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If your intuition tells you that “more intense color are richer,” science has good news for you

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Cardiovascular diseases follow being the main cause of death in the worldbut this scourge can begin to control thanks to the most colorful foods of the supermarket. A new and thorough review study systematic published in Nutrients has put the focus on carotenoidsthe Natural pigments that give their vibrant color to fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, carrots or spinach. What are exactly carotenoids. Carotenoids are a group of more than 600 compounds that plants, algae and some bacteria produce naturally. They are responsible for the red, orange and yellow tones of many foods. Among the best known we can highlight the lycopene that is very present the tomatoes, the beta-carotene that is in carrots (and can get to give us an orange color on the skin) and the Lutein o Zeaxantine that are in green foods. Components of great importance for humans. Humans cannot produce these carotenoids, as with some vitaminsso we depend on the diet to obtain them. But his fame is not free: they act as Powerful antioxidantsneutralizing the free radicals they produce Oxidative stress and ends up damaging the cells and the genetic material itself. In addition, the study highlights its anti -inflammatory properties or its ability to improve the cholesterol profile by reducing oxidation of ‘bad’ or LDL cholesterol. This is something very relevant, then The oxidation of LDL is the trigger to form the atheroma plates In blood vessels, which is a key risk factor for Atherosclerosis. That is, the hardening and obstruction of the main arteries of the organism that can finally cause a heart attack. Evidence on the table: real food vs. supplements. The researchers, led by a team from the European University of the Atlantic in Santander, analyzed 38 of the most relevant studies published in the last decade to answer a key question: does the carotenoid intake prevents cardiovascular diseases? But beyond this, they also wondered if The supplements that can be found work or a varied diet is better. Having them in blood is associated with a healthier heart. The observational studies of cohorts that followed large groups of people for years, are quite consistent: those who had higher concentrations of serum carotenoids presented, in general, a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Specifically, there was an inverse correlation with hypertension, the rigidity of the arteries and several inflammation markers. This suggests that a usual consumption of rich foods in these compounds is a good cardiovascular health indicator. Do carotene supplements work? This is where the thing is complicated. The studies that gave the participants carotenoid capsules showed results that were often contradictory. On the one hand, when the lycopene was given in supplement, he recorded an improvement in the endothelial function of patients who already had cardiovascular disease, but not in healthy volunteers. In the case of lutein, a triglyceridesand with beta -carotene the significant effect was null. This is something that surprised the researchers, but even more they were amazed to see that by providing several carotenoids together the effect was more effective than with the use of an isolated carotene. This already gives us an important clue. Real food wins the game. The clearest verdict came from dietary intervention studies. When participants were provided with foods such as tomato or carrot juices, or they were indicated to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables in the diet, the benefits were more notable and consistent than with the pills. Interventions with tomato juice in lycopene managed to reduce key inflammatory molecules in atherosclerosis, while increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables improved antioxidant capacity of “good” or HDL cholesterol. In this way, scientific evidence suggests that carotenoids have to be consumed in ‘groups’ to have a greater effect. The conclusion is clear: we must not replace the vegetable. On many occasions we try to supplement what we do not like with herbalist treatments. This is not ideal in this case, since the cardioprotective effect of the carotenoid seems to be amplified with other compounds that the original food such as fiber or vitamins presents. But it also adds to the need to complement it with other fruits and vegetables. And you don’t have to become obsessed with tomato and carrot in this regard. There are a lot of fruits and vegetables that can be included in the diet in a varied way so as not to end ‘hating it: peppers, pumpkin, broccoli or kale are some of the examples we find. Time is vital for your protection. As in medicine, the effects are not usually immediate when a change in the habits of a patient is made. In this case, long -term observational studies show the strongest results, that is, It is the sustained habit of consuming these foods What really protects the heart. A good diet is fundamental. This conclusion is no secret to us, since there are many studies that point to important benefits of following a good diet. For example, the Mediterranean diet It can help us stop the aging of the brain. Although it is also a reality that there are many diets such as potato diet either Miracle diets In general, they are a pathology to face it in the absence of nutrients or a subsequent rebound effect. Images | Claudio Schwarz Kenny Eliason In Xataka | We have just discovered one of the best kept secrets of the Mediterranean diet: its compounds

