A new material with the help of Ruthenium wants to change the rules of green hydrogen

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Renewables have postulated as the Future of Energyboth particular and in entire countries. They are also the present, with examples such as Sorpasso in countries like Spain and others like Uruguay pulling practically only renewables for months. Within those renewables, the development of methods to produce green hydrogen more efficiently is key. And a team of South Korean researchers They believe Having found the key to approaching that new era of green hydrogen: a new material that promises to revolutionize energy production. Colors. Hydrogen is extremely abundant in the universe, but it has a problem: finding it without being combined with other elements is very difficult. It is an element that has a great ease to combine and, to use it as a source of energy, it is necessary to separate it from those other elements. There are several ways to do itbut if we use renewables as an energy source, we can achieve what is known as ‘green hydrogen’. Catalysts. By means of the electrolysis technique, water hydrogen is separated. For hydrogen to be “green” it is necessary that, in that process, we use solar, wind or hydroelectric energy as a source of energy. Also an element that works as a catalyst, elements that accelerate the necessary chemical reactions to separate the hydrogen from the element to which it is linked. The better the catalyst, the faster the reaction occurs, making the process more efficient in time and resources. The problem is that they are usually expensive due to the presence of precious metals, which makes them little accessible and also have a high environmental impact because these metals are extracted from mining, some as part of Rare earth. No precious metals. That is why there are researchers experiencing with catalysts based on transition metals, non -metallic materials (such as graphene) and others that combine elements such as ruthenium, silicon and tungsten. Precisely, Ruthenium is the main ingredient of the new catalyst they are developing in the Group of Metrology of Emerging Materials of the Institute for Research and Science Science of Korea (or Kriss). The team had a catalyst with a molybdenum dioxide structure with nickel-molybdenum . They were clear that they had to investigate the Moo₂-Ni₄mo route as a catalyst, but not in their current state. Example of the electrolysis process to separate oxygen hydrogen Ruthenium shield. That’s when they decided to take the eye on Ruthenium. They introduced a small amount of this element into the structure of Moo₂-Ni₄mo and realized that, with river nanpoarticles of a size below the three nanometers, a thin layer was formed on the surface of the catalysts. Impact. This works as a shield that prevents degradation, improving durability. How much? According to its evaluations, the new catalyst presents a durability four times greater and is capable of lasting six times more in activity if compared to other existing commercial materials. All this without using rare or precious metals in the process. In addition, they combined the new catalyst with a photovoltaic system that uses Sovskita-Silicio solar cellsachieving conversion efficiency of 22.8% of solar to hydrogen. It is a promising result because it shows that this new catalyst is not only resistant and accessible, but efficient. Pocket. The problem of green hydrogen is that, although it is a fundamental element in our Way to Discarbonizationhis first appraisal has not been too encouraging. In December last year the first Iberian index of the price of renewable hydrogen was launched. Baptized as mibgas, The starting price was € 148.36/MWh. To compare, that of natural gas was about € 45.83/MWh. It was not something encouraging, but something completely normal due to the current production cost of hydrogen. Not only to talk about the infrastructure (with the entire system not only of electrolysis, but also of solar panels to feed the process), as well as the cost of the catalysts. That is why, cheaper catalysts that maintain high efficiency pave the way to the extraction of green hydrogen at a more restrained price. Looking at the sea. From the KRISS they are confident with their achievements because that new catalyst has not only marked with a green point the sections of price, efficiency and durability, but is exceeding expectations. Sun Hwa Park is the team’s principal researcher and has commented that these catalysts are also demonstrating high stability in saline water. “Currently, green hydrogen production requires purified water, but the use of real seawater could substantially reduce the costs associated with desalination. We plan to continue our research in this area. ” It will be the next challenge of a team that is not alone in this, since there are other teams and universities that have been proposed Exactly the same: use new transition compounds and metals to reduce precious metal dependence on catalysts. Now, everything indicates that it is something that will take time to establish and, without going any further, there we have the price of solar energy and how much it has dropped When technology has been popular. Images | Kriss, IberdrolaDepartment of Energy and Wood Mackenzie In Xataka | A Japanese study is being able to transform methane into a clean energy source: turquorogen turquorogen

“Doing nothing” is a great technique to improve your productivity. Neuroscience is clear

