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China has a gigantic desert in Tibet with countless hours of daylight. And he’s filling it with solar panels

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A year ago we had in Xataka how a huge solar park in the Chinese province of Qinghai, in the heart of the Tibetan plateau, served as an ecological experiment: under the panels, the shade retained moisture and made vegetation sprout in the middle of the desert. Today, that same place – the Talatan Solar Park – has become something much greater. It is the largest clean energy facility on the planet, a “blue sea” of silicon that already covers more than 600 square kilometers at three thousand meters above sea level. Where before there was nothing, China is lifting an energy ecosystem without comparison in the rest of the world. The scale has multiplied. Where last year there was talk of a 1 gigawatt solar park, today a complex extends that reaches 15,600 and 16,900 megawatts and continues to expand. Its area – between 420 and 610 square kilometers – is seven times that of Manhattan. Furthermore, it is not alone since 4,700 megawatts of wind energy and 7,380 megawatts of hydroelectric dams are deployed around it, completing an unprecedented hybrid system. The result: enough renewable energy to supply almost all of the plateau’s needs, including the data centers that power China’s artificial intelligence. According to CleanTechnicaevery three weeks China installs as many solar panels as the entire capacity of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric project in its history. A global clean energy laboratory. The Tibetan plateau, with its pure, cold air, has become the most ambitious energy laboratory in the world. There, China is experimenting with an electricity production model based exclusively on renewables. Electricity generated in Qinghai—40% cheaper than coal, according to the NYT— powers high-speed trains, factories, electric cars and data centers. In fact, the region is home to new computing centers dedicated to artificial intelligence, which consume less energy thanks to the altitude and low temperatures. “Hot air from servers is used to heat other buildings, replacing coal-fired boilers,” explained Zhang Jingang, vice provincial governor. In the words of Professor Ningrong Liu, in his column for the South China Morning Post: “China is not only leading the transition to green energy; it is building the 21st century energy scaffolding that sustains its industrial leadership in electric vehicles, batteries and solar technology.” Three sources that beat in unison. The magnitude of the project is only possible thanks to centralized planning that combines three main sources: solar, wind and hydroelectric energy. During the day, Talatan panels capture more intense solar radiation than at sea level; At night, thousands of wind turbines collect the cold breezes that sweep across the plains. When both systems fluctuate, hydroelectric dams balance the grid. Also, from the New York Times They described a system reversible pumping: excess solar energy during the day is used to raise water to reservoirs located in nearby mountains, which release that water at night to generate electricity. And under the panels, life returns. The shade of the plates reduces evaporation and soil erosion. According to China Dailythis year the vegetation has recovered up to 80% and 173 villages have benefited from the associated livestock farming. A local shepherd, Zhao Guofu, said: “My flock has grown to 800 sheep and my income has doubled since I grazed between the panels.” The perfect geography for the sun. No other country has taken solar generation to similar altitudes. The altitude plays in favor of physics, at 3,000 meters the air contains fewer particles that block light and the low temperatures reduce the thermal loss of the panels. This efficiency is multiplied in Qinghai, one of the few areas of the Tibetan plateau with large plains, where it is possible to build without the limits of the mountainous relief. The Talatan Desert, once an arid and worthless land, has become an energetic jewel. local authorities offer symbolic leases and have developed roads and high-voltage lines connecting the plateau with the industrial centers to the east. That energy travels more than 1,600 kilometers to factories and cities. According to CleanTechnicaChina already operates 41 ultra-high voltage transmission lines, some longer than 2,000 miles and up to 1.1 million volts. The global scale: no one comes close. Other countries have tried to generate clean energy at altitude, but with modest results. Switzerland, for example, inaugurated a small solar park in the Alps, at 1,800 meters, with barely 0.5 MW. For its part, in the Chilean Atacama Desert, a 480 MW project operates at 1,200 meters. By way of comparison, the Talatan complex multiplies the capacity of the Bhadla Solar Park in India, and for more than seven that of the Al Dhafra Solar Park in the United Arab Emirates, which until recently held records. The superpower of clean energy. China produces and consumes more renewable energy than any other country on the planet. In 2024, was responsible of 61% of new solar installations and 70% of global wind power. That same year, it achieved the capacity targets it had set for 2030. In the first six months of 2025added 212 GW solar and 51 GW wind, and the country’s carbon emissions fell for the first time. In this context, Talatan Park is both a symbol and an infrastructure. China is exporting its renewable technology around the world, from Asia to Africa, following the logic of Belt and Road Initiative. For the academic Ningrong Liu: “China wants to stop being the world’s factory to become the engine of the world’s factory.” It is not just about manufacturing panels, but about selling the complete model: engineering, financing and know-how to build green networks in other countries. The less visible side of the miracle. It’s not all clean energy and pastoral harmony. In its report, The New York Times recalled that access to Tibet remains strictly controlled by the Communist Party, and that Western media were only allowed to visit Qinghai on a government-organized tour. There are also human and environmental costs. CleanTechnica documents how the giant power lines that transport energy from west … Read more

