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Gemini’s arrival to Wear OS 6 is great news. The question is whether an experience at the height

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Samsung just present his smartwatches Galaxy Watch8 and Watch8 Classic. A priori we might think that these watches simply embody the annual update of their hardware to which it and many other companies have accustomed us. However, The Galaxy Watch8 propose a differential benefit that, therefore, it is worth not overlooking: they are the first smart watches in the market that They incorporate Wear OS 6 with Gemini. As we anticipate from the head of this article, in our opinion the arrival to these smartwatches of the artificial intelligence (AI) of Google is good news. And it is because presumably will have a deep and positive impact on our experience. The integration of this technology into a device that users usually always carry on, and that, in addition, resides in a very accessible area, greatly facilitates its use. In fact, what Samsung proposes to us on paper paints very well. And if we turn to Gemini we can interact with these smart watches using natural voice commands to, thus control apps such as Samsung Health, the calendar or the clock. We can also use Gemini to find a nearby location, such as a pharmacy, or to send text messages. Interestingly, the SOC proposed by these watches is the same that incorporates the Galaxy Watch Ultraso we suspect that it will be possible to update the operating system of this last device to Wear OS 6 with Gemini. Our experience with Gemini is in the hands of the SOC exynos w1000 This chip is very special. And it is because it is one of the first integrated circuits manufactured by Samsung using Gaa photolithography (Gate-alall-around) 3 nm. The purpose of this innovation is to outdo Finget technology in a crucial parameter: watt performance. The semiconductors with Finfet transistors began to be manufactured on a large scale in the early last decade, so it is a mature technology that TSMC, Intel and Samsung know very well and will not easily abandon. Even so, in the future GAA transistors will reign. The Exynos W1000 SOC will be largely responsible for the experience that Gemini will offer us at the Galaxy Watch8 and Watch8 Classic Anyway, there is no doubt: the soc Exynos W1000 It will be largely responsible for the experience that Gemini will offer us in the smartwatches Galaxy Watch8 and Watch8 Classic. And probably Also at the Galaxy Watch Ultraas I mentioned a few lines above. We can anticipate that we will soon put these smart watches to the test and confirm if Gemini really offers us an experience at the height of what we can expect. The latency in this scenario of use is crucial. In any case, on paper we can be reasonably optimistic. And it is that the specifications of this SOC, beyond the lithography that Samsung has used to manufacture it, are quite ambitious. In fact, it incorporates a Cortex-A78 nucleus to 1.6 GHz and four Cortex-A55 nuclei to 1.5 GHz that work side by side with a main memory map of 2 GB of type LPDDR5. The graphic logic, which also has a crucial role in the field that interests us, is a Mali-G68 MP2. Paint well. Samsung says that this soc is Up to 3.7 times more powerful That the previous one, the chip Exynos W930in a multihilo use scenario. We will see it. We hope to tell you much more about the experience proposed by Gemini in these smartwatches coming soon. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Intel is already manufacturing chips on the Intel 3 node. The competition with TSMC and Samsung starts here

Since his arrival, Zepbound was predestined to unseat Ozempic. The big question is why it is taking so long

