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Telefónica has achieved its best portability data in 25 years. It’s a sign that something is changing.

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Between July and September, Telefónica has achieved 80,000 net additions due to portability – mobile and landline combined –, the highest figure since this mechanism was implemented in 2000, according to the latest data reported by Expansion. The data continues to go bankrupt for a quarter of a century, losing customers almost uninterruptedly. Since May 2024, the operator has had 17 consecutive months of positive results in mobile, a streak that it only shares with Digi. Why is it important. Portability measures who best understands what the user wants and who executes it. It’s not statistical noise: it’s money, market share and retention capacity. Telefónica had been the big natural loser of the system for decades—it came from a monopoly so it had the largest base as well as the highest prices—but now it reverses the equation. Something has changed, either in its proposal or in the market. Or both. The figures: In mobile, Telefónica has added 64,000 net lines in the quarter, compared to 45,000 in the same period of 2024. So far this year, it has accumulated 135,000 new lines, almost ten times the 14,000 in the first nine months of last year. In fixed terms, it achieved 16,000 quarterly registrations, its best historical record, and has had a positive six months. It is the first time that it has achieved two consecutive quarters of winning in both markets at the same time. The contrast. If Telefónica and Digi grow, MasOrange and Vodafone sink: MasOrange has lost 138,000 mobile lines in the quarter – 438,000 so far this year, 50% more than in 2024. Vodafone gave up 91,000 lines in the third quarter and 272,000 in the accumulated annual period. Digi, for its part, adds 177,000 quarterly registrations, 21% more than a year ago, and leads the acquisition with 605,000 lines gained between January and September. Between the lines. The market is polarizing: Telefónica retains and attracts the premium customer, who values ​​service, network and stability over price. Digi sweeps the segment low cost pure, where only the cheapest rate matters. The operators in the middle—MasOrange with its cheap legacy brands, Zegona’s Vodafone dragging problems from the past—they lose on both sides. Yes, buteither. MasOrange faces a structural problem: many of its brands—MásMóvil, Yoigo, Pepephone, Simyo—have customers who are hypersensitive to price, willing to jump at the first cent difference. Vodafone, for its part, still bears the consequences of quit football in 2018a decision that caused a mass exodus and from which it has never fully recovered. Now add the uncertainty of Finetworkin pre-contest and losing 48,000 lines in the quarter. The backdrop. To find a quarter similar to Telefónica’s current one, you have to go back to 2018, when Vodafone left football and the historic operator gained 66,000 net lines. But that was temporary, a gift from the competition. This is different: Telefónica has been winning in mobile for 17 months without any rival having made a catastrophic mistake. It is sustained improvement. Small virtual operators are also beginning to disappear from the map. In the third quarter they have lost 11,000 net lines, compared to the 9,000 they gained a year ago. Digi is sweeping them away. The market is simplified: the big ones with the muscle to invest in the network remain (Telefónica, MasOrange, Vodafone) and the disruptor low cost (Digi). The rest, adrift. In Xataka | Telefónica is about to surprise itself: its future is no longer in communications Featured image | Telephone

In Pinto and Sanxenxo they could not sign doctors, so they opted for a radical solution: “give them” a house

