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There are still phones, Nintendo Switch 2 and more at a good price in the best summer promotion on AliExpress

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All good things come to an end, something that we can also apply to the events full of offers that happen all year long. There are just over 24 hours left until it ends AliExpress Summer Promoa campaign that began last week and in which we have seen brutal prices for consoles, mobile phones and many other devices. The good news? There are several of these offers that are still availableyes. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Discount minimum purchase coupon 1 coupon 3 coupon 4 COUPON 3 euros 15 euros XATAKAES03 WEBEDES03 ESSS03 SSES03 6 euros 39 euros XATAKAES06 WEBEDES06 ESSS06 SSES6 10 euros 69 euros XATAKAES10 WEBEDES10 ESSS10 SSES10 20 euros 139 euros XATAKAES20 WEBEDES20 ESSS20 SSES20 30 euros 209 euros XATAKAES30 WEBEDES30 ESSS30 SSES30 45 euros 319 euros XATAKAES45 WEBEDES45 ESSS45 SSES45 65 euros 459 euros XATAKAES65 WEBEDES65 ESSS65 SSES65 110 euros 650 euros XATAKAES110 WEBEDES110 ESSS110 – Only until tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. (or until the discount coupons run out, whichever comes first) we have access to very good deals in technology. There is not as much to choose from compared to last week, but even so we still have very good purchasing options. Here are five we love: nintendo switch 2 by 366.33 euros with the coupon ‘XATAKAES45’, a great price for the Nintendo hybrid before it increases in price. POCO X8 Pro by 262.81 euros with the coupon ‘XATAKAES30’, in its version with 512 GB of storage. Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro by 254.33 euros with the coupon ‘XATAKAES30’, a smartwatch with autonomy for up to 21 days. AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D by 382.85 euros with the coupon ‘XATAKAES45’, a very powerful processor ideal for gaming and heavy tasks. Xiaomi TV Box S (3rd generation) by 37.46 euros with the coupon ‘XATAKAES06’, a device that could be great for an old TV. nintendo switch 2 One of the most sought after devices in this AliExpress promo has been nintendo switch 2. The hybrid of the Japanese company The price will increase next Septemberspecifically up to almost 500 euros. For this reason, while the Summer Promo lasts, we may have one of the last opportunities to take it home for much less: it comes out for 366.33 euros with the coupon ‘XATAKAES45’. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links POCO X8 Pro It is very possible that the POCO X8 Pro be one of the best quality-price phones of the year. It is a very balanced device that has a 6.59-inch screen with good maximum brightness (ideal for outdoors), a chip that offers good performance and 8 GB of RAM in this version of the device. In addition, its 6,500 mAh battery offers very good autonomy and this version has 512 GB of storage. comes out for 262.81 euros with the coupon ‘XATAKAES30’. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro Autonomy is the Achilles heel of many watches, although that does not happen to the Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro. This smartwatch is capable of reaching up to 21 days of autonomy, a figure that not many devices can match. In addition, it is compatible with both Android and iOS, it has a very cool design and has many different functions, both for playing sports and for measuring our health. Costs 254.33 euros with the coupon ‘XATAKAES30’. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D If you are looking for a new processor for your PC, this Ryzen 7 9800X3D from AMD is a great option. This CPU uses the technology 3D V-Cache and it has 8 cores and 16 threads. In addition, it is compatible with DDR5 RAM, although it is true that right now is not the best time to buy it. Yes, it is to buy this processor, which remains in 382.85 euros with the coupon ‘XATAKAES45’. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi TV Box S (3rd generation) If you have an old TV that you don’t want to change or one where you simply don’t like the operating system, this Xiaomi TV Box S could be great for you. It offers 4K resolution and supports both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision. In addition, it has a Google TV operating system, so it will give you access to applications like Netflix or DAZN in case you plan to watch the World Cup. comes out for 37.46 euros with the coupon ‘XATAKAES06’. Xiaomi TV Box S (3rd generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Nintendo, Xiaomi, Huawei, AMD, Xataka In Xataka | Best mobile phones in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and nine recommended models In Xataka | Best smartwatch in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and seven recommended models

These potatoes could only be bought in prison. They were so good that they ended up generating a black market outside of prison

