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If the question is what China is giving Russia in the Ukraine War, we have news: a complete army

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At the beginning of July Bloomberg he took Some documents They showed how a little known firm based in Khabarovsk, at the eastern end of Russia, had emerged as one of the main drone manufacturers of the country. I did it thanks to a dense cooperation network Covering with Chinese companies. Now, Ukraine’s intelligence has shown something much bigger: Beijing is giving Moscow a 100% Made in China complete army. A new generation. The Ukraine Defense Intelligence Directorate (Gur) He has revealed The existence of a new type of Russian decoy drone manufactured entirely With Chinese componentsa disturbing milestone that shows the growing implication of Beijing in the Kremlin war machine. Although for years it is has documented the use of foreign pieces (including Chinese) in Russian arsenalthis would be the first time that an unmanned aerial system used in the Ukrainian front is completely built with technology from a single country: China. Chinese shahed. The drone, of the delta and reduced size, reminds superficially to the Shahed-136 Iranianbut it works mainly as a decoy to saturate Ukrainian aerial defenses, although it can also incorporate an explosive load of up to 15 kilos. The existence of this platform confirms that Russia has not only perfected its saturation tactics With drones, but has also consolidated new technological supply chains that avoid international sanctions. All the components and blocks of the drone are of Chinese origin Commercial components. Of the two drones recovered by the Gur, one of them contained exclusively Chinese pieceswhile the other included two still unidentified components. According to The investigationalmost half of the pieces of the first came from a single company: Cuav Technology Co., a Chinese firm based in Guangdong that It specializes in open source created systems. The components were flight controllers with autopilot functions, navigation modules, antennae and air speed sensors. The most notable is that this company, which in 2022 had publicly announced restrictions on the sale of products both to Russia and Ukraine to avoid its military use, has ended up starring in The technical nucleus of a new Russian weapon. The paradox. The contradiction is even more striking to know that Russia had previously presented a supposedly native vertical take -off drone that turned out to be a direct adaptation of a Cuav acquired product acquired Through Aliexpress. The fundamental difference with the new lure does not lies in the origin of its parts, but that it is now a Russian endogenous production based completely on Chinese technology, not a simple direct purchase. Some of the Chinese components found in a new Russian decoy drone AI and tactical expansion. Chinese involvement is not limited to passive electronics. Ukraine has documented The use of artificial intelligence in Russian drones as the V2Uwhich uses algorithms to Identify and select Objectives autonomously. This drone used a Chinese Leetop A203 minicomputer and a central processor with Jetson Orin de Nvidia module, which reveals a combination of Western and Chinese hardwareused by Russia to incorporate AI capacities in its operations. In addition, Beijing has contributed to the development of fiber optic drones long journey, allowing Russia to extend the scope of these platforms up to 50 kilometers. This technology offers immunity against electronic interference and signal blockages, in addition to overcoming geographical obstacles that limit control via radio frequency. Thus, Beijin has endowed Kremlin with key tools to maintain Your tactical advantageespecially in an increasingly conditioned conflict for The electronic war and the saturation of enemy sensor. Foreign pieces war. We had gone counting In the previous months. Actually, the drone lure manufactured in China is only one more piece within the vast Russian war gear assembled with foreign components. The Gur has recovered multiple Russian arms systems (such as Shahed-136 drones, cruise missiles S-8000 flagcommand vehicles with Radar 9S932-1attack helicopters KA-52 and missiles KH-101) that They contained pieces Native of the United StatesIran, Taiwan, Switzerland, Japan or South Korea. In all cases, the parties escaped the export controls and ended Integrated in armament deployed on Ukraine. Even complete systems have been detected, Like a laser of Chinese origin designed for Brink Ukrainian droneswhose presence in Russia was confirmed after circulating videos on social networks. This transfer, identical to systems already provided By China to Iranreinforces the hypothesis of an active and sustained collaboration between both authoritarian regimes in the development of sophisticated weapons. China and implications. Although Beijing claims to maintain a neutral position before the war in Ukraine, its behavior seems the opposite. Filtered statements This month in CNN they revealed that Foreign Minister Wang Yi confessed to a meeting with the EU Foreign Policy Head of Foreign Policy, Kaja Kallas, which Beijing “cannot accept a Russian defeat” because it would allow the United States to focus their attention on containing China. In private, admitted that a prolonged war could benefit Beijing by distracting Washington from their strategic interests in Asia. This geopolitical calculation does not seem trivial: it reflects that for China, Ukraine is not a secondary issue, but A key piece on the global power board. His strategy seems to focus on keeping Russia sufficiently strong to erode Western influence, without compromising enough to become target of direct sanctions. The axis and the transformation of the conflict. Plus: unlike North Korea support (focused on Artillery, missiles and troops), the Chinese contribution It aims to silently mold the technological architecture of the conflict. The supply of microelectronics, complete platforms, AI tools and critical components has allowed Russia reconfigure your economy In war code and adapt your military industry to resist in the long term. A pattern that suggests that the flow of Chinese technology will not only continue, but will probably intensify, extending, perhaps, throughout the Russian arsenal. With Moscow Diplomatically isolated and financially pressedthe convenience alliance with Beijing is emerging as one of the most decisive variables in the future of war. Image | Gur In Xataka | It is not that the war is asymmetric, is that Russia is attacking with … Read more

