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The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 receives its first great offer

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Folding mobiles are curious at least. They are really practical to use them in various ways, but it is undeniable that on many occasions they are very prohibitive for the prices to which they come to the market. He Samsung Galaxy Z fold7 It is no exception, and although it is still quite expensive, if you thought to buy it now you can do it by paying less: the English Court has launched its first offer in the 256 GB version of Samsung’s mobile – the first offer in general was that of 1 TB, during the prime day – and has left it for 1,792.65 euros instead of 2,109 euros, which is its official price. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 (256 GB) The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Samsung’s best folding, now cheaper He Samsung Galaxy Z fold7 It is the best Fold that Samsung has launched to date, and is also one of the most different with respect to past generations. A key point of this specific model is its design: Now it is thinner (8.9 mm folded and 4.2 mm deployed)higher and wider, something that is appreciated for comfort issues. As usual, Samsung’s mobile comes with two screens: it incorporates a internal screen folding dynamic amoled 2x of 8 inches (qxga+) and also comes with a External screen 6.5 -inch Dynamic Amoled (FHD+). Both panels offer an adaptive refreshment rate of 120 Hz. Internally comes with the best: processor Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy together with, in this case, 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of internal storage. Your software comes with Android 16 (One UI 8) and, as we usually see in the brand, you will support for seven years. Another of the greatest changes in this generation has to do with the photographic section. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 mounts a couple of front cameras (internal screen and external screen) of 10 MP each. But, in addition, it also incorporates a rear camera module that is composed of a 200 MP main sensoran ultra -angular sensor of 12 MP and a 10 MP teleobjective. You may also be interested in these accessories Samsung Galaxy – Official carbon case for galaxy z fold7, black color The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Samsung Galaxy Watch8 Classic 46mm, Bluetooth, Hybrid Correa, Smartwatch with rotating bevel design, 3 -year guarantee 3 years + 1 year extra, black (Spanish version) The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Amparo BabyloniSamsung In Xataka | Best folding mobiles in 2025. Which to buy in Spain and recommended models In Xataka | Best Samsung mobiles: which buy and recommended models based on budget, tastes and quality price

The great technological technological ones give the teleworking, but the data tell a different story: it has doubled

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In recent months, the great US technological ones They have hardened your policies return to your offices and Eliminating teleworking optionswhile They bet for the accelerated development of AI. However, the Spanish labor market does not follow the same trend with respect to teleworking. The data collected for the report ‘V Telework radiography in Spain September 2025‘ Prepared by Infojobs, they reveal that although it is true that the percentages have fallen with respect to the records from 2020 to 2022, the teleworking has remained stable at levels that double those recorded before 2020. Teleworking in Spain. While in Silicon Valley the headlines proliferate on the end of teleworking, In Spain, work flexibility takes a different path. The data collected by the Infojobs Employment Portal indicate that Spain has maintained sustained growth in terms of Teleworking adoption. 25% of workers currently perform their activity with some remote work formula or in hybrid format. The Last data Of 2024 of the Active Population Survey, they point out that 7.8% of the total active population worked at least half of its weekly day from home, compared to 7.6% who claimed to do it occasionally. In absolute figures, this represents a total of 3.2 million people, placing the percentage of teleworking in Spain around 15.4% of the total employed people working remote. This figure is well above 6% registered in 2019 by the INE, or of 8.3% that was recorded just before pandemic. Source: Infojobs Hybrid work: the balance between flexibility and availability. One of the keys to Teleworking success In Spain it is in its Evolution towards hybrid formatsin which face -to -face days with teleworking days. According to the Infojobs report, 44% of those who telework do so using this hybrid model with between one and four days of remote work. 24% telework two days per week, while 21% of employees who claim teleworking maintain 100% remote activity. The availability of options It has been varying In recent years and, at present, 46% of companies offer some remote work format. Of that group, only 11% of the companies maintain a 100% remote model, marking a decrease with respect to the 12% registered in 2024, but compensated for this fall with more employment offers with hybrid work, which rises from 33% to 35% in just one year. Source: Infojobs Leading sectors on teleworking. While many sectors have experienced an increase in the number of Job offers with teleworkingthe commercial and sales sector leads both in number of workers who exercise remotely and in the volume of new vacancies (39,184 published offers). In the opposite pole, the sectors with less remote work offers are the pharmacist (283 vacancies) and graphic design and arts (499 offers). As for the weight of teleworking by sectors, the sector that most remote employment offers has published is that of computer science and telecommunications (68%) followed closely by legal (58%) and finance (52%). That is, seven out of ten programmers, computer engineers or people, work under some remote work model. According to the study, the sectors with the lowest incidence of teleworking are those inevitably face -to -face, such as tourism and restoration, artisans and trades or health and health, which record values ​​below 1%. Who and where he works remotely. Among the most demanded profiles with teleworking options are, as indicated by sectoral data, IT analysts, Backend and Border developers, ICT consultants and fullstack engineers. All of them with teleworking options between 75 and 90% of the published offers. From the geographical point of view, a curious phenomenon happens and the concentration of teleworking is based on the nature of the predominant industry in that area, instead of allowing disintegration throughout the national territory. This phenomenon is due to hybrid work that, although it allows you to reduce displacements to the office, maintains anchoring with the territory by reducing the chances of workers to move to live outside the community in which the company for which they work for. The greatest proportion focuses in Madrid (40%), followed by Catalonia (19%) and Andalusia (11%), areas with strong presence of technological, commercial and financial companies. In Xataka | Working from anywhere was Teleworking: Not notifying these location changes can make you fire you Image | Unspash (Rodeo Project Management Software)

