Month: June 2025

We thought that Japan’s tourist boom was an opportunity for AI. It has become an unexpected remedy

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Japan is one of those countries that one thinks knowing without having stepped on it. For his millenary temples, For their trains that exceed 300 km/hfor its technology and for its robots. That is why it does not strange that Millions of people Make the bags every year to travel their cities, their mountains and even its less known rural areas. What is surprising is this: how AI begins to break through where, until now, only human talent was accepted. The paradox is as Japanese as its culture: a country where hospitality is deeply valued, and, at the same time, where those who can practice it are scarce. Because if something has revealed the tourist tsunami that Japan is receiving is that the lack of bilingual guides has become a serious problem. It is not new. Many retired during the difficult years that the sector was going through during the pandemic, others changed from sector. But now the situation squeezes, and the country begins to respond. Where before there was a guide with smile, now there is an app with ia The scarcity of guides is not an anecdote. It is a reality that begins to leave a mark on the experience of thousands of travelers. As Nikkei Asia collectsJapan had something more than 46,000 bilingual guides. The figure included both licensed professionals and certified by local governments, and even people with sufficient knowledge and to perform that role. Four years later, the figure had fallen almost 20%. In 2023 there were about 37,700. The trend is still down. The reasons are understood quickly. The pandemia devastated the tourist calendars, froze reservations and left thousands of guides Freelance No stable income. Many looked for another way. Some retired. And although years have passed since those times, what has remained is an aging template: about 60 % of licensed guides are over 60 years old. If we talk about the official exam, in 2024 only 380 people approved it. The agencies notice it. Some recognize that they have had to Cancel or reprogram tours Because, simply, there was no one available to attend them. Before, when their workforce was at the limit, they could resort to independent professionals. Now, not that. And although Since 2018 Japan allows Make payment tours without the need for the official license, a good part of tourists and agencies continue to prefer authorized guides, with knowledge, accreditations and, above all, trust. Today, in places like Okinawa, there are tourists who prefer the robotic voice of applications such as the operator Cerulean Blue before running out of tour. The system detects its location by means of the mobile GPS, shows real -time information with augmented reality and active audioguías as the visitor advances. That gesture, almost imperceptible, says much of the present … and perhaps also of the future. Because AI still does not improvise jokesHe does not feel pride when talking about his city, he does not respond with a smile. But when the guide does not arrive, technology seems to be ready to respond. And the most interesting thing is that tourism is not an isolated case. What is happening with the guides is part of a broader pattern that begins to be noticed strongly in Japan. In agriculture, for example, Companies are using Apps based on AI capable of identifying plants diseases with just one photo. In schools, English teachers do not supply, so some already use virtual assistants who talk with students. In public administration, municipalities Like Yokosuka They have started using Chatgpt To summarize meetings and write documents. According to calculations of the Consistory itself, the time saving is counted in thousands of hours a year. All this responds to the same structural problem: the lack of hands. Japan is a technological power, yes. But it is also a country that is aging and has a very low birth rate. Images | Micah Camper | Angel | Geoff Oliver In Xataka | Japan has realized that to welcome 60 million tourists, something lacks: workers in the hotels

