Mobile Tech & Gadgets

Mediamarkt has this 2025 Samsung TV at a very good price

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If it is about finding a TV on offer, it is always easier to go for a model of previous years. Stores and brands usually take a little time to reduce the most current models, although, like everything, there are always exceptions. Mediamarkt has one of them right now: it is an OLED model of Samsung launched only a few months ago that is reduced to the 999 euros. And eye: because it also comes with 100 euros reimbursement. Samsung TV 55 inches OLED S85F 4K Smart TV with Vision AI, colors certified by Pantone TV Plus * Some price may have changed from the last review A medium -sized screen with great image quality If we are looking for great experience at home, betting on a Samsung OLED is one of the best things we can do. This model, which, as we say, has barely a few months, has a PVP of 1,699 euros. For that reason, if we take advantage of this offer, We will be saving 700 eurosa discount. And that without counting that, in addition, we can enjoy a reimbursement of 100 euros Following very simple steps. This is the S85F OLED model, Specifically its 55 -inch version. This Samsung television will offer us a brutal image quality, as well as an image processor capable of climbing 4K content with very good ease. It is ideal if we have a console as PlayStation 5 Prosince it has HDMI 2.1. One of Samsung’s 2025 television line is the presence of 2025 is the presence of Vision aian artificial intelligence capable of much. Not only does it allow us to search the Internet things on screen or create automatic subtitles, but it can also Improve volume or image totally automatically. At this price And with the reimbursement, a great telelar that is worth it. Some TV devices that may interest you Xiaomi Mi TV Box S 3rd Gen, 2GB RAM + 32GB ROM, Wi-Fi 6, 4k Ultra HD streaming, Bluetooth, supports Google TV, black * Some price may have changed from the last review Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max (last generation), streaming device compatible with Wi-Fi 6e and Environmental Fund * Some price may have changed from the last review 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 | Samsung In Xataka | Best home film projectors. Which to buy and five recommended models from 299 to 18,000 euros In Xataka | Mega-guide to ride a home cinema: projector, screen, sound system and more

