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What he has seen leads him to propose that retirees go back to work

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Spain moves towards a demographic scenario that increasingly resembles that of Japan: fewer births, more longevity and a demographic structure that concentrates more and more weight at the top of the pyramid. This transformation is forcing Spain to reformulate the relationship between retirement and work with a new modality called reversible retirement, which aims to “recover” those who they have already retired to reintegrate them into the labor market and relieve pressure on the pension system. A country that ages rapidly. As they point out statistical dataat the beginning of 2024, Spain reached 48.6 million inhabitants and in 2025 we have already overcome the 49.1 million inhabitants. Of them, about 9.93 million were 65 years old or older (20.4% of the total), and about 2.95 million were over 80 years old (around 6.1%). This means that the demographic pyramid has reached cruising speed in the widening of its peak, while the base narrows at the bottom. decline in birth rate. In 2024, only 318,005 babies were born, which represents a historic low and 0.8% less than the previous year. as published The Country. With a life expectancy that already exceeds 84 years, the country faces a growth of number of pensioners and a progressive decline in the active population. The worst nightmare for a government. Japan: the canary in the mine. Japan has been facing a reality for years that now reaches Spain, so Spain can take advantage of its learnings to adapt its policies to the new demographic reality. The current situation in Japan is a snapshot of what awaits us in the near future. According to data of The Japan Times, In 2024, 29.4% of Japan’s population was 65 years old or older. The extension of working life is now almost a norm. In 2023 they worked 9.1 million Japanese over 65 years of age, chaining twenty years of consecutive increase. More than 33% of retirees between 70 and 74 years old were still active In 2022 and from 2021, companies are obliged to offer employment up to 70 years of age. This retention of the workforce beyond retirement age has allowed Japan to maintain its contributions, reduce pressure on pensions and mitigate the labor shortage experienced. Delaying retirement is not enough. Spain (as well as the rest of Europe) has been progressively increasing the legal retirement agea process that will culminate in 2027 with the ordinary age set at 67 years. However, the demographic data published by the Bank of Spain show that these measures, although necessary, are insufficient. The population that joins the labor market is inferior than the one leaving, and the constant drop in the birth rate implies that this trend will be accentuated in the coming years, so the balance between retirements and incorporations will continue to be insufficient, and the immigrant population He can’t even compensate for it. Reversible retirement: Spain is taking note. In July 2025, the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security presented the proposal for a Royal Decree that transforms the current flexible retirement to make it more attractive for people who have already retired. The reversible retirement proposed by the Government allows those who have already retired, return to the labor market without losing their status as pensioners or penalizing their pension, but rather increasing it while become active again. Its objective is clear: encourage work beyond the legal retirement age to compensate lack of labor that the labor market suffers and, at the same time, alleviate the growing spending on pensions. Working improves pensions. The Ministry’s proposal eliminates previous restrictions and allows make pension compatible with work employed and adds the novelty of being able to do it also on one’s own, as long as the beneficiary had not been self-employed in the previous five years. For employed employment, a working day for retirees of between 40% and 80% of that of a full-time worker is allowed. The pension is reduced proportionally to the working day: if someone receives a pension of 1,200 euros and works half-time (4 hours), they would receive a pension of 600 euros plus the half-time salary. He big change It is in the 10% and 20% incentives for those who return to work after six months since they retired. Continuing with the previous example, the compatible pension of 600 euros would increase by 10% (60 additional euros), reaching 660 euros plus your salary. If the working day were 70%, the increase would be 20%. The reform seeks make reintegration attractive, eliminating the feeling of penalty that until now discouraged this modality. In Xataka | The future of pensions has a price: millions of payrolls will pay a little more expensive starting in 2026 Image | Pexels (Andrea Piacquadio)

Google and Epic Games propose a historic agreement that is an earthquake for the Play Store