Ammonite. They are lousy news for the fans of the planet nine

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In the Dark confines From the Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune, a new world has appeared. First detected in May 2023 from the top of the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, astronomers have just called a name: ammonite. But not everything is good news, especially For those who hoped to find The planet nine. Short. 2023 KQ14 “Ammonite” is a new transneptunian object between 220 and 380 km in diameter that revolves around the sun in an extremely wide elliptical orbit. The peculiar of his orbit is that he is not aligned with other similar objects. According to a study Posted in Nature Astronomythe finding challenges the hypothesis that a distant planet still to discover (the elusive planet nine) could be aligning its orbits. A true cosmic fossil. The Amonite nickname, like ancient marine fossils, is not accidental. Astronomers believe that this object is a solar system relic, a time capsule whose orbit has remained virtually unchanged for 4.5 billion years. In fact, its discovery was possible thanks to the Fossil II Project (Formation of the Outer Solar System: An iory legacy), which tracked this type of objects with the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. What they found exceeded their expectations, because Ammonite is quite special. A very exclusive club. In addition to having a considerable size, Ammonite is far away. It has the third most distant perihelio ever detected: the point closest to the sun of its orbit is 66 astronomical units, more than double that of Neptune. The interesting thing is that what astronomers occupy the “perihelium gap”, an area between 50 and 75, where they had not found objects of this type. Ammonite is what is known as a senoid, an ultra -exclusive category of transneptunian objects of which we only knew three specimens: Sedna (The candidate for dwarf planet that gives name to the group), 2012 VP113 and Leleākūhonua. What makes them so special is that their orbits are enormous and extremely elliptical, but its closest point to the sun is so far that Neptune’s gravity barely affects them. They are gravitationally isolated. Problems for the planet nine. For years, The planet’s hypothesis nine He has won traction to explain a strange anomaly: the orbits of the sedoids and other extreme transneptunian objects They seem to be groupedas if the severity of a massive planet, too dark to be easily detected from Earth, were directing them. In addition to dark and distant, we now have another complication that makes it difficult to find. Amonite’s orbit is not only aligned with that of the other three senoids, but points in the opposite direction. With most of the models proposed for planet nine, Ammonite’s orbit would be unstable: it would have been expelled from the solar system a long time ago. So what happened? If it is not the planet nine, what molded those strange orbits? By simulating the orbits of the four senoids known back in time, Synica Academy researchers They discovered something. Although today they are scattered, simulations show with more than 97% confidence that about 4.2 billion years ago, their perihelios were grouped. This suggests that a cataclysmic event occurred about 300 million years after the formation of the solar system placed them all in their strange trajectories. But what was that power so powerful? There are two great candidates. The near passage of a wandering star who approached our sun in his childhood and that could have gravitationally scrambled the confines of the system. Or the existence of a giant planet that, after interacting with these objects, was subsequently expelled from the solar system. Not a planet nine, but a rebel planet. Image | Synical Academy In Xataka | Good news, the solar system has a new minor planet. Bad news, it’s so far that appears every 25,000 years

