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diurnal solar surpluses, night spikes … and increasingly cheaper batteries

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For years, conversation about the future of Spanish electricity has been reduced to fear of two words: “China photovoltaic”. Panels cheap and reasonably efficient. But the final weapon is not arriving in containers from Shanghai, but increasingly frequently in the van of a neighborhood installer: lithium batteries packs that allow reducing the dependence of the conventional electricity grid. Cut the cable. Or, at least, loosen it. The cheaper that changes the rules Past, present and future of the storage price: 2015: Storing a kilowatt-Hora cost more than 1,100 dollars/kWh. 2024: according to Bloombergnefthe average price of the pack was at 115 dollars/kWh (about 105 euros/kWh), after a 20% drop in the last year. 2026-2027: By then, the same consultant estimates that the psychological bar of the 100 dollars/kWh will be broken. With these prices, Storing domestic energy costs less than the term valley of the PVPC ratewhich now ranges between 0.11 and approximately 0.13 euros/kWh. That makes the battery the natural complement of any roof with panels and a direct enemy of the demand managed by the distributors. To understand the impact of this cheaper on the accounts of the companies in the sector, you have to understand how they earn money. Iberdrola. Its 2024 ebitda, According to its annual resultsit was almost 17,000 million euros, broken down like this: Networks: 6,423 million euros. 38% of the total. Generation and customers: 10,425 million euros. 62%. 52% of Iberdrola’s investment goes to networks, its most stable and regulated segment. Endesa. Its 2024 Ebitda reached 5,300 million euros, with a similar distribution: Electric distribution: 1,750 million (approximately 33%). The rest comes mainly from generation and marketing. Naturgy. With an Ebitda of 5,400 million in 2024: ELECTRIC NETWORKS AND GAS: They represent approximately 45% of the business. The company has increased its investment in this segment by 15% compared to the previous year. For all these companies, Each kilowatt-hora that does not circulate through its networks directly impacts its profitability. Today, the threat is hypothetical, but tomorrow it will be arithmetic. Battery and panel: the combo that takes off According to data from Auto: In 2021, only 2% of residential facilities included battery. In 2024 that figure reached 71%. And they are not just coastal chalets, hybrid kits reach peripheral single -family and even communities of pioneering neighbors. With subsidies and 2.0TD rateamortization drops between 6 and 8 years, and energy self -sufficiency touches 80% in optimal conditions. Electric grid as electron pipe begins to stagger. And not only because of the fall in the demand managed, but because the flow is reversed. In the moments of sun and low demand, thousands of homes are beginning to return energy to the network or simply not need it. For a company that invests billions in transport and distribution infrastructures, that is a problem. But the regulatory framework is starting to move. And your address is not clear. The CNMC has on the table The new toll methodology for the period 2026–2031. Among the Options in consultation: Move part of the fixed costs of the network at the end of power, and begin to remunerate flexibility services, such as storage or coordinated discharge of domestic batteries. They are two changes with opposite consequences: The first penalizes the self -consumer with drums, although he barely consumes. The second rewards it, if your battery helps to balance the network at critical moments. Everything will depend on how normative design is related. And who is heard more. But for now, the government Last the arrival of aid for energy storage through 700 million Feder funds. This transformation is not an isolated case. Several European and American electricity have understood the message before the Spanish. And they have begun to move. Nextera has already hired 81 GW from Solar With storage for 2027, with a good part behind the accountant. That is, in homes. Enel x He has launched virtual power plants pilots (VPPS) In Italy and agreements to display regulated batteries. EDF He is exploring flexibility markets in the United Kingdom and France. In Spain, Endesa has timidly begun to explore this land with its project FlexiCy In Malaga. The background logic is clear: The network will remain necessary, but less as a unidirectional route and more as a smart platform for exchange and balance. And the interesting thing It is not so much the exact point in which we are, but the slope of the curve. According to The International Energy Agencyto meet the objectives set in COP28, world storage capacity It must be multiplied by six before 2030. Of which 1,200 GW must come from batteries. Spain, with its diurnal solar surpluses and nocturnal peaks of consumption, is one of the most fertile land in Europe for that transition. Despite the fear of these years to the threat that came by boat – Chinese plates – the real threat is the one that arrives in a van. In lithium, phosphate and iron packages that allow each home to keep their own energy. In that context, The network business is focused on a transformation: to bill kilowatts to offer guarantees of energy continuity. And there is the key: whoever adapts to the new model will not only resist better. You can also lead it. In Xataka | We have second to second the data on the great blackout in Spain. They complicate everything even more Outstanding image | EcoFlow

