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He is also leaving them without driving examiners

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In Balearic Islands get the card of driving requires more than mastering the circulation standards and having some expertise at the wheel. Patience is needed. A lot. For some time the self -schools in Mallorca They warn to the candidates for drivers who can take several months In presenting the practical exam, a bottleneck that the collective Explain largely due to the shortage of traffic examiners. Personal lack. And the prices of the archipelago do not make it easy for officials who are already there. Housing has increased so much in the islands that is unasumable and takes not a few examiners to Request the transfer to the peninsula as soon as they can. In summer and without examiners. The news I advanced it Sunday Diario de Mallorca: Although many students take advantage of the holidays to get the driving card, the Balearic archipelago has encountered the threat of a summer with hardly any traffic examiners. The reason is double. First, on the islands there are only 16 examiners. Second, a good part of them (ten) will stop working over the coming months for one reason or another. The president of the Balearico Autoescuelas association, Joana Ribasensures that of the 16 officials who are in charge of examining in the archipelago, eight plan to leave after requesting the transfer, another has approved oppositions to change position and there is one about to retire. “I had calculated that they could ask for four or five, but I did not expect me to tell me that we will lose ten.” A major problem. After warning of the situation in which the archipelago would stay without those professionals, the DGT would have committed to delay the transfer of the examiners several months, which will allow at least the summer months covered. According to Diario de Mallorcatraffic will also send relays to cover vacancies. That does not prevent the self -school from looking at the horizon: the collective It takes time warning of the shortage of traffic personnel and among those who have requested the transfer there are examiners that cover Ibiza and Menorca. A year ago the number of students pending to be examined already It was around 8,000 already early 2025 the waiting list It remained at 7,000. It is not strange that to present themselves to the practical exam, a requirement to get the driving card, the applicants must wait several months. “The problem is the continuous patches of the Ministry, which does not contemplate the expansion of examiners. About seven or eight in the Balearic Islands,” Ribas points out in the being. Something more than drivers. The problems of the archipelago to meet the demand are not explained only because of the greater or lesser availability of places for examiners. One of their challenges is that officials who arrive from outside to occupy those positions are not easy to settle in a region marked by the escalation of the cost of the house. Only over the last year its price has shot something more than 17%according to the data of the idealist portal. The result? The officials of other points in Spain for the archipelago end up resorting to the transfer contests to find positions in other regions, places where the M2 does not cost 6,625 eurosas in Ibiza. The problem is so entrenched that Ribas acknowledges that, although signings are now arriving to cover vacancies, the situation will be repeated in a few years. Is it a new problem? No. A year ago The confidential He warned Already from the complex scenario facing the students of the Balearic Schools and the difficulties for the archipelago to be “attractive” for the examiners from the Peninsula. The newspaper needed That the plus of insularity they charged was just 80 euros, far from the 400 of the Canary Islands, Ceuta or Melilla. The problem is not unknown to traffic, which Recognize That “one of the factors that most influences” the scarcity of examiners is “the high cost of life and housing, reaching the extreme if we refer to Ibiza.” The employers They claim more technical and suggest some solutions. Ribas raises For example, the creation of internal “bags” that facilitate examining vacancies in those areas with more problems to capture them are occupied by native personnel. The objective: avoid scenarios such as the one that has been found this year at the doors of summer or that students choose to get their card in other parts of Spain, where you are waiting much shorter. Something more than examiners. In Balearic Islands, not only are they difficult to have traffic examiners. The newspaper revealed A few days ago That the centers are also capturing teachers in the Peninsula or even in other countries in Europe to move to Mallorca to teach, offers that include accommodation. The archipelago is not the only one who has seen how his high cost of life, especially housing, complicates the signing of basic services. It occurs in Galicia with another profile especially demanded in summer: The lifeguards. Images | Circulates safe (Flickr) and Mike Swigenski (Unsplash) In Xataka | There are so many Germans in Mallorca that the island is already preparing for its great ‘sorpasso’: housing more expensive than in Germany

