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Denmark’s life expectancy has grown. His politicians have taken the opportunity to raise the retirement age up to 70 years

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Demographic aging is putting serious to the labor market and the pension systems of countries around the world. Most European countries have already taken measures in this regard delaying retirement age legal for your workers. However, Denmark has been the most expeditious: from 2040, Danish workers will have to wait until he turned 70 to retire. With this reform, Denmark is like the country with the Higher retirement age from Europe. Progressive increase up to 70 years. According to what was published by The media Danes, the Danish Parliament has approved with 81 votes in favor and 21 votes against the new law that will raise the retirement age from the current 67 years to 70 years in 2040. According to explained The British BBCthe process will be carried out progressively, progressively looking at 68 by 2030, the 69 by 2035 and, finally, reaching up to 70 years in 2040. More pensions for a longer time. In 2006, the Danish parliamentary arc parties signed the well -being agreement in which the country’s life expectancy was indexed. That measure served as the basis for Danish retirement age It will rise From the 65 years they had in 2004, at the 67th that was reached in 2019. However, last year the Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that the variable escalation of the retirement age should be renegotiated to shorten the increases in increases. Reducing these deadlines would serve to adapt to the current life expectancy of the country. According to data of the Better Life Index From the OECD, Denmark has an 82 -year half -life expectancy. Are they too many years? Some Danish workers consider the new retirement age excessive. In statements To the public station Denmark Radio, Tommas Jensen, roof assembler, assured that he had undergone knee surgery, shoulder and back. “I just turned 47 and I see that I have many years left in the labor market. Maybe I have to look for a new profession.” Jesper Ettrup Rasmussen, president of one of the main union confederations in the country, described the proposal as “totally unfair.” “Denmark has a healthy economy, and yet imposes the highest retirement age of the entire European Union. A later retirement means losing the right to a decent life in old age.” In the same line He manifested Trade union leader Henning Overgaard, who considered that working until 70 was unfeasible for jobs with greater physical demand. “Many politicians have gone to university. You can read reports and see statistics, but that does not replace having risen at four in the morning with frost in the beard and the back hunched over by yesterday’s turn,” said the unionist. Europe retires between 65 and 67 years. Given the progressive aging of the European population, most European countries have chosen to delay the retirement age of their workers to maintain the stability of their pension systems. Nevertheless, According to data From the Finnish pension center, most European countries have maintained their retirement fork between 65 and 67 years. The measure that the Danish Parliament has taken is the most ambitious in terms of postponement of the retirement age of its workers. In Spain, the legal retirement age It remains in the 65 years until 2027 provided that a minimum of 38 years and six months have been quoted. If this requirement is not met, the minimum age to retire will increase progressively until reaching 67 years in 2027. In 2025, the legal age to retire if 38 years and three months or more have been quoted and more is 66 years and eight months. In Xataka | There is a man who has been working for the same company for 86 years. And you have no plans to retire In Xataka | From the “great resignation” to “great prejubilation”: the labor market loses the experience of those over 55 years Image | Unspash (Diana Parkhouse, Hannah Thiel)

We have been detecting a relationship between Herpes and Alzheimer’s years. Now we are discovering that treating one helps with the other