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A priori, staring at the infinity without doing anything can collide frontally with the concept of productivity. However, according to science, You are opening a new space in your brain in which to settle knowledge or combine abstract elements that become creative ideas. Against all prognosis, it seems that those small vacations that we give to the brain in the form of dreaming awake – what is commonly known as being embossed – allows to activate parts of the brain involved in the generation of ideas and learning new concepts. Therefore, it is advisable to allow, from time to time, Look at the screen and disconnect from the world Not doing anything. Conscious rest but without connection. Technically known as a quiet state of vigil, or popularly as dreaming of awake or being embobey, it is a relaxed state of environmental awareness that helps the mind to process complex thoughts while it is awake and at rest. Would be the equivalent of putting the Airplane mode on your mobilesince the mind is aware, but somehow the environment disappears and takes prominence more abstract and creative thoughts. Easier. Some people have a special ease to achieve that mental state, but others get it by performing simple and repetitive tasks such as scrubbing dishes, cleaning the car or laying the casting. Many great ideas arrive while you showers or while cooking. Bill Gates has assured In one of his rounds of questions with Reddit users who one of his favorite activities to enter that state of mental relaxation is to scrub the dishes. Science supports it. Do nothing potency memory. The science has triedthat stress harms long -term memory recovery, so a remedy to stop that loss is to make it The brain takes a respite From time to time. A study published in Nature He has reviewed the neuronal mice activity while they dream awake, revealing the activation of different neuronal patterns and activating the hippocampus, the area responsible for memory and learning. These findings indicate the importance of incorporating this disconnection time for the brain to consolidate knowledge and assimilate new data. By anecdotal that seems, it seems that this phase of “doing nothing” contributes to being Much more efficient and productive when you return to activity. Let crazy ideas flow. When he was barely 16, the Nobel Prize Albert Einstein had the inspiration to develop his theory of relativity that would forever change the concepts of modern physics. Although development was the result of years of work, Inspiration came to him while dreaming awake. The evidence. A study published in 2022 It indicates that the mental state that reaches the brain when it enters this state of conscious reverie is similar to the one it adopts during creative processes, so it is not surprising that the result is the generation of new and creative ideas as a result of the combination of the combination of Abstract elements and knowledge that we have learned. In that state, the brain becomes a drawer of cognitive sand for ideas and has fun playing with them and giving new approaches in a subconscious way. The scenario is similar to the one that occurs During the first phases of sleepwith the advantage that, when you wake up from that conscious “trance”, you will remember the idea and you can develop or discard it, something that is not always achieved with ideas during sleep, which are forgotten when you wake up. I’m not empanado, I’m solving problems. Another benefits of achieving a mental state of conscious reverie demonstrated by science is problem solving. Studies relate The increase in creativity in this state with the increase in the ability to solve problems. Researchers have discovered that people who take time to dream awake before facing the resolution of a problem demonstrate greater capacity and do so more creatively. To the Perform magnetic resonancesFrom their brains, they have found that several regions of their brains were very active, including the executive network related to the resolution of complicated problems. In Xataka | There is a way to stop procrastination and increase your productivity: the five second rule In Xataka | Science has denied the morning mantra of productivity gurus: cold shower is as useless as early morning Image | Pexels (Sora Shimazaki) *An earlier version of this article was published in January 2024

In 1938 Franco commissioned an experiment with prisoners in a monastery of Burgos. Thus began the search for the “communist” gene

