Mobile Tech & Gadgets

Samsung has tripled its profits

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The madness with the RAM memory prices is conditioning how the PCs that are sold are assembledthreatens with increase in the price of mobile phones and there is even talk that Mobile phones with 4GB of RAM are coming back. But what is bad news for the vast majority is excellent news for a few, and there is a clear winner. Samsung is getting rich. Samsung has published the fourth quarter 2025 results and the figures make it clear that if there is a winner in the problem of RAM prices, it is them: Operating profit for the quarter was $14 billion, a year-on-year increase of 208%. Compared to the previous quarter, operating profit has increased by 64.3% and revenue has increased by 8.1%. It sells more, but above all it sells more expensively. If we look at the photo of the full year, Samsung has earned 33% more than in 2024. Why it is important. Samsung consolidates itself as a leader in the memory sector and enters a phase of extraordinary profits. Is the technology company that has appreciated the most in 2025, with a growth of 123.11%, all driven by the very high demand for memory to meet the needs of AI. The best option. Samsung shares They have risen almost 30% in the last month and 1.8% after the results were announced. The excellent results and valuation place Samsung in a very advantageous position in the market. According to Macquarie analysts “We did not find a better option than Samsung in the entire AI supply chain.” HBM. Seizing the moment, Jun Young-hyun, head of the semiconductor division, has assured that they hope to catch up with SK Hynix in advanced HBM chips, which are a key component in data centers. Samsung already announced its HBM4 chip a few days ago and its objective is clear: to once again be NVIDIA’s number one supplier. Unstoppable escalation. According to the latest report of Counterpointthe memory market is in a hyper-bullish phase. At the end of 2025, prices rose by 40-50% and another similar increase is expected in the first quarter of 2026. For the third quarter, they talk about 20% more. In other words, a 64GB RDIMM module (used in servers) cost $255 in September 2025, rose to $450 at the end of the year, and will cost $700 in March of this year. 1,000 dollars. The border of $1,000 is not that far away and reaching it seems feasible given that analysts predict that the situation It will continue throughout 2026some even point out that extends until 2028. If reached, it would be almost double what it rose in 2018 when another price peak occurred. No low prices, thank you. The insatiable demand for AI is causing shortages, which in turn are causing prices to rise. A possible solution would be to increase production, but Samsung and SK Hynix flatly refused arguing that there is a risk of overproduction. Currently, Samsung is only managing to fulfill 70% of DRAM orders. Looking at the numbers, it is clear that it is profitable for them. Image | Samsung In Xataka | The US is beginning to realize something worrying: AI data centers are skyrocketing its electricity bill

