An iphone cheaper than ever, the Xiaomi 14T at a demolition price and a curious accessory for the Fire TV Stick. Hunting bargains

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Like every Friday, today a new hunting gangs arrives loaded with the best offers we have been able to see during the week (and that are still available). We have a lot to choose from: Bluetooth mobiles and headphones to computers and a curious accessory for the FIRE TV SICK. Xiaomi 14t by 429.99 eurosa mobile that with the offer has a very good value for money. iPhone 16 by 879 eurosthe mobile of the current generation had never been so cheap. MSI Cyborg 15 by 999 eurosa gaming laptop with a very good configuration. Mission cables by 24.99 eurosa curious accessory for the Fire TV Stick. Soundcore Life Q30 by 52.99 eurosone of the Bluetooth headphones with better quality market for market. Xiaomi 14t There are few offers we have seen in the Xiaomi 14tsometimes they arrived next to other devices and many others with quite large discounts. This time, PCComponentes has it a fairly low wreck, of more than 200 euros. Can be found by 429.99 euros and stands out mainly for your screen 6.67 inches AMOLED with 1.5K resolution, for their cameras signed by Leica, for its construction and by the collaboration with Gemini. * Some price may have changed from the last review iPhone 16 In these last months we have also seen enough offers on the different iPhone – both of the last one as of the previous generations. Today the iPhone 16Ebut if we look for something more complete on Amazon we have the iPhone 16 reduced by 879 euros. Apple’s mobile stands out both for its compact screen format 6.1 -inch Old Super Retina XDR as for its Apple A18 chip and for being compatible with Apple Intelligence (although it is not yet available in Spain). * Some price may have changed from the last review MSI Cyborg 15 Having a good configuration on a computer, especially if it is portable, can be very expensive, but occasionally the stores release very good offers on gaming laptops. This is the case of MSI Cyborg 15 that now has pccomponentes by 999 euros. Mount a Raptor Lake I7-13620H processor from Intel, has 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD, its graphics card is a RTX 4060 And it comes without operating system. Not bad for what it costs. * Some price may have changed from the last review Mission cables There is an accessory for the Fire TV Sick that is quite useful, especially if we do not have too many power shots. This is the accessory of Mission cables that we have in Amazon by 24.99 euros. But … how does it work? Basically It connects both to the Fire TV stick (microusb) and the TV (USB) so that the latter can feed the Amazon device. In this way, it will not be necessary that we have connected the Fire TV Stick by cable to an electrical outlet. Mission cables – Current USB cable for Amazon Fire TV * Some price may have changed from the last review Soundcore Life Q30 If we talk about headphones with an excellent value for money, we must undoubtedly mention the Soundcore Life Q30at least when it goes down price. Now they are in Amazon by 52.99 euros and for a few years they have become very popular headphones; partly for their price, but also because they are comfortable, very light, they offer Active hybrid noise cancellation And they have a battery that offers an autonomy of up to 50 hours. For this price few alternatives we will find so complete. * 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 | Xiaomi, Apple, MSI, Mission Cables, Anker In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which to buy and 19 models from 20 euros to 450 euros

I have run for weeks with a Zonense Suunto. It is a spectacular advance for both Marathonians and those who just want to lose weight

