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Japan believes to have the largest deposit of rare earths hidden on a tiny island. And it is already date to extract them

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The Rare earth They are an element of great economic and geopolitical value and China stands as the greatest power. To its Japanese neighbors He didn’t make any grace have to depend on them and, after an exhaustive search, a year ago they found the treasure: A huge site of rare earths at the bottom of the ocean. Japan has already set date to start extracting them. January 2026. It is the date on which Japan will begin with the first test extraction, according to Nikkei Asia. They expected to start this year, but the delivery of the necessary duct to reach the deposit did not reach last May and delayed the project for a year. The duct, manufactured in the United Kingdom, has cost 12,000 million yen (about 71 million euros) and will allow them to reach a depth of 5,500 meters. The Chikyu. The Japanese Marine-Terrestrial Science and Technology Agency or JAMSTECfor its acronym in English, will use the chiichyu, the name received by the Japanese drilling boat with which these valuable minerals will extract. In 2022 they already did a test at 2,500 meters deep In front of the coast of the Ibaraki Prefecture, but the challenge they face now is to drill more than double deep: 5,500 meters. If they get it, it would be the first time that rare earths are extracted to so much depth. In the first phase, Chikyu will extract 35 tons of mud. It is estimated that a ton of mud contains about 2 kilos of rare earths, so, in the best case, we could be talking about 70 kilos of rare earths. A key discovery. As we said, Japan found the site almost a year ago in front of the island of Minami-Torishima, located about 1,900 kilometers southeast of Tokyo. The site is located in the exclusive economic zone of Japan, so their extraction corresponds to them. Among the minerals it contains, one of the most abundant would be gadolinio, used in the nuclear industry, and the disposium, used mainly in magnets for electric vehicles. It would also be rich in manganese, cobalt and nickel nodules, key components in the creation of batteries. The amount is not clear and is decisive. At first there was talk of a site of 16 million tons, which would place Japan in third place behind China (44 million) and Brazil (21 million). However, a Analysis of the University of Tokyo He pointed to the loot would be much more juicy: 230 million tons. If confirmed, Japan would overcome China and be placed as the largest reserve of rare earths in the world. Independence. Japan’s efforts to find rare earth date back to 2022 and had a clear goal: to be independent. Currently, Japan depends on imports to meet their needs of rare metals, with 60% of them from China. The Japanese government invested 6,000 million yen (about 42 million euros) in the first extractions and have made it a priority since then. Friction. As we said, China currently has the largest reserve of rare earth and that gives it A huge power. Just a few weeks ago something unusual happened: A combat fleet, headed by two Chinese aircraft carriershe entered the Japanese ZEE near the island of Minamitori. Japan He did not confirm If he presented a formal protest and just declared that he had sent “the appropriate message.” It is not the first time that China enters the Japanese area, nor are the friction between the two countries, But it is certainly a somewhat controversial maneuver given the economic importance of the area. Image | TNFSA In Xataka | Yonaguni’s Japanese island was known for its beauty and Bad Bunny. Now it is a military strength because of Taiwan

China has been launching the same message to the world about Taiwan. The date was 2027 … until the US bombarded Iran

