, domestic formats, versus the American one of “pay 36 euros a year and get 24 rolls of toilet paper.” The strategy. Costco is playing the game Amazon played for two decades: lose money in a controlled way while it grows and build market share. Its 750,000 members (15% more than in 2023) and constant sales growth suggest that the model is finding its place. The company earned 11.5 million just from membership fees in 2024. Each new center comes with a gas station and Kirkland’s own brand products. Its average salary of 24,044 euros is above the sector. The contrast. Where Mercadona has immediate success, Costco has sustained losses. Where Mercadona optimizes margins (3.88% net profitin an upward trend), Costco optimizes volume and loyalty. Where Mercadona dominates with a 28% national share, Costco is building small niches. Yes, but. The bet has obvious risks. Costco needs critical mass for its model to work, and Spain is not the United States. Spanish purchasing habits favor proximity over volume, and competition in large stores – dominated by the French – is fierce. In fact, the hypermarket is going down in favor of the supermarket. We no longer make shopping a three-hour ritual on Saturday, but instead take advantage of empty spaces to make small purchases any day. And now what. Costco maintains that 2025 will bring more investment and land prospecting. The key will be if it manages to replicate in Spain what it achieved in other markets: convert initial losses into long-term leadership. It took Amazon twenty years to become profitable. Costco has been in our country for ten years and continues to invest. In Xataka | Spain has become a country addicted to something that a few years ago enjoyed little prestige: white label. Featured image | Marcus Reubenstein

We have been wondering for centuries how the statues on Easter Island moved. The answer was very simple: walking

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Can you walk a block of stone the size of a school bus? Can a rock that weighs tons and measures several meters long be walked? The most logical answer is (obviously) no, but things change if what we are talking about is the moai of Easter Island, the unmistakable carvings sculpted and distributed throughout the Polynesian island several centuries ago through the old town of Rapa Nui. Beyond your meaningcharacteristics or design archaeologists have always wondered how the hell the natives managed to move those multi-ton masses from the quarries to the ahuthe ceremonial platforms on which they stood. The answer was just that: no more and no less than ‘walking’. An ancient mystery. There are few sculptures in the world as iconic, unmistakable and fascinating as the moai of Easter Island, the enormous rock heads that seem to emerge from the earth on the distant oceanic island. Since Jacob Roggeveen and its people arrived there in 1722, the world wonders what they were for, what they represent and of course how their creators, the people of Rapa Nui, managed to move them from the quarries to their destinations. Why is it so surprising? Because the statues, carved especially in volcanic tuff of the Rano RarakuThey measure several meters long and weigh tons. In fact, it is said that on average they are around 4.5 meters and 10 talthough there are older specimens. Taking that into account and that they had to move from the places where they were made to their platforms, how did the islanders move them? It is not a minor question if we remember that on the island there are hundreds and hundreds of statues, some have the buried torso and were manufactured mainly among 13th and 16th centuries. Their displacement has aroused so much curiosity that over the last decades it has inspired various theories, such as the one that maintains that the figures they lay down on a kind of wooden sled with ropes. Now a group of researchers he thinks he has settled the debate once and