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Apple has done very well The transition to Apple Silicon. Your products, widely well valued for their power and efficiencythey have managed to sell very well, which has made the company go from 5.8% world market share to 8.7% of the first quarter of 2025, according to IDC figures. In Cupertino they want more, and the last plan to enhance sales goes through A cheaper macbook. Filtration. Ming-Chi Kuo is one of the analysts who has the best history of successes in terms of rumors of upcoming Apple launches, And predicted that the company prepares a cheaper “macbook” and colors. There are no surprises on the screen: it would be “approximately 13 inches.” However, it points to something they had not yet done from Cupertino, using an iPhone processor in a Mac. And Apple would choose the A18 PRO with which the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 pro max. The price. Digitimes, another medium with very good sources with regard to Apple, has gone further that Kuo and already offers a tentative price for this launch: $ 599. It is the same price chosen by Apple to market the cheapest MAC in history by adjusting for inflation, the Mac Mini M4. And also the same as iPhone 16E. In both products, the Spanish price without discounts is 709 euros. And that price would be groundbreaking for the global PCs market, such as It has been for smartphones. To put the figures in perspective. Apple’s “cheap” macbook, antonomasia, was launched at $ 1,099 in 2006, which implies a price of about $ 1,700 of 2025 updating inflation. Adjusting the price of that model to euros of 2025, the “blanquito” stays at 1,569 euros (and it must be remembered that VAT was 16% until its rise in 2009). Apple’s cheapest laptop sold in Spain was the 2009 variant, marketed for 879 euros (1,215 euros of 2025). Why it is important. Apple has managed to hit a bite to the PC market with very competitive laptops in its segment like the MacBook Air, especially Now that they are already base equipped with 16 GB of RAM. And he has achieved it without teams considered economical, but with the lowest prices in its history. Rancing an economic macbook at Mini prices, Apple would sell between 5 and 7 million units in 2026, according to Kuo. The Macbook Air M4 starts from $ 999, the same as the M1 departed and previous models with Intel. But adjusting inflation, its price is lower than those. The MAC Mini M4 is now 599 dollars, compared to $ 825 by adjusting the inflation of the original MAC Mini, which reached the market in January 2005 by 499. That just is the price at which they sell the Mini M4 for the educational market, where this new team would have a huge asset given the capabilities of the team. “A nightmare for Microsoft“In Windows Central They have it clear. The $ 599 are bad news for a Microsoft that in October faces one of the critical moments of the decade: The end of Windows 10 supportthat still has more users than Windows 11 in countries like Spain, and hundreds of millions of users in the world. Given this situation, Microsoft Clara: Buy a new PC. In the market there is no PC that offers the lightness, power and efficiency that Apple aims to have in its economic MAC, and Similar proposals with Snapdragonthe chip that rivalize with mthey are in a few more euros. At the peak of the 400 euros netbooksApple presented its own alternative, the iPad. Steve Jobs said there was no place in the company’s family for economic laptops. When launching the iPad, Jobs explained why they did not launch a cheap laptop (netbooks, at the time) for being slow and having poor quality. In 2025 there is not so much sacrifice. Iphone brain, more than capable for a Mac. The fear of reading “iPhone chip” is that it is not powerful enough to move macos (and their needs) with ease. The reality is different, if we attend to the numbers. Currently, an M1 chip remains more than enough to perform even heavy tasks in the system. And the A18 pro is more powerful in any CPU metric: A18 PRO M1 Difference in favor of the A18 Pro Geekbench 6 (single core) 3429 2345 +46.23% Geekbench 6 (Multi Core) 8790 8348 +5.29 % Geekbench 6 metal (GPU) 32686 33073 −1.17% 3DMark Steel Nomad Light Unlimited (GPU) 1541 1892 −18.55% In GPU, as we see, using metal, it is somewhat less powerful. And in a gaming test executed in equal resolution, such as Steel Nomad Light Unlimited, the A18 Pro is left more than 18%. In Single Core, the A18 Pro is also more powerful than the M2 and M3. And that is the most relevant section to move an operating system with ease, as well as what we do most today with the PCs, navigate the web. Prepared for AI. Although the A18 Pro and the M1 have a 16 -core neural Engine, the advances in architecture and in lithography of the iPhone chip allow obtaining From 50% more yield until the triple of the M1 offers the same processes. Clearly, except for Gaming, we are facing a more suitable chip for the needs of computer science in 2025. Huge autonomy potential. M1 is a legendary chip for The autonomy that brought the Macbook Air and Pro They arrived equipped with him. If Apple does not cut in the old air watts, the gain in autonomy can be immense, as the A18 PRO is manufactured by TSMC in the second generation 3 NM node (N3P), compared to the 5 NM first generation of the M1. Yes, but. A Macbook with an A18 Pro sounds very good, until we remember that it would be launched with an economic approach, and that in Apple usually comes accompanied by cuts, sometimes irrelevant, and sometimes painful. A first aspect … Read more

