Month: July 2025

Panticosa has been a ski sanctuary for years. Now he wants to reconvert … with the most beastly slide in Europe

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Panticosa is a small town in the region of Alto Gállego, in Huesca, famous for its Pyrenean landscapes and the skiing station Panticosa-Los Lagos. Soon it will be for something else: a Huge slide of mountain almost three kilometers long, half a hundred sleds and a deep unevenness of more than 700 meters that will be unique in Europe. With him the Government of Aragon aspires to disseminate the tourism of the region now that the facilities dedicated to snow sports face a uncertain future. For now, the technical tabogán file impresses. A slide to dominate them all. If you like the slides go by reserving hole for Panticosa. The president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, put yesterday The first stone which aspires to become “Mountain slide with the greatest uneven in Europe.” At the moment we only have The photos of the presentation and some data of their technical file, but they serve to open appetite: the slide will measure almost three kilometers long and will cover an unevenness of more than 700 meters. According to the Regional Executivethere is no other installation of its kind with a larger slope. At least in Europe. Is there more data? Yeah. Diario del Alto Aragón Precise That the exact slope will be 707 my the slide will run along the hillside from the top of the telecabine to the lower one. The obstacles that are on the way will draw them with bridges and tunnels. The government has also specified that the sleds (with a capacity for an adult alone or with a child) will complete the almost three kilometers of travel in nine minutes. The maximum speed will be 40 km/h, a mark that will not be exceeded thanks to a brake system. “It is not invasive”. In total, the slide will have fifty sleds that, according to executive calculations, will allow transporting about 1,100 people every day. “The system takes advantage of the energy of the telecabine during the climb, since it works with the same exploitation of the skiing track. Then, the descent is done by gravity. Not requiring concrete foundation is not invasive for the environment,” Comment to Aragón News Ignacio Vicente, head of the project. The installation includes A warehouse and shape it will cost in total 7.7 million of euros. More than 90% (7.2 million) will leave the coffers of the Aragonese Executive and the rest of the Panticosa City Council. If the deadlines are fulfilled, the idea is that it is operational to late 2026. OBJECTIVE: Destationalize. With the new installation, Aragon has A clear objective: Diversify the offer that visitors are in Panticosa and that the region is less dependent on snow -linked tourism. “It is an example of an economic engine and the de -stationalization of tourism”, highlighted Azcon at the beginning of the works. “This slide can serve tourists for ten months a year and will be a central element in the de -stations of tourism that face ski stations.” The initiative is in fact framed in the Pyrenees Planas the Regional Executive recalls, among its objectives, it has among its objectives to “de -stationalize” tourism in the four regions of the Aragonese Pyrenees. The 7.2 million dedicated to Panticosa Tobogán are added to the 12 that have already been invested in the Valley of Tena in 2024 to install or replace 547 cannons for the production of snow in formigal-panticosa, “which meant an impulse in the capacity of innivation in the stations of this area”, claims The Azcón team. New life for the valleys. In 2023, al present the master lines Of the Pyrenees Plan in Panticosa, the Aragonese President explained that his goal is to “boost” the valleys of the northernmost region of the region, for which he already foresaw at that time an injection of more than 70 million. Among its initiatives, the Montanuy road and Panticosa’s slide, both projects designed among other things to enrich tourism in the area. It is no accident. Throughout the last years, ski stations (in Spain and other countries) have been seen in difficulties for the shortage of snow, which has condemned them to suffer “Lightning seasons” or directly to closing. Images | Aragon Government (X) In Xataka | Cantabria wants more visitors in the Cabárceno Park. So you will create a large alpine slide to travel at 40 km/h

Years ago I bought a computer that turned out to be a chestnut. Almost for the same price, this gives three (or more) turns

