The triumph of the daytime raves where the raveros consume coffee instead of alcohol

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We carry consuming alcohol Since the beginning of civilization. Beer is an example, helping to endure empires, but there is something that is changing: being abstemious is fashionable. At least, that indicates the trendsand it is something that young people seem to have less present on a day -to -day basis. Coffee consumption … that does not decline, even When prices go up. In fact, coffee is gaining ground to alcoholic beverages where it seemed impossible: in raves. Because it seems that there are those who think that electronic music combines with coffee better than milk. Coffee alcohol. If you follow coffee content on social networks, you are likely to crossed Videos of somewhat peculiar electronic parties: videos of rooms during daytime schedule full of young people who dance to the sound of electronic music, but instead of with a cubata in the hand, with an espresso or a capuchin. There is many, manybut what many videos (and could continue putting Links) that these show coffee raves In cities around the world, with the girl giving everything and socializing in cafes converted into discos. At least for a while. World. And there is not much more than you can see in networks: they are coffee shops (usually specialty) that take DJs to do their own while the public jumps, shouts, sings and drinks coffee. The lighting is totally different from what we associate with a night rave and the schedule is in the morning or in the afternoon, that at the taste of each establishment. In Spain, for example, Madrid coffee shops such as Santanera Coffee They already organize these events. See coffee In Barcelona it is also being seduced by the idea and is not something exclusive to Europe: coffee shops Buenos Aires and of Mexico City They also offer this unique experience. Ultimate Barista Fights. Ok, if you like coffee, surely you will now be looking on the Instagram of your favorite cafeteria to see if they plan to do something similar, but something important to know is that it is rare that something comes out of nowhere. Yes, it seems that that of the Coffee Raves is becoming a trend, but if we go back to the London in the late 2000s, we find something … similar. In some London clubs there was what was known as the ‘Ultimate Barista Fights’, a scenario that, in the purest battle style of Gallos or ‘The Club of the fight’ gathered enthusiastic baristas who competed to make the best coffees. They demonstrated their skills in Latte Art or even faced creative challenges, everything to the rhythm of music, in the purest underground style, with friendly provocations and with rules that could change to the flight. Coffee fight. In these competitions it was encouraged that the contestant baristas were challenged, but all in a friendly environment with a clear objective: create a community around coffee. It was a coffee celebration and it could be, perfectly, one of the germs of those ‘coffee parties’ that we see right now. Morning Gloryville. The other ingredient of the coffee raves may also have left London, specifically from the London culture of the early 2010s. While the raves are associated with what we have already commented (electronic music, night, drugs or alcohol), in 2013 Samantha Moyo and Nico Themmes gave life to the Morning Gloryville. It was the opposite: electronic music was maintained with live DJs, but they were daytime parties and were drugs free of drugs and alcohol. Not only was it aim of starting the day well, but they were spaces in which families had their hole and activities such as yoga, massages, healthy smoothies and … coffee were done. It expanded to other countries, reaching cities such as New York, Barcelona, ​​Paris or Tokyo and the main interest was to create an event to have a good healthy way possible. In my opinion, Morning Gloryville and what were the Ultimate Barista Fights are the ancestors of what we now see in coffee raves. It only remains to wait to see if it stays in a nice passenger fashion, in a trend or in something that the big ones Franchises will seek to capitalize. Images | Matthew T Rader In Xataka | It looks like toothpaste, but it is coffee in tube: the Swiss invention that wants to revolutionize how you consume caffeine

What was from Barreiros, the Spanish automotive company that manufactured the Dodge “Made in Spain” in the second half of the twentieth century