Strategies to maintain motivation

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Academic stress can become an overwhelming burden for whom They face an opposition either They take a doctorate. The pressure to achieve excellence and comply with adjusted deadlines can affect both Emotional well -being like him intellectual performancewhich does nothing but aggravate his situation. However, there are strategies based on experience and scientific evidence that can help recover mental control and enjoy that training process instead of suffering it. Rory Lambe, is a doctoral student at Trinity College Dublin, and explainedin Nature How did academic demands face without being consumed by stress, through strategies that have allowed him Maintain motivation and mental health. Seek social support and share experiences Lambe emphasizes the Importance of not isolating and to seek support in colleagues, friends and family. “Talking to other doctoral students helped me realize that I was not alone in my concerns,” he says. Share experiences and emotions with people who They cross similar situations You can relieve the feeling of loneliness and provide practical solutions to problems that you could not solve for yourself. Research From the University of Michigan they have shown that social support is a key protective factor against academic stress. According to these research, students who have a solid support network present a 40% less of anxiety and depression symptoms compared to those who feel isolated. In this sense, the Socialization with other people That they share that situation of opposition or doctoral preparation helps empathize and feel more supported. Clear limits between work and rest According to Lambe, “working late, or even the weekend, can be inevitable when the demands are maximum, but should not become the norm.” Therefore. strictly separate the time dedicated to work of free time It makes a big difference in mood and mental clarity. This strategy is backed by studies by Sabine Sonnentag and Charlotte Fritz, which shows that the ability to disconnect mentally of work during free time is associated with a significant reduction in cortisol levels and other physiological stress indicators. Disconnection helps recover psychological resources and physical, improving mental health and cognitive performance when it returns to work or study and returning the ability to concentrate. Lambe had in his article that maintaining a good routine at your schedules And practicing mindfulness helped him maintain work discipline, avoiding lengthening the study days until the early morning or holidays. In addition, al Maintain that order In his routine, the researcher claimed to be more resilient at the problems that arose. Celebrate small achievements Preparing oppositions or a doctorate is not a sprint but a background race, so it is relatively easy to lose sight of the long -term purpose. Learn to value small daily advances Help stay in the road map. “It is easy to lose motivation if you only focus on the ultimate goal. Celebrating small achievements helps maintain high morals,” said Lambe. He GRADIENT OF OBJECTIVE EFFECT It is a key element to maintain motivation in long -term projects. The Scientific literature On this psychological phenomenon describes that the perception of closeness to the goal influences behavior and effort level, so the motivation is increased to obtain a reward in dopamine. That is to say, if very long -term objectives are raised, perception is diluted of advance and, therefore, the motivation to continue and increases discouragement is reduced. On the other hand, set short -term objectives as small achievements, this advance is perceived better. Recognizing progress, however, helps to strengthen self -esteem and reduce the feeling of failure. Enjoy what you are learning Maintain perspective With a list full of tasks and objectives to meet or issues that study is not easy. Lambe recognizes that he often hit the day to day and forgot something fundamental: “I was so focused on what I would like to do once I finished, that I forgot that it is important to enjoy what I am doing now.” Knowledge derived from Study the agenda From an opposition or a doctorate they will be the foundations for the future of your professional career in the future. The Self -determination theory by Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci describes the benefits of the change of perspective it implies Convert the “I have to study” for “I want to study”reinforcing psychological well -being and motivation by assuming the process as a personal and genuine choice, not as something imposed. In Xataka | If you have wondered how much free time you need to be happy, science has an answer Image | Unspash (Daniel)

An American physicist has found a shortcut to get to Mars in 90 days. It is key to surviving radiation

