We thought the tablets were falling into oblivion. We were wrong

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2023 was a simply terrible year For the tablets market. They sold one 20% less of tablets that in 2022, and is a segment in which the AI ​​is not expected to work as a sales incentive, unlike the mobile phones. No one was saved, not even Apple, with a year -on -year drop of 19.8%. Given the numbers, it was easy for 2024 to be a more positive year (when everything goes wrong, you can only go better). And indeed, This has been according to Canals. World shipments grew 9% year -on -year. Recovery signs. The tablets market remains far from 2020, the year in which it reached one of its historical peaks. The subsequent years were falling, and 2024 has been the first year since 2020 in which growth is experienced. According to Canals, we are entering the product renewal cycle, as well as in some recovery in the demand of tablets. According to Canalys sources, 2025 is expected to be a fairly solid year, with sustained growth throughout the different quarters. Offers and subsidies. Countries like China, with important subsidies for electronic productswill extend their programs by 2025. In others, as in Japan, government initiatives focused on the educational field are expected to help boost the sale of tablets. On the manufacturers side, some as honor have introduced strong sales packages (telephone + tablet, thus telling the tablet as sale, even if you only pay the phone) in countries such as the United Kingdom, and the rest of the Chinese brands are expected to expand Its presence in emerging countries. Cake distribution. There are not too many novelties in regards to who sells more tablets worldwide. The answer for years is clear. Apple Apple: Market share of the 38.6%annual growth of 5.3%. Samsung: Market share of the 18.8%annual growth of 8.2%. Lenovo: Market share of the 7.3%annual growth of 29.3%. Huawei: Market share of the 7.1%annual growth of 12.0%. Xiaomi: Market share of the 6.2%annual growth of 73.1%. Image | Xataka In Xataka | BEST TABLETS IN QUALITY PRICE. Which to buy based on use and recommended models

They are bad for mint performance and health, but prohibit them in school does not work

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In recent years, the great educational issue of half the world has been exactly the same: what to do with mobile phones at school. To such an extent the controversy that As Laura Cano says“The digitalization of minors is polarizing families inside and outside the classroom.” And worst of all, we have no data that allows us to know if either of the two options make more sense than the other. Until now we thought it was because the studies were biased, now we just discovered that it is for something else. The greatest global study to date. 1227 students from 30 schools in England that They have been monitoring For a year from the University of Birmingham. Not only have they obtained their records for the use of social networks, but a battery of mental health results, well -being, sleep quality and physical activity. Among those students were some that were in centers that had prohibited the use of smartphones during the school day and others that did not. What have you found out? The interesting thing is that Researchers have discovered that there are no differences between the two groups of students. Neither in mental well -being, nor in emotional disorders, nor in sedentary lifestyle, nor rest levels. There were neither substantial differences in academic achievements or in negative behavior. It is true that telephone prohibitions led to a slight decrease in the use of telephones (about 40 minutes) and social networks (about 30 minutes), but the impact is too epqueño to be significant. So no matter how time adolescents spend with the mobile? Not quite. The study He has found that there is “a link between spending more time for use and worse results in all things studied.” What happens is that the prohibition in schools does not have enough impact on the lives of young people to be decisive. That is to say, As Professor Miranda Pallan explainsfrom the University of Birmingham, research shows that “addressing the general use of the phone should be a priority to improve health and well -being among adolescents”, but “school policies are not the miraculous solution to prevent harmful effects” . In fact, we can be quite sure that “the restrictive policies on the recreational use of phones in schools do not lead to better results among students.” And what do we do? This seems to reinforce the ideas that some experts have been defending for years. Jose César Perales, Professor of Psychology of the UGR, denounced last year that “a cosmetic measure (prohibitions) is taken, while those that could contribute to improve the mental health of our teenagers continue in a drawer.” We run the risk, these experts come to tell us, to divert the meager resources of the system towards measures with little return. “What the evidence really says is that raising”, Perales said “It admits enormous variability and that, once the material and affective needs are covered, almost all the impacts of the concrete form of parenting are quite small.” The same is time to rethink how we are distributing resources. Image | Tim Reckmann In Xataka | Alone and connected, the paradox of loneliness at the time of the thousand “friends” in networks

