Month: June 2025

A fertility ritual 500 years ago

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Few places on the planet are presupposed with such archaeological wealth without discovering as Latin America. Without going very far, an unprecedented fact occurred recently in Peru, when a group of researchers found in a municipal dump no less than A 5,000 -year -old mummy of antiquity. Something has happened in an area of ​​Mexico. What intuited an accumulation of rotrefacta garbage has turned out to be an incalculable value treasure. An unexpected finding. Yes, what at first seemed to be a simple garbage in a remote cave in the mountain area in Guerrero (Mexico) has ended up being one of the most surprising archaeological revelations of recent times. The speleologist Katiya Pavlova, accompanied by the local guide Adrián Beltrán Dimas, explored in September 2023 Tlagoococ cave (Name that in Nahuatl means “Cueva de los Texas”) when, after crossing a narrow passage flooded with just fifteen centimeters between the roof and the surface of the water, they ran into fourteen objects carefully arranged around stalagmites. The scene, preserved in gloom and constant humidity for centuries, seemed to have stopped over time. Fertility ritual. Among the objects found There were four shell bracelets, a huge decorated snail of Strombus genretwo complete stone discs, six discs fragments and a piece of carbonized wood. The arrangement of the bracelets, placed on small stalagmites of rounded way with possible galician connotations (Cover image), led archaeologists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) to interpret the whole as vestiges of pre -Hispanic fertility rituals. As explained The archaeologist Miguel Pérez Negrete, in many Mesoamerican cultures the caves were considered sacred spaces, linked to the underworld and symbolically associated with the uterus of the earth, which reinforces the ritual hypothesis of the offering. Venus and Quetzalcoatl symbols. Three of the bracelets present engravings with important pre -Columbian symbols. One of them is The Xonecuillia S -shaped figure associated with the planet Venus and the measurement of time. Another shows what, according to researchers, could be the representation of QuetzalcóatlCreator God in several Mesoamerican cultures. Not just that. The indications allowed the objects in the Postclassic period (950–1521 dc), and attribute them tentatively to The Tlacotepehua culturea little documented civilization that inhabited the mountain region. As for the excellent state of conservation of the pieces, it is attributed to the stable climatic conditions within the cave, which has allowed, after more than five centuries of silencethey resurface in this way. 500 years hidden legacy. As we said at the beginning, it is a (other) surprising archaeological finding of hundreds of years ago. The Tlayócoc cave, located about 2,380 meters above sea level, is known among the premises for its water and bat guano, but so far there were no recent records of deep exploration. Hence the finding of Pavlova and Beltrán can represent the first human incursion in that place in approximately five hundred years. After the discovery, both immediately contacted the INAH, who recovered the objects last March and will integrate them into their heritage For study and preservation. No doubt, an exciting finding that contrasts with the initial theory: a handful of fragments in the dark, confused with garbage, has revealed a forgotten fragment of indigenous spirituality, of ancestral cosmology and of material expressions of the sacred. Image | Katiya Pavlova In Xataka | In 2023 some explorers entered a remote cave in Mexico. They found the last archaeological treasure of the country In Xataka | 60 years ago we discovered a hidden gold in the jungle of Peru. Now we know that it was really much more

China has ships the size of buildings that sail on mountains. All thanks to the largest elevators in the world

