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its second brand will go far beyond the electric car

May 19, 2026 by usatoday24

Xiaomi is here to stay in the automobile market. And given its evolution, it is very likely that it will be studied as one of the most striking success stories in history. No half measures. And it is that, As we have already explained in Xatakathe automobile industry is full of corpses of who could have been and stayed by the way. Although much has been said about the ease that the electric car offers so that brands completely unrelated to the world of motor take the leap into this new businessXiaomi has been one of the few companies to achieve this and, it seems, to expand its business beyond China. In just three yearsthe company went from announcing its first car to having two on the market and sweeping sales. A Xiaomi SU7 that stands up to the large electric sedans of the moment at a fraction of the price of the Tesla Model S or the Porsche Taycan and a Xiaomi YU7 that points even higher, to a slightly higher level of luxury. Since both models were revealed, there have been rumors about what would be the next step of the company, what type of car they would launch. Already during the launch of its electric SUV, it was put on the table that Xiaomi had the launch of a car with a combustion engine on its hands. And there seems to be some truth. Because, according to what we know, it will be Xiaomi’s second brand, Sky Nomad, that will be in charge of bringing this car with a combustion engine to the street. Sky Nomad, this we know about Xiaomi’s second brand Although the launch of a new Xiaomi car is something that has been rumored for months, the appearance of this new sub-brand is something that has not been talked about strongly enough. until a few days ago. And it is that chinese media They have echoed that Xiaomi has registered the SKYNOMAD name in English and xa tian in Chinese. The intention would be to have a second brand, positioned slightly below Xiaomi that serves to offer a slightly different product than the one we already know. It would be something like your Redmi for cars. The rumors of this new brand have gained even more strength with the publication of some spy photos of a first test mule that appeared in Autohome. The car, they say CarNewsChina It is a 5.30 meter long SUV with a 3.10 meter long wheelbase (approximate figures). But the interesting thing is in its technology. And everything indicates that the car will be an extended range electric car. That is, a car with a combustion engine that works with the touch of an electric one because these motors are the ones that always push the car, acting as the combustion engine, a 1.5T as we usually see in many other Chinese cars, which acts as a generator to produce electricity for the battery. With this technology, it is expected that the new car from the Xiaomi sub-brand can travel between 400 and 500 km in purely electric mode and that the total autonomy will reach 1,500 km. This movement is interesting because without state aid, the electric car market had slowed down in China and the public seems to have been more interested in cars that, as in this case, can rely on the help of a combustion engine. The intention is to position this brand one step below Xiaomi. That is, Skynomad would serve as an entry range to the brand’s cars, with a perspective of sub-family cars with plug-in technology but with a combustion engine. Above all, Xiaomi would remain the reference brand for high-performance electric cars. The project seems to be more than advanced. Chinese media suggest that the company internally names this car as Kunlun N3 and that will be the spearhead of a strategy that will seek to fight for quality-price and that targets new markets. According to CarNewsChinathe new release will seek to overshadow Li Auto and Aitothe two most recognized brands in China with extended range electric models. The media points out that Skynomad would be positioned in price below the 250,000 yuan (about 31,500 euros) at which this segment operates. But, in addition, they do not rule out that the company uses the car to attack new markets that are less evolved in terms of electric cars. It is a good opportunity for Xiaomi to begin to gain a foothold in markets where the charging network is less dense. In its strategy, Xiaomi would have already begun to diversify the purchase of batteries. They point in the middle 21 Business Herald that the company has started buying batteries at sunwoda and CALBand thus diversify the suppliers that, until now, focused on CATL and BYD. Sunwoda is also the company that more batteries sold for hybrid mechanics and CALB is the third largest battery supplier for the Chinese market, behind the two giants already mentioned. Photo | Xiaomi In Xataka | In its assault on the electric car, Xiaomi has a clear path: an all-star team of engineers from Porsche, BMW and Lamborghini