The electric car is an overwhelming success in China. So much so that it makes no sense to call it like this

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The adoption of electric car in China It is far from what we have been watching in Europe for some time. Specifically, with a market share of 20% compared to just 6% in the EU, despite the efforts of manufacturers to electrify their fleets. This It has been growing firing for yearsthanks to direct subsidy policies, tax exemptions and, above all, a colossal investment in infrastructure. The world’s largest network for electric car recharge is there, with more than 8 million load points Ay Byd as a sales leader. The rhythm is being so vertiginous that, for some, the term “electric car” is beginning to become obsolete. The next step is the intelligent electric car. Catl word. Catl is the largest battery manufacturer globally, and one of the main weight names in the world of electric car. It provides batteries for many of the manufacturers, and at the annual meeting of the Davos Economic Forum put on the table A new term: ‘EIV’. Currently, we refer to electric vehicles such as EV (Electric Vehicle) but Pan Jian, Co -president of CALT, states that the term EIV begins to gain strength. The message is clear: the electric car is ceasing to be, simply, an electric car. Intelligence. Beyond marketing strategies, the reality is that the electric car is rotating much more than a car moved by electricity. Manufacturers like byd are planned to invest 13.6 billion dollars in IA development For electric cars. Others, such as Xiaomi, focus efforts on offering driver and Aito assistance systems, a company participated by Huawei, have given several lessons to European manufacturers about The autonomous parking. China leads the integration of intelligent technologies into electric vehicles, and the focus on software (in front of the chaos of some European manufacturers), It is a good proof of this. Upward forecasts. By 2025, It is expected that China sells a total of 12 million electric. To know if it is much or little, you can use the fact that in Europe less than one million were enrolled in Europe. Despite The obstacles that Europe wants to put to China In its price war, the country is enough and left over its local brands both in its land and outside it. Image | Byd In Xataka | NEW BYD ATTO 2: already available in Spain the bet of ByD in the electric car segment of 25,000 euros (or less)

Apple plans to present the iPhone is 4 in the next few days, according to Gurman. The arrival of the expected mobile is approaching

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Apple last updated the iPhone se Three years ago. In March 2022 A new device appeared that retained the lines, the LCD visualization panel and the Touch ID of The previous generation. It was a continuous bet that did not risk too much. This may be about to change, At least according to what Mark Gurman says. Bloomberg analyst points out that Apple plans to present the iPhone se 4 next week. Shipments, according to the sources consulted, would begin at the end of the month. We are facing a rumor that does not go unnoticed because it is one of the most anticipated phones of the Cupertino company, mainly for what its review promises. What to expect from the iPhone se 4? Rumors about the device have been accumulating for a long time, all before the silence that Apple usually. Recall that the apple signature does not usually provide No track about your products until the day of your presentation. However, Gurman’s reputation allows us to carefully contemplate the following unofficial information. It will have a bigger screen with Face ID Will release design without the classic starting button Will equip an A18 chip like the one that has the iPhone 16 Will stop using the modem made by Qualcomm How could it be anticipated, the iPhone will be compatible with Apple Intelligence. Gurman does not need the amount of RAM that the phone will have, but we could assume that it will arrive with 8 GB to support this feature that has become central for the firm led by Tim Cook. What has been confirmed that it is that It will arrive with USB-C port. Nor are there details about the price, data that we will know if it finally occurs within a few days. As a reference, the iPhone 3 reached the market in 2022 at a price of 529 euros. This year also promises to be interesting for the rest of the family’s products, with the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro receiving important updates. Images | AB In Xataka | Samsung Galaxy S25+, Analysis: When you are really great, continuity is the right decision … but with extra with

