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With ‘The family of TV’, TVE wants to look more than ever to Telecinco. It is a risky movement

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The program with which La1 wants to compete from you to you with Tele5 and Antena 3, ‘TV family‘, He has reached the chain’s grill. Does it after two weeks late (first by the Death of the Popethen for the Blackout that left Spain without electricity), and has been presented in society with a colorful ride that has guaranteed it A few criticisms. But after its premiere there is something else: TVE’s intention to compete for a younger audience What was the ride? The ride consisted of the arrival, one by one, of those who will be the great stars of the program. That is, Aitor Albizua and Inés Hernand, veterans of RTVE, along with María Patiño and Belén Esteban. The latter, together with collaborators such as Víctor Sandoval or Carlota Corredera, During yesterday afternoon there was time for everything, from detailed presentations of multiple collaborators to winks to the past. For example, in tribute to sadism with which ‘Save Me’ treated its collaborators, the program forced the collaborators to move by their own means from Torrespaña to Prado del Rey. Throughout the afternoon there were times for viral moments, such as the inevitable Chuminero dance from Lydia Lozano. And the ride surprised with the signing of two very young from the heart of the heart: Isa Pantoja and Rocío Carrasco. They are not light decisions: the bridge to the total connection with Telecinco is lying. The program was divided, as usual in the future, in two blocks: one that will go, approximately four to five in the afternoon, and after the series ‘Wild Valley’ and ‘The Promise’, another block between seven less fourth and eight and a half. The audience, with doubts. It is complicated to determine the exact audience of the program by its dual nature: two differentiated blocks, separated by which it seems that the stars in the afternoons of the1 will continue: the ‘Wild Valley’ and ‘The Promise’ series, which made a phenomenal 14.5% of Share. The first block of ‘The Family of TV’ only 8.7%, being below both ‘afternoon’ and ‘dreams of freedom’, and very close to ‘everything is a lie’ of Telecinco. In the second block, it made 9.1%, also third option behind Telecinco and Antena 3, and being very close to Lasxta. ‘The family of TV’, with its arrival, eliminates from the grill to the series ‘La Moderna’, for both budget and audience reasons, as The director of RTVE explainedSergio Calderón. RTVE also definitely eliminates the ‘El Hunter’ contest, which was also having very low figures and had canceled on the paper since summer of 2024. From that point of view, ‘The family of TV’ is a safe bet: it serves as opening and exit parenthesis for two traditional series that still give up, and there is space to play with the blocks and make changes if the audiences do not improve. Battlefield: The afternoons. Interestingly, the afternoons of all channels have remained as a bliburrillo where all channels have distinctive offers, but with common points: Talk Shows and varieties (‘The family of TV’, ‘Late‘,’ The Jorge Jorge ‘), Series (‘ The Promise ‘,’ Dreams of Freedom ‘), Contests (‘ Pasapalabra ‘,’ Chain reaction ‘…). Until now, TVE remained on the sidelines with a block of cultural tone competitions and absolutely distinctive series of the public chain. Now, with ‘The family of TV’, go down to the mud of direct competition imitating the style of its rivals. TVE telecinquification. Regardless of whether ‘the TV family’ is paid with a success or with a failure, what we surely have here is another sample of the public channel approach to codes most typical of private chains. Embraceing the jester and acidic humor of ‘Save The Broncano program. RTVE wants to rejuvenate his audience and that Playz’s experiments are not in something isolated, and that is why Inés Hernand and Samantha Hudson are brought from there, and has the potential of ‘Save me’ as an ironic artifact for young people. ‘Save me’ in TVE? After a stage-person on the Internet and then a landing in Ten, the informal heir of ‘Save Me’ was ‘or that we were Shhh’, with a greater impact of the expected and audiences of more than 4% of Share. Before all this, he had a brief life as Netflix experiment in the form of reality that did not curdle. All this helped the program to become an ironic artifact for the youngest, alive especially in social networks and with a fauna with their own dynamics that do not need explanations and that will inherit ‘the family of TV’. It is undoubtedly a risky leap: does it make sense that on the set of ‘The Family of TV’ the fights, hysteria attacks or insults of collaborators as extremes as Kiko Matamoros are replicated? LA1 is risking, but deep down not much more than has risked all the eSCUDERÍA DE COMESO THAT IS AT THE PUBLIC CHAIN: First Broncano and Marc turned, shortly Buenafuente. It is a general RTVE plan that goes through a different audience from those traditional series and cultural competitions that had before, and in that sense, ‘The family of TV’ is a comprehensive bet for the afternoons. OBJECTIVE: Rejuvenate the audiences and give a washing face to the TVE grill. Header | RTVE In Xataka | 739 million euros: an audit of the Treasury points to a possible budget hole in RTVE

