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tips before buying and how to analyze the real capacity of one you have

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There is nothing worse than buying a USB and seeing that you have less memory than they had told you, or that is defective. Therefore, we are going to give you some tips to prevent you from buying a USBboth before making the purchase and once you have done it. We will start with a series of rapid tips on How to avoid scams when buying a USB onlinewhy, sometimes sellers can lie, and it is convenient to have some resources to avoid it. Then we will tell you how to check a USB and see its real memory, and so know if you should return it because they have scammed you or not. I prevents you from being able to sell you a USB We are now with a series of tips to avoid deception in online stores when you are going to buy a USB pendrive. These are some very essential tips that you should always take into account. Look well in descriptions: The pendrive seller may put one thing in the head of the online store’s announcement to get your attention, something that is not very precise, and that is why you must carefully read the characteristics in the descriptions. Find there all the information you can about the unit. Look at the USB version: The USB standard has several versions, and the newer it is faster. If a pendrive is absurdly cheap possibly use the USB 2.0 standard of the year 2000, and it will be very slow. It should be assured that if you are looking for a USB of type A, the great “usual”, use the most modern USB 3.0 standard. Look comments and reviews: If you are in an online store, you should look in the product comments section before buying it. Thus, you can detect complaints that are recurring and that they point out that the USB is not what it seems in some aspects. Distrust of very low prices: As we have told you a couple of points before, when the price of memory is very low, it is possible that there is a trap related to the USB standard version, or that it is even a fraud. That is why they have a high guard with especially low prices. Be careful with little known brands and stores: Try to buy in online stores that you know perfectly, and above all that have comments section. It also tries to resort to consolidated brands of USB, even if they are somewhat more expensive, because this gives you an extra security guarantee. Verify newly bought positives: When you buy an online product you have about 15 days to return. Therefore, if you buy a USB memory, it is important that you verify the amount of memory that you have promised and that it is of the right speed. The fastest type A USB have a blue plasticize that makes them recognizable, for the amount of memory you will need a specific program. How to check the storage of a USB pendrive Imagine you buy a USB of 64 GB but it really has only 32 GB. Or that has 64 GB but half are defective areas that make you lose the data you enter. How can you look at this? To do so you need a specific program that allows you to do it. We recommend you The program Validrivefree available on the web www.grc.com/validrive.htm. It is a completely free, light and very effective program. What he does is Verify the real storage of USB memories before users suffer important losses. The application weighs less than 100 kb, and is portable, so it does not require installing it. It is created for Windowsand you just have to open it and voila. Validrive performs tests of 576 regions of the device connected by USB, analyzing the real reading and writing capacity. It also shows you the results in a visual way, putting the defective areas in red, also indicating other errors. To use it, you just need to launch the application, and in the main menu click on Check USB Drive With a connected unit. Then you will begin to see the tests in real time, and then the results will be shown. You also have other alternatives such as H2TESTW (also free)a more veteran tool although it is not so fast or easy to use. In Xataka Basics | Buy a USB-C cable: 9 things to consider