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In recent weeks I have run a few times with a Suunto Race On my wrist next to a pectoral heart rate. Was necessary to try Zonense, the novelty presented a few months ago by Suunto. I wanted to understand her well and try her for myself. The truth is that it is an inventazo. What exactly Zonese is? Zonese is Suunto’s new technology to measure our intensity during exercise. The usual thing is to count pulsations per minute, but Zonese analyzes the Heard rate variability (VFC) To determine, in real time, how our body is responding to effort. The VFC is the variation in time between each heartbeat. Not all beats have exactly the same temporal separation, and these small variations contain valuable information on how our autonomic nervous system is working. High variability usually indicates a good state of recovery, while a low variability indicates fatigue or stress. The interesting thing is that This VFC changes during the exercise very specificly according to the intensity with which we work. And it is just this relationship that Zonese takes advantage of an algorithm called DDFA (Analysis of dynamic fluctuations without a trend) to determine in which metabolic area we are training. And that serves to optimize anyone’s training. Either an expert athlete who wants to increase his performance, or either a person who simply wants to go for a walk to lose weight and wants to do it in the optimal way. Three areas that change everything The training areas, or heart rate, are five, although according to whom you ask (including sports watches manufacturers) can give you six or seven. Zonense simplifies training only three colors: Image: Xataka. Green (aerobic zone). When your body is working mainly with oxygen and fats as fuel. It is the ideal zone for long training, recovery or fat burning. Your body could be kept here for hours. Do you want to go for a walk to lose weight? This is your area. Do not stay below or above. Yellow (anaerobic). Your body begins to use more glycogen and begins to produce lactate, although it can still process it. It is the “threshold” area, where performance improvements are important, but you can’t stay here for too long. Red (Vo2max). You are above your anaerobic threshold, your body produces lactate faster than you can eliminate. It is where the greatest adaptations of power and speed are achieved, but you can only maintain this effort during short time spaces. He Vo2max It is the maximum amount of oxygen that your body can process during intense exercise, is what measures our aerobic capacity. Why Zonese needs a heart rate A key aspect of Zonese is that it requires a heart rate. The optical wrist sensor that incorporates the watches is not enough, and there is a scientific reason for it. Optical sensors They measure the pulses by calculating changes in blood flow by lightbut They cannot accurately detect the exact intervals between beats nor the small variations necessary for the VFC analysis during the movement. Chest bands, however, directly detect the electrical impulses of the heart (such as an ECG), providing the necessary precision for this advanced analysis. In my tests I have used the Suunto Smart Sensor. It would be much better not to have to use it and limit us to the clock, but if these bands maintain their popularity it is for something: they are more reliable, precise and complete. My experience The first time I went to run with Zonense, I planned a 10 km training at a soft rhythm. Normally, based on my heart rate, I would run at about 5:30 min/km to keep my “aerobic zone”. However, after the initial 10 minutes that Zonese needs to calibrate (establishing your metabolic baseline of the day), the clock showed me that it was in yellow (anaerobic), despite the fact that my heart rate was just 145 ppm, which would traditionally consider as my area 2-3. It turns out that last night (several, in fact) he had slept badly and also came from three consecutive days of intense training. My body was telling me, through Zonesethat although the pulsations were not extremely high, it was metabolically working harder than traditional numbers suggested. I reduced the rhythm at 5:47 min/km and, indeed, I returned to the green zone. The training was much more pleasant and, surprisingly, the next day I felt quite recovered, something that would probably have happened if I had maintained my “normal” rhythm. On another occasion, after a week of rest, Zonese allowed me to maintain a faster rate (5:15 min/km) remaining in the green zone. My body was cooler and could work at greater intensity without entering anaerobic areas. Image: Xataka. This type of Personalized and dynamic adjustment is what makes Zonense so valuable. They are not just numbers on a screen, it is real information on how your body is responding to exercise at that precise moment. Another striking example: the shoes. With which I used for filming I marked VO2Max from 4:47 min/km, while when I went to flying I had to go down to 4:19 min/km to enter that area. Not only for elite athletes One of the biggest surprises has been to verify the usefulness of Zonese for people who are barely starting to play sports or simply go for a walk. It is common for a beginner to feel overwhelmed at the explanations of cardiac areas and to remove calculations from its theoretical maximum frequency. For this type of users, Zonese says something much simpler: “Stay in green”. With that simple instruction, the user will walk at a pace that maximizes fat burning without entering areas of greater intensity where the body begins to use glycogen. And it will avoid going too slow. And best of all: being real -time and calibrated information after ten minutes of activity, that user may be in the green or yellow zone depending on the day even if … Read more

