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The US has found a new way to torpedo China. The problem is that it takes ahead to South Korea

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The truce is over. The US does not want integrated circuit manufacturing equipment that resort to US technologies and innovations They arrive in China. Not even chips factories that They do not belong to Chinese companies. In 2022 the US Department of Commerce granted a temporary exemption to several manufacturers of foreign semicondators who have plants in China so that they could equip their facilities with the machines they needed. But this permissive period has expired. From now on any chips manufacturer who has plants in China will have to request a license from the US Commerce Department to be able to install in its factories machines with US components or technologies. Intel has sold Your Dalian plant (China), so this measure no longer affects it. However, there are two South Korean companies of enormous relevance in the semiconductor industry whose business can be deeply conditioned by the restrictions imposed by the US: Samsung and SK Hynix. The Department of Commerce is not reassuring These two South Korean companies need to send new manufacturing machines of integrated circuits to their China plants to protect their competitiveness, and without the approval of the US administration they cannot do so. Lithography equipment that manufactures asml They incorporate American technologies (The ultraviolet light source of UVE and UVP machines is produced by the company of Californian origin Cymer, which is now integrated into ASML). And presumably the lithographic equipment of Tokyo Electron, Nikon and Canon also, which gives the US the power to control which countries can use this technology. The Commerce Department has noticed that it will not grant licenses that pursue expand the production capacity in China or update the existing technology The Department of Commerce has anticipated which will deliver the necessary licenses so that foreign chip manufacturers can continue to operate their China plants. The restrictions will begin in 120 days, so these companies They still have some margin to react. However, in its statement the Department of Commerce He has also warned that will not grant licenses that pursue expand production capacity in China or update existing technology. For Samsung and SK Hynix this limitation represents a serious problem. Samsung produces Nand Flash chips in Xian, and SK Hynix manufactures DRAM integrated circuits in Wuxi and Nand Flash in Dalian. Equipating these plants with avant -garde equipment can make a difference in your business. What the US Government pursues with this measure is to minimize the risk that the vanguard wafer lithography and wafering equipment that manufactures ASML, Apply Materials or Tokyo Electron Caigan in the hands of China. In addition, these restrictions make it difficult for the avant -garde chips to produce Samsung and SK Hynix They arrive at China’s distribution chain. A spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce of China has declared that “Beijing opposes this US measure and will take the necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of companies.” On the other hand, the South Korean government is negotiating with its American counterpart to protect the business of its companies in China. Image | ASML More information | Reuters | Nikkei Asia In Xataka | China is very clear about what you should do to win the Chips War to the US: resort to their technology geniuses

Mazda was the last redoubt in cars with physical buttons. The new CX-5 has taken them ahead

