Month: July 2025

What do we really know about the Start & Stop system and its use in summer

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It is not mandatory but manufacturers have made it an essential in recent years and it is usual to find it in any new car that is sold in the market to the point that it is activated every time we enter the vehicle. We talk about the Start & Stop, a system designed to save fuel that manufacturers carry by flag but that does not stop raising controversies. Is it really interesting to use it or is it better to deactivate it to avoid breakdowns? Start & Stop, a controversial system Although the origin of Start & Stop system dates back to the 80sIt was in the 2000s when manufacturers began to popularize. Before increasingly hard emission regulations that have brought us the microhbrid cars, the sailing circulation or the disconnection of cylinders, the marks opted for a drastic solution: turn off the engine. He Start & Stop System directly turn off the engine when we are standing. The theory is simple, if the engine does not work at the idle, the car does not produce polluting emissions and the approved means are lower than usual. Keep in mind that WLTP cycles, for example, contemplate stops in all the scenarios that simulate, from urban circulation to high speed on highway. Savings, according to some experts, is evident. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it ensures that fuel savings is between 4 and 5% compared to that of a car that keeps the engine at the idle. This is especially useful in cars that constantly move by city. In fact, some studies They raise savings to 26.4% When the traffic jams are prolonged. As we said, the system is not really mandatory by any regulations but according to AxiosThe system is mounted by 65% of the cars sold in the United States. In Europe we have not found concrete data but the new car that is sold without said system is rare. The problem is that the system, by default, comes on every time we open the car. To comply with the expected broadcasts, the manufacturer is obliged to make it so. Therefore, it has become a controversial system. In fact, the EPA itself, now led by Trump administration personnel, ensures that it is studying the elimination of the system “that everyone hates”, In the words of Lee Zeldin, its director. Click on the tweet to go to the original image As in the case of the speed alert system, it is something that could be completely deactivated forever from our cars but is not recommended since In the ITV they will soon check that we have made this modification and will suspend us. Until then, it only remains to turn it out manually if we decide. But is it really interesting? The start & stop and the breakdowns As we say, this option to save fuel is something that we have living together a few decades, so the system has been refined. At first it was slow and abrupt but especially since the arrival of microhill with 48 volt batteries has been refined and is now much faster. Despite this, there are still doubts about whether it can affect the reliability of the car. It is what holds one of the Ebenezer workshops mechanics. One of its mechanics explains on its social networks (more than 300,000 followers in Tiktok) that it is advisable to deactivate the system in summer traffic jams since it generates too much stress in mechanics and can cause expensive breakdowns. Click on the image to go to the original publication First, the mechanic offers a purely practical motive. When the car stops the engine, we will continue to receive air because the car fan remains active but we will lose cold air. But, in addition, we play some breakdowns according to their experience. They point out that stopping and starting constantly generates stress in the starter and battery engine. A battery that, as the companions of Motorpasionit is not especially cheap in these systems since the agm or EFB is used that are differentiated “from those of a lifetime” in which “they have a more advanced technology, endure more cycles and have good performance in adverse conditions.” But the matter goes beyond substitutions within minimal maintenance. According to the mechanic, with the active system the temperature increases because if the car is in the idle, the water pump moves, helping the cooling of the car at a time when it does not reach a clean air in motion and the air conditioning system is increasing the temperature. The Start & Stop helps to raise the temperature in these conditions. However, electric water pumps They have mitigated this problem and some others that are mentioned in the mechanic’s video. Over the years, systems are more and more complex to reduce the risk of breakdowns And, now, they can keep the water pump active to guarantee the engine refrigerated but also a concrete position of the cylinders in the off so that when the march is resumed they are already in their ideal position. In spite of everything, there are still reluctance. In Motor.esfor example, they gave the reasons why they recommended to stop the off and ignition system with each stop. The reasons were more or less the same: greater stress, premature substitutions, loss of effectiveness in the air conditioning or greater risk of mechanical breakdowns. But they gave a fact that can help you decide for the shutdown. Although manufacturers use reinforced alternators and starter motors with these systems, some studies suggest that engine lit during the life of the car can pass from 50,000 to 500,000 occasions. To all of the above you have to add a greater concern for the turbo, since this system suffers especially with abrupt stops. That’s why, explain in the same mediumthat Start & Stop systems take into account the motor temperature Before activating and if this is not high enough they do not go … Read more

