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The bird is not punctual

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The bird has ceased to be punctual. That is something that, seen what has been seen in recent months, It could be intuited. Today there are reliable and official data that support that statement. And is that Renfe has published The first punctuality report of its AVE, Long Distance and Avant services. This report, which corresponds to the month of June and will have a monthly periodicity, reveals interesting data on the amount of journeys and, above all, their punctuality. The result leaves no doubt: the bird is usually late. The report. Or rather, the reports, because there are three: Ave and long distance, Medium distance and Avant. Linked the corresponding PDFS can be found. According to the Minister of Transportation, Oscar Puenteit is an exercise of “transparency” whose objective is that “the real punctuality and incidents that occur” can be known with the maximum detail. And what do the infomes say? We go in parts. Image | Renfe Ave and long distance. It is no secret that the bird does not go through its best moment: infrastructure problems, roads in poor condition, robberies, fires and, ultimately, all kinds of hardships that, without a doubt, have played against. June has been the second month with the highest average delay, only surpassed by April (20.9 minutes). In summary: TRAYS MADE IN JUNE: 9,607. TRAYS WITH FIVE MINUTES OR LESS: 3,477 trains. TRACKS with up to 15 minutes of delay or less: 1,824 trains. TRACKS with up to half an hour of delay or less: 882 trains. TRACKS with up to an hour of delay or less: 307 trains. Medium delay in June: 19 minutes. Average delay of the first half of the year: 17.6 minutes. Image | Xataka Medium distance. Nor are medium distance paths save. June has been the second month of the year with greater delays, only surpassed by March and its 15.4 minutes. The summary is as follows: TRACKS MADE IN JUNE: 6.152. TRAYS WITH FIVE MINUTES OR LESS: 2,347 trains. TRAYS WITH up to 15 minutes of delay or less: 927 trains. TRAYS WITH HALF HOUR OF DELAY OR LESS: 345 trains. TRACKS with up to an hour of delay or less: 122 trains. Average delay in June: 15 minutes. Average delay of the first half of the year: 12.8 minutes. Avant. Within that delays have also made Mella in Avant, it is the modality that comes best in the report. The average delay is only 10 minutes, more or less half than high speed. June you have been the worst month of the year, but the figures are quite better than in the other two options: TRAYS MADE IN JUNE: 4,151. TRAYS WITH FIVE MINUTES OF DELAY OR LESS: 706 trains. TRACKS with up to 15 minutes of delay or less: 248 trains. TROUPS WITH Up to half an hour of delay or less: 118 trains. TRAYS WITH A HOUR OF DELAY OR LESS: 26 trains. Average delay in June: 10 minutes. Average delay of the first half of the year: 8.8 minutes. Image | Renfe What happened? That 2025 has been a year of penance for high Spanish speed. Accidents and problems the most diverse They have resulted in a series of delays, of several hours in the worst cases. Investment in modernizing and improving infrastructure It seems necessary And, in that sense, The proposal is on the table: 400 million euros that will allocate to the maintenance of roads and infrastructure (viaducts, tunnels ….), “of the 10,300 kilometers of railway lines of the conventional network and the 1,200 kilometers of the metric width network”. The execution period is 24 months. Renfe already covered his back. It should be remembered that on July 1, 2024 Renfe changed his commitment of punctuality. Renfe, who until last year returned the full amount of the ticket if the bird arrived 60 minutes late, the margin uploaded to 90 minutes. From 60 minutes, only half of the important one is returned, when the limit was 30 minutes before. The conditions also worsened in the middle distance and Avant. With these conditions, only in June Renfe has saved 6% of the refunds that, before the entry into force of the new conditions last year, I would have had to execute. Cover image | Renfe In Xataka | Train liberalization in Spain has been a success for travelers. The problem is that companies are losing a money