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To Eduardo Barreiros the automotive was in his blood. With just 12 years he worked already in the workshop of the small bus company that his family had constituted in Ourense shortly before, in 1929, and it is said that over time he came to develop such an expertise that he could mount a truck with scrapping pieces. His other great inheritance was The businessa facet that his father had already deployed as an emigrant in the Canary Islands, where he created A CEDAZOS FACTORY. With such a cocktail running through its veins, a mixture of mechanics and entrepreneurial pulse, it does not surprise that Eduardo Barreiros ended up becoming one of the great magnates of the automotive of the Spain of the twentieth century. And rightly. Perhaps the passage of the decades and memory has not done justice, but there was an era, there for the third quarter of the twentieth century, in which his last name became one of the most popular brands in the sector and he in one of the most admired entrepreneurs, inside and outside Spain. Still in 2023 there are those who present it as “The Spanish Henry Ford”. And also in that there is enough. A logo for memory The emblematic Dodge-Dart Barreiros. The company that constituted in Madrid in the 1950s, along with his brother, Valerian Its characteristic logo In the form of eight, sum of its initials “E” and “B”. Thanks to his business alliances, towards the mid -60s of his factories even a Dodge came out “Made in Spain”the emblematic Dodge-Dart, a high-end car launched to compete against the SEAT-1500. The brand would end up becoming popular for an episode that has little to do with mechanics: when he suffered the attack that ended his life, on December 20, 1973, the Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco traveled aboard a Dodge 3700 GTsuccessor of those Dodge Dart, today Property of the Army Museum. To learn about the origins of your company, baptized not without controversy as diesel sweeps, it is necessary to go back a few years before, to the Spain of the 50s, on horseback The autarkic and developmentalism. It was then, in 1954, when Galician Eduardo Barreiros decided to constitute his own automotive company with his father and brother in Madrid. It was the result of an intuition that had been maturing since the previous decade: the business that could be created with the conversion of diesel gasoline engines, which allowed lower consumption and the use of a fuel cheaper. Simca 1000, with the Barreiros brand logo. As the Spanish Patent and Brands Office (OEPM) A detailed essay Dedicated to the company, Barreiros did not lack experience in the matter: he had accumulated it with the transformation of the engines of his own trucks and those of other transporters. Several years before founding Barreiros Diesel, in fact, he had had the good tino to protect his system with two patents. The business started on a plot of almost 16,000 m2 of Villaverdesouth of Madrid, and a capital of 10 million pesetas. Enough to make diesel engines, tractors and trucks. The young Barreiros soon demonstrated his good eye for the sector: at the months of constituting the company he made an intelligent movement that –Remember the OEPM– It allowed it for practical purposes to introduce the Perkins P-6 engine in Spain without the need for its manufacturer’s license. Boom and fall Throughout the following years the company experienced considerable growth, with the constitution of different societies related to its activity and an increase in personnel, facilities and of course production capacity. From the factory, emblematic creations came out, which even today place in the second -hand market, such as the TT-90 trucks, Goshawk and Super Azorthe Tempo van or the tractors Hanomag Barreiros R-335 and Barreiros 5500. Barreiros 4045. Barreiros also sought alliances with other companies, such as Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werk GmbH either Hanomag. The most relevant, due to its impact, contribution of funds and – I live in perspective – business repercussions would be the agreement with the European subsidiary of Chrysler, closed in 1963 and that allowed the Spanish firm to clear its future and take a decisive step for the manufacture of cars. It did not go free, of course: the multinational was done with 40% of the capital. A few years later from the Villaverde factory, the first Dodge-Dart of Barreiros, also known in the national market-how “Dodge Barreiros” came out. The remarkable injection of resources that accompanied the pact with Chrysler also allowed him to manufacture the popular Simca 1000launched in the early 60s in France by Simca with a commercial approach other than that of Dart. The Barreiros brand was popular, had an interesting catalog, manufactured emblematic models and had even managed to face SEATdriven by the powerful National Institute of Industrybut Not everything was good news in the offices of Villaverde. By the end of the 60s the firm faced a financial crisis that allowed Chrysler to reinforce his control and gain even more weight in the capital of the company, which soon derived in Chrysler Spain. The family that had captained the beginnings of the project, back in the 50s, ended up ceasing its activities in the company. His last name, yes, still survived as a commercial brand for years, proof of the success he achieved. The old Barreiros business project, cemented on their ideas for the conversion of gasoline engines for use with diesel then employed more than 20,000 people directly, generated a considerable business flow and, above all, had earned a prominent place in the history of Spanish automotive. The very New York Times It came to include to the Galician tycoon in his list of entrepreneurs most influential in Europe. The veteran businessman would still continue with his career, betting on the livestock sector and with an adventure on the other side of the pond, in Cuba, where he promoted the creation of Taíno engines. There, in Havana, … Read more

Chile asked Chatgpt about their culture. The answer was so loose that Latin America has joined to create LATAM-GPT

