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The electric car has an average age of just 3.5 years and does not stop falling. It is very good news

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Changing car is usually a reason for joy in a house. Unless you are forced by the circumstances of an unexpected breakdown or before what has been expected, acquiring a new vehicle is usually exciting for the buyer. And it is because, on average, it occurs every long. Whenever it is not electric, of course. A study. The average age of electric vehicles is 3.5 years. That is what the latest available report states S&P global in which this dynamic is studied. The figure is inferior to that of past years and remains down. In 2022, the Middle Ages was 3.7 years and in 2023 of 3.6 years. The figure contrasts with that registered for diesel and gasoline cars. Following the reverse road, the Middle Ages of the American Mobile Park has been growing over the years until it is 12.6 years. Taking into account that the electric car barely represents 3.2 million vehicles of the 286 million units in operation in the country, its impact on the Middle Ages is negligible. And in Europe? In Europe there are no data segmented by technologies. Acea, employer of manufacturers in Europe, only refers to the average age of cars in the continent and by countries. Points out that in Spain, According to the latest studiesIt is 13.9 years. A figure higher than the European average. In the continent, the average is 12.5 years. A figure that is lower because in Germany and France, the two largest car markets in Europe, the decade is barely exceeded. They are also the markets where more electric cars are bought. Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland or Sweden, countries that are located in the European average or in the upper part in the purchase of electric cars, also have lower figures in the Middle Ages of the mobile park compared to the rest of Europe. On the contrary, Spain, Italy and all the rest of Europe have the most aged mobile park. Although the almost 14 Spanish years are far from the more than 17 years of Greece, we share with those countries that the market share in the purchase of electric cars is very low, just a third of the European average. Why is the electric car important? The impact of the electric car on the Middle Ages of the mobile park is evident, especially the smaller the market. It is shown that where cars are growing are more modern. This is because the Middle Ages of the electric, as seen in the United States and is presupposed in Europe, is very low. It has all the meaning of the world. If electric car sales continue to grow, the Middle Ages has to go down. In the study of S&P global It is pointed out that in 2024 there were 50% more electric cars in American streets than in 2022. If sales are stopped, on the contrary, the age of the mobile park will increase in line. In the United States, where the sample is more than 286 million cars the impact is very low. In Europe, on the contrary, the impact is more evident because we can segment through countries. It is estimated that there is 256 million cars in circulation in Europe But Luxembourg, Germany, Sweden and Belgium are the countries where there is a higher percentage of cars with less than two years. Removing the peculiarities of Luxembourg, coincide (again) with electric sales. Two good news. That the electric car continues to expand its customer base are good news for the fleet of vehicles at European level. Confirms that every view more customers are trusting technology and that adequate incentives There are more drivers willing to jump into the electric car. It also means greater security. This is independent of the new car sold. With European obligationsa new car is always going to be safer than one with more than a decade behind it. Although they were systems that have already been seen ten years ago, now all cars (regardless of the price) have to have systems such as rear camera, emergency braking or lane output alert. And a regulate. Although with good prospects. And is that S&P globalin its report in this regard in 2023, it indicated that 6.6% of the electric cars that were in operation a decade before had been sent to recycle. The figure is higher than that of vehicles with combustion motor (5.5%). This means that the electric car becomes obsolete before, which has all the logic. We are talking about a technology that advances very quickly and, above all, has been widely improved in the autonomy offered by the vehicle. It’s easy to think about Many vehicle fleets They have gone to better life as better options have been offered. In addition, it must be taken into account that the same has been seen in the second -hand market. The depreciation of electric cars It is much faster and more accused than those of combustion. If the company interested in selling it cannot place the car, the most logical thing is to send it to destroy if you need space and replace its fleet. More and more cars. To all of the above we must add that the average age of the cars is expected to remain in the coming years since the electric car seems to have an ally between the fleets. Countries like Belgium or Germany They have discovered that the company car is an especially attractive means to boost sales of this type of car. While a individual aspires to have a car for many years in property, unless you opt for a rentiercompanies often use this formula since it allows them to renew the fleet every three or four years. If we take into account that the electric car has grown a lot among rentals And companies of all kinds, we have years ahead where its Middle Ages remains very low. 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The extreme temperature in which the laws of physics we know stop operating