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From a few years to this part, the car industry has sought that The user perceives the car as a Gadget further. The huge touch screens have invaded the splashes of almost all brands and, at a very hard speed, to the simplest and most necessary actions (change the air conditioningfor example) have become a few touches on a screen. Mazda was one of the brands that resistance exercised Against this Invasion of screensmaintaining the useful and traditional buttons. But if we talk in the past it is for a reason: The CX-5 It shows that Mazda 6e It was no exception. And, according to Mazda, it is what we want. Look, without looking! At a point where practically all the competition was betting on screens, larger and more waiting for technology to be ready to turn the moon on a screenMazda was one of the last bastions in the industry that resisted that present. In the last generations, they continued to bet on the physical buttons and controls in the cabin. The decision was based on the Safety at the wheel (which, in the end, is the most important thing) and the user’s own experience. With the buttons, our muscle memory allows us to perform actions such as controlling music, GPS or air conditioning without playing a screen and diverting the road view. And, although the last Mazda had a small screen, it was out of reach, you had to press buttons and move dials. Mazda, you too… However, it seems that market pressure has ended up making a dent. We already saw it A few months ago with Mazda 6ethe 100% electric Berlina of the Japanese company that incorporated an extremely similar interior both to Tesla as a byd and other competitors. This is an diaphanous interior governed by a huge central screen. We could think that, okay, it was 100% electric and wanted to try a different philosophy. The problem is that it was not an experiment. Presented a few weeks ago, the new CX-5, eliminated the Mazda logo of the steering wheel (this hurts more than the disappearance of the buttons), but also incorporated a 15.6-inch screen in the center of the dashboard, with multimedia and air conditioning controls. Maintain certain buttons on the steering wheel, but to change basic things, the screen will have to be wearing. Goodbye, Mazda logo. Some buttons are maintained, such as the emergency or the moons. The rest, to the screen and behind the wheel What customers ask for. But it turns out that it is not only market pressure, but, apparently, what customers want. In an interview granted by Stefan Meisterfeld, vice president of operations to The Drivewith Google as an assistant in the car, many actions can be done through voice commands. In addition, they have designed the system to be “intuitive, easy to use and easy to drive at the same time.” Meisterfeld says that it has not been a whim of the brand, since “customer opinion has definitely been part of the decision -making process.” In addition, he has talked about the steering wheel: “It is a new design with physical buttons with which most of the critical functions can be controlled quite intuitively while driving, so you can keep your hands on the steering wheel and eyes on the road,” he says. Against. When the launch approaches, we will see what these “critical functions” are, but it seems clear that there is no back and that the new generations of the compact and rest of the range of SUV They will add to this new line of design and philosophy. And they will do it at a time when there is Users who show a ‘fedow’ for this type of tactile controls and most importantly: organisms such as Euro NCAP are against. It is the most relevant in Europe to evaluate vehicle safety and, after carrying out collision tests, From 2026 there will be a new exam. If you cannot select the flashing, activate the ‘Warning’ button, sound the horn, activate the windshield wiper or the Ecall emergency button From a button, the car will not have the five stars. Are they late? They are soft measures, but between those and user complaints, there are companies like Volkswagen that have reversed. Interestingly, one of the most enthusiastic with the screens, recently hit a flying with statements by his own design chief confirming that Cars “are not a phone”. In the end, fashions come and go, although some brands prepare the return of the buttons, seen in events such as the Shanghai Motor Show show us that Lso screens have come to stay, at least for a while. Is Mazda late to this new form of control? Seeing competition, it seems not. Now we will see what users think because Mazda 6E could be an experiment, but the rest of the majority ranges had buttons that made them models other than those of the competition, and the CX-5 has sought not to uncheck. Images | Mazda In Xataka | I have bought this car for a simple reason: I’m fed up with giant screens

We believed that the heat wave was over. Aemet warns that, in reality, we still have the worst ahead

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The heat wave that affects the peninsula is leaving shocking data. Yesterday, three of the weather stations of the State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) collected maximums above the 45º Celsius, with 55 registering more than 42º. Two records of record. On August 11 and 12 they beat, According to Aemettwo temperature records. With an average temperature that touched the 29th in peninsular Spain, this month has seen on August 11 and 12 more than at least 1950. In fact, they are among the warmer days registered in August: only three times the 29th Celsius barrier has been overcome. On August 12, it was also the hottest day than is going 2025. If they are fulfilled The agency’s forecaststhe first twenty of August will be the warmest in peninsular Spain since there are records, exceeding a few tenths the previous registry (of 2003), and for more than one degree the next highest record, last year. From Seville to Badajoz. Yes Let’s go to the most extreme caseswe can find the 45.2º of the weather stations of Seville, Tablada and El Granado (in Huelva), or the 45.5º collected in Badajoz. Another striking fact were the high minimum temperatures: 29.7º in Osuna (Seville), the highest in peninsular Spain (in Gran Canaria there were thermometers that did not fall from the 30). A number that does not want to leave. The answer to the question of “what is happening” has to do with atmospheric stagnation a “synoptic configuration continues quite stationary”, In Aemet’s words. A dorsal anchored on the peninsula That allows the entry of warm and dry air from Africa, as well as the high degree of insolation propitiated by summer and stable skies, are main responsible for a heat wave that is not only being intense, also long. The latest update of Aemet’s forecasts indicate that this exceptional situation will last at least until Monday 18. The “more likely” scenario is that the entrance of a fresh air mass from the Atlantic serves to relieve the situation, but there are still a few days left for us to know greater certainty when and how the end of this heat wave will be given. What can we expect. Meanwhile, what can we expect? After a kind of brief respite today, Aemet foresees A new increase in temperatures tomorrow Thursday, a more marked ascent in Galicia, where the thermometers can exceed 38º. On Friday this ascent will be extended throughout the north, where orange notices are already planned due to an important risk derived from high temperatures. In Xataka | Every summer fires ravage to Spain. There is a usual guilty that goes unnoticed: old tractors Image | ECMWF

