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An entire factory will close after 57 years of activity

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After thousands of complaints, Stellantis assumed in January 2025 that something had gone wrong with its PureTech motors. Seeking maximum cost savings, the company had fallen into faulty production that could cause premature engine failure. Although the monetary cost has been high, the worst thing for the company has been the reputational cost. So much so that the company has stopped marketing this engine and the replacement forgets the word PureTech. With the productive tap closed and without a new award, the controversial engine has also taken another step forward. A factory that was part of the French automotive industry. The PureTech. For months, Stellantis customers have been demanding that the company take care of the breakdowns of their PureTech engines in 2024. The company had no choice but to accept the mistake and in January 2025 it confirmed that the warranty on these engines was extended and they would pay for the repairs of all engines that had failed between 2022 and 2024. The problem is that in the search for extreme cost savingsthe engine design could cause the oil-soaked belt to become contaminated with fuel residue to the point of premature wear that would cause it to break unexpectedly. If the timing belt breaks, engine damage can be fatal. A problem. The problem for Stellantis is that the damage caused by PureTech motors goes far beyond economic damage. The company has been setting aside tens of millions of euros to face compensation for customer breakages but the worst has been the reputational impact. To put up a dam, Stellantis has presented the Turbo 100the replacement for the failed propellants. It has done so after the revised versions of the previous engine were also called to go through the workshop for new problems last year. The solution has finally been to nip the issue in the bud. And goodbye to your factory. With the end of the production of these engines, other news has also come: Stellantis will close the Douvrin plant in France, explain our French colleagues from L’Automobile. The decision is a direct consequence of the poor results of the engines and the change in the company’s strategy. And the 1.2 Puretech engines were not being sold in Europe but they were being sold in other markets. The company, however, will completely cease production before the end of the year. Once they also stopped manufacturing the 1.5 BlueHDI diesel last year, the plant was already mortally wounded. Goodbye to decades of history. The closure of the Douvrin plant is sensitive because it is a factory with 57 years behind it. It had been in operation since 1969 and its construction was born from investments by Peugeot and Renault. However, in 2013 it was acquired in its entirety by PSA (of which Peugeot was a part) and from there it passed into the hands of Stellantis after the merger of FCA and PSA. The company, according to the French media, has relocated 340 employees to another plant to produce batteries and another very similar figure has joined different positions. The fate of 100 workers (half of them temporary) who have not been formally relocated remains to be known. Another European plant that closes. The closure of said French plant is just another example of how the European motor industry is suffering with the conversion to electric cars. Stellantis has stressed on different occasions that production costs in France are too high (and along the way we have benefited in Spain). Volkswagen assures that will have to lay off 100,000 employees of its German plants for the same reason. But it is also the certification that Europe continues to move towards the electric car. Although the French plant produced engines for countries outside our borders, we are not competitive against regions such as Morocco, Türkiye or South America…or Poland (where the PureTech that France abandons is still produced). In these countries, producing combustion engines is still the order of the day and at a more affordable price. Photo | Stellantis In Xataka | Italian workers have been angered by Stellantis’ investments. Those that Morocco has taken from them, specifically

Video game preservation has already been mortally wounded with Sony. The next blow comes from an entire country: Germany