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The absolute zero marks the minimum temperature at which something can be found and corresponds to -273.15º Celsius, or 0 Kelvin. Since heat is nothing other than movement, this temperature marks the total stillness, but what happens at the opposite end? Planck temperature. Although we are less familiar with the other extreme, Planck’s temperature, or the “absolute heat”, Another concept managed by contemporary physics. Here we might make emphasis on” contemporary physics “since, at this temperature, what we know of physics stops operating, which leaves us in an unknown terrain. How much heat are we talking about? Well around 142 quintillones Kelvin (K). Or what is the same, 1.42 · 10^32 degrees Celsius: the 273 degrees of difference between both scales are inconsequential on this scale. As a comparison, we can point out that the estimated temperature of the core of our sun is about 15 million Kelvinalthough the remnant nuclei of some supernovas can reach the billion degrees. Here on Earth, science has achieved even higher temperatures: More than 5 billion Kelvin in an experiment conducted in 2012 in the Great Hadron Colliding (LHC) of CERN. Defining the maximum. We indicated before the absolute zero in temperature was marked by the lack of movement, the absence of thermal energy. The temperature is an energy transfer measure, if something has no energy, It cannot transmit it. However, to find absolute heat we must go beyond thermodynamics and incorporate another area, that of quantum physics. To understand this limit, we must know that heat is associated with emissions in the electromagnetic spectrum. At more heat, more energy, shorter will be the frequency in this spectrum. Well, this spectrum is not infinite since the known universe has its own minimum distance, Planck’s distance. This minimum length Mark too The shortest wavelength and the maximum energy that we can introduce into a photon. It is therefore impossible to transfer more thermal energy. A rather theoretical idea. Planck’s temperature remains, as we pointed out before, far from both what we can see in the universe and what we are able to recreate in a laboratory. There was a time when it may not be so, since in the first moments after the Big BangThe universe would have reached this type of temperatures. But precisely the Big Bang It is one of those contexts in which the laws of physics as we understand them are not applicable. Beyond contemporary physics. The Big Bang is a clear example that there is physics that still escapes us, as are black holes. In both cases these are contexts so extreme that the description of what happens in them through the laws of physics we handle makes it impossible. However, we continue in the search for knowledge about these extremes and the laws that could operate on them. Probably, the long -awaited “theory” of all that unifies what we know about relativistic gravity with quantum physics can give us important clues about this border of heat and, above all, what may be beyond this. In Xataka | What if the constants of the universe are not so constant? We have taken an important step to know. The key is on the nuclear clock Image | NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER/CI LAB