If the question is when the next blackout will occur, the answer is simple: it is impossible to know

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He Bru what last April 28 It has generated many questions, and among them a couple stand out that seem inevitable: the first, if there are possibilities that it will produce again Another massive blackout. The second, if any, when will it happen? It is impossible to answer these questions with total certainty, although there are ways to reduce those possibilities to the minimum possible. Impossible to respond to that. To Niehls Bohr, the father of quantum physics, the phrase “making predictions is very difficult, especially when it comes to the future” is attributed. That also happens when trying to predict A nearby potentialsomething practically impossible and what also contribute several arguments. We still do not know the origin of the blackout. One of the problems of trying to answer that question is that we have no definitive or officers about what caused the blackout. From the Spanish Electric Electricity (REE) it was stated that the blackout It was due to a generation disconnectionbut they still do not give details about the specific causes that caused such disconnection. The experts They point to renewables As a possible cause, but at the moment nothing is confirmed. And without knowing the origin of the problem, we cannot know how to avoid it in the future. An unfortunate prediction. Pedro Sánchez, a jacket but without a tie, appears at a press conference. At a given time he says that “there will be no electricity blackouts.” The videowhich has now gone viral, it is not these days, but of September 6, 2022. At that time those words were pronounced in the context of a possible Russian gas cut throughout Europe. But there has been, and the question is whether there will be. The president of the Government was wrong in his prediction. Two and a half years later Spain has suffered The biggest blackout in its historyand one of the great questions that citizens have been asked is when the next blackout will occur, If it occurs. Never say ever. The research of the causes will lead to means for something like that not to happen again. The President of the Government spoke In your appearance of April 29 that there would be reforms so that “never” a generalized electric blackout is repeated like that of April 28, but even with all these reforms and measures zero probability does not exist. There are impodeables. Even in the case of detecting and correcting the problem caused by the blackout, it is still impossible to ensure that another will occur in the future. There are of course possibilities that a technical, human error or a natural catastrophe poses blackouts at some point. Spain has improvement margin. As we have commented In Xatakathe Spanish energy mix needs a stabilization system of the robust network, but also the Iberian Peninsula is an “Energy Island With very little international connection. Thus, we need an integration stronger With the rest of Europe to balance demand, strengthen system safety and share surpluses. There are other possible measures that can be taken, and as explained by the analyst Javier Blas In Bloomberg“The design of the network, policies and risk analysis are not yet up to the management of excess renewables.” All this is important when minimizing the risks of another future blackout. Image | Gabriel Castles In Xataka | The blackout left all Spain without capacity to communicate. The problem is that it also isolated the government

false myths, why it is better to leave it on and when it is convenient to leave it off

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Let’s tell you everything you need to know about The myths and realities on turning off the router at night. Because many times they can advise you to do it with false pretexts, since in most cases it will not be necessary and you can leave it on without problems. We are going to start the article by denying the false myths that run around with leaving the router off at night. Then we will tell you The reasons why it is better to leave it onand we will end up indicating the few cases in which it is convenient to turn it off. False myths of turning off the router at night Now let’s tell you A list of false myths Related to turning off the router at night when you are not using the Internet. We will tell you each of the myths and then a small description to clarify why they are not true. Improve router performance: Turn off the router at night does not make it work bettersince they are designed to function continuously. In fact, turn on and off them constantly, sudden temperature changes that wear their long -term components can be generated. A lot of money is saved by electricity: Although when you turn off a device, consumption is reduced, that of your router at night is almost insignificant. They are designed to function all year without stopping, they are very efficient, and their expenditure on the electricity bill is just 6 euros a year. You can avoid hackeos: Obviously, if you don’t have the Internet at home, no one is going to access it, but the security of your domestic network does not depend on the router, but on other aspects such as your Wi -Fi passwords, have it updated, and so on. Even so, you cannot deny at all, since it is evident that without a domestic network because the router does not enter, but then look at the benefits to understand whether it compensates or not. It is better for your health: Wifi waves do not damage your health, that is a real nonsense. In addition, in your house you do not expose yourself only to your wifi, and if you do not believe me, put to look for networks with your mobile and you will see how the signs of a lot arrive. There is no scientific evidence in the studies that have been carried out that they point to the health, that is, you do not worry at any of this. Why it is better to leave the router on After denying or pointing to the reasons that are usually given to leave the router off, we will go to the opposite, tell you why it is better to keep your router on All year as it is designed to function. Again we will do it with a list where we will be giving you point to each explanation. Your connected devices continue to work: If you have devices connected to the Internet or intelligent home devices, when the router turns off they disconnect and stop working well. Come on, neither your intelligent speaker nor your voice -controlled lights will work already. Come on, your smart home ceases to be when you turn it off. Disconnect online security systems: In the event that among the connected devices there are some that are security, such as sensors, alarms or cameras, they will also stop working when Internet stops reaching them. That is, careful, very careful if you have invested in one. Automatic updates: Many manufacturers make firmware and software updates of their devices run at night to try not to interrupt when you are using it. Another reason to keep the router on at this time, so that they can be updated when you do not use them, even if it is the mobile. You can update these devices at any time, but better if you do when you don’t realize. Avoid thermal stress: The router off and ignition cycles submit its components to a thermal stress that can shorten its useful life. And if this is something you do daily, they can affect you much more, since the router is designed to work all day and maintain a constant and stable temperature. Avoid reconfigurations: There are some connected devices that, if they lose the Internet connection, may require an extra configuration to connect again. This are discomfort that you can avoid maintaining the stable connection. In what cases you can want to turn off the router There are cases in which the router may make sense, and where it can be recommended. Yes, we already know that we have just told you that it is best to leave it on, but there are always some small exceptions. In prolonged absences: Ok, if you are going on vacation several days or weeks, then it can be something safe and useful to leave the router off. Solution of specific problems: Turning off and turning back can be something useful if you are having specific problems in your connection and you think the router can fail. The restart will make its entire internal system load from scratch, solving almost all the small errors it may have. Firmware Manual Updates: Although it is not necessary that it is not necessary, some timely update of the router can ask you to restart it. Change your public IP: If you have a dynamic IP and you need to change it, the way to do it depends on each supplier. However, in some cases it may be enough to keep the router off a few minutes and then turn it on again. If you think there are intruders: If you think someone can be using your connection, it can be useful first to turn off the router to expel it. Immediately afterwards, light it and go to its configuration to change the safety and password of your network. In Xataka Basics | How to limit … Read more

