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The question is not when it will stop raining, the question is how much water this fall will fall

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The Mediterranean slope has once again been in the center of an important rainfall episode. From Zaragoza to Murcia, rainfall has flooded streets and squares. Fortunately, the situation has not achieved the magnitude of what we saw last fall, but the situation led yesterday to the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) to issue several notices, including red notices due to extreme risk. Final in sight. The situation has not yet been reversed, although the focus of the rains has been moving. If yesterday the most affected areas were in the center and north of the Levantine coast, today the risks are concentrated in the provinces of Valencia, Alicante, as well as in Murcia and in the Balearic Islands: in the early hours of today, Eivissa has seen fall More than 115 mm of water. Yesterday the accumulated rainfall They touch the 240 mm in barxValencia, and exceeded 100 mm at the province airport. In some areas of Castellón and Tarragona, rainfall also exceeded 57 mm. Experts expect the transition to October to bring a radical change in the atmospheric. Aemet does not include in its forecast the arrival of significant phenomena and indicates that it is expected “it provides stable time in much of the country”, except in the eastern zone that will still see rethinking instability due to the influence of the cold trough. Radical change. The Aemet monthly forecasts They seem to secondary this idea: the agency provides that a driest month of October than usual in almost the entire peninsula and, especially, in the northwestern zone. It is also expected that the temperatures of the next few days will be higher than what would correspond to these autumn dates. The thing could change during the second half of the month. Although temperatures could continue to be high, the agency begins to glimpse anomalously high rainfall on the Levantine coast during the week that begins on the 13th. Some somewhat more abundant rainfall is also expected than usual in the southwest quadrant during the final stretch of the month. Two slopes, two stories. But if we want to know (or at least intuit) what we have autumn, we have to go to the longer term forecasts. What do these forecasts suggest? Well, the tonic will last, with two different trends in peninsular Spain. Regarding rainfall, Aemet foresees a dry autumn in much of the territory. Probabilistically, the agency talks about 45% probabilities of a dry autumn compared to 20% probabilities of a humid fall. However, the thing changes in the east zone, where uncertainty prevails with respect to whether autumn will be wetter, drier or if on the contrary it will remain within the parameters of normality. Echoes of a different autumn. The forecasts give rise to a complicated scenario: the lack of rainfall in much of the country implies the return of the ghost of the drought. As if this were not enough, the predictions on the Mediterranean coast are compatible with the arrival of intense rainfall episodes. These do not have to reach the magnitude of those that occurred last year, but the rains of these days show us that they do not have to reach such dimension to cause important problems. In Xataka | After months of indecision, meteorologists already see the girl in Pacific waters Image | ECMWF

Nvidia, TSMC and SK Hynix are the most powerful chip companies on the planet. None can allow any of the others to fall