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Many times we have treated video games as if their availability was guaranteed, even when they depended on discs, digital stores and servers that could disappear. What we have seen this week reminds us that preserving them requires more than will: we need supports that survive and organizations capable of cataloging them, maintaining them and opening them to researchers and the public. Sony has decided to close one of those avenues for future releases. Almost at the same time, Germany has dropped one of the most ambitious public projects that existed to prevent that memory from being lost. The closure is already underway. The Internationale Computerspielesammlung, known as ICS, is in the process of dissolution after the public funding that supported it expired at the end of April 2026. GamesWirtschaft points out that The federal government refused to renew its share of support and the partners voted unanimously to dissolve the company. The decision does not erase the existing collections at once, but it does leave the shared database and the infrastructure that allowed it to be consulted without defined continuity, the future of which remains under legal and technical review. An archive of more than 60,000 games. The ICS gathered records and funds provided by institutions such as the Computerspielemuseum of Berlin, the USK, the game association and the DIGAREC research center. The collection encompassed cartridges, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray, as well as boxes, manuals, associated materials and hardware. Of course, what could be publicly consulted since April 2019 was the digital database, not the games themselves. The physical pieces remain in the hands of the proprietary entities. The ambition went much further. The ICS aspired to gather in one place the funds that were still distributed among its partners and turn the whole into a stable tool for researchers, media and specialists. The plan included facilitating access through automated emulation and creating a permanent public headquarters in the German capital region. The complete leap was never consolidated: a repository already existed, but permanent institutionalization, public headquarters and the access provided through emulation were missing. That second phase remained uncompleted. The money did not find a stable outlet. The aid came from the Berlin Senate and the Federal Commissioner for Culture, but was linked to a temporary phase of the initiative. When the video game policy passed to the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space in 2025, it studied whether it could turn the ICS into a permanent institution. He ultimately concluded that the model was not economically viable due to the scale of the work required. Preserving also means guaranteeing access. The scenario left by these two movements does not only imply that there are fewer objects to save or fewer projects capable of organizing them. It also weakens the ability to consult, study and understand these games decades from now, when they will depend on hardware, documentation and systems that may no longer exist. The coincidence between Sony’s announcement and the fall of the ICS points in that direction: the video game memory does not disappear all at once, but when the structures that keep it available are removed, one by one. Images | Sei In Xataka | ‘Minecraft’ has achieved something revolutionary in the dynamics of the game: allowing its users to sit

the physics behind the most violent explosions in the universe capable of extinguishing entire galaxies

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We tend to think about the stars as what we see: millions of bright dots that appear every night above our heads. However, what lies behind it is much bigger. We see light that was emitted dozens or even hundreds of years ago, coming from immense celestial objects, inside which reactions more energetic than any chemical reaction are taking place. And it is not about chemistry, but about something much more intense: nuclear fusion. The “fire” that we see from Earth is the fruit of this fusion, but there comes a time when there is no longer any fuel. With no more fuel to add to the bonfire, the star collapses and dies. This death can be cold and silent, as happens with the smallest stars, but it can also be explosive and colossal when it comes to the largest stars. After that explosion, known as supernovaa black hole or a neutron stardepends on the size of the star that died. The supernova explosion is one of the largest that occurs in the Universe. It is estimated that it releases energy equivalent to 1030 times that of the Hiroshima bomb. It is a phenomenon that releases so much radiation that even has become related with two of the five great mass extinctions that have taken place on Earth. But what makes the death of a star end up becoming something so huge? To know, we must start at the beginning. What is a supernova? A supernova is the last death of a star with a mass at least eight times that of our Sun. When runs out of fuel to continue maintaining the nuclear fusion running, it collapses, releasing a lot of energy. But this is not something that happens quickly. A massive star goes through several phases before reaching the point of generating a supernova. How is a supernova formed? Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which the nuclei of two light atoms fuse to form a heavier onewith a great release of energy. In the case of stars, this process is essential to keep them “on” during the early stages of their life, since They fuse hydrogen nuclei and transform them into helium. It occurs in all stars, although it occurs much more quickly in larger ones. While nuclear fusion occurs in the nucleus, there are two forces that remain in balance. On the one hand, gravity, which pushes all the material inward. And, on the other hand, the radiation pressure, which is generated by the effect of fusion in the stellar core and pushes outward. This occurs unchanged until the time comes when that hydrogen runs out. When spent in the core, the forces are no longer in balance. Gravity overcomes radiation pressure, so the core is pushed inward and compressed. It heats up so much that the helium that remained in the core also acquires the ability to fuse, becoming a new fuelwhich will be transformed into carbon and oxygen. But there was not only hydrogen in the core of the star. This element is also found in its outermost layers, with the difference that it remains inactive. Does not merge. Or, actually, it doesn’t at first. When this first compression occurs, with the consequent stellar heating, the outer hydrogen begins to fuse, causing the growth of the star, which becomes a red giant. Unlike smaller stars, those with a lot of mass have enough energy so they can continue fusing other atoms beyond helium. Carbon, for example, fuses to give rise to neon and magnesium. Neon does the same, generating oxygen and magnesium. That oxygen fuses to produce silicon and sulfur and, finally, the silicon atoms fuse very quickly, generating an iron nucleus. Here comes a key point, since Iron is the most stable element of all those producedso the fusion is slowed down. Cores cannot continue to merge. It is now impossible to continue generating energy and the gravity we talked about at the beginning completely defeats the star. As a result, the core collapses on itself until reaching a limit where a large shock wave is generated and the outer layers collapse, which are violently released into space. We are facing a supernova, an explosion that can last from weeks to months or years. In reality, this explosion can also occur in a binary star systemwhen one steals material from another. Therefore, when we talk about supernovas we must differentiate several types. Types of supernovae All we have seen so far is the description of the most common supernovae. Nevertheless, there are other types of supernovaewhich differ both in the nature of their parent star and in the mechanism by which the explosion takes place. Mainly, The differences are seen when analyzing their spectrum. That is, the light they absorb or emit. This is a process used to determine chemical compositions, as different elements absorb or emit light in very specific patterns of wavelengths. Type I supernova: Hydrogen is not identified in its spectrum. Type Ia: They do not have hydrogen or helium, but they do have a strong line of silicon. This indicates that they are produced by a thermonuclear explosion in a binary system, when a white dwarf accumulates additional material from a companion star. Type Ib: The spectrum does not have hydrogen, but it does have helium. It is the classic supernova that we have talked about so far. The one generated as a remnant of a neutron star or a black hole after the collapse of a large star. Typically more than 8 solar masses. It does not have hydrogen, because the outer layers of the star that contained it were lost. On the other hand, those of helium were preserved. Type IC: There is no hydrogen or helium in the spectrum. In this case, we are also facing an explosion like the one we have described so far. The only difference with type Ib is that, during the explosion, its outer layers are stripped of both hydrogen … Read more