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The challenge brings them. In Pinto, a municipality located south of the Community of Madrid has long faced the complicated task of ensuring that their 56,000 inhabitants will meet a doctor when they go to their health center. The reason? Its outpatients are cataloged as “Difficult coverage”a handicap to which the shortage of specialists in family and community medicine nationwide and the cost of housing in the city (11.7 euros/m2), that (although it remains significantly below the prices of the capital) has seen how rents were more expensive 17.5% in a matter of one year. Given that panorama, the City Council of Pinto has opted for a radical measure: ‘give away’ floors to doctors who move to the municipality. It is nothing new. Before He already did For similar reasons another Galician town: Sanxenxo. What happened? That Pinto has opted for a radical measure to capture new doctors and guarantee health care in their health centers and PAC. So that the city squares are more attractive and the house does not involve a problem, the City Council will offer accommodation without cost to the doctors. Literally. The decision was announced by the mayor himself, Solomon Aguado (PP), At the end of Juneduring the debate on the state of the city. And how will it do it? Your idea is to offer up to six municipal ownership homes, apartments from one or two bedrooms in which doctors can settle for free. The agreement will be formalized through the bailment, a contract by which the City Council yields the enjoyment of the floor without cost for a certain time. Once that term is fulfilled the Consistory recovers the house. Except for last minute or unforeseen changes, the objective is that the measure is launched immediately, throughout The second half of the year. What result has you given? For now the offer seems to have aroused interest. Only a few hours after the announcement, in the City Council mailbox There were already applications of doctors from different areas of the country. And since then the drip of curricula has remained. Today The confidential account That Pinto has more than 40 candidates from the Balearic Islands, Galicia, Andalucía, Castilla-La Mancha, Canary Islands … and even countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador or Mexico. Their curricula will be transferred to the Community of Madrid to include them in the bag to which, periodically, vacancies available in the town are offered. How serious is the problem? The City Council of Pinto recalls that its health centers are considered “difficult to cover” and, although in recent years the shortage of doctors has softened, the situation in the city’s consultations remains without being the ideal. Hence you want to capture more doctors. The country remember how at its worst moment the town stayed No doctors in the emergency room and the template of its two health centers was reduced to minimum levels. Free housing is not the only claim to attract doctors to Pinto. In 2024 the regional government announced an incentive of 500 euros per month For professionals who work in “difficult coverage” centers, a complement that, as the Executive himself remembered, adds to other pluses already approved. Ayuso recently He influenced again In that line when announcing a salary increase of 280 euros for nurses who work in centers with the same consideration. Is it something new? No. In recent years Other municipalities They have launched to offer Free housing to cover certain services or even stop the depopulation. However, there is a specific town that already resorted to a formula similar to that of Pinto with the same purpose: Sanxenxo, a municipality of Las Rías Baixas of 18,000 neighbors What sees how its population multiplies exponentially During the summer months. Precisely for that reason, a few years ago his City Council He had an idea To ensure that your health care is reinforced from June to September: offer free housing to doctors. The measure was supported by an agreement signed by the Consistory and the Sergas (the Galician service of Saúde) and contemplated that the municipality took charge of the rental of four homes during the summer months. The idea was the same: free house for doctors willing to reinforce attention in the centers of the area, although in its case the offer was temporary, of June 1 and September 30. The initiative worked A timebut It was abandoned This summer. The reason? Sergas can already cover places with their own doctors. In Sanxenxo the M2 for rent reached in June the € 22.8almost 33% more than a year ago. Images | Pinto City Council, Luis Meléndez (UNSPLASH) and Wikipedia (Zarateman) In Xataka | There is a Spain in which housing is built faster than homes are formed. Nor is she getting rid of the price increase

