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How a handful of producers save the industry every year

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‘Father there is only one 5‘He has razed at the box office. Santiago Segura does not abandon the extraordinary streak of his saga of family films and in his first weekend in Salas he has exceeded his main competitor, ‘F1, the film’, with Brad Pitt. Its accumulated box office touches 1.9 million but if we add its data since Thursday the global reaches 2.4 million euros. That is, with only a few days in his poster, he is already the fourth highest grossing of the year, advancing ‘the infiltrated’. Although Spanish cinema, according to 2024 data Published by Comscorelive a certain phase of stagnation (the figures are good, but they do not grow significantly from one year to another), the truth is that there are more films than ever. It is no longer strange to see national blockbusters that occasionally rival Hollywood’s productions. And taquillazos or not, the number of Spanish films in the cinemas is overwhelming: in 2024 558 films were released, of which 342 were premieres and the rest or films released in 2023 that still remained on the poster or re -restrenes. The result is 35 Spanish films more than in 2023. A simple calculation leads us to an average of seven Spanish films a week Just telling news. In Spain a lot of cinema occurs. This report also detects a certain collection stagnation: 82.2 million, practically identical to the 82.7 million of 2022. In the short term there is hardly any ascending evolution: in 2019, for example, it was around 92 million. In the medium term, it has experienced a remarkable increase: in 2013, more than a decade ago, 70.1 million were collected. What has not been reached is the pre-pandemic figures between one point and another, where 100 million often exceeded, as happened in years such as 2014 (131.8 million), 2015 (111.7 million), 2016 (110 million), 2017 (103.7 million) and 2018 (100 million). That is why Spanish cinema Espabile in terms of box office is expected to return to those figures. The sum of stagnant collection and fired production leads us to Another phenomenon: box office concentration in a few titles. The five highest bullfighting Spanish films in 2024 raised almost 44% of everything collected by Spanish cinema. If we expand the focus, the twenty highest grossing accumulate 80%. So it is normal that we can talk about a series of proper names, producers and producers that, in some way, are those who “hold” Spanish cinema: many of them are known by notorious box office hits, but they also finance more calls to be niche, to collect much less or move by alternative circuits. It was not the case of ‘The infiltrated‘, one of the most notable surprise successes of 2024: its producer María Luisa Gutiérrez surprised to collect the Goya for Best Film dedicating part of His speech to his partner Santiago Segura. We are going to review some of those outstanding producers of the Spanish industry, which produce commercial box office successes and also reinvute in smaller products. Many of them are also “patron” of a less profitable cinema which is the one that really fattens these premieres figures beyond the handful of annual blockbusters. Not everyone moves by these parameters exactly, so we analyze case by case. Note: We have dispensed with this list of very relevant producers of the world of television and streaming, since they leave our object of analysis of the producers that “support” the film industry, although the transfer of directors, screenwriters and performers is increasingly common between cinema and television. Similarly, some of the pictures with figures can call an error, since pure box office collections are reflected in front of budgets, not counting the subsidies that the films receive and that, without them, can throw negative balances. What undoubtedly gives much more merit to the positive numbers of producers such as safe, benito or rock. Santiago Segura Graph: Javier Lacort Like your cinema or not, it is the main value of Spanish cinema. In 2024, ‘Father there is only one 4 ‘raised 13.4 million euroswith almost 2.2 million viewers. The previous deliveries were always the highest grossing of their respective years of premiere, and safe has been accompanying them with other similar formula productions, such as’ to every train. Asturias destination ‘, the highest grossing film of 2021. But also, its producer Bowfingerwhich has together with the aforementioned María Luisa Gutiérrez, also produces very different films, such as ‘La Infiltrada’, which despite its modesty became the second highest grossing Spanish film of 2024, with 8’1 million euros. In addition to another family comedy, ‘The Beneston family’ and its four million euros, Bowfinger has raised 31% of the Spanish cinema box office in 2024. The work of Bowfinger also crystallizes in the production of films not only away from the family style of safe films, but from a more independent cut: evening’. The Javis Perhaps the most media producers of the moment, and in which it is complex to distinguish between more commercial and author pieces, since they all imprisoned their unequivocal personal seal. The most personal and ambitious normally direct them (‘Paquita Salas’, ‘Veneno’, ‘The Messiah’). In its producer Sum Contentalways under an unequivocal global author style, they accommodate other more modest and more limited rains (‘Terror and Fair’, ‘Cardo’, ‘A Christmas with Samantha Hudson’, ‘Dressed in blue’). Although most of their productions are for television and streamingwe have included them in this list for their media relevance and constant work with dynamics and authors from cinema. Belén Atienza One of the most relevant producers of the current Spanish scenario, popular especially for its association with Juan Antonio Bayona, in whose productions he has collaborating since the director’s debut, ‘The orphanage’. Theirs are indisputable successes, also internationally, such as ‘the impossible’, ‘Jurassic World: the fallen kingdom’, ‘A monster comes to see me’, and the recent ‘The Snow Society’, with a smaller collection but smaller but more reduced but Still notable for having released in a … Read more

