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Big Tech do not stop saying goodbye to their engineers. In parallel, they have stepped on the accelerator in the hiring

September 3, 2025 by usatoday24

The labor market for software engineers in 2025 is going through A disconcerting phase. While many companies are running Great rounds of layoffs And vacancies take longer to cover themselves, the great technological have stepped on the accelerator in their hiring registering a moderate increase in recent months. With the aim of understanding this phenomenon, Gergely Oroszengineer, analyst and author of ‘The Software Engineer’s Guidebook’ has crossed data from different technological employment platforms to offer a detailed analysis of the labor market in 2025. The result shows a panorama in transformation, in which traditional rules seem to have changed and Big Tech movements point to a future very marked by AI. Boom in layoffs, but also in hiring. Just check quickly The newspaper library recent to discover that technology companies are executing Dismissal rounds In his templates. According to dataFrom the Trueup platform, in what we have been counted about 141,000 dismissals Among the great technology. The estimates are that 2025 closure with 210,000 layoffs that, despite being many, are below the 430,000 layoffs that were recorded in 2023 or 239,000 of 2024. Dismissal figures in the technology sector However, those same companies are the ones that are most hiring in recent months, registering a Mild up rising trend in the total of new offers in the labor market. The reason: these layoffs are not due to economic difficulties, but because companies have changed their business goals and are reorieting their templates. Companies such as Apple (2,177 vacancies), IBM (1,924 vacancies), Amazon (1,794 vacancies) and Oracle (1,394 vacancies) are the ones that have registered the most vacancies, according to the data revealed by Orosz. Zuckerberg has taken the wallet. In case the latest movements of Millionaire signings in AI They leave a doubt, goal is the company that is hiring the most engineers, with an increase of 19% compared to its 2022 template.Google and Apple show a somewhat more leisurely rhythm in hiring, although they increase their templates with new hiring at a rate of 16% and 13% respectively with respect to 2022. Amazon and Microsoft later began their Pivotage to AIand their figures are maintained below 8%, although the last restructuring movements Of both companies, they point out that, in the face of the last quarter, that percentage will tend up. Who is hired. Big Tech are immersed In a race For immediate profitable Investments in AI. So the profile that is being demanded most is the IA engineer profile that, According to data In Trueup, it has increased by 278.5% since its lowest point in 2023 and currently has 24,957 vacancies open. The hiring data also reveal that the profile most demand IA -oriented specialtiesbut they are the engineers who already have a certain experience (with 27,864 vacancies available) or already with a senior profile (with 22,477 published employment offers). Orosz’s analysis data reveal that the seniors engineers of ia will cover those vacancies, They will leave Big Tech Consolidated such as Google, Meta, Apple or Microsoft, joining projects in the new heavyweights of AI such as OpenAi, Anthropic or XAI, as well as other emerging unicorns. The AI recover the work remote and sacrifices the bosses. According to data published by Orosz, the volume of offers of remote employment has fallenRegarding the previous year. However, the exception of the brand again the engineering of AI, where the urgency to recruit talent causes a relatively high number of vacancies to be maintained with the possibility of remote work. In parallel, the leadership positions in engineering are seen increasingly limited. Amazon has significantly reduced the engineering managers roles. For its part, almost all Big Tech – with the exception of Apple— They have trimmed the creation of positions of director or intermediate positions. This adjustment responds to a reorganization of internal structures, such as the one that has launched Googlethat prioritize smaller and agile equipment. In Xataka | Google Deepmind has made possible the dream of some employees: charging without working Image | Flikr (Village Global). Goal, Wikimedia Commons (EESAN1969), Trueup