Sign up to Red Electrica for insufficient control

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On April 28 at 12:33:30, an energy zero disconnected the electrical systems of Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe. It was not a cyber attack, but a waterfall of surge and an insufficient control system, according to the Spanish government. The analysis committee report. Minister Sara Aagesen has presented 49 days after the blackout (half of the term established by Brussels) the result of an analysis of more than 300 GB of information carried out by the Government Committee. He Complete document He concludes that there was no unique cause, but a waterfall of failures that pushed the system beyond its limit, and mainly indicates Red Electric, who will answer Wednesday by making his own report public. The Government points to Red Electrica. During the morning of the incident, the system already showed an “atypical volatility” in tensions, according to the analysis. The situation worsened between 12:00 and 12:30, when the network suffered two major oscillations. The first, at 12:03, was an anomalous phenomenon of 0.6 Hz originated within the Peninsula. The second, at 12:19, was a more common oscillation at European level of 0.2 Hz but of a three -time amplitude. To stabilize the system, Electric Red reduced energy exports and increased the network’s misery, actions that, ironically, raised more the general tension of the system. A domino effect in 12 seconds. From 12:32, with the already tension network, the trigger occurred: a sequence of disconnections of large blocks of renewable generation. The report identifies three key events that started the catastrophe. At 12:32:57 355 MW were disconnected In a substation of Granada. At 12:33:16, approximately 730 MW was lost in a collecting substation in Badajoz. At 12:33:17 another 550 MW fell into a substation in Seville. Each of these disconnections caused the system tension to rise a little more. The more the tension rose, the more generators they disconnected to protect themselves, which in turn raised the tension, causing new disconnections. In just 12 seconds, the massive generation loss caused a frequency drop, which was a consequence, not the cause. At 12:33:19, The Iberian system lost synchronism with Europe And it was completely disconnected. Why the system fell. The underlying problem was a “insufficiency of dynamic control capabilities of tensions”, inability to manage surge, according to the committee. The report indicates that some of the first disconnections in Granada, Badajoz and Seville “would have occurred before the voltage thresholds established by the regulations”, one of the critical points of the collapse. Another critical point was that the large thermal plants that should act as a brake of the voltage increases did not do it with the necessary force because the number of synchronous plants coupled for this function was the lowest of the year. To top it off, some of the centrals that were operating “did not respond properly.” Instead of absorbing reactive energy to lower the network pressure, they acted anomalously, even producing it, “the opposite of what is required, contributing to increase the problem.” In the words of Ministry for Ecological Transitioncontrol resources were missing, “but not because they were missing in the country; there was a generation park rather than enough to respond.” Again, the committee points to the network operator. The measures on the table. To prevent an event from these dimensions, the report proposes to strengthen supervision to guarantee compliance with the regulations, regulate the legal regime of evacuation infrastructure, implement in an “immediate and priority” way a new service that allows renewables to participate in voltage control, invest in new synchronous compensators and increase interconnection with France. On the other hand, a cybersecurity investigation that, according to the Government, was “the largest in the history of Spain” with more than 75 experts, concluded that there was no cyber attack. However, deficiencies were identified, so the Committee recommends streamlining the application of European regulations, strengthening access controls and segmenting networks. On the Electric Red Roof. After the tough coup of the government, it only remains that Red Eléctrica published on Wednesday its report as a system operator to have the other point of view. For now, the Committee will put its findings in the knowledge of the National Markets and Competition Commission to, in its case, open the corresponding administrative procedures, with all guarantees, and all its consequences. ” Technical research is over, now begins the search for responsibilities. Image | Victor Romero (CC BY-C-SA 2.0) In Xataka | A town of Granada of one thousand inhabitants with 700 MW of renewable energy: the place where the blackout began

It is a sign that the system needs a redesign

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Last Monday, April 28, Spain, Portugal and southern France suffered a mass blackout. Given this situation many questions arose and still There is no main cause clear. However, in the following days, a paradox became evident: on May 1, the price of electricity in the wholesale market came to mark € 10 per MW/h, that is, generating electricity cost those who produced it. In negative? Negative prices arise when the supply of electricity far exceeds demand. On holidays or weekends, with low industrial activity and favorable meteorology, renewables – especially solar and wind – produce so much energy that there is nowhere to place it. As the electrical system must be in constant equilibrium between production and consumption, the generators get to pay to turn their energy on the network in order not to stop turbines or panels. According to five daysthis phenomenon is not as rare as it seems: it happens when the market is “overflowed” by the offer and cannot absorb all the electricity that is generated. So what does it mean? At the wholesale level, a negative price indicates that generators pay to produce electricity. This does not mean that the domestic consumer charges money for lighting the light, although in some indexed rates a very low or even null bill can be noted at certain times, such as They have explained In the economist. Also, for private operatorsnegative prices are a headache: they not only do not enter to produce, but they can also have to assume losses. For the electrical system, it also represents a challenge: overproduction requires a very fine management to avoid blackouts or infrastructure damage. An increasingly common phenomenon. In countries like Germany, the Netherlands or Finland They have registered Negative prices, especially in spring and autumn, when renewable production is high but demand has not yet reached its seasonal peak. This excess supply, driven by the rapid expansion of renewables, exceeds the storage capacity and flexibility of the electricity grid. The result: producers are forced to pay to inject energy into the system. While it may seem good for the consumer, it actually raises a great challenge for the stability of the electrical system. The solution to this complex problem goes through a combination of improvements in storage infrastructure, How are they doing in Finlandgreater interconnection between countries, as with Denmarkand a more dynamic management of energy demand, as the case of France and loads them in its nuclear power plants. Can it be a problem for renewables? Paradoxically, renewables – clarity for energy transition – are also victims of negative prices. When they repeat too many times: Investment in new projects deter or force production to stop, which can damage equipment or waste resources. In addition, another technical challenge is evidenced in these scenarios: the stability of the network. The thermal plants contributed “inertia”, that is, a way of sustaining the balance of the system. Today, technologies such as Grid forming And synthetic inertia try to compensate for that lack of backup, but they are still in deployment phase, According to the economist. Symptom of something else. Negative prices are not an anecdote: they are a signal. They indicate that the electrical system needs to be urgently transformed to integrate more renewable without collapsing. It is necessary A storage improvement, Intelligent and flexible networksand A reform in the electricity market that adapts to the new paradigm. Image | Unspash and Pexels Xataka | We have just lived the first great blackout of the renewable era. The debate is now how to get the last one