eliminates another service and prices are through the roof

May 19, 2026 by usatoday24

In May 2024, The Madrid-Galicia AVE was launched. After years of complaints, high speed was entering Galician territory to change the rules of the game in mobility between the two autonomous communities. We were not aware of the latter two years ago. And it is that he AVE to Galicia He arrived surrounded by controversy. The first days were marked by delays. In order to take the trains to the Galician railway tracks, Renfe has had to use those known as Talgo S-106 or AVRIL. They are trains that can combine two different track gauges, essential in a country where the train was founded on Iberian gauge tracks and which, later, has added international gauge tracks for its high speed. This historical peculiarity It is one of the reasons why Renfe has taken so long to arrive in Galicia and also the main reason why Ouigo and Iryo do not consider entering to compete with the company in this line. And, at the moment, Talgo trains are the only ones that provide this service. But also, as as the Galicians could see in the first days of 2025 and how the people of Madrid and Catalans have verified that move on the Madrid-Barcellona, are not the most reliable trains on the market. And despite everything, despite the fact that Renfe is looking for new partners that they offer you this “jumping the road” solution and despite the fact that Passage times are still higher than promisedthe train has managed to win the battle against the airlines. The result: fewer tickets and very high prices. By air, at 180 euros (in the best of cases) Since high speed reached Madrid-Galicia, the movement capacity between both autonomous communities has skyrocketed. We saw the first clues last summer. Iberia retracted its offer between both autonomous communities because the train, especially the early one, was more attractive despite taking four hours longer. The reasons are obvious: lower prices and easier access to the station in relatively small cities such as Vigo or Santiago de Compostela (compared to the airport). And, adding the time to get to the airport, boarding, getting off the plane and the time it takes to get to the center of Madrid from Barajasthe traveler had spent more or less the same time but with a more uncomfortable means of transportation. The result is that the options for flying have decreased and are less competitive. The first flight between Vigo and Madrid is the Air Europa that lands at Barajas Airport at 9:50. To that time we must add the time to get off the plane and get to the city center, which may well be an hour in the best of cases. Practically at the same time (five minutes later) the first train arrives from Vigo to Madrid but one is already inside the city. Something similar has happened with the return trips to Madrid, although here the plane continues to win. The train, however, allows speed up time more until reaching the station from the center of the city, which results in better use of the day and greater comfort. Right now, with the decline of the airlines, only Air Europa with a flight at 9:05 p.m. allows you to take advantage of the day until the end. Despite the decline, this air offer was still very useful for those who spend the weekend in one city or another and return late on Sunday. However, the use of the train continues to narrow the supply on airlines. As they say in Vigo LighthouseIberia has eliminated one more Sunday flight and now its offer is limited to two journeys at the end of the week. These flights leave Vigo at 1:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m., so they are not very competitive for those who live in Madrid during the week and travel to Galicia on the weekends. Much less so are their prices, which do not go below 180 euros and, with less supply available, dynamic prices have reached 330 euros in some cases. Furthermore, being operated by Air Nostrum with a Bombardier CRJ-1000the available places are even smaller, moving into the hundreds. Very far from the 180 places that the Airbus A320common in national trips. The success of Renfe among Galicians has been reducing the air supply and for now only Air Europa remains firm in its commitment with 1,500 seats daily and four flights in each direction. Outside of this low cost offer, the options are minimal. And they are getting smaller and smaller. The problem in this case is that the departure of Iberia puts even more pressure on the AVE supply on Sunday afternoon which, as in the case of the airline, does not allow you to take advantage of the afternoon because the last trip leaves before 2:00 p.m. from Vigo. Yes indeed, given dynamic prices It is possible that we will see increases in their prices because the air alternative is less. As little used as it is. Photo | Phil Richards and Bene Riobó In Xataka | Renfe is looking for new trains for the AVE and something much more important: not making the same mistake as with Talgo

