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We had been waiting for the portable Xbox for years. We had it together with our noses

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In March of this same year all roads began to converge in the same direction: the Portable Xbox began to appear the leg. Under the Keenan code name, the leaks pointed to an OEM console (manufactured by another company), with a certain reminiscence of Xbox in the design and Windows as an operating system. The leaks have been fulfilled, and the portable Xbox is official. Or is it not an Xbox? Rog Xbox Ally and Rog Xbox Ally X. ROG has been the OEM chosen by Microsoft to manufacture its portable Xbox. For the least familiar with the gaming world, ROG (Republic of Gamers) is a brand of the Taiwanese giant Asus. This division is centered on hardware oriented to high performance game. Xbox Series X: First impressions – Are you going to give us great joys? Under the names Rog Xbox Ally and Rog Xbox Ally XThe company will launch two consoles in the late 2025. Details about reservations, price or possible accessories are not yet known. The hardware. Xbox has revealed what the main specifications of these consoles will be. The X will be the most powerful model. The chip will be the AMD Ryzen Z2 A In the case of the ROG Ally, and an Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme for the X variant. Both will share seven -inch Full HD screen, IPS and with 500 nits, with frequency of 120 Hz refreshment and protection Corning Gorilla Glass Victus with Anti -reflective coating. They differ in processor, memoir (16 GB LPDDR5X-6400 vs. 24 GB LPDDR5X-8000, and 512 GB vs 1 TB), as well as more ports and battery for the X model (60 WH vs 80 Wh, both with 65W). The software. The leaks have been fulfilled and, as they pointed out, these consoles will arrive with Windows 11 Personalized by Rog. The interface is practically a tracing with respect to that of the desktop console: Microsoft has become obsessed so that Windows works quickly in this console. Taking a look at the information shared by Xbox, we see that the launcher is identical to that of Xbox in desktop, with the direct accesses on the left side, quick access to our recently played videos, suggestions of new deliveries, etc. The experience of use. Microsoft has minimized the consumption of resources in the background so that, as soon as the console starts, the experience is as fast as possible. The ergonomics of the buttons is based on the Xbox command. In fact, if you look well in the design of the product, it is practically a screen embedded between two Xbox controls. Years betting on the cloud. Xbox has been focusing efforts for the cloud for years. Xbox Cloud Gaminglook towards all kinds of formats (Like television itself without the need for console), Focus on the mobile phonee Even streaming of our own video games. Rog Xbox Ally will allow you to enjoy the cloud game not only through gamepass, but also with alternatives such as Epic Games, Battle.net … And even Steam. It is, of course, compatible with Xbox Play Anywherethe Xbox solution to avoid duplicate payments: the games are paid once, and can be enjoyed both in Xbox and PC. An Xbox that does not want to be just an Xbox. The Rog Xbox Ally key will be, precisely, when you want to go beyond Xbox. Being based on Windows, not only can you natively execute those deliveries specially made for Xbox: it is expected that it can execute games purchased on other platforms. This console, despite the name, is closer to a PC than an Xbox, and the company’s point is clear: “These consoles work with Windows, you have access to all PC games” (as long as they meet the requirements to be executed. The point is that … this already existed. If we look at the Xbox Rog Ally panel specifications and a good part of their speers … we are facing A sister of the Rog Ally. The Xbox Rog Ally has more power, haptic triggers, a different design and, perhaps the key, an optimized launcher for Xbox users to feel more comfortable. This console went on the market for 799 euros, 899 In the case of variant X. With a higher level hardware, there will be no miracle that prevents this console from selling about 1,000 euros. Xbox Rog Ally does not come to compete with Switch 2it is an immersion by Microsoft in the world of “HANDLED PC”one of the most competitive niches in the gaming world. Image | Xbox In Xataka | Adult life has made me sitting to play is increasingly complicated. Until I bought a portable console

