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China has been launching the same message to the world about Taiwan. The date was 2027 … until the US bombarded Iran

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Now that there is a certain tense calm in the Middle East, there are many analysts who have turned the magnopolitical framework. In June we already commented that, in a turn of the most perverse events, the United States attack Iran intended to contain a nuclear proliferation could be the catalyst of another even more dangerous: North Korea. There was a second stage to draw: that of China and Taiwan. Start over. The analysts told of the New York Times That the American attack against Iranian nuclear facilities has added a new layer of complexity to the already tense geopolitical equation between the United States, China and Taiwan. What began as a diplomatic strategy became a sudden offensive that now serves as Element of study For Chinese leaders, who seek to anticipate how Trump would respond to an eventual crisis in the Taiwan Strait. His Erratic behavior And his willingness to resort to the use of force, even having previously rejected it, generate confusion in Beijing. China, they agree, observe this turn as a sign that Trump, far from representing a predictable position, could apply a logic of force equally in Asia if it perceives that their interests are at stake. Iran’s mirror. In the same way What North Koreahe Attack on Iran has been able to force Chinese strategists to Check your models of contingency with respect to Taiwan. Despite the obvious differences between the two scenarios, the essential lesson It is shared: Trump is willing to unleash military operations if he considers it appropriate, even against adversaries with limited response capacity such as Iran. Beijing, on the other hand, has a considerably superior military power and is known closer to the theater of operations than any American force. Even so, the possibility of a sudden escalation forces the Chinese to prepare For a Scenario fanfrom a diplomatic crisis to a direct confrontation that escapes their hands. Uncertainty about Trump’s red line is precisely what worries them. Taiwan and ambiguity. A constant in American politics towards Taiwan has been the calculated ambiguity: dissuad China from that invasion that sounds by 2027 (coinciding with The EPL centenary), without explicitly guaranteeing a military intervention. Trump has brought that ambiguity to an extreme level. At times ha praised Xi Jinping And he has given relaxes of distensionwhile in others he has hardened his rhetoric and has intensified The supply of weapons to Taipéi. For Beijing, this duality is disconcerting but also dangerous, because it cannot be certain to its behavior. In this context, Chinese analysts They have intensified His scrutiny, maintaining discrete meetings with American interlocutors in search of clues about the true limits of the former president. The impression they transmit is of nervous caution: they fear that the Trump’s unpredictability can trigger an unwanted crisis. Cross pressures. The tension not only emanates from Beijing. Remembered in another report the Time Magazine that within the United States and Taiwan there is fear that Trump himself, in his eagerness, ends giving something to China In a future summit with XI, perhaps in the form of an ambiguous statement or a significant omission about the defense of the island. Washington, as we said, maintains armament supply (And more) and exhortes Taipéi to increase his military spending, but it is the president who finally decides. That centralization of power and its erratic character They worry both in the Pentagon and in the Taiwanese presidential palace. We have Cash: The recent ones Chinese maneuversincluding deployment of aircraft carriers Beyond the first island chain, they are seen as stress tests: Silent drills to measure the allied reaction capacity and the degree of real commitment of Washington. Taiwan between lines and symbols. While Beijin accuses President Taiwanesa Lai Ching-Te de Separatismo, the island administration insists that it is the maneuvers and Chinese threats that They tension the rope. In turn, within Taiwan, there are those who interpret Trump’s attack to Iran as An indirect warning To the great powers, a coded message towards Moscow and Beijing: if a line is crossed, the answer could be immediate. But the comparison between Iran and China is dangerous. He Missile Arsenal from Beijing (which includes about 3,500 missiles Conventional, nuclear ballistic submarines and a rapid assembly) would make a lightning offensive like the one launched in the Middle East. China knows it, and that is why Multiply your deploymentsair incursions and Naval exercisesconsolidating a constant pressure on the island, designed to wear it psychologically and strategically. China between two fronts. Plus: while facing these uncertainties in the east, Beijing must deal with a growing perception of threat in the West. The Recent statements From the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, alerting about Chinese military expansion and his possible coordination with Russia in case of crisis in Taiwan, reinforce the western narrative of China As a systemic challenge. Beijing, meanwhile, denounces that NATO seeks to justify its expansion to Asia using China As a pretext. A theater of shadows. In summary, Trump has shown that he can change course Without prior noticeand that feature, far from reassuring, introduces a dangerous volatility element. Meanwhile, China explores if you can find a loop to weaken American support to Taipéi, even Without resorting to force. And in parallel, the military apparatus of the United States and its allies fears that any calculation error, any word out of place at a summit, can trigger a chain reaction. The military action In Iran it is not just a specific act: it is a declaration of ambiguous intentions, one that has put all the actors of the Indo-Pacific board alert. Image | Chairman, Garystock In Xataka | That China performs 3,000 military air maneuvers over a year is not striking. To do it about Taiwan, yes In Xataka | It is the third time in a few months that China presents itself against Taiwan with an army. The island has decided to move on to attack

