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Blue Origin now has a golden opportunity to advance Spacex on trips to the moon. And he is taking advantage of it

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The Lunar exploration panorama has changed with the new US administration. Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos space company, is strategically positioning to capitalize on the recent turbulence of the NASA Artemis program. Short. With Boeing and Lockheed Martin outside the future lunar missions after the Cancellation of the SLS Rocket and the Orion shiptwo companies are the clear favorite to reconfigure the NASA Artemis program. Although Spacex has led the commercial narrative so far, its focus centered on Mars and the Technological developments of competition They could offer Blue originated a window to, if not advance, at least equate forces in the race towards our natural satellite. First flight this year. John Couluris, the leader of Blue Origin’s lunar efforts, has revealed New details about architecture and The road map From the company’s missions to the moon. In a presentation of the Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative Conference, Couluris said Blue Origin planned to do A demonstration flight without crew from its lunar module Blue Moon Mark I to the South Pole of the Moon before the end of the year. Blue Moon Mark I. Blue Origin’s first lunar module was designed to launch aboard the new Glenn rocket. Driven by a single be-7 engine of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, can transport up to 3.9 tons of load anywhere in the lunar surface with a precision in the alun of less than 100 meters, according to Blue Origin. The Mark I will not only serve as a test bench for technologies of the future Blue Moon Mark II ship, Yes with the ability to carry astronautsbut it will transport commercial and NASA useful charges to the Moon, including an experiment to measure the impact of the BE-7 engine on the lunar surface. Blue Moon Mark II. Blue’s true bet for dominating trips to the Moon is its Blue Moon Mark II, capable of taking four astronauts or between 20 and 30 tons of load to the Moon, depending on whether it is the reusable or disposable version. Here the newly announced Cislunar Transporter comes into play, a key piece that improves Blue Origin’s strategy with that of Spacex and its gigantic Starship ship. This vehicle, also driven by BE-7 engines, is designed to transport up to 100 tons of load from the low terrestrial orbit to a lunar orbit. Cislunar Transporter. Blue Origin’s lunar architecture begins with a New Glenn rocket by placing the transport in the low terrestrial orbit. Additional rocket launches would take advantage of the upper stage of the New Glenn to fill the liquid hydrogen and oxygen tug tanks. Once full, the Transporter southern would travel to an almost rectilinear halo (NRHO) next to the moon. The Blue Moon Mark II lunar module, thrown into another New Glenn, would go to that same orbit, where it would be attached to the transport to recharge its tanks, obtaining the necessary fuel to alunize and return to the NRHO. Simpler than Starship. Blue Origin’s architecture is easier than the HLS system of Spacex, in which a starship stays in terrestrial orbit and has to be coupled with several starship-cysterna (a maximum of eight, a maximum of eight, a maximum of eight, According to Elon Musk) Before recovering enough fuel to travel to the moon. On the other hand, Blue Origin is moving forward in the storage technology of cryogenic propellants without evaporation (“Zero Boil-Off”) that he hopes to demonstrate in June 2025 to solve one of the main problems of liquid fuels in long-term missions. An opportunity. These Blue Origin advances charge special relevance to the drastic cuts proposed for NASA. The 2026 budgets propose the cancellation of the SLS rocket and the Orion ship after the Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, which will use a Spacex starship to transport astronauts from the lunar orbit to the satellite surface. This dismantling of the Artemisa program As we know it leaves a vacuum that the White House intends to fill with rockets and commercial ships that allow more ambitious subsequent lunar missions. Although Spacex with Starship is an obvious candidate, Blue Origin is making it difficult. Images | Blue Origin In Xataka | The last eeuu slap to Europe has sounded up to space: NASA has just left ESA with Artemis

Apple’s great opportunity is to use tariffs to meet an old yearning: the iPhone under subscription

