This is how the curious creator of LG wallpapers works

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We have moved to Frankfurt to see and touch firsthand THE NEW LG TREES FOR 2025 And by the way, try the latest version of Webos. We have found a twist more to a consolidated Operating system seasoned with great artificial intelligence. That artificial intelligence reaches televisions makes more sense than it seems and, leaving aside some profits that have been essential and other more or less useful, if there is one with a point of experimentation, creativity and fun that has caught us, that is the to generate images with AI, called Image Ai Solution (By Google). I have done my TV’s background with ia To get the best results you have to approach the command to the mouth Creating images with artificial intelligence is not something new, but it is fashionable: you have Midjourney, Dall- e3 And in general, A long list of free applications. Do it on devices that are not the computer, mobile or tablet is the order of the day, but Generate your images from TV and with voice is another story. As of tweet With your LG fridge of that teenager who went viral, but really. Why generate images with TV? LG’s response could simply be breastfeeding: ‘Because I can’, but the reality is that he has his one, for example to have a wallpaper of our family in the style of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ or simply so that the next time someone uses TV, a birthday greeting appears just on that day anniversary of his birth. Let it know that it is possible to do it by text, but The most natural and agile on a TV is to pull the voice and make use of suggestions to polish the prompt until we get what we want. For this, the new Magic Remote AI remote control has a button to invoke its AI that we must keep pressed while we talk to capture the entire phrase. This function of generation of images with AI is in beta and I tried it in English (it was ESO or Korean, it is not available in Spanish) in a living room with enough noise, which meant some problems when the remote control captured the words well. In this sense, yours is approach the command to the mouth and that the room is silent. In my evidence I started from simple concepts such as drawing a dog, a cat (we said ‘cat’ but understood ‘God’) and even something much more complex and detailed as samurais with dragon plates armor in the middle of some cherry trees. Overcome the barrier of understanding the order, The results were surprisingly good. The model used to generate images is Exaone-3.5 (whose repository is available In Github) and includes 100 free creditswhat I would give for a hundred generations. If later you would like to generate more images, the specialized engineers told us that the idea is to adopt a billing system. With these generated images, it is possible to download them to save, share them and of course, use them as a unique and exclusive wallpaper made by ourselves, an addition that makes personalization rise level and also, another way of Generate income through TV softwaresuch as integrated advertising or ads LG Channels. Cover | Eva Rodríguez de Luis In Xataka | Better televisions in quality Price: which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K 4K

After 48 years, Voyager probes are running out of plutonium. So NASA has taken extreme measures

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The emblematic Voyager 1 space probes and Voyager 2, launched almost 50 years ago, are running out of energy. In order not to lose them, NASA has made the decision to turn off two other instruments to extend its useful life. One less instrument in each Voyager. Last February 25, NASA reveals nowthe mission team turned off the cosmic rays subsystem of the Voyager 1 probe, which studied high -energy particles in the interstellar space. The instrument has been doing science all this time and in 2020 allowed first How electrons from the sun accelerate when bouncing in shock waves as they move outside the solar system. Voyager 1 is the object manufactured by humans that is farther from earth and that has been going into the interstellar space more time. On March 24, NASA will also turn off the instrument that measures low -energy loaded particles in the Voyager 2. These movements seek to reduce the energy consumption of the probes, which depend on a radioisotope generator whose plutonium is running out. Both lose about 4 watts of power every year. There are hardly any operational instruments. NASA has been turning off the functions of the Voyager to prolong your useful life. Of the 10 scientific instruments Originals, only three will continue to function in each of the twin probes, one of them for just a few months: The magnetometer: measures the strength and direction of the magnetic field in the confines of the solar system, helping to understand how the magnetic field of the sun and the magnetic field of interstellar space interact The plasma wave subsystem: detects electromagnetic and plasma waves, providing information on the density and plasma temperature in interstellar space In the Voyager 1, the instrument of low -energy loaded particles, which NASA plans to also deactivate at the end of 2025. In the Voyager 2, the cosmic rays subsystem, which will remain operational until 2026 A growing repair history. In May 2024, after six months without receiving legible scientific data due to the degradation of the internal memory of Voyager 1, NASA achieved restore information through a complex (And almost heroic) Software update. It had already passed in 2010 with Voyager 2, but on that occasion It was solved With a restart. Not only memory is failing. In September 2024, engineers had to light secondary propellants of the Voyager 1, inactive for decades, to correct the orientation of the probe due to an obstruction of its main engines, also the result of its longevity. The procedure implied careful temporal heating of inactive engines, but was successful and allowed to continue with the mission. NASA expects them to reach 2030. Suzanne Dodd, head of the Voyager project, said in a statement that turning off instruments is a crucial step to avoid the “premature” purpose of the mission. Thanks to these adjustments, both ships could continue to send scientific information at least until the 2030s, although with a progressive reduction of their abilities. As for the “premature”: the Voyager have widely overcome their original mission, whose initial plan was to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Thanks to excellence in their engineering and these constant adjustments, the ships have continued to work beyond what is expected, revealing unique information about interstellar space and heliopause, the region where the solar wind loses its influence. Images | POT In Xataka | The rescue of Voyager 1 has begun. With 8 kb of memory, a programming language of 1957 and an unimportant LAG

