Month: June 2025

A sentence forces the Principality of Asturias to pay the glasses to a public employee. It is only the first of many

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The Occupational Risk Prevention Regulations establishes a series of mandatory measures and recommendations to maintain the Safety of work environmentsand forcing companies to adopt measures of protection for your employees. Adequate clothing, helmets, gloves, protective footwear, etc. However, what happens when what causes physical damage is the continued use of screens in the workplace? That is the situation that a public employee In 2021. The Social 1 Court of Mieres, in Asturias, has responded to the lawsuit forcing the Asturian administration to take care of the Cost of graduated glassesopening the door to future demands of other employees in the same situation. What happened? As extracted from the sentence to which Xataka has had access, the affected person is a work worker of the Principality who performed maintenance assistant at the Sports Center of El Cristo in Oviedo. In 2021, the center digitized the access control system, so the employee increased the use of screens in his job. As a result of the use of screens, the employee began to present visual discomfort that before the change did not suffer affecting his visual acuity in the use of the screens. In 2024, the employee asked the Principality of Asturias for an ophthalmological review and the provision of new glasses adequate if the recognition recommended it. The autonomous administration ignored both “leaving it without answer,” says the sentence. In January 2025, on behalf of the employee, the legal service of the USIPA-SAIF union He filed a lawsuit against the Principality claiming the application of European directives and The sentences of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The protagonist: Directive 90/270. In his sentence, the Mieres Court forces the Principality of Asturias to provide or cover the cost of glasses to a public employee to need them to work with screens, in compliance with article 9 sections 1, 2 and 3 of the European Directive 90/270on minimal safety and health provisions for work. This European directive complements community regulations through a series of minimum provisions common to all EU countries. In the aforementioned article 9, the eye protection measures and the view of the workers are established. Specifically, “if you experience visual difficulties that may be due to work with the screen.” Under this article the right to ophthalmological reviews is collected, and forces employers to provide employees with “special corrective apparatus appropriate to the work in question”. A pioneer sentence. The sentence recognizes the employee the relevance of the application of that 90/270 directive and the European jurisprudence with a Judgment issued in Italy where this right is also recognized that employers must provide special corrective devices (such as glasses) if medical recognitions justify them. The sentence distinguishes between “normal corrective devices” (general use, out of work) and “special corrective devices” (specifically necessary For tasks with screens), putting the focus in the latter, since the employee only reported “visual acuity disorders that had been diagnosed, however, it is incumbent at the aforementioned jurisdictional body to verify whether the graduated glasses in question effectively serve to correct view disorders related to their work and not general view problems.” Thus, the sentence fails in favor of the employee forcing the administration of the Principality of Asturias “to be carried out an ophthalmological medical examination, (…) as well as that they are given with graduated glasses if they were prescribed by said option as necessary to perform their daily work in front of the computer screen or reimburse them The expenses of its acquisition“, is specified in the sentence. Why is the sentence important? The application of these regulations by the Mieres Social Court feels a precedent in the prevention of occupational hazards, normalizing the ocular protection of those employees who are exposed to long days in front of screens without the equivalent of protection to a helmet in the case of workers or gloves for a carpenter. Maria Guadalupe Lorenzo, lawyer of the Legal Service of the Usipa-Saif Union of Asturias that has led this case, says that “from our union we are already formulating claims of the future extensions of effects to this sentence for the labor personnel who are in a similar situation, as well as claims for the official personnel and other affiliated workers. There will be multiple claims and surely more sentences in this regard.” The sentence is firm because the Principality has not appealed, so its application is immediate. In Xataka | Going to the bathroom is not work: a Swiss court allows a company to force its employees to sign when they go to the bathroom Image | Unspash (Nonsap Visuals)

There is a new Xbox on the horizon. Microsoft confirms that it works in new generation hardware and leaves a key advance