No one seemed to want an electric Rolls-Royce of 400,000 euros. Until the 35 -year -old rich arrived

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Although some brands have launched to this technology, the luxury sector seemed to be turned to the electric car. Except for exceptions, such as the Porsche Taycan during its first years for sale, technology has not finished curdling in the market. There are multiple examples that demonstrate it and that touch all sticks. From Mercedes Eqs failurewho is The most advanced car of the German company, to the Rimac Nevera to whose owner It is costing to place its electrical supercardespite being a limited unit, ensuring that policies to favor the electric car are dynamiting these acquisitions. From these contact shots between luxury brands they have been learning in rival companies. So, Lamborghini has delayed its first electric car at 2029 and Bentley also stopped development of this technology when considering that demand did not compensate. But what if they were pointing to the wrong customer? An electric for younger millionaires Another of the companies that have opted for the total electrification of their models has been Rolls-Royce. The brand has in the Specter Its first electric car, a beast of 5.45 meters long, 2.08 meters wide and almost 3,000 kg. Its battery of more than 100 kWh promises 520 kilometers of autonomy with a consumption of 21.5 kWh/100 km, so we can expect a real figure that is much closer to a brief 350 kilometers. All with a starting price of 400,000 euros. Starting, we say, because we already know that the possibilities of customization are almost infinite in this type of vehicles … provided that the pocket is willing to pay it. In summary, the car has absolutely everything so that the millionaires flee from it. Or, at least, we thought. Because in The Drive They explain that the car has found a faithful audience: 35 -year -old millionaires. Jon Colbeth, president of Rolls-Royce in North America, explained that the Specter is the first car of the brand for 40% of buyers. And, in that list of new customers, the average age is 35 years. That is, about half of the customers who have the luxury car are new and very young, a reef for the future. The journalist of The Drive He points out that in the same interview event, various vehicles of the firm were exposed and that they had the most striking colors. “They were not grandfather or queen cars (from England), “explains Jerry Perre in the article. And that is precisely one of the keys to success.” New technology, new materials, new designs, everything plays its role, “explains Colbeth. The search for new customers and, above all, younger customers is being incessant by luxury companies that were clearly focused on elderly millionaires such as Rolls-Royce itself. Hence, in recent months we have been surprised with limited editions of the most striking, such as This 490,000 Specter that boasted a violet paint. The Rolls-Royce movement, but even more risky and groundbreaking, is the same as is tried to do jaguar. The British company has decided to break its past, press the Reset button and focus on ultralujo cars trusting that electrical technology can attract a young audience that flees from the boring designs that have been triumphing in this type of cars for years. And the announcement of your new brand image is the best example. Photo | Rolls-Royce In Xataka | While the European automobile industry is bleeding, a brand has found a gold mine: Rolls-Royce and its tuned cars

