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The US has finally formalized the 104% tariff to China. Act then Apple has ceased to be the most valuable company

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There is no truce for large technological ones. This same afternoon, The White House has made official A 104% tariff to imports from China. The decision, which marks a new tension peak in the commercial war that Donald Trump unleashed, has not taken to agitate the markets. The consequences have been immediate. Apple, the great victim. Although in Spain it is almost midnight, in The east of the United States the markets have just closed with red numbers. Apple led the falls with a collapse of almost 5% in a single daywhich adds to the accumulated retreat of 23% since this new wave of tariffs began last week. The company has seen how its stock capitalization fell to 2.59 billion dollars. That decrease has been enough for Cupertino’s firm to lose the most valuable quoted company title in the world. The throne is again for Microsoft, which has closed the day with an even more pronounced fall (-7%), but with a slightly higher capitalization: 2.63 billion. A rivalry that remains alive. In the last five years, Apple and Microsoft have alternated several times the leadership in the markets. However, since mid -2024, Apple had established itself at the top, benefited by the good behavior of their income and the trust of investors. Microsoft, meanwhile, suffered a correction in the middle of last year, when doubts began to emerge about the sustainability of their investments in artificial intelligence. The market feared that the expense was excessive and unprofitable in the medium term. Falls in chain. The punishment has not been exclusive to Apple. Other great technology have also closed in red. Nvidia, third company for stock market capitalization globally, has dropped 1.37%. Amazon has retreated 2.62%, while Alphabet (Google) has lost 1.78%. Nor has Asml, the Dutch giant of the semiconductors, who has suffered a 3.32%drop. The origin of the conflict. It all started last week, when the Trump administration decided to reactivate commercial pressure on China with a 34% tariff on certain products. The measure was presented as a “reciprocal” action, but in Beijing it did not like. The Ministry of Commerce responded with a warning: “If the United States insists on following its own path, China will fight until the end.” Trump imposed an ultimatum: if China did not turn before Tuesday, it would impose a new 50%tariff. Beijing did not yield, and Washington either. In fact, in the last hours it had been leaked that the Chinese government even valued the distribution of American films as a form of symbolic retaliation. The result: confirmed climbing. The lack of agreement has led to the announcement that the markets have exploded: the new 50% tariff comes into force on Wednesday, shortly after midnight in Washington. In addition to existing taxes, the total exceeds 104%. Images | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | The US tariffs are already hurting two of the companies that support Taiwan’s economy: TSMC and Foxconn