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The long flight will be One of the many risks that astronauts who travel to Mars in front. SIX TO NINE MONTHS Broken the safe radiation limit that NASA establishes as acceptable: 600 msv. The problem would be forgotten if you could get to Mars in just 90 days. And you can with current technology, according to recent research. Conventional chemistry, record times. The physicist Jack Kingdon, a researcher at the University of California, has published in the magazine Scientific Reports A proposal that breaks with the provisions of trips to Mars. Normally, a flight to the red planet requires between six and nine months, which raises multitude of challenges for exposure to radiation. With Kingdon’s trajectory, 90 days per path would suffice. The most surprising thing is that their calculations are based on the classic method to optimize interplanetary trajectories (Lambert’s problem) and do not depend on futuristic engines, but on a current chemical rocket: the Spacex starship. Two crew and four loading ships. The proposal is a monumental scale. The mission to Mars would require six ships: two crew and four loads that would travel separately. To put them on the route, they would take about 45 Starship pitches within two to three weeks, a rhythm that, although ambitious, fits with Spacex’s plans to massively climb their operations. A gas station in space. The real logistics challenge would occur in the low terrestrial orbit. There, a starship-cistern fleet (ships dedicated exclusively to transport fuel) would perform a complex dancing of reposses: The two manned starship would need about 15 reposses each to load the 1,500 tons of propellant that will allow them to take the rapid trajectory. The four load starship, aimed at carrying the equipment and supplies, would receive only four reposses each and would be sent to Mars in a slower and lower energy consumption trajectory. The shortcut. Once full of methane and liquid oxygen, the two crew ships would turn on their engines to escape the earth’s orbit. They would cover a high -energy Lambert type trajectory required by an ΔV ≈ 4.6 km/s, which translates into a 90 -day flight time. Just before being captured by the severity of Mars, the ships would make a key ignition to stop, reducing their input speed of about 9.7 km/sa about 6.8 km/s. The Martian atmosphere would be in charge of dissipating the rest of the energy by aerocapture, a maneuver in which the ship “brushes” the atmosphere to stop without spending fuel. Finally, a brief ignition of the engines would allow a propulsive landing on the surface. The study demonstrates that this scheme is mathematically possible for the 2035 launch window, but it depends on Spacex dominating two critical technologies: the cryogenic orbital refueling on a large scale and hyperbolic aerocapture. And the return? An even more complex plan. If the idea is to return, the mission becomes much bold. First, a fuel production plant should be established on Mars (As Sabatier reactors) to manufacture methane and oxygen from CO₂ and the ice of the planet. The return plan implies that the manned ship take off from the surface of Mars and entered orbit. There, the load ships, which arrived previously, would also take off to act as cisterns in the Martian orbit, transferring all the necessary fuel to the manned ship for its 90 -day trip back to the earth. Not everyone shares optimism. The study identifies a viable return window in 2037. However, not everyone shares optimism. The own Paper recognizes that his proposal collides with the vision of agencies such as NASA, which has historically shown preference for nuclear propulsion For fast missions to Mars, a technology that, according to the author of the study, still has a low maturity and great regulatory obstacles. All this, of course, whenever the goal is to return. Recall that Elon Musk’s idea is to send robots first and then volunteers to build a self -sufficient city on the red planet. Image | Spacex In Xataka | All the technical challenges that we must solve if we want to achieve the greatest feat of the human being: get to Mars

