waiting

On March 19 and 20 we are waiting for you at this enormous event on technology and innovation in Seville

by

In just one week, on Thursday March 19 and Friday March 20, the first edition of CTx Techa great event with technology, innovation and talent as the main protagonists of which Xataka is a Media Partner. The event, which has the support of the Junta de Andalucía and the Seville City Council, is not a typical meeting of talks, networking and panels. The organization has opted for an intelligent matchmaking system and personalized agendas, so that every attendee, whether individual or professional, can get the most out of it. For professionals, startups and technology enthusiasts Image | CTx Tech CTx will bring together at the Sevilla TechPark more than 15,000 visitors, more than 1,000 startups250 companies, 200 investment funds and more than 150 international speakers. It is a large-scale event whose content, estimated at more than 400 hours, will be distributed among 11 scenarios, 50 simultaneous events and 5 thematic spaces. Among the topics that will be addressed are the convergence of AI, biotechnology and neurotechnology; quantum computing, real applications of AI and its impact on the industry; cybersecurity and cyberdefense, smart cities, autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics… Whatever field of technology you are interested in, at CTx Tech you will be covered. Among the featured speakers are José Elías (CEO of Audax Renovables), David Carmona (VP of Microsoft), Christine Bjärkby (member of the board of directors of the European Network of Business Angels), Alba Lez (Chief Marketing Officer ofespacio_RES) and creators such as José Luis Crespo (Quantum Fracture) and Carlos Santana (DotCSV). The list of speakers can be found on their websiteas well as the agenda. Join us to record Loop Infinito live Among the many activities that will take place at the event, you can attend the recording of a special edition of Infinite Loop. Our usual presenter, Javier Lacort, will participate in it; and Antonio Ortiz, founder of Xataka and co-host of Monos Stochastics. The title of the podcast will be “AI without the hype” and will last about 30 minutes. During the recording the real state of AI will be addressed without empty promises or catastrophisms. Javier and Antonio will reveal to us what is happening now, what has a real probability of happening before 2029 and what is still science fiction. The coordinates are as follows: Where: ADA Auditorium in Seville TechPark. When: March 19. What time: from 8:40 p.m. to 9:40 p.m. How to participate sImage | CTx Tech Admission to the CTx-Boulevard and Aurora venue is completely free and can be obtained on the event website. The other options vary depending on your profile. You have all the information below and we invite you not to go too far, because Starting tomorrow we will raffle two VIP passes. If you want to attend the talks, the Innovation Hub (thematic areas of technology, entrepreneurship and innovation), the Social Hub (institutional content), the ADA Auditorium with the great speakers and general networking, the ticket you are interested in is CTx Experience. Its price is 20 euros. If you are looking to do business, investment opportunities, networking with more strategic profiles and access to the Investment Hub, it is best to opt for CTx Experience VIP. It is full access to the event, its areas and its possibilities. The price is 180 euros. If you have a startup or are an investor, there are also options for you in the Business and Startups categories. We are waiting for you in Seville and pay attention to Xataka for the ticket draw! More information and registration | CTx Tech

‘Heat’ has become a cult film for many men. Now they get what they have been waiting for for years.

