Spacex aborted the rocket takeoff for the first time from flight 1, two years ago

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Spacex has aborted the eighth launch of Starship when there was half a minute for takeoff. Although it is a rocket in tests, this type of last minute cancellation had only happened once. A two -year run. The last time Spacex aborted the launch of a starship loaded with propelants was in April 2023. A frozen valve in Booster 7 frustrated the first attempt to launch the rocket. Almost two years have passed and now both Booster 15 and Starship 34 have given problems. The company stopped the countdown to take off of flight 8 while checking both stages of the rocket. For a moment, the clock worked again and it seemed that Spacex had solved all the setbacks, but seconds later it ended up aborting the takeoff. “Too many unknowns.” As usual, Elon Musk has been the first to offer details of what was happening between scenes. “Too many question signs around this flight”, wrote. “We were 20 bars below the required pressure level.” Musk mentioned the “Ground Spin Start Pressure”, which is the necessary pressure in the gas that is injected into engines so that the turbine turbine turns quickly enough to generate complete combustion and turn on. The next attempt. “The Starship team is determining the next best opportunity available to fly,” Spacex published After the interruptus launch. It will need to disapprove both stages of the rocket and examine them, Musk said, so the company will take one to two days to try again. In 2023, the company took 48 hours to have its facilities for a second attempt. 4,900 tons of propellants. That is the monstrous amount of methane and liquid oxygen that fits in a starship. Spacex will have to replenish the propellants in their tanks farm for a new launch attempt, which normally implies a truck parade towards the platform. First Starship from Florida in 2025. Although there has been no launch, Spacex has had time to announce a new Starships factory at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gigabay will have 24 work areas and cranes of 400 tons larger than Starbase. It is expected to be operational in 2026. While building these new facilities, Spacex will transport Texas Starships to Florida and wait for the first launch of the rocket from Florida in 2025, provided that the Government approves its environmental review.

LaLiga IPS blockages are based on a mysterious judicial sentence. Rootedcon is trying to legally cancel it

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The War between LaLiga and Cloudflare The IPS blockages ordered by LaLiga to fight against illegal soccer matches leave thousands of websites, but for a few days there are an effort specifically aimed at trying to end the problem. Rootcon against the sentence in which LaLiga is shield. Those responsible for Rootedcon They organized two weeks ago an initiative to collect data and testimonies of those affected. These are companies or people who have seen how their websites – totally legitimate – have been harmed and have ceased to be temporarily accessible during those IPS blockages. That may also have caused economic losses, but the situation persists without being a solution on the horizon. Legal Arthimañas. That is precisely what Rootedcon is trying to do, which has announced that he has raised: “An incident of nullity in the Commercial Court number 6 of Barcelona, ​​against Judgment No. 310/2024, dated December 18, 2024, achieved through legal arthingswhich is used by the League to force operators to block and restrict Internet access in their fight against “piracy” at the request of the football company. This ruling, and the way in which it is being used, violates fundamental rights and limits free access to information, a right that we consider unnegotiable. “ Request for nullity for the sentence. In Xataka we have contacted those responsible for Rootedcon, who have explained that this process is not a legal lawsuit as such, but a petition so that this sentence on which LaLiga is supported is annulled. This sentence has been difficult to locate, and according to rootedcon it should be annulled by violating fundamental rights. There is damage to third parties. As we already explained, the procedures in which LaLiga is shielded They are debatable at the legal levelespecially because the Article 21 of the Civil Procedure Law (LEC). According to this text, the search should be rejected when it involves damage to third parties not demanded in the procedure. Here many affected have not demanded have been –all economically harmed companies and individuals-, but still the measures (the IPS blocks) have been executed anyway. Defense of Freedom of Expression. For rooted with this conflict is being used “to justify actions that limit access to content in the network” and that constitutes “an injustice against freedoms of expression and information.” As they explain in their communication, this blockade “is massive and not only affects the assumptions cybercriminals, but economically impacts the activity of many organizations and companies.” There are currently more than 140,000 websites using Cloudflare services. Not everyone has been affected by the cuts, but of course a part of them. Source: Builtwith. About 140,000 affected potentials. An analysis of the IPS blocked in Cloudflare shows how these IPS are being shared at the moment For more than 140,000 websites. Not everyone is inaccessible, of course: it depends on the services that these websites have hired with this company. However, in that list are all kinds of companies: from the media (El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, RTVE) to large companies such as Carrefour, Decathlon, Idealist or Pccomponent) and of course websites of more modest projects that are also losing business opportunities for those blockages. And among them, football team websites. Ironically, lalaiga -instructed locks They are also affecting to the websites of First Division equipment. A systems administrator called Jaume Pons has been tracking these blockages for some time and last weekend he warned how the Girona FC online store It was inaccessibleas had also happened to the Valencia CF website either To Kelmesponsor of the Spanish RCD. The legal battle continues. Blocks too. The situation remains worrying for users and companies that legitimately use Internet services in our country. They have become involuntary victims of a Legal battle between LaLiga and Cloudflare that at the moment does not seem to have a solution. The latter began legal actions against LaLigabut there have been no changes in the way of acting of LaLiga, which continues to order these blockages and affect thousands and thousands of users. Image | Madrid athletic In Xataka | This is how Ech works, the Technological Shield of Cloudflare that has put the operators between the sword and the wall