Hang Christmas ornaments

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We are on July 30, so in Vigo they are doing what proceeds at this point of the year, at least there. In exultant tone and accompanied by several of his councilors, the mayor of the city, Abel Caballero, gave for officially initiated This morning the Christmas decoration campaign. Yes, we are in summer. And yes, it’s hot. But that does not mean that in Vigo they are already dustying the lights. For something It is claimed as the world capital of Christmas. Vigo at 35º. It’s hot. Even in the streets of Vigo, which usually enjoy a benign microclimate guaranteed by the Atlantic and the estuary. Despite that and that Meteogalicia hopes that today the 35ºC of maximum In the city, its mayor has dusted Christmas ornaments. Literally. Accompanied by several of his councilors and in full Porta do Sol, in the urban heart of Vigo, Abel Caballero sediment Together with several Christmas garlands and started the assembly of the ornaments. “We started in July, even with a substantive heat, because riding Christmas is a very complex process.” Shocking? Not so much. Probably the most surprising thing is that the fact that Caballero is hanging Christmas lights in the middle of summer already has little surprising. Did exactly the same a year ago. Then the vigués mayor, surrounded by the same people, on the same place and the same day (July 30) also announced that the city would begin to immediately deploy its Christmas ornament. Not only do they coincide day, place and staging. Like last year, Caballero has also refused to go beyond the strictly scheduled (posing with the ornaments) and did not want to specify when the lights will turn on. “It’s a state secret,” he ironized. It is probably in November (in 2024 it was 16), But in recent years the announcement of the date has come accompanied by another staging on the same street with A clock That marks the countdown. Are there so many lights? Yes. Caballero took advantage of the appointment to remember that the city will display millions of LED lights (around 11.5 millionto be precise) along hundreds and hundreds of streets. This year, Caballero clarifiedwill be 460, 40 more that in 2024. The city will be adorned with 7,000 ornamental motifs such as the ones it showed today to astonish tourists who pass with a cap and sandals. Caballero also revealed that special lights will be used in woodland to not damage them and slid that this year (again) there will probably be surprises related to the size of the mega Christmas tree. At the moment he did not want to reveal how much will exactly measure to prevent others from “copying.” Beyond the show. The mixture of show, virality and waste of LED lights seems to have worked to the city, which in a matter of a few years has managed to take a 180 degree turn to its Christmas: to be a time without major importance, than the hospitality of the city even considered a low season, it has become a real mass phenomenon, with hotels and bars full, saturated streets and riades of tourists from other cities. How many? To specify it is not easy. Between November 1, 2024 and January 31, 2025, the INE counted some 138,300 visitors housed in hotels in Vigo. Not all people who come to the city to enjoy the lights spend the night in it (many arrive from other points of the community or the province), but still the global balance that the City Council is managed is surprisingly high. Recently gentleman He came to ensure That “at Christmas we count 6.3 million visitors in one day.” Not bad for a city of 300,000 inhabitants. Beyond Vigo. Vigo’s zeal for becoming the great reference of Christmas has reached such an extreme that last year the City Council He installed posters Announcing their Christmas lights in Rome, London, Paris and New York, where Spaniards found them who ended up sharing their astonishment in networks. “I was seeing this in a lot and I couldn’t believe it,” tweet An X user next to a photo in which a poster installed in Manhattan was seen. The Galician city is not the only one that has been launched to Christmas frenzy. In recent years, the perspective of becoming a busy tourist point in December has attracted Other municipalitiessuch as Badalona, Madrid or Malaga, which has generated an authentic “War of Lights”. Not surprisingly if you consider that Vigo estimates in 800 million The economic return of the parties. Images | Vigo City Council In Xataka | Kings Night, Night of Pitis: Children from a Portuguese town have been fired from Christmas with cigarettes for years

It is not that the US has warned Russia about Ukraine, is that it has just sent nuclear bombs up to 50 kilotons to Europe