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A few years ago (not too many) I bought a computer that would be destined to work exclusively. It turned out to be a bit brown. I spent approximately 620 euros and, although I did not have a bad technical card, the experience was very different from what I expected. Times change and today for that price we see very interesting offers, but few like Mediamarkt’s. Only today, the store has the Gigabyte G6 For alone 660.45 euros. And much eye at its configuration. Of course, it is worth mentioning that, although the computer already has a direct discount, We can take an additional discount. Just add it to the shopping cart to find it at the price of 660.45 euros (compared to the 777 euros that appears before adding it to the cart). * Some price may have changed from the last review Excellent configuration in a pretty cheap gaming laptop The Gigabyte G6 that we find of offer in Mediamarkt is a Gaming laptop which has an excellent configuration in this case. First, assemble a good 16 -inch screen that offers A Full HD+ resolution and a 165 Hz soda rate. To this we must add that internally comes equipped with the processor Intel Core i7-13620h together with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage. In addition, it also includes a graphics card NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4050 To enjoy virtually any video game. Among other things, it is worth mentioning that it comes with the Freedos operating system (it does not come with Windows 11 Home) and includes a wide repertoire of connectivity options: several USB-A ports and many other USB-C, 3.5 mm Jack, Mini Displayport, Ethernet and even microSD card reader. You may also interest you LOGITECH G305 LIGHTSPEED Wireless gaming mouse, captor hero 12k, 12,000 dpi, ultra -light, 250h battery, 6 programmable buttons, integrated memory, PC/Mac – Black * Some price may have changed from the last review Razer Barracuda X – Multiplatform wireless headphones for games and mobile * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Gigabyte In Xataka | Best Ultrabooks: Which buy and 13 Light Portables Recommended from 300 to 2500 euros In Xataka | Better laptops in quality price: which to buy based on the use and nine recommended models

now they will include a mandatory two -year postgraduate

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The government faces the difficult challenge imposed from Europe of Modernize and bring public administration to European standards of excellence. Therefore, the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function has presented The proposal for a new opposition model to the opposites of senior state officials. This reform will mainly affect the future officials of the A1 and A2 subgroups, that is, those with high specialization functions such as judges, finance inspectors or superior architects, who already had to accredit a specific university degree for the position. With the new framework, in addition to that degree, they must overcome a Postgraduate course two years to opt for a public square. An opposition with two exams. Minister Óscar López explained that this transformation is based on a system “that meets maximum rigor and European standards”, while seeking to “improve the selection and talent that access the administration.” The objective, according to the ministry in its proposal, is to capture “the best” through an intensive training path, in line with the programs that They exist in France or Germany. This new system will force the new candidates to first go through an aptitude test, which will serve as a filter to show candidates. Those who exceed this first examm, will access a National Training School for officials, a newly created center where a two -year postgraduate training program will be taught. This training program will be mandatory before presenting the final exam which, now, will allow obtaining a public square for the specific group for which it has been forming, equivalent to current opposition system. Not everyone will pass. However, the candidates who will pass the first exam will be more than those who can finally access a place, telling that some of those who exceed the first exam will not exceed the second. That is why those who take and The two postgraduate years successfully finishand do not get the square, they will receive a postgraduate title officially. According to the Secretary of State for Public Function, Clara Mapelli, with this official title comparable to a university master’s degree, the investment of the two years of training in the School of Officials would be compensated. New training scheme for high -ranking officials Academic credits according to the group. Another important novelties of the Ministry’s proposal is to create a training system that follows the European model based on ECTS credits (European transfer and accumulation of credits). Thus, the highest rank bodies of the A1 subgroup must study 120 ECTS formative credits, while those of the A2 group will require 90 credits that will be taught in the schools of officials. For group B, 60 ECTS will be needed. For their part, the candidates for places of group C1 and C2 have other novelties. The first is that they will need to complete a training itinerary with 30 and 10 credits respectively, but in the latter cases, the necessary training The square has been assigned once they have been assigned. In this way, each official will receive their training from the interior of the public administration, maintaining the active places and adapting their training to the concrete functions of the position. The French model. The new academic structure proposed by the Ministry takes its inspiration from the French model of the École Nationale d’Enchion (ENA)created in 1945, and from which four of the last presidents of France have left, including current President Emmanuel Macron that has renovated it. To launch this new National School, the Ministry has announced a network of alliances between the schools and institutes of the State Administration with the schools and institutes of the European Administrative Space and the universities of the European Higher Education Area. In addition, the system will be linked to State scholarship regimewith the aim of guaranteeing equal opportunities regardless of the socioeconomic level of the applicant. Reactions against. The trade union associations of officials and sectoral group have already shown their doubts regarding the new opposition system. From the State Finance Inspectors Association (IHE), they warn that this model, allowing to know the identity of the applicants who access the second exam after the course, “entails a very serious danger to the future of the public function.” For his part, Miguel Borra, president of the CSIF union, assuredto Public That the new model “will not solve the serious problems of administrations and their professionals”, warning that 60% of public employees will retire in the next decade and that currently 30% of the templates are temporary. They also denounce that this new system can generate more delays in the selection processes that already cause “every year to expire thousands of places for the inactivity of administrations,” he slid. In Xataka | Why Extremadura and Murcia are becoming opposition factories: more than 43% of its active population is in it Image | Pexels (Tima Miroshnicenko)