If Europe wants to bet on its agriculture, it is doing it wrong

May 19, 2026 by usatoday24

In the last decade, the European Union has lost three million agricultural holdings. That is almost 25% of all those that existed in 2013. And it is curious because, in its last cycle alone, the Common Agricultural Policy is spending 387,000 million euros. What are we spending all that money on? A poorly posed question. I recognize it. When one sees the enormous amount of money that the CAP moves and its central role in the Union’s debates, one tends to assume that this “silent” transformation of the European field is taking place. despite of Brussels policies. However, when we look at the data, doubts arise. According to the European Court of Auditors and the Commission20% of the beneficiaries take around 80% of the funds. To the extent that the CAP distributes direct payments based on hectares, we can say that those 20% are the large landowners. In Spain, for landing the datathe 1% that receive the most help concentrate 28%; 10%, 62%; and 20%, 79%. It is a scheme that strongly encourages concentration. And it shows. Continuing with the Spanish case, the country has lost 180,000 farms in the last 15 years. Only between 2020 and 2023, 12.4% were lost. In this he has had a lot to see about the pandemic and the Ukrainian Warbut everything takes on a new prism when we realize that macro agricultural holdings grew by 6%. The result is that that 20% that accumulates 79% of the CAP represents 7% of the agricultural area. We are seeing it in the crown jewel of the Spanish countryside: the olive grove. As Datadista and Greenpeace explained, the accelerated entry of investment funds has disrupted the sea of olive trees. We are moving from a traditional dry-land olive grove to a super-intensive hedgerow olive grove on irrigated land. But… is this a problem? To answer this question, it is best to look at the Netherlands, the European “crystallization” of what is at the end of the trend that drives the CAP. Netherlands is second (or third, depending on the year) agri-food exporter in the world and it is in a territory smaller than Galicia, with 1.81 million agricultural hectares and only 52,106 farms. That is to say, its productivity per hectare is crazy. For this reason, the concentration of the CAP is also extreme: 1% takes 40% of the funds. The problem is that it is not environmentally sustainable: between 2022 and 2024, nitrogen emissions caused an unprecedented political crisis. Something that, with the slurry ponds either the crises of the Mar Menorwe are also seeing in Spain constantly. And now what? That is the central question. Because this CAP lasts only until 2027 and just now we are starting to discuss what we want for the future. Considering how quickly things have changed in recent years, that future may be completely different from anything we know. Image | Rob Mulder In Xataka | In California, the funds discovered that there is no investment more profitable than farmland. Now it’s Spain’s turn

there are too many AI agents

May 19, 2026 by usatoday24

2026 started with the viral success of OpenClawmarking a new trend in the AI boom, because a chatbot that answers your questions is fine, but a AI agent that does complex tasks for you is much better. In this context, more and more workers are creating their own agents that make their work easier, often with companies encouraging them with their policies of tokenmaxxing. Now, some companies are realizing it’s a problem. what’s happening. They tell it in the Wall Street Journal. The success of platforms such as OpenClaw or Claude Cowork has lowered the barrier to entry for any employee to create their own AI agents, even without having programming knowledge. This has caused some companies to be inundated with these agents, often with functions that overlap between them and without centralized control. This is the case of the healthcare company DaVita, where employees have already created more than 10,000 agents. The problem. Having so many agents is a nightmare from an information management and security point of view. As each employee does it on the fly, there is no unified system, but one creates it on his laptop with Claude Cowork, another does it on the server… This means that the technical departments cannot have control of all the agents in the company. There is another important problem: more agents, more token consumption and higher bills. As we said, many of these agents are doing the same tasks, one for each employee. It’s like paying for dozens of different taxis to take each person separately to the same place, instead of sharing a bus. Agents for everything. There are many workers creating AI agents to help them with day-to-day tasks, from simple things like summarizing emails or writing a report, to higher-level tasks like automating workflows. There are also more aggressive approaches like Meta’swhich was building an AI agent for its CEO and in the future proposes that each employee have their own, so that communication will be done through the agents. Unify. It is the solution to avoid duplication of agents and security risks, but it is not an easy task for companies that already have this problem. In statements to the Wall Street Journal, Lyft says that they have managed to create a process so that employees can share the Claude’s Skills between them, avoiding duplication of efforts, and they are also working on a centralized platform so that the IT department can control all the agents. At DaVita, the company we mentioned above, they have banned the use of agentic AI tools among employees to prevent the proliferation of more agents. More control. All of these issues are not dampening enthusiasm for agents, but rather pushing platforms to offer more centralized control and governance features. This is the case of Anthropic, which has launched functions to facilitate management by administrators, such as access roles, expense management and usage analysis. Image | Xataka with Magnific In Xataka | Silicon Valley begins to look beyond salary and shares: AI tokens as an indicator of productivity