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And, suddenly, Washington left slightly from the rhetoric that had prevailed in the last months in his conversations with Moscow. Trump raised the tone giving Putin a really short maximum period, 10 to 12 days, to agree on a High fire in Ukraine or “face more severe sanctions.” We would say that few people interpreted the message beyond an economic issue. However, the facts also speak of a nuclear movement. Satiety. Yes, Trump It hardened his position in front of Moscow by drastically shortening the deadline granted to Putin to agree on that alleged fire in Ukraine: of the 50 days initially announced to only 10 or 12, warning that, if an agreement is not reached, it will impose more harsh secondary sanctions that will hit Russia and the countries that buy their oil. From his resort in Scotland and together with the British prime minister Keir Starmer, the US president was “very disappointed” with Putin, ensuring that he no longer trusts his conversations, because as long as they speak “people die in missile attacks.” The turn reflects an evolution in your speech, more favorable to Zelenski From his encounter at the NATO Summit, and responds to the intensification of the Russian offensive in the Eastern Front and the increase in drone swarming attacks. But there is much more. Kilotones Actually, it is a confirmation of What we count Last week after the appearance of a military emblem that left little doubt. Now it has been Bloomberg The one that has put name and capabilities to action. We talk about the reappearance of nuclear weapons in the United States in British soilfor the first time Since 2008in an unequivocal gesture to Moscow in full climb of tensions. The episode was known thanks to a flight recorded on July 16, when A C-17 plane of the American Air Force, belonging to the Nuclear Prime Airlift Force (Specialized unit in the transport of nuclear weapons), moved from the base of Kirtland in New Mexico to Lakenheath, in eastern England. The remarkable thing is that he did it with The transpondent onallowing their route to be publicly observed, which Analysts interpret as A direct message Putin that Washington not only maintains its commitment to European security, but is willing to reinforce it visibly. Not even. Both the Pentagon and the British Ministry of Defense maintain the traditional policy of Do not confirm or deny The presence of these weapons, but the accumulated evidence, together with Budget documents that detail nuclear safety works in Lakenheath, it indicates that it is a very real transfer of Ojivas B61-12the latest generation of American thermonuclear bombs. Transport of a b61-12 pump The importance of B61-12. It We have counted These months. The armament in question, The B61-12it is a modernized free fall pump model with a variable load that goes from 0.3 to 50 kilotons and incorporates precision guidance systems, which makes it more flexible compared to previous versions. This adaptability allows us to use it both against specific military and urban areas, giving it an added strategic value. His deployment in the United Kingdom also reintroduces a nuclear mission for the Royal Air Force that had disappeared After the cold warwhen London withdrew their own nuclear aviation weapons. The British Ministry of Defense had already advanced that it will acquire at least twelve f-35a fighters, Specifically designed to carry this type of pumps, which places the RAF again in the center of NATO nuclear deterrence. Tighten the button. With Lakenheath They already add seven bases distributed in Six European countries that house American tactical nuclear weapons under the supreme command of Washington, since the use of these weapons, even deployed in allied territory, always requires the direct authorization of the president of the United States. Impact on NATO nuclear strategy. What doubt fits, the Nuclear Weapons Return British soil is not a simple symbolic gesture, but a sign that the Atlantic Alliance is adjusting its deterrent to respond to tactical nuclear imbalance With Russiawhich has a wide arsenal of short -range weapons. The introduction of the B61-12 offers NATO greater operational flexibility, expanding the response options and partially compensating for the Russian advantage in the European theater. Analysts as Sidharth Kaoushal They emphasize that this modernization constitutes a way of limiting the effects of Russian superiority on non -strategic nuclear armament, while experts as Hans Kristensen They insist that the movement confirms the real deployment of this new type of weapons in Europe, a step with deep consequences in the dynamics of deterrence. The political context. Plus: The transfer of these bombs coincides with a Turrous turn in Trump’s policy towards Putin. The US president, after weeks of friction, has approved New deliveries from Patriot missiles to Ukraine, presses Moscow with the threat of secondary sanctions and has unilaterally shortened the deadline for Russia to accept the fire. In this context, maintaining the lighting of the lighting flight acquires a sense of clear warning: The United States is not only withdrawing forces from Europe, but increases its nuclear response capacity in the region. In this way, Washington seeks to reaffirm both before Russia and before European allies that their commitment to nuclear deterrence is still firm and visible. Strategic implications. It is the last of the legs to analyze. The reintroduction of American nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom after more than a decade of absence it cannot be interpreted as an isolated event, but as part of a remodeling of European security architecture. It means returning to London a central role in NATO’s nuclear mission, reactivating the Air nuclear capacity of the RAF and increase the range of military options of the alliance against the growing Russian threat. The brand movement A substantial reinforcement of the transatlantic link in the field of nuclear defense and, at the same time, sends a warning calculated to Moscow: any perception of nuclear advantage In Europe it will be answered with new deployments and with a reaffirmation of … Read more