Stop interrupting every two minutes

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Improve productivity It is one of the biggest concerns of companies. However, a Microsoft study He has revealed that the main ballast for this productivity improvement is the bosses themselves and co -workers who They do not stop interrupting one another. The data suggests that not even those who are remote manage to get rid of that scourge that prevents employees concentrate on your work. 80% of employees acknowledge feeling exhausted because of the amount of interruptions suffered throughout the day. Silent exhaustion in the office. The Labor fatigue Not only is it due to the fulfillment of the working days, but also an invisible but constant phenomenon is added: interruptions. Each notification, message or consultation that is received from a partner is undermining the Capacity for concentrationthat in itself It is not in your best dimensions. The known as “Ping fatigue“Prevents that both the productivity of remote workers and those who are in person in the office can be increased, as they expect 53% of the leaders and managers surveyed for the Work Trend Index 2025 Report of Microsoft, which collects information from 31,000 employees and managers from 30 countries. 275 interruptions per day. According to the data collected by Microsoft, each employee receives an average of 275 interruptions per day at work. Those interruptions that They fight for your attention They include from emails, messages from the corporate messaging platform, meetings or consultations of other colleagues in face -to -face work models. This means that approximately, the workflow is stopped every two minutes to answer a question, address a notification or attend an urgent un programmed meeting. Taking into account that the brain needs between 10 and 20 minutes to re -reach the optimal level of concentration, it makes it impossible for an employee to even pretend to be productive. However. Not advance. The constant interruptions not only affect concentration, but also generate a feeling of chaos and disorganization that does not help to be productive. Employees are forced to change task continuously, which hinders the completion of important projects and increases the feeling of stress and exhaustion caused by multitasking and the constant objective changes. 48% of employees and 52% of managers who have participated in the Microsoft survey claim that their workload is chaotic and fragmented. Meetings do not help. The data reveal that meetings beyond eight In the afternoon, 16% year -on -year have increased, because people participate in different time slots in 30% of them. However, the main chaos generator in organization of the days is that 60% of these meetings are not scheduled and convened improvisedly. Microsoft has detected that improvisation means that, in the 10 minutes prior to those last minute meetings, the use of PowerPoint grew by 122%. That is, employees had to leave what they were doing, to finish the presentations they had to use in the improvised meetings. Microsoft’s solution: convert employees into bosses. Microsoft’s report points out that the arrival of AI agents Specialized will contribute to the reduction of these interruptions since it will be the agent himself who dissipates those doubts that the partner responded before. 82% of the managers of the companies that have responded to Microsoft ensure that digital labor is a priority for them in the next 12 to 18 months. However, and despite the changes that AI promises to contribute to the labor market, there is something against which the agents of AI will not be able to fight: The improvised meetings at the last minute. In Xataka | We know that resting improves productivity. And coffee break at work is the best example Image | Unspash (Mimi Thian)

In 1914 Russia decided to prohibit vodka to stop alcoholism. It was a disastrous decision

