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Apple Intelligence needed a Chinese partner and has already found it, according to ‘The Information’. The key is qwen

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Apple needs a local partner to offer Apple Intelligence in China, where regulations demand that AI services pass through national companies. We knew that Apple had been looking for the ideal partner for some time, according to The Informationhe has found it in Alibaba. Why is it important. The absence of Apple Intelligence in China has weighed iPhone sales in the largest smartphones market in the world. The agreement could reverse this trend just when Apple plans to launch its AI in simplified Chinese in April, the same month in which It will arrive in Spanish. In Xataka Apple’s metamorphosis: from the minimalist catalog to calculated maximalism What has happened. Apple and Alibaba have jointly presented their AI functions for approval by the Chinese regulator. The alliance comes after Apple will rule out collaborating with Baidu for not reaching the required standards. Between bambalins. Apple was also probing possible alliances with Bytedance, Tencent and Deepseek Before opting for Alibaba. The choice was based on the robustness of the model Qwen from Alibaba and its ability to process personalized data thanks to its experience in electronic commerce. Also, Ahem, in Your alignment with socialist values required by the Beijing government. The latest. Alibaba’s actions They have triggered 3.5% After the publication of the news and accumulates 8% in two days. The market trusts the fruit of this operation between both companies. Alibaba’s Qwen model has gained reputation in recent months. Its potential was demonstrated when Stanford scientists managed to train a new reasoning model for less than $ 50 using Qwen as a base. S1 marked a before and after for the model. Outstanding image | Xataka with Midjourney In Xataka | Choose between security and survival: the dilemma that terrifies the CEO of Anthropic in the US and China AI war

Saudi Arabia has sealed a key pact to dominate the AI

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Saudi Arabia is launched into the conquest of the Artificial Intelligence (AI)entering fully into the battle to lead one of the most promising businesses of the moment. The country, whose economy continues to depend largely on oil, has been looking to diversify its sources of income for years. A key piece of this ambitious plan is neom, A futuristic city that, for now, resembles more an industrial estatebut that aspires to become a luxury tourist destination and an innovation center. Oxagon, the city’s industrial center, will be the headquarters of a huge 1.5 Gigaw Data Center. Until now, most of the language models we use have been trained in infrastructure that operated on the megawatt scale, but the industry is stepping on the accelerator towards the gigawatts. There are the projects announced by goal and Oracle To prove it. This runaway growth is also exerting pressure on the energy sector of many countries. A “sustainable” project raised in several stages According to a statement released this weekthe Saudi Datavolt company will be in charge of leading the works. It is not yet clear if they will begin this year, but it has been confirmed that the data center will be built in phases. The initial investment, of 5,000 million dollarswill allow operations to start in 2028. From then on, the capital flow is expected to continue and that the works continue to advance until reaching the expected power, all under a “sustainable” approach. The announcement indicates that the data center will have “an integrated high density computer ecosystem and an energy efficient infrastructure.” One of the promises of the NEOM is sustainability. The government has promised that it aims to produce “100% clean” energy from sources such as solar energy, wind energy and the largest hydrogen plant in the world. It is no secret that they will need a lot of energy to boost this and other AI data centers in the place. The International Energy Agency (AIE) He has indicated thatin 2022, the global electricity consumption of the data centers was between 1 % and 1.3 %, and everything indicates that it will continue to increase significantly in the next decade. This scenario is promoting a Resurgence of nuclear energya source capable of satisfying the needs of large data centers and doing it stable. Now, it remains to be seen if Saudi Arabia, that still does not have nuclear plantsHe will advance in his plans. As Datavolt has pointed out, the project aims to turn Saudi Arabia into a regional reference in digital innovation and artificial intelligence. However, it is not the only country in the Middle East that aspires to lead this technological career. United Arab Emirates is also betting strongly in that regard, and proof of this is its recent multimillionaire investment To lift in France a 1 Gigavatio AI data center, part of the largest AI campus in Europe. Images | Neom | Datavolt In Xataka | Neom seems crazy, but Saudi Arabia does not take the brake and begin to build a cube in which 20 Empire State fit

In the war between communities of neighbors and tourist floors there is a key date, on April 3. And favors the first