LG wants to take the customization of TV to the extreme and has found its best ally at AFO

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With the importance of streaming, Choose a SMART TV with a quality operating system It is not trivial and it is no novelty that Webos LG is one of the best. Based on Linux, the SO implemented by the Korean firm stands out for its fluidity and ease of use thanks to an attractive and agile interface, as we have been able to verify over the years in our analysis of models as remarkable as the LG QNED87, LG OLED C3 either LG Signature Oled M. The latest version of the operating system of LG is webos 25 and we have had the opportunity to try it now in the New Korean firm’s teles for 2025. However, it should be remembered that LG offers a five -year update supportso there will be other models of previous generations that can enjoy this update Following the brand’s calendar. Webos 25 arrives full of artificial intelligence and more personalization New LG TVs by 2025 with its renewed command, Remote Control AI Those who are familiar with Webos The image of this new version will be familiar to them as long as LG has opted for Maintain an intuitive design and interfaceusing cards that are placed in the lower area of ​​the screen, which in turn can reorganize to taste. It also allows to close applications and keep them in the background to recover them quickly from the lower bar. This SO It has serial activated advertising which will also continue in the latest version, although as always, it can be withdrawn (from ‘additional configuration’> ‘Home promotions’). And once the bases are cooling, the news arrives. The profiles and everything that can be done with them It is one of the great novelties of Webos. Taking into account that the normal thing is that the TV is used by several people, if we give the relevant permits, it will generate different personalized starting screens according to our tastes, adjustments and content preferences. Thus, each profile will have its own applications (they can be hidden for other people, but not eliminate: in that case they are deleted for everyone), suggestions and recommendations and tells us where we have stayed in that specific content. Although it can be chosen through command, it is not necessary since is able to recognize who is through voice by Voice ID. A concrete example of Personalization through profiles It is that of the ‘Sports’ section, where for example we can tell you what team we are so that it shows us content of ‘My team’ and related suggestions, such as Highlights YouTube videos and interviews or when the next game will be. This customization experience It is not limited to content consumption, but it reaches all the layers of webos 25. If we go to the games section we can see which titles we play and what are our achievements and on the home hub screen for home automation we can also control the compatible devices connected and execute certain routines. Nevertheless, Webos 25’s great novelty is artificial intelligencewhich will be present in the most diverse tasks ranging from the optimization of image and sound quality, accessibility adjustments, recommendations and even conversations with natural language and contextualization through the button of the AI ​​remote control, remote control AI. Thus, it is enough to hold that button to Start talking to TV naturally. Thus, you can ask things like what was the last film we saw, content recommended based on certain preferences (yes, limited to platforms with which it collaborates for this function) or until it tells you to suggest films where New York comes out, since we have planned a trip close to that American city. LG has also integrated an entertaining and different function, the generative ai gallery, a way of generating images through AI on the quite paint but limited television itself. Experience is somewhat slower than navigation without more but equally moderately fluid and contextualization is good. But beyond recommendations, on a practical level The most differential of AI is that you solve problems. For example, you can tell you that you see the screen too dark and that TV itself helps you adjust it for a better viewing or directly, that optimizes the configuration. Although the total deployment of the artificial intelligence of Webos 25 is necessary to have a state -of -the -art model with its remote control, LG has integrated Microsoft Copilot For a more general task: the search for information through the Internet. Cover | Eva Rodríguez de Luis In Xataka | Better televisions in quality Price: which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K 4K

