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Aemet is clear that the end of May will not be “normal.” And the question is whether summer will arrive at some point

May 19, 2025 by usatoday24

We were going to suffer the first summer bars and, although the calima has punctured expectations a bitthe truth is that heat and dryness They have been the great protagonists of the meteorology of most of the country. And I say most because in the northwest the storms are already being noticed: the next few hours, a new Dana will cross the peninsula leaving showers, storms and heavy rains throughout the country. It’s just the beginning. Things are going to change and we have been listening to it weeks; But the truth is that, for now, The situation remains the same. A meteorological combo. Because yes, the first thing will be a Dana that will sweep us from the Peninsular North and will leave Tuesday night towards France; But, then (between Thursday and Friday) a trough will affect the Mediterranean area. And, as I say, Everything seems to point to that it takes and daca It is not the end of spring During the next few days, days full of strong storms with more stable days will be happening. What is clear is that, we want or not, It will not be the normal situation For the last half of May. The best example will be the weekend. Because once the trough, stability will take over the country. The question asked everyone (meteorologists included) is whether it is the definitive one. Luckily, medium/long -term trends are here. And, for the first time in a long time, they begin to Draw a “return to normal”. European models point out that, although most of the Peninsula will receive average rainfall (and the north, a little more than normal), the southeast of the country must prepare to forget what has happened during this spring: the driest climate is here again. In fact, that is the second half of May. If we look at the first half of June, that climate “slightly dry than normal” will be present throughout the southern half, the Mediterranean coast, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. The northwest quadrant will have a rainfall regime “within normal.” Something similar We will see with temperatures: During these two weeks, the fresco will endure in some zoans of the interior, but progressively all of Spain will slide towards a warmer situation than normal. Not too much, it is true: but enough to break the very long streak of strange patterns that began in March this year. Will summer start? It is a great question. The problem is that we do not know. Image | ECMWF | Ryoji Iwata In Xataka | The problem for Aemet is not to get a retrograde Dana. The problem is that we have been really strange for months

We are in 2025 and the Wi -Fi of the airplanes is still terrible. Starlink is demonstrating that we are at the turning point

