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Renfe withdrew the avlo-barcelona avlo forced. And now prices are in the clouds

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Prices have risen 40% in the Madrid-Barcelona corridor. It is the conclusion they arrive in Trainline, a company that looks for the best prices and schedules when we want to travel by train. The departure of the Avlo de Renfe trains is pressing the upward market and the average of the ticket is already above 70 euros. The exit. The news arrived at the end of August and is underway since September 8: Renfe only offers bird service Between Madrid and Barcelona. The company took out its Avril trains, which offers the service Low Cost of his classic high speed trips. The movement came after Renfe suffered various pressures related to Failures in those Talgo S106 that made the Avlo route in said corridor. This summer, one of those trains cracked and despite the company’s attempts by hide the problem and manage the crisis with a low profile, Finally ended up withdrawing them. Prices shoot. Since then, Trainline, which adds the prices of the operators so that the user finds the prices and schedules that suck him, ensures that the average price is now 40% more expensive than a year ago. They assure that now, The average ticket price To move between Madrid and Barcelona exceeds 80 euros. The data is motivated by the AVLO output and the use of variable prices that are adjusted based on the demand. With an operator Low Cost Less, these tickets are now absorbed by AVE and the starting price already increases. That explains, according to The avant -garde That the cheapest ticket is already at 50 euros and reach up to 150 euros on a Sunday afternoon. Expensive, but not so much. The Madrid-Barcelona corridor has long been experiencing a price increase. Although in the first Compasses ouigo and Iro, they lowered the train prices, it was expected that little by little they will rise over the months and years. More in a corridor that in the second four -month period of the year moved to 3,944,879 passengers and has a very high occupation rate, According to CNMC data. This agency publishes a report every three months with the performance of Spanish high -speed companies. The most recent refers to Q2 and does not collect, therefore, the current increases, but it does notice that the average price of the tickets had already been 63.14 euros, with a 15.3% increase over the same period last year. That increase was marked, without any doubt, by a generalized price increase between the low cost. Ouigo rose 18.7% and Iroo 22.5%. For his part, Avlo was the one that less took care of the three, with a rise of 14.5%. The same but more expensive. In the absence of knowing a more complete photograph (which will not come to the next year when the CNMC publishes the September data this year and the last quarter), what is clear is that Avlo’s departure has meant very bad news for the passenger. On average, Avlo tickets were the cheapest seconds on the market in the second quarter, with a price of 51.95 euros. The jump to the bird is important since the average of these tickets reaches 73.91 euros. But, in addition, the increase in prices will be substantial because Avlo moved 14.7% of all travelers who moved between Madrid and Barcelona. That means that almost 580,000 runner travelers have to get a place in some more saturated ouigo and Iro or, on the contrary, assume the cost of traveling in AVE. What can we expect? However, Pedro García, responsible for Trainline in Europe, says that “as a whole, it is still cheaper than before liberalization, although leaving customers without a low -cost option directly affects the price of tickets”, in words collected by The avant -garde. However, we must bear in mind that if the tickets have been more expensive in the corridor since Renfe faced competition, it is because the demand rewards it. The occupation rate in Madrid-Barcelona is so high that it justifies a slow but constant rise. And a good example of the good health that Renfe enjoys in the corridor is that Ouigo derived trains that he had in operation in Madrid-Barcelona to the Andalusian corridor because he believes that he can be more competitive there. This last corridor seems more sensitive to the price where the differences between AVE and the Low Cost They are narrower and the cost for travelers are settled. Photo | Xataka and Logan Armostrong In Xataka | Renfe has proposed to improve once and for all vicinity. And Madrid will take a pinch of 400 million euros

