Mobile Tech & Gadgets

The best platforms to share expenses on subscriptions legally in Spain

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Let’s tell you the best platforms to share expenses on subscriptions completely legally. They are all platforms that work in Spain, and are used to pay for family plans together and, thus, the subscription is cheaper than if you pay for it on your own. Digital families are always a good method to share a subscription and make it cheaper for everyone. And although many platforms try to combat them, it is still a widely used method. But if you don’t want to spend time asking your friends who wants to share a specific subscription, these platforms help you share it with strangers from all over the country. Spliit One of the pioneering and leading platforms in subscription sharing. French and created in 2019, it connects users who want to share with those who want to join a multi-user subscription. The platform charge co-subscribers a commission of 5% + 99 cents each month. For example, if the offer is 4 euros per month, you will pay 5.19 euros. Subscription owners are charged 25% of the transaction amount, with a maximum of 1 euro only the first month for each new co-subscriber. The owner publishes the ad, and those who want to co-subscribe have a search engine with all the subscription services, and with the offers in each of them. Sharingful The great Spanish alternative to create digital families. Its strong point is that everything is entirely in Spanish, from the interface to the support, although the commissions are higher than other alternatives. The platform automate paymentsalthough its catalog of services that you can share is a little lower. Even so, it offers support for sharing just over 30 digital platforms, including major streaming services. It has mobile applications, the system automatically renews your access, and also allows you to cancel at any time. Sharesub The great French alternative to Spliiit, a shared subscription service that operates mainly in Europe. Its model is the same, account owners publish their free places, and other users can join paying their proportional part of the total. Monthly payments are automated, and it has over 500 subscription services available. Its great incentive is that does not charge commissions to those who share the places in their accountsand a 5% commission plus 0.90 euros is applied to subscribers, which is already included in the price that the platform shows you. Together Price An Italian platform with consolidated presence in Spainand that also connects groups of users to share the cost of multi-user plans. It works like the others, allowing you to share the free spaces of your subscriptions or pay to access one of them. In addition to the usual streaming services, it offers music, cloud applications, video games, office automation and even design tools. Commissions are always added to the final price so that you don’t get any surprises. GoSplit A fairly large Asian platform that works like its European competitors. It offers around 200 services spread across several categories, and everything is done instantly. Of course, it receives many complaints for problems with customer servicerefunds and inactive groups, so be careful. Forums and social networks The large Spanish forums are also used to search for threads where there are users who are looking for “digital family” to share their accounts. Here, normally a group is created in a messaging app and everything is managed there. Of course, it is recommended that the person managing each account be trustworthy. In addition to that, you can also find WhatsApp or Telegram groups where accounts are shared, or even go to groups where you have friends and talk directly to them, even being able to go one by one asking questions. If your friends trust you, no one will be bitter about paying a little less. Splitwise This is the most popular expense sharing app in the world. We put it at the end because it is not explicitly used to share a subscription, although it can be used to manage the division of expenses if you are going to share a family account with your friends. Its operation is simple. First you create a group and add the subscription with what it costs per month. The app then keeps track of who owes what to whom, simplifying cross-debts, especially in cases like share multiple subscriptions in your group of friends and let each person manage one. In Xataka Basics | The best apps for Android 2026: new, essential and hidden gems