by

Michael Mann has officially announced ‘Heat 2’, the sequel/prequel to the 1995 film that, over the years, has become much more than a police thriller: it is a cultural code, a cult film that defines a certain masculine sensibility very attached to its time. Its arrival just now and with this cast is not exactly a coincidence. A cult process. ‘Heat’ it was notat its premiere, the film loved by everyone that it is today. When it hit theaters in 1995, it received good reviews but also had a modest commercial reception: it grossed $67 million at the domestic box office against a budget of $60 million. It was in international markets (where Michael Mann was better regarded) where the film doubled those figures. From there, ‘Heat’ grew, gaining fame as one of the great American thrillers of recent decades, at a time when, on the verge of the bombing of ‘Matrix‘, the pyrotechnic spectacle was going to become a priority in action cinema. The origin. Everything that surrounds the film has ended up acquiring a special aura. For example, its origin. Mann wrote the original screenplay in 1979, based on Chicago detective Chuck Adamson’s real-life manhunt for professional thief Neil McCauley. The two men met face to face in a parking lot and instead of shooting each other they went to have a coffee. McCauley died in a shootout with police in 1964. Mann it took fifteen years in being able to bring it to the big screen with the budget and cast that he considered appropriate. The Pacino-De Niro clash. The most iconic scene of the film has done a lot to give it a special packaging. The coffee scene between the two actors was the first in history in which both actors shared a shot, since in ‘The Godfather II’ their characters existed in different timelines and never interacted. Mann built the entire narrative of ‘Heat’ as an inevitable path toward that moment, and when it arrives, the encounter is neither a fight nor a chase: it’s two men talking about mundane topics. And it has remained an idealized model of male conversation in which things are not said directly but are understood. That masculinity (contained, professional, stoic) is one of the keys to the cult that ‘Heat’ has earned. As it has been saidwhat Mann explores is not crime but its cost: the loneliness of men who don’t know how to live outside of their work, who come to love too late or with too much baggage. That tension between the professional world and personal life resonates with a certain generation of men, and explains the devoted following he has gained over the years. From that point of view, that films like Christopher Nolan’s trilogy of Batman films, Mann’s own ‘Collateral’ or Ben Affleck’s ‘The Town’ owe so much to ‘Heat’ and generate follow-ups with comparable audiences explains everything. Work for men. Mann described his own film as a “symphonic drama.” That operatic tone (a “nothing” of passion: men who do not tell what they feel, who channel their entire emotional life into work, who arrive late or do not arrive at love) is combined with the definition that Mark Kermode made Man’s cinema: hypermasculinity that tends towards implosion, destroying the social relations around it not out of malice, but out of inability. The theme of the film is male alienation, and it is what has resonated with so many men. McCauley’s code (don’t tie yourself to anything you can’t get away from in thirty seconds) is self-help in reverse, and also a fantasy of radical autonomy that a certain sector of men has been claiming for years. He totem paper of ‘Heat’ makes all the sense in the world: these men in one piece, which Mann describes without judging, had not yet been deactivated by the irony of post-heroes like The Rock or the fragile Marvel characters, full of flaws and nuances. Only with films are experiments like the podcast possible’One Heat Minute’which dissects the film minute by minute. And now, ‘Heat 2’. The sequel carries a gestation process which promises to be comparable to its predecessor. It has taken more than three years to find financing, it has changed studios in the midst of budget negotiations and it has seen how the director reduced the budget from an initial $200 million to $150 million that United Artists (a division of Amazon) has approved. The starting point is a novel that Mann published in 2022 with Meg Gardiner. It works as a prequel and sequel, with a non-linear structure that jumps between 1988, 1995 (immediately after the first film) and the year 2000. Although McCauley has been dead since 1995, the novel goes back to his formative years and moves forward with the survivor played by Val Kilmer. Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale have been confirmed in the cast, and this is also a declaration of intentions: there are few actors as loved and respected by the male audience as them (among other things, for the devotion that manosphere towards films as ridiculously misinterpreted as ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and ‘American Psycho’). Filming will begin in August of this year and the premiere is scheduled for 2027. Great expectations. Since 2004’s ‘Collateral,’ Mann has had a few punctures at the box office: ‘Blackhat’ cost 70 million dollars and grossed 19.6, and ‘Ferrari’ cost 95 and barely made it to 16. It is an opportunity to make amends and also to meet his audience: the one at the center of a cultural debate on masculinity that has charged the original film with a meaning that it did not have in 1995. All this, if we season it with the inevitable nineties nostalgia, there we have it: one of the possible next box office phenomena. In Xataka | On TikTok there are men shaving their eyelashes to look more masculine. Science has bad news for them

