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Ferrari had been demanding a toy company for 10 years. Everything for Testarossa to be a car and not a bicycle

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To whom we already comb some gray hair, the name Testarossa transports us directly to the Miami of the late 80s, when Sonny Crockettand Rico Tubbs they jumped from the yachts of the drug traffickers and put themselves at the wheel of a Ferrari Testarossa Blanco in the Mythical corruption in Miami (Miami Vice). In a good part thanks to that series, Ferrari turned the Testarossa in a legend Departure from Pininfarina pencils, causing all the children of the time to sigh to see the unmistakable lateral air intakes (they were known as cheese gradators) of this model. However, in an act of monumental awkwardness by Ferrari, the Italian firm lost commercial control of the Testarossa brand. According The published by Reutersa judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (TJUE) has been returned after more than a decade fighting for them. “A toy” that one day set up a V12 The nightmare for Ferrari with the Testarossa brand began just over a decade ago. AUTEC AG, a German toy company, appealed to the expiration of the Testarossa brand registration proving that Ferrari had not used it in any product between 2010 and 2015. The European trademarks They establish that, although trademarks have been registered, they must use them within five years since their registration. This loophole allowed to request the rights of uses on the Testarossa brand before the Office of Intellectual Property of the European Union (EUIPO) that accepted the petition. From that moment, the name of the Ferrari engineering jewel of the 80s, which mounted a 390 hp V12 engine That allowed him to touch the 300 km/h, it could also be an electric bicycle, razor machinillas or a radio -controlled car. In the late 80s, the new Ferrari Testarossa had an approximate price of about 145,000 euros, which is equivalent to about 419,000 today. Today, some of those cars They have come to auction for up to 241,000 euros. Not bad for a car with more than 35 years. The Ferrari Testarossa are eternal According to assured Andrea Scioletti, director of Used Vehicles of Ferrari A Drivemore than 90% of the Ferrari who have left the Maranello factory They are still in circulation. Paradoxically, That reliability It is the one that has saved the Italian manufacturer from losing his most legendary brand. The 7,000 units of the Ferrari Testarossa were manufactured between 1984 and 1996. Since then, that model has only been marketed through second -hand concessionaires or Distributors authorized by Ferrarias well as that of its spare parts. According to The criterion of the Court of Justice of the European Union, those resale of products under that brand can already constitute an effective use of the brand, either directly through its distributors, or authorizing your sale When it comes to third parties. With This sentencethe European Court revoked an earlier ruling of the Regional Court of Düsseldorf that, according to The published In the German Spiegelgranted AUTEC AG the right of use of the Testarossa brand by denoting the argument of second -hand cars and the spare parts that Ferrari wielded. “The use of the brand to guarantee the identity of the origin of the products for which it was registered, by reselling second -hand products, can constitute effective use,” the new sentence details. The cultural imprint that left in the young people of the time the iconography of the series, made years after the end of its production, continue to sell figures at the Testarossa scale graduated by Ferrari. Which has also been considered by the TJCE as a form of use of the brand. In Xataka | The Rocambolesca History of Ferrari 512 TR of Michael Jordan: 15 years lost and has appeared among the ashes of a fire In Xataka | Ferrari will expand its blacklist prohibiting “tuning” and other extravagances: it is not for bad taste, they are just business Image | Ferrari, Wikimedia Commons (Janderk1968)

What are solar storms and why society has become so vulnerable to something that has happened millions of years

