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Since the time of Aristotle, philosophers have never had it easy to do their thing. Until AI arrived

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Philosophy (thus, with a capital letter) promises to broaden our horizons, expand minds and illuminate the deepest recesses of the human condition, but there is something that always it has cost him a lot promise: employment. Before the pandemic the INE published unemployment rates of the main university degrees in Spain and it turned out that in Philosophy it was around 18.4%. It is not the worst data, but it is well above average. Ironies of life, now the same technology that threatens to destroy thousands and thousands of positions in other sectors is revaluing the figure of philosophers. Of course, we are talking about the AI. AI seeks philosopher. a month ago Henry Shevlinresearcher at the University of Cambridge, shared with his followers curious news on LinkedIn: his signing by one of the leading organizations in the field of AI, Google DeepMind. So far nothing surprising. An academic signing for a company that already employs thousands of people. The curious thing is that Shevlin is a philosopher and in his post he emphasizes that he joins the DeepMind staff as such. “Yes, royal title”, insist before specifying that he will be in charge of working in the field of artificial consciousness, artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the relationship between humans and AI. Is it a unique case? Not at all. And that’s the most interesting thing about it. The development of AI and the extensive (very extensive) list of challenges that accompanies it has made companies in the sector look with growing interest at a very specific profile: that of philosophers capable of helping them train their algorithms, anticipate the ethical and legal challenges (and risks) that may arise in the future and, in general, advance on a path so complex that it will require interdisciplinary teams. It no longer comes with technical profiles. At least 10… and counting. Recently Wired explored how the AI ​​industry is recruiting philosophers and collected an interesting piece of information. It is almost anecdotal and far from offering a global image of the sector, but it is still illustrative: according to its estimates, Google DeepMind already has at least 10 philosophers and Anthropic has four. These are not large figures, but in light of advertisements like Shevlin’s, the bet that universities they are doing for the interconnection between AI and philosophy and the growing interest of Silicon Valley by ethics experts, it is not unreasonable to think that both paths (artificial intelligence and critical thinking) will become increasingly intertwined. “There are many more”. That both fields look at each other with interest confirms this Iason Gabrielan ethicist and part of the team of Google DeepMind researchers responsible for analyzing the social impact of AI: “There are now many more philosophers in those areas,” explains to Wired. For reference, in 2013 only 1% of the jobs on PhilJobs (a leading job platform for philosophy professionals) were related to AI. In 2025 that percentage was already around 16%. Right now your search engine offers 11 vacancies if you do a quick search by entering the terms “artificial intelligence”. Are there more clues? Yes. Last year, during an interview with Tucker Carlson, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, revealed that in developing its models the company consulted with “hundreds of moral philosophers and people who have reflected on the ethics of technology and systems.” It may seem like an exaggeration, but the manager himself acknowledged that one of the issues that keeps him up most at night is the ethical drift of the tool. The focus he did not put it so much in “the big moral decisions” as in the “small decisions” related to the behavior of the chatbots. For example, what questions does ChatGPT answer and what questions does it not? How should you act when the user raises questions related to suicide? How to act in “delicate situations” and make the tool useful in them? How, if you take into account that as ChatGPT becomes popular, it faces users with increasingly disparate perspectives and approaches? These are not just theoretical questions. In 2025 a couple from California sued OpenAI when considering that his chatbot had encouraged his 16-year-old son to take his own life. What can a philosopher contribute? Silicon Valley’s interest in philosophers It’s not exactly newbut it is equally true that AI has reinforced its attractiveness. “This is probably the best time to be a philosopher since Aristotle was hired as tutor to Alexander the Great,” ironizes the philosopher Henry Ajder. It’s not surprising at all. Thinkers like him have been exploring key questions in the development, training and future of AI for years. Can there be an artificial consciousness? And one superintelligence associated with AI? If so, how to address it? Can we talk about ethics in AI? Is it enough for a machine to behave as if it understood or felt to be attributed intelligence? What if it is used for immoral purposes, such as undermining democracies, disinformation, or creating weapons? Is it always appropriate for AI to imitate human behavior? How to respond to “delicate situations” like the one Altman proposed? And the algorithmic biases that affect issues as delicate as diversity or equality? Influencing each other. As the philosopher Manu Collado pointed out in April an article of The Vanguard in which he analyzes the signing of Shevlin, Google hopes that the expert will provide “philosophical rigor when creating conceptual frameworks, clarifying terms such as consciousness, agency and intention and, perhaps most pragmatically in a business sense, anticipating ethical and regulatory dilemmas so that the company is prepared.” In short, achieve best chatbots and go one step ahead in the dilemmas and challenges that the development of AI may generate in the future. “Reason more ethically”. A philosopher expert in logic and metaphysics recently confessed to Atlantic that a company wanted to hire him as a consultant precisely to “train large language models so that they reason more rigorously about ethics.” The truth is that at this crossroads … Read more