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With the influx of tourists in Historic maximumsthe residential market Tensioning and the price of housing climbing until Nourish With those of the brick bubble, administrations have launched themselves to regulate tourist floors. In Madrid, Barcelona either Valencia The municipalities have moved file to put limits and in Seville they have even considered ending the illegal offer by closing the tap. Literally. From April 3 who want to devote themselves to holiday rental will have to deal with a new challenge: neighborhood communities. If until now they were the ones that suffered the most tourist floors, they are about to become the opposite: a way to stop their proliferation. What happened? That on April 3 a change of the Horizontal Property Law which will fully affect the relationship between neighbors communities and tour floors. And it will also do so in favor of the former, expanding its margin to stop the proliferation of vacation rentals. Legal change is included in the Organic Law 1/2025a rule published in the BOE earlier this year, but which has a period of three months to enter into force. What does the law say? Basically it establishes that anyone who wants to rent their apartment to tourists must get permission from most of its neighbors. And what is more important, has to have that collective ‘ok’ before leasing the floor. “You must previously obtain the express approval of the community of owners”, Clarify the new standardwhich also specifies that the decision must be made with a broad support of the three fifths of the owners. Wasn’t it so far? The legal change gives more tools to neighbors communities when limiting tourist rentals within their block, but that does not mean that until now they have had their hands tied. On the contrary. He Royal Decree 7/2019which entered into force six years ago, already provided that the communities could “limit or condition” the holiday rentals in the building if the three fifths of the owners agreed so. And can they report? Yes. Now the law goes a step further. It speaks of the need to obtain “previously the express approval” of the community and pronounced on the margin of maneuver that the neighbors have, even about the possibility of denouncing in case they detect a rented floor without their placet. “The president of the community, on his own initiative or of any of the owners or occupants, will require those who carry out the activity, without expressly approved, the immediate cessation of the same, under the warning of initiating the judicial actions,” indicates the law published in January. Does it have retroactive effect? No, the legal change will not have retroactive effect on the apartments that are rented respecting the norms. The text Published in January it is quite clear about it: “That owner of a house that is exercising the activity prior to the entry into force of the law, which has previously been accepted to the tourist sector regulations, may continue to exercise the activity with the conditions and deadlines established in it. “ The new law also echoed another of the powers that communities have and appeared already reflected in The 2019 decree: The whole of the neighbors may apply to the owners of tourist floors a “special quota” or “an increase in the participation of the common expenses of the house”. Of course, that increase should never exceed 20% and the decision must also be endorsed by a lazy majority of the three fifths of the owners. Is it a novelty? It is a novelty the entry into force of the law on April 3, but probably caught by surprise a few owners of flats and communities of neighboring. And not only because the regulations have been published in the BOE January 3. The government had been looking for the way to “empower” the neighbors in the face of the proliferation of vacation rentals and months ago he acknowledged that one of the ideas he had in mind was to give communities a veto power. “What we want is that the authorization of the neighbors be necessary, with a major I advanced In July, Minister Carlos Body in RNE. Images | Stay Grouted (Flickr) and Tomáš Gal (Unspash) In Xataka | In Spain, floors are being rented as tourist accommodations without a license. Now also elderly residences

The treasure desired by all nations that China dominates with iron fist can be key in Ukraine: its rare earths

