All those touch screens in the Tesla and the rest of the cars sound very well. Euro NCAP thinks otherwise

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Euro NCAP has been notifying for about a year: cars that bet absolutely everything to the touch screens will have problems to obtain the coveted five stars of its qualification system. For some manufacturers Only the screens mattera Simply terrible decision that allows them to save costs by adding additional steps that could be made by pressing a simple button. The date on which Euro NCAP will begin to penalize this philosophy is closer, but we have bad news: it will not change practically anything. Euro Ncap pressures. We are more or less agree with the methodologies used by its system, Euro NCAP is the most relevant body in Europe to evaluate the safety of new vehicles. After performing its collision tests and various trials, it is evaluated by a system of stars (up to five) how sure is the car. The system takes into account adult protection systems, children, impact on pedestrians and security assists (ADAS) among others and, from 2026, an additional factor enters into the equation: how simple it is to perform basic car functions. Specifically, these five. Selection of flashes Button activation Warning Ring Activate the windshield wiper Activation of Ecall emergency button If it is not possible to activate each and every one of these functions quickly by means of a physical button, the car will not get the five stars. Why (almost) nothing will change. Virtually all current cars have physical controls for the actions described. One of the few that do not include manufacturers such as Tesla is that of Ecall emergency activation, which currently can only be activated using the upper bar of its touch screen. If the American company wants five stars in the cars that you sell in Europe, you will have to adopt this button in physical shape, or in the steering wheel or location they consider. It is a movement that may seem lower, but introducing a new button in a vehicle, or not in the steering wheel, it is important additional costs for the thousands of units that will have to be manufactured in 2026. Whatever it may be, in the face of the end user, everything will remain practically the same: beyond these mandatory standards, everything will continue to be governed by a screen. An important brake for industry. Although this new Euro NCAP standard will not be especially relevant, the organism’s pressures to the industry to keep the physical buttons are more than necessary. Volkswagen already had among his plans to end them to replace them with screenswith the consequent criticism of your buyers that made them consider backing. Other manufacturers, such as BMW, fantasize with systems starring screens and with hardly any presence of physical buttons. This Euro NCAP requirement will put a certain brake on your plans. And it is that European legislation itself does not expressly prevent cars from dispensing with physical buttons. The Vehicle Homologation Regulation (EU 2019/2144) It forces manufacturers to meet certain standards in terms of usability and ergonomics of controls to avoid distractions, but does not specify that these standards pass through physical buttons. The obsession with the screens. On car manufacturers absolutely obsessed with converting their vehicles into tablets with wheels, We have been talking for five years. Already in 2019, manufacturers like Mazda They jumped against reducing the number of screens to avoid distractions and accidents, while the rest advanced towards more and more complex interfaces. Since then, it is more difficult to find a car that is not full of screens than one with a cleaner and more analog interior. The cars They are increasingly expensive and The trend is that they will continue to rise. Interestingly, consumers are every time more unhappy with new purchases. One of the main reasons has to do with the software. The manufacturers have found in it A new way of earning moneybut the bulk of users does not want to go beyond compatibility with Android Auto and Apple Carplay. The road of the industry by 2026, date on which Euro NCAP will begin to penalize cars without tactile controls, aims to be similar to the current one. Many screens, a lot of software (with subscription options and other payment services), and little presence of physical controls. Image | Tesla In Xataka | What screen with Android Auto for your car buy. Purchase guide with better recommendations and tips

