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With the RAM market completely destroyed, Valve has a message to create the Steam Machine: “help”

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Valve is not having any luck in the hardware world. If with software it is the undisputed queen of the PC ecosystem thanks to Steamwhen they try to launch a console things don’t go so smoothly. More than a decade ago they already tried it with some first Steam Machines that they had no identity. Now they have returned to the fray with a Steam Machine that it looks very goodbut it comes at the worst time. And in the middle of the RAM memory crisisValve only has one thing to say. Aid. The crisis. At Xataka we have been covering the RAM memory news because, although it seems that it is a crisis of a specific component, it is really something that It is affecting the entire industry of semiconductors… and consumption. If in 2020 it was a perfect storm What caused the semiconductor crisis is now the enormous demand for RAM by AI companies. They are all building gigantic data centers and there is a problem: there is only three big RAM manufacturers (plus a fourth that is emerging in China) and all of them have focused on creating RAM for data center equipment. The consequence is that there is no RAM for anyone else. And this not only affects RAM as such: it affects the price of cell phones, computers, cars and even to the router. And, of course, to the Steam Machine. Hey kid, do you have RAM? Valve announced its new machine at the end of last year and they targeted early 2026 to give a release date and price. The problem is that the days were passing, the price of RAM was rising and the question arose: What about Steam Machine? Well what happens is that Valve is desperate. They have already said that it will be released this year (in principle it was going to be spring), it seems that it will be expensive and, in addition, they have pointed directly to the crisis in the supply problems they are having with his other console, the Steam Deck. With this panorama, Valve has appeared at the GDC fair to explain its vision of the console/PC and, in an environment full of manufacturers and professionals, launched a request to the public: If you have access to a large amount of RAM, we are in the market and we would like to buy it.” Complicated. It is a humorous comment, but also somewhat symptomatic. Valve has the money as punishment, but it is not even close to being a premium customer of those few foundries capable of creating RAM. If even Apple can have a bad time, being the second client of the giant TSMCValve does not even enter the annex in the memory request sheet. There are analyzes of all kinds about the consequences of this crisis. In it mobile market will feel a strong bloweven targeting manufacturers that will have to stop launching devices due to market conditions. But on PC, things are more or less the same, with global shipments forecast to be 11% less than the previous year. Captain after the fact. It’s no longer that the Steam Machine may or may not come out, it’s that if it does come out, it would be very expensive. It is something similar to what would happen with the rumored PlayStation 6 that could have seen the light this year and about which we already know that we will not have news in the short term. And here the big question may arise: why didn’t Valve release the Steam Machine when they announced it? Obviously, there were units prepared because they were shown to the press and, furthermore, it is not cutting-edge hardware, so it would have been easy to have it on the market in November 2025. But of course, the situation escalated at a dizzying pace and launching a console at X price and two months later raising it by 200 euros due to the price of RAM or, even worse, stopping selling it because you don’t have units available would have been a tremendous blow. Not so much to the coffers, which in the end with Steam they get a good pinch, but to the reputation. And it is clear that a second disastrous launch of a Steam Machine is something that Valve cannot afford. Now we just have to wait to see when they will be able to launch the machine and, above all, if the price corresponds to components that have already been available for five months. they seemed somewhat fair to us for the most demanding games. Images | DOTA2 The International In Xataka | The price of RAM has skyrocketed and the best example to see the debacle is a 100 euro PC: the Raspberry Pi

