that foreign truck drivers validate their licenses

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Almost everything you consume has traveled in a truck at some point in the process. From the fruit that arrives in the supermarkets to the Amazon package that you have been waiting for all day. Road transport moves a good part of the economy in Spain and, at this moment, this gear has a serious problem: there is a lack of drivers for these trucks. Many drivers. The situation has reached a point where Spain has been exploring for months an avenue that a few years ago was unthinkable: exchanging foreign licenses so they can drive transport vehicles on Spanish roads. A deficit that gives no respite. According to the data provided by the Government to EFEthe road transport sector has a deficit of more than 20,000 professional drivers that must be covered urgently. However, the Spanish Confederation of Freight Transport (CETM) expand that figure up to more than 30,000 unfilled positions so as not to be in the same situation again in the medium term. In statements to The VanguardFilippo Welter, director of the fleet solutions company Eurowag Spain, assured that “more than 50% of current drivers are over 55 years old. This means that in the coming years there will be many retirements and very few young people are entering the profession.” He sector It estimates that it will need about 24,000 new drivers per year to compensate for the rate of retirement of current staff. The solution: validate cards. According to data from the DGT published by EFEIn 2025, 15,589 exchanges of type C (truck) and type D (bus) driving licenses were processed for foreign citizens. This represents an increase of 12% compared to the previous year, when the figure stood at 13,903 exchanged permits. The trend does not stop growing and reflects how urgent the situation is for a sector that has been warning for years that it has no relief. In May 2025, the DGT launched a new system digital permit exchange, available to citizens of countries with which Spain has bilateral agreements of reciprocal recognition. This system was intended to speed up the validation process to attract more foreign drivers. Peru, Morocco and Colombia, those that request the most exchanges. The three countries where the most professionals have exchanged their license in Spain are Peru, Morocco and Colombia. In 2025, Peruvian drivers were the most numerous, with 4,317 exchanges, which represents 27% of the total processed that year, compared to 3,781 in 2024. They are followed by Moroccan drivers, with 2,248 exchanges in 2025, compared to 2,142 the previous year; and the Colombians, who went from 639 to 1,206 exchanges. To further facilitate the incorporation of Moroccan drivers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that it maintains a flexibility in the validation requirements for holders of Moroccan professional licenses, exempting them from taking the theoretical exam, although they do They must pass a practical test and obtain the Certificate of Professional Aptitude (CAP). A structural problem with no quick solution. The exchange of licenses is an urgent response, but no one in the sector considers it sufficient to address the driver deficit. It is not just a problem for Spain, It is a global problem. to try change that dynamicthe Government approved last November a Royal Decree that regulates the Reconduce Planwhich grants aid of up to 3,000 euros for obtain permits C and D. Furthermore, the executive has signed special agreements with countries like Türkiye to make it easier for Turkish drivers to work in Spain. The problem: there is no generational change. However, beyond the agreements and facilities that the Government is applying, the underlying problem that is putting the road transport sector in check is the same one that many other sectors suffer: absence of a generational change. According to data from the International Road Transport Organization (IRU), the average age of truck drivers in Spain is 47 years old and only 3% of professionals are under 25 years old. Even though sector salaries have been on the rise in recent years driven by staff shortages, the profession does not attract young people for reasons that go beyond salary: long hours away from home, schedules incompatible with family conciliation and a process of accessing permits that can take almost a year and cost between 3,000 and 4,000 euros. In Xataka | Public transport has a problem: drivers are retiring and there is no one left behind the wheel Image | Unsplash (Konstantin Kitsenuik)