supporting Elon Musk’s version

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After nine months orbiting the land due to the Boeing Starliner spacecraft problemsAmerican astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are ready to return home in a ship operated by Spacex. It was at the end of August when NASA decided that both would remain at the International Space Station until the next rotation of crew members in early 2025, but that everything goes as planned has not prevented its return from being fogged by political controversies. The context. Wilmore and Williams were thrown into space in June 2024 as part of a test mission to standardize the Starliner ship, which Boeing and NASA They hoped to start using For regular astronaut transport to ISS, as Spacex does since 2020. The mission was going to last only 10 days, but the helium leaks and the failures in the propulsion of the Starliner forced to prolong the stay of the astronauts until NASA decided May the ship go empty and its crew will stay in the ISS waiting for the return of the Spacex CREW-9 mission. After nine months of experiments in microgravity and space walks to perform maintenance tasks, Wilmore and Williams have a return date: March 19; A few days after the crew members of the CREW-10 mission, whose launch It is scheduled for March 12get to the station. The controversy. The decision that NASA made at the time seemed purely technical: prioritizing the safety of its astronauts forcing Boeing to exorbit the Starliner without its occupants to, then, launch the CREW-9 mission with two empty seats for the return of the “stranded” astronauts in the ISS. However, there is another version of the facts. Elon Musk has been in charge of spreading That it was not a technical decision, but a political decision, taken by the government of Joe Biden before Donald Trump was invested president of the United States. Musk offered to send an additional Crew Dragon ship to bring astronauts as soon as possible, but the White House refused, according to the businessman. “For political reasons.” The controversy, fueled by the accusations of Musk and Trump himself in different interviews, intensified with a crossing of hostile statements between Musk and the European astronaut Andreas Mogensen, who publicly accused Musk of lying, which caused A particularly aggressive reaction of the founder of Spacex. He said: “You are a complete mental retardation.” The script rotation. Although Elon Musk’s statements were refuted by NASA, Butch Wilmore and his family have put another possibility on the table: that Musk is right. In a recent press conference from the ISS, The astronaut gave credibility to the Musk version stating that the businessman had been “absolutely factual.” Although he also clarified not to know the exact details of the decision process. He added more firewood his daughter Daryn in a Video uploaded to a social network in which he declared to be very frustrated with the situation: “There is a lot of politics, there are many things that I have no freedom to say and that I do not know fully. But there have been problems. There has been negligence. And that is why this has continued to delay. There has been one problem after another.” What does NASA say. NASA’s senior officials, such as Ken Bowersox and Steve Stich, reiterated that the extended stay of astronauts was motivated only for technical and operational reasonsrelated to the security and logistics of the International Space Station. Spacex offered alternatives to the official plan in 2024, admitted the officials, but were rejected not by political motivations, but by budgetary and technical considerations that prioritized the operational continuity of the ISS, they sentenced. As an end point, the NASA has published a summary Of all that Wilmore and Williams have done these nine months with their colleagues from the CREW-9 mission: more than 900 hours dedicated to key scientific research on biomanuffing, space agriculture, advanced exercise systems and studies on microorganisms in microgravity. Images | POT In Xataka | Jared Isaacman still does not direct NASA, but it is already seen as the last nail in the coffin of a space giant: Boeing

Manus is the new sensation of China after Deepseek. Is generating as many expectations as doubts

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Last week voices began to hear in the AI ​​segment. We theoretically had a new Deepseek phenomenon. It was Manusa theoretical AI agent who raised especially striking options. However, in social networks there have been doubts and suspicions about the real capacity of this model. The unknown about its real value is there. Manus is not an AI agent. Those responsible on its official website is “a general agent who connects ideas with actions: not only thinks, delivers results.” It is actually more a “deep research” mode – like the ‘Deep Research’ of OpenAi – about the data that we give. Thus, Manus is theoretically capable of creating you a detailed 7 -day travel plan by Japanhelp you perform a deep analysis of the Value of Tesla’s actionscreate for you a presentation for a class on the conservation law of the momentFor example. Expectations in style. One of the product managers in Hugging Face He described it as “the most impressive tool I have ever tried.” His Official Discord server He has attracted almost 170,000 users since his creation a week ago. The expectation is remarkable, but as they explain In TechCrunchthere are doubts about their true capacity. Manus is based on Claude and Qwen. There are users who They have already indicated that manus seems not to have been created from zero, and apparently it is Totally based in varied models such as Claude 3.7 and Qwen (Alibaba). One of his co -founders, Yichao “Peak” Yi, confirmed that are in effect based on other products and they are a layer that relies on these models. In the presentation video Yichao stressed that In some benchmarks Manus was superior to Deep Research already OperatorOpenai products. It is? Errors and inconsistencies. Some experts such as Alexander Doria, co -founder of the startup of the Pleias, have indicated that manus makes mistakes and infinite loops When using it. Others point out how Make mistakes With questions with clear answers and Do not cite sources consistently. Beta by invitation. For now it is not possible to access manus options, and it is only possible to use it if any other user invites you. In TechCrunch they have managed to have access, and the tests performed, explained the editor who tested it, “have not been especially positive.” None of the agerentic tasks that he tested – seek table in a restaurant, take out plane tickets – worked. In The Register they have also had access and Nothing have been impressed with the results. “They tried to create a Mario clone that turned out to be quite terribleFor example. Other users who have tried or They praise it or They believe that despite its lights and shadows is a special promising product. At the moment this is not a Deepseek. The truth is that the rapid popularity of Manus contrasts with that of Deepseek, which was available from the first moment as an Open Source development that anyone could download and use. The company may want to take advantage of that expectation generated by betas with invitation access and prefer to avoid greater infrastructure expenses. In Xataka | China has a plan to achieve scientific supremacy in full struggle with the US to lead in AI