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A few years ago the scientists detected A strange coincidencea relationship between herpes virus and a neurodegenerative and noncommissible disease: Alzheimer’s. What at the time seemed a spurious and casual relationship, it seems more and more proven and proven. Adding tests. Now a new study He has obtained evidence of this relationship. However, perhaps the most important fact that we can extract from the new analysis has to do with vaccines against infection. According to the study, antiviral treatments against herpes are related to a 17% lower risk of suffering from Alzheimer’s, suggesting that treatment against this virus can protect us against the appearance of this form of dementia. HSV-1. In study he linked again the infection by the Herpes simplex virus Type 1 (HSV-1) with the appearance of Alzheimer’s disease, a form of dementia that is characterized by accumulation in the brain of beta-amyloid plates. Today we do not have a clear idea of ​​how this relationship occurs “(Some) studies have indicated that inflammatory alterations in the brain caused by HSV infection are central to the development of (the disease),” Explain the team Resposable study. “It is pointed out that peptides (beta-amyloids (Aβ)) are deposited in response to HSV infection and protect host cells (…). Consistently, they threw antimicrobial properties against several pathogens, including HSV-1,” they detail. 344,628 matches. In his study, the team He turned to 344,628 participants with Alzheimer who were paired with two participants without diagnosis but with similar characteristics. They observed that among people with Alzheimer’s 0.44% had been previously diagnosed with HSV-1, while only 0.25% of the control group had the same previous diagnosis. The analysis indicates that, taking into account other relevant factors, the probability of finding a previous HSV-1 diagnosis was 80% higher among people with Alzheimer’s than in people without the disease. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine BMJ Open. Not only HSV-1. The study focused on a variant of the herpes virus but also paid attention to other pathogens of the “family”, such as the HSV-2, Varicela Zoster, or Citomegalovirus. They found a relationship between two of them (HSV-2 and Vicela Zoster) and a greater risk of Alzheimer’s. Understanding the causes. New studies will still be necessary that Explain biochemical mechanisms that explain this type of relationship between infectious processes and noncommunicable diseases. Only in this way can we establish the underlying causal relationships and, hopefully, to find more effective treatments in the fight against disorders as serious as cancer and Alzheimer’s. “Although there is a lot of research ahead to find out the reasons and mechanisms that lead from infection to a process of dementia that manifests many years later, the accumulation of the evidence suggests that the management of these infections, with treatments that are effective for all herpes, or with vaccines such as herpes zoster, is an interesting tool to reduce the risk or delay dementia” explained to SMC María Jesús Bullido Gómez-Heres, head of the Research Group Pathogenic mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease, who was not involved in the study. Not so non -transmissible diseases. This is not the only example of a noncommissible disease to which we have found a surprising relationship with past infections. A recent example We find it in colorectal cancer and its possible link with infections caused by bacteria Escherichia coli. In Xataka | We are getting closer to ahead of the arrival of Alzheimer’s. Knowing it can reassure us, but maybe too much Image | Matteo Vistocco / CDC/DR. Erskine Palmer

Thirty years later, there is still an unbeatable television format in Spain: desktop soap operas

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The afternoons of Spanish television have always meant a fierce combat between big names, apparently infallible formats and yes, experiments that go wrong. However, there is an immutable constant in recent years, regardless of fashion and trends: the undisputed success of the Spanish romantic series in the afternoon, which drag immune fidelity to the swings of audiences. Are The most seen of the afternoonsnext to ‘Pasapalabra’. The formula of success. The three queens of the afternoons are ‘Wild Valley’ and ‘The Promise’ in the 1 and ‘Dreams of Freedom’ in Antena 3. The first is broadcast around 17.10, the second about 18.00 and finally, dreams of freedom are broadcast at 15.45. All of them have elements in common: an era atmosphere, around the quitas of the rich and powerful, but with occasional eyes to conflicts between classes, in order to show contrasts between the different characters. And all with audiences that do not fall from 10-12% of Sharesometimes conquering 15%. The Belén Esteban debacle cannot with the series. The phenomenon that is taking place with ‘is curious and significantTV family ‘ and its abysmal audiences in the afternoons of the1. Divided the program into two halves of differentiated content (after a few days experimenting with the Mix of presenters and styles), the audience falls into those blocks, but shoots with ‘wild valley’ and, above all, ‘the promise’, which with audiences around 15% of Shareis at your best. Then, when Esteban and his own arrive, he plummeted again, generating a curious parenthesis of low audiences to wrap the two stars of the afternoon of the1: the series. The first queen of the afternoons. TVE was a pioneer, at the end of the eighties, of the success of the first snakes, the Venezuelan serials with ‘Crystal ‘as spearhead that in 1990 it came to give continuity to more moderate but very relevant successes, such as Brazilian ‘Dona Beija’, which broadcast the second chain. Its success is significant: it already pointed to the fetishism of the audiences with the afternoon strip (after the mornings had colonized them Soap Opeas North American as ‘Santa Barbara’ or Mexican serials like ‘The rich also cry’) In fact, TVE was buried in protest letters when he dared to move momentarily to ‘crystal’ at noon. He won a wave and his last episode was followed by 8,630,000 viewers. An overwhelming 85% of Share. Origins of the Spanish soap opera. Trying to ride the wave of unstoppable snake successtelevisions They began to replicate the phenomenon with series like ‘La Truth de Laura’ or ‘Black Moon’, which They began to introduce timidly Spanish cultural elements. The first success in that regard was ‘El Super’, in 1996, with costumbristas and realistic plots, which ended soon derived towards the introduction of historical elements, the authentic key to success (‘Valle Tavaje’ is set in 1763, ‘The promise’ at the beginning of the century and ‘dreams of freedom’, in Spain of 1958). Thus were born bombings such as ‘Loving in revolt times’, ‘bandit’ or ‘The Secret of Puente Viejo’. Why that time. The tabletical strip is the most precious by soap operas, perpetuating those beginnings of the genre in Spain with ‘crystal’, which later strengthened phenomena like those of Turkish soap operas. In the target audience of these series, female and medium ageThey fit the typical Spanish customs for desktop, and that is what has impatible the long -term continuity of the series. It is an audience that appreciates the sumptuousness of natural decorations and historical places that prevails in these productions, as well as the budget investment that gives them a luxurious finish and that, in fact, is what has made TVE pass from three to two series during the time. And now what. ‘Dreams of freedom’ in Antena 3, with audiences around 13%, certifies that the audiences want series, and that the1 lost an important asset when canceling the third of its afternoons, ‘the modern’, cut under a pattern very similar to the other two. Sergio Calderón, director of RTVE, counted in an interview that “the series of series audiences benefited from the expectation of the start of the chapter of ‘the promise”. However, “it was impossible to maintain, at emotional and also budgetary rhythm, three daily series in the afternoons.” Seen what has been seen, maybe they have to reconsider their strategy. Header | Atresmedia In Xataka | Netflix’s best Korean series (because not everything is ‘the squid game’)