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The new tariffs imposed by Donald Trump are onesignificant oreza For the pricing strategy of technological giants such as Apple. He $ 2,300 iPhone It seems unlikely, but traveling the path of the final increase resonates with much more force than remarkably sacrifice the profit margin. This tariff storm is the perfect setting for a plan that Apple has been finalizing for more than three years, According to rumors: that of an iPhone model under subscription. Breaking the psychological barrier of $ 999 will not be easy for the American buyer (as well as breaking the 1,500 euros for PRO Models in Europe), but paying a monthly fee is something that users are increasingly willing. Plan A, upload the price of the iPhone. If the question is what will happen to the price of the iPhone is that nobody knows. The key to this issue is that, according to analysis of Rosenblatt SecuritiesApple would need to raise the price of its star device to 43% to maintain current margins. In other words, more than $ 1,400 for iPhone 17 Pro Base, and more than $ 1,100 for 17, which currently costs $ 799 more taxes in the United States. Prices that would completely break Apple’s strategy and whose acceptance by buyers does not seem likely. Plan B, absorb costs. Absorbing tariff costs is the second way to travel. One in which the profit margin, historically lasted by Apple (around 25%), would be remarkably diminished. In this scenario, the accounts do not come out. Apple would need a hybrid strategy, absorbing a certain part of the costs and raising the price of its products in a not so abrupt way. A combination to alleviate the effect of tariffs and try to keep demand. Plan C, the Gold Plan. In front of both situations, a third scenario arises. One that analysts have been predicting for years and that is raised as a caramel for Apple: The iPhone under subscription. A plan that houses with Apple’s strategy to continue focusing on revenue from services, and that would allow access to the latest iPhone models without going through a high price as a barrier. It is not completely new for Apple. In the United States they have been implementing the iphone upgrade programone in which you can access an iPhone 16 for $ 39.50 per month, being able to return the phone or update to a new one after twelve months. An iPhone that is never yours. The model is relatively similar to certain types of renting. Pay for the use and enjoyment of the product, with advantages such as Apple+ and Zero interest when using Apple Card, and possibility of repurchase in the event that we want to leave the Apple ecosystem. Manufacturers such as Samsung have similar plans, such as Renting by Cetelemaimed at changing device every twelve months with a low monthly payment. The rent or subscription model already permea in Spain in sectors such as automotive. Maybe having the last iPhone for a few euros per month is not such a crazy plan. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The best functions and options of Apple Intelligence on iPhone and Mac to take advantage of artificial intelligence

Spain has been superxplying its aquifers. March rains have given us the historical opportunity to save them

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In recent years, we have spent hours and hours talking about swamps and reservoir water. And it makes sense: a good part of the country and its economy depend on them. However, if we only talk about reservoirs, we will be forgetting two out of ten Spaniards. And is that Spain is an aquifer country. According to The data of the Ministry of Ecological Transitioncover more than 90% of the national territory. That is between 20,000 and 30,000 cubic hectometers of water that are renewed annually. However, in the last decades we have been systematically overexploitation to the point that a good part of the country is being taken to the edge of technical bankruptcy. March rains give us a historical opportunity to solve this, the question is if we will be able to take advantage of it The clearest example is Doñana … The National Park lost “more than 80% of its marshes compared to the beginning of the 20th century.” However, more than half lost it in the last decade. That gives a clear measure of the voracity of the system: if the overexploitation has been able to denaturalize hectares and hectares of one of the most protected natural places in the country, what will not be happening with the rest? … But there are many more. Above all, because for most of the population what happens in Doñana It is still distant (problematic, rejectable, worryingYeah; but distant). The problem is that many regions depend critically on groundwater and the desiccation of aquifers exposes them to enormous water insecurity. The insecurity of which I speak has a very simple explanation: the agroganadero sector consumes 82.5% of the country’s water. That translates that most of the water passes through fertilized lands. It is not surprising that, according to the citizen network of measurement of nitrates, almost 60% of Spanish underground waters is contaminated by nitrates. If the subsoil is loaded with water, that pollution can be worrying, but is diluted. As soon as the water is scarce, the aquifers become unusable. The real problem is another. For decades, whether by their own decision or by omission, the Spanish authorities have lived back their aquifers. This explains a good part of the disorder and lack of control that surrounds them. Eyes that do not see, illegal irrigation that are allowed. Wwf Spain revealed in 2019 that The four most important aquifers in the country have been sheared for years. And presumably, goes much further. According to the reports of the Geological and Mining Institute“For decades, salinization of Mediterranean and insular Spanish coastal coastal aquifers have been known.” Despite this, “only in a few cases this situation is well managed.” As happens, for example, with the Malaga aquifer of Guadalhorce, Integral studies are missing of the entire aquifer to specify the existing reserves and determine the best extraction strategy “if it exists. Without knowing how much water there is and how that water is the situation becomes impossible to manage accurately. The opportunity of March. When we say that We have been failing for 30 years When preparing for the next drought (and diverting the resources we obtain from the improvement of efficiency to uses that abound in exploitation), we refer This kind of thing: The lack of a really ambitious management framework that recovers, manages and sanctions the aquifers of the country. March 2025 and the huge amount of water He has put in the channels has become a great opportunity to solve this. We have given us time to build these integral studies and make decisions for the future. Hopefully not missing her. Image | Scott Jasechko (via sync) | Niel Baars In Xataka | “In the next ten years, Spain and Latin America will suffer (and much) with water,” Robert Glennon (University of Arizona)