Thermal relief is already here but with a hand warning

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The heat, undisputed protagonist of the first half of summer, seems to give us A truce. This time it is not a two or three day truce in which storms lower the temperature for a couple of days before the return of temperatures even more extreme than the previous ones. More fresh. Meteorological models foresee a week closer to normal as far as temperatures are concerned. Moreover: during the next few days We can see negative thermal anomalies In much of the Iberian Peninsula, that is, cooler temperatures than would correspond to these dates. Looking at the polar jet. How have we gone from a record heat to this “normality”? The answer to this question seems to be, mainly, in the Polar jet. More specifically, in the undulations that this current draws over its course. The polar jet is a barrier that separates cold air masses from the warmer air pole from subrtical latitudes. When winding can make polar air masses reach lower latitudes, bringing instability to these areas, which is what is expected to occur this week. We continue in summer. Of course from the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) Remember that we continue in summer, and near the cannula, so fresh temperatures do not imply that heat will be completely. The forecasts Aemet talk about temperatures that could continue to exceed 34º in areas of the south during much of the week. In fact the Keep several notices For high temperatures for the next few days, in some areas of Andalusia, Murcia and Alicante. These notices will live on Wednesday with storms and rain warnings in some areas of the Pyrenees. Thermal relief will not imply a somewhat revolt situation. A new trough. And it is that thermal relief will not imply a less revolt situation. A trough driven by the polar jet will bring storms that can be intense in areas of the north and west. It is expected that the worst of this episode will begin to be noticed on Wednesday north of the Mediterranean aspect, extending during the following days to Levante and Balearic Islands. According to Describe Geographer Samuel Biener In Meteored, “it is not an episode of generalized rains, but of torments of a very irregular nature and capable of generating adverse phenomena, something that is common at this time.” On Friday the trough will lose its influence on our territory. Back to heat? By the weekend the situation could change again, which seems to indicate the return of heat for next week. Although There is still uncertaintysome models indicate the return of the heat at altitude, which would advance the arrival of new warm episodes such as those we saw the month of June. It may be more if we take into account its proximity to the days of cannula. In Xataka | The hydrological bonanza could not be eternal: drought is a real threat after an extremely warm, and also dry June Image | ECMWF

China wanted to turn a village into a great tourist resort. Did not have the numantine resistance of a neighbor

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For a while to this part, the Guizhou area, in downtown China, has become the stage of impossible architectures. In fact, there is a imposing mountain chainbut a bridge so high has been raised that they fit Two Eiffel towers Under him. Not far from there, one person is raising another titanic work: a kind of street castle. A challenge to demolition. I told the weekend The New York Times. In a high grass plain in the Chinese province of Guizhou, a structure that Challenge the laws of physicsurbanism and the very bureaucracy. Composed of eleven floors of reddish wooden rooms embedded by each other, supported by pulleys, water cubes and recycled columns, Chen Tianming’s house seems taken from an enlightened novel by Dr. Seuss or delighted world From El Castillo Ambulante of Ghibli. At first glance, it may seem like a fragile and improvised extravagance, but for its creator and inhabitant, 43, it represents a tenacious affirmation of freedomidentity and resistance to state power. From the ninth floor, to which I access homeless stairs without any railing, Chen observes the uniform apartment buildings where his old neighbors They were relocated. He chose another way: a vertical, personal and challenging. Architecture against forced uprooting. It all started In 2018when the Xingyi government announced the demolition of Chen’s hometown to build A resort. The compensation offer was considered ridiculous by his family, who refused to leave. When the excavators began to destroy, Chen left his messenger work in Hangzhou and returned to defend his parents’ house. Initially motivated by an economic logic (compensation depended on the built area), began adding floors with his brother using recycled materials. But what began as a pragmatic measure became a personal obsession. Apartment on floor, his house grew with him, as a physical extension of his determination to stay, resist, and transform a rural home into a work of inhabited art. And architecture as a manifesto. While officials They insisted in outlaw The structure and sent eviction notifications, Chen responded With nails, ropes and books. The man had studied mathematics before leaving the university, and worked as a calligraphy seller, insurance agent and delivery man, but found in the construction a form of expression that transcended the utility. Each floor had A function or a symbol: A reading corner in the fifth, an outdoor tea house in the sixth, hanging plants and suspended objects in the eighth, a bedroom always higher. Your tools: stairs, pulleys, old woods and their own body. The house became newspaper, shelter and trench. Chen, what He claims to feel “Guardian of the village,” he dedicated his mornings to inspect every corner and repair damage with such ingenious solutions as strategic buckets and columns elevated by the windows. A family history. Despite the skepticism of their neighbors, who accuse them of selfishness or foolishness, the Chen family He has joined Around this unlikely structure. Their parents, accustomed to receiving curious visitors on weekends, with stoic patience the decision of their child. Even his brother has suggested decorating the house With lanterns at night. Together they have chosen isolation against the contempt of the former neighbors who moved. Meanwhile, demolition threat seems have deflated: The resort project was frozen due to lack of funds, in a province marked by Pharaonic developments unfinished. Chen, however, continues to build, not by necessity or ambition, but because it says that each new floor is a personal challenge, an intimate conquest against time and entropy. Uncertain legacy. Obviously, Chen Tianming’s house is not intended to last, and he knows it. He acknowledges that, without its constant maintenance, he would collapse in a couple of years. But he also states that while he is standing, his house will be. He has invested little More than $ 20,000 in materials and about 4,000 in lawyers. His expenses, no doubt, are not those of a professional builder, but rather those of a stubborn artist. Although the government has placed a sign warning of Structural Dangersmany neighbors express admiration against originality and will embodied in the structure. Its construction violates known urban codes, but embodies a form of resistance that many feel their own. “If they demolished it, it would be a shame,” some counted to the Times. In a constant China Forced modernizationthe Chen tower is more than a nail: it is a declaration of intentions. Image | Azylber, YouTube In Xataka | This bridge built by China is so high that two Eiffel tower fit under it. And they have built it in just four years In Xataka | China has an imposing sacred mountain of 2,500 meters high with a surprise at its top: two temples

