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Hyundai aims to automate 40% of his new plant in the US. THE KEY TO GET IT: ATLAS HUMANoid Robots

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Robots have been in the automobile industry for decades. They have welded, pressed and assembled pieces without rest. But despite that long career, many tasks were still in human hands. That is starting to change. Robots are less and less clumsy: They are more skilled, more versatile and, most importantly, much cheaper to manufacture. And that opens the door to a new phase. Hyundai wants to be in charge of that change. On your new plant HMGMA (Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America), located on the outskirts of Savannah (Georgia, USA), the company has proposed to automate 40% of the vehicle assembly process before the end of 2025. According to Nikkei Asiathe objective is to transform this factory into an intelligent environment, where artificial intelligence and data are key from logistics to the final assembly. A connected and flexible ecosystem. The plant is designed not only as a assembly line, but as a demonstration of everything Hyundai is able to do with technology. The brand defines it as “a highly connected, automated and flexible manufacturing system”, prepared to adapt to changes in demand and optimize each phase of the process. That is why it is no coincidence that starts focused on the production of electric and hybrid vehicles, with an estimated initial capacity of 100,000 units a year, which will grow to 500,000 when it is at full performance. The Metaplant aspires to become one of the referents of the automobile industry of the present and the future. Atlas enters the scene. In that technological deployment, the focus is on a very concrete protagonist: Atlas, Boston Dynamics’s humanoid robot. It is not any robot. It is a completely electric model, designed to move as a human and work in the same space as humans. Atlas is the successor of the famous hydraulic model that we saw mortal somersaults. But this time, the approach is another. It is prepared to lift heavy objects, install parts and adapt to what happens around you in real time. Hyundai describes it As a robot with “athletic intelligence”, and that translates into sensors, algorithms and a structure designed for complex tasks that one person could only do. Boston Dynamics is already part of the Hyundai group. This movement makes sense because Boston Dynamics is not just any partner: It is part of the Hyundai group since 2021. Since the company was made, the South Korean firm has been integrating its technology within its vision of “progress for humanity.” A vision that includes autonomous cars, urban air mobility, robotics in logistics and, of course, new ways of manufacturing. Boston Dynamics has been working with biped and quadruped robots for years, and now faces the challenge of taking them to the commercial field. If Atlas works in this plant, it will mark a before and after. Because it is no longer just impressing in a viral video: it is about a robot being useful and productive on a large scale. What tasks will the robots perform? Hyundai has not detailed all the works that Atlas will assume, but, according to the aforementioned Asian newspaper, it has confirmed some: move heavy objects, install doors in vehicles and collaborate in physical tasks that require strength and precision. The objective is clear: to free human operators from repetitive or demanding works. Now, that does not mean that Atlas is just as agile as an expert operator. For now, it is not. Just see some assembly line videos To ask ourselves if robots will be as skilled as humans. Atlas will not be the only one in the plant. They will also deploy The well -known spotdog -shaped robots that also manufactures Boston Dynamics. Its function will be to monitor production lines, inspect bodies and identify possible structural defects. And next to you they will live more classic automation systems: welding robots, presses and heavy machinery. A context marked by the tariff war. This deployment does not happen in a vacuum. It arrives in the middle of the commercial war between the United States and China. The administration Trump has imposed a 145% tariff To many products from China and maintains a base rate of 10% for most commercial partners, including South Korea. That is why Hyundai has decided to bet on American territory. Has announced An investment of 21,000 million dollars in the United States over the next four years. A strategy that seeks to protect its position in the North American market and, at the same time, gain margin of maneuver against geopolitical uncertainty. Of course, automating more does not necessarily mean hiring more. Hyundai’s expansion is accompanied by strong robotization. And that raises questions about employment. Will less operators be hired? Will new roles emerge within factories? The advance is indisputable, although it does not guarantee new jobs. Images | Hyundai In Xataka | Duolingo inaugurates a new era: when human talent is no longer essential

