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The intestine has a “golden rich zone.” And if we often default out of it you have to pay attention

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Making peanut is a intestine health thermometer. So much that in Australia they encourage employees do your things at work. It is a moment that We can take even to read or to do Infinite scroll on mobile (Even for Share the site in which we are making poop), but also one that we should pay more attention. The reason is that the time and frequency are details that say a lot about our long -term health. Cause or consequence? Throughout the years different investigations have been carried out on the importance of defecation as such, but also about the ideal time to do sothe frequency of the same and the shape, size and texture that They should have The Depositions. Studies have been carried out that linked the constipation with a higher risk of infections and diarrhea Chronicle with neurodegenerative diseases. However, these observations were made in subjects who already had some disease, so it had to be found out if the intestinal problem was a cause or the consequence. As science is not done alone, a team from Institute for Systems Biology He took the front to answer that question. The study. In it studyresearchers are Gibbons and Johannes Johnson-Martinez analyzed the clinical, genetic, microbiological and lifestyle variables of 1,400 healthy adults. Something that the subjects had to detail was the frequency of the depositions, which would be classified as follows: One or twice a week – constipation. Three to six times a week – Low frequency. One to three times a day – normal frequency. More than three times a day – Diarrhea. “Gold rich zone”. The researchers realized that the people who reported eating a diet rich in fiber, exercised regularly and had good hydration, had a good intestinal movement. In a display of scientific humor, they baptized this as “the golden rich zone”, which becomes a frequency of intestinal movement between one and two daily stories. That is the point where, according to researchers, the balance between microbiome and physiological markers is optimal. Therefore, the optimal frequency is between one and twice daily, but it is not always the case and, when there is an imbalance is when the problems begin inside. Ideal form of feces: Type 3 and 4 More serious than it seems. Johnson-Martinez comments that “if the feces remain too long in the intestine, microbes exhaust all available dietary fiber, something that normally ferment to produce short-chain fatty acids beneficial for health. If this occurs, the ecosystem changes and begins to ferment proteins, which generates several toxins that can reach the bloodstream.” These by-products of the fermentation of protein filtered to the bloodstream, such as the sulfate p-rresol and the Indexil Sulfate, pass to the kidneys, causing damage in case of constipation. If, on the contrary, diarrhea occurs, feces practically do not go through the intestine, causing clinical parameters related to liver damage. That is: with constipation, the kidneys suffer. With diarrhea, the liver. Chivato. Gibbons comments that chronic constipation, which we have just seen what effects they produce, has been associated with neurodegenerative disorders and the chronic progression of kidney diseases. What is missing is to define whether that anomaly in the intestinal movement is an early warning of a chronic disease or damage to the organs. Now, the study also explores how this frequency of the intestinal movement is also related to the Anxiety and depressionrelating mental health to deposits. The researchers comment that it has been possible to link the frequency of the depositions with all body systems and how is something that can be a risk factor in the Chronic disease development. His hope is that medicine be taken seriously to “optimize health and well -being, even healthy populations, based on the frequency of intestinal movement.” And some drawer is that, if we have no problem, we should not hold the desire or force it, because we reduce and artificially increase the time that the feces are in the intestine Study feces. There is an important detail that must be taken into account: to have a different frequency from that of one/twice daily can be normal. The problem is when it becomes chronic. That is when we should ask ourselves what is happening. There may be a health problem, but also that we have a low diet in fiber from fruit and vegetables. It is logical, but food and Our lifestyle It is something inseparable from our feces. In addition, throwing an eye from time to time is not a bad idea because it is a free intestinal health test. Also You can scan your poop with an app that analyzes it thanks to the AI. The time, matters. Being in the “golden rich zone” is relevant, but previous studies also explored the idea that the moment we make peanut is also. Studies prepared in 2020 and 2022 They related circadian rhythms to gastrointestinal activity. At night, intestinal activity decreases significantly, but during the day, especially after waking us or eating, there is greater mobility. An optimal moment is half an hour after awakening, since the colon is activated after nighttime rest, but defecating later of that moment does not imply that something goes wrong because there is some flexibility in the matter. Images | Cabot Health, Bristol StooS Chart, Sincelely media In Xataka | Everest has become a feces. Solution: That all mountaineers carry their own in bags

Should the same fine pay the same poor as a rich? Spain is already serious that the DGT puts progressive sanctions