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In the list of darker experiments that once launched in Spain there is one that continues to remain in the top positions. It happened at the end of the 1930s inside an architecture that today is historical heritage, A abbey trapped on the outskirts of Burgos. The basis for carrying out the study started from a premise as simple as Martian: The communist, is born or done? In search of the “red” gene. Between 1938 and 1939, In full Spanish Civil Warthe Franco regime undertook one of the most sinister experiments in its history. Under the direction of Psychiatrist Antonio Vallejo-NájeraHead of the psychiatric services of Franco’s army, a study that sought to find a biological predisposition to Marxism, what he called the Marxist fanaticism biopsiquism. The purpose of this research was to demonstrate that communism and democratic ideologies were not the result of a conscious choice, but rather of A hereditary biopsychic tara, a mental inferiority that could be identified. Context: The regime psychiatrist. Vallejo-Nájera (1889-1960) was One of the most influential figures of Franco’s psychiatry. With training in Germany, where he came into contact with Nazi psychiatry, he developed a racial and genetic theory applied to the Spanish context, arguing that Marxism was the result of mental inferiority and that it should be eradicated from the root. In 1938, Franco assigned him the direction of the Psychiatric Services of the Francoist Armywhat allowed him to lead A pseudoscientific program based on eugenics, xenophobic psychology and coercive psychiatry. San Pedro de Cardeña became its experimentation laboratory, where international republican prisoners and brigades were subjected to evidence in order to “decipher” the communist psyche. Facade of the monastery The excuse. The study, financed and approved by Franco, It was developed for ten months, analyzing those prisoners of war through psychological testsanthropomorphic measurements and behavioral evaluations. Your conclusionspublished in the Spanish magazine of Medicine and War Surgery, would serve as justification for one of the most brutal policies of Franco: the systematic separation of the children of Republicans of their families to avoid their “ideological contagion”, the segregation of prisoners and The consolidation of a dictatorship that relied on scientific manipulation to eradicate dissent. The “study.” The epicenter of the investigation, as we said before, was the then concentration camp of San Pedro de Cardeñaan old monastery in Burgos that was converted into a detention center for Republican prisoners and International Brigades Members. The Vallejo-Nájera study divided prisoners into five large groupseach analyzed with preconceived hypothesis about their “biological degeneration.” Namely: International Brigadistas: It was sought to contrast their characteristics with those of Spanish prisoners to identify differences in the “origin of Marxism.” Spanish Republican prisoners: considered key to finding the “red gene.” Republican dams: it was claimed that their political participation responded to uncontrolled sexual impulses. Catalan prisoners: analyzed as “doubly dangerous” for their “Marxist fanaticism” and “antispañolism”. Basque prisoners: considered an “anomalous” group, as they were Catholics, but “contaminated by the revolutionary element.” Plus: the analysis included cranial measurements, facial studies and personality tests, all with the intention of finding common physical and psychological features between The Marxists. The results were not only biased, obvious, but served as an ideological basis for justifying the persecution and extermination of Republicans. Pseudoscientific conclusions. After months of “research”, Vallejo-Nájera He published his conclusions in the Spanish Magazine of Medicine and War Surgery. Among its most aberrant and extreme postulates, there were assertions such as Marxism is linked to mental inferiority. According to the psychiatrist, the communists were mostly “antisocial psychopaths” and His segregation from childhood would prevent society from “suffering its plague”. He also stressed that Democracies promote resentment. In his vision, democratic regimes allowed the “social failed” to triumph through public policies, in contrast to authoritarian regimes, which favored the most suitable. I also thought that Marxism was a racial phenomenon. Influenced by Nazi ideology, man proposed the need for “racial purification” to eradicate the elements considered “dangerous” to Spain. For all this, he indicated that The militarization of society was the only solution. In other words, he defended a model in which military discipline had to permeate all institutions, from school to the theater, to guarantee the “superiority of the Spanish race.” The role of women. Another of the darkest aspects of his study was the characterization of republican women as An “irrational” and “dangerous” being. According to Vallejo-Nájera Women participated in politics only for uncontrolled sexual impulsesand Marxism in women was a consequence of their “weak mental balance”, which made them more prone to cruelty. In fact and as we said, I thought that religion was the only one that could act as a brake to avoid its moral “corruption.” These ideas were also used as a justification to restrict women’s participation in public life and to establish a model of a woman submissive to the service of the homeland. The theft of children: applying the study. We indicate it at the beginning. One of the most abominable legacies of Vallejo-Nájera’s theories was The implementation of a forced separation system of the children of Republicans. His theory suggested that Children from Marxist families had to be separated from their parents to avoid its “ideological contamination.” What happened? That The reasoning resulted in the systematic theft of babiesa practice that continued even after Franco. In fact, it is estimated that thousands of children were taken from their families and delivered to institutions or families related to the regime, in what is considered one of the greatest crimes of Franco. Gestapo and Nazism. The San Pedro de Cardeña experiment was not carried out in isolation, but It was attended by members of the Gestapo and German scientists who conducted tests in Republican prisoners. This collaboration reflected the ideological and methodological links between Franco and Nazism, especially in the use of psychiatry as a tool of political repression. (Re) discovering the experiment. The truth is that, for decades, Vallejo-Nájera’s investigations were forgotten, protected by the silence imposed by Franco. So it … Read more