Ouigo and Renfe unleash a price war like we have not seen in a long time

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Who was going to tell us 20 years ago that we would change the traditional races at the doors of El Corte Inglés on January 7 to burn the F5 on the Renfe website. Or, much more inconceivable, that of another French company that was going to compete with the public company to take us on high-speed trains through our country. However, this is how we are. January sales. Since yesterday, January 7, Ouigo has put it up for sale train tickets at reduced prices. So reduced that it is possible to find options for nine euros because 80% of the available tickets are discounted. The maximum price of these tickets is 33 euros. The offer will last until next January 14th… as long as there are tickets available. An almost carbon copy maneuver Renfe has undertaken. Since January 8, the Spanish company has opened juicy discounts on its train tickets. In this case, the offer extends until January 18 on AVE, Avlo, Alvia, Intercity, Euromed and AVE Internacional tickets, but it is not specified how many tickets are available with discounts that offer AVLO tickets at seven euros and AVE tickets at 15 euros. CNMC source: https://www.cnmc.es/sites/default/files/6291881.pdf New year, cheap trains. It has been a constant since competition entered the Spanish railways. Train prices in our country plummet every beginning of the year, as shown in the graph above referring to the Madrid-Barcelona corridor from the Railway Traveler Report presented by the CNMC every quarter. The image above refers to the most used broker in our country and, therefore, the least susceptible to price changes. Obviously, the image is repeated on trips to Andalusia or the Levant. Thus, all companies lower prices with juicy discounts at the beginning of the year. Then they rise due to Easter and the arrival of summer and suffer a small drop again in the third quarter before picking up again at the end of the year. It repeats. If we take a look at the report that collects data from just one year ago, we see how the number of passengers has been increasing in recent years but that prices had to drop to transport a passenger with fewer incentives to move in a quarter without major holidays and worse weather prospects. That made it so that in 2025, according to data from the CNMCin the first quarter of the year, AVE prices fell by 9.2%, Iryo prices by 11.2%, Ouigo prices by 16.1% and AVLO prices by 19.5% compared to the previous quarter in the Madrid-Barcelona corridor. And December is one of the most expensive months of the year to buy tickets and this is repeated in all corridors. With leaden feet. Although the offers are attractive, we must not lose sight of the fact that it is a specific ticket sale and that what sets the trend is the average price at which most tickets are sold. And the last few months tell us that ticket prices are going up. This quarter’s performance is something we will have to wait to find out but if we look at last year’s data from the same Madrid-Barcelona corridor, only Iryo lowered prices in a representative manner when compared to the previous year. It did so by 5.4%, followed by AVLO which lowered prices by 3.9%. However, the AVE only fell by 0.9% and Ouigo raised prices by 5.6%. On average, the price only fell by 0.9%. It is true that in the Andalusian corridors and in Madrid-Valencia, prices fell significantly last year, with drops in the average ticket price of between 10 and 17%. Of course, it must be taken into account that these are destinations where the seasonal influence is more pronounced than in Madrid-Barcelona, ​​a more stable corridor in passenger volume. Fewer offers and more profitability. We give this notice because in recent times we have seen how the prices of Spanish trains have been rising. According to the latest report from the CNMCwhich refers to the third quarter of 2025, the average interannual price of this period increased by more than 25% in Madrid-Barcelona and remained more or less stable in all corridors except Madrid-Málaga, which Until last year it did not have the Ouigo factor. However, from all companies they have paved the way so that we get the idea that the price is going to rise. So much Iryo as Ouigo They have announced that they are ending losing money to enter a new market. Both have made changes in management and from Renfe they have warned that If the competition raises prices they will follow. Photo | Xataka In Xataka | When Iryo and Ouigo began to compete with Renfe they did so by lowering prices. Those days are not coming back

The V16 beacon sold by Carrefour drops even further in price. It is made in Spain and comes with its own app

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Although there are many V16 beacons that allow us to comply with DGT regulations, personally there are only two that I would buy for what they offer: the Help Flash IoT+ and the LEDOne. In both cases because of their number in candles and because they connect to their respective apps. Of course, the latter is now more attractive to me than the first, since Carrefour has lowered its price to 29.99 euros. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A beacon with a good number of candles This LEDOne brand beacon We have been able to find it on sale in recent months in stores like Amazon, Carrefour or PcComponentes. We saw one of its highest prices before the end of 2025 and it reached 49.95 euros, so if you still do not have one of these beacons or are looking for an additional one, it may be interesting. The LEDOne is a connected V16 beacon that visually stands out for its format, very different from what we usually see in other brands. Includes a base that raises the beacon itselfa point that may be interesting when placing it in different vehicles. Regarding its technical sheet, the LEDOne offers, according to the brand itself, 120 effective candleswhich is interesting in order to have better visibility than with the minimum required by the DGT itself. Besides, has its own app to call emergency services and insurance, something that not all beacons offer. You may also be interested Xiaomi Portable Electric Air Compressor 2 – Portable air compressor (0.2 10.3 bar/3-150 psi, 6 modes, 2000mAh battery, 14.4Wh, USB-C charging, LED display), black (ES Version) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links OTTOCAST Mini Pot 2026, 2 in 1 wireless adapter for CarPlay and Android Auto, Compatible iOS 10+/Android 11+ and Cars with Carplay Since 2016, Plug & Play, USB-A/Type C, OTA Update, Black 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. Image | LEDOne In Xataka | Safety, organization and entertainment gadgets and accessories for cars on long trips In Xataka | Clarifying all the mess that the DGT has on its hands: the V-16 light, the V-27 signal and the emergency triangles