NEW ZTE NUBIA NEO 3 GT 5G, Features, Price and Technical Card

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The last family games smartphones cloud neo de zte They have arrived in Spain. And his new flagship model will also do so. This Chinese manufacturer has taken advantage of the Mobile World Congress celebration to publicize the cloud neo 3 gt 5ga mobile designed from scratch to convince players that, as we are about to check, has some very interesting characteristics. I propose that we start taking a look at your screen. ZTE engineers have opted for a 6.8 -inch OLED panel that is capable of working at a maximum refreshment frequency of 120 Hz. In principle this cadence fits well with the needs of the players, so nothing to object to here. Its resolution is 2,392 x 1,080 points. In any case, so far we have only scratched the surface. In the most interesting of this mobile we have not yet investigated. Zte cloud neo 3 gt 5g: technical specifications Zte cloud neo 3 gt 5g screen 6.8 -inch OLED with a maximum soda of 120 Hz resolution 2,392 x 1,080 points Soc Unisoc T9100 main memory Up to 24 GB of dynamic RAM storage 256 GB Main Chamber 50 Megapixels Improved with Neovision ai Photography sound Stereo DTS: X ultra battery 6,000 mAh fast charge 80 watts price From 349 euros ZTE has worked in the cooling of this mobile for games We are going with your soc. The chip integrated in this smartphone is a unisoc T9100. Agglutina Eight Arm nuclei with the following configuration: 1 x Cortex-A76 to 2.7 GHz, 3 x Cortex-A76 to 2.3 GHz and 4 x Cortex-A55 to 2.1 GHz. The nuclei of the latter cluster are high efficiency and the remaining four high performance. On the other hand, the integrated memory controller is compatible with LPDDR4/4x chips of up to 2,133 MHz. And graphic logic, which in a mobile like this is very important, is an ARM Mali-G57 with four nuclei at 850 MHz. ZTE engineers have put a multicapa heat dissipation system As we indicated in the specifications table, the main memory can be extended taking a portion of the secondary storage system up to 24 GB. On the other hand, games are one of the most demanding apps with hardware. In fact, they usually keep the GPU and several CPU nuclei working at the maximum clock frequency during long -time periods. This scenario has caused ZTE engineers to have a multicapa heat dissipation system capable of maintaining both the SOC and memory always below its maximum temperature threshold. We will check it if the opportunity to analyze this smartphone is presented. In this detail photograph we can see the game trigger housed next to one of the corners of the frame. Although it is not seen in the image, at the lower end there is another identical trigger. Although this device has not been designed to attract attention to photography enthusiasts, its main camera does not look bad. At least on paper. And it incorporates A 50 megapixel sensor that works side by side with a processing algorithm by means of artificial intelligence (AI). Zte, as expected, has not forgotten the sound. This mobile incorporates two speakers, although it is capable of processing audio DTS: X ultra. Before concluding it is worth it that we stop for a moment on your battery. It proposes one with a capacity of 6,000 mAh and a fast charging system of 80 watts. It doesn’t look bad. ZTE NUBIA NEO 3 GT 5G: Price and availability ZTE has confirmed that this smartphone for players will arrive in Spain during the month of April with a starting price of 349 euros. In Xataka | Nubia Z70 Ultra, Analysis: I came by the power and I stayed for the multimedia experience