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Trump has had to get there An unexpected negotiating element In the war in Ukraine. Moscow and Kyiv have been waiting for the new administration with respect to the conflict for weeks. The answer, unexpected for the majority, is about to see if it is as it seems. If affirmative, the United States would enter fully into the contest to help Ukraine, although in exchange for very precious minerals with incalculable geopolitical value. Rare lands in exchange for support. Donald Trump’s recent statement on a possible agreement with Ukraine, in which The United States would receive rare minerals in exchange for military assistancehas shaken the geopolitical panorama and generated international mixed reactions. The proposal, presented by Trump himself in the Oval office, seeks to condition Kyiv aid, linking it with strategic resources such as lithium, uranium and titanium, fundamental to the technological and military industry. This strategy, which reflects its transactional approach in foreign policy, represents a significant change regarding the unconditional military assistance that the American nation has provided so far, where it was practically reduced to money and weapons. A turn in the relationship. Since Trump’s re -election, uncertainty about American commitment to Ukraine has been a matter of concern for Kyiv. Everything changes, a priori (and being real), with this offer, since Ukraine could ensure Washington’s support when a “strategic interest” In his future. In fact, the answer has not been expected, and Ukrainian officials have explained that The administration of Volodymyr Zelensky would be willing to sign joint agreements with the United States To guarantee the collaboration in the exploitation of these resources, in an attempt to consolidate military support in the middle of the wear of the conflict with Russia. Moreover, Zelensky has warned that Without American intervention, these resources could end up in the hands of adversaries As Iran or North Korea, in case of a Russian victory. Geopolitical impact As we said, the international reaction to Trump’s words has not been waiting. In Europe, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz harshly criticized the proposaldescribing it as selfish and stressing that minerals should be used for the reconstruction of Ukraine instead of being exchanged for weapons. A European diplomat expressed doubts about the viability of the plansuggesting that it is not yet clear if it is a negotiation strategy or a firm demand. In addition, he stressed that European countries have already considered more transactional approaches with the United States, although without compromising essential resources of Ukraine. And from Russia? From Moscow, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov interpreted Trump’s proposal as a sign that the United States will no longer deliver free helpwhat Russia sees as an opportunity to weaken Western support to Kyiv. This perspective coincides with Russian military advances in eastern Ukraine, where many of the rare mineral reserves are found. The minerals. It We have counted before. In the case at hand, the elements of rare earths that Donald Trump seeks to ensure through an agreement with Ukraine in exchange for military aid They are essential strategic metals for key industriesfrom advanced technology to defense. Despite its name, these 17 elements are not particularly scarce, since There are large deposits in China, Brazil, Vietnam and Russia. However, its extraction implies highly polluting and expensive processes, which has limited its production outside of Chinawho dominates the global market thanks to massive investments in refinement and more lax environmental regulation. The importance of rare earths. These metals They are practically irreplaceable in many industrial applications. Neodimium and Disposio, for example, allow to manufacture ultra -policy magnets essential for wind turbines and electric motors, while the Europium is crucial for television screens and the hill is used in oil refining. Besides, They play a key role in the development of modern armamentincluding in the equation guided missiles. Since production is concentrated in China (and therefore, The dependence of most countries), we have the best of the clues for which United States and EU seek to reduce its dependencepromoting new sources of supply and recycling of materials. Trump’s interest. Linking with the above, Trump possibly sees in Ukrainian deposits An opportunity to strengthen US supply and reduce that Chinese influence In the sector, more convulsed than ever with The war of tariffs imposed. In this sense, one of the greatest attractions of the agreement for Washington is Access to lithium deposits of Ukraine, essential for the manufacture of microchips and batteries for electric vehiclesstrategic sectors where the United States competes directly with China. Within the framework of its transactional policy, the tycoon proposes that Ukraine guarantees access to these resources in exchange for military support, An idea previously suggested by Volodymyr Zelensky. The geopolitics of these materials, therefore, is key, since a greater dependence on China could represent strategic risks, as happened in 2010 when Beijing blocked exports to Japan in a territorial conflict. Difference with other critical minerals. Rare earths are just a part of The so -called critical mineralsa broader category that includes tungsten, tellurium and Indian, essential for clean energy and advanced technologies. In fact, China has already imposed export controls of some of these materials In response to American tariffs, reinforcing the need to diversify the global supply. Paradigm change. Be that as it may, Trump’s interest in convert military assistance into an agreement based on resources It represents a fundamental change in the way in which the United States could handle its relationship with Ukraine (or other nations in conflict). While Kyiv sees this as an opportunity to maintain American support, the proposal It has also generated tensions with Europe and criticism about ethics to condition aid to an exchange of strategic goods. On the other hand, and at least publicly, Russia does not see it either bad, but as a chance. In a context of prolonged war and with Moscow gaining ground, this new approach could define the future of the conflict and remodel geopolitical balance in the coming years. Of course, it is about to see if Trumop’s … Read more