If anyone was waiting for the AI ​​bubble to burst, NVIDIA’s results have a message: sit tight

by

NVIDIA just published your results of the fourth quarter of its last fiscal year and has left Wall Street speechless. Revenues of $68.1 billion, a net profit that almost doubles that of the same period of the previous year, and a forecast for the following quarter that has far exceeded analysts’ expectations. And all this in a turbulent context where more efficient models and other alternatives are beginning to appear. The crash of DeepSeek is far away, and the demand for chips does not slow down. We tell you the numbers in detail. In case your position was not clear. Only a handful of companies in history have exceeded $100 billion in annual profit. Alphabet, Microsoft and Apple are in that club. NVIDIA has just joined them, with $120 billion in profits in the last twelve months, according to the report. The difference is speed: just three years ago, its annual profit was 4.4 billion. We can say with certainty that no technology company has ever grown so quickly on that scale. AI, and more AI. The engine that has driven these profits is its data center business, which generated $62.3 billion in the quarter, 71% more than a year ago. Within that segment, if we focus on their Blackwell chips, they have gone from entering 32.6 billion to 51.3 billion, while the networks (NVLink, Spectrum-X and InfiniBand) grow from 3,000 to 11,000 million. Gross margin is 75%, and earnings per share nearly double to $1.76 in GAAP terms (which is the official rulebook that companies follow to demonstrate transparent accounting). What Jensen Huang says. “Without computing, there is no way to generate tokens. Without tokens, there is no way to grow revenue.”, counted directly the CEO of NVIDIA in the meeting with investors. Their thesis is that in the new AI economy, computing power directly equates to revenue for their customers. That is why the large cloud service providers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta) continue increasing your capex budgetswhich together will exceed 500,000 million dollars in 2026 to build AI data centers. And NVIDIA is the main beneficiary of that expense. What DeepSeek has not broken, but accelerated. At the beginning of 2025, the emergence of the Chinese DeepSeek model generated an unprecedented tremor in the markets, leaving a simple question in our minds: if AI becomes more efficient, why do we need so many chips? The answer from NVIDIA’s results is that efficiency does not reduce infrastructure demand, it multiplies it. Every improvement in inference efficiency lowers the cost per token, encouraging more companies to deploy more AI applications, which in turn requires more compute. It’s like Jevons’ paradox, but applied to AI: efficiency expands the market instead of contracting it. Agentic AI as the next catalyst. On the same call with investors and analysts, Huang stood out that “enterprise adoption of agents is skyrocketing.” AI agentsthese systems that make decisions and execute tasks autonomously, require many more inference cycles than chatbots. They are the next step in the AI ​​value chain, and NVIDIA is once again in a privileged position. Colette Kress, CFO of the company, confirmed In addition, the first samples of Vera Rubin, the next generation of chips that will arrive later this year, have already been sent. China and the competition. Not everything is green. NVIDIA acknowledged that its forecast for the next quarter ($78 billion) does not include computing revenue in China. The company has generated just about $60 million from H20 chips since the Trump administration reapproved some sales in August 2025, according to SEC filings, and has yet to earn revenue from the most recently approved H200. Regulatory uncertainty with Beijing remains a small China in Huang’s shoe. In parallel, competitors such as AMD, Broadcom or Google’s own custom chips (TPUs) are gaining ground. But the NVIDIA CEO remains focused on his vision. And according to pointed at the meeting: “Every company depends on software, and all software will depend on AI.” As long as this is fulfilled, everything indicates that NVIDIA will continue selling the blades and picks. Cover image | NVIDIA In Xataka | NVIDIA was founded by three engineers, but only Jensen Huang remains CEO: “I wish I had kept some shares”

We have been waiting for years for 8K TVs to take over the world. It is evident that we are going to sit and wait

by

In the 80s you guessed that Indiana Jones had a four-day beard, but that’s all. You couldn’t really see it, because on your VHS tapes it was more of a shadow than anything else. Those of us who have gray hair are lucky (or unlucky) to have lived in past times in which image resolution It was something arcane and mysterious. I was content with the video quality of the VHS tapes of ‘The Goonies’ or ‘Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark’ and I was happy with my C64 and its 320×200 pixels and those matches of ‘Match Day II’ with my brother in which we both enjoyed (and fought) as if we were playing the last game. FIFA EA Sports FC. Then, of course, everything improved and we began to realize that the resolution was important. We discovered that DVDs and their 720×576 resolution (in the PAL system used in Spain, in the US the NTSC only reached 720 x480) was like seeing the future until that future became the past with the arrival of HD Ready (720p) and especially Full HD (1080p) resolutions. Suddenly it was absolutely obvious that Harrison Ford hadn’t shaved.

