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Valve has just announced a delay and price increase for the Steam Machine

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Valve’s plans to revolutionize desktop video games face the reality of the component market. The company has confirmed the postponement of Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller, initially planned for the first quarter of 2026, due to the global shortage of RAM and storage. The announcement comes accompanied by a warning: the initially announced prices will be revised upwards, which puts at risk the strategy of competing directly with traditional consoles. What we believed. The official presentation of Valve’s hardware took place in November 2025when the company simultaneously unveiled three devices aimed at expanding its ecosystem beyond the traditional PC: the Steam Machine console, the Steam Frame virtual reality headset, and a new iteration of the Steam Controller. At that time, information provided to media It targeted a launch in the first quarter of 2026. Our love broke. However, Valve has had to recalibrate its expectations. According to the statement, the company acknowledges that it hoped to announce definitive prices and specific release dates at this point, but circumstances in the component market have prevented this. “The limited availability and rising prices of these critical components mean we must review our exact shipping schedule and pricing,” they admit. A little later. The new time frame now extends to the first half of 2026, a deliberately vague formulation that contrasts with the initial precision. Valve emphasizes that it maintains its goal of distributing the three products within that period, but warns about the volatility of the scenario: they need to establish prices and dates that they can announce with confidence, aware of how quickly circumstances can change. The RAM crisis. The problem affects the entire technology industry. Memory manufacturers have experienced a unprecedented price increase: according to data from the component market, the cost of RAM modules has multiplied by three or even four from the beginning of 2026. This escalation responds to a strategic reorientation of the major producers such as SamsungSK Hynix and Micron, which prioritize the manufacture of high-performance memory for artificial intelligence servers, a segment that offers higher profit margins. It was seen coming. Already in November, when Valve presented its hardware, the warning signs were evident. By then, the company recognized that setting prices was complex because “the market is a little strange” and “memory prices are going up as we speak.” What seemed like temporary turbulence has been consolidated as a structural trend. It is a crisis that evokes the semiconductor shortage that shook the industry between 2020 and 2022, causing delays in the launch of consoles and widespread price increases in graphics cards. The current phenomenon presents, however, a peculiarity: it is not about interruptions in the supply chain, but rather a deliberate decision by manufacturers to redirect productive capacity towards the lucrative AI market, leaving the gaming industry in the background. What is known about the machine’s hardware. The Steam Machine, the star product of this trilogy, will be powered by an AMD processor, as confirmed by the semiconductor company’s CEO, Lisa Su, during the presentation of quarterly results: “From a product perspective, Valve is on track to begin shipping its AMD-powered Steam Machine early this year.” That statement, which sounded reassuring then, now takes on an ironic tone: the hardware is ready, but the economic context is not. During previous sessions with specialized media, the company indicated that the Steam Machine would be placed “close to the entry level of the PC space”, a formulation that suggested that it would compete directly with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in terms of price, rather than with high-end PC configurations. This approach clashes head-on with the current reality of the components market: competing with consoles means achieving very tight margins in a closed ecosystem where Sony and Microsoft can assume initial losses. Valve lacks that flexibility, and the increase in memory and storage costs threatens to place its products in a price range that would distance them from the average consumer. In Xataka | Panic of a ridiculous death among RAM manufacturers: they fear that technology companies will “monopolize” and they are already putting controls

SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, has just announced the purchase of xAI, founded by Elon Musk

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Until very recently, this was just a rumor. Today, SpaceX just told it as a fact. The aerospace company has published an official statement in which it states that it has acquired xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk. The text does not go into details of the operation, but it does set the tone: it talks about integrating AI, rockets and space connectivity as part of the same strategy. And, although the announcement is forceful, it leaves many important questions in the air that still have no answers. SpaceX frames the operation as part of a vertical integration. The official statement is signed by Musk and has a more ideological than corporate tone, with references to “freedom of expression” and an almost existential mission. But, beyond the story, the document leaves out some elements that are important to understand this movement: there are no figures or details of how the agreement materializes. In development. In Xataka | Genie 3 is awesome at creating worlds for video games. But the problem with video games was never creating worlds

Apple announced with great fanfare that the new Siri would be different from the rest of the AIs. It turned out that without Google there was no Siri