The silent sunset of the Solo-Voz interface

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Amazon has presented Alexa+its new version of the wizard driven by generative AI models. Between advanced customization promises and agricultural capacities, the presentation allowed to read between the lines somewhat deeper: the silent failure of one of the most important strategic bets of the company. And not just Amazon. Ten years ago, Alexa was born as a flag bearer without screens. Echo was conceived as a black cylinder without visual interfaces, a device that predicted the democratization of environmental computing. “The voice is the most natural interface,” Amazon executives repeated while strategically positioning themselves to master this new paradigm. It was an early, almost prophetic vision: we would interact with technology simply speaking, freeing ourselves from screens and keyboards. A future that seemed as inevitable as Smartphone himself a decade before. We shared it: in this same company We launched some Skills For Alexa Because we understood that they were the future. And then the screens arrived. First timidly with Echo Show, as a concession to those who had not understood the vision. Then, multiplying in formats and sizes. Wednesday’s presentation was revealing: All Alexa+ demonstrations were made on devices with touch screen. The most impressive interactions, those that justified the “plus”, depended primarily on visual elements. The great commitment to the voice interface failed to stay pure even in the house of its greatest defender. Apple arrived somewhat late to the car of the smart speakers. He did it with a homepod that happened with more sorrow than glory, a Homepod Mini which has been without updating and – continuously to the usual in Apple – has always attracted more for its price than for its quality. He recovered Homepod with A minimum update And since then he has not talked about him again. Amazon is not alone here. The fascinating thing is not the change of strategy – the companies constantly pivot – but Silence around this conceptual failure. No one at Amazon explained that the initial commitment to voice interfaces has been swept under the carpet. Alexa+ It will work on speakers without screen, but Amazon said it with a small mouth, without showing a single demo in them. They are secondary. Instead, we witnessed undercover rehabilitation, a silent turn where the screens went from being a complement to becoming the center of the experience. It is the tacit admission that its great initial bet – a revolution comparable to that of the iPhone for Apple – did not materialize as expected. The interface was not quick enough, precise or satisfactory for everyday needs. Neither the airpods, nor GPT Voicenor have they ever managed to turn the voice into the predominant interface. This strategic reposition is Alexa +’s unlocked story. While Amazon speaks of agricultural and customization, he is really building a bridge to a different paradigm than they initially imagined. The renewal of its application and its web interface are not mere accessories, but emergency floats in the face of the partial sinking of its original vision. There is some irony in which Amazon, a pioneer to leave the screens, now competes for recovering ground on the same visual battlefield that I used to consider obsolete before. The screens are still unbeatable. In Xataka | Alexa+, first impressions: the explosion of AI feels great to the Amazon assistant. But there are also many unknowns Outstanding image | Brandon Romonchuk in Unspash

Unitree is one of the Chinese technological jewels. He wants to do with robots the same thing Xiaomi did with mobiles

