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China is selling us a future full of humanoid robots. We have (many) doubts

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The first “Olympic Robots Games” Humanoids in Beijing held last month put the focus on one of China’s most aggressive technological bets. And it is that between sports exhibitions and industrial demonstrations, the Asian giant demonstrated Your muscle in the creation of robots Humanoids However, we are at a point where robotics faces various problems that must be solved to count on the market with a reliable solution and worthwhile. And not everything is valid with promises. The strategy from China. Beijing has converted humanoid robotics into state priority. Its five -year plan for the robotic industry set at 2021 An annual growth greater than 20%, backed by a state fund of 140,000 million dollars for technological startups. The objective is none other than leading a sector that they consider “the next great technological revolution” after smartphones and electric vehicles. This year They hope to produce more than 10,000 robots Humanoids, with cities such as Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing concentrating investment and development. The perfect showcase. The recent “Olympic Games” for robots served as a demonstration of strength. One of the most prominent moments was when Unitree’s H1 robot completed 1,500 meters In 6 minutes and 34 seconds, reaching 4.78 m/Sy surpassing the Atlas of Boston Dynamics. But the detail that many overlooked is the fact that these robots did not operate autonomously, but were controlled by human operators. The blow of reality. While China exhibits records and opens “robot mall” in Beijing, The first 4S store For humanoids that promise in the same place sales, spare parts, service and monitoring, many experts prefer to be cautious. “I don’t think anyone has found an application for humanoids that requires several thousand robots by installation,” Point out Melonee Wise, former product director in Agility Robotics, for IEEE. There is a real lack of demand, and that is the first obstacle to large -scale manufacture of humanoid robots. Rpending technical etos. Energy autonomy remains another problem. Agility Digit Robot You need 9 minutes of charge For every 90 minutes of operation, and in practice you must stop every 30 minutes to maintain a security reserve. Industrial reliability requires levels of 99.99%, far from current standards in multipurpose applications. And in terms of security, unique problems arise in this segment, since if for example we disconnect the feeding of a bípedo humanoid robot, which collapse an armatos of several tens of kilos complicates things. A market that It still does not exist. Although signatures like Bank of America Global Research They have predicted that 18,000 units will be sold in 2025 or that the figure reaches 1,000 million robots by 2050 in a 5 billion market, according to Morgan Stanley Researchthe reality is that today there are barely real commercial deployments. Even the most advanced companies in the sector only have a handful of robots that work in very controlled pilot tests. The applications that would justify these figures are, for now, speculative. The closest commercial launch of Europe. Faced with Chinese optimism, the European Neura Robotics also has an approach in that segment with 4ne1a domestic robot that the firm intends to launch for about 60,000 euros and is scheduled for 2026. Its CEO speaks of “doing robotics what the iPhone did for smartphones.” The domestic market, of course it is the one that until now could benefit from this type of robots, but an investment of that caliber is not something that anyone does. Known companies that bet in the long term. Chinese companies like Xiaomi and Honor They already diversify Towards the humanoid robots segment following the Amazon model: Lose money now to dominate later. Given a sector as saturated as that of smartphones, it is a strategy that makes all the meaning, although it requires that promises end up materializing in useful and profitable products. Hype or revolution? China is massively investing in creating a market that still does not exist, trusting that artificial intelligence will solve the problems of autonomy, reliability and practical utility of robots. “The reality is that AI is not robust enough to meet market requirements”, assures Wise It is clear that today the ability of humanoid robots is very limited, but time will say if its evolution will end up awakening a current market. Cover image | China Daily In Xataka | You cannot climb to the Madrid subway with an electric scooter. In China’s, robots are already a passenger

Amazon is so convinced of the future of augmented reality glasses that he will put one to all his drivers