NASA will cancel the SLS rocket and look for a cheaper alternative to colonize the moon and Mars

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It was seen comingbut the impact is not less. The Trump administration has presented its budget proposal for fiscal year 2026. And in regards to NASA, it is a true earthquake. Goodbye to SLS. The huge and very expensive lunar rocket SLS of the NASA, whose development has led the Boeing spatial division for 14 years, will be removed after the Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027. There will be no block 1B version, and therefore the ML-2 mobile launch tower (whose budget had been sentenced) will be presumably without using. Justification is economical. The own Budget document Openly criticizes the SLS, noting that it has a cost of 4,000 million dollars per launch and has exceeded its budget by 140%. Demolish figures that not only They have sentenced the heir to the legacy Apollo and space transforders, but to all NASA’s lunar architecture. Goodbye to Orion and Lunar Gateway. Designed to launch aboard the SLS, the Lockheed Martin’s space capsule now has the same expiration date: it will be removed after taking astronauts to the lunar orbit in the Artemis II and Artemis III missions. NASA will choose a more modern and affordable architecture for Artemis IV onwards. But the cuts do not stop here. The Lunar Gateway Space Station, a key international project in the now truncated plans of the Artemis program, is also canceled. This leaves NASA’s international partners in a very delicate position that participated in the station: the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan (Jaxa), Canada (CSA) and United Arab Emirates. ESA, which supplies the European Ship Module Orion and develops The I-Hab and Esprit modules of Lunar Gatewaysee how your investment and astronaut places (including a seat to travel for the first time to the lunar surface) are in the air. As Daniel Marín points out in Eurekathe “ugly” to the partners is considerable. Especially to Europe. The bet: commercial ships and Mars. According to a NASA statement, the objective of these cuts is “to accelerate human exploration to the moon and Mars with a tax portfolio.” In other words, the blank checks for usual partners of the space agency are over. The White House wants to “return to the moon before China and put an American on Mars.” The budget allocates more than 7,000 million dollars to lunar exploration, but focused on “next generation commercial systems, more profitable” to replace the SLS/ORion architecture. Starship/HLS of Spacex and New Glenn/Blue Moon of Blue Origin have, as is logical, many ballots. The budget also introduces an investment of 1,000 million dollars to start a program focused on Mars. Although the details are scarce, it is taken for granted that will also pivot the SLS to the Spacex Starship, following Elon Musk’s vision. However, it is a very long -term bet, with little chances of seeing fruits before the current presidential mandate ends. Less science, less flights to ISS. The budget is especially devastating for NASA’s Space Science Division, which suffers a cut of 2,265 million dollars. The Mars Sample Return mission is explicitly canceled to recover the Martian soil samples from Rover Perseverance, arguing that the same objective will be achieved with future manned missions. Emblematic projects such as the new Nancy Grace Roman (which is almost finished), the historic Hubble space telescope and even, According to Eric Berger of Ars TechnicaNASA’s participation in the Rosalind Franklin European mission. The International Space Station, although it will remain operational until 2030, is not fought. NASA will reduce the size of the American crew and on-board research (-508 million budget), decreasing “significantly” loading and crew flights, gradually leaving the low terrestrial orbit in the hands of commercial stations (and China). A cycle change. While the proposal has yet to go through Congress, the Republican majority makes it difficult to take great modifications, although programs such as SLS/ORION have important support within the giant lobby as Boeing. The big question is whether this bet will work to win the space race against China. The abrupt cancellation of the SLS could leave a vacuum that China would take the opportunity to establish a sustained lunar presence before commercial alternatives are ready. And it is that getting to the Moon is not easy for private companies, as the failed launches of the NASA Clps program have demonstrated. Needless to say how risky it is to bet on an accelerated arrival to Mars. Image | POT In Xataka | China is getting closer to overcoming NASA in its Martian mission. And just invited other countries to join