If you thought that Renfe was taking… Germany is spending 100,000 million euros so that its trains arrive on time

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We complain a lot about Renfe (and a good part of those complaints, with reason). But although it may seem otherwise, Germany has been neglecting its railway network for decades at decadent levels. And just as they count According to the Financial Times, only six in ten long-distance trains arrive on time. However, the country already has a plan in mind, a plan that involves investing some 100,000 million euros in solving its punctuality problem. The problem. In 2000, 84% of German long-distance trains arrived on time. Today that figure has fallen to 60%. Already last year, an analysis The Financial Times placed Deutsche Bahn, the German public operator, below even the most late railway operators in the United Kingdom. Just like account The German Transport Minister, Patrick Schnieder, even warned in March that the situation threatened to erode public confidence in the institutions. In his own words, he assured that if the State is not capable of guaranteeing basic services, “democracy is harmed.” How we got here. According to the media, this deterioration has been the result of a series of poorly made decisions over two decades. In the early 2000s, the German government considered taking Deutsche Bahn public. The plan never materialized, but to improve the balance sheet for that hypothetical exit, network maintenance was cut. To this was added that between 2005 and 2010 the budget for railway infrastructure was, adjusted for inflation, 20% lower than in the mid-nineties, according to calculations from the FT itself. The icing on the cake came in 2009, when Germany constitutionalized the so-called “debt brake“, which forced the State to balance the accounts every year. This caused investment spending to systematically lose the battle against social spending. The current state of the network. Just like account According to the FT, 16% of the assets of the German railway network are classified as deficient or directly inadequate. There are bridges dating back to the time of Kaiser Wilhelm II and signal boxes installed in the 1960s that are still in service. In fact, according to DB InfraGo, the Deutsche Bahn division in charge of maintaining the network, 80% of all delays are directly caused by deterioration of the infrastructure. You have to open the tap. In 2025, Chancellor Friedrich Merz took advantage of a constitutional loophole to create a fund of 500 billion euros to renew the country’s infrastructure over the next twelve years. The railway is one of its top priorities since, of that total, Deutsche Bahn has committed 107 billion euros until 2029. However, Philipp Nagl, CEO of DB InfraGo, recognize to the FT that needs at least 130,000 million to cover the accumulated delay. And as he comments, every year, more assets reach the end of their useful life. How it is being executed. The strategy is being extremely drastic, closing entire sections of the network for months to rebuild them from scratch, instead of patching section by section. Furthermore, it is an atypical way of doing things at Deutsche Bahn, which historically had a tradition of keeping lines open while carrying out construction work. “With that method it would take forever,” explains Nagl to the FT. The number of active works on the network has grown by a third since 2024, to exceed 28,000 in 2026. The immediate consequence is more chaos in the short term. And the punctuality goal has been lowered to 70% and postponed until 2029. A real example. In one of the busiest corridors in the country, the one that connects Cologne with the Ruhr Valley, along which up to 280 trains circulate daily, the line has been closed since February. According to account In the middle, the 55,000 regular travelers must resort to more than 200 replacement buses, many of them stuck in traffic jams. In return, 81 kilometers of track, 50 detours and 12 stations are being renewed in five months. The person in charge of the project, Arno Jaeger, defined the medium as “a monumental task” with a budget of 800 million euros. To speed up the work, specialized heavy machinery is used. In fact, one of the machines, colloquially nicknamed Mamut, renews two kilometers of track per shift, four times faster than if they did it through the conventional method. It’s about operators. Beyond Deutsche Bahn, there are private competitors waiting for their chance. And just as account FT, FlixTrain, the railway arm of the Flix group, has reserved 2.4 billion euros to buy up to 65 high-speed trains that it wants to deploy from 2028. The Italian high-speed operator Italo has also announced its intention to enter Germany with an investment of up to 3.6 billion if it gains access to the network for several years. Both point to 2028 as a key year. Cover image | Deutsche Bahn In Xataka | The Spanish west has a forgotten train that it wants to recover. The problem: neither Madrid nor Europe are interested

They both believe that time proves them right.