an AI that predicts trends

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In the competitive fashion industrysucceeding with trends is crucial and supposes the difference between a sales success and a batch of unreasonable clothing. They count on SCMP As a Chinese startup is helping brands like Nike and GAP to make more successful decisions thanks to artificial intelligence. Analyzing social media data, online stores and consumption patterns, its technology is able to predict what will be fashionable before you see it on Tiktok. The company. Zhiyi Tech was founded in 2018 in Hangzhouone of the most powerful technological centers in the country and where it also has its headquarters The giant Alibaba. The company focuses on offering artificial intelligence -based solutions that help clothing brands to predict what the upcoming supervent trends will be. In 2022 they got 100 million dollars in several financing rounds And today among its most notable clients are Nike and Gap. Technology. Zhiyi’s flagship software (simply called Zhiyi) has been working since its inception and uses artificial intelligence to analyze large amounts of data. They presume that in their database they have more than 1,000 million images of materials or 100,000 million patterns of garments. They also analyze the designs that are best selling in stores, trends in social networks and monitor the sales of the rivals. With all this and through Deep-Learning and recognition algorithms with AI, they claim to be able to detect changes in the fashion industry and predict trends so that companies can design and plan more efficiently. Local success case. The Chinese fashion chain Urban Revivo He is one of Zhiyi Technology clients and with which they have been working since 2020. According to Zheng ZeyuCEO of Zhiyi, in the first three years Urban Revivo managed to improve its Sell-Through rate (stock proportion sold compared to that received) from 60 to 80%, as well as improving its opportunity to create very successful products by 5%. The brand launches more than 100,000 designs per year, so we would be talking about 5,000 exceptionally successful designs. From China to the world. In the beginning, the startup was focused on the domestic market. Almost all the sources he drank were sales and social networks of the country such as Taobao, Tmall or Rednote. In its opening to other markets, three years ago Overseas Exploration launched, a tool that was also aimed at Chinese companies, but already explored trends from the rest of the world. Trendscopes It is one of Zhiyi’s first products with an focus on international customers. It was launched last year and with it trackean global sales platforms such as Amazon, Temu or Shein (China’s Great Baza in Fast-Fashion), In addition to networks such as Instagram and Tiktok. Among its most important international clients are GAP and Nike, which they help in decisions such as choice of color for sportswear or if exterior footwear must have a high cane. A chatgpt that designs clothes. In addition to its analysis and prediction tools, Zhiyi also has a generative -called AI Fashion diffusion+ which allows to create “high quality designs and images from moodboards or sketches.” The tool offers a free test if you register so we have tried it, specifically the option of turning a sketch into a render, although it offers more like adding a garment to a photo of a model. When generating the image, it allows us to choose if we want it in color, the similarity with the sketch and add a descriptive prompt. Test with Fasion Diffusion+. The result is good in that it represents very well all the details of the pockets and zippers, but the improvable quality and remembers what Dall-e did in his first versions. We have asked Chatgpt and the result has been infinitely better, especially representing the photorealistic effect we had asked. From left to right: sketch, fashion diffusion+ and chatgpt. The company wants to turn this tool into a kind of chatgpt with which to create designs from Prompts With natural language, without having to start from more detailed images or drawings. They hope to launch it this month and promote it especially among its international clients. There are still no images of the new version, but seen the performance of the current one, there is work to be done. Other fashion chains also bet on AI. The AI ​​is reaching everywhere and this Chinese startup is not the only one that has occurred to the textile industry. Already In 2018 Inditex began investing in Big Data, AI and Analytics solutions For his businesses, he specifically associated with the Startup Jetlore that offers a prediction of the behavior of buyers. Uniqlo also integrates AI in your business And they do it in an integral way, from the design process to the supply chain. Similar to Zhiyi, they use data analysis and collection technologies that allow them to detect new trends in order to advance to the market. They also apply it to their stores registering the movement of customers to define “hot areas” and thus better configure the space. AI as a predictor. The generative AI is the most talk, but its uses go much further and more and more are the sectors in which it is acting as a prediction system. The most obvious example we have In advertisingwhere the algorithms have been wanting to guess what we will buy. The financial sector is also using AI to predict credit risk and for detect and prevent fraud. In science we have also seen how they use it to try predict the next epidemic. Perhaps the biggest challenge of the predictive AI is in health, where tools are already appearing predict diseases and customize treatments. Here ethical challenges are raised and the need for constant supervision and update of algorithms. Cover image | Pixabay In Xataka | Openai is going better than expected thanks to payment users. And that marks an evident direction

We have been believing that Iran is “five years” from the nuclear bomb. In reality we only know how much uranium enriches