The calendar is already marked

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More than a year has passed since Rockstar Games made public the existence of ‘GTA VI’ and publish the first game of the game. At that time, in December 2023, we knew that the last installment of the successful franchise would arrive in 2025. We had no concrete dates, not even a more precise launch window. The absence of details by the company ended up feeding rumors about a possible delay until 2026. In May last year, however, Take-Two announced that the game that has been protagonists to Jason and Lucia as protagonists It would be published in autumn of 2025providing tranquility to the players and deactivating speculation. Take-Two has reconfirmed the launch date of GTA VI Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, said at that time that the launch window was released within the framework of the company’s tax results, and added that it would be Rockstar that would make known more concrete dates. Since then we did not have news again, and the rumors reappeared. In the statement corresponding to the third fiscal quarterTake-Two has reconfirmed the launch date of ‘GTA VI‘. And he has done so gave some more than interesting details of how his calendar will be this year, a period of time in which other titles will arrive long expected by the supporters of the creatives based in New York. “Looking to the future, this calendar year is emerging as one of the strongest in history for Take-Two, since we plan to launch. ‘Sid Meier’s Civilization VII‘February 11,’Mafia: The Old Country in the Summer‘,’Grand Theft Aut VI ‘In Autumnand ‘Borderlands 4‘. He has said the Rockstar Games matrix this Thursday. As we can see, ‘GTA VI’ is still aimed for an autumn release. This suggests that the game is in your Final development phase, and heads to land on different platforms. It is time to continue waiting for Rockstar announced that concrete launch date that presumably will allow us to reserve the game in advance. Images | Take-two In Xataka | The most important thing about the ‘FIFA’ games was that they were called ‘FIFA’: EA is checking the weight of a franchise

The probability that the asteroid falls on Earth has risen to 2.3%. Even the Webb Telescope is monitoring it

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The last NASA calculations They place the probability that the asteroid 2024 YR4 impact with the land by 2.3%, a figure that the European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed with Its own 2.27% estimate. For those who have lost their account, in just one week of observations We have gone from 1 between 83 possibilities that the asteroid crosses the planet Earth to 1 between 43. The options are still low, but they are high enough for the offices of NASA planetary defense and that They have intensified their monitoring efforts. To the James Webb space telescope, 10,000 million dollars, will be monitoring The little asteroid. 2024 YR4 is not much, but with A diameter of between 40 and 90 meterscould destroy an entire city if it survived the reentry and impact an urban area. When? On January 22, 2032. Where? At some point in the strip that extends from the East of the Pacific Ocean to northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea and the south of Asia. It should be noted that These impact estimates They are calculated taking as reference the quotient between the diameter of the earth and the width of the area of ​​uncertainty of the asteroid, generated from simulations. The problem: 2024 YR4 is moving away from Earth In an elliptical trajectorywhich hinders its detection with conventional instruments. In a few weeks it will have become so faint that even professional four -meter telescopes have trouble capturing it. As of April, it will be necessary to resort to the Webb or the Vary Large Telescope of the Austral European Observatory to continue watching it until the object reappears In June 2028. The monitoring of the trajectory of an asteroid is a dynamic process that surely gives us a roller coaster of emotions. As more observations from the asteroid and its trajectory have, the probability of impact could increase again and then progressively reduce until reaching zeroconfirming the main hypothesis: that the asteroid will pass by instead of colliding with the earth. If not, the good news is that humanity has experience in asteroid diversion. In 2022, NASA’s dart mission He showed that it is possible to alter the trajectory of a spatial object through a kinetic impact. This historical achievement is the empirical test that we have the technology and knowledge necessary to at least try to protect our planet. Meanwhile, the UN has put on alert the Space Missions Advisory Group (SMPAG), which agreed to meet again at the end of April or early May to study possible mitigation measures in case the probability of impact is maintained or increased . Image | Daniel Bamberger In Xataka | The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has risen to 1.6%. The UN has already activated a special protocol

