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If Spain is hooked today to programs like ‘OT’ or ‘Big Brother’ is due to a single man: Toni Cruz

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Toni Cruz’s death last Friday at 78 serves us to radiograph the Current Cathodic Business Status. And above all, it is a reliable evidence that those who were architects of television as we know it are retiring or dying (that is, the one that the first years of the private ones were configured). Although for years it was not in front of the camera, its role has been key in some of the greatest successes of recent years. Great successes. Gestmusic launched, in collaboration with public and private channels, great success programs such as’Operation Triunfo‘,’Big Brother‘ either ‘Martian chronicles‘, being a cross essential part of the design and development of these programs. Little can be added to the founding importance of the three: our primeR talent showour first reality and an unclassifiable but very influential program that reached stratospheric audiences at an impossible schedule. The thing did not end there, and with the passage of time, Gestmusic was generating variants of these primal formats, with successes like ‘Rain of stars’, ‘Your face sounds to me’, ‘You do vouchers’, ‘Do not laugh that it is worse’ or ‘Look who dances!’ Cruz and Mainat ended up selling their part of Gestmusic to Endemol in 2017. The Baron of Bidet. For the general public, Toni Cruz became famous since the end of the sixties and even entered the eighties with the trench, in the company of Josep Maria Mainat and Miquel àngel Pasqual. With them he co -length several successful television programs, such as ‘No Passa Res’ (TV3) and ‘Tariro, Tariro’ (TVE), which led him to a large extent how television worked inside. The next step was clear. Gestmusic arrives. In 1987 the trench published its latest album (‘Marro!’) And created the producer Gestmusic. Its foundation coincided with the arrival of private televisions and the massification of regional and local, and their success catapulted when one of the trio members, Pasqual, left the producer due to health problems and sold its part of Gestmusic to one of the most powerful multinationals in the audiovisual world, the Dutch Endemolcreator of the original ‘Big Brother’ format. Two rode together. In a relatively short period of time, two very relevant proper names have disappeared from the national industry, perhaps those that have best defined the tone and style of mass television of the 21st century. Almost three years ago It was Paolo Vasile, who left his position as CEO of Mediaset. Without it we would not have had a format as influential as’Save me‘, in addition to giving green light to programs produced by Cruz himself, such as’ Big Brother’. Between the two agglutinate (one as creative force, another as necessary administrative work from the most successful channel dome for many years) the mass of headers with the greatest impact in Spain in recent decades. It is no longer just about the success of audience of programs such as ‘Operation Triunfo’ or ‘Big Brother’, but beyond the obvious (these two franchises continue to add editions today), their seal is still very present in current programs of great impact. The legacy. For example, one of the most successful programs today is ‘Your face sounds to me’, which has reached maximum of 25.1% quota: it is the nth variant of the ‘Operation Triunfo’ template (interpretation of pop standards, jury, skill), but with the template of “the contestants are famous”. A template that is lately devouring all competitions and realities… And that Gestmusic also invented with the very thunder and unclassifiable ‘Big Brother’ with Celebrities That was ‘Hotel Glam’. Martian chronicles follow. And not only that: the studied balance of dynamics of order and chaos of ‘Martian chronicles’ continues to be in more harmless formats, such as’El Hormiguero‘(He shares part of his production team with the Sardá program). And, of course, with all kinds of pink information programs, starting with ‘Save Me’, also essential to understand the current television formats. So far, so close. Gestmusic and Vasile gave some of the last chest that the industry has lived, taking into account that many of the current success formats are variations of ‘Big Brother’, ‘Operation Triunfo’. Television has always lived to cannibalize its own hits, so regardless of the issues about its future, what is very clear is that Cruz has been an essential part of understanding television in recent decades, and as we have reached what we have now. Header | RTVE – Gestmusic In Xataka | Thirty years later, there is still an unbeatable television format in Spain: desktop soap operas

The cooling bases for laptops were for an omnipresent time. Today they have disappeared without realizing