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“Understanding the space climate is not an option.” With this lapidary phrase summarizes its efforts to predict solar storms the European Space Agency. They occur since the sun exists, and some of the most powerful They are recorded in the trees rings. But they are not our ancestors, but we, the most dependent civilization of the technology that the earth has ever stepped on, the most vulnerable to them. But what exactly are solar storms? How are these energy outbreaks? And the million dollar question: can we predict when the next one will impact on earth? The answer is in a complex network of satellites, artificial intelligence models and constant surveillance of our star by space agencies. What is a solar storm 150 million kilometers away, the sun flushes with a magnetic activity so powerful that, from time to time, it goes out of hand. A solar storm is a sudden explosion of energy, plasma particles and magnetic fields that the sun releases towards the solar system. If the ejection occurs in the direction of the Earth, the solar storms can produce more intense auroraslike those that were seen in much of the world in May 2024. But they are not only a show: in our technological civilization, they are also a threat. To understand them, we have to differentiate their two main components. The guts or solar flares. They are a intense radiation outbreak: A whip of energy released when the magnetic fields of the sun tense and break. This radiation travels at the speed of light, reaching the earth in just eight minutes. They are classified according to their intensity by X -ray flow, measured in watts per square meter. The class A, B and C are the weakest, and those of class M and X, the most powerful, which usually cause interference in short wave radio communications. Coronal mass ejections. It is the ballistic part of the solar storms. While fulguration is the flash, the coronal mass ejections They are the “cannon bullet”: a gigantic bubble of loaded particles (plasma) and magnetic fields that are thrown into the space at speeds of millions of kilometers per hour. This massive cloud of solar material It takes between 18 hours and a couple of days in crossing the space to cross with our planet. Not all guts are accompanied by a coronal mass ejection, but when they occur together and in the direction of the earth, they are a powerful cocktail that can put astronauts at risk, knock down satellites (as happened during a Starlink deploymentor fry electrical installations on land (As in the Carrington event). How they form A Class M. Image: That The origin of the solar storms is the magnetic field of the Sun. A star is not a solid ball, but a sphere of rotation plasma. But it does not rotate uniformly: his Ecuador turns faster than his poles. This differential causes the magnetic field lines to twist, tangle and accumulate an enormous amount of energy, as if they were elastic gums twisted to the limit. These areas of intense and complex magnetic activity They usually manifest as sun spots on the visible surface of the sun. When the accumulated tension becomes unsustainable, there is a magnetic reconnection event: the lines are broken and violently reorganized, suddenly releasing all the stored energy. This release drives the guts and can launch into the mass of the solar crown. The intensity of its effects on Earth depends on its speed, its size and, above all, the orientation of its magnetic field. If the magnetic field of coronal mass ejection is oriented towards the south, it is aligned in opposition to that of the Earth, our protective shield, which allows a much more efficient and destructive energy transfer. How they affect the earth If we are here it is because the magnetic field and the atmosphere of the earth protect us from radiation. Solar storms are not a direct risk to the health of living beings on the earth’s surface. For astronauts it is another song. In 1972, shortly before the Apollo 17 mission, there was an intense solar storm that would have inoculated a mortal amount of radiation in astronauts if they had been on the surface of the moon. Today, astronauts who work in the low land orbit, even protected by the magnetic field, plan space walks according to the space climate. The really vulnerable to intense solar storms is our technological infrastructure. When a coronal mass ejection impacts the earth’s magnetosphere There is a geomagnetic storm. Extreme cases can induce electric currents in high voltage lines, overloading transformers and raising the risk of blackouts, especially now in summer, when the electricity grid is already very tension. The satellites, despite having mechanisms to avoid induced currents, usually carry the worst part. Solar storms expand the upper atmosphere of the Earth, increasing friction and accelerating the fall of satellites that orbit the earth at low height. This effect already is accelerating the fall of Starlink satellitesthe most large constellation of the low orbit. Even during moderate geomagnetic storms we can notice some effects, such as precision errors in GPS systems or that airlines deflect flights from polar routes to avoid failures in plane systems and protect passengers. The kind face of solar storms are the auroras: solar particles that when hitting our atmosphere They create a light show at the poles. During severe geomagnetic storms, dawn can also be seen in less common latitudes. When the next solar storm will occur Image: that The most severe geomagnetic storms occur Around solarthe period of more activity of the Sun in its 11 -year cycle. Now we are going through solar cycle 25, and we approach the maximum activity, planned by the NOAA and ESA by the end of 2025 or early 2026. This means that we are in a high probability phase of intense storms. Luckily, spatial meteorology is advancing by giant steps. To predict solar storms, … Read more