It is a gigantic jug of cold water for Spain

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Production of the current Citroën C4 and C4 in The Automotive Tribunewill move to Kenitra, in Morocco. It is a hard blow for automobile production in our country. what has happened. According to “solvent sources” cited in this specialized newspaper, the new generation of these vehicles will begin production in December 2029 at the Stellantis plant in Morocco. The company has not confirmed the date, but has indicated that “the C4, like any other vehicle, has a life and production cycle, but that does not mean that the factory does not have other possible projects on the table that guarantee its viability.” New platform, new strategy. This fourth generation of the C4 and C4 X will be mounted on the platform STLA Small —the last of that family— and will foreseeably start at the end of 2029. This platform has already been awarded to the Vigo and Zaragoza plants, but in a official announcement January 2025, those responsible for Stellantis pointed out that “the Madrid plant will have a future in Villaverde beyond the current Citroën C4, for which the Group is working on several scenarios that will be communicated in due time.” Villaverde’s future is uncertain. The future of the Stellantis plant in Villaverde (Madrid) now seems more uncertain than ever. The company has not given details about that future, but several hypotheses are being considered. On Autoblog they point out that the group plans to transform this plant into a satellite structure of the Figueruelas plant (Zaragoza), as the one in Mangualde (Portugal) is in Vigo. That would see the adoption of the STLA Small platform dedicated to compact electric vehicles. But there are favorable comments. At least if we pay attention to the statements that Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis, made a year ago expanding. He then commented that “Madrid is a very good example of a factory that over the last ten years has made a great transformation to improve costs, quality and performance.” The then CEO of Citroën, Thierry Koslas—relieved this summer by Xavier Chardon—agreed with these assessments, stating that this plant “is taken as a reference in costs and quality.” The same thing already happened in Italy. In summer we already reported how Stellantis had announced an investment of 1.2 billion euros in Morocco to expand the production capacity of its plant in Kenitra. The objective: to be able to produce 535,000 cars a year there, which would place it at the level of Vigo. The company already produces the Citroen AMI either Fiat Topolinoand the latter, by the way, began their journey with controversy. Stellantis, which has historical brands like Fiat or Alfa Romeo, has gone leaving aside car production in the transalpine country. Why Morocco. The transfer of the manufacturing process to Morocco seems to respond to the search for a stronger presence in the Mediterranean region and also in its intention to increase its competitiveness. Or what is the same: rationalize production costs and capacities. The European industry is moving towards countries with lower labor costs, less strict regulations and greater tax advantages, and Stellantis is no exception. Already in 2022 they had invested 300 million euros to update the Kenitra plant and introduce the Smart Car platform. Morocco is positioning itself as a rival to beat when it comes to manufacturing cars at a very low price, and even China is taking note. In Xataka | Europe has been filled with Stellantis cars that are not selling. And Madrid and Zaragoza will pay the consequences

The most pacifist city in Germany lived off its legendary train factory. Now they will make it from a gigantic tank factory