a diamond industry in full existential crisis

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They do not run Good times for the former exclusive, powerful and milmillonaria diamond industry. The boom of the “cultivated gems” He has set up the market, stirring something even more important than prices: his identity. When changing the mines of Africa for China’s laboratories, the sector has seen how its image of exclusivity weakened, one of the pillars on which it settled its business decades ago. The request Taylor Swift has served to vivify him. Of the Queen of Pop Queen, all the details are not known, but a huge diamond is gathered that some analysts value already between $ 250,000 and $ 500,000. Beyond its value, the commitment has served to revitalize the message of sophistication and luxury that so well cultivated in its day Of Beers. A ‘yes I want’ that is worth millions. Taylor Swift is much more than the pop queen. It is a real walking industry capable of Alter the GDP of the US with his tour and a influencer to which, only on Instagram, they continue More than 280 million of people (add it 32.5 on Tiktok) In search of inspiration. That is why the photograph he shared yesterday with his hand request is much more than a news for the pink press. His commitment to Travis Kelce has put the trend hunters of everyonewhich already examine the pedida ring with magnifying glass. Beyond the jewelers and designers, the Swift fans legion or the pink press, there is a group that has probably followed the news of the request with almost the same beautification as the singer: the world diamond industry. And the reason is very simple. Plunged into one deep existential crisis (Perhaps the greatest of all its history) that affects both its prices and its public image, the swing that Kelce has just put on the left ring finger of Swift reinforces the value that has made diamonds into a Milmillonario business: exclusivity. Why’s that? Because they don’t run simple times for the diamond industry. De Beers, the Titan of the Sector, the company that convinced generations of love that a romance is only authentic if it is sealed with a Pedrusco, is not at your best; And diamond prices have experienced A deep fall In recent years until they are minimal that were not seen so far in centuries. Behind that deep crisis there are several factors. There are those who explain it for The ‘prick’ of the Chinese market. Others simply point to a Cultural change: We marry less and that amounts to less commitment and alliances rings, to which it adds that the sector already enjoyed A boom Between 2021 and 2022, when the US market grew thanks to all postponed weddings during the pandemic. However, there is another factor that greatly explains the drift of the sector in recent years, one that affects both prices and the identity of diamonds: Synthetic stones. A Serious dangerous competitor. Those also known as “laboratory diamonds” are not new. Its origins can go back to mid -last century. However in recent decades its elaboration It has been refined So much and above all they have reached such penetration in the market that have become a serious competitor for natural diamonds. Serious and dangerous. The last ones (the natural stones) leave mines after having formed for millions of years in extreme conditions. The first (synthetic) are created in laboratories in days. And the reality is that experts do not differentiate them with the naked eye. The result was the expected. Laboratory diamonds have gained space in jewelry stores, affecting market prices, guarding traditional companies and especially staggering the foundations on which the business was built. They compete with the minted gems but can be manufactured in series in record time and a speed made in the industry there are voices that already warn of the risk of Overproduction. Not just that. There are manufacturers that They have decided to bet For the “cultivated” diamonds when considering them more ethical. A percentage: 20%. The result is that synthetic diamonds have made a considerable hole in the market. In An article recent The Wall Street Journal He pointed, citing the analyst Paul Zimnisky, who already represents more than the fifth of the world sales of jewelry with landing. It is not bad if one takes into account that only a few years ago, in 2016, they were less than 1%. If we talk about commitment rings your market penetration is even greater. The website specialized in weddings The Knot show that more than half of the commitment rings sold last year in the US included at least one laboratory diamond. Again there are many, many more than before pandemic. Growth since 2019 is estimated at about 40%. Market quota … and prices. That panorama has been marked by a prices collapse. Both of the synthetic and the natural stones. Zimnisky Calculate that since 2016 the sale price of a diamond of a laboratory quilate has dropped about 86%. During the same period the mined stones have also lost value, although in much less value: a gem of the same size would now cost around 40% less than nine years ago. Not all studies and valuations coincide in the data, but what they do share in all cases is the drawing: clearly falling. And what does Swift have to see? Swift’s ring affects the pillar on which the traditional diamond market, one of its capital values: exclusivity. From the Queen of Pop’s ring it is known that it is the exclusive design of a New York jewelry, which looks Antique Cushion Cut of eight carats and a diamond Old Mine Brillant of historical cut rounded in the corners. It is said that only the diamond can cost between $ 250,000 and $ 500,000 and that the ring is around one million or 1.3 million dollars. The analysts of The New York Times even They believe that the jewel will mark the return of “vintage … Read more

At the moment it has been undone of 35% of its intermediate positions

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In the last twelve months, Google has applied a severe treatment of volume reduction to its template. According to the statements of a company manager publishedby CNBCthe company has reduced by up to 35% the number of managers and intermediate charges In the last year. “Currently, we have 35% less managers and less direct subordinates than a year ago. So we are quickly progressing,” said Brian Welle, vice president of personnel analysis and performance, in a filtered audio to which CNBC has had access. Less intermediaries, less bureaucracy. This Reduction in the number of charges Intermediates is linked to a company strategy to improve efficiency in a sector that has stomped the accelerator in the AI ​​race. This reorganization seeks to accelerate decision making and eliminate internal barriers that hinder innovation. In an internal meeting with other employees, Welle claimed that not only the number was being reduced of intermediate charges to balance it to the number of subordinates, but also the amount of equipment had also been reduced under the direct supervision of those managers that they stayed in their positions. “When we look at our population of leaders, which includes managers, directors and vice presidents, we want time to be a lower percentage of our workforce,” Welle declared in the audios of the filtration. Smaller and flexible equipment. The 35% reduction to which Welle refers to its meeting is limited to those managers who supervise teams of less than three people. However, that reduction does not necessarily imply its dismissal. According to the sources consulted by CNBCthese managers have went on to perform tasks as external collaborators taking advantage of their talent in new roles and promoting the Team flexibility. SUCTAL PICHAI, who was also present at the leaked meeting, reiterated the need to impose a “more efficient model as we grow so as not to solve everything with the template.” A restructuring that has been giving for years. The transformation of Google’s internal structure began after mass layoffs of 6% of its workforce and voluntary departure programs of 2023 and 2024. Alphabet’s new financial director, Anat Ashkenazi, saidIn October 2024 that the company was going to intensify the efforts to “advance a little more” in that Reduction of its structure. Company managers, such as Pichai and Fiona Cicconi, staff director, have remarked that “we must be more efficient as the company grows.” Pichai assuredthat only a few weeks ago that Alphabet should be more efficient with its resources: “We are going to cross a period of a lot of investment and I think we have to be frugal with our resources, and I will strive to be more efficient and productive as a company.” The reduction does not stop at 35%. According to the audio filtered by CNBC, the executives present at that meeting assured that a total of 10 departments of the company had offered their employees out of exit in the framework of the “Voluntary output program“From the company that previously They had already offered to search, marketing, hardware and human resources teams. Fiona Cicconi, Google Human Resources Director, said last week that this program “has really been successful” in those departments, in which between 3% and 5% of her staff had accepted compensation for leaving her position. In Xataka | We believed that AI was going to take our jobs. At the moment it has begun to whisper your boss who should say goodbye Image | Wikimedia Commons (Lukasz Kobus), Unspash (Greg Bulla)