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I’m not going to hide, I’m one of those who believed Apple when announced with great fanfare that Apple Intelligence It would be different from the rest. He had reasons to do so: his financial muscle, his obsession with taking care of the software and his philosophy of arriving late to the game to score the goals at the last minute. But here I was wrong. The only way Google has had to play in this game has been using someone else’s deck. From waiting almost two years to having it now. Apple announced Apple Intelligence in its 2024 keynote. One in which it did not give too many details but showed us a different approach to AI than that of Google and OpenAI. An AI with real interaction with the operating system, integration with both native and third-party apps… a real “co-pilot” completely integrated into iOS, and not a super-vitamined app, but isolated from the whole. From that keynote until then the only thing we have is Siri being able to open ChatGPT when the question gets a little complicated. And, just a few weeks after announcement of the agreement between Apple and GoogleGurman affirms that we will see the new Siri in a matter of weeks. If the prediction came true, it was not a matter of time. It was a matter of not having the resources. What’s coming in February. Gurman tells Power On that the Siri 2.0 that we have been waiting for since 2024 can become a reality in the second half of February. In fact, he points out that one of the reasons why Apple made the announcement of the collaboration with Google official was because it was close to obtaining sufficient demonstrations of its functionality. Although there are no details about how their disembarkation will be, the modus operandi from Apple is easy to predict: we will have to update our iPhone to the corresponding version of iOS 26 that includes these new features, since Apple introduces improvements to its native apps through system updates. Not so fast. Although there are no details on how long Apple and Google have actually been working, what we do know is that the new Siri is not ready yet. Gurman points out that it will arrive in beta phase starting in February, and that the objective is not to delay the final version until beyond April. Again, evidence that Apple did not have the Siri that it boasted so much about ready, accelerating and putting two extra gears now that it has the support of Google. It can turn out well. My colleague Javier Pastor told, very correctly, how Apple can the parasite’s strategy works for him. The company is not going to enter the investment battle for new models: it is going to spend millions of dollars to take advantage of an existing infrastructure and use an already proven pillar. The new Siri will be a premium wrapper for Gemini and, landing in the real world, few beyond those of you reading these lines will even be aware that Google’s AI is what is powering your iPhone’s AI. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The Apple Intelligence and Siri disaster has caused something unusual: Apple gives the keys to its kingdom to Google

The Government of Spain has announced a “sovereign fund.” It has nothing to do with a sovereign fund

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Pedro Sánchez announced yesterday Thursday the creation of ‘España Crece’a fund managed by the ICO with an initial endowment of 10.5 billion euros from the Next Generation funds that the Government will not spend before the end of 2026. The stated goal is to mobilize an additional €120 billion through private investment and debt to maintain the reform momentum beyond the European deadline. Why is it important. The European funds expire this year and have been the main investment muscle of the Government, which has not approved budgets in this legislature. Without this vehicle, Spain would lose public investment capacity just when Sánchez boasts of having placed the country “in the Champions League” economically. The announcement arrives in extremiswhen there was a real risk of losing those 10.5 billion that had not been executed. Between the lines. Calling it a “sovereign fund” creates intentional confusion. The classic sovereign funds (Norway, Saudi Arabia, Singapore…) are born from structural surpluses thanks to oil, gas or trade balances that are permanently in the green. Spain has not had a budget surplus since 2007, when there was some debate about converting the pension piggy bank into a vehicle similar to Norwegian. The 2008 crisis buried that discussion. Yes, but. What the Government has presented is more like a renamed investment bank than a traditional sovereign fund. The closest model is British National Wealth Fundoriginally the UK Infrastructure Bank, which raises private funds to co-invest in green technologies and advanced industry. Its capacity is 27,000 million and Spain aspires to quintuple that figure with a smaller public base. In figures: 10.5 billion: initial public endowment, similar to SEPI business rescue fund created in the 2020 pandemic. 120,000 million: theoretical capacity if private investment is added, a “conservative estimate” according to Minister Carlos Body. 60 billion: what the ICO could mobilize directly through leverage. 9 priority sectors: housing (with a focus on the industrialized), energy, digitalization, AI, reindustrialization, circular economy, infrastructure, water and security. The context. Spain has competed well for foreign direct investment in the last decade – fifth world power in projects greenfield since 2013 – and has capitalized on European funds to promote reforms without approved budgets. But the absence of structural surpluses limits ambition too much. Spain has been running a deficit for almost twenty years and its balance of payments, although in surplus since 2012, does not compensate. What is happening. The Government is turning a necessity (not to lose unexecuted European funds) into a narrative of national sovereignty. But the seams are visible: it acts because the deadline is going to expire, not because there is a strategic plan based on its own surpluses. There is neither of the two things. Missing. Minister Corps will present the full details next week. There remain unknowns about the private co-investment mechanisms and how it will be guaranteed that those promised 120 billion will materialize. The experience of the SEPI fund, which barely used a quarter of its endowment, invites skepticism. Sánchez took advantage of the Spain Investors Day to vindicate the economic moment: “We have become accustomed to competing in the Champions League,” he said. He used the same expression as Zapatero in 2007, a few months before the outbreak of the financial crisis. The simile has not gone unnoticed. In Xataka | Carrying your ID on your cell phone is very easy. You just have to take advantage of your next visit to the police station Featured image | Moncloa