Openai has just changed the chatgpt rules with Pulse. Stop waiting questions and start anticipating your daily life

by

You get a notification to the mobile. It is not the calendar or mail: it is from Chatgpt. It’s called Pulse and, According to OpenAi“investigate proactively“To give you a personalized summary of the day with thematic cards that you can get quickly or open for more detail. The grace is that you stop waiting for your question and advance with ideas and next steps, learning from your chats and your feedback And, if you decide to connect them, of apps such as the calendar. The result is a Briefing Matinal that tries to fit with your routine before it starts. Pulse arrives as a view and, for now, is only available in the ChatgPT mobile application for payment users in THE PRO PLAN. It does not replace the usual model, but is presented as an addition: the assistant maintains the option to answer on demand questions, but adds a new functionality. With this movement, Openai takes the first step towards an assistant who aspires to be present before even the user invoices it. Of the chatbot that responds to the assistant who advances Every night, the system analyzes recent conversations and interactions history to prepare a set of cards with information selected These cards are presented the next day in the application as a daily summary that can be browsing in seconds or expanding to obtain more context. The content expires at the end of the day unless it is saved in the history of chats. In addition, each card can be opened to request clarifications or following steps, so that the experience is not limited to reading, but connects with the usual conversation. Personalization is built on simple signals. The user can give a thumb up or down, ask that the next summary include a specific topic or modify what is not useful. Pulse collects that information and applies it in the next night cycle. Openai points out that all adjustment history is accessible and reversible: it can be consulted or erased when desired. To reduce risks, each set of cards undergoes safety checks that block problematic recommendations or contents that violate the platform standards. One of the characteristics is in the possibility of COnectar Gmail and Google Calendar. In doing so, press can suggest an agenda scheme for a meeting, remember the purchase of a birthday gift or recommend restaurants based on a scheduled trip. These integrations are deactivated by default and are managed from the configuration. Openai insists that they improve the relevance of suggestions, although they also expand the surface of personal information that the assistant handles. The examples are varied and very everyday. Openai mentions from tips to prepare a quick dinner to reminders linked to a trip or training suggestions for a triathlon. In the Chatgpt Lab, several students commented that the utility of Pulse became evident when they began to guide it with concrete requests. One of them reported that, after talking about how to organize his calendar in Taiwan, the system offered him practical steps to optimize train journeys that would not have looked for himself. Openai has been working on the security of his chatbot for some time. Even so, cybersecurity experts warn that the risk never disappears completely. Radware documented a case in which an altered mail managed to The in -depth research function of chatgpt will filter sensitive data. Vulnerability was already corrected, but the example reminds that integrating personal information into such an assistant increases exposure and demands to keep caution. For now, Pulse is in a view phase and only those who have the Pro subscription in the mobile app. OpenAI warns that not always right: Reminders of already closed projects or little relevant suggestions may appear. The idea is to collect that early use to correct failures and refine the model. If everything progresses as planned, the function will open first to Plus clients and then to the rest, in a progressive deployment. It is a launch that fits a broader strategy: to make Chatgpt become a daily assistant and not only a specific tool. OpenAi seeks to increase the time of use and take a step towards the more personal relationship With the application. The movement also marks distance in front of competitors such as COPILOT of Microsoft or Claude of Anthropic, which until now have prioritized professional or productivity uses. According to Reutersthe company also works on a browser with AI that would reinforce this commitment to accompany the user in more facets of their digital life. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | Microsoft has never been so valuable throughout its history. And he has never been so close to the abyss