It is a sign that the system needs a redesign

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Last Monday, April 28, Spain, Portugal and southern France suffered a mass blackout. Given this situation many questions arose and still There is no main cause clear. However, in the following days, a paradox became evident: on May 1, the price of electricity in the wholesale market came to mark € 10 per MW/h, that is, generating electricity cost those who produced it. In negative? Negative prices arise when the supply of electricity far exceeds demand. On holidays or weekends, with low industrial activity and favorable meteorology, renewables – especially solar and wind – produce so much energy that there is nowhere to place it. As the electrical system must be in constant equilibrium between production and consumption, the generators get to pay to turn their energy on the network in order not to stop turbines or panels. According to five daysthis phenomenon is not as rare as it seems: it happens when the market is “overflowed” by the offer and cannot absorb all the electricity that is generated. So what does it mean? At the wholesale level, a negative price indicates that generators pay to produce electricity. This does not mean that the domestic consumer charges money for lighting the light, although in some indexed rates a very low or even null bill can be noted at certain times, such as They have explained In the economist. Also, for private operatorsnegative prices are a headache: they not only do not enter to produce, but they can also have to assume losses. For the electrical system, it also represents a challenge: overproduction requires a very fine management to avoid blackouts or infrastructure damage. An increasingly common phenomenon. In countries like Germany, the Netherlands or Finland They have registered Negative prices, especially in spring and autumn, when renewable production is high but demand has not yet reached its seasonal peak. This excess supply, driven by the rapid expansion of renewables, exceeds the storage capacity and flexibility of the electricity grid. The result: producers are forced to pay to inject energy into the system. While it may seem good for the consumer, it actually raises a great challenge for the stability of the electrical system. The solution to this complex problem goes through a combination of improvements in storage infrastructure, How are they doing in Finlandgreater interconnection between countries, as with Denmarkand a more dynamic management of energy demand, as the case of France and loads them in its nuclear power plants. Can it be a problem for renewables? Paradoxically, renewables – clarity for energy transition – are also victims of negative prices. When they repeat too many times: Investment in new projects deter or force production to stop, which can damage equipment or waste resources. In addition, another technical challenge is evidenced in these scenarios: the stability of the network. The thermal plants contributed “inertia”, that is, a way of sustaining the balance of the system. Today, technologies such as Grid forming And synthetic inertia try to compensate for that lack of backup, but they are still in deployment phase, According to the economist. Symptom of something else. Negative prices are not an anecdote: they are a signal. They indicate that the electrical system needs to be urgently transformed to integrate more renewable without collapsing. It is necessary A storage improvement, Intelligent and flexible networksand A reform in the electricity market that adapts to the new paradigm. Image | Unspash and Pexels Xataka | We have just lived the first great blackout of the renewable era. The debate is now how to get the last one

We have been knowing where a strange sound has been coming from. Now he has returned strongly to an island of Scotland

