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Spotify has recently shown Your new messaging functionwhich will be directly integrated into the application and allow users to exchange music recommendations, podcasts and audiobooks without leaving it. The function, called ‘Messages’, has begun to deploy this week in selected markets for users that are over 16 years. In addition there will be no distinction between the plan chosen, so they can use it both users of the free plan and the premium. How it works. Users can now send messages by touching the sharing icon while listening to content in the “reproducing now” view and selecting a friend from their list. It is only possible to initiate conversations with people with whom it has already been previously interacted through functions such as Jams, Mergers, collaborative lists or that they share a family plan or Spotify duo. Once the application is sent, the recipient must approve it to begin the conversation. Image: Spotify Why is it relevant. For years, users have shared Spotify links through WhatsApp, Instagram, Tiktok and other platforms. Now the company seeks to centralize these interactions within its own application, creating a history of shared content that users can easily consult. As Explain The company, the function is “designed to complement these integrations, not replace them.” Characteristics and limitations. The conversations are one by one, admit text and reactions with emojis, and all the shared content is stored in an accessible input tray from the profile photo. The company ensures that messages are protected with a “standard industry encryption” and has proactive detection systems for harmful or illegal content. Users can block accounts, reject message requests or completely deactivate the function from privacy settings. Image: Spotify Another step to become a social app. This function is part of a broader Spotify strategy to add social elements to its platform. In recent months, the company has introduced comments in Podcasts and redesigned its feed with a more visual approach. Last month, Gustav Söderström, product director and technology at Spotify, already advancement that the mobile experience would be “much more interactive.” Over the last years we have seen the application become a kind of Frankenstein monster Between musical app, videos, podcasts and now this social approach that seeks to monopolize the time users spent in it. And now what. Messages will initially be launched in Latin America and will expand in the coming weeks to the United States, Canada, Brazil, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. We will have to wait to know what the reaction of this new function will be by users and how will it be complemented with the use we usually give to the application. Cover image | Spotify In Xataka | Unraveling the financial “miracle” of Spotify: how he has declared benefits after 18 years losing money