Now the company has a plan to stop benefiting its rivals, according to FT

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Deepmind, the firm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that Google acquired in 2014 and officially integrated into a single division in April 2023it has been for years one of the great referents of the sector. Over time, he has earned that place for the quality of his scientific publications and for gathering some of the brightest researchers. But there are reasons to believe that this approach has begun to change. Several experts cited by Financial Times They ensure that Google Deepmind is delaying the publication of certain advances that it considers “strategic” or delicate in the field of generative AI. The measure is part of a strategy designed to preserve its competitive advantage and prevent its most recent and valuable developments from being exploited by rivals such as OpenAi. Transformers, star architecture Much of the development of generative artificial intelligence is not understood without Google’s advances. One of the most influential milestones was the publication in 2017 of the article ‘Attention is all you need‘, signed by eight researchers, who introduced the Transformers architecture. This approach, in general, allowed the models to process data more efficiently within large volumes of information. This architecture became the base of models such as Bert (bidirectional encoder representations from transformers), developed by Google itself and incorporated into its search engine in 2019 to improve the understanding of natural language. It was also key to the development of presentful systems such as GPT (Generative pre-trained transformers) of OpenAi, where the current ones are framed GPT-4 and GPT-4.5. Google is one of the world’s largest companies in the world. It has a huge financial muscle and access to key technology. Even so, the launch of Chatgptbased on GPT-3.5a model built on Transformers architecture, He took by surprise to the teams directed by L sundaria Pichai. The reaction was a “red code” and an urgent reorganization to compete again in an AI race that today leads OpenAi. It is no secret: when a company becomes a Big Tech, it loses part of the dynamism that defined it in its beginnings as startup. As we counted exactly one year agothey end up transforming into giants where the “move quickly and breaks things” no longer fits. They have too much to protect and a gear with thousands of pieces that cannot allow failures. Risking is not as easy as it seems. Even in this context, it surprises the speed with which the company of the search engine has managed to catch up. In a short time he has launched a AVALANCHA OF IA PRODUCTS based on advanced language models. There it is Geminihis direct rival of Chatgpt; Gemini Livedesigned to compete with Openai’s advanced voice mode; the Gemsthat work as Personalized GPTS; and amazing tools, such as Notebooklm. The new Google pulse The last years have forced the Mountain View company to introduce internal weight changes. One of the most significant affects the policy of publication of scientific articles: if the content is considered strategic, an seizure of six months is imposed before making it public. In addition, the group led by The Nobel Prize winner Sir Demis Hassabis He has hardened his internal processes, with a stricter review. One of the researchers who spoke on condition of anonymity with Financial Times was clear: today he cannot imagine Google by publishing a document like Transformers for general use. In this new dynamic, they say, “the company has become more concerned about the product and less for sharing the results of the investigation for the benefit of the common good ”, an address that can generate some discomfort in the community. Images | Boliviainteligent | Google Deepmind In Xataka | Openai has just lifted the greatest financing round in history: there is a blind faith in the AI ​​despite everything

What was from Barreiros, the Spanish automotive company that manufactured the Dodge “Made in Spain” in the second half of the twentieth century