Epic has noted a victory that had been waiting for a while

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‘Fortnite‘He just returned to the iOS App Store in the United States. It is not a new game, much less: it is the same title that accumulated millions of users when debuted in 2017 and that has not stopped updating since then. The return comes after a long legal battle between Epic and Apple, who took the store game in 2020. Now it is available again, and that says much more than it seems: the rules of the iOS ecosystem are starting to move, and Epic once again occupies a place that Apple had closed. A fight that started with a button. Epic decided to include its own payments within Fortnitethus skipping the standards of the App Store. Apple responded by removing the game from his store. That movement was the beginning of a dispute that did not go unnoticed. The case ended in court. What came later was a high profile battle between two giants in the sector. Epic accused Apple of imposing unfair conditions, while Apple defended that the rules were the same for everyone. A partial victory for Epic. Justice did not consider Apple to have a monopoly, but it did conclude that violated the disloyal competition law of California. The failure forces Apple to allow apps to include links or buttons towards external payment systems. Apple didn’t make it easy. Although Apple modified its policies after the judicial resolution, it introduced warning screens that advised against the use of external payment methods, all this with Epic protesting again and again. Europe forced the first crack. In the European Union, the context is different. Under the pressure of the community authorities and thanks to the new legislation of the Digital Markets LawApple allowed Epic Games to install Fortnite on the iPhone through Your own application store. This exemplifies how the rules of the game can vary according to the region. In Android the story was similar (but not the same). Google also withdrew Fortnite from his store for the same reason: Epic had activated his own payment system. However, in December 2023 A jury declared that Google maintained a monopoly in the mobile app distribution market. The company has appealed. Today, Google Play still does not offer Fortnite, although Android users can download it directly from the Epic website. Epic does not give up. The company has been denouncing what it considers abusive conditions by large application stores, especially with regard to commissions. Its objective is to change that model, and Fortnite’s return to the iPhone seems, at least for the moment, a small step in that direction. Images | APPSHUNTER | Epic Games In Xataka | The ghost of video games at 100 euros is closer than ever. And the owners of ‘GTA VI’ know

We have been waiting for Apple Carplay Ultra for three years. Now we have even more doubts about your success

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From that WWDC held in 2022Apple users have been waiting for that New carplay generation that Never arrived. After almost three years, the company has made the name of its new operating system for cars official. One in which integration with the screens of the same It is practically complete. Carplay Ultra. Carplay’s new generation is called Carplay Ultraand it is exactly as Apple showed it two years ago in Porsche and Aston Martin cars. A system fully integrated in car screens and systems, including speedometer, fuel indicators and elements such as air conditioning. Apple does not want Carplay Ultra to be a system apart from the car interface: he wants to be the system that controls it completely. With all that this implies for manufacturers, which will have to give in to offer. In Aston Martin alone. Apple is Apple, and there was no more exclusive brand than Aston Martin to release his new carplay generation. The owners of the DB12, Vantage, Vanquish or DBX 707 will be the first to enjoy this Carplay update, first in the United States and with a predictable global expansion within the next 12 months. It will be necessary to have a iPhone 12 or superior executing iOS 18.5 or more recent versions. There is no news, saving Porsche as a partner, what more companies will join to give him (literally) the controls to Apple. Afternoon and bad. Apple Carplay Ultra It arrives after months latewith a condition that makes it clear that this system will not be for everyone. This update requires that the manufacturer yield practically all control over the elements of the Apple interface. Speedometer, tachometer, maps and music information, air conditioning … Carplay Ultra wants to be like Android Automotivebut at all times depending on the iPhone being connected. There is also no trace on how Siri will help us and be integrated with the car … because there are no news. The Nueva Siri is still in the airwhile Google pushes showing How Gemini will work on Android Automotive. The iPhone as a center. This is precisely one of CarPlay Ultra’s biggest problems: depending on an external device. In cars with Android Built-in, Android Automotive is the operating system, and does not depend on any time we have the connected mobile. With the Apple approach, without iPhone there is no paradise: Carplay Ultra is not a pre -installed system in the car, and this is a problem for the type of vehicle to which it is oriented: the luxury. Use carplay or Android car wirelessly It is an important punishment for the phone’s battery, and can cause yield inconsistencies when it is low (savings mode). For how many. The big doubt that Carplay Ultra throws is … for whom he is. That Apple has Aston Martin as the main partner is relevant, but Google also chose Polestar to release Android Automotive and ended up arriving at more mainstream marks. The key with Carplay Ultra is the assignment of almost complete control in a system that is not pre -installed natively. It does not seem easy for manufacturers to be willing. Image | Apple In Xataka | The death of Apple Car is a great opportunity for Carplay. Everything is ready to overcome Android Auto

