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TikTok has dodged the bullet of the US veto. Although it has not been free

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TikTok has announced through a press release the creation of a new one joint venture with which it seeks to meet the demands of the United States Government. This operation will give rise to a new subsidiary majority controlled by a group of American investors close to the president of the country. The agreement. TikTok now operates in the United States under a new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. The joint venture allows Bytedance to retain 19.9% ​​of the new company, with the rest under the control of three companies: Oracle, Silver Lake Management and MGX. The constitution of the new subsidiary will allow TikTok to continue operating normally in the country, complying with the executive order signed by Trump on September 25, 2025. The data. The main objective of the Joint Venture is to meet Trump’s demands. That user data remained in the United States was one of the main ones. “The majority U.S.-owned joint venture will operate under defined safeguards that protect national security through comprehensive data protections, algorithm security, content moderation, and software safeguards for U.S. users.” The algorithm. The content recommendation algorithm will be updated in the United States, leaving it in the hands of the joint company. The Oracle cloud will be in charge of ensuring this, and it will be specifically designed to make recommendations based on data from American users. Although the United States has gained access to the algorithm, it is not done with your property. Bytedance licenses, but does not sell its most valuable asset. Qor what is important. The fight between TikTok and the United States was not a whim, it was a geopolitical war around one of the most important social networks for China. trump even banned the application in the United Statesafter considering it a “risk to national security” in 2024, throwing a dart at Bytedance with a Protecting Americans from Applications Controlled by Foreign Adversaries Act made to measure. Within hours of completely shutting down, the president extended the deadline for the vetoin order to reach an agreement. Trump made it clear that, if China wanted reduce its tariff burden, the price to pay was TikTok. During 2025, the future of the social network was up in the air. Neither winners nor losers. There are two sides to this new agreement between China and the United States. For Bytedance, TikTok is not important in the United States only because of its unique users (less than 10% of its global base): it is also important because the bulk of creators that feed their algorithm from the country. Although it loses participation in TikTok in the United States, it maintains a user base. Maintains algorithm. Resolves tension without giving up one of your most precious assets. On the United States side, although it has not been able to take over the app 100%, it achieves one of its main objectives: that user data stays in the country. In Xataka | Young people have decided to stop posting (so much) on Facebook and Instagram. “AI-generated garbage” has free rein

November has been a black month for consoles. They no longer compete against each other, but against TikTok

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November 2025 is a month that many video game lovers have “celebrated” as the twentieth anniversary of Xbox 360. Pure nostalgiabecause beyond memory, November 2025 will be remembered by Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft as a black month. The reason? It is the worst November for console sales since, precisely, November 2005. In the recent report from Circana we can see a figure very striking: 27%. That is how much spending by American consumers – the largest market for video games – has fallen during November of this year compared to November 2024. Another fact: with 1.6 million consoles sold that month, it is the worst November since 1995, the year of launch of PlayStation. It is relevant because it was released a year ago PS5 Pro and this month of may nintendo switch 2but the high prices of both machines and video games, which have experienced a rise in recent months, have not been able to convince players. Not even on Black Friday. And the key here may not be that thousands of video games are released every month or the price of the console itself. The key may be that the console war has ended and a very different one has begun: the attention war. Console war? War of attention At Xataka we have discussed the topic on more than one occasion. Our ability to focus is broken. in a task due to the enormous amount of stimuli to which we are subjected. Everything competes for our attention. Matt Booty, one of the Xbox heavyweights, said A few months ago Xbox’s competition was not PlayStation. Neither does Nintendo. The competition was TikTok. It was not a mistake, since Satya Nadella, absolute boss of the American company, also stated that “the competition of video games is not other video games, but short format video.” The interesting thing is that it is not an unreasonable statement. To Netflix, especially as a result of the final season of ‘Stranger Things’you are being accusing of producing empty series so that people have them in the background because they assume that they will be consuming short videos on their mobile phones while watching the series. That’s why there are short dialogues and a long opening exposition at the beginning of the season so you can “forget” about having to follow anything else. We are in a moment in which we spend the day unfocused, without being able look at your phone every 15 minutes as a reflex act and where we have to look for strategies so that multitasking and division of attention does not affect us. Matthew Bell, one of the most influential analysts of the video game market, already told it a few months ago in his book ‘The State of Video Gaming 2025‘. In your radiographypointed out how the video game industry no longer competes against itself, but against a tremendously fragmented digital entertainment ecosystem. Our time is finite. If we take away the hours of work, rest, transportation and food, we have little time for the rest. In the United States, there are studies who do not agree on how much time an average user spends on TikTok. The data varies between 58 minutes and 95, but whatever it is, then there is YouTube, Instagram or Facebook. This, in addition, is having cognitive consequences: have less attention span than a fish has. If in 2020 the average human attention span was twelve seconds, now it is eight. A fish pays attention for nine seconds, and you have to pay attention to a video game. And the threat of TikTok? The AI There are those who are catching this situation on the fly and that is why microdramas have appeared. At first, the fever of series with one-minute episodes occurred in Chinabut is climbing. And it is logical that you think: if the competition for consoles is TikTok, who is TikTok’s competition? The answer is also easy: artificial intelligence. Those minutes in which users They use ChatGPT as if it were their psychologista virtual friend or even a coupleare minutes that are not spent on TikTok. It is still something as accessible as opening an app, exactly the same as on TikTok, but perhaps waiting for that response from an AI that is characterized by being tremendously flattering is more comforting for our brain than the umpteenth quick video created with… AI –the slope-. Because they are social networks, video platforms, consoles, artificial intelligence and even the metaverse – someday, if that -, the objective is the same: to keep us glued to the screen. And we cannot attend to everything. In Xataka | An unknown console has overtaken Xbox in sales: it is just the beginning of more ambitious plans