How did a passenger survive

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It was suffocating heat From the first hour, and from afar, nothing suggested that something could twist. An Air India plane took speed on the track of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airportin Ahmedabad, he raised the nose and took off. But just a few seconds later, everything changed: he began to lose height and ended up crashing into a residence for doctors. The tail of Boeing 787 Dreamliner It was embedded among the remains. What seemed like a total tragedy, without any margin for hope, took an unexpected turn just a few hours later. During the first minutes, the figures were devastating: 242 people on board, and any news of survivors. The magnitude of the disaster did not seem to leave place for exceptions. Until A video began to circulate in social networks and Indian media. In the material, a man advances, with traces of blood, and staggers towards an ambulance. A few hours later, The Interior Ministry of India confirmed What many could not believe: among the passengers of flight AI171, There was a survivor. The man in seat 11A How Hindustan Times points outIt is Vishwashkumar Ramesh, a 40 -year -old British citizen who was traveling back to London with her brother, also aboard the flight. He occupied the 11A seat, a row next to an emergency exit. He arrived at the hospital with multiple injuries, disoriented, but out of danger. His case was confirmed by the Indian authorities and by his own Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited the hospital this Friday and briefly met him. From his bed at the Civil Hospital of Ahmedabad, Vishwashkumar Ramesh spoke with several Indian media about the moments he lived inside the plane. His story, brief and choppy, has been one of the few direct windows inside the flight. In an interview with DD News Vía BBC said there was a time when the plane seemed as if it were “stuck in the air.” Ramesh continued to explain that “the lights began to flash in green and white” before the collision. “The (emergency) door was broken, I saw that there was a hole. I tried to go out there. And I did. ” Ramesh explained that he was on the side of the plane that was at the ground level and did not hit the facade of the building. “The other part was embedded in the wall. No one could have left there,” added the only survivor of the tragic accident. In another statement, Collection by Hindustan Timeshe explained: “When I joined, there were bodies around me. I was scared. I got up and ran. There were pieces of the plane everywhere. ” The video that showed Ramesh walking towards an ambulance, broadcast shortly after the accident, was the first proof that someone had managed to leave the fuselage in flames. His words make it clear: “I still can’t believe how I have survived.” How do you survive such an impact? The question is still open. There is no official explanation on how it managed to survive Ramesh. Nor has it determined If your location on the plane was decisive Not if any structural factor influenced its output. What does exist is technical information about the variables that are usually analyzed in this type of scenarios. The Washington Post collects the perspective From Anthony Brickhouse, American consultant in air security with almost three decades of experience in the accident survival study. The expert says that researchers usually focus on three main factors: The level of force G at the time of impact. The structure of the plane that surrounds the passenger. The conditions after the clash, such as fires or injuries. “This man survived something that should not be possible to survive. I can’t scientifically explain how he succeeded.” Asked about whether certain seats are safer than others, In statements to NewsweekGraham Braithwaite, director of the Aviation Area at Cranfield University, said “is a very difficult question to answer.” He added: “While this does not serve as comfort to those affected by the tragic accident that occurred yesterday, the answer is simple: all the seats of modern aircraft are incredibly safe.” An unprecedented accident for Dreamliner Ai171 Air India flight was destined London. He took off from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday, June 12 at 1:30 p.m. (local time), with 242 people on board: 230 passengers and 12 crew members. Less than a minute later, he crashed into a residence of doctors of the BJ Medical College, located on the perimeter of the airport. More than two hundred people died, including several students who were in the dining room at that time. The security cameras captured the sequence: the plane took height, stabilized briefly and then struck to crash and explode on fire. The causes of the accident have not yet been determined. The aircraft was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, a model introduced in 2009 and recognized for its fuel and autonomy efficiency. Until the moment of the incident, the Dreamliner accumulated more than a thousand units delivered and no fatal accident registered in commercial operations. The wrecked apparatus was delivered to Air India in 2014 and had made more than 8,000 take -offs and landings, according to data from the firm Cirium. The General Directorate of Civil Aviation of India reported that the pilots issued a Mayday emergency signal after takeoff, but there was no more communication from the cabin. A few hours after the impact, the authorities confirmed the recovery of one of the black boxes. The analysis of the flight data registrar will be key to clarify what happened. Experts consulted by international means have indicated that unusual configurations are observed in the take -off video, such as the deployed landing gear and the flaps without extending, although for now there are no official conclusions. Images | Interior Minister of India (1, 2) | Prime Minister of India (1, 2) In Xataka | We prepare to say goodbye to Windows 10, but part of the US Air … Read more

Jaén conquered Spain for its olive oil. Now he has conquered Europe with his drones

