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Huawei arrived at MWC as if the European blockade attempt had not happened. And he left as one of the great protagonists

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There are images that summarize geopolitical tension better than any official document. One of them occurred in Barcelona during the last Mobile World Congress. While several European capitals debate how to reduce the presence of suppliers considered high risk in telecommunications networks, Huawei appeared at the sector’s largest fair with a presence that is difficult to ignore. The Chinese company arrived at the event with one of the most visible spaces in the venue and left as one of the most notable presences at the congress, a scene that helps to understand the current relationship between Europe and the technology giant. The image. When touring the pavilions of the Barcelona exhibition center, it was quickly understood the weight that Huawei had decided to exhibit. As Politico tells itthe company installed one of the largest exhibition spaces at the event and located it in one of the busiest areas of the complex, a location usually reserved for the most powerful actors in the industry. During the days of the fair, that stand became a constant crossing point for executives, operators and analysts who toured the congress. Prominence also on the agenda. Beyond its deployment within the venue, Huawei also took up space in the official MWC programming. Company executives participated in different sessions of the congress and the company was among the actors present in the debates on network infrastructures and technological evolution of the sector. That role was reinforced with a recognition at the Global Mobile Awardsthe awards that are presented every year during the event. The award for one of its network infrastructure developments served as a reminder that, despite the political climate surrounding the company in part of Europe, its technological weight within the industry remains relevant. The European contrast. The scene left by the MWC contrasts with the political climate that has surrounded Huawei in part of Europe for several years. The European Commission has been toughening its discourse for some time on suppliers considered high risk in critical telecommunications infrastructure and has encouraged Member States to reduce their dependence on them. In parallel, several European countries have taken measures to limit or withdraw their technology from sensitive networks, especially in the deployment of 5G, with decisions in countries such as Germany, which has prompted the withdrawal of Chinese components in critical parts of the networkor Sweden, that banned Huawei from its 5G networks. The result is a fragmented map in which regulatory pressure coexists with a more complex industrial reality. Spain has not been immune to the European debate on Huawei either, although its evolution has followed a less abrupt path than in other countries. The Government has not decreed a formal ban, but the company’s role in critical infrastructure has been progressively decreasing. In the deployment of 5G, the large operators have been replacing their technology in the network corethe part that manages user communications and data. The result is an intermediate scenario: Huawei is still present in the technological ecosystem, but its weight in the most sensitive points of the networks has been significantly reduced. A resilience already known. The Barcelona scene fits a pattern that Huawei has been repeating for years. Following the sanctions imposed by the United States in 2019, many analysts assumed that the company would be relegated to a secondary role in the global technology industry. However, the company quickly refocused its strategy: strengthened its domestic market in China, developed its own chips and opted for an independent software ecosystem after losing access to Google services. This adaptation process allowed the company to remain present in numerous segments of the sector, even in markets where its position had been weakened. The image that Huawei left at the MWC. We can interpret it as a moment within a longer story. For years, different actors have tried to stop the advance of the Chinese giant in the global technology industry. However, the company has continued to reorganize its strategy and maintain a presence in the sector. What happened in Barcelona suggests that this process is far from over. Quite the opposite: we are watching a new stage unfold in real time. Images | Huawei In Xataka | The US has decided to shoot itself in the foot and destroy one of the best AI companies in the country

If you haven’t trained it before, your brain will ignore any attempt to relax.