Researchers removed Instagram and TikTok from 300 young people to see if their anxiety decreased. The results speak for themselves

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The debate about whether social networks are the new tobacco for the mental health of the generation Z It’s been on for years. There are many young people who They can’t go without watching TikTok completing the streak with their friends, uploading stories of what they eat to Instagram or simply away from the cell phone. And this is something that can be tremendously harmful. What we knew. Until now we could make one of them, and parents undoubtedly remember this message when they spend many hours in front of the phone. Even companies offer the tools to be able to limit the amount of time that we spend in an app and it even applies limits to us. With numbers. But now science has shed light on this problem with a published study in JAMA Network Open that provides concrete data. The premise was simple: ask a group of young adults (ages 18 to 24) to reduce their consumption of social networks this week. Once done, we wanted to see if the symptoms of anxiety, depression or insomnia were reduced. And it is precisely the excessive use of social networks is related to depressionsince it generates social isolation, low self-esteem, cyberbullying or even physical disorders due to the effects of blue light from the screen. So… Does giving up the cell phone also improve the quality of life of young people? The study. To do so, they not only focused on what users said they did with their mobile phones, since lying can be very easy in this case. What they did was passively record what was done with the phone through the ‘digital phenotyping‘. In total, there were 373 participants in this study, of which only 295 were able to complete the intervention, which was completely voluntary. They only had to reduce consumption for one week of the main social networks: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and X. The results. Simply put, the results showed significant clinical improvement across key areas after just seven days. The data indicated that depression symptoms were reduced by 24.8%, anxiety by 16.1% and sleep problems fell by 14.5%. Interestingly, the study found that the effects were much more pronounced in those participants who already had symptoms of moderate or severe depression at the start of the experiment. Don’t let go of your cell phone. A priori, one might think that when a young person automatically leaves social networks aside, their cell phone will be of absolutely no use to them. But nothing could be further from the truth. He digital phenotyping revealed that although social media use fell from about 2 hours a day to just 30 minutes, total screen time increased slightly by 4.5% and participants spent 6.3% more time at home. In this way, users replaced the infinite scrolling of TikTok with other digital activities such as messaging, browsing the internet or even playing games. However, despite still being glued to the screen, mental health improved. This reinforces a theory that is gaining weight among experts: the problem is not the screen itself, but how we use it. The study points out that objective use time has a weak association with mental health, since what is really harmful is “problematic use”, such as negative social comparison or emotional addiction to platforms. Easier apps to leave. We can all have more ‘affection’ for a specific social network, which is surely more difficult to stop using. In this case, it was seen that it was easier for users to reduce the time they spent on TikTok or X. But Instagram or Snapchat were the “hard bones” to beat. Specifically, 67.8% of Instagram users and 48.8% of Snapchat users failed to comply with the reduction and continued to use them significantly during the detox process. It is not a treatment. Although the percentages sound like a victory, it is necessary to maintain the usual scientific skepticism. Dr. John Torous, co-author of the study, warns in statements collected for him New York Times that reducing networks “would certainly not be your first or only form of treatment (for mental health problems),” although it is worth experimenting with. This focuses on the fact that the study has some limitations such as the lack of a reference control group and it was not seen how long the detoxification process from social networks lasted. But what did not improve was loneliness, since eliminating these social networks in people can have the opposite effect by also cutting the connection link that unites them with other people. Images | Panos Sakalakis Vitaly Gariev In Xataka | Social networks were once a place to tell our lives. Now the trend is different: “zero posts”