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The debate on the future of consoles has not stopped growing. With the rise of the cloud game and the advance of mobile devices, more and more voices wonder if it makes sense to continue betting on consoles as we know them. But Microsoft is clear: Consoles are still key. And not any console, but the one that is called to star in its greatest technical jump to date. Redmond’s company He already advanced it in February 2024. Now has confirmed it: It is working on a new generation of Xbox. And it doesn’t come alone. As announced by Sarah Bond, president of Xbox, the next console will re -support AMD to shape her hardware. The collaboration is not new: both the Xbox Series x like the Xbox Series s They integrate chips designed next to AMD. So does the PlayStation 5. Something that is new is the scope of the alliance. Bond speaks of a “multiannual strategic collaboration” focused on joint silicon development for a “device portfolio, including our next -generation Xbox consoles, both In your living room as in your hands“It is precisely that last sentence,” in your hands “, the one that raises expectation. Microsoft continues to bet on hardware Confirmation comes just after Microsoft announced New Xbox Ally devices in collaboration with Asus. They will arrive at the end of this year with a new Xbox experience integrated in Windows, which will also allow other platforms such as Steam. Everything indicates that Microsoft wants to replicate this approach in its next generation of consoles. One of the great unknowns that overwhelmed this new stage was what would happen to the current game library. Microsoft wanted to clear doubts as soon as possible: the new Xbox generation will be Compatible with previous titles. This has been confirmed by Sarah Bond, who says that the bet not only happens to offer a more powerful console, but also to maintain the continuity of what we already have. Microsoft’s message is not limited to a traditional console. In Bond’s words, it is about building a “game platform that always accompanies you”, regardless of the device. The next Xbox generation is developing with that idea in mind: to offer a coherent experience both in the room and in mobility, from a traditional console to a laptop, through the PC and the cloud. This vision is also reflected in the alliance with AMD, focused on bringing silicon to a new level. The objective: to improve visual quality, enhance immersion and take advantage of artificial intelligence to enrich the game experience. Another of the most striking messages of Microsoft’s intervention has to do with the distribution model. “We want to offer an Xbox experience that is not tied to a single store or a single device,” says Bond. Although there are no concrete details, greater freedom in the choice of platforms is good news for users. Images | Xbox In Xataka | There are possibilities for Switch 2 to spray a PlayStation 4. but Nintendo sales record has to supply the supply

Generic medications have been trying to site Ozempic for years. And now they have found a shortcut in Canada

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Something strange has happened with the patent that protects Ozempic In Canada. By mistake or by strategic decision, Novo Nordisk, the company responsible for developing the semaglutida, the compound on which the popular drug is based has been without paying the maintenance rates of this patent. An error of millions. The surprise jumped a few days ago. The chemist and expert disseminator in Pharmaceutical Industry Derek Lowe indicated Through an article in Science that the Danish pharmaceutical 370 dollars Canadians annual) that protects the compound on which drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy are based. According to the Canada patent databasethe status of this patent is that of “expired and beyond the reversal period.” According to the Canadian Law, companies have a 12 -month grace period for claims and payment of late payments (another 150 Canadian dollars today). A period that would have already exceeded. Rubbing his hands. History began to reveal itself earlier this month. In an interview With the media specialized in pharmaceutical industry, Richard Saynor, CEO of Sandoz, talked about launching a generic medicine based on the peptide similar to glucagon 1 (LPG-1), the hormone to which the semaglutida to make its antidiabetic and slimming effect. As Lowe explains in his piece, the competition in the generic market can become “extremely beast.” Companies dedicated to this type of drugs seek as much as possible the patents, looking for failures that can invalidate them and thus be able to enter new markets. And today there are few markets as tempting as that of agonists of the GLP-1 hormone receptors such as Ozempic, Wegovy or Rybelsus. This family of drugs, oriented in its origin to treat diabetes, has achieved immense success for its slimming effect, triggering a whole revolution not only pharmaceutical, but also economic. A permeable border. An important detail mentioned by Saynor in its interview is that Canada is the second major semaglutidal market (after the United States). This would not be, speculate, because Canadians are great consumers of the drug, but is probably a consequence of the cross -border business. “There is clearly a dynamic, as with insulin, with business through the border,” Explains the director of Sandoz. “It will be interesting how this evolves,” he says. Evil of many … The expiration of the patent in Canada would not only affect Novo Nordisk but also could suppose a hard blow to its main competitor in the diabetes treatments and weight loss, the American Eli Lilly. The entrance into the market of a generic competitor would imply that the manufacturing company of Zepbound and Mounjaro. These drugs are based on the tirzepatida, a compound that acts as an analogue of the LPG-1 and also of another hormone called polypeptide gastric inhibitor or GIP. A mistake? An error? We began pointing out that patents are a fundamental pillar of the pharmaceutical industry which makes the doubt prevailing: why? It is difficult to know if everything is due to a simple error or a calculated strategy. “I never knew why this is sure that someone lost their job, but it doesn’t matter,” Saynor held in his interview. If it were a mistake, it would not be a mere mistake. According to Lowe explainsthe company showed in writing there by 2017 its reluctance to the payment of the maintenance rate of the Canadian patent of the Semaglutida. He boom Ozempic would not be given until years later, because perhaps the company was not able to anticipate success and considered the price of maintaining a patent in the North American country. In Xataka | In search of “natural ozempic”: what science knows about diets that simulate the effect of miracle medications Image | Rene Baker / Chemist4u

