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The emptied Spain seemed condemned to depopulation. Until a town in Palencia found a way to avoid it

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until recently Nava walls (Palencia) was a remote town known above all for its heritage and being the birthplace of the poet Jorge Manrique and the painters Peter and Alonso Berruguete. That was until not long ago, we say. In recent days the name of this town in Tierra de Campos has grabbed headlines throughout the country for another reason: against all odds, it has become proof that the ‘Spain emptied’ and the rural peninsula do not have to resign themselves to losing population. In Paredes they have certainly worked a miracle. The most curious thing is that he has done it with a recipe quite obvious. Looking at the INE. Although its tables are basically made up of figures, percentages and rates, from time to time the INE gives us the odd mystery. It happens in Paredes de Nava, Palencia. If we take a look at their census we observe a curious phenomenon: despite the fact that their region (Land of Fields) has spent the last decades losing density of population, in line with much of rural Spain, in recent years Paredes has gained neighbors. In 2023 they were registered in the town 1,985 peoplejust one year later there were 1,911 and in 2025 the observatory already counted 1,927. Is it that curious? Yes. It may not be spectacular growth, but it is striking if two factors are taken into account. First, it breaks the negative trend that Paredes had experienced in recent times, accustomed to losing a few 25 residents every year. Second, the town had not moved in its current population data for quite some time. We have to go back to 2018 to find a better result and the town hopes to reach the psychological barrier of the 2,000 registereda figure that has not been used since 2013. And how is it possible? If the case of Paredes has attracted attention beyond Palencia or Castilla y León, it is because this increase in population is neither coincidental nor the result of chance. On the contrary. Responds to a strategy that already has sparked interest from other towns and relies on two legs: immigration and affordable housing. To understand it, we have to go back to 2024, when the mayor of the town, Luis Calderón, contacted YourTechoa Spanish SOCIMI that seeks solutions to “homelessness and lack of housing.” The entity works in several fields at the same time, but in the rural Their bet basically consists of recovering empty houses to turn them into “accessible” homes for “vulnerable families.” Objective: home… and roots. In practice, this means that they acquire homes and then rent them to the City Council so that they end up being rented to new residents in an initiative with a marked social focus. On walls for example 75% of the beneficiaries are foreigners, especially Latinos. Since the idea is for newcomers to the town to take root, it is easier for them to take root. different shapes. As? Through contracts of leasing for those who need a vehicle or rentals with option to own. And the work? The councilor assures There are no shortage of vacancies in the province. In addition to the Renault factory, livestock and agriculture there are a project to open an olive oil refining factory. “There are plenty of jobs, there are more than 1,200 unfilled, that is without taking into account the social and health needs and those of Renault,” guarantees Calderón, who optimistically awaits the opening of the new oil refining factory: “We are going to need many more houses.” “The solution, in rural areas”. The demographic pulse of the town is not new. It started after the pandemic, when a special office focused on repopulation opened. Years ago he decided to welcome 200 Ukrainian mothers and their children, in 2024 he contacted TuTecho and today he boasts that the town has managed to attract 150 new inhabitants. Of them, a third (49) have arrived thanks to TuTecho, which has in turn acquired 11 homes in the Palencia municipality. Initially the company had acquired only four. “The solution to the country’s main problems, housing and immigration, is in rural areas,” he defended. a few days ago the councilor in statements collected by The Newspaper. The truth is that Paredes’ experience seems to have encouraged other people. Those responsible for TuTecho explain that they have already made the leap to a dozen towns, where they also collaborate with city councils to articulate a residential rental offer that makes possible what for a long time seemed like a pipe dream in emptied Spain: “Restock”. “A bridge between both”. The founder of Tutecho, Blanca Hernández, sums it up clearly: “Depopulation is a challenge, homelessness another. We realized that we can be a bridge between the two,” relates to The Confidential. “It’s about matching the profiles of inhabitants that the town needs with the families that meet those requirements and need a home.” In the case of Paredes, they have even managed to ensure that the school, which until not so long ago seemed on a tightrope, faces the future with some peace of mind. Not bad if you take into account that, as stated in a recent EY report, 48% of the territory Spanish does not reach the European density threshold (12.5 inhabitants per km2) and 80% of small rural municipalities are losing population. Images | Santiago López-Pastor (Flickr) and Wikipedia In Xataka | Empty Spain is now officially one of the quietest places on the planet. There is no risk that it will cease to be

