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Mexico has turned the opening of the World Cup into its greatest showcase. A wave of protests threatens to turn him against him

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Welcome the inauguration A World Cup is always a guarantee of something: visibility. There are few ‘showcases’ comparable to being the city in which the ball of a FIFA tournament begins to roll, something that will happen tonight (peninsular time) in Mexico City. What is not so clear is what the rest of the planet will see through that showcase: the Government hopes to offer a great sports festival, but there is seven protests summoned that threaten to spoil the day and leave a very different image. The World Cup ball is not the only one that rolls. And the day came. If you like sports (and if you don’t, too) it is likely that you had March 11 marked in red on your calendar. Barring an unforeseen catastrophe, this afternoon, at 9:00 p.m. peninsular time, the teams of Mexico and South Africa will play the opening match of the 2026 Soccer World Cup. They will do so in the Azteca stadium from Mexico City, after an opening ceremony in which several artists will participate and which will experience its climax when Shakira and Burna Boy perform the song of the World Cup, ‘Dai dai’. More than football. The normal thing on a day like today is that the host country of the World Cup dedicates itself to talking basically about football. Mexico knows it well, which has experience in the matter: this will be the third time in which it hosts the World Cup tournament, something it already did in 1970 and 1986. Today, however, the Mexican authorities (especially those in CDMX) are awaiting something else: half a dozen calls of protests that will start from different points of the city towards the vicinity of the stadium where athletes, authorities and fans will meet. What protests? The diary The Universal speaks of at least seven calls confirmed and organized by groups of transporters, health workers, peasant associations and pensioners who basically want to take advantage of two things: the media attention generated by the World Cup and the Government’s interest in avoiding any conflict that tarnishes the FIFA tournament. There are two mobilized groups that stand out above the rest due to the exposure they have achieved in recent weeks. The first are the ‘seeking mothers’that they cry out for justice for your missing relatives. The second, the teachersorganized in the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) and who have been demanding labor improvements for some time. Although the Executive has tried until the last moment reach an agreement with them to deactivate today’s protests, both parties (Education and CNTE) remain very distant. Claudia Sheibaum’s team does has been luckier with the farmers, who also threatened to mobilize. @lajornadaonline Hours before the soccer festival begins, the pain of the families of missing people is manifested in Mexico City. Collectives of searching mothers walk towards the Mexico City stadium, but the capital police prevented them from passing through Tlalpan. ♬ original sound – lajornadaonline – lajornadaonline “They want to provoke us”. The conflict does not catch the Government by surprise. The CNTE it takes months showing its discomfort and its relationship with the Sheinbaum Government has been strained in recent weeks, which has even led some of its members to break into the headquarters of the Ministry of Public Education. The most critical episode occurred a few days agowhen a teacher lost an eye after being hit by a rubber bullet while participating in a march. Incidents like this are the ones that now, a few hours before the start of the World Cup, the Government wants to avoid at all costs. “There are groups that want to provoke us, and they are not necessarily teachers. In other words, what they are looking for is repression, I say it clearly. What they are looking for is that before the opening of the World Cup the international note is: ‘The Government of Mexico represses teachers’. That is what they are looking for, but they are not going to have it,” Sheinbaum assured on Monday. The scenario is not simple. Both the president and the Government of CDMX assure that will respect the right to protest, but at the same time they are taking measures to shield the Azteca and prevent the protests from altering the World Cup agenda. “National Security Facility”. The Secretary of Government of CDM, César Cravioto, it was very clear about it on Tuesday: the capital’s stadium, he warned, “is already a national security facility.” Hence, access controls and protection have been reinforced. “They will have to understand that in less than 48 hours the World Cup will open here, in the stadium, and we have to protect it.” Cravioto insisted also that fans are “guaranteed” access to the Azteca, although he asked them to arrive “early” to avoid “complications.” ABC assures that there are professionals (journalists, stadium workers, sponsors…) who are already considering heading to the area at seven in the morning, six hours before the opening match starts. The focus is not only on the Azteca. The Secretariat of Citizen Security has also deployed a special device on the perimeter of the Mexico City International Airport to anticipate the arrival of CNTE protesters. Of laws and pensions. In the background is the clash between the Executive and the teachers represented by the CNTE, who on May 1, Labor Day, presented a document with their requests to the Government. In general lines propose eliminating the ISSSTE law of 2007, changes in educational reforms, recovering a solidarity pension system for teachers and a salary improvement. For now, and despite the eight-hour meeting held in extremison the eve of the World Cup, there has been no agreement with the Government, which maintains that the change in pensions would skyrocket its cost. The teachers’ protests will match today with those of the ‘seeking mothers’, who have been demanding that the Executive not forget the tens of thousands of people with unknown whereabouts that Mexico accumulates. Before, the group has … Read more