Making a robotic hand is “100 times more difficult” than building the entire robot. These Chinese companies are determined to solve it

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China has achieved let your humanoid robots run, they fight and even that execute choreographies with astonishing precision. That was the easy part. The key for a humanoid to stop being a fairground attraction and become a useful product is not in its legs, balance or its “brain”, but in something much smaller and much more complicated than it seems: the hands. The challenge of the hands. The human hand has 27 bones, 34 muscles and countless nerve endings. Replicating this in metal and circuits is the biggest bottleneck facing modern robotics. sums it up well Guardian Zhou Yong, founder of LinkerBot, one of the most advanced Chinese startups in this field: manufacturing a robotic hand is “a hundred times more difficult” than manufacturing an entire humanoid. “The dexterity required by a hand is ten times greater than that of any other part of the body, but its volume is only one-tenth the volume,” Zhou says. That is, not only is it the most technically complex element, it is also the smallest. The Chinese advantage. Pan Yunzhe, founder of Wuji Technology, studied in the United States and considered setting up his robotic hands company there, but soon saw that it was unviable. He tells The Guardian that “It was practically impossible to manufacture hardware in the United States due to the enormous limitations of the supply chain.” And China has an unmatched supply chain: it is agile, it is sophisticated and, above all, it is cheaper. This gives them a key advantage in hardware and allows companies like Linkerbot to already manufacture 5,000 robotic hands per month, a figure impossible to match anywhere else in the world. The problem is the software. Making the hand is only half the job, you also have to make it move like a human hand and there is still a long way to go here. Nathan Lepora, professor of robotics and AI at the University of Bristol, sums it up: “the challenge of making these hands is already being solved,” but controlling them “is a completely different game… no one knows how to do it yet.” The scarcity of data is one of the big problems and it is that, while LLMs have been trained with the enormous amounts of data on the Internet, there is hardly any data on how a human hand moves and, above all, what it feels like when touching something. To try to overcome this obstacle, Wuji Technology is testing a glove packed with sensors that captures all the movements of the human hand in everyday tasks. Its founder admits that being able to capture “how a person moves and what they touch or feel” is an “extremely complex and unsolved” task. The robotics market. The Chinese robotic hands sector had a turnover of $7.4 billion last year, almost four times more than in 2024. LinkerBot, one of the leading startups, aspires to a valuation of $6 billion. The case of this startup is just one example of the robotics boom in China, where more than a million companies are already registered, 40% more than last year. This translates into brutal dominance: China already manufactures 90% of the world’s humanoid robots and it is the country with the most industrial robotsby much difference with the rest. Yes, but. Robotics is advancing by leaps and bounds, but there are voices calling for calm, and not just any voice, but that of the International Federation of Robotics. In your report published in September last year were clear: “True multipurpose humanoids are still far away.” We are going to continue seeing more and more amazing demonstrations, but from there until they are sold en masse and we can all have one at home that is truly capable, there is a way to go. Image | Xataka with Magnific In Xataka | We still don’t know if humanoid robots will be the next great technological revolution. Yes we know that China will lead it