We are going through one of the shortest days in history

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If you feel that days fly, it is not just a perception of yours. Our planet is turning faster than normal. This July 22 is expected to complete its rotation 1.34 milliseconds before 24 hours, turning today the second shortest day of the year and one of the shortest since we have records. Earth accelerates. Until 2020, the shortest day registered had lasted 24 hours less 1.05 milliseconds. Since then, The shortest day of each year has overcome that threshold. In 2020 and 2021, the highest deviation was −1.47 ms; in 2022, of −1.59 ms; In 2023 he rose to −1.31 ms and in 2024 he came down again, marking the current record. The shortest day ever documented occurred on July 5 of last year. He lacked 1.66 ms to complete 24 hours. 2025 silver medal. The predictions for the summer of 2025 They pointed out three key dates in which Earth’s rotation could beat its speed record: on July 9, July 22 and August 5. Finally, the shortest day of 2025 was on July 10 with a deviation of -1.36 ms. According to the latest estimates, this July 22 will be the second most short day with a duration of 24 hours -1.34 ms. On August 5 it would be third with a -1.25 ms. The world upside down. The really fascinating thing about this phenomenon is that it goes against everything we know about the rotation of our planet. For billions of years, the land has been stopping for the friction of the tides generated by the moon. Our satellite steals rotational energy to the planet, causing the days increasingly long. In fact, it is believed that during much of the history of the earth, the days lasted about 19 hours. Why it happens. We don’t know. Some researchers They attribute it to the thaw of polar capsbut the redistribution of that mass of water to Ecuador could actually be moderating the acceleration, not driving it. Earth’s acceleration has no place in any of the oceanic and atmospheric models, so the scientific community suspects mainly from the depths of the planet. One possibility is that the liquid nucleus of the earth is slowing down its movement and, to preserve the angular momentum of the planet, this internal slowdown is being compensated With a slight acceleration of the mantle and the cortexwhich is what we experience on the surface. The second intercalar … negative. Earth’s acceleration has implications for time measurement. Since 1973, atomic watches mark the coordinated universal time (UTC). Occasionally, A “second interlar” has been added To resolve our watches with the terrestrial rotation, which Historically, he slowed down. Now, we face an unprecedented scenario: the need for a second negative intercala. If the acceleration trend continues, world timing could have to subtract a second of atomic watches Around 2029. It would be the first time in history that this type’s correction is made. Image | POT In Xataka | We know since time immemorial that the days last 24 hours. Except when the wind blows