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Few phrases have been as repeated in the geopolitics of the West as “Iran is five years from the nuclear bomb.” For more than three decades, we have heard predictions that place the Iranian regime on the verge of crossing the atomic threshold, a stopwatch that restarts again and again without the prophecy becoming fulfilled. The real problem is not so much what we know about Iran’s nuclear program, as the immensity of what we do not know. And it is in that fog of uncertainty where the most dangerous decisions are cooked. A diffuse red line like Casus Belli. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has initiated a war against Iran framed in which the regime is “close to finishing the construction of a nuclear bomb.” This language transforms an old threat into an immediate danger, turning the rhetorical red line into a justification for war. Although the United States initially denies direct participation in the attack, political and military support has gone in crescendo. A Message of President Donald Trump In capital letters, “Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon!”, It works as a blank check for Israel. Thirty years of breached predictions. When a suspicion, and not an evidence, they are a reason for war, it is worth reviewing the newspaper library to put rhetoric in perspective. The feeling of “imminent nuclear bomb” in Iran is not new. It is a political construction that has been managing for decades, with Benjamin Netanyahu as its main architect. In 1992, Netanyahu already warned that Iran was “three or five years” to obtain nuclear weapons. In 2012, he starred in one of his most iconic moments at the UN, drawing a red line with a marker In a cartoon scheme of a pumpand ensuring that they would cross the line in the summer of 2013. Each period has been fulfilled without the weapon becoming materialized. What do intelligence agencies say. Although Israel had in the United States its main political ally, US intelligence agencies did not buy their rhetoric about Iran. In 2007, the National Intelligence Estimate De la CIA concluded with “high confidence” that Iran had stopped its nuclear militarization program, the AMAD Plan. The verification of this break came in 2015 with the Comprehensive Comprehensive Plan Joint (JCPOA), an agreement by which Iran limited uranium enrichment to 3.67% in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. The break that caught the fuse. Paradoxically, the withdrawal of the United States of the JCPOA in 2018, driven by the same rhetoric of the “imminent bomb”, caused the response that was intended to avoid. Iran began to enrich uranium at unprecedented levels: first 20% and then 60%, drastically shortening the theoretical deadlines for the pump and triggering the current crisis. Despite this, there are no evidence, beyond the expansion of enrichment plants, that Iran have the necessary technology or develop those weapons. Although, in honor of the truth, it is logical that there are no, since most of the activity is underground. Faith jump between enrichment and nuclear bomb. To understand how “near” Iran of the nuclear bomb is, you have to differentiate two key processes. The first is the fuel: the enrichment of uranium, the visible part of the process. It is about increasing the concentration of the fistible isotope 2 35 of the uranium from the 0.7% natural to 90% (the arms degree). Thanks to the withdrawal of the JCPOA, Iran accumulates a large amount of 60%enriched uranium. And moving from 60 to 90% is a technically feasible leap within a few weeks. However, Having the fuel is not having the enginewhat Anglo -Saxons call “weaponization.” A set of incredibly complex steps to convert the fistible material into a functional eye that can be mounted on a missile. They have to convert the uranium of arms degree, which is a gas, into a metal sphere. They have to surround that sphere with high precision explosives that have to detonate simultaneously in microseconds to compress the nucleus and start the chain reaction. And all this, in a package small and light enough to fit in the eyes of a missile and survive the launch. This is where we enter the field of almost total uncertainty. We know that this will investigated with the AMAD Plan, but its current progress is unknown. However, nobody knows it with certainty because intelligence on underground activities is very difficult to obtain. What we know with certainty. Despite decades of sanctions, sabotage, selective murders of its scientists and cyberbrains (like the famous Stuxnet, which destroyed uranium centrifuges), the Iranian nuclear program has not only survived, but has become stronger and more self -sufficient. Iran designs and produces its own advanced centrifuging. In fact, Israel’s main objective is to destroy the Fordow plant, that Iran built under a mountain to make it invulnerable to air attacks. In parallel, Iran has developed the largest and diverse ballistic missile program in the Middle East, and a fleet of trucks ready to shoot them. This resilience demonstrates that technical knowledge is deeply institutionalized in the regime, which is why Israel has eliminated those responsible for the nuclear program, as well as Iranian launches. At the same time, each Israeli attack can reinforce the conviction in Tehran that the pump is the only guarantee of survival, a fish that bites the tail, accelerated by Netanyahu’s rhetoric. They will go in the North Korean mirror or Pakistan. Beyond the rhetoric of the West, two countries offer key lessons about Iran. North Korea built its nuclear program to ensure the survival of the regime. Isolated and economically devastated, He saw the bomb as his only insurance policy against a overthrow imposed by the United States. The sanctions and pressure only reinforced their determination. Pakistan followed a strategic imperative. It sought to neutralize the military superiority of India. When India tried her bomb in 1974, the Pakistani bomb became a matter of national survival. Iran is a hybrid and more complex case. Share the survival … Read more

Aliexpress’s summer promo starts with very powerful discounts on mobile phones, tablets and more devices

