Month: February 2025

A McKinsey study does not have it so clear

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Teleworking is not living His best days. Large companies such as Amazon or Banco JPMorgan have asked their employees to They return to work at the office five per week and one of the reasons that I do is that so Improve productivity. However, a Recent study From the consultant McKinsey doubts this idea. Non -return situation. McKinsey’s report reveals that the change of model towards face -to -face seems to have consolidated in 2024, with a Increase from the Tour of Office 34%, turning 100% face -to -face work in a working day model for 68% of respondents. The most harmed type of day is, as you can imagine, The teleworking. In 2023, 44% of the interviewees worked remotely, compared to 17% who did it in 2024. The hybrid day has been contracted to a lesser extent, which has gone from 22% to 14%. Where do you work little matter. Managers seem to think that teleworking makes employees are less motivated And, therefore, they are less productive when they are not working from the company’s offices. McKinsey’s study reveals that the place where he works does not have Nothing to do with productivity. “There is no clear winner when it comes to a work model that provides a high level of experience and productivity to employees. Both face -to -face workers and hybrids report similar levels of intention when giving up, showing exhaustion, effort and satisfaction,” say the authors of the report. Productivity will not change. From McKinsey they emphasize that the productivity data is more related to the mood of the workforce, than with the location from which they work. “The amount of effort that employees claim to dedicate to their work is similar among hybrid and remote workers,” says the report. McKinsey advises managers that, instead of forcing employees to return to the office to improve productivity, they focus on promoting collaboration, connection between employees, mentoring and skills development. According to the consultant, these five aspects are key to improving performance in the work and well -being of employees. Or satisfied, or nothing. Likewise, the study data has revealed that, on average, the employee satisfaction It is moderate. The majority of the employees of each day model are satisfied or very satisfied with the type of day assigned to them. In part, this is because in many companies it is the employees themselves who choose the type of day, or the company has taken into account its situation to assign it. This data is contrasted with a intention of resignation of 39%, which is close to the figures that were reached during The great resignation with 40%. “The Z generation, which has a greater intention of leaving, in particular for face -to -face and remote roles (45 percent and 51 percent, respectively),” they point out from McKinsey. Of these two data, analysts deduce that policy change has placed a part of the employees in a model in which they are satisfied with the company or, on the contrary, they are about to abandon it for not. Create the right environment. The change of day in itself productivity will not change And the motivation of employees, but will do so, regardless of the assigned work model, promote collaboration, connectivity, innovation, mentoring and development of personal skills. “Changing the work model alone will not solve or change the nature of the problem unless organizations address why their employees feel that way (dissatisfied),” they remember from McKinsey, pointing to those five functions as the key to improving the motivation and performance of the templates. The problem is that the perception of the application of these five key practices differs greatly between what managers believe they are offering and what their employees perceive. The gap is greater than 25%. In Xataka | Three Spanish companies tell us how it has gone after implementing a job utopia: the four -day week Image | Unspash (Clay Leconey)

