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The mystery of the price of gasoline

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We are in the middle of August and the asphalt burns, not just by the sun. The massive holiday displacements reach their peak and thousands of drivers look sideways at the fuel marker before embarking. In a summer marked by energy volatility, the cost of filling the deposit is again the protagonist, with ups and downs that depend on both the global and the gas station that is chosen. A fall that barely feels. According to the latest data from the European Union Petroleum Bulletinthe average price in Spain is 1,483 euros per liter for 95 and 1,424 euros for diesel. Testimonial declines are: 0.2 less for gasoline and 0.8 cents for diesel compared to the previous week. In the supplier, the difference is practically imperceptible. Compared to a year ago, savings is more visible – a 7.3% less in gasoline and 2.8% in diesel – but filling today an average 55 -liter deposit continues to hover the 81 euros in gasoline and 78 in diesel. And, as a Facua study recalls cited by the countrythat invoice depends so much or more on the gas station than on the international market: reposting diesel in Murcia can cost up to 79 more cents per liter between the most expensive and cheapest station. Factors that press up. At the international level, the price of Brent crude – reference in Europe – is around $ 67.27 per barrel. OPEC+ has announced which will increase the offer in 547,000 barrels per day as of September, but this type of movements takes to reflect in the suppliers. Within Spain, electricity remains an inflationary engine. The INE has confirmed That the IPC rose to 2.7%, its highest level since February, due to a price increase of 17.3% and, to a lesser extent, of fuels. Transportation, which includes fuels, plane tickets and combined passenger transport, also rose 0.2%. Facua has warned in a report for the country That price disparity is not a matter of quality, but of competition, location and commercial margins. The risk of calm will last little. The Savings Banks Foundation (Funcas) provides that inflation reaches 3% in September, As detailed in the voice of Galicia. If it is fulfilled, that pressure could be transferred back to gasoline and diesel, especially in a context where electricity and food continue to take care after the end of the VAT reduction. The Ministry of Economy insists that the Spanish economy maintains “a strong dynamism” and that employment and salary increases cushion the impact, but for the average driver the sensation is another: pay the same – or more – for each kilometer. Beyond refueling. In this context, choosing well where to refuel can be a remarkable savings. Tools like The Facua search engine They allow to locate the most economical stations in each area. Even so, reposting in Spain is still somewhat cheaper than in much of Europe. The difference is around 14 cents per liter in gasoline and about 13 cents in diesel in front of the EU average, and reaches 20 cents if compared to the euro zone. Glimpseing the rebound. The slight price drop in August does not change the general photo: the fuel is still expensive and the forces that push it up there are still there. The relief, if it can be called that, could be just an intermediate before the score rises again. In August, as important as choosing fate is to decide where and when to fill the tank. Image | Pxhere Xataka | That almost all cars in a country were electric seemed like a chimera. Until a poor and remote country got it

The “Death whistles” Aztecs were always a mystery. Until we discovered why they give us so many chills