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The US and China have signed a technological truce. However, as Chris Miller, the author of ‘The Chip War’in your newsletterthey have not signed peace at all. What they have agreed is a strategic pause in which both powers believe that time is on their side. Each one has their own theory of how they will win the game. And these theories are radically different, as can be expected in the current confrontation scenario. The Administration led by Donald Trump has made an important concession: has allowed Nvidia to deliver its second chip to some of its Chinese customers for artificial intelligence (AI) more powerful, the GPU H200. Their most advanced hardware is still subject to strict restrictions. However, this maneuver does not reflect any type of generosity: selling the H200 generates income for Nvidia and its allies, while the truly strategic chips (Blackwell and Vera Rubin) remain, in theory, out of Beijing’s reach. The Trump administration’s logic is this: if AI is going to be the engine of the economy and geopolitical power for decades to come, the US only needs to maintain its advantage on the technological frontier long enough for that advantage to become structural. At the base of its strategy lies the conviction that the general artificial intelligence (AGI) will transform the world irreversibly. The truce gives it time to consolidate that advantage and for its AI models to prove their economic value before China can catch up. The structural fragility of the truce The way in which the Chinese Government is reading the current situation is very different. When Chinese leaders talk about “major changes unseen in a century,” they mean a rebalancing of the industrial world order, not a revolution in language patterns. The most eloquent proof is the one that Chris Miller points out: If Xi Jinping was genuinely worried about running out of computing power, he would have accepted the H200 GPUs that Trump is so keen to sell him. And he hasn’t. Behind the scenes each party sharpens its knives for a new wave of supply chain conflicts China is playing with a different logic. Xi Jinping has warned to provincial governments that they should not treat AI as an uncontrolled spending race: “When developing new quality productive forces we should not rush or launch all at once (…) China must not abandon the old for the new. New technologies must be integrated into existing sectors.” This is not skepticism about AI. In fact, the Chinese leader has described it as an “epoch technology” comparable to the Industrial Revolution or the birth of the Internet. What he defends is a clear prioritization: first the industrial bases, then the digital superstructure. The inherent problem with a truce in which both sides believe they will win is that it is inherently unstable. Neither side has confused the technological truce with peace. China has continued to ship some rare earths to the US, while Washington has postponed several previously delayed restrictions looming over Chinese chipmakers. Still, behind the scenes each party is sharpening its knives for a new wave of supply chain conflicts. China’s current industrial push spans semiconductors, AI, biotechnology and batteries, and is focused on capital-intensive and relatively job-poor sectors. This strategy suggests that the Chinese government is willing to accept certain internal social costs in exchange for accumulating strategic capacity. The US, for its part, is betting that this capability will become irrelevant if AI rewrites the rules of the game before China can deploy it. Both bets are coherent. Both can be wrong. And that, more than any tariff agreement, is what makes this truce so provisional. Image | Gage Skidmore | Wikipedia More information | Chris Miller In Xataka | The condemnation that afflicts China: after decades of manufacturing a competitive desktop processor, it is six years behind

“Do you see horses today? Remove all barriers and over time people will be convinced”