If Europe drums arrive, it will respond with a duplicate nuclear force

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At the end of the 1950s, France, in the figure of Charles de Gaulle, promoted the idea that the nation could maintain some strategic dependence by launching the Nuclear deterrence policy Sovereign, a kind of nuclear umbrella arguing that, although the United States was an ally, its interests could Do not match Always with those of Europe. Half a century later, that idea sounds strongly in the old continent with an unpublished Anglo-French alliance. An unprecedented agreement. United Kingdom and France, the only two sovereign nuclear powers of Western Europe, have first announced the decision to coordinate the Use of its atomic arsenals in response to any extreme threat that endangers the safety of the continent. He agreementpresented by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French president Emmanuel Macron during a state visit to London, brand A significant turn In strategic cooperation between the two countries, especially in the face of the renewed fear of Russia’s aggressiveness and uncertainty about American commitment to European collective defense under Trump’s leadership. Asterisk. Very important; although the British and French arsenals will continue to be technically independentnow they can be used jointly in case of conflict, an unequivocal signal for both allies and adversaries that any serious aggression against one of the two will be answered by both. Differences overcome by a threat. The pact represents a symbolic overcoming of traditional differences between London and Paris in nuclear doctrine. United Kingdom has integrated its arsenal in the nuclear planning structure of NATO And it depends technically on missiles supplied by the United States, although it operates autonomously. France, on the contrary, has always defended with zeal Total sovereignty About his deterrence, refusing to participate in the NATO nuclear cast system, and maintaining An independent doctrine whose strategic scope (“vital interests with European dimension”) has been deliberately ambiguous. The decision to act coordination does not involve merging capabilities, but synchronizing potential responses and generating a unified front against possible aggressions, especially in a scenario of weakness in transatlantic commitment. Storm Shadow Complement and evolution. Both countries possess Comparatively small arsenals In relation to the great nuclear powers. United Kingdom bases its deterrence In Trident missiles launched from submarines, but has announced plans to incorporate an air capacity by F-35a aircraft of American origin capable of carrying nuclear weapons. France, on the other hand, maintains a completely national force, which combines maritime and aerial vectors. In addition, he works In the ASN4Ga next-generation hypersonic air-earth missile with nuclear capacity (which United Kingdom Study adopt), which would mean having for the first time in decades of an air nuclear system independent of American control. The new coordination will allow, among other options, synchronize underwater patrols or stepped maintenance periods to ensure a continuous presence in the sea. Experts such as Camille Grand and Lawrence Freedman highlighted the transcendence of the ad, since France He had never admitted Publicly no type of nuclear cooperation of this type, which implies an important doctrinal change. TRIDS DIAGRAM The American umbrella. He underlined The New York Times That the decision to move towards an incipient form of coordinated nuclear deterrence responds, in addition to the Russian threat, to the Strategic emptiness that has left Washington’s ambiguous attitude towards European defense. The traditional dependence of the NATO nuclear shield, under American leadership, has It was questioned for Trump’s skepticism regarding the usefulness of protecting the allies of the continent. In this context, Franco-British tandem assumes the responsibility of projecting a credible European alternativealigning their respective defensive doctrines and sending a clear message to Moscow about the consequences of continuing his offensive in Ukraine. The pact is articulated within a greater strategy to revitalize the call “Coalition of the willing”an informal alliance of European countries that seek to sustain the Ukrainian war effort before the American replication. Challenges: Ukraine and coalition. Plus: The agreement comes in a moment especially delicate In the Ukraine conflict, where the promise of a high fire driven by Washington has not been completed and Western military aid, especially from the United States, is He has slowed down. Starmer and Macron, which lead the hard core of the Pro-Ukrainian coalition, seek to recover the impulse through A virtual conference with other allied leaders from a military base on the outskirts of London. However, some countries continue showing reluctance To send material means such as combat airplanes, which underlines the difficulties in maintaining cohesion in a fragmented coalition for divergent interests and national agendas. The joint nuclear initiative is thus enrolled in a broader logic of diplomatic pressure to Hold the commitment European in the face of transatlantic umbrella. Friends after Brexit. The nuclear pact, in addition, symbolizes a significant thaw in the relationships between London and Paris, deteriorated after the referendum Brexit. Starmer and Macron have presented this relaunch of links as a stage of pragmatic understanding, cemented not only in collective safety, but also in thorny areas such as migration. Both governments negotiate A new agreement To stop migrants’ crosses in small boats from the coast of northern France, a growing problem that has generated bilateral tensions. The objective is to reduce flows without giving up humanitarian obligations, in the midst of growing political pressure by populist parties as reform uk. The Lancaster Pact. The Franco-British alliance also extends to the joint development of new conventional capacities. Within the framework of the so -called “Lancaster House 2.0”both powers will sign an update of the Defense Treaty signed in 2010. This new agreement provides for the creation of a new generation of long -range missiles that will replace the Successful Storm Shadow/Scalpused by Ukraine, in addition to an extension of the joint expeditionary force. Likewise, development is contemplated of Air-Aire missiles latest generation, microwave weapons to interfere with drones and missiles, electronic war systems and intensive artificial intelligence use To coordinate attacks with millimeter precision. These initiatives reinforce the projection capacity of both countries and consolidate their role as central safety guarantors in Europe, at a time … Read more

In order for 125 airplanes and 14 bombs to arrive in Iran, the US used one of the oldest tactics of war: perfidy