from 978 announced layoffs to 791 agreed

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A few weeks ago, Amazon announced a aggressive adjustment plan that would affect 14,000 employees in your template. Unfortunately, on this occasion the staff at the offices that the Spanish Amazon subsidiary has in Barcelona and Madrid were also affected by this layoff plan. The ERE, which started with 978 planned departures for the Barcelona office, has ended up being reduced to 791 employees after negotiation with the unions. The key is not only in how many people the ERE has been reduced, but in how this exit is ordered and with what protection network they do it, achieving much more advantageous conditions. From 978 to 791 layoffs. The core of the agreement that has been reached between CCOO and Amanzon is the reduction in the number of layoffs in the Barcelona office, which drops from 978 initial layoffs to 791 people, which implies a reduction of 19% compared to what was initially announced. According to data of RTVE, the staff of these offices was about 2,800 people, so the cut would mean a reduction of 28% of the total in the office in the Catalan capital.​ According to the statement Made public by CCOO, the majority union representing the workers of that office, in addition to lowering the final figure, the agreement incorporates voluntary departures and the option of permanence for protected groups, along with relocations within the group.​ Improvements in conditions and compensation. Economically, the ERE negotiation table agreed on a compensation of 38 days per year worked, with a limit of 24 monthly payments, and a minimum compensation of 7,000 euros for each dismissed worker. Paid leave was also agreed until February 28, linked to the possibility of opting for payment of company shares. According to sources of ElDiario.esto these conditions, a payment of 1,500 euros is added for people whose visa depends on the employment contract and the payment of medical insurance until May 31. At the state level, the same media indicates that the total cut in Spain is around 920 workers between the Amazon Spain Services offices in Barcelona (791 layoffs) and Amazon Digital Spain with offices in Madrid (129 layoffs). More AI, less staff. Union sources link the ERE to the automation of processes associated with the implementation of artificial intelligence but also to “relocation to other places with more lax labor regulations,” CCOO said in its statement. This regulatory file presented in Barcelona and Madrid is part of a broader corporate cutback by Amazon: the company announced in October a reduction of approximately 14,000 corporate jobs worldwide for organizational reasons. Something that from the Ministry of Labor has been criticized because Amazon presented a net profit of $21,187 million in its balance sheet for the third quarter of 2025, which represents an increase of 38.2%. In Xataka | Big Tech doesn’t stop firing its engineers. At the same time, they have stepped on the accelerator in hiring Image | Unsplash (Adrian Sulyok)

In 2013 London announced its most impressive skyscraper. Back then, no one could imagine the danger that their crystals had.