The worst nightmare of the Atlantic Alliance is more than an investment issue

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That Donald Trump is not a NATO enthusiast is nothing new. He already showed him during His first mandatewhen he slid the possibility that the US took a step back in the Atlantic Alliance, and has underlined it several times since then, like candidate and elected president. But as the relationship It is tense With Europe and within its own team Voices are raised in favor of Washington to break with the Treaty of 1949a question arises, increasingly stronger: what would happen if the US is detached from NATO? To answer it, you need to review a little recent history, geostrategy … and also mathematics. An NATO without the US? Only the fact that The question this On the table It is already significant. Especially since the clouds that overshadow the future of the US in NATO do not arise from speculation or rumors, but from comments from high positions of Washington, including Trump himself, who in December, still as elected president, He complained that the Atlantic Alliance is “taking advantage of the US.” “They take advantage of us in trade, our cars or our foods are not taken. They do not wear anything. It’s a shame. And we defend them, so the blow is double,” Trump charged during An interview In NBC News. And when the journalist asked him if she would consider excluding NATO US in case she concludes that her treatment towards the US is not “fair,” repliedresounding: “Yes, of course.” The continuity in the alliance, he stressed, is conditioned to the whole of its members “pay their bills.” A background rumor. It was not the first time that there was talk of NATO’s departure. It hasn’t been the last. Six years ago The New York Times public that in 2018 Trump already threatened with the withdrawal of NATO. And that was during his first term. The second has started just a month And it is already marked by distancing between Washington and some of its historical allies, such as Canada or the EU. The clearest (and graphic) test was the negotiating table created by the US and Russia to end the Ukraine War without reserving a seat for Ukraine or the Union. The trend seems to also go in Crescendo, without visos that it will break. In the last days We have seen Europe closing rows Around Ukraine, Trump and Zelenski showing Prime Time Your total lack of harmony Already Elon Musk, Trump’s great ally, Chairing the debate on the output of the US USA. Yesterday the businessman shared a tweet that he said “it’s time to leave NATO and UN” next to the next harvest message: “I Agree”. An NATO without the US? The same question of the principle, but with a different sense, that of viability: Is a NATO with Washington in profile or in which the US directly step back? A few days ago, during An interview In the BBC, the NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, asked if the rest of the allies could replace the US hole in case he withdraws his military support from Ukraine, his response was revealing: that scenario is not raised. Click on the image to go to Tweet. A “100%risk”. After insisting that the US “wants to bring Ukraine to a lasting peace”, the high position of NATO slid: “We go beyond this issue. It is crucial that we all remain together in this: USA, Ukraine, Europe, that we take Ukraine to Peace. That is exactly why Trump struggles, so we all fight.” Zelenski, who It has been ambitioning for some time The adhesion of your country to NATO, a perspective that seems farther today, after contacts between Moscow and Washington, is even clearer. In Another talk Recent with journalists, he warned of the consequences that Trump would have to step back in NATO, not only for his country, but for the whole of the continent: “The risk of Russia from occupying Europe is one hundred percent if the United States withdraws from NATO.” Weight question. The key is the weight that Washington has in NATO. The agency’s estimates by 2024 provided that the US be The third country of the alliance that higher percentage of its GDP allocated to defense, 3.4%, only behind Poland and Estonia. Washington’s commitments go beyond the North Atlantic Treaty and given the size of its economy, it is estimated that US defense spending represents near two thirds of NATO total. As for costs, the body applies A cast Based on national income and the US stands out again as one of the greatest taxpayers, with almost 16%, like Germany. The United Kingdom is in third place with 11% and France occupies fourth place, with just over 10%. Of percentages to dollars. World Population Review has created A map in which the contribution of each country attached to NATO in 2023 is even more graphic, both in the percentage of GDP and in funds dedicated to investment in defense. The US stands out with 3.49% and 860,000 million of dollars, well above From the second country, Germany. As a picture is worth a thousand words, it is good to take a look at the graphic prepared in 2024 by Visual Capitalist to understand the weight of US investment in defense compared to the other 31 countries of the Alliance. The other approach. It matters what the United States contributes, but it also matters to what extent the rest of the countries attached to NATO contribute. Trump has already publicly demanded the rest of the nations that raise their contribution until reaching 5% of his GDP, even above what the US himself allocates. And he does not seem willing to change his strategy. “I told the countries ‘I will not protect them unless you pay,’ and they started paying. That amounted to more than 600,000 million dollars,” He presumed In December. The 5% barrier is well above the 2% that NATO itself has been marked, the latter percentage that probably not to … Read more