The 16E iPhone is the proof of the opportunity cost facing the mobile manufacturers: each millimeter is crucial

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The renewal of the iPhone economic line has been waiting. The last entrance model that Apple launched was the iPhone Se 2022 And, after 2024 with rumors about a iPhone Se 4Apple launched a few days ago iPhone 16E. Finally names the rest of the range and, in addition, we finally have a design that does not have generations behind it. There are things that do not change, such as maintaining a single camera, and others that yes, such as New Apple C1 Modem. And something interesting is that the iPhone 16E have already undressed and we have been able to discover something that, obviously, is still curious: the enormous amount of space that the cameras steal to the battery. Naked. Apple is usually quite unclear when it talks about some data from its phones. One of the most elusive is the real size of the battery because they usually tell you about “it lasts more than x telephone of the previous generation”, and they remain so wide. That is why it is interesting to see the first ‘Teradown’ or ‘disassembly’ of the iPhone when they reach the market. The protagonist this time has been the Rewa Technology channel, since his work not only allows the drums to be taken, but to other details of the internal composition of the 16E iPhone that allow us to extract very interesting details. Before continuing, here we leave the video: C1. It is not the direct protagonist of our article, but it is evident that the component that can get the most attention of the iPhone 16E is … the modem. The reason is that Apple bought in 2019 the Intel Modems Division for the whopping of 1,000 million dollars. The goal was to break with a Qualcomm that is the one that provided (and continues to do so in the iPhone 16 and 16 pro) The iPhone modems And with which he has maintained a relationship, say, tense. After years waiting to see what the first iPhone with modem made from home was, the premiere has arrived with this 16E iPhone. This chip combines lithography in 4 and 7 nanometers and facilitates somewhat the encapsulation of the modem, leaving free space in the part of the sandwich type motherboard in which it is enclaustrated. The theory. Apart from being able to design its size and benefits, have your own modem It is a license savings for Apple (something that we do not have to notice in the final price of the device) and, above all, a better integration with the rest of the chips. This implies, theoretically, a lower consumption and, therefore, greater autonomy. Apple itself on its website Comment The following: “It reaches 26 hours of video reproduction thanks to the efficiency of iOS and our chip, which includes the modem C1.” And that is very good, but what they do not say is … that the battery has risen from level. On the left, the 16e. On the right, the iPhone 15 Huge battery. In the Rewa video we can compare the 16E iPhone with the iPhone 15 to appreciate the substantial change in the battery size only by eliminating one thing from the equation: the wide angle camera. The main chamber module also seems to have been redesigned, but beyond an interior redesign work, which allows between a larger battery is to have lost a component. Specifically, 4,005 mAh, 444 mAh larger than that of the iPhone 16. According to Apple estimates, while the iPhone 16 could play video for 22 hours, the iPhone 16E endures four more hours. Recycling, which is gerund. For the rest, Apple shows that she is a teacher when it comes to recycling components and Rewa’s video states that, in many ways, the iPhone 16E is a mixture between a iPhone 14 of which he takes screen, part of the plate, notch and the Face ID system, and an iPhone 16 with which he shares the main camera, processor, RAM. In the end, the C1 chip may help achieve greater autonomy, but having a substantially larger battery than that of its direct brothers, definitely, cannot be set aside. These ‘Teardown’ also serve to check details such as that the 16E iPhone battery has the same disassembled technology as their brothers, making it more easy to repair And, as we said, it is curious to see the amount of space that any component takes inside the smartphones, making manufacturers constantly playing the game of commitment between functions to maintain a balance. Images | Rewa Technology In Xataka | My iPhone’s battery is 90% of its capacity after ten months. It is completely normal