I’m generating absurd memes where I am the protagonist and I can’t stop

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Openai is not a gray company. When he presented Sora’s first version, it seemed that the video associated with Chatgpt was going to change everything, but the reduced model that ended up arriving at users 10 months later was a complete fiasco. Now have launched Sora 2 without prior notice And, well, I can’t stop. It is totally addictive. It has a metic potential that far exceeds The launch of Nano-Banana de Googleand that reminds the Studio Ghibli phenomenon of Chatgpt, which makes me think that, this time, OpenAi had everything coldly calculated. You have to have effort to get to Sora 2 In the absence of API to get access to the model in third -party tools (Freepik claims to be in it), The only way to create videos with Sora 2 is through Sora, a new OpenAi social network that works like Tiktokbut with videos generated by artificial intelligence itself. Sora is only available, for the moment, In the United States and Canadaso the first thing I had to do to access is to install a VPN. After choosing a username (or importing the one I already had in the old Sora), uploading a profile picture and putting on a bio, I could finally start generating videos with nine seconds sound, in panoramic or vertical format. Not so fast. Sora’s web version is missing several functions, including the most popular of all: create a “cameo” with your face and your voice to become the protagonist of your own videos or to appear in the videos of others. To configure that option you have to download the Sora app, which is now exclusive for iPhone, and is only available in the United States and Canada app store. So I had to install a VPN in iOS, create an Apple account in the United States, associate the new account to the app store and download Sora. Once inside, I found a very familiar interface. A Feed of recommended content, another to see the publications in chronological order and another to see only what you follow. In addition to creating your own content, answering comments, etc. As a novelty, he has an option to tell the AI ​​in what “Mood” you are: what kind of content you want to see. Openai has given in the nail with the “cameos” Anyone who has generated images and videos with AI in recent years knows that models tend to change your face. Nor are they very good to maintain the same face in different scenes. Until recently, the solution was the Loras: Train a model with your photos (technically, refine an already trained model) to generate videos with your face. But Loras are a complex and expensive solution, which has resulted in new techniques to improve the consistency of image models. Flux Kontext of the German company Black Forest Labs or Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Nano-Banana of Google are paradigmatic examples that have pushed the entire sector to improve their consistency. And now Sora cameos arrive. When you open Sora’s application for the first time, you can directly configure your cameo with the phone camera, reading some numbers that appear on the screen and turning the head in the addresses indicated by the app. The recording is used to generate videos with your face and your voice in the context you can think of. There is A huge guide OpenAi to improve your cameos, but the most important point is to be in a well -lit room. With the recording enough for the results to be convincing, but you can add personalized instructions in a text box: I am smiling, I am serious, I am fat, I am skinny, etc. The most important thing is to select who will be able to use your cameo to make videos: only you, only the people to whom you have approved access, all your friends or all users. Sam Altman, the OpenAi CEO, has a public cameo that carries Sora’s initial success. Almost all the videos that have been viralized have Altman as the protagonist. Sora’s first great meme are uncomfortable videos of Sam desperate because they give her more servers: Sam Altman stealing graphics cards in a target, Sam Altman asking for donations, Sam Altman screaming at the Nvidia headquarters that need more GPUS. He Presentation video Sora 2 included OpenAi engineers flying over dragons or riding giant ducks. The same generation of Sora can have several cameos, so one of the star functions could end up being mixed with celebrities. The problem is to find celebrities willing to give your image that way. In one of my videos, Ijustine tells me How fine the iPhone Air and Sam Altman replies that “it is a respectable size, I would say.” The videos take a few minutes to generate. You can do several at the same time (up to 100 a day) and then publish or leave them in drafts. More similar to I came than Tiktok or Instagram Sora is first and foremost an poisoned dart against goal. The queen of social networks has not only been fishing Openai engineers with her astronomical salaries, but just a week ago she had just launched her own social network of self -generated content: “Vibes.” With a more creative or artistic approach that Sora, Vibes has been described by the less flattering comments as a “Ai Slop” landfill, garbage content generated with AI. Sora is still, in large part, garbage generated with AI. But the feeling I have while I do Scroll It is to have returned to the times of Vine, the precursor of Tiktok that was bought by Twitter and then close. An amalgam of scathing sketches and anonymous moments with the innocence of a time in which the short video did not monetize nor competed for your attention against millions and millions and millions of other vertical videos. For now, people are in Sora to pass it well. And to put Sam Altman in trouble. … Read more

Some fishermen have found a drone of Ukraine loaded with explosives. The problem is where: in Türkiye