for all. And your answer has little to do with trailers, horizontal loads and logs. ‘Walking’ sculptures. The ancient legends of Rapa Nui they assured that the moai arrived “walking” to their ceremonial platforms, the ahu. And although that possibility has always sounded like a pure fable, it seems that it was not so far off the mark. Thanks to a study that combines physics, 3D modeling and field experiments, a team led by experts from Binghamton and Arizona universities has confirmed that “the statues really walked”. And the most interesting thing is that this process had very little mysterious about it. It was simple physics and engineering. All that was needed was ropes, people, paths and a special design. “After studying nearly a thousand moai, Professor Carl Lipo and Terry Hunt discovered that the inhabitants of Rapa Nui probably used ropes and ‘walked’ the gigantic statues in a zigzag pattern along carefully designed paths,” he explains. a statement launched by Binghamton University. Is it something new? More or less. The theory itself is not new. In the 80s a Czech engineer (Pavel Pavel) already raised that the moai moved upright thanks to a system that propelled them from two points. Carl Lipo himself and his colleagues they argued does years that the statues “walked” with vertical and oscillating movements, contravening the hypothesis that the people of Rapa Nui transported them upside down with the help of logs. To prove it they even did a practical demonstration that attracted interest of National Geographic. Despite these efforts, there were still critical voices that questioned the theory. And that is what Lipo and Hunt have now wanted to settle by deploying their entire arsenal. From the theory… To the facts, which is what the investigators have done. For prove the validity of his theory and better understand the movement of the carvings, Lipo and his colleagues turned to high-resolution 3D models and thoroughly studied the shape of the moais, both those that remain upright and the dozens that fell by the wayside when their creators tried to remove them from the quarry. Not only that. The team also incorporated practical tests into its argument. Practical tests? Yes. The researchers built a moai of 4.35 tons and they dedicated themselves to moving it with the help of ropes. The result is fascinating and Binghamton University itself has taken care of divulge it on YouTube. The team needed just 18 people to move the moai 100 meters in 40 minutes. “Once it gets moving it’s not difficult. People pull with just one arm. It saves energy and it moves very fast,” comment Professor Carl Lipo. “The tricky part is getting it to swing in the first place.” That experience, added to the 3D models and the rest of the analysis, demonstrates, in the opinion of the archaeologists, that their theories “really work.” And to silence voices they have captured it in a paper published in Journal of Archaeological Science with a headline as revealing as it is provocative: “The hypothesis of the walking moai.” Have they discovered anything else? Yes. The researchers identified certain “distinctive characteristics” in the design of the moai that, a priori, made it more feasible for them to advance with an oscillating and zigzag movement with the help of the ropes. What features? The archaeologists quote two specifically: “wide ‘D’ shaped bases and certain inclination forward” (between 5 and 15º). To be more precise, the experts appreciated bases wide and roundedespecially in the moai that were left halfway, which suggests that the islanders used them to move them (the design served to lower the center of gravity). Then, once the figures reached their destination, they carved them to settle them. Another of the clues they have found is in the paths used by the islanders of Rapa Nui. Its width (4.5 meters) and concave cross section invites experts to think that roads were “ideal” … Read more