It is a sign that security systems have worked

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He Great blackout today He has aroused the alarms in the environments of some of the country’s refineries. The refinery of Repsol in A Coruña and that of Pentronor in Muskiz They have emitted blacks blacks during today’s noon. In both cases, from the refineries it has been called to tranquility. A security measure. As reported by the companies that own refineries, the smoke was due not to a problem but to the proper functioning of the security system of these centrals. “All security measures have been automatically activated, which has caused the output of black smoke through the three torches,” Petronor detailed In a press release. The cause of this incident has been in the blackout that, for hours, has affected the peninsular network, leaving almost the entire country without electricity. In the case of the Biscay Refinery, the blackout has forced at 12:30 to the off of all units. According to The company has detailedthe torches are necessary security measures when it comes to releasing pressure in certain circumstances in this type of facilities. The fact that they have activated is precisely a sign that everything has worked as it should. Constant monitoring. Beyond the proper functioning of this type of industrial complexes, the possible impact on health and the environment is, naturally, in the center of the concern of many. In this regard, the company has stressed There are several parameters They are monitored to ensure that the torches work at all times correctly: flows, temperature and even the appearance of the flame are among these factors. The flame of the torches is due to the fact that, precisely to avoid problems derived from the emission to the atmosphere of certain gases, these have to be burned. The peninsular blackout. The Iberian Peninsula has suffered today one of the most notorious blackheads In recent years In Europe. A blackout which has also affected some areas of southern France. While Spain and Portugal gradually recover the supply, there is little that is known about the origin of the cut, which began at 12:30 noon and from which it began to be left in some past areas 3:00 p.m. In Xataka | Light has gone throughout Spain: what to do in this situation and how to keep you informed Image | Petronor

