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The electricity network was not prepared for 2025

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Although Bocachancla’s fame has been gained by the fame, Elon Musk can also be hit in his predictions. In mid -2024 predicted that this year we would see failures in the electricity grid because it was not prepared for current demand levels. And so it is being in large part of the world. Musk’s prediction. First, the shortage was from chips. Now, the bottleneck is in the voltage transformers. To the electrification that was already underway, the computing dedicated to the AI has been added, which is multiplied by ten every six months. “I have never seen a technology advance so quickly,” said the businessman in the Bosch Connected World 2024. What sounded to hyperbole has become a tangible problem just 18 months later. The difficulties in connecting new data centers, Light cuts during heat waves and The climbing of the night price of electricity They are already symptoms of an old and inflexible network that falls short for the times. The demand is runaway. In Italy, requests for connection to the network of new data centers They reached 42 gigawatts in March 2025a spectacular leap from the 30 GW registered at the end of last year. This 40% growth in just a quarter shows a voracious energy demand that mainly driven by AI. The energy appetite of generative AI is not a secret in Silicon Valley. Renewable energy has fallen short due to the slow expansion of batteries, and companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are investing in nuclear reactors To feed your data centers. A summer of blackouts. The summer of 2025 is serving as a hard reminder of the fragility of our electrical networks. On July 1, a heat wave caused a blackout in Florence. The cause: an overload in the network for the demand for air conditioning and overheating underground cables. It was not an isolated case. Countries like Kuwait and Bangladesh They decreed programmed cuts of electricity by heat waves. The networks operate with increasingly narrow margins, as we saw in Spain with the Bru what of April 28. There is no need for a catastrophic event to trigger a collapse: stations that control the tension They are at the limit. The background problem. Electrification, air conditioning and AI explosion is not the root cause of the problem. Neither does the lack of generation or storage. The background problem is the abandonment of infrastructure that connects everything. For every dollar that is invested in generating electricity, 40 cents are barely allocated to the networks, according to the International Energy Agency We are building an energy system of the 21st century on an infrastructure of the twentieth century. The IEA warning is as clear as that of Musk: “Without action, the electrical networks will be the bottleneck of the energy transition.” Elon Musk’s prediction was not a futuristic fantasy; It was a diagnosis of a disease that the electrical system already suffered. Images | Bosch, Dr. Maik Koch In Xataka | A month after the blackout in Spain, we continue to drag the same problem that led us to him: electric networks

Cybertruck wanted to be the car prepared for the Apocalypse. Lamborghini Rezzvani Knight has advanced him on the right

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You’ve ever thought about “how good a tank would make me buy the bread.” If the answer is affirmative, two things: what would you have to comment with someone … and there is a car for you. Whenever you have a baggy bank account, of course. The reason? American firm Rezzvani has created the Definitive SUV For apocalypse: a Lamborghini Urus that seems Christopher Nolan’s Batmobile. They have baptized him as Rezvani Knight, and even calambrazos who dares to touch him. Rezvani. This is a story of two firms aimed at being. One for its radical designs and another for the personalization that adds to the cars that pass through their workshop. Let’s start with Rezvani. It is a American manufacturer which has focused on converting high performance cars into something extremely exclusive. What they do is choose a supercar or powerful off -road and improve both base vehicle benefits and occupants protection. In the presentation of Tesla Cybertruck Emphasis was placed on the armor of some of its parts (Do not glue them with glue), But in the case of Rezvani models, they literally create armored vehicles. He Beast Alpha X Blackbird or the HERULES 6X6 They are two examples. The Urus. On the other hand, we have the Lamborghini Urus. The Italian firm does not need presentation at this point and one of its last creations is a SUV High performance equipped with a V8 biturbo engine that develops about 650 hp. This 2025 Han launched a plug -in model with a total of 800 hp by adding a 192 hp electric motor. It has an even faster acceleration, total traction and 8 -speed automatic change. It is a car that aligns, standard, with the aesthetic vision of Rezvani thanks to combining that typical bull brand with sports lines and high performance engines. The original Explosive mixture. And, condemned to understand each other, the Rezvani Knight. This name makes a lot of sense because, basically, it is a mixture between a lamb and a tank, exactly what Nolan devised for the Batmobo that Christian Bale leads in his Batman trilogy (the personal car when he was not Batman was a Lambo batby the way). The Rezvani Knight widen its body and add 22 -inch tires, a led bar on the ceiling, front lights divided into four and more angular and extreme lines than those carried by the URUS standard. It seems that they have taken as a reference the hybrid version, since they do not give details, but they claim that it has 800 hp. And the really striking is what hides. The Dark Knight Military Package carries the following extras: Chapa armor and crystals not only for bullets: also for explosives and grenades. Reinforced suspension and military tires with antibala protection. Doors with electrified handles, blinding lights, air filtering system against chemical agents, smoke dispensers and pepper gas, anti -strap defenses and even protection against electromagnetic pulses. Thermal cameras and, as accessories for occupants, gas masks and bulletproof vests. Price … dizzy. To the question of “how much this monstrosity costs”, the answer is “yes.” First, you have to contribute the car to modify. Urus costs about 260,000 euros and you must donate yours to the cause. Second, the conversion starts from $ 149,000 with external design, military gadgets and survival and partial armor. Third, the most extreme armor is revealed to whom one reserves. Because, in addition, it is limited: the idea of ​​Rezvani is to manufacture only 100 of these monsters worldwide, so if it is already a expensive car with a face modification, that aura of exclusivity can make that in the future it costs an authentic fog. Or maybe, as happened to ASVE AREX, unique in the world and Sold for what a Dacia Duster costs. Images | Rezvani, Alexander Migl Images | A youtuber has a car that is worth four million euros. To drive it you have to pay 7,000 every 60 kilometers