The world was tired of depending on TSMC to manufacture all its chips. This is what is causing Intel’s great resurrection

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Who has seen you and who sees you, Intel. The legendary semiconductor firm seems to be leaving behind its painful journey through the desert, and the latest news points to a true resurrection. The signature has achieved a spectacular contract to manufacture three million Google TPUs, and Nvidia is also studying the possibility of use Intel 18A node for future multi-die GPU designs. This is spectacular news for the company. Promising future, at last. The agreement with Google’s cloud division is a huge boost for the chip manufacturing business (foundry) from Intel. This deal will see Intel produce millions of AI chips at its advanced 3-nanometer node. With it, the firm achieves a decisive step to compete with TSMC, which until now was the absolute reference for those who wanted to access advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes. There is another crucial geopolitical factor here: part of these chips will be produced in the US, which helps in the objective of not depending so much on Asian countries for this process. Flirting with Nvidia. But Nvidia also seems to be interested in Intel’s 18A photolithographic process. The company led by Jensen Huang is considering the use of this node for its future multi-die architectures for its GPUs. Nvidia has managed to become TSMC’s main customer, but this manufacturer cannot satisfy Nvidia’s demand, so this company is looking for plans B, and Intel is serving it one on a plate. The signature by the way, already bought 4% of Intel in September 2025, so it is the first interested in Intel doing well. The PowerVia revolution. There are two big technical arguments that are apparently convincing Google and Nvidia. The first, the transistors RibbonFET. The second, even more important, PowerVia technology. This system is a qualitative leap because it physically separates the power and signal lines from the transistors, which avoids bottlenecks and improves both performance and efficiency of the CPUs that use this technology. Chip sovereignty. This decision by Google and Nvidia’s plan respond in part to the pressures that the US government is doing—and boosting with its CHIPS Act— to recover technological sovereignty and avoid dependence on foreign countries. Both companies know that 90% of the planet’s advanced chips depend on that island called Taiwan, and taking advantage of Intel’s renewed capacity is a great opportunity for kill two birds with one stone. They reduce their dependence on TSMC, and comply with the demands of the US government. War makes strange allies. The current situation is unique, because it is causing companies that competed fiercely in the field of hardware (Intel and Nvidia) to now be forced to collaborate out of pure necessity. Intel needs clients of this type to demonstrate to investors that its division foundry can operate independently of its consumer processor or server division. And Google and Nvidia in turn need Intel to break manufacturing monopoly of semiconductors that TSMC had. Intel finally resurrects. The big winner of these agreements is Intel, which has gone through a really compromising stage but has for a year has not stopped growing. We can see it in its valuation on the stock market. A year ago its shares were trading at $20.68, and now they are trading at $107.04 and with these agreements that value may continue to improve. Good for Intel. Image | Intel In Xataka | Bill Gates has X-rayed Intel. And his diagnosis is overwhelmingly accurate.