The world is waiting for Depseek’s new great model to compete with GPT-5, but Depseek has other plans: the agricultural AI

by

At the beginning of the year, the Chinese startup Deepseek put the world of AI up with Deepseek R1a free and open source model that was placed at the height of GPT-4 or Claude. After the coup on the table, in Depseek they have been quite quiet, but now we know what its next objective is: the agriculture. Before the end of the year. A few days ago Bloomberg reported that Deepseek is working on an advanced and very ambitious agent. He will be able to perform multiple tasks with minimal user intervention and will learn as he works. According to sources close to the company, the founder of the company Lian Wenfeng is pressing his team so that the new agentic model is ready before the end of the year. The company has already taken a step in this direction with the Deepseek v3.1 presentation Just two weeks ago. As detailed by the company in A post in Wechatits new model improves performance in reasoning tasks and agricultural abilities. A step back. Deepseek R2, the expected successor of the successful model with which Deepseek revolutionized the industry making begging. Instead they gave us Deepseek v3.1 and now the rumors suggest that their next great launch will be an AI agent. What is happening? There are voices, such as This Chinese journalistthat they see this turn to the agricultural AI as a way of taking a step back and getting away from the expensive and competitive career of the foundational language models. That The generative AI is reaching its roof It is something that is being talked about Since last year. GPT-5 is the test more recent than The big jumps are a thing of the past. If we add to this that China has a more conservative way of proceeding, with more long -term strategiesDeepseek’s turn towards an agriculture instead of launching Depseek R2 makes sense. Restrictions Although we have seen The most ingenious forms to make fun of themUnited States restrictions on chip export to China are also impacting the plans of many Chinese and Deepseek companies do not get rid. This also involves extra pressure that forces new routes with which to market their products. In fact, there is something striking in Deepseek v3.1 and it is that the model has been specially designed for Chinese chipswith the objective of Avoid dependence on foreign chips. Generate income. The agricultural AI opens another way for Deepseek, one in which you can get benefits more easily. Large language models have a problem: They cost a money and monetize them is not being a simple task. Given this, IA agents rise like a Most reasonable business model. Deepseek R1 has already given a whole lesson in Resource efficiencyIt makes sense that the company wants to opt for the fastest path to the benefits. A more conservative position. Although He has trimmed positionsChina lags in AI in terms of investments and access to the most advanced chips. Despite this, his approach in this AI race is being different. We see it in your Bet on the Open-Source wave “Personified“But perhaps the biggest difference is that, while their competitors in the United States continue to squander billions, in China they are choosing to be more conservative and not waste. This turn to the agents is in that conservative line to achieve a more sustainable industry. Image | Matheus Bertelli, via Pexels In Xataka | There is a city in China that is measured face to face with Silicon Valley: welcome to Hangzhou, the house of the ‘Six Little Dragons’

The self -school denounces that the list of waiting for the driving exam is endless. The DGT denies it