It is possible to grow to beast and be about to break at the same time

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Last week the news jumped: the Asterion Investment Fund, through its Olin Group division, reached a principle of agreement To acquire Finetwork for about 200 million eurosto which another 100 million are added to deal with their main problem. Escaping from the wolf. The acquisition is a movement that will allow OMV to face Your debt Of more than 100 million with Vodafone, thus preventing your service provider from converting the debt into shares and ends up taking control of the company. The Finetwork case is paradoxical: it is the best example of how it is possible to grow and be about to break at the same time. The context. Finetwork has in Pre -conclusion of creditors Since May 2025. The Alicante operator signed in 2019 an agreement with Vodafone to function as a virtual mobile operator (OMV) using its network. A key alliance To expand through Spanish territory, be competitive in rates and try to stand up to unstoppables such as Digi. The debt. In 2021, Finetwork starts to breach payments for the use of Vodafone network: months without paying, partial payments and out of time. At the same time, Finetwork did more than visible an aggressive marketing investment. Sponsorships to the Spanish National Team and LaLiga teams. Sports figures such as Fernando Alonso either Pedro Acosta. Musical events with stars such as Alejandro Sanz or Manuel Carrasco. In 2022, Finetwork spent about 10% of its annual turnover in sponsorships. Óscar Vilda, CEO of the operator, aimed after knowing these data that the objective of the company was to cut its exposure to sponsors in 60%. The rocket. While a debt was cooked that would end up being unassumable, Finetwork exceeded the 1.2 million lines in 2024with an expected turnover of 165 million euros (year -on -year growth of more than 30%). A company that returned to benefits in 2023, continued to expand in 2024 and faces a 2025 key. Asterion will assume the debt of more than 100 million and close the purchase for about 200. The challenges. Finetwork has been maneuvering for months to ensure the service despite the conflictsomething that has not prevented him from offering aggressive and competitive rates, With fiber and mobile from € 14.90 direct hunting of competitors fighting in the lowest prices. The acquisition comes in full reconfiguration of the Spanish telecos market. Masorange is stronger than ever, Vodafone in the hands of Zegona, and Telefónica in full race to lead in Spain. Beyond the three big names, Finetwork will be as a player to stand up to the earthquake in Spain: a digi that does not stop growing and aspires to become In third Spanish operator in the short term. In Xataka | Guide to change your phone and internet operator: tips and things to take into account