They were always based on a blind cult of Elon Musk

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Is Elon Musk the most important living person? This It is the question that was read In some forums just a five years ago. The defense was its relevant role when lifting Space X, Starlink, Neurolink and, of course, Tesla. If the electric car company has overcome its own death valley After 10 years, throwing losses has been, among other things, for the cult of the figure of Elon Musk and his promises. To say that it has been exclusively for the latter would be too simplistic. The company showed that an electric car for day to day and practical on trips was possible. He moved with cunning When he went through difficult times but he has also chained promises that have not been fulfilledthey have arrived late or alone half. That Tesla lost money for a long time but, at the same time, maintained the support of the shareholders is very blamed by Elon Musk. The product was almost revolutionary, with an interior that had not been seen until then in a car and everything A “Tesla Club” around the vehicle. Get “electric car” to be synonymous with “tesla” was built based on a own infrastructureof a vehicle that had no comparison in the market and a base of followers who blindly believed in the product. All this caused Elon Musk to rise at the height of a pseudomesies that has remained so far. In 2010, Time It already included Musk among the 100 most relevant people of the year. In 2014, The confidential I already raised him to first place. In 2018, the astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, a reputed disseminator in the United States, compared his figure with Steve Jobs or Bill Gates and said he was “Inventing the future”. In 2021, Time yes he pointed to Musk as the most important person of the year In a short time, the screws have changed and now Tesla’s actions have collapsed. Or is it something that was already counted? The most powerful man “not voted” With those words they described in The Guardian To Elon Musk. 2024 had been the year in which the tycoon had managed to rise as one of the people who has the most power in the United States. By Donald Trump, Musk does not have a political position in itself but directs an agency to which powers have been given to fire thousands of public officials if, simply, They do not respond an email. The Tesla CEO is applying the same dynamic in the structures of the State as already launched in its own companies, including layoffs that you have had to reverse subsequently. A way of acting that has been accompanied by Nazi greeting During the power of Donald Trump, the Support for ultra -right -wing games as AFD in Germany or propose the dismantling of the International Space Stationamong other gestures and propositions. The entire row of gestures, comments and decisions has caused the foreseeable citizen rejection. In Canada hundreds of thousands of signatures have been collected asking that The State withdraw the citizenship to Musk (He is the son of a Canadian citizen). In the United Kingdom, posters were hit against Tesla and its CEO with a clear “From 0 to 1939 in three seconds” referring to Musk’s Nazi greeting and the acceleration of their cars. In Germany it has been called the boycott projecting an image in Tesla gigafactoría of Berlin. In the United States they have been carried out Protests against dealerships And some owners have put an explained “Buy this before Elon went crazy”. Musk’s image has plummeted, of course, for many of those who trusted that the company came to mark a before and after in the automobile industry. It is also easy to understand that it has improved among the voters of matches that They deny climate change or that, directly, They begin to disassemble the electric car recharge network. But is there a direct correlation between the public image of Elon Musk and the fall in Tesla’s stock market? The truth is that it is a difficult answer and we will have to wait several months to be able to give a conclusion more successful. It has also pointed out that The low sales of the company They punish Musk’s political positions but Tesla’s offer is at a key moment, replacing her Tesla Model and, The best -selling electric car in the world (and One of the best selling Adding all types of technologies), by an update that adds a more modern design. Change, announced for monthsit is very likely that you have made potential buyers wait to know the new model. And to that we must add that, since it was announced, the new units will not begin to add in the sales list to the second quarter, when they begin to enroll. It will be then when you can see the real scope of the entire context in which we live now. It is possible that part of the readjustment in The price of Tesla’s action (which started the year in $ 370 and already quotes at $ 280) has something to do with some numbers in 2024 that did not meet expectations but it is very likely that it has much more to do with an adjustment that had to arrive at some point. There has always been talk of Tesla as Cult stock. This term refers to the actions that are based on the promises of the company or its leaders but do not have an economic basis that supports them. It is the perfect definition of how the company has maintained the blind confidence of investors for years despite its continued losses. But to this we must add that the company’s actions They shot in 2020 and, later, last summer. Then analysts not justified, in the words of Bloomberg collected by Five daysthe reasons behind an excessive growth. Its price reached 90 times the value of its future benefits. … Read more

that of smart glasses

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The marriage between a technology as a goal and an iconic brand of glasses like Ray-Ban has taken a good turn to the market of the Wearableshooting smart glasses sales. With an annual growth forecast of more than 60% until 2029, we are facing a new category of devices that, taking advantage of miniaturization and the incorporation of LLMSthey will change the way we interact with technology. Why is it important. Integrated smart glasses represent one of the first really good attempts to make technology invisible, integrating well into daily accessories. Unlike spoiled Google Glassthis new type of glasses have managed to combine well fashion, functionality and social acceptance. In figures. The smart glasses market grew explosively in 2024: 210% year -on -year, according to data from Counterpoint Research. Goal dominates that market with a fee greater than 60%. For the first time, the market exceeds two million units sold. In 2023 we already saw a growth of 156%. Only in January 2025 we saw nine different models of smart glasses with AI. Turning point. Ray-Ban Meta have redefined what we considered smart glasses with AI. They provide real utility, and what is more important, they do it from discretion and integration. When we tried them almost a year ago we had it clear from the beginning: They are the beginning of something much bigger. The success of the Meta Ray-Ban has aroused the interest of other technological ones. Xiaomi, Samsung, Bytedance or Baidu already prepare their entry into that market. Let’s see many new models from now on. Yes, but. For cultural reasons, it is not entirely clear that the success of that model can be easily replicated in other regions. For example, Asia, as indicated by the own Counterpoint Research. In addition, differentiation in such a small and concrete product can be complicated, since most manufacturers will use the same standardized components of the same wholesale suppliers. The next battlefield of the technology industry will not be in our pockets, but directly on our eyes. In Xataka | Apple Vision Pro, Analysis: An incredible potential in an imperfect product Outstanding image | Xataka

