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Garmin has just entered Whoop’s territory with the new CIRQA. He has chosen to attack right where it hurts most

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Wearing a device on your wrist to get to know your body better usually means accepting one more screen. The race pace, notifications, alerts and summaries appear there, inviting us to constantly check what is happening. Garmin now joins a proposal that other manufacturers had already explored: eliminating that part of the experience without giving up continuous tracking. Your new bracelet collects data during the day and nightbut centralizes your consultation on your mobile. It does not seek to show more things, but rather to offer another way of living with personal monitoring. The protagonist of this story is called CIRQA Smart Band and it is Garmin’s first screenless smart bracelet designed to bring together daily monitoring, sports and well-being in the same device. In Spain we can order it from July 24 by 199.99 euroswith two sizes, a fabric strap adaptable to the wrist or arm and up to ten days of autonomy. This is not the first time we have seen the company explore this format: in 2025 it launched the Index Sleep Monitoralthough that proposal was focused on sleep and recovery. Technical sheet of the new Garmin CIRQA Strap material Fabric (ComfortFit straps) Quick release straps Yes (14mm quick release pins with a 24mm wide strap) Shell size 27x47x9mmSM: 120-200mmL-XL: 145-240mm Weight Module: 14.8gStrap: SM, 5.9g (20.7g)Strap: L-XL, 6.4g (21.2g) Battery Lithium-ion Up to 10 days of autonomy Memory/history 128MB Heart rate (constant, every second) Yeah Abnormal heart rate alerts Yeah Respiratory rate Yeah PHYSIOLOGICAL AGE Yeah Body Battery™ Energy Monitor Yeah Stress throughout the day Yeah Resting heart rate Yeah Meditation Yes (without guide) breath work Yes (with guidance only via Garmin Connect+) Dream Yes (advanced) sleep trainer Yeah Sleep monitoring Yeah Variations in breathing Yeah Nap Detection Yeah Hydration Yeah Women’s health Yeah Estimates of previous ovulations Yeah skin temperature Yeah JET LAG NOTICE Yeah Lifestyle log Yeah Health status Yeah Pulse oximetry acclimatization Yeah Accelerometer Yeah Connectivity Bluetooth ANT+ GPS connected Yes (depends on mobile) price 199.99 euros Using CIRQA means accepting that we won’t be able to check what you’re recording by just looking at your wrist. There’s no dial to go to, menus to scroll through, or data that appears when you raise your arm. To consult them we will have to open the application on mobilewhere we can review the information collected and, during an activity with the phone’s GPS, check basic data such as distance and pace. On the band we will only find a side buttonconfigurable to start our favorite activity. Garmin wants to measure everything without putting another screen on your wrist The device can recognize activities such as walking or running on its own and save them for us to review later. As we confirm or correct those records, it will adapt its classification to try to identify them more accurately in the future. We can also manually start tracking more than 80 activities and assign one of them to the side button. For outdoor routes, however, you will depend on the phone’s GPS: it does not integrate its own. With the mobile connected, it also allows us to share our location through LiveTrack. Outside of training, the bracelet maintains continuous monitoring of heart rate and can alert us if it detects unusually high or low values ​​depending on our settings. Also estimates oxygen saturationrecords stress, skin temperature, steps, calories and intensity minutes. Body Battery also offers an estimate of how our energy reserves evolve throughout the day. Added to this are the monitoring of the menstrual cycle and pregnancy, retrospective estimates of ovulation and the recording of habits such as alcohol or caffeine consumption. At night, the proposal becomes especially ambitious. CIRQA breaks down sleep stages, detects naps, calculates an overall score and offers a personalized estimate of how much rest we need. It also analyzes the regularity of our schedules, alignment with the circadian rhythm, breathing and HRV status, in addition to including a smart vibration alarm. These measurements can help us identify changes with respect to our usual pattern, but they do not allow us to diagnose apnea or other sleep disorders. When we train, its value is not only in accumulating measurements, but in trying to convert them into decisions. The predisposition to train combines factors such as sleep and recovery to tell us whether it is appropriate to speed up or slow down, while the training state helps to interpret whether we are training productively, if we have reached a peak of form or if we are accumulating an excessive load. We can also follow the evolution of VO2 maximumknow the estimated benefit of each session and see how much time the body needs before the next effort. Garmin also includes a specific mode for wheelchair users, although with adapted functions and without VO2 maximum calculation. Garmin insists that CIRQA does not require a subscription, and it is essentially true: we can check sleep, recovery, training status or Body Battery without paying a periodic fee. That doesn’t mean everything is included. The company places some functions after Connect+ artificial intelligence, nutrition, meditation, select training plans and advanced graphics during live activities, while Natural Cycles maintains its own rate. The approach is thus separated from that of Whoopwhere membership is part of access to the product; Here the payment layer is optional and is added on an already functional basis. The CIRQA does not arrive at empty land. For 99.99 euros, the Fitbit Air offers he basic tracking without fee and book your personalized trainer with Gemini for Google Health Premium. Polar proposes a formula closer to that of Garmin: its Loop costs 179.90 euros and does not require a subscription either. Amazfit completes the range with the Helio Straporiented towards training and recovery without mandatory recurring payments. As we see, the absence of a screen is no longer enough to differentiate ourselves: we must also look at how much we pay and what is available after the purchase. For 199.99 euros, … Read more