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The “Death whistles” Aztecs have surprising peculiarity: their intimidated appearance, but much more does its sound. Although the artisans manufactured them in the shape of a skull and figures that are today interpreted as references to Mictlantecuhtlithe Aztec King of the underworld, it is his loudness that has been intrigued by archaeologists for years. Not surprisingly if one takes into account that when we take one of these instruments to the lips and blow, something occurs similar to a human cry. It’s hard to listen to it without feeling uncomfortable. A group of researchers wanted to go further and investigate why we feel what we feel when we listen to the whistles of Aztec death. The answer can be key to understanding a piece that is still involved in mystery. Death whistles? Exact. His name imposes, but not as much as his appearance and sound. The “Death whistles” Aztecs are instruments made with clay between three and five centimeters and skull form, a peculiarity that experts interpret as a reference to Mictlantecuhtli, the lord of the underworld. They also include Figures of the Snake of Fire and Owls. Experts believe that the original pieces were manufactured Between 1250 and 1521. Wars or rituals? The first references about them date from End of the 19th centuryalthough probably the most famous specimen was found between 1987 and 1989 in the Ehécatl-Quetzacóatl templein Mexico City. There the archaeologists located the skeleton of a human sacrifice with a whistle, which has given wings to the different theories that try to explain what they were used for. There are those who think that the Aztecs used them in wars to scare their enemies and who believe that their use was basically ritual and symbolic. According to them, the sound would accompany the dead on their trip to Mictlánthe Aztec underworld. To that last theory contributes that death whistles have been found in places where ritual burials and human sacrifices were made. Another interesting clue is that the piece located next to the skeleton recovered in Ehecatl-Quetzcalcóatla circular sanctuary dedicated to the god of the wind, Ehecatl. Today several copies are preserved in facilities of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) or the Berlin Ethnological Museum. And how do they sound? Here are A few examples So you can check it. Depending on how they are used, whistles produce a siseo or a much deeper, intimidating sound, similar to a human cry. Recently a group of researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH) set out to go nevertheless and answer two big questions: why do they sound like they sound? And why listening to them produces such an overwhelming feeling? Their conclusions were reflected in An article Posted in November in Communications Psychologya magazine of the prestigious Nature Group. How have they done it? With a combination of techniques. The team obtained recordings from several whistles, including two recovered in Tlatelolcohe performed computerized tomographs To create 3D objects and resorted to replicas of whistles made of artisans with clay simulating the characteristics of the originals. Then they registered the sounds and reproduced them to a group of volunteers. To document their reactions well, scientists submitted them to a neuroimaging study. The objective: find out how their brains reacted. What did they find out? To start they discovered that the whistles have “A unique internal construction”with two opposite cameras that generate turbulence in the air and produce that kind of shout that, if archaeologists are right, accompanied the ritual victims in their descent to the underworld. “The whistles have a very unique construction, and we do not know any comparable instrument of other pre -Columbian cultures or other historical and contemporary contexts,” Explain Sacha Frühholz, the professor of cognitive and affective neuroscience who directed the study. The Aztecs are also known for making instruments that imitated the sound of the wind or the songs of the birds. What did they feel when listening to it? That is the most interesting part of the research. The volunteers described the sounds as “extremely chilling and terrifying”, According to verifies The UZH. “The brain regions belonging to the affective neuronal system responded strongly to the sound, which once again confirms its intimidating nature. The team also observed brain activity in regions that associate the sounds with symbolic meaning.” In summary, the volunteers called him “very negative” and “frightening.” “Given the aversive/terrifying and associative/symbolic sound nature, as well as the locations of the excavations known in places of ritual burial with human sacrifices, its use in ritual contexts seems very likely, especially in rites and sacrificial ceremonies related to the dead,” They conclude The experts, who recognize in any case a handicap of their experiment: the test was done with listeners of modern Europe who did not know that they were going to listen to the sounds produced by the old Aztec instrument. Did they find out anything else? Yes, something interesting. The volunteers perceived the sounds of whistle as hybrids, between the natural and the artificial. “They were classified at the psychoacoustic level as a hybrid mixture of voice sounds and screams, but also caused by technical mechanisms,” says research, which slides that this double quality could influence the reaction of the listeners: sound evoked shouts of a human nature, but also tones generated with artificial objects. Images | Sascha Frühholz, UZH and Wikipedia In Xataka | We have found a historical treasure in Mexico. The board game with favorite beans of the Maya and Aztecs

China has resolved the mystery of why there are people who ruin seeing streams: the “榜一大哥”

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A 37 -year -old man has mortgaged his house, sold his shares and indebted to spending 16 million yuan (2.2 million euros) donating money to a streamer called Lili (name modified by the original source, Tencent Newsto preserve its anonymity). His wife has put a lawsuit to try to recover family heritage. Why is it important. Chen Ping’s, told by SCMP, It is not an isolated case. In the Chinese courts there are 302 civil lawsuits related to “Streamers“And” Donations of streaming“. A residual figure considering the 1.4 billion inhabitants of China, but striking as an emerging trend. Of the 67 most relevant sentences, most plaintiffs are women of compulsive donors trying to recover family assets. The Virtual Donations Market in China was already by 140,000 million yuan (about 17,000 million euros = in 2019 and it is projected to reach 417,000 million in 2025 (about 49,000 million euros). The context. The “榜一大哥” (‘Big Brother‘) They do not seek sex or a traditional romantic relationship. They seek to be important in a community where money determines status. The platforms have gamified intimacy: each donation increases your “level of closeness” with the streamerthat will treat you as someone special, remember your name and give you private access by chat, generating that false feeling of intimacy. In detail. Chen Ping, the protagonist of the case, began donating small quantities that climbed a lot in a short time. The platforms offered “Blind boxes“Where paying real money you manage to send random gifts to Streamers to open them live. On your part. Like a casino, but where the prize is not money but virtual social status, let’s say. The streamer Lili had private groups from WhatsApp only for his greatest donors. Chen became administrator of his room streaming. His wife discovered intimate conversations where he wrote “I wait for you in bed” and she sent him videos in underwear. Yes, but. Chen He insists that he was only looking for “friendship” and “be treated as someone important.” In real life he was a manager in his father’s company, but he felt too controlled. In the sTreaming It could be he who started and ends relationships. The figures: In 612 days, Chen spent 13.5 million yuan in his main account and 2.5 million in another high school (1.6 million and 300,000 euros respectively). Only Lili directly donated 1.87 million yuan (220,000 euros) in more than 5,000 transactions. The rest vanished in blind and miniguegos boxes. On the other side. His wife, Ou Qing, lost three judgments trying to recover the money. Chinese courts have no clear jurisprudence: Some consider “consumption” donations (unrecoverable, therefore). Others consider them “gifts” (recoverable if there is adultery). In the end, Chen and Lili never met physically, so legally there was no “inappropriate relationship.” Deepen. This phenomenon is not exclusively Chinese. The Streamers They have discovered that selling artificial intimacy is more profitable than selling content. Muraunth already reinvented line 906 pulling from chatbot. And three years ago we talked about addicts to donate on Twitch. For that false feeling of intimacy, a special talent is not even necessary, just maintaining the illusion that the donor is special. It is the gamification of male loneliness. In Xataka | China has won the data war without stealing any. We have given them to them Outstanding image | Xataka

