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Yes, the DGT has limited the maximum speed to 80 km/h and has prohibited overtaking. And there’s a good reason for that: wind.

February 16, 2026 by usatoday24

In Spain the weather is bad. I don’t know if you had noticed but we have had rain, snow and very strong winds for a month and a half. Meteorological events that are impacting all types of sectors. Also that of mobility, where closed roads, incidents on the road and restrictions are being the general trend. If you go to your favorite social network and read that the DGT has limited the speed to 80 km/h, don’t panic. It’s normal. At 80 km/h maximum. And overtaking prohibited by order of the DGT. It is a headline that has been repeated in the last two days and has spread across social networks. Headlines that hid an essential word to understand the information: temporal. Meteorological storm, because the restrictions are due to the clash of storms that we have chained for days and weeks in the Iberian Peninsula. And temporary because the restrictions are not definitive, they are simply used to maintain safety on the road. The restrictions. One of the provinces that found the most restrictions of this type during the past weekend was Castellón. The region has had to live with an orange alert for wind and the DGT decided that the maximum speed at which one could drive on Saturday was 80 km/h on three roads in the province, where overtaking was also prohibited. The trucks They were also not allowed to circulate on the AP-7. Yesterday, Sunday, normality was recovered. These restrictions have obviously been temporary. And, effectively, the DGT can apply temporary restrictions on speed or overtaking for meteorological reasons, just as can close a road to traffic due to snow or it can be restricted to those who They drive with chains or winter tires. For security. The wind is a danger on the road and overtaking is critical when there are very high wind gusts. In particular, some are very dangerous: Screen effect: when you drive through a tunnel or infrastructure that cuts off the side wind and it disappears. At that moment, a gust of wind can move the car to one side of the road and If we are caught off guard the movement will be sharper. Overtaking: something very similar happens when we overtake a large truck or van. In this case, if we are fighting a crosswind, passing a vehicle will automatically cut off the force we receive. You have to be careful because normally we have been moving the steering wheel to the right slightly to counteract the force of the wind. By overtaking the truck, that resistance disappears and we can go against the vehicle on our right, adding that the truck or van fights not to go to the left, which can end in contact. Furthermore, when overtaking, we will again feel the screen effect described above, so we must be careful and remain attentive. Trailers: Both situations are especially dangerous if we drive a vehicle with a trailer since, in that case, the car does not receive the same forces as its rear part and, in an extreme case, movement angles that are difficult to manage can arise. What does the DGT recommend? The first thing we must do is adapt our speed to the traffic circumstances. The DGT has the power to reduce the speed of the road to 80 km/h and prohibit overtaking, but the logical and essential thing is to apply common sense and take your foot off the accelerator. Taking this into account, we must remain very attentive to resolve any gusts of wind. If this happens, you have to act gently, calmly. The DGT also recommends circulate in high gears (one lower than usual) to have a greater response from the engine if we need to get out of trouble. And remember that the more voluminous and taller a vehicle is, the more risk it has of overturning, the more complex it will be to control it and the more care we must take when overtaking it. Photo | Theo Lonic and DGT In Xataka | Everything I learned the day I was surprised by the snow: tips for driving on ice when the situation gets complicated

There is someone who is clear that China has a very difficult time overtaking the US in the AI race: the Chinese themselves.