The second opportunity of the flight that exploded in the last attempt

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The highest rocket in the world will take off again after some Unexpected vibrations made it explode during the seventh launch. Starship’s eighth flight will be a repetition of the previous one to try everything Spacex left in the inkwell, and can be followed live. Date and time of launch. Like the two previous flights, the eighth Starship launch It is scheduled to take off from Texas in the afternoon. The objective is that the reentry of the ship takes place in the hours of dawn to capture with more light the sparkling maneuvers. The launch window opens at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 3; local time in Starbase, Texas. In other cities: Madrid, Spain (CET, UTC+1): Tuesday, March 4 at 00:30 Mexico City, Mexico (CST, UTC -6): Monday, March 3 at 5:30 p.m. Buenos Aires, Argentina (Art, UTC -3): Monday, March 3 at 8:30 p.m. Bogotá, Colombia (COT, UTC -5): Monday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. Lima, Peru (Pet, UTC -5): Monday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. Santiago, Chile (CLST, UTC -3): Monday, March 3 at 8:30 p.m. Caracas, Venezuela (Vet, UTC -4): Monday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. How to see it live. Spacex will broadcast live flight Through its website and his Official X Profile. The broadcast will begin 40 minutes before takeoff. On YouTube, the channels of Nasaspaceflight, Lab Padre and Everyday Astronaut They have also enabled live broadcasts with their own cameras since the surroundings of the launch platform. In Spanish it will broadcast it Space borderoverlooking Baghdad, on the other side of the border, in Mexico. They will also be narrating it in Spanish Mission control, Manuel Mazzanti and Spacexstorm. Two pending demonstrations. A “stronger harmonic resonance phenomenon” phenomenon caused a liquid oxygen escape in the flight 7 starship, which ended up disintegrating over the Atlantic Ocean, near the Turkish and Caicos Islands. As a repetition of the failed launch, Spacex hopes to complete a series of demonstrations that were left without doing in January: First load deployment: Once the scheduled speed and altitude have been reached, the Starship 34 will turn off its engines, open the gate of its load bay and display four “simulators” of Starlink satellites; wooden models that will be your first useful letter New re -obsolete in space: Spacex first demonstrated in the sixth flight the ability to readele a raptor engine in the emptiness of the space, today it will verify the behavior of the engine before the ninth flight, where it will be crucial to redeem the ship to extend it in a controlled way All eyes put in the reentry. More delicate will be the time of the atmospheric reentry. This could be the Starship’s last ametering before trying to catch the ship With the arms of the launch tower, as has already happened twice with the Super Heavy propeller. However, Spacex still does not have a definitive design for the thermal shield, so it will test different modifications on this flight. Areas of the ship without thermal tiles to measure how the heat fuselage endures the heat. Metal tiles of various kinds, even with active refrigeration, an addition that had been discarded Because of its complexity and is on the table again. New sensors, redesigned front alerons, improvements in propulsion subsystems and a more precise adjustment of the edges between tiles to avoid hot points complete the list of novelties of the ship. Starship 34 is the second ship of a new version that Spacex calls Starship Block 2and that more than 100 tons of load will be able to launch at orbit. In Xataka | Spacex already knows why the last starship exploded and wants to turn the page, so he will try to repeat the flight this Friday