The world seemed not to be prepared for the end of cash. The digital euro makes it clear that yes

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The unknown about Why datáphones worked in full blackout He brought another question: if the end of effective money made sense or not. Without operating offline TPVs, the cash It was the only form of payment. But not having a connection and having an alternative payment method does not evide on digital alternatives. This is something that Europe was raised with the digital euro more than two years ago The digital euro. After years of study, the European Commission approved in 2023 the First legal framework For him Digital euro. As its name indicates, this will be the digital version of our currency. It is born as an alternative and not as a replacement, at least with the information currently available. The ECB has everything thought. The European Central Bank detailed in that first framework that the digital euro would operate offline to guarantee privacy. The technical details have not yet transcended, since this is a development currency, but the transactions without connection will be one of its bases. Both cards and smartphones will temporarily store the funds, synchronizing with the central system when recovering the connection. A blackout that has not demonstrated so much. Although the blackout left on the table that without TPV there is no way to pay that is not cash, it has failed to show the need for physical money to respond to the need for payment. If the digital euro manages to operate offline, it will be possible to make transactions even in scenarios such as the one lived this week. The methodology. Without too much technical depth, the ECB advanced that short -range technologies (Bluetooth, NFC, etc.) are used to make connections between devices, imposing certain limits for transactions in order to mitigate fraud risks. “The Eurosystem has no interest in collecting data from individual user payments, or in monitoring payment behavior or sharing of those data with government agencies or other public institutions.” While the ECB stated that privacy will be one of the pillars of the digital euro, with a certain degree of anonymization (intermediaries will not be able to access concrete details about transactions), Spain, a ticket country. In countries like GermanySurveys collect that half of the population is not willing to use the digital euro. If we focus on Spain, a study by the IPSOS agency evidenced that 65% of respondents were comfortable with current payment methods and would not use this alternative. Payments are still linked to the private, especially in Spain. According to data from the Bank of Spain 65% of the population used cash in 2023, being the main payment method for purchase in physical stores. Europe wants to have the digital euro ready in the short term (two years ago there was already talk of 2025 and 2026). You won’t have it easy. Image | Greegrose and Moerschy In Xataka | The European Central Bank has been fighting for five years to literally create a “European Bizum”. Now has taken a key step

