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new technolovers with technology and entertainment offers to surprise your partner

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There is very little left until Valentine’s Day arrives, so many stores have started their respective campaigns to celebrate Valentine’s Day. MediaMarkt has done it again with the Technoloversa campaign with offers in technology and entertainment that will end on February 9. Do you want to know what some of the best deals are? In this article you will have five ideas to surprise your partner. LEGO Botanicals by 23.99 eurosa construction with a miniature orchid. Electronic calendar by 169 eurosan interesting device to keep track of schedules. Philips OneBlade Pro by 54.99 eurosa razor with accessories for the body. nintendo switch 2 by 459 euroswith a gift video game. Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 by 699 eurosa perfect laptop for studying. LEGO Botanicals Maybe a bouquet of flowers is a great Valentine’s Day gift idea, but… why not a flower you can build? He Mini Orchid LEGO Botanicals It includes 274 pieces and comes with a pot, and its size is ideal for placing almost anywhere. Its price on MediaMarkt is 23.99 eurosbut in this case Amazon has it cheaper: for 22.62 euros. LEGO Botanicals – Orchid The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Electronic calendar On many occasions my partner and I give each other something that we can both use, especially if it is something useful for the house. If you want, or your partner wants, to lead a more organized life, this electronic calendar It is ideal for it. Its price on MediaMarkt is 169 eurosconnects to the brand’s app and allows you to carry a routine organized for dayswhich can be very useful to not forget something we have to do or even to keep track of the meals we have to prepare. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Philips OneBlade Pro The Philips OneBlade Pro It is a great razor for shaving your beard, but it is also great for using on your body. To do this, it comes with a couple of accessories that allow you to shave in different millimeters while protecting the skin. It also includes an additional one that allows you to adjust the millimeters. The icing on the cake lies in its round-tipped blades, which shave a lot and adapt very well to the body. Its price on MediaMarkt is 54.99 eurosbut El Corte Inglés considers it 49.90 euros. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links nintendo switch 2 If your partner loves video games and has not yet made the leap to nintendo switch 2right now it doesn’t have the best price we’ve seen to date, but for 459 euros the store includes the ‘Donkey Kong Bananza‘ as a gift, a game valued at 68.99 euros. To access this offer, you have to scroll down where the video game appears. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Finally, if your partner needs a laptop or you are simply looking to have one at home for everyday use, the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 has dropped in price to 699 euros. It features a 15.3-inch screen and comes with the Intel Core i7-13620H processor. It has 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB of internal storage (SSD) and comes with Windows 11 Home pre-installed, so you can use it as soon as you receive it. Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 (15IRH10) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | MediaMarkt and Compradicción (header), LEGO, Blackview, Philips, Nintendo, Lenovo In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Best Amazon Fire TV. Which one to buy and recommended models to convert your TV into a smart TV depending on use

Four years ago, China had a chipmaker in the global top 20. Today he has three

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China has gone from having one chip equipment manufacturer in the world’s top 20 in 2022 to having three at the start of 2026. US sanctions, designed to limit Chinese access to this advanced technology, have ended up driving just the opposite: the local industry has become stronger and continues to increase its independence. Why is it important. This advance questions Western technological dominance in such a critical sector that has led to a trade war. The manufacturing of machinery to make semiconductors was a Chinese weakness and is now becoming a real alternative. And the speed at which it is happening tells us that trade restrictions may end up being counterproductive. The protagonists: The context. Three years ago, China manufactured just 10% of its semiconductor equipment locally. Today that figure is between 20% and 30%, according to Tetsuo Omori, an analyst at Techno Systems Research in statements to Nikkei Asia. The government has put in a lot of money through national and local funds, and that has caused an explosion of manufacturers that now cover all stages of production. Between the lines. Western and Japanese companies have two problems on the table: In the short term, more competition in the Chinese marketwhich grew 35% in 2024 to $49.5 billion. In the long term, see how its technological advantage is being curtailed while the Chinese supply chain gains muscle. Yes, but. China still has not mastered the most advanced technology. Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systemsessential for 2 and 3 nanometer chips, are only manufactured by ASML. ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet He said it will take China “many, many years” to develop that capability.. It sounds like a message of calm for the West, but China’s recent history does not encourage us to take anything for granted. In dispute. The race for leadership in semiconductors is now played on two boards. One is technological: who manages to manufacture the most advanced chips. The other is self-sufficiency: who manages to control more links in their supply chain. China is losing in the first but is advancing very quickly in the second. And that could change the rules we knew even more. In Xataka | The ASML-Mistral alliance reveals the European plan B: if we cannot manufacture chips, at least we will control how they are manufactured Featured image | ASML