The next the gold era are the data centers and Softbank has seen it perfectly

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In 2025 the technology giants will dedicate a lot, a lot of money to data centers. Microsoft speaks of 80,000 million dollars of investment and google of 75,000 million. Not to mention Stargate projectwho plans to go further and Invest 500,000 million dollars With softbank and openai as protagonists. And precisely SoftBank seems to be preparing an important movement to take advantage of this true gold fever. Ampere in the spotlight. As indicated in Bloomberg, SoftBank is in advanced negotiations for the acquisition of ampere. The firm designs and manufactures processors for servers in data centers, and does so using ARM technology. 6,500 million valuation. Ampere is participated in 29% by Oracle, and the current estimate of its value is around 6,500 million dollars. In 2021 SoftBank already negotiated a possible investment that placed the ampere value at 8,000 million dollars, but since then the competition and evolution of the semiconductor market has made this assessment change. ARM would have a great ally. Wednesday ARM presented Your fiscal results. Although income grew 19%, he warned that he would not be able to reach the maximum income for the income of 2025 he had previously advanced. That caused a fall of 6% of its actions. The company, which is the pillar of the mobile segment, has long tried to make the leap to the market and AI market, and ampere would be an interesting ally in that area. Promising chips. Ampere presented its ampereone processors last year, which is expected this year they reach Have a version of 256 cores. This chip, manufactured with 3 Nm photolithography, will have an important competitive advantage: efficiency, something crucial for data centers. Attracting data centers. Precisely having more efficient chips and that consume less energy is increasingly important for data centers, than They threaten with “swallow” up to 1,000 power in 2026. Truce between ARM and Qualcomm? There is one more interesting factor. Qualcomm is current ampere ally since both are developing an inference chip of the set. The funny thing here is that ARM was involved in a legal process with Qualcomm. However Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm, He indicated Wednesday At the Conference for Investors, he stressed that ARM had withdrawn the demand for violation of the license agreement. That announcement seems to be able to be related to the negotiations between SoftBank and Ampere: if Arm “has made peace” with Qualcomm, a possible ampere-anm-qualcomm triplet raises important advantages in order to compete in a market as complex as this. Image | Miki Yoshihito | In Xataka | Qualcomm dodges a lethal bullet and is winning his judgment against ARM: that is crucial for the future of his PC chips