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Observe the development of Generative It is most curious. In the United States they are large technological, and startups such as OpenAIthose who have marked the rhythm. In China, companies are also developing their modelsbut the government has a particular interest in Push this technology For technological purposes, of course, but also social and doctors. And now Latin America has joined to create its own Chatgpt. It will be called LATAM-GPT And the motivation to create this model is curious: a Chilean center did not convince a chatgpt response on Latin American culture. The question. “Describe Latin American culture in 500 characters.” That was, how we read in BBCthe request of some researchers from the National Artificial Intelligence Center -Cenia- from Chile to Chatgpt. His answer It was the following: “Latin American culture is a vibrant amalgam of indigenous roots, African influences and European heritage. It is characterized by its rich diversity in music, dance and gastronomy, reflected in festivals such as carnival and the Flower Fair. Its art, from muralism to literature, shows a deep connection with the history and local identity. The warmth, the sense of community and the celebration of community. pillars that enrich this dynamic and diverse culture. ” I have to say that I just asked for it and the answer is different, but pivot over the same points, such as the fusion of indigenous, African and European inheritances, the taste for music and dance, colorful gastronomy and traditions such as carnival to give rise to a colorful cultural mosaic. LATAM-GPT. This response did not satisfy CENIA researchers, who considered that, although it is a Llm Of great quality, “his understanding of the Latin American context could be enriched and perfected.” Come on, they are convinced that the answer, although correct in broad strokes, needs to qualify a lot to better reflect the peculiarities of the culture of each Latin American country because Chatgpt gave an answer too … Generalist. And that response for the region user will be LATAM-GPT. The intention is to be a Language model of and for Latin America and the Caribbean. The desire is that it addresses the common problems that language models have when interpreting idioms, cultural references and typical expressions of the Latin American context. Álvaro Soto, director of Cenia, states that US models hallucinate because Latin American data with which they have been trained are very scarce. “We do not seek to compete with Openai or one of the giants. We want an own model of Latin America and the Caribbean, with the cultural requirements and challenges that implies” – Cenia Goals. It is triple. On the one hand, what we have just mentioned: that it has a greater context when addressing issues related to the culture of each of the Latin American countries. On the other, that is open and public, allowing each developer to adapt applications to local needs in areas such as education, politics, economy or the environment. Finally, perhaps the most important for something that countries in the region are looking for: stop depending on foreign models and technologies. Mexico, for example, has put on the table the intention of carrying out different projects within a great umbrella called Plan Mexico which seeks to enhance the sovereignty of the nation in several matters, being the technological one -with its own semiconductor industry or of electric vehicles– One of its legs. Financing. With Latam-GPT, it also seeks to promote technological innovation of the region thanks to a tool that can help others seek to develop their potential. But of course, carrying out something like that requires money, and it is something that is not going to be left only in the Cenia. Chile has postulated as the leader of the project, but countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Costa Rica or Ecuador have not taken long to join. There are also Spanish and American institutions on this ship. It has financial support from associations and academic institutions of these countries, but there is also government support to develop this artificial intelligence. Several countries are immersed in Latam-GPT Resources. For training, researchers will use the infrastructure of the University of Tarapacá, in Chile. It will use a super -tank to train the model with more than 8 TB of data collected from public and private libraries. That training will take about 40 days and it is expected that, for summer of this 2025, LATAM-GPT can be accessed. Investment in infrastructure will be about 10 million dollars. Now, one of the problems can be the consumption of the training center. We have already seen in Spain that Not everyone looks good the installation of Data centers To train AI due to high consumption of both water and energy, but from CENIA they expose that consumption in the first of the two stages will be 135 kWh. The University of Tarapacá is in Aricato northern Chile, where there are A great energy matrix composed of renewables and the idea is to ‘throw’ of them to supply electricity. In addition, from the agency they comment that “the cooling system – of the servers – will not generate water consumption due to the availability of cheap and abundant energy in Arica. CO₂ emissions associated with training will be 0.96 tons.” Necessary? This would be, if the accounts are correct, that the training of this LLM will be more ecological than that of Google or OpenAi models, but there are some challenges ahead. One has to do with the protection of data they use to train the model. The researchers affirm that the main policy for the shelter of intellectual property will be transparency, with open sources that comply with the copyright laws And, at the same time, make automatisms of Anonymization of personal data. On the other hand, there are those who ask that all this … for what. Ulysses Mejías, of Mexican origin, is a professor at the State University of New York and has … Read more

We have found a “remedy” even worse than coffee enemas: “Mumia”, or crushed mummy

