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Football believes that a plague of injuries lives, so it has been thrown into a Spanish technology to prevent them

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Infrared thermography applied to professional sport is gaining ground as a very useful tool for injury prevention and the optimization of the performance of the players themselves and athletes. Themohumana Spanish company specialized in this technology, has made elite teams such as Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid or Girona, among many others, incorporate their systems into their physical preparation routines. What is this technology and how. Thermohuman is a system that combines thermographic cameras with artificial intelligence software to analyze the body temperature of athletes. Although there is a lot of chicha after its technology, the process of capturing and analysis of the data is relatively simple: a thermal chamber captures images of the player’s body, and the software uses artificial vision algorithms to automatically recognize the human figure and segment it in more than 110 different body regions. Capture process through thermal cameras. Image: Girona FC The key is in the detection of thermal asymmetries between symmetrical areas of the body. When there is a significant temperature difference between, for example, the right leg and the left can indicate the presence of a muscle overload, inflammation or the beginning of an injury. According to the firm All this analysis is completed in less than 30 seconds, generating automatic reports with advanced metrics and intelligent alerts. Precision and detail in injury prevention. Medical thermography is not a novelty, but its automation does represent an important qualitative leap. As Explain The company, the traditional thermograms analysis methods required manual processes that took some more time to professionals for analysis and decision making. Themohuman says having reduced this time to less than 20 seconds, with a reliability greater than 96%. In addition, the system is not limited to offering a snapshot of the moment: it creates a history of each athlete that allows identifying patterns and anomalies based on historical data. This means that it can detect subtle variations that could go unnoticed in a traditional physical examination. Software in which the information is processed and analyzed, with detailed patterns for each player. Image: Girona FC Real Madrid also joins this technology. Incorporating it into the first team From the hand of Ismael Fernández, CEO of Thermohuman and new member of Xabi Alonso’s coaching staff. Although the club I already used the system In your basketball team and women’s soccer team, it is now part of the Comprehensive Strategy for the Prevention of Lesions of the First Team. Xabi will integrate technology along with other systems such as drones for tactical analysis and advanced GPS technologies. This is already used in the rest of clubs. The use protocol varies according to the club, but generally includes regular measurements for both healthy players and those in the process of recovery. The Gironafor example, performs evaluations after each party and two days before the next meeting, which allows them to adjust the training loads individually. The Atlético de Madrid He was a pioneer in LaLiga in using the Themohuman method in the 2017/2018 season. And in other international examples, such as The case of Aston VillaThey use the system weekly as part of their fatigue and recovery management strategy. More companies that offer infrared thermography applied to sport. Other outstanding companies in this area are prein, with A software based on artificial intelligence To prevent injuries, and Omniathletean Italian consultant with more than two decades of experience. There are also solutions such as Thermidswhich offers portable systems to monitor sports performance. As for hardware, there are companies like Teledyne flir either Themoteknix which offer thermal cameras and infrared sensors, the technological base of thermography by infrared. Among other prominent measurement technologies we have also seen in the world of sport The GPS Potosthat a good part of the elite clubs use them to record the performance of each player at the individual level. Tech science in sport is not everything. The theoretical practical utility is in the prevention, monitoring of the recovery and management of players’ fatigue. According to Atlético de Madrid, in 2018 the use of its thermographic protocol registered 70 % less muscle injuries (from 15 to 6) and Thermuman endorse in your studies A 90 % reduction on low days. These types of technologies are very valuable in modern football, where the burden of matches and training can lead players to the limit of their physical abilities. However, although they have greatly helped physical trainers, there are few voices of experts who talk about Increased injuries. Edu Pons, Physical Exparter in different categories of Barça and now professor and researcher at INEFC Lleida, I commented for example that the bibs are increasing injuries because “there is more and more intensity and density.” “Yes it is true that it can help you train or value the load better, but I am not in favor of stating that it is the panacea.” “They also help good recovery methods after a party or training, as well as a good prevention work.” And it is that in a world with more monitoring than ever, injuries are still very frequent, so technology must also be accompanied by good physical preparation. Cover image | Girona FC and Real Madrid exclusive In Xataka | The Rocambolesca History of Ferrari 512 TR of Michael Jordan: 15 years lost and has appeared among the ashes of a fire

