Month: July 2025

When a laptop’s battery began to smoke, an plane had to be evacuated. The problem is that it is no longer an isolated case

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Airlines fear the flammable potential of devices Like Power Banks Or large laptops, and therefore establish capacity limits in batteries that can go on board in cab. A good example of the situations that seek to avoid we have had on an American Airlines flight, where a bag containing a laptop He started to smoke. What happened. While the shipment was carried out at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) of flight 2045 to Miami, there was a small stampery with shouts like “fire in the rear.” The deceased was the smoke that came out of the bag of a passenger. The crew acted quickly, starting the evacuation of the aircraft and taking out the bag. What was done. The airline workers instructed passengers to leave the plane in order. However, as can be seen in a Video recorded insidethe hall became a chaos where passengers ignored one of the requests: leave bags, suitcases and other belongings in the cabin and go out empty. Some passengers left the plane with bags along the ramps, without following the rules. The evacuation ended without damage to the plane, but with three minor injuries. According to firefighters From the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD), which confirmed that a laptop was the cause of smoke, the problem was born in its battery, without offering more details. Although before they arrived, smoke had already extinguished, firefighters introduced the equipment into a container with water to prevent future problems. What do protocols say. The European Air Security Agency (AESA) Establish clearly What to do as a passenger in an evacuation situation: Listen: Follow each and every one of the instructions on the cabin crew. Leaving luggage: “Trying to take your belongings will not only hinder you, but will also endanger other passengers. Luggage could hinder the exit and cause damage to the evacuation equipment” In the United States, process priorities They are exactly the same: follow the crew instruction and leave belongings behind. The objective is always that any aircraft is safely emptied in 90 seconds. A growing problem. Although since 2016 the lithium -ion batteries are prohibited in the wineries of the airplanes, the number of incidents related to them has shot themselves, either by smoke, fire or extreme warming. The Federal American Aviation Administration (FAA) carries A count And the figures are fully fired: between 2006 and 2016 there were 120 incidents. Between 2017 and May 2025, 377. More than triple cases, and in less years. The majority of incidents occur in commercial airplanes: 385 cases of 119 of transport aircraft. We have analyzed express mentions on fire in the descriptions provided by FAA, and there are 201 cases: 47 from 2006 to 2015, and 144 from 2016 to May 2025. And its solution during the flight. FAA incident records are also useful in another sense: they indicate how the crew mitigates the problems in full flight. The great key are “Thermal containment bags” as is from AvsaxThey are igniphed containers capable of sealing a device and preventing major disasters. In many cases, the crew chose to introduce the problematic device in water before moving to the protective bag. Airlines are taking measures, and for example Southwest Airlines already forces passengers who use Powerbanks to that they have them in sight while carrying. Why the batteries burn. If the question is why they explode, the answer is in a phenomenon, “Thermal leakage“: Overheating due to a heat production process that is self -demand, which ends up causing overpressure explosion. If the anode does not correct the cathode, there is heating, which leads to additional exothermic reactions, which overcome the chemical system and shape oxygen bubbles, CO2 and other gases. With luck, the reaction does not pass from smoke, but it is the precedent of something worse: fire. Why not everyone burn. Because of its characteristics, the batteries They occur following rigorous security plans. But nothing prevents batteries of worse quality or defective, such as Samsung confirmed for the Galaxy Note 7. There is also an additional factor that no longer depends on manufacturers: mechanical blows such as high -height falls, which can deform the battery and make different parts of it touch, which would cause a short circuit and contribute to heating. Images | Erik McLean and Phil Deforges In UNSPLASH, Antonio Sabán with Ia In Xataka | The GPS has become the Achilles heel of modern aviation. And engineering already has its substitute ready