His future Baza will be in two key cards that promise to change air combat

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Imagining a combat plane of the future is not difficult. The difficult thing is to build it. That is precisely the ambition behind the storm: a sixth generation hunt that does not intend to resemble current airplanes, but to rewrite how air combat is understood. The project, promoted by United Kingdom, Italy and Japan within the framework of Global Combat Air Program GCAP, does not pursue only a technical evolution. It is a declaration of intentions on technological sovereignty and defense. Tempest is not a simple new generation hunting. The Royal Air Force defines it as “The heart and mind connected to an air combat system”, Able to integrate sensors, weapons and data into a single operating flow. In other words, the Tempest is not only a platform with wings, but the center of command of a swarm of technologies that communicate with each other to make decisions faster. The future hunt seeks to act as the tactical brain of an operation. That translates into a series of simple requirements. One of the most important is autonomy. As explained in the official podcast of the programthe storm aspires to reach a “really extreme” range, wide enough to cross the Atlantic without reposting. At the moment it is an objective under study, not a closed requirement. This autonomy would seek to allow prolonged operations without depending on cistern aircraft, in scenarios where to enter and leave the enemy territory is less challenging. The other key requirement is load capacity. The objective, according to the words of the director of the Team of Requirements and conceptualization of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense, is that it exceeds that of the F-35even reaching Duplicate your total armament capacity. There is no precise figure on the table. What is safe is the ambition to turn the Tempest into a platform that integrates not only more missiles, but also advanced and electronic war sensors, without compromising its stealth profile. The hunting that wants to be brain, muscle and network From the beginning, the design of the Tempest revolves around the idea of ​​a digital ecosystem. BAE Systems, Leonardo, Rolls-Royce and MBDA are working on technologies that are not limited to fuselage. The program is structured around systems such as Isanke (Integrated sensors and non -kinetic effects) and ICS (communications), that will form an intelligent network between fightersdrones and other assets of the battlefield. The goal is for the pilot to have more information, more context and more reaction options than any adversary. An F-35 Florida (left), render of the storm (right) All this requires power. Propulsion power, but also electric. As explained Rolls-Roycethe new propulsion system Not only will the plane movebut it will generate sufficient electricity to feed advanced sensors, electronic war systems and, probably, Laser weapons. The architecture will be open, modular and prepared to receive updates over time, something key in an environment where military technology changes every few years. Manufacturing tasks of the main structure (left), motor tests (right) That approach also moves to the manufacturing process. The project is betting on digital engineering techniques, automation, real -time modeling and simulation by digital twins. The technology demonstrator, which is already built in Warton, will serve to validate all that approach. According to BAE Systems datamore than half of its structural weight, including fuselage and wings, is already in production. In addition, the British Ministry of Defense has confirmed that Part of technological development includes experimental recycling of tornado aircraft components. The so -called project ‘Tornado 2 Tempest‘He managed to successfully print pieces such as a nose cone and blades for a test engine. This is a proof of concept that seeks to reduce costs, minimize the dependence of critical metals and explore new manufacturing paths with lighter and more resistant materials. To all this is added the human factor. More than 2,500 people already work in the program in the United Kingdom. Many of them are young engineers trained within the Generation Tempest initiative. As technological advances and international alliances are added, the Tempest ceases to be a concept to become a tangible reality. The expectations are high and we will have to wait to know if they are met. Everything indicates that it will be a hunt very different from everything known. Images | GCAP In Xataka | The F-35 and the US ballistic missiles need the key component of a magnet. The problem is that it was “Made in China”

We are increasingly clear that our microbiome is key to our health. Our protein sources can also alter it

