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If the price of memory in 2026 is high, in 2027 it will be apocalyptic. And one of the three that manufactures that memory says it

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When we talk about what cell phones are more expensivethe consoles continue to rise in price or that to buy RAM memory you almost have to take out a mortgage, we have to know that three companies (Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron) control around 90% of world production and that they have abandoned the consumer sector to focus on memory for AI platforms. This is very bad news for consumers, but excellent for those companies that are seeing record profits. And if the question is when the storm will end, the answer is that we are in the eye of the hurricane. And SK Hynix is ​​clear that the worst is yet to come. Guateworse. Different leaders of companies related to AI and components have already commented that we are experiencing an unusual situation, which Years of wild investment in AI remain and that, perhaps, everyone wants to have what they are going to need for the next 10 years as soon as possible, hence the shortage. The heads of the three companies mentioned do not usually speak out, but a few days ago, the CEO of one of the protagonists opened the microphone to warn that things will not improve a little. Kwakk Noh-jung is the CEO of SK Hynix, the other South Korean company that dominates the scene, and a few days ago commented that 2027 will bring the worst memory chip crisis ever experienced. Beyond the depressing forecastcommented that demand is expected to exceed supply beyond 2030, which coincides with some of the pessimistic forecasts from industry heavyweights. goes along the line What other CEOs of related companies have also said, such as Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of the American company Micron, who in the June results presentation commented that they expect the shortage to persist beyond 2027 due to the very high demand. In addition, it showed that Micron can only satisfy 60% of its customers’ demand. New plants. To try to remedy the situation, the big three are investing in new plants and clean rooms to increase memory production (for AI platforms, of course, not for consumer products). In the case of SK Hynix, as we see in Reutersare considering opening factories in the United States, Japan and Southeast Asia. Kwak notes that “nothing has been decided yet,” arguing that he is evaluating which location can provide the greatest advantage for his business. The two South Korean giants are participating in a government plan to double the country’s memory chip production capacity over the next five years, with $266 billion each to build chip production facilities. In the United States, for its part, similar quantities are also being handled. Micron has changed its investment plan of 200,000 million for one of 250,000 million to address the shortage, with its eyes on the Clay plant in New York, which will become one of the largest semiconductor manufacturing centers in the history of the country. Looking for options. Meanwhile, the crisis continues and companies that create consumer products must find solutions. It has been reported that some like Asus could be interested in opening their own factoriesthis being a slow and very expensive process because creating a clean room from scratch is not easy. Another option is to purchase installations from other companies or look at alternative sources. For example, Apple, after raising the prices of iPad and Mac by an average of 20% (and we will see what happens with the iPhone 18 Pro), would be interested in the memory of the Chinese CXMT. And speaking of China, Huawei is working to expand its empire from semiconductors to RAM with a new plant. Demand on the horizon. All this happens while, in the United States, a demand collective action against Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron for alleged price manipulation and coordinated restriction of DRAM memory production. In the presentations of results and share values, we already see that this crisis has been good for the three companies and the curious thing is that it would not be the first time it has happened. At the beginning of the century, the three companies were investigated for an abusive pricing case that ended with Samsung and SK Hynix fined and Micron getting off the hook because of their cooperation. In China they were investigated again between 2016 and 2018 for a similar case, so we will have to wait and see what happens, but the fact that the price of machines like the Steam Deck has risen almost 300 euros out of nowhere… no one can take it away from us anymore. Buy now. And that is the best advice. Although it is not the one you probably want to read, because you would much rather know when the crisis will end, the best recommendation is that, if you think you are going to need any product soon or need to renew equipment, you better pay the current huge surcharge rather than having to face the one they are expected to have in a few months. Some companies have already mentioned exactly that, that you buy as soon as possible the technology that you think you are going to need for the next five years because things seem like they are going to get much worse before they get better. If it improves, because there are also companies that point out that lPrices will never drop to pre-crisis levels. In Xataka | Memory experts see no relief: “Potential price increases are higher than expected due to shortages”