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An increase of up to 500%. That is what has been able to add in the Congress of Deputies with their proposal of law to implement the concept of progressivity to traffic sanctions. A measure that already applies in other countries and aims to match the balance. This is what we know. A Law Proposition. First of all, it is important to know What is a law proposition. This formula allows any parliamentary group to present a letter in which the modification of a law or the creation of an existing one is. Once presented, the government has 30 days to answer whether or not it is processed. If processed, the deadline for presenting possible amendments to the text is opened. In case of moving forward is when the final approval of the text is discussed in the Congress of Deputies. Here is the time to approve this proposition, which decays or that different modifications are included. The proposal to add. Therefore, the proposal to add is, for the moment, in the first step before traffic violations are forward. However, it is still important because it opens the debate to the approval of progressive fines in our country. As you can read in the text presented at the Congress of Deputies, the idea is that the one who has the most pay in case of committing an infraction. “It cannot be that for some a fine ruins the month and for others it is a calderilla,” said Enrique Santiago, spokesman to add, in words collected by The country. What is it? As we say, in which he pays more who has the most. But, to what extent. That is what would have to be defined and add its proposal: A 30% increase in the cost of the sanction “in response to the severity and transcendence of the fact, the background of the offender and his status as a repeat offender, the potential danger created for himself and for the other users of the road and the criterion of proportionality” A 150% increase for sanctioned offenders whose annual gross income is between 70,000 and 85,000 euros. A 300 % increase between sanctioned offenders whose annual gross income between 85,000 and 100,000 euros. A 500 % increase for sanctioned offenders whose annual gross income greater than 100,000 euros. In addition to increases in the payment of sanctions, the proposal also includes reductions for serious and very serious infractions: 30% reduction for those who prove income up to 1.5 times the SMI 15% reduction for those who prove income between 1.5 and 2.5 times the SMI What do we pay? At the moment, the DGT contemplates three scenarios to punish the infractions According to the Traffic Law: Mild infractions: up to 100 euros of sanction. Serious infractions: sanction of 200 euros. Very serious infractions: sanction of 500 euros as a general rule. Reiteration in alcohol or drug use is punished with 1,000 euros. Driving a car with detectors or radar inhibitors is punished with 3,000 euros. Current punishments for speeding How much would we pay? If we apply the proposal to add to the current sanctions, it must be taken into account that all speeding is a serious offense, although a penalty of 100 euros is contemplated for the milder cases. That is, to exceed the maximum permitted speed would entail the payment of the following fines: People who enter less than 1.5 times the SMI: 70 euros. People entering between 1.5 and 2.5 times the SMI: 85 euros. People who exceed 2.5 times the SMI and up to 70,000 euros: they could pay up to 130 euros “in response to the severity and transcendence of the fact, the background of the offender and their status as a repeat offender, the potential danger created for himself and for the other users of the road and the criteria of proportionality.” People who enter between 70,000 and 85,000 euros: 250 euros. People entering between 85,000 and 100,000 euros: 400 euros. People who enter more than 100,000 euros: 600 euros. In response to more serious speed, which is punished with 600 euros, we could talk about sanctions of up to 3,600 euros at the upper end. For fines for drug use, it would amount to 6,000 euros. And for the use of inhibitors and radar detectors they would be 18,000 euros. Does this apply in any country? Yes, different European Union countries have this way of acting in traffic but not all apply in the same way. The most obvious and known case is that of Finland, pioneers who apply this method since 1929 according to Pyramid Consultingspecialized in resorting traffic sanctions. Finland is also famous because in the early 2000s, a Nokia manager was sanctioned with a Fine of 116,000 euros for exceeding the maximum limit allowed at 25 km/h. It is not the only Finnish case, Anders Wiklöf, Finnish millionaire owner of Wiklöf Holding (A group of more than 20 companies that invest in all types of sectors), complained that only three fines 300,000 euros had cost him. And Finland is not the only country where this criterion is applied. In Sweden and in Switzerland he also pays the most and in Denmark, reductions of up to 50% are contemplated when paying fines so not everything is bad news, they collect in Cubic centimeters. And does it work? There are doubts that increasing what is paid for traffic infractions has a real effect on traffic accidents. Some studies They claim that applying progressive fines can reduce road deaths by 5% and 2% serious injuries. However, a meta -analysis It did correlate an increase in the payment of the sanctions between 50 and 100% of the cost of them with a 15% reduction in infractions. Despite this, it was not confirmed that there was a clear correlation between this reduction and a decrease in the number of accidents, dead on the road or injured. Photo | Jorge Fraganillo In Xataka | We already know … Read more