A folding mobile at outlet price. This is the new and spectacular offer in the honor Magic V2

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More and more folding mobiles that come out with a more affordable official price, although obviously we continue to find models with prices that even exceed the a whopping of the 2,000 euros. Here, in this field, honor is a very interesting brand and, although its folding mobiles are usually expensive, from time to time we find them very cheap. Right now, the perfect example is found in the Magic V2 Honora mobile that has dropped from its official price of 1,999 euros to the 819 euros. We will find it at this price in PowerPlanet during your campaign Power Days. If you prefer in another color, it is also in black by others 819 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review A half -price folding mobile He Magic V2 Honor It is a very particular mobile, since it has one of the thinnest designs we have seen in folding mobiles. Regarding their screens, we find a External panel of 6.43 inches which offers a FullHD+resolution, refresh rate of 1 to 120 Hz and compatibility with HDR10+. We also find a 7.92 inches folding screen with 120 Hz refreshment and HDR10+compatibility. And if we talk about its power, the Magic V2 honor mounts the processor Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. It is not the most powerful, but it does offer excellent performance in virtually any scenario of use. To this we must add that, in this case, with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage. Regarding the cameras, the folding mobile of honor comes with Two front cameras (an internal and another 16 MP), while we find a 50 MP main sensor, a large angle of 50 MP and a 20 MP telephoto. You may also interest you Xiaomi Mix Flip – 12+512GB smartphone, Leica Summilux, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 4.01 “outdoor screen of 6.86” ​​120Hz, Hypercharge 67W, charger included, black (ES version) * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Galaxy Z fold6 256 GB + Loader – Mobile phone with AI, Free Android Smartphone, 50 MP camera, large screen, long -term battery, dark blue (Spanish version) * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Ricardo AguilarHonor In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best price quality price (2025). Your analysis and videos are here

All closures and great cancellations

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As we reported yesterday, Microsoft executed a new round of mass layoffs which has shaken a good number of departments from different regions. One of the most affected divisions has been Xbox. And among the 9,000 employees dismissed, we find important studies and cancellations in the company’s gaming division. What happened. Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, confirmed the cuts through An internal email where he explains that they seek to “position gaming for lasting success” and focus resources on “strategic growth areas.” The video game division had approximately 20,000 employees in January 2024, and these dismissals represent the fourth wave of mass cuts in the last 18 months. The games that have been lost. Perfect Dark, the expected restart of the classic franchise that started in Nintendo 64, has been canceled after seven years of turbulent development. The Initiative, the study created specifically for this project in 2018 with veterans such as Darrell Gallagher, has definitely closed. The game had shown A promising trailer In the Xbox Games Showcase of 2024, although we did not know more about him again. The enitiative closure marks a hard xbox stick, especially considering that they promised A new standard in industry with the development of its ‘quadruple to’. Perfect Dark thus remains without reboot, and is lost among the entire list of cancellations and studies closures of the firm. Among other games is also Everwildthe ambitious Rare project announced in 2014, which has also been canceled after 11 years of development plagued with internal reset. This third-person game of the team responsible for Banjo-Kazooie and Sea of ​​Thieves had disappeared from the radar after its presentation in 2019, and despite the fact that Phil Spencer himself highlighted him as the First Party of Xbox What’s most excited about everyonehe has not managed to survive the cuts. Zenimax Online Studios has also canceled Project Blackbirdan unnoticed MMO that had been developing since 2018 and intended to be the successor of The Elder Scrolls Online. In addition, Blizzard has announced that Warcraft Rumble, his mobile game released in 2023, will stop receiving content new and will limit regular events and error corrections. Affected studies and equipment. In addition to the definitive closure of The Initiative, other studies have suffered devastating cuts. Turn 10 StudiosForza Motorsport developer, has lost more than 70 employees, almost half of its template After the mixed criticisms received by his last game. King, head of Candy Crush, has eliminated 10% of its staff, about 200 people at their Stockholm headquarters. The teams of Call of Duty haven’t fought either: Sledgehammer Games, Raven Software and High Moon Studios have suffered cuts. Halo Studios and Undead Labs, creators of State of Decay, have also seen their templates. Even the Xbox user research team, key to guaranteeing the quality of games and tools, has lost almost half of its staff. As a consequence of the cancellations, Gregg Mayles, veteran director of Sea of ​​Thieves and Banjo-Kazooie with more than 35 years in Rare, has abandoned the company. Matt Firor, Zenimax Chief online Studios, has also announced his march after the cancellation of Project Blackbird. Between the lines. These cuts arrive after Microsoft spent $ 68.7 billion on Acquire Blizzard King Activision. The pressure to increase the profit margins is evident, especially when the company has eliminated more than 20,000 positions since it announced the acquisition. Matt Booty, Head of Xbox Game Studios, recognized in its internal statement that these decisions “reflect a broader effort to adjust priorities” in a “changing industrial panorama.” The magnitude of layoffs is, at least, striking: while Microsoft reports record benefits, it has eliminated more than 15,000 employees only in 2025. Sources close to the environment Engadget They suggest that the company is trying to “replace as many positions as possible with AI agents”, adding a worrying dimension to these cuts. The tension between surviving teams is palpable, especially in studies such as Halo Studios where the work environment has been significantly deterioratedaccording to the same sources. And now what. Microsoft maintains that it has More than 40 projects in development active and a “solid portfolio” by 2026. All games shown in the recent Xbox Showcase in June are “safe”, according to Fuentes del Medio Central Windowsincluding titles such as Clockwork Revolution and State of Decay 3. In addition, Phil Spencer will continue at the head of the division of Microsoft Gaming, denying rumors about its march. In addition, it should be noted that Xbox’s plans regarding next generation hardware also remain unchanged despite cuts. Cover image | Xbox In Xataka | Kojima locks himself again in his bubble with ‘Death Stranding 2’. The result is a work as strange as necessary