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Now that there is a certain tense calm in the Middle East, there are many analysts who have turned the magnopolitical framework. In June we already commented that, in a turn of the most perverse events, the United States attack Iran intended to contain a nuclear proliferation could be the catalyst of another even more dangerous: North Korea. There was a second stage to draw: that of China and Taiwan. Start over. The analysts told of the New York Times That the American attack against Iranian nuclear facilities has added a new layer of complexity to the already tense geopolitical equation between the United States, China and Taiwan. What began as a diplomatic strategy became a sudden offensive that now serves as Element of study For Chinese leaders, who seek to anticipate how Trump would respond to an eventual crisis in the Taiwan Strait. His Erratic behavior And his willingness to resort to the use of force, even having previously rejected it, generate confusion in Beijing. China, they agree, observe this turn as a sign that Trump, far from representing a predictable position, could apply a logic of force equally in Asia if it perceives that their interests are at stake. Iran’s mirror. In the same way What North Koreahe Attack on Iran has been able to force Chinese strategists to Check your models of contingency with respect to Taiwan. Despite the obvious differences between the two scenarios, the essential lesson It is shared: Trump is willing to unleash military operations if he considers it appropriate, even against adversaries with limited response capacity such as Iran. Beijing, on the other hand, has a considerably superior military power and is known closer to the theater of operations than any American force. Even so, the possibility of a sudden escalation forces the Chinese to prepare For a Scenario fanfrom a diplomatic crisis to a direct confrontation that escapes their hands. Uncertainty about Trump’s red line is precisely what worries them. Taiwan and ambiguity. A constant in American politics towards Taiwan has been the calculated ambiguity: dissuad China from that invasion that sounds by 2027 (coinciding with The EPL centenary), without explicitly guaranteeing a military intervention. Trump has brought that ambiguity to an extreme level. At times ha praised Xi Jinping And he has given relaxes of distensionwhile in others he has hardened his rhetoric and has intensified The supply of weapons to Taipéi. For Beijing, this duality is disconcerting but also dangerous, because it cannot be certain to its behavior. In this context, Chinese analysts They have intensified His scrutiny, maintaining discrete meetings with American interlocutors in search of clues about the true limits of the former president. The impression they transmit is of nervous caution: they fear that the Trump’s unpredictability can trigger an unwanted crisis. Cross pressures. The tension not only emanates from Beijing. Remembered in another report the Time Magazine that within the United States and Taiwan there is fear that Trump himself, in his eagerness, ends giving something to China In a future summit with XI, perhaps in the form of an ambiguous statement or a significant omission about the defense of the island. Washington, as we said, maintains armament supply (And more) and exhortes Taipéi to increase his military spending, but it is the president who finally decides. That centralization of power and its erratic character They worry both in the Pentagon and in the Taiwanese presidential palace. We have Cash: The recent ones Chinese maneuversincluding deployment of aircraft carriers Beyond the first island chain, they are seen as stress tests: Silent drills to measure the allied reaction capacity and the degree of real commitment of Washington. Taiwan between lines and symbols. While Beijin accuses President Taiwanesa Lai Ching-Te de Separatismo, the island administration insists that it is the maneuvers and Chinese threats that They tension the rope. In turn, within Taiwan, there are those who interpret Trump’s attack to Iran as An indirect warning To the great powers, a coded message towards Moscow and Beijing: if a line is crossed, the answer could be immediate. But the comparison between Iran and China is dangerous. He Missile Arsenal from Beijing (which includes about 3,500 missiles Conventional, nuclear ballistic submarines and a rapid assembly) would make a lightning offensive like the one launched in the Middle East. China knows it, and that is why Multiply your deploymentsair incursions and Naval exercisesconsolidating a constant pressure on the island, designed to wear it psychologically and strategically. China between two fronts. Plus: while facing these uncertainties in the east, Beijing must deal with a growing perception of threat in the West. The Recent statements From the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, alerting about Chinese military expansion and his possible coordination with Russia in case of crisis in Taiwan, reinforce the western narrative of China As a systemic challenge. Beijing, meanwhile, denounces that NATO seeks to justify its expansion to Asia using China As a pretext. A theater of shadows. In summary, Trump has shown that he can change course Without prior noticeand that feature, far from reassuring, introduces a dangerous volatility element. Meanwhile, China explores if you can find a loop to weaken American support to Taipéi, even Without resorting to force. And in parallel, the military apparatus of the United States and its allies fears that any calculation error, any word out of place at a summit, can trigger a chain reaction. The military action In Iran it is not just a specific act: it is a declaration of ambiguous intentions, one that has put all the actors of the Indo-Pacific board alert. Image | Chairman, Garystock In Xataka | That China performs 3,000 military air maneuvers over a year is not striking. To do it about Taiwan, yes In Xataka | It is the third time in a few months that China presents itself against Taiwan with an army. The island has decided to move on to attack