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Amazon intends to get on to the car of augmented reality glasses With a two -step strategy: a model for consumers and another specifically designed for their distributors. And is that According to sources Near to the company, its intention would be to manufacture 100,000 units of the professional model to launch it in 2026, while the commercial version would arrive between 2026 and early 2027. The fashion device. As the medium points out The InformationAmazon would have decided to enter the market of augmented reality with two differentiated products but with the same base technology. Consumer glasses, with a “Jayhawk” key name, would include microphone, speakers, camera and a full color screen in one eye. For its part, the model for distributors, internally called “Amelia”, will have a more robust design and will be focused on showing instructions on where to deliver the packages directly on the glasses screen. There is competition. The play would place Amazon in direct competition with goal, which next week will present at its Connect conference a new version of its increased reality glasses. Goal already markets The smart Ray-Ban From 329 euros, which include its assistant to AI, audio and camera, but without screen. The new Meta S glasses, with a “Hypernova” code name, would also have a screen in a single eye, according to sources in the sector. Meanwhile, Chinese companies such as Xreal, Rokid and Rayneo already sell glasses to the public, and Google also works for similar prototypes, which We could try during the past Google I/O. Between the lines. Amazon’s decision to first develop a specific model for its workers reveals a strategy that would first go to use its own logistics infrastructure as a test bank before an alleged commercial launch. This would allow you to improve technology in a controlled environment and demonstrate specific use cases. Also, according to The informationAmazon would be using screens technology from the Chinese company Meta-Bounds, which already use brands like Meizu on their AR devices. The technical challenges. Unlike virtual reality glasses, which completely block the vision of the real world, they argue digital information about the user’s physical environment. Amazon would have opted for a screen in a single eye to reduce costs and complexity, although this makes the experience less immersive than double screen models. The consumer version will be more stylized and less voluminous than the professional model but, according to points The medium, both would share base technology. And now what. The success of this great bet will be decided by acceptance among its distributors, the battery life, the accuracy of the instructions and their software and, above all, if Amazon manages to create a user experience superior to that of the competition. The good thing is that the company has the perfect testing field to prove the technology before a massive deployment to the commercial public. Cover image | Eva Rodríguez de Luis In Xataka | One more year, we have new iPhone. And one more year, Apple is far in generative for mobiles

He has reborn to be the badge of Ferrari’s future hybrid

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He Ferrari Testarossa It was an absolute reference of the aesthetics and style of the end of the 80s and 90s, mainly because of its prominence in the series ‘Corruption in Miami’where he shared screen with the Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs detectives. His image, associated with luxury and glamor, turned it In aspirational symbol and desire object in international auctions, reaching bids above 200,000 euros in the market of Classic Supporters. After years in which Ferrari could not use the commercial name “Testarossa”, the manufacturer Rights just recovered of use of the name to turn it into the symbol of a new era. After almost four decades of eclipse, the Ferrari Testarossa shines again in the Ferrari universe, but this time under a renewed approach that mixes past and future. After launching New Ferrari 849 Testarossa 2026the Italian brand is committed to joining the legendary character of its most emblematic model with the current technological demands, and does so by raising the flag of The plug -in hybridization. After the cessation of its production in 1996 and a long litigation with the German toy Autec Ag, Ferrari managed to recover the rights of the name “Testarossa” thanks to second -hand sales, spare parts and official miniatures. That legal gaze saved the Testarossa from extinction. As if A movie from Jurassic Park It would be, Ferrari has recovered the DNA of its classic sport and has revived it with the Ferrari 849 Testarossa 2026. Ferrari has reinvented testarossa as a direct evolution of his SF90 Stradale in a plug -in hybrid with 4 -liturbo V8 engine and three electrical thrusters. According to them Official specificationsthe thermal block delivery 830 hp of power and the electric motors total 220 hp, which raises the total power up to 1,050 hp. Its 7.45 kWh battery offers approved electrical autonomy of 25 km, so it is not enough to obtain the zero DGT labelalthough we do not believe it is a priority for the owner of this type of supercar. The 849 Testarossa registers an acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in less than 2.3 seconds and reaches 200 km/h in 6.3 seconds. Its maximum speed exceeds 330 km/h. The model is available in Coupé body and a spider with retractable roof system and opening up to 45 km/h. In addition, a Fioran Asetto versionwith An improvement package which incorporates ultralight components in titanium and carbon fiber to reduce the total weight by 30 kg and equipa multimatic suspension, carbon wheels and CUP R2 type tires for circuit, as well as an advanced aerodynamic kit that multiplies the load on both axes. Ferrari 849 Testarossa 2026 ASETTO FIORANO It’s retro, it’s future The design of the 849 Testarossa Fusiona stylistic reminiscences of models that have made history in the brand, Like the Ferrari 512 with aerodynamic forms inspired by the “Sport Prototypes of the 70s.” Despite recovering the name and Essence of the 80s and 90 classicthe new Testarossa applies a retrofuturist aesthetic with sharp lines in the nose and a robust and ascending rear, but without tributes to the mythical side rack of the previous Testarossa. The interior is committed to a driving position without stridency and centered on the pilot, with a curved digital picture and presence of physical controls in the steering wheel. In front of the companion’s seat a thin screen integrated in the dashboard offers information to the co -pilot. According The published by Diariomotor849 Testarossa will arrive with a base price of 460,000 euros for the Coupé and 500,000 euros for spider. The first units will be delivered in 2026, opening a new hybrid stage under the name Testarossa. In Xataka | There are those who believe that being rich is a sufficient requirement to have a Ferrari. The most important thing is something else: Ferrari fell well Image | Ferrari