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There is a food product in the United States that for decades could only be purchased if you were in prison or knew someone who was. And no, it wasn’t any illegal substance or a domestic missile launcher. It was a bag of chips. Especially good, yes. Prison potatoes. The Whole Shabang are potatoes whose flavor combines salt, vinegar and barbecue sauce (in the style of all-dressed chips popular in Canada, where they are manufactured), and which Keefe Group manufactured for years to sell exclusively in American prisons. Keefe Group is a company specialized in supplying the prison population that has existed since 1975, when it began selling instant coffee in a Florida prison. When the inmates came out and wanted to continue savoring The Whole Shabang, they discovered that they did not exist outside the prison. The potatoes began as a flavor within the Moon Lodge line, a brand that Keefe produced for prison commissaries. Commissary world. Within the walls, the product became something that went beyond the mere appetizer. The commissary is the space in prisons where inmates can freely spend the funds they have in their accounts. Potatoes were so popular that some inmates began to develop recipes made from the available products, with proper nouns like “chi chi” (improvised soup with ramen and potato). Cult. After its first appearance, for yearsformer inmates scoured the internet looking for them, posting requests on the Keefe Group Facebook page and organizing groups asking for them to be put up for sale. Except for occasional auctions on eBay, getting a bag was almost impossible without going to prison or visiting someone. In 2012, Keefe publicly acknowledged that he had a cult product on his hands, but he has not yet made it available for sale to the general public. Four more years later, the accumulated pressure finally made them give in and they began selling The Whole Shabang online. The price in online stores (at the moment it is not found in regular grocery stores), $18.99, is far from what it costs in prison, where the bags are much cheaper. The question is… do they taste the same in freedom, where competition abounds in the snack market and you don’t have the feeling of privilege at having found something genuinely tasty within the walls of prison? The prison business. The prison market in the United States moves about $1.6 billion a year, concentrated in three large operators: Keefe, Trinity and Aramark. Keefe It doesn’t just sell snacks.but also provides electronics, clothing, as well as hygiene products, telecommunications and software for penitentiary centers throughout the country. And it has experienced some controversies in its history: prisons receive commissions from suppliersso whoever wins a contract to distribute in a prison is not necessarily the one who offers better prices to the inmates, but rather the one who pays the most to the prison establishment. To Keefe, specifically, has been accused to take advantage of the fact that prisoners have nowhere to buy cheaper and the products experience a consequent inflation. The other luxury product. The Whole Shabang phenomenon raises a curious question: why does something produced for a captive market end up fascinating those who have the possibility of accessing any product in the world? Well, just like luxury: an object accessible to very few acquires symbolic value that goes beyond its real properties. In prisons, the mechanism is the same but taken to the extreme, and removing all the glamour. In fact, inside the prisons, The Whole Shabang functioned as a bargaining chip, as an alternative currency. Long live the fries. In Xataka | The María Islands: the “Alcatraz” of Mexico where the most dangerous criminals in the country ended up

The European Union is successfully demolishing hundreds of dams across the continent. It’s for our good

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When Tore Sorebakken and a team of workers reached the Vinstra River in the heart of Norway in December 2025, no one knew what they were looking for. But when they emptied the pond, drilled dozens of holes and installed 750 kilos of explosives, local authorities stopped them and asked them what why were they trying to destroy that natural waterfall. Sorebakken, surprised, had to explain to them that this was actually a dam built at the beginning of the 20th century to facilitate the transportation of wood and generate a minimum amount of hydroelectric energy. The locals had completely forgotten about it: as I say, they had no idea that it was a human infrastructure. And that is a beautiful metaphor for the enormous abandonment that European rivers have suffered for decades. Free the rivers. Six years ago, the demolition of old dams and clogged weirs was anecdotal in Europe. But in 2024 it came into force European Union Nature Restoration Regulation. It sought to return 25,000 kilometers of river to “free-flow” status before 2030. Since then (since before, really, because there were countries that began to implement it before it came into force) we have had five consecutive years of historical highs. In 2025, according to Dam Removal Europe annual reportat least 603 barriers were removed on the continent. This allowed more than 3,740 kilometers of river to be reconnected. The ‘more’ in the previous paragraph is because reconnection data is only available for 198 of the 603 barriers removed. But why do we want to ‘reconnect kilometers of river’? There are many data, but one that is especially clear is that More than 42% of European freshwater fish species are threateneds and about two-thirds are at risk of being so. Whether we like it or not, 9 out of 10 natural disasters in the European Union in the last decade have had to do with water. And having the rivers full of forgotten structures is part of the problem. ‘Taking back control’ of rivers is essential to reduce the risks of contemporary European society. But that will have consequences, right? This can be read in many places: that European policies of “dam demolition” aggravate droughts. The problem is, of course, that is inaccurate. At least, if we go by the majority of the demolitions. Almost everything that is being torn down are weirs of less than two meters. That is, small barriers that do not store water, but rather raise the sheet to divert flow to an irrigation canal, hydroelectric plant or mill. In fact, most of them should already be demolished because the concessions that allowed them have expired, but no one has paid special attention to it. Until now. Image | Red Zeppelin In Xataka | “In the next ten years, Spain and Latin America are going to suffer (a lot) with water,” Robert Glennon (University of Arizona)