Mathematicians have been trying to solve the mystery of Da Vinci’s ‘vitruvio’. The answer was in sight

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The history of art is full of universal icons, but few, very few, reach the popularity level of the ‘Vitruvio man’ drawn around 1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. And it is logical. Artistic and scientific issues apart, the work has become a reference Pop. The original is preserved in the Accademia di Belle Arti Venice, but the same face, the same body, has stamped over the last decades in books, t -shirts, sweatshirts, backpacks and posters. That without counting every time we have seen it reproduced on the big screen. The most curious thing is that despite that exhibition, the ‘man of vitruvio’ is still surrounded by mysteries. Or so it was until now, at least. A London dentist believes having solved the complex mathematical puzzle that Leonardo hidden in the work. A name: Marcus Vitruvius. Leonardo da Vinci’s is (by far) the most famous, but the Tuscan genius was not the only one in representing the man of vitruvio. We keep more or less similar samples from other artists, such as Francesco Di Giorgio Martini either Giacomo Andrea de Ferrara. And it’s normal. After all, these are exercises based on the canon of the human body of Marcus Vitruvius (Exactly, hence his name), a Roman architect and engineer. It was he who many centuries before Leonardo theorized about human physiognomy in Of archiecture. “In the body, the central point is the navel. If a man placed himself on his back, with extended hands and feet and a compass focused on the nave The architect theorized Roman in the first century before our era, convinced that a man’s proportions can adjust to a square. But … how to do it? That is the theory. Different thing is practice. Throughout the different artists have launched themselves to represent human physiognomy partially inspired by the canon of proportions proposed by vitrubio. Not everyone with equal fortune. By 1490 Leonardo Da Vinci, who then was around 40, got down to work in one of his notebooks and prepared a drawing that during the last five centuries has fascinated scholars and profane. The work shows a man in several overlapping positions, standing, with extended legs and more or less open arms. All perfectly registered in a square and in a circle in an exercise that would probably have fascinated the Roman architect. We have recorded the result in memory and a quick search arrives on Google to find good quality reproductions, but there is a pending mystery: how the hell did Leonardo did? The great ask unknown. Yes, the result is obvious. And yes, the drawing is there for those who want to copy it in detail. But … what recipe Did Vinci continue to plan and execute it? What calculations did you use? Was it based on any pattern? And if so, what system did you employ? “The search for the Da Vinci geometric method has generated numerous theories, each of which tries to explain the measured relationship between the circle and the square in the original drawing,” Explain Rory Mac Sweeney, the British dentist who believes he has found the key. “For more than 500 years, the Da Vinci geometric system for the precise relationship between the circle and the square in his drawing of the ‘Vitruvio man’ has remained in the mystery,” Mac Sweeney abounds, which has just published An article reviewed by parts in Journal of Maythematics and Arts. What if the key is the golden proportion? His theory is just that, a theory, but it is interesting because it offers an alternative to the most popular explanation, which argues that to draw his drawing Da Vinci was inspired by the Aurea proportionan idea that reinforces the collaboration of the Tuscan with his compatriot Luca Paciolithe author of Of divine proportion. The problem, Remember Mac Sweeneyis that this explanation has not just been perfect. “It produces a significant error, which seems unlikely given Leonardo’s geometric precision.” Good riddle, bad explanation. Other authors have provided alternative explanations to the mystery of Vitruvio, such as Leonardo was based on octagons or a heptagon, but Mac Sweeney believes all these theories present “a fundamental problem”: they approach more or less the measures used by the artist in his diagram, but in the opinion of the British researcher it is difficult to connect them with the themes that really obsessed Da Vinci. “They are still purely abstract mathematical exercises, without connection with Leonardo da Vinci’s documented interest in human anatomy, natural functional and main relationships. As geometric riddles, they work. As explanations of Leonardo’s methodology and intentions, they do not offer a convincing justification of their specific decisions,” Reflect. Hidden “with the naked eye”. The most curious thing is that Mac Sweeney believes that the solution “has been hidden with the naked eye” in the handwritten annotations left by Leonardo himself next to the drawing. Specifically, it refers to a comment in which the artist points out that, with the body in a certain posture, the space between the legs forms an equilateral triangle. For a long time it was believed that this phrase was a simple poetic ornament, pure rhetoric or a practical guide for composition, but the British expert believes that it is the key to mystery. And what is special? That the triangle adjusts to a natural pattern, one that Mac Sweeney knows well for his dentist profession: Bonwill’s trianglean imaginary equilateral triangle of the human anatomy that marks the fundamental geometric relationship for the proper functioning of the jaw. “Connects the mandibular condyles with the midpoint of the lower central incisors and corresponds precisely to Leonardo’s explicit reference to an ‘equilateral triangle’ in its construction of the ‘vitruvio man’”, Clarify. “The construction of Leonardo demonstrates the same tetrahedral principles present in craniofacial architecture,” insists The British dentist before citing studies and calculations that reinforce its hypothesis. “The equilateral triangle, which Leonardo made explicit reference between the legs of the figure, when replicating six times around the navel, creates the … Read more