MANUFACTE POSEVSKITITA SOLAR PANELS

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China not only leads the world production of solar panels: practically has cemented its energy industry About them. After years of betting on The massive expansion of silicon panelsthe country has put its gaze on a more promising technology: Perovskita’s solar cells. The problem? Make them on a large scale It has beenuntil now, a huge technical challenge. However, solving that puzzle is, for China, a strategic issue, and everything indicates that it has just found the key piece that was missing. The missing piece. After three years of work, a group of researchers from the Institute of Applied Chemistry of Changchun – part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences— has found a solution that can make a difference: an ultrafine layer that improves how electricity flows in Perovskita’s solar cells. This is how they have managed to make panels better, last more and, above all, they can be manufactured massively. And that is the piece that was missing so that this technology can make the leap to the global market. More technical. The discovery, Published in Science magazinewhat he has achieved is to create a “self -assembly molecule of double radical”, which acts as a hollow transport layer (HTL). This intermediate layer is key for solar devices to work properly, since it facilitates the movement of the positive charges generated by the light. According to the tests of the Zhou Min team, the new material far duplicates the transport rate of carriers under simulated conditions. And the most impressive: the devices made with it show almost intact yield even after thousands of hours of continuous use. The Kit of the matter. Perovskita’s solar cells have been grabbing headlines for years. And it is not for less: they are cheap, light, efficient and so versatile that they can be placed in Facades, windows either fabric. Everything pointed out that they would be the natural relay of silicon. But there was a problem that did not finish solving: its fragility and how complicated it is to manufacture them on a large scale. In this way, this new material solves those two fronts. On the one hand, it produces improved stability that resists degradation over time. On the other hand, it can be manufactured in a simple and uniform way, even on large surfaces, without losing quality. In addition, the advance has been certified in terms of efficiency by the National Renovable Energies Laboratory. UU. (NREL), which gives it a crucial technical support beyond China’s borders, According to Interesting Engineering. Who seeks to find. China does not want to repeat saturation collapse who lived with silicon. This time, it points higher and further: not only dominate production, but also to improve the next generation of solar panels. With this advance, Perovskita ceases to be a distant promise to become a tangible reality. If technology manages to climb commercially – as the research teams are already planned – we could be witnessing the beginning of a new solar era: cleaner, more efficient and more accessible to all. Image | Chinese Academy of Sciences Xataka | All solar panel technologies that exist and which are more efficient, in a graph that goes 1975 until today

What cars can circulate and which ones rest on July 5

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Another week, we arrive at Saturday to face today’s restrictions does not circulate. You already know that on weekends they are a bit special where this system is applied to reduce the volume of vehicles in the streets and, with them, the level of emissions in the air. So what can we do not be fined? The first, to have very Claor what this program designed by the CDMX Ministry of Environment is (Sedema), known as today does not circulate. A project to improve the air quality we breathe that. It inevitably has to stop leaving the car at home. Restrictions, of course, that only apply in the 16 mayors in Mexico City and in the following conurbation municipalities of the State of Mexico: Atizapán de Zaragoza Coacalco de Berriozábal Cuautitlán Cuautitlán Izcalli Chalco Chicoloapan Chimalhuacán Ecatepec de Morelos Huixquilucan Ixtapaluca La Paz Naucalpan de Juárez Nezahualcóyotl Nicolás Romero Tecámac Tlalnepantla de Baz Tultitlán Chalco Valley What cars and plaques affect the Sabatino today Once we have clarified the most basic … What are the restrictions that have to be taken into account? We talk about those that apply yes or yes to those cars that cannot move but also those that allow some cars to move no longer. Or do part partially. First, you have to have the daily restrictions shown in the upper image. These limitations specify whether or not to rest a car. It is important to keep in mind that the thing changes the weekend because on Saturdays there are specific rules. Thus, a day like today the following conditions can be applied. Cars that can circulate every Saturday Cars that have to rest every Saturday Cars that rest on a Saturday yes and another no+ These restrictions, however, do not apply all day. At night they do not take into account and, therefore, are active between 05:00 and 10:00 p.m.. That is, at night we can move freely and without being afraid of fines. Once we have all this clear, what else do we have to take into account when circulating or leaving the car at home during today does not circulate Sabatino? The case may, we must look at the hologram, the plate number and, always, the calendar. First because cars with hologram 2 cannot circulate. In this case, you don’t have to think much, if you have a car with hologram 2 you can’t move. If, on the contrary, it is hologram 0 and 00 may move with total freedom. As they are the least polluting, they can move with total freedom. And the hologram 1? In that case, for restrictions the calendar must be taken into account. This Saturday, July 5, 2025 We are facing the third Saturday of the month. That means that it is the cars with hologram 1 and plate finished in odd number those that rest. Next week, as is broken, they will be finished in torque. However, there are some exceptions that must be taken into account because those cars can move with total freedom: Those that work for electricity, natural gas or are hybrid Those who have disabled plate All those dedicated to urban transport services (includes funerals) Those who offer school or passenger transport Those for public safety and/or civil protection In case of breaching these restrictions, the fine will be 20 to 30 times the unit of measurement and update (Uma), which is equivalent to 1,924.40 pesos and even 2,886.60 pesos. Photo | Alex 0101 In Xataka | Contamination is not only making you live less and worse. You are also making you darker