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There are phenomena that challenge not only reason, but even perception same of reality. One of them is remembered in Scotland Since the end of the 90s, a low frequency buzz that is heard in different parts of the world and that, although for the majority it goes unnoticed, for those who perceive it is as real as it is unbearable. The buzz has been called The Humand on a Scottish island it seems that it has returned strongly. Breaking calm. In the apart Lewis Islandin the Scottish archipelago of the Hebrides, a persistent and strange low frequency hum has begun to disturb the life of its inhabitants, generating confusion, anxiety and health problems among those who claim to listen to it every night. It is a serious, pulsating and penetrating murmur, which prevents the sleep and causes vertigo, headaches and even alterations of concentration, according to testimonies collected by the British media. Despite its intensity for those affected, the phenomenon lacks a clear source and remains out of the reach of consensual explanations. The person responsible for documenting this disturbing anomaly is Lauren-Face Kirtley, founder of the support group “The Hebridean Hum”which has compiled dozens of complaints citizens and acoustic records in different areas of the island, in which a persistent signal of about 50 Hzvariable in intensity, but present in all cases. This data has allowed to rule out local sources such as port infrastructures, wind turbines or industrial facilities, and has redirected the search towards a possible origin … marine. Between the physical and the perceptual. Although some members of the group have considered physiological hypotheses such as otacoustic emissions (Sounds generated in the inner ear), the geographical disparity of the experience weakens this line of explanation. Pamela Weaver Larson, one of the group’s participants, said Do not listen to the buzz When he moves outside the island, which would indicate a Located environmental source more than a subjective phenomenon. This contradiction reveals the complexity of the case, which is registered in a much broader pattern: the call “Worldwide hum”an acoustic phenomenon documented for decades in various regions of the world, whose causes remain enigmatic and their simple existence remains questioned by scientific sectors. Glen Macpherson, founder of the World Hum Map and Database Projecthas compiled hundreds of testimonies that describe a buzz similar to the engine of a parked vehicle, more noticeable at night and in closed spaces, although generally described as omnipresent. The Hum, the beginning. As we said at the beginning, at the end of the 1990s Scotland began to perceive these hum. This was lived by Georgie Helop, a Scottish woman who after the death of her husband moved to the coastal town of Largswest of Glasgow, looking for peace of mind. What he found was the beginning of a sound nightmare: a constant buzzserious, similar to that of a truck in idle, which seemed to have no visible source and that was even more intense inside his own home. It wasn’t just an annoying noise. With the passage of time, the phenomenon began to cause physical ailments: headache, nasal hemorrhages, ear pain, chest oppression. As a desperate measure, Helop came to sleep in a tent in the garden, looking for peace that he did not find inside the house. Your case It was not isolated: Over time he discovered that not only in Largs, but in other parts of the United Kingdom, the United States and the world, many other people also reported to hear the same inexplicable buzz. Bewilderment. So and look back, Since 1973 similar cases have been documented in Very different towns: Taos In New MexicoHueytown in Alabama, Rome in the seventies, Bristol board In the United Kingdom. In many of these places, only a small fraction of the population, often middle -aged womendeclares to listen to the noise, which has led to multiple speculation about its origin. Some theories point to Physiological conditions as Tinnitusa sound perception without external stimulus. In the 1990s, hearing experts suggested that those who heard the buzz simply did not accept their clinical diagnosis. But over time, and thanks to the advancement of technology, some scientists have managed to detect real emissions, of such low frequencies Like those 50 or 60 hertziosand even others higher in the range of the Megahertzios, which has opened the door to explanations that go beyond the inner ear. Another explanation. Some hypotheses point to Combined frequencies which generate a kind of “milkshake” only perceptible to a minority with extreme acoustic sensitivity. Others suggest that the buzz originates in modern infrastructure (telecommunication towers, wind turbines, gas pipelines, military facilities), or even in electromagnetic or acoustic phenomena not yet understood. Project map started by Macpherson The map of an invisible sound. As we said, in 2012 a Canadian professor named Glen Macpherson began to listen to the buzz in his home in Sechelt, in the British Columbia. His personal experience led him to found the World Hum Map and Database Project, a collaborative platform where affected people can Register your location and share your experiences. Over the years they had already been reported More than 5,000 points of the planet where it was claimed to hear the buzz. The project has contributed to visible an experience that for decades was discredited or attributed to psychological causes. In the case of Helop, scientists who analyzed their home could Register anomal frequenciesconfirming at least partially that something physical happened in that environment. New explanations. Like those with the most recent cases, one of the explanations that has gained more strength associates the phenomenon with the geography of coastal areas. Largs, like many other points where the buzz is recorded, is located near the ocean. According to This theory exposed at the time In the Washington Poststorms in the sea generate waves whose impact is transmitted to the ocean bed, causing vibrations that extend through the earth’s crust. These oscillations could travel at great distances and be detected by those with … Read more

GTA VI suffers a delay and will not reach 2026

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Half spot flags. Rockstar has officially announced that GTA VI, the most anticipated video game of recent years, It has been delayed until May 26, 2026. That is, there is more than a year for your arrival. The study has communicated the news through A statement in X. We have listened for months Rumors of delay… that have now been confirmed. The game was initially planned to launch in autumn of this 2025, but according to Rockstar, it will need more development time. Apparently, the window of this autumn It seemed unreal And the company has preferred to shield. “We want to thank your support and patience while we work to finish the game. With each game we have launched, the goal has always been to try to overcome their expectations, and Grand Theft Auto VI is no exception,” Rockstar said in his statement. This announcement arrives a few days before the next presentation of Financial Results of Take-Two, Rockstar parent company, scheduled for May 15. From the launch of the First and only trailer in December 2023 We had not received any other news or information about GTA VI. Now it remains to continue leaving the Margarita for the arrival of a game that aspires to spray all records. In Xataka | A ‘GTA VI’ I only ask you to look less at ‘GTA V’ and more to ‘Vice City’. These are the reasons Outstanding image | Rockstar

We already know where the microplastics get the lettuce that you eat in the salad: from the air