The ‘Great Chinese Firewall’ is no longer just from China. Now it is sold as a digital repression platform to other countries

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A mass filtration of 500 GB of data in the form of more than 100,000 documents has exposed a disturbing initiative. A startup called Geedge Networks is selling to governments around the world censorship systems modeled from “China Great Firewall“. There are at least three countries that are already applying restrictive measures similar to those of the Chinese government. What happened. The leaked documents By interseclab They reveal how one of the investors in Geedge Networks is Fang Binxing, one of the “Parents” of the “Great Cortaygos of China”. Researchers have discovered that the startup markets an advanced surveillance platform that includes hardware for data centers and Software for local officials. Intercepting everything. The central component of that platform is the so -called “Tiangou Secure Gateway” (TSG), a tool that acts as a gateway and that is installed in the data centers to process the Internet traffic of an entire country. All these data scan when this component is passed, and from there it is filtered and can be blocked so that it does not reach its destination. If the traffic is not encrypted, you can intercept and collect passwords and email addresses. If it is, it makes use of deep inspection systems of packages and automatic learning to detect and block tools that avoid these censorship systems, especially VPN. Three countries already have their own “Great Firewall”. A consortium formed by media and human rights organizations (such as Amnesty International) identified that this platform is active in Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Myanmar. In Geedge Networks they have published job offers for engineers willing to travel to countries such as Malaysia, Bahrain, Algeria and India, and are also hiring Spanish and French translators, which makes it clear that the startup is developing an important expansion strategy. TSG control panel capture for Myanmar showing real -time traffic categorized in total bandwidth and active connections. Source: Interseclab. An example of control: Myanmar. In a filtered capture the TSG control panel for Myanmar And it looks how the system was monitoring 81.6 million Internet connections simultaneously. In February 2024, Geedge hardware equipment had been installed in 26 data centers and 13 ISPS of Myanmar. There, 281 popular VPN tools were identified and the blockade of 54 of them was prioritized, including Expressvpn or Signal. Growing suspicions. Although researchers warn that documents are not a definitive proof that this system is causing specific blockages, Geeedge’s records show strong correlations with certain important events of the past. In Ethiopia for example the TSG system changed passive monitoring mode to “active detention” of traffic just a few days before a remarkable internet blackout that It occurred in February 2023. There are other cases in which connectivity problems in these countries have coincided with events registered in TSG in filtered documents. And incidentally, new Digitgal repression techniques in China. Among the leaked documents are also spoken of an active project in the Xingiang region, in China. There the startup has collaborated with Chinese research institutions to test a distributed firewall model instead of using a centralized one. There are also alarming experimental functions such as the ability to create relationships between users, group individuals according to applications that use or triangular the location of users through mobile base stations. And the dreaded punctuation systems. There is also a prototype in which a kind of Score for the reputation of each userand that would apply individually. Each user would have a base score and to increase it would have to add personal data such as their national identification, data that allow facial recognition or employment details. If this score does not exceed a certain limit – or decreased due to the use of a VPN detected and prohibited, for example – the Internet access would be denied to the citizen. Government malware. Another of the threats posed by this system is Geedge’s ability to Inject malware In user traffic. An operator could identify which website visit a user and, if it does not use a safe protocol (HTTPS), could inject malware directly into that connection. The researchers explain that although these experimental options are being tested in China, once the technology is mature, any foreign client can request those same functions on their platform to update it and have it available. Image | Ran Liwen In Xataka | The ‘China Great Firewall’ becomes even harder and blocks all TLS 1.3 traffic with ESNI to avoid aisos to prohibited destinations

The most detailed gravitational waves in history have just confirmed the great prediction of Stephen Hawking