Kawasaki and Foxconn already try nursing robots in Taiwan. The really ambitious is what comes after

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Soon, in some Taiwan hospitals, you could cross with a robot that guides you through the halls, wears a tray with samples or accompanies you to the consultation. It is not a prototype locked in a laboratory: it is already being tested with real patients. Behind the project are Kawasaki and Foxconn, and their idea is clear: that these robots are part of the health team since 2026. The robot that are developing part of an already known base: The Nyokkeya social model that the Japanese firm has used in residences, restaurants and even infrastructure facilities. This new version, which is being tested in the hospital Taichung general veterans From Taiwan, adapt that design to a clinical environment and gives it concrete functions designed to relieve part of the loading of health personnel. A Nurse Robot in Taiwan. The robot moves autonomously through the hospital corridors, thanks to a sensor system that allows it to dodge obstacles and avoid collisions. It has two arms with the capacity to hold objects, a compartment to transport samples or medication, and can guide patients by facilities. The Register points out that it could also Explain basic hygiene standards to users, although it is not clear if that function is part of the model that will be displayed soon. Everything indicates that the immediate objective is not to replace medical staff, but to assist it in routine tasks that consume time and resources. In a context like Taiwanese, where the shortage of nursing personnel is a real concern –and shared by many other countries-, The presence of these robots could relieve part of that pressure. Foxconn estimates thattaking care of transporting medications, samples or kits, Nurabot could reduce staff workload by up to 30 %. Who are behind the robot? The collaboration between Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Foxconn is not accidental. The first was a pioneer in industrial robotics in Japan and today manufactures automotive systems, the semiconductor industry and even surgery. The second is the largest electronics manufacturer for the world’s contract, and it has been betting on robotics and artificial intelligence as new growth engines. In this project, in fact, Foxconn has had Nvidia technology For the entire artificial intelligence ecosystem, from the training of models in data centers to the execution of algorithms in the robot itself. According to Nikkei Asiaboth companies are negotiating how production, technical support and the marketing of the robot are divided once it reaches the market. What comes after. At the moment, the robot is focused on hospital environments, but both Kawasaki and Foxconn have already shown interest in expanding their use to other sectors. The final idea is to build a versatile platform that can adapt to different environments and needs. In that scenario, the experience accumulated in clinics would serve as a test field for a future generation of multifunction robots. A kind of technological staff on which to build other more specialized models: customer service assistants, guides in public spaces, logistics assistants. What is trying today in a Taichung hospital could become the basis of a new category of robots designed to live with us on a day -to -day basis. OBJECTIVE: Get to the market in 2026. If everything goes as planned, the robot will arrive on the Taiwanese market in fiscal year 2026. Kawasaki and Foxconn have marked an ambitious goal: to reach accumulated sales of 200 units in the following year, that is, before the end of 2027. Yes, the price has not yet been revealed. Images | Nvidia In Xataka | The agents were supposed to go for AI in another dimension in 2025. As with other things of AI, it was only supposed to

The KC-135 have been reproducing airplanes for decades. Now the US wants them to also launch drones to protect themselves