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In innovation, arriving first is a tremendous push when Develop a groundbreaking product. However, it is not a guarantee of success. This is a lesson that Danish pharmaceuticals Novo Nordisk is learning in their own meats. The last years have been marked by success the drugs of the GLP-1 family as Ozempic, Wegovy either Zepbound. The name refers to the peptide similar to glucagon-1 or LPG-1 (a hormone segregated in our body when we eat) since this type of formulas contain active compounds that “mimic” this hormone. In origin, drugs such as Ozempic or Zepbound were designed as diabetes treatment since one of the functions of the GLP-1 hormone It is to warn the pancreas of food entry to accelerate insulin production. However, the success of these treatments occurred due to a side effect also related to this hormone: and it is that the second of the messages transmitted by the LPG-1 is addressed to the brain, and it is the one that triggers the feeling of satiety. This is why agonist drugs of GLP-1 receptors also have a slimming effect. Companies that had compounds such as semaglutid New brands with which to market your compounds reorient to weight loss: Wegovy and Mounjaro. Throughout this process, the drugs of the Danish pharmacist, Ozempic and Wegovy, left with a kind of advantage, but there was a problem. The problem: the “recipe” of the American pharmaceuticals Lilly showed better results where these more treatments have highlighted, weight loss. The apparent reason is that just as the semaglutida is a simple agonist of the GLP-1 receptors, the tirzepatida is a double agonist of the GLP-1 receptors and of the receptors of the polypeptide gastric inhibitor or insulinotropic peptide dependent on glucose (GIP). If this were not enough, the magnitude of success reached an unexpected level, which had a serious involvement: Supply problems. This was not an exclusively economic but also health problem, we reconnected that before a product focused on weight loss, Ozempic was a diabetes treatment. A demand High and dissatisfied It is a great opportunity for the entry in play of new competitors, and this was precisely the panorama that the American pharmacist Lilly was found. A at odds Lilly launched Mounjaro in 2022 and success was vertiginous: the recipes shot and the new product seemed to quickly unseat their competitors. However, three years after launch it seems that the anticipated has not yet been Sorpasso. In fact, after a final stretch of 2024, some analysts wondered what was happening, why the success of Lilly’s formulas is postponing so much. However, In an article for Biospacethe consultants Gary Stibel and Riley McCarthy, of New England Consulting Group gave another key. For them the key to Ozempic’s persistence was in the marketing. In his article, Stibel and McCarthy indicate that Lilly attributed his difficulties when reaching the expected volume of sales to the high manufacturing costs and “fluctuating” levels of inventory in a high demand context. That is, that Lilly also managed to deal with the success of his own product. In the United States pharmaceuticals can announce more or less conventional medications that are only administered under medical prescription. According to these consultants, part of Ozempic’s success is due to these consumer -oriented campaigns. Although ultimately the choice of medication falls on the person in charge of signing the recipe, the patient’s weight can also be decisive. Regardless of campaigns of marketingit is difficult to overestimate the value of first such a lucrative market. Ozempic monopolized headlines and covers for months, and has become a few years in a kind of vulgarized brandthat is, a brand that has become an entire category of products. Something that in the short term can be a great advantage but long entails the erosion (even legal) of the brand itself. 2025 seems to draw a most hopeful panorama For the American pharmacist, but anticipating what will happen in the medium and long term is difficult for several reasons. Both pharmaceuticals continue to work with greater or lesser success in new formulas, double and even triple agonists that could unseat the products already settled. Laboratory results are difficult to predict and will depend in part with the future of these pharmacists. Another important factor is that we do not know the roof of this market. The calculations From the consulting firm Goldman Sachs they expect this roof will be reached at the beginning of the decade that comes, standing at about 120,000 million dollars around 2035. There is room for growth: according to the consultant the market volume in 2025 will be about 28,000 million dollars. This volume will have to be distributed with New formulaseven with generic alternativesthat could not take long to arrive after the threat that hits the Canadian patent of the Semaglutida. The expiration of the patents of these formulas will aggravate the need for the pharmaceuticals involved in introducing These new formulas that contribute something new to an increasingly competitive market. In Xataka | “Ozempic face”, “Ozempic language” and “Ozempic teeth”: the other very visible effect of consuming the medicine to lose weight Image | News Oresund

The hunt that still resists in Iran more than 40 years after his arrival. It is not Russian or Iranian. It is the American F-14