Russia thought kyiv would fall within days. Four years later, the war in Ukraine has just “passed” the First World War

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In 1914, millions of Europeans they were convinced that the war would end before Christmas. In fact, the expression “home by Christmas” became popular between soldiers and civilians who believed that the conflict would be rather brief. It ended up lasting more than four years and transforming Europe forever. More than a century later, the Ukrainian war has already grown longer. From days to historical milestone. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, the Kremlin expected a swift campaign that would culminate in the fall of kyiv within days. More than four years later, the reality is exactly the opposite: the war has reached the 1,569 days duration and has already officially surpassed to the First World War. What began as an operation designed to quickly overthrow the Ukrainian government has transformed into one of the longest and most consequential conflicts in recent European history, to the point that many Ukrainians they contemplate with concern another historical threshold even more distant: the duration of the Second World War. The inevitable comparison with 1914. The historians warn that comparisons with world wars have obvious limits due to the differences in scale, number of countries involved and volume of casualties. However, they consider that the war in Ukraine shares enough features with the First World War to become its closest parallel in more than a century. Both began lightning offensives aimed at achieving a decisive victory within a few weeks. Both the German advance to Paris in 1914 like the Russian push towards kyiv in 2022 came close to achieving their initial objectives before being stopped and forced to retreat. The return of trench warfare. After the failure of the initial offensives, both conflicts drifted towards long static fronts where artillery dominated the battlefield. The images from the trenches of eastern Ukraine quickly evoked scenes from France and Belgium during the Great War. Soldiers barely separated a few hundred meterscontinuous bombardments and small infantry assaults became the daily routine. The firepower forced combatants to bury themselves underground to survive, reproducing a pattern that seemed to belong definitively to the past. Drones change the rules. The main difference between both wars came from the air. The drones profoundly transformed the battlefield and ended up making even traditional trenches vulnerable. Permanent surveillance from the sky and the ability to attack with precision forced the replacement of long defensive lines by small scattered sheltersdifficult to detect and more resistant to attacks. In many areas, any open-air movement can be located and attacked in a matter of minutes, turning large areas of the front into veritable death zones controlled by unmanned systems. Tanks, bunkers and dispersal. Technological evolution has also reduced the prominence of some weapons that for decades symbolized modern warfare. Tanks, feared during the early stages of the invasion, have become on easy targets for drones and they appear less and less near the line of contact. Meanwhile, soldiers invest enormous efforts in building shelters each time more sophisticated and profound. Some bunkers incorporate specific designs to absorb explosions and increase the chances of survival, reflecting the extent to which physical protection is once again a vital issue in an attritional conflict. Destruction reminiscent of the last century. Although the casualty figures They are very inferior Like those of the First World War, the visual devastation is eerily familiar. Destroyed forests, towns reduced to ruins and fields covered in craters constantly appear in images captured by reconnaissance drones. Various military analysts hold that the lethality of the Ukrainian front is close to that of the great battles of a century ago, not because of the absolute number of deaths but because of the constant danger faced by those fighting on the front lines. Stagnation and the search for a way out. The slow pace of progress illustrates the nature of the conflict. In some recent operations, Russian forces have progressed at a pace even slower than that recorded in some of the most stagnant battles of the First World War. With negotiations practically paralyzed, neither side has yet found a formula to break the balance. Ukraine tries to weaken Russian economic capacity through attacks against energy infrastructures and oil companies while flooding the front with thousands of attack drones, seeking to impose unsustainable costs on the adversary. The final paradox is that a war that began with the promise of quick victory increasingly looks like to the Great War: a prolonged struggle of attrition, marked by technology and with no clear end in sight. Image | Ministry of Defense of Ukraine In Xataka | The drone war has left a clear lesson for Ukraine: you can’t leave home without a 100-year-old machine gun In Xataka | In case there was not enough “gasoline” in 2026, the attack by a Russian drone has crossed a red line: that of Chernobyl

The world is running out of data to continue training AI. China has an ace up its sleeve