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The Digital photo framesYoplait yogurts, the Aquarius Cola. There are objects that disappear without warning, and in that list they may be entering the Refrigeration bases for laptopsthose armathes with fans that populated the desks a few years ago. And that now they seem to have vanished from stores without anyone saying goodbye to anyone. In the magic 2000, when Pentium 4 They turned any laptop into a reactor turbine, seemed almost mandatory, especially with the arrival of summer. Today they seem as anachronistic as the coves for disks. What happened? There are several theories that seem feasible together. One of them is the fifteen years of silent engineering. Manufacturers have refined the thermal design, optimized architectures and perfected the manufacturing process until heat a residual problem. Apple Silicon It marked a turning point, but even Intel and AMD chips have won in efficiency … although they continue to heat up with demanding tasks. But in everyday use they do not seem to need that external cooling. On the other hand, it is Our way of using computers. The majority of heavy software that required local resources has migrated to the cloud, especially consumer focused. We live in browsers, We consume Saaswe delegate in remote services. The laptops are no longer so much work stations to process as internet windows that do not require too much effort. Not the one before. Meanwhile, The mobile has absorbed a lot of screen timerelegating the laptop to specific tasks, but not to do so much and for so many hours as it is. The cooling bases are thus bind to the same accessory cemetery where the remains of Ninety liquid crystal screen protectorsthe organizing boxes of CDS, the silicone keyboard protectors, the box with lock and everything to save disks. Tempus fugit. Are The testimony of problems that technology has been solvingreminding us that real progress does not always arrive with fanfarrias. Sometimes we simply stop needing what it seemed essential. Even in full heat wave. In Xataka | The web has become a horrendous place for many people. So they are rebuilding their version 1.0 as a refuge Outstanding image | AmazonUnspash

Xiaomi has a plan to conquer all the homes of Spain. And his first step begins today with the air conditioning

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When Xiaomi He celebrated its fiftyth anniversary two months ago, Lei Jun, CEO of the Company, presented to the world the products with which the company I would conquer the future of consumer technology. During that event there was talk of refrigerators, washing machines, of chipsof electric cars and even smart taps. However, the most striking was what No There was talk: mobile phones. In his fifteen years of history, Xiaomi has been inserted in the popular imaginary as a company of functional mobile phones and good price. The figures are witness: Xiaomi It has grown year after year in Spain until it becomes the indisputable leader in sales, and the perspective in the medium term It remains of growth. It was the company that broke the taboo over Chinese technology and the one that opened the door so that others, later access the western market. That is the past. Xiaomi’s future does not only go through mobile phones. May events and Junewhere they also presented The glasses and The Yu7they symbolize a change that the company has been undertaking for years. The future of consumer technology no longer resides on phones (although they are still very important, such as THE MIX FLIP 2 reveals) but in everything that We can connectwhat today translates into all applications of our daily life: from The appliances even watches, through voice attendees, televisions and, of course, The electric car. Xiaomi aspires to unify all the technologies of a life and shelter them under their brand. And that aspiration is ambitious: FEVER FOR SU7 In China, it shows that there is an appetite of “Xiaomi products” beyond mobile phones even in the most unsuspected places. The one that arrives in Spain today is a wide tour in our country, every year more if we think In the demanding heat waves that all summers attain us: the air-conditioning. The model that Xiaomi launches in Spain (the MIJIA AIR CONDITIONER PRO ECO In two powers, 2.6 kW and 3.5 kW) It is the spearhead of a much more ambitious expansion. In China, Xiaomi has been selling all kinds of household appliances and domestic technologies for years. Spain is its gateway to the western market. And to understand its strategy, to decipher what is the future path of Xiaomi globally and in our country, we have sat down to talk to Borja Gómez CarrilloCountry Manager of Xiaomi Iberia. This is how Xiaomi money earns – they attract you and catch you The air conditioning and Xiaomi plans In your last events you have accent on appliances: washing machine, fridge and even an intelligent tap. What is Xiaomi’s strategy at home? We are a company that is known by smartphones. It is very recognized in that area, our flagship, but more and more the part of the ecosystem has more relevance. We call “ecosystem” to products that are neither tablets or smartphones: the scooter, the security camera, the televisions and, of course, the appliances. Now we bring the air conditioning already the end of the year the refrigerators and washing machines. Why do we do this? Because we want to offer the consumer more and more products. We know that the smartphones market is very saturated, in penetration rates of more than 110%. Competing there is complicated. And that we are growing and we will continue to do so. But we want to expand the range of options for the consumer to have more capacity to buy our products. Who can do this right now? I think we are the only manufacturer that can offer that variety. How do we want to do it? Through “Human Car Home”. That the connectivity between devices is easy, that you can leave the office, with the smartphone, reach the car and you can connect; that you can see the security cameras of your home; that you may have left something prepared in the kitchen and program. Borja Gómez, Country Manager of Xiaomi Iberia, during the interview at the Xiaomi offices in Spain. It is striking that in that proposal the first thing you bring is an air conditioning because, as a consumer, I would not associate it so intuitively to the connected home. Why have you decided to start in Spain around? We can decide because, as you know, there are a lot of products in China, more than 2,500, and depending on the needs of the final consumer and the possibilities of selling it in the market we are bringing it. With the air conditioning we had to take advantage of: if we did not sell it in summer, later we were not going to be able to sell it. So the moment was now. We also believe it is a device that can be connected very easily. And in Spain, for the temperatures and for the market we have studied, we believe that it can give us good penetration. Is the decision to bring it to Spain very specific? Yes because not all Europe will have the air conditioning, and it is not going to be sold in all areas. In northern Spain the market is smaller than in the south. In Spain and Portugal, in the Peninsula in general, it can be brought by its climatic characteristics. You have mentioned the times and the decision to bring it right now, on July 4. Are you afraid of something late to the air conditioning campaign? We arrive something fair, but we have preferred to launch it now so that consumers can see the entire ecosystem we offer them. The truth is that it is at the limit. Generally the campaigns close in advance, but we do not bring a complicated units of selling. We have the right thing to have coverage throughout this year. I said it also thinking about everything that entails an air conditioning. Maintenance, post-sale service, installation. How are you going to land all this process in Spain for the client? We bring two references … Read more

