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In Alicante there is a city invaded by chickens. So you have prepared a plan of 26,000 euros to get rid of them

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In the middle of Alicante coast, Torrevieja is known for its beaches, heritage And above all The pink lagoonincreasingly crowded by visitors in search of sunsets Instagrameable of which to presume in networks. However, over the last days this town of 94,800 neighbors He has monopolized headlines for another very different reason: his chickens. Or rather, a curious Gallinacea invasion that has already forced his City Council to take action. Librating from it will not be cheap. An invasion of chickens? Exact. And it’s nothing new. In Torrevieja they have already A few years Seeing how chickens, roosters and chickens bell around the city, walking through parks, gardens, roundabouts, sidewalks and – –The Consistory is resigned– “Any other” bar see place that offers them shelter and food. Recently the municipal technicians began to tell them and they left that in the municipality there are around 700 birds In these circumstances, what is not bad if one takes into account that in Torrevieja they live 94,800 people. A problem with feathers. Seeing chickens walking through the parks and streets of Torrevieja or waking up with the song of the roosters in the city may sound bucolic, but the City Council warns that the gallinaceous invasion is a problem. And not less precisely. “It is a great risk for both animals and people themselves,” ditch. Click on the image to go to Tweet. “These birds today are temporarily forced to inhabit a hostile atmosphere towards them, shared with vehicles and people,” add from the City Council. “When moving and wandering along public roads, parks, green areas and roads in search of food, they suppose a danger to themselves, pedestrians and vehicles, being able to suffer or trigger accidents.” “Made a nursery”. There are more. Recently the sixth interviewed a neighbor From the town that complained about the footprint that chickens, roosters and chickens leave in Torrevieja, a well visible and not especially positive. “It is very unpleasant, everything is made,” regretted. Another of the residents confirmed that “there are many” birds and it is not strange to see them “in the midst of all cars.” In A statement On the subject, the City Council itself admits that the situation has come out of mother and the “wild or careless” birds occupy public places. On two different occasions it comes to speak directly of an “uncontrolled” increase and argues the need to take measures to “avoid possible damage and conflicts” with the neighbors. The figure: almost 30,000 euros. Faced with such a scenario, the town hall has decided to cut for the healthy and launch a campaign to capture and remove the gallináceas who have settled in Torrevieja. For that purpose it has just launched A public tender in which he is looking for companies interested in taking care of the campaign. The bidding base budget offered is 26,296 euros, VAT included. Taking into account that it aspires to ‘hunt’ up to 700 birds, that leaves an average of more than 30 euros for each chicken and caught. And what will they do with them? The city council is very clear. Speak at all times of “LIVE COLLECT” and then “move” to the chickens. Where to? So that? The municipal statement does not specify it, although the mayor He explained The sixth that the idea would consist of capturing birds with food and networks, “without causing any damage.” The same chain clarifies that the City Council plans that the captured specimens end up in a school farm. What the Councilor for Animal Welfare of Torrevieja, Concha Sala, has done is insist that society is increasingly sensitized “given the need to guarantee animal protection in general.” The contract offered by the City Council not only contemplates the capture and transfer of the 700 chickens loose by the town. It also includes monitoring and control work during the entire time that the service lasts, which will last about 12 months. With previous experience. It is not the first time that Torrevieja is forced to take measures to stop the “uncontrolled” population of gallináceas who camp in their parks. A few years ago, In 2022already planned a similar campaign to remove 500 roosters and chickens from the streets, roundabouts and parks of the municipality. The idea was then the same: act in a dozen points of the town and move the birds to farms schools and sanctuaries, without harming them. All to solve a peculiar poultry invasion that the City Council blames “Circumstances” that does not come to specify in its statement. What are they? There are those who point out that the expansion of the chickens is related to their sale in the markets of the municipality and who says that the birds arrived in Torrevieja for an initiative of the City Council itself. Whatever the exact cause, something is clear: birds seem to feel especially comfortable there. Images | Henrique S. Ruzzon (Unsplash) and Jesús Dehesa (Flickr) In Xataka | Half the Canary Islands created an artificial beach to attract tourism. Without knowing it, he set up a sanctuary for angel sharks

Sam Altman had a plan to turn Openai into a For-Profit. Elon Musk’s megaoferta will complicate it a lot