Soon one of them will stop being manufactured

September 1, 2025 by usatoday24

Little time has passed since Nintendo announced his second pack For the Nintendo Switch 2 And now we are in a crucial moment for those who want to opt for one of the two packs that are available. The reason? In a short time one of the two will stop manufacturing. To give context, these are the two packs that are now available: Nintendo Switch 2 + ‘Mario Kart World‘ by 509 euros. Nintendo Switch 2 + ‘Pokémon legends: za‘ by 509 euros. Nintendo Switch 2 + ‘Mario Kart World’ * Some price may have changed from the last review Nintendo Switch 2 + ‘Pokémon legends: za’ * Some price may have changed from the last review A key moment to choose pack The pack with ‘Mario Kart World’ will stop manufacturing next October. What should be an indicated date for Nintendo, it is a bittersweet moment. On October 16, the second pack will be launched which includes the Nintendo Switch 2 along with ‘Pokémon legends: za‘, but it will also be the date (the month really) in which the Nintendo Switch 2 pack will stop manufacturing along with’Mario Kart World‘, as our 3DJUGOS colleagues collected in their day. That is why right now we are in an important and interesting time in order to buy the Nintendo Switch 2 in Pack, since We can choose between one of the two that are available: that of ‘Mario Kart World’ for having been launched and that of ‘Pokémon legends: za’ for being in reserve period. This does not mean that as of October you can not buy the ‘Mario Kart World’ pack: it is the date on which it will stop manufacturing, but It is likely that stores continue to have stock for a timeas happened similarly with ‘Super Mario 3D All-Stars‘, that He stopped manufacturing and disappeared from eShopalthough it was available in stores for a brief period of time. You may also interest you Zelda Tears of the Kingdom – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition * Some price may have changed from the last review Donkey Kong Bananza- Switch 2 * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Alejandro AlcoleaNintendo In Xataka | The best accessories for your switch: covers, transport bags, batteries, and more In Xataka | What Micro SD card for Nintendo Switch buy. Better recommendations and 10 outstanding models

The AI does not stop stealing internet content to improve. And the Internet has swollen the noses

August 13, 2025 by usatoday24

That Reddit blocks the action to the Archive Internet is a tragedy. And also a way of stopping a voracious and implacable The price to be paid for having ia It is the looting of all the internet content. In Reddit they know it well, and they have just taken an extreme measure against those indiscriminate robberies: it is not that Block access to their contents to the ‘scrapers’ of the companies of AI directly. Now they also block them if these companies try to access with rodeos. The injured party? Internet Archive. What happened. Reddit, who has always been very proactive when protecting “their” contents (which, by the way, have been generated by users voluntarily and free), has realized something: they were stealing them. But not directly, but through previous versions stored in that gigantic digital hemeroteca library called Internet Archive. Wayback Machine without access. Wayback Machine is the “Machine in Time” of the Internet Archive, and allows access to old versions of any website. But to avoid more content theft, Reddit has banned this platform to index the vast majority of Reddit content. Only the Reddit.com home page can be indexed. Reddit’s argument. Tim Rathschmidt, spokesman for Reddit, explained In The Verge That although Internet Archive is a service aimed at the open web, they had discovered “cases in which artificial intelligence companies violate the platform policies, including ours, and extract data from Wayback Machine.” In addition, he pointed out the following: “Until they are able to defend their site and comply with the policies of the platform (for example, respect the privacy of users, in relation to the elimination of deleted content), we are limiting part of their access to Reddit data to protect Reddit users.” If you want our contents, pay. That message from the spokesman is reasonable, but as little is incomplete. Especially since Reddit has persecuted that kind of looting of AI companies. He has tried to block those who did it with technical means, and the goal both before and now was the same: that companies pay for their contents. It is something that has achieved with the agreements that have reached since this type of processes began. The first thing he did was close his APIa disaster for all the Internet. Then he ended up reaching a Google agreement, which pays 60 million dollars a year In order to have access to those contents. And the same ended up with OpenAiwith which he sealed a pact whose economic details have not been unveiled but that gives access to Reddit’s contents to the models that enhance chatgpt. My content is mine (more or less). Social platforms have been nourishing the content of users for years. Until now the business model focused on advertising, but the arrival of AI has allowed us to have an interesting alternative model: that the companies of AI pay for being able to access those contents. Users barely win, Reddit and social networks do. Contents affirming that they are his – as Reddit, which in June He sued Anthropic– But that actually created the users of these platforms, who without realizing have become slaves of these social networks: they do not stop producing content that others consume, and do so without charging a euro. These platforms are intermediaries that provide the necessary infrastructure for this content to be available for free, but there are hardly any consideration for creators. Only a few can make a living on YouTube, Tiktok or Instagram for example. In Reddit exist Some metallic remuneration for the “taxpayers” who create the most for the platform. Cloudflare and content locks. Content companies are beginning to act in a similar way, and in the last two years we have seen how some editorial groups –Including haste– They reach agreements with AI companies so that they can use their contents. You Shall Not Pass! However, there are companies that go further. We have as clear example to Cloudflare, which has created a system so that companies that use their services can block the “Crawlers of AI” that try to steal their contents. If you are a cloudflare customer, you can activate that block, thus avoiding the problem or at least putting it Much more difficult to the AI companies that try to train their models with your data. Media and platforms such as The Associated Press, Fortune, Time or Stack Overflow are some of the companies that are already using said system. Quid Pro quo. This cat and mouse game is especially striking for the entire content creation segment, because IA companies use All shortcuts that can to capture (and steal) That data, Have or not copyright. What Reddit raises is a model in which creators compensate for the AI to take that data. Or more than creators, platforms that serve as their meeting and showcase. Media groups and audiovisual content producers have an interesting opportunity here Before the potential traffic collapse caused by solutions like Google AI Overviews. In Xataka | The “digital decomposition”: how 38% of the websites that existed in 2013 have disappeared from the Internet