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To Eduardo Barreiros the automotive was in his blood. With just 12 years he worked already in the workshop of the small bus company that his family had constituted in Ourense shortly before, in 1929, and it is said that over time he came to develop such an expertise that he could mount a truck with scrapping pieces. His other great inheritance was The businessa facet that his father had already deployed as an emigrant in the Canary Islands, where he created A CEDAZOS FACTORY. With such a cocktail running through its veins, a mixture of mechanics and entrepreneurial pulse, it does not surprise that Eduardo Barreiros ended up becoming one of the great magnates of the automotive of the Spain of the twentieth century. And rightly. Perhaps the passage of the decades and memory has not done justice, but there was an era, there for the third quarter of the twentieth century, in which his last name became one of the most popular brands in the sector and he in one of the most admired entrepreneurs, inside and outside Spain. Still in 2023 there are those who present it as “The Spanish Henry Ford”. And also in that there is enough. A logo for memory The emblematic Dodge-Dart Barreiros. The company that constituted in Madrid in the 1950s, along with his brother, Valerian Its characteristic logo In the form of eight, sum of its initials “E” and “B”. Thanks to his business alliances, towards the mid -60s of his factories even a Dodge came out “Made in Spain”the emblematic Dodge-Dart, a high-end car launched to compete against the SEAT-1500. The brand would end up becoming popular for an episode that has little to do with mechanics: when he suffered the attack that ended his life, on December 20, 1973, the Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco traveled aboard a Dodge 3700 GTsuccessor of those Dodge Dart, today Property of the Army Museum. To learn about the origins of your company, baptized not without controversy as diesel sweeps, it is necessary to go back a few years before, to the Spain of the 50s, on horseback The autarkic and developmentalism. It was then, in 1954, when Galician Eduardo Barreiros decided to constitute his own automotive company with his father and brother in Madrid. It was the result of an intuition that had been maturing since the previous decade: the business that could be created with the conversion of diesel gasoline engines, which allowed lower consumption and the use of a fuel cheaper. Simca 1000, with the Barreiros brand logo. As the Spanish Patent and Brands Office (OEPM) A detailed essay Dedicated to the company, Barreiros did not lack experience in the matter: he had accumulated it with the transformation of the engines of his own trucks and those of other transporters. Several years before founding Barreiros Diesel, in fact, he had had the good tino to protect his system with two patents. The business started on a plot of almost 16,000 m2 of Villaverdesouth of Madrid, and a capital of 10 million pesetas. Enough to make diesel engines, tractors and trucks. The young Barreiros soon demonstrated his good eye for the sector: at the months of constituting the company he made an intelligent movement that –Remember the OEPM– It allowed it for practical purposes to introduce the Perkins P-6 engine in Spain without the need for its manufacturer’s license. Boom and fall Throughout the following years the company experienced considerable growth, with the constitution of different societies related to its activity and an increase in personnel, facilities and of course production capacity. From the factory, emblematic creations came out, which even today place in the second -hand market, such as the TT-90 trucks, Goshawk and Super Azorthe Tempo van or the tractors Hanomag Barreiros R-335 and Barreiros 5500. Barreiros 4045. Barreiros also sought alliances with other companies, such as Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werk GmbH either Hanomag. The most relevant, due to its impact, contribution of funds and – I live in perspective – business repercussions would be the agreement with the European subsidiary of Chrysler, closed in 1963 and that allowed the Spanish firm to clear its future and take a decisive step for the manufacture of cars. It did not go free, of course: the multinational was done with 40% of the capital. A few years later from the Villaverde factory, the first Dodge-Dart of Barreiros, also known in the national market-how “Dodge Barreiros” came out. The remarkable injection of resources that accompanied the pact with Chrysler also allowed him to manufacture the popular Simca 1000launched in the early 60s in France by Simca with a commercial approach other than that of Dart. The Barreiros brand was popular, had an interesting catalog, manufactured emblematic models and had even managed to face SEATdriven by the powerful National Institute of Industrybut Not everything was good news in the offices of Villaverde. By the end of the 60s the firm faced a financial crisis that allowed Chrysler to reinforce his control and gain even more weight in the capital of the company, which soon derived in Chrysler Spain. The family that had captained the beginnings of the project, back in the 50s, ended up ceasing its activities in the company. His last name, yes, still survived as a commercial brand for years, proof of the success he achieved. The old Barreiros business project, cemented on their ideas for the conversion of gasoline engines for use with diesel then employed more than 20,000 people directly, generated a considerable business flow and, above all, had earned a prominent place in the history of Spanish automotive. The very New York Times It came to include to the Galician tycoon in his list of entrepreneurs most influential in Europe. The veteran businessman would still continue with his career, betting on the livestock sector and with an adventure on the other side of the pond, in Cuba, where he promoted the creation of Taíno engines. There, in Havana, … Read more

Thus was born Changan, the company that manufactured the first Chinese car in history