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There are many users who, when they seek to renew one of their devices, usually expect very specific dates, such as Black Friday. These promos usually bring chollos and offers of all kinds, although the negative part is that they are only held at specific times of the year. The good news is that the different stores also launch promos the rest of the year And now he has touched Aliexpress. From yesterday until June 25 at 23:59 we have available your Summer promoan event loaded with very good offers in technology. In addition to these, we also have at our disposal A series of discount coupons To save even more in our carts: code discount Minimum purchase ES02 2 euros 15 euros ES04 4 euros 29 euros ES10 10 euros 69 euros ES20 20 euros 139 euros SSES30 30 euros 199 euros ES40 40 euros 279 euros SSES45 45 euros 309 euros ES50 50 euros 349 euros ES60 60 euros 439 euros All these discount coupons cannot be used combined nor are they valid for virtual products or other promotions. In addition to the above, we have others available that, in this case, can only be used with products that Miravia sells through Aliexpress: Code discount Minimum purchase Master153 3 euros 15 euros Master5910 10 euros 59 euros MES400 80 euros 599 euros An event loaded with chollos in technology As we say, there are few offers that we have available right now in this summer promo. To facilitate the work, we leave you down a selection of the most prominent that are still available. Little x7 proa smartphone with a great value for money, by 219.99 euros. Bose Quietcomfort SC headphonesof headband and with good autonomy, by 124.29 euros With the ES20 code. OnePlus Watch 3with 1.5 -inch screen and an elegant design, by 183.49 euros With the SSES30 code. Galaxy Tab A9+a very economical tablet to study or work, for 119.99 euros With the ES20 code. Nintendo Switch Pro commandcompatible with Nintendo Switch 2, by 49.66 euros with the ES04 code. Little x7 pro We start with him Little x7 proa telephone that stands out for a very high money ratio (and more, with this offer). 6.67 inches AMOLED screen with 3,200 nits peak shineinsured power with the dimensity 8400 ultra of MediaTak and a considerable battery of 6,000 mAh. In addition, it has a good double camera photographic system. It is available by 219.99 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review Bose Quietcomfort SC If we are looking for headband headphones, these Bose quietcomfort scs perfect us. They stand out for being light, for offering a sound at brand height And for having a good noise cancellation. In addition, we can also configure them in their ‘Aware’ mode to be aware of what happens around us. Available by 124.29 euros With the ES20 code. * Some price may have changed from the last review OnePlus Watch 3 He One Plus Watch 3 It is a smartwatch with a classic cut design, but has enough characteristics to get our attention. Its 1.5 -inch screen is protected by sapphire crystal and has a peak shine of 2,200 nits, so we will be able to see it out of problems without problems. We cannot forget that it also has a good number of sensors to be able to control our health and our training to the millimeter. It comes out by 183.49 euros With the SSES30 code. * Some price may have changed from the last review Galaxy Tab A9+ You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a tablet at home and this Galaxy Tab A9+ It is the test. It is a manageable and comfortable device to use, both for work and leisure. It has a 11 -inch screen (with 90 Hz) and a 7,040 mAh battery to offer us good autonomy. Besides, It is compatible with Dolby Atmos soundideal to watch series or movies. We can acquire it for 119.99 euros With the ES20 code. Galaxy Tab A9 + (4 + 64 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review Nintendo Switch Pro command We close with the Pro Nintendo Switch Uno command, which It is compatible with Nintendo Switch 2. It is a wireless and very comfortable command to use, ideal if we seek to have a traditional experience in the Nintendo console. The best thing is that the summer promo leaves it at a price that is not easy to find: it goes out for 49.66 euros with the ES04 code. Pro Nintendo Switch command * 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 | Aliexpress, little, Bose, OnePlus, Samsung, Nintendo In Xataka | The best smartwatch: their analysis and videos are here In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which to buy and 19 models from 20 euros to 450 euros

AMD’s problem is not that it does not make good gpus for ia. Is that it is not even close to Nvidia