TikTok wants us to disconnect from TikTok. Without leaving TikTok

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Today there is an asset that is almost as valuable as our money: our attention. Apps and services try capture our attention for as long as possiblesometimes using dark patterns to get it. If there is an app that is a tremendous attention eater that’s TikTok; has even been responsible for the appearance of the term ‘doomscrolling’. Now they want to give us tools to combat it. Wellness news on TikTok The app has just announced new measures focused on “relaxing, disconnecting and building healthier digital habits.” For this they have added a new section called ‘Time and well-being’ where we can see the time we have spent in the app and also do some extra exercises. Image: TikTok TikTok already allowed us to check the usage time and set daily limits, but now this section has been renewed with more functions to promote disconnection. The first is an affirmations journal, where we can put how we are feeling and share it if we wish. It also has a meditation section with guided breathing exercises and also a section with relaxing sounds. In addition, there are several badges that we can get after checking various settings and watching a video with tips for having healthier digital habits. Disconnect from TikTok, but without leaving TikTok TikTok’s proposal to prevent us from falling into an endless spiral of ‘doomscrolling’ is to give us tools to disconnect, of course also within its application. A seamless plan. Furthermore, they are tools with a high gamification component which in the end end up adding screen time and promote new habits to continue using the app, such as sharing your “daily affirmations” or getting the medals they give us after completing tasks. The functions come at a time when there is a strong debate about the impact of technology on adolescent mental health. There are several countries betting on a radical solution: Completely block social networks for minors under 16 years of age. AI companies are also facing public scrutiny following several controversial cases, such as teen’s suicide causing ChatGPT to launch parental controls. Prevention measures are coming, but the doubt of its true effectiveness It’s still in the air. Cover image | Cottonbro Studio, Pexels In Xataka | People Blaming ChatGPT for Causing Delusions and Suicides: What’s Really Happening with AI and Mental Health

The trend of adding protein to coffee was born on TikTok. And capitalism has taken note of this “functional coffee”