Five lives have been charged at work for not taking prevention measures

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Spain is living Your first heat wave of the year And, with her the reminders about him High risk of heat blows and other occupational accidents such as high temperatures results. Spain is traditionally territory acclimatized at high temperaturesand therefore it tends to belittle the risk of exposing yourself to the sun or ignoring the episodes of high temperatures. At the moment, the four days of the heat wave that punishes Spain It has already been charged The life of five workers For heat blows, according to The latest data of ccoo. Work abroad and poorly conditioned places. According to CCOO information, four of the five victims killed in accidents at work, showed Symptoms of having suffered heat blows as a consequence of performing outdoors and hours of maximum exposure to heat. The fifth deceased was inside an industrial ship without sufficient ventilation or thermal protection, which makes these facilities Horn during the summer and in fridge during the winter. According to collected statements by him Eldiario.es “He said that his head hurt and that he was going to the service. When they went to look for him he was lying on the ground, they tried to revive him, but he had died.” Sources of CCOO said that “the ship has a plate roof, it is not divided and does not have air conditioning, so the heat is concentrated. José had told us that they were very hot in summer and cold in winter, and we had denounced it to the company.” Prevention is not a whim. After the modifications of the Occupational Risk Prevention Law applied in 2023 by the Royal Decree-Law 4/2023a series of prevention measures designed specifically to protect employees during the increasingly common episodes of high temperatures were established. Unlike other occupational hazards, heat episodes They are predictable Thanks to meteorological forecasts, so companies can (and must) apply action plans to adapt to them. In article 4.2 of the Workers Statuteit is established that the company must guarantee employees “their physical integrity and an adequate policy of occupational risk prevention”, while the Occupational Risk Prevention Law It demands that companies “take appropriate measures for the protection of workers who work outdoors or in places that cannot be closed.” In addition, the regulations contemplate the extreme to be able to temporarily cancel work activity “in those cases where the proper protection of the working person cannot be guaranteed.” It all starts when the Aemet gives the notice. 2023 regulations establish that the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) will be responsible for establishing the alert level that forces companies to activate different protocols by high temperatures. When this organism activates the alerts of orange level or red level by episodes of high temperatures, companies of the affected territories For that alert they must activate their Occupational Risk Prevention Protocols due to thermal stress. Such and As I remembered The Minister of Labor and Social Economy, that activation indicates that companies are bound by law A: Facilitate time flexibility or redistribute the day To avoid maximum exposure hours. This is achieved well advancing the time of entry or delaying the usual departure time, as well as changing the activity to adequate interior areas or with lower exposure to high temperatures. When it is not viable to adapt the working day, the company can choose to reduce the day during the alert periods, being able to recover that adjustment time when the heat episode ends. The most drastic measure is the total interruption of the working day when none of the previous relief measures can be applied, but it is mandatory if the climatic conditions can put the health of employees at risk. Interior heat prevention. Not being exposed to the direct sun does not mean that heat strokes cannot occur, especially in places like kitchens o jobs in which you are exposed to heat sources. He Annex III of Royal Decree 486/1997of April 14, establishes the minimum provisions of safety and prevention of thermal stress for work that must be carried out indoors. In general terms, limits between 17 and 27 are established for sedentary work and between 14 to 25º for light jobs, as well as sufficient ventilation and air conditioning systems for Maintain that temperature throughout the working day. Responsibilities and obligations. In case of extreme heat episodes, the regulations establish that companies are responsible for the application of adequate prevention measures to protect employees from thermal stress. Failure to comply with that responsibility involves sanctions for the company ranging from 2,451 euros to 49,180 euros for infractions considered serious, and up to 983,736 euros for very serious infractions. On the other hand, employees have the obligation to ensure compliance and denounce their breach, in addition to adopting Other additional protection measureshow to maintain a Adequate hydration although it is not thirsty during the most heat episodes and respecting the rest times in fresh places. In Xataka | There is heat wave, you work less: what does the law say exactly on the workday under extreme temperatures Image | Unspash (Nik)