Sell tickets a year earlier

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It is inevitable: each new premiere of a film directed by Christopher Nolan is more than the essential cinephile event of the year. It is a cultural event. And so It will happen again with ‘The Odyssey’the epic adventure film inspired by Homer’s classic stories and that a year before its premiere has managed to raise an expectation never seen before. Everything is part of a carefully drawn plan. Odysseus & co. The only announcement of ‘The Odyssey’ already put expectations in the clouds: Christopher Nolan, the director technologically more advanced of the momentwill adapt a very classic adventure, a founding story of epic stories, and whose footprint in world culture is unbarkable. I was going to decorate it with a cast, as always in his cinema, of consecrated stars (Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal …). Produce Universal againwith whom he already worked at the Oscarizadísima ‘Oppenheimer‘And the premiere is scheduled for July 17, 2026. A year earlier. To stand this strategy, Universal put tickets on July 17, a year before the premiere of the film already knowing that Nolan’s name is more than enough to sell ‘The Odyssey’, without the need for trailers. They are the passes for the first weekend, in the Exclusive 70 mm IMAX formatthe preferred by Nolan. The tickets sold out in a single day and, of course, it did not take long unleash speculative feverwith resale of up to 200 pounds in London (a phenomenon that Nolan already knows: It happened with ‘Oppenheimer’). A bold bet. The typical marketing of the great productions, especially those of the expected summer premieres, usually starts from 4 to 6 months before the premiere. Nolan has skipped the norm bending that period of time and in a format that also knows that it is exclusive (in Spain, for example, There are no cinemas that project in this format). 95% of the tickets sold out in minutes, generating 1.5 million dollars of benefits… before the film has finished its production. IMAX, the future. A few days ago, BBC linked success From this universal marketing operation to the previous success of a Warner movie, Ryan Cogler’s vampiric adventures’The sinners‘. The director expressed on numerous occasions your love for the IMAX format And the film became a success in that format. According to BBC, this semi-lain success could have encouraged Universal for this early sale, relying on support without palliative that Nolan has always made the format. An excellent Timing To claim the formats in the room, now that it is clear that the recovery of pre-pandemic box office figures It may never come. Nolan, for elites. Nolan is still a RARE Av Inside the cinema. You can afford to make the movies you want: Science fiction would be With Kubrickian left to continue his trilogy about Batman, and after that, more twisted science fiction and a biopic without fantastic elementsand then refer to this new classical epic epic. And they will always be successes. But if other directors dared to experiment with their same approaches, tones and topics, possibly the box office would not accompany them, Seeing public preferences. Nolan is an isolated phenomenon, and that is why the following steps of the industry so that the public goes back to the rooms must be extremely careful. Christopher Nolan’s eternal paradox: razes at the box office, success after success even one year in advance, but that does not mean anything. An islet in a sea of sequelae. Image | Gtres – Warner In Xataka | After fifteen years of its premiere, this classic treasures a record: the highest grossing science fiction film without being a saga

Starlink has made 144,000 maneuvers in six months to avoid collisions

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Starlink satellites executed 144,404 collision evasion maneuvers between December and May, according to SPACEX DATA LOCATED BEFORE THE FCC. That is equivalent to a maneuver every two minutes. Why is it important. Each evasion is an opportunity for human or technical error that could trigger a destructive chain reaction. Kessler syndrome – COLLISCES WASHING THAT WOULD MAKE A COMPLETE ORBITE – STARTS TO STOP SUMMARY FOR SCIENCE. The figures. Starlink has tripled its evasion maneuvers with respect to the previous period. To contextualize: Isro, the Indian Space Agencyhe has only made 122 maneuvers in 14 years. Between 2022 and 2023 he had whether Pico: 23. The context. The low land orbit has become a kind of highway. A saturated highway. Spacex has launched more than 6,000 satellitesand plan to deploy up to 42,000. Amazon, Oneweb and several countries prepare their own constellations. The democratization of space brings obvious benefits: global Internet, land observation, emergency communications. The problem is the hidden cost of orbital congestion. Between the lines. Spacex has asked for “uniform report standards” for the entire industry. Translation: We need clear play rules before someone causes a catastrophe that affects everyone. The threat. A single error can be translated into thousands of spatial garbage fragments traveling 28,000 km/h. In addition, each fragment becomes a projectile capable of destroying other satellites, which would create more fragments in a chain reaction. And now what. The industry is developing autonomous evasion systems with which They promise to reduce maneuvers up to 50%. But the real solution and long term goes through international regulation and coordination between operators. The space is immense, but not infinite. Maybe it’s time to learn to share it. In Xataka | He cheated his wife, the army and the Government of Ireland: the incredible history of the man who passed through Astronaut Outstanding image | Spacex