The last idea to include tolls on the highways of Spain

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From Madrid to Barcelona for about 18 euros. From Bilbao to Cádiz for more than 30 euros. That is The proposal of the Association of Construction and Infrastructure Concessionaires (Seopan) and in that money there has been none of the tolls that we can find along the way and that, without a doubt, would make the journey more expensive. And it is that the employer of the road construction companies has had an idea to finance the thousands of kilometers of highways that are still free in our country. And, from their point of view, they have it very clear: that The drivers pay 3 cents/km route. The figure is much higher for heavy transport for which they propose a rate of 0.14 cents/km route. That is, multiply almost for five previous figures until we place us at almost 90 euros in Madrid-Barcelona and almost 150 euros for crossing Spain in truck. An old dream with Europe looking The proposal was presented by Julián Núñez, president of the association that covers giants such as ACS, Ferrovial, Action, Abertis, Ohla or Sacyr, among others. It indicates that the country has to invest 11,494 million euros for the conservation and maintenance of roads that have not been carried out in recent years. That game is part of the 38,447 million euros in 25 years that, according to their calculations, they are necessary to keep the roads in optimal conditions until 2050. In those items maintenance works are contemplated but also the construction of Roads 2+1 to “improve road safety” or the deployment of load infrastructure for the electric car. All this, they say, would generate income in 25 years of 143,024 million euros, a fiscal return of 35,314 million euros and a public spending saving of 41,038 million euros. Money that would be used to invest in the maintenance of the roads themselves. The implementation of payment for use is one of the great dreams of the construction companies since this would allow them to offer down construction and maintenance services, facilitating these actions and, of course, facilitating their business. However, they ensure that Spain accumulates 68% of free highways throughout Europe which total 13,674 kilometers free of tolls. A flag that the government has presumed, putting each liberalization in value while balancing with Europe. Last year, in fact, Transport Minister Oscar Puente assured that “the roads are not free, or are paid with taxes or tolls.” He did it in a forum organized by The Spanish And the words of Puente soon were read as a notice to navigators. However, just A few hours later he would defend that this was not a way to “reopen the debate” and stressed that the government had released 1,000 kilometers since 2018 on toll highways. To that measure, it has joined not imposing more tolls on roads such as AP-9, AP-66 and AP-68 where bonuses are applied. These decisions, however, collide frontally with the interest that Europe has reiterated in imposing tolls on Spanish roads. For years, institutions have put the table on the table obligation to impose a tarification For use to roads in exchange for continuing to water our country of European funds. This led the government to include it in its Recovery and Resilience Planalready presented in 2021. Since then, The equilibrium game That the Spanish Executive has maintained has made the roads remain free but a new threat has also arrived from Europe: a possible complaint if we do not correct the way. And, although the supposed payment for use comes from afar, the runrún on the payment on the roads has been increasing. Especially if we consider that in 2021 there was already talk of imposing A toll system in less than three years or that Pere Navarro, director of the DGT, has already suggested Who could and who not pay those possible tolls. What they defend from Seopan in their proposal is that, however, Spain would continue to pay cheaper tolls than the rest of Europe since, they say, the average is 0.09 euros/km route for cars and 0.018 euros/kN route for heavy transport. In The countryThey emphasize that Spain represents 21% of all kilometers of high capacity of the European Union but that, however, only 13% are payment. That is, we are an exception that Seopan seeks to reverse with a porch system To pay for use, taking advantage of the fact that the money that the State must due to the investment of the roads already exceeds 10,000 million euros. But also Europe, what For years he presses so that Spain once and for all a melon from which, in the government, He doesn’t want to take care. Remember that it is something that You have been talking since 2012. Photo | Erwin Brevis In Xataka | Hunting for “Simpa” in the tolls of Europe: the new EU system to collect fines abroad