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The models of artificial intelligence (AI) have a problem that more powerful chips cannot solve: they are running out of data. Epoch AI, a nonprofit research organization specializing in scaling AI models, warns with 80% certainty that the high-quality text available on the Internet will be exhausted sometime between 2026 and 2032. The reason is very simple: AI laboratories have been extracting everything the web has to offer for many years, and current models already train on data sets that approach the theoretical limit of the information available. When that gold mine empties, data volume scaling will stop working. And if this scenario occurs, AI development will most likely slow down. We still do not know what strategy US companies are developing to solve this problem, but we already know what is China preparing. His biggest rival. In fact, Xi Jinping’s government has decided that this shortage is an opportunity. This week the China National Data Administration published a draft outlining its action plan with a clear objective: to build an ecosystem of validated data by 2028 that will fuel the next generation of AI models. China’s bet is already on the table The document prepared by the National Data Administration identifies which specific sectors are priority objectives for information generation and certification. Some of them are scientific research, manufacturing, agriculture, energy, transportation, finance, healthcare, education and e-commerce. However, his plan does not stop at traditional sectors. China has a structural advantage that no Western laboratory can easily replicate And it also plans to cover cutting-edge fields with quality data, such as AI applied to robots, autonomous driving, low-altitude aviation or biomanufacturing. These are, precisely, domains whose data is not on the internet because they come from sensors, actuators and physical environments. Achieving them requires having industrial infrastructure, and in this scenario China has a structural advantage that no Western laboratory can easily replicate. However, this is not all. The document prepared by the National Data Administration explicitly encourages the expansion of the supply of text, code, images, audio and video necessary to train systems capable of complex reasoning, agentic behavior and control of intelligent robots. In fact, it’s an almost exact description of what the industry calls next-generation models. They are not just systems capable of answering questions; They will also be able to plan, act and operate in the physical world. The availability of high-quality multimodal data, especially that coming from real industrial environments, is today one of the least discussed and most determining bottlenecks in the AI ​​career. In a scenario where access to cutting-edge chips is restricted by US export controlsdata becomes a competitive advantage. If China can’t win the hardware race, it can try to win the fuel race that that hardware needs to be truly useful. Image | Daoducquan More information | SCMP In Xataka | The condemnation that afflicts China: after decades of manufacturing a competitive desktop processor, it is six years behind

FIFA has turned the 2026 World Cup into the most expensive cultural event in history because it has become a new Ticketmaster