14 applications and services to use AI, filters and terrifying effects in them

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Let’s tell you 14 apps and services to create your Halloween photos wearing artificial intelligencefilters and effects. Thus, you can create a thematic avatar to use on social networks at this time or do something more sophisticated and elaborate, all depending on what you need. In most cases these services are paid, although with free versions with limited functions, but enough to allow you to create these effects. In each of the services that we indicate we include a description and links to install them. And as we always say at Xataka Basics, these are our proposals, but if you miss any on the list, we invite you to Leave us your ideas in the comments section. Thus, all our readers will be able to benefit from the knowledge of our xatakeros. Gemini Gemini has burst like few others into the field of applications with which apply filters to photos or modify them as you want. With Nano Banana you will be able to upload a photo of yourself and have it make changes without altering your face, such as putting on a terrifying Halloween costume. The only thing you have to do to squeeze the Gemini image editing is to upload a photo of yourself, and next to it attach a prompt suitable. You can have several examples in our guide tricks and ideas for juicing Nano Banana. The AI ​​will make changes using that photo as a reference, but applying the necessary changes to the photo, using the face you upload. ChatGPT ChatGPT It still doesn’t have the same level as Gemini when it comes to applying filters or changes to photos while keeping you recognizable or maintaining your features. However, with this artificial intelligence Yes, you can make creations while maintaining recognizable features such as your hair and facial hair. You just have to upload the photo with a prompt in which you ask them to I reimagined it in a Halloween stylesuch as a character from the nightmare before Christmas. The results are surprising. freepik This is an application with which you can make compositions and edits using artificial intelligence. The negative part is that you will need the payment plan for almost everything most interesting, like applying a Halloween filter or training its AI to recognize your face and then make all kinds of creations using it. For these things you will need their rate of 16 euros per month. CapCut Although it is best known as a video editing tool, CapCut also has several options that allow you edit your photos with effects and filters with which to decorate them to your liking. Here, what you should know is that most items are paidalthough you will be able to explore them and see how they look without paying. There are some free ones, although they are quite few. Of course, both the effects and the filters have a special section of content for Halloween. Link: Google Play and App Store https://apps.apple.com/es/app/capcut-editor-de-vídeo/id1500855883 PicsArt This is a popular photo editor, with a lot of settings you can apply, filters, stickers, effects, crops, overlays and creative mixes, plus some collages. It is, therefore, a fairly complete application in terms of options. Furthermore, at this time they have a section of filters for Halloweenwhich range from simple ones to other more advanced compositions. Of course, its free version with ads is somewhat limited, and for many things you will have to go to the paid one. Fotor Another well-known photo editor that is used to make all kinds of adjustments to your captures. Has an artificial intelligence assistant to help you, and has AI options such as reimagining photos, improving their quality or converting them to video. You can also create realistic portraits, remove backgrounds, and enhance your selfies. And like any self-respecting app on dates like this, it also has halloween filters within its sets of thematic effects, plus when you reimagine the photo by AI you can also ask for something similar. Photoshop Express A very complete photo and video editor with all kinds of quick filters and effectsas well as correction tools, and many other things. You can make quite professional edits, as well as apply styles with just two taps. Among its huge number of styles, filters and effects as well you have several related to Halloweenwhich you can find quickly thanks to its search engine. Of course, in its free version you will have to deal with watermarks and certain limitations. snapchat Yes, this is a social network, but it is well known for allowing you take photos applying all kinds of filtersincluding those with Halloween effects. They are augmented reality filters, so before taking the photo you can see how the mask you are going to apply looks on you. B612 If you like Snapchat effects, B612 is an application dedicated to augmented reality effects. You have dozens of them, hundreds, so many that you will have to use the search engine. And if you search for Halloween, you’ll see that there are a lot of related effects. These are both AR skins and color filters and themed stickers. You choose the one you want and then you will see on the screen using your camera how it will look. Then, you take the photo or video you want, and voila, you have it. It is free, although there are some sticker packages that require payment. LightX An application that allows you to apply all types of artificial intelligence filters to your photographs, in addition to being able to make retouches, color changes, etc. It is paid, although it has a free plan with ads. You have many Halloween effects and editions from which to choose. Bylo AI This is an online tool that offers you editions based on artificial intelligence for your photos. It is paid, although you have a free plan with 5 credits per day to be able to do small tests. It’s like having the best AI … Read more

“I told Musk not to donate his money, it would end up in organizations chosen by Bill Gates”