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Görlitz was known for its neat historic center, its post-war memory and a practical inclination towards pacifism. For decades, the city on the eastern border fit on the German map as a haven of caution and resigned industrial melancholy, a place where work and tradition maneuvered away from military power. But that calm is beginning to show cracks that force its inhabitants to rethink what it means to maintain peace when the world seems to want just the opposite. From the steel of peace to that of war. For more than a century and a half, the town of Görlitz, on Germany’s eastern border, lived off the rhythmic sound of trains. The wagon and locomotive factories They provided work for entire generations and defined the identity of this working-class region of the former East. But that era is coming to an end. After 176 years of railway production, the historic Alstom industrial complex is being converted by the arms consortium KNDS to manufacture components Leopard II tanks and Puma armored vehicles. What was once a symbol of civil mobility and reconstruction, today is transformed in gear of the German military machine. This metamorphosis does not arise from nowhere, of course: it responds to the country’s strategic shift towards rearmamentmotivated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fear of a withdrawal of American security guarantees and a economy in decline desperately looking for new sources of employment. Between pacifism and necessity. I was counting last week the new york times that, in Görlitz, industrial reconversion divide feelings. The population, aging and punished by decades of deindustrialization since reunification, sees the production of tanks as a lesser evil. In this area where the far-right AfD party (openly pro-Russian and opposed to helping Ukraine) concentrates almost half the voteseven its local leaders have accepted the change with resignation. “It is not a cause for celebration, but we cannot oppose having work either,” recognizeaware that the loss of employment would be even more devastating than the moral dilemma of manufacturing weapons. Reconversion. The factory, which once had more than 2,000 employeesbarely kept 700 before the sale, and KNDS agrees to keep half of them and plans to multiply it in the future. In fact, the unions, led by IG Metall, were the ones who promoted the idea of ​​reorienting the plant towards the defense sector to avoid its definitive closure. In a territory marked by youth exodus and economic frustration, the arms industry has ended up offering something similar to a second chance. German military reindustrialization. The Görlitz case reflects a broader phenomenon: German rearmament as a driver of a new industrial reconversion. Since 2020, Berlin’s defense spending has increased about 80%exceeding 90,000 million euros, and the demand for specialized labor has skyrocketed. Companies such as Rheinmetall, Diehl Defense, Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems or MBDA have added more than 16,000 workers since the start of the war of Ukraine and plan to hire 12,000 more before 2026. The sector’s profits are so high that its managers increase dividends while exploring the purchase of automobile plants in decline, as that of Volkswagen in Osnabrück. The “logic”. The message from its CEO, Armin Papperger, summarize the logic of the new defense economy: if taxpayers’ money finances national security, jobs must stay in Germany. In this context, the factory conversion like Görlitz, it is perceived as an industrial policy with a dual purpose: to sustain the productive fabric and strengthen the country’s strategic autonomy. The moral dilemma. Despite the economic relief that the renaissance of the arms sector represents, it persists in German society a deep tension between the pacifism inherited from the post-war and the need to guarantee European defense. For many East Germans, who already experienced a first deindustrialization after the fall of the Wall and now suffer the loss of energy and manufacturing jobs, manufacturing tanks is a bitter way of survival. Some fear that the weapons produced will end up on the Ukrainian front, others that the rise of the business depends on the continuity of the war. “Will it be sustainable to manufacture tanks? I hope not. I hope the wars end soon,” admitted to the Financial Times a union representative. However, the reality of the market and geopolitics point in another direction: defense has become the new industrial hub European, and Germany (due to history, technological capacity and allied pressure) leads that transition. Goodbye train, hello tank. Thus, the old Görlitz factory, with its warehouses blackened by decades of metallurgical work, symbolizes the change of era that crosses Europe. Where wagons were previously welded to transport passengers, steel shells will be assembled for combat vehicles. What began as a strategy to save jobs threatens to redefine the industrial soul of the country: from civil ingenuity to military power, from the steel that united continents to that which now armors them. And a profound paradox: in a fractured political landscape, where the fear of war coexists with the need to prosper, the workers of Eastern Germany are once again the involuntary protagonists of history. Its destiny, between nostalgia for trains and the pragmatic acceptance of tanks or battle tanks, summarizes the dilemma of a nation that tries to reconcile its pacifist past with a present that pushes it, once again, to manufacture weapons to ensure its future. Image | Norwegian Armed Forces, State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labor, Energy and Climate Protection In Xataka | The US no longer has to worry about Spain or the rearmament bill in Europe. Germany had a plan B In Xataka | The “rearmament” of Europe has begun at a Volkswagen factory in Germany: instead of cars they will produce tanks

Two gigantic parks that will make “sponges”