We are at the doors of the “shortest” day of our lives

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If you feel that days are less, maybe it is because our planet has stepped on the accelerator. Since 2020, and for reasons that Astronomers are still investigatingthe Earth has been rotating on its axis at a speed slightly higher than usual, beating all records since we have atomic measurements. The next record could happen in a few days. The shortest documented day. According to predictions of astrophysicist Graham Jonesthere are three key dates in 2025 in which the Earth could register its fastest turn since there are records: July 9, on July 22 or August 5, 2025. In one of those three days there will be all the conditions for the Earth to approach or exceed the historical record so far, which is not very distant: on July 5, 2024. Other experts do not have it so clear and believe that the shortest day of this year could remain some milliseconds above the record last year. An anomaly of milliseconds. A solar day lasts 86,400 seconds; That is, 24 hours. However, the rotation of the earth is not perfect and has tiny variations. These fluctuations are translated into milliseconds above or below the reference figurethat we can measure thanks to the precision of atomic watches. Until 2020, the shortest day registered lacked 1.05 milliseconds for 24 hours. But since then, every year has overcome that threshold. In 2021, the shortest day was 24 hours – 1,47 ms; In 2022, it was 24 hours −1.59 ms; In 2023 it rose to 24 hours −1.31 ms and in 2024 he came down again, marking the current record. The shortest day ever documented was on July 5 of last year, which lasted 24 hours -1.66 ms. Why this summer. The dates planned for 2025 coincide with the moments in which the moon orbit places it at its furthest point from the Earth’s Ecuador. The lunar position influences the speed of rotation of our planet, although it is not the main factor of the current acceleration, which remains a mystery. The most fascinating thing about this acceleration is that it goes against the trend. For billions of years, The Moon has been braking the rotation of the Earth. About 4.5 billion years ago, one day on Earth it lasted between three and six hours. The gravitational attraction of the Moon generates the tides, and this constant friction of the oceans has been stealing angular momentum to the earth, which slows its speed. No one expected this acceleration. The models that scientists usually use take into account ocean currents and atmospheric movements, but fail to explain this sudden acceleration. The main hypothesis points to complex and still little understood processes In the core of our planet. The planet’s engine has “changed marching.” If this braking trend continued without interruption, in about 50,000 million years, the rotation of the earth would be synchronized with the orbit of the moon. The result would be a “tide blocking” where the earth would always show the same face to the moon, so that our satellite would only be visible from the middle of the planet. In any case, we will not be here. Within about 10,000 million years, the sun will become a white dwarf. Already by then, the earth will take time being uninhabitable. In Xataka | The second intersects seriously distort our time measurement. But we have no easy alternatives

They are a simple way to save lives

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Surely you have noticed them on a road trip, taking a walk through the field or in the vicinity of an airport. They are spheres of an intense orange or red that hang from the highest cables of high voltage lines. They might seem an inscrutable electrical piece, but reality is much simpler. They serve to save lives. Far from being an electrical component, these spheres have a simple function regulated by international aeronautical regulations. They have nothing to do with the management of electricity that circulates through the cables. His mission is to see. Signaling beacons. The technical name of these balls is spherical visual signaling beacons or beacon spheres, for friends. Its objective is to signal the presence of electric laying on aircraft pilots that fly at low altitude: helicopters, light airplanes, fumigation planes or emergency services, hot air balloons … In conditions of little visibility, with the light of dawn or sunset, or simply because of the thinness of the cables themselves, a high voltage line can become practically invisible against the bottom of the terrain or sky, which represents a risk of catastrophic collision. The spheres, with their bright colors and their considerable size, break the camouflage of the electric laying and alert the pilots of an obstacle that could be a deadly trap. They regulate civil aviation. Its installation is mandatory in areas of special risk according to the civil aviation regulations of each country, which in turn usually follows the guidelines of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). That is why they are usually quite standardized. They are in the vicinity of airports and helipuertos, crossing large valleys or rivers, in mountainous areas where aircraft can fly below the top and on large masses of water, such as lakes or reservoirs. They are not small. Its diameter is usually a minimum of 60 cm, although they can reach 90. They are made of light but extremely resistant to ultraviolet rays, such as reinforced polyester with glass fiberglass or high density polyethylene. Its weight is around 5 to 7 kilograms. The most common color is aviation orange, but white and red are also used, sometimes alternately, to maximize visibility in different light conditions and varied funds, such as a snowy field or a cloudy sky. The distance between spheres does not usually exceed 60 meters, although it can be reduced to 30 meters in critical areas such as the vicinity of a landing track. Secondary function. Although its main purpose is air security, these spheres fulfill a second ecological function: the protection of the avifauna. Bird collisions against electrical lines are one of the main causes of unnatural mortality for many species, especially for large and fast flights such as craps, stork or raptors. As for a pilot, for a bird in full migratory flight a thin cable is almost undetectable. Color beacons act as an element of visual deterrence that helps birds identify the obstacle and vary their course. In fact, in this field more specific devices have emerged already complementary, known as lifeguard or bird flight divers. In Xataka | The great paradox of solar energy: the cheaper it is, the more the electricity grid collapses worldwide