The Church faces the challenge of a future without priests. At the moment he already knows how to allow women to give “Mass”

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Almudena Suárez Treviño is a woman of Mass. Although not in the conventional sense of expression. She not only goes to the church of her people to listen to the priest on duty, give peace to the rest of parishioners and commune in the Eucharist. No. In addition to all that Almudena officiates religious celebrations in Catholic temples. Almost (almost) as if it were a parish priest. So much so that the bishopric of Tui-Vigo He just ratified it officially in its functions. Your case, enough less exceptional of what it seems, it is actually the finding of a much greater phenomenon: the Vocations crisis. What happened? That the bishop of Tui-Vigo has just published a APPOINTMENT LIST Officers, a kind of internal adjustment in the diocese to “alleviate the current deficiencies of attention “that causes the shortage of priests. Until there nothing weird. Nor does anything that can arouse interest beyond the affected villages. The striking, which has aroused the interest of the parishioners and means of the rest of the community and Spain (including the Galician television), is that this list of priests closes with the name of a woman: Almudena Suárez. And not just that. He Official document Proclamation for those who want to read it that this woman is authorized to direct “the celebration of the word” in seven parishes of the arciprest of Louriña (Pontevedra) as long as its presbyter is not. Actually the announcement of the bishop of Tui-Vigo is a ratification because Almudena has been having an out of the common role in his parishes. So much, in fact, that three years ago Vigo lighthouse He already dedicated him A report. Click on the image to go to Tweet. A cure woman? No. Almudena is not a priest. It is really Biologist and theologianhas a title of religious sciences, a master’s degree and at least until a few years ago she exercised as a religion teacher in an Institute in Pontevedra. That is your professional curriculum, your presentation sheet. 21 years ago, however, one of his theology professors proposed to embark on “An innovative project”an adventure that in practice would lead him to be more than a simple parishioner. What Almudena did was get involved in the Diocesan assemblies in the absence of presbyters in the Galician rural. With the approval of who then act as a bishop in the diocese of Tui-Vigo (a decision that his successors have maintained) assumed a responsibility that basically allows the parishes in the area to become more bearable the shortage of priests and the lack of vocations. But Masses officiate? No. Sundays Almudena go to a series of churches, it is located before the rest of parishioners, read, preach and fulfill in some way the role that a pastor should play, but does not officiate a liturgy. What it does has another name: word celebration. “We arrived, we meet and the first part of the celebration, which is called the word liturgy, is exactly the same as in a mass. We ask for forgiveness, the reading is done, I proclaim the gospel and preach,” Explain to The voice. “We profess faith, pray the creed and do the requests.” That does not mean that it is a kind of priestess or that it takes care of the same rites as a priest. “I want to make it clear that I don’t trade masses”, insists The woman before clarifying that when it comes to communing she is only responsible for distributing the hosts that a pastor has previously consecrated, a task that the Church does not allow her to assume. By providing that service Almudena facilitates life to the priest in charge of the seven villages, serving as support. The two alternate on Sundays in the churches, so that a week the parishioners have Mass and the following, celebration. How do she carry it? Initially he confesses that it was difficult to take pass through his family’s misgivings to “how people would respond.” After spinning, however, he decided to accept the offer and assume a new role in the diocese. “I thought it was a good opportunity, since we are always complaining about women that they do not give us power in the church. I thought it could be good for all of us,” confesses. “In the end I threw myself into the pool and it was as if I touched the lottery.” It makes that more than 20 years, a period during which it has gone through different places where assures having encountered the acceptance and “affection” of the parishioners. “I was the first and I am the only one with appointment (from the bishopric of Tui-Vigo). I have it since 2004. What happens is that this time it has been more evident because, for the first time, breaking glass roofs, the appointment was published on the Bishopric website,” he celebrates. Is it a unique case? No. The role of Almudena may not be common in southern Galicia, but if we expand the focus to the rest of Spain we verify that there are more lay people who exert the same function as her. Including women too. In 2018 The voice revealed Also that to the north of the community, in Outes, there was a group of neighbors who were responsible for ceremonies before the shortage of priests. “It is not the Mass of women, as they say, they are women who make the Sunday celebration for the entire community,” I clarified The parish priest. There are also examples in Burgos, Tarragona either Lionamong other points of The emptied Spain. “The priests in charge, generally, of a good number of rural parishes, cannot go every Sunday to celebrate the Eucharist in all of them, so they sometimes have a lay or religious who, on Sundays in which the pastor is absent, goes to direct ‘the celebration of the word’”, They explain from the archdiocese of Oviedo. The Catholic Church in fact offers Formations for laity. A … Read more