characteristics, price and technical file

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A few months ago Irobot, the company behind the sheeled vacuum cleaners, He gave a twist to his catalog. Since March, Irobot has three ranges: The Roomba (entrance range), the plus Roomba (the mid -range) and the Max Roomba (the high range). The first two already had members, but the flagship was still in the air. And if we talk in the past it is because it is here. His name: Max 705 combo. A two in one with several tricks. THE ROBA MAX 705 COMBO (Do not confuse with the Max 705 empty) It is a robot that sweeps, aspires and passes the mop. Nothing out of the ordinary, until we see how it does. The device has two anti -re -gum brushes to better reach the edges (although they do not move to the sides as other models), a central brush that aspires to dirt and a roller -shaped mop that is, without a doubt, the main protagonist. Roller. The mops passed smooth rags to circular mops and the next step seems to be the mop-rodillo. This system, baptized as Powerspin, consists of a roller that rotates 200 times per minute and is cleaned in real time with new hot water. The dirty water is collected with a small shovel that, in theory, should also improve the spongy of the mopa on the march. And the edges? Although the Roomba Max 705 Combo has no telescopic brushes, it is able to move the roller to the side so that the corners and edges do not remain without scrubbing. It also has a retractable protective cover that is placed under the mop to prevent the carpets from wetting. It is a system that, indeed, reminds a lot of what is proposed by Dreame in its recent Aqua10 Ultra Roller. Irobot Roomba Max 705 Combo | Image: Irobot Navigation. Irobot has set aside the classic Lidar Superior and, instead, has integrated it into the device. Thus, the robot is able to create 3D house maps for smarter navigation, automatically assign each room and move in the dark. As for the camera, it is placed on the front and recognizes cables, socks, pet depositions and if the dirt is dry or wet. Irobot Roomba Max 705 Combo | Image: Xataka The base. The robot is able to return alone to the base and self -imposite. The Autowash base offers, according to Irobot, up to 75 days of highway, cleaning and recharge of water, but is also able to clean the mop-rodillo. As? Combining a 72ºC water cleaning system and air drying at 50ºC. Versions and price. The new Max 705 Combo Roomba with the Autowash base can already be reserved. It will be sent in approximately one or two weeks and its price is 1,099 eurosthus competing with the great exponents of brands such as Roborock or Dreame. Irobot Roomba ® Max 705 Combo Robot + Autowash ™ Dock, White * Some price may have changed from the last review Images | Irobot In Xataka | Best vacuum robots in quality price. Which to buy depending on the use and five recommended models

Nvidia cannot sell her most powerful chips to China for sanctions. So you have found a plan B: Risc-V

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Nvidia has announced that Its CUDA platform will be compatible with RISC-V processors. He has done so during the Risc-V Summit in China and the chosen place is not accidental: this announcement clearly points to the Chinese market. For the first time, the technology that allows applications to communicate with the NVIDIA GPUs will be extended beyond ARM and X86, towards an open source architecture. Why is it important. CUDA It is the software that operates the Nvidia’s ecosystem. Without a CUDA, the GPU would lose much of their parallel calculation apacities. That Nvidia opens this technology to RISC-V It means that processors based on this open architecture can now serve as the main CPU in NVIDIA GPU systems. The background. The announcement, in addition to making in China, comes while China is accelerating its efforts to reduce its dependence of western processors. Nvidia can’t sell your most powerful models GB200 and GB300 to China for US sanctions, so in this way finds a way to maintain relevant Cuda in the Chinese market. Between the lines. There is a lot of geopolitical strategy in this decision: NVIDIA has been integrating RISC-V nuclei for years into its own GPU for low-level control tasks. Now it makes the jump to support RISC-V as the main processor. And that responds to a reality: if China is going to develop its own processors using open architectures, Nvidia wants to be there from the beginning. In detail. The configuration shown by NVIDIA shows a heterogeneous system: The GPU handles parallel loads. The RISC-V processor executes the CUDA controllers and the application logic. And a DPU manages network tasks. This architecture allows you to orchestrate GPU computations completely within the CUDA environment, something impossible so far with RISC-V. Deepen. Historically, Nvidia has behaved Cuda to each important architecture: X86, ARM, PowerPC and even Sparc de Sun. The company understands that it must be present from the first day on any platform that can take off in the business sector. With a value already exceeding 4 billion dollarsNvidia can afford to bet on all promising architectures. And now the movement positions RISC-V as a viable alternative for future designs of AI processors and high performance computing. If the stars align, other manufacturers could follow the example of Nvidia. And that would accelerate the adoption of RISC-V in data centers beyond China. Outstanding image | Wikimedia Commons In Xataka | On his way to the authentic quantum supremacy, China has set an objective: a “real” quantum computer before 2030