break the brutal leadership of Nvidia and TSMC

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TSMC, The largest semiconductor manufacturer on the planetproduces the GPUs for artificial intelligence (AI) that are placing in the Nvidia, AMD market and many other manufacturers of this type of chips. In fact, 90% of integrated circuits for AI available in the world market TSMC has manufactured them. In addition, in its client portfolio Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, MediaTak, and even Intel, among many other companies that are dedicated to the design of integrated circuits. We are now with Nvidia. The company led by Jensen Huang currently monopolizes about 90% of the market of the GPUs for Ia. It is likely that in the medium term its quota will be reduced against the presumable growth of competitors such as Huawei or AMD, but right now Nvidia has no reason to worry. And it does not have them because the semiconductor market to grow a lot over the next few years. According to the AMR consultant (Allied Market Research) In 2031 it will have a billing volume of more than More than 263,000 million dollars. SMIC and HUAWEI are China’s spearhead in the chips and AI industries Jensen Huang, the general director of Nvidia, has declared A few days ago, China is not behind in front of the US in AI. And the solvency of Deepseek, Ernie, Qwen, Pangu, Hunyuan or Sensenova endorses its analysis. Right now it is very difficult to determine in an objective way which country leads in AI. It is reasonable to conclude that the US is ahead of China if we stick to the joint capacity and performance of its AI models, but the really relevant thing is to determine if that capacity entails a real value. This is The line of thought that defends experts As Arthur Lai, Chief of Research for Asia of the Macquarie Financial conglomerate, or Jason Corso, professor of AI at the University of Michigan (USA). In addition, it is important that we do not overlook that the metrics that are currently used to evaluate the abilities and performance of the most advanced AI models They are less and less clarifying. And as the models improve and develop their global competitiveness, it matches. Nvidia continues to dominate the Chinese hardware market for IA despite the sanctions of the US government In any case, as we are seeing, it is evident that China is competing from you to you in the development of large language models for the US. The greatest challenges facing this Asian country do not reside in this field; They last in the field of hardware. Nvidia continues to dominate the Chinese market of the hardware for the The sanctions of the US government that prevent you from selling your best GPU for your Chinese clients. And TSMC manufactures 90% of semiconductors for this scenario of use because it has in production some of the most advanced integration technologies that exist, and, what is also crucial, the performance per candy of its avant -garde nodes is very competitive. China needs to have companies capable of Compete from you with Nvidia and TSMCand their best candidates are currently SMIC (Semiconductor manufacturing international corp) and Huawei. SMIC is the largest Chinese manufacturer of semiconductors with a fee in the world market of about 5%and currently has the ability to manufacture integrated circuits of 6 and 7 nm. However, according to Dr. Kim, an expert in chips manufacturing who has worked in Samsung and currently investigating TSMC in the US, is about to start 5 Nm chip production and plan to start Its first 3 nod nodes equipped with gaa transistors (Gate-alall-around) in 2026. Huawei, meanwhile, is determined to absorb Little by little the market share that Nvidia maintains in China. Your most ambitious hardware is now the chip Ascend 910dthat pursues overcome performance of the GPU NVIDIA H100. However, this Chinese company has also recently presented its chip Ascend 920a solution that is clearly destined to occupy in the Chinese market the gaps that it will leave The H20 GPU of Nvidia. This proposal will enter large -scale production during the second half of 2025 using 6 Nm integration technology that have presumably developed side with Huawei and SMIC side. Image | Nvidia In Xataka | Nvidia has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. His plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end the chips for the Chinese that are sold abroad. And China knows how to defend oneself

The immediate cost for Musk to break with Trump

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Tesla collapses 14% after The open war between the president of the United States and the richest man in the world. The actions of the electric car manufacturer lost 34,000 million dollars of value in a single day, marking the second largest daily fall in the fortune of Elon Musk. Why is it important. Investors immediately translated presidential threats at real risk for the Musk empire. Trump promised to cancel “billions” in government contracts in allusion to a Spacex that depends on NASA. And Tesla needs federal regulators for its autonomous cars. In figures. The loss of 34,000 million marks the second largest daily fall in Musk’s fortune, only surpassed by the collapse of November 2021. Its assets fell to 335,000 million dollars, far from the peak of almost 500,000 million that it reached after Trump’s electoral victory. The background. The war began when Musk described Trump’s fiscal project as “disgusting abomination.” The president, visibly irritated in the Oval Office, replied: “Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will have it more.” Social networks became the battlefield. Musk said: “Without me, Trump would have lost the elections.” Trump replied threatening to eliminate subsidies: “The easiest way to save money is to end Elon’s subsidies.” Musk culminated accusing the president of appearing in the archives of Jeffrey Epstein. At stake. Spacex has contracts worth $ 3,000 million, according to The New York Times. Tesla benefits from tax credits that Trump plans to eliminate, which could cost 1.2 billion annually according to JPMorgan. Both companies depend on federal regulatory decisions. Only a few hours after the confrontation, the White House scheduled a call for Friday. Trump tried to calm the spirits: “It’s fine, it’s going very well.” And Musk reculled on His threat of dismantling the Dragon ship. Reconciliation seems more tactical than definitive. As Musk said: “Trump will be three and a half years as president, but I will be here for more than 40 years.” In Xataka | Elon Musk and the US government have broken their relationship in the worst way: putting the international space station at risk Outstanding image | Wikimedia Commons, White House