burnout is the new symptom of a broken system

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“It doesn’t give me life.” This phrase, repeated almost like a daily mantra, has become the universal excuse to cancel a meeting with friends, postpone a call or justify an unanswered email. What used to be a specific fatigue after a hard week is today, as the journalist Ana Morales points out in her book Marital status: tireda lifestyle that we have completely normalized. However, behind this apparent everyday life lies an unprecedented social and public health fracture: an epidemic of chronic stress and burnout that is taking its toll on our bodies, our minds and our way of relating. The x-ray of the collapse. In Spain, the data paint a suffocating reality. 40% of workers in our country link their stress, anxiety or depression directly to your job. To put the magnitude of the problem in context: the European average is 29% and only four countries on the entire continent – ​​Greece, Finland, Cyprus and Poland – surpass us in these rates of work distress. Despite the seriousness of these figures, the weight continues to be placed on individual resilience instead of investing resources in organizational and structural solutions. But this collapse is by no means an Iberian anomaly; It is a real unstoppable global trend. Internationally, an overwhelming majority of the adult population confesses to being overwhelmed by purely everyday factors: 70% point to the general economy as a very or somewhat significant source of stress in their lives, 63% point to money and finances, and 55% to family responsibilities. The impact is so profound that stress devours hundreds of billions a year in Western economies, reducing not only productivity, but the quality of life of an entire generation. When perfectionism becomes an executioner. Society often judges burnout under a moral lens. The psychologist Teresa (@unraticoconteree) warns that what we call “laziness” It’s actually emotional exhaustion from spending too much time on “automatic mode” taking care of everyone but yourself. This wear and tear is nourished by self-demand, a trait traditionally applauded in our society. However, clinics and psychology specialists They warn that a self-demand excessively subordinates our self-esteem to our achievements. Sufferers develop critical self-talk, paralyzing fear of failure, excessive rumination, and dichotomous thinking. The end result is a toxic perfectionism in which no achievement seems enough, generating a constant feeling of dissatisfaction and emotional blocks. The “quarter-life crisis.” The impact of this pace of life is especially harsh on generations millennial and zeta. This is known as the “Quarter-Life Crisis,” a transition period that occurs between your mid-20s and early 30s. According to Newport Institutethis crisis manifests itself through identity confusion, fear of the future and the feeling of being left behind compared to the achievements of others. It is a stage where the “fear of missing out” (FOMO) collides head-on with disappointment. From psychology portals They point out that these young people They face a toxic cocktail of recessions, climate crisis and consequences of the pandemic. Furthermore, adolescents have replaced alcohol or tobacco consumption due to behavioral addictions such as doomscrollingisolating himself in front of the screen. At the university, the burnout student translates in cynicism and a strong feeling of incompetence. The gender gap: they burn more. Both in classrooms and offices, burnout has an undeniable gender bias. The investigations show that Female college students are at significantly higher risk for burnout, cognitive decline, and emotional decline compared to their male peers. At work, things don’t improve. There are studies that show that almost half of women in management positions reach the burnoutwhile in men that figure is much lower. And it is no coincidence, since women carry much more than their work responsibilities. They come home and continue working, just without anyone calling it work. According to psychologist Bárbara Tovarwomen carry a historical cultural mandate of dedication and sacrifice to prove their worth, which leads them to feel guilty every time they try to rest or disconnect. A body in constant war. Stress, from an evolutionary perspective, is a survival mechanism designed to save our lives in the face of imminent dangers, activating the release of adrenaline and cortisol. The problem is that today’s predator is not a lion, but the mortgage, work or uncertainty. When stress becomes chronic, the body enters a state of “allostatic load”brutal wear and tear at the cardiovascular, metabolic and immune levels. The body develops resistance to glucocorticoids and the immune system collapses, drastically reducing NK cells (our first line of defense against viruses and tumors) and T lymphocytes. As if that were not enough, a neuroinflammation loop is triggered that alters the brain and facilitates the development of depression. Medical research has been going on for five decades studying the burnout. Today we know that the classical distinction between burnout (exhaustion from work) and clinical depression is increasingly diffuse; institutions like Mayo Clinic either the University of Navarra They emphasize that the burnout It should not be treated solely as an employee’s failure to manage their stress; It is a responsibility shared with the organization, derived from unaffordable workloads, lack of control and poor communication. From digital silence to obsession with comfort. In the face of suffocation, the “maximalists of silence”who maintain the “Do Not Disturb” mode permanently. It is an act of mental hygiene: each interruption on the mobile phone causes a “cognitive hiccup” and it can take the brain 23 minutes to regain deep concentration. In parallel comes the cozymaxxinga viral trend to create havens of extreme comfort and dim lights that activate the parasympathetic nervous system to reduce cortisol. However, science warns against extreme fads such as “dopamine fast” radical, which lacks a neurobiological basis. Instead, they propose “slow dopamine” (reading or cooking) and prioritizing the “regularity” of sleep over the eight-hour obsession to avoid “social jet lag”. Rest as a preventive action. The academy is clear: we need to move away from psychosocial risk to preventive action. Emotional education, both in classrooms and in the workplace, is presented as a vital strategy … Read more