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After ten years Perfecting the detection of gravitational wavesLigo sensors achieved such a precise observation which has allowed physicists to confirm one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions: the black holes area theorem. Ten years. A decade has passed since the scientists of the Ligo Observatory The universe listened for the first time in a completely new way: by detecting gravitational waves. On September 14, 2015, wrinkles in spacetime tissue Predicts by Albert Einstein a century earlier inaugurated a new era in astronomy. What was then an almost imperceptible cosmic whisper, today has become a symphony that sensors can clearly hear. And on the tenth anniversary of that milestone, the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra (LVK) collaboration has captured the most clear gravitational wave signal to date. GW250114. Detected on January 14, 2025, physicists believe that these gravitational waves were caused by the collision and subsequent fusion of two black holes to about 1.3 billion light years from the earth. Interestingly, the event is almost a twin that ended using Ligo’s physicists the 2017 Nobel PrizeGW150914. In both cases, it was two black holes with masses between 30 and 40 times that of our sun. But there is an abysmal difference: the signal quality. An unprecedented sharpness. Thanks to a decade of technological improvements and advances in quantum engineering, Ligo detectors are now almost four times more sensitive. While the first signal had a signal/noise ratio of 26, that of GW250114 has a 80. “We can hear it high and clear, and that allows us Physical Review Letters. This sharpness has been key to unraveling the secrets that were hidden in the vibrations of the black hole resulting from the merger. Hawking theorem. In 1971, Stephen Hawking proposed that the total area of ​​the event horizon of a black hole can never be reduced. It can increase or remain the same, but never shrink. This, which is known as the Hawking area theorem, is analogous to the second law of thermodynamics, which says that the entropy (the disorder) of an isolated system always increases. Therefore, the area of ​​a black hole is a measure of its entropy. Trying it is complicated. When two black holes merge, part of their mass becomes an enormous amount of energy in the form of gravitational waves (the famous E = mc²). In addition, the new black hole can turn much faster, and a larger turn implies a minor area for the same dough. Does the increase in mass compensate for these losses so that the final area is always greater? The analysis of GW250114 has been settled by the matter bluntly. Hawking was right. In this case, the two initial black holes had a combined area of ​​about 240,000 square kilometers. After the merger, the new black hole, with a mass of about 63 times that of the sun, it had an area of ​​400,000 square kilometers. If in 2021 a first test with the 2015 signal showed a 95%confidence, the new data raises that certainty to 99,999%. As Kip Thorne recalls, one of Ligo’s parents and Hawking personal friend, the British physicist called him right after the first detection in 2015 to ask if they could try his theorem. Hawking died in 2018but today his theory has been verified in a way that would have left him very satisfied. Einstein too. Thanks to this new signal, scientists have been able to analyze the moment just after the merger in which the new black hole vibrates like a newly hit bell before stabilizing. The frequencies and speed with which these tones are attenuated. It is the most solid test to the date that black holes are seemingly simple objects that can be completely described with only three properties: mass, spin and electric charge. All other information of the material that formed them is lost. But each detection of gravitational waves is one more piece in the puzzle of the cosmos. And as GW250114 demonstrates, to understand them we travel on the shoulders of giants such as Einstein and Hawking. Image | Aurore Simonnet (SSU/edeon)/LVK/URI In Xataka | Everything to know about gravitational waves: what they are, where are they and why we will not stop talking about them

The submarine cables were from the teleoperators, and now the great technological ones are controlling them