news and how to download the latest stable version

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Let’s tell you the News of Android Auto 14.8the new version of Android Auto That Google has started has already released for all users, and that this time it has taken more than the usual for each new version. It is the operating system that is integrated into the Android mobiles, but that when connecting them in your car is executed directly on its screen. We all know that this system does not usually bring great visible news from version to version, and this new update is a perfect change of it, focusing mainly on performance. We are going to explain everything so that nothing caught you by surprise. News of Android Auto 14.8 This is one of those versions of Android Auto that have no visible improvements, therefore Do not expect to find new functions When you update your mobile and connect it to your car’s console. On this occasion, the only novelties are the solution of bugs and errors in the system, so everything should go somewhat better and with less failures. Also The performance of the infotainment app has been improvedso when seeing various content or playing with the stop car you should have greater fluidity, something that many users will appreciate However, none of the changes we know has yet arrived that Google is preparing. For example Gemini is expected to replace Google Assistantalthough we still do not know when this change will begin to unfold. It will be time to wait. We also know that working on a new change, although for now there is also no news about him. And why are there not usually more news and when there are them they are apparently small? Because The news of Android Auto van inside. Being an operating system for the car, Any error in the app can be fataland that’s why Android Auto updates They implement new things very little by little, because each failure can cost lives. Update Android Auto 14.8 We are talking about the stable version of A Android 14.8, which makes Anyone can update in a simple way You can do it directly Through Google Playlooking for updates of the apps installed on your mobile, among which the Android Auto will appear. You can also download the update manually going down his apk From Apkmirror. The only decision you must make is to choose the architecture of your mobile and if it is ARM or ARM64, and lower the latest available version. If your mobile is current, it is almost certain that it is the ARM64. Once downloaded, you just have to Install the APK file on Android. Cover image | Eva Rodríguez de Luis In Xataka Basics | Delete cache on Android Auto: how is it done and what exactly this trick is for solving problems

“An anticyclone arrives in Spain” is usually good news. On this occasion it is an advance of the coming hell: the 40ºC

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The Dana that during the last days has downloaded important rainfall in the north and east of the Peninsula has gone down in history. After the brief thermal relief that this depression brought, meteorologists have their eyes on the situation of the atmosphere for the new week. The 40º appear again. And what indicates the situation of the atmosphere is a new turn towards extreme temperatures: again It is expected that the thermometers exceed in some areas the imaginary barrier of the 40º Celsius. With extreme heat, in addition, the “equatorial nights” could return. Shield against the storms. After the passage of a Dana through the north and east of the Peninsula, the anticyclonic time will become strong over our territory for most of this week. An anticyclone will keep a stormy train at the next few days, diverting them towards higher latitudes. The anticyclonic time will allow heat to accumulate again thanks to a high insolation and new warm air incursions from Africa. Again, heat. The forecasts From the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) they point out that tomorrow, Tuesday 15, temperatures will exceed 35º in the south with areas of the Guadalquivir Valley being able to exceed 40º. On Wednesday 16 the situation will be aggravated, with the thermometers exceeding 38º in much of the southern half and with areas of the Guadalquivir Valley again above 40º. Tropical nights. Aemet also warns that minimal temperatures will also rise during these days, first in the southern half of the Atlantic aspect and from Wednesday in more extensive areas. According to these forecaststhe thermometers will not lower the 20-22 degrees in large areas of the southern peninsular half, and it is expected that during Thursday these minimums do not fall from the 25º in areas of the Guadalquivir. That is, some areas will return to the so -called “equatorial nights.” To the third, the defeated. The situation could be attenuated towards the end of the week. The models indicate that the anticyclone responsible for the heat that awaits us will gradually move to the east. Thus, the third of the storms that will circulate during this week will not be fully blocked by the anticyclone and could affect the north and east of the Peninsula from Friday. In Xataka | The hydrological bonanza could not be eternal: drought is a real threat after an extremely warm, and also dry June Image | ECMWF