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Jaén has achieved a New milestone related to drone flight at European level. For the first time in Europe, a control transfer operation (Handover) has been carried out in full flight without interruptions in the link. The importance of the operation lies not only in crucial applications that have this type of flights for the transport of medical supplies in remote areas, but in how they have achieved it. What happened. In the Jiennense olive grove, between Beas de Segura and Villacarrillo, its Atlas Alpha and Atlas Bravo centers have carried out successfully The first European drone control transfer operation. Those responsible for the project describe a flight in which a protagonist has participated a UAS Tarsis (non -manned fixed -wing system) of 75 kilos, accompanied by two multi -pile drones and three Spanish flight teams, in collaboration with the University of Seville. The goal? Show the viability of unmanned air systems in transport of health material in remote or difficult access areas. But the key is not in the objective of use, it is on the flight itself. Why is it important. It is the first time in Europe that an operation of this draft is performed. Until now, it had never been possible to transfer the full flight control of a fixed wing drone with these dimensions between two stations separated by 23km. This flight represents an important advance in the future of drug transport in remote areas and a break between the barriers of distance: the limitations cease to be a problem if the transfer of the drone is successful. Why is it so difficult. Dron’s operations are limited by their radius of scope: If the aircraft moves away from its control stationGoodbye flight. Hence the importance of achieving a real -time control transfer and without interruptions. But this goes beyond the technical side. The milestone here is not the distance, it is the relay. The “Handover” is not just a transfer of flight mechanics, it is a transfer of legal and operational responsibility. This project shows that, in the future, a drone managed by a company A can go through space and transfer flight responsibility to a company B. The U-Space. To make this transfer possible, the European Union has a set of services and procedures framed within what it calls U-spaceits traffic management system for drones. When operating under this framework, each operator must register their drone, present their flight plan and obtain real-time digital authorization through the U-Space system, under the supervision of the common information provider (CISP), in this case the Spanish ENAIRE. This flight was not a simulation, but a real test with multiple actors of how it is possible to coordinate a control transfer operation under an U-SPAC infrastructure. It shows that it is viable to climb this model to other missions with low altitude drones, from health logistics to surveillance, agriculture or emergencies. Europe had not achieved it. Jaén has been the first to achieve it, although in Europe efforts are being focused to minimize reach losses on long distance flights. Galicia has designed U-Space cells in the ports of A Coruña and Malpica To connect two points in the same management and Valencia space too Drones for logistics operations in its ports. The Jiennense project will not be the only one. This is a project at European level, and it is planned to develop throughout eight Spanish autonomous communities: Andalusia, Aragon, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Valencian Community, Galicia, Madrid and Navarra. Image | ENAIRE In Xataka | China conquered us with its cheap drones. Now the price of its pieces is shooting for a reason that is not accidental

USA says that Huawei will not be able to manufacture more than 200,000 AI chips in 2025. We know what the reason is

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Jeffrey Kessler, Undersecretary of Commerce for Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce, has done a few hours ago This statement in Congress: “Our evaluation indicates that the production capacity of Chips Ascend de Huawei by 2025 It will be 200,000 units or lessand we anticipate that the majority or all of that production will be delivered to companies within China. “ Besides, Kessler pointed out that “China is investing A lot of money to increase your chips production of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as the capabilities of the GPUs it produces. For this reason it is essential not to have a false sense of security and understand that China is reaching the US rapidly. “These statements express unambiguously how worried the US administration is in the development of China undergoing China in the field of AI. China goes only between three and six months behind the US in AI This is What David Sacks arguesan IA and cryptocurrency expert who exercises as an advisor to the Government of Donald Trump in this area. In addition, it acts as a link between the government and the American technology industry. The White House has clarified the statements of Sacks clarifying that this guru referred to AI models, so that Chinese chips are between one and two years behind their US equivalents. Earlier this week Ren Zhengfei, the founder and general director of Huawei, declared that the GPU Ascend of this Chinese company are still A generation behind of the chips for the US. His reflection is aligned with what the US government defends, but it is important that we do not overlook that Huawei invests more than 25,000 million dollars annually in the development of its hardware for AI, so presumably it will not take long to match the benefits of the GPUs produced by NVIDIA or AMD. Blea performance of integration technologies used by SMIC to produce Huawei GPUs has a very wide margin of improvement In any case, the prediction of Jeffrey Kessler about the production capacity of avant -garde chips for Huawei is sustained on an irrefutable fact: the performance by wafer of the integration technologies used by the Chinese semiconductor manufacturer SMIC (Semiconductor manufacturing international corp) To produce the Huawei GPUs it has a very wide margin. SMIC already has the ability to manufacture 6 Nm integrated circuits, and soon it can also produce 5 Nm semiconductors, but is limited by the performance of the deep ultraviolet lithography equipment (UVP) you have in your possession. It is meritorious that SMIC and Huawei engineers have managed to refine their integrated circuit manufacturing processes what is necessary to be able to produce 5, 6 and 7 nm chips With ASML UVP teams, but a priori it is very unlikely that with these machines they will be able to go beyond the 3 Nm. And it is because the technique of Multiple patterningwhich is what they are using, imposes important limitations. A note: This strategy in broad strokes consists in transferring the pattern to the wafer in several passes with the purpose of increasing the resolution of the lithographic process. His problem is that he usually has an upward impact on the cost of chips and the decline in production capacity. For Huawei it is a big problem not to have the necessary technology to produce avant -garde semiconductors comparable to those who manufacture Intel, TSMC or Samsung, so it is working on the development of its own team of extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE). More information | Reuters In Xataka | Nvidia has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. His plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end the chips for the Chinese that are sold abroad. And China knows how to defend oneself