fried eggs with blue yolks

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It all started, as things always begin on the Internet, with a user on social networks flying an unasquible flag for the rest, an unattainable top: an AI does something better and faster than the rest. Only this time bone touched: the hordes of Speedrunners of Photoshop They were willing to claim human talent, even if it were something as apparently useless as the yolk of an egg. Blue eggs: Origins. The phenomenon began on August 11, 2025, when the X @Multimodalart user promoted the image generator by Alibaba Qwen-image Highlighting that very few models could, for example, create a fried egg with blue yolk. The reason: the models of AI learn patterns of real images (that is, eggs with always yellow or orange yolk), which presents difficulties for this type of generators by not starting from a real model. First answerwhich summarizes the future of events and that we save translate: “You can do in photoshop you retard”. World records begin. The first viral response response came quickly: user @isthisa3dmodel tweeted that That could be done in Photoshop in 30 seconds. And then the demonstrations began to arrive: @c_over_d_eq_pi He did it in just five seconds and he continued to purify the technique until he reached some fulminants 0.12 seconds of time. But the competition had only begun, and like every good meme of “Doom in places“The tests in tools much simpler than Photosop began arriving. Egg avalanche. When the X user @ceee asked for participation in the challenge of users who did not strengthen experts, began to arrive Speedrunners that used much more elementary and accessible tools than Photoshop. For example, @Pantoya It achieved very competent results with an image editing tool on the mobile. AND @v2tism He did it with Clip Studio Paint, revealing the secret: it can literally be done with any tool that allows layer edition. What’s behind. The challenge of the yellow yolk is more than a kind tangan (the blood did not reach the river at any time): it is the perfect thermometer of the current vision we have on the Internet of the amazing advances of the image editing tools with AI. The clash raised, thanks to the ironic and carefree tone of the responses, that perhaps the artificial intelligences enthusiasts were overvaluing the abilities of AI: as one of the contestants said, perhaps the interesting thing is not that they can now paint a yolk in blue, but until now they could not and sold us as the panacea. What gives us lessons about their abilities of the present. A debate from the past. The absolutely spectacular capabilities of new tools, Like Google Banana Nanocapable of making very advanced editions from Prompts Very simple (and yes, we have tried it: simply with “paint the yolk of this egg” blue ” The result is impeccable) They keep the background of the debate. It is no longer about whether the AI ​​understands the blue yolk or not: it is about whether it is necessary that we replace all manual, artisanal and traditional works with automatic equivalents. It is a debate that is far from finishing. Image | Know Your Meme In Xataka | 14 tools to create free images

