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In silence, an author is selling more than anyone else in Spain and captivating streaming: Elísabet Benavent

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Elisabet Benavent has just surpassed five million copies sold in Spain, which places her among the most read fiction writers in the country in the last decade, a success comparable to that of much more established names on the Spanish publishing scene. However, while his books occupy bookstore windows and Amazon’s best-seller lists, his name barely appears in cultural supplements or debates about the state of Spanish fiction. The perfect moment. The story of Benavent It begins on January 3, 2013, when ‘In Valeria’s Shoes’ was uploaded to Amazon for 2.68 euros. There was no plan or strategy: it was the resource of those who did not have a large publishing house behind them. But it was the ideal time for self-publishing: Kindle Direct Publishing It had arrived in Spain just two years earlier, in 2011, and digital self-publishing still carried the stigma of being “the alternative for those who can’t make it.” But at that time the publishing ecosystem was changing. Travel companions. Benavent was not the only one. Javier Castillo, today one of the most read and adapted thriller authors, began by self-publishing. Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, winner of the Planeta Prize in 2020, also went through Amazon before the big publishers signed her. The pattern of “success in digital, subsequent legitimation via traditional publishing” is also repeated with Benavent: Suma de Letras (Penguin Random House label) later opted for the ‘Valeria’ saga, but by then Benavent was no longer a hidden talent, but a product validated by tens of thousands of readers. We said above that Benavent has achieved success without appearing in cultural supplements, but success is already measured in another way: through Amazon reviews and recommendation algorithms, not with what established critics say. However, despite the dizzying sales figures, the target audience of the romance genre (mostly women aged 25 to 45) has historically been ignored by traditional literary criticism, and what millions of female readers read does not count as a cultural phenomenon. Constant writer. But… what is its success due to? TO twenty-three novels in eleven years: We are not talking about an isolated stroke of luck or a unique work that triggers the phenomenon, but rather about a narrative machinery that works with the regularity typical of a franchise. The ‘Valeria’ saga sold 1.2 million copies, but it was the subsequent trilogies (‘My Choice’), the bilogies (‘Silvia’, ‘Songs and Memories’) and the independent titles (‘A Perfect Tale’, ‘Esnob’) that consolidated the empire. The formula. Very recognizable: urban female protagonists, in their thirties, professionals with work or sentimental crises and who suffer from contemporary emotional conflicts. There is no formal innovation or narrative experimentation, because Benavent does not intend to reinvent anything, but rather to use the tools of the romantic genre in accessible and direct novels: agile dialogues, humor, happy endings. It’s formula literature executed effectively, and its audience knows exactly what to expect. And the highlight is Benavent’s own constant and close activity on social networks under the nickname BetaFlirt. There she shares her creative process and generates a community of faithful who tirelessly recommend her on networks like TikTok. Netflix adaptations. They have exponentially accelerated their success: ‘Valeria’, which already has four seasons and was followed by ‘We were songs’; ‘A Perfect Tale’ was number 1 in 2023 for weeks. And book sales accompany: These can be triggered 40% after the premiere of its audiovisual versions. But it is a relationship that goes in two directions: the platforms also benefit, having identified in the romantic novel a mine of content, with audiences already convinced and without having to invest too much (Prime Video did it with Mercedes Ron and her ‘Guilty’ trilogy). The abyss As the lists of the best-selling books in Spainthe gap between commercial success and critical recognition has widened into an abyss. Thrillers, romantic fantasy, youth sagas: everything that really moves the Spanish publishing market takes place in a parallel dimension, different from the one supposedly analyzed by cultural criticism. How many authors sell hundreds of thousands of copies without any cultural supplement mentioning them? How many entire genres function as million-dollar industries, regardless of major promotions? Elisabet Benavent is not an anomaly, and that is the real crux of this matter. Header | Ariaglz on Wikipedia