There are few folding mobiles that would buy me right now. Xiaomi’s is one of them, especially for his new price

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I must say that I took my hands to my head when we could know what the launch price of the Xiaomi Mix Flipthe folding phone of the brand. While other brands, such as Motorola and its Razr 50either Nubia and its 5G flip – although the latter has more fair specifications, “they have much more affordable prices in their folding mobiles, Xiaomi’s was launched by a whopping 1,299 euros. But … we are seeing more and more, and better, discounts on all types of mobiles a few weeks or months after launching – sometimes even days. He Xiaomi Mix Flipfor example, right now you are 799.90 euros In the English Court with a 500 euros discount. And it is the second time we see it at this price – Amazon had little. * Some price may have changed from the last review An interesting price for everything that Xiaomi’s folding mobile offers The Xiaomi Mix Flip is a terminal that embraces some of the most interesting aspects we have seen in this type of folding mobiles. First, it stands out visually for its 4.01 -inch external screen (One of the largest in type mobiles Flip), but also does it for its particular design and, of course, for its internal folding screen of 6.86 inches. Both screens offer a shine of 3,000 nits and a 120 Hz soda rate (1-120 Hz the internal screen). And internally is not far behind: Xiaomi has chosen the processor Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 of Qualcommone of the most powerful in the market, and is accompanied by 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage. On the other hand, its 4,780 mAh battery supports fast charging of 67 W and offers good autonomy to be a folding mobile. Regarding the photographic section, we find both an interior camera of 32 MP and with a module of cameras abroad that is composed of a 50 MP main sensor and a 50 MP teleobmic sensor. In addition, it is worth mentioning that during Xataka’s analysis one of the most interesting points was that The external screen did not hardly wrinkled and was imperceptible to touch; Something that is not usually common in folding mobiles. You may also interest these accessories for the Xiaomi Mix Flip USB Loader Fast load 67W and 1m Fast Load Cable Type C For Xiaomi 14t 13t Mix Flip Mix fold 3 Redmi Note 13 Pro 5g, Turbo Load Mobile Loader Fast Load For Little M6 X6, Load Adapter * Some price may have changed from the last review Xiaomi Redmi Buds 5 Pro | Bluetooth wireless headphones with noise cancellation | Wireless helmets with 10h duration | Headphones with triple microphone | Purple headphones * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Ricardo AguilarXataka In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best price quality price. Your analysis and videos are here

‘Dune 2’ is designed to sweep in the Oscars. That finally is not going to do it is the best radiography of the current Hollywood