North Korea has just opened its own “Benidorm” for 20,000 tourists. The mystery is now who will go there

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To Kim Jong-un we usually see him dispatching with uniformed subordinates or supervising missile throws, always cooling in his everlasting MAO neck suit. Much less common is to see it as This Tuesdaywhen it was recorded sitting in a folding chair with a soda and a package of cigarettes while contemplating how people slid down a huge water slide. Nothing strange if we consider that what Kim was doing was neither more nor less than inaugurate The “New Benidorm” North Korea. The Great question Now, after the fanfare and pomp of the inauguration is: How the hell is intended to fill it a hermetic and suspicious country of foreign tourism? Welcome to Wonsan Kalma. North Korea already has His particular Benidorm. Officially, with opening tape cut and fireworks included. Tuesday The leader of the nation, Kim Jong-un, went to the new Megacomplex Kangwon tourist to preside over the start -up of one of its biggest projects: a Marina D´or to the Korean, with aquatic parks, hotels, beach kilometers and ability to accommodate 20,000 guests. MAO NECK WITHOUT. Kim Jong-un is more or less common to see him dispatched with subordinates, meeting with other leaders and supervising missile launches or warships (not always). And in all these cases its aesthetic is usually identical: gray or black suit, usually of the mao neck, and sober expression. Wonsan Kalma is a place of recreation, so there he offered a more informal picture and enjoyed a mass bath which K-pop star. Kim also appeared accompanied by his wife, Ri Sol-Juwho had had a year and a half away from the spotlights, and his daughter Ju-Aeof 12 years already the one that usually signs up as the future heiress of the family saga. Next to them Kim walked along Wonsan beach, inspected the hotels and even sat on a folding chair (refreshment and pitillo by hand) to see how a comrade slid down a water slide. Neither easy nor fast. Wonsan-Kalma is news because North Korea He has just given it By inaugurated, but in reality the project is not new, much less unknown. Moreover, he has been talking about him since 2013, when Kim Jong-un, then just enthroned in the Korea Workers Party advertisement His desire to turn Wonsan into a “tourist city.” Curious bet if one takes into account that the authorities had used the region to Try your missiles. That Kim opts precisely in that area of ​​North Korea is no coincidence: he grew up there, surrounded by luxury, and his coast is bathed by the sea of ​​Japan. The idea was that the new tourist complex was Ready in 2022but on the way several inconveniences crossed: the covid and a serious shortage of materials aggravated by international sanctions, so that his calendar was expanding until he went into the second half of the decade. Last summer the state agency KCNA slid that Wonsan Kalma could be ready in May. It will take something else: you will start receiving visitors July 1. And who will visit it? We know that Wonsan Kalma has hotels, aquatic parks, pools with slides, four kilometers of beachrestaurants and commercial areas, but what is not so clear is how North Korea will manage to fill it. Especially since the government itself remembers that it has the capacity for tens of thousands of visitors: their accommodations can host 20,000 people And in his day he slid that the capacity of the complex would be even greater. The KCNA agency only states that Wonsan-Kalma will begin offering services to “National Clients” As of July 1, without mention of plans to promote the complex or capture visitors outside the country. To the inauguration of Wonsan Kalma, yes, a delegation of Russian authorities including the ambassador, one more sample of the approach between Pyongyang and Moscow. Gesture question. It is not easy to know what plans Kim has in tourism, one of the few legal channels available to the nation to capture foreign currencies; But over the last months the North Korean regime has given forward steps (and Also some other behind) to open timidly to foreign tourism, knocked out after pandemic. By mid -2023 the restrictions They relaxedmonths later the country began to receive Russian visitors already early this year He surprised the world when opening its doors to a reduced handful of Western tourists. That did not last long. Weeks later He turned back. In April the capital celebrated a marathon in which allowed Run to foreigners, especially Russians and Ethiopians. Looking at Russia. The CNN Precise that at the moment the Russians seem to be the only ones who will have it more or less easy to step on the new tourist complex. One of his agencies, Vostok Intur, is in fact promoting several packages for the coming months with Pyongyang scale. Your price? Around 1,800 dollars. In 2019 North Korea received some 300,000 visitors foreigners, especially Chinese, who generated a flow of between 90 and 150 million dollars. Images | KCNA In Xataka | North Korea has revealed a small manhattan of 10,000 apartments. The problem is what is behind the facade