Samsung’s triple folding did not appear in the Unpacked. The good news is that it will not take long to see it

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Samsung’s unpacked left us with a whole new range of folding devices. The fold7 and flip7 They were the protagonists of the evening, also hollowing the Flip7 Fe and the new ones Samsung Galaxy Watch8. However, we stayed with the thorn stuck to know more about that rumored Triple folding of the firm. The good thing is that we will not have to wait for much more to know about him. Official confirmation. Roh Tae-Moon, responsible for the Samsung device division, has declared that he hopes to launch the ‘Trifold’ phone before the end of the year, he mentioned the media The Korea Times. “We are working hard on a Trifold smartphone with the aim of launching it at the end of this year,” the executive explained. The company is now focused on perfecting the product and its usability, although they have not yet decided its final name. A new member joins its folding. Samsung has been dominating and popularizing the folding smartphones market, which initially generated skepticism in the industry when they made an appearance For the first time in 2019. Now these devices have become an important segment for the company’s brand image, and the technological giant wants to continue marking the rhythm. The Trifold would represent the next natural evolutionary step after the popular Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip. Three folds, three sizes. The device would allow three different configurations: as a traditional smartphone, as a tablet when partially deployed, and as an even bigger screen when completely opened. It would also allow you to use one of the three faces as a support for a surface. Although it is rumored that it could be called Galaxy G fold, Samsung has not yet confirmed its official name. The company He gave little clues of this concept in January during its unpacked event, and several internal files of One UI 8 suggest that its development is advanced. The competition has aroused Samsung. The Korean firm is not alone in this race. Huawei already markets your Mate XTthe only trifold currently available in the market. Another Samsung executive who did not reveal his name, commented to the environment Android Authority That the company has the design ready and could “put it in production”, but that they must first identify a clear “purpose” for this new factor of form. “We have been with a trifold, designed and everything. What we are discussing is viability. Is there really demand for this form of form?” He explained. And now what. The launch of the Trifold would also be framed in Samsung’s strategy to create optimized devices for artificial intelligence. The company considers that smartphones are no longer only tools, but are becoming “colleagues” who see, understand and respond to what users are seeing in real time. Samsung plans to take the functions of Galaxy AI at 400 million galaxy devices that exist in the world before the end of the year. Cover image | Samsung In Xataka | Best folding mobiles in 2025. Which to buy in Spain and recommended models

Gemini’s arrival to Wear OS 6 is great news. The question is whether an experience at the height