Netflix premieres today one of the best dystopian series of all time and breaks a sadly unusual record

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When ‘The Handmaid’s Tale‘ premiered on Hulu in April 2017, winning the Emmy for Best Drama when it was still a cult series. Now, a year after airing its sixth and final season, the series lands on Netflixbreaking a record that is as pleasant as it is sadly unusual: it is a series with a very specific production company (owned by Disney), but in Spain it can be accessed on practically all platforms. It’s on Netflix, yes, but also on Disney+ (where you can also see – this time, exclusively – its prequel ‘The Testaments’), Prime Video, HBO Max and Movistar Plus+. The weight of the series It is well understood by reviewing its impressive collection of awards: six seasons, 76 nominations and 15 Emmy wins, including the historic award for Best Drama in its first season, the first ever awarded to a streaming platform. streaming. That first season also won for writing, directing, leading actress (Elisabeth Moss), supporting actress (Ann Dowd) and guest actress (Alexis Bledel). For its last season it only received one nomination, but by then it had already made history. In its terrifying dystopian vision, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale tells us how in the near future, the United States government has been overthrown by a theocratic movement that founds the Republic of Gilead. In the face of a global birth crisis, the new regime enslaves the few remaining fertile women (the Handmaids) and assigns them to elite families to father children through ritualized rape. The series follows the awakening, escape and rebellion of one of these maids. Margaret Atwood, author of the original 1985 novel, stated that nothing in the novel was pure invention: everything had already happened. The repressive Taliban system, which since its return to power in 2021 has denied women access to work, education and almost any form of presence, has been repeatedly pointed out as the most direct parallel with the Republic of Gilead. But in the United States, debates about reproductive rights in different states have continued to fuel the political reading of the series. Nobody is spared. For this reason, the Handmaids’ clothing has become a symbol of feminist protest, thanks to a series that remains as shocking and terrifying today as when it premiered. In Xataka | The ambitious adaptation of a literary classic with 70 million copies sold comes to Prime Video

There is a new craze for steel pans and the only problem they have is that no one really knows how to use them.

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Marc Grégoire liked to fish. I know it’s strange to start a report about frying pans with a Frenchman in the middle of a river, but that’s how this story begins. What he didn’t like was the cumbersome manual process of making fiberglass rods with aluminum molds. Nobody liked it: there was no way to get a whole one the first time. Luckily, Grégoire was an engineer at the French National Office for Aerospace Studies and Research and, thinking about the problem, devised a way to coat aluminum with Teflon so they wouldn’t stick together. He became a legend in the world of sport fishing in the south of Paris. Until, sometime in 1954, his wife Colette told him to stop messing around and put Teflon on a frying pan. In a matter of a decadenon-stick technology dominated the world. A domain that, in recent years, seems to be going under. The difficult task of finding the perfect material. In 1956, when Tefal put its first frying pans on the market, it seemed like a miracle. They didn’t stick! Compared to any previous technology, non-stick pans allowed room for error, distributed heat very evenly and, for some preparations (such as slow and acidic cooking), they were unbeatable. Thus, for 2006, 70% of the kitchen utensils sold in the United States They had a non-stick coating. Since then… the situation has changed. And people are switching to steel (and iron). “They are extremely resistant, withstand very high temperatures and can last a lifetime.” These are the usual arguments that, along with pollution problems, people use to justify the jump to stainless steel pans. At least, just before realizing that “everything sticks”: that’s when Teflon is missing and when the new culinary fad turns into a tragedy. All because of not knowing how to use them. In recent days, the well-known chef Jordi Cruz has joined the boom of the tutorials to get the most out of steel pans. And, like everyone else, he follows the same pattern: explaining that the problem is due to poor technique and not to the material in question. The technique has to do with temperature: it is enough to heat it enough for the results to be appropriate. As Cruz explainsthe test to know if it is at the correct temperature is to add a teaspoon of water: if it forms drops that “dance” on the surface, it is ready. It is what is called Leidenfrost effect. Is it simple? Yes, but it is not trivial. Steel pans need more supervision and better technique: non-stick pans give more room for error and, although their results may be somewhat worse in many cases, that is what explains why they have become popular. In fact, its ‘decline’ is linked to other problems. And not exactly about health. As far as we know, PTFE is safe at normal temperatures (for it to cause problems in humans, it needs to reach 350 degrees) and PFOA were removed from European frying pans in the past decade. European regulation is now focused on lbioaccumulative persistence of PFAS in soil, water and other organisms. Why do they work “better”? Because, despite what people usually think, it is not that they conduct heat better. On the contrary, cast iron and stainless steel are poor conductors compared to copper or aluminum. The real advantage is thermal mass. The browning of the meat is due to the famous Maillard reaction which occurs at 140-165 degrees on a hot, dry surface. The problem with pans is usually that they simply do not reach that temperature and, if they do, they drop quickly, eliminating the reaction and cooking the food. With cast iron pans, their thickness prevents the temperature from sinking; With steel ones, the temperature they reach is so high that (even when the temperature drops) they are still above what is necessary. And then what do we do? The key to all this is a few lines above: that it is almost impossible to find the perfect material for cooking. Each material has its good things and its bad things. The problem is that we cannot always have the ideal. That’s why non-stick pans won at the time. That’s why, facing its possible prohibitionsteel ones are having a real revival. Image | Margo Evardson In Xataka | Stainless steel pots and pans: how to choose them, care for them and get the most out of them