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Volkswagen needs to sell electric cars. Many. As many as I can. Next year, European Union emissions regulations threaten significant fines for the company if they do not lower their CO2 records. And that is leading the company to push hard for the client to adopt this new technology. With all kinds of strategies. The horses. This is what Martin Sander has compared, Head of Sales, Marketing and Aftersales at Volkswagen from 2024, the combustion car in an interview given to the British media Auto Express. He has done so to exemplify why he believes that bad decisions are being made when it comes to pressuring the adoption of electric cars. “Do you know when horses were banned? Since when has it been banned to buy horses? You can buy a horse today. But over time, more and more people realized that a vehicle was much better to get from A to B than a horse. Now I look out the window and I don’t see many horses, I mostly see cars.” With these words, Sander wanted to make it clear that he considers that electric cars are better than combustion cars, but that forcing the customer to switch to electric cars may not be the best option. Remove the barriers. In his interview, Sander is clear about what Europe should do: “How can you convince the customer of a new technology if you only talk about the date when it will no longer be allowed to use those vehicles – vehicles that you have been using for the last decades (referring to combustion cars) – anymore? Remove all barriers. Let’s talk about what we need to convince customers: charging infrastructure, talking positively about the advantages of electric cars and the price of energy… over time, more and more customers will be convinced.” That is to say, Volkswagen’s sales chief is committed to letting the product do the talking and rejects the idea of ​​putting a deadline on combustion engines because, according to him, it should be the market that chooses without political pressures involved. This position of Sander is not new. Last March he already made statements very similar to Autogazzetean Italian media outlet to which he stressed that prohibiting the technology already present does not help customers view electric cars favorably. A theory that is not new. How our colleagues collect L’AutomobileFor the German manager, the debate on whether or not brands should jump to electric cars is adulterated since the European Union forces them to change the roadmap they would have followed if the new emissions regulations did not exist. This position has been repeated by the industry on numerous occasions. Already in 2023, when it seemed that the European Union was moving towards a complete ban on combustion engines, Carlos Tavares, who then directed Stellantis, pointed out that “The electric car by law is not the solution”. Even within the Volkswagen Group itself, those who only sold electric cars have defended it. Mate Rimac, owner of the company that bears his name that sells electric supercars and that for a few weeks It is no longer under the German umbrellahe assured a long time ago that Their cars were not selling because their customers felt attacked due to the pressure to jump into the combustion car. Yes, but. Although Sander’s words suggest that the electric car should and can convince yourself to the customer of a combustion car without the political pressures, one would have to wonder if Volkswagen would have invested billions of euros in new platforms, electric cars and factories if the European Union had not previously proposed a ban on combustion engines. And in the automobile industry, technology has rarely been imposed without political pressure. The truth is that If today we use unleaded gasoline It is because the manufacturers were forced to use catalysts and it ended up being ban the sale of leaded fuel for being too harmful. The Clean Air Act in the United States is now more than 50 years old and if Tesla is still alive it is because there Manufacturers like Toyota were forced to register a minimum of electric cars more than 20 years ago. They need to sell. However, the fact that the head of Volkswagen sales compares the combustion vehicle with a horse to demonstrate how outdated the proposal is compared to the electric car is not coincidental either. Last year, the European Union delayed the fines to be applied to all manufacturers that exceeded the limit of 93.6 gr/km of CO2, taking into account the average number of cars sold. For every gram exceeded and car sold, 95 euros were added. This led to fines of around 1,500 million euros for the company.. With the flexibility of the normthe EU will take into account the average emissions per car sold in the 2025-2027 period. That is, the manufacturers were able to pass the first year but they need to compensate it between 2026 and 2027 if they do not want to pay the fines. This forces Volkswagen to sell many more electric vehicles in the remainder until December 2027, which explains its offensive with electric cars under 25,000 euros. 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For the first time, Curaçao will play in a soccer World Cup. And only one of their players was born in Curaçao

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Curaçao has an area of ​​444 km2, fewer inhabitants than Almería and barely 16 years behind it. 16 years, of course, as an autonomous country after October 10, 2010 the Dutch Antilles were definitively dissolved and, with them, the vestige of centuries of colonization. More or less. Because they remain autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. That is to say, Curaçao, like Aruba and San Martinhave their own parliaments but depend on the Dutch force to defend their borders. They are also tied to their foreign policy. Peculiarities of a world that seems to have been left behind but that continues to remind him of the Netherlands and multitude of territories scattered around the world There was a day when the Dutch managed, administered and, of course, exploited their lands in favor of a metropolis that was thousands of kilometers away. Today those vestiges of the past are still more or less present. Between 2021 and 2023, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema, Prime Minister Mark Rutte and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands They took over to apologize for the exploitation and slavery of people for centuries wherever the Dutch were present. Today, the Netherlands cannot be understood without the immigrants from those territories. Nor does his team, which in the last Eurocup He participated with 16 soccer players who were children or grandchildren of immigrants African or Caribbean. But the Suriname or Aruba teams are not understood either. Of course, not to Curaçao either, the smallest country to compete in the final phase of a World Cup. globalist colonialism According to data from last year provided by the Netherlands Central Statistics OfficeOf the 18 million people who live in the country, there are more than five million people who are immigrants or children of immigrants. Of them, 2.1 million citizens are children of immigrants. Those five million people, according to FIFA regulationswould be eligible for the Netherlands if they have been residing in the country for more than five years. But of them, those more than two million people (to which the grandchildren of immigrants should be added) could also be selectable with the federation of their ancestors. They know it well in Curaçao. Of the 25 players called up for the 2026 World Cup, only one of them was born in Caribbean lands. Is Tahith ChongSheffield United player in England, born in Willemstadthe capital of the country that brings together half of the population of the entire territory. It is the result of a policy that began to be planted years ago and that has now germinated with the most attended World Cup in history. Opening participation to 48 teams was the perfect opportunity for Curaçao. With three nations such as Mexico, the United States and Canada already classified as hosts, Concacaf went from 3.5 World Cup berths to 6.5 (the “seventh” was played in the play-off with an African team). It was now or never. They explain in elDiario.es that the project was born from the hand of Gilbert Martina, president of the federation, who attracted Patrick Kluivert, a former FC Barcelona soccer player whose mother was from Curacao, to contact Dutch soccer players of Caribbean descent. And the project succeeds. He succeeds so much that today We only have one player born in Curaçao representing Curaçao. With three additional spots open for the North American and Caribbean Confederation, the opportunity to play in a World Cup was very attractive for those who decided to take a plane to play against Jamaica in a life or death final in Kingston and defend a tie that gave them a ticket to the most attractive competition in the world of football. The attraction of the project is evident in the statistics books. Of the 10 players who have played the most games for Curaçao since their emancipation as an independent team in 2011, nine are Dutch. The company has also raised interest among coaches. Since the arrival of Patrick Kluivert as coach in 2015, eight of the nine coaches have also arrived from the Netherlands, with a single exception from Curacao. Wearing the Curaçao shirt was the express (and only) ticket to reach a World Cup for these players, most of whom were unknown to the general public and undoubtedly without sufficient level to be part of Ronald Koeman’s plans where they were born. In fact, only five of them play in the Dutch first division. The rest of the players are divided between the second division of major leagues such as the English one or mid-table teams of lesser-known leagues such as the Turkish, Greek or Israeli ones. Use a “wild card selection” to guarantee a ticket to a final phase of a World Cup or a major national team tournament has been a common practice for years but such a “migratory movement” has never occurred. At the 2014 World Cup It was the only match where two brothers have participated wearing different shirts despite sharing the country of birth: Jerome Boateng defending Germany and Kevin Prince Boateng doing the same for Ghana. Iñaki Williams, a player from Athletic Club de Bilbao, also participated with Ghana in the 2022 World Cup in which Nico Williams wore the Spanish shirt. This time the paths did not cross. The debate about whether or not to call the best available is a tricky one. Alberto Edjogo-Owono, a well-known Dazn commentator born in Sabadell, defended the Equatorial Guinea shirt and recognizes that there is a debate within the footballer and another within the fan. This is how it was expressed in Africa Worldto David Soler’s questions: “A moral dilemma opens up for me: ok, on the one hand it’s fine, but of course. Be careful, I don’t want to be hypocritical. I was born in Sabadell and if I had had the level to play for the Spanish team, then I would have tried to play for the Spanish team, because it is the country where I was born, where I … Read more