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A very typical (and frustrating) situation can certainly be in the middle of a heated discussionwith pulses racing and jaw very tight. And right at this moment someone blurts out the most irritating advice in the world: “come on, take a deep breath and calm down“. you trybut not only does it not work, but it seems to make you angrier. A reality. It’s not that you are a lost case of emotional management. It is that, according to experts and recent scientific studiesbreathing like technique Immediate help in a “rush” of anger is often a lost battle if prior work has not been done. The ‘high’ problem. Sonia Díaz Rois, coach specialized in anger management, is blunt about it: Trying to breathe to calm yourself in the midst of an emotional peak does not work because the body, in a state of maximum alert, does not recognize slow breathing as a safety signal. And it makes a lot of sense, because when anger flares, we go into ‘fight or flight’ mode. The sympathetic nervous system take command, cortisol triggers and the brain prioritizes survival over reflection. Literally all the machinery is active to deal with the ‘threat’ that has been detected. A sudden change. If at this moment of extreme peak of the organism we want to stop it suddenly with slow breathing without having previously trained, the brain can interpret this abrupt change even as an additional threat or an obstruction. In this way, the only thing that is generated is a feeling of lack of air that will increase the stress you are experiencing. That is why the solution to anger is not to turn it off, but to listen to it. But for breathing to be a useful tool, you must first train it in the calmest moments. This is what is known as creating an ‘anchor’. There are different breaths. Science has an opinion in favor of the need to train this relaxation method when you are not angry. But it has also begun to distinguish which techniques are most effective in these high-stress situations. To this end, a 2023 randomized controlled study compared various techniques of breathwork with the mindfulness medication traditional. The result was finding a very effective technique to improve mood above meditation. It is known as Cyclic Sighing (cyclical sigh in Spanish). The way to do it is very simple, since you only have to do a deep inhalation followed by a short inhalation and a very long exhalation. In this way, those who practiced it for just 5 minutes a day showed greater long-term emotional resilience. Because. Neuroscience explains that by prolonging exhalation (as in the 4-7-8 technique, where you exhale twice as long as you inhale), we directly activate the vagus nerve and the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for “slowing down” the body. Scream or breathe. For years, popular culture defended the theory of catharsis with very typical phrases such as “let it all out”, “hit a cushion” or “scream loudly and say everything you think.” However, it does not seem the most appropriate as indicated. a study published in 2024 about activities to manage anger that has totally denied it. And his reasoning is quite logical. A high-arousal activity such as boxing or literally shouting tends to increase arousal more than it should, and is something that maintains or increases the aggressiveness that you are trying to control. In contrast, low-arousal activities like deep breathing or yoga are the only ones that significantly reduce anger. Even in contexts of acute stress, as seen in studies with COVID-19 patients in 2024guided deep breathing exercises dramatically reduced anxiety and stress, although interestingly they did not have the same effect on depression. Train when you are well. The conclusion of researchers and experts like Díaz Rois is quite clear: breathing is not a panic button that can be pressed for the first time in a fire, but rather it is something that must be trained to be in full shape when necessary. To do this, you must enter when you are well, practicing the sigh technique that we mentioned before or counting your breaths. In this way, the nervous system is being trained to relate the respiratory pattern we are doing with the message that we are safe. Other important points. In addition to all this, science is quite clear that slow breathing practiced just before a negative emotional stimulus reduces its impact. This is something that we can keep in mind when, for example, we are going to enter an exam or a place where we think we are going to be very uncomfortable, where taking a few breaths beforehand can save us a bad drink. What you have to say. With all this that we have discussed, the next time someone tells you to “breathe” while you are angry, remember that they are scientifically right, but that for this trick to work you have to go through a series of training. Images | engin akyurt In Xataka | Resolving one of the most intriguing debates in philosophy: whether or not “altruism” exists among animals

In his attempt to fly through the airs the global supply chain, the US has a new obsession: copper

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After a few weeks of relative tranquility, the US administration is again climbing the C tensions in its commercial war with China. Trump has announced a new 50% tariff for copper imports. A key step to torpedo China’s strategy, who currently leads its refining and casting processes. Tightening the nuts. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on Tuesday The imposition of a new 50% tariff to all copper imported to the United States. It is unknown for the moment when the measure will enter into force, but this points to a key material not only for the semiconductor industry: copper is crucial for sectors such as transport, energy or construction. The US position. Unlike his war declared to China with the Rare earthThe United States is one of the largest copper producers in the world. He currently occupies fifth place, although his main problem is a very concrete: consumes much more than it produces. Much of the copper it uses arrives as refined cathodes from Asia, especially from China. The goal. The United States not only seeks to protect its national industry. It aims to change the roles in this value chain: Encourage that copper refines within the US Reduce dependence on Chinese Foundions Press Latin America to export copper without going through China. Although Latin America Head the list of copper producers (Chile currently dominates primary mine production with more than 20% global position), dominating refining capacity is a central role in the supply chain. The reactions. The price of copper in the United States has reached its historical maximum in the national market After Trump’s statements, even with doubts about how it will apply and what will be the possible exceptions. The impact. The 50% tariff on copper imports would have a remarkable impact on key industries. Semiconductors: copper is, along with other critical metals such as scandio, disposium or bismuth, a fundamental material for the chips industry. A few milligrams per chip are key to its manufacture. Automotion: The electric vehicle needs much more copper for its manufacture (motor, battery, wiring). Electrical networks: transformers, substations, cables. Consumer electronics Construction Although Trump wants to obtain control over the supply chain, the measure can be shot in the foot. The United States does not have enough capacity to produce and refine all the copper it needs. The doubts. Although Trump has announced that the copper tariff will reach 50%, it has not detailed whether the measures will affect the entire refined copper, or certain products dependent on this material. They are not known to the measure, or date of entry into force. Be that as it may, The war for the domain of metals It will be crucial to control commercial tensions. China’s dominant position on rare earths It puts the United States in a delicate situation, which is trying to face attacking materials as concrete as copper. In Xataka | In 1978 Chinese engineers visited two key US companies. On his return an empire began: the rare earths