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Drinking coffee is a very personal thing. You can do it because you like its flavorbecause you want to take advantage of its health benefits or even because you want that caffeine ‘shot’. It is also a social drink with that classic “let’s have a coffee”, but in recent years, coffee has also become a functional drink. Reason? The need to add protein to everything. And coffee chains have not been slow to surf the trend. The ‘profess’. Proteins are one of the pillars of a balanced dietbut if we do intense and regular sports, its intake becomes essential. The ideal is to get it from food, but protein powder (whether vegetable or whey) It is a quick and easy way to increase daily grams. The “normal” thing is to have a smoothie, but in 2021 a trend appeared on TikTok: the ‘teacher‘. Basically, it is the combination between ‘protein’ and ‘coffee’ and it is what you are imagining: enrich a coffee with protein powder. Hacking coffee. Named As ‘broistas’, a term that can be somewhat derogatory and combines ‘gymbro’ with ‘barista’, there were those who went directly to a cafeteria, ordered a long coffee and mixed it with their protein shake. Here the search is to convert coffee into a strictly functional drink that provides caffeine that allows you to perform more during the training session, burn more fat if that training is going to be cardio and add a few more grams of protein to the daily count. Dutch Bros menu Dutch Bros.. Evidently, coffee shops have taken note. The entire food industryIn fact, she has been on the protein diet bandwagon for years, with very particular labeling and higher prices in foods that have one or two more grams of protein per 100 grams than the unenhanced version (which is a ridiculous amount). And, as we say, the coffee shops have not wanted to miss that train of body worship. If people come, order a coffee and add it to their proteins, why not offer the combination directly? Thus, at the beginning of 2024, the coffee chain Dutch Bros. -very direct competition from Starbucks, at least on US soil- launched a series of protein drinks. Coffees like the Salted Caramel Protein Latte or the Salted Caramel Protein Mocha have 20 grams of protein and no added sugar. The key is their reduced-fat protein milk to which they have added proteins -casein-, and little by little they have been opening the range of protein versions of their most popular coffees. starbucks. Also in the American West, but somewhat further north, this protein coffee thing resonated. Starbucks wasn’t going to stand by while customers demanded something the competition was already offering, and just a few weeks agothey launched a protein drink line within your menu. It depends on what you choose, but there are milk foam options that provide about 15 grams of protein per drink in a large size, to others that use milk with whey protein that provides between 30 and 35 grams of protein per drink. As is logical at Starbucks, there are plenty of drinks available to choose from and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be a fad: it’s here to stay. Tressie Lieberman is the company’s chief brand officer and commented that it is something that “responds to the growing demand for protein by consumers.” And other companies are preparing their strategies, like Peet’s Coffee with its ‘Vitality Menu‘ with protein lattes. Necessary? I know esteem that the market for this functional coffee is valued at 4,000 million dollars and that it will reach more than 14,700 million by 2034. It is the consequence of that aforementioned cult of the body, especially in younger consumers, because it is an aid to reach the necessary grams of protein in a simpler way. However, there are those who are skeptical. Eating protein, especially if you practice sports, is fine, but nutritionists already warn that, while an essential nutrient, protein “should not be treated like fairy dust that we sprinkle on everything.” In the end, it all depends on each person’s nutritional needs and how convenient a shake is… or the pleasure of getting that protein from food. Images | Xataka, In Xataka | In the 16th century it was believed that coffee was a satanic drink. So Pope Clement VIII decided to “baptize” him

The dangerous Tiktok fashion that can destroy your smile

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Have perfect teeth with a good aligned and especially completely white It is not easy to get. But given this aesthetic need, there are many products that have been viralized that promise rapid dental whitening, ‘natural’ and under cost that They have been viralized in networksand everyone has in common that they use activated carbon. A product that has flooded the market, but that According to experts Consulted by Infosalud can have a completely contrary effect. Miracle. We all want to have a miraculous solution for our problems, and above all it does not cost us too much effort. In this case, activated carbon tooth pastes seemed ideal to have the perfect smile without having to go through the annoying dental whitening that they can do to us in a specialized clinic. But, as the saying goes, ‘the cheap is expensive’. The product. Activated carbon is a very porous black powder that is obtained from materials such as coconut shell or wood. In a classic way it has been used In the hospital sphere Because of their ability to absorb toxins, so it has been used to treat those who suffered an poisoning produced for example by a drug overdose, as it has surely been seen on some occasion in a film or series to be very appealed. And using this property of ‘entrapment’ is where marketing lies behind that activated carbon can be the perfect bleach. They precisely sell it through the ability to ‘catch’ ‘and eliminate teeth spots, leaving them whiter. Reality. Despite its great popularity, there is no solid scientific evidence that supports what the influencers say. An article published in 2023 entitled “Effectiveness and abrasiveness of activated carbon as a bleaching agent: a systematic review of in vitro studies” wanted to give a little light. After analyzing 208 articles on this matter, they could conclude that dental pastes based on activated carbon have a lower bleaching effect “than other alternatives and can be considered as less safe due to their high abrasive potential.” Also the American Dental Association (ADA) opted for making an article where literature on this subject is analyzed, and saw that abrasive nature is a big problem. The consequences. Having an abrasing effect causes enamel wear irreversibly, since it is not regenerated. And once the enamel is wearing up, the dentin is exposed, an internal yellowing layer, which can cause precisely an opposite effect to the one who wanted to be: perfectly yellow teeth. But ending this protection layer makes the tooth nerve more exposed, which makes an external stimulus such as cold or heat the sensitivity increases much greater. This is something similar to what can be felt after finishing a dental whitening treatment in a clinic. The negative effects do not stay here. The rough texture of coal can irritate the gums, causing inflammation and even gingival recession. And if we also add that many pastes with activated carbon do not have fluoride, we can also find long -term decay. The experts. They have a fairly unanimous opinion regarding the use of this type of products. As Infosalus collects, the president of the Council of Dentists of Spain points to these pasta “do not eliminate spots, or bleach the enamel in a quick and economical way.” But it adds to “the use of activated carbon in the teeth can mean serious oral health problems.” Safe alternatives. In the case of wanting a smile as if Photoshop had been done, it is best to go to a dentist to receive the best tips. In this case, advice on treatments that have been scientifically tested may be received. For example, there are whitening pasta that do have evidence when using polish agents such as carbamide peroxide or hydrogen peroxide in low concentrations that are completely safe and effective for daily use and have the support of health authorities. Images | Tony Litvyak Chris Slupski In Xataka | We are a little closer to fulfilling the dream of the dentists: teeth that grow again