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Nvidia dominates the global chips market for artificial intelligence (AI) with a fee that during the last three years has oscillated between 80 and 94%, according to Fourweekmba. Your leadership is supported by A very competitive hardware and a software ecosystem in which CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) It has an essential role. This technology brings together the compiler and development tools used by programmers to develop their software for NVIDIA GPUs. However, the company led by Jensen Huang has a fundamental partner: TSMC. Nvidia designs the chips for AI and this manufacturer of Taiwanese semiconductors, the eldest of the planet with A global quota close to 60%it produces them. Its iron leadership is the result of Its peak technology and its titanic production capacity. TSMC has many important clients, such as AMD, Qualcomm, MediaTak or Broadcom, among many others, but thanks to the AI ​​NVIDIA, it has established itself as Your second best customer Only behind Apple. Presumably TSMC is about to start MANUFACT 2 NM GPU For Nvidia, but this is not the only thing that this chips manufacturer is going to do for one of its best customers. And this Taiwanese company has decided to start An expansion plan for five years of its manufacturing capacity of integrated circuits using its advanced cowos packaging technology (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate). According to Beth Kindigof the I/O Fund consultant, this technology will monopolize between 50 and 60% of the market in 2025 compared to 15% it supported during 2024. The synergy of these companies is indisputable The high demand for GPUs for AI with Blackwell MicroAritectura de Nvidia is largely responsible for the implementation of this plan. The company led by Jensen Huang can respond better to the needs of its customers and will see how its competitiveness is increased in a phase in which Depseek and other Chinese companies represent a challenge. In March 2024 TSMC officially announced which was building two cowos packaging plants in the town of Chiayi, housed in southern Taiwan. However, this is not all. He also shuffled the option to put a plant more specialized in this advanced packaging technology in Japan, presumably on the island of Kyushu, in which this company is currently building two semiconductor production plants of avant -garde. In any case, there is something else. And it is that Chiayi plants will be trained to work, in addition to the packaging cowos, With advanced Info and Soic technologies (System on Integrated Chips). Nvidia and TSMC synergy is indisputable, but this recipe requires a third ingredient: SK Hynix It is evident that TSMC wants to cover your back well and look to the future to prevent its production capacity from being threatened by a bottleneck. An interesting note: currently the Cowos packaging is being used with the AMD Instinct Mi250 chips and with the A100, H100, H200, B100 and B200 NVIDIA GPUs, as well as in its derivatives. The review used in these last two chips, the B100 and B200, is known as Cowos-L. Before the TSMC ends this year, you will be able to process no less than 60,000 wafers per month using its advanced packaging technology. The synergy of Nvidia and TSMC is indisputable, but this recipe requires a third ingredient: SK Hynix. This South Korean manufacturer of memory chips leads the HBM memories market (High Bandwidth Memory) that work side by side with the GPUs for ia with a shocking authority. Your market share Broken 70%so that the remaining 30% are distributed by Samsung and Micron Technology. After them, Chinese manufacturers of Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) and CXMT (Changxin Memory Technologies). At the end of 2024 SK Hynix took advantage of the celebration of an innovation forum organized by TSMC to publicize its mastery of the manufacture of HBM memories. According to SK Hynix itself Its MR-MUF process, which, in broad strokes, is a technology that makes possible a faster punch of the DRAM compared to the TC-NCF process that other companies use, has allowed it to achieve an efficiency 8.8 times higher than that of Samsung and Micron. This simply means that it manufactures its HBM chips much faster than its main competitors. SK Hynix is ​​manufacturing 12 -layer HBM3E memories on a large scale while Samsung and Micron have problems with their production As we can intuit, the speed at which a company that is dedicated to manufacturing semiconductors is capable of producing its integrated circuits deeply condition its competitiveness. It is evident that greater efficiency will allow you supply more guarantees to your customersespecially in an upward market like that of HBM memories. In addition, SK Hynix is ​​manufacturing 12 -layer HBM3e memories on a large scale while Samsung and Micron have problems with their production. In any case, both Samsung and SK Hynix are already working on the development of HBM4 memories with the purpose of catapulting their competitiveness. Here it is precisely where Nvidia appears. SK Hynix announced in October 2024 that he intended to deliver the first HBM4 memory chips to his clients during the second half of 2025. However, Jensen Huang asked him That the delivery advances. Chey Tae-Won confirmed itthe president of SK Group, so it is absolutely reliable information. Why does NVIDIA require so urgently the HBM4 chips? Simply because you need to support your chips for the most capable with the most available energy and energy efficiency memories. And in this field SK Hynix currently has the pan well grabbed by the handle. Image | TSMC In Xataka | South Korea fears US reprisals. To avoid their old lithography equipment, they take dust on a warehouse

Telecinco has just closed the worst month in audience of its entire history. This fall urgently needs a revulsive