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What happens when we mix a generalized ignorance of pharmacology and health, with ignorance about foreign languages ​​and cultures? Many things, and few as unpleasant as what happened between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries: the consumption of “Mumia”. During the final stage of the Middle Ages and the first centuries of the Modern Age, doctors in Europe considered this substance as a balm with healing properties of the most diverse, from healing an indigestion to fighting the bubonic plague. The problem is that The “Mumia” It was nothing other than an elaborate preparation From the mummified remains of killed people hundreds or thousands of years ago. That is, crushed mummies. But its consumption could have been due to a simple translation error, as Explain in an article for The conversation Professor of the University of Bristol Michelle Spear. We usually assimilate medieval medicine with the acquaintance Four mood theorybut this was not the only medical doctrine that inspired the medicine of that era. In his article, Spear relates mummy dust to the DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES. This other theory considered that healing substances kept similarity to what they wanted to cure. It would then be “reasonable” that the mummified remains of a person were seen as a treatment against potentially lethal diseases and also as a remedy against infections or against necrosis and other forms of decay. Another doctrine that, according to this researcher at the University of Bristol, could have served as the basis for the use of corpses in medical practice is that of vitalism. Under the umbrella of this theory, the notion that the “vital force” of one person could simply transfer to another would be found. The use of anomalous substance began to spread in the twelfth century, an era in which Events like the Crusades They would give a new air to relations between the East and West. This was not only saw the spice trade between them, it was in this era that Europe began to Import Ancient Egypt mummies to fill your apothecies of the strange remedy. Long before Orientalism and Egyptology lead Europeans to explore (often loot) the tombs of ancient Egypt, their ancestors would have already taken numerous human remains belonging to that Mediterranean civilization. A misunderstanding? As Spear explains, this “fashion” could have had its beginning in a simple misunderstanding starring the Persian scientist whom we today know how Avicena. In his treaties, this thinker of the eleventh century mentioned a remedy used in his environment to treat injuries such as injuries and fractures. This ointment was a bituminous substance that they referred to as Mūmiyā. By translating Avicena’s texts into Latin, this Mūmiyā It would have transformed into nothing less than trust mummies, so the idea that the bodies hid the secret for the cure of numerous ills and disorders began to spread. To finish the mistake, the substances used in some reservoirs They could also have helped confusion. After all, these substances would not have been very different from the Mūmiyā used by the Persians. The story of the call “Medical cannibalism” It does not end in mummy dustso the notion that everything was a mere translation error may not completely explain this phenomenon. Fat, blood and human skulls have been consumed in different ways as a way of relieving evils of different kinds. In Xataka | A 2,000 -year -old cup has revealed an unexpected facet of the Egyptians: psychedelic cocktails Image | Bullenwächter / Émile Brugsch

In Singapore, luxury is not having a Ferrari or a Lamborghini. True luxury is simply driving

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Singaporethat little city/country-state between Malaysia and Indonesia where they barely exceed five million inhabitants, is a Place of contrasts. While the enclave has a high degree of government control and certain practices that can be described as repressive, on the other they embrace new technologies to the point of being A world reference in the public sphere towards AI. There, having a car is not a practical need, it is a statement of status. Drive in Singapore. The story was told this week The New York Times. In Singapore, possessing a car is not something practical, it is rather a statement comparable to dressing a designer suit or wearing a luxury watch. The reason? He Property Certificates System (introduced in 1990 to control congestion and pollution) imposes on citizens the payment of Astronomical sums Only for the right to buy a vehicle. These certificates, known as Certificates of Entitlement (COE), can reach up to $ 84,000raising the total price of common cars to Exorbitant figures more typical of a supercar. As the newspaper of Insurance agent Andre Lee told the newspaper, which in 2020 paid $ 24,000 for a kia forte Second hand, having a car was simply part of its professional image, although it later acknowledged that the expense was not justified and chose to sell it. An unnecessary luxury. It is also explained on the other hand. With a public transport network affordable and effective, Few residents They really need a car to move around the city. Long routes cost less than two dollars and transport apps such as Grab are widely available. Despite this, twice a month they are celebrated COE auctionswith limited quotas set by the government. This policy has been very effective: Singapore has only 11 cars per 100 inhabitants, well below countries like the United States or Italy, where the figure exceeds 75. Other cities have adopted by measures against congestion, such as urban tolls In LondonStockholm or New Yorkbut no charge both for having a car and Singapore. The car and social classes. For the richest in the country, acquiring a vehicle with all associated costs does not represent a problem. Su-Sanne Ching, businesswoman, said paid $ 150,000 by A Mercedes-Benzincluding a coe of $ 60,000. On the other hand, for the middle class, especially families with children, the car becomes a luxury difficult to sustain. Joy Fang and her husband told the Times that they bought in 2022 a used Hyundai for $ 58,000 to take their two children. Every month they allocate More than 10% of their family budget to keep the vehicle, which has forced them to reduce departures and trips. Even so, they consider that the alternative (moving with young children and bags in public transport) is unfeasible. Sometimes not even symbolism. There are more extreme cases. Even for those who acquire a car for symbolic or professional reasons, Like Andre Leecumulative expenses can make The decision loses meaning. Maintenance, gasoline, parking and insurance end up exceeding the initial expectations. Read, for example, sold his car three years after buying it and now moves in public transport, or borrows his father’s vehicle when he needs to meet with customers. In his opinion, there are other priorities that ended up despite more than the image that projected to have their own car. Rational choice against chaos. Singapore’s restrictive model contrasts with that of other Southeast Asia cities Like Yakarta or Bangkokwhere extreme traffic converts displacements into an odyssey. For many Singapurenses, giving up the personal car is a reasonable price for enjoying more clear streets and fast journeys. In this regard and According to sociologist Chua Beng Huatthe choice is cultural and practical: the population prefers to avoid long hours behind the wheel. The man himself, despite having a SUV byd to move his grandchildren, says he turns to the subway when he goes to the center. Ultimately, the car in Singapore seems to have become a more than functional aspirational good, one reserved for those who can afford it without compromising their economy. Unlike other parts of the world where the vehicle represents an almost imperative need for mobility or independence, on the island-state it is, for many, A luxury compared With the most ostentatious objects. There is like having a rolex, or almost. Image | William Cho In Xataka | Guide to know if your car can circulate through the Zbe of Madrid in 2025: labels, registered and areas In Xataka | How to make an appointment at the IMSS online in Mexico