In Madrid there were no economic hotels left, but there was a “virgin” space for tourists: polygons

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Like most of the large cities on the planet, prices for stay in Madrideither for a long time like a short stay, they have shot themselves. If we focus on tourist accommodations, already We tell it Recently: it’s not a sensation, hotels are more expensive than ever In Spain, and in cities such as the capital They are prohibitive. In fact, tourists are beginning to look for other destinations Like Morocco. The solution for hoteliers is in the surroundings: the polygons. The new face. Three years ago it was already coming. Then, he counted in a Report the ABC That on the outskirts of the M-30, where many still believe that Madrid is blurred in gray ships and empty streets at the afternoon, the polygon Julián Camarillo It offered a radically different image. This almost 200 hectares enclave, located between the linear city and Suanzes stations, had begun to transform into a vibrant, accelerated and multifaceted area, a reflection of a city in constant mutation. Its streets combine industrial vestiges from the 50s to 80s with new constructions, hotels, artisan breweries, gastronomic spaces, technological centers and an incipient cultural vocation. As happened before in Barrios Like Shoreditch in London or the District 22@ from Barcelonathe polygon seemed to position itself as an urban laboratory where the post -industrial laboratory gives way to the allegedly modern. Tourist destination Three years later, The country counted That in Julián Camarillo, which once was territory marked by half -empty offices, aged industrial buildings and unused solar, a phenomenon as unexpected as unstoppable is brewing: its transformation into an incipient hotel district. Yes, what at first glance seemed a little hospitable environment has become A tourist reef Thanks to its proximity to the center of Madrid and at the low cost of accommodation. Here is a proper name: the Catalan businessman Óscar Sánchez, founder of the Bestprice chainhas been one of the pioneers to bet on the enclave, describing it as an “oil well” for the potential it offers to those who risk. Its hotels, located only eight subway stops from Puerta del Sol, attract young visitors who prioritize the price aesthetics. The figures endorse it: since 2020 they have Opened eight hotels in the area and there are at least seven others in project. From illegal loft to functional hotels. Apparently, the previous attempts For redefining the area they did not prosper with equal success. At the beginning of the century, the New York Soho model with the loft fashion was attempted, and then promoted the term Madbit to attract to Technology companies. Both initiatives collided with the lack of regulation and a weak corporate demand. Instead, hotels have grown without institutional campaigns or brand names for the neighborhood. The specialized real estate agency in the area confirmed the country that many office promoters are transforming their projects into tourist establishments due to the evidence that the demand for accommodation exceeds that of work space. This boom coincides with something we have gone counting: he normative hardening Towards Airbnb and Tourist Housing The historical record of visitors in Madrid, where 10.4 million tourists were reached in 2024. The Carabanchel node Urban Fever. In the background, international consultants have confirmed the effervescence of the sector. Colliers has identified more than 60,000 square meters available for new hotel projects in Julián Camarillo, although warns that urban limits slow down the rhythm, so many of the New establishments They are small and functional, with less than one hundred rooms. Most are classified as a star hotels, and together they add more than 1,500 active rooms. Meanwhile, chains Like Ibis or Spark by Hilton They add to the model initiated by Bestprice, consolidating the area as the one that wakes up most between investors. Other consultants, Like Engel & VölkersThey observe a similar trend in industrial polygons from other cities such as Valencia, Bilbao or Barcelona, ​​where land prices and the lack of alternatives in the center push the hotel sector to colonize spaces traditionally relegated to the manufacturing activity. Asequible accommodation. The triumph of this model is Understand alone. The logic behind this transformation is because there are every time Less active factoriesoffices do not absorb enough demand and tourism needs affordable spacewell communicated and functional. With rates of between 60 and 70 euros per night, 20 minutes from the center of Madrid, hotels in polygons such as Julián Camarillo fill that hole. Carabanchel adds. Something similar is also happening to the south of the capital, although here with the aim of giving a housing alternative to creative young people at a step in the city. It The world told. In the heart of Carabanchel, a neighborhood more and more associated with urban artHE Inaugurated Node Carabanchela half stay hotel that redefines the concept of flexible accommodation with a thousand rooms designed for creative young people, students, digital nomads “and people in vital transition.” With one investment of 100 million In euros, the gigantic complex includes fully equipped studies and apartments, and offers a community experience focused on art, music and coworking, with spaces such as rehearsal rooms, podcast, theater, gym, swimming pool, sporting tracks and a scourge on the roof for concerts and cultural events. Replicating other models. Node aspires not only to accommodate, but to actively integrate into the local fabric through collaborations With schools, galleries and neighborhood artists, promoting a living and shared community. Driven by the Node Living company With the support of Bain Capital, this is its third project in Madrid and is part of an international expansion that replicates a model born in Brooklyn and already present in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, London and Barcelona. Mutant neighborhoods. Be that as it may, all these proposals have a common denominator: Madrid is made big And it reinvents itself because its nerve center has become A theme park of Closed Coto. Of course, the spontaneity with which they have Grown polygons like Julián Camarillo To tourist district modes, they … Read more