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Münich, March 2025. The departure pistol for the arrival of Changan to Europe. This Chinese automobile group confirmed the arrival of Deepal, one of its brands with a clear premium approach to Europe. He did it with him Deepal S07an electric Berlina that bets on a great technological load. 15.6 -inch central touch screen, adaptive cruise control with lane centered (which is equivalent to a level 2 of autonomy) and good performance with an electric motor of 216 hp and a 79.97 kWh capacity battery. The presentation demonstrates how far Changan has arrived. The company is the Chinese manufacturer by sales volume and its journey in Europe will begin in the main markets (Norway, Netherlands or Germany, among others) before their arrival in Spain, which is expected for 2026. But Changan Not only one more company in the Chinese car market. Changan’s story goes back, even, until the nineteenth century and this is one of the reasons that led him to produce the Changjiang Type 46, the first Chinese car in history. It all starts in the nineteenth century To understand what Changan is for China you have to go back. Far back. Between 1636 and 1912 the Qing dynasty ruled the country. Obviously, in almost three centuries of history of a country can happen. But what happened in the second half of the nineteenth century in China is that the region was immersed in all types of war conflicts. Finished in 1842 the First opium war In which the Chinese Empire had tried to snatch the drug trafficking of this powerful opioid, various revolts were happening until, in 1956, the Second Opium War began. A contest that united to the United Kingdom and France against China and that ended with the Imperial Palace burned and China capitulating. In that context, a little later from the end of this Second War, Changan would be born. The technology company was in charge of 1962 to supply military material to the Chinese Empire while it remained in front of the country. The company began working under the name of Shanghai Foreign Gun Bureau (Arsenal of Foreign Weapons of Shanghai) and in 1865 it was already the main arsenal of the country when it moved to Nanjing. The continuous instability of the zone caused the growth of the company. Between 1894 and 1895 there was the First Sin-Japanese War. With her the military media were reinforced and although Japan defeated China, in 1899 it was estimated that 1,700 people worked for the arsenal that was ultimately the origin of Changan. The company ended up surviving the fall of the Qing dynasty and with the Second Sino-Japanese war, Arsenal was transferred from Nanjing to Chongqing for fear that after the fall of Shanghai the weapons could fall into the hands of the Japanese. That company, which had changed its name again to adopt that of The 21st Arsenal, also remained standing with the Foundation of the People’s Republic of China by Mao Zedong. In fact, this was renamed The State-Owned Factory 456. That is, it was reflected in the name that the company was owned by the Chinese state. That is when the company expands its production and a subsidiary called Chongqing Changan Automobile Company. That subsidiary is responsible for carrying out the Changjiang Type 46. Considered the first Chinese production car, it leaves the doors of the factory on April 5, 1958 and remained unalterable until 1959. The car was evidently a military vehicle. It was, in fact, a copy of the Jeep Willysthe classic American military vehicle that has remained in the collective imaginary after World War II. The original model was devised by Willys-Overland and quickly demonstrated its qualities in the field with its permanent 4×4 traction and because its hardness and agility. Taking only the essentials, the car weighed just over a ton and passed over any land. In the Chinese case, production was poor At first (only 36 units in the first year) as a result of a country that dragged an important technological development. But the production remained stable until 1963 and, little by little, more than 1.1000 units came out of the assembly lines. He Changjiang Type 46 He had the capacity to transfer six people, with a 2.2 -liter four -cylinder engine. Its weight was 1,150 kg and its consumption was not very high for the time, with about 13.7 l/100 km. Its maximum speed was 115 km/h. Although the production started hesitantly, little by little the car was making a hole to the point that in 1963 the Chongqing facilities are transferred to Peking by order of the Chinese state. The transfer forced the production to stop as it was decided to disassemble the installation completely and take it to the new city, instead of building a directly there. We talk about transferring a factory over almost 1800 kilometers that separate both cities. Already in Beijing, Changan continued manufacturing military vehicles until In the 80s signs an agreement with Suzuki And it enters the Personal vehicles and the commercial transfer of goods or people with minibuses. The turn would later deepen Companies like Ford and Mazda when both companies shared developments. This last collaboration has remained until today and is the architect that today we can see the Mazda 6ea car that was born to the Chinese public initially fruit of collaboration between Japanese and Changan and that we will finally see on European soil very soon. Photo | CHANGAN and Mazda In Xataka | Family and friends keep asking me if “it is worth buying a Chinese car.” This is my answer