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In advanced robotics are Boston Dynamics or Tesla who monopolizes the headlines, but a Chinese company is following an alternative path to end up being The next big one of the robotic sector: Unitree. Founded in 2016 in Hangzhou, on the East China coast, it follows a strategy that reminds a lot of that of Xiaomi in its beginnings: Try to offer the best possible technology at demolition prices. Thus Xiaomi conquered countries like Spain and thus tries to make a hole in world robotics. Of course, the prices of this type of robots have nothing to do with those of a Redmi. Value proposal The price difference is large. One of Boston Dynamics’s most famous robots, Spot, costs about $ 75,000. The unitree Go2, relatively similar, It is sold for 1,600 in its cheapest mode. This strategy has allowed him to dominate the square robot market, where he already has a 40% market share according to the Gaogong Institute. The most important thing is not so much the price and what it implies: A paradigm shift in the way of selling advanced robotics. Other manufacturers focus their robots as premium products for companies or for armies. Unitree understands them as massive technology. Or almost. After quadruped robots, the big challenge is in the bipeds. The humanoids. And there Unitree has his G1 modelwhich sells for $ 16,000. A lot of money, but quite less than what is expected that costs the Tesla optimus. Image: Unitree. Its specifications: Height of 1.32 meters (approximately a nine -year -old child). Weight of 35 kilos. Race speed of 2 meters per second (7.2 kilometers per hour, equivalent to a very slow trot). Lidar 3D. Intel Realsense depth chamber (only this component is already worth $ 1,300 in the free market). Advanced voice control. Beyond specifications, G1 is an example of the Pragmatic Approach of Unitree: it does not seek spectacular demos of its humanoid robotics, but the ability to produce them in mass. It is no accident that Unitree has left Hanghzou. From there they have come out Many other technological ones And it is in fact the headquarters of Alibaba. It is the place where Capital, talent and manufacturing converge. Hangzhou is one of the vertices of what we could call the Chinese technological trianglenext to Shenzhen and Shanghai. And within Hanghzou, Unitree is one of the calls “Six small dragons“: The six startups that are emerging in AI and Robotics. Of course, another of the Dragoncitos is Deepseek. To understand Unitree’s strategic importance: it was One of the 18 companies chosen by Xi Jinping For the technological symposium of a few days ago with Deepseek, Huawei, Byd, Tencent, Xiaomi, Catl … a sign of power and faith. The founder’s enigma The founder of Unitree is Wang Xingxingsomeone who breaks several stereotypes: He studied at the University of Science and Technology of Zhejiang, a respectable but not first level institution. Many founders of their generation did study in elite centers or abroad. He was never a brilliant student … Not much less. Xingxing itself admitted that He could not enter the University of Zhejiang (more prestigious) for not having enough English level. After spending a couple of months in DJIthe giant of the droneshe was encouraged to launch his own company. And he said In an interviewthe beginnings were hard: “During the first three years there were times when we couldn’t even pay salaries.” Again, a modest beginning that contrasts with the usual pattern of high -profile Chinese startups, which usually start with large rounds of financing and management equipment from large technological ones. This is the case of Xpeng, Child either Bytedance. Wang, on the other hand, started practically from scratch, sleeping for a month on a friend’s couch. His vision was also atypically modest for a Chinese technological founder. Instead of distilling excessive ambition with a certain grandiloquence, he set a simple objective: to get anyone to have a robot at home. At the moment he is not going wrong with that idea. The challenges to grow Despite its good tour to this day, it remains a lot to solve for the future. Starting with autonomy. Their humanoid robots have for about two hours of useinsufficient for prolonged use. And the guarantee is Only eight monthssomething that can deter more than one buyer from products several thousand dollars. How to offer adequate technical service when something goes to a client from anywhere in the world is another unknown. And of course, it remains to be seen if these robots can do real domestic tasks, completely, without requiring human help or auction, in such different environments as the home of each consumer. Very different to do so in a demo in a controlled environment. Million’s question is If Unitree’s business model will be sustainable in the long term. Prices remain low thanks to vertical integration and their physical closeness with the Chinese supply chain, but advanced robotics in 2025 is an insatiable investment plaintiff in R&D. And do it with tight margins complicates the equation. Future unknowns on the margin, Unitree represents well to A new generation of Chinese technology: Those that compete around the world with tight prices and a very pragmatic approach, more focused on assuming tedious tasks than in making us crack our eyebrows with magic tricks. Now, its success – or its failure – can end up determining whether advanced robotics ends up becoming a technology for the masses … or if you stay in a premium niche product. At the moment, Unitree has shown that there is a certain market for advanced robotics when it is offered at mundane prices. Now you will have to show that you can keep the accelerator pedal tread. Outstanding image | UNITREE, Xataka In Xataka | Goal points beyond generative AI: its new great bet is advanced humanoid robots, according to Bloomberg

Participate and win two tickets for the AI2030, the great event on artificial intelligence in the company

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If you have no plans for March 19 and you are passionate about technology in general and artificial intelligence in particular, this interests you: from Xataka We draw two packs of two entries each To attend the day of March 19 of the event face -to -face AI2030, of which we are Mediapartners. How to participate: Filling this form What is raffled: Two packs of two tickets each (there will be two winners) to attend the AI2030 in the talk day (March 19) Deadline to participate: From today until March 5 The deadline to participate will end next Wednesday, March 5. On Thursday, March 6, the winners will receive an email informing them that they have won and must confirm their assistance within 48 hours. If they do not confirm the assistance within this period, the tickets will be distributed to the substitutes also chosen at random. For more details about the procedure you can consult the Bases of the contest. Artificial Intelligence + Company = AI2030 The AI2030 event will be a different event. It will not be an event to talk about Hypeof generalist things … but something very practical and oriented to the real uses of artificial intelligence in different sectors. On March 19 there will be different presentations with this approach (Here you can consult the agenda And here all the speakers) with the occasional … surprise. And so far we can read. I will only tell you that our partner Angela Blanco It has something very cool prepared. And, after this, that same day there will be a small space for the Networking. Our raffle guarantees the two face -to -face entries to the winners, but if you do not want to worry, you can still try their luck and request assistance. And if you run out of face -to -face entrance or if you are not in Madrid but you want to attend, there will be streaming and you can follow everything from home. In both modalities, You can request it from here. In the event that you have a startup, there are little squares but you can still request participating in the Hackaton on March 20. To do this, you just have to press the “Join As startup” button in the upper right of the web. Already either in one format or another, we encourage you all to sign up. Much AI, many practical uses and many top people. Don’t miss it! Link | AI2030