They are still waiting for their car without news

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In November 2017, Tesla enthusiasts like Hamid Shojaee They did not hesitate to advance $ 50,000 To ensure a place on the waiting list of the New Roadster. It was not a smaller figure, but the promise in front of them was tempting: an electrical supercar capable of accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in less than two seconds and traveling the distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco of round trip without stopping to recharge. Tesla presented it as “the fastest production car that has been manufactured.” Almost eight years later, neither Shojae nor the rest of the depositors have received their car. And, what is more worrying, production has not yet begun. Click to see the original message in x A wait that lengthens without a clear date. Roadster delay is not an isolated case or responds to a specific problem. Since its presentation, Tesla has been displacing the production deadlines again and again. At first, Elon Musk announced that the car would manufacture in 2020. But that same year, An updated roadmap He placed the beginning between 12 and 18 months later, which took us in the mid or late 2021. In 2021 It was delayed again at 2022. Then went to 2023, then to 2024and more recently to 2025. In parallel, not a single unit has left the factory, and the company itself has barely shown tangible advances since then. Tesla and promises that do not arrive on time. At this point, the pattern is repeated. The Roadster joins a long list of Tesla products announced with enthusiasm, but whose arrival is substantially delayed. The cybertruckfor example, it was presented in 2019 and promised by 2021. It did not arrive at the hands of the first buyers Until the end of 2023. And the Robotaxis, an ambitious autonomous driving project that Musk came to announce by 2020, have been renamed As Cybercab and, hopefully, they will arrive in 2026. Tesla’s narrative has always revolved around groundbreaking ideas, but the deadlines are rarely fulfilled. The Roadster has ended up becoming the best example of that reality. “The dessert” that does not finish arriving. During a call with investors after the presentation of results of the second quarter of 2024, Musk was asked directly about the state of Roadster. Did not offer concrete dates, But a messageFor those who have been waiting for years. “The Roadster is not just the icing on the cake, it is the icing on the cake,” he said. He added that Tesla has the mission of accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy future and that this implies prioritizing high -impact products rather than “dessert.” Even so, he dropped that the car design is almost finished and that it will be “something really spectacular.” GrandiloCuentes that, for the moment, still do not materialize in the form of a car. The reserve page for the Spanish market In Spain, reservations remain open. Although the production has not begun and that the model remains without a clear delivery date, Tesla reopened the reserves of the new Roadster in Spain in June 2023. The process requires an initial payment of 4,000 euros when making the reservation and an additional transfer of 39,000 euros in the next ten days. In total, 43,000 euros that Tesla says they are completely reimbursablebut that suppose a figure that is not negligible by a car that has not yet seen a definitive unit. A frozen price in time. When it was presented in 2017, Tesla spoke of a base price of 200,000 and a limited version “Founders Series” for $ 250,000. Since then, everything has changed: competition is stronger, the economic context is another and production costs have probably risen. What has not changed is that official label, which continues to float as if time had not happened. Now, the only clear thing is that, for now, the Roadster is still a promise to come true. Images | Tesla | Giorgio Trovato In Xataka | In 2016, Tesla opened orders in India asking for $ 1,000 as a sign. Now your customers have no car or money

The recipe of generation Z against exhaustion consists of not waiting at 65 to retire