Openai has just presented Sora 2 with own Tiktok -style app. This is outlined a new wave of viral videos

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You open the mobile and, in a few seconds, you see yourself inside a scene that did not exist a minute ago: you are the protagonist of a clip that seems really shot, with movements and rebounds that feel coherent. Mechanics has no mystery, you record a brief take to capture your voice and face, and the app “place” on stage. The striking thing is the feeling of control, you can chain planes and maintain the state of the world without anything falling. There begins the game of Sora 2. To understand what Sora 2 supposes to look back. The road opened in 2022, when Chatgpt He placed the generation of text at the center of the technological debate. That impulse gave way to image models and, in February 2024, to Sora’s first versiona prototype that already showed permanence of objects and some visual coherence. The competition soon react: Runway with his Gen-4 and other projects marked the pattern of a market in full boiling that now receives a new chapter. What’s new in Sora 2. Openai describes this model as a jump comparable to that in its day GPT-3.5 was for the text. The big difference is in physical loyalty: if a ball fails the hoop, bounces on the board instead of teleporting, a common error in previous systems. You can also maintain the status of a scene between plans and follow more complex instructions. In addition to video, it generates voices, effects and sound landscapes, which makes it a much more complete video-audio tool. The app: Cameos, Remix and Feed. Together with the model An application arrives Designed to use it social code. After a rapid face and voice verification, the user can be inserted as cameo in any scene and share the result with their contacts. The app allows you to remix videos of others and navigate a Feed which adjusts to preferences through natural language. Openai ensures that the experience is designed to encourage joint creation, not passive consumption, and that it opens under invitation in iOS. Welfare and security: controls and limits. The company led by Sam Altman He insists that his application does not seek to catch the user in an infinite scroll. It is designed to prioritize known people and encourage creation more than consumption. Base restrictions are applied for adolescents, as a limited number of generations and stricter permits in cameos. To this are added parental controls from chatgpt and the possibility of revoking any use of your image. There will also be human moderators for cases of harassment. Is it free? As we say, the application of Sora 2 gradually opens in iOS, with an initial deployment in the United States and Canada. Openai promises to extend it to more countries, although for now it is not available in Spain. Access requires invitation and can also be requested from the Sora.com website. The service starts free of charge, with use limits that depend on “the computing capacity.” In addition, the subscribers of Chatgpt Pro, the 200 dollars per monthThey have access to a Sora 2 version with higher quality, and the company plans to enable the model via API. Some failures remain. Among the spread examples appear anime fighting, explorers that shout under a snowbird or acrobatics that respect rigidity and flotation. The model manages to give the impression that the failures belong to the character himself, not to the algorithm. It also allows you to insert a real person into a scene with recognizable voice and appearance. Even so, Openai admits that errors abound and that general coherence is far from perfect, although it considers that the progress with respect to Sora 1 is evident. Sora 2 raises a scenario in which videos cease to be just a consumer product and become a shared game space. The key is in that ability to turn anyone into the protagonist of a clip ready to circulate. It may be a fashion of short duration or inaugurate a more participatory creativity stage. What seems clear is that Openai has returned to place the focus on the daily user, with a proposal designed to trigger waves of viral content. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | Chatgpt is already able to buy things for you: OpenAi has just launched a missile to the Amazon flotation line

The “Tiktok template” marks the way to follow for the rest. It is the formula for Chinese technology to enter the United States

