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It is the advance of Yuan Digital

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China has won The rare earth pulse to the United States granting limited licenses. Trump has celebrated it as a diplomatic victory and his country congratulates himself for ensuring the supply of critical raw materials. Meanwhile, China is using these concessions as a screen for its strategy: consolidate a parallel financial system that can break the hegemony of the US dollar, especially in three key regions. Why is it important. The numbers say what negotiations are not: China is artificially maintaining the yuan against the dollar (1 dollar = 7.19 yuan today) through discrete interventions of the Central Bank. Meanwhile, its trade with Africa is at historical maximums: 295.6 billion dollars in 2024. And at the same time, it is deploying the infrastructure of the Yuan Digital in 16 countries of Asia and the Middle East. Pure geostrategy. The context. Rare earths are lure. China dominates 85% of the chain of these minerals, fundamental in technology and defense. Each negotiation on them generates headlines and concerns, but their great bet is in the payment systems. The United States is focused on tariffs and commercial scales. Meanwhile, China is building financial rails so that its currency circulates around the world without dollars in between. The facts. China already connected its CIP cross -border payment systems with 170 banks in 119 countries. The Yuan Digital Procesa Transactions for more than 7 billion annual yuan and expands by Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. Africa, whose commercial growth with China reached 5% in 2024it seems the next great objective. More than isolated figures is a financial ecosystem that allows to trade without going through the system dominated by the dollar. What’s happening. The Chinese strategy follows the maximum of Deng Xiaoping: “hide the brightness, nourish the dark.” Avoid direct confrontation, but build robust alternatives. Each step is a brick in another parallel financial architecture. Between the lines. Rare earth concessions are calculated. China get a double benefit: Softens commercial tensions that could cause premature reprisals against their financial infrastructure. Project a reliable partner image towards countries that seek alternatives to the system dominated by the dollar. Each geopolitical crisis that erodes even if the confidence in the dollar is a bit – saunciones, Threats of default– Accelerate the search for options. And that is where China presents itself as the answer. Yes, but. The dollar continues to have structural advantages too large to ignore them from good to first: Yuan only reaches today 4% of world payments and has limitations such as Chinese capital controls. This transformation is underway, but it will not happen overnight. The threat. Therefore, the risk for the United States is not an abrupt substitution, but a gradual erosion. If 20% or 30% of world trade have migrated to alternative systems, the country would lose a decisive privilege: to be able to finance “cheap” and exercise geopolitical power through sanctions. A world with a double financial circuit (the western one with the dollar, the sin-centric with Yuan) would reduce the American capacity to isolate its adversaries. The turning point. China is doing something that carries in its DNA: replace without confronting. USA Rare earth negotiations To project cooperation, but at the same time consolidates the infrastructure that can change the monetary map of the world. It is also very Chinese: a decades strategy. Prepare the land so that when the dollar loses credibility, Yuan is ready to earn space. Mandarin patience to draw the financial future of Medio Planeta. Outstanding image | Eric Prouzet and Nuno Alberto in Unspash In Xataka | “In Europe they need seven years. We three”: China has understood better than anyone than the car industry advances at a new rhythm

The BAC II will be the new supply ship in Spanish combat. And will have a digital twin