We have centuries studying the different types of clouds. What tells us the shape and color of these atmospheric phenomena

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The atmosphere of the earth hides about 12.9 billion liters of watermore or less. And a good part of that water is in huge clouds that we see fly over our heads as if nothing. These huge atmospheric objects captivate our imagination in childhood, but we often stop thinking about them during our day. Knowing them can help us pay attention to them. What is a cloud The clouds are essentially water, a lot of water. Steam -shaped water, small drops and Even small ice crystals that remain in suspension in the atmosphere. This water becomes visible when condensed, generating a contrast with the blue of the sky. The clouds circulate in the atmosphere dragged through the differences in pressure and the wind that they generate. They also move as a result of the land rotation itself, since the solid surface of the earth does not rotate in the same way as the atmosphere. The clouds can be of very different types that we classify according to certain conditions, such as the height to which they occur. For example, when the clouds are formed at surface height, we do not even usually refer to them as such, but as a fog. But the fog is still a type of cloud. How a cloud is formed The atmosphere keeps water vapor, small H2O molecules that are mixed with the other gases that make up the atmosphere. The amount of water that the atmosphere can store in the form of gas depends on factors such as temperature and pressure. There is a threshold from which the atmosphere Water “sat”and that is when this water can begin to accumulate. This accumulation is good when the amount of water increases or because atmospheric conditions make the threshold reduce, and implies that the molecules go from being a gas in suspension to form microscopic water drops. When these drops, still in suspension, accumulate, the clouds are formed. Types of clouds and characteristics The clouds are usually classified according to two fundamental characteristics: Your altitude in the atmosphere and its appearance. According to its altitude, three types of clouds are distinguished (with an additional case), groups that the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) call of “high floor” (the highest altitude), of “middle floor” (intermediate altitude) and those of low floor (those of minor antura), to which we must add the clouds of vertical development. There are different terms with which referring to these clouds, for example we can speak sympleously of high, medium and low clouds. High floor clouds The high -floor clouds are those that are at heights between 5 and 13 kilometers on the ground, and include cirro, circoum and cirrostrates. Cirrus: According to Explain Aemetcirrus are clouds of the high floor, separate and “in the form of white and delicate filaments, or banks or narrow, white or almost white bands.” Cirrus. Piccolonamek, Commons. CIRCOUM: It is a thin layer of clouds, white and shadowless, “very small elements” in the form of grains or undulations. Circummers. King of Hearts. CIRROSTRATE: These clouds for their part acquire the appearance of a “cloudy veil”, also transparent and rather white, only that this type of clouds covers the sky, totally or partially, producing “halos.” Cirros and its characteristic halo. SeanMack Medium floor clouds The clouds of the middle floor are located at heights between two and seven kilometers, and can also be of various types: altocumulos, high, and nimbostratos. Altocúmulos: The altocumulus are already located at medium heights. It is a bank or cloud layer that can be white or gray. Its structure can varybeing formed by “tiles”, “rounded masses” or “rollers”, structures that, in turn, can be “partially fibrous or diffuse,” Explain Aemet. Altocumulos. Bidgee Altostrates: This layer of clouds usually has gray or bluish colors, it can also have a fibrous appearance, it is characterized by totally or partially covering the sky allowing to distinguish vaguely, but unlike cirrostrates, it does not produce halos. Altostrates. Famartin. Nimbostrates: These clouds form an already dark gray layer, with “appearance veiled by rainfall or snow precipitation”, rainfall that usually falls from it more or less continuously. Nimbostratos. Famartin. Low floor clouds The low floor clouds are those located at heights of up to two kilometers and can be of two types: strata and strata. Stratocumulous: Again clouds that can acquire a gray color, or, on other occasions, whitish with dark parts. Stratocumulous. DjClimber. Strata: Generally gray clouds, uniform base (relatively), which can produce drizzle. The halos in this cloud only occur when very low temperatures are reached. Strata. Couch-Scratching-Cats. Vertical Development Clouds Finally, vertical development clouds can also be of two types: clusters and cumulonimbos. Clusters: These are clouds that arise in isolation, dense and well -defined contours. These clouds develop vertically with the form of “protuberances”, “domes” or “towers.” Clusters. Piccolonamek. Cumulonimbos: Finally, the cumulonimbos are clouds that Aemet describes as “Amazacotadas and Dense”, of vertical development “in the form of a mountain or huge towers.” On his cusp, a top “smooth, fibrous or striated.” Cumulonimbos. NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division. How much water is there in a cloud? The clouds are ethereal objects, “cotton” and with a density low enough to keep afloat at a certain height in the atmosphere. However, they are also huge, so the amount of water they can house is enormous. A few years ago, a group of researchers proposed answer the question How much water is in a cloud. The truth is that the answer can vary greatly since the volume of these atmospheric phenomena can be the most diverse. However, the team made an estimate based on a 0.5 grams of water per cubic meter of cloud. The team took as reference an average cluster, an cloud that would have a cubic shape and a kilometer long. The result: this imaginary cloud would contain about 500 tons of water. Larger clouds, of course, would be able to house an even greater amount of water. In Xataka | “We are changing the clouds”: … Read more