tourists no longer want to pay them

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“There are tourists who now ask for an orange juice and take it among five people.” The phrase He is from a hotelier of the center of Soller, in Mallorca, one of the great tourist enclaves of the island, and reflects well the situation with which the bars and restaurants of the region are being found: tourists arrive, but they do it with less bulky and less arranged portfolios and less willing to leave four euros for a coffee. Other restorers in the area regret that they are increasingly with more visitors who pull super and prepare their own food. The sector It does not hide Your concern. What happened? That Spanish tourism, a sector that has been (at least from the pandemic) getting used to news about growth, record data And upward invoices, he is giving worrying signs in one of his bastions: Mallorca. In May the employer of the hospitality industry He already warned that the first quarter of the year had been closed with a widespread revenue drop that moved between 10 and 20%. And since then the situation It does not seem to have improved. Why’s that? A quick search arrives on Google to meet news in which the hoteliers of one of the most emblematic destinations in the region, Port of Sóllerthey lament the panorama with which they are being found in the middle of summer, just when their businesses should go stern. “We have gone from not having workers to be over,” confesses to Diario de Mallorca The owner of two restaurants that has had to do without five employees. “The queues of other years are not seen anymore. The last ones I remember were in Holy Week. It does not look good and those who will be harmed will be the workers, especially since next season,” The hotelier insists. “This is a rebound effect after the madness after Covid. We will return to the situation we had before the pandemic, but with much narrower margins.” Is it the only one who thinks like that? No. eldiario.es has published A similar chroniclewith similar complaints from other businesses of the Serra de Tramuntana. One of them, for example, ensures that more than a matter of quantity, of the number of tourists who come to Sóller to enjoy their vacations, it is a problem of habits. People arrive with the most tight portfolio. And less willing to exceed expenses. “More than in the number of tourists, (there is) a change in the type of customer you consume and in the amount you consume,” says the person in charge of a bar. “The volume of people who come to Sóller continues to be the same, with more or less fluctuations every 15 days. But what has dropped is the consumption in bars. People are spending less and that shows,” Explain to the newspaper another hospitality hostess. “Now they ask you for an orange juice (6.5 euros) and take it between five.” The trend collides with a tourist profile that until not so ago was willing to pay four euros for a coffee or more than 25 for the menu of the day. But … What do the data say? Those of CAEB They draw a little flattering panorama. According to Your calculationsthe sector suffers a ‘puncture’ in its turnover between 6 and 8%, a fork that in some restaurants would rise from 15-20% or even reaches 30% in specific cases. Its president, Juan Miguel Ferrer, is blunt and esteem that in eight out of ten stores sales will fall this year. Interestingly and although the sensation can be that the city is crowded, one of the most affected areas is the center of Palma, where the fall reaches 8%. What is the problem? The hoteliers summarize it with a single word: profitability. “The situation is very difficult. We are concerned about business profitability. Many cannot survive. We had not had such a bad summer since before the pandemic,” Ferrer insists In Tourinews. The president of CAEB ensures that last year closed 370 establishments and It is cautious on what the impact can be in the coming months. “We will have to see this year.” Ferrer remember That May was marked by the bad weather, June Mo was plethoric and now the businesses are with a decrease in the influx of customers, especially in Port Soller, Sant Elme and Port D´Alcúdia. “We have gone from being full to have occupations that do not exceed 60%.” The situation is not ideal on the Paseo de Palma. Again the issue is not that there are no visitors, but that they seem less given to consume in the restaurants. “They are known as sandwich tourists”, duck. What tells us the INE? Give other brushstrokes that help compose the painting. His latest data is May, but show that during the first five months of 2025 the annual variation rate among foreign tourists It has been positive In Balearic Islands. As for the flow of travelers and overnight, in June the INE record Increases with respect to 2024. For example, 1.86 million visitors in June 2024 went to about 1.89 million this year. Another interesting fact is the prices. In June the INE registered a year -on -year variation rate of 9.9 in the hotel price index of the Balearic Islands. If we consult the IPC table the annual variation between the set of restaurants and hotels of the archipelago is 5%percentage that rises 30% If compared to 2019. In general, the summer of 2025 usually occurs as the one in The most expensive hotel priceswith 50% increases from the beginning of the pandemic. What is that fall? The apparent ‘prick’ in the billing of the Mallorcan hoteliers is not understood without handling some keys. Both internal and external. Among the last ones is The economic situation from Germany, a crucial market that does not go through its best moment, and the growing competition of other cheaper destinations. One of those who … Read more