It’s free, open source and Adobe can’t do anything to prevent it

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There are a thousand and one alternatives to photoshop very interesting that allow you to have a powerful photo editor without entering into large payments or subscriptions of any kind. GIMP has established itself as one of the most prominent open source alternatives, although its interface is not entirely friendly if you come from an Adobe environment. PhotoGIMP was born precisely to resolve that clash. This is a free patch that reorganizes its interface, shortcuts, and various settings to make it much more familiar to anyone coming from Adobe software. What exactly is PhotoGIMP PhotoGIMP is a set of configuration files that replace the default GIMP settings. The project is maintained by Dionatan Simioni, known as Diolinuxspecialized mainly in Linux and free software, and is distributed openly under the GPL-3.0 license through GitHub, which means that it can be used, modified and distributed freely. It should be noted that PhotoGIMP does not add new features to GIMP nor does it turn it into Photoshop. As explained in the project’s official repository, it is a free, community-maintained patch that transforms GIMP into an interface with the idea that easy to use for those coming from Photoshop. So the editor behind it is still GIMP, with its pluses and minuses. What exactly does PhotoGIMP change? PhotoGIMP touches several elements of the user experience, but not the program engine: Tool layout. Icons and panels are rearranged to mimic the position that Photoshop users are accustomed to, so you don’t have to learn from scratch where everything is. Keyboard shortcuts. The keybinds follow Adobe’s official documentation for the Windows version, so much of the muscle memory from years of using Photoshop still applies. Use of the canvas. The default settings are modified to leave the maximum possible work space visible on the screen. Own welcome screen and icon. The patch includes a different start screen than standard GIMP and, on Linux, a launcher with its own name and icon in the system menu. Default language. The configuration applied by the patch leaves the program in English as standard, although it can be changed from the settings at any time. How to install PhotoGIMP The process varies slightly depending on the operating system, but always follows the same logic. And first you must have GIMP installed and have opened it at least once, so that it generates its own configuration folders, and then replaces those files with the ones included in PhotoGIMP. On Linuxthe patch is intended primarily for the version of GIMP installed through Flatpak. The process consists of downloading the compressed file for Linux from the official repository and extracting it directly into the user’s personal folder, so that the files are placed in the hidden folders .config and .local. If you have installed GIMP through another manager, such as apt, dnf either Pacmaninstead of Flatpak, the process also works as long as the configuration folder is in the same location and the installed version is 3.0 or higher. On Windowspress Windows key + R, type %APPDATA%\GIMP and copy the contents of the version of PhotoGIMP for Windows, previously downloaded and unzipped, into that folder. On macOSthe destination is the folder ~/Library/Application Support/GIMPaccessible from the Finder with the shortcut Cmd + Shift + G, where the configuration folder that comes with the patch is also copied. In all three cases It is highly recommended to make a backup before from the original settings folder, in case you want to keep your previous custom settings as PhotoGIMP overwrites files such as shortcuts, panel layout, templates, or visual theme. Uninstalling it is just as simple. And all you have to do is delete that same configuration folder and reopen GIMP, which will run automatically with its factory settings. It should be noted that the current version of the patch only works with GIMP 3.0 or higher. So if you are still using the 2.10 branch you will have to update the program before applying PhotoGIMP. It’s GIMP, both for the good and the not so good As we were saying, PhotoGIMP aims to reduce those small initial frictions for those who are more accustomed to Photoshop. If you have never been convinced by GIMP at first because of its capabilities, PhotoGIMP is not going to change your life. But if you were a little nervous about starting in GIMP because ‘it looks different from Photoshop’, This patch aims to take away your fear. So for the rest, it’s still GIMP, both for the good and the not so good. And you have a powerful free and open source editor at your disposal, but it still does not offer more specific and complex tools for professionals that Photoshop does have, such as its advanced color management with native CMYK, more complex editorial design, automation, integration with AI, etc. For the rest, if you don’t miss this more concrete and professional aspect of Photoshop, you are more than enough with GIMP, especially since since version 3.0 you also have the option of non-destructive adjustment layers. The PhotoGIMP repository has more than 13,000 stars on GitHub, is supported by the community, and has hundreds of forks from other developers, as well as translations and alternative installers. Wow, it is one of the most outstanding options to escape the more than 300 euros per year of Photoshop in case you can manage with everything that GIMP gives you. Besides, no account or login of any kind requiredsaves all the work on the computer itself without depending on cloud services, and the installation and uninstallation of the plugin is resolved by copying or deleting a folder. In Xataka | Your name, written with rivers and craters: NASA’s amazing tool based on thousands of satellite images

In 1971, an aquarium in the United States took in an orphaned seal. Five years later he started doing something: speaking in English

