An occupied house uncovers a treasure stolen from a hermitage in La Rioja. The best is still missing

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They have found it: the painting of the Virgin of the Cortijo and the staff of the Virgin, an old missal. Table linens and ecclesiastical clothing and even a Lego Millennium Falcon. We are talking about one of those meaningless fortuitous discoveries. On October 31, 2025, a robbery occurred in La Ermita de Our Lady of the Farmhousein Murillo de Río Leza. At dawn, in a rural temple without cameras or surveillance, they took a silver chalice and an 18th century painting, valued between 10,000 and 12,000 euros. And many other things. Eight months later, almost everything has reappeared 90 kilometers away, in an occupied home in Navarra’s Valdorba, mixed up among belongings. A Belgian glove thief. For more than eight months, the Civil Guard has been carrying out an open investigation with hardly any clues. But a common pattern: rural sacred art in isolated hermitages with hardly any security systems. An easy goal, perhaps too prosaic. And La Rioja is no stranger to this type of theft: the Diocese of Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño has been claiming for years pieces attributed to the legendary Belgian thief Erik the Belgian, whose trail reaches the Netherlands and the United States. The difference with the Murillo case is the unusual speed of the recovery and the domestic origin of the discovery. Besides, the real ErikRené Alphonse van den Berghe, died in El Palo (Málaga) on June 19, 2020, after help recover the size of the Virgin of Nalda. After more than 600 thefts in 52 museums and places of worship, he changed sides to recover historical heritage. Taking care of other people’s business. The Prevention and Citizen Attention Brigade and the Judicial Police Group carried out the eviction of the people occupying the property, together with the officers from the Tafalla police station. And they saw that the Valdorba house even hid a huge wall clock. Part of the abandoned objects was given and they could not identify the owner. The Foral Police of Navarre contacted the Diocesan Heritage Delegation and, by cross-referencing the complaint with local news, they confirmed the coincidence. After the eviction of its occupants, the Foral Police of Navarra has stumbled upon the stash of the Riojan robbery by chance. He confirmed the coincidence with the Diocesan Heritage Delegation and now the big question arises: where is the rest? Among the pieces recovered and already returned to the parish of San Esteban are the painting of the Virgen del Cortijo, the missal, the staff, ecclesiastical clothing and musical instruments (a tuba!). But the silver chalice, another missal and the image of the Child Jesus carried by the Virgin remain unlocated. The most expensive thing is missing. A diverse loot. There are hypotheses, but no proven facts. It is suspected of a black market for sacred artfueled by antique dealers, second-hand buyers and organized gangs that attack rural hermitages at their own risk and expense. The Civil Guard has dismantled entire plots dedicated to this trafficking. Already in the summer of 2020 they recovered almost one hundred objects of enormous valuein addition to 165,000 euros in cash. Objects from the 17th and 18th centuries that did not reach resale. Moving a tuba or a wall clock is not easy. But the stash is so heterogeneous that another hypothesis speaks of mere accumulation, that compulsive behavior of accumulation and a pattern that psychiatry links to Diogenes syndrome, characterized by collecting heterogeneous objects without awareness of illness. This is what happened after the theft of the Codex Calixtinus. Unshielded heritage. Murillo’s case joins a long list of thefts in Rioja and neighboring temples: the Écija chalice sold in a gold buy from Logroño 22 years after its abduction; the door of the San Torcuato tabernacle recovered 45 years after its theft at a Madrid auction; or the reliefs of Briones that the Civil Guard continues to track in Holland and the United States. They all share the same diagnosis: the lack of systematic inventory of ecclesiastical heritage leaves these pieces off the radar until they appear by chance, complaint or illegal sale. The Diocese of Calahorrana insists that thefts against heritage do not prescribe and that each recovery, rather than a preventive strategy, depends on collaboration mechanisms between security forces, antique dealers and diocesan heritage delegations. As long as the chalice and the image of the Child Jesus remain missing, the case of Murillo de Río Leza will continue to be an open file. Robberies with tradition. The looting of sacred art in Spain seems to identify a problem: there is a lack of professionals to inventory it and provide an appropriate historical framework. Impossible to forget the two young people who sneaked into a church in Sevillethey tried on the priest’s liturgical clothing, lit candles and took mocking photos in front of the altar before going out in costume on the street, mocking the parishioners who saw them passing by. In Murcia, in León, some thieves climbed the bell tower of a church with barely 300 residents with ropes and harnesses to steal a bust of Marcus Aurelius from the 4th century. The Civil Guard recovered it weeks later in the trunk of a carat a gas station in Córdoba. In Granada, some Poor Clare nuns did not even notice the disappearance of a sculpture of Saint Marina de la Cortona until the National Police located it in a gallery in New York, ready for auctioned for 350,000 euros. In Barcelona, ​​a couple posed as needy people to sneak into a parish in Nou Barris and steal the money intended to pay for children’s school trips. They even took the priest’s cell phone. In Murcia and Alicante, a gang of teenagers looted up to 20 temples to finance online betting and club nights. And in Valladolid they took even the hosts consecrated in the middle of Christmas. In addition to those of God, it is clear that temples of worship need extra eyes. Images | XX In Xataka |