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A group of inversones, at the head of which is Elon Musk, has made An offer of 97.4 billion dollars to buy the non -profit organization (Nonprofit) that OpenAi controls. We have a new soap opera in sight, but this time the story has a lot of crumb. Altman and Musk, confronted. Sam Altman published a message in x mocking the offer: “No thanks but we will buy Twitter for 9,740 million dollars if you want,” making it clear that for them Twitter (x) has very little value. Musk in turn answered that message In X calling Altman “scammer.” How much OpenAi is worth? A few months ago Openai completed a colossal financing round of 6,600 million dollars. According to experts, that made the company’s valuation grow then Up to 157,000 million dollars. But maybe that is not the question, as we will see later. And SoftBank wants to invest a mockery. In recent days Data have appeared according to which softbank would invest A unusual 40,000 million dollars In Openai, which would fire the valuation of the company even more, up to 260,000 million dollars. Musk’s offer therefore seems low. Probable objective: complicate Altman’s life. It does not seem therefore probable that the offer progresses, but analysts say that the reason is another. Sam Altman is trying to have Openai ceases to be a nonprofit to be a conventional for profit courage (Forprofit), But that transition is complex. A complex structure. To “separate” from the nonprofit part, Altman and his team must compensate for the nonprofit agency that controls it compensation, or giving a minority participation in the company. As they point out In The New York TimesOpenAI has more than 2,000 employees, but the NGO that controls it has only two employees and 22 million dollars of cash. What Musk wants is precisely to buy the NGO to have legal control over OpenAI that this nonprofit agency exercises right now. How much is the Nonprofit? That can be the key question. This body has not been given an assessment although some They estimate the value of about 40,000 million dollars. That is precisely what Elon Musk wants to force to do with this offer. The purchase proposal could force the part Forprofit of Openai to spend more to achieve its independence from the Nonprofit and complete that desired transition by Sam Altman. An offer with a lot. Analysts like Sheel Mohnot indicate that OpenAI should give the nonprofit a 25% participation to ced Nonprofit It would be approximately 65,000 million. Again, much less than what Musk offers, which can complicate things to Altman when establishing the fair Market Value (FMV, fair market assessment) of the Nonprofit. War for AI. After Donald Trump’s power in January, the re -elected president of the United States supported the Stargate project To invest 500,000 million dollars in multiple data centers for AI in the country. Trump described the initiative as “the largest infrastructure project in history, from afar.” Openai and Softbank are the main value of such an initiative, which by the way, Musk criticized. That may have been a small blow to the now almost idyllic relationship between Trump and Musk. And war between Musk and Altman. Elon Musk sued Altman and Openai In August 2024, and for a long time he tries to compete with OpenAi through his startup XAI. The tycoon has already completed investment rounds that value their startup at 50,000 million dollars (more than Ford), and has a data center and a Gigantic Supercomputer, Colossus. The tension between Alman and Musk comes from afar: both are co -founders of OpenAi, but Musk got too soon. And meanwhile, where is Grok 3? The offer contrasts with a situation in which Xai, despite all its resources, does not seem to advance to the rhythm that its US competitors or China. The output of Deepseek R1 It has caused a new impulse in the market, especially in the reasoning models, but in Xai they seem to work in Grok 3, an evolution of their traditional chatbot. There is no news about whether they have a Deepseek R1 competitor and OPENAI O1but not if they are working on their own alternatives to AI agents as Operatorfrom OpenAi. Images | Brazilian Ministry of Communications | Village Global In Xataka | Copilot, Chatgpt and GPT-4 have changed the world of programming forever. This is thought of programmers

The United States also had a plan to jump into the electric car. Is willing to dismantle it and bet on gasoline