that of a world without nuclear weapons control

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During the sixties, at the height of the cold warthe United States and the Soviet Union accumulated nuclear weapons without clear limits, trapped in a logic of absolute distrust marked by crises such as that of the missiles in Cuba and by the certainty that a miscalculation could trigger a global catastrophe. It was in that atmosphere of fear when they began to assume that continuing to add warheads did not make the world safer, thus laying the foundations for the first major nuclear control agreement. Today we are four days away from ending to that pact. The end of nuclear control. Yes, because on Thursday of this week New START expiresthe last treaty that legally limited the deployed nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia, ending more than fifty years of agreements, inspections and transparency mechanisms that had drastically reduced the number of nuclear warheads since the peak of the Cold War. The agreement, signed in 2010 and extended in 2021, established a cap of 1,550 warheads strategic by country and allowed for data exchanges and on-site inspections designed to avoid dangerous misunderstandings. Its disappearance not only eliminates formal limits, but also the verification system that gave true value to the treaty, in a context marked by the war in Ukraine, unilateral suspension Russian inspections and a climate of mistrust that has not been seen for decades. Indifference and risks. The most striking thing about the end of New START is the little political reaction in Washington, where debate has been minimal even as the world enters an era no nuclear restrictions for the first time since the sixties. The Trump administration has let the treaty die without a clear position, while pressure grows within the security apparatus to increase the number of nuclear weapons rather than reduce them. This emptiness contrasts with the warnings of experts and with the symbolism of the Doomsday Clocknews the last few days because has approached more than ever at midnight, a true reflection of the fear of an uncontrolled arms race that could involve not only Russia and the United States, but also the third party “in contention”: China. Russia, China and a dilemma. If we do a futurology exercise and everything follows the expected course, starting on Thursday and without the treaty, the United States, for example, could return to “load” multiple warheads on missiles that today carry only one, a practice abandoned to comply with New START, while Russia retains the capability to do it quickly because it never stopped deploying missiles with multiple warheads. At this point, many analysts warn that Moscow could react faster than Washington in an escalation scenario, while Beijing continues expanding your arsenal at a pace not seen since the Cold War, although still far from the figures of the two superpowers that started it all. The combination of mistrust, new weapons not covered by previous agreements and emerging systems such as underwater nuclear drones or exotic missiles aggravates the feeling of entering unknown strategic terrain. An opportunity that closes. Despite everything, there is still a small window to avoid the worst scenario, since Russia has hinted that could continue to voluntarily respect the limits and former negotiators defend that accepting a temporary extension with restored inspections would be a pragmatic and cheap gesture to save time. Beyond the technique, the collapse by New START It symbolizes something deeper: the erosion of the idea that nuclear stability is better managed by rules, communication and transparency than by arms accumulation. Whether this moment marks just a blip or the beginning of a new normal will depend on immediate political decisionsalthough the consensus among experts is crystal clear: without some type of control, the world enters a more dangerous, more disturbing, more opaque phase and, of course, with less room for error. Image | Steve Jurvetson In Xataka | The countries with the most nuclear bombs in 2025, gathered in this graph with two protagonists: China and India In Xataka | In 1950 two scientists wondered if a 10 gigaton nuclear bomb was possible. Your results are hidden under lock and key