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Young people from generation Z are increasingly unlikely to retire, so They are breaking with the traditional idea to work tirelessly until 65 to retire. Instead of waiting for decades to enjoy life, generation Z is promoting a trend that redefines the balance between work and well -being: Microjubilation. Live to work or work to live. This phenomenon, which He has gained strength Thanks to social networks, and proposes strategic pauses in the professional career to recharge energies, explore personal interests and prioritize mental health, all while you still have youth and vitality. As published The Guardian, The concept has its origin in the book ‘The 4 -hour work week‘Timothy Ferriss, in which the author prioritized to lead a happy and full life over professional careers dedicated to making others the dreams of others. You will rest when you retire … or not. According to A survey De sumimbuilder.com, 13% of American retirees expect that during 2025 they will have to return to the labor market Due to the high cost of life, and 22% are already working to subsist. In Spain, on the other hand, the panorama is just the opposite. According to a study From the BBVA and IVIE Foundation, the rent of those over 65 in Spain is 6.4% higher than the European average. Both scenarios are equally bad for those who begin their work career now. In the American case, generation Z has discovered that reaching the retirement age does not imply stop working, even when you have spent all your life doing it. On the other hand, in the case of Spain, the sustainability of pensions and the progressive aging of the population, does not guarantee that, who just begin their work career now, they will have such a wealthy retirement Like who retires now. In either case, the idea of ​​being able to rest when you retire from a thread. Marathon or sprints. Given this dilemma, generation Z is not only rethinking when and how to rest, but also how to build a more sustainable and satisfactory professional life by interspersing sabbatical periods as a “microjubilation” throughout your professional career, As they point out in Bloomberg. Unlike traditional sabbatical periods, which are usually linked to agreements with the employer and may include some type of salary, many young people choose to leave their employment temporarily and finance these brief periods of disconnection with their own savings. The objective is clear: take advantage of the energy and health of youth to travel, learn new skills or devote yourself to personal projects, instead of postponing these dreams to old age. Dominating remote work and precariousness. This new approach to generation Z also responds to a labor reality in which the instability and precariousness They are the order of the day. With the advancement of technology and the normalization of remote work, reinstatement to the world of work after a microretiro offers less friction than in previous generations, when an employee remained In the same company for decades. Generation has proven not to be afraid of change jobs oftenand interspersed a short period of rest between work and work can be a way of applying this model. The possibility of working for projects, part -time or remotely allow these breaks not to necessarily mean a setback in the professional career. In fact, according toThe published by The conversationIn Australia, for example, some companies offer their workers a paid permit when they have been working for them for seven to ten years. A kind of parental permit, but take care of oneself. The value of mental health and well -being. He physical and mental well -being It is one of the main concerns of generation Z, and one of the incentives of these microjubilaciones. StudiesThe World Health Organization revealed the direct relationship between the long working days and the 29% increase in deaths from heart disease and stroke between 2000 and 2016. Before this panorama, young people prefer to prevent exhaustion programming prolonged breaks, instead of waiting for health problems to accumulate over the years. Business Insider HE echoed In the case of Anaïs Felt, a senior manager in a technological company in Silicon Valley who, overwhelmed by the stress and fatigue caused by his work, decided to make a small pause in his career. “I came home so exhausted that I just knocked down on the couch to recover, drew and then lay down,” he said about his routine. “I had no energy to run, or to spend time with my partner, or to laugh,” Felt said in one of the videos he has hung In your Tiktok profile counting his experience. Trend with many “Peros”. Although the microjubilation approach is shown as a way to balance the Self -care with professional careersreality is sometimes stubborn and insists on making it unfeasible. As Felt remembered in the description of his video, before taking one of these breaks he had already paid his student loan and covered some basic needs, making special emphasis on the nuance of “If you can afford it, in my opinion, it is totally worth it.” Belgium State recognizes In his Labor Law the right to disconnect, offering a pause pause. However, previous studies To this measure they recognized that making this pause could have an important impact on the professional career, and became more persistent the younger they were the ones who requested it. Before some fired rental pricesthe cost of up to rise and Added salaries makes the age of emancipation in Spain place at 30.4 years, According to data of Eurostat. If the Z generation is committed to microjubilation, it could make that age superior in the future, depending for a longer time of family support. In Xataka | The Z generation is facing precarious salaries and triggered rentals: it will soon be the richest generation in history Image | Unspash (Keegan Houser)

We have been waiting for years at airports for years. Tiktok’s “airport theory” believes that it has been a mistake