What cars can circulate and which ones rest on February 15

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The weekend returns, on Saturday and, indeed, today does not circulate Sabatino. The restrictions of this peculiar program for the reduction of emissions where it is applied again is active as every week. This is carried out because, obviously, the program devised by the CDMX Ministry of Environment is maintained active (Sedema). This is the one that specifies what the restrictions are and which are applied at every moment. The restrictions, as you surely know, only apply where the does not circulate today is active. That is, for now we talk about the 16 mayors in Mexico City and in the following conurbation municipalities of the State of Mexico: Atizapán de Zaragoza Coacalco de Berriozábal Cuautitlán Cuautitlán Izcalli Chalco Chicoloapan Chimalhuacán Ecatepec de Morelos Huixquilucan Ixtapaluca La Paz Naucalpan de Juárez Nezahualcóyotl Nicolás Romero Tecámac Tlalnepantla de Baz Tultitlán Chalco Valley What cars and plaques affect the Sabatino today Once we have all this into account, what is carried out and why is it activated today? As you can see in the upper image, the intention is to remove some vehicles from the circulation (temporarily) to reduce the pollutant emissions we breathe. These restrictions are mostly applied from Monday to Friday and apply taking into account the hologram and plate number, as specified in the upper image. But on Saturdays, the thing is complicated because not every Saturday highlights the same cars. Why is it complicated? Because, as we can see below, the combination of hologram and plate number will leave us the following options: Cars that can circulate every Saturday Cars that have to rest every Saturday Cars that rest on a Saturday yes and another Restrictions, in addition, that do not apply all day. They apply between 05:00 and 10:00 p.m.. That is, at night we can move freely and without taking into account any type of restriction. To be clear whether or not we are affected by today’s restrictions, the first thing we have to look at is what hologram we have in our car. If, for example, we have hologram 0 or 00, we will not have to attend to the restrictions mentioned here since we can move freely. On the contrary, with a hologram car 2 we will either have much to think but we have bad news: you can not circulate any Saturday. That is, if you have a car with hologram 2, what has to be clear is that you will not be able to move it in the time specified by the standard. Finally, they are those of Hologram 1 Those who rotate and, therefore, where you can fall into errors more easily. In this case, those of cars with Hologram 1 and plaque finished in odd number will have to stay at home because we are facing the third Saturday of the month (February 15). Cars with hologram 1 rotate every week. The odd numbers coincide with Saturdays of odd weeks. Therefore, next week (fourth Saturday of February), cars with hologram 1 and plaque finished in torque will have to stay home. Of course, we cannot forget that there are some exceptions that go beyond being able to circulate freely at night. Thus, the following cars can move with total freedom: Those that work for electricity, natural gas or are hybrid Those who have disabled plate All those dedicated to urban transport services (includes funerals) Those who offer school or passenger transport Those destined for public safety and/or civil protection In case of breaching these restrictions, the fine will be 20 to 30 times the unit of measurement and update (Uma), which is equivalent to 1,924.40 pesos and even 2,886.60 pesos. Image | Ingo Joseph In Xataka | Contamination is not only making you live less and worse. You are also making you darker

Marijuana was for years one of the most potential industries in the United States. Now has entered Barrena

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HE Curves come For him cannabis sector In the United States. Curved and slippery curves that will make it difficult for companies focused on that market for two reasons, both equally challenging. One is the imminent expiration of debt they face and that some experts encrypt in 6,000 million dollars. The other is The legal framework in which they are forced to operate, a context that deprives them of some of the advantages and facilities that companies in other sectors do in trouble. There are those who already talk about bubble burst of cannabis in the US and fears that a bankruptcy waterfall now arrives. A sector in trouble. There are no quiet times for the American cannabis industry, forced to deal with a series of challenges, including financing, debt expiration and laws. Bloomberg explains in A broad analysis which is summarized in a single sentence: companies in the sector face the need to deal with a millmillionary debt without the ‘Legal oxygen ball that they would have if their activity were another. What does that mean? That because of the nature of his merchandise, cannabis, which It is still illegal In the eyes of the federal administration, companies in the sector face a particularly vulnerable situation when they have to deal with their creditors. Most businesses can resort to the bankruptcy court and shield themselves to renegotiate their debt; But like Remember From the firm Harris Beach Murtha, the companies dedicated to cannabis do not usually enjoy the protection of the US bankruptcy code. “To date, US courts have been reluctant to administer bankrupt confirm In Fox Rothschild. “Virtually all bankruptcy cases involving a restructuring or sale of cannabis -related entities Controlled Substances Lawthe CSA “. A figure: 6,000 million. This handicap, derived from the legal status of its merchandise at the federal level, is important right now because the sector faces the perspective of having to deal with a quite considerable debt in not much time. According to the calculations Shared with Bloomberg By Beau Whitney, chief economist of Whitney Economicsnext year will overcome a debt of up to 6,000 million dollars. And the figure includes only the largest companies in the sector, those that operate in several states. And two percentages: 42 and 27%. That default figure (6,000 million dollars) is bulky, but alone it does not say much. If it is so important, it is because it catches the sector at a complex moment in which at least part of the industry has not yet managed to market legal marijuana a stable business. Whitney handles A couple of data They help to understand it: if in 2022 more than 42% of distributors claimed to have obtained benefits, last year that percentage had been reduced to 27%. They are figures from the past, but as Bloomberg requires They talk to us of the future of the sector: part of those companies that have not yet been able to consolidate will probably end up broken. Others will have no choice but to sit with their creditors in a scenario that is not favorable. “The refinancing of this cycle will be carried out at much higher interest rates and companies will not have the cash flow to manage it,” confirms the economistwhich speaks of “a huge debt bubble.” What is the legal scenario? Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), an US organization dedicated to promoting legalization, explains it clearly: “Although the vast majority of states have reformed the laws on cannabis, the position of the federal government has remained practically unchanged since the early 70s. Except for rare circumstances, at the federal level marijuana and its products are illegal and They are subject to the application of the criminal law. “ Despite this federal framework, MPP remembers that “state governments record and regulate the production and sales of cannabis.” Right now There are states in which it allows the consumption of marijuana for medical but not recreational purposes, others that have legalized both uses and also certain territories in which it is totally illegal. In A plane in which the regulatory framework of each of the states at the beginning of this year, the American Nonsmoker´s Rights Foundation (ANRF) calculated that there are 39 in which smoking is allowed at least for medicinal purposes. Looking to the future. The result of this difference in criteria between the Federal Administration and the states themselves derives in a complex scenario, Recognize MPPin which a person “can fulfill a set of laws on marijuana and at the same time violate another.” Until now the federal government has not considered that state regulations shock with the Supreme clause which is pronounced in its favor in the Constitution, which is explained in part because the cultivation and sale falls on private companies. Last year the Department of Justice He moved file For marijuana to be classified as a less dangerous substance, which would have direct effects on companies in the sector, reducing their expenses and favoring that many are “profitable”according to the industry itself. With the change of government and the arrival of Donald Trump to the White House (and his New prosecutor, Pam Bondi) An unknown is now opened. And what are the figures? Apart from the legal framework, the 6,000 million debt about to defeat calculated by Whitney They tell us about something else: the weight and implementation that has reached the sector in the US. Pew Research Center data show that eight out of 10 Americans (79% of the population, to be exact) have at least one store where they can buy marijuana in their county. Moreover, the same study center calculates that 54% of Americans He lives in a state that allows the recreational use of marijuana and around 15,000 dispensaries are distributed throughout the US, especially common on the west and northwest and points like Michigan or Oklahoma. The Flowhub firm in fact indicates that the legal cannabis industry is directly related to 440,400 jobs full -time and that in … Read more