The future is filled with AI work stations so you can have your chatgpt at home

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Acer He has just presented Its Veriton GN100, a small workstation with a single purpose: allow you to train and run local models and without depending on the cloud. The proposal is not entirely new, but points to a future in which the PC mutates to give us that promising ability to have a kind of chatgpt in local. A hardware that sounds like. This team has a GB10 Nvidia chip with Grace Blackwell architecture, and is accompanied by 128 GB of GDDR5 memory and 4 TB of storage. It is practically the same configuration of the workstation NVIDIA DGX Sparkwhich was announced in March but still without being on sale. In that case, the storage was 1 TB, which makes we can have less downloaded models. An upward trend. The new Acer Veriton GN100 is a small step that can confirm an interesting trend: that of being able to enjoy small work stations that are specifically designed so that we can install and even train AI models locally. Flag privacy. That is important above all in privacy: our conversations and use of these models will remain totally private, and there are no data that can end up staying on OpenAi, Google or Anthropic servers, for example. Thus, we can use financial, medical or confidential data without fear to consult with the AI ​​models, because that information does not come out of our team. And potential savings. Not only that: to be able to execute a local AI model allows you to avoid expenses in the use of cloud models, whether we subscribe to plans such as those proposed for example Chatgpt plus As if we use the API and pay for use. With the local model the consultations come out “free” or almost: all we pay is the equipment and its energy consumption. But. The models that we can run at home are open models as call, Deepseek R1, Qwen or The new OpenAi GPT-Oss. With them it is possible to have notable benefits, but it is very difficult to match the quality of the models as GPT-5Gemini or Claude 4 Opus Because these are gigantic models that are executed in data centers with thousands of GPUS. Competing in that sense is practically impossible, but for certain scenarios we simply do not need it, and these Open Source models can be a fantastic alternative. Acer Veriton GN100 Graphic memory to power. The larger the models of the best usually behave, but there is a problem: to be able to use them we need a lot of graphic memory and the current PCs do not stand out in that section. The most powerful graphics for consumers, The GeForce RTX 5090It has 32 GB of GDDR7 memory, which is fantastic in bandwidth but limits the size of the models to be executed. Apple has a winning hand. Fortunately we have alternatives and especially the future points to relevant changes in this area. On the one hand we have the Mac Studio with up to 512 GB of unified memory – and also, with an excellent bandwidth – in which it is possible to execute large models Open Source without problems. System Memory bandwidth (GB/s) NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 5090 (GDDR7) 1,792 Mac Studio M3 Ultra (Unified Memory) 819 NVIDIA DGX SPARK (Unified LPDDR5X) 273 Framework Desktop (LPDDR5X memory) 256 But the PCs also begin to aim high. On the other, Teams such as Framework Desktop that have a similar memory system and that include 128 GB of GDDR5 memory also enable that possibility. Nvidia and Acer’s work stations use a very similar scheme and also integrate 128 GB of GDDR5 memory with a decent bandwidth – but not spectacular – for AI applications This promises. We are thus given the potential takeoff of a trend in the PCS market. Until now the manufacturers had specialized in gaming equipment, but the rise of artificial intelligence allows to glimpse a future in which we have “PCs for AI” that have huge amounts of graphic memory and that are perfect for this area. In Xataka | The B300 GPU is the new Nvidia beast for Ia. And we already know what prepares for 2026 and 2027

A future where we all wear smart glasses sounds good, until they are taken by the person who is going to shave the crotch