break the hegemony of the US

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China no longer chases Silicon Valley in Ia. In certain aspects it has advanced it and the earthquake that Deepseek caused at the beginning of the year was The beginning of the consolidation of a Big 5. After years of dispersion, these five companies have separated from the rest of the Chinese ecosystem to compete directly with American giants developing foundational models. Why is it important. Five Chinese companies have emerged as serious competitors from OpenAi, Google, Anthropic and company. Its strategy combines large investments, international talent and approaches that prevail the open source. The context. Two years ago, China lived a scattered battle, with dozens and hundreds of models and companies experiencing without clear leadership, without important differentiation. Today, the panorama is another: A quintet has developed technologies that rival great Americans. They symbolize the transition from China as a technological imitator to innovative that marks the rhythm. However, their models are not freed from government censorship. In addition, they do not compete internationally at the same level as Americans for a mixture of political, demographic and business model motifs. The five champions. Alibaba, Bytedonce, Stepfun, Deepseek and Zhipu are the new power of the Chinese power. Each has found its own niche: from open source domain to pure research. Alibaba: The King of Open Source Alibaba became one of the great world leaders of open development in AI together with Meta. His QWEN models series Master the open source ecosystem: The ten most popular Hugging Face models are based on secondary developments of Qwen technology. Alibaba’s strategy combines massive investment with radical opening. It will allocate 380,000 million yuan (about 52,000 million dollars) to research in AI and cloud infrastructure over the next three years, a budget at the height of great Americans. This commitment to open source It is not altruistic. By releasing its advances, it alibba accelerates world innovation while positioning itself as the premium infrastructure and services provider. Developers adopt free qwen … … But companies pay for cloud services, support and specific optimizations. The model demonstrated its effectiveness: while Openai and Anthropic maintain their closed systems, Alibaba builds an ecosystem where thousands of developers continually improve their base models. This distributed collaboration network can exceed the speed of innovation of closed laboratories, however well financed they are. Bytedance: giant and massive Bytedance brings to the group something other Chinese competitor possesses: Proven experience in global mass consumption products. The company behind Tiktok moved its knowledge of viral algorithms and user experience to the IA creating Doubaoa conversational platform that exceeds 100 million monthly active users according to the figures released by the company itself. This adoption scale provides Bytedance A unique advantage: large -scale real interaction data. While other laboratories train with static data sets, Bytedance optimizes their models with feedback constant of millions of real conversations, continually refining the behavior and usefulness of their systems. The company complemented its experience in consumer products with technical talent such as Wu Yonghui, who directs its research team in large models. Yonghui was a senior researcher at Deepmindso it brings direct knowledge of Silicon Valley developments. Your programming tool Bring It is oriented to business markets. Use OpenAI and Anthropic models (GPT / Sonnet) as a base, so it follows A pragmatic approach similar to perplexity: Use the best available technology while developing their own abilities. Stepfun: the discrete national team Stepfun is The most enigmatic member of the Big 5 Chinese. His low profile is deliberate. Based in Shanghai and backed by Shanghai State-Wned Capital Investment Co., it represents the most strategic facet of the Chinese national bet in Ia. He won the nickname of “King of Involution” In multimodal models, a recognition of their ability to overcome rivals in Benchmarks technicians Achieved outstanding positions both In Chatbot Arena International like first place In OpenCompassthe most reputed evaluation platform in China. His competitive advantage lies in a technical team led by Xiangyu Zhang, one of the four co -authors of the Paper Resnet. This work, which marked a turning point in the study of deep neural networksholds the record as the most cited article of any field published in the 21st century, something that provides immediate scientific credibility to Stepfun’s developments. State support allows Stepfun long -term research approaches without immediate commercial pressuressimilar to the model that followed laboratories such as Deepmind or Openai in its initial phases. Or Deepseek’s, but we talk about them later. ZHIPU: Pioneer in Smart Agents Zhipu represents the most direct connection between the Chinese elite academy and the commercialization of advanced AI. Incubated in the Tsinghua University, the most prestigious technical institution in Chinacombines academic rigor with business ambition. He wants to become the first Chinese startup of LLMS to go over. It is a pioneer in the development of AI agents. Your concept Phone Use And the launch of agents based on US laboratories demonstrates independent innovation capacity, not only to monitor western tendencies. Your most advanced product, Autogglm Ruminationrepresents what the company classifies as the first L3 level intelligent agent in the world. L3 is in any case an internal categorization of Zhipu, not a standard metric internationally recognized. The Immine Before the end of the year a milestone for the sector is: it will be the first public validation of the market value of the Chinese companies of AI. From there, the market will say. Deepseek: pure research as an advantage Deepseek showed that fundamental research approaches can compete directly with hyperfinanced commercial products. Your model R1 was an earthquake at the beginning of the year. And was achieved by a team of engineers released from immediate financial pressures and focused exclusively on technical efficiency and innovation. The company’s philosophy contrasts with the environment of Silicon Valley: Your engineers are encouraged to improve efficiency from a purely investigative perspectivewithout that financial pressure to generate short -term benefits. This environment is fertile land for risky experimentation and the exploration of unconventional approaches. The success of Deepseek … Read more