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Peter Thiel is one of the most influential and controversial names in the technology world, known both for his business success with projects such as PayPal or Palantir, and for his unconventional ideas. about education either religion. Recently, Thiel has generated a lot of debate after Reuters had access to recordings of a series of private conferences in which he warned Elon Musk about where his fortune could end up if he donated it to the wrong people. Peter Thiel and his influence in Silicon Valley. Peter Thiel is a key figure in Silicon Valley, being one of the founding members of the so-called “PayPal mafia“, a group of businessmen who revolutionized technology and currently accumulate great economic and political power. Their role as mentor and investment partner of other majors in the sector, like Mark Zuckerberghas allowed him to control venture capital funds that drive many decisive companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. One of the figures with whom Thiel has had a particularly complex relationship is Elon Musk, with whom he founded the company PayPal. In transcripts seen by Reuters of Thiel’s private talks, he explained how he warned Musk against donating his fortune to Bill Gates through The Giving Pledgean agreement by which millionaires agree to donate a large part of their assets to social causes. Thiel told his audience: “I told (Elon Musk) that his money would end up in the hands of organizations selected by Bill Gates.” In response to this message, the millionaire said that Musk responded: “What am I supposed to do, give it to my children? It would be worse to give it to Bill Gates,” is recorded in the leaked transcripts. Then Musk ruled out Gates. A few years ago, Bill Gates and Elon Musk held a series of meetings in which Gates proposed a series of impact investments in which the founder of Space X could be interested in investing philanthropically through the Gates Foundation. Within the framework of this approach, the founder and his son Rory They even visited the Tesla factory in Austin. However, when Musk’s donation commitment seemed to come to fruition, the South African millionaire suddenly changed his mind and he sent Gates away in bad waysblaming him for how incoherent that someone who claims to fight against climate change would have short positions (at losses) of a company like Tesla, which worked to reduce fossil fuels. From that moment, the relationship between Musk and Gates they have been like water and oil. Thiel’s story in which he advised Musk to distance himself from Gates, and the abrupt breakdown of philanthropic talks with the Microsoft founder could be related. The fear of global power and the figure of the “Antichrist”. According what was published by Guardianthe transcripts also revealed other concerns of Thiel, who in his workshops warned about the risk of the emergence of a figure of global power, which he figuratively called “Antichrist”, who could emerge from the dominance growing of artificial intelligence. According to Thiel, this entity, which represents a form of power, could be presented as a solution to face global crises such as the climate change or nuclear threatsbut in reality it would end up limiting individual freedoms and promoting a uniformity of thought. As and as pointed out Fortunethis concern is based on his personal interpretation of the biblical text and what he considers the danger of developing science without a solid ethical basiswhich could generate a global system that demands obedience in exchange for order and security. Technology will set you free. Peter Thiel argues that large technological fortunes should not be donated to charitable causes, but rather, in his words, “large technological fortunes should be used to protect human freedom” from the risk of a centralized global system that controls the flow of capital and innovation. The millionaire warns that, if governments and international institutions control investments and innovation, could curb creativity and human potential under the pretext of global security. The Twitter purchase on the part of Elon Musk, his involvement in the Trump campaign and his subsequent role in DOGEshow that Thiel’s words have influenced Musk to reconsider his commitments and think about how to protect the legacy of his fortune in the face of these concerns. In Xataka | Some millionaires didn’t like the ideology of universities, so they created their own university: an “Anti-Woke” Image | Flickr (Gage Skidmore, Statsministerens kontor)