Silence is no longer a right, it is a privilege

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Last year I left almost 300 dogs in some AirPods Pro. The only reason I didn’t settle for the regular ones was the noise cancellation. I didn’t buy listening to music better. I bought not to listen. On the subway I see people with 15 euro headphones that must filter as much as a shower curtain. The noise of the carriage, the street musicians, the loud tiktoks of the abnormal next door who wants to make them sound. All that is for those who cannot afford to delete it.. Years ago I worked in the kitchen of a fast food chain. Eight hours of voiceovers, irons hissing, fryers bubbling, customers screaming. Then came my first apartment in Madrid, the one I could afford: I could hear which channel my neighbor was watching with complete clarity. I better not even talk about his occasional pinches. The noise always accompanied me. That noise was a reminder of my place. There was a time when noise was synonymous with power. A roaring V8, the keys of a typewriter, a landline breaking the silence of a living room. Today the noise is no longer impressive. It is imposed. The engines, the construction sites, the garbage trucks, the unscrupulous subway and home neighbors carry it with you. Silence, on the other hand, is what you have to earn. Cities have been divided into acoustic layers. Near airports, apartments are worth less. Next to a highway, rents go down because the windows shake. In neighborhoods with perpetual construction, passing ambulances and glass containers emptying at one in the morning live those who cannot leave. Those who can pay for triple glazing, good insulation, acoustic studies prior to purchase and doors that weigh as much as a car. At airports, VIP lounges are not VIP because they have faster WiFi, but because you don’t have to deal with the noise and hustle and bustle. And on the AVE, the silent wagon It doesn’t cost more money, but there is only one. Silence is what is most scarce. Because we’re not just talking about decibels. We talk about being able to choose. To be objective, my gray-haired neighbor didn’t make that much noise. What was unbearable was the imposition: I couldn’t stop listening to it, even when I really didn’t feel like it. I paid to live there and yet I couldn’t demand silence. With AirPods I bought something else: the ability to decide what enters my world for a while and what doesn’t. That is true modern luxury. Status is no longer displayed with loud cars or jingling clocks. It is exhibited, or rather, hidden, with silence. Live without being interrupted, without vibrationswithout foreign voices passing through walls that are too thin. Being able to close the world whenever you feel like it. My AirPods do not filter noise. They filter reality. And that capacity, today, costs money. In Xataka | There was a day when getting on a plane was beautiful, comfortable and aspirational. Today the majority already hates him Featured image | omid armin

Nexperia China has been trying to contact the Dutch headquarters for days. The only response has been absolute silence

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After the escalation of tension, andThe Dutch government suspended the order to control Nexperia and Nexperia China resumed shipments of critical chips. The European automotive industry could breathe and everything was being resolved, everything except the relationship between the two Nexperias. The conflict has left an internal war that does not seem to have an easy or quick solution. what’s happening. They count in South China Morning Post that Wingtech, the company that owns Nexperia in China (we will call it Nexperia China for simplicity), has been trying to contact Nexperia Netherlands for days and has not received any response. Nexperia China called this silence “deeply regrettable and disconcerting.” Take control. Nexperia China’s intentions are not simply to have a chat. a few days ago They published a statement in their WeChat account in which they assured that “control of Nexperia has not returned to its rightful owner” and expressed their intention to use “all legal avenues” to achieve this. It seems that in Holland they do not agree with these statements and have chosen silence in response. Nexperia Netherlands. His latest official statement It is from November 19, the same day that the Dutch government announced the suspension of the control order over the company. In it, they noted that Nexperia China had stopped “operating within the established corporate governance framework and are ignoring legal instructions from Nexperia’s global management” and provided several examples, such as creating unauthorized bank accounts for clients to make payments, sending letters to clients “with false information” and misappropriating corporate seals. Current status. The conflict put the European automotive industry in checkwhich depends on Nexperia chips for electronic modules and control units of many vehicles produced on the old continent. The Dutch government revoked the order and China lifted the veto it imposed in response. Chips are flowing into factoriesbut the conflict has left a deep scar on the company whose solution seems far away. Recently Nexperia China has appointed Sophie Shen Xinjia as president expert in legal advice and law graduate, so everything indicates that there will be a legal battle for control of the company. Image | Nexperia In Xataka | China has so many electric cars running on its streets that it is going to use them to generate energy for homes