If it serves something to sign up for the Robinson list

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Unwanted advertising remains, in 2025, one of the great daily inconvenience. Text messages that interrupt the desktop, untimely commercial calls or promotional emails that sneak without permission. The advertising exclusion lists They seek to reduce that constant bombardment, And in Spain there are already more than three million people registered in them. You may have signed up for one of these lists waiting for peace of mind, but the messages are still coming. So what are exactly? Are they fulfilling their function? Or do we expect more than you can really offer? In this article we analyze, with the help of expert voices, how these exclusion systems work and to what extent they manage to fulfill their promise. What are advertising exclusion lists “They are services where you can register freely, and what they allow you is to stop receiving commercial communications”, He explains Beatriz RomeroICT law consultant at Secure & It. It details that the user can record the specific channels for which he does not want to receive advertising, such as email, telephone or even domicile, and those that companies must exclude from their campaigns will be precisely. It is very important to take into account a detail that can go unnoticed: As the consumer portal of the Community of Madrid remembersthese services allow to block communications of companies with which there is no contractual relationship. That is, companies that are not a client or that, even if they do not have express consent to send commercial information. The Robinson list It exists since 1993, when it focused exclusively on stopping advertising by postal mail. For more than a decade, however, it extended its reach to emails, phone calls and SMS messages. Any natural person can sign up for free From its websiteincluding minor representatives. Registration may take up to two months to become fully effective, and automatically renews each year unless the decline is requested. The Robinson list is managed by Adigital (Spanish Association of the Digital Economy), an organization that Promotes digital economy in Spain and represents more than 500 companies. Although the service is completely free for citizens, Companies must generally pay to access consultations. There are costs without cost for microenterprises that consult up to 30,000 records per year, but for those that exceed that figure, prices vary depending on the size of the company: from 1,900 euros per year for microenterprises to 5,500 euros for large companies. There are also additional bonds for large volumes of consultations, which can reach 37,500 euros per year for 2,400 million records. In addition, the list distinguishes between two types of entities: advertisers, who consult the list for their own campaigns, and service providerswho do it in third parties. In this second case, rates are, for some reason, higher: 6,450 euros per year to consult up to 600,000 records. Since the end of January 2025, the Stop Advertising listan initiative of the Spanish Association for Digital Privacy. Beatriz Romero points out that this new list “expands all those media in which you do not want to receive communications”, including social networks and messaging applications such as WhatsApp. In addition to blocking advertising in general, the Stop Advertising list allows Adjust the filter by concrete sectors: For example, you can avoid advertising related to insurance or telephony. By default, all sectors are blocked, unless the user indicates otherwise. Those responsible for the Stop Advertising list note that your initiative It does not come from the business environment, but is oriented to the protection of the citizen. They also underline that the Robinson list is managed by Adigital, an association that, they highlight, represents companies linked to the digital and advertising sector. Do they really work? José Manuel Sendíndirector of the Master in Digital Law of the International University of La Rioja (UNIR)recognize that “They work, although they are not infallible. Their effectiveness depends, in part, on the commitment of companies to consult them before launching advertising campaigns. ” The main problem, he points out, is that many companies subcontract third parties that work with unreliable databases, which leaves holes where unwanted messages sneak into. The main cause of frustration among users is that “large companies subcontract to third parties commercial work that in turn acquire large databases that will later be used in their commercial actions,” says Sendin. That causes it to be very difficult to know if the data is no longer included in the exclusion lists. “Although it is an obligation by companies, it is also true that many do not consult these lists or are not discharged. In the end, they are subscription services that have a cost for companies, then There are companies that do not pay that cost And they risk being achieved by sanctions, ”says Romero. When the lists are not enough If despite being registered in an exclusion list you continue to receive advertising, there are steps that you can follow. The first is to respond directly to the company indicating that you do not want more communications. If the problem persists, there are two ways: go to Self -controlthe advertising self -regulation agency in Spain, for mediation, or submit a claim to the Spanish data protection agency (AEPD). “We must provide evidence that we have indicated to the company that we are on the Robinson list and that we want them not to contact us again, ”says Sendin. screenshots, emails or call records can be key. From the Community of Madrid they also recommend Keep all high or low communication as support for possible claims. These lists are not a whim: they are backed by the Organic Data Protection Law (LOPDGDD), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the General Telecommunications Law (LGT). Article 23 of the LOPDGDD explicitly foresees the existence of advertising exclusion systems, Romero details. Besides, AEPD itself remembers that citizens can exercise rights such as opposition, suppression or limitation of the processing of their data before companies. 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How to translate a sign, sign or any text with chatgpt, even asking you to explain it to you

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Let’s tell you How to translate texts and posters with Chatgptand thus take advantage of its image recognition characteristics. This is something that better or worse you can also do with other alternatives, such as COPILOT, Gemini, Grok either Deepseekbut we are going to focus on Openai’s. We have done the tests in the mobile version, but you can also do it in chatgpt in the browser or in the computer application. In addition, it is a function that is available for both free and payment users, although perhaps payment receives more advanced summaries and explanations. In any case, now that artificial intelligence is becoming a tool that we get used to carrying with us, in this context it can be very useful when you travel. You can translate texts with a large amount of languages, and even ask for summaries of them. All you need is have Internet connection To be able to use it. Translate texts and signs with chatgpt The first thing you have to do is click on the option to attach content to the message you are going to write in Chatgpt. Here, you can Add the photo of a text or poster or use the camera To take it out in the event that the text is in front of you. When you add an image, do not send it directly to the chat. You have to accompany her from a petition Or prompt asking him to translate what he puts. Remember that you have to use natural language, you can ask you to translate what you put in the photo in several ways. When you ask him to tell you what he puts in the photo you have sent him, Chatgpt will explain everything. It will give you A translation of the textand depending on the version you use will give you context and will detail everything you see necessary for you to understand it well. You can also Ask him to make you a summary Fast or detailed what it puts in the text. Thus, in addition to translating it you can also summarize it in the event that it is a very broad text, and you will understand it well. In Xataka Basics | Seven tips to take advantage of the chatgpt photo editor