47% of employees save more than 100 euros per month in derived expenses

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Teleworking has lost part of the thrust demonstrated during the last four years after the hardening of the policies back to the office. According to him ‘Teleworking Report 2025‘Prepared by the labor consultant Robert Walters, 67% of teleworkors enjoy two or less work days from home. This reflects a clear tendency towards More flexible work modelsbut with greater presence in the office. That paradigm change supposes An added cost both for companies and For workers. The price of teleworking. A study The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) revealed that employees were willing to give up up to 25% of their salary in exchange for continuing to telework. Robert Walters’s study has completed the monthly average economic cost for workers associated with the return to the office. 47% of the interviewees ensure that the return to the office represents an additional economic disbursement of between 100 euros and more than 200 euros per month. On the other hand, 46% of employees who thought remote work negatively affected its internal visibility And the options to ascend to better positions will see how their opportunities are matched. Less remote, more hybrid. The study reveals that only 2 out of 10 workers who currently do so before 2020, showing the impact of pandemic on the extension of remote work. However, this modality has been contracting to leave space to hybrid models with every time More predominance of face -to -face work. The data collected by Robert Walters analysts suggest that 36% of the hybrid days only allow teleworking one day. 31% of companies allow two days to work in remote and 7% leave three days to work outside the office. The data of the companies that allow teleworking full -time is 13%, a figure close to the percentage of employees who telework in Spainaccording to INE data. Face -to -face or flexibility? The data collected by the study also reveal a change in employee preferences. 48% of respondents would prefer to have a more flexible schedule instead of another day of teleworking. In addition, 32%of the participants said that their company did not allow them to choose the teleworking days, being Monday (with 44%) and Friday (32%) the most common days to telework. “In recent months, we are attending the decline regarding flexibility in many companies that just a few years ago, they defended the conciliation and flexibility globally so that their workers could adopt and balance their personal and professional lives with the aim of turning companies into a pillar, support and support of the mental health of their employees,” said Jane Bamford, Managing Director for the southern Europe of Robert Walters. No teleworking, there is no job. 79% of respondents said they would change jobs if their company will eliminate teleworking options or time flexibility policies. 74% expect your company to maintain the same conditions at least this year, while 25% are convinced that Teleworking options will be reduced. Among the advantages that value teleworking most is the saving in the time of the displacements (78%), as well as their cost (44%). 74% points to Advantages for family reconciliation that allows them to work from home, although 16% say that at home they are much easier to concentrate. Manage from distance. Among the arguments that companies have given to reduce teleworking days, 26% of the companies participating in the study have felt the decline in work quality. At 32% it costs more loyalty to the employees in remote and that complicates them the Internal talent retention. On the other hand, 42% ensure that teleworking has complicated the assessment of workers’ performance and, therefore, cannot value your productivity as They did it from the offices. In general, 73% of those responsible for teams that worked at a distance indicated the communication problems between employees as one of the most frequent problems of teleworking. In Xataka | Three Spanish companies tell us how it has gone after implementing a job utopia: the four -day week Image | Unspash (Yolk Coworking – Krakow)

Spacex has launched 8,000 Starlink satellites in five years, but they are not enough. And we are beginning to understand why