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Exists A legend (not confirmed) that said that, when the final surrender of Nazi Germany was known in World War II, the jubilation with which it was held in the Soviet Union is counted as one of the drunkenness more epic in the history of ethyl celebrations. The myth did not stay there, since the story said the Victory Day It led to the closest to a “national alcoholic blackout”, leaving the nation Without vodka in just 24 hours. The truth is that, whether or not, it makes all the meaning of the world. They came from a prohibition that had resulted. An ancestral relationship. Counted in an extensive Report The Atlantic that the Russian inclination towards alcohol has religious and political roots. In 988, the Prince Vladimir chose orthodox Christianity in part for not prohibiting Alcohol consumption, unlike Islam. During the 16th century, Ivan the terrible established the first state taverns (the calls Kabaks) that they became Fiscal monopolies. In less than a century, a third of Russian men I was indebted With these drink houses. Already in the 18th century, Pedro the Great consolidated that institutional dependence: not only tolerated the alcoholism of his subjects, but punished wives They tried to get their husbands out of the taverns, and recruited ethyl debtors for the army. Arrived at the nineteenth century, the State obtained almost half of its income from the sale of vodka. Far from being an externality of the system, alcohol would be said that it became its collection engine. In this context, the Tsar was going to make a decision of Ajundia. Imperial abstinence. According to Timethe history of the Russian prohibition not only precedes the famous Dry American Lawbut it constitutes one of the most transcendental (and fatal) decisions of the Tsar Nicolás II. It happened in September 1914, when a few days after the death in combat of his cousin, the prince Oleg Romanovthe Tsar sent a telegram to his uncle Konstantin Konstantinovich announcing the definitive suppression of the state sale of vodka in Russia. That gesture, which apparently responded to a moral conviction and a personal loss, dismantled one of the pillars Economics of the Empire: For centuries, the State had maintained a lucrative monopoly on alcohol, generating up to a third of its income thanks to sales to the peasantry. When renouncing that source of financing just at the threshold of World War I, Nicolás not only unleashed a deep fiscal crisis, but also fragile social contract between the throne and its people. Nicolás II Catastrophic consequences. The problem was not only economic. The measure was adopted at a time when the empire tried Revict your prestige After the defeat in the Russian-Japanese war of 1905, where alcoholism among soldiers was indicated as a decisive factor of military collapse. Collective drunkenness during mobilizations and the front had been so notorious that even the Káiser Guillermo II He came to declare that in the next conflict he would win the nation that he least drank. Under that impulse, the ban seemed a strategic decision, aimed at disciplining the army and facilitating mobilization. And, indeed, Russia initially deploy troops quickly and obtain some early victories. However, the price was elevated: by suddenly depriving millions of people of their usual consumption in full war and without social compensation mechanisms, a deep resentment Between peasants, workers and soldiers, amplifying the distance between imperial power and masses. Logistic collapse The Tsar appointed the reformist Peter Bark as Minister of Finance with the difficult task of disconnecting the treasury of alcohol, but the budget vacuum became unsustainable. Given the loss of hundreds of millions of rubles, the solution was the most precarious: Print moneyaccelerating hyperinflation and eroding even more the economy of war. The fiction that national productivity had improved without vodka was sustained with falsified reports and grandiloquent statements, while citizens suffered the consequences of shortage and monetary depreciation. At the logistics level, chaos was equally shocking: the wagons that had to transport grain and supplies to the front were occupied by Aristocratic distillators That, prevented from selling within the country, tried to export their vodka to France, Japan or any port available, saturating the already weak Russian rail networks. From Tsarism to Bolshevism. Paradoxically, the prohibitionist policyborn within the Tsarist conservative regime, was one of the few who survived the tumultuous change of governments that Russia shook Between 1917 and 1924. Neither the provisional government nor Lenin’s Bolsheviks revoked the measure. The communist leader, in fact, defended it as a Ethical and ideological principlewarning that a socialism based on the sale of alcohol was a betrayal of the revolutionary ideal. During the civil war, discipline, sobriety and consumption control were seen as essential components of the new order. Of course, after Lenin’s deaththe logic of state benefit imposed once again: Stalin The monopoly reestablished of vodka (now decorated with the Hoz and the hammer), restoring the practices of the old empire under a new clothing ideological. In terms of fiscal consumption and profitability, the prohibitionist stage It was erased almost completely. Moral experiment. That’s how it ended A movement That did not go as expected, much less. Beyond its symbolism, the Russian prohibition embodies a singular case where a moral decision, taken from power, precipitated the collapse of a regime whole. Time told That, in the context of a devastating war, a broken economy and a desperate population, the elimination of one of the few social exhaust valves ended up exacerbating all the latent tensions of the system. The Zar tried to save the soul of the Russian people removing alcohol, but ended up losing the throne. Thus, the vodka veto not only marked the start of the end of The Romanovbut left a enduring lesson about the risks of moralizing governance in times of crisis. Now, that legend of the end of World War II and the greater ethyl celebration It charges all the meaning of the world, because, sometimes, drunkenness can be more … Read more