so you can see if you live in an area that is at risk

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Let’s tell you how to look at areas at risk of flooding with the new experimental map created by Google. With this tool, you can navigate and zoom into any area of ​​the world to see where there are dangers of extreme flash floods, with special interest in those river and sudden floods. For example, at the time of writing this article we find that a good part of Spain cannot absorb even one more dropwhich makes the storm feast expected in February be especially dangerous. You can see this on the Google map, especially in the west of the country. Google Flood Risk Map To enter this map you have to go to the website sites.research.google/floods. This will open a world map, with a column on the right where you can turn visualizations on or off. By default they will be shown above all areas most in danger of flash flooding what’s in the world. On this map you will be able to zoom in or activate a hybrid map to see satellite photos of the areas. You can get closer to the area you want, where you will see colored dots information that indicates the danger of flooding in each area. Here, if you click on any of the points On the left you will see a window with expanded information, especially seeing how the dangers evolve and from what source the information is obtained. In Xataka Basics | V16 beacon map: how to use it to see which ones are activated in real time in Spain

also controls that of Portugal

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Amancio Ortega has decided to get fully involved in the Portuguese energy business. His investment vehicle, Pontegadeahas just raised its stake in REN (National Energy Networks), the operator of Portugal’s electricity and gas networks. This new movement in renewable energy field and the distribution networks leaves the founder of Inditex as the second main shareholder of the Portuguese energy operator, just behind the Chinese State Grid and places him in a strategic position in renewables throughout the Iberian Peninsula. The second largest shareholder of the Portuguese company. Pontegadea entered REN for the first time in 2021, when it agreed to purchase 12% of the capital that until then was controlled by the Mazoon group, linked to Oman Oil. That operation placed Amancio Ortega as the second largest shareholder in the Portuguese company, which manages key electricity and gas infrastructure in the country. With the new investment, Pontegadea has taken another step in consolidating its position in the renewable sector by adding an additional 1.7%, according to sources of Europa Press. Thus, Ortega’s investor reaches 13.7% of the Portuguese company’s total share capital. Pontegadea’s investment. During the second half of 2025, REN shares were traded between 3 and 3.4 euros per share, which makes the value of the new package of shares that Pontegadea has purchased currently between 30 and 38.5 million euros. This, added to the original 12% (which was valued at around 190 million euros at the time), leaves a stake in REN dear at around 314 million euros, in a company with a market capitalization of 2,292 million euros. Second largest shareholder. With 13.7%, Pontegadea consolidates itself as the second largest shareholder of REN, only surpassed by State Grid Corporation of China, which maintains 25% of the capital. The rest of the energy company’s shareholding is distributed in a more fragmented way: Lazard has dropped to around 6.6% (from the 7.7% it had before), Corporación Masaveu has 5%, the insurer Fidelidade another 5.3% and the Spanish operator Redeia completes the group of large investors with its 5%. This position as the second largest shareholder gives Ortega relevant weight in the company that operates energy in Portugal, without the need for iintervene in its direct management. In this way, Ortega benefits from the dividends and long-term growth of REN, a key player in the energy transition in Portugal. This is a very typical Pontegadea strategy that we have already seen in group investments in port entities and logistics infrastructures in which it enters with force, receiving stable income, but without complicating itself with its operations. He does not invest in energy: he is the one who controls it. In 2019, Ortega’s investor It did not have any participation in the energy sector. Seven years later, Pontegadea already has solid holdings and a strategy that looks to the energy future of the entire peninsula. However, Ortega’s position in this sector is not oriented towards energy generation, without the operators that control distribution networks. Amancio Ortega owns 5% of Redeia, the parent company of Red Eléctrica, which in turn is an investor in the Portuguese company REN. As in its Portuguese counterpart, Ortega’s investor is positioned as the second shareholder only behind the Spanish State, which through SEPI controls 20% of the operator. In addition, it maintains 5% in Enagás, the gas network manager in Spain, and another 5% in Enagás Renovables, where collaborates with Repsol in clean energy projects such as wind and solar parks. Strategy on both sides of the border. These positions form a block in Spanish and Portuguese infrastructure that prepares the ground for more renewables, storage and green hydrogen, all financed with Inditex dividends. The new investment in REN is not an isolated movement, but rather connects directly with what Pontegadea already has in Spain. REN collaborates with Enagás in the corridor hydrogen H2Medwhich connects Celorico da Beira in Portugal with Zamora, forming part of the great European commitment to green hydrogen. With 13.7% in REN and his positions in Redeia and Enagás, Amancio Ortega is at the heart of the networks that will move renewable energy throughout the Iberian Peninsula. In Xataka | Sandra Ortega rents hotels to hotels. Amancio Ortega has copied the model with a luxury hotel in Paris Image | Unsplash (Brandon Griggs), GTRES