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The Generalitat Valenciana has presented your strategy to deal with future floods after Dana’s disaster: The creation of two huge green corridors that will occupy 1,500 hectares and work as water absorption areas. The project, baptized as “Parque de la Esperanza”, will require an investment of more than 150 million euros and aims to become one of the largest metropolitan parks in Europe. What includes the plan. The project includes two large green axes of 35 kilometers of total extension. The first will expand the current Turia channel in 10.5 additional kilometers, connecting the heading park with the mount of La Vallesa. The second will take place in the area most affected by the Dana on October 29, with a main section of 18.5 kilometers from the Albufera to Picanya and another secondary of 5.5 kilometers between La Torre, Massanassa and Catarroja, following the route of the ravine of the poyo. Seeking to replicate the work of the Albufera. The Dana disaster, which claimed the lives of 228 people, demonstrated the vulnerability of the area to such meteorological catastrophe. At that time, the albufera acted as a natural laminator, absorbing part of the water and avoiding major damage. Now the idea with this project is Replicate this capacity in a planned way in areas that can serve to cushion damage to future overflows. How will it work. These spaces will act as giant “sponges”, absorbing excess water in times of torrential rains and allowing a controlled water release. The project includes the plantation of 100,000 trees and the creation of water sheets integrated in the landscape. Eduardo Rojas, UPV professor, commented that the sediments dragged by the Dana They will be reused to adjust the land levels and protect the inhabited areas of future overflows. Between the lines. Beyond its defensive function, the initiative also seeks transform agricultural land devastated in climatic shelters and public leisure spaces connected by cyclopeatonal roads. President Carlos Mazón has taken advantage of the presentation to criticize The lack of economic support from the central government, insisting that it is “a matter of state” that the Generalitat is facing “practically alone.” Next steps. The 2026 regional budgets will include an initial game of two million euros for the development of the project. The Generalitat will also explore European financing and public-private collaboration through CO2 emission compensation mechanisms. The Plan has the technical support of the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Center for Environmental Studies of the Mediterranean, although there is still no specific date for the execution of the project. Lessons learned. The Dana showed problems that came long. Decades of construction in flood risk areascareless ravines and Lack of infrastructure They were some of the ingredients that ended up magnifying the tragedy. Criticism also pointed to alert managementwith Mazón in the main focus. This new plan seeks to turn the situation by creating spaces where water can run safely. Cover image | GVA and Levante-EMV In Xataka | Valencia feared that the housing market sink into the areas devastated by the DANA. The opposite has happened

The filtration of 16,000 million passwords would be the largest in history. If it weren’t because it’s a gigantic refrito

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A team of CYBERNEWS researchers He has discovered A large library with 16,000 million filtered passwords. That would be long the theft of credentials in history, but it has not been. That library is actually a compilation of 30 large sets of data already filtered in the past. Should I reassure us “just” that? Enough, but not quite. It is not a new massive theft of data. Cybernews researchers do not show their sources, but they point out that this is in essence a compilation of “supermassive data sets containing billions of credentials.” In those leaks – ancient, but it is not known how much – data appears that according to Cybernews come from Google, Facebook or Apple users. Again, without offering evidence of it. They explain that none of these data sets had been discovered before, except for one with 184 million credentials that They mentioned in Wired At the end of May. But it is still dangerous. The problem of a compilation like this is that it can serve as a great starting point for all types of cyber attacks. It is very likely that in that large database there will be a significant amount of duplicate credentials. No one has stolen data from Google, Facebook or Apple (recently). Although media such as cybernews or forbes talk that there are credentials of these platforms, again if any will be belonging to old data theft – which Of course Yeah There has been-. There have been no robberies (much less massive) of credentials in these companies recently, and if there were them, they should have made a communication responsible for the incidents – in the US the US is used FORM 8-K OF THE SEC– They can affect their businesses. Should I be worried? Relatively. It must be aware that these data theft give access to cybercriminals to millions of credentials (user and password) in all types of services, and they can gain access to our accounts in those services thanks to them and then attack them or use them as the basis of other attacks. But this is true every day, not only when a new security filtration appears. Have Ien Pwned is a useful service that allows us to enter an email address to check it with the databases of previous data theft. A curiosity here: the number of accounts hacked on this platform is almost 15,000 million, very similar to the one indicated in Cybernews. Check if you have hacked you. There has been a simple way to check if our email and password has leaked in any of these data theft. THE SERVICE HAVE I BEEN PWNED allows us Do it quicklyand here we have discovered something interesting: the database with which this platform works has almost 15,000 million accounts hacked in its registry. Almost the same number they are talking about in Cybernews, as if their great library was in essence the same one that has this service created by Troy Hunt cybersecurity expert. And acts accordingly. When introducing your email, services may appear in which your account may have been compromised. What you should do in case this happens is to change your password as soon as possible in those services, and, if possible, strengthen the security of that password. There are several methods to do so: you can create a strong passworduse a Password manageruse the two -step authentication “Specially recommended,” or even make the leap to the passkeys If the service allows it. Be careful out there. Those measures that we talk about should not only be applied if we realize that something has happened, but before it happens. It is better to prevent than healing, and it is worth reviewing the safety of our accounts on the Internet, especially the most sensitive. The mail (Gmail, for example) is especially delicate, since it is usually used as a password rescue method in many other services. It is a good idea here to go to the tools that allow verifying the security status of our accounts to reinforce it if possible. Google, for example, Maintain a control panel which we can access at all times to configure what is necessary and Avoid scares after. In Xataka | The old dream of the cybersecurity of the future has just come true: Microsoft corner finally the passwords