premium features such as high temperature washing for less than 500 euros

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Until not long ago, if you wanted a robot vacuum cleaner that not only swept, but also wash your own mops with hot water and dried them to avoid odors, you had to go for budgets that were around 1,000 euros. However, this year’s mid-range is closing gaps by leaps and bounds. A good example is the latest launch in Spain by the company Mova, which has just presented its new E50 range (composed of the Ultra and Pro Ultra models). These are two devices with a complete self-emptying base that cost less than 500 euros. Mova E50 Ultra Robot Vacuum Cleaner The price could vary. We earn commission from these links MOVA E50 Pro Ultra Robot Vacuum Cleaner with 30000Pa Suction and 12N Downward Pressure The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Two robots with plenty of power and automated maintenance The technical core of both models is supported by the TurboScrub system, which offers a 30,000 Pa gross suction power. For scrubbing, it uses a double roller rotating at 260 revolutions per minute and capable of exerting a downward pressure of 12 N to remove stains. In addition, it has a automatic lifting system so as not to wet the carpets when passing over them and an extendable side mop (Maxi Reach) designed to get as close as possible to the baseboards and corners of the rooms. Regarding navigation, both integrate a 360-degree LDDS laser sensor supported by a front sensor to map the house in real time and dodge small objects scattered on the ground. To avoid the classic problem of pet hair clogging, Mova has implemented a TÜV-certified anti-tangle system that includes a V-shaped rubber brush and the option to add internal blades (Clean Chop) to cut hair automatically. The station of both models is quite compact if we take into account everything it houses inside: a 3.2 liter dust bag, a five liter clean water tank and another 4.5 liter of dirty water. After each cleaning cycle, the base cleans the mops and applies hot air drying at 63°C to prevent the proliferation of moisture and bacteria. Although both models share the vast majority of specifications of their engine and navigation system, the main difference that justifies the price jump is found in the disinfection technology of the base itself. The Pro Ultra model stands out in particular because it heats the self-cleaning water up to 100 °C directly in the station and therefore Automatically dispense detergentsomething that in the Ultra model you will have to do manually. Availability and launch prices Both robot vacuum cleaners can now be purchased in Spain. He Mova E50 Ultra It is priced at 379 euros until July 12, while the top version, the Mova E50 Pro Ultrahas a price of 469 euros until next July 14. Mova E50 Ultra Robot Vacuum Cleaner The price could vary. We earn commission from these links MOVA E50 Pro Ultra Robot Vacuum Cleaner with 30000Pa Suction and 12N Downward Pressure The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Other robot vacuum cleaners from the brand that may interest you Mova P70 Pro Ultra Robot Vacuum Cleaner and Floor Mop The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Mova E20 Robot Vacuum Cleaner and Floor Mop 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 | Mova In Xataka | Best robot vacuum cleaners in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and six recommended models In Xataka | Best upright vacuum cleaners. Which one to buy based on use and six recommended models

There is a scientific scale to measure how much you enjoy watching pimples explode and many people have high scores