In return, the salary rises up to 42,000 euros a year

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Last May, Denmark agreed extend retirement age ordinary up to a minimum of 70 years due to the increase in the life expectancy of the population. At the same time, the politicians who approved that measure enjoyed a life pension for the simple fact of having occupied a seat in folketing (Danish Parliament) for at least one year. The difference in criteria was so overwhelming, that Danish politicians have had no more alternative to cut their own privileges and eliminate that regulation. Golden Retirement for politicians. To date, the Danish legislation established that, with a single year of public work as a parliamentarian, the politician acquired the right to collect a life pension of some 35,000 monthly crowns. That is equivalent to about 4,692 euros per month until the end of their days. Unlike the rest of the population that before the reform could be withdrawn at age 67, the Danish parliamentarians were allowed retire at 60 years. Taking into account that According to dataFrom the OECD, the life expectancy of Denmark is 82 years on average, leads Danish politicians to charge a generous pension for about 22 years. Everything, for a single year of public service. Reforms for the one who comes behind. After the reform applied in the law that regulates the Viability of the pension systemeight parliamentary groups have agreed to sign a great pact with which these life pensions are revoked with 81 votes in favor and 21 against. The measure carried above the table Since 2016. However, politicians have decided that the measure will apply for the first time to the politicians who are chosen from the next elections, so future parliamentarians will adopt the “Almindelig Arbejdsmarkedspension” (normal labor market pension). Those who have already acquired that right providing their service in this legislature maintain their life pension, so the absolute purpose of the measure will not be achieved until 2090. “Our agreement makes the whole system much more understandable to citizens and, therefore, also guarantees greater acceptance,” He affirmed the leader of the parliamentary group Leif Lahn. More cuts … In addition to the cuts planned in the life retirement of the parliamentarians, the agreement also contemplates reduce the “compensation for dismissal“That those politicians who are not re -elected receive. Currently, deputies receive their full salary for two years after the end of their parliamentary work, while ministers and senior government charges receive three years of salary at the end of their legislature. With the new measure, this compensation is trimmed at one year of salary for all. According to They published Danish media, it is estimated that, with this agreement, the Danish coffers will save 20% in the expenses allocated to the members of folketing and the government team. Which is about 4.02 million euros. … and more increases. The change puts an end to the “golden” pension system and the Danish parliamentarians will be governed by the same labor regulations as the rest of the country’s workers, and will contribute 18.07% of their salary to the state pension fund, and will receive that same percentage of their salary for pension. However, such and As they point out from Dr. The cut in parliamentary pensions brings a large asterisk: politicians will receive a salary increase in return. Thus, future deputies will receive 948,000 crowns per year (about 127,090 euros) to 1,080,000 crowns (about 144,780 euros to change). A general increase of almost 18,000 a year. Salary increase for the Government. The salary increase will also affect the highest levels of the government. For the ministers, the rise will go from the 1,702,000 crowns per year (228,150 euros per year) currently charged by the Prime Minister, to 2,016,000 crowns (270,241 euros) that will charge in the following legislature. That is, an annual increase of 42,000 euros. For the positions of greater responsibility in the government, the salary will go from 1,920,000 crowns (257,386 euros) to 2,481,000 crowns (332,591 euros per year). In Xataka | If your dream is to retire at age 52 with 100% of the pension, Spain offers you a road: a high -risk job In Xataka | There is a man who has been working for the same company for 86 years. And you have no plans to retire Image | Unspash (Hannah Thiel), Flickr (News Oresund)

A year ago Catalonia decided to start regulating her rentals. Now it has something that seemed impossible: lower prices

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In a context marked by the Price climbingrecord rents and a real estate market that Start nonsense With the costs prior to the 2008 brick crisis, Catalonia wanted to break yesterday with the bullish rhetoric. Their rentals are going down. And quite clear in addition. In the region as a whole, the leases cost today, on average, 4.7% less that a year ago, a decrease that reaches 8.9% If we talk about Barcelona. With that data, the Generalitat wants to breastfeed by the First year of price regulation in the 140 tension municipalities in which the Housing Law applies. What happened? That the Generalitat of Catalonia has just done something unusual in real estate information in recent years: to use a negative sign to talk about prices. According to The data broken down By the Minister of Territory and Housing, Sílvia Paneque, the average lease It has been cheaper In the region as a whole and, in a special way, in those municipalities in which the price regulation was applied a year ago under the protection of the state law Housing How much has it dropped? The information handled by paneque is based mainly on the Bail deposits And it shows the “photo” of the Catalan real estate market throughout the first quarter of the year, which allows analyzing how prices have evolved between the beginning of 2024 and 2025. Its first conclusion is that the whole of Catalonia the middle rent has experienced a year -on -year fall of 4.7%. If we look concretely in the 140 municipalities that declared tension markets in March 2024 And in which, therefore, prices were allowed to regulate in certain cases, the descent is somewhat more pronounced: reaches 4.9%. The big surprise leaves her specifically Barcelona. There the average cost of rentals has collapsed several more points, to mark an annual fall of the 8.9%. And how do contracts evolve? That is the second surprise that has left paneque. The counselor ensures that this price drop has not arrived accompanied by a contraction of the Catalan rental market. Moreover, according to your data in the first quarter of 2025, the number of lease contracts in force in the region has increased by 3,112. “It continues to grow, which tells us that the rental park increases,” defended The leader. He release Shared by the Generalitat does not allow, yes, to assess whether the rhythm of the new leases has risen or down the last year. What the counselor clarifies is that “a large part” of the contracts that were already in force have lengthened. Or what is the same, moves are reduced. The country Precise that in the tensioning municipalities the new contracts have decreased by 22%. How do you interpret the data? “We believe that the clarification in the contracts has helped to have these good data that allow us to say that there are 11,807 more homes for rent than a year ago,” celebrate The head of Housing, who points out that the majority (7,865 contracts) are concentrated in the 140 municipalities declared tension in 2024. In the Barcelona case, during the first quarter of 2025 the total number of rental homes has increased by 423. “There are 1,202 more households for rent than a year”, Apostille The Generalitat. Why is it important? Because beyond the implications it has for the Catalan real estate market and, specifically, the landlords and tenants of the region, the data presented by Paneque shows the practical effects of the regulation of rentals and the application of the housing law released to In March of 2024. Generalitat herself wanted to emphasize a message whose interest transcends its borders. After all, Catalonia was The only community that applied the law. “The data are good and show us that containment and legislative and regulatory measures help to guarantee the right to housing on this road until reaching a public park of 15%,” insisted The counselor of the branch. Are the first data known? No. Paneque is not the first to slide that idea. In Marchwhen an exact year of the application of the rental price index in 140 municipalities of Catalonia, Minister Isabel Rodríguez already claimed that the data in the region showed that “the Housing Law works”. By then the fall of the amount of leases in Catalonia it was 3.3%. In the city, the decrease reached 6.4%. Is it all positive? No. On Tuesday, Generalitat himself shared data that show a seasonal rental boom, a formula that is normally agreed for periods below the year and It allows to dodge The norm. If in 2019 it represented just 2.1% Of the rental floors announced in Barcelona, ​​in 2023 it already meant 14.4%. And the information revealed yesterday by Paneque suggests that they have gained weight in the community real estate market. The data handled by the Generalitat shows that 2,242 contracts Temporary of the first quarter of 2024 has passed, during the same period of 2025, to 3,415. In other words: the formula has experienced has increased considerable, from 52%, in just one year, gaining weight among the new contracts. During the first three months of last year, 6.1% of the new agreements signed in Catalonia were adjusted to that temporary modality. At the start of 2025 they already represented 11%. Aware of that accelerated boom, the Generalitat It has been proposed Limit prices in those seasonal rentals that have residential use, a decision that the Generalitat creates more justified than ever. And the rest of the contracts? The counselor He celebrated yesterday That the new regulatory framework and price regulation offer more stability to tenants by now having the great less incentive to get their homes to the rental market. “We are seeing that a large part of the contracts in force are extending their duration, which translates into the reduction of extinguished and, therefore, in greater stabilization,” Highlight. His statement is however some nuances. Shortly after the new regulation in the 140 Catalan municipalities … Read more