create and update an Excel with your personalized movements, totals and balances

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Let’s explain to you how to create an Excel with your monthly movements wearing artificial intelligenceand from your bank statements. We will go far beyond the spreadsheets that your bank can generate with your expenses. The AI ​​will list what you spend and what you earn, and at the end of each month it will show you your total balance. But we are also going to ask that at the end of each month there be custom totals for specific expensessuch as Amazon purchases, Bizum movements, etc. This is something quite complex to do, and after testing we are going to give you the guide using Claudebecause it is by far the one that has given us the best results. The prompt that we are going to tell you you can also use it in ChatGPTwhere it will give you very good results. The only difference is that in ChatGPT You won’t have a button to save it to Drive, but at least you can download it. As to GeminiGoogle’s AI gives the worst results with this prompt, I would try to avoid it. In Claude we are going to seamlessly generate different pages for each month, it will use color coding, and we will tell you that add a button to save it to Google Drivesomething quite useful, although you can also ask it to simply allow you to download the file. Get your bank statements first The first thing you have to do is download a document with all your banking transactions from your bank application. In some cases you will already be able to download it in Excel, but our idea is to make one with AI in which specific totals are also calculated at the end of each month. Many banks will allow you to choose the time periods you want to take into account when downloading expenses. Here, you should keep in mind that AIs usually have a limit in the context of your requests. This means that it is better to cover shorter periods of time. For example, you will be able to download statements for each month or every two months, because then you can ask the artificial intelligence to update your spreadsheet with the new data from each extract. If you use Claude, link your Drive account One of the positive aspects of Claude is that you can add and activate the connector Google Drive. The connectors are used to connect Claude to other services, in this case Google Drive. You’ll have to give the AI ​​access to your entire Drive, so be careful if you’re looking for maximum privacy. In our case, this will help us be able to create a save button in Drive our document. Thus, not only will you be able to view the spreadsheet directly in Claude, but you will also be able to download it or save it to your cloud. Create your spreadsheet Now let’s get to work. Open Claude and attach the document with your banking transactions that you have downloaded from your bank application. When you do it, you have to include the prompt explaining what you want. We have used this: “This is a statement from my bank. From your data, I want you to generate a spreadsheet showing the total expenses for each month. Each month must be separated, and you must list all expenses and income with negative and positive signs. At the end of each month you must show me a box where I see the total to know if I have had a positive or negative balance. At the end of each month I also want you to make two extra boxes where you show me the total expenses on Amazon purchases, and the balance of Bizum movements. Each month should then be separated on a different page within the spreadsheet. Additionally, I want you to use a color code, to put the rows that represent an expense in red and an income in green. The spreadsheet should be a .xlsx file, and I also want you to generate a button so I can save this document directly to Google Drive. Also, from now on, every time I share a bank statement with you in this conversation, you will update that document to add the data.” As you can see, we have asked for it to be a multi-page spreadsheet, one for each month, and to use color coding. We have also requested boxes for extra balancessuch as the total spent on Amazon or the balance of movements in Bizum. You can also ask for other types of balances, but it is better that stick to requests that the AI ​​can identify. This means that perhaps if you ask it how much you spend on subscriptions, it may not be able to identify all of them correctly or it may charge you more than necessary. It’s best to include specific expenses with a name that appears on your statements. If you want to include subscriptionsto give you an idea, in another conversation you can ask him to identify your subscriptions from your bank statements. And after doing so, you can include in your prompt that puts the monthly expenses of those specific subscriptions in a cell. Claude will take a few minutes to do everything and will show you each step he takes. In the end, you will have a document with the Excel XLSX format that we have requested. If you click on it you will open it directly in Claudealthough you will also have a button to open it in the application compatible with the format you have by default. When you click on the file that has been generated, in Claude it will open in the same chat. If you use ChatGPT you will have to download it. When you open it, you can check that everything is the way you like it, and check the totals and expense list. That’s it, you will … Read more