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The paths of the Internet are inscrutable. Sometimes, the videos that set trends on social networks are more than understandable. For example, who isn’t going to like kitten videos? However, on other occasions, there are videos that divide society. It is the case of the videos of exploding pimples. For some users, they are as pleasurable as exploiting them in person. For others, precisely those who can’t stand it in real life either, they are the height of unpleasantness. But what is it about the act of popping pimples or seeing it on the screen? Why are there so many people who enjoy it? Actually, with psychology in hand, it is not so strange. The problem is that, if we change psychology for dermatology, it can be dangerous in some cases. Although not as much as we think Why do we enjoy popping pimples so much? For starters, our penchant for popping pimples is related to dopamine. Humans experience pleasure when a surge of dopamine is released in our brain. In reality it is a much more complex process, but we can keep that in a simplified way. It is the hormone that dominates reward systems. That is, those who They are set in motion when we do something that is beneficial to us as a species. For example, sex is beneficial, because it helps us perpetuate the species. Eating chocolate is beneficial because it gives us energy. The brain does not distinguish between energetic and healthy, so it also generates that feeling of pleasure that makes us want to repeat. If we have a lot of sex it will be easier for us to reproduce and if we eat a lot of chocolate we will have a lot of energy. That’s the summary of how reward systems work. Unfortunately, not everything that activates reward systems is always good. Drugs, for example, can replicate that feeling of pleasure, despite not providing us with any benefit. Leaving that aside, stopping feeling pain also gives us pleasure, logically. It’s good for us. Furthermore, from a much more superficial point of view, what is beautiful and aesthetic is equally pleasant. For that reason, there are people who get so much pleasure from exploding pimples. With a single gesture of her nails, they are removing something painful and unsightlyso they get a good shot of dopamine. What about the videos? The case of videos that circulate on social networks is not exactly the same. There we are only spectators. We are not directly exploiting the pimples. Even so, just take a look at the visualizations to see that they cause a sensation. A feeling that, in fact, is not new. In 2021 already There was a team of Austrian scientists who were interested in the reasons why so many people enjoy these types of videos. They carried out an investigation with 80 women, of which 38 reported that they enjoyed these videos and 42 indicated that they did not. Their brains were analyzed using functional magnetic resonance imaging while they watched several of these videos, so it was observed that, indeed, those who enjoyed them showed greater activity in brain regions associated with pleasurelike the nucleus accumbens. Later, in 2024, these same scientists They developed scales that they called the Grain Exploitation Enjoyment Scale. (PPES) to evaluate people who enjoy this guilty pleasure. The study was carried out through two experiments. In the first, 104 people participated and were asked questions aimed at evaluating the PPES scale. In addition, they were made to watch videos of people exploiting pimples, with complete freedom to move the video forward or backward if they saw it necessary. Thus, the scale was found to be appropriate, since higher scores corresponded to a lower probability of forwarding the video. Many people watch videos of exploding pimples because of the controlled risk Then, with the scale already evaluated, a second experiment was done, this time with 501 people, who were asked questions to score through the PPES scale, but also through other personality scales. The objective was to check what type of traits lead someone to enjoy these videos. Thus, it was seen that, mainly, people with higher PPES scores are those who feel pleasure with situations of possible death or discomfort in controlled and non-threatening situations. It should be said that this does not mean that possible death is pleasurable, but the adrenaline of risky situations does, when seen from the outside, without real danger. People who enjoy these situations also tend to be lovers of horror movies, for example. To a certain extent, this human tendency is also linked to the survival of the species. Enjoyment in risky situations leads us to observe them conscientiously and learn in case, when the time comes, we find ourselves in a similar scenario in real life. It is true that exploding pimples is not fatal, but it does pose a certain risk, so seeing it from the outside, in a controlled way, can cause a feeling of pleasure. If we add the dopamine from seeing something unsightly removed, we can understand the fury of these viral videos. What are the risks of popping pimples? We have seen that people who enjoy pimple popping videos do so because they see a certain dangerous situation. It is not doing bungee jumping, but it has its risk. Now, to what extent is it dangerous? To find out, I have contacted Rosa Tabernerdermatologist at the Son Llátzer Hospital (Palma de Mallorca) and member of the Spanish Association of Dermatology and Venereology. To begin with, he explained something very interesting to me: the reason why in viral videos (and in reality) you see those yellow threads when removing the pimple. The key is in the keratin that accumulates in the pores of the skin. “Pimples or blackheads correspond to what dermatologists call open comedones,” he begins. “When this opening is more dilated than normal and sebum secretion is increased, keratin accumulates in that pore.” Keratin … Read more

a historic family from Valencian high society bets on photonic semiconductors

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The Valencian saga that has made part of its fortune bottling soft drinks is now taking a technological leap: a chip factory that uses light instead of electronswith almost 25 million of public money. The general overview. The Council of Ministers has approved almost 25 million in public financing for Attypics Photonicsas reported exclusively He Confidential. The company, 100% controlled by Baladre Capital (the holding company of Álvaro Gómez-Trénor, director of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners), plans a total investment of 50 million to build a photonic chip plant in Paterna, a municipality a few kilometers from the Valencian capital. The State enters with 49% through the Perte Chipthe semiconductor program linked to Next Generation funds. The context. The Gómez-Trénor They are an old acquaintance of Valencian high societywith two centuries of history that starts with an Irishman named Thomas Trenor Keating: He founded the Trenor Bank, traded in guano and got involved in the region’s agri-food industry. Nine generations later, the saga accumulates noble titles, historical properties (from the monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba to buildings in the center of Valencia, passing through a park for public use in Torrent) and a reference position in the province’s business community. In detail. Attypics was born in April 2026 from a team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia with more than fifteen years manufacturing photonic chips. The integrated photonics processes and transmits information using light instead of electrons: more speed, less energy consumption. The company wants to be the European private benchmark in the model Lab-to-Fab (from the laboratory to the factory) covering from prototyping to the manufacture of 200 and 300 millimeter wafers. The first phase includes 1,240 square meters of clean rooms and 100 direct jobs. The second would expand the facilities to more than 7,500 square meters and would exceed 300 jobs. Why is it important. Photonic chips are destined to be infrastructure in AI data centers, quantum telecommunications and high-performance computing. Europe has been trying for years to reduce its dependence on Asia and the United States for semiconductors, but private projects that actually materialize are rare. That a family with its own capital, stable dividends from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and no need for advertising decides to commit 50 million to this niche says a lot about how certain family assets are reading the next decade. Entering now, with state support and a consolidated scientific team from the UPV, has overwhelming logic. Yes, but. Attypics is barely three months old. Integrated photonics is a field where the gap between the laboratory and industrial-scale production has brought down projects with more muscle than this. Depending on the Perte Chip also implies being exposed to the rhythms of the public administration, whose management of European technology funds has a bittersweet history in Spain. And the Gómez-Trénors, much more accustomed to collecting dividends than managing semiconductor factories, will have to demonstrate that the scientific capital of the UPV can become a sustainable business without the university umbrella. In Xataka | “My family tells me, but where are your products?”: inside the Spanish institute that is putting its chips on Mars Featured image | Ayar Labs