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Samsung just present his smartwatches Galaxy Watch8 and Watch8 Classic. A priori we might think that these watches simply embody the annual update of their hardware to which it and many other companies have accustomed us. However, The Galaxy Watch8 propose a differential benefit that, therefore, it is worth not overlooking: they are the first smart watches in the market that They incorporate Wear OS 6 with Gemini. As we anticipate from the head of this article, in our opinion the arrival to these smartwatches of the artificial intelligence (AI) of Google is good news. And it is because presumably will have a deep and positive impact on our experience. The integration of this technology into a device that users usually always carry on, and that, in addition, resides in a very accessible area, greatly facilitates its use. In fact, what Samsung proposes to us on paper paints very well. And if we turn to Gemini we can interact with these smart watches using natural voice commands to, thus control apps such as Samsung Health, the calendar or the clock. We can also use Gemini to find a nearby location, such as a pharmacy, or to send text messages. Interestingly, the SOC proposed by these watches is the same that incorporates the Galaxy Watch Ultraso we suspect that it will be possible to update the operating system of this last device to Wear OS 6 with Gemini. Our experience with Gemini is in the hands of the SOC exynos w1000 This chip is very special. And it is because it is one of the first integrated circuits manufactured by Samsung using Gaa photolithography (Gate-alall-around) 3 nm. The purpose of this innovation is to outdo Finget technology in a crucial parameter: watt performance. The semiconductors with Finfet transistors began to be manufactured on a large scale in the early last decade, so it is a mature technology that TSMC, Intel and Samsung know very well and will not easily abandon. Even so, in the future GAA transistors will reign. The Exynos W1000 SOC will be largely responsible for the experience that Gemini will offer us at the Galaxy Watch8 and Watch8 Classic Anyway, there is no doubt: the soc Exynos W1000 It will be largely responsible for the experience that Gemini will offer us in the smartwatches Galaxy Watch8 and Watch8 Classic. And probably Also at the Galaxy Watch Ultraas I mentioned a few lines above. We can anticipate that we will soon put these smart watches to the test and confirm if Gemini really offers us an experience at the height of what we can expect. The latency in this scenario of use is crucial. In any case, on paper we can be reasonably optimistic. And it is that the specifications of this SOC, beyond the lithography that Samsung has used to manufacture it, are quite ambitious. In fact, it incorporates a Cortex-A78 nucleus to 1.6 GHz and four Cortex-A55 nuclei to 1.5 GHz that work side by side with a main memory map of 2 GB of type LPDDR5. The graphic logic, which also has a crucial role in the field that interests us, is a Mali-G68 MP2. Paint well. Samsung says that this soc is Up to 3.7 times more powerful That the previous one, the chip Exynos W930in a multihilo use scenario. We will see it. We hope to tell you much more about the experience proposed by Gemini in these smartwatches coming soon. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Intel is already manufacturing chips on the Intel 3 node. The competition with TSMC and Samsung starts here

news and how to download the latest stable version

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Let’s tell you the News of Android Auto 14.7the new version of Android Auto That Google has started has already released for all users. It is the operating system that is integrated into the Android mobiles, but that when connecting them in your car is executed directly on its screen. We all know that this system does not usually bring great visible news from version to version, and this new update is a perfect change of it. However, in your code there are advances that point to a future new function that is already being terminated. News of Android Auto 14.7 This is one of those versions of Android Auto that have no improvements, simply Google has limited themselves to solving errors and stability failures. The number of compatible vehicles is also extended. However, In its code a future change is updatedwhat is The clear mode. This will be done in the application settings on your mobile, where you will have an option of Issueand in it you will be able to activate the change to way Day. In doing so, the Auto Android interface will change from its dark gray almost black to a kind of cream color. However, this is an option that still cannot be activated. Simply, there are changes in the code that point to being worked on in it, so it may come in upcoming updates. And why are there not usually more news and when there are them they are apparently small? Because The news of Android Auto van inside. Being an operating system for the car, Any error in the app can be fataland that’s why Android Auto updates They implement new things very little by little, because each failure can cost lives. Update Android Auto 14.7 We are talking about the stable version of A Android 14.7, which makes Anyone can update in a simple way You can do it directly Through Google Playlooking for updates of the apps installed on your mobile, among which the Android Auto will appear. You can also download the update manually going down his apk From Apkmirror. The only decision you must make is to choose the architecture of your mobile and if it is ARM or ARM64, and lower the latest available version. If your mobile is current, it is almost certain that it is the ARM64. Once downloaded, you just have to Install the APK file on Android. In Xataka Basics | Delete cache on Android Auto: how is it done and what exactly this trick is for solving problems

