Month: April 2025

Millions of people drink from the water that arrives from the snow of the K2. We have just discovered pollutants in them

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The K2 is the second highest peak on the planet after Everest and probably one of the most difficult and dangerous peaks to reach for climbers. It owes its name to the Karakórum mountain range, where it is located. It is located in a remote puppy area played between Pakistan and India, but its remoteness has not prevented pollution from reaching it. And with it the risk of thaw. Black carbon. A study by an international team of researchers has found black carbon traces in the Godwin-Austen glacier and on the surface of the K2. According to Explain the study responsible for the studythis pollutant can be an ice risk in a mountainous area that feeds a river responsible for supplying more than one billion people. Black carbon is presented as small carbon particles as a result of the incomplete combustion of some compounds. These particles are part of the volatile compounds known as particular matter and can affect our health and the environment. As explained by the team responsible for the study, being deposited in snow or on ice, black carbon can accelerate its melting. This may imply the loss of frozen mass, reducing the time that snow passes on the surface, they add. Taking samples. In its study, the team collected samples of superficial snow in fields 1 and 2 of the K2 between 2018 and 2019. Sampling was also carried out along the walls of two well -excavated wells in the snow layer on the glacier. The team performed an isotopic analysis of the snow layer to estimate when the snow began to accumulate. All this for, In the words of Nicolás González-SantacruzCo -author of the study, “Determining the moment of formation of the snow layer is essential to precisely interpret black carbon data.” The details of the work done were published In an article In the magazine Journal of glaciology. A seasonal snow. The analysis concluded that the snow of the glacier has a seasonal character, that is, that it accumulates between October and until the end of winter and then disappear completely between spring and summer. This fact allowed to know in detail when the different concentrations of black carbon were deposited. Looking for the source of pollution. The team analyzed the black carbon samples also to track the origin of this pollutant. They found that the accumulated carbon during the fall of 2018 had their main origin in the North Basin of the Indo River, while in the subsequent concentrations (winter 2018 and 2019), the influence of regions such as the Middle East, Asia Central and Eastern Europe, González-Santacruz added. The sum of several problems. We associate the thaw of glaciers and other icy areas of the world to climate change derived from high atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. However, neither thaw is the only phenomenon attributable to this change nor global warming has to be the sole responsible for the thaw. Understanding the diversity of factors that are interconnected in the context of climate change is key to understanding the potential effects of this, both in terms of people and in what affects ecosystems. In Xataka | Snowing stations at the end of the century: the most pessimistic models show what could happen in our high mountain Image | Zacharie Grossen, CC by-SA 4.0

extract your own natural gas

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In the last two decades, China It has become in the largest importer of the world of natural gas (LNG). However, in a drastic turn of the event, the Asian giant will stop depending on the gas of others. This change will have consequences in the world market. Short. Large Chinese oil companies, such as Sinopec, CNOOC and Petrochina have put the focus on expanding their internal gas production, focusing on deeper perforations and the development of shale gas resources, such as have explained in Bloomberg. This new path responds to the deceleration of oil demand, the rise of electric vehicles and the growth of internal gas production, which would affect the projections of large international energy companies. New exploration in China. The three great Chinese oil companies are making significant investments in deep drilling, both on land and on the high seas. As has had access OilpriceThey are intensifying the exploitation of shale gas deposits, with notable advances in the Sichuan basin, and are also exploring deeper seas in search of new reserves. In the same medium it has been detailed that Petrochina He is drilling wells 10,000 meters deep to access gas and oil resources in complex rock formations. It will not be easy. This movement towards energy self -sufficiency raises several challenges, since the extraction of shale gas in China is between complex geological formations, which increases production costs. Nevertheless, as explained in Bloombergthe plans to obtain gas are already underway and they will not stop them. In check the global production. International companies such as Shell, Exxonmobil and Totalenergies had planned an increase in their LNG exports to China, waiting for the country to be the largest consumer. However, this change of plans by the Asian giant to produce more gas internally and depend less on imports will affect global supplies, altering the projections of large oil companies, According to Oilprice. And what will happen in Europe? The month of April has not begun very well in gas for Europe, since reserves have been left to zero, According to Bloomberg. However, the new change in gas consumption policies in China could be beneficial for the old continent, who needs to start fill their gas reserves. However, the situation remains uncertain. As Oilprice has pointed outalthough there would be more available gas, the competition for the LNG is still high, and logistics infrastructure to distribute it may not be completely adapted to these changes. This could affect Europe’s capacity to access that excess gas in time and lower prices. Forecasts. The projections indicate that, with the increase in internal production and the rise of electric vehicles, the need for LNG imports of China could decrease in the coming years. For this reason, there may be a drop in imports, which would affect the decisions of global gas producers. However, the current energy panorama is marking by Many geopolitical tensions They will affect oil. Recently, there has been an important change in the sector, with OPEC+, the United States and China involved in a complex situation. As has detailed the New York Timestariff policies and energy strategies are intertwining, which alters the flow of resources and causes greater uncertainty in crude oil markets, affecting the price of fuel worldwide. Image | Asian Development Bank (Flickr, CC BY-DC -nd 2.0) Xataka | In its effort to extract oil, China is beating records: it has drilled a well -deep well