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There are many stories of skyscrapers with very different endings than those on the plans, some terriblebut in the city of London one is still remembered for its closeness and chaos generated. The history of the so-called like walkie talkie (20 Fenchurch Street) is that of a building that was born wrapped in promises of modernity and ended up exhibiting one of the most unusual and dangerous design flaws in contemporary architecture. An experiment turned into risk. In the summer of 2013, when its glass façade was almost finished, London discovered to its shock that the skyscraper it had so much promoted had a big problem: acted like a gigantic parabolic lens, concentrating sunlight on a narrow strip of Eastcheap capable of melting plastic, deform metal and produce temperatures higher than those of a domestic oven. It was no joke. Parked cars, like the story that went viral Martin Lindsay’s Jaguarsuffered palpable damage, everyday objects began to melt, passersby spoke of softened shoe soles or feeling burns on their skin. You have to give it a name. The phenomenon was such that it ended up being baptized like death rayand it was not an exaggeration: the reflections generated up to 72 degrees Celsius on the street, creating a real danger for anyone passing by. The press documented the episode with fascination and alarmimmediately turning it into a media attraction that placed the building at the center of unprecedented scrutiny. The Walkie-Talkie (20 Fenchurch Street) A failure announced. Far from being an unforeseeable accident, Walkie Talkie It had been conceived with a concave curvature that any student of elementary physics would have pointed out as capable of concentrating light. Its architect, Rafael Viñoly, recognized shortly after the building had initially been designed with horizontal slats to avoid precisely that effect, but they were removed for budgetary reasons. Viñoly admitted also that the team did not have the appropriate tools to model the phenomenon accurately, limiting itself to approximate calculations who predicted a lower risk. The reality was very different, aggravated by the increase in solar radiation in London in recent years. In fact, the problem It was not unprecedented for the architect: already in Las Vegas his Vdara hotel had been accused to concentrate light until they burn the bathers. The skyscraper under construction And more. But in London the error acquired a incomparable public dimensionbecause it affected not a private complex but one of the busiest streets in the City. The urgent installation of a temporary mesh and the subsequent placement of slats on the facade They solved the problem, but they did not avoid the perception that it was a systemic failure, the result of a design process that had privileged aesthetics and costs over urban safety. The Sky Garden Emblem of a city in transformation. Even before the death ray episode, the Walkie Talkie was subject of criticism. Its silhouette, disproportionate and widened upward to maximize profitable views, stood like a sort of “sore thumb” outside the financial cluster, generating a visual impact that the own urban report had described as “significant damage.” However, the real controversy came after its famous Sky Garden: presented as a public contribution comparable to a vertical park. open to all, it ended up being more of a panoramic restaurant complex with controlled access and mandatory reservations. For many Londoners, it represented a symbol of the privatization drift of urban spaces: a supposed “public garden” that responded more to the logic of corporate luxury than to that of the common good. The complaints were so intense that the City even raised a structural reform of space to bring it closer to what was initially promised. A razzie. In 2015, amidst the accumulation of controversies, the building received the Carbuncle Cup for ugliest building of the year in the United Kingdom, a satirical recognition that underlined the extent to which it had become object of rejection collective. Even Sky News tried to fry an egg under his facade and his name mutated into a meme: Scorchie walkie. Over time, its image became associated not only with an aesthetic problem, but with a chain of opaque decisions and urban planning concessions that many consider a paradigmatic example of how not to manage the integration of a skyscraper into the historical fabric of London. The work of the Imperial The rebirth. Despite its rugged origins, Walkie Talkie has undergone a surprising public rehabilitation. In 2025, twelve years after the incident, visitors are lining up to enjoy from the Sky Gardennow fully integrated into the city’s tourist circuit. But beneath that normalization lies a story that could have been tragic. Later studies from Imperial College showed that, in a different meteorological scenario, the death ray could have cause serious injuryfires in nearby homes and even permanent damage to the skin and eyes. Only the chance combination of clouds and the orientation of the beam (which did not fall at its maximum point at street level) prevented major consequences. A reminder. The architecture was a warning about the critical role of climate modeling, professional responsibility, and the need to subject bolder architectural forms to much more rigorous evaluations. If today the majority of tourists who sgo to the Sky Garden They ignore that the building was about to become an icon of the disaster, it is because the city acted quickly and because luck intervened at the right time. In any case, the technical memory persists: Walkie Talkie remains a reminder that, in a dense, vertical metropolis, a miscalculation can become a massive riskand that contemporary architecture (when its interaction with the environment is neglected) can produce both wonders and invisible dangers. An uncomfortable legacy. In retrospect, the Walkie Talkie has ended up occupying a peculiar place in London’s recent history: it is simultaneously a tourist success, a design failurea case study in urban security and an example of the tensions between public interest and the imperatives of the real estate market. Its trajectory shows that a … Read more