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Submarine cables They transport 95% of data traffic between continents. They hold Ten billion dollars daily in financial transactions, according to figures collected by Telegeographyand feed from streaming to artificial intelligence networks. And yet, its control no longer belongs to the great traditional teleoperators: it has largely passed to technological giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon. A deep transformation that raises questions about dependence, digital sovereignty and resilience to geopolitical risks. For more than a century, the submarine cables were a matter of consortiums of public operators and large telecos. Installing them cost hundreds of millions of dollars, And it was common to distribute the risk among several actors in exchange for assigning fiber pairs to each participant. Recent examples, as the 2Africa cable, promoted by goalThey follow this model. However, in just a decade, this balance has jumped through the air. Today, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon They control or manage approximately half of the world underwater bandwidth. Between 2019 and 2023, They financed about 25% of activated cable systems, according to Carnegie Endowment. Globally, The construction of about 60 new submarine cables until 2027 is expected, as indicated by the latest telegeography mapwhich gives an idea of ​​the magnitude of the change of cycle in the control of critical internet infrastructure. How technology took over the underwater routes The qualitative leap is not only in participation: also in full property. Google has in full cables such as Curie (USA-Chile), Dunant (USA-France), Grace Hopper (USA-Spanish-Spanish Reino) and Equiano (Portugal-Nigeria-Sudaphrica). Goal, meanwhile, He has planned Waterworth: A cable of just over 40,000 km that will connect USA directly with important markets of the southern hemisphere, including points in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, deliberately avoiding risk areas such as the Red Sea and the Sea of ​​Southern China. The case of 2Africa, although still based on consortium, also reflects the evolution: here, goal participates significantly as a key partner of the consortium with several operators. Europe is the continent with more mooring cables on the planet, according to the Carnegie Endowment. Two thirds of its external connectivity depend on submarine cableswhich underlines your high strategic exposure. Besides, Much of the European traffic is stored in data centers located in the US, as analyzed by the ITIFincreasing its technological dependence. Faced with this panorama, Europe has some strategic assets, such as Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), World leader in kilometers of cable installed between 2020 and 2024and Orange Marine, which operates one of the largest installation and repair fleets. Paris and Rome have already launched movements to protect Asn and Sparkle as “sovereign industrial champions.” The threat to cables It is no longer just accidental. Russia has intensified its underwater patrols around strategic nodes, and in 2025 China presented a ship capable of cutting cables at 4,000 meters deep, according to the South China Morning Postincreasing its asymmetric pressure capacity on critical routes. In addition, the lack of response capacity complicates the scenario: There are barely 80 ships around the world dedicated to laying and cable repair, according to the Carnegie Endowmentand Europe lacks specialized breaking, necessary to operate in Arctic regions or in marine ice conditions, where new strategic connectivity routes are being explored. The underwater critical infrastructure also faces a fragmented legal framework. Several European countries have not even ratified the 1884 convention cablewhich hinders the Persecution of sabotage acts. Meanwhile, installation and repair permits in Europe They have doubled in duration in the last decadecomplicating the response to incidents. To correct it, the EU and the NATO have created joint initiatives, such as the Critical Unclea Infrastructure Coordination Cell and a Task Force Industrial. However, some analysts insist that Without a drastic increase in resources, Europe will remain at a disadvantage. Towards a more fragmented and dependent Internet The massive entry of great technological responds to a clear logic: Control the physical layer of the Internet allows them to reduce costsimprove efficiency and guarantee alternative routes to crises. For traditional telecos, the dilemma is clear: collaborate or be displaced. Some operators continue to play a relevant role, although adapting to an ecosystem with a strong presence of the great technological giants. In the near future, Intercontinental traffic is expected to double every two years5G driven, cloud distributed e artificial intelligence. Alternative routes are being explored, such as polar corridors, which would significantly reduce Europe-Asia latency. In parallel, fears of a physical “splinternet” grow: cable networks segmented by political alliances, with Europe discussing between its historical openness and the need to protect His strategic interests, as Oxford analysts point out. Although we usually imagine the cloud as an intangible space, the reality is that much rest on a complex physical infrastructure. And that infrastructure, more and more, is controlled by US multinationals. For Europe, the challenge is not just building more cables: it is to ensure that the next generation of the Internet does not depend mostly on foreign actors. Images | Goal | Screen capture In Xataka | Digital serendipia is in danger of extinction. Internet understands us too well