create subfolders, reorganize, change name or format

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Let’s tell you how to sort the files in your folders with AIusing Claude Cowork. This is one of the options Claudewhich is like a AI agent capable of controlling elements of your computer and doing things for you autonomously, although asking for permissions at each step. In this case, what we are going to ask of this function of the artificial intelligence is that you create two subfolders and put photos and screenshots in them, distinguishing what each one is and changing the format. It is an example of what you can do, because you can also ask it to move and manage files of any format. Something you should know is that, for safety, Claude will not delete the original files unless you ask for it. In other words, we are left with two folders with copies of the originals. It will do all this without you having to touch anything, just by asking. Additionally, for security we can make it only touch elements in a specific folder. Another thing you should remember is that Claude Cowork It is a payment option. You will need to have a subscription to one of the Pro versions of Claude to use it. To use it, you will also have to have the Claude desktop application downloaded, because it is the one that manages everything. Manage files and folders with Cowork The first thing you have to do is open the Claude application on your computer. In it, click on the tab cowork that you have at the top. Once in it, first click on Work in a folder to choose a desktop folder where you want to work. With this, you can choose the precise place on your computer where you want Claude to do things, and you prevent the AI ​​from touching files in other folders that you don’t want it to manage. You can choose folders or subfolders, be it the downloads folder, the desktop folder, or any other folder on your hard drive. When you choose one, Claude will ask you for permission to modify the files what’s in it. Here, you can allow it occasionally, only for this task, or do it always if you are going to do many tasks in the same folder. But the safest way to avoid accidents with files is to give it permission only when you are going to do a new action. Once the folder has been chosen, it is time to write the prompt. With it, you will have to ask Claude to make any changes you want. Here, remember that you have to explain everything in detail so that the AI ​​can understand it better. For example, I have written the following: “I want you to sort the images in this folder into two subfolders. One should be called “Photos” and you should save regular photos in it. The other is called “Shots,” and I want you to save screenshots in them. You have to convert all screenshots to jpeg format. You must rename all the images in the two subfolders, using as the name the date and time the images were taken.” Obviously, you can create your own customized prompt to the files you want to manage and what you want to do with them. My prompt is just an example to perform several different tasks so you know it can be done. When you launch the prompt, possibly your operating system will ask you for permission again to allow Claude to make changes to your folder, even if the AI ​​had already asked you to do so before. Now, Claude will take a few minutes to analyze what you have asked of him and do it. In fact, you can start doing other things on the computer and leave it working for you in the background, although if you go to the Claude application you will be able to see all the steps it takes in the process. That’s it. When you finish, you will have everything managed as you asked. In my case, the photos are renamed, formatted, and arranged in the two subfolders I asked Claude to create. He has kept the originals so that I can delete them by hand, a security measure to avoid unintentional deletions of elements on your computer. In Xataka Basics | Claude: 23 functions and some tricks to get the most out of this artificial intelligence

create the mother of all data centers

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Almost a decade ago we learned about Neom, a Saudi superproject orchestrated to diversify the economy and stop depending so much on oil. Within the ‘crazy things‘ inside Neom, The Line It was the largest: a linear city 170 kilometers long and 500 meters high to house nine million people. The project has been falling apartbut they have found a solution: convert The Line into a data center. You wouldn’t expect anything else, would you? Let’s go with context. Climbing, but downwards. The Line has gone from being the city of the future to something totally different. Over the years, the utopian megaproject of 500,000 million dollars without cars, automated, powered by renewables and that began to be built under strong controversies due to the forced displacement of native tribes it was deflating. Of the 170 kilometers and nine million inhabitants, expectations dropped to 2.7 kilometers long for a population of 300,000 inhabitants. The most recent and independent reports indicated that The Line was unrealizable and that not even a country like Saudi Arabia could bear the cost. There were experts who they pointed that it was something “unmoored from reality.” “New phase”. The problem is that there is already a certain infrastructure built and, being a failure as it already is (and as it is perceived by the rest of the world), the most sensible thing would be to reuse what has already been built to do whatever. And within that ‘whatever’, comes the new gold mine: data centers. In the area where they were going to build the megacity, there is plenty of space to house gigantic data centersbut also some operational advantages. A small part of the land that has already begun to be moved to build The Line. Something will have to be done with the work done From the country they have not said anything because, as we say, swould be accepting a failure of biblical proportionsbut for a few weeks it has been pointed out that this new phase, this conversion to data centers, would allow monetizing what until now has only been a pit of money. They already have the land, the earthworks and part of the electrical connections, and building data centers is easier than ‘pulling’ two skyscrapers kilometers and kilometers long. Neom IA. And this new approach fits with Saudi Arabia’s aspiration to become the global AI node. We have been telling for a few months how Saudi Arabia is investing a lot of money to attract companies that want to build data centers. For example, 7 billion in one fell swoop at NVIDIAhuge investment for build a city-sized data centerand have created a company called Humain in which both NVIDIA and AMD are already involved. The million-dollar purchases are not being restricted to investments in Western Big Tech. In September last year, the Saudi fund (which is ultimately owned by the country) was merged 55 billion dollars in a legendary video game company: Electronic Arts. He didn’t do it for his video games (which, admittedly, are in the doldrums), but to buy cultural influence in millions of homes. It has not been the only billion-dollar movement in the country in terms of video games, since they are now negotiating the purchase of a mobile games company for about 7,000 million dollars. Access to the Red Sea. Therefore, it is evident that the country wants to diversify its economy, even if that means investing astronomical amounts that, admittedly, are still infinitely smaller than The Line’s initial objective. And, apart from money, the Saudis have something equally important: the power to do what they want in terms of energy, territory and access to the Red Sea. data centers They need water to dissipate heat and, although the navy is not adequate (in fact, there is controversy over its freshwater needs), the Red Sea implies an outlet to the rest of the world. As? Through submarine cables. They are deploying cables and that access to the Red Sea would allow the data centers on The Line’s land to be integrated with international fiber optic nodes in Europe or Africa. “We are determined, by the grace and power of God, to achieve the transformation objectives. But we will also not hesitate to cancel or radically change any program or objective if we find that the public interest requires it” – Shura Council on Neom and The Line in September 2025 Challenges. They can also combine gas with renewables like solarwhere it has enormous potential on the ground, although there are some difficulties ahead. For example, temperatures are high and fresh water is scarce, although it could be used in heat exchange systems. Furthermore, the energy required to maintain the humidity and temperature conditions of the server rooms would be tremendous, complicating the design of the infrastructure. Promises and realities. In the end, and as different sources point out in Financial Timesit’s about getting money, diversifying the economy and data centers come into the equation. The location between three continents is good, there is plenty of land and access to both renewable and profitable energy (with projects like that of green hydrogen). And then there is the Red Sea. It certainly seems more likely that we’ll see a gigantic data center before anything else related to the Neom project. Current events are showing that Big Tech They have billions to invest in artificial intelligenceand Saudi pockets are deep to attract anyone. Some of the largest – Amazon, for example, which has just closed its data centers in Saudi Arabia by the Iranian attacks – may be attracted to the sovereign wealth fund. But of course, we will have to see if it is fulfilled. There we have the Jeddah Tower, Mukaabeither pharaonic airportother examples outside of Neom that, for the moment, are nothing more than promises. And Big Tech, with its hunger for computing, needs the data centers of the next decade… for before yesterday. Images | Neom In Xataka | AI is bringing … Read more

