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Toyota has been using a megaprensa for 90 years to make cars. They have transported half planet to continue using it

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In 2024 About 92 million vehicles were manufactured worldwide. Plants like him Hyundai Ulsan Colossus Manufacture one every ten seconds Thanks to a tremendously specific machinery. One of the machines that are used are prey, Monsters such as Tesla Gigapress that allow to shape the metal in a few seconds, but despite innovations, Toyota has a press that has been working as the first day and resist to leave. In fact, it is older than the car company itself, when Toyota was nothing more than a loom manufacturer. The Komatsu press. Now, Toyota is not only one of the Industry powersbut an example of reliability and one of the most manufactured cars. It is one of Japan’s economic engines, but a century ago, things were very different. In the 1920s, Toyoda (it was named for the surname of its founder, Sakichi Toyoda) It was a company that manufactured looms. Curiously, Keep being. Toyoda Automatic Loom, from 1924, was considered the most advanced loom in the world and the company saw that it should not be so different from an engine, so they got to work. They created their first engine, also their first car and, to accelerate production, acquired a huge 700 -ton press manufactured by Komatsu. This purchase was made in 1934, when Toyota was already in the car business, but three years before the formal foundation of Toyota Motor Corporation in 1937. With its 700 tons of strength, it could work with large body panels, shaping the metal sheets with ease, and it was the one that helped boost the business during the first years in the first years in the first years in the first years in the first years in the first years in the first years in HONshus plantto. The flag in the Sao Bernardo plant Travel. Masahiro Inoue, CEO of Toyota for Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighted That it was incredible that a Japanese company acquired such a large team before the war, since it had to be “incredibly expensive.” According to Inoue, they were able to face the purchase thanks to the money obtained by the sale of Patents from the Automatic Loom to a British company. During five years, the Komatsu press gave life to some of Toyota’s most iconic cars, but in 1962, they decided to open their first floor outside Japan. Located in Sao Bernardo, the factory needed specialized machinery for the local Variant of Land Cruiser, and decided that the Komatsu press should be installed on that new plant. After a very complicated logistics due to its dimensions and weight to move it to Brazil, for 39 years, the already veteran press proved to be vital for the construction of the Toyota Banderiant. After the end of the production of the SUV in 2001, he continued in service stamping pieces both for the Corolla as for the Hilux. Back home. In November 2023, the Sao Bernardo plant closed, but that did not mean the death of the veteran press. Toyota was, and it is still a machine factory, and I don’t know whether for adherence to the press or for something merely practical, They announced that he would return to Japan. In fact, as we read in Toyota TimesThey affirmed that he would have his own tribute because his new destination would be exactly the place he occupied in the Honsha plant during those years in which he helped to shape both cars and the company itself. President Akio Toyoda approved that “functional conservation” of the machine, because it will not be a mere museum piece: it will serve both for use in the manufacture of spare parts and to train the new factory employees. An icon. For 90 years, the Komatsu press has been key in the development of Toyota both for what it helped to forge and for representing that first large deployment of the company outside its borders. At this point, it is part of the spirit of the company, but also a sample of how, for certain such specific tasks, the passage of time and the creation of new machinery has not been able to take this pillar of the automotive ahead. Now, as Inoue commented, it was sure to be “greatly expensive”, but after 90 years, the investment is well amortized. Images | Toyota In Xataka | This monstrous machine of 580 tons builds bridges as if it were flying

In 2023 New York closed the tap to Airbnb to protect his home. Two years later, only hotels are happy