re-drill the ground

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Just four years ago, the ghost that walked the halls of Brussels wore an ushanka and spoke Russian. The invasion of Ukraine in 2022 caused an energy trauma that Europe swore not to repeat, launching into a frantic race to cut ties with Gazprom. Today, the anguish has returned, but the fear no longer looks to the East, but to the West. Europe is experiencing a painful déjà vu: fleeing dependence on Moscow, the continent has fallen into the arms from Washington, and the hug begins to suffocate. this winter is not giving up. Gas storage levels in Europe have fallen to their lowest point since that 2022 crisis, standing at around 44% at the end of January, an alarming figure when compared to the average of 58% over the last decade. according to data from the Financial Times. The complacency of the markets contrasts with the physical reality explained by Ron Bousso in Reuters– Underground caverns become dangerously empty and strategic vulnerability is exposed. The return of the “Old Kings”: Drill again. This market apathy in the face of empty warehouses has a technical explanation: the inverted pricing structure (backwardation). Right now, future gas is trading cheaper than current gas, which eliminates the economic incentive to save fuel: no company wants to buy at a high price today to have an asset that will be worth less in the summer. Faced with this market failure and the precarious supply, Europe has decided to stop waiting and dust off the drills. What five years ago was a climate taboo is today a national security priority. Oil and gas exploration has returned to the European agenda with force. Claudio Descalzi, CEO of the Italian energy giant Eni, has given voice to this paradigm shift. As explained for a report in the Financial TimesEurope must abandon the “ideological” approach that stopped domestic investments in fossil fuels. For the manager, the refusal to exploit its own resources has not saved the planet, it has simply forced Europe to buy that same energy abroad, at higher prices and from competitors who now use the supply as a political weapon. This vision aligns with what financial analysts already detect: pragmatism prevails over idealism. Simon Edelsten investment expert columnistargues that the “net zero investment bubble” has already burst. Governments and fund managers, which previously penalized any fossil asset, are making a 180-degree turn. “The rate at which fossil fuels are replaced depends more on their price than on government decrees,” says Edelsten, recalling that, without cheap alternatives, the world continues burning gas. The dependency trap. The European diversification strategy had its own name: the United States. At the start of this year, the data already reflects that Washington has supplied 60% of all the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) that the European Union imported, consolidating its dominant position. However, this solution has become a major geopolitical problem due to the president’s rhetoric about the purchase of greenland and threats to impose tariffs. “The risk is not that the United States will cut off supplies tomorrow,” analysts cited by the New York Times warn“the risk is that he uses his dominant position to pressure or condition.” Unlike Russia, Washington does not need to turn off the tap; It is enough to play with tariffs or prioritize other markets. Furthermore, Europe has stopped buying cheap gas by pipeline to buy the most expensive gas on the market: American LNG, hindering the competitiveness of its industry. No easy plan B. The search for alternatives is desperate but fruitless, as detailed in Bloomberg. The EU is looking towards Qatar, but military tensions between the US and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz put that route at risk. Norway, for its part, is already producing at the limit of its capacity. The question that hovers above is inevitable: why not cover that gap with renewables? The short answer is that infrastructure and technology are not keeping pace with politics. The wind sector, once the great hope, has been the great victim of the bursting of the green bubble. Leading companies such as Ørsted or Vestas have seen their shares plummet and their debt skyrocket because the windiest places are already exploited. Although solar energy resists storms better thanks to improvements in the efficiency of the panels, as Edelsten highlightsits intermittency makes it incapable on its own of covering winter demand peaks. Even in the best renewable deployment scenario, gas is not going away. Consulting reports like McKinsey They project that global gas demand will increase by 26% until 2050. The reason It’s technical: Renewables need a backup, a “bodyguard” that keeps the electrical grid stable when there is no sun or wind. The energy transition, paradoxically, has turned gas into a permanent strategic pillar. Emergency engineering and the Spanish wall. Faced with the impossibility of bringing gas by land from the East, Europe has turned to the sea. The emergency solution have been the FSRU (Floating Storage and Regasification Units), gigantic ships that act as “mobile plugs” to process liquefied gas. Its rent is around $155,000 a day, a price that Europe gladly pays to avoid a blackout. However, the gas hits a physical wall when it reaches land. Spain illustrates this European dysfunction perfectly: it has the regasification plants and the gas on its coasts, but it lacks the pipelines (interconnections) to send it to the north of the continent. With an export capacity to France limited to 8,500 million cubic meters per year, the Iberian Peninsula remains an energy islandunable to alleviate Germany or Central Europe’s thirst for gas. A “hyperactive” market and the shadow of Russia. Gas is no longer a simple commodity to become a high-speed financial asset. Today it operates 22 hours a day, with hedge funds and algorithms reacting in milliseconds to any global news. This “financialization” has brought extreme volatility: a late-night headline about Iran can alter the price of heating in Berlin before dawn. And while Europe watches the stock charts, Russia continues … Read more