How to do it to have offers for online stores

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Let’s explain How to look for discount coupons using chatgpt and one of its less known functions. It’s not about asking and now, you have to first activate a function so you can search the Internet and analyze the search results before offering the results. In this way, you will save being looking at several specific pages for coupons, and you can know directly with AI. We are going to do it in the desktop version, but this You can do it in any of your versionseven the mobile application. The codes will not always workbecause even if you find you the month in which you are some may have expired, or not to be able to use them because they are specific to specific products or overlap with another offer. In addition, you can also look for coupons for a store that has not recently launched. In any case, it is a tool to take into account, it has already worked for me to find some valid. Of course, you must also keep in mind that The search process will last several minutes by the concrete chatgpt function that we are going to use. How to look for coupons in chatgpt The first thing you have to do is activate the option of In -depth research. With her, Chatgpt will not only look for what you ask on the Internet, but will compare the information and check that what will answer you is valid and contrasted with multiple sources. Now, you have to use the following prompt: “Look for all discount coupons that are currently active in (name of trade)” When you write this prompt, it is possible that chatgpt asks you Specify the type of coupon What do you want to ask for. I may ask you about the specific store in the event that you have versions for other countries, or you may ask you what category you want. Thus, you can ask you only for mobiles or music, for example, or simply tell you to tell you everyone. When you answer the intermediate question, Chatgpt will begin your researchand you will see a progress bar. This process may take several minutes, that is, you must be patient. After a few minutes, Chatgpt will show you a table with the results. In it will tell you the expiration date of the coupons and the details of the discount, in addition to the applicable category. Not all coupons will work Even if they do so, that is, now you can try them all in the corresponding section of the store that you have chosen to see which of them are activated. In Xataka Basics | The best PROMPTS to save working hours and do your homework with Chatgpt, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

Figure 02 has worked only for an hour. The disturbing thing is that your brain already remembers and your hands “feel”