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When we talk about a military plane, we usually think of fighters, as the F-35or bombers, as the B-2. But there are other types of aircraft that are equally essential: Cistern aircraft. The KC-135 It is one of them. Its mission is simple and vital: fly loaded with fuel to refue to others in the air. According to Aviation WeekThe interesting thing is that the US Air Force does not want him to stay there. He has already developed a system so that KC-135 can launch drones while flying, with the idea that they serve as shields, sensors or even communication links in risk areas. A ‘tanker’ that will launch drones It is not a new idea, but an important step. For several years it has been experienced with ways of expanding the capacities of cistern airplanes, and everything indicates that The KC-135 is the first candidate For this change. According to official budget documents for fiscal year 2026the development of this drone launch system It was already tested at some point last year. For now, there are no images or videos of the test. Nor has a public presentation been made. What we do know, so it indicates the budget, is that the objective is to provide the KC-135 with a defensive capacity on board, especially in hostile environments. That is, to be able to launch drones that help you detect threats, confuse enemy missiles or simply expand the visual field of the mission. To achieve this, the development team has opted for a fairly ingenious solution: take advantage of a KC-135 rear hatch and adapt it to integrate a well-known tool Common Launch Tube (CLT)which could also be adapted to the most modern cistern plane KC-46 pegasus. An important point is that these drones would not be thought, at least for the moment, to attack. Its function would be mainly defensive. Everything indicates that they could carry interference systems, act as lures to divert enemy missiles or deploy sensors to monitor the environment and alert the plane of possible threats. They would be, in essence, a first protection line for the KC-135 in areas where flying has become more and more risky. In the background, what the Air Force proposes with this system is not only a specific improvement, but an operating approach change: that a plane designed to refuel can become a kind of Air warehouse for other resourcesready to act in real time according to what happens in the mission. While the United States seeks to squeeze the entire potential of its veterans KC-135, France has chosen to turn page. On June 30, one of its Stratotanker flew for the last time, ending more than six decades of service. Instead, the country has opted for the Airbus A330 MRTT, Like the one that has just received Spaina more modern plane, with greater autonomy, more load capacity and suitable for both medical and logistics missions. Images | Anduril | United States Air Force In Xataka | They are not your imaginations, the seat of airplanes is increasingly uncomfortable. He began to shrink in 1978 and since then he has not stopped

find all the exoplanets that we can

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While there are still people who do not finish seeing with good eyes that Pluto is not a planet, astronomers have been compiling an extensive list of exoplanets. How many exoplanets includes this list? Many, thousands of fact. The number of exoplanets that we discover grow month by month. Exoplanets passionate many for different reasons, but with total security, the most widespread reason must be the possibility, remote but real, that one day we will find life in one of them. The more exoplanets we identify and study, the greater the probability of running out of our planet and our solar system. But let’s start with the basics: What is an exoplanet? Well, an exoplanet is essentially a planet, with the only peculiarity of orbiting a star other than ours, although there is something to clarify in this. Because The definition of a planet is that of a spatial object that orbits a star but that must have two additional characteristics: one, sufficient mass to acquire a spherical shape; and the other, also to be of sufficient size to clear their orbit of similar objects. This last criterion is what made Pluto lost the planet category. Check if these criteria are fulfilled, at distances of thousands of light years, it is difficult. The smallest exoplanets discovered, as Kepler-37bthey have a size similar to that of the moon, so we can assume that they are spherical. The problem is that it can become more difficult to check if an explanet of this size is accompanied by a similar but more difficult object to detect in the same orbit. Types of exoplanets Study objects at such distances is complicated but we know that they are not very different from those that we can find in our environment. That is why we usually classify these distant objects using analogies Based on the planets that we know best. The smaller exoplanets usually enter the category of rock exoplanets or terrestrial. These exoplanets are similar not only to Earth but to planets inside the Solar System such as Mercury, Venus or Mars. The next category would be that of superstierras, rocky planets such as ours but larger. Sometimes this category It intermingles with the subcategory of the mini-neptuna. The following category is that of the planets similar to Neptune, also comparable in size to Uranus, these planets normally have atmospheres full of hydrogen or helium, mini-neptuna are sometimes also classified in this category. Finally we have the gaseous giants similar to Jupiter and Saturn (or even larger), which sometimes includes the subcategory of the “hot júpiteres”. The closest If we want to find an exoplanet we don’t have to go very far. In astronomical terms, of course: the closest exoplanets of which we have news orbit the stars closest to ours, next Centauri. This system has at least one planet, next Centauri B, and also with at least one not confirmed partner, next centauri d. In theory there could be even closer exoplanets, although they would be virtually impossible to detect. For a few decades we have proof of the existence of wandering or interstellar planets, objects of mass similar to that of a planet that does not orbit any star but also but They roam the galaxy. The most similar to Earth The answer to the question of what is the exoplanet most similar to Earth depends on the criteria we use. The size and its position in the “habitable zone” of the star orbits are the main criteria that we can establish to determine the degree to which a planet can be similar to ours. The dough is usually related to the fact that this planet has a rocky surface, while the fact that it is in the habitable area implies the possibility that the planet has liquid water like ours. Following these criteria, We can highlight for example Kepler-1649c. Located about 300 light years from our planet, Kepler-1649C has a mass 1.06 times that of the Earth and, although it receives about 75% of the solar energy that reaches our planet we can place it within the area of ​​habitability of its star. Another good candidate is Kepler-442b. It is located at 1,194 light years of the earth and is 33% greater than the Earth, but its orbital situation would allow not only the existence of water but also the photosyntos. Special mention deserves next Centauri B, the planet closest to Earth is not only in the habitable zone of its star, it also has a size relatively similar to ours, 27% higher in mass. How many exoplanets are there? Let’s go back to the question we started, how many exoplanets we have discovered. According to the most recent data available, NASA’s exoplanet file list It includes a total of 5,926 exoplanets. Something more than a third of them, 2.28 specifically, They are classified As similar to Neptune, and only 217 are categorized as “land” (although the number of superstar is much larger, 1,741). However, we have only torn the surface. To the list of confirmed exoplanets we can add one, even greater, of candidate objects, more than 15,000 in total. And again this is only the beginning: our galaxy has tens or hundreds of billions of stars, we do not know how many of them could house planets. In addition, almost all the exoplanets discovered so far are found precisely within the Milky Way, so we do not know anything about the number of exoplanets that could be orbiting in the observable universe. Is there life in exoplanets? The big question that many have asked ourselves numerous throughout our life still has no answer. The possibility of life in solar systems distant from ours grows with each new discovery but we still have no evidence of the existence of life, even less intelligent life, on planets outside our solar system (or in another other than ours). However, The search continues. In Xataka | Star rains, planetary alignments and lunar phases: … Read more