one that Hyundai and Kia want to recover

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There are several reasons why Porsche you are not finding the best results of its history in recent times. Some will point directly to its shameless commitment to the electric car. A bet that, right now, is being reversed but that has left us a product portfolio in which its best-selling car, the Porsche Macan, can only be purchased right now in electric versions. It is very likely that they themselves believe that the Porsche customer He doesn’t even want to hear about the electric car. And, no doubt, there will be a few who think this. But as they explained a few days ago in The Coches.net podcastnot all Porsche customers are the same. In fact, the brand itself is much more linked to the electric car than we might think. So much so that your first vehicleat the end of the 19th century, was moved by electricity. The one known as Porsche P1 It had an “octagonal electric motor” capable of developing a power of up to 3.7 kW (5 horsepower). Its maximum speed: 35 km/h. A missile compared to the 16 km/h reached by the vehicles of the benz family that were moved by a combustion engine and were produced just a few kilometers away. Semper Vivus, the first hybrid car from Porsche and in history Trusting in that technology, Ferdinand Porsche would continue to evolve the concept and in the year 1900 he stood in the Palace of Electricity at the Universal Exhibition in Paris with what was known as “Lohner-Porsche system”. This innovation integrated what were called “wheel hub motors.” These were installed on the front axle wheels. Yes, 125 years ago the creator of Porsche boasted completely electric front-wheel drive cars. We can ask for some other Valium. The company explains that these engines could generate 2.5 HP each and the top speed rose above 30 km/h. The system was perfected and presentedn three different sizes with increasing powers, with the aim of being able to test them in larger vehicles. Thus, the most advanced evolution incorporated wheels with 12 HP motors that pushed the cars for a maximum of 50 kilometers, with the energy accumulated in lead batteries. Even that same year, what is known as the world’s first electric competition vehicle was unveiled. Named “La Toujours Contente” (“Always Happy”), it was a vehicle with four wheel hub motors that could produce up to 14 HP of power each. It is also considered the first car with four-wheel drive. a century later As we already know, electric cars from the beginning of the 20th century did not have much further travel. At that time, lead batteries were very expensive and required maintenance that was almost prohibitive for most car owners’ already deep pockets. Besides, the rapid evolution of combustion engines They promoted this technology that quickly left the electric car behind. As one century passes since those early days of automotive history, the electric car He is going through his best days. Not only do we have among us vehicles with features unimaginable more than 100 years ago, we must also take into account the rapid evolution that we have experienced in the last decade, which generates a certain optimism about what cars we will find in another ten years. From that point of view, there are those who are betting on recovering what was once called a “wheel hub motor.” That is, including an electric motor in the wheel concept itself, with the aim of limiting power losses and controlling the amount of energy delivered down to the smallest detail. This allows a car to be more precise, faster and should be able to improve control over it. In Hybrids and Electrics They include a good number of proposals that are currently being developed. We have developments underway from Toyota or BMW that have opted for better dynamism but also from Hyundaiwho aspire to get a car with much greater interior space thanks to eliminating the engines located in the center of the axle, front or rear, it doesn’t matter. Companies like Protean Electric They are developing their own versions, with the intention of showing them to the big manufacturers and being able to stake advantage of their innovations in the future. The main advantage is that, according to their calculations, the efficiency is 97% so the losses in power delivery are minimal. These changes should be key to achieving electric beasts like the Renault Turbo 3E. But it is not only a question of improving dynamism with higher powers or a better distribution of engine torque, popularizing this system aims to revolutionize the concept of the car itself because we would gain much more interior space and the autonomy of the electric vehicle that fitted this technology would be improved, benefiting from said improvement in efficiency. In the face of revolutionary promises, physics prevails for the moment. And including a motor in the wheel also increases the unsprung mass. That is, the kilograms that are not directly supported by the suspension. When the unsprung mass increases, the problems grow exponentially because inertia multiplies the impact that its weight has on the dynamic behavior of the car. It is no coincidence that Hyundai’s proposal It also comes with a new air suspension to more closely control this increase in unsprung mass. Because your biggest problem It is not that it is more difficult to control that mass at high speed (which is also true), the problems are already apparent from the start, generating greater vibrations that are transmitted to the vehicle’s cabin before they can be filtered, worsening driving comfort. It must be added that although the efficiency of the system seems guaranteed… this does not always seem to be fulfilled. By installing motors in the wheels, cooling is more complex, so the temperature increases and the motors may lose efficiency. That is to say, yes, losses in power delivery are reduced but only if the engine is sufficiently well cooled … Read more

A university used an AI to hunt down students who used AI. The result was a predictable disaster

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What has happened? They count in Futurism that in 2024, the Australian Catholic University accused about 6,000 students of academic misconduct. At least 90% of cases were related to the use of AI for cheating. What is striking is that the university itself used an AI to issue these accusations, many of which were erroneous. Why it is important. It is one more example that AI is not yet reliable. We see it constantly with wrong results and hallucinations. The Australian university is not the only one that has relied on AI to accuse its students, it is a practice quite common and there have been others similar cases. The reality is that AI text detectors are also AI and, at least for now, They are imperfect. Turnitin. It is a plagiarism detection software whose first version was released in 1997 and is widely used in universities and educational centers. In 2023 he added a tool to detect texts created with AI and it is the one they used at the Australian Catholic University. The company itself says in its usage guide that the AI ​​detector is not always accurate and should not be used as the sole source when accusing a student. However, according to ABC Australiathe university used it as the only evidence when issuing his records for misconduct. The university version. Allegations regarding AI use included AI-generated works, fabricated references (hallucinations), and the use of AI tools to cite and translate content. The university says at least a quarter of all allegations were dropped after an investigation. They also rejected those in which the only proof was the AI ​​itself and in March of this year they stopped using that software. The dilemma. The emergence of AI tools poses challenges in the educational sector. Hay voices that advocate its banwhile others They defend integration and encourage good practices. UNESCO published a guide to the use of generative AI in education in which they establish rules and obligations, such as privacy protection, age limits and an approach that guarantees ethical and safe use of these tools. Image | Turnitin In Xataka | A teacher corrected a final exam done with ChatGPT, but another AI evaluated it differently and exposed the dilemma