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You can disagree. You may think that a lot is still missing. But it is difficult to ignore the direction in which we advance: one in which Humanoid robots They will be part of our daily lives. When technology is mature, when costs cease to be an obstacle, the decision will no longer be technical. It will be ethical. How far can the robots arrive? And who will put the limits? Imagine the scenarios. Robots turned into soldiers, deployed in conflicts, alone or next to human troops. Robots as emotional companions, not only for older people, but for anyone who lives alone. Robots that clean, cook, organize. Robots in factories, tireless, constant, replacing tasks that we did before. The surprising thing is that all this is already beginning to happen. Today, the robot Figure 02, that since last year he works in a BMW factorycan operate autonomously, classify objects and do it with precision thanks to what Its developers call “Touch” and “short -term memory”. In 2018, ‘Detroit: Become Human‘We thought about science fiction. Even then, not its creator, David CageI would have opted that in 2025 we would be seeing something like that in the real world. But it has happened. And the most fascinating thing is that Figure does not walk alone. Behind his gestures, there is something else. A neuronal network that, as we will see soon, is the true protagonist. Helix, the ‘brain’ behind Figure 02 That neuronal network has its own name: Helix. It is the brain behind the robot. The person responsible for their movements look more and more natural. And what has achieved In just three months In a logistics environment it is difficult to ignore. Helix has not only learned to manipulate objects with skill. Has learned to Understand the context. To adapt. To act as if remembered what he did before. And the most surprising: to make it better and better, faster and less mistakes. At first, Helix faced a simpler catalog. But little by little he has learned to work with a greater variety of packages: From rigid boxes to Soft envelopes or deformable plastic bags, which are much more difficult to hold and position. Some wrinkle, others bend, others slide easily. For a robot, that is a real challenge. And yet, Helix adapts. Adjust the way in which each object grabs, changes its strategy if the package is flatter or softer, even knows when it is convenient to take a small turn or use a more precise type of clamp. He does everything on the flight, without anyone telling him what kind of package he has in front. The robot knows when it is convenient to take a small turn or use a more precise type of clamp That behavior has not been programmed line per line. Has learned it by observing. In total, he was trained with 60 hours of human demonstrations. And with each new example, it was better understood what to do in each case. Thanks to that, the average time it takes to process a package has been down significantly. But Helix is ​​not just fast. It is also necessary. The labels, which were previously oriented before, now 94.4 % of the time are correctly positioned. As? Because the robot has learned, among other things, Small wrinkled envelopes Before trying to scan. A slight pressure on the plastic is enough for the barcode to be visible. It is a minimum gesture, but very revealing. That learning relies on something fundamental: memory. Helix has a vision system that not only analyzes what he sees at the time, but remembers what he saw a few seconds ago. It is as if I had a Short -term visual memory. Thanks to her, you can make smarter decisions. For example, if it detects that a package was already rotated at a certain angle, it does not turn it again. If you did not find the label at first, remember where it could be and prove in that direction. Another key change has been to incorporate the history of its own movements. Before, each action was an isolated fragment: see, act, see again. Now, Helix Remember in what position your arms werehis torso or his head makes a moment, which allows him to move more fluidly. If something leaves the plan, if the package slides or the grip is not perfect, it can correct in real time without starting from scratch. And the most recent: The sense of touch. Not a human touch, of course, but a way to detect how much pressure is exerting on an object. That strength feedback allows Helix Pause to feel resistance, or adjust it if the object weighs less than expected. Thanks to this, you can manipulate more carefully and adapt to differences in weight or rigidity. And this is not theory. Figure 02 has already been put to the test in real conditions. During an hour session, The robot operated without interruptions In a logistics environment, classifying packages autonomously while using all its new capacities: its sense of touch, its short -term visual memory, its ability to correct errors on the march. A continuous demonstration of fluid work, precise, without direct intervention. The images of that session, which we have included in the video that accompanies this article, show more than a robot running. They show a neuronal network facing the chaos of the physical world and leaving airy. They show Figure 02 making decisions, adapting, acting with a level of autonomy that until very recently would have seemed science fiction. Tesla has a OptimusBoston Dynamics to AtlasAgility Robotics A Digit. All compete to lead the career of the Humanoid robots. But in parallel, Figure 02 advances through a lane without events, without background music, but with results. With the passage of time we will see how all this evolves. Images | Figure ai In Xataka | Google does not want AI to stay on the screen: Gemini Robotics is its plan … Read more

Juan the fishing monologues

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The jokes were, in Spain, the common minimum that linked to all types of humor that were made in Spain. But if we continue to divide and divide what makes us laugh in increasing existing. That is the essence of the last viral phenomenon that, in addition and honoring its nature, is spreading through channels that are not, of course, the most modern in the world: WhatsApp groups. Who is Juan the fishing. Juan Ortega Ramos, 33, Help your father in the family fish marketLocated in Bass of Guide (Sanlúcar de Barrameda), hence its nickname. In recent months it has become a viral phenomenon thanks to diffusion through WhatsApp of the audios that, in principle, He only sent his friends in a common group. From there, a viral success that has some cryptic and incomprehensible. I don’t count jokes. Because, unlike icons of Andalusian humor as who was perhaps the last great jokes of Spain, Chiquito de la CalzadaJuan the fishingman only makes spontaneous reflections and prepares very simple messages. “If you block someone on Instagram, can you keep seeing it on the street?” It is the type of audios that arrive at the innumerable WhatsApp groups that collect their sound messages, next to a “good morning” myriad, “yesterday what”, “good night” and all kinds of variants of the format, stated with unmistakable Gaditano accent. What makes Juan special the fishing is not the quality of his humor, but a format that returns us to past times. Social Protorships. WhatsApp was born as an instant and private messaging group, but functions such as groups They transformed the goal application into an equivalent, more manageable and controlled, of social networks. The increase in members per group, from 15 to 1024 users, has allowed the creation of more active communities. In this way, even with their limitations of size and use (or precisely thanks to that, facilitating access to users not so duchos in technology or who are not interested in communicating with those who do not know personally), WhatsApp groups make up a reality parallel to social networks, where phenomena like this sprout and live and live. You start with WhatsApp. Although it is not the first phenomenon linked to the humor that starts on the Internet, of course it is the first one that finds its main diffusion mattress in WhatsApp. Some others with whom we could relate the humor of Juan the fishingman, such as Martita de Graná either Commander Lara They have sprouted in networks like Tiktok, but their humor is more professionalized and use more conventional formats, from the monologue to traditional jokes. Significantly, this explosion of Juan the fishingman coincides with the turn that WhatsApp wants to give to its platform, going from being of Messaging app to content platform. The spontaneous triumphs. Although Juan the fishingman does not count jokes, his spontaneity drawn Virtually incomprehensible screams and outbursts It can be linked to this type of little elaborate joke (nothing to do with giants such as the aforementioned Chiquito, or teachers of telling stories of humor, such as Eugenio or Gila) who has always prevailed on our television, until I get to ‘Do not laugh that is worse’, perhaps his ultimate bulwark. It is a type of map erased joke for our late stand-up or the television humor of people like Buenafuente or ‘The revolt‘, turning those who cultivated it (Barragán, Arévalo, Marianico el short) into a vestige of a Spain that no longer exists. A little to which gives continuity, with his pure Spanishism, Juan the fishing. In Xataka | The videos of AI have broken the Instagram and Tiktok algorithms. Welcome to the new “AI landscape”