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China is the cradle of record mega -structures. They build in all dimensions (they have unnoticing skyscrapers in the world and deeper oil well) and, on many occasions, they are extremely complicated works, such as the Gaoligongshan tunnel or that of Huajiang Great Canyon Bridge. Something that also abounds in China are pharaonic dams, being the Three throats The biggest in the world. And something that these dams need are elevators, but not for people: for ships. And the elevator systems of both dams are so imposing that they allow ships of up to 3,000 tons to “sail” through the sky. The classic solution. There are dams and prey. When one of these structures is built, the river navigation flow. Sometimes, it doesn’t matter too much because that river was not a key communication route for trade, but other times it is necessary to devise a solution to have a prey without interfering in the activity of the ships. The solution is the one used in channels like Panama or Suez: huge and sealed cameras that are filled with water when a ship enters so that it can overcome the unevenness and continue its path. Or vice versa when you want to “go down.” The problem is that it is a system that requires a lot of time and transit is resent. And the revolution. The solution to this? Elevator systems such as those we use daily, but for ships. A close example is that of the Falkirk wheel in Scotlanda rotating elevator with a combined capacity of 600 tons that allows the barges of the channel to follow its course. Each of the drawers has the capacity for two ships up to 20 meters in length and seeing it in operation is most curious because it is like a fair attraction: Now, as we say: 20 meters of length is the maximum and 600 tons is not so much weight. They are the dimensions for passenger ships that navigate a channel, but China needed the Commercial ship traffic He did not stop at two of his great dams. And the solution they found is the one we used to see in the country’s constructions: bombastic elevators. Before the elevator (in the most focused part), in the dam of the three throats there was only one system of locks The three throats. The three throats dam is imposing in every way. Located on the Yangtsé River, it has an installed power of 22,500 MW for hydroelectric energyhas a height of about 185 meters and a total length of 2,335 meters. It is the Great Chinese Aquatic Wall. To maintain an annual traffic of almost 30,000 ships, including Cruises and Portenerosomething had to be done, and in 2016 they finished the Huge elevator. It is a vertical elevator that is how we imagine that it should be an elevator for ships: a huge bathtub of 120 meters long and 18 wide, tens of steel cables and a powerful pulley system that have the ability to displace ships up to 3,000 tons. The total lifting weight, including chamber and water, is 15,500 tons. It covers 113 meters high and, three hours of total journey, it is passed to about 40 minutes. It is something that is sought to expand to increase the movement capacity of 18 ships daily to a larger amount and here you have it in operation: That of the Goupitan dam. Now, although imposing due to its dimensions and load capacity, its design is more functional than aesthetic. However, the elevator system of the Goupitan dam It is another song. Located on the WU River, which is a tributary of Yangtsé, has a length of 430 meters and a height of 232 meters. It stands out not so much for its installed energy capacity of 3,000 MW, but for its channel -shaped elevators system. Unlike the three throats, to save the unevenness caused by the dam, engineers devised a system of three vertical elevators connected by channels. The maximum boat capacity is 500 tons and the camera is much smaller (40 x 12 meters), but the relevant is the total height of those 199 meters that save the ships. And the times? About two hours in total for the entire route, but its design channel design reduces bottlenecks. Tourist point. The system of channels and elevators of the Goupitan dam ended in 2021 and was a technical headache by connecting several small elevators with each other, as well as a system of channels that, in some case, surrounds one of the mountains. It was a way to demonstrate the technical capacities of the country, but it has also become a tourist point that goes viral in networks due to how attractive it is to see a ship sailing on the mountains. And, although the elevator of the three throats can be boring, it is also a tourist claim, with cruises that include the elevator on your route. Australia, heat what you go out. But, if something is teaching us the Battle of the towers between Saudi Arabia and Arab Emirateswe are in a constant search to overcome ourselves when we talk about megaconstructions, and it is already under construction that will be the new largest stocks for ships in the world, at least by weight: the Darwin Ship Lift Facity. It will be in Australia and it will be an elevator 103 meters long, 26 wide and capacity for vessels of up to 5,500 tons. It is designed to serve fishing vehicles, cruises, border defense, energy and container. Now, the distance to save is just … six meters. Much less impressive than the other great elevators that are worldwide because it will be a maintenance platform, not something to save a height between two sections of a river. Images | Google Maps, Fredlyfish4, Le Grand PortaGederIVATIVE In Xataka | NASA has made the calculations: China can slow down the earth with a filling of the three throats

We have found the oldest human fingerprint in the world. He is 43,000 years old and someone left her in Spain