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When you go to an aquarium you expect to find ponds full of picturesque fish, seahorses, jellyfish, dolphins, sharks… Maybe, with luck and depending on where the enclosure is and how big it is, the occasional penguin. Those who went in the 80s to the New England Aquarium from Boston, in the United States, are looking for something different: a English speaking seal. And not. There are no quotes or italics here. Hoover (that was the name of the pinniped) spoke with all the law and in a way so clear that still fascinates today to the experts. Yes indeed, his voice It was not the most harmonious in the world. A talking seal? Exact. Seal and chatterbox are not two words that usually go together. But that is precisely why Hoover aroused so much interest in his day. And that is why even today, 41 years after his death, continues starring reports. Before getting into the subject, it is worth introducing the protagonist. Hoover was a male harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) that a fisherman rescued as a hatchling in the waters of Cumberland County, Maine, and spent most of its life at the New England Aquarium. His story would not be of much interest if it were not for the fact that around 1976, when he was around five years old, the animal began to do something unusual: speak broken English. How is that possible? To understand this, you have to take another leap back in time and go back to May 1971, when George Swallow, a Maine fisherman, did something unconventional: he brought home a baby seal. In theory it was not a whim or an eccentric raving. The poor animal had lost its mother, so Swallow decided to welcome her: He hand-fed her, played with her and (in short) took care of her as if she were a dog. He even gave him a name: Hoover. The problem is that as the seal grew it needed more and more fish, which made it unfeasible for it to continue with the Swallow family. His destination was the New England Aquarium, where he arrived when he was three months old. What did that seal say? Hoover’s life was relatively normal until the mid-1970s. When he was around five years old, the aquarium keepers realized something: the seal was making sounds similar to human speech. “The vocalizations were common especially during the mating season and often seemed intended for females, suggesting that they could have acted as ‘mating songs’, similar to those produced by male harbor seals,” a group of psycholinguists and behavioral biology experts recalled in 2023. a paper published in Current Biology. That observation is interesting. The aquarium staff did not teach Hoover to speak. They also didn’t train her to imitate sounds. It is assumed that what the animal learned about human vocalization was assimilated when it was a baby and lived with the Swallows. Some versions They claim that when the family gave her to the aquarium they had already heard her ‘talk’, but experts usually place her first ‘words’ at the age of five, when she reached sexual maturity. And what exactly did it say? That’s the most surprising thing. As remember From the aquarium itself, Hoover was able to pronounce words like “hello”, “let’s go” or “hey”, all in English. The Guenther Speech Neuroscience Lab even notes that he uttered entire phrases that he probably heard at the Swallow home, such as “Hoover get over here! Come on, come on“. As if that were not surprising, there is one more fact: they say he spoke with a Maine accent. The best thing is that you don’t have to imagine it. Although they are not particularly sharp, we preserve some recordings with Hoover’s chatter. Was he really talking? Often the best way to hear something is to (simply) want to hear it. This has led us, for example, to identify words like “mom” in dog growls either cat meows. In the case of Hoover, Diandra Duengen and the rest of the researchers who sign the article of Current Biology They believe that we are facing something different. It’s not that the seal made a confused sound reminiscent of expressions like “Hello there”, “hurry”, “hey, hey” either “come over here”. No. Everything indicates that it is a deliberate imitation. “Human perception is so fine-tuned to finding speech patterns that some animals can trick our brains into making us hear speech sounds where no such similarity exists,” they explain. “In Hoover’s case there is strong evidence of speech imitation. Spectrograms of his sounds show that his vocalizations were, in fact, very ‘human’, containing the typical formant modulations we use to produce vowels and consonants.” Was it expressed then? No. And yes. Duengen and his companions remember that there is analysis to suggest that Hoover produced sounds similar to English vowels, making it a fascinating case of “learning human speech vocal production in a mammal.” They also believe that the seal could have used this ability as “mating songs”, something that other male seals do. What we cannot say is that Hoover ‘understood’ what he was saying, something that is not necessary for speech imitation in any case. “Comprehension or intention of meaning is not relevant to the learning of vocal production. Neither Hoover nor most other animals that exhibit this learning seem to ‘understand’ spoken language or the meaning of words. However, vocal imitation is impressive in itself and represents a fundamental component of speech,” they point out the experts. That Hoover did not begin to produce sounds until his sexual maturity, even when it came to words that he theoretically learned when he was a child, is also not exceptional. Something similar happens with some birds with the same capacity. Is it just a curiosity? No. In his day Hoover appeared on ‘Good Morning America’ and monopolized reports in Reader’s Digest either The New Yorkeramong many other media. Beyond the picturesque nature of his case, … Read more