France becomes the first European country to ban networks for children under 15 years of age. September will be the litmus test

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For years, opening an account on a social network has been as simple as writing an email, choosing a password and declaring a date of birth. In France, this routine is scheduled to change on September 1 for those under 15 years of age. The ban has already passed Parliamentbut turning it into something that works will require answering much more difficult questions: how to verify the age of users, what information they will be asked to prove it, and what will happen with services that do not only serve to publish photos or videos. That’s where the real test begins. An overwhelming majority. The decision was supported this Tuesday by the two French chambers: 243 senators voted in favor and only 2 againstwhile the National Assembly approved the text by 279 votes to 81. Emmanuel Macron, one of its main promoters, celebrated that France has become the first European country to approve a ban of this scope. The deployment is divided into two periods: new accounts will be banned from September 1 and the restriction will apply to existing ones from January 2027. Of course, the calendar may still be conditioned by the Constitutional Council. A ban without a closed list. The text does not list the affected platforms one by one, but refers to the European definitions of “online platform” and “online social networking service.” TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat appear as the clearest cases, but the border becomes less evident in YouTube, WhatsApp, Reddit or Roblox, where social functions coexist with other uses. As explained by representative Laure Millerin some cases the control will only reach certain tools. Digital encyclopedias and educational or scientific directories are expressly excluded. Platforms will take over. The text does not provide for fines or other sanctions for minors or their parents. The responsibility will fall on the companies, which must verify the age of their users, prevent new registrations that violate the limit and close the affected accounts when the transitional period ends. The Minister of Digital Affairs, Anne Le Hénanff, maintains that The deadline is realistic because verification tools already exist and others continue to be developed. September will be the litmus test. The date leaves the platforms just a few weeks of summer to convert the legal obligation into controls that work from the beginning of the course. The difficulty lies not only in detecting minors, but also in verifying that the rest of the users exceed the limit without creating a process that is impossible to manage. During the debate, several parliamentarians questioned that a system of this complexity could be operational so quickly and warned of possible ways to avoid it, taking the case of Australia as an example. Privacy is also at stake. Checking whether a person has turned 15 should not necessarily require them to reveal their entire identity. One of the alternatives proposed by the sector consists in transferring the verification to the phone itself, instead of requesting documents separately in each application. The approach seeks to reduce the circulation of personal information between different services, although the sources do not detail how it would work or what data each actor would keep. France must prevent access by minors without turning the solution into a new source of sensitive data. Spain prepares its own ban. Pedro Sánchez announced on February 3, 2026 that his Government would promote the prohibition of access to social networks for those under 16 years of age and would require effective age verification systems. The Executive explained earlier this month that had presented amendments to incorporate the measure into the Organic Law Project for the protection of minors in digital environments. At the time of writing this article, the initiative is still in the Congressional Justice Commission, in the report phase. Approving the text was just the beginning. France has been the first European country to bring such a ban to parliamentary approval, after Australia led the way on a global scale. Spain is in a different phase and its proposal can still change during processing, but the underlying problem is shared: transforming a minimum age into an effective control that is proportionate to privacy. Images | Pixabay | Mohamed Jamil Latrach In Xataka | The EU has hit AliExpress with a record fine. And make it clear that the next one could be even bigger.

The Komsomolets nuclear submarine sank in European waters almost 40 years ago. The issue is what still frees the sea