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Josh Brolin already caught attention to the subject When the 2025 Oscar nominations: Denis Villeneuve, director of the mastodontic ‘Dune: Part 2‘He had not been nominated. Brolin knew what he was talking about: it is no longer just a displacement to the Canadian director. It is also the sign that the Oscars are ninging the Warner Blockbuster, because without the support of that nomination, it would be very strange that the film takes the Oscar to the best film or goes beyond a few technical recognition. A good Oscar’s pan … minors. ‘Dune: Part 2 ‘can be taken, however, a good amount of Oscar important technicians. It is nominated in five categories: best sound, better photography, best production design, better visual effects and, of course, best film. Denis Villeneuve is not only missing in the category of Director, but also, as a coguionist with Jon Spaihts, in a better adapted script, where the first installment of the saga of adaptations of Frank Herbert’s novels was nominated. One year for small movies. We have already commented so much about ‘Anora‘like’The Brutalist‘That the 2025 Oscar seem among their favorites to the smallest films:’ Anora ‘is pure indie cinema, and’ The Brutalist ‘has been shot with an absolutely tiny budget for what is stilate in Hollywood. They are not the only ones: ‘Nickel Boys’,’The substance‘And’ I’m still here ‘have very limited budgets, and even medium movies like’A complete stranger‘ either ‘Conclave‘They seem to make a certain visual modesty and approach their flag. It is stipulated indie. It is not an isolated phenomenon this year, you just have to check most of the winning films of the last editions: ‘All at once everywhere‘(2022),’Coda‘(2021),’Nomadland‘(2020) or’Parasites‘(2019). All of open indie style or, at least, regardless of mainstream Hollywood. The only exception took place last year, with ‘Oppenheimer‘, which we can consider a clearly isolated case when coming from Christopher Nolan, one of the few blockbusters that are considered to have an author’s stamp. This year, only ‘Dune: part two’ and ‘Wicked’ follow their wake. New times for the blockbuster. If we go back to previous years we will see how more Hollywood blockbusters (large distributions, large budgets) were combined with more independent cut films, but there were no such clear gusts. The year hinged in that sense was 2003 with ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King‘, with his eleven nominations … that he won entirely. An absolute hatching of the blockbuster model that left a certain sense of satiety. Behind her, as we say, films such as’ Million Dollar Baby ‘(2004),’ Slumdog Millionaire ‘(2008),’ The artist ‘(2011), ’12 years of slavery’ (2013) or ‘Moonlight’ (2016) have occurred. The Syndrome ‘The Return of the King’. Our partner Pedro Gallego points, very reasonablythat the possible none of ‘Dune 2’ is due to the fact that the syndrome of the aforementioned ‘The Return of the King’ has suffered and its total sweep in the Oscars of 2003. It may, why it is ‘Dune: Part 2’, the academy prefers to wait for Villeneuve to put an end point to his trilogy (let’s not forget that this second part ends in a ‘continues’ will continue to give him the recognition. If this year ‘Dune’ sweeps, what do we leave for the third? Not everything is Blockbusters. In Xataka we have spoken on numerous occasions how sequelae, franchises and blockbusters seem to have flooded the box office, without leaving space for other options. The Oscars seem to be replicating that fganthasma at the box office, proposing alternatives, which undoubtedly receive a pushing of fame and income thanks to the advertising of the awards. Undoubtedly, an interesting dilemma, just that Marvel seems to have definitely abandoned his absolute prereminence at the box office and that films like ‘The Brutalist or’ The substance ‘manages to raise much more than expected. Normality and diversity has returned to cartekleras, and the Oscars are the reflection. Header | Warner In Xataka | Karla Sofía Gascón has achieved more than endangering her own Oscar: jumping all Netflix alarms