For centuries the blue pigment recipe used by the Egyptians had been a mystery. We just solved it

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Not all Treasures They are made up of jewels, gold and precious stones. For a long time a group of researchers from Washington State University It is behind of a treasure equally fascinating but much more elusive: the Egyptian bluethe synthetic pigment older which is recorded and that once used the artists of the ancient Egyptian to decorate from alabaster bowls to coffins, ceramics and murals. Despite their enormous popularity and that the Romans continued to use it, their recipe was lost over the centuries. Until now. What is Egyptian blue? One of those mysteries that has been intrigued by archaeologists in half the world. Egyptian blue is basically a dye that stands out for two reasons. The first, because it is the synthetic pigment older known to date. It was used thousands of years ago. The second is its bluish tone, which allowed artists to use it as a much more expensive mineral substitute, such as turquoise or lapislázuli. With everything and although we talk about “Egyptian blue” in general, the pigment was very heterogeneous. Depending on where it would have been manufactured, how it would have worked with the material or quality of its components, the tone could vary between gray, a more or less deep blue and a green off. A factor that influenced the process for example was how quickly cooled the mixture. How old is it? Quite. We know that Egyptian blue was already used 5,000 years ago. And that at least. In fact The oldest sample Known is a small alabaster bowl made in the 3250 AC The pigment was used in ceramics, sculptures, murals, sarcophagi, pieces that we still keep today and show its bluish hue. It was also applied to different surfaces, such as wood, stone or cardboard, a material similar to Paper Maché. Did you only use the Egyptians? No. His color liked the artisans so much that the Romans ended up incorporating it into their palette after the conquest of the ancient Egyptian and came to be used during the Renaissance. The Smithsoninan Institute remember that a few years ago it was discovered that at the beginning of the 16th century Rafael used Egyptian blue in the fresco ‘Galatea triumph’a work elaborated for the Villa Farnesina, located in the neighborhood of Constévere, Rome. Although Rafael’s intention could be to imitate the old Roman technique, the Washington State University (WSU) Precise that during the Renaissance the pigment formula had practically fallen into oblivion. That is what a team of researchers has now wanted to solve led by the American institution and who has worked side by side with the Carnegie Museum of natural history and the Institute of Conservation of the Smithsoninan Museum. And how have they done it? Based on trial and error. And try again and again until you give in the nail. The team He thoroughly examined Pigment samples and elaborated 12 recipes in which he experienced with different raw materials and elaboration times. The results have been reflected in An article Posted in NPJ Heritage Science in which he details how he worked with mixtures of silicon, copper, calcium and sodium carbonate dioxide. The main ingredient is the cuprov. To complete the process, the mixed mixture warmed 1,000º Celsius For different times, between one and 11 hours, in an attempt to replicate the temperature with which the ovens of the time work. The resulting samples were also cooled at different speeds to then study their pigments through microscopy and analysis techniques. The results were compared to real pieces of ancient Egypt. Is it so complicated? Beyond the materials used or the techniques with which they were mixed, the great challenge for archaeologists has been to replicate the exact tones that Egyptian artisans worked. “One of the things we observed was that with small variations in the process very different results were obtained,” John McColy commentsone of the authors of the study and director of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering of the WSU. “There were people who made the pigment, he transported it and then used it elsewhere.” During their study the researchers in fact discovered that to obtain the most bluish hue, only half of the components that generate the blue color were needed. “It doesn’t matter what the rest contains and that surprised us”, Add McCloy. “You can see that each particle contains a lot of elements. It is not uniform, much less.” To such an extent that the WSU acknowledges that one of the conclusions reached by the experts is that the pigment is surprisingly diverse. Did you achieve your goal? That seems. In A statement Run a few days ago the WSU says that after trying different formulas and examining the results in detail, its team has managed to “recreate” the famous Egyptian blue. The feat is not only the result of curiosity or advance to better understand the art of the ancient Egyptian. WSU herself recalls that in part the renewed interest in the Egyptian pigment responds to more pragmatic reasons. “In recent years, interest in this pigment has resurfaced due to its optical, magnetic and biological properties, with potential new technological applications,” Point out The institution. “The pigment emits light in the nearby infrared of the electromagnetic spectrum, invisible to the human being, which means that it could be used for purposes such as traces and create anti falsifications.” Images | Washington State University, Matt Unger, Joshua Franzos and Carnegie Museum of Natural History In Xataka | A 2,000 -year -old cup has revealed an unexpected facet of the Egyptians: psychedelic cocktails