Science already knows what is the best “gasoline” to create new neurons: physical exercise

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We have always known that playing sports is good for the heart and also the muscles, but neuroscience is showing us that running shoes are, literally, the best tool to sculpt our brain. This is how I put it on the table the neuroscientist José Luis Trejowhich pointed out that physical exercise acts as a true “gasoline” for neurogenesis in the hippocampus adult to make us more ‘smart’ and also tend less towards depression. Neuron factory. Until a few decades ago, it was believed that you were born with a certain number of neurons and that, from there, they could only be lost. But today we know that this is completely false, since the generation of new neurons has already been demonstrated, and it occurs mainly in a region of the brain that is key to learning, memory and emotions, such as the hippocampus. The exercise. Here the different studies were focused on how this generation of neurons can be enhanced, and moderate aerobic exercise is the main switch to turn on the neuronal factory. How it works. The specific exercise and also extended over time, it raises the BDNF segregationwhich is the brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and also the VEGFwhich is vascular endothelial growth factor. Two proteins that act as ‘fertilizer’ in the brain to promote neuronal plasticity and the formation of new blood vessels to nourish all these new cells that appear in the brain. There are results. Studies done in humans themselves measured cerebral blood volume using functional magnetic resonance imaging, and here they could see that there is a real increase in the volume of the hippocampus and there are also improvements in spatial memory and cognition, which is essential from certain ages onwards. And it is no wonder, because there are studies that suggest that constant exercise increases total hippocampal volume, being a first-level strategy against cognitive declineand therefore acts as a shield against Alzheimer’s. Antidepressant. In addition to being a shield against Alzheimer’s, it can also reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression, overcoming the effects of antidepressants in some patients. However, we must have common sense with the ‘dose’ of exercise we do. And a perpetual sedentary lifestyle is toxic, since sitting atrophies all brain capacities, but excess is destructive because extreme intensity training without rest generates a peak of stress in the body that completely cancels out the neurogenic benefits. That is, doing a lot of exercise at maximum capacity can block the creation of new neurons. It is hereditary. But if making new neurons is not enough to join the gym, science suggests that it can be transmitted to children thanks to epigenetics. In 2019, a study published in PNAS demonstrated that paternal exercise increases neurogenesis and mitochondrial activity in offspring, even if the latter are sedentary. But in 2024 went furtherseeing that these neuroplastic effects can be inherited up to two generations later. The dose. In summary, neuroscience suggests that doing 45-60 minutes a day of moderate aerobic activity can bring us great benefits over spending uninterrupted hours in the chair. Without a doubt, memory, mood and hippocampal volume will be truly grateful. Images | Chander R Bhautik Patel In Xataka | Scientists have connected 200,000 human neurons to a chip. And he made them play ‘Doom’

