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The four -day workday has found an unexpected ally in Moscow: the Ukraine War

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The conflict in Ukraine continues to reconfigure not only Geopolitics and the European Budgetsbut it will also change the working day of thousands of Russian workers. Avtovaz, one of Russia’s biggest car manufacturers, has announced that it will apply the four -day work week As of September. According to The published by Reutersthis is not a measure oriented to Improve productivity or reduce the stress levels of its workers, but adopts this measure in the middle of a strong fall in vehicle sales, a crisis of consumption due to the wear of the invasion of Ukraine and a growing pressure of exports of Chinese cars. Russia does not sell cars. Avtovaz, is the manufacturer of the acquaintances Lada. After the first months of the Ukraine War, the Russian Automobile Industry lived a brief increase in defense expense and state subsidies. However, according to data from Reutersthis situation has begun to revert quickly. Avtovaz explained through a statement sent to Russian media that their sales fell 25% in the first semester, with only 155,481 units sold, and estimates that this will be the tendency for the entire source year. Avtovaz is not the only one to consider the four -day work week as a measure for shock the crisis of the sector. According to The local pressthe Russian manufacturer Gaz (Gorkovski Avtomobilny Zavod) will also apply the four -day week on his Gorki plant, for the same reasons that Avtovaz argued. Russia’s own Minister of Economy, Maxim Reschetnikov, He warned in June that the country “is on the verge of entering recession.” Avtovaz, as a reflection of this crisis, wants to use the letter of reduction of the work week as a way of maintaining employment without increasing the number of layoffs in difficult times. No money to make them or to buy them. According to published The Moscow Times“The final decision on the introduction of a reduced work week of four days will be taken based on the results of an analysis of market trends and economic factors, including the level of the key interest rate and the availability of credit products,” said the manufacturer’s statement. The main reason that has uncontrolled this crisis (in addition to being a derivative of the conflict in Ukraine), has been the increase in interest rates, which slows so much production Like consumption. “We are talking about a high key rate and more severe demands by the regulator for those facilitating cars loans,” Avtovaz explained in his statement collected. The impact of high types not only feels Avtovaz. The Russian giant of the Seversal Steel, pointed outthat “the high basic rate and low prices” were responsible for a 55% drop in their benefits in the second quarter of the source year. That is, as I know money is expensivecompanies lose profitability and citizens purchasing power to buy cars that are manufactured, generating a chain effect that complicates economic recovery. Chinese cars are unstoppable. To the already complicated economic crisis of the automobile sector worldwide, the massive emergence of imported cars from China is added, which sell their products at such low prices that Avtovaz directly accuses a “price dumping policy.” According to company sources these marches, mostly Chinese, are increasing the market pressure with very small prices to give out more than 400,000 cars that these importers have stored in their dealers and have not yet sold. Gaz starts already, Avtovaz leaves it for September. Russian Fuentes assure that Gorki de Gaz’s factory will implement the four -day work week immediately. From July 21 to August 3, the employees of this plant will enjoy their vacations normally. During this period, several divisions of the plant will continue to operate according to their work schedule. Once they finish, the four -day work week will be implemented at least until the end of August. Avtovaz indicates that it is still analyzing the way to implement the measure, so it will enter into force for September in the factory that the company has in Togliatti, in which one in 20 inhabitants of this city works. You know what it is to work four days. Although it is not done for the reasons for productivity and well -being improvement That this model of day is usually applied, this is not the first time that Avtovaz resorts to the reduced working day to deal with a crisis. In 2022, just after the imposition of First international sanctions To Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, the company implemented a four -day work week for three months. During that same year, the sales of its flagship model, the Lada, fell 48.2%, until 174,688 units, according to data publishedby The New Voice of Ukraine. On that occasion, four -day work week served to maintain a certain level of production In an adverse scenario. Today, three years later, economic conditions remain equally complicated, so companies re -apply the same recipe. In Xataka | Three Spanish companies tell us how it has gone after implementing a job utopia: the four -day week Image | Lada, Unspash (Sten Rademaker)