How to manufacture five million tires every year

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Between the Plaza Mayor of Valladolid and the Bibendum roundabout there are 4.1 kilometers and thousands of distance lives. Exactly those who work, have worked or work at the Michelin factory in the city of Pisuerga who, Like Renaultis one of the great engines of the city. The union with the city is so great that “in fact, the idea of ​​calling Bibendum Glorieta at the entrance of the factory left the City Council. We had a generic name of industrial polygon. We wanted to change it and they themselves proposed the name,” they point to us from the company whose doors proudly look its famous Pet in a gigantic size. And it is that 2,200 workers pass every day (almost 1,700 of them are part of the workforce and another 500 work in maintenance or cleaning, among other functions) that keep the plant to full performance, with three eight -hour shifts that keep alive an annual production of five million tires. The objective is clear: fill the 50 trucks that come out every day. Valladolid is not one more factory for the company. It is one of the so -called “digital factories” for the high investment that has been made in all types of systems to carry out a controlled production to the extreme. This investment is manifested in the machinery that gives life to gums for cars, trucks and tractors that are manufactured there but also for the control of the entire assembly line. It is there, exactly, where our visit begins. A control tower We could say that the Valladolid machine room is the opposite of what we could imagine. The Castellanoleonese plant moves to the rhythm of two operators that supervise everything that happens locked in an office. By hand they have two computers with multiple monitorson the wall the screens are multiplied with cameras distributed throughout the facilities, colored notices of all kinds and a volume of numbers, names and information for profane eyes. Our guide points to a side wall in which we had not repaired given the communicative epilepsy we had in front of us. Simply, lines and bulbs. This worked before and thus still controls the management of the inventory or the situation of the machines in some plants. Valladolid, they explain to us, have some of the most advanced control and supervision systems and, in fact, have worked to implement some of the solutions in other plants of the company. The intention is clear: all unforeseen must be controlled at the time for the production chain to stop the minimum and essential. From a breakdown to the shortage of a product. We leave that luck of control tower to put the feet on the mainland. In front we have the compounds that give life to a rubber. They are so simple that they look like a children’s game. Rubber, a metallic ring, the fabric that structures the wheel and the rolling band. So simple that it seems a lie that we talk about a product capable of resisting the force exerted by a car that rolls more than 100 km/h, a truck that transports tons of merchandise or a tractor that, with the agricultural tires More advanced, it can circulate at 80 km/h. “In the United States it is legal for a large tractor to circulate at that speed.” What is unthinkable here “creates a problem when thinking about how to face wear. So we have a system so that, from the tractor itself, the tire pressure is increased so that a smaller surface touch the ground when it moves through the asphalt. And, on the contrary, you can lower the pressure to gain trace when it gets into the field,” they explain. This way of working, without leaving from the tractor cabin, is a solution like the one that They use the pilots in the Dakar Rally That, from inside the car, they put pressure if they want to gain speed on a fast track or remove it if they need to cross a dune since it requires greater contact with the ground to have greater traction capacity. From the rubber to the road This is the key to everything. With the hand, our guide holds the tire rubber. “Each rubber has its own mixture and is secret,” they point to us. It is about making the most balanced rubber for each vehicle and moment. Not only is it a matter of offering the best grip, you also have to get the slightest rolling resistance (lower consumption) or less noise. And those concepts are enemies of braking, traction and, of course, performance. Join those Three pillars In a single tire is the biggest challenge, prioritizing with each type of product one or another game. For example, a Michelin Primacy 5the tire that we have come to know and that is designed for great general performance and good behavior in summer, that a Michelin CrossClimatedesigned to replace the chains in case of Nevada, or a Michelin Pilot Sportfor sports driving. The heart of each has its own mixture of ingredients (they add up to 200,000 tons of rubber per year). And that mixture enters through a machine that is in charge of flattening and shaping the compound. The mixture is heated, flattened and forms the heart of the tire. That already ironed rubber is painted with brands to facilitate the subsequent process management. As if it were a very long plasticine without principle or end, the machines are cutting into strips and barrels serve to generate the rounded shape. This is where the metallic ring and textile meshes are inserted in charge of structuring and supporting the vehicle pressures. The heavier, the greater the resistance the mesh should exert, so in the specific models for SUV or electric cars, two meshes are usually included. Finally, everything is covered with a last layer that will form the rolling band. This is drawn in the process of Vulcanizedat which time the tire … Read more