The company has already begun to limit access

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In the last hours, social networks They have been filled with images generated by artificial intelligence with visual styles as recognizable as spectacular. There are reinterpretations of historical scenes in the style Ghiblivacations that look like Lego sets or portraits turned into characters from the Muppets. There are also versions in Pixel Art. Everything with a surprising level of detail. Behind this fever is chatgpt. The last function of the popular OpenAi chatbot allows you to generate images in seconds simply indicating a visual style. You can start from scratch or use a photo as a reference, and the result seems taken from an animated film. So much magic has a cost. Demand has grown so much that Openai servers are noticing the pressure. “It is very fun to see people love the images in Chatgptbut our GPU are melting ”, Sam Altman saidCEO of OpenAi. Openai responds with temporary limitations. To avoid greater overload, the company has begun to impose limits of use. The system could take longer to generate images or directly reject them, even if they would be allowed under normal conditions. Only for payment users (for now). At the moment, this function is reserved for those who have a payment subscription, such as Chatgpt plus either Chatgpt Pro. Free users can generate up to three images a day, although this option is not yet available. Controlling demand is key. It is not just a matter of AI. Any cloud -based system can be affected by massive use. And if it is not regulated in time, performance falls or even serious failures can become the following problem to be solved. An infrastructure challenge. For years, Openai depended exclusively on Microsoft as a cloud service provider. However, in recent months it has begun to diversify its infrastructure, incorporating other partners like Oracle. Even so, resources remain limited. This scarcity not only slows down the development of new functions, but also affects the availability of existing ones when a peak of use occurs, as is the case now with the generation of images. A company still far from being profitable. This situation comes at a delicate time for OpenAi. According to The Informationthe company continues to generate great losses: it currently loses billions of dollars a year, and its own projections estimate that this figure could triple until reaching 14,000 million dollars in 2026. Images | Xataka with chatgpt | @MDURBAR In Xataka | Millions of people are interested again in Chatgpt. The problem is that he has achieved it by violating copyright

Years ago, the Pohjois-Karjalan company Lacalvelu Ky abbreviated its name to Lumon. ‘Separation’ has made it a problem

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There are several and inevitable crosses from ‘Separation‘, the current success of the labor dystopia of Apple TV+with real life. As the real physical location of that nightmare ode to corporate brutalism that are the offices of the series of the series, Lumon. Or Lumon’s own name, which he shares with some authentic business that he has had to say that they are not planting chips in anyone’s head. Why we are obsessed with Lumon. If there is someone who has not hooked on the series of mystery and science fition of Apple TV+, its starting point is simple: a company of last purposes unknown (although they do not smell well) poses to some of its employees a total division of work and leisure: after a surgical intervention, its self that works will not remember anything about its life outside, and its self will not remember anything about work. Pure labor literalness for everyone who makes a job from 8 to 18, and that in the series is reinforced by aseptic and enigmatic visual presence of the synthetic and retro lumon offices. He is not surprising that fans have obsessed with her. The real lumon. There is already one Real lumon which is dedicated to “getting more space to live turning terraces and wasteful balconies in inspiring and versatile glazed spaces. Lumon has more than one million satisfied customers worldwide.” Come on, a common terraces glazing company. And they are not doing badly: in 2022 193 million euros entered and have more than 1,300 employees. Its origins are in 1978 in Finland, under the name of Pohjois-Karjalan Asticvelu Ky, where they were in charge of all kinds of renovations until in 1990 they focused on glazing. Lumon is going well. Currently, Lumon has two offices in North America, both in Canada, and work in more than twenty countries, including Spain. However, their international fame has not prevented them from having to publish on their website a kind of disclaimer in which they explain the differences between Lumon Group, the glazing, and Lumon Industries, their evil twins in Apple TV+. “We have the same name as the antagonistic corporation of one of the largest series of streaming of all time, “they say.” But there the similarities end. “ Lumon of ‘separation’ does exist. In fact, Lumon has a very specific physical presence, which was located by photography director Jessica Lee Gagné after reviewing dozens of Malls abandoned It was an abandoned office building called Bell Labs (by Bell Telephone Laboratories, the research arm of the AT&T telecommunications colossus), in Holmdel, a rural New Jersey area. Currently the center has been reformed and, of course, it has become a pilgrimage center for fans and influencers. Lumon Superstar. We have spent weeks talking about very very finance of Apple TV+: Your waste with blockbusters like ‘Argylle‘or’ Wolfs’ has led him to paralyze his intentions to become a Major Hollywood. However, in the niche of streaming Something better: ‘Separation’ has already confirmed third seasonand ‘Ted Lasso’ Go back with a fourthwhich can convert the Apple platform into the cultured series factory par excellence. Header | Apple – Lumon In Xataka | The streaming economy is completely broken and things will only get worse within the coming years

The authentic responsible for China can make avant -garde chips is an almost unknown company: Sicarrier