A giant armed has set for the Atlantic … from the US

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The first rumor jumped a few hours ago. Within the framework of the G7 Leaders Summit in Canada, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, He hinted that the president of the United States had left the meeting in advance to work in a high fire between Israel and Iran. Trump’s response It has been fast: The reason for his exit was “much more important” than a high fire. Now, a Recognition software He has made the alarms jump. An armed and a sea of ​​speculation. In an unexpectedly coordinated operation, more than 28 cistern aircraft KC-135R and KC-46A of the United States Air Force have taken off from different bases of the country to the Atlantic, in a massive migration detected by air tracking enthusiasts through a Follow -up software. Although the movement of cisterns to the east is not unusual in itself, the scale, synchrony and moment of the deployment (in full climax of tensions between Israel and Iran) has aroused Speculations on a possible strategic turn in American involvement in the conflict. The absence of clear indications about the accompaniment of fighters or bombers adds opacity, but one thing seems clear: the deployment is not linked to routine exercises, such as the multinational that is coming in Norway, whose logistics scope is much lower than the level observed. In that context, They outline four hypothesesall potentially interconnected, about the purpose of the maneuver. Offensive support. The most immediate and logical explanation would be for the United States to be preparing air logistics support to allow Israel to expand and accelerate its offensive about Iran. The limited Israeli refueling fleet, composed of just seven old Boeing 707drastically restricts the frequency, duration and scope of its incursions on Iranian territory. The presence of US cisterns would significantly increase the ability to Generate sustained outputseven allowing the use of penetrating pumps that require proximity to underground targets. That said, the most crucial impact would be strategic: allow Israeli fighters to patrol wide areas of Iranian airspace for prolonged periodshunting mobile ballistic missile pitchers before they can shoot. These types of missions, extremely difficult, gain efficacy only if aircraft do not have to withdraw continuously to recharge fuel. If Israeli and American interceptors are exhausting their stocks, As they suggest Various sources, the cisterns would allow to extend operations without compromising critical resources. A KC-135E refueling in flight to an F-16 Fighting Falcon Direct intervention. The second of the hypotheses is, no doubt, more disturbing: That the movement indicate preparations for a direct entry of the United States into the Air War. The cisterns They would be essential both to support Israel and to keep American fighters and bombers in the air in case kinetic operations are authorized. This intervention, although it would radically transform the Official position From Washington, it could be precipitated by an Iranian attack on US interests in the region or by a political decision in response to a critical escalation. The preposition of tank grants flexibility and speed of reaction, which reinforces this hypothesis, although, for the moment, there is no confirmation of such a drastic change in American doctrine. The software that captured the image that the alarms have jumped Close the Strait. A third plausible explanation is the preparation of the possibility that I will try to block he Ormuz narrowa play that would transform the conflict into an event of global impact immediate. Reopening the maritime step would require a large -scale sustained aerial operation: neutralizing radars, coastal defense systems, mobile anti -man -missing pitchers, and even patrols of small boats. They counted the The War Zone analysts that this requires continuous surveillance and attack missions, supported by constant refueling From, again, cisterns. Before a Strait blockThe United States would need to keep hundreds of aircraft operating without interruption in a hostile airspace, something unfeasible without a support chain like the one that seems to be forming now. Strait satellite view An air bridge. Finally, the most functional and less confrontational hypothesis would be the creation of a robust air bridge that facilitates the flow of military assets to the region. This bridge would allow not only the deployment of combat planes, but also global operations such as those of the b-2 bombersonly conventional assets capable of penetrate and destroy Nuclear facilities deeply buried in Iran. These aircraft, with an extremely heavy weaponry, need multiple refueling to cross the Atlantic, attack and return. The air bridge would also serve as evacuation route of the most vulnerable American bases in case of Iranian mass bombings, an increasingly contemplated option in contingency scenarios. Indications of something else. The maneuver does not happen alone. In addition to the movement of cisterns, other signals have signed up for a Military accumulation American in the theater of operations. Yes, apparently, the combat group headed by the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt It moves to the Indian Ocean from the South China Sea, increasing the naval projection against Iran. Although US authorities have not yet made official statements about the purpose of these movements, open sources and analysts agree that a deployment is being configured with multiple purposes: Dysmasion, logistical support, tactical flexibility and preparation for a possible direct escalation. And something much bigger. Plus: It also seems that the United States is sending to the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and your attack group (including four destroyers Arleight Burke class and a combat submarine) to reinforce its defensive and offensive abilities in full climb of the conflict. Although officially it is a programmed relief of the USS Carl VinsonAmerican sources indicate that the operation has beenFewest several monthsand both naval groups will live in the region for a while. Although at this time there is no official confirmation of a doctrine change, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, He has recognized That these maneuvers seek to strengthen regional defensive position and protect US personnel, in the midst of growing political pressures for Washington to get more actively involved in … Read more