Your mind can activate a loop song without asking you permission. Science knows why he does it … and why he doesn’t know how to stop

August 5, 2025 by usatoday24

You are silent. Walking down the street, serving a coffee, looking distracted by the mobile. And suddenly … there is again. A melody you have not chosenbut who insists on returning. As a drop in the tap, as a notification that you cannot deactivate. In my case, it is the same song for a couple of days. Always the same part, as if the rest did not exist. It does not bother me, but it has made me think: why does this happen? Does our brain make sense, sometimes it works like a striped disk? What is exactly an Earworm. The Earworms – Also called “ear worms” – they are musical fragments that are installed in the head and repeat themselves again and again, without you chosen. The term comes from German Ohrwurm And today describes a mental phenomenon as recognizable as elusive. It is not something weird: As the National Medicine Library of the United States collectsup to 98% of the western population has ever experienced them. Most live them as a simple anecdotebut for some people they can become annoying or even distressing. We speak in a very specific way of spontaneous mental activity that science has been trying to understand. Why do some songs stuck. Earworms are the result of a combination of musical and neurological factors. The themes that are most repeated usually have simple structures, fast tempos and easy to hum melodies. This was revealed by a study led by musicologist Kelly Jakubowskiwhich analyzed more than 3,000 songs and found that those who stayed in their heads tended to have common melodic contours and a medium tempo faster than the rest. Among the most mentioned songs such as Earworms in Jakubowski’s study and his team, several Anglo -Saxon pop hits stand out. It is no accident: the work was done in the United Kingdom with English -speaking participants, so most of the topics that appear are in English. Even so, many of them have been true global successes, also known by the Spanish public: ‘Bad Romance’ – Lady Gaga ‘Can’t get you out of my head’ – Kylie Minogue ‘Don’s Stop Believin’ ‘ – Journey ‘Hoilebody That I used to know’ – Gotye ‘Moves Like Jagger’ – Maroon 5 ‘California Gurls’ – Katy Perry ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ – Queen ‘Alejandro’ – Lady Gaga ‘Poker Face’ – Lady Gaga The decisive occurs in the brain: the auditory cortex – the same one we use to listen to real music – is reactivated even when we simply imagine a song. The emotional state also influences: stress, distraction or nostalgia can open the door for a melody to be installed without prior notice. Auditory cortex Some minds are more prone to loop. Not everyone lives the Earworms the same. Some people barely notice them, while others suffer with intensity, as if the brain stayed in a loop. In most cases, Earworms are lived as a simple curiosity or even as something entertaining. But when the repetition becomes persistent and annoying, it can be a sign of something more serious. According to psychiatrist Srini PillayProfessor at Harvard’s Faculty, “these persistent loops can be associated with obsessive-compulsive disorders, migraines, unusual epilepsies, palinacousis, stroke or cerebral metastases.” It is not usual, but it can happen. What to do if you don’t want to keep listening to her. There is no magic formula to eliminate an EARWORM, but there are strategies that help. Curiously, try to block the song It is the least effective: the more struggles against her, the more she clings, a phenomenon described by Daniel Wegner as “ironic process.” Instead, accepting it without resistance usually works better. As the Kennedy center collectssome people choose to listen to the complete song; Others replace it with another melody. There are specialists who point to chew gum To interfere mental repetition. And you, what song isn’t you going from your head? Since I started investigating the Earworms, the song in my head has not disappeared. Now I know that I am not the only one, that there are reasons behind and that, deep down, that loop is part of how our brain works. And you? Have you ever had an Earworm that you couldn’t take off from your head? What was that song impossible to erase? Do you have any technique to take it off? We read you in the comments. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 Flash | Amanz | Kennedy Center In Xataka | I put myself in the hands of some “sleep headphones” in the hope of reconciling sleep. It has come out regular

