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How to create a Telegram bot that summarizes your Google Calendar appointments every morning with AI

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We are going to tell you how to create a Telegram bot that summarize your Google Calendar appointments and events each daymaking him a personal secretary who gives you a summary every morning. To do this, we will make the bot use artificial intelligence as Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude or whatever you prefer. To carry out this task we are going to use two third-party services. First we will use BotFather from Telegram to create the bot, and then we will go to the service Make to create a workflow or workflow that adds an AI, which in the case of our step by step will be Gemini, but you can use any other. But before we start, just one warning. This method is very easy and useful, but in the end you will be giving your calendar information to third parties. Google already has it, but you will also be sharing it on the Make platform, and that is something you should always keep in mind. First you must create the bot The first thing you should do is create a bot on Telegram with BotFather. To do this, write a message to the bot @BotFather and write to you as if you were a new user. Type the command /newbot to create a new bot, to which you have to give a name to identify yourself and a unique username to access the bot whenever you want. When you do it, it will give you two things, first the username and address of your bot to access it, and second an access token with various figures and letters. You have to save this token to use later. In the message that Telegram will return to you, will also give you a link to the bot you createdwhich will basically be t.me/@botname. This will be important for later. Also you can use BotFather options to customize your botputting a profile image, a description or whatever you want. We have explained all this to you in our post about BotFather. Once the bot is created you must enter and run it with the /Start command so that it remains active, even if doing so does not respond to anything. Now get the API of an AI Now you need the API of an AI. We will use the Free Gemini APIwhich although it has some limits in its use, is more than enough for a little use. To get it go to the website aistudio.google.com and sign in with your Google account. When you do, go to Dashboard and click on API keys. in here, click on the option Create API key which you have at the top right. Now you have to click on the option Create API key that appears at the top of the screen you have created. This will open a window where you have to create the project for which you are going to use it in order to identify it, for example “Secretary Bot”. When you create the project, you can now create the API. And by the way, if you want something more advanced, We have also explained payment alternatives to the Google API. In Basics you have articles where you can see the prices and how to get the ChatGPT APIthe Claude APIthe DeepSeek API wave Qwen API. Now create the workflow Now it’s time to create your workflow. For this, you will have to enter Make.com, and create a new scenario. This will take you to a screen where you just have to click on the add button to add the first module, and then to the right of each module click on + to add another adjacent one. But to do this, you will have to configure each module before chaining the next one. We are going to guide you and explain to you the four modules you should add and how to configure themas well as then scheduling the scenario to run every day at the time you want. 1. Add the calendar module To start, you have to create a new module. On the screen that opens, choose Google Calendarand in the options click on the module Search Events. You will have to sign in with your Google account. In the configuration window, you will have to add the following elements that we are going to list: Calendar ID: Choose the primary calendar or the one where you have the data of the meetings or elements that you want to summarize. Start Date: Paste the following: {{formatDate(now; “YYYY-MM-DD”)}}T00:00:00Z End Date: Paste the following: {{formatDate(now; “YYYY-MM-DD”)}}T23:59:59Z Single Events: In this field, choose the option Yes. When you have everything, click on Save. If you want, click below Run eleven so that Make takes a look at your calendar, and so in the next module you can put options related to the results obtained. 2. Add the text aggregator Now you have to add a next module chained with the calendar. In the applications press Toolsand inside click on Text Aggregator. Now, enter the module, and in the field text you will have to choose the options 1.Summary and 1.Start. If you get confused, just by clicking on the text field a window with suggestions will appear. In it, search for Google Calendar suggestions, and in the results click on the options Summary and startso that when filled in they appear with the number 1. If they do not appear, first do a Run eleven with the calendar module alone so that they appear when creating the Text Aggregator. 3. Add Gemini into the equation With what we have done so far, the automation analyzes your calendar and obtains the events. Now it’s the turn of send it all to Gemini so that it then generates the response. For this, choose the module Geminiand link the AI ​​using the API we obtained before. Once you have done it, it’s time to configure the module. In AI Model you have to … Read more

The oil reserves of the main powers, in a graph that summarizes how well China is doing