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AMD is doing things well, but even doing them still unable to compete with Nvidia. The company has just raised its renewed road map with promising models, but that is not a guarantee of anything to a NVIDIA that will not let its absolute leadership position escape. The problem for AMD is not to be, but get others to take note. IDC consultancy data indicate that Nvidia dominates the AI ​​chips market with 85.2% market dick, for 14.3% AMD. Other analysts like Jon Pedie Research go beyond and According to your data The NVIDIA quota in this segment is 92%. AMD instinct mi350 are just the beginning. The GPUS for IA, which AMD calls “accelerators”, follow its evolution. During the event they presented their family or Instinct Mi350 series with two variants, MI350X and MI355X. According to the manufacturer, these chips are four times higher in general performance with respect to the previous generation, but are up to 35 times more powerful in the field of inference AI (that is, in the practical use of models such as Chatgpt, which “infers” “their responses from our prompts). They have 288 GB of HBM3E memory and a memory bandwidth of 8 TB/s. Its yield is 18.45 pflops in FP4 precision and 9.2 pflops in precision FP8. Instinct Mi400 in 2026. Next year the new family of AMD’s accelerators will arrive. It’s about future MI400 instinctwhich will arrive with up to 432 GB of HBM4 memory, 19.6 TB/s of bandwidth of that memory, and a performance of 40 pflops in precision FP4 and 20 Pflops in precision FP8. These monsters will be sold in future racks with infrastructure “Helios“, that You can house Up to 72 Mi400 with up to 260 TB/s total bandwidth thanks to its interconnection technology, Ultra Accelerator Link. EPYC VENICE. AMD not only talked about GPUS: it also has its future processors for servers in data centers in full development. The Epyc Venice will arrive in 2026 and will be based on Zen 6 architecture. Among the variants, an especially spectacular with 256 cores that will offer up to 70% more performance compared to the previous generation. These processors will be built with future MI400 instinct. They are expected to be manufactured with the N2P (2 Nm) node of TSMC. Helios against Oberon. The aforementioned Rack Helios will compete with not already with the current Nvidia AI server, the GB200 NVL72 which connects 36 CPUS Grace and 72 Gpus Blackwell. He is destined to compete with his successor, which has Oberon’s code name and will use IA B300 GPUS with Vera Rubin architecture. The yields and benefits of these future racks are absolutely dizzy, and for example their Precision Power FP8 is 1.4 Exaflops. The same in some things, better in others. AMD promises to match NVIDIA in several sections, but also ensures that it will exceed it remarkably (50% more) in memory quantity and width, something crucial for training and inference AI. Be careful, because at the end of 2027 NVIDIA prepares the Rubin Ultra architecture, which promises racks with up to 5 Exaflops in FP8 precision, three times more than Helios or Oberon. In 2027 we will have another “summer”. The AMD roadmap goes further, and they have already prepared the development of their new generation of chips for summer Epyc servers, which will replace the Epyc Venice. These CPUS will be paired with the future MI500X instinct, and it is expected – although it is not safe – that both types of chip take advantage of the one already announced TSMC A16 node (1.6 Nm), which will begin to be used at the end of 2026. There are no specifications for these developments, surely because they will depend on the manufacturing node that AMD ends up using to produce them. Frantic race. All these ads show that AMD does not want to be left behind in that race to place their solutions in data centers worldwide. The Crusoe company, which is dedicated to the construction of large AI data centers, advertisement A few days ago I would spend 400 million dollars in AMD’s chips, and even Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAi, made a surprise appearance During the inaugural talk of the Lisa Su, CEO of AMD event. Altman said they will also use AMD chips in the data centers they use, and highlighted that the new AMD ia gpus “will be somewhat amazing.” AMD presumes to be more efficient (and cheap). AMD’s message was clear during the event: its MI355 offer much more efficiency and are cheaper than NVIDIA B200 and GB200 with comparable yields. The sales prices of those GPUS are not known, but we do know that at the beginning of 2024 the MI300x of AMD They cost a maximum of $ 15,000 for the more than $ 40,000 that cost The NVIDIA H100. The biggest challenge is still CUDA. The benefits of AMD AI chips are not in fact the problem of this company. Detailed studies revealed months ago that MI300X are clearly higher than NVIDIA H100 and H200 on performance and power. However, Nvidia has a Cudathe de facto standard in the industry for services of services and applications of AI. Using AMD native software is feasible, yes, but software experience, They assured in SEMIANALYSIS“Software is full of errors that make training (AI models) with AMD it is impossible.” AMD’s hope is Rocm. In that AMD event also presented Rocm 7, the latest version from your own Open Source programming platform for your GPUS. In AMD they indicated that this version is 3.5 times more powerful than Rocm 6, and even claim that it is 30% more powerful than CUDA in the B200 when serving the model Deepseek R1. Even so, they indicate In another report of semi -health, it is still lower in some sections. Getting that component allows developers to take advantage of all the potential of AMD’s chips is precisely key to the future of those efforts. Even … Read more

comes from the depths of Antarctica

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On earth have always given enigmas to those who do not find an answer. In some cases yes, such as when we decipher the strange television signal that came from the sky, but In othersas in the story that concerns us, the mystery continues. In one of the most remote and extreme environments of the planet, a great altitude scientific globe flying over Antarctica has captured radio signals that seem to come from the depths of the earth. It all started 20 years ago. A signal from ice. As we said, for almost two decades, a series of scientific balloons has overwhelmed the vast Antarctic desolation to more than 40 kilometers of altitudecarrying with him instruments designed to capture distant echoes from the universe. We talk about Anita experimentpromoted by an international consortium of physicists trying detect neutrinosthose particles without load, practically without mass, that cross the matter without a trace. Billions of them constantly cross our bodies without us noticing them and, nevertheless, their detection is an extraordinary achievement: when one of them interacts with an ice molecule, it can trigger a rain of secondary particles that emit brief pulses of radio waves. Anita was created for that. But since its deployment, ha captured something else. Inexplicable signals. In it year 2006and then again In 2014Anita detected radio pulses that seemed to come not from above (as expected with cosmic rays) but From belowfrom inside the ice. The waves arose at very inclined angles, up to 30 degrees under the surface, and showed no reflex signs. The problem? That, according to the laws of physics known, that It shouldn’t be possible: To emerge from those depths, a particle should have crossed thousands of kilometers of solid rock before releasing a detectable signal, something that neutrinos usually usually achieves. And yet the data were there. The comparison with other neutrinic detection projects did not yield coincidences. What Anita was capturing was real … But inexplicable. Anita The border of the known. Scientists initially thought they could be facing Tau neutrinosa variant that, crossing Antarctic ice, can generate tau leptons and trigger the so -called “air rains”, emissions that Anita is specially designed to detect. But the angles, the intensities and the frequency of the signals They did not match with the predictions of the standard model. Stephanie Wissel, Astrophysics of Penn State and one of the authors of the new studyrecognized that, although these signs could be confused with neutrinic events, everything points They are not. If they were conventional neutrinos, they should have gone through the entire planet without interacting with anything, which, although technically possible, would be statistically miraculous. Beyond the standard. And here comes the most fascinating. The most disconcerting hypothesis is also the More suggestive: That these signs come from particles that do not appear in current theories. Some experts have proposed that they could be related to The dark matter or with interactions not yet described. Other theories They point to possible unknown effects of propagation of radio waves In polar ice, perhaps influenced by atmospheric, topographic or electromagnetic conditions of the Antarctic environment. That said, and so far, none of these ideas has been able to reproduce experimentally or find parallel evidence. The silence of the other detectors and the absence of compatible patterns reinforce the anomalous nature of these pulses. The promise of the successor. With Anita retired since 2016, the scientific community now deposited its hopes In Pueo (Payload for Ultrahight Energy Observations), a new more sensitive and robust aerial experiment than its predecessor. Designed by the same team, Pueo will have a Best angular resolution And he will be able to capture weaker or subtle signals, which could confirm whether the abnormalities detected are recurring events or simple fortuitous errors. Wissel and his team hope that Pueo can not only capture new similar events, but also elucidate its nature And, in the best case, expand the limits of what we understand today by particle physics. A persistent enigma. One thing is clear: the Mystery remains. The signs detected By Anita They do not fit neutrinos, they do not correspond to known phenomena and have not been able to reproduce. In other words: what is there is an explanatory vacuum, a series of data that challenges our more solid theories. As I said Wissel herselfmaybe we are facing a phenomenon of propagation of unknown radio, or maybe not. Anita’s case represents one of those unique moments in science: when observation is ahead of the theory, and the instruments detect something that the mind cannot still understand. Thus, in the vast cold silence of Antarctica, something seems to be talking. And we have no idea what he is telling us. Image | Penn State In Xataka | In 1960 a strange sound was detected under the waters of Antarctica. Not only do we still have no response: it is multiplying In Xataka | Why the appearance of thousands of lakes in Antarctica is another disastrous sign for our future