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The long and costly legal war between Epic Games and Googlewhich began in 2020, is about to end. Both companies have jointly submitted an agreement proposal and a modified court order which, if approved, not only resolves all its disputes, but also redraws the rules of the Android app store for the coming years. Chronology. To understand why Google has agreed, you have to rewind. After a long trial, a jury ruled in favor of Epic in 2023, declaring that Google’s Play Store operated as an illegal monopoly. Based on that verdict, Judge Donato issued a harsh court order a year later. This forced Google to open its ecosystem and included allowing third-party stores within the Play Store itself. In addition, it prohibited Google from tying its billing system to the store, and allowing developers to link to external payments. Braking attempt. Google immediately appealed, warning that the changes would harm the “security and privacy” of users. On October 18, 2024, the judge granted the Mountain View giant a temporary suspension while the appeal was being resolved. It was just a momentary respite. Surrender. After losing appeals, the US Supreme Court rejected Google’s latest request for a suspension. This reactivated the original court ordergiving the company an imminent deadline that ended on October 22. It had to start dismantling its control over the Android software store. Image by Official GDC on Flickr New agreement. Faced with the obligation to comply with a sentence that it hated, Google has negotiated a lesser evil. This new agreement, which was presented yesterday, replaces the original order with agreed rules that will be in force until June 30, 2032. Tim Sweeney himself, CEO of Epic, rated it X as an “impressive” and “comprehensive solution.” These were the words of Sameer Samat, the president of Android, who also reacted to the news: Together with Epic Games, we have proposed changes for Android and Google Play that focus on expanding developer choice and flexibility, reducing fees, and encouraging greater competition, all while ensuring user safety. If approved, this would resolve our disputes. We hope to continue discussing the issue with the judge on Thursday. The agreement details a new maximum commission structure. Google will not be able to charge more than 20% for in-game purchases that offer advantages (such as loot boxes or improvements). For everything else, the maximum commission will be 9%. On the other hand, the developers they win the right to display their own payment systems with Play Billing. Additionally, they will be able to show different (i.e. cheaper) prices if the user chooses the alternative payment. However, the Big Tech will continue to charge your “service fee”– Even if a developer uses its payment platform, Google reserves the right to charge the service fee (the 20% or 9% mentioned). According to media such as The Vergea Google spokesperson clarified that the developer saves the billing fee (cost of processing the payment), but not the service fee. Global impact. Although the court order is limited to the US, this change to the Android operating system will have a global impact. This opens the door for third-party stores—such as the one that Epic announced with Telefónica— can be installed without any friction. Without forgetting that this pact also prohibits Google (for three years) from making payments to manufacturers or operators to pre-install competing stores or to not place them in specific places on the device. What’s coming now. The agreement is not final: it must be approved by the judge. Both parties have a hearing scheduled for this Thursday, November 6, to discuss the proposal. We’ll see how it ends, but it seems that the final agreement will not be very different from this one. Cover image | Composition with images of Sergey Galyonkin for Flickr and Xataka Android In Xataka | Google has put AI summaries where there used to be links to news. And the media is bleeding

Someone has seemed a great idea to propose a sculpture of a bull of more than 300 meters. There are already cities waiting to host it

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That the bull is since we have a kind of national symbol reason does not even mention it. But it seems that sometimes it insists on reminding us in increasingly creative ways, so the Spanish Bullfighting Academy Location for a monstrous 300 meter sculpture high that aspires to become a strong tourist attraction. After the rejection of Madrid, Castellanoleonese towns such as Ciudad Rodrigo, Toro, Benavente or Burgos have shown interest in being the hosts of this ambitious project. Colossal dimensions. The proposal contemplates a colossal structure that tripled the height of the Burgos Cathedralwith panoramic viewpoints in the animal’s horns and commercial spaces at its base. The initiative aims to emulate the tourist impact of monuments such as the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty, but using the bull as a sign of identity. The promoters seek a municipality that yields the necessary land, while the construction costs would be in charge of private companies. More tourism. The project promises to act as an economic engine for the chosen town, attracting national and international visitors. In Castilla y León, a region that has been characterized by a bullfighting tradition, several municipalities have seen a unique opportunity to attract tourism. Ciudad Rodrigo has been the first to show interest, followed by Toro, Benavente, Sahagún, El Maillo, Ledesma and Villatuelda. Even Burgos values the proposal, although Cristina Ayala, mayor of the city, I commented to Antena 3 that saw the “too large” dimensions. The reluctance. For Fernando Martínez-Acitores, deputy mayor in Burgos and Vox militant, building this bull can be “a great emblem” and “a claim for the city.” Naturally, not everyone looks good at the initiative. Daniel de la Rosa, former mayor and leader of the PSOE in the opposition qualifies the proposal as “crazy”, while animalist groups such as Proanbur the consider A provocation that extol animal abuse. In fact, its spokesman, Judith Sánchez, account That “with this bull figure, they seek to disguise something that is far from being.” What comes now. The Spanish Bullfighting Academy is evaluating the proposals received, also analyzing the technical and logistics viability. The selection process will continue in the coming weeks, everything while interested municipalities expect to know the answer. The project needs a lot at least 650 meters long for its construction, and this detail considerably limits the available options. Cover image | Jordi Vich Navarro AND SPANISH ACADEMY OF TUROMAQUIA In Xataka | The “Cayetans” are going to make noise to the squares. And it’s not just for the fond of bullfighting