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Starlink satellite Internet service is the golden egg chicken that is helping Finance the Starship program and other ambitious Spacex projects. But for it to work, Spacex cannot stop launching satellites. Starlink is a commercial success. Spacex announced Friday That Starlink had exceeded 5 million customers, two more than he had a year ago. The satellite Internet service is now available in 125 countries, and has also been integrated into more and more aircraft, ships and cruises. With the deployment of the first Direct To Cell constellation, satellites that in addition to the usual connections include cell connectivity, Starlink has also started working as a service for telephone operators. T-Mobile already offers in the United States The option of never running out of coverage. A sum and follows for the Golden Eggs of Spacex. Spacex numbers. According to a Payload reportSpacex invoiced $ 13,1 billion in 2024, 8,200 million of which came from Starlink. It is almost double what Starlink had entered the previous year. More difficult to calculate is how much it costs Spacex to put the satellites into orbit. We know that Starlink is a profitable businessbut we do not know the internal cost of launching a Falcon 9 rocket full of satellites. We know that it is much less than other rockets cost, because their first stage is able to land and take off at least 26 times; But not how much. We have, yes, a starting point. Elon Musk said a few years ago in an interview they aspired to A cost of 15 million dollars by launch. Taking into account that Spacex launched 134 Falcon 9 rockets last year, and that 96 were Starlink missions, at least 1,440 million dollars of Starlink’s revenues were used to cover the launch expenses of the satellites, to which the manufacturing costs, jobs, etc. The elephant in the room. In total, Spacex has launched more than 8,000 Starlink satellites, of which 6,000 are still active. The others no longer work or have burned in the atmosphere. Except for failure (such as the geomagnetic storm that caught a Starlink lot), satellites have a five -year -old useful life. The elephant in the room is that this useful life depends mainly on a physical appearance: satellites unfold in the low terrestrial orbit and reduce their height due to the effect of orbital decay, until disintegrating by friction with the atmosphere. Spacex cannot stop launching satellites. And you have to do it at an even greater pace to continue adding customers, while replenishing the satellites that are resenting. 100 reentrades in a month. Five years have passed since Spacex began to regularly launch Starlink satellites, and the effects are being noticed. According to an analysis by astrophysician Jonathan McDowell, At least one Starlink satellite He resents in the atmosphere every day, but January beat the record with 120 resentments. Many occur during the day, so they are not visible. Those that occur during the night are often a show of fleeting stars produced by the metals that vaporize In the atmosphere. The economic and environmental implications of all this are about to see, because Spacex is the only company that usually reuses its rockets and, therefore, the first to build a satellite constellation as large as Starlink. Perhaps the entry into Starship service changes the equation, but the order of the factors is clear: Starlink and the constellations that arrive later are condemned to eternally replenish the satellites that come out for those who enter. Image | Spacex, that In Xataka | Now any US smartphone can be connected for free to Starlink satellites. From July it will have a price