Nvidia has beat its income record again. Paradoxically, Wall Street does not seem to import much

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The Fever continues to spur Nvidia in the stock market. The company led by Huang has presented again record results for your fourth fiscal quarter. And it has been making the rupture of records into a while. Why is it important. This comes shortly after concerns about Deepseek’s impact and its efficiency in the market that dominates Nvidia. About the idea that less hardware and less power was necessary to continue advancing in AI. Which caused the huge hole in Nvidia bag. The most prominent point of the results was the Awesome Blackwell startthe new chips architecture for Nvidia. Colette Kress, financial director of the company, explained that Blackwell generated 11,000 million dollars in income, exceeding all expectations and becoming “the fastest product launch in the history of our company.” In figures. The data centers business, where technology is concentrated for AI, remains the main growth engine with 35.6 billion revenue in the quarter, 16% more than in the previous quarter and 93% more than in the same period of the previous year For the full fiscal year, this segment reached 115.2 billion, more than double the previous year. The total revenue of the quarter reached 39.3 billion, 12% more than in the previous quarter and 78% higher intelligible. Between the lines. Nvidia is changing her strategy to deal with competition. Jensen Huang emphasized The call with investors that are designing specific platforms for “reasoning AI”, a type of AI that requires up to 100 times more computing capacity than the “traditional” generative AI, which reinforces their most powerful need for hardware even against more efficient models. Reasoning models such as O3 of OpenAi, Deepseek R1 and Grok 3 They require much more intensive processing. Blackwell offers 25 times more yield for these models compared to the previous generation. Infrastructure demand for AI is promoting initial orders of Clusters of 100,000 Gpus or more. And now what? Nvidia has already announced that he will present Blackwell’s successor, called Blackwell Ultra, in the second half of this year, maintaining his annual rhythm. Jensen Huang has confirmed that this transition will be simpler than Hopper’s Blackwellsince it will use the same system architecture. The contrast. Despite the impressive results, Nvidia’s shares barely reacted in the market after the presentationa behavior very different from that seen in previous quarters. The reason: investors perhaps see with caution the reduction in gross margins (from 75% to 73%) and the lowest percentage growth compared to previous quarters, although it remains extraordinary for a company that has established itself as the second most valuable in the world. The big question. Will Nvidia be able to maintain your technological and financial domain against increasingly intense competition and that also threat from China? It seems inevitable that, although Nvidia’s position will remain strong, a certain decrease in demand in favor of new competitors comes. And above all, as the huge investments made by companies in AI do not have a clear and lucrative return, something that seems quite feasible. Maybe it is time to readjust expectations. Outstanding image | Nvidia In Xataka | I have used Claude 3.7 for hours. It is the closest to a human brain that I have felt with an AI

First it was a cut underwater cable. 24 hours later Taiwan has found a China Army in front of the island