The world’s largest passenger plane does not stop breaking

August 4, 2025 by usatoday24

Airbus has to the, for the moment, the largest passenger plane in the world: the Airbus A380. This bug is able to transport in its entrails up to a maximum of 853 passengers (in very specific conditions). In fact, only the Antonov AN-225 He shadowed him, but he was neither produced in series nor currently exists, since It was destroyed during the Ukraine War. The A380 is, in short, a huge and very important passenger plane for certain airlines, but has a problem: it does not stop breaking. A complex machine. That is what a plane is, and more if we talk about one like this. So that Let’s get an idea Of its complexity, the Airbus A380 is made of four million individual components manufactured by 1,500 companies distributed throughout 30 countries. Inside the fuselage there are inserted 19,000 screws that join each of the three main parts, in addition to the 4,000 screws used to join both wings. It has 220 windows, 16 doors and only exterior paint weighs 531 kilos, there is nothing. Airbus A380 of Air France | Image: Maarten Visser with license CC by-SA 2.0 The problem. That does not stop breaking. According to slide from Bloombergsince 2020 (the plane flew for the first time in 2005), the European Union Aviation Safety Agency has issued 95 aircraft directives for the Airbus A380, twice as many as received by Boeing homologues: the 787, 777 and 747. Among the problems mentioned are the breakage of the axis of the landing gear, cracked joint Evacuation ramps. Some of these problems come from time to time These aircraft passed on land during the pandemic. These directives are, in a nutshell, corrections, inspections or modifications that must be carried out in an aircraft or a component to solve potential security problems. Its fulfillment is mandatory and not only can not only put the safety of passengers at risk, but to assume sanctions or the disqualification of the plane. Lufthansa’s first Airbus A380 | Image: WO St 01 With license CC By-SA 3.0 Keep it or … keep it. The Airbus A380 is 20 years old. As a general rule, airplanes usually withdraw Once between 25 and 30 years old. What does that mean? That the Airbus A380 is too young to remove it and too old to keep it at the same time. The underlying problem is that there is no alternative: The Airbus A380 ceased to occur in 2021so airlines that need a large capacity for long journeys should look for an alternative. Airbus It is not capable To produce the A350s, the largest aircraft of the Airbus catalog after the A380, with enough quickly to meet the demand. The supply chain, in particular everything related to cabins and engines, still having pandemic problems. He Boeing 777xBoeing’s proposal has not stopped having problems. The plane was going to be delivered to customers in 2020, but it has been delayed so much that the first deliveries are not expected until at least 2026. Image | KRZYSZTOF KACZALA WITH CC BY-SA 3.0 License A bottomless well. Airlines therefore have some airplanes whose maintenance will go to more. Reviewing these aircraft not only consumes an absurd amount of time (60,000 hours distributed among all workers, according to Bloomberg), but a lot of space in facilities that are not precisely abundant. That a plane like this failure is a high expense: not only have to be repaired, but to delay flights, relocate passengers, etc. All sum. Be that as it may, Airbus intends to continue operating and offering support: “Airbus undertakes to provide full technical assistance to customers to ensure that they can optimize operations with their A380 fleets, and this will continue while the plane remains in service,” they say from the company. The largest fleet. Emirates is, by far, the airline that has the most Airbus A380: 116 aircraft of which 21 are on land. The operator intends to continue using them at least until the end of the next decade (the investment has been high and few planes move so many passengers at once). Singapore Airlines and British Airways are followed from afar with 12 units each. Other operators, such as Qantas, Lufthansa and Qatar Airways also have some units, but intend to replace them with A350 at the beginning of the next decade. Cover image | N509FZ licensed CC by-SA 4.0 In Xataka | Europe has a message for tourists who are going to fly: prepare for a summer of delays and historical cancellations