China has been cultivating Stem talent in silence for 40 years. Today has the most coveted quarry on the planet

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For decades China has been the great factory of the world, but in parallel the country silently prepared another revolution: that of its Stem engineers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Chinese leadership in graduates in these technical disciplines is overwhelming, and every year produces about 3.5 million engineers among which there is a new elite: that of AI engineers. China triumphs with its long -term plan. It all started in the “post-mao” era. After his death and the arrival of Deng Xiaoping, the country suffered a remarkable reform that began with his “four modernizations“And among them, to restore education with a special focus on science and technology. The president highlighted in 1988 how” science and technology are the main productive forces, “and encouraged a unique change. Hai gui. In the mid -80s China began to send a huge number of students to Western countries. The objective: to learn in their universities and achieve training in fields such as engineering, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Those students then returned to China in a phenomenon that has been called “Hai Gui” (“sea turtles”). They managed to inspire the following generations when returning to Chinese academic institutions, which gradually became some of the most advanced in the world. Chinese elite universities. It happened for example with the University of Tshinghua, which between 2013 and 2016 was already the university with the highest number of relevant scientific studies (cited) according to a study of The Economist. Behind were prestigious US institutions such as Stanford or MIT. As I explained Yang Bin, vice president of the University of Tsinghua, “those intellectuals (the” hai gui “) played a very important role, changing all the climate, raising the standards.” Money and more money to educate. The long -term plan of the Asian giant has worked, and today they leave their universities 3.57 million Stem graduates a year. In the US the figure is four times lower: 820,000. Education spending It has not dropped from 4% of its GDP In the last 20 years, and the incentives for Chinese academics to publish studies are notable: if they are of great quality and they are published in Western institutions, They can enter $ 100,000 By study. And the AI ​​is now a fundamental focus. Between 2012 and 2022 the budget spending of the Chinese government in education increased from 2.2 billion yuan (268,167 million euros) to 4.85 billion yuan (591,187 million euros), more than double. Several Chinese elite universities They have announced His intention to expand his curricula with the objective of prioritizing the strategic needs of the country, and here the AI ​​- who You start teaching in schools– It’s key. Ten years projects. In that article of The Economist, they also reveal how since 1995 the Chinese government has initiated various projects to revolutionize its educational environment. The call came first PROJECT 211 which aimed to “prepare approximately 100 universities for the 21st century.” Later they were replaced with the so-called “Double First-Class Construction”, and under Xi Jinping in 2016, which further promoted technical certifications and high training of Chinese technical universities. IA superstars. We have four good examples of all that great reform. Shengjia Zhao, Hongyu Ren, Jiahui Yu and Shuchao Bi are Superestrellas of the AI. Especially after target “Straight” in Openai’s house and steal them tempting them with stratospheric salaries. They all have something important in common: their training. Talent theft. Zuck confirmed these days in an internal statement Filtrated by CNBC Those signings. There were 11 engineers, 7 of which come from Openai. In that statement, the formation of a new division of “superintelligence” led by Alexandr Wang was also confirmed. And he, in turn, welcomed four of those new companions we were talking about. Who they are. Their names are not known, but these four engineers have had a very relevant role in the development of AI models in OpenAi. In the internal statement itself there is talk of your work in Openai, which has been the following: Jiahui Yu-Co-Creator of O3, O4-MINI, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4O. He previously directed the perception team in OpenAi and multimodal co -directed in Gemini. SHENGJIA ZHAO-Co-Creader of Chatgpt, GPT-4, all MINI, 4.1 and O3 models. He previously directed synthetic data in OpenAI. It has appeared In some of OpenAi’s product presentations. Shuchao Bi: GPT-4O and O4-MINI voice mode co-creator. He previously directed the subsequent multimodal formation in Openal. Hongyu Ren: GPT-4o cooker, 4O-mini, O1-mini, O3-mini, 03 and O4-mini. He previously directed a postformation group in Openal. 100% Chinese talent. But what is striking here is that as they point out In SCMPthese four engineers share a similar and very significant academic trajectory. All of them trained in prestigious Chinese technical universities, and then continue their studies in academic entities in the United States. They graduate in China, they do doctorate in the US. Zhao graduated from the University of Tshinghua in 2016 and then computer study at Stanford University. Ren graduated at the University of Beijing in 2018 and continued studying at Stanford from 2018 to 2023. Yu was titled at the School of Young Talents from the University of Science and Technology of China and then doctorate in computer science at the University of Illinois Urbano-Champaign. And Bi graduated from the University of Zhejiang and then doctorate in mathematics at the University of California in Berkeley. China is the great world engineer quarry. The Asian giant is also in terms of its academic dimension. It is by far the largest world producer of graduates in Stem races (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). They know that well in the US, because Chinese students are the ones who take the highest share of foreign students studying or complete their studies in the US: 20% of all of them come from China. And above all, of AI engineers. A report of the Paulgo Institute of Chicago (USA) recently revealed that 38% of AI experts that develop their professional career in the US They have formed in Chinese universities. … Read more