The great pet massacre

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“It is not well known because it is not a pretty story. It does not fit the idea we have of being a nation loving animals.” Who is speaking is Hilda Keana British historian who dedicated a few years ago A book To which, as she recognizes, perhaps it is the most truculent, sad, delirious and of course traumatic episode that Great Britain lived at the dawn of World War II, long before the Blitz. Which? “The great massacre of dogs and cats.” Thus, with capital letters, as Kean herself titled her book. What does the newspaper say? August 1939 It was not a good month to read British newspapers (neither the French, Poles, American nor in general those of the majority of the nations of the West). Not at least if what you were looking for were serene and reassuring news. There were only a few days for the outbreak of World War II and the newspapers arrived loaded with fu -managed predictions. They bought it very much to their English who looked at the newspapers last week of August, days before Nazis soldiers advanced on Poland and that precipitated the entrance of France and Great Britain in the conflict, on September 3. There, in their pages, the readers met A brochure that froze the blood to more than one reader. For its content. And its implications. “The most compassionate”. The document was simple. And above all direct. It was distributed August 28with the approval of the Ministry of Internal Security and after the National Air Raid Precats Animals Committee (Narpac) Write a notice with “advice for animal owners.” Its content It was basically the following: “If possible, send or carry their domestic animals to the field before an emergency occurs. If they cannot leave them in the care of neighbors, the most compassionate is to sacrifice them.” The message was disseminated through almost all the newspapers of Great Britain and even radiated in the BBC chain. Not just that. The brochure included the announcement of an instrument for the “humanitarian destruction” of pets, a captive bolt gun similar to those used to sacrifice cattle on farms. As Clare Campbell points outAuthor of ‘Animals Under Fire 1939-1945’, another book dedicated to that episode of World War II, the announcement fell like a jug of cold water in a society in which war drums were heard strongly. It was, in His own words“a national tragedy in certain.” A figure: 400,000. The announcement had effect. Especially if one takes into account that that same week, on September 3, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. The day after the announcement you could see people from London leading to sacrifice their pets and Kean estimates That after the beginning of the conflict, only during the first week, the life of 400,000 animals. And so emphasize“only in London.” The calculations on the number of dogs, cats and other executed animals vary, but something have in common: they are chilling. “Basically, the people were told to kill their pets and did it. They killed 750,000 in a week. It was a true tragedy, a complete disaster,” It laments Campbell in the BBC. Other sources They point out that this data (just over 750,000 animals) was the total company animals executed. According to Narpac calculationsthroughout England there were between six and seven million dogs and cats, 56 million poultry and more than 37 million farm animals, which raised a question: in case of war on British soil, bombardment and rationing, how devils feed all animals? Several hours tails. The figures are stupid. The testimonies, too. Although Germany does not London bombarded Until a year later, at the beginning of September 1940, in many British homes a psychosis unleashed that led them to pile in front of the clinics and organisms that were dedicated to sacrificing animals. There is talk of tails of several hours and owners of dogs, cats and birds that were waiting patiently in rows that turned around to the apple and extended throughout hundreds of meters. Everything to say goodbye to ‘Toby’ or ‘Félix’. “Our technicians, called to perform that unfortunate task, will never forget the tragedy of those days,” I recognized To the BBC chain Maria Dickinfounder of the popular dispensary for sick animals, or PDSA) As the crematoriums did not work At night (not to give clues to German bombers in case Luftwaffe He decided to launch over the sky of London) the work was piled up. There is who holds that the National League of Canine Defense exhausted all its chloroform reserves and that It was chosen for burying animals on the grounds that the PDSA had in Ilford, where the popular is Pet cemetery Founded in London in the 20s. Why did they do it? The big question. British authorities They did not order expressly the sacrifice of pets and even Slide that Narpac instructed cattle, without going into details about how to act with domestic animals. Even, remember Obscure atlaswith the passing of the weeks (too late), a warning ended up clarifying that those who stayed in their homes “should not sacrifice their animals.” So … why so many people did tail so that they ended the lives of their dogs and cats? The most likely answer is: fear. Wars not only carry the risk of air attacks, but also narrows, hardships and especially food rationing. And that is something that the population that had just face the great war I was very present. Campbell remember Even how one of his relatives who lived the dawn the second conflagration made a radical decision in 1939. “Shortly after Poland’s invasion, it was announced by radio that could be a food shortage. My uncle announced that Paddy, the family’s pet, would have to be sacrificed the next day,” recalls the British historian. Pets and War, a luxury? Among those who sacrificed their furry companions who were not supporting the idea that German bombings were hungry or supported. … Read more

The only way to confirm the signs of life on Mars is to bring the rock to the earth: there are three great volunteers

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NASA’s Rover Perseverance has given us one of the most exciting news of recent years. In an old river bed in the Jezero crater, he has found a rock that could contain, In the words of NASA directorone of the “clearest signs of life we ​​have seen on Mars.” Baptized as Cheyava Falls, the rock has dark deposits whose chemical, mineral and textural characteristics, on earth, are associated with microbial life. But scientists cannot be safe from here. Unless… Mars Sample Return. Perseverance did his job: in July of last year he identified a place of very high scientific interest, analyzed the rock with its instruments and, most importantly, pierced a core of the rock and kept it in a sealed sampling tube. This little treasure, along with 29 other sampling tubes, waits patiently on the Martian surface. The problem is that, however advanced the instruments of the rover are, they have their limits. To confirm if those possible “biofirmas” are the product of old microorganisms or geochemical processes without biological intervention, there is only one solution: bringing samples to the earth to analyze them in our laboratories. And this is where The plans collide with a hard reality. The plan to collect these samples, the ambitious Mars Sample Return mission, has been de facto canceled waiting for a cheaper and faster solution. Truncated due to lack of budget. NASA’s original plan to collect the 30 samples of the Perseverance Rover was to send a ship to the surface of Mars, that a small rocket would take off with the samples (delivered by Rover itself or by a drone) and that an orbiter (in this case, contributed by the European Space Agency) to bring them back home. The project ended up becoming a bottomless well. According to an external audit, the budget shot up to 11,000 million dollars with an estimated date for 2040. The situation reached such an extent that the US administration He proposed to cancel Mars Sample Return for his excessive budgetprioritizing other programs such as Artemis to return to the moon. NASA was forced to put the project in pause and look for faster and more cheap alternatives. A career to counterreloj. Time runs against NASA. Not only for the potential historical value of these samples, but because China plans to launch its own sampling mission in 2028. Tianwen-3 is a simpler mission, which would not bring selected rocks but from the ground where the probe landed, but that would return to Earth in 2031. It would be a Sorpasso symbolic in full rule, advancing the United States in a milestone that had at hand. Before the collapse of its official plan and the probable symbolic defeat, NASA did what has been best given in recent years: to look at the private sector. The agency Explore two paths simultaneously: one based on public technology already tested, such as the “Sky Crane” landing system of Curiosity and Perseverance, and another open to “new commercial capabilities.” Voluntary companies. They haven’t taken to appear. Lockheed Martin has put on the table a groundbreaking proposal: executing the mission For less than 3,000 million dollars and under a fixed price contract, which means that it would assume any extra cost. Your plan is based on reusing and adapting technology already tested in missions such as Insight and Osiris-Rexwith a simpler and more light architecture than the original Mars Sample Return. Another of the great candidates is Rocket Lab, a company that, despite its youth, also has experience on the red planet: its components travel aboard Perseverance and other missions. Your proposal is to send a probe to collect the samples and send them to the Martian orbit and a second probe to bring them to the earth, with a third probe called Telecommunications Orbiter for Mars (MTO) that not only would support the mission, but would serve as a basis for future manned missions, establishing a robust communications network between Mars and the land that Rocket Lab could exploit commercially for decades. And Spacex? NASA It does not rule out using starship as a vehicle to bring to the Martian surface all the necessary equipment. If Elon Musk fulfills its ambitious deadlines, Starship could offer an unprecedented load capacity to an unbeatable cost. The final decision on which path is expected for the second half of 2026. What is clear is that NASA is at a crossroads. The samples collected by Perseverance have the potential to confirm that on Mars there was extraterrestrial life. But to find the answer, you must first bring them home. And the solution may not be in a public program, but in companies that have offered to do the job for less than half. Image | Rocket Lab In Xataka | Perseverance has found what, according to NASA’s director, is “the clearest indication of life we ​​have seen on Mars”