The debate on gentlemenity actually hides a cultural break with the US

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For the Royal Academy there is no doubt. “Gentlemanly” It is that man who behaves like a “gentleman”, with “distinction, nobility and generosity” (sic). If we talk about couples relationships, gender roles and clashes between cultures the meaning of those words becomes diffuse and their most complex implications. Good proof is that in recent days Tiktok has opened A curious debate On whether the Spaniards have forgotten how to treat women and can find a model to follow in the United States (among other countries). Tiktok’s passenger sounds, but It is not the first time that the issue gives to speak and connects with an interesting topic: the (sometimes) diffuse dividing line between the roles that marks education and those that marks machismo. And how that barrier can be seen in different ways in one society or another. “I don’t go out again with a Spaniard”. The phrase is Carolina Moura, influencer, Tiktoker and author of a video that is on its way to the 2.6 million views and in which it basically complains about the lack of “gentlemen” of the Spaniards if compared to the Americans. The piece is relevant because it has revived a debate that had already caught before In networks with other videos, such as Leslie López, a Latin one who shared a year ago A video showing their disappointment with European men. “There is no knightness here,” It coincided. @carolynnna And now the bitter ones will come to say “I do not want to go out with you” hahahaha please, to see if we learn to conquer, to respect and be more gentlemen

The United States seems determined to break its monopolies. And he has an obvious victim between eyebrow and eyebrow: Google