If the question is if the cars were “cheaper” regarding your salary in 1975 than now, we have made accounts

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It is no secret. Cars have risen in the last years. Cars, in fact, have risen a lot of price in recent years. It is an issue that we analyze in Xataka Two years ago and although the semiconductor crisis passed, the cost of getting a car has not lowered much. The problem even hit second -hand cars that too They shot their prices. It is a problem that was generalized internationally since the lack of components led companies such as Ford to have tens of thousands of vehicles due to the lack of some small component. Today the situation has been normalized. No longer is needed wait for more than a year To receive a car or there are people paying overpreds for Skip the waiting list of a Tesla. In fact, to the company It is costing to place according to what cars. But there is something that has not changed so much. The price of cars is still high. Very high. How high? Let’s compare it with a few years ago. A salary year Do we take a look at what the situation was half a century ago? Our partners L’Automobile They have echoed a study in which it was claimed that buying a Citroën 2CV in 1975 was much more complicated than getting a Citroën C3 in 2025. The French media, however, stated that the study presented them with any doubt because it was not taken into account, for example, the average cost of the house, one of the problems that, as in Spainhit France. Are we in Spain in the same situation? In our case, we are going to take official minimum salary data and vehicle prices as a departure. Thus, consulting the data reflected by the BOE of 1975, the minimum wage was at 8,400 pesetas. Monthly that, after the year, added 117,600 pesetas at the end of the year with 14 payments. That year, according to data collected in Bull skinspecialized in the Spanish classics, a Citroën 2CV-6 cost 123,088 pesetas. In January 1974, in Highway They explained The idiosyncrasy of this version in the following terms: “Without entering the discussion about whether the 2 hp must be considered as a car or simply as a distant cousin, the truth is that we find an inescapable reality: it is the cheapest vehicle on the market, and according to legend, also the cheapest consumption,” With the data in his hand, a Spaniard who charged the minimum wage needed to work 14.65 payments to pay the car. That is, just over the salary won in a whole year to acquire “the cheapest vehicle on the market.” Today, Citroën’s cheapest car is C3. Its price is 15,740 euros, According to the vehicle configurator. In 2025, the minimum interprofessional salary is 16,576 euros with the last climb of the SMI. Taking this into account, to pay a Citroën C3, a worker needs 13.29 payments. That is to say, Less days worked than 50 years ago For a vehicle of similar characteristics. And if we go to the cheapest car on the market, as collected in the search engine of Km77which have a huge database with the current prices of market cars, the most basic dacia A price of 13,940 euros It is the cheapest car on the market. In this case, a worker needs to dedicate 11.77 payments. That is, almost twelve payments, less than a year. They are data that compare prices “to the gross” since the cost of the purchase or housing car is not taken into account. Yes we know that in 1975, The best -selling car in Spain was the Seat 127. A car that at that time cost 166,290 pesetas. Or, what is the same, 19.79 payments of a Spaniard with minimum wage. The data is not less since it means that the Spanish buyer acquired A car 135% more expensive than the cheapest model on the market. In 2024, however, The most purchased car was … Dacia Sandero with 32,994 units. A car that put more than 10,000 units to Toyota Corolla, second classified. This gives us an idea of ​​the type of car to which a Spanish buyer aspires in 2025. To all of the above we must add, as we said, factors such as the price of housing. In this case, we have not found studies that aim at the cost of acquiring it in 1975 but in Xataka Yes we have studied evolution and the cost of the same over the years. For sample, housing prices are already still expensive as in the bubble years. Even if it is a fact deformed by inflation, The study which we echoed does show that an apartment is now 3.5 times more expensive than in 1980, when the study began. Another sample, in Bankinter They point out that a family needed the total income of 2.9 years to pay an apartment in 1987, while in 2023 this figure was between 7.3 and 7.5 years. Data that explain why if a car demands more or less the same amount of effort, now the most purchased car in Spain is a cheaper than 50 years ago. Photo | Citroën and Dacia In Xataka | Spain continues to prefer the cheap car, not the electric: the registration data leave a bittersweet taste for the industry