Influencers have stopped having normal lives

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The last controversy on the Spanish Internet comes from the hand of Lola Lolita and the creator of content Nil Ojeda. A documentary about the day to day of the popular influencer has unleashed the controversy by The behavior of its protagonist. And, above all, puts on the table how our relationship with the Celebrities From the Internet: from people who could be our friends and whose main value was closeness, to an exhibition of economic power that greatly moves them away from most of their audience. What happened? The video corresponds to the series 21 days between millionairesin which Ojeda spends full days with different people of high economic high status, usually very young. In less than 24 hours, the episode dedicated to the influencer Lola Lolita It has unleashed negative reactions that have not occurred in those of others of the protagonists of the series. Some of your comments They have been considered class or haughtyreceiving special attention a conflict generated by the purchase of luxury bags. As part of a “personal favor” that Lola asks in the episode, she requests that you buy a Saddle de Dior bag valued at about 4,000 euros. However, Nil decides to distribute the budget and proposes to buy two Louis Vuitton bags (about 2,000 euros each), for Lola and one of his companions, Leto, which causes Lola’s anger. Finally, Lola chooses the East West onthego bag from Louis Vuitton, of 2,800 euros. Reaction against. Criticisms accuse her of abuse not only the rest of the people who make up the group but also to the workers of the luxury shops to those who come. It is a behavior that Some content creators Specialized in this type of material have not seen how especially surprising, if the personality and trajectory of Lola Lolita is known, which has starred in numerous controversies: Ha trivialized breast cancertheir relationship with brands and different campaigns It has been problematic And, in general, he has led a life, like that of so many others Influencers“alien” to normal and the day -to -day problems of most of its followers. The origin of the influence. If for something the case of Lola Lolita is useful to be able to contrast it with the first Influencersthat in a very primitive version they began to appear on blogs and YouTube around the change of the 10th semi-stirred names as Chusita Fashion Fever, Inesmellamn either MUZSKA89 They were the Pioneers of Youtuber stardom, whose main characteristic was its naturalness before the Chamber or addressing everyday problems. Digital democratization allowed, very shortly after, people like Elrubius, Vegetta777 or Loulogio became referents. Anyone could be. Instagram arrives. The next step in evolution occurred in 2012, when Instagram arrived in Spain and people like María Pombo and Marta Pombo, already closer to What we understand today as influencer And, of course, much more on the line of Lola Lolita. Often linked to the fashion world, their recurring themes became travel and lifestyle with luxury exhibition, often with sponsorships and paid advertising. Tiktok and pointers in the format, such as Marta Díaz, finished consecrating the brief video as the preferred format of the public. He soon arrived professionalization, and with it, new generations of creators as disparate as Georgina Rodríguez or Ibai Llanos. To the elite. Many of those mentioned (María Pombo, Georgina), more others such as Dulceida, Gala González, Marta Lozano or Alexandra Pereira have built empires with millions of followers and millionaire contracts. Often its content goes to the time of a lifestyle completely to normal: exclusive trips, very expensive fashion, unattainable marks, luxury and exclusive consumption. They thus become aspirational funnels very different from the first influencers, but also have a negative side: their occasional lack, halfway between the character and genuine behavior, of any type of empathy or contact with everyday reality. The bubble. The life of Influencers Millionaires usually pass in a bubble of privileges, exclusive trips and collaborations with luxury brands. Sociologist Silvia Muelas tells that “The media survival of these characters depends many times on their ability to generate controversy or show excesses, which leads to an exhibition of self -destructive or disconnected behaviors of reality.” But it is not only about isolation, but that fame or money makes them little empathic: the escape from influencers to Andorra, headed by Elrubius, Not to pay taxes; THES OF THEGREGF as homemade; Willyrex’s phase like NFT Adalid… The arrival of money seems to have taken away many of them from normality and has led them to out of control that is giving birth to a generation of influencers as detached from normality such as Lola Lolita. Header | Nil Ojeda In Xataka | The Prado Museum closed its doors so that Dua Lipa could create content. That has generated a furious debate