“Silence” The noise of food in our head

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After several years using semaglutida drugs (such as Ozempic either Wegovy) For weight loss, we have gradually discovering how they exercise this function. These medications, initially developed as diabetes treatment, emulate an important hormone related to the digestive process. But there are still more details that we continue discovering. Silence the noise. A study He has found indications that Ozempic and the rest of the drug -based drugs are able to silence the “noise of the food.” This means that treatment is able to reduce obsessive and intrusive thoughts related to food and eat. Explaining operation. Biochemical mechanisms behind the effects of Semaglutida They were already known. This compound is an agonist of the GLP-1 receptors (peptide similar to glucagon 1), that is, they act as a kind of Analogue of this hormonemaking our body think that we are segregating it. This hormone fulfills two functions, each related to one of the clinical uses of this drug. The hormone is secreted when we eat and transmits information to the pancreas so that it begins to segregate insulin. That is why treatment is useful for glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. The second hormone function is fulfilled in the brain, and that is that the LPG-1 is responsible for notifying the brain that we have eaten in order to generate the feeling of satiety. This would be at least one of the fundamentals behind the use of semaglutida as a formula to lose weight. Expanding our knowledge. The study was conducted by researchers from Novo Nordiskthe Danish pharmacist responsible for developing the semaglutida and therefore of the manufacture of medications based on the formula such as Ozempic and Wegovy and an external market for market research. The analysis was based on a survey of 550 participants, most women and with an average age of 53 years, all users of weight loss treatment. Most of the participants indicated having consumed psemaglutida for at least four months, and also a large majority indicated an initial weight of at least 92 kg at the beginning of the treatment. Four times less. According to Indicates the responsible team From the new study, the proportion of participants who “experienced constant thoughts about food” went from 62% to 16% throughout the study. The proportion of those who considered that “they spent too long thinking about food” went from 63% to 15%. According to the team responsible for the study, the “uncontrollable thoughts on food” also descended, moving from a 53% prevalence to one of 15%. The portion of participants also descended that they considered that thoughts on food distracted them from day -to -day activities, from 47% to 15%. The investigation has been presented at the annual EASD meeting (European Association for the Study of Diabetes), In Vienna. Placebo effect? There are some details that suggest caution when interpreting the results. The first is that we are faced with a survey and not before an experiment with a control group and randomized allocation of the participants between control group and the experimental group. This implies that we cannot rule out that what is observed is simply due to placebo effect or some other form of autosugestion. In the Press note It is pointed out that three of the researchers responsible for the new study are also employees of Pharmaceuticals Novo Nordisk. This does not necessarily remain validity to the study, but transparency is an indispensable requirement in this type of work. The study, for now, has not gone through the revision process of peers of those who are published in scientific journals. In Xataka | Novo Nordisk has found the formula to recover the profitability of Ozempic: fire 9,000 employees Image | Chemist4u / Xataka with Gemini

In silence, Morocco is becoming a peculiar economic power: the "Türkiye" of the teeth