The works sandwich on roads and Metro converts mobility into a puzzle

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Mire where you look, there are works. It doesn’t matter when you read this if you live in Madrid. It doesn’t matter whether or not you are retired. If something must be seen in Madrid are works. Because the city has entered a reformist spiral that touches all sticks. And if public transport should be the alternative to the private car … Guess. Yes, it is also in works. A summer of the least placid. It is not Madrid the best city to visit in summer. Cars, asphalt and high buildings are the perfect combination for turn the city into an oven. Much more if we consider that they shine Hard squares through the city center, which is about Give emergency solutionseither The parks are closed. But those of us who live in Madrid found a good part in spending the months of July and August in the city: it was calm. The usual river of people becomes a stream, some leisure can be done when heat stops squeezing and, above all, one comes to work at a time because the traffic jams did not exist. Today, that is a thing of the past. Mire where you look. Right now, it doesn’t matter if you use the private car as public transport: Madrid is collapsed. Every morning the traffic bulletin gives the usual notices on the radio. But to the usual traffic jams are added notices that have become repeat offenders. The city had not been seen in an equal. In The country They remember an anecdote that dated in 2001. Then Danny de Vito, who was promoting a film in the city, ironized ensuring that he loved Madrid but that “he will win a lot the day they find the treasure.” Impossible by car. If you travel by car you have to be careful with the entrance to the A-5, The great underground of one of the main arteries of entry to the city that, in addition, is causing problems with neighbors. Whoever access here inside the city will verify how the usual four lanes in the direction have become two lanes with a winding layout to save the cranes. Right now, you can no longer access the M-30 tunnel but those who get there await more works in sales, where you want cover the M-30 to generate a huge green space that connects the linear city neighborhood with that of Salamanca. Neither in the northern zone are freed from the works. In the current four towers A huge park has been projected Under which the connection between Sinesio Delgado with the northern knot (where they connect the M-30 and M-40) has been projected. Again, the intention is that in the upper area you can enjoy a huge green zone hiding cars in a tunnel. Public transport. Taking into account that circulating in Madrid with a private vehicle now resembles a Mario Kart race (Asphalt operation included)public transport should be the solution. But those who have chosen to leave the car at home and use interurban entry buses to Madrid for the A-5 have long known that it is not a simple task. The residents of Alcorcón have asked that camp military land can be used as a deterrent parking. Thus, drivers can connect with subway and vicinity. The problem is that In the Metro they will find a partially closed line 6affecting about 400,000 travelers. To line 6 are added from next week the Metro line 7 workswith the park stations of the avenues, Cartagena and Alonso Canoperativa. Who will expect to find refuge in vicinity, there are also bad news. Because right now there is Cortes in the C-5 Between Villaverde Alto and Ambassadors and until August The suns tunnel will be closedleaving unused the station station (nearby) and cutting the passage between Chamartín and Atocha of lines C-3 and C-4. Exchangers. Did you think we had finished? Well, to all these inconveniences we must add great exchangers that are under works. In Chamartín, remodeling is still underway And right now you have to arm yourself with patience and go with time if you want to take a bird. The Count of Casal exchangerthat has added traffic cuts in the entrance tunnel by the A-3 and that will serve as a key node in the Metro line 11 union with line 12the circular section that serves all urban nuclei in southern Madrid. And frozen projects. To all of the above you have to add the remodeling works of Metro line 7bthe connection between the Metropolitan Stadium and the Henares Hospital whose works were subject to a great controversy because they have caused irreversible damage to the homes of some neighbors. Click on the image to go to the original tweet Click on the image to go to the original tweet Click on the image to go to the original tweet Click on the image to go to the original tweet Constant anger. This entire barulo of works that has implications in filming traffic, in the subway and in vicinity is causing a fed up among the residents of the city that can be easy to trace on social networks. The chaos was complete yesterday July 21. A drop in yesterday systems in the subway caused Line 10 delays. To this was added a breakdown in a catenary between the stations of Laguna and Ambassadors, causing a funnel of travelers in that southwest. To close the circle, also the Bicimad public bicycle services was fallen and faults were recorded in the North Light Metro Line (ML1). Throughout the summer, social networks are broadcasting live the chaos that are lived in the Metro and in Surroundings where the stations are full and travelers have to miss trains because they are crowded. Photo | Madrid City Council and Community Transport of Madrid In Xataka | Guide not to be lost in Madrid with the megaobra and underground of the A-5: deadlines, traffic cuts and public transportation