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For almost a century, FIFA has not cared about selling cheap tickets: the money in football was in television. But as has happened with the musiccinema and other cultural events, spectacularization is the order of the day, and for the 2026 World Cup the business model is closer to Ticketmaster. Direct consequence: two US attorneys general have already asked him for explanations through judicial means. Pocho record. The World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada starts this Thursday, becoming the most expensive cultural event in history. The cheapest ticket to the group stage cost an average of $200 and the most affordable ticket to the final started at $2,030. Adjusted for inflation, the price is double that of Qatar 2022 and quadruple that of the United States 1994. Because. The reason is more than obvious: for the first time, FIFA controls ticket sales directly, without delegating it to local organizers, and has launched dynamic prices. Between October and April made at least one category more expensive in 95 of the 104 gameswith an average increase of 35%. The Category 1 ticket for the final went from $6,730 to $10,990. Other niceties. Another novelty this year that is not going down well with fans is that the buyer does not choose a seat either. You pay for a category that corresponds to an area of ​​the stadium and FIFA assigns you a row and seat months later. For example, in April many fans who had paid for Category 1 discovered that their seats were in areas previously marked as Category 2, because FIFA had modified the maps and reserved the best seats for a new “Front Category 1”. More expensive, of course. The law. The attorneys general of New York and New Jersey have judicially summoned to FIFA to investigate your sales practices; The one in New Jersey accuses the agency of turning the purchase into a labyrinth of “false scarcity.” California had previously sent its own letter of request. Justice accuses FIFA of setting up its own secondary market without price caps in the United States and Canada: as explained your own support pagecharges a commission of 15% to the seller and another 15% to the buyer. Only in Mexico does it limit resale to the original price, and by legal requirement. On that platform there have been tickets for the final listed by more than two million dollars. The opacity does the rest. FIFA has almost never reported how many tickets were left per match or per phase, and before publishing any price it sold tens of thousands of “Right to Buy” tokens through its crypto collectibles platform: hundreds of dollars for the right to buy a ticket whose final cost was not known until much later. More opacity: in February, FIFA president Gianni Infantino stated that all matches were sold out. His own organization had to correct himand in April acknowledged that about five of the planned 6.7 million tickets had been sold and that the rest were being held for “continued sales.” Different ticketing experts identify this retention as a classic tactic to create a sensation of demand. Although it is not clear if the play has given the expected results: the United States’ debut against Paraguay accumulated 10,000 entries listed on resale platformsa, many below the original price. The accounts come out. Wow, they come out: in Qatar 2022 the box office contributed about 950 million dollars; for 2026 FIFA budget up to 3,000 million for tickets and VIP packages (premium entry plus experience). The organization foresees earn 8.9 billion with the tournament within a four-year cycle of 13,000 (which is how FIFA organizes its accounts) in the most optimistic calculations. There are those who consider that this calculation even falls short: an academic analysis It projects that the box office and VIP experiences alone will exceed 7.4 billion, and to that would be added TV rights, sponsorships and other income. One but. The Economist It points, however, to a very specific problem this year: the public in the fields is part of the television product that FIFA sells around the world for more than 4 billion dollars. It must be remembered that in the Club World Cup, spectators had to be relocated in front of the cameras in half-empty matches to keep up appearances. All of this underlines the idea that FIFA is torn between a couple of businesses in which it wants to be the leader: squeezing in-person spectators and protecting the image of the spectacle that the rest of the planet sees. For now the eyes with the dollar sign are watching intently at the first one. In Xataka | How to configure your Smart TV to watch the 2026 World Cup in the best possible way

For the first time, Curaçao will play in a soccer World Cup. And only one of their players was born in Curaçao

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

The World Cup starts at PcComponentes with OLED or QLED TVs with up to 60% discount