968 euros of savings per year for tenants

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In July 2019, almost on the brink of the pandemic, Paris decided to use a measure that the new law French housing: limit climbing of their rents. The idea was very simple. For a few years a pilot program would be applied to prevent the law of the most from prevailing in the market. strong wealthy Almost seven years later and with the future of the initiative surrounded by doubts, France already knows how the experiment has gone: it calculates that rent control has allowed Paris to reduce its rents 5%with a average savings of €85 per month. The experience is interesting for France… and for Spain, which has also opted for control formulas income. Back to rent. Spain is not the only European country that in recent years have tried to regulate (to a greater or lesser extent, with more or less successful) residential rental prices. In 2019, relying on a new law of the real estate sector (ELAN), Paris requested to launch an experimental program to apply certain limits to the escalation of rents. Price control came into force in July of that same year and the idea was that it would be applied for five years, a period during which work would be done with the reference values from the Rental Observatory of the Paris Metropolitan Area (OLAP). To calculate them, aspects such as the location of the homes, their age, whether they are rented with or without furniture or how many rooms they have were taken into account. The measure was extended to both contracts signed from 2019 onwards and those renewed. And how has it been? That is the question that Atelier Parisien d’Urbanisme wants to solve (APUR), an urban agency that a few years ago began to evaluate the effects of price controls in the French capital. His first conclusions came two years ago. Now he has updated them with a new report that reveals a couple of interesting data. The main one is that in six years (between 2019 and 2025) the measure has achieved contain rents by 5%which is equivalent to an annual saving of hundreds of euros for tenants. “The econometric analysis shows that, during the period from July 2019 to June 2025, Parisian rents were, on average, 5% lower than they would have been without the regulation,” notes APUR in your report. “For this period, the average monthly rent observed was 1,519 euros. Without the regulation, it would have reached 1,600, which represents an average saving of 81 euros per month (968 per year) for tenants in Paris.” Another key data: 1,019 euros. He new report APUR uses data from 2025, which allows us to have a more up-to-date ‘photo’ of the impact of the measure. For example, its technicians calculate that in the last year analyzed (July 2024-June 2025) the average income was around 1,632 euros85 euros less than what Paris tenants would be paying if almost seven years ago the city had not opted for price caps. Per year that translates into about 1,019 euros more in the tenants’ pockets. The Parisian agency has detected another curious fact. The moderating effect of prices seems to be felt especially in smaller homes. If on average rents have been contained by 5%, in the case of smaller accommodation (less than 18 m2) the reduction is around 12.4%. The effect softens as the surface area of ​​the home increases, until it is “no longer significant” in the largest ones. It’s no surprise. The ALUR and ELAN laws, from which the Parisian measure draws, made it a priority to moderate the rents of smaller homes. Does it affect the offer? one of the criticism What those who oppose regulation often argue is that, by controlling rents, owners are discouraged from putting their homes on the market. That is to say, the measure may serve to contain the rise in prices, but it does so at the cost of suffocating supply and reducing the available apartments. After studying the sector, APUR technicians have concluded that this is not true. “No lasting deterioration in the supply of rental housing can be attributed to the rent control system,” collect the report. In fact the clearer oscillations The number of apartments announced is not explained by regulation, but by factors outside the market, such as the pandemic or the 2024 Olympic Games. Is everything positive? No. The study also reveals that, although the program has been in force for almost seven years, its scope is still limited and there is a considerable part of the market that manages to avoid price controls. “With 48.6% of ads exceeding the regulatory threshold in the last period analyzed (July 2024-June 2025), the untapped potential remains considerable,” slide APUR. What’s more, those responsible estimate that if all landlords complied with the regulations, the moderating effect on prices would not be 5%, but almost double, around 10%. Beyond France. APUR’s analysis is important for France, where Paris (and the rest of 70 municipalities who have opted for rent control) risks the measure ending next novemberbut also for other EU countries that have considered regulating their markets. In Spain, without going any further, the Government promoted a system of ‘stressed market areas’ which allows restrictions to be applied to rent increases. Although it is estimated that the measure already reaches more than nine million of tenants, does not extend to the entire country. The law states that it is the autonomous communities that must request the declaration of a ‘tensioned zone’, something that Catalonia has donebut what regions such as Madrid either Balearics. Images | Alexander Kagan (Unsplash) and John Towner (Unsplash) In Xataka | A silent phenomenon is brewing in Madrid: people who go to live in Valladolid and return to work by train