The main tips to be prepared

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Let’s give you a few tips on How to prepare for possible blackoutswith some things that we recommend you at home and remember. Our idea is not only focusing on international catastrophic blackouts, but also being prepared for those premises that can ever occur. Therefore, we are going to give you a small list with The most essential ideas and advice For these cases. Thus, in the event that you have a blackout you can have resources to be without electricity for several hours without this being an excessive problem. Have prepared lighting The blackouts can arrive at any time. If the lighting arrives during the day, it is not a problem, but if it happens during the night it will be necessary to have something in a drawer to see. They can be candles, but too An LED flashlight Help you in key moments. The lifelong wax candles are always useful and appealed, and some always have some in a drawer. Also matches or a lighter. As for the flashlight, to be LED to consume less, and if you go to batteries you have some new prepared. But the best is A flashlight with dynamoof those that have a crank with which to load them. It is a little more tedious to use them, but you don’t need batteries, and they are a very good long -term alternative not to depend on them. Have some external battery loaded Something that can save you a lot if a blackout lasts several hours is have an external battery at home. This will help to keep your mobile loaded, and to be able to use it to inform you or to entertain you while the light is restored. Ideally, it would be at least 5,000 mAh to have a little more than a mobile load, but ideally you should have some of 10,000 mAh. If you have several ports, better, although the essential thing is that you have USB-C. Yes, make sure Always have this battery chargedbecause if when a blackout happens you realize that you did not load it again the last time you used it on a hiking or festival, it will be as if you did not have it. You can also look at the loading power, as they can be 22.5W, 40W, and many things. These amounts what they measure is the power, and the greater the faster you can load the mobile. To choose from look at the load characteristics of your mobile, they are measured in the same way, and then look for a battery that equals them. You also need the USB-C cable to support those powers so that you do not make fun and you can take advantage of it. Have a fm radio batteries When you have an electric blackout at home, your wifi leaves. And if for some reason the mobile connectivity network of your operator fails, then you will stop having access to the Internet. We have already learned that this can happen and last hours, and in these cases it is very difficult to access information from what happens. Therefore, it is convenient that you have A FM Radio Pilas by housesomething analog and “lifelong.” In these cases in which you have neither electricity nor the Internet, it will be a good means to access the stations where they are informing what happens, or simply to entertain yourself with the programming. Have canned food that does not need to cook Something that should not be missing in your pantry is to have some food cans that do not need to cook. When they are in can, they will have a long duration and they will not expire in the short and medium term, so you can have them there for any emergency that may arise. Because you can have food in the fridge, but it is not advisable to be opening it so that the cold does not go and your food does not spoil, and if your kitchen is electric will stop working. Therefore, a canned meal that is already cooked and does not need preparation is a very valuable resource This also applies to all kinds of Non -perishable foodfrom rice and preserves that we have mentioned with nuts or energy bars. Also have A manual opening to open them. If you are a campist, that gas campsite may come well at home or in a localized storage room you can access. Keep your laptops loaded If you have laptops at homeit is advisable to always keep them with a good load. Because if you leave the light but you have the Internet and want to continue working or navigate online, nothing is more frustrating than lighting your old laptop and seeing that it is decarced. Therefore, every month or a few weeks review it, keep it updated and make sure have it well loaded and turn it off correctly when you stop using it to keep the maximum battery. Have bottled water Other tips we can give you are Have bottled water at homeand if you have no low to buy it. If your neighborhood community sends water to the houses with an electric pump and there is a cut throughout the building, you may be left without water, and have to drink and do other things is important. Other tips to be taken into account In addition to what we have told you, remember to have A first aid kit at home In case you have any accident. It is also necessary to have elementary medications for mnos one or two weeks, toilet paper, menstrual products, soap, disinfectant or alcohol. Always keep the tank of your car half full to start it and use it to load devices if necessary, an important contact list, and disconnect electronic devices before the light returns to prevent a voltage peak from damaging them. In Xataka Basics | Light has gone in almost all of Spain: what to do … Read more

The manufacturers are racing the land so that we drive with smart glasses. Spain is not prepared