For years, “fecal doping” is a problem in elite sport. Now science wants to democratize it

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In 2019, a team of scientists from Harvard University monitored bacterial flora of 15 Boston Marathon runners during the previous and the posterior week. They made many discoveries, but one especially interesting: after the competition everyone suffered a significant increase in bacteria of the genus Veillonella. It was already known that exercise Altera the microbiota And, in fact, it was not especially surprising that these bacteria (which break the lactic acid and, therefore, reduce fatigue) were in there. What they wanted to discover was something else. Therefore, they took samples of that flora and introduced them into mice. The result was an increase in very significant physical resistance. Since then, there are people trying to take advantage of this. The treasure that hides the intestine. Now a France team has studied the intestinal microbiota elite athletes with high aerobic capacity (soccer players and cyclists). The central idea was to see if there were differences in the composition of the flora and in its functionality with respect to non -athletes. The first surprise is that the more sport the subjects were doing, the lower the diversity of their microbiota. And I say it is surprising because, as Rosa del Campo tells us Through SMC Spain“This is associated with an unhealthy condition.” However, in this case it seems that “it is justified with the specialization of these bacteria in the intestine.” That is, by submitting the microbiota to more exExigent environments, it is self -appointed to optimize. However, As he says The Ramón y Cajal hospital researcher is not the most interesting. “The most striking thing is when they evaluate the ability to reproduce this in mice.” What have they done? They have taken very sedentary and very athletes and “have transplanted their feces to mice for several days.” The result shows that “aerobic effort capacity in mice is conditioned by the microbiota.” Because? Although research is still preliminary, everything seems to indicate that “it is mainly due to glycogen consumption, good sugar control and production of short chain fatty acids.” What implications does this have? Well, it seems that enough. Remember that for years the anti -doping agencies work to fight against microbiological doping. In fact, everything seems to indicate that “Fecal transplant“s a usual practice in certain elite sport environments. But the question, as always, is whether this can be climbed. If we can begin to intervene in the microbiota in a massive way to improve the health of large layers of the population. For years, the boom of probiotics has caught Als great pharmaceuticals with the changed foot and has flooded the market with pseudoscience. However, the possibilities (as we see) are on the table. It is increasingly silent than health will be conquered with the stomach. Image | Julien Tromeur | Miguel to Amutio In Xataka | This pill is a peanked but can save your life