evacuate entire neighborhoods when roads disappear

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In July 2021, Zhengzhou floods they left a scene that went around the world: excavators advancing between streets turned into rivers to remove residents trapped because there were no longer roads. Five years later, China is facing the same problem again, although this time the answer seems straight out of a science fiction movie. 2026 tests China. Torrential rains have been going on for months hitting the center and south of the countrywith dozens of deaths, hundreds of thousands of people affected and massive evacuations. Reuters described Roads blocked, cities partially flooded and rescue teams forced to use boats, swimmers and improvised means to reach isolated areas. In fact, the emergency reached a new dimension when Typhoon Maysak hit Guangxi, forcing the evacuation of more than 130,000 people and leaving thousands of students trapped by water. Traditional rescue does not work. The floods left a repeated image again and again: entire neighborhoods where it was not possible to circulate overland. That problem has led China to deploy a ever-growing fan of solutions, one where we have seen from drones capable of maintaining communications or transporting cargo to heavy machinery adapted to move through water. It is not an improvised strategy, but an evolution of the lessons learned after previous catastrophes such as those in Zhengzhou. A gigantic floating “creature”. And among all the means deployed there was one that caught special attention. Several local media have shown a huge self-propelled pontoon used to evacuate thousands of people when the roads had completely disappeared. The Chinese media baptized as a kind of “rescue aircraft carrier”, a huge floating platform capable of transporting hundreds of people at a time to places where conventional vehicles can no longer reach. The new thing is the strategy. As of this writing, there are no independent sources indicating that this platform is a newly introduced development. Everything indicates that it derives from the self-propelled pontoons that for decades have employed military engineers to build bridges floating and crossing rivers with heavy vehicles. Rather, what is novel here seems to be its adaptation for large-scale civilian evacuations, turning a military technology into a kind of gigantic emergency ferry. The great teaching. The Guangxi floods have revealed something more important than a floating platform, which too. While much of the world continues to rely almost exclusively on ships and helicopters to respond to these types of disasters, China is incorporating dronesamphibious platforms and large floating systems to keep a city operational even when it no longer has streets. Maybe that marine “creature” It may be the most spectacular image, but it probably only represents one more piece in a much broader strategy to respond to increasingly frequent extreme phenomena. Image | CCTV In Xataka | In China, the drone that brings you your order and the drone that evacuates you from a flood are sometimes the same drone In Xataka | The mega transfer: China is executing the largest hydraulic engineering project in history before our eyes

Players celebrate that ‘GTA VI’ will cost 80 euros. It turns out that only the 100 euro ‘special’ is the entire game