He has already announced that he will split the payments

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Several Supreme Court rulings forced the Treasury to modify a law to prevent the thousands of pensioners who made contributions to the old labor mutual societies between 1968 and 1978 from being subjected to double taxation, paying more in your personal income tax. With the new Law 5/2025 approved, those affected can claim the refund of the personal income tax associated with the fiscal years from 2019 to 2022as well as non-prescribed exercises. The estimated number of affected pensioners exceeds 600,000 and with amounts of up to 4,000 euros in some cases, which is causing delays on the part of the Treasury in their refund and the splitting of the payment. Why is the Treasury returning personal income tax to mutual members? The return to the mutualists is not a voluntary gesture by the Government, but is due to Supreme Court rulings in which it is recognized that pensioners contributed to the Labor Mutual Insurance Funds more than they should have, and the right to enjoy a tax reduction of 25%, for their contributions between 1967 and December 31, 1978. The Supreme Court sentenced that contributions to mutual societies (such as MUFACE, MUGEJU or ISFAS, usually linked to police, military, judicial or banking bodies) were intended for benefits that were subsequently fully taxed, which generated double taxation for those taxpayers. That is, they paid more taxes than a worker who had contributed to INSS in the General Regime, for example, given that a deduction could be applied to them for their contributions. The new Law 5/2025of July 24, prepared to accommodate the rulings of the Supreme Court, included a provision for better channel complaints and accelerate the recognition of the return for the affected years. Treasury sets deadline to return personal income tax Last September, the Treasury began to settle the imbalance with thousands of affected pensioners, and to do so, it enabled a form on their website. Through it, those affected could claim their refund. These are: Pensioners from Social Security and the Social Institute of the Navy who contributed to labor mutual societies between 1967 and 1978 and suffered double taxation. Holders of complementary pensions paid by special funds of the INSS, MUFACE, MUGEJU or ISFAS, when the contributions are prior to 1979. Heirs of those affected mutual members, if the beneficiary died between 2019 and 2024 The Tax Agency has a deadline on December 31, 2025 to complete the refunds, since it must be done six months after the end of the general declaration period that ended on June 30. If the Treasury does not comply with that deadline, those affected may claim late payment interest of 4.0625%, as as they remember from the consumer organization OCU. However, according to what was published by The Newspaperthe Treasury would have confirmed that in some cases, this payment will not be made in a single payment, but in a fragmented manner. This fragmentation is due to the complexity of the process since, in some cases, the lack of documentation or calculation discrepancies have generated different special circumstances that require individualized reviews, so in these cases payments will be settled as they are resolved. Those affected who have not yet claimed their refunds can do so from the corresponding Tax Agency form until February 2, 2026, for the fiscal years 2020, 2021 and 2022; until February 2, 2027, for the fiscal years 2020, 2021; and until February 2, 2028 to claim the amounts for the 2022 financial year. In Xataka | The Treasury has increased the collection of the Wealth Tax: it is not that there are more millionaires in Spain, it is that they now pay it Image | Unsplash (Musemind UX Agency)

Nestlé has announced the dismissal of 16,000 employees and its CEO has revealed the reason: “we will automate our processes”

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Nestlé has announced the layoff of 16,000 employees worldwide, and it will fall especially on so-called “white collar” jobs. Among the reasons that the company argues through of a statement one stands out: “We are evolving and will simplify our organization and automate our processes.” The decision has generated uncertainty both globally and in Spain, where its Spanish subsidiary has more than 4,000 employees and several factories. However, the most surprising thing is that, for the first time, it is a food company and not technological who makes a decision of this nature: cut jobs to flatten the organization and automate office roles. Change to a more aggressive dome. Nestlé has taken a drastic turn in its internal policy by announcing the elimination of 16,000 positions of work. That represents about 6% of its total global workforce. This decision has surprised the markets, since it occurs just after having presented results that show growth in its income and sales throughout 2025. Shortly after, its new CEO Philipp Navratil explained on your LinkedIn profile the company’s determined commitment to automate and digitize its processes under a cost reduction plan driven by the new direction of the company. In fact, the previous board already had an adjustment plan in place in which 541.4 million euros were going to be saved. With the new management leadership, the savings objective has doubled to 1,082.8 million euros by 2027. The layoffs are no longer due to economic problems. When a company announced layoffs, they were usually associated with a bad economic situation. However, as we have seen in different technology companies such as Amazon, Google or Microsoft, layoffs and finances are already They are not necessarily related. In the case of Nestlé, the company recorded organic sales growth of 3.3% in the first nine months of 2025, consolidating its figures in different global markets. As Navratil explained, the main argument for the layoffs is the company optimization to prepare it for a future competitive scenario and, to this end, it was going to focus on simplifying the organization and automating processes (with AI?) when appropriate. The same argument that big technology They have been using it for months in the context of the race for AI. Distribution of layoffs and their impact. As confirmed by Nestlé, the layoffs will mainly affect “white collar” workers and around 12,000 employees will be in the office and administrative functions, while around 4,000 more layoffs will be distributed between production and supply chain departments. The company has not detailed the exact geographical distribution of the layoffs, which maintains uncertainty in key markets such as Spain, where staff and unions have shown concern about the possibility of factories closing or production being reduced in certain cities. Nestlé employs around 4,000 employees in Spain in 10 production centers in five autonomous communities: Cantabria, Asturias, Extremadura, Galicia and Catalonia. In Xataka | Big Tech doesn’t stop firing its engineers. At the same time, they have stepped on the accelerator in hiring Image | Nestle