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The judicial and regulatory offensive of the United States against Google marks a new turning point between that country and its great technological ones. The Department of Justice not only seeks symbolic measures, and here it seeks to reconfigure the rules of the game, turning Google into its main objective and an example for the rest of the sector. The vicious circle of Google. As they point out in The Verge, David Dahlquist, a lawyer of the DOJ, showed in his presentation of the facts how Google benefited from his “vicious circle.” Pay billions of dollars to be the default search engine on virtually everywhere. That leads her to receive more search requests, to have more data, to improve their results, to earn more money and in the end allow to pay more money to further increase that privilege position. Threats for Google. For the DOJ that is a nightmare, and in the antitrust trial against Google it will be seen whether or not these arguments have consequences for the company. At the moment the government is asking for three important things that could impact Radically on the Google business. No agreements to place Google by default. The first request of the DOJ is to prevent Google from reaching those agreements to place its search engine as a default option. The clear example of those agreements is the one with Apple, which it supposedly pays of the order of 20,000 million dollars a year so that all iPhone, iPad or Mac have it as a default search engine in Safari. That would turn Apple into a collateral victim of this case of monopoly. Sell ​​Chrome. It is also considered to force Google to get rid of its browser, Chrome, and sell it. According to Dahlquist, this application represents 35% of search requests and has 4,000 million estimated users. Google states that it is not a business in itself, but to put on sale, it would be a clear objective for other companies. OpenAi has already shown his interestfor example, and It hasn’t been the only. The Duckdugogo responsible assure that Chrome’s value It could be around The 50,000 million dollars. Bachelor data. The third and final request is especially delicate: it would force Google to license all your search data, from its search index to its results. That would allow anyone to use them to “build their own search engine”, a kind of Google fork. One of Google’s lawyers, John Schmidtlein, explained that this would allow anyone to “cut and paste Google search results and show them as if they were yours.” This lawyer also warned that this could also affect the privacy and safety of users. Yield years. That would mean that Google would have to give up (putting on sale) that data, which can be seen as something unfair: they have a quarter of a century tracking and organizing the web information, and now they have to license that work? That would open the doors to a brutal competition with companies that could take advantage of all that filtered knowledge by paying for it. Historical Framework. Although the European Union has been the traditional Némesis of the Big Tech Tech, the United States has also closely watched its large companies. Dismantled The standard oil in 1911 and tried to do the same with Microsoft Two decades ago. Elizabeth Warren, senator who was Presidential candidate In 2020, it has been advocating by Break in pieces to the great American technology companies and made that in part of their presidential campaign. He made an explicit reference to Amazon, Google and Facebook. The courts, parapet of the pressures. While in the regulatory or legislative areas, the lobby – corporate pressure groups – of the Big Tech can exert their influence more clearly, the thing changes in the judicial field, less permeable to these pressures. In the case of Google, the DOJ even proposes the creation of a technical committee that supervises the fulfillment of the decisions it makes, which would further limit the company’s ability to overcome the restrictions. In Xataka | Joshua Hoehne | Alex doubt In Xataka | Desperate for competing with Chatgpt, Google has a plan for Gemini to be everywhere: pulling wallet

A plug -in hybrid that wants to break the market for price, equipment and a power of “more than 535 hp”