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Now we know a scene that occurred thousands of years ago. It happened more or less like this: a Adult Neanderthal He found a granite shot whose irregular shape, rich in quartz and natural clefts, possibly evoked for his eyes more than a simple stone: it looked like an elongated face. What followed was a seemingly minimal act, but full of significance. He left the oldest human footprint ever known, and did it in Spain. The art of Neanderthals. The scene has now described the scientists and calculate what happened about 43,000 years in what is today the province of Segovia. As explained in the study Recently publishedthe adult Neanderthal wet his finger in red pigment and pressed with him the stone just where the nose of that possible face would be, thus leaving the oldest human fingerprint ever recorded. The discovery, made in 2022 in San Lázaroit has been verified through an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, geologists and forensics, which have concluded that the reddish point contains iron oxides and clay minerals not present in the cave, indicating that the pigment He took intentionally From another place. Art. Unlike a tool or utilitarian utensil, the stone did not present signs of practical use: its value was symbolic, aesthetic, or perhaps spiritual. The red pigment point, without which the object would not have archaeological value, marks the decisive step between the merely physical and the cultural: between the stone and the idea. The stone found The meaning behind the gesture. The authors of the study, published in the magazine Archaeological and Anthropological Sciencesthey argue that the finding reinforces the hypothesis that the Neanderthals had a symbolic mind similar to that of Homo sapiens. For them, the act of selecting a stone for its shape, transporting it, applying a precision pigment and probably attributing a meaning is proof of the existence of at least Three cognitive processes Complexes: the mental conception of an image, the will to communicate something through symbols, and the ability to attribute meaning. This triad, they affirm, is the art base. In that sense, the simple pebble with a red point can represent one of the oldest human face abstractions of the European prehistoric record. The uniqueness of the object makes it a difficult piece to contextualize: there is, for now, another equal. That said, remember that your artistic dimension cannot be ruled out. On the contrary: its rarity reinforces its character as an isolated, but revealing example, of the ability of the Neanderthals to Project thoughts and ideas about the material world. Breaking prejudices. There is more, of course. The finding highlights not only the original act of that Neanderthal, but also the persistent modern resistance to consider these hominids as authentic art creators. As explained Archaeologist David Álvarez Alonsoif it were a human intervention dated just 5,000 years ago, no one would hesitate to classify the object as art portable. But the fact that a Neanderthal has produced a debate that is not strictly scientific, but also cultural: our resistance to accepting that others Humans, extinct about 40,000 years ago, shared with us not only tools, fire and hunting strategies, but Also imaginationsymbolism and the need to represent. Under that prism, the stone of San Lázaro breaks that taboo with a single footprint. It is not a mural, nor a petroglyph, not even a figurine: it is a unique gesture on an ordinary support, one that, they assure, demands a deep rereading of what we consider “art” and who can produce it. A window The researchers tell In his work that the trace of pigment, interpreted as a deliberate act, forces us to ask ourselves for the Mental process that led to that moment. The first: What did that Neanderthal see in the stone: a face, a spirit or a sacred object? We will never know, but what the intervention suggests is a will to assign meaningto highlight, to leave a brand (mark). As the team points out, the total absence of pigments in the surroundings of the cave suggests A firm intention: The stone was collected, transported and altered with purpose. If we also want, in its apparent simplicity, the finding contains a complexity that forces us to reconsider the conception of the human being. If the Neanderthals could look at a stone and see a face in it, and then intervene it so that others would also see it, then they shared with us something essential: The ability to transcend the immediate and imagine the invisible … through a simple sign. Image | Mr. Álvarez-Alonso et al. In Xataka | We have been convinced for years that the fingerprints are unique. These researchers want to demonstrate that it is a myth In Xataka | The Neanderthals left a deep genetic footprint in us. The last example: the sense of pain

A dismembered Lamborghini and a fillet coffee maker with a single goal: to turn them into art

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Art is subjective. There are those who think that Everything can be art From the right prism. AND That subjectivity It is what makes us hallucine or grind us in equal parts Conceptual art. Or that a banana attached to a canvas with an insulating tape is art (of 6.2 million dollars, yes). It can also be eternal, and that is a quality that, unfortunately, does not have the objects we use daily. But … what if we could preserve something in your current state forever And, at the same time, to meet the millimeter how is its interior? That is the question that was at some point the head of the Swiss artist Fabian Oefner, who has perfected an artistic process that analyzes the millimeter the objects with which he works, to the point of mixing tactile, aesthetic and conceptual elements in his work. And what do you like? Destroy things. But although that seems to be at odds with the Eternal preservation of the object, in the case of Oefner’s work, it has all the meaning of the world. The art of tear a nikon, a bialetti or a lamborghini Oefner has three weapons: its camera, a lot of resin and … tons of patience. It has several projects, such as which, together with Google Arts & Culture, merged environmental science and visual art to represent the Relation of alpine glaciers. Among other things. His most visual work is ‘Cutup’ and ‘Disintegring’. The two are impressive, but let’s start with the latter. As the name implies, in it Oefner disintegrates the objects he photographs. An image captures a moment, but in ‘Disintegring’, Oefner wants us to imagine a vehicle swollening at full speedwith each piece leaving in full movement Is what he has done with cars Lamborghini, Jaguar or Mercedesbut also with the Riva Aquaramaa ship that shows to what extent the process of performing this photograph is artisanal. To achieve it, Oefner photographed the ship in bird sight, but later in the study, he made another hundreds of photographs of components of the V8 engines, elements of the cabin, the seats or even splinters of the helmet to, once with more than 1,800 snapshots under his credit, compose The image. On the other hand, we have ‘Cutup’. As the descriptionincludes a series of “technical objects that are cut, rearrange and distort in a new way. Objects are encapsulated in resin to capture them in their current state forever.” And it is the evolution of ‘disintegring’, since that 2D vision goes to a three -dimensional plane. To do this, Oefner encapsulates an object in resin. It does it through vacuum and pressure chambers so that there are no air bubbles or foreign elements that may affect the result, and all this in an atmospheric pressure environment and controlled temperature to the millimeter. Once the resin is stabilized, squeezes using powerful presses and, thanks to a mountain range, it is making cross cuts. It is like ‘fillet’ the object. The result is that, for example, it obtains several ‘slices’ from a camera that puls by hand. After this process, that you can see in this videoand when those fillets are transparent enough to show the object without difficulty, place the pieces in the way you want and embody them again in resin to obtain the final form. In this way, we have a “sculpture” of the camera, but being able to see its interior. But ‘Cutup’ has a twist: instead of assembling the object again in a new resin frame, Oefner had an idea: to turn each slide into the page of a book. It is something that you have done with some objects on scale, such as car models, but perhaps its most famous work in this plane is the BIALETTI BOOK. In it, we can see different cross cuts from a Bialetti coffee maker which shows not only the machine, but water in the base, coffee in a state of Extraction in the bush and liquid coffee In the upper chamber. They are very thin sheets that make us appreciate the object inside, but if we put the book vertically and look straight ahead, it is like seeing the complete coffee maker from that angle. OEFTER states that he does not see destruction as something negative and that he uses that process of “breaking” objects and reensating them as a way of enhancing all the pieces and components of the original object, immortalizing that protagonist in his current state. That coffee maker cut into cachitos is sentenced to Prepare coffee For all eternity. However, art is also ephemeral, such as the six million banana we talked about by some paragraphs … than ended in his buyer’s stomach. Images | LamborghiniStudio Oefner In Xataka | Goodbye to Ouka Leele, the artist who painted her photographs and was key to the move