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To desperate problems, imaginative solutions. A few years ago New York decided to stop the housing crisis which has long dragged with a measure that put the focus directly on Airbnb. The baptized as Local Law 18 made renting floors to tourists, for short stays, of less than 30 days, results Much more complicated and thus achieve a double objective: enforce the sector regulations and protect the low housing offer in the city. The norm premiered just two years ago. And the balance is far from being the ideal. A name: Local Law 18. New York is not the only city that has proposed to limit the supply of holiday rental. Something have done in Florence, London, Barcelona either Madridto name just a handful of examples. The attempt of the Big Apple resulted in particularly media, both because of the repercussion that the city has and its content. The known as Local Law 18approved in September 2023, imposed limitations to those who were dedicated to lease their houses for periods of less than 30 days. From entry NY demanded that the Caseros register and prohibited AirbnB (and similar platforms) to manage reservations if the accommodations did not meet that requirement, a measure similar to that incorporated with Spain with their “Single record“Not only that. In addition to registering, the law established that the landlords must comply with certain guidelines That in practice it limits who (and especially how) can be put in the market: nothing to rent whole houses, only rooms, the hosts must be present and the number of guests is also very restricted. A double objective. With the new standard the New York authorities pursued two goals. The first, to facilitate the coexistence in the apartments blocks in which residential and holiday floors lived. The second (and most important) Palliar The housing crisis that dragged the city. Two years later the communities of neighbors of the Big Apple may have fewer problems with groups of noisy tourists, but there are serious doubts that the second purpose, the really ambitious, has been achieved. The best test was left a few days ago by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal in A broad analysis With a title that is at the same time a sentence and demonstrates that (at least) the debate remains open: “The campaign against Airbnb in New York has not improved the housing offer.” Although since September 2023 New Yorkers have more complicated to offer their floors in Airbnb or Booking does not seem that this has translated into a distension of the residential market. On the contrary, The newspaper affirms Conservative: “It is more difficult than ever finding an apartment to rent in the city.” And that is something that can be checked by consulting both prices and housing stock available in NY. What do the data say? That New York floors have not stopped becoming more expensive in the last two years. Zillow shows for example that the average long -stay rental price is now in $ 3,750150 more than a year ago. “The law does not seem to have a significant impact on getting leases more affordable,” confirms a TWSJ Jonathan Miller, manager of a real estate appraisal company. According to its calculations, the market has even reached a historical maximum of $ 4,700 per month in Manhattan, although it acknowledges that factors such as lack of new work influence that figure. Airbnb also handles data that show that NY tenants do not have it easier today than before the local law 18. The platform is an interested party and that must be taken into account when driving Your figuresbut they are eloquent: the New York City rental index rose 8.1%, that of Manhattan 8.6%, Brooklyn 7.7%and Queens 6.5%. The portal also warns of the “load” involved in rental for the pockets of the periphery families. “Almost three million New Yorkers pay more than 30% of their income for rent,” prevents. A percentage: 2.45%. It is not just about the cost of rent. The housing stock available in NY still is not what is said Boyante, which a priori would facilitate prices to soften. Miller assures That last July the vacancies for residential rental in Manhattan marked a meager 2.45%, near the historical minimum. In that same idea affects Airbnb, which a few days ago launched A statement regretting that, despite the fact that short -term rentals in New York have fallen more than 90%, “rental vacancies have dropped 0.5%” with respect to 2023. And everything, insists the platform“without signs of a significant improvement in housing availability.” But … how is it possible? The million dollar question. And it has no easy answer. To start there is something obvious and that is that the NY market It takes time facing challenges such as the rise of rentals or the shortage of the stock, which do not respond to a single factor. In addition the Big Apple is not the only US region that has dealt with The increase of housing, aggravated by the lack of new work. In your analysis TWSJ It provides data Interesting that helps to understand why local law 18 has failed to reverse the trend and its effect has barely appreciated: although two years ago there were thousands of floors available to tourists on Airbnb, they actually suppose only a small part of NY’s huge real estate cake. In early 2023 in the city there were around 38,500 Airbnb units, As needed The economic newspaper, a very low fact if one takes into account that in the free market there were more than one million residential units. Right now the special compliance office has registered only 3,000 rentals in the short term that the strict requirements of the law meet and can be announced legally. That does not mean that the remaining thousands of floors are leased by New York families that use them as stable and permanent homes. Another fact: 35,000 homes. There are owners who, not being … Read more

The Church has been trying to connect with young people for years. Now he has his best asset: the first Millennial Holy