Someone thought it was a good idea to bring a Bluetooth device called “Bomb” onto a plane. What had to happen happened

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Imagine that you are sitting in that modern torture chamber that we call “economy class” on a transcontinental plane when, after an hour in the air of the eight-hour trip from New Jersey to Mallorca, the aircraft turns around to land at the point of origin because the bomb threat protocols are activated. Now stop imagining because that is precisely what happened this past May 30 when the United Flight Boeing 767 that covered the Newark – Palma de Mallorca route thad to turn around with 12 crew members and 190 passengers of which one was the owner of a Bluetooth device with a peculiar name. “Bomb”. The “Bluetooth bomb” He United Flight 236 It should be just another conventional flight, but those who took the one last Saturday experienced an unusual adventure. When the ship was flying over the Atlantic and in a period Between 60 and 90 minutes after takeoff, someone noticed a disturbing detail: searching for Bluetooth networks, They found a device called “BOMB”. If someone was carrying a bomb with a Bluetooth connection, I highly doubt it would be visible to everyone and, on top of that, it would be called “Bomb”, but it was enough for the situation to explode. The crew, using the public address system, repeatedly asked that the Bluetooth devices be turned off, even threatening with turning around, but after seeing that there were still some lights left and that the “bomb” was among them, the maneuvers began. In coordination with the company’s operations center in Chicago, it was decided that it was best to declare a state of bomb emergency and return to Newark. The plane landed as if nothing had happened, but on the ground there was a significant police and security deployment that forced the passengers to vacate the ship, leaving their hand luggage behind. Image | Flightradar24 As part of the procedure, it was now the security forces that were going to be in charge of inspecting that luggage again. It has not really emerged what the device was, but what is clear is that there was no real explosive device. United has not given detailsbut different media indicate that a 16-year-old passenger had a device named with that name. Some say it’s a Fitbit, others say it’s a Bluetooth speaker. No details have been given about the consequences. that the passenger will have to face and everything has remained an anecdotal situation and a story that those 212 people will tell at some point. Now, there are interesting readings. The first is that there are devices for which you can change the name of the Bluetooth connection. For example, we can call our cell phone whatever we want, just like Wi-Fi networks, but there are others that are not easy to change the name of. A speaker or headphones usually have the name they come from the factory, unless they have an app that explicitly allows you to change the identifier. This is important because there are speakers like the Bombbox from JBL and, above all, the Hama Bomb 3.0 that have ‘BOMB’ in the name. Obviously, it doesn’t just say that and there are numbers and the brand, so it would be easy to deduce that it is a totally different device than a bomb. Also, if this were the case, the device would be turned off and not searching for Bluetooth all the time, so what makes the most sense is that it is a mobile phone with that ‘nickname’ for Bluetooth. That said, when the crew asked to disconnect the Bluetooth, if the person had headphones on they might not even notice and, if they did, it was a message that could be interpreted as “put the phone on.” airplane modeThere are cell phones that, when they activate airplane mode, deactivate all wireless communications, but there are also those that only deactivate Wi-Fi, the mobile network and leave Bluetooth to allow connection with headphones. This is for trying to find an explanation for a bizarre story like few others that had a happy ending for the passengers, being able to board a new flight the morning of the next day, but which could be very serious for the funny or clueless owner of the device. Because it is one thing to take longer to take off, but having a plane turn around, relocate all the passengers and the company pay compensation… is not cheap. AND I’m sure someone at United Flight isn’t happy at all.nor were those who were on that flight and who had zero information about what was happening, even having to go to reddit to find out about the movie and report the company’s compensation: a $15 bonus to spend on food. Moral: take a look at what your devices are called. In Xataka | Airplanes have circular windows for a reason. It took two plane crashes to find out.