SoftBank will pay 6,500 million per ampere. A new war chapter for data centers has just been written

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At the beginning of last February the interest of the Japanese Softbank investment group was made public in The acquisition of the chips designer American ampere computing LLC. This last company is specialized in the development of Processors for serverswhich already put at that time on the table SoftBank’s intention to expand your business in large data centers. It made sense in a context in which the rise of the artificial intelligence (AI) is promoting that these facilities multiply at full speed. Just a month and a half later that strategic movement has established itself. According to your own AmpereSoftBank has just closed your purchase. He will pay 6,500 million dollars for this company and will have one more letter in the presumably prosperous business of the data centers. This investment group is The Arm owner since 2016; At the beginning of last October Invested 500 million dollars in Openai; And, in addition, it is one of the companies that lead The Stargate program with which the US seeks to sustain its dominance of AI. The war for data centers for AI is already underway The large technology companies that are involved in the deployment of AI are facing multimillion -dollar investments to develop their data centers infrastructure. Microsoft has confirmed that 80,000 million dollars will be spent during the fiscal year of 2025. and Google, 75,000 million. On the other hand, the Stargate program budget that I have mentioned a few lines above rises to no less than 500,000 million dollars. This is the cake from which SoftBank is being able to seize. At least a good portion. Ampereone chips will reach 256 nuclei for 2025 and presumably have a very competitive energy efficiency However, to achieve it the companies that control, or control in the short term, such as ampere, whose processors are implemented on ARM technology, will have to Compete with Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Google or Amazon. In any case, the ampereone chips, which are being manufactured by TSMC in their 3 nm node, will reach 256 cores For 2025 and will presumably have a very competitive energy efficiency. These are his great buzas against the proposals of the competition. The current situation is triggering something that is worth not overlooking. As Dan O’Brien has observedthe president of the American Futurum consultant, technology companies are forging strategic alliances with the purpose of molding the industry to their measure and maximizing the economic performance of their investments. As we have seen, SoftBank is the owner of ARM. On the other hand, Oracle has a very significant participation in Ampere, which will soon belong to SoftBank, and which is ARM client. In addition, all the companies in which we have just repaired, SoftBank, ARM, Oracle and OpenAi, participate in the deployment of the infrastructure required by the Stargate program. In any case, This network of dependencies does not end here. As we have seen, SoftBank is an important OpenAI investor, and this last company is Oracle’s partner and is trying to develop His own chips for ia. Finally, to curl the curl further, rumors that defend that Oracle is interested in buying Tiktok, a company that belongs to the Chinese company bytedance persists. SoftBank also has an important participation in the latter. As O’Brien argues In his tweet “everything is connected (…) It is fascinating to see how the technology titans shape the industry.” Image | Ampere computing LLC More information | Ampere computing LLC In Xataka | The B300 GPU is the new Nvidia beast for Ia. And we already know what prepares for 2026 and 2027

Café and cocoa have become so much more expensive to suffocate the sector itself. They leave it without liquidity to pay grain shipments