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After being announced almost a year and a half, the Council of Ministers has approved The execution order for the design and construction of a new supply ship in combat of the Spanish Navy. It is a notable project for its budget, but also for its impact on Spanish defense and naval industry. BAC II. This new supply ship will be the third of this type with which Spain will have for logistics missions, after the A-14 Patiño and the A-15 Cantabria. The BAC II will in fact replace the Patiño, which was built in 1993 in the Ferrol shipyards and that faces the last third of its life cycle. Galicia and Ferrol protagonists. The contract has been awarded to The public company Navantiawhich will be carried out in its Ferrol shipyards (La Coruña). That will have a clear positive impact on the employment sector, and according to Pedro Sánchez its construction will imply three million hours of work, it will generate some 1,800 jobs and some 300 companies will participate, 175 of them Galicians. The project has a budget of 650 million euros. Based on Cantabria. The new ship will be based on Cantabria, thrown in 2008 and delivered to the Navy in July 2010. The BAC II will have a 174 -meter length, a 23 -meter sleeve and an 8 -meter draft. It will have an endowment of 164 people and can displace up to 19,500 tons: only the LHD ‘Juan Carlos I’ carrier exceeds it throughout the Navy. It will also be propelled by two diesel engines of 10,890 kW each, which will allow it to reach a maximum speed of 21.3 knots (almost 40 km/h) and an autonomy of 6,000 nautical miles. A very prepared ship. This logistics capacity is complemented by five supply stations (two for each band and one for the stern). It has a crane for movement of containers of up to 20 tons in addition to two others of general load movement and three load elevators. It has a flight cover and a hangar beanger for medium and heavy -type helicopters. It has wastewater treatments, garbage treatment and also a hospital area with intensive care room with four beds, fully equipped consultation and operating room. What does a supply ship. As its predecessors, the BAC II will be destined for fuel supply, food, spare parts and ammunition to the rest of the Navy units, allowing all of them to remain at high seas for long periods. Digital twin. The BAC II will have a “digital twin“, An advanced and dynamic virtual representation of the ship itself. This digital twin receives real -time information from the ship’s systems and sensors, allowing to visualize its status, analyze data and simulate various situations. The latter is especially useful for the formation of the crew but also to test new solutions without risks or costs associated with physical tests. Deadlines. The design of the BAC II will begin immediately and the objective is that its construction can begin in 2026 and be fully operational in 2030, thus coinciding with the withdrawal of the A-14 Patiño. A reinforcement for the Spanish defense industry. This project is approved while interest in Increase defense spending in Europe and Spain. NATO has set the target of defense spending in 2% of GDP, but Trump warned that I had to rise to 5%. In Spain it moves In 1.32%but the goal is to reach 2% in the late decade. In Xataka | Ukraine and Trump’s uncertainty are pushing Europe to recover something until recently anathema: the mili

The great digital achievement of Spain has been to raise the best fiber network in Europe

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This Tuesday Spain definitely closes a 140 -year -old chapter. Telefónica has announced the shutdown of its last 661 copper centralsforever burying the technology that vertebó the communications of the twentieth century. But real history is not the funeral of copper, but Spain has become a European leader in connectivity. Why is it important. While other European countries continue to debate when to migrate from copper, Spain has already completed that transition. Telefónica is the first great operator of the continent to completely close its copper network. The rest of Europe looks at us from behind. In figures. The numbers deny the myth of Spanish technological backwardness. Spain is The third OECD country with greater fiber optic penetration. The fiber lines represent 89.3% of the total fixed broadband. The network reaches 80 million accesses installed in a country of 49 million inhabitants. The trick: homes are included but also local, in addition to many duplicates among operators. Only South Korea and Japan overcome us in some indicators. France, Germany or the United Kingdom are behind FTTH coverage. In FTTB, Spain leads Europe After years only behind Iceland. The panoramic. Since 2014, Spain has dismantled 8,532 copper centrals in a huge logistics operation. Has migrated 99.99% of customers Without leaving them without service. It has recycled 65,000 tons of cable and saved 1,000 gigawatt energy, according to company sources cited by Five days. All while building an infrastructure that covers 94% of the population. Including rural areas that place us far ahead of other European countries in rural coverage. Between the lines. The Spanish transformation has gone unnoticed because it coincided with years of economic crisis and with the perennial complex of national technological inferiority. It is true that we are light years from the United States or China in terms of large technological ones, but we have built the best telecommunications infrastructure in Europe. The optical fiber is 90% more energy efficient than copper and multiplies speeds. A fiber plant serves to the same number of accesses as four copper centrals occupying only 15% of the space. The money trail. Telefónica has converted the transition into business. The sale and recycling of the retired copper has been an extra income of about 1,000 million euros, taking advantage of the revaluation of the metal. Yes, but. Copper does not disappear completely from the Spanish map. More than two million customers are still connected by coaxial cable using HFC technology (fiber-coaxial hybrid). They are mainly of operators such as Vodafone or Euskaltel. It is not the same copper as the ADSL that has just died, but technically it is still copper that carries the signal to the home. The difference: this coaxial coexists with the fiber in a hybrid network that offers speeds far superior to the old telephone copper pair. Deepen. The Spanish fiber revolution is no accident. It started when the Spanish regulator liberalized the market and forced Telefónica to share its infrastructure. The competition between operators accelerated the deployment. Now that infrastructure will be the basis for the next generations of mobile networks, the Internet of things and future technologies to develop. Spain has built a digital infrastructure prepared for the future. In Xataka | 100 years after his birth, Telefónica faces the greatest existential dilemma in its history: what wants to be older Outstanding image | Lightsaber Collection in Unspash