May 12, 2025 by usatoday24

June 30, 2016. BBC publishes an article called: How does the Wi -Fi work in the airplanes and why is it so bad? Almost 10 years later, we are almost in the same place. The Earth has revolved for almost a decade but in terms of connecting to Internet networks from the air it seems that we are completely stagnant. Or it seemed. 2016. “Some compare their speed with that of the beginning of the Internet, when, with the soundtrack of the atrocious beep of the modem, they had to be put on patience while any page was loaded.” With this paragraph Yolanda Valery for BBC In 2016 what was the experience of trying to connect to the Internet from the air. In that same article it was explained that connecting to the Internet from a flight guaranteed a certain guarantee to do very basic connected tasks, such as sending an email. But it was also mentioned that you could already forget to see a content in streaming Or, at least, assume that it was going to be a really tedious experience. We remain the same. In 2016, the offer of a wifi on board was relatively recent. In 2013 we told you that Iberia made this service available to the client at a price of five euros … for five megas. Shortly after, Enrique Dans narrated his experience In an Iberia plane and pointed out that the option was really interesting but that the result was very bad. And even raised if he had to be offered under the conditions of that time. Already in 2017, in Xataka We wondered why we still have no wifi in all airplanes. And we could say the same right now, with a good handful of airplanes that do not offer it … and above all: those who offer it and serve little or nothing. If we enter On Iberia’s own page We verify that in its reference to the connection packages it is specified that allow “Internet navigation, messenger, email, download and sending documents”. That is, tasks that require poor discharge speed. And they emphasize that it is “it is possible that during some moments of the trip the signal can come weakened” or that it lends itself with “three different suppliers, so you can experience differences between one flight or another.” Why is it so bad? The main reason why the Wi -Fi in the airplanes is so bad is how the Internet connection is obtained. You can take “global, satellite or land coverage,” depending on the flight, they point out on the Iberia website. This means that the plane receiver can connect to telephone antennas or satellites if the latter are not available. On a transatlantic flight, that connection is more unstable since Terrestrial antennas are far away. It only remains to be connected to a satellite so that the shipment and reception of data is complicated. First because the distance is much broader than when we have our feet on the floor and, second, because the plane moves hundreds of kilometers per hour, which complicates the reception and sending of the data. The big problem is that although the bandwidths that users have to share are now the demands of applications. Not only is the Quality of the images we load on Instagramis also the huge amount of data that an application like Netflix needs to play your streaming videos. Already in 2020, in Xataka We estimated that one hour sailing on this platform consumes between one and seven GB (depending on quality). A turning point? Andrew J. Hawkins explains in The Verge that the time may have come to say goodbye to these connections. In the aforementioned article, it indicates its experience aboard an E-175 Embraer, a 88-seat narrow fuselage plane that United Airlines uses for short flights. This, specifically, lasted 90 minutes. The plane is one of the first connected to Starlink and, in fact, will begin offering on May 15. The figures collected are highly hopeful. Connected to the airport Wi -Fi, Hawkins said navigating with a 305 Mbps discharge and a load of 249. The latency was 5 ms. During the flight, the speed was 196 Mbps of discharge and 27.3 Mbps of load with a latency of 19 ms. The discharge speed is close to the experience before climbing to the plane and although the figures are remote from what it offers on land, they are notable compared to those we had so far. During the whole flight. Hawkins breaks another spear in favor of the system and United Airlines: the wifi was active throughout the flight. “The service works from the door to the door, not only above 10,000 feet, restriction under which some other systems operate. As soon as I sat, they told me to connect to the Wi-Fi using United mobile application. “ In fact, in your article to The VergeThe author reflects the speeds during takeoff (234.8 Mbps of discharge and 14.9 Mbps of load with a latency of 19 ms) and the landing (72.6 Mbps of discharge, 26.1 Mbps of load and 90 ms of latency) when the worst data was collected. The time, despite this, would be brief because as soon as the plane touched earth again offered good figures with 231.5 Mbps of discharge. Although, this time, with the worst load data with only 3.01. Well to watch movies. But not so much to work. Because Hawking himself points out that he could use Instagram and Tiktok, Disney Plus, follow the ceremony of the new Pope for CNN or watch a live match “with a crystalline image quality.” However, the result was much less impressive when loading a file on Google Drive that took him seven minutes. Explains that this is because Starlink’s own infrastructure It is designed to download content and not so much to raise it, hence the difference in figures between the two processes. Differential. How much would you be willing to pay … Read more

Of course ‘the Simpsons’ also predicted the great blackout of Spain. At this point you have stopped having merit