The price of Xiaomi Yu7 is still a mystery. That has not prevented the waiting list from buying it is already one year

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The Xiaomi Yu7, the first completely electric SUV of the brand and its second model, has reached the market razing. To the point that your waiting list has shot 350 days. If you live in China and want one, you will have to wait almost a year. 350 days. That is what, according to Carnewschina those who wait to acquire a Xiaomi Yu7. The demand of the model has been so high since its Official presentation which has broken the production chain that cannot be basted for 50 weeks for new reserves. According to data collected by the specialized environment in the Chinese engine market, the waiting time is equivalent to a production of 271,000 vehicles. To get an idea, it is half of the units that They sold in China del Tesla Model and in 2024 So you can consider very good numbers considering that Xiaomi has just entered the electric car market. Without price. The most striking of the Xiaomi Yu7 is that we still do not know its price. And the company will wait to announce it up to one or two days before the first deliveries, according to CNEVPOST. At the moment, it is known that the intention is to launch it in July but it has not been specified what day and the date has not been reconfirmed. A fever called Xiaomi. In spite of everything, the volume of reservations is so high that we will have to wait almost a year to receive the car if you add your waiting list right now. The number of customers has therefore surpassed the Xiaomi Su7 that in all its variants it had more restrained waiting times. However, those “restrained” waiting times were extended to 25 weeks to receive the first units of the company’s first electric. And in March it was announced that the Xiaomi Su7 Prothe intermediate option of the Berlinas presented (with large LFP battery of 94.3 kWh signed by CATL and 295 hp engine) has everything sold by 2025 and the waiting list in this case also extends between 47 and 50 weeks. They explain in Carnewschina That the launch of the Xiaomi Yu7 has also re -raised the number of Berlin reserves, being a new push for the model. Right now, to receive the access model (the one that accumulated 25 weeks of waiting during its launch and which has the small 73.6 kWh battery) it is necessary to wait between 41 and 44 weeks. The fastest thing is to ask for your Xiaomi Su7 Max. To receive the most powerful and face option you have to wait between 31 and 33 weeks. Increasing production. This avalanche of orders has forced the company to increase the production lines for its cars. At first, the objectives were to deliver 300,000 units per year but the only waiting list of the Xiaomi Yu7 already aims to meet that goal. In March last year, in anticipation of the expected it was already confirmed that the company planned to increase production to 480,000 vehicles per year. That growth will come with the New plant which should soon come into operation to produce the electric SUV exclusively. The avalanche of orders, indicate in Carnewschinait could lead to more delays in the delivery of the electric Berlin. At the moment, the objective is to deliver this year 350,000 units, as confirmed by Lei Jun himself, CEO of Xiaomi, months ago in information collected by South China Morning Post. That almost half a million units produced should arrive with the lines already operating at full performance. Unleashed. The media stir in which the arrival of Xiaomi’s first cars has become huge. To get an idea, There are tourists paying a money to learn about the factory where the Chinese company is producing its vehicles, with guided visits included. The noise generated in social networks is huge but that has also raised some criticism and suspicions. Criticism of some buyers who are showing their discontent because some components of the Xioami su7 ultra do not give what is promised either With its quality. And suspicions by Xiaomi herself she has denounced, Like Byda social media harassment campaign with the aim of discrediting the company and its new products. Photo | Xiaomi In Xataka | The Xiaomi Su7 is a rocket: already sells more than the Tesla Model 3 and doubled the electric cars sold from all over Spain

