Month: August 2025

The AI ​​career not only to be better. It goes that every second you spend in chatgpt is a second that you are not in Tiktok

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Mark Zuckerberg’s work is not to make the world a better place. Nor is it to connect with our loved ones and recover old friendships. No. Zuckerberg’s work is one and only one. Have us Glued To the. Screen. This is what has been trying with Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp for 20 years. Here it was not about allowing us to share photos, comments and experiences with our contacts, but to keep their applications hooked at any price. When connecting people stopped being enough, the news thread (News Feed) arrived from Facebook, and when that ceased to be enough, the stories and reels and short videos and toxic algorithms and the toxic algorithms and the toxic algorithms and the toxic algorithms and doomscrolling. All that worked very well to the goal, which became with Google in the great Internet winner and who entered (and entered) indecent amounts of money with advertising. But Zuckerberg has realized that Social networks face the greatest existential threat of their history: the AI. Because AI is achieving what no other application or platform had achieved in recent years: it is stealing users to Facebook, Instagram, but also Tiktok, YouTube Oa X. Every second that a user spends in Chatgpt asking or, increasingly, talking, it is a second less that is not on those social networks. And that is terrible to finish, Google, Bytedance or X, because suddenly they begin to see how the economy of attention may no longer in their hands. There are millions of users who begin to Take robotic girlfriends or that they use them as psychologists or like simple virtual friends, loyal and perfect. And it happens that they do not do it on social networks: they go to chatgpt, they subscribe to Replika, or use any of the many available alternatives. The career for the economy of attention And the Big Tech have realized. They know that the economy of attention is escaping, so they are doing everything they can to recover it. That is why all have put them crazy to invest thousands and thousands and billions of dollars in creating their own AI and megainfrastructure that allow everyone to chat with machines without stopping. Because if people do not want to be (so much) on Facebook, X, Tiktok or YouTube, there is no problem: for that they are target AI, Grok, Doubao or Gemini, that they want to convince you that you talk to them instead of doing it with chatgpt or with any other. If social networks are no longer enough, they tell us, do not worry. If you want to chat with them, you will have it to chat with them. Zuckerberg is a clear example of that obsession with AI. After the failure – at least until now – of his metaverso, he has put us Goal AI Even in the soup and is flooding “ai smop” Your social networks. But also seeing that his open model calls I didn’t just sethas changed the step and created A new Galactic Team of Superintelligence to win the career of A ia. Sorry. To win the career of the conquest of our attention. That is exactly the same as Elon Musk and Xai with Grok, a bot that has been successfully infiltrated in X – not as a goal AI. Or with Google and Gemini, which has the advantage that it is the default AI in billions of Android devices. Or with Microsoft, who pursues exactly the same with co -pilot. These IAS certainly help us and help us in many lands, but the Big Tech know that behind all those advantages there is a much more important goal: Whoever wins the AI ​​career will win the career of the economy of attention. And that company, whatever it is, will have absolutely attached to its AI. Image | Airam Dato-on In Xataka | The cover of the AI ​​is a goal. He has been betting on her for more than a decade and has much more than she calls