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At this point of 2025, the idea that everything (Absolutely everything) It is full of microplastics. Plants are no exception; nor, of course, the vegetables we consume. The matter is that, for a long time, we have assumed that these compounds entered them through roots, soil and water. It is not exactly like that. No? And where do they come from? Well, a few days ago a Chinese research group published in the magazine ‘Nature’ The first solid evidence that supports the idea that one of the main routes for these microplastics is air. And it is in a lot of environments: Tianjin scientists collected all kinds of leaves, herbs and vegetables of urban and rural environments. In all, they found plastic particles in the foliar fabric. In the most polluted sites, concentrations of up to 10,000 nanograms per gram of dry weight. Above all, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polystyrene (PS). And where do they enter? That is something that is yet to be confirmed, but everything seems to sign up for stomata (small openings formed by cells) and cutt it (a membrane covered by insoluble waxes, “Ideal for absorbing microplastics“). Once inside, the compounds move inside the plants using the vascular beam, are distributed by different tissues and accumulate in hair structures called ‘trichomes’, a kind of fitological ‘sinks’. A big problem … The Chinese study demonstrates that accumulated absorption and accumulation of atmospheric microplastics It is generalized. But there are keys that help us better understand the circulation of these compounds: for example, that the outdoor plants had between 10 and 100 times more pet than those grown in greenhouse. And that the efficiency of the absorption of the leaves is extremely low (around 0.05%); That is why this route has been discarded repeatedly. However, given the little evidence we have about how microplastics enter the soil and water, this route begins to take shape. And, we like it or not, right now it is very difficult to control. And, of course, even if we don’t know what they do … In our body, yes that data like these raised many doubts about what happens if we discover that (as we intuit) is a serious problem. Because, in short, Our control capacity It is extremely limited. Image | Killari Hotaru | Kasturi Laxmi Mohit In Xataka | Our problem with microplastics is so huge that they already appear even in human testicles

In Tiktok there are men shaving the eyelashes to look more masculine. Science has bad news for them