Tesla’s solar roof was going to revolutionize this segment. Ten years later it pivots to manufacture lifelong solar panels

May 19, 2026 by usatoday24

A decade ago Elon Musk seemed capable of anything, and many of us believed that had another revolution in his hand with Solar Roofthe Tesla solar roof that revolutionized conventional installations to camouflage them with the roofs of our houses. Their goal was to install 1,000 of these solar roofs every week by the end of 2019. The reality: there are about 3,000 solar roofs in total, and the company has decided to pivot to survive. Now it is a much more conventional company that may achieve the success that its original version never came close to. Promises and realities. The deployment of the “solar roof” proposed by the Tesla subsidiary It has been an operational failure. In 2016, the promises of performance combined with sustainable design and architecture (tempered glass tiles that generated light) were very striking. Ten years later, the product represents a residual fraction of Tesla Energy’s income, and the company has decided to surrender to the evidence. They will do what others were already doing: manufacture traditional solar panels mounted on existing roofs. Complex installation. Tesla’s big mistake was not in the panels themselves, but in the physics of the construction itself. A conventional roof is installed in a couple of days, but the Solar Roof required weeks of work for an ultra-skilled workforce. Being made up of hundreds or thousands of small individual tiles, installers had to make multiple electrical connections in an environment exposed to environmental conditions. Costs skyrocketed. Thus, a single failure could render an entire section unusable, and to make everything perfect the installation costs were high: about $106,000 before incentives, when putting solar panels on a conventional roof costs about $50,000 less. Payback is achieved in about 15-25 years, compared to 7-12 for conventional panels. In a lawsuit from several clients was revealed that in some cases the price of the installation ranged from 72,000 to 146,000 dollars. Difficulties everywhere. These types of projects proved to have many obstacles. For example, the different geometries of the roofs or their shadows. There was also the fact that Tesla tried to control the entire installation process with its own personnel, but labor shortages were a bottleneck that delayed deliveries. A reasonable (but late) decision. In early 2026 Tesla launched its new solar panel, the TSP-420which makes use of a new optimization system based on 18 energy zones. Among other things, this panel solves a problem that affected the inverter architecture of Solar Roof panels. It is a much more reasonable strategy, especially since it is much more profitable and faster to install a standard panel on a roof than to do so with Solar Roof’s original proposal. It is curious that the power generation business has not worked out for him, but yes do it that of storage with their Powerwall. Musk once again promises the (perhaps) impossible. At the Davos conference, Elon Musk announced that Tesla had as its objective create 100 GW per year of solar panel manufacturing capacity in the United States. For this purpose, the purchase of solar panels and cells is proposed. worth 2.9 billion dollars to the Chinese company Suzhou Maxwell Technologies. Too many promises. The goal seems once again exaggerated. Global solar installations in the United States in 2023 reached 32 GW, and Musk aims to reach 100 GW by the end of 2028. He would have to triple the total installed capacity that there was three years ago, and do it at a frenetic pace without any problems. We have heard this story before. The challenge seems too colossal even for the tycoon, and reminds us of the promise that he himself made in 2016. It was then that he assured that his solar roof would end up costing less than conventional roofs with traditional solar panels. He also said that the SolarCity Solar Gigafactory would produce 10 GW per year. Neither of those two promises came true. In Xataka | Mexico has a brutal potential for solar energy: at the moment it has begun to exploit it with agrovoltaics