The first commercial biological computer in the world

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The Mobile World Congress edition that is being held this week in Barcelona is full of smartphones, tablets and other devices with which users are familiar. However, too We are holding some surprises. The team that stars this article is possibly the most exotic device of this fair. It is, neither more nor less, than the first Biological computer commercially available, and has been developed by Cortical Labs, an Australian biotechnology company. Biological computing is a branch of computer science that studies, on the one hand, how we can use elements of a biological nature to process and store information. And, on the other hand, how we can inspire ourselves in the mechanisms of biological evolution to develop new algorithms that allow us to solve complex problems. If we stick to the hardware this discipline resorts to molecules derived from biological systems, such as proteins or DNA, to carry out calculations, store and recover the information. And if we enter the field of software, in particular in the artificial intelligence (AI), biological computing proposes to address some computer problems inspired by the strategy used by biology to solve some challenges. In any case, the CL1 computer, which is the biological machine that has put the team of Cortical Labs researchers ready, is framed in the biological computing branch that seeks to develop new hardware trained to process and store information. CL1 is a dream come true This sophisticated computer has been possible thanks to a large extent to the advances that have occurred in recent years in the field of Nanobiotechnology. The most precise definition of this discipline, and also the most accepted by scientists, describes it as the technology that allows us to accurately manipulate proteins to assemble more complex functional structures. The first biological computers for research had the ability to carry out calculations manipulating the RNA (ribonucleic acid) of a bacteria. In broad strokes what scientists have done so far to develop these machines was to take advantage that DNA molecules behave in the same way as a digital circuit to implement with them The same logical operations that conventional silicon processors carry out. This manipulation of DNA is possible, precisely, thanks to the advances experienced by nanobiotechnology in recent years. DNA manipulation is possible thanks to the advances experienced by nanobiotechnology in recent years Once the biological circuit was prepared, they introduced it into a coli Escherichia bacterium identical to those residing inside our stomach and intestine, and without which we could not carry out the correct digestion of food. The E. coli bacteria is simple and innocuous enough so that researchers can manipulate it effortlessly, and when manipulated DNA crosses the bacteria cell wall, the molecular machine of the cell itself translates it into a messenger RNA (MRNA). The interesting thing is that this RNM indicates to the ribosome of the cell what to do to synthesize a protein preferred by researchers. Ribosomes are the organelles or components of the cells that are responsible for the synthesis or manufacture of proteins. And now comes the most surprising: the RNM that tells the ribosome how to manufacture the protein It is only activated in the presence of a specific entryand when it does trigger the production of the protein, which is the exit. This behavior is exactly the same as a transistor. CL1, the biological computer of Cortical Labs, does not work exactly so, but the strategy in which we have just investigated is useful to understand how it works. And it does so thanks to the cultivation of real neurons in a nutrient -rich solution that allows them to grow healthy on a silicon chip that sends and receives electrical impulses. However, not everything is hardware in this machine. The person responsible for interacting directly with neurons is a biological intelligence operating system called ‘BIOS’ And it is that responsible for interacting directly with neurons is a biological intelligence operating system called ‘Bios’ (Biological Intelligence Operating System) that has been developed by Cortical Labs. This software sends information directly to neurons about its surroundings, and the latter react emitting electrical impulses. In any case, the most important thing is that CL1 neurons are programmable, and, therefore, it is possible to display code on them. However, this machine is not intended for a domestic use scenario. Its purpose is to be used by researchers to, for example, better understand how neurons process information without experimenting with animals. It can even help neuroscientific to understand how learning works in real time or the mechanisms that trigger some neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, props, the consumption of CL1 is much more restrained than that of a conventional computer. It sounds good, right? Image | Cortical Labs More information | Cortical Labs In Xataka | We already know at what speed our brain processes: just 10 bits per second