After two catastrophic failures, we believed that Spacex would not risk with the next starship. We were wrong

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Starship’s next flight will be one of the most tense in the history of the rocket. Not only because the last two releases will end in paths explosions and with deviated airplanes to avoid the rain of rubble. Also because it will be the first time that Spacex reuse a rocket. Zero-Touch reflight. In addition to a 123 meters high mole, Starship is the first rocket designed to be quickly reusable. Spacex’s idea is that Starship takes off, lands and throws himself again after a few hours, as if it were a commercial plane. The company has partially advanced in this Objective of “Zero-Touch Desflight” or relaunch without intervention. The first stage of the rocket, the 33 -engines Super Heavy propeller, has landed in the arms of the launch tower three times: Booster 12 in flight test 5, Booster 14 in flight test 7 and Booster 15 in flight test 8. It was planned that the second stage of the rocket, the six -engines Starship ship, would make its first landing attempt during flight 9. To do this, the earth would orbit and re -enter the atmosphere until they perch on the arms of the second launch tower; Already finished in Starbase, Texas. However, the last two starship exploded at 8 minutes of takeoff For a defect in a redesign recent. A second -hand super heavy. The expected thing was that Spacex was taken calmly to flight 9 to compensate for the last failures, but the company has just announced a surprising decision. The next launch, scheduled for mid -April (if the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States is approved), will be done reusing the booster 14 of flight 7. This propeller first took off on January 16, 2025 and, after separating from the Starship ship, returned to the launch base to become the second Super Heavy that Spacex has captured with the arms of the Mechazilla tower. Of the 33 Raptor engines that you will wear during your second launch, 29 are already used engines. Another rocket that lands and takes off. The only orbital rocket with demonstrated capacity for propulsive landing is the Falcon 9 of Spacex. Specifically, its first stage, which usually lands in an autonomous barge in the ocean after throwing satellites or spacecraft. A few weeks later, you are ready to reuse (Generally, in Starlink missions). The second rocket to get it could be Starship, also from Spacex. Not in the “Zero-Touch reflight” mode, but after a restoration process and changing some engines, but it is a first step. And in fact, it is a step that nobody else has achieved apart from Spacex. The company that is closest is Blue Origin, who tried unsuccessfully on the opening flight of the New Glenn rocket. In China, Landspace is also achieved with his Zhuque 3 rocket. There will be no second capture. The bad news is that Spacex will not try to capture the Booster 14. The rocket, which has just passed some ignition tests on land, will merit in a controlled way in the Gulf of Mexico to test a more pronounced attack angle during the re -entry, which in the future will allow you to perform other flight profiles. Anyway, all eyes will be put in the Starship 35the third ship of the “Block 2” version. Its two predecessors exploded shortly after separating from the Super Heavy propeller, both for a flight of propellents due to excessive vibrations in the engines area. Starship 33 disintegrated after a fire and Starship 34 lost control after the explosion of an engine. The investigation of flight 8 is still open, so FAA has not yet given its authorization for flight 9. Even so, we should not take long to see it, taking into account that the rocket is almost ready and the renewed political power of Elon Musk It has already allowed accelerating the procedures in the previous releases. Image | Spacex In Xataka | Elon Musk has said that Mars will be part of the United States. It is an unusual affront to the outdoor space treaty