Can you get cheaper on Amazon

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Mediamarkt has several active campaigns, but the “-15% only app“It is one of the most interesting. It ends tomorrow, April 23 at 09:00 hours and applies even to products that are offer. It is the case of the Fire TV Stick 4K that Mediamarkt has to 37.99 euros. With the discount through the app. It finally stays for 35.28 euros (cheaper than in Black Friday, which fell to 35.99 euros), although … it can leave more expensive than in Amazon. * Some price may have changed from the last review The Fire TV Stick 4K has rarely been so cheap The current price of the Fire TV Stick 4K is good, at least with Medamarkt’s offer. But to that we must add that Shipping costs are 2.99 eurosso if we do not collect it in store, it stays for 38.27 euros, a little above what it costs on Amazon, that in this case the price is of 37.99 euros. When buying it from Amazon, it can be cheaper as long as the Fire TV Stick 4K does not pick up in the Mediamarkt store. He Fire TV Stick 4K It is one of the Dongle Amazon with better value for money, especially with the offers that are available today. It’s a very versatile device that we can use for different purposeseither to have a different operating system or to have an old TV – with HDMI port – some functions that we see on smart televisions. In addition, this version is the most recent, so offers better performance than in the previous generation And an interesting addition for those video game lovers: is compatible with game passso by having an active subscription of the Microsoft service we can access the wide streaming catalog. Finally, we cannot forget one of the most important specifications of the device, and that is, of course, it comes with Alexa integrated. You may also be interested in these other alternatives Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max (last generation), streaming device compatible with Wi-Fi 6e and Environmental Fund * Some price may have changed from the last review Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd Gen, 4K Ultra HD With Dolby Vision, 32GB of storage, Wifi 6, Google TV, black color * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Amazon In Xataka | Best Amazon Fire TV. Which to buy and recommended models to turn your TV into a smart TV depending on the use In Xataka | Best smart tv box. Which to buy and 11 set top box recommended from 27 to 214 euros