by

“I thought about changing my self -school, really, but as I had already approved the theoretical exam … when I asked in other places the waiting list was the same.” These words are from Elena, a student of an Aluche car to the south of Madrid. What he explains is the same as thousands of students live throughout Spain. Elena is 19 years old and wanted to get the driving license “because a car gives you a lot of freedom. If there is public transport, I prefer public transport but it is true that the car gives you that freedom not to depend on the schedules of the bus or the subway.” He was not in a hurry, luckily. He tells us that he approved the theoretical exam last March but had to stop the desire to get into the car to start the practices. “There was a waiting list that has come to August.” And, as we said, he clarifies that it doesn’t matter where you look. “I had to wait and now,” he emphasizes. Those who need yes or yes to work are not so lucky. “As an opponent, who in some cases ask traffic an extraordinary exam to be able to enter into the deadline,” they explain from Corella Autoescoles who will give us more details of what they are living in Valencia. Because the situation is repeated in the big cities of Spain. This is just a case in Madrid but there are similar testimonies in Valencia, Barcelona or Bilbao. Self -schools stuck due to lack of teachers. But also struck self -schools because, they say, the DGT does not have enough employees to give way to the waiting list to present to the practical exam. “The so -called waiting list,” they tell us from the DGT. Permanently struck self -schools It is a problem that has been repeating for years. Already in 2017DGT examiners were strike demanding job improvements. They said they were saturated and claimed more personal. Then, 100,000 applicants stayed on the road and Some self -schools raised the closure after some stops that were held more than half a year. Now the DGT ensures that “the ratio of jobs is covered in 97% and is the group that has a higher replacement rate since every year approximately 50 examiners access.” “Since 2017, 732 examiners have been incorporated. It is, with much difference, the collective with more incorporations within the DGT, ”they insist. Is it enough? Javier L. Tejedor, of Lara auto -schoolIt is resounding: “No.” He points out that the examiners “are obliged to take the holidays before February and that leaves months of very few examiners in staff. The months of December, January and February are very complicated. And also July.” The same says David Corella, from Corella Autoescoles. “We have to take the student to exam when we see him prepared but quadling that we have to wait a month and a half to introduce ourselves. There you have to run out the practices.” If everything were about rails, there would be not much problem. But everything is complicated when the student suspends (according to the DGT 46% of students do not exceed the first exam). “We have to put them on the waiting list of repeaters and there the deadlines go to two or three months because we have to continue taking people but there are few places. We have never had a waiting list like now,” they insist. Both point to the same problem. “Almost all traffic leaders are saturated throughout Spain,” they explain from Lara Auto School. “In our case, as we have 65 centers in Madrid, the waiting list to do the practices once you approve the theoretician is from a month and a half but today I have answered an email from a student of another car that claims to have to wait five months.” “An examiner does 12 car or motorcycle tests a day. It has 360 minutes to examine throughout the day but the number of tests are the same, regardless of the exam last five or twenty -eight minutes,” explains Javier L. Tejedor. The perception that students and self -schools have is that the traffic jam is continuous but the DGT defends that this is not such and that, in fact, it is not uncommon for empty squares to remain. “The so -called waiting list is not a fact that corresponds to people who would be in real disposition to request the exam,” they explain. David Corella says that in Alicante “they have the same examiners as us but they have a million less inhabitants. Come on, in Valencia we have few for the population we have.” And he points to a fact “We are in almost 19,000 students waiting. In three years we have increased more than 3,000 students.” Traffic, meanwhile, defends itself by saying that these students are counted on the CAPA SYSTEM But they ensure that not all students who appear there are willing to take the exam. They classify these in three major categories: Those who have suspended the first test Those who are completing practical training but are not prepared to get the driving license Those who delay the exam to take it out in their city of origin or during its holiday period. In Lara auto, they agree that this happens but they point out another reason: “Many students move to take the exam to do them in smaller headquarters taking advantage of the fact that they return to study but there are also those that come to Madrid to larger self -schools because they know we have more capacity to teach and there are more scheduled exams.” They do not share this vision in the DGT. From traffic they emphasize that, in addition to the usual template, they have 15 examiners who rotate between traffic leaders to adapt to demand. A demand that has forced 6.58% more exams with open traffic in the first … Read more

Someone has seemed a great idea to propose a sculpture of a bull of more than 300 meters. There are already cities waiting to host it

by

That the bull is since we have a kind of national symbol reason does not even mention it. But it seems that sometimes it insists on reminding us in increasingly creative ways, so the Spanish Bullfighting Academy Location for a monstrous 300 meter sculpture high that aspires to become a strong tourist attraction. After the rejection of Madrid, Castellanoleonese towns such as Ciudad Rodrigo, Toro, Benavente or Burgos have shown interest in being the hosts of this ambitious project. Colossal dimensions. The proposal contemplates a colossal structure that tripled the height of the Burgos Cathedralwith panoramic viewpoints in the animal’s horns and commercial spaces at its base. The initiative aims to emulate the tourist impact of monuments such as the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty, but using the bull as a sign of identity. The promoters seek a municipality that yields the necessary land, while the construction costs would be in charge of private companies. More tourism. The project promises to act as an economic engine for the chosen town, attracting national and international visitors. In Castilla y León, a region that has been characterized by a bullfighting tradition, several municipalities have seen a unique opportunity to attract tourism. Ciudad Rodrigo has been the first to show interest, followed by Toro, Benavente, Sahagún, El Maillo, Ledesma and Villatuelda. Even Burgos values the proposal, although Cristina Ayala, mayor of the city, I commented to Antena 3 that saw the “too large” dimensions. The reluctance. For Fernando Martínez-Acitores, deputy mayor in Burgos and Vox militant, building this bull can be “a great emblem” and “a claim for the city.” Naturally, not everyone looks good at the initiative. Daniel de la Rosa, former mayor and leader of the PSOE in the opposition qualifies the proposal as “crazy”, while animalist groups such as Proanbur the consider A provocation that extol animal abuse. In fact, its spokesman, Judith Sánchez, account That “with this bull figure, they seek to disguise something that is far from being.” What comes now. The Spanish Bullfighting Academy is evaluating the proposals received, also analyzing the technical and logistics viability. The selection process will continue in the coming weeks, everything while interested municipalities expect to know the answer. The project needs a lot at least 650 meters long for its construction, and this detail considerably limits the available options. Cover image | Jordi Vich Navarro AND SPANISH ACADEMY OF TUROMAQUIA In Xataka | The “Cayetans” are going to make noise to the squares. And it’s not just for the fond of bullfighting