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While the missiles cross the air between Israel and Iran, the Israeli Air Force has confirmed A new attack on facilities close to Tehran. According to its version, among the objectives there were at least a couple of fighters F-14 Tomcat. In one of the available videos, the impact on what would be one of the few units that are still in service, almost half a century after having been manufactured. That an American hunt retired in 2006 Keep flying today in one of Washington’s great adversaries is no accident. The explanation is in the convoluted – sometimes contradictory – that history can be. An order, a revolution and a war The History of F-14 in Iran begins in the 70s. The SHA, still strategic ally of the United States, decided to incorporate Dozens of Tomcat fighters to its Air Force, in a military package valued at approximately 2,000 million dollars. To do this, he sent his pilots to train in California. But everything changed in 1979, with the Islamic revolution. The relationship between Iran and the United States deteriorated quickly. Ayatolá Ruhollah Jomeiní ordered the arrest of many of those pilots and left the F-14 on land. But the situation took a new turn in 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran. The authorities decided to free the aviators, and began a career to counterreloj for reactivating a fleet for which there were no longer spare parts. An Iranian pilot next to an F-14 Now, keeping an F-14 in flight is not an easy task. Every flight hour required many more maintenanceand many of its components were impossible to manufacture locally. No access to Western technology, Iran resorted to smugglers, to the black market … And also, in a maneuver as surprising as documented, to the United States. During the 80s, within the framework of the scandal Iran-contextsthe Ronald Reagan administration He secretly authorized The sale of weapons to Tehran in exchange for the release of hostages. Iranian Tomcats equipped with multiple missiles in full flight Today, almost half a century after that SHA request, the F-14 Tomcat It continues to appear In Iran. There are no official figures on how many are or how many are really operational. Some have seen in parades. Others, in blurred videos. And now, according to Israel, at least two would have been destroyed in a recent attack near Tehran. Israeli Air Force announced the impact on Iranian F-14 with this publication That an F-14 is still present in 2025 is not just a technical rarity. It is a string of how convoluted the story can be. A hunt designed for US carriers, designed to face the Soviet Union and retired almost twenty years ago, still appears – in one way or another – in one of the most serious military tensions of the moment. Tomcat was a technological feat. But he is also an unlikely survivor: he went from ally to enemy, he sustained thanks to improvised engineers, to clandestine networks, and the carelessness of those who tried to leave him on the ground forever. Images | Nasim News Agency | Iriaf | Shahram Sharifi | IIAF 2 US Navy (via Wikimedia Commons) In Xataka | If the question is how much the iron dome of Israel can endure, the answer is simple: much more than Iran’s defenses

The problem of heat arrival is not just the 40º planned by Aemet: also the “tropical nights”

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Heat has come and with him a more annoying phenomenon than the high daytime temperatures: the so -called “tropical nights.” Bad news for those who have problems reconciling with heat. Tropical nights. The warm episode that this week is manifested on a good part of Spain threatens to bring maximum thermometers above 35º in various areas, even above 40º in areas such as the Guadalquivir Valley. However, beyond the maximum, There is another fact to pay attention: minimum temperatures. We talk about “Tropical nights“When the minimum night temperatures do not fall from the 20th Celsius. That will be precisely what happens in areas of the southern peninsula and in the Canary Islands throughout the week, according to the forecasts of the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet). According to Aemet In an informative note Dedicated to the warm episode, the minimum temperatures will rise throughout the week, more slowly and intense than the maximum, yes. The minimums above 20º will affect areas of the southwest quadrant and the Mediterranean coast, also extending to the Ebro Valley during Saturday. On the edge of the “equatorial night.” In fact, Aemet’s forecasts They anticipate minimums that could remain around 24th towards the end of the week in areas of Malaga or Cádiz. This implies that some areas are on the edge of the call “Equatorial Night”, Term that refers to the nights on which the minimums do not fall from the 25th. A anticyclone, and a Dana? But what is happening so that spring has ended so abruptly? Much of the fault has an anticyclone inside located on the waters of the Atlantic, around the Azores. The influence of high pressures will leave us a great atmospheric stability, explains Aemet, with “practically clear skies and high insolation.” But there is even more: from Wednesday, the appearance of a Dana between the Canary Islands and the Gulf From Cádiz I could drag with it a mass of warm, dry and with suspension dust, first to the south and then towards the peninsular center. The result of this would be the additional increase in the temperatures that we will see throughout the second half of the week. Notices for extreme temperatures. Thus, the agency has issued several notices for extreme temperatures for tomorrow Wednesday and for Thursday by maximum temperatures between 37º and 39º. Is there an end in view? The big question now is when this will end. And the truth is that it is still early to venture since uncertainty predominates towards the end of the week, says Aemet. According to Explain the agencyit is “likely that as of Saturday 31 the Dana will dissipate” and that instability in the peninsular northern increases, in turn giving clouds to reduce the failure of these days. In any case, we will have to wait to see if these predictions are confirmed. In Xataka | The reservoirs are almost 22% above the average of the last decade. There is an “but” important before celebrating Image | ECMWF