Venice is an inverted forest that is sinking. There is a radical plan to save it: raise it 30 centimeters

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Venice is, in essence, a prodigy of Inverted engineering: It stands on millions of stuck piles On the contrary in the Lagunar mud, creating what has been described as a submerged forest down. These trunks, made with trees, have supported for centuries the burden of stone palaces and imposing bells without resorting to steel or concrete. The physical principle that supports this system is not based on the brute force of the materials, but on the friction of compressed humid soil that, together with wood and water, constitutes a resistant tripartite structure. However, that skeleton It has a serious problem. The abyss. The mythical city lives a cruel paradox: it is not only a city that floats, but one that It sinks. In the last century, the Venetian floor has descended about 25 centimeterswhile the sea level has risen about 30. In other words: it is a lethal combination that has triggered increasingly frequent and severe floods. While its decay adds some tourist magnetism (visiting it before it disappears), for Venetians it is a persistent threat that compromises your future. The city sinks two millimeters a year due to natural subsidence, while the waters increase some Five millimeters annually due to climate change. An unpublished plan. Before this existential threat, the engineer Pietro TeatiniAssociate Professor of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering at the University of Padua, proposes a solution as bold as controversial: physically raise the city Injecting water into aquifers deep between 600 and 1,000 meters under the lagoon. The idea is born from the observation of gas reservoirs in the Valle del Powhere when filling during the summer, the terrain rises, and goes down when they are emptied in winter. According to Teatini, through this technique, Venice It could rise 30 centimeters In a stable and homogeneous way, enough to grant a break of about five decades, in which the authorities could plan a definitive solution. Drill and drill. The project would consist of pour a dozen wells Distributed in a circle of 10 kilometers around the city, all located inside the lagoon. Water to be injected would be saline, taking advantage of the abundant local resource and without risk of contaminating fresh water aquifers. To ensure stability, it would be injected at low pressure and slowlyavoiding fractures in the underground rock. The choice of a wide circumference guarantees a uniform elevation that would not damage historical structures. Chioggiaat the southern end of the lagoon, it would be outside the radius of action. The system that was not enough. The search for solutions also exposes a failure. Currently, Venice’s main defense against high tides is The Mose system (Sperimentale Electromeccanico Module), a series of mobile gates that rise from the seabed to isolate the Adriatic Sea lagoon. Although it began to plan in the 80s and was tested for the first time in 2020, its cost has exceeded seven billion of euros and is not yet officially operational. Originally conceived to activate five times a year, since 2020 it has already been used about 100 timesreflex of the problem. Every time it is activated, interrupts maritime traffiche harms the port (the second most active in Italy) and alters the ecological balance of the lagoon by preventing the natural flow of water. Mosetherefore, it does not solve the problem, and Teatini proposes its project as a temporary complement by extending the combined functionality of both systems during those 50 yearsmargin that could be used to develop a definitive structural solution. Venice towards the end of the seventeenth century Underground technology Theatini’s plan It is not frackingnor is it based on extreme pressures. It is rather a controlled process that has been used in oil engineering to stabilize platforms. The idea is that water gradually penetrates the deep sandy substrate, expanding and pushing the ground up without causing fissures. A maximum elevation of 30 centimeters is the technical limit that can be achieved without compromise stability. The pumping rhythm would gradually reduce to avoid overloading aquifers, and the incorporation of additives that maintain the expansion achieved even if the pumping is interrupted is studied. To prove the viability, a pilot project is proposed in another part of the lagoon, less critical, with an estimated cost of Between 30 and 40 million euros. The complete implementation would be three times cheaper than the Mose. Plus: The approach is more realistic than other ideas raised in the past, such as shallow cement injections that were used limited to islands such as Poveglia in the 70s. Race against time. No doubt, some experts are skeptical. David Dobson, professor of materials at University College London, acknowledges that the idea generates “skeptical optimism”. It warns that the aquifers already collapsed (as happened in Marghera when water was extracted in the 60s) may not recover its original volume. In addition, injecting water is more difficult than gas, as it flows more slowly and requires greater pressure. However, he argues that, if a successful essay is carried out and the process control is demonstrated, the proposal It could be truthful. In any case, he points out that the root of the problem remains Global warmingand as long as it is not addressed, any solution will necessarily be temporary. Symbol and priority. Teatini has been studying the phenomenon of the Subsidy in Venice. His Thesis with doctorate He already addressed this problem, and was his former professor, Giuseppe Gambolati, who first proposed those deep injections as a solution. Today, in the face of institutional inertia, he insists that his proposal is the only technically developed that can begin to be tested immediately. In addition, with the creation in March 2025 of the New authority per the lagoona state entity that will be in charge of evaluating interventions in the lagoon and planning the future, a window of opportunity opens. Although every plan will have high costs, Teatini argues that it is a Reasonable investment and even possible with citizen financing. The big doubt. In addition, there is the … Read more