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They do not run easy times For coffee lovers. Not even cocoa. Both goods have seen how their prices They shot themselves until reaching Historical values Fruit of a “perfect storm” in which bad harvests and the imbalance between supply and demand are mixed. And although there is who predicts That by the end of the year we will see the occasional price drop (Arabica coffee), today the operators are not having it easy. In fact there are already some who, given the shortage of liquidity, are being seen With difficulties To move the merchandise. It is the nth proof of how the sector is. What happened? That the escalation in coffee and cocoa prices is noticing beyond costs, The demand either The accounts of the sector. A few days ago Bloomberg revealed How the rise in futures markets Of both products is depleting the liquidity of some operators, which is already reflected in their logistics. As? According to the agency, there are companies that are finding problems to finance international merchandise movements. How does that affect the market? Bloomberg’s analysis is clear: to guarantee its position for the future and before the escalation of prices, there are operators who have had to mobilize great sums in the New York Stock Exchange. And that translates into a significant amount of cash blocked, which complicates financing the cargoes that transport grain from the production areas to the consumption points. As a backdrop are The difficulties with which it is part of the industry with the cash flow. What is the problem? “The market in cash and the availability of financing”, Clarify Pam Thornton, with a long experience in the raw materials and cocoa market. To the lack of liquidity it is also added that, in a clearly upward market, some suppliers that have sold at lower prices are breaking their commitments. Another handicap that affects the coffee sector is the shortage of containers and the lack of incentives for reserves. The situation is complicated because many companies sell at the same time with both products, coffee and cocoa, which leaves them in a difficult position when facing cash scarcity. An example aforementioned by Bloomberg herself is Olam Groupdedicated to both grains and that in just one year he has seen how his circulating capital shot 68%. The cause, as explained by the company: the “strong unprecedented increases” in the price of goods. Did prices upload so much? Yes. Specialized platform graphics such as Investing either Training Economics or of one’s own World Bank They are eloquent. The futures of Arabica coffee and cocoa In New York they have descended in recent weeks, but they still remain high if the entire historical series is taken into account. The causes respond in both cases to a sum of factors, including bad harvests in producing areas such as Western Africa, Brazil or Vietnam. In the specific case of cocoa prices 28% have fallen In 2025, but still the future negotiated in New York shot both last year that they remain at levels far higher than the average of the last decade. If we talk about coffee, They remain quite above of those of a year ago. Are there more indicators? Yes. Last week Reuters warned of the complicated situation faced by world coffee trade. In his analysis he even speaks of “paralysis”, with merchants and toasters throwing the brake and reducing their activity to minimums due to the increase in prices. “Normally we would be exhausted, but so far we have sold less than 30% of the production,” a manager of a manager of Elcafe ca does A few daysduring the Convention of the National Coffee Association of the US. “The great price increase is eaten the liquidity of the customers. They do not have all the money to buy what they need,” he adds. There are already signals They point out that Arabica coffee could be reduced sensitively by the end of 2025, both for the behavior of the Brazilian harvest and the effect of prices on the demand itself, but for the moment the industry is forced to be conservative. The footprint in the silos. Reuters points out another equally interesting effect: coffee stores close to US ports, which receive grain from the center or south of America, remain in half of their normal volume and in some cases they are even pretending them. “Some storage companies are returning the silos to the owners, canceling the rental contracts in advance,” Explain An executive of the sector. Images | Kelsen Fernandes (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | 2025 promised to be a calamitic year for the price of coffee. We would love to tell you that the forecasts were wrong

The United States has decided to start a tariff war. Videogames in physical format will pay Caro

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Practically from his inauguration as president of the United States, Donald Trump launched a series of tariff measures that put many of the countries with which he maintained commercial relations. Very soon, the ESA (Entertainment Software Association)of which companies such as Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo or Ubisoft are part of the evil, warned how bad these economic impositions can sit to the industry, mainly due to the conditions of globalization that the sector is experiencing. More tariffs, it is war. The Toma and Daca between countries that maintained a fluid commercial relationship with Trump has just begun, and we recently knew that if the US imposed 10% on Chinese productsthey responded with others in the opposite direction of 10 to 15% For American products such as coal, gas or oil. Similar answers They have given themselves after the announcement of the 25% tariffs for Canada and Mexico. ESA said it. The association warned In a statement that “tariffs on video game devices and related products would negatively affect hundreds of millions of Americans and damage the important contributions of the industry to the US economy.” And although analysts like David Gibson, from MST Financial said On Twitter that the tariff to China would have a “zero impact” on the price of the Nintendo Switch 2 In the United States, it also left the door open to the thing could change if tariffs like countries like Vietnam remained, very important for the manufacture of the console. The problem: physical games. The physical games market is increasingly a more residual part of the industry. But the thing could get worse. Analyst Daniel Ahmad He has highlighted that 20% of Chinese products would undoubtedly affect technological products such as consoles, mobiles and gpus (the latter It is already being noticed), while the 25% that Trump plans to carry Mexico would have an unsuspected effect: in the manufacture and consequent increasing discs, where the Latin American country has an important weight. Less and less. Mat Piscatella, another video game expert analyst, Replica these Ahmad predictions With an even more disastrous prediction: “I would not be surprised to see that the physical games subject to these rates simply did not get to do, with the editors addressing a completely digital strategy.” And concludes: “What a disaster.” At the moment, they are only conjectures, but analysts seem to coincide that tariffs could have an unwanted effect on precisely North American editors, which is what this policy tries to avoid. A future without physical format. Maybe this is the last lunge that awaits the physical games. The digital format gain ground Without rest, and the figures could not be clearer: in 2023 95% of the video games that were sold did so through digital roads. And decisions like Sony’s launch the PS5 Pro without disk unit (You have to buy separately) or Microsoft’s launch A new model Of Xbox Series S also without an album, they make it clear to which direction the industry is. Header | Álex Alcolea In Xataka | Nvidia lost 265,000 million dollars yesterday. Tariffs have caused terror among technology