Goal has an excellent reason to launch a gigantic flame variant 4: Specialization capacity

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Goal advertisement Last Saturday the launch of flame 4, his new family of Open Source models of IA. The company takes chest with three multimodal variants and one especially striking for being absolutely huge in size. But it is for a good reason. Hello, call 4. It has been almost a year since the goal announced Call 3and his new family of models arrives with three different variants: Call 4 scout: the most “small”, which competes with Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-lite and Mistral 3.1. Call 4 Maverick: Compete with GPT-4O, Gemini 2.0 Flash and Deepseek v3 Call 4 Behemoth: An absolute monster that as Meta surpasses GPT-4.5, Gemini 2.0 and Claude 3.7 in various benchmarks. The latter is not demomently available publicly. Amazing context window. These models offer a context window of 10 million tokens, something simply spectacular. That means we can enter a gigantic amount of data such as entry (PROMPT), for example huge code repositories on which to work directly. Mixture-Of-Experts. These models use mixture -of-ou-explet architecture that already took advantage for example Depseek. As we explain then, this allows to divide the model into “experts” that activates according to the type of request. That improves efficiency and has proven to be a fantastic technique for models to behave optimally with much less resources consumption. Scout has 16 experts and Maverick has 128. This type of architecture also favors the inference phase, or what is the same: the models will respond not only efficiently, but fast and fluid. Call 4 Behemoth, the “Model Professor”. It is not yet available, but this variant is absolutely huge and has two billion parameters (2T in English), when calling 3, which was huge (405b) was a five times smaller model. Deepseek R1 has 671,000 million parameters, three times less that calls 4 Behemoth. The key to this model is that it serves as “teacher” for smaller and, above all, specialized variants. The flame 4 comparative table with respect to some of its rivals. Specialization. This variant is also a perfect candidate to be “distilled” and starting from it to obtain much smaller but equally capable models that “learn” from that “teacher teacher” that is call 4, but adapting to more concrete areas and scenarios and in which they can highlight. And less censorship. OpenAI’s image generator He already took a 180º turn and applies much less inspired censorship By Grok 3. Goal does the same with flame 4, which according to the company has become “responds with a strong political inclination at a rate comparable to Grok in a controversial set of political or social issues.” Thus, we have a somewhat less “politically correct” model. For now debatable results. Although the model seems to score very well in benchmarks, experts like Simon Willinson They have tried it And they ensure that their first impressions are not especially remarkable. Gemini 2.5 Pro seems to behave much better in one of the tests he performed when summarizing and analyzing a text. However, with flame 3 something similar happened, and both calls 3.1 and calls 3.2 significantly improved their behavior. They can already be tested. Call 4 is now available In WhatsAppInstagram, Facebook or the website of Goal AI. And once again, experts offers the possibility of download italthough you will basically need a cluster with a lot, a lot of memory to be able to run them at home. They are also available in Huggingface. And soon “will reason”. Mark Zuckerberg Indian In its Instagram account that in addition to these models, next month we will see a model called 4 reasoning that will be the company’s first reasoning model. It is an especially interesting variant, especially when competing with Deepseek R1 (and its successor, which It will appear soon). Images | Goal In Xataka | Great technology have determined something this year: that we end up talking to an AI