If the industry wants to survive, you must bet on the new IPS

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There is no one who understands fans: before State of play With which PlayStation started the 2025 ads, the most consistent rumor about what we would see was that we would have the first images of a hypothetical remake/remaster of ‘God of War’, a long -awaited project because it is impossible to access the classic games of The franchise on current platforms. Or maybe something of ‘Resident Evil 9’. In short, nobody talked about “I hope they announce that game that no one has heard and that will change my life.” The public wants franchises, sequelae, remakes. Fritanga It goes with the admission ticket. We like more or less, this industry is built on reformulation. It has all the meaning, given its characteristics, based on the evolution of technology: every year we live a generational change in hardware that allows us not only to enjoy new games, but to recover the old dresses with new clothes. The remakes and REBOOTS They are the order of the day: What is PlayStation 5 but a PlayStation 4 reboot with improvements? Why didn’t we live with the games? The death of the average series. We already talked about medium -sized budget games for ‘Space Marine 2’a game that completely perspires the spirit of those releases that have always been in the industry and were paralyzed around the generation of PS4 when the budgets began to shoot. From that moment, the games were divided into AAA (or at most, AA Strong) or in products developed from Independence. There are still a variety of budgets, of course, but a puncture in sales can defend a study without too much effort, so you have to choose to minimize risks and go to the always common denominator. The culture of the franchise. It is not only in video games where we are seeing it. In times when culture “consumes” and video games, movies and series are “content”, it is not strange that we reach such linguance scenarios as the 2024 box office, where The ten most successful films were sequelae or remakes. Something like that happens with video games: people do not want new ideas, because for eighty euros they prefer a title from which you know what to expect and have few surprises, yes, but a few guaranteed satisfactions. A state of play play. The first State of PlayStation Play for 2025 was, of course, full of sequelae, remakes and reboots: dlcs of ‘Stellar Blade’ and ‘Lies of p‘, remake from ‘Days Gone’, ‘Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater’, New ‘Onimusha’, ‘Monster Hunter’, ‘Five Days At Freeddy’ and ‘Borderlands’, among many others. And yes, we launched here You live to a new ‘shinobi’but we will agree that we cannot talk about being an overexploited franchise, in addition to a Brawler 2D is a completely niche product, and the ‘Shinobi’ brand is an excuse. You can’t say the same of a new ‘Sonic Racing’. The best, the unknown. As I say, it is perfectly understandable that PlayStation again announced this type of products, and even that the public is disappointed when a remake of a game of three generations is not announced. But what is indisputable to me is that the chicha of the event was in the games that presented new IPS: the Roguelite Very personal ‘Saros’, the explosive futuristic blockbuster’ Mindseye ‘, the insane mixture of’ doom ‘and’ cyberpunk 2077 ” metal eden ‘, the amazing design of giant grotesquerías in’ Tides of Annihilation ‘, the visual exquisiteness of’ Dreams of Another ‘, Cuquismo Stop Motion From ‘The Midnight Walk’, the still enigmatic apocalypse of ‘Hell is us’ … Everything for everyone. Of course, among these releases there will be good, bad and regular games, but without discussion, all the images that made me think “we will have to try it” belonged to new IPS. The daring, innovation and thrust were there, demonstrating that it is not that the living industry mired in a crisis of ideas, but that the vices of it themselves are those that put the sticks on the wheels so that they do not leave the grocerying games of Originality and innovation. There is the future we have to point to. Header | PlayStation In Xataka | ‘Rollerdrome’ is one of the best 2022 games. You can’t buy it anymore