Five offers from El Corte Inglés in Technology and Gaming, today June 28 with availability throughout the weekend

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The stores have begun to launch very powerful campaigns with the most interesting offers in a good assortment of devices and accessories. The English Court right now has many discounts that will be available during the weekend and in this article, we have compiled Five offers in Technology and Gaming. Google Pixel 9 Pro XL by 899.90 eurosa very interesting price for one of the best mobiles of 2024. ‘Monster Hunter Rise’ (Switch) by 25 eurosone of the most interesting video games of the Capcom saga. JBL Tour One M2 by 199.99 eurosBluetooth headphones with active noise cancellation. Sony Bravia K55S35BP by 849 eurosa good TV released this year with a 55 -inch screen. Ardistel Blackfire by 19.90 eurosan accessory that offers an extra autonomy to the Dualsense of PS5. Google Pixel 9 Pro XL This week we have found very good offers in the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL in its 256 GB configuration. The English Court, for example, has it right now by 899.90 euros. This mobile stands out, among other things, because it will receive updates for six more years, because it has a Good sound and screen section and because it includes very versatile cameras. Google Pixel 9 Pro XL (256 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review ‘Monster Hunter Rise’ (Switch) The Monster Hinter saga has grown a lot in recent years (especially since ‘Monster Hunter World‘). Although right now there is a delivery that has recently been released, ‘Monster Hunter Rise‘It is still one of the best options, especially for Nintendo Switch. The Capcom video game has come down in El Corte Inglés to the 25 euros And if you lacked reasons to buy it, it should be said that it is a Excellent title in which you can embark on numerous expeditions to discover and hunt many creatures. Monster Hunter Rise (Switch) * Some price may have changed from the last review JBL Tour One M2 JBL is a very good brand on audio devices and has a large catalog of speakers. The JBL Tour One M2 They have in the English Court an usual price of 329.99 euros, but right now they can be found for 199.99 euros (39%discount). Of course, if what we are looking for is the best price, it is worth mentioning that in Amazon and Mediamarkt You can find 10 euros more reduced. Although this year the JBL Tour One M3the previous generation, the JBL Tour One M2, is still a very good purchase option. They have excellent audio quality, offer active noise cancellation and True Adaptive Noise Cancelling, include the Smart Talk function to recognize the voice when we speak and Its autonomy reaches 50 hours of use. * Some price may have changed from the last review Sony Bravia K55S35BP Although this year has been launched, we can already find a good discount on the Sony Bravia K55S35BPa 55 -inch television that has dropped in El Corte Inglés from 1,199 euros to the 849 euros. Among other things, Sony TV comes with the Google TV operating system, it offers a 4K resolution, it is compatible with both Dolby Vision and with Dolby Atmos And it has PS Remote Play For PlayStation 5. * Some price may have changed from the last review Ardistel Blackfire And speaking of the PlayStation 5one of the most useful accessories for the Sony console is this battery for Dualsense. Of the range Ardistel Blackfirethis battery, which has a price of 19.90 eurosIt has 2,000 mAh, it comes with a screen that indicates how much autonomy it has left and includes two pads to avoid damaging. In addition, an interesting point is that it has an ideal design so that it does not bother when playing the console. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | The English Court and Buying (header), Google, Capcom, JBL, Sony, Ardistel In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which to buy and 21 models from 15 euros to 470 euros In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis

Years ago the “Paypal Mafia” redefined our vision of the Internet. Today the “OpenAi Mafia” points to the same with the AI

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When Ebay bought PayPal In 2002 for 1.5 billion dollars, there was an internal earthquake. In the four years following the acquisition, only 12 of the company’s original employees were left. Paypal was a boiling talent, Entrepreneurship And brilliant people, and who “Ebay escaped” They ended up redefining the technological world. Now we are attending a similar phenomenon, but with another company: OpenAi. PayPal Mafia. This was baptized by the group of bright ex -employed PayPal who left the company to found your own startups. These projects ended up becoming true business and technological successes, and showed that in PayPal there was a lot of talent waiting for their own opportunity to undertake. The most outstanding examples of that mafia Paypal already make clear the dimension of that phenomenon: Elon Musk: The clearest example of how far the members of the PayPal Mafia arrived. He founded or co -founded SpacexOpenAi, Neuralinkand The Boring Company, in addition to buying a majority participation in Tesla and Acquire Twitter (Now x). Peterthiel: is the president of Palantirhe created the Founders Fund Investment Fund – which would later attract former partners like Ken Howery or Luke Nosek – and was the first Facebook external investor. Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim: these three former PayPal employees YouTube co -founded Reid Hoffman: He founded LinkedIn Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman: Yelp co -founded Yishan Wong: He worked on Facebook and became CEO of Reddit for a season David O. Sacks: Founded Geni.com and Yammer They redefined the Internet. These engineers and entrepreneurs were a fundamental part of the transition to an internet focused on consumers, something surprising especially after the bubble of the Puntocom in 2001. Rarely in history there has been a phenomenon in former employees of the same company end up creating one or several companies even more successful than the one they left, but there is a previously relevant previous example. The eight traitors. In 1957 eight engineers, fed up with his boss in Seticonductor Laboratory Shockley, decided to lite the blanket and create their own semiconductor company. They called her Fairchild Semiconductor Corp, and those employees They went down in history like the eight traitors. Fairchild had a huge success, but ten years later his engineers also looked for new roads. Three of them –Gordon MooreRobert Noyce and Andy Grove – ended up joining in 1968 to create a legendary company: Intel. The other Paypal Mafia is the OpenAi mafia. Those phenomena seem to be now having a new iteration, but this time the company of which all this new movement is starting is OpenAi. This company has become absolute reference in the field of AI, but on the way to achieve this there has been a true internal war and many conflicts between several of the engineers and their CEO, Sam Altman. Those internal tensions were the ones caused the dismissal and later return to the company of Altman In November 2023, but the company was not the same since then. OPENAI MAFIA members. Actually the divisions that occurred in Openai began very soon, almost shortly after the startup were formed. In fact, the first member of that “Openai Mafia” was also from the Paypal Mafia: It is none other than Elon Musk. It is a clear example, but not the only one, and the members of that OpenAi mafia are the following: Elon Musk: OpenAi co -founder that ended declaring war on the company and Sam Altman. Co -founded XAI Dario and Daniela Amodei: these brothers co -founded Anthropicthe company that develops the family of Ia Claude models. John Schulman: After being one of Openai’s main researchers, he left the company to join Anthropic. Others former investigators and engineers Openai like Tom Brown, Jared Kaplan, or Sam McCandlish also joined the company later. Jan Leike: This researcher who worked in Deepmind and OpenAi He left this company and joined Anthropic in May 2024. His work focuses on the development of a “safe” (“super -align”) and scalable. Ilya Sutskever: Openai co -founded and it was her Chief Scientist, but in 2024 left the company To create your own startup, Safe Superintelligence. Look Murati: Openai’s exco also decided leave the company something after Sutskever, and just Create Thinking Machinesanother startup of AI. Bob McGrew, who also left Openai recently, have joined that project. Josh Tobin and Vicki Cheung: These engineers also came out of Openai to found Gantry, another startup of ia. David Luan: After being one of the top engineering responsible for OpenAi, he ended up co -founding Adept AI Labs. Andrej Karpahty: After working on Tesla’s autonomous driving systems and then in OpenAi, this expert and disseminator ended up founding Eureka Labs. Many promises, few realities. The fundamental difference between these two “mafias” is that while in the PayPal Mafia those companies that founded its creators were absolute balls, the situation of those startups that Openai exingenier have created is an absolute unknown. Safe Superintelligence Ya raised 1,000 million dollars in 2024 and it is rumored that Thinking Machines soon It will lift 2 billion of dollars. None of them have launched any product for the moment, and in these new companies there is a lot of expectation – and, talent is supposed – but little else. The future will say whether the impact of these former OpenAi employees is comparable to that of PayPal’s ex -employees. 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Your mobile will be updated for five years from today. It is not as beautiful as it seems