Cold shower is as useless as early

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In recent years, some of the welfare and productivity gurus seem to have proposed torture their followers with the most inhuman torments. First was the fashion of getting up at five in the morning to complete An endless ritual. Now, the new fashion is to make immersions in ice water every morning with the excuse of relieving stress, reducing inflammation and strengthening defenses. Science has already dismantled the supposed benefits of get up at five, And now it is the turn of the icy water baths. Researchers from the University of Southern Australia They have not found evidence Of the miracles that the gurus attribute to this practice. The Influencers of the cold. In recent years, polar baths, also known as dives in cold water have won Huge popularity. Elite athletes and professional players like LeBron James, immerse themselves in ice water baths behind competitions. Even Gwyneth Paltrow dedicated one of the episodes of Your series The Goop Lab to show the alleged therapeutic benefits of immersing yourself in frost waters. That trend has become popular reaching all kinds of people who only seek general welfare or simply reduce stress levels. Social networks and influencersThey have attributed multiple benefits to physical and mental health to these bathrooms. However, science has wanted to verify whether the dives in ice water are as beneficial as social networks have made us believe. Bathing is fine, the temperature is optional. The researchers from the University of Australia del Sur decided to scientifically evaluate the alleged benefits of soaking in ice water. For this they carried out a meta -analysis of 11 global studies, whose results were Published in Plos One. For the analysis, the dives and cold showers were used with temperatures between 7 and 15 ºC for a time range between 30 seconds and two hours. Although some benefits attributed to this practice were identified in the results, the researchers discovered that existing evidence focuses mainly on athletes and not on the general population. Forget the cure for stress. The researchers assured in their report that the effects of the dives in ice water against stress were not the announced “we discovered that immersion in cold water could reduce stress levels, but only for about 12 hours after exposure.” That is, no evidence of the immersions in ice water was observed have an immediate effect on stress levels, or an appreciable long -term effect. “We noticed that the participants who took cold showers of 20, 60 or 90 seconds granted slightly higher quality of life. But again, after three months these effects had disappeared,” the researchers explained in their report. What does not take away your dream, makes you stronger. Nor were the results in the improvement of sleep quality. The study found links between the improvements in sleep quality and dives in cold water, although this conclusion was based on limited data exclusively to men, which, which Claim more research in various population groups. The researchers did not venture to ensure that the dives in cold water could have a positive effect on the immune system because, although it is true that a 29 % reduction in labor absences Related to diseases among those who took cold showers, no significant improvements were recorded in the immediate immune response to exposure to cold. These data indicate that, although there are possible advantages in exposure to ice water, the effects of this exposure are not consistent or durable, which doubts the generalized efficacy that the gurus attribute. The “Agujeta” of the cold. Among the most amazing findings made by Australian researchers is the inflammatory response to dives in cold water. Contrary to popular belief, instead of reducing inflammation, baths in ice water caused “significant increases in inflammation,” both immediately and an hour later. According to the researchers, this reflects an “acute inflammatory response” of the body to the stress caused by the cold. In the words of the study co -author, Ben Singh, “this immediate peak in inflammation is part of a process of adaptation similar to muscle damage caused by exercise, which subsequently strengthens the muscles.” That is, like bosples, this adaptive effect can be positive for athletes from High physical performancebut Singh stressed that it could be harmful to people with some pre -existing pathology. In other words, unless you have just participated in an Olympic test, shower with cold water alone Your productivity will improve in which the sense that it will take less to shower and you can Dedicate that time To other tasks. In Xataka | In 1947 the Yukón reached -63ºC. So a scientist began to listen to conversations five kilometers away Image | Pexels (Olavi Antila)

Mobile app, Internet search and free images generation

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In his attempt to compete with Openai Chatgpt, the European Startup Mistral AI launched in February its chatbot le chat. But, for some reason, it was only available on the web and its functions were limited. That has just changed with its arrival to iOS and Android, as well as novelties to attract competition users. Speed ​​as a flag. In the world of AI chatbots, users have a wide range of options. From the proposal developed by the company led by Sam Altman to Copilot Microsoft, Claude de Anthropic or Deepseek. In Mistral AI they know well, and they wanted to move token so as not to lose positions in this competition. The main trick of the renovated le chat is the performance, which works with “the most performance and lower latency” models. ” As we can see, the company specifically says what a language model is under the hood of its chatbot, but we know that Develop products as Mistral Large, Mistral Small, Mistral Edge and Codestral. This underlying technology is complemented with an experimental characteristic called Flash Answers whose objective is to provide answers in record time. The promise that its speed is better than that of “any other assistant.” It is important to note that we cannot use Flash Answers unlimitedly since it has limits of use for all plans. Tell ‘Hello’ to the search on the web. Le chat is also updated with the possibility of searching on the web, something that most of the alternatives have already incorporated. The knowledge of the models has a temporary limit, so if we want to access updated information we can ask the chatbot to perform an internet search. Sometimes, Le Chat will use this function automatically, but in certain cases we must specify in our order to use the search function. Mistral AI wanted to give this novelty a plus by adding a section called “Fuentes”, which will tell us where the information has come from and will provide us with the original links. Code vision and execution capabilities. Le Chat can also analyze images and documents thanks to the vision capacity of his models. In this case, we can share from a photograph to a PDF document and ask you related questions. The chatbot also includes a code interpreter for programmers. Image generation. There are several models that give life to Le Chat’s functionalities. One of them is Flux Ultra, which will allow us to create quite realistic images. At least that is the promise that the company itself has made, and holds it with a comparative picture of images generated by Grok, Chatgpt and its own chatbot. Memories, Le Chat’s memory. At this time it is not available, but a novelty called “Memories” should arrive soon, which is learning things like our tastes and preferences. It is something like the chatgpt memory, which allows you to know the user to provide better answers over time. Mobile application. The European chatbot, which since its launch has been available only on the web, now has mobile application. You can download it for free On iPhone through the App Store And on Android from Google Play. Cheaper than competition. Le chat has three levels. The free level, as we say, offers access to the “The latest Mistral Models”, Web Search, File Load, Data Analysis, Image Generation and Flash Answers. The disadvantage? There are limits of use that are more generous in paid plans. The PRO level costs 14.99 euros per month and has “unlimited” access to the best performance model and web navigation. It also arrives with “unlimited” messages, an “extended” use of news function, advanced data analysis and image generation. It also offers the possibility of not sharing data with Mistral. There is also a Team level of 24.99 euros per users per month. This is a company -oriented version that offers live journalistic information with AFP news, file loading, advanced data analysis, centralized billing and administration and dedicated technical support. Conversations are not shared with a default Mistral. Images | Mistral ai In Xataka | Amazon lost the AI ​​train, but wants to recover it. The new Alexa with ia will arrive this month to try