Nintendo has just postponed the Switch 2 reserves in the US. Tariffs begin to take effect on the gaming world

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Nintendo prepares the ground for A new earthquake in the video game industry. The Nintendo Switch 2long expected by the followers of the brand, promises to renew his hybrid proposal with ambition. The expectation soon translated into a movement: while the presentation was developed, the official website activated a waiting list to access. But Nintendo has decided to slightly lift the accelerator foot in the United States. The Japanese company He has postponed The beginning of the reserves of its new star product in that country. The reason? Tariffs driven from the White House, which begin to leave their first visible mark on an industry that seems to be directly exposed. No date to book in the US. As usual in Nintendo, its new devices cannot be reserved the same day they are announced. Reservations are activated days later and shipments take a little longer. This time, April 9 was the date marked in the calendar of users in the United States, but they will have to eliminate it because it is simply no longer valid. As Nintendo has pointed out In a statement issued to Polygonthis movement is because they need to “evaluate the potential impact of tariffs and changing market conditions.” We are facing a movement that prints some uncertainty about the expected launch, but not everything is such discouraging news. The shipping date is maintained. Although Nintendo will take time to evaluate the impact of new tariffs on the United States, and will later announce the new date to reserve the Nintendo Switch 2shipments are still planned for June 5. With that horizon in mind, the margin to open the reserves is not too broad. For now, it only remains to wait for Nintendo to announce the new reservations for the US market. It should be remembered that this measure affects only the United States. In the rest of the markets, everything follows as planned. In Spain, for example, reservations will begin on April 8. The context that explains it. Just over 48 hours have passed since Donald Trump will announce the “reciprocal tariffs.” The measure extends to dozens of countries, with 24 % tariffs for Japan and 46 % for Vietnam, where Nintendo has transferred part of the hardware and component production. View price increase. Tariffs, As explained by Tax Foundationthey function as taxes applied to imports. In practice, this additional cost is rarely assumed by companies: it ends up impacting directly on the consumer pocket. Impact on Nintendo and other companies. Tariffs promise to leave their mark on the technological sector, especially among companies that manufacture outside the United States. The case does not affect Nintendo only: giants like Apple also face a complex scenariodespite having diversified its production to dodge these barriers. Images | Nintendo | Cristina Glebova In Xataka | Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk have also suffered the coup of tariffs: their fortunes have lost more zeros than they would like