April 30, 2025 by usatoday24

Any relevant event in the history of humanity in recent decades It has previously appeared in ‘The Simpsons’. It is a phrase made, almost a meme that has acquired the category of popular wisdom and that is counted between the oldest collective knowledge samples of the digital era. Of course, Monday’s blackout in Spain and Portugal has become part of the long list of ‘The Simpsons’ predictions: it is neither very tight nor very accurate, but that does not prevent the myth from continuing to fatter. The blackout in ‘The Simpsons’. A couple of episodes that make supposed reference to the Backman last Monday. In ‘The last day of Springfield’, issued in 1998the city runs out of light, with traffic lights and unusable phones, and the nuclear plant where Homer works. Of course, chaos and anarchy take over the streets, something that did not happen here. Besides, In 2023 it was issued The episode ‘How beautiful is to pipify it’, where Springfield suffers a blackout for a fire in the nuclear plant. Here the consequences are almost apocalyptic, and Lisa tells the story in the distant future, explaining that the city lights candles every year to commemorate the events. The explanation of the prophecy. Either simple: These two blackouts do not make any reference to Spain or to the date on which it occurred. Simply, they are blackheads that end up leading to the Apocalypse, a trope of science fiction that have exploited recent series such as ‘Blackout’ or ‘The collapse’, or the movie ‘Leave the world behind’, but which we have also seen in very previous films: ‘The domino effect’ is one of the most notorious, but there are also based on real blackouts, such as ‘Blackout in New York’ or ‘Summer of Sam’ of which the American city suffered in 1977. Why ‘The Simpsons’ always succeed. According to Matt SelmanExecutive producer of the series, it is a mixture of knowing how to use the probabilities, historical knowledge and the study of human trends. The scriptwriters investigate in the past and extrapolate, until they end up. Or in another way more simpsonian, study and satirize “the stupidities of the past” to anticipate their repetition. They are logical extrapolations to which the impressive longevity of the series is added, which only multiply the possibility of coincidences, which is known as “Large numbers law“: The more episodes there is, the more likely the apparently unlikely becomes. When the phenomenon began. The meme began to popularize in the middle of the first decade of this century. Without a doubt, the first great impact of the series was the alleged prediction of the attacks of the Twin Towers. It was in the episode of 1997 ‘New York City vs. Homer Simpson ‘, where a brochure with number 9 appears and the twin towers forming a 11. It was interpreted as a reference to 11-S, although The explanation is very simple: The two towers together resemble a 11, the chance is that the attacks were on that date, and not to guess ‘The Simpsons’. Predictions for all tastes. Since then, ‘The Simpsons’ have predicted the future, and the truth is that sometimes the coincidences are stupid. In season 11, for example, the presidency of Donald Trump was mentioned, and in 10, the purchase of Fox by Disney (clear examples that the predictions are possible if an acute satirist observes carefully observes the signs that the current one sends). The complete list is virtually infinite: smartwatchesthe video calls, the performance of Lady Gaga in the Super Bowl, the Higgs Boson formula (amazingly close to the real), the three -eyed fish in the contaminated waters of Springfield, and a highly contagious epidemic that begins in Asia. We want fictions to explain it to us. We already told it A collation of the ‘Blackout’ series and how your search has become a trend after the real blackout: our thought is structured to look for significant patterns and connections between facts, even when these are the result of chance. These patterns help us explain what we do not understand or the phenomena that are rationally inconceivable or surpass us, and are marked by narratives, series and movies. And that ‘The Simpsons’ anticipate incomprehensible phenomena (such as the 11-S attack or Donald Trump’s triumph) helps us to rationalize them. Header | Disney In Xataka | Disney+ has had an idea: to broad

Someone has found a satellite for the first time on Google Maps. All tracks point to a Starlink satellite