Batmancito. And that is giving a huge reputation to his parents

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Based on grimaces, babbling and laughter Batmancito has become the most famous baby in the networks. And that Batmancito does not make grimaces or babble or smile. He is not even a real baby. Sounds strange, but it has a fairly simple explanation: Batmancito is A doll Rebornthe hyperrealist replica of a child of a few months than his “parents”, Alejandra and Jaime, commissioned to look like them. In addition to telling their day to day, both upload animated videos artificially in which the baby is seen gesturing, laughing or even riding on horseback. Based on publications, Batmancito has become a celebrity. And his parents have gained enormous visibility. With you, Batmancito. Babies Reborn They are not new. Not much less. In Spain there was a lot of talk about them a decade ago, after A report by Samantha Villar, and years later the interest rebounded again thanks to the series premiere ‘Servant’. Instagram influencerIn networks: Batmancito, a Reborn In charge of Alejandro and Jaime, a couple of Colombians who have managed to get viral. In Tiktok They add 1.2 million followers, in Instagram530,000 and in Facebook694,000. In your profiles the Reborn It has a fundamental weight, especially over the last months. @Alejayjaime My son’s reaction to see the snow 😍😍😍 I’m so happy ♬ Little Things – Adrián Berenguer And why have they viralized? Publications in networks Alejandra and Jaime They started long before the arrival of Batmancito and in them the couple (she, 26, he 55) talked about her life: travel, sport, shopping, skiing, fashion, luxury, more fashion … until at the end of January alee He shared an ad With his followers: “I am super happy. I’m very good with my baby Reborn’s therapy. My baby is going to get to me, which is real, very beautiful, spectacular.” Shortly after He showed Batmancito. The doll is a Reborn Hyperrealist, like many others, but the couple assures that “with Ia” has been created, joining photos of Jaime and away. “They made a version of us, as if it were our baby,” explained The young woman in January. Batmancito (which is what they have called) have also transcended some more data: they claim that he created it A company in Canadacountry where There are professionals dedicated to the elaboration of replicas of hyperrealist babies. A few days ago The Spanish interviewed However, a manufacturer with two decades of experience that questions that the Colombian couple’s doll would really be created with the help of artificial intelligence: “It is a kit elaborated from the manual work of a Brazilian artist who created it seven years ago.” @Alejayjaime My mother’s reaction when she saw my son 😍🙏 ♬ Little Things – Adrián Berenguer A Reborn, a story. That Batmancito is triumphing in networks is not so much merit of the doll and its greater or lesser level of realism (the Reborn Hyperrealist are no novelty) like Alejandra and Jaime. First for its content. In addition to showing the doll and dressing it with baby clothes (of course with the Batman shield), the couple hangs videos in which artificially encourage to the childmaking walk, gesturejump … or even Practice skiing, Mount on horseback either Ball a ball On the beach. All accompanied by music, laughs and babies. The other key is that Alejandro and Jaime have accompanied the history of Batmancito of his own, in which there are no lack of emotional doses. She assures that has a tumor that prevents her from being a mother, which has led her to receive psychological treatment and, finally, “participate in a therapy with a baby Reborn“. He He recounted recently On television, in tears, as the doll has allowed him to “revive” paternity after “losing” three children. “I have managed to feel that lost paternal part again.” Of emergency to the sets. With those ingredients Batmancito has not taken long to become famous. Throughout the last weeks the couple has gone through the sets of Antena 3 either TV5While Alejandro and Jaime continue to go up to videos in which they show how They have led to Reborn Urgencia for a fever (“has 41º”, she cries out in The video), they give the bottle at night or take the doll to ski or riding classes. There is also no lack of videos in which the couple is They complain angrily of the criticisms of some people to know their history. It is not the only content that goes up. In your Instagram account you can also see a video in which Alejandro account His “secret” to have “55 years and the vitality of a 25 man” (The link to the selection of products on Amazon can be found in the profile) or Alejandra Sample dresses of Shein. In Xataka | If you are unable to trust that happiness lasts too long, Tiktok has the diagnosis: you see “weird lamps”