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The agreement of Tiktok For the application to remain in force in the United States It is making begg. It is not for less, because it is in the core of a great Commercial War between the US and China. In addition, it also represents something that goes far beyond the application itself or its operation: it establishes a model that could open the doors to other Chinese technologies to operate in US territory. How Tiktok would survive in the United States. According to the leaks of the Wall Street JournalTiktok will operate in the United States through a new company controlled at 80% by US investors such as Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz. The remaining 20% ​​will remain in the hands of Bytedance and other previous shareholders. The key is that the US government will have a direct seat in the Board of Directors of the new company. Why is it important. Until now, Chinese technology companies in the United States only had two options: being prohibited or selling completely American competitors. This “Tiktok template”, as Kevin Xu, founder of the Newsletter Interconnected, mentions it, introduce A third way: technological licensing under American majority control. As the expert explains, “this model opens the door for more critical, strategic and advanced technologies to flow from China to the United States.” The real award. Beyond Tiktok, this model could be applied to sectors where China dominates the global supply chain. Let’s think about byd wanting Sell ​​electric cars in the United States, Catl supplying batteries To American manufacturers, or Hesai distributing Lidar systems to robotics. These are technologies where Chinese companies have a considerable technological advantage and are ready to deploy today, while US alternatives could take years to be available on a large scale. The rules of the game. To work, xu Explain That Chinese companies will have to accept staying with a minority and passive participation, renouncing part of the commercial benefits in exchange for the “privilege” of selling in the US market. They must also find the perfect mix of politically related investors and companies with the White House to assemble the company that is responsible for managing the product in the United States. Between the lines. “This was a purely political problem from the beginning, so it could only be resolved with a political solution,” Recognize XU himself after years chasing the case of Tiktok. The analyst explains that neither technology, nor national security, even the laws matter. According to Xu, what works is to identify the most powerful figures and tie them in a network of conflicting but attractive interests that is difficult to reject. And now what. The Tiktok agreement, which Trump He says he will confirm this Friday With Xi Jinping, he could mark the beginning of a new era in technological relations between the two countries. That Tiktok continues in the United States is a decision that will not leave anyone indifferent, both for supporters and detractors. The template is ready, now we need to see who uses it first. In Xataka | The United States and China seem to compete in ia. The reality is that they play completely different sports

China has made Tiktok a currency

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Madrid has been the place where something historical has happened. Something unpublished. The first “technological barter” of the new commercial era between the United States and China. Both powers have agreed a frame (one “Framework “) For Tiktok to pass to American control. The difference is what each part has decided to communicate to its citizenship, although we have heard the rest of the world. And that says a lot about the priorities of each country. Why is it important. China has turned Tiktok into the horse of a chess where he no longer gives technological concessions, but changes them for economic access. US Treasury Secretary Scott Besent has confirmed the “Frame for an agreement on Tiktok“, But the real conditions will be known when the call between Trump and Xi Jinping arrives next Friday 19. Between the lines. The statements of both countries show divergent strategies: The United States focuses on national security and property. China Emphasize the “Chinese characteristics” of the algorithm and the “intellectual property rights”. This difference is not accidental: China is establishing that its technology has commercial value, not just regulatory. The time chosen to announce antimonopoly research against Nvidia is not coincidence either. China He has accused Huang giant to violate competition laws related to Its acquisition of Mellanox in 2019. He Timing He speaks for himself: in Madrid he was negotiating about Tiktok, but China also wanted to remember that he also has ways to pressure US technology companies. The context. This is the fourth round of conversations in four months between the two world economic powers. The American tariffs to Chinese products They have oscillated between 145% and current 30%. China maintains 10% on US products. The next tariff pause expires in November. Two months seen adding urgency and pressure to negotiations. Growing pressure. Research to Nvidia is the best example of an uncomfortable new reality: Western technology companies depend more on China as a market than China of them as suppliers. China represents 13% of Nvidia’s total salesand the company has failed to send Your H20 chips specifically designed for the Chinese market for US regulatory obstacles. Evolutionary. The Tiktok agreement could sit for a precedent for future technological negotiations. China has indicated that you could license intellectual property rights, including algorithms, instead of completely transferring technology. This model would allow a certain control over technology while meeting the US demands. And now what. Commercial details are still a secret, but some analysts cited by BBC They suggest that Oracle could be part of the buyer consortium. The fire test will be whether the agreement manages to give a folder to concerns about national security, or if you simply make up for changes in paper property. The next commercial conversations, scheduled for a month, will determine if this technological exchange model by economic access extends to other sectors. China has already shown that you can use its antitrust regulations as a pressure tool. And that makes the Chinese market a commercial weapon as effective as US tariffs. Outstanding image | Solen Feyissa In Xataka | China has been hoarding copper for months. And the rest of the world are dedicating ourselves to look