How to create your resume from your LinkedIn profile and save it directly to Drive using artificial intelligence

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We are going to tell you two methods to create your resume from your LinkedIn account wearing artificial intelligence. Apparently it’s a simple thing, because you’re just supposed to give the AI ​​the link to your account and it reads it. But in practice, LinkedIn blocks access to bots, so neither Claude neither ChatGPT, Gemini or others will be able to read the content of your profile. Therefore, we are going to tell you how to bypass this limitation in an ingenious way, and how to use the data from your LinkedIn profile to generate the text document. Then, this document we can download it or save it directly to Drive with the push of a single button. For this task We are going to use Claude’s artificial intelligencesince it is the only one with the ability to do what we want. Gemini won’t generate the file when you ask it, it will just make text that you have to copy and paste, and ChatGPT won’t give you the option to save it directly to Drive. Therefore Claude is the one that best fulfills the function. Your resume in Drive from LinkedIn Since the AI ​​you are going to use does not have access, what we are going to do first is save your LinkedIn profile to PDF. To do this, go to your profile in the browser and click Control + P on Windows or Cmd+P on Mac to go to the print web menu. Here, choose the option to save as PDF so that the content of the page is downloaded in this format. In addition to the main profile, it can also be useful to do the same in the knowledge and skills section. Now let’s go to Claude. Here, the first thing you have to do is add and activate the connector Google Drive. The connectors are used to connect Claude to other services, in this case Google Drive. You’ll have to give the AI ​​access to your entire Drive, so be careful if you’re looking for maximum privacy. Now, you have to open a conversation with Claude, you have to attach the PDF of your LinkedIn profile that we created at the beginning, and add a prompt in which you specify that you want to create a resume with this data. We have used this: These two files that I attach are a PDF capture of my LinkedIn profile. I want you to generate a professional resume with a minimalist design based on the data in this profile. The resume must be in text document format, and you must provide me with the ability to add it to Google Drive with the name “cv.docx”. You can search on the Internet if you think you can complete the resume with some important information about me. As you can see in the prompt, We have specified that we want to be able to add it to Driveand we have even told you what name the file should have. We have also asked you to search for information about us on the Internet to complete the data, and here you could add any other link where you think you can get information. And with this, Claude will generate a .docx document and open it to you in a column on the right. You will be able to see it and request changes, and above you will have a button to add it directly to Drive and another to download it. In Xataka Basics | Newsletter summary with artificial intelligence: summarize all the newsletters in your email inbox with Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT

How to create a game with multiple choice questions on any PDF to study with the help of artificial intelligence

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Let’s explain to you how to create an interactive multiple choice game to help you study anything. We are going to do it with Claudeand you will only have to upload any PDF with the theme you want, and the artificial intelligence It will process its content and ask you questions about it. For this we are going to use the Claude’s artifactswhich means that they will be fully interactive games. In our case, it will be a test type, with several answers of which there is only one valid. So, if you click on the correct answer it will tell you that it is true, and if you click on the incorrect one it will correct you by giving you all the information about why it is not like that. The positive part of using Claude is that you only need a prompt and it will generate the game artifact for you. However, you should keep in mind that all PDFs you upload will be processed by AI, and that could be stored on servers of the company. Therefore, be careful about uploading files that contain private information. You should also keep in mind that AI is not infallible, and that there may be errors and hallucinations, so it is advisable to verify the answers by other means. In addition, you must also make sure that the PDFs you upload have accurate information. Create your multiple choice question game The only thing you have to do to create your game is write a prompt with which ask the AI ​​to create an artifact and describe the type of game what you want You can start with something simple like the following: I want to create an artifact. This artifact will take the information from a PDF that I upload, and will generate a series of multiple choice questions to learn the content. You will do this using Claude, who will analyze the content of the PDF, detect the most important themes and then generate the questions. Once you write the prompt, Claude will generate the game in a few minutes. At the top prompt you can specify anything you want about the game, both specific mechanics and adding a scoring system such as the number of questions or even the colors of the buttons. Then, on the left side, a window will open where you will be able to start your game. For that, the normal thing is that you simply click on the indicated option and upload the PDF from which you want the questions to be generated. Then, in my case I had to choose the number of questions, and then click on the start button below. When you upload the content and start the game, Claude will begin to analyze the content of the documentunderstanding what it says and based on its information to generate questions. After analyzing the content, the game will start asking you questions. As we have asked it to be a test typeit will ask you questions with several possible answers, and you will have to click on the one you consider to be the correct one. If you got it right, it will tell you. But if you fail to choose the correct answer, it will also indicate the failure. In my case, below the correct or incorrect answers, a fragment of the text appears in which it tells you the correct answer. It is not necessary to stay with the first result. If when you try it you are not convinced, you can return to the conversation and ask Claude for changesspecifying the things you want to change or those you want to add or remove. It will then regenerate the artifact from scratch with your instructions. Save your device to use whenever you want Once you have the device to your liking, in the upper right part of the screen you must click on the down arrow button next to where it says Copy. When you do it, click on the option Publish artifact. This will upload your creation to the servers and keep it saved. By publishing your artifact, anyone will be able to find it, and you will also be given a link to share it. But most importantly, in the artifacts section there is a tab Your artifactsand when you click on it you will see all those that you have created. This will be a good way to reuse the game you created whenever you want. In Xataka Basics | Claude: 23 functions and some tricks to get the most out of this artificial intelligence