A tower of 2,000 tons of sand

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In a town in southern Finland, a gigantic silo stuffed with powdered rock keeps an unexpected promise: clean, cheap and stored heat for months. The world’s largest sand battery has been put into operation, which began as an idea of ​​two friends in 2018 today It has become In a pioneer installation that seeks to solve one of the greatest challenges of renewable energies: its large -scale storage. A sand battery. In a place where the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow, the storage for renewable energies becomes prevailing. The thermal battery of Polar Night Energy, built next to the Urban Heating Plant of Pornainen and managed by Loviisan Lämpö, ​​officially launched on June 11, According to Euronews. This battery has a thermal storage capacity of 100 MWh, with an efficiency that is around 85 and 90%. Ten times bigger. The new cylindrical structure has a height of 13 meters high and 15 wide, filled with about 2000 metric tons of crushed steatite – a byproduct of the manufacture of Finnish chimneys. That powdered rock, stored in an isolated silo, becomes a gigantic thermal energy accumulator, capable of supplying the demand for heating of one week in winter or a month in summer, According to TechCrunch. How can it be of sand? Although it may seem sophisticated, the principle is relatively simple. Electricity is used – preferably of solar or wind origin – to resistively heat the air, which in turn transfers heat to the sand into the silo. The sand, due to its high density and heat capacity, retains that heat for days or even months at temperatures up to 500 ° C. So, when needed, the system releases hot air, which heats water for the urban heating network. In the case of Pornainen, he supplies thermal energy to public buildings, homes and even the municipal pool, such as has pointed out Euronews. All control and prediction of energy performance is managed by an advanced heat transfer model, which calculates optimal load and discharge in real time. To reduce the use of splinters. With this new structure we want to reduce the use of splinters in urban heating by 60% and eliminate up to 160 tons of CO2 per year. In addition, it could be added that construction sand is not being used, but a stoatita recycled a local by -product. Polar Night Energy co -founder Markku Ylönen, has explained in Euronews that the material used must fulfill certain thermodynamic criteria, but it is not necessary to be sand as such. Any high density granular substance can work. This opens the door to circular economy models and avoids pressure on river ecosystems. Connected to the electricity market. The battery is within the energy reserve service, and from the company they continue working on a pilot to convert the heat stored in electricity, which could further transform the energy flexibility of the system. In addition, he counts with an estimated storage cost much lower than that of lithium batteries, According to TechCrunch. A new paradigm change. In times of climate crisis, perhaps the future of energy does not depend only on lithium, hydrogen or large solar parks, but also for forgotten materials such as sand. From the heart of Finland, a silent battery already heats houses, libraries and schools. Image | Taro Kam and Pxhere Xataka | While Europe desperately seeks alternative to Russian gas, a Spanish province has already found it: Burgos