Finance Mines Today, its production is ensured tomorrow

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Recently The news jumped that Europe did not want to buy Chinese solar panels if they had been developing through forced labor. The problem is not only manufacturing, but the Asian giant controls the entire supply chain from its extraction to its refinement, taking almost two decades of advantages. And now it goes one step further: now you want to ensure future gold production. A new opening. Zijin Mining Group, one of the world’s largest gold and copper miners, has begun to open its funds to professional investors in Hong Kong. According to Financial Timeshas launched the first background of streaming China Minero, a financial modality that consists in finance mines in exchange for rights over its future production. With this model, traditionally dominated by Canadian companies such as Wheaton Priceus Metals, Zijin intends to ensure ingots without directing each mine. But the play does not end there. As He has reported South China Morning Post (SCMP), Its asset management subsidiary, Gold Mountain Asset Management, has gone from operating exclusively with internal resources of the group to capture external capital, offering exposure to strategic metals such as gold and copper. A strategic movement. The decision is not fortuitous. On the one hand, the offer is increasingly limited. Both Lisa Liu, director of Gold Mountain, and Bank of America analysts cited by Financial Times They have agreed that the gold mines in the world are depleting their high quality reserves, while investment in new explorations has been insufficient during the last decade. On the other hand, the demand for gold does not stop growing. In times of geopolitical uncertainty and commercial tensions, central investors and banks take refuge in tangible assets. This has driven gold to mark historical maximums. According to SCMPsome experts have estimated that the price could reach $ 4,000 per ounce this year. The center of the world. The digital transformation of the Asian country is not accidental. In an increasingly bound world towards data centers, electrical networks and artificial intelligence infrastructure, China wants to be where you should be. Has already shown it by configuring as The first “electrostate”and now seeks to ensure access to basic materials that feed that infrastructure: gold, copper and also lithium. Gold always shines. As They have detailed In SCMP, Zijin’s funds have reported a performance of 18% only in the first four months of 2025, and Copper investments They are also outlined as strategic to the growing demand promoted by artificial intelligence. Zijin even plans to reorganize his international assets under a new entity, Zijin Gold Internationaloverlooking a future stock market. In addition, Gold Mountain directly finances mining projects through private credit, accepting in return the gold produced, a way of ensuring supply without the need to operate the deposits. Has also signed agreements of streaming With mines in Ivory Coast, Gansu (China) and hopes to close new operations in Africa and South America, According to Financial Times. A broader ambition. Beyond the numbers, what Zijin is building has a geopolitical dimension. In an increasingly fragmented world, where critical resources define technological and energy sovereignty, controlling the flow of gold, copper and lithium is both an economic and strategic play. While the West continues to discuss decarbonization or industrial relocation, China is buying the subsoil. Gold by gold. Mine per mine. Contract contract. The future of energy, technology and security may not be alone in algorithms, but in the metals that make them possible. And China is making sure they go through their hands first. Image | Pexels and Pixabay Xataka | In full obsession with rare earths, a fairly common metal has jeopardized the green transition: Copper foul

