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Nothing already starts sitting at Apple’s table. At least if we look at the price of your last phone (3)

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Nothing Phone (3) will have a departure price that starts from 799 euros, a significant difference if we look back with the Phone (1) of 2022. Our partner Ricardo Aguilar could try it in Londonand although he highlighted its multiple and interesting facets such as the new Glyph Matrix, its transparent and alternative design already marks the house, and the peculiarities of its software, there is also a conversation that we have not been able to overlook: the price jump and what this means for the future of the brand. Different, but not in price. When Carl Pei founded nothing in 2021his speech was crystalline: “We want to make exciting technology again.” This is a declaration of intentions and, in my opinion, quite successful, especially if we take into account the short – but intense – travel of the brand. The firm began to be based on a basis that surely you have also thought: the smartphones have become bored. After the launch of his first terminal, Nothing made it clear that we do not have to go through the 1,000 euros ring to find an exciting phone to use and solid specifications (although signatures like Xiaomi have also reminded us of it excellently all these years). The Nothing Phone (1) arrived for 469 euros with a clear proposal: good technical file, differential design and accessible price. A rebel telephone that directly challenged the status Quo de Cupertino and the rest of the sector giants. A fast climb. However, Nothing seems to be testing its users about their prices tolerance. The trajectory of its devices to date regarding the price says it all: the Phone (1) started in 469 euros positioning as a premium mid -range, the Phone (2) It rose to 649 euros, already entering high -end territory, and now the Phone (3) reaches 799 euros, practically at the most expensive flagship door on the market. In just three generations, Nothing has traveled 330 euros on the rise, a climb of 70% that places it to stone shot of an iPhone 15 or a Galaxy S24 (mobile phones of last generation, everything must be said). OnePlus syndrome. The parallelism with the previous business adventure of Pei is inevitable. OnePlus began in 2013 with the motto “Never Settle” and a OnePlus One at 299 dollars that promised flagship specifications at the price of mid -range. Pete Lau and Carl Pei then sold the concept of “Flagship Killer”, the mobile that would wobble Samsung and Apple from below. Seven years later, the OnePlus 9 Pro cost 909 euros, little less than a iPhone 12 Pro. The brand had completed its transformation: as an affordable disruptor to a premium player. Nothing seems to follow a similar road map, even with a higher climbing speed. Range fragmentation also reproduces this strategy millimeter. OnePlus created the Nord series to maintain a medium -end presence while raising the prices of its main series. Nohing has done the same: Phone for the high range, Phone ‘A’ For the medium-high, and CMF For cheaper devices. This segmentation allows to maintain the narrative of “accessibility” while the original positioning is progressively abandoned. The first and true flagship. Nohing justifies the price jump with undeniable technical improvements. The Phone (3) incorporates the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, a completely redesigned cameras configuration, or the innovative Glyph Matrix with circular micro-read screen. It also maintains distinctive elements such as its transparent design and a software experience that effectively differs from the rest. For Nothing it is The first and true flagship. The crossroads of identity. Nothing is at a turning point. He has demonstrated technical capacity to create competitive and visually distinctive products, but with his main range of devices he faces the risk of being trapped in anyone’s land: too much face to be the rebel alternative, too much niche to compete face to face with Apple and Samsung. The market has already seen this film with OnePlus, which after years of innovation and price escalation, It ended up being absorbed by OPPO and losing much of his original identity. Having an already defined and consolidated strategy, Pei abandoned OnePlus with the desire to direct a more creative approach in Nothing. In fact, the devices that until now has launched the company are the clearest example of that yearning for wanting to flash in a predictable industry and with symptoms of continuity. And now what. The market response to Phone (3) seems to be decisive for the future of Nothing. The firm maintains that it is its first and true flagship, with very complete specifications and a price that is still slightly below the proposals of the high range of Apple or Samsung. The success of this terminal can determine if the direction that Nothing has chosen has been the successful. Although well, everything must be said that It is not the only market in which you have set foot. Cover image | Nothing In Xataka | If the question is how good a European mobile can be, the answer is the Fairphone 6

The AI ​​race seemed to be matching. Openai has just hit the table with a model that points very high