The CEO of Ryanair is clear about why there are more and more drunks on its flights

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Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has called for airports stop serving alcohol before early morning flights. According to their argument, bad behavior on board does not stop growing and they think that through this initiative they would not have to divert their flights due to the behavior of some passengers. A growing problem. “If I go back ten years, we had maybe one deviation a week. Now we are close to one a day,” counted O’Leary himself told The Times. According to data from the British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), airlines record around 400 more disruptive incidents per year than before the pandemic. Why airports have wide beams. Unlike conventional bars and restaurants, establishments within the UK boarding zones are exempt from time restrictions that regulate the sale of alcohol in the rest of the country. That means they can open and serve drinks at any time, including five or six in the morning. “I don’t understand why anyone serves beer at that time. Who needs to drink at five in the morning?” continued O’Leary. What Ryanair asks for. The Irish airline has been demanding a limit of two drinks per passenger at airports for years, something that, according to O’Leary, the company itself already applies on board its planes. Now it goes one step further and requires that airports respect the same alcohol sales schedules that apply to other establishments. Their idea is that this limit be linked to the boarding pass, to make control more effective. “Those who do not act responsibly, those who profit, are the airports that have those bars open at five or six in the morning and that, during delays, are happy to serve all the alcohol they want because they know that they export the problem to the airlines,” counted the manager in the middle. Furthermore, O’Leary also points out drug use as the main aggravating factor. The most affected routes. According to account The Times, the flights with the highest incidence of problematic behavior are those that connect the United Kingdom with leisure destinations such as Ibiza, Alicante or Tenerife. Routes from Ireland and Poland also experience frequent problems. What the law says. Being drunk on a plane is a crime in the United Kingdom, punishable by fines of up to £5,000 and two years in prison. If things go further and force the airline to divert the flight, the economic consequences can reach 80,000 pounds (which is make a Melendi in every rule). Ryanair has already taken legal action against passengers who caused diversions. According to the media, in January of last year he filed a lawsuit in Ireland against a traveler claiming 15,000 euros for a diverted flight on the Dublin-Lanzarote route. The risks are real. “Until someone causes an accident that causes a plane crash with hundreds of deaths, no government will take this problem seriously. And the airlines are desperate,” counted O’Leary to The Times. Other companies such as Jet2 are also pushing to create a national database that would allow troublesome passengers to be banned from all British airlines. AirportsUK, the organization that brings together the country’s airports, defends that they already work together with the rest of the sector through awareness campaigns. Cover image | Niels Baars and BENCE BOROS In Xataka | European airlines are taking advantage of the Iran crisis to accelerate something old: making your trip even more complicated.