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24 hours after the Taiwan authorities have stopped a ship manned by Chinese citizens under the suspicion of having cut a new cable Communications submarine, the island has encountered a surprising scene in front of its coasts: China has deployed an army and initiated real fire exercises. The tension intensifies. As explained by the island’s government, China carried out “shooting training” exercises In the waters near the southwest coast of Taiwan, in a maneuver that Taipei has described as “provocative and dangerous.” The exercises seem to be framed in a series of Chinese military maneuvers that, at least in the last three years, have included large -scale war drills. The Taiwanese Ministry of Defense reported that, shortly before 9 am, detected 32 Chinese military planes performing a joint exercise of preparation for combat along with 14 warships in the Taiwan Strait. The operation was carried out without prior notice and in an area Only 74 kilometers from the coastwhich represents a violation of international standards and a danger to navigation security and commercial flights in the region. Taiwan’s response. The Taiwanese government He condemned the maneuvers and displayed his own strength to monitor the situation. The cities of Kaohsiung and Pingtung, located in southwest Taiwan, host important naval and aerial bases, in addition to the largest port on the island, a key node in international maritime trade. According to Taipei, the recent Chinese military activity, including the one carried out in front of the coast of Australiashow that China is the biggest threat for the stability of the Taiwan Strait and the Indo-Pacific region. For its part, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs avoided making direct comments on Taiwan’s complaints and just affirmed that the maneuvers were part of a scheduled shooting training. China reinforces its reunification speech. While the Chinese armed forces carried out these exercises, Wang Huning, the fourth leader in the hierarchy of the Communist Party, reiterated the official Beijing position on The “reunification” with Taiwan. During a meeting on issues related to the island, Wang stressed The need for China “Maintain the initiative and control over relations through the Taiwan Strait” and “advance without hesitation in the cause of the reunification of the homeland.” What did the neighbor say? Taiwan’s government responded by rejecting Beijing’s sovereignty statements and reaffirmed that only the Taiwanese people You can decide your future. To all this we must remember that President Lai Ching-Te, whom China considers a “separatist”, has reiterated his commitment to the defense of Taiwanese democracy. A day after cable cut. It We count yesterday. Frictions between Taiwan and China have not limited themselves to the military field. 24 hours before Chinese “simulation”, both parties exchanged accusations in relation to the Damage to an underwater cable of communications off the southwest coast of Taiwan. The Taiwanese authorities arrested a freighter with Chinese crew, the Hong Tai 58, registered in Togo, on suspicion of being involved in the incident. China, meanwhile, accused Taiwan of Manipulate the situation and launch accusations without conclusive evidence. Not just that. Taiwan has revealed in the last hours that the Hong Tai 58 was already part of A list of 52 boats Linked to China that the island’s security agencies consider a potential threat to telecommunications infrastructure. Looking back, it is the fifth case around failures/cuts/Sabotage of submarine cables registered in the region so far this year. So much so, that the Taiwan government has established a parallel with similar incidents occurred in the Baltic Sea After the Russian invasion of Ukraine. What seems clear is that the situation in the area, far from appeasing, has climbed the confrontation in a few days. China continues reinforcing its military presence In the region, while Taiwan and its allies, particularly the United States, observe with concern the increase in these maneuvers and the hardening of the forced reunification discourse. The combination of military pressure, sabotage of critical infrastructure and that growing belligerent rhetoric by Beijing points to an intimidation and wear strategy, one that raises the risk of an open conflict in the Taiwan Strait. Image | Naval Surface In Xataka | Taiwan lives an unprecedented situation in three decades: there is an army of 53 planes and 90 Chinese ships in front of the island In Xataka | Taiwan has just stopped a ship after cutting an underwater cable. The problem is that there are only Chinese citizens inside

What is Amazon’s new intelligent assistant, how it works and what is its price and availability