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The career for artificial intelligence had been narrowing for months. Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 4 Opus and Deepseek R1 they had managed to cut distances with OpenAi models, presenting increasingly sophisticated reasoning. The overwhelming domain of 2022, when Chatgpt He left the competition bewildered and several steps behind, no longer defines the current board. Today, the fight is direct. But the firm led by Sam Altman It has not been still. It has just announced O3-Proa new reasoning model with which, at least on paper, it intends to reaffirm its leadership position in the industry. It is available from today only for some plans, excluding Chatgpt plus of 20 dollars a month. Access to the most advanced AI has a price. More tools and more context. The O3-Pro model part of the same base as O3but with an additional stage of reinforcement training and more inference resources. It incorporates full access to the tools that have made chatgpt a more useful tool: web search, file analysis, images about Python and customization through memory. These are functions that allow you to adapt the responses to the user’s history, access external sources in real time and solve complex tasks in several steps. Has: Search, code, document analysis and vision Customization based on active memory Context window of up to 200,000 tokens and maximum output of 100,000 More precise, but not faster. Of course, O3-Pro is not a model designed for speed. The answers usually take more than in O1-Pro, but in return promises to offer a plus in precision focused on complex tasks. Openai recommends using it when reliability is more important than speed. So we could say that it is a model designed for those who need things to go well, even if that implies waiting for a few more seconds. In any case, we are talking about AI models, so hallucinations can still exist and can give us erroneous information. Theoretically superior performance. According to internal OpenAI tests, human evaluators prefer O3-Pro against O3 in all tested categories: science, education, programming, personal writing and data analysis. It also achieves better results in academic Benchmarks: in competitive mathematics it rises from 86 % of 93 % O1-PRO, and in programming exceeds 2,700 EL points, compared to the 2,517 of O3 and the 1,707 of O1-Pro. Available now, but not for everyone. O3-PRO is now available for users of the PRO PLAN (200 dollars a month) and the Team Plan, where it replaces O1-Pro in the model selector. OpenAI has confirmed that Enterprise users and educational accounts will have access from next week. At the moment, access to the most powerful models is still restricted to those who pay for the most advanced modalities. The Plus Plan of 20 dollars per month, the most popular among private users, is not mentioned. And everything indicates that, for now, it will be out of this update. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | Someone put Chatgpt, Gemini, Claude and others to play a kind of Risk. The results could not be more disparate

Spain looked at Chinese cars as a salvation table. In the commercial war, the risk of dying drowning runs