Tesla and Chinese brands are ahead

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Norway is the country where more electric cars are bought worldwide. If we obviously take into account its market share since in Europe countries such as Germany passes over it in terms of volume. He Government thrust It has been such that The electric car has settled with much as the best selling. In June 2025their sales reached more than 96% share And of the almost 19,000 units sold during that month, only 577 units had combustion engines. And, of them, just over a hundred had no electrification. Aware of the importance of supporting possible buyers, the Norway Auto Club It has been doing real autonomy tests to the most relevant electric cars and those that are launched. These are the results of the last exam. Tesla and China at the head The Norway Auto Club performs two tests a year, one in winter and one in summer. This time, 27 vehicles have been submitted to the exam and the general data obtained (which can be seen in this link) They have been good: 15 of them have overcome autonomy with WLTP cycle. The evidence that are done try simulate real conditions of the Norwegian average driver. They mostly run along secondary roads, with average speed of 70 km/h. Punctually, they touch the highway twice. When the car runs out of battery, they write down the number of kilometers performed. And in their tests there are two clear winners. Among those 15 cars that has achieved more autonomy above what was recorded in the WLTP cycle was the Tesla Model and, which has exceeded the approval barrier in 66 kilometers, registering 652 kilometers of real autonomy instead of the 582 expected kilometers. Among the 10 that have also added to Tesla Model 3, closing the list (+19 kilometers) but in between we find the Zeekr 7x, second with +52 kilometers, the Byd Tang, third with +42 kilometers, the mg S5, fifth with +27 kilometers, the Polestar 4 (of Chinese origin sharing chassis with zeekr and volvo) Seventh with +27 kilometers, and the Byd Sealion 7, ninth with +21 kilometers. That is, among the 10 cars that earn more autonomy Regarding the approved, two are Tesla cars and five others assemble Chinese technology. Only the Peugeot E-5008 (fourth with +28 km), the Volkswagen ID.7 GTX Tourer (Sixth with +27 km) and the BMW IX (eighth with +23 km) sneak in this list. Among the 12 that have obtained worse results losing autonomy, we find seven European or American cars. In addition, the KIA EV3, with a loss of 17 kilometers of autonomy with respect to what was marked by WLTP, is also found in this group. In this case, only the MG Cyberster (-14 km), the Hongqi EHS7 (-16 km), the Polestar 3 (-25 km) and the Volvo Ex90 (-32 km) are found in this group. Interestingly, the car that has lost the most autonomy is the Lucid Air, a luxury berlina that wants to shade the Tesla Model S, with a fall of 131 kilometers in front of what was expected by WLTP. However, it is the car that has traveled more kilometers between loads, covering 829 kilometers of the pull. The next most capable model was Tesla Model 3, with 721 real kilometers. The BMW IX and its 691 kilometers covered closes the podium. Photo | Norway Auto Club In Xataka | In 2017 Norway, it was proposed that 100% of the cars sold in 2025 were electric. Is about to get it

In 2021 a volcano spent three days in eruption without anyone finding out. Now it helps us ahead of the silent volcanoes