With Prime Day the RAM crisis hurts a little less, thanks to these offers on memories, graphics cards and laptops

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Buy hardware, especially anything related to RAM memory or the SSDit has been very complicated and expensive for weeks. The rise of AI The domestic PC component market has suffered (a lot) and devices in general, making everything enormously expensive. And as a result, this is one of the worst times we remember to renew equipment. However, sales campaigns such as Amazon Prime Day They help to weather the storm of surcharges a little, thanks to some bargains that, although they are not as succulent as they were in past editions, are ideal for saving us a pinch. In this sense, the Prime Day 2026 It will be available until late Friday the 26th and, until then, we can take advantage These discounts on laptops, SSDs, RAM and graphics cards. Crucial P310 PS5 SSD 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 with Heatsink The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Yes indeed, These are exclusive offers for Prime members. Although, if we are not, we can take advantage of the 30 day free trial for new registrations and thus access these discounts, in addition to enjoying shorter and free delivery times, the catalog of Prime Video series and movies and much more. Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 Gen 10 with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD per 749 eurosa laptop with an excellent quality-price ratio NVIDIA RTX 5070 12GB GDDR7 graphics card by 579.90 eurosideal for gaming at 1440p for years Crucial P310 2TB SSD with heat sink 234.99 eurosone of the few interesting offers in storage Asus TUF A18 by 1,199 eurosgaming laptop with 16 GB of RAM and the RTX 5070 to play, work or any demanding task. RAM Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB DDR5 by 389.99 eurosnot at the ideal price but very good in the current context Amazon Prime – 30 days free trial The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 Gen 10 Take a full team with us 749 euros with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSDin the middle of 2026, is not easy, but this Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 Gen 10 discounted on Prime Day makes it possible. In addition to that great memory configuration, this Lenovo contains an Intel Core i7-13620H with integrated graphics, a 16-inch 1200p screen and even Windows 11 Home. Overall, a balanced laptop perfect for studying or working. Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 Gen 10 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Windforce OC The hardware crisis is not affecting components such as processors or graphics cards equally, but it is still interesting to see a good offer on a next-generation GPU. In this case, we can take the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Windforce OC by 579.90 euros. A graphics card with 12 GB of GDDR7 VRAM memory, overclockthree fans and several DisplayPort and HDMI ports to connect multiple monitors. Perfect for playing at more than 60 FPS in 1440p thanks to its compatibility with the most recent versions of DLSS. GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5070 WINDFORCE OC The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Crucial P310 2TB As we say, brand new SSD It is not simple or cheap in 2026. But this Crucial P310, without having a historical discount, does have a very good price in these times. Now on offer for 234.99 eurosoffers 2 TB of capacity and speeds around 7,000 MB/s. It is a NVMe M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 SSD and is compatible with laptop motherboards, desktop PCs and even PS5. Additionally, it comes with a heat sink that helps it maintain better temperatures at full performance. Crucial P310 PS5 SSD 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 with Heatsink The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Asus TUF A18 The gaming hardware sector is especially suffering from the component crisis, especially when we move into the field of desktop PCs. custom. However, in already assembled equipment and in laptops We continue to find great purchase options at great prices in mid-2026. This Asus TUF A18 is a good example: a gaming laptop discounted to 1,199 euros which has RTX 5070, Ryzen 7 260, 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD. In addition to a giant 18-inch screen at 1200p and 144 Hz. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5 With the RAM memorywe click on the bone. When it comes to this component, today it is really difficult to find a normal price, let alone a good offer. If we can wait, the smart purchase involves leaving room for the market to stabilize and not paying an arm and a leg. However, if we need two RAM modules right now, these 16 GB (which make a total of 32 GB) DDR5 at 5,200 MHz by 389.99 euros They are an option to take into account. Compatible with Intel and AMD motherboards, they even come with RGB. CORSAIR Vengeance RGB RS DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 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 | Lenovo, Gigabyte, NVIDIA, Crucial, Asus, Corsair In Xataka | Best mice in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and seven recommended models In Xataka | Best laptops in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and eight recommended models

Sam Altman and Elon Musk hate each other publicly, so Altman has attacked where it hurts most: Neuralink