We thought catnip was cats’ favorite drug, there is another plant that they like more. And it’s not because of the high

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Cats love catnip, just look at the shelves of any pet store full of toys with catnip. They sniff it, bite it, roll on the floor and even drool, as if they were entering a kind of trance. We believed that this herb was our kitties’ favorite “drug”, but researchers have discovered that there is another plant that attracts them even more. The experiment. A group of Japanese researchers set out to discover which plant attracts cats the most, catnip or matatabi (also known as silvervine). To do this, they combined three trials: free cats in a garden with fresh plants, free cats with a brick impregnated with the extract of both plants and cats in captivity with impregnated papers. The researchers recorded on video the episodes of self-anointing, which is when they rub each other and make “croquettes” near the different plants. The matatabi wins by a landslide. All groups of cats that participated in the experiment showed a clear preference for matatabi. In the case of free-ranging cats that had access to both the plants and the impregnated brick, almost all self-anointing episodes occurred with the matatabi. Among the captive cats, 15 responded only to the matatabi, three to both, and three sniffed a little but did not rub against them. The curious thing is that the chemical analysis revealed that catnip was much more powerful (it contains much more nepetalactone) than matatabi, but despite this the cats had a very clear preference. Masao Miyazaki, project leader, states in Phys that One might expect that a plant containing more active compounds, and compounds that clearly work in laboratory tests, would trigger a stronger behavioral response under free-choice conditions. But that’s not what we observed.” The Overwhelmed Smell Theory. The authors’ hypothesis is that catnip, especially when fresh, releases an excessive amount of these compounds and makes the smell too intense, hence cats prefer matatabi because it is milder. This fits with an anecdote in ‘The Gardeners’ Dictionary’ published in 1789, which observed that cats preferred catnip when it was wilted rather than fresh, which reinforces the idea that it can saturate their senses. A biological reason. Rubbing against these plants is not simply to get high, it also hides an evolutionary purpose: it acts as a defense mechanism against mosquitoes and other parasites. When you rub your face and body with the plants, they become impregnated with the substances (iridoids) that they release, acting as an insect repellent. The reason they prefer matatabi would be because it offers more reliable protection as it produces a more complex mixture of iridoids, especially when they nibble on the plant. That is to say, it is much better against mosquitoes. Image | Sergey Dvorkin, Pexels In Xataka | We have been vaccinating our dogs and cats every year all our lives. Science is seeing that it is not the most correct

In the battle for high speed in Italy, someone has passed Renfe on the right. Someone called France

