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There is a way to preserve zucchini for weeks and months. And with a little skill and attention, it is within everyone’s reach.

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There is a scene as universal in these months as that of the blade fan: something clicks and three bags of zucchini appear at the door, in the kitchen or already in the refrigerator. And right in front of them, there is always the same face of “and now what do I do with all this?” The answer is simple and, at the same time, really complex. First because, if we want to preserve it long enough to be able to use it, we have to differentiate between what lasts fresh and what lasts after being transformed. And second, because If we don’t do it well, that transformation we are turning that zucchini into a “poisoned gift.” And never better said. A zucchini is water with some form. To be exact, 94.8 out of every 100 grams of zucchini are water. This vegetable has only 17 kilocalories, extremely thin skin and, in short, no fat to protect it: it has a delicious design to eat, but terrible to preserve. In its optimal state it lasts a week in the refrigerator; two or three if we are willing to live with their ailments. And then? Where do the ‘months’ come from? As I hinted above, they come out of ‘processing’ it. You can reach months in a simple way: freezing them (after blanching for three minutes and an ice bath), dehydrating them either pickling them. That is, it can last up to ten months in good conditions if it is no longer fresh zucchini. Until a few years ago it was relatively common to put zucchini in a jar and cook them in a water bath until it reached a sufficient temperature to preserve it well. The problem is that zucchini is low in acidity, its pulp becomes soft and compact, and it transmits heat poorly. Come on, it becomes a fantastic remedy for botulism as long as we make the slightest mistake. Agencies strongly recommend against doing so. And how do we do it well? Let’s go in parts: Fresh and whole: directly to the refrigerator without washing. If they are dirty, it is better to clean them with kitchen paper or a dry cloth. If you have to give them a little water, dry them well. There is little else you can do: don’t crowd them, use special pads and avoid putting them next to climacteric fruits and vegetables (apples, avocados, mangoes or tomatoes). Cut: If we want to keep it already cut, we just have to keep in mind that the more processed it is, the less it will last. The ideal is to cut it, dry the vegetable well with kitchen paper and put it in an airtight container. It is not advisable to keep it like this for more than three or four days. Cooked: in this, the truth is, there is no big difference with the rest of the vegetables. A well-cooked zucchini dish can be stored without problems for about five days. The key is, of course, to refrigerate it as soon as possible, close it tightly and divide it into the smallest portions possible. It can also be frozen. What if we haven’t cooked it previously? What I explained above: freezing them, dehydrating them either pickling them. They are more complex preparations, but if we have many… it is the most recommended. Image | Eddie Pipocas In DAP | Forget about false tricks: this is the only thing that works to keep bananas in good condition

The intestine has a “Goldilocks zone.” And if we often defecate outside it, we must pay attention.