‘Eriksholm’ is a game with 93% of positive criticism in Steam and crazy graphics. And yet it has crashed

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Doing video games is not easy. Not only is it a complex development that does not end when the game arrives in Steam, but having an operational and functional video game is only part of the film. It is useless to have a good idea, good production values and eager if the title does not reach who has to get: the players. And if not, tell them to ‘Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream‘. Eriksholm. This is the first title of the Swedish study River End Games (although its creative director comes from says). Roughlyit is a narrative video game with isometric perspective and stealth as the main protagonist. There are no skill trees, level ups or such things to which current games have accustomed us. We control a character and we have to travel the city of Eriksholm without seeing us. Could it be said that it is a puzzle game that is resolved stealth? It could be said. Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream | Valve Altísimos production values. The Swedish study can boast of having done a sensational job in terms of graphics. ‘Eriksholm’ has some of the most spectacular kinematics and facial captures that we have seen for a long time, an outstanding visual quality and amazing animations. This, which is a delight for the eyes, surely plays against the title for a simple reason: the investment. The general norm is that having such powerful graphics is synonymous with having made a strong investment. Investment that in triple A games with great studies can be profitable at the same time, but ‘Erikslhom’ is not precisely that. It is the first game of a new studio and, in addition, it is very niche: it has an isometric perspective type RTS, it is based on stealth, it is short (like 12 hours, more or less), it is barely rejugable and costs 40 euros in Steam. Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream | Valve But I loved it. That is the worst drink. Despite its disastrous release in terms of figures, the game has reaped excellent criticism. In Steam, he has 363 reviews, the majority very positive, and the specialized press has put it through the clouds. That is something that many indies cannot say. The negative criticisms, on the other hand, agree that the narrative falls from the second section of the game, which can be repetitive and that, above all, it takes a long time to start. Be that as it may, despite the reception of the press and most users, ‘Eriksholm’ has not managed to overcome The 500 simultaneous players on the day of its launch. At the time these lines are written there are 106 people playing in Steam, to which the console and Epic Games players should be added. Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream | Valve In the background. Erikslhom’s case puts a very raw reality on the table: the world of video games is voracious. Video games are increasingly expensive to produce and Its price, therefore, is also higher. The budget to buy them, however, has not grown at the same rate and the amount that can be dedicated to experimenting and trying new things is very limited. And what does that translate? In which the player is sure, betting on the great franchises he knows and that, generally, propose games that are a well (‘Call of Duty’, ‘EA Sports FC’, etc.). Despite the overwhelming rhythm of video game launches, the reality is that Steam’s average player Just play four different video games a year. Cover image | Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream in Steam In Xataka | The milling of a programmer made a fateful mistake of this classic video game into a congratulation message

A huge secret factory is tilting the balance in the Ukraine War. Russia is multiplying a relentless army