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The baptized as Hammer operationhe greater furtive attack From the United States against several of Iran’s critical facilities, it was based on a highly sophisticated tactical architecture, one where, above any other trick, the key was the total surprise. To do this, the United States began with one of the most tactics old and effective of war. It all started 48 hours before the offensive, when Trump It gave two weeks To “avoid” the attack. Perfidy. Those two weeks They never existed in the head of the United States, and Israel knew and few more actors. In fact, most European allies were trying to Find a dialogue A few hours before knowing the operation that was underway. From the diplomatic and ethical point of view, Washington was carrying out a form of political perfidysince Iran was participating in conversations that the United States used for the secret offensive. The maneuver also followed a strategy of classical military deception, a series of lures and public messages that, as we will see, avoided any suspicion while secretly prepared one of the most brutal offensives that are remembered in the history of modern wars. The hammer operation. The aerial offensive launched by the United States against the main nuclear sites of Iran represents not only the greatest operational use in the history of the BB-2 Spirit bomberbut also a unprecedented sample of tactical coordination, strategic deception and technological capacity accumulated throughout years of preparation. The attack included use for the first time in combat of the GBU-57/B antibunker pump Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), of 13,600 kilograms, specifically designed to destroy deeply buried and protected facilities Like Fordow. In total, 14 of these bombs were thrown on Fordow and Natanz, while more than two dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles They hit In Isfahánthrown from a submarine Ohio class nuclear positioned in the area of ​​operations of the US central command. The art of deception. It all started on Saturday morning, when flight observers They detected several bombers furtive B-2 Spirit taking off from the Whiteman Air Base, in Misuri, and heading Towards the Pacificwhich seemed to indicate a display towards Guam or missions related to Asia. However, this movement was a decoy: the true bombers in charge of the attack departed shortly after In the opposite directioneast, in mode completely stealthycrossing huge distances without being detected until you reach the Iranian airspace. Fordow after air attacks, seen in a satellite view of the underground complex, on June 22, 2025 The surprise. As we said, the key to operational success was the Deliberate deception: both the visible deployment towards the Pacific and Trump’s statements in the previous days, where he claimed that he would take up to two weeks to evaluate a possible intervention, created the false perception that there was still diplomatic margin. In fact, on Saturday morning, senior officials indicated that it had not been issued No order of attack, reinforcing that illusion. Then, on the afternoon of that same day, from his private club in New Jersey, Trump gave the final order. According to A senior official From the administration, the objective was precisely “to create a situation in which no one would expect.” A graph with details about the hammer operation that the Pentagon published in the last informative session The B2. The main actors were those seven bombers that left in stealth to the east from Misuri. Throughout a 18 -hour flight, with multiple repayings in the air, a profile of minimum communication. Synchronization with escorts, fourth and fifth generation fighters, intelligence aircraft, electronic warfare and air replacement It was millimeter: The fighters released preventive fire to neutralize Iranian air defense threats before the bombers cross the enemy airspace, without detecting hostile activity. The full air package exceeded 125 aircraftincluding platforms such as F-35, F-22, EA-18G Growler and possibly not revealed active. A view of the Iranian nuclear installation in Isfahán on June 22, 2025, after the attacks of the hammer operation Objectives achieved. Between 6:40 and 7:05 pm Washington time (2:10 to 2:35 am in Iran), all nuclear objectives FThey were shocked. The bombings on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahán used 75 precision weapons guided and achieved what the Pentagon described as “severe destruction” of infrastructure. The first satellite images Disseminated by Maxar Technologies showed craters of more than five meters, layers of bluish ash and tunnel entries blocked by landslides. Although Iran did not fire a single antialea defense or deployed fighters, the blow was deep and difficult to reverse in the short term, particularly in Fordow, buried under a mountain and considered so far impenetrable. Hidden cooperation. As we indicated, if someone knew what the United States had in hand, It was Israel. Before the attack, the United States shared with Israel a Systems list of air defense that wanted to neutralize, and the previous Israeli campaign facilitated the opening of the air corridor for the B-2. Coordination included the shared use of intelligence and operational synchronization (in that sense, The F-35 Israeliswith their ability to collect data, they played a key role in the collection of information on Iranian defenses). During the previous weeks, they were made Large -scale exercises that simulated similar missions, and They invested years in the development of technical capacities to integrate armament, sensors, furtive platforms and unified command in a single operating flow. Operation closed? It is one of the great unknowns. Despite the magnitude of the attack, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth emphasized that the operation does not mark the start of an open campaign, but A punctual action With a clear objective: neutralize Iranian nuclear capacity. Even so, he acknowledged that US forces remain on maximum alert to possible reprisals. In His words“This was not an attempt to change regime; it was a precise operation to defend our national interests and those of our allies.” For now, Iran has limited its responses to new attacks on Israel, but senior Iranian officials already They have declared your right to respond directly against … Read more

It is possible that your gmail is destroying the emails that arrive and do not know. The fault is for forgotten adjustment