LG wanted to be different from all the others with its mobile phones. That was precisely what condemned it: Crossover 1×29

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It’s been more than four years since LG closed its mobile divisiona decision that made financial sense—they kept losing money—but that left some users, including myself, shaken. And it is that LG had its particular golden era in this segment. At the beginning of the 2010s, the company was an absolute benchmark: it was not in vain that Google chose it two years in a row to develop and manufacture the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5. But LG also had, as we say, some fantastic years after launching the LG G2a terminal that seemed almost gigantic to us with its 5.2 inches and that posed an ambitious and notable bet. Especially because among other things it “hid” the physical buttons and placed them behind the screen. He LG G3 It was also going in the right direction, but from there the stumbles and that erratic line of movement began. some terminals that were unpredictable: The firm surprised us every year with different decisions that seemed more intended to attract attention and cause a “wow” effect than to solve real problems. This is what we saw in that synthetic leather back cover of the LG G4 and especially in that modular design of the LG G5 that did not finish curdling. Along the way, other ranges such as the V were left behind and of course their attempts to sell their mid-ranges, which had a very difficult time due to the push of Samsung and Chinese manufacturers. Since then, things continued not to go well with their terminals. LG was still brave and originalbut time and time again the market responded with indifference: the world seemed to want more “boring” mobile phones. Crazy models like the LG Wing ended up condemning a company that ended up surrendering to the evidence to focus on other divisions that are an absolute success, such as the one in charge of develop OLED panels for their TVs but also for various manufacturers such as Apple. On YouTube | Crossover In Xataka | 15 brave LG phones that tried to change the world (and failed)

In Galicia some parents educated their young son at home. Now they are condemned for “irresponsible unschooling”