The digital attack that paralyzed a nuclear plant without bombs and without anyone seeing it

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More than a decade ago, the world discovered a new type of weapon. I had no eyes or soldiers. Only lines of code. It was called Stuxnet and was able to sabotage an Iranian nuclear complex without internet connection. A computer worm that destroyed centrifuging designed to enrich uranium. Without alerts. No explosions. Without anyone knowing, at first, what was happening. All that we tell in our New Xataka episode presentsAvailable in the Xataka YouTube channel. Our partner Jota García, who reconstructs step by step how an operation of this caliber is told. The story starts in Natanz, an underground installation, hidden under tons of concrete in full Iranian desert. “From the outside it seems not special (…) but underground, thousands of centrifuging work work in full performance,” he says. Who decided to act? And why wasn’t a direct military intervention chosen? Apparently, with Iraq’s precedent, that road was ruled out by the country that wanted to stop this Iranian project. The alternative was Develop malware With a concrete mission: destroy without being seen. “And if instead of attacking with soldiers, we attack a computer virus?” Jota says. The trick? Infiltrate a simple pendrive in a completely isolated network. Once inside, the worm camouflaged. I watched. I expected. And only if I found the right industrial controllers, I went to action. “He didn’t attack immediately. He moved silently, analyzing everything around him.” Thus he managed to sabotage about a thousand centrifugators without the technicians being able to explain what he was failing. But there was an error. Malware spread out of Iran and ended up arriving in the West. What happened then? Who discovered the code? And what did they find inside? In the video we review how an investigation of The New York Times connected Stuxnet with the NSA, the CIA and the Mossad. Also the clues that analysts found in malware. “Stuxnet exploded four 0-Day vulnerabilities at the same time. An irrefutable proof that there was not a group of normal hackers.” Since then, nothing has been the same. Stuxnet was the first great digital attack with physical consequences. “Stuxnet was the first notice. The first great warning that the next wars can be invisible. ” Today, security threats are still present. We see them in hospitals paralyzed by Ransomware, sabotaged pipelines, In bank malware that empties accounts. Even USB pendrives remain a real threat in many organizations. Did you know this story? To what extent do you think We are protected today? We invite you to give the play in our video and leave your comments. Images | Xataka In Xataka | This hacker began to collaborate with the secret service after being arrested. What nobody knew is that he kept stealing big

There was a war in Europe for giving the second -hand digital market and we already have a clear winner: Vinned

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Percentile, the Spanish startup, of resale of fashion items, has been for two months In a bankruptcy processin search of a lifeguard. Wallapop continues to compete in that market, but without clear leadership in it. And Vinned, meanwhile, sweeps. The resale sector in Spain and in Europe is in a change of cycle. The panoramic. The second -hand clothing is a hypercompetitive market, and Vinted not only survives in it: it is dominating it. It has managed to grow where others are going back or searched for a place where they settle without finding it. To achieve this, Vinned has diversified its catalog and has also done something not so common: to earn money with its activity. The context. Percentile was a pioneer. It was founded in 2012, thirteen years old, and operated in four countries, with almost a million customers and more than a dozen millions of garments sold. However, and despite the heavyweights of the risk capital they invested in it (François Derbaix or Cabiedes & Partners between them), has not resisted the price war of the Fast Fashion. Not even the increase in the second -hand clothing market, increasingly popular and widespread, has been able to compensate for that pressure. And now look for a buyer to avoid disappearance. Between the lines. The Percentile model contributed a lot of comfort to the user, because he did everything for him: collection, classification and sale. But it was more comfortable than profitable. He only accepted half of the garments and offered rather low margins. Now its founders They speak to focus on “higher quality brands”, but maybe it’s too late. In figures. Meanwhile, Vinned in 2024 … It has tripled its benefit before taxes: 95.4 million euros. 813.4 million euros in revenue, 36% more than in 2023. He managed to reach 23 markets … … already the 2,200 employees. It is valued in 5,000 million euros. In detail. A part of his secret is in the invisible: Vinted Go and Vinted Payits own logistics and payments units. Also Vinned Ventures, his investment arm. Vinned’s ultimate goal is not just selling clothes. That is just a part. The idea is to build a complete ecosystem around the resale. Yes, but. Wallapop competes and has millions of users, true. But his generalist approach has not allowed him to emerge in the resale of clothing. It is too broad to compete in a concrete niche, as Vinted does. It has a very large catalog, but its brand is not associated with the style, and that weighs in an environment (sell used clothes) in which trust is key. In addition, Vind has many filters to locate garments (size of any part of the body, color, etc.) of which Wallapop lacks. The alarm signal. As a percentile slid, the sector grows, so the problem does not come from a lower demand. The threat is in the Low Cost from Zara, Shein and company, which have changed the rules. Sometimes it is cheaper to buy new than second hand. Only platforms with a lot of scale, focus and efficiency can survive and be profitable. Percentile is staying the way to see if a new owner can correct his course, and Wallapop resists, but Follow in losses. Who wins is Vind. And now what. Vinned wants more: he has long opened his doors beyond clothes, and now he is going something beyond electronics or luxury. Although it runs the risk of opening so much that Wallapop’s problems to lead in fashion move to it. Predictably, “circular fashion” will continue to grow and European regulations will add pressure to the conventional textile industry. In Xataka | I am a seller with five stars in Wallapop. Thus surviving in this second -hand jungle Outstanding image | Vinted