It has become a bottomless pit of people stripping women with AI

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Since AI Grok has conquered what was once Twitter, the social network has become an infinite well of content generated by artificial intelligence. The problem is when that content is used to misinform or ends up harming other people. And today, Grok has become one of the main sources of sexualized images created without consent. Just like they count According to Bloomberg, the chatbot generated approximately 6,700 such images per hour during a 24-hour period in early January. The magnitude of the problem. On X there are many users who spend their time using Grok to modify photos that other people publish on the social network, generating versions in which they appear scantily clad or in sexualized situations. The middle appointment the findings of independent researcher Genevieve Oh, who identified that during the analysis carried out between January 5 and 6, Grok produced these images at a rate 84 times higher than the other five websites most active in this type of content. Oh estimated that 85% of the total images produced by Grok have been generated to sexualize. What’s special about Grok. Unlike other chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude either GeminiGrok doesn’t impose many limits on generating sexualized content from real people. Users can tag Grok’s account in replies to other people’s posts and request that he modify the original images. The most common requests include phrases such as “put her in a bikini,” “take off her clothes,” or “change her clothes to a see-through bikini.” The chatbot generates these images in a matter of seconds and publishes them automatically, linking them to the victim’s original publication. Victims without response. Maddie, a 23-year-old medical student cited per Bloomberg, woke up on New Year’s Day to discover that several strangers had altered a photo of her and her boyfriend using Grok. First they removed their partner from the image and put her in a bikini, then another user asked Grok to replace the bikini with dental floss. “My heart sank. I felt hopeless, helpless and just disgusted,” she said. When she and her friends reported the images through X’s moderation systems, they never received a response. In a different case, X determined that there were no “rule violations” in the reported content. According to the mediumthe images were still on the social network at the time of the publication of the report. Cases media. The problem has even reached public figures. And as they say from Guardianmultiple users asked Grok to alter an image of Sweden’s Deputy Prime Minister, Ebba Busch, to show her in a bikini. In addition to this, two British government ministers have also been victims of these manipulations. Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, a group specialized in investigative journalism, counted to the outlet how Grok responded to instructions such as “bikini now” or “put a bikini with the Confederate flag on her” over the photo of Busch in Parliament. Musk and X’s response. In the face of recent criticism, Elon Musk claimed in X that “anyone who uses Grok to create illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they uploaded illegal content.” However, this strategy of punishing users instead of preventing the chatbot from generating the content appears to have proven ineffective. Just like they count From Bloomberg, when someone requests to remove those images in the comments, Grok often apologizes and says he will take them down, but in many cases the images remain and the system continues to generate new ones. Legality. Carrie Goldberg, attorney specializing in online sexual crimes, explained to the outlet that the scale of deepfakes on X is “unprecedented” and noted that the platform “is not acting as a passive editor. It is actually generating and creating the image.” In this sense, the Law Take It Downapproved in the United States in 2025, holds platforms responsible for the production and distribution of this type of content. Brandie Nonnecke, of Americans for Responsible Innovation, counted Bloomberg that platforms have until May 2026 to establish the required removal process. Increasingly widespread use. Although the technology to create sexual deepfakes is not new, as there are dozens of websites and Telegram bots dedicated to undressing people, the fact that this capacity is hosted by a social network as well-known as X marks a turning point. And unlike specific image manipulation services, Grok is free, produces results in seconds and is available to millions of users on X. Sloan Thompson, of the EndTAB organization, pointed out Wired said that “when a company offers generative AI tools on their platform, it is their responsibility to minimize the risk of image-based abuse. The alarming thing here is that X has done the opposite. They have integrated AI-enabled image abuse directly into a mainstream platform, making sexual violence easier and scalable.” Cover image | Tamara Bellis and Antonio Vallejo In Xataka | We are entering a new era of robotics driven by AI and Disney is its perfect showcase