We have been thinking for 50 years that lemmings are rodents that commit suicide. The guilt of everything has Disney

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If they mention the lemmings we will immediately think of The legendary action video game and puzzles of Psychnosis of 1991. The mechanics of that game, in which the herd of creatures obeyed us blindly, even opting for sacrifice, have a specific origin: a Disney documentary. But … what if everything he told were not only false, but orchestrated by the filming team itself to obtain images of the lemmings suicide? What is a lemming (really). A Lemming It is a small rodent that usually lives in areas near the Arctic or in Biomas de Tundra. They are similar to field mice and musk rats. They measure between 13 and 18 cm in length, they have very short tail, chubonch and hairy snout, short legs and small ears. With a garrita on the front legs they dig into the snow. They are herbivores and live in large tunnel systems. And no, against what is said, they do not have a docile attitude and a flock behavior: although they move in a group by the very high demographic explosions they experience, they are aggressive even with the predators. What was believed to be a lemming. That demographic explosion (which actually obeys mere survival: The reproduction cycles are short and the very fertile females to compensate for the attack of predators and the shortage of food at certain times) is precisely what the 1958 documentary ‘white hell’ was inspired. Produced by Disney, this production talked about how, due to the multitude of offspring that they have since there are not enough resources to maintain them, the lemmings are sacrificed for the good of the population and threw themselves by cliffs, committing suicide. The film even offered images of the moment. The origin of the myth. Long before the filming of ‘Blanco Hell’, Rumorology around Lemmings was abundant: In the 16th century, the Bavarian geographer Jacob Ziegler defended that these rodents fell from heaven when there was a storm and died when the grass grew in spring. This thundered statement was based on local folklore: being the Arctic fauna, the native populations of Inuits or Yupiks had their legends around the lemmings, similar to those of the geographer. Little by little, science was denialing this almost celestial origin of rodents, although for centuries it was believed that the herds were traveling transported by the wind. In pop culture. Science fiction and fantasy was the one that possibly grabbed this idea of ​​the lemmings that moved by air and transmuted it into bugs that commit suicide throwing themselves into the void. Since the fifties we find precipitating Lemming in works such as the story ‘The march of the fools’ of Cyril M. Kornbluth, of 1951, where the lemmings with space travelers who march to Venus to die in a collective suicide are compared. A legend of Disney comics, CARK BANKShe drew in an adventure of the ducks to Lemmings jumping through Norwegian cliffs. And nothing less than Arthur C. Clarkein his story ‘the possessed’ explains with a case of alien group possession the behavior of rodents. What really happened in the documentary. The director of ‘Blanco Hell’, James Algar, I intended to record an authentic sacrifice of the Lemmingsbut he did not look like. So the photo director came up with a group of local children to hunt Lemmings, 25 cents the piece. Once they had enough, they were cleared them. A cruel resolution (nothing strange in Documentaries about animals of the time), but today is somewhat uncomfortable to see: ‘Blanco Hell’ went on to accompany other Disney films to which time has not treated very well, and was withdrawn from Disney+ together with classic cases such as The racist ‘Song of the South’. In pop culture. And thus the myth was founded, which gave us an extraordinary video game and a wrong belief in the popular culture that persists until today, as the same Begoña Villacís demonstrated, which in 2017 signed in the confidential an article entitled ‘Catalonia, an army of lemmings‘. Although few stories as fun around the nice rodents as an article of ‘Popular Science Monthly’ that, in 1877, said that suicide lemming what they want is to throw themselves into the Atlantic to immerse themselves in search of the lost continent of Lemuria. Damn rodents. Header | Wikipedia, Psygnosys In Xataka | The amazing video that shows an octopus by changing color while you think is dreaming

In 1958 we found a skull with 300,000 years in China. The problem is that we do not know what “homo” belongs