How to create sticker with any word in WhatsApp

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Let’s explain to you how to create a sticker with any word in WhatsApp. The messaging application has been promoting this way of speaking through images and memes for some time, and just as you can now create stickers from any photoyou can also do it with any word. No, it is not an option for create stickers with artificial intelligencebut a function within the sticker search engine. In it, you just have to search for a word and a sticker will automatically be generated with it. We are going to tell you how to do it step by step. Make a sticker of any word The first thing you have to do is enter any WhatsApp chat. Once inside, when you open the keyboard Click on the stickers buttonwhich will appear to the right of the text field where you write your messages. This will take you to the screen for sending GIFs and stickers, where you have to click on the sticker tab. Once inside, you will see your favorite and suggested stickers. On this screen, click on the search button which you will see at the top left with the magnifying glass icon. Once you are in the search for stickers section, simply write the word or phrase you want as if you were going to look for it. You will see that a sticker will be generated with it with five different predefined designs. These designs will work for any word you are looking for, and with which you will generate your sticker. In Xataka Basics | Member labels in WhatsApp: what they are and how to use them to organize the members of a group

Catalonia wanted to create the mother of networks for its public headquarters with Huawei equipment. He thought better of it

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The Catalan Court of Public Sector Contracts has partially upheld the appeal presented by Telefónica and Cellnex against the award of the XCAT network contract to sirt and Huawei. The project to interconnect the strategic infrastructures of the Catalan territory will not be able to rely on hardware from China. Why? Catalonia has a fiber optic backbone network, a backbone that supports the Catalan administration. Hospitals, educational centers, public data centers… An infrastructure that has been around for years seeking independence with Spain and that, through the XCAT project, it was preparing its biggest technological leap in decades thanks to the local company Sirt Connecta and Huawei’s network technologies. The offer. Providing it with a budget of 127 million, the Generalitat was finalizing a plan to connect more than 5,400 institutional headquarters. All with its own infrastructure so as not to depend on national giants such as Telefónica, Vodafone or MásOrange. Sirt’s offer with Huawei was the best valued by the CTTIthe computer lung that supports digital services in Catalonia, but Telefónica and Cellnex filed an appeal before the Catalan Court. not so fast. Despite offering a cheaper proposal, Telefónica-Cellnex saw the balance tip towards the Sirt-Huawei proposal. They thus presented an appeal in which they challenged the award of the contract, criticized the technical assessment and indicated their doubts about the technical solvency and real capacity of Sirt to execute said contract. The Catalan Court of Public Sector Contracts has partially upheld the appeal presented by Telefónica and Cellnex, thus suspending the award. There is more. The European Commission’s proposal for a new cybersecurity law, presented on January 20, makes the awarding of the contract even more difficult. Europe wants to expressly prohibit (although the law will not come into force for at least a year) the use of Chinese technology in fixed network infrastructure. In other words, Catalonia cannot use Huawei equipment. If the court’s decision is appealed and the Sirt-Huawei solution is implemented, in just a year and a half all Huawei equipment should be replaced with others of Western origin. The silent dismantling. In recent years, the three large Spanish operators have expelled Huawei from their network cores. Telefónica now works with Nokia and Ericsson Orange with Ericsson Vodafone with Nokia The next step is what the Sirt-Telefónica conflict leaves us with: small local operators will also have to banish Chinese equipment from their hardware core to comply with upcoming European regulations. In Xataka | Huawei MatePad 11.5 S 2026, analysis: the secret of its success is visible and it is called PaperMatte