For some reason, evolution does not stop creating antiques. 12 times different around the world has emerged

August 1, 2025 by usatoday24

Like the Chavo del Ocho when he did for the umpteenth time the joke to continue criticizing Professor Jirafales once the others had silenced, nature can have somewhat repetitive scripts. The point is that they work. Trend to eat ants and termites. It doesn’t matter if we are in America, Africa or Asia. Again and again, throughout the history of the earth, different mammalian lineages have reached the same evolutionary conclusion, developing a similar body plan to exploit one of the most abundant banquets on the planet. A recent study Posted in Evolution magazine It reveals that the specialization in eating ants and termites (a feature known as Mirmecophage) has emerged independently at least 12 times different since the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Convergent evolution. When we think of an anthill, the iconic elongated snout animal of the Americas comes to mind. But the anthill is not alone. Pangolines and Aardvarks, who inhabit Africa and Asia, are distant relatives who have developed a surprisingly similar tools kit. Adaptations include long and sticky tongues, a reduced or non -existent teeth and powerful front legs armed with claws to dig in insect nests. This phenomenon, in which unrelated species They develop similar features To adapt to similar conditions, it is known as convergent evolution. The same strange design. “The specializations associated with Mirmecophage are among the strangest and most fascinating mammals,” says Laura Wilson, an evolutionary biologist, In Science magazine. “This study illuminates our understanding when, and how many times, these fascinating characteristics evolved and under what conditions.” To reach these conclusions, the also biologist Thomas Vida and his team collected and analyzed data on the diet of almost 4,100 species of mammals, mapping their eating habits in the great evolutionary tree. The resulting model left no doubt: the evolution has taken the path of mirmecophagy over and over again, and has done so in the three large branches of mammals, including marsupials and monretrems, which put eggs. The postdinosaurs world. There are several crustaceans that have evolved towards a body shape similar to that of a crab. This phenomenon has occurred at least five times, but over several hundred million years. Mirmecophagous mammals, on the other hand, have done it 12 times in just 66 million years. “For some reason, things continue to evolve until they become hormigueros,” says the author of the study. Why this rise of ants dining rooms just after the disappearance of dinosaurs? The answer, according to researchers, is in the history of social insects. After the great extinction of the Cretaceous-Paleogen, the ants and the termites experienced a demographic explosion. His presence in the fossil registry shot, and his biomass became an abundant ecological resource. A road without return. The study also reveals another fascinating fact: once a mammalian lineage specializes in eating ants and termites, it seems that there is no turning back. The researchers only found a reversal case: the musarañas elephant of short ears. Their ancestors were probably fed on ants and termites more than 13 million years ago, but today, these southern Africa creatures have a mixed diet that includes other insects and plant matter. This evolutionary dead end is probably due to the stability and abundance of the food source, or the difficulty of recovering the features of a generalist once the body has adapted to such a specific diet. The story, therefore, tells us that while there are ants and termites in abundance, the evolution will continue to threaten more mammals into relentless devouring machines of colonies. Image | Claudio Olivares Medina (CC BY-DC -nd 2.0) In Xataka | “This is not a penguin.”