Soviet technology to avoid the sanctions of the West

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Russia’s Minister of Industry and Commerce, Anton Alikhanov, has announced than the first TUPOLEV TU-214 Updated will be ready this year. If everything goes as planned, customers will continue to receive it in 2026. It is a medium -distance passenger plane whose origin dates back to the late 1980s and that, curiously, in this new stage it could be less advanced than in Its previous version. The production of TU-214 It has never been significant. RZJETS Figure The amount in around 85, many of which were removed from service. The latter made sense if we take into account that the Russian airlines had access to the Boeing and Airbus aircraft, but this scenario changed drastically with the invasion of Ukraine. International sanctions severely hit the air sector of the Eurasian country. The sanctions have hit the Russian airlines From that moment, the airlines are established in Russia not only have not been able to buy new Western aircraftbut have been seen in serious problems to guarantee the maintenance of the previously acquired units. Access to the spare parts and technical assistance of the manufacturers were quickly off the scene, which forced companies ―And the government – to take measures to guarantee transport. The airlines began to stop using the most modern aircraft of their fleets, which are those where to get spare parts by alternative roads is more difficult, and the authorities announced a plan to restart the production of some models of the Soviet era, including the Tu- 214, to reach 1,000 units in the 2030s. This goal, certainly, is accompanied by a variety of challenges aggravated by sanctions. How BBC collectssome experts believe that Russia could choose to relive versions older versions than the last produced of their aircraft, which depended less on foreign components, but at the same time were less advanced. Here an obsolete version of TU-214 would enter into the scene that had a low level of automation and forced to have a crew of three people to be able to fly it. In addition to the pilot and co -pilot roles, it would be necessary to have the figure of the flight engineer, which would be responsible for performing many tasks manually. Then, from a broader perspective, it will not only be necessary to launch the plant equipment and the supply chain of hundreds of suppliers, but also to modify the training received by pilots and flight engineers. The updated plane that we mentioned at the beginning of this article is not a unit produced decades ago. 72RU explains that it is a registered plane with the number 64509 that belonged to Transaero Airlines and that stopped flying in 2015. In recent years, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) was transferred within the framework of the project to eliminate foreign components, an objective that seems to be advanced. Konstantín Timofeev, UAC general deputy director, said last year that Tu-214 with “Russian components” made its first flight in November. He also pointed out that this would be the platform on which they would continue to work on the modernization of the plane, as well as in the creation of a cabin for two members. On the latter, it is not clear if it will come true in the units that hope to deliver this year. The TU-214 is a narrow fuselage aircraft designed for medium distance flights and equipped with turbofán engines Пс-90A updateds. With the ability to transport Between 155 and 210 passengersit is considered the Russian equivalent of the Boeing 757. If the production manages to resume, the manufacture of units for export is not expected, but will be destined exclusively to Russian airlines. Images | Tupolev In Xataka | A report has revealed that US air traffic control technology is obsolete. There are pieces that are no longer achieved

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