make the donkey in rivers

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We know firsthand that China is increasingly established in the automobile field. More and more cutting-edge models arrive here in Europe, although nothing to do with what we can see in China. And some of them They already float in the water and they navigate between rivers. Two manufacturers have just starred in river crossings that have attracted all the attention, although with different approaches and results. What has happened? Chery’s Jetour Zongheng G700 SUV has become the first vehicle in its category in cross the Yangtze River. The crossing took place on October 16 from Heisha Zhou port in Wuhu city, where Chery is headquartered. The SUV traveled 1,480 meters in 22 minutes, floating at a speed of about 7 km/h while dealing with currents of between 5 and 10 km/h. The car arrived without problems at the port of Nanlong, on the other side of China’s longest river. The technology behind the show. The Zongheng G700, which will be launched in China on October 19 with a price between 45,000 and 56,000 euros, boasts a painted body without holes, an active air circulation system and an 800V architecture with silicon carbide propulsion. During navigation, a six-axis gyroscope continuously adjusts the balance of the vehicle to maintain stability. The SUV has a 2.0-liter turbocharged hybrid engine with a total power of 560 kW (751 HP) and 795 Nm of torque, with a combined range of 1,400 km. BYD has been at this for more than a year. Chery is not the first Chinese manufacturer to demonstrate that its cars can sail. BYD has been showing the amphibious capabilities of its Yangwang U8a high-end mammoth SUV that can float and move through the water naturally. The system allows you to navigate up to 3 km/h and stay afloat for 30 minutes, thanks to a protection IP67 for the entire car and IP68 on its key components. When the driver activates water crossing mode, the vehicle monitors depth and other parameters, raises the suspension to the maximum, closes the windows and adjusts the climate control. Had an unfortunate real show. In September, during the flooding of Super Typhoon Ragasa in Zhuhai, a driver of a Yangwang U8 crossed a completely flooded street generating a wave so powerful that it even broke shop windows and caused damage to local businesses. The images showed broken glass and metal blinds deformed by the force of the water. The police summoned the driver for questioning and the affected merchants filed complaints. An ironic case, since the U8 is designed precisely for aquatic emergencies, not to destroy everything in its path. Marketing with risks. These river demonstrations are, above all, spectacular marketing exercises. Chinese manufacturers are turning rivers into floating showrooms to show off their technological muscle. Emergencies, not adventures. Both BYD and Chery insist that these amphibious functions are designed for emergency situations: floods, flash floods or forced crossings in remote areas. In fact, BYD recommends Take the vehicle for inspection after activating the float mode. The Yangwang U8, with its 1,200 horsepower, four independent electric motors and 1,000 km range, is positioned as an extreme luxury SUV, not as a recreational amphibian. In Xataka | Spain is emerging as the destination of the next BYD factory, according to Reuters: the next chapter of its advance in Europe