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Dozens of readers of The country They complained that some of the Newsletters received contained “rude errata”. Meaningless phrases, words that seemed terribly chosen … When doing the checks, the technical team of The country realized that Newsletters They did not contain those errors, the writing was adequate. But in the receptor mailbox they were modified. Why is it important. The ruling was not in the newspaper, but in Gmail. Those who protested had activated the automatic translator into Spanish, so that any mail received was seen in this language. The problem is that this translator acts even in mails that are already in Spanish, turning words when detecting English where there was no. Where he put “secret military plans”, appeared “Airplanes Secret military “. Where he put “Trump uses the power of the State to blackmail institutions”, appeared “Trump uses the power of the State to sing to institutions “. The context. Gmail is The most used mail service in the world, and many users have activated their translator “always translate automatically.” This function, as we have seen, operates even about texts already written in your language. Between the lines. What began as a sum of readers complaints has exposed a much greater problem: platforms can alter content without anyone knowing, at least for a while. The issuer sends a message, the receiver reads another, and none suspects that there is a tool in the background by modifying words. The threat. If Gmail can change “siege” by “seminar”, another of the examples cited by the newspaper, can also introduce intentional biases. Or forced. For example, a government order can force automatically replace “Gulf of Mexico” by “Gulfo de América” In all emails. Users would read it and normalize without knowing that the content has been manipulated. Yes, but. This automatic customization is born from a good idea, is born from helping. The problem comes when the help becomes invasive, is not entirely well designed (no anglicisms in Spanish from homonymous words between languages) and is opaque. Nothing made those affected think that the fault came from there. It does not seem fair to trust years of use of a tool to which at the time the user activated it or granted certain permits if nothing that happens later acts as a subtle reminder. In the foreground. For the first time, readers were not reading what journalists had written. And neither the first nor the second were aware of it. It is the symptom of an era where sometimes machines make decisions about the information we consume without transparency or real control. In Xataka | Hotmail changed the storage, Gmail brought the search. What is coming now will eliminate writing Outstanding image | Xataka, Mockuuups Studio

Heat ends, but storms arrive

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The heat is being the undisputed protagonist of this week at the weather. However The warm episode He has his days (or his hours) counted in much of the Peninsula: as of today the extreme heat will live with rains and storms: some communities will have to alert for very different phenomena. Variopintos phenomena. Meteorologists foresee that the warm episode that affects the peninsula will fade in the next few days and that at the beginning of next week the instability will be the dominant tonic. The transition will not be simple: during the next few days some areas will see the arrival of rainfall and storms while others Taguada vs. dorsal. Let’s put some context to understand what is happening at the atmospheric level. A few days ago we saw an arrival of an Atlantic anticyclone and an associated dorsal. The dorsal are areas of high pressures that extend from a high pressures center lengthening the scope of anticyclonic time. The stability associated with high pressures, along with other factorscontributed to a high insolation that warmed the air of the peninsula until it brought us to the current situation. However meteorologists They announce now that a trough display in the next few days the dorsal. That is, from a situation we move on to the opposite, with a region of low pressures associated with a storm changing the meteorological panorama. A heat pause. And how this translates: then that instability will take possession of peninsular meteorology. Some areas will begin to see storms today, but it will be from Sunday, with the arrival of the dorsal, which these are generalized. Heat warnings and storm warnings. The peculiar transition between two weeks marked by opposite phenomena will leave A singular notice map of the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet), a map in which yellow and orange warnings coexist due to maximum and storm temperatures (and also yellow notices for rains). In this sense, today it will be the most unique: 14 autonomous communities (all peninsular except Murcia) will see active notices throughout the day. Of these highlight orange notices due to temperatures of up to 40º Celsius in the Sevillian countryside; and orange warnings for storms inside the Cantabrian cornice, from the Asturian southwestern to the inner Bizkaia. In unknown terrain. Spring is a transit station where changes in the atmospheric situation are not entirely strange. However, we can talk about an anomalous season in terms of meteorology: from a drought we spend some of the months with more rainfall than we have record. Now we return to one more panorama in the tonic of recent years: with a summer that is advanced leaving us extreme heat during the last week of May. To know what will happen during the real summer we will still have to wait a few weeks. In Xataka | The reservoirs are almost 22% above the average of the last decade. There is an “but” important before celebrating Image | ECMWF

All AI companies promise that the AGI will arrive very soon. The problem is that chatgpt is not the way