20 years ago someone predicted that the iPod would end up being irrelevant to the arrival of smartphones: it was Bill Gates

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When it comes to technological innovation, the real triumph It is not to get a supervent productbut be able to advance what will be the one that will be sold the most One and even two decades later. That talent is the one that has made many founders of large technology today are among the Greater fortunes in the world. In May 2005, with the iPod selling as churros and revolutionizing the way of listening to music, Bill Gates Auguró In an interview to a German medium that, a few years later, The iPod was going to be irrelevant. Although for those years, many interpreted His words like agoreras And the result of Microsoft’s inability to deal with the success of the iPod, Gates gave in the nail. The launch of the iPhone in 2007 and the arrival of the smartphones meant the First nail in your coffin. Bill Gates saw him come. Microsoft let him escape In your interview for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The technological millionaire refined his crystal ball from the technological sector. Two years before the launch of the first smartphone as we know it today, predict what the mobile Two decades later. “The mobile phones market is strategically fundamental. More and more functions will be integrated into a single device, and this requires software solutions. The perspective of having all relevant functions in a single device will be irresistible for consumers,” Gates said in 2005. With that statement, Microsoft’s founding millionaire gave in the nail with What was going to happen in the next decade with the development of the smartphones industry. However, in addition to seeing them coming, companies must be able to position in the right place for Take advantage of those predictions And that, with Steve Ballmer already in front of the company doubting success From the business model that the iPhone anticipated, it was the great pending subject for Microsoft. Despite the Windows Phone effortsthe huge mobile software market that Gates predicted was going to stay In Google’s hands and Apple with their respective operating systems, while Microsoft was relegated to a Minority market share with an operating system that did not convince. Ipod fall predicted, not the success of the iPhone “I do not believe that the success of the iPod can be sustained in the long term, however good Apple is. I think you can establish parallels with computers: here also Apple used to be extremely strong with its Macintosh and its graphical user interface (similar to the current iPod) and then lost their position. Consumers want more options and get them because there is a lot of innovation in this area,” Gates said in 2005. Again, he accounted for 100% in what consumers would require mobile devices in the next decade, and the iPod was going to fall short. However, again, and despite the adequate forecast of the millionaire, Microsoft He could not find his space neither Take advantage of your strengths. Instead, Apple not only responded to demands from your customers integrating the functions of the iPod into the iPhone for make it more versatilebut took advantage of the app store to Expand your functions opening a door to millions of applications. In this way, it was Apple who took advantage of the premise that, very rightly, had announced Bill Gates. In Xataka | Bill Gates’ first business was a failure: there he learned everything he needed to build the Microsoft empire Image | Flickr (World Bank Photo Collection), Xataka