It is very thin and comes with Windows

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There is less for the return to school and, in fact, many stores have already launched some campaigns aimed at it. If you are looking for a good laptop to study, the Samsung Galaxy Book4 is offer in El Corte Inglés by 534.65 euros instead of 899 euros. Of course, the offer will only be available today July 30. Samsung Galaxy Book4 (512 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review A good, pretty and now cheaper laptop The Samsung Galaxy Book4 is a more oriented computer to study than to other tasks. Comes with a good 15.6 inches screen With which you can visualize more content than with a smaller size, it offers a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels and internal level incorporates an Intel Core i5 1335U processor. It also has 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage Through SSD, its design is quite thin so it can be carried comfortably in a backpack or bandit and its weight is 1.55 kg, which due to the size of its screen is not bad. On the other hand, it is worth mentioning that it comes with the operating system Windows 11 Home pre -installed, so it is not necessary to buy a use license to install it. It also incorporates compatible speakers with Dolby Atmos And it comes with HDMI, a couple of USB-C ports and another pair of USB-A portsincludes MicroSD card reader, 3.5 mm jack for microphone + headphones and bluetooth and Wifi connectivity. You may also interest you Logitech MX Ergonomic wireless vertical mouse, multi -ordering, 2.4 GHz/Bluetooth with USB unifying receptor, 4000 dpi optical follow -up, 4 buttons, fast charge – black – black * Some price may have changed from the last review Tomotoc 360 ° case for 15.6 inches Acer Aspire 3/5, 15.6 Lenovo Ideapad, HP Pavilion/Envy, Dell Inspireon 16, Asus Chromebook/Vivobook, Integral Protection case for laptop * 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 laptops in quality price. Which to buy depending on the use and eight recommended models In Xataka | What is the best portable computer to work. Tips and recommendations

Now the war for attraction parks has begun

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The consumer’s struggle to introduce food into closed enclosures in which he had paid to enter I was in theaters. Then we go to the Music festivals. And finally, the Attraction parks: Facua has denounced several for preventing entry with food and drink from outside its customers. After this decision there is a constant struggle between companies that seek to maximize their benefits and consumers who claim basic rights. Do not introduce food. Magic Island, Warner Park, Port Aventura and Terra mythical are the Spanish attraction parks that have received the complaint of Facua-Consumenores in Action before the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030 for preventing entry with food and drink. The objective of this prohibition is clear: to force visitors to acquire in establishments and vending machines inside the enclosures, usually at much more expensive prices. The objective, says Facua in its statement, obeys “economic motivations and the eagerness to obtain greater benefits.” According to the association, these practices violate the Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007 of November 16which approves the consolidated text of the General Law for the Defense of Consumers and Users and other complementary laws. The reasons. Some of these parks use reasons for the ban. Warner alleges “hygiene and security reasons” From its websiteand mythical terra It also refers to reasons of “health” and “food and safety hygiene”. Magic Island and Portaventura do not detail the causes of the prohibition. Facua states that in all cases these reasons are “unjustified” And they remember that the prohibition “does not occur in Disneyland Paris and Parc Astérix, in France; in Europe-Park, in Germany; in Legoland Windsor Resort, in the United Kingdom, or in the Park of Los Jardines de Tivoli, in Denmark. In all of them it is allowed to access with food and drink.” Facua’s reasons. The reasons why Facua has filed the demand are the same as he presented (and won) Before movie chains like Yelmo. According to the Association for the Defense of Consumer Rights, the main activity of these companies is “recreational establishments”, in its variant of attraction and thematic parks. The restoration service is a complementary activity and is not part of the price of the entrance that consumers hire when paying it. It is, contrary, the imposition of accessories not requested by the client. 30,000 euros. That was the amount of the fine imposed on the Yelmo cinemas for prohibiting the entry of food and drink from outside in its rooms. The sanction comes from Kontsumobide, the Basque Institute of Consumer, which considered the prohibition as an abusive clause, for the reasons detailed in the previous paradfo. It was not the first time that judicial resolutions were produced against this type of practices. There were already a history In Huelva and Zafrawhere he declared illegal or fined rooms for preventing entry with outdoor food. The company tried to justify the measure, covering in the right of admission. In festivals it is not so clear. In the case of music festivals, the situation is similar but more complex. Many festivals prohibit entry with exterior food, arguing commercial and security motifs. However, the Ministry of Consumer opened sanctioning file to a music festival for this practice – an important precedent – claiming again that “the main activity of these events is not the restoration, but the musical show.” However, there are discrepancies in The interpretation of the law: Some experts consider that when Food sale is a relevant business part From an event of several hours or days, it can be part of its main activity. Variable regulation. The regulation in the festivals ultimately depends on each autonomous community, which produces notable differences: in some regions (Like Asturias), the right to access with exterior food is guaranteed if consumption is allowed in the enclosure; In others this access can be vetoed when the promoter markets its own products. The debate also extends to sporting events, where food is usually allowed only in plastic containers and small volumes, with the strict prohibition of alcoholic beverages and glass or metal containers. Header | Portaventura In Xataka | Abu Dabi’s Disney Park will not look like any other. For a hot reason