When disclaimers warn of absolutely everything

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The Trigger Warningsthat is, the warnings about sensitive content that warn us of conflicting scenes or that can shoot unwanted sensations in the spectators, are an element that, since its generalization in the audiovisual has not stopped raising controversy. Because it makes sense to warn of content linked to violence, sex, drug use, traumatic memories, but … eat food of animal origin? Care, notice. The Trigger Warnings They started in the field of psychology and therapy, and were used in reference to the post -traumatic stress disorder, since these warnings tried to avoid intrusive thoughts and flashbacks of this ailment. These notices alert, for example, victims of physical or sexual aggressions that the material that was going to be presented could arouse traumatic memories. Who is afraid of Trigger Warning. Since it began to be used in the 2000s (it is believed that the term itself was born In 2005), It was a much discussed resource: Richard McNally, professor of psychology at Harvard University, pointed out that its purpose was being perverted. If images related to trauma were avoided, it would be reinforced and also could not be treated. But although in psychology the Trigger Warnings They were never entirely accepted, they soon became a common note in the cinema. Trigger Warning Today. The definition of the term that is commonly accepted has a broader and more social tone. We are no longer talking about some images to trigger the echo of a trauma, but rather that they can hurt sensibilities, and it has gone from appealing to sexual trauma to all kinds of conflicting content (violence, extremist political ideologies, suicide, death, drugs, insects). THE PURPOSE: that everyone between warned to movies or books. “You cannot complain, we already let us know,” they seem to say, in that eternal American panic to a millionaire demand. The controversy. From there, the history of Trigger Warnings It has been full of controversy. There are those who consider that it is a subtle and perverse form of censorship, or even paternalistic, and that as with their precedents in psychological literature, their abuse can promote Hypersensitivity instead of resilience to certain conflicting contents. There are authors and authors of topics such as sexist violence that ensure that this issue is behind the protection of the victims. And of course, there is the importance of the integrity of the artistic work, which with the Trigger Warnings is left over stripped of surprise capacity. More. The situation has favored the arrival of pages such as Does The Dog Die?databases that began reviewing very specific topics (if a hypothetical dog died that came out in a film or series) and has ended up expanding to All types of sensitive content: abandonment, abuse, traffic accidents, discrimination, medical instruments, mental health and a very long etcetera. It is in this context where the vegan activist appears Allison Mcullocheditor of a Letterboxd page where it has a section of “vegan alerts”. Kraven: guilty. In a profile that dedicates The New York TimesMcCulloch tells his experience watching ‘Kraven el Hunter’, where he detected problematic elements such as “costume made with skins”, “dissected animals” or “characters eating meat”. Of course, this criterion is that of someone strongly committed to the vegan cause and animal welfare. High scores for ‘Kung Fu panda 4’ are justified in their 24,169 films. A vegan antihero. The funny thing is that McCulloch defends that he makes sense that Kraven be vegan for the love he demonstrates for animals, but at the same time “does not make sense to forgive the life of the lion and communicate with other animals to eat a fillet later.” But McCulloch’s zeal goes beyond the complaint of debatable behaviors in fiction. Dead animals. In the 2018 film ‘Destroyer’, McCulloch considered that the typical poster of “No animal has been damaged in the realization of this movie” could not be applied if we saw, as was the case in the movie, a few ducks skewered and roasted in a Chinese restaurant. It is only an example of the many that characterize their surveillance: in commercial cinema it is usual to see small animals, such as fish, dying on the screen, used as bait at the service of fiction. Red lines We agree or not with McCulloch’s ethical budgets, the interesting thing about his work is that he forces us to ask ourselves where our limits are and why. Is it objectionable, as she considers, to see a leopard skin carpet in ‘Kraven’? If we consider that milking a cow is a form of abuse, is it problematic – so it has normalization of that abuse – when the cow is a fantastic animal, as was the case with a creature of ‘The last Jedi’? Is the mere appearance of “eggs” problematic, as herself reviews? A good opportunity to self -exam … and then everyone who sees what he wants. Header | Sony In Xataka | Fighting against posttraumatic stress disorder playing tetris