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In recent years, Morocco is becoming a proper name in several sectors. His relevance in the geopolitical panorama, economic and energetic It is now out of any doubt, but also wants to do A elbow hole in the tourism sector. Rather, to bites, since a trend that has taken traction between tourists is to travel to Morocco to visit the country and return home with a new mouth. And has made Spanish dentists raise an eyebrow. All inclusive tooth tourism. When we travel, many opt for complete packages that guide the experience. What is happening in countries like Morocco is that travel agencies and dental clinics themselves offer all inclusive packages that combine everything we need to enjoy both the country and extra services. These packages include flights, cultural experiences and, to finish off, Dental treatment. If you have ever had to undergo some mouth treatment, you will know that they have been between previous analysis, the procedure itself and the reviews, but these clinics highlight their ability to perform the treatment in a few days. The goal is to arrive, receive medical attention, do tourism and return home. In Xataka The Canary Islands will tend an underwater cable to Morocco. If Morocco decides to extend it, Spain will have a problem Usual treatments. They make it clear that they have 3D scanners, CAD/CAM technology (scanning tools, virtual design and automated manufacturing thanks to 3D printers) and the specialized personnel necessary to carry out the procedures. Which is it? Well, some quite helped and “from here I catch you, here I kill you”, and others somewhat more complex: Aesthetic veneers. Dental implants. Crowns and complete reconstructions. Whitening Orthodontics. {“videoid”: “x8px49v”, “Autoplay”: True, “Title”: “Antibiotics are ceasing to be effective and the problem is superbacteria”, “Tag”: “Webedia-prod”, “Duration”: “327”} Price and record time. And, apart from the times, if you have had to touch your mouth you will know perfectly what it costs. Prices vary depending on what treatment we do, but the most common seems to be the veneers. They are what we can see with the naked eye in a smile and may, influenced by the media pressure and beauty standards With perfect smiles On television, Tiktok and InstagramIt is also the most popular. It is estimated that the prices of this procedure in Morocco are between 70 and 80% cheaper than in countries such as the United States or the United Kingdom. It all depends on the material (composite or porcelain veneers can be made, for example), but there are also couple offers with resin veneers composed of 1,250 euros per person … or 2,000 euros for two people. Not only Morocco. It must be said that Morocco It is not the only destination that we can see publicized in networks or the web if we want to make any touch -up. Türkiye (also popular for other aesthetic procedures) and Albania have been one of the Main destinations for dental tourism. The veneers, again, are the protagonists, with cheaper prices than in other markets. The arguments are exactly the same as we see in the case of Morocco: “A recklessness “. The big question is what Spanish dentists think. And the answer is evident: not very well. The General Council of Dentists published on July 1 a release On this type of tourism, recommending that we be cautious about this type of advertising. The main argument that wields against these dental treatments Express is that the necessary time is not dedicated to it. In Xataka There are young Spaniards earning $ 10,000 a month in the Australian coal mines. But everything that shines is not gold All treatment entails risks, and if the oral state of each person is not correctly evaluated, short and long -term inconveniences, such as dental sensitivity, gum problems and even dental loss may arise. Traveling to another country to undergo a health process is not an adventure, it is a recklessness, ”says Oscar Castro, president of the Council. In addition, it ensures that leisure and health cannot be mixed and that, if something happens with the pieces that the patient has put in Morocco, who is responsible. In Xataka | Spain has been an untouchable power of Mediterranean tourism for years. A country steps on your heels: Türkiye Image | CAROLINE LM (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news In silence, Morocco is becoming a peculiar economic power: the “Türkiye” of the teeth It was originally posted in Xataka by Alejandro Alcolea .

China has been cultivating Stem talent in silence for 40 years. Today has the most coveted quarry on the planet