The seven years of Android updates begin (finally) to be a standard

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The problem with Android updates is an endemic evil that has been affecting this operating system since its inception. Without being solved, there are brands that gradually remedy. And the last to join is honor: the manufacturer raises the bar to the seven guaranteed years of key Android updates. The first to receive them will be the Magic7 Pro Honor. It is not that Android evolves in excess year after year, most of the changes focus on security, privacy and communication improvements between hardware, software and user. Although yes, although it does not change in excess, there is no doubt that we all want our phones to be updated. The longer the better, especially when the manufacturer’s layer ends up overlapping Android’s own. Presentation of the Honor Alpha Plan with seven years of Android and Security Updates Seven years is the top. At least for the moment: From Google itselfthe company that develops the operating system, to honor, the most recent brand in Make the determination to keep your devices more life. Samsung was one of those who opened the ban: four years of Android updates in the Samsung Galaxy S21 And seven years from the Samsung Galaxy S24 From now on. In addition, the number of key updates is equated with that of security patches, an equally important software for devices, since it solves critical errors that allow attacks against devices. With the Honor Alpha Plan, a strategy presented by the company within the framework of the MWC and that foresees a remarkable investment in software, artificial intelligence and connected devices, Honor has taken the step expanding to the extreme the Android updates of its smartphones. At the moment the confirmation comes for a single model, although the most logical thing is that it extends to others equally important in its catalog, such as the folding Honor Magic V3. It is great news and a good first step that should extend. Security update at a Samsung Galaxy Updates yes, but with priority to the high range. While it is logical that it is the best mobile phones that receive more attention from the manufacturers, thereby offering greater value to their customers, that the guarantee of system updates remains in the most expensive mobiles leaves out most of the volume of users. After all, the mobiles that are most sold are usually the cheapest and those who have the most risk of attacks. The Android update guarantee is never global: brands offer more years only to the most modern and powerful of their catalog Samsung is extending its update policy also to its Galaxy A range, even to the Mobiles like the new Samsung Galaxy A56 They offer six years of Android versions, security patches and One UIthe same happens with the most economical Samsung Galaxy M16 5g. Android updates Security updates honor Up to 7 years Up to 7 years Samsung Up to 7 years Up to 7 years Google Up to 7 years Up to 7 years Apple 5-6 years (on all iPhone) 5-6 years (on all iPhone) Motorola Up to 5 years Up to 5 years Xiaomi Up to 4 years Up to 5 years OnePlus Up to 4 years Up to 5 years Oppo Up to 4 years Up to 5 years Realme Up to 3 years Up to 4 years Democratizing Android updates implies improving user experience, their safety, offers greater privacy and, also, transfers the improvements of the new models to which they have been in the market for a while. Having a long -term guarantee is good for those who buy a phone, but also for those who sell it. The satisfaction and commitment to the brand are gold. That a mobile is not updated does not imply that stop workingbut it makes it much more vulnerable. And it transmits lack of interest to the product and to whoever buys it: how honor adds to commitment to seven years is excellent news. Now it only remains that the guarantee extends to the rest of the catalog apart from the honor Magic7 Pro. Cover image | Ricardo Aguilar In Xataka | Hyperos 2 updates calendar by 2025: what mobiles of Xiaomi and Redmi update and when

Tariffs imposed by the US to Mexico are going to shoot many prices. Those of these car brands are going to be a problem