Apple has put an internal date to its great leap in AI

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Siri, as we know it, continues to fulfill its function, but it takes time without experiencing an important evolutionary leap. The advance of generative artificial intelligence in recent years has changed the panorama: He has taught us what is possible and has raised the bar. Many users have started waiting for something else. A more fluid Siri, more intuitive. That idea began to take shape in the WWDC of 2024when Apple presented Apple Intelligence. Among its many functions, one stood out: a new redesign Siri, capable of understanding our consultations based not only on what we say, but also on what happens on the screen and the use we make of the iPhone. A Siri who, finally, was going to make the leap. A pending jump. In March, Apple itself acknowledged that these functions They would not be ready until 2026. AND At the developer conference held this weekthere were no news. In a later interviewCraig Federight explained that, although they had a functional version, they decided not to launch it because it did not reach the level of reliability that Apple considers acceptable: “It would have been more disappointing to launch something that did not meet our quality standard. We made the decision we believed better. And I would take it again.” New window on the horizon: Spring of 2026. Although there is no official communication, Bloomberg has published that Apple has marked as an internal objective the spring of 2026. According to the sources consulted by Mark Gurman, the company plans to launch the new Siri along with iOS 26.4, an update that normally arrives in March. It is the same launch window that has been used in previous years with iOS 17.4 and iOS 18.4. That calendar, however, is far from being closed. The sources insist that everything will depend on how development evolves in the coming weeks. If the advance is solid, it is not ruled out that Apple shows a preliminary version next to the new iPhone this fall. But, today, there are no definitive decisions. Technical challenges. The new Siri is not only an update. Internally, the change has been deep. According to the American media, one of the greatest challenges was the coexistence between two architectures: the classic Siri system, which continues to manage basic tasks such as timers, and the new AI engine that should take care of the most advanced functions. The redesign brought changes in the organization chart. John Giannandrea, until now responsible for Siri, lost control of consumer products. The project was in the hands of Mike Rockwell, creator of Vision Pro, and Craig Federight. Rockwell currently leads the development of Siri LLM, the internal system that will support the new functions. Apple’s strategy. In this week’s presentation, Apple opted to show Liquid Glass and functional improvements in their operating systems. There were news in iOS, iPados and Macos, and also in AI: Open Language Models to developers, Spam call detectionbut nothing of the new Siri. At the moment, the only thing that is known with certainty is that there will be no new Siri in 2025. And that, if everything goes well, we could see it in spring of 2026. Images | Apple In Xataka | If the question is whether a new version of macOS was necessary every year, Apple’s response is: small practical improvements

The first quantum computer with error correction already has date. It is close and will be 20,000 times more powerful than the current

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It seems that in the end Israeli mathematician Gil Kalai was wrong. This professor at Yale University has been very critical for several years with Quantum computing. In fact, he argues that the increase in the number of states of quantum systems and their complexity will cause They end up behaving like classic computersso the superiority of the former will end up evaporating. It defends, in short, that totally functional quantum computers They will never arrive. However, we currently have very solid reasons to anticipate otherwise. And there are several companies that ensure that they will have a quantum machine equipped with the ability to amend your own mistakes Before I expire this decade. These computers will be very important because they will presumably have the ability to solve a very wide range of problems with which not even the most powerful classic supercomdators available can deal. Just a week ago we told you that Xanadu, a young Canadian company founded in 2016, Plan to have ready before 2030 A quantum computer of one million phototonic ulna with error correction. However, it is not the only company that intends to make this milestone come true. IBM plans to make available to its customers in 2029 ‘Starling’, its first large -scale quantum computer equipped with the ability to amend their own mistakes. It will execute 20,000 times more operations than current quantum computers IBM is going to build The quantum computer ‘Starling’ in a new data center that will be housed in Paughkeepsie, New York (USA). This machine will bring together 200 logical cubits that, in theory, will allow you to execute 100 million quantum operations. Logical cubits represent a way to overcome the difficulty involved in the use of hardware or physical cubits, which are extremely noise sensitive, and, therefore, prone to make mistakes. Each logical ul Each logical cubit is constructed abstractly on several physical or hardware cubits, so that a single logical cubit encodes a single cubit of quantum information, but with redundancy. It is precisely this redundancy that allows detect and correct errors that are present in physical cubits. Until very recently the number of hardware cubits that was necessary to implement a single logical cubit immune to errors was impracticable, but IBM says it has found the solution to this problem. Their engineers have published two very interesting technical articles in which they develop the strategy they will use to bring to fruition their large -scale quantum computer and error correction. In the first These articles explain what procedure will continue to process instructions and execute operations in an efficient way. AND In the second They describe how they will decode the information that physical cubits contain in an efficient way, and also what strategy they will use to identify and correct real -time errors using conventional computational resources. As I mentioned a few lines above, IBM says that ‘Starling’ will be ready in 2029, but before its arrival this company expects to reach other important milestones. At the end of 2025 ‘Quantum Loon’ will prove the technology used to connect cubits to a larger distance Within a single chip. In 2026 ‘Kookaburra’ it will be the first IBM modular processor designed to store and process coded information. In 2027 ‘Cockatoo’ will arrive to demonstrate that it is possible to intertwine two ‘Kookaburra’ modules, and, consequently, that it is viable to connect several quantum chips such as nodes of a larger platform. And finally, after ‘Starling’ will arrive ‘Blue Jay’, which will bring together 2,000 logical cubits that, in theory, will allow you to execute 1 billion quantum operations. Image | IBM More information | IBM In Xataka | Bitcoin encryption and other cryptocurrencies will fall. And those responsible will be quantum computers