I have asked the AI ​​any bullshit and now I am writing a news about her

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When OpenAI three years ago presented to Chatgpt To the world, millions of people asked themselves the same question: “Will IA replace me at work?“. The concern was not new. The labor history of humanity has been marked in recent centuries by the dispute between human production forces and mechanical production forces. An advance of the latter is interpreted without remedy as a defeat of the former. The difference in 2022 resided in the social group object of the substitution. Before the advent of AI, the “automation“From work was one of economists’ great concerns. Millions of jobs would have lost themselves in industries as important as the car or oil extraction Fruit of the slow but inexorable incorporation of robots and other tool machines. Manual workers, blue collarthey would have seen economic and socially displaced. The impact and severity of the “end of work”, as this debate became pompos, pompos It is in dispute. It is not clear That the incorporation of a robot supposes the end of work human. This was, however, an alien and even trivial issue for millions of workers white collarintellectual production, outside this kind of automation and substitutions. Until Chatgpt arrived. The irruption of AI has resulted in a thousand data and a lot of confusion. There are several The studies They have tried Estimate the loss of jobs caused by Chatgpt and other chatbots. It is soon to reach drastic conclusions. Like some companies They are discoveringget rid of hundreds of workers Thanks to the AI forces act immediately to hire others in tasks that before They were not planned. This has been a constant pattern in the history of human labor substitution: technology kills some works, generates others. The good, old days in which at least the horoscope still wrote it. (Unspash) The fear of this process was immediate in the media. If we attend to the nature of the generative AI, this becomes evident without greater explanation. If ChatGPT is able to generate a coherent and well documented text in a handful of seconds, what need would the newspapers keep dozens of editors on the squad? It would suffice with a couple of editors on the shoulders of a handful of Prompts. You feed the AI ​​with certain data, the kitchens and voilà: you have very cheap news. It has happened and will continue to happen. Some media took advantage of their economic and business difficulties to make blur and new account: dismissing their editors and replacing them with an AI achieved a cheaper means. Also much worse. But this has not been the main function of AI in the journalistic environment. The danger did not reside in the “replacement”, but in something that has been afflicting the media (already their readers) for many years. In a tangible, real, not future problem. In obsession with content. Write my next news, chatgpt It turns out that AI has not eaten our jobs. On the contrary, it has helped us to continue incurring the same perverse practices that we would incur before the arrival of ChatgPT: produce content at all costs, without discretion, covering all fronts and needs self -generated by ourselves. If the “content” was the biggest disease that afflicted the media industry, the AI ​​has not worked as a cure but as a fentanyl: an addictive and accelerating drug, also mortal. Thus, the reader has had to get used to all kinds of AI -related experiments. The most obvious of all of them is futurology. What did many media did when a blackout left without electricity to the entire Spain? Open chatgpt, ask “when it would be the next blackout” and publish the answer as is on its website. Headlines as “What will be the date of the next electric blackout in the world, according to artificial intelligence” either “Neither in 2026 nor in 2030: the date of the next electric blackout worldwide, according to AI“They sneaked into the Google or Discover media module. The point is that the content works. The reader is interested in a complex event in real time and the media can produce quick responses at low cost. Another thing is that the answers are useful. Chatgpt hardly predict the unfathomable designs of a nonagenarian curia isolated in the Sistine Chapel, but that did not prevent the media from publishing things like “Who will be the next Pope according to the predictions of the chatbots of AI?” either “The prediction of artificial intelligence about who the new Pope would be“Deepseek, Perplexity and others gave Paraolin or Tagle favorites. That is, they didn’t even have the most remote idea of ​​what they were talking about, they just regurgited. Is the final of the Copa del Rey approaching? Using tools only slightly more sophisticated than the Paul octopus, we were able to illuminate holders as solid as “The AF forecasts the winner of the Copa del Rey between Madrid and Barça“. Are Google searches disturbed because the Christmas raffle arrives? There we went to look for answers in the chatbots:”What number will be the fat winner this year? The AI ​​reveals it” either “This is the Gordo number of the Christmas Lottery 2024, according to the seers and the AI“(Kudos to the Herald for respecting the worthy trade of seers in front of the machine). A very happy man discovers that he will touch the lottery according to AI. (Unspash) The “according to the AI” search in Google News offers countless examples. We can discover How many years will pass XIV as Pope before saying goodbye to the world of the living; which The ideal work for each zodiac sign; how much money You need to charge Anyone to live without shocks; which The best town in Zaragoza to buy a house; or what is it LaLiga’s ideal eleven. Of course, the most paradigmatic example of this whole process is war. The conflict between Iran and Israel He has aroused certain latent tensions in the planet’s psyche: do we … Read more