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Almost 1,700 meters under the Norwegian Sea lies something more than a sunken submarine. Inside the Komsomolets they continue the nuclear reactor that powered the ship and two torpedoes armed with nuclear warheadslocked in a wreck subjected to salt water, pressure and corrosion for decades. They did not get there because of a secret mission or a failed test, but after an accident that turned one of the great naval feats of the Soviet Union into a problem that we are still trying to understand. The history of the Komsomolets did not end when the hull hit bottom. The reactor releases radionuclides in sporadic episodes, a behavior that current studies have been able to observe and measure with much more precision than in the 1990s. These emissions have not caused a broad impact on the marine ecosystem so far, but the question remains open. Before becoming a flotsamas the remains of a sunken ship are called, the Komsomolets had been one of the most ambitious bets of Soviet naval engineering. It entered service in 1983 with a sturdy titanium helmet and the ability to operate at more than 1,000 meters depth, an exceptional level for a military submarine of its time. According to the BBC’s historical reconstructionNATO hoped that this model would inaugurate a new class of attack submarines, but the Soviet Union never built a second unit. The Soviet submarine that ended up becoming a problem at 1,700 meters deep On April 7, 1989, a fire started in one of her compartments while she was sailing in the Norwegian Sea. The crew managed to bring the ship to the surface, but the fire continued to spread and disabled several systems. About five hours later, the submarine sank. Five sailors tried to escape in a capsule that surfaced, but only one managed to abandon it before it filled with water. In total, 42 of the 69 crew members died. What remained on board may lead us to imagine a nuclear explosion, but current assessments they do not identify a spontaneous detonation as the relevant risk. Such an explosion demands that they work arming and initiation mechanisms with a very specific synchronization. The documented concern is that corrosion will end up allowing radioactive material to escape from the reactor or, in the future, from weapons. The containment intervention chosen years later did not consist of refloating the submarine, but rather isolating its most sensitive areas. In 1994, a Russian expedition used submersibles manned to seal the six torpedo tubes and some holes in the bow section with titanium plates. The objective was to reduce the circulation of water through the compartment where the warheads remained and limit an eventual release of plutonium. It was not a complete closure of the hull, but a containment measure that was still apparently intact when the wreck was inspected in 2019. Decades later, the return to the Komsomolets had a different objective: to observe and measure, not to reseal it. In 2019, a scientific expedition sent to the submarine Ægir 6000a remotely operated vehicle equipped with cameras, manipulator arms and sampling instruments. The robot traveled through different areas of the hull and collected water, sediment and organisms near the reactor and torpedo compartment. Thus it was possible to study the state of the wreck without exposing a human crew to those conditions. The results published this year in PNAS They concluded that the assemblies containing the nuclear fuel are damaged and that seawater has reached the reactor material. The analyzes link this deterioration with intermittent emissions of radionuclides, although researchers are still trying to determine the exact mechanisms that cause them. The highest concentrations appeared next to a ventilation shaft and a nearby grate, but the material dilutes quickly and there is little evidence of accumulation in the surroundings of the wreck. No evidence of military-grade plutonium from the warheads was found in the bow area either. Reaching the Komsomolets is not impossible: the submersibles of the 1990s and subsequent expeditions already demonstrated that work can be done at that depth. The difficulty is determining what action would provide a real improvement and what risks would be involved in intervening on a damaged nuclear structure. As explained by the Norwegian nuclear safety authority to the BBC, there are currently no plans for a new containment operation. The answer is still to go back, measure and monitor how a submarine that has been under the sea for almost four decades changes. Images | Norwegian Marine Research Institute In Xataka | The Norwegian colony that has taken over a town in Alicante and even has its own constitution: L’Alfas del Pi

Spain seems to have solved the problem of aid for the purchase of electric cars. It only took seven years of chaos