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Since the Strait of Hormuz was closed On February 28, after the offensive by the United States and Israel, the world as we know it hangs by a thread: going to a gas station to refuel, catching a flight or simply filling the refrigerator are mundane actions at risk, although at the moment what we have noticed the most is that prices go up and flight cancellations. The threat of running out of oil is getting closer. Oil is not just energy: having oil means having more time in the face of an energy crisis. The question is: how many days can an economy function without a single new barrel entering its borders? Well, it depends on two factors: how much you have stored and how you manage it. A few days ago the United States Energy Information Administration answered that question in the form of graphic for some of the world’s major powers. The result is uncomfortable and summarizes very well that China has done its homework. The EIA analysis shows oil inventories in December 2025, that is, just before the game began. We insist: it is not just the barrels that remain, it is a map that reveals who has room to hold out. That the Strait of Hormuz is closed It doesn’t affect everyone the same.. In March 2026, the United States and other IEA members they agreed a coordinated emergency release of reserves after the closure because approximately 20% of the world’s oil passes through that redoubt of a few kilometers. But the exposure to the shock is totally asymmetrical: while Europe and East Asia import massively from the Persian Gulf, the United States has record domestic production (13.6 million barrels per day) that drastically reduces your dependency. Although China appears at the top as the outstanding leader, paradoxically it is the most exposed in volume, but also the best prepared in reserves: it has room to withstand months of supply cuts. On the other side of the coin is Europe, the most vulnerable to this situation: its reserves are noticeably smaller and its own production is residual. Which countries are most and least prepared for the closure of Hormuz Inventory of crude oil reserves in some specific countries. EIA. December 2025 During 2025, China accumulated an average of 1.1 million barrels per day, reaching almost 1.4 billion barrels. To put it on scale, it is more than triple what the United States stores in its strategic oil reserve (1,397 compared to 413). And it has done so quietly: China does not publish official data on its inventories, so the EIA estimates them by crossing imports, exports and data from third parties such as Vortexa, Kpler and Kayrros. As collects Reuterssince 2024, Chinese national companies add emergency oil to commercial reserves following government instructions. In short: they have a second strategic layer, logistics deliberately designed to endure in situations of blockade, sanctions or conflicts. China has made good use of cheap sanctioned Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan oil to fill its deposits at bargain prices, according to a report from the US Congressional Committee. Estimated crude oil inventories of China and the United States in December 2025. EIA Although the United States strategic reserve has capacity for 714 million barrels, at the end of last year it barely had just over 400, its lowest level in decades, after large sales in 2022 and 2023. The explanation is that the United States used its reserve to mitigate inflation after the war in Ukraine and has not yet recovered. That is to say, America’s room for maneuver has been reduced and with reserves at 58% and the Strait of Hormuz closed, it is at its lowest levels since the early 1980s, when the SPR was still in the process of filling. If there is a phrase to define the situation of the old continent, it is that Europe is hanging by a thread. OECD Europe held just 179 million barrels in government inventories as of December 2025, a structurally weak figure for a bloc that imports more than 97% of the oil it consumes. That Europe is dependent on oil is not a surprise, but with the closure of Hormuz the need to change this reality is urgent. He underlying problem in Europe is fragmentation: each member state manages its own reserves under the minimum framework of 90 days of demand required by the IEA, but without a common European strategic reserve. So in the face of a severe crisis, the response comes disseminated and not unified. Japan takes bronze, with 263 million barrels accumulated in government reserves. However, what is most striking is its legal architecture: the Petroleum Storage Law Japan forces private industry to maintain 70 days of demand (about 220 million additional barrels) over the government’s 90 days. A public and private double layer system that makes Japan the most robust system per capita. Finally, Japan participates in the international joint storage system: the EIA excludes from its calculation the international joint storage inventories that Japan maintains outside its borders. That is to say, the real figure of Japanese access to crude oil in an emergency scenario is higher than what the graph says. In Xataka | After gasification plants and renewables, Spain has another energy lifeline for Europe: oil refineries In Xataka | The world’s rare earth reserves, laid out in this graph showing the brutal dominance of a single country Cover | EIA

One piece of information perfectly summarizes the book bubble in Spain: 95% of those published do not recover costs