If you have the feeling that everything is more expensive than ever, it is not your imagination: it is called “Zillow effect”

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Digital platforms promised to make everything easier and cheaper. Actually, they have created the opposite phenomenon: The “Zillow Effect” is taking practically everything What we play online, whether digital or not. Why is it important. When any transaction is digitized, the demand is triggered because it eliminates friction, but the supply remains constant. The result is usually the same: prices go up and competition intensifies for buyers. The panoramic. The effect began in the real estate sector with Zillow in the United States, A real estate platform born in 2006 which allowed anyone to consult the value of their home. Now it extends to university candidates, employment searches, appointment applications, concert tickets, vacation destinations and even second -hand markets. If you can buy it with a click, it is probably more expensive than before. In detail. The mechanism is simple: Before, requesting place at a university required physical effort. Get forms, send them by postal mail, go to pay fees. Now, with a button you can send your application to twenty universities. Result: the best receive many more requests, they can be more selective and the competition to access goes up to the same pace that their access barriers are lowered to the application. The same happens in the labor market: For candidates, there is a paradox: getting a job becomes more complicated. The contrast. There are two large categories of products here: Products with elastic offer. They are the ones that can be manufactured in greater quantities. Clothing, processed food, smartphones. They have been cheaper. Products with limited offer, or by regulation or by their own nature. Housing in good areas, places of universities, more desirable jobs, very attractive sexual couples. They have fisher, financially or symbolically. Between the lines. Great technology benefit from this problem, so they have no incentive to solve this problem. More demand is equivalent to more data, more engagementmore commissions. The case that gives name to this effect has a perfect example: Zillow earned money both if the houses were sold as if notbecause he charged for teaching them. AND Your platform fired your visibilitywith the aforementioned consequence: same supply, greater demand … upward prices. The threat. The Zillow effect has as first victims local and imperfect markets where opportunities could be found before. There are no longer the secret restaurants, virgin and quiet holiday destinations, or jobs that only a few knew. Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram or YouTube have democratized knowledge, but have also concentrated demand. An example: Instagram and ‘Tourism of Likes‘. And now what. A possible solution would increase the offer where possible, such as building more housing or creating more university places. Another would artificially limit digital demand. But there are not too many incentives for it. The digital world has connected us in this century, but it has also put us to compete against many more people for the same limited resources. And there is only a great winner: the platforms. In Xataka | 34 futuristic predictions made in the past: erroneous, successful and crazy Outstanding image | Xataka

The “pyrocuse” have arrived in Spain to stay

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Heat is always a risk factor in terms of forest fires, even more when it is as intense as we have seen during the last weeks (and that in some areas still unleashed). We might think that storms that have put limits to this heat would play in our favor, but the problem is that this is not always the case. Sometimes they bring a greater problem. Fire in Lleida. The fire that has devastated part of the province of Lleida in recent days has stood out for its rapid propagation. He Balance of this fire yesterday It was two deceased people and 6,500 hectares. The fire, cataloged as “sixth generation”, reached speeds of propagation of up to 28 kilometers per houra speed that makes flight away on foot. To do this, it had the cooperation of a key factor, the pirocumuli. Pyrocuse. Flammagenitus pyrocumulus or clouds are atmospheric events in which powerful fires and concrete weather conditions that generate a “fire cloud” converge. This process is feeded, firing the devastation capacity of the fire itself. These clouds of smoke can reach heights above 10 kilometers: in the Lleida fire there is talk of a cloud wall of up to 14 kilometers high. Convective clouds. And how exactly these clouds are formed? The pyrocumulus or pyrocumulonimbo name is created in reference to the shape of the generated cloud, similar to clusters or cumulonimbos and not by chance. In both cases the form is a consequence of the processes that generate these clouds. In the case of “conventional” clusters, The triggers They are a high soil insolation that makes the air hot in low layers, when warm air is heated and runs into cold air in more antlas layers causing the appearance of a cloud. In the case of fires, it is nothing but fire itself that heats the air, causing it with it to ascend gases, particles and ashes from the fire. From the cloud to the storm. The clouds of inconscious origin behave in many ways like conventional ones. They reach an important height where the most intense winds begin to drag them. The moisture accumulated in these clouds It can generate storms with rainfall as well as with electrical discharges in the vicinity of the fire. Sixth generation. The appearance of these clouds and associated storms not only facilitates the spread of fire, but also generates immense uncertainty regarding their evolution. This uncertainty is precisely one of the defining features of the so -called Fire of “Sixth Generation”. The fires of this type are becoming a growing threat in our environment. The most virulent example is found in 2017, when a fire in Pedrogão Grande, Portugal, left 60 people killed. In Xataka | That the Mediterranean is burning has direct consequences for Spain right now: more hail storms Image | Eric Neitzel