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If you fly you will frequently be listening to it. The airport must be reached in advance. How much it depends largely on the city from which you take off and what your destination is, but usually the travelers are recommended that they be in the terminal with a margin of 90 minutes either two hours. And that at least. If fate is a distant country, like the US, that margin is quite superior. But … what if that wait could be reduced to 15 minutes? Just listening to it up the pulsations, but in Tiktok there are people (quite) determined to demonstrate the validity of a “Airport Theory” that holds that: that if you have done the Chek-in Online, you don’t have to bill suitcases and the trip is national, 15 minutes is more than enough not to lose flight. Not suitable for cardiac. “Traveling is a pleasure,” as I said Gloria Fuertes. But also a source of stress, nerves and hurry. Especially if you travel by plane. Hence operators Like Aena and the own airlines They advise to present themselves well in advance at airports. The exact time can vary from one case to another, but it usually moves between 90 minutestwo and a half or even the four For some destinations. In Tiktok there are enough people convinced that, at least in certain cases, they arrive with the terminal about 15 minutes before shipping or Even from takeoff. And is so sure of it that has begun to prove it During your own trips. @Michael.dicanzo Can Airport Theory Survive The World’s Busiest Airport ?? 👀✈️🤔 #Airportheory #Atlantaairport #Challenge ♬ Original Sound – Michael Dicostanzo The “Airport Theory”. The trend has been baptized as Airport Theory (“Airport Theory”) and has gained strength especially among Anglo -Saxon passengers. He arrives with searching The hashtag In Tiktok to verify that there is a good handful of videos of people (including Tiktokers with millions of followers) committed to demonstratein their own meats that can occur at the airport with much less in advance of what operators and airlines advise and yet to climb their airplanes without problem. Moreover, the phenomenon has won enough draft to jump from the networks to the generalist media, with reports in US chains and magazines such as The CNN, Fox News either Wired. Some of the videos of Influencers who speak of the theory, like the one who Michael Dicostanzo dedicated him A few days ago, hundreds of thousands of visualizations accumulate. But … What do you propose? Very simple. Roughly, the “airport theory” holds that until now you have been malicanting hours of your life at airports without any need. At least in certain cases. His hypothesis is that if the passenger has already performed the Check-in Online and only loads with hand luggage (so you don’t have to bill suitcases) you can reach the airport 15 minutes before embarking. According to the viral trend that is enough margin to pass the security controls, travel the distance to the boarding row and access the plane. All this, of course, without losing the flight. “Is it really necessary Betsy Grunch wonderswith 2.4 million followers on Tiktok. @itslexismith Testing Airport Theory At Lax ♬ Original Sound – Lexi Smith “I don’t think it’s necessary”. In An interview Recent with the CNN Grunch remembers that she had to check “the airport theory” one day that traffic and luggage problems led him to perform at the HartSfiel-Jackson International Airport, in Atlanta, only 26 minutes before his boarding time. As good TiktokerHe took the phone and recorded what came later: a race not suitable for cardiacs that allowed him to take his flight on time. Other influencer who wanted to verify it was James Shaw, although he opted for An experiment Sater: he went with his wife to a Florida airport with 90 minutes in advance of rigor and then used a stopwatch to calculate how long they took to reach his boarding door. He paused him after 13 minutes. “I think traveling can be very stressful and that’s why we say ‘I need to be there three or four hours earlier, or whatever it is.’ I don’t think it is necessary to do it,” Add Shaw. Of course, he only wore hand luggage and used a service that speeds up the procedures in the terminal. Like Grunch, he also recognizes that they would never test the theory on an international, more expensive trip and in which security controls can be more complicated … and long. The debate, served. Does “airport theory” work? In Tiktok you can find comments and videos both for and against. Also of course pieces of Tiktokers They have ended up seeing how They remain on land. Beyond recordings such as Dicostanzo and the debate that has emerged in networks, there are a few data that help to understand the scope of the trend … and some of its repercussions. A few days ago Wired needed That the “airport theory” accumulates more than 400 million visits in Tiktok, a sudden interest that seems to have coincided with a considerable rebound by Google Trends in the searches of “I have lost my flight, what do I do?” The truth is that airlines usually advise to present themselves at airports with a couple of hours In advance, enough to prevent an unforeseen event, such as a routine luggage control, bottling or tail in access to the terminal, can wait for the trip. “I think it’s nonsense”. Those who seem to be clear are the professionals who work at airports, a priori little supporters that travelers appear 15 minutes before their shipment. The reason: the risks. “The waiting times of security controls can vary from one airport to another, and even from one day to another, within the same terminal,” Explain to the CNN A spokesman for the Dalls/Fort Whorth aerodrome. With a couple of ‘mattress’ hours a traveler can prevent “unforeseen” of the last minute for her … Read more