In a desperate attempt to avoid the blackout, Ree tried to start a gas center seven minutes before the disaster

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The Official reports on the blackout They reveal the maneuvers to counterreloj that the network operator did to try to stabilize the system while rushing into the collapse. T-7 minutes. In the moments of maximum tension (never better) prior to the historic blackout that left the Iberian Peninsula without light on April 28, Red Electric took a desperate measure: he ordered the start of a combined gas cycle center to try to stabilize an electrical system that crumbled at times. The call to the owner of the plant, registered in official reportsthere was just seven minutes before the system collapsed completely at 12:33 at noon. However, the thermal power plant never coupled then The zero of tension It occurred first. It was not a typical morning. That April 28 were the perfect conditions to test the network: a relatively low energy demand, and a very high solar radiation that caused a massive predominance of photovoltaic generation. With a network dominated by the electronics of investors instead of the heavy turbines of the conventional generation, the tension already issued warning signals. At 11:00 in the morning, after a voltage climb, the transformers of two Adif substations in Zaragoza were fired. But the situation became critical from 12:00, with the appearance of strong frequency oscillations that put the stability of the entire network in check. The oscillations. At 12:03, a first 0.6 Hz oscillation was detected, an unusual phenomenon that lasted for almost five minutes, forcing Red Eléctrica to take emergency measures. Among them, reduce electricity exchanges with France and Portugal. It didn’t help much. At 12:19, a new 0.2 Hz oscillation shook the system. Given the seriousness of the situation and the need to “attach more conventional generation” to control the tension, Red Electrico contacted at 12:26 with the head of a combined cycle center in Andalusia to start urgently. The choice was not accidental. The group that could be attached faster in the southern zone was sought, one of the most affected by instability. The chosen central, which had decoupled at 9:00 in the morning, was “hot”, which allowed it a shorter start time: an hour and a half. The goal was to be fully operational at 2:00 p.m. Unfortunately, the system did not have that time. Just seven minutes after the starter order was given, at 12:33, a succession of waterfall generation, mainly due to surgeens, caused the total collapse of the peninsular electrical system. The measure, a last resort to avoid the greatest blackout in the recent history of Spain, “never consummated by the zero of tension.” Image | HRAD (CC by-SA 3.0) In Xataka | Many plants disconnected from the network when the blackout began. The problem is that some renewable did it before

Barcelona erased a Google bus line so that tourists do not satura. Tourists have told him “good attempt”