Now the company has a plan to stop benefiting its rivals, according to FT

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Deepmind, the firm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that Google acquired in 2014 and officially integrated into a single division in April 2023it has been for years one of the great referents of the sector. Over time, he has earned that place for the quality of his scientific publications and for gathering some of the brightest researchers. But there are reasons to believe that this approach has begun to change. Several experts cited by Financial Times They ensure that Google Deepmind is delaying the publication of certain advances that it considers “strategic” or delicate in the field of generative AI. The measure is part of a strategy designed to preserve its competitive advantage and prevent its most recent and valuable developments from being exploited by rivals such as OpenAi. Transformers, star architecture Much of the development of generative artificial intelligence is not understood without Google’s advances. One of the most influential milestones was the publication in 2017 of the article ‘Attention is all you need‘, signed by eight researchers, who introduced the Transformers architecture. This approach, in general, allowed the models to process data more efficiently within large volumes of information. This architecture became the base of models such as Bert (bidirectional encoder representations from transformers), developed by Google itself and incorporated into its search engine in 2019 to improve the understanding of natural language. It was also key to the development of presentful systems such as GPT (Generative pre-trained transformers) of OpenAi, where the current ones are framed GPT-4 and GPT-4.5. Google is one of the world’s largest companies in the world. It has a huge financial muscle and access to key technology. Even so, the launch of Chatgptbased on GPT-3.5a model built on Transformers architecture, He took by surprise to the teams directed by L sundaria Pichai. The reaction was a “red code” and an urgent reorganization to compete again in an AI race that today leads OpenAi. It is no secret: when a company becomes a Big Tech, it loses part of the dynamism that defined it in its beginnings as startup. As we counted exactly one year agothey end up transforming into giants where the “move quickly and breaks things” no longer fits. They have too much to protect and a gear with thousands of pieces that cannot allow failures. Risking is not as easy as it seems. Even in this context, it surprises the speed with which the company of the search engine has managed to catch up. In a short time he has launched a AVALANCHA OF IA PRODUCTS based on advanced language models. There it is Geminihis direct rival of Chatgpt; Gemini Livedesigned to compete with Openai’s advanced voice mode; the Gemsthat work as Personalized GPTS; and amazing tools, such as Notebooklm. The new Google pulse The last years have forced the Mountain View company to introduce internal weight changes. One of the most significant affects the policy of publication of scientific articles: if the content is considered strategic, an seizure of six months is imposed before making it public. In addition, the group led by The Nobel Prize winner Sir Demis Hassabis He has hardened his internal processes, with a stricter review. One of the researchers who spoke on condition of anonymity with Financial Times was clear: today he cannot imagine Google by publishing a document like Transformers for general use. In this new dynamic, they say, “the company has become more concerned about the product and less for sharing the results of the investigation for the benefit of the common good ”, an address that can generate some discomfort in the community. Images | Boliviainteligent | Google Deepmind In Xataka | Openai has just lifted the greatest financing round in history: there is a blind faith in the AI ​​despite everything

stop the development of their hypersonic superorders and missiles

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The US has just taken another step in The climbing of the tension that holds with China. The administration led by Donald Trump He has inherited a long list of Chinese companies To which US companies cannot sell them their technology, they can do so only under a very strict supervision of the Department of Commerce. For a few hours in that “blacklist” there are 80 more companies. According to Nikkei Asiathe US Industry and Security Office has decided to expand perceptibly the list of sanctioned companies because “they have carried out actions contrary to the US national security and foreign policy.” However, although most of them are China, not all reside in the nation led by Xi Jinping; Some come from United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Iran, and even Taiwan. Chinese hypersonic weapons are in the spotlight of the USA That the US administration has decided to sanction Emirati or Iranian companies enters within the foreseeable, but that the sale of American technology to Taiwanese companies a priori is also surprising. However, It is not so much. Not at least if we stick to the justification argued by the US government in these cases: all sanctioned companies are Chinese, or collaborate with Chinese entities, or represent a threat to national security. “American technology should never be used against the US people” Whatever the purpose of the US on this occasion, it is not exactly the same as it pursued with Other sanctions packages. Some of the vetoed companies are dedicated to the development of the artificial intelligence (AI) or Superorganizers with Exaescala processing capacity. This is not new. However, others, presumably most, are directly or indirectly involved in Hypersonic missile development or latest generation drones. Jeffrey I. Kessler, Undersecretary of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce, has pointed out that “American technology should never be used against the US people (…) Donald Trump’s administration is sending a clear and forceful message to the purpose of safeguarding national security by preventing US technologies and goods national”. At the moment the Chinese government has not officialized any responsealthough in all likelihood It won’t stay with crossed hands. Image | Voice of America More information | Nikkei Asia In Xataka | The authentic responsible for China can make avant -garde chips is an almost unknown company: Sicarrier