Routine is the key to succeed in streaming

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We already have unofficial (but very reliable) annual estimates of the most watched in streaming that Nielsen performs every year. And in 2024, the most seen has been … the usual. What forces us, without a doubt, to reflect: how is it possible that the most viewed series of the year are not the most spoken, and the most viewed platforms are not the ones that receive the most owners? Actually, the explanation is very simple. The most watched programs. According to the reportthe most seen 2024 programs have been the ‘Bluey’ animation series, with 55,620 million minutes in Disney+, and ‘Grey Anatomy’, with 47,850 million minutes (in the US, Hulu and Netflix). More animation, but it is for adults, cup the following positions: ‘Family father’ (44.2 billion minutes) and ‘Bob’s Burger’ (36,800). The top continues with series such as ‘The young Sheldon’, his mother series ‘Big Bang Theory’, some procedures with ‘Law and Order: Unit of Special Victims’ and ‘Criminal minds’, and closing the circle of the series for all public, ‘spongebob’. Ironies of life. A list that undoubtedly attracts attention. Where are that ‘My stuffed reindeer‘, that ‘THE PROBLEM OF THE THREE BODIES‘, those franchises of’Dune‘ and ‘Game of Thrones‘We all talk about? The first place with an exclusive product of a platform (everything on the list above is acquisitions) is’Bridgerton‘From Netflix, in 12th place, with 21,420 million minutes, followed by’ Love Is Blind ‘, also from Netflix. With figures above 10,000 million minutes are ‘The Boys‘. ‘Lincoln’s lawyer’, ‘Fallout‘(This was the new most seen series among the exclusive streaming), ‘Futurama’, ‘DolReacher‘. Simple explanations. This absence in the top 10 of successes of the most media and recent series has a logical explanation: the streaming It has become an active way to fill out leisure hours, but an accompaniment at home, which has replaced options for the past such as radio, music players or linear television itself. He streaming as “background noise” It is no longer a rarity, and therefore, however extravagant that sounds on paper, no one has missed that Netflix looks for series that in his dialogues “Explain what is happening”to be able to follow them without paying them attention. Long series, more hours. And on the other hand, there is the obvious reason that the more available footage, more hours of viewing they can accumulate. ‘Fallout’, in the best case, has eight episodes of approximately one hour: eighty hours per speaker. On the contrary, ‘anatomy of Gray’ cam 21 seasons of around twenty episodes each. And often, they are independent episodes that do not require constant attention. It is normal for these series to attract less attention but accumulate much more robust figures. Children have power. Finally children: the ten most viewed films of the year in streaming They have been almost all of animation: ‘Vaiana’, ‘Super Mario Bros.: The movie’, ‘Trolls 3: All together’, ‘Los Minions’, ‘Chark’, ‘Frozen’, ‘The Canine Patrol: The movie’ , ‘The upside down’ and ‘Baby boss’. The only exception is ‘Red One’, also oriented to the family. If we add to that the privileged position of ‘Bluey’ as the most watched program of the year on any channel and the obvious preeminence of Disney+ among the most viewed platforms, the equation is clear: children send, but not necessarily with productions of latest batch ( ‘The minions’ is from 2015 and ‘Vaiana’, of 2016). Again, figures outside the millionaire media movements of the platforms. La Puntilla, ‘Night agent’. And there is another element that contributes a nuance: the ‘Night Agent’ series, whose second season has debuted with 13.9 million views in its first four days. The monumental success of the firstwhich in 2023 almost reached 100 million views in their first 90 days in Netflix, and became the seventh most viewed of the English platform. And why is one more nuance to what we are talking about? For the surprising “normality” of the series, away from more creative, artistic or risky productions that mediately state on the platform, such as ‘the squid game’. The triumph of Normies. With the success of the first season of ‘Night agent’ there was talk of how surprising that he had razed such an anodine appearance. The critic Miles Surrey has recently defined it As “the Platonic ideal” of a Netflix series, or even refining more, a “hamburger with gourmet cheese”, that is, a series that combines accessibility and quality, a kind of stone Rosetta of success, which he shares with this rest of the series that have triumphed in recent months. And no one can doubt the quality and attractiveness for the masses of ‘Bluey’, ‘Big Bang Theory’ or ‘Grey Anatomy’, those commercial diamonds that, one more year, crowned the most watched lists. In Xataka | After years trying to conquer cinemas, Netflix wants to release only in streaming. And Hollywood didn’t like a hair

Deepseek does the same as Openai’s most advanced models with much less resources. The key: “Reinforcement Learning”