Walking 20 minutes a day after age 55 is very good. The secret of healthy maturity is to do it much earlier

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An increasingly repeated idea is that, to have a quality retirementyou have to keep moving throughout maturity and with adequate physical activity. The problem is that many times people wait until they are 55 years old to start taking care of themselves and in many cases because they already have a metabolic disease. And this should make us aware that the sooner we start taking care of ourselves, the better. Walk It has been crowned as the star exercise for older adults, and the scientific evidence that supports it is overwhelming. A study from the year 2023 points out that walking 30 minutes a day for 5 days a week reduces the risk of age-related diseases, although it is especially emphasized that it must be done at a high speed and that requires some effort for the body and not as a simple walk. If this is done, we will be significantly reducing the risk of suffering from cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes, but also protects against dementia. And if that were not enough, a review conducted this year with 180,000 participants demonstrated an 18% to 30% reduction in mortality from all causes with moderate levels of physical activity. In figures. It’s not that Olympic records need to be broken, but simply taking 5,694 steps a day is associated with a 13% lower risk of mortality from all causes. And as we have said before, if it is done a speed high, a greater benefit is achieved. When to start. If the benefits in middle age are so incredible, why does science demand that we start much earlier? The answer lies in sarcopenia, which is the process of loss of muscle mass that we face when we begin to age without doing any type of strength exercise. And that is why the deadline of 30 years is set to begin to remedy it. Because? From this age onwards, it has been seen that between 3% and 5% of muscle mass is lost per decade. according to the NIHand other studies suggest that this figure can be between 3% and 8% per decade after age 30. AND from 60 years old the rate of decline becomes even greater. With all this information, it is estimated that right now between 10% and 20% of older adults suffer from sarcopenia, and lack of exercise is the main factor that worsens this progressive muscle loss. The recipe. The WHO here is very clear in its guidelines and, curiously, it does not make reductions upon reaching retirement, so it does not understand a specific age from which you must exercise no matter what, but rather it points out that you should always do it. That is why their recommendations are exactly the same for adults from 18 to 64 years old as for those over 65 years old: relativize. Between 150 and 300 minutes a week of moderate aerobic activity (such as walking), or between 75 and 150 minutes of vigorous intensity. Furthermore, the WHO asks to incorporate muscle group strengthening exercises at least two days a week for all adults. In the specific case of adults over 65 years of age, the only difference is that activities that improve balance must be added to the general recommendations three or more days per week to avoid fatal falls. Images | Emma Simpson In Xataka | There’s a reason why working out for an hour a day at the gym doesn’t give you results. And that reason is evolution In Trends | The trainers agree: “From the age of 55, you should walk every day for at least 20 minutes, preferring stairs, doing gentle stretches and working on balance.”

If you are very good at your job and your boss sends you more tasks than the rest, share this article