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‘GTA VI‘ is the topic of the week in video games. Of the year, if you hurry me. The Rockstar title is a generational game and today reservations are open to get a digital version or a box that Does not include the game in physical format. That is, precisely, one of the controversies, but not the only one. The other has to do with the price. We have had rumors and leaks for months suggesting that ‘GTA VI’ was going to be the 100 euro game. Nintendo came close with the 90 euros of the ‘Mario Kart World‘, but many eyes were still on that ‘GTA VI’ whose development has been so monumental and expensive that it seemed to justify a considerable increase in price. In the end, it turned out that the game arrives for 80 euros in its standard version. But the twist is that there is a 100 euro version, one called ‘Ultimate’ that doesn’t feel like an ‘Ultimate’ edition: feels like the real ‘GTA VI’. Because this edition is not a collection of skins, as happens in other games: they are content that is unlocked as we progress through the game and are “threaded in all aspects of the story” of its protagonists, according to Rockstar itself. And it ranges from exclusive stores, items for the protagonists, vehicles of all kinds and some missions. The key to the Ultimate edition of ‘GTA VI’ On the website, Rockstar describes this edition as follows: “Welcome to Leonida, the state where anything goes. Get everything this vast world has to offer with Grand Theft Auto VI: Ultimate Edition, an exclusive collection of premium vehicles, weapons, fashion and action galore. The Ultimate Edition’s bonus content runs through Jason and Lucia’s story, discovering new items in each chapter.” We are used to the fact that when a game comes out in two editions, we have the full experience in the base edition and then an ‘Ultimate’ or ‘Complete’ edition that includes a code with skins. There may be some other element such as a vehicle or a couple of exclusive weapons, but in the end it is nothing that alters the experience too much. These contents are usually unlocked from the beginning of the adventure if we enter the code, but In the case of ‘GTA VI Ultimate’ things seem slightly different. As the company has commented, these new contents will be unlocked not all at once, but as we complete steps in the adventures of its protagonists. And that, with my experience as a player, sounds to me like content that has always been unlocked as we played, without having to pay anything else, but that now they want to pass off as additional content. Because yes, we have some different weapons, vehicles, tattoos, hairstyles and outfits, but also two car modification workshops, a new safe house in one of the areas, a store that only opens with this version and what seems like a mission or event in which we can raid the warehouse of a gang in the city to recover their merchandise. As I say, all of that sounds to me like content that, In another era, we would have been achieving with the normal course of the adventure. And for this reason, precisely, it gives rise to thinking that the ‘GTA VI’ that they had in mind from the beginning was the one for 100 euros, and that this so-called ‘Ultimate Edition’ is nothing more than the standard version, but with a cut version for 80 euros so as not to be ‘GTA’ the saga that raised the games to the 100 euro barrier. Because, in the end, no matter how much of a ‘GTA’ you are, the price of a video game matters. For example, the one that got involved when PS5 raised the price of some games up to 80 euros or when Nintendo did it a year ago with 90 euros. In fact, Rockstar must be quite happy with Nintendo for the 90 euros of ‘Mario Kart World’. And, speaking of Nintendo, another detail that gives rise to thinking that the ‘GTA VI’ “really” is the 100 euro one is the one that was set up when Nintendo launched ‘Donkey Kong Bananza‘ for 80 euros and, just a month later, it released a DLC that they most likely already had prepared for the original launch, but costing 20 euros. In practice, whoever wanted the complete game ‘dropped’ 100 euros in just a month and a half. But hey, price and controversies aside, ‘GTA VI’ is going to be a generational game. Rockstar has been cooking this work for more than a decade, which has become, possibly, the most expensive entertainment product ever created. It is a game that will not leave anyone indifferent and that, without really having many details about it, fills rivers of digital ink and a lot of content on YouTube. It also seems that they want to get rid of all the negative aspects as soon as possible so that the launch on November 19 goes as smoothly as possible. Although Rockstar must deal not only with issues such as price or differences between versions, but with much more serious things such as the denounced treatment of its workers and their rights. And if Reddit is a thermometer, it is neither hot nor cold, with users defending the decision and others questioning, precisely, that content is blocked. In Xataka | There are more and more physical video games that are paperweights. It is a tremendous problem for video games as art.

Hunting Bargains with the best offers of the entire week in technology and entertainment, today June 12