The bad news is that the oxygen of the Earth has an expiration date. The good is that we will not be here to see it

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We can breathe calm. Also the grandchildren of our grandchildren’s grandchildren. But the oxygen that supports complex life on Earth will not be eternal. Our oxygen -rich atmosphere has approximately one billion years. So, the change will be drastic. A rapid dexygenation. An international study published in Nature Geoscience Details the calculations. After making more than 400,000 simulations on the geological and biological evolution of our planet, Japanese and American scientists came to the conclusion that the Earth will experience rapid dexygenation that will return it to an atmospheric state similar to that of the archaic land of about 2.5 billion years ago. What the sun gives you, the sun takes it away. Until recently, the scientific community estimated the life expectancy of the Earth’s biosphere in another 2,000 million years, when global warming at geological time scales leads to the evaporation of the oceans. But this new model projects a different scenario. According to researchers, the increase in solar radiation will intensify the cycle of carbonates and silicates. This will cause a drastic decrease in carbon dioxide concentrations. With less co₂, photosynthetic organisms such as plants, the main oxygen producers, will die. The result: a vertiginous fall of atmospheric oxygen. If perhaps, anaerobic life will remain. With a millionth of the oxygen we have today, complex life forms will be extinguished long before the oceans boil and the planet is left without surface water. For the vast majority of life forms, whose metabolism depends on oxygen, this will be the end of the road. The model indicates that deoxygenation It will happen at 1,080 million years (with a deviation of ± 140 million years). By then, the earth’s atmosphere will be radically different, with high levels of methane, low carbon dioxide levels, and a total absence of ozone layer. With luck, it will be a world of anaerobic life forms. And what is this data for us. Although we will not affect us, nor the grandchildren of our grandchildren’s grandchildren, the study, funded by the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science Science project of NASA, has important implications for the search for extraterrestrial life. It suggests that an oxygenated atmosphere is not a permanent characteristic of habitable worlds. Oxygen, and its photochemical by -product, ozone, are two of the biofirms that seek space agencies in exoplanets. If the oxygen rich atmosphere of the Earth will last between 20 and 30% of the total life of the planet, other planets similar to the Earth could now have weakly oxygenated or anxic atmospheres. The search for life beyond our solar system will have to expand its scope to other biological firms. Image | POT In Xataka | 20 years of changes in the biosphere of the earth summarized in a wonderful 4K video of only two minutes