Sending an email to a low employee has cost 1,500 euros to a company: it doesn’t matter if you respond or not

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The Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG) has marked a before and after in the protection of the right to digital disconnection of workers in Spain. For the first time, a company has been convicted of sending electronic jobs to an employee who was on a medical leave. The sentence is considered a pioneer because, although other countries Like France and BelgiumThey have already legislated on digital disconnectionGalician justice has taken another step by sanctioning not only the obligation not to respond, but also the duty of the company of Do not send communications Out of working hours. What happened? According to details the sentencethe affected worker was in a situation of temporary disability due to an “anxiety disorder”, apparently “motivated by the emotional wear that implies the current situation of excess work, realization of overtime continuously and labor responsibility, which has led to the appearance of relational insecurity with respect to their environment.” In that context of medical disabilitythe employee continued to receive electronic emails related to her work during the entire low period. The company recognized the facts, but argued that the emails to the complainant were part of a thread created above and whose content was aimed at other people of the team. In addition, he claimed that they were not asked for “an immediate response.” In Xataka 40,000 euros for a croquette: Mercadona dismissed an employee for eating a croquette and must now compensate him The TSXG got serious with disconnection. In its resolution, the Superior Court dismissed the company’s arguments and was overwhelming in its ruling. The magistrates considered that the company not only breached their duty to refrain from communicating with the worker during his temporary disability, but also attempted against his moral integrity. According to the sentence, the Right to digital disconnection “It demands that communications from the company are not received outside the work time”, and warns that “that right is not fulfilled due to the fact that the working person does not have the duty to respond to the communications received outside the work time more or less immediately.” That is, and here the Importance of this resolutionthat the right to digital disconnection does not only refer to the interpretation of the urgency of the communications received, but “carries with it an obligation by the employer, and of dependent or linked persons, of abstention in the communications of labor order or linked to the provision of services outside the working time.” In Xataka Some employees sued their company for cutting the salary. The supreme has responded that being unpunctual is not a job Vulnerability situation. The TSXG highlights the special importance of the right to digital disconnection when the worker is in a situation of temporary disability by A psychic ailment. In the sentence, the Galician Court emphasizes that emails in these circumstances “uneasy the receiver, and also reifted it and undermined their dignity” and places the worker in a state of permanent availability incompatible with her right to recover without pressures. The right to digital disconnection in Spanish law. The right to digital disconnection is included in article 88 of the Organic Law 3/2018 and reinforced with the arrival of the call Distance Labor Law of 2021. According to the regulations, “all workers and public employees will have the right to digital disconnection in order to guarantee, outside the legal or conventionally established work time, respect for their rest time, permits and vacations, as well as their personal and family intimacy.” This right allows workers not to answer mails, calls, video calls or any other digital communication out of work hours. The law does not differentiate between the size of the workforce or the public or private nature of the company, so the protection is universal for all employees in Spain. With the TSXG ruling, the prohibition is not limited to the fact of “not answering” but its interpretation is expanded to “not receive.” {“Videid”: “X919SE0”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “The AI ​​and the future of our work Silvia Rivela | 100 years, 100 visions Ep.3”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “2630”} Symbolic condemnation, but pioneer. The process reached the TSXG as a result of a previous sentence in which, in addition to the violation of the right to digital disconnection of workers, compensation for violations of the right to honor and physical integrity were requested. In this case, the new resolution revokes these last two concepts because it has not been damaged physically or its honorability has been affected. However, it imposes compensation of 1,500 euros “for damages” for violating the right to digital disconnection because the company “was not guaranteed” of this right and points out that “pretending that it is available at any time of its life, including temporary disability, prevents the free development of personality and hinders the exercise of the field of intimacy of personal life of personal life.” In Xataka | 55,245 euros for eating a sandwich and a beer: Mercadona must compensate an employee for unfair dismissal Image | Unspash (Brian J. 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that Europeans forget that they need expensive cars