I have run, swim and worked with the Aqua Suunto. Under water I understood what these bone driving headphones propose

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A common problem of aquatic headphones is that, in addition to not being Bluetooth for physical reasons, they are usually specifically aquatic. That is, little or nothing appropriate to use them out of water. The rest of sports headphones usually also have something in common: they forget the water. I do not talk about enduring sweat or rain, but really swimming, throwing you into a pool and forgetting everything except to breeze. That’s where the Suunto Aquabone driving headphones that are not only designed to function under water, but They have water as their natural state, But they are still dry in dry. I have tried running, on long walks, even at home while working. But it wasn’t until I took them to swim when I understood what I was trying to do with them. Thus they look when they take them out of our head. Image: Xataka. Its strength is not the sound (because it should not be) The first thing to understand of the Aqua is that they are not headphones to use. They use bone driving, a technology that transmits sound through vibrations that travel through the bones of the skull, specifically the temporal bone, to the inner ear. The auditory channel is free: you don’t need to have anything inside the ear to listen to music or a podcast. That provides a double advantage. On the one hand, comfort and safety outdoors: you can run or bike listening to your content without isolating yourself from the environment. On the other, an even more overwhelming logic underwater: nothing gets into the ear, there is no distorted sound, there is no sense of tamponade. Everything happens in that little transducer that rests on the ear and that, against all prognosis, it manages to keep listening even. That little button that stands out from the transducer is the one that serves to stop or continue the music (a touch), pass from song (two touches) or backward (three touches). Image: Xataka. Pogo load pins that guarantee pond but require their own case. Image: Xataka. And here with the connected load case. This works as an external battery for a pair of complete loads. Connecting a USB-C cable we will move to the wall charger mode. Image: Xataka. The surprising thing is that, despite this different way of transmitting the sound, the experience works. There is no isolation, but it is not what you are looking for here. You can hear the music, the podcasts, whatever you want … and you are still connected to what surrounds you. In water, where any other system fails, they continue to comply. Suunto has adjusted the equalization thinking about that: in outdoor environments and, above all, in immersion. Dry, sound is enough; In pool, better than expected. There are no forceful serious study, but a solid, coherent and much more refined proposal than I imagined. Running and swimming with them Before trying them in the water, I’ve been running with them months. Literally. I immediately noticed that the important thing was not as much the sound quality and the feeling of freedom: nothing inside the ear, nothing that falls out when moving, and the music always present without disconnecting from the world. Ideal to go through the city or by roads without losing sight or hearing what surrounds you. You didn’t have to adjust them every little, or worry about whether they loosen up. They simply worked. Besides, Its three buttons (two on one side, one in the other) allow to change volume or pass song. All great. But although they had convinced me, the best was yet to come. The posterior strip. It is flexible but without applying pressure it remains rigid. I don’t feel that I bounce in my neck. Image: Xataka. The first time I used them in pool I felt a certain astonishment. Not long, but when I did it used to be without music because all the previous solutions had seemed a commitment: they were uncomfortable, unreliable, or directly fragile. In fact it came from using some Sony NW-WS413 –With its humble 4 GB– since 2022. Image: Xataka. With those two buttons under the pogo pins we can do almost any action, combining pulsations, pulsation time, etc. Turn them on, turn them off, adjust volume, enter and exit sports mode, etc. Image: Xataka. With the aqua you do not have to juggle: The placing, you start the session from the headphones themselves (without the mobile, thanks to the 32 GB of internal storage) and throw yourself into the water. From the first length, something changes. Music accompanies you. And you keep swimming the same, without worrying about anything. There are no cables, there are no rubber ones that come out. The band that surrounds the head does not move. It does not loosen. It does not bother. It is as if it were not. But the most interesting comes later. These headphones listen to you swim At the end of the session, the data appears in the Suunto app: Posture, head angle, respiratory frequency, sliding in stroke. Technique metrics that I had never seen in headphones. And that, at least in my case, they told me something I didn’t know: that I breathe badly. Image: Xataka. Or more exactly, that I do it asymmetrically, with my head turning more to one side than to the other. They had never told me in the training. Nor had he noticed it. But there was the graphic. Yes indeed: There is no real -time feedback. What you get is a later readingas if you had a silent coach who takes notes while you swim. It is true that the app could go further in its interpretation of the data – phalta context, lack of concrete orientation – but as a starting point, impresses. It is another way of seeing your body in motion. To listen to you from within. For a future version it would be great to be able to … Read more