The price of oil does not date back

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Saudi Arabia has been the center of attention thanks to its dystopic architectural projects that the country has launched with the aim of diversifying its economy and becoming a Luxury Tourist Destination. However, after a streak of economic fluctuations that have reduced the yields of the Saudi Financing Fund, the entire project wobbles. The reason: the Low oil price and estimates of Let it be maintained So for a time. The fall in the price of oil. One of the reasons that promoted the Vision 2030 Project From Saudi Arabia, it was precisely to disconnect the country from its strong dependence on gas and oil deposits, origin of its current prosperity. However, the current geopolitical context and the unstoppable boom of the Sustainable energies They have made the price of oil, a vital resource for the Saudi economy, has experienced a considerable drop in recent months. Such and As you collect he Financial Timesin March 2025, the price of barrel in international markets was around 70 dollars, far from the more than $ 100 that were reached in 2022. Despite the production cuts implemented by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEP+), the recovery of black gold prices has been slow and insufficient. No oil there is no financing. This decrease in income directly affects the country’s budget, estimating a spending cut by more than 3.7% per year by 2025. Saudi authorities had projected much higher income to finance their ambitious plans, so a significant deficit in public accounts that puts at risk that puts at risk has been generated The financing of your megaprojects star. “A more pronounced and sustained drop in the price of oil would require a deeper reduction in government spending to contain the magnitude of the deficit and accumulation of government debt. There will probably be also an additional adjustment and recalibration in the investment plans out of budget,” explained Monica Malik, chief economist of the ABU Dhabi Commercial Bank to Financial Times. According to published Bloomberg, the Saudi Arabia government had budgeted an expense of 342,000 million dollars by 2025, of which it estimated to recover about 315,000 million dollars for oil revenues. That would leave a deficit of about 27,000 million, which is aggravated by the reduction of income of an oil that does not rebound. There was already a first cut. It is not the first time that the pharaonic architectural projects of Neom is trimmed. A year ago, the expectations of building a 170 km long building, It was lowered 2.7 km by 2030 and the construction of The desalination plant that was going to guarantee drinking water for the new city. Unlike the current situation, those cuts were motivated by the poor financial performance of the Public Saudi Investment Fund, such and As I counted The Wall Street Journaland for some maneuvers of “creative accounting” by the managers of the work with the objective of justify the cost overheads. The Saudi crossroads. With a whole catate of half -building works and an investment forward trying to attract as many investments possible to cover the growing expenses. Of that Fugging forward The commitments arise to make Saudi Arabia at the headquarters of the Asian Winter Games in 2029, followed by the 2030 Expo in Riad and the Football World Cup in 2034. These commitments will require that the Government further cuts the investments destined for Great tourist projectsto focus on the construction of 10 futuristic stadiumsa skiing station with an artificial lake of fresh water and artificial snow. All this, remember, in a desert climate. In Xataka | Neom announces a new city: hundreds of luxury villas that instead of having parking will have port for superyates In Xataka | SIRANNA: The new luxury destination for the Supermer Image | Neom

A jeweler has found a rolex that gives the date in an unusual language for luxury watches: the Catalan

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The sale of high -end watches has become a More investment formthanks to the high value that certain pieces acquire. In recent months, the second -hand watch market has suffered A drastic fall After a pricing bubble derived from the shortage of supply against high demand. That has made this a good time to find Pieces at a good price. The tiktok @jewelrybarcon account, shared The discovery of a curious piece that bought a few days ago: a rolex day-date, also known as Rolex President with very special gold finish. The initial emotion of buying a rolex like that, became surprise to discover that the days of the week that are shown in the sphere were in Catalan, instead of having them in Spanish or English as usual in the Swiss brand watches. Something that in principle could light alarms in front of falsifications. At first, the young man thought this could be a problem if he decided to sell it in the future since the clock would have less demand to be in a different language. However, after an initial investigation he discovered that the story that locked that clock made him a very limited and exclusive piece. The mystery of the Catalan rolex The user explains in his video that it was very strange that a Swiss company like Rolex manufactured a clock in Catalan. The explanation that found that curious finish was that, in reality, a group of Andorra businessmen had asked Rolex to make a special roll with texts in Catalan. This limited edition occurred until 2007, which, according to the young Tiktoker, makes it a very sinned rarity. What initially seemed a possible inconvenience became a distinctive feature that apparently increased its value significantly. Now, your rolex is not only a luxury accessory, but also a collection piece With an interesting story. So far what social networks say. Rolex Day-Date is the most international rolex The reality is that Rolex is an international brand and, within its catalog, the Rolex Day Date, better known as Rolex President, is The most international of all. So much so that it not only has daily dials translated into Spanish or Catalan, but can also be found in Vasco, in Farsi, in Chinese or in Ethiopian. As he points out in his own Rolex’s official pageDay-Date speaks the language of who takes it and, since 1973, it is Available in 26 languages including alphabets in Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese ideograms and even the ge’ez alfasilabarium used in the horn of Africa. The linguistic peculiarity of Day-Date makes, in reality, the language is not an exceptionality itself because of the fact that a group of Andorran businessmen asked for their watches in the official language of their country. However, it is a distinctive feature, because it is a rolex of a certain year, with a certain finish and with the addition of being in Catalan that is not a highly demanded option. In no case would it be a rare and exclusive piece since anyone can choose the language of the dial with the days of the week when configuring this watch. Its second -hand price can range between 20,000 euros and 45,000 euros according to their status and characteristics. In Xataka | A farmer thought a cow had eaten his rolex. 50 years later he recovered it, but he needed a good cleaning Image | JewelbarconRolex