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At the beginning of September he turned on a flame that has not yet turned off. In the War of Ukraine we had seen drones throwing drones To tear down other drones, drone swarms stopping and prisoners To recruits, even drones acting practically on your own Thanks to the AI. But never that a drone lost the course and ended up arriving as far as Estonia. That is why what has happened now is unusual: they have arrived in Türkiye. An unexpected finding. The discovery of a Ukrainian naval drone Magura Loaded with explosives in front of the Turkish town of çarşıbaşı, 1,500 km from kyiv territory, it has highlighted both the scope of these weapons and the collateral risks of its employment. The artifact was towed by local fishermen to the port, which had to close while displacing artifiers to neutralize it. It was a Magura V5 modeleasily identifiable for its electrooptic turret and satellite antennas, but without the additions of some recent prototypes, such as FPV drone pitchers, machine guns or missile rails. The scene illustrates How these mills, initially conceived as naval kamikazes, can become dangerous drifting objects if they lose contact or fail their guidance systems. The evolution of magura. From his Appearance in 2022the Magura have gone from being simple suicidal boats to versatile platforms. Gur, Ukrainian military intelligence, has experienced aerial drone releasesautomatic armament and even With air-air missiles. In December 2024, a Magura V5 managed to demolish A MI-8 helicopter Russian with an adapted R-73, a world milestone in the use of naval drones. In May 2025, another V7 variant, equipped with two Sidewinder AIM-9he killed Two SU-30 Flanker fightersdemonstrating that a non -manned surface vehicle could deny airspace. These advances confirm that the border between naval, aerial and land war is blurred in the same modular system. Strategic impact We have counted before. The Ukrainian campaign with naval drones transformed maritime balance. After The attack on Sebastopol In October 2022, the USV forced Russia to retreat large units of its fleet, limit operations in the northwest of the Black Sea and assume a constant risk even in eastern ports. Despite not having a conventional navy, Ukraine has managed to contain one of the world’s greatest armed through drone swarms. This has had a direct strategic effect: Crimea, core of the Russian naval presence, has remained More isolated and vulnerableand Moscow has been forced to reinforce coastal defenses, disperse ships and display additional surveillance means. Captures, losses and a race. Not all magura reach their goals. Some have been recovered intact, such as the one found by Russia in Crimea In November 2023which opens the door to the analysis and the possible reverse engineering. The images of these captured specimens show the rapid evolution of the design, with improvements in optics, antennas and autonomy. The risk It is double: On the one hand, Russia can learn to interfere with your communications or copy technologies; On the other, propaganda uses these findings to show supposed Ukrainian weaknesses. The drone found in Türkiye, regardless of its characteristics, becomes a symbol of the limits of this new form of war: the sea can return these mills to unexpected places, with unpredictable consequences. The Naval War of the future. He Turkish episode confirms that naval drones have arrived To stay. Their low cost compared to a war ship, their ability to operate without crew and their flexibility to carry different weapons systems make them a decisive actor. The Ukrainian case demonstrates that a conventional nation can harass and condition a much higher adversary. At the same time, ask questions about International Maritime Securityneutrality of third countries and technological proliferation. If a fisherman can find an explosive drone in a Turkish port, the line between Combat and Civil Space front becomes increasingly dim, anticipating a future in which the seas will be the scene of wars Invisible Libradas by clear flag machines. Estonia was The first noticeand now they have arrived in Türkiye. Image | X In Xataka | Ukraine has invoked what Russia vetoed since the beginning of the war. And he told the US to tighten the button: Tomahawk In Xataka | An unusual plan is touring Europe: lift a wall that protects the entire continent, but instead of concrete, drones

Pre-cragpt voice attendees are dead. And Apple is the only one that has not yet gone to burial

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This week has happened unusual in the war of voice attendees: Amazon and Google have presented their new domestic devices the same day. Echo Dot Max, Echo Studio, Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 on the one hand. Google Nest Cam, Nest Doorbell, Google Speaker and the renewed Google Home app on the other. Why is it important. Calendar coincidence, yes, but above all shared emergency symptom. Because it is not just speakers with better serious or screens with more pixels. These are two technological giants, simultaneously burying their classic assistants – Alexa and Google Assistant – to replace them with conversational versions driven by large language models. The context. The rules changed in November 2022. Since Chatgpt demonstrated what a real conversation means with iausers have learned that there is something better than asking a speaker to put music or activate a timer. These basic functions have become invisible. The microwave of technology: it is there, it works, nobody thinks of it. What has happened. Alexa+ and Gemini for Home promise natural conversations, complex automation created in voice, cameras that understand context and not only detect movement. “Amazon has left a package at the entrance” instead of “activity has been detected.” Context, no events. Intention, not rigid commands. But that future is priced: ten dollars a month in the basic plan, twenty in the complete. The hardware is only the entrance door to a recurring income model. Between the lines. The inference costs of language models are huge and someone has to pay them. The AI ​​becomes the new market segmentator: with it your product is Premium, without it it is a relic of the past. These presentations arrive after years of stagnation. Alexa and Google Assistant had been doing the same thing: Music, alarms, time questions. The narrative has exhausted. Users have stopped imagining what else could these cylinders do and we have silently assumed that they are for what they are, in the same way we do not ask the oven that tells us jokes, because it is for something else. The big question. Who will pay twenty dollars a month to use a speaker that mainly serves to ask time and reproduce Playlists? The problem is no longer technical. It is perception. Amazon and Google need us to see them otherwise, to set a new habit. Meanwhile, Apple continues with the classic Siri. Limited, frustrating, stuck. Has integrated chatgpt as a crutch for certain consultations, but His real advance has stuck and delayed. And above all, it is created for iPhone, iPad and Mac … but not for Homepod. At least for now. In summary. Expectations have already changed. Anyone who has used Chatgpt knows what a real conversation with AI means. Back to Siri after that feels like going back fifteen years. Pre-cragpt voice attendees are dead. Amazon and Google have certified their death this week. They have gone to the burial and have begun to build another tool. The question is no longer whether Apple will present your answer. It is yes, when you finally do it, someone will continue to wait for it. Or if we will be to other things. Outstanding image | Amazon, Google, Xataka In Xataka | For years TV spoke to us. Now AI wants us to talk to him