He is also leaving them without driving examiners

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In Balearic Islands get the card of driving requires more than mastering the circulation standards and having some expertise at the wheel. Patience is needed. A lot. For some time the self -schools in Mallorca They warn to the candidates for drivers who can take several months In presenting the practical exam, a bottleneck that the collective Explain largely due to the shortage of traffic examiners. Personal lack. And the prices of the archipelago do not make it easy for officials who are already there. Housing has increased so much in the islands that is unasumable and takes not a few examiners to Request the transfer to the peninsula as soon as they can. In summer and without examiners. The news I advanced it Sunday Diario de Mallorca: Although many students take advantage of the holidays to get the driving card, the Balearic archipelago has encountered the threat of a summer with hardly any traffic examiners. The reason is double. First, on the islands there are only 16 examiners. Second, a good part of them (ten) will stop working over the coming months for one reason or another. The president of the Balearico Autoescuelas association, Joana Ribasensures that of the 16 officials who are in charge of examining in the archipelago, eight plan to leave after requesting the transfer, another has approved oppositions to change position and there is one about to retire. “I had calculated that they could ask for four or five, but I did not expect me to tell me that we will lose ten.” A major problem. After warning of the situation in which the archipelago would stay without those professionals, the DGT would have committed to delay the transfer of the examiners several months, which will allow at least the summer months covered. According to Diario de Mallorcatraffic will also send relays to cover vacancies. That does not prevent the self -school from looking at the horizon: the collective It takes time warning of the shortage of traffic personnel and among those who have requested the transfer there are examiners that cover Ibiza and Menorca. A year ago the number of students pending to be examined already It was around 8,000 already early 2025 the waiting list It remained at 7,000. It is not strange that to present themselves to the practical exam, a requirement to get the driving card, the applicants must wait several months. “The problem is the continuous patches of the Ministry, which does not contemplate the expansion of examiners. About seven or eight in the Balearic Islands,” Ribas points out in the being. Something more than drivers. The problems of the archipelago to meet the demand are not explained only because of the greater or lesser availability of places for examiners. One of their challenges is that officials who arrive from outside to occupy those positions are not easy to settle in a region marked by the escalation of the cost of the house. Only over the last year its price has shot something more than 17%according to the data of the idealist portal. The result? The officials of other points in Spain for the archipelago end up resorting to the transfer contests to find positions in other regions, places where the M2 does not cost 6,625 eurosas in Ibiza. The problem is so entrenched that Ribas acknowledges that, although signings are now arriving to cover vacancies, the situation will be repeated in a few years. Is it a new problem? No. A year ago The confidential He warned Already from the complex scenario facing the students of the Balearic Schools and the difficulties for the archipelago to be “attractive” for the examiners from the Peninsula. The newspaper needed That the plus of insularity they charged was just 80 euros, far from the 400 of the Canary Islands, Ceuta or Melilla. The problem is not unknown to traffic, which Recognize That “one of the factors that most influences” the scarcity of examiners is “the high cost of life and housing, reaching the extreme if we refer to Ibiza.” The employers They claim more technical and suggest some solutions. Ribas raises For example, the creation of internal “bags” that facilitate examining vacancies in those areas with more problems to capture them are occupied by native personnel. The objective: avoid scenarios such as the one that has been found this year at the doors of summer or that students choose to get their card in other parts of Spain, where you are waiting much shorter. Something more than examiners. In Balearic Islands, not only are they difficult to have traffic examiners. The newspaper revealed A few days ago That the centers are also capturing teachers in the Peninsula or even in other countries in Europe to move to Mallorca to teach, offers that include accommodation. The archipelago is not the only one who has seen how his high cost of life, especially housing, complicates the signing of basic services. It occurs in Galicia with another profile especially demanded in summer: The lifeguards. Images | Circulates safe (Flickr) and Mike Swigenski (Unsplash) In Xataka | There are so many Germans in Mallorca that the island is already preparing for its great ‘sorpasso’: housing more expensive than in Germany