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The war in Ukraine has entered a stage of tactical saturation where volume, rather than sophistication, has become The decisive weapon. Russia It has increased And much the use of Shahed drone swarms in Russian territory under the Geran denominationmanaging to pierce Ukrainian defenses at an unprecedented rate. How much? A video has revealed what is about to happen. Swarm war. I remembered The Financial Times that, according to official data, between April and June 2025, the percentage of drones that managed to impact their objectives reached 15%tripling the success rate of the previous three months. It We count: On the night of July 9, he marked a record when Russia launched 728 Drones and Shahed, along with Kinzhal and Iskander Balistic missiles, in a clear attempt to saturate and overflow the Ukrainian aerial defenses. This tactic demonstrates that the massive use of cheap platforms can overcome expensive and sophisticated defense systems, exposing a critical point: the imbalance between cost and effectiveness in modern combat. Gera-3 and a lethal machine. The technical improvements introduced by Moscow in their drones have raised their effectiveness notably. Among them stands out The Geran-3a vturbocharged arizing capable of reaching speeds of up to 800 km/h in chopped, which makes it almost invulnerable to the traditional anti -aircraft weapons mounted in trucks, such as heavy machine guns. In addition, current shahed can fly to greater altitudeavoiding the optimal impact areas of terrestrial defenses. This change, rather than reflecting Ukrainian weakening, shows the Russian capacity to quickly adapt its attack doctrine and exploit the weaknesses of the adversary. The Night wavespersistent and combined with more sophisticated missiles, they seek to wear not only the technical defenses of Ukraine, but also the moral of their population and force political concessions through exhaustion. A horror factory. And this is where Russia’s last announcement appears. Moscow He has revealed to the world which describes as its greatest and more Secret drone plant: Alabuga’s industrial complex, in the Tartaristan region, where Geran suicide drones are assembled. The plant, located in the Yelabuga Industrial Park and officially launched in 2023, appears In a video of the Russian military channel Zvezda, who does not spare to show adolescents operating work stations and manipulating technological pieces in assembly lines. According to Timur ShagivalievExecutive Director of the Special Economic Zone of Alabuga, the installation has multiplied by nine its planned production, reaching a monthly rate of 5,200 units Between attack drones and lure models, which converts it, he says, “the largest plant of its kind in the world.” The scene, no doubt, is disturbing: teenagers building weapons designed to kill a great distance, while the Kremlin presumes a relentless manufacturing capacity. Geran-2, cheaper. If the third version is the most advanced, its predecessor, the direct version of the Shahed-136 Iranian, is the drone Factory Key. We talked about a 3.5 -meter device with a 50 kg eye, a cruise speed of 300 km/Hy a range of 1,800 km. Its estimated cost of between $ 35,000 and $ 49,000 makes it an affordable massive destruction tool, ideal to saturate enemy defensive systems. Compared to western interceptors such as Patriot missile (valued at several million dollars per unit) The Geran-2 embodies an asymmetric disruption: cheap, resistant, easy to manufacture in mass and with a devastating psychological effect. New strategic threshold. To the Russian drone industry, with that Alabuga factory At the head, news has been added that has put Ukraine alert. Russia prepares to achieve unprecedented attack capacity: the simultaneous launch of 2,000 drones against kyivaccording to the German general Christian FreudingHead of the Working Group for Ukraine of the Ministry of Defense of Germany. This figure, which completely redefines the scale of the unmanned war 2 million FPV and 30,000 long -range drones or lure, According to reports of Ukrainian external intelligence (Szru). Overwhelmed defense. Ukraine, meanwhile, has responded to all this machinara with a combination of classic techniques In interceptor drones. In fact, Zelenski recently announced a according to Eric Schmidtformer executive director of Google and current leader of Swift Beat, for the co -production of hundreds of thousands of drones, including interceptors. According to the Ukrainian president, these devices are already Broving dozens of Shaheds In each attack and begin to demonstrate good results, with hundreds of confirmed eliminations in just one week. In any case, to be effective against the new flight profile of Russian drones, these interceptors must reach speeds of at least 200 km/hy altitudes of up to 6 km, capacities that allow to counteract saturation attacks that easily overflow the Ukrainian mobile units armed with technology from the mid -twentieth century. Adaptation without truce. The scenario is part of a dynamic of continuous evolution Between offensive and defensive: A cycle of innovation and counter-innovation that accelerates exponentially. Andrew Turner, former Air Marshal of the Royal Air Force and current director of Saibre Capital, summed up in the Times This dynamic as a “persistent staircase and countermeasures that in Ukraine is renewed every 14 days.” Thus, the conflict has become an accelerated laboratory of unmanned air war, where the decisive factor is no longer the number of fighters or tanks, but the ability to produce and adapt swarms of autonomous machines at a faster pace that the enemy can respond. A single color. In short, the drone war In Ukraine it has reached a new level of complexity. On the one hand, Russia has managed to integrate successfully volume, speed and saturation to create a constant threat that escapes traditional air defense schemes. On the other, Ukraine, with foreign aid, begins to build a defensive layer equally decentralized and reactive based on interceptor drones. In this confrontation of swarms, the balance does not lean simply by the number of weapons, but by the speed with which each side Learn, adapt and scale Your production. The aerial battlefield has become an industrial and algorithmic competition, where software, distributed manufacturing and AI are replacing cannons and missiles as decisive tools of … Read more