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Being the most committed employee in the office has a serious health risk: the more someone enjoys their job, the more trouble they end up making. things that don’t belongwhich are not going to add to your career and which, over time, can end up burning him. At least that’s what he claims an investigation from Cornell University and Northeastern University in which 4,300 employees from different sectors have participated. As and as he declared Sangah Bae, one of its main researchers, Northeastern Global News, This study was born from his own experience as a junior analyst in Chicago: the more involved he became, the more extra work fell on him. Years later, data confirm that this pattern was no coincidence. It’s not a coincidence: it’s a pattern. The researchers found that managers tend to assign additional tasks to employees who perceive as more motivated. In a field survey with 834 middle managers, 55% chose the employee they considered most motivated to assign extra tasks, even when the managers had data on variables such as age, experience or work performance, the perception of the employee’s motivation prevailed in their choice. The laboratory experiment was even more revealing since the researchers designed groups of three people in which one played the role of manager and the other two as employees, competing for a financial bonus linked to their performance. In this scenario, 74% of those acting as managers assigned the extra task to the most motivated employee, even though they knew that this hurt their chances of collecting that bonus. As a result, only about 31.37% of the most motivated employees ended up receiving an extra bonus for their performance improvement. Motivational oversimplification. According to the study According to Bae and Woolley, behind this tendency is a specific psychological mechanism that researchers have called “motivational oversimplification.” The manager’s reasoning is based on the fact that, if this employee enjoys his main job, he will probably also enjoy any extra task equally, even if it has nothing to do with what he usually does and is monotonous and routine tasks that they do not contribute anything. The researchers say that managers “can assume that employees who enjoy their main job will also enjoy additional tasks and that this enjoyment will protect them from burnout.” That is, if it is assumed that the employee will enjoy the task, it is assumed that it will not cost him that much to do it. The study data quantifies this perception gap: managers estimated a drop of just 0.2 points in the motivated employee’s job satisfaction when assigned extra work, while affected employees reported a drop of a full point on that same scale. When motivation turns against you. In one of the study tests carried out over a period of six days, managers chose the most motivated employee 69% of the time, which is equivalent to an average of 4.2 out of every 6 extra tasks assigned. This assignment pattern was repeated every day, which suggests that managers generate systematic inequality in the workload within their teams without being aware of it. “When managers have to assign extra work to their employees, they opt for the easiest option: a person they can trust. That employee who is your shortcut, that person you turn to regularly, who seems to be engaged and enjoy their work, could actually be silently suffering burnout,” Bae said. …and the motivation runs out. As revealed the study OSH Pulse 2025 of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), 44% of EU workers are regularly exposed to task overload. In Spain, this percentage reaches 49%, and one in three European workers (29%) acknowledges having suffered stress, depression or anxiety caused or aggravated directly by their work in the last twelve months. In Spain, the number of employees affected by task overload rises to 40%. As and how they stand out in Harvard Business Reviewthe study by Cornell and Northeastern Universities adds a new variable that these occupational health data do not include: this burden is not distributed randomly among all employees of a company, but rather tends to concentrate precisely on the employees who are most involved.

DeepSeek is good, pretty and very cheap. And above all, the weapon to create a Chinese hardware industry independent of Nvidia