Volkswagen already has its first electric car of 20,000 euros ready. The rest of its cost will pay it with discomfort

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“Mobility for all.” Those are the words that Volkswagen has used to present its Volkswagen ID. Every1the concept and first advance of the cheapest electric car in the company. A utility that has marked the border of 20,000 euros as a red line. We will not see it, yes, until 2027. Before the one we now know as Volkswagen ID. 2allanother car that used a word game to convince us that we are facing cars that should popularize technology. A challenge in itself. It is a challenge because we talk about cars of 20,000 and 25,000 euros … starting. Vehicles that undoubtedly improve the experience in city but almost abandon the idea of ​​being able to leave a radius of action of about 200 kilometers if it is not folding to important discomforts. What can we expect in the coming years? A little context As we have been following in recent months, the European Union is determined to generalize the use of the electric car above any other technology. At the moment, the prohibition of using Combustion engines that are not neutral in carbon from 2035 is still underway. But we must remember that the objectives in matters of Emissions for 2030 They are very ambitious and are largely electrifying the majority of the fleet sold by manufacturers. Before, in 2027, the average emissions sold by the manufacturers between 2025 and that exercise will be forced Do not exceed 93.6 gr/km of CO2. The norm has recently been flexible because it was intended to force (and must still approve its modification) to the manufacturers complying with the aforementioned limit before the end of the year. If they would not have faced a thousand millionaire fines that are now in the air. The European Commission has been folded to MANUFACTURERS REQUIREMENTSYes, but only in part. If in this 2025 a company exceeds the volume of average emissions of 93.6 gr/km of CO2 will have to compensate in the coming years selling all the Electric and plug -in hybrids that can before 2027. And that is where electric cars of between 20,000 and 25,000 euros come into play, the great hope for companies that have pressed everything possible to avoid fines and have received an oxygen ball but will have to face a new red line in the short term again. The big doubt is: is the customer willing to buy these vehicles? Goodbye to the cheap car “for everything” … and “for all” The promise of an electric car of 20,000 euros that is defined as propitious “for anyone” is, in 2025, an ambitious attempt. At least, as we say, with the eyes of 2025 because it is possible that in a few years we have become accustomed to something completely different. It is something that should happen if you want to sell as churros cars like Volkswagen’s. The German company has given few technical details but A 95 hp electric car progresseslimited to 130 km/hy 250 kilometers of autonomy According to WLTP cycle. If those latest data are confirmed, we can expect a road exit to force us to stop every 170-180 kilometers. Of course, they are estimates based on the experience that gives us to try electric vehicles of all kinds. At the moment, as a general rule, at a sustained speed of 120 km/h We can expect a drop of 25-30% in the estimate presented according to the WLTP cycle. We speak, of course, to leave the drums dry. If we estimate 25% less electric autonomy, we talk about traveling 200 kilometers from the pull but If we don’t want shocks We will have to stop in a charger a little earlier. Is that a problem? It depends for those who but, with most of the people with whom I speak, yes. And it is nothing more than a sensation but it seems difficult to sell the benefits of an electric car with an autonomy of 200 kilometers on open road if the potential customer has to spend at least 20,000 euros. Or know very well what is carried or the most normal thing is that it rejects it. Why choose an electric car of 20,000 euros … Although it sounds difficult to believe, a 20,000 euros car with a 250 -kilometer WLTP autonomy can be a large purchase as the only car if the customer knows what he takes. Yes, I am convinced and these are the reasons. The ideal client would be that person who makes more than 40 or 50 kilometers on a day to day And he has a place to load the car. If you usually do not make long trips (one or two a year) you can assume the discomforts of stopping every 180 kilometers when you see the money that has been saved at the end of the month. To give an example, assuming a consumption of 15 kWh/100 km in city and a 10 cents/kWh recharge cost (nothing especially cheap in a home rate) will spend 1.5 euros per 100 kilometers traveled. If 250 kilometers between Monday and Friday, the cost of the week in energy will not reach 4 euros. On the contrary, a hybrid that, on average, makes a consumption of 5 l/100 km in the city, we will be talking about an expense of nine euros per 100 kilometers. Those same 250 kilometers between Monday and Friday increase to 22.5 euros. Every week the driver of an electric car with these figures is saving 18.5 euros. Every month we talk about 74 euros. A year are almost 900 euros. Here We are not counting the cost of maintenance (Change of oils, filters, mobile parts of the combustion engine …), so the expected savings is greater. In addition, we are not contemplating the comfort in comfort that an electric car is in a day -to -day basis. This part is purely subjective but the absence of noise, vibrations and the immediate delivery of the motor torque (although … Read more