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In a couple of days it starts (finally) the world. There will be 104 games in total and, although many will be at dawn, we want to see as many as possible. We still have time to get a new TV for this.whether for the living room or the bedroom, precisely for those late games. If you are looking for one, then be careful to the offers that PcComponentes has right now. LG OLED TV OLED55C5 55″ 4K UltraHD 120Hz Smart TV WebOS HDR10 Dolby Vision Atmos The price could vary. We earn commission from these links This Spanish store has a ton of discounts on televisions right now. Besides, with free shipping from 50 euros and with exchange or replacement within 24 hours under warranty. There is a lot to choose from, but we have made a selection of five that we find very interesting: LG OLED55C5 by 899 eurosone of the best quality-price OLED televisions there is. Samsung Q7F by 489 eurosQLED television from the Korean firm with 65 inches diagonal. Hisense QLED 65E7S by 399 eurosa very interesting option now that it is at an all-time low. Philips QLED 43PUS8450 by 269 ​​euroscompact television with Ambilight. Nilait Prisma 40FD7004SVIOS by 169 eurosVery economical 40-inch Smart TV. LG OLED55C5 The first of these televisions is the LG OLED C5one of the OLED TVs with the best quality-price ratio there is. Its image quality is outstanding, since this panel technology achieves pure black and very good contrast. In addition, it has native 120 Hz and Dolby Vision compatibility. It’s coming out right now 899 euros in its 55-inch version. LG OLED TV OLED55C5 55″ 4K UltraHD 120Hz Smart TV WebOS HDR10 Dolby Vision Atmos The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung Q7F Another very popular option is this 65-inch Samsung Q7F television, which is on sale at PcComponentes right now until 489 euros. QLED technology offers better colors than normal LED televisions and this particular one is also compatible with HDR10+ and has a Tizen OS operating system. Samsung AI QLED TV 65″ TQ65Q7FAAUXXC UltraHD 4K Quantum HDR Tizen The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Hisense QLED 65E7S Another QLED option, although in this case cheaper and from Hisense: it costs 399 eurosits historical minimum price until today. It is an ideal option if you want a 65-inch television and want to spend as little as possible. In addition, it has VIDAA U9.5 operating system, VRR and 60 Hz, as well as compatibility with HDR 10+. TV Hisense QLED 65E7S 65″ 4K UltraHD 60Hz VRR Smart TV VIDAA HDR10+ Dolby Atmos The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Philips QLED 43PUS8450 Now let’s go with two more recommended options if you are looking for something more compact and economical than the ones above. This Philips QLED is a very good option, especially now that it costs 269 ​​euros. These televisions have Ambilight, a back lighting technology that is great for watching football or playing games. In addition, it has a Titan OS operating system. TV Philips QLED 43PUS8450 43″ 4K Ambilight Smart TV Dolby Atmos The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Nilait Prisma 40FD7004SVIOS Finally, let’s go with a TV designed for small rooms. It is from the Nilait brand, which is PcComponentes’ own. It has 40 inches, Full HD resolution (more than enough for this screen size) and costs only 169 euros. It is an option that could be great for a bedroom or even for a second residence. Nilait Prisma 40FD7004SVIOS 40″ LED FHD Smart TV VIDAA The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Other televisions that may also interest you These above are just some examples of TVs that are available right now at a very good price at PcComponentes. Below, we leave you some more as a summary: Nilait Prisma 43UD7004SWOS by 219 euros (instead of 359 euros). Philips LED Ambilight 50PUS8010 by 299 euros (instead of 599 euros). Nilait Prisma 55UD7004ST by 299 euros (instead of 499 euros). Philips QLED 55PUS7810 by 319 euros (instead 699 euros). Philips LED Ambilight 55PUS8010 by 333 euros (instead of 599 euros). Samsung UE55U8072FUXXH by 339 euros (instead of 599 euros). Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Xataka, LG, Samsung, Philips, Hisense, PcComponentes In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs In Xataka | The best TVs to play and get the most out of your PS5 or Xbox Series

AI is replacing one of the most hated jobs in the world: the tailcoat collector

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Years ago, if you were walking down the street in Spain and saw a man dressed in a tailcoat and top hat following someone, it could only mean one thing: that someone was a defaulter. Although the Frac Collector is still activeToday, the usual thing if you have an unpaid bill is to be bombarded with calls and notifications. Well, the last thing is that those dreaded calls are not made by people, but by AI agents. The AI ​​wants you to pay your debts. In a report in Wired They tell the story of Ben (not his real name), who received a call from ‘Eve, an AI agent for the collection company Pro Collect. In a very kind way, he asked him to pay a debt. The problem is that Ben had already paid her months ago and no matter how much he asked, he couldn’t get Eve to put him through to a human agent, so he decided to troll her a little, after all he has a language model behind him. Ben told him that he felt like “a little guy” facing a debt that was like a giant that wanted to trample him. After a few minutes of fiddling, he was finally able to speak to a person, who confirmed that his debt was indeed settled. Automating defaulters. In the United States delinquency figures are skyrocketing and debt collection companies have more work than ever, so they are starting to turn to technology to automate the task. There are many startups that offer “call center without humans” services, such as the Mexican Altur, Domu or Moveo. This allows them to handle the volume of active cases. These AIs not only send text notifications to debtors, they also make calls and even adapt their tone depending on each case. Female voice and kindness. Most AI agents dedicated to debt collection have a female voice and name such as Eve, Emily or Taylor. Speaking to Wired, the CEO of one of these companies (FloatBoat) states that “female voices are more accepted.” Another thing they have in common is that they are designed to sound calm and show empathy, so that the debtor does not feel attacked. However, the tone is adjusted based on the transcripts of previous calls, so if a customer resists paying, the AI ​​agent shows a harsher tone. The collections industry. Given the rise in defaults, AI agents are sold as the perfect solution to multiply calls and notifications to defaulters at almost zero cost. According to data from the Kaplan agencyby 2034 the AI ​​debt collection market is expected to reach $15.9 billion, quadrupling productivity and cutting costs in half. However, it is not clear that these agents are more effective than a human in getting debts paid. According to Yale researcher James Choi, many people feel less obligated to pay if they talk to an AI than to a human. Even so, for collection agencies it makes up for the fact that a bot is somewhat less convincing than its ability to operate 24/7 and manage thousands of simultaneous conversations. Legal and ethical limits. Consumer advocates warn of risks with the use of this technology. An AI agent is capable of making hundreds of calls simultaneously, at any time, which can turn an already predatory sector into something even more aggressive. On the other hand there is the issue of privacy. We have already seen in Ben’s story that AI agents make mistakes, if the mistake ends up revealing information, it can be a serious problem because they handle sensitive financial data. Image | Monstera Production In Xataka | An experiment with AI agents began to treat them badly. So AI Agents Became Marxists