The light of the light has risen a lot and the electric ones blame it for the blackout. Facua has something to say about it

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May 2025 promised to be the cheapest month thanks to the renewable generation in spring. However, consumers They have ended up paying more In the light of the light for the blackout of April 28, since they have had to activate emergency mechanisms or reinforcement systems. Now it seems that that should not have been so high. Short. Facua-Consumnadores in Action has warned the electricity marketers of the free market, In a press releasethat they cannot raise their rates unilaterally for the blackout of April 28 if that change is not provided for in the contract. A specific case. The association has loaded directly against Energía, a commercialization of the Repsol Group that has notified a 6% surcharge (about 73 euros per year), alleging an “increase in technical costs of the system” for the electricity network reinforcement system. However, like He recalled Facuaadjustment services are not part of the regulated costs (such as tolls and charges) and, therefore, do not justify a rise in the price agreed in free market contracts. The law is clear. According to the Civil Code, contracts must be fulfilled as agreed and cannot be modified according to the will of a single part (Arts. 1256 and 1258). Exceptions would only be accepted if the contract explicitly includes a clause that allows the marketer to apply these increases by extraordinary situations such as the lived. From the other part. The employer who brings together Iberdrola, Endesa and EDP, AELEC, is pressing to distribute or contain the overrages derived from the blackout. Its proposal is to transfer these extraordinary expenses – given to operate the system in “reinforced mode” to avoid new blackouts – to other concepts of the invoice, such as regulated charges, where costs by renewable or extrapeninsular are also included, according to Finch access has had access. There are more. The employer has calculated that the reinforced security strategy has meant an extra cost of 200 million euros in just one month and requires that there be an extraordinary regulatory response, so that neither consumers nor marketers assume that impact alone. As has detailed Fifodies, are in search of a “transient and exceptional” measure that relies on operation procedures 8.2 and 14.4, already provided for in the current regulatory framework. So is it valid? Legally, the key point is the type of contract that each consumer has. In free market contracts, prices are agreed for a year and cannot be modified unless the contract expressly allows. If there is no clear and specific enabling clause, the climb would be illegal, and it could be considered an abusive clause, even if there is a notice. From Facua they support this thesis in the Civil Code and in Article 65 of Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007 on consumer defense, which establishes that contracts must be interpreted in favor of the user and according to the objective good faith. That is, although the company affirms that the surcharge is justified, if you did not sign it and is not in transparent conditions, it cannot impose it. Any forecast? Today, neither Red Eléctrica nor the Ministry for Ecological Transition have clarified how much this reinforced security operation will last, nor how its costs will be distributed. From AELEC and other associations, an intervention of the regulator or the Ministry to temporarily redesign the cost distribution is expected. The objective: avoid an irreversible impact on the electrical marketing market and contain the price escalation. Image | Seoane Prado Xataka | Broady in April, more expensive invoice in May: thus has affected the system reinforcement