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The Millennials They already have their own representative in the Book of Saints of the Catholic Church. Yesterday, during one massive ceremony held in the Plaza de San Pedro, Pope Leo XIV canonized Carlo Acutisa young Italian who died in 2006 with only 15 years. The fascination generated by the figure of Acutis arrives at a particularly delicate moment for Rome, which has seen how in recent years it grew disaffection Between the Church and European young people. The new “Millennial Holy” offers you a unique opportunity to reconnect with them. There are also those who have seen another opportunity: the black relic market. What happened? That the Catholic Church already has its first saint Millennial: Carlo Acutisan Italian who died in 2006, with just 15 years, victim of a fulminating leukemia. His canonization is no surprise. Although the process that has culminated with its sanctification has been surprisingly fast, its inscription has long since been more than sitting. The gears for their canonization were activated in 2012, seven years later his body was exhumed (With debate included about the “incorruption” of the body) and in 2020 Pope Francis Beatified. Since then, the procedures of the Dicastery of the Causes of the Saints have advanced at an unusual speed. Moreover, his proclamation was expected to Last Aprilcoinciding with the jubilee of adolescents, but the death of Bergoglio disrupted those plans. Who was Carlo Acutis? A young Italian. Nothing else. Nothing less. And it is that apparent simplicity that explains that it has become such a relevant figure for Rome. Having been born in 1991 Acutis is in theory the first saint of The Millenial cohort“. In fact, it is presented again and again In the international press, as “the first ‘millennial’”. If that were not enough to do so, Acutis showed another peculiarity: it was another boy of his time, with hobbies and a style that he would not disregard that of any young man of the 2000s. In recent years, Acutis has been presented as a young ‘normal and current’ who breaks with the image that usually accompanies holiness: he liked football, playing with the playstation, setting videos with his friends and seemed to feel a inclination for computer science. So much so that it is said that he used his programming knowledge, acquired thanks to the reading of manuals, to elaborate several websites for altruistic purposes, including one dedicated to List miracles. In which it is probably the maximum reaffirmation of that ‘normal’ character, as a person of his time, Acutis’s body rests after a glazed sepulcher in the church of Santa María la MayorAssisi, dressed in a blue sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers. No robes or ceremonial clothes. Why is it important? Because perhaps because of its history, its appearance or mixture of both Acutis has become a specially interesting figure for Rome. To begin with an out of the ordinary interest. It is said that throughout the last year One million pilgrims They have visited their grave in Assisi, a figure that slides The Wall Street Journalcould be overcome this year. Another proof of his enormous popularity is that yesterday Pope Leo XIV not only canonized him. In the same ceremony, holy was consecrated to Pier Giorgio Frassatianother young activist who died in 1925 with only 24 years. His name has been eclipsed by the mass phenomenon of “First saint ‘millennial’ “. “What is happening with Carlo is difficult to explain. It is something that far exceeds our expectations,” Recognize The Bishop of Assisi, Domenico Sorrentino. That devotion was evident since soon, in 2006, during his funeral. Are there more reasons? Yes. Acutis was not only a Millennial for its date of birth. The stories about his life insist that he shared the hobbies of most young people of his age, such as sport, technology or video games, tastes that combined with his religious devotion. “I was going to Mass and prayed the rosary every day,” His mother tellsAntonia Salzano. “We lived in the center of Milan, in a building surrounded by beggars. He wanted to help them, talk to them, bring them food and blankets.” In recent years It has not lacked Who warns that the image built around Acutis is forced and ensures that the young man did not like football or preferred the sports moccasins that we wear in his grave. Is that relevant? Yes it is. Acutis is a breath of air, an oxygen ball for a Catholic church that has seen how the secularism gap grew over the last years, especially among young people. At least in part of the world. In June Funcas published A studybased on data from the European Social Survey, which shows that last year only 32% of the population between 18 and 29 years was identified as Catholic. If we look at just two decades, 2002, that percentage was almost double, around 60%. It is not the only example of that growing disaffection. Another recent report Fundació Ferrer I Guàrdia points out that almost 60% of Spaniards under 44 are declared non -religious. In other European countries the situation is not very different. Recently the University of St Mary’s in London did A poll Between different countries of the continent and found that in large part of them the percentage of young adults without religion was approaching or already exceeded 50%. Yesterday, hardly the ceremony held in Rome, Leo XIV recognized Feeling “cheerful” of seeing “so many young people” and insisted on pointing to Carlo (and Frassati) as models to follow for the new generations. “They are an invitation for all of us, especially for young people, not to waste our lives, but to direct them to the top,” proclaimed The Supreme Pontiff at a time when Spanish seminars suffer A historical drought of vocations. To further reinforce their image, there are those who already refer to Acutis as “God’s influencer “ either “Internet patron saint”an honor that isor Isidoro of Seville. Does the Church interest … Read more

I’ve been using Yi security cameras for years. It was delighted until the app became an advertising hell