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That Telecinco is in hearing crisis is no longer news. We have been talking about it since ‘Save Me’ stopped being a talisman for audiences and The afternoons they became a problem For the channel. But the well in which the Mediaset chain is involved seems to have no background and this August 2025 plays new Historical minimum. Of course, it must be taken into account that this summer month is a decrease in the Share of all chains, but the debacle is so striking that not even talismans as’The island of temptations‘They seem to work. Evil record. A year ago Telecinco already signed minimums with 8.6% of Sharebut this year it has fallen to 8%. August, as we say, is low consumption month, so what really should worry Telecinco is that in January of this year it already was around those same figures, with 8.7%, and for that there is no excuse. Since the second half of 2021, Telecinco does not see the light, and two other resounding figures corroborate it: that 8% also represents the greatest distance of the last 27 years with Antena 3, 4.3 margin points; And on Saturday, August 23 Telecinco had the worst data in its history, 6.4% of Share. What has failed. None of the summer bets have gone well. Although the mornings have endured with dignity, the nights have been disastrous: series such as’ missing ‘or’ Scated murderers’, cinema on Wednesdays or repositions of ‘Fridays’ have had to receive the support of a’First Dates‘Imported of four. He Prime Time The channel was destabilized because of how bad ‘the summer of temptations’ had worked, an attempt to stretch the popular gum reality With images of the previous seasons and that did not work, as the information of the news did not work. What is planned. Telecinco, of course, does not fain, and although it seems that it has resigned to present war in the Access They have dominated ‘El Hormiguero’ and ‘La Revuelta’it foresees more than a powerful premiere. This is the case of the return of ‘Dancing with the stars’, Joaquín Prat trying to recover the throne of’ Save realities that has the favor of the public: the presence of ex-concurss. Nothing is forever. Telecinco is forced to continue looking for spare parts for its successive failures, no matter how much the streak is agonized. The example of the1 finding thanks to the afternoon snakes and the arrival of David Broncano Some proposals with which to deal with the Almighty Antena 3 is a phenomenon in a certain inspiring sense (we will see how it is given to the1 with ‘direct to the grain’, the new Magacin with Marta Flich and Gonzalo Miró). Telecinco must have found some satisfaction in the fact that the public chain has not been able to Reactivate the ‘Save Me’ phenomenon with the loud prick of ‘The family of TV‘. The waters return to their channel in that sense, and perhaps Telecinco is able to find an alternative with which to present battle. Sure. The season starts is quiet on television, with bets on all the channels that are sure: ‘Masterchef Celebrity’, ‘La Voz’, and series such as ‘The Crossroads’, ‘Sin Gluten’ and ‘The Agency’. Even Telecinco seems to iPtar by a turn to the conservative: two years ago, in 2023, he tried Channel Vasile Exit With a turn to the white and the familiar, but the urgency forces to rethink that reorientation. Names like Ana Rosa Quintana or Jorge Javier Vázquez (of the few who firmly maintain competitive audiences) and franchises such as ‘Survivors’, ‘Big Brother’ and ‘The island of temptations’ seem to choose to look at the glorious past before looking for alternatives. A decisive September starts for the chain. Header | Telecinco In Xataka | Leticia Sabater is no longer a nostalgic artifact, but a transgenerational artist: most of her audience is very young

Imgur’s unfortunate fall

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Imgur’s story starts in 2009 with a very legitimate purpose: to provide the Internet for a space to house images, when websites of that type did not abound. Your innovative vision became a standardand the service grew like essential livelihood of countless online communities. The corruption and reorientation processes of the classic websites of the Internet, however, have ended up affecting it, and now their users are on a war footing. What was needed. In 2009, Alan Schaaf, a student at the University of Ohio, tired of how difficult it was to upload and host images on the Internet, which generated countless problems of usability and disappearance of files. Created imgur as a simple solution for Hosting of images and in its first five months he came to add a million pages seen. For more than a decade, Imgur was the de facto standard to share images, especially in Reddit and other forumswhere you have tired of seeing the call to Imgur when an image disappeared or did not carry. Sustained growth. Imgur prospered as a company: in 2013 I already had ten employees, and in 2014 They had got 40 million dollars of an investment firm and lived from advertising and payment accounts, which included unlimited space of upload and storage. Free users could create albums and edit their multi-way images, in addition to sharing them, thus becoming a great success proto-instagram. The purchase. Imgur faced his first noticeable crisis when in 2016 Reddit began to host the images locally. It was the beginning of the end: they had ceased to be a standard of storage, and when other websites followed Reddit’s example, in 2021 the company was forced to sell, being acquired by mediabwhich caused the company’s exit from the company. Medialab AI also has the genius and worldstarhiphop song lyrics repository, an impact news website, both heirs, such as Imgur, of more innocent and simple times on the Internet. IMGUR shit. What follows is a shitting process (translation of the concept of ESHITTIFICATION from Cory Doctorow of which We have already spoken on other occasions) Book. The shit It is a pattern in which products and online services decline in quality over time due to the influence of large TECH companies and social networks, which follow benefits search processes that deteriorate the structure of the websites and the relationship with shareholders and customers. Following the guidelines of this process, Medialab AI has made a series of decisions that have been denounced by users and employees: Mass dismissals without prior notice Replacement of human moderators: Users believe that moderation is being replaced by unreliable AI systems. Technical deterioration: systematic failures in basic functions such as notifications, rise in images, and others. Users react. The community has responded to this phenomenon with a Block reaction which has caught attention for the use of images (that is, the unity of expression in Imgur) as a form of complaint. Many users have posted a meme by John Oliver raising their middle finger and saying “Fuck you, Business Daddy”. There is also a movement asking for the boycott, asking users not to enter the web on September 1. Currently, the main page overflows in black images with derogatory messages towards Mediabs. They are regular reactions to Degradation of classic Internet sites that we have been seeing for a few years. With Imgur not only an essential piece of that original Internet, but the symbol of a time in which the foundations of social networks were settling, when they were still an honest point of contact between users and not a mere succession of ads, sponsorships and collection of private data. In Xataka | Tiktok, Instagram and X dominated our lives, but now their users are escaping to chat with machines