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The Spanish publishing sector closed 2025 with historic figures: 76 million printed books sold and a turnover that was close to 1,250 million euros. A record. The cold water came a few weeks later, at the annual booksellers’ conference, where it was certified that almost half of the titles available on the shelves had sold absolutely nothing. Who says so. The data was presented by CEGAL, the Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Booksellers, in theXXVII Congress of Bookstores held in Valencia in February 2026and has been extracted from LibriRed, the confederation’s own tool, which monitors in real time the final sales in more than 1,000 independent bookstores and chains throughout the country. The figure includes novels, essays and comics, both new releases and catalog contents, but (importantly, we are talking about physical bookstores) Amazon and school textbooks are excluded. The specific data. They are that revealing: 13.2% of the titles sell a copy throughout the year. 19.4% do not exceed ten. Only 4.5% of the books that reach bookstores reach 100 copies sold, a threshold that often does not even cover the costs of a launch. In other words, 95.5% of the books available in Spanish bookstores do not have the slightest economic impact on the publishing industry, not to mention that they are directly deficient. In Xataka If you hate justified text, we have good news: you’re most likely right You bill more, you sell the same. This is the paradox that the CgK consultancy put on the table with its Book Market Data 2025 report: The sector reached close to €1,250 million in turnover in 2025, 4% more than the previous year, which represents a historical record. However, total units sold rose just 0.2%, and novelty units sold on average 2% less per title than in 2024. Further analysis of the report They spoke of a statistical illusion typical of inflationary markets, because what has actually grown is the average price of the book. And this benefits the large groups, with catalogs in high rotation. Why is this happening? In its analysis of the Cedal report, El País collected statements from editors such as Enrique Redel, from Impedimenta, who affirms that there are titles that are not published to sell, but to take up space on the shelves, especially by large groups. The strategy is to publish many titles assuming that most will fail, hoping that one or two best sellers compensate for the losses of the rest. More than 90,000 books are published each year in Spain, about 240 newspapers, and theReturn rates range between 30% and 40%. It is a feverish cycle of full-speed rotation, paradoxically inconsistent with the calmest of cultural activities. {“videoId”:”x7zmsee”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”11 WEBSITES to DOWNLOAD FREE EBOOKS for your KINDLE Xataka TV”, “tag”:”Kindle”, “duration”:”321″} Who can afford it. The two large publishing groups, Penguin Random House and Planeta, in whose shadow it has been for decades the Spanish industry, and which account for more than 40% of the copies sold in bookstores. Fleeing this suffocating single direction are independent bookstores, which offer more than twice the variety of titles than the large chains: more than 525,000 titles compared to 229,633. In this way, visibility is concentrated in a few titles that rotate for a longer period of time, while the rest are buried in excessive catalogs. Some reasons. When looking for factors that exacerbate this situation (the two large groups can suffocate the market with their continuous rotation, but there must be more compelling reasons for so few sales of so many titles), CEGAL points to self-publishing: publishing has been democratized, but the reader’s attention has not. A book without a publisher behind it, without distribution, without promotion and without prior prescription is born practically invisible to the market, and it is normal that many of these launches do not sell anything. ¿AI provides tools to multiply these throws effortlessly? The percentages skyrocket exponentially. In Xataka They are not your imagination: the best-selling books are increasingly simpler and contain less elaborate sentences The difference with other cultural media is in the abundance of second chances. A film that does not perform in theaters can recover the investment in streaming, where consumption already rivals that of theaters. The book that does not sell in its first weeks on the shelf returns to the publisher, returns to bookstores in negligible quantities and is often physically destroyed after months languishing in warehouses. Perhaps finding new ways of dissemination and renewed lives for books would be the solution to this veritable overdose of books without readers. Header | Photo ofBree AnneinUnsplash (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news One piece of information perfectly summarizes the book bubble in Spain: 95% of those published do not recover costs was originally published in Xataka by John Tones .

the brutal ESA image that summarizes the geological violence of Mars in a single photo