will launch a model that was not going to see the light

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If you use Chatgpt frequently, most likely you are interacting with GPT-4O, the model that is activated by default. However, it is not the only one. When displaying the model selector, several alternatives appear: from specific versions of GPT-4O Designed for programming up to GPT-4.5, options centered on reasoning and other models in the test phase that are not directly available in the chatbot. The problem is that this growing variety is generating some confusion: The nomenclature has become little intuitive And many users are not clear which model is the most appropriate for each task. Sam Altman, CEO of the artificial intelligence startup (AI), recognized the problem in mid -February and announced a road map focused on simplifying its product offer. Now we know that this plan has encountered obstacles. The original promise. Although Openai presented the O3 family in December last year, only the O3 Mini variant, focused on offering better performance, ended up reaching the public. In its new road map, the company said that the full version of O3, capable of obtaining scores similar to those of human programmers in certain tests, would not be launched as an independent model. According to the updated plan month and a half ago, GPT-5 would integrate part of the technology developed by the company, including the O3 reasoning capabilities. In theory, that would help order the models ecosystem. As part of that strategy, GPT-4.5 would mark a turning point: the latest model without “chain of thought”. That is, from there, all new OpenAI models would have integrated reasoning. There come the changes. Part of what we have just seen in the previous lines will no longer be fulfilled. And it is not a filtration or a rumor: It has been Sam Altman himself Who has confirmed it in a message posted in X. “Change of plans: after all, we will probably launch O3 and O4-mini in a couple of weeks, and then we will do GPT-5 in a few months,” he said. In summary: O3, which was discarded as an independent model, you will see the light. Click to see the original message in x The executive has also dropped some interesting details. On the one hand, as can be seen from the previous message, both O3 and O4-mini will be available soon. In addition, he confirmed that GPT-5 will not take long to arrive, presumably this year. Of course, there are no concrete dates, and it remains to be seen if in that margin of time we will attend another unexpected turn, such as the one we are witnessing now. What is behind the change of plans? The big question is what has happened in OpenAi to produce this new unexpected turn. It is not a radical change, but it arrives at a delicate time: the American company is building a solid reputation around its ads and its real ability to fulfill them. Such a movement can weaken that trust, as valued by both users and investors. In relation to change, Altman explained that “there are many reasons for this, but the most exciting is that we will be able to make GPT-5 much better than we originally thought.” Far from staying in an optimistic statement, he also admitted that integrating everything without problems was “more difficult than we thought” and that they wanted to make sure everything tied, especially because they expect “an unprecedented demand.” More challenges in Openai. It is no secret that Openai is subject to increasing pressure. The startup, which initially grew with the support of Microsoft, competes to maintain its leadership position in the development of AI and to ensure the necessary financing to sustain its ambitious rhythm. To all that is added a challenge not less: guarantee access to the computing capacity that your projects require. Images | OpenAI | Screen capture In Xataka | In Anthropic they have become obsessed with some trivial but key appearance for AI: that Claude will pass ‘Pokémon’

The expectations of ‘A Minecraft movie’

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The rather stimulating trailers of ‘A Minecraft movie’ (the first one accumulated on YouTube More than one million dislikes) They do not guarantee that the film is a failure. Estimates around it from surveys, presales and tickets already bought facing the weekend predict a good result. But triumph or not, ‘Minecraft’s film’ is a good example of one of the big hollywood problems. A Basel for the box office. The first quarter of the year has been terrible: movies like ‘Snow White‘ either ‘Mickey 17 ‘ They have punctured at the box office despite their high expectations, so the looks are now oriented to Warner and this ‘a Minecraft movie’. The projections are generous: there is talk of between 65 and 70 million collection, 140 at the international level, which would be An excellent start for the movie And a respite for the Hollywood box office, matching success premieres like ‘Dune: Part two‘, released now a year ago. The reef of video game adaptations. Although for a time they considered themselves bad business due to the difficulties of transferring the proposals of video game as’ Street Fighter ‘,’ Double Dragon ‘or’ Super Mario Bros. ‘, the adaptations have shaken the curse thanks to indisputable box office bombings as’Sonic The Hedgehog‘ either ‘Super Mario Bros.: The movie ‘. Until an openly lower proposal as ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ paid off so positively that this year its sequel is released. Other influences. ‘The Minecraft ‘film manages other clear influences: on the one hand’ La Lego Movie ‘and its sequels also produced by Warner, and that are based on the analog construction game, of course, but especially in the great video games also gestated by Warner and that, in some way, have much to do in spirit with’ Minecraft ‘. And in addition, with one of Jack Black’s recent box office successes, the two deliveries of ‘Jumanji’ starring The Rock, and that closing the circle, are based on a movie of the eighties that dealt with a board game without real counterpart but whose rules and development had much to do with the philosophy of video games. Difficult to adapt. The amazing thing about this particular IP is that Minecraft, like all retro spirit games (although it is not materially), it is very difficult to adapt. Not only because of its very unmatched graphics, but by mechanics that touch abstraction and, above all, its lack of history, placing themselves on the opposite side of games like ‘The Last of Us’. In ‘Minecraft’ each player and each game are unique, and generate an argument around that runs the risk of alienating those who have lived radically different experiences with “their” game. Hollywood has solved these types of problems generating a Lore that sometimes goes well (‘Super Mario Bros. the movie’) and sometimes it goes wrong (‘Street Fighter’). And if the problem is abstraction, as in ‘Doom’, leaving the tangent with results not always estimated. Everything is an IP. There is nothing more to see all the films mentioned so far to see that Authentic juggles with formulas and names that have been successful in previous films, agitated in a seemingly infallible formula (the most popular video game of all time, blockbusters and even some commercial subtlety that can escape the little warned, such as the presence of Emma Myers, co -star of a success among the youngest public, such as ‘Wednesday’). The Hollywood game. THE ADVANTAGES FOR THE CONTINUED IPS Cinema Business They are obvious: risks are reduced when dealing with stories and characters that have already been tested and accepted by the public; Success precedents such as Marvel or ‘Star Wars’ incline the balance in favor of franchises; and IPS allow extra income with a corporate approach that comes from merchandising and licenses. An almost safe bet that, of course, is sometimes stumbling blocks Like the recent ‘Borderlands‘or the chopped fall of originality and risk, but they are still anecdotes in the face of reality: the 10 most viewed films in 2024 were All sequelae, remakes or franchises. The numbers sing. Hollywood has turned in the last 15 years in productions of this type and if movies such as ‘Minecraft’ continue to find a box office hole, nothing will make the situation change. 30 of the most viewing films in streaming in 2024, according to NielsenThey were based on pre-existing material. Of the 66 films that exceeded 100 million collection in the last three years, 47 They were from a franchise. And so on to infinity: the strangeness with these figures is not that there are films like ‘Minecraft’. The strange thing, knowing how money likes in Hollywood, is that not all of them. Header | Warner In Xataka | The cinema has become a succession of franchises after another. Paramount believes that there is not enough yet