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More than five years ago I bought my first Security Chamber To monitor my cat when he got sick. It was YI brand and it worked great; He looked good, had movement alerts and could speak through the mic. With the passage of time I had more cats and I bought two more cameras of the same brand to cover the rest of the house. The problem is that The APP Yi Home has added advertising in its app. How much? All. It is not an exaggeration I was traveling recently and I entered Yi Home’s app to look through the cameras. I don’t lie if I say that More than once I have made me want to launch the mobile. On the main screen there are already a few ads spread there, but that is not the worst. Some of the ads that appear when I open the app or when I try to see one of the cameras. The worst are the Full screen ads. They cannot be skipped until they pass a few seconds, the button to close them is tiny and sometimes it does not work, causing it to end in the App Store, or wherever the announcement in question link. So every time I open the app. But the thing is not there, when entering each camera, advertisements also leave full screen. When you finally manage to see a camera, a banner comes out that covers the controls to be able to move it *Chef’s Kiss*. Few apps I remember that they have bombarded me both with advertising and Yi Home, although it is not the only one. A current example is Capcut, the Tiktok videos editing app. Every time I open the app, I get a full screen advertisement, but it is also that if you leave a moment and enter again, another appears. Not to mention that The entire app is a mines field with ‘Pro’ functions And they don’t stop insisting to join. Pay or suffer Yi Home has never been a super clean app. I already had some Banner type ads and has always shown me pop-ups to join the payment plan. The thing now has no name. In addition to full-screen advertising, those pop-ups continue to come out and remind me that, If I pay, advertising will disappear. On top with picn. The summum of despair. (The controls can be relocated, but was there no other place?) The cheapest payment plan if you have several cameras costs 79.99 euros a year. It seems expensive, but I think that although it would cost a tenth, I wouldn’t pay either. The thing about this app is A manual of how to lose customers. At least I know I am not the only user discontent, In Tustpilot is full of negative reviews on the same subject and in This Reddit thread There are also several angry users. In the same thread they also comment on several ways to eliminate ads such as installing previous versions of the app or configure a DNS with Ad-Block. In my case I take another way to eliminate ads. I change my chambers I had been wanting to buy a while Another 360 camera And obviously I was not going to buy another of the same brand with the problems I was having with advertising in the app. One of those days when I almost crashed my mobile, gave me to get into Amazon to see other cameras and make the decision. TP Link Tapo C210 After reading a few reviews and making sure that his app did not seem like an online casino, I opted for the Top-Link tapo. I found a Offer pack with two cameras 360 And I bought it. When I set them up, some notifications came out within the app to go to the Premium version, but I have been using it for a week and they have not reappeared. Come on, what was Yi Home’s app a long ago and that It should be normal in an app of a security camera. Images | Amparo Babyloni, Xataka In Xataka | It is not you, YouTube is filling with more and more ads. Especially if you see it on a smart TV

60 years ago Singapore lived an alarming housing crisis. Today almost all of its inhabitants have their own home