how the LGBTI community of Seville lives the passion of Holy Week from within

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In 2019 a video was viralized which showed a group of young people by teaching the Virgen de los Dolores in a procession of the Holy Week of Seville. The delivered of the compliments (“Queen of Holy Tuesday!”, “The whole neighborhood for you!”) And the tone with which they were thrown unleashed all kinds of comments, many of them openly homophobic and, above all, Plumophobes. In any case, they did not surprise those who are used to Holy Week in the Andalusian capital and their intimate relationship between the Catholic fervor and the very personal LGTBI militancy of many of the devotees of the images. To scream, young. Actually, the phenomenon of the “chillaores”, as these young people are known, has nothing again, as they believe some guardians of the essences of Holy Week (although it is true that it is now when the Church has been in favor of “Cut Hysterisms”). For example, in 1916, Eugenio Noel already I documented phrases As “this virgin goes through the crotch to all the virgins of Seville” shouted to the passage of hope Macarena. Humble neighborhoods. These cheers had a lot of social vindication in their day, since both the Triana and Macarena neighborhood were popular areas that adorned their virgins as a challenge to the aristocracy of the central processions. There the screams with a corrosive point made sense, intolerable for central (and ecclesiastical) power. Today Seville is a very different citybut customs bloom again: Noel talked about how at Madrugá “the cathedral does not close, the taverns either, and the life of the brothels is more active than ever.” Holy Week is a performative activity, whether it opts for dawn and extreme sobriety. “Dolores beautiful!” This was what Jesus Pascual realized when he saw the viral video. He began to investigate the strong LGTBI component of Holy Week in Seville and embodied it in a documentary entitled as the cry that the launched by the Chillaores of the video, and that can be seen in Filmin and Prime video. The result is an amalgam of influences that make clear the popular nature of Holy Week in Seville and how symbols can be reinterpreted without losing anything of its original meaning. At the same time paradoxically corrosive and traditional, ‘Dolores beautiful!’ He is revealing especially when the self -denominated “shellfish shelves” speak of the tradition of the steps and the bearers as a land paid for gay feeling. Two ways to see it. In Dolores beautiful! It is said that “there are two religions: that of Rome and that of Seville.” It refers to Catholicism and the multiple ways of understanding its iconography, where the Virgin Mary, pure femininity and maternal symbol, is both symbol pio and diva to dress like a folkloric (another eminently Andalusian environment that The gays have made their owndespite the traditionally homophobic opposition of the most immobilistic church and Spain). Rodríguez Ojeda, referent. In the documentary it is mentioned, as an essential reference, to the embroidery Juan Manuel Rodríguez Ojedarecognized homosexual that revolutionized Holy Week at the end of the 19th century. Among his essential works are The mantle of the Virgen de la Macarena (which was revolutionary in his day, to distance himself from the most sober mantles seen so far) or the costumes of the Roman century, which decorated With feathers and leotards. This color and precious made a lot to inject from an unheard of sensitivity queer to the Holy Week of Seville. In fact, with him a prototype gay participation was established in artistic work, jewelers to virgin dressing rooms. Your double morals, thanks. Although this homosexual presence is open and recognized, in many cases declared, there is still some tension: integration is there, but the signal also: the Church demands “moral” behaviors to homosexuals and divorced. The cries to the Virgin are thus a form of claiming a reality that, due to the presence of the Church, cannot be official: once again, as happened before in cinema and in music, Sensitivity Camp serves as a statement of intentions (and as the construction of an alternative family environment in the face of your own rejection). New times for the Baroque. In recent times, new artists and movements that claim this reality have emerged. Carlos Carvento Merge Sevillan mantillas with attitudes of Drag Queen; groups like PALIO PROJECT they fight for trans visibility in the brotherhoods; And finally, scandals like the Holy Week poster of 2024 From Salustiano García, who questioned the iconography of Christ, they open debates that help to make visible a struggle of aesthetics and wills that have been bubbling into the brotherhoods. Header | Europa Press In Xataka | Why the LGBT+ Pride Day remains necessary, explained by its protagonists

That my mobile can see for me is as scary as fascinating. I have tried Gemini Live’s eyes

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In December 2024 OpenAi surprised the world with a simply brutal function: Chatgpt had “eyes” and was able to see and interpret the world in real time. The demo was simply impressive: the app, through the camera, could recognize everything I saw. And everything is everything. In early 2025, Google announced great novelty to Gemini Liveyour advanced voice mode. A way that comes to compete directly with this chatgpt function, and that is already available for Google Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25. As long as you pay the Advanced subscription. I have been able to prove this function in a Google Pixel 9 Pro. And yes, it’s as impressive as you might think. The interface. Acting the new “Vision” modes of Gemini Live is quite simple. You just have to open the app and go to the advanced voice mode (the icon of the lower right corner). Once Gemini Live is opened, you will see two new direct accesses: one to give access to the camera and another to give access to your screen. Because yes, you can also read the content of the screen in real time. Camera mode. When activating the camera mode, Gemini will see everything that the camera transmits. It is simply spectacular how it is capable of recognizing absolutely everything, and how quickly is recognizing concrete aspects such as plant types, technological device model (without putting anything in it). We can ask you everything, and it serves as a guide, translator and … private professor. The latter has seemed spectacular: solve equations, psychotechnical problems and all kinds of questions explaining the step by step. Screen mode. This mode is perhaps the most movie at the privacy level but, if we are willing, Gemini is able to read everything you see on the screen. We can ask you any issues related to it. In this case I have not seemed so useful, since Google Lens gives us in a look at the necessary information if we are looking for something in particular. However, it is another sample of Gemini’s new potential. Do not trust AI, never. As always with AI, the recommendation is not to trust it. It is curious as, in a general plane of my desk, he has been able to perfectly recognize my computer. However, by focusing it directly, he told me that he did not see any computer. I have helped him asking if he is a Mac Mini M1 or a M4… and the answer has been that an M1 (they are very easily distinguishable by ports and size). He has also been wrong reading some numbers when asked about some psychotechnical test and, ultimately, you have to be quite above so that it works well. Nor of your questions. The problem shared by Gemini Live and GPT’s advanced conversation mode is clear: they are too much ask. To foster conversation, the answers with a question always end, something especially annoying in this mode of vision. It is very difficult to get to the grain, since it usually interrupts the complete answer with some question. It is still a smaller problem shared with all AI, but breaks the conversational flow a bit. Despite this, Gemini Live’s vision seems barbaric. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Google Gemini: What is it, how it works, differences with GPT and when you can use this artificial intelligence model