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During the last year and a half Huawei and SMIC have monopolized much of attention in the scope of the semiconductor industry. These two Chinese companies have worked together to develop the technology they needed to produce integrated 7 nm circuits using equipment deep ultraviolet lithography (UVP) that produces ASML. SANCTIONS TO CHINA from the United States and the Netherlands prevent this Dutch company from selling their most advanced machines to their Chinese clients, so none of them have access to their equipment extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE). The latter are adequate to manufacture 7 Nm chips on a large more advanced integration technologies. Nevertheless, Huawei and SMIC have managed to produce them using UVP equipment thanks to a technique known as Multiple patterning. Broadly this technology consists in transferring the pattern to the wafer in several passes with the purpose of increasing the resolution of the lithographic process. His problem is that he usually has an upward impact on the cost of chips and the decline in production capacity, although it works. Sicarrier is the Chinese company backed by the government behind this milestone During the last days several Asian media, such as SCMP either Nikkei Asiathey are giving visibility to a Chinese manufacturer of practically unknown lithography equipment that aspires to be the protagonist of Semicon China. This fair is dedicated to the semiconductor industry and will be held this week in Shanghai (China). A priori is surprising that Sicarrierwhich is what this company is called, it is attracting so much attention, but if we investigate a bit we will discover what makes it so special. The technology used by Huawei and SMIC to manufacture 7 Nm integrated circuits derives from a sicarrier patent The first reason is that it is a company that, according to the media that I have mentioned in the previous paragraph, is closely linked to Huawei, although its ties are not entirely clear. What we do know is that it has the economic support of the Shenzhen administration. And, what is more important, than the technology used by Huawei and SMIC to manufacture 7 Nm integrated circuits derives from a patent from sicarrier which seeks to make possible the production of 5 Nm chips using UVP lithography equipment. Although it was founded in 2021, during the last four years Sicarrier has maintained a very low profile. And there is no doubt that it is an express choice of its directive dome. Gives the feeling that the Chinese government wanted to happen as unnoticed as possible, and makes sense to be so if we are in mind that, according to Nikkei AsiaSicarrier’s goal is to compete with the manufacturers of lithography equipment that lead the market, among which are the Dutch company ASMLthe Japanese Tokyo Electron or the American Apply materials. It will be interesting to check this same week if the teams that will be released in Semicon China are up to expectations. Image | Sicarrier More information | SCMP | Nikkei Asia In Xataka | This is China’s big problem with chips: Huawei will manufacture its Kirin X90 for PC using the 7 Nm of SMIC

12 million people delivered their DNA to 23Andme. The company broke, but the problem for users goes further

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“Discover what your DNA says about you and your family.” This is how 23Andme, a company that proposes something as simple as sending a saliva sample and receiving information about the origin of your ancestors or possible relatives lost over time. No needles, without blood: a domestic genetic test that promises personal answers to ancestral questions. A few days after registering on the platform, the user receives at home a small box with a collection tube. You just have to deposit a saliva sample and return the package by mail. From there, the DNA is digitized and analyzed by algorithms. Three or four weeks later, the results appear directly on the entrance tray. In bankruptcy. Open the door to the past for less than $ 120 seemed a proposal for success. However, things did not go as expected. Last Sunday, 23 Andme accepted Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Law, that is, he declared himself in bankruptcy, and his CEO, Anne Wojcicki, soon presented her resignation. This outcome was not sudden. 23Andme had been facing doubts about his business model, disputes with investors and a concern for the property of his huge genetic database. Has never reported net benefits And its stock market value has collapsed in recent yearsentering a complicated field. Wojcicki tried to get the company several times, but its proposals were rejected again and again. “Although it disappoints me that we have reached this situation and that my offer has been rejected, support for the company and I intend to participate as a bidder,” The executive said in a shared message this Monday in X. Privacy nightmare. More than 12 million people, according to figures that we found on their website, shared their DNA with 23andme. Now, they could see how their data end up in the hands of another company. It is a very real possibility: the restructuring process includes the sale of assets with the objective of “maximizing the value of the business.” The situation has lit the alarms of the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, who issued an consumer alert focused on privacy. In it, he recalled that any citizen has the right to ask the company to eliminate their data and the destruction of any genetic sample that still retains. The company, on the other hand, has assured that there will be no changes in the way it protects user data during the bankruptcy process. However, your security history is far from being impeccable. Without going any further, last year One of its databases with millions of profiles on the Dark Web was leaked. Images | 23ndme In Xataka | My data has been filtered, now what: the steps you should always take that there is a massive filtration on the Internet that can affect you