just announced its most capable robot. Now the only thing missing is that there is demand

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The Chinese company Unitree Robotics just presented the H2its most advanced humanoid robot to date. At 180 centimeters tall and weighing 70 kilograms, this model is getting closer and closer to that preconceived idea we have about robots that we have seen so much in fiction. Perhaps the most striking thing about his announcement is his presentation video, where we see him dancing, dressed and even with a humanized face. A robot that dances and does kung-fu. Demo images show the H2 performing complex dance and martial arts sequences with surprising fluidity. The robot maintains balance naturally, makes smooth transitions between movements and demonstrates remarkably organic limb articulation. Although Unitree has not revealed all the technical specifications, previous leaks They pointed out that the H2 would have 31 degrees of freedom, compared to the 23 of its predecessor. The legacy of the H1. Unitree’s previous model, the H1, achieved widespread fame after appearing at the 2024 Spring Festival Gala in China, where its Yangko dancing performance went viral both inside and outside the country. With that robot, China had achieved its first full-size model capable of running, setting a world record reaching 3.3 meters per second, even with peaks with the potential to exceed 5 m/s. Equipped with 3D LiDAR and depth cameras that provided 360° spatial perception, the H1 weighed just 47 kilograms and was powered by a swappable 864 Wh battery. From the workshop to the living room. The H2 represents a new level with respect to industrial robotics that China already dominates. The Asian country installed nearly 300,000 industrial robots in 2024more than the rest of the world combined, according to the International Federation of Robotics. However, humanoid robots like the H2 remain a bet for the future with sales still marginal. The Chinese startup ecosystem focused on humanoid robotsdriven largely by state policy, seeks to continue evolving in this field so that the country also scores the same in this sector. A two-speed strategy. Unitree is committed to covering the entire spectrum of the market. While the H2 represents its high-end offering aimed at advanced industrial and commercial applications, the company also recently launched the R1, a 1.2-meter robot designed for developers and researchers at a somewhat more accessible price. In fact, the R1 was recognized by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of 2025. They are two models that reflect Unitree’s efforts to become known in the world of robotics, at the level of large American manufacturers such as Boston Dynamics. And now what. The real challenge is not only technical, but commercial. China has demonstrated its ability to develop increasingly sophisticated humanoid robots, but the real test will come when practical large-scale applications have to be found that justify the investment. Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing confirmed at the beginning of the year at the Hangzhou World Digital Commerce Exhibition that this model was planned for the second half of 2025. The schedule has been met. Now it’s time to see how the market reacts. Cover image | Unitree In Xataka | With AI, Microsoft has once again insisted that we talk to our computer: experience says that we don’t feel like it