Chinese Big Tech can now buy Nvidia GPUs. The problem for Nvidia is that they don’t need it now

May 19, 2026 by usatoday24

The United States and China are immersed in a trade and technological war that has caught the line of fire to the AI giant: Nvidia. The situation is that Nvidia must prioritize AI companies from the United States to guarantee the supremacy of this country, but as a company it would be interested in taking a bite out of the giant Chinese market. And the problem is twofold: it has not been able to do so for a long time due to trade vetoes, but now that it seems that it can sell its famous H200 to China, it turns out that China has turned the page. More or less. green light. Nvidia has gone from having a monopoly on AI GPUs in China to have a 0% quota. These are the words of the CEO, Jensen Huang, and the reason is the aforementioned trade restrictions between the powers that prevented Nvidia from selling its most powerful products to the Asian giant. Huang has spent months insisting on Donald Trump’s government to allow them to sell with a very clear logic: China is going to develop its alternatives and what better way to make a profit until then. The situation is gone relaxing at the end of last year and at the beginning of this to get to the point where we are now. According to Reutersthe US Department of Commerce already allows ten Chinese companies and distributors such as Foxconn and Lenovo acquire that long-awaited H200the company’s second most powerful AI chip. Good news for the company. Or they should be if it weren’t for the fact that the Chinese industry is going its own way looking home. Alibaba, ByteDance, JD.com and Tencent are the Chinese giants that can supposedly already buy H200. Up to 75,000 chips each, to be exact. However, it is noted that they have not yet made any shipments. Here there is a mix between very restrictive bureaucracy and, above all, that emphasis on national development. Tencent, for example, noted in September last year that they had no intention of producing AI chips, but that they were going to invest a lot of money in domestic partners. For example, they are in the process of adapting their infrastructure to be able to connect Huawei’s Ascend platform (particularly the Ascend 950 series) as the main training tool for large models. A few days ago, Tencent’s strategy director already pointed out that that strategy was still in place and that the company expects a significant increase in spending on AI GPUs designed in China. Manufacturing at home. Alibaba and Bytedance have a different approach. If Tencent is focusing on acquiring Huawei platforms, Alibaba and Bytedance are looking to create their own chips. Alibaba seeks to be the most powerful RISC-V chip created to date and it was reported that Bytedance wanted Samsung will manufacture its processor. In the end, whether buying from Huawei or developing the tool internally, the two approaches respond to the great national objective: that at least 50% of the data centers that belong to the State use at least 50% Chinese integrated circuits in their servers. That is one of the great Chinese technological impulses of recent years, one of the crucial points of the Five-Year Plan for the development of the country and, above all, the strategy that Nvidia had been warning the United States about for some time. The age of inference. Because this period of ostracism to which the US condemned China has served for the country to develop three very clear alternatives to Nvidia and encourage companies that are already working with models to develop their own hardware. This is important especially in the new AI framework we are entering, that of inference. Although the AI will continue to train and GPUs will be needed for this, the next step is inference, the agentic era in which the processor or CPU is very important. AMD is moving there, same as Intel or ARMand precisely processors are something that Huawei is good at and in which the Chinese giants can shine as much as their American counterpart by developing chips tailored to their models and needs. Also, as pointed out in CNBChaving your own chips means you don’t have to fight with anyone else in a time when there is scarcity and, of course, if you don’t have to buy from an outsider, there is an improvement in the gross income margin. juicy cake. And this leaves Nvidia in that uncomfortable situation, one in which it wants to participate, but in which it seems that it is no longer needed as much as before. Because China is developing its chips for this new era of AI and Nvidia is running into a final boss called bureaucracy and the pressure groups of the ‘Make America Great Again‘. The first is due to the slowness of the export order processes, something that takes months when orders should be much more agile. The second are the aforementioned pressure groups that hold that any deals Nvidia makes with Chinese companies are less chips for American companies, something that should not be allowed. Meanwhile, Chinese companies are developing their alternatives and Huawei wants to flood the market with 750,000 chips this year, three times more than its shipments in 2025, and Nvidia is falling short of a $50 billion pie. In Xataka | The US has the best AI models. China has something else: AI too cheap to care about