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He homeschooling It’s news. And it is on account of a sentence issued by a court in Vigo that has decided to impose a fine of just over 2,000 euros (with severe reproach included) on parents who decided to educate their nine-year-old son at home, removing the little one from the school in which he was enrolled for the 2024-2025 academic year. The ruling is interesting not so much for its consequences (the penalty is not high: 1,080 euros per parent) as for its arguments and because it differs from other rulings on the same topic that yes they were acquittal. One moment,homeschooling? The term may seem strange, but it is not new. In fact, it connects with a movement that started in the US in the 70s. He homeschooling It is neither more nor less than an educational option that advocates educating children at home, far from conventional classrooms and schools. Often focusing educational responsibility on parents and those who practice it stand out above all its ability to adapt to the needs of each child, its personalization and flexibility of schedules, content and spaces. How many people practice it? Hard to know. In Spain it is estimated that there are between 2,000 and 4,000 families unschoolers. If we talk about the United States, there are calculations that indicate that 3% of students between five and 17 years old receive training at home. The variety of data is explained by the lack of censuses (case of Spain) and above all because the practice does not have the same lace in all countries. To better understand the regulatory differences, it is good to take a look at the web of Homeschooling. There are nations that clearly prohibit it, others that protect it and then there are cases like Spain, where there are those who consider that home education moves in “a legal ‘gray area’”. Swampy terrain. That is why sentences like the one just handed down by a judge in Galicia arouse so much interest, especially because not all cases end in the same way. What have they judged in Vigo? What the Criminal Court number 1 of Vigo has ruled on is a very specific case: some parents from Gondomar (in Pontevedra) who decided to take their nine-year-old son out of the public school in which he was enrolled last year to educate him at home. The ruling recalls that, despite the Educational Inspection’s resolution denying deschooling and the warning from the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office, the parents continued with their plans, betting on homeschooling and a personal itinerary. The boy attended an academy for two hours a week, but the bulk of his education depended on the program decided by his parents. And what does the sentence say? The fundamental and key of the sentence, as precise Vigo Lighthouseis the educational bet chosen by parents. The ruling speaks of “flagrant deficiencies”, an educational project that “does not meet the minimum requirements” and “irresponsible unschooling” that compromises the child’s “academic progress” and, ultimately, will condition his life. “In this case, the education provided directly and almost exclusively by the parents, basically based on their own personal criteria and ideas, without an alternative educational method to the minimally solvent official one and without some evaluative objectivity, represents irresponsible unschooling,” the judge warns in his sentence, disclosed by Lighthouse and with a resounding tone. “There is negligence in education and failures in basic care duties.” Why is it important? Where you put the focus. The sentence focuses mainly on these shortcomings and the “irresponsibility” of the child’s family. In fact the ruling insists in which the parents did not even resort to an “alternative external educational system to the official one” and selected the subjects based on “their own criteria”, without any other reference. In practice this translated into training that, in the judge’s opinion“does not meet the minimum requirements established in the regulatory framework of compulsory education.” The minor participated in activities such as bicycle outings, excursions to the forest, sailing with a jet ski, collecting chestnuts or cooking, but he received “basic” skills in fields such as mathematics or language. For example, his parents did not teach him geometry. The expert who was in charge of examining the case in fact noted a “confusion” between the family routine and the school routine and also pointed out the “privatization of socialization” of the child. Does it explain anything else? Yes. The ruling conveys an interesting message. He explains that “home education may not be criminally reprehensible,” but it must meet a series of requirements, guaranteeing that the child will receive “sufficient” training thanks to an educational system that must be “responsible and competent.” In fact, this is not the first ruling issued by the Vigo court on the subject: at the beginning of 2024 spoke about another case involving parents who educated their son at home throughout the 2021-22 academic year. The Prosecutor’s Office found a crime of “family abandonment” (the same one that has been tried now) and requested five months in prison for the parents and six months of disqualification for parental authority. What was the result? On that occasion the judge acquitted them. Although he homeschooling was underlying in both cases, the judge noted clear differences in both cases. In the 2021-2022 report, it concluded that the parents did not show “carelessness” or “carelessness” and carried out “responsible unschooling.” The little boy continued to be educated with official books, he attended various extracurricular activities and the homeschooling It only really lasted one course. In fact, a year later the minor was already attending another center again, where he continued training “with absolute regularity” and obtained good grades. Is it legal or not legal? Europa Press assures that the ruling of the Court of Vigo warns that the homeschooling It is not a legal option in our country and it is “unquestionable” that parents who do not send their children to school violate an obligation contained in the … Read more