Toyota is very clear about how sports have to be and why they don’t believe in an electric one

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Is it possible to jump into the electric car when your CEO does not finish believing in it? This is what they should ask in Toyota’s bosom, with the company looking for the right strategy to be competitive in the electric car while their mandamás does not stop launching slogans that point to immobility. For a long time, the company has been launching contradictory messages on the future of the electric car. In 2021the Japanese company assured that would launch 30 electric models In the coming years. However, the arrival of TOYOTA BZ4X It has been marked by problems. First because it was a car too expensive for the autonomy offered. Then because The wheels could fall In an emergency braking. From then on, the statements of the company’s managers and ads seem to go in opposite directions. Aky Time will prove them and that the demand for electric will never exceed a third of sales Total worldwide. It is true that the company has redefined its plans and that will produce a third less of expected electric cars. But it has also presented a new generation of batteries and has confirmed that it will continue to pushing to jump into the electric car where regulations push them to it. That is: Europe. Among the last releaseswe will have a totally electric Toyota C-HR, a new lexus and a small Yaris Cross with the same technology. Be that as it is, the truth is that Hybrid has continued to give excellent results To the company. Their sales fired in the United States last year, remain very fortunate in Europe and in Japan it seems that they do not even consider the change to this technology. Toyota last year recorded the best numbers in its history. And in the middle of this strategy to continue increasing the offer of electric cars, a product that seems to divide the company: a sports car. “Noise and smell of gasoline” A few months ago, at the end of 2024, we knew that Toyota was developing a sports car completely electric. There was even talk that he could recover a mythical name for the company: MR2 or Celica. It would not be the first time that Toyota looked up at the past to look to her future. That they tell the Toyota supra. Since then, the Rumors They have been unleashed and as on so many other occasions the true sportsmanship of such a model has been questioned. Move the sensations of combustion engines to electric models is being a real headache and brands such as Mazda have also presented their doubts Given this possibility. The problem for Toyota is double. The company has spent many years being bored branded. Akio Toyoda, at the head of the company, wanted to completely turn this speech. To the point that we have seen almost unique cars in the market like the Toyota gr yaristhe Toyota Gr86 or the supra. And now, with an electric sports car on the way, we also know that the company looks for solutions to Continue offering combustion engines. To the point of trying Inject hydrogen. Toyoda seems to live its own crusade for saving this type of vehicles. “There will always be people in Toyota passionate about the development of electrical sports. But for me, as an expert pilot, my sports definition is something with the smell of gasoline and a noisy engine.” The words are from Akio Toyoda in a recent interview of Automotive News. It has made clear one thing: they will not offer an electric sports car as long as it is not economically viable. And it won’t be until they get “affordable batteries”. The reason, for Toyoda, is that a competition electric car “is not exciting. Because you cannot turn the circuit around for more than an hour. The races in which I participate are mainly resistance, so with current electric vehicles, it will not be a car race. It is a cargo time race, battery change or something like that,” he stressed. When will we see a Toyota electric sports car? The group’s CEO seems to have cooled expectations. In the last Brussels Motor Show, our companions of Motorpasion They had the opportunity to talk to Hideaki Iida, prototype designer Toyota ft-sebut he already warned that the car was in a very early phase of development. However, in 2023 Toyota did talk about offering solid state batteries on the market that would yield 1,000 kilometers and went from 10 to 80% of autonomy in 10 minutes. This is what they called batteries High Performance and? They dated between 2027 and 2028 although they warned that they would put themselves in the street only in cars of very high benefits because they were very expensive to produce. Photo | Toyota In Xataka | Toyota is convinced that the electric car will not be the preferred option. Ensures that investing more money is “wasting it”