For some reason, evolution does not stop creating antiques. 12 times different around the world has emerged

August 1, 2025 by usatoday24

Anthropic has seen that their users do not stop using the 200 euros plan a month of their AI. They had to stop their feet

July 29, 2025 by usatoday24

Anthropic has announced new weekly limits for your CLAUDE They have already entered into force, especially affecting Claude Code, their programming tool through artificial intelligence. The measure arrives after some users have been executing the tool continuously 24 hours a dayconsuming resources equivalent to tens of thousands of dollars with the most expensive subscriptions of $ 200 per month. There are saturation and the accounts do not come out. The most intensive developers They are putting cane To the Anthropic servers, saturating them with a use that goes far beyond what the company had planned at first. Some programmers have configured Claude Code to permanently operate in the background, automating tasks and generating code without stopping. This has caused Claude Code to have suffered partial or total falls at least seven times in the last month, according to THE STATE PAGE of Anthropic. New limits. Of course, users will have limits that restart every seven daysin addition to the current five -hour limits. Users of the Pro Plan ($ 20 per month) will be able to use between 40 and 80 hours a week with the sonnet 4. those of the Max Plan of $ 100 will have between $ 140 and 280 hours with Sonnet 4 and up to 35 hours with Opus 4. The Max Plan of 200 dollars will allow up to 480 hours with Sonnet 4 and 40 hours with Opus 4. Anthropic ensures that less than 5% of its users will be affected by these changes. It is not an isolated case. Other companies in the sector are living similar situations. Cursor, the popular programming tool with AI, changed its price strategy In June to stop the most intensive users of their 0 dollars plan, although He had to apologize Then not to communicate the changes well. Replit, another rival in the space of the program assisted by AI, also implemented similar measures the same month. It is clear that companies dedicated to AI are experiencing their plans and studying the use given by their users. That there are price changes as soon is a symptom that they are still taking their pulse while looking for a way for the business to come out profitable. Hidden limits. One of Claude’s problems is that it does not offer an accountant that allows users to know how much they are consuming in real time. Developers have to go “blind” until they run directly with the limit, something that generates frustration especially among those who pay the most expensive subscriptions. In addition, the company has detected that some users are sharing and reverting accounts, which makes the use of these accounts even more intensive. An experimental business model. Anthropic has pledged to offer “other options” for cases of intensive use in the future, but for the moment the priority is to maintain stable service for most users. Subscribers of the Max Plan may buy additional use at API prices when they exceed their limits. Keep a generative ia service as Claude It’s a challengeespecially if you want to guarantee maximum performance to all users. That is why we see so many changes in their plans, and it will not be uncommon to see them in the rest of the alternatives. Cover image | Anthropic In Xataka | There are those who believe that the best AIs become more silly over time. It is no madness

Renfe trusted the Avril trains to face the Low Cost of Ouigo and Iro. They do not stop giving problems