Your pension tells a very different story

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In Spain, those who have worked as self -employed are that, upon reaching retirement, The amount of your pension It is significantly lower than that of its equals employees. This situation, a priori, seems entirely unfair, since, for setting a more or less close example, an autonomous electrician who works alone, will charge a salary similar to a salaried electrician for his work, and both pay a social security price that will then determine the amount of his Retirement pension. However, the main difference between the two is that, in the case of the wage earner, a part of that price is assumed by the company that hires it, while the autonomous does not do so in the same way. That difference is what causes the self -employed to retire a pension much smaller than employees. Difference of pensions between employees and autonomous. The difference between retirement pensions of salaried workers and self -employed remains considerable in 2025. According to the official data Of the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security, the average pension of the self -employed is 1,008.8 euros per month, while the employees of the general regime receive 1,665.5 euros per month on average. A relevant aspect is that this difference is even greater depending on gender. Autonomous men receive an average pension of 1,150.10 euros after retirement, while women receive 863.97 euros. This inequality is also due to the quoted years and the sections chosen during working life according to the data collected by Social Security. On average, this is a monthly difference of 657.72 euros in the retirement pension and more than 9,200 euros a year between both groups. The monthly quota: key to inequality. The pension gap between salaried and self -employed workers remains stable in the historical data, and has an obvious reason: most self -employed opt for the minimum contribution base to maximize their monthly fee. As can be seen in the lower picture, in the case of wage earners, both company and worker assume a certain percentage of the price for the employee, starting from a contribution base, being the company who assumes most of that cost and enters it in the Social Security on account of its employee. GUY Company Worker Total Common contingencies 23.60% 4.70% 28.30% Intergenerational Equity Mechanism (MEI) 0.67% 0.13% 0.80% Unemployment (indefinite contract) 5.50% 1.55% 7.05% Unemployment (temporary contract) 6.70% 1.60% 8.30% Fogasa 0.20% 0% 0.20% Professional training 0.60% 0.10% 0.70% However, the calculation of the self -employed contribution base is not made based on the salary he receives as in employees, but based on their net benefit and, depending on that amount, is welcomed by the adequate fee section. That section defines its minimum contribution base, although the autonomous can choose to quote for a larger base. Broadly speaking, so that a salaried salaried salaried salary is 1,600 euros, its contribution base must be about 2,000 euros. On the other hand, the autonomous electrician who works only from our example that receives the same net salary of 1,600 euros, will have a monthly fee of about 300 euros, but Your contribution base It will be about 960.78 euros. That implies that both charge similar wages, but the autonomous quotes for a much lower contribution base. Quotation sections and its minimum and maximum bases. THE PROBLEM: Most quote the minimum base. According to the Ministry statistics, of the 3,436,929 freelancers that exist in Spain, 2,858,865 are quoted for the minimum base for their net income or by 1.5 of the minimum base. Only 72,935 would be quoting for a base near what an salaried worker would have, which would be something close to 3 times or more than the minimum base. Returning to the example of our autonomous electrician with a net profit of 1,600 euros, it would be limited to a maximum price of 1,700 euros, which would mean an increase in its monthly fee to about 534 euros. The self -employed do not pay more quotation. In a first glance it may seem that an autonomous has a greater economic pressure than a wage earner. However, both contributions are close to 30% of the contribution base (it is an approximate percentage since it varies depending on the type of contract, sector, etc.). The main difference is that, as can be seen in the quotation box above, in the case of the wage earner the company assumes a higher percentage than the wage earner (although all part of the Gross Employee salary), while the autonomous is a company and employee in turn, which is perceived a greater impact on the relationship between net benefit and contribution base. How to save that gap. Since the totality of the quota of the contribution falls on the autonomous, to excessively elevate the monthly fee (and therefore its contribution base) to collect a retirement pension near a wage earner it is a great considerable economic effort. So it is best to increase the price base progressively as it is approaching The retirement ageto quote for the largest possible base in recent years to raise the amount of the pension. The amount of the final pension is calculated on the contribution basis of the last 25 years quoted (300 months) and, if the base has always been low, the resulting benefit is insufficient compared to employees, which are quoted according to their real salary. Therefore, in more than 60% of the Spanish provinces, the Medium Retirement Pension Of the self -employed barely exceeds 1,008 euros per month and in no community the autonomous retirement pension is equal to the minimum interprofessional salary in 2025. In Xataka | Germany has had an idea to retire does not become urban legend: pension plans for six -year -old children Image | Unspash (Matt Bennett)