pay money if you stop using it

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You should look at Instagram. Not for nothing, but because you can make money with it. It is the original proposal of Digital B100, part of Abanca, to reward its clients. A striking idea that wants you to take care of you and reward you for it. Health account. This is the name of This financial product that B100 offers a remuneration of 3.40% Tae – the highest in the market – with a limit of 50,000 euros. The curious thing is not that generous remuneration, but how it encourages you to lead a healthier life and how, in fact, reward you for it. How to “fill” the Health account. All part of your original B100 account, in which you have your savings. You cannot transfer money without more than the B100 to the Health account: you have to “win” those transfers leading a healthier life. And when you move money to that Health account it is when you benefit from that special remuneration. Income for moving. To start, there is the challenge Move To Savethat rewards you for walking or running. The idea is that you travel walking or running from 6,000 to 20,000 steps to your rhythm. You can decide how much money you want it to move from your B100 account to your Health account when you meet that goal, from one to 30 euros. And income for using less social networks. Something similar happens with the other challenge, called Off to savewhich encourages customers to mark a maximum time of use of X, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and Snapchat, from 15 minutes to an hour. The less time in networks, the more money to enter. If you manage not to exceed those limits, you can go entering more and more money in this remunerated account. Thus, if you establish a daily hour of use of these social networks, you can spend a maximum of 4 euros. If you limit it to 45 minutes, you can pass up to 9 euros, and if you do 30 minutes you can enter up to 15 euros in the Health account. Finally, if you only use social networks 15 minutes, you can transfer up to 30 euros. The B100 app does not see what you see or public, you just need to know if you meet those established time limits. The Health account money is always available. If the client meets these two objectives, he may transfer up to 60 euros a day, that is, up to 1,800 euros per month. For a balance of 5,000 euros, 3.40% represents annual income of 167.68 euros, for example. The liquidation is monthly, and it is received – or rather, is admitted to the 12th of each month. That money from the Health account is always available. Care: As of May 1, the TAE in the Health account will become 3.20%. They don’t give you money, “you give it to you” you. Although it seems that the message is that if you walk or use less social networks they will pay you for it, in reality what you do is benefit from greater TAE and a better profitability of your savings. An initiative in collaboration with friends screens. B100 has collaborated with the non -profit association Friendly screenswhich since 2004 works in the field of digital well -being. Its founder and director, Javier Flores, Indian That according to a recent study, 77% of Spaniards between 18 and 55 believe that spending less time on social networks is beneficial for them. More and more time in front of the mobile. It is not a bad idea, of course, especially since we spend a lot, a lot of time looking at the mobile. A Telefónica study of 2024 estimated in five hours and a minute the time we use the mobile, 5.6% more than the previous year. 34.7% of that time invested in messaging applications and social networks. The idea of ​​Abanca and B100 seems therefore a success. Image | Magnet.me In Xataka | A European bizum is possible. The systems of southern Europe bring positions with Wero, the Franco-German alternative

Nvidia graphics cards have become the new iPhone. If you want a decent, prepare to pay 1,000 euros