You have to wait 17 years for a mine to give results. China already has two decades of advantage

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The new map of global power, It no longer happens with having oil. The true strategic value lies in the domain of critical minerals, such as lithium, nickel, copper or rare earths, considered the backbone of essential technologies. Therefore, whoever controls their access, production and refined is equivalent to having the keys to the energy and digital future. According to has estimated In an interview for the Wall Street Journal IEA director Fatih Birol, to have an operational mine, can take up to 17 years. While many countries just begin to move, there is already a country at the head. The arrival. There is an Italian saying that says: “piano piano if Arriva Lontano”, translated would be that little by little you get away. And it is not surprising that this premise comes as a finger ring for the Asian giant. Since the beginning of this century, Beijing adopted a deliberate large -scale investment strategy throughout the value chain of critical minerals. The result of this bet is that China is currently the main world refining of 19 of the 20 strategic minerals Evaluated by IEA. More recent data. Between 2020 and 2024, he was responsible for approximately the 80 % of supply growth Global lithium and copper. Control is even more overwhelming in certain key elements: The country processes 95 % of graphite which is used in lithium -ion batteries. 98 % of rare earths necessary to manufacture high -performance magnets, fundamental in electric motors, wind turbines and advanced military systems. Out of its borders. Many of the mines and processing plants in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia are owned by Chinese companies or have a large participation of Chinese capital, According to Wall Street Journal. Starting with Indonesia, where much of the nickel, mineral for high energy density batteries is refined. For its part, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the refinement of the cobalt It is in hands of Chinese companies. They have seen an opportunity. Not everything is extracting, knowing the current situation of the planet have seen an opportunity in recycling. More than two thirds of global growth in battery recycling since 2020 They have taken place in Chinawhich reinforces its leadership even in the final stage of the mineral life cycle. This power, based on sustained investment, low costs and an aggressive industrial policy, makes China not only a dominant supplier, but an actor difficult to replace. The clock against the West. The regions that seek to reduce their dependence, such as the United States and the European Union, have faced financial, regulatory and logistics barriers. In addition, the recent fall in the prices of many critical minerals has discouraged investment, making even more difficult for new actors to enter the market, such as He explained The Wall Street Journal. This has especially affected emerging companies, whose initiatives have been paralyzed by the lack of clear economic signals. The reactions. The United States has issued executive orders to accelerate permits and stimulate internal investment. The European Union has launched its Critical RAW Materials Actdesignating 47 strategic projects that will have priority in financing and authorizations. Both blocks seek to weave alliances with producing countries such as ArgentinaBrazil and Australia, with the intention of building more resilient supply chains. However, even if all these projects were approved today, the tangible benefits would not be seen until the second half of the next decade. The window of opportunity to reduce dependence is narrow; The risk of falling behind is real. The concentration of minerals. According to the IEA86 % of the refined production of key minerals comes from only three countries. In many cases, one: China. More than half of the 20 critical minerals are already subject to some type of export restriction. Since 2023, Beijing has implemented controls on Galio, Germanio, Bismuto, Antimony and various rare earths, many of them essential for electronic, energy and military industries. It brings consequences. These restrictions have caused abrupt price increases and have turned on alarms in governments and companies. The dependence of such a small number of suppliers converts the entire value chain into a fragile system: a climatic catastrophe, a geopolitical crisis or a technical accident is enough to trigger a collapse of the supply. IEA has estimated That a prolonged interruption in the flow of key metals for batteries could make global prices more expensive by up to 50 %. A silent threat. Of all minerals, copper emerges as one of the biggest challenges. Although it is not unusual or new, it is absolutely essential for electrification: it is used in smart networks, electric motors, transformers and loaders. The IEA report He has warned That by 2035 there could be a supply deficit of 30 %, due to the drop in the mineral law, the lack of new discoveries and the high development costs. Unlike lithium – new actors have emerged as Argentina either Zimbabwe-, the copper market It is still concentrated in a few countries and is subject to long regulatory processes. The delay in expanding the offer has direct consequences: without copper there are no cables, and without cables there is no electrification. The bottleneck is not theoretical: it is imminent. The new game of power. In a world that advances towards an electrified economy, critical minerals are no longer one more component: they are the very axis of the energy and technological future. The concentration of its production in a few actors, added to the long development terms and economic barriers, forces countries to act urgently and coordination. The energy security of the 21st century is not played only in the oil wells, but in the tunnels of the mines, the refining ovens and the laboratories of advanced materials. And in this new subsoil geopolitics, time is a resource as scarce as lithium. Image | Pxhere Xataka | China was for decades the largest CO2 issuer on the planet. Renewables are correcting what seemed impossible