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There is nothing written about fashion. On health yes. And in one of the latest trends that has gained strength in networks among men, both (fashion and health) collide so clearly that medicine professionals already They are warning of its risks. The reason is simple: the Trend It consists neither more nor less than to rise the eyelashes to achieve One more “manly” appearance. Aesthetic issues apart, experts remember that it is a horrible idea for health. “Ojito with this”, warn. Tessels and fashion. The relationship between eyelashes and fashion is old. A lot in fact. In the nineteenth century the perfume Eugène-primel already invented a Mask for them So popular that his last name was linked to the world of cosmetics. Since then the industry has devised false, curizers, serums and a long etc. of products designed for eyelashes. It is not surprising. After all, they have helped to lock great stars like Elizabeth Taylor. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok Goodbye tabs (male). Perhaps because of that ancient association between long eyelashes and female faces, on Instagram, Tiktok and X has begun to be the opposite: men who are shaved. Arrives A quick search To find a good handful of videos (especially on the Bytedance platform) of boys determined to get rid of the hairs that border their eyelids. They do it with the help of barbers, machinillas or scissors. @billybeebaddestbitch Eyelashes are not their to show masculine or femininity, they are Needed to Protect Your Eyes! This is a whole New Level of Stupid. What’s Next Removal Maple? Ridiculous! 😳 #ToxicMsCulinity #Masculinity #Masculine #Feminine #Crazy #trend #WTF #omg #Sick #Eyelashes #Beauty #Menshealth #Mentalhealth #insecurities #MenophtikTok #fyp #Shocking #badidea #Awful #SCary #ToxicMSCulinityCck ♬ Disease – Lady Gaga But … What is the reason? Supposedly look for an aspect “More masculine”as the CNN chain explained recently in an article about the trend. The same idea can be read in some videos that circulate through networks. The Truth The Barber Artist specialized account He has shared one for example in which he ensures that the Trend He is “totally true” and recounts a specific case: “I saw a client to ask a barber to shave the eyelashes. He said he did not like how long they were and that his wife criticized them because they seemed feminine.” Another account of an Auckland Barber (New Zealand) has shared a video in which a hairdresser can be seen by profileing the tabs of a teenager with a machinilla. “I wanted to look more masculine by cutting the eyelashes,” Comment. They are not unique cases. Tiktok circulate More pieces that basically show the same: men shaking their eyelashes to have a “Virile” appearance. History is complicated. That’s how it is. Not everyone believes that the objective of those who shave the eyelashes is to strengthen their masculinity. There is Who slides that the end (at least part of the videos) is another good: strengthen hair. According to them they do it with the belief that he will return to grow longer and thick. The most widespread theory points, however, in the first direction, which relates the Trend with the search for a more virile aspect. “No, they don’t do it for their eyelashes to grow thicker. They do it for toxic masculinity and because they believe they look more masculine with shaved eyelashes,” he says Another user. @halal.barbers Client Wanted to look masculine by Trimming His Eyelashes #Eyelashes #Barber #Halalbarbers #halalbarber #viral #trend #trending #barbershop #Explore #perthbarber #AUCKLANDBARBER ♬ Way Down We Go – Kaleo Where are they doing it? In Tiktok they can be found above all pieces in Englishbut that does not mean that the phenomenon is limited only to countries like the US. Fashion has extended enough to find also Videos in Spanish and has caught the attention of media as New York Post, Buzzfeed either The CNN. Yeah The viral video That supposedly the trend was or not a trolley, the truth is that it has extended so much that the CNN gives it for a practice that other men are replicating. Not just that. He has also made the alarms jump. “Don’t do it!” You can find videos of men paying for their tabs to be shaved and videos of health professionals can be found (more and more) warning that it is a lousy idea. In February Helena Rodero, a pharmacist with about 1.2 million followers on Instagram, Warning of risks of the tendency to ocular health. “The eyelashes have a very important function, which is to protect the eye. They avoid the entry of particles and sweat.” In a similar line they have ruled Nurse Jorge Ángel either Fernández Pharmacistwho warn that shaving the eyelashes can lead to a greater risk of eye irritation and contract infections. It is not even a good idea for those who want hair to improve its growth. “Shaving the eyelashes will not make them grow stronger or long. In fact it could damage the follicles and affect their normal growth,” remember Fernández Pharmacist. @juanitoecutz Let me know for you Eyelash Trim Needs i’m Located Here In Grand Prairie Tx📍 Link In Bio Too Book‼ ️💈 #Arlingtonbarber #Gandprairiebarber #DallasBarber #dfwbarber #fyp ♬ Original Sound – Dallas Barber Think twice. “Is it a tendency to wear a more masculine look? Explain Markys tend their 2.5 million followers in Tiktok. The surgeon Vickie Lee Add a reason To better think of saying goodbye to the eyelashes: “In addition to acting as a barrier and triggering the protective reflex of flickering, the eyelashes help reduce air flow over the eyes, keep moisture and healthy eyes, filtering sunlight, reducing glare and improving visual quality.” The trend coincides with a reinforcement of the PERICA and its stereotypes about masculinity in social networks. Images | Tiktok In Xataka | “I do not go out again with a Span

Revolution is not just a threat to traditional banks. Now it is also for Teleoperators

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Revolution has announced that will launch mobile plans from this year. It will, in this first phase and without more confirmations, in the United Kingdom and Germany. Their plans will offer text messages, calls and unlimited national data. Of course, without any fixed contract or commitment to permanence, something that has characterize virtual mobile operators for years. The next step after its esim. In March 2024 Revolution launched its own esim. It thus became the first digital bank to do so, with a target target on trips abroad. This ESIM provided 100 MB for all its users (as long as they install it before May 1, 2024), and 3 GB for Ultra Plan users. It came from the 1global pannus, London company of telecommunications. The ESIM was focused on offering data abroad, not as an alternative to use for user mobile plan. It is something they want to change with their new movement. Mobile Plans. Revolution has announced its entry into the market of virtual mobile operators. It will do it with rates that start from 12.50 pounds per month, and offer full connectivity in the United Kingdom and Germany. Users will have access to a line with their own number, complete integration within the Revolution app itself, and presuming a 20 GB data itinerance for users traveling to Europe and the United States. When. The company has not closed a date for the implementation of its mobile plans, although it guarantees that they will reach the end of this year. Nor has it confirmed what the partners will be responsible for supporting the network connection. From Neobanco to Servicios Hub. Revolut is preceding in the world of Neobancos. The company doubled in 2024being Spain its third market behind the United Kingdom and Portugal, with 4.5 million users in our territory and the ambition to duplicate them in 2025. After launching install payments for credit customersand raise the launch of mortgages and ATMsbecoming OMV is a step that closes a circle. One in which Revolution ceases to be a bank to become a digital service provider. A new threat. Revolution has started in the United Kingdom and Germany, without confirmed plans to land in other markets. However, if you want to conquer territories such as Spanish in the medium term, you will not have it easy. As of December 2024, despite their popularity, OMVs are minority in Spain: Movistar, Masorange and Vodafone Spain centralize the market share. Revolut would go to compete in a specialized niche with ultra-competitive prices as in the case of Digisupport of giants such as Telefónica in the case of O2. Image | Revolution In Xataka | Revolution: What is it, how it works and main advantages and disadvantages