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The aid to buy an electric car is chaos. They should stop being so soon. Very soon, in fact. Or, at least, that is the (umpteenth) promise that the Government has made in this regard. He announced it in the Council of Ministers, confirming that the presentation of the bases to receive the Auto+ Plan is just around the corner. This is what we know. What has been announced. He Auto+ Plan It should be up and running in the next few days or, at the latest, a few weeks. That is what has been announced in the press conference of the Council of Ministers where the first details have been given of how aid for the purchase of new completely electric vehicles should be unblocked. In the statement before the media, however, no more details have been clarified than those that were offered in February 2026 when the project was already late compared to the promises. That is to say: the aid will take into account the cost of the vehicle, its place of manufacture and the origin of its batteries. What did we know? Last February, The Government confirmed that aid for the purchase of electric cars They will be delivered as follows: Category Maximum aid amount Vehicle type Percentage received based on price Manufacturing Tourism (M1) 4,500 euros Electric: 50% of the aid (2,250 euros) Plug-in and electric hybrid with extended autonomy: 25% of the aid (1,125 euros) Maximum of 45,000 euros before taxes: Up to 35,000 euros: 25% of the maximum aid amount (1,125 euros) Between 35,001 and 45,000 euros: 15% of the maximum amount of aid (675 euros) Vehicles whose assembly and final completion prior to marketing has been carried out in an EU industrial facility will be allocated: 15% of the maximum aid amount (675 euros) Additionally, if a part of the battery manufacturing process (at least must include the assembly of the battery packs): additional 10% of the maximum aid amount (450 euros euros) Vehicle (N1) 5,000 euros Electric: 50% of the aid (2,500 euros) Plug-in and electric hybrid with extended autonomy: 25% of the aid (1,250 euros) No maximum limit: All vehicles receive 25% of the maximum aid amount (1,250 euros) Vehicles whose assembly and final completion prior to marketing has been carried out in an EU industrial facility will be allocated: 15% of the maximum aid amount (750 euros) Additionally, if a part of the battery manufacturing process (at least it must include the assembly of the battery packs): additional 10% of the maximum aid amount (500 euros) Moped (L3e, L4e and L5e) 1,100 euros Electric: 50% of the aid (550 euros) Plug-in and electric hybrid with extended autonomy: 25% of the aid (275 euros) Maximum of 10,000 euros before taxes: All vehicles receive 25% of the maximum aid amount (275 euros) Vehicles whose assembly and final completion prior to marketing has been carried out in an EU industrial facility will be allocated: 15% of the maximum aid amount (165 euros) Additionally, if a part of the battery manufacturing process (at least it must include the assembly of the battery packs): additional 10% of the maximum aid amount (110 euros) Quadricycle (L6e and L7e) 1,500 euros Electric: 50% of the aid (750 euros) Plug-in and electric hybrid with extended autonomy: 25% of the aid (375 euros) No maximum limit: All vehicles receive 25% of the maximum aid amount (375 euros) Vehicles whose assembly and final completion prior to marketing has been carried out in an EU industrial facility will be allocated: 15% of the maximum aid amount (225 euros) Additionally, if a part of the battery manufacturing process (at least it must include the assembly of the battery packs): additional 10% of the maximum aid amount (150 euros) In 2025 it has already been promised that these aids would be direct at the time of purchase. That is, the customer would leave the dealership without the obligation to advance the aid and waiting to receive the money in their bank account. The claim is recurring since 2019 when the first MOVES Plan was approved but that promise disappeared with the extension of the MOVES III Plan and it was said that it would be active with the application of the Auto + Plan. The deadline for this Auto+ Plan to come into force was January 1, 2026. However, weeks before it began to work, The dealers already indicated that they were not willing to advance the aid. Not, at least, if they had no guarantee of receiving the money within a reasonable period of time. So, who is going to provide the aid? It is something that is yet to be confirmed and that we will not know for sure until the aid bases are officially published, which should happen in the coming days. In Xataka we have contacted Ganvam (National Association of Vehicle, Repair and Spare Parts Sellers) who claim to have no confirmation of how this aid will be delivered. From Faconauto (Federation of Automotive Dealer Associations) yes, they have assured us that the aid can be obtained at the time of purchase but that the more specific details will arrive when the bases are presented. A loan that was a matter of faith. The intention, therefore, is that the customer can finally leave the dealership being very clear about the price of the car. The concessionaires’ employers assure us that there is no signed commitment of the time that the State will have to deliver said aid and that this is something that we will only know when the bases for the aid are published. Until now, manufacturers have been advancing help with an interest-free loan for 12 or 18 months (depending on the brand) in the hope that the client would receive the money before the bank received the payment of that fee, which can reach up to 4,500 euros. That is to say, it could be the case that the client ran out the deadline … Read more

Garmin has just entered Whoop’s territory with the new CIRQA. He has chosen to attack right where it hurts most