The cheaper, the more the electric grid collapses worldwide

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In 1812, a German named Frederick Winsor founded the Light and Coke Company in London. His proposal was to supply gas to multiple homes centrally, instead that each one had to buy and burn their own coal or their own firewood. Thus, public services were born, which today face its greatest transformation in two centuries By effect of renewables. The electricity grid According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), today there are 80 million kilometers of electrical networks in the world. By 2040, 50 million additional kilometers will be needed, in addition to the urgent need to modernize another 30 million kilometers of the current network. The challenge is not only quantity: it is not enough to multiply the electric laying. Wind energy, and especially solar energy, have introduced the need to digitize all infrastructure, Insert control systems and improve your flexibility to handle the intermittent nature of renewables. The paradox of solar energy. The more accessible the photovoltaic panels become, the more users choose to partially abandon the electricity network. This increases the cost for those who stay, and puts in check the stability of the system, pending a deep modernization. In rich and sunny regions Like California either Australiaself -consumption has been about to collapse the network in days of abundant solar generation. But you don’t have to go to the most developed places in the world to find these types of problems. A report in The Economist Review three unsuspected cases: Pakistan, the third largest importer of Chinese solar panels (according to data from 2023), is seeing how companies, farmers and large consumers install photovoltaic systems to self -abuse and stop paying very expensive electrical invoices. Still dependent on old coal plants, the price of electricity in Pakistan is very high, so users with resources have preferred to invest in solar energy South Africa lives another variant of this paradox. Before the mass cuts of the state company Eskom (which are called ‘Load Shedding’), many users install solar panels and batteries to protect themselves from interruptions. The South African municipalities that buy the energy at Eskom and then resell them have to pay increasing invoices to the company and, in turn, charge less to those who migrate to self -consumption. This has generated indebtedness with ESKOM of around 1.2% of the country’s GDP. Solar adoption relieves the dependence of the network, but in turn it is a threat to the income that maintains the infrastructure In Lebanon, the state company only provides electricity a couple of hours a day since 2019. As a direct consequence of this, the photovoltaic facilities on the roofs have multiplied, from 100 to 1,300 megawatts in just three years. This situation, despite partially solving the shortage, is resulting in a fish that bites the tail due to the lack of stability and investments in the network An open gap. As private solar facilities proliferate, fixed network costs (lines, substations …) fall on a smaller user base connected. Those who run out of resources to put panels, generally the poorest, have to pay even higher rates To cover all system expenses, which normally seeks profitability. The numbers in Europe. Europe is at the head of the world in emission and electrification objectives, but this has important economic implications. According to a Bruegel reportthey will need between 65,000 and 100,000 million euros per year to modernize and expand the European electrical infrastructure, especially in distribution networks. At the same time, the European Union promotes solar self -consumption and does not always establish sustainable tarification mechanisms for the network. If many homes are drastically or reduced their consumption of the electricity grid, the user base on which the cost of investment in infrastructure is reduced, the fixed term of the invoice is increased and duttering more consumers, who invest in more solar panels. Cross -border connections. Solar energy itself does not cause instant blackouts, but unbalanced the financial and operational structure of the electricity grid, which has fixed maintenance costs. And he does it for several reasons: the decreasing base of users, the mismatches of supply and demand due to the intermission of renewables and the use of the network as a minimum cost support. In addition to batteries and Pumping plants to stabilize the networkinternational projects such as the hypothetical are needed Transatlantic cable between America and Europe To share renewable surpluses between continents and soften demand peaks, but their development is complex, controversial and quite expensive. Image | US Department of Energy In Xataka | The next drought will be electricity: the electricity grid “is running out of transformers” for the demand for AI

The cheaper Galaxy A56 and Galaxy A36 are in the official Samsung store. They come with insured gift

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The Samsung year began with the S25 Galaxy and now it is the turn of its mid -range. Your new A series A phones are available to buy right now, And the best site to make them is the official Samsung store. From today until April 25, we can get the Galaxy A56 and the Galaxy A36 with a lot of discounts and advantages. We tell you more about it below. We are waiting for you in territory s Do you like Samsung? We have a new specialized medium in Samsung and its products with tricks, offers, tutorials and all news about the brand. Go to territory Samsung’s best middle range is called Galaxy A56 Taking the witness of the Galaxy A55Samsung has its new Galaxy A56 as The most powerful mobile of this new series A. The same stands out for being the most powerful of all, also riding an exyn 1580 chip of Samsung herself. In addition, it will come with One UI 7 and Android 15so we will have all the news of Galaxy AI in our hand. This new device comes, like the Galaxy A36 that we will see later, with a 6.7 -inch Super Amoled panel with FHD+ resolution and a 120 Hz soda rate. It has 8 GB of RAM, although we can choose two different storage settings: 128 or 256 GB. At battery level it is also left over: riding a 5,000 mAh cell with 45 w fast charging. At the photographic level, we find a triple camera configuration (50+12+5 megapixels) and a 12 megapixel front camera. It has IP67 protection And it arrives in four different colors: Black, Gray, Green and Light Pink. The most economical way to get him is, as we have said before, the official Samsung store. As happened with the Galaxy S25, these new devices also come with the promotion double your memory, so We can take the 256 GB version at the price of 128 GB. The 256 GB version of the Galaxy A56 reaches 529 euros to stores, but with double your memory, this version is available 479 euros. If we use bizum as a form of payment, we will save 30 euros, to which we can add an additional 10% if we use Samsung’s app to make the purchase. Everything makes us take the 256 GB version for 404 euros With a 25 W charger as a gift if we ask the Chat of experts on the website or in the Samsung app, where they are also available. And eye: for 39.90 euros more, we can take a Galaxy Fit3 or some Buds faithwhat we choose. * Some price may have changed from the last review Thus samsung money earns: the secret is on the iPhone Galaxy A36, a cheaper option that has nothing to envy If we want a mid -range of Samsung, but we want to spend a little more, the ideal option for us is the Galaxy A36. This device is very similar to the previous: It has the same screen, the same battery, the same IP67 protection and a photographic section with a small variation (the wide angle is 8 megapixels for the 12 of the Galaxy A56). The main difference of it is found in your soc, That in this case is the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 of Qualcomm. In addition, this device arrives in two different configurations that in this case also change the RAM memory: 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage, on the one hand; 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB on the other. It arrives in four colors: Black, Gray, Light Violet and Light Green. As with the previous one, your memory promotion is also applied here. In this way, the 256 GB version of the Galaxy A36 leaves for 379 euros. At this price, we can discount additional 30 euros if we pay with Bizum and 10% extra when making the purchase through the Samsung app. This leaves us the phone in 314 euros that we can also accompany A free 25 w charger thanks to the expert chatboth on the web and in the Samsung app. Here is also the promotion of the Galaxy Fit3 and Galaxy Buds Fe, which would come out, which we choose from the two, for additional 39.90 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Samsung In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best price quality price. Your analysis and videos are here