five alternatives to connect without using your router

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Let’s tell you five alternatives for when you run out of Internet at homeeither due to a network outage or because the router has stopped working. Because whether it’s because you work at home or because you’re watching a series or movie and you don’t want to stop, it’s a good idea to take these alternatives into account. In this list, in addition to describing each of the available alternatives We will also tell you some points for and against for each one. This way, you will be able to make more informed decisions. Share Internet from your mobile If you have a decent amount of mobile data contracted, the best alternative is share Internet from your mobile. To the share your mobile datayou will create a WiFi network to which you can connect other devices, and you can even give it a personalized name and password. It’s a great solution, because you can actually give it the same name and password as your home WiFi so that all devices connect. Here, the only thing you have to keep in mind is that you will use a lot of battery on your mobile, and depending on what you are going to do you can spend a lot of data on your mobile rate, that is, it controls the downloads. Have a MiFi router at home MiFi routers are portable routers that work with SIM card. They have their own battery, and are used to create their own WiFi network, something that will also serve as an alternative to using the home mobile rate by connecting your SIM to this device. It is a more professional solution to avoid wasting your phone’s battery, but you will need to have purchased the device and have a SIM with data ready to use. Additionally, not all of these devices have 5G speeds, most tend to only have 4G. Use a router with SIM An alternative is desktop routers with 4G or 5G data, which use a SIM card. These They have better stability and WiFi coverage than MiFiso in large houses or greater needs you can get a solvent alternative network. The negative part here is that these routers do not have a battery and need to be plugged in, so They won’t work if you don’t have electricity. at home. You will also need to have a SIM with data to put it in. Dual WAM Routers This is a lesser known type of router called routers with failover either double WAN (Dual WAN). They are routers that They work with two types of connection at the same timeyour main fiber and a second fiber, a SIM or even a USB stick with 4G/5G. Thus, when the main network goes down or has problems, you automatically jump to the second until the main network returns to normal. If the problem is that the power goes out: UPS/SUPS If the problem why your router is not working is because the power has gone out, have a UPS on hand It is usually a good alternative. UPS/SUPS can be large or small, and are like advanced portable batteries that can give you a great deal of extra autonomy. Cover image | piqsels.com In Xataka Basics | Turning off WiFi at night: what advantages it has and what things you don’t have to worry about