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Wearing a device on your wrist to get to know your body better usually means accepting one more screen. The race pace, notifications, alerts and summaries appear there, inviting us to constantly check what is happening. Garmin now joins a proposal that other manufacturers had already explored: eliminating that part of the experience without giving up continuous tracking. Your new bracelet collects data during the day and nightbut centralizes your consultation on your mobile. It does not seek to show more things, but rather to offer another way of living with personal monitoring. The protagonist of this story is called CIRQA Smart Band and it is Garmin’s first screenless smart bracelet designed to bring together daily monitoring, sports and well-being in the same device. In Spain we can order it from July 24 by 199.99 euroswith two sizes, a fabric strap adaptable to the wrist or arm and up to ten days of autonomy. This is not the first time we have seen the company explore this format: in 2025 it launched the Index Sleep Monitoralthough that proposal was focused on sleep and recovery. Technical sheet of the new Garmin CIRQA Strap material Fabric (ComfortFit straps) Quick release straps Yes (14mm quick release pins with a 24mm wide strap) Shell size 27x47x9mmSM: 120-200mmL-XL: 145-240mm Weight Module: 14.8gStrap: SM, 5.9g (20.7g)Strap: L-XL, 6.4g (21.2g) Battery Lithium-ion Up to 10 days of autonomy Memory/history 128MB Heart rate (constant, every second) Yeah Abnormal heart rate alerts Yeah Respiratory rate Yeah PHYSIOLOGICAL AGE Yeah Body Battery™ Energy Monitor Yeah Stress throughout the day Yeah Resting heart rate Yeah Meditation Yes (without guide) breath work Yes (with guidance only via Garmin Connect+) Dream Yes (advanced) sleep trainer Yeah Sleep monitoring Yeah Variations in breathing Yeah Nap Detection Yeah Hydration Yeah Women’s health Yeah Estimates of previous ovulations Yeah skin temperature Yeah JET LAG NOTICE Yeah Lifestyle log Yeah Health status Yeah Pulse oximetry acclimatization Yeah Accelerometer Yeah Connectivity Bluetooth ANT+ GPS connected Yes (depends on mobile) price 199.99 euros Using CIRQA means accepting that we won’t be able to check what you’re recording by just looking at your wrist. There’s no dial to go to, menus to scroll through, or data that appears when you raise your arm. To consult them we will have to open the application on mobilewhere we can review the information collected and, during an activity with the phone’s GPS, check basic data such as distance and pace. On the band we will only find a side buttonconfigurable to start our favorite activity. Garmin wants to measure everything without putting another screen on your wrist The device can recognize activities such as walking or running on its own and save them for us to review later. As we confirm or correct those records, it will adapt its classification to try to identify them more accurately in the future. We can also manually start tracking more than 80 activities and assign one of them to the side button. For outdoor routes, however, you will depend on the phone’s GPS: it does not integrate its own. With the mobile connected, it also allows us to share our location through LiveTrack. Outside of training, the bracelet maintains continuous monitoring of heart rate and can alert us if it detects unusually high or low values ​​depending on our settings. Also estimates oxygen saturationrecords stress, skin temperature, steps, calories and intensity minutes. Body Battery also offers an estimate of how our energy reserves evolve throughout the day. Added to this are the monitoring of the menstrual cycle and pregnancy, retrospective estimates of ovulation and the recording of habits such as alcohol or caffeine consumption. At night, the proposal becomes especially ambitious. CIRQA breaks down sleep stages, detects naps, calculates an overall score and offers a personalized estimate of how much rest we need. It also analyzes the regularity of our schedules, alignment with the circadian rhythm, breathing and HRV status, in addition to including a smart vibration alarm. These measurements can help us identify changes with respect to our usual pattern, but they do not allow us to diagnose apnea or other sleep disorders. When we train, its value is not only in accumulating measurements, but in trying to convert them into decisions. The predisposition to train combines factors such as sleep and recovery to tell us whether it is appropriate to speed up or slow down, while the training state helps to interpret whether we are training productively, if we have reached a peak of form or if we are accumulating an excessive load. We can also follow the evolution of VO2 maximumknow the estimated benefit of each session and see how much time the body needs before the next effort. Garmin also includes a specific mode for wheelchair users, although with adapted functions and without VO2 maximum calculation. Garmin insists that CIRQA does not require a subscription, and it is essentially true: we can check sleep, recovery, training status or Body Battery without paying a periodic fee. That doesn’t mean everything is included. The company places some functions after Connect+ artificial intelligence, nutrition, meditation, select training plans and advanced graphics during live activities, while Natural Cycles maintains its own rate. The approach is thus separated from that of Whoopwhere membership is part of access to the product; Here the payment layer is optional and is added on an already functional basis. The CIRQA does not arrive at empty land. For 99.99 euros, the Fitbit Air offers he basic tracking without fee and book your personalized trainer with Gemini for Google Health Premium. Polar proposes a formula closer to that of Garmin: its Loop costs 179.90 euros and does not require a subscription either. Amazfit completes the range with the Helio Straporiented towards training and recovery without mandatory recurring payments. As we see, the absence of a screen is no longer enough to differentiate ourselves: we must also look at how much we pay and what is available after the purchase. For 199.99 euros, … Read more

In record time since its release in theaters, one of the most resounding box office failures of the year arrives tomorrow on Prime Video

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‘He-Man and the Masters of the Universe’ comes to Prime Video this Wednesday, July 22, just forty-seven days after its release in theaters. The reason for arriving at streaming With such a short margin of time it is its failure at the box office: it opened with 29.4 million dollars in North America, remained at 64.6 million domestically and closed the world tour at 113.3 million, very far from recovering a budget of between 170 and 200 million dollars. The rapid arrival of films that better captured the public’s attention, such as ‘Toy Story 4’ or the surprise hits of ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’, ended up burying it. However, the film is very enjoyable and moves away from the greatest temptation that a project to adapt a toy franchise from the eighties like this one can have: making it adult and reflective. Travis Knight, director of the excellent ‘Bumblebee’, does not darken Eternia: he opts for bright colors and Jared Leto’s Skeletor who enjoys every line of the cartoon villain without taking himself too seriously. Nicholas Galitzine builds a clumsy rather than heroic He-Man, closer to a clueless kid from a family movie from the decade in which dolls were rampant than to Dolph Lundgren, and that character is what guides the entire film. Seeing her now, at home and without paying an entrance fee, is a good way to meet her again. It works better for someone who recognizes the names Roboto or Tri-Klops than for someone looking for the founding film of a new fantasy franchise, mind you. But Luckily, the film also holds up without the need for those winks.with action shot with skill and a cast that delivers performances (Idris Elba as Duncan, Camila Mendes as Teela, Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn) that are in the perfect (and not at all complacent) space between self-parody and more or less sincere emotion. It is not clear if the film will find an audience as the even better ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ from 2023 ended up finding, but what is guaranteed is that the Mattel franchise has just definitively entered a period of hibernation that, hand in hand with another summer puncture, ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’, leaves a very clear lesson: nostalgia millennial It is no longer enough, on its own, to sustain a blockbuster. In Xataka | If you think Nicolas Cage can’t go any further, try this strange gem that just arrived on Prime Video