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For decades China has been the great factory of the world, but in parallel the country silently prepared another revolution: that of its Stem engineers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Chinese leadership in graduates in these technical disciplines is overwhelming, and every year produces about 3.5 million engineers among which there is a new elite: that of AI engineers. China triumphs with its long -term plan. It all started in the “post-mao” era. After his death and the arrival of Deng Xiaoping, the country suffered a remarkable reform that began with his “four modernizations“And among them, to restore education with a special focus on science and technology. The president highlighted in 1988 how” science and technology are the main productive forces, “and encouraged a unique change. Hai gui. In the mid -80s China began to send a huge number of students to Western countries. The objective: to learn in their universities and achieve training in fields such as engineering, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Those students then returned to China in a phenomenon that has been called “Hai Gui” (“sea turtles”). They managed to inspire the following generations when returning to Chinese academic institutions, which gradually became some of the most advanced in the world. Chinese elite universities. It happened for example with the University of Tshinghua, which between 2013 and 2016 was already the university with the highest number of relevant scientific studies (cited) according to a study of The Economist. Behind were prestigious US institutions such as Stanford or MIT. As I explained Yang Bin, vice president of the University of Tsinghua, “those intellectuals (the” hai gui “) played a very important role, changing all the climate, raising the standards.” Money and more money to educate. The long -term plan of the Asian giant has worked, and today they leave their universities 3.57 million Stem graduates a year. In the US the figure is four times lower: 820,000. Education spending It has not dropped from 4% of its GDP In the last 20 years, and the incentives for Chinese academics to publish studies are notable: if they are of great quality and they are published in Western institutions, They can enter $ 100,000 By study. And the AI ​​is now a fundamental focus. Between 2012 and 2022 the budget spending of the Chinese government in education increased from 2.2 billion yuan (268,167 million euros) to 4.85 billion yuan (591,187 million euros), more than double. Several Chinese elite universities They have announced His intention to expand his curricula with the objective of prioritizing the strategic needs of the country, and here the AI ​​- who You start teaching in schools– It’s key. Ten years projects. In that article of The Economist, they also reveal how since 1995 the Chinese government has initiated various projects to revolutionize its educational environment. The call came first PROJECT 211 which aimed to “prepare approximately 100 universities for the 21st century.” Later they were replaced with the so-called “Double First-Class Construction”, and under Xi Jinping in 2016, which further promoted technical certifications and high training of Chinese technical universities. IA superstars. We have four good examples of all that great reform. Shengjia Zhao, Hongyu Ren, Jiahui Yu and Shuchao Bi are Superestrellas of the AI. Especially after target “Straight” in Openai’s house and steal them tempting them with stratospheric salaries. They all have something important in common: their training. Talent theft. Zuck confirmed these days in an internal statement Filtrated by CNBC Those signings. There were 11 engineers, 7 of which come from Openai. In that statement, the formation of a new division of “superintelligence” led by Alexandr Wang was also confirmed. And he, in turn, welcomed four of those new companions we were talking about. Who they are. Their names are not known, but these four engineers have had a very relevant role in the development of AI models in OpenAi. In the internal statement itself there is talk of your work in Openai, which has been the following: Jiahui Yu-Co-Creator of O3, O4-MINI, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4O. He previously directed the perception team in OpenAi and multimodal co -directed in Gemini. SHENGJIA ZHAO-Co-Creader of Chatgpt, GPT-4, all MINI, 4.1 and O3 models. He previously directed synthetic data in OpenAI. It has appeared In some of OpenAi’s product presentations. Shuchao Bi: GPT-4O and O4-MINI voice mode co-creator. He previously directed the subsequent multimodal formation in Openal. Hongyu Ren: GPT-4o cooker, 4O-mini, O1-mini, O3-mini, 03 and O4-mini. He previously directed a postformation group in Openal. 100% Chinese talent. But what is striking here is that as they point out In SCMPthese four engineers share a similar and very significant academic trajectory. All of them trained in prestigious Chinese technical universities, and then continue their studies in academic entities in the United States. They graduate in China, they do doctorate in the US. Zhao graduated from the University of Tshinghua in 2016 and then computer study at Stanford University. Ren graduated at the University of Beijing in 2018 and continued studying at Stanford from 2018 to 2023. Yu was titled at the School of Young Talents from the University of Science and Technology of China and then doctorate in computer science at the University of Illinois Urbano-Champaign. And Bi graduated from the University of Zhejiang and then doctorate in mathematics at the University of California in Berkeley. China is the great world engineer quarry. The Asian giant is also in terms of its academic dimension. It is by far the largest world producer of graduates in Stem races (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). They know that well in the US, because Chinese students are the ones who take the highest share of foreign students studying or complete their studies in the US: 20% of all of them come from China. And above all, of AI engineers. A report of the Paulgo Institute of Chicago (USA) recently revealed that 38% of AI experts that develop their professional career in the US They have formed in Chinese universities. … Read more