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Singapore is a constrained nation, rich and with one Huge concentration of population, ingredients that a priori invite you to think about a complicated residential market. His most iconic image is in fact that of a ‘skyline’ drawn by huge and brand new skyscraper. However, despite the fact that it has not been oblivious to market reheatingthe city-state presents a curious peculiarity: a overwhelming majority of its population resides in homes promoted by the State and the country has one of the biggest Property rates of the world. His model has fascinates experts for years. A unique country. It is not that the real estate market of Singapore is special, is that it is the nation itself. If it had to be defined with three adjectives, they would be small, concentrated and prosperous. The city-state is barely 720 km2 And he welcomes just over six million people, so that his population density is around 8,200 people/square kilometer. These data make the island nation one of The most concentrated of the planet, behind Macao and Monaco. If we talk about per capita income, an indicator of population wealth, Singapore also sneaks into the top of international rankings. In fact, he heads Asia’s list and stands out on the world map. According to The data which manages the US administration, at least last year there were only two nations that exceed it (both small): Monaco and Liechtenstein. The city-state also stands out for Your concentration of millionaires. Singapore’s paradox. If the country’s economic and demographic data are curious those of its real estate market are no less. Especially because, as he pointed out In March Wei Low In an analysis published in Bloomberg, the city-state presents a “paradox.” Singapore is not cheap for real estate professionals, but at the same time it is surprisingly affordable for its inhabitants, which seem to have no problems when acquiring a house. Does not lead the List of countries With a higher housing property rate, but it is appearing in the upper part of the table, with a percentage much higher than that of Spain. Here the Bank of Spain (BE) Calculate that the percentage of households owned by their main house The European average It was slightly lower, of 69.7%, a percentage that brings together, however realities so disparate such as Romania (96.1%) or Denmark (59.3%). First percentage: 90%. In the case of Singapore the analysts They usually point that the property rate is around 90%. That The reference that is handled from Wei or the one that collects the Trading Economics platform, which Precise that the average property rate in the city-stated between 1980 and 2024 was 89.2%. The last indicator (of 2023) would be 90.8%, a few points below the maximum of 93.1% scored at the beginning of the century. Such a percentage has made often analysts are done a question: How have Singapore managed to reach a rate of ownership of the housing so surprisingly high? Second percentage: 80%. The above is much better understood when knowing Another indicatorequally striking: it is calculated that More than 80% of the population of the country resides in apartments built by the State, which also controls an overwhelming part of the territory. In 2018 Abhas JHA, Urban Development Manager and Risk Management of the World Bank, I calculated that 90% of the land were owned by the administration, almost double that in the 60s. During the same period, between the 7th and the present, the property rate He also shot. Three letters: HDB. To understand these percentages, we must know the recent history of Singapore and especially the origins of one of its fundamental organisms at real estate, HDB, the acronym in English of Housing and Development Board. In the late 50s, when the city-state reached its self -governmentthe Singaporenses authorities met A challenge Capital: its housing park had not grown alongside that the population of Chinese, bad and Indian immigrants, which translated into overcrowding and illegal populations. To solve that pressing “Residential Crisis” In 1960, HDB was created, an organism that was launched with a strong support of the government. In three years he had built 21,000 homes, a couple of years later the figure amounted to 54,000 and after a decade it resulted in the crisis. The result, highlights the organism itself On its websiteIt is that today “about 80% of the population of Singapore resides in HDB homes in 24 cities and three urbanizations.” As a reference, at the beginning of the 1960s only a small part of the Singapurenses (about 9%) resided in houses of public origin. Government graph explaining the sales system to 99 years. One date: 1964. In the residential chronicle of Singapore there is, however, another even more important date, such as remember Bloomberg Agency: 1964. That year the administration decided to offer subsidiary apartments for sale as part of the program ‘Housing access plan for the people’an initiative aimed at medium-low-income families who wish to acquire their own home. Since then the country has continued to polish the system, creating a mechanism that has favors for more than 30 years the mixture of ethnic groups (Chinese, Malays or Indians) to prevent them from forming in the small city “Racial enclaves” and a program that encourages the modernization and reform of the housing park. “Being a home owned citizens a tangible asset and a participation in the construction of the nation. There are more than one million HDB houses, in which 80% of the resident households reside. Of them, nine out of ten are owners of their homes,” stands out The Singapore government. How does the system work? There is an important detail. As remember Administration, The majority From HDB homes are sold with a 99 -year -old lease contract, a formula that, Reason the Government“satisfies the needs of the owners and their children while guaranteeing the rehabilitation of land and building construction.” The formula is not exclusive to the city. In Hong Kong there are also … Read more

100 million Tamagotchis in 30 years. The reason for being sold has a name: millennial nostalgia

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They have passed almost three decades since its creationbut the fever has not begun to turn off. With 100 million units soldthe Bandai machine is an artifact for natives of the nineties, yes, but also an object of desire for new collectors, as demonstrated by its last releases. And what demonstrates its current validity: the artifact that you have to take care of as a child with problems of incontinence and insomnia continues to generate amazing stories. Tamagotchi: modest origins. In 1996Aki Maita, a 31 -year -old game designer who worked for Bandai had the idea for Tamagotchi when he saw a television advertisement where a mother prevented her son from taking a turtle to school, which inspired her to create a digital pet that could fit in her pocket and require real care. He developed that concept with the help of Akihiro Yokoi: a virtual creature that should be fed, cared for and attended. Immediate success. With its international launch the following year, Tamagotchi quickly became a phenomenon. Soon began to arrive novelties and improvements for artifact. In 2004, different Tamagotchis communicated (and could get married) by infrared; In 2008 the Color screens; And already in this decade, the screen became Tactile LCD and Wi-Fi was implemented and different possibilities of connectivity. More than thirty different models of Tamagotchi have come to be created throughout their history. The nostalgia of the 90 works. Although the Tamagotchi never left at all, as it shows Tamaghotchi Paradisethat has reached stores this summer and that includes a zoom device to take care of creatures both from a cosmic perspective and from a microscopic, its outbreak of fame main fame took place in the nineties. He Kidult market segment which is making toy lines as never seen before handling two variables that the Tamagotchi cover wisely: on the one hand, they encourage and cover the needs of the nostalgic stimuli of Millennialconvinced that They won’t live such a happy time like that of his childhoods and young years. Port another, significantly, Tamagotchi are acquiring vicaria responsibilities taking care of a creature that demands constant attention. Perfect for a generation that, in many cases, is seen resigned, in many cases, not to have children. Know how to evolve. One of the great secrets of the success of the Tamagotchi has been to adapt to the new times, and we do not speak only of the incorporation of WiFi or touch screens, but of their mechanics, which have been going from a mere care and cleaning of an alien embryo to game mechanics clearly inspired by Pokémon (and we connect like this with Another fetish of nostalgia Millennial). In Tamagotchi Paradise we have fifty creatures that are divided into three environments (sky, earth and water), with three of them hidden at the beginning of the game, in curious parallelism with the legendary pokémon and other oddities. The possibility of making Tamagotchi muddle each other open the door to the birth of 50,000 different creatures, with characteristics inherited from their respective parents. Another mechanic that does not drink directly from Pokémon, but that does connect with the ideas of hunting, parenting and care of Nintendo creatures. History. The striking thing about Tamagotchi is that they have generated their own mythology and unique stories, often derived from the particular rupture of a taboo with respect to pets: despite being virtual, these encapsulated digital animals also die. For example, there are Funeral websites of the creatures Deaths, and Forums with hundreds of pages that they remember them and that they remain active. And a tremendous anecdote: in the year 97, A girl buried her Tamagotchi In a wooden coffin in a cemetery for real pets. Soon, the owner of the cemetery began to receive other Tamagotchis in his small coffins and had to convert and adapt the field. Image | Álex Alcolea In Xataka | A great mystery surrounded Tamagotchi 27 years after its launch. Now we have finally resolved