Skype had everything to master the video calls. Now Microsoft has just put a death date

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It has been Xda Developers who advanced the news that Microsoft has just confirmed publicly: Skype is going to be closed forever. It will happen in May, when they put the final brush to a story that could be very different and that will now be an inherited inherited by Teams, the company’s right eye for communications. It seemed a long time since Skype’s end was imminent. It was released in 2003 and Bought by Microsoft in 2011 for 8,500 million dollarsfigure that then seemed astronomical. Skype was a before and after. He turned the calls and long -distance video calls into something accessible to anyone with the Internet. It became the metonymy of video calls (“Do we make a skype?”), Something that very few products achieve. But Skype’s story is rather that of a wasted opportunity. He had everything to become a dominant platform: He arrived very soon to the market. He had a great adoption. He had a recognizable brand worldwide. And I had behind Microsoft’s resources. However, bad decisions and a lack of constant innovation allowed rivals such as Facetime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord or WhatsApp a toast. Seen in retrospect, Skype’s decline was not sudden, but gradual. In 2015 It was integrated in Windows 10but the experience was unnatural. For a long time, Microsoft maintained a strange duality between Skype and Skype for Business. The latter was replaced by Teams in 2019. Meanwhile, others advanced quickly. Zoom catapulted during the confinements of 2020 thanks to the juncture, but also thanks to simplify: he eliminated records of records and downloads. Facetime was completely integrated into the Apple ecosystem. And WhatsApp took advantage of its omnipresence and popularity to offer them as one more service. And meanwhile, Skype was stagnant in a cycle of redesign who never solved his main problems (Sometimes they magnified them): An inconsistent interface, performance problems and a confused user experience. Microsoft is not only killing Skype, it is redirecting its users towards Teamsincreasingly popular. Skype users can use their credentials to access Teams and there they will see their contacts and conversations. During the transition period, users of both platforms can communicate with each other. Then there will only be space for Teams. A bittersweet end. A closure that seems almost merciful. Skype lived in his own confusing identity. It remained as that application that we had installed “just in case” and that we do not remember the last time we used it despite the fact that at the time it played a fundamental role. Being able to see and talk to other people in other countries was revolutionary in the 2000s, Skype leaves A great cultural impact that is now transformed into archeology. As a final gift, a lesson leaves us: it does not matter if a platform is very established, it can become irrelevant if it does not evolve to the compass of the needs of its users. End of an era. Outstanding image | Xataka with Grok 3 In Xataka | Microsoft is very important that the agents of AI are the great ball of the year. And is being reorganized to achieve it

The iPhone is seen in its greatest filtration to date. It is a crazy night between iPhone 14 and iPhone 8