There are three autonomous communities that take the palm

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In Spain the DGT watches traffic with fixed radars, section radars (Some of them In full installation process), Mobile radars and Pegasus. To these devices we can add the surveillance cameras or the work of the agents aboard vehicles, vans and even camouflaged motorcycles. Of all those devices, the most controversial generate are the Velolaser mobile radars (because their small size prevents guessing before going through them) and the situation of mobile radars. These, assures the DGT, are located where it is understood that they are more necessary for drivers to lift the accelerator’s foot and reduce the accidents. However, we also know that there are hundreds of empty boxes distributed throughout the territory and that are used to move radars. The box, whether or not it is in operation, is already enough to make the driver suspect and reduce the speed. Where are the radars that put the most fines With the data that the DGT is making public, Associated European motorists (AEA) Punctually update the list with the radars that impose the most fines over a year. As confirmed to ourselves, the data has a certain delay because traffic does not update them promptly at the end of each exercise. Therefore, those shown here are the radars that more fines imposed In 2023, the last year of which you have data. In spite of everything, we know that in total these 50 cinemometers added 3,355,287 complaints. The figure is 9.4% less than the year 2022 (3,704,675 sanctions) but the growth of some radar is observed that for the first time must have been working at full performance in the same place. This conclusion can take it out because the growth of some speed controllers has been 500% compared to the figure of 2022. In addition, we also know that almost one in four fines that are imposed in Spain arrive from these radars. In total, they made 1,245,053 sanctions, which represents 38 % of the total complaints. By autonomous communities (Basque Country and Cataloniawho have the transferred powers), the most punished region was Andalusia, with 436,273 complaints made. It was followed by the Community of Madrid (210,792 sanctions) and the Valencian Community (127,063 complaints). Autonomous Community Province VIA PK Complaints Madrid (community of) Madrid M-40 20.2 118149 Andalusia Malaga A-7 968.2 66869 NAVARRA (COMMUNITY OF) Navarre A-15 127.6 49677 Andalusia Malaga A-7 978.9 45522 Galicia Pontevedra A-55 9.2 45276 Balears (Illes) Balears (Illes) EI-600 9.6 44985 Valencian Community Valencia/València A-7 326.4 43269 Canary Islands Palmas (Las) GC-1 42.2 38240 ANDALUSIA Cádiz A-38 137.3 35915 ANDALUSIA Seville A-92 83.8 33849 ANDALUSIA Seville SE-30 10,1 33748 Madrid (community of) Madrid M-40 52.7 33612 ANDALUSIA Malaga A-45 128.7 33310 ANDALUSIA Huelva H-31 79.9 30537 ANDALUSIA Seville A-92 29.1 26414 Asturias (Principality of) Asturias A-66 35.2 26083 ANDALUSIA Malaga A-7 936.2 23273 Madrid (community of) Madrid A-4 12.4 21105 Castilla y León Burgos A-1 194.2 21048 Madrid (community of) Madrid A-4 13.3 20807 ANDALUSIA Seville A-4 495.6 20216 ANDALUSIA Malaga A-45 118 20100 Cantabria Cantabria A-67 195.6 19607 Castilla-La Mancha Basin A-3 156.5 19355 CANTABRIA Cantabria A-8 144.4 19128 CANTABRIA Cantabria A-67 185 18507 Galicia Lugo A-8 545.1 17618 Madrid (community of) Madrid A-2 15 17119 Castilla-La Mancha Toledo A-5 57.8 16130 Andalusia Seville A-92 0.8 15558 Estremadura Cáceres A-66 508 15403 Galicia Pontevedra A-55 11.7 15229 Valencian Community Valencia/València A-3 314.8 15128 Valencian Community Alicante/Alacant A-70 27.3 15030 Valencian Community Castellón/Castelló AP-7 356.7 14750 Canary Islands Santa Cruz de Tenerife TF-13 0.5 14309 Valencian Community Castellón/Castelló AP-7 374.7 13780 GALICIA Coruña (a) AG-55 11.7 13533 GALICIA Pontevedra A-52 282.5 13388 Castilla-La Mancha Ciudad Real A-4 230.8 13330 Andalusia Malaga A-356 36.5 13293 Castilla-La Mancha Ciudad Real A-4 177.5 13142 ANDALUSIA Malaga MA-20 10.4 12742 Andalusia Huelva H-30 8.5 12671 Valencian Community Castellón/Castelló N-340 1010.6 12563 Valencian Community Alicante/Alacant A-70 8.6 12543 Cantabria Cantabria A-67 191,6 12539 ANDALUSIA Seville A-66 795.5 12256 Castilla y León Lion A-6 347.9 12211 ESTREMADURA Badajoz A-66 685.9 12187 Photo | DGT In Xataka | The DGT will install 122 new radars in 2025. Locations and when they will begin to fine the 24 radars that are already active

