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One of the most surprising moves in recent weeks relates to Apple abandoning its first smart speaker, the HomePod. A decision that caught many by surprise but that does not mean the abandonment of smart speakers, since according to Mark Gurman Apple you’re working on an Apple TV with a built-in speaker.

We have seen how leaving aside the most basic models, brands like Google or Amazon offer vitaminized smart speakers with display. There we have the latest version of Amazon’s Echo Show or Google’s Nest Hub. Apple, however, could choose a different path.

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The possible link with rare cases of thrombosis has forced the suspension of the COVID-19 vaccination with AstraZeneca in Spain to those under 60 years of age, which moves to a scenario of uncertainty to many people who expected to receive the second dose in the next few weeks.

Although a decision has not been made on the strategy to be followed from now on, the possibility of combining different vaccines, that is, to put a second dose of vaccine different from the vaccine of the first dose.

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After it was rumored that Apple advanced its first keynote to April 20, in the mouth of Siri itself, in the end the date has been confirmed by the company itself. So We already have the first keynote of 2021 confirmed; without us knowing for sure what is going to be advertised. The renewal of the iPad Pro would be almost assured.

The range of Apple devices is usually renewed from time to time; hence an iPad family refreshment is expected in the spring, before the WWDC brings a major refresh of the catalog of devices and software. So, if the 2020 iPad Pro saw the light of day at the end of March, Apple was a little behind if it wanted to keep the annual renewal. Just over a month late, the April keynote is already confirmed.

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China has a problem with the relatively low efficacy of its vaccines, such as Sinopharm and Sinovac (about 50-55% Sinovac, a vaccine that is also being used in Chile).

Faced with these data, Gao Fu, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has pointed out that health authorities are looking for ways to overcome the relatively low efficacy rates through various strategies, how to mix different vaccines with each other or go from inoculating two doses to inoculating three.

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Without much fanfare and without making a lot of noise, AMD today unveiled its new seven-nanometer processors from the Ryzen 5000 family, Ryzen 9 5900 and Ryzen 7 5800. They are two interesting processors, but unfortunately they are exclusive to OEMs, so a priori they will only arrive in pre-assembled equipment.

Both models are slightly trimmed versions of their X brothers. Basically, AMD has lowered the TDP of both chips and its base frequencies. One of the first devices to mount these processors will be the Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 Gaming Desktop.

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Manufacturers continue to present their novelties for 2021. This is the case of TCL, who today have unveiled their new C series. These are new models of televisions available between 43 and 75 inches and whose main bet is MiniLED technology together with QLED quantum dots.

These are the new TCL C72, C72 + and TCL 82, its three reference televisions in Spain with 4K resolution, HDMI 2.1 and Android TV. Here we review its characteristics.

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For years space agencies have been looking for the nuclear alternative at the space vehicle level. We already saw that Russia gave data on its progress and now it is DARPA, an American agency, which announces intention to launch nuclear rocket into orbit in 2025.

Specifically, it will be a space vehicle with thermonuclear propulsion within the DRACO program, acronym for Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations. An initiative of this research agency in the US Department of Defense focused on developing vehicles with this type of propulsion with which, as they have announced, they will have two old (very) acquaintances: Lockheed Martin and Blue Origin.

Both are common in the aeronautical and space industry. In the case of Loockhed Martin, we talked about them, for example, for their participation in NASA’s X-59 supersonic plane, and Blue Origin, Jeff BEzos’s space company, we have also commented on their progress, in fact a year ago they were I knew that both companies are working on a lander to get astronauts to the moon.

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Throughout this week, the first shipment of the vaccine Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, will arrive in Spain to combat COVID-19. As it is a single dose vaccine, it will not be administered to those who have already had the disease.

A total of 300,000 units that, as it is the first single-dose vaccine to arrive in Spain, it will count as if 600,000 doses of any of the other vaccines already circulating had arrived. It is estimated that up to 5.5 million doses will be added throughout this second quarter (approximately 1 million in May, and 4.2 million in June).

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