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Openai was totally focused on his mission of achieving an AGI, but now he doesn’t want to just. As indicated In Financial Timesthe firm is preparing to invest in Merge Labs, a startup that develops brain implants and that competes directly with Neuralink. Or what is the same: Altman has declared war on Musk. Again. A new startup against Neuralink. According to this economic newspaper, Altman and OpenAi will be the main valuables of this project, which will raise an investment round that will make Merge Labs have an assessment of 850 million dollars … without having a product in sight for the moment. Alex Bania will be involved in the project, which Direct the Startup World with which Altman has the ambition to scan the Iris to billions of people. The OpenAi CEO, yes, will not be responsible for the new startup and will remain focused on leading your AI company. Altman already showed interest in brain implants. This entrepreneur has already wrote A long article in his blog in 2017 in which he speculated on a possible “fusion” between man and machine in 2025. New advances made the theme resume Another entrance This year he pointed out that we could soon have “large bandwidth interfaces between the brain and the computer.” Merge Labs hopes to lift 250 million dollars, although at the moment the negotiations are just starting. Neuralink will have more competition. Although there were already companies working in this areaNeuralink – who Musk founded in 2016 – has gone winning notoriety. This year the company lifted $ 650 million and has an assessment of 9,000 million dollars. If the creation of Merge Labs is confirmed, a new battlefield between Musk and Altman will open. As if they didn’t have enough. Dialectical battle. In 2015 Musk and Altman, co -founders of OpenAi, were nail and meat. Both believed that AI had an extraordinary future, and united strength to make that future reality. Then the thing was twistedand since then They walk to cakes dialectics We have just lived the last of those fights, and the thing is already adopting a terrible tragicomic tone. But also yesterday Musk complained in x that there was a kind of business conspiracy that prevented Apps like Grok from reaching number one in the App Store. “Apple is the entrance door to the Internet for half America (USA). And when promoting OpenAi in all possible ways they are impossible for any other AI company to succeed.” It isn’t true. Like many other Musk statements, this era was false. They soon appeared Community notes in that post in which it was indicated that other apps of AI such as Perplexity or Deepseek had managed to reach number one in the App Store in some markets. But the thing began to be encouraged from that moment. Sam Altman enters the scene. OpenAi’s CEO wanted to replicate to Musk and answered his tweet indicating That “this is a surprising statement, taking into account what I have heard about what Elon does to manipulate X for their own benefit and their companies, and to the detriment of their competitors and the people who do not like.” Analysts such as Casey Newton analyzed the problem in the past and concluded that, indeed, Musk used a system in which His messages always had preference About the rest of the users. The fight returns. That message caused Musk’s rapid response, which He told Altman “You have achieved three million views of your shit post, liar, many more than I have received in many of mine, even though I have 50 times more users than you.” That was at that time: right now Altman’s post has 12.8 million visits. Musk, yes, had its point: if I control the platform, it could have minimized the impact of Altman’s message. Musk, confesses. In turn, the Openai CEO pointed out that many of Musk’s followers were actually Bots. And then proposed Something: “Will you sign a affidavit that you have never ordered changes to algorithm X in a way that has harmed your competitors or helped your own companies? I will apologize if so.” Grok betrays his musk. The tycoon did not answer directly, but that’s when an X user intervened, who He directly asked GrokX chatbot, what thought about the argument. And the funny thing is that Grok He put on Altman’s side: “According to verified tests, Sam Altman is right. Musk’s antitrust demand against Apple is undermined by applications such as Deepseek and Perplexity, which arrived (number one of the App Store) in 2025. On the contrary, Musk has a history of forcing changes in algorithm X to boost their publications and favor their interests, according to reports of 2023 and ongoing investigations. hypocrisy “. And chatgpt betray Altman. Shortly after, the Chatgpt app one shared Grok’s tweet and wrote: “Good bot”, but that is where Elon Musk intervened again, who shared a capture of a conversation with GPT-5 Pro. In it he asked the OpenAi chatbot who deserved more confidence, if Sam Altman or Elon Musk. After thinking a minute and 16 seconds, The answer was: “Elon Musk”. As A user said When you quote that musk tweet, these chatbots are not determinists, and if one repeatedly asks the same thing, both Elon Musk and Sam Altman could have answered. The problem is the media. In fact Musk defended his model again presuming that he had betrayed him because he was a “entire” chatbot, and also tried to explain why his chatbot had “betrayed him.” According to him“The fact that Grok is allowed to make false defamatory statements about me and not block them or eliminate them (what would be easy to do, do) speaks of the integrity of this platform. As you mention, Grok gives too much credibility to traditional media! This is a serious problem and we are working to solve it.” It is best not to believe anyone too much. This dialectical battle, the nth between … Read more