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Little by little We started realizing Of the importance of our microbiota, especially as regards the microorganisms that inhabit our digestive system, our gastrointestinal microbioma. Aspects of our health that in principle They would not seem connected To what happens in our intestines seem to have some kind of correlation with that flora of fungi and bacteria that coexists inside us. Different proteins, different microbiome. A recent study has observed That the food source of protein can alter the composition and structure of our intestinal microbiome, that is, of the set of microorganisms that inhabits our digestive system. The experiment, conducted with mice, observed important variations in the microbiota associated with changes in the diet. “The composition of gastric microbiome changed significantly every time we change the protein source,” pointed in a press release Alfredo Blakeley-Ruiz, co-author of the study. “Protein sources with the greatest functional effects were integral rice, yeast and egg whites.” A variety of sources. Proteins are a key nutrient that gives us essential amino acids with which our body is able to synthesize its own proteins. Foods of animal origin such as meats, fish or eggs are usually seen as the main source of amino acids, but they are not the only one. The existence of alternatives implies the possibility of diverse effects on our health and well -being. Through, for example, of the microbiome. Metabolizing amino acids. The team resorted to its study to the use of high -resolution mass spectrometry and the combination of metagenomic and metaproteinomic. Everything to find how the intestinal microbiome of mice whose diet was altered so that each week they received their single source proteins that was changed after seven days .. They observed that some of these sources were associated with important changes. These changes, Explain the teamthey manifested in how the mice metabolized the amino acids, but also in the way in which their digestive system degraded complex sugars, something that was not so intuitive. Diets such as those based on the integral rice and the clearing of the eggs, continue to explain the equipment, increased the degradation of the amino acids, which would imply that the microorganisms of the digestive system of the mice were breaking the proteins to obtain their own amino acids. The details of the study were published recently In an article in The Isme Journal. An environment (too much?) Controlled. The team responsible for the study admitted That there are some limitations to consider, and one of them is the complexity of the diet. In a laboratory environment, the team altered the diet of the mice radically (causing them to have a single source of protein). Beyond the fact that studies with animal models are not always transposed identically in humans, it is expected that forceful changes in the diet of these animals entail important changes in the structure of their microbiome. A more varied diet, with diverse sources of proteins, would logically imply more dim effects. In Xataka | We have found some supplements capable of improving memory in the elderly: prebiot promising Image | MART PRODUCTION

Who produced the key matters of the world after World War I, in a 1927 graphics

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The end of the Great War He left a totally devastated Europe. France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany lost between 25% and 30% of their national wealth and basic agricultural and industrial infrastructure was very damaged. After a first period of recovery just after the end of the war, there was a situation of hyperinflation, monetary depreciation, debt payments to an US that claimed his money and a break in international trade. However, in mid -1920, an economic recovery was lived, and a series of graphics published in 1927 reflects that moment of fleeting splendor just before the Great Depression and of the Second World War. And why not say it, they were a valuable tool if someone with expansionist ideas He threw the glove. Happy twenty years. After the World War IUSA lent money to France and the United Kingdom to rebuild. Germany was punished He pays a rate to those same countries, but when the US claimed the money, the system broke. Germany had no money and France and the United Kingdom needed German funds to pay Americans. However, the Dawes Plan To give a respite to the German economy, so everyone’s debt relaxed and began the “happy twenties.” It was an economic recovery period in which the countries involved reached some stability and, above all, an industrial rebirth. It continued depending on American money and we already know how the decade ended with the breakage of the stock market, but at least allowed European nations to be repurchased in a way. Hickmann Atlas. No levels prior to the Great War were reached, but at least the production and export of raw materials resumed. Beyond Europe, there were many other countries that had been oblivious to the conflict and followed their own path. In 1927, the Austrian publishing house G. Freytag & Berndt published the universal geographical and statistical Atlas of Hickmann. It is a very interesting document because it reflects that panorama of the mid -20s and offers many, many statistics, graphs and maps that are a reflection of the economic and productive state worldwide. We can consult the 80 pages on the web David Rumsey Map Collectionbut from Visual Capitalist They have compiled the most interesting maps in terms of production and raw materials. Land use. The pages dedicated to ‘Produktion’ show precisely that: the most powerful countries in certain types of interesting resources at the time. The first cover the use of the Earth and the graph is divided into: Acherland: Cultivation lands or farmland. Wald: forest. Wieen und Weiden: Praderas and grasslands. Unproduktivland: unproductive land. There are countries like Spain that are very balanced, with large cultivation surfaces and practically identical proportions of the rest, but also striking cases. For example, according to this Atlas, France is the country that, with 56%, more arable land has. They captured that Finland had the largest amount of forests, covering 61% of their territory (in 2021 estimated That was more than 73% and British India was the one that had the most won, followed by the US. And the worst? Norway, with 70% unproductive land. Agricultural production. In Produktion III and IV they focused on land production, and for the Austrians, the US was an agricultural power plant. They were the ones that most wheat, barley, oatmeal and corn produced (by far). The Soviet Union led in Centeno and Germany, obvious, in potato production. Argentina was the second in production of corn and Spain the third in barley. Who had less grain, mattered. Whose? From Argentina, Canada, the United States and Australia, and the great importing countries were the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. As for wine, France was the spearhead, followed by Italy and Spain. In beer, the United Kingdom marked the pattern, followed by Germany. In that graph, Spain does not appear. In other resources such as Café, Brazil is a lot of difference from Colombia, El Salvador, Venezuela or Guatemala. And China also makes an appearance as a power in the production of tea and rice. Textiles and natural resources. As for textiles, it depends a lot on it. The United States led cotton production, followed by the British and China Indies. Japan and China were silk powers; The Soviet Union and the Philippines were of the hemp culture; The USSR and Poland led the linen, and the hops was a thing of Great Britain and the United States. The oil is a barbarity and, perhaps, the fact that puts us most into perspective with what they thought a century ago. In the Atlas, they indicate that the United States produced about 753,000 barrels in 1923. One hundred years later, US production was 21.4 million barrels … a day during the last quarter of 2023. In tobacco, salt, oil, rubber or paper, Spain has little to say, but where it stands out is in Mercury, very close to Italy and a lot of distance from the United States or Mexico. Mining. Produktion VII and VIII reflects the production of metals, gems and minerals, with South Africa leading the production of gold and diamonds and Mexico that of silver. The United Kingdom had the leadership of gas, but the absolute protagonist in the Serurgy after World War I, and something that would be key to the second, was the United States, leading coal, iron and steel. Cataclysm. The photo for some countries was really hopeful, but only two years after the publication of Hickmann Atlas produced The collapse of the NYSE. This caused the bankruptcy of banks, a reduction in production, protectionist measures and a break in international trade. The US was no longer to lend money to anyone, which caused a worldwide deflation. Europe, which was already indebted to the eyebrows, also suffered this recession, devaluing its coins and causing a new crisis. If a new volume of Hickmann’s work had been published years after the great depression, the situation of the graphics would have been very different. There were some visual … Read more