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“Spain is in favor of more balanced relations between the EU and China,” with these words Pedro Sánchez, president of the Government, has defended his approach to China before the commercial war that is being freed and during the same. And the automobile sector has a lot to do. “Essential partner”. With those words Pedro Sánchez has defined the relationship that China should have with the European Union. The words have pronounced them during their meeting with Xi Jinping, president of the country. The Spanish is in a round of visits by Asia in which he is stopping in China and Vietnam. Both countries have been severely punished by the United States. China still maintains 125% tariff Despite the 90 -day truce that Donald Trump has granted. Vietnam had been punished with some 46% tariffs. The importance of words. This “essential partner” is not accidental and shows Spain’s approach to China in full tension for the commercial war that are pounding the United States and the Asian country. In fact, the words of the words of the European Union is unmarked as “partner, competitor and systemic rival”, collected by The country. Sanchez needs to play with tact with his statements. Only a few days ago, Scott Besent, secretary of the United States Treasury, said that “I am not sure if it was the prime minister or the Minister of Economy of Spain, who made some comments this morning: ‘Maybe we should align more with China.’ That would be to cut off the neck”, in words collected by The confidential. Xi Jinping, meanwhile, thanked Sánchez for the “firm will” to maintain good relations between the two countries, emphasizing that it is the third time that the president of the Spanish Government visits the Asian country, they point out in The world. The equilibrium game. Spain has encountered the most uncomfortable view at the right time. With the agenda already scheduled, it was seen if the president of the Government would be willing to go to China in the middle of the commercial tension with the United States. The single presence is seen as a Spanish approach to the Chinese side and, of course, It is unmarked from European politics that bets to get wet as little as possible. However, Spain has a good number of Chinese investments in our country. The commercial balance between the two countries It is still very unbalanced In favor of China (we import goods worth 45,174 million euros and export there products worth 7,467 million euros) but China has the key in key sectors. Putting the carpet. Without a doubt, one of the sectors in which Spain wants to influence is the car. China is disembarking in Europe. His commercial war with the United States will force him to disembark in greater force in Europe and Spain is a perfect gateway. With the fees to the electric car, the plug -in hybrids and the Chinese low ranges vehicles have A huge opportunity in countries like Spanish where “electricity” is not so developed. All their companies need to open markets outside China to seek profitability. If the perspectives are maintained, byd will be in 2025 One of the five greatest manufacturers of the world. Given this situation, Spain is clear that it wants to be a very important part of Chinese landing in Europe. The automobile sector is essential for Spain. Not only in its factories, you have to add ports that receive cars, distributors and a Powerful auxiliary and component industry. It is better for us. The biggest problem facing Spain is that it is best to open to China if you want to open your business routes in the automobile sector. When the tariffs of Chinese electric car were voted for the first time, Spain was favorable. A visit to China and a threat of attacking the Spanish pig directly (whose exports to China are key) He changed the Executive idea. But, in addition, other threats float in the air. In Europe, France or Italy remained firm in their favorable vote to tariffs on Chinese electric cars. Then, China ordered to stop investments In those countries and since then we have not had news of new approaches. At the moment, Spain has Chinese investments in different ports To receive and start distributing cars that arrive from Asia, the investment of Chery in Barcelonathe agreement between Catl and Stellantis For a battery plant in Aragon or the Extremadura projects to produce batteries for electric cars. But there are certain problems. In a first reading, it seems clear that if Spain has the opportunity to continue expanding its Chinese investments in the automobile sector to be key in the European car of the future and if you have a threat to its head of withdrawing investments or torpedoing trade between the two countries, the approach to China seems completely logical. The problem is to pull the rope tense, irremediably, on the other. The United States has already warned Spain that its position is not correct and some sectors are (obviously) worried. The direct impact In the automobile industry it is not too high but, for example, shipments to the United States of olive oil They have shot under the threat of tariffs. What can we expect? Given this context, Spain will have to play its cards to several bands. Approach enough to Beijing but without burning. It will be necessary to see if the United States maintains its commitment to tax trade with the European Union with a flat rate or if it extends tariffs by sectors, which can be an indirect attack on a specific country. A good example is the 25% tariff to the car. The United States government has repeatedly decided to pause its tariffs to Mexico or Canada but keeping them in the car market is a clear attack on these countries. Also to Germany, in Europe, which is The country that exports more vehicles to the United States. We will have … Read more

In full struggle with the US for world supremacy, China has hit the 55,000 million table

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The effort that Chinese lithography equipment is making to develop their own avant -garde machines is titanic. And, as expected, the Xi Jinping government is supporting these companies with multimillionaire subsidies. In fact, at the beginning of September 2023 he approved a game of no less than 41,000 million dollars Destined precisely to the companies that produce the equipment involved in the manufacture of integrated circuits. The achievements are already arriving, and are notable. SMIC and HUAWEI have opted, at least for now, for refining their lithographic processes and optimizing UVP lithography machines (deep ultraviolet) manufactured by ASML that they already have in their possession. Other companies, however, have chosen to develop their integration technologies relying on the new teams that Naura Technology, Amec (Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China) or Piotech Inc. have taken to point. This is the path that You are following Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC), the largest memory chips manufacturer in China. For China it is not a priority only the manufacture of integrated circuits China’s Ministry of Finance has confirmed that the general budgets of the country led by Xi Jinping for 2025 allocate approximately 55,000 million dollars to research in the field of science and technology, which represents a 10% increase compared to 2024. China only spends more money in the defense industry and the payment of interest generated by its debt. During 2024 this budget item was mainly allocated to the development of semiconductors, the artificial intelligence (AI) and space exploration. China needs to have its own UVE lithography equipment as soon as possible to produce avant -garde chips in an autonomous way The 2025 departure will essentially stop the same sectors that received a strong economic impulse of the State last year, but there is an important difference that is not overlooking. The integrated circuit industry received the support of the administration in 2024 and will receive it again in 2025. It is understandable that it is so. There is a lot at play. And it is that China needs to have its own extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment as soon as possible to produce avant -garde chips in a completely autonomous way and without US sanctions and their allies have any margin of maneuver. The other two sectors to which this budget item will go are the AI ​​and the Quantum computersso the industry that will presumably lose some economic support will be that of space exploration. The development of AI and quantum computers is crucial in full struggle with the US by world supremacy. In the country governed by Donald Trump he still carries the singing voice, although Deepseek It is greatly reinforcing China’s position. And as regards quantum technologies the latest milestones that this Asian country has achieved They allow you to look at you to the US. It will be interesting to verify how these strategic sectors evolve for 2025. Image | IBM More information | China Ministry of Finance In Xataka | China prepares the mate to the US: it will have its own UVE lithography team to make chips in 2025