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Do you want to change graphics? No problem: Go preparing 1,000 euros. At least, if you want a modern and decent model, because that is the price at which we will have to get used to. The situation is demonstrating with the new Nvidia graphics. When launched its new RTX 5000 family cards range He did it with recommended PVPs that already taught the teeth: RTX 5090: 2,369 euros RTX 5080: 1,190 euros RTX 5070 TI: 899 euros RTX 5070: 659 euros Those prices are just a reference, because as soon as the availability is on sale, the availability is scarce and prices have shot. It is the same That has passed previously With Nvidia cards. Let’s put for example MSI models more affordable for each version: RTX 5090: From 2,549 euros RTX 5080: From 1,539 euros RTX 5070 TI: From 889.90 euros RTX 5070: Not available Except in the case of the RTX 5070 ti – that it is possible to find those recommended PVPs – we find that Prices already begin to be higher than those announced As soon as they go on sale. It is something totally legitimate – Nvidia speaks of recommended PVPs, not that manufacturers cannot modify them – but it again makes this market get more and more inaccessible to many users. There are several stores that especially sell these graphs as part of a new PC. Finding it otherwise is difficult, something that makes it clear that the availability is limited and that if you want to access one of these cards, you will have to think about totally renew your PC and not just that component. But something else is happening. In our ANALYSIS OF THE RTX 5090 AND RTX 5080 Our partner Juan Carlos López made his recommendation clear: The conclusion I have reached is that to users who have a GeForce RTX 20 either 30or an equity proposal of AMD, it may be interested RTX 40 I would recommend that you think about it well before buying an RTX 50. This jump I do not see anything clear unless the money is not a problem and you are willing to have the latest at almost any price. The performance improvement is there, but it is not so striking if we come from a relatively recent graph. In fact, the jump seems to modest except when we can Take advantage of DLSS 4. And the problem is that not all games can take advantage of This improvementalthough certainly the number of titles compatible with DLSS 4 goes up. But that also raises a danger. If you want to notice a performance improvement, the real person is no longer the hardware of these cards, but the AI ​​software that Nvidia has created. Until now, DLSS technology seemed to be a curious option, but now it has become the great sale argument for this manufacturer. But there is a problem with that. DLSS 4 It is a owner technology. That’s how it is. You will not be able to enjoy it unless you do not have one of the new Nvidia cards, and that is starting the creation of a dangerous vicious circle. One in which developers want to offer more fluid experiences to their users, but for that they have to modify their games to make them compatible with DLSS 4. That leaves out the competition (AMD), but also force users to bet on that new Nvidia walled garden. DLSS 4 is compatible with the old manufacturer’s old graphs – but Only RTX 50 offer multi frame generation-. This characteristic is what is possible to generate up to three frames for each rendering frame, and is therefore responsible for “multiplying” the performance and frame rate of the compatible games. That makes us facing a strategy similar to that of the iPhone: great in many things, exclusive and with a high price that usually surrounds the 900-1,000 euros, such as these Nvidia cards. That puts us all in a brete, especially since DLSS 4 could become another CUDA. Today that technology is the great responsible for the success of Nvidia in the world of AI. AMD also has chips for very competitive, but the problem of this manufacturer It is not hardware, but software (and specifically, CUDA). If Nvidia manages to convert DLSS 4 into another de facto standard, We will find a worrying situation in which a proprietary software standard ends up catching users and the industry. If a single manufacturer ends up dominating the market, you can do what you want with it. And that are potentially very bad news for users. In Xataka | Nvidia has beat its income record again. Paradoxically, Wall Street does not seem to import much

It’s time to face that we can’t pay attention to things, we don’t really want to do it

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“I can’t do anything for more than fifteen minutes without looking at the mobile.” A while ago, in Xataka we published A very interesting report about how we had become an eternally decentralized generation. In it, a good number of testimonies and several experts talked about one of the common places of our time: the feeling that we are losing our ability to pay attention. But is it true? The question is not absurd, of course. Especially since the debate is not so much whether memory (attention or other cognitive abilities) changes with the use of mobile devices. Of course they change. They change functionally and do so at a structural level. As Manuel Sebastián explained to usResearcher at the Cerebral Cartography Unit of the Complutense University, “we know that the text that includes links (hypertext) seems to be remembered worse in general, which is totally logical because they constitute distractors and the role of attention is critical in memory” . However, as Sebastián reminded us, “the fact that information is processed differently is not necessarily bad.” The question is whether the changes are worse, if they are leaving us more helpless in the face of certain phenomena of the world. What about our attention? A few months ago, a team from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna this question was askedbut it is not something to answer. After all, to do so we need to be able to go beyond personal sensations and find attention measurements in numerous contexts, times and ages. Measurements, in addition, that they were not theoretical but were vinvulated to solve concrete problems. Where could they find such data? There was only one answer: in Intelligence tests. That huge tailor drawer that are intelligence tests. For decades, psychologists have been passing intelligence tests to millions of people and, thanks to this, we have a huge base of psychometric evaluations. Well, among that huge amount of data: there is attention tests. Once they realized this, the Researchers gathered 179 Studies with 287 independent samples from 32 different countries over 31 years: that is, they gathered evidence of more than 20,000 people and examined whether throughout these three decades a decay of attention was identified. The results are … counterintuitive. When they examined children, adolescents and young people, They realized that their scores remained stable over the years. When they examined adults, they found that, in fact, The scores improved. Yes, you have read well: our attention has been improving for years. So we are not losing attention capacity? As Adam Grant saidProfessor of Organizational Psychology at Wharton, the problem has never been attention, it is motivation. If we want to use our attention we have the ability to do it, the problem is that we usually do not want. We are so surrounded by interesting and attractive things that we end up letting us fall into multitasking. And, of course, that has consequences. In fact, it is likely that these consequences are the most notice and those that produce the feeling that we are losing the ability to pay attention. Come on, we are “cheating” ourselves. For example, we know that “pay attention” to various media at the same time (watch a movie while we consult the mobile) It has a negative effect on memory. That is, we remember worse what we see while we do other things. The fact is that when we begin to remember the movies worse, we attribute it to our attention and not to the way we saw the movie. Everything is confused. And you have to be careful with that, because if we do not start from reality, it will be impossible Dominate again Our attention capacity. Image | Cristofer Maximilian In Xataka | An eternally decentralized generation: “I can’t do anything for more than fifteen minutes without looking at the mobile” In Xataka | Do not leave for tomorrow what you could do today has left us a hidden problem: Precrastication *An earlier version of this article was published in February 2024