He was “condemned” at 40 and is still alive at 76

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When Doug Whitney turned 50, his wife and children began to discreetly monitor the first signs of an illness that seemed inevitable. Her mother, her older brother, and nine of her thirteen siblings had died young, devoured by a genetic mutation that condemned its carriers to develop early Alzheimer’s. Yet today, at age 76, Doug is still here. Cheating death. I remembered Whitney’s story a few days ago the new york times in a report. The man continues to live a normal life, lucid, driving and remembering names. Of course, from time to time he goes to Washington University, where since fourteen years ago Scientists are trying to figure out how the hell he managed to escape his biological destiny. His case (that of a man who should have gotten sick twenty-five years ago and did not) is a unprecedented rarity in medical history: an open window towards what could be the key to stopping, treating or even curing one of the diseases most devastating of the world. A lineage marked by loss. Apparently, the Whitney family carries a mutation in the gene Presenilin 2one of three known to cause early-onset hereditary Alzheimer’s. Its origins go back to German settlers settled along the Volga River in the 18th century and, in recent generations, to the Oklahoma countryside. Symptoms usually appear between the ages of 44 and 53, followed by rapid deterioration. When Doug passed that age without signs of the disease, he didn’t even believed it possible. By participating in a genetic studydiscovered that he was a carrier of the mutation, but his brain remained unscathed. Since then, scientists consider it an “Alzheimer’s escapee”: a subject that defies the laws of genetics and offers a unique opportunity to understand what mechanisms can stop the progression of the disease. Contradicting science. The analyzes have revealed a disconcerting find. Whitney’s brain is saturated with plaques of amyloid, the protein that accumulates decades before symptoms, but hardly shows traces of tauthe protein that causes cognitive decline. In other words: your brain shows the trace of the disease, but not its effects. Something (perhaps a combination of genes, molecules or environmental factors) has broken the chain between both phases. Among the possible causes, researchers they point out a less inflammatory immune system than their affected relatives and an unusually high concentration high protein thermal shock, responsible for preventing other proteins from folding incorrectly. Paradoxically, his past in the Navyworking for years in engine rooms at more than 40 degrees, could have stimulated that protective biological response. New sentinels of mystery. The family enigma continues in the next generation. His son Brian, 53, inherited the mutationbut for now he is still healthy. Participate in clinical trials on anti-amyloid drugs and undergoes regular tests to measure his cognition. No one knows if his protection comes from genetics or medicine, but his case suggests that the combination Both pathways (her father’s natural factors and experimental therapies) could offer a roadmap toward prevention. His teenage daughter, aware of the family history, has already expressed her willingness to undergo testing genetics upon reaching the age of majority. The Whitney family, which for generations suffered in silence, has thus become an essential piece of the global scientific puzzle. Beyond chance. Be that as it may, the case of Doug Whitney has revived a profound debate about the limits of the genetic determinism. Until now, Alzheimer’s seemed an unavoidable destiny for those who inherited mutations like theirs. However, his resistance (and that of two other cases documented in Colombia) demonstrates that there are natural mechanisms capable of stopping the disease even when biological markers are present. Grasp how it is produced This dissociation could open the door to therapies that act not by eliminating amyloid, but by preventing it from triggering the destructive tau cascade. As summarized in the Times neurologist Randall Bateman, leader of the study, “we have not yet found the needle in the haystack, but we know that it is there, and that its value is incalculable.” Doug Whitney, the man who should have forgotten his name decades ago, has unwittingly become the living memory of a scientific hope. Image | Pexels, Jason Drees/ASU In Xataka | The new strategy against Alzheimer’s is not to attack, but to ‘reprogram’ the brain to clean itself In Xataka | The relationship between sleep and Alzheimer’s, in a “simple” action: our brain also has to clean

Why although it seemed to belong to a genre and a condemned franchise, ‘Warren file’ has been a box office bombing

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Absolutely overwhelming has been the box office of the fourth and, apparently, the last installment of ‘Warren file’, subtitled ‘the last rite’, in its first weekend. Can boast of being the second best premiere of a horror movie in history (Only behind ‘IT’ in 2017, although these data always have to take them with tweezers, for that of inflation and other issues that relativize the records). Absolute or only relative triumph, the figures in any case are impressive. When I didn’t have them all the movie to be. The best file. 187 million dollars worldwide (104 of them at the international box office, 83 million in the American, 4.1 in La Española) endorse the premiere as the best in the franchise. It has also been a good support for IMAX screens, where it has generated 14.3 million dollars, the best premiere of the giant format in the horror genre. With these figures, the ‘Warren’ file (which also includes the spin-offs ‘the nun’ and ‘Annabelle’) becomes the highest grossing of horror cinema, with 2.3 billion accumulated dollars. A key moment. This film arrives at a key moment for the franchise. Although the main deliveries of the series have always enjoyed a great box office, Criticism has not always treated them well: this, without going any further, has a 56% in Rotten Tomatoes. Only the first two deliveries rise from 80%, while films such as ‘The Nun’, ‘Annabelle’ or the third ‘Warren’ file are between 25 and 55%. Although Criticism and box office do not always go hand in handit is a reflection of a certain boredom and exhaustion signs that can then have an impact on the box office. It has not been the case, among other things because they are cheap films (between 20 and 50 million budget) and very profitable, however scarce the collection is. Terror is fashionable. To calibrate the proportion of this success, it may be good to compare it with a couple of recent successes of the genre, As Jorge Loser did in Bluesky: Only in his first weekend, ‘The last rite’ has entered 67 million dollars more than ‘the substance’ and ‘return it’ together and in all its careers. And these yes, films venerated by critics. A few weeks ago we talked about How gender is In good streakchaining a success after another (this summer, for example, ‘Weapons’ and the aforementioned’ return to me have dominated the box office): the resurgence of terror in the tastes of the people thanks to the streaming And his low cost in front of the blockbusters are making the genre live an extraordinary moment. The exhausted formula. However, and despite the roller that has made the film with this week’s box office, the bad reception of criticism is natural: the formula has become a copy of itself, and in recent years the clones have emerged everywhere, even outside the franchise itself: ‘Liver us from evil’, ‘ouija’, ‘corpse’, ‘Winchester’ … even in Spain we have had ‘Verónica’ Patron: Demonic houses, possession of innocent creatures and scares very often shot with an identical visual pattern. There is a whole arc of approaches to this style, from The most artie of A24 (which has already configured the aesthetics of the genre with ‘Heredityary’) to that of the most verbenera Blumhouse, which prepares a new sequel to ‘Insidious’, whose first deliveries have also been key to shape this subgenre of horror movies. The box office is no longer infallible but in most cases the public continues to respond very positively. Why horror cinema works despite everything. Apart from the reasons listed above, there is an extra. In times when the industry is buried of clonic formulas, as with absolutely all the large -budget blockbusters and where the authorship of a film has ceased to be a value (the directors of Marvel movies, for example, are completely exchange), horror movies bet on constant surprise and forced differentiation to get attention. Of course, terror is not safe from franchises or farms, but it is taken in another way: with more humor and more carefree. As in ‘Warren File’, belonging to a saga is not a chain that prevents flying free, but an excuse to increase volume and nonsense. The horror cinema has ended up being one of the scarce redoubts of creativity within commercial cinema and the public understands it intuitively. There is no bad criticism that can with that. Header | Warner In Xataka | The great triumph of “high terror”: how fantastic cinema has invaded the main nominations of the 2025 Oscar