Improve your GEMINI 6 OFFICIAL TRICKS TO IMPROVE THE BEST IMAGE WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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We are going to give you some Turks and tips for Improve your created images in Geminiso that you can improve them and have better results. They are tricks that you can also apply to photo editing in the artificial intelligence from Google, and that in fact They are official and recommended by the company. Most tricks try compose an image with two or three promptsso that instead of trying to do everything at once you can divide the process into several steps. All this is worth it, because you can improve the results and combine them. Make precise transformations Gemini now allows you to edit photosand this It also applies to creations generated by AI. You can, for example, create a realistic image or in the way you want, and then ask you to change very specific elements leaving the rest the same. Prompt 1: Create high quality photography of a living room with a new dark wood color where there is a musical team. Next to it there is a very high shelf with many CDs. Above the furniture you have a silver gray musical chain. Prompt 2: Change the color of the musical chain for metallic black. Reuse the appearance of a character First, a good trick is that before creating a composition you first design the character. Come on, first write a prompt where you describe how you want the character to be and make the appropriate changes, and then ask that show that same character in another situationcomposing the scene you want. Prompt 1: Create an illustration of a gray kitten baby with white rallas that has very large eyes and a big smile. Prompt 2: Now show me this same cat up on a bicycle and pedaling on a sand beach Fuse several ideas in an image In addition to reusing elements of an image to put them in others, you can create two different images and then a third that combines them. Thus, for example, you can first create a character and then a scenario, and when these two elements are already to your liking then you merge them. Prompt 1: Create a realistic image but cartoon of a gray kitten baby with white rallas that has very large eyes and a big smile. Prompt 2: Create a realistic image but cartoon of a cat hall full of toys. Prompt 3: Now make the cat in the previous image be playing inside the game room of the last image. Although it is not necessary to do so, it is recommended that define the same visual style in the first two images so that then they combine better. Although of course, we have already told you that it is not necessary. Change the image style This is something very classic that you can do when editing your photos in Gemini, and also applies to the images generated by AI. You can create a composition with a certain style, but then You decide what you want to change it. The image will be the same, but with a different style: Prompt 1: A photorealist image of a plane taking off at the airport Prompt 2: Applies the image style drawn to pencil in this image Make what happens in an image evolve You can also make The image evolves to a differentlet’s be the same scene but apply the logic to generate a more complex. For example, you can make a scene, and then ask him to draw what would happen if elements of it interact in a different way. Prompt 1: Draw the grated gray cat before walking down the street with a Chinese vase in arms that carries with both hands on the head. Prompt 2: It generates an image that shows what would happen if this character trips. Here, you can see that in the initial prompt we have reused a design that we have already mentioned before, that of the cat. This is so that you know that within the same chat, and even having created several images, you can mention a concrete to reuse it. In Xataka Basics | How to use Gemini to summarize YouTube videos or ask questions about its Android content