April 19, 2025 by usatoday24

There are people who spend hours exploring the most remote corners of the planet in the satellite photos of Google Maps, looking for surprising findings. But this time the surprise was not on earth, but in space. It is not a plane, it is a satellite. It is easy to find airplanes on Google Maps or Google Earth. Every day they fly between 100,000 and 120,000 planes worldwide. Not even poachers, such as bomber B-2, are safe from the satellite cameras that nourish Google maps with their images. The B-2 He was hunted in full flight A few years ago. But the bet has just risen with the most recent finding of A REDDIT user In coordinates 33 ° 44’39.0 “N 96 ° 44’46.2” W.: A rural Texas area, north of the city of Dallas. It is a satellite orbiting the land more than 27,000 kilometers per hour, which leaves the military plane at the height of a snail. Five colored spectra. The photo was taken on November 30, 2024 by a Pleiades European observation satellite, developed by Airbus. It is a picture that perhaps would have gone unnoticed if it were not for the five silhouettes of different colors that seem to be ghosts of the same satellite. It is actually the same satellite seen in five spectral bands. The black silhouette, captured first, is the satellite seen in the near infrared. They are followed by the red silhouette, the blue silhouette and the green silhouette, each captured with a different color filter in an instant infinitesimally different. Finally, the most clear silhouette of all, a pancromatic image of the satellite. The five satellite spectra on Google Maps Why do you look like this? It is a visual representation of two different phenomena: how quickly the objects move in the land low orbit, and how the observation satellites take their photos. They do not take a single photo, but several catches in different spectral bands (nearby infrared, red, blue, green and a pancromatic image on gray scale). Next, these images are combine with a Pansharpening algorithm To create a full color photo. Normally from the ground, which is still with respect to the satellite. However, this satellite moved almost eight kilometers per second, which caused the camera to capture it at five different points in the very brief moment in which the capture occurred. A Starlink satellite. Both Reddit users Like astrophysic Jonathan McDowell They believe it is a Spacex Starlink satellite. Unlike the first generation Starlink (which had a single solar panel), the V2 Mini have two large lateral solar panels that give them a wingspan of about 30 meters. According to McDowell, presumably is the Starlink 31147. It is not strange that the first satellite that has been found in Google Maps is a Starlink. Most satellites travel above 500 km so as not to have the atmospheric braking compensate, friction with the air that makes them end up resenting in the atmosphere. But the Starlink are launched at this point to offer a Global Low Latency Internet coverageassuming that will have to be replaced Every five years. 7,200 and up. Today there is about 7,200 Starlink satellites Orbiting the Earth (more than all the other constellations of combined satellites), thanks to Spacex’s ability to land the propellers of their rockets. That is why the investigations pointed from the beginning to Google Maps was a Starlink. Since Spacex has plans for Grow your network to a megaconstellation of 30,000 satellitesmost likely this is not the last Starlink that appears on Google Maps and other satellite photos, in the same way that it is increasingly common to see them in the night sky when we raise the view from below. Images | Google, Airbus Defense and Space In Xataka | Spacex has launched 8,000 Starlink satellites in five years, but they are not enough. And we are beginning to understand why

The doors of green hydrogen from Spain have found its starting point: the Basque Country

April 3, 2025 by usatoday24

While Spain account With several hot green hydrogen points, infrastructure for distribution, such as H2Med, still Keep in development. However, the Basque Country has emerged as a new channel. Short. The H2BIDEA project, coordinated by Nortegas, aims to boost the development of a pure hydrogen distribution network in the Basque Country. The initiative will have the aid of the company Tubos gathered, in charge of creating the special tubes where high pressure hydrogen (160 bar) will be transported. A great initiative. Through a consortium of Basque companies, H2bidea It is cemented The pillars for the Basque Corridor of Hydrogen (BH2C). With this corridor they seek to establish an interconnected green hydrogen infrastructure that facilitates its transport and distribution, both regional and European. In three years, H2BIDEA hopes to have a distribution network demonstrator called H2TESTLAB, which will allow evaluating the efficacy of the installed infrastructure, according to has had notic access from Álava. Mass support. The project has the support of the Basque Government and the European Union, as well as with the collaboration of the Basque Companies Consortium, such as Arizaga, Bastarrica and Company (ABC Compressors), Orkli, Commercial of Electronic Applications (FIDEGAS) and Calcinor Servicios. It is not the only one. Because Spain continues to advance in the creation of more projects, such as the Mediterranean corridor (H2Med). This development initiative intends to interconnect Spain, France and Portugal by 2030 in what will be the first European hydrogen infrastructure. However, in recent weeks, has faced a controversy In Zamora on the use of water in the production of green hydrogen. More challenges at European level. A recent study by West Wood Energy consultant has estimated that only 17% of green hydrogen projects in the continent will materialize within five years. In that context, According to a Global Energy Monitor reportEurope faces difficulties to fulfill its decarbonization strategy due to the shortage of hydrogen produced in a renewable way. The limited amount of available green hydrogen and the slow progress of the announced projects question the viability of the energy transition plans of the continent. From another perspective. The Basque Corridor is an initiative that has emerged as a strategic point for the production and export of green hydrogen. In this way, it joins the ambitious plans of Spain to become a European green hydrogen leader. In fact, recently, the Spanish nation launched A hydrogen project with an investment of 1,214 million euros from the NextGneu funds. Image | TUBOSREUNIDOS Xataka | The Plan of Spain for leading green hydrogen has been faced with an unexpected problem: Zamora