Manus is the Chinese startup of AI that has just launched a 200 dollars a month. It is a bad sign for the industry

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Some called him the other “moment Deepseek“From China. This new model, called Manusquickly became viral for its ability to do deep analysis looking for sources of information and then synthesize clear but detailed answers on any issue. It was a direct competitor of OpenAI and its “Deep Research” modeand after being available limited and free, now its creators have decided to market this product big. With subscriptions, of course. Manus. Although its creators describe it as an AI agent, in reality Manus is fundamentally aimed at giving more meditated responses and after a deep analysis of various sources of information. It is true that this process automates, but does the same as Other “AI agents” such as Openai Deep Research mode and also those who also offer Claude or Gemini. Its performance, of course, is comparable to that of these services, and was initially available (under invitation) for free. That is over. Face subscriptions. As they point out In Bloomberg Manus now offers a public version of payment for $ 39 per month to be able to use its benefits with 3,900 credits, but also has a higher plan of 199 dollars per month for version with even less limits (19,900 credits) when it comes to exploiting those deep research modes. Taking into account that the service has just appeared, those prices of course They are aggressive and even controversial. Be careful with this. Manus’s decision is surprising for several reasons. To start, it is a company with hardly any market penetration and practically unknown to the general public. Come from good 200 dollars a month It seems to risk sinning for excess confidence. Not only that: the worrying thing is that this can be the canary in the AI ​​mine. This is: a precedent of what comes to us, with subscriptions of business companies that ask us for true monets for services than more reputed ones (such as Openai) also offer and without a clear differential factor. Committed virality. With the Internet boom and social networks virality was achieved with free massive products that were monetized Through advertising. Google and Facebook nurtured those models, but AI seems to depend on the freeemium model: we can access basic functions, but we do want to take advantage of the models, we have to go through a subscription model. And there is a clear reason for it. The generative AI is very expensive. The cost of each consultation we made to chatbots of AI is comparatively much greater that for example have traditional search engines. Training these models is also exceptionally expensive –It is estimated That GPT-4 training cost about $ 100 million-and you have to try to recover the investment. IA companies know how to do it: increasingly faces. And we are getting used to subscribing to everything. With the “era Google” We did not pay for the product but we were the productbut little by little payment subscriptions have been taking force with the rise of content streaming. We are already very accustomed to paying for services we use, and AI wants to take advantage of that trend. The problem, as is the case with the aforementioned streaming segment, is that There must be differentiating factors to bet on a payment service and not for another. And there Manus has it especially difficult, because he competes with very reputed models and that can be perceived as more confidence for users. No own model. Manus is a “Wrapper“, a platform that is built from the functions of other AI models such as Claude, from Anthropic, or Qwen, from Alibaba. It does not depend on itself. Its creators do not seem to have their own model, but even having the problem is that they will not be able to invest in it the amount of time, money and resources (as talent) necessary for the models to be especially remarkable. Too much competition. But Manus faces true giants. It is a situation analogous to which Anthropic and his chatbot claude livethat do not have the financial muscle of Google, Microsoft or even OpenAi. Manus has both that competition in the US and especially important rivals in China. There Deepseek is the main protagonist, but Alibaba, Baidu or Tencent They will not let a newcomer steal their wallet easily. In Xataka | Now the competition to overcome Depseek is also fought in China herself: Alibaba has just announced QWen2.5-max