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Pooping is a thermometer of gut health. So much so that in Australia they encourage employees do your things at work. It is a moment that we can even take advantage to read or to do infinite scroll on mobile (even for share the site where we are pooping), but also one we should pay more attention to. The reason is that the time and frequency are details that say a lot about our long-term health. Cause or consequence? Over the years, different research has been carried out on the importance of defecation as such, but also on the ideal time to do itits frequency and the shape, size and texture that they should have the depositions. Studies have been carried out that linked the constipation with a higher risk of infections and diarrhea chronic with neurodegenerative diseases. However, these observations were made in subjects who already had a disease, so it was necessary to find out if the intestinal problem was a cause or a consequence. Since science is not done alone, a team from Institute for Systems Biology took the lead in answering that question. The study. In it studyresearchers Sean Gibbons and Johannes Johnson-Martinez analyzed the clinical, genetic, microbiological and lifestyle variables of 1,400 healthy adults. Something that the subjects had to detail was the frequency of bowel movements, which would be classified as follows: Once or twice a week – Constipation. Three to six times a week – Low frequency. One to three times a day – Normal frequency. More than three times a day – Diarrhea. “Goldilocks Zone”. Researchers found that people who reported eating a high-fiber diet, exercising regularly, and being well hydrated had good bowel movements. In a display of scientific humor, they baptized this “the Goldilocks zone,” which is a bowel movement frequency of between one and two bowel movements a day. That is the point at which, according to researchers, the balance between the microbiome and physiological markers is optimal. Therefore, the optimal frequency is between one and two times a day, but this is not always the case and when there is an imbalance that is when problems begin within us. Ideal stool shape: type 3 and 4 More serious than it seems. Johnson-Martinez comments that “if feces remain in the intestine for too long, microbes use up all the available dietary fiber, something they normally ferment to produce short-chain fatty acids that are beneficial for health. If this happens, the ecosystem changes and begins to ferment proteins, which generates various toxins that can reach the bloodstream.” Those byproducts of protein fermentation leaked into the bloodstream, such as p-cresol sulfate and indoxyl sulfate, pass to the kidneys, being associated with markers of worse kidney function… constipation. If, on the other hand, diarrhea occurs, the feces practically do not pass through the intestine, causing clinical parameters related to liver damage. That is to say: with constipation, the kidneys suffer. With diarrhea, the liver. Snitch. Gibbons comments that chronic constipation, which we have just seen what effects it produces, has been associated with neurodegenerative disorders and the chronic progression of kidney diseases. What remains is to define whether this abnormality in intestinal movement is an early warning of a chronic disease or organ damage. Now, the study also explores how this frequency of intestinal movement is also related to the anxiety and depressionrelating mental health to bowel movements. The researchers comment that it has been possible to link the frequency of bowel movements with all body systems and how it is something that can be a risk factor in the development of chronic diseases. Their hope is that medicine will take bowel movements seriously to “optimize health and well-being, even in healthy populations, based on bowel movement frequency.” And something interesting is that, if we do not have any problem, we should neither hold back the urge nor force it, because we artificially reduce and increase the time that the feces are in the intestine. Study the feces. There is an important detail that must be taken into account: having a frequency other than once/twice a day may be normal. The problem is when it becomes chronic. That’s when we should ask ourselves what is happening. There may be a health problem, but also that we have a diet low in fiber from fruits and vegetables. It is logical, but food and our lifestyle It is something inseparable from our feces. Plus, keeping an eye on them from time to time is not a bad idea because it is a free gut health test. Also you can scan your poop with an app that analyzes it thanks to AI. The time matters. Being in the “Goldilocks zone” is relevant, but previous studies have also explored the idea that when we poop is relevant, too. Studies carried out in 2020 and 2022 They related circadian rhythms to gastrointestinal activity. At night, intestinal activity decreases significantly, but during the day, especially after waking up or eating, there is greater mobility. An optimal time is half an hour after waking up, since the colon is activated after a night’s rest, but defecating later than that moment does not mean that something is wrong because there is some flexibility in the matter. Images | Cabot Health, Bristol Stool Chart, Sincerely Media In Xataka | Everest has become a dumping ground for feces. Solution: that all climbers carry theirs in bags

There is a division of Xiaomi that no one pays attention to. It is exactly the one that is paying for the party of mobile phones, AI and cars