We had been waiting for temperatures down weeks. Once again a price has come: hail

by

The forecasts indicated that the worst Effects of the Paso de la Vaguada They would make themselves feel between yesterday afternoon and today. Forecasts that seem to be fulfilled, with abundant rainfall and located floods. However, if something has stood out on social networks of the first hours of the arrival of the storms, it has been the large hail that has been collected in some areas. Barcelona, in the center of the storm. The province of Barcelona has been the area where the passage of the trough that since yesterday sweeps the Mediterranean basin has been noticed, leaving in its path important stormy episodes with rain, hail and wind. Yesterday, the State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) He issued a notice Red for extreme risk in the area of central depression of Barcelona. The Aemet data Today show the effects of these stormy episodes in the province: as the 50 mm of rainfall collected yesterday in Prats de Lluçanès, or the 49.6 mm of Caldes de Montbui. At 11:00 today had already been collected 42.2 mm in the town of Vilafranca del Penedès. Hails. However, it has not been the amount of water that has caught the attention of the areas through which the storms have passed, but the hail. Its size, to be more concrete: they have gathered Pedriscos up to five centimeters. Cold trough, hot Mediterranean. The passage of the trough, an anomally deep trough for this time of year, has been the trigger for this situation, but to get here they have had to coaligate different factors. Factors such as Levante’s wind, loaded with moisture, which intermingle with the cold air of the trough, or as the surface temperature of the Mediterranean Sea, still high after several weeks several degrees above what would correspond. This situation has given rise to the appearance of the convective systems responsible for storms and rainfall seen in recent hours. Also of those we will see in the next. Still active warnings. The red notice activated yesterday inside Barcelona is no longer active, but Aemet keeps active A series of notices, including orange notices due to important risk, associated with rains and storms. Active notices affect much of the southeast quadrant of the Peninsula, in addition to the Balearic Islands and areas of the Catalan Pyrenees. The orange notices They concentrate today in the west of Castilla-La Mancha and the interior of the Region of Murcia. Active notices for tomorrow also include orange warnings due to rains and storms that will affect the Region of Murcia. They will be accompanied by yellow notices in a broader region in the southeast of the Peninsula, Catalonia, also the Balearic Islands. Attentive to evolution. The situation will improve only progressively. Some notices Aemet meteorlogics will still be kept active during Saturday in Catalonia, where rainfall is expected to reach 20 mm in an hour. Temperatures however will go up during the day, especially in the opposite area of the Iberian Peninsula: The forecasts The agency advances temperatures above 36º degrees in low areas of the southwest peninsular. In Xataka | The hydrological bonanza could not be eternal: drought is a real threat after an extremely warm, and also dry June Image | ECMWF / Grace Murry

The United Kingdom was waiting for an invincible hunt. Today, the F-35 flies little and cannot shoot its own weapons