the outcome has come sooner than expected

May 19, 2026 by usatoday24

There are few recent stories in technology as fraught with contradictions as that of OpenAI. It was born with a mission linked to the general interest, but ended up occupying a key place in an increasingly competitive industry. Elon Musk was at the origin of that story, then he left and later built his own artificial intelligence company. From there it led to OpenAI, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to court. The underlying question, at least in the story that Musk tried to take to court, was who could claim the original version of what OpenAI promised to be. The legal term. Before the trial could become a full review of OpenAI’s evolution, the case became bogged down in a temporal issue. The jury in Oakland, California, deliberated for about 90 minutes and concluded that Musk had filed his lawsuit too late. That left their claims blocked by the legal limit to take action in court. The jury’s decision was advisory, but Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said she accepted its conclusions as her own and that there was a substantial amount of evidence to support them. Musk’s accusation. The demand presented in February 2024 He tried to place the conflict on a very specific ground: that of a supposed breach of the founding pact. Musk accused Altman, Brockman and OpenAI of having “stolen a non-profit entity” and of having been unjustly enriched by the company’s evolution towards a structure that incorporates a for-profit arm. His reproach, brought to court, was that the project had ended up looking too much like what he said he did not want to be. OpenAI’s response. The defense tried to dismantle the lawsuit in two ways: deny the underlying betrayal and underline the calendar. OpenAI’s lawyers maintained that the organization’s mission had not changed and that the company remained governed by a nonprofit foundation board. They also focused on the moment chosen by Musk to sue: after founding xAI. The jury accepted that reading of the calendar and concluded that Musk had known about the events that he later took to court since at least 2021. The scope of the lawsuit explains why the case was followed so closely in the industry. Let us remember that Musk asked the court for measures of enormous impact: that OpenAI return more than $130 billion to its non-profit arm, that Altman and Brockman be removed from their positions and that the corporate restructuring that turned the company into one of the most valuable technology companies in the world be undone. A trial with many layers. Beyond the result, the process left something that is usually difficult to see from the outside: fragments of the internal workings of the company. During the procedure, private emails, text messages, meeting notes and much more were presented. They also declared relevant names, such as Ilya Sutskever and Shivon Zilis. Among what came to light were conversations about financing formulas, infrastructure needs, among other issues. End of the case? The ruling leaves OpenAI and its leaders with an important victory, but does not turn the confrontation into a closed story. Elon Musk’s main lawyer, Marc Toberoff, announced that they plan to appeal. The case therefore ends this phase before entering into the merits, but the dispute between the parties will apparently remain alive. Images | Gage Skidmore In Xataka | The funniest reality show of the moment is not broadcast on Telecinco: it stars the trial of Elon Musk and Sam Altman

The longest solar burst ever detected lasted almost three weeks. Four ships had to join forces to study it