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Let’s explain What is Alexa+ worksthe new version of Amazon’s virtual wizard with artificial intelligence that The company has announced. It is not a simple competitor in the career of the AI ​​chatbots, but Amazon takes him to his field to offer much more. We are going to start explaining what Alexa+ (or Alexa Plus) is, what he can do and its main characteristics. And then we will tell you how it works internally, to end up talking about its price and availability. What is Alexa+ Alexa+ is a new version of the Alexa virtual wizard. The idea is to add it Artificial Intelligence Capabilities to the Assistant Alexaso it is not simply to launch a new alternative to Chatgpt, but rather to evolve the company’s assistant. Although Alexa+ will be able to answer any questions as you ask the other artificial intelligence models, their main objective is another. It is an agricultural, and His goal is to do things for you. Come on, it is still an assistant as Alexa has always been, but now much more capable of understanding what you want and performing more complex operations. This new artificial intelligence heart allows Alexa to be much more conversational. Will recognize your natural language Instead of having to use voice commands, and will also answer you in a clearer and more natural way. It is multimodal, which means that you will understand different types of orders by voice or text. But of course, Alexa is still You can interact with the home automation of your home. It is smarter, conversational, personalized and capable of doing things and completing tasks. You explain what you want, and Alexa will be able to interact with the household devices connected better by understanding your instructions. Alexa may use the devices and applications you have connected and activated to perform the tasks you ask for. You can even perform actions such as booking table in a restaurant or sending a message to your children’s kangaroo, adding these events to your calendar. But come on, the most important thing is that you know that Alexa+ is not just an alternative to chatgpt To which you will be able to ask anything, but it is the way in which Amazon uses artificial intelligence to make the existing Alexa smarter and capable. It is still a virtual assistant to perform tasks, but now with more possibilities. How Alexa+ works The new Amazon virtual assistant uses technology Amazon Bedrockwhat this does is allow him access different large language models either Llm. Among the languages ​​they resort are are the company’s own, such as Amazon Novabut also third -party models such as Claude from Anthropic among others. Amazon qualifies Alexa+ as an agnostic in terms of AI model. This means that it will not always use the same, but that will use the most useful at all times Depending on the idea we have asked to complete. Come on, first analyze what you have asked for, and then resort to the model that best suits your request effectively. In addition to this, Amazon has also associated with several media organizations for Be able to access current and truthful information and use it to answer your questions. Among the media chosen are names such as The Washington Post, Condé Nast, AP, Business Insider, Reuters, Sfgate, Pcgamer or Autoblog, among others. But as we have said, the objective is to be an agthic and be able to interact with other services to perform tasks. With this objective, Amazon has reached agreements with services and ecosystems such as Sonos, Samsung, Grubhub, Ubereats, Openable, Dyson, Vizio, Ted, Plex, Xbox or Ticketmaster, for example. This way, If you ask Alexa+ to take you tickets For a specific concert, you will be able to connect to Ticketmaster, look for that concert, look for tickets and buy them. And so with many other things. And so, also to reserve tables, buy meals, or make interactions with other services and devices. Alexa is also still, so He will continue to manage the home automation of your home. But of course, it is not the same to have to remember concrete commands for the wizard to turn on the lights to be able to ask for it with a natural language, or give it more details of what you want to get. Price and availability Alexa+ will have a price of $ 19.99 per monthand will be compatible with practically all Alexa devices that Amazon has commercialized so far. Come on, if you have a device that Alexa uses, you can subscribe to its upper version. In addition to this, Alexa+ It will be free for Amazon Prime subscribersso it will join the catalog of services that the company is offering within this unified subscription. Regarding availability, Alexa+ will initially arrive in the United States During March 2025, and It can only be used in English. It is logical to think that it will end up arriving in Europe and Spain, but the company has not yet announced dates. And taking into account the price of the service, it would not be surprising that prime upload price when doing so. In Xataka Basics | 14 Alexa’s secret commands to find games and fun hidden ways

Problems between US and Taiwan governments begin. And the chips industry is at the center of everything