O Solve these four big problems as soon as possible or Intel will be condemned to a very dark future

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“I think it is too late for us (to achieve the position of Nvidia in the field of artificial intelligence), Although we have other opportunities in this market (…) twenty or thirty years ago we were leaders. Now the world has changed. We are not among the ten main semiconductor companies. We have to be humble. ” These words of Lip-Bu Tanthe general director of Intel, are aimed at the company’s employees in a clear attempt to expose what challenges they face. The challenges with Those who are dealing Intel They exceed the other challenges that he has faced during his more than half a century of history. The leadership that has sustained for decades in the manufacturing industry of integrated circuits is in the hands of The Taiwanese company TSMC Since the mid -2000s. In addition, the stagnation during the last years of the PC market and the slowness with which Intel has participated in the AI industry have placed it in a very compromised position. It is necessary to compete from you to compete again with AMD. Intel and AMD compete on several fronts. Three of the most important are the processors for servers and work stations, the GPUs for artificial intelligence and the CPUs for PC. The company led by Lisa supports a very solid position in these three market segments, and if we stick to CPU for PC enthusiasts During the last generations it has been very successful among users. In fact, to us your chips Ryzen 7000 and 9000 We love. In this Intel scenario you have no choice but to fight from you with AMD and recover a technological leadership that lost a long time ago. His future is in the hands of lithography 18a. Intel’s short -term competitiveness is closely linked to the success of a single semiconductor manufacturing technology: 18A photolithography. Ben Sell, Vice President of Intel Technology Development, confirmed At the end of last September that the 18A node already has the maturity necessary to enter large -scale production in 2025. and also assured that it will benefit from the resources that have been reallocated since the 20A node. In the current scenario the 18A node will be the true protagonist. That is not the slightest doubt. The 18A node already has the necessary maturity to enter large -scale production in 2025 The internal division should be left behind. The possibility that the Board of Directors of Intel decides to split the chips manufacturing subsidiary of the company’s matrix and put it in the hands of another company has triggered a deep internal division in the company. Joseph Bonetti, main manager of Intel engineering programs, expresses it in this way: “Intel leaders, Board of Directors of Intel and Donald Trump administration, please do not sell or give the control of Intel Foundry to TSMC just when Intel is taking the technological front and starting to take off. It would be a terrible and demoralizing error.” Bonetti also maintains that Intel is not lagging for its competitors, and that the advances that their engineers are achieving in the field of chips production are very important. Lip-Bu must recover government confidence. Lip-bu Tan, the general director of Intel, is in a very compromised position. Before arriving at the company that Cadence Design Systems currently led, an American company specialized in the development of software and hardware tools to design and verify integrated circuits. The problem is that just a month ago, in July, the US Department of Justice condemned her to pay a fine of more than 140 million dollars for selling commercial secrets to China. According to this US institutionCadence Design Systems delivered this critical information to the National University of Defense Technology, a Chinese teaching and research center that is supervised by the Chinese army. Lip Bu-Tan Intel leads since March 2025but there is a crucial fact that we should not overlook: although this conflict has taken it out of Cadence Design Systems directed this company between 2009 and 2021. And this was the period in which According to the US Department of Justice There were export control violations by which this company has recently been convicted. Image | Intel In Xataka | Intel has confirmed that the 20A node will be skipped to reduce expenses. The 18A node will enter production in 2025