In three days, Russia celebrates its Victory Day. And Ukraine has a surprise prepared 1,500 kilometers away

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In May 1987, a young 19-year-old German pilot named Mathias Rust He managed to cross a good part of Soviet airspace with a small civilian plane and land next to Red Square. without being stopped. The episode caused enormous humiliation for the USSR because it showed that even the heart of Moscow could be reached in ways that no one expected. Countdown to Putin’s big parade. Russia prepares for May 9, the most symbolic day of its entire political and military calendar, while Ukraine intensifies a campaign of attacks that seems designed precisely to ruin that sense of control and security. The Kremlin has even announced a unilateral truce for the days of the parade, but kyiv has responded by making it clear that it does not intend to coordinate anything with Moscow and remembering that Russia cannot quietly celebrate Victory Day “without the good will of Ukraine.” The situation is especially uncomfortable for Putin because, for the first time in many years, Moscow faces this date with the feeling that even its capital can become a target. Moscow no longer seems like a completely safe place. The recent attack against a skyscraper luxury hotel located a few kilometers from the Kremlin has been much more than a simple symbolic coup. Ukraine has been trying to bother to Moscow ahead of the May 9 parade, but this time the message comes in a different context: Russia has reduced the size of the event, eliminated some of the heavy military deployment and greatly reinforced the defenses around the capital for fear of new drones. Meanwhile, Zelensky has hinted directly that Moscow fears seeing drones flying over Red Square during the parade, something unthinkable just a few years ago and extremely delicate for a celebration designed precisely to project power and control. The big news is the distance. The most important change in this phase of the war is happening far beyond Moscow. Ukraine is managing to attack industrial cities and military bases located more than 1,500 kilometers from the front, reaching regions of the Urals that for decades were considered a safe rear even in Soviet times. Cities like Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk or Perm begin to experience airport closuresinternet restrictions and attacks against refineriesmilitary installations or industrial infrastructures. The psychological impact is enormous because many of these areas experienced the war as something distant until just a few months ago. New missiles and drones are changing the rules. The appearance of the transonic missile F-5 Flamingo reflects the extent to which Ukraine is transforming its deep strike capability. kyiv claims to have used this system to destroy a factory Russian military about 1,500 kilometers away, a facility linked to components for missiles, aviation and naval systems. Beyond the specific damage, what is important is the trend: Ukraine no longer depends solely on improvised drones or isolated attacks, but is beginning to build a sustained capacity to hit strategic infrastructure deep inside Russia. The jam-resistant navigation systems, extreme range and possible integration of Western technology clearly show that kyiv is trying to make Russian territorial depth much less useful than it was at the start of the war. The Soviet rearguard in doubt. Plus: there is a huge historical burden in the places that Ukraine is attacking. During the Second World War, much of the Soviet industry was moved to the Urals precisely because they were considered territories impossible to reach from Europe. Cities like Chelyabinsk became known as “Tankograd” because of the concentration of military factories far from the front. Now, eighty years later, Ukrainian drones and missiles are demonstrating that that strategic depth no longer guarantees security. What once required bombers and huge air campaigns can now be achieved with long-range drones and relatively cheap missiles capable of traversing thousands of kilometers. Avoid vulnerability on its most important day. Because he May 9 parade It is not just any ceremony for Russia. It is the great annual showcase of Russian military power, the event where the Kremlin connects the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany with Putin’s current political legitimacy. That is precisely why it is so sensitive that Ukraine is increasing pressure just before the event. Russia is shooting down hundreds of drones around Moscow and strengthening security of the capital while trying to avoid any image of chaos during a day observed by foreign leaders and broadcast throughout the country. The problem for the Kremlin is that Ukraine has already managed to install a most uncomfortable idea: even more than 1,500 kilometers from the front, there is no longer a complete sense of refuge, and that includes beyond the Urals. Image | Fire Point In Xataka | Today in “the war in Ukraine beyond all comprehension”: drone pilots are training with ‘Grand Theft Auto’ In Xataka | Ukraine has barely captured any North Korean soldiers. The reason is brutally simple: they prefer to immolate themselves

all the changes and improvements of the latest update of the Android version for the Samsung Galaxy