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There is very little left for Amazon to celebrate its next Prime Day 2026 and it can be seen in the offers that many other stores are launching. Televisions, consoles and even Apple devices have been receiving many discounts throughout this and the previous week, so if you are looking for a good deal, we are going to review the best offers in the new Hunting Bargains. MacBook Air M5 by 1,279 eurosApple’s next-generation laptop with high storage configuration. Philips Ambilight OLED770 by 766 eurosa fairly reasonable price for a television with an OLED panel. nintendo switch 2 by 499 eurosthe portable console at a discount and with a free fighting video game. Xiaomi TV A Pro 2026 by 279 euros with El Corte Inglés Card, a 55-inch QLED television. ipad mini by 499 eurosa perfect tablet to take comfortably outside the home. Xiaomi TV A Pro 2026 (55 inches) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links MacBook Air M5 One of the best offers we have seen this week is the one with the MacBook Air M5a laptop that at PcComponentes is discounted by 1,279 euros in his version of 1TB internal storage. As far as the computer is concerned, it is quite powerful thanks to its M5 chip, it is very light with a weight of 1.23 kg and also offers a very good theoretical autonomy of up to 18 hours of video playback. MacBook Air M5 (16GB, 1TB) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Philips Ambilight OLED770 If, taking advantage of the Soccer World Cup, you are thinking that it is a good time to renew your television, Amazon has an offer on Philips Ambilight OLED770 by 766 euros. It is a TV with an OLED panel that has a 55-inch diagonal, includes Ambilight technology and is compatible with both Dolby Vision and HDR10+ as well as Dolby Atmos. Philips Ambilight OLED770 (55 inches) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links nintendo switch 2 So far, we have seen an enormous amount of nintendo switch 2 in unofficial packs that stores have been launching, and Carrefour right now has one of the most interesting, especially for lovers of fighting games. By 449 euros (the console without a game costs 469 euros), you can have the Nintendo Switch 2 at home along with ‘Street Fighter 6: Years 1-2 Fighters Edition‘, a fighting title with a port which has turned out very well for this Nintendo console. Nintendo Switch 2 + Street Fighter 6: Years 1-2 Fighters Edition The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi TV A Pro 2026 If you have the El Corte Inglés Card, you can access the many offers in the store during its Private Sale. And in televisions, one of the models that is standing out the most for its price is the Xiaomi A Pro 2026 55 inches, which remains for 279 euros. We are talking about a television whose most important assets are that it comes with a QLED panel and Google TV operating system. Xiaomi TV A Pro 2026 (55 inches) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links ipad mini Finally, we repeat the mark with the ipad mini which has dropped in price, also in El Corte Inglés. By 499 euroswe are talking about a tablet that is perfect if you want to use it outside the home and carry it comfortably in a pocket or backpack. It is also a fairly powerful model that has a good enough autonomy to not depend too much on the charger. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Apple, Philips, Nintendo, Xiaomi In Xataka | Best tablets in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and seven recommended models In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs

“Entire boxes are bought, there is a lack of product and we are producing 24 hours a day”

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“I’m the typical nostalgic millennial, I admit that.” This is how our colleague Laura Sacristán of Xataka Mobile the article in which he narrates his experience completing the World Cup sticker album… digitally. It is a phrase that could summarize the entire text that is to come. And if one feels like Don Quixote in front of the windmills when trying to complete the Panini World Cup album. The one that the company has launched with the punctuality of someone who knows they have a good business on their hands. Among the strength of the world fifespeculation and the feeling of nostalgia, one buys the album assuming that it will be almost impossible to complete it. Working piecework But it doesn’t seem enough. “It had never started this way, especially in Spain and Portugal. In Brazil it has always been crazy, but, this year, there is a lack of product and we are producing 24 hours a day. We did not expect it” The statements are from Lluís Torrent, general director of Panini in Spain, to elDiario.eswho accepts that there is a shortage of stock in the stickers that our country demands. And the company claims that it had not seen the same fever for World Cup cards in our country as this year. Although the public is loyal to each year’s album, the World Cups have something special and that can also be seen in the results account by adding more followers. “There are adults who have reengaged. There is hunger and whole boxes are bought“, explains Torrent to the digital media. And our colleague confirms it. If she has made the leap to digital it is for a very simple reason: desperation. “They are sold out everywhere” is the answer she has heard the most in recent days. Fed up, she has forgotten the physical card. “The cards also serve as a socialization tool, you have to know how to organize them, exchange them, “They have a positive aspect of coexistence and sociability,” says Torrent. The problem is when the speculator takes over that “positive aspect of coexistence and sociability.” To both Laura Sacristán, Torrent, and everyone who approaches a kiosk, those who run them give the same answer: “people take away whole boxes.” The shortage remains in the market three weeks after this report from The Newspaper. The person who spoke then was Narayan, head of a kiosk in Sant Cugat del Vallés, stating that even they themselves have had larger orders rejected for their points of sale. More than 600 kilometers further away, in the Puerta Cerrada square in the heart of Madrid, another kiosk gives the same answer to some children who are trying to quench their thirst for stickers. Children who can go look for the ones that interest them most just a few hundred meters away. In the lower part of the Rastro, the fans They meet every Sunday to exchange the repeated stickers and complete the collection. Or buy them. Because the truth is that there is no shortage of those who resell the most sought-after stickers. On digital buying and selling portals it is not difficult to find individual trading cards for 30 euros (the equivalent of 20 sealed envelopes). if we talk about Cristiano Ronaldo either Messi. For an “extra sticker”, the stickers premium that Panini has launched along with the standard collection with another 80 prints, individual prices start at 50 euros and in some they reach 150 euros. Despite everything, Torrent defends that there is the same probability of an envelope containing the Lamine Yamal sticker as it is of JK Duverne, the Haitian defender who plays for the Belgian team KAA Gent. This World Cup, furthermore, is of special interest for collectors because everything indicates, if no one can remedy it, that it will be the last for Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar. But also, the collection is broader than ever because more teams than ever play in the World Cup. The result: 980 cards that represent the players of the 48 teams that complete the tournament this time. A figure never seen in Panini’s World Cup album and that falls like May water on the Italian company that this year will bill more than 100 million euros in Spain. A tiny part of the global result that is estimated at 1,400 million euros in this edition, they point out in Seville newspaper. An empire built on two factories, one in Italy and the other in Brazil. An empire built on childhood anxiety, hunger accumulated during the four years of the World Cup cycle and, above all, the nostalgic thirst that seems insatiable among the millennial generation. Photo | Panini and FIFA In Xataka | We are in 2026, but you will only see part of the World Cup in 4K. The “shitification” of the platforms gives us back DTT