We are increasingly clear that our microbiome is key to our health. Our protein sources can also alter it

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Little by little We started realizing Of the importance of our microbiota, especially as regards the microorganisms that inhabit our digestive system, our gastrointestinal microbioma. Aspects of our health that in principle They would not seem connected To what happens in our intestines seem to have some kind of correlation with that flora of fungi and bacteria that coexists inside us. Different proteins, different microbiome. A recent study has observed That the food source of protein can alter the composition and structure of our intestinal microbiome, that is, of the set of microorganisms that inhabits our digestive system. The experiment, conducted with mice, observed important variations in the microbiota associated with changes in the diet. “The composition of gastric microbiome changed significantly every time we change the protein source,” pointed in a press release Alfredo Blakeley-Ruiz, co-author of the study. “Protein sources with the greatest functional effects were integral rice, yeast and egg whites.” A variety of sources. Proteins are a key nutrient that gives us essential amino acids with which our body is able to synthesize its own proteins. Foods of animal origin such as meats, fish or eggs are usually seen as the main source of amino acids, but they are not the only one. The existence of alternatives implies the possibility of diverse effects on our health and well -being. Through, for example, of the microbiome. Metabolizing amino acids. The team resorted to its study to the use of high -resolution mass spectrometry and the combination of metagenomic and metaproteinomic. Everything to find how the intestinal microbiome of mice whose diet was altered so that each week they received their single source proteins that was changed after seven days .. They observed that some of these sources were associated with important changes. These changes, Explain the teamthey manifested in how the mice metabolized the amino acids, but also in the way in which their digestive system degraded complex sugars, something that was not so intuitive. Diets such as those based on the integral rice and the clearing of the eggs, continue to explain the equipment, increased the degradation of the amino acids, which would imply that the microorganisms of the digestive system of the mice were breaking the proteins to obtain their own amino acids. The details of the study were published recently In an article in The Isme Journal. An environment (too much?) Controlled. The team responsible for the study admitted That there are some limitations to consider, and one of them is the complexity of the diet. In a laboratory environment, the team altered the diet of the mice radically (causing them to have a single source of protein). Beyond the fact that studies with animal models are not always transposed identically in humans, it is expected that forceful changes in the diet of these animals entail important changes in the structure of their microbiome. A more varied diet, with diverse sources of proteins, would logically imply more dim effects. In Xataka | We have found some supplements capable of improving memory in the elderly: prebiot promising Image | MART PRODUCTION

Microsoft is already the largest editor in PlayStation. It is the era of Xbox Sin Xbox