How to create images from photos with artificial intelligence

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Let’s tell you How to create images from photos wearing artificial intelligence. This goes beyond Create dolls with your photos Or similar things, because you can directly make complete images from your photos, change your appearance, and even add things. Let’s start by giving you a series of prior tips to take into accountwith several things you will need to know. Blabla Before starting, some tips Before you start, the first thing you have to do is know exactly what you want. By this I mean that you should know if you simply create a totally different image from a photo, or if you want to transform this photo into a different one. Some of the things you are going to do are the following: Convert the photo into a drawing with various types of styles available. Create an image using the photo as a gestural reference, but changing all the content. Alter the photo to change your format or remove the background. Maybe even eliminate elements This may seem nonsense, but depending on what you want there are tools that will be more useful than others. Another thing to keep in mind is that you should try Use good quality images As a reference, with good resolution and good lighting, trying that there are no blurred objects. I also recommend you experiment In the event that you want to reimagine the image to create a drawing from it. In this article We give you many styles ideas to edit your photos. It is also important take into account the limits of use of each tool. There are some that are free but that only allow you to use them once or twice before paying, and there are more flexible ones, but with less functions. In general, working with photos is usually a payment function. The best free tools Now let’s tell you The best free services and tools To create images from photos using artificial intelligence. Chatgpt: Chatgpt being the AI that carries the front in terms of making images from photos, and is the one that offers the best results. However, in the free version the process can take a long time. Link: chatgpt.com Microsoft Copilot: COPILOT It is also able to offer very good results, since it is using the same technology as Chatgpt, but slightly modified. They are somewhat different results, but equally good. Link: Copilot.microsoft.com Fotor: It has several artificial intelligence tools with which you can eliminate funds, change sizes or make modifications. Quite versatile. Link: fotor.com/photo-editor-app Grok: X’s AI can do something similar, but the results are quite bad. It is good to generate images from nothing, but bad to create them from photos. Link: Grok.com Google Gemini: We mention a Gemini for being another of the great generative, but for the moment It does not allow images based on photosthat is not to serve you. Link: Gemini.google.com IdeOGram: IdeOGram It also offers interesting results. Unfortunately you can only do it if you are a payment user, with the modality of 16 euros per month. Link: ideogram.ai Freepik: This model is a specialist in making compositions based on faces. However, it is also necessary to use your payment plan to create images using a photo as a reference. Link: Freepik.com Picart: You can add effects to a photo and make editions, such as deleting its background or changing colors. Link: picart.com Vondy: It specifically serves to create a cartoon from the photo you upload, modifying factions of the face to make it fun. Link: Vondy.com Create images from photos with chatgpt Chatgpt is the most capable tool To create images from artificial intelligence. You have many possibilities, and the way to use it is using a Prompt written next to the photo you upload. Every time you repeat the prompt with the same photo you will have a different result. To create an image from a photo you must attach the photo next to a prompt To say something like “reimagine this photo with the style of ..”. If in the end you add an image or cartoon style, it will turn that photo into a cartoon of what you have asked. You can also use it to make cartoons from photos. You can also create images using photos as a reference For the position you want to give. For example, I have uploaded a photo of my cat and asked to draw a lion with the same position, and Chatgpt will do it. You can also specify that the background changes. Another curiosity you can do is take the face of a photo and put it in a drawing that you have created by artificial intelligence. This can be used for jokes above all, because the difference will be noticed. Of course, you can also ask that Use the face as a reference To create the character. Finally, you can also Remove the background to an image To maintain what appears in the foreground. Thus, you will create a PNG with a transparent background that you can use on other occasions. Of course, specify well what you want to keep in the foreground, for example, to say that it is a person or an animal, to take it into account. And the other alternatives? Currently, the AIs that best work with your photos to create images from them are Chatgpt and Co -ilotboth based on the same Openai technology. The rest of the alternatives are simply far from the results that these two offer. Even some big names of AI, such as Google Gemini, cannot even edit images from photos. You can try to use the alternatives from the list, some of them are very useful for specific editions. However, when creating images from a photo they are quite bad and lower. Of course, remember that the evolution of AI is being dizzy, so All this could change in a few months. Therefore, pay attention to how tools evolve over time. In … Read more