Even with the sanctions it is cheaper

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In recent days, President Donald Trump has sent a proposal High to Vladimir Putin. In addition, the G7 He has urged To Russia to accept the stop to the fire or, otherwise, you will have to face new sanctions. However, one of the strongest assets of the Kremlin is not having problems thanks to the black market. The hidden market. The last report of the IEA has pointed out That the combined production of Russia’s crude oil, Venezuela and Iran has increased in March, compared to the previous months. As advanced in their social networks Energy expert Javier Blas: “Despite all rumors about new sanctions, the black oil market is thriving.” Despite the sanctions. The three countries mentioned continue to export raw, taking advantage of lagoons in the regulation and lack of political will to curb the flow of illicit oil, such as explains Javier Blas in his column. Also, like It is mentioned in the IEA reportexports from both Russia and Iran have not experienced significant interruptions, since both countries meet the demand of China and India. For its part, Venezuela has had to face more challenges for the revocation of the Chevron license, which the He has forced to depend more on intermediaries to export their crude, especially China. The increasingly lower price. The price of oil He is facing A “perfect storm”, in which an unexpected country, Kazakhstan, has been placed in the center of the energy market. Although this country was not known for being a great producer such as Russia, Iran or Venezuela, its growing influence on OPEC+ and its overproduction strategy are affecting the global oil supply. For its part, Russia, Iran and Venezuela produce Together 16 million barrels per day, that is, 15% of the world market of crude oil with lower prices affecting the traditional market. But how do they? The black oil market has adopted different methods to avoid sanctions. Oil trees without sanctions and transfers on the high seas, better known as “Ghost ships“, They have become common routes to continue exporting the crude of the mentioned countries. This strategy, although expensive and risky, remains attractive due to the high profit margin. Intermediaries play a crucial role, then Through triangulation With countries that do not apply sanctions, such as China and India, they continue to buy and transport the crude sanctioned without fear of immediate repercussions. Europe without action for action. Meanwhile, the EU faces a complicated situation. On the one hand, as we commented above, it cannot act against the black market. On the other hand, like Bloomberg has advancedan agreement between the Kremlin and the US on Ukraine could resume the flows of the Russian gas pipelines to Europe. This statement adds another layer of uncertainty to the situation, since a few days ago the debate between Russia and the United States about The reopening of nordstream 2. The global impact. As Russia, Iran and Venezuela maintain exports of the black market and Kazakhstan and the United States continue to overcome, prices will continue to be pressed down. To all this, we must add a lack of agreement in the high on the fire in the Ukraine War, so the uncertainty in the energy markets will continue. The combination of these dynamics could continue to disrupt the global market balance, leaving the energy situation even more vulnerable. Image | Unspash Xataka | Europe has sent 18,000 million euros to Ukraine for war. The problem is that it has spent more on Russian oil and gas