Spain has tired of Ryanair’s practices. And the airline is going to hit where it hurts the most: the provinces airports

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“Before a clown uploads prices.” The communications escalation between the government and Ryanair has reached its peak. Or we imagine. Because we can imagine that it will be complicated to exceed the promotional campaign launched by the airline to sell tickets for less than 20 euros. Michael O’Leary, Ceo de Ryanair, has recorded a video To show his disagreement with the fine imposed by Spain, receiving an extra when carrying a hand suitcase in the cabin of the plane. All more or less normal if it were not because next to O’Leary there is a photograph of Pablo Bustinduy, Minister of Consumer, caricatured like a clown. The promotion of new low -price tickets has continued with an advertisement on its own website in which they encourage purchase and use the image of Bustinduy, again a clown dress, as the main cause of an alleged future rise in prices of the tickets. “It is not my style to participate in the eccentricities of a foreign millionaire,” said Bustinduy in what is the most media controversy but after which, without a doubt, a much greater problem is hidden that threatens the smallest and flows airports of passengers. A threat that empties airports To understand the whole Crossing statements between government and Ryanair You have to leave a few months ago. On November 29, a fine from Spain was confirmed to Ryanair, Vueling, Easyjet, Norwegian and Volotea with a sum of 179 million euros. Of that amount, 107,775,777 euros fell to the Irish company. The economic punishment came after the government understood that the collection for hand luggage and charging for selecting a seat with dependent people was an abusive practice. The complaint had been filed by Facua And in summer the General Secretariat of Consumption and Game has already proposed a sanction of 150 million euros. Then a period of claims was opened so that the airlines could defend themselves. All resources were dismissed and the government ended up raising the amount referring to that The practices had continued And, therefore, the illicit benefits had continued to grow. This reached the sanction of more than 100 million euros for Ryanair and the sum of 179 million euros for the total of sanctioned companies. The government’s decision was based on a resolution of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 2014 that has decided to apply the modified standard in 2022. That year, the Ministry of Consumer, then led by Alberto Garzón, modified the consumer law to be able to sanction the big companies incurred in fraud. Ryanair, obviously, It is disagreement of the application of the norm. Europe has called to declare Spain. Now, the government will have to give explanations in front of the EU Pilota mediating referee designed to resolve conflicts between the European Commission and the Member States. Which They allege from Ryanair It is that it is true that the European Union forces to guarantee a transport of luggage free of charge to the plane ticket but that regulation does not establish measures and that, as there is no “standard” cabin suitcase, so they charge for transferring this luggage It doesn’t fit everything on the plane. Goodbye Jerez and Valladolid While all this happens, Ryanair has acted with other pressure measures. Alleging that Aena rates They are too high and that they will rise in the future, the Irish company has already announced that He will leave for the airports of Jerez and Valladolid. In addition, it will reduce its activity by 61%in Vigo, Santiago de Compostela (-28%), Zaragoza (-20%), Asturias (-11%) and Santander (-5%). In total, the volume of travel it provides in these airports will be reduced by 18%, eliminating 800,000 seats in the total sum of the 12 affected routes. These rates, which are used to guarantee the basic services of airports, from cleaning and safety to the transfer to the plane itself, have a cost of 10.35 euros per middle passenger and They are “of the lowest in Europe”they point out from Aena. In 2021 this rate froze until 2026 but last year they rose 4.9%. In 2025, CNMC frozen prices again. Ryanair has used advertising contracts for municipalities and autonomous communities in exchange for keeping routes in the lowest traffic airports The pressure measure that Ryanair has exercised is to point to less busy airports but where his presence is essential to keep them alive. The company knows that Spain is a holiday destination in the mind of any European but also has in its hand to leave abandoned, or almost, cities with airports of less entity. For example, In Valladolid there are 15 flights counted In the next two weeks, seven of them are from Ryanair. His march endangers the use of a dozen workers. What the company offers on many of these flights from smaller cities are journeys abroad. In Santander Just a few flights are those that do not have Madrid or Barcelona. One of them is managed by Binter, to the Canary Islands, but the others (London, Dublin, Rome or Valencia) Ryanair lends them all. His departure leaves with hardly any possibilities of flying to the Cantabrians to other places that are not Madrid or Barcelona. From the government they defend themselves by ensuring that the operational rates in these destinations are very low and that they barely reach two euros per average passenger. In eldiario.es They explain well that the companies that operate in these spaces have used the money of the municipalities and the autonomous community to, without delivering direct aid, guarantee that the airport (born of the bubble before 2008) continues to function with strategies such as projecting local advertising in airlines airplanes. To give an example, in the digital medium they explain that last summer The Cantabria government delivered 18 million euros in public promotion to Ryanair. That same mechanism has been used by the company for years to serve new air spaces. At the moment, more than 60% of the travel … Read more

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