Chinese immigrants have always been a mystery to Spain. The podcast ‘a and a half Chinese’ is solving it from within

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‘A and a half Chinese’ is one of the last phenomena that have emerged in Spain portraying the Chinese-Spanish experience. It’s about A podcast Made by a couple of young people from Chinese origin but totally settled in Spain, and who interview program after program to immigrants from the Asian country (although not exclusively), with which they address extremely diverse issues: from the personal experience of a Chinese that is also black to the evolution of purely Chinese businesses in Spain such as restaurants or bazaars. A combination of success. Jiajun Yin and Lin are the two presenters of ‘A and a half Chinese’, and a fast flutter on the themes of your programs And the extracts that select for social networks make clear the secret of their success, beyond the acidic gaze that translates the Chinese experience in Spain. It is a program that raises a very personal balance between playing with the topics of the Chinese seen from outside (with humor that, if it came from someone not Chinese, would be considered racist, as competitions to open your eyes a lot) and first -hand information about How Chinese immigrants open so many businesses in Spain. Main themes. The themes that Jiajun Yin and Lin van from personal anecdotes to the cultural shock, through the process of dismantling community stereotypes or detailing the differences between generations of migrants. Thanks to their ability to make a speaker of issues little visible in traditional media and, with the help of their closeness and humorous tone, they have earned an audience that exceeds, Only on YouTubealmost 130,000 subscribers. Chinese-Spanish for the world. ‘A and a half Chinese’ is not an isolated phenomenon there are multiple creators and artists who have similar approaches: an integration experience in Spain, but without losing their Chinese identity along the way. For example, without leaving the orbit of podcasts, we have a ‘Banana Generation‘. Its author is Ouyang Zhu, with a more serious point than ‘a Chinese and a half’ and that borders activism, with conversations about the Children of migrants And the problems to integrate, getting to touch aspects such as the relationship between racism and mental health. Second generation. Content creators such as ‘a Chinese and a half’ or ZHu address the needs and concerns of a second generation of migrants. This claimed in ‘El País’ the need to have “mediocre referents“That they are not marked by success or sacrifice. It is a generation often raised in solitude due to the work demands of the parents, who often Invite your podcast to also expose their views. On paper. Not only in the world of podcasts there are authors with these themes. For example, Quan Zhou Wu She is a comic author born in Spain of Chinese parents. Theirs are works such as ‘Gazpacho Agridulce’, ‘Andaluchinas for the world’ and ‘People from here, people from there’, in which they also add up issues such as racism, bureaucracy or the sense of belonging. Minke Wang, meanwhile, is a writer and poet and lives in Spain since the age of ten. In books like ‘Overseas voices‘makes a non -fictional story about the hybrid identity that has marked several generations of his family. A mentality that has marked second generation migrants, who are now being expressed with their own works. In Xataka | China wants to dominate world trade and has a plan in progress: bring the sea to its interior cities

Thirteen years after its discovery, Higgs’ boson is still a mystery. The AI ​​is already ending