China performing real fire exercises in front of its coast

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Occurred last weekbut the shock was so great that since then they have not stopped The communiqués happen With diploma doing overtime trying to find a meeting point in what happened. As in TaiwanAustralia found a situation to some excorees last Friday. Suddenly, a fleet of ships Not announced I was doing shooting practices in its waters. It was China, and since then they do not agree. The alarm Last week, a group of Three Chinese warships (A cruise of Renhai classa frigate and a supply ship) entered the exclusive economic zone of Australia Without declaring its purpose (Only 150 nautical miles from Sydney). According to Australian defense minister, Richard Marles, although he was not unpublished at all, was “unusual.” And there was more: on Friday, commercial flights between Australia and New Zealand They had to deviate Suddenly after Chinese ships alert the pilots that flew over an exercise area with real fire. Although it has not been confirmed that the shots occurred on the same day, the New Zealand Navy reported that the next day, on Saturday, Yes there was real fire activity. His Minister of Defense, Judith Collins, He expressed his concernespecially for The lack of communication by China. “Unfortunately, tensions have increased,” he said, remembering the recent launch of a ballistic missile Chinese Intercontinental in the Pacific Ocean. In addition, he admitted that they did not know the next movements of Chinese ships, which has led his government to ask for explanations from the Embassy of the Nation. The concerns. Therefore, and although China did not violate international law, the authorities of both countries have criticized publicly The lack of early warning appropriate. Not just that. The naval episode occurs a few days after an incident between a Chinese hunting and a patrol plane Australian in the South China Sea. Canberra denounced the action as “dangerous and unprofessional”, while Beijing accused Australia of provocation. The Chinese response and the reasons. The Chinese Defense Ministry He rejected the accusations Of both nations, ensuring that they issued multiple security notices in advance and accusing the Australian and Neozyn Governments of “deliberately exaggerating the incident. As for the big question, experts consider this incursion A strategic background. Michael Shoebridge, former Australian defense official, had the Washington Post This week that China seeks to press Australia for His military alliances With Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam, countries that have territorial disputes with Beijing. Plus: China is expanding its influence In the Pacific, trying to consolidate security agreements with small island nations, which worries Australia and New Zealand. In addition, the exercises also demonstrate the growing Chinese naval capacity at a time when it seeks to project more power in the region. China in the area. The presence of Chinese warships in the south of the Pacific adds to a growing militarization of the region by Beijing. In fact, in recent years it has increased His presence near Japanand has done exercises with real fire near Australia or Challenged to the United States In the South China Sea. Moreover, had in Japan Times That the naval deployment in waters east of Australia has lit the alarms in Canberra and Tokyo. According to Andrew ShearerGeneral Intelligence Director of Australia, this is the further incursion ever carried out by a group of tasks of the Navy of the Popular Liberation Army, and its objective seems to be normalizing the Chinese military presence in the region. Evaluate the allied response. It could be another of the hypotheses that some experts point out. Shearer warned That China was not only sending a message to Australia, but sought to evaluate and mold the responses of the countries of the region. According to Euan GrahamAnalyst of the Australian Institute of Strategic Policy, the Popular Liberation Army is calibrating the reactions of Australia and Japan, both key allies of the United States. “The absence of a firm response from Australia or a statement of support from Washington will only be emboldened to China to continue pressing. Its objective is to normalize its military presence in the region and find fissures between the United States and its Pacific allies,” Graham explained. What seems clearly clear is that recent naval exercises with real fire of China, now in the Sea of ​​Tasmania, have relieved tensions in the Indo-Pacific, particularly in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. Although Australia has no direct territorial disputes with China, her growing naval presence In the region, along with their alliances with the United States and other Asian powers, it seems that they look from Beijing as a challenge to their influence. Image | CCTV In Xataka | First it was a cut underwater cable. 24 hours later Taiwan has found a China Army in front of the island In Xataka | To motivate its Chinese workers, it has opted for a prize. His name is Caracol, and it is a public humiliation

AMD RX 9000 RX 9000 are lists. And they come determined to fight you with the GeForce RTX 50 of Nvidia