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In December 2022 chatgpt He left us speechless to all. However, two and a half years later we have a problem: it does not seem that after all this time I can go to much more. It has improved, yes, but in the meantime we are moving away from the great promise of AI, which is none other than going beyond and that someone manages to reach what is known as the General Artificial Intelligence. And it seems clear that this path, that of Chatgpt, is not the good to get it. Promises, promises. A few months ago Sam Altman called the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and He said that the AGI would arrive before it ended its mandate. It is a message that has been repeating for months, although then spoke of “A few thousand days“Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, believes that It could arrive beforein 2026. Elon Musk – who promised that he would have a totally autonomous Tesla in 2016 – agreed and pointed at 2026 as the year we will have an AGI. All are hypeptimists for a simple reason. Money. Like Altman, all who defend the rise and development of AI and the imminent arrival of the AGI do so to raise more and more money for their companies. We know that developing, training and running models of ia costs true fortunes, but the progress in this field seems to be slowing down. Doubts with climbing. There are many who believe that the current strategy of climbing the models – give more GPUS and get more data to train them – no longer compensates as much as before. The latest versions of the great foundational models exceed their predecessors, yes, but not in a striking way. It’s as if we had touched the roof. This is not the way. And for months the voices of experts have begun to be heard making it clear that other solutions must be sought. Nick Frosst, a student at Geoffrey Hinton and founder of Cohere, is clear that current technology is not enough to reach an AGI. What the generative AI does is “predict the next most likely word”, but that is very different from the way humans think. Lecun believes that we will take a long time to achieve an AGI. Personalities respected in the world of AI such as Yann Lecun, head of the division of AI in the finish line, are clear. Models as chatgpt They will not be able to match human intelligence. Also ensures that achieving a human level AI It will take a long time: Nothing “a few thousand days” as Altman said. And Sutskever coincides. This openai co -founder, is also skeptical with the potential of the generative AI, which according to him It is barely improving. His new startup, Safe Superintelligence, aims to create a superintelligence with “nuclear” securityalthough at the moment there have been no details about the strategy they are following to achieve it. It is not of course the one that followed when it helped create chatgpt. A recent survey to an academic association of experts in this field They thought the same: Three quarters of those who responded do not believe that current methods serve to end up developing an AGI. The generative AI is not a miracle. As they point out In The New York Timeswhat chatbots like chatgpt or other developments in this field is to do one thing very well, “but they are not necessarily better than humans in others.” According to him there is a certain temptation to think of these chatbots as something magical, but “these systems are not a miracle. They are very impressive gadgets.” Chatgpt does not challenge what he knows. Thomas Wolf, co -founder and Chief Science officer of Hugging Face, is clear that the generative AI is very good, but is far from taking us to an AGI. What we have, he explained a few weeks ago, is like “a country full of people who tell us yes to everything.” Chatgpt does not challenge us, but he does not challenge what he knows either. “We need a system that is able to ask yourself things that nobody had thought Or that nobody had dared to ask, “he said. Many challenges ahead. Among the differences between AI and human intelligence is that the latter is linked to the physical world: part of our intelligence is to know when to turn the toast, for example. There are advances in robotics and sensors that can help solve such problems, but this is a good example of how there are still many challenges to overcome to achieve that general artificial intelligence that is supposed to match (or overcome) to human intelligence in all disciplines. And the Ias that reason? The generative AI companies have found a small respite with the modes of reasoning of their chatbots. Here we find a singular advance that allows AI to respond more precisely and detailed thanks to “thinking” their answers and following a process of “reasoning” that tries to imitate the human. However, this does not seem to take us to an AGI, and again these modes of reasoning are rather a way to try that the answers are something better and do not see “hallucinations” by the chatbots. In spite of everything, Chatgpt and its rivals continue to make mistakes in this and the rest of the ways. Odds. On the horizon some possibilities appear. The current approach based on neural networks accompanies the approach of symbolic systems (based on rules) that can help provide elements such as deductive reasoning or abstract knowledge management to current models. It also works on training of models with physically precise virtual environments and in the so -called systems of meta-learningwhich allow to train new neural networks quickly and with a limited data set. But companies need products to sell us. These approaches to the development of new research roads are there, but the problem … Read more

Aemet is clear that the end of May will not be “normal.” And the question is whether summer will arrive at some point