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Samsung already has officially launched the stable version of One UI 8.5the new version of its customization layer for Android. At the moment this version It has already arrived in South Korea, and it is expected that in a short time it will also begin to reach other countries in the world. We are going to tell you what are the new features that have arrived in this version, which has initially arrived for the Galaxy S25, S25+ and S25 Ultraand it is expected to also reach other terminals such as Galaxy Z Fold7 and Galaxy Z Flip7 or the Galaxy S25 FE. This is how Samsung makes money: the secret is in the IPHONE What’s new in One UI 8.5 Here we leave you a list of the new features that have been included in One UI 8.5, which is based on Android 16 QPR2. And be careful because They are not minor newsand it has arrived packed with interesting changes. Customizable quick settings panel: The panel buttons are now adjustable, and you can rearrange both the icons and the layout of the panel elements. Native App Lock: You will be able to protect apps without having to duplicate them, although you will still be able to use the secure folder, now it will no longer be mandatory. 3D icons: Added a 3D effect to system icons. audio cleaner: Artificial intelligence will be used to improve audio processing and eliminate background noise so that voices are clearer in recordings. Scientific Calculator in Portrait Mode: Something peculiar. A calculator designed for students and professionals is added. More AI improvements: Here and there are various AI improvements, such as suggestions and various types of user optimizations. Dynamic screen clock: The lock screen clock now adjusts better depending on your wallpaper, to give it a personal touch by creating visual harmony between elements. Redesign of the Telephone app: It has a more modern look and a cleaner interface. Visual interferences have been removed, but essential functions have been maintained. File management improvements: The app is updated my filesimproving your organization and recovery. You can reorganize them based on the source of origin (downloads, shared files, camera, etc.), the workflow is improved, and you can easily locate files to recover them faster. Improvements in the weather app: New animations and improvements to the data visualization have been added to make it clearer and more accessible. It also has compatibility with older devices. Animations improvement: All operating system animations have been polished, especially in transitions between lock screen and desktop. How to update to One UI 8.5 To update your mobile to this new version, first you must wait until May 11which is when it is expected to start arriving in this part of the world. That’s when you can search for the update and download it. To do this, you have to go to the settings and enter the section Software update. Once inside, click on Download and installand here you will go to a screen where you can check for operating system updates.

Tolkien was very clear about who played the real hero in ‘The Lord of the Rings’, and it was not any of the protagonists