Half a century has been waiting for gallows by mistake

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Among the many paradoxes of Japan, none like IWAO HAKAMADA HISTORY. In 1968 he was 30 years old and life changed him forever. A court in the country declared him guilty of four murders and a fire, and as a result he received the capital punishment. Hakamada became the prisoner that spent more time in a death corridor, and we say it in the past because after half a century among bars, now it is free. All It was a mistakeand Japan wants to compensate. Symbolic compensation. Hakamada, Japanese professional exboxer, has received compensation of 217 million yen (around 1.4 million dollars) After spending more than 40 years convicted of death for a crime he did not commit, which made him the prisoner in the death corridor with more confinement time on the planet. The figure is equivalent to an average of $ 85 per day that he was deprived of liberty since his conviction in 1968, a sum that, although historical for his magnitude in the Japanese context, has been qualified by his defense as insufficient to repair the irreversible damage caused. His lawyer, Hideyo Ogawa, has argued that the State committed An unforgivable error and that no amount of money can restore the life that was taken away. Context of a devastating nonsense. THE HISTORY LA We count a while ago. In 1966 the police found in a house in Shizuoka, west of Tokyo, the bodies of a man, his wife and the two teenage children. They had died staggered. The boy was at the forefront of a miso plant and the investigations ended up pointing to one of his employees, a 30 -year -old ex -box. His name: IWAO HAKAMADA. The arrest. Two months after homicides and fire, to Hakamada They arrested him. The man was subjected to extensive interrogations that included blows and threats, which resulted in a confession that he later denounced as forced. In two years the sentence arrived. The Shizuoka District Court declared him guilty of crimes and condemned him to the maximum penalty: The HORCA. In his case there were two key tests: a confession and several bloody garments that allegedly belonged to Hakamada. The agents had taken to contribute them to the case because they did not find them up to a year after the detention of the boxer, hidden in a miso tank. The dissident judge, deeply affected by the final decision, resigned from his position Six months later, unable to live with the ruling. Since then, Hakamada has sustained his innocence unwaveringly. Genetic tests. The case began to turn in 2014, when they appeared New DNA tests which showed that the bloody garments used as a key test in the trial had been manipulated and possibly placed on the scene after the crime. These findings led to their release that same year, although the final acquittal would not reach until March 2023 and the sentence last year, when the Shizuoka court finally He declared him innocent. The resolution was held as A judicial milestonealthough he could not be witnessed by Hakamada, whose mental health is seriously deteriorated because of the decades of confinement, to the point of living, according to his sister Hideko, “in her own world” without contact with reality. Criticism of the Japanese system. The exboxer’s case has exposed the world structural deficiencies of the Japanese criminal justice system, where condemnation rates They exceed 99%largely due to the dependence of confessions obtained under pressure. Its history has also revitalized the debate on the Validity of the death penalty and the need for deep reforms in the country’s criminal proceedings. The prolonged wait for a judicial review, the initial refusal to accept exculpatory evidence and the lack of effective mechanisms to prevent abuses have turned this case into An international symbol of the devastating potential of judicial errors. Although the magnitude of the compensation received represents an official recognition of the injustice suffered, it seems impossible to reverse the decades of isolation, mental deterioration or the loss of a full life. Image | Christian Senger In Xataka | Japan has the prisoner that spent more time in a death corridor, almost half a century. Now we know it was a mistake In Xataka | 21 wonderful Japanese expressions that would need a whole phrase to be translated

More than a decade ago, Seville created a system to defend against Guadalquivir waiting for not having to use it. Last night he had to activate it