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The day came. As of today June 20, the European Union forces all mobiles sold in the region to receive Software updates for at least five years. This measure is part of the regulation that includes other regulations such as the Energy labeling. The idea of ​​offering more years of updates is to end programmed obsolescence and extend the life of the devices, but if you are imagining a world in which your entrance range android is updated to five complete versions of Android, we have bad news. What the law says. The norm is one of the measures collected in the Regulation (EU) 2023/1669 of the commission of June 16, 2023 and will affect both smartphones and tablets. The text collects a specific section about the system updates where the following obligations for manufacturers are established: The devices will have to be updated for five years from the date of their departure to the market. The updates will be free. There are three types of updates: security, corrections and with new functionalities. The security and corrections updates, the maximum margin to reach the user will be four months. Functionality updates will have to arrive before six months. The nuance. Yes, manufacturers will be obliged to offer five years of updates, but the law does not force them to be all new versions of the platform. For example, the first two years could offer complete updates and the remaining three support with security patches. Therefore, we must not confuse these five years of updates with having the latest version of Android during that period. Who will benefit. Does this change the update panorama? Depends. In iOS, not because Apple usually updates its mobiles between six and seven years after launch. In the case of Android, they will have benefited, especially in the lowest ranges. In 2018 Google began to demand manufacturers to offer At least two years of support if they didn’t want to lose the Google Apps licensebut so far there was no express obligation and the cheapest mobiles are the ones that left worse. Fragmentation is the eternal problem in Android And, although this law will not solve it, it will ensure that they receive the security patches that will make them less vulnerable. The duties made (half). There are many brands that already meet the regulations such as Apple. In Android there are also manufacturers that offer good support, although not in all their ranges. Some time ago we saw how several brands began a kind of Pique to see who offered more years of updates. This is what the main Android brands offer: Objective: Durable mobiles. Within the regulations that enter into force there are other measures focused on increasing the longevity of our devices in what they call ‘ecological design regulations’. The main measures are as follows: Facilitate repair: Manufacturers will be obliged to offer spare parts for seven years and must be easy to get and mount. To do this, they mark a series of requirements such as the parts are delivered in less than ten days or that can be mounted with tools available in the market (this would end the own screws). More resistant mobiles: With these regulations, mobile phones must be resistant. Which includes enduring up to 45 falls at a height of 1 meter, which resist scratches (they must have a hardness of 4 on the MOHS scale) and be resistant to water and dust (equivalent to an IP43 scale) Durable batteries: The battery is one of the components that Before degrading. With this standard, manufacturers must ensure that battery capacity is 80% or more after 800 load cycles. Energy label. Finally, one of the novelties that includes regulations is energy labeling. Until now we found them in appliances, but as of today we will also see it in mobiles and tablets. The label will show the energy scale (being the most efficient and g the least efficient). It will also include other information such as the full name of the model, battery autonomy (hours that will last each cycle), the repair index and its resistance. Cover image | Ricardo Aguilar, Xataka In Xataka | ATMs and Amazon are on the edge of a small major revolution in Spain: the accessibility law

There was a day when getting on a plane was beautiful, comfortable and aspirational. Today most already hates it