The figures of ‘El Hormiguero’ certify who won the war with ‘La Revuelta’

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A few weeks ago we certified that An undisputed winner in the conflict of the access that kept us in suspense for months (El Hormiguero vs. The revolt). Now we can talk about something less subjective, more quantifiable with figures: income and benefits that the Motorcycle Program on Antena 3 has receivedand another conclusion is drawn on the horizon. Actually, the shock with Broncano has come great. The accounts. Pablo Motos and Jorge Salvador, owners of producer 7 and Action, which performs the program for Atresmedia, have had benefits of 8.05 million euros that will be distributed as shareholders of the company, 60% more than the previous year. The 6.7 million benefit has also been very slightly higher than that of 2024. And there are also 5% in revenue, which this year have reached 32.9 million. The producer had already entered 2024 8.5% more than in the previous year, and had experienced a 55% growth. We can even go back back in time to verify the undisputed success of the producer for years: already in 2021, 7 and there were action distributed eight million euros between its only two shareholders (and four in 2022). This year that astronomical distribution figure of dividends is recovered, which certifies the good health of ‘El Hormiguero’ in a year that seemed complicated. How money is distributed. The dividends of 7 and action are distributed to 50% between their two partners. Motos does it through Japala Japala and Jorge Salvador through Primetime Production. In addition, both receive 100,000 euros as administrators of the common company. It is an association of great success that has led to ‘El Hormiguero’ to lead the ranking of The most seen in Antena 3 in the last 11 yearsalready exceeding half of The 19 it has in Antena. Against Broncano. Behind him premiere in September of ‘La Revuelta’his rivalry with ‘El Hormiguero’ put in trouble more than one day the hegemony of motorcycles, with Broncano anticipating him in audience on more than one occasion and, of course, generating a styles shock that moved to social networks and continuous allusions from the programs. In fact, 2024 ended ‘La Revuelta’ Gaining slightly ‘El Hormiguero’with more days as a hearing leader. However, Motos seemed to return with renewed energies after the Christmas break. Broncano experienced a small wear effect, and although its program is far from being a failuresince it generates conversation and plant very dignity to ‘El Hormiguero’, it remains (at least until its return after summer) in an honorable second position. Without advertising there is no benefit. It is obvious that in terms of fame or audience (which can be quantified from many points of view) the triumph of ‘El Hormiguero’ is relative, but it is not in benefits: Formwork Encofrassa, the producer of David Broncano, Jorge Ponce and Ricardo Castella, stays far behind motorcycles and Salvador. According to the Mercantile Registry, the business figure in 2023 of the producer – last registered year – was 2.5 million and obtained a benefit of 215,000 euros. These are figures prior to the premiere of ‘La Revuelta’, but already made ‘the resistance’ in Movistar Plus+. In addition, when issuing in La1, ‘La Revuelta’ does not have advertising or can make promotions with the same freedom as El Hormiguero, so the benefits will be substantially lower than those of its rival in any case. Unexpected effect. Views these figures, you cannot speak of the effect of ‘El Hormiguero’, which has remained faithful to its usual codes, aware of what its audience is looking for. Guests such as Carlos Alcaraz, Antonio Banderas, Karla Sofía Gascón, Raphael, Laura Pausini or Illia Topuria and Marc Márquez, and collaborators such as Juan Ibáñez, Damián Mollá, Luis Piedrahita, Nuria Roca, Tamara Falcó, Juan del Val or Susi Caramelo have delineated a completely continuous season. An intelligent play, taking into account that advertising income has not resent the least. ‘El Hormiguero’ continues to reign at the gates of its twentieth anniversary. Header | Atresmedia In Xataka | The motorcycle and broncano clash honors a long television custom: that of the presenters wars

Working in Google, goal or Apple was the great dream of the newly graduated. Now they are afraid of them