AI has meant that so many apps have never been launched in such a short time. The problem is that almost no one is using them.

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A new research from MIT monitored the activity of thousands of developers before and after adopting the use of AI agents such as Claude Code or Codex. In their conclusions they have detected a singular “funnel effect”: many begin to use AI to “tinker” with the codebut few projects end in final software releases. Not only that: many more apps arrive in the application stores, but the interest they generate is practically zero. Hotfix blocks everything. When you start programming with Claude Codeeven without knowing how to do it, usually experience that feeling of “being able to do anything”, but although there are projects that manage to evolve and reach a successful conclusion, many remain in an attempt: the manual processes of quality control, code review or deployment They become bottlenecks for these projects, often carried out by people without a technical profile and without knowledge of software engineering. Producing more is not selling more. The MIT study, led by one of its economics professors, Mert Demirer, reveals another striking conclusion: producing more does not mean selling more. Although the volume of mobile applications that comes to the App Store or Google Play Store has grown spectacularly due to the ease of programming with AI, real consumption has not moved. There are many more apps, but the same consumers (and buyers), who are not downloading, trying or certainly buying more than they did. App failure. The vast majority of these new software products created with these tools fail spectacularly when it comes to capturing a minimum audience. The efficiency when creating them is not directly linked to the real usefulness of these tools or with the value that the market demands of them. The code surpasses us. Linus Torvalds already said it when speaking of how he saw the world of AI: “AI will be a tool, and it will make people more productive. I think vibe coding is great for getting people to start programming. I think (the code it generates) is going to be horrible to maintain… so I don’t think programmers will go away. You’ll still want to have people who know how to maintain the output.” His comment was a good prediction of what we are seeing now: too much code being distributed everywhere makes a review of that code necessary to validate it, but doing something like that at the rate that AI is adding code to these projects is unaffordable for human programmers, who are being overwhelmed. And costs are skyrocketing. The new AI agents that program consume a large number of tokens, which has made set off the alarms in companies like Uber or Microsoft. To mitigate the problem, a hybrid usage model is now being imposed: AI agents in the cloud, such as Claude Opus 4.8, are used to plan development, but then the code is written by cheaper cloud models, which are remarkably compliant, or even local models if the user/company has sufficient local computing capacity. Remembering the industrial revolution. Demirer remembers that something similar happened during the industrial revolution. The first factories that replaced steam engines with giant electric motors did not lead to a large increase in productivity. The real boost to efficiency came decades later, when engineers redesigned those factories from scratch by installing individual motors at each workstation. In Xataka | We believed that the AI ​​talent war is about engineers and developers. Actually, it’s about plumbers and electricians.