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When we think on the way to implement the electric car and point to Europe as a great architect with measures such as a prohibition from 2035 that now, It seems that it is in the airmany times we forget what is happening in the rest of the world. In China, it is evident, The State has put all the meat on the grill to move to the electric car and, along the way, try to lead an industry (or at least, be relevant) in which they were disappeared outside their borders. In Japan, on the contrary, Everything is committed to hybrid and electric sales are almost testimonial. But what happens in the United States? On the other side of the Atlantic, in the United States they barely bought 1,301,411 electric carswhich means a market share of 8.1%. A low figure that is marked by a VERY PORFFICIENT CARGERS NETWORK that delays its adoption and, at the same time, A lower fuel price than Europewhich Reduce the gap between the cost per kilometer of gasoline and electricity. However, the country has also taken steps to favor the electric car and, ultimately, cause this technology to occupy a large part of the market. As? Pressing manufacturers, of course. Pressures that Donald Trump now wants to disassemble and that is about to see what consequences it has on the market. The United States had a plan Europe is not, much less, the only region that presses car manufacturers to move to the electric car. Yes, the decision to prohibit combustion engines from 2035, the new active emission regulations since this month of January that forces us to electrify much of the fleet and the objectives for 2030 are not, much less, subtle However, in the United States they also had their own plan. The country opened the subsidy tap Under the mandate of Joe Biden. It was to reward with juicy tax advantages to those who produced their cars in the United States. And also those who, partially, did it in Canada or Mexico. Was known as Inflation reduction law. To these tax incentives aid for the purchase of electric cars were added. If the vehicle had been produced under the premises of the previous law, the buyer could receive up to 7,500 dollars If it was a new electric car or $ 4,000 if it was used. But also Another threat was waiting on the horizon. Joe Biden’s government wanted the average consumption of cars sold in the United States not to exceed 3.9 liters/100 km from 2027. In 2032, the average should be reduced to 3.56 liters/100 km, figures In both cases that would force a severe electrification of the fleet. All this aspires to demolish the new government of Donald Trump. The chosen man is Bernie Moreno who aspires from the United States Senate to end the tax aids to purchase, Relaxate emission obligations to manufacturers and prevent states like California, who has assured that will continue delivering aid to purchase If from the state government they retire, can act independently. In Bloomberg They point out that Moreno’s agenda does not have them all to get ahead. The economic environment highlights that it needs the support of the entire Republican group to take their plans forward and that some senators can be contrary to the idea because in their own states there are factories or planned productive plants of electric cars. To all this we must add the impact that the scheduled tariffs can have to the vehicles that arrive from Canada and Mexico. Although despite a first attempt They have put them in pausethe intention of the new president of the United States remains to tax 25% the products that come from there. This would mean, in accounts of Bloombergmore expensive each unit in 3,000 dollars. The measure is especially worrying for General Motors, which exports to the United States from Canada and Mexico 40% of the cars you sell In the country. The company, however, says that it will not transfer its production to the local market unless it is guaranteed that the measure will be extended in the long term. The same assures from BMW, which They will invest 800 million dollars in a plant in Mexico. In it New York Times They also point to the car market as one of the great affected by these tariffs. In this case they estimate that large vehicles and trucks can become up to 10,000 dollars for each unit sold. “Most of this increase will be assumed by consumers and concessionaires,” says Patrick Anderson, CEO of Anderson Economic Groupto the newspaper. The big problem that tariffs present is that nobody seems to be able to determine how much time they will be active. “Car parts are products that require months or years to be equipped, validated and tested before being incorporated into a vehicle. Simply They cannot be replaced overnight“, assures al New York Times Linda Hasenfratz, president of Linamar, producer of parts for vehicles. In its opinion, it is impossible to transfer the industry in such a short time and, at the same time, the product is expensive to make the product of North America an anti -competitive space which will reduce the production of cars. Toyota and Honda (with a production that exceeds million units each in Canada) or Stellantis, which exports a third of its RAM to the United States from the neighboring country, are other greatly harmed. However, manufacturers such as Volkswagen do seem to be valuing very seriously transfer part of their production to the United States. In fact, relax emission regulations and the threat that they would have to sell their products at a much more expensive price in the country is giving reasons to the group to Transfer there part of the production of Porsche and Audiusing Volkswagen electric cars plants that now work at half a gas due to lack of demand. Eliminate tax incentives to produce electric cars … Read more

The City Council plan after underground A-5

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Madrid and jams They are practically synonyms. Applications like Google Maps either Waze They show us real -time information about traffic, although they have obvious limitations when showing real -time deviations or traffic cameras. The Madrid City Council has launched a web application which allows to consult in real time information about traffic, without the need for installation. It is accessible from the computer, PC, tablet or any device with an installed browser. The application interface is enough (and little modernized, everything is said). Currently, in its previous phase, it is completely focused on the A5. This will allow users of the southern zone to know in real time the situation of this busy area. The visualizer allows to show cartographic information both in 2D and 3D, with the main addition of traffic cameras, something that is not possible to consult in third party applications discharged from apps. Real -time information about the city cameras installed by the DGT. The application is launched to reinforce the information to the citizen after the incidents caused by the works of the Soterramiento of the A5, as well as the construction of the future Paseo Verde del Southwest. “This application also has a series of functionalities to give all the necessary information to the user, including information on real -time traffic and access to DGT traffic cameras in the area affected by the works, the Main recommended alternative itineraries graphically. Being a website, it can be consulted quickly from the mobile by direct access. The interface is specially designed to function in this type of devices, and although it is not especially fast, it is a practical tool. Image | Moockups Studio and Xataka In Xataka | New York lived a hell of stuck cars, collapsed streets and unpunctual buses. They have solved it in two weeks

Taiwan does not want more problems with China or with its submarine cables. So you have activated an unpublished security plan