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Before many we wanted a Xiaomi Su7. Now we also want the new Xiaomi Yu7: The company sold 200,000 units in three minutes In China and beat The remarkable record of his first model. But attentive, because that overwhelming success can now end up replicating in the rest of the world. It has already happened with its mobiles, and in Xiaomi they seem prepared to replicate the same strategy with which they reaped success in that market. In 2027, expansion.Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, indicated on Wednesday that he hopes to start selling his electric vehicles outside China. For now it is confirmed with its market, where you are getting kneel. In its first year selling Xiaomi electric cars has lost 800 million dollars, but it is that That is excellent news for your future. Traditional manufacturers tremble. Xiaomi’s international expansion is a great news for them, but potentially terrible for European manufacturers. The reason is that Xiaomi electric vehicles compete in benefits with the best of European manufacturers, but do so with a much lower price. We have a clear example in Porsche, who has fallen 30% in sales in the last yearespecially for the irruption of Xiaomi Su7. Of choltoteléfonos to chollocoches. Xiaomi’s strategy is traced to which he already allowed him to destroy competition in the mobile industry. His smartphones, especially at the beginning, were choltoteléphones that They offered high-end specifications at entry-media range prices. The same is expected to occur when exporting their cars, which have high -end cars benefits of European manufacturers, but which cost significantly less. It is a battle that traditional mobile manufacturers – those of Apple, Samsung or LG of the time – have already dealt with and, mostly, lost. The example of Yu7. The latest creation of Xiaomi, the Yu7, follows the trail of its predecessor: autonomy of about 540 km, battery that carries 80% in 12 minutes – the Tesla Model and or the Porsche Macan takes more than 20) and acceleration from 0 to 100 in 3.3 seconds (in the Xiaomi Yu7 Max, the most powerful) and power of up to 681 hp (630 hp in the macan, 514 CV in Model Y). Volkswagen already knows what can happen. Volkswagen had a well -off position in China, leading the distance sales of its rivals. However, in recent months these sales have collapsed, although in that case it has been more for the Byd overwhelming thrustthat he did not paint anything in 2020 and that from 2021 he experienced a vertiginous rise in the Chinese market. Byd’s success in Spain is also a reality, and it is because it follows the same tactic as Xiaomi: “bargain cars” that have surprising benefits for their price, at least if we compare them with those of traditional manufacturers models. And the tariffs not seem to impact. The European Union It has been since October 2024 Applying tariffs to the Chinese electric car, and vary according to the brand between approximately 8 and 35%. China Has a Trojan horse With its combustion cars in hybrids, but it does not even seem to be needed, because even with those tariffs the price/performance ratio of Chinese electric cars are still remarkable. At least, for now. The ecosystem is the key. As with Apple, Xiaomi not only wants to sell you a car, but they sell a complete ecosystem. Its electric vehicles are part of that ecosystem in which the mobile, home automation and xiaomi appliances are integrated. All an integration that no other manufacturer has achieved, but that Xiaomi has already well profiled. Let us remember what happened to mobiles. Xiaomi first focused on China and then Start an international expansion that many users were waiting. He triumphed with his baroteléphones for a few years, but ended up remarkably: for years he competes as one more in the high -end market – who tells them to Xiaomi 15 Ultra– And created two submarks (Redmi and little) so that they were the ones that offered more modest and affordable mobiles. It remains to be seen as its strategy with its electric cars. Image | Xiaomi In Xataka | Byd promised them very happy with his new plant in Mexico. He has just canceled all his plans