The US already has its first smartphone made in the US. Bad news for the dream of a “100% American iPhone”

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Purism has called it Liberty Phonebut in addition to that liberating name this phone stands out for something very special: it is assembly In the United States. The good news is that it shows that it is possible to manufacture an iPhone within the US borders. That may make the government of this country happy, but in reality practically everything is bad news. A mobile “made in USA” (more or less). As they explain In The Wall Street Journalthe Liberty Phone motherboard is manufactured in the Purism facilities, the main chip comes from Texas, and the assembly is carried out at the plant that the company has in Carlsbad, California. Other components come from China and other countries in Asia, but in essence we are facing a telephone that meets the demands of the Donald Trump government. Not for those. Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism, explained in WSJ how it has been working for 10 years and has done everything possible to have a 100% mobile component of US components, “but but There are some pieces which simply do not have supply chain. “their intention, however, is to continue working so that in the end they all come from US suppliers. Its scale is tiny. Even with these difficulties, Purism is able to face this manufacturing process because it produces about 10,000 units per month and have sold less than 100,000 in total. In 2024 Apple sold Something more than 230 million mobiles, about 19 million a month. Manufacturing all of them in the US makes clear the amount of resources that would need to transfer the country. Of course: the CEO of Purism clarifies that the production could upload up to 100,000 units per month in six months if you need it. And it is not even a latest generation mobile. The Liberty Phone chip is an I.MX 8m from the Dutch company NXP semiconductor that occurs in an Austin plant, in Texas, and that is not even thought for mobiles, but for cars. Other components such as the screen and battery come from China, while the rear camera comes from South Korea. The operating system is Pure OS, a variant of Debian Linux that is not compatible with Android or iOS and that has a very limited application catalog And it costs 2,000 dollars. Weaver states that manufacturing the Liberty Phone costs $ 650 – the estimated hardware cost on the iPhone 16 Pro is 550 dollars – but Purism sells it for a much higher price. According to him, the $ 1,999 that it costs – and that in its 4 GB version of RAM and 128 GB of storage – reflects its orientation: it is a mobile specially prepared to maintain user privacy. In fact, half of Purism’s clients are US government agencies. The iPhone and tariffs. Liberty Phone is a clear example of how Apple and its users could affect the demand of the Trump government to manufacture the iPhone in the United States. One of the big problems It is the fact that the components that this mobile needs are not manufactured in the US, or do not do it on a large scale. The efforts of companies such as TSMC to create production plants in the North American country It will mitigate the problembut it won’t eliminate it. Specialized labor. But there is another even greater problem: manufacturing millions of iPhone in the United States would force specialized labor. China has become the Great World Factory of technological devices, not only by cheap labor – which was originally – but for its qualification. Before a practically insurmountable situation, Apple has chosen to manufacture in India Most iPhone who end up selling in the US. That will expose some sensitive tariffsbut even so It will be cheaper than manufacturing them in the US or facing the huge tariffs applied to Chinese imports. Mission almost impossible. The example of the iPhone is clear, but there is a especially striking one: The T1 Phone which was announced a week ago told us about a completely assembled mobile in the US, and that would also have specifications Very notable (although it does not indicate which soc will rule it). The surprising thing is that the mobile will theoretically cost $ 499 and will be available in August, but it seems absolutely impossible to do so fulfilling all those promises. Everything points to an obvious solution: that in reality that mobile that presumes to be manufactured in the US is not manufactured in the US, but rather – like almost always – in China. In Xataka | The Ford Factory in Almussafes had been in a permanent strip and loosen for years. Now has another problem: tariffs