The world seemed not to be prepared for the end of cash. The digital euro makes it clear that yes

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The unknown about Why datáphones worked in full blackout He brought another question: if the end of effective money made sense or not. Without operating offline TPVs, the cash It was the only form of payment. But not having a connection and having an alternative payment method does not evide on digital alternatives. This is something that Europe was raised with the digital euro more than two years ago The digital euro. After years of study, the European Commission approved in 2023 the First legal framework For him Digital euro. As its name indicates, this will be the digital version of our currency. It is born as an alternative and not as a replacement, at least with the information currently available. The ECB has everything thought. The European Central Bank detailed in that first framework that the digital euro would operate offline to guarantee privacy. The technical details have not yet transcended, since this is a development currency, but the transactions without connection will be one of its bases. Both cards and smartphones will temporarily store the funds, synchronizing with the central system when recovering the connection. A blackout that has not demonstrated so much. Although the blackout left on the table that without TPV there is no way to pay that is not cash, it has failed to show the need for physical money to respond to the need for payment. If the digital euro manages to operate offline, it will be possible to make transactions even in scenarios such as the one lived this week. The methodology. Without too much technical depth, the ECB advanced that short -range technologies (Bluetooth, NFC, etc.) are used to make connections between devices, imposing certain limits for transactions in order to mitigate fraud risks. “The Eurosystem has no interest in collecting data from individual user payments, or in monitoring payment behavior or sharing of those data with government agencies or other public institutions.” While the ECB stated that privacy will be one of the pillars of the digital euro, with a certain degree of anonymization (intermediaries will not be able to access concrete details about transactions), Spain, a ticket country. In countries like GermanySurveys collect that half of the population is not willing to use the digital euro. If we focus on Spain, a study by the IPSOS agency evidenced that 65% of respondents were comfortable with current payment methods and would not use this alternative. Payments are still linked to the private, especially in Spain. According to data from the Bank of Spain 65% of the population used cash in 2023, being the main payment method for purchase in physical stores. Europe wants to have the digital euro ready in the short term (two years ago there was already talk of 2025 and 2026). You won’t have it easy. Image | Greegrose and Moerschy In Xataka | The European Central Bank has been fighting for five years to literally create a “European Bizum”. Now has taken a key step

It is a Chinese video game where you choose your own “digital husband”