How to configure your Smart TV to watch the 2026 World Cup in the best possible way

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Let’s tell you how to configure your Smart TV to better see the 2026 World Cup. The championship starts on June 11, it is almost here, and this edition will differ from the previous ones because, for the first time in SpainRTVE will broadcast all its matches in 4K and HDR for free on DTT. Therefore, we are going to tell you what you need to be able to watch the World Cup at the highest quality, and how to configure your television to be able to do so. This ranges from how to enjoy 4K broadcasts to how to calibrate image quality. What you need to watch the World Cup in 4K Before you start touching any settings, it is a good idea to know if your TV meets the requirements to be able to watch football in 4K. Come on, if you can see the La1 UHD channel. For that, you will need its resolution to be UHD or 4K, the two terms used for it. You will also need the TV to have a tuner DVB-T2which is the standard that TDT uses to broadcast in these resolutions. If your TV meets both requirementsthen you will be able to watch the matches in maximum resolution using the La 1 UHD channel. Of course, now you will have to search for this channel on your TV, and if you do not have it tuned, you will also have to retune your DTT. The channel was launched in 2024, so if you have retuned your DTT at any point since then you should have it. If your TV is 4K but does not have the DVB-T2 tuner inside, you can also opt for the DVB-I standard, a hybrid TDT-IPTV model. Additionally, you could also buy a DVB-T2 tuner for the television. If your TV is not 4K it does not have that tuner you can also watch the World Cupalthough not in this highest quality. You will simply have to watch the conventional La1 channel where they will also broadcast football, although with a less spectacular resolution. Calibrate your TV to watch football Regardless of whether you are going to watch the World Cup in 4K or FullHD on La1 or other platforms, there are other things beyond the resolution that you should take into account. Therefore, now we are going to tell you how to calibrate your television to make football look its best. First, look at your TV’s preset modes Before starting the calibration, it is first important that you know that Your TV may have some predefined picture modes with which to adapt the image to different scenarios. If there is one for football or sports, it could save you time, although they are not always well tuned. High-end TVs will have more and better modes, which can serve as a starting point or to not waste too much time. In these cases, it will always depend on each television, but you can start checking if there is any sports mode as a predefined calibration, and check how it works with it. Here, depending on the manufacturer, you may find that some brands even ask you to indicate the type of content to watch when activating sports mode. In this case everything will be even better, since you can select what you want to watch football so that the television modifies the parameters taking into account the predominant colors during a match. This would be the easiest setup for most people.. Your TV will generally adapt to watching sports or football, and you will have a good experience. But if it is not enough and you want to get the most out of it, you can calibrate the TV manually. Before calibrating in manual mode Assuming that most modern televisions tend to come very well calibrated, and that if your TV has a sports mode you may not notice much difference compared to doing manual calibration, it is also possible that you want to try it or just mess around. So, if you are going to start calibrating the TV, the first thing is to know that There are several ways to calibrate your TV.. The most complicated is using professional hardware or software, although this will require you to make an extra investment and have advanced knowledge in the field to be able to do it correctly. Then there is using commercial calibration software, which is somewhat more accessible. However, It can also be a little too complicated. for conventional users, especially if we only want to improve the image a little to see the football game better and not solve serious problems on the television. Therefore, we are going to focus on a third method, that of using free tools that you can find on the Internet. These tools allow you to have a starting point so as not to calibrate the television “by eye.” This is something that no longer requires an investment, and the tools usually have some indications to help you. We are going to use EIZO monitor testan online tool, but on YouTube and searching a little on the Internet, you can find others. You will have to have these tools open on TVeither by connecting your laptop via HDMI or opening them in the TV browser. So, with them in the background, you will be able to see the differences when making changes. To calibrate your television we are going to change 5 parameters of the TV settings: Glow: The amount of light our television emits. Contrast: The white level of the image and the overall luminosity. color temperature: The tone of the colors. color saturation: The intensity with which the television reproduces colors. Sharpness: the level of detail that the images have. If it is low, the image may be blurry, and if it is high, noise may appear. Therefore, if you are going to want to start calibrating your TV manually, the first step is look in … Read more