They are not going to fit the 60,000 satellites that plan Spacex and company

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More than 10,000 active satellites Orbit our planet. Two thirds are from the Starlink constellation Spacex, which has A team working 24/7 to prevent collisions against other satellites and large fragments of space garbage, of which there are at least 40,000. It is a known problem, but we did not expect it to get worse for climatic reasons. The effect of climate change on space garbage. Carbon dioxide emissions, responsible for global warming due to their greenhouse effect, cause the opposite effect on the upper atmosphere, cooling and shrinking the highest layers, which makes the atmosphere itself become less dense. This phenomenon favors the accumulation of space garbage. As? The upper atmosphere acts as a natural “cleaner” for space garbage. When the objects orbit near the earth, they touch the atmosphere, however light, slowly slowing down until they fall and burned. But, with a thinner atmosphere, this cleaning effect weakens significantly, which means that space garbage remains in orbit longer. The projections are scary. According to a study published in Nature SustainabilityIf we continue to generate greenhouse gas emissions without control, the atmosphere will become so thin that, by 2050, the ability to house satellites of the low terrestrial orbit orbit would be reduced by 27%. By the end of the century, the reduction would be between 50 and 66%. The study introduces the concept of “instant orbital capacity” to calculate how many satellites can operate simultaneously without generating uncontrolled growth of space garbage, emphasizing the cyclic variability of the sun: during the minimum solar, the atmosphere is further contract. The problem of constellations. The growing technological demand of the land orbit is dominated by Starlink, which will soon follow other Chinese, European and American constellations with their Plans to launch up to 60,000 satellites In the coming years. The low orbit (between 200 and 1,000 km of altitude) where most satellites operate could become unsustainable. In the worst stage, a single collision would cause A destructive waterfall Known as Kessler syndrome: a chain reaction in which each shock generates more fragments, exponentially multiplying the amount of space garbage and returning the practically useless earth orbit. What we are doing to avoid it. Beyond reducing emissions that aggravate this phenomenon with the energy transition, there are companies and space agencies Testing techniques to remove space trashlike the famous satellites capable of capturing old objects. But the most effective solution, which bets on the European space agency in its Strategy 2040is to stop adding trash through launching and design regulations of the strictest satellites. Jared Isaacman, nominated for NASA administrator, stressed in his X account the seriousness of the problem: “Even an aluminum fragment of millimeter size, traveling at orbital speed, can cause considerable damage,” wrote. For Isaacman, the solution is to immediately stop the creation of new space garbage and Avoid military conflicts in orbitthat could trigger the dreaded Kessler syndrome. Image | Max Alexander/Steve Kelly (ESA) In Xataka | Space garbage is such a real problem that Starlink satellites make thousands of evasion maneuvers every month

This Alavesa company dominates mobile phones, and the 2G blackout transformed it into something much more interesting