While in the West we continue to discuss whether to use in class, China wants students to use it more and more

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In many Chinese university campuses, the use of artificial intelligence is no longer discussed: it is used. According to a mycos institute surveyonly 1 % of teachers and students claimed not to use generative tools. The remaining 99 % do and almost 60 % declare to use them frequently. It is a notable turn with respect to two years ago, when accessing Chatgpt It involved resorting to mirrors and VPN. Today the movement is the opposite: the centers drive their use. As Mit Technology Review points outthe transition has been fast, but planned. At the University of Zhejiang, an introductory subject of AI is mandatory for all students since 2024. Others such as Fudan, Renmin or Nanjing have opened transverse courses to any discipline, beyond computer science or engineering. Beijing marks the passage for AI The focus is in the use with criteria: internal guides, concrete examples, recommendations on what tasks can rely on generative models and which human judgment should prevail. Interaction with the machine is treated as one more skillcomparable to other technical literacy. McKinsey estimates that China will need 6 million professionals with AI domain for 2030 Several universities are developing their own courses focused on local alternatives to Chatgpt. Centers like Shenzhen and Zhejiang have launched teaching programs on Deepseeka model that seeks to position itself as a national reference in generative. Others are already forming their students in the use of Doubao, the chatbot developed by Baidu and one of the most widespread in academic environments. In April 2025, The Chinese Ministry of Education issued national guides for Primary and Secondary, aimed at promoting critical thinkingdigital fluidity and practical application in these academic stages. For its part, Beijing has already mandatory the teaching of AI in all centers of the city, from primary to high school. For the University, these general recommendations have resulted in plans of each institution and the creation of internal courses and regulations. Spain is already moving In Spain there are universities that have gone from the debate to action: new degrees focused on AI and tutors based on AI that accompany the study Without giving the answer made. All with an objective: to train professionals who work with ia without losing critical thinking. If we focus on the rest of the West, the use is massive, but the rules not so much. Let’s deepen a little. USA: Ohio University He has made mandatory The training in AI for all its first year students. In California, programs such as Chatgpt Edu are arriving at public universities to offer free access to generative models. Europe: the European Commission promotes the Digital Education Action Plan 2021–2027with ethical guides and teacher training. Universities such as Maastricht, Gothenburg or Edinburgh have approved their own frames. Networks like Yerun or the US work to harmonize criteria and share good practices. Decisions, for now, remain mostly decentralized: They depend on each institutionof each faculty … and, in many cases, even of each teacher. It is a flexible model, with advantages and disadvantages, compared to the most structured approach that China has adopted. Two different paths to address the same reality: AI has come to stay, and mastering these tools will be key. What is still being defined is how to teach them, when and under what criteria. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 Flash | Igor Omilaev In Xataka | There are those who believe that the best AIs become more silly over time. It is no madness