a “revolution” beyond design

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Apple prepares to introduce one of the biggest changes in its software ecosystem, According to Mark Gurman. The Bloomberg analyst points to a deep renewal of the company’s operating systems, with the intention of adapting to a new generation of users. If the information is successful, we could be facing a key evolution in its strategy. A “revolutionary interface”. The sources point out that the deepest renewal will focus on the interface. Apple will bet on a new design of icons, menus, applications and buttons, with the aim of simplifying navigation and control of devices. The proposal will take some inspiration in the aesthetics of the system of the Vision Pro. The objective is to achieve greater visual coherence among the different operating systems of the company. It is not a new approach: we have already seen attempts in this direction, such as the renewal of the System Settings menu, which adopted a design closer to that of iOS and Ipados. However, the transition has not been the pleasure of all, and there are still many elements that are far from maintaining uniformity. More than design settings. Although renewal will focus on the visual section, it will not be just an aesthetic change. New functions and characteristics are likely to also arrive. In the past, Apple has introduced interactive widgetsimprovements in privacy, a password management applicationthe function IPhone duplication and Apple Intelligence. These last two, yes, are not yet available in Spain outside the beta versions. iOS 6 (left), iOS 7 (right) And what about Apple Intelligence? Everything indicates that Apple Intelligence will follow its own path, although not without obstacles. Its initial launch was scheduled for September 2024 with iOS 18but did not arrive until October with iOS 18.1. The plan was to continue its deployment with an improved version of Siri in 2025, capable of understanding the context and executing actions on behalf of the user. However, it has recently been known that this advance will not reach 2026. Radical changes, not a fusion. Gurman clarifies that the company has no intention of merging its operating systems. iOS, iPados and Macos will continue to be independent platforms, maintaining their own characteristics. This differentiation, in addition to responding to functional needs, also reinforces its commercial strategy, promoting the purchase of several devices instead of depending on one. The changes are on their way. These novelties, according to the sources, will be part of iOS 19 and iPados 19, whose code name is “Luck”, and macos 16, Internally known as “Cheer”, which will be launched at the end of this year. However, these updates are expected to be one of the key points of the WWDC25, the Annual Apple developer conference. We have not seen such a change for years. If you have been in Apple’s ecosystem for some time, you may remember the jump from iOS 6 to iOS 7. That redesign left Skeuomorphism behind – Icon and elements that imitated real objects – to adopt a more modern approach, with flat colors, transparencies and stylized typography. Since then, the company has refined this aesthetic gradually in each version of the operating system. In the case of macOS, another turning point arrived in 2020 with Big Sur. The icons adopted square shapes, closer to iOS, although with an exclusive design for Mac. It was a key step in the visual unification of the brand’s ecosystem. Images | Apple In Xataka | Apple has choked artificial intelligence. And the continuous delays of the new Siri are the best example

The greatest enemy of Perovskita’s solar panels is heat. Some researchers have found a solution: titanium