The arrival of the human being to South America, seen through the DNA of the heirs of the last great migration

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Throughout our history as a species, Homo sapiens We have managed to reach the most remote corners on Earth. Millennia before the era of exploration, our ancestors undertook a trip that took them out of Africa and populate the great continental masses from Europe to South America. Among all these great migrations, one of the most surprising was the one that led humans from Siberia to Patagonia, a 10,000 trip whose details are knowing. History in genes. A new genetic study has given us new clues on the great migration that resulted in the population of the Americas. A migration of 20,000 kilometers whose implications still last in aspects as apparently distant as health. The study allowed to draw the history of migrations until the considered “final border” of human migrations, Tierra del Fuego, Explain the team responsible for the study. History of a millennia trip. This great migration would have begun in Siberia between 27,000 and 19,000 years ago Approximately during the last glaciation, in what we know today as the Bering Strait would have formed a “bridge” of land due to a lower sea level than the present. Through Alaska, these populations would have arrived in North America, but the expansion through this continent would have been only an intermediate stage. The study focuses on the second part of the trip, when part of the new American population crossed the Central American Isthmus to enter the last continent in being populated. The last border. The new genetic analysis allows us to know how humans expanded in South America. The responsible team detected that lineages In this continent they began to diverge with each other between 14,000 and 10,000 years ago. From this point, the South American population began to separate into four groups. The first to disintegrate was those who populated the Amazon basin, while the rest was distributed among the high areas of the Andes mountain range, the desert area of ​​the Chaco, and finally, Patagonia. Reading migration in genes. For its study, the team sequenced the genomes of 1,537 individuals belonging to 139 villages of the continent. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Science. Very long -term implications. The consequences of this migratory movement and its vicissitudes still last and some of them still weigh on the native peoples of South America, especially as a consequence of the isolation of some of these populations with respect to the rest of humanity. This could explain why some populations were more susceptible to the introduction of infectious diseases by the first Europeans to reach the continent. “Those migrants carried only a subset of the genetic heritage in their ancestral populations (…). Thus, reduced genetic diversity also caused a reduced diversity in immunity -related genes, which can limit flexibility when fighting several infectious diseases,” stood out in a press release Kim Hie Lim, Co -author of the study. From the past to the present. Knowing new data on the genetics of American peoples can also help us in the present. This information is valuable when studying treatments of genetic diseases, or to better understand the functioning and impact of certain medications. In addition, the closest relationship between American and Asian populations implies new data on a population that, recalls the team responsible for the new work, covers 50% of the world’s population. In Xataka | A cave has revealed the macabre Mayan ceremony to honor its gods: there are 100 bones and none is where it should Image | Soyyosycocomiel / Martin St-Amant

20 years ago someone predicted that the iPod would end up being irrelevant to the arrival of smartphones: it was Bill Gates