To US controls are now joined by the Beijing himself, and point to his star chip

March 28, 2025 by usatoday24

Nvidia has been dealing with the export controls that restrict the sending of their most advanced chips to China. But now, the company directed by Jensen Huang faces a double pressure: while trying to dodge Washington’s measures, it must also face new barriers imposed by Beijing, which threaten to further reduce their margin of maneuver in one of its key markets. A growing threat. As we said, the challenges for Nvidia are not new. In 2022, Joe Biden administration prohibited export of his chips A100 and H100specifically designed for artificial intelligence tasks. The company then warned that the measure could be up to 400 million dollars in sales losses in China. The answer soon: he decided to move. Thus, Nvidia designed a product designed exclusively to keep present in the Chinese market. To achieve this, he had no choice but to reduce the capacities of his chips and adapt them to regulatory demands. From there the A800 and H800 were born, cut versions of their star models. For a time they managed to be marketed in China, but a second round of controls ended up leaving them out of play. The H20 also wobbles. Once again, the team led by Jensen Huang got down to work to develop a chip adapted to the Chinese market. The result was the H20a cut version in front of its equivalents in the West, but raised as its great bet for China. Sales forecasts in 2024 exceeded one million units. However, obstacles have not taken long to appear. Now the pressures come from Beijing. Last year, the Chinese government began to recommend to local businesses to acquire NVIDIA GPUS. In full global career for artificial intelligence, the measure seemed contradictory. But the context explains it: just then, several Chinese manufacturers were finalizing their own alternatives to reinforce the country’s computation capacity without depending on foreign technology. Huawei has not stayed with crossed hands. The company has opted strong with products such as the Ascend 910C, a chip that, as points out Tom’s hardwarereaches inference to inference about 60% of the NVIDIA H100 yield. In addition, it is optimized for large language models and has already begun to be adopted by Chinese giants such as Baidu or Bytedance. Huawei also has other variants, such as the Ascend 910b. But there is more. In the middle of last year, The Chinese government presented an action plan to boost the “ecological development of data centers.” The objective was clear: to improve its energy efficiency. To measure the advances, the authorities chose a metric known as Pue (Power Usage Effectiveness)which relates the total energy consumption of the center – including air conditioning, lighting and other auxiliary systems – with the energy used exclusively by IT equipment, such as servers, networks or GPU. The objective of the plan was to reduce the can of the data centers below 1.5 by 2025. It should be remembered that the more the Pue can the value 1, the more efficient the data center is. One of the keys to achieve this goes to use more efficient graphics cards, which generate less heat and, therefore, reduce the energy consumption of the cooling system. The problem, As the Financial Times points outis that H20 chips do not finish fit in this equation. According to the aforementioned newspaper, the National Development and Reform Commission is urging local companies to use only chips that meet demanding energy efficiency standards, both in new data centers and in extending of the existing ones. In practice, this translates into increasing pressure on Chinese technology to reduce – or directly abandon – their GPUS dependency manufactured in the United States. For now, the regulations do not apply strictly, but everything indicates that that could change. In the horizon a possible hardening of control appears: inspections in situ, economic sanctions and harder requirements. If that scenario materializes, Nvidia could be seen before an even greater blow in which, until now, it is its second most relevant market: China represents 13% of its global sales, with more than 17,000 million dollars in annual income. Images | ABODI VESAKARAN | Nvidia In Xataka | The US suspects that Nvidia chips are arriving in China through a third surprising country: Malaysia

The iPhone 17 point to one of the greatest redesign in their history. One that shouts “android” to the four winds