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The commercial viability of Perovskita solar panels is getting closer, thanks to the different solutions over time. However, there is still a big problem to solve to be able to install them, but a team of engineers has managed to solve using titanium. Short. Researchers from the Technological Institute of Georgia in the United States They have achieved That Perovskita’s solar cells are more stable and support high temperatures. The solution was to incorporate titanium into one of the layers. The problem. The incorporation of Perovskita panels to the market has been a challenge because they do not last long when they are exposed to high temperatures. The reason is in one of its internal layers, known as the hollow transport layer (HTL), which allows the movement of electricity within it. This layer, usually made of a material called spiro-feet, begins to crystallize and lose efficiency when the temperature exceeds 70ºC. The solution. The technique used In research is steam phase infiltration (VPI). In this process, the solar cell is exposed to a titanium gas in a low vacuum environment. This allows titanium oxide/hydroxide (Tiox) to integrate into the HTL layer of the solar cell. In this way, titanium acts as a thermal stabilizer, preventing it from crystallizing and ensuring that panel efficiency is not degraded by heat. As a result, solar cells have preserved more than 80% of their original efficiency after 200 hours of 75ºC tests. An alternative to silicon. The study of the study to continue working the Perovskita panels and not those of silicon has been for several reasons. On the one hand, a cost of costs and energy consumption because silicon cells are much more expensive than those of Perovskita. On the other hand, the study has been conducted with financing from the Office of Solar Energy Technologies of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the United States Energy Department, so alternatives have been sought for do not depend on Chinain a context of Tariff war. More solutions for Perovskitas. The American study is not the only one who is looking for alternatives in this line. An investigation in the United Kingdom has managed to go one step further developing a method that makes solar cells more resistant to external factors such as humidity, heat and physical wear. Forecasts Until now the technology developed by the American engineers group is in patent. Commercial implementation will be pending if researchers manage to find partners and the future of Solar energy in the United States. Image | Georgia Tech Xataka | How a new study has achieved cheaper Perovskita solar panels and more efficiently by capturing light on both sides

SMR reactors are the great promise of nuclear energy. The United States pilot project has failed

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Fission energy based on small modular reactors (SMR) is the great promise to complement renewables in the energy transition. But the failure of the first pilot project in the United States has highlighted the economic challenges that could stop its development. The advantages of SMR. With nuclear fusion energy in diapers, the promise of a safer, cheap and efficient fission nuclear excites political leaders and technological equally. SMRs have clear benefits regarding conventional fission reactors: they are Compact unitsdesigned to be manufactured in series; Therefore, in theory, they can be transported and assembled rapidly, adapting to different locations to integrate into the electricity grid together with intermittent sources, such as solar panels and wind turbines. The Nuscale case. With their compact size and modular design, SMRs should considerably reduce the cost and construction times of large nuclear reactors. However, reality proved to be more complicated For the first pilot project in the United States. The Nuscale project, developed by the Nuscale Power company for small Utah communities, was canceled at the end of 2023, when it was supposed to be inaugurated, due to its crazy cost overruns. It had been projected in 2015 with 12 reactors capable of generating 600 MW of power for 3,000 million dollars. By 2023, The planned capacity of the plant had been reduced to 462 MW and the estimated project costs had climbed up to 9.3 billion dollars. He became unfeasible. A scale problem. Despite their modular nature and the aspiration to produce them in series, SMRs are an emerging technology that does not have the advantages of the scale economy, as renewables do. A German report He revealed that SMRs remain the most expensive option against renewable technologies, whose costs continue to decrease This already happened with conventional nuclear energy. A 2014 study He revealed that 180 nuclear projects analyzed, 175 had exceeded their initial budget with an average overrun of 117%. The SMR can be expected, at least initially, also raise the cost per megavatio compared to other more settled options. Many interested. Despite these financial challenges,The industry sees potential in SMR. Giants like Google, Microsoft and Amazon They have announced agreements to acquire energy from future projects of modular reactors of companies such as Kairos Power and X-Energy. These investments, driven by the energy consumption of artificial intelligence, could provide the financial impulse that the industry needs to solve long -term economic problems, with the expectation that costs decrease as more projects are built. Image | Nuscale Power In Xataka | Europe does not want to lose the SMR nuclear reactors train. This is your formula to deploy them in 2030