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The fourth generation of iPhone se It will launch this week, According to the most recent leaks. It is not unreasonable to think that it will be, since the design of this phone has just been known practically. The filtration shows that, supposedly, will be the iPhone stops this 2025, a phone that would inherit components of the iPhone 14betting on his classic strategy of just one camera. Hi, iPhone 14 … or iPhone 12. Notch, you again here. It seemed to have disappeared with the arrival of the iPhone 15 Basethat hugged the Dynamic island of the iPhone 14 Probut I was just Parranda. According to the leaks, the iPhone will be inherited a frontal front of previous models, with notch but a good screen use. This would be 6.1 inches, OLED and with Full HD+resolution, the same one we have seen on the iPhone of previous years and with less than the 2,000 nits implemented from the iphone 15L. What does not appear anywhere is the action button, Apple’s last idea for its generation iPhone 16. The rear … to the iPhone style. How strange it is seen a mobile phone with a single camera. This iPhone would arrive with a single sensor, predictably 48 megapixels, which would allow it to make “optical” (sensor cut) of up to two increases without loss of quality. The resignation of the ultra wide angle may seem more serious than it really is. This is the camera less uses (and of lower quality) in general terms, so sacrificing it to adjust the price of the phone to the maximum it is not a bad idea. The rest of the hardware. Apple would not want to give up Apple Intelligence with its se, which would force the company to implement the Apple A18 Bionic and a minimum of 8 GB of RAM. As a curious fact, it is rumored that this phone would arrive with its own modem for 5G, to save costs compared to Qualcomm. In short, a 2025 hardware device and airs a few years ago, at a price that is expected below 600 euros. An access alternative for those who want a new iPhone without spending too much. Image | Spigen In Xataka | iPhone SE (2022), Analysis: A processor to look in a format to forget

In the war between communities of neighbors and tourist floors there is a key date, on April 3. And favors the first

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With the influx of tourists in Historic maximumsthe residential market Tensioning and the price of housing climbing until Nourish With those of the brick bubble, administrations have launched themselves to regulate tourist floors. In Madrid, Barcelona either Valencia The municipalities have moved file to put limits and in Seville they have even considered ending the illegal offer by closing the tap. Literally. From April 3 who want to devote themselves to holiday rental will have to deal with a new challenge: neighborhood communities. If until now they were the ones that suffered the most tourist floors, they are about to become the opposite: a way to stop their proliferation. What happened? That on April 3 a change of the Horizontal Property Law which will fully affect the relationship between neighbors communities and tour floors. And it will also do so in favor of the former, expanding its margin to stop the proliferation of vacation rentals. Legal change is included in the Organic Law 1/2025a rule published in the BOE earlier this year, but which has a period of three months to enter into force. What does the law say? Basically it establishes that anyone who wants to rent their apartment to tourists must get permission from most of its neighbors. And what is more important, has to have that collective ‘ok’ before leasing the floor. “You must previously obtain the express approval of the community of owners”, Clarify the new standardwhich also specifies that the decision must be made with a broad support of the three fifths of the owners. Wasn’t it so far? The legal change gives more tools to neighbors communities when limiting tourist rentals within their block, but that does not mean that until now they have had their hands tied. On the contrary. He Royal Decree 7/2019which entered into force six years ago, already provided that the communities could “limit or condition” the holiday rentals in the building if the three fifths of the owners agreed so. And can they report? Yes. Now the law goes a step further. It speaks of the need to obtain “previously the express approval” of the community and pronounced on the margin of maneuver that the neighbors have, even about the possibility of denouncing in case they detect a rented floor without their placet. “The president of the community, on his own initiative or of any of the owners or occupants, will require those who carry out the activity, without expressly approved, the immediate cessation of the same, under the warning of initiating the judicial actions,” indicates the law published in January. Does it have retroactive effect? No, the legal change will not have retroactive effect on the apartments that are rented respecting the norms. The text Published in January it is quite clear about it: “That owner of a house that is exercising the activity prior to the entry into force of the law, which has previously been accepted to the tourist sector regulations, may continue to exercise the activity with the conditions and deadlines established in it. “ The new law also echoed another of the powers that communities have and appeared already reflected in The 2019 decree: The whole of the neighbors may apply to the owners of tourist floors a “special quota” or “an increase in the participation of the common expenses of the house”. Of course, that increase should never exceed 20% and the decision must also be endorsed by a lazy majority of the three fifths of the owners. Is it a novelty? It is a novelty the entry into force of the law on April 3, but probably caught by surprise a few owners of flats and communities of neighboring. And not only because the regulations have been published in the BOE January 3. The government had been looking for the way to “empower” the neighbors in the face of the proliferation of vacation rentals and months ago he acknowledged that one of the ideas he had in mind was to give communities a veto power. “What we want is that the authorization of the neighbors be necessary, with a major I advanced In July, Minister Carlos Body in RNE. Images | Stay Grouted (Flickr) and Tomáš Gal (Unspash) In Xataka | In Spain, floors are being rented as tourist accommodations without a license. Now also elderly residences

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