bet on your own chips

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China wants to lead the electric car industry, and plan to achieve it by dominating the chip supply chain that give them life. The country, in search of its technological self -sufficiency in an industry that represents about 10% of its national GDPhas urged its manufacturers to win in the semiconductor career for electric cars. A large -scale plan. Sources of Nikkei Asia They claim that the main groups of Chinese car, including Saic Motor, Byd, Li Auto and Geely are preparing to launch models equipped with 100% national manufacturing chips. From 2026, at least two Chinese companies are expected to produce semiconductors for automotive. It is something that has already begun to be seen, with movements such as Xpeng or child betting on your own manufacturing chips for its most recent electric vehicles. On June 13 we saw the XPEng G7, the first car of the Chinese company to replace Nvidia chips for own chips that promised a three -time performance. 2027 as a key year. With the start of mass production of vehicle semiconductors, China would be setting the most ambitious objective in 2027: 100% national manufacturing in each of the chips equipped in its vehicles. It is a project under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (MIIT)who would be summoning manufacturers regularly to know their national chip adoption rates. What is being done. Recently, Xpeng announced its Turing AI chip, with a computing capacity that, supposedly, triples to that of the Nvidia Orin. It is one of the most ambitious responses to Nvidia, and expects divisions such as Volkswagen in China to end up adopting this type of solutions. Why Volkswagen? Because Both have agreements for Manufacture electric cars. Other Chinese manufacturers, such as child, They announced their Shenji Nx9031your chip to boost autonomous driving functions. The problem? It was manufactured in the lithographic process of five nanometers, and that can only mean one thing. External agreements. China is in full Sprint stage with its semiconductors. Is about to have the ability to make 5NM chips and SMIC expects to reach 3NM lithographic processes in 2026 But, at least for the moment, the chips of their rivals are more advanced. This is why companies like Nio have opted for companies external to China (They do not detail who manufactures the Shenjibut its 5 nm process details that it is not national), and Xiaomi has allied with TSMC To manufacture your Xring 01the company’s first smartphones processor that competes directly with the A18 PRO of Apple and The best of Qualcomm. The company He has already announced that he will take his chips to carsand the big doubt is whether he will do it with TSMC as an ally. China has the ability to master this industry. There are three pillars that largely determine the success of an electric car that intends to sell anywhere in the world. Batteries (autonomy and load) Price Software (operating system, cabin functionalities, etc.) In the 2023 China Electric Vehicle Forum, the Institute for Market Economics Studies revealed that the external dependence of automobile chips was close to 95%. The key point is that cars chips are very varied: microcontrollers, memories, sensors … Most of them can occur with the current lithography teams that China has. In fact, there is a key here. Among the large chips suppliers for cars are already companies such as Huawei, Semiconductor and STM Microelectronics ByD. With the focus on the domain of the semiconductors, manufacturers outside China betting on Chinese software, and the country winning the battery careerChina has everything to end up dominating this industry sooner or later. A conquest outside and inside. The war that China is playing is not just internal. The country has the potential to dominate in markets such as the European. Spain is the best example, with brands like Mg heading the sales rankingsand giants like Chery disembarking in our country with Jaecoo and omoda. China no longer has the West as a mirror. His new heads in automotive fight with their own identity, a clear domain in areas where the European car has been left behind, and A deeper consumer understanding Regarding that of the brands they manufacture in Europe. Image | Geely In Xataka | Chinese cars no longer compete against the West. Compete against the future itself

23 years ago China gave the US a lesson. Thanks to it today dominates the battery industry overwhelmingly

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The German-American physicist John Bannister Goodenough patented the technology that allowed to manufacture Iron and lithium phosphate batteries (known as LFP for its English denomination) in 1997. In 2019, when he was no less than 97 years, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution for his contribution to the development of lithium ion batteries. However, Goodenough made a mistake. An important mistake: he failed to transfer his innovation to the American industry, so its impact on the West was minimal. Wang Chuanfu, the founder of the Chinese company Byd, did not make that mistake. In 2002 he perceived the potential of the technology that Goodenaugh had invented, so he asked his research and development team (R&D) to investigate the technology and capabilities of LFP batteries with the purpose of minimizing the dependence that China of the nickel and cobalt had. That decision I guide Byd towards the leadership position Shared with Catl currently occupied in the battery production industry. In fact, in 2008 he placed in the market The first car in the world Equipped with an LFP battery. China manufactures 57% of the batteries used by electric cars China is currently The largest electric vehicle market of the world. In 2025 in this country more electric cars will be sold for the first time than with combustion engine thanks to some extent to government subsidies. In addition, China is the largest electric car exporter on the planet. In 2023 he exported approximately 1.7 million electric vehicleswhich represents more than 30% of its total car exports. However, its international expansion is being seriously conditioned by the tariffs that are imposing USA or the European Union, among other regions with very serious difficulties to compete with the Chinese electric car. Finally, as we have seen, China is also a world leader in The production of lithium batteries. If we stick to electric cars the country led by Xi Jinping Fabrica 57% of batteries that these vehicles use. CATL and ByD are the largest lithium batteries on the planet with a market share in 2024 of 37.9% and 17.2% respectively, according to the consultant Sne Research. In 2017 for the first time the market share of NCM batteries surpassed that of LFP in electric cars China has reached this leadership position due to several factors. On the one hand it is The largest producer in the world of lithium and rare earths, which are the main raw materials used in the manufacture of batteries. In addition, it controls the processing of these materials and is capable of producing large -scale batteries and with a very competitive price. However, in this recipe there is one more ingredient that we cannot overlook: byd and Catl lead the global battery industry thanks to their capacity for innovation and adaptation. In 2017, Chinese government subsidies prioritized the development of Nickel batteries with greater energy density, so much of Chinese battery manufacturers opted for NCM technology. These lithium -ion batteries use a nickel (ni), cobalt (co) and manganese (mn) cathode, hence their name. And byd lagged. In fact, in 2017 for the first time the market share of NCM batteries surpassed that of LFP in electric cars. And in 2019 the NCM batteries already dominated the market. But Byd did not give up. Wang Chuanfu was convinced that the really important security was, and, therefore, the thermal stability of the batteries, so it launched a new R&D project that concluded with The tuning of Blade batteries. These devices are thinner, have modular structure and can be easily integrated into the chassis of electric cars. This bet went well to Byd. At the end of 2020 this company and catl They controlled 66% of the Chinese market of the LFP batteries for electric cars against 6% that added in 2019. This is the authentic strength of the two Chinese companies that lead the world battery industry. Image | Byd More information | Volt Rush In Xataka | Historic record for China: its chips industry has produced in 2024 more than ever despite the sanctions