He did not create either of the two companies that made him a millionaire

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Elon Musk, al Like Jeff Bezos And many other millionaires have tried to create the image of a genius that made himself starting from scratch, romantizing an image of the Garage Founding Myth even Apple has been able to sustain In time. Around Elon Musk They have raised many myths and legends that, although they start from a certain base, have exaggerated or omitted parts to contribute to epic to their career. However, time, which puts everything in place, has been in charge of denying. To name a few, there is the myth of the emerald mines in Zambia of his father, the Tesla Foundation or the unknown about whether Tesla itself or Space X would have survived if not for some of the government programs that now He is dismantling Doge. Elon Musk’s beginnings Elon Musk grew up in a wealthy family in South Africa. His father, Errol Musk, was a hustler with a career full of ups and downs. However, as his father declared in an interviewdid not own The emerald minesbut her shareholder, so she received a certain amount of precious stones for some years in the 80s. Anyway, Errol Musk describes During the interviewThat Elon Musk’s childhood and his brothers was full of luxuries. Among them that included the plane (which he sold to buy his participation in the Esmeraldas mine) or, as Walter Isaacson said in Elon Musk’s biography, “(…) swam in abundance. He had a Rolls-Royce Corniche Dorado convertible.” While it is true that during the Musk brothers student stage, Errol Musk was very far from being a millionaire and did not always provide them with enough money, he supported Elon and Kimbal Musk when they started their first venture, selling some of the Erroldas Musk emeralds in Tiffany’s of New York. In 1995, when the Musk brothers founded their Zip2 Business Board of Directors, their father financed them with $ 28,000 and His mother, Maye Musk, He contributed 10,000 more. Elon Musk denied this information In an interview For Rolling Stone, although he reduced the tone in his biography ‘Elon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and The Quest for a fantastic future’ From Ashlee Vance ensuring that his father had participated in 10% of the company’s initial investment, making it clear that his family gave him a great initial economic impulse. More ambition than management After the initial family capital, Zip2 opened the door to new investors, including Greg Kouri, who soon realized that Elon Musk did not have enough experience to take the reins and degraded him to technology director, while Rich Sorkin took command. According to writer Ashlee Vance, the initial code of ZIP2, written mainly by Musk, contained many errors and the engineers who hired They had to rewrite it almost completely. Despite those deficiencies, Elon Musk did not hesitate to download their anger on them shouting in front of everyone who had to “fix their stupid shit code,” Isaacson said in Musk’s biography. In 1999, ZIP2 sold to Compaq by 307 million dollarswhich made Musk brothers a millionaires. They were the origin of the first 22 million dollars that Elon Musk won. After the sale of ZIP2, Musk co -founded the platform of Banking online x.comwhich later merged with his main rival: Confinity of Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, to form Paypal. Although Musk often presents himself as Paypal’s visionary co -founder, the truth is that PayPal’s original technology came from Confinity, not X.com, which contributed the user base. Musk was the CEO of the new company during the first six months, but he was fired by replacing him with Peter Thiel in September 2000, taking advantage of a Musk trip to Australia. One of the reasons were the constant tensions with Max Levchin for Musk’s trend to risky technological changes, such as replacing all PayPal UNIX infrastructure with Microsoft Windows. Ironically, “Musk admired Bill Gates, he loved Windows NT and thought Microsoft was a more reliable partner,” Isaacson wrote in Musk’s biography. That admiration It would not last for many years further. Although, as a shareholder, Musk earned a lot of money when Ebay bought Paypal, he was no longer in command of the company. In any case, his fortune had increased in 180 million dollars more for the agreement of 1.5 billion dollars with eBay. Tesla: Take control and rewrite the story Many people believe that Elon Musk is one of the founders of Tesla and in part it is because the founders of Tesla allowed it. Actually, Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by two engineers, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenninglong before Musk got involved. Musk joined Tesla in 2004, when the company was still not clear what they were going to manufacture. Musk used his money to accelerate the project becoming the main investor. He appointed himself president of the Board of Directors, despite being just an investor, as the co -founders counted In an interview for CNBC. Over time, Musk took more control of the company and fired the original founders. In 2007, Musk fired Martin Eberhard and held the CEO position he still holds in 2008. Eberhard sued Musk, accusing him of taking control of the company, orchestrating his dismissal and trying to rewrite the history of Tesla in his efforts to appear in the company’s documents as a founder, when the company already existed when he invested in it. Finally, Eberhard saw forced to give in and sign an agreement in which Musk was allowed present yourself as “co -founder” next to the true founders. His great achievement was to appropriate a promising company founded by others, and then take advantage of his visionary image of the electric car. This does not mean that Musk has contributed to the success of the brand, but contradicts the idea that he founded Tesla from scratch. Public money to the rescue of Tesla and Spacex In addition to private investments, Elon Musk has benefited from billions of public money to build your empire. Tesla’s case is … Read more

A 19 -year -old hacked the iPhone, was hired by Apple and ended up fired for not answering an email