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2,539 registrations. That is the number of units that omoda carries in Spain at the end of the first quarter of the year 2025. A good figure if we consider the brand landed A little over a year ago in our country and that only has a car (in combustion and electricity version) for sale. The omoda 5 combustion adds the bulk of enrollments, of course, with 2,465 units sold in what we have been for the year. The figure, yes, is already a third of the 7,578 omoda 5 with combustion engine sold last year. Now, the Chinese SUV will have a companion in the concessionaires. The omoda 9 SHS is already official and has a launch price that makes it a really competitive car if they add the conditions to the buyer. Omoda 9 shs technical sheet Omoda 9 shs Body type. D-SUV of five seats Measures and weight. 4.77 meters long, 1.92 meters wide, 1.67 meters high. Wheelbase and weight to be confirmed. TRUNK. To be confirmed Maximum power. “More than 535 hp,” according to the brand. Exact figure to be confirmed. WLTP consumption. Pending approval. Environmental Distinctive. Zero emissions. Driving aids (ADAS). Mandatory Adas Aid by the European Union. 540º camera. OTHERS. Own software compatible with Android Auto and Apple Carplay. Wireless load for mobile phone. Electric seats, heated, ventilated and with massage. Sony sound equipment with 14 speakers (two of them in the front headrests). Electric hybrid. No. Plug -in hybrid. Yeah. A 1.5 turbo combustion engine of 143 hp and three electric motors (one on the front axle and two in the rear) with un specified power. Together there are “more than 535 hp,” according to the brand. electric No. price and launch Already available 39,900 euros adding the aid of the MOVES III PLAN. The arrival of the omoda flag model “The largest and most sophisticated model of the brand.” With these words the company defines its new incorporation into the fleet, a SUV of 4.77 meters long, 1.92 wide and 1.67 high that enters fully into the D-SUV market. That is, a step above the compacts and competing with a kodiaq skoda or a Mazda CX-60 by size. In its body the distinctive details of the brand are observed, as a large grill that plays with the rhombuses on the front and a coupé fall as the line progresses to its rear. Repeat the crossed light firm in the front and rear area and, in general, it feels like an omoda 5 more dynamic and elegant. In addition, add upper ranges such as the handles flush on the doors. Inside, omoda advances some upholstered nappa leather seats with electric regulation, heating, ventilation and four types of massage with three intensity levels. The rear seats have reclining support. But it is the front squares that collect the greatest technological load of the new omoda 9 SHS. The instrument picture and the infotainment system will be divided into two 12.3 -inch twin curved screens. Likewise, an Head-Up Display is added that omods figure in 50 inches. We will have a multifunction steering wheel and, although in the photos we cannot appreciate it well, the brand ensures that there are physical controls To control different car functions. We do intuite for the photos that the control of the lights does have a physical command, a function that begins to suffer the evils of “all screen”. In addition, it arrives with a Sony sound equipment with 14 speakers (two included in the headrests of the front seats) and wireless load for the mobile phone. Omoda has not confirmed what types of aid and assistance to the driver will have this omoda 9 SHS beyond enjoying a 540 ° vision camera. That is, we can expect functions such as an invisible hood to know what we have under the wheels and not damage the car on the routes outside the asphalt. You must have at least those required by the European Union. As for mechanical capacities, omoda 9 shs is a plug -in hybrid that delivers “more than 535 hp”. The company does not clarify the specific figure in this regard. We do know that it uses a 34.46 kWh capacity battery, homologating up to 145 kilometers in completely electric mode. With a 70 -liter gas tank, they ensure that it is possible to perform 1,100 kilometers without stopping to recharge or fill the tank. The battery also admits load by direct current to a maximum of 65 kW. It can go from 30 to 80% of the load in 25 minutes. What omoda calls Super Hybrid System is the combination of a combustion engine 1.5 Turbo of 143 hp that delivers its power to the front wheels. This is combined with another electric motor on the same axis and works in solidarity with two other electric motors on the rear axle to deliver those “more than 535 hp”. This structure makes the omoda 9 shs a car with total traction. As for its availability, omoda launches the plug -in hybrid SUV with a launch campaign that leaves it in 39,900 euros (adding the aids of the MOVES III PLAN). The car, they explain from the brand, you have to choose in matte gray so we take it for granted that they are the first units that will arrive in Spain. The first deliveries are expected in the second half of May. In addition, the brand emphasizes that cars have a guarantee of seven years or 150,000 kilometers and that it extends to eight years and 160,000 kilometers for the battery. Photos | Omoda In Xataka | Omoda arrives in Spain with the MG case as a reference: a Chinese brand that wants to break the SUV market with attractive prices

Slide Marvel’s formula to break the MCU crisis

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Marvel has been trying to Reconfigure the MCU To show off the strength that viewers enjoyed in ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Endgame’. The study, owned by Walt Disney Company, has several bets on the way to achieve it. These include projects such as’Avengers: Doomsday‘ and ‘The fantastic 4: first steps‘. In the case of the first, The strategy goes through a kind of “Nostalgia Operation”designed to reconquer the most veteran fans with heroes who already lived their moment of glory. If we focus on the second, which is what concerns us in this article, the axis seems to revolve around recovering a classic and recognizable villain of comics. The threat of Galactus in ‘The Fantastic 4: First Steps’ “Four brave astronauts travel to space and return changed forever,” Pray the start of the trailer published Thursday. So, ‘The fantastic 4: first steps‘It presents us with the characters already in their stage of heroes, in an elegant retrofuturist atmosphere that, in principle, seems loaded with optimism, although things begin to twist quickly. Reed (Pedro Pascal), his wife Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), his younger brother Johnny (Joseph Quinn) and his friend Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) enjoy a relative peace and tranquility, especially after the news of the prompt arrival of Reed and Sue. However, a threat lands from space, challenging the entire planet without prior notice. Galactus, the consumer of worlds, now is sightd by planet Earth, and has sent to its herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner)to launch a warning. “Are we safe?” Asks a journalist at the fantastic 4, to which Reed responds with a tense “I don’t know”, although later he does not hesitate to tell the planet that they will do their best to protect it. Galactus’s threat seems large enough for heroes to doubt their ability to stop it and, probably, end up trapped in their destruction spiral. Above all this falls a special pressure on Reed, which drags some guilt for having forced the limits of space and, perhaps, having caused the arrival of the threat. Before their official arrival at theaters, the fantastic four starred in a first film produced in 1994 that never reached. More than a decade later, the group finally landed on the big screen with The 2005 version directed by Tim Storywith Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffud and Michael Chiklis in front. Although he did not conquer critics, he worked well at the box office and gave rise to a sequel in 2007. The story returned to theaters in 2015 with a new cast: Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell. This time, neither the critical reception nor the collection accompanied. Now, all eyes are put in the new installment, which promises to recover the lost pulse. Its premiere in Spanish cinemas is scheduled for July 25. Images | The Walt Disney Company In Xataka | ‘A Minecraft movie’ is becoming such a large phenomenon that is causing disturbances in cinemas

