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Germany toughens its labor reforms by requiring a sick leave certificate from day one: “It is a competitive disadvantage”

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In Germany, take a sick leave After the pandemic it was as easy as picking up the phone, describing what hurts you and hanging up with the leave already processed. That procedure his days are numbered. Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants Germans to go to a doctor’s office again from the first day they feel unwell, and for him to be the one to prescribe sick leave with proof from the first day. The measure has opened a debate that, although it may not seem like it, we also have in Spain. What exactly changes in Germany. Since Germany implemented distancing measures during the Covid-19 pandemic, a worker could call his or her doctor, tell him or her the symptoms, and receive treatment. lower part without leaving home. Merz’s plan erases them with a stroke of the pen. From now on, proof must be requested in person from the first day of sick leave. Previously, it was only necessary after the third day of illness. As and how I collected the BBCChancellor Merz argued that “we cannot afford this competitive disadvantage caused by long periods of absence from work.” The reform, agreed between his party and the SPD, has clashed with unions, who speak of a “culture of mistrust” towards employees, and with family doctors, who fear seeing their offices overflowing with workers with a simple cold. Spain, an uncomfortable mirror. The German debate sounds distant until you look at the data here. Work absenteeism in Spain reached 7.2% of the agreed hours in the first quarter of 2026, its highest level in five years, according to the Randstad report Research. That is equivalent to more than 1.6 million of people who are absent from their jobs every day. In Germany the data follow a similar pattern and, according to the IGES report For the DAK-Gesundheit mutual insurance company, the average sick leave time is 19.5 days per year per worker, with mental health as the fastest growing cause. Justified and unjustified, two very different things. However, the term absenteeism is misleading and lumps together those who do not go to work due to a diagnosed illness and those who do not report to work by their own decision. He justified absenteeism It includes medical leave, legal permits or a justified appointment with the specialist, and the company cannot sanction you in any case. Unjustified absenteeism is a very different thing and includes absences without warning or giving any explanation, something that can end in a sanction and even dismissal. In Spain, almost eight out of every ten absences come from a temporary disability recognized by a doctor. It should be noted that temporary sick leave is not assigned by the worker himself, but is prescribed by a doctor. Only two out of ten workers miss work without justifying it. The real bottleneck: saturated healthcare. Many sick leave are not prolonged because the patient decides to extend their convalescence. They lengthen because the medical system takes time to treat you. According to data from the Ministry of Health, in 2025 there were more than 853,000 people in waiting list surgery in Spain, with an average delay of 121 days to undergo surgery. Added to this are more than four million people waiting for an appointment with a specialist. The result is easy to imagine: someone on sick leave due to a hernia or a knee can spend months on sick leave waiting for the test or operation that would return them to work sooner. While Germany tightens downward access, in Spain the bottleneck of absenteeism is a few steps further: in a waiting room. In Xataka | Germany has recovered a measure from 1889 to avoid the collapse of its pensions: work until age 70 Image | Unsplash (Maheshkumar Painam, Vitaly Gariev)