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AMD has just presented its first graphics cards that implement RDNA 4 microarchitecture. He told us about them during the 2025 CES, but at that time he only announced a few details about his architecture. THE RADEON RX 9000 They are destined to measure from you to you with the GeForce RTX 50 of Nvidia, so presumably they will not have it easy. Whatever the new AMD graphics cards come full of novelties. His best baza a priori is his microarchitecture. And, as we are about to verify, RDNA 4 proposes a lot of refinements, so, on paper, it should significant clearly to the Radeon Rx 7000 With microarchitecture Rdna 3. In addition, the Rx 9000 RADEON proposes the technology of reconstruction of the image Fidelityfx Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4), which, on paper, is able to give us a cadence of images per second and a higher level of detail than FSR 3. Rdna 4: This is the authentic heart of the Radeon Rx 9000 The slide that we publish under these lines collects the main characteristics of the RDNA microarchitecture 4. The lithography used to manufacture the RADEON RX 9000 GPU uses a 4 Nm integration technology, presumably from TSMC. However, these chips give us many more innovations. And AMD promises that the calculation units of these GPU have been deeply redesigned, that their performance when facing the Ray layout It is higher, and that, in addition, they rely on the artificial intelligence (AI). The lithography used to manufacture the RADEON RX 9000 GPUs uses a 4 Nm integration technology AMD will continue in these graphics cards the same path as NVIDIA: it will address the reconstruction of the image using the latest generation algorithms. On the other hand, Radeon RX 9000 have SECOND GENERATION ACCELERATORSThird generation ray layouts and a second generation video signal delivery engine. An important detail: according to AMD the average performance of the calculation unit with Microarchitecture RDNA 4 is 40% higher than that of RDNA 3 solutions. The next slide clearly reflects that much of the improvements introduced by AMD engineers seeks to increase the performance of the new GPUs when they must deal with AI algorithms to face the reconstruction of the image. AMD promises that the RDNA 4 duplication of RDNA 3 in FP16 operations; It quadruples in int8 and when working with FP16 matrices with many zero values ​​(this circumstance is known as ‘sparsity’), and multiplies it by eight when operating with int8 matrices with sparsity. On paper is not but that nothing wrong. We are now with the reconstruction of the image through ia. FSR 4 technology is only compatible with the new RADEON RX 9000 graphics cards because the presence in the GPU of Hardware resources introduced by AMD in these chips. Be that as theory this technology offers us a cadence of images per second higher, a higher level of detail and a lower latency. In addition, FSR 4 uses the same application programming interface (API) as FSR 3.1, so developers who have worked with this last tool should have no problem when making the leap to the new technology developed by AMD. A curious note: in the next slide we can see that this company promises that its technology is prepared to face the neural rendering that will arrive in the future. Sounds good. We’ll see what it consists of when the time comes. The next slide collects the main specifications of the RADEON RX 9070. This graphics card, the most “modest” of the two that the Radeon RX 9000 family today, incorporates, incorporates 56 calculation units16 GB of GDDR6 VRM, the GPU works at a maximum clock frequency of 2,520 MHz and has an average consumption of 220 watts. The Radeon RX 9070 XT is a bit more ambitious than the model in which we just inquired. It proposes 64 calculation units, 16 GB of GDDR6 type VRM, the GPU works at a maximum clock frequency of 2,970 MHz and has an average consumption of 304 watts. It will be interesting to see how it yields to the GEFORCE RTX 5070 TI of Nvidia. There are the prices of Radeon RX 9000. RX 9070 XT will cost $ 599 (about 575 euros). And to get a RADEON RX 9070 we will have to pay $ 549 (Approximately 527 euros). AMD’s plan is that these two graphic solutions compete from you to you with the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and 5070 of Nvidia. One last note to conclude: the two graphics cards with which the Rx 9000 AMD family is born will be available from next March 6. More information | AMD In Xataka | The next revolution of the chips is approaching. Intel, Samsung, TSMC and AMD already work on glass substrates In Xataka | This is the strategy that has kept Nvidia at the top for more than two decades: the dilemma of the innovator

The US believes to have a “treasure” with the rare earths of Ukraine. Everything is born from a outdated Soviet report 50 years ago