stop it with your reservation for earthquakes

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Over the last years the Government of Japan has had to use its emergency rice reserve to face precisely that, emergencies. He did it after The earthquake and tsamot who hit the east of the country in March 2011. And he did it again years later after the fades that made the ground tremble in Kumamoto. Now the authorities have been forced to resort again to its national silos, although not to respond to an unforeseen emergency. Or not at least one in the conventional sense of the word. Its objective is another: stop The increase of rice. A price: ¥ 3,939. That is what cost average at the end of February a sack of five kilos of rice in Japan: 3,939 yen, equivalent to 24.4 euros. It is a lot (a lot) more than just a year ago, when for that same grain a family paid around 2,000 yen (€ 12.4). At the beginning of March the Ministry of Agriculture made a survey again in a thousand stores and found that the 5 kg bag was already in 4,077 yen (€ 25.3). A percentage: 71%. Price climbing is not new. The Japanese have been seeing how to prepare a rice bowl comes out more and more expensivewith increases of 30, 40%… or even more pronounced. At the beginning of 2025 the basic government price index showed that the bags were registering year -on -year increases of the 71% In the 23 districts of Tokyo, a devastating fact for several reasons. The main one, the enormous weight that the grain has in the Japanese diet. Although It has been decreasing Over the years by the influence of foreign cuisine based on wheat flour and its current consumption is far from the peaks reached in the 60sthe per capita grain demand remains more than considerable in Japan: in 2020 It was around 51 kilos. As a reference, in 2022 an average Japanese consumed four more times than an American. One question: Why? The million dollar question. What does that increase in rice respond to? The truth is that there is no One reason. In the price escalation, a meteorology has influenced adverse For crops, the Increased demand In full tourist boom, the panic purchases (encouraged in 2024 for the threat of a “Megaterremoto”), the government policies that affect the crop, the shortage… And something else: The shadow of speculation. “Some companies and individuals have begun to trade with rice as if it were a money game,” I recognized Recently a The New York Times Masayuki Ogawa, professor of agricultural economy at the University of Ussunomiya. The Minister of Agriculture, Silviculture and Fisheries, Taku Etō, He has admitted in public that the situation is “extremely irregular”. “We are producing 180,000 extra tons and we have enough in stock. If one goes to the supermarket you can find rice. But the price is abnormally high: it costs double.” An exit: the auction. Before such a panorama, the Japanese government has opted for A radical output: use their emergency rice reserves, a fund that the country maintains Since 1995 to meet domestic demand in cases of Force Majeuresuch as bad harvests, meteorological disasters or earthquakes. In total round The million tons of grain, a wide stock that was useful for example after the earthquake and the tsamot that affected the islands 14 years ago. On this occasion it has not been necessary to tremble or lift huge waves. It has come that the price index is triggered. And yes It is exceptional. The country Never before He had used the rice reserve to reduce prices. A few days ago the government took auction near 165,000 tons of grain so that they could bid for it professional operators, distributors through which they expect the grain to reach supermarkets. The objective: cover the demand, weave prices and give a break to families. The call aroused the interest of seven bidders who ended up Something more than 90% of the rice available. In total that supposes 141,796 tons of rice An objective: repeat. It will not be the only government movement to reduce the price of rice. Tokyo plans to release 210,000 tons And the ministry already warns that if that measure does not work, it will be distributed even more. “We will do our best to solve the bottleneck in the supply chain and relieve consumer difficulties,” Eto emphasizesthat seeks a “balance between supply and demand”. For now the authorities have already decided to auction others 70,000 tons which remain to achieve their objective of 210,000 T injected into the market. It will do it a priori the last week of March. Once the government has completed the government will have mobilized more than The fifth part of its emergency reserves. Images | Steven Rieder (Flickr) 1 and 2 and Fidel Fernando (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | Japan is suffering a bankruptcy record from Ramen. And in part it is the result of the “1,000 yen barrier”