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Barcelona’s metropolitan transport service has discovered something that The real estate market of the city knows from A long time ago: Tourist pressure is not always easy to combine with residents day to day. In a desperate attempt to end the saturation of bus 116, a route used by neighbors, but also by thousands of tourists who used it to visit Park Güell, a year ago the City Council got that the line disappeared from the recommended itineraries of Google Maps. And it worked. Without visibility in networks, demand seemed to relax. The problem is that at least part of the tourists who previously crowded bus 116 It seems to have an impact on other routes with which they can also reach Park Güell. Neighbors who use them to go to work or school are already warning that saturation affects their day to day. Delete a map bus. Sounds drastic, but that’s what he did last year The Barcelona City Council: it made bus 116 disappear from the map for the millions of tourists that visit the city every year. Or what is the same, that it ceases to appear in the recommended itineraries of Google Maps. The reason: although 116 is a small neighborhood bus, with capacity for about 20 people, its route passes very close to Park Güellan icon from Barcelona that receives per year More than four million of visitors. The combination of scarce capacity and high demand caused 116 to be often saturated to the astonishment of tourists and anger of residents, who need the bus to go to work, university or make the purchase. The City Council proved to increase the frequencies and reinforce the number of buses that covered the route, but it served. In the end he opted for another trick: “Invisible it” in Google Maps. And did it serve? More or less. The influx of tourists fell clearly. So much, that I recognized it The bus driver itself: “It has been to disappear from Google and change radically.” Even the neighbors, skeptics at the beginning with that strategy, verified the change. The problem is that the tourist pressure on the urban transport service does not seem to have been solved. Rather, it has been redistributed towards other alternative lines. Or that is at least what is pretending The data who has just published eldiario.es. Pending of 24 and V19. His information, based on the passenger balances of Transports Metropolitans of Barcelona (TMB), shows that while the influx of travelers fell on bus 116 was increased on other routes that can also be used to reach Park Güell, as 24 and V19. The percentages are of course eloquent. While between 2023 and 2024 the title “Hello Barcelona” (the payment for visitors) scored A 86% drop In bus 116, on line 24 the validations of that ticket increased by 32%. With regard to V19, in 2024 it transported more than six million people, 10% more than in 2023, with more than 19,000 validations on working days. Precisely to avoid saturation and improve the TMB service reinforced several sections on weekends. Has the problem moved? TMB Discard That there has been a passenger transfer, although there are neighbors who complain about that: that the pressure that was previously suffocated by bus 116 has moved to lines like 24. “Many times I have not been able to climb because when there are so many tourists they don’t even open the doors,” he acknowledged A few days ago To Eldiario.es a Barcelona student who takes the bus daily to go to college. “In the morning it is already full. Sometimes I arrive late because, with so many people, I can not get on the bus,” says another neighbor of La Salut on the itinerary 24. There are those who clarify that the problem actually comes from behind. A complex equation. Beyond the possible transfer of tourists who until last year resorted to 116 to visit Park Güell, at play other factors enter, such as the increase in the general demand for urban transport or tourism. Atm data show that in 2024 the use of public transport in the Metropolitan Area of ​​Barcelona grew by 7%. The year was also good for tourism, with 15.5 million of visitors. The data is practically identical to that of 2023 (he scored a very slight fall of 0.7%), but came accompanied by a remarkable rebound of 8.7% in spending per person. The great threat. The saturation on his day of bus 116 and the pressure in other lines used by tourists to visit Park Güell, such as 24 or V19, is a double departure. First for the impact on the service and for the residents of the city. Second, because that pressure has an impact on the attractiveness of Barcelona as a destination. Eldiario.es spoke A few days ago With a family of Bulgarian travelers who recognized their surprise after getting on 24 in Plaza de Catalunya: “It is very filled, what a burden.” If in spite they resorted to the service, they explained, it was for their “comfort” to get to Park Güell. The massification of points such as Mallorca, the Canary Islands or Barcelona itself has led to the popular Fodor´s travel guide To quote them In its “no list 2025”, a kind of OLD in which his experts cite destinations that risk dying of success. Images | Stay Grouted (Flickr) and M.peinado (Flickr) In Xataka | If the question is whether tourist floors take the price of rentals, we already have the answer: more than 30%

The first European attempt to launch a commercial rocket at orbit has ended up explosion to northern Norway

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First attempt. The inaugural launch of the Spectrum rocket, a test mission without payload called “Going Full Spectrum”took off at 12:30 CET on March 30 from the Andøya Space Puerto, in Norway. Originally scheduled for March 24, the flight was delayed several times due to bad weather conditions. After lighting their nine engines, the Spectrum He cleared the launch platform and rose without problems for 18 seconds. Then he began to lose control or overwhelming his orientation to the point of turning. In the second 30, all the engines went out and the rocket began to fall. The realization changed camera, but an explosion was heard shortly after. “A success!” The impact of the rocket near the platform and the fireball of the explosion They were captured by the Norwegian press. Despite the ruling, Isar Aerospace declared the launch A success. The CEO of the company, Daniel MetzlerHe added that the flight “has fulfilled all our expectations” with “an impeccable takeoff, 30 seconds of flight and we could even validate our flight termination system.” Although the rocket did not define, he turned off his engines not to deviate before falling. The launch platform is apparently intact. Flight launchers 2 and 3 are already in production. ISAR has compiled numerous data in this first test. Spectrum. What Isar Aerospace’s rocket has not been able to validate is the first orbital launching title of a European private company, since it has not reached orbit. Now the achievement is still open to other rockets such as RFA One of the German Rocket Factory Augsburg or Miura 5 of the Spanish Pld Space. Spectrum is a two -stage rocket and 28 meters high designed to transport up to 1000 kg to the low terrestrial orbit. The first stage has nine Aquila engines and the second one has one, optimized for space vacuum. All of their own design, with carbon fiber tanks without coating and 3D printed engines, fed with oxygen and liquid propane. Isar Aerospace. It was founded in 2018 in Germany with a Spacex -inspired approach: integrated production vertically and very automated, with the idea of ​​producing many prototypes, testing them and improving their design through multiple iterations. It is very well financed with a total investment of 400 million euros, which has taken the opportunity to build a new headquarters 40,000 square meters near Munich. According to Isar, it will have the capacity to produce 40 Spectrum rockets per year. Norway. Isar Aerospace has an exclusive platform in the Andøya Space Puerto in Norway, chosen for its ideal location to reach polar orbits and heliosíncronas and because the rocket takes off on the open ocean. It also has the meteorological problem that has been seen the days before the launch. Images | Isar Aerospace In Xataka | Europe’s access depends on the United States. ESA has presented a strategic plan to become independent