45,000 tons of green hydrogen per year

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For decades, the North Sea was synonymous with oil and gas, holding a good part of the European economy and energy supply. Today, in full transition to renewables, that same sea is emerging as the scenario of a change of era: there has not been discovered a hidden reservoir, but the production of 45,000 tons per year of green hydrogen. Is this possible? Some media They have replicated The same narrative of finding a natural hydrogen site in the North Sea, but the reality is very different. An official statement from Totalenergies and Air Liquide They announced two projects of electrolysis in the Netherlands and Belgium that, added, could produce that amount of green hydrogen every year from renewable electricity generated in the Oranjewind marine wind park. In short, there is no hydrogen deposit “under the sea”. What there is is production potential thanks to offshore wind turbines that provide energy to electrolyte capable of dividing water into oxygen and hydrogen. Electrolysis It consists of applying electricity (If it comes from renewable sources, such as wind, we talk about “green” hydrogen) to previously treated water to separate its oxygen and hydrogen molecules. Subsequently, hydrogen is compressed or transported by pipes towards its industrial or energy use. There are many plans in sight. The project mentioned above contemplates an electrolyzer of 250 MW in Zeeland with the capacity to produce up to 30,000 tons per year, it is scheduled for 2029. Also, there is one of “Tolling” with the Elygator electrolyzer in Maasvlakte, with 15,000 tons per year for the Refinery of Antwerp, operational within two years. This scheme means that Totalenergies does not build or opera directly that electrolyzer: yields its renewable electricity to air liquid, which transforms it into hydrogen, and totalenergies pay for that production capacity In addition, others develop in Europe projects like Hope (Hydrogen offshore production for Europe), coordinated by French Lhyfe. This will install a 10 MW electrolyzer off the coast of Belgium and hopes to produce its first four tons per day in 2026, demonstrating the viability of generating hydrogen directly on the high seas. But is there anything in motion? Pilots have been tested for three years Sealhyfea small offshore plant also from Lhyfe. However, making the leap to large -scale production faces several obstacles: High costs: a single electrolyzer such as Zeeland is about 600 million euros of investment. Technical challenges: corrosion, storms and maintenance in marine conditions. Environmental Impact: Offshore wind farms They can affect to marine biodiversity, fishing or provoking bird collisions with turbines. Fragmented regulation: Each northern sea country applies different norms, which delays common projects. A strategic sea. The European Union has marked as a goal to boost renewable hydrogen to decarbonize sectors that are difficult to electrify – such as steel, cement or heavy transport – and reduce dependence on fossil gas. By 2030 wants to have dozens of electrolyte gigawatts installed. In parallel, its offshore renewable energy strategy plans to reach up to 300 GW of marine wind capacity in 2050, Much in the North Sea. Now, the North Sea does not belong to the EU as a whole: it is distributed in exclusive economic zones (ZEE) from different countries, including Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, United Kingdom and Norway. That means that each project must first adjust to the country’s regulations in whose Zee is. To overcome this fragmentation and scale the energy transition, Brussels promotes cross -border cooperation initiatives such as the North Seas Energy Cooperationwhich seeks to harmonize rules and interconnect projects between neighboring countries. Goodbye gas and oil. The North Sea was for decades symbol of the European Black Gold and gas dependence. Today it could become a laboratory of the energy transition. The “Treasury” is not hidden in chests under the sea: it is a challenge that requires investment, political cooperation and technological advances. Only if these barriers are exceeded, the figures will cease to be striking holders to become a true energy revolution. Image | Freepik Xataka | How much electricity produces each country with renewable energy, exposed in a graphic

October starts with a new aliexpress day choice with technology at bargain and discount coupons of up to 75 euros

