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The owner of an Audi A3 was fined three times for driving without a license. On the fourth, the court took away the car

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What prevents a driver from driving without a license? Obviously, the law. But going down to a purely practical field, what prevents a driver without a driving license from going to the garage at home, taking his car, turning the key and putting it in first gear to take the car to work, take a walk or go out? That’s what has happened in Vigo where Justice has only found the way out for one woman: to take away her Audi. The Provincial Court, tired of imposing sanctions on him that emphasized that he was prohibited from driving, has decided to confiscate his Audi to avoid greater harm. By then the sentences had had “no deterrent effect,” in the words of the ruling. Either you give it to me or I’ll take it from you There are not many violations for which they can keep our car. There are not many reasons why they can revoke our driving license. Surely you have already found one of them. Bingo. A positive for alcohol or drugs leaves, for the moment, the car immobilized and depending on the severity of the positive, it can leave us without a driving license. In cases that the car is immobilizeda passenger who does not test positive may well take charge. alcohol control Or a family member or friend can come pick it up, as long as the immobilized car is not hindering driving. If neither of these two cases occur, the tow truck comes and takes it to the municipal warehouse. The next day, the car can be removed. By a person who has a driver’s license, of course. But, as we said, what really prevents a person from taking their car again when they arrive at the garage at home? The limits have been found by the resident of Vigo who stars in a story collected by The Voice of Galicia. The Provincial Court has ended up confiscating his Audi to prevent him from driving again without a license and in the process has answered the question of how many times is too many times. They explain in the Galician media that on March 15, 2025, she was caught driving without a valid driving license because all her points had previously been removed. Taking charge of the case, the Criminal Court sentenced him to six months and one day in prison for a crime against traffic safety. But he applied a less common decision: seized his Audi A3. The reason is that the convicted woman was the fourth time she had faced justice for similar events. To the point that the judge in charge pointed out that his record includes three other similar convictions in just 11 months. On those three previous occasions, the driver was fined for driving without a driving license. In the third, in addition to the financial penalty, he was imposed 60 days of work for the benefit of the community. On the fourth occasion lost the Audi A3 with whom he was driving. Upon hearing the verdict, the accused appealed to the Pontevedra Court, alleging that the three previous convictions for the same reason (driving without a license) are not enough to apply the aggravating circumstance of multiple recidivism. In addition, he requested that a mitigating circumstance be applied for drug addiction and asked that the car be returned because he considered that the measure was disproportionate and unjustified. For its part, the Pontevedra Court has confirmed that the seizure of the vehicle was a correct measure because the three previous convictions had had “no deterrent effect.” In addition, he emphasizes that the car itself was a “potentially dangerous instrument” since the driver had been detected driving without lights at night or under the influence of drugs. Photo | Audi and DGT In Xataka | In 1896 a man decided to drive at the reckless speed of 13 km/h. And he received the first fine in history

In 2017, the owner of an electric car installed a charger with his neighborhood community against him. The Supreme Court has spoken