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Knowing how to read the signals that a volcano gives before erupting can make a difference between a scare and a tragedy. Some volcanoes make it easy for experts who know how to read these clues but others erupt without prior notice. Or maybe just we couldn’t decipher your signs. At least until now. A new tool. A team of researchers He has devised A new mechanism to model the behavior of some volcanoes. This tool, its creators stand out, will serve to more effectively monitor the eruptions of some volcanoes reducing the risk associated with these natural phenomena often so violent. Some special usefulness in the case of “silent” volcanoes. “Despite great advances in monitoring, some volcanoes erupt with minimally detectable or even without them precursors, significantly increasing the risk of nearby populations,” pointed in a press release Yuyu Li, co -author of the study. As explained by LI herself, some of these volcanoes are located not only near communities, also near important air traffic routes. Silent volcanoes. For the development of its tool, the team resorted to the Veniaminaf volcano, located in the North American state of Alaska. This is one of the so -called “silent” volcanoes, volcanoes whose eruption is not preceded by the signals that are generally associated with an imminent or close eruption, such as earthquakes or the deformation of the soil in the surroundings of the Magma Chamber. Veniaminof’s is just an example that We can find In this family of silent volcanoes that also includes some closer such as Stromboli in Italy or Popocatepetl in Mexico. Looking inside the volcano. But among all of them, the Veniaminof volcano is perhaps the most paradigmatic. Not because only two of the 13 rashes that have leaded since 1993 have been planned, but because in 2021 he achieved the milestone of erupting without anyone noticing Until three days later. The team responsible for the study analyzed the internal conditions that make it a silent volcano. Factors such as a slow supply of magma and a warm host rock are key in this regard. The monitoring of the volcano was carried out for three summers prior to one of the silent eruptions of the volcano, that of 2018. A model to get ahead of the eruption. The result, a model that conforms to the state of different variables that can condition the probability of the burst of the magma, such as the volume of the reserve, flow conditions of the magna, depth of the reserve or the form that it acquires is. Thus they could estimate what kind of conditions could be linked to a silent eruption and which ones were not. The team found that soil deformation could help prevent some eruptions of the volcano but that the relationship between underground magma and rashes were somewhat more complex than it might seem. The details of the study have been published In an article In the magazine Frontiers in Earth Science. The following steps. Monitoring the numerous silent volcanoes distributed throughout the world will not be an easy task. For now, the resolution gives a clue to what are the volcanoes to monitor more closely: volcanoes with small and warm reserves and slow magma flows, explains the team. In Xataka | In 2021 a volcano spent three days in eruption without anyone finding out. Now it helps us to unmask the silent volcanoes Image | Alaska Volcano Observatory Photo Gallery

Porsche’s record has been carried ahead in Nürbrugging

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The Xiaomi Su7 Ultra is already the fastest electric car of Nürburgring. No, calm, you are not living a déjà vu. In October 2024Xiaomi’s electric Berlina became the four fastest doors of green hell. But it was then a time marked by a car that was not production, with specifications designed for circuit. Now, the company has certified that it has the fastest electric car of the German circuit. And the circuit itself has confirmed it In a press release that speaks of “the fastest electric luxury sedan in the world.” The truth is that this is the category that collects the attempts of production electric cars. That is, we find rolling in the market. Two seconds With this new record, Xiaomi uploads the bar of electric production cars and begins to bring this technology closer to the mythical barrier of the seven minutes to cover the more than 20 kilometers of, probably, the most challenging circuit in the world. Specifically, Xiaomi has stopped the clock in 7: 04,957. Time has signed it with the Xiaomi Su7 ultra equipped with the competition package, the same as has caused the wrath of some buyers Checking that your supposed competition hood had no practical function. Time improves in more than two seconds the registered by the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach package in 2023, which certified a time of 7: 05.55. This Open the battle with Porsche that until now had the two best production cars times in the circuit. The aforementioned and a 7: 33.35 signed by the Porsche Taycan Turbo S. Now we know that the record was achieved on April 1 but it has not been until now when it has been certified and We can see the complete video of the return to the green hell. “I saw the video more than 10 times and my heart still beat extremely fast and the blood boiled,” he said Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, in Weibo In relation to the new record. The record is just the certification of something we already knew: the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra looks at Porsche. During the presentation of the vehicle they already put all the meat on the grill. Then they confirmed that their car was faster in 0 to 100 km/h than the German, which surpassed him in more than 500 hp and that, above all, despite being equipped with the Nürburgring package, the car costs 814,900 Chinese yuanes (just over 107,000 euros), far from the 1,998,000 yuan (259,000 euros) of the German model. Photo | Lei Jun in X In Xataka | The 1,548 hp of the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra are so wild that the brand wanted to send you to a circuit first to examine you