The urban legend about a mythical video game that continues to circulate 35 years later

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A legendary game, ‘Wing Commander’ contained a programming bulk error at a time when correcting a video game was more complex than now, in the same way as the testing processes They were less detailed and prolonged than the current ones. An error message that the ingenuity of a programmer made a brief congratulation to the player. That is what they have been telling us so far … but it wasn’t entirely true. Problems in the galaxy. The year is 1990. ‘Wing Commander’, the legendary saga of space flight simulators starts with a Initial Delivery on PC (MS-DOS), whose success would give rise to a franchise that would reach the most powerful microororders and consoles of the time, as a friend CD32, Sega Mega-CD and SNES. In the saga, the Terrestrial Confederation faces a militarized feline breed called Killrathi in the Vega sector. However, shortly before launch in September, Origin Systems developers realized that A fateful mistake hung the game In his final bars. Capital error. What happened was that they found An error message Produced by the memory manager Emm386, which frozen the game. As they needed to send the game to production, one of the programmers, Ken Demarest, directly edited the error message to show the message “Thank you for playing Wing Commander” instead instead of the technical description of the error. A real required required just in time … and that, in reality, never happened. Urban legends. The truth is that this ingenious solution for the error was not published in the final edition: the team managed to correct the error in time, according to Demarest On the Wing Commander Commer Information Centerin its section dedicated to denying urban legends around the franchise. As they say, Demarest was also head of programming in ‘Last VII’, and this game contained a similar closing message (“Thank you for playing ultima VII”). Therefore, the anecdote could have been incorrectly confused or attributed between both titles, further feeding the myth. Functional fudge. Over the years, the false anecdote (of which even There are captures) It became popular so much that this solution was used as an example of a “functional fudge”: a quick but little orthodox solution for the problem. By extension, some critics of Chris Roberts, creator of ‘Wing Commander’ and currently in the ambitious’Star Citizen‘, they have used urban legend to argue that the technical quality of their products has always been questionable. Finally, everything was one of the many urban legends that circulate in the industry. It is counted, it is rumored. The absence of a serious and established press in the first decades of the industry made the video games of the eighties, ninety and even beyond (such as ‘Wing Cmmander’) into hotbeds of rumors and half lies. Since the time of legendary ‘Polybius‘, a mental control device through recreational machines, to the suicide melody of Lavander town in’ Pokémon Red/Blue ‘, authentic Material for nightmares Creepypastathrough the non-existence of A game that erased itself‘Kill Switch’, video games have always had urban legends commented on dark Internet forums and in the cartridge and discs exchange corrillos. The ‘Wing Commander’, as we have seen, has already been officially denied, but it is clear that no one ever kills a good story. In Xataka | The 39 best games of the time to play now and free in the browser