The new Google Pixel 10 of offer for 649 euros, the Kindle and Fire TV Stick fall in price and more. Hunting bargains

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We return another week with one of the hunting bargains with better offers for quite some time. The stores, but above all Mediamarkt, have agreed to leave very cheap a huge assortment of devices ranging from mobiles as recent as the Google Pixel 10, which has not yet been launched, the Fire TV Stick and also laptops. Google Pixel 10 by 649 euros When using two coupons, the brand’s new mobile can be bought with a discouragement before its launch. Kindle Colorsooft by 194 eurosthe new Amazon ereader with color screen that has just been released. Western Digital Mybook by 357 eurosa storage unit that comes with 22 TB. Fire TV Stick 4K by 39.99 eurosan ideal device to watch streaming content on almost any TV. Gigabyte G6 by 619.65 euros By adding it to the cart, a laptop that mounts an RTX 4060 graph. Google Pixel 10 Finally, the new generation of Google mobiles and In Mediamart we can buy all of them with a good discount. However, the best price is Google Pixel 10but to be able to buy it for 649 euros You have to add two coupons just before processing the purchase: First coupon: 200 euros discount with coupon Tradein200pixel10. Second coupon: Discount of 50 euros with the coupon 50pixel10mm. He Google Pixel 10 It arrives with some quite interesting novelties: Pixelsnap It is a technology similar to Apple Magsafeallowing magnetically accessories to use them wirelessly. It also comes with Camera Coachan aid to take photographs and, for the first time, includes a telephoto sensor that until now we only saw in the most expensive pixel. * Some price may have changed from the last review Kindle Colorsooft It is not necessary to wait for a prime day or a Black Friday to buy a cheaper ereader, and Mediamarkt is the best proof of this: the store has the new Kindle Colorsooftwhich was launched just a few weeks ago, for 194 euroseven cheaper (0.99 euros) than Amazon. The Kindle Colorsooft is an electronic book reader who rides a 7 -inch color screen. It has 16 GB to save many books, comics or magazines and its battery offers a Autonomy of up to eight weeks. In addition, it is water resistant and its performance is quite good. If you prefer, these are all the Kindle that are offer: * Some price may have changed from the last review Western Digital Mybook If you have a computer with little storage or you are looking for a device in which to save many photos, videos or files in general, much eye with this unit Western Digital Mybook of 22 TB that has dropped at Amazon to the 357 euros. It costs little more than the 16 TB version (difference of 40 euros). The Western Digital Mybook is a storage unit that in this case comes with 22 TB. It is resistant to small blows, has a fairly compact format for everything it offers, allows backups and is compatible with Time Machine. In addition, it includes hardware encryption of 256 bits and It can be connected to the router by wifi To access the files from anywhere in the house. Western Digital Mybook (22TB) * Some price may have changed from the last review Fire TV Stick 4K In addition to the Kindle, we can also find the Fire TV Stick at a very good price – in fact, right now their prices are very similar to those we see in campaigns such as Black Friday. The one who has better value for money is the Fire TV Stick 4Kwhich can be bought on Amazon for 39.99 euros. He Fire TV Stick 4K it’s a Dongle which allows you to see streaming content from any TV that has HDMI. This specific model offers 4K resolution and compatibility with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmosincludes Alexa’s voice wizard and comes with a command with direct access buttons to some apps such as Netflix. If you prefer, these are all the Fire TV stick that are offer: Fire TV Stick 4K (last generation) * Some price may have changed from the last review Gigabyte G6 If you are looking for a good laptop for the return to school that not only allows you Gigabyte G6a fairly complete model for how little it costs: it stays for 619.65 euros By adding it to the cart. The Gigabyte G6 is a gaming laptop that is accompanied by a 16 -inch screen. Its processor is the Intel Core I7-13620H, it has 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD and its graphics card is a NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4060. Of course, it comes without operating system. * 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. Images | Google, Amazon, Wester Digital, Gigabyte In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | Best laptops in quality price. Which to buy depending on the use and eight recommended models