The amazing image of the VLT that is already a history of astronomy

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An international astronomer team has achieved what is equivalent to a cosmic ultrasound: They have obtained the first image of a giant gaseous planet In full formation process, embedded in the middle of a dust and gas disk with multiple rings. The system, called Wispit 2B, has become overnight in the perfect laboratory for Understand how the planets are bornincluding, perhaps, our own Jupiter. A photograph hunted at the best time. The discovery, published in Two simultaneous articles In The Astrophysical Journal Letters, he not only shows us the planet Wispit 2B, a giant of about five times Jupiter’s mass, but has “caught him with his hands in the dough.” They have detected it by emitting the characteristic brightness of overheated hydrogen, the definitive test that is actively attracting material from the disc that surrounds it to continue growing. And if that were not enough, there are indications of an even more massive planet. A cosmic vinyl disk. The first piece of this puzzle is provided by the Sphere instrument of Vary Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, where the star Wispit 2, a young solar analogue (just five million years old) located about 133 light years from us was observed. What they found was spectacular: an extensive Protoplanetary disc of 380 astronomical units (UA) structured in four concentric rings, such as the grooves of a vinyl disk. The planetary formation theory predicts that the mass planets, when orbiting their star, “clean” their gravitational path, creating gaps on the gas and dust disc. And precisely, in the most prominent hole between the second and third ring, about 57 UA of its star, was a point of light: Wispit 2B. A discovery that had to confirm again. To make sure it was not a distant star in the background, the team made observations in four different moments over almost two years. The results were conclusive: the object moved next to the star, following a Keplerian orbit consisting of his position in the hole of the disc. The analysis of its brightness in different infrared wavelengths (Bands H and Ks) allowed to estimate its mass by approximately 4.9 times Jupiter’s mass. This is the first unequivocal detection of a planet on an album with multiple rings, directly confirming the interaction between the planet and the disc that forms it. A second definitive test. If the first investigation was the photo of the crime, The secondled by Laird M. Close, is the recorded video confession. Using the advanced Magao-X adaptive optical system in the Magallanes telescope, they also observed the system in a very specific wavelength: that of the H-Alpha (656.3 nm). This broadcast is an unmistakable firm of the accrection, the process by which a planet attracts gas from its surroundings. When hydrogen gas falls to the planet, it is compressed and heated to thousands of degrees, emitting a characteristic reddish glow. And WISPT 2B was shining intensely in H-Alfa. We already know its growth rate. This detection not only confirms undoubtedly that Wispit 2B is a growing protoplanet, but allowed the team to calculate at what rhythm it is collecting matter: 2.25 × 10−12 solar masses per year. It is a slow but constant rhythm, which offers us a unique window to the final stages of the formation of a gas giant. This finding makes Wispit 2B one of the very few protopoplanets (along with the celebrities PDS 70b yc) of which there is direct evidence of accretion, that is, that they grow gradually using external matter. A second planet and a mystery of inclination. The surprises do not end there. The high resolution data of the Magao-X team revealed a second candidate object much closer to the star, about 15 UA. Baptized as CC1 (Close Companion 1), this object is extremely red and its brightness is consistent with a planet about nine times Jupiter’s mass. In addition, researchers have indicated a curious statistical coincidence. Counting to Wispit 2B, there are already four systems with protoplanets detected by their H-Alpha broadcast. Surprisingly, they all have a very similar inclination with respect to our line of vision (between 37 ° and 52 °). The probability that this occurs by chance is only 1% (a 2.6σ significance). Why is Wispit 2B so important. There are several reasons behind. The first of these is that it visually demonstrates that giant giant planets can be formed at great distances from their star and that they are responsible for sculpting the holes in protoplanetary discs. But the interesting thing is that it has become a unique laboratory, since it is such a “clean” and well-defined system, it allows us to study the planet-Disco interaction with an unprecedented detail. An analogue of our past: The star is similar to our sun in his childhood, so studying Wispit 2 is like looking at a snapshot of how our own solar system could have formed. That is why the next step will be to point to Wispit 2B with the Jame Webb space telescope and the Alma Observatory. With them, you can analyze the planet’s atmosphere and analyze the chemical secrets you can hide. In Xataka | When the first human being stepped on the moon we all believed that he had abandoned the “earth.” We were wrong

Chatgpt’s mobile app generates 30 times more money than Claude, Copilot and Grok together. Still not enough

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If there is a chatbot that stands out in popularity over the rest, that is undoubtedly chatgpt. His mobile app was launched in May 2023 And since then he has occupied the download tops of the main stores, becoming The most downloaded app in the world A few months ago. Openai has reached another milestone with its app: since its launch already has generated 2,000 million dollars. To put it in context, this would be approximately 30 times more than what Claude, Grok and Copilot combined have generated. However, not everything is as beautiful as it sounds. Undisputed leader. According to figures AppfiguresOnly for 2025, the Chatgpt app has generated 1,350 million dollars, which represents a growth of 673% compared to the same period of 2024. Chatgpt is generating 193 million dollars per month, while the next on the list is Grok with 3.6 million per month. If we look at the average download per expense, ChatgPT goes to the head with 2.91 dollars, followed by Claude with $ 2.55, Grok with $ 0.75 and finally co -pilot with only $ 0.28. It is clear: Openai is winning the battle of mobile apps. Still not enough. 2,000 million are many millions and that only with its mobile app. Adding all your services, only In July 1,000 million entered And it is estimated that they will enter 12,000 million this year. However, It is still light years of being profitable And the reality is that they enter much less than they spend. The company did An internal study in which they estimated that the losses between 2023 and 2028 would amount to 44,000 million dollars. According to their forecasts, they will not be profitable until 2029, when they expect to enter 100,000 million dollars annually, almost ten times more than they invoice now. The Big Tech are on the right track. The great technology have invested amounts of authentic madness in AI And it has not been until recently that they have begun to see A slight green outbreak in its results. After several years burning huge amounts of money, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have seen how their income is finally to cover the investment so tremendous. However, it is still not thanks to the products AI directly, but to the cloud services. Even so, the reality is that None is making gold with AI. Mission: Monetize the AI. If there is something that brings to the business of AI is How to monetize your chatbots. Subscriptions “pro” have become the appeal to get income, Some like Claude Max cost a real fortune and OpenAi He followed his steps with O3 Pro. The Subscriptions are getting more expensivebut they are not yet enough to reach the level of expenses. There is no azure or a web service that can get the chestnuts out of the fire as it is happening with the Big Tech. The exit seems clear. Advertising. At the end of last year there were rumors that they could start putting advertising in Chatgpt. At the moment it has not materialized, but Rumors have not ceased and seeing the numbers may be a solution to the profitability problem. They have not been the only ones who have flirted with this idea, Perplexity was also testing it And Elon Musk recently confirmed that There will be advertising in Grok. Very careful. Implement advertising in a chatbot is delicate since we could find ourselves in a scenario in which it ends up losing the trust of users. For example, if we go to a chatbot in the process of buying a car, we could doubt whether the recommendations are based on an advertising campaign. Integration should be clear to avoid possible confusing situations. What seems clear is that, given the serious problem of profitability, advertising stands as a more than attractive option for AI companies. In Xataka | Big Tech have buried thousands and billions in AI. They are earning money, but not thanks to the AI