characteristics, price and technical file

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We have a new folding to tempt ourselves: it’s about Honor Magic V5a smartphone that bets on this unique format but does so with an increasingly relevant component: AI. Thus, Google Gemini becomes a fundamental part of the experience of use of a terminal that is full of good specifications to convince us of something that should be obvious: two screens are better than one. Magic V5 Honor Technical Card Honor Magic V5 dimensions and weight Expanded: 156.8 x 145.9 x 4.1-4.2 mm Folding: 156.8 x 74.3 x 8.8-9.0 mm 217-222 g screen Exterior: Amoled 6.43 “20: 9, 2,376 x 1060 px Interior: AMOLED 7.95 “10: 0, 120 Hz, 2,352 x 2,172 px 5000 Maximum brightness nits processor Snapdragon 8 Elite (3 Nm) RAM 16 GB (+12 GB Honor Ram Turbo) Internal storage 512 GB rear camera Main: 50 MP F/2.0GREAT ANGULAR: 50 MP F/1.6Zoom: 64 MP F/2.5 Front camera 20 MP F/2.2 (both in interior and exterior screen) BATTERY 5,820 mAhFast charge 66 w Wireless fast charge at 50 w Operating system Android 15Magic UI 9.1 Connectivity 5gWifi 7Bluetooth 6.0GPSUSB type c OTHERS Footprint reader on screenIP58 PRICE 1,999 euros Guarantees hardware in a finer foldable than ever If there is a clearly remarkable element in the design of the new Magic V5 honor, that is that of the extreme thinness of this folding terminal, which in one of its versions presumes A thickness of only 8.8 mm (9.0 mm in the other). The manufacturer says that we are facing “the folding smartphone in the thinst in the world” to date. The evolution from the Honor Magic V3 It is clear inside, and like that extreme thinness remains one of the clear objectives. By the way, reminder: This new terminal is called “V5” and not “v4” because in China it is considered that number four gives bad luck. Pure Tetraphobia. We are facing a folding mobile that has an exterior screen of 6.43 “diagonal, and that when displaying extends that diagonal until 7.95”. The resolution of both AMOLED panels allows you to enjoy an extraordinary pixel density (404 ppp), and we have a brightness that can reach 5,000 peak nits. This device also has a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite accompanied by 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. That soc and that memory are especially important to give life to one of the most highlights in honor: The AI, which is based on Google Gemini. It will be enough to press the ignition button to launch Google’s assistant, which will help users with writing, planning, learning and many other areas. The company already made clear its intention of not losing the AI ​​train, and for this will invest 10,000 million dollars in the next five years. There is also another way to launch the wizard: the “TAP TAP” system that consists of twice playing the back of the device, which eiva the need to unlock it or open an application. The functions of AI are patent in the photographic section, but also in functions such as the translation of AI calls in real time in six languages. The terminal is launched with Android 15 and Magic UI 9.1, but it will be one of the first to have Android 16, they say in honor. They also guarantee seven years of Android updates and seven years of security patches in the EU. Another section in which this mobile wants to breastfeed is in the photograph. The sensors in this case They presume megapixels: 50 for the main and the wide angle, and 64 for the telephoto, in addition to 20 MP for the two front cameras, one on the interior screen and one outside. The battery has a capacity of 5,820 mAh, and in honor they emphasize that in the cells of the battery there is 15% silicon content, which prolongs the available autonomy. It is possible to recharge it taking advantage of the fast honor charging system that reaches 66 W, and the same thing happens with the wireless load, in which we can reach up to 50 W. Versions and price of honor magic v5 The Magic V5 honor reaches European markets on August 28, 2025 in three colors: White (Ivory White), Black (Black) and Dorado (Dawn Gold) in the configuration with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. Its recommended sale price is 1,999 euros. More information | Honor

With war drums playing in Europe, Germany has made a radical decision: recovering the “mili”