July 28, 2025 by usatoday24

When the competition has pressed, Renfe has seen how his commitment to a low -cost service to the AVE had been as necessary. The problem is that this service, called Avlo, is operated by trains that in just over a year have not stopped giving problems. Retired avlos. It has returned to normal with the five Avlo trains frequencies between Madrid and Barcelona for the month of August but for a few days the cheap offer of the company in the corridor faded completely. First the five trains retired. Then the frequency was in three options in the day. Finally, they can already be bought normally. It is what Víctor de Elena accountjournalist electionomista.eswho had written an article last Friday explaining that Renfe had stopped offering his services of the Avlo line between Madrid and Barcelona. Since last Friday, when the information was published, the sale of tickets has been returning to normal. What happened? Everything indicates that Renfe has been putting patches to a complicated situation. He explained about Elena that Renfe had found a fissure in one of the components of the Bogies of an Avril train. This would have caused that, temporarily, it would be suspended The sale of all Avlo tickets in Madrid-Barcelona. Hours later, Renfe sources would confirm to the medium that during one of the maintenance reviews last Monday, July 21, one of the five 106 series presented “a fissure in an element of the tractor bogie called a bast.” Subsequently, a review of the five trains that serve and the affected systems were replaced. Now, according to Renfe “trains are operating without any anomaly.” More slowly. The trains operate, yes, but below the expected speed. They point out in electionomista.es That according to the State Railway and Adif Security Agency, Renfe operates the trains at 250 km/h of maximum speed, instead of the 300 km/ha those who were operating in a stretch of 190 kilometers that extends between Puerta de Atocha and Ariza (Zaragoza). In your communicationRenfe points out that the company “through its Renfe Travelers and Renfe engineering and maintenance, as a railway company and entity in charge of maintenance, respectively, as well as Talgo in its condition as manufacturer and the State Railway Security Agency, guarantee that the circulation and operation of trains is carried out with total security for travelers.” In the statement they point out that the offer is being reorganized with the S106 trains but do not specify anything about the speed at which trains circulate and emphasize that the sale of tickets is being made “normally.” In Xataka We have contacted the company but so far we have not obtained an answer. The Avril. The S106 series in which the fault has been detected corresponds to the trains known as Avril. Trains that since they were launched in 2024 They have caused various incidents. The S106 series It is designed by Renfe to fight the lowcost but also to be able to offer a service in Galicia that You will not have competition in the short term. For this last line, Renfe has 15 trains in his hands that can change the wide track automatically. Then, it has another 15 trains to operate between Madrid and Barcelona. Of the latter, they carry the specifications to operate as AVE but in five other trains the places have increased from 507 to 581 seats and thus be able to compete as a low cost option. A controversial arrival. When the Avril trains made an appearance they have already arrived surrounded by controversy. They launched in May 2024 but The material had been delivered with three years delay. Then, of the 30 trains, 12 of them had been delivered in a first lot. The first steps of the Avril were not the best. They promised to improve the connection between Galicia and Madrid but in the first days they registered delays of more than two hours and in later days of more than 30 minutes. Neither In the Asturian line The promised time sales were being fulfilled. But, in addition, the trains did not like among the experts either. Accounts in social networks that follow the current world of the train and its novelties portrayed the excess noise and vibrationsas well as They questioned the quality of some materials used in the rolling material. More incidents. The incidents did not stay here. Above all, Avril trains are remembered by the fault in the Galician line that on the first day of this year he left thousands of passengers on the ground or in the middle of nowhere. In a kind of “2000 effect”, trains were retained by a software problem With the year jump. And Barcelona-Madrid has not been the only one. Just a few days ago, a S106 series train collapsed at low speed at the Gijón station without consequences for travelers. At the moment, Renfe has not given explanations about what happened. Photo | André Marques 432 In Xataka | “In 1961 it took Bilbao for three hours and five minutes. Now it takes three and ten”: Cantabria and the drama of Spain with the train