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The MWC was a brutal hive of technological and telecos from all over the world … with America and Asia in a prominent place, something that results paradoxical and expected at the same time in an event organized in Barcelona: Error 404, Europe Not Found. But in one of the Halls Yes there was European presence, because there There was the huge Spanish pavilion, that of Red.es, and in turn there was, in one of its fifty spaces, SPC (Smart Products Connection), an Alava technology that has turned the technological needs of the elderly into their small gold mine. And we were able to talk to his CEO, Teresa Acha-Forea, an old acquaintance of Xataka: A decade ago We interviewed her in her stage with Wikowhich was a mark of that same matrix. Of telephone liberalization to leadership in a specialized niche SPC’s story begins with The beginning of the process of liberalization of telecommunications At the end of the eighties, when Telefónica lost the monopoly of the sale of telephones. It was then that this company Alavesa jumped to start marketing landlines. It looks like a gray and little activity sexy (And it is), but it was his germ. For years it was your main business (They still have a presence in him), But with the slow agony of the fixed this leg is more in the consulting of conference terminals for companies than in the sale of the telephone itself. Red.es pavilion in the MWC 2025. In one of its fifty spaces was SPC. Image: Xataka. A little after that was when the adventure that has taken them here began. “Twenty years ago we began to make adapted phones for blind and people with special needs“, explains Teresa during our interview at the Mobile World Congress 2025.” We also had a Portfolio of telephone numbers for seniors, with large, first fixed and then mobile keys. “ What began as a specialized line has led the company to a dominant position in Spain: “We have become the first Spanish telephone brand for seniors, we have 50% of that market,” says the directive. The silent revolution: from 2g to 4g While the technological world revolts around The latest ©SPC has demonstrated the ability to evolve without losing its essence. Its catalog has been growing with the decades, but always maintaining the focus on a type of accessible and easy -to -use devices. That approach also has its own technological risks. In this case, a question of networks: “These devices are 2g, but you have to change to 4g by The blackouts that are going to be done. All these devices will stop working, so we decided to launch the catalog in 4G. ”What was cost savings because it made no sense to aim at ultra -granted speeds also finds its expiration date. This technological change has meant a great change for the company: “We went from transmitting voice to transmit data. That makes a ‘silly’ device have some intelligence. With the 4G we saw that we could exchange data, that is, send orders.” And that forced paradigm change led them to A much deeper change: the hardware for the service. Taking advantage of the 4G jump, SPC has developed a platform called SPC Carelaunched at the end of last year. “It is an app that is usually downloaded a responsible, a child,” explains the CEO. “It allows to manage the entire device menu, contacts, volume, brightness … It also has functions for the child, such as locating the father’s mobile by GPS or seeing his SMS.” The latter, he points, not so much to invade his privacy and to prevent The frauds that have found in the SMS a great ally. In it MWC 2025 The company presented new functions for this platform: “We have incorporated new actions, for example, a medication reminder. We have an agenda in which to schedule days and hours for a specific message to arrive, which we can write, and thus will come in a personalized way.” The most interesting thing is how this reminder is delivered: “That message will not come as SMS, because they do not usually read them, but as a voice call.” A detail that demonstrates the company’s knowledge about the real needs of its target audience. This evolution represents a paradigm change for SPC, as its directive acknowledges: “This is being a small great revolution for the company. We have gone from being a hardware company very specialized in the development of the PCBA with engineering in China, to manage applications and data.” Between design and manufacturing Although SPC is presented as a Spanish manufacturer, its productive model reflects the reality of the contemporary technology industry: Design in any country, manufacture in China. Nothing on the other Thursday, nothing we don’t know. However, the degree of involvement of the company in the development of its products varies quite according to the category. It is not a black or white. “It depends on each category, we intervene more in the conceptualization or less,” explains Acha-Forea. “The person in charge is the one who has contact with the manufacturer of the Chipset. The manufacturer of Chipset Sells specific engineering that are the ones that develop the PCBA “. In the most strategic products, the personalization level is very high: “In the tablets, we do everything with engineering in China. From speaking with engineering, and telling him that this is the PCBA, this is the type of plate, we want this type of battery here, this here, this here …”. The CEO is clear on which products they have more intervention: “Tablets and smartphones for seniors are own molds, they are ours. When it is its own mold, it is its own PCBA and its own engineering.” Current Catalog of SPC smartphones. Image: SPC. At the opposite end are the smallest or generic products: “Some headphones … Well, you choose the headset and say, well, because I want you to change this, … Read more

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