Microsoft reinforces Copilot. The problem is that he does it with options traced to those of his competitors

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Microsoft He turns 50 today Since its creation, and to celebrate it, it presents a new niche of characteristics for its artificial intelligence platform. Copilot is reinforced With interesting options, but the problem is not that: none is essentially differential. In fact, all of them have been available for some time in the AI ​​models of their competitors. Here it shows for example how Microsoft continues to adapt options of the AI ​​model of its main partner, OpenAi. Mustafa Suleymanhead of the AI ​​division in Microsoft, explained in the statement the objective with this announcement. He remembered how Bill Gates’ ambition when creating Microsoft was to put a PC in each home. That of this Microsoft today is to create “an AI partner for everyone.” And that tries Copilot, which as we say has been updated with new functions that try to make this chatbot more versatile than ever. The novelties are the following: COPILOT ACTIONS: Here Microsoft’s AI acts as an AI agent capable of performing actions autonomously. In the example shown searches and filled forms to find a storage or reserve a restaurant. Once again it remains to be seen how far this type of octive can go, which, As Operator demonstratedit is one of the great market trends. COPILOT PAGES: Through this option the user can collaborate with Copilot in real time, talking with him to edit answers adding files and context. The proposal is identical to the characteristic Canvas of chatgpt. Deep Research: In Microsoft they also offer – as for weeks– This mode of functioning that allows much more detailed analysis of our requests to search on the Internet, analyze data and start from showing a more “meditated” and theoretically more precise and detailed response. COPILOT VISION: This option is especially striking Artificial vision that allows Co -ilot to “see your screen” and help you complete tasks that you don’t know how to do in it. It also indicates on the screen what you have to do, something especially useful. Copilot Memory: If you give your permission, Copilot will remember your interaction with the model to be more useful and be more adjusted to your preferences over time. In this way, when using this information, for example for travel or restaurants recommendations. Copilot Search: As they already did Perplexity (In January 2023!) And also Chatgpt Search, now Copilot also gives access to a search engine that is also based totally on references and sources that is quoting in the answers. Copilot Podcasts: This chatbot is now capable of generating podcasts with voices synthesized with Ia. The idea is basically the same with which Notebooklm conquered us A few months ago. Copilot Shopping: A reinvention of aid for products searches, offers alerts and AI -based price analysis. Another segment in which there is also and there will be fierce competition, but that of course provides another useful option for the Copilot ecosystem. As we said, many of those options have been launched by OpenAI in recent weeks and it is natural that they end up arriving in Co -cilot given the alliance between both companies. In other cases what it does is offer characteristics that we had already seen for example in Google or Anthropic models. The advance is to thank and strengthens Microsoft’s proposal, but here the feeling is that the company will rely instead of leading this segment. That does not mean that Microsoft does not have plan B. They have been working on their own AI models for many months –Phi-4, which we tried in Xatakait is a good example – this is already sure It is more a “update” of its offer of services of AI than anything else. There are no revolutions here, but an expected evolution and that at least allows Microsoft to continue to be in that fight. In Xataka | “Google gives you links, perplexity gives you answers”: we talk to the CEO of the startup that wants to kill the father