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Nvidia is where it is by chance. Just two weeks ago the company led by Jensen Huang reached a capitalization value of 4 billion dollars. It is the first company in history that materializes this milestone. Largely His overwhelming success of recent years It is the result of the privilege position it occupies in the hardware industry for artificial intelligence (AI) with a global market share higher than 80%. However, to find the authentic reason for its success we have to go back to its origins. According to Tae Kim, the author of the trial book ‘The Nvidia Way’this company continues to compete today thanks to two qualities of Huang: its perseverance and its intuition. Thanks to them, he managed to overcome in 1998 a crisis that He was about to end Nvidia. And thanks to them this executive has developed a surprising capacity of anticipation. Nvidia has trouble making the H20 GPU, but the solution is on the way ‘The dilemma of innovators’ It is one of Jensen Huang’s favorite books. The ideas that Clayton M. Christensen exhibited in 1997 have helped him not only to place his company in The privilege position that currently holds in the technology industry; They have also allowed him to keep it at the top of success for more than two decades. And, above all, they have taught him how to anticipate the blows and how he can prepare to fit them. The last one received it in April. And is that in the middle of that month the US Department of Commerce imposed new restrictions to the export to China of the GPU for AI H20what in practice caused this chip to stop arriving at the Chinese clients of this company. This news Nvidia’s shares sank 6% in the bag because I could no longer attend the commitments linked to the H20 GPU that it had acquired. Among the Chinese clients who had bought great amounts of this GPU, and who presumably planned to continue doing it, were Tencent, Alibaba or Bytedance. The most advanced TSMC manufacturing lines have a very high demand and there is an endless waiting list Finally, like We explain to you on July 15Nvidia has made the Department of Commerce review its regulation and allow you to sell the H20 GPU in China again. “The US government has assured us that licenses will be granted. We hope to start deliveries soon,” Pray a statement from Nvidia. But, once again, this company has stumbled upon a problem. When the Trade Department restricted the export of the H20 GPU, Nvidia asked TSMC to stop the manufacture of this chip. It is normal. It was expressly designed for the Chinese market and was not going to be able to continue selling it in China. Now resume large -scale production of the H20 GPU in the TSMC nodes is a problem because the most advanced manufacturing lines They have a very high demand And there is an endless waiting list. A priori this scenario could be a hard blow for Nvidia because it would prevent him from serving his Chinese clients, but the solution has been on his way for many months. And it is that the company’s engineers have been working on A new GPU with Blackwell microarchitecture The latest generation that is intended to occupy in China the place of the H20 chip. In fact, presumably TSMC began in June the production of The B30 GPUwhich is how it seems to be called. What we know at the moment is that this chip for AI will be less capable than the H20 GPU, as is logical, and also that its price will move between $ 6,500 and $ 8,000. For domestic users it is a lot of money, but in the field of professional GPUs for AI it is a moderate price. In fact, the H20 GPU costs between $ 10,000 and $ 12,000. Image | Nvidia More information | Commercial Times | The Information In Xataka | The US gives Huawei a great opportunity: to get its new chip for AI with the Nvidia market in China

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