The longest land border in the world made by the human being is a gigantic firewall between the US and Canada

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One of the most controversial borders of the last weeks is, curiously, one in which there are no war conflicts: the one that separates Canada from the United States. It is a peculiar border, with numerous rural points without surveillance and whose straight line looks like a gigantic firewall visible from spaceliterally dividing what he finds in his path. And, although it seems that something like this is a vote of confidence among good neighbors, the latest events show that even the world’s least monitored border can become tensions scenario. The longest in the world. It extends along the whopping of 8,891 kilometers and, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris Of 1783, there were the first steps to define limits in the territory of future United States and British Columbia. It was the moment in which the United States War of Independence was put an end, but the final demarcation of the border would take more than a century to arrive, and would do so in the form of a gigantic firewall. Literally: There is no need to throw imagination: that central line extends thousands and thousands of kilometers The ‘firewall’. The upper image represents a tiny border segment, in one of the rural areas. It is taken from Google Maps Because it is a border of the most visual (and I encourage you to throw a rare sailing through the app discovering curious cases). If a river or a mountain range does not physically separate the territory, Canadians and American are distanced by a gigantic firewall who, in much of the border, is still a straight line that divides forest, rural and even cities. The entire central part of the border and even the Pacific responds to that design based on parallel 49 After the Treaties of Paris and Jaythere were still fringes that would not be resolved until decades later, but one of the decisive moments arrived at the London Convention of 1818. In it, the 49 parallel was established as the border between the two countries, from the Lake Forests to the Rocky Mountains. In 1846, the Oregon treaty The witness collected, continuing the decision that the 49 parallel marked the border from the roco mountains to the Pacific, except a Vancubert that remained in the northern domains. The firewall and a road portion that gets into Canada … and returns to the US Even so, there were borders that were still clear, such as Alaska, so arbitration was created specifically designed for that border. In 1908 the border was consolidated in the International Limits Commission. It was then that the decision was made to physically demarcate the division, creating an immense firewall or strip that definitely marked the limits of each country. The border is full of these markers that delimit the state to which each area belongs Together, but not scrambled. Imagine that you are playing a video game and you want to define a division without you care where the lines fall. Well, a similar case is the one that is lived in some locations that have part of the territory in the United States and part in Canada. It is not that there are curious cases such as Mexico City (which on one side of the street are in the State of Mexico and, in the other, in Mexico City), but that there are buildings with a division that marks that its plant is in two different countries. An example is the Library of Derby Line, Vermont, or Stanstead, Quebec (depends on the side of the border on which you are). On the floor of the reading room there is a black line that marks the country where you are, being one of the most curious cases, but not the only one. In Vermont and Quebec there are houses that catch in the middle of the border, cases such as the Halfway house, which was a tavern/hotel built in 1820 before that part of the border was established and other examples of land with part in the United States and another part in Canada. The house in the US, the tools house in Canada Golf cart parked in the US, Hoyos in Canada Half of the house pays taxes on one side, the other in the other. It is a joke, but there are few constructions that share country Point Roberts. But there are not only lands split in half: also areas that belong to one of the two countries and those that are only land link through the opposite nation. Maybe Alaska is the most famous – also the largest – and, although connected by the Arctic and the Pacific through ship, if you want to go by land you can only through Canada. Point Roberts is one of the curious examples. It is located in the state of Washington and is the ‘piquito’ of a peninsula only accessible by land through Canada. It is one of those cases in which you cross a street and pass from the Canadian city Delta to the American Point Roberts. Point Roberts Something similar occurs with Elm Point, a small uninhabited cape surrounded by lake except by the north, being Canadian territory and the only way to access by land. There are many more examples like this, such as the island of Province whose southern end belongs to the United States and where we can see another example of that firewall we were talking about before. Elm Point Elm Point closely Machias Seal. But of course, so many situations of a territory cut by the border gives rise to some tensions, and the best example of this is that of the Machias Seal Island. It is an island in the Gulf of Maine that is administered by Canada, but which the United States claims as theirs. No one lives, but there is a lighthouse built in 1832 in which Canada maintains Coast Guard personnel. And the reason for this interest on the … Read more