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The arrival of DeepSeek-V4-Pro It hasn’t caused that much of a stir. like the one caused by DeepSeek R1 a year and a half ago, but we may be facing an even more important model. If that version revealed to the world that China was advancing spectacularly in this race, this other one is beginning to allow us to glimpse something else more interesting. What most people see is a very decent model and above all “low priced”. Which hide the company It’s another more important thing: achieve independence from Nvidia and US hardware. what has happened. Last Friday, those responsible for DeepSeek announced something surprising: their promotional offer with a 75% price cut to use their DeepSeek-V4-Pro model will be maintained permanently. That makes this model offer very decent features (but not exceptional) for a really low price: 1M entry tokens 1M tokens output DeepSeek-V4-Pro 0.435 0.87 GPT-5.5 5 30 Opus 4.7 5 25 Gemini 3.5 Flash 1.5 9 Good, pretty and very cheap. It is true that the performance of DeepSeek-V4-Pro is inferior to that of rival models from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google. Artificial Analysis tests indicate that the DeepSeek model is at a very good level, but it is also much cheaper than its competitors. This is especially relevant for agentic tasks that consume many tokens and that with this model become accessible and very affordable. According to Artificial Analysis, DeepSeek is close to the performance of the best models in the industry, and although it is slower in its responses, it is also much cheaper than the frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google. A different strategy. How is this company going to make money? It does not have subscription plans like its local competition (GLM, Kimi) or the western one (ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro). It also does not have voice or image models. It does not have an AI agent for programming that competes with Claude Code. It publishes the open weights of its models and shares its technical innovations with the industry (and with its competitors). For those who closely follow the company and these decisions, the strategy is clear. DeepSeek’s goal is not to win the AI ​​model race. Their goal is to build a Chinese AI hardware industry that doesn’t depend on Nvidia or TSMC… and get paid their share in that process. Hardware independence. China has a structural problem in this AI race: sanctions and vetoes imposed by the US make you unable to access the most advanced chips nor to ASML UVE photolithography. And since China cannot currently compete in terms of computing power, what its companies are doing is ensuring that their AI models need less computing power to achieve similar results. Efficient architectures. The Mixture of Experts (MoE) and Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) architectures are two key weapons in this strategy. The first already existed but was adapted by DeepSeek for their model: with it only part of the total parameters of the model are activated to answer the query without losing precision. What MLA does is compress the attention information (the so-called KV Cache) with which the model maintains the context of a conversation, reducing it by 90%. Both techniques allow us to reduce the need to use high-speed HBM memories, something that is also striking in order to reveal DeepSeek’s probable strategy. The importance of KV Cache. As the GDP analyst explains in Xthat use of MLA allows that for one million tokens, DeepSeek-V4-Pro only needs 5.48 GB of HBM memory. Competitors like Zhipo AI, which develops GLM 5, need 60 GB for the same, while Alibaba’s Qwen 3 needs 89 GB. This advantage allows DeepSeek to offer much lower prices to obtain performances similar to those of its competition, but it also means that DeepSeek models can run on Chinese memory chips that cannot compete in speed with HBM modules. Goodbye HBM, hello NAND and SSD. These innovations open the door to the use of NAND memories and even SSD drives to process this data, and there YMTC enters the scenea Chinese Flash memory manufacturer that is slowly becoming a global giant. Also CXMTwhich manufactures DRAM memoriesbecomes an alternative here and the reason is equally interesting: DeepSeek introduced a memory search module in LLMs called Engram which is also intended to avoid excessive dependence on HBM memories. How to bypass the CUDA monopoly. Nvidia continues to have a fundamental element in CUDA to maintain its market dominance, but here DeepSeek too has proposed an alternative. Is called Tile Kernels and these are software cores created with TileLang (a variant of Python for this field) that allow governing advanced AI chips (GPUs). Huawei as an invisible ally. Those responsible for Huawei recently indicated that its new Ascend AI supernodes fully support DeepSeek v4 models. Precisely this provides another fundamental advantage to the company, which thus avoids (at least in part) total dependence on the use of Nvidia chips and prepares to further strengthen Huawei’s relevance in a market in which until recently Jensen Huang’s company was queen and mistress. Open models to attract the hardware industry. US companies continue to maintain their closed and proprietary models, but DeepSeek is one of the many Chinese startups that publish them with open weights. With this, what she and the others intend to do is not only attract AI developers and users, but also create a hardware ecosystem that adopts these architectures. DeepSeek invites its rivals to use techniques such as MoE or MLA precisely so that all these advances become a de facto standard and hardware manufacturers also adopt them and integrate them in an optimized way into their designs. A round of 10,000 million to advance. The company is also preparing a financing round in which they intend to raise 10,000 million dollars and with which they would achieve a valuation of between 45,000 and 50,000 million dollars. Still far from the mammoth valuations of OpenAI or Anthropic (already close to a billion dollars) but certainly … Read more

If you wake up tired on a regular basis, your rest is fragmented. The good news is that science knows how to fix it