Every time someone tells me that his mobile is slow, I know where to look: the “paper” of WhatsApp

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WhatsApp’s storage is something problematic for a long time. So much that, over time, those responsible have had to develop different forms of release conversations spacevideos, photos and audios on our smartphones. Today they are enormous help, because I have proven that unless we install giant games or we love to carry a good videos library in 4K, the greatest enemy of our mobile is the WhatsApp download folder. Every time someone tells me that his mobile is slower, the first thing I do is look at how much free space he has. And bingo: WhatsApp is usually The biggest glutton in iOS and Android. WhatsApp tricks and tips to hide you to the fullest and maintain your privacy WhatsApp vs Storage, a not solved historical conflict. WhatsApp problems with the space occupied by their files come from the time when the iPhone had 8 GB and it was normal for Android to use internal storage and microSD cards. “That is the solution, more storage,” we thought. But no, unlike Companies like Samsung and its ‘hacks’WhatsApp never allowed their files to move to secondary memory, so releasing memory was generally deleting files or moving them. In the latter case, however, they stopped appearing linked to our conversations. That storage devourer called WhatsApp. A full mobile, a slow mobile. As the storage is filled, the performance of a low device. It is so in telephony, in tablets, in classical computer science or on televisions. An operating system and its applications need a minimum space to execute reading and writing operations. When the storage is almost full, modern systems try to release space by erasing caches and other temporal files, but where there is not, it cannot be taken out. In computers it was also important to have free space for the use of virtual memory, but with the Virtual RAM extension which include many manufacturers, the problem is also aggravated in mobiles. The recommendation: Disable this function That neither Google itself advises to use, because it wears the memory. In 2025 there are good solutions. Unlike what happened in its beginnings, today WhatsApp does have Good solutions to free space. Before looking at a capture like the superior, it meant frustrating and deleting video by video, photo by photo. Today, after detecting that a mobile is so full, the first thing I do and advise is, inside WhatsApp, go to ‘Settings – Storage and Data – Storage Administration’. Once we have selected the files to erase, the right appears down to the right. There we will find ourselves A complete menu where the application informs us how much space is occupying and how it distributes it. First, it shows, without ordering, files of more than 5 GB. Entering is a great filter to find some large attachment that will quickly help free space. It is also very useful the ‘forwarded of many times’ section, as it is very common for us to get the same video forwarded from different groups, and WhatsApp duplicates them. If we scroll, we will reach the space occupied by the conversations of our individual groups, chats or channels. By selecting each of them, we will see which files occupy more by order, and we can make a quick selection and delete, from the paper icon to which the red arrow of the upper image points. Get to reach this point. Deciding what to delete can be exhausting, no matter how easy the WhatsApp assistant is given to us. So it is best to avoid a situation in which WhatsApp ‘eats’ 32 GB, as in catches. How to achieve it? WhatsApp itself gives us the advice: ‘Activates temporary messages’. If we do it in our groups or chats, the messages will be deleted after 24 hours, 7 or 90 days, according to us. The occupied space will also be released after that time. If we want everything to still not be deleted automatically, but we want to better manage space, in ‘storage and data’ we can also Disable file automatic downloadchoosing according to file type if we want nothing to be downloaded automatically (which would be the ideal option for WhatsApps full of photos of groups that we do not consult), or only in Wi -Fi or Wi -Fi and mobile data. In ‘Settings – Storage and Data – Automatic file download’ we find the option to choose which files we want to be downloaded automatically. If we select ‘never’ we will totally control what our space is invaded and what not. On the iPhone, personally, too unleash the option ‘Save in photos’ that we find in ‘adjustments – chats’. I do it because that function makes all WhatsApp photos also go to the reel of iOS, which doubles them without any use for me. Other people, yes, choose to activate it for backup apps such as Icloud or Google Photos keep everything in the cloud. This WhatsApp option in iOS avoids duplicate files on the reel. If the deactive, the photos will continue to be on WhatsApp equally. More radical solutions. That WhatsApp storage can become a problem is not something invented. Personally, I have come to deal with mobiles that had 70 GB occupied by WhatsApp. When he has come to occupy so much, and we do not mean goodbye to everything, there is a magnificent more radical option such as ‘Export Chat’, which generates, if we want, a file compressed with all our conversation (in flat text) and all our files. In each of our conversations and chats we can export the historical content, choosing to save files or only the text. The pity is that there is no import option. It works very fast, so in seconds we can have the file in our memory, ready to be sent to a PC where we can have all the text, audios, videos and other files in the group. The background problem. WhatsApp is eaten a lot of storage, it’s true. But the real … Read more