In the middle of the chaos because of the environmental badges, the DGT has shown the red label to Spain. It’s excellent news

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Spain has just taken the most important step to date in relation to the legal framework for the circulation of automated vehicles. The DGT has announced the Safety and Technology Evaluation Framework Program of Automated Vehicles (ES-AV Program), The new regulatory framework under which all those operations related to Automated vehicles On traffic open. The red label. In the next few days, it is more than likely to start listening to the new “red label.” It is one that has nothing to do with the system of DGT environmental labelsready of suffering modifications by the government. Soon you will begin to see on the windshield of all that automated vehicle that wants to perform open road tests. It will be the way we will have to recognize that a vehicle, be it prototype, in pre-homologation phase or driven remotely It is moving autonomously. In the face of cameras and agents of the authority, it is the legal proof that said vehicle has the necessary authorization to circulate without physical supervision. The new legal framework. The ES-AV program is a national code that regulates how, where and under what conditions you can test with autonomous cars in Spain, without the need for human supervision on board. In it, vehicles with levels of autonomy are reflected SAE 2 A SAE 5as well as those driven remotely. There will be a total of three access and authorization systems, under the umbrella of the General Sub -Directorate of Mobility Management of the DGT itself. EEE Recognition System: Recognition of tests already authorized in other countries of the European Economic Space. Special system: independent evaluation in Spain. External evaluation system: Exceptional tests for vehicles have already obtained authorization in countries external to the EU. The test phases. The DGT establishes three test phases in its program, depending on technological maturity and the range of open road operations. Each of these phases establishes what will be the minimum requirements to be met, and it will be those responsible for the autonomous vehicles that will have to inform about which phase they want to participate. Phase 1, controlled: operational environment of up to three vehicles, not admitted vehicles with level 2 SAE of automation, mandatory that there is always a safety operator on board, restricted circulation space. Phase 2, extensive: simultaneous operation of up to 10 vehicles, operator always aboard, without restricting space. Phase 3, pre-despleger: simultaneous operation of more than 10 vehicles, optional on board, remote operator, exceptionally, it can be circulated with definitive plates from the EU. Sae 2 vehicles admitted. Transparency in data. Since the entry into force of this new legislative framework, the DGT will reflect on its website the data with the ongoing tests. In the same way, it establishes the obligation to the testers to deliver periodic reports of the operations carried out, not having detailed on the website the data that it will require in them. On the DGT website, we can observe some of the tests already carried out in Spain, as well as some that are currently underway at the hands of ALSA and the Ctag (Galicia Automotive Technology Center). A pioneer regulation. Spain has been one of the first EU countries, together with Germany and Francein creating a clear legal framework for the circulation of autonomous vehicles in test phases. However, it is important to point out that the regulatory framework supervises pre-commercial phase operations, does not authorize the use of completely autonomous vehicles. In Spain, the autonomous circulation of levels 3 and 4 is not yet regulated, and in Europe it is taking its first steps in authorized trials and restricted areas. Outside Europe there is no clear consensus. In fact, Waymo has just announced his arrival from his taxis to New York … Operated with human supervisionsince state law still does not allow the operation open to traffic of a vehicle in a 100% autonomous way. Other cities, such as California, They allow robotaxis to be operated to which we have come to. Countries like China They have advanced to the United States in this race, with Baidu announcing that their service Apollo Go has completed 11 million tripsin front of the 10 million reported by Waymo. At the moment, the step taken by Spain is not a victory, but one of the most important advances to date in this area. Image | Xataka In Xataka | While European manufacturers think about what the car of the future will be like, Huawei is already thinking about the post-coche era

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