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SNCF will compete for the Italian high speed network from September 2027. For a few weeks now, the French company has had the go-ahead to operate on the Italian network and stand up to the state company Trenitalia and the private company Italo. With this movement, France once again gets ahead of Renfe. Although it’s not all bad news. What do we know? The SCNF company, the public railway entity in France, will compete for high speed on Italian soil from September 2027. At least, those are the deadlines according to their latest announcement which specifies that the corridors they can use have already been assigned. In his statementSCNF explains that its trains will offer up to 13 round-trip services on the Turin – Naples and Turin – Venice corridors. The company boasts that this new activity on the lines will result in the creation of 4,000 jobs with the addition of direct and indirect workers. What does it offer? With its proposal, the French company ensures that the Italian railways 15 TGV M trains will be available. They are Alstom trains that the company has not yet been able to test because deliveries have been delayed in recent months. They hope to have them in operation first in France starting next July on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille line. The trains have had to be modified slightly since much of the Italian high speed It does not allow driving at more than 200 km/h. The company will offer four round trips on the Turin-Venice and nine on the Turin-Naples. This last corridor is key because it passes through cities like Milan, Florence and Rome, which is undoubtedly a very juicy cake for a company that intends to gain volume in the coming years. A tough battle. SCNF’s landing comes after a battle in the courts. They explain in the French media that Italy has tried to torpedo the company’s attempts to compete with Trenitalia and Italo. According to these media, the Italian subsidiary of the company has been in an open battle since 2021 with Italian Railway Rete (RFI) that manages the Italian roads, would be the Italian Adif. After numerous disagreements, the Italian subsidiary of the French company ended up denouncing RFI to AGCM, the body in charge of ensuring free competition in the transalpine country. Finally, this body has given the approval so that SCNF can compete with local companies on its roads. To compete, the French company will once again bet on offering lower prices and they assure that the medium-term objective is to gain 15% market share. In the French mediain fact, Spain is pointed out as the example model that SCNF wants to implement in the Italian country, trying to maximize trips on already consolidated routes. And Renfe? Renfe also has its own plans in Italy and although it has not been officially confirmed that it wants to make the leap to high speed, the truth is that the Spanish company has been taking positions that give us an idea of ​​the extent to which it wants to offer this service. And it is that Renfe bought 33% of Arenaways in 2024an Italian company that provides railway services. Of the rest of the shareholders, the Spanish Serena Industrial Partners It also has 33% so most of it is Spanish. This purchase has allowed Renfe to operate the Cuneo-Saluzzo-Savigliano regional line from 2025 and will do the same with the Ceva-Ormea line when the works are completed. But, furthermore, in Expansion They already pointed out then that the company has certifications to operate throughout the Italian network, which should facilitate the arrival of Renfe to the high-speed corridors. Spain-France-Italy. The triangle formed by Spain, Italy and France is leaving us with an intense battle for European high-speed services. In our country, the roads have been opened to Ouigo (SCNF) and Iryo (Trenitalia) and the battle has even reached the use of workshops. In Italy there has been an attempt to torpedo the entry of SCNF but after four years of fighting, the French company has ended up receiving the go-ahead to take its trains to compete on the Italian expressways. Renfe, at the moment, has not confirmed plans to take this step and only operates on regional trains. In France, Renfe has complained that the neighboring country is creating innumerable obstacles to reaching Paris, a key objective when it comes to offering a profitable high-speed service to the north of the Pyrenees. Trenitalia, however, Yes, it has managed to operate in France connecting Paris with its large local cities. Leisurely. All in all, it must be taken into account that Renfe’s forays abroad are not reaping bad results as far as its accounts are concerned. Last year he managed to invoice 20 million euros with the AVE of Meccawhere it moved 10 million passengers, like main promoter of Renfe International Projects. There, Renfe has high-speed services running but its projects outside our borders They are varied. It operates, for example, on the regional train network of the Czech Republic and on Rail Baltica (Latvia and Estonia) and It is also part of what is known as the Mayan Train. Photo | Fernando Meloni and Phil Richards In Xataka | There is a fight between the railway operators to get the best drivers and Renfe is winning it