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You meet in a beauty salon to make Brazilian hair removal and receive a very kind girl. Everything is going well until, in the middle of the work, you realize that it wears a goal, smart glasses capable of recording video. It is what happened to an influencer and his experience opens a new debate about privacy. What happened. The protagonist is Aniesta Navarro, a New York influencer who went to a beauty hall to be made by Brazilian hair removal (for whom he does not know, it consists of the elimination of the hair from the pubic area). Navarro told his experience in Tiktok and The video It already has more than seven million visualizations. In him he tells that the girl who attended her wore target glasses. When asked, the girl assured her that she used them as her graduated glasses and that at that time they were not loaded. The answer. The finish lines have a LED that lights up when they record and was off, but Navarro could not stop thinking if I would be recording, making the experience very uncomfortable. Days later he published Another video In Tiktok where he told that he had sent an email to the company and answered him with a generic message that did not give him too much confidence. As the story went viral, in response to the Washington Posta company spokeswoman insisted that the glasses were turned off. In addition, another Meta spokesman confirmed that manipulating the recording LED goes against service standards. Glasses for all. Mark Zuckerberg says that by 2030 the smartphone will have passed to the background because We will do almost everything through glasses. Although for now it is an emerging product may be right: the market is growing very fast and The success of the Ray-Ban Meta It is promising. What he does not say is what will mean from the point of view of privacy and if we are prepared as a society so that anyone who crosses wearing a camera in the eyes. Cameras everywhere. There are already, but we talk about glasses with a tiny camera that goes unnoticed. Yes, there is a LED that turns on when you record and cannot be deactivated, but there are already those who have found a way to hide it. Even if the LED works, many people do not realize that they are being recorded, as counted This journalist in The Times. It probably has to do with the fact that they are still a new product and is not normalized, but there are those who find it Intrusive and even sinister. More incidents. The Brazilian hair removal has not been the only incident with smart glasses. They count on Futurism That last year an exotic dancer warned about customers who used the Ray-Ban Meta to record the shows. A goalkeeper of a similar club published This video in which he denied the entrance to another client who also carried them. We don’t have to go so far: a few months ago They arrested a man in Barcelona for recording women without their consent using a goal. Image | Xataka In Xataka | They modify a goal scratch to identify strangers on the street. It is a warning of the dangerous ‘doxing’ that awaits us

Each one tells a different future, and all seem likely

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Are our works by removing us? That is one of the great fears What we have about the impact of artificial intelligence In society. The question is important and inevitablebut today there is no way to answer it with certainty. And it is not because we are not trying to do it. The AI ​​(say) is priming with the newly graduates In early August a reported report In The Atlantic He warned of something worrying: the unemployment rate among the newly American graduates was growing. Among the possible causes, a slow recovery was cited from the pandemic, but also a more disturbing one: that AI is used to solve the tasks that those newly graduates made in their first jobs. Wait, maybe AI is not replacing anyone. Shortly after, another study of the Economic Innovation Group titled with sarcasm “AI and works: the last word (until the next one arrives)” precisely raised the opposite situation. After analyzing several jobs theoretically exposed to the impact of AI, they detected that changes in unemployment rates were practically null or non -existent. According to those responsible, the AI ​​is not at the moment taking our work, and if it is doing, the impact is for now very small. A third study to liar more things. And of course the story did not end there, because a few days ago it appeared A new study led by the well -known academic and economist Erik Brynjolfsson. Here the research seemed to confirm the hypothesis of the first study cited: the AI ​​is impacting on employment, but not on the world: only in that of the newly graduated from the university. Young people have it more difficult, adults do not. According to their data, young people between 22 and 25 who start working as software developers or customer service agents They were having difficulty finding employment Because the IAS begin to occupy these positions instead. Thus, in the works most exposed to AI, these young people have seen 6% less employment, when other age ranges have increased the employment rate between 6 and 9%. On the one hand, the Economic Innovation Group study pointed out that there is hardly any impact between unemployment rates in theoretically expued work to AI. A difficult situation to explain. These three studies raise a confusing reality: is the work taking away, or not? Two of the studies do point to this focusing on young people who finish their university studies and look for a first job. Analyst Noah Smith contrasted That data and asked a question: how is it possible that companies are not hiring so many young people, but are increasingly hiring engineers of more than 40? There is a plausible, but not definitive explanation. On the other, the Brynjolfsson et al. (2025) reveals that the exhibition does exist, but only for the newly graduated young people between 22 and 25 years. The AI ​​as a complement to who knows and as a substitute for the one who does not. These studies that point to a real impact on the use of the youngest could be explained with a theory: companies are seeing that AI can in effect resolve “basic” tasks that the newly graduated, previously resolved, So there is a substitution effect. But they are also verifying that AI can also help workers with experience improving their productivity, so there is an effect of complementarity, of “co -pilot” of the worker. If that is true – and for the moment it is difficult to know – we have an important problem. Theories. Bharat Chandar, one of Brynjolfsson’s collaborators, explained In an independent article that “AI is exceptionally good in the type of knowledge that can be learned from books or that constitute the core of formal education.” But it also pointed to another possibility: that for companies it is easier to avoid hiring new employees than to let those already existing in an adjustment period that is affecting sectors such as software development. And now how I win experience? These first works of the newly graduated have always been crucial to gain experience and train in the professional field, but if AI begins to impact these jobs, the danger is that the quota of experienced professionals with experience It looks reduced. Companies will enter A dangerous vicious circle: If they do not form new employees, they will not gain experience that then serves to make them more productive. The possible transformation of the “first job”. This impact could break that cycle that we followed before to gain experience at work, but does not mean that there are no future options. In fact, you can make this experience gain accelerate. If companies hire newly graduated but they know how to take advantage of AI tools to learn and gain much faster capabilities, companies will have an opportunity on that scenario. Here correct and supervise the AI ​​- for example, so that it is aligned with the objectives of the company – and provide a creative resolution of problems assisted by AI can also contribute many integers in these young profiles. Image | Sigmund In Xataka | There is a university career whose employability is approaching 100%. It is also one of the least studied