China is building the largest telescope in the world. The question is why he is doing it in secret

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In the select club of first level astronomical observatories, all projects They are advertised to hype and saucer decades in advance. China instead is building a gigantic telescope of 14 and a half meters on the Tibetan plateau without having officially announced it. US suspicions. An article of Wall Street Journal He has raised the hare. A telescope of that size would not only rival the most powerful observatories in the West, but, if it was terminated in time, it would temporarily become the largest terrestrial optical telescope in the world. The question that, according to the Journal, resonates in Harvard’s halls and NASA is not whether they are building it, but why they do it stealthily. The clues that arrive from China. Robert Kirshner, Emerrito Professor of Harvard and leader of the thirty -meter telescope, The American project that Spain now wantsit has been one of the main detectives in this plot. The clues, although discreet, are overwhelming: In January, the state company Nanjing Astronomical Instruments published on social networks that it had gained a tender of 22 million dollars to build the dome of a telescope with a mirror of 14.5 meters In April, some students who visited a scientific institute mentioned in another publication that the researchers had shown them the configuration of the mirrors for a telescope of that same size An outstanding Chinese astronomer declared state media that one of its objectives was to finish “the 14.5 meter telescope” before its retirement Beijing has adopted a low profile. The anomalous thing about this case is that Chinese institutions also do not celebrate their technological sovereignty with the usual triumphalism in this type of project. China, which does not hesitate to celebrate other space milestones, here has opted for a low profile. A clear trace of tenders. Technical documents are scattered, but paint a clear image of an advanced development project. The main test is the tender of its most visible component: the dome. A public announcement of the Chinese Academy of Sciences He was looking for offers for the “Project to Acquisition of the Dome of the Optical/Infrared Telescope of 14.5 m”, with a deadline set for November 2024. On the other hand, a memorandum of China National Astronomical Observatory It justifies the purchase of infrared detectors, describing the project as “a great astronomical telescope to achieve the top of science and technology.” In parallel, published job offers For “the general purpose of the general major caliber in construction in our country.” I even looked for personnel for the system engineering file managementan unequivocal sign that the design phase had given way to the construction. Why not announce it then? Matt Mountain, president of the Aura organization, which manages the Observatorios Hubble and James Webb for NASA, raises two hypotheses. The first is military: A telescope capable of obtaining crisp images of a galaxy to millions of light years can also observe with an unprecedented resolution The spy satellites of other nations in space. The domain of heaven is not only scientific, but also strategic, as We have been seeing in the Earth’s orbit For years. The second hypothesis is a long -term play for technological leadership. Mountain describes it brilliantly: “Astronomy is the entrance drug for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.” Investing in inspiring projects such as a giant telescope is the best way to encourage a whole generation of young people to study Stem races, ensuring that China can overcome the United States in the coming decades. The biggest telescope for a while. To understand the magnitude of this project, you have to put it in context. The Hubble space telescope mirror measures 2.4 meters; The Webb, 6.5 meters. The four largest optical telescopes on Earth are around 10 meters in diameter. If China completes its 14.5 meter telescope soon, it would dwarf all existing observatories until the new generation They will see the light. Precisely these days the thirty -meter telescope (TMT) has been on everyone’s mouth (TMT) that the United States was going to build in Hawaii. After becoming one of the victims of Trump’s science cuts, the Government of Spain has offered 400 million euros To be built on the island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands. Although its final location is yet to be decided. Image | Universidad de Pekín In Xataka | For the first time we have pointed to heaven with a 3,200 megapixel camera. In just 10 hours he has done several years