Luxury holidays were unattainable for most in Spain. Now luxury are simply a holiday

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In February they met The results of the living conditions survey (ECV) published by the National Institute of Statistics in Spain (INE). Then a trend was shown: the percentage of population at risk of poverty or social exclusion was placed In 25%. However, from those data now another situation is reflected with the arrival of the “summer”: one in three Spaniards cannot simply be considered a vacation. Spain without rest. I told the weekend The country. In a Spain in which holiday tourism is part of the collective imaginary and GDPmillions of workers live a parallel reality: that of unattainable rest. In the piece they spoke hospitality workers who They had not left on vacation for almost a decade, and not because they do not have days off, but because They cannot afford use them. Background, An endemic evil: With a salary just for above the minimum and a tight domestic economy between rentservices and a shopping basket More and more expensive, travel is simply unthinkable. This group is part 33.4% of Spaniards who, according to The INE surveycannot afford a single week of vacation a year, one of the basic indicators of social welfare according to European standards. The great paradox. The fact reveals that having a job is no longer synonym for well -being: even with the minimum interprofessional salary having Increased 54% from 2018many people still do not reach the month, trapped between scarce income and a cost of life. The rental and housing gap. One of the main factors that determine this holiday deprivation is the regime of possession of The house. While 28.4% of those who have a property cannot go on vacation, among the tenants the figure It rises to 43.4%and reaches 48.7% in social rentals. Housing, more and more expensiveIt consumes a disproportionate part of family income, forcing people to choose between roof or rest. According to Carlos Dirtíaspresident of the European Network for the Fight against Poverty and Social Exclusion (EAPN), this constant financial pressure leads many to also renounce other forms of leisure and recreation, with Psychological and social consequences long range: isolation, loss of roots and growing emotional disconnection with the environment. The impossibility of taking a respite is not just a budgetary problem; It is also a structural threat to collective well -being. The price of non -rest. The testimonies of waiters in The report of El País They illustrate how the lack of effective rest also has emotional effects: anxiety, exhaustion, feeling of stagnation. In others Other casesas in home employees, another angle of the problem arises: those who work while others vacation. Guilt, according to The psychologist Adrián Navalónit is common among those who cannot afford vacations and feel that they lose a basic right. The absence of rest becomes, then, a silent form of emotional wear, which can lead to labor demotivation, chronic stress and low productivity. Inequality symptom. Spain is not alone in this problem, but occupies a position above the European average. Until 2023, 18% of Spanish workers could not afford holidays, in front 15% in the EU team. Among the most vulnerable groups Young people from 16 to 29 years (36.7%) and single -parent families (47.8%), both with additional difficulties to accumulate savings or free time. According to the data of the European Trade Union Institute, more than five and a half million of working people in Spain will spend the summer between employment and the couch, without the possibility of planning a single leisure day away from home. Solutions? As explained in the middlepossibly not only goes to improve wages, but to change the paradigm: assume that vacations are not a luxury or a whim, but a fundamental right that revitalizes the person, family and social fabric as a whole. Image | Jesús Pérez In Xataka | Spain already knows what is the consequence of being a tourist power: that traveling to Mallorca costs as much as traveling to Bali In Xataka | “If you earn 30,000 euros a year, spend between 1,500 and 3,000 is reasonable”: what do financial experts think about holidays

Sending to you WhatsApp messages yourself is an idea that works. But it has a great “but”