ios 26 has a very hard path ahead

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Apple celebrated its WWDC 2025one in which the Redesign of iOS was even above artificial intelligence implementations. At least, as far as speech is concerned. Liquid Glass It is the new interface shared among all Apple operating systems, starting from the design language we saw for the first time in Vision Pro. iOS 26the operating system of iPhonehas been updated in your beta for developers. And a server has been testing it since yesterday. I’m going to tell you what I found in This first betaone with a lot of work ahead and that sets the foundations of a new era for Apple. One in which curves come. Liquid Glass in iOS 26 Blocking screen notifications are practically illegible, for the moment. iOS 26 has completely changed the design we had in iOS 18and absolutely all the elements of the interface are starring transparencies. When it is more or less aesthetic I will not enter, it is subjective. What leaves no mistake is that … There is a serious problem with contrast. It is a first version, but Apple has a challenge ahead with transparencies: readability The elements of the blocking screen and notification screen, if we have a clear background (the one that comes by default), present important readability problems. It does not depend on having a more or less large panel, it is barely seen as soon as the notification lands in a darker element of the wallpaper. If it falls to a darker area, the improvement visualization (something). That the elements of the UI have the transparent edges do not help, that absolutely everything is transparent, does not help. This is the first beta for developers, so it is convenient to be cautious. The first Dark theme implementation in iOS was simply terrible. Now it works perfectly. Which We are seeing right now is the sketch on which Apple is going to workand these readability problems, at least on paper, should be resolved. I am especially concerned with Glow that have the edges of some apps. This brightness is sought, but ends up achieving that apps with white background are perceived quite blurred and little defined. Apple will have to seek balance between respecting this new visual identity, and that everything is readable under any circumstance. The redesign affects all native appswhich now have a dynamic bar at the bottom. Perhaps, too dynamic, to the point that the camera app seems completely broken when you open it, and you have to be you who intuits that, sliding on the photo icon, the rest of the options are displayed. Very little Apple, even for a first beta version. The system is loaded with details, such as the remaining load time in settings (it does not appear on the lock screen, as on Android). On the positive side, There are very careful elements: sickly refined animations, improvements on the blocking screen with the automatic adaptation of the clock to the main element and, although it is missing, a cohesion at the level of native apps and system that was not so deep before. The animations are half cooking, there are broken elements in the interface, and it shows that everything is still quite green. It is not something that worries me in excess, it is the first beta for developers of the greatest design change in the history of the iPhone. An AI that continues behind its rivals Do not expect great changes in Apple Intelligencebecause there are no. Screen recognition through chatgpt does not work yet, the news to generate Genmojis in Image playground They are insignificant, and automatic translation does not work for the moment, it is frozen. Yes I have been able to try the new call filter, one that comes to compete with Google’s and that is much more aggressive. Apple filters absolutely all unknown calls: Siri pauses them, ask who he is and what he wants, to show us later. Only there we will decide whether we want to take the phone or not. It is a solution that ends radically with spam, but that kills gunflows. There is nothing of Google’s intelligent detection, just an aggressive filter that ends all the calls of numbers that we do not know. If we have any urgency or the person who calls us is special has a hurry, we can end up losing the call in the process. The key in Apple’s AI is working locallywith its own model that does not need a constant cloud connection. Apple will open these Apple Intelligence tools to third parties so that developers can use them in their apps, always running in local models. His second big point is silence. Apple wants AI to be there to help us in day to day, not to modify by system elements. It is a discreet implementation, although insufficient. Nothing that Apple has presented is new or exclusive: Google and Samsung have leading the AI ​​career in mobiles for more than two years. The translation of calls live, the call filters (although less aggressive), and functions with which Apple does not have the audio draft, navigation assistant or sharing screen with Gemini Live (the assistant sees the screen in real time and interacts by voice, not only text) in models such as the Samsung Galaxy S25they show that Apple is still far from the throne. Apple continues to the defensive Apple has decided to follow a strategy in which its AI controls the everyday, and the advanced is subcontracts to companies such as OpenAi. The changes that, at some point, They will arrive in Sirithey are drawn as something irrelevant at this point. We already know what Apple’s position is with AI, and makes some sense. The problem is that it is not an AI that comes to win. And Apple seems to be clear that this race is no longer yours is worrying. The local approach is plausible, but not enough. Regarding the change of design, my point in this … Read more