More and more people work after 70 years

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The situation Demographic of Japan is forcing government and companies to adapt its regulations to maintain the balance between a very aging work mass and a serious labor shortage young man who has caused decades of stagnation in the birth rate. One of the measures that are being applied most in companies is the expansion of the mandatory retirement age. Thus, the most veteran employees They can continue working until beyond the 70 years if they wish. 5.4 million senior employees. According to data published by Nikkei Asia, Japanese companies keep more than 5.4 million employees of 70 years or more. According to A report Of the Japanese Business Federation of 2024, the employment rate among those over 65 in Japan is 25.2%, well above 18.6% in the US, of 10.9% of the United Kingdom or 3.9% registered by France. According to this report, 99.9% of Japanese companies had measures to guarantee the use of their workers Beyond the 65 years, after the reform in 2023 of the retirement age in Japan, which went from 60 to 65 years. However, Japanese companies have taken the legislation a little further: 29.7% of them have measures that guarantee employment up to 70 years and beyond. In Japan, the 70s are the new 60. According to data from A survey Made in 2023 by the Ministry of Labor of Japan, 80% of retirement workers wanted to continue working beyond the legal retirement age. Of these, 70% of them would prefer to do so in their current job. Part of that mood to continue working beyond 70 years is due to Japan registering one of the greatest rates of life expectancy on the planet. According to data from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan published by Nippon.comJapanese life expectancy is 87.14 years for women and 81.09 years for men. That makes Japanese employees reach their legal retirement age with good health, which allows them to expand their working life by adapting their working days to their physical limitations. “60 -year -old people are young. In this era of labor shortage, managers need to find ‘older men who contribute value,” said ATSushi Morishita Morishita, 78, founder of Tenpos Holdings. Pensions in Japan. Another reasons that are leading retirees to maximize their effective retirement age is the amount of pensions. With an aging population, the budget balance of pensions suffers since there are more people in a situation of receiving them What quotes youths. Retirees can only receive from the public pension system a maximum of 831,700 annual yen (equivalent to about 5,100 euros), which add up to the assignments of private pension funds that workers and companies have hired (or not) throughout working life. According to estimates Bloomberg, that leaves them with an average monthly public pension of 40,000 yen (about 245 euros per month). A full income Insufficient to subsist. Companies tailored to the elderly. According to them Published figures by Nikkeiemployees over 65 represent around 15% of the company’s workforce in Japan. These employees are less demanding diurnal shifts. “Instead of fitting people in a system, it is essential to manage work hours in a way that adapts to our diverse talent,” explained to Nikkei Kazushige Mori, president of GASHOEN, a company that manages care centers for older people whose template is formed by 15% of people over 70 years. Those who work 20 hours or more adopt the status of employees with contract, which is a higher hourly salary than those considered as part -time workers. “Compared to young people, who have a high rotation rate, the senior professionals who work with us for a longer time are the pillar of our company,” said Kimino Osada, president of Sixei Server. In Xataka | The lack of generational relief is forcing Japan to take desperate measures: that retirees return to work In Xataka | Japan will pay an old man $ 85 for each day in prison: Half a century has been waiting for the gallows by mistake Image | Unspash (Nicholas Green)

The University of Oxford has found reservations of an energy source for 170,000 years. And he has the recipe to exploit them