The Xpeng CEO is clear about the future apocalyptic of Chinese cars

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China is following a very clear strategy with its cars: flood Europe. And is doing it with both factories on the continent and Large ships that bring thousands of cars from China. Are Battery leaders and The electric car is its avant -gardebut we must not forget Your combustion models. There are more and more models And there are those who think that this wild competition can be what leads to the failure of many companies. To the point that only a handful of them will be short -term. Specifically … five. At least, according to the CEO of The promising xpeng. Spearheads. The proper names of the Chinese car are, now, well known. There are brands like Byd, Omoda either Mg that are increasingly seen in European streets. They are following strategies to Live with big fish In a very competitive market, expanding dealer networks, manufacturing in Europestriving to Understand the European user and associating with brands like Stellantis To create strategic relationships. To those that are already here you can add other proper names of great weight, such as a Xiaomi whose models are awakening so much interest that the brand has turned its main factory into A kind of amusement park. Increasingly. There are more that they have a smaller portion of the cake at the moment, but they have ambition. Xpeng landed in Spain in 2024 And it has been reaching other markets such as the United Kingdom. Its intention is to be present in 60 countries by the end of this year, concessionaires included, and there are still other names that are yet to come. Chery (owner of Ebro, Omoda and Jaecoo), is preparing the landing of a new brand, LEPASand outside the automotive segment, we have brands like Dreame (manufacturers of vacuum cleaners and Pool cleaning robots) that too They have interest In this market with the aim of competing … against the Bugatti Veyron. Only five will remain. And in this panorama in which there are more and more brands of Chinese cars, either for having many models or because they get into the car due to the government impulse, a controversial statement of he Xiaopeng enters. This is the CEO of the aforementioned Xpeng and, in a recent Pódcast, commented that the Chinese automotive sector has entered a elimination phase. Their comments are radical, stating that “no Chinese manufacturer is safe from a elimination round that will reach its end in five years and in which only five brands will remain.” The reasons are the same as not so much They hit the solar panel industry in China. After flood West With its technology, A bestial price war caused sellers to have to operate at losses and do the logical: manufacture less. There are brands like Byd that were profitable, but others depend on reaching a certain scale to survive and there are already analysts that estimate that, although state aid They promoted initial sales, withdrawal of incentives to consumers will impact a very fragmented market. It is not a crazy idea. Alixpartners is a consultant who coincides with the predictions of He Xiaopeng, pointing That the number of viable brands of electric and hybrids will exceed the current 129 to just 15 from 2030, with only a few giants dominating the market. It is something that would take brands like children, which has sought to differentiate (even creating mobiles to complete the experience of their cars), but has suffered financial and capacity problems. And you don’t have to go to China to be catastrophic. Ola Källenius is Mercedes-Benz’s CEO already described last year The current market as “a Darwinian price war” in which many of the current actors will disappear in five years. The Keys of analysts for a brand to survive? Manufacturing capacity, scale to other markets and battery leadership. Images | Byd, xpeng In Xataka | Byd did not go to the Shanghai Auto Salon to show cars. Went to exhibit power