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There is a question that the majority of the Tolkien fandom has not addressed with complete rigor, possibly because the answer seems obvious: who is the true hero of ‘The Lord of the Rings‘? It seems obvious. Frodo or Aragorn, right? One bears the Ring, another leads the armies. But Tolkien himself asked that question in life and in writing, and the answer is neither. By letter. In a letter dated April 16, 1956, and addressed to a reader named H. Cotton Minchin, Tolkien described Samwise Gamgee as more than just Frodo’s faithful companion. He described him as the reflection of the common English soldier (the privates and the batmenpersonal assistants to the officers, whom he met during the First World War, and whom he said he considered “far superior to myself”). The letter, whose existence was documented in detail by researcher John Garthis not the only one in which Tolkien talks about Sam. To the barricades. According to further investigations who have related the impact of the First World War to Middle-earth, the relationship between Frodo and Sam reproduces with remarkable fidelity the dynamic between an officer and his personal assistant in the British army of the time. You make the decisions; the other carries the equipment, cooks, stands guard and, if necessary, rescues. The name “Gamgee”, in fact, comes from a real Edwardian doctor, Sampson Gamgee, inventor of a surgical material used during the war. Tolkien always admitted that the men who impressed him most in war were not the officers, but the common soldiers. This is how he describes it: My “Samwise” is, in fact (as you point out), largely a reflection of the English soldier, grafted on the village boys of yesteryear, in the memory of the private soldiers and my assistants that I met in the war of 1914, and whom I considered far superior to myself. More missives. In the so-called Letter 131, addressed to the editor Milton Waldman and first published in ‘The Letters of JRR Tolkien’ in 1981, Tolkien goes further. There he calls Sam the “main hero” of the work. And he adds that the “rustic and simple” love between Sam and Rosie is not a decorative detail, but a structural element of the story: the tension between ordinary life and the great epic. An expanded edition of the letters published in 2023 reflects on the ideas about the moral architecture of its history, and clearly distinguished between those who carry the weight of the adventure and those who sustain it. Around with the Ring. The One Ring operates on ambitionoffers power to whoever wants it. Boromir falls. Saruman falls. Galadriel, one of the most powerful beings in Middle-earth, declines to touch him because she knows what it would do to him. Frodo fails to destroy it. Sam, on the other hand, wears the Ring for a brief period in the Towers of Cirith Ungol and returns it without hesitation, because what Sam really wants is not power, it is to return home. The hero. And his traditionally heroic moment comes with Shelob, the giant spider, the clearest turning point in Sam’s arc. When Frodo falls apparently dead, Sam takes Sting and Galadriel’s Flail and confronts a creature from which the Elves recoiled. He wins because there is no other option for him. And later, when Frodo can no longer walk, Sam literally carries him. At the end of the story, Sam returns to the Shire, marries Rosie, has children, and becomes mayor for seven consecutive terms. He gets the life he always wanted: heroism without ambition receives the fullest reward. This is how Tolkien himself defines it: I think the simple ‘rustic’ love of Sam and his Rosie (nowhere elaborated) is absolutely essential to the study of his (the main hero’s) character, and to the theme of the relationship between ordinary life (breathing, eating, working, procreating) and quests, sacrifice, causes and ‘longing for the Elves’, and pure beauty. In Xataka | A demographer has spent weeks solving a very important question: how many people lived in Tolkien’s Middle Earth

After the hottest April since there are records, AEMET already foresees the following change: days of “winter atmosphere”

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After an unprecedented April in Spain (with temperatures more than three degrees above the average of the last 40 years), the Atlantic has decided to complicate our lives. In the coming days, a deep storm will move from the area around Iceland towards our coordinates, causing a sharp thermal drop between Saturday, May 9 and Monday, May 11. Are we facing a “cold wave” in May? No, nothing like that. We are not even facing something exceptional. Maritime polar air advections are a common pattern in Spanish springs. The strange thing is not the arrival of cold, the strange thing is how warm the air we have right now is. That is to say, we are going to notice the thermal dropYeah; but more because the temperatures are abnormally high (and we have become accustomed to them) than because the storm is colder than usual. It’s not her, it’s us. And here is the problem. As far as we know, climate change does not increase the frequency of polar irruptions in May, but it does increase their potential damage by advancing flowering, budding and fruit set. The paradox arises that exactly the same cold as any previous year can generate enormous destruction. What can we expect? Wednesday 6: The DANA that has been giving us problems so far this week is on its way to reintegrating into general circulation and is moving towards France. Thursday 7 – Friday 8: Here a new cold storm comes into action that will hit the west of Portugal, causing some days that are “very warm for the season”, according to AEMET. Friday the 8th: An associated Atlantic front will advance towards the Peninsula and we will begin to see its effects in the form of storms throughout the north. The accumulated ones will not be very large, but they will not be anecdotal either. Saturday 9 – Sunday 10: The party starts here. The storm will fully reach the Peninsula and, after a warm Thursday and Friday, the temperature drop will be abrupt. Tiempo.com talks about a thermal drop between 8 and 10 degrees. Starting Monday the 11th: With the available data, it seems reasonable to expect the cold environment to last a few more days. However, it is early to say. What AEMET says. The Agency It doesn’t say ‘polar’ at any point.but its characterization is very clear: speaks of the episode as a change from “high temperatures for the season” to “winter atmosphere” in a matter of 24-48 hours. It is very difficult to overcome the very strange month of January that we are experiencing, but 2026 is willing to try. Image | BenBaso In Xataka | The current that warms Europe will weaken by 51% before the end of the century. And Spain, according to experts, is already beginning to notice

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