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Huawei Band 10 by 32.98 euros With the ESCD04 coupon, the most recent activity bracelet of the Chinese manufacturer. Little x7 pro by 232.57 eurosa quite affordable phone with very good characteristics. Nintendo Switch 2 by 414.60 euros With the ESCD50 coupon, the pack that includes the Mario Kart World. Sony Wh-1000xm6 headphones by 271 euros With the Escd35 coupon, one of the best headphones of headband we can buy. Samsung Galaxy A56 5g by 264.86 eurosthe best mid -range phone in the Korean manufacturer. If you want to buy something that is not in this selection of offers and want to do it at the best price, we leave you below the new discount coupons that Aliexpress has. Discount Minimum purchase coupon 2 euros 15 euros ESCD02 4 euros 29 euros ESCD04 7 euros 49 euros ESCD07 10 euros 69 euros ESCD10 15 euros 109 euros Escd15 20 euros 159 euros ESCD20 35 euros 279 euros ESCD35 50 euros 389 euros ESCD50 65 euros 529 euros Escd65 75 euros 659 euros ESCD75 Huawei Band 10 We started this selection of offers with a device released just a few weeks ago, The Huawei Band 10. It has a rather affordable price right now in almost all stores, but we are interested in it, We can take it even cheaper in Aliexpress: Specifically, by 32.98 euros with the coupon Escd04. It is an ideal device for which he wants to measure his training or his daily steps, but does not want to buy an intelligent clock (which are more expensive, of course). To stand out from this, There are your more than 100 sports modesits resistance of 5 atm or its new sleep metrics, very useful to measure and improve our rest. The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Little x7 pro Now it is the turn of the first of the mobiles of this selection of offers. We are talking about Little x7 proa device that is the clear example of what should be A phone that bet strongly for the quality-price. It only has been available for a few months, but this Choice Day already leaves it at a very good price: 232.57 euros. This Xiaomi has a very good 6.67 -inch screen with 1.5 K resolution. Its power is more than guaranteed with the Dimensity 8400 processor of Mediatek, which is accompanied by 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. Its 6,000 mAh battery is hugebut it is also loaded in a sigh thanks to its compatibility with the fast charging of 90 W. The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Nintendo Switch 2 Aliexpress Choice Day also leaves us very interesting offers if we are looking to renew console. In fact, we have available the new console of Nintendo Switch 2at a great price: 414.60 euros With the ESCD50 coupon. The price of this offer is great, but it is even more so if we take into account that This is the pack that includes the Mario Kart World. This new switch generation comes with more power, since it is able to move 4K games. Of course, this version of the console (the only one available so far) counts With the same hybrid capabilities of the previous consoleso we can enjoy their games both on a television and in portable version wherever we go. Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Sony Wh-1000xm6 headphones The next of the offers we have selected is ideal if we look for the best sound. They star Sony Wh-1000xm6, one of the best headphones we can buy right now. They arrived at stores with a 469 euros PVP, but this Choice Days can take them home for much less. Specifically, 271 euros with the coupon Escd35. From it we can expect a sound of honor registration and a large system of active noise cancellation, ideal to isolate ourselves completely from abroad. In addition, they also yield very well when making calls, even if there is background noise. Autonomy are left over: They are able to offer up to 32 hours with the cancellation of activated noise. Sony Wh-1000xm6 headphones The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Samsung Galaxy A56 5g We close with one of Samsung’s most popular phones and with The best mid -range that the company has manufactured to this day. We are talking about Galaxy A56 5ga very interesting phone that, thanks to this offer from the Choice Day of Aliexpress, goes out only for 264.86 euros. This phone stands out for many things, among which are The six years of guaranteed updates that Samsung assures him. In addition, it has a battery of 5,000 mAh (compatible with fast charge of 45 w) and a very good 6.7 -inch screen whose soda rate is 120 Hz. The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Alejandro Alcolea in XatakaHuawei, Xiaomi, Nintendo, Samsung, Sony In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best smartwatch: their analysis and videos are here

Ryanair has put Spanish province airports with their cuts with their cuts. Despite this, it will grow in 100,000 squares