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The noticeable changes in the mars landscape They are very slow. It is estimated that they may take up to millions of years to occur, as it is considered a fairly static planet in that regard. However, scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) have detected a change that occurred much more quickly. So much so that humans of the same generation have been conscious. From Viking to Mars Express. The High Resolution Stereoscopic Camera (HRSC) The Mars Express has taken some images that have caught the attention of the ESA scientists in charge of analyzing them. In them you can see a large area covered in ashes. These ashes already appeared in other photos taken by NASA’s Viking orbiters in 1976. However, there were much fewer of them then. It is surprising how much they have proliferated in just 50 years. volcanic origin. The origin of these ashes is quite clear. The volcanic material is known to be rich in ‘mafic’ minerals, which form at high temperatures. Olivine and pyroxene are two good examples. These minerals have a dark appearance, very similar to the ashes that appear in the photos. Therefore, it must have a volcanic origin. In addition, Mars is characterized by having great volcanic activity and by hosting the largest volcano in the Solar System: Olympic Mons. All clues lead to the volcanic origin. The wind spread or uncovered them. What is not so clear is how so many ashes have appeared in such a short time. ESA researchers believe it must be because of the wind. It may be that the Martian winds moved them, spreading them over a wider space, or that they uncovered them. Perhaps they were already there, but the wind moved the ocher dust characteristic of the surface of Mars that would be covering them. Comparison of Viking (left) and Mars Express (right) images A crater among the ashes. Something curious about the photo is that in it you can see many signs of the changes that the Martian surface has experienced over time. On the one hand, we see the aforementioned ashes. And, on the other, the 15 kilometer wide crater that appears in the photo between them. This is surrounded by a striking ring of apparently lighter material, known as an ‘ejector blanket’. It is a structure that is formed from the material thrown by the impact that formed the crater itself. In the photo you can also see some wavy lines inside the crater that mark where the icy material known to be under Mars has been spreading. Changes and more changes. This photograph, which in turn is located in an impact basin called Utopia Planitia, is the living image of how the Martian surface has been modified by impacts, volcanoes and ice that tries to escape between the cracks. Now, at least, we know that not all of these changes are as slow as we thought. Some occur in the blink of a spatial eye. Images | THAT In Xataka | In 2011, a collector bought a meteorite in Morocco. It has turned out to be direct evidence of thermal water on Mars

WhatsApp now summarizes your messages not read. The question is how the hell does it without reading your messages

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WhatsApp has released Its function of summarizing messages thanks to AI To avoid the classic case of neglecting the mobile for a while and finding 400 messages in a group that throws smoke. This needs an explanation regarding privacy, since WhatsApp has been presuming end -to -end encryption for years, which clashes a priori with which an AI can read those messages to summarize them. Why is it important. Goal has achieved something that seemed impossible: creating an AI that processes the content of your messages without anyone, not even the goal itself, can read them. The new function, available in the United States in the absence of global deployment, allows Goal AI Generate summaries of group conversations not read keeping point -to -point encryption. It is as if they had invented an employee with amnesia who can do his job but immediately forget what he has seen. The context. Technological ones live in the permanent dilemma between offering usefulness without destroying privacy, especially in the AI ​​era. WhatsApp promised encryptionbut that prevented any intelligent function. Goal has found a third way. What does happen: Your mobile figure messages with a password that only knows a virtual armored machine on target servers. The AI ​​processes the content within a sealed environment, generates the summary and deletes it instantly. If someone tries to spy from outside, the virtual machine “breaks” and stops working. What does not happen. Meta cannot access your original messages or store them. Meta employees cannot read the content processed by AI. Abstracts are not used for advertising purposes or linked to your identity. In detail. Goal has developed a technology called “Private Processing” –He explained it in his blog two months agobefore this announcement – that works as a digital panic room. The system uses special hardware that creates sealed compartments on its servers. Your mobile verifies that you are talking to the correct virtual machine before sending data. Your IP address is hidden through relays of third parties, and the system knows that you are a legitimate user, but not “who you are” specifically. The result: a “summarize in private” button that gives you the key points without reading everything. Yes, but. This technology raises risks that Meta is not admitting publicly. Trust is fragile because the company has a scandal history, from Cambridge Analytica even mass leaks through Open private messaging to companies without consent. What happens if a government forces to modify the system? There is also the idea of ​​the frog in a boiling water saucepan. Today they are armored optional summaries. Tomorrow will they be automatic suggestions, real -time translations or advertising based on “anonymous” content? The panoramic. This, in the case of a product as massive as WhatsApp, will mark the standard for private AI. Apple already has something similar with Private Cloud Compute. Signal, Telegram and Discord presumably will implement equivalent versions. Google will have to answer, although its business model based on collecting data makes this more complicated approach. WhatsApp precisely premiered advertising recently, but for now goes by. In Xataka | Goal AI in WhatsApp: 17 functions and tricks of the blue circle with the artificial intelligence chat Outstanding image | Goal