Gasoline hoses have a tiny hole at the end. Without chips involved, it is the smartest piece in the entire supplier

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If you’ve ever paid attention to the pump while filling up, you may have noticed that it has a small hole located near the tip of the metal nozzle. That little hole is, possibly, the most ingenious piece of the entire set. And it is responsible for the hose “knowing” when to stop adding fuel and stopping on its own with that characteristic click. What exactly is it. This small hole is located at the end of the pipe (the part that you insert into the tank) and is connected to a thin, secondary tube that runs inside the nozzle parallel to the main fuel line. The nozzle uses the fuel itself that is being pumped to create the effect that activates the automatic cut. So to speak, the little hole does not pour gasoline, but rather breathes air. How it works. The key is in a physical principle called the Venturi effect. While the fuel flows at high speed through a narrowing of the duct, a low pressure zone is generated that sucks air through that small hole in the tip. The Venturi effect occurs because The density of gasoline is greater than that of airand it is precisely this phenomenon that causes the dispenser to turn off automatically when the tank is full. The moment of cutting. When the gasoline level inside the tank rises to cover that hole, the tube stops being able to suck in air. When the airflow is cut off, the suction is triggered and creates a vacuum that pulls on a flexible membrane (a diaphragm) housed in the handle of the nozzle. That movement releases a lever mechanism that slams the main valve shut, stopping fuel instantly. The pressure change causes the diaphragm to “jump”releasing the mechanical lever that closes the valve and ending with a click. And as you may have already noticed, the cut occurs even if you continue to pull the trigger. 100% mechanical. This entire system is purely mechanical. There are no electronic sensors, no chips, no batteries. The handle simply generates a slight vacuum at the tip of the pipe, and if that point becomes clogged, a mechanism closes the valve. It is basic physics applied to this little invention that we use in our routine, and that is capable of detecting even a small amount of fuel, blocking the hole to prevent it from overflowing. Security and cuts. This system prevents gasoline from overflowing from the tank, something that would be dangerous (risk of fire) and polluting. But its usefulness goes beyond safe filling. This extraordinary sensitivity is also the cause of those premature and repeated cuts when the jet turns off even though the tank is not full. The most common cause of these annoying cuts is simply a little gasoline splashing back and covers the hole momentarily, activating the mechanism ahead of time. In cars with short filler tubes, a rapid flow can easily flood that column, so the first recommended remedy is usually to reduce the filling rate. The position of the nozzle and the temperature of the fuel also play a role. In Xataka | The United States has the best electric car chargers in the world. Europe has something more important