In the Tiktok era, our laptops are still horizontal. Lenovo’s idea: a rotating panel

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There are countless vertical content that we see daily on horizontal screens. This text, without going any further. Also a Tiktok video They share us by WhatsApp, a short, an article, a book or a PDF. The programming too It is very grateful for a vertical screen. The problem is that if we use a laptop, we have no option. The screen is horizontal yes or yes, and it does not seem viable or makes a lot of sense to make a vertical laptop. Well, Lenovo has had an idea of ​​the most peculiar: a laptop with a screen that rotates. This is the Lenovo Thinkbook Vetiflex Concept in vertical mode | Image: Xataka Lenovo Thinkbook Veriflex Concept. That is the name that receives this peculiar device that the company has taught during its conference in IFA and that from Xataka we have had the opportunity to try. The device, at first glance, is a conventional laptop, but if we throw up the upper right corner we can pivot the 90 degree screen and put it vertically. The Windows interface, of course, adapts to the new format as it does on tablets. How it works. Between the rotating screen and the rear support there is a hinge. Unlike other devices, such as the roller laptop (which we have also been able to throw the glove) or the TV Samsung the serothe mechanism is manual. It does not turn automatically. To my surprise, the turn is very, very fluid and soft. Another thing is that it transmits rigidity, which does not do so. To turn the screen you have to pull this corner | Image: Xataka On the other hand, the hinge does not support several positions (for the cover photo I had to make some juggling). The screen can only be put in vertical or horizontal, not in intermediate positions. Something that, everything is said, has all the meaning of the world because why we would like to have an inclined panel 45 degrees. It shows that it is a concept. The hinge is perfectly exposed to the outside. It is not seen with the naked eye, but the mechanism can be seen if we look from above or on the lid when we pivot the screen. That is something that, if you want to launch it commercially, would have to change. It would be enough to accumulate some dust inside to cause a failure. For that same reason, folding mobiles have a kind of cap protecting the hinge. This is how the hinge area is seen from behind | Image: Xataka The thickness of the screen is similar to that of a conventional laptop | Image: Xataka Another aspect that seemed curious is that the screen cannot be pivoted with one hand. By pulling the upper right corner, we have, in turn, to hold the laptop chassis with the other hand so that it does not move. Surely here you have to make concessions in one or another address: or a resistant hinge that endures long -term or a lighter hinge that allows the operation with one hand. The idea is very cool. The Lenovo Thinkbook Vrtiflex Concept has a 14 -inch panel, weighs 1.39 kilos and I must recognize that it feels surprisingly natural. The feeling has been like the first time I opened a folding mobile (curiously, Motorola Razr It’s now … Six years, my God, how time passes). At first it is strange, but when you have done it a couple of times and you have lost the “fear of breaking”, it is natural. As much as changing any vertical to vertical tablet. Moreover, I find it more natural than folding a convertible, without going any further. Horizontal, the laptop passes through a normal and current laptop | Image: Xataka Personally, I can imagine using such a laptop. For productivity, I think the horizontal format serves me better, but if I am working on a topic and I have to read documentation, or it is good for me to have more text on the screen or, simply, the new chapter of One Piece has just left and I want to read it in conditions without changing the device, it sounds good to turn to turn the portable screen. Will you see the light one day? From Lenovo they have insisted that it is a concept and, as such, leaves several unknowns on the table. The first is its durability. From the firm they have not confirmed what expectations have in the hinge because, after all, it is a device fresh out of a laboratory. The second is if it will be launched at some point. Folded, again, it’s like any other laptop | Image: Xataka Lenovo invests 2,000 million dollars annually in R&D. Some of the products you develop never see the light. Others are prototypes or concepts that feel the bases, which are the seed, of products that are then launched. And I know well because I had in my hands the first folding portable concept quite a while before Light saw in the form of a final product. We do not know if we will see this implementation in a product at some point, but it must be said that it could make sense in certain cases of use. Be that as it may, I have no doubt that Lenovo has a job ahead, starting to hide the hinge better and remove such a delicate mechanism from dust and/or the inclement ones to which a laptop can be subjected when we carry it in the backpack. Images | Xataka In Xataka | Lenovo is clear about its strategy to connect its products: obsession with the AI ​​ecosystem

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