pop divas have changed songs for content

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On October 3, the new and successful album by Taylor Swift, at least if we understand that “coming out” means the physical fact that the vinyl is available to buy in stores and that you can already listen to the songs on Spotify. Because the reality is that the North American singer-songwriter lives in a perpetual state of promotion born from the fusion a few years ago of his private life and his work as an artist. We are not with the hackneyed “the album began when the artist faced the blank page”, but with a conscious effort to maintain attention for longer than the 41 minutes and 40 seconds it lasts. The Life of a Showgirl. We can say that the album started with her presentation on her now fiancé’s podcast, she continued with that Instagram announcement of your wedding with 37 million likes and continued with his “documentary”, the second highest grossing film October in the United States. To tell the truth, Taylor Swift, while continuing to dedicate herself mainly to making songs, has mutated into a politician. More than anything because it is in a constant campaign for the attention of his fans. or even if we want to see it from a more well-intentioned and not so commercial prism, he carries out a kind of public service for his followers. It can’t produce 12 songs every month, but it is capable of leaving small recurring crumbs to keep voracious fans in need of content entertained. ‘I Bet You Think About Me’ If for a mere mortal it is impossible to please everyonemuch less if you are the North American singer-songwriter, accustomed to criticism directed more at the person than at the music itself. Nor should the chapter of Taylor Swift in ‘Family Guy’‘, where they booed her for being happy with her boyfriend and writing songs about that instead of her disappointments in love; but there is some evident point and separation between the stage Eras Tour which closed about a year ago and The Life of a Showgirl. It’s not just Taylor Swift that the conversation around her new job is going to last weeks or even months. The album came out earlier this month, but how long have your fans been talking about it? His discography is his biography and each Was It is an approach to a chapter in the life of the singer from Pennsylvania. Her followers keep Swift relevant, whether because of re-recording of his previous albumsthe recovery of his masterstheir love relationships, your friends… Not only is his discography his biography, but both have a symbiotic relationship. Few details of her life are unknown to her fans, and with each new release, Swift creates new satellite experiences. She is fully aware of the attention she receives and of the entourage that will be willing to participate in everything she proposes; how to discover countless Easter Eggs to events unthinkable for other types of creators: yaa in 2014, anticipating the release of his album 1989Swift held a series of «1989 Secret Sessions» at his different residences around the world where carefully selected fans were told that they were going to attend some kind of secret event, without knowing what awaited them. Another example is the event that accompanied the re-recording of Grid and the launch of ‘All Too Well’ (10 minute version) (Taylor’s Version). On this occasion, Swift decides to present and give her fans a romantic and heartbreaking short film video clip. So, seeing how the author usually operates and seeing that the end of the pharaonic last tour was approaching, her audience was already rambling about what her new project would be. And, as always, Swift left them a clue: in her last show she went, after finishing her last song, to an orange door, beginning the color and the entrance of the new Was. (Taylor’s Version) With the singer-songwriter we have the impression that we are in a perpetual happening of You were and vinyls. The Life of a Showgirl It came out on October 3 but we were already in the loop of their new work and experiencing their new album since that ‘Karma’ at the end of the Eras Tour. It’s all part of a person’s life showgirl: their love relationship, their NFL appearances to see his fiancé, the revelation of his new job on his own sports podcast Travis Kelce and his brother Jasonthe promotion of the different vinyl versions that we can buy even without listening to a single, the announcement of his marriage and the conversation around his engagement ring. Perhaps it all started organically thanks to its global relevance, but there is little doubt that this continuous state of promotion is a marketing weapon that it uses to its advantage. It is curious that the fact of making all the songs on the album known to the public seems like another important step, but not even the main one. We not only talk about everything lore that is created just before the release, or the enormous and lucrative anticipation of fans that ends when they finally get to hear the songs. In the case of Swift it goes much further and is renewed with each new release: On this occasion the success of The Life of a Showgirl came accompanied by an event very box office in the form of a party/launch like ‘The Official Release Party of a Showgirl’. While waiting for the doors to the room to open, a girl of about seven years old arrived accompanied by her mother. Full of glitter and wearing a dress appropriate for the occasion, the man from the cinema asked her if she was coming to a birthday; “No, I’m coming to Taylor’s,” he snapped before looking for someone to exchange his words with. friendship bracelets. And like her, groups of friends or couples add up to a number of viewers well above the average for a Friday afternoon screening. This community … Read more

When it comes to meat, science knows there’s something better than protein shakes: lean pork