A new study reveals its crucial role in memory consolidation

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The nap is an appointment that many people have during the afternoon and that is very difficult to leave aside. For decades, this practice has oscillated between being a purely Mediterranean cultural trait and a productivity “hack” repeated ad nauseum. However, taking a short break during the day is not a luxury for some, but is a top-level brain maintenance mechanism. They have studied it. To prove exactly why napping is so beneficial, a study chose to investigate the effects it has on the brain. Their objective was none other than to check if a short period of sleep could trigger the same ‘brain cleansing’ processes that occur during sleep. And the answer is a resounding yes. Neuronal “saturation”. To understand the impact of the study, you must first understand the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis. This tells us that since we wake up, our brain processes information non-stop and each stimulus and each new piece of information strengthens the connections between our neurons. A classic example may be in a student who is trying to learn an opposition syllabus. The problem is that this continuous increase in synaptic strength consumes a lot of energy and takes up physical and metabolic space. The really important thing here is that there comes a point in the day when the brain is “saturated” since cortical excitability is so high that the ability to consolidate new information plummets. This is when the system literally asks us to “reset” in order to continue processing the information to which we are exposing it. How have they seen it? The experiment involved 20 young adults, and rather than relying on subjective surveys of “how rested they felt,” the team turned to direct physical measurements. They used Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to measure corticospinal excitability and electroencephalograms to monitor brain activity. Once the method was in place, it was decided to evaluate the patients first between 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m., after spending a good amount of time awake, and then after taking a 45-minute nap. The results. They clearly saw with these analyzes that the brain cleaned its neurons and irrelevant connections were weakened, lowering the “background noise” and returning the system to an optimal state to create new connections again. But also, by releasing this charge, the neurons recovered a very high capacity to induce Long Term Enhancement. That is, the brain was once again in optimal conditions to create a lasting memory. The 20 minute rule. A mantra that can be heard is that the optimal nap should be twenty minutes long in order to regain alertness quickly. However, this study indicates that, to achieve a true architectural recalibration of plasticity in the cerebral cortex, entering into a cycle of about 45 minutes allows the memory consolidation mechanisms to act in depth. In this way, taking a break during the day is not at all something ‘lazy’ but rather it is a brain recalibration system that will allow us to increase our productivity when working or studying. In Xataka | In Spain we have glorified the long nap. In scientific studies they have a different opinion on the matter.

The fried pizza looks like something filthy from the US. It was actually “invented” to save Naples after the Second World War

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I love to cook, even though someone wants to banish the kitchensand I love to see cooking videos. However, the algorithm sometimes gets confused and shows me videos of people putting raw pasta with tomato sauce into a container and baking everything, or a lot of fried things. They are videos of Americans cooking, of course, but when I see someone frying a pizza, it doesn’t offend me for one simple reason: it’s almost as old as the Neapolitan pizza and played a fundamental historical role in post-war Italy. Feeding a city in which the ovens had been destroyed. Because Neapolitan pizza may be a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but fried pizza is the lifeblood of the city of Naples. The statutes of pizza. Italians are very particular about food. I have shared many trips with great Italian colleagues and they are very wonderful when they defend what is theirs. It’s great, but they are the first to burn the coffee (although we Spaniards are not here to give lessons on this, of course). Now, don’t let a Neapolitan get the pizza. He ‘I will discipline‘is the bible, the table of commandments which includes everything you need to know to make a Napoletana pizza. What types of ingredients, quantities and heart that should be put inside and on top of the dough. On a recent trip, talking about pizza and after eating in a fairly competent Parisian pizzeria, the topic of fried pizza came up. What would clearly be an affront to the pride of that Neapolitan boy caused a smile to appear on his face. And, as we say in Xataka, it makes sense. Zeppole. Long before Disciplinare and baked pizza, in Naples there was already an important tradition of fried dough. In it freedom from coquina from the 13th century describe fermented doughs, fried in oil and served with honey, but if there is a predecessor of fried pizza, it is the zeppole. They are like fritters that date back to sometime between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century and have some variants, but a well-known one is filled with pastry cream and decorated with cherries in syrup. Although this is a dessert, there are also salty varieties to which other ingredients such as anchovies are added. Although they were eaten in several Italian cities such as Rome or Calabria, in Naples they caught on well and, when the more formal pizza began to appear, they became popular. started to differentiate between the pizzaiuolo (the one who makes baked pizzas) and the zeppolaiolo (the one who makes the fried foods, including fried doughs). Emergency. During the 19th century, texts began to appear that included recipes for stuffed and fried calzoncini as a more satiating product than the sweet variant and an explicit distinction began to be made between “pizza al forno” and “pizza fritta di cicoli.” Fried pizza was already establishing itself in the Neapolitan language before the 20th century as a street food to take advantage of leftover meat and fish, but then came the Second World War. The conflict devastated Naples and the postwar period was no better. The situation of extreme poverty and the destruction of the kilns by Allied bombings combined with a lack of wood. The city had to be rebuilt or the furnaces fueled, and the priority was clear. Furthermore, even if they wanted to make some pizzas, everything was missing and the ingredients were expensive due to the shortage. So, many Neapolitan families began to look at the zeppole and were occurred that they could make large disks of pizza dough, fill them with cheap ingredients like ricotta, vegetables and leftover meat if there were any, fry them and… that’s it. Fried dough with the ingredients on top “A ogge a otto“. Workers could take this as a filling lunch for breaks, it was economical and became a symbol. In the absence of “real” pizza, the new “pizza del popolo” was the one that helped in the reconstruction of the city and became a symbol. coined the “a ogge a otto”, which came to mean “eat today, pay eight days later”, reinforcing that role as a symbol of poor post-war Naples. American Coffee. Therefore, fried pizza was not invented in the postwar period, since there was a previous context of fried doughs, but it was the time of the popular explosion due to necessity. This Neapolitan boy was particularly proud when telling me the story because, although less known, Neapolitan fries are also a traditional dish, but the one that lifted the city after the war was… pizza. And it’s funny how my first impulse was to think that fried pizza was just another thing about Americans determined to fry things, when really it’s even something cultural for certain people. These types of stories are always fascinating to me, like the one about American coffee that we can think was invented in the United States when, in reality, it was an invention of the Italian baristas of the Second World War who they added water to the coffee because the American soldiers did not like the concentrated flavor. In Xataka | The pizza that is successful in China does not have pepperoni or pineapple: it has a fruit that smells like rotten eggs and sewage