The Vivo V70 Lite 5G arrives in Spain, a mobile phone that promises up to three days of autonomy for less than 360 euros

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The year 2026 is passing and we have more and more interesting options if we want a new mobile and we don’t want to spend more than 400 euros. The latest proposal comes to us from Vivo and it is now available in Spain: This is the Vivo V70 Lite 5G, which can now be purchased for 359 euros on MediaMarkt (also on the live store). Mobile – vivo V70 LITE, Titanium Blue, 256 GB, 6 GB RAM, 6.77″ AMOLED, Dimensity 7400-Turbo, 6500 mAh The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Lots of autonomy and fast charging for less than 360 euros The RRP of this new Vivo device is 399 euros, but it has arrived with a launch discount of 50 euros. It is an ideal device for those people looking for a mobile phone with good quality-price ratio, especially if the priority is to have a lot of autonomy. We have the same battery as the Vivo V60 Lite: about 6,500 mAh with 90 W fast wired charging that they promise up to almost three days of autonomy. Furthermore, the mobile comes with a 6.77-inch AMOLED screen with Full HD+ resolution120 Hz refresh rate and compatibility with HDR10+ (which makes it ideal for watching movies). The device comes with a Dimensity 7400 Turbo chip under the hood, a processor that offers adequate performance for day-to-day use (social networks, browsing the Internet, etc.). For gaming or heavy use, it may suffer in the long run. It has a dual rear camera system where there is a 50-megapixel 1/1.95-inch Sony IMX882 sensor and an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle sensor. The mobile arrives only with a memory configuration of 6+256 GBa reduction compared to the previous Vivo V60 Lite, which came with two memory configurations with 8 and 12 GB of RAM, respectively. ⚡ IN SUMMARY: vivo v70 lite 5g ✅ THE BEST Very good autonomy: Its 6,500 mAh battery promises to offer several days of autonomy and 90 W fast charging. Light and handy: Despite having a battery with very good capacity, it does not weigh 200 grams. ❌ THE WORST Less RAM than its predecessor: The RAM memory crisis cuts the configurations of this Vivo V70 Lite, which now only comes with 6 GB. Fair performance in the long run: Its processor, manufactured in 4 nm, has correct performance for most users. For demanding or long-term people, it may suffer a little more. 💡 BUY IT IF… You are looking for a new mobile phone and your priority is to have a lot of autonomy without spending more than 400 euros. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You prefer a more powerful option or one with greater software support, even if that means not having as much autonomy. You may also be interested XIAOMI POCO X8 Pro 12+512GB Smartphone White 6500mAh Battery The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung Galaxy A26 5G 256GB Mobile Phone, Amazing Intelligence, 6GB RAM, 50MP Camera, Black, 3 Year Manufacturer Warranty + 1 Extra Year The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Alive In Xataka | Best mobile phones in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and ten recommended models In Xataka | Best mobile phones 2026. Which one to buy based on use and six recommended models