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The government led by Donald Trump is determined to do everything necessary for the US to recover leadership in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. At the moment In Asia they are manufactured 90% of memory chips, 75% of microprocessors and 80% of silicon wafers. However, the most outstanding country in this continent in this sector is Taiwan, with a production of 90% of high integration chips and 41% of microprocessors. The US administration is already taking the necessary measures to promote US companies to buy integrated circuits manufactured in the US. The tariffs you are approving They largely pursue this objective, and, despite the alignment in the geopolitical field that support the US and Taiwan, the manufacturers of Taiwanese chips are not at all safe from the tariffs. In fact, Donald Trump made a statement at the end of January which he exposes his intentions with total: “In the very close future we will impose tariffs on foreign production of computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceutical products to return the manufacture of these essential goods to the US (…) went to Taiwan; now we want them to return. We do not want to give them billions of dollars in the ridiculous driver program. They already have billions of dollars. incentive will be that they do not want to pay a tax of 25, 50, or even 100%”, The current US president declared. The Taiwan government is putting limits to TSMC The express mention to Taiwan that the US president has made is a very clear allusion to TSMC. On this Asian island there are other semiconductor manufacturers, such as UMC, but its relevance in the chip market is much lower than that of the company currently leading CC Wei. TSMC dominates the integrated circuit market with A quota of approximately 60%so your leadership in the chip manufacturing industry is indisputable. Anyway, the step forward that the US administration is not going to take TSMC by surprise. This company has been outlining its strategy for more than four years to extend its semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure Beyond Taiwan’s borders. And he is doing it for two reasons. On the one hand it is an effective way to protect your business if at any time it is triggered A war conflict between China and Taiwanand their plants on the island were useless. TSMC is preparing an offer to control the integrated circuit manufacturing plants of Intel But, in addition, TSMC is significantly developing its infrastructure in the US. His plan is that their new Arizona factories not only serve to protect their business from a possible conflict between China and Taiwan; They also protect it from US tariffs. This is not all. Although there has not yet an official confirmation of this information, according to The Wall Street Journal TSMC is preparing an offer to Control manufacturing plants Intel integrated circuits. It prosper or not, at the current situation this strategic decision makes sense. And it has it because it would allow TSMC to definitely consolidate its semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure in the US, as well as be present in countries where it now does not have production plants. However, The Taiwan government does not see this possibility with good eyes. Its economy depends deeply on its chip industry in general, and TSMC in particular, so the US ambition to recover its leadership in this sector directly enters into conflict directly with Taiwan’s survival as it is currently. Kuo Jyh-Huei, Taiwan Economy Minister, has warned TSMC in a resounding way: “No one can shake the foundations of the Taiwan semiconductor industry. We must have confidence in TSMC, and the government will fully support the ‘sacred mountain’ that protects the country (…) so that TSMC expands its global presence and establishes a joint company in any location, definitely needs the government’s permission.” It is evident that the possibility that TSMC acquires such a solid production infrastructure outside Taiwan is detrimental to weight That has this island in the sector that feeds it. Right now we cannot assume that TSMC will control Intel plants, but we can be safe: 2025 will be a very exciting year in regard to the development of the integrated circuit industry. More information | Reuters In Xataka | What’s behind the chips megafabrica that TSMC and Samsung plan to build in Arab Emirates

More than 100 liters/m2 in a couple of days

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After a few days of peace and tranquility, the situation is complicated by the southwest. At the moment, an isolated cold storm It is heating engines And it will cause Aemet to start activating notices for rains in Cádiz, Malaga, Melilla and the rest of the east/southeast. In a matter of hours. What is an isolated cold storm? A BFA is, in reality, something very similar to a conventional Dana. It’s about An isolated mass of natural circulationbut what differently differentiates it is that they have a more direct reflection on the surface. It is basically as if they lived (superimposed) an isolated mass at high levels and a storm at low levels. That shows, above all, in surface winds. And what will happen? That the atmosphere (which had been very quiet for days in most of the Peninsula) will destabilize rapidly. The effects of Borrasca They will feel in almost the entire peninsula with a generalized decrease in temperatures; But the worst part is going to take Cádiz, part of Huelva, Malaga and, to a lesser extent, the rest of the southeast. The interesting thing about this BFA, like Sergio Escaama Sanchez explained in meteoredwe are going to see a kind of funnel, which is called “Obluid Front.” This type of phenomena arises when a warm mass is trapped between two cold fronts. But beyond the technical explanation, the result of all this is a greater virulence. A few days come. Only tomorrow and in a very short time space, accumulated around 20 liters per square meter on the coast of Huelva, Cádiz and Malaga. In the next few days, the entire penibetic massif The impact of storms will be carried out: According to the accumulated, 60 l/m2 could be exceeded. In 12 hours. From there, the rains are going to expand throughout the peninsular territory as an oil stain. Special attention to the winds and the snow level (which can give some surprise in Sierra Nevada) will have to be paid. In total, up to 100 liters per square meter are expected that will come well while the drought Start showing teeth. Bonus Track: Sunday can follow the party. In these circumstances, the uncertainties are great, but with the current outputs available it would not be uncommon for Sunday to arrive with water load. Although, as I say, it is still early to ensure it (and to know if this water respite will make a difference). Image | WXCHARTS

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