The Mercedes Concept Amg GT XX is the Mercedes C111 of the future. And to demonstrate it, it has turned around 300 km/h

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It is difficult that Mercedes’s position regarding the electric car does not mislead us. His Electric Mercedes It promises autonomies and consumption hardly comparable to any of its rivals. His proposal is that of a car with that of forgetting any plug. Your electric Mercedes, which promises Homologge almost 800 kilometers of autonomy with an 85 kWh battery (ridiculous consumption of between 12.2 and 12.5 kWh/100 km), it looks like the direct heir of the Mercedes Vision EQXX. That prototype, which en Xataka We could tryhe directed his efforts to aerodynamics, very high battery energy densities and very low consumption. That is, the bet was not to achieve the maximum possible autonomy “to the gross”, increasing the battery capacity well above 100 kWh. The way was the opposite, having a lot of energy available but taking advantage of it very little. While the electric Mercedes filled headlines (some for worse), the company insisted again that it had to keep investing in combustion engines. His CEO, at the head of acea, He has sent a letter to the European Commission where he asks for this: flexibility in adoption to the electric car. And yet, in Mercedes it seems that something very fat is being cooking. We do not doubt that other laboratories of car manufacturers are handled juicy things but Mercedes has something good: it takes out its theories to walk. And thanks to that we can see cars like the Mercedes Concept Amg GT XX. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than the announcing 25 records of a tacada Just when the 60s died, Mercedes presented in society a groundbreaking prototype: The Mercedes C111. During its four generations it was shown that this car was the perfect basis where to try each and every one of the advances that the company had in hand. Under his body passed from diesel engines to rotary engines. It is no accident that the Mercedes Concept Amg GT XX It will appear in society with the orange color that identified that mythical sports. A little over two months ago, the company made this public 1,360 hp prototypea 360 km/Hy peak speed a soundtrack of a V8 … that, of course, you will not find it under its body. The technical data were surprising. To get this prototype to become the most powerful and fast Mercedes-AMG ever manufactured, use three axial flow engines (one in front and two on the rear axle) with a battery refrigerated by immersion (we will now see the details) with an 800 volt structure that allow loads of up to 850 kW as a maximum peak. According to the brand, they allow you to recover 400 kilometers of autonomy in five minutes. To this is added an aerodynamic coefficient of 0.198, almost matching the Lucid Air (0.197) and completely closed tires that not only prevents creating turbulence, they are also responsible for the front air flow not diluted in the passage of the vehicle and it is not until the rear axle is overcome when it is dismissed from it. With all these incentives, it only was waiting to see What was Mercedes of When he decided to throw himself to a test track. That happened only a few days ago. Mercedes has put his concept AMG GT XX at full performance for eight days in the Italian Nardò test trackknown for its speed and for being the place where for the first time the Mercedes C-111-IV exceeded 400 km/h. This time, the Germans put their heir to turn to the immense 12.68 kilometers ring. The result was waiting … eight days. Because for more than a week, the Mercedes Concept Amg GT XX has been spinning without rest. The result is that at that time it has managed to complete the whole world. That is, 40,075 kilometers (24,901 miles). Specifically in 7 days, 13 hours 24 minutes and 7 seconds. Not happy with it, the car continued to pushing the barrier of 25,000 miles. On the way the Germans broke 25 long distance records. In the first 24 hours they already reached 5,479 kilometers. The figure was overwhelmed: 1,518 kilometers more tours than the previous record. The formula was simple and effective. Mercedes engineers mounted the pilot, he went to the track and put himself at a cruise speed of 300 km/h. When the battery was exhausted, passing through boxes to recharge at 850 kW of power. Thus, day and night. Day and night for eight days. In total, 3,177 turns of the Nardò circuit of 12.68 kilometers. You can consult all kilometer milestones (and also in miles) In this link. Among the keys that have allowed Mercedes get up with these distance recordsThe company ensures that cooling has been key. They say they have an innovative direct cooling system of the battery fluid. As the components have to face different temperature ranges, it has a central refrigerant concentrator that supplies the specific refrigeration that each of one of it needs. It is also connected to the main radiator and two other wheel arc radiators on each side of the front. Working surgically, you can distribute cooling among all components or specifically send it to the one you need most at that time. Thus, the test has been held in Three pillars: cooling, aerodynamics and recharges time. To guarantee the maximum performance, the company came to install its own medium voltage electric lines, transformers and load stations. Thus, they could have their own high -power load concentrator developed entirely by themselves. In fact, works that extended almost three months were necessary. The result: three loaders with a total power of 2.5 MW. The average of the charges was 850 kW but the company does not specify for how long they were carrying or to what percentage of the battery they loaded with each stop. It is impossible, therefore, to really know the battery capacity used. Photos | Mercedes In Xataka | Solid state batteries are the … Read more