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A neighborhood association does not have the right to prevent a neighbor from installing a charger in their garage. This is the conclusion reached by the Supreme Court, confirming what can already be read in the Horizontal Property Law where this assumption is included. This has been the case of a neighbor from Alicante. 2017. The entire case studied by the Supreme Court has its origins in the last months of 2017. As stated in the rulingat the beginning of September of that year, the owner of an electric car contacts the administrator of his neighborhood community to inform him that he is going to install an electric car charger in his garage. There begins an exchange of communications in which the property manager maintains that he cannot carry out said installation because he is occupying common areas with the cables pulled for it and asks him to wait for the ordinary meeting to ask the neighbors if they agree with said installation since he can only carry it out if all the neighbors give their approval. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than advertised? without permission. It is then that the owner of the electric car tells the administration of the garage’s community of neighbors and its president that he does not need the approval of the neighbors since it is only necessary to inform the community of owners of his intentions. To do this, remember that in the article 17.5 of the Horizontal Property Law the following is specified: The installation of an electric vehicle charging point for private use in the building’s parking lot, provided that it is located in an individual parking space, will only require prior communication to the community. The cost of said installation and the corresponding electricity consumption will be assumed entirely by the person or parties directly interested in it. Therefore, he points out, the installation will be carried out whether the neighborhood community wants it or not. He emphasizes that he will pay the costs in full and that the electricity will be supplied with the service of his home. The complaint. Once the charging point was installed in December 2017, the ordinary meeting of the neighborhood community decided in February 2018 that the installation is illegal because it is occupying common areas and that for this the owner must receive the approval of the neighbors. They point out that if the installation is not eliminated within two months they will use the appropriate legal measures. Given this decision, the owner of the electric car denounces the community of neighbors so that the agreement in which the installation of his charging point was discussed is annulled. The defendant neighborhood association requests that it be dismissed and the court of first instance agrees with it, dismissing the lawsuit and ruling that the owner of the electric car has to pay the costs of the trial. From there, the matter escalates to the Supreme Court. First, the owner appeals the decision and the court of second instance agrees with him, admitting the complaint to be processed and declaring the agreement of the ordinary meeting null and void despite the fact that the community of owners filed an appeal that was dismissed. Then, the community of neighbors files an appeal against the decision of the court of second instance. The Supreme Court. With all this background, the Supreme Court concludes that the owner has the right to install a charging point in his parking space despite the fact that he has to occupy common areas with perforations and passage of cables, as detailed by the community of neighbors. In its ruling, the highest judicial body rejects the appeal of the community of owners. They remember that although in article 17 of the Horizontal Property Law there are several points that require the unanimity of the owners to occupy common areas for private purposes, this is not the case in the case of the fifth point in which the installation of charging points is regulated. Additionally, they explain the following: (The installation) requires an electrical supply, which can only be obtained through the appropriate conduction, it is obvious that it must necessarily flow through such elements. In other words, the legislator had to necessarily imagine that the wiring would pass through common elements. If, however, it introduced this rule without referring to said circumstance or the agreement of the Community, it is because it considered that this particular action was excluded or outside the decision-making powers of the Community, which could not oppose the practice of installation Communicate but do not ask permission. As confirmed by experts in horizontal property to Xatakaany resident of a community garage can install a charging point for their electric car even if the neighborhood community objects. Legally, it is only necessary to communicate the intention to do so and comply with the Technical Guide of application of the ITC-BT 52. Special purpose facilities. Infrastructure for recharging electric cars. When the Madrid College of Administrators was consulted, its advisors recommended complying with the following requirements to avoid problems: Prior communication by the requesting owner or neighbor. From the meter to the charging point, the line must be installed under approved pipe and along the route agreed upon with the community of owners, and common conduits and boxes cannot be used. The pipe pass from the meter room to the garage will be the responsibility of the requesting owner. The charging point will be installed on the back wall of the parking space, as centrally as possible and without occupying the flight of the adjacent spaces. The owner or neighbor must deliver the installation bulletin to the community of owners. Comply with current regulations at all times. An exception. It occurs in Catalonia and its objective is to facilitate the installation of more than one charging point for electric cars by taking advantage of the implementation of the first plug or, at least, trying to ensure that it … Read more

In 1965, a notary bought an apartment of bare ownership from a 90-year-old owner. The old woman was already living her second life