His great engine to capture the young vote

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American conservatism has just lost one of its great foci and a rising value, especially among the younger public. Yesterday Charlie Kirk received A fatal bullet while participating in a massive act in Utah. His death, at 31, intensifies the Escalation of violence That American politics seems to be living, but also has another consequence for Donald Trump: he deprives him of one of his great buzas to capture the young vote. And its importance was clear in the 2024 elections. What happened? That the American political chronicle has just added a new dire date: on September 10, prelude to 11-S and (from now on) the day of the murder by Charles James Kirk, Aka Charlie Kirkone of the headlights of the Maga and ‘anti woke’ of the US, especially among young people. The news runs as the gunpowder through social networks and media around the world since yesterday: while participating in a massive act at the University of Utah Valley, on the outskirts of Salt Lake City (Utah), a stranger unleashed a shot to Kirk in his neck. He did not survive. I was 31 years old. I was married. And leave Two childrenSarah Rose, a three -year -old girl, and a boy of just 15 months. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Why is it news? Basically for two reasons. The most media and less relevant are the details of the murder itself and what surrounds it. Kirk was killed at a distance while participating in a public and massive act, a format to which he was accustomed and during which he had no qualms about debating with the public. In fact when he received the shot, Kirk was arguing about cases of mass shootings in the US. He influencer conservative was a firm defender of possession of weapons and in one of his podcasts he reached launch a proclamation That today sounds almost prophetic: “It is worth paying, unfortunately, some deaths for firearms every year so we can have the second amendment.” Is there more? Yes. In addition to crying Kirk’s death, remember who he was and what he did in his brief life, right now the US dedicates himself to something else: identifying his murderer. And that search has generated more expectation around crime. Utah’s governor has not hesitated to describe what happened as “Political murder” And ensures that the authorities work with the hypothesis that the criminal acted alone. In the hours following the murder there were several information (and denials) in which there was talk of an arrest. Even the FBI said they have a possible suspect or “person of interest.” The truth is that the hours advance and the authorities have not yet given the person in charge. Who was Kirk? That is the second reason why Utah’s crime is having so many impact. Kirk may be young (in October he would turn 32), but had managed to become a key figure of the Maga and ‘anti woke’ movement, in addition to a person very close to the Trump clan. The president has lamented his murder (like his predecessors and other political leaders, both republicans and Democrats) and has asked that the flags of “All buildings” from the US wave at half -mast in Kirk’s memory. The closeness between Trump and Kirk dates back to before the return of the Republican to the White House and has been evident several times: they have participated together in public events and Kirk He attended the inauguration of the Republican leader in January. It could also be seen during The controversial visit That the son of the president, Donald Trump Jr., did Greenland at the beginning of this year. “The great, even legendary, Charlie Kirk. He has died. No one understood or had the heart of young people in the US better than him. He was loved and admired by all, especially for me,” He said goodbye Trump of the young man in Truth. “The condolences of Melania and mine to her beautiful wife, Erika, and her family. Charlie, we love you!” Why this relationship? Personal affinities on the margin, there is something undeniable: Kirk was an important Maga asset and a rising value between American conservatism. One that contributed to Trump’s return to the White House. Kirk added 5.6 million of followers in X and 8.8 On Instagram, he was a reference in the Fox News chain, he shared his reflections in the podcast ‘The Charlie Kirk Show’ (whose episodes generated between 500,000 and 750,000 downloads) and published several books, including ‘The Maga doctrine’. If by algosobresalió Kirk was however for orchestrating a network in which Trump found valuable electoral support. Maybe your greatest legacy is TURNING Point USA (TPUSA), an organization that promoted in 2012 with activist Bill Montgomery and is basically dedicated to promoting the conservative ideology in US schools, schools and universities. As remember in The conversationJared Mondschein, from the University of Sydney, Tpusa started with a revenue of just $ 78,000 and has managed to grow up to 85 million dollars last year. “Outside the digital world, Tpusa is present at more than 3,500 campus, with more than 250,000 members members and more than 450 empelled and partial time”, ” Mondschein points out. In addition to TPUSA, Kirk involved and promoted other conservative organizations, such as Students for Trump either TURNING Point Action. Why is it important? Because thanks to his acts and platforms Kirk managed to become an influential magic voice, especially among the youngest, who played an important role in Trump’s re -election. The data of Circle either The Civis Center They show that, although Kamala Harris managed to monopolize greater youth vote, the Republican grew in that segment. Yes in 2020 47% of the electorate Young was declared a democrat compared to the 30% who identified Republican, in 2024 those percentages were already at 42 and 39%, respectively. Pew Research too identified An increase in republican support in 2024 among the youngest electorate. While the … Read more