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When the alarm clock rings in the morning, many of us ask to stay five more minutes between the sheets. But sometimes these five minutes are not for convenience, but for necessity, since there are people who wake up as if you haven’t slept at all. And this is a problem, since waking up tired on a regular basis is not normal. The myth of hours. Sleeping eight hours seems the standard that we must follow to be able to rest well, as occurs with the mantra of take 10,000 steps a day to have good cardiovascular health. The problem is that there are many people who can sleep eight or more hours and feel in the morning as if they had not slept at all, and here science suggests that real rest is given to us sleep phases and how time is distributed in each of them, not in the global calculation. The distribution. Sleep is not a linear state, although it may seem that way to us. The reality is that while we are with our eyes closed, we are going through a complex cycle of fragile architecture that passes through light phasesdeep stages and the well-known REM phase where dreams occur. But here what interests us most is deep sleep, which is responsible for physical restoration and the immune system, so when this cycle is broken repeatedly during the night, which is what It is known as fragmented sleep.the direct impact the next day is a decrease in cognition and an increase in fatigue, regardless of the hours we have spent lying down. Sleep or fatigue. For some they may be similar terms, but the truth is that they are quite different, since, while drowsiness is the biological and overwhelming need to sleep, fatigue, on the other hand, is a lack of physical energy or mental motivation. If what you feel when you wake up is fatigue, the origin may transcend the pillow and there may be a medical cause such as anemia, hypothyroidism, depression, chronic stress or the side effects of certain drugs that may be behind this lack of vital energy. Two culprits. Among the medical conditions, there are two that stand out above the others. The first of them is the sleep apneawhich is undoubtedly the great invisible saboteur, since it causes breathing to stop and restart repeatedly throughout the night. These drops in oxygen cause micro-awakenings that the brain uses to survive and breathe again, which we are not aware of. The problem is that these shocks prevent deep sleep from being achieved and result in extreme fatigue. The other culprit is sustained insomnia, since, beyond the difficulty in falling asleep, insomnia also manifests itself with early awakenings or constant interruptions, greatly reducing the restorative nature of rest. It can be corrected. Once medical causes are ruled out, there are several tips that can be followed to have a better quality of sleep. The first of them is to stay away from screens before going to sleep, since if we are already close to falling asleep and our body is preparing for it, exposure to blue light and stimulating content can cause it to take longer to fall asleep. Another very important tip is for dinner, which should ideally be as light as possible so as not to feel very heavy all night and also keep it as far away from bedtime as possible. This is where British time has a clear advantage over ours, as it means you don’t go to sleep with dinner food still in your stomach. The environment matters. In addition to removing any television from the room where you are going to sleep, the comfort you have is also important. This involves having a suitable mattress and ensuring that the temperature of the room is not uncomfortable, since this will cause awakenings that will cause you to not finish resting. This is also added to the need to have as little noise as possible. What is done during the day It matters a lot to sleep, and here exercising several hours before bed can make you sleep much better. But in the diet you also have to be very methodical, since you have to limit caffeine in the afternoon or at night, and limit alcohol consumption which, although it seems to put us into a very deep sleep, the reality is that it makes it not at all restorative. Images | jcomp in Magnific In Xataka | There are people who sleep four hours a day and are still functional. It’s the closest thing we have to genetic “superheroes”

My PC case makes what’s inside an oven. I want one with good airflow and this is the one I have on my radar

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I assembled my PC in parts back in 2021. Five years have passed and, since then, I have been little by little changing some parts. First it was the graphics card and later came the sudden change: I jumped to DDR5 with motherboard, processor, new air cooler and RAM memory (yes, before prices skyrocketed). The box is the same and that has been a problem lately: my PC is an oven if I demand a little from it. He airflow (i.e. airflow) of it is not good enough for the configuration I have right now and I think it’s time to change. For several reasons that I will explain a little below, the one I have had in my cart for a few hours is this Corsair Air 5400 RS-R ARGB: costs 156.50 euros. That its RRP is almost 280 euros is one of these reasons, but not the only one. CORSAIR Air 5400 RS-R ARGB Triple Chamber Panoramic Mid-Tower PC Case – 3 Pre-Installed RS120-R ARGB Reverse-Rotor Fans – High Flow and Low Noise Ducting – Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A box with good airflow and cable management system Let’s go in parts. The first reason I like this box is not the most important, but I love its design. Both the front and the side are made of tempered glass, allowing you to see the interior at all times. In fact, they are two independent panels that connect and both can be opened. This allows you have much more space and leeway to remove components or to clean the inside (something I have to do constantly because I have two cats at home). The above is combined with a cable management system that is not only quite tidy and easy to place, but it remains hidden. Since you have a box with a very cool design that allows you to see what is inside, it is better if it is with the fewest cables visible. However, the best thing about this box is that it has a triple chamber design. What does this mean? Which is designed so that the parts that generate the most heat (such as the graphics card, power supply or processor) have an independent air flow that allows them to be well cooled. It is worth mentioning that the box includes three 120 millimeter air intake fans, although it has enough space to place three more of these, both in the front and on the top. All of this combined with the fact that it is currently historical minimum price It makes it a box that seems to me to be one of the best options available right now. You may also be interested CORSAIR Air 5400 LX-R RGB iCUE Link Triple Chamber Panoramic Mid-Tower PC Case – 3 Pre-Installed LX-R RGB Reverse-Rotor Fans – High Flow, Low Noise Ducting – Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links CORSAIR Air 5400 RS-R ARGB Triple Chamber Panoramic Mid-Tower PC Case – 3 Pre-Installed RS120-R ARGB Reverse-Rotor Fans – High Flow and Low Noise Ducts – White The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Corsair In Xataka | Best laptops in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and seven recommended models In Xataka | Liquid cooling or air cooler? What to choose so that your CPU doesn’t smoke without having to spend a fortune