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Ryanair will increase its seat offer in Spain by 0.5% during the 2025-2026 winter season, which is equivalent to about 100,000 additional places. So far, the airline continued with its strategy of Remove places at regional airports Spanish in response to the increase in AENA’s airport rates. This time, the movement has been the opposite, although it was expected, because the firm prefers to concentrate the fleet in the most profitable destinations. Cuts. Ryanair will reduce its capacity in northern cities and island regions, although The global balance is positive. In addition, there has been airplane repositioning: the two devices retired from Santiago de Compostela will move to Malaga and Alicante, remaining in Spanish territory. The company seeks that its airplanes fly more hours and generate greater return per passenger, something simpler in large tourist cities. This movement adds to The 800,000 squares already eliminated Before summer in airports such as Santiago, Vigo, Tenerife Norte, Santander, Zaragoza, Asturias and Vitoria, who in some cases have meant the dismissal of a hundred employees. Who wins and who loses. The Mediterranean will be the great beneficiary. Malaga, Alicante and Valencia will absorb the bulk of growth, with increases that could achieve Between 10% and 14% At Alicante airport, exceeding 10 million seats. The Costa Blanca Tourism Board of Tourism figure the increase in more than 4.3 million places from Alicante-Elche. This Thursday will start The presentation act of the winter operation with an event in Malaga that will be attended by Mayor Francisco de la Torre, where it is expected to know the increase in routes and frequencies from the Costa del Sol. Seville will maintain its stable offer. The great affected. On the opposite side, Santiago will suffer a collapse Of 80%, Vigo of 73%, Asturias of 16%, Santander of 38%and Zaragoza of 45%. The Canary Islands will lose more than 400,000 places, with the total closure of operations in Tenerife North and descents in Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. The Balearic Islands will also notice the withdrawal, with a 6% drop in the middle of the low season. Even Madrid and Barcelona, ​​the two great airports of the country, They will see their capacity fall by 3% and 5% respectively. The airline He has threatened In addition to reducing another million seats next summer if Aena does not reduce airport rates. The pulse with Aena continues. Eddie Wilson, CEO of Ryanair, justifies The redistribution of the fleet through airport rates ensuring that “our personnel costs, route rates, maintenance, sales or fuel are the same in any country. The only variable costs are handling and airport rates, and if they rise in Spain and go down another place, we will go there.” Michael O’Leary, executive president of the airline, will travel to Madrid in October to address with the government the lack of incentives to regional airports and the fine of 107 million euros imposed by consumption for the collection of hand suitcases, a sanction that the airline has resorted to considering it contrary to European regulations. The answer from Aena. Maurici Lucena, president of Aena, responded To Aena’s pressures ensuring that “he uses them because he freely wants to do it and because it is convenient. Contrary to what Ryanair’s public statements hint, Aena will never accept transforming the relationship of symbiosis into a vassalage relationship, as the airline intends, because the Spanish airport system would seriously harm.” Despite the cuts, there is growth. Despite the threats and the announced cuts, Ryanair has requested more holes between hours than last season, a “quantitative discrepancy” highlighted by Lucena himself. The airline It is still the first in Spain with 46.7 million passengers until August, far ahead of Vueling (33.2 million) and the Iberia group (29.6 million). Cover image | Wolfgang Weiser In Xataka | Granada fine from today with its new area of ​​low emissions: who can access, fines and exceptions