The SS United States was the largest and most rapid transatlantic of the ocean. Now it will be a gigantic submarine reef

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A transatlantic of 301 meters in length. It is a figure that perhaps does not impose today when we talk about cruises, especially having moles such as the Oasis of the Seas of more than 316 meters or the Harmony of the Seas With its 362 meters, but if we go back to 1950, the thing changes. In the middle of the last century it is when the SS United States was over, an imposing transatlantic that did not go to the History like Titanicbut it should. Merits are not missing, but after a more than remarkable service, it was abandoned in a shipyard in which it was gradually oxidizing without anyone paying or attention. And so for almost 30 years … until now, since he will be given a deserved tribute at the bottom of the sea. The other cold war missile. During the Cold warcountries like the United States invested a lot, a lot of money in Improve your weapons. Specifically its nuclear arsenal that, together with that of Russia, grew uncontrolled. But other things had to be done and, in 1950, in the Newport News Shipbuilding shipyards in Virginia, the world’s largest transatlantic was being cooked: the SS United States. A ship postcard A Burrada. Its construction term In 1952 and that was when the world knew an absolute beast of 301 meters in length, a 31 -meter sleeve and a displacement of more than 47,000 tons. The Titanic, as colossal as it was, measured 269 meters in length and a couple of meters less manga. Interestingly, he displaced practically the same tonnage, but the protagonist is now the American ship. Not only was it the largest built in the United States: it also moved like a fish in the water. It had a cruise speed of 39 knots (about 59 km/h) and I reached A surprising maximum speed of 38.38 knots (70.97 km/h). Its deposits allowed to travel more than 18,500 kilometers at a sustained speed of 64 km/h, which allowed rescue or long -distance missions to be carried out if there was any emergency. It was much faster than current cruises. The Titanic II. Its construction cost about 78 million dollars, but there was a trick: the United States contributed 50 million because the ship could be used in military missions, moving until 15,000 soldiers if the situation required it. It was never used for that purpose, but that the government entered the equation not only allowed to finance most of the ship, but also to improve construction materials. On his inaugural trip in 1952 he showed what pasta he was made, getting the speed record in both directions when completing the trip in three days and ten hours. He continued to carry out passengers until 1969, being the pride of the United States during the Cold War. Retirement without gallons. His iceberg, however, came in the late 60s. The rise of transatlantic commercial aviation caused no sense to invest money in the maintenance and operation of a ship so huge that it took much longer to bring passengers from one destination to another. After just 17 years of service, he was removed from it and was lying from one port to another until, in 1996, he tied in the port of Philadelphia. Interestingly, in view of the whole world while their helmet was more and more oxidizing. Since then, I know tried Give a second life to the pride of the nation, which went through several owners, but attempts to turn it into a hotel or a floating museum did not prosper. Oscar posthumous. It was a sad end to a symbol like this, but the SS United States Conservancy achievement become with the ship and have planned to remove it the way it deserves. After 28 years, a few days ago he undertook his last trip helped by several tugs and, after a journey of about 3,000 kilometers, arrive to the coast of Mobile, in Alabama. Recreation of the SS United States for the Terrestrial Museum. The radar tower and other elements will be the originals The plan, now, is to sink it at some point in 2026, and will be at the bottom of the sea where it will become a huge artificial reef that will delight the submarine. On the coast there will be A museum and visitors center in which the story of a ship that marked a naval era will be remembered and was sadly set aside due to progress. Now, you can rest with dignity. Images | Ssusc, Chuck Homler D/B/A Focusonwildlife In Xataka | The largest passenger ships in history, ordered in a fabulous infographic