Everyone is harmed

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From the electric blackout of April 28, the authorities have activated several analysis committees to clarify The exact causes of the incident. Although there is still no defined cause, specialized working groups have already been created and open commissions with Portugal and France to coordinate answers to this phenomenon that crossed borders. In spite of all this deployment, only preliminary hypotheses are handled And new clues that, far from simplifying the stage, make it more complex. A new track. The Ministry for Ecological Transition (MITECO) convened a third meeting that in the investigation phase was discovered a “third event” that may be related to the trigger of the crisis, According to EuropePress. This disturbance occurred exactly 19 seconds before the main incident registered at 12:33 p.m. on Monday, April 28. Technical chain The information available so far points to a technical and operational network much more than what was thought at first, such as He has reported EuropePress. It would not be simply a punctual error, but of a conjunction of events, possibly interdependent, which affected the stability of the system. In fact, this week, the cybersecurity group teams are visiting operation centers, such as Red Electrica, to collect key information In situ. They already warned. There is a question that does not stop around the debates about whether the electrical system is ready to adapt to a new model based on renewable energy. According to the economistRed Eléctrica had requested from the Government a period of five years to adapt its security measures to the new reality of the electrical system, more decentralized and with a growing weight of renewable energies. This does not imply a direct responsibility in what happened, but it does indicate an ongoing transition that requires resources, time and planning. The management of a network with more renewable weight involves new technical challenges, which the system is still learning to handle. Under the same focus. In the midst of this analysis process, the Executive has decided has detailed The newspaper. The decision has generated tensions, since some voices consider that precipitated or guilty decisions are being made without conclusive evidence. For its part, the Government has argued that exclusion responds to the objective of guaranteeing an independent analysis, although this decision has fueled criticism. The truth is that the public image of the blackout has harmed all the actors involved: operators, electric and the government itself. The lack of a clear and univocal cause makes this case an uncomfortable puzzle for all parties. In this sense, as one of those responsible for the analysis has signed internally, “the photo of the blackout harms everyone.” It will take time to resolve. Similar cases in other countries show that clarifying these types of incidents have been. In the United States, for example, the mass blackout of Texas in 2021 It took several months In being analyzed in depth, with technical reports, legislative appearances and cross data on weather, generation and demand. In Italy, the great blackout of 2003 also He needed weeks of research to determine the exact sequence of failures. It is a complex type of analysis, where each technical data has operational, political and regulatory implications. Follow the investigation. As the meetings progress – the planned with Ree today – the technical teams are expected to establish a more precise sequence than what happened. At the moment, the only clear thing is that we are facing an unpublished situation, unprecedented recently in the Iberian electrical system. Instead of looking for a single responsible, the focus must now be to thoroughly understand the technical, structural and operational causes of the blackout. Only in this way can something similar happen again. Image | Seoane Prado Xataka | The blackout left all Spain without capacity to communicate. The problem is that it also isolated the government