an AI that predicts trends

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In the competitive fashion industrysucceeding with trends is crucial and supposes the difference between a sales success and a batch of unreasonable clothing. They count on SCMP As a Chinese startup is helping brands like Nike and GAP to make more successful decisions thanks to artificial intelligence. Analyzing social media data, online stores and consumption patterns, its technology is able to predict what will be fashionable before you see it on Tiktok. The company. Zhiyi Tech was founded in 2018 in Hangzhouone of the most powerful technological centers in the country and where it also has its headquarters The giant Alibaba. The company focuses on offering artificial intelligence -based solutions that help clothing brands to predict what the upcoming supervent trends will be. In 2022 they got 100 million dollars in several financing rounds And today among its most notable clients are Nike and Gap. Technology. Zhiyi’s flagship software (simply called Zhiyi) has been working since its inception and uses artificial intelligence to analyze large amounts of data. They presume that in their database they have more than 1,000 million images of materials or 100,000 million patterns of garments. They also analyze the designs that are best selling in stores, trends in social networks and monitor the sales of the rivals. With all this and through Deep-Learning and recognition algorithms with AI, they claim to be able to detect changes in the fashion industry and predict trends so that companies can design and plan more efficiently. Local success case. The Chinese fashion chain Urban Revivo He is one of Zhiyi Technology clients and with which they have been working since 2020. According to Zheng ZeyuCEO of Zhiyi, in the first three years Urban Revivo managed to improve its Sell-Through rate (stock proportion sold compared to that received) from 60 to 80%, as well as improving its opportunity to create very successful products by 5%. The brand launches more than 100,000 designs per year, so we would be talking about 5,000 exceptionally successful designs. From China to the world. In the beginning, the startup was focused on the domestic market. Almost all the sources he drank were sales and social networks of the country such as Taobao, Tmall or Rednote. In its opening to other markets, three years ago Overseas Exploration launched, a tool that was also aimed at Chinese companies, but already explored trends from the rest of the world. Trendscopes It is one of Zhiyi’s first products with an focus on international customers. It was launched last year and with it trackean global sales platforms such as Amazon, Temu or Shein (China’s Great Baza in Fast-Fashion), In addition to networks such as Instagram and Tiktok. Among its most important international clients are GAP and Nike, which they help in decisions such as choice of color for sportswear or if exterior footwear must have a high cane. A chatgpt that designs clothes. In addition to its analysis and prediction tools, Zhiyi also has a generative -called AI Fashion diffusion+ which allows to create “high quality designs and images from moodboards or sketches.” The tool offers a free test if you register so we have tried it, specifically the option of turning a sketch into a render, although it offers more like adding a garment to a photo of a model. When generating the image, it allows us to choose if we want it in color, the similarity with the sketch and add a descriptive prompt. Test with Fasion Diffusion+. The result is good in that it represents very well all the details of the pockets and zippers, but the improvable quality and remembers what Dall-e did in his first versions. We have asked Chatgpt and the result has been infinitely better, especially representing the photorealistic effect we had asked. From left to right: sketch, fashion diffusion+ and chatgpt. The company wants to turn this tool into a kind of chatgpt with which to create designs from Prompts With natural language, without having to start from more detailed images or drawings. They hope to launch it this month and promote it especially among its international clients. There are still no images of the new version, but seen the performance of the current one, there is work to be done. Other fashion chains also bet on AI. The AI ​​is reaching everywhere and this Chinese startup is not the only one that has occurred to the textile industry. Already In 2018 Inditex began investing in Big Data, AI and Analytics solutions For his businesses, he specifically associated with the Startup Jetlore that offers a prediction of the behavior of buyers. Uniqlo also integrates AI in your business And they do it in an integral way, from the design process to the supply chain. Similar to Zhiyi, they use data analysis and collection technologies that allow them to detect new trends in order to advance to the market. They also apply it to their stores registering the movement of customers to define “hot areas” and thus better configure the space. AI as a predictor. The generative AI is the most talk, but its uses go much further and more and more are the sectors in which it is acting as a prediction system. The most obvious example we have In advertisingwhere the algorithms have been wanting to guess what we will buy. The financial sector is also using AI to predict credit risk and for detect and prevent fraud. In science we have also seen how they use it to try predict the next epidemic. Perhaps the biggest challenge of the predictive AI is in health, where tools are already appearing predict diseases and customize treatments. Here ethical challenges are raised and the need for constant supervision and update of algorithms. Cover image | Pixabay In Xataka | Openai is going better than expected thanks to payment users. And that marks an evident direction

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