The data suggests that Germany works less hours than Spain. The reality of your labor market tells another story

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The reduction of working hours and how to face it is an issue on the debate table in a good part of the world. In Spain, the reduction of working hours is in Parliamentary Processing Phase and it is expected that at the end of the year a working day of 37.5 hours per week will be carried out. Countries like Germany, United Kingdom or Portugal have performed pilot tests of the four -day work week to evaluate The effect of that reduction. However, why is the reduction of working on if, according to 2023 data of Eurostat, in Spain the Real workday Average is already 36.4 hours a week, while in Germany is 34 hours a week? The key after that figure is in the quality of the employment of each country and reveals that, even if it may seem, a worker in Germany does not work less hours than in Spain. The middle days. In response to Eurostat data, indeed, the days in Germany seem to be shorter than in Spain, with 36.4 hours a week in front of the 34 hours of Germany. However, if we segment that data by type of day, the expected thing would be for working hours to maintain the same proportion. Nothing is further from reality. By differentiating the Eurostat data Between full time and part -time day we find that the average number of usual weekly hours in the main employment in full -time is 40.2 hours a week in both Spain and Germany. Something similar happens when differentiating the part -time Where Spain leaves an average of 20.3 hours a week, while on average part -time workers in Germany do 21.8 hours. So, if the days of Spain and Germany are not so different, why is there such a remarkable difference in the average? The key is in the quality of the labor market. Precariousness. According to him Press report Prepared by an expert council appointed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy in 2022, 42% of workers in Spain suffer some kind of precariousness (Submployment, temporary contracts, low wages, etc.). Despite that, after the 2022 labor reform, it changed The contract model expanding the use of the contract full -time indefinite. According to the 2023 INE data13.3% of the workforce in Spain worked part -time. That is, the data indicate That in that year, 15,454,000 employees worked full -time, while 2,580,900 did it part -time in Spain. Instead, the German labor market is much more fragmented in that aspect. In 2023, 31% of this country’s workers worked part -time, According to data of the Federal Statistics Office. This difference in full -time employment and part -time contracts makes a big difference in the calculation of the final average of weekly hours worked, since both variables are taken into account. Active retirement. To this is added the enormous success in Germany of the model of “Minijobs“, in which workers complement studies or retirement with part -time jobs for a few hours a week. official dataaround 13% of retirees between 65 and 74 years in Germany, they continue working, either out of economic necessity or by personal choice. On the other hand, in Spain that percentage drops to 4.08% of the retirees who choose to continue working with some or none modification in your workday. Average working life in Europe. Source: Eurostat That makes, according to Eurostat dataGermany’s working life is 39.6 years, while in Spain it is 36.3 years on average. That is, a good part of German workers work less hours a week in part -time jobs, but they do it for more years than Spanish workers. In Xataka | Some researchers have analyzed the working day in Spain: the same thing that 40 years ago is worked, but in worse jobs Image | Eurostat