Fix your work schedules looking at the clock instead of the thermometer

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I leave home at 4:00 p.m. and, armed with value, I go to pick up the car from the mechanic. It has ended with him and Previous reviews They have the collapsed workshop, so he asked me to pick it up as soon as possible. On the portal, I cross a neighbor who enters the stifled street, with his forehead peeled by droplets of sweat and defeated attitude, as if he had loaded a heavy slab. “It’s hot?” – I tell him knowing already an answer, “he has always been hot in summer, but this is hell,” he replies. “Who comes up to the street with the heat it does,” I say while I open the door of the portal and take a step back remembering the apocalyptic vision of Sarah Connor Abrasada by nuclear flames in ‘Terminator ‘. Has always been hot in summer According to The data Aemet, it is true that as my neighbor had told me, has always been hot in summer…But not so much. The temperatures recorded in recent weeks leave last June as The warmest of the historical seriesand joins the long list of records of extraordinarily warm months. NASA itself He supported with data that they are now warmer than those of yesteryear, taking into account that their records date back to 1880. In addition, these heat episodes are increasingly frequent because summers are increasingly long. On average, it is estimated that the climatological summer has been stretching between four and fifteen days per decade. Our grandparents adapted While it is true that Spain has always been a country with hot summers, there is a factor that we should not overlook: today We do not face the rigors of heat as our grandparents didbecause we We do not change our working days depending on the temperature as they did. When I was a child, my grandfather told me that “in her young years”, it came out before the field was made to work the earth “with the fresh” before the slab of the heat of the Andalusian countryside fell on the day laborers. At noon, when the sun tightened, they sat down under a chaparro (oak) to eat in the shade and then nap until early in the afternoon. Then, they went to the farmhouse in which he worked and performed there other tasks of cleaning, maintenance and care of animals until the end of the day. ALWAYS TO THE SUN CAKE. In winter they usually did the other way around and reached the field when the frost had dissolved. That is, they took advantage of the first rays of light to perform the toughest agricultural tasks to avoid high temperatures and rigor of the sun in the hours of greater insolation. As much as it was the mowing, harvesting or planting season, they tried to avoid the central hours of the day, and instead, they advanced or delayed their working days to adapt to the weather. There was no one closed and strict schedule For the whole year. On the other hand, at present, the Adaptation of the tasks and working days It is minimal and the schedules have been standardized. It doesn’t matter if it is an office, mason or mailbox work, and it is not taken into account whether on the street it is freezing or mercury marks the 46 ºC. The schedule is the same for everyone throughout the year. Heat -inflected hours This standardization of schedules makes it normal for an employee of the Municipal Maintenance Service, one of the groups that most work accidents and Deaths due to heat blows has suffered In recent daysbe cleaning the sidewalks at two o’clock in the afternoon in full wave of heat, or that an installer is placing a label on a facade at three. According to data from the Carlos III Health Institute facilitated By the National Institute for Work and Health at Labor (INST), it ensures that per year there are about 1,300 deaths attributable to heat. Around 4% of fatal accidents that occur in the workplace are caused by heat blows due to prolonged exposure at extreme temperatures. The most exposed professions are those that cannot develop their main outdoor activity: agricultural sector, cleaning operators and public works, assemblers, construction workers or gardeners. Thermal stress also affects professions that develop indoors that due to the nature of work, they are exposed to machinery or heat sources such as industries, hospitality, laundry, greenhouses, etc. Andalusia, Catalonia, Madrid, Aragon and Galicia They are located At the head in terms of mortality due to heat, coinciding in many of those cases with personnel used in the sectors that we have mentioned before. Unlike our grandparents, these sectors now have fixed schedules that, in many cases, develop between 8 in the morning and 18 hours, leaving them exposed to work during those hours that our grandparents tried to avoid at all costs. The tools are there Approval in 2023 of Royal Decree Law 4/2023 He came to make the adaptation of schedules and tasks that already enjoyed our grandparents, so that companies, rather than look at the clock, must look at the thermometer to design the working days of their employees during extreme heat episodes. The Occupational Risk Prevention Law It offers companies to modify schedules and even cut the working days during these heat episodes to protect their employees. In addition, following the Dana that razed Valenciathe Law was extended Adding the possibility of having a four -day paid permission when, in extreme cases, the working day cannot be adapted and it is impossible to carry it out without exposing itself to a real health risk. The last modification also contemplates the possibility that companies can benefit from a climate ERTE. “No one has to take risks,” insist From the ministry. However, despite the tools that allow companies Protect the health of your employeesthe National Institute for Safety and Health at work ensures that occupational accidents during heat waves … Read more