This is how bracelets with stickers came to cheat half the world

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We are in 2009. Slovakia joins the euro zone, The name of Satoshi Nakamoto It begins to resonate in certain forums, the first Metro line from Andalusia is inaugurated in Seville, Spain gets gold in the Eurobasket and half -world dolls dress with miraculous bracelets called Power Balance. These bracelets, whose price was just 30 euros, promised to improve strength, balance and flexibility thanks to holograms that fixed our biocampus. They also turned out to be a millionaire scam. Power Balance’s story goes back to 2007, when the Josh and Troy Rodarmel brothers founded the company in California. Although the concept was not new, the two brothers developed a marketing campaign that worked perfectly, starting with Give your first 50,000 bracelets in the US Open of Surfing of 2007. Power Balance bracelet | Image: Wagner Bonifacio Leite In just a few months, these bracelets began arriving at personalities dolls such as Michael Jordan, Cristiano Ronaldo, Leonardo DiCaprio and even Shaquille O’Neal, which It appeared on video saying “I don’t give many testimonies, but this does work.” The Power Balance arrived throughout the world, Spain included. Until Infanta Elena had one. In 2010, the company reported some Sales worth $ 35 millionnothing wrong for a product without any scientific basis. Various studies They began to demonstrate that these products were useless, thus arriving the beginning of the end of the company. The key was, undoubtedly, the placebo effect, but that there was a hologram that balanced and isolated frequencies to improve our body was simply false. At the end of 2010The company had to admit that its products were not based on scientific evidence. In 2011, she was sentenced for fraud and forced to pay 57 million dollars. That led Power Balance to bankruptcy. Finally, the company was sold in 2012 to a Chinese company for eight million dollars. The original founders disregard them completely, but the product is still sold today (only without announcing effects of any kind). Cover image | Xataka In Xataka | The Bank of Spain alerts a malware capable of “capturing bank credentials.” His name: Trickmo

“We had an architecture study two days stopped”