How to unlock ancient iPhone when they are deactivated and tells you to try again in years

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Let’s explain How to unlock the old iPhone They have operating system versions prior to iOS 17. From that version you can configure the iPhone so that if you put the security code bad many times you can restore it or the iPhone is reset. But with the previous versions that does not happen. In versions prior to iOS 17, if you make many mistakes with the security code the iPhone is blocked for several minutes, or even hours. And in some extreme cases, for many years. That is why we are going to tell you the alternative you have if it has happened to you on an ancient iPhone with a system before iOS 17. I already warn that it is not a perfect solution, since requires restoring the iPhone. This means that you will lose all the data in it if you did not make a backup before it was blocked. But well, at least you can use it again. Recover an iPhone blocked for years When you have an iPhone blocked completely and extremely, with a message telling you that you have to wait several years to recover it, the only easy way to recover it is Restore it completely on your ownlosing all the data that is not in a backup. For that, you will need to have a mac with macOS 10.15 Catalina or posterior and the Finder tool. If your MAC has macOS 10.14 MOJAVE or a lower version, you need to have itunes installed. You can also do it with Windowsas long as you lower the application Apple devices. Now, you have to Force the restart of your iPhonewhat is known as a hard reset. To do so, press and release the volume up button and then lower it, then hold the ignition button until the off option appears. If your iPhone has an Home buttonthen just hold the ignition button until the screen shows you the option to pay. Now, connect the iPhone to your computer with a cable. In doing so, open the application Finder, iTunes either Apple devices Depending on the computer you have as we explain at the beginning. When you access the screen, click on the iPhone icon on the list of locations. This will take you to your iPhone’s options, and you must click on Restore To do it on the device. This will begin the process of restoring the iPhone, format it to delete all data and reinstall iOS to stay as if you just bought it. It is possible that in the process you ask you to write the iPhone security code, but if you do not remember you can use other methods such as the password of your Apple account.

A declaration of intentions? What the closure of the APK tells about Spotify its sudden restrictive turn