What if we are doing the bad intermittent fasting? Some experts propose to focus only on carbohydrates

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Losing weight is not as simple as subjecting our body to a caloric deficit. Diets based on ingesting less calories than our body consumes work well in some contexts, but their medium and long term effects are limited by our metabolism and by our own constancy. That is why the intermittent fasting It has become one of the most popular diets for those who want to lose weight. Question of alternatives. Now, a group of researchers He has found A way to make these more affordable diets. The idea is based on making this diet less restrictive, limiting only carbohydrate intake in the days of temporarily limiting our caloric intake. Intermittent caloric restriction. Diets based on intermittent caloric restriction, which we often refer to as intermittent fasting Although they do not always imply fasting, they are based on limiting our food intake over time. There are different strategies to perform this fast, such as fasting 5: 2, in which we severely restrict the calories we eat for two days and eat normally the rest of the week. To understand the usefulness of This type of diets We have to remember how our metabolism, in an eagerness to protect ourselves from scarcity, can limit the success that conventional caloric restriction when weight loss. And our body reacts when we give less food, limiting our energy consumption to save resources, which ends up implying that when we ingest less calories, in the medium term our body also ends up consuming less energy. Cardiometabolic health. According to Adam Collins, co -author of the new study and researcher at the University of Surrey, In an article for The conversationintermittent fasting has an added advantage. It is about improving our “metabolic flexibility” since it allows us to balance the energy sources that our body, carbohydrates and fat reserves. This in turn implies a lower risk of problems such as cardiovascular diseases or type 2 diabetes. The new study signed by Collins and his team sought to inquire about the reasons why this improvement in our metabolism is given when we follow this diet. Since these types of diets focus on the idea that our body goes from using carbohydrates as a source of energy to consume fats, the team decided to study the implications of a limited carbohydrate restriction over time. 12 participants. The 12 participants In the study, overweight or obesity adults, they passed for two days of separate food restriction for five days of “rest.” One of the restriction days, the participants consumed a low diet in hydrates, while the other day they consumed a diet based on the chlorical reduction (consuming 75% less calories with respect to what would be common). The days following the restriction day the participants consumed a high ration in fats and sugars. What the team observed is that both diet forms showed similar results in each type of diet. The details of the study have been Published in an article In the magazine European Journal of Nutrition. Looking for answers. As explained by the team responsible for the analysis, new studies will be necessary to better understand this relationship and to strengthen this notion with a broader population. The team emphasizes that each of the diets (carbohydrate restriction and temporary restriction) entail Your own problemsbut perhaps combining them allows us to make these more bearable diets and with it more affordable and with a lower risk. In Xataka | The MIT investigated whether the intermittent fasting diet is really healthy. There is good news and another very worrying Image | Rosy Ko

Trump tariffs have caused the Big Tech debacle in the stock market. And propose a slowdown in investment in AI