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According to A study The National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS), in 2015 Google was the company in which millennials wanted to work as soon as they finish studying. Ten years later the situation It has changed remarkably. A few years ago, getting a job in any of the Big Tech was a pride. Not so much today. What happened. A new study of the NSHSS of reveals how a notable number of graduates no longer have large technology as the first options to seek employment. Working on them is no longer a dream, and their last movements make them rather a threat. Source: NSHSS. Big Tech don’t interest so much. In that study of 2015 Google was first among the companies desired by the newly graduated, while Apple was the 4th, Microsoft the 7th and Amazon La 11ª. In 2024 Google has passed to the 7th position, Amazon to the 8th, Apple at the 9th and Microsoft to the 16th. The interest in signing for these companies has been significantly reduced, and in the first six positions four hospitals, the FBI and NASA are now listed. Not to mention Spotify. The company Directed by Daniel EKwhich in 2022 was the third preferred by the newly graduated, is now in position 26, but there are other great displaced. Spacex has gone from position 9 to 22, Tesla from 15 to 33 and Airbnb from 27 to 49, for example. The threat of AI. In the study they point to clear reasons. One of them is that of fear of growing automation: artificial intelligence raises a remarkable impact for those positions that were previously covered by graduate young people. The same industry that previously promised innovation and a career with constant learning is now wrapped in frequent cases of sudden mass layoffs. Companies releasing ballast. The advance of AI both in Big Tech and other companies has allowed to validate the idea of trying to do more. Microsoft is in records of benefits and also dismissalfor example, but other important technological ones Like Amazon They have frozen their hiring while Google has opened the door so that employees who are not happy with the company abandon it freely. Volatility in these large companies is huge. The objectives change. Salary and prestige matter between millennials and gene Z, but according to a Network Trends survey cited In The Times of India, 76 & students put as great priority work stability above those metrics or even location. In fact, there seems to be a turn with a clear social purpose, such as those related to medical institutions. Doubts about whether or not to go to university. Another study Made by Deloitte It reveals how another of the foci of these generations is to continue learning, but not necessarily in academic environments. 31% of the Z Z and 32% of the millennials who participated in the survey indicated that they had decided not to go to universityespecially for the high cost of these institutions and for skepticism about whether that investment ends up being profitable. Changes in labor scene. The technological sector is especially irregular. Mass layoffs contrast with that new phenomenon of the AI Super. What a goal is hiring for hundreds of millions of dollarsFor example. The talent migration in the AI segment – with the money in between – contrasts with the questions that many recent graduates are asked now: what is the ethical impact of my work? Will it continue to exist within five years? There is a redefinition of ambition and the purpose of work itself. Not only should it be profitable, but also have a clear purpose behind. Image | Alex doubt 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

AI has just taught us the future of the most important application of our life: subscription browsers