will pay for its Puretech engines and now for its failures with the adblue

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Stellantis has lived two great controversies in recent years related to their engines or the systems that make them work. Controversies that have ended up exploding in recent months and that is forcing the company to expand its guarantees and give greater coverage to affected customers. We recently knew that Stellantis promised Expand the guarantee of your PureTech engines retroactively and that would assume the expenses of the Repairs between 2022 and 2024 as long as some conditions are met, such as being able to certify that maintenance has been passed correctly. The other front that the conglomerate has open is related to the failures in the adblue systems of its cars. Now, the company undertakes to expand special coverage for Peugeot, Citroën, DS Automobiles and Opel/Vauxhall cars with Euro 6 diesel engines. In the case of having paid this special coverage, now it will be the clients who can request that the money be reinstated. The problems with the adblue and the response of Stellantis In Europe, since 201 the standard has been applied Euro 6 To all the cars approved since then. This new emission regulations forced manufacturers to assemble SCR systems (selective catalytic reduction) to reduce NOX (nitrogen oxide) expelled to the atmosphere. He SCR system It is designed to break down part of the polluting gases in nitrogen and water vapor. It is, ultimately, a catalyst installed in the exhaust pipe. Said catalyst It works with Adbluea product in liquid format that combines water and urea (32.5%) that is injected into the catalyst. The heat produced by gases causes it to become ammonia and breaks down those same gases. To ensure that cars contaminated as much as possible, the European Union forced the manufacturers to include the impediment of starting the car if the deposit lacks adblue enough to guarantee its operation. If the tank is spent with the car running, it continues to work but once off, we will not be able to start it again. The problem that some Stellantis clients were found is that defective deposits were produced. If this failure was given, in some cases it was requested that The deposit will be filled Before time and the car was still working but, in others, the car understood that it lacked the liquid and, therefore, prevented the car from starting. The only solution to this problem went through the replacement of the Adblue tank, which could lead to an expense of about 1,000 euros. In December last year, The European Commission has already confirmed an agreement for which he forced Stellantis to compensate users as follows: 100% of the cost of the pieces in vehicles with up to 5 years and up to 150,000 kilometers. Between 30% and 90% of the cost of the pieces (depending on the mileage) of cars between 5 and 8 years. The cost of assumed labor will be 30 euros, unless the damage is recurring, in which case it will assume all the costs of the authorized workshop. The campaign began in Italy but now The special program to all of Europe is expandedincluding Spain. The cars that receive this guarantee are those manufactured between January 2014 and August 2020 when the adblue deposits that were set up until then in the diesel cars of Stellantis were changed. In addition, it is specified that customers who already repaired their vehicle from 2021 and were compensated at that time by Expanded coverage that have been applied so far by this problem, they will have the right to request an extension of the reimbursement money taking into account these new conditions. Those who wish, will have to request the expansion of coverage online using this link. Photo | Stellantis In Xataka | If Tavares are out of Stellantis, it is because of a giant problem in the United States. One that already forces electric cars

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