Google has opened the door to its employees so that whoever is not motivated to go voluntarily: Zuckerberg rubs his hands

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Google used to be the place where all software engineers They dreamed of working. However, in recent years that dream It has vanished. The company, known for its conciliatory culture, now surprises with a strategy that invites some workers to leave the company voluntarily To save costs in dismissal, according to an internal email published by The Verge. New voluntary output strategy. As you can read in the memorandum to which you have had access The VergeGoogle is offering a voluntary exit to the employees of its “Knowledge and Information” department (K & I, for its acronym in English), the area that includes those responsible for the search tool, engineering, marketing, research and communications. This document signed by Nick Fox, current responsible of the department, raises the possibility that, those who want to leave the company voluntarilythey can do it with economic incentives, in what is known as the “Voluntary Exit Program” (VEP), a pilot program of voluntary exits that Google put to the test in some departments after the dismissal of 12,000 employees in 2023. In Xataka Of engineers to keyboard operators: AI is converting software programming into a mounting chain Google is only for motivated. In Your statement, Nick Fox, it has been very clear: “If you are excited about your work, full of energy because of the opportunity that you present to you and you yield well, I really hope (really!) That you do not accept this. We have ambitious plans and much to do.” At the same time, Google offers “an exit path with support for those who do not feel aligned with our strategy, do not feel vitalized for their work, or are having difficulty fulfilling the expectations of their role within the company.” Said otherwise, The door has taught them. Welcome to the offices. Since 2022, Google has carried out different rounds of layoffs massive, and has progressively hardening the flexibility to telework through pressures in employee assessments. The filtered document does not let the occasion escape and also remember that employees living less than 80 kilometers from a work center must go to the office three days a week to the office, and encouraging to move closer to them to Those who live further. {“Videid”: “X919SE0”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “The AI ​​and the future of our work Silvia Rivela | 100 years, 100 visions Ep.3”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “2630”} Template reaction. The reaction of the workforce to the new “non-descent” policy It has not been waiting. When associated with a hardening of teleworking policy for that department, many see in it an undercover dismissal that seeks to save dismissal costs. The discomfort has been fed because, while the dismissals and founders were happening demanded 12 -hour daysPichai sundar The salary climbed And the company announced Milmillonarios benefits. Risk leakage risk. Google is running a very high risk that, when opening the door to their employees, the best qualified decide to take the floor and lose their best talent in this operation of Costs. The announcement, in addition, occurs in a delicate moment. Companies as a goal are willing to Offer millionaire figures To capture that talent, especially in areas such as artificial intelligence, so this movement could have unexpected consequences for the competitiveness of the company. In Xataka | A figure shows that the problem is not to find qualified talent, but knowing how to retain it: 24.1% labor rotation Image | Unspash (Adarsh ​​Chauhan) (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Google has opened the door to its employees so that whoever is not motivated to go voluntarily: Zuckerberg rubs his hands It was originally posted in Xataka by Rubén Andrés .