What do we really know about the Start & Stop system and its use in summer

July 21, 2025 by usatoday24

It is not mandatory but manufacturers have made it an essential in recent years and it is usual to find it in any new car that is sold in the market to the point that it is activated every time we enter the vehicle. We talk about the Start & Stop, a system designed to save fuel that manufacturers carry by flag but that does not stop raising controversies. Is it really interesting to use it or is it better to deactivate it to avoid breakdowns? Start & Stop, a controversial system Although the origin of Start & Stop system dates back to the 80sIt was in the 2000s when manufacturers began to popularize. Before increasingly hard emission regulations that have brought us the microhbrid cars, the sailing circulation or the disconnection of cylinders, the marks opted for a drastic solution: turn off the engine. He Start & Stop System directly turn off the engine when we are standing. The theory is simple, if the engine does not work at the idle, the car does not produce polluting emissions and the approved means are lower than usual. Keep in mind that WLTP cycles, for example, contemplate stops in all the scenarios that simulate, from urban circulation to high speed on highway. Savings, according to some experts, is evident. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it ensures that fuel savings is between 4 and 5% compared to that of a car that keeps the engine at the idle. This is especially useful in cars that constantly move by city. In fact, some studies They raise savings to 26.4% When the traffic jams are prolonged. As we said, the system is not really mandatory by any regulations but according to AxiosThe system is mounted by 65% of the cars sold in the United States. In Europe we have not found concrete data but the new car that is sold without said system is rare. The problem is that the system, by default, comes on every time we open the car. To comply with the expected broadcasts, the manufacturer is obliged to make it so. Therefore, it has become a controversial system. In fact, the EPA itself, now led by Trump administration personnel, ensures that it is studying the elimination of the system “that everyone hates”, In the words of Lee Zeldin, its director. Click on the tweet to go to the original image As in the case of the speed alert system, it is something that could be completely deactivated forever from our cars but is not recommended since In the ITV they will soon check that we have made this modification and will suspend us. Until then, it only remains to turn it out manually if we decide. But is it really interesting? The start & stop and the breakdowns As we say, this option to save fuel is something that we have living together a few decades, so the system has been refined. At first it was slow and abrupt but especially since the arrival of microhill with 48 volt batteries has been refined and is now much faster. Despite this, there are still doubts about whether it can affect the reliability of the car. It is what holds one of the Ebenezer workshops mechanics. One of its mechanics explains on its social networks (more than 300,000 followers in Tiktok) that it is advisable to deactivate the system in summer traffic jams since it generates too much stress in mechanics and can cause expensive breakdowns. Click on the image to go to the original publication First, the mechanic offers a purely practical motive. When the car stops the engine, we will continue to receive air because the car fan remains active but we will lose cold air. But, in addition, we play some breakdowns according to their experience. They point out that stopping and starting constantly generates stress in the starter and battery engine. A battery that, as the companions of Motorpasionit is not especially cheap in these systems since the agm or EFB is used that are differentiated “from those of a lifetime” in which “they have a more advanced technology, endure more cycles and have good performance in adverse conditions.” But the matter goes beyond substitutions within minimal maintenance. According to the mechanic, with the active system the temperature increases because if the car is in the idle, the water pump moves, helping the cooling of the car at a time when it does not reach a clean air in motion and the air conditioning system is increasing the temperature. The Start & Stop helps to raise the temperature in these conditions. However, electric water pumps They have mitigated this problem and some others that are mentioned in the mechanic’s video. Over the years, systems are more and more complex to reduce the risk of breakdowns And, now, they can keep the water pump active to guarantee the engine refrigerated but also a concrete position of the cylinders in the off so that when the march is resumed they are already in their ideal position. In spite of everything, there are still reluctance. In Motor.esfor example, they gave the reasons why they recommended to stop the off and ignition system with each stop. The reasons were more or less the same: greater stress, premature substitutions, loss of effectiveness in the air conditioning or greater risk of mechanical breakdowns. But they gave a fact that can help you decide for the shutdown. Although manufacturers use reinforced alternators and starter motors with these systems, some studies suggest that engine lit during the life of the car can pass from 50,000 to 500,000 occasions. To all of the above you have to add a greater concern for the turbo, since this system suffers especially with abrupt stops. That’s why, explain in the same mediumthat Start & Stop systems take into account the motor temperature Before activating and if this is not high enough they do not go … Read more

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