I was looking for a good keyboard and I wanted one that would help me work faster (and more comfortably). I already know what I want

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Between the time I spend working and the time I spend playing on the PC, it can be said that I have my hands on the keyboard for many hours of the day. For years, peripheral that has accompanied me has been a Logitech G513 from which I have learned that I love the wrist rest. However, I think it’s time to retire and I want something different. Since I spend all day browsing almost every store and looking at all kinds of devices, I admit that I have spent more time than necessary searching for a new keyboard. And, in that search, I have found The keyboard that I would like to be part of my setup: This is Corsair Galleon 100 SD and costs 349.99 euros. It has a high price, I know, but there are several reasons why I love it. Corsair Galleon 100 SD RGB Wired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard – Spanish QWERTY, Stream Deck Integration, Pre-Lubricated and Interchangeable MLX Pulse Key Switches, SOCD FlashTap, 8000Hz The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Keyboard with wrist rest and Stream Deck. all together As I say, there are several reasons for this and the first and foremost is what stands out most about this Galleon 100 SD: it is the first keyboard to have a built-in Stream Deck. Beyond the fact that it eliminates something that I had left over from my Logitech (the numeric keypad), this part is super useful and, although it is a gadget that has gained popularity among streamers, It is the best there is to increase productivity. What can be done with it? Well, that’s the fun, since it is very customizable. The simplest thing is to assign each key to open an app, such as Slack or an email manager. This is great, but you can go much further by making A single button opens all the applications you need to work at once. What’s more, you can place specific functions from programs like Excel or Photoshop as well, which allows you to optimize (a lot) the workflow. And to place certain functions when playing it also seems wonderful to me. I have talked about the wrist rest as a point that I love, but a small nuance must be made here. Many of these accessories that can be found on Amazon or similar stores are made of plastic and, although they do not have to be bad, I find them uncomfortable. However, this Corsair has a memory foam wrist rest like the Logitech keyboard I already have, which provides great comfort even if you spend a lot of time with your wrists resting non-stop. Finally, two more details. Its switches, which are MLX Pulse, have short travel and, although they offer an audible response, They don’t sound like an old typewriter.. Furthermore, although it is not something that matters for working, it has a polling rate of 8,000 Hz, which makes its response time very top. I left out some extra things that this Galleon 100 SD has such as the LCD screen, the wheels to control the sound or the materials of its keys, but even so it is an option that seems like a real spectacle to me. It is not a keyboard for everyone nor is it an economical option, as I say above, but it is a very interesting option if, like me, youYou spend many hours with your hands on the keyboard to work and play. You may also be interested CORSAIR K70 RGB PRO Wired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard – Cherry MX Red Linear Switches, SOCD, Double-Shot PBT Keycaps, 8000Hz Hyper-Polling, NKRO, Tournament Switch, QWERTY ES – Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Corsair Vanguard Pro 96 Hall Effect Magnetic-Mechanical Wired Gaming Keyboard – 96% Format, MGX Hyperdrive Switches, 8000 Hz, Rapid Trigger, Virtual Stream Deck, Flashtap SOCD, QWERTY ES The price could vary. We earn commission from these links CORSAIR K70 PRO TKL RGB Magnetic-Mechanical Wired Gaming Keyboard – Pre-Lubricated MGX Hyperdrive Adjustable Switches, Simultaneous SOCD and Quick Trigger, 8,000 Hz, QWERTY – Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | corsair In Xataka | Best keyboards for writing and working at value for money. Which one to buy based on use and seven recommended models In Xataka | Ultrawide monitor vs two monitors: productivity science says it’s not just inches that matter

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