of the second -hand market

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The US government has been doing everything that is in their hand to prevent Chinese companies and research organizations for more than three years artificial intelligence (AI) more advanced that produce nvidia, AMD or brainsamong other companies. This is the purpose of Export restrictions Of these GPUs approved by the Department of Commerce, which in this area is the executing arm of the administration. Despite the efforts of the US government, the avant -garde chips for AI They have continued arriving in Chinaalthough it is reasonable to accept that in amounts lower than those needed by companies that are dedicated to the development of large AI models. And they have done it mainly through secondary markets and parallel import roads that run in India, Malaysia or Singapore, in which The US action It is very limited. Nvidia has achieved the export license you need to sell in China Your GPU for IA H20but the Chinese government has vetoed this chip. And he has done so that the administration of the cyberspace of China, which is the main Internet regulatory body in this country, This GPU is thoroughly investigating Because he suspects that he could incorporate a rear door of difficult location by Chinese experts. If so, the possibility of China to use this chip. China is getting in the second -hand market the best Nvidia GPU China already has Three very clear alternatives to Nvidia. Cambricon Technologies, Huawei and Moore Threads are the three Chinese chip designers for ia who are better positioned to get the market that NVIDIA maintains in China. Despite all the developers of great AI models that have projects with projects with CUDA They need chips from this last company. And, according to Digitimes Asiathey have found the appropriate place to get these GPU: the international second -hand market. However, the most interesting thing is that they are not being formed with the H20 chips that, as we have seen, have been prohibited by the Chinese government; They are getting the GPUs H100 and A100 of Nvidia, which They are more powerful than H20. For the US it is essentially impossible launch an unpublished strategy. This measure will consist, if it finally comes to fruition, to introduce the technology necessary to allow them to be tracked at all times. Chinese companies are buying huge games of NVIDIA A100 and H100 in the second -hand market A priori would be a form of geolocation that would identify where each integrated circuit resides during its journey once it leaves the semiconductor factory. Michael Kratsios, the director of the Office of Scientific and Technological Policy of the White House and one of those responsible for the US government’s action plan for the development of AI, has confirmed that are considering the possibility of introducing tracking solutions both implemented in the hardware and software itself: “We are discussing what software or physical changes could be introduced into the chips themselves to improve the tracking of their location.” The US administration is determined to protect its current leadership in the development of hardware for AI as the adoption of this technology accelerates throughout the planet. However, implement the solution proposed by Kratsios and other White House advisors It implies important technical challenges. Constant tracking by GPS is not practical in this scenario of use, According to Kratsios himselfso a possible solution is to introduce in each chip the logic necessary to confirm its location periodically. In this way, external networks can be reduced. The problem is that this design increases the complexity of the logic of each chip and can presumably impact its performance, which would penalize its productivity in the calculation centers. In addition, the cost of each GPU will increase and hackers They could find new ways to violate the safety of these chips by resorting to possible weaknesses of tracking logic. Image | Nvidia More information | Digitimes Asia In Xataka | The US will not be able to contain the technological development of China. Experts from the chips industry forecast it