It has 12 sides and is 351 meters high

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Although in recent times Asia and the Middle East have emerged as the new locations for skyscrapers (in fact, China is the place in the world where there are the most buildings that caress the sky), the place par excellence for skyscrapers has always been North America. Cities like New York or Chicago and legendary buildings like the Empire State, One World Trade Center or the Central Park Tower set the pace of a competition that once seemed reserved for American cities. But North America is not just the United States and the constructions of Torres Obispado in Monterrey or the imminent Tower Rise They show that their neighbors also know how to build skyscrapers very well. In this context comes the Pinnacle SkyTower in Toronto, a skyscraper that, although it is not the tallest in meters nor does it have the most spectacular silhouette, is going to mark a milestone: be the residential building with the most floors in all of North America, as well as the tallest skyscraper in Canada. The skyscraper with 12 faces. The Pinnacle SkyTower that is being built in Toronto reaches a total height of 351.85 meters in its 106 floors. It will house 958 luxury homes, the new Le Méridien Toronto hotel, some 7,400 square meters of common areas and crowning it all, a restaurant with panoramic views on the top floor, such as explains the design studio Hariri Pontarini Architects. The forecast suggests that future residents They will be able to move in starting in autumn 2026, although the complete delivery of the set will be in 2027. One of the aspects that attracts the most attention is its dodecagon shape. As Jodi Buck, partner of the architecture studio, details, this geometry seeks a balance between architecture and functionality, that is, it allows the construction of a more slender structure, opens views in various directions and something essential in buildings of this size: it better distributes the wind load on the façade. The upper floors progressively reduce until the tower ends in a striking pointed crown, which makes the SkyTower an unmistakable silhouette on the Toronto skyline. Why it is important. To begin with, because The SkyTower breaks records: it will be the building with the highest number of floors in a residential building in North America. But there is a trick: it is not the tallest in meters, that title is still held by the Central Park Tower in New York, but it is the one with the most floors. This implies a design decision: favor the construction of more homes in a commitment to greater residential density per meter built. At the urban level, with this building Canada is put on the map as a country capable of competing in this segment of super-high-rise skyscrapers, historically dominated by American and Asian cities. In fact and how points out New Atlasis one of the first Canadian skyscrapers to exceed 300 meters in actual building height. Curiously, setting the record was not initially in the project: with construction already underway, Pinnacle International made it possible because submitted an application to increase the height of the ceilings on some floors and convert mechanical space into habitable space. Projection of the new and exclusive urban development of Toronto. One Yonge Toronto Context. The SkyTower is the jewel in the crown of the Pinnacle One Yongea mixed-use development plan that is transforming the grounds of the former Toronto Star building into one of the city’s largest urban complexes, connecting the tower to a future public park next to Lake Ontario and the financial district. The complete set is formed by six towers of between 22 and 106 floors that will house 2,500 homes, 93,000 square meters of offices, 7,400 square meters of shops, a community center of 4,600 square meters with a swimming pool and gym and a one-hectare public park. The first tower in the complex was the Prestige: it has 65 floors and was completed in 2022. The Pinnacle SkyTower is another example of the trend of super-tall towers that combine homes with hotels, a model widespread in Asia that North America is adopting in response to the housing need and the scarcity of land in central areas. Without going any further, Toronto has several similar projects under construction. Yes, but. As we mentioned above, SkyTower does not win in meters but in floors: the Central Park Tower in New York surpasses it in absolute height thanks to its higher internal ceilings and we have the antenna, the First Canadian Place in Toronto equals it (although it is true that this does not count in official rankings). On the other hand, and although it obviously increases the housing available in the Canadian city, we are talking about a building with 958 luxury homes with prices from 800,000 Canadian dollars and a five-star hotel. With that budget, it is difficult to resolve the problem of access to housing for its citizens. It is new housing, yes, but with prices within the reach of few. In Xataka | Mexico touches the sky with a new and elegant skyscraper of 484 meters and 99 floors: it will be the tallest in all of Latin America In Xataka | If the question is whether a skyscraper can be erased without demolishing it, Paris has the answer: yes, in exchange for a fortune Cover | Dillan Payne and JK Liu