Many Third-Party cartridges do not bring the game, they include a download key

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One of the advantages most valued by many players of the Nintendo switch original has begun to blur with The arrival of his successor. Until now, physical supports included the game data, which allowed playing directly from the cartridge without the need to connect to the Internet. Of course, the updates were necessary if you wanted to access improvements or additional content. With the Switch 2Nintendo has introduced a new format: the “Game key cards“O Game-Key Cards. These cards must be inserted in the console to play, such as a conventional cartridge, but do not contain the full game. Instead, they store a key that allows you to download the game from the Nintendo servers. That is, Internet connection, storage space and time to install it. It is not new, but now it impacts. The existence of this format was announced in a Nintendo Direct, but at that time it was not known how much the rules of the game would change. Now we are seeing it: Gematsu has pointed out That most third-party games announced in Japan for Nintendo Switch 2 will arrive in Game-Key Card format. Information that has been replicated by means as VGC and Nintendo Lifewhich has given it greater visibility. To know if a game is in this new format, just look at the lower left corner of the box: a key-shaped icon indicates that it is a Game-Key Card. Some of the games that will arrive in this format are: ‘Bravely Default: Flying Fairy’ ‘Daemon X Machina: Titanic Sion’ ‘Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddesss’ ‘Puyo Puyo Tetris 2s’ ‘Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army Remaster ‘ ‘Shine Post: Be your idol!’ ‘Sonic X Shadow Generations’ ‘Street Fighter 6’ ‘Suikoden I & II HD Remaster’ ‘Survival Kids’ ‘Yakuza 0: Director’s Cut’ Only two games presented so far in Japan for Switch 2 include complete data in the cartridge: ‘Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma’ and ‘Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar’. Both are titles in Nintendo Switch 2 Edition version. What is a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition? Games under the label Nintendo Switch 2 Edition They are existing titles that are launched next to a specific update package to take advantage of the capacities of the new console. That is, they include the original game and an improvement patch adapted to Switch 2 hardware. CD Projakt has confirmed that ‘Cyberpunk 2077‘It will be launched in traditional cartridge. But in stores like Smyths Toys either Amazon USA You can see Game-Key Cards in games such as ‘Hitman: World of Assassination’, ‘Street Fighter 6’ or ‘Bravely Default: Flying Fairy’. The community responds. In social networks, the reaction has not been waiting. The check “Does it play?” He criticized that this format leaves players “without property, without conservation, without choice.” Other users alert of a scenario where physical games are losing ground. A Game-Key without access to eShop becomes a little useful object. If the game is not stored in the cartridge and the servers fall or close, there will be no way to download it. The theory: Nintendo is limiting the options? On pages like Reddit And YouTube is speculated with that Nintendo could be offering only two cartridge options: one very small and another of 64 GB. Without intermediate options, many studies would opt for Game-Key Cards to avoid high manufacturing costs. Of course, for now, all this are just conjectures. Nintendo has not confirmed anything. Images | Nintendo | Screen capture In Xataka | If the question is “you will sell the Nintendo Switch 2 despite the price increase” the answer is: yes, a lot