One million less places this winter at provincial airports

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The pulse between the government and Ryanair continues to climb. After a summer in which the company had withdrawn 800,000 places from our country, it now ensures that it will withdraw a million seats available this winter. The official reason: Aena’s rates. THE OFFICIAL: THE FINE OF CONSUMPTION TO THE COMPANY. One million less. That is what Eddie Wilson, CEO of the airline, has confirmed to Europa Press. The company will eliminate a million places available during the next winter season. The definitive announcement should occur Next Wednesday, September 3. In his interview, Wilson says that the movement is because they will “invest where we can obtain a return” since, in his opinion, the government is allowing regional infrastructure “to deteriorate and underminate.” Because? The official reason that Ryanair wields is the increase in the airport rates charged by Aena. The company, which manages these spaces and provides services such as safety, cleaning and other logistics -related activities, will raise prices next March. The company wants the new rate increases by 6.5% With a maximum of 11.03 euros per passenger after the price has almost frozen a decade. This only increased (although by 4.09%) in 2024 alleging that the Ukraine War had hit its accounts. At the moment, competition has to confirm whether this increase in rates may or may not be carried out. And, despite everything, it is something that will be applied from next March but Ryanair has already repeatedly threatened With the reduction of the offer if this happened. What does Aena say? The company ensures that not all sites pay the same for the service they offer and have stressed on several occasions that their work is essential for the operation of the airport itself. Payment at Aena’s rates includesamong other services: Aena’s staff Air navigation services (such as communications or meteorological reports) Security services MAINTENANCE AND CLEANING SERVICES Attention to people with reduced mobility In addition, the company indicates that they exist Incentives so that airlines pay less where airports accumulate less offer. For example, the discount in the passenger rate with reduced mobility is 100%. In regional airports that have not recovered prepandymia traffic, the discount is 70%. And there are additional discounts for passengers who make connections or fly to the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands. There is something else. It is not only a matter of rates. Ryanair and the government also maintain a war open for the issue of hand luggage. Consumption fined the company (109 million euros)along with other airlines, because it considers that the size of the suitcase that you can transport for free is excessively small. Europe, however, seems to give the reason to the company. At the moment, the litigation continues. Last June 26, The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid suspended in a precautionary way it and from Ryanair say they have “absolute confidence that The mules will be canceled“For European justice. There is no confirmation of the latter but the truth is that The European Parliament and The European Commissionon their way to reform the regulations that affect travelers, they seem to align with Ryanair. If everything goes ahead, they should define some Minimum dimensions for this backpack/suitcase But these are aligned with those offered by the Irish company that also He has already made his own gesture of goodwill. Those indicated. Regional airports will be those that undergo the changes in Ryanair’s strategy. During the summer season we are living, the company It has already eliminated 800,000 seats from seven airports. In Jerez de la Frontera and Valladolid they have stopped operating. In Vigo, Santander, Santiago and Zaragoza and Asturias have reduced their operations to a greater or lesser extent. This frightened has directly impacted the number of flights made in these airfields. Between April and July (first four months of the summer season) they traveled 240,000 passengers less that in the same period of 2024. It remains to be seen the impact at the end of the summer season but airports such as Valladolid anda have been practically deserted. Photo | Markus Winkler In Xataka | The great secret of Ryanair’s success is that he does not earn money to fly: he does so squeezing you in everything else

The body warns of Alzheimer’s long before the brain. The track is in the intestine