BBVA wants to buy Sabadell for less than what is worth

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The CNMC He has given the green light to BBVA OPA on Banco Sabadell imposing commitments for three years, but the greatest obstacle is not regulatory but financial. The operation presents A mathematical paradox: BBVA offers much less than Sabadell’s actions are worth. The approval of the competition agency, far from clearing the way, has put on the table the contradictions of an operation that has been taking over more than a year and still having serious obstacles both financial and politicians. In figures. The Basque Bank proposes An exchange of one action for every 4.83 shares of Sabadellwhat each Catalan bank title values ​​in 2.39 euros, compared to 2.56 euros to which he quotes. This 7% negative differential is the main anomaly of this operation. There are hardly reasons for Sabadell shareholders to accept this proposal. Main loser? Sabadell small shareholders, which They represent almost 50% of the capitalThey have no incentives to accept an offer that would make them lose money regarding selling their shares directly in the market. This Atomized structure of the shareholders It is precisely one of the great challenges ahead of BBVA, which would need to convince thousands of retail investors to accept an operation that, at least in strictly economic terms, harms them. Between the lines. The 7% discount indicates that the market assigns a few probabilities of success to the operation. If investors believed that the OPA will prosper, the price of Sabadell would be converging towards BBVA’s offer, not moving away from it. Although BBVA tries to convey an optimistic narrative about the chances of success of its offer, that 7% gap transmits otherwise. Turning point. BBVA has repeated that its offer will not improve because doing it would harm its own shareholders. Its calculations indicate that it has up to 2.3 billion to improve the operation, but this would erode the profitability for its investors. The bank is at a crossroads: Or maintain its current offer assuming that you have little chances of prospering … … or the improvement at the cost of harming their own shareholders, which contradicts their duty as a quoted company. The backdrop. The government adds uncertainty to the process with The announcement of an unprecedented public consultation prior to its final decision. Pedro Sánchez has stressed that he will support the operation “as long as it benefits the common interest.” This consultation, unprecedented in operations of this caliberunderlines political reluctance towards a bank concentration that would further reduce competition in the sector and could have consequences in access to credit for individuals and SMEs. And now what. CNMV must now approve the OPA brochureprobably in early July, opening a 30 -day acceptance period that will partially coincide with August, month of low stock activity. This circumstance could lengthen the process until September, far beyond the original calendar that managed the BBVA. The calendar thus plays against an operation that accumulates both delays and uncertainty. Financial logic suggests that the operation is dedicated to failure if BBVA does not improve its offer, but doing it would harm its own shareholders. It is a dead end alley for one of the greatest business operations in Spanish banking. In Xataka | Revolution is doing in the bank the same as Netflix in entertainment or Amazon in retail: conquer from the margins Outstanding image | Joel Filipe in Unspash

Now the era of Chinese propaganda has begun

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The Commercial War It is fought on the parquet of the bags, in the Cultivation fields, Factories and portsbut also in the networks. In fact, one of the key battles in the struggle between Washington and Beijing is played: that of the story. We saw it not long ago with the Viral videos Created with which they make fun of Donald Trump’s effort to reindustrialize the United States via tariffs. Now that struggle to guide discourse in networks seems to have gone further, with A Video Cascade in Tiktok that affect China’s benefits against the supposed decline of the USA. His propaganda approach is clear, just like his leitmotiv: Show China as a kind of Tecnoutopía futuristic. The (another) Great Pulse. He Tariff pulse Between Washington and Beijing, which has raised above 100% The rates that each country applies to the exports of the other, is already being felt in the fields, factories and ports. In those of the US, in those of China and even in those of third nations that have come out in some way favored, Like Brazil. Beyond government offices or large corporations, there is another ‘battlefield’ in which the struggle between China and the US seems to have aggravated: the networks. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok @schbachlq Urban Greens #Foryupage #USA🇺🇸 #China #Americandream #chinatravel #fyp ♬ Original Sound – Schbachlq “Maga”, in the spotlight. A few weeks ago, in full escalation of the commercial war between the two nations, it went viral in Tiktok A series of videos elaborated with the in which Americans were overweight working in Nike, Tesla, Apple or Nvidia assembly chains. Everything between posters of “Make America Grate Again” or “Made in USA”, fried potatoes, soft drinks and an environment that even invited to think about clandestine factories. The message was powerful because one of the arguments wielded by Trump to justify the tariff war just that: Revitalize the US manufacturing industry. “Confrontative and mocking”. Bloomberg a few weeks ago It echoed From another campaign displayed in Tiktok, a platform in the hands of China bytedance and whose property (and the influence that the Xi Jinping government can exert on it) has generated An intense debate legal and political in the US. So much, in fact that the Supreme Court He came to veto her In the country if Bytedance did not sell it, a measure that Trump’s return to the White House He left in suspense. According to Bloombergnow Tiktok has served Influencers Chinese to encourage Americans to buy directly in the Asian giant with titles such as “China exposes the truth.” “These publications are much more confrontative and mocking with the US, instead of showing it as a threat,” Explain to the agency Tom Harper, professor at the University of East London, before remembering the videos generated with the Americans working on Nike, Tesla or Apple assembly chains. Apart from his ironic tone, the virality of these pieces demonstrates something else, such as Remember Bloomberg: The capacity of Chinese content creators to reach the US society through the Tiktok algorithm and other Asian networks, such as Xiaohongshu either Rednote. @zhiwen.Shen Which World Do you want to live in? #China #USA #chinese #fyp #Worldtody#chinalife#COTAST ♬ 困住你的不是别人 (李羲承进行曲) – Dj 阿智 @mindblowndai1y Use vs China Cars 🚘 #chinavsusa #fyp #tiktok #China #USA #Car #Cars ♬ Original Sound – SocialCreditgod China, year 3,000. With that backdrop it arrives A quick search In networks, especially Tiktok, to meet other types of videos that seem India either Even Europe. Their approach is clear and replica one and the other with hardly any changes: the pieces show images of depressed or saturated areas of the US and then contrast with others from China that reveal the opposite, a society Tecnofuturista. An eloquent example leaves it The @Schbachlg accountwith some video on that line that exceeds the million of visualizations, @worldstory75, @mindblowndai1y either @zhiwen.Shento cite some examples. In all, several videos can be seen that contrast the American society, cities and economy with China, leaving a clearly favorable balance to the last one. Among all add up to hundreds of thousands of reproductions. Some of those pieces, with a more parodic tone, add up in fact Millions of visualizations. @schbachlq #Foryupage #USA🇺🇸 #China #Americandream #chinatravel #fyp ♬ Original Sound – Schbachlq @boy_dylan17 #China #USA ♬ Original sound – Dylan 肖宇梁 🇵🇪🇨🇳 Is it something new? Yes. And no. The videos that extol Chinese society, heritage and culture are not exactly new in networks. They existed, as in other countries, including the US. The striking is its frequency, its impact and its approach, focused on showing a modern, advanced, urban and ecological society compared to that of other regions of the planet. Of course in Tiktok they can also find themselves Other pieces in a radically opposite sense. The interesting thing is precisely your message. And the context in which it arrives. Images | Tiktok 1 and 2 In Xataka | China approaches energy self -sufficiency: it activates 10 new reactors and reinforces its nuclear domain