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How much of what you do on the computer do it in the browser? Exact. A lot. We don’t think too much about it, but The browser is the application by antonomasia of our time. Not so much on the mobile, where native apps – which are often browsers disguised as something else – triumph, but of course in desktop and laptops. The Internet has been the indirect guilty of this transformation of the browser in one of the pillars of our life. The greats of technology know it well, and for more than three decades they have tried to conquer with their browsers to dominate the world. Of that mythical Netscape We become absolutely dominated by Microsoft Internet Explorerand after the occasional scarce with Firefox —Now in really low hours– We end up yielding to a Wonderful and disturbing Google Chrome. This company, by the way, was clear from the beginning how important the browser was. So much that they created an operating system absolutely focused on that idea: they called it Chrome Os. During all this time, yes, there was something inherent to all those browsers: They were free. Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, Opera and of course Google gave them to us. They did not need to charge for them because they earned (and earned) a lot of money indirectly with their integration of search engines, especially Google’s. They tell Apple: Google pays about 20,000 million a year so that your search engine is the native in Safari. If you pay so much, imagine what you earn through the searches made by users of the iPhone, iPad or Mac. Thus, using the browser has always been something we have done without thinking that it could cost us money. That will change very soon. Hello, subscription browser And it will change because before us a new era opens in which browsers want to be much more than that. And to achieve this they have allied with AI models that allow interaction with websites to be much more powerful. The promise of browsers with AI It is exceptional. One of the first, Perplexity Cometit autocalifies as “the browser that thinks with you.” Like him, browsers with AI are able to summarize that article that you are reading or answer questions about it, integrate conversational engines and little by little they are beginning to integrate something especially promising: AI agents What do things for us. That click alone and fill for forms and that they even overcome captchas without help. But do that this time will not be free. Not at least if we want to use those options intensively. This is what The Browser Company is already raising, the company that first developed Arc and? He abandoned it To launch your own browser with the call day. Josh Miller, CEO of The Browser Companyhe confessed in An interview With The New York Times that in the coming weeks will launch subscription plans that will go from five dollars a month to hundreds of dollars a month, depending on how much users want to take advantage of the NA of the browser. There will still be a free version that will allow a limited use (probably very) of these options, but the future of this browser is not to be a browser, but to be a subscription browser. The decision made by this company is totally logical: Using AI is not cheap, and using it is still less cheapso if you want to do it, you will have to pay. It is the same as we are seeing with the different models: Chatgpt, Gemini or Claude can be used for free, but if you want to use them intensively and access their most advanced options, it is time to pay by pointing to their subscription plans, as is the case with Chatgpt Plus, Google Ai Pro or Claude Pro respectively. Browsers are already the most widespread way to interact with AI, so it is logical to think that all of them – Hello, Firefox? – will end up integrating these functions. He has done it day, he has done it, he just did it Edge with your co -pilot mode And it is expected that Integration between Gemini and Chrome So it is much more direct. All of them will remain free in their basic versions. We can normally navigate as we have always done, but if we want to go further, if we want to use all those attractive AI options, Touch to pay a subscription. One that will be increasingly expensive. We will have to go to the idea. In Xataka | Anthropic has seen that their users do not stop using the 200 euros plan a month of their AI. They had to stop their feet

The platform eliminates its cheapest plan without ads

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Winds of change in Netflix blow. Again. In silence and without issuing any type of statement to media, the platform has eliminated of a stroke the basic plan without ads. From today, that subscription, which until now was the cheapest option to see content without advertising, disappears. Not only for the new highs, but the users who paid for it will have to move to another. The options are two: start paying much more or pay less in exchange for seeing ads. The basic plan. If we look back, we will remember that Netflix offered a Basic plan without ads for 7.99 euros per month. This plan included the fair and necessary in terms of access, since it did not admit several simultaneous devices, or extra subscribers, or downloads, or broadcast to Chromecast and the resolution was HD (720p). However, I had no publicity. 7 tricks to make Netflix the most Image | Cottonbro Studio Cheap netflix = netflix with ads. With recent changes, that plan will cease to exist on September 1. Netflix remains, therefore, with only three plans: standard with ads (6.99 euros, ads, fullhd and limited catalog), standard (13.99 euros, without ads, Fullhd and the entire catalog) and Premium (19.99 euros, without ads, 4K and the entire catalog). What is the problem? That the plan will disappear, so the user will have to make a decision: pay one euro less per month and see ads or pay six more euros and not see them. Yes, it is true that the standard plan with ads is cheaper, admits FullHD resolution and two simultaneous devices, but the catalog is limited and well, it has advertising. In the event that the user does not make a decision, he will automatically pass to this plan. From now on, the cheapest plan to see Netflix without ads costs 13.99 euros per month Netflix without ads rises in price. It is another way of seeing it. After this change, the cheapest way to see the Netflix content without advertising happens to cost six euros more, which is what the standard plan is worth. The Premium Plan, which is the most powerful thing the company offers, does not rise in price and remains at 19.99 euros per month. And it works. Netflix’s great triumph has been to return to the exit boxto want to pay to see ads. Time has proved the platforms, who have found in their plans with advertisements one of the main drivers of new subscribers. In the case of Netflix, the platform announced in May that had reached 94 million users of plans with advertisements, a sensitive increase with respect to the 70 million it had in November 2023. These plans have reached almost all platforms and, incidentally, The volume of subscriptions triggered. It seems that the average user weighs more the potential savings in the monthlyness than to see some ads to which, on the other hand, it is already accustomed to linear television or social networks. Cover image | Anastasia Shuraeva In Xataka | The streaming economy is completely broken and things will only get worse within the coming years

After the earthquake of Russia, evacuations and alerts extend through the Pacific for fear of something much worse: waves