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Keep ‘healthy’ The bacteria we have in the intestine It is more important than we can think. During the last decade there are many voices that have arisen pointing to the relationship between our microbiota and other parts of our body. Now, a study has given light on the amazing connection that exists between digestive and metabolic health and the risk of developing diseases neurodegenerative as Alzheimer’s either Parkinson. A study that has used data of all kinds. Research, published in Science Advances, Not only identifies specific disorders that increase the risk of these diseases, but also demonstrates that these signals can be detected up to 15 years before neurological diagnosis, opening a new and promising via for Early detection and prevention. The work, which analyzed the clinical, genetic and proteomic data of hundreds of thousands of biobancos such as the UK Biobank, Finngen and Sail, is the most extensive of its kind and reinforces the importance of called intestine-corebro axisthe complex communication network that connects our digestive system with the central nervous. Digestive disorders and Alzheimer’s. The researchers analyzed the association of 155 digestive, endocrine, metabolic and nutritional disorders with the future risk of Alzheimer and Parkinson. The results are revealing. For Alzheimer’s, it was found that previous diagnoses of the following conditions significantly increased the risk: Gastritis and duodenitis Esophageal reflux disease (esophagitis) Diabetes (all types) Vitamin D deficiency Electrolyte disorders and acid-base balance Functional intestinal disorders (such as irritable intestine syndrome) There are also warning signs for Parkinson. A disease that is also neurodegenerative and is iconicly characterized with a constant tremor, among many other signs. In this case, the pathologies that could be an alert sign to generate this disease were: Dyspepsia (indigestion) Diabetes (dependent and independent of insulin) Functional intestinal disorders The importance of being a stratified study. This means that the data were divided into windows from 1 to 5, 5 to 10 and 10 to 15 years before diagnosis. This is something really important, since researchers could confirm the theory that the increase in risk is not something that happens just after the appearance of the first neurological symptoms, but it is a process that is created over more than a decade. For example, a diagnosis of non -insulin -dependent diabetes between 10 and 15 years before was associated with a 71% greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s. The importance of an early diagnosis. And it is that diagnosing a neurodegenerative disease so in advance is the best asset we have to avoid its most unwanted effects. Right now Alzheimer is an incurable disease, but There are drugs that stop the disease. From here lies the importance of having an early diagnosis, since the sooner the timely treatment begins, the more difficult it will be to progress to the worst stages. It also has protection functions. Curiously, it has been seen that a hemorrhoid diagnosis was associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s. The authors speculate that this could be due to a survival bias: the serious conditions that are sometimes associated with hemorrhoids could have a higher mortality rate, which would reduce the probability that these patients live enough to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Genetics or lifestyle? One of the most counterintuitive findings in the study has to do with genetics. The researchers calculated the polygenic risk scores (PRS), which is a measure of genetic predisposition to a disease, and compared them. They discovered that patients who developed Alzheimer’s or Parkinson and also had one of these digestive or metabolic disorders, on average, had a lower genetic risk score than those who developed the neurological disease in isolation. Inheritance does not matter so much. These results can translate into that the person with intestinal comorbidity, environmental and lifestyle factors They play a much more decisive role in the development of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s than the genetic inheritance itself. It is the evidence that we needed to reinforce the idea that the disease is not only in our genetic material, but that the environment and our decisions can intervene in its development. Towards a multimodal predictive model. The true qualitative leap of the study is the creation of a multimodal prediction model. Instead of based on a single type of data, scientists combined four pillars of information: clinical, genetic, proteomic data (with the analysis of 1,463 biomarkers) and demographic. The result was a model with a predictive capacity much higher than that of any individual paradigm. For Alzheimer’s, the combined model reached a 0.90 precision (AUC), a very high level for this type of predictions. It is interesting to note that the model that excluded clinical data, but maintained genetics, proteomics and demography, obtained almost identical precision (0.89), which suggests that blood biomarkers already capture much of the biological information that underlies clinical diagnoses. A diagnosis based on an analytical. Among the most influential biomarkers were found GLIAL FIBRARRARARY ACID PREIIN (GFAP) and the light chain neurofilament (NFL), both known as indicators of neuronal damage, which validates the biological robustness of the model. This approach demonstrates that the integration of different “omics” (genomic, proteomic) with clinical data is the way to follow for truly early and personalized detection, long before cognitive symptoms or irreversible motors appear. The team has even developed an interactive web platform so that other researchers can explore the results, promoting transparency and reproducibility. Images | Weermeijer Robina Julien Tromeur In Xataka | We have a new “theory of all” to understand Alzheimer’s. Your key is in small granules

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