The price of coffee lives one of the biggest climbs in its history. The UN thinks that the worst has not yet happened

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They are not easy times. That is the summary when we have some Eggs in full price escalationthe triggered cocoa Due to illegal gold mining And a coffee that has achieved historical values. In the case of coffee we have been anticipating the storm for months, with a product that was Marking maximums in the stock market and with brands absorbing the coup until have stopped doing it. And, in the middle of that uncertain panorama on the price of coffee, the United Nations arrives to tell us that the worst has not yet been. What about coffee? A set of factors, actually. To the difficulties of transporting raw coffee, aggravated by the increase in freight due to conflicts such as the Red Sea, these last crops are added. Vietnam and Brazil are two great coffee producers worldwidebut the climatic phenomena known as the boy and the girl have affected coffee spots -coffee plants. Both phenomena affected similar forms to countries so remote, causing the same in both: higher temperatures and droughts in some producing areas, as well as an alteration of the rainy season that fall torrentially in a short period of time. As a result, the harvest is poorer and quality can also be seen injured. Maximums. That the two largest coffee producers reduce their production is something that affects the rest of the industry. On the one hand, Arabica coffee is the most coveted among specialty coffee producers and is usually more expensive, with Astronomical examples such as Geisha Café. On the other, although the robust is usually cheaper, specialty coffee is already being created with this variety and something more important: it is the basis of something as consumed as instant coffee. As a result, in the New York ICE bag, the Arabica increase 70% in 2024 and an additional 25% in the first months of this 2025. In the case of the robust, the record is got On January 31 with $ 5,840 per ton in the London Stock Exchange, with increases of up to 6% in a single day. Prices also increase for producers and exporters. As we read in Reutersall the main territories experienced increases in 2024 compared to the levels of 2023. And not small: Ethiopia 17.8%. Kenya 12.3%. Brazil 13.6%. Colombia 11.7%. Indonesia 15.9%. Vietnam 5.8%. Bit with delay. The problem is that the price does not rise for producers, toaster and exporters while for the customer. For example, prices achieved In the bag a few days ago they are those of the cargo that will be delivered in May of this year, and it will be from there when the ‘domestic’ price will continue to increase. And it will not be the last climb. In his last report About the state of coffee, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization -Fao- estimates that coffee prices increased 3.8% in December 2024 in Europe at a retail level, 6.6% in the United States. The dynamic is that a 1% increase in international coffee prices cause an increase of 0.24% at a retail level after 19 months, with 80% of the accumulated impact transmitted in the following 11 months. In the case of the United States, this 1% increase in the international price translates into an increase in the retail price of 0.20% after 13 months. In the case of the US, 80% of the accumulated impact is transmitted in eight months. “Inelastic”. This word is interesting, but it is simple to understand: it is the one that defines goods that do not have substitutes and that, therefore, no matter how the price increases, consumers will continue to buy them. Well, in its report, FAO ensures that “given the inelastic nature of coffee demand, it is unlikely that consumption decreases significantly in both markets” -American and European. That is, as there are no alternatives to coffee, no matter how much prices upload us, consumers will continue to acquire this product. Nor is there anything to intervene because, as FAO herself concludes, coffee consumption represents less than 1% of the annual household spending. From the US National Coffee Association they do not share this, affirming that “the great price increase eaten the liquidity of the customers. They do not have all the money to buy what they need” and ensure that they have sold 30% less of the production when, at this point, they would no longer have reservations. It all depends on three countries. Until now, we have talked about the increase in coffee price for wholesalers, but if we are going to the price that consumers pay, FAO estimates that, in December 2024, a coffee was 6.6% more expensive than in December 2023 in the United States. In the case of the European Union, the increase was 3.75%. Therefore, and taking into account that delayed coup of the price increase in coffee, it seems that the worst is yet to come. From FAO they see this as an opportunity for greater research in technology, research and development of the coffee sector and, above all, to increase the climate resilience of coffee. Although there are many coffee, Vietnam, Indonesia and Brazil producers are the authentic monsters of the great market, but climate change is leaving us two lessons. One is the one that is causing the scarcity and increase of current prices: more unpredictable climatic events on dates that unravel coffee cultivation, therefore affecting crops. On the other hand, it is also an opportunity. We are already seeing that there are those who insist on growing coffee outside Coffee beltwith coffee trees growing wildly in Sicily and Plantations in Andalusia or Catalonia They are testing the viability of growing coffee in such unavailable conditions. Final of the tunnel in sight? What is clear is that the world is thirst for coffee and, with a China increasingly passionate For this drink, it is urgent to have a much more stable stage. In Reuters We read that there are also those who take the … Read more