Something unusual happened in Chernobyl when the Russian soldiers arrived. The cameras that monitored the animals have never stopped recording

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In April 1986, just a few days after the Chernobyl accidentSoviet scientists feared that radiation had turned the area into a biological desert for generations. Occurred exactly the opposite. With the disappearance of human activity, the forest recovered the lost ground and the exclusion zone ended up becoming one of the largest wildlife refuges in Europe. The animal cameras that recorded the war. I told it this week in a report The New York Times. When Ukrainian conservationist Svitlana Kudrenko installed dozens of camera traps throughout the Chernobyl exclusion zone in 2020, her goal was much more routine: to study how populations of wolves, lynxes, deer, foxes and other species that had thrived after decades without human presence were evolving. Two years later, Russia invaded Ukraine and turned Chernobyl into an improvised military base. The soldiers arrived, the tanks went through the forests, the explosions began… and the cameras never stopped recording. An unprecedented experiment. The Russian occupation barely lasted a little more than a month, but it left behind a extraordinary scientific opportunity. Because the cameras continued to operate throughout the invasion, the researchers were able to compare the behavior of eleven species before, during and after the passage of the troops. In addition, they crossed these images with testimonies from people who remained in the area and with satellite data capable of detecting fires, building an almost real-time portrait of how fauna responds to a war. The uneven reaction of the animals. One of the most interesting findings was that did not exist a universal answer. Roe deer, especially shy animals linked to the forest, began to appear much less as the intensity of military activity increased. Red deer, on the other hand, were detected more frequently, probably because They fled from open areas where tanks, vehicles and explosions were concentrated, thus increasing the chances of being recorded by cameras. The war changed the forest’s schedules. The differences were not limited to the number of animals observed. red deer They modified their routines and they began to be more active during the day and less at night. Foxes and hares also reduced part of your activity night, although the latter reappeared precisely on the days when the satellites detected fires, an indication that they were trying to escape the fire caused by the fighting. Spaces that did not move. On the contrary, not all the inhabitants of Chernobyl reacted in an obvious way. Researchers found few changes in species like wolves or Eurasian lynxesalthough recognize that the conclusions are more limited because they were photographed much less frequently. They also propose another possibility: The enormous size of the exclusion zone and the scarce human presence accumulated over decades perhaps cushioned part of the impact that a similar conflict would have had on a much more altered ecosystem. The war left another invisible victim: nature. The study, published in Science magazinedoes not aim to measure the total ecological damage of the invasion, but rather to observe how the fauna reacted while everything was happening. Even so, its authors remember that armed conflicts also destroy habitats, cause fires, introduce pollution and increase the mortality of numerous species. As resume ecologist Kaitlyn Gaynor, animals are involuntary spectators of human wars and we still know very little about the consequences that these episodes leave on them. Chernobyl and the paradox. For decades, the exclusion zone symbolized the biggest nuclear disaster of history. Then it became an unexpected refuge for wildlife. Finally, the Russian invasion added a third, equally improbable chapter: a natural laboratory where the very cameras installed to study animals ended up recording one of the few involuntary experiments on how an entire ecosystem responds when war breaks out in the middle of the forest. Image | Ministry of Defense In Xataka | The men who closed the new Chernobyl hole: “Destiny gave us an opportunity to test ourselves to the limit” In Xataka | We had been wondering for years why the Chernobyl wild boars were so radioactive. The answer was not in the accident