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The history of Higgs boson It still has to be written. Almost thirteen years have passed since CERN physicists confirmed that they had found a new particle whose properties were consistent with the characteristics attributed to This peculiar Boson. July 4, 2012 Humanity witnessed a monumental milestonebut that moment was not the culmination of a project; Actually it was the first bend of a path in which we have only taken a few steps. Today physicists continue to study the properties of the Boson of Higgs. In fact, it is so important to know a little better this particle that the CERN technicians have introduced in the LHC, their largest particle accelerator, the necessary modifications to produce several million bosons of Higgs during the next two or three years. Currently this machine operates with a higher level of energy hoping to check if this boson is really a fundamental particle. Or if, on the contrary, it has internal structure. The Higgs boson is important because it allows us to understand how elementary particles acquire mass as a result of their interaction with the Higgs field. If this mechanism did not exist Standard modelthat even today is the most successful physics theory, it would not be valid. Whatever CERN physicists have a plan to know it better. The AI ​​is already helping particle physicists to decipher the Higgs boson CERN scientists have tried to recreate the necessary conditions to produce as much as possible of hyggs bosons pairs simultaneously and in the same place. It is not at all a capricious purpose. Their intention is to study the interaction between two of these particles because they suspect that it is a fundamental mechanism of the standard model that can help them understand to what extent the Higgs boson helps to sustain the stability of our universe. Unravel the interaction of this boson with the lighter quarks continues to be a colossal challenge The first step in this search requires unraveling how this particle gives mass to matter, and physicists who are developing their research in the CMS experiment of the CERN have devised a very ingenious ploy. Until now, scientists have observed in multiple experiments Higgs boson interaction with quarks Cima (top) and background (Bottom)and have proven that their measures coincide with the predictions of the standard model. However, unravel the interaction of this boson with the lighter quarks, such as above (UP), below (Down) or charm (Charm), it continues to be a colossal challenge. And knowing better this mechanism is essential to reveal if the Boson of Higgs is really responsible for conferring mass to ordinary matter. Fortunately, the physicists of the CMS experiment have a very powerful tool with which they did not have very recently: the artificial intelligence (AI). During a seminar that these investigators were held last week, they presented the results of their Higgs Boson observations when disintegrating and leading to the production of two charming quarks. The most important thing is that using avant -garde techniques managed to establish The strictest limits to date in the context of the interaction between the Boson of Higgs and the quark charm. Without AI, it is extremely difficult to identify this particular process and distinguish it from other collision events that have a similar appearance. There is still a lot of work to be done, but the good news is that physicists trust that this strategy allows them to filter the results they will obtain in the next LHC campaigns. And if with a lot of work and a little luck they manage to completely decipher the Boson of Higgs will not only corroborate their role in mass generation for all quarks; They will also confirm, once again, the predictions of the until now infallible standard model. Image | Generated by Xataka with Gemini More information | Cern In Xataka | CERN physicists believed that symmetry between quarks up and down is broken. Is much more than they expected In Xataka | Physicists want to understand how Higgs boson stabilizes our universe. Fortunately, they have a plan

The temperatures of the equatorial Pacific have collapsed in two weeks. The mystery is if the girl is behind

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In the last two weeks, sea surface temperatures in the Eastern Tropical Pacific They have dropped abruptly Up to 10 degrees. As Ryan Maue saysIt is a fantastic example of how much the situation can change in a very short time. But is it something else …? … is the girl back? That is the great question that meteorologists, agencies and states of half the world are asked. And the first thing is to be clear that it does not have to mean Nothing crucial: “The layer near the surface is very susceptible to the changes caused by the wind due to its fine thickness.” This is important because, since March 2025, Enso conditions are neutral and (at least, In the last NOAA report on April 10) It was expected to continue until after summer. For October, the chances of remains the net scenario are 50%. The boy, the girl and everything in the middle. It is worth remembering that what we know as The southern child -scilation (or Enso, for its acronym in English) is a cyclic climate phenomenon (although somewhat irregular) that has great effects on the world climate. If we discount the stations, it is the largest source of annual climatic variations on the planet. The oscillation is A climate pattern in which two phases alternate: The boy and the girl. This phenomenon is manifested in a strip of the Equatorial Pacific, in the central and eastern areas. In this area, the oceanic surface temperature presents this oscillatory pattern between the warm phase (the boy) and the cold phase (the girl). How does it affect us? The ocean temperature in this region is associated with unique weather patterns that especially affect South America. In the southeast of the American continent temperatures become warmer than normal. In the same way, they become colder in the northeast. In Ecuador and Peru, less rainfall is expected than normal and the northeastern Brazil, torrential rains But teleconexions affect meteorological patterns around the world. And in Spain it is usually synonymous with less rains. But what worries meteorological ones is something else. We must not forget that the girl at the end of 2024 and early 2025 was A surprisingly very soft and short phenomenon. Although this phenomenon is “the great refrigerator of the world” (and thus has worked on other occasions), January was the warmest January of the registry. Its effect was noticed very little. And if we take into account that the 2023-2024 child was The fifth strongest Since we have records, it seemed to insinuate that Enso could be moving towards a structure much warmer What we are accustomed to. But … what does this mean? It is true that the models showed that there are almost twice the chances of the girl returningbut at this point in the cycle nobody knows what can lead to the long term. Anyway, most likely the neutral scenario endures more time. However, we must start thinking that the girl is just around the corner. Image | NOAA In Xataka | The boy has not yet left and meteorologists are already preparing for the girl: thus influences our climate

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