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The entire world is wondering how it is possible that the models of AI of Deepseek They have become overnight the great protagonists of today in the field of artificial intelligence. The answer is relatively simple. These models have managed to demonstrate that You can do more with much less. Both Deepseek V3 and Deepseek-R1 are comparable to GPT-4 or O1 OPENAI respectively, but it is estimated that their training has been much less expensive and its inference, of course, is: the prices of the Deepseek API are up to 35 sometimes lower than those of OpenAi, but that makes one wonder how it is possible. The answer is clear, and it is because we have at our disposal the technical reports of these AI models. Precisely his study has allowed us to clarify What are the techniques that this Chinese R&D laboratory has used to develop these models so efficient and capable. Many techniques, a single objective: efficiency There are several differences that make Deepseek’s new model especially efficient. Its creators explain in detail in the detailed Technical Report that is publicly available. Here are the most relevant: Deepseekmoe (“Mixture of experts”): In models such as GPT-3.5 the entire model was activated in both training and inference (when we use it). However, not all model components are necessary for our requests. The MOE technique – already introving with Deepseek V2 – precisely divides the model into multiple “experts” and only activates those that are necessary according to the request. GPT-4 is already a MOE model. But as we said, Depseekmoe even went further and differentiated between even more specialized experts, in addition to using some somewhat more generalist experts that could contribute value in certain requests. Managing all those specialized or generalist experts not only benefits inference, but also the training phase, making it more efficient. This technique is similar to the so -called “Time Scaling test” that also adjusts the size or complexity of a model during efficiency. Deepseekmla (Multi-Head Latent attention): It is another substantial improvement-even more than the previous one, and also introduced with Deepseek V2-that affects the way in which memory is managed in these models. Normally it is necessary to load both the model and the entire context window – the one that allows us to write prompts and include long texts, for example. Context windows are especially expensive because each token requires both a key and their corresponding value. With the improvement introduced with this technique, what was made possible was to compress that warehouse of keys and values, dramatically reducing memory use during inference. Auxiliary -los-Free Load Balancing: If we imagine a model like a great orchestra, each musician is an “expert” within the model. To play a complex piece, not all musicians are necessary all the time. Traditionally the so -called “auxiliary losses” were used to make sure that all musicians played enough, but these losses could interfere with that interpretation of the musical piece (model training), which could degrade general performance. With Deepseek V3 the model is able to balance the work of each expert dynamically. That does the simplest, direct and efficient training by eliminating “auxiliary losses.” In addition, the elimination of interference allows the model to learn better and with less resources … and get better results. Multi-Token Prediction Training Objective: Often predicting the following word depends on several previous words or context. With this technique instead of predicting only the following word, the model learns to predict several words at the same time. That makes more natural and understandable and less ambiguous texts generate, but also accelerates training by reducing the number of steps necessary to generate the complete text sequence. FP8 Mixed Precision Training: The use of Numbers FP8 allows significantly reducing memory consumption and accelerates calculations. Some critical parts of the model continue to use FP32 training to guarantee precision, but there is another additional benefit of FP8: the size of the models is reduced. Other models use techniques such as quantization or parameter pruning. Although Openai does not give data on GPT-4 in this section, the assumption is that it works with BF16, more expensive in terms of memory. Although FP8 theoretically leads to less precise models, other complementary techniques such as fine-grained quantization are used to reduce the negative impact of values ​​that come out of the common, which makes a stable training possible. Cross-Node All-to-Lall Communication: During training it is necessary to constantly exchange information between all nodes (computers) connected in training data centers. That can become a bottleneck, but these new Deepseek V3 techniques include efficient communication protocols, data traffic reduction and efficient synchronization to accelerate training and, once again, reduce the costs of that process. Reinforcement and “distillation” learning as keys But in addition to all these techniques, those responsible for Deepseek V3 explain how they pressed it with 14.8 billion tokens, a process to which a supervised adjustment followed (Superved Fine-Tuning, SFT) and several stages of Reinforcement Learning (Reinforcement Learning, RL). The SFT phase-which is mentioned in the Deepseek V3 report-was completely omitted in the case of Deepseek-R1. However, learning by reinforcement is an absolute protagonist in the development of both models, especially in R1. The technique is well known in the field of artificial intelligence, and it is as if we trained a dog with prizes and punishments. The model learns to respond better by giving rewards if you do well. Over time, the model learns to take actions that maximize long -term reward. In Deepseek, learning for reinforcement is used to break down complex problems in smaller steps. In it Deepseek R1 technical report It also indicates how this model makes use of RL techniques directly on the base model, without the need for supervised training. That saves computing resources. The call also comes into play here Thought chain (chain-of-though)also mentioned in the technical report. This refers to the ability of a language model to show the intermediate steps of its reasoning. The model not only … Read more