The CAF equilibrium set and its light harmony in Jerusalem

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The “great Spanish rail giant.” That is the denomination that is usually used to talk about construction and railway assistant. CAF, as this internationally recognized trains and rail supplier is popularly known. A Spanish company, from Guipozcoa, who is reaping huge contracts outside our borders. And that is also in the international view. CAF. It is one of those companies that sounds to us its logo and its acronym. You know you’ve seen it but you may not be very clear where or in which sector you can place it. It is not so weird, do not worry, although CAF is among the 200 largest Spanish companies. To get an idea of ​​its size, In 2024 he billed 4,200 million euros and generated more than 100 million euros of benefit. In Euskadi it has some 3,000 employees But it has more than 16,000 people hired throughout the world, since the bulk of its business is in Europe (58%) but also has projects in America and Asia-Pacific. Israel. It is precisely one of his projects abroad that is generating great headaches to the company. The company has been working with the Israeli Shapir to build and expand the red and green lines of the Light Jerusalem Rail. The project is not any nonsense. It is valued at 1.8 billion euros of which CAF should pocket 500 million if you deliver its part in a timely manner. In addition, it would manage 50% of exploitation of extension over a period between 15 and 25 years. Settlements. For CAF, being immersed in a project delivered by Israel already should be a problem, taking into account the genocide that is being carried out in the Gaza Strip. But, as if that were not enough, we talk about building 50 stations along 27 kilometers of new roads … in illegal settlements. On this map It is observed how Israel is expanding both lines to unite the illegal settlements of Jerusalem is already built with those of west Jerusalem. The Palestine Liberation Organization (OP) assures That the final intention of this type of infrastructure is to create permanent links between these spaces to hinder the reversal of its entity and its return to Palestine. International pressure. This position is not only defended by the OLP. The Special Rapporteur before the United Nations Human Rights Council published the report From the economy of occupation to the economy of genocide. In it he pointed to CAF as one of the companies that does business with illegal Israeli occupations. Amnesty International also asked To governments that take into account which companies under their umbrella are taking advantage of this situation. And pointed to CAF directly: “The company has only ignored the different resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, the European Union and the International Court of Justice that Israeli settlements consider illegal in occupied Palestinian territory, as well as the fact that the United Nations Human Rights Council itself declared illegal the project of this tram in 2016 and 2017 stating that ‘clearly violates international law and relevant resolutions of UN “ What does Caf say. The last point they point out from Amnesty International has a lot of relevance. The company indicated in its sustainability reports that “the Light Rail project is in territories that are subject to political controversy (…) No violation of human rights derived from the participation of the CAF group has been detected in any project.” In addition, CAF has also published Recently a document in which your role in the project, ensuring the following: “Beyond compliance with the applicable regulatory framework, CAF is firmly committed to business ethics and respect for human rights in all its operations, including the value chain, based on the highest standards of responsibility and transparency. For this, CAF has a series of norms, procedures and systems, adopted to the highest level, which make up a complete compliance system, application to the entire group, as well as the third The purpose of preventing and acting against any behavior that could be contrary to ethics, the law or the internal normative system of CAF. And emphasize that the project was awarded in 2019. 2019. The Spanish company defends itself by ensuring that this project was awarded in 2019 by omitting any reference to a previous date. They point out that the approval was given before Hamas to Israel’s attack and the subsequent invasion of the Gaza Strip. But what is overlooked, as they explain in Amnesty International, is that the project had already declared illegal by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2016 and 2017. In fact, in fact, in fact, French company Alstom ended up coming out of the same Shortly before the entry of CAF after the pressures received although, yes, at no time were political reasons alleged since the company maintained a project in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Too much money? Indicated by entities such as the United Nations Human Rights Council or Amnesty International, CAF is in the spotlight both inside and Out of our borders. In fact, his participation in the Israeli project was one of the alleged reasons to try to prevent the Spanish company from being done with The so -called “Century Contract”which could report up to 3,400 million euros for supplying SNCB trains (the Belgian Renfe). Within our borders, the debate has also reached institutions. From the PNV they ensure that CAF is being pointed out by “responsibilities that do not correspond to it” and that terminating the contract (as they ask from the Elkarrekin we can) “could mean the closure of the company or take it out”, in words collected by The mail. Other companies. As we said, the Israeli project of this lightwail to connect illegal settlements has already caused the exit of Alstom before 2019 but, derived from the genocide that Israel is carrying out in the Gaza Strip, some other Spanish companies have also stopped working for that state. Without leaving Euskadi, The … Read more

What is, what characteristics does it offer, what is its price and when will it be available