How to create an excel with artificial intelligence where you can add the expenses of your digital purchase receipts

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Let’s explain to you how to create a spreadsheet with your expenses using artificial intelligence. Specifically, what we are going to do is put all your purchase receipts in a folder, and have the AI ​​read them, extract the totals, write them down in the spreadsheet and then add the total. It seems complex, but it is easier than it seems. For our example we are going to use the PDF tickets that are sent to you by email when you configure the Mercadona digital ticketalthough you can also use photographs of tickets. For the spreadsheet we are going to use LibreOffice, as it is a free and open source alternative to Office. To carry out the actions we will use Claude Coworkthe AI ​​assistant of Claude that can do actions on your computer. The negative part is that To use this tool you must have a paid account in this artificial intelligence chat, but the positive part is how much you can later do with it. There are workflow tools that allow you to automate this and do it online, but we are going to start by explaining this simpler method because it is all local, within your computer, and sharing less data with third parties. Make preparations first It is important to be organized when carrying out this task. Therefore, what we are going to do is go to the file explorer on our computer and create a folder. In my case I have called it Tickets. Inside, we will create a subfolder where you can put the digital tickets which we will call “Ticket PDFs”, and then the spreadsheet file which we will call “Total Purchases”. We will also create the basic structure of the spreadsheetso that it will then be easier for us to describe to the AI ​​what we want. On this sheet I have included the date, the total of the ticket, and then a column to add the link to the PDF file for each one. Here, you will be able to customize this as you need. Now simply Put the tickets in PDF inside the folder that we have created to store the tickets. You can do this by hand with the ones you have, and then update it with the ones that arrive later, because we will also tell you how to ask the AI ​​to update everything. This technique has many variants. For example, adding a specific column in the spreadsheet you can also add the name of the supermarket in order to manage the expenses of several of them, or make a different sheet for each one within the same file. You can make things as complex as you want. Now ask AI to do the work for you Now it’s time to get to work. Let’s open the Claude application on the computer and choose the option cowork. Here, the first thing will be click on the option Work in a folder. When you do this, you will have to choose the folder where you have included the subfolder with the PDFs and where you have created the spreadsheet file. This way the AI ​​will work only within this space without touching the rest of the files on the computer. Once you have done this, tap write a prompt asking it what you want it to dowhich in this case is asking it to read the PDFs with the tickets, extract the information and put it in the place you want within your spreadsheet. I have used this prompt, where I also specify the columns where each content goes: I want you to analyze the content of all the PDFs in the “Ticket PDFs” folder. These are purchase tickets. In all of them, I want you to extract both the date of the ticket and the total you have spent and put them in the “Date” and “Total (€)” columns of the “Total purchases.ods” file. Within this file, I also want you to create a link in the PDF Link column that, when clicked, opens the PDF file it belongs to. This prompt You can modify it depending on what your spreadsheet is like.but always specifying in which column each item goes, or on which page of the spreadsheet if you have created one for each supermarket. You can even make a sheet for the totals, and ultimately ask them to use any of Excel functions or the program you are going to use. Now, you have to wait a few minutes for Claude to process your request and complete the task. When you do, you will be able to enter the file you created before, and you will see that it has updated it. You can make changes to the file for font size or whatever you want, and Claude will then take that into account. You can also tell the AI ​​if it has done something wrong, such as not including links, so it can correct and add it. Now, you can ask him to do extra work like adding a column below with the total. And then, When you add more files you can ask it to update the file reviewing the new PDFs that you have added and adding the missing ones to the list. And that’s it. With all this you will have a spreadsheet that you can update every time you add more tickets. You can also ask him to do it by reading the content of photos, and other tickets that you also have in PDF. In Xataka Basics | Claude: 23 functions and some tricks to get the most out of this artificial intelligence

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