Finding quick and reliable tests for Alzheimer’s is a key mission for science. And we have a new candidate

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Ahead of Alzheimer’s. It is a simple but difficult objective to achieve since the symptoms of this disease tend to appear when the disorder is advanced and has already caused important damage to our brain. A difficult objective but what It can help us treat the disease With greater efficacy, managing to delay the appearance of some of its symptoms such as cognitive deterioration. Maybe one day helps us cure it. In the blood. A group of researchers has tested a new blood test aimed at the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. The test is based on a biomarker present in the blood, P-TAU217, which shows changes long before the appearance of symptoms in people with the disease. The study showed precision when detecting the disease greater than 90%. These results also did not depend on the age or gender of the participants, either on the existence of comorbidities or whether the test was carried out by specialists or primary care personnel. This marker can be measured with simple and cheap tools and the process is automatic, which can facilitate detection in various circumstances, democratizing the diagnosis of the disease. “This is an important step to bring simple blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease to health systems around the world,” said the team responsible for the essay in a press release. P-TAU217. Detection methods based on the P-TAU217 compound They are not exactly new. These types of tools are already implemented in the United States and it is expected that they will soon reach the rest of the world, says the team itself. The new method seeks to offer a simpler alternative to the available tools. The new study analyzed the precision of this New Test in the conditions in which it would be used, not only in specialized clinics but also in primary care. In three countries. The essay was carried out from 1,767 participants with cognitive symptoms distributed in three countries: Spain, Italy and Sweden. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nature Medicine. The New Test included two cut points. One of them served to interpret the negative results: from this threshold the test rules out the presence of the disease. The second of the cut points serves to find the positive ones: this threshold shows the presence of the disease. This leaves, between one cut and another, a “gray zone” in which the results are inconcuing, however the use of a test with a single threshold slightly reduced the accuracy of the diagnostic tool. Above 90%. The study showed that the test achieved an accuracy between 92% and 94% when used in its two cuts mode. However, this precision fell to levels between 83% and 87% when only a cutting point was used and applied to more advanced ages. “When the method was tested in patient sides, the precision was between 92% and 94%,” NOëlle Warmenhoven explainedfirst signer of the study. “This is promising since this method will probably become one of the most used in clinical practice around the world.” In Xataka | We have a new “theory of all” to understand Alzheimer’s. Your key is in small granules Image | Kaboomps.com

The lack of protein represents a risk to our health. These are the key symptoms to identify it