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When it comes to technological innovation, the real triumph It is not to get a supervent productbut be able to advance what will be the one that will be sold the most One and even two decades later. That talent is the one that has made many founders of large technology today are among the Greater fortunes in the world. In May 2005, with the iPod selling as churros and revolutionizing the way of listening to music, Bill Gates Auguró In an interview to a German medium that, a few years later, The iPod was going to be irrelevant. Although for those years, many interpreted His words like agoreras And the result of Microsoft’s inability to deal with the success of the iPod, Gates gave in the nail. The launch of the iPhone in 2007 and the arrival of the smartphones meant the First nail in your coffin. Bill Gates saw him come. Microsoft let him escape In your interview for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The technological millionaire refined his crystal ball from the technological sector. Two years before the launch of the first smartphone as we know it today, predict what the mobile Two decades later. “The mobile phones market is strategically fundamental. More and more functions will be integrated into a single device, and this requires software solutions. The perspective of having all relevant functions in a single device will be irresistible for consumers,” Gates said in 2005. With that statement, Microsoft’s founding millionaire gave in the nail with What was going to happen in the next decade with the development of the smartphones industry. However, in addition to seeing them coming, companies must be able to position in the right place for Take advantage of those predictions And that, with Steve Ballmer already in front of the company doubting success From the business model that the iPhone anticipated, it was the great pending subject for Microsoft. Despite the Windows Phone effortsthe huge mobile software market that Gates predicted was going to stay In Google’s hands and Apple with their respective operating systems, while Microsoft was relegated to a Minority market share with an operating system that did not convince. Ipod fall predicted, not the success of the iPhone “I do not believe that the success of the iPod can be sustained in the long term, however good Apple is. I think you can establish parallels with computers: here also Apple used to be extremely strong with its Macintosh and its graphical user interface (similar to the current iPod) and then lost their position. Consumers want more options and get them because there is a lot of innovation in this area,” Gates said in 2005. Again, he accounted for 100% in what consumers would require mobile devices in the next decade, and the iPod was going to fall short. However, again, and despite the adequate forecast of the millionaire, Microsoft He could not find his space neither Take advantage of your strengths. Instead, Apple not only responded to demands from your customers integrating the functions of the iPod into the iPhone for make it more versatilebut took advantage of the app store to Expand your functions opening a door to millions of applications. In this way, it was Apple who took advantage of the premise that, very rightly, had announced Bill Gates. In Xataka | Bill Gates’ first business was a failure: there he learned everything he needed to build the Microsoft empire Image | Flickr (World Bank Photo Collection), Xataka

We are getting closer to ahead of the arrival of Alzheimer’s. Knowing it can reassure us, but maybe too much

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Get ahead of the arrival of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s is today a chimera, but achieving it would be key when looking for treatments that manage to go beyond containing symptoms and are able to reverse the disease. What is already in our hand is to estimate our risk of suffering. The question is to what extent is a good idea. Pros and cons. This type of evidence that allows us to know our chances of suffering from Alzheimer’s impact on our psychological well -being and our motivation. A new study He has investigated In these effects and has observed that, although this knowledge does not have an effect on our emotional stress can reduce our motivation to maintain a healthy life. Even among people with a high risk of suffering from this disorder. Win the career to the disease. Get ahead of Alzheimer’s arrival It is key For professionals who treat it: the sooner the diagnosis is the greater the margin of maneuver to design the ideal therapeutic strategy that allows to slow down the appearance of symptoms and their progressive worsening. It also helps patients and their environment adapt to the arrival of the disease, psychologically but also more practical. Count plates. Although we do not know the mechanisms that operate after Alzheimer’s, we know that beta-amyloid plaques play a fundamental role. These clusters that are formed in the brain appear in people with this disease and are therefore an important diagnostic tool. The scanners Positron emission tomography offer a non -invasive technique that allows you to detect these clusters in the brain. From the identification of these clusters it is possible to estimate the risk that the disease begins to unleash a patient and allows health personnel and affected people to take the necessary preventive measures. 199 participants. The new study had 199 participantsall healthy adults who would go through this process to determine the presence or absence of plates in the brain. Before completing the scanner, the group completed surveys to find symptoms of anxiety, depression, memory and motivation problems; Surveys that repeated six months after the test. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Alzheimer’s & Dementia. Lights and shadows. As explained by the team responsible for the study, participants who did not present plaques experienced “emotional improvements”: lower depression, anxiety and even less memory problems. However, the team also observed a lower degree of motivation when taking measures to improve their lifestyle to make it healthier. Among the participants there were also cases in which plaques were detected. They also did not see an increase in depressive symptoms a memory problems, but their anxiety level was reduced. The problem is that, as in the case of the first group, its motivation to introduce changes in their day to day was also reduced. “The findings suggest that revealing the presence of amyloids does not negatively affect the participants, and simply knowing the results seems to decrease the negative feelings globally,” explained in a press release Schnaider Beeri, Ocautora of the study. The role of the psychological. Physiological diseases can affect our mental well -being, but our psychology can also play a determining role when facing body diseases. Motivation when introducing changes in our life is, in this sense, of difficult importance to estimate. In Xataka | If the question is how to hunt the Alzheimer Image | Daria Obymaha