by

He F-35b Lightning It is one of the most advanced fighters in the world. It has low observability when radar can take off in short distances and land vertically, and is designed to operate from Terrestrial Bases and Bases. You can execute Aire-Aire, air-surface, electronic warfare and intelligence in parallel missions. On paper, the United Kingdom was going to turn it into the cornerstone of its aerial power, With 138 planned units and a service horizon until 2069. But reality goes behind that ambition. A new report by the National Audit Office (NAO) He has just documented in detail a series of problems that drag the program: from sustained delays to capabilities yet to be integrated. The result is a much less solid photograph than expected a decade ago. And that opens uncomfortable questions about costs, efficacy and planning. F-35b, promises and delays As we said, the F-35B Lightning is the short take-off version and vertical landing of hunting by the United States The Joint Strike Fighter program. United Kingdom chose this variant To replace your Harrier and operate from the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers. You can fly to more than Mach 1.6, reach 50,000 feet of altitude and execute multiple types of mission. A Harrier plane landing Its strong point is in the fusion of sensors and in the ability to share data in real time with other platforms. Unlike previous generations, the F-35B not only acts as an attack vector, but as a network intelligence node. In 2012 the first units arrived in the country, with Raf Marham as the main base. United Kingdom has invested at least 11,000 million pounds (about 12.6 billion euros) until March 2025, According to the National Audit Office. And yet, the level of operational capacity reached is lower than the ministry expected in 2013. The postponement of the total operational capacity (FOC) of 2023 at the end of 2025 implies that the F -35b have not yet reached the degree of maturity necessary to operate with full capacity. According to the NAO, the flight hours accumulated in 2024 were lower than those required, which limits the preparation of crews and the real availability of the fleet for intensive missions. In addition, the plane is currently limited in armament. Today only the guided pump Paveway IV and the Air-Aire Amraam AIM-13D, According to the RAF technical file. NAO confirms that the integration of British Meteor and Spear 3 missiles It has been postponed until the early 2030. In practice, this means that the F -35B cannot yet execute attacks from long distance with state -of -the -art weapons, such as its original strategic purpose. An F-35 landing There are also structural limitations. As The Register has pointed outthe short take -off design and vertical landing (Stovl) imposes significant restrictions on the payload and at the operational reach of the plane, something that conditions its effectiveness in demanding combat scenarios. This assessment is not part of the official NAO report, but it does reflect a usual concern among several specialists. To all this, the cost of full life cycle could reach 71,000 million pounds (about 81.9 billion euros). The problems are not alone Although the F-35B is already in operational use, the figures reveal a compromised capacity. In 2024, only around one third of the fleet was available to execute all the expected missions. Part of the problem is structural: the United Kingdom has failed to cover all the necessary positions to operate and maintain the system. Engineers are scarceand prolonged displays in aircraft carrier make many fate F-35 as unattractive. A F-35B of the United Kingdom The supply of pieces is not guaranteed either. The global logistics system, managed from the United States, has not grown at the same pace as the international fleet. That has generated bottlenecks, delays in deliveries and an excessive dependence on temporary solutions. Although during the deployment of Carrier Strike Group of 2025 the availability rates were improved, everything indicates that these levels may not be maintained once the operation is finished. Despite delays, costs and availability problems, the United Kingdom retains an outstanding role within the International F-35 program. He was the only level 1 partner to join the United States -led program and maintains 38 members of the Ministry of Defense Integrated in the central team of the project in Washington, more than any other country. This implication has given tangible results: British companies manufacture at least 15 % of the value of each unit produced. An eye on the future While the F-35 still faces limitations, the United Kingdom already promotes its own next generation project: The Tempest huntintegrated since December 2022 in the multinational program Global Combat Air Program (GCAP)together with Italy and Japan. Conceptual image of the future hunting of the Tempest program This effort, led by BAE Systems (United Kingdom), Leonardo (Italy) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan), aims to develop a Sixth generation furtive plane for 2035with prototypes flying before 2028. The headquarters of the program is based in the United Kingdom. Since its origin, it has been raised as an open architecture platform, with engines, plane, sensors and weapons developed under national control, seeking greater technological autonomy with respect to the US. Despite optimism, there are still tensions. Italy has expressed concern about the lack of transparency in the technological transfer from the United Kingdom. Images | Raf (1, 2), | Adrian Pingstone | BAE Systems In Xataka | There are those who ask why airplanes have no parachute. This manufacturer decided to stop asking him and putting one

Log In

Forgot password?

Forgot password?

Enter your account data and we will send you a link to reset your password.

Your password reset link appears to be invalid or expired.

Log in

Privacy Policy

Add to Collection

No Collections

Here you'll find all collections you've created before.