15 years later, Instagram arrives at the iPad. He does it with news that make differences to the mobile version

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Instagram and the iPhone have always gone hand in hand. The first version of the social network landed on Apple’s mobile In October 2010marking the beginning of a relationship that soon became iconic. Android users, meanwhile, They had to wait until April 2012 To be able to join the experience. The iPad, on the other hand, was out of the equation from the beginning. When Instagram reached the market, Apple’s tablet had already been available for half a yearbut never received an application designed for its screen. They have spent almost 15 years without that changing. Until now: This Wednesday the company has finally taken the step. The official Instagram application for iPad is now available Instagram has finally premiered an app designed for iPad, something that many users had time to ask. It is not a simple adaptation: the interface has been rethink for Take advantage of the big screenimproving access to messages and notifications, which can now be seen simultaneously. Even when reproducing Reels Comments can be expanded while watching the video full screen. The change is noticed as soon as the app. Stories are still visible at the top, reels can be seen in a big way and the tab Following It is divided into three views to better organize content: All: recommended publications and reels of all accounts in a row Friends: Accounts that follow the user and those that this also follows The latest: Chronologically ordered publications, prioritizing the most recent The messages also gain prominence: you can consult the entrance tray while a conversation is followed, and the system to read comments in Reels allows you not to lose detail of the video. Instagram has adapted its app to the most advanced functions of iPados. There is support for multitasking and floating windows in Ipados 26 (Available in Beta and that should arrive generally next week), full screen mode both vertically and horizontally and keyboard, trackpad and Apple Pencil compatibility. The application is now available in the App Store for any iPad with ipados 15.1 or higher. If you had the iPhone version installed, just update it: A second app will not appearbut the existing will automatically adopt this new specific design for tablets. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, He had admitted That the number of users interested in an app for iPad was never large enough to justify development. That excuse is already part of the past: Instagram finally has an official presence on Apple’s big screens. Images | Goal/Apple | Xataka screen capture In Xataka | Send files among all my devices was a roll. Then I found this free application, Open Source and Multiplatform