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Xiaomi is no longer just a smartphone company; It is a conglomerate of four large divisions that support and feed each other to compete in an increasingly aggressive market. The surprise is that financially the division that generates the least attention is the one that is paying for the other three. The results for the first quarter of 2026 They make it clear: boring business is pure profit. Four companies in oneto. Xiaomi’s current structure settles in four large pillars that are also notably different from each other. Smartphones with the brand that ended up becoming popular globally remain critical to preserving the user base. Then there are internet services (advertising, Mi Cloud), which complete the Apple-style mobile ecosystem. The electric car and AI make up another pillar that fascinates and demonstrates the firm’s ambition in these new areas. And finally there is the IoT division, which a priori seems the least notable, but is much more so than anyone would think. Services, services, services. As we said, mobile phones are Xiaomi’s hallmark, but its profitability comes hand in hand with internet services, which operate with an astonishing gross profit margin of 76.1%. As with Apple, here Xiaomi takes advantage of its almost 750 million active users with advertising, subscriptions and cloud services integrated into its HyperOS mobile operating system. It is a profitable vicious circle: IoT and mobile phones are Trojan horses that manage to put the user into a digital ecosystem in which they end up spending money. Blessed IoT. And despite the fact that it receives less media attention, the gross margin of the IoT division reached a spectacular 25.2% in the first quarter of 2026 according to the company’s financial results. This number is much higher than the 10.1% generated by smartphones, which have logically been punished by the memory crisis. In fact, the gross profit of the IoT division has been 6.2 billion RMB, much higher than the 4.5 billion of the mobile division. The latter bills much more, but it does not shine as much in those gross profits. Refrigerators triumph. The president of Xiaomi’s IoT division, Lu Weibing, explained that the role of this business is key in the Xiaomi group, because it is “a very important balancer” against the impact of the increase in memory costs in the rest of the divisions. Company officials expect this “cost supercycle” (or in other words, the memory crisis) to last until 2028, and that will continue to complicate the mobile division’s margins. Sell ​​less, but more expensive. The escalation of component costs has made Xiaomi make a drastic decision: sell less, but more expensive. The distributed smartphone units they fell 19.2%, but its average selling price reached a record figure of 1,310 RMB, 8% more than in the same quarter of 2025. Xiaomi has a 23.5% share of premium smartphones in mainland China, and makes it clear that the focus is now on super high-end mobile phones. “Premiumization” of the home. The strategy of selling more expensive is also being applied notably in the IoT division, which includes household appliancesand which has also adopted a “premiumization” strategy. Instead of just distributing third-party products, the company is developing its own high-end air conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines. This has allowed IoT gross margin to rise 5.1 percentage points in just one quarter. AI price war. The launch of its own AI model, MiMoit was already a surprise, but these days the firm has announced that cut the prices of its API by up to 99% (there are technical arguments) in order to compete with rivals like DeepSeek. This model is at the level of the best Chinese open models, but the company itself has not yet achieved the objectives they seek. As with other AI startups, the costs are massive, so this division of Xiaomi depends on the cash flow generated by the rest of the businesses. Cars impress, but they lose money. The division that brings together electric cars and AI did not have a good quarter and lost 3.1 billion RMB. The new Xiaomi Su 7 has been a success in number of reservations (80,000), but operating expenses for this part of the business have risen 45.8%, too much to be offset by the revenue growth of this division. Xiaomi is the new Samsung. Xiaomi He was born looking very similar (or aspiring to be very similar) to Apple, but currently its structure and strategy are much more similar to that of Samsung. Its advantage is that it currently has an ecosystem with more than 1.1 billion IoT devices that allow it to grow and invest in cars, AI or mobile phones. The problem is what happens if the cushion provided by the benefits of the IoT division deflates. In Xataka | Leica is teaching Xiaomi everything it knows: when the student no longer needs the teacher, the agreement will have fulfilled its function