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Anyone who was yesterday at the entrance to the Pava Charco, could see how the city’s firefighters They moved the huge gates of defense that shield the city of Seville of the floods of the Guadalquivir River. And it is likely not to know, but I was attending a historical moment: it is the first time since it was built that these steel plates (more than four of meters high and five tons of weight) have to close. Phase 1. Yesterday afternoon, the Hispanic City Council activated the emergency plan in phase 1 and brought together all emergency services (including Local Police, Civil Protection, National Police and 112) to coordinate the necessary measures. 30 people were evicted from a “chabolist settlement” that was in flood zone, control points were installed and It was decided to close The connection that connects La Vega de Triana with the city. That’s where the doors that have just closed are. He has also put the neighbors of Tablada, Valdezorras and El Gordillo on alert. But hadn’t it stopped raining? Yes, weather forecasts They do not show abundant rains In the area and in fact (although the red alert is maintained) the river flow has already begun to decrease in Córdoba. However, when we talk about Seville, the river is just one of the things to take into account. The tide. Although it is often difficult to imagine, the truth is that when the Guadalquivir arrives in Alcalá del Río (that is, 15 kilometers before reaching the municipality of the city of Seville) It is already at sea level. That makes that point more or less, the entire riverbed is subjected to the influence of the tides. And that is what worries the authorities: if the river flood coincides with the pleamar, the chances that the Guadalquivir will overflow begin to be huge. How historical is this really? Indeed, to say that the doors have closed for the first time is not saying too much: they settled in 2012 and the last time the city was on the edge of the debacle It was in 1996. However, the challenge is more than considerable. Because, like Díaz del Olmo explained years agoProfessor of Geography of the University of Seville, the reduction of the alluvial plain of the Guadalquivir (which has gone from 4 kilometers to 500 meters) adds risks to the situation. “It is worth that with the swamps that retain the water, so much alluvial plain is needed, but the current one is not much less sufficient,” he said. And not only for the plain itself, but because “If the river is wide and with meanders, the energy that the water carries is blurred; but if it is narrow and straight, the water acquires a great speed … like the flow of the river rises of the 4,000 cubic meters per second … we have a problem for which they do not serve neither the storm tanks or anything.” A monster called Guadalquivir. Luckily, we are not yet in that situation. However, this is a warning for navigators: taught by tons of concrete, rivers are sleeping monsters, but monsters after all. Just yesterday we talked about The great paradox of our time: Have to prepare for long periods of drought while we have to have infrastructure to contain torrential rains. Today we see that it is not something punctual, it is the true “new normality.” Image | Toni Pomar | ECMWF In Xataka | With the reservoirs to be overflowed with the rains of March, there is a reason for hope on the horizon: the light of the light

It is more expensive to buy it second -hand than order it and sign up for the waiting list

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He Xiaomi Su7 Ultra The Chinese electric car market has placed up legs. It has double merit if we take into account that we are talking about the country where the competition for the electric car is the fiercest and because we talk about a company that launched its first electric car just over a year ago. But the arrival of the Sporting version of the Electric Berlina cHina has burst any type of expectation. Its price and benefits (it is sold by a fraction of what a Porsche Taycan is worth but, on paper, it offers better data) have made the reserves jump through the air. The company said they expected to sell about 10,000 units this year of the most sporty electric model. In 10 minutes they had added 7,000 reservations of the car. In two hours they had covered the quota of reservations. Now, speculators want to make their August with the new Deportivo. Skipping the waiting list The information brings it Carnewschina. The portal specialized in news about the Chinese car market explains that the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra can already be found in second -hand pages for prices ranging from 548,900 to 648,800 yuan (69,322 to 81,939 euros). Is it a lot? Very much, in fact. The car has been released by 529,900 yuan (66,935 euros) in its most basic version but there are ads that place the price some 15,000 euros above. That is, there are units that are sold to 122% of their departure price. The units barely reflect 10 or 20 kilometers of use, which clearly indicates that the buyer has put it on the market as soon as they receive the car and, in this way, to earn money at the expense of those who are interested in the car but have no intention of waiting for the waiting list. We already know this way of acting and only takes effect when there is a demand that the producer cannot assimilate. For example, in 2022 we saw how the newly enrolled Tesla put themselves on the market to 11,000 euros above of the original car sales price. The really striking thing is that it is in China, whose supply of electric cars is very wide, where this type of phenomenon occurs. The news is a blow on the table by Xiaomi that intends Put 300,000 units on the market of its electric cars this year. It is a very high figure if we consider that the company began deliveries of its first vehicle in April 2024. At the same time it reflects the very hard competition facing Western companies in China. The German luxury vehicle is no longer perceived as such And Chinese customers are turning their heads to the local market that they consider more innovative and interesting than vehicles that reach them from the outside. Photo | Lei Jun in X In Xataka | The Xiaomi Su7 also expires in autonomy: the first tests under real conditions place him above Tesla or Byd