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In 1965, in the picturesque city of Arles, in the south of France, the notary André-François Raffray believed he had found a bargain to invest. Jeanne Calment, a 90-year-old widow and no heirs owner of a large apartment in the historic center of the town, was willing to reach an agreement to sell her housing in exchange for a life annuity and to be able to live in it until his death. With the statistical data in hand, the purchase of the apartment was going to be a bargain for the notary, so he did not hesitate to reach an agreement with the elderly owner. What the young notary did not expect is that it was going to be the worst deal of his life: the old woman had a bombproof geneticsor at least that’s what everyone thought. The deal was a bargain, but not for who it seemed The purchase agreement was simple in its approach: Raffray would pay 2,500 francs per month to Calment (an amount equivalent to about 380 euros per month). until the death of the old woman (who we remember was already 90 years old), after which the property would be fully his. This type of contract (known in France as traveler) is based on the bare property. This legal concept establishes that the buyer acquires the right to property without enjoy the usufruct until an uncertain event occurs, in this case the death of the saleswoman. That is, it is like a deferred purchase in which a certain immediate payment is established and the seller can use the property until his death. The buyer then takes possession of the property. Given this condition, the price of the investment is considerably lower than the market value, since it is not available immediately. That reduction in the initial price has shot the number of operations that have been growing at a double-digit rate since the pandemic. According to published data by Expansionin 2021, this type of operations grew by 22.6%, 23.7% in 2022 and 11.3% in 2023. For a 47-year-old buyer like Raffray, that seemed like a smart move and a very low-risk investment. In 1965 and with the life expectancy statistics much smaller than the current ones, Raffray assumed that Calment would live perhaps a few more years and that the total amount he would pay would be less than the market price of the apartment. A saleswoman with a lot of attachment to life However, what seemed like an operation with few unknowns turned into a financial nightmare for Raffray. Jeanne Calment, the elderly nonagenarian, not only lived beyond any reasonable expectation at that time, but his longevity surpassed all calculations. Officially, Calment died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. as he collected The New York Times. That is why he entered the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest person recorded to date, It’s also bad luck for Raffay. Raffray, in turn, died in 1995 at the age of 77, 30 years after signing the contract with Calment. Until that moment, the notary had paid fees that, together, They far exceeded the value of the property. However, after his death, his widow was forced to continue with payments to Calment, because the obligation agreed in the annuity contract only disappeared with the death of Calment, not Raffray. There was no escape. The result was that Raffray’s family ended up spending much more money than it would have cost to buy the apartment through conventional methods, without ever moving in. Calment herself, with irony, even commented in an article for The New York Times that “in life, sometimes bad deals are made.” A life worth two As expected, such remarkable longevity did not go unnoticed by science and medicine, with much interest being shown in investigating the details about the life and habits de Calment to try to reveal their secret…and boy did they do it. In 2018, a research team formed by the Russian mathematician Nikolay Zak and the gerontologist Valery Novoselov proposed a radical hypothesis: Jeanne Calment could have died in 1934. The Calment who had signed the bare ownership contract with André-François Raffray could be Yvonne Marie Nicolle Calment, daughter of Jeanne Calment who, supposedly, had died of pleurisy on January 19, 1934. The hypothesis was that Yvonne would have impersonated his mother’s identity to avoid paying inheritance taxes. That artificially “extended” the longevity of his mother, who was actually living two lives under the same name. This theory was supported by discrepancies in ancient documents, such as differences in physical characteristics between historical records and by comparing photographs of Yvonne and the supposed elderly Calment. So it was not only a fraud to avoid paying taxes, Raffay was also victim of deception. However, there is no scientific consensus on this version. Subsequent research by a team of Swiss and French demographers and historians, published in it Journal of Gerontologythey discard the hypothesis of fraud and maintain that, statistically, Calment could live to be 122 years old. In Xataka | There is a ‘good’ fat that hides a secret to aging better and being in shape. All that remains is to get the pill Image | Wikimedia Commons (Emilien Barral), grg.orgUnsplash (Jakub Zerdzicki)