we are nostalgic for the attention span we had then

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A few days ago I saw a tweet which said the following: “There was a time when happiness took the humble form of an ordinary afternoon. Coming home, turning on the PS2 and disappearing for hours.” It is one of those tweets that manage to strike a nostalgic chord and name something that many people feel but have not yet been able to articulate. The easy reading is the nostalgia of youth: we were young, we had no responsibilities, we had entire afternoons to lose in the GTA on duty. That’s true, but it’s only half the story. The other half is that we lived those afternoons with an attention that today is almost impossible to reproduce.. There was nothing competing for her. The screen was one, the world was that, and the mind stayed inside for hours without anyone calling it back. That no longer exists. Not because we have less free time, but also because adult life overwhelms us as is normal; but because the free time we have has stopped being habitable in the same way. The cell phone does not interrupt only when it rings: it interrupts all the time without doing anythingwith its mere presence in the pocket, with the always open possibility that there is something in there that we have not yet seen. The 2007/2008 academic year was absolutely spectacular for my group of friends. Of the six of us, four of us had a girlfriend. We all finished the course single. One of the reasons was that we loved spending hours together playing PES 2008. A few years later we wanted to recover those times but it was never the same, and what had changed was that we all now had smartphones and social networks, and We all ended up looking at it, the individual screen, instead of the TV, the collective screen.so we lost track of what others were doing and the experience was completely different. Even with solo play, loading screens, which were previously a moment of mental pause or going for another Coca-Cola, have become the automatic trigger for taking out the phone. The brains that grew up with those PS2 afternoons have been reconfigured to not tolerate even fifteen seconds of emptiness, just like when we wait for the elevator or have someone in front of us in line at the supermarket. The result is a strange form of loss that is difficult to name because nothing concrete is taken from you. Even though we have more responsibilities and less free time, we still have some moments. We still have access to games. What we don’t have is the ability to step inside them in the same way, to let the world narrow until only that exists. That ability, to pay complete attention to a single thing for hours, It was a resource that we didn’t know we had until it was taken away from us. so gradually that we do not notice at what exact moment it disappeared. That’s why the tweet didn’t actually talk about the PS2. I was talking about that. From the last time a plastic rectangle was enough to make the rest of the world cease to exist for an entire afternoon. In Xataka | The intellectual luxury of our era is sustaining our attention, AI is making it worse Featured image | Swello

A study shows that we pay more attention to doctors if they are rude and arrogant

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Lovers of medical series may have a reference in their mind, such as Gregory Housea brilliant but insufferable doctor noted for his sheer arrogance. Fiction here taught us that we forgave him for his bad manners simply because he was a genius who saved lives, although now we may wonder what would happen in real life:we would put up with a doctor like that? science wanted to respond to this, pointing out that as patients we would not only tolerate it, but that we would pay much more attention to it than to a kind doctor. A paradigm shift. Although it may seem absurd, the doctor-patient relationship is something that It’s about cultivating from your own career of medicine in their first courses in order to achieve greater empathy and closeness to the patient. Something that, beyond the good manners that one should have, also serves as another diagnostic tool. But the fact that as patients we are much more obedient to a somewhat borderline doctor is something that has surprised, and that is why it has been dubbed the ‘Doctor House effect’. Here the objective was unravel a mystery of human communication: How a lack of civility affects our ability to be persuaded when it comes to our health. The experiment. To test our impression with these doctors, the team conducted three experiments with almost 200 participants. The premise here was quite simple, as it focused on evaluating how people reacted to different types of health advice, playing with variables such as the experience of the person giving the advice or the politeness of the person speaking. The results. These They have attracted the attention of a large part of the communitysince it breaks what doctors have been instilled in since their careers. What was seen is that, when the advice came from an expert in the field, the use of very arrogant language turned out to be much more persuasive than an affable and polite tone. In other words, acting like Dr. House was working much better than he imagined. But curiously, this study shows that there is a double standard. In this case, if the person giving the advice was not an expert authority figure, the exact opposite happened: using arrogant language destroyed credibility, with courtesy being the only way to persuade the patient to follow the most appropriate medical advice. Because Are we attracted to being talked down to? This is the question we may be asking ourselves right now, and science suggests that the key does not lie in a strange clinical masochism, but in expectations and how we manage care. Here we must understand that in our modern society there is an unwritten social contract that dictates that we must be kind and polite, especially in environments like a doctor’s office. But when a health expert abruptly breaks that rule and constantly swaggers at us, our brain goes into a state of alert. And this “unexpected rudeness” acts as a switch to capture a massive amount of our cognitive attention. The scene is clear in this situation: when we are surprised by a doctor’s borderlineness when we did not expect it, we process his message much more deeply. And the impact is so strong that persuasion works regardless of the initial relevance we gave to the topic being discussed or the biases with which it was arrived at. Not so fast. Obviously, the conclusions of this 2026 study are not a carte blanche for health professionals to start insulting us in our next medical check-up, but it does teach us a lesson about human communication and how sometimes not everything is as we think in an idyllic mind. In Xataka | Spending all day scrolling on Instagram or TikTok has a very specific effect on your brain: it dwarfs