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Today, Friday, February 28, Presidents Volodymir Zelensky and Donald Trump They will meet in Washington to discuss and sign the agreement on the mineral resources of Ukraine. This alliance will give the United States a control over the country’s natural resources, a measure that Trump has promoted These last days. However, estimates on this aspect are based on reports of the former USSR for more than 50 years ago. The famous “rare earths”. I think we have heard of the “rare earths” these days and, in this same medium, We have deepened the subject Exposing the arguments of two energy experts, which have confirmed that talking about “rare earths” is a mistake. However, the global S&P medium He has been able to demonstrate Where does that speculation come from, it has only had to dust off some old documents of the former Soviet Union. More than 50 years ago. The geological report of the Soviet era that is using Ukraine to evaluate its “rare earth” deposits focuses on an exploration made between 1960 and 1990. It is true that the technology of the moment and the methods were very different from the current ones. According to experts Consulted by S&P Globalthe data used to estimate mineral resources have not been updated since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. In addition, some of the deposits are in areas of difficult access and require more advanced technologies for extraction, as is the case of Novopoltavske, located in the Zaporizhia region, due to hydrogeological mining conditions. This mine, according to the report, contains phosphates, rare earths and niobium. On the other hand, currently, you cannot access the territories occupied by Russia, as in the Donetsk region, where the Azovske and Mazurivske quarries are located. Were these deposits exploited in the USSR? According to the report with more than five decades, they knew about them and explored them, but were not completely exploited on a large scale. The impediments went through a lack of structure, the complexity to access the deposits and technological limitations of the time. After the dissolution of the USSR, the mining projects in the Ukraine area stagnated and no attempted development was made in a postsoviet era. What will happen today? United States and Ukraine They will sign a treaty For a Ukraine reconstruction fund, partially financed with the income of its mineral reserves. Ukraine has agreed to contribute 50% of its future income derived from critical mineral mining such as cobalt, lithium, titanium and rare earths. In return, United States It would help develop The mining infrastructure necessary to extract these resources, but analysts consider that real benefits could take many years to materialize. In addition, the US will be co -owner of the Fund to the extent allowed by its legislation and promises long -term financial commitment, but the agreement It does not specify amounts, deadlines or details about the management of the fund, which generates uncertainty about its real implementation. However, there is a key fact that has been overlooked: currently, Ukraine does not produce rare earths at the commercial level. Although it has reservations, the infrastructure necessary to extract them still does not exist. According to the United States Geological Service, Ukraine has Scandio depositsone of the 17 elements of rare earths, but its large -scale extraction has not begun. Is it really so essential for the US? We have already told. On the one hand, Trump seeks to lead global mineral resources and impose himself on China. On the other hand, analysts They have mentioned that Ukraine should produce 20% of the world’s rare land for more than 150 years to reach the 500,000 million dollars of value that Trump has mentioned. In addition, as indicated in the report, the value of deposits may not justify the investment in its extraction, which makes Trump’s interest not completely clear from an economic perspective. To this is added the lack of clarity On the previous help of the US: Trump has mentioned between 300,000 and 350,000 million dollars, but the Kiel Institute has estimated that the real figure is 119,000 million. It should be remembered that Ukraine has a notable production of other strategic minerals. Before the war, Galio produced, used in semiconductors and biomedical applications, and contributed 2% of the world’s bromine production, essential in flame retarders. In addition, it produced ilmenite, a key mineral concentrate for obtaining titanium, a metal with military applications. However, the war has stopped the production of manganese and alumina, fundamental for the manufacture of steel and aluminum. And about the occupied territory? Access to mineral deposits in territory occupied by Russia depends on an eventual resolution of the conflict, adding another layer of uncertainty to the agreement. It also follows a key issue in the air: Zelensky sought to include security guarantees for Ukraine, but The agreement does not explicitly mention them. Although the text says that the US will support “Ukraine efforts to obtain security guarantees,” does not establish specific commitments or defense mechanisms in case of aggression. Without them, the real impact of the treaty remains uncertain. Trump and Putin. All this conflict is even more complicated if we add the layer of the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, who have talked again, and the Russian leader even has offered preferential access to the natural resources of your country, showing willing to negotiate the end of the conflict. Despite these “advances”, the possible concessions that Trump could accept, such as Ukraine renounces NATO, they worry both kyiv and Europe. They fear that these agreements can make safety in the region even more unstable. And the cake wid. The agreement Mention explicitly That future negotiations on the fund should avoid conflicts with the process of adhesion of Ukraine to the European Union, a striking point given Washington’s growing antagonism towards Brussels. However, Zelensky wants to avoid that the agreement interferes with its ambitions in European integration. Everything remains to be seen at today’s meeting. Image … Read more