Inject your partner poison

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Make up is a risk sport. That they tell the male of the religious mantis who has to feel how His head is devoured by the female While his body, automatically, continues to copulate. This practice is less common than what is thought, since it occurs in just a handful of Mantis speciesbut it is not the only stage of the animal kingdom in which The male is killed for the good of the offspring. And there is A hops They have the same customs. Of course, there is an octopus of a concrete species that has a strategy to fertilize the female and survive the process: poison it. Dimorphism. Something important before entering the case of octopus is that there are many animal species with cases of sexual dimorphism extremely accentuated. This implies a difference in size between the sexes, being the case of the mantis one of them. In mammals, males are usually larger than females, since they are the ones that fight for territories and mating, but it occurs backwards in case of raptors, arthropods, amphibians and reptiles. In the octopus, there are extreme cases in which there are females that are up to ten times larger than males. One of those cases is that of the blue line octopus –Hapalochlaena fasciata-. They are small, but tremendously lethal octopus because they are able to inoculate a very powerful neurotoxin that they share males and females. Contrast with its small size: just bigger than a golf ball. Sex and snack. However, the female is twice as large as the male and mating dynamics is not very healthy to say (for the male, of course): due to that imbalance, the female usually ends the life of her sexual partner during the process. However, in a study published in Science Directa group of researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia has discovered that the male has developed a toxic way of surviving mating, literally. Due to that huge difference in size, males cannot develop tactics that they use in other species of octopus, such as a more elongated reproductive arm to inseminate at a safe distance or even arms – character – with the reproductive load that emerges so that the animal can flee. The only thing left to this species is to bite the female to inject neurotoxin, directly. Here we have a complete half -hour sequence: Poison. As we read in Sciencealertresearchers comment that, probably, this evolution has been “an answer both to the need for reproduction and protection”, and what they do is ‘bite’ the female before trying to copulate. They do it near the aorta, injecting the fair amount of tetrodotoxin to paralyze their partner during the process. To check, the researchers placed six couples in different aquariums and observed this practice in all cases. “The females succumb quickly,” they comment, and it is something they observed because they lost reflexes to light stimuli, paid and the pupils contracted due to the loss of nervous system control. Wait, what happened? They also made more precise observations: while the males went from 20 or 25 contractions per minute at rest at 35 or 45 during the intercourse, the females not only suffered an abrupt fall in their heart rate, but stopped breathing completely after about eight minutes of the bite. They point out that none died, so the amount of neurotoxin they inject is very precise or, evolutionarily, the female has developed countermeasures, but the bite on the back of the head was evident. “Once immobilized, males proceed to intercourse and mating ends when the female regains control of her arms and separates the male,” the researchers point out. In this video we can see how the male approaches while the female remains motionless: Sexual Armament Carrera. The researchers comment that they did not directly measure the levels of neurotoxin, but it is a practice that “suggests an evolutionary armament career among the sexes, in which the cannibalism of large females is counteracted by males through the use of venom.” Fruit of this evolution is that the posterior salivary glands of the males, which is where the symbiotic bacteria that produce toxin accumulate, are three times larger than those of the females. They also comment that they are not the only animals that accumulate that toxin in their bodies and that there are fish, mollusks or amphibians that produce it, so they will continue to investigate to identify whether other animals use it in order to reproduce and leave alive from the process. Ah, and something curious of the experiment: in one of the cases, one of the males bit at a point somewhat away from the aorta and the female took less time than the others to wake up: 35 minutes. Speaking, people understand each other, but when hunger enters during intercourse, it is clear that there are species that fail to suppress those cannibal instincts. By the way, Wen-Sung Chung, one of the main researchers, has shared 15 GB of videos of the octopus copulating using these peculiar strategies. Images and videos | Queensland University In Xataka | A whale toured 13,000 km and three oceans to reproduce. It is a record, and also a bad news