Every year millions of packages are lost during shipments. So there are companies that are selling them to weight

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Only in the United States They lose or steal 1.7 million packages every day. In Spain the latest data from the TDI logistics group They revealed that more than two shipments were lost per minute. The curious thing is where at least part of them end: they are shown to weight. Millions of lost packages. According to They indicate to EFE From the employer of the logistics sector one, in Spain more than 3.3 million packages are sent per day, and the cases of loss involve a tiny fraction of 0.001% (about 3,300 per day). A simple error on the label or lack of centralized information can cause these problems, and that is where some companies recover them to resell them. Reversing weight. Services such as Crazy Day Factory, My Mystery Package, Merkandi, LotesDevolutions, or King Colis are dedicated exactly to the same thing: acquiring those lost packages to often resell them as part of surprise boxes that are sold to weight. As they point out in the confidentialin Kink Colis for example they establish a price of 1.99 euros per 100 grams in standard packages and 2.79 euros in the premium type. A lot of noise and few chollos? In King Colis FAQ, a French startup, they explain that buying this type of surprise packages can be very profitable, because one “can contradate state -of -the -art technological devices to clothing or accessories of recognized brands.” However, they also warn: “Not all lost packages necessarily contain treasures. There is a part of chance!” You don’t know what you buy. One acquires these packages to weight, but does not really know what he is buying. As they revealed in the nationalin stores such as my mystery package open ephemeral stores throughout the year in different municipalities to give out these packages, but there is a key requirement: the package cannot be opened until after buying it. And that implies risks. These lost packages are not checked and therefore can be damaged, be defective or have a much lower price than the buyer ends up. In Lotes Devolutions they explain that those products that put on sale – which are returns, not lost shipments – do not go through a previous check, which can end up causing a disappointing surprise effect. Packages are sold repaired without visible brands to eliminate commercial references, turning the purchase into a riddle … or a bet. The psychology of surprise. The surprise boxes such as those offered by all these businesses take advantage of known phenomena of human psychology. Several researchers published in June 2024 A study in which they revealed how the stimulus-organism-response (Sor) causes that impulsive purchase out of curiosity without intervening conscious thinking. We think quickly instead of thinking fast, as the Nobel Prize Daniel Kahneman in his famous’ stood out in depth.Think quickly, think slowly‘. Previous experience. In Xataka we were able to meet this type of business last year, when we went to an old warehouse on the outskirts of Madrid to try to locate some cholt between the chaos of Amazon returned products that a company put on sale. There was no surprise effect here and the proposal is something different, but the conclusion was already clear: we had no luck and after hours of search we went out empty. Finding chollos, whether by surprise or not, is not easy. Image | Chuttersnap In Xataka | The end of free online returns: Zara, Pull and Bear and more stores begin to collect them