12 hours a day and five days a week in the office

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The co -founder of Google, Serguéi Brin, has made clear its position on the work culture that workers should adopt so that the company that founded does not lose the AI ​​development career: employees must work a minimum of 60 hours per week and forget about teleworking, as collected in an internal memorandum to which It has had access The New York Times. Brin Pisa the accelerator. According to what was published by the American newspaper, Serguéi Brin mentioned that Google’s current labor policy falls short for the expectations of development of AI. “I recommend being in the office at least every day of the week. 60 hours a week is the optimum productivity point,” Brin wrote to employees who work in the development of Gemini and others Google AI products. That leaves a working schedule 12 hours a day during the five days of the week, showing its preference for face -to -face From the office to do it. “Many people work less than 60 hours and a small amount makes the minimum to survive. This last group is not only unproductive, but can also be very demoralizing for everyone else,” Brin said in his statement to the template. Risk of being behind. The reason for this request from the founder of Google is that, in his opinion, “the competition has accelerated greatly and the final race towards the AGI (General Artificial Intelligence) It is underway. “I think we have all the ingredients to win this career, but we will have to intensify our efforts,” the founder wrote in his message to the template of AI. It is not the only company that has accelerated the step in the development of AI demanding more hours of work and greater commitment to its employees. Amazon did it a few months ago when he ordered the return to the offices of his employees from January 2025. More hours, it is no more productivity. If the experiments performed worldwide have served anything about the four -day work week It has been to demonstrate that extended days can increase Risks of exhaustion and errorswithout increasing productivity. However, Brin argues that, in critical stages of technical development, this rhythm allows exponential advances, although he acknowledges that working more hours is inefficient if better tools are not used. Specifically those that they have manufactured. “The most efficient programmers and scientists in the world are using our own AI,” Brin added. A strategic return. Serguéi Brin founded Google with Larry Page, but both managers They have yielded the reins of the company more than a decade ago. In 2023, after the presentation of Chatgpt, Brin returned to the front line with a more active role to reinforce the company’s leadership in the artificial intelligence career. Brin’s proposal goes in the line of hardening of the working day that Google has been applying since 2023. First a office policy For employees with teleworking, moving to a three -day hybrid model of face -to -face. Now, employees dedicated to the development of products with AI, see how their founder takes a twist more proposing that they spend 12 hours a day and five days a week in their offices. Some employees see Brin’s position Like a setback to the “World” culture of Google’s first years. In Xataka | The return to the office has had a devastating effect for the concentration of employees: not 30 minutes without distracted In Xataka | Google has updated its principles for AI, and the mention has disappeared not to develop weapons with this technology Image | Flickr (Ted Conference, Thomas Hawk)