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Earlier this year and after what happened with an underwater cable that affected the only remaining link with the Matsu Islandsincident that occurred just a week after Another cable that connected the island was damagedTaiwan made an unprecedented decision. A call Washington ended with A two -year agreement so that the United States Army would disembark on the island and train the Taiwanese Navy. Actually, this is just part of the plan. Protect cables as priority. Submarine cable infrastructure is the pillar of the global connectivity of most nations, But a little more for an island like Taiwana territory that depends almost in its entirety of these systems to guarantee the communication of its citizens, companies and government institutions. To get an idea, any severe interruption in these links could not only leave the population incommunicado, affecting access to essential services such as mobile applications and digital platforms, but it would also have A critical impact on economic and government operations. The problem is that the fragility of these systems has been evidenced with the growing incident frequency In the cables that connect the enclave with its peripheral islands and with the world, which has raised concerns about the safety and resilience of this key infrastructure. Alarming frequency of failures. Globally, The more than 450 existing underwater cable systems They experience damage in a range of 0.1 to 0.2 incidents (by cable) per year, which is equivalent to 50 and 100 annual failures worldwide. However, the situation in Taiwan is exceptionally critical. The cables that connect Matsu’s peripheral islands with the main island They suffer an average of 5.1 annual interruptions, which represents a frequency up to 50 times higher than the global average. This data underlines the level of vulnerability of communications and the urgent need to implement protection measures. As we count, on January 22, The two submarine cables that connect Matsu with Taiwan were disconnectedwhich left the island is isolated digitally. According to the Taiwan Digital Affairs Ministry (Fashion), the cause was a “natural deterioration.” And it was not an isolated case: just a few weeks before, on January 3, a communications cable north of the main island, operated by Chunghwa Telecom, It was also cut, allegedly by a ship manned by Chinese citizens. The boat in question, Shunxing 39, was registered in Cameroon and Tanzania, which complicates the direct attribution of the attack. Strategies to strengthen security. The result of the situation has been to activate An unprecedented plan, measures to reinforce the safety of their submarine cables. For example, telecommunications operators have deployed maritime patrols with the aim of warning of fishing vessels approaching sensitive areas. Likewise, the Taiwan Coast Guard has intensified surveillance through monitoring systems to trace boats in critical areas. There are more. To improve redundancy in communications, fashion has implemented A subsidies program to encourage the construction of new stations International cable landing and the installation of backup systems. In addition, Taiwan has opted for the diversification of his communication systems through satellites. In this sense, the government has signed Agreements with the European company SES for the deployment of medium orbit satellites (MEO) and with Oneweb for the incorporation of low orbit satellites (Leo). All measures that seek to guarantee the continuity of government and military communications in case of an emergency. Legal challenges to protect cables. One of the main obstacles in the protection of submarine cables is the complexity of international legislation around these infrastructure. According to international maritime laws, if damage occurs within the territorial waters of a country, this may exercise jurisdiction on the incident. The problem? That, if the affectation happens in an exclusive economic zone or in international waters, The responsibility falls to the country where the suspicious boat is registered. This legal framework generates significant barriers for the investigation and persecution of those responsible for deliberate sabotages. From there The problem in the Baltic with The “Ghost Ships”. In response to these challenges, Taiwan has taken legislative measures to penalize intentional attacks against their submarine cables. The sanctions include prison sentences between one and seven years, in addition to fines that can reach 10 million Taiwanese dollars (approximately 300,000 US dollars). And the United States. It We have recently. Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense has announced A two -year agreement with the United States to train the Taiwanese Navy In a context where the island’s Parliament is prepared to vote possible cuts in the budget for military training abroad. The agreement, valued at approximately 50 million Taiwanese dollars (1.5 million US dollars), stipulates that US Navy personnel will be sent to Taiwan to carry out a specialized naval training program. The training sessions, in principle, will be held at the headquarters of the Navy and the Marines of Taiwan, located in the Zuoying district, near the city of Kaohsiung, in the south of the country. It is, therefore, The first time in history that the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense publicly recognizes the presence of US military coaches. Regional Resilience. The numerous cases in recent months They have shown it. The protection of submarine cables, and more in Taiwan, is not only a national problem, but a matter of regional security. Any interruption in these infrastructure can affect their neighboring countries, which reinforces the need to establish strategic alliances for damage prevention and repair. In this regard, Taiwan aims to work closely with its partners in Asia To strengthen cable repair capabilities, improve logistics and develop advanced monitoring technologies. In fact, a few weeks ago researchers from the University of Lisui in China They registered a patent for an anchor device designed to cut underwater cables efficiently. There is no evidence of its use in real attacks, but the simple existence of these technologies suggests that the risks to telecommunications could be intensified in the near future. Image | 總統府 In Xataka | 2025 has started with another cut cable cut. 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General Manager of the Dodgers explained the development plan that Roki Sasaki will have in Major Leagues