The second opportunity of the flight that exploded in the last attempt

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The highest rocket in the world will take off again after some Unexpected vibrations made it explode during the seventh launch. Starship’s eighth flight will be a repetition of the previous one to try everything Spacex left in the inkwell, and can be followed live. Date and time of launch. Like the two previous flights, the eighth Starship launch It is scheduled to take off from Texas in the afternoon. The objective is that the reentry of the ship takes place in the hours of dawn to capture with more light the sparkling maneuvers. The launch window opens at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 3; local time in Starbase, Texas. In other cities: Madrid, Spain (CET, UTC+1): Tuesday, March 4 at 00:30 Mexico City, Mexico (CST, UTC -6): Monday, March 3 at 5:30 p.m. Buenos Aires, Argentina (Art, UTC -3): Monday, March 3 at 8:30 p.m. Bogotá, Colombia (COT, UTC -5): Monday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. Lima, Peru (Pet, UTC -5): Monday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. Santiago, Chile (CLST, UTC -3): Monday, March 3 at 8:30 p.m. Caracas, Venezuela (Vet, UTC -4): Monday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. How to see it live. Spacex will broadcast live flight Through its website and his Official X Profile. The broadcast will begin 40 minutes before takeoff. On YouTube, the channels of Nasaspaceflight, Lab Padre and Everyday Astronaut They have also enabled live broadcasts with their own cameras since the surroundings of the launch platform. In Spanish it will broadcast it Space borderoverlooking Baghdad, on the other side of the border, in Mexico. They will also be narrating it in Spanish Mission control, Manuel Mazzanti and Spacexstorm. Two pending demonstrations. A “stronger harmonic resonance phenomenon” phenomenon caused a liquid oxygen escape in the flight 7 starship, which ended up disintegrating over the Atlantic Ocean, near the Turkish and Caicos Islands. As a repetition of the failed launch, Spacex hopes to complete a series of demonstrations that were left without doing in January: First load deployment: Once the scheduled speed and altitude have been reached, the Starship 34 will turn off its engines, open the gate of its load bay and display four “simulators” of Starlink satellites; wooden models that will be your first useful letter New re -obsolete in space: Spacex first demonstrated in the sixth flight the ability to readele a raptor engine in the emptiness of the space, today it will verify the behavior of the engine before the ninth flight, where it will be crucial to redeem the ship to extend it in a controlled way All eyes put in the reentry. More delicate will be the time of the atmospheric reentry. This could be the Starship’s last ametering before trying to catch the ship With the arms of the launch tower, as has already happened twice with the Super Heavy propeller. However, Spacex still does not have a definitive design for the thermal shield, so it will test different modifications on this flight. Areas of the ship without thermal tiles to measure how the heat fuselage endures the heat. Metal tiles of various kinds, even with active refrigeration, an addition that had been discarded Because of its complexity and is on the table again. New sensors, redesigned front alerons, improvements in propulsion subsystems and a more precise adjustment of the edges between tiles to avoid hot points complete the list of novelties of the ship. Starship 34 is the second ship of a new version that Spacex calls Starship Block 2and that more than 100 tons of load will be able to launch at orbit. In Xataka | Spacex already knows why the last starship exploded and wants to turn the page, so he will try to repeat the flight this Friday