three generations working from dawn to dusk

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In 1974 Portugal experienced the Carnation Revolutionin Washington Richard Nixon left the White House cornered by the Watergate Scandal, in Spain the Franco regime was drawing its last blows and in Bangkok, Thailand, Nattapong Kaweenuntawong’s grandfather put on fire a pot full of broth. The first three events are historical milestones that can be read about in any encyclopedia. The last one, the one starring a smoking squid, is one of those events that remind us that the world is a fascinating place. The reason: more than half a century later, that broth made from noodles, pieces of meat and vegetables is still simmering in Bangkok. A 52-year-old broth? A 52 year old broth. Bangkok is full of monuments that are very popular among foreigners, such as the Grand Palace, Wat Arun or the Chatuchak market, but if what you really like is gastronomic tourism you should include another essential on your list: Wattana Panicha Bangkok restaurant famous for its beef noodle soup. The place is not especially picturesque nor do they have an exceptional menu of dishes and drinks. It’s not even expensive. What makes it unique is its new tunea dark, thick broth that has been simmering since 1974. How is that possible? With a lot of dedication. And the delivery of three generations of the same family. Your story I told it recently Shan Li in The Wall Street Journal: For two decades the person responsible for keeping the fire alive and seasoning the broth has been Nattapong Kaweenuntawong, but before him his parents did it and even before that his grandfather, who was the one who made the base broth. In fact, when the soup began to bubble, Kaweenuntawong had not even been born yet. The chef is four years younger than the dish. Keeping a stew alive for more than half a century does not come with the commitment of several generations. You need to follow a routine spartan thai “We hardly ever take vacations. I can’t leave the broth alone for a long time,” recognize the hotelier, who still works with his mother. The family only takes five days off during the Lunar New Year. And the rest of the time? Follow one strict routine. During the day the broth simmers in a huge pot 1.5 meters in diameter and 30 cm deep, a recent stainless steel pot covered with a material that gives it the appearance of lava. When the restaurant closes, the broth is strained, the most solid ingredients are removed and the liquid is transferred to a pot in which it is brought to a boil. Then it is covered. This is how he spends the next five or six hours. The next morning, start again: boil and add ingredients. One of the most fascinating details of new tune (name by which the broth they make in Wattana Panich is known) is that the family assures that they do not follow any specific recipe. They add meat, vegetables, sauces… depending on what their “taste” dictates, which is, claims Kaweenuntawongthe “inheritance” of his saga. “It’s instinct to know when it tastes good and when it doesn’t.” “Whoever prepares the soup must taste it constantly,” he summarizes. But… Is it healthy? In his interviews with media such as The Wall Street Journal either NPRKaweenuntawong highlights two ideas. The first is that there is not a single case of food poisoning related to their premises. The second is that the fact that a broth is kept for five decades does not mean that the pot has not been thoroughly cleaned in all that time. “A lot of people think we never clean the pot. But we clean it every night. We remove the soup from the pot and let it simmer a little overnight,” relates. This liquid is the base of the next day’s broth, so although the ingredients are renewed daily, all the soups of the last five decades maintain a common link. “To make it tender, we cook the meat for seven hours. We put it whole in the pot so it absorbs all the flavors.” During the New Year, the broth is frozen for four days and thawed on the fifth. Why a 52 year old soup? It is the most logical question. Why on earth would anyone go to the trouble (and especially take the risks) of maintaining a soup for more than half a century? There are several answers. In theory, what Kaweenuntawong’s grandfather was looking for was to enhance the flavor. The reality today is that the claim of having ‘a 52-year-old soup’ has turned Wattana Panich into a gastronomic celebrity. Newspapers around the world dedicate extensive reports to it and there are plenty on social networks. the videos of people who come to try their broth. In theory, its price also helps: in 2022 a reporter from Business Insider dedicated a chronicle in which he explains that he paid $5.6 for a broth and the drink, “much cheaper than the $50 I paid at another popular restaurant in Bangkok,” slid. @viajandoconfernando This Thai restaurant has been keeping its soup simmering for over 50 years. Visited Wattana Panich in Bangkok and tried their famous bubbly noodle soup, which is made in a huge pot, with chunks of fresh meat continually being added to it for more soup day after day. #journey #thailand #travel #restaurant #thailand2024 #travelthailand #thailand🇹🇭 #bangkok #trips #travelstiktok #traveling ♬ original sound – Fernando Cerro Is it something unique in the world? No. What they make at Wattana Panich is known as perpetual soup, perpetual stew or hunter’s pot and their philosophy is not entirely new. some historians believe that something similar was already done in the Middle Ages, with pots that were rarely emptied. It was a way to give substance to soups in times of famine, when there was nothing to throw into the pot. Not everyone it is so clear. Among other things, due to religious restrictions, which made it difficult to … Read more

archaeologists have discovered an unexpected link between petroglyphs from Galicia and Scandinavia