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Los Angeles Dodgers signed the large league prospect. This is the Japanese pitcher Roki Sasakiwho will join the current league champion in a rotation full of stars, including Shhehei Ohtani. That is why the Californian team directive will carry the evolution of the 23 -year -old pitcher calmly. And for this they have a development plan that recently Brandon Gomes, general manager of the Dodgers, explained in an interview for the Podcast Baseball Isnt Boring. “Our priority with him (Roki Sasaki) is to ensure that he adapts to this new challenge and that we can direct him to success”began the team manager about the plans they have for the young Japanese pitcher this season. Roki Sasaki won the World Baseball Classic with Japan.Credit: Eugene Hoshiko | AP “I think the most important thing is to get our coaches, performance personnel, launch trainers to have it in our hands. Now it’s about getting it and talking to him along the way, making it very clear that it is an association, ”Gomes followed. And it is that Dodgers expect to give Sasaki a lot of rest. Especially with the return of Ohtani, so the team could have a rotation of up to seven openings in the season. “We are going to give a lot of rest and it will be something that we will continue to evaluate along the way. Obviously, when Shohei is back, it will be easier for us to do that and get additional rest when necessary ”assured the general manager of the Dodgers and added that they trust to be able to carry out the plan, because they have “the flexibility in the front with our depth and the number of players we have.” Sasaki will form a rotation in the Dodgers that will feature Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow, Dustin May and the possible return of Shohei Ohtani and Clayton Kershaw. So at its young age it could be a key piece in a team full of stars. Continue reading:Luxury quintet: the rotation of the dodgers with the arrival of Roki SasakiRoki Sasaki chose to sign with the dodgers and will join Shohei Ohtani Dave Roberts believes that Shohei Ohtani will win the MVP in 2025 (tagstotranslate) mlb

The future of quantum computers depends on helium-3 from the Moon. There is already a plan to start bringing it in 2029

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Helium is the second lightest and most abundant chemical element in the universe, if we stick to ordinary matter. It is only surpassed in this classification by hydrogen. This noble gas accounts for between 24 and 26% of the total mass of stars, which are also responsible for manufacturing it. fusing hydrogen nuclei inside through the reactions of nuclear fusion that they carry out naturally, and which we talk to you about in quite some depth in the article that we dedicate to the life of the stars. Still, most of the helium in the universe was not made by stars: it was produced by the Big Bang, which is why scientists refer to it as “primordial helium.” But the most curious thing is that, despite how abundant it is in the universe, it is scarce on Earth. Its great lightness caused most of the helium contained in the cloud of dust and gas from which our planet was formed to escape gravitational confinement. Be that as it may, the real protagonist of this article is not the normal helium that we have all heard about; It is helium-3, an isotope that may play a crucial role in nuclear fusion reactions that will possibly help us solve forever our energy problems. And also in other areas, such as, for example, in dilution cooling systems that use superconducting quantum computersas well as other emerging technologies. Interlune plans to test the extraction of lunar helium-3 in 2027 Most of the helium that we can find in the universe has taken the form of an isotope known as helium-4, which is characterized by having two protons and two neutrons in its nucleus. Although, as we have seen, most of it was lost during the formation of the Earth, this gas can also arise as a result of natural radioactive decay of heavier chemical elements, such as uranium, radium or thorium, which are relatively scarce on our planet. The only difference between helium-4 and helium-3 is that the latter isotope has one less neutron in its nucleus. That’s all. We know that helium-4 nuclei have two protons and two neutrons, so helium-3 nuclei will have two protons and a single neutron. It may seem like an irrelevant difference, but it is not. It is a very important difference because the physicochemical properties of the element vary as a consequence of their lower atomic mass. And, in the case of these two isotopes of helium, their behavior also changes from the point of view of quantum mechanics. The solar wind spreads helium-3 throughout the solar system and beyond, causing it to reach surrounding planets in relatively large quantities. The bad news is that if helium-4 is relatively scarce on Earth, helium-3 is even more so. Stars, like our Sun, produce it in large quantities as a result of nuclear fusion reactions between hydrogen nuclei that occur when they are in the main sequence stage during which they burn most of their fuel. Once created, the solar wind spreads helium-3 throughout the solar system and even beyond, causing it to reach surrounding planets in relatively large quantities. The reason why this gas hardly accumulates on Earth is that our planet has a double protective shield: the atmosphere and the Earth’s magnetic field. These two barriers represent a very effective defense against the solar wind and cosmic radiation, which reaches the atmosphere mainly in the form of protons and high-energy alpha particles. The Moon, unlike the Earth, has no atmosphere, so it lacks this protective shield. Additionally, its magnetic field is much weaker than Earth’s and is not dipolar. The terrestrial, on the other hand, can be approximated to a magnetic dipole, so the magnetic field lines are directed from the north pole to the south pole. All this causes the surface of the Moon to be much more exposed to cosmic rays and the solar wind than the surface of the Earth, causing very significant quantities of helium-3 transported by the solar wind to accumulate there, which is deposited in rocks and lunar dust, a few meters deep. Up to a million tons of regolith need to be processed to obtain a single kilogram of helium-3 The first challenge that humanity will have to solve to appropriate the helium-3 accumulated on the Moon is none other than the processing of lunar regolithwhich is the loose layer of soil and rock fragments that covers the surface of the satellite. Interlune, a company founded in Seattle (USA) in 2020, plans to extract the regolith and process it using compact harvesting robots that, according to this company, are very efficient. The problem is that lunar dust is very abrasive, and, in addition, up to a million tons of regolith must be processed to obtain a single kilogram of helium-3. Even so, this company plans to test the extraction of this isotope with a lunar mission in 2027, and in 2029 it intends to build a pilot plant on the Moon. It sounds good, but a priori these dates seem excessively optimistic. Additionally, it is still unclear how much it will cost to transport lunar helium-3 to Earth using space vehicles. Be that as it may, we can be sure that it will not be easy or cheap to do so. Image | Pixabay More information | Quantum Insider In Xataka | Graphene is ready to break into quantum computers: scientists plan to use it in a new type of qubit