January 13, 2026 by usatoday24

China or the US, who will win? the AI race? The US seemed unattainable, but after the launch of DeepSeek a year ago, China became almost at par. Since then, the possibility of China winning the race became very real. Great figures of American AI Several Chinese AI companies have already warned about this situation they are doing very well on the stock market. Despite everything, there are those in China who do not see it at all clearly. Low chances. They count in Bloomberg that Chinese companies have less than 20% probability of being able to advance the OpenAI or Anthropic models in the next 3 or 5 years. Justin Lin, technology manager of the Qwen modelsduring Justin Lin, technology manager of the Qwen models from Alibaba. To the limit. The event was also attended by Tang Jie, founder of Ziphu AI, one of China’s ‘AI tigers’ that last week it had a spectacular IPOincreasing the value of its shares by 36%. Its founder pointed out a somewhat uncomfortable fact for the Chinese AI ecosystem: while companies like OpenAI dedicate “a large part of their computational capacity to next-generation research, we are at the limit of our possibilities. Just meeting delivery demand consumes most of our resources.” In other words: the restrictions on the latest technology are working. The gap is widening. As we said, the launch of DeepSeek R1 a year ago unleashed a wave of optimism among Chinese companies. Since then, a few have launched new LLMs such as Alibaba with Qwen, Ziphu AI or Minimax. However, Tang notes that “some may feel excited, thinking that Chinese models have overtaken American ones, but the real answer is that the gap may be widening.” Restrictions. Speakers blamed the situation on a lack of resources caused by US blockades, especially AI chips and lithography machines. Their chips are not that powerful, so, as Tang says, all their computing power goes into serving their customers. This greatly limits them when it comes to continuing to scale their models. Shunyu Yao, former OpenAI and current chief scientist at Tencentis committed to focusing on solving bottlenecks such as long-term memory and promoting self-learning of future models. Independence. From the government is promoting technological self-sufficiencyprioritizing the use of national chips over American alternatives. The reality is that without access to the most advanced lithography machines, China is lagging far behind. One fact: Huawei and SMIC are ‘tuning’ old ASML machines and making authentic viguerías that have allowed them to obtain chips of 7 and up to 5nm. It’s a technical feat, but its chips are still several years behind the competition. The aces of China. It is clear that China is lagging behind in chips, but there are other areas in which it has an advantage that can be decisive, one of them being electricity. While The Chinese government subsidizes and bets heavily on renewablesin the US electricity has become a bottleneck for its increasingly numerous data centers. Another critical point is that The US has cut funding for academic researchwhile China has done so national priority. And that’s not to mention that they might lose the AI race, but China is winning almost everything else: batteries, robotics, electric cars and especially renewables. Image | Gemini In Xataka | The US believed it had dealt a mortal blow to China when it deprived it of NVIDIA. He only accelerated one plan: ‘Delete America’

We thought that Nike and Adidas were unbeatable. Asics is overtaking them on the right

December 9, 2025 by usatoday24

Running is more than a fashionable sport, it is a way to achieve social statusa lifestyle that not everyone understands. As with anything that has a large fan base, there is an industry making a profit and in the case of running the number one object of desire is shoes. When we think about sports shoes, the brands that come to mind for almost everyone are Nike and Adidas. However, for a long time have been ceding the throne to new brands. Asics is one of those brands and has already managed to take advantage of them in a highly coveted segment: that of running shoes over $90. Asics is going like a shot. They tell it in Nikkei Asia. In the last investors dayAsics boasted of having been crowned the public’s favorite running shoe brand in the premium segment. In the first nine months of the year they achieved a 17.4% market share in Japan, the United States and Europe, which places it in first place in the ranking. Asics has been able to take advantage of the running boom that occurred in the pandemic and its share price has increased eight-fold in the last five years. In August, Asics reached a market capitalization of 3 trillion yen (about $19.4 billion). Forecasts are very optimistic and indicate that profits this year will grow by 17.9%, reaching 800 billion yen ($5.17 billion). Source: Google Finance Margins. Nike and Adidas remain much larger in terms of total revenue, at $46.3 billion and $27.3 billion respectively. What is truly striking is that Asics’ profit margin is much higher. This year’s forecasts put it at 17.5%, more than double that of Nike, which posted an 8% margin in 2024. Adidas is at 5.6%. Rudder turn. Things weren’t always so good for Asics. In 2012 there was criticism of the brand because its athletes did not achieve good results at the London Olympics, there was even talk that one of them He retired due to a shoe problem. They also did not do very well in Rio 2016 or Tokyo 2020, so they created a new development team taking into account the feedback from the athletes and They defined their strategy for the coming years. Variety. Asics has opted to diversify and offer a wide variety of models within the premium running segment. Where the competition offers a handful of models, Asics has five large categories, each focused on a specific characteristic (rebound, stability, speed…) and within each category it has at least three models, making its catalog one of the most extensive and covering everyone from casual runners to professional athletes. Cheap shoes don’t sell. A curious detail is that, at the same time that they have increased their offer of sneakers above $90, they have reduced their catalog of cheaper models because sales are going down. It so happens that, after the pandemic, the running shoes that sold the most were the cheapest, but now what sells best is high-performance footwear. It makes sense: those who started running in 2020 have greatly improved their level and cheap shoes are no longer worth it. High-end running. Asics’ most cutting-edge running model is the Metaspeed Ray. They cost 300 euros and their main attraction is that they weigh only 129 grams, but the most popular running shoes They are the Novablast, which cost half the price. Nike has always been the benchmark in sports footwear and competes with the Pegasus 41 and the Vaporfly 4, but in the running shoe showcase it is no longer the queen. In addition to Asics, there are other brands such as Brooks, Saucony or Hoka that have also made a name for themselves in recent years. Image | Dmitry on Pexels In Xataka | With the Vaporfly Nike already made us run “faster”: with Amplify it literally wants to give us a motor

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