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It all started a 1958 day when some peasants from the province of Guangdong in China were collecting guano of bat in a cave and noticed something unusual: bone remains that looked like a human skull. They warned local researchers, who cataloged the piece and baptized it with the name of the nearest people, Mabaand the number ‘1’. When did this be live? At some point in the period between 130,000 and 300,000 years ago, and the big question to answer was to what extent It was our ancestor. A recent study already has the answer. More or less. The ‘Chinese Neanderthal’. You will be wondering how such an extremely open temporal fan is handled, and the answer is that it is complex to perform a more precise dating due to complexity of both the site in which it was found and the features of Maba 1. At first, the specimen was nicknamed as’ the Chinese Neanderthal‘Due to cranial similarities with that species, but other studies have dismantled that hypothesis, bringing it closer to homo. It does not fit. But there was still a problem: facial similarities and microtomography analysis rule out that it was a neanderthal, yes, but it is not fully fits with a Homo erectus or with the Homo sapiens. Either with those Denisovanosand the problem is that it can be many things. Facial features, such as nasal prominence, brings Maba 1 to Neanderthals, but the neurocranium It has similarities with Homo Heidelbergensis and Homo Erectus. However, the cranial volume is comparable to that of modern humans and everything adds to a set that is very different from other Chinese fossils of the Pleistocene. Summary: We have no idea. Seeking to learn more about him, the authors of A new study carried out by researchers from the Institute of Paleontology and Paleantropology of Vertebrates of the Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzed the cranial cavity, the diplus vessels and the rest of the internal structures of the skull. Using the technique of tomography, researchers discovered that MABA 1 does not belong to a single class: it belongs to many. And the truth is that it is not so strange to find hominids of this period that they do not fit completely into established categories. No, it is not a “lost link”, at least not in the most colloquial sense, but it seems to be an individual belonging to those cases than They blur the limits between different species human 3D reconstruction of the skull for study But it teaches us something. This whole case reminds me of the episode of ‘The Simpsons‘In which Lisa finds the skeleton of an’ angel ‘and takes a piece to the local archaeologist to investigate it. After the evidence (which we later knew he did not make), his conclusion was that the results were not conclusive. With Maba 1 something similar happens, but it does leave us an important lesson. The researchers comment that “the internal structures of MABA 1 show a combination of morphological characteristics found in several species. And these findings further evidenced the high morphological variability among Asian hominids in the middle pleistocene.” In fact, Maba 1 is a perfect example of that complexity in the human evolution that we commented, since the mixture of features reminds other contemporary fossils found … in Africa. Researchers are clear that “currently, it cannot be definitively classified in any known hominid taxon”, but also that it remains a key fossil to understand the diversity of the hominids of the Middle Pleistocene in Asia. At the moment, it is not a Neanderthal and, now, we also know that it is a “no erectus.” We will see what happens in future investigations, but Maba 1 is not unique. Images | Ryan Somma, Mankuen In Xataka | The “ghost species” with which our ancestors were settled and disappeared without (almost) leave a trace

The links have been from the beginning the basic unit of communication on the Internet. AI is exterminating them little by little