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The United States decision of Implement 25% tariffs On the imports of Mexico and Canada it will have many and varied consequences, but there is a sector that will be specially affected by it: the automotive industry, especially from North America. After several postponements, the measure entered into force on March 4without the possibility of a new negotiation. There are already names of affected companies and models. An interconnected industry. Throughout the last three decades in the United States, with The signature of the NAFTA (Gasoline) in 1994 and its subsequent evolution towards the T-MEC (USMCA), car manufacturers have developed supply chains highly interdependentin which engines, transmissions and other components cross the borders multiple times before assembling in a final vehicle. The premise behind this model is clear: take advantage of the economic and logistics strengths of each country to reduce costs, improve efficiency and offer more competitive prices to its consumers. However, new tariffs could break this structure, drastically more expensive and generating uncertainty about what cars will be considered imported or national. What is really an imported car. It had the New York Times. Before talking about the repercussions, it should be explained how a vehicle is “mounted”. The central problem of tariffs is that defining what an imported car is is not so simple. In legal terms (and USA key), a vehicle is classified as imported when its final assembly occurs outside the United States. However, the complexity of supply chains This definition has become obsolete. The medium exposed concrete examples of this interconnection. Namely: the Chevrolet Blazer is assembled in Mexico, but uses engines and transmissions made in the United States, the Nissan Altim He assembles in the United States but with only 25% of its American parts (the engine comes from Japan and the transmission of Mexico). Extra ball. There is another problem: that the Trump administration has not specified How will you apply tariffs To these components that cross the border several times. This, no doubt, generates a climate of uncertainty for manufacturers, who do not know how to calculate production costs and define their commercial strategy. A true chaos. Affected companies and models. What seems clearly clear is that, if tariffs are permanently implemented, a summary of Several companies that could be forced to reconsider investments or even transfer production to other regions. Who is it? The main automotive with operations in Mexico and Canada that They would be impacted For tariffs they include: BMW: Its plant in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, produces series 3, 2 Coupé and M2 models, mainly intended for the US and global market. Ford: operates three floors in Mexico and exported almost 196,000 vehicles to North America in the first half of 2024, of which 90% went to the United States. General Motors (GM): It imported around 750,000 vehicles from Mexico and Canada in 2024, including key models such as Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra and SUV medium. In addition, its Mexican plants assemble two of its new electric vehicles (EVS). Honda: with 80% of its Mexican production for the United States, it already warned that it could rethink its manufacturing strategy if tariffs become permanent. KIA: Its factory in Mexico assembles its own models and the Santa Fe SUV for Hyundai, which are also exported to the United States. Mazda: exported 120,000 vehicles from Mexico to the United States in 2024 and evaluates to stop future investments if tariffs enter into force. Nissan: Its two plants in Mexico produce the Sentra, Versa and Kicks models for the United States, with a total of 505,000 units assembled in the first nine months of 2024. Stellantis: Assemble in Mexico the RAM, Vans and Jeep Compass trucks, in addition to manufacturing Chrysler models in Canada. In 2025, he plans to restart the production of a new Jeep model in his Canadian plant. TOYOTA: Produces Tacoma in its factories in Mexico, with more than 230,000 units sold in the United States in 2024, which represented 10% of its sales in that market. Volkswagen (VW): Its plant in Puebla, Mexico, manufactured about 350,000 vehicles in 2024, including the Jetta, Tiguan and Taos, all for export to the United States. Audi: His factory in San José Chiapa, Mexico, produces the Q5 and uses more than 5,000 people. Only in the first half of 2024, exported almost 40,000 units to the United States. Plus: In Canada, Volkswagen is building a battery gigafabrica in Ontario, which will begin production in 2027, a project that, obviously, could also be affected by commercial uncertainty. Possible consequences. The first is the most obvious and we can Explain with an example: If a car manufactured in Mexico has a base price of $ 25,000, a 25% tariff would add 6,250 to the final cost. In the market, the impact would be enormous: the car would be less competitive in front of the United States automotive industry and generate a tension in the commercial relations of both countries, since Mexico would begin to look to other sides. But there is more. First of all, Price increase For consumers in the United States. Additional costs could be transferred to customers, making cars, trucks and SUVs assembled in Mexico and Canada. The reduction of competitiveness is also pointed out, since brands such as Ford, GM, Toyota and VW could lose market participation against production manufacturers in the United States or outside North America. Plus: the Reconfiguration of the supply chainsince some companies could seek to transfer operations outside of Mexico or Canada to avoid tariffs, although this would imply high costs and prolonged deadlines. Finally, analysts also point to Impact on employment and investmentsince automotive plants in Mexico and Canada generate hundreds of thousands of jobs. Uncertainty about tariffs could cause investment reduction, mass layoffs and lower expansion of the sector in the region. How much prices will increase. It is the big question. Manufacturers have analyzed the direct impact of tariffs on production costs. According to Patrick Andersonfrom Anderson Economic Group, … Read more