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Google is preparing an update for Android Auto. A close related to one of the devices that aims to mark the trend of the coming years: smart glasses. The arrival in Spain of models such as the Rayban Meta go beyond curiosity. These types of glasses are another device in consumer technology, such as a mobile or a headset. And both are prohibited at the wheel. Android Auto and smart glasses. A few days ago the Android source code gave away one of the functions that Google is preparing: Content projection such as Google Maps while driving. Developing functions, among which is the “Start Navigation to Launch Glasses” make clear Google’s idea for this type of device: technology integration to the head up display within the glasses themselves. A concept problem. With Google’s idea, several points enter concepts. None of them regulated in the current Spanish legislation. If the glasses project content, they would be governed by the Article 18.1 of the General Circulation Regulation (RD 1428/2003)that prays the following. “The driver is obliged to maintain his own freedom of movements, the necessary vision field and permanent driving attention, which guarantee their own safety, that of the rest of the occupants of the vehicle and that of the other users of the road.” Technically, the projection of the glasses would not affect the field of vision or the free movements. But the problem is that smart glasses, at least the most popular (such as Meta), have nothing to do with this. Hands free and Spain. The circulation code does not like hands free, and is quite restrictive about it. Article 18.2 of the General Circulation Regulation prays the following. “It is forbidden to drive using helmets or headphones connected to receptor or sound players.” The key here is that, technically, the glasses are glasses, although they work as much as headphones and sound players. Because yes, devices such as Rayban Meta are literally music players, with the difference that they are not located in the ear. The nuances. Although the circulation code prohibits the use of headphones, it reflects some exceptions. Among them, that assisted driving devices or hands are not prohibited that neither cover the ears nor isolate in the environment. In other words, if I gave you driving with some Vision Pro It is more than probable (and deserved) to stop and mulitate you. With Rayban Meta, you would technically be complying with Spanish legislation. An inevitable trend. He Google and Samsung pact For mixed reality devices, the finish line with Rayban Meta, the prototypes of motor companies such as BWM for make glasses that work while driving. The format of smart glasses, although now diversified between complete format (helmet) and traditional format, has gain presence of a time to this part. Sooner or later, the legislation will have to clarify what we can do and what not with them behind the wheel. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The Meta Ray-Ban are the first smart glasses that have managed to impress me. They are the beginning of something more

The US was prepared for total destruction in the cold war. This map for nuclear apocalypse illustrates it

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The launch of Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic bombs It was a turning point. Practically, marked the end of the Second World War while starting a Cold war in which the United States and Russia were carried away by nuclear ecstasy. The two powers engaged in a nuclear career without controlbut it is not that they developed the crazy bombs: there were also lists of enemy objectives. And on an interactive map prepared by Future of Life We can see about 1,000 objectives to which the United States would launch a nuclear bomb. But there were many more. The map. In 2015, a study of the United States Strategic Air Command was declared – SAC – that showed a thousand potential objectives in the case of nuclear war. If this possibility flew over the heads of some with the recent Ukraine War, imagine the stage in a cold war in which you could have the feeling that the enemy could squeeze the “button” at any time. There are more than 800 pages in which the objectives of these strategic bombings with nuclear weapons are detailed to erase any enemy presence. In it map From the George Washington University we can not only appreciate some of the main objectives, but the secondary objectives of each of them. For example, if we select Berlin, we can see the objective list And consequences of that study of 1956. Beyond the cities, another priority was the aerodromes, keys to a Soviet counterattack, specifically those located in Belarus. Easting east. Apart from military objectives such as strategic points and aerodromes, the listIt includes more than 1,200 cities of the Soviet block. It is where we can see that more dots are gathered on the map of Future of Life and range from cities of Eastern Germany to China. Moscow would fall into the Red Square, directly (and on this map we can see the Impact of different bombs in any city). The Asian giant, will fight or not next to the Soviet block in case of war, was something that did not matter to SAC. He treated them as hostile, selecting military objectives, but also the Beijing capital. And something that several of the bombed cities have in common is that the SAC already assumed objectives of “population.” The bombs. The plan was well mounted because there was not only a list of objectives, but also the type of weapons that would be used. They would use a combination of atomic and thermonuclear weapons with yields between 1.6 to 15 megatons. Far from the 50 megatons of the Soviet Zar pump, but much more than the 16 kilotons of Little Boy and the 21 kilotons of Fat Man, which wreaked havoc in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The megabomba. We have talked about the tsar pump, or tsar bomb, and in the United States there was also talk of it in 1956. It is not only the bomb that has caused the largest nuclear explosion so far, but it was 3,000 times more powerful than ‘Little boy’. The Russians had that bomb and the United States wanted an equal. In the declassified material, it is detailed how the SAC wanted a 60 megatones bomb. Not only did they identify him as something key in order to be tremendously deterrent but, in case of Soviet surprise attack, they could launch it at a strategic point to “ensure significant results even with a very small force.” In that nuclear ecstasy, the nuclear physicist Edward Teller (“Father” of the bomb H) proposed 1,000 metatones dissositive and up to 10 gigatons. 10 gigatons equals explosive power 670,000 times greater than that of the Hiroshima bomb. Luckily they did not do it, since affirmed that “would contaminate the earth”In the end, the US did not develop such a monstrous bomb. Nor the 60 megatones that the SAC wanted. And the media. And, within the plan, it also specified how the pumps would be launched. There were two systems: for the delivery of B-47 bombers, the United States would use its bases in the United Kingdom, Morocco and Spain. They would also use the B-52 from the US, although they were starting their journey. For the missile system, the eyelets would be loaded in the Snark, Rascal, Cross Bow and IRBM missiles. The first was a failure in the evidence and the great priority of President Eisenhower were the IRBM. These intermediate -reach ballistic missiles projected scope of up to 2,700 kilometers and the idea was to deploy them and throw them from the United Kingdom. Insured mutual destruction. But well, the United States had its Soviet axis attack plan, but the USSR also had its own. In the Soviet plans the Western military infrastructure, the industrial centers and large cities in both the US and its allies entered. They would do it by hydrogen pumps, tactical pumps that could mount on torpedoes and missiles released from mobile platforms. But although the logic could not reign in the massive development of weapons, the fear and that position of both ‘Mad’ countries did, or ‘insured mutual destruction’ that marked that, if a country launched a nuclear attack, automatically the other would respond with a proportional force. This led to threats over the years (such as the deployment of American missiles in Türkiye and Italy or the subsequent crisis of Cuba missiles, but fortunately it did not reach more. And what happens today. In 1986, the two countries reached the zenith of their nuclear arsenal and, from that moment, they dismantled much of their arsenal. The USSR came to have more than 40,000 heads while the United States reached 23,317, but as we say, different pacts and that tension that dissipated with the fall of the Berlin wall caused them to get rid of much of its arsenal. The problem is that other countries -china- have developed and are found enhancing its own nuclear arsenaland in recent years there is a kind of new … Read more