A few months after the arrival of ‘GTA VI’, Twitch crowned as the most watched of 2024 to an old acquaintance of the franchise

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We are in 2025 and, although the industry has an eye on the expected ‘GTA VI‘, what Twitch dominates remains its predecessor. ‘GTA v‘, which was launched in September 2013, has been placed again at the top of the podium of the most seen video games on the Amazon platform, Collect The Verge. In 2024 he accumulated more than 1.400 million hours seen, surpassing giants such as ‘League of Legends’ (1,190 million), ‘Valorant’ (804 million), ‘Fortnite’ (539 million) and ‘Call of Duty’ (451 million), according to official data shared by Twitch. In total, more than 15.6 billion hours of video games on Twitch were consumed globally. Why does it continue to work? The main engine behind this phenomenon is not the story mode or the original missions of the game. The key is in the ‘GTA Roleplay‘, a modality based on online servers where players assume fictitious identities and build improvised stories in real time. There is no imposed narrative: each session is different and created by the community itself. This mode, which is only available for the PC version, has made the game reinvent year after year. The role play dynamics, added to the freedom of the open world, makes it an ideal platform both to play and to generate live content. A veteran who keeps billing. In addition to the impact on audiences, the title remains an income machine for Rockstar Games. Since its launch, the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ franchise has generated more than 8,000 million dollars. Only ‘GTA V’ has sold more than 210 million copies, which places it as the third best -selling video game of all time, only behind ‘Minecraft’ and ‘Tetris’. A good part of that income comes from ‘GTA online’, the multiplayer mode that has grown in parallel to the base game and that maintains an active, competitive and creative community. With an eye on ‘GTA VI’. All this happens while the world of the video game expects the launch of ‘GTA VI’, planned for autumn of 2025. The current figures of their predecessor not only reflect nostalgia or fidelity of the community, but an active base that generates global content, money and interest more than a decade later. ‘GTA V’ is not just a long -lived game. It is one of the most durable cultural phenomena of digital entertainment. And if it serves as an indication, the way for ‘GTA VI’ seems to be more than paved. Images | Rockstar | Twitch In Xataka | If the question is “you will sell the Nintendo Switch 2 despite the price increase” the answer is: yes, a lot

The US tariffs threaten the massive arrival of ridiculously cheap Chinese products. Europe has a plan