That year a concord took off from the Canary Islands and what happened has not happened again

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After more than 50 years of silence imposed by the sonic stamps, the United States has decided open again the heavens on the supersonic flight on the mainland. The Executive order Signed by Trump revokes the 1973 regulations that prohibited these operations on American soil, then motivated by citizen complaints to the deafening roller generated by the planes to overcome the sound barrier, an acoustic impact of up to 110 decibels. That same year, a concord arrived on the island of Gran Canaria for Make history. Concorde in the Canary Islands. On June 30, 1973, Spain was part of one of the scientific experiments more unusual and ambitious never undertaken to study the sun: a supersonic flight of the concord that pursued the Shadow of a solar eclipse total about Africa. The geographical location of the Canary Islands, perfectly aligned with The eclipse trajectoryallowed the country to be integrated into an international operation led by scientists from the United States, France and the United Kingdom, with the logistics collaboration of the Spanish Air Force. That day, the prototype of the Concorde, even without entering into commercial service, took off from Gran Canaria after landing on June 27 with the island covered by Calima. Its objective was not to transport passengers, but to become a flying observatory capable of staying inside the lunar umbra for a record time. Supersonic laboratory. The mission, developed and coordinated from Toulouse, transformed the Concorde 001 in A scientific platform unprecedented. To do this, the aircraft fuselage was modified drilling its roof and installing quartz crystals that allow the cameras to capture without distortions the infrared emissions of the sun from an altitude of More than 17,000 meters. Although the British initially opposed the aircraft, Air France accepted their temporary conversion enthusiastically In Air Laboratory. Inside the plane there were hardly any seats: scientists had to be held as they could during the maneuvers, in a small space and adapted to the minimum indispensable for the observations. The rudimentary preparation (including cleaning the windows manually before the flight) contrasted with The magnitude of the challenge scientist they faced: record from the air phenomena impossible to see from the earth’s surface due to atmospheric distortion. From Gran Canaria to eclipse. Thus, that June 30, 1973, the team of scientists aboard the prototype of the Concorde made one of the most spectacular exploits in the history of observational astronomy: they followed the shadow of a total solar eclipse on Africa during 74 uninterrupted minutesthanks to the ability of the plane to fly more than double the speed of sound. Don LiebenbergAmerican physicist and organizer of the experiment, was one of the seven investigators on board that since that altitude of 17,000 meters they observed the curvature of the Earth and captured Images of the solar crownthe critical region of the Sun whose emissions can affect from satellites to electrical networks on Earth. The path of the entire eclipse The problem. Equipped with infrared cameras installed on carries carved on the roof of the plane, the concorde 001 took off from the island and crossed the sahara behind the lunar umbra, achieving prolonged observations Never before. The problem? That although scientific results, such as First oscillation indication Five minutes at the intensity of the crown, they were technically impressive, its impact was limited: much of the material remains without digitizing and no significant conclusion was published. Concord 001 on display A feat that exceeded the results. As we said, despite the spectacular images and the technical audacity of the mission, the scientific legacy of the Concorde flight It was discreet. Most of the data, stored in hundreds of 35 mm film rolls, It was never digitized Due to lack of resources, and the analyzes were never formally completed. The flight, however, left an indelible mark on the collective memory of astronomers and fans of space exploration. Liebenberg himself, today attached professor at Clemsson, He recalled in National Geographic The moment when the concord penetrated the shadow of the moon A Mach 2.2 and darkness wrapped the sky in broad daylight. Despite the low immediate scientific profitability, the experiment served as a model for future missions and demonstrated the potential of supersonic flights in solar investigations, a field that still It is still active half a century later. Historical milestone Although the concord would return to Visit Spain In 1977 (already in commercial service and under sponsorship of El Corte Inglés), its 1973 scale in the Canary Islands was much more transcendent. Not only represented the first operational use of the plane for an international scientific mission, but consolidated Spain as relevant actor in solar research and in European aerospace logistics. That flight, often forgotten by the general public, symbolizes an era of bold experimentation, where the borders between aviation, astronomy and geopolitics are They blur at the speed of sound. Broking the myth. If you want also, that was a feat of international collaboration, technical innovation and scientific audacity that opened a door that today Cross again With new tools. For Liebenberg, the eclipse of 1973 was not only an experiment, but A sensory experience Unforgettable: absolute darkness to Mach 2, the vision of the curved horizon, the emotion shared by a handful of researchers determined to run after the shadow of the moon. Half a century later, the concord with perforated roof and clean windows remains as a testimony that, during more than a fleeting moment, science reached the eclipse and Spain was there To see it. Image | Spaceaero2 In Xataka | The Bombardier Global 8000 is preparing to enter service: it will be the fastest civil plane in the world from the concorde In Xataka | 20 years ago the concordal took off for the last time: this was the favorite plane of entrepreneurs and celebrities