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

Four different spacecraft have confirmed the detection of the longest solar burst ever recorded. measured to date. Previously, the longest known lasted 5 days. However, the one just described in a studio in The Astrophysical Journal Letter It was much longer, as it lasted from August 21 to September 9, 2025. No more and no less than 19 days. Four ships, one answer. This very special solar burst was detected for the first time by Solar Orbiter of the European Space Agency (ESA). The objective of this spacecraft is none other than to study the poles and solar winds, as well as the Sun’s magnetic field, from a close distance. It was not the first solar burst that he had detected, but he had never encountered one of these characteristics. The results were confirmed twelve days later by the ships wind and Parker Solar Probeboth from NASA. A few days later, the STEREO-Aalso from NASA, again supported the same result. A type IV burst. This long burst is a type IV burst. A phenomenon that occurs when electrons are trapped in the Sun’s magnetic field is known as a solar flare, so that they begin to spiral around its lines, generating a large amount of electromagnetic radiation. There are five types. Those of type IV They have wide bandwidths and can last for hours. The duration of this was much longer, which is why it attracted so much attention. The key is in coronal mass ejections. Solar flares are completely harmless. And, unlike other phenomena, such as solar winds or coronal mass ejections, they do not release plasma or charged particles, only radio waves. Therefore, they would not affect telecommunications on Earth. Now, in this case it has been seen that the burst could be related to coronal mass ejections. According to the clues collected by STEREO-A and the scientists’ reconstructions, there must have been 3 coronal mass ejections that served as food for the radio burst. But what is that? Coronal mass ejections are abrupt releases of plasma that are generated in the solar corona when a lot of energy accumulates in it. Possibly, these three ejections were supplying electrons to the explosion, such that there were always electrons trapped and rotating around the magnetic field. That, possibly, is what made this burst last so long. When he was running out of “food”, the Sun was giving him more. Very important. These types of findings are very important because they help us better understand how the Sun works. Solar activity follows cycles of approximately 11 years, with peaks and low points. In 2025 there was a big peak, especially active. Studying everything that happened at that time is very useful to better understand this type of phenomena, especially those that can affect telecommunications, such as solar winds or coronal mass ejections themselves. In this case, the ejecta had not been seen as such, but the long trail they left had been seen. Analyzing that footprint is as useful as it is for paleontologists to study those left by the dinosaurs. Image | THAT In Xataka | The Webb and Hubble telescopes simultaneously observed Jupiter’s auroras. The problem is that they didn’t see the same thing

the fine print matters as much as the price

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

If you were thinking about signing up for PlayStation Plusit may be worth checking the calendar. Sony has announced a price rise for its subscription service, which offers monthly games, online multiplayer and other benefits to users of its consoles. The change comes into effect tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20, although with an important nuance: it will not affect all users equally. The announcement has come through a message posted on X. The Japanese company has indicated that the increase responds to current “market conditions” and that the new rates will start at 10.99 dollars, 9.99 euros and 7.99 pounds for one-month subscriptions, and at 27.99 dollars, 27.99 euros and 21.99 pounds for three-month subscriptions. Click to see the original publication in X The immediate question is which markets exactly this rise will reach. At the moment, Sony has not published a official list of countries not one entry in the PlayStation blog with more details. We only have that message, quite brief, for reference. Sony explains that the new PlayStation Plus prices will only apply to new subscribers in “select regions.” It also adds the following: “This price change does not apply to current subscribers (except in Türkiye and India) unless the existing subscription changes or expires.” The statement leaves some unknowns open. The expression “prices will start at” presumably points to the plan essentialthe entry level of the service. In Spain, this modality currently costs 8.99 euros per month and 24.99 euros if contracted for three months. If the increase is finally applied to the Spanish market, the change would mean paying 1 euro more in the monthly plan and 3 euros more in the quarterly plan. What we still don’t know is what will happen with the other levels of the service. PlayStation Plus Extra and PlayStation Plus Premium are the most expensive modalities and include additional benefits, such as Ubisoft+ Classics, a broader catalog of games, classics and title trials, depending on the contracted plan. For now, Sony has not given details about possible changes to these subscriptions. We’ve contacted Sony for more information about the extent of the upload and will update this article if we hear back. Images | sony In Xataka | Pluto is in Sagittarius and that can only mean one thing: the third trailer for ‘GTA VI’ will be out on May 14

The million-dollar question in Cupertino is whether Apple can continue being Apple without Tim Cook: Crossover 1×45

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

Tim Cook will stop being CEO of Apple after almost 15 years at the head of the company. It will do so next September 1, the date on which will pass the baton to John Ternusa man of the house with a different career. While Cook has proven to be a genius of logistics and efficiency, Ternus is a man of product and not so much of numbers. This makes us think about the impact that this movement can have from an Apple that in recent years many have criticized for having lost its innovative spirit. The company has shown great success in making the iPhone the absolute center of its strategy, but will that continue to be enough?

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