How its mining potential makes it a key pawn in the EU in front of China

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Surely if you hear about lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, graphite or rare earth you know that they are currently the minerals and metals that dominate the market for their use in current technologies. In fact, here we have talked about all of them and, above all, of the dependence we have about China. But all that can change, because Spain has a treasure in its feet. A gold mine. Eye, what too, but It is not open yet. The point is that in the Spanish subsoil There are great critical mineral reservations Essential for the energy and digital transition, especially for the manufacture of batteries, solar panels, wind turbines and other resources. In this way, the role of Europe and Spain is redefined in the production of these minerals and a strategic autonomy in the European Union is ensured. In data. To be able to better understand how much we are talking, let’s go with The data. 17% of copper extracted in the EU comes from Spain, as well as 12% of zinc and 6% of lead. In addition, the Iberian country is the first European producer of fluoride and plaster, and the only one in Sepiolita and Celestina. As for Magnesita, the country contributes 24% of EU production, standing only behind Austria and Slovakia. In the case of Potassa, Spain generates 12% of the total European, complementing 88% produced by Germany. Mining in Spain. The mining tradition in the Iberian Peninsula comes from many years, we would have to go back to Roman empire. However, here we are going to talk about Spain and the mines, and of a more recent period of time, where mining has been in decline due to the outsourcing of the activity, but now it has resurfaced again. In addition, the Spanish nation has been reinforcing its mining industry with investments in the aforementioned minerals. As well as through regulatory measures such as National Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC) and the Roadmap for sustainable management of mineral raw materials. The ‘golden’ province. If there is a province where metal mining is most concentrated, winning the title of “El Dorado” is undoubtedly Andalusia. The Autonomous Community It concentrates 90% of the value of national production In this sector. In recent years, mining companies have seen in the more than 257,000 hectares, an area to begin exploring and exploiting the mineral resources of the region. For years the research permits had been inactive, but the Junta de Andalucía has now facilitated its reactivation causing the south of the nation to be attractive again in a global context where metals are increasingly demanded. However, this activity raises questions about the balance between industrial development and the preservation of the environment, especially in sensitive areas such as Doñana National Park. In a more global context. The European Commission has identified more than thirty critical raw materials, of which 17 are strategic for the energy transition, due to its cost and the high risk involved in its interruption. Currently, much of these matters They are concentrated in countries like Chinathat controls 90% of the rare earth, and the Congo, main cobalt supplier. According to the report Mining for Climate: Decarbonisation Roadmap and Energy Outlook From Euromines, the European Union must intensify its efforts to achieve climatic objectives and guarantee its strategic autonomy, reducing the dependence of powers such as China and the United States in access to these critical resources. Other mining methods. The rise of mining has strengthened the economy and generated jobs. However, we know the environmental challenges that also pose this type of extractivist practices, such as soil degradation, Water consumption and the loss of biodiversity. For these reasons, there are other methods to obtain the necessary resources to develop current technologies, such as recycling batteries, Solar panels and Other electronic devices. Forecasts In this geopolitical board in which mineral resources has become, Spain is positioned as a key pawn for the EU in need of reducing dependence with China. However, it remains to be seen how its mining strategy raises to supply the European market, but always taking into account the care for the land. Image | Unspash Xataka | The US will reopen an antimony mine that had been closed for 30 years. It is a response to the coup received by China