its owner had forgotten where he had

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Anyone who will constantly have happened to him once he has gone to look for his car and asked: Colega, where is my car? It can happen to anyone, and my personal trick (Although there are others) is to take a picture of the square and parking floor before moving away from the car. I have the mobile full of such photos. However, in the 70s of the last century, mobiles did not exist, so it was more normal Forget where you had parked your car. This is what happened to Ion Tiriac, a Romanian athlete who participated as an ice hockey player at the 1964 Winter Olympic Games, but who later became a laureate professional tennis player winning a Roland Garros and finalist in several editions of the Davis Cup. A passionate about luxury cars, but with little memory In the same way as the millionaires They tend to buy superyatesthe great athletes They opt by the supercar. Ion TIRIAC is no exception. His collection has approximately 400 cars, all of them exposed in a museum near Bucharest, which makes Tiriac one of the most important vehicle collectors In Europe. In a recent one interviewthe millionaire collector told the story of how he forgot that he had bought a Ferrari F40 And he had left him parked in a Munich garage for a decade. ION TIRIAC, whose estimated fortune exceeds 2.2 billion dollars, according to Forbeshe was a professional athlete In full cold war. At that time, Soviet block athletes had many TRAVEL PROBLEMSso he opted for move to Montecarlo To solve it. At present it still resides in the small principality. After putting an end to his career as a professional tennis player, he began teaching the most grenade of the Monegasca society and to train other professional tennis players. There began their First contacts with luxury cars and with the collection classics. Ferrari F40 However, as the millionaire counts in the interview, for those years he worked at all hours without rest. “I had no time for anything.” That tireless work allowed him to buy the first of his eight Ferraris. Later, I know He bought a Testarrossa. At the same time, the athlete recalled that he had tried to acquire the Ferrari F40 of the then husband of Carolina de Monaco, Stéfano Casiraghi, but finally did not reach an agreement, so he achieved Ferrari F40 by another way. According to Tiriac, that car It cost him $ 700,000considering that new cost about $ 200,000. Tiriac’s problem is that he was passionate about cars, but he still didn’t have a place in which to keep Its incipient collection of supercar. That lack of space caused him to leave his Ferrari F40 parked in a garage in Munich (Germany). Ten years later, the millionaire received a call from Mr. Becker, the owner of the garage where he had parked his Ferrari F40. The German recalled Tiriac that his Deportivo was still parked in his parking lot. “I had forgotten my Ferrari for a decade,” the retired tennis player acknowledged. Realizing that he had forgotten his Ferrari for ten years, Tiriac decided Sell ​​it immediately For two reasons. The first, because it still did not have an adequate place to save it, and second because the car, after ten years of inactivity, needed to travel back to the Maranello factory so that its engine was disassembled and Restoreda necessary process after so many years without use, even for a Ferrari. In Xataka | I have got into a 420,000 euros car for the first time in my life. Now I know what the millionaires feel Image | Wikimedia Commons (Bobby Voicu), Ferrari, Flickr (Robert Stokes) *An earlier version of this article was published in September 2024

Chinese startups are unseatting the owner and lady of Asian technology: Baidu

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In the stock market there is a metric that is observed almost with reverential respect. It is about Per (Price to Earnings Ratio), which It allows us to know If an action is expensive or cheap. And when we observe the technological market in China, there is a company with a worrying per: Baidu. Fall of a giant. This Thursday Baidu has published terrible financial results: Fall of quarterly income It is the worst of the last three years and that has caused a 3% drop in the value of the shares in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Source: Bloomberg. Per worrying. Not only that: Baidu is now around 9.7, which is the least of all the companies that are in benefits in the Hang Seng Tech index (Hstech) than It serves as a reference When comparing Chinese technology companies. The action, speaking in silver, is too cheap. The search engine loses bellows. For decades Baidu has been considered “the Chinese Google”, but over time its relevance has been blurred. The Chinese young They do not know what is to search in Baidu or Googleand have come to other ways to find answers. Fierce competitors. Platforms such as Tiktok or Instagram have become a spectacular alternative for new generations, and in China we have seen as similar social networks –Xiaohongshu and Douyin– They are getting that. Eric Shen, analyst at the consultant Third Bridge, explained How “these rivals have created content ecosystems that seem more dynamic and attractive, which moves users of the most static and Baidu website.” A disappointing 2025. But there is also AI. And there Baidu has a problem. Baidu’s action has lost a 3% value since the year began. The figure is surprising, especially since its competers focused on AI have a 24%win. Where is Baidu AI? Baidu reacted relatively fast and presented its competitor to Chatgpt in March 2023. It was called Ernie, but from the beginning The performance of that model gave problems. Since then his trajectory has been irregular, and the rise of Deepseek and of Other Chinese models like Qwen (Alibaba) or Doubao (Bytedance) has put it in more and more problems in that market of “IAS Socialist”. An AI that tries to overcome. In February Baidu wanted not to get off the revolution caused by Depseek, so he offered a free version of Ernie last April. Your last model, Ernie 4.5, It’s Open Source – initially they had adopted a proprietary model – but even that does not seem to have encouraged things for now, and there is not too much talk about their capacity: the popularity of other models such as Deepseek or Qwen is now greater. Baidu Lance Ernie 5.0 is expected at the end of August, and it will be then when we can check if this edition does compete in a specially frantic market. Back in view? Analysts believe that Baidu’s latest strategic decisions could help her recover the good path. Among them include investments In Robotaxis And, of course, in new initiatives to boost their AI models. Image | Baidu In Xataka | Deepseek has given the starting gun in the race for a cheaper AI. And China starts with advantage

We do not know if Bill Gates is the owner of this incredible supereyate for sale. What we do know is its price: 645 million dollars