Three years after the beginning of the war, Europe wants to enter. The problem is that there is only one prepared nation: Ukraine

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Europe has decades without a direct armed conflict in its territory, with the exception of Yugoslavia wars in the 90sthe last great episode of violence in European soil. Since then, security in the continent has been marked by A strategy based on deterrence and diplomacymore than in military confrontation. And, suddenly, the conflict in Ukraine recalled that fireworks It is not the same as direct fire. Europe before Ukraine. As we said, the European armed forces have been reserve for a long time. In fact and how we will see, mostly they have been reduced and adapted to a context of stability, with investments limited in defense and a focus on Peace maintenance and humanitarian assistance operationssuch as missions in Balkans, Africa or the Middle East. Despite the growth of NATO and its presence in Eastern Europe, European armies have been more accustomed to acting in controlled scenarios that to prepare a direct confrontation against a weight opponent such as Russia. Fireworks. In fact, this approach has led to many military operations from European countries being Mainly exercises, joint maneuvers and drills in allied countries such as Slovakia, Poland or Latviabut without the real experience of a conventional combat against a military power. And it is not the same to deploy troops for an exercise in the Baltic countries to face in battle against a force like the Russian army. Enter the war. Under all this context we arrive at this week. A few days ago several European leaders have gathered in Paris to discuss the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine as part of A possible peace agreementalthough the viability of this measure depends largely on the support of the United States. In fact, the summit was promoted by the decision of the Trump administration of exclude Europe from negotiations They started in Saudi Arabia between Washington and Moscow, although Trump has suggested that Europeans could perform “a peace maintenance role.” Plans and divisions. And then Europe seems to have realized that the “defense” had it careless. According to The Washington Postsome European countries consider The deployment of up to 30,000 soldiersthat, yes, they would not be on the front line, but as a deterrence in case of a resumption of the conflict. Another option, or plan B, is the one that They have called “resettlement force” destined to protect Ukraine from future Russian attacks in case a peace agreement negotiated by the United States is reached. That said, France is the country with the most advanced plans estimating that could contribute almost 10,000 soldierswhile the United Kingdom, through its prime minister Keir Starmer, has opened The possibility of a British contribution. And so far, because the rest of the countries have shown a more ambiguous position. Sweden and the Netherlands, for example, They do not rule out the shipment of troopsbut they have not made a specific decision. Germany, Poland and Spain have rejected the idea, At least for now. Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz emphasized that Any solution should be based on a strong Ukrainian forcewhile Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland, said that Warsaw “does not contemplate sending Poles soldiers to Ukraine.” For its part, the Spanish government was blunt when pointing out that Peace is still far and only depends on Putinmaking it clear that any military mission should define objective, participants, mandate and leadership. Strategic objectives. If the “plan B” is given, with a peace agreement underway, the main mission of this eventual “resettlement force” would be guarantee the safety of Ukrainian airspaceallowing the reopening of commercial flights, and protect maritime trade in the Black Sea, fundamental for grain exports and other essential goods for the Ukrainian economy. It would also be prioritized The protection of key infrastructure such as Public Plant and Public Servicesthat have been constant target of Russian bombing since the beginning of the war. Ukraine proposes a broader approach. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky stated that Ukraine’s security does not necessarily require foreign troops in his territory. Proposed The creation of “Armed Forces of Europe”capable of responding on land, sea, air and artificial intelligence before any Russian aggression. He also stressed that advanced air defense systems would be effective measures to strengthen security without requiring permanent foreign troops. The elephant in the room. No doubt, Europe’s plan faces important diplomatic obstacles, the first of all: United States support It is, at the moment, uncertain. Although the Trump administration has insisted that European troops must guarantee the security of a future peace agreement, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made it clear that They must be part of a mission not related to NATO and not be protected by article 5 of mutual defense. Not just that. Even in the uncertain scenario of a peace agreement, the mission and role of Europe would require an American “backstop”that is, a support from the United States in case of a military escalation. Although there are no specific details, this support is expected It focuses on aerial power with operations based on Poland and Romania. In this regard, Starmer and Macron will travel to Washington next week To press Trump and ensure that the United States provides this strategic support. “Old” defenses. In the background, what is showing is a great weakness in its defenses, possibly oxidized. In fact, the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, warned this week at the Munich Security Conference that Ukraine is making weapons faster and less cost than any other country in Europe. It is not a trivial detail. It does so despite being at war, which shows the slowness of the continent in strengthening its military capacity. Frederiksen urged to reduce bureaucracy and increase arms production in collaboration with the United States emphasizing that Europe can no longer act as if it were in peacetime. The rise of the Ukrainian military industry. From the Russian invasion in 2022, Ukraine has exponentially increased its armament productionmanufacturing missiles, obuses and large -scale drones. In 2024, 30% of the military equipment used … Read more