Mexico’s plan to stop being a second player in the semiconductor industry

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Become Mexico into a scientific and technological power. That is the plan of President Claudia Sheinbaum who, since she held the position at the end of last year, has not stopped presenting proposals to achieve that goal. Fruit of this is the call ‘Mexico Plan‘, the intention of create your own cheap electric car. Now, Mexico wants to depend on others to obtain chips, becoming a technological power along the way. The key name of the project is ‘Kutsari’ and, although ambitious, it must face important challenges. KUTSARI. In a press conference, Sheinbaum advertisement The creation of the National Semiconductor Design Center “Kutsari”. He explained that “it is the union of many scientists, technological developers and public institutions of higher education that will put all their intelligence, design and creativity to generate new semiconductor designs.” The idea is ambitious and encompassed in the proposals of the Mexico Plan to revitalize the country and stop depending on both imports. In this case, imports of all types of chips for the devices that Mexico already produces and, thus, strengthen local manufacturing. Stop being a country that assembles chips to become one that designs and manufactures them, ultimately. Goals. Sheinbaum’s vision is clear: Creation of the National Semiconductor Design Center. Later, establish a semiconductor manufacturing center. Finally, create a chain that allows you to try, encapsulate and assemble those chips in equipment. In the statement, the president speaks of three venues located in Puebla, Jalisco and Sonora that, in addition, will be coordinated and supported by institutions such as the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, the Advanced Studies Research Center of the National Polytechnic Institute, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the National Polytechnic Institute. Kutsari means “sand” in Purépecha, the key material from which silicon is extracted to create semiconductors Roadmap. After the implementation of the first headquarters in which the semiconductors will be designed, a consolidation of them is expected for 2027. At some point next year, the idea is to start looking for how a private, public or mixed company could establish a factory that produces these chips in the face of consolidation in 2029 and 2030. The objective of these first Mexican semicondators is the automotive industry, the automotive industry is the automotive industry and medical equipment. They also mention “other strategic devices for the country”, without specifying what they would be. However, in the design of semiconductors the patents and that commitment of the country will be reflected in a modification of the Federal Law on Intellectual Property Protection with the objective of accelerating the patent process. Thus, this record of technological innovations will be expedited to expedite the production and sale process after the initial design phase. And it is also something that will allow protecting designs to possible plagiarism. Investments. We enter the critical part of the plan. As we mentioned, Kutsari is part of the Mexico Plan, but producing semiconductors is not only easy: it is not cheap either. Thus, the idea is to attract national private initiative and foreign investments that intend to seduce with the creation of a more powerful business technological mesh. Several companies are already betting on Mexico and, without leaving the chips segment, we have an almighty like Foxconn who is building in Mexico the Greater factory on the planet For Nvidia chips. Challenges. But, beyond the difficulty when establishing that new industry, Kutsari will encounter other challenges along the way. One is the very high competition with countries such as Vietnam either India that have been offering aggressive incentives for years for companies They move from China to their territoryeven seducing giants like Apple and Samsung. To that wild competition we must add that silicon is needed or germaniumtwo critical materials for semiconductors that are strategic in countries such as the United States and China. And, obviously, national and international talent is needed, as well as a stable political and economic environment, since chips do not develop overnight. On this, Sheinbaum has commented that “there is a lot of research in Mexico and now what we are doing is putting all these minds together”, a good touchstone that only needs to consolidate with good development policies that allow the country to enter to play in the complicated and competitive world of semiconductors. Image | ASML In Xataka | If the question is how to answer the US trade war, Europe believes to have the answer: smart tariffs

The Belgian police stop Huawei representatives for alleged corruption in the Eurocamara. The EU investigates the Chinese plot