Apple believes that its rivals are not doing well in ia. It is the perfect excuse to delay Siri one more year

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We already have news about the arrival of the expected and Nueva Siri. They are not good. Apple points to the spring of 2026 as a launch objective for its new assistant, with the aim of bringing it as part of the update to iOS 26.4, According to Bloomberg sources. The delay is completely in line with The recent interview of Wall Street Journal Craig Federight and Greg Joswiak: Apple knows that he is losing the AI ​​career, and he only has trust that your proposal ends up working in the long term. They painted you little birds in the air. It has been just one year since that presentation of Apple Centered in Apple Intelligence. One in which they told us about an integration of Siri in the system as we had not seen: an assistant with the ability to understand each corner of iOS, with an advanced contextual understanding and integration with each native app of the system. In principle, the final deployment was planned for autumn of 2024, but the delays accumulated and accumulate until they reached a practically unsustainable point. iOS 26 as first real step. Apple took advantage of the WWDC 25 To present iOS 26, one of the Greater changes at the visual identity level Never seen in Apple’s operating systems, now much more unified. Next to him, they finally arrived Artificial Intelligence Functions Applied to everyday use: although for practical purposes they do not go far beyond the translation of texts, filters for calls and some improvements in the generation of genumjis in image playground. After almost a year of delays, Apple finally implied what is its philosophy with AI: work to make it local, but with a functioning similar to that of its rivals. More delays. After the presentation of iOS 26with novelties in AI but not a single word about the new Siri, the question was forced. What is happening with her? The responses of a Craig Federighi, nothing height but not entirely comfortable, perfectly revealed the moment in which Apple is. (Joanna Stern) “Siri is not better than his competition”, (Craig Federight) “already, but it will be, it is our mission.” (Greg Joswiak) “It would be disappointing to launch something that does not meet our quality standards.” (Craig Federight) “This is a new technology, nobody is doing very well right now.” Joswiak, software leader in Apple, justified its road map around the key point: the company wants its AI to be discreet and that the user can perform tasks with the phone without even realizing that he is using Apple Intelligence. In fact, they do not want a dedicated app, as there is for Gemini either Chatgpt. The problem? Google has achieved this goal for a long time. Apple’s rivals are doing well. Although Apple points to the immaturity of the AI ​​for mobiles, the truth is that one of its best moments lives. And phones like Google Pixel or the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra They are the best proof of this. Here you have to make a distinction between Gemini as an app integrated in the system, and with Gemini Nano as a language model. On a telephone like the Ultra S25 can: Translate real -time calls without knowing that AI is doing. Remove the background noise from a video automatically, without Gemini telling you what you are doing. You can transcribe a voice recording with a single click, without opening additional applications. If they call you, the phone will automatically detect whether or not spam, without notices about ia. Yes, Google (although its approach is not so local), is able to integrate Gemini silently into the system. So much so that their functions are still native to the system, and the user does not have to know what is done with Ia and what not. Apple needs to overcome Gemini at AI. It will not be easy. Apple, for now, has not shown to live. During the presentation of Apple, Its action fell 1.5%. The expectations were high, but the presentation was a clear Apple message showing not being above any of its direct rivals, and relegating third parties (OpenAi) the most advanced functions of AI. With the looks put in 2026, the pressure to which Apple is subjected is even greater. The maturity point of its main rival, Google Gemini, is very highabove proposals in Benchmarks regarding Grok 3, O3-mini, Deepseek R1, Claude 3 and calls 4. To recover Apple confidence needs results, not promises. Image | Xataka In Xataka | We have discovered something worrying in the AI ​​models: if the problem is too difficult, they give away immediately

The United States has lost almost all its advantage in the face of China. And in just over a year