Gas in record prices with reservations trembling

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We started the month of March and, in the southwest area of ​​Europe, The rains are going to be persistent This month. In a nutshell, the cold is not going to go so fast and we will have to face it with something fundamental in many homes: gas. However, lighting the stove will involve a challenge because gas reserves in Europe are on the verge of freezing. Crisis in Europe. The year began with Russia Cutting the gas supply To Europe, which was circulating through Ukraine. This has caused Europe to have to depend of the American LNGQatarí and Australian, as well as Turkstream Gas Pipeline. However, what really worries is the state of gas reserves, which are 35-40% of their capacity against The price increase and demand for increasingly cold climatic conditions. Reservations. The European Union has several times brought breast certifying that They did not have to depend more on Russia or what The reservations were enough. However, the data has something else to say: gas deposits in Europe They are 35-40% of their maximum capacitya much lower level than previous years that reached between 55-60% at the same time of the year. This situation has resulted from the sum of many factors, such as the loss of Russian supply, a especially cold winter and the lack of renewable generation by he Dunkelflaute. In addition, EU storage policies They have distorted the marketsince the imposed objectives force countries to buy gas at the same time, which raises prices and discouraging from Traders to accumulate reservations during the summer. The problems. After encounter between Zelensky and Trump On February 28, where I don’t know has reached any agreementinternational political tension remains latent. This episode leaves a key uncertainty in the air: if the relationship between the United States and Europe is affected, the American LNG dependence becomes an even greater risk. Europe has been increasingly trusting LNG imports, especially from the United States, as a key source to replace its gas reserves. If the US GNL supply is interrupted or conditioned by political or economic issues, the EU could face a serious gas scarcity. Start opening windows. As the saying says: “When a door closes …”, something like that should be considered in Europe because for next winter the reserves do not know if they will be able to complete, but it has much to offer in clean energy. First, repair the electrical infrastructure because with more than 40 years is time to change it. Then research and implementations in some countries of other alternative energies are paying off, such as The case of Spain and Portugal. Thirdly, start bet on geothermia In countries with colder or even Biomethane. Forecasts. Last night, in England, European leaders They congregated with Zelensky to demonstrate his support to the Ukrainian President and consolidate the unity around the crisis in Ukraine. However, this meeting underlines the fragility of the energy situation in Europe, since any alteration in international relations can translate into a supply problem. Given an increasingly uncertain scenario, the question is whether Europe will get ahead of problems or continue to depend on external factors to guarantee its energy safety. Next winter will be the definitive test: either the energy sources are diversified and the infrastructure is reinforced or the continent will be on the edge of the collapse again. Image | Pxhere Xataka | The US believes to have a “treasure” with the rare earths of Ukraine. Everything is born from a outdated Soviet report 50 years ago

On their way to mass implementation, Perovskita cells have taken another step: 10 times more resistant

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Perovskita’s solar cells are known for their lightness, managing to develop Ultrafin panels with different applications, such as The candle of a ship. However, the stability of this type of cell meant a challenge for its commercial viability. Now, a group of researchers has managed to extend the useful life of a Perovskita solar cell. Short. Scientists from the University of Surrey They have developed Perovskita solar cells that, by incorporating aluminum oxide nanoparticles, improve both durability and efficiency. Thanks to this finding, cells will be more resistant for large -scale application. The problem to be solved. Here you have to make an important comparison, because the solar cells of the study are of Perovskita that are more efficient and economical than those of silicon, so it has been one of the main objectives of the researchers for their commercial implementation. However, the main challenge was that cells They suffered iodine leakscausing the structure to react chemically reducing its performance. In addition, factors such as humidity, heat and oxygen accelerate this process. The investigation. Surrey’s team, together with the United Kingdom physics laboratory and Sheffield University, He has discovered that when integrating aluminum oxide nanoparticles (Al₂O₃) within the Perovskita layer, iodine can be trapped and prevent it from escaping. This simple but effective approach drastically improves the structural integrity of Perovskita’s solar cells, making them more resistant to weather conditions. The results. Solar cells containing nanoparticles maintained high performance for more than two months (1,530 hours), compared to just 160 hours of Standard Perovskita cells. In this way, the investigation has achieved an increase in the durability of ten times more. The incorporation of these nanoparticles has helped create a more uniform Perovskita structure, which has reduced the defects of the material such as moisture and has improved electrical conductivity. Iodine is not always bad. Unlike this study, iodine can be the result of a solution if the right approach is sought. A study group from the University of Beijing has achieved Integrate iodine into a Perovskita structure. In this approach it has stabilized the material and has avoided the degradation that has historically limited its durability. A great future. In 2009, Perovskita’s solar cells only converted 3% of solar energy into electricity, wasting the remaining 97%. However, Thanks to recent advancesits efficiency has exceeded 25%, increasingly bringing them closer to generalized commercial adoption. This progress highlights the great potential of technology, and with more studies, it is expected to continue increasing, approaching even higher figures and opening new opportunities for solar energy. Image | Pexels and University of Surrey Xataka | How a new study has achieved cheaper Perovskita solar panels and more efficiently by capturing light on both sides

There is a mobile with six months of autonomy and incorporated projector. Indeed, it is a mamotreto of almost a kilo