Leave an army without internet in the middle of a battle

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In a war where drones are as crucial as ammunition, cutting Internet access is the equivalent of cutting supply lines. And that was exactly what, according to a new and explosive Reuters reportmade Elon Musk in Ukraine at the end of September 2022, paralyzing a key counteroffensive against Russian troops. It was not a technical failure, nor a Russian cyber attack. According to the agency, it was a direct order of the Musk itself that left the Ukrainian troops blind and showed that the richest man in the world has the power to change the course of a war from his office in California, thousands of kilometers away from the front. The story, which contradicts the public statements of the businessman, is based on the testimony of three people who know the decision of Elon Musk. The first direct proof that the tycoon interfered in the Ukraine War since Walter Isaacson told a similar case in his biography and then rectify. But the incident goes far beyond past controversies and places the tycoon in an unprecedented geopolitical power position for a particular citizen. A deliberate blackout in the front of Jersón. The events occurred during a key counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army to recover the strategic region of Jersón. The Ukrainian troops advanced and depended almost completely on the Starlink terminals for everything: coordinate attacks, point the long -range artillery and pilot the surveillance drones that gave them eyes on the Russian positions. It was then that Elon Musk gave the order to a Spacex engineer, Michael Nicolls, to cut the coverage in the counterattack areas. According to one of the sources, the order was blunt: “We have to do it.” In the Spacex offices, employees complied, seeing how a hundred hexagonal cells that represented Starlink’s coverage on the company’s internal map were turned off. The impact on the front was devastating. The communications were suddenly cut and the surveillance drones were left without a sign, leaving the isolated and vision units on the enemy forces. Artillery units, which are used for the precise geolocation of objectives, began to fail in their shots. The soldiers panic. According to a Ukrainian officer, the attempt to surround a Russian position in the city of Berislav failed after the blackout. Although Ukraine managed to release the area, Musk’s decision temporarily redrawed the front line. Walter Isaacson’s biography fell short. This new report on Jersón is more serious than the most famous controversy to date: the Crimea incident. In September 2023, Walter Isaacson published his biography of Elon Musk telling that the tycoon had ordered to turn off the Starlink connectivity in Crimea to frustrate a Ukrainian attack with submarine drones against the Russian fleet in Sevastopol. That statement caused a media earthquake, but was withdrawn by Isaacson himself in subsequent editions of the biography. According to Musk, what happened was actually that Ukraine had requested emergency activate Starlink’s coverage on Crimea, an area where he was not operational. Musk refused. Your reasoning, expressed in several publications in XIt was clear: doing so would have turned Spacex an accomplice of an act of war, violating the law. So why did you interfere in Jersón? Reuters research points to a reason that Magnate himself has expressed on other occasions: The fear that Ukrainian advances will cause nuclear retaliation by Russia. At that time, Vladimir Putin had threatened to use nuclear weapons if Russia’s “territorial integrity” was compromised. This fear, which according to the report was shared by senior US officials, seems to have been the trigger for Musk to decide that the Ukrainian counteroffensive had gone too far. In his biography, Isaacson collected this kind of existential anguish: “How am I in this war? Starlink was not conceived to be involved in wars. It was for people to see Netflix and relax, not for drone attacks.” The Ukrainian dependence of Starlink. “One of the main factors for which Ukraine was not overwhelmed by Russia is Starlink’s support that I provided, with great risk to spacex of cyber attacks and physical attacks by the Russian military forces,” Musk wrote in the late 2024. “Starlink is the backbone of Ukrainian military communications in the front.” Starlink is a constellation of thousands of satellites, much more difficult to block through interference than Other satellite Internet services. It also offers much larger bandwidth and latency much lower than other operators. This technological superiority has not only been crucial for Ukraine, but has given Elon Musk, the owner of Spacex (which is still a private company) an unprecedented power. Image | The White House In Xataka | China and Europe are investing a fortune in their own Starlink: the US advantage is too big to ignore it

All that and much more in Crossover 1×16

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This week we have our 1×16 crossover is special, especially for the guest that accompanies us. It’s about Carlos Santana (@Dotcsv), whose channel From YouTube it has become one of the most followed for those interested in the world of AI. Accompanied as always by Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia, this expert tells us about its beginnings as a disseminator in the world of AI and then entering current issues. For example, what expects from OpenAi project with Jony Ivewhat future does the AI Open Source have in local or what is the present and future of the video generated by models as I see 3. But above all Analyze Apple’s situationa company that still does not get hooked to the world of AI despite the time it has passed since Openai launched Chatgpt At the end of 2022. It also plays other issues, such as the future of Humanoid robots at home or if the AGI is as close as Sam Altman (OpenAi) or Dario A amodei (Anthropic). There are also in this episode parallel issues: we wanted to make a debate about the fast charging on mobile And why Apple has never adopted it to the extent of many of its Android rivals. And we have also been able to see Carplay Ultra in Action and Carlos makes us enjoy A fun vlog by New York Thanks to a recent visit to that country. Enjoy the episode! On YouTube | Crossover

Galileo Galilei of the 21st century is an unknown man who has discovered more moons than no one is going to discover