The US will not allow Intel to fall into full confrontation with China. The government has a plan to prevent it

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Intel has just received a very important vote of trust in A moment of weakness. The Japanese Softbank investment group has just injected into this company 2,000 million dollarswhich has consolidated it as the sixth share of Intel. According to Reutersthis Japanese company has promised not to participate in the Board of Directors, and it will not buy integrated circuits produced by this American chip manufacturer. Even so, everyone wins. For SoftBank this investment is important because Intel will interpret in the future an essential role in the US semiconductor industry. “This strategic investment supports our conviction that the manufacture and supply of advanced semiconductors will expand further in the US with Intel playing a fundamental role,” has declared Masayoshi arethe CEO of SoftBank. On the other hand, these 2,000 million dollars arrive just after Intel has dispensed with Between 8,000 and 10,900 workers of its factories with the purpose of reducing their operating expenses and increasing their competitiveness. However, the company led by Lip-Bu so has something else in hand. Something very important. And is that, According to BloombergIt is negotiating with the Trump administration the possibility that the State acquires a 10% participation in Intel. The largest integrated circuit manufacturer in the United States cannot fall Most of the decisions made by the US government since Donald Trump returned to the White House On January 20, it pursues a single objective: the American semiconductor industry must be strengthened and independent. Intel is the biggest manufacturer of US chips, so allowing its fall is not an option for the government. The possibility of the State participating in Intel’s shareholders reinforces this precept, although this company has already acquired an unavoidable commitment to the administration. Intel is the largest US chips manufacturer, so allowing its fall is not an option for the government In mid -September 2024 Intel published a statement in which he anticipated that he will receive a maximum of 3,000 million dollars within the framework of the ‘Chips and Science Act’ program to manufacture in a reliable way semiconductors for the US government. The name of this plan, “Safe Enclave”, reflects one of the requirements required by the Administration: Chips must be produced in the strictest confidentiality. The Commerce Department confirmed that it was evaluating the possibility of Intel reserving a restricted area in some of its integrated circuit manufacturing plants specifically for the production of chips for defense and intelligence applications. What is not yet clear is who will take care of the expenses derived from the tuning of this “exclusion zone” within the factories. They can be borne by Intel, but this money is likely to finally come from the subsidies of the State. There is something important in which we have not yet repaired: the Defense Department is interested in using Intel’s 18th node. At the beginning of September 2024 this company confirmed that the 20A node will be skipped To reduce expenses and It will derive its resources to the 18A node. According to Ben SellVice President of Intel Technology Development, the 18A node has reached the maturity necessary to enter production in 2025 and will benefit from the resources that will be reallocated from the 20A node. Although the latter at the end will not go into large -scale production will be remembered for being the first in which Intel introduced two important innovations: transistors Ribbonfet Gate-Lall-Around (GAA) and Powervia energy delivery technology. Image | Intel More information | Reuters | Bloomberg In Xataka | Intel has confirmed that the 20A node will be skipped to reduce expenses. The 18A node will enter production in 2025

Persees fall so fast to the earth that only three astronauts have managed to photograph them “from above”