Catalonia wants to triple the number of electric vehicles. Has put 1.4 billion euros on the table to get it

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Salvador Illa, president of the Generalitat, I announced this week The mobilization of more than 1.4 billion euros until 2030 for its impulse plan of the electric vehicle. Catalonia wants to lead The decarbonization objectives imposed by Europeand has several proposals on the table to achieve it. “We have the will, we have talent, we have companies involved and we have a leadership position in the sustainable and automotive mobility sector. Now it’s time to make decisions and adapt with a large degree of self -examination to take advantage of opportunities and capture future investments in clean technologies and intelligent mobility. “He has declared. The plan is cemented on five key axes, which reflect the measures and actions that will be promoted from the Generalitat. Load infrastructure display. The first step is to create a recharge network that can support the ambitious plans of the Generalitat. You want to get promoting an electric recharge network “well sized and capillary, as well as stimulating the demand for load points (with financial incentives to companies, institutions and communities of owners). There are no specific data on how many load points will be necessary for such a high objective, but the Plan details that the availability of sufficient electrical power will be guaranteed through the modernization and expansion of the current network. Impulse for the demand for the electric vehicle. Without a doubt, the most complex objective of the plan is given as The demand for the electric vehicle. You can’t electrify a city if drivers do not want (either They cannot) Go to the electric. Catalonia wants to make the purchase of electric vehicles more affordable through aid, although it does not detail what they will be. It will try to promote the industrial transition of the combustion motorcycle, as well as to increase the use of the electric vehicle in business fleets. To do this, a credit line with “advantageous conditions” for SMEs will be developed. The Generalitat’s own fleet will be electrified, and the price of electrified vehicles will be bonus. Improvement of the perception of the electric vehicle. A somewhat more ambiguous plan is to improve the current perception of this type of vehicles. Catalonia will invest in campaigns to “sensitize citizens”, as well as the business sector. Lead the industry. It is proposed to enhance local production and innovation in batteries, electronic components and smart mobility solutions. The focus on attracting foreign investment, promoting pilot tests of new technologies and talent promotion and promotion. Enhanced with the private. The plan contemplates “effective” governance by coordinating with the private sector. The electric vehicle table will be created, composed of public administrations, private agents of the industrial and energy sector, and mobility companies (recharge points installers, software development, etc.) It is also intended to digitize the procedures to the maximum and reduce the administrative burden to facilitate and decentralize competences. A great ambition, difficult execution. The Catalan government has put an ambitious initiative on the table, which intends to triple the penetration rhythm of the electric vehicle, fold the deployment of load points and favor 150,000 enrollments of electrified vehicles. Figures to be reached on a horizon of less than five years, Image | Toyota In Xataka | Volkswagen Before the unavoidable reality: there is little demand for electric car, there is little demand for Volkswagen FacebookTwitterFlipboardE-mail Topics