The second opportunity of the flight that exploded in the last attempt

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The highest rocket in the world will take off again after some Unexpected vibrations made it explode during the seventh launch. Starship’s eighth flight will be a repetition of the previous one to try everything Spacex left in the inkwell, and can be followed live. Date and time of launch. Like the two previous flights, the eighth Starship launch It is scheduled to take off from Texas in the afternoon. The objective is that the reentry of the ship takes place in the hours of dawn to capture with more light the sparkling maneuvers. The launch window opens at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 3; local time in Starbase, Texas. In other cities: Madrid, Spain (CET, UTC+1): Tuesday, March 4 at 00:30 Mexico City, Mexico (CST, UTC -6): Monday, March 3 at 5:30 p.m. Buenos Aires, Argentina (Art, UTC -3): Monday, March 3 at 8:30 p.m. Bogotá, Colombia (COT, UTC -5): Monday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. Lima, Peru (Pet, UTC -5): Monday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. Santiago, Chile (CLST, UTC -3): Monday, March 3 at 8:30 p.m. Caracas, Venezuela (Vet, UTC -4): Monday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. How to see it live. Spacex will broadcast live flight Through its website and his Official X Profile. The broadcast will begin 40 minutes before takeoff. On YouTube, the channels of Nasaspaceflight, Lab Padre and Everyday Astronaut They have also enabled live broadcasts with their own cameras since the surroundings of the launch platform. In Spanish it will broadcast it Space borderoverlooking Baghdad, on the other side of the border, in Mexico. They will also be narrating it in Spanish Mission control, Manuel Mazzanti and Spacexstorm. Two pending demonstrations. A “stronger harmonic resonance phenomenon” phenomenon caused a liquid oxygen escape in the flight 7 starship, which ended up disintegrating over the Atlantic Ocean, near the Turkish and Caicos Islands. As a repetition of the failed launch, Spacex hopes to complete a series of demonstrations that were left without doing in January: First load deployment: Once the scheduled speed and altitude have been reached, the Starship 34 will turn off its engines, open the gate of its load bay and display four “simulators” of Starlink satellites; wooden models that will be your first useful letter New re -obsolete in space: Spacex first demonstrated in the sixth flight the ability to readele a raptor engine in the emptiness of the space, today it will verify the behavior of the engine before the ninth flight, where it will be crucial to redeem the ship to extend it in a controlled way All eyes put in the reentry. More delicate will be the time of the atmospheric reentry. This could be the Starship’s last ametering before trying to catch the ship With the arms of the launch tower, as has already happened twice with the Super Heavy propeller. However, Spacex still does not have a definitive design for the thermal shield, so it will test different modifications on this flight. Areas of the ship without thermal tiles to measure how the heat fuselage endures the heat. Metal tiles of various kinds, even with active refrigeration, an addition that had been discarded Because of its complexity and is on the table again. New sensors, redesigned front alerons, improvements in propulsion subsystems and a more precise adjustment of the edges between tiles to avoid hot points complete the list of novelties of the ship. Starship 34 is the second ship of a new version that Spacex calls Starship Block 2and that more than 100 tons of load will be able to launch at orbit. In Xataka | Spacex already knows why the last starship exploded and wants to turn the page, so he will try to repeat the flight this Friday

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