The 13 keys to ‘Plan Mexico’, Mexico’s strategy to protect itself from China and wink at Trump

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“Continue making Mexico the best country in the world.” That is the ambitious objective of Claudia Sheinbaum, current president of Mexico, who will face a complicated panorama in the coming weeks due to the tariff plans of a Donald Trump who has entered the White House stomping. And to achieve that goal, Sheinbaum has presented his government’s 13 goals to reduce poverty and inequality, while turning the country into an attractive destination for investors. Mexico Plan. On January 13, Sheinbaum advertisement to the nation that “Mexico has a plan and is united forward.” He commented that there is a portfolio of intention of national and foreign investments and that, to attract all possible capital, they have created 13 goals to continue developing the country. These points of the Mexico Plan are the following: Go from the 12th economy to the tenth in the world. Raise the proportion of investment to GDP, above 25%. Generate 1.5 million jobs. 50% of what is consumed in the country are products “made in Mexico” in the textile, footwear, furniture and toys sectors. Increase national content by 15%. 50% of public purchases will be of national production. Vaccines made in Mexico thanks to advanced biotechnology programs. Going from 2.5 years to one year the time it takes to process a new business, also with the requirements for this reduced by 50%. Increase 150,000 additional professionals and technicians annually to those already generated. Business environmental sustainability. 30% of SMEs with access to financing from both private and government banks. Be one of the five most visited countries worldwide. Reduce poverty and inequality. Billionaire. One of the legs on which Plan Mexico will be based is to attract investments. According to the Government, nearly 2,000 projects are being contemplated by companies seeking to establish themselves in the country, which implies national and foreign investments of 277,000 million dollars. “Made in Mexico”. Something that is mentioned several times in the plan is the concept of “made in Mexico”, and as we see in BBCit is something that has every intention. One of the main focuses of this strategy is to return to manufacturing elements in Mexico to develop an industry that has been left aside. For example, prioritizing the textile sector that had been relegated to what Mexico imported, mainly from countries like China. Over the last decades, the country stopped producing what it consumed to import it from Asia and Rogelio Ramírez, Secretary of the Treasury, declared that “10% of exports currently have Mexico as a destination.” Playing both sides. Ramírez commented that “this loss of participation cost us, especially Mexico and the United States, a lot of industry and loss of activity. “Entire sectors were lost.” This is why a plan that favors the national business fabric can benefit both Mexico and its main trading partner, the United States. In the Government document it was specified that China had cornered the international industry and that the objective was to make Mexico recover the lost ground. Ramírez explained that, if replace 10% of China’s exports to North America with Mexican products, the country’s GDP would increase by 1.2%, that of the United States by 0.8% and that of Canada by 0.2%. The problem is that Mexico and China have been strengthening their relations for years. So much so that Trade between both countries skyrocketed during 2024turning Mexico into the gateway for Chinese products to the United States and, therefore, the Asian giant as a valuable trading partner. An example is companies electric cars like JAC or SEV, which have already announced million-dollar investments to open factories in Mexico. AND BYD is also very clear that, to enter the US market, they need to make the leap to Mexico. “No recipe for Donald Trump”. Despite Trump’s threats, Mexico can be crowned as an important US trading partner to get rid of China. We will see what happens with the protectionist policies that the new American president has promised during his campaign, since they may not have been just lip service. The reason is that Trump has no expectations of re-election, so he can go in with everything, giving free rein to his most aggressive ideas and policies. He has threatened Mexico on several occasions, as well as Canada, and Carlos Pérez Ricart, from the Center for Economic Research and Teaching, believes that “there is no recipe or adequate response for Donald Trump. Nobody has the key here and there is so much uncertainty in terms of rates and interventionism that there is nothing clear that can be planned.” What is evident is that Sheinbaum is clear that, coinciding with the arrival of the new president of the United States, citizens should know that there is a plan B in the medium and long term. We will see if it is enough and to what extent the promised US protectionism affects Mexico. Images | White House, Aeneas of Troy In Xataka | China and the US want the same territory in South America. China has offered an ambitious project, Trump will enter by force