The future of the European cloud is being written in Aragon. AWS has made him his most ambitious bastion in Spain

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What until now was an ambitious announcement has just become a reality. The Aragon government has published in its official bulletin the approval of the General Plan of Interest of Aragon (Piga) that will allow Amazon Web Services (AWS) expand your infrastructure in the region. This is a project presented in May last year that contemplates an investment of 15.7 billion euros and that comes with the promise of promoting thousands of jobs, both direct and indirect. The process has been resolved in just 15 months, an unusually brief period for these types of procedures, and that places the American multinational in a position to immediately start the works in the municipalities where it already has a presence and in others in which it will be installed for the first time. We do not talk about a starting point, but of an extension: Amazon already operates three centers in Aragon And now he plans to lift five more. The Aragonese bet to become a strategic cloud enclave The key that this advance has promoted is in the Pigawhich acts as a fast route for large -draft initiatives. The regional government declared AWS’s expansion in 2024 INVESTMENT OF AUTONOMIC AND GENERAL INTERESTwhich opened the door to a preferential process. In the social network XThe Executive highlighted the publication in the BOA and the words of the counselor Octavio López, who valued the fifteen months that the entire process lasted. Click on the image to see the original publication in x As we indicated above, the planned investment amounts to 15.7 billion euros. It is the greatest technological operation approved in Aragon and one of the most ambitious in Spain. The regional government emphasizes that this figure reflects not only the size of the works, but also Amazon’s commitment to consolidate its presence in the region. The execution, of course, will be progressive, with an estimated temporary horizon of ten years. The plan contemplates a remarkable scale jump: of the three existing campuses It will be passed to a total of eight locations in Aragon. These will be located in Villanueva de Gállego, Huesca, Ebro Burgo, Zaragoza-La Cartuja and Sotonera. Each campus will integrate not only data centers, but also auxiliary facilities necessary for its operation. The plan foresees new access roads, fiber optic and High voltage lines for campus. In water matters, specific conduits for process water and evacuation networks will be enabled. Data centers are the machinery that supports digital life. There photos, videos and documents are stored, processes that work the social networks are executed and transactions that move the economy are managed. Every time you see a series in streaming, you participate in a video call or make an online payment, there are servers by processing the information in the background. Companies such as Google, Microsoft or Amazon operate this type of infrastructure. In Aragon, the extension corresponds to AWS. All the site planned in Aragon will be interconnected by fiber optics and managed as a single unit. In the company’s jargon it is called the AWS region, in this case identified as AWS Europe (Spain). The model is based on dividing the region into several areas of availability, so if one suffers an incidence, the others maintain the service. The extension ensures more capacity, lower latency and greater resilience for customers who use services in the Peninsula. Official documents stand out that campus will be equipped with redundant energy, cooling and communications systems. This means that, although a component fails, the service remains active. Fire detection measures, water leak control and operational continuity protocols are also included. In parallel, the plan incorporates energy efficiency and water management commitments, with infrastructure designed to optimize consumption. The goal is to sustain growth that combines technological capacity and environmental sustainability. Not everything is lights along the way. As the country collectedAt the end of 2024 Amazon requested to expand in a 48% water availability for its three complexes already active in Aragon. The petition ignited the alarms of groups as environmental environment and your platform your cloud dry my river, which question the water impact of this type of facilities. In their allegations they recalled that climate change should already have been considered and that, in full structural drought, what corresponds is to limit consumption. The Aragon government presents this extension as part of its strategy to attract technological investment and reinforce the role of the community on the European digital map. In the official communication it is noted that projects of this scale allow diversifying the economy and modernizing key infrastructure. Beyond the numbers, the institutional message aims to consolidate Aragon as a cloud reference enclave. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 | İsmail Enes Ayhan In Xataka | Spain is becoming an authentic mecca of data centers. Uruguay has some lessons about it

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