This is conquering the key technologies of the future

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The tension held by the US and China for more than five years is due to a very evident purpose: these two countries are disputing world supremacy. It is no secret. In fact, the government led by Joe Biden Openly recognized In the document that collects your National Security Strategy October 2022 that China has the necessary capacity and resources to dispute the US Its world leadership position. The following literal extract of this document reflects very clearly why the US government considers China a threat: “The People’s Republic of China (RPC) is the only competitor that has both the intention of remodeling international order and every time, every time Moreover, the economic, diplomatic, military and technological capacity to do so. The social, economic, military and technological development that the country led by Xi Jinping has experienced during the last two decades supports this conclusion. In fact, China is currently a world leader in five key technologies from a strategic point of view because of the relevance they already have, and, above all, due to what they will have in the future. And in other bids increasingly high. Even so, there is an area in which this gigantic Asian country still seems to be far from reaching a domain position: The semiconductors. These are the five strategic technologies in which China has already managed to lead One of the objectives of SANCTIONS TO CHINA that the US and its allies have deployed during the last two and a half years is to stop the development of the Chinese semiconductor industry. And to achieve this, the US governments, the Netherlands and Japan have banned their manufacturers of lithography equipment, among which are ASML, Tokyo Electron either Apply materialssell your most advanced machines to your Chinese customers. China is world leader in unmanned aerial vehicles, solar panels, graphene, high -speed trains, electric vehicles and lithium batteries Chinese lithography equipment manufacturers have the support of the XI Jinping administration to develop machines from extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE) as soon as possible, but due to its complexity with all probability They will not be ready before five years. In addition, most semiconductor experts, including Chinese technicians, defends that China is Between 5 and 10 years more backward than the West in the development of photolithographic equipment. The country of Xi Jinping, as we have just seen, does not lead in chips. However, as we can verify in the graph that we publish under these lines, it is the world leader in non -manned aerial vehicles, solar panels, graphene, high -speed trains, electric vehicles and lithium batteries. This graph has been prepared by JOSTEIN HAUGEwhich is professor of economics at the University of Cambridge (England), taking as reference the data collected by Bloomberg Intelligence and Bloomberg Economics. This leadership position in these areas is the result of the “Made in China 2025” plan announced by XI Jinping himself in 2015. His starting point in some of these technologies, such as solar panels or practical graphene applications, was very solid a decade ago, but still there is no doubt that this strategy has been a success. And, in addition, it will remain in force to allow China to fight from you with other great powers for leadership in semiconductors, Quantum computers, artificial intelligence either Robotsamong other technologies that have enormous strategic relevance. Key Technologies of the Plan ‘Made in China 2025’ 2015 (real data) 2024 (real data) 2030 (expectation) Unmanned aerial vehicles Global leader Global leader Global leader Solar panels Global leader Global leader Global leader Graphene Global leader Global leader Global leader high -speed trains Competitive position Global leader Global leader electric cars and lithium batteries Competitive position Global leader Global leader Liquefied natural gas transport ships (LNG) Competitive position Competitive position Global leader medications Behind market leaders Competitive position Competitive position Great tractors Behind market leaders Competitive position Competitive position industrial machinery Behind market leaders Competitive position Competitive position Robots Behind market leaders Competitive position Competitive position artificial intelligence Behind market leaders Competitive position Competitive position semiconductors Behind market leaders Competitive position Competitive position Commercial aircraft Behind market leaders Behind market leaders Competitive position China’s domain is indisputable The “Made in China 2025” plan has a very clear purpose: cease to be the world’s factory and consolidate as THE MOST SUPPLIER OF SERVICES AND PRODUCTS high value of the planet. As we have just seen, the country led by Xi Jinping has failed to lead in integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, robots, commercial aviation or medicines, among other areas, but its domain of the market of solar panels is overwhelming. China’s quota in the world photovoltaic cell market Broken 80%and for the moment only India seems to have the ability to disturb him in the long term. Its manufacturing capacity is 17 times greater than the rest of the planet togetherwhich has encouraged the Chinese administration to support the manufacture of More than 1,000 GW in N -type cell capacity As the other countries fulfill their net emission commitments. Of course, a good part of Chinese solar panel manufacturers is selling to losses with the purpose of growing as much and as fast as possible. China produces 60% of the world graphite because it has the largest natural reserves of the planet, and graphene is manufactured from this raw material We are now with unmanned aerial vehicles. China controls 90% of the world market of consumer drones and professionals thanks to the success that in recent years are having manufacturers such as DJI (Dà-Jiāng-Innovations), FIMI or Autel Robotics, among others. The domain of this country of the markets of drones and solar panels is the result of a recipe in which the support of the Chinese government, the continuous improvement of the technologies involved in the product and Extremely competitive prices. In the graphene market, the same thing happens essentially as in the two we have just explored. China produces 60% of the world graphite Because it has the largest natural reserves of the … Read more

In 1956, the US published two maps that showed the contamination of atomic bombs. And they were key to spying on the enemy