Spain lives a brutal birth crisis. And that is causing mothers above 40 years to grow more than ever

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In Spain they are born every time Less children. And increasingly. The balance That the INE has just published with the first global photography of birth and mortality in Spain throughout 2024 leaves some surprises but above all confirm the trends that have been marking the demography of the country for years. And one of the clearest is the gradual delay of motherhood: more and more women have children turned 40 or even with 50. And there is a fact that clearly reflects it: 10.4%. A (small) joy. They are still provisional data, so the photo that leaves The last report of the INE could vary over the coming months. However, waiting for the definitive balance, Spain seems to have closed 2024 with a (small) demographic joy. His birthday has rebounded. In a shy and that has not served to compensate for the number of deaths and thus avoid a vegetative balance in Red numbersbut at least allows you to cut the negative trend of the last decade. A percentage: 0.4%. That is the birth increase registered by the INE in 2024: 0.4%which translates into 1,378 births rather than in 2023. Throughout the last year they came to the world in Spain 322,034 babies, almost 1,400 more than during the previous 12 months. The data leaves a positive reading and another that is not so much, depending on how much we amounts to the temporal focus when analyzing it. The first is that it represents the first birth rise since 2014, when the balance touched the 427,600 babies. However, despite that climb, the Spanish demographic engine does not have today Nothing to do With the years of the Baby Boomthere for 50, 60 and mid -70s, when they were born in the country between 650,000 and 660,000 babies a year. The INE reflects for example that in 1975 they were noted almost 669,400so since then the collapse has been 52%. And a figure: 33,570. The balance of the INE helps to understand another of the key factors of Spanish demography: maternity. And when analyzing one of Trends clearer is its progressive delay. More and more Spanish have children with 40 or more years, to the point that in 2024 that profile was behind 33,570 births. What does that mean? That one out of ten Babies born in Spain (10.4%) already do it from women who exceed thirty. In 2014 that percentage was significantly lower, of 7.2%. Year Births of women 40 or more years Middle Ages to Maternity 2000 10,163 30.72 2004 15.017 30.87 2008 22,026 30.83 2012 28,289 31.56 2016 34,452 32.0 2020 34,858 32.3 2024 33,570 32.6 (data of 2023) Looking back. In 2014 the INE scored 30,946 births of women of 40 or more years, so that the increase has been 8.5% in a decade. During the same period the number of babies born of mothers under 25 years fell 21.9% and the births of women between 25 and 39, the one with the greatest weight, retreated 27.9%. If you look further back the trend is even clearer. In 2000 the INE counted in Spain 397,632 birthsof which 10,163 were related to women who had already arrived or exceeded quarantine. That is, at that time its weight was only 2.5% of the total and the number of lighting has shot 230% since then. In 2004, women of 40 or more years starred 15,017 birthswith what your number has doubled. The other indicator: Middle Ages. There is another clue that helps to understand how they are quickly changing motherhood in Spain: its Middle Agesan indicator that has practically not stopped growing over the last decades. If in 1976 it was located in 28.51in 2000 it was already 30.72, in 2010 it climbed at 31.2 and in 2023 it was 32.6 years. That is, the average has increased more than four years since the 70s. In the EU, a gradual increase of the age at which women have their first offspring. What are the causes? The big question. The increase in what the INE calls “Middle Ages to Maternity” And the number of women who give birth to the 40 years coincides with other phenomena that directly affect women, as the Professor of Human Geography Rafael Puyol recently pointed out in An article dedicated to the Spanish demographic crisis. The expert specified in particular the educational revolution and the incorporation and women into the labor market, in addition to cultural changes and the family model. Images | Jessica Pankratz (Flickr) and INE In Xataka | Spain has turned paternity into a poverty risk factor: raising a child costs 758 euros per month