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We were going to suffer the first summer bars and, although the calima has punctured expectations a bitthe truth is that heat and dryness They have been the great protagonists of the meteorology of most of the country. And I say most because in the northwest the storms are already being noticed: the next few hours, a new Dana will cross the peninsula leaving showers, storms and heavy rains throughout the country. It’s just the beginning. Things are going to change and we have been listening to it weeks; But the truth is that, for now, The situation remains the same. A meteorological combo. Because yes, the first thing will be a Dana that will sweep us from the Peninsular North and will leave Tuesday night towards France; But, then (between Thursday and Friday) a trough will affect the Mediterranean area. And, as I say, Everything seems to point to that it takes and daca It is not the end of spring During the next few days, days full of strong storms with more stable days will be happening. What is clear is that, we want or not, It will not be the normal situation For the last half of May. The best example will be the weekend. Because once the trough, stability will take over the country. The question asked everyone (meteorologists included) is whether it is the definitive one. Luckily, medium/long -term trends are here. And, for the first time in a long time, they begin to Draw a “return to normal”. European models point out that, although most of the Peninsula will receive average rainfall (and the north, a little more than normal), the southeast of the country must prepare to forget what has happened during this spring: the driest climate is here again. In fact, that is the second half of May. If we look at the first half of June, that climate “slightly dry than normal” will be present throughout the southern half, the Mediterranean coast, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. The northwest quadrant will have a rainfall regime “within normal.” Something similar We will see with temperatures: During these two weeks, the fresco will endure in some zoans of the interior, but progressively all of Spain will slide towards a warmer situation than normal. Not too much, it is true: but enough to break the very long streak of strange patterns that began in March this year. Will summer start? It is a great question. The problem is that we do not know. Image | ECMWF | Ryoji Iwata In Xataka | The problem for Aemet is not to get a retrograde Dana. The problem is that we have been really strange for months

What is, novelties of this design language and when it will arrive in Android

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Let’s explain What is Material 3 Expressiveand what are the keys to this design language. This is a great novelty presented by Google on May 13, and which seeks to completely renew the Android design. We are going to try to explain this so that you understand it, both what a design language is and the particularities of this in particular. Then, we will also tell you the main novelties and when it will begin to reach the Android mobiles. What is Material 3 Expressive Material 3 Expressive is the new visual or design language that will reach Android from Android 16. A design language is A set of visual rules which are used for the appearance of an operating system or application to be consistent and recognizable. Types, colors, icons, spaced or buttons styles and menus are established so that everyone uses them, and thus have a cohesive appearance. Come on, that the operating system will be seen with all the elements using the same design, but also many applications will adopt it so that they look more integrated, such as forming more part of the whole set. Google launched Material Design in 2014 as a visual language with which to unify all its platforms on all screens: both mobiles and tablets, PCs with chrome OS, watches and others would have a unified appearance. Google apps also adopted it, as well as many third parties, so that everything looks the same. Then came You in 2022, and Material 3 Expressive is the third step In this journey. He will first arrive at the Pixel, and then he will see to what extent other manufacturers are adopted In your customization layers. This remains to be seen because when Xiaomi or Samsung use a layer of their own customization on Android, they want it to be recognizable, so they modify the design language to use their own. This can be close or remote to the one who uses Android by default depending on each manufacturer. MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS 3 EXPRESSIVE Android currently has an interface with a careful and elegant design, and many applications have been adopting. But I was already playing a change that renews it completely, and Material 3 Expressive arrives to have its own identity and differentiated from what we had so far. It is a radical change, a completely notable change. This new design language is even more casual than the previous one, more rounded and visual, playful, and is also customizable and complete. You will still More colored palettes and a redesign in key aspects such as the notification panel or the status bar. The Android pitcher is the one that will almost have no modifications, with the search bar below and total freedom to place the icons where always. Yes indeed, The widgets have been redesignedso when you want to start putting some you will see the differences. Where are you going to see more changes is in animations, interactions with quick buttons or adjustmentsand even in transparencies or colors, which now adapt to dynamic color. They are also added thematized icons such as the ones we have been watching in the Pixel for a while, and the APRA space is used to be better better than the information is clearer. Another novelty is the arrival of live activities, the same as those of the iPhone, and that reach Android with this customization layer so that apps can show information in real time. This will make when you do something like asking for food at home, you can see a window where you can see live how this task is and where the delivery man is. And so with other applications such as flights or even Google Maps. Android native applications have also been redesigned to adopt this design in their menus and its appearance. But the main change is in the menus, with improved fluency, new buttons and largest and larger colors. Anyway, you can see it in the video above. Material 3 It will also get to Wearosthe operating system for smart watches in Google, in order to have a cohesive ecosystem. It will also reach Android XR and partially to Android Auto. The idea is that All Android -based products have itand so that an ecosystem can be achieved with this new design. When Material 3 Expressive arrives This new design will arrive next to Android 16the new version of the operating system that will begin to deploy in the second half of theño. Therefore, when this new version of Android arrives, the new design language will be one of its main novelties. But when the time comes, the time it takes to have Android 16 It will depend on each manufacturer and of your mobile model. Google Pixel mobiles will be the first to receive it, and then it will gradually reach others. And here, each manufacturer will decide if he adopts this design style or if he maintains the own he is using now.