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During the summer it is usual to see the richest 1% on the planet enjoy the sea and the sun aboard immense floating mansions in the form of supereyates that anchor near paradisiacal destinations such as Balearic coasts or the Caribbean islands. Bill Gates is not very given to boat walks, so It is not a regular of the covers of those supereyates. In fact, the founder of Microsoft has never recognized being the owner of one, as they have done Jeff Bezos, Mark ZuckerbergLarry Ellison and Even Amancio Ortega. However, that has not been an impediment to be attributed to the property of one of the most advanced and expensive supereies in the world: the Breakthroughthe first ecological supereate driven by a pile of hydrogen that now is put on sale for 645 million dollars. Bill Gates and a superyate that has never stepped on Since the Breakthrough He left the shipyard that manufacturer Feadship has near Amsterdam in October 2024, his name It has been linked To Bill Gates. That I tend into account that neither the millionaire nor the manufacturer have at any time confirmed his property, and the millionaire has never been seen walking through his covers, so there is no evidence that Bill Gates is really the owner of the owner of the Breakthrough. That said, it is easy to imagine the reason why it is linked to this floating palace with Microsoft’s founding millmillonarium. Its sale price less than a year ago was 645 million dollars, so the ship was limited to a few fortunes that could assume such cost, and its subsequent maintenance. On the other hand, Gates’s commitment to him Clean energy development and innovative projects could intuit that this innovative yacht could be one of the Sustainable initiatives of the tycoon. However, today, it is not possible to confirm that the Breakthrough Be one of Gates’ whims. Breakthrough The first driven by hydrogen Beyond its spectacular design and dimensions, the greatest challenge for Feadship was to develop the propulsion system of the Breakthrough. Instead of conventional diesel engineswho was known as PROJECT 821 It is based on a liquid hydrogen cell system stored at cryogenic temperatures below -253 degrees Celsius. This technology requires a lot of precision management and design to guarantee safety and efficiency due to high hydrogen volatility. The machine room stands out because, to accommodate the storage, conversion and hydrogen management systems, much more space is required than in conventional propulsion systems. The entire electrical system of the yacht, from the propulsion to the lighting and air conditioning of the ship, is feed on the electricity generated by this clean fuel, leaving water as the only residue. This type of system is a pioneer In the nautical sector and represents for many experts a real advance and a reference in terms of Innovation in maritime transportation. Jamie Edmiston, Executive Director of the Yates Management Company that has it for salehe said in a statement collectedby Fortune than the Breakthrough It is “the most extraordinary yacht ever built and the one that will change everything.” A floating palace in a sea of luxuries In addition to being the first to incorporate a quieter and more sustainable technology with the environment, the Breakthrough has not neglected the luxury and exuberance demanded by the users of this type of ships. This superyte It is 118.8 meters in length and 19 meters of manga (wide). It has 15 luxury cabins with capacity for up to 30 guests, and space to house the 44 crew that guarantee personalized attention 24 hours. According The published by Forbes Australiaamong its comforts are five covers on the flotation line and two more under it, communicated with an interior elevator that facilitates access. Another peculiarity is that from their helmet 14 balconies are displayed that leave a panoramic view from the cabins. The main cover on the bridge is basically an apartment with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, dressing rooms, private gym, pantry, two offices with chimney and living room. In addition, it is equipped with a complete hospital for medical emergencies, a library with selected collections, private cinema, pool and jacuzzi and fully equipped gym. The designers of the British Redman Whiteley Dixon study used a light neutral, marble, rattan, smoked eucalyptus wood and oak details to create a luxury atmosphere and exclusivity. All for the modest price of 645 million dollars. In Xataka | We already knew that superyates were floating mansions: that of Roman Abramovich is a fortress with antimile shield Image | Feadship, EdmininstonWikimedia Commons (Jennifer Jacquemart)

We have been at Roig Arena, the stadium that the owner of Mercadona will open in Valencia. If you don’t have more screens it is because they can’t