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Flying is fascinating. Or it was. Get on the plane, look for the seat and check with illusion that it has a window. A slight tingling when the route starts towards the track. The tremendous push against the seat at the time of accelerating. The incoherent feeling of ungravation when gaining height and we feel pressured against the bottom of the seat. The notice that we can take off our belt and yes, make sure that, mysteriously, we are flying. A formidable trip. I remember my first plane trip. With illusion, with nervousness. But everything changes when, due to the circumstances of life, the plane ceases to be something exceptional and becomes a more or less usual means of transport. Or when you arrive at the airport and check the huge tail with horror to pass a police control that, fortunately, It should be simplified very soon. Or when you discover that you measure more than 1.70 meters and enter the seat becomes an exercise in contortionism. Or when your look visualizes in the poster that the flight is delayed. Or when that little bridge getaway falls apart by an unforeseen cancellation. Or when you reach the destination and you have the keys and wallet at hand, but the suitcase has been lost along the way. Or when … A blow of reality. We have gone from seeing the plane as a luxury transport and associating it with an attractive and unique experience to pray because nothing happens if we have to take one. In 1951, Iberia flew for the first time to New York. On its website We can read how “a select chefs group prepared each meal, poured syrup on the cakes and prepared the trays that would then serve passengers aboard the Iberia airplanes.” There was no trace of huge queues before climbing the plane, from the distinction of passengers in four groups, “that suitcase does not enter” because it measures two and a half centimeters more than expected or charging significant amounts for choosing a seat. In the 50s in Iberia, “only the plane receives more attention than you.” They are not just sensations. It is not only a matter of sensations. Passengers begin to be really fed up with companies’s practices. In Financial Times They give as an example an American passenger who travels regularly with Southwest Airlines. In his five annual trips to the same destination he lived delays, cancellations for various reasons and even loss of the suitcase. It is not an isolated case. For the first time in more than a decade, the negative perception of flights exceeds the positive. In the United States, the fourth part of the 2022 flights were delayed or canceled and only in October the United States Department of Transportation registered 3,000 complaints of users, five times more than in 2019. Two hours. And 10,800 canceled flights. This was the result of a problem in the software of the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States that forced to leave on land all the air paths of the country for a couple of hours. 120 minutes that, as proven, wreaked havoc in the country with greater air traffic of the world. It is calculated which in 2019 traveled 925,500,000 passengers. With data from 2022, the United States is the country that has the most airports in the world. Its enormous distances and the absence of any type of commitment to the train as an alternative medium has caused that last year it will be counted until 16,890 airports. The second country is Brazil, with 4,093. The most recent data in Spain are from 2013, but then added only 150 facilities of this type. A funnel. One of the problems that indicate in the Financial Times article is the lack of workers. Coronavirus pandemia had cleaned, more or lessthe sky of airplanes. The increase in remote meetings caused many companies to ensure Bloomberg That the business trips had ended. But nothing is further from reality. Withdrawal restrictions, The number of trips has firmed again. While Airbus and Boeing thousands of millions are distributed in aircraft purchases, Pilots are missing. Many. In the United States alone, 8,000 new employees are necessary. By 2032 a world scarcity is expected of up to 32,000 pilots. And not just pilots. But pilot scarcity is not the only one that is causing delays, cancellations and generalized discomfort in travelers. In our country we know that traveling on vacation is synonymous with risk. The strikes of land workers, cabin staff and pilots have become generalized in summer and Christmas. The workers of the airlines generally denounce too much work at work for a lack of employees that crawls from the toughest months of the confinements by the COVID-19. It is estimated that those days said goodbye to 191,000 workers in airports and airlines. Photo | Carlos Coronado In Xataka | We have been binding to the suitcases to identify them at the airport for years. Your employees warn that it is a bad idea In Xataka | Naples Airport has rejected a Boeing 787 with 200 passengers on board for a single reason: two meters long

23 years ago China gave the US a lesson. Thanks to it today dominates the battery industry overwhelmingly