The key is called Giuk and gives China and Russia to the east of the US

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In January it sounded strongly and since then there is no week that the idea is not reproduced: United States Groenland wants. We explain that we are not really new, and that when Trump said wanting to take control of the enclave it was The fifth time in the history that the United States “touched” at the door of the island. However, there is now a difference with respect to other attempts. Greenland has something that makes it a strategic zone “for what can happen.” Russian and Chinese threat. Greenland has become A critical point For the national security of the United States, and although much has been commented, it is not mainly for economic or symbolic reasons, but for Its strategic position in the fight against the progress of Russian or eventually Chinese submarines. In fact, this has been confirmed through General Christopher G. Cavoli, Supreme Commander of NATO in Europe and head of the US European command. The man declared before the Senate Armed Services Committee that access to the airspace and maritime of Greenlandia It is fundamental To detect and follow the track of the Russian submarines before they are lost in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. The island is part of the western edge of the Giuk gap (Greenland-Islandia-Reinian Reino), a vital corridor through which the Russian underwater fleet from Murmansk, home of the most advanced naves of the Kremlin, such as class submersibles, such as class submersibles, such as class submersible Yasen-mequipped with long -range cruise missiles. The giuk gap. This corridor is a strangulation point Maritime that, if not properly watched, allows Russian or Chinese submarines operate without being detected In the North Atlantic. Once they cross the gap, its location becomes extremely difficult, both because of the acoustic conditions of the underwater terrain and by the oceanic vastness. Thus, from these hidden positions they can launch missile attacks against strategic objectives On the east coast of the American continent. In fact and in response to this, the United States formed in 2021 the so -called Task Group Greyhounda specialized group of anti -submarine destroyers Designed to counteract This specific threat. The American navy itself warned at the time that the east coast of the country already It was not a safe shelterunderlining the urgency of establishing surveillance and defense points in key areas such as Greenland. Map of the Giuk Via of the Cold War (still relevant) The Russian answer. For their part, they counted the The War Zone analysts that Russia has proven to know very well the value of this corridor. In 2019, he organized his greatest naval exercise since the Cold War, sending at least ten submarines through the completely submerged Giuk gap, with the aim of reaching the Atlantic without being intercepted. According to Norwegian mediathe intention was clear: to prove the capacity of the West to detect movements of his fleet and demonstrate that he could project power to the US coast. These exercises also fulfill a fund growing territorial presence. Advanced control point. The island of Goenland, with only 320 km of separation from Iceland, constitutes a natural bottleneck inside the Giuk. This proximity allows its use as an advanced basis for anti -submarine operations. Although the United States already has the base of the space force In Pituffik (Antigua Thule), equipped with early alert radars against ballistic attacks, General Cavoli suggests that it would be strategically advantageous to expand military capabilities in other areas of the island. Under this prism, the simple possibility that Russia or China can establish military facilities in Greenland represents an unacceptable risk: from there, they could deploy weapons of intercontinental reach only 2,000 km from the US territory. A Yasen-M class Diplomatic tension With this context we arrive at the news of these days. General Cavoli’s statements occur in a political high voltage environment between the United States and Denmark, Sovereign Nation on Greenland. The renewed Donald Trump’s insistence In acquiring the island, it has revived a diplomatic conflict dating from its first mandate. Plus: the Recent visit of vice president JD Vance to Island caused a strong rejection by local and Danish authorities, who met to stage your unit Faced with US desires for annexation. At the same time, Secretary of State Marco Rubio moved to Denmark to calm the situation and reaffirm the strength of the bilateral relationship, although tensions remain latent. One More Thing. While the persecution of Russian submarines is the central axis of the strategy, there is much more. To begin with, Greenland also offers other military advantages: its radar infrastructure It allows early detection of ballistic releases, which gives the US government additional time to respond to an attack. In addition, its position at the northwest of the Atlantic makes it a crucial logistics point within the framework of any Arctic or Intercontinental conflict. Although Iceland already houses American anti -submarine aircraft squads that cover the Giuk gap, Greenland could offer redundancy, extended reach and greater operational flexibility. Geopolitics in the ice. So things, and while the debate persists on whether the United States really needs Acquire Greenland Or simply reinforce its presence in the area, the truth is that the island has ceased to be a remote block of ice to become a strategic focus of the first order. The growing Arctic militarizationthe resurgence of Russian naval power and The global competition For the control of polar routes they place Greenland in the center of a new geopolitical board. Its value does not reside in its demography, economy or tourist attraction, but in its ability to influence the balance of power between rival powers. In times of submarine cold war, every kilometer of coast vigilated is worth its weight in gold, and Greenland, today more than ever, he tells much. Image | PicrylRussian Navy, миноборонloy In Xataka | It is the fifth time that the US wants to buy Greenland from Denmark. If they asked on the island they would have it … Read more