We already know what people are really using at work: to translate texts

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One of the main debates of the future of AI is Know the real impact of this new technology in the workplace. The forecasts of the World Economic Forum collected In your report ‘Future of Jobs Report 2025’, estimates that the deployment of AI at work will displace 92 million jobs and generate 170 million new positions. Many of these profiles still do not exist or They are starting to form. A recent one study of Infojobs points out that one in three employees in Spain is already using the work, although the main use made of it Google already offered it A decade ago: translate. Increasingly and better. In a survey conducted to 1,040 people only 32% acknowledged using AI in some way In your job. Of this 32%, only 6% did it regularly, and 26% used it occasionally. This percentage of use has increased with respect to the data of 2023, where only 23% I acknowledged using it. The forecast is that, in the face of 2025, the percentage of employees who use AI ascend up to 34%, increasing mainly in those who usually use it. On the opposite side, there are still 46% who know no artificial intelligence tool or model, nor use it in your workwhile 22% say they know them, but use them in their work environment. At the moment, it only replaces Google. Those employees who have recognized the AI ​​usually use in their work, has acknowledged using it in 58% to perform automatic document translations. It is followed by the use of chatbots such as Chatgpt used in text and consultation analysis in 37% of cases. The Image generation with AI (9%), software development and programming assistance (6%) or design (5%) still occupies a reduced use percentage. Facing 2025, little variation is expected in the use given to AI tools, where an increase in the use of chatbots is expected, given the increase in the capacity of the last versions of Chatgpt, Claudeeither Deepseekthat have been presented recently. Without training, there is no ia. The report ‘From potential to Profit: CLOSING THE AI IMPACT GAP‘Prepared by the consulting firm Boston Consulting Group, indicates that 75% of executives and management positions consider AI as a strategic priority In 2025. However, the Infojobs report reveals that only 20% of employees declared to use the work usually has received specific training for its use. Of the total number of employees that the AI ​​uses in their job, 40% ensure that they have received information (not training) or plans to receive it in the next six months. Of these, 14% have already carried out it, while 26% will do so in the future. 60% of the participants in this study declare that they have neither received information nor plans to receive it in the future. Young man with studies. The Infojobs report reveals an important gap, both gender, education and age range in the use of AI for work. Men, with 59%, use artificial intelligence more, while only 41% of women use it. By age segment, it is those under 35 who have best incorporated it to their day to day, with 62% compared to 38% of those over 35. It also highlights 76% of employees with university studies that usually use it, of which 62% do so from the office itself, while only 38% of those who telework use it usually. In Xataka | The AI ​​race has promoted a new professional profile that is raffling companies: AI engineer Image | Pexels (Anna Shvets)

Skype had everything to master the video calls. Now Microsoft has just put a death date

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It has been Xda Developers who advanced the news that Microsoft has just confirmed publicly: Skype is going to be closed forever. It will happen in May, when they put the final brush to a story that could be very different and that will now be an inherited inherited by Teams, the company’s right eye for communications. It seemed a long time since Skype’s end was imminent. It was released in 2003 and Bought by Microsoft in 2011 for 8,500 million dollarsfigure that then seemed astronomical. Skype was a before and after. He turned the calls and long -distance video calls into something accessible to anyone with the Internet. It became the metonymy of video calls (“Do we make a skype?”), Something that very few products achieve. But Skype’s story is rather that of a wasted opportunity. He had everything to become a dominant platform: He arrived very soon to the market. He had a great adoption. He had a recognizable brand worldwide. And I had behind Microsoft’s resources. However, bad decisions and a lack of constant innovation allowed rivals such as Facetime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord or WhatsApp a toast. Seen in retrospect, Skype’s decline was not sudden, but gradual. In 2015 It was integrated in Windows 10but the experience was unnatural. For a long time, Microsoft maintained a strange duality between Skype and Skype for Business. The latter was replaced by Teams in 2019. Meanwhile, others advanced quickly. Zoom catapulted during the confinements of 2020 thanks to the juncture, but also thanks to simplify: he eliminated records of records and downloads. Facetime was completely integrated into the Apple ecosystem. And WhatsApp took advantage of its omnipresence and popularity to offer them as one more service. And meanwhile, Skype was stagnant in a cycle of redesign who never solved his main problems (Sometimes they magnified them): An inconsistent interface, performance problems and a confused user experience. Microsoft is not only killing Skype, it is redirecting its users towards Teamsincreasingly popular. Skype users can use their credentials to access Teams and there they will see their contacts and conversations. During the transition period, users of both platforms can communicate with each other. Then there will only be space for Teams. A bittersweet end. A closure that seems almost merciful. Skype lived in his own confusing identity. It remained as that application that we had installed “just in case” and that we do not remember the last time we used it despite the fact that at the time it played a fundamental role. Being able to see and talk to other people in other countries was revolutionary in the 2000s, Skype leaves A great cultural impact that is now transformed into archeology. As a final gift, a lesson leaves us: it does not matter if a platform is very established, it can become irrelevant if it does not evolve to the compass of the needs of its users. End of an era. Outstanding image | Xataka with Grok 3 In Xataka | Microsoft is very important that the agents of AI are the great ball of the year. And is being reorganized to achieve it

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