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With the still recent memory of what happened in March 2011, when a Powerful earthquake Registered in front of the Japanese coasts, it generated a tsunami and sowed the destruction, with thousands of victims and missing, in Japan and Russia they look at the ocean with tension. And they are not the only ones. The reason: Another powerful earthquakeof magnitude 8.8, has shaken the ground of the Kamchatka Kraiat the east end of Russia, and unleashed the fear for the waves it can generate in the Pacific. In just a few hours that has resulted in alert messages, evacuations and authorities asking the population to stay away from the coasts. What happened? That the ground has trembled in Russia. And with violence. In the last hours the US Geological Service registered an earthquake from Magnitude 8.8 at the east end of Russia. More specifically the tremor broke out At 23.25 h GMT (two more in peninsular Spain), with epicenter 126 kilometers southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskyin the Kamchatka Krai, in the north of the Pacific, and a depth of around 19.3 km. In some areas of the region they soon registered waves between three and four meters high. Has it been serious? Sergei Lebedev, the head of the emergency department in the region, He explained That the earthquake has left some injured, although for now, as confirmed to the Russian agency Tass, there seems to be none of gravity. It is not bad balance if the power of the earthquake is taken into account, of magnitude 8.8. The governor of Kamchatka has recognized that the earthquake was “serious” and “the strongest in decades”, which explains that the tremor causes the collapse of part of the facade of a nursery. “Before July 31, a list of buildings will be developed that will undergo instrumental inspection. The general evaluation of material damage will be ready in a week,” Point out The governor of the region, Vladimir Solodov. In its telegram channel, the Unified Geophysical Service of Russia has confirmed that it is the greatest earthquake since 1952 in Kamchatka (in November of that year there was another tremor of Magnitude 9 which generated important material damage and caused waves of several meters in Hawaii) and the sixth most intense globally since 1900. What reactions has generated? Fear. And caution. Since the earthquake was produced by authorities from different countries and regions bathed by the Pacific, from Russia to Chile or the United States, passing through Japan or the Philippines, have reacted with different degrees of alert, depending on the type of waves they expect. One of the most forceful responses has probably given Japan, where alert sirens have already been heard and seen to the Hokkaido coast residents Uploaded to roofs When the initial waves of the Tsunami, 30 centimeters arrived. The authorities have ordered the evacuation of the east coast of the country, punished in 2011, and required more than 900,000 people of 133 municipalities of the Pacific coast that leave their homes. Some sources They raise the population that has received evacuation orders or alerts to about two million. Have you done anything else? Yes. On the island of Hokkaido, an evacuation order of 5 out of 5the highest level, which affects about 10,500 citizens of the town of Urakawa, and the alert has spread to prefectures such as Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate, Mie or Miyagi, among others. In some regions waves of up to three meters are expected. With that backdrop, public transport has been altered at some points and the authorities They have evacuated to the workers of the Fukushima nuclear plant, which was already affected by the tsamot of 2011. And beyond Japan? Russia and Japan are not the only ones who have activated emergency measure. The United States Tsunamis Alert Center has warned of the risk of waves of more than three meters in the Hawaii archipelago and between one and three on the island of Guam. Before Panorama the governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, has declared The state of emergency and ordered evacuations in areas of the coast, which has even derived in traffic jams. In the islands they have also enabled shelters in schools, hotels or community centers. It is not the only American territory that looks at the Pacific. The National Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has also transferred the alert to some parts of Alaska and follows the situation on the east coast of the country, such as California. “Keep strong already except!” I exhort Donald Trump. Are there more countries on alert? Yes. In Chile President Gabriel Boric He has recognized That, “for now, we have Tsunami alert for the entire coast” on Wednesday. “The protocol is to evacuate three hours before the estimation of arrival of the wave,” he said. In China the tsunamis alert center He has warned also of the possibility of receiving waves of between 30 and 40 cm in Zhejiang and Shanghai and Peru has activated Also alert in his coast. Ecuador has even gone further to order the eviction of the Galapagos Islands, “which implies the suspension of maritime activities and eviction of beaches, docks and low areas.” The list adds and continues with organisms from different nations that ask for caution in different points of the Pacific. In Mexico the Semar has issued an alert For the country’s coast bathed by that ocean after the Kamchatka earthquake and has asked its population to remain away from the beaches and warn of strong currents. Images | USGS, NOAA and X In Xataka | Tsunami’s alert is leading people to get on the roofs of Japan. It is a good idea, but only at the beginning

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