AEMET prepares for “the highest hydrometeorological impacts in the world”

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As said Kevin Killeen“February is the worst month of the year, but it is an honest month.” And February 2026 is no exception in its honesty: the models gave historic rainfall throughout the Atlantic coast and the south of the peninsula and the rainfall is already here. The jet stream is going to pass over us so “constant and uniform” throughout the week. But it is not just the “concatenation of storms generated” by this, it is that “they are going to be fed with high moisture content” that comes directly from the Gulf of Mexico. What would have been excellent news three years ago has become a huge problem: this succession of storms arrives at a time when the soil cannot absorb even one more drop. A truly exceptional accumulation. To land the data, the latest models accumulated dan for this week of more than 100-150mm and up to 300 in areas of Galicia, Extremadura and Andalusia. In the case of Andalusia, in fact, the situation will be very complicated due to the extension of the Guadalquivir valley and the composition of its soil. More than 200mm are expected at the head of the river and a homogeneous average of 100mm in the basin. That, added to the fact that “The soil is clay and its use is agricultural.“, the filtration is very scarce. This has turned the flooding of the rivers and streams in the Guadalquivir basin and adjacent areas (such as the Guadalete or the Mediterranean basins of Granada) into a ticking bomb. “The highest hydrometeorological impacts in the world”. As Martín León explainedis not a figure of speech, it is an enormous risk: the highest impacts in the world are expected. In fact, as the hours pass, the predictions they seem to get worse and floods, overflows and landslides seem inevitable. The first symptoms of flooding, in fact, have already been detected in Andalusia via satellite. How normal is this? To emphasize that we are not facing a normal situation, it is enough to take a look at the ECMWF EFIthe index that measures how extreme the atmospheric phenomena are: the entire south-southwest of the peninsula is in red, the highest level. Rain on wet. But, as I say, that is not the main problem. The main problem is that, after these days of heavy rain, the soil is extremely saturatedthe reservoirs are being forced to drain and the system’s retention capacity is at minimum levels. In mountain areas, water it’s starting to flow directly from the ground. To this we can add that the Pyrenees and the rest of the northern mountains they have a historic snow pack. We are, as all models show, in the middle of a perfect storm. This means that the Hydrographic Confederations will have a lot of work and the problems have only just begun. Special attention will have to be paid to rivers, streams and areas at risk of land displacement. Complicated hours are approaching and any precaution will be insufficient. Image | WXCharts In Xataka | Spain is preparing for a “festival” of storms in February: with more rain than normal and hardly any cold

The brain asks for ultra-processed foods when it has nothing to do and science thinks it knows why