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We live perhaps in him historical context of greater food abundance. It is difficult to find an era in which we have had a greater variety of food at our disposal. This is especially true for meat and fish, two of the main sources of protein. In general, today We consume more proteins than we needbut the general does not always apply and The lack of protein It can also occur in some people, for example cases of certain diets or between people suffering from certain autoimmune diseases. That is why we can ask ourselves, how can we know if we are not consuming enough proteins? Proteins are one of the three macronutrients considered basic for the proper functioning of our body, the other two fats or lipids, and carbohydrates. We associate these nutrients to meatfish, milk products, but are present in one way or another (in their constituent blocks, for example) in a multitude of foods such as legumes or soy. Proteins, although we put them in the same group are not a homogeneous group of compounds: our body has thousands of protein types. Of course, all of them are composed of a series of amino acids chained 20 of these “blocks” are enough to form this myriad of proteins in our body. Our body is able to synthesize 11 of These amino acids But for the other nine, called essential amino acidswe must obtain them from food. For this we need proteins: our digestive system breaks them down in amino acids so that our body can rebuild them according to their need. We call “Complete proteins“To foods containing all essential amino acids. A list of food with complete proteins would include meats such as beef or chicken, fish, eggs, dairy, soy or quinoa. If our body does not consume enough proteins or other amino acid sources, we can fall into the lack of any of these nine essential amino acids, so that our body can lose the ability to generate its own proteins which results in problems such as the Hypooproteinemiathe lack of protein in the blood. Symptoms Before the lack of proteins becomes a problem, we can pay attention to some symptoms that alert us to lack. Health experts from the University of California in Los Angeles They prepared a time ago a list With six indications that can help us detect the lack of protein. In the article they explain that fragility in hair and nails is sometimes the first sign of a protein deficiency. Another sign is in the feeling of weakness and hunger. Hunger usually indicates the lack of food, sometimes it can also indicate a more concrete nutritional lack. A third indication is in our immune system. The lack of protein can limit our body’s ability to defend against external threats so we can find ourselves more sickly due to this lack. The lack of protein can also manifest in changes in humor or difficulties in thinking. This is due to fluctuations in blood sugar levels and the effect of proteins in brain neurotransmitters responsible for regulating our mood. The fifth indication indicated by these experts is muscle weakness. Proteins are indispensable to build and repair muscle mass, without it we can end up losing it. The last of these symptoms is in the Appearance of fractures by stress in the bones. The integrity of these also depends on this type of compounds. Proteins are fundamental to our body and the difficulty in creating new molecules can cause us problems of very diverse type. As usual in nutrition, excess can also be linked to some problems. Some estimates calculate that excessive protein consumption may appear if we take more than two grams daily per kg of body mass. A varied and healthy diet is key to avoiding problems both by excess as defaultin regards to proteins and with regard to any other nutrient. This is especially important for those who, by their own or for health, must eliminate some usual piece of their menu. No food is essential but there are nutrients that they are. In Xataka | Proteic fever has invaded supermarkets. The problem is how they suggest that we take proteins Image | Shayda Torabi

What are they and how to manage or delete the key data that you remember about you and use in all chats

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Let’s explain What is the chatgpt memory and howa system with which artificial intelligence remembers several key data about you. Because now Chatgpt remembers things you talked in the past, and will take them into account to use them in the future. We are going to start the article explaining what exactly is the chatgpt memory, telling you what it is for and putting some examples about your operation. Then we will tell you How to manage stored memories that you have from your chats to be able to erase some or all. What is the chatgpt memory Chatgpt is now capable of Remember useful information about you that is extracting from the conversations you have with him. For example, if in any conversation you tell him what your musical tastes are or where you work, the AI ​​will remember this information to use it in future chats. Each data of interest that Chatgpt keeps on you is a memory, and the chatbot stores memories with which to have these relevant data. The idea is to be able to Offer more personalized and relevant answers taking into account the context of the data about you. For example, something funny that happened to me. At a specific moment I spoke with Chatgpt about a musical group that I liked a lot. I said it passed, I think that to ask for some illustration or drawing with his name. He recalled this, and a few weeks later I asked to reimagine a photo of mine in the Ghibli style, and in the drawing he put me with the shirt of this band. There are two ways in which Chatgpt stores memories. First, it can be from normal conversations when you mention key data. But also You can ask you to remember something telling him to remember something, saying for example “remember that my favorite color is black.” You have control over Chatgpt’s memories, and you will be able to eliminate them individually or reset all erasing them. You can also deactivate this function so that you do not remember things or using what is remembered. And if you have it activated but want to start a chat that does not take into account the memoryyou can do it with the option to start a temporary chat. How to review and eliminate memories To review and manage the memories stored in chatgpt, you have to enter the configuration of this artificial intelligence. You can do it from its official website or from mobile and computer applications. Once within the configuration, Enter the section of Personalization. Here, under custom instructions You have the options for Memory. You can deactivate referring to the stored memoirs in the event that you do not want them to be used in your chats, and below you will have the option of Manage memories. If you click on Manage memorieswill be shown A list with all stored memories In chatgpt. In it, you can read what you are remembering in each one, and you will have to the right the option to erase the ones you want. You also have a button to eliminate everything if you want to forget everything you are remembering. In Xataka Basics | How to translate a sign, sign or any text with chatgpt, even asking you to explain it to you