Thanks to this table we can finally understand how metals compatibility works

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Materials science is an exciting discipline. It is likely that some people seem unattractive, and it is a respectable opinion, but objectively it is about A very important scientific branch. Its purpose is to study the structure, physicochemical properties and the behavior of the elements with the purpose of Design new materials which can be used in a very wide range of industries. The kevlar used in The bulletproof vests and the diaphragm of some speakers, among other applications; the carbon fiber used in the aeronautical, automobile and sports industries; high performance alloys used, for example, in nuclear reactors and The turbines of the aircraft; or the Carbon nanotubes which are already being used in some electronic devices support the relevance of the science of materials currently. Rufosity matters. And a lot One of the properties that usually study material engineers is roughness. This characteristic identifies often imperceptible irregularities that reside on the surface of a material. To measure them, it is usually necessary to carry out a microscopic analysis, but the really important thing is that this knowledge allows researchers to design and manufacture new components. And it is that roughness is an essential parameter that conditions the performance, durability and applications in which a new material can be used. In fact, there are research groups and companies that are dedicated in body and soul to characterize new materials and measure their roughness. Michigan Metrology It is one of these companies. It resides, as we can intuit, in the state of Michigan (USA), and expressly dedicates itself to measurement, analysis and inspection of roughness and wear of surfaces. To carry out their analysis, it resorts to very sophisticated teams that are capable of precisely identifying the irregularities present on the surface of the materials through a three -dimensional exploration. The table we publish on top of these lines has been prepared by the American mechanical engineer Ernest Rabinowicz, and is the Bible for Michigan Metrology and other companies that are dedicated to material engineering. In fact, it is the authentic protagonist of this article. And it is because it gives us a lot of information about the roughness and sliding compatibility of a good part of the metals that we can find in the periodic table of the chemical elements. Two pieces work better together if they are metallurgically incompatible, or, what is the same, if the metals involved are not dissoluble with each other As you can see, Rabinowicz occurred to be placed on the horizontal and vertical axes of the table the symbol that identifies each metal. And at the intersection between each pair of them appears A very illustrative symbol that identifies whether these two metals are incompatible, partially incompatible, partially compatible, compatible or identical taking as reference their roughness. In the field of metallurgy this information is very valuable. And it is because metals that are compatible from a metallurgical point of view tend to adhere to each other, a process that increases friction and wear. As we can intuit, knowing precisely the degree of compatibility between each couple of metals is fundamental in the design of the sliding interface between two metal pieces. In fact, two of these pieces work better together if they are metallurgically incompatible, or, what is the same, if the metals involved are not dissoluble with each other. Image | Kaboomps.com More information | Construction Physics In Xataka | Copper has reigned in the chips industry for decades. It already has an unbeatable substitute: Ruthenium

Santi Giménez would have an offer from Milan on the table

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For a couple of seasons now, the Mexican forward Santiago Giménez has attracted the attention of the big clubs in Europe. And in his first year in the Eredivisie with Feyenoord he scored 28 goals in 50 games, while last season he recorded another 26 goals in 41 games. This season he already has 13 goals in 17 games with the Dutch team. Therefore, its value in the market continues to grow and attract the attention of the big clubs in Europe. Even this summer Giménez could have his first experience reaching a top-level league in the old continent. Well, according to Italian journalist Gianluca Di Marzio, Milan would have made an offer for the young forward to sign him at the end of the season. Santiago Giménez during a Champions League match.Credit: MAURICE VAN STEEN | AP Although Giménez renewed with Feyenoord until July 2027, The report from Italy indicates that Milan made an offer of $31 million dollars for a loan with a mandatory purchase option. Although other sources assure that it would be a definitive purchase. Likewise, we still have to wait for the Rotterdam club’s response for a transfer for Giménez. On the other hand, the Mexican is currently valued at about $38 million dollarsaccording to the specialized website Transfermarkt. Last summer Giménez already flirted with a transfer from Feyenoord to the English Premier League. Well, Nottingham Forest presented an offer to sign himbut the player himself rejected the transfer. Milan urgently needs a center forward in their team and If the signing of Giménez does not materialize, the report indicates that Darwin Núñez would be another optionAlthough more expensive, this move could cause a domino effect that would take Santiago Giménez himself to Liverpool as a replacement for the Uruguayan. Keep reading:Kylian Mbappé dissociates himself from controversy with Neymar: “I respect him a lot”Carlo Ancelotti sends a direct message to Real Madrid’s detractorsThey once again proclaim Real Madrid as the best club in the world

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