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In March 1989 Tim-Berners Lee published The proposal that would define the Internet and the web as we know them today. This document based everything on hypertext, “readable information for human being and linked unlimitedly.” The basic internet unit and the web. The links soon became that cement that linked all the information and connected it. They allowed to jump from a content to another, and that led us to that original chaotic, anarchic and wonderful website. And Google arrived. This giant triumphed where others did not just do it. The martemágnum of content and information needed a certain organization, a certain order, and Google built its empire by responding to that problem. For many years the company was clear exponent of the value of the links: its own results page was an ode to that concept. They were basically links. That was wonderful, and Google was even able to understand the impossible and to know that when we were looking for “waterchu bi fri” The video we wanted from Queen. A “prominent fragment” or “featured snippet” by Google. Fixed: it is not very different from the answers generated by AI, although in this case Google simply copied and glued párara from the original source, which linked at the bottom of that box. You don’t need (so many) links. Over time, the approach changed and Google tried to lock us more and more in its search engine so that we would not leave it. It was about answer our questions directly With his “featured snippets” (“prominent fragments“), the small text boxes that appeared when making certain searches. This system was fantastic for the user – which many times found the answer he was looking for – and for Google – more retention, more advertising he could show – but not for the original creators of those contents of which Google” stole “the information. The 1989 Berners-Lee document already pointed to hypertext documents with links as a fundamental component. Hello, web. Source: W3.org. You are taking advantage of my work. That, among other things, ended up causing an angry protest by media and content creators, which demanded Google News and other links of links that paid for the contents that copied and linked. It was the first iteration (there is another different and more recent) of the “Google Rate“And the Canon Aede included as part of the Intellectual Property Law. That didn’t end well: Google News hill In Spain For 8 years because Google and others forced them to “pay to link.” The service returned with an iceta law that allowed Google dodge those payments and negotiate case by case to reach agreements. It is curious how seven years ago who subscribed claimed that Google and Facebook did have to pay for those contents, and now be The same thing with the AI. But I’m getting ahead of the matter. Toxic links. The evolution of the Google search engine, which previously represented the maximum exponent of a website in which the links were its main value, has been worrying. For many of us Google has broken its own search enginenot to go against the links, but to contaminate them. SEO and sponsored links have ended up taking over the experience, and that was already an important blow to the web. We did not click not because there were no links, but because we did not fix too much from a results page that is too manipulated. The Huffington Post (now, the Huffpost) was born in the face of Facebook. They survived; Others like Buzzfeed no. Social networks were good before being bad. The arrival of social networks caused the links to be even more important, and in fact we live an explosion of content – and a lot of clickbait – and the birth of the cult of Facebook by media Like the missing Buzzfeed. Then they realized something: sending people to external websites was not interesting. The interesting thing was to keep users locked on your platform. Facebook can be criticized many things, but at least the platform never stopped using links. A cousin of his was born with a much more perverse attitude. Instagram and open war against links. When Instagram was born he did it as a fantastic Flickr successor and other services for photographers. Soon it became the epitome of “A picture is worth a thousand words”, and although it was possible to accompany each image of a text, what was prohibited was to include clicking links. Except in very specific sections (Like the bio of the user), link was and is strictly prohibited. It was unusual. Social networks as walled gardens. Soon the social networks realized – as before Google had done – that the links were against them, and that the best thing they could do was lock us all in their respective walled gardens. What Instagram raised was just the principle of a worrying derives towards those silos of algorithmic content: Tiktok That line followed and only some verified users can include links to their videos. Twitter, who was born as a platform to share reflections and links, also changed with the arrival of Elon Musk, andNemeligo declared of the media. The tycoon arrived APRoibrate links to other social networks, and then CHe would ontaminate the experience With its algorithm in addition to DIt is to keep the links In X because “they don’t attract so much attention.” Or rather, so that you were not from X. Snapchat, somewhat less popular but equally relevant, also raised an aggressive policy against links. Offers limited options To share links, and their absolute focus on mobiles (and not to the web and their links) is patent: he launched its web version in 2022, 11 years after its creation. AI arrives. The role of the links has therefore been co -fled on platforms and social networks, and what we already saw with Google and its Snippets now threatens to be the norm in the chatbots that They … Read more

First steps to release your new Korean brand phone

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Let’s tell you What are the first steps when premiere a Samsung Galaxy With One UI 7, the new version of the customization layer of the Korean company. This version will gradually reach many brand phones, although you have a high range like the Galaxy S25 You already have it available. What we are going to offer is a start guide with those first steps and initial configurations to which you should pay attention. The goal is to leave the mobile ready already to start using it having it already adapted to you. Initial configuration The first when you light the mobile is to put yourself with the initial configuration. The welcome screen can appear in several languages, but to start you just have to click on the only button, and then Choose the language What do you want to use. Then comes the turn of the privacy policy, where you can accept two things. Here, it is enough to accept the end user license agreement, and you do not need to accept data sending to continue. Then you go to the key point, the Configure your mobile from another device. Here, you will be able to do it from another Android mobile, from an iPhone or not do it and continue manually. To use another Android mobile or tablet, a QR is generated from which the connection is established, and from iOS you will have to use the Smart Switch app. In both cases, you can easily migrate your passwords, configurations, session and other elements. In the event that you do it manually, you will have to choose and connect to a Wi -Fi network, and then configure the mobile network. Then, you will also have the option of Copy applications and your data from another deviceand you will continue to start session with your Google account. Below you can choose methods to block the screen. Here you can configure elements such as your footprint, facial recognition, a pin or a pattern. When you finish it you will have to continue configuring Google services, where you will determine what data you share with the company. It is worth spending for a while to look at this. And then, you can configure some of the default applications. Here in Europe the manufacturers must do it, so you can Choose the browser or search engine What do you want to use. At the end of the process, you can configure your Samsung account, starting with one that you already have or creating it. Then you will only see the information of Galaxy AI and Bixby, in addition to the Samsung. And to finish, you have to choose between clear or dark mode on the mobile and ready, you can start using it. Choose what applications you install This is possibly the most tedious step of all the tuning of your mobile. Once you have it, you have to install all the apps you want to use. This means that you must enter Google Play and lower your applications. If you have already used the same Google account with other mobiles, click on your application store profile, go to Gesting apps and devicesand in the tab Manage You can access the apps you had installed on other devices. If you have configured your mobile to extract the data and applications from another, then the task is facilitated by lowering the majority of apps you were using. Even so, It should be reviewed that you are always use To leave everything downloaded. DESCARORY CONFIGURY AND FAST SETTINGS Next, the time comes to customize the appearance of your galaxy. For that, once all applications must be installed Configure the appearance of the desktopdeciding what apps there are on each of its screens, their position, the widgets and which ones remain alone in the application drawer. After that step, although this is already more advanced, you can also Set the fast settings panelto determine what settings appear when you open it. Here, go to the control panel and click on the pencil icon above, and you can relieve the buttons and add others to your liking. Customize the appearance of the mobile Once you have put in order the main customization of the mobile, you can spend some time in other aspects. For example, You can apply topics or simply change the wallpaper of your device to give that special touch that we all want. Both options are in the adjustments. You can also edit the lock screendeciding if you want to use mode Always on Display or always on to have some data such as the clock or other elements without having to turn on the screen. In addition, in Sounds and vibrations can change how and how much your mobile sounds. You can remove sounds such as the keyboard, choose the call tone or the sound of notifications, configure the intensity of vibrations, and ultimately everything related to this. It is worth dedicating five or ten minutes to make the mobile behave as you want. If you enter the screen options, you can choose between clear or dark mode, and many other aspects such as resolution. Here, it is important decide between buttons or gesturesthat you will find within the section of Navigation bar. They are the two ways in which you can handle yourself on Android, and it is convenient to explore them to use the best. And somewhat more advanced are the home screen settings, where you can configure the grids that the desktop and apps have, if you want a balloon to appear with the number of pending notifications on the icons, or even the size of the icons of the applications. Set the Now Bar One of the main novelties of One UI 7 is the Now barwhich is a bar on the blocking screen where you can directly control from it some applications without having to unlock the mobile. You can pause recordings or move on to … Read more