Now a new “rival” has emerged in Morocco

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Until a few days ago, the map of human evolution in Africa had a major “black hole” of knowledge. We had data that indicated that the Homo sappiens It emerged about 300,000 years ago thanks to the remains of Jebel Irhoud and we knew that our most distant ancestors ran around the continent a million years ago. But in the middle there was no information about it. A new study. To address this gap, an international team led by paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin has published in Nature a discovery that not only fills that void, but also It forces us to recalibrate when and how we begin to be “us.” They have finished putting the focus on a quarry in Casablanca (Morocco) where the remains of what could be our oldest direct ancestors have appeared. A treasure under the quarry. This site is not entirely new, but what has been revealed is. In the so-called Grotte à Hominidés Researchers have been able to find three jaws (two from an adult and one from a child), isolated teeth, vertebrae and a fragment of a femur. This femur the truth is that It has a macabre history behind it, since it has marks of hyena teeth, which suggests that these individuals were not buried, but rather were the feast of the predators that lived in this cave. But the interesting thing about these remains is undoubtedly in their morphology, which presents very primitive features, but, at the same time, their teeth and the structure of their jaw show “derived” features that already point directly towards the Homo sapiens. Technology behind the date. In paleoanthropology the difference between an “interesting find” and a “revolution” usually lies in the dating of the discovery. Something that today can be done with great precision thanks to the combination of geology with modern techniques. In this case, the researchers used the technique of magnetostratigraphy to analyze 180 sediment samples to identify the Brunhes-Matuyama transition. This transition in the sediments is fundamental, since it is a global event that occurred about 773,000 years ago, when the Earth’s magnetic field was invested (magnetic north became the current geographic north pole), and which is useful for dating sediment samples. Its dating. By finding the fossils right in this stratum that we have so well studied along with when it occurred, we can now set a date of 773,000 years with a margin of error of just 4,000 years for these fossils. And although 4,000 years may seem like a large margin of error, the reality is that in geological terms it is like telling the time in a very exact way (even with its seconds). The end of the reign of Atapuerca. For years, the Homo antecessor from Atapuerca (Spain) was proposed as the common ancestor of sapiens and Neanderthals, to make sense of this void. But this discovery completely changes the narrative we have on the table. Hublin’s study suggests that these Moroccan hominids are evolutionarily closer to us than the Homo antecessor. In this way, while the Spanish fossils seem like a lateral branch that adapted to the European environment, those from Casablanca would represent the main African lineage. Something that also fits with current genetic studies that place the divergence between modern humans and Neanderthals approximately 800,000 years ago. It doesn’t fit everyone. Like any great advance, this scientific article has raised a lot of dust in the sector, since not all experts are convinced that the origin is exclusively African. On the one hand, María Martinón-Torres, director of CENIEH, criticism The study ignores recent Asian fossils (such as those from Harbin or Hualongdong in China) that also show modern features at ancient dates. On the other hand, Antonio Rosas, from the CSIC, raises a reasonable doubt: If these fossils are close to the root of the common ancestor, why don’t they show traits that also point towards Neanderthals? What it means for the future. This discovery in Casablanca breaks the paradigm that the Homo sapiens It was a recent “invention” from 300,000 years ago. Instead, it suggests that it was a much longer, more complex and deeply rooted process in North Africa. What is happening right now is that Hubblin’s team is continuing to dig. With current dating technology and the possibility of finding more cranial fragments, the next step will be to try to extract ancient proteins from the teeth to confirm, through paleoproteomics, if the DNA confirms what already seems obvious: that the bones are older than we think. Images | Ibrahim Jonathan In Xataka | A museum kept bones for 20 years that they thought were rubble. Now we know that Mexico had its own T-Rex

How to safely defrost your car windshield glass

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Let’s explain to you how to defrost your car windows quickly and safelywithout risking them breaking or having any damage. Because on these extremely cold days we may have to go out in the car and encounter this inconvenience. When this happens, we can be left not knowing very well what to do, especially when we are in a hurry. This can lead to dangerous mistakes such as using hot water or adding salt, which can damage the windshield. Therefore, we are going to try to give you several tips that are safe. Use the car heater This is perhaps one of the slowest methods, but it is the safest. Simply put the car in gear, activates the air conditioning heatingand put your car’s defogging mode so that the air flow goes to the glass. This will progressively soften the ice, something that It will make it easier for you to remove it with a cloth or scraper.. It may take several minutes, but it prevents the most damage to the glass. Use plastic scrapers There are plastic scrapers designed specifically for carsand to avoid damaging the windshield glass. These will help you remove the surface layer of ice with firm and smooth movements. You should avoid any type of sharp or metal scraper to avoid scratching the windshield. If the smell is very thick, you can combine the plastic scraper with the car heater from the previous point and with the defrosting liquid. Use deicing liquid It is also useful use commercial deicing liquids specifically prepared to melt ice. They are fast and efficient, and are formulated not to damage the glass or paint of your vehicle. This is the best solution, although in order to use it you must have remembered to buy this liquid and carry it in the car. If so, you just have to spray it on the windshield and wait a few seconds for it to work, and then scrape it off. Be careful with warm water When the car glass is frozen, the great contrast in temperatures resulting from pouring hot water can cause the windshield to break instantly due to thermal shock. But if you use warm water with caution, then it can serve. What you have to do is avoid making the water too hot, just lukewarm. Then, pour it slowly and evenly to melt the ice little by little. Always with care. In Xataka Basics | How to see the warnings for extreme cold and snow anywhere in Spain