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If you travel to Galicia or the north of Portugal and observe carefully some of its petroglyphs From the Bronze Age you will find representations of ships. Back in the day, thousands of years ago, someone carved them into the rock to show the silhouette of ships, sometimes with decorations, crew members, oars and even something resembling sails. The really surprising thing about these pieces is that, deep down, they have little of ‘surprising’ about them. In the southern region of Scandinavia (Denmark and Sweden) archaeologists have documented thousands of engravings similar, which leaves one question: How the hell do you explain this coincidence? Now at last we have answers. Connecting dots. Recently a group of researchers led by Marta Díaz-Guardaminofrom the University of Durham, embarked on a peculiar project: analyzing the rock art samples located in a dozen deposits distributed throughout the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, more specifically in Galicia and the north of Portugal. They then compared them with other engravings located in Denmark and Sweden. It was not a capricious or random job. All the pieces shared a common link: they showed representations of ships. What did they find out? That beyond representing boats, the two samples (both the Scandinavian and the Iberian) have certain details in common, “design characteristics” that are repeated despite the hundreds of kilometers that separate Sweden from the Galician coast. Which is it? The archaeologists mainly identified decorations located at the ends of the boats with birds or ‘S’-shaped layouts, as well as representations of rigging, oars and sails. “The study identifies important typological and iconographic parallels between images from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula and the Nordic ones,” they detail in the article that have been published in Plos One with their conclusions and in which they highlight the existence of “numerous and surprising” coincidences between the samples. “While several of the carved images of ships identified at coastal and river sites on the Atlantic coast of the peninsula are very rudimentary and difficult to interpret, there is no doubt that there are parallels with ships that can be dated within Scandinavian chronologies. In addition to the decorations on the ends of the ships (such as birds and ‘S’ drawings), they include shapes similar to ‘mushrooms’, ‘cult axes’ or ‘sails’ located in the center of the ship or that decorate the ends or knobs of bronze knives”. Old-fashioned globalization. With his analysis, Díaz-Guardamino pursued two objectives: to understand whether the engravings were related to each other and, if so, what that tells us about the Bronze Age. Now researchers believe they have valuable proof that “ideas and technologies were shared across Europe” millennia ago through maritime connections and cultural ties. Not only that. They believe that the engravings reveal something to us much more important: that ships were not a simple means of transportation with which to cross seas. They also had a “symbolic importance linked to rituals and beliefs.” “The shared iconography supports hypotheses about long-distance connectivity and maritime trade networks in Atlantic Europe, particularly regarding the movement of metals such as copper and tin,” abound the authors of the article before remembering that almost all the deposits in Iberia share another peculiarity: they are close to navigable waterways, whether rivers or the sea. Specifically, they have studied carvings from Viana, Caminha, Monterrei and Oia. Experienced sailors. In the opinion of experts, the “high level of technical detail” they have documented provides a new perspective on navigation capacity in the Bronze Age. Especially since in the engravings you can see boats that include oars, crew, masts, rigging and curved hulls, a detail that supports the hypothesis that the use of ships with sail was widespread on the Atlantic coast. The presence of cosmological symbols also tells us about a “shared concern” for solar mythology and travel. Fine-tuning the chronological shot. The research is not interesting only for what it reveals about the parallels between both regions. It is also because it helps us better understand the Iberian petroglyphs. More than 20,000 representations of Bronze Age ships have been discovered in Scandinavia, but in the northwest of the peninsula experts have struggled to date them. Thanks to their comparison and examination with high-resolution laser scanning, three-dimensional photogrammetry, RTI and GIS, the researchers believe that the Galicia and northern Portugal samples can be dated to the Late Bronze Age, around 1300-800 BC, a framework consistent with known Scandinavian maritime technologies. “Sea travel covered great distances and helped share cultural ideas across thousands of miles.” For researchers, it does not matter whether the Iberian petroglyphs were recorded by local sailors who assimilated foreign naval technology or were created by navigators who came from abroad and were passing through what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. The key, in his view, is that coastal communities “were actively involved in extensive long-distance maritime networks.” Images | Plos One-Marta Díaz-Guardamino et al. In Xataka | “For 2,000 years they have been inaccessible. Finally we can read them”: archaeologists now know how to decipher the Herculaneum papyri