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The Ukraine War and the elongated shadow of Putin have not only reactivated the debate on Military spending In NATO. He has also recovered a word closely linked to that discussion and that for decades has been taboo in much of Europe: ‘milli’. Germany has decided that it changes. Your government has launched The legislative machinery to recover military service, suspended in the country since 2011. will do so with a voluntary recruitment system, although it already warns that this could change if the army does not grow to the Desired rhythm. And the starting goal is ambitious. What happened? That Germany has moved to recover military service. Yesterday, Friedrich Merz’s government government approved the bill that will open the doors to a new volunteer mili with which the country aspires to strengthen its defense. He did it after months of debatein a context in which each even more countries from Europe its military services are rethink and with a staging loaded with intentions: the announcement was made after a cabinet meeting in the Ministry of Defense, something that did not happen for several decades. What do you want to do? At the moment implement a voluntary mili, although the Foreign Minister himself It has slipped That in a few years the government has not achieved its objectives will seek ways to achieve “a greater commitment.” What we will see in the short term is a Germany that reactivates the service with certain peculiarities: it will send a letter to all the men and women born from 2008 to respond whether they are interested or not to participate. In the same questionnaire questions about academic preparation and the state of physical form will be included. Among those who respond affirmatively, a group of volunteers will be chosen who must undergo a medical examination. If everything is correct they will participate in a military service of at least half a year, a extendable term that will also include financial compensation. Selected young people can choose which of the army branches want to acquire skills, which includes the bodies of the marine, armed, air force and specialized units in cyberspace. Are more details known? Yes. To begin with, the schedule that the government handles. The law must still receive the guarantee of Parliament, but Merz Trust in which the new mili can be released “immediately”, from 2026. It is also known that there will be A small difference Between men and women. Both will receive the questionnaire, but only they must cover it if they do not want to receive a fine. After that difference, Clarify The countrythere is a mixture of historical and legislative factors. Until 2011, the year in which Germany said goodbye to the mandatory military service, the only ones who participated were the men. The government never eliminated the service, only suspended it, and expand the obligation now to women would require modifying the Constitution, which would further complicate the process. Will it always be voluntary? The million dollar question. And it is not easy to answer it. At the moment the mili will return to German with a voluntary character, but Merz has left the door open To that change in the medium term: “If in the next one, two or three years the objectives are not met, we have created a mechanism in the law that will lead to greater commitment.” The change, of course, will demand that the Government and Parliament return to position themselves. The norm would therefore allow the recruitment approach to be reviewed without the need for the geopolitical context. The voluntary (or mandatory) character of the service has been the great disagreement point and the detail that has most tensioned the discussion between the different political forces. The conservatives advocate a mechanism that allows recruits to be captured in a more agile way in the event that the Government considers it necessary and Christianocial Union even goes further by demanding the return to the mandatory mili. In the opposite pole there are who argues than the Bundeswehr I would arouse greater interest if the working conditions it offers to the young Germans. Will you do something in that line? Yes. Conscious of the debate, Minister Boris Pistorius insisted Yesterday when the Executive is improving the conditions of the recruits. “In the future the salary will be 2,300 euros, a remarkable increase. There are no accommodation or medical insurance expenses. Therefore it is a package that considerably increases the attractiveness compared to the current situation.” In an attempt to make the more attractive offer for recruits, he insisted that “flexible training schedules” and the possibility of participating in courses will be offered. What the government has also decided is that From 2028 It will implement a mandatory medical examination for all young people between 18 and 25 years old, which will allow the country to know its “really available recruits” base. What is the goal? Reinforce the defense. Something that is better understood with figures. Right now the German army is made up of about 183,000 active men and women. What the government wants is to reach 260,000 at the beginning of the next decade, amount that NATO Consider adequate For the country. Another of Merz’s team is extend 200,000. To reach these figures will also involve a challenge for the German administration itself. “We all want to see that increase quickly, but there are a number of objective criteria that must be met. The two basics are the locations and instructors. If we do not have them we cannot call rows to 350,000 young people from Germany. We are missing barracks and instructors. That means that now everything has to grow again from below, an increase that is being promoted,” Merz recognized yesterday. Why now? By the European geopolitical context, marked by two major factors. The main one, the role of Russia and its relationship with Europe since the Kremlin decided to start the military occupation of Ukrainein 2022. The … Read more

The most complex nuclear reactor in the world is underway in the United Kingdom. His critics directly call him “a monster”