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The Latest Xbox financial results They consolidate their strategic turn and change forever the video game industry: Microsoft is now the biggest editor in PlayStation… While its physical presence, the console that gave name to the brand, sees its sales fall by 6%. It couldn’t be more symbolic. The Redmond giant has achieved what seemed impossible: to grow Xbox gradually eliminating its original reason. In figures: Game Pass for PC It has increased 45% year -on -year. Content and services grow 8% (it is the third best quarter in its history). Minecraft, driven by Your moviehas reached 75% more weekly users. The cloud records 150 million hours of play transmitted. And meanwhile, that black box that was previously the epicenter now languishes little by little. Is The definitive dematerialization of a platform. What began as a commitment to hardware a quarter of a century has evolved to become an ethereal entity that blooms better in Comanche territory. And also the culmination of Phil Spencer’s vision, which has piled the most radical change we have seen a console manufacturer: go from competing for exclusivity to expand through ubiquity. The interesting thing about this success is that it contradicts the dominant account of the industry, which insisted that Game Pass had touched the roof. But the strategy was not understood because it was measured with old parameters. The great revolution It has not been technical but conceptual: Abandon the idea that a platform needs its own device to exist. In emerging markets such as Brazil, Where taxes make hardware prohibitivethe cloud already exceeds consoles and PC. This mutation changes the stage. The Consoles Warthat tribal narrative that held the culture of the video game for decades, is reduced to an anecdote in the quarterly reports. Doom, Indiana Jones and Forza shine more in PlayStation than in their original home. The future that Microsoft has drawn is here: An omnipresent Xbox that paradoxically does not need to be Xbox to succeed. They have understood before anyone who in the digital era real power is to control the content and not the device that reproduces it. In Xataka | Microsoft rises strongly the price of Xbox consoles and their controls worldwide: they remain in Europe and the USA Outstanding image | Xataka

530 million euros for sending users to China

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Tiktok It has been sanctioned with a fine of 530 million euros for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD). The social network, owned by Bytedance, allowed remote access from China to data from European users, without guaranteeing a level of protection equivalent to that of the European Union. In addition, in February 2025 it was discovered that part of that data had been stored in Chinese servants, contradicting what the company itself had declared during the investigation. The blow is not there. In addition to the economic sanction, the Ireland Data Protection Commission (DPC) has given Tiktok a period of six months to adapt the data processing to the RGPD requirements. If you do not do it within that period, all data transfers to the Asian country will be suspended. What has happened exactly. The investigation has been led by the DPC, main authority by having Tiktok Technology Limited headquarters in Ireland. The final report concludes that Tiktok did not guarantee a level of protection equivalent to the European in data transfers, and did not properly evaluate the risk of access by the Chinese authorities. Graham Doyle, an attached commissioner of the DPC, summarized it as follows: “Tiktok did not carry out the necessary evaluations and did not address the risk of access to personal data by the Chinese authorities in accordance with anti -terrorist laws, counter -signs and other norms identified by the company itself as materially divergent of the EU standards.” Breakdown of the sanction. The fine imposed is broken down into two concepts that respond to two different articles of the RGPD: 485 million euros for violating the Article 46(1), by making data transfers between the European Economic Space (EEE) and China without adequate safeguards or guarantees of equivalent protection. 45 million euros for violating the Article 13(1) (F), by not informing properly in its October 2021 privacy policy about the data recipients of the data, including China. This infraction extends from July 29, 2020 to December 1, 2022, at which time Tiktok updated its policy. Background: A suspicion of 2021. Research dates back to 2021When doubts arose about whether engineers in China could access European user data. Then, the DPC opened a formal investigation to verify the legality of data transfers outside the EEE. At that time, Tiktok said he did not store European data in China, although he acknowledged that there could be remote access from the country. Version and contradiction changes. In April 2025, Tiktok notified the DPC that he had discoveredtwo months before, a case in which a limited amount of European user data had been stored on Chinese servers, contradicting their previous statements. The company indicated that these data have already been eliminated, but this finding has weighed in the regulator’s final decision. Why this is important. The RGPD establishes that personal data can only be transferred outside the EEE if the receiving country guarantees an essentially equivalent level of protection. In the absence of a “adaptation decision” by the European Commission (which China does not have), additional measures must be applied, such as standard contractual clauses and risk assessments. Tiktok did not meet these requirements. Tiktok defends himself. The company has announced that the decision will resort. According to BloombergTiktok states that he has never received a request for European user data from Chinese authorities, and that he has not provided any information. Ireland’s role in all this. Although the European Data Protection Committee (CEPD) includes about twenty authorities, the Irish DPC leads this case because it is the main Tiktok regulator in Europe. It is not the first time he does: in 2023, I fined the social network with 345 million euros for not properly protecting the privacy of minors. Images | Mourizal Zativa | Christian Lue In Xataka | Apple loses the war against Epic. Fortnite returns triumphant and Spotify already prepares its rematch

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