review with features, price and specifications

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Nothing returns to its old ways with new headphones, the Nothing Ear (3a). With a price of 99 euros, the headphones seek to compete in, probably, most saturated segment of the audio world. After having tried them, it is clear to me that they go straight to my list of products to recommend when someone asks me for advice. ✅ Buy them if… You have a tight budget of less than 100 euros. You want headphones with personality. You are looking for headphones that you can connect to several devices at the same time. ❌ Don’t buy them if… You want the best noise cancellation and transparency mode. Wireless charging is an essential requirement. You value high definition, although this applies to any TWS headphones. The essentials in 30 seconds The Nothing Ear (3a) are Nothing’s new mid-range headphones. They do not seek to be the reference TWS headphones, but rather to offer a solid alternative for less than 100 euros with three key pillars: design, sound and connectivity. They do not reinvent the wheel nor do they need to, since they work well and fulfill their purpose, which is what they have to do. Do they have the best sound? No. The best noise cancellation? No, but they cost what they cost and, for that money, you can say that they work very well. In addition, they are headphones with a lot of personalitydifferent from all those in this saturated market, so, at the same price, at least these put an eye-catching proposal on the table. One of its differential values ​​is Audio Snapshot, a function that allows you to record what is playing and transcribe it to revisit it later. Its practical usefulness on a day-to-day basis is questionable, but well tuned it could be a useful feature for those of us who, like yours truly, tend to think out loud and keep ideas in notes. 8.8 Design 9.3 Sound quality 8.6 noise cancellation 8.2 Ergonomics 9.0 Usage experience 8.7 Battery 9.2 in favor They have a lot of personality and are different from other headphones on the market. The sound quality is great for costing 100 euros. The multipoint connection is always a success. against The microphone sounds with some echo on calls. They do not have wireless charging. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Our experience with the Nothing Ear (3a) Nothing Ear (3a) | Image: Xataka How nice it is to be surprised. In a world where technology has become boring, Nothing products are a breath of fresh air. Not only because they are transparent and, in my case, yellow, but because they have personality. The case is one of the coolest I’ve seen in a long time (LEDs included) and the headphones, colors aside, are comfortable, light, and don’t fall out while moving. I have zero complaints in this regard. Good in sound. For 100 euro headphones, the Nothing Ear (3a) sound really good. They have been quite a surprise, in fact. The sound comes out clean, the bass is quite punchy and the treble is kept at bay, although when there are sudden changes you can see that the headphones are missing a bit. Nothing serious and we will notice it only if we know what we are looking for. For day to day they go like a shot. The noise cancellation is adequate and sufficient for mundane noises, such as the air conditioning or the hustle and bustle of the street, but it is not close to the best in this segment. The transparency mode is correct, but again, without highlighting; and during calls there is a certain echo in the microphones. Nothing Ear (3a) | Image: Xataka Audio Snapshot. One of the novelties that these headphones bring is the possibility of recording audio fragments of what is playing, storing them in their 32 MB capacity and transcribing them with AI (free and locally, although the most powerful model is paid and online). The idea is good, but I would have liked it if, instead of recording just a piece of a podcast or an audiobook, I could do it at the same time with my voice, so that I could record a reflection out loud or an idea that comes to me suddenly, and transcribe it. In theory, the headphones offer the possibility of recording and transcribing calls, but this function will not reach Spain, at least in the first phase. The minipoint of connectivity. Spending 99 euros is no small feat, especially now, which is why it is appreciated that we can use the headphones with several devices at the same time thanks to the multipoint connection. Being able to have them connected via Bluetooth 6.0 to the Steam Deck and to the mobile phone or the tablet and switching from one to the other interchangeably is fabulous, even more so in these price ranges. Not to mention that they are fully compatible with iOS and Android. Battery to get through the day without problem. The headphones deliver what they promise: around six hours of autonomy with noise cancellation activated, which rises to about a full day if we take into account the charging of the case. Charging is via USB type C, no wireless charging, something that, on the other hand, is to be expected. Nothing Ear technical sheet (3a) nothing ear (3a) Dimensions and weight Headphones: 31.2 x 21.7 x 24 mm – 4.53 grams Case: 64.8 x 48.95 x 22.8mm. 49.98 grams Diaphragm Unit 12mm PMI and TPU dynamic driver 20Hz-40kHz noise cancellation Wideband Active Noise Cancellation Up to 45db Transparency mode Battery Headphones: 55mAh Box: 500mAh autonomy Headphones: up to 6 hours with ANC Box: up to 25 hours with ANC audio formats SBC, AAC, LDAC connection Bluetooth 6.0 compatibility Android 8.0 or higher iOS 13 or higher extras 6x microphones ENC on calls Audio Snapshot IP54 Spatial audio price 99 euros Nothing Ear (3a), Xataka’s opinion Nothing Ear (3a) | … Read more

Alibaba’s Qwen AI model is the new crown jewel. The only problem is that they don’t make money from it.