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If the same videos appear in Booktok With the same recommendations over and over again and you are running out of patience waiting for the launch date of Sarah J. Maas’s new book, the answer is not between the pages, if not on your mobile screen: the Otome video game ”Love and Deepspace‘He wants to be your next “novel.” Do not be scared, if you are new and you need a break of the special editions and the colored songs, you have to know that this term of games, The Otomedefine the contents that are aimed at a mostly female audience. His games are very popular in particular among the Asian audience; Not in vain the etymology of the word leads us to Japan. In them, according to the decisions you make, and after living various adventures, you develop a love relationship with one of the characters. The catalog within this genre is very extensive and has gained traction in recent times. But the truth is that ‘Love and Deepspace.’created in 2024 by the Chinese developer Infold Gamesmove masses globally. In his first weeks he exceeded the 15 million downloadshe got 55 million dollars in benefits in a month and after his first year of life he reached the whopping number of 50 million players worldwide. The formula of the success of ‘Love and Deepspace’ The numbers are overwhelming, and therefore it is worth stopping to look for the keys to their success. There are several factors that have contributed to the fame of ‘Love and Deepspace’. First, its story is not based on a single character, but has several temporal lines and a puzzle structure that the player will have to complete during his game time. Although we will not have to read descriptions of objects such as ‘Elden Ring’, we are facing a FROMSOFTWARE STYLE Frame narrative. The protagonist is you, a Novata hunter whose task will consist of exploring and protecting the population that inhabits Lincoln City from the “wandering” ‘Last of us‘). Your main ability is to amplify the power of other characters during the battles, hence the relevance of meeting Xavier, Zayne, Sylus, Rafayel or Caleb (your different love interests in the game) to develop different stories and increase the affinity with each of them. First of all, Infold’s game is a romance story with the perfect dose of fantasy and science fiction. And how do you know that your target audience comes For the narrativeone of the reasons that help the title to obtain users is its mechanical accessibility. The battles acquire a secondary character and you can, without problem, focus your departure at the points you prefer. Although it is a fighting focused on very colorful special skills, it is witnessing the relative importance of “playing well” that there is a function for fights to be played alone, automatic mode through. As a good game as a service, the additional chapters that the creators provide to continue the story are not lacking. And all this with a lot of events designed to have fun in various ways, because the possibilities offered by the game are quite wide: sections dedicated to winning rewards in different types of battles, miniguegos that change every season and that can get closer to Chinese culture, a menu dedicated to taking out solo or couple photos with an endless personalization, quotes with the character of our choice … that always play before sleeping. Your destiny is to connect with them The design of the male characters is, at least, exhaustive. While they fall into a superficiality and galloping regulations in terms of physical design, we have to say that each one has a personality full of nuances with a very worked history. It is impossible not to differentiate Caleb, Rafayel, Zayne, Xavier or Sylus. The female audience is totally delivered to these “Husbondes” (digital husbands), especially in China, where shopping centers are wallowed with the faces of each and fans sides are formed as that of that team Edward vs Team Jacob of the millennial generation. Shopping Center in Hefei (China) They defend their romantic interest unreserved, sometimes creating connections with the game quite extreme: “I can show myself as I am and he will show me his love without reservations” or “everyone has their secrets, some you cannot tell others, but when you open the game, you can talk to it” are some of the statements of Chinese players of ‘Love and Deepspace’. The mechanics and progression of the game is simple, you must get certain letters (called “memories”) that They will unlock additional content To interact and allow you to have quotes with your favorite characters. Here an extra game tactics are added Free to play With micropagos, since the factor Fomo It is that some memories will only be temporarily available during an event. Thanks to unlocking this content you can learn more about that romantic link and weave the network of different temporal lines. Here also influences each user’s way of playing, since although you can focus only on a “boyfriend”, some people choose to cover something else. If you can’t choose between Zayne’s sweet character, and Sylus, the bad of the movie, you will have to handle your resources well and think well who you want to unlock more content. In that unusual, but effective, amalgam of magic, appointments, temporary lines and combat also includes the least positive aspect of this style of games, Phacha microtransactions. We are talking about an evolution of the mechanics of loot boxes that have been reviewing so long European regulatory bodies and that force you to go through a random catwalk to unlock content. You may want an appointment with a character, but for this you better save enough amount of currencybecause you will not be able to buy it directly; What you can acquire are thrown to a lottery where your favorite item has a small probability of appearing. While it is not necessary, nor does … Read more

Not everything is Kindle. Five great alternatives to devour digital books in an ereader