Everything that has been announced so far of the event

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With the official presentation to the press of the Malaga of the Comic-Con, That will take place the next 25 to 28 of Sepirmbre, the pistol is given to face the final stretch of the event. There are only a few weeks left to celebrate this adaptation to the Spanish sensitivity of an essential event for the International Fandom. At the Madrid headquarters of the BBVA (which has also been announced as Official Sponsor of the event) Javier Barberá, Executive Director of San Diego Comic-Con Málaga, accompanied by multiple institutional positions of the Government of Malaga and Andalusia, has broken down some of the figures and new guests at the appointment within a few weeks. It stands out among them, without a doubt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, which adds to presences already announced as Norman Reedus, Jim Lee, Jeph Loeb or CB Cebulski. Although the most important thing of the day, without a doubt, is the confirmation that on the San Diego Comic-Con Málaga website is now available An agenda with appointments and acts that will be updated in the coming weeks and that at the moment they still have no day and date. In the press conference, it has also taken advantage to give some new figures on the space and assistance that sparves at the Palace of Fairs and Congresses in Malaga (FYCMA). Due to the desire to increase the capacity of the event, 22,000 m2 of exteriors have been added, with more attractions and their own scenario. The total is 80,000 m2, with capacity for 3,000 people. Barberá has taken the opportunity to cite some of the brands that will be present at the Comic-Con, and names have come to the exhibitor Hall such as Disney, Bandai Namco, Funko or Nintendo. But we go to the mess: What has been announced so far for the Comic-Con of Malaga this year? Guests Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Hollywood star, known for her roles in legendary films such as ‘Predator’, ‘Terminator’ or ‘Conan’ will give a masterclass about his career. Jim reads: Renowned cartoonist of the X-Men in the 90s and current president, Publisher and Chief Creative Officer of DC. Jeph Loeb: Screenwriter who has worked with characters such as Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America, Daredevil, Batman, Superman, Supergirl and the Avengers, and famous especially for his collaborations with Tim Sale. CB Cebulki: writer and editor, currently editor in chief of Marvel Comics since 2017. Norman Reedus: Actor known especially for playing Daryl Dixon on the television series ‘The Walking Dead’which has generated its own spin-off as the protagonist. Other actors in the franchise such as Melissa McBride, David Zabel, Dan Percival, Alexandra Masangkay, Eduardo Noriega, Óscar Jaenada, Hugo Arbués and Candela Saitta will accompany him. Peach Momoko: Marvel artist and illustrator. Skylar Taz: Actor and screenwriter, known for giving life to Sanji in the Live-Action of ‘One Piece‘of Netflix. Yaya Han: Cosplayer, designer and model, part of the jury of the Cosplay Contest. Nicholas DentonJohn Lee Hancock and Mark Lafferty, who will present the series ‘Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order’ John Romero: Creator of ‘Doom’ Ian Livingstone: Legendary game designer and founder of Games Workshop. John Gaeta: Matrix’s special effects designer … and a good number of Spanish and international comics authors, such as Laura Pérez, Emma Ríos and many others. Exclusive presentations Disney will present exclusive images of ‘Tron: Ares’ and ‘Predator Badlands’, two expected new deliveries of their classical franchises. Lucasfilm will present the third season of animated anthology ‘Star Wars: Visions’. Talks and other content: Throughout its four days, the Malaga Comic-with will be overflowing with activities and presentations. These are just a few, even without specific day: you can consult them all in the Comic-with official website Workshop drawing of superheroes with Salvador Navarro League of Legends: Round Table on Lec Fins Animun presents: the magic of visual effects Paper heroes: a decade of books and video games Oscar winning ideas: art and heart behind award -winning short FEROCA PRESENTS: Large proplay user Superheroes here: Andalusians behind Star Wars, DC or Walking productions Virtual Plans of Manuel Ramírez: The use of virtual environments and rendering in real time applied to postproduction Ian Livingstone: From the workshop to the legend – 50 years of games, 30 of revolution Carlos Pacheco Forever: Talk about the documentary feature film project The reinvention of fear: contemporary terror in the comic This is a comic for Marvel. Animation sample: European films 2025 FML: Modern fears, punk and chaos magic How did I get to Marvel? Creating your first cosplay The American Comic Market: Myths and realities Beyond the brush: art, technique and community in the world of miniatures From The Matrix tomorrow: John Gaeta and the future of visual effects 50 years of video games in Spain. Past, present and future The keys to a success: fantastic cinema in the current film and television industry Dungeons & Dragons reborn Fantasy melodies: Nobuo Uematsu in conversation and in concert Anzuelo: Emma Ríos’s new creative journey The neighbor: neighborhood superheroes John Romero Elesky in concert: sound bands of great Spanish video games From paper to the screen: adapt a graphic novel to the cinema Expedition 33: Behind the story Build stories: Laura Pérez’s art Superheroes in the cinema: the industry that cannot fall Heavy metal: past and future past Lovers of terror and gore: classics, oddities and excesses Animation entering the genre: science fiction, terror and thriller Shooter DNA – Mods, Competitive Games and Revolutions in the First Person. With John Romero Simon Bakey: The Wild Art of Comic In Xataka | In 50 years of democracy, in Spain only one book has been prohibited: a controversial comic that would be illegal to publish today

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