The F-35 and the US ballistic missiles need the key component of a magnet. The problem is that it was “Made in China”

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Finally, China carried out what the global industry feared: blocking the export of rare earths more valuable. In this way, without more, it sounds tremendous, although surely many will wonder how far the scope of the veto really comes, or which supply chain will be affected in the short term with Beijing’s decision. There are many sectors against the strings, but there is an especially delicate one for Washington: Defense. If everything remains the same, you have a few months left for your F-35 or ballistic missiles to have a serious problem. The Achilles heel. I told it The New York Times A few hours ago. China’s decision to impose restrictions on the export of critical minerals and, especially, of certain rare earth magnets, represents a direct warning to the national security of the United States, whose military capacities They depend largely of these resources. Which is it? We talk about Combat fighters of the Air Force, like F-35of guided ballistic missiles of the army or electric drones of the Marines, where these magnets (made with elements such as neodymium, disposium or ititrium) are essential for the operation of motors, guidance mechanisms or emergency systems. If, for example, a ballistic missile does not include the component of these magnets, it would be impossible for their goal to reach. The background problem. That 90 % of these components are produces in Chinaand six of the key metals that compose them are only refined there, which gives Beijing a powerful pressure tool. This maneuver, considered a “warning shot” by An official From the Air Force, it could easily climb towards fees, tariffs or even a total prohibition, generating an immediate impact on the costs and availability of American military technologies. A vulnerable chain. It We have counted other times. Rare earth (a set of 17 elements) is not that they are scarce in the strict sense, but its processing is expensive (and polluting), which is why China managed to dominate both its extraction and the associated refining and manufacturing. This supremacy has allowed him control much of the final cost of the modern American weapons, including those poachers, submarines, war ships, tanks, missiles and laser systems. To get an idea, only one F-35 contains around 400 kg of rare earth materialswhile some submarines They exceed 4,000 kg. Although the American defense industry and the pentagon have accumulated strategic reserves of these elements, analysts warn that these collections would barely reach to cover a few months of production and maintenance, not even years. From there, as we recently counted, that Washington has noticed the Pacific fund. Future warnings. Actually, the United States already knew about this unit and what could happen for a few years. It happened with an emblematic case, the call “F-35 “magnet debacle”when in 2022 the Department of Defense temporarily suspended the delivery of these aircraft after discovering that a component contained a Alloy manufactured in Chinacontravening defense acquisition standards. Although at that time it was considered that the material did not represent a direct threat, the incident highlighted the depth of the US dependence. Now, with the obligation that Chinese exporters Request special permits Before sending rare earth to the United States, experts anticipate a price increase that will affect the entire industrial defense base. Yes, the MINTAIN PASS MINA In California it has resumed operations, but its production is far from competing with Chinese capacity. Historical precedents. Looking back, history offers examples of how the United States must have adapted to interruptions of the supply of strategic materials in times of war. For example, now It happened with the bauxite During World War II, when Germany sank allied charges that transported it from Surinam. So Washington turned to Domestic reserves in Arkansas to guarantee the production of airplanes. Today, The Times told that there are already voices from the sector, such as American Enterprise Institutewhich insist that current reserves are not enough to sustain the military-industrial complex in the face of a long interruption of the Chinese supply. Despite the initiatives of Trump and Biden governments to Reactivate national production Of critical minerals, the industry remains highly vulnerable to Beijing’s decisions. A critical dilemma. No doubt, there is a much broader background with what happened in the commercial war. Chinese control over rare earth supply not only implies logistic or economic vulnerability: it represents A geostrategic challenge First order for the technological supremacy of which the United States has always presumed in the military. The recent Chinese measure does not close trade routes completely, but it makes it clear that Beijin possesses A pressure lever Formidable about the American defense industry. Faced with this, analysts agree that Washington must accelerate efforts to diversify their sources of supply, recover internal industrial capabilities and ensure the resilience of a supply chain that supports a good part of its global power. Otherwise, the next crisis may not limit yourself to that “warning shot”, but to become a direct blow to the technological backbone of the National Defense. Image | Jasper Nance In Xataka | The United States imagined that China would veto its export of rare earths. Has a plan B: The Pacific Fund In Xataka | China has done what the global industry feared: block the export of the most valuable rare earths