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On July 16, 1945, it was a historic day: in Alamogordo, in the New Mexico desert, the First nuclear detonation in history. The Trinity test was a success that led to the development of the ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ bombs that, a few days later, They launched on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Before the test, the scientists bet on the results, with some bets that pointed to the destruction of the State of New Mexico, the ignition of the atmosphere and even the incineration of the planet. Obviously, that did not happen, but what did happen is that Each nuclear launch He sent a large number of particles to the atmosphere. And two maps published in 1956 reflected the consequences of these releases. Nuclear tests. Although the world was horrified by what happened in the two Japanese cities when the United States decided launch the only two nuclear bombs Used in combat so far, the powers continued to test the limits of the newly discovered technology. Thus, from the United States they continued with launches in Pacific Islands. Russia also quickly began to develop its nuclear program, with tests such as the ”Tsar pump‘That had about 3,000 times the power of the launched in Hiroshima. These launches by both countries were a muscle sample in full cold war, as well as a deterrent tool. ‘IVY Mike‘. One of the US test releases was that of ‘Mike‘, a bomb launched on November 1, 1952 that vaporized an island, leaving a crater of almost two kilometers and 50 meters deep. It was the first detonation of a hydrogen pump, causing a 3.3 -kilometer radio fire at the time of the explosion, with a fungus -shaped cloud that stabilized 41 kilometers high. Lookout Mountain studies immortalized the moment, adding later sound, since they recorded it without it. The rays were not part of the postproduction, but appeared just after the detonation: Disaster. The consequences for the Eneetak atolón in which it was launched were tremendous. The expansive waves devastated the vegetation not only of the objective island, Elaugelab, but of the closest. In addition, it caused a radioactive rain and ships almost 60 kilometers away saw how pieces of radioactive corals fell on the helmet. The area had remained seriously contaminated And, as we can see in these satellite images, Elfelab simply disappeared. THE ATOLON BEFORE AND AFTER IVI MIKE Atmospheric movement. With the rise of these tests, a team of researchers from the United States Meteorological Service published in the journal Science two maps that immortalized a historical fact: the trip of the radioactive particles around the globe. Declassified in 1956, the first one shows the global and relatively rapid atmospheric diffusion of radioactive particles. The explosion has a very clear starting point, but as soon as the particles enter the atmosphere, they continue their expansion through the rest of the globe thanks to the air currents. Radioactive particle dispersion. It was a very simple map, more than anything visual, but the second was much more explicit. It was a map of isoline Particles even to American and Canadian soil. In Europe, these radioactive particles had been largely diluted. Observation networks. It was not the first time that the movement of pollution had been studied, but it was somewhat reserved for great events, such as Krakatoa volcano explosion in 1883. With these maps, researchers wanted to demonstrate that, with the right tools, it was already easy to track volatile tracers in the atmosphere. And Ivy Mike’s were a good excuse to study. Researcher Sebastian Grevsmühl published the study A few years ago and comments that, apart from satisfying scientific curiosity, maps had a more pragmatic utility. On the one hand, they helped build the idea of ​​the world’s contamination on a global scale thanks to atmospheric movements, developing that everything has consequences. On the other, they were a tool that the nuclear powers had to monitor enemy atomic activities. Nuclear espionage. With these tools, Russian and American researchers could know if the opposite had detonated a nuclear artifact … even if he had not done it public, but also if they were using nuclear reactors or producing plutonium. So much so that, in 1949, the United States sought to determine the progress of the German nuclear bomb measuring Xenon-133 in the air. To do this, they used B-29 bombers and 24 land stations distributed by the planet to collect air samples that would determine if they were developing something. This is how, thanks to the collaboration with the British army, they discovered that, in 1949, the Soviet Union had successfully carried out a first nuclear test. Over the years, the tools evolved to cross radiological, seismic and sonic data that allowed to determine both the presence of radioactive elements and enemy nuclear bombs … and estimate their power. And much of that began with works like the one led to the two previous maps. Images | Sebastian V. Grevsmühl, Mit Press In Xataka | The amazing story of the man who survived the two atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Canelo Álvarez reveals the key to his success: “I never did it for money”

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Currently Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez is one of the best boxers pound for pound. The Mexican has an extensive career of more than 15 years as a professional and has managed to stay at the level of the greatest for a long time. Recently in an interview for the specialized magazine The Ring Alvarez revealed some keys to his success in sports. Stating that the love for boxing has been what has helped him establish himself as one of the best of the decade. “The discipline of sport, you know. I started very young and I never did it for money, I box because I enjoy fighting, being in this sport.“, the man from Guadalajara began his response about the key and what is important to him in his successful career. Canelo Álvarez during his victory against Edgar Berlanga.Credit: John Locher | AP “I always tell young people: “Don’t look at this sport to make money, the money comes by itself. Do it well, with discipline, with love and the money will come by itself.”. That is the difference between the majority and me, that many do it just for the profits and I don’t,” concluded the current super middleweight world champion. In his extensive career as a boxer Canelo has a positive record of 62-2-2 with 39 victories by knockout. Álvarez was until very recently the absolute super middleweight champion, until the International Boxing Federation stripped him of his belt after refusing to defend it against mandatory challenger William Scull. Canelo sets a date for his retirement Saul Alvarez He debuted as a professional boxer when he was just 15 years old. So today he is 19 years old as a boxer. That is why, at only 34 years old, Canelo is already beginning to see his retirement very close. Even on repeated occasions The Mexican has made it clear that he will box until he is 38 years old. So in 2028 we could see the world champion hang up his gloves. Keep reading:Canelo Álvarez would be in negotiations to sign a three-fight contractFight between Canelo vs Crawford will take place in 2025Canelo vs Crawford: Eddie Hearn reveals the details for this fight

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