It is a sign of all the problems that corner the Tagus basin

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Yesterday, the Manzanares S riverIt could significantly The high risk threshold of overflow in Madrid. It is not just an “alert”: the river It has overflowed In the brown, the connection branch between the M-30 and the M-40 was cut for hours, but there are Almost another dozen roads that are still cut by the storm. As it happened In Seville a few days ago, In Guadalajara last week either It is happening in Toledo Right now, it is very striking. Above all, because it is something that goes far beyond Manzanares. What is happening? What are we seeing? And it is that the Manzanares is only a sign of endless problems that face the basins of the Tagus and that of the Guadiana: rivers that usually carry very little flow and that, suddenly, channel a huge amount of water. And, as we said yesterday, the problem is never just the water that falls: the problem is, above all, that water has to go somewhere. But it is not easy. For many reasons: the first is that ‘natural’, these types of floods are usually accompanied by landslides, phenological realignments and other geological phenomena. The rest, unfortunately, are of human origin. For decades, we have been building around the channels as if the water they carry out all the water they can carry. We have narrowed the alluvial plains, we have built In flood areaswe have raised concrete structures that today (with these accumulated) are unable to contain the strength of the rivers. Manzanares is news because it is in Madrid, yes; But it is also news because it will affect hundreds of thousands of people; And, above all, it is news because it is a very clear example of what is happening in the center of the Peninsula: problems, many problems. The great paradox, again. As We said a few days agothe great paradox that brings us climate change is that we have to prepare to survive periods of increasingly long and intense droughtwhile we plan infrastructure and plans against increasingly intense floods. Talavera is a good example. According to the Center for Public Works Studies and Experimentation From the Government of Spain, the average flow of the Tagus in March as it passes through the Toledo city is 188 m3/s. Right now it is 750, now has overflowed at many points and the City Council is convinced that it will be up For the rain. And what do we do? That is the big question. Because, As the meteorologist Jordi Carbó explained“We have fallen into a difficult dynamic to break.” Although it is true that the ECMWF Start drawing some deceleration of rainfall, “forecasts prologize the rains until the beginning of April.” That is, “it is very likely that in this month of March there will be excellent precipitation records” and, in a context in which March It is becoming more and more rainyit is crucial to take it into account. But right now it only remains to remember. Today the urgent is to take action, displace people who can be affected and contain the damage. Tomorrow the important thing is to take it into account and put ourselves to work so that the next flood caught us prepared. Image | ECMWF | CGM Madrid In Xataka | It has rained so much in Spain that the reservoirs are up. And still nobody wants to remove water restrictions

It is more expensive to buy it second -hand than order it and sign up for the waiting list

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He Xiaomi Su7 Ultra The Chinese electric car market has placed up legs. It has double merit if we take into account that we are talking about the country where the competition for the electric car is the fiercest and because we talk about a company that launched its first electric car just over a year ago. But the arrival of the Sporting version of the Electric Berlina cHina has burst any type of expectation. Its price and benefits (it is sold by a fraction of what a Porsche Taycan is worth but, on paper, it offers better data) have made the reserves jump through the air. The company said they expected to sell about 10,000 units this year of the most sporty electric model. In 10 minutes they had added 7,000 reservations of the car. In two hours they had covered the quota of reservations. Now, speculators want to make their August with the new Deportivo. Skipping the waiting list The information brings it Carnewschina. The portal specialized in news about the Chinese car market explains that the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra can already be found in second -hand pages for prices ranging from 548,900 to 648,800 yuan (69,322 to 81,939 euros). Is it a lot? Very much, in fact. The car has been released by 529,900 yuan (66,935 euros) in its most basic version but there are ads that place the price some 15,000 euros above. That is, there are units that are sold to 122% of their departure price. The units barely reflect 10 or 20 kilometers of use, which clearly indicates that the buyer has put it on the market as soon as they receive the car and, in this way, to earn money at the expense of those who are interested in the car but have no intention of waiting for the waiting list. We already know this way of acting and only takes effect when there is a demand that the producer cannot assimilate. For example, in 2022 we saw how the newly enrolled Tesla put themselves on the market to 11,000 euros above of the original car sales price. The really striking thing is that it is in China, whose supply of electric cars is very wide, where this type of phenomenon occurs. The news is a blow on the table by Xiaomi that intends Put 300,000 units on the market of its electric cars this year. It is a very high figure if we consider that the company began deliveries of its first vehicle in April 2024. At the same time it reflects the very hard competition facing Western companies in China. The German luxury vehicle is no longer perceived as such And Chinese customers are turning their heads to the local market that they consider more innovative and interesting than vehicles that reach them from the outside. Photo | Lei Jun in X In Xataka | The Xiaomi Su7 also expires in autonomy: the first tests under real conditions place him above Tesla or Byd

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