A type of content is devouring all streaming platforms in silence: the anime

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The Anime It became a large more ingredient of our cultural offer. No one is surprising that an anime feature film reaches the billboards, which is the second or third part of a saga that only the otakus knows but becomes The most watched premiere of the weekend. The anime has one of the most delivered and consistent fandoms in the world. It has nothing strange than the platforms of streamingalways attentive to any new success to which the tooth will have, have increased spectacularly in recent years their anime catalog fund. New mainstream. Since the first anime that triumphed in the West (‘Akira’, ‘Champions’, ‘Dragon Ball’, ‘Ranma’ …) decades have passed. The figures that manage the new successes (‘One Piece’, ‘Attack on the Titans’) show those of those productions, which already marked millions of young people in their day: now, generation Z is that of the anime, and its aesthetics and narrative have become the new new mainstream. That is, we are willing to review a few figures that define a cultural panorama dominated in large part by the anime. Crazy growth. The Parrot Analytics Market Studies firm Recently estimated that the average demand of the United States of anime in streaming It grew 176% between 2019 and 2024, and this is undoubtedly due to a greater amount of offer (in that period the number of anime programs tripled). But also to the increase of occasional spectators, which are those who are giving a renewed impulse to Japanese animation outside the fans circles. For the anime industry, all this means income from 27,000 million euros a year. A for the anime. A quick look at platform catalogs allows you to distinguish to what extent the anime is important in its programming. The first one is betting strongly on classics such as ‘Dragon Ball’ (licensed exclusively outside Asia the new franchise series, ‘Daima’) or ‘One Piece’, whose adaptation Live Action It has been one of the great successes of the platform in recent months. In the United States, in addition, Hulu (owned by Disney) plants face with abundant licenses, but out of there, in countries such as Spain, Netflix and Prime Video are distributed (they often share) the great successes: ‘Death Note’, ‘Guardians of the night’, ‘Naruto’ and many others. Specific services. And to this are added the dedicated platforms, a privilege of which only audiovisual subgenres with a more delivered fandom, such as terror or anime. In the case of anime we have above all to Crunchyrollwhich was born as a fan project in 2006 that spread anime without permission, but whose rapid acceptance led him to start closing deals with distributors to issue anime legally. Owned by Sony since 2021, he absorbed an important competitor, funimation, and has More than 120 million registered users. Other important streaming services exclusively of anime are Restrocush or Hidive, to which the abundant Fast thematic channels are added that emit 24 hours of series such as’ Pokémon ‘,’Conan detective‘ either ‘Inazuma Eleven‘. Everything is anime. Another important sign of how the anime has become undisputed creative force in current streaming is that many series that at another time would undoubtedly have had a western aesthetic approach now start from approaches completely anime: ‘Suicide Squad isekai‘It is produced in Japan and its own title betrays its origin, but is based on DC heroes; The greatest animation success of recent times, ‘Arcane’It is French production, but its anime visual roots are absolutely indisputable; And even a very characteristic series of the United States, ‘Rick and Morty’, has Your own spin-off anime. According to Jason Demarcocreator of the mythical Toonami thematic channel, this type of phenomena are a sign of “maturity” of this animation style. And all this rent extraordinarily in both addresses: 38% of international anime income is produced in Netflix. The benefit navigates In both directions. The new normality. The overwhelming growth and implementation figures in particular and Asian culture in general are no longer surprising (remember that a Korean series, ‘The Squid’s game’, remains the greatest success in Netflix’s history). That ‘Dundundun’ ravages or that one of the most profitable ideas that the platform has had in recent times has been to bring the anime in real image ‘One Piece‘They are some pieces of the many that make up a complex puzzle. One whose final snapshot shows a future in which the anime has an indisputable weight in the global computing of pop culture. In Xataka | The curse of Tolkien’s animated adaptations continues: the prequel anime of ‘The lord of the rings’ click at the box office