An iphone cheaper than ever, the Xiaomi 14T at a demolition price and a curious accessory for the Fire TV Stick. Hunting bargains

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Like every Friday, today a new hunting gangs arrives loaded with the best offers we have been able to see during the week (and that are still available). We have a lot to choose from: Bluetooth mobiles and headphones to computers and a curious accessory for the FIRE TV SICK. Xiaomi 14t by 429.99 eurosa mobile that with the offer has a very good value for money. iPhone 16 by 879 eurosthe mobile of the current generation had never been so cheap. MSI Cyborg 15 by 999 eurosa gaming laptop with a very good configuration. Mission cables by 24.99 eurosa curious accessory for the Fire TV Stick. Soundcore Life Q30 by 52.99 eurosone of the Bluetooth headphones with better quality market for market. Xiaomi 14t There are few offers we have seen in the Xiaomi 14tsometimes they arrived next to other devices and many others with quite large discounts. This time, PCComponentes has it a fairly low wreck, of more than 200 euros. Can be found by 429.99 euros and stands out mainly for your screen 6.67 inches AMOLED with 1.5K resolution, for their cameras signed by Leica, for its construction and by the collaboration with Gemini. * Some price may have changed from the last review iPhone 16 In these last months we have also seen enough offers on the different iPhone – both of the last one as of the previous generations. Today the iPhone 16Ebut if we look for something more complete on Amazon we have the iPhone 16 reduced by 879 euros. Apple’s mobile stands out both for its compact screen format 6.1 -inch Old Super Retina XDR as for its Apple A18 chip and for being compatible with Apple Intelligence (although it is not yet available in Spain). * Some price may have changed from the last review MSI Cyborg 15 Having a good configuration on a computer, especially if it is portable, can be very expensive, but occasionally the stores release very good offers on gaming laptops. This is the case of MSI Cyborg 15 that now has pccomponentes by 999 euros. Mount a Raptor Lake I7-13620H processor from Intel, has 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD, its graphics card is a RTX 4060 And it comes without operating system. Not bad for what it costs. * Some price may have changed from the last review Mission cables There is an accessory for the Fire TV Sick that is quite useful, especially if we do not have too many power shots. This is the accessory of Mission cables that we have in Amazon by 24.99 euros. But … how does it work? Basically It connects both to the Fire TV stick (microusb) and the TV (USB) so that the latter can feed the Amazon device. In this way, it will not be necessary that we have connected the Fire TV Stick by cable to an electrical outlet. Mission cables – Current USB cable for Amazon Fire TV * Some price may have changed from the last review Soundcore Life Q30 If we talk about headphones with an excellent value for money, we must undoubtedly mention the Soundcore Life Q30at least when it goes down price. Now they are in Amazon by 52.99 euros and for a few years they have become very popular headphones; partly for their price, but also because they are comfortable, very light, they offer Active hybrid noise cancellation And they have a battery that offers an autonomy of up to 50 hours. For this price few alternatives we will find so complete. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Xiaomi, Apple, MSI, Mission Cables, Anker In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which to buy and 19 models from 20 euros to 450 euros

The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra has not stopped lowering price. Now is cheaper than ever