turning ChatGPT into a pocket doctor

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More than 230 million people ask ChatGPT questions about health and wellness every week. It is not an estimate, it is data from OpenAI published alongside the announcement of ChatGPT Healthyour new personalized section for medical and wellness consultations. ChatGPT Health. ChatGPT Health was presented just a few hours ago as a new section within the app, designed to go beyond the specific queries that users already made. The goal is more ambitious: centralize health data and medical history in a single place, turning ChatGPT into something closer to a health monitoring platform than a simple conversational assistant. How it works. Currently available for “a small number of early adopters” in the United StatesGPT Salud will be integrated as another section within the app. It will allow you to make queries like any other GPT, with some key points: We can integrate it with Apple Health (and all your data on mental health, steps, weight, heart health, etc.) We can integrate it with wellness apps like MyFitnessPal It is specially developed to upload our clinical history and most recent tests In detail. In addition to these integrations, ChatGPT Salud is designed to function as a healthy habits assistant. It will also be integrated with apps like Peloton to suggest classes or guided meditations, apps related to creating recipes like Instacart, or Weight Watchers to guide nutrition in GLP-1 medication users against obesity and diabetes. Why is it important. OpenAI works closely with health experts in the development of its models. Still, ChatGPT has not been without controversy, especially in the mental health space, where the model generated various criticisms and forced response guidelines to be adjusted in recent updates. The launch of GPT Salud is not a rectification, it is a declaration of intent: AI not only does not turn back in the clinical field, but rather aspires to consolidate itself as a “pocket doctor”, always available, increasingly integrated and with a growing role in everyday decision-making related to health. Yes, but. AI-fueled psychotic breaks, demandsand people asking ChatGPT how can you inject botox to herself. OpenAI makes it clear that ChatGPT health is not coming to replace your GP, but use the app as if it were He is a regular. Fairly recent surveys show that 17% of the adult population uses chatbots at least once a month to search for information related to their health. Dependency and retention. ChatGPT is still, by far, the most used AI chatbot in the worlddespite the advance of alternatives such as Google Gemini, DeepSeek or Grok. But OpenAI cannot rest on its laurels, and a of the best ways to stop the drop in users What Gemini is causing you is dependency and retention. ChatGPT is still by far the most used AI chatbot in the worlddespite the push of alternatives such as Google Gemini, DeepSeek or Grok. But OpenAI cannot afford complacency. The growth of Gemini is having an impact on retention of user (with a significant drop in GPT) and, given this, health is a clear winner. They are not one-off queries, they are recurring. By including clinical information, ChatGPT stops being a question and answer chatbot, it becomes a medical agenda. The health app market continues to grow in users, and integrating them natively into ChatGPT retains the user even more Image | Pexels In Xataka | ChatGPT is writing medical and economic studies. We know this because he uses strange words

Women consistently sleep worse than men. And science has finally discovered why it is