Spain has become the great European garden orchard of tropical fruits. And that has led him to a peculiar record: that of the mango

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Europe likes exotic fruits. A lot. And that is encouraging an increasingly juicy business. Only between 2018 and 2022 the value of imports grew almost 20%which connects with a trend that goes back to at least The last decade. Spain He has managed to position himself In that upward market thanks to its fields of avocados, custards, maneuver or mangoes, a fruit of the latter that is preparing to A record harvest which promises to duplicate last year thanks to a lucky mixture of droughts, spring rain and business commitment. The news, yes, comes accompanied by some challenges. The field reinvents. It is nothing new. Nor exclusive from Spain. As the weather changes, tastes, demand in markets and crop profitability, the fields also change. In recent years we have seen how fruits that until recently had a relatively discreet (or almost null) weight on the peninsula have gained little by little hectares: it occurred with The pistachio, The avocado, The kiwi, The papaya… And it is also happening with the handle. Although Its origins They are in Southeast Asia, it did not reach the Canary Islands until well into the 18th century and its commercial cultivation began in Spain relatively a short time, the hoses have been opening little by little passage in the fields of Spain. Its exploitation is very recent, it began towards the 1970s in the Canary Islands and 1980 in the southeast peninsular, but now it is estimated that it covers near 6,044 hectares In the country, with a very localized crop. Looking at Axarquía and Granada. To prosper the mango demands certain weather conditions, such as a warm climate, well drained soils and especially the absence of frost. Hence its cultivation has prospered especially in the Malaga region of the Axarquía and the Tropical Costa. According to the data handled by the Ministry of Agriculture, of the 1,180 ha Cultivated in Spain in 2007, 950 concentrated in Andalusia and 230 in the Canary Islands. Today that figure is considerably higher, although both regions remain as large producing foci. A few days ago The country He pointed out that the hoses are already extended by 4,600 ha of the axarchy, which makes this Malaga region European epicenter of the cultivation, and 500 ha of the Costa Tropical, which also includes the coastal coast. The Canary Islands have a surface similar to that of Granada, the Valencian Community is around 25 hectares and the Region of Murcia approaches at 17. The mango has not only gained ground. Its farmers are organized and have promoted associations and brands to gain visibility. The best examples are the Tropical Association either Tropswhich has just promoted a new advertising campaign to promote the consumption of national mango in Spain. The harvest harvest. The most palpable result of that expansion will be seen this same campaign, when farmers hope to reach A production record In Andalusia. A few days ago the sector spoke about 35,000 tonsan interesting figure for several reasons. First because, although it is far (far away) from the millions of tons harvested every year in India, China or Thailand, Heavyweights From the mango internationally, it is a historical brand for Spain. Second, because would double the records last year. The record fact is not explained only by the increase in hectares dedicated to mango. At stake, another or even more relevant factor enters: the weather. The current harvest has been favored by the spring rains of Malaga and Granada and the fact that the drought of recent years gave the handles a respite. “The trees are rested for the low years of a lot of drought. They have recovered and that has facilitated this explosion,” José María López points outof the Tropical Association. “In addition, we have learned to better handle irrigation and pruning.” Why is it important? For several reasons. The most obvious is that, if confirmed, the between 30,000 and 35,000 tons will be A record For Spanish producers. The data also confirms The referential role From Spain in European production of exotic fruits, which is an opportunity for farmers in the country. “European imports of tropical or exotic have tripled in value and duplicate in volume in the last 10 years,” Remember From the Association of Avocados Producers in The newspaper. Financial Food Point out that in a matter of a decade (between 2014 and 2024) Spanish exports shot around 75% in volume and about 174% in terms of value, which would place our country as the main producer and third supplier of tropical fruit of the European Union. That potential explains that plots that until not long ago were dedicated to oranges or manecs are now oriented towards new crops, such as avocado. The collective calculates that only in 2023 the surface dedicated to that fleshy fruit in Spain grew by 7% until adding 23,953 hectares. Avacateros today They have overcome The 24,000 ha barrier. And as is the case with mango, its production is very localized, especially in Andalusia, although in recent years the crop It has grown too In the Valencian Community. Opportunities … and challenges. The mango gains ground, Spain is positioned as European reference of exotic fruits and farmers have achieved that important part From its cultivation it is allocated to the national market, but that does not mean that the sector does not face challenges. There are, as the farmers themselves recalled in early September, when They regretted that good production forecasts are accompanied by something less attractive: downward prices. According to the union of small farmers and ranchers (UPA) at the beginning of the campaign in the Malaga Axarquía and the Costa Tropical, the kilo was being paid to between 70 and 80 centsfar from the average of 1.5 euros last year. Result? Despite the best harvest they predicted a fall of € 12,600/ha with respect to last year’s campaign. The collective explains that a handle between 400 and 800 g can be paid to one euro, but … Read more