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There is a fairly classic scene in the lives of many people: not being hungry but wandering around the kitchen, opening the refrigerator, looking and closing it. Minutes later, this operation is repeated. The final result? End up eating something we probably didn’t needwhich is what can be popularly known as ‘gluttony’, but nutrition science has a more precise term: emotional eating. Investigation. Reference researchers in Spain such as Dolores Corella and Jordi Salas-Salvadó from CIBERobn, have focused on how factors more than calorieslike emotions or genetics, determine our weight. And the conclusion is quite clear: boredom is as real a metabolic risk factor as sugar. The boring brain. When we get boredthe brain detects a stimulation deficit that it tries to compensate with the fastest route to pleasure. And this is where the ultra-processed darlings come in. In this case, science indicates that these foods not only nourish us poorly, but activates dopaminergic reward circuitsin a very similar way to how certain addictive substances do. In this case, we have, first of all, a stimulus that is boredom that causes our mood to drop. Here the brain looks for a quick peak of dopamine and an apple is usually not enough, but rather it looks for fats and refined sugars, since their consumption causes a peak of pleasure followed by a sudden drop. Something that promotes excessive consumption and therefore favors gaining weight. The danger of getting bored. Not having things to do during the day or even at night, the truth is that it can be the ideal seed for consuming more calories than necessary. And above all, boredom tends to attack more strongly at the end of the day, when obligations end and this is where “boredom eating” collides head-on with chrononutrition. Researcher Marta Garaulet has shown that the moment in which we eat is critical, since snacking out of boredom after 9:00 p.m. is metabolically disastrous, especially in Spain. Why Spain. We Spaniards have a much worse time eating for boredom beyond 9 at night due to a genetic load in half of the population related to the MTNR1B gene. In this case, whoever has this gene and eats late, the consequences are quite clear: the body secretes less insulin and tolerates the glucose that we are introducing less well. The result here is that what is eaten due to nocturnal boredom it makes you fatter and more inflammatory than if you eat during the day, due to the desynchronization of circadian rhythms and the enzymes necessary to process food. How to counter it. If boredom is the trigger for this situation and ultra-processed foods are the gasoline, the solution to break this vicious circle is in PREDIMED studies. In this case, they pointed out that increasing fiber intake through fruits, vegetables and legumes improves glucose regulation. Something that enhances the reduction of glucose drops that can encourage the brain to eat some sugar urgently. In addition to this, the PREDIMED study confirms that the Mediterranean diet Supplemented with extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) or nuts, it reduces anxiety about eating. Unlike ultra-processed foods, which leave you wanting more, a handful of nuts activates long-lasting satiety mechanisms that prevent us from falling into eating a muffin or chocolate ice cream during the night. Routine vs. chaos. Since intermittent fasting lacks solid long-term evidence, experts like Salas-Salvadó suggest focusing on marked routines: bringing forward dinner to extend your overnight fast naturally. Having a fixed schedule reduces moments of “down time” where hunger attacks due to boredom. With all this, what has been achieved is that the brain does not adapt to situations with high levels of dopamine, such as a time of large, very copious late-night dinners. That is why the strategy is not about prohibiting, but about understanding that when you open the refrigerator at eleven at night without hunger, it is not the stomach that speaks but the brain looking for the entertainment it needs. Images | Toby Towfiqu barbhuiya In Xataka | Scientists have found the key to obesity in a protein: mice that do not gain weight even if they consume a fatty diet

Dates and when the 2026 Income Tax return is made

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Let’s tell you what they are the dates of the 2025 income tax returnthe campaign that will take place during 2026. We say that it is Income 2025 even if it is done this year because what we will do in it is regularize and account for the last fiscal year. In this article we are going to tell you what they are the most important dates of this next Income campaign. For example, we will tell you when you can start checking your tax details or request your reference number, and also when declarations can be made. There are still a couple of dates that have not been revealed, such as the consultation of tax data or the request for your reference number. But when they are announced we will update it so that you have all the data. Income tax return dates 2025 These are the main dates of the Income Tax 2025 What you should keep in mind so that you don’t miss deadlines. It is important that you remember that the income campaign this year ends a day early than last year, because it will also start a day earlier. Tax data consultation: Unannounced, but possibly mid-March. Reference number request: Unannounced, but possibly mid-March. Income tax return online: You can do it from April 8 to June 30, 2026. Income tax return by phone: You can do it from May 6 to June 30, 2026. In-person income tax return: You can do it from June 1 to June 30, 2025. And now, we are going to tell you How can you request an appointment? for telephone and in-person income. Appointment for telephone statement: You can request an appointment to make your declaration by phone, calling the numbers 91 535 73 26 / 901 12 12 24 or 91 553 00 71 / 901 22 33 44. You can do so from May 6 to June 30, 2026. Appointment for in-person declaration: You can request an appointment to make your declaration in person, by calling the numbers 91 535 73 26 / 901 12 12 24 or 91 553 00 71 / 901 22 33 44. You can request the necessary appointment from May 29 to June 29, In Xataka Basics | IRPF withholding calculator 2025: how to use it online to know your minimum withholding recommended by the Treasury

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