Where you can watch the 2026 World Cup depending on the operator you have

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Let’s tell you with which operators you can watch the 2026 World Cup soccer. The 2026 FIFA World Cup starts on June 11 according to the calendarand if you want to watch the games, you may still not be clear about the network of channels and platforms that offer it. We are going to start the article by telling you What games will you be able to watch for free? on Spanish Television. And then, we will tell you which operators you will have the option to watch the World Cup matches with and what the characteristics of these offers are. What matches can be seen for free RTVE It has the rights to broadcast the World Cup openly. With them, you will be able watch all the matches of the Spanish National Team for freethe opening match on June 11 that pits Mexico against South Africa, the two semifinals, the match for third and fourth place, and the final that will be held on July 19. In total, Spanish Television will broadcast 33 matches through La1 on DTT, and you can also watch them streaming with the RTVE Play application. Being public television, all operators that include DTT in their television packages will allow you to watch the games. The operators that include DTT are Movistar, Orange, Vodafone, DIGI, Jazztel, Yoigo, MásMóvil or Pepephone among others. You can also see them on the OTTs of Movistar Plus and Orange TV Libre. Where can you watch paid matches In addition to the free matches, the rights to the exclusive paid matches belong to DAZN. In total, DAZN has another 71 exclusive matchesand operators such as Movistar or Orange have reached agreements with them to be able to offer the 104 world cup matches to its users. Therefore, the football offer of each operator it remains as follows: Movistar: Users who have contracted the LaLiga package with its additional 36 euros will be able to watch the matches on Movistar Plus. Also those who have contracted the Total Football package of 50 euros per month. If you don’t have one of those packages, your only option will be to contract them for two months and then cancel. We already warned you that either you take advantage of a promotion, or it will be more expensive than hiring DAZN on your own. Orange: Users who have Orange TV and have subscribed to football in their convergent rate will have DAZN Mundial available on Orange TV. The rest will have to buy a package with football to be able to watch the World Cup in its entirety and cancel it later. Of course, if you are going to do it, be careful with the permanence. Vodafone, Yoigo, MásMóvil and regional operators of the former Euskaltel Group (Telecable, R and Euskaltel): Your users will be able to add the Premium package (old Pro plan) of DAZN with DAZN World to their convergent rates, manage the subscription and pay them on the same invoice. Some may have a bit of a discount compared to the official DAZN price if you buy it on your own. If you do not have it contracted, keep in mind that you must maintain the subscription for a minimum of two months and you will have to use the DAZN app to watch the games. Digi, O2, Lowi, Pepephone and Finetwork: Users of these and other operators that do not offer an option to contract DAZN internally will have to subscribe on their own outside the operator. If this is your case, you will have to do it from the DAZN Spain website. In Xataka Basics | Apps for football results: the best 14 applications to receive notifications and see match statistics

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