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Two figures are enough to understand the scope of the British challenge: 38,000 million investment pounds and six million homes fed with nuclear electricity for sixty years. This presents Sizewell C, the center that Downing Street describes as a clean energy and employment engine. His detractors, on the other hand, see it as a financial well and the last attempt to give life to a nuclear design so complex that in France it already call it “the monster.” The crown jewel. The objective of the British government is to double the nuclear capacity of the country by 2050 and guarantee a stable supply of low carbon energy. Sizewell C, With two EPR type reactors (European pressurized reactor), is the key piece of that strategy. According to the BBCthe project is the successor of Hinkley Point C, in Somerset, which accumulates a decade of delays and a runaway cost: more than 18,000 million pounds planned in 2010 to about 46,000 million today. Minister Rachel Reeves declared The Guardian that investment is “a powerful support to the United Kingdom as the best place to do business and as a global center of nuclear energy.” Instead, Henri Proglio, former director of the French electric EDF – developmentator of the project -, assured the Financial Times that the reactor design is “scary” and “almost impossible to build.” Faced opinions. The detractors have it clear. Proglio describes it as “a machine with more reinforcement rods than concrete.” Another engineer, Also cited in the FThe spoke of a “colossal error.” And Greenpeace warned the BBC That this time will be taxpayers, not EDF, who pay the inevitable cost overruns. But there are also moderate voices. Tony Roulstone, Professor of Cambridge and exejecutive of Rolls-Royce, declared to FT That Sizewell could be ready “one or two years before Hinkley” and cost 20 % less. Thanks to the fact that much of the design is already tested since the supply chain was consolidated in Somerset. There are already works in Suffolk. The project is not just paper. In Suffolk, 1,700 operators are already working in preliminary works, According to the Financial Times. The first one: a perimeter wall 55 meters deep and 3 kilometers long to drain the marsh before placing the foundations. In addition, Hinkley errors will be avoided. This time the concrete structures will be pregnant in workshops and not in the work, which should accelerate the deadlines. Even so, the official calendar – entered into operation in the middle or end of the 2030s – raises doubts. Flamanville, in France, and Hinkley have shown that deadlines in projects of this type are usually wet paper, As Critica Nils Pratley in his column for The Guardian. It is very complex. It is more complex than it seems to the naked eye. EPR are nuclear reactors of generation III+, the result of Franco-German collaboration between EDF and Siemens. According to World Nuclear Associationare designed to offer a net electrical power of between 1,600 and 1,650 MW, although they can reach 1,770 MW. In addition, they incorporate advanced security measures: double containment, four independent cooling systems, a Core Catcher to catch the nucleus in case of merger, and structural capacity to resist impacts and earthquakes, in addition to diesel generators and backup batteries that guarantee operability to multiple failures. They also stand out for greater energy efficiencyconsuming up to 17% less fuel than old reactors and producing up to 14% more energy. All this with a projected life of 60 years. This technical complexity is, at the same time, a strength in terms of safety and efficiency, and a challenge for the delays and costs that it has shown in its construction. The invoice reaches the British pocket. The cost of the central already exceeds twice the first estimates, According to BBC. The majority (36.6 billion) will be covered with public debt through the National Fund of Wealth. While the financing is distributed among the State (the largest shareholder with 44.9%), followed by the Canadian Caisse (20%), Centrica (15%), EDF (12.5%) and Amber Infrastructure (7.6%). The great novelty is the “Regulated Assets Base” model (Rab) in which households will begin to pay £ 1 per month in their electrical invoices for at least a decade, Julia Pyke explained to the BBC. This scheme mainly protects investors, As Nils Pratley recalled in The GuardianCentrica ensures returns of more than 10% even if the costs reach 47.7 billion pounds; Any excess will be assumed by taxpayers. France already tried. Although with problems. The first French EPR reactor, Flamanville 3, in Normandy, connected to the network In December 2024 after 12 years of delays and with a final cost of € 13.2 billion, four times budgeted. As explained in Financial Timesthe French experience forced to redesign the concept, so EDF no longer prioritizes the EPR, but the EPR2, a simplified and cheaper version that hopes to build in six units here to 2038. Meanwhile, in China they have shown that its Taishan center that has operated for years with an EPR of 1.75 GW, is one of the most powerful reactors in the world. A continent that turns nuclear. The British bet arrives in a contradictory European context. Germany He closed his last central in 2023 and Spain plans to close them in 2027. France, on the contrary, Maintain nuclear as a pillar (70 % of its electricity) and accelerates new EPR2 projects. The board moves: under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Germany has stopped blocking France and accepts that the nuclear receives the same treatment as renewables in EU legislation. The agreement includes giving “green” status to pink hydrogen and opens the door to European financing, although Austria continues against and countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands reevaluate their policies. In the midst of this continental debate, the United Kingdom, outside the EU, advances alone with Sizewell C: an EPR that even EDF has relegated in favor of the EPR2, while in Europe the SMR and nuclear fusion gain space. … Read more