is to have become one of the biggest attention grabbers in history

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Even though the accounts at OpenAI are not so healthy as Sam Altman would likeit’s really not being a problem for continue raising money from your investors. The rain of millions being spent on ChatGPT It draws attention for the way in which they seek to obtain a return: through the attention of users. And it makes more sense than it may seem at first. 7,000 million visits per month. A recent analysis by Similarweb about generative AI has put very interesting figures on the table that are very useful for us to measure the pulse of the internet of our days. In September 2025, AI services added 7 billion visits per monthwhich represents a growth of 76% compared to the previous year and crowns AIs as one of the main rivals of social networks in terms of traffic. ChatGPT remains the undisputed leader: in the aforementioned month it reached 5.9 billion visits, very close to Instagram, with 6.5 billion. The first positions are for Google (with 82.6 billion), YouTube (28.7 billion) and Facebook (11.4 billion). All for our attention. In the age of the Internet, there is something more valuable than money itself: capture users’ attention. It is the reason why social networks are so attractive for companies of any size, becoming more of a commercial showcase that is a place where we can tell our lives. Also, this is the same reason why chatbots are still around, even though they lose money every time someone uses them. Meanwhile, big technology They are resorting to debt. They don’t want to be left out of the AI ​​bubble and the reason is now clearer than ever. The “backbone” of the internet. Not only has ChatGPT managed to become the fastest-rising platform in modern digital history, placing itself on the podium of the five most important websites in the world. The truly important thing about this is that they have managed to capture the most valuable thing: the user’s attention. The next step: fill the ‘chatbots’ with ads. Faced with this paradigm, OpenAI is considering something that was already an open secret: dress up ChatGPT with ads. A possibility that would serve to monetize the tool, especially to obtain financial returns from users of the free plans, but which raises many doubts in the field of privacy and the neutrality of the answers offered. Benefits for when? While, technology companies continue to increase investmenteven if the benefits do not come directly. The bonus, in this case, comes in the form of meteoric growth and several billion views that show that there is a reason to be optimistic about AI. Images | Generated with Gemini In Xataka | Someone has taken a look at the dotcom bubble and compared their data to AI. And it’s not optimistic In Xataka | OpenAI needs to raise an absurd amount of money to continue losing money

OpenAI has become the “Fast Food” of AI. And that means that for Sam Altman the business is attention, not AGI