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A few years ago we began to detect that many people had a WhatsApp group of a single participant (themselves) and used it as a personal notes. The practice was extended so much that in 2022 WhatsApp allowed Send yourself to oneselfwithout the need for false groups. That has increased this practice, that of convert WhatsApp into a personal homework and manager. Comfort is undeniable: in countries like Spain, WhatsApp is religionand in a touch we can park a fleeting idea, that important link or that photo of the restaurant menu. The friction threshold is minimal, access is immediate. And that is why it works well as an emergency solution, as a content warehouse to consult in a short time and have very very hand. But We confuse convenience with productivity. This began as an informal solution, but for many people it has become an improvised personal management system. There are those who even have several groups with themselves, organized thematically: “ideas”, “purchases”, “work” (!!) … a productive architecture built on sand. WhatsApp is a good messaging tool, but it is not a management tool. It is a patch that gives us the illusion of control, not a real solution. How to try to get a career just used post-ps. The problem starts WhatsApp turns everything into flow. Information that passes, accumulates and is lost in the Scroll infinite. There is no structure, nor hierarchies or states. A “pending task” looks identical to a completed one already discarded. Or an urgent reminder. You can’t export anything – or yes you can, but not decently-, there are no limit dates, there are no Checklists. It is the triumph of immediacy over the organization, of the impulse on the method. Seduction is that We eliminate friction of the moment at the expense of multiplying it exponentially after. That note that you sent you a month ago between memes and irrelevant links. That brilliant idea that sounded important now is only a line of text without context in a sea of fragmented information. Using it as a sporadic notes of notes does make sense. Living in it and believing that it is a system is to cheat, and it is happening. We apply messaging logic to problems that require management. No surgeon operates in hammers. Systems exist For something. It can work to some extent, and in fact it works as quickly to accumulate post-psbut the consequences will be paid later, when we need to locate or structure that information. Comfort, when it becomes independence, ceases to be an advantage to become a limitation. In Xataka | Every time someone tells me that his mobile is slow, I know where to look: the “paper” of WhatsApp Outstanding image | Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio

Chema Alonso already has a new job after leaving Telefónica. He has passed to football

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Chema Alonso has a new destination after his departure from Telefónica. The well -known hacker joins the Technical Referees Committee as an advisor to technological innovation and artificial intelligenceas announced by President Francisco Javier Soto on Monday and collects Ace. Why is it important. The arrival of Alonso to Spanish arbitration marks a radical turn in his career. After more than a decade in Telefónica trying digitally to Teleco, it will now apply its technological experience to a historically conservative sector that is in transformation: arbitration. The context. Soto seeks to completely modernize Spanish arbitration after years of controversies. Its strategy is to incorporate technological talent to improve arbitration decision making through AI. “We are going to start from scratch,” said the new president of the CTA. Alonso definitively abandons the world of telecommunications after his gradual abandonment, crystallized in The dismantling of your team a few days ago. His passage through the operator was marked by ambitious projects such as “Fourth platform“, the aura assistant or Movistar Homewhich did not reach expected commercial expectations. Organization chart of CTA for season 25/26. Image: RFEF. Between bambalins. The signing reflects the new Spanish arbitration strategy: betting on external technical profiles to solve structural problems. Alonso joins a renewed dome that includes Fernández Borbalán as technical director and Prieto Iglesias as head of the VAR, both old acquaintances of Spanish arbitration. The incorporation of Alonso raises some questions about his ability to apply AI to arbitration in a practical way. In Telefónica he gave grandiloque ads that rarely transformed into successful products, although some like Open Gateway They are good advances. Deepen. Spanish football will be its new fire test to demonstrate that it can transform traditional sectors with technology. Your choice transmits the need that Spanish arbitration has to legitimize technologically. His media profile fits with the need to communicate modernization in a collective, that of arbitration; and an institution, the RFEF; questioned by both clubs and fans. In Xataka | Wearing a retro shirt of Betis on the street is no longer a “fifes” thing: how football fashion has left the stadium Outstanding image | RFEF, Telefónica