As in any battle, you have to be prepared with a strategy

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Ask for a salary increase is one of the most tense moments for employees, especially in Latin culture, where salary negotiation It is almost a taboo. However, it is a moment that, sooner or earlierall professionals face throughout their career regardless of WHAT IS YOUR POSITION. Coaling the moment correctly, and the attitude with which that request is addressed, is a important part for your success. To ask for an increase, look at the calendar According to Nicola Weatherhead, vice president of people’s operations and talent acquisition at The Stepstone Group, in An interview For the British Dailymaila petition for salary improvement can never be the result of improvisation. The first step is to choose the right time for both the person in charge of human resources, and for the company. For example, if you have evidence that the company A bad financial moment passesit is less likely to have Ability to increase your salary. Instead, a good moment can be just after making a positive economic balance public. On the other hand, regardless of the financial health of the company, it is also important to choose well the date on which the increase is proposed. For example, many companies prepare their annual budgets at the end of the year, and close at the beginning of the year. Therefore, the first months of the year may not be the best to request a salary increase because the budget items are already assigned. On the other hand, the perfect moment to request it will be just before the company begins to prepare those budgets for next year. In this way, your request may be taken into account and included in the accounts of the following year. Appointment to talk about your salary From the indeed labor platform, They point How important as choosing the right time for the company, is to choose it to speak with the head of human resources that manages it. Have one Conversation about your salary next to the coffee machine It is not the best of ideas, so the ideal is to set an appointment enough to ensure that whoever should collect your request is paying all their attention to a quiet and private environment. During that meeting, he speaks safely and assertively, but avoids aggressive or too shy. A balanced tone It generates empathy and facilitates establishing open and respectful negotiation. Companies may have quarterly or annual evaluation programs, and that can also be a good time to address the salary increase, since your performance data will be on the table to endorse it. That takes us to the next point. Do not compare yourself, let your work speak “Prepare a detailed summary of what you have achieved during the last year and what you plan to contribute to the future,” said Weatherhead. Take this List with your achievements It allows you to show, objectively and based on results, the worth of your work and the added value you contribute to the company. It mentions concrete figures, such as increases in sales or improvements in operational efficiency, if you have led new projects or everything that is relevant in your position or that has contributed to the team. The personal economic situation should never be the reason that justifies the request for salary increase. One of the most frequent errors is compare with other colleagueseven with those with similar tasks. Each employee fulfills their function and their metrics can be oriented to different objectives, although similar functions are apparently done. “In addition, refrain from making demands or ultimatums, since this can tighten your relationship with your employer,” says the expert. The last thing you want is to be a focus of problems for those who must manage their salary increase. On the other hand, involve a supervisor to validate your work, it is a good strategy since it is someone whose objective is precisely to report your performance. This confirmation of your results will have more weight than your statements when considering a salary increase. “They will need evidence and, if you have a high -ranking manager in the company to help you defend your position, the bosses will be convinced much more easily among them,” says Weatherhead. Investigate and ask accordingly Another important aspect is not to leave in the air the percentage of salary increase that you have in mind. Therefore, it is convenient to make a previous investigation of the average salary of your position in the sector, in your region and in the type of companysince wages vary depending on these factors. Knowing that data will allow you to present A reasonable proposal. Use tools such as salary comparators, Consult colleagues or review job offers similar to your profile and knowledge to obtain An adequate salary range. Avoid asking for an exact amountit is more appropriate to talk about salary ranges or increase percentages. That gives margin to negotiate and shows flexibility on your part. For example, you can say: “I have investigated and I think that an increase within the range of X A and would be fair considering my responsibilities and performance within the team.” A negative is not a defeat One of the communication strategies in this type of negotiation is not to propose the increase as a question of whether or not. If you do, the easiest thing for the company is to stand in the No. Instead, you can raise it as a goal to achieveIn that way, even if at that time you receive a negative, a schedule is drawn for a new request in the future. In an assertive and calm way, he asks the person in charge of what objectives and improvements he considers to achieve to obtain that increase in the future. That not only denotes a positive attitude of growth, but also highlights the commitment to the company. In fact, even in case of obtaining a salary increase, it may be below your initial expectations. Knowing that roadmap can serve … Read more