ESA has a plan against space debris, but it needs help

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The problem of space junk It’s getting more and more serious. Fragments of parts used in space missions are left wandering around the Earth until, at best, they deorbit and they return to our planet, burning as they cross the atmosphere and reducing to ashes. But other problems can also occur. For example, in the time they remain floating in space they can collide with each other producing a domino effect or, directly, collide with a satellite or even with a ship or space station. Furthermore, upon returning to Earth they may not burn sufficiently and escape the control of scientists on Earth, falling in unexpected places and causing accidents. For all this, the European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a plan aimed at finding a way to reduce trash in space to zero. It won’t be easy. In fact, some technologies are required that do not yet exist today. However, ESA has warned that this is not the biggest challenge of their plan. The most difficult thing will be to obtain the necessary collaboration of other space agenciesboth public and private. Everyone must agree to put measures in place to end space debris and they must do it together, informing the rest of the companies of each step. That will be the most difficult, because even though today we no longer talk about a competition as marked as when the United States faced the Soviet Union, all agencies want to be first and, to do so, sometimes they forget about the common good. That is the first thing we will have to work with and, without a doubt, it will be even more difficult than creating cutting-edge technologies capable of eliminating space debris. Why is the problem of space debris so serious? As explained in Universe Todaythere are billions of pieces of space junk orbiting Earth, and more than 25,000 of those pieces they are bigger than 10cm. It may seem that 10 centimeters is not enough, but that is enough to produce a dangerous crash. The space is immense, but the area occupied by all those pieces is not that large. They are all in orbit around the Earth. For this reason, it would not be difficult for them to collide with each other or with some object of human construction that is still in operation. These pieces can have many origins. Some are remnants of explosions during missions gone wrong. Others are objects that had a long useful life; but, once their mission was accomplished, they went out and were left to wander around the Earth. There are also remains of rockets that, once the ship they propelled was released from the Earth, were stranded in space if they did not manage to fall into the Earth. There are even smaller fragments from the ship propulsion launched from our planet or from the breakage of other larger pieces due to collision with space objects or exposure to the space environment. There is everything. Some of those objects pose a risk in space, but others pose a risk here on Earth. Space debris can cause a dangerous domino effect. According to a study published in 2022there is a 10% risk of a piece of space debris falling on a human being in the next decade. This would happen if, as we saw before, deorbits uncontrollably. At the moment it has not happened, but there have been cases of fragments of space debris that have fallen near human constructions. Or even inside. When this happens, space agencies try to wash their hands as much as possible. For this reason, at ESA they consider that international cooperation, although essential, would be very complicated. What is the ESA plan? The ESA plan consists of two parts. The first is based on prevent the release of new space junk and the second in the elimination of what is already in space. For the first, they point out a first measure that consists of using special coatings in all pieces that are launched into space. These would be responsible for preventing these pieces from being damaged by the passage of time in the inhospitable space conditions. They would also protect them from possible crashes. Thus, the release of small fragments by degradation. The second proposal to avoid releasing new space debris consists of using new forms of propulsion. Many of those currently used release small fragments in the process that later become space debris. For example, options could be tested based on the electromagnetism. A lot of research would be needed, but ESA considers it viable. Of course, they also propose better surveillance of everything that is released into space. There must be constant monitoring systems. It is not valid to leave free pieces to their fate without any type of control. As for the removal of space debris that is already accumulating, the measures would be even more complicated, but not impossible. New technologies would be needed capable of deorbiting in a controlled manner those fragments that, in monitoring, prove to be dangerous. There are already some inventions along these lines and, although they are not widely used, the first prototypes have been very promising. Collaboration is essential to eliminate space debris There are already companies, public and private, that have their own mechanisms to release less space debris. However, the majority are still a kind of spacewashingwhere they wash their faces with small measures that do not even equal the damage they do on the other hand. Image of the Starship debris just a few days ago. This is, for example, the case of SpaceX. Elon Musk’s company has been researching the use of reusable rockets. This is very useful to prevent the accumulation of space debris. However, it continues to launch thousands and thousands of satellites into space that could become space debris and, furthermore, it does not stop carrying out test flights of its ships, knowing that many of them will go wrong and release garbage into space. … Read more