Reservations arrive at My Nintendo Store. Switch 2 pack, accessories, video games and more of the new hybrid console

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Although the Nintendo Switch 2 It was hard criticized after your Nintendo Directthe truth is that the new hybrid console has raised an enormous expectation. We have been able to find it to book in the main suppliers, but now we can also do it in the official store. My Nintendo Store has opened the console reservationas well as a good assortment of accessories and video games. We will review which are the most interesting. Of course, it is worth mentioning that the reserves are only accessible to all those who have a subscription to Nintendo switch online. Nintendo Switch 2 by 509.99 eurosif you are going to buy the console and you are interested in ‘Mario Kart World’, with this pack the video game can get a little cheaper. Samsung MicroSD Express Card by 59.99 eurosa practically mandatory card (in Switch 2 those of Nintendo Switch do not work). Piraña Plant Chamber by 39.99 eurosa camera with a good design that can be used with the GameChat function. Donkey Kong Baniza by 69.99 euros (79.99 euros in physical), one of the most interesting video games that will arrive with the launch of the console. Case and protector by 24.99 eurostwo practically essential accessories if you want to take the travel console. Nintendo Switch 2 Nintendo Switch 2 will go on sale for a price of 469 euros (Mediamarkt), but unless we do not want to buy the ‘Mario Kart World’ the most interesting pack is the one that includes the video game, since in this case the price of the pack is 509.99 euros –The digital game would come out for 40 euros-. Of course, Mediamarkt has it for almost a cheaper euro, since in the store we find the pack for 509 euros. Some stores such as Xtralife have launched other packs, although unfortunately in this case it is exhausted. For the moment, The one that includes the Super Mario video game is the one that has the best quality-price ratiobut a lot of eye with being expected because It is a limited pack. Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung MicroSD Express Card To play the Nintendo Switch 2 we will have to go through the box and buy a MicroSD Express cardsince those of Nintendo Switch will not work. At the moment in my Nintendo Store, Samsung’s can be reserved at a price of 59.99 euros in its 256 GB configuration. However, Xtralife has the card for cheaper cents, since the price in this case is 59.95 euros. Samsung MicroSD Express Card (256 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review Piraña Plant Chamber The function GameChat It is one of the great novelties of the Nintendo Switch 2. Although almost any camera can be connected, the Hori Piraña Plant It has a most striking design. It is not the best in terms of specifications (its resolution is 640 x 480 pixels), but it is one of the most beautiful. Its price accompanies that we can be interested in it, since it costs 39.99 euros. Piraña Plant Chamber * Some price may have changed from the last review Donkey Kong Baniza The greatest controversy after the presentation of Nintendo Switch 2 has found the price of video games. 90 euros for a game? The truth is that Not everyone will cost the same as ‘Mario Kart World’but the rest of the titles have increased with respect to Nintendo Switch games. At least First Party. ‘Donkey Kong Baniza’ has an official price of 69.99 euros in digital and 79.99 euros in physical. Nevertheless, In stores like Amazon we can find it in physical with a smaller pricesince in this case the store has the video game for 69.90 euros. If, in addition, we are subscribers of Amazon Prime, the shipment leaves for free. * Some price may have changed from the last review Case and protector The protective covers are almost essential accessories if we want to take advantage of the portable format of the Nintendo Switch 2 (or of any other portable console) in order to make any trip. Nintendo has one Official protective case that also includes a screen protector. All this for 24.99 euros. Nevertheless, If what we are looking for is the best price, even with a cents differenceat Amazon we can find the same case with the screen protector by 24.90 euros. In addition, we mention again that if we are Amazon users, the shipment leaves for free. Nintendo Switch 2 Switch case and protector * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Nintendo In Xataka | The best accessories for your switch: covers, transport bags, batteries, and more In Xataka | What Micro SD card for Nintendo Switch buy. Better recommendations and 10 outstanding models