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First was the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Stamer, which made clear The posture of the nation in front of the tariff war. China was more ally than enemy against the turbulence of the global market. Then It was Pedro SánchezPresident of Spain, the one that manifested in the same line. Somehow, both leaders showed that, in the commercial war, there are different interpretations In Europe, and that happens while a word next to China, which will test the regulations of the old continent: dumping. The challenge after tariffs. For years, Europe has seen in China a formidable economic competitor, but many media such as The New York Times They have begun to slide a fear of the escalation of commercial tensions between Beijing and Washington, and how it can transform that challenge into A threat potentially destabilizing for the continent. As? The imposition of Extraordinary tariffs On the part of Trump has raised a commercial wall that prevents Chinese exports from addressing its traditional market, which has lit alarms in Brussels due to the possibility that an avalanche of subsidized products, from electric vehicles to industrial steel, be redir massively to Europe. With key industries such as those of France, Germany or Italy already in a vulnerable situation, the fear is that the so -called dumping (the practice of selling below the cost to eliminate local competition) intensifies until eroding the foundations of European production. Of course, it does not have to be so, and Europe has “weapons” to avoid it. Diplomatic balancing. One thing does seem true. The European bloc is caught between two fires: on the one hand, the pressures of American protectionism and, on the other, the need to contain the Chinese overproduction without triggering an open conflict. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has tried articulate an answer that combines firmness with pragmatism: he has promised to “closely monitor” the Chinese merchandise flowhas created a working group to detect dumping practices and has warned that Europe “cannot absorb excess global capacity.” Her messidated position was applauded by analysts, who consider her the best way to avoid an economic disaster. However, The Times explained that the unit of the continent can begin to show cracks in the face of the magnitude of the problem. Here are the words we commented at the beginning of leaders like Sánchez or Starmer betting on a greater approach to China as a shield in the face of the turbulence of the global market, while other EU members cry out for a more energetic defense of the European industrial fabric. Europe has a plan. The truth is that, in the face of the catastrophic image that has been warned in many media, for years the European Union has adopted a rigorous regulatory approach to contain the massive entry of Chinese products in your market. As? Through A combination of tariff measures, technical controls and non -tariff barriers that act as effective filters against dumping and unfair competition. Among the most outstanding tools are Antidumping research carried out by the European Commission, which have resulted in more than 100 current measures against Chinese products, covering from stainless steel to electric bicycles. In addition, the Rasff system (Fast food and feed alert network) constantly monitor the entry of non -compliant products with European quality and safety standards, blocking dozens of shipments every year. And the reach. To this is added the strict compliance with the regulation called Like Reachwhich requires any well imported good to register and evaluate its chemical substances, a firewall that prevents numerous Chinese industrial products from freely accessing the community market. Thanks to this normative network and its ability to activate ex officio investigations, the EU not only responds to concrete threats, but can also proactively dissuade the entry of goods that They do not meet the standards Europeans, configuring a legal wall that, until now, has effectively mitigated the wave of Asian overproduction. An asymmetric relationship. That said, and beyond the immediate context, the bottom of the problem may lies in an unbalanced commercial relationship. The Times told that Europe has accumulated a record deficit with China, one that in 2023 reached the 332,000 million dollarsfed by state subsidies that distort the market and by regulatory barriers that hinder the access of European companies to the Chinese market. Plus: the European Commission already has classified China as a “systemic rival” And bilateral relations have cooled in recent years, especially after Beijing support to Moscow during the invasion of Ukraine. European commissioners have expressed directly Your concern During recent diplomatic visits to China, demanding more equitable conditions and voluntary restrictions on exports of subsidized goods. Opportunistic messages and alliances. Despite these disagreements, China has intensified its Diplomatic offensive and media to present themselves as a strategic partner of Europe against chaos generated by Washington. From sponsored articles In influential media of Brussels until Official Communities That omit real tensions, Beijing tries to cultivate an image of stability and collaboration. In parallel, he has accepted Resume negotiations With the EU around European tariffs to Chinese electric vehicles, while minimizing disagreements. Meanwhile, European spokesmen respond cautiousspeaking of “reviews” or “continuation of conversations”, without offering clear adhesion or a firm rejection. An ambiguity that reflects not only the complexity of the situation, but also, perhaps, the fragility of a common strategy within the block. A crucial summer. So things, and with a photo that only points to A fear If we rely on European events and norms, the immediate future of European commercial policy could play a key game in the coming months. One is scheduled UE-China Summit For the second half of July, a meeting in which both blocks will try to soften friction before the impact of US tariffs is translated into an overestrial crisis in the European market. At the moment, the EU seems to have adopted a containment strategy: to endure the pull, maintain the balance between firmness and flexibility, and prevent the … Read more