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Spotify was founded in 2006 and it has not been until 2024 that has managed to be profitable. He has had gusts with green -green quarter and others in red, but this year has been the year, in capital and bold. This is a great news for the company, undoubtedly, and a tremendous chance that is right now, in full bonanza, when you have decided to stop that … Countless call Spotify modified APK. And that is right now, in this context, it is a small Leave vu of something we have already lived. Spotify what? It is no secret that looking for the right words on the Internet, any user could reach a modified Spotify application. An fully functional and illegitimate app that, in a nutshell, eliminated one of the great restrictions of the Spotify free plan: choose what song to listen. 27 Spotify tricks – Control your whole music like nobody! As every free service user will know, non -subscribers can only listen to music in random. They cannot choose which song reproduce, but choose a list and let the random mode do their own. In addition, only the songs can jump a few times and, of course, they are forced to listen to advertising. The modified APK eliminated advertising, allowed to choose songs and jump the songs as many times as we would like. Spotify benefits and losses | Image: Xataka The end. And if we talk in the past it is because Spotify, abruptly, without prior notice and from one day to another, has decided to take action on the matter. From a stroke, it has made these modified applications stop working. That has caused the users who used them and look for alternatives, thus creating An excellent culture broth for cybercriminals. Spoiler: Download a modified Spotify application is synonymous with potential problems. Leave vu. Obviating that the use of this application breaches the terms and conditions of the service and the user agreement, it is still striking that this decision has been applied overnight. Spotify is in his entire right, there is plenty of saying, but it is the accumulation of situations and the precedents that attracts attention. Streaming platforms, starting with Netflix and then all the others, decided overnight end the shared accounts. The difference is that Netflix did it when it went through a pothole, while Spotify has decided to stop the modified APKs while on the wave crest. Spotify has 675 million users of which 263 million are paying. Surely the impact of the modified APK is minimal, but its blocking is 1) normal and 2) a possible declaration of intentions. Image: Fábio Alves in UNSPLASH What if Spotify is getting serious? Now that Spotify has managed to be profitable, perhaps he is thinking of putting the points on the ís to all those users who violate their service. Using a modified APK is a clear violation of the terms and conditions of use, so it was evident that this was going to happen sooner or later, but there is something else that is a common practice in the service and through which Spotify has only passed on tiptoe. The shared accounts. The melon of shared family accounts has been opened several times, but it has never finished solving. Spotify Let it clear that the family plan is for up to six family members who live in the same direction, but the reality is that the verification system It is easily drawable. Spotify only verifies the introduced address, but does not seem to follow up like the one that does, for example, Netflix. Spotify shared family accounts have long been in the peephole, but their misuse has been passed. At least for now Spotify can surely know without much problem that your “family” of “six members” is distributed between Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Seville and a colleague who is from Erasmus in Brussels although all, for practical purposes, live in the same direction as the administrator. He simply lets him be, and that will be so until Spotify decide to stop being. And maybe that moment is now a little closer being, in any case, a risky movement. Spotify is alone. Especially since Spotify is a service that depends entirely on subscriptions and advertising. Apple Music, Amazon Music or YouTube Music have behind companies that sell and/or offer other more lucrative products or services than the musical product itself. Spotify, however, does not have that support and play with the number of subscribers is more movie. Image | Pexels Although Netflix has been afraid. Although users put themselves on a war on social networks and ink rivers were written about it, The reality is that Netflix has been great His crusade against shared accounts and the free plan with advertising. 55% of the new highs bet on the cheap plan with ads and the end of shared accounts have made the platform reach 300 million subscribers. Perhaps the end of the modified APK is the beginning of a new stage in Spotify. One in which shared accounts are with relatives, and with no one; one with high definition sound (plan that does not finish arriving) and one in which, finally, streaming music is profitable. Or maybe not, but the background is what they are. Cover image | Cottonbro Studio In Xataka | The great surprise of the Pódcast is not that people are listening to them. Is that he is seeing them

This tells us the DGT about getting the card without a teacher

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The DGT studies changing the self -school system and adapting to the United States. You may have read similar information in recent days. But, the truth is that the DGT has not proposed anything and the decision is not in its hands. So what is happening? There is nothing new. And there is neither date for possible changes nor a road map on it. That is what the DGT has answered to questions from Xataka. The origin of a possible change in access to the driving card is in a proposition that It is debating Europewhere it seeks to facilitate access to cars to a greater number of drivers. This is the last case but it is something that is discussed For almost a decade. That proposal, as we say, continues to debate and would have to continue passing filters that can mold it. That is, it is possible that Europe approaches its way of accessing the driving license to the United States. Or may not. Determined the final text, it would have to be voted and, subsequently, issue a directive that would force compliance. Only in that case. From traffic they also insist that only in the event that the directive was issued, the way to adapt these new demands to the Spanish environment would be sought. However, there is no clear proposal on the table since the text could leave in the hands of the member states Major or lesser wide sleeve to adapt the new reality to its regulations. Taking advantage of the Words of the Interior MinisterFernando Grande-Marlaska, who recently said that the possibility was being valued, some media and users on social networks have raised this whole issue to the news category, noting that the DGT would be behind a change in the system. The CNMC. Grande-Marlaska responses arrived in relation to a report presented by the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC), who bet on opening the hand with the requirements asked for self -schools and turn to a “tutoring” system where a driver can supervise the driving skills of an applicant before facing the exam. They propose, for example, that “the accompanied practices would be compatible with a possible maintenance of mandatory training obligations in self -schools if necessary, for example, establishing a minimum of classes in self -school before the driving accompanied.” A fire. In spite of everything, this report has caused a fire among the self -schools that consider “a danger to road safety” the proposals presented by the CNMC. Álvaro Llamas, president of the National Auto School Association (Anaes) wondered the following: If the objective is to improve the tormation of the applicants, we do not understand that any citizen is considered, with experience, but without training skills (…) and less in a vehicle without double pedal. If there is a sinister, who of the two is going to lace responsible? Who, who will have the tools and control to avoid it? And who guarantees that this tutor will not transfer the applicant for his bad habits and customs at the wheel? What happens in the United States? Depending on the State, Things are slightly different In each place in the country. However, in general, we can say that in the United States it is possible to drive from the age of 14 or 16 (depending on the place) accompanied by a tutor. This tutor offers his experience and warns the future driver. When he feels prepared, he goes to take the exam to obtain a license that will allow him to drive without being accompanied. Step by step. In addition to this change, in Spain the possibility of introduce license B1. This is already active in some countries Of our environment and would allow a 16 -year -old adolescent to access vehicles that do not exceed 90 km/h, a mass that does not exceed 450 kg and a power that does not exceed 20 hp. Measure defenders indicate that it is an evolution of the AM license, which is available since the age of 15 and allows conducting known as “Cars without a card”. They point out that the driver will be more familiar when he can take a license B, which has no power or maximum speed limit and can weigh up to 3,500 kg. Photo | Bas Peperzak In Xataka | DGT points: how they work, how to consult and how to recover them