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A few weeks ago Samsung premiered its new mobiles Galaxy S25so we have been able to see very good discounts on the previous generation. They have not stopped being offer, and now Phone House has the best to date in the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. Can be bought in the store for 829 euros instead of the usual 1,459 euros. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra (256 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review A Samsung mobile that still has a lot to offer He Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra It is one of the best mobiles that were launched last year – and it still is today, especially at this price. Among the highlights, we find a very good screen Amoled Ltpo of 6.8 inches which offers a Quad HD+ resolution and a refresh rate of 1 to 120 Hz. The galaxy brain is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and is accompanied by 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of internal storage. Regarding its battery, it does not have the figures that are coming – and have reached – to other mobiles, but offers very good autonomy. In addition, the battery Supports both 45W fast charging and 15W wireless load. At a photographic level we have a 12 MP front camera, while from the rear it comes with a camera module that is composed of a 200 MP main sensora 12 MP wide sensor and a 10 MP telephoto. In addition, it is compatible with Geminiit has IP68 certificationit comes with the S-PEN and you still have many years of updates. You may also interest these accessories to accompany Samsung’s mobile Samsung Wireless Charger Single Fast Charging 2.0 with Power Adapter 25W, White * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Galaxy Buds Fe – Wireless headphones with Bluetooth, Cancellation Active Noise (ANC), Comfortable adjustment, 3 microphones, tactile control, deep serious, includes load cable, graphite * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Ricardo AguilarSamsung In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best price quality price. Your analysis and videos are here

It is impossible to make it cheaper

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I think it threatens the existence of some of these companies. I have no idea what will happen in five years but I know what I see. Things are going to change The words are from Terry Woychowski And he knows well what he’s talking about. Woychowski was a senior executive of General Motors and in recent years he is president of Cassoft Global Technologies, consulting that is responsible for explaining to manufacturers where they have room to save money and how they can do it. His comparisons, of course, are now focused on Chinese cars. How its manufacturers get so much money in the production of their cars and how they position themselves to be a real threat to traditional West producers. Consulting that pass, obviously, by disassembling cars from one and the other and pointing out the differences. Taking out the … shame? To one of those last demonstrations the journalists of Automotive News. “What we see from the Chinese is an existential threat,” Woychowski stressed. Is exactly The same speech Employee by Jim Farley, president of Ford, a few months ago. In Ford they had reached the same conclusion as Cerseoft Global Technologies experts by dismantling some Chinese cars themselves. The strategy is usual, with traditional manufacturers trying to understand what they do in China different from them to lower their vehicles. In fact, This same company already told Toyota that could forget all the way they had so far. Everything learned and applied little by little, with minimal improvements but that added their excellent and reliable vehicles also made them more expensive and prevented them from competing at a price. And something very similar is what they have told US manufacturers. They put as an example the complications they face when manufacturing the ceiling of the vehicles. According to the consultant, the Americans use IMAES WITH RARE EARTH with a dollar cost for each of them. That forces them to use steel next to aluminum to guarantee their fixation. On the contrary, the Chinese use a simple adhesive strip that each one costs each. That is, at least twelve less and a much less complex and faster process. Something similar happens in the dashboard. While Americans use heavy metals after the dashboard, the Chinese or Tesla use plastics with profusion. The same pointed to Toyota, making it clear that, without the vibrations of a combustion engine, this way of working had become obsolete and only the product increased. In addition, from Caseoft they point out that all this competitive advantage has been possible because the State itself has created the China Automotive Technology & Research Center (Catarc)an agency created in 1985 that defines the standards of approval but also provides assistance for the development of new products, including the development of driving aid systems or autonomous systems. They have promoted an industry, they say, intensely competitive aware that some companies will stay along the way. However, this forces them to work faster and find solutions as quickly as possible. A pressure that leads them to use a month to get a new piece that arrives from an external supplier while in the West you need to use nine months. A meeting? Caseoft experts say that arranging an appointment with the person in charge of a supplier does not take less than two months but that in China they barely solve it in a week. If you want to compete in price, manufacturers have to standardize their products more, they say. It is the strategy that was used by the United States government to save costs during and after World War II and is the technique applied by Chinese manufacturers where the truly differential is software. Photo | Caesoft Global Technologies In Xataka | That Byd gives his autonomous driving is the first step: the real business will be to see a Madrid-Osasuna in the car

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