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For years we have been able to have a perception in many homes: the women tend to sleep worse, wake up more and feel more tired than men. This is something that for a long time has been dismissed as a subjective perception, but Science has now wanted to close the debate, pointing out that it is not only a perception, but that there is a gender gap documented. The data. The Global Sleep Survey 2025carried out on a massive sample of more than 30,000 people in 13 countries, has produced a key figure: 38% of women have problems falling asleep more than three times a week, compared to 29% of men. Something that in Spain is not a very different situation, since according to the cross-sectional studies recently published in Naturewomen have much higher scores on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), indicating worse subjective quality. In this way, while 44.6% of Spanish women report poor sleep quality, in men the figure drops to 30.1%. A paradox. Tests with motion sensors suggest that women sometimes have higher “sleep efficiency” on paper, but it is perceived as greater exhaustion. The person responsible for this is the sleep fragmentationwhich is related to constant waking up or even in mothers due to having to get up to care for a baby, for example. The hormonal factor. It is undoubtedly one of the big differences that exist between men and women, since estrogen and progesterone levels fluctuate drastically during the menstrual cycle, pregnancy or menopause. In the specific case of menopause it can be seen as a drop in the level of estrogen, in addition to produce alterations in bone formationalso increases the immediate degradation of rest. The data indicates that 51% of the Menopausal women suffer from sleep disordersshown a big difference: 44% of women in this stage report serious problems compared to 33% of non-menopausal women. If we go to pregnancywe see something similar with physical (from discomfort) and hormonal disruptions that create a pattern of alertness that often doesn’t fully recover until years after childbirth. The mental load. Beyond the hormonal load, the social factor is, perhaps, the most difficult to correct. One of the most important is the role that women have in many cases regarding the care of other people. According to the data compiled by the University of Michigan and diverse reviews on BMJ Openemployed women wake up twice as often as their partners to care for children or dependent relatives, even when they are the main breadwinners of the home. This “caretaker” role keeps the brain in an “alert” situation, making it attentive to whether a baby cries at night or a dependent family member has any need. This causes 76% of caregivers to report poor sleep quality.since the brain cannot unconsciously disconnect to monitor the well-being of the environment. Its consequences. Poor sleep not only means being tired the next day, but also has more serious clinical consequences. One of the most important is the increase in the probability of having a metabolic diseasesuch as diabetes. In addition, it increases accelerated cognitive deterioration and causes an increase in anxiety and depression disorders. And what is interesting in this case is that the female brain in sleep deprivation is more vulnerable to emotional dysregulation. The solution. The scientific community, from the Sleep Research Institute (IIS) to publications in Frontiers in Psychiatryagrees that it is not enough to increase “sleep hygiene” by leaving your cell phone before going to sleep, for example. It mainly aims at social therapy, making changes in the structure of the home that avoid fragmentation of sleep by getting up to take care of someone, for example. But logically, if you are in a perimenopause situation, you should also choose to go to the doctor to receive pharmacological treatment whenever there is significant hormonal deregulation. Images | Slaapwijsheid.nl In Xataka | If you fall asleep in less than five minutes, you don’t have a “superpower”: it’s a warning signal from your brain

what it is, what users have to do and how often it has to be passed

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Let’s explain to you What is and how does the “ITV” work for V-16 beacons?a procedure that has been confirmed by the DGT. It is not something that users have to do, but it is still an important procedure to verify that all certified models continue to comply with the DGT requirements. Therefore, although the media has named the review that way, it is not exactly an ITV. We are going to start by explaining what it is about and what is reviewed, then we will mention what remains to be done on our part and how often the reviews are made. What is this ITV for V-16 beacons? This is a review that all beacons on the market must undergo from time to time. Its mission is review all certified devices on an ongoing basis to ensure its proper functioning. Come on, what they do is check that each model continues to meet the requirements necessary to have the ITV certification. Imagine that a manufacturer launches an X beacon and it is certified, but within a few years it eliminates some essential component, because if it no longer meets all the requirements certification is withdrawn. These are the points that will be reviewed to each of the beacon models: That the manufacturer has a Quality System to guarantee that the manufacturing processes are being controlled. That the V16 beacons meet the technical specifications defined by the regulations Ensure that communications are maintained between the device, the operators that provide connectivity, and the DGT’s connected vehicle platform. This verification can be done in person at the applicant’s facilities or at the factories. But there will also be a second route in which the manufacturer will have to send the required evidence, such as samples or similar. Users don’t have to do anything It is important to make clear that Users don’t have to do anything. This MOT is not for the beacons that we have purchased, which when we did so met the requirements. Once you buy your beacon you no longer have to worry. Those who have to be in charge of making these reviews are the manufacturers for the certified models of their beacon that they manufacture in the future. In fact, if a beacon does not pass its “ITV” within three years, for example, that model will no longer be sold with its certification, but that will not affect previous models. How often are reviews done? Manufacturers will have to subject their beacon models to reviews every two years. Remember that as a user you will not have to do anything, these are procedures that manufacturers must do to maintain their certification. Cover image | Pepu Ricca In Xataka Basics | V-16 beacon map: how to use it to see which ones are activated in real time in Spain