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He already owns The most successful supermarket chain in the countryhas a foundation known for the Valencia Marathon Sponsorshiphas Your own startup accelerator And it is even owner of a basketball team. He only lacked the stadium. We talk, of course, Juan Roig. The owner of Mercadona has been embarked on the construction of the pavilion that bears his name and will be the new home of Valencia Basket, in addition to a space for concerts and shows. We have been visiting the works and if we had to summarize it in a word we are clear: screens. 1,700 square meters of screens, to be exact. The eye. Before entering we find a screen giving us welcome. They call it “the eye” and measures 10 meters high by 48 wide. Like the other screens, it has installed it LG that tells us the challenge that has meant such a large panel, resistant to the outside and also looks when the sun affects it. It is on the northwest facade of the enclosure and just at the time that there will be many events (about seven or eight in the afternoon) the sun will be putting on. This screen we have not been able to see it on because they were still installing it, so we cannot judge how it looks. Visuals will be projected in it to announce which event or game will have that day. Screens inside and out The videomarker. Within the sand is the jewel of the crown: a videomarker with 250 square meters of surface that, according to LG, has the highest resolution in Europe. It is in the center of the pavilion and forms four screens, but as it has the rounded edges and the image they project is continuous, it gives the feeling that it is a single panel that wraps the entire structure. In addition, in the inner face there are two more screens in which information will be seen from the basketball matches that are held. More screens. There is no thing left, the interior of the Roig Arena is literally lined on screens (see the first photo). There is a kind of band that they call ‘Ribbon LED’ that surrounds the stadium and separates the lower stand from the superior. And there is even more. Inside is also the largest videowall in Europe, with an area of 500 square meters. Both the Videowall and the Ribbon and the videomarker do have seen them on and has surprised us with the sharpness and luminosity. Folded and deployed bleachers Two ages. The enclosure has a particularity and that is that the capacity is variable. You can house 15,600 people in Basket mode and up to 20,000 in concert mode. This is achieved with a retractable bleachers system in the first level. In a basketball game they will be deployed, creating one more level of seats that extend to the edge of the field, while in the concerts they will fold them so that they are hidden on the sides and the track is larger. Investment. The idea of making a new pavilion for Valencia Basket years ruminating And finally Juan Roig confirmed that he would build an enclosure with a capacity for about 15,000 people. In 2018 He traveled to Berlin to know the Berlin Arenastadium in which the project was inspired, and the works began in 2020. The total investment in the enclosure will be, according to its general director, more than 300 million euros And there is already date for its inauguration: on September 6. Basket and more. In addition to being the new home of the Valencian team, which leaves the mythical (but quite outdated) La Fonteta PavilionRoig Arena was also conceived as a space for concerts and shows. In fact, although it does not open until September, they already have confirmed concerts for all next year, Many of them with Sold Out. Images | Xataka, Roig Arena In Xataka | Juan Roig believes that cooking at home has no future. There are eight million Spaniards who are already giving the right

return to its owner the iPhone that had stolen

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That they stole your mobile, look for another resemblance in Wallapop and end up finding you who stole it from you. It is something that happened in Roquetas de Mar, according to the judgment of the Criminal Court number 5 of Almería. A curious case in which the play did not go too well. Theft. The thief, who had not yet been identified, forced the door of a vehicle that was parked. After opening it, I stole a bag, several keys and … a iPhone 15 pro max valued at more than 1,300 euros. The Criminal Code states that, in the event that the stolen object exceeds 400 euros, a prison sentence is established. Looking for the mobile. A common practice in Spain is Sell ​​in Wallapop The stolen, and the victim was more than aware. Therefore, he set out to look for the phone on the platform … until he seemed to have found it. The owner of the same agreed to be at a meeting point with the seller to check whether or not the mobile was stolen. Indeed, it was, after what he called the Civil Guard and managed to retain the thief until he was identified and arrested. I have not done anything, honor. The head of the event did not even appear at the trial, held in his absence. Despite this, the magistrate considered that she acted with profit and illicit origin of the phone, declaring him guilty of a Reception crime. In other words, he is condemned for selling a phone knowing that he was stolen, but he could not directly prove his direct participation in the subtraction. The court thus imposed a six -month prison sentence that can still be appealed. Wallapop and scams. Although Wallapop, with the necessary precautions, is a safe place in which to buy second -hand products, products and scams are the order of the day. Not too long, We knew of scam cases in Galicia. The buyer acquired our iPhone, commented that it was blocked by Icloud and promised to return the phone made of money. Obviously, the iPhone never returned back, staying both the phone and the money it had paid. What to do if it happens to you. In the event that the iPhone is stolen, the first step is to denounce the authorities to record. Trying to locate it on your own and stay with the thief is a fairly risky strategy, although there is a solution that allows you to have no contact. If your mobile is linked to an ICloud account (in Android it is easier to format even if it has Google) it is quite complicated that they have managed to close it: these mobiles are usually sold very cheap because they are blocked. You just have to stay with the seller, know that he is in certain location, and look for the iPhone From the network search. If the GPS tells you the position, you can call the authorities without establishing contact at any time. Image | Xataka In Xataka | What can I do to protect myself from my mobile is lost or steal from me