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Jack Ma he returned like a prodigal son to the international scene in February of last year. He did so at an event with the president of China, Xi Jinping, and that represented an important support for the technological leader. Since then his company, Alibaba, has not stopped flooding us with its open AI models, Qwen, but that strategy is having the same lights and shadows as its competitors. Devastates downloads. Alibaba launched its Qwen family of models in 2023 and released them with open weights almost immediately. That made them a perfect alternative to be able to use them locally and to also be able to tune them in all types of scenarios. In January 2026, Qwen was already the open AI model most downloaded in the world with close to a million daily downloads according to data from Hugging Face. By the end of 2025, Qwen was already the most downloaded open weight model in the world by far. Source: AI Base. But popularity does not equal income. In the first quarter of 2026, Alibaba indicated that it had obtained revenue of $1.3 billion related to AI, just 4% of its total revenue. The figure is very short, especially if we take into account that Alibaba plan to invest $55 billion in AI infrastructure by the end of 2027. Investors want profits now. Company shares have fallen 37% on the Hong Kong stock market this year: investors are clearly concerned about the lack of return on this bet on AI, something that we have also been seeing for some time in the US market. Internal divisions. The pressure to turn these open models into a business seems to be dividing Qwen’s own team. In March its chief engineer, Lin Junyang, announced his departure from the companyand he was followed by several key engineers amidst internal disagreements on how to monetize the model. The company has already started move token in the field of proprietary models: in April already released three of them in a few days. War with the US and Anthropic. Meanwhile, the company also faces external pressures. The Pentagon has included it on a blacklist of companies that Washington says support the Chinese military, something Alibaba denies. Additionally, Anthropic recently sent a letter to US senators accusing Alibaba of try to copy their technology using 24,000 fraudulent accounts. Alibaba has declined to comment on the matter. Alibaba has the same problem as OpenAI. Richard Lin, vice president of the company Datastrato, has been involved in the panorama of open AI models in China for some time, and his message reminds us of a palpable reality not only for that market, but for all startups and AI companies: “At the moment there are no AI companies with a sustainable business model. It is not a healthy industry.” The message is as true as it is forceful, but all AI companies would surely respond with what Zuckerberg said: “Losing a couple hundred billion dollars would be a bummer, but that’s better than being left behind in the race for superintelligence.” The funny thing is that they are both (probably) right. Image | qwen In Xataka | China’s open AIs aren’t “beating” ChatGPT, they’re doing something more important: catapulting their industry

The El Niño numbers are so strong that they are beginning to make half the world nervous. We have to be able to differentiate risk from hysteria

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“More than 1.80 degrees, 3.46 standard deviations“These two figures simply summarize the enormous El Niño problem that is upon us. And yet, they say much more than they seem. Because, while social networks are filled with phrases like «2026 will be the year when we look back and say: “there, that was when the relatively stable climate system that we have had for 10,000 years really broke down”», are just the data that two of the largest agencies in the world have just retired. Let’s start with what we are clear about. The El Niño of 2026 is real and is coming (very) strong. After an almost testimonial Niña and as we have been counting these months, the Pacific has stepped on the accelerator and on June 11 it made an appearance. The CPC The NOAA estimates that the event is “very strong” between November and January at 63%, the highest since 1950. So, anyway, the figures cannot surprise anyone either. The problem is that they are inflated. That +1.80 with which the text began is the traditional Niño 3.4 index, the absolute. In short: it is the index that measures how far the Central Pacific is from its historical average. And it’s the index we’ve been using all these years. The problem is that there was one small detail that clouded the data and that, sooner or later, we had to address: climate change. In an ocean that warms with each passing day, both La Niña and El Niño start from different places than in previous decades. We were inflating Los Niño and deflating Las Niñas without meaning to. For this reason, in 2026, NOAA adopted the RONI, a relative index that discounted the effect of climate change. And, in this sense, the data circulating on the internet is true and worrying, yes; but incomplete. And does the photo change much from the ONI to the RONI? Since we don’t have updated data, let’s go to April: according to NOAAthe ONI marked +0.23 °C, while the RONI was at −0.24 °C. That is to say, the difference is considerable, but the situation is much less critical. So… the system isn’t broken? The reaction to the runaway ONI hits the mark, but misses the mark. Evidently, El Niño has not gone crazy: it is a mechanism with thousands of years behind it that works on a relatively new world. We could see an obvious example this June: the warmest observed in the global ocean, one in which marine heat waves covered 82% of its surface. And now…. what? In the short term, an increasingly stronger El Niño. It is true that in Spain we are relatively safe from what happens in the Pacific; but, sooner or later, we are going to notice it. As half the world is already noticing. Image | BenBaso In Xataka | We are already seeing the first most destructive effect of El Niño in living memory: rising sea levels