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The Belgian police have made records at the European headquarters of Huawei in Brussels and has arrested several of its lobists for alleged corruption of Eurodiputados, as progress Reuters. What happened? The Belgian Prosecutor’s Office has deployed a hundred agents in almost two dozen places in Belgium and Portugal as part of an investigation for alleged bribery, falsification of documents and money laundering. The researchers have seized two offices in the European Parliament belonging to supposedly involved parliamentary assistants. Why is it important. This case threatens to become a second ‘Qatargate‘, the scandal that shook the Eurocamara in 2022 when several legislators were accused of receiving bribes from Qatar and Morocco. New research can seriously damage the credibility of European institutions, already weakened after that episode. Between bambalins. According to Belgian media, the plot of bribes would have operated “regularly and very discreetly from 2021 to the present, under the appearance of lobby Commercial. “The researchers They suspect that about fifteen Eurodiputados – actual and ancient – could be involved. In detail. Corrupt practices, according to Politicalthey would have included: Remuneration for adopting favorable political positions to Huawei. Excessive gifts, such as meals and travel expenses. Recurring invitations to football matches. The context. Huawei, which once was a power of lobby In Europe, he has suffered blows in recent years due to the security risks associated with his links with the Chinese government. The European Commission He has repeatedly warned that the company represents “materially higher risks than other 5G suppliers”. The European Parliament has confirmed that it will cooperate “quickly” with the Belgian authorities in the investigation. Meanwhile, Victor Negrescu, vice president of Parliament for transparency and anti -corruption, has described the accusations as “deeply worrisome.” The answer. A spokesman for Huawei has limited himself to declare that the company is “investigating” what happened and that “it is committed to compliance with all the applicable laws and regulations of the countries and regions in which it operates.” The Eurodiputados involved could see the lifting of their parliamentary immunity if the investigation progresses, a process that requires the authorization of the president of the Eurocamara, Roberta Metsola. From Xataka We have contacted Huawei to obtain their statements in this regard, we will incorporate them into this article as soon as we obtain them. In Xataka | I have tried Huawei’s triple folding: I am not sure for what, but I want one Outstanding image | Guillaume Périgois in Unspash

pay money if you stop using it

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You should look at Instagram. Not for nothing, but because you can make money with it. It is the original proposal of Digital B100, part of Abanca, to reward its clients. A striking idea that wants you to take care of you and reward you for it. Health account. This is the name of This financial product that B100 offers a remuneration of 3.40% Tae – the highest in the market – with a limit of 50,000 euros. The curious thing is not that generous remuneration, but how it encourages you to lead a healthier life and how, in fact, reward you for it. How to “fill” the Health account. All part of your original B100 account, in which you have your savings. You cannot transfer money without more than the B100 to the Health account: you have to “win” those transfers leading a healthier life. And when you move money to that Health account it is when you benefit from that special remuneration. Income for moving. To start, there is the challenge Move To Savethat rewards you for walking or running. The idea is that you travel walking or running from 6,000 to 20,000 steps to your rhythm. You can decide how much money you want it to move from your B100 account to your Health account when you meet that goal, from one to 30 euros. And income for using less social networks. Something similar happens with the other challenge, called Off to savewhich encourages customers to mark a maximum time of use of X, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and Snapchat, from 15 minutes to an hour. The less time in networks, the more money to enter. If you manage not to exceed those limits, you can go entering more and more money in this remunerated account. Thus, if you establish a daily hour of use of these social networks, you can spend a maximum of 4 euros. If you limit it to 45 minutes, you can pass up to 9 euros, and if you do 30 minutes you can enter up to 15 euros in the Health account. Finally, if you only use social networks 15 minutes, you can transfer up to 30 euros. The B100 app does not see what you see or public, you just need to know if you meet those established time limits. The Health account money is always available. If the client meets these two objectives, he may transfer up to 60 euros a day, that is, up to 1,800 euros per month. For a balance of 5,000 euros, 3.40% represents annual income of 167.68 euros, for example. The liquidation is monthly, and it is received – or rather, is admitted to the 12th of each month. That money from the Health account is always available. Care: As of May 1, the TAE in the Health account will become 3.20%. They don’t give you money, “you give it to you” you. Although it seems that the message is that if you walk or use less social networks they will pay you for it, in reality what you do is benefit from greater TAE and a better profitability of your savings. An initiative in collaboration with friends screens. B100 has collaborated with the non -profit association Friendly screenswhich since 2004 works in the field of digital well -being. Its founder and director, Javier Flores, Indian That according to a recent study, 77% of Spaniards between 18 and 55 believe that spending less time on social networks is beneficial for them. More and more time in front of the mobile. It is not a bad idea, of course, especially since we spend a lot, a lot of time looking at the mobile. A Telefónica study of 2024 estimated in five hours and a minute the time we use the mobile, 5.6% more than the previous year. 34.7% of that time invested in messaging applications and social networks. The idea of ​​Abanca and B100 seems therefore a success. Image | Magnet.me In Xataka | A European bizum is possible. The systems of southern Europe bring positions with Wero, the Franco-German alternative

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