For the first time an unmanned boat has knocked down Russian combat planes

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At the beginning of February there was An unusual factnot for war in Ukraine, but for any other armed conflict known in history. If the battle of drones was redefining the modern combat, the conflict gave green light to something new: dwarfs of drones “mother” in turn launching other drones to attack in turn to rival drones. The latest: boats with missiles demolishing Russian fighters, and without No one behind the wheel of vessels. Lethal innovation in the Black Sea. In an unprecedented event, the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR) managed to tear down two Russian fighters Su-30 Flanker using air-air missiles AIM-9 Sidewinder. The surprising thing is from where they launched: Magura-7 naval dronesas Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov declared exclusively To The War Zone. This unpublished action, which occurred in the Black Sea, represents not only the first time that combat planes are dejected From unmanned vesselsbut also the First lethal use AIM-9 missile confirmed from this type of platform, which underlines the degree of sophistication and innovation achieved by Ukrainian forces in the Maritime Theater of Operations. Details of an unusual attack. Apparently, the operation used three magura-7 dronesan anti -aircraft variant of the model Magura-5of which two shot at the Russian fighters. According to Budanovthe first SU-30 was reached and its crew survived after being rescued by a civil ship, while it is presumed that the pilots of the second apparatus perished in the attack. So far, there are only images of the first demolition disseminated in networks social. We remember that the use of AIM-9M missiles, a more advanced variant than R-73 Sovietdemonstrates Ukraine’s ability to integrate Western armament into unconventional platforms. Unlike R-73, the AIM-9M lacks the High-Off-Boresight capacity (Hobs), forcing the missile to be oriented directly towards the objective to acquire white. However, their best background discrimination, infrared countermeasures and smokeless propulsion offer significant tactical advantages, especially in an environment where drones must operate with discretion. Precedents and evolution of doctrine. The incident is put along with the occurred in DecemberWhen Ukraine reported the successful use of an R-73 triggered from a USV to deed a Mi-8 helicopter Russian. Since January, according to Budanov, Ukrainian engineers began to install AIM-9 in these unmanned vehicles, consolidating an evolution that Combine elements of air defense, electronic war and asymmetric naval combat. Although the exact launch configurations have not been disclosed by Ukrainian intelligence, everything indicates that Magura-7 represents A hybrid node high mobility capable of operating in areas where air control is highly disputed. Russian reactions and consequences. Moscow’s response has not been waiting. Through various Channels in Telegrammilitary analysts and commentators have recognized the effectiveness of the attack and indicated the growing deficiencies in the defensive capacity of the Black Sea. The War Cárs correspondent Kitten channel He expressed his alarm For three factors: the loss of the maritime initiative, the degradation of the Black Sea fleet after the destruction of the Moskva cruise, and the apparent Ukrainian domain in the use of unmanned vessels capable of projecting power even on the Russian coastal airspace. The analyst Vladislav Shurygin regretted That the attack followed the same lure and ambush pattern already observed in other Ukrainian operations, criticizing that Russian doctrine seems unable to adapt to these tactics. Meanwhile, the Two Majors channel strongly questioned the Lack of effective means To neutralize the USV, proposing the use of FPV drones or the combination of UAV of Zala recognition With ammunition Lancet Merodetersas already happens on the mainland. Technological implications. No doubt, the use of air-air missiles on non-manned naval platforms redefines the rules of combat in the black Sea. Historically, The Sidewinder They have adapted to naval defense systems Like the Chaparralbut its surface Kamikaze drones grants Ukraine a mobile, hidden and scalable tactical capacity, capable of deterring Russian aviation without compromising high -value human or material resources. In addition, it reflects a constant evolution in the use of donated western systems, many of which, such as AIM-9M, were originally thought For manned fighters and now they are reconfigured on innovative platforms that They multiply its impact strategic. Although the United States and its allies have not publicly detailed how many missiles of this type have delivered to Ukraine, it seems clear that its use is far from limiting themselves to conventional air combat and is expanding the lethality of the Ukrainian autonomous systems. A turning point. In short, the demolition of the two SU-30 fighters by Ukrainian naval drones Mark a symbolic and operational turning point. As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year, the control of the maritime space becomes as crucial as the land domain, and kyiv once again demonstrates its ability to convert material limitations in asymmetric advantages. We have come counting as that grew Industry without a paragon Around drones. By integrating Western technologies with its own doctrine, Ukraine is creating a new class of hybrid threats difficult to detect, anticipate or counteract. The incident not only represents a punctual victory in tactical terms, but also a meridianly clear message: Russian naval power is no longer unquestionable not even in front of small unmanned boats that are capable of driving fighters tens of kilometers from the coast. Image | Alex BeltyukovGUR SCREENCAP In Xataka | The war in Ukraine has entered its deranged phase: there are drones throwing drones to attack other drones In Xataka | The war in Ukraine has become a video game. Kill gives points and rewards to exchange in a military Amazon