review with features, price and technical sheet

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Let’s face it: there are people who don’t like driving. Yes, there are people who are not at all inspired by seeing an advertisement of a person sticking his arm out the window. There are those who don’t care about the power of a car if it has enough to overtake reliably. There are those who don’t mind investing in four wheels if it will allow them to save much more money on a daily basis. There are those who do not value either a gear change or the sound of an engine. Yes, there are people for whom the car is an object of mobility. They conceive it as an object with four wheels, seats and a steering wheel that must take them to their destination in the best possible way in relation to the money spent. And in that area, it is very difficult to compete with the cheapest option of the Tesla Model Y. Yes, the Tesla electric SUV is the perfect option for those who only aspire to get into a car, spend little money on a daily basis and reach their destination without problems. For that audience, Elon Musk’s people have the (almost) perfect car. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than advertised? Tesla Model Y Standard technical sheet TESLA MODEL AND STANDARD Measurements and weight 4,790 mm long, 1,920 mm wide and 1,624 mm high. 2,890 mm wheelbase. 1,981 kg. Trunk 822 liters to the trunk roof (Tesla does not specify if it includes the double bottom of the rear trunk). 122 liters in the front trunk. bodywork five-seater SUV Maximum power 299 HP Maximum speed Maximum speed of 201 km/h Acceleration (0 to 100 km/h) 7.2s WLTP range 534km WLTP consumption 13.1 kWh/100 km DGT environmental badge Zero emissions. DRIVING AIDS Autopilot system with adaptive cruise control with Stop&Go function, lane keeping, blind spot sensor, emergency braking, front and rear cross traffic control. 360º camera and autonomous parking. Operating system Tesla Software not compatible with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. MULTIMEDIA SCREEN 16-inch central screen. OTHERS Wireless charging for mobile phone, two USB-C sockets. Specifically developed Spotify, Disney+, Steam, Youtube, Netflix applications. PRICE From 39,990 euros With just a little bit you convince many Tesla has been trying to make its offer cheaper for a long time. It is a red button that has been pressed on numerous occasions to reduce the price of its models. But it seems we have reached a limit. For years there has been talk about Tesla Model 2 and the Tesla Model Q (the latter with different names). Brothers of the Model 3 and Model Y current to propose to the client, especially the Europeanmore attractive versions in price and size. Cheaper versions of the sedan and SUV to play in the European market where the bulk of sales are made. The company, however, doesn’t seem to get the numbers and The Standard versions seem to confirm it. In both cars it has been cut there and here to put a car on the road at a slightly lower price and raise the price of what until a few months ago was the entry to the range, obtaining better economic performance at the cost of earning a few thousand euros more for those who are not satisfied with the basics. What do we lose with the Standard version? Very little in practical terms. The car does not mount the sunroof (in plain sight because for production reasons it is kept dark on the outside but covered by fabric on the inside), hubcaps are added to the wheels, the bumpers are less voluminous and the front and rear lights do not have the full beam of light representative of the latest Tesla renovations. Inside, the ambient light is lost, the screen for the rear passengers and the seats are cloth. The car is therefore less attractive to look at but for 39,990 euros It remains one of the best options among electric cars and a very solvent alternative, even if we expand the focus to cars with combustion engines. It must be taken into account that this price does not include possible aid (which until December 2025 they could reach 7,000 euros discount but that, when we write these lines in January 2026, We still don’t know if they will be extended in the same quantities or how they will be delivered). And the Tesla Model Y Standard is less visually attractive but it dispenses with details that a customer may consider minor. Especially if that client uses the car as a taxi or for a VTC. In that case, the Tesla Model Y Standard multiplies integers. The car designed by Elon Musk maintains key comfort elements such as air conditioning in the front seats or on the steering wheel. There is also no cut in the software for its infotainment system and the customer can contract he Full Self Driving (FSD)the most advanced driving assistance package and therefore with level 2+ driver assistance such as adaptive cruise control with lane change assistance, optional summon vehicle before getting into it, automatic parking or remote control of functions such as air conditioning or entry and starting with the mobile phone. The Tesla Model Y is, therefore, a frictionless car that tries to make your trips as simple as possible. It is a car without edges, a car where you sit down to drive, reach your destination and leave without looking back. There is no start button because the car starts by pressing the brake pedal, the direction is marked on the screen (forward or reverse) and the car turns off only when we have reached the destination. Because it demands you, it doesn’t even require you to put the car in P in Parking.. When the driver parks, he applies the handbrake directly if we remove the seat belt. We get out of the car and with the phone as a key, the car locks itself. … Read more

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