This is how Google’s AI is absorbing the rest of the internet

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ChatGPT had been up and running for less than a month and Google was already talking about a “code red”. The technology that many assumed would end Google’s core business—replacing the search engine with any chatbot—is doing just the opposite. Since Google introduced Gemini into its search engine with AI Mode, it has replaced link lists with conversational responses. AND it’s working for thembecause people spend more time than ever within Google itself. The problem is for everyone else. We love AI Mode. According to three studies compiled by The New York Timesusers spend between one and nine minutes more in AI Mode than in a traditional search. They also write queries up to three times longer than the questions in which we used usual keywords, according to data that Google itself presented at its May event. From snippets to this. A Growth Memo October Studya company specialized in search and marketing, detected that in 75% of sessions users do not even leave AI Mode: they are very comfortable there and forget about the rest of the website. It’s something the company has been doing for years.and they certainly tried before AI arrived to conquer almost everything: snippets and other elements designed by Google they have always had the goal to be sufficient for we wouldn’t have to click in any link. Google Zero. Nilay Patel, director of The Verge, has long been warning of a phenomenon he calls “Google Zero”, when traffic from Google would fall to practically zero for the media. According to him “for publishers, Google Zero has already arrived.” With AI Mode people could see that that initial slow trickle became a real turning point. On Google they say it’s not that big a deal. Google Vice President Liz Reid assured on an official Google blog last year that the company continues to send a “relatively stable” number of clicks to the media, and that reports of traffic drops used “flawed methodologies.” The clear example: Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation has registered an 8% decrease in human visitors in the last year. What has grown, of course, are bots that crawl your content to train AI models. Its director of product and technology, Selena Deckelmann, highlighted that “my job is to make sure that people don’t forget about us because the Google interface has changed.” Human trafficking plummets in media. According to Cloudflaremore than half of all current web traffic is no longer human, and between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to websites in sectors such as finance, media or retail e-commerce sites has fallen by 40%. Before, if we wanted to know the performance of a footballer in the World Cup, we would ask on Google and look through links. Today it is enough to ask the AI ​​mode to obtain that information and then continue talking with the Google chatbot in that mode if we need it. background voltage. Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Webalready warned in 2024 that AI had accelerated a trend that had been underway for years: that of locking users in closed ecosystems designed to maximize profit, instead of directing us to an open and borderless web like the one he imagined in 1989. Bad future for media companies. In May Vox Media, owner of media outlets such as The Verge, began selling some of its websites. Jim Bankoff, its CEO, explained that “decimating search traffic” as Google was doing had influenced his decision to look for other ways to reach audiences. From there went on to sell him half of Vox Media to James Murdoch. In Xataka | I asked the AI ​​any nonsense and now I’m writing a news story about it

“Any planet that has developed intelligence should have noosignatures, a physical history of cognitive activity”

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¿We are looking for evil extraterrestrial life Or are we alone in the Universe? Some experts opt for the former. They believe that it would be quite egocentric to think that we are the only ones who inhabit the immensity of the cosmos. The problem is that we are busy searching for alien intelligence, but perhaps we are not smart enough to find it. Or, toning things down a bit, we haven’t found the best strategies. Normally we look for biosignatures or technosignatures. That is, biological traces or radio signals from some extraterrestrial technology. Now, astrobiologist Julia De Marines, from the University of California, Berkeley, has devised a new term that focuses right in the middle: noosignatures. Smart, but not that advanced. If an extraterrestrial had landed its radio telescopes on Earth during the stone age I wouldn’t have found anything. I would have concluded that, in that direction, there are no planets with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The failure would have been in thinking that any planet with intelligent life must be at the same point of technological development. Seen this way, it is a pretty big mistake. But the reality is that we are doing just that. For this reason, De Marines believes that technofirms are not the best options. As to biosignaturesdo not always point to biological processes. The history of space exploration is full of examples in which it cannot be ruled out that the biosignature has a geological origin. In fact, it is most likely. For this reason, this astrobiologist proposes that intermediate point in which life is not sought, but rather intelligent activity at an intermediate point before developing advanced technologies. Because it may not have been sought at the right time or, simply, that civilization may not have advanced that much. To be able to detect it correctly, the key is in Assembly Theory. Too many pieces to put together alone. Assembly Theory is based on the assembly index of an object. That is, the number of pieces that had to be joined to form it. Sometimes pieces can be assembled by natural processes. However, above a certain threshold, a complexity is denoted that can only have certain intelligent activity behind it. Stone age tools are a good example. No need to look for stone axes. Although we take prehistoric tools as an example, this cannot be sought by launching telescopes and sensors into space. However, there are activities that can be measured from the outside. For example, agriculture left a measurable trace of nitrogen in our atmosphere. Even food manufacturing, such as fermented products, can be detected in waste chemistry thousands of years later. It is not necessary to understand it. Something important about this method of searching for extraterrestrial life is that it is not necessary to understand noosignatures. Returning to examples from our own history, in Phys point out the case of the Indus Valley writing. At the moment, no one has been able to decipher it, but we know that it was not written alone. There was an intelligent mind behind it. In this case the same thing happens. We must look for traces that do not fit with the natural behavior of the planet, even if it is not understood how they could have arisen. The limitations. This method of searching for extraterrestrial life has a major limitation. And noosignatures are ephemeral. If they are not measured at the right time, they can disappear. Additionally, they can be quite complex to decipher. To all this we must add that the study published by De Marines is a preprint. This means that it has not yet undergone review by an independent research team. Therefore, we must take their approaches with a grain of salt. Anyway, the reality is that, since the beginnings of SETIthe search for intelligent extraterrestrial life is not bearing good fruit. Not even the search for life, in general. The twists in methodology can be interesting, so this one deserves, at the very least, the attention of other astrobiologists. Image | Brooke Denevan (Unsplash) In Xataka | What is the Fermi paradox and why the architect of the atomic bomb gave a twist to the search for extraterrestrial life

The differences between Qualcomm and MediaTek in 2026 are getting smaller. This is very good news for Android phones.