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There is something beautiful, in its own way, in the most beast phones. The sector is accustomed to the mobiles being more and more thin, beautiful, elegant, Premium and lightbut where are those brown beasts with projector, flashlights, with battery to endure several days? Because yes, these mobiles have their audience and see them in action, but above all, have them in hand, it is always spectacular. That is what happens with the Oukitel WP100 Titana mobile that to the question of how much weighs can only be answered with: yes. Oukitel WP100 Titan Technical Card Oukitel WP100 Titan dimensions and weight 178.3 x 84.3 x 35.6 mm 876.6 grams screen 6.8 inches FullHD+ resolution (2,460 x 1,080 pixels) Refresco rate: 120 Hz processor MEDATEK DIMENSITY 7300 RAM 16 GB Internal storage 512 GB rear camera Angular: 200 MP Macro Chamber: 2 MP Night vision: 20 MP Front camera 32 MP battery 33,000 mAh 66W fast charge Inverse loading of 18W Operating system Android 14 connectivity 5g NFC Bluetooth GPS others Lateral footprint reader Camping lamp Project SOS button PTT button Water resistance Resistance to extreme temperatures price $ 899 So heavy that has a handle Oukitel WP100 Titan | Image: Xataka Yes, it’s a mobile. The Oukitel WP100 Titan is a terminal financed in Kickstarter and developed by Oukitel, an old man known in this rugerized mobiles and out of the ordinary. The format must have convinced, because the company has managed to raise about 450,000 euros by users. Apart money, the striking thing about this device is that it is the first mobile in history to incorporate a 33,000 mAh battery. It is said soon. The size matters. Obviously, that has not been achieved to maximize thickness and weight, but rather the opposite. If we see it in front it seems nothing out of the ordinary. It is a mobile of 178 per 84 millimeters with a 6.8 -inch screen, quite standard. The thing is that if we put it as a song we will see that its thickness is 35.6 millimeters. And how much is that? The equivalent of 17 cords of one stacked euro. Oukitel WP100 Titan | Image: Xataka Another thing we will notice when holding it is your weight. Because in a world where more 200 grams are already noticed in hand, this terminal weighs the whopping of 876.6 grams. It is the same as holding five iPhone 16. This is a practically literal statement, millimeter and gram above, millimeter and gram below. That is why it has all the meaning of the world that the terminal has an handle in the left song. And what do you have? On the one hand, the battery. 33,000 mAh Dan for, according to Oukitel, 4,459 hours of autonomy in Standby. That is, the equivalent of (the throat is clarified) six months of autonomy. If that is not enough to justify its thickness, perhaps the fact that you have an camping light with 1,500 LEDs and 1,200 bright lumens. Or maybe the projector. Oukitel WP100 Titan | Image: Xataka Projector? Yes, at the top this device has a 100 lumens projector. It is not a high -end projector, much less. It has a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels, so it can use us to see a movie in certain contexts, such as when we go from camping, but little else. Well, a movie is not. According to Oukitel, up to six films with a single load. And if having a mobile with battery for six months and with a campsite light that in the promotional video they use to nail a tent on the floor, open a beer bottle (it seems to have a built -in opener), explore a cave and see a movie in the middle of the desert was not enough, we can always use it as an external battery. One with 18W of power, to be exact. It also seems valid as a throwing weapon. Oukitel WP100 Titan | Image: Xataka The rest of the components. The truth is that, on paper, the device does not look bad. Mounted a mediaTak Dimensity 7300 processor, 16 Gigas RAM, 512 GB of internal storage and a main camera of 200 megapixels. The operating system is Android 14 update a Android 15 And it has, of course, GPS, water resistance and extreme temperatures, night vision chamber and NFC. Taking out this mobile to pay for the purchase in the Super must be an experience. Versions and price of Oukitel WP100 Titan This device can be bought, for now, in Kickstarter in its Early Bird version for $ 599. The final price will be $ 899. The first units will begin to be sent in April 2025. Images | Xataka In Xataka | Ultra -resistant mobile purchase guide: certifications and standards, special functions and 11 roaring phones

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