It is a golden opportunity for Samsung

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If there has been a company that has opted for AI over its rivals, that is Samsung. Last year, with the launch of The Galaxy S24 familythe brand first introduced what it considered a “Ai Phone”. A telephone whose focus, in addition to a first level hardware, was AI. He didn’t convince me. After months using this device on a day -to -day basis, I could not find the sweet point. As soon as I analyzed the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra I knew that something had changed. The AI ​​was not something passenger, I was just taking its initial steps. With One UI 7everything worked in a more mature way. So much that for the first time I was in mind that the phone had those functions and that it was worth using them. I have been able to talk about what Samsung’s vision is with AI, how consumers are using it in the real world, and what is the company’s future vision with David Alonso, Head of Mobile Business Iberia In Samsung Electronics. The AI ​​in the Samsung Galaxy: the reality of the claim In Samsung they know that it is not enough to have a frontline hardware to sell phones, it is necessary to differentiate. Although the entire high range is beginning to implement IA, the company has been a pioneer. The golden question is clear: How many users are using it and for what? David replies that, with the launch of the Galaxy S24 It was the first time that integrated functionalities were incorporated naturally and designed to use in a day -to -day basis. Regarding how many people they are using them, two data sources use: some come from their own use data and others are derived from a Market Study in IPSOS Collaboration. According to their results, more than 60% of Samsung users use AI functions (every week). The two most prominent have them well located: Circle to Search and everything related to the camera and image editing. An interesting point of debate between David and Xataka is given in If artificial intelligence is really the claim that promises to be. Annual sales data show us that the sale of smartphones still has a very marginal growth, although the consultants point year after year that, at some point, the AI ​​will be decisive for the boom of sales. Here David is clear: the Galaxy S24 family meant Samsung an increase in sales above 20% compared to the Galaxy S23, a significant fact regarding the market situation. Adding these sales figures to your use data, your conclusion is that AI is a reality of sale for new devices. “A very, very significant percentage of more than 50% of users are really saying that they provide value and that the user experience is really improving.” He also tells us that this market growth trend, which had been stagnant since 2021, is indicative of a trend change. What is happening in the smartphones market They sell more mobile, And more and more expensive. He Premium segment is triggereddespite the fact that the market is focusing on small improvements more than substantial changes. The smartphone industry is focusing on refine the hardware, and highlighting for the software. The dilemma? Nothing technically prevents a Galaxy S24 ultra executing the functions of an ultra S25. How do they fight against that dilemma that the main sales argument are functions that the previous model can enjoy? In Samsung they are clear that their strategy and philosophy is precisely that, not only giving these functionalities to users of new devices, but also users of previous models as well. On an exclusive level, at least for a while, the Ultra can enjoy and all their advances. David points out, in the same way, the changes at the hardware level (especially optimized for these devices, such as the Snapdragon 8 Elite) They also allow this implementation of Galaxy AI to work even better than on other devices. In Spain we are different, or so says the saying. So much so that while the phones of 1,000 euros shoot, mid -range phones also sweep sales. What differentiates a Spanish buyer compared to the rest of European consumers? The answer confirms the myth: “I believe that we do not stop having a market and similar customs but, on the other hand, we have detected that the increase in sales of this” Super Premium “range has been greater than in other parts of Europe.” He tells us that Spanish consumer is beginning to be more demanding. For gossip A little more, I ask David to chive What are the characteristics that most value and look for Spanish consumers When buying a smartphone. It tells us that it depends on the segment and type of user, but that the AI ​​has been (at least this last year) the most wanted and main driver for the purchase, at least in the case of Samsung. But, beyond AI, there are some characteristics that have been moving the phone industry for years and that are still there. The camera is most important for users, not only due to gross characteristics, but for postprocessing quality. Along with this, the battery life (not the milliamps hour). “It is not a matter of the more better, but that the more it lasts, the better.” Ecosystem and future Talking about Samsung is talking about an ultra galaxy s25. But it is also talking about a ring, a clock or a fridge. From Korea the message that comes to Europe is clear: all software will be called one UI, regardless of the operating system that is executed. Asked What to attend to this strategy And if I could generate some confusion, as long as my TV with One UI will run Tizen and my galaxy, Android. David responds, very reason and landing in the real world, that he and I know what we are talking about when we talk about Tizen, but that a standard client … Read more

Apple’s folding sounds more and more strength. It is a golden opportunity to change the smartphones market

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We have been with the cantinela for years that “next year, Apple will present its folding smartphone.” And no, there is not always water in the river When it sounds. However, this start of 2025 starts with increasingly solid tracks About this project. The last They are related to Chinese manufacturer Lens Technology, who will supposedly manufacture the ultrafine glass that will supply 70% of Apple’s orders. Some of the company’s plans are also detailed to improve existing products. The problem? We have been with folding phones on the table for years, and they still do not be mature. Apple’s plan. Rumors are increasingly lighter, and everything indicates that in the first half of 2026 the company will make its folding iPhone known to the world. Apple would like to lose the closest part of the hinge, to achieve a greater thickness in the ultra -laced glass sheet and improve the durability of the product. Lens Technology would be the main glass manufacturer, with Samsung Display as a screen supplier itself. Technology to create a product that aspires to be the maximum reference in its territory. A little mature market. Foldables still do not democratize today. The price might seem the main reason, but we are strict, a Galaxy Z Flip6 it costs practically the same as a Galaxy S25+ And less than a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. The problem of folding, despite the fact that manufacturers promise thousands of folds, is that they continue to throw durability doubts. A quick walk by Reddit shows Samsung mobile problems, Huawei either Xiaomi. In fact, in my own particular case I have suffered the wear and tear of the occasional folding … in just one week of use. A Chinese crown. If they ask you who is the king of folding phones, Samsung may come to mind, but it is not. Huawei It is, by far, the most folding company sells worldwide, well above Samsung, Honor and Motorola. The success of its folding range in China will not be easy to replicate for Apple, who may seek to settle in Europe as the main reference and popularize this telephone concept. Despite these figures, the folding market is still a minority. The question is whether Apple’s proposal will continue to be a niche product or if it will make the turns change. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The dream of mass folding mobiles remains distant. They are still expensive and fragile

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