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How do you see a fleeting star from the International Space Station? If it is already difficult to capture the persistent here, Although there are guides for itdo it from space, moving to 27,600 km/h, when the persistes pass that speed to eight times and burn in a second, demands patience. But at least three astronauts have achieved it: two Americans and one Russian, each with a very particular style. Image | Ron Garan, Nasa Ron Garan. The former NASA astronaut, flight engineer of expedition 28, took this photo on August 13, 2011, during The meteor rain of the Perseids. The International Space Station was flying over China, about 400 kilometers northwest of Beijing, when Garan managed to immortalize the flash of a persistent burning in the earth’s atmosphere. The photo was no accident. The astronaut had placed himself in the ISS dome with his fair camera during the Perseidas Activity Peak. The green and yellow glow that is perceived between the earth and the emptiness of space is the luminescence of the atmosphere: atoms and molecules that are excited with sunlight during the day and release this energy at night. As for the intense blue brightness under the solar panels of the station, it is dawn. Image | Scott Kelly, Nasa Scott Kelly. Known for spending a year in space to compare with his twin brother Mark, former American astronaut also took advantage of expedition 44 to take pictures. On August 12, 2015, Kelly achieved an image of the stelae left by the Perseids in the long exhibition photos. In the absence of Luna, the starry sky stands out almost more than our planet. From the perspective of the International Space Station, which orbits the Earth to about 400 kilometers of altitude, meteors such as Perseids go underneath, heating up to incandescence. The bright grains of dust travel about 60 kilometers per second, disintegrating about 100 kilometers on the earth’s surface. Image | Oleg Kokonnko, Roscosmos Oleg Kononenko. The Russian cosmonaut, which has traveled five times to space and is the person who has spent the most days out of the earth (1,111), He also has his photo of a Perseida. He took it on August 9, 2024 from the International Space Station. And although the city of the background is a bit climbing, the detail with which he managed to capture the fleeting star makes it an iconic image. It is believed that it is perseiled for the date. These meteors are particles expelled by the Swift-Tuttle comet throughout their orbit, which is close enough to the earth on these dates to be dragged by the gravitational field of our planet. The Pico de Activity occurs in mid -Augustbut you can see the persistes from the end of July to the beginning of August, full summer in the northern hemisphere, which makes them the most popular meteor rain to this side of the world. Image | Scott Kelly, Nasa In Xataka | Emptied Spain is an ideal place to see the Perseids: we have some ways to find the ideal place

Its sales continue to fall in Europe in the face of the advance of the Asian electric car

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What Tesla It is not going through its best moment In Europe it is no secret. Elon Musk’s company still resents of the fleeting, although media, controversial and Extremely changing support From his CEO to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the unstoppable advance of the Chinese electric car. The latest data reflects: sales in the main markets of the old continent remain in free fall. Although not everything is bad news. The data. The most important European markets for Tesla (and for the car market in general) are the United Kingdom, France and Germany. In these countries, the fall in Tesla’s registration, a strong indicator of sales, has been pronounced. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than the announcing Image | Charlie Deets According to information shared by Reuters and Bloombergonly in July the enrollments fell 60% in the United Kingdom, 55% in Germany and 27% in France. The rest of the countries They do not fall short: 86% in Sweden, 52% in Denmark, 62% in Holland, 58% in Belgium, 5% in Italy and 49% in Portugal. On the whole. If we look at the full photo, the figure is even more striking: Tesla sales have fallen 45% In the ten European markets that, together, accumulated 80% of Tesla sales in Europe during the first half of the year. In other words, Tesla’s sales continue to go downhill in the most important European countries. So far this year, the sales of Elon Musk’s firm have fallen a third in the old continent. And there are no countries in which it grows? Yes, Spain and Norway, to be exact. In Spain, Tesla car registrations increased by 27% (702 cars) in July, which represents a 1.1% growth so far this year. It is a percentage that does not accompany the growth of the electric car market in our country: 89.6%. In Norway, a country in which 97.2% Of the cars sold in July they were electric, increased 83% or what is the same, 838 cars. Image | Xataka Byd advances Tesla on the right. As it could not be otherwise, Asian manufacturers have taken advantage of the situation to continue eating the toast to Tesla. According to the data of the Jato consultancy of those echoing from The countryonly in the month of June Byd sold 15,565 cars in Europe of which 9,153 were electric (132% more). The semiannual figure is much more interesting: 41,270 electric cars, 143% more. The panorama has changed a lot. Best selling cars. The good news for Tesla is that, despite the fall in sales, the best -selling electric car continues to sign during the first semester of the year: the Tesla Model and. He Volkswagen ID.4 He is closely followed with a dangerous and threatening second place. The photo, however, is very different if we look at our country. Best -selling electric cars in July | Image: ANFAC The Spanish case. If we take a look at the most recent data from the ANFACwe will see that the best -selling electric cars in July have been the TOYOTA BZ4X (604 units), the Byd Dolphin Surf (531 units) and the KIA EV3 (493 units). It is not until the fourth position that we find a Tesla, Model 3, with 456 units sold. The Tesla Model and, meanwhile, falls to the tenth position. Plug -in hybrids best selling in July | Image: ANFAC In the accumulated January-Julio, Tesla goes quite well stopped. The Tesla Model 3 is the best selling electric with 4,545 units. They are followed by Model and (3,282 units) and KIA EV3 (3,206 units). In plug -in hybrids, the undisputed leader is the Byd Seal U.whose sale in July added 738 units (1,616% more). Cover image | Martin Katler In Xataka | Elon Musk has suggested his next goal: “Countries that do not manufacture their own drones will be vassal states”