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American leadership in AI wobbles. The data of the AI Index 2025 Stanford reveals that China has trimmed the technical advantage of the United States to levels that seemed difficult to reach. Above all, because it has taken a little over a year to close most of the gap. Why is it important. The United States maintains the volume –40 notable models against 15 Chinese at the end of the year in the Epoch list-but China has shown that quality is no longer American monopoly, and that almost-convergence rewrites the rules of geopolitics in the most promising and strategic technology of the 21st century. The figures. In January 2024, the best American model exceeded Chinese in 9.26% in Benchmarks of chatbots. Just over a year later, that advantage has collapsed to 1.7%. Convergence is repeated in reasoning, mathematics and programming. The case Deepseek It is a perfect example. While Google spent 192 million dollars on the specific training of Gemini 1.0 Ultrathe Chinese startup said they have achieved competitive results with just 6 million. That caused A media and stock market earthquake At the beginning of the year. The contrast. They are two different approaches: The United States dominates for quantity and resources: it leads private investment (150,000 million dollars in 2024) and concentrates the most valued companies in the sector. China is responding efficiently: less models, much lower costs, equivalent results. The narrative of “Chinese technological backwardness” falls apart. Yolanda Gil, co -director of AI Index, He explained Thus his surprise: “I hoped that a more efficient version of the LLMS appeared at some point. We simply did not know who would build it or how.” Yes, but. American hegemony persists on other fronts. American companies continue to create the most influential models and monopolize global investment. And Europe is relegated: only three notable models in 2024. All French. The shadow of Mistral. The background. This race reflects a broader battle for the future of the digital economy. China demonstrates that efficiency can compensate for huge spending, challenging the “brute force” model that has characterized US development of AI. In Xataka | Openai is going better than expected thanks to payment users. And that marks an evident direction Outstanding image | Aerps.com in Unspash

The price of Xiaomi Yu7 is still a mystery. That has not prevented the waiting list from buying it is already one year

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The Xiaomi Yu7, the first completely electric SUV of the brand and its second model, has reached the market razing. To the point that your waiting list has shot 350 days. If you live in China and want one, you will have to wait almost a year. 350 days. That is what, according to Carnewschina those who wait to acquire a Xiaomi Yu7. The demand of the model has been so high since its Official presentation which has broken the production chain that cannot be basted for 50 weeks for new reserves. According to data collected by the specialized environment in the Chinese engine market, the waiting time is equivalent to a production of 271,000 vehicles. To get an idea, it is half of the units that They sold in China del Tesla Model and in 2024 So you can consider very good numbers considering that Xiaomi has just entered the electric car market. Without price. The most striking of the Xiaomi Yu7 is that we still do not know its price. And the company will wait to announce it up to one or two days before the first deliveries, according to CNEVPOST. At the moment, it is known that the intention is to launch it in July but it has not been specified what day and the date has not been reconfirmed. A fever called Xiaomi. In spite of everything, the volume of reservations is so high that we will have to wait almost a year to receive the car if you add your waiting list right now. The number of customers has therefore surpassed the Xiaomi Su7 that in all its variants it had more restrained waiting times. However, those “restrained” waiting times were extended to 25 weeks to receive the first units of the company’s first electric. And in March it was announced that the Xiaomi Su7 Prothe intermediate option of the Berlinas presented (with large LFP battery of 94.3 kWh signed by CATL and 295 hp engine) has everything sold by 2025 and the waiting list in this case also extends between 47 and 50 weeks. They explain in Carnewschina That the launch of the Xiaomi Yu7 has also re -raised the number of Berlin reserves, being a new push for the model. Right now, to receive the access model (the one that accumulated 25 weeks of waiting during its launch and which has the small 73.6 kWh battery) it is necessary to wait between 41 and 44 weeks. The fastest thing is to ask for your Xiaomi Su7 Max. To receive the most powerful and face option you have to wait between 31 and 33 weeks. Increasing production. This avalanche of orders has forced the company to increase the production lines for its cars. At first, the objectives were to deliver 300,000 units per year but the only waiting list of the Xiaomi Yu7 already aims to meet that goal. In March last year, in anticipation of the expected it was already confirmed that the company planned to increase production to 480,000 vehicles per year. That growth will come with the New plant which should soon come into operation to produce the electric SUV exclusively. The avalanche of orders, indicate in Carnewschinait could lead to more delays in the delivery of the electric Berlin. At the moment, the objective is to deliver this year 350,000 units, as confirmed by Lei Jun himself, CEO of Xiaomi, months ago in information collected by South China Morning Post. That almost half a million units produced should arrive with the lines already operating at full performance. Unleashed. The media stir in which the arrival of Xiaomi’s first cars has become huge. To get an idea, There are tourists paying a money to learn about the factory where the Chinese company is producing its vehicles, with guided visits included. The noise generated in social networks is huge but that has also raised some criticism and suspicions. Criticism of some buyers who are showing their discontent because some components of the Xioami su7 ultra do not give what is promised either With its quality. And suspicions by Xiaomi herself she has denounced, Like Byda social media harassment campaign with the aim of discrediting the company and its new products. Photo | Xiaomi In Xataka | The Xiaomi Su7 is a rocket: already sells more than the Tesla Model 3 and doubled the electric cars sold from all over Spain

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