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In recent days, thousands of Spanish companies have been affected by a measure adopted by Movistar, at the request of LaLiga, to combat illegal broadcasts of football matches. The Teleco has begun to block Cloudflare IP addressesa fundamental service that provides security and optimization to a large number of websites. The problem is that these IPS are shared by many totally legal and legitimate services, which causes the blockade to affect business indiscriminately They have nothing to do with illegal football streaming. Not only online stores “We do not give credit. It seems that it was not Spain. It’s crazy,” says Nelson Domínguez, CEO of Docastixa small mobile application development company. Docastix was directly affected over the weekend when one of its customers, in full product launch with an important advertising campaign, discovered that Movistar users could not access their online store. The company was investing in advertising, paying for each click that took potential customers to its website, but Those clicks translated into error pages for Movistar users. “The launch was a disaster,” explains Domínguez. “We have not been able to count that specific impact yet, but it has been high. The campaigns were lost, the clicks and potential purchases were lost. And then our work to put a solution.” Cloudflare panel with the online store data that Docastix speaks. It is appreciated how the 8 (day indicated in the graph) begins the fall and does not begin to trace until 11. The advertising campaign had begun on the 7th (the traffic peak). Ceded image. Movistar’s response to the problem has been confusing. When Domínguez contacted the operator, they asked for his ID and A relationship of all the websites I had tried to access without success. Then they assured that the problem was solved. “We lost four hours of work again,” he says. “Today, what they have done is to implement blockades every 15 minutes. That is not a solution: perhaps a customer can enter to buy, but when he is going to pay he has already stopped working.” Cloudflare sent a hard statement to Xataka in which he accused LaLiga of acting deliberately, knowing the consequences of his blockade: «Although LaLiga perfectly understood that blocking Shared IP addresses would affect the rights of millions of consumers to access hundreds of thousands of websites that do not violate the law, LaLiga continued with said blockade. This seems to reflect the erroneous belief that their commercial interests must prevail over the rights of millions of consumers to access an open internet ». LaLiga, meanwhile, responded to Xataka With another statement in which he attributed cloudflare the responsibility of using his legal clients as “digital shield”: «Given the statements of Cloudflare to Xataka, LaLig legal as a digital shield to protect criminal organizations and mafias ». “LaLiga has repeatedly required Cloudflare to stop this complicit activity with criminal organizations, which threaten intellectual property and incur multiple criminal activities such as the violation of intellectual property, all kinds of scams and pornography, without a favorable response.” “Thus, LaLiga is not positioned against free access to the Internet, but requests measures and carries out controlled actions against companies or organizations that profit from illegal and criminal acts using legal companies as a digital shield.” LaLiga sources add that it is key to understand the role of Cloudflare not only in the illegal retransmission process of parties, but also of the process that follow to house domains. They explain that they are companies that trust Cloudflare, and deserve to know, according to their version, that they are used as a digital shield while it is profitable, hosting and protecting illegal and mafia activities next to the legal companies that are now affected. They speak of intentional complicity. And the impact goes far beyond online stores. Manuel Márquez, Systems Technician Cloudatarecounts serious cases that illustrate the breadth of the problem: “I had an architecture study two days stopped. They are not only websites and stores, but critical business applications for the daily functioning of companies. “Among their business clients have been affected from law firm, which could not access Lexneteven photography studies that depend on cloud services to share files with their customers. And he also affects the solution of fifteen minutes: “The architecture study has already told us that he will report, because they have left them two days,” he says. “We saw that the IPS were blocking every fifteen minutes. Not only do they do it wrong, but they do it wrong and are trying to mask it.” The situation has forced many companies to take drastic measures. Docastix, with only seven employees, has had to dedicate vital resources to move clients out of cloudflare. “Of those seven not everyone can attack the problem by the subject of knowledge, and of which yes, I can only at that time,” Domínguez explains. “We are a very recent small company, there are clients who do not understand this at all and sound a bit of an excuse. It seems that you blame Movistar from a mistake of yours.” The risk of deactivating cloudflare without a previous plan The background technical problem is complex. Cloudflare acts as a security intermediary for a large part of the Internetprotecting companies against computer attacks. As he explains Jaume PonsSystems Engineer in an automotive multinational, “for a small company, something else is unasumable. In the end, if you expose your website directly they lie down if they propose it. You have to use mastodontic suppliers such as Cloudflare, which will provide that first barrier of cybersecurity input. “ The paradox is that some companies, desperate to maintain their operational services, They are choosing to deactivate the protection of Cloudflare, exposing themselves to security risks. “They are actions that no longer end that someone cannot access a service,” Pons warns, “but that companies that have been forced to deactivate protections have been much more exposed to attacks without an adequate plan.” Economic damage multiplies in unexpected ways. Companies not … Read more

The Board of Directors has officially rejected its offer

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“OpenAi is not on saleand the Board has unanimously rejected the last attempt of Mr. Musk to alter its competition, ”said Bret Taylor, president of the non -profit organization of the AI ​​company, said Friday, In a message posted in X. In this way, the offer of 97.4 billion dollars launched on February 10 by the CEO of Tesla has been officially discarded by its recipient. This is an important setback for the businessman’s plans and a victory for Sam Altman. Musk gave the impression of being very sure Musk’s purchase attempt seemed to affect the plan set by Altman to transform the startup commercial arm In a public benefit corporation (PBC)liberating it in addition to entity control Nonprofit To get more investments. Musk’s lawyers even said this week that their client would withdraw the offer if the Openai Board promised to “preserve the mission of the beneficial organization and stipulate that the sign of ‘is sold’ for sale ‘of its assets stopping its conversion.” “Openai is not on sale, and the Board has unanimously rejected the last attempt of Mr. Musk to alter its competition. Any possible reorganization of OpenAI will reinforce our non -profit organization and its mission to ensure that Agi benefits all humanity. ” Let us remember that Elon Musk sue Openai and Sam Altman with the argument that the company was moving away from its founding mission to develop AI to “benefit of humanity“And that he had made a” de facto fusion “with Microsoft. Well, it has not been necessary for OpenAi to have to change its plans to avoid the attempt to acquire Musk, but it has been the organization that has directly rejected it, although it is yet to be seen what collateral effect can have this. Although Musk’s present offer has lost validity, there is the possibility that it has influenced the compensation value that Openai must pay to your entity without profit to separate from it. We have explained it in detail in another article. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | Openai wants to square a circle with GPT-5: earn money and become the “new Google” offering something free

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