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The Kindle have been the most popular ereader for years, but there is life beyond them. Although in general all models are very good, other brands also offer a very complete experience. Therefore, already the eve of Book Day, we wanted to review Five alternatives to Kindle to enjoy the passion of devouring books. Kobo Clara Colora standard format ereader whose most differential point is its color screen. Pocketbook see pro coloranother ereader with color screen, but also comes with buttons to pass the pages. Woxter Scriba 195 San ideal ereader if what we are looking for is a very compact and very cheap model. Kobo Libra Colora seven -inch ereader with color screen and physical buttons. Pocketbook inkpad 4an ereader with almost eight -inch screen that comes with 32 GB of storage. Kobo Clara Color If we are looking for a compact ereader, with a good price and color screen, the Kobo Clara Color It is an interesting option – it is also available With black and white screen-. Mount one Six -inch screen with Fastglr and dark mode offered by 300 PPP in black and white and 150 ppp in color. It has 16 GB to store books, includes its own store to buy and download digital books and comes both with adjustable lighting and with light control and letter customization (format, font, size …). Also You can play audiobooks, it is water resistant and its autonomy is weeks. You can play digital books with the following formats: EPUB, EPUB3, FLEPUB, PDF, MOBI, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TXT, HTML, RTF, CBZ and CBR) * Some price may have changed from the last review Pocketbook see pro color With a similar format, a great alternative to the Kindle is the Pocketbook see pro color. It comes with one Six -inch color screen and offers 300 PPP. It is also compatible with audiobooks, front lighting can be adjusted and has Darkmode to select a dark reading mode. It also has IPX8 certificationcomes with an app to select digital books as a loan and allows you to pass the pages – and navigate the menu— by the touch screen or through the physical buttons that we can find in the lower part of the ereader. You can play digital books with the following formats: ACSM, AZW, AZW3, CBR, CBZ, CHM, DJVU, DOC, DOCX, EPUB, FB2, FB2.ZIP, HTM, HTML, MOBI, PDF, PRC, RTF, TXT, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF. In the case of audiobooks: M4B, OGG, OGG.ZIP, MP3, MP3.ZIP, WAV. Pocketbook see pro color * Some price may have changed from the last review Woxter Scriba 195 S On the other hand, if what we are looking for is a very cheap, very small ereader, but with the ability to give us hours and hours of reading, the Woxter Scriba 195 S It is an interesting purchase option –The same model, but larger, also has an adjusted price-. Without a doubt, the most remarkable thing is that it rides a 4.7 -inch screen and? Weigh only 100 grams. Its screen is not tactile, so to pass the pages and navigate the menu we must do it through the physical buttons. Includes 4 GB of storage to save books, Allows you to read horizontally and vertically and has adjustable frontal light. You can reproduce digital libors with the following formats: EPUB, PDF, FB2, HTM, DOC, TXT, RTF, TAR, TCR, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG. * Some price may have changed from the last review Kobo Libra Color From the hand of Rakuten, we can also find other ereader with somewhat larger screens. He Kobo Libra Color It is ideal for those looking for a more generous screen, since in this case it is seven inches. It comes with Fastglr and dark mode, offers 300 PPP in black and white content and 150 ppp in color content and has 32 GB of storage. Its battery offers a Autonomy of up to 40 daysit is water resistant, includes automatic brightness and color adjustment, reproduces audiobooks and the pages can be passed by the touch screen OA through the buttons we find on the right side. On the other hand, the Kobo Libra Color can reproduce the following formats: EPUB, EPUB3, FLEPUB, PDF, MOBI, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TXT, HTML, RTF, CBZ and CBR. * Some price may have changed from the last review Pocketbook inkpad 4 And if we want to make a leap more about the size of the screen, the Pocketbook inkpad 4 It is a very good purchase option. Mount a generous 7.8 -inch screen which offers 300 PPP, is water resistant (IPX8 certification) and has 32 GB of storage to save a large number of digital books. Besides, The screen has scratch protectionIt comes with an integrated speaker, it also includes a public loan library of books and you can pass the pages with the touch screen or through the physical buttons that are located at the bottom. The Pocketbook inkpad 4 is capable of reproducing the following formats: ACSM, CBR, CBZ, CHM, DJVU, DOC, DOCX, EPUB, FB2, FB2.ZIP, HTM, HTML, MOBI, PDF, PRC, RTF, TXT, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, M4 OGG.ZIP, MP3, MP3.ZIP. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Amanz in UnspashRakuten, pocketbook, woxter In Xataka | Best electronic books. Which to buy and nine recommended models In Xataka | What Kindle Buy: Purchase guide with recommendations to succeed with Amazon electronic book readers

The European Union has an ace in the sleeve to negotiate tariffs with the United States: digital services