Today at Lidl (reduced by 50%) this De’Longhi super-automatic coffee machine, available for a limited time

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If you are one of those who cannot start the day without a good coffee, but you are tired of spending a fortune on capsules or the hassle of manual coffee machines, Lidl has the solution. The German supermarket has dropped the price of one of the most iconic models on the market: the De’Longhi Magnifica S (ECAM12.123.B) it remains irresistible 247.99 euros. It is one of Lidl’s offers of the day, so it will only be available during this day at this price. DeLonghi ® Magnifica S automatic coffee machine ECAM12.123.B The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Although if Lidl sells out (which is likely), on Amazon you also have another De’Longhi model on sale. It is about the Magnifica S (ECAM22.110.B) which is available at a good price, for 279.99 euros. De’Longhi Magnifica S (ECAM22.110.B) – Perfetto Super-Automatic Coffee Maker The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A De’Longhi super-automatic coffee machine now for less than 280 euros The De’Longhi Magnifica S is the undisputed queen of the entry-level super-automatic range for a very simple reason: it makes spectacular coffee without complications. It has a integrated and calibrated steel conical grinderwhich allows you to grind the coffee bean just before infusion to maintain all the aroma and freshness. In addition, you can regulate the intensity, the amount of water and the temperature to your liking from its intuitive control panel. Among some of its main characteristics, the following could be highlighted: System cappuccino: Includes a stainless steel milk frother to create rich, creamy foam, perfect for preparing lattes either cappuccinos with a real barista. 15 bar pressure: ideal for achieving a dense and perfect layer of cream on espressos. Full customization: You can use both coffee beans and already ground coffee. Easy cleaning: It has automatic rinsing and descaling programs, and the infusion group is completely removable for more comfortable washing under the tap. For the price it has now in Lidl (247.99 euros) it is very difficult to find a coffee maker that offers durability, build quality and, above all, a good taste in a cup. If you like make the jump to coffee beans and forget about capsule waste, this is a perfect opportunity before the stock runs out on the Lidl website. ⚡ IN BRIEF: offer for De’Longhi Magnifica S Super-Automatic Coffee Maker (ECAM12.123.B) today ✅ THE BEST Unbeatable quality/price ratio: Below 300 euros there is no super-automatic coffee maker that offers its reliability and build quality. Quick payback: When using coffee beans, the cost per cup is much cheaper than that of capsules (Nespresso, Dolce Gusto, etc.), so it pays for itself in a few months. ❌ THE WORST Water consumption for cleaning… By purging automatically every time you turn it on and off, it uses a lot of water and requires you to empty the drip tray often. Manual vaporizer… The milk frother (panarello) requires you to move the jug to make the foam; It is not an automatic system that does it by pressing a single button. 💡 BUY IT IF… You are tired of paying a fortune for coffee in capsules and generating plastic or aluminum waste, but you are looking for the same convenience of pressing a button and having coffee ready. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… Your daily coffee always has milk and you don’t want to complicate your life by texturing it yourself with the frother, a coffee maker with an automatic milk tank (like those in the Philips LatteGo range) is better for you. Other super-automatic coffee makers that may interest you Cecotec Super-automatic Coffee Maker with Vaporizer and Processing Unit 20g Cremmaet Lungo Steam The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Krups Roma, Super-automatic coffee machine The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images: Weebedia and De’Longhi In Xataka | Smart coffee makers: what you can do (and what you can’t) with connected coffee makers In Xataka | Five ideal accessories to get the most out of your super-automatic coffee machine

MediaMarkt knocks down the price of the Samsung Galaxy S25+ (and not in its minimum version) with a 41% discount for a limited time