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In a world that seeks to leave behind fossil fuelsthere is a gas that has begun to be outlined as the promise of A clean future. Its potential as an inexhaustible source of Green energy It has aroused both enthusiasm and frustration: producing it without contaminating is still expensive and technologically complex. However, a group of scientists could have found the key to hydrogen under our feet, from the very depths of the earth. Clean gold underground. We have told it On other occasions. Hydrogen has been long promoted as a key piece in the transition to a future without emissions, but also as an essential resource for modern life: in addition to being a clean fuel, it is indispensable for produce fertilizers that support half of the world’s population. The problem? That 99% that is used today It comes from hydrocarbonswhich represents around 2.4% of global carbon dioxide emissions. With a projected demand of 90 million metric tons in 2022 to some 540 million in 2050the challenge is monumental. Until now, cleanest solutions (Like electrolysis with renewable energies or carbon capture) have failed to be economically competitive. Here appears the new Oxford study Posted in Nature: The earth could have solved the problem for us millions of years ago. An unexplored reservoir. In this way, Oxford researchers together with professors at the University of Durham and Toronto have revealed that the continental cortex of the Earth has generated, throughout the last geological millennium, sufficient hydrogen amounts to supply the energy needs of humanity For at least 170,000 years. This immense reserve, natural and emission free, remains largely trapped undergroundintact. Although until now the measurements were sporadic and scattered, the New job It offers for the first time a coherent framework, a “map” if you want, to locate these reservoirs: a “Exploration recipe” (They call it) that details the types of rock, temperatures, fluids and geological conditions necessary for hydrogen to form, migrate and be trapped in exploitable deposits. The approach is not theoretical: it is designed to guide the commercial search for natural hydrogen globally, with the potential to radically transform existing energy models. Ingredients, processes and threats. Such as Professor Chris Ballentine explained in a statementleader of the study at the University of Oxford, finding hydrogen in the earth’s crust is like baking a sufflé: if one fails in any component (quantity, temperature, time or type of rock), the result will be useless. The study Identify the factors that allow a geological hydrogen system to be viable: from the chemical reactions that generate it, to conditions that destroy itlike the presence of certain underground microorganisms that feed on it. This biological threat, indicated by the co -author Barbara Sherwood Lolar, forces to avoid areas where underground bacteria can consume hydrogen before it can accumulate in usable concentrations. Ubiquitous, diverse and list source. There is much more, since The work It also disassembles previous myths on the origin of hydrogen, discarding as unfeasible the sources from the mantle terrestrial and focusing attention on common formations of the continental cortex. These can be both recent (of some millions of years) as an eldest, and are distributed globallywhich greatly expands the geographical exploration potential. Plus: the crucial, They sayIt is not to find a specific type of rock, but to understand the interaction between the chemical, thermal and historical conditions that favor the generation and storage of gas. From theory to action. Aware of the strategic value of their findings, the authors have founded the Snowfox Discovery Ltd.a company dedicated to locating natural hydrogen reserves with social impact. Its objective is clear: to find competitive, clean and sustainable sources of hydrogen, capable of replacing highly polluting current production and feeding the global energy transition without the need for expensive industrial processes. Yes Geological recipe Developed by these researchers, it can be repeatedly repeated in different regions of the planet, we would be facing the closest to an energy revolution … underground. One that does not require new futuristic technologies or dreams of merger, but simply learn to hear THE SECRETS THAT THE EARTH He has been whispening For hundreds of millions of years. Image | Rita Willaert In Xataka | Green hydrogen consumes huge amounts of water. A new incredibly simple invention allows you to use seawater In Xataka | The doors of green hydrogen from Spain have found its starting point: the Basque Country

China is turning its roofs into power plants. He has achieved in three months what in Europe costs three years

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China has turned its roofs into solar engines, and record time. In just three months he has installed more photovoltaic on roof than Europe in years. Why is it important. China not only leads the energy transition, but is changing the usual rhythms to which it can occur. According to the latest report of Rystad Energyhas installed 36 GW of solar energy on roof only during the first quarter of 2025. That is more than some European countries reach after three years. The Energy Newspaper He summarizes it in a phrase: China does everything big. In figures: 60 GW Solares in total during the first three months of 2025. Of these, 36 GW (60%) in roofs. 130 GW of distributed lots are foreseen throughout 2025. The large facilities will even exceed that figure: 167 GW projected. The context. China is closing its XIV five -year plan. The New regulations of the National Energy Administration (NEA), in force since May, has created a counterreloj race to install before the regulatory cut. There is an emergency climate generated by … Self -consumption incentives. Network access restrictions. And the liberalization of green certificate trade. Those 36 GW are superior to what countries such as Spain or France can install for more than two years, counting all of solar facilities. The EU, together, installed 56 GW throughout 2023, and only one part was in roofs. In detail. The thrust has not been homogeneous. The provinces with greater normative flexibility, such as Jiangsu and Guangdong, have triggered the photovoltaic on roofs. Others, such as Interior Mongolia or Jilin, have restricted both the self -consumption that they have barely contributed. Behind the photo of the record there are certain strap: Some large commercial projects can no longer sell electricity to the network. It is increasing legal and contractual complexity. Promoters and investors face a more uncertain environment. And now what. China will continue to install at a speed far higher than we are accustomed to in the West. And the distributed model will grow, although foreseebly with certain adjustments. Europe lives much more slow display marked by a dense bureaucracy. If you keep the rhythm, China will end up making more facilities on roofs in a year than the sum of many countries in a decade. In Xataka | If Europe does not want to freeze this winter this winter will have to pay much more for gas. You can thank China Outstanding image | Bill Mead in Unspash