In Spain more and more restaurants are declaring war on an old custom: paying accounts separately

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You probably lived it a thousand times. You stay with your friends for dinner in a restaurant and after the first, the second, the dessert, coffees and chupitos arrives the test of fire: the great Huge dilemma of how Devils foot the bill. Together or separate? Does each one pay your own or the bill is fractionated in equal parts? Card, metallic or a mixture of both? And in case someone forward money, especially if the minute is high, who does it and how the rest of the guests are organized to pay you? In Spain increasingly Bars save those headaches to their customers by applying a very simple standard: no divided payments. A table, an account. If you go together, you pay together. There are no official figures and from Facu increasingly Bars and restaurants in Spain embrace a rule when they have to charge guest groups: nothing to divide accounts between different customers sitting at the same table. At least if they intend to pay by card. A group, a payment. So simple. Lasxta revealed recently that the custom is spreading through the Malaga hospitality, but similar news (and more or less recent) about restaurants from Aragon either Catalonia. There is also a good handful of references in Xeither Tiktok or even Reddit threads in which the pros and cons are discussed and whether it is legal or that a restaurant refuses to fraction an account. Click on the image to go to Tweet. The big question: why? Like more or less, the undeniable thing is that the norm generates debate and Not everyone He feels comfortable with her. So … why are the hoteliers apply, even at the risk of angry at their clientele? The reason is simple: efficiency. A waiter is more comfortable and quick to manage a single charge to repeat that operation five, seven, ten or more times, depending on how many diners they have sat at the table. “It is super complicated to charge separately and more when they are large groups,” Recognize A waiter from Malaga to Lasexta. “Sometimes groups of fifteen or twenty people are made and each one wants to pay their convenience,” confesses Another hotelier from Barcelona. When that happens, work is slowed down in the room and the business risks that the box ends up disabled. There are times when the situation is further complicated and customers no longer ask for the payment, but each one is charged. It may seem a minor issue if the account is from a table with few customers, but the thing is complicated when we talk about broad groups and minutes of several hundred euros, as reported Two years ago In Tiktok a waiter. But … Is it legal? The million dollar question. “There is really nothing regulated. The solution is to say no, that each diner will pay their part. The establishment has two options: accept or not collect,” he says Rubén Sánchezof Facua. “If at the door he indicates that he accepts card payments cannot reject that means of payment in half. “There is no law that determines that customers have the right to fraction the account to pay it at once. It is an aspect in which the law does not deepen so much. You have to apply common sense,” agrees Enrique García, spokesman for the OCU. “The logical thing is to inform the company that provides the service and customers to attend these circumstances.” @xavi_abat Have you found in this situation? #Elabogadodetiktok ♬ Original sound – 🙋‍♂️ #Elabogadodetiktok A supplement to fraction? At the end of 2024 Xavi Abat, “Tiktok’s lawyer”, He warned of another practice to which more and more bars and restaurants are being accepted: the collection of “separate accounts supplements” to those customers who ask for the payment of payment. In Your video Abat in fact showed the poster of a bar that applies different “management” positions depending on the size of the table and how many payments should process: one to eight diners, one euro; from eight to 12, two euros; And in the case of tables of more than 12 clients, three euros. Those sums, says the place, cover “the resources” invested and the use of TPV. The key: Information and visibility. The question is the same … are that kind of supplements legal? The key, ABAT revealsis in the information available to the client when he sits at the table. “There is no law, nothing is said in the Civil Code. The contractual relations between the parties are free. Each establishment can establish what they want,” reason The expert. “Therefore, if the restaurant warns of this charge, there is a contractual offer and you and you accept, you have to eat it.” “Contrary, if you go to a restaurant, you are seven or eight and at the end of the food they do not let you pay separately, as you have not been warned, as you have not had the option to negotiate it, you can oppose and demand that you want to pay separately. You could file a complaint or plant yourself there until they let you charge separately,” adds ABAT. Argument shock. The reality is that both parties, hoteliers and customers, have arguments to be in favor or against collection subdivisions. Business They allege What dividing the accounts demands more time, slows down their work, you can unravel the box and carry an expenditure of time and extra resources. After all, there are payment systems that generate extra commissions when several operations are carried out. The truth is that the unique payment in groups is a common practice in other countries in Europe. As for customers, the main complaint is the discomfort and headaches that can lead not to divide the accounts. Without counting that someone must pay the full amount of the invoice. “Why do I have to fight with the people of a group to make me the bizum of what they have consumed?” Question A user … Read more

Ukraine has borrowed the most basic idea of ​​Lego. And has transformed it into the final machine for war