Take 20 years registered there

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Located in the Merindad de Tudela, in Navarras lands, Valtierra It is a municipality of just 2,500 neighbors that does not usually monopolize large headlines. Not anymore. His name and that of his mayor, Manuel Resa (UPN) has been starring chronicles for several days in the National Press And even It has sneaked in it Prime Time television by the hand of ‘Public mirror’. The reason has little to do with the agroganader sector of the town or its heritage. What has placed it under the media focus is its political controversy in favor of birth and especially the differences between the ‘lifelong’ families of the people and those formed by immigrant workers. And that, with Torre Pacheco even in memoryhas raised Polvareda. Why’s that? To understand you have to go back a few months ago, to Octoberwhen the town hall of Valtierra published the foundations of a ‘call for the granting of birth aids’. The idea, as clarifies The documentdigitally signed by Manuel Resa, it was “to support and encourage” the birth of the people, contributing to the region being sustainable at a social and economic level. So far unusual. To achieve this, the Consistory offered aid of up to 3,000 euros to families that had children throughout 2025. Going down to detail. The controversy arises in The fifth point of the document, where the “requirements” that the beneficiaries must meet. In addition to giving birth to a baby between January and December 2025, being a neighbor of the town and being up to date with municipal taxes, the Consistory asks that people who request the aid meet a demand: at least one of the parents of the creature must have registered several decades in the municipality. And the document makes it clear that the newborn is expected to also maintain that same status. “At least one of the parents must be registered in Valtierra uninterrupted during the 20 years immediately prior to the date of registration of the request for birth help. In addition the neonates must be registered with the parent who requests the aid at the time of the registration immediately after birth, as well as remaining registered for 20 years uninterrupted in the locality of the locality of Valtierra “. And the controversy jumped. Beyond the effort to set the population in the town, that requirement has another much more controversial reading: it leaves out all those immigrant parents who carry in Valtierra less than two decades. This was understood by a group of women, who made it possible for the matter to reach the service against racism and xenophobia. The result? The past spring The regional government moved to sign and asked the Council of Navarra to value whether the clause was “compatibility with the legal system and principle of equality.” Before the government gave some advice to the town hall of Valtierra, but they allegedly fell into a broken bag. “The answer was to ignore any type of recommendation and stay in the literal of the approved bases, so we are obliged to raise this case to the Council to rule, from the conviction that there is an obvious discriminatory treatment in an important part of the population e Valtierra,” Explain The Minister of Migration Policies. Point and end? Not at all. Far from relaxing, the controversy has continued to fan. And he has basically done for two reasons. The first is that in mid -June the Council of Navarra published Your opinionan extensive report that is resolved with a conclusion as succinct as blunt, especially if we remember that the report has an advisory character and is not a sentence: its experts express “serious doubts” that Valtierra’s requirements conform to the legal system. “The Menas those”. The second reason that the controversy has fueled are the statements of the mayor himself, who have served to throw further firewood. During one interview With the SER RESA chain he insisted that he has no intention of changing the call and that the important thing is to support people with roots. “What we have to sponsor and where we have to put money is for people with roots of our land because we are receiving many immigrants who cost us a pasture,” he argues in statements collected by The country. “For example, those that cost 4,950 euros per month, more than 50,000 euros a year. Some young mans of those we have there.” The mayor has also censored that there are people with “all rights, but no obligation.” A key percentage: 60%. Your statements have unleashed The political debate Beyond Valtierra and have even taken the PNV to disallow the mayorof his own training, for Vox rejoicing, which has “congratulated him.” “We congratulate this speech”, He came to celebrate His regional spokesman Emilio Jiménez. The truth is that resa’s words have generated a stir for another reason: Valtierra, a town that did not reach last year 2,500 inhabitantshas a considerable demographic dependence on immigration, especially of African origin. It is recognized by the Government of Navarra, who recalls that in 2023 Valtierra registered only 23 births and in 14 of them the mother was of foreign origin. That is, they meant about 60% of the total birth. The avant -garde Precise In addition, near the fifth of its population (19%) come from abroad and are mostly emigrants from North Africa to work in the field. In other Navarre locations, such as miracle or tudela that percentage is even higher. In opinion De Begoña Alfaro, Minister of Migration Policies, measures such as Valtierra create “first and second citizens.” Images | AEK Korrika (Flickr) and Kyle Nieber (Unspash) In Xataka | In 2017, Liverpool signed a star footballer. Without knowing it, I had found the solution for racism in sport