For years we were condemned to physical travel agencies. The English Court is investing millions in demonstrating otherwise

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The English Court has renewed 60 of its 430 travel officesand plans to reform another 44. The idea is to implement open spaces, sofas, digital screens, previous appointment and advisors with “emotional connection.” Why is it important. The message to be sent is that the physical store has not died, but only needed a new experience. In perspective. It is the classic play of retail Traditional: redesign the spaces to sell a transformation that between, especially, by the eyes. Along the same line as the changes applied to the low floors – the accesses – of some of its stores, modernizing the bookstore or giving more weight to the section Gourmet. EITHER The premiumization of its supermarkets. What is at stake is the role that a traditional physical agency can play in the Skyscanner era, Google flightsAirbnb and Booking. What is happening. Travel El Corte Inglés is more profitable (More than 100 million euros from Ebitda8% more than a year ago), but loses in volume against its great rival, Ávoris (Barceló Group). To renew your offices is a way to reaffirm as a premium brand and differentiate in a world in which the average customer has become accustomed to organizing their vacations from your mobile. The physical network is reduced to transform. Personalized attention is insisted as an advantage over the digital model. Between the lines. The reform is real estate, but first of all it is a way of sustaining the story: we are not a vestige, we are a luxury; We are not an agency, we are a space of inspiration. From store a Boutique. The passage of time will tell us if this is a real modernization or if it is rather an attempt to keep the physical channel alive. The company has not gone wrong: after years seeing how the environment rewarded its new competitors, the English Court is still alive despite insistent rumors of serious crisis. There is also the doubt of the long -term value of that “human contact” as a differential pillar. He is seductive, but difficult to climb. Yes, but. The new model has a very good press, but with the unknown of whether there is insufficient demand. There are still many clients who continue to go to a physical office, but they are increasingly minority. And those who do it, often look for something very concrete: custom trips, honey moons, large budgets. Can you sustain an entire model so capillary around those profiles? In addition, post-pandemic tourism has recovered, but It has also changed. The traveler has become accustomed to certain flexibility levels, price comparators, online opinions, immediate decisions. All of that has a difficult fit in an agency by appointment. The decision to invest in so many offices sends a message: trips El Corte Inglés remains convinced that there is a place for physical agencies if they become experiences. It is quite possible that it is right, although it is a commitment against the direction in which the future of the sector seems to go. In Xataka | Spain has become a country addicted to something that some years ago enjoyed little prestige: the white brand Outstanding image | El Corte Inglés trips

The European Commission fine to Apple and Meta with 500 and 200 million euros. They are condemned to make changes, want or not