Sooner or later China will be the world chips leader

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At the moment nothing indicates that Donald Trump’s arrival at the White House will relax the tension held by the US and China. The strategy of the new US government on many fronts is very different from the one defended by the administration of Joe Biden (The Ukraine War is one of them), but in what It refers to China a priori nothing changes. And does not do so because the nation led by Xi Jinping is the only one that has the ability to play world supremacy to the USA. In fact, the government led by Joe Biden openly recognized the document that collects its National Security Strategy October 2022 that China has the necessary capacity and resources to dispute the US Its world leadership position. A good part of the sanctions deployed by the US government and its allies seeks to slow down the development of the Chinese semiconductor industry due to the deep impact that it has on its scientific, economic and military capacity. But China bids increasingly. China leads chips research with overwhelming roundness Currently the biggest challenge facing the China semiconductor industry is the set -up equipment of extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE) similar to those produced by the Dutch company ASML. The US and Netherlands sanctions prevent this company from selling them to their Chinese customers, and these equipment are necessary to produce on a large scale and with a competitive cost integrated avant -garde circuits. In 2023 the Chinese government approved a 41,000 million dollar game for lithography equipment manufacturers In this situation, the only way China can follow is to dedicate a lot of resources to research with the purpose of matching, or even exceeding the level of development they have achieved in the field of Taiwan semiconductors, USA, South Korea or Japan. And is doing it. At the beginning of September 2023 the Chinese government approved a departure of no less than 41,000 million dollars Destined precisely to the companies that produce the equipment involved in the manufacture of integrated circuits. The achievements are already arriving, and are notable. SMIC and HUAWEI have opted, at least for now, for refining their lithographic processes and optimizing UVP lithography machines (deep ultraviolet) manufactured by ASML that they already have in their possession. Other companies, however, have chosen to develop their integration technologies relying on the new teams that Naura Technology, Amec (Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China) or Piotech Inc. have taken to point. This is the path that You are following Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC), the largest memory chips manufacturer in China. However, China’s authentic strength is its ability to develop avant -garde research. He Emerging Technological Observatory (ETO), which is an international organization specialized in the analysis of the adoption of emerging technologies globally, points out that Between 2018 and 2023 475,000 articles were published dedicated to the design and manufacture of chips throughout the planet. 34% was produced by Chinese institutions, while Europe is formed with 18% of those articles and the US with an even more modest 15%. In addition, again according to Eto, Chinese articles are among the most mentioned, which supports their quality. This trend draws a future on the horizon in which China’s weight in the semiconductor industry will be increasing. Image | ASML More information | Eto In Xataka | China needs to develop a new type of immune chips to US sanctions. And their scientists have just achieved it

We have found a strange anomaly in the middle of the Pacific. It has caused a radioactive isotope that should not be there

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A group of researchers has found a strange radioactive anomaly at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. And he has done it twice. The protagonist of the strange finding is a radioactive isotope of Beryllium, beryllium-10 (10be). Something weird happens on the ocean floor. The anomaly corresponds to a high concentration of this isotope in the strata of the seabed, which It has been detected In two points away from the Pacific Ocean, so it could be the indication of a generalized phenomenon. Experts do not know what this anomalous concentration of the isotope has caused, but they have several hypotheses that include astrophysical events or changes in ocean currents. Whatever the causative event, the team responsible for the finding has estimated that this happened about 10 million years ago. Product of a shock. The beryllium-10 is a rare isotope that is formed on our planet when cosmic rays cross our atmosphere and interacts with oxygen and hydrogen in it. The beryllium formed falls on the sea and ends up joining marine sediments. The semi -experience of these nuclei is approximately 1.4 million years old. After this time, half of the nuclei will have declined in Boro. Like others Radionucleids (Unstable forms of an element that decompose releasing radiation by becoming a more stable isotope), this beryllium is very useful in geological dating. Geological calendar. One of the best known radioisotpos is carbon-14 present in organic samples. In addition to the fact that carbon-14 is present only in organic samples, the time fork it gives us is relatively scarce: it can only serve us to date objects of up to 50,000 years old. The 10be, instead it allows us to ride ourselves 10 million years ago. A few surprising samples. The unexpected beryllium was found when studying a geological sample extracted from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean at a depth of several kilometers. The team examined the samples through a mass spectrometry with accelerator to evaluate its beryllium content and date its different strata. What they found was an anomaly in the sediments of about 10 million years ago. They came across that in this area the amount of 10be was double the one who would expect. The team examined several samples to contrast that it was not a contaminated sample. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nature Communications. Different hypotheses. The big question is now what caused this unexpected accumulation of 10be. The team responsible for the finding raises two possible hypotheses to explain this one, one related to marine currents and the second with astronomical events. In Xataka | The calima of the Sahara will deposit radioactive elements on Spain. And yes, science explains it Image | Hzdr / Koll, Lachner, et al. (2025)

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