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The iPhone has been among us for almost 17 years. During all this time, the phone has changed a lot, but some things have remained practically intact since its launch. One of them is the closed ecosystem to which Apple products belong. Anti-Jailbreak. The Cupertino company has struggled to maintain a strong control over what can be done on the iPhone. But even in the first generation of the device there were those who rejected this mechanic and offered users an alternative: the Jailbreak. Jailbreak was nothing other than a method that was used of certain vulnerabilities of the device to remove the restrictions that Apple had imposed. Thus, those who resorted to this method accessed unpaid functions in exchange for putting their safety at risk. The road from Allegra. From advanced adjustments to the possibility of installing third -party applications without going through the App Store (store that was not available at the beginning and arrived in 2008 with OS 2). One of the hackers that had developed his own jailbreak was Nicholas Allegra. The 18 -year -old known on the network as “Comex” launched the first jailbreak publicly available for the iPhone 4 In 2010. To achieve this, he found a way to exploit vulnerability in a Safari library, so his method worked directly from the browser. Advanceing. Comex continued to cultivate his ability to break Apple’s telephone security and the following year launched Jailbreakme 3.0, which reached several iOS devices, including iPad 2. At this point, the community believed that Allegra was “years ahead” of other iOS hackers. And hired. But in 2011, his reality changed radically. The young man He went from creating Jailbreakme to be part of Applethe company that had challenged, as “remote fellow.” It is not clear what the dynamic between the multinational and the young man was, but that link did not take too long to dissolve. The farewell. After almost a year in Apple, in 2012 Allegra He announced on Twitter that was no longer part of Apple. In another message he explained that he had reached that situation because he had “forgotten to answer an email.” The mail in question was an offer to continue hired. The internship had a duration of one year and, apparently, Apple asked Comex by email to confirm if it would continue in the company for one more year. Not receiving an answer, the firm left the iphone hacker contract without effect, so it ceased to be a fellow. Images | Unspash In Xataka | Banks spent years criticizing cryptocurrencies. The BBVA will soon allow to operate with Bitcoin and ETH from its app In Xataka | Japan’s demographic crisis is leaving him without workers. Your solution: thousands of robots with a cat’s face *An earlier version of this article was published in January 2024

The United States has been sunk in an extreme increase in eggs. Spain now faces the same problem

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No, they are not your impressions. Prepare an tortilla is more expensive today than only a few months ago. After experimenting A price increase Between August and December 2024 in the EU set, egg cards have risen again in recent days clearlyas noted The Observatory FACUA PRICE OR THE SERVICES OF Toledo and Bellpuig. Behind that trend there are a number of key factors and especially a great question: what can we expect from now on? More expensive eggs? The data of the observatory FACUA PRICE AND THE SERVICES OF Toledo either Bellpuig They show it clearly: after The climb Price scored already during the second half of 2024, the eggs have become more expensive. The percentage It can vary of one chain to anotherbut at the beginning of March the consumer organization registered increases in the price of the eggs of up to 25%. Meanwhile, the Catalan Lonja or the Toledo also scored price increases that have become 8 or 14 centsdepending on the type of product. What is the reason? Better talk about reasons, in the plural. The first key is the demand itself. The sector has registered an increase that already goes back to 2024with one 8% risefar superior to that noted by meat or refrigerated. It is not strange. During the Inflationist scenarios Consumers look for cheaper options, such as eggs, a protein source economic. With that backdrop the farms have also had to deal with a series of factors that affect their costs: The end of bonuses in the electricity bill and an increase in labour and the grain In recent years. The sector has warned of impact that will have the regulation that aims to eliminate the cages. Are the only factors? No. The analysis On egg prices usually point out another key: the ghost of the avian flu that hits especially to the USplunged into what has already been baptized as “ovoflation”marked by scarcity and record prices. In January the Average price From a dozen category to category, it was about $ 4.95, well above of what is charged in Spain. In recent weeks the seven euros. Here the Ministry of Agriculture and Food declared early year the high risk of aviar flu and activated An order that applied preventive measures in the most exposed areas. At that time, the EU Official Gazette warned that Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, Poland and Portugal had notified outbreaks. Where does the demand come from? In its last analysis of the market the Toledo Business Federation (Fedeto) a determining factor to understand the drift of prices in Spain: demand, both the national and the arrival of outside our borders. “Egg consumption remains high in homes and in industry”, Precise The collective, which appreciates a general climb in the contributions of all sizes, especially L and M. “Export is maintained to European center countries, where diminished production does not serve to meet the needs of demand,” duck. According to the Spanish Association of Egg Producers (ASEPRHU), at least in recent years Between 15 and 20% From the table eggs of Spain they have ended up exporting. Their main destinations: France, Portugal and the Netherlands. And the United States? In full “ovoflation” The US is looking for different ways of satisfying its demand and lowering prices, which happens in part, according to I recently advanced The New York Timesto bring them from abroad. A few weeks ago the newspaper said that the US is already probing several countries to ensure the short -term supply, although without specifying which. The largest source of eggs imported to the country is its neighbor Canadafollowed by Netherlands and United Kingdom. Recently the CNN chain pointed out, however, that one of the country’s great support is now being Türkiye, which plans to export 420 million From eggs to the US this year, a record mark. And what about Spain? The flow of eggs between the US and the EU is usually scarce and in fact, EFE clarifiesthe US authorities allow only the entry of European egg in the shell for transformation into ovoproduct, not for direct consumption. In the specific case of Spain, exports to the US barely pass the 100 tons per year, which represents only 0.1% of the export volume of Spain, more focused on the European Union. With all the newspaper Last minute I pointed A few days ago, Spanish products are preparing to send eggs to the US after verifying that the US has “shown interest” in their product. Moreover, he assures that in an internal circular Federovo claims to be making efforts to process export certificates. In 2015, in a similar situation, the US resorted to the EU, although the sector ensures that the scenario is different today, with a solid domestic market. Images | Alex Barth (Flickr) and Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine (Flickr) In Xataka | Eggs are so expensive in the United States that there are people opting for a desperate solution: rent chickens