It serves companies both to cut back and to expand

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Asha Sharma, new CEO of Xbox, announced this week the dismissal of 1,600 people from its division. It is the first tranche of a plan that foresees more cuts, up to 3,200, this year. Three days later, the US Federal Reserve announced his appointment to a group that advises on “employment and productivity in the age of AI.” Black moon emoji. She is accompanied by Marc Andreesse and a Stanford economist who works with Anthropic. The irony: whoever has just decided what work is left over in their company will now have an opinion on what work is left over, in general. The numbers that Sharma presented in your statement are incontestable: Xbox has lost 64 cents for every dollar invested in small, independent studios, with margins three to ten times worse than any comparable business. But the statement says, almost in the same sentence, that these positions are not taken away by AI, and that the company reorients people and investment towards its AI priorities. The staff is told one thing. To the investor, the opposite. And here is the almond tree trick: AI has become the perfect alibi. It serves to justify both the more aggressive expansion of one company and the more honest surrender of another.. It no longer describes a technology. It is an absolution of universal validity. The pattern is repeated everywhere, always with the same verb: reorient, never replace. Amazon: 16,000 layoffs in its second round in three months, on top of another 14,000 in October, while it puts 200,000 million into AI infrastructure this year. Goal: 10% of the workforce out while spending on data centers skyrockets. Google: has quietly emptied part of Cloud (including the unit that sells cybersecurity as an argument for trusting its cloud) claiming that “we must reinvest in growth areas, such as AI.” Cloudflare: 1,100 out “preparing for the agentic era.” The dismissal itself no longer says much. The clue is where they get the money from: they do not cut where the AI ​​already does the work, but where the business has a worse multiple, less future story. The AI ​​does not execute the layoff, but decides which division survives the scissors. And it is not even the same movement in all cases. SAP has frozen hiring to finance its “significant bet on AI” while Its stock has plummeted 49% in one yearits CEO has said that he doesn’t know if in two or three years anyone in his company will still be programming. Intel has done just the opposite: it admits that it is no longer among the top 10 in the sector, that it is late against NVIDIA, and it fires 20% to retreat to on-device AI, away from data centers. You bet everything. The other gives up. They both call it the same: “AI strategy”. It will be or it will be. But the label does not describe what is going to happen, but rather what needs to be said today so that no one keeps asking. STMicroelectronics announced 2,800 departures within a plan that started in 2024, just before “IA” was the joker universal and yet the press release found space to mention it. The restructuring would have come the same. The label is new. What these companies buy with their layoffs is not, yet, the productivity that AI promises. It is credit against a market that In June it punished Microsoft with its worst month since the dotcom bubblefor not seeming committed enough, for having only thrown one ball into the matter and not both. Layoff is the entry toll to continue telling the story that the technology is going to work. And there is a place where this story meets flesh and blood: in Bethesda, HR ordered the removal of a small memorial that the colleagues themselves had left with photos of those fired. It did not fit into the environment that the company wanted to project.. So the next time someone tells you that they fire “because of AI”, or that they don’t fire “because of AI”, the question we should ask ourselves is who decides what counts as a healthy business, when the diagnosis is signed by whoever benefits from it. In Xataka | GPT-5.6 is probably the best AI model in the world. And precisely for that reason, the majority does not need it. Featured image | Xataka