It has a 10% discount and comes with insured gift

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It is true that now many of the telephone companies offer Roaming To its customers, but your company may not have an agreement with the country of destination or this has a cost too high. Reaching one of these and finding yourself without the Internet makes us have to look for a traditional SIM or manage with Wi -Fi networks that may not be all the safe ones they should. The alternative to this is to do with An ESIM And there are very good price like those offered esimflag: we have them available from 3 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review Having data in any country is very good price The price we pay will depend directly on the country to which we are going to travel. There are places like Argentina where its price is 3 euros only, although as we say, it will depend on our destination. Now, if we use the code Travel10we will get a 10%direct discount, regardless of the ESIM we choose. If we plan to travel several days, we have another incentive with Esimflag. If we buy an ESIM for two days or more, We will have the first day as a gift. Said more easily: we will get a discount equivalent to what a day of the ESIM would cost us. And be careful, because both the 10% discount and this free day promotion are cumulative. Beyond the price and discounts, the truth is that getting with an ESIM is the most comfortable we can do. Simply acquire it and put it on our mobile phone, without the need to make it physically. In this way, once we reach the destination, the ESIM plan will be automatically activated and we will have unlimited data. Thus, without more. Taking into account its price and the current promotion, it is worth saving headaches on our vacation. 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 | esimflag In Xataka | Esim in Spain: all operators, compatible devices, prices and conditions In Xataka | Better mobiles for less than 200 euros: the opinion of Xataka experts

When an engineer wanted to cross Africa by car, he invented a wooden. It would be the beginning of its end

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In one of his picturesque life, Tony Howarth had a revolutionary vision: Create a perfect car for Africa. A cheap, resistant, easy to repair and that could be made locally with sustainable materials. His project, baptized as ‘Africar’, promised to change transportation in the African continent forever. However, what began as an altruistic dream It ended up becoming a legal nightmare which led its creator directly to prison. From a filmmaker to engineer with a mission: to manufacture the perfect car for Africa Image: Silodrome Howarth was not any businessman. Graduated in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, had developed since childhood A passion for mechanics which led him to build his own fuel injection system for his motorcycle when he was barely ten years old. However, it was his recognized career as a photographer and filmmaker that led him to devote himself to this peculiar project. And is that Howarth has traveled more than 130 countries, experiencing in the first person the difficulties of African land roads. During his trips through Africa in the 70s, Howarth realized that Western vehicles were not designed for the extreme conditions of the continent. Earth tracks, deep potholes and the lack of specialized workshops turned any breakdown into a capital problem. In addition, the programmed obsolescence of the Western car industry made the spare parts more and more difficult to achieve. An inspiration of the Ford Model T Image: Silodrome The concept of Africar was inspired by the legendary Ford Model T, a vehicle that had been designed precisely for the roads without asphalting from Rural America of the early twentieth century. Howarth understood that what Africa needed was something similar: A simple, durable and that could be repaired by local mechanics No need for sophisticated equipment. Its design was revolutionary for its simplicity. The chassis was built with stainless steel tubes to avoid corrosion, while body panels could be manufactured with local materials such as laminated wood impregnated in resin, aluminum or even plastic. The chosen engine was the Citroën GSA Boxer Propulor Refrigated by air that offered reliability and ease of maintenance. An expedition that changed everything Image: Lancslive In 1984, Howarth built three prototypes of Africar for an ambitious expedition that would be documented by Channel 4: A journey from the Arctic Circle to the African Ecuador. The three vehicles-a ranchera, a pick-up and a six-wheel model-demonstrated their worth crossing thousands of kilometers of extreme land. During the journey, Africar exceeded evidence that left a Land Rover Series III that accompanied them. Their long -running independent suspension and their high distance to the ground allowed them to overcome obstacles that stuck more conventional vehicles. The fatal error Image: Lancslive The success of the expedition opened the doors to investment. In 1986, Howarth founded Africar International Limited in LancasterEngland, and began to capture capital of private investors. However, He made a mistake that would end his project and, later, in prison. Concerned about the dependence of the Citroën engines, which could be obsolete at any time, Howarth decided to invest the money of investors in developing their own engine. It was a logical decision from the technical point of view, but catastrophic since the financial. The funds were exhausted before completing the development, and the clients who had paid in advance did not receive their vehicles. The situation became unsustainable when investors discovered that the prototype shown in a Christmas presentation of 1987 was actually an empty shell: without engine, with the doors stuck and still wet paint. A bitter ending and a legacy that endures Image: Silodrome In July 1988, the Police intervened and Africar International Limited ceased its operations. Howarth fled to the United States in a desperate attempt to get the financing that saved the project, but it was useless. In 1994 he returned to the United Kingdom, where He was arrested immediately. Tony Howarth declared himself guilty of a fraudulent crime and five to obtain goods through deception. Was sentenced to 15 months in prison. In his own words, the prison experience “was like being in a British boarding school.” Although Africar never manufactured in series (it is estimated that only one and six specimens of production were built), Howarth’s idea did not die with him. His concept has inspired other African entrepreneurs, such as the creators of the Mobius in Kenyathat resumed the vision of a car designed for the region, despite Its economic difficulties. Cover image | Silodrome In Xataka | The list of 2025 most reliable cars has left us the most unexpected surprise: the best car does not have Toyota or Honda