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Let’s explain what is Gemini for Homethe way in which Google will take its artificial intelligence to the Google Home speakers and other devices. In this way you can say goodbye to the Google assistant to handle your connected devices, and from now on everything will depend on artificial intelligence. We are going to start the article explaining what these systems deal with, and we will tell you some of the particularities of what you can expect from them. Then we will talk about your arrival and the important thing, What will be the pricebecause this will require a subscription. What is Gemini for Home Gemini for Home is Gemini’s version for connected devices. So far, if you have one of those connected speakers of the company, what works inside is the Google assistant. Well, now you can have artificial intelligence inside. The big problem of the Google wizard is that it does not always understand you well, and you end up having to speak in a strange way or through certain rigid voice of voice. Meanwhile, using artificial intelligence You can ask for things talking naturallysomething that will make interactions much simpler. Gemini for Home makes all your home devices smart, being able to control them in a natural voice as well as from the Google Home application. For example, you can ask you to turn on the lights or put a certain song in the kitchen, and Gemini will be in charge of interacting with the intelligent devices connected to your necessary ecosystem to fulfill the order. To work, Inside your speaker or smart screen you will be using Gemini Live. This is that version of Gemini with which you talk directly, and listen to you and answer when you finish. Come on, that it is the same Gemini Live that you can use on your mobile with the app or with the browser, that kind of conversation mode. And as what you use in your speaker is AI, in addition to asking him to do things at home You can also make any questions. Come on, you can also ask your speaker to explain a thing like you would do with Gemini’s AI on your mobile. Gemini will also be integrated into the Home application, which will be redesigned for this purpose. With it you can use AI to control Nest cameras and speakers or Google Home. The application will have an Home section with the view of your home, a new activity tab to see the history of everything that happens in your home, and another to configure automation. What can you do with Gemini for Home Gemini for Home will allow you to do Everything you can do with Gemini and what you can do with the Google assistant. In fact, what happens is that the wizard will disappear to leave Gemini. Thus, you can ask the AI ​​to turn on the lights, to put music, to put a reminder, whatever you want. For the assistant -related part, Google has rebuilt Gemini’s architecture so that he can do things related to multimedia, with the coordination of your home, with intelligent home functions, whatever. Gemini will have a more natural voice And less robotics from now on, and you can choose from ten different voices. Everything so that the experience is a little closer to talking to your speaker as you would with a person. You can also ask AI questions without being related to doing things at home, but to tell you the answer. You can ask you about the time you will do, for solutions to fix the computer or to advise you the best day of the week to make a barbecue having weather forecasts. As with Gemini on the mobile or the web, when after asking a question he answers you and ask him something else, he will be able to know if you mean the same. Come on, if you ask for help to fix a dishwasher asking him what you should look at first, then you can tell him that you have done that and will tell you something else below. In fact, you have a command Lets chat Or we are going to talk, with which simply start a conversation with Gemini Live, a fluid conversation such as the Live mode of your mobile. How much does it cost and when it comes GEMINI for Home will require a subscription. In fact, there are two different modalities. Are the following: Standard 10 dollars per month: You will have Homi Gemini with Gemini Live and the automation function. Also a 30 -day history for events and video. Advanced 20 dollars per month: You will have everything about the standard plan, but you can also ask Home for your videos history, you will have notifications for AI, descriptions and a 60 -day history for events and 24/7 for videos. These plans are also included in Gemini’s payment subscription. For example, if you are paying for Google AI Pro, this will include Gemini’s standard plan for home without additional cost. And if you are paying for Google AI Ultra, the advanced plan will be included. Gemini for Home will start arriving in October in early access in all devices launched since 2015. This early arrival will be initially in the United States, and There is still no date for Spain And know when we can start using it here. In Xataka Basics | Routines for Google Home: How to create them with the mobile or manually with a script in the browser

Incinerators are growing both in Europe that they are becoming a problem. The bad news is that we do not know how to solve it

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“Every year We produce 2,000 million tons. They are everywhere, but since it is something disgusting, we do not think about it. “Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of the excellent ‘said it.Dump‘(Captain Swing, 2025) and is right. What happens is that in Europe they forced us to think about it. And China did. In 2018, China left half the world game and He got fed up being the landfill in developed countries. This may surprise many, under the great speeches of ‘green revolution’ and care of the environment, what there was basically to pack up everything we generated and send it to China. Until, as I say, Beijing said ‘Enough’. And it wasn’t a joke. During 2019, The importation of plastics of the Asian country fell 99%those of paper 30% and those of aluminum and glass around 20%. Only if we take into account that 95% of European plastics and 70% of Americans end up there, we can understand The magnitude of the problem. We look for the exit, of course. During the following years, millions of tons of garbage They redirected the Gulf of Guinea, to the Southeast Asia And basically a Any site that was arranged To accept them. But we all knew that the problem was structural: for decades we have been dismantling the continental recycling system. That is, we had no capabilities to assume it. And, although the European Commission has considered various plans (from promoting the creation of recycling plants throughout the continent to “generate jobs and take care of their own waste” to ‘convince’ the market with taxes that they penalize the products created with new plastics), the truth is that only garbage was buried or burned. In fact, today, we burn “60 million tons of municipal waste.” And that worries many. So much that, in recent days, more than 150 organizations They have asked To the European Union “a moratorium throughout the EU On the new waste incinerators (R1 and D10), together with gradual reduction strategies of the existing incineration capacity and an increase in investment in circular economy infrastructure, such as reuse systems, composting and recycling technologies. “ It is not a coincidence. Everyone who is up to date with the problem knows that, without pressures, the expansion of incineration will grow. And that will have climatic consequences (according to the latest studies It generates more carbon than fossil fuels), but also toilets. The question is if we have an alternative. And, honestly, it is not clear. Europe is increasingly cornered And what seemed before us impossible responses begin to become reasonable exits. “Incinerate as if there was no tomorrow” begins to be in that category of things. Stop it will be complicated. Image | Jonathan Kemper | The Blowup In Xataka | We have been recycling the garbage we produce. Experts say it has not served at all

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