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If they asked you about an astronomer, you would probably think of Copernicus or Galileo Galilei. Maybe Carl Sagan came to mind. If they add “to be alive,” you might answer Neil Degrasse Tyson or, in the event that you are a fan of Queen, Brian May. The name that would hardly come out in the conversation is Scott S. Sheppard, an astronomer as prolific as unknown. The number 1 in yours. Yeah Cristiano Ronaldo He is the greatest scorer in the history of professional football, Scott S. Sheppard is the CR7 to discover objects in our solar system. In total, he has put his name in more than 200 planetary moons: 78 of Jupiter, 119 of Saturn, three from Uranus and three of Neptune. Practically half of all known planetary moons. A record that, as points out Iflscienceprobably will never be overcome, and he has continued to swell it in recent months. The true king of Jupiter. In April, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) confirmed the discovery of two new moons in Jupiter, raising the official total giant to 97. Their provisional names are S/2017 J 11 and S/2017 J 10. Both are small moons and with retrograde orbits, that is, they revolve in the opposite direction to the rotation of the planet, something common in the outer and smaller satellites of Jupiter. And yes, he has discovered them Scott S. Sheppardthat with these two new findings, he adds almost 80 moons of Jupiter to his credit. To put it in perspective: Galileo discovered the first and largest moons of Jupiter in 1610. Since 2000, Sheppard has overwhelmingly dominated the search for Jovian satellites. What is resisting: Planet 9. He extensive curriculum Sheppard looks more like the index of an astronomical atlas than to the discoveries of a single person. In addition to natural satellites in Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptunethis astronomer of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC has also discovered 23 minor planets, six candidates for dwarf planets, three comets that bear their name (Sheppard – Trujillo, Sheppard – Tholen and Trujillo – Sheppard) and The most distant object ever observed In the Solar System: 2018 Ag37 “Farfarout”, about 130 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. This is where your work becomes even more fascinating. Many of his discoveries are transneptunian objects such as 541132 Leleākūhonua “The Goblin”. And it is no accident. Sheppard and his colleague Chadwick Trujillo found them while looking for something much bigger: The hypothetical planet nine. Themselves proposed in 2014 The existence of a superstraier -type distant planet to explain the strange orbits grouped from objects such as the Minor Sedna planet. Image | Carnegie Science In Xataka | What types of satellites exist: guide not to get lost in a gigantic network of which we are increasingly dependent

The sudden turn of this F -18 of the Air Force left Gijón without words. Now we know exactly why it happened

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Air festivals are for that: to amaze aviation enthusiasts with scenes impossible to see in a conventional airport. Uncommon aircraft, extreme maneuvers, moments that are recorded over fire. But what happened this weekend in Gijón was something else. An F -18 starred in such an unexpected maneuver that manyfrom the shore of the beach of San Lorenzo to social networks, they stayed with their hearts in a fist. In just a few seconds, the hunting descended in parallel to the Paseo Marítimo, made a sharp turn at a very low height over the sea and gained altitude again. The flight, which was part of the official show of the Gijón Air Festival, seemed to have left the script. Decisive response. The Air and Space Army He explained on Instagram What happened: “One of our f -18 fighters made an evasive maneuver by detecting a flock of birds in its trajectory. This action is part of the usual protocol to preserve both the integrity of the pilot and the security of the public.” In the same publication, they stressed that “the pilot acted quickly and professionalism, avoiding a possible impact without compromising the exhibition.” PUSLA to see the original publication on Instagram A maneuver that, far from being improvised, demonstrates the level of preparation that these aviators face. When you have to react without margin, there is no place for doubt. Gijón and his festival. With 19 consecutive editions – Salvo 2020, which was digital for the pandemic – the Gijón Air Festival It is already the reference event in Spain. For three days, the city becomes a meeting point for civil, institutional and military aircraft, with an outstanding closure on Sunday at noon on the beach of San Lorenzo. This year, the F -18 and the Eurofighter They were two of the poster stars. And, although it was not planned, the American hunting ended up signing the most commented maneuver of the day. The F -18, a combat classic with history in Spain. The McDonnell Douglas F -18 Hornet, called C.15 in the Spanish Armed Forcesit is a bimotor combat plane that entered service in the country in 1986. It can reach a maximum speed of Mach 1.8, operate more than 15,000 meters of altitude and load more than 7,000 kilos in weapons and missiles. Spain acquired 72 units after a long selection process and, since then, is part of the wings 12, 15 and 46, deployed in key bases such as Zaragoza, Torrejón or Gando. His versatility has allowed him to participate in Missions Air -Aire, Air -Superficie and International Operations in the Balkans, under the NATO umbrella, in the 1990s. When the sky surprises. Gijón’s scene, although brief, perfectly synthesizes what happens when heaven and technique cross at the right time. That flush maneuver on the sea, that forced turn in full flight, was as spectacular as justified. There were birds in the trajectory. And the pilot did what he had to do. From the army they insist that security is always priority. But even with all the protocols underway, exhibitions such as this demonstrates that flying so close to the public remains, by definition, an exercise where the unexpected never disappears completely. Not just fighter: sometimes other airplanes steal the show. And it is not the first time that an institutional flight surprises. In another air festival, the protagonists They were two planes of the Slovakia government: An Airbus A319 and a Fokker 100 that, despite not being fighters, signed an high level exhibition, with maneuvers that left all speechless. His deployment became one of the most viral moments of that event, and in Xataka we tell it here: Images | spotting_daanii.pl (Via Army Air) In Xataka | If something matches all mortals, it is the limit of 100 ml in the plane’s hand luggage. That is about to end