Thus looked at its peak before the arrival of Hernán Cortés

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Mexico City is one of the most populated cities in the world, also one of the most stuck cities in the world. There were no roads ago, but channels: an intricate network that were the Tlatelolco and Tenochtitlan arteries. The two Mexican cities used to browse themselves culturally and trade until they joined in one. Thus, Tenochtitlán was one of the more powerful and large cities From its time, with a very careful structure of neighborhoods, the aforementioned channel system and a network of channels and bridges that connected the different parts of the city. For 1518, less than 200 years after its foundation, Tenochtitlan was an imposing metropolis. The big question is … What was Tenochtitlan at its peak? It is a question with a complex answer, but the good news is that there are some maps that allow us to get an idea. After the occasional artistic representation of the city, the best portrait of Mexico-Tenochtitlán of that 1518 is that prepared by Thomas Kole. Tenochtitlan in all his glory Kole is a 3D artist who, together with a fortnight of collaborators and numerous sources, They rebuilt The Mexican city in its time of splendor. All the images of this article are Kole’s work. There are also a series of aerial photographs, taken with Dron by Andrés Semo García, which allow to compare more clearly of Mexico City with the former Tenochtitlan. 3D recreation of Thomas Kole Tenochtitlan was, above all, a masterpiece of engineering and hydraulic. We have already commented that the channels were the arteries of the city, and it is not for less because they allowed not only the transport of people, but also of goods. Through Canoas that had great maneuverabilitythey could transport food and objects, but the port was also a cultural center where merchants from different regions met. Apart from the channels, they developed an advanced water management system with aqueducts that supplied fresh water to any point in the city. The main one was that of Chapultepec, with a double pipe system that distributed water more efficiently. In an engineering display, they also had the Chinampasfloating gardens or orchards to maximize agricultural production. The Mexica was a highly stratified society in which the different social steps were very clear. It was very similar to other civilizations and, comparing with one that catches us close in Europe, we could relate them to the feudal system. 3D recreation of Thomas Kole The elite was made up of a high class in charge of administering the empire, a nobility with religious and military positions, and the merchants, who occupied a privileged place for their strategic role. 3D recreation of Thomas Kole Then there was the ‘common’ class with farmers, warriors or artisans and, above, the Huey Tlatoani, the cusp of the pyramid. He was the greatest ruling both military and religious. Moctezuma was one of them, without going any further. Moctezuma II … too. Of the peak to the fall In its maximum splendor, Tenochtlitlán had about 200,000 inhabitants. To put it in perspective, Paris He had about 150,000 inhabitants at that time, London about 60,000 and Rome just 50,000. Bad example of Rome, since they were recovering at that time, but hey, the point is that the Mexican city was much larger than the European cities of the time. 3D recreation of Thomas Kole Photograph by Andrés Semo García (Semodron) Three years after that splendor … Hernán Cortés arrived. The Spanish conquering troops, with the native help that was under the yoke of the Mexicans, took Tenochtlitlán. The centuries passed, the old Mexican culture and rites were buried and, from the ruins of the great Mexican city, today’s city emerged. 3D recreation of Thomas Kole Photograph by Andrés Semo García (Semodron) As Kole points out, and as can be seen in the city, after the Spanish conquest there was little left of that Mexican past. From time to time They discover channel remains and other archaeological vestiges, but the best way to take a look at how the great Tenochtlitlán could be through works such as this artist. 3D recreation of Thomas Kole Not even the same zone | Photograph by Andrés Semo García (Semodron) Also thanks to the photographs with drone about which Kole imagined the Mexican city and allows us to see that some of the current great avenues could be in the past some of the most important channels in the city. The lake was dried and the city, which was once great and is now huge, has gained ground to nature in a surprising way. In this article we have left some of the most shocking images, but to better appreciate Kole’s work with more direct comparisons, we recommend visiting its website on This link. Images | Tenochtitlán portrait In Xataka | Everyone knows Teotihuacán, and it turns out that in another inhospitable area of ​​Mexico there were hidden pyramids

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