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The United States is the great world importer. Its economy is the paradigm of consumerism, and China – the great world factory – has taken advantage of it. Precisely Trump’s tariffs –now in pause in almost everyone– They intend to correct that deficit, but not only with China, but with everyone. And the European Union, one of the affectedhas its particular As in the sleeve: its deficit in services. The EU is what the US to the goods. The European Union is a great services importer. In the old continent we are eager consumers of digital services that come from the US and ranging from the subscription to Netflix to the use of platforms such as Azure or AWS. The situation in services is similar to the one Trump wants to correct, but in that USA panorama it is “our China” and the EU would be the US. Europe has digital services deficit. And von der Leyen knows. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has already made it clear that the shots can go in the negotiations for tariffs. As they point out in Financial Timesthe president indicated that the EU will seek a “completely balanced” agreement with Washington during the 90 -day truce to the application of the reciprocal tariffs announced by Trump a few days ago. Trump makes the accounts that agree. The European Parliament already published a study Preliminary of what would happen if the US imposed extra tariffs on EU products, and detailed what the situation of imports of goods and services was. The US only talks about goods (Goods’) of consumption in its analysis, and does not mention the services for a simple reason: it has a deficit of goods (it loses) but surplus of services (it is winning). The EU is losing in services, and if the US applies tariff But it is that the US exports services to every cloth. As they also point out In The Wall Street JournalTrump’s mathematics ignore digital services exports. The former leading role of the United States as a manufacturer, with Ford or General Motors as great examples, has changed: now there the protagonists are the services, but the tariffs raised by the US government take them out of the equation, and that clearly affects the EU. In danger. According to the European Parliament data, in 2023 the EU had a surplus of goods and USA had a service surplus. In the Global EU had a surplus of 48,000 million euros, but in the study they indicate that it is a modest figure that “only represents 3% of the total commercial flow, 1.6 trillion euros.” Tariffs to services. If these negotiations fail, explained von der Leyen, the EU will expand the global trade war on services. The idea would be to include an income tax for digital advertising, something that already outlined with the DSA. The measure could have a remarkable impact on the income of companies that depend on the advertising model such as Meta, Google and Facebook. Evening threats. “We are developing retaliation measures,” said Von der Leyen, noting that “there is a wide Ramgo of countermeasures … in the event that negotiations are not satisfactory.” The advertising tax would be applied in Europe and would be different from taxes to digital sales, which have independent tax burdens according to each Member State. Image | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | There is a critical sector that is still expected the worst before the tariffs of the United States: that of medicines

Tariffs pose price increases in all types of products. Digital services are not going to escape

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On January 20, 2025 there were five very special guests to Donald Trump’s investiture ceremony. Were nothing less That Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk and Tim Cook, the CEO or founders of five of the most important technology companies on the planet. Then things happened. Billionaire losses. Three months later the companies of these five leaders have lost 1.26 billion dollars, An absolutely colossal figure. Donald Trump tariff All products that we buy and consume They rise appreciable. The services are not safe. However, what will happen to digital services? Taking into account that they are intangible, almost ethereal products, one might think that they will be safe from those increases, but we fear that there will also be important increases in these services. Infrastructure after service. The reason is clear: to provide these services services make use of data centersservers and components that will end up more. And if maintaining and providing these services costs companies more, it is logical to think that this cost increase will end up impacting users and customers. Subscriptions more expensive than ever. Thus, it seems that we will end up paying (even) more for being able to use Netflix, Spotify, Microsoft 365 or, of course, our subscription to Chatgpt Plus. Here the dominoes will fall everywhere, and it is expected that the digital services that users and companies use daily rise. We will buy less (and less imported products). As they point out In The New York Timesthere are outstanding examples such as internet payment intermediaries and of course electronic commerce platforms such as Amazon. If, for example, in the US, fewer people buy products imported from abroad – because tariffs will make them much more expensive – both Amazon itself and payment processing entities such as banks or services such as Paypall will suffer the consequences. And the EU prepares tariffs for those services. One of the possible EU responses to the tariffs Trump has announced for member countries (20%, without differentiating by country) is that of impose tariffs to services exports by the Big Tech. China exports goods, but USA exports services. The United States is the largest digital services exporter in the world. According to the analyst Jerry Ar P., in 2022 the United States exported digital services to Europe worth 187,000 million dollars, more than 25% of the total. Tariffs would clearly affect the US revenues due to these exports of digital services, and this consultant estimates that in 2022 these digital services represented 2.5% of the US GDP. Unpredictable collateral effects. The implementation of these tariffs on digital services raises notable consequences for the US economy and, of course, for global finances. North American technological ones who nourish these exports would be the clear victims, and there would also be a direct effect on their templates not only in that country, but globally. The market capitalization of these companies would probably also fall, triggering clearly clear effects in all types of areas, not only at the economic level but also at the diplomatic level. Image | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | The great technology built their empires in a connected world. Now that world is falling apart

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