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The European Commission has imposed a fine to Apple and goal worth 500 and 200 million eurosrespectively. According to the authority, both companies have breached the Digital Markets Law (DMA). Both amounts reflect both the severity and the duration of the breach of the law. Apple’s case. The European Commission has determined that the company has breached its obligation not to prevent the redirection of users towards offers and purchases outside App Store. Determining a amount of 500 million euros for its sanction. All developers who distribute their apps through this store must be able to inform users about alternative offers outside it. Due to restrictions imposed by Apple, according to the commission, developers cannot benefit from the advantages offered by alternative distribution channels to App Store. Also, consumers cannot access different offers outside those offered in the store itself. The goal case. For the Zuckerberg platform, Europe determines that the obligation to offer consumers the option of using advertising service that uses less personal data is breached. Specifically, it refers to the model of ‘Consent or pay’ introduced in 2023and that was already declared illegal since its launch. The changes. The Commission has ordered Apple to eliminate technical and commercial restrictions on redirection, warning that it must refrain from continuing with similar behaviors in the future. It has a period of 60 days to apply changes, or will face periodic sanctions. “If a user rejects this consent, he must have access to a less personalized but equivalent alternative.” European Commission in 2024 Similar is the case of Facebook, who has forced its users to pay to avoid the assignment of their data. In July 2024, the European Commission warned about a possible millionaire fine in case of not offering alternatives. Fine. In March 2024, The EU was appropriate to Apple with 1,800 euros (almost 0.5% of its annual income) after the demand of Spotify. The reason was quite similar to that of the current sanction: “abusing its dominant position in the music distribution market for music streaming to iPhone and Ipad users through their App Store.” Just three days ago, France (the Authorité de la Concurrence) I fined 150 million euros for abuse of dominant position between 2021 and 2023 in the advertising segment in mobile applications. Meta is not something new either. In November The European Commission fined almost 800 million euros for violating the antimonopoolio standards of the European Union with its Facebook Marketplace service. A year earlier, he received a fine of 1,200 million euros for not complying with the General Data Protection Regulation. Image | Xataka and Meta In Xataka | Meta has a very long history by replicating rival applications to become gold. Edits is the most recent case

For years we had assumed that global consumption of coal was condemned to go down. Until India appeared

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Although the entire world is looking towards renewables and there are different projects focused on it, many countries still depend on coal. However, this time the country that slows this progression is not China, but a competitor has come out very geographically: India. The demand for coal. The price fixer in Asia He has marked That coal prices have dropped, around $ 100 per ton due to a temperate winter and an excess world supply, levels not seen since May 2021. However, this fall can be temporary, since investment in new production has decreased while demand Keep increasing In countries like India and China, which would cause a rebound in prices and keep coal as a necessary source globally. But wasn’t it reducing? On the one hand, some countries have managed to reduce or eliminate their dependence on this fossil fuel, such as Spain that He advanced his goal to close the coal or the United Kingdom plants that ended the carbon era After 142 years. For its part, Chile has implemented a tax Carbon pioneer, which accelerated its transition to clean energy. On the other hand, shareholders and banks are They have denied to finance projects related to this fossil fuel. However, the demand continues to grow in India and China, since they cannot meet the demand of their populations only with renewable energy. In data. India is the country that is most using coal. In fact, your demand scope The 1.5 billion tons for five years, which represents an annual increase of approximately 3%. India, with a very high demography, is using coal for the electrification of millions of homes, the expansion of the industry and the need to meet an energy demand in constant growth. However, they are closely followed or they are even almost with China. In spite of all Investment in renewable energy, closed last year With a world demand for coal of 8,770 million tons, that is, consuming 30% more than the rest of the world together. Doesn’t India invest in renewables? In recent years, he has invested in solar energy, establishing objectives such as reach 500 GW By 2030. In addition, has launched several projects to promote the development of renewable energy, such as the “National Solar Energy Program”. However, the infrastructure remains insufficient and the intermission of energy generation continues to bring them problems. The dependence of other countries. Not everything falls to India and China, there are other countries that are depending on coal by The need for continuous energy due to data centers and artificial intelligence. However, we will mention more specific cases. The German case that still has to depend on coal plants due to delays in the construction of new gas plants. For their part, Japan and South Korea continue to depend on coal to guarantee a stable energy offer, especially in winter. Finally the case of the United States than with The new energy policies Return to this fossil fuel. Forecasts The International Energy Agency has observed That world demand for coal will increase. Although prices are now low, this will change for the lack of investment and the continuous increase in demand. While China and India continue to burn coal, the problem will not be so much prices but to disrupt global climatic ambitions. Image | Jepoirrier Xataka | In Europe, 2024 marked a turning point: for the first time solar and wind are eating gas and coal

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