Francisco pointed to a “revolution” in his papacy. His legacy in the Church summarizes a handful of gestures

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When on the afternoon of March 13, 2013, Jean- Louis Touran He left the central balcony of the Basilica of San Pedro and announced that Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio had been the chosen new Pope of Rome, the world He knew that an earthquake was coming. Now 12 years later and just after his deathIt is time to evaluate whether that tremor even occurred. The Pope of the end of the world. This was the aforementioned Francisco before a completely crowded San Pedro square: “You know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my cardinal brothers have gone to look for him to the end of the world. But here we are.” A month ago, Benedict XVI had resigned from the position exhausted by the amount of existential problems that harassed the Church and what everyone expected were changes. Ratzinger’s papacy had understood himself as a transit solution: as a church that won time to prepare for the challenges that the 21st century was raising. In the light of the headlines we are seeing in these hours (“A social and reformer gale“), we would run the risk of thinking that Francisco gave that battle and won it. But shortly we examine in detail his pontificate we see that it was not exactly like that. A change radical of ways. This is the first thing that caught the attention of Francisco’s arrival to Rome: the change in forms. Live in the residence of Santa Marta (instead of in the pontifical apartments), their simple clothing, its animosity, slyness and vitality … As I said in July 2013 British conservative journalist Andrew Sullivan: “What impacted is not which He said, but as He said it: kindness, humor, transparency. “ That raised endless expectations (Sullivan’s article is called, in fact, “This extraordinary Pope“). Francisco’s big problem is that these expectations have not been met – or not at all. Because? Well by What Sullivan said: “I have waited a lot of time to listen to a Pope to speak like this: with kindness and frankness, reaffirming established dogmas with sudden and radical exceptions that are not exactly exceptions, although, without a doubt, They sound as such “. In that”Sound as such“Everything was. Who expected something much more transformative, I was waiting too much. A very aesthetic papacy. In fact, an aesthetic ‘too much’ papacy. Francisco was 23 when the Second Vatican Council began, he had been in the Seminar for two years. It is, in a lot of sense, the generation that was formed with the council and that have integrated into their way of making the touchstone of the century: the Vatican II was a pastoral and non -doctrinal council. The center of the council was how to take the message from the Church to the twentieth century and not if that message should change. Francisco has made exactly the same in his papacy. He has been a very aesthetic pontificate, with good intentions and facing the gallery: but he has also radically failed in his deepest changes. A theological shipwreck. A clear example is that of the death penalty. On August 2, 2018, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith announced a change in catechism of the Church around this matter: what “for a long time (…) was considered an appropriate response to the seriousness of some crimes” became “inadmissible, because it threatens the inviolability and dignity of the person.” Until that time, especially with John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the Church had had a huge role in the abolition of this type of penalty. However, the catechism had not been modified because a) it was understood that there were historical circumstances (very rare and very few) in which this penalty could be justified yb) because it was very difficult to justify that ‘inadmissibility’, theologically speaking. Therefore, when the change was announced, the key doubt was justification. And, many years later, the answer is that there has really been none. It is something that has repeatedly apson: with The sacraments for divorced in Amoris Laetitiawith The blessing for homosexual couples in Supplicans fiducia or with The Latin Mass in Traditionis Custodes. Francisco has taken many steps, but has not achieved theological anchors that will develop doctrine in that sense (in large part because “progressive” theology is a wasteland right now). A papacy less and less clear. Little by little, that frankness and clarity of Francisco has disappeared from ecclesial documents. His great projects (such as Sinodality) They have remained nothing and the division of the Church is increasingly deep. Thus, the statements of Rome that have always been characterized by their clarity, began to become ambiguous so that each group could consider it a compromise solution. A legacy to the search for a successor. So much so that the next conclave will be the one who Decides Francisco’s real impact. Almost all its reforms can be reversed in an eye open and close. If your successor follows your steps, it is very likely that the changes begin to permeate deeply. With great problems and on the edge of the schism, but they can permeate. If the next Pope does not follow Bergoglio, only one thing will have changed: the hope that things can change. It will be very difficult to believe in it. Image | Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service In Xataka | After Francisco I, the war: the existential battle between traditionalists and progressive for the control of the Church

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