Sydney Sweeney stars in a new announcement of jeans. And for some it is the end of the “era woke”

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The campaign that Sydney Sweeney has starred for American Eagle He has raised an opinion polcareda in the United States, with accusations of racism and even Eugenics Defense that are rarely made to clothing marks. On the surface, criticisms accompanied by the moment of special sensitivity in the country; If we deepen a little more, an authentic thermometer of the Anti-Woke wave that deployed throughout the state since Donald Trump won the elections. American Woman. That Sweeney star in a campaign for American Eagle has nothing strange: one of the actresses with a more canonical beauty of the current Star System Hollywood Juvenile at the service of a purely American jeans brand. The ads have an erotic and fashionable point, almost Vintage In his shameless contemplation of Sweeney’s physicist, and at the same time self -conscious, to parodic of pure topic (checking the engine of a typical American car, recording with a video camera, I made a casting …) Good genes. The problematic is the slogan: “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans”, an intraductible misunderstanding set between genes and jeansthat in English they pronounce the same. In one of the clips The misunderstanding comes to make explicit, and the protests have happened. Articles like this room They speak of commentators strange that it is precisely a blonde, white and blue -eyed woman, which is described as’ good genes. “It is a speech that many find, as the article details, uncomfortably similar to the discourse on The “upper race” of the Nazissince “good genes” is a message that has traditionally wielded ideology groups related to eugenics. Eugenics Today. The eugenic movement in the United States was An important social and scientific phenomenonmainly active from the end of the 19th century until the mid -twentieth century, and aimed Improve “genetic quality” of the population through selective breeding and reproduction control. It was greatly fed by beliefs in biological determinism and The racial hierarchy And he frequently pointed to groups considered “not suitable”, as poor, disabled, certain racial and immigrant minorities of the southern and east of Europe. Today, the movement does not exist in an organized way, but has experienced resurgence Thanks to certain political and social groups auged by Trump’s conservative ideas: beliefs in “genetic purity”, opposition to diversity efforts and hard migratory positions framed in statements pseudo-biological about “bad genes.” Even today laws persist in the country based on eugenic principles, such as norms for “usual criminals” or The laws of three crimes. Ozempic Empire. Some observers They also point to Ozempic consumptionwho has grown up significantly in the United States. The medicine has become a social phenomenonwith a boom auged by Influencers and pressure on social networks that encourage its use to lose weight. This has done that The movement Body Positivity that claimed diverse bodies and not adjusted to traditional canons of beauty has entered into decline: in front of a new cult of thinness and an “era of self-injection.” In Tiktok, this Return to the ideal of very thin bodies Similar to 2000, disguised as inclusion and self -acceptance, it already has a name: “Skinnytok”. Woke decays. All this panorama (claim of canonical bodies, toying accusation with defiantly ultra -right -wing root ideas, the theoretical undercover racism) is under the umbrella A broader and more complex phenomenon: The recent wave that groups politicians, influencers, podcasters and Leaders of the technological sector that They oppose the policies and speeches associated with the “woke ideology”. For example, an icon of this movement, the governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, has promoted laws to combat the teaching of the critical theory of the race, which enters with the theories we have seen above. Antiwake wave critics denounce that, disguised as Fight for Freedom of Expression (which is undoubtedly what allows American Eagle to launch campaigns like this), this rhetoric serves to preserve white and conservative power structures, attacking narratives that promote racial and social justice. That is, very in line with criticism of this new campaign starring Sidney Sweeney. Header | American Eagle In Xataka | Hildegart, the “red virgin” designed by her mother to eugenize Spain and ended in tragedy