why high blood pressure is triggering before 30

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Irene is 32 years old and she repeats a phrase almost like a daily mantra: “It doesn’t give me life”. Between work demands, the bombardment of notifications and the constant feeling of being left behind when compared to other people’s achievements —the dreaded FOMO—, their routine is a race without a finish line. Lately he has been sleeping little, living with overwhelming stress and experiencing a persistent helmet-shaped headache, accompanied by fatigue and insomnia, symptoms that experts in Efe Health associate with a silent evil. What she justified as the typical exhaustion of our generation, in the medical consultation, translated into an unexpected diagnosis: high blood pressure. A disease, a priori almost invisible and associated with the elderly, which is gaining more ground every day in the lives of the youngest. We are witnessing the collapse of an entire generation trapped in an epidemic of chronic stress and burnout. From an evolutionary point of view, stress is a mechanism designed to save our lives. in the face of imminent dangers. The problem arises when the threat is not a predator, but precariousness and toxic perfectionism. This continuous “allostatic load” triggers cortisol, suppresses the immune system and silently damages the cardiovascular system. Faced with this emotional discomfort, the body demands a neurochemical rescue. Stress pushes us to the refrigerator looking for a binge on sugars and fats, foods that activate the brain’s reward system and temporarily act as a buffer from anguish. This sedentary lifestyle, added to poor emotional management and high consumption of ultra-processed foods and sodium, has created the perfect vicious circle in the last 20 years. Furthermore, recent research published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine have identified using artificial intelligence that sleep disorders (such as waking up short of breath) and energy drink consumption emerge as key modifiable risk factors for early-onset hypertension. All this is critically reflected in the university stage: a cross-sectional investigation in students showed that 68% smoke, 54% sleep less than six hours, 42% are sedentary and 46% report high stress. An underdiagnosed epidemic At a global level, the World Health Organization (WHO) alert that 1.4 billion people suffer from high blood pressure, and only one in five has it under control. In Spain, the data published by the portal iHealth They place some 9.8 million adults affected (32% of the population between 30 and 79 years old), achieving control in only 37% of cases. However, the figures in the young and middle-aged population are alarming. According to the national study Di@bet.esthe global prevalence of hypertension in Spanish adults is 42.6%. However, the most worrying thing is the underdiagnosis of young people: more than 15% of men under 30 years of age, and 27.3% of those between 31 and 45 years of age, have high blood pressure. In fact, young men (18-30 years old) They are the demographic group with the highest percentage of undiagnosed hypertension. The basic problem is that almost no one suspects a blood pressure problem at age 30. As Dr. José Antonio García Donaire points outpresident of SEHLELHA, the body’s warnings are so diffuse—a headache in the back of the neck, fatigue or some isolated palpitation—that neither the patient nor his doctor thinks of hypertension as the first option. In fact, there is a huge disconnection with reality: the vast majority of university students have heard about the disease, but only 20% really understand the risk to which they are exposed. As if that were not enough, young people who already have a family history come up against an invisible wall: the anxiety and chronic stress they suffer daily dynamite any attempt to keep their heart rate at bay. The paradox of anxiety and false cures on TikTok Despite this gloomy outlook, science surprises us with the “paradox of anxiety.” From a biological and evolutionary prism, high levels of neuroticism in its “worried-vulnerable” facet can reduce mortality. These hypervigilant people become less seriously ill because they go to the doctor at the slightest symptom, achieving early diagnoses. Surprisingly, a longitudinal analysis of young and middle-aged adults found that a prior diagnosis of anxiety is significantly associated with a lower risk of developing incident hypertension, underscoring this potential protective effect derived from closer monitoring of one’s health. Precisely because of this anxiety and constant overstimulation, young people look for desperate remedies on the internet. Some are dangerous, like the radical “dopamine fast” which promotes extreme social isolation and can lead to anxiety and malnutrition. Other trends are purely commercial, like him cozymaxxing, that commodifies our need for mental peace by inciting us to buy very expensive blankets and lamps on TikTok so that our rest is aesthetic. Neuroscience clarifies that the real solution is “slow dopamine”: re-educating the brain with sustained pleasures over time, such as cooking or reading, and not through radical deprivation or impulsive purchases. To prevent in time, specialists warn of the critical importance that the young population adopts the habit of taking their blood pressure at home, especially if they have genetic factors. The protocol is clear: use a validated arm device, rest thirty minutes beforehand and take several shots on the dominant arm to deliver the stocking to the doctor. In short, the cardiovascular crisis of young people will not be cured with pills alone. Burnout is systemic. In the face of a paradigm that rewards toxic self-demand, rest, learn to disconnect and allow yourself to “do nothing” have become in the most radical and political preventive acts of our time. Image | Magnificent Xataka | When you are anxious or sad you turn to foods with a very specific flavor and texture. And science knows why

Gemini Omni wants to do with video what Nano Banana did with images: Google is aiming very high