five offers from the Super Tecnoprecios to avoid melting in summer

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We are going through a time when it is very hot, and there is still a long time until the cool weather arrives. For this reason, it is good to have a device on hand that prevents us from “melting” during the summer, and the Super Technoprices of El Corte Inglés They are perfect for finding some bargains. In this article we are going to review five of the best offers that we can find in the store right now. Orbegozo Air 46 by 79.96 eurosan evaporative air conditioner with a fan and humidifier function. Philips 5000 Series by 68 eurosa tower fan with three ventilation modes. Olimpia Dolceclima by 279.20 eurosa portable air conditioner to cool the rooms in the house. Rowenta Eole Infinite VU6670 by 99.20 eurosa narrow tower fan and three adjustable speeds. Panasonic Inverter by 895.20 eurosan air conditioner with energy classification “A”. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Orbegozo Air 46 If you are looking for something simple and effective, El Corte Inglés has on offer the Orbegozo Air 46a evaporative air conditioner that has gone down to 79.96 euros. It has a three-in-one function, so it also includes fan and humidifier modes. Its tank is six liters, it includes wheels to be able to move it to different rooms, it comes with a remote control and has a timer of up to seven hours. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Philips 5000 Series Another simple option is that of Philips 5000 Seriesa tower fan that currently costs 68 euros. It has three ventilation modes and 60º oscillation so that the air circulates more uniformly in the room, includes a remote control and has an aroma diffuser. In addition, it also comes with a timer between one and seven hours and has a safety lock for greater protection. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Olimpia Dolceclima If you are looking for a device that is capable of cooling a room, El Corte Inglés has the Olympia Dolceclima by 279.20 euros. This is a portable air conditioner with cooling capacity of 2,240 frigories. It also comes with a dehumidification function with a capacity of 1.5 liters per hour, comes with ventilation mode and has a timer of up to 24 hours. In addition, it includes a remote control and wheels to move it to other rooms. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Rowenta Eole Infinite VU6670 A much cheaper option is the Rowenta Eole Infinite VU6670which has dropped in El Corte Inglés to 99.20 euros. We are talking about a tower fan that has three adjustable speeds and 180º oscillation. It is a very narrow device so it can be placed in almost any room, whether large or small, it includes a cable collector and a timer of between one and eight hours. In addition, the rear grille can be removed for better cleaning and the LED screen shows the ambient temperature for more intuitive control. Rowenta Eole Infinite VU6670 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Panasonic Inverter It is an expensive purchase option, but be careful with the Panasonic Inverter which has dropped in price to 895.20 euros. It is a split air conditioner that stands out above all because it has an “A” energy efficiency certification. It includes a mode that the brand calls “super quiet” and when purchasing it, it can be selected with or without installation. 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 | El Corte Inglés and Compradicción (header), Orbegozo, Philips, Olimpia, Rowenta, Panasonic In Xataka | Buying guide for connected fans: recommendations for choosing a “smart” model with WiFi and six models from 50 euros In Xataka | Silent ceiling fan: which one to buy? Tips and recommendations

In 2021, Catalonia managed to get rid of the AP-7 tolls. Five years later he has an idea: recover them

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On October 6, 1998, 16 city councils, four regional councils, the two municipal associations of Catalonia, three chambers of commerce and other entities from different fields formed a common front to reduce and rationalize tolls, with the ultimate objective of bringing the situation in Catalonia – with many payment methods – into line with that of the rest of Spain (…). In a 10-point manifesto called the Gelida Declaration, the signatories constituted an anti-toll front and opposed the latest agreement then approved by the Spanish Ministry of Development, the Generalitat and the concessionaire Acesa, which saw exploitation concessions extended until 2021. In exchange, the concessionaire lowered the amount of the tolls. This is how he headed The Newspaper your article AP-7: history of a business and a claim in 2019. It reviewed the, at that time, 20 years that various city councils and associations had been demanding that the AP-7 lift its barriers. And drivers had been paying for the use of that highway since its opening in sections between the 70s and the first half of the 80s. The situation became even more tense when, as we read above, the concession was extended to 2021. It was then that the images of drivers who They refused to pay when passing through the AP-7. In 2021 things changed. The concession ended, it was not extended and the barriers were raised. From that moment on, cars no longer stopped at toll booths. But that had its consequences. Consequences that, once again, bring the shadow of the toll. Too much traffic And the fact that the highway was free brought with it an immediate increase in the volume of cars that traveled on it. Only in its first year free of tolls, the volume of cars grew by 40% and that of trucks by 80%, they pointed out in The Country. With Barcelona as one of the key steps in the entry and exit of vehicles and the passage through the French border, the road has been taken over by trucks. Traffic is now slower and more dangerous. In fact, that first year the highway concentrated 20% of accidents registered throughout the autonomous community. Since then, organizations have been looking for solutions. The last to leave his proposal was Manel Nadal, Secretary of Mobility and Infrastructure, in Chain Being where he has assured that if public entities agree, they could have tolls on this road again “in two or three years.” In his statement, Nadal even points out that not only the AP-7 would once again put barriers in the way of drivers. The proposal is to apply it to the rest of the high-capacity roads to diversify traffic and prevent a funnel effect from occurring as has happened with the free use of this road, which has now become the favorite route for transport companies that have a free passage to France. In the middle they rescue the words of Salvador Illa, president of Catalonia, who has already pointed out that “perhaps we were wrong when we all asked for them to disappear.” They rule out, according to Nadal, a possible Swiss-style Eurovignette (the driver pays a flat rate per year to drive on toll roads) because they assure that Europe would not accept it after 2032. And Europe has been putting pressure on Spain for a long time to turn your free roads into toll roads. For now, Governments have turned a deaf ear because the cost of implementing the measure is very high but we have been there for more than a decade with this possibility floating over our roads. Meanwhile, the authorities in charge of traffic control seem to be doing the best they can. In some sections speed limits have been drastically reduced and in the Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT) They have been working for some time to implement dynamic speed limits that reduce or increase speed depending on the volume of cars and trucks passing by at any given time. Photo | Pere Lopez Brosa and Wikimedia In Xataka | The Basque Country will add the second toll without windows in Spain: you register or pay the fine on the AP-68