How many things they presented then have reached our lives

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How young we were all ten years ago. How different everything was, also in technology. How different? A good way to understand it is to take a look at the Great products and trends that occurred in CES 2015. The Fair par excellence of technology and consumer electronics gave Much to talk (and write) in Xatakabut what remained of all that? That is, what products really raised changes that were durable? What trends ended up making sense? And of course, what products did they fail? This is a small review in which we precisely explore how and how much things have changed a decade later. A small time trip confirming something we have always known: that technology moves fast. A lot. OLED 4K TELES (Or was UHD said?) Enter and increasing The Smart TV segment then accelerated clearly. The manufacturers began to aim a future in the OLED technology It would be the protagonist, as has finally happened. The thrust of the 4K resolutions It was also evident, and little by little I would conquer absolutely all the catalogs of the different brands. In fact it was then when He was born The UHD Alliance call. There was some confusion with the terms 4K, UHD or DCI 4K. In fact, many of the current alternatives are evolution of those first OLED models, and in CES 2015 we saw how for example LG resisted To leave the LCD panels. This firm also promoted Your operating system, Webos 2.0to govern your smarttv. That was a singular advance, because thanks to the arrival of Quick Start the start -up time of Webos became 3 or 4 seconds when until then it had been 30 seconds !! Inconceivable! Samsung, his great rival, bet in his place for Tizen. It was clear that televisions wanted to be the absolute center of the entertainment experience at home, although here Google would end up taking the cat to the water with Android TV. Samsung tried to continue betting on Tizen for a long time, but last year He said goodbye to this platform In his smart TV with a clear objective: that the witness in 2025 takes. Curves for not all, thanks Ten years ago there was a great trend in all types of screens: make them curves. That for example we saw On LG’s teles and even in all-in-one teams like the Samsung Ativ One 7 of the time, which presumed a screen (slightly 4000r) curved. Samsung Ativ One 7 Of course, Samsung was not the only one, and HP raised for example Curved monitorsUHD and up to 5k with which to increase productivity. The curve in monitors has become little frequent: only some ultrapanoramic monitors such as the Samsung Odyssey have a real party. But if there were devices with striking curved screen, those were mobile phones. In this CES 2015 Samsung He bet again For this option and launched the LG G FLEX 2a mobile that even today attracts attention for that design. That trend remained in that, and soon the manufacturers understood something that consumers saw from the first moment: the practical advantages of that were almost non -existent, although certainly The “wow” effect was patent. Over time that trend was transformed into another type of curved screen: those that made the screens “wrapping” the sides of the mobiles, something that has not finished curdling either. Today the trend is clear, and Manufacturers have said goodbye definitive (or almost) to this type of designs. Recording everything that happens to us In recent weeks, interest in devices that record everything we say or do so that AI allows us to extract data seems to have been reactivated. The pendants and other wearables launched recently demonstrate it. However, the idea is not at all new. 10 years ago the call was presented in CES 2015 Narrative Clip 2a small device that was easily placed in our clothes and that allowed to capture a photo every 30 seconds, although it also allowed to capture videos of 30 seconds. That did not prosperand not even AI could be enough for these products that listen to us and record everything today. Blessed screens without frames Not long ago, in a not too distant place, the frames dominated everything. Smartphones, tablets, and of course laptops had notable frames on their screens. Thus were the screen frames before 2015 (laptop from behind) and then (XPS 13, in front). What a difference. And then Dell arrived, who presented his Dell XPS 13 (9343) and changed everything. Those laptops stood out for almost completely eliminate screen frames. It was wonderful. That seemed impossible, but that obvious improvement in design also accompanied him a functional and practical: a 13 -inch laptop occupied what he used to occupy an 11 -inch, for example. Dell showed that reducing the frames to their minimal expression was something we didn’t know we wanted. That idea soon conquered all kinds of devices, and little by little we saw how the frames They disappeared also of our TVs “I had some.” brave attempt years ago, but the trend resurfaced strongly In 2014– and Our mobiles. There was another consequence of that. A staff. Dell XPS 13 (9343) left me so hallucinated that I would end up buying that team shortly after. Ten years later, by the way, he continues to war: he still uses it with some frequency, but who uses it daily is my daughter, which I will have to teach him how the laptops “before.” Curiosities: some triumphed, others not These trends were accompanied by that 2015 several significant releases. Nvidiafor example, he presented that year His Tegra X1 chipswhich seemed to be aimed at mobile devices and even vehicles, but that have become famous for being the heart of the Nintendo Switch. Of course at that time it was impossible to know: that console would not arrive until March 2017. This Asus Zenfone 2 stood out for putting aside the Qualcomm chips and betting on … Read more

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