Fire and ash ‘converts the na’vi into their own hell

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Pandora no longer looks bright oceans or spiritual jungles: there is fire, ash and a threat that burns from within. The trailer of ‘Avatar: fire and ash‘ It is now available and points to a conflict as we had not seen so far in the saga. What is shown is a brief advance, but enough to intuit the tone: darker, more visceral. The film will arrive at theaters on December 19 and will do so in premium formats such as IMAX 3D, Dolby Cinema 3D, Reald 3D, 4DX or Screenx. Pandora Arde: A new threat makes its way Everything continues to revolve around the Sully family, although the environment is no longer the same. We see the na’vi of the sea and the forest (the Methayina included) in front of a new threat: the Asha tribe led by Varang. That fire does not only sweep the landscape, he also redefines the conflict. What began as a fight between species now points to fractures within Pandora. The trailer suggests a more personal and dramatic story. Cameron again bets on a choral cast that combines known faces with key incorporations. They return Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña Like Jake and Neytiri, along with Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet and Cliff Curtis, in addition to young people who give life to the Sully family. The focus also moves to Oona Chaplin, who plays Varang, the leader of the fire clan. David Thewlis and Michelle Yeoh are also added. Behind fire and ash there is a vision of saga that Cameron has been designing for years. Avatar’s third installment is part of a colossal project conceived Like five films. The calendar has changed more than once, but the ambition remains intact: explore pandora by layers, clan clan, conflict conflict. What we see today as a new installment was born, in reality, next to ‘The sense of water‘. Both formed the same story until Cameron decided to separate them when he started writing. Pandemia delayed part of the process, but production continued and Avatar 4 and Avatar 5 They continue in the plan. Avatar: Fire and ash no longer only about colonizers and resistance. Talk about internal cracks that scale at new levels. The war continuesbut now burn from within. We will have to wait until December 19 to see history in all its splendor in cinemas. Images | The Walt Disney Company In Xataka | ‘The fantastic 4 is the most disappointing superheroes saga in the history of cinema. And the first criticisms are not optimistic