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It was sung that OpenAI was going to launch its browser, so the Yesterday launch of the Atlas browser It didn’t take us too much by surprise. What is important is the fact that the company does not stop constantly releasing products and services. The pace is the most extraordinary we have experienced in recent years, and the obvious question is, what is OpenAI pursuing with this strategy? OpenAI is the great machine churros AI products of the world. In recent weeks we have seen how OpenAI has not stopped launching new AI services and products that have managed to flood the market. Some examples: And that’s not counting the Recently announced agreements with NVIDIA, AMD and Broadcom which make it clear that the pace of OpenAI announcements is absolutely dizzying: too many new things too often. Because? The hype race as a business priority. That extraordinary flurry of releases suggests that OpenAI’s big corporate priority is not so much the vaunted pursuit of AGI as it is dominating the conversation and, above all, the attention economy. What OpenAI wants is for us to be constantly talking about it, and the truth is that these launches are not exactly small: they all pose notable changes in its ecosystem and in the technology industry itself. Smokescreen. And such frenzy also acts as a strategic smokescreen. With this bombardment of releases (browser, applications, SDKs, improved models), Altman and his team not only generate more hype, but saturate the competitive space. Rivals barely have time to assimilate or replicate a feature when the next one has already been announced. Towards an operating system. The launch of Atlas is an especially significant move. With it it seems to be clear that OpenAI no longer wants to be a simple layer, the engine of AI, but a complete operating environment in the style of WeChat or the App Store. In fact wants to be the Windows of AIbut either it turns out well, or it is going to be the mother of all bubbles. Expectations attract new users (and investors). These constant movements also mean that these products also generate new expectations, even if only temporarily. OpenAI has managed to partly conquer the attention economy with launches such as Studio Ghibli style images or more recently with Sora. This has allowed it to attract millions more free users, which the company then tries to convert into paying users. Not only that: its growth also helps investors want to participate in the company’s multimillion-dollar investment rounds. And the AGI, what? And while all these launches are taking place, we see how the holy grail of AI, getting a general artificial intelligence (AGI), seems to take a backseat. It is as if that speech had become an empty mantra or a long-term goal that is not credible in the middle of this chaos. Altman has achieved replace philosophical conversation —the one that caused the hypothetical arrival of the AGI— due to a consumer conversation. The Fast Food of AI. The AI ​​ecosystem that OpenAI is creating has adopted a consumption pattern similar to that we experience on social networks: fast and ephemeral, based on the latest viral news. The Studio Ghibli-style visuals were exciting for a couple of weeks, and the same has happened with Sora 2, but that “wow” effect fades quickly. What is OpenAI doing to revive the hype again? Launch a new product. Atlas is the latest example. Seeking to be a de facto monopoly. With all these movements, OpenAI continues to attract more and more users and dominate the conversation and gain attention. That may not get you what you really need (income) at the moment, but it solidifies your absolute benchmark position and helps make it what you’re really looking for: the de facto monopoly of AI. Image | Mariia Shalabaieva In Xataka | ChatGPT will let you have erotic conversations. Welcome to emotional intimacy with an AI

The companies of AI tell us that they want to achieve an AGI. What they are really conquering is the economy of attention

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Sora 2 is already with usand with it a tool that will allow anyone to create great videos generated by AI. The problem is that we will have an even greater problem of “Ai Slop“(” Bazofia generated by AI “): Internet is direct to become an even more gigantic hay career for the economy of attention. What’s happening. In recent days we have seen a goal to launch vibes Ya Openai launch Sora 2. Both applications are actually platforms in which to discover, create and share videos generated with AI. Both democratize that access to generate video content easily through their AI models, and we will no longer have to be an expert in Premiere, Davinci or dedicate hours to the script, recording, editing and publication of the videos, because AI does everything much easier. That does not mean that this content will be better: only there will be more. A lot more. Sora’s website greets us with a “Explore” section in which we can move vertically to see content destined for one thing: to have us trapped by the Doomscolling. Trapped in doomscrolling. The result of these initiatives can be seen quickly in the Sora websitein the application of iOS (for the moment, only in the US) or in the Meta Ai Ai and vibes. Here we have infinite content that moves and whose cost of production for the user is zero euros (for a video, if you want to create many the thing changes and you will have to pay a subscription) and just a few seconds. The incentive not to stop creating videos is huge, because the promise is that “anyone can create viral videos.” But. What these tools raise is to turn the viral into a formula. For this, it is possible to use emotional templates in a simple and direct way and that appeal to our attention. We have filters of nostalgia, indignation and tenderness on demand, for example, and the risk is the death of authenticity: everything seems designed by an algorithm. Quantity (and immediacy), no quality. These platforms – and those that are to come – are like gigantic automated content farms and are designed for user retention, not to give value. The content is the new slot machine, and the “AI Slop” manages to exploit our cognitive biases better than ever. It is synthetic dopamine at an industrial scale. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok More creators = more slaves on platforms. Facebook created its empire convincing users to create content for it. Suddenly they were creators and consumers, and social networks took advantage of the reef and put us to publish reflections, links, and share photos and videos of all kinds. For some that was not enough claim, but being able to do everything with AI can attract new audiences (creators?). The user is more than ever the unpaid worker and the product. And those platforms want to attract the maximum possible number of usuals for the same thing that Facebook did it 20 years ago: to monetize that attention. Will it give us the same not to believe anything? In that martemágnum of content generated by the contamination of the contents, it promises to be so exceptional that it will be more difficult to distinguish the real from what is generated by the. A couple of years ago the thing was relatively complicated with imagesbut today it is almost impossible. There is an obvious risk that goes beyond the Deepfakes and the possible fraud and scams: the threat is that We will not even believe that real images and videos are indeed real. The AI ​​Slop era began. The “AI Slop” or “Bazofia generated by AI” is content generated by AI which is technically impressive but probably lacks meaning, authenticity or purpose beyond achieving that immediate attention by users. We have already seen how these tools already serve to generate comments and texts of text and images, but the video is even more powerful. OpenAI wants to kill Tiktok. In fact, with Sora 2 and its new website and app the objective, whether indirect or not, is to end Tiktok, which He owned and lady of the short video format. That users can now generate content with themselves as protagonists doing all kinds of impossible things thanks to AI is an extraordinary claim for many traditional Tiktok users. The “cameos” are a possibly addictive and brilliant product to achieve that goal. Before uploading a video with which to create cameos or mixtures, Openai warns of the implications. Is that enough for us not to create them? But. Of course, risks are important in security and privacy. The fraud and scams with increasingly credible deepfakes will be difficult to detect, but it is also asked where privacy ends if a platform ends up having ours images, videos and audios that can be edited and remix if we allow it. OpenAi offers configuration options, parental controls And warnings when it comes to uploading content, but it is not clear if that will be enough. In Xataka | Differentiating the AI ​​content on the Internet is increasingly difficult. The solution goes through something similar to fillets