Spacex has always been 10 years ahead of the competition. The problem is that in China that law no longer applies

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The Falcon 9 rocket has turned 15 this week. In December they will do 10 years of their first landing. Eight ago that was first reused. More than 400 reusations later, Spacex still has no competition. But the competition will not arrive staggered, it will arrive suddenly and will do so from China. The Boyante China Space Industry He is living an authentic effervescence in the development of reusable rockets. Operations? Even none, but far from being projects on paper, there are already several companies that have successfully completed vertical take -off and landing tests with prototypes that mix technologies inspired by Falcon 9 with more modern ones, anticipating the entry into Starship service. These advances, which remind the first days of the Grasshopper and Starhopper Spacex prototypes, are not only aimed at deploying mega-constellations of Chinese satellites, but also to compete in the global release market. Assembly of astrophysic Daniel Marín (Eureka) with Chinese VTVL prototypes Space Epoch: This relatively young company (founded in 2019), hit the table on May 28, 2025. Its VTVL Yuanxingzhe 1 (YXZ-1) prototype, 4.2 meters in diameter and made of stainless steel, made a leap of 2.5 kilometers high, threatening controlled in the sea. According to Eureka, it was The first Chinese VTVL prototype to make controlled amelizer: He had no landing train and was designed to perch and sink slowly, a strategy that Space Epoch plans for recovery From the first stage of its orbital rocket Yuanxingzhe 1. Once operational, this rocket intends to place more than 10 tons in low orbit. The prototype is propelled by a longyun Ly-70 engine of methane and liquid oxygen. Landspace: One of the most advanced private, Landspace is developing the Zhuque-3a two -stage rocket of methane and liquid oxygen built in stainless steel, with a height of 76.6 meters, comparable to Falcon 9. Its VTVL prototype performed An impressive 10 -kilometer altitude In September 2024 (Eureka mentioned a second jump of the ZQ-3 VTVL-1 at this point on September 11, while other sources point to the end of August for a similar milestone). This flight included the first realer in flight of an engine during the descent in China, landing successfully. Landspace aspires to a first orbital launch of Zhuque-3 in 2025, with recovery of the first stage by 2026. ISPACE: Another private pioneer, Ispace, is working on its reusable Hyperbola-3 rocket. To do this, his Hyperbola-2y (SQX-2Y) test vehicle completed several VTVL jumps at the end of 2023: one of 178 meters in November and another of 343 meters in Decemberboth with successful landings. These trials were crucial to validate the technology of their Metallox engines and guidance systems. ISPACE plans the first flight of Hyperbola-3 by 2025 and the recovery of its first stage in 2026. Deep Blue Aerospace: This Nanjing-based company develops the Nebula-1 (Xingyun-1), a fluid oxygen rocket and oxygen. Already in May 2022, its demonstrator VTVL completed a 1 kilometer jump with successful landing. In September 2024, a major prototype tried a jump with greater altitude (between 5 and 10 km), But he suffered a hard landing due to a problem with thrust controlalthough the company considered that many objectives of the essay were met. Deep Blue Aerospace also has the Nebula-2 in its plans, a Heavy Class-class launcher 9. Sast (Shanghai Academy of SpaceFlight Technology): This state entity, part of CASC (China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation), is leading government effort in reusable rockets. Its VTVL prototype, sometimes called Longxing 1 and associated with the future CZ-12A or CZ-12R (a reusable version of the CZ-12), has also made remarkable jumps. On June 23, 2024, this prototype, propelled by three longyun Ly-70 engines (the same as Space Epoch), reached 12 kilometers of altitude on a test flight from Jiuquan. Subsequently, on January 19, 2025, a second prototype tried an even more ambitious leap of 75 kilometers from Haiyang, but was lost during the flight. Galactic Energy: Known for its CERES-1 rocket, Galactic Energy is developing pallas-1, a fluid oxygen rocket and oxygen with a first reusable stage. Although he has not yet made a VTVL jump with a full rocket prototype, In August 2023 he carried out a vertical landing test using a reaction motor proof vehicle (nicknamed “Firebird”) to validate control algorithms. They expect the first orbital launch of Pallas-1 (in disposable mode) between the late 2025 and early 2026. Linkspace: It was the first Chinese private company to focus on reusable rockets. Already in August 2019, its RLV-T5 prototype made a 300-meter leap with successful landing, a pioneering milestone for Chinese startups. Although its subsequent progress has been slower compared to its competitors, its initial role was fundamental. Space Pioneer: This company is developing the Tianlong-3, a Falcon 9 class launcher designed from the beginning for reuse. Although he has not yet performed a VTVL test, the company has advanced in the construction and proof of the Tianhuo-12 engines and the first stage of the rocket. Its first orbital launch is expected between 2024 and 2025 (without attempted recovery on the first flight), closely followed by VTVL landing tests. Vertical landings ‘Made in China’ The list does not end there, which draws a trend: China not only wants to match Spacex’s reuse capacity, but is cultivating a robust ecosystem to compete directly with Elon Musk’s company. The objectives: reduce launch costs, increase cadence for the deployment of new mega-constellations (Like Guowang, the Chinese answer to Starlink) and, ultimately, cut distances with the company that is launching 80% of the total mass that is put into orbit. So, although Spacex remains the indisputable reference in the reuse of orbital rockets, the question is no longer whether it will have a serious rival in China, but which of this growing legion of contenders, in addition to the CASC itself, will be the first to consistently replicate the feat of landing and reuse orbital rockets as something routine. The race is in full swing, and landing platforms on land and sea … Read more