panels that go up and down with the tide

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The solar revolution has reached the sea. What a few years ago seemed unfeasible – generating energy on salt water and with tide – is now a reality in China. The curious thing is who is leading this step: Sinopec, one of the world’s greatest oil companies. A great project. The Chinese oil company Sinopec has announced in a press release That its subsidiary, Qingdao Refining and Chemical Company, has ended and launched the first floating photovoltaic project in China salt water to operate at an industrial scale. The new floating solar plant is located in Qingdao, in the coastal province of Shandong, extending over 60,000 square meters of maritime surface connected directly to the sea. In addition, it will have an installed capacity of 7.5 megawatts, it is able to generate 16.7 million KWH of electricity a year. A technical milestone. Getting a solar plant to work on the sea is not simple. To overcome these multiple challenges of the marine environment, Sinopec has had to apply technical innovations developed in collaboration with national materials and structures. Among the improvements, on the one hand, floats and supports resistant to saline fog and perclabes to extend the useful life of the structure. On the other hand, a marine anchor system has been implemented that supports level 13 winds (equivalent to a typhoon) and tide variations up to 3.5 meters. In addition, the project has available cables and panels near the surface of the water, which improves safety and facilitates maintenance, reducing operational costs. According to PR Newswireanother of innovations is the use of solar panels that rise and fall synchronized with the tide, allowing to reduce the distance between the module and the surface of the water to only a tenth with respect to the traditional structure. This proximity improves thermal dissipation thanks to marine water, which increases efficiency between 5 % and 8 %. This is just the beginning. The oil company does not stop here. Sinopec has announced the expansion of the project with an additional 23 MW plant, which will reinforce the generation capacity of the Energy Park in Qingdao. This effort adds to other initiatives of the same complex, such as the first “neutral carbon” hydrogen station in the country, as well as the first hydrogen production project from seawater in an industrial plant, such as has detailed ST DAily. A trend that grows. The Syopec movement adds to an international trend That is booming. Starting with India, which has already deployed large floating solar parks in reservoirs, such as Ramagundam. For its part, Japan has installed hundreds of small floating plants in urban lakes and reservoirs. Finally, Singapore inaugurated in 2021 one of the largest urban floating solar plants in the world, on the Tengeh reservoir. The commitment to the sun. For more than two decades, China promoted a good part of the global oil growth. Since entry to the WTO in 2001, each section of highway built, each refinery inaugurated, each expanded city or megaproject launched added pressure on the world’s demand for crude oil. However, That trajectory begins to be invested and it seems that it will reach its demand peak in the year 2027. Given these estimates, the great oil company is accelerating its energy transformation towards renewables. Within its great plan is the development of 10,000 photovoltaic plants by 2027, greater geothermal heating capacity in China, a large network of hydrogen stations in the world and the implementation of the first national photovoltaic green hydrogen project. At a time when large oil companies face the challenge of reinventing themselves, Sinopec is drawing an ambitious roadmap. And if these types of projects prosper, it would not be uncommon to see more solar panels floating in the seas of the world in the coming years. Image | Unspash Xataka | The photovoltaic conquest knows no limits: China is filling its seas and reservoirs of solar panels, followed by India

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