Samsung earns 19 times more than a year ago. Investors have reacted by sinking the stock 7%

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Samsung has announced that its operating profit soared to 89.4 trillion won (58.4 billion dollars) in the second quarter of 2026. That represents 1,810% more than what it achieved last year, that is, it multiplied by 19 the figure it achieved in the same period of 2025. The curious thing is that this achievement has not been of much use in the short term, because its shares have plummeted 6.9% according to indicate on Nikkei Asia. What has happened? A magical quarter. The operating profit for the second quarter of 2025 was just 4.7 trillion won, a very modest figure that can be explained simply: although it may seem incredible now, at that time the memory industry was going through a major crisis that would soon be completely revolutionized with the rise of AI and AI data centers. What was achieved in this second quarter of 2026 nevertheless remains colossal, and in fact Samsung has exceeded the operating profit of its last three years in a single quarter. Blessed damn memories. While users suffer one of the worst crises in history to purchase or upgrade our devicessemiconductor companies They are living a golden age. According to Citi Research, average selling prices for DRAM and NAND are up 44% and 53% respectively… this quarter alone. The demand for AI is no longer limited only to HBM modules, but also to conventional memory used in mobile phones, computers or business servers. But stocks plummet. Despite these results, the actions they fell around 7% on the South Korean stock market in the last 24 hours. Analysts in Nikkei indicated that this was a classic “sell on the news.” Investors had been anticipating these results for months, and in fact Samsung shares had already multiplied their value by five in the last year. Fall and then rise again? What has happened when this maximum was confirmed is that many of these investors have preferred to take profits before the demand for AI is not sustainable and there is an excess of supply in the memory sector. That does not seem likely in the short term, and the manufacturers themselves have already made it clear that demand It will be much higher than the supply at least until 2028. It therefore does not seem likely that Samsung shares will fall for a prolonged period, and if everything goes as it seems, it is reasonable to think that they will in fact continue to rise. Beware: this is not financial advice, it is simply what the market predicts. Market correction. Other companies in the sector also suffered significant falls. In the same session SK Hynix, its great rival, fell 6.1% after collapsing 11.2%. The KOSPI index – something like South Korea’s IBEX 35 – fell 4.9% and the impact was also felt in Japan. There Koxia fell more than 12% and SoftBank more than 4%. Backdrop. The crash comes just as SpaceX enter on the prestigious Nasdaq 100 and when the IPO of SK Hynix in the US is also imminent (scheduled for July 10). Not only that: just a week ago South Korean President Lee Jae Myung presented a public-private investment plan with Samsung and SK Hynix to expand chip manufacturing capacity in the country. Said project will theoretically have a billion dollars of funds (in Nikkei they talk about 800,000 million, the figures they dance) and can further boost the leading role of its two great bastions in the world of semiconductors. In Xataka | Samsung had been the absolute king of technology in South Korea for decades: SK Hynix has just surpassed it