The key ingredient of the Torrijas has shot in price. That does not mean that they will be more expensive

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God squeezes, but does not drown. Not at least if we talk about Torrijas. Although the ovoflation threatened to shoot record levels The cost of one of the typical Sweet cheaper That just a year ago. About 20%. And the reason is simple: perhaps the dozen eggs has more expensive in recent months, but other ingredients, such as Olive oil And sugar, have softened their price. After all, Torrijas are more than a sweet tasty: they are also a curious (and interesting) indicator of how the purchase basket evolves. Don’t say torrijas, say economics. It occurs sometimes that a dish ends up becoming an economic and social thermometer. An example is The “pizzometro”an informal indicator that according to some experts is activated just before global crises. Another clear case is THE BIC MAC INDEXa way of measuring inflation with hamburgers. And a third example is the Waffle House indexwhich allows US authorities to calculate the scope of storms with gofres. In Spain we have The Torrijas. Its combination of bread, milk, sugar, oil and eggs makes them a curious indicator of how IPC evolves. So He claims Sara Herrero, director of Business & Talent by EAE Business School, for whom the sweet is a “good thermometer of the basic basket basket of the basic products of Spanish families.” The problem is that in full ovoflationthis Holy Week that indicator has looked at each other with a special concern. Why’s that? Because Torrijas recipe includes eggs. And these have been expensive exponentially over the last months. In March the OCU calculated that in alone A few weeks The price of the dozen medium eggs had increased about 25%. And the Updated data Facua show that since then they have not been cheaper in most linear. Moreover, the tables prepared by the Toledo Lonja either Bellpuig They reflect that in some cases the price of the eggs has increased, which is in tune with the data collected by the INE itself. His last IPC confirms that in the last month the eggs took care 7.2%well above the general index. Prohibitive Torrijas? That is what some have feared in recent weeks: that in view of the escalation in the price of eggs, with the effect of avian flu and the ovoflation From the United States as a backdrop, tortals fired their price this Holy Week. There are even those who until recently warned that we would meet the “most expensive” sweets. It does not seem to be like that. And not because the eggs are going to be reduced in the short term. The key is other ingredients of the toast that today come out much cheaper than a year ago, which has damping the ovoflation. This concludes A study From EAE Business School, which after analyzing the latest segregated IPC data calculates that preparing Torrijas will come out 19% cheaper that in 2024. IPC Annual variation (March) Ipc variation so far this year (March) Bread 1.8 0.2 Whole milk 3.2 23 Eggs 11.4 8.6 Olive oil -37.9 -19.9 Sugar -15.6 -1,9 Electricity 12.8 5.7 Natural Gas and Gas City 8.4 4 Sugar and oil, rescue. According to EAEthe key to the cheaper is in olive oil and sugar, ingredients that are also used in Easter sweet. The first has seen how its price was reduced by 32%. The second, 15%. Taking into account that today these resources are cheaper, the agency estimates that, in general, the recipe will cost almost 20% less than in 2024. Some calculations go further and suggest the dessert will come out this year 27% cheaper. EAE calculations were made with the Segregated data of the IPC of the month of February. If analyzed those of Marchthe percentage can vary. The reason: the year-on-year IPC last month was more favorable if we talk about olive oil (-37.9%) and sugar (-15.6%), but much worse when we examine the cost of eggs. His interannual rise was that month of the 11.4% compared to 3.8% in February. And the rest of the ingredients? Torrijas are not made solely with eggs, olive oil and sugar. But we analyze The rest of the ingredients We see that its variation with respect to 2024 is not so marked. The PAN recorded in March an interannual CPI of 1.8%, below the general index of 2.3%. The milk did exceed that value slightly, scoring 3.2%, but the increase is minimal compared to that of eggs. What became more expensive is energy. The EAE study concludes that in 2025 the Torrijas will break in any case the tendency to become more expensive that they had been dragging over the last years, which does not mean that in general today they leave much more expensive than four years ago. The agency calculates in particular that the increase was about 53%. Images | Moritz Barcelona (Flickr) and TNARIK INNAEL (Flickr) In Xataka | The price of eggs has shot and having an own chicken coop seems attractive. But there are fines of up to 3,000 euros

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