A professional lens with gigantic sensor for mobile

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Xiaomi is being one of the main protagonists in this Mobile World Congress. The first reason are the looks that your Su7 ultraits electric beast that is beating reserves records in China. The second is its new family of high -end models, the Xiaomi 15 and Xiaomi 15 Ultra. The third, and everyone’s craziest, is its modular optical system, one that allows the phone to connect a professional optics and enjoy (with some but, as I will now tell) of professional objectives on a phone. Xiaomi Modular Optical System. As its name indicates, the idea is “simple”: use a professional optics (DSLR or Mirrorless) on a mobile phone. It is not the first time that Xiaomi tries something like that, but the first one that does so through such an effective system. The connection to the phone. The objectives connect to professional cameras through a pine system. So Xiaomi has decided to do exactly the same. Connecting the lens is as simple as pasteing it to the huge magnet that has the phone in its rear. And no, there is no risk of falling, it is very well fixed. Once adhered to the rear, we can select in the camera app if we want to use the new lens or if we want to use the phone sensors themselves. The lens does not come alone. The madness of this concept is not alone in the lens, a very light 35mm with opening f/1.4. The wildest of this idea is that the lens itself has its own sensor. One called Light Fusion X with a resolution of 100 megapixels. The thing does not end in the resolution, we talk about a 4/3 micro sensor. These types of sensors are used in professional cameras, although their size is lower than that of APS-C and Full Frame. The Peros. My first and main doubt with this combination of lens and sensor is the concern that I have been dragging for years with the telephone hardware: What is the use of all this if the defendant is not good? I have barely been able to spend a few minutes with this lens/sensor, but expanding the image a bit, the result was … that of a phone. What distinguishes a mobile camera is not just the lens, it is the processing, and this will be the key for systems of this type to mark the difference. For these systems to work perfectly, the phone would have to have two processing algorithms. One for your main sensor and another for external lenses. Similarly, it would be necessary for RAW to be RAW, and not processed files to obtain more dynamic range. Be that as it may, this concept is still a prototype without commercial views, but more than interesting. We will follow it very closely to check if it ends up becoming a reality. Image | Xataka In Xataka | I have tried Xiaomi Hyperai: Xiaomi’s weapon to compete with the best in Mobile

The TM7 has a gigantic 10 -inch panel and is quieter than ever

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The first Thermomix was born in the 60s and, since then, there has been no fixed renewal cycle. The latest version was market in 2019, under the name of Themomix TM6. This TM denomination has been living since 1980, and returns to the market six years after the launch of the TM6. Thermomix has presented the TM7, an important evolution with respect to the previous model that lands (how not) with a huge 10 -inch touch screen, a new design and the promise of being quieter than ever. Thermomix TM7 Technical Card Themomix TM7 DIMENSIONS 33.6 x 25.3 x 40.5 cm WEIGHT 8.6 kg SCREEN 10 -inch tactile Cooking modes Without lid, brown, steamed, crushing, cooking eggs, boothing, thick, rice cook and sugar points ABILITY 2.2 liters in the glass 6.8 liters in total (including varoma) Accessories included Central Module TM7, stainless steel glass with thermal insulation, cestillo, varoma, butterfly, spatula, blades and three free months of subscription to the Cookidoo platform. PRICE 1,549 euros THE THERMOMIX OF 2025 If we had to describe how every 2025 technological product aspires to be the answer is clear: You must have a huge screen. This is with this TM7, which lands with a touch screen of no less than 10 inches. Almost three inches more with respect to its predecessor. This tablet is the cooking center for this Thermomix. It allows us to search for recipes, schedule the cooking, and manage absolutely all aspects of our kitchen apparatus. All recipes are managed from Cookidoo, Thermomix’s own platform with more than 100,000 recipes. During the three months after the purchase we can enjoy it for free. After this period, the price is 60 euros a year. One of the main novelties is the renewed digital simulationthrough which we are shown step by step how we should cook certain recipes. Beyond screens, this Thermomix has a stainless steel glass with thermal insulation. This allows us to manipulate the glass without burning, even if the interior is hot. The main novelty according to the company is in silence when cooking. Promises to be much more discreet than the previous one. Regarding accessories, it still has a 2.2 -liter glass, increasing this capacity to 6.8 liters If we use the varoma accessory. For the new ones in the Thermomix world, Varoma is an accessory container that allows steamed. It is quite large, and allows to increase the capacity of our device. This new model allows cooking without a lid, so you can make recipes without rotation of the blades. This is especially useful for recipes in which it is necessary to incorporate ingredients without interrupting cooking. Price and availability of the Themomix TM7 The new Themomix TM7 can already be reserved at a price of 1,549 euros. Deliveries will begin from April, by order order. You can buy it on the official website of VORWEKthat already accepts requests. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The pot with which I have started eating more vegetables because it no longer gives me so much laziness to cook them

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