They have lost more than 208,000 million in one day

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The already turbulent business of business and finance has been shaken by the earthquake of the tariffs that the US imposed on all the countries of the world, regardless of whether its only inhabitants They were penguins and seals. The immediate consequences has been a general fall in the main stock markets, which has especially affected the titans of technology and luxury, eliminated from a stroke more than 208,000 million dollars of their balances in a single day, According to estimates Bloomberg. According to Forbeslosses for the 3,000 most important millionaires reached 270,000 million. The news of the new US tariffs caused An earthquake in Wall Streetcausing the S&P 500 index to be left 4.8% and the Nasdaq Composite, centered on technology, 6%. The China response To those tariffs Nor is he helping to your recovery. Losers: Technological and Luxury Titans The disruption of investors that caused “the day of liberation” and Trump tariffs His main victim was charged in Mark Zuckerberg, whose estimate of his fortune has been reduced in 17.9 billion dollars In his single day. The value of the goal shares collapsed by 9%. It should be noted that Zuckerberg had successfully raffled the latest stock market crises, and while most of the millionaires who had donated to Donald Trump’s investiture, They lost about 209,000 millionGoal remained out of losses. The impact caused by Trump’s tariffs has been so great that he has not been able to dodge it. Jeff Bezos, is another of the technological millionaires he showed Your support to Trumpbut that has also been harmed from this stock market debacle. The session closed with Amazon’s shares, the main source of wealth for Bezos, falling into more than 9% in its price. That fall has meant eliminating some 16,000 million dollars Of the accounting balances of Bezos. Larry Ellison and Michael Dell didn’t get left behind in Milmillionaire losses either. The companies of both millionaires have a great dependence on hardware processors and components manufactured outside the USwhich caused investors to withdraw their money from their companies. Oracle’s shares fell 5.8%, while Dells left almost 19%, causing them losses of 9.9 billion and 9.4 billion dollars respectively. Interestingly, one of the least affected by the tariff storm was Elon Musk, the already altered Shareholders of Tesla They lived another day of falls In the price of the actions of the electric car manufacturer, but its fall was “only” 5%, which resulted in a loss of 8,700 million dollars In the estimate of Elon Musk’s fortune, which remains the richest person in the world with a heritage of 378.1 billion dollars. For his part, Bernard Arnault, The King of French luxuryhe suffered a decrease in his heritage of 8,600 million dollars After the fall suffered by LVMH’s shares in almost 6%. The holding company to which brands such as Louis Vuitton, Moët Chandon or Tiffanys & Co are in a serious problem since much of its brand portfolio manufactures its products in Europe. In Xataka | Only 15 people are part of the “100,000 million club”: it is 0.5% of 1% of the Milmillonaria elite In Xataka | The best paid Spanish manager in the world does not work in a great technological: sells “sugary water”

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