An old island has been discovered by accident under the sea full of rare land. The problem is that it has no owner

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We are approaching a point where to say that rare earth moves the world in general, no Only the technological oneno longer sounds so hyperbolic. It happens that a single nation has most of the cake right now. We already said it, China has built The most elegant economic power lever in modern history with those desired minerals. Hence, the rest of the nations strive to find the new “gold” where there is a track, however small. An underwater island has emerged as possibility, the problem is for whom. An accidental finding. The story began when an international team of scientists discovered that a part of the known underwater highlands Like Rio Grande Riselocated about 1,200 kilometers from the coast of Brazil, it was actually A tropical island Tens of millions of years ago. Although training was already known by the scientific community as a chain of volcanic mountains submerged from The late cretaceousthe New research revealed that their western part was once above sea levelforming a terrestrial ecosystem that gradually disappeared under the waters due to tectonic activity and the weight of the accumulated volcanic rock. Revelation not only transforms the understanding of the paleoclimatic geography of the region, but also opens the door to a possible International dispute for its valuable mineral resources. The keys of the past. The discovery began in 2018 when British and Brazilian scientists noticed that certain rocks in the marine bed of the Rio Grande Rise They showed an unusual composition, more similar to lava deposits and terrestrial red clay than to marine formations. Published subsequent studies in Scientific Reports They confirmed that this clay (rich in kaolinite, hematite and goetite, typical tropical soil minerals) was not only a rarity in the oceanic background, but an unequivocal evidence that this segment of the high plateau was emerged between 44 and 47 million years agoduring The Eocene. With a very high chemical alteration index (93), these clays reveal an intense subaéreal weathering and a warm and humid climate, with implications that go beyond geology: the island could have been a stop point For migratory birds Between South America and Africa, offering one more piece in the puzzle of the biological exchanges of the past. A mineral treasure. But there is more, of course. Beyond its scientific value, the Rio Grande Rise houses an invaluable economic wealth. Their Ferromanganese scabs contain high levels of Essential metals As cobalt, nickel and lithium, all fundamental for the global energy transition, from batteries for electric vehicles to wind and solar energy storage. However, what attracts the most attention is your rare earth concentrationespecially the ititrium, a whitish and soft metal used in strategic technologies: aerospace alloys, superconductors, industrial lasers, LEDs and precision lenses. In a context where China overwhelmingly dominates the extraction, refined and manufacture of these materials (with Up to 90 % of world production), any new source acquires critical geopolitical importance. It is no accident that the Brazilian interest in this area has intensified after Beijing’s decision to restrict export. The dilemma of sovereignty. And here lies the big problem. The Brazilian government He has shown A clear intention to claim the Rio Grande Rise as part of its continental platform, based on the argument that training He was united to the continent in the past. However, the highlands is 652 nautical miles from the coast, very outside the limit of The 200 established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to delimit exclusive economic zones. This raises a challenge legal and diplomatic Complex, in which Brazil will seek to strengthen its exploration rights without violating international agreements. At the same time, warnings arise on the impact that an eventual mining exploitation could have little studied in depth ecosystems. Thus, the tension between the economic use of these resources and the need to preserve marine biodiversity appears as unresolved background dilemma. Global competition. In this way, the ancient island of Rio Grande Risetoday hidden under kilometers of water and centuries of geological oblivion, has reappeared as a Unexpected actor in the race for the strategic resources of the 21st century. Fosilized red soils, formed under disappeared tropical jungles, now lie next to metal scabs coveted by industries around the world. If you want, the finding not only highlights the scientific value of oceanic missions, it also exposes the growing global competition for those critical minerals in so many areas. In that new power map, where the control of raw materials marks the border between technological independence and structural dependence, even a sunk island millions of years ago can tip the balance of the future. Or at least that Think Brazil. 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