The best deals on technology we found today (July 7) on Amazon

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With the holidays just around the corner and high temperatures pressing hard, equipping our home and our travel backpack with the best technology becomes essential. So that you don’t waste time searching through thousands of products, we have searched amazon and these are the best bargains that we found today. Xiaomi 17 – 12+512GB Smartphone The price could vary. We earn commission from these links power bank INIU by 26.99 euros: 20,000 mAh and with fast charging at 22.5 W. Headphones Soundcore by Anker Space One by 75.99 euros: with multipoint connectivity and noise cancellation. Robot vacuum cleaner Ultenic T20 Pro by 219.98 euros: with 8,000 Pa and compatible with voice assistants. Smart TV Xiaomi TV F Pro 75 per 549 euros: QLED, 75 inches and 120 Hz. smartphone Xiaomi 17 by 799.99 euros: with 512 GB and cameras signed by Leica. Power bank INIU The INIU external battery of 20,000 mAh (now reduced to 26.99 euros) is a practical solution to keep mobile phones, tablets and other devices charged during your vacation. Its compact design incorporates a USB-C cable integrated, which makes it easy to transport and avoids having to carry additional cables. Furthermore, it offers fast charging up to 22.5Wallowing you to recharge your devices in less time. It also includes an LED flashlight, making it a very useful gadget for travel, work or emergency situations. INIU Power Bank, Ultrasmall 20000mAh 22.5W The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Anker Space One Soundcore Headphones The Anker Soundcore Space One (for 75.99 euros) are some wireless over-ear headphones which stand out for their adaptive active noise cancellation system, capable of providing us with almost total isolation. They are equipped with 40mm dynamic drivers and offer high-resolution sound. Its ergonomic design has floating cups that adapt to any environment and a battery that lasts up to 55 hours (or 40 hours with ANC activated). Furthermore, they incorporate multipoint connectivity and three microphones with Artificial Intelligence, to guarantee clear calls in any environment. Anker Soundcore Space One Adaptive Active Noise Canceling Headphones The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Ultenic T20 Pro Robot Vacuum Cleaner With a 21% discount, you can now get 219.98 euros this robot vacuum cleaner Ultenic T20 Pro with a suction power of 8,000 Pa. It comes with a self-emptying base and its battery is perfect for cleaning homes up to 200 square meters. In addition, you can control it through the app or through voice commands, since it is compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. Ultenic T20 Pro Self-emptying Robot Vacuum Cleaner The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Smart TV Xiaomi TV F Pro 75 If it was already on sale last week, this week it is even more so and now you can buy this large Xiaomi TV for 549 euros. One of its main assets is to come with the Fire TV operating system and be compatible with Apple AirPlay, so you can send content directly from your iPhone. Assemble a panel QLED 75-inch compatible with HDR10+ and is also ideal for gaming thanks to its 120 Hz refresh rate and its Game Boost mode. XIAOMI TV F Pro 75, 75 Inch (190 cm), 4K UHD QLED The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi 17 Smartphone With a discount of 300 euros (now it costs 799.99 euros) this mobile Xiaomi 17 It is another of the bargains of the day that is worth it on Amazon. This is the version of 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage. This flagship stands out for its photographic section, led by Leica optical lenses. Summilux and a high dynamic sensor Light Fusion 950. Its brain is the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, which together with the HyperAI intelligent ecosystem, guarantees good performance. Xiaomi 17 – 12+512GB Smartphone The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Xiaomi, Ultenic, Anker and INIU In Xataka | Best Amazon Fire TV. Which one to buy and recommended models to convert your TV into a smart TV depending on use In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs

let data centers pollute without limit

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The summer of 2026 started strong with the first extreme heat wave. We have talked about the heat in Spain and throughout Europebut in the United States they have not been spared either of the consequences. With the air conditioners working at full capacity In homes, the electrical grid is strained and the Secretary of Energy made a decision that directly affects data centers. Activate your generators. The heat wave reached its peak last week and mainly hit the US East Coast. Given this situation, the secretary of energy Chris Wright asked data centers and other large customers to begin using their backup generators, which are normally idle. The objective of this measure is to relieve pressure on the electrical grid, which has experienced an increase in demand caused by high temperatures that have touched 40 degrees in many states. Why is it important. The order demonstrates how data centers are impacting the US power supply, especially in the mid-Atlantic area, where it is concentrated the largest number of data centers in the world. According to Data Center Map dataIn the United States there are more than 4,300 data centers and in Virginia alone there are 637. In other affected states there is also a high concentration: 133 in New York, 133 in Pennsylvania, 93 in North Carolina, 67 in New Jersey, 53 in Maryland and 42 in Massachusetts. Air quality. The biggest loser with this measure is the environment. We are talking about diesel and natural gas generators that emit pollutants such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and generate suspended particles. The use of these types of generators is limited by their effects on air quality, e.g. In Texas only its use is authorized provided that “the operating time does not exceed 10% of the annual operation of the main power source.” According to a Washington Post analysisin the state of Virginia there are at least 10,500 diesel generators installed. It is estimated that just using them for one hour a week has a health impact equivalent to that of five large gas plants combined and is associated with thousands of asthma episodes each year. Regulatory exception. The Department of Energy already had these limitations and In their directive they authorize connect these generators “without prejudice to air quality limitations.” It is a temporary decision designed to protect the stability of the network and the thermal comfort of millions of homes, but it does not come for free. The order sets an uncomfortable precedent: if environmental regulations are turned off every time there is extreme stress on the grid, the exception may end up becoming the new normal. Without batteries. The manager that offers supply in the area is PJM and last week it surpassed the demand record that occurred two decades ago. As they say in the New York TimesPJM does not have an extensive battery system that allows them to store energy to be used in situations like this. In other states such as California or Texas they do have this type of systems, which allows them to face heat waves or frosts without having to resort to measures of this type. Image | Generac In Xataka | Giant data centers have a space and power problem. A company wants to cut them up and distribute them around the houses