A Catalan tells his most northern city experience in the world

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He Svalbard archipelago It is the most northern place in Europe. It is a huge ice cream far away above the Arctic Circle where about 2,500 people They are officially forbidden to die. There, right there, there is a Catalan. A Catalan? Indeed. Born in Sant Cugat del Vallès 29 years ago, Nil Rodés It has become the head engine of the Department of Geology of the University Center of the Svalbard Islands. And just being Interviewed in Via Lliure de Rac1 where it gives details about how it is to live very (but very) to the north of the polar circle. “A few months ago it is night,” Rodés said. “Between eleven and one, we now have a blue light (like the end of the day) and, for the month of March, there will be a sun.” It does not carry it very well and, in fact, the Catalan engineer takes advantage of the months of greater darkness to go outside the island. Of course, the doubt of whether “is something related to the Mediterranean blood” always because, in the five years he has been living in the north, he has met many people who worship the darkness “deep of the Arctic Night. An island without indigenous … There are no native peoples of the islands because it is too north. And the first stable inhabitants arrived with the mining companies that began to exploit the coal of the islands at the end of the 19th and early twentieth. Before that, there were only small fishermen bases that were used sporadically. The truth is that, anyway, there are not many natives in strict sense. It is prohibited to be born in the islands. When an advanced stage of pregnancy is reached, mothers have to go to Norway to give birth safely. In the same way, It is forbidden to die (and be buried) on the island. Except for cases of accidental deaths, no one dies there. … but with many bears. There are about 3,000 bears in the region compared to 2,500 people. 300 of those animals live on the main island (and that means that whenever you leave the settlement you have to be armed with rifles or guns of Bengal). In fact, there is a traffic signal in which the area is indicated in from which the safety of individuals depends on them same. And what does a “chief engineer” do on such an island? A good part of the activity of the islands has to see with education and research of all kinds (from questions related to climate or geology to studies on fauna and conservation of ecosystems). Do not forget that The “end of the end of the world” is right there. Rodés’s work has to do with the logistics and safety of all projects linked to geological research. As I say, the villages themselves are safe areas, but beyond those limits any unforeseen can be critical. To the limit of the impossible. According to Rodésthe site must really be overwhelming. A place where in winter it is not clear what is land and what is sea ice (beyond the “llaneza” of the land can give you important clues); and in which, for six months, they can only move with snow motorcycles. In recent years, the Svalbard Islands have only jumped to the media for the problems that the Ukraine War (and the associated sanctions)) created in the relationship between the capital of the islands (Longyearbyen) and a small Russian settlement (Barentsburg) at 50 kilometers. For the rest, it is a small haven of peace in Miad in one of the areas that more is changing due to climate change. Image | Janik Rohland In Xataka | A Spanish scientist in the most inhospitable place on Earth

Antonio Morgado reigns in Castellón in the professional premiere of Marcos Freire, the son of the legend: "My father tells me to suffer a lot"

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All eyes go to the child, of course. Also the attention of the press on the cloudy morning in Castellón, the beginning of the 2025 cycling season. Marcos turns…

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