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If you are one of those who he takes his gym workouts seriouslyyou will know that the post-workout window It is almost sacred. It’s time to give the body what it needs to repair and build muscle, and protein is the undisputed queen. This is where the big question comes in: does the type of protein we provide to the muscle matter? This is exactly what the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign wanted to answer. with a new study. What we think. Within this world of wanting to be as ‘masked’ as possible, without a doubt one of the diets that has transcended the most into the annals of history is the chicken and rice. In this way, chicken has almost taken first place in the type of meat that best suits us after training for its amount of protein and its low fat content. But in the case that we eat pork, it is important to make several distinctions according to science. The study. The research that has been published in the journal The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, reveals that when eating pork after a weight training session, the lean version is significantly more effective in stimulating muscle growth than its counterpart with more fat, even when both provide the same amount of protein. The experiment. To reach this conclusion, scientists, led by Professor Nicholas Burd, designed a rigorous experiment with 16 young, physically active adults. The goal was to compare how the body responded to three different “meals” after a hard leg workout with press leg and quadriceps extension. A routine that would leave many shaking. In this case, participants consumed one of the following diet options: Low-fat pork: a burger with 20 grams of protein and only 4.4 grams of fat. High-fat pork: A burger with the same 20 grams of protein, but only 20.6 grams of fat. Carbohydrate drink as a control measure without any type of protein to measure only the effect of exercise. The measurements. Once the dietary intervention was applied, muscle construction had to be measured. To do this, they used an advanced technique based on the administration of a ‘labeled’ amino acid, specifically L-(ring-13C6)phenylalanine. By marking it, it could be very easy to follow this ‘brick’ that was going to constitute part of the muscles that were hypertrophying. To follow up, a blood sample was taken as well as a muscle biopsy before and after exercise and food. And this allowed us to see in real time how quickly the body was generating new proteins that would end up in the muscle, in a process known as myofibrillar protein synthesis (MPS). The results. As expected, both types of pork increased muscle protein synthesis above resting levels. However, lean pork did so much more potently, despite having the same protein levels. The difference between the two groups was so marked that the anabolic effect of the high-fat hamburger was not statistically significant to that of the carbohydrate drink, which did not contain any protein. In other words, the high concentration of fat seemed to negate the benefit of the protein consumed. Because. The reason for everything seems to be the speed of digestion and absorption of macronutrients. The blood analysis revealed that participants who ate the lean burger experienced a faster and more pronounced spike in essential amino acids and specifically leucine in their blood than those who ate the fatty version. This is fundamental for the leucine “trigger” hypothesis. This theory postulates that a rapid and high increase in the amino acid leucine in the bloodstream acts as a powerful signal for the body to initiate the muscle-building process at that time. The lean pork activated this trigger effectively, while the pork fat probably slowed down gastric emptying and, thus, the arrival of amino acids into the blood and muscles. In fact, the study found a direct correlation between the magnitude of the leucine spike and increased muscle synthesis. The decision. In a time where protein shakes are the ‘norm’, the question may be asked whether it is better to eat food or drink protein. There is scientific literature that points Because it is always best to have a protein diet with food, since they not only provide protein, but also other components such as lipids, carbohydrates, micronutrients and bioactive compounds that can enhance muscle protein synthesis and improve the overall quality of the diet. In this way, drinking a protein shake can be a good way to complement the diet, but without forgetting about real foods like meat. Contradicting. This study has also come to ‘fight’ with the rest of the research teams that pointed out that naturally fattier whole foods such as whole eggs or salmon showed a superior anabolic response. The difference, according to the researchers, could be in the “food matrix.” The pork in the study was processed (minced and blended), which could alter how its nutrients interact, unlike an unprocessed whole food. Conclusion. This study has come to show that not all sources of animal protein are equal. If the goal in this case is to maximize muscle gain and you want to eat pork, opting for the lean version will give a clear anabolic advantage. This way, it’s not just about how much protein you eat, but how it is packaged and how quickly it gets where it needs to go. Images | Alora Griffiths Cindie Hansen In Xataka | The largest study on sustainable eating confirms it: vegetable protein wins the game

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