We have been thinking for years that no one can cough Qualcomm and Mediatek. Xiaomi’s response: hold me the cubata

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Guard on May 22, because we will be facing one of the most important events in the history of Xiaomi. In addition to presenting the Yu7its new electric SUV, the company will launch the Xiaomi 15s Prothe company’s first phone with a processor … of Xiaomi. Yes, neither Qualcomm nor MediaTk, Xiaomi already has its processor ready and, according to the information we have, it will be a blow to the table. A cry in the air that feels the bases on a path that they have been wanting to travel for some time: one similar to Huawei. Xringo1. It is not the easiest name to pronounce, but this is what the new Xiaomi processor will be called. This is the most important movement of the company in recent years, starting with an Xiaomi 15S Pro that will be a step below with respect to the Xiaomi 15 pro. Everything necessary. That is far Poquipotent chip C1 arises From 2017, or that is shown by the Bonchmarks. The new Xiaomi processor will have a some somewhat lower than a Snapdragon 8 Eliteand will be manufactured in the process of three TSMC nanometers. 2 nuclei high performance working 3.9Ghz 4 nuclei balanced working a 3.4Ghz 2 nuclei efficiency working 1.89GHz 2 nuclei of extra efficiency working at 1.8Ghz Its structure: ten nuclei (one never seen so far in phones), with at least two high performance and a maximum frequency of 3.9 GHz. According to the information available, the GPU will sign it Imagination Technologies (company after the Powervr GPU historically integrated into the Mediatek processors), with a maximum frequency of 1.3 GHz. Not just for mobile. Without giving too many details, Xiaomi herself has confirmed that this processor It will not be included only in mobile phones. The development of a chip is very expensive, and the company will integrate it into more devices in its ecosystem. More and more huawei, with an advantage. Xiaomi has a huge advantage over Huawei: it is not in the American Entity List. This allows you to access American technology, and this deal with TSMC puts the Xiaomi chip ahead of all Huawei’s proposals to date. Despite SMIC advancesChina is not having easy to advance in its lithographic processeswhile TSMC is leading this race. Nothing prevents Xiaomi from achieving processors as powerful and efficient as the best of Qualcomm and Mediatek if they share lithographic technology. A lesson. If Xiaomi embroider it with his processor, he will be giving a lesson to giants like Samsung. The South Korean company, the main world reference in Android telephone sales, has been facing problems with its exynos division for years. One that It has been losing money for a long timeand with which they fail to be competitive in specifications. In fact, for a while at this part the best mobiles of Samsung have ended up betting on Qualcomm. With the exception of Samsung and Huawei, no other manufacturer has dared in this incursion of the processor of his own. Xiaomi has a golden opportunity with its Xringo1. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The best Xiaomi mobile price: purchase and comparative guide

Ten years ago, a mobile brand wanted to stand up to Apple and Samsung. That brand is Meizu, and has returned in style