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The German-American physicist John Bannister Goodenough patented the technology that allowed to manufacture Iron and lithium phosphate batteries (known as LFP for its English denomination) in 1997. In 2019, when he was no less than 97 years, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution for his contribution to the development of lithium ion batteries. However, Goodenough made a mistake. An important mistake: he failed to transfer his innovation to the American industry, so its impact on the West was minimal. Wang Chuanfu, the founder of the Chinese company Byd, did not make that mistake. In 2002 he perceived the potential of the technology that Goodenaugh had invented, so he asked his research and development team (R&D) to investigate the technology and capabilities of LFP batteries with the purpose of minimizing the dependence that China of the nickel and cobalt had. That decision I guide Byd towards the leadership position Shared with Catl currently occupied in the battery production industry. In fact, in 2008 he placed in the market The first car in the world Equipped with an LFP battery. China manufactures 57% of the batteries used by electric cars China is currently The largest electric vehicle market of the world. In 2025 in this country more electric cars will be sold for the first time than with combustion engine thanks to some extent to government subsidies. In addition, China is the largest electric car exporter on the planet. In 2023 he exported approximately 1.7 million electric vehicleswhich represents more than 30% of its total car exports. However, its international expansion is being seriously conditioned by the tariffs that are imposing USA or the European Union, among other regions with very serious difficulties to compete with the Chinese electric car. Finally, as we have seen, China is also a world leader in The production of lithium batteries. If we stick to electric cars the country led by Xi Jinping Fabrica 57% of batteries that these vehicles use. CATL and ByD are the largest lithium batteries on the planet with a market share in 2024 of 37.9% and 17.2% respectively, according to the consultant Sne Research. In 2017 for the first time the market share of NCM batteries surpassed that of LFP in electric cars China has reached this leadership position due to several factors. On the one hand it is The largest producer in the world of lithium and rare earths, which are the main raw materials used in the manufacture of batteries. In addition, it controls the processing of these materials and is capable of producing large -scale batteries and with a very competitive price. However, in this recipe there is one more ingredient that we cannot overlook: byd and Catl lead the global battery industry thanks to their capacity for innovation and adaptation. In 2017, Chinese government subsidies prioritized the development of Nickel batteries with greater energy density, so much of Chinese battery manufacturers opted for NCM technology. These lithium -ion batteries use a nickel (ni), cobalt (co) and manganese (mn) cathode, hence their name. And byd lagged. In fact, in 2017 for the first time the market share of NCM batteries surpassed that of LFP in electric cars. And in 2019 the NCM batteries already dominated the market. But Byd did not give up. Wang Chuanfu was convinced that the really important security was, and, therefore, the thermal stability of the batteries, so it launched a new R&D project that concluded with The tuning of Blade batteries. These devices are thinner, have modular structure and can be easily integrated into the chassis of electric cars. This bet went well to Byd. At the end of 2020 this company and catl They controlled 66% of the Chinese market of the LFP batteries for electric cars against 6% that added in 2019. This is the authentic strength of the two Chinese companies that lead the world battery industry. Image | Byd More information | Volt Rush In Xataka | Historic record for China: its chips industry has produced in 2024 more than ever despite the sanctions

Today Apple has its most complicated event in many years

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For decades, WWDC has been a triumphal showcase for Apple. A moment of glory where the company took chest to developers, press, partners and fans. Cook took the stage with the confidence of who knows that he will impress and Federight deployed charisma and Pompadour between demos that worked perfect. The public applauded with almost religious fervor. That time is over. Today’s WWDC (seven in the afternoon, Spanish peninsular time) will be the most complicated in Apple’s recent history. The reason: The company arrives of credibility. A year ago They promised a revolution with Apple Intelligence and a new Siri. They showed dazzling videos where AI understood the personal context, anticipated needs and executed tasks between apps. It was the future and Apple was going to put it in the palm of the hand. But That has not happened. Months later, the best functions were silently postponed. Then, indefinitely postponed. The announcement came with the typical discretion of those who do not want to make noise about a failure. The new Siri that was going to change everything was a mirage. Meanwhile, Chatgpt, Claude and Gemini continue to evolve, but in another league. Apple’s AI stays in anecdote. And the problem transcends AI. Apple today faces an audience that is no longer the same. Developers are historically their most condescending audience (fans apart), but many of them have already lost patience. Epic has starred in a five -year war which exposed the rentist practices of the App Store. The EU forced changes that Apple resisted until the end. 30% commissions They are no longer accepted Like the natural price of paradise techbut as an abusive toll. Blind devotion has become informed skepticism. Of the ancient evangelists there are still some left, but many have become critical observers that applaud the successes but already point out the errors. The iPhone is still excellent, but it is no longer a mystical revelation. It is a product Premium In a saturated market, manufactured by a company that a year ago promised more. This WWDC is not going to be another power exhibition, but a credibility examination. A scenario in which Apple is not used to handling. And another demo of unreal concepts cannot be affected, he cannot promise what he cannot deliver. You cannot trust that your last story gives you indefinite white checks. You must demonstrate, step by step, that you still know how to innovate without fooling. The twilight of the “Apple culture” It is not the end of Apple, but its forced maturation. The company that was once the technological rebel must learn to be a responsible giant. Its most sophisticated users no longer seek blind faith, but tangible results. And that, paradoxically, could be the best that has happened to the company in a long time. In Xataka | Blackberry sold more phones than ever in 2011. It is a disturbing reminder for Apple and its indifference to AI Outstanding image | Apple

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