Follow in free fall despite a last “average” harvest

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A few months ago the headlines talked about the palpable escalation in the prices of olive oil but now the story is very different: prices fall loudly. So much that the olive sector has already requested measures to the government. The price, in free fall. The Latest consumer price index data (CPI) has served the olive sector to give the alarm: the price of olive oil is in free fall. The drop is 45.7% year -on -year for olive oil, while the category of “other edible oils” and the dedicated to butter showed rebounds of 18.7% and 6.7% respectively. Together, the category of “oils and fats” has shown A fall in 37.1% prices, which contrasts with the 2.8% rise in non -alcoholic foods and drinks and one 2.3% increase in the general index. Again attending to the annual variation of the month. In the latest IPC data, it is also indicated that oils and fats are the main bearish taxpayer of the monthly index. Never to everyone’s taste. Price drop has harmful clearings: farmers. The associations of olive producers, such as the union of small farmers and ranchers of Jaén, Upa Jaén, They recently claimed Urgent market measures to the Ministry of Agriculture to prevent this collapse in prices. “Untenable”. “What worries us most right now, especially in the traditional olive grove, is to at least the costs. Jesus Cózar Pérez saidgeneral secretary of UPA Jaén and Andalucía. Cózar Pérez, who described the situation as “unsustainable, artificially forced to leave the traditional olive grove,” asked the Ministry of Agriculture to implement “the market mechanisms necessary to achieve rise in prices at origin.” Future prices. According to the agrarian sector itself, the fall in prices It does not respond Both to the present dynamics of adjustments between supply and demand but to the futures market: after two years with pyrrhic crops, this year we are faced with a standard, not especially productive. The expectation of a future “great campaign” makes prices adjusting due to fall in demand, and with it also prices. The problem, they point out from the sector, is that nothing guarantees that the harvest that comes is excellent, much less: pests and abnormal temperatures can have an impact on a harvest that must still go through one of its critical points. An unequal inflation in food. If oil is one of the food whose fall has impact on the rate General of the CPI, we find the opposite case in fruits and meat. In the latter case, in large part because of the promotion in the prices of beefs (14.5% year -on -year) or sheep (12.2%). On the other hand, foods with less weight in the basket but with rapid ascent prices are eggs (18% year -on -year care); and coffee, and cocoa and chocolate powder (increases of 19.8% and 13.1% respectively). In Xataka | ‘Atomic Garden’: the “atomic” orchards to create the best tomatoes and cucumbers Image | Antgarprats

In Spain, Christian baptisms are in free fall. There are those who have found a substitute: civil baptisms