Renewables have stopped their emissions ahead of time

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China has achieved what until recently seemed unattainable: reduce its CO₂ emissions while continuing to expand its energy capacity. An unexpected turn to The biggest issuer in the world. Short. A Brief Carbon report He has revealed that CO2 emissions in China decreased 1.6% year -on -year in the first quarter of 2025 and 1% in the last 12 months. Investment in renewables. China hoped to start reduce your emissions in 2030. But The strong growth of renewables “Leolar, wind and nuclear,” is advancing the times. And most interesting: this fall in emissions is not due to a crisis, but to a real transformation of the energy system. For the first time, the growth of clean energy has reduced China’s fossil fuel energy to the growing demand for electricity In data. To dimension the rhythm of change, Carbon Brief He has highlighted that only in March of this year 23 GW of solar energy and 13 GW of wind were installed, breaking all the previous records. The new installed capacity not only covered the growing energy demand, but allowed to reduce the use of coal. Other factors in early fall. The decrease in CO2 before planned has not been only due to an expansion of renewable Focused on internal production. Can this be only temporary? As have indicated The data, the emissions are only 1% of the peak, so any economic activity or change of energy policy can change this situation. In fact, there are precedents of temporary falls in 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2022, all driven by crisis or economic decelerations. In addition, the Asian country Keep maintaining A strong investment in coal plants for your “electrostate.” The big question now is whether this fall can be maintained and becoming a structural trend, or if it will be just a respite before new increases. Uncertainties. Next June It enters into force A new renewable energy price policy. With this rule, guaranteed rates disappear that were linked to coal and new projects must directly negotiate their contracts in the market. In the short term, an impulse is expected in the installation figures, but in the long term the measure could generate instability if there are no clear incentives that maintain rhythm. Forecasts According to Carbon Brief analysisthe long -term trajectory will depend on two key factors: the next five -year plan that China is developing and the economic response of the commercial warfare, now in a momentary truce. In short, the challenge is political and structural. If the decisions taken in the coming years manage to consolidate this trend, China will not only fulfill its climatic commitments, but also lead the global energy transformation. Image | Unspash and Unspash Xataka | This researcher is convinced to know the measure with the greatest transformative potential today: make cities a good place to live