Review with characteristics, price and technical file

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Robert Ader, CEO of Porsche, said that the Porsche Taycan is “The best electric car in the world”. Rereading the Héctor Ares test back in 2020we are not surprised by those words. He talked about the car as “a before and after in the history of Porsche” but extended the appellation to all “electric mobility.” That taycan that has monopolized looks, which was An immediate supervents But what has had Problems to sell over timehas a twin brother with four hoops on the front. His name is Audi e-Tron GT. And as a good brother, by the hand of the renewal of the Porsche electric supercar, it has also been updated. That renewal has come with more power, more battery and better consumption. More and better. To create an authentic beast of enormous versatility. A thousand -faced car that has to be a real bullet in circuit, which the only limit he knows on the road is the road itself. But, curiously, it is incredibly comfortable in city as a daily car. A thousand -faced car that we have already tried. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than the announcing Audi RS E-Tron GT Performance Technical Card Audi RS E-Tron GT Performance Body type. Five -seater electric supercard. Measures and weight. 4,997 meters long, 1,964 meters wide, 1,369 meters high and 2,900 meters of wheelbase. 2,395 kg of weight. TRUNK. 350 liters in the rear trunk. 77 liters in the front trunk Maximum power. 925 hp WLTP consumption. 18.7 kWh/100 km according to WLTP cycle. 592 km according to WLTP cycle. Environmental Distinctive. Zero emissions Driving aids (ADAS). Automatic emergency braking, intelligent speed limits information, vehicle detection at the dead angle, smart cruise control, 360º parking chamber, rear parking sensors, maintenance assistance and lane change, rear cross traffic alert. OTHERS. Own software compatible with Android Auto and Apple Carplay. Matrix lights with laser technology. Electric hybrid. No. Plug -in hybrid. No. electric Yeah. Tested version with two engines (one per axis) that generate a maximum of 925 hp with 105 kWh gross battery (97 kWh (net) price and launch Already available from 166,900 euros. Proven version: 220.005 euros. Barbarity I know that tastes are very personal but I like the Audi e-tron GT a lot. I really like the Porsche. Perhaps because it still makes me uncommon to see a berlina signed by Stuttgart’s with five doors. The e-tron GT seems more sculptural, more organic and elegant. I have not been fortunate to get on the Porsche Taycan but, because of what was read to colleagues, I have the feeling that in motion you must feel something similar. More gross the Porsche, most noble the audi. Two faces of a currency that make one ask one where the limits of the electric car are. Because if something surprises in the first contact with the Audi RS E-Tron GT Performance is its ability to move between traffic, to make easy what in a supercar seemed difficult or is taken for granted that is uncomfortable. Surprisingly, it is not to wander it, maneuvering with a shaken facility for a five -meter car that in practice feels smaller. Slipping between traffic, steering wheel and right pedal is resembled to a video game. You always arrive before the rest of the drivers. You always have space to advance in an exit. You always find a hole. Because under the foot You have 925 hp and 1,000 nm torque always available that are managed with a sweet softness or with the unbroken kick that launches you above any legal (and rational) limit that occurs. At the moment one, two, three seconds fall, the image is rampant, the tunnel effect begins and the car does not ask you if (the best for your driving card) you are or not on an autobahn. If you are not because, for whatever, Germany is far away, it is almost mandatory to put the speed limiter. The proven unit comes with the most advanced pneumatic suspension. The same one that slips up 77 millimeters when entering and getting out of the car to facilitate the blessed fattening of sitting almost up to the ground. The same that makes the car a carpet that slides down the street and overcomes obstacles (it doesn’t matter highlights as deep potholes) without immutating the body. And the same that keeps the body of the immovable car every time you take the following curve of a mountain port. That which It seems to pounce on you Every time you put your foot on the accelerator pedal, always willing to force you to step hard those ceramic brakes that nail you on the site and could stop an uncontrolled trailer. It seems that the car does not care to weigh the almost 2,400 kg that are distributed between the front and the rear axle. One slides, again, trumpets, aware that the road is (very) small. We have not put it to the circuit and return the car we feel that perhaps it is the only logical means to put it to the test. In any other scenario, the Audi RS E-Tron GT Performance is a perfect supercar. Against all prognosis, it is a really comfortable car for day to day. I would not mind having it in the garage and using it daily but I can think of many other supercar to which it would cost me to go to my office in one of those towers that break the sky of Madrid. I imagine that who is spent each and every one of the 222,005.00 euros that this unit costs (part of 166,900 euros before accompanying it from the referenced active suspension, the matrix lights with laser technology or the carbon endings for the ceiling and the mirrors) works in one of those towers a tens of meters high. There will be those who can tell me that this person’s own electrical technology will put your feet on the floor. But in … Read more