The 22 -year CEO of a Tech company that demands 80 hours a week to its workers

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In Silicon Valley, a new generation of technological entrepreneurs He is turning his back to the traditional workday of 40 hours. A case that has generated a heated debate is that of Daksh Gupta, founder and CEO of the STARTUP GREPTILwho has implemented an extreme day model that has raised a large dust in the Reddit threads. Gupta, only 22 years old, considers that working 80 hours per week is not only not excessive, but is necessary to survive in the current technology industry. An extreme workday. Daksh Gupta published in late 2024 in Your X profile That his company did not offer any type of conciliation between working and personal life, literally affirming: “Greptile does not offer balance between working and personal life.” As he said in that same message, the days in his company begin at 9:00 and end at 23:00 or even later. “We also work on Saturdays and sometimes on Sundays. I emphasize that the environment is very stressful and that poor work is not tolerated,” the CEO added without ambiguity. The work culture defended by Gupta shows An important change Among the managers and founders of Silicon Valley, who are erasing the boundaries between working and personal life. What was traditionally understood as labor exploitation, some see it now as An extreme form of commitment professional. In the case of Greptile, this commitment can mean days of 14 hours from Monday to Sunday. Competition as justification. In one Interview with Inc.comGupta argues that this time demand responds to the reality of technological startups. The CEO declared that “this is an extremely competitive space. Nobody cares about the third best company, not even the second best, in any software category. If you are going to strive 95%, it is the equivalent of striving to 0%.” His position generated an intense debate on networks and, as confirmed in Your X profilehe received numerous criticisms and even death threats for applying this policy. Gupta, however, insists that changing his work form would mean a competitive disadvantage that cannot be allowed. “We face very intense competition,” he said to justify the sacrifices required by his employees. Silicon Valley and the culture of hyperproductivity. What for many may seem an unsustainable work excess, in Silicon Valley begins to become a norm, such and as they publish in The confidential. The so -called “new culture of effort” to which Daksh Gupta gave visibility, is referring to figures such as Elon Musk, who has publicly defended The extreme days. “No one has changed the world working 40 hours a week,” said the millionaire CEO of Tesla in one of Your messages in x. At the same time, Tesla’s own investors They asked the tycoon Dedicate at least 40 hours a week to do your job as the CEO of the electric car manufacturer. Another outstanding name of this new culture of the eternal working days is Serguéi Brin, co -founder of Google, which also asked his employees a minimum of 60 working hours per week. The era of offices with ping-pong tables And free food has given way to marathon days where, literally, workers are expected to live for the company. As I said Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, work from 9 to 5 as we know it, is in danger of extinction. AI was going to end the eternal days. Beyond the regression in labor rights imposed on Silicon Valley, the most ironic thing is that these proposals for extreme days arrive precisely those companies that are developing AI models that promise reduce workload of workers. No less ironic it turns out that companies like Microsoft or Google ensure that between 25 and 30% of its code is already generated with AI agents, and at the same time they have hardened performance demands and commitment to carry out longer days, under the Shadow of mass layoffs. In Xataka | Lucy Guo, co -founder of Scale Ai, bets everything at 996: “If you want to leave at 5 you are not at the right work” Image | Unspash (Aluminum dissemboweler3000)

He wants to launch a ‘baby grok’

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Grok is having a movidito summer. We already talk to you that X’s AI began to hallucinate to the point of believing that it was Musk itselfbut this was just the beginning. A few days later the level rose And, when asked who would be the best person to deal with “Anti-Blanco hatred” he replied: “Adolf Hitler, no doubt.” In the midst of this controversy, Elon Musk has not occurred anything other than announcing the creation of a Grok for Children. He called it ‘Baby Grok’. Bad moment. The news comes through the X account of the Musk itself, where it has reported that XAI will create an app dedicated to children’s content. We still do not know if it will be a chatbot or other type of app, but among the answers they are already seen Some criticism They say that “children do not need ‘Ai Slop‘, but go out to play. “What is clear is that the time chosen to announce it is a quite delicate for Grok, especially if we add children in the equation. Click on the image to access the publication in X. The controversy. Grok is known for having a more thug tone than other chatbots, but in recent weeks it has been especially incendiary. First he started talking about a Anti-Blancos conspiracy in Hollywood And published anti -Semitic cut messages. Far from stopping, in the following days Grok came to praise Hitler in several messages And he continued with more anti -Semitic messages like the one who said that people with Jewish surnames “are left -wing radical activists every damn time.” Apologies. X users criticized Grok’s behavior and the official response soon appeared. Grok’s official account in X confirmed that They were working to eliminate inappropriate messages And shortly after they published another Message apologizing “Because of the horrible behavior that many have experienced,” the chatbot deactivates for 16 hours. The fault is not from Grok. The problem would be a part of the obsolete code of the last update and the “abusive use” that some users were making the chatbot. This was his explanation: They directed the functionality @Grok to ignore their fundamental values in certain circumstances so that the answer was attractive to the user. Specifically, some user questions may end up generating answers with unusual or controversial opinions to attract the user. Grok educate your children. It is no secret that Grok is closely linked to Elon Musk in terms of ideological vision. Musk announced it as The first politically incorrect thing that always tells the truthalthough later it was learned that they had trained her to Avoid talking badly about Musk and Donald Trump. We will have to wait to see what he has thought for ‘Baby Grok’, but to judge the trajectory of the adult Grok, surely he leaves anyone indifferent. Image | DVIDS | XAI In Xataka | Elon Musk wants you to pay for your AI when you can use others for free. More for ideology than for any other reason

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