Europe is caught in gas contracts with Russia. Now look for a way to break them without paying the price

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This winter has ended with an alarming fact for gas in Europe: German reserves are practically empty, 7% of their capacity. Energy expert Javier Blas He explained That the winter of 2024-25 has left the very low gas inventories, and the cost to fill the natural reservoir of Rehden amounts to almost 2,000 million euros. In addition, the continent has entered the discount timesince the European Union has demanded that the deposits be filled at 90% before November 1. However, the European Union has made a decision to close the door forever to the dependence of Russian gas. Close the tap to Russia. From Brussels different legal routes are being explored so that European companies can terminate long -term Russian gas contracts without paying large fines to Moscow. According to Financial Timesthe European Commission has been studying the possibility of declaring force majeure to terminate contractual obligations and not have to pay additional rates. The Russian supply. After three years of war that still persists, this situation has caused a great energy crisis in Europe, reducing its dependence on Russian gas. Currently, the Kremlin supply represents 11% of the block compared to almost two fifths at the beginning of the conflict, such as They have detailed in the British environment. From a more economical vision, the EU paid 21.9 billion euros Russia for oil and gas between February 2024 and February 2025, According to the Clean Energy and Air Research Center. And they continue to depend. Russian liquefied natural gas volumes (LNG) They have increased significantly In the last three years. In addition, Russia has continued to export gas disguised under azeri flag or through relations with two member countries, Hungary and Slovakiawhich has generated tensions within the EU. As He has pointed out The Financial Times, there are important ports such as those of France, Spain and Belgium that continue to receive loads of Russian LNG, showing the complexity of cutting energy ties immediately. Until two years. The European Commission has promised a final roadmap to completely cut energy ties with Russia before 2027. Although its publication has already been delayed twice, the document is expected for May 6, According to Reuters. This delay responds to the conversations reactivated by the United States about the future of the Nordstream gas pipeline, which connects Germany and Russia. The project has gained importance amid the efforts of the Trump administration, since they want look for an approach that implies them in gas transmission. Exploring alternatives … The commission, that He has denied To comment to the Financial Times, you are looking for new supplies. United States, which It takes time exporting LNG to Europehas been profiled as the largest supplier and is seen as a viable replacement. However, with the tariff war in dispute Everything will be to see. But there is an unexpected exit. Continuing with the tariffs, which have been intensified in A bilateral war Between China and the United States. The Asian giant He has found A strategic opportunity: take advantage of contracts signed with American gas to resell it to Europe. This phenomenon has exposed how the global mechanisms of energy trade do not respond to political strategies, but to market logics. An uncertain future. Although the date is marked in 2027, the road map has already suffered several delays and remains surrounded by political and commercial unknowns. In addition, the growing tension with the United States and The lack of a really solid energy plan they leave a European Union corrula, reacting too late before the agency with Russia. Image | Brian Cantoni Xataka | The price of gas has already reached 2022 levels. Now the European industry depends on one thing: that the cold does not return

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