The compact mobile is dead

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In 2011 we talked about Samsung Galaxy Note as if it were the son of a mobile and a tablet. In fact, the most veterans surely remember the term Phablet. He has barely rained, huh. The Galaxy Note was a huge mobile, enormism for the time. His screen had “unusual 5.3 inches” (Xataka textual words), a much greater figure than that of 2010 Galaxy Swhose panel was four inches. Back in 2011 I was 17 years old and had a Htc desire s that I still keep and replaced me Nokia X6-00. I remember that, when I bought it, people saw it and said “you have to see, at this rhythm the mobiles will be like a television.” I’ve been listening to that “mobiles are getting bigger.” Today I can confirm with the data in the hand that this is not only so, but that the compact mobile has died. Mobile less than six inches launched in 2025: zero For this analysis we have resorted to the data of GSMARENA and traced until 2010, so that we have collected all the mobiles launched in the last 15 years to see what happened. In 2010 Justin Bieber launched ‘Baby’, Enrique Iglesias piad him with ‘I Like it’, Christopher Nolan scored somewhat with ‘origin’ and the industry put 125 mobiles into circulation worldwide. They were all less than six inches. I say more: except the Dell Streakeveryone had less than five inches. This was the usual tonic during the following years. More and more mobile threw themselves, but in 2014 something began to change. This was the year of Nexus 6he OnePlus One and the Samsung Galaxy Edge (The curve screen). Also of the Ascend Mate 7 from Huawei and the Xperia t2 ultra from Sony. They began to draw increasingly large mobiles with FullHD screens and 16: 9 format, such as televisions and monitors. Samsung Galaxy Edge | Image: Xataka The screens became larger, but the format was always the same, 16: 9. That meant that if we wanted to increase the size of the screen, the mobile width had to be increased a lot. So much so that the Ascend Mate 7 of 2014, with its six inches of screen, had a high of 157 millimeters and a width of 81 millimeters. To put it in context, the Galaxy S25 Ultraone of the largest mobiles of 2025, has 162 millimeters high and 77.6 wide. The mobiles were getting huge, in every way, but growing that way was not sustainable. The reason that the screens become larger and larger is evident: mobile phones were no longer mobile. They had become entertainment platforms In which playing, watching movies, listening to music, sailing, chatting, etc. More screen, more options, you don’t have more. Then the manufacturers fell into the account: why continue inspired by televisions and monitors? What if instead of making 16: 9 panels we stretch them up and make them more panoramic? It was then that the six inches began to become the standard for the high range. Already in 2017 we had terminals such as Galaxy Note8 with 6.3 inches and 18.5: 9 format and the LG V30 (DEP), with six inches in 18: 9 format. Lg v30 | Image: Xataka That number tells us the proportion between the width and high of a rectangle. To date, for every 16 high pixels we had nine pixels wide, and vice versa. If we wanted to increase the size of the screen, something that made sense to understand the mobile as the main device of every user, the only option that was not to end bricks in the pocket was to keep the width and increase the height. And that was what happened: format 16: 9 was condemned to extinction. Change the appearance ratio to a more elongated allowed manufacturers to continue increasing the size of the panels without having much larger mobiles As of 2017, mobile phones began to grow, and to grow, already grow up. In 2018, large mobiles with 18: 9 format represented just over half of all the launched. In 2019, the market took a 180 degree turn and the strange thing was that a mobile does not exceed six inches. The market had been completely invested. In later years, the try to launch compact phones were left in little more than that, try (see the iPhone Mini) And, today, there is not a single mobile below six inches. A small format requires sacrifices in terms of battery, power and photography, things for which the user, according to the disappearance of compact mobiles, does not seem willing to happen. iPhone 13 Mini | Image: Xataka So far this year only three mobiles have been launched with less than 6.5 inches and are the Google Pixel 9ahe Samsung Galaxy S25 and a total unknown: the rugerized Sonim XP400. All others, removing mobile phones with physical or older keyboard, have larger diagonal panels. There is not one, not one, six inches or less. All this has not been achieved only based on adding inches to a screen, but companies have done an exceptional job miniaturizing components, moving them in place and improving technology, in general. One of the most obvious changes has been get rid of the upper and lower frames and pass the buttons, and even the fingerprint reader, to the screen. That has allowed an iPhone 16 to have a 6.1 -inch screen in a body of 147.6 x 71.6 millimeters. To put it in context, the Samsung Galaxy S4 2013 measured 136.6 x 69.8, but had a “only” five -inch screen. The next step: bigger Huawei Mate XT | Image: Xataka Formats 18.5, 19 and 19.5: 9 have the advantage that it allows you to add inches at the expense of stretching the terminal up, but everything has a limit. A point comes where such an elongated screen It becomes uncomfortableas we have been able to verify in some terminals that carried the appearance to the … Read more

All solar panel technologies that exist and which are more efficient, in a graph that goes 1975 until today