The commercial war between China and the US has had an unexpected injury: Starbucks

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Just a year ago we talked to Xataka of the delicate moment through Starbucks. A year later, the world’s largest coffee chain deepens the crisis of its business model, now trapped between those structural problems, which came from afar, and a new problem: Trump’s tariffs. The current situation. Starbucks accumulates five consecutive quarters of falls In sales in the United States. Only in the last quarter, transactions fell 4%, although average customer expenditure increased by 3%. It does not matter: that increase is insufficient to compensate for the loss of traffic in coffee shops if customers look for cheaper alternatives like Dunkin ‘or McDonald’s. Why is it important. The company depends on coffee imported from more than 30 countries, and with The new 10% tariffshis commitment not to raise prices in 2025 further complicates the recovery of his margins, which were already down. The context. What for years was an unstoppable growth story, tripling its premises from 2012 to exceed 40,000 in 2024, it has now become a struggle to maintain its profitability. The United States, its main market, is saturated. And China, its great growth commitment, has its own problems. The US market shows clear signs of maturity with a growth of premises that has slowed down. In China, although it has almost doubled its stores in five years, income has stagnated, with flat interannual sales (0% last quarter). The latter has a lot to do with Nationalist consumption That put local alternatives before. The threat. Beyond tariffs, Starbucks has other open fronts around its business model. Between the lines. The new CEO Brian Niccol, signing of Chipotle with music from Fanfarrias, has launched the Plan “Back to Starbucks“To recover the essence that made the company great. However, he recently recognized that “our results of the second quarter are disappointing,” although he also said he “confidence that our plan is the right strategy to turn the business.” The unexpected turn. Despite all these problems, Niccol maintains its commitment to freeze prices in 2025, a brave decision (and we will see if reckless) when their competitors will surely increase them due to the impact of tariffs. It is true that this strategy could give it competitive advantage if it manages to control its margins on other ways, but it is also that these margins are increasingly constrained. In figures. The financial situation explains the deterioration of the business: The actions almost 30% have fallen From the announcement of tariffs. Its adjusted operational margin of the last quarter was 8.2%, quite below the expected 9.5%. The benefits collapsed more than 50% compared to the previous year, to 384 million dollars. The company accumulates 23,000 million net debt, with a indebtedness ratio superior to triple. The latest. Starbucks has already implemented several measures to contain costs: Elimination of extra charges for alternative milks. Reduction of customization options. Product discontinuation. Free recharges offer for those who consume in their establishments. The question now is whether these measures will be enough in the face of an increasingly hostile economic environment, where consumption habits are changing and the experience that previously defined Starbucks no longer seems sufficient to justify their prices. In Xataka | Specialty coffee is expensive and there is something that increases it even more: to remove caffeine Outstanding image | Xataka

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