The silence about who really failed in the blackout

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At 12:33 of April 28, the peninsular electrical system collapsed. Zero voltage. Zero electricity. In seconds, millions of people were left without supply. The light returned in hours, but opacity continues. Who failed? Why did the power plants that charged for maintaining stability acted when they needed them most? The official report details it with technicalities. The companies involved are covered by confidentiality. But the data reveals an awkward truth: when everything went out, many were not where they should. They charge to stabilize. But nobody acts here. The issue is that the Spanish electricity market, certain conventional -nuclear, gas and coal – centrals receive additional payments for being available to stabilize tension when there are imbalances. The days of the blackout were several programs, but, According to the reportmany of them were indispensable by maintenance tasks, recharges or breakdowns, just when the system more needed them. The system warning. On April 22 and 24, anomalous oscillations were already registered in tension. On the 28th, the situation worsened: two great oscillations – a fast and one slow – destabilized the network completely. From the Electric Red Documentthe epicenter was a photovoltaic plant in Badajoz, which oscillated without control. From there, the tension collapsed in a waterfall. Some plants tried to coupled, but they did not arrive on time. The system fell in 30 seconds. In the most structural part. Each great electric has its own support strategy: Endesa is committed to nuclear, Naturgy for gas, Iberdrola for hydraulics. But all share something in common: the centrals that give stability to the system are in the hands of the same actors that dominate the traditional electricity market. The worrying thing is not that they charge to be available to act, but that, when they do not, there is no clear consequences. The official report Recognize that information It was confidential, voluntary access and that most companies did not allow disseminating their data. No responsible, without sanctions, without reform. Everyone is blamed, nobody responds. What has followed is a reproach chain: the government blames Red Eléctrica; Electric network blames electric; The electricity blames the Government and Red Eléctrica. And meanwhile, citizens still do not know which company failed to comply with one of the most critical moments for the electrical system. A pattern that is repeated. As has pointed out Eloy Sanz, the professor and researcher at the Rey Juan Carlos University, in their social networks the great electricity maximize benefits according to their technological convenience. Renewables, which should lead the transition, are subordinated or used as alibi. The result: a vulnerable system, without accountability. An inevitable conclusion. The report proposes some technical measures and recommendations to the National Security Council. But it does not demand sanctions or identify responsible. There is also no clear measure to force companies to make their failures public. There is not even a reform of confidentiality mechanisms. One thing is clear: the 28th was not just an electric blackout. It was also a responsibility blackout. Image | Pxhere Xataka | In a desperate attempt to avoid the blackout, Ree tried to start a gas center seven minutes before the disaster

Xi Jinping has reappeared after 16 days of silence. What we did not imagine was what was activated during his absence

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Xi Jinping has reappeared after 16 days without public presence. He has done it on June 4 in An official meeting with Belaruso President Alexander Lukashenko In Beijing. His return ends an unusually long absence that, for the moment it has occurred and for the international context, unleashed a wave of speculation about his health, his power within the communist party and the course of the second world economy. Why is it important. The disappearance of XI coincided with a rebound in tensions with the United States, marked by threats of new sanctions and a progressive deterioration of bilateral relations. In that context, the lack of visibility of the maximum Chinese leader has generated uncomfortable questions: was he sick? Were there internal movements against him? Who was making decisions in his place? The facts. Three signals fed the noise, as reported Nikkei Asia: The Politburo did not celebrate its monthly May meeting, or at least it did not communicate it, something stipulated by the Statutes of the party. Although there is no obligation to make it public, its silence was striking. The Defense Minister was absent from the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore, the most important security conference in Asia. The name of Miao Hua, head of the political department of the Popular Liberation Army, has disappeared from the official website. In parallel, it was confirmed The death of former vice president of the Central Military Commission, Xu Qiliangofficially due to illness. But his death occurred in a context of constant purges in the army and rumors – not verified – of suicides between high controls under investigation for corruption or disloyalty. The opacity of the system, far from containing the conjectures, amplifies them. Between bambalins. As collected NTD —Inly linked to the Falun Gong movement, openly critical of the regime, “three possible scenarios were shuffled: XI could be sick after years of power concentration. He would be orchestrating unprecedented internal reforms. It would face a rebellion of the marginalized factions since 2012. The most drastic hypothesis: that high positions of the party would have agreed to resign, possibly in August. An important nuance: NTD It is not a neutral source. It is convenient to take into account his critical bias with the Communist Party and his militant editorial line. The hypotheses that it raises are not contrasted by independent sources. The context. China lives a especially sensitive moment. The economy slows down, tensions with Taiwan intensify and Trump insists with its tariff war. As I pointed out The Diplomatthe absence of XI just now projects weakness in the worst possible time. It would not be the first time that a Chinese leader responds to questioning with a symbolic gesture: in 1966, when he doubted the health of Mao Zedong, The leader swam publicly through Yangtsé To demonstrate strength. And now what. XI has reappeared, but the episode leaves an uncomfortable conclusion: even a two -week blackout is enough to activate the radar. When power depends on both its image and its actions, any emptiness is perceived as a crack. The next big appointment will be the Fourth Fourth of the Central Committeeplanned for August, and with him the traditional summer retreat in Beidaihe, where a good part of the party’s strategy is drawn. There will be special interest in seeing him again. In Xataka | China promised them very happy monopolizing rare earths. The problem is that he did not think of the smugglers Outstanding image | Chinese Communist Party