Jared Isaacman has been separated after Elon Musk out of the White House

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Everything was ready for him Multimillonario Jared Isaacmanwhich has flown twice to Spacex space, take NASA’s helm. The Trump administration withdrew its nomination the same day that Elon Musk left the White House. They have kicked him. According to The Washington PostIsaacman was informed on Friday that his nomination as a future NASA administrator, which was made public in December, would be rescinded, despite having already received the approval of the Senate Committee. “The last six months have been enriching and, sincerely, exciting,” Isaacman wrote in his X profile After making the news public. “I have acquired a much deeper understanding of the complexities of the government and the weight that our political leaders have. The President, the NASA and the American people deserve the best: an administrator willing to reorganize, rebuild and bring together the brightest minds to generate the headlines that change the world.” What happened between scenes. Isaacman was seen as An accelerationist of lunar and Martian missionswilling to face China in exploration of the solar system with a smaller budget Thanks to the public-private collaboration. But also as an obvious partner of Elon Musk; recommended by the businessman himself, Despite the conflict of interest. The White House issued a statement with some clues on Saturday: “The mission of President Trump to plant the US flag on the planet Mars” is still standing. But Isaacman was not sufficiently Trumpist, And the cut passed by the influence of Muskwho had donated 275 million dollars for Donald Trump’s campaign: “It is essential that the next NASA leader is in complete alignment with the president’s America America Agenda.” The lowest budget in 65 years. The historic cuts that, if approved by Congress, would reduce NASA’s budget by 24%, have been part of the problem, as Jared Isaacman, like Musk, positioned himself against eliminating scientific missions, the most affected. Isaacman would have had to direct NASA with the lowest budget since 1961. The presidential proposal for 2026 raises A cut of almost 47% For the entire agency science division, from 7,334 million dollars to a few 3,907 million. This massacre would be the immediate cancellation of up to 40 missionsmany of them active and other future, crossed out of “low priority” despite NASA’s efficiency in this branch. Who will be NASA’s boss. Donald Trump will announce it shortly, but Ars Technica He publishes that there is a candidate in consideration: the former Lieutenant of the Air Force Steven L. Kwast, a politically loyal military to Trump who “seems more oriented to see space as a battlefield than as a place for peaceful cooperation and exploration.” Until it becomes official, NASA’s future is a great unknown. In any case, Isaacman’s departure does not seem to be linked to the Boeing and Lockheed Martin lobby, which is working at full speed after the cancellation of the SLS rocket and the Orion ship. “If Kwast is the candidate,” says journalist Eric Berger, “he is definitely not in favor of the traditional space industry, he is a firm defender of the commercial space industry.” Image | Spacex In Xataka | A millionaire has just arrived where NASA had arrived. It is a notice of what awaits space in the future

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