Terraces that absorb the noise and let you know if you pass volume

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One of the favorite neighborhoods to leave in Valencia is Ruzafa. It concentrates a lot of gastronomic and leisure offer, which for visitors is wonderful and for neighbors not so much, than They have been complaining years of noise on weekends. The City Council has had an idea to minimize noise: terraces that absorb sound and warn when certain decibels are passed. The project. It is being carried out within the framework of Valencia Innovation Capitalan initiative of the Department of Innovation. The objective is to create an official model that can be taken to other parts of the city and that “responds to criteria of sustainability and resilience to climatic conditions, with the aim of facilitating the right to rest of the neighborhood”, as reported in Europa Press. At the moment the project is in a pilot phase and the Ruzafa neighborhood has been chosen to carry out the first test, which will end in November. Ecoterrazas. Thus they have called the new anti -Red terraces that have already been installed in nine stores on Cura Female Street, one of the busiest in the neighborhood since it is pedestrian and is full of premises. The terraces have several elements focused on reducing both noise and heat. Are the following: Umbrellas: They have several layers and a special fabric that can reduce the temperature. Phonoabsorbent discs: made with a material that absorbs sound waves. At the same time they act as parasol. Lamps with intelligent notice: They are small connected table lamps that, if the allowed decibels are exceeded, change red. Click on the image to access the publication in X. Fed up neighbors. The reaction of the neighbors has not been waiting. The Russafa Association rests described the “posture” measure and denounced that just three days after the installation several panels had already been collected. In addition, the project is concentrated in one of the busiest streets, but the problem It affects more than twenty streets in which there are almost 300 leisure and restoration stores. Zas. Are the acronym for Acoustically saturated zone. The Ruzafa neighborhood It has been declared declared Zas Zone. This measure cuts the opening schedules and limits the new terraces licenses. However, it does not collect anything about other types of establishments. The neighbors already They have denounced that it does not include any measure to limit the schedules of discos and pubs. Many of these stores are soundproofed, the problem is that people spend a lot of time in the adjacent streets, generating noise high at night. Insufficient. The truth is that the initiative of the anti -Red terraces is interesting as a starting point to minimize noise, but in gentrificed neighborhoods such as Ruzafa, full of premises and also tourist apartments, the problem of noise goes beyond the terraces of the bars. Neither is its effectiveness: the same day of its installation Noise levels that reached 67 decibels were recorded In the two areometers that the City Council has installed on that street. The maximum registered in this location has reached 74 decibels, according to the City Council in its Sonometric study. Images | Valencia Innovation Capital and Wikipedia In Xataka | The other silent pest of European cities: noise

Most of us are irremediably addicted to the mobile. An ex-Google worker has the solution

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How many times do you look at your mobile per day? You can easily check it and surely the number will surprise them (I an average of 70 times a day). Many times we only look at the time, sometimes it is a notification that attracts our attention. The fact is that we look at the mobile many times, to fight it, in Xataka mobile They have tested the trick proposed by a former Google employee: not having apps on the home screen. The idea. In an attempt to lower their mobile statistics, our partner Eva Rodríguez He found a method that he had not tried. The idea arises from the book ‘Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day’written by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky Ex-Google and YouTube workmen respectively. In the book, the authors explore several methods to improve our habits and recover The concentration, the great victim of the digital era. The mobile is one of the main culprits, so it is not surprising to dedicate a complete block. Zero apps. You unlock the mobile to look at the time and, without realizing it, you end up sending Reels To your friends. If you use a lot of Instagram and you have the app in view, it is very likely that you almost unconsciously open the app. We can try to hide it in a folder or take it to another screen, but the authors propose something more radical: to completely empty the home screen. The idea behind this is that we have to think what we want to consult when taking the mobile and not that we do it impulsively because we see an icon. The before and after the Eva beginning screen. Works? Eva left her starting screen completely “peeled” to see if he stopped consulting the mobile. The first thing he felt was unease in case something important was lost, although he admits that he has not had problems in that regard. The second was that the mobile was resulting extremely uncomfortable to drive. It may seem negative, but it really is what this technique seeks. He has managed to stop the inertia that makes Instagram, X or Tiktok open and end up in a spiral of doomscrolling. There are more. In the book, Knapp and Zeratsky speak of more tips to reduce mobile distractions such as eliminating all notifications. This is quite obvious, but they have other more curious such as closing the open sessions. The author not only closed them, he also changed the passwords for something very difficult to remember, so that he could not log in without going through the password manager, which of course also had the session closed. Create friction. This is what the advice of these authors seeks, which is uncomfortable to find that app with which we lose time. In other words: we have to strive to procrastine. If we eliminate fast access we can no longer enter with a simple touch; Now you have to open the Apps drawer and look for it among all we have installed. Automatism ceases to be something automatic and becomes something sought and intentional. Images | Eva Rodríguez, Xataka Mobile In Xataka | We have our attention so broken that a buoyant industry has emerged: keyboards “without distractions”

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