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If you were waiting for the right moment to renew your phone for a high-end phone with capital letters, MediaMarkt has just given it to you on a plate. Now, the Samsung Galaxy S25+ In its most ambitious storage version it is at an irresistible price. Specifically, you can get the 512 GB version for only 749 euros. Taking into account that the official sale price is 1,279 euros, we are talking about a 41% discount, or in other words, 530 euros of direct savings. Plus, shipping is free or you can choose in-store pickup at no additional cost. Samsung Galaxy S25+ 5g 6.7″ 512gb Navy Blue The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A beast in performance and with an outstanding screen He Samsung Galaxy S25+ It is one of the most balanced and powerful devices on the current market. On its front it stands out for its 6.7-inch Dynamic AMOLED display with QHD+ resolution, a fluid 120Hz refresh rate and excellent outdoor visibility. Under the hood, Samsung is betting on this mobile on the safe side, integrating the processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elitewhich ensures perfect performance in demanding games and heavy multitasking. Accompanying this processor we find 12 GB of RAM and the aforementioned 512GB storagemore than enough space to forget about space problems during the useful life of the mobile. In the autonomy section, it has a 4,900 mAh battery optimized to last the entire day and is a mobile phone that runs on the Android 17 operating system. All of this is powered by Samsung’s Artificial Intelligence ecosystem, which provides everything from real-time translation to advanced photo editing tools. As for the photographic section, it incorporates a 12 MP front camera and a triple rear camera composed of a 50 MP main sensoraccompanied by a 12 MP wide angle and a 10 MP telephoto lens. ⚡ IN BRIEF: offer for samsung galaxy s25+ today ✅ THE BEST Good performance: The Snapdragon 8 Elite processor together with 12 GB of RAM offer spectacular raw power. Supports heavy games, extreme multitasking or AI processing without any hint of slowness. Support and updates: Samsung has committed to seven years of system and security updates, so you’ll have a fully functional phone for years. ❌ THE WORST Loading speed behind its rivals… While Chinese brands already charge phones at 80, 100W or more, Samsung is still stuck on 45W fast charging and the charger is not included in the box. Without the Ultra zoom… The S25+ stays with a 3x optical zoom. If 5x or 10x super-resolution zoom is vital to you, you will have to make the jump to the Ultra model and pay a lot more. 💡 BUY IT IF… You want a large but comfortable high-end phone, since it is a mobile phone that maintains a large screen but with rounded corners and a much more comfortable weight for everyday use. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… If you are looking for the absolute best camera on the market with massive zoom for nature or event photography, your option is the S25 Ultra or the iPhone 17 Pro Max. Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Javier Penalva (Xataka) and Samsung In Xataka | Best Samsung phones: which one to buy and recommended models based on budget, tastes and price quality In Xataka | The best mobile phones (2025), we have tested them and here are their analyzes

Jupiter appeared just in time to retain the elements that would allow life

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Jupiter it’s a big planet and inhospitable, but it is quite possible that we owe life on Earth to it. And, according to a study recently published by scientists at Rice University with the support of NASAthe largest planet in the Solar System acted as a kind of gravitational dam to retain in our neighborhood some of the essential ingredients for the proliferation of living organisms. Phosphorus and nitrogen. These scientists have been based in measuring the ratio between phosphorus and nitrogen (P/N), two elements that are considered essential for life in adequate proportions. Thanks to the analysis of the composition of two different types of meteorites, it was possible to verify that, initially, the appropriate P/N ratio was concentrated in the outer part of the solar system, very far from where the Earth ended up forming. However, when the giant Jupiter was born, its great mass caused a kind of gravitational barrier that prevented the phosphorus from continuing to flow outwards and concentrate inside, in such a way that the Earth had the correct proportion of those pieces that, joined to others, could little by little give rise to the life that our planet houses today. 4.5 billion years of history. The solar system was formed from a large cloud of gas and dust 4.5 billion years ago. First, gas and dust merged to form celestial objects known as planetesimals. These collided with each other, releasing small pieces that over time became the planets and moons that the Solar System houses today. Some, however, did not constitute either of these two objects, but continued to wander in the form of asteroids. Furthermore, if these asteroids impact the Earth They are considered meteoriteswhich can be of two types. On the one hand we have iron meteorites, which are dense, metallic and composed mostly of iron and nickel. Secondly we have the chondrites, which They are rocky. The latter constitute the majority of meteorites that have been recovered on Earth. Some older than others. Today we know that iron meteorites are older than chondrites, since they were formed from a first batch of planetesimals. Chondrites were formed about 2-3 million years later. Taking this into account is very important, since it is precisely what was analyzed to verify how nitrogen and phosphorus were distributed during the dawn of the Solar System. Two other elements come into action. There are two other elements that indicate the origin of meteorites that have impacted the Earth. By analyzing the ratios of nickel and molybdenum isotopes it is possible to know whether the meteorites come from the external or internal part of the Solar System. This is important, since thanks to a series of laboratory experiments and geochemical models it was possible to verify exactly where the meteorites came from and how the levels of phosphorus and nitrogen fluctuated between them. The asteroid belt separates the outer and inner part of the Solar System From outside to inside. We already know that the first phases of the solar system can be studied in iron meteorites and the newer ones in chondrites. We also know that both can come from the external or internal part of the solar system and that this is found out by analyzing the isotopes of nickel and molybdenum. Thus, these scientists saw that the greatest high P/N was initially concentrated in the outer part of the solar system. However, later the tables turned and it began to focus on the internal region, precisely where the Earth was formed. The causes. In its initial phases, the protoplanetary disk in which the planets formed would be very hot and turbulent. These turbulences cause a strong flow of materials outwards. With increasing temperatures, phosphorus condenses inside the disk, as part of a mineral called schreibersite. Then, due to turbulence, it flows to the outside of the disk, which is much colder. The result is a buildup of phosphorus on the outside. As for nitrogen, through oxidation it is freed from some minerals that contain it, but it is very volatile, so it is maintained at lower levels. That means that in the outer layers there is a high P/N ratio. That is, much more phosphorus than nitrogen. Turn of tables. In chondrites it is observed that the tables turn. The elements of life flowed inward. This is partly because the disk is already colder after 3 million years, so there is less turbulence. But it is not enough to explain what these scientists have seen. For this reason, they consider that there is also a great influence from Jupiter. The changes occur more or less from the moment this giant planet formed. The main suspicion is that, being so large, it exerts a great gravitational influence that acts as a barrier preventing the schreibersite from escaping outward. On the other hand, due to the cooling of the disk, the nitrogen-bearing minerals stabilize on the outside. This means that the exterior is enriched in nitrogen, while the interior is impoverished. Added to the retention of internal phosphorus, the result is a high internal P/N ratio, which coincides with what we have on Earth today and, possibly, served as a starting signal for the formation of life. In short, Jupiter gave us a cable. He didn’t give us the ingredients to live, but he did prevent them from escaping our neighborhood. That was the key. Image | Comparison of the size of Jupiter and Earth (NASA) | Solar System (NASA) In Xataka | We have been studying the planets of TRAPPIST-1 for years with great hope. James Webb just knocked it down