If you want to get media attention, nothing like boycotting a sports competition

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The return to Spain 2025 is living One of his most complicated years At the image level. With a transnational scope that had not been seen in a sporting event in our country, a boycott is interrupting races with pro-palestine claims, obtaining media attention that exceeds the strictly sports. The return organization affirms that it will take legal measures in a conflict that has served to put several issues on the table: the Sportwashingactivist coordination and supposed neutrality of sporting events. What is it. We are facing a coordinated campaign of protests against the participation of the Israel-Premier Tech team, motivated by Israel’s actions in Gaza and, additionally, denouncing The call Sportswashing (Use of sport to clean the international image of a country). The actions have been organized by the BDS movement (boycott, divestment and sanctions) and the solidarity network against the occupation of Palestine, together with platforms and groups from various regions of Spain and Europe. For several stages of the Vuelta, especially since its entry into Spanish territory, groups of activists They have cut the roads At the passage of the Israeli team, showing banners with messages such as “neutrality is complicity. Boicot to Israel” and Palestinian flags. These protests (almost always peaceful) have been broadcast live, where the detention of some protesteras happened in the Tamos’s counterreloj in Figueres (Girona). What reactions have been to the boycott? Mostly support: political parties such as Podemos, IU and Minister Sira Rego (Summar), have demanded the exclusion of the Israeli team and supported the legitimate right of demonstration. On the other hand, the organization of the competition has opposed the boycott firmly: its director Javier Guillén has described the interruptions to the passage of the Israel-Premier Tech team as “acts of violence” And he has announced the presentation of complaints before the police, claiming security reasons. Guillén has declared that all claims are legitimate only if they are channeled peacefully, and that it is not contemplated to expel the Israeli team, defending that it participates by “sports merits”, although they admit be aware of the “political climate” Around the team. Two cyclists have retired from the competition: The Canadian Derek Geefourth in the last turn of Italy and the Danish Jakob Fuglsang, who expressed his relief from Not having to dress the colors of Israel-Premier Tech more. European scale This boycott has become the largest sports campaign against Israel ever seen before in Europe. One of the reasons is that, due to the nature of the competition, which is not restricted to the walls of a stadium or the limits of a Ciudad, it has had follow -up in various cities of the country. The woven network between citizen platforms and international activists demonstrates the capacity of digital activism to mobilize resources, strategies and broad actions in a short time. The organizing platforms have highlighted the scope of the boycott, related to it, According to the public newspaperwith which he lived against the apartheid of South Africa, and where the boycott allowed him to Paíos will be expelled from different competitions from the Olympic Games. Sports and its global reach demonstrates an important tool for political protest. The problem of Sportwashing. Organizations are denouncing the use of Sportwashing by Israel to wash its image, a complaint that connects with the voices that They heard against the participation of the country in Eurovision for similar reasons. It should be remembered that after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was expelled from the returnwhat makes you think for boycott promoters in a double standard in favor of Isarl. The impossible sports neutrality. Although the organization of the Vuelta defends the presence of Israel, taking into account strictly sports criteria, the promoters argue that Sport is an intrinsically political space and that the alleged neutrality only serves to perpetuate injustices. In sports media and In social networksthe debate is on the table: the limits of the protest in sporting events, the role of sponsors and the Ethical responsibility of sports institutions These are issues that, at least, this boycott has served to introduce sports discussion, which is undoubtedly extremely healthy. Header | Israel Premier Tech In Xataka | Rosalía launched a statement to dodge the controversy over Gaza. There are those who think it has not been clear enough