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

China is closely monitoring the United States movement with Stargate. And your answer has already prepared

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The US government led by Donald Trump is determined to lead in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) cost what it costs. And in principle this initiative, baptized by the new administration as ‘Stargate project’it will cost 500,000 million dollars. This money will leave the coffers of the Japanese investment group SoftBank; of those of OpenAI, the creators of Chatgpt; of those of Oracle, and, finally, it will also be provided by the investment firm Emiraratí MGX. These companies will support the construction during the next four years of an advanced data centers that will house the high performance computing infrastructure necessary to keep the US at the head in the field of AI. Interestingly, the spearhead of these facilities is already being built in Texas (USA). For China, this ambitious US project represents a threat to the same extent that for the country led by Donald Trump Chinese advances in AI constitute a problem. China’s response is already underway The administration headed by Xi Jinping has rushed to make the US know that its Stargate plan will receive an answer from your country. “China has made impressive advances in the construction of smart computer centers. While maintaining the current rhythm, the gap in the field of computing infrastructure that separates them from the US will be reduced even more … despite the Stargate project,” has declared Lian JyeChief analyst of the British consultant OMDIA. China has advanced a lot during the last 24 months in the field of high performance computing infrastructure SANCTIONS TO CHINA deployed by the US and its allies During the last two and a half years they pursue the development of their semiconductor industry, and Also from its AI infrastructure. In the field of integrated circuits Chinese manufacturers face the enormous challenge of producing their own equipment from extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE) necessary to be able to manufacture avant -garde semiconductors. However, in the field of Chinese high performance computing infrastructures it has advanced a lot during the last 24 months. In fact, Official data They reflect that in June 2024 they were recently finished or under construction at least 250 advanced data centers and other computer facilities in China. According to the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the country led by Xi Jinping is only behind the US. Although This source is interestedhis conclusion is very credible. “We hope that China significantly increase its investments in AI and semiconductors in response to the US domain in AI,” CBM consultancy analysts foresee. It makes sense. These two great powers world supremacy are being disputedso it is understandable that each significant step that give one of the two Receive a more or less overwhelming answer from the other. We can be sure that 2025 will be a year even more agitated than 2024 in the geopolitical and technological fields, so we will be attentive to the steps that US and China will surely give. Image | Christina Morillo More information | SCMP In Xataka | Huawei attacks Nvidia positions in China: he wants to have dominant hardware in inference processes in AI

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