Spain will see four eclipses in four years

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On March 29 we can enjoy, in much of the northern hemisphere, of a partial solar eclipse. However, this eclipse will have special meaning in Spain as it will be the snack of a unique phenomenon: four solar eclipses in four yearsall with something in common, and they can be seen from the peninsula. The March eclipse, appetizer. He March 29 The first of a series of four eclipses that we can enjoy in the coming years. This will be the only one whose center does not pass through the Peninsula. The area of ​​greatest intensity of the eclipse will be given in eastern Canada. In a part of the country more than 90% of the solar disk will be covered. In Spain, According to where we locate ourselvesthe concealment will range between 32.6% (on the west coast of Galicia) and 8.7% (in the east of the island of Menorca). In Europe, the places that will be darkest by the eclipse will be Iceland and the Azores. The eclipse will pass mainly in the morning. The first community where it can be seen will be that of the Canary Islands, around 9:10 in the morning (10:10, CET peninsular time). In Vigo and Huelva will begin to be seen at 10:40 CET. From there he will obscure the heavens of the Peninsula. The latest areas to recover the usual clarity will be north of Cantabria and the Basque Country, around 12:41 CET. 2026 and 2027: two total eclipses. The main dishes of this astronomical menu will arrive in 2026 and 2027. The eclipse of the August 12, 2026 It can be partially seen in almost all of Europe and in northern North America, but Spain will be one of the few places through which the maximum concealment path will pass. This path It will start from the Arctic and will go through Greenland and East Iceland before reaching the Iberian Peninsula by Asturias. The sun will be completely hidden in a substantial part of the country, until ending in the Mediterranean. Double. In 2027, on August 2, it awaits us Another total eclipse. This, instead of “moving” through the Northwest to West Peninsula, will move from southwest to Southeast. Although the eclipse will be partially visible throughout Europe, only in southern Andalusia will be visible as a total eclipse. The total concealment path will begin in Atlantic waters, will pass between Madeira and Las Azores until reaching the Strait of Gibraltar. It will continue its way through North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula and Arphric Horn. Finally, the eclipse will fade with dawn on the Indian. Dessert: an annular eclipse. The culmination of this series of solar eclipses will put an annular eclipse. In these eclipses the maximum concealment zone is not totally in the shadow since the lunar disc area is less than the area of ​​the solar disc. This leaves a “fire ring” around the moon that gives name to the type of eclipse. He January 26, 2028part of Latin America and Spain can see this phenomenon, the rest will have to settle for a partial eclipse, except in the Southern Cone, where the eclipse will not be visible. In the case of Spain, the annular eclipse will be seen as such in the south and west of the Peninsula and in the Balearic Islands. The eclipse will arrive along the Huelva coast and leave the country through the northwest, also reaching the Mediterranean archipelago. In Xataka | An entire continent in gloom: the best images of the eclipse taken from space Image | Geronimo Giqueaux

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