OnePlus was the last bastion of the silence button. He has just replaced him to get into the AI ​​car

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Apple was the first company to bet on A button that facilitated access to the functions of silence and sound. A simple idea, well executed … and with margin of improvement. There was OnePlus in 2015, to achieve it with the OnePlus 2 and his Alert Slider. OnePlus’s idea allowed something related to Android’s own nature and its three sound modes: silence, vibration and sound. It is a button that had been accompanying us for ten years, and that was destined to follow The same destination as Apple’s: Be replaced by something different. OnePlus was one of the companies back I was staying in the. He always opted for the balance between power and price, but artificial intelligence is already an essential in every smartphone that wants to aspire to fight the best. The death of alert slider The immediate consequence has been The death of alert sliderwhich has been replaced by what OnePlus now calls Plus Key. The first point to highlight is that this button will become customizable. Yes, it is exactly the same change you made Apple with the iPhone 15 Pro. We can start multiple actions, such as changing sound profiles, open the camera, start recordings or start translations. But, beyond the programmable functions, OnePlus wanted to go one step further and differentiate thanks to AI. This button will serve to activate AI Plus Mind, a new function centered on the Mind Space. Many new names, but the concept is easy to understand. Mind Space is a space within the phone (an app) in which We can save information related to events, photographs, audio recordings… is something very similar to what we recently saw with the Essential Space of Nothingand use artificial intelligence to make summaries out of the contents we have stored. The operation is easy: when you are sailing through any app that shows information that is of value (schedules, reservations, details of an ad), you press the new button (if you have it scheduled) or slide with the three fingers up. The content will be saved automatically in the Mind Space, it will analyze its content to extract the key data and can add them directly to your calendar. This function will be released in the OnePlus 13s, a brother of the brother of the OnePlus 13. For those state -of -the -art devices, such as 13, this function will come by OTA update. Climbing to the AI ​​car In addition to working in this new button and accompanying him from the Mind Space, OnePlus already has his “OnePlus Ai” ready. A set of artificial intelligence tools. Ai voicestrce: Record calls and meetings directly from messaging apps or video calls, then summarize them and translate them automatically. Ai Call Assistant (soon in India): Integrated in the ONPLUS 13S phone app, it will allow you to summarize calls or translate them in real time while talking. Ai translation: Unifle in a single app all translation functions – text, live voice, camera and screen – to facilitate communication in several languages. Ai Search: It allows to search naturally and conversational between files, notes, adjustments or calendars. Ai Reframe: Analyze your photos, detect the main subject and propose different automatic frames to improve the effortless composition. Ai best face 2.0 (Available in summer by OTA): Automatically correct group photos where someone has come out with closed eyes or bad face. It works with up to 20 people and even with images taken from other mobiles. With these new functions, OnePlus wants to start fighting in a competed land already mandatory for any manufacturer. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The mobile the AI ​​promises, but I only see repeated tricks. The real ace under the sleeve is called “agent” and comes on the way

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