Bitcoin boasts decentralization. But a third is already in the hands of large centralized actors

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Bitcoin’s “whales” are getting bigger. This is what it indicates A recent study of Gemini and Glassnode in which there is talk of the great “centralized treasury of Bitcoin”, which already control 30.9% of the bitcoins that currently circulate. The data is striking, but it is not entirely conclusive, and the decentralization of cryptocurrency remains high. 216 Ballenatos. In 2021 we talked about how Bitcoin’s 10,000 most important investors They controlled more than a third of all cryptocurrencies in circulation. They were the great whales of the market, people or entities that had accumulated huge amounts of cryptodivisas. That concentration was already worrying, but now it is more: According to the data From the aforementioned study, there are now 216 large centralized entities that controls a third of all bitcoin in circulation. An upward trend. The report indicates how the total number of bitcoins that have ended up acquiring the great institutional and custody entities has grown up to 6,145,207 bitcoins. That represents an increase of 924% in the amount of bitcoins that such entities had a decade ago. Of hate to institutional love. During the past decade the vast majority of the institutions remained away from Bitcoin, but in recent times we have lived a unique change in the mentality of these entities. Companies and governments have begun to invest in Bitcoins in an extraordinary way, and Institutional love It is now a clear exponent of the situation – and the price – of Bitcoin. Companies that bet strongly. Bitcoin’s value does not suffer great changes weeks, but the enthusiasm on the part of the great entities continues. Strategythe firm led by Michael Saylor, Keep buying as if there were no tomorrow and already has 592,000 of these cryptodivises. Far away are others such as Mara Holdings (49,179) or Twenty One Capital, which It already has 37,230 bitcoins. Tesla, by the way, has 11,509 bitcoins, although that unusual interest seems to have stopped. Companies such as Exchange Coinbase (9,267) or the “Mining” Hut 8 mining corp (10,273) group also demonstrate that interest in monopolizing more and more bitcoins. And the countries, too. Not only are companies: some governments have also made strong investments in this cryptocurrency or have obtained it from seizures. The US is a good example: almost all of its 207,189 bitcoins come from the operations carried out against Silk Road or what He recovered In 2022 after the Bitfinex hacking In 2016. The North American country is the one that has the most BTC ahead of China (194,000) or the United Kingdom (61,000). El Salvador, who was especially notorious to end up becoming Bitcoin into legal tender and then backwardyou have much less, 6,089 bitcoins. They are still many. A misleading concentration. Although Gemini’s data are striking, they are also somewhat confused, especially because in their definition of large entities the large markets for the sale of cryptodivisas and The ETF and Bitcoin -based financial products. But it is that in reality the cryptocurrencies that accumulate these centralized entities – which are certainly – are not one of those entities in their vast majority, but of the investors that use them and operate in this market through such financial products. A more realistic figure. Similar studies such as Made by Bitmex Research in April reveal a somewhat less worrying concentration. Of the 21 million bitcoin that will end up producing, 11.9% are in the hands of companies and governments, but above all of ETFs and funds, as well as Indicates Bitcintreasuries. The vast majority (69.4%) are in the hands of independent investors, and especially surprises how 7.5% of all bitcoins that have occurred have ended up being lost forever. That percentage was even higher in 2017but since then it seems that those who invest in them have taken many measures to avoid losing them. Outstanding image | Erling Løken Andersen In Xataka | A man threw his hard drive and lost 700 million euros in Bitcoins. Now you will have your own series

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