How to create mathematics exercises for children using artificial intelligence

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Let’s explain How to create mathematics exercises for children wearing artificial intelligence. Thus, if you want to reinforce your knowledge or put some extra tasks or exercises, you will be able to make them easily even if you do not have many knowledge or mathematics or didactics. Let’s start by giving you A series of previous tips With things you should take into account before creating exercises with AI. Then, we will tell you how to do it with a generative AI. Then we will continue with a list of other tools based on AI that you can use, and we will end up explaining how to use two of them. Before starting, some notes Before starting, you should have some things into account. First, you should know that IA may have errors When creating exercises. These algorithms can have what we call hallucinations, and put meaningless things as if they were real. That’s why, It should be reviewed all exercises To check that they are well before giving them to children. When you are going to start these exercises, the first thing you should know is What area or competition you want to work. You have to think if you want varied exercises, or if you want to focus on sums, subtraction, logic, geometry, fractions, or any other specific area. This you will have to specify it when asking to create them. You must be clear about the age strip with which you are going to work. Here, the simplest thing will be to specify the age for which they are aimed at AI, but it is also convenient that you know that you should avoid very technical words or that you must get the exercises to be brief and concrete. Try to give variety to exercises so that they are not always the same. As you create them, try that the structures or operations to be performed are not repeated, and that if you use any type of examples, they are not always the same. In addition to this, If you are going to use the AI to correct The exercises, you should ask that simple explanations to know why something is wrong, or that it is not limited to giving the answers. In addition, you can ask you to give you clues or progressive help. Children’s exercises using generative The easiest and most generic way to create mathematical exercises for children is to use general and generative artificial intelligence chats, such as Chatgpt, COPILOT, Gemini, Deepseek or similar ones. Here, The important part will be the command either Prompt that you give the AI. For example, you can use a prompt like this: “I need you to create 10 sum exercises for 6 -year -old children with fruit drawings as a context. Shows the step -by -step solution.” Using this prompt, the AI will generate a series of exercises using fruit emojis, or the subject you ask. The important part is Specify age of the children for whom the exercise is directed, and explain both the quantity and the type of exercises. If you do not want them to be alone, you can tell you to be varied, but specifying that they are mathematical and the age for which they are directed. Be careful with the subject of solutions. With the prompt that we have used, these will appear under each exercise. However, you can Ask the exercises to be on one sheet and solutions in anotherso that they are separated and the little ones do not be tempted to skip steps. Finally, remember that You can ask the AI to convert the answer into a PDF So you can print everything. You can also ask you to make it a PNG image, specifying the size format, such as in size of an A4 sheet. Use a specialized online tool There are several online tools that They allow you to create exercises with artificial intelligence. Here you have a list with the main ones that you will be able to use, as well as its characteristics: Teachermatic: A virtual classroom by the in which you can create all kinds of school materials. You can choose the level, and what it creates is totally printable and multilingual. In the free account you can generate 5 documents per day. Link: teachermatic.com. Conker AI: A free platform for teachers, with which you can generate questionnaires for AI, including mathematical content. Here, you can specify age, topic or type of questions. The bad news is that it is in English, although you can generate Spanish content. Link: Conker.ai. Curipod: It serves to create educational presentations and activities, being able to use it to generate exercises, games, surveys or mathematical problems with explanations. Link: Curipod.com. Magicschool.Ai: Another portal where you can create all kinds of exercises and evaluations with AI, from spreadsheets to mathematical problems. You can use it in Spanish, but the web is English. Link: App.Magicschool.Ai. Khanemigo: A Khan Academy website, where its GPT -based educational assistant allows you to generate exercises or help a student solve them step by step. It is not available in all countries. Link: khanemigo.ai. Create exercises with Teachermatic This has seemed a great tool to create school materials with AI. It has a giant index with all kinds of filters, but to create mathematical exercises you can Choose the option Worksheetwhich is to create all kinds of exercises. Now, you will go to a previous screen where you can Set the type of exercises you want create. You can specify the subject Ly the activities, as well as specify the age for which they are directed and also give many details about your students and their level to give context. When you specify everything, the AI will generate the worksheet. Will do it in a format that You will be able to print To use it in your class, and at all times you can regenerate it and ask for changes. Create Exercises … Read more