The Chinese solution that should not take long to arrive in Spain

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In any corner of China – a restaurant, the reception of a hotel, each plant of that same hotel, a subway station, a neighborhood store – it is impossible not to stumble upon a box full of PowerBanks. They are everywhere and work simply: escapes a QR code with Wechat either Alipay, An external battery is released, and you can take it to load your mobile anywhere. It is not even necessary to return it in the same place: it is enough to find another station of the same supplier, an easy thing when there are literally thousands deployed in the cities. 88 PowerBanks at the Wuhu train station. Image: Xataka. Behind this little logistics miracle are companies like Meituan, Energy Monster, Xiaodian, Jiedian or Soudian. Companies that not only operate portable battery rental networks, but also created An almost invisible infrastructure, perfectly adapted to mobile dependence of modern Chinese life. The price is as modest as the service is ubiquitous: it usually is around 1 and 8 yuan per hour (from 0.12 to 1 euro), with a daily stop that rarely exceeds 50 yuan (about 6.5 euros), especially in high -transit areas. Some companies require a reimbursable deposit, which ranges between 50 and 200 yuan (6 to 24 euros), although many platforms have eliminated this requirement for their verified users. Do like us on this trip and Stay connected whatever your destination. Always navigate at high speed and With unlimited data with the ESIM from Holafly and forget about unpleasant surprises on the bill. Easy to install, keeping your physical Sim card to receive calls and No positions of Roaming. And with a 5 % discount! Council offered by the brand What if someone decides not to return the battery? Nothing dramatic, but does not go free either. In most services, such as Volt+, if the battery is not returned in 48 hours, an amount is automatically charged that usually surrounds 99 yuanes (about 12 euros) through the linked account. So, The rent becomes de facto In a forced purchase: you stay the PowerBankand they charge you for her. In addition, the penalty may vary if returned in another city other than the rental, or if the battery is returned damaged. 12 PowerBanks in a hotel that had the same box on its 33 plants. Image: Xataka. Image: Xataka. 8 PowerBanks next to the cash register of a restaurant. Image: Xataka. Another pair of boxes from different suppliers in another restaurant. Image: Xataka. Another great Powerbanks reserve in Shanghai. Image: Xataka. Image: Xataka. At the Shanghai train station. Image: Xataka. This ecosystem is not only useful for the user. The shops that house the stations receive a small commission for each rentalin addition to increasing the flow of customers, something that We have already seen in Spain with the neighborhood stores converted into packages collection points. It has become a new layer of urban services. Parallelism with Spain is inevitable. In our country, the implementation of Digital DNI This year, the progressive disappearance of physical cards – payment, loyalty, even driving card– They draw A scenario in which the mobile is not only accessory, but the core of our operational identity. It is no longer about not being able to call or send a message: running out of battery if we get used to leaving the portfolio at home is not being able to pay for anything, not being able to climb a train, not being able to be accredited before an authority. Just as China has converted battery rent into a trivialized need, Spain seems to integrate similar infrastructure if you want to sustain its transition to a 100% mobile life. And it would be logical to think that we will soon see stations of PowerBanks In coffee shops, gyms, bars or sporting events under an affordable micropago model. Years ago We talk to a Belgian company that proposed thisbut he hasn’t had so much tour. A future without physical wallets It implies a new, much more mundane risk: running out of battery will not be a condemnation of ilocalization or boredom, but a personal collapse. And as in so many other things, China already takes us a few advantage loaders. In Xataka | We have visited the Shenzhen falsification market: China is at another level when it comes to copying other products Outstanding image | Xataka

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