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The fastest energy transition in history is not the industrial revolution, as many think, but the one that is happening now With renewable energies. Renewables are being installed at a rate five times greater than all other combined energy sources. And although the great habilitator is the worldwide commitment to zero net emissions, it is the brutal evolution of solar panels that has allowed to reach this point. Photovoltaic panels have been so much that solar energy Start leaving wind energytraditionally more efficient. Throughout the last decades, solar cells have experienced a radical transformation, driven both by advances in material engineering and in innovations in manufacturing techniques; mainly from the Chinese industry, although Japan is trying to lead The next generation. The National Renewable Energies Laboratory (NREL) has Published a graph that illustrates at a glance How each photovoltaic technology has advanced since the 70s and which cells are more efficient today. Traditional cells: crystalline silicon Crystalline silicon cells The crystalline solar cells of silicon (blue in the graph) have dominating the market for several decades. The polyristaline silicon (the one used in solar panels with bluish crystals) is cheaper, but monochronic silicon (with black crystals) is the current standard of the industry thanks to continuous improvements in purification and production processes, which have approached their efficiency to an ability to convert 27.6% of sunlight into energy. Thin film technologies (green in the graph) emerged as an alternative to the crystalline silicon for facilities that require greater flexibility, lower weight or a large -scale manufacturing. The most efficient thin film cells are currently those of copper, Indian, Gallic and Selenium (CIGS) with an efficiency of 23.6%, closely followed by those of cadmium teluro (CDTE). The emerging: organic and perovskitas Emerging technologies cells Red in the graph, they are the photovoltaic cells that have tried to remove the throne from the silicon. Organic cells and coloring sensitized cells (DSSC) use organic compounds to absorb light. Its efficiency is modest (around 19%), but they have the advantage of their low cost and the possibility of integrating them into flexible devices and buildings with varied colors. One of the most revolutionary innovations in recent years has been the development of Perovskita cells (red with yellow filling in the graph). Thanks to its crystalline structure inspired by the mineral of the same name, these cells have been achieving exponential increases in efficiency in a short time, even if they were invented in Japan in the 80s. Perovskita cells are already as efficient as silicon, with an efficiency of 27%, but they have the problem of degrading much earlier. The tandem, the best of both worlds Tandem two materials cells The photovoltaic cells that make up silicon and perovskita in tandem are the most promising for generalized use today. The secret of combining both materials is that the upper perovskita layer absorbs high -energy wavelengths and the lower silicon layer captures the rest of the spectrum. With an efficiency of 36.1%, Tandem cells (brown in the graph) have left behind the theoretical limit of traditional silicon cells (33.7%). Although in the laboratories we still try to look for alternatives to the silicon, which is a more expensive material and with a supply chain controlled by China. All photovoltaic cells and their evolution By the latter, triple or more layers (multijunction) unions are the cells that have reached the greatest efficiencies in laboratory conditions: up to 47.6%. Its cost is high and its production is complex, but these cells are useful in solar concentrators, where maximum performance is sought. Images | NREL

an increasing problem for the wine industry

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In early February, The Civil Guard dismantled An international network dedicated to illegal wine from La Rioja. That is, a network dedicated to falsifying wine bottles and selling them in Vietnam and China. The funny thing is that they have operated for years and only the alarm has jumped because a Spanish tourist saw a suspicious bottle in a gourmet store in Vietnam and bought it to bring it to the country and analyze it. A problem that does not stop growing. For years, illicit trade and fraud in the wine sector and spirits keep growing. In 2023, Spanish customs and police authorities seized Almost 15 million liters of illegal drinks. Globally, although there are those who estimate that up to fifth of the wine that is sold could be false, more conservative estimates They say that annual losses in drinks of this type amount to 1,300 million euros. Of course, it is something that worries (and much) the most important wineries who see not only how they lose income, but how the low quality of falsifications affects their brand image. In fact, there are lawsuits specialized in intellectual property that They offer service to the wineries throughout Europe to monitor the market (ON and Offline) and detect this type of falsification. What exactly is that is falsified? To start the same wine. There is Fine fakes that combine lower quality wines To try to pass them through higher bottles, but normally it is about replacing. But there is much beyond the “dilution” and “replacement of ingredients”, there is a lot explained in the Spanish A few years ago Fabián Torres, Director of Business Development of SICPA Spain. Complex. Be that as it may, counterfeiters play with one thing: the world of tastings is a complicated world. Although it seems that it is true that There are supercatters capable of overcoming the most difficult teststhe truth is that for most human beings there are no major differences between wines. Not enough, at least, to detect a falsification achieved. And this has more crumb than it seems. Because many people have begun to ask that why pay a disproportionate amount of money for a flavor profile that, in short, can be achieved “falsified” at a much lower price. The best example is the case of Rudy Kurniawan, perhaps the most famous counterfeit in recent years. After leaving prison in 2021 he has set up a business in which FALSIFY VINES ‘ON DEMAND’. In your case, organize tastings to buy exclusive broths with your own falsifications. Normally, they win their wines. Of “falsified wine” to “duplicate wine”. It is a phenomenon very similar to the calls’duplicated perfumes‘(legal fragrances designed to smell like other design perfumes): we have seen it in supermarkets with Cheap versions of the most popular wines of the moment, like Verdejo frizzante. However, The potential of this type of products It is much greater. After all, we live in a world in which LOS DUPLAS WITHOUT ALCOHOL No They stop growing. We have gone from an industry in which the flavor was inseparable to the historical manufacturing process to a flavor profiles laboratory. And, in Spain, one of the world’s world leaders, this revolution will make the foundations vibrate of the industry. Image | Kelsey Knight | Klara Kulikova In Xataka | If the question is what is the future of wine, more and more Bordeaux wineries are clear: the without alcohol

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