A VPN is not missing on my mobile

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We are just a few days after the summer begins, although the heat is already present in almost the entire Spanish territory. In a very short time I will take advantage of a few days to make a getaway and I will stay at a hotel. In these establishments it is already standardized that there is a stable Wi -Fi and, although I have enough data in my mobile rate, I usually opt for these networks If the coverage is not good in the establishment. These and others public Wi -Fi networks They can serve us very well in those scenarios where the data is not enough or where we have no coverage. The problem is that it is an unknown network, something that can entail certain risks to our security. That is why I always carry a VPN on my mobile to protect myself. There are many to choose, although few as economical as surfshark: it goes out for 2.19 euros a month. Surfshark Starter Subscription – Monthly * Some price may have changed from the last review A VPN is perfect to protect us in unknown networks It is true that it is not difficult to find Free VPNideal to save us from any hurry. The problem is that they offer a limited and slow service that can fall short for certain uses. For this reason, investing in a VPN is a great idea, especially if the investment necessary to have a good one is as small as the case of Surfshark. I always carry the VPN in installed on the mobile, ready to work in a couple of touches. In addition, with the same account we have An unlimited number of devices To use it, so we have no limit if we also want to take it on a tablet or a laptop, for example. With it we will protect our Internet traffic, something recommended if we are going to access the bank’s app or we will do some online procedure. Surfshark VPN is included in the Starter subscription, which comes with another very useful tool. This, which is called ALTERNATIVE IDallows us to generate a series of fictional data that we can use to register on web pages where we do not want to enter ours. This plan, which as we have said a little higher, costs 2.19 eurosimplies that two full years of the subscription will cost us 53.73 euros, a discount if we take into account that its price without the promotion that it has right now would be 417.15 euros. And be careful because we would also receive 3 months of giftso we will have 27 months in total of the service. Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Surfshark In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public wifis and what you should do to protect yourself In Xataka | The best solutions to protect your data and your company’s computer equipment

A Basque startup of AI has just lifted 189 million euros with a great idea: compress the AI

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Before We compressed files with Zip. Now what we begin to need is to compress the AI ​​to make it more small and efficient. That is just the idea that the founders of Multivrse Computing had, a Spanish startup which is becoming the new jewel of the crown of our AI industry. Its founders, (in the image, from left to right, Román Orús, Enrique Lizaso Olmos and Samuel Mugel) and Alfonso Rubio have much to celebrate. Investment Round. Multivize Computing He has just closed an investment round of 189 million euros (215 million dollars). The round (series B) has been led by Bullhound Capital, but it has also participated HP Tech Ventures, Sett, ForgePoint Capital International, CDP Venture Capital, Santander Climate VC, Quantonation, Toshiba and Euskadi Risk Capital of Euskadi – Spri Group. Last March the company received An investment of 67 million euros by the Government of Spain. The inference AI by flag. Although the current prominence usually takes it the great technological ones that invest billions of dollars in data centers to train Great language models (LLM)there is more and more focus on the other part: the one we use users when asking things to Chatgpt, for example. It is the so -called AI inference, and the estimate is that in 2025 the value of that industry reaches 106,000 million dollars. In Multivrse Computing they want a good piece of that cake, and to achieve this, its great trick is a unique technology. Compactifai. This is the name of The compression technology of AI models developed by multivance computing. What this allows is to convert very large models – which costs a lot to “execute” – in much smaller and efficient models, which allows them to make them more manageable and save many resources (and time) during inference. How to compress an AI model. Román Orús, scientific director of the company, led A study May 2024 in which they precisely explained the concept of “tensioning networks” of quantum inspiration and that allow compressing these models. Its operation is based on decomposing the matrices of pesos from the neural networks “truncating them” and retaining only the largest and most relevant values. In essence the concept focuses on discarding the less relevant information of the model to be left alone with the most relevant. But that does not make the model less accurate? In fact, but the degree of truncation can be controlled so that there is a good balance and commitment between compression and loss of precision. Even by compressing these models, in Multivars Computing they say The fall of the models It is only 2 to 3%. Same yield in a size 95% lower. To mitigate that precision fall, this system includes a rapid resentment phase called “healing” that can be repeated several times to achieve even closer accuracy to the original version. In the end, they affirm in the company, they can compress up to 95% a model of the performance. It lowers the use of AI. According to Your dataa model as it calls 3.1 405b has an operational cost of about $ 390,000 if we want to run it at home (13 GPUS H100, 9100 W of consumption), but thanks to Compactifai it is possible to reduce that cost to 60,000 dollars (2 GPUS H100, 1,400 W). One more “thin”. The “Slim” models provided by the company – Derivatives of Llama 3.3 70b or Call 4 scout– They are compressed versions that theoretically do not lose precision. They can be executed through the AWS platform or by licenses that also allow us to use it on-premisethat is, in local/own infrastructure. According to their metrics, these models are between 4 and 12 times faster than their non -compressed versions, which translates into an inference cost that is between 50% and 80% lower. Image | Multivize Computing In Xataka | Spain is finally