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Apple shares closed almost 224 dollars yesterday. When the session is opened in Wall Street they will have fallen suddenly and porrazo more than 7%, up to 208 euros. That collapse will be the greatest among the Big Tech, but all of them They will be affected Notably for Tariffs announced by Donald Trump. And that makes another danger derived: that of investment in AI. Big tech fall to lead. As they point out In CNBCApple will leave more than 7% more to open the session in the US Stock Exchange, but others will also have very notable falls. Nvidia fell 4%”After-Hours” (after the closure of the markets), Tesla 4.5%, Alphabet, Amazon and goal between 2.5%and 5%, and Microsoft 2%. Thus Apple’s actions closed yesterday, and so they will begin the session at Nasdaq today. Source: Google Finance. Tariffs everywhere. Falls are due to tariffs announced yesterday by Donald Trump. The US president indicated that these import taxes would be “a declaration of economic independence” for his country. Base there will be 10%tariffs for all imports, but certain countries will be especially punished: China will have 34%tariffs, Vietnam of 46%, the EU of 20%, Taiwan of 32%, and Japan of 24%. The US is the great world importer. The huge consuming machine that is the United States makes the country the largest importer around the world. According to the Department of Commerce in 2024, the country spent 4.1 billion dollars in goods (3.3 billion) and services (814,000 million) imported. With these measures precisely wants countries that export more to the US to pay extra for being able to do so, but it can cause a dangerous domino effect. What about AI. Projects such as Stargate raise a colossal investment of 500,000 million dollars To create AI data centers in American field, and here the importance of semiconductors is evident. The United States will need to import chips and other components and materials to create these centers, and manufacturers such as NVIDIA or TSMC will precisely be affected by tariffs. Or continue to manufacture outside the US and pay tariffs or They create factories on American soil to avoid them, something that for example TSMC is already working. Tariffs with the point of sight in AI. In fact, a good part of the components and GPUS necessary to create these data centers are imported from Taiwan, Mexico and China, which are three of the countries that will be punished by tariffs. The punishment for these imports is remarkable, and can lead to a slowdown in the development of AI. Investments in danger. The investment in data centers is colossal by the Big Tech, and we have the example of Amazon that plans to dedicate most of its 2025 capex of 100,000 million dollars In these developments. How will tariffs condition that investment? Difficult to know, but both for Amazon and for the rest there are now new problems to make investment. That are added that perhaps They were oversized first of all. Image | Gage Skidmore | Microsoft In Xataka | The USA hits China again with a double purpose: to stop the development of its hypersonic superorders and missiles

Arizona lawmakers propose law to make Trump’s mass deportations easier

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Arizona lawmakers are considering new law to ensure key border state cooperates with new administration’s mass deportation push in response to the question of to what extent states will help Donald Trump’s government. Senate President Warren Petersen introduced the “Arizona ICE Act,” which would require sheriff’s departments and the Arizona Department of Corrections to sign cooperative agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The cooperation agreement with the Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under the controversial federal program 287 (g), would grant immigration agent functions to local police departments, including the identification and detention of a person suspected of being an undocumented immigrant. “Ending the crisis at the border requires all of us to cooperate. This legislation will allow the federal and state governments to work together to protect our citizens,” Petersen said in statements sent to EFE. The proposal also seeks to provide additional funds so that police departments can implement state law 314, passed in Arizona during the last November elections. This law allows police departments to arrest and imprison migrants who have crossed the border irregularly. The law has not yet taken effect as Arizona awaits the legal future of a similar law passed in Texas that is in the courts. The Arizona State Sheriffs’ Association has requested at least an additional $50 million in funding from the state Legislature to implement this new measure if it goes into effect. The Republican Party maintained control of the Arizona state legislature during the last election, which makes it easier for them to advance laws against irregular migration. Petersen said he hopes Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, will not oppose this bill and “respect” the will of voters by signing the legislation once it reaches her desk. Keep reading: • Republican senator claims that ICE arrested 308 immigrants in a matter of hours• They denounce the arrest of 200 immigrants in a surprise raid carried out in California• ICE withdraws ‘sensitive areas’ rule to carry out raids against immigrants anywhere: schools, churches, shelters, courts

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