The world is waiting for Depseek’s new great model to compete with GPT-5, but Depseek has other plans: the agricultural AI

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At the beginning of the year, the Chinese startup Deepseek put the world of AI up with Deepseek R1a free and open source model that was placed at the height of GPT-4 or Claude. After the coup on the table, in Depseek they have been quite quiet, but now we know what its next objective is: the agriculture. Before the end of the year. A few days ago Bloomberg reported that Deepseek is working on an advanced and very ambitious agent. He will be able to perform multiple tasks with minimal user intervention and will learn as he works. According to sources close to the company, the founder of the company Lian Wenfeng is pressing his team so that the new agentic model is ready before the end of the year. The company has already taken a step in this direction with the Deepseek v3.1 presentation Just two weeks ago. As detailed by the company in A post in Wechatits new model improves performance in reasoning tasks and agricultural abilities. A step back. Deepseek R2, the expected successor of the successful model with which Deepseek revolutionized the industry making begging. Instead they gave us Deepseek v3.1 and now the rumors suggest that their next great launch will be an AI agent. What is happening? There are voices, such as This Chinese journalistthat they see this turn to the agricultural AI as a way of taking a step back and getting away from the expensive and competitive career of the foundational language models. That The generative AI is reaching its roof It is something that is being talked about Since last year. GPT-5 is the test more recent than The big jumps are a thing of the past. If we add to this that China has a more conservative way of proceeding, with more long -term strategiesDeepseek’s turn towards an agriculture instead of launching Depseek R2 makes sense. Restrictions Although we have seen The most ingenious forms to make fun of themUnited States restrictions on chip export to China are also impacting the plans of many Chinese and Deepseek companies do not get rid. This also involves extra pressure that forces new routes with which to market their products. In fact, there is something striking in Deepseek v3.1 and it is that the model has been specially designed for Chinese chipswith the objective of Avoid dependence on foreign chips. Generate income. The agricultural AI opens another way for Deepseek, one in which you can get benefits more easily. Large language models have a problem: They cost a money and monetize them is not being a simple task. Given this, IA agents rise like a Most reasonable business model. Deepseek R1 has already given a whole lesson in Resource efficiencyIt makes sense that the company wants to opt for the fastest path to the benefits. A more conservative position. Although He has trimmed positionsChina lags in AI in terms of investments and access to the most advanced chips. Despite this, his approach in this AI race is being different. We see it in your Bet on the Open-Source wave “Personified“But perhaps the biggest difference is that, while their competitors in the United States continue to squander billions, in China they are choosing to be more conservative and not waste. This turn to the agents is in that conservative line to achieve a more sustainable industry. Image | Matheus Bertelli, via Pexels In Xataka | There is a city in China that is measured face to face with Silicon Valley: welcome to Hangzhou, the house of the ‘Six Little Dragons’

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