Electric car sales in Europe, on a revealing map with a devastating peninsula. Spoiler: it is not the Ibérica

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If tomorrow your car breaks down and you have to buy a new one, the million dollar question is: Would it be a combustion car, a hybrid or an electric car? Obviously, there is also another respectable alternative that makes a lot of sense in the face of a future full of uncertainty and skyrocketing prices: bet on second hand (however, the question remains the same). Saying goodbye to old combustion and welcoming electricity (in any form) is a complex issue where factors such as tax policies, infrastructure and income come into play. The transition to electric has been here for a long time, but it is not advancing in the same way throughout the continent. The map you see below these lines represents the percentage of new electric car registrations in Europe in 2025which includes pure electric and plug-in. Another important consideration: it only collects new cars, not the existing fleet, that is another much more modest story where electric cars currently represent only around 5%. Its creation is the work of The World in Maps, an informative project specialized in cartographies and infographics. To prepare it, use the report Global EV Outlook 2026 from the International Energy Agency (IEA), published in 2026, that is, the world reference report on electric mobility. Electric cars (EV and PHEV) registered in 2025. AIE On the old continent, sales of electric cars (EV + PHEV) increased by 30% last year, above the global trend, which grew by 20% to exceed 20 million units. That is to say, if in the world one in four cars is electric, in Europe it is almost one in three. In fact, Europe has surpassed China as the fastest growing electric car market, with notable increases in Germany, Spain and Italy. But the colorful map suggests a very heterogeneous panorama on the continent and part of the blame lies with state policies: public support for electric vehicles, in the form of direct subsidies, tax incentives and tariff exemptions, has been progressively decreasing in the last decade as sales have increased, although Denmark, Norway and Turkey continue to have the most favorable scenarios due to their strong tax exemptions. A Europe at two speeds Electric Europe is made up of the Nordic countries and the Netherlands, where the highest quotas are concentrated: Norway (97%), Denmark (71%), Sweden (61%) and Iceland (62%). The recipe for success is a high per capita income, strong taxation on fossil fuels, historic exemptions for electricity and a highly developed charging network. Norway takes the cake, where fully electric cars reached a record share of 96% of all car sales in 2025, although from 2026 the tax advantages have been cut. The Europe of fuel comes from the east, with Russia (2%), Bosnia (5%), Romania and Bulgaria (6%) as markets where the electric car has barely penetrated, conditioned by lower purchasing power, scarce charging infrastructure and absence of relevant tax incentives. In fact, Croatia, Greece and much of the Balkans move in similar figures, between 5% and 15%. This ancient Europe lives under the restraint of increasingly strict EU regulations. These data matter because road transport is one of the major sources of emissions of carbon dioxide in Europe and the speed of electrification attacks it directly, stepping on the accelerator towards achieving the EU’s climate objectives. But it also has industrial implications: the automotive sector, a true historical bastion on the continent, is adapting and planning based on demand. The jump to electric also has its economic and geopolitical reading where one country leads the way: China. In Xataka | Europe’s passenger car industry, in a revealing map that makes it clear who is the real “engine” of the EU In Xataka | All the car plants in Europe (including the few battery-electric ones), on a map Cover | The World in maps

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