The self -employed cars promised to get rid of paying attention to them. At the moment they only achieve it every 9 minutes

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The Advanced driving assistance systemsor Adas, they have become an argument of Key sale for many car manufacturers. Functions such as Adaptive Cruise Controlmaintenance within the lane and Assistants for traffic jams They promise to relieve driving load, especially in dense traffic situations. However, A recent study by the American Automobile Association (AAA) returns us to reality: technology is useful, but the attention of the duct remains indispensable. A test in extreme conditions. The AAA chose one of the worst possible scenarios: Los Angeles highways in rush hour. For more than 16 hours, over 550 kilometers, five vehicles equipped with different level 2 ADAS systems (Those who attend, but do not assume total control) face the real world. The cars were instrumented with cameras and GPS to record every detail of their behavior. Less than 10 minutes of tranquility. Although these systems promise us to have great tranquility at the wheel (even if they are not self -employed at all), the reality is very different. On average, in this study it has been seen that every 9.1 minutes (or every 5.1 kilometers) a notable event was recorded that requires driver’s intervention. There are situations that are very frequent. Among these events that require a person to take control of the vehicle, the lane invasion stands out above all. This happens when another car gets into the lane in front of the vehicle, forcing the driver to intervene to adjust the appropriate safety distance to avoid collision in the face of speed decrease. But they stay here. Secondly, there is the inability of the car to stay perfectly focused on the lane, needing driver intervention in 72% of the occasions. This is very typical, especially when it comes to curves. But in addition to these, 71 more cases have been recorded in which the car did not resume the march after a total stop or 43 moments in which the car did not stop enough, being able to have caused an accident. There are differences between proven systems. One of the most interesting comparisons that was carried out in this regard was among the systems that require the driver to keep his hands in the steering wheel and the most advanced that allow them to remove them. Surprisingly, systems that do not require having their hands on the steering wheel are more reliable when requiring a driver intervention every 20.1 minutes. Instead, the most basic systems need human help with a frequency three times higher: every 6.7 minutes. Of course, the “hands -free” systems also asked the driver to take control every 15 minutes for security. The best security recommendation: to have common sense. Given these results, the AAA has launched a series of recommendations in the face of the proliferation of these driving aid systems and trust that can be deposited in them. They point to that the alert must always be maintained, since ADAS does not replace the driverdistraction must be avoided and above all know the car and how each system works before starting it actively. Right now, the goal ahead is to press manufacturers to make driving aid systems that are more reliable. And although driving technology advances by leaps and bounds, the human factor is still essential to guarantee security. The ADAS are already mandatory. Little by little, these systems are increasingly present in our day to day and without having to pay an extra in the car settings. Since 2022 all new approved vehicles They must include Smart Speed Assistant, Integrated breathalyzer or lane involuntary change alert. Images | Charlie Deets In Xataka | The new Mazda CX-5 has taken the physical buttons ahead. According to Mazda, it’s what we want

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