50 years ago, a man won the ‘US Dakar’ with an unusual co -pilot: his dog

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Dogs have been evolving thousands of years to become our best friends and They have a special memory When it comes to remembering our pampering. Other memories have a very short life in their head, but the safest thing is that Kookie, a mestizo dog, will remember throughout his life the adventures he had with John McCown, his owner. Because they did not give normal walks through the park: they toured the motorcycle desert competing in official tests. And Kookie was not the package: it was the co -pilot. The strange couple. Imagine The scenetoday impossible due to so straight regulations, the era of telemetrías, the absolute control of each extra gram in a competition vehicle and the most absolute technification: a dog uploaded on the deposit of a motorcycle, which competed in official tests and was moving based on the land they were going through. In the 60s, the carnicero by profession John McCown liked to walk with his bike. He did it accompanied by Kookie, his dog, who placed a back basket. At one point, John was going to go one step further: he bought an off -road motorcycle and began to get into his head that could compete in Cross competitions. He did so, and did not leave Kookie behind. My dog ​​knows how to wear the motorcycle. Instead of a basket, John improvised a “seat” with a blanket on the gas tank of his Husky 400 and OSSA 175 SDRand that is where Kookie felt like fish in the water. I imagine that the dog would be waiting for good doses of bones at the end of the day and that was the motivation, but the truth is that I was not there to make bulk: John and Kookie trusted each other to wear the motorcycle. During about 300 tests, the couple ate hundreds of potholes, swallowed dust and crossed puddles while both adapted their position on the vehicle to tame it in the best possible way. In This article From the American Motorcyclist magazine, McCown’s wife, McCown Describe That Kookie bowed to the curves, leaned on the deposit in the rugged field and stood up when potholes came. A bomb. Both executed a choreography on the motorcycle, and although at first they did not do it as an advertising maneuver, it is evident that it caught the attention of many. They appeared in the documentary movie ‘On Any Sunday‘, Kookie starred in children’s books such as’ Kookie the Motorcycle Racing Dog’ and ‘Kookie Rides Again’ and even brands like Ossa, Can-Am and Kawasaki the They sponsored. Kookie Junior. When Kookie got on the motorcycle, she was 10 years old. Hundreds of races later, and with 13, after a check, McCown preferred that his compi would limit to some shorter and less demanding races. Until 14, when John decided that Kookie should hang the helmet and live on the couch. He died at age 16, but as John remembers in the 1981 article, before leaving he left a litter. One of them was baptized as Kookie Junior, and for 10 years, he ran with John as Kookie had done before. They got some off-road championship (such as the 175cc class championship) and, although some wondered if it was not crazy, it was a friendship that benefited both of them for fun and for the company in the long and hard careers for the western American deserts. To the hall of fame. Such was the legend of McCown and Kookie (s) that were included In the Hot Shoe Hall of Fame, an organization and museum dedicated to preserving the history of motorcycle races in ‘Flat Track’ and ‘Speedway’, recognizing both the pilots and the mechanics, personalities and influential journalists in that world. “Kookie learned to read the terrain, leaning back in the rugged and standing at the most smooth. John could always know what came ahead because of the way Kookie moved.” – Description of the “plaque” of the Hot Shoe Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, that recognition is something that John did not live. McCown He died In 2011 due to complications after cardiac operation. On the other side, surely Kookie and KJ were waiting for him, with the engine on and ready for one more adventure. Images | McCown, Race DezertAmerican Motorcyclist In Xataka | “With head, we would all go on motorcycles of 20 hp”: there is a bud debate about how much power is too much power for a motorcycle

The solar panels 35 years ago are lasting so much that they have reopened the debate on the quality of the current

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The solar panel manufacturers They usually offer performance guarantees of about 20-25 years, a point from which the irremediable degradation of materials significantly reduces their ability to produce energy. Or that’s what they have done to believe. Short. A new analysis of solar panels installed in Switzerland between 1987 and 1993 reveals that most follow 80% of their initial nominal power. The study is based on six photovoltaic systems in operation for more than 30 years in all types of altitudes. Research, published in the EES Solar MagazineNot only confirms that solar panels can last a lot more than 25 years, but do so with such a low degradation that invites you to review priorities: are we balancing well efficiency, cost and materials? A degradation much lower than the typical. The researchers studied thoroughly from solar panels in low altitude roofs to facilities in alpine areas. On average, the panels lost only 0.24% of power per year. It is a value significantly lower than the usual range of the crystalline silicon: 0.5 to 0.6% per year, depending on the weather. In other words, these 35 -year modules degrade much more slowly of what the industry today assumes as usual. The secret is not the climate, but the materials. The weather can make a difference. In colder alpine environments, despite receiving more radiation, the degradation of the panels is slower due to the least thermal stress. At low altitude, where the surface of the panels can reach 80 ° C, Metallic contacts can run and lose conductivity for the degradation of the encapsulant. However, the secret of these panels is their solid construction. The modules analyzed are from the family of AM55 arc models and Siemens SM55, which stand out for the quality of their materials: thicker frontal glass, high quality encapsulants, very resistant rear sheets, robust aluminum frames and crystalline silicon cells somewhat thicker than the current ones. The moral of the study. Today’s photovoltaic industry has no point of comparison with that of the early 90s. The panels are much cheaper and achieve greater efficiencies. But in return, they use thinner silicon wafers, thinner glass and lighter designs. The conclusion of the study is not that before better panels, but that manufacturing materials have a great influence on long -term performance. Although they cannot compete with the current price, betting on robust and quality materials can make the useful life of a solar panel exceed 50 years in temperate climates. Image | Ebrar Özkalay et al. In Xataka | Forget the industrial revolution: the fastest energy change in human history is happening now

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