an old trick to know what time of night wild boars appear

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In the Middle Ages, tracking a wild boar was such a valuable skill that some nobles they spent whole days to interpret footprints, disturbed mud and almost invisible signs to find out where the animal had spent the night. In fact, the great wild boar hunts depended much more than reading the terrain than force or weapons, a tradition that survived for centuries even after the emergence of more advanced technologies. The trick that hunters of yesteryear used. Long before camera traps or drones existed, hunters resorted to simple and ingenious solutions to find out what time wild boars appeared. One of the most curious methods consisted of connect an alarm clock to a fishing line placed next to a bait station. When the animal moved a stone or touched the line while eating, the battery jumped and the clock stopped, recording the exact time of visit. The system had limitations and could fail due to rain, other animals or simple mechanical errors, but it reflects the extent to which knowing the habits of the wild boar has always been valuable information for those who lived with this species. A very adaptable animal. The obsession with understanding the wild boar has a simple explanation: it is one of the mammals most adaptable in Europe. Its varied diet, intelligence and high reproductive capacity allow it to thrive in forests, crops, marshes and even environments close to cities. This ease of taking advantage of any available resource has driven the growth of their populations during the last decades and has turned the species into a constant challenge for wildlife managers, farmers, conservationists and hunters. When population control disappears. The increase in specimens is especially visible in some protected areas where hunting activity was eliminated or significantly reduced. The ban on hunting in national parks was presented as a victory for conservation, but the passage of time has revealed that the absence of regulatory mechanisms also can cause problems. The debate, therefore, no longer revolves solely around the protection of animals, but about how to prevent a particularly successful species from altering the balance of the ecosystem. The alarm in Doñana. He most striking case is occurring in the Doñana National Park in Spain. Organizations such as Ecologistas en Acción and SEO/BirdLife have alerted that nest predation by wild boars is affecting the reproductive success of protected species such as the common blackbird and purple heron. The situation is especially striking because some of the groups that defended the elimination of hunting in these spaces are now those who warn of the effects of an increasingly abundant wild boar population. No nests and threatened species. The damage does not only affect those birds. In various areas of the marsh, wild boars have entered colonies of breeding and have destroyed eggs and chicks of species such as the slender-billed gull, the black-winged stilt, the white-faced vent or the pratincole. The ability of the wild boar to locate food and taking advantage of any opportunity makes these nesting areas especially vulnerable targets. Images of severely damaged colonies have reopened a debate that seemed closed about how to manage certain wildlife populations. Nature does not understand ideologies. Beyond the crossed accusations between conservationists and representatives of the hunting world, the Doñana episode has put an uncomfortable question on the table: managing wildlife requires practical decisions in addition to conservation principles. Hence the old alarm clock connected to a fishing line symbolized the effort to understand an animal that is difficult to observe. Today the tools are much more sophisticatedbut the challenge remains the same. The better we know the wild boar, the more evident it becomes that its extraordinary ability to thrive can become a problem when the mechanisms capable of maintaining balance with the rest of the ecosystem disappear. Image | PXHereRichard Bartz In Xataka | Neither drones nor snipers: wild boar hunters in Barcelona have a simpler natural and home remedy In Xataka | The technological war that we see in Ukraine has an unexpected replica in Barcelona: this time the enemy is thousands of wild boars

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