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Drones with shotguns of double cannonrobots Lanzaluelaunmanned vessels With missilesairplanes With shotgunsdevices with kilometer cables of optical fiber Looking for its goal through algorithms … The war in Ukraine became the largest war laboratory of modern contests, but in recent months that transformation has become more palpable than ever. Because soldiers are no longer recruited, they are recruited directly robots. Modular fights. They counted this week In Insider that among the key actors of this unprecedented experimentation of military terrestrial robotics is the company Estonia Milrem Roboticswhose land autonomous vehicle Themis It has been deployed by the Ukrainian forces on the front. The striking, however, is not only the presence of these systems, but the way in which Ukrainian soldiers are using them: unforeseen and highly creative. Kuldar Väärsi, founder of the company, He has highlighted that troops have managed to expand their abilities by adding modifications, adaptations and even using them to Not expected taskssuch as collection of corpses, controlled explosions, supply transport or mines. In a context where each resource can mean life or death, tactical innovation is born directly from the front. Military Lego. The Thanmis model can load up to 1,200 kgmove at 20 km/Hy wearing weapons like machine guns or launcherin addition to acting in evacuation, transport or deactivation tasks. However, its real value lies in its modularity: it is an adaptable system, almost like a set of War Legoaccording to Oleksandr Yabncanka, head of robotized systems of the Da Vini Wolves battalion. Without having specialized models for each mission, the Ukrainian units use a single type of robot as a common basis They modify according to your operational needs. This flexibility reflects a generalized philosophy in the Ukrainian army since the beginning of the conflict: improvise, adapt, survive. Fifth Generation Themis Military reinvention. Since the first year of war, Ukraine has been synonymous with reuse and Technical creativity. He has re -adapted Western lanzamisiles to Soviet platforms, mounted machine guns old in trucks, modified drones Commercial for suicidal missions and created mills such as unmanned ships and turrets with artificial intelligence. Milrem is not the only company at stake: local companies such as Roboneers either FRDMtogether with European signatures such as ARX ​​Robotics (Germany) or Isolit-Bavo (Czech), are actively collaborating in the design and deployment of new models of land robots. This confluence between foreign industry, local operators and tactical demands generates an eInnovation sew that had not been seen before on this scale. The war of the future. Be that as it may, there is a name that has risen above the other models. Bloomberg explained it With a scene: on the wooded banks of the Dnieper River, on the outskirts of kyiv, two small robotic vehicles descend towards the sand as if they were mechanized crabs. One transports food, the other sowing anti -tank mines. It is about Termit modelTangible symbol of how Ukraine, after three and a half years of total war against Russia, has become the forge of a new war paradigm: a war based on modular technology, cheap and fast to produce. In a context of scarcity, urgency and systematic improvisation, the country has managed to create an arms ecosystem that rivals (for its agility and efficiency) with the great industrial powers. Already the 40% of the armament which uses comes from National Sourcesand according to Zelenski, this autonomy can serve as model for allies of NATO that face an increasingly volatile and dangerous geopolitical future. Military production, as he says Oleksandr Kamyshin experthas become the oil of Ukraine, the resource on which its survival is constructed. Ukrainian Termit Models Robot and converted engineers. The case dE Maksym Vasylchenko embodies the metamorphosis of the country. In 2022 he worked by installing food machinery for international companies; today directs Tencorea startup that has developed The Termitthose modular robots that already use more than twenty military units in the front. With satellite connectivity Via Starlink and load transport capacity, evacuation of wounded or deployment of mines, these vehicles They have replaced to soldiers in areas of maximum risk, not only because they are more expendable, but for its lower cost: a basic termit It costs $ 20,000while the death of a soldier supposes the State a nearby total compensation at 380,000. A different company. Of five initial employees to early 2024Tencore has grown to 175 workers, six venues, and projections of 80 million dollars In annual income. All driven by direct collaboration with combatants: a chat with forty active users serves as a constant feedback channel, where every five or ten minutes suggestions are provided. This agility, impossible in the processes of acquiring Western governments, is one of the keys to the success of the Ukrainian model. An army of termit ready for operations An area of ​​death. We have coming counting: The war in Ukraine has established a new operational environment dominated by low cost drones. Approximately the 70% of the Russian team destroyed has fallen by unmanned vehicles, many of them converted commercial adaptations. These FPV units already operate in almost any climatic condition, deliver blood in trenches or attack tanks with surgical precision. The battlefield has become constant, immediate and three -dimensional, expanding the call Kill Zone At any time and place. At the beginning of June, Ukraine demonstrated its offensive capacity coordinated to the destroy bombers strategic in Russian bases that went from the north of the country to Siberia. The traditional logic of the front has been replaced by a decentralized war where the direct human risk is reduced to the minimum possible thanks to autonomous, fast and sacrifiable platforms. The Russian answer. Of course, Moscow has not lagged behind. As We have spoken For weeks, ha adapted the drones Iranian Shahed to your needs and has begun to display vehicles Fiber cable guided optics, which makes them immune to electronic interference. In May, the Russian production of combat drones increased 17% In a single month. The Russian strategy is clear: standardization, volume and industrial … Read more

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