Tesla trusts the Robotaxi as his next Milmillonario business. China is already in conversations to get ahead in Europe

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Robotaxi is the business of the future in urban mobility. At least that is what technological giants such as Tesla, Google or Baidu believe and what some analysts have been saying for years. Although for now it is a business where profitability does not seem to be in sight, expansionist plans continue. And the next battlefield is Europe. That is what they claim from The Wall Street Journal. The American media ensures that Baiduconsidered the Chinese Google, works to try its vehicles without driver in Switzerland. Türkiye would follow the deployment and would be the first step to hit the table and position himself as pioneers on European soil. The information comes after Baidu has opened conversations with Swiss Post for Postauto, one of its units that provides the public bus service, has vehicles of this type on the street. If everything goes ahead, the goal is to start testing at the end of this year. The project with Türkiye, internal sources have affirmed WSJ It is similar. Objective: Be the first Putting autonomous buses on the market that can make trips for themselves without the intervention of a driver is a shortcut to open the way to a future robotaxis business. While in the United States and China, this business is being tested for a long There are active tests with busesa horizon for a robotaxis service in the street has not been completed. The problem of these services is that, for the moment, they are not generating any profitability. In the United States, General Motors burned so many Cruise tickets that he has preferred Cancel the project Despite having squandered billions of dollars along the way. Waymo’s success is partial because despite working in various cities in the country, its reach is small. And, at the same time, Tesla has also put all the machinery in motion to enter the market. However, the company’s own shareholders They have expressed their doubts on whether this must be the path that the company has to take. The project seems to have surpassed a more affordable Tesla, which has generated doubts. As to ChinaRobotaxis are much more widespread. In fact, Baidu operates in 12 different cities with its apologue service but Face Weride competition that is already available in eight cities, Pony.ai either Momenta that are in full phase of expansion. Given the competition and the hard challenge of profitable services, these companies are in full expansion to third countries. For example, Weride has already reached an agreement with Uber to integrate into its platform and offer trips with autonomous robotaxis in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The objective is to take the service to 15 different cities in the future. In spite of everything, companies that want to enter the European market have it complicated. At the moment, European regulation is very demanding with autonomous vehicles and, in fact, Tesla herself has to save some functions In vehicles that are able to advance without a driver inside the park, offering a service cut in front of what they have on the street in the United States. For now, the closest thing to a robotaxi is what offers Mercedes. The company already has functions for the driver to completely disregard the car, as long as it circulates less than 60 km/h, the environment has previously mapped and the weather conditions are good enough. Despite doubts, as we say there are companies that see in this business a clear commitment to the future. Tesla has joined In the background to the business proposal of Waymo or Baidu, technological giants that aspire to develop their own software for autonomous vehicles and put them on the street associating with a large vehicle company that provides them with the hardware, that is, of the car in itself. The only difference with Tesla is that Elon Musk’s company can manufacture its own vehicles and with their own assembly chains and the acquired knowledge They aspire to earn more money working in vertical integration with proper vehicles and software development that stays at home. Photo | Baidu In Xataka | I have tried a totally autonomous taxi. This is traveling without driver

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