In 1972 Italy wanted to put an entire city in a one kilometer building. Half a century later he is still paying the consequences

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The same year that construction of the Corviale complex began, US authorities began demolition by Pruitt–Igoea gigantic public housing complex that had been presented just two decades earlier as the future of the modern city. The coincidence was almost symbolic: while one country demolished one of its great urban utopias, another began to build a new one. A city within a building. During the 1970s, Italy believed it could solve several urban problems at once. Rome was growing rapidly, peripheral neighborhoods were multiplying and public housing was facing increasing demand. The answer It was the Corvialea gigantic residential structure almost a kilometer long designed to house around 8,500 people. Its architect, Mario Fiorentino, did not simply imagine a block of flats, but a authentic linear city where streets would be corridors, squares would emerge from common spaces and daily services would coexist with homes. That vision was intended to demonstrate that architecture could reorganize urban life from its foundations. A utopia that was never completed. The problem appeared before the project was even finished being built. The company in charge of the works went bankrupt in 1982 and many of the essential elements of the original design never came to fruition. The famous middle floor used for shops, offices, services and community spaces was left empty and ended up being occupied by families looking for a place to live. What was to become the social heart of the complex ended up becoming a housing labyrinth improvised. Many of the planned facilities were also never built, leaving the infrastructure that was to turn the building into a self-sufficient city incomplete. When architecture conditions everyday life. Over the years, Corviale began to demonstrate that buildings are not simple containers where people live. Its long corridors, its few entrances, the complex interior circulation and the enormous scale of the complex began to influence the way in which the residents they were related to each other. The elevators are They broke down constantlyforcing thousands of people to travel long distances to enter or leave their homes. The centralized heating system caused conflicts between residentsirregular occupants and administrations on who should bear the costs. Some researchers even described the building as a small town whose governance problems were directly linked to its physical characteristics. From the symbol of the future to the symbol of failure. As the deterioration progressed, Corviale began to accumulate a reputation increasingly negative. For many he became the perfect example of the excesses of urbanism postwar monumental. Its critics described it as a concrete monster, a residential prison or an example of how certain urban planning ideologies had ignored people’s real needs. Illegal occupations, maintenance problems, the presence of criminal activities and institutional abandonment reinforced this perception. for years proposals arose to tear it down completely and replace it with smaller-scale traditional neighborhoods, connected by streets, squares and buildings closer to human dimensions. Giuditto Miele at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Corviale complex The battle to decide your destiny. However, Corviale was never demolished. Unlike many other large post-war European housing estates, managed to survive to demolition attempts. Part of the explanation lies in its increasing symbolic value. What for some was an urban failure, for others represented an unrepeatable piece of Italian architectural history. The building ended up getting heritage protection and became part of the national debate about what to do with the great utopias of the 20th century. The discussion stopped focusing solely on whether the project had worked or not and became a more complex question: how to transform such a gigantic structure without destroying it. Half a century of reforms to correct an idea. The last decades have been marked by an almost constant succession of regeneration projects. International competitions, neighborhood associations, architects and public administrations have tried adapt the complex to current needs. Some interventions have regularized occupied spaces, others have rehabilitated common areas and several seek to recover the pedestrian scale through new public spaces and green areas. No other residential complex in Rome has received public investment so intense and prolonged. The paradox in this case is more than evident: the building that was born to simplify urban life has become one of the most complex regeneration operations in the city. Consequences of a big bet. The story del Corviale It continues to fascinate because it transcends architecture. It is the story of a time that believed that social problems could be solved through great physical solutions and a city that continues to deal with the consequences of that bet. The building, by the way, still standinginhabited by thousands of people and subjected to continuous transformations. For some it demonstrates the limits of grand urban visions, for others, the ability of a community to adapt to an unfinished project. The truth is that half a century later, Rome continues to dedicate resources, time and energy to managing a structure designed to function as a complete city. And perhaps that is the clearest proof that Corviale never stopped being exactly that: a city enclosed within a building. Image | Wikimedia, Umberto RotundoAlessandro Pace In Xataka | In 1970 Japan built homes of the future where each capsule would be replaceable. 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