Anthropic has seen that their users do not stop using the 200 euros plan a month of their AI. They had to stop their feet

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Anthropic has announced new weekly limits for your CLAUDE They have already entered into force, especially affecting Claude Code, their programming tool through artificial intelligence. The measure arrives after some users have been executing the tool continuously 24 hours a dayconsuming resources equivalent to tens of thousands of dollars with the most expensive subscriptions of $ 200 per month. There are saturation and the accounts do not come out. The most intensive developers They are putting cane To the Anthropic servers, saturating them with a use that goes far beyond what the company had planned at first. Some programmers have configured Claude Code to permanently operate in the background, automating tasks and generating code without stopping. This has caused Claude Code to have suffered partial or total falls at least seven times in the last month, according to THE STATE PAGE of Anthropic. New limits. Of course, users will have limits that restart every seven daysin addition to the current five -hour limits. Users of the Pro Plan ($ 20 per month) will be able to use between 40 and 80 hours a week with the sonnet 4. those of the Max Plan of $ 100 will have between $ 140 and 280 hours with Sonnet 4 and up to 35 hours with Opus 4. The Max Plan of 200 dollars will allow up to 480 hours with Sonnet 4 and 40 hours with Opus 4. Anthropic ensures that less than 5% of its users will be affected by these changes. It is not an isolated case. Other companies in the sector are living similar situations. Cursor, the popular programming tool with AI, changed its price strategy In June to stop the most intensive users of their 0 dollars plan, although He had to apologize Then not to communicate the changes well. Replit, another rival in the space of the program assisted by AI, also implemented similar measures the same month. It is clear that companies dedicated to AI are experiencing their plans and studying the use given by their users. That there are price changes as soon is a symptom that they are still taking their pulse while looking for a way for the business to come out profitable. Hidden limits. One of Claude’s problems is that it does not offer an accountant that allows users to know how much they are consuming in real time. Developers have to go “blind” until they run directly with the limit, something that generates frustration especially among those who pay the most expensive subscriptions. In addition, the company has detected that some users are sharing and reverting accounts, which makes the use of these accounts even more intensive. An experimental business model. Anthropic has pledged to offer “other options” for cases of intensive use in the future, but for the moment the priority is to maintain stable service for most users. Subscribers of the Max Plan may buy additional use at API prices when they exceed their limits. Keep a generative ia service as Claude It’s a challengeespecially if you want to guarantee maximum performance to all users. That is why we see so many changes in their plans, and it will not be uncommon to see them in the rest of the alternatives. Cover image | Anthropic In Xataka | There are those who believe that the best AIs become more silly over time. It is no madness

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