‘Mindseye’ is the largest fiasco that the industry remembers from ‘Cyberpunk 2077’. And a notice of what is not going well in video games

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‘Mindseye’ had lifted considerable expectations, especially for the identity of its responsible, the archner of the saga ‘GTA’ Leslie Benzies. However, the launch has been a disaster of such size that Sony has decided to open the returns from the purchase amount In the PlayStation Store to the players who wish. It is inevitable to think, at this point, in a recent fiasco comparable: ‘Cyberpunk 2077’. A disaster From innumerable technical problemsunusual in a product of this size, to a development well below the expected, ‘Mindseye’ has defrauded all expectations, to the point that it already has More than 1300 assessments in Steampractically all negative. In Metacritic ABISMAL TREATERS 2.9 OF USERS AND HAVE NOT HAVE Note from Professionals, since the company did not give it to the press To play it before launch (traditionally, a sign that something is going wrong.) expectations have played against them: comparisons with ‘GTA VI’ during the promotion were continuous, and Benzies could not moderate them to avoid disappointments. For memes. Bugs and glitches are being innumerable And, of course, players They are registering them and uploading to social networks: Flying NPCS or that explode in meaningless polygons, faces of faces and physical physical ones … there are falls from Frames and Crasheos Continuous, even in console. And as a icing, the campaign is very scarce: Around 20 hoursand with a development that is apparently repetitive and with very little interest. While there are patches, there is hope. Of course, Build to Rocket Boy, the signatory study of ‘Mindseye’, has done everything he could to cushion the impact: recognize the problems and promise that he will fix them in A series of patches To improve performance (at least, get out of 40 fps) and fix bugs. Although for now, he is only doing it on PC. Again, ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ comes to the memory of the players, but perhaps, maintaining hope, it does so in the opposite direction: a game that seemed insurmountable became, patch patch, patch, patch, In the title that should have been departure. Of course, not the ideal route, but a good proof that everything has arrangement. ‘Mindseye’ is a new notice for navigators about the many fractures that plague the industry today. It is almost a catalog of the problems that have ended up deriving in a business that allows broken games like this to see the light. Some of those failures could be: He Hype and marketing as a guarantee: The reputation of Benzies and his curriculum as part of the ‘GTA’ franchise seemed enough to guarantee a good result, but possibly became a development with unrealistic goals. The worst audience in the world: Yes, of course players have their part of guilt. Its avidity for playing every month at the best game of the year (or the decade) has generated some dynamics of toxic creativity in the studies, which are forced to promise above their possibilities to attract the attention of a fandom stunned by excess signals. Ambition that does not accompany the real possibilities: There is currently only a video game creator capable of extending checks that your talent can pay, and it is Kojima. And he doesn’t always get it. Therefore, that a project standing by a team without a much more solid promising trajectory, in a Sandbox, Something as ambitious as “Roblox type mechanics” You should jump alarms instead of guaranteeing echo in the press. The tyranny of the launch dates: It is not the first time that a game goes on sale without ending: the launch dates should be realistic and, above all, the studies would have to have the freedom to delay the launch of a game if it is not finished one hundred percent. They are just some details that have defined the debacle of ‘Mindseye’, but that reveal much more serious problems than a half -game. If any utility has this failed launch at this point is to function as a warning mechanism for an industry that works more and more as a predestined hype machinery. A bubble that, if it aspires to conservation, has to take care to survive. Header | Io interactive

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