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Creating an image with AI is no longer as surprising as before. What begins to make a difference is the ability to modify it, give it continuity and turn an initial idea into something more elaborate without losing the thread along the way. In video, that challenge is much greater: there is movement, time, physics, and characters that must continue to appear coherent. Gemini Omni comes with the promise of addressing this problem and making editing a much easier task. Google DeepMind itself asks to think of Gemini Omni as in Nano Bananabut for video. The reference makes sense because Nano Banana was Google’s image generator that took visual creation with AI to a very striking scale. The first version, released in August 2025, added 13 million users in four days and had generated more than 5 billion images by mid-October. Google now introduces Gemini Omni Flash as the first model in the Gemini Omni family. According to the company, it is designed to create content from any entry. The idea is that the user can combine images, audio, video and text as a starting point to generate high-quality videos supported by Gemini’s real-world knowledge. A video generation model that is committed to coherence The most interesting part is how Google describes the editing process. It is not only proposed as a tool to generate a clip from scratch, but as a system capable of working on a scene using chained instructions. The company talks about changing specific elements or completely transforming a starting video, adjusting aesthetics, action, environment, angle, style or specific details. It also promises to maintain character consistency, preserve scene continuity, and offer more coherent physics. In his note, he shows how Gemini Omni can start from a scene and modify it with direct instruction, whether to change the material of an object, alter an action, or turn a complex idea into a visual explanation. Let’s look at some examples of prompts. “Make the sculpture out of bubbles” “When the person touches the mirror, make the mirror ripple beautifully like liquid, and the person’s arm turns into reflective mirror material” “Claymation explainer of protein folding, everything is made out of clay, no hands, stop motion, accurate” At Xataka we have done orna first test with a recognizable image: Puerta de Alcalá, in Madrid. The starting point was a static photograph and the prompt we used was the following: “Create a video from this image. Cars are moving forward and people are walking.” (Create a video from this image. Cars move forward and people walk.) The idea was to see to what extent Gemini Omni could turn a real scene into a small moving clip. In the video above you can see precisely that attempt to animate the original imagewith cars moving forward, pedestrians walking, and ambient sound that fits the scene. It also appears to retain some visible branding elements on the vehicles, especially the Mercedes-Benz logo, although in other cases, such as Fiat, the result is less clear. Let’s talk about availability. Google ensures that Gemini Omni Flash begins to reach Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers through Gemini and Google Flow, while its deployment at no cost in YouTube Shorts and YouTube Create App launches this week. In our test with a corporate account, however, we found ourselves with a fairly tight limit: after generating three videos, the system warned us that “we had reached our video generation limit until May 20 at 7:59 p.m.” It is not too surprising if we think about what is happening below: creating video with AI requires a lot of resources, so everything indicates that Google would be dosing access, at least in this first phase. When we talk about video generation with artificial intelligence, it is likely that one of the first names that comes to mind is sora. It arrived like one of the great promises of OpenAI for this terrain. The route, however, ended up being much shorter than that initial ambition suggested. Its website and app were no longer available at the end of April 2026.although the API will continue to work until September 24. Images | Google | Xataka In Xataka | There is a battle to have the AI ​​model that programs best. And a good, pretty and very cheap rival has appeared in it: Cursor

China is building a tunnel under the sea for its high speed. It has already reached a record depth

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Under the seabed, dozens of meters deep, there is a work that is progressing with a minimal margin of error. It cannot be seen from the surface, but it is part of a railway infrastructure key in southern China. According to CGTNthe country has reached a new milestone in the construction of a high-speed underwater tunnel: the excavation has already reached 113 meters under the seabed. The figure is not minor, because it places the work at a point where the geological conditions and water pressure significantly increase the technical difficulty. This advance is part of a much larger infrastructure that is taking shape in the south of the country. The 116-kilometer Shenzhen-Jiangmen high-speed line is designed to connect both cities in less than an hour, integrating into the rail corridor that runs along the Chinese coast. In this way, the project has entered a particularly demanding phase, in which the tunnel under the Pearl River estuary becomes one of the most technically complex points of the entire work. A section under the sea that concentrates the greatest technical challenge At the center of this phase of the project is the underwater infrastructure that requires refinement of each step. To execute it, the work relies on a large diameter tunnel boring machine developed in China. The machine, known as “Shenjiang-1”, has kept the excavation going continuously, even during festive periods such as Qingming. It not only drills the ground, it also allows progress while the interior lining of the tunnel is being built, a system that seeks to gain efficiency in one of the most delicate points of the route. From there, the challenge stops being just mechanical and becomes conditioned by the terrain. The TBM must traverse 13 different strata, with five types of composite geology and six fault zones along the route. These types of conditions force the operation to be constantly adjusted, because each layer can respond differently to the excavation. In this context, moving forward does not depend solely on the power of the machinery, but also on maintaining control in a challenging environment. Added to this complexity of the terrain is a less visible, but equally determining factor: the pressure of the water at those depths. The tunnel is planned to reach a maximum of 116 meters below the seabeda level at which hydraulic conditions become especially demanding for the machinery and the structure itself. To operate in this environment, the system uses a sludge circuit that fulfills a double function: on the one hand, it reduces friction at the excavation face and, on the other, it transports the extracted material to the surface, where it is separated and reused in the process. While the machine advances, the tunnel is not far behind. Just behind the excavation face, the teams are assembling the prefabricated concrete segments that form the interior lining. Each one measures around two meters wide and nine are needed to complete a ring in a structure that exceeds 13 meters in diameter. This system allows excavation and construction to progress at the same time, reducing time and helping to maintain the pace of execution. The magnitude of this work is better understood when put into perspective. Official information indicates that this section extends over 13.69 kilometers and crosses several waterways at the mouth of the river, located between Dongguan and Guangzhou. It is a key piece within a line designed to improve the connection in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Beyond the depth already achieved, the project seeks to strengthen regional connectivity and support economic integration in one of the most active areas of the country. Images | CGTN In Xataka | Singapore is literally coming into its own: reclaiming 25% of land from the sea and turning wastewater into drinking water

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