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In 2003 there was a Chinese brand that began by manufacturing MP3 players. That brand was called Meizuand was founded by Jack Wong, a former Soken worker, Singapore -based audio company. Meizu ended up becoming one of the Chinese referents with their MP3. In 2006, its Meizu sales were worth more than 10,000 million yuan, becoming the first local success manufacturer in the MP3 market. The next logical jump went to the MP4 and, just three years later, he ventured with something that would change everything: mobile phones. The Meizu M8 Meizu began to focus on the creation of mobile phones in 2006, but it was not until 2009 when the market launched its first proposal: the Meizu M8. It is not necessary to mention the gagdet that I imitated, since it was quite evident. With a 3.3 -inch touch screen, resolution 720×480, bluetooth connectivity and an ARM processor, this first phone landed with Windows CE 6an operating system developed by Microsoft for consumer electronics. One of the first predecessors of Windows Phone. What had to happen happened: the Meizu M8 generated a lot of stir because it was an iPhone tracing, although the company raised that its phone came to the market before. He was not right: the iPhone appeared four days later, on January 9, 2007. The Meizu M9 With the Meizu M9presented in December 2011, the company looked at the face of Galaxy S. The new model arrived with a 960×640 resolution (the same as the Apple Display retina) and with the same processor as the processor of the Samsung Galaxy s (S5PC110) and Android 2.2 Custom with the meizu layer. It is important to highlight that these phones were only sold in China, the main market for Meizu at that time. It is easy to understand why Meizu began to look towards Android. In that same 2010, Apple started responding to Meizu. He denounced before the patent office that phones like the M8 were a tracing of his iPhone. China ended up giving the reason to Apple, and Meizu was forced to M8 sales. The MX3, MX4 and international expansion In September 2013, Meizu launched an iconic device. One that server had in his pocket. It was about Meizu MX3a phone with Flyme 3.0 (Meizu’s customization layer), Exynos processorSony cameras, screen signed by Sharp and Japan Display … It was the beginning of a stage in which Meizu began to expand internationally, and that reached a high peak with the MX4. Meizu never became a mass brand. In fact, the MX4 version that was sold in Europe (low invitation system) He arrived with Ubuntu. However, there were agreements with retail partners for distribution (Gearbest, mainly). There is no data on sales that the company achieved. In forums such as Htcmania he managed to earn the love of users, and Flymeos was one of the most different customization layers in the market. A competition that could with them Although Meizu made very good phones, there were two Chinese manufacturers taking absolutely all the cake: Huawei and Xiaomi. Meizu made no investment in marketing or post-sale, while its competition began to sign agreements with operators already have a presence throughout Europe. Meizu was reducing his collaboration with partners and, over 2017, he ended up retreating to China and emerging markets. In short, Meizu was always focused on his native country, but gave small steps to try to approach Europe without too successful and without a solid distribution network. Geely’s intervention Geely is a Chinese giant in the automotive market. Is behind Zeekr, Lynk & Co and even Volvo, and Meizu bought through one of its subsidiary companies to integrate it into its intelligent mobility ecosystem. Its founders maintain participation, but the strategic direction is in the hands of Geely. The plan: strengthen its technology division for vehicles, with systems such as Flyme Autothe interface that gives life to Lynk & Co. Geely cars found in Meizu a key ally in software, and Meizu obtained a new business course and resources under the umbrella of a giant in growth and expansion. The return Globalization It is the word that Meizu wanted to highlight in the presentation of its new products. Specifically, the company has just made five phones officers, new VR glasses and an intelligent ring. Namely: Meizu Mblu 22 Meizu Mblu 22 Pro Meizu Note 22 Meizu Note 22 5g Meizu Note 22 Pro 5g Meizu Starv View Meizu Starv Ring 2 The company has presumed to be expanding for more than 30 countries, including Spain. It is the most important launch in its last years, one in which Meizu’s reentry in the international market marks. Meizu is going to focus on input and medium -end mobiles. The crown jewel is the meizu note 22 pro 5ga telephone with IP68 water resistance, 6,200MAH battery with fast charging of 80W, Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, 1.5K screen with 4,500 nits and main camera of 50 megapixels. Its price will be around $ 299 to 369. Regarding the rest of the models, they have more humble specifications (such as MediaTak Helio G99) and prices that are around $ 200. A product-centered strategy affordable with simple specs to conquer the market in quality-quality. You can consult The Specs of each of them on their website. Even more striking are the Starv View, their glasses with a 188 -inch projector. They have speaker system, weigh only 74 grams, they come with Flyme XR 2.0 (Android based on the Meizu layer), 700 brightness nits and Full HD+ resolution for each eye. Meizu now has two challenges. The first is to make your distribution system as powerful as that of its rivals: operators, Amazon and main Spanish distributors. The second, achieve a convincing product marketing. The brand is an absolute unknown in Spain, but has the opportunity to conquer by quality-price. Image | Meizu In Xataka | The smartphones that failed in Kickstarter show that some concepts are as original as useless

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