Why the UN waiting for May to act

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NASA has raised to 3.1% the probability that the Asteroid 2024 YR4 falls on our planet. The Coordination Center of objects close to the Earth of ESA also has adjusted its upward calculationsestimating a 2.8% impact probability for December 22, 2032. Let us not lose sight of the fact that bets are still in our favor. 1 Between 32 possibilities means that there is a 96.9% probability that the asteroid will pass by. But as astronomers have incorporated new data and observations to calculate their trajectory, The impact options have been increasing. Why does this happen? We have asked Juan Luis Cano, planetary defense coordinator of ESA The busiest man of that Juan Luis Cano, planetary defense of the ESA Aeronautical Training Engineer, Juan Luis Cano He specialized in orbital mechanics and celestial mechanics, which are the basis for calculating the movement of objects in the outer space. 20 years ago it was part of the Don Quixote projecta mission of the European Space Agency to divert an asteroid with a kinetic impactor. Led by the Spanish company Deimos, Don Quijote did not prosper, but was the precursor of the NASA dart probewhich successfully diverted the Dimorfo asteroid, and the ESAthen launched to analyze the impact. As coordinator of the Information Service of the ESE Planetary Defense OfficeCano is especially busy these days. For the first time They have activated planetary defense action protocols established in 2018, which implies coordinating as many observatories as possible to follow the asteroid carefully. “These action protocols were established after the UN promoted the creation of the International Asteroid Alert Network and the Advisory Group for Space Missions Planning,” says Cano. “It is the first time that they are officially invoked, although this asteroid is the most relevant of the last 20 years, after Apofis at the end of 2004.” At the moment, the Space Missions Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG) has decided to wait for May to assess, based on new more definitive observations, if the asteroid continues to assume a real danger. Why the impact probability has risen The Uncertainty Zone of 2024 YR4 As they obtain more data and observations from 2024 YR4, astronomers reduce the uncertainty of their trajectory, but their calculations are still focused on the impact probability with earththat does not change size. If the Earth remains within the area of ​​uncertainty, the probability of impact rises because uncertainty becomes smaller, but our planet remains in the middle. “It’s as if you’re going around in a championship,” explains Juan Luis Cano. “You don’t know if you are going to win, but after 32 teams to 16, your chances increase.” It can also happen that the probability distribution is “sliding” and the earth moves away from the central part of the graph, which happened when The estimate dropped from 2.3 to 2.1% A few days ago before going back up. European scientists They use the Turin scale to categorize the risk posed by asteroids and comets near Earth. With a qualification of 3 out of 10, 2024 YR4 exceeds the 1% probability threshold of causing a destruction located on Earth. However, the new observations are most likely to reduce that estimate to zero. It was what happened with the asteroid apofis. Apofis reached a level 4 on the Turin scale, the highest ever registered. But astronomers extended their observation arc and ruled out the impact after a few days. Now the NASA OSIRIS-APEX He goes to him to study it when he passes only 38,000 km from the earth. It is the same ship as collected the samples of asteroid Bennuwhich demonstrates the importance that missions are acquiring these small bodies close to Earth. Cano bets that the Earth will leave the probability distribution when we have webb data and other observatories in the coming weeks. What is the protocol to follow in both cases There are things that astronomers know for sure about 2024 YR4, such as the plane in which it moves and The Earth Strip in which it could fallThe case is: a “corridor” that extends through the Eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabic Sea and the south of Asia. The risk of different asteroids There are others that are complicated. The asteroid was discovered in its approach to the Earth and Now he is moving awayso, every day that passes, it becomes more dim and costs more to see it. For April, not even the great Canary Islands telescope (10 meters in diameter) can detect it. Nor is there a precise measurement of its size because its albedo is unknown, the amount of light that your body reflects. It could be an object of 40 meters very reflective or an object of 90 meters very dark. To get out of doubt, astronomers have reserved hours of emergency use of the powerful James Webb Space Telescope. The Webb will be able to observe the asteroid until May and You can obtain a more accurate measurement of your size and temperature Discerning if it is at the lower or upper end of the estimated size range is crucial to evaluate the consequences of its unlikely but possible impact. While it is too small to end human civilization, the asteroid could destroy an important city, especially if it explodes in the air. As for its destructive capacity: “We cannot speak of a single value, but of a range that goes about 5 to 50 megatones, depending on whether the object measures 40 or 100 meters,” says Juan Luis Cano. “The greater the diameter, the more the volume and potential energy of the impact is multiplied. So there is no exact figure until we know its diameter better.” And what would we finally go to Earth? “If the object is less than 50 meters, it is considered preferable Evacuate the impact zone; If it is greater, a deviation mission would be assessed, “Cano explains.” Even so, we think that, with 90% probability, in … Read more

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