The San Diego Comic-Con Málaga 2026 wants to wipe the slate clean with a redesigned space and an avalanche of guests

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The San Diego Comic-Con Malaga this year is determined not to repeat the organizational errors that hindered last year’s edition and that earned them criticism and complaints: little space to eat and drink, endless and poorly organized queues… Today we have seen it in one of the most important presentations to date about what awaits the event. Some data. It has begun to be highlighted that a physical expansion of the space has been carried out, designed to shorten the queues for access to the different activities. The total capacity this year will be 90,000 attendees, divided into 22,500 per day. They will be able to move in a space of 90,000 m² and enjoy more than 300 hours of programming. In this new presentation, 25 guests have been announced, adding to the more than 30 announced in spring. Fernando Piquergeneral director of SDCC Málaga 2026, also confirmed a considerable presence of Disney and its numerous franchises with a specific space in Hall M. Money. Those who already have their ticket purchased will receive a 20 euro gift redeemable at food trucksphotos and signatures with celebrities. Added to this is a portal and an official app, the Fan Portal, which will allow you to manage your profile, review the programming and reserve forums and signing sessions before setting foot on the premises, with identification by digital code. Piquer said that the goal is for the public to arrive “with everything prepared and organized” and be able to focus on enjoying themselves, without dedicating themselves to resolving logistical issues once there. Changes in infrastructure. A new auditorium will be built with capacity for 400 people, designed for interviews and small-format meetings that will operate in parallel to the main stage, Hall M. A covered and air-conditioned tent will also be installed that will accommodate the Exhibitor Hall Garden, intended for exhibitors, shops and collecting. Artist Alley will now have 90 stalls, while Meet The Artist will multiply its surface area by five: from four tents last year to twenty this year. The organization will also add new restaurant and rest areas to facilitate transit between pavilions. New guests. The guest line-up includes Karl Urban, star of ‘The Boys’ and ‘Dredd’. The presence of the entire cast of ‘Starship Troopers’ has also been announced, Christopher Lambert (‘The Immortals’), Kevin Sussman (‘Big Bang Theory’), Deborah Ann Woll (‘Daredevil’), Dave Jones (co-creator of ‘Lemmings’ and ‘GTA’), Jeremy Crawford (designer of ‘Dungeons & Dragons’), Shinichirō Watanabe (creator of ‘Cowboy Bebop’ and ‘Samurai Champloo’), Yoshihiro Ueda (director of ‘Dragon Ball’), Akira Yamaoka (composer of ‘Silent Hill’) and comic artists such as Carmen Carnero, David Messina, Chris Condon, Pepe Larraz, Álvaro Martínez Bueno and Michael Walsh. The posters. Illustrator Helen Chen, known for her work as art director and production designer on ‘The K-Pop Warriors’ and ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’, signs the first official poster of the festival, with Malaga as the visual protagonist. There will be a second poster, still without a scheduled date, by Jon Romita Jr., one of the key figures in superhero comics. In addition, attendees with tickets already purchased will be able to pick up an exclusive poster by the artist Jorge Jiménez at the venue. In Xataka | Masters of sewing (and 3D modeling): Cosplay comes of age and becomes mainstream

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