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A while ago, buying a mobile phone with a MediaTek processor was synonymous with settling. If you wanted raw power, fast updates and good efficiencyyou had to look for the Qualcomm Snapdragon seal on the mobile box. But it is true that this is something that has completely changed in 2026. Today, the gap between the two processor firms is narrower. And, although purists continue to debate figures in the benchmarksthe reality is that the great similarity (today) between these chips is the best news that could have happened to the Android ecosystem in the last decade. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra 5g 6.9″ 256gb Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Mediocre low-end mobile phones are dead The main victory in 2026 is not only in mobile phones of 1,200 euros, but in those of 300 euros or less. MediaTekwith its series Dimensionshas achieved something that seemed impossible: offering good power, 5G connectivity ultra-low latency and 3-nanometer manufacturing processes in devices that do not require a large investment or financing of the purchase. Qualcomm, for its part, has had to react. It is no longer enough to master the high range; Pressure from MediaTek has forced those from San Diego to vitaminize your series 6 and 7making a current mid-range mobile perform like a flagship from just two years ago. Of course, it is true that both brands of processors have been putting in the work. pressure from China with Xiaomi or Huawei pushing their own processors. So, despite being competition between them, they are not two firms oblivious to everything that is happening in the sector at the moment. The new battlefield is Artificial Intelligence If there is one thing that defines the processors of 2026, it is their ability to process generative AI locally. Both brands have NPUs dedicated for several generations. MediaTek integrates its own APU (AI Processing Unit) with capabilities comparable to Qualcomm’s Hexagon. On a day-to-day basis, the difference for the user is practically negligible. Whether it’s editing in 8K video or asking your assistant to summarize a document, both manufacturers offer a fluidity that has eliminated the famous Android jerks of yesteryear. How does this rapprochement between MediaTek and Qualcomm benefit us as consumers? When there is no clear dominator, the winner is the consumer. This technical parity (due to the clear technical rapprochement between MediaTek and Qualcomm) has caused three immediate effects on the market: Price war: To compete with Qualcomm’s raw performance, MediaTek offers its chips at more aggressive prices, allowing manufacturers like Xiaomi, Realme or Samsung itself to adjust their margins. Best updates: MediaTek driver support has improved dramatically, forcing Qualcomm to not sleep and promise increasingly longer Android update periods. Accelerated innovation: Today, competition for energy efficiency is fierce. In 2026, we have more powerful mobile phones than ever; However, they will stretch the battery beyond the intensive day thanks to this rivalry. The end of prejudices In 2026, choosing a smartphone based solely on the brand of the processor is a mistake. We have reached a technological maturity point where MediaTek is no longer the cheap alternative, but a first-class option and Qualcomm has had to get off the pedestal to fight in the field of quality-price. This is an ideal scenario. It no longer matters what engine (that is, processor) your Android has under the hood; What matters is that, for the first time, both types of chips they run at the same speed. Some mobile phones with these processors that may interest you High range Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra (Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5): is a benchmark in raw power and image processing. Qualcomm maintains a slight advantage here in professional video processing and advanced 5G connectivity. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra 5g 6.9″ 256gb Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Oppo Find X9 Pro (MediaTek Dimensity 9500): a great rival for the Samsung model that has a MediaTek chip is Oppo. On a day-to-day basis, the difference is almost non-existent between both models, although Oppo is achieving higher thermal efficiency rates. OPPO Find X9 Pro 5G 16+512GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Mid range Nothing Phone (3) (Snapdragon 8s Gen 4): Qualcomm has had to lower the power of its high ranges to this chip so as not to lose the throne of the premium mid-range, offering an electric and fluid experience in this Nothing Phone (3). Nothing Phone (3) – 12GB + 256GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Poco X8 Pro (MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Ultra): It is one of the kings in value for money. MediaTek allows this Xiaomi Poco X8 Pro perform like a top-of-the-range phone from just a year ago, but maintaining a moderate price. XIAOMI POCO X8 Pro – 8+256GB Smartphone The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Javier Lacort (Xataka), Iván Linares (Xataka), Álex Alcolea (Xataka) and Xataka Móvil In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which one to buy and 21 models from 15 euros to 470 euros

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