Without the Omnibus Decree, aid from the MOVES III Plan has also fallen. It is terrible news for the electric car in Spain

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All the aid that the Government hoped to approve with the Omnibus Decree that had to pass the filter of the Council of Deputies has fallen. With 177 votes against added by the Popular Party, Junts and Vox, the Government was not enough the 171 votes in favor that he obtained to carry out his varied package of measures. Among the measures that this Omnibus Decree was found pension increase but also aid for public transport and, consequently, free or reduced transport passes and multi-trip tickets that can no longer be purchased. Only those that were purchased before January 23, 2025 or those of a regional nature whose town councils or autonomous communities maintain. And among those measures was also the extension of the MOVES III Planaid for the purchase of an electric vehicle, and the discount of up to 3,000 euros in the income tax return that can be deducted for the purchase of a car with these characteristics. The fall of some key aid The extension of the MOVES III Plan and the aid itself for the purchase of electric cars has been a huge headache for the Government in the last year. In February 2024Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government, assured in a Forum organized by ANFAC that they would review the MOVES III Plan “in the coming weeks.” Shortly after, Héctor Gómez, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, assured that they were “aware that the MOVES Plan has its strengths and weaknesses. From a temporal point of view, making the aid more flexible so that charged when the vehicle is purchased “It is a step that we are going to take, that is the commitment.” All MOVES III PLAN aid that is no longer active However, months later the situation had not changed. On the first day since the deadline to buy an electric car with aid expires (July 1, 2024), The Government extended this subsidy again, maintaining the same conditions. Until December 31, 2024, it was possible to buy an electric car with aid that starts at 4,500 euros and that in the best of cases reaches 7,000 euros in discounts if a vehicle that is more than seven years old is scrapped. Months later, as in trapped in timetwo weeks before the end of 2024 and, with it, the MOVES III Plan and its aid, we found ourselves in the same situation again: not knowing what would happen to the program. Just a few days later, on December 26, the Government confirmed that we would have Plan MOVES III until June 30, 2025 but that, again, the conditions were exactly the same. Now, with just over 20 days of the year 2025 already gone, anyone who has not had their request to receive purchase aid under the umbrella of the MOVES III Plan You may find yourself with the unpleasant news that you probably won’t receive it. Without support for the Omnibus Decree in which this extension that was already active was contemplated, everything remains up in the air. We do not know if, if a specific measure is approved in Congress (as the Popular Party has requested for an increase in pensions or transport aid), the delivery of aid will be retroactive to all those who formalized the request before its fall. but they did not have approval from the institutions. The news is terrible for the electric car in Spain. The first months of the year always They tend to be a little weaker in salesthe market accepting the last registrations from the previous year, and the electric car is growing but at a very slow pace. In 2024 it grew by 4.21% but its market share remains at 5.36% which represents a technical tie with the figure for 2023 (5.56%). When talking about the reasons for this stagnation, the MOVES III Plan continues to be pointed out as one of the big problems. In some cases The wait to receive aid has been up to three years and in July 2024 we learned that they had been granted aid worth 250 million euros for which there was no money because the fund had already been exhausted. The news coming from neighboring countries is not too optimistic either. In Germany, the largest electric car market in Europe, it has fallen by 27.4% according to ACEA data in his first year without aid for the purchase of electric cars. In Portugal, where purchase aid is direct when purchasing a car, the electric market share is close to 20%. To alleviate this situation and encourage buyers, it has been the manufacturers themselves who are providing a type of purchase aid to the new owners. To encourage sales, they show the car with 7,000 euros discount that, in reality, It is an interest-free loan. to be returned a few months later when (it is hoped) the new buyer has received the aid. The electric car market is having a hard time taking off in Spain. The lack of purchase aid means new stones on a very unpaved road. It remains to be seen what measures the Government takes, if it manages to carry out a new extension of a plan that requires direct aid for purchases or if, on the contrary, we are facing months of absence of government support. What we do know is that in Germany manufacturers trusted in a return to aid and They launched generous discounts in the first months after their subsidies fell. And, despite everything, it hasn’t worked. Photo | renault In Xataka | Norway and China have confirmed that the electric car can lead sales. With (a lot of) help, of course

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