February 24, 2025 by usatoday24

When the river sounds, water carries, and in the world of phone leaks it is a standard that is usually met. A few weeks ago, Jon Prosser revealed The alleged design of the iPhone 17 Air and iPhone 17 Pro. Two telephone that would arrive, according to the filter, with a redesigned chamber module and that, everything is said, reminds some family models little of Xiaomi. A week later, new information based on Factory CAD supposedin which it is confirmed that the design, at least in this initial stage of product development. The iPhone carry without a remarkable design change from the family iPhone 11at least in relation to the camera modules. There have been dances in the respective to the position of the cameras and their size, but the rear remained unchanged since the year. iPhone 11 Pro | iPhone 16 Pro This design, which seemed immovable, would be about to change in the next generation iPhone 17. In this, regardless of the number of cameras, the module will be the main differential feature for the design of the new product line. iPhone 16 Pro according to Prosser and Majin Bu iPhone 17 Pro. Image: SonnyDickson All leaks are aligning in one direction: that of the iPhone 17 with a redesigned camera module and with a larger volume. According to leaks of alleged covers for this phone, with them the design will barely mean a change. Without it, the cameras will cease to be the only element that protrudes, to become part of a gigantic island … in the Android style. Xiaomi little x6 pro. One of the points we have criticized for 2024 has been the unnecessary of oversizing the camera modules to give them prominence. If the leaks are fulfilled, Apple will do exactly the same. Samsung was one of the few companies that had not joined the fashion with Apple, with a clean rear in which only the cameras stood out (as is inevitable). Another curious movement that is rumored is the return to aluminum throughout the iPhone 17 family, reserving the titanium frame for the iPhone 17 Air. This rumor is not yet solid and would be quite difficult to justify, given the good results (especially in weight reduction). This Apple’s decision would make a certain meaning: unifying the design of the family, regardless of the model we buy. Similarly, it will allow the iPhone 17 Air, who will allegedly land with just a camera, shine with some packaging despite having such a scarce photographic section. Image | Prosser, Majin Bu, Sonny Dickson

Trump’s deportation campaign begins: day laborers arrested at work arrive in Mexico

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

TIJUANA, Mexico . — Mexican day laborers detained while working began to be deported to Mexico while at various points on the border with the United States the construction of new spaces to house migrants and face the mass deportations announced by Donald Trump was accelerated. About 70 deportees in what could be some of the first raids of the new U.S. administration arrived in Tijuana in small groups over about three hours Tuesday night, some dressed in work clothes carrying orange bags with their belongings. Migrants who were deported from the United States to Mexico wave as they are transported to a shelter as they cross the El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, on the evening of Tuesday, January 21, 2025. (Felix Marquez/AP) As a man shouted from a distance to a small group of journalists, they were detained on Tuesday while they were working as day laborers in Denver, Colorado. Another migrant said he had been arrested in Oregon without giving further details. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed on Wednesday that there were returns the day before and, without specifying, indicated that the numbers were lower than usual. In 2024, according to official data, more than 500 Mexicans were deported daily on average along the entire border. This month, through one point alone, Nogales, on the border with Arizona, about 150 were deported daily, according to data from the Kino Initiative shelters. On an empty lot next to the border in Ciudad Juárez, next to El Paso, workers used cranes to erect large metal structures that would later become shelters. In Nogales, sports centers were set up to serve migrants. In Matamoros, spaces were expanded in shelters already operating and to the south of Piedras Negras the authorities announced that they wanted to enable empty industrial warehouses for the same purpose. Sheinbaum said Wednesday that the nine federal centers located in municipalities adjacent to the 11 official people repatriation points would be ready in three or four days. The president emphasized that formal conversations with the new US administration have also begun with a call between Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday. “It was a very good conversation, very cordial, they talked about migration issues, security issues,” Sheinbaum said without giving more details. In addition to the nine new centers, the federal government plans to use some existing ones in Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez and Matamoros where, as explained by Ariadna Montiel, Secretary of Welfare, foreigners who had an appointment to request asylum in the United States but who were canceled when Trump paralyzed the CBPOne virtual application. However, Sheinbaum has insisted that Mexico’s objective with foreigners, both those who were waiting for an appointment and those who are returned due to the reinstatement of the “Remain in Mexico” program – which returns asylum seekers while they wait for their hearing in court Americans—is to first give them humanitarian care and then return them to their countries voluntarily.

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