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There was a time when children arrived with something more than a bread under their arm. They did it with an invitation (almost mandatory) to the baptism. They were their parents more or less believers, more or less practitioners, most babies passed through the baptismal pia. Not today. Just like Not all The couples who marry do so before a Catholic priest. As society It is secularized New rituals gain strength, such as civil weddings or “Baptisms Lacios”, which two decades after their premiere in Spain They continue to expand. They may not be a majority option or have reached the level of popularity of civil links (which do have a legal character), but lay and symbolic baptisms have gone making his way Little by little in the Spanish geography. Civil baptisms? The concept may be shocking, but It has been a few years old extending through Spain and there are still municipalities that incorporate it into its service portfolio In full 2025. A civil christening It is neither more nor less than the secular alternative to Christian baptisms, a secular ceremony, usually free of religious connotations, during which a child’s entry into society is represented. Nothing else. Nothing less. And although it lacks legal value, in some cases it is accompanied by A symbolic title. The former mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, in May 2023, during the first “welcome ceremony to the citizenship” of the City Council. Is it something new? No. at all. There are those who go back their origins to the “civil sponsorship” that were held in France from the late eighteenth century. In Spain they are not a novelty either. Its history can go at least to Autumn of 2004when the first “foster care” was held at the City Council of Igualada. Since then the formula has been extended to other municipalities in the country. In 2007 Rivas Vaciamadrid began to celebrate them, Madrid and The Borge They joined in 2009Albacete In 2011Moaña In 2013 and Vigo In 2018… and thus a long (and growing) list of municipalities distributed throughout the country. How many? Difficult to specify it, although the number of municipalities that celebrate them exceed the hundred. In 2018 only in Catalonia they were offered in 71 municipalities. In 2022 Cullera Laya had accounts and calculated that in the whole of Spain at least 150 municipalities willing to organize ceremonies of “civil foster care”. The same figure shared it in 2023 Religion in freedom. The truth is that the list has followed (and continues) growing over time. In May 2023 The first civil christening was organized in Valencia and shortly the payroll of municipalities that deliver citizenship letters to babies will increase with a new incorporation: Lovesa Galician people of 32,800 inhabitants that It has just approved The ordinance that regulates them. “Although they may seem simple symbolic ceremonies and without legal validity, their existence represents a step towards a model of coexistence in which all families can participate,” defend A councilor. Year Catholic baptisms Number of births 2008 335,484 519,779 2012 268.810 454,648 2017 214,271 393,181 2022 159,129 329,251 2023 152,426 320,656 Are many celebrated? Another difficult question to answer. There are no global or official balances, but the data that has been shared in account in the press suggest two trends: the first, that the “civil christening” has been gaining weight in the Spanish geography, expanding to dozens of locations; second, which is far from reaching the reception level of Catholic ceremonies. In 2017 Albacete digital He revealed that since 2011 they had been held in the town about twenty of civil receptions. That same year, at the time the service premiered, Vigo added Several tens of applications. His success has also been marked by political fluctuations. In Valencia, for example, only For a few months. After the change of government, the new team decided to do without them without apparently having great impact. As it transpired then, seven requests had been registered. Civil ceremony held in 2023 in Valencia. Are there more clues? Yeah. The confidential published on Tuesday A report in which he spoke with professionals in the sector that confirm an increase of interest in the format. “I have been in the business business for new years and lately demand for civil baptisms, a strong fashion also in the United States,” An organizer recounts of events. A quick search for #Bautizosimbolico, #Ceremoniadebienvenida or #bautizocivil on Instagram or Tiktok It shows that lay acts continue to be held, both in Spain and in other countries. What is your goal? Celebrate. Introduce. Welcome. During civil baptisms the arrival of newborns, their “entry” in society is celebrated. Sometimes it is done in the municipalities, with the participation of mayors. Others not. The normal thing is that during the ceremony Articles are read Related to the protection of childhood, such as the Spanish Constitution, the United Nations Constitution Rights Convention of 1990 or the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959). “It’s not that people don’t have faith, they want to make baptism something more intimate and emotional,” Share The same professional. “Everything I do depends on what parents choose, although the ritual usually develops around a table. Usually, the godparents sign an act with their commitment, a document that is not registered anywhere or has legal weight, but rather symbolic.” Is it an isolated phenomenon? No. The civil christening is not understood without the context and more specifically the secularization of society. After all, baptism (or foster care) is not the only sacrament that has been stripped of religious value. The clearest case is that of marriage. In 2009 the number of civil links exceeded for the first time to the Catholic weddings, with 94,993 ‘yes I want’ pronounced before civil authorities and 80,104 before priests. The situation has changed. In 2022 79.9% of links held in Spain they were civilians and only 20.1% religious. And that that last was the highest percentage recorded since 2019. The number of … Read more

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