Nano Banana is not just a great creator of images with AI. It is the greatest danger to Photoshop and company

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Google has been playing hiding place with what is a great threat to Photoshop, at least in its photo editor facet. For weeks, a mysterious tool called “Nano Banana“He has been appearing anonymously into test platforms, leaving amazed professional users. Google finally confirmed that this experimental model is yours and is integrating it into Gemini. Why is it important. We are facing the beginning of the end of the layers, masks and tools that have defined digital design for 30 years. You change the color of a shirt without distorting the face. You add elements without reinventing the background. In 2 seconds, no 15. For professional uses it is not ready. For first sketches or for domestic use, it is perfect. 10 Google applications that could have triumphed The difference is persistence. Other models generate from scratch with each Promptbut Nano Banana remembers. You can strain about the same image dozens of times. Some examples. Let’s see what can be done with Nano Banana (if you want to know how to try it, We have prepared a guide). Everything has been done are the Prompts that we attach, without more. Original photo: “Create an image with this man but in a Valencian people of the 50s, with clothes, appearance, hairstyle, environment, etc. that are credible for the time.” “Now in the 2050 futuristic Shanghai.” “Now he returns to the original photo and adds this man by his side, posing together for the photo.” “Now back them as two Roman gladiators in the amphitheater.” Let’s go with something else. This Apple announcement in Las Vegas, deployed a few years ago. “Modifies the announcement text to say ‘2×1 in all iPhone models until the end of stock’”. Another different. We give you these two images. “Put this man the red shirt that attached to you.” “Now place him in Mestalla.” “Put a black cap and remove the clock.” All at the blow of Prompt And very fast, more than chatgpt. The money trail. Nano Banana has a cost of $ 0.039 per image of 1024 x 1024 pixels. Adobe has already announced that he will integrate the model in Firefly and Express, as reported Business Insider. His argument (“we offer all the models in one place”) makes sense, although something defensive also sounds. Those who pay dozens of dollars a month for a license to make editions will begin to be renewed. Now it is possible to generate Mockups In minutes, not in days. Some Ecommerce They will stop needing so many photographic sessions. A teacher can create a better adapted diagram than that of publishers. Everything with Prompts of text. In Xataka | Browsers prepare for the most radical transformation in their history. One in which the IA will be Outstanding image | Xataka

Mediamarkt has this 2025 Samsung TV at a very good price

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If it is about finding a TV on offer, it is always easier to go for a model of previous years. Stores and brands usually take a little time to reduce the most current models, although, like everything, there are always exceptions. Mediamarkt has one of them right now: it is an OLED model of Samsung launched only a few months ago that is reduced to the 999 euros. And eye: because it also comes with 100 euros reimbursement. Samsung TV 55 inches OLED S85F 4K Smart TV with Vision AI, colors certified by Pantone TV Plus * Some price may have changed from the last review A medium -sized screen with great image quality If we are looking for great experience at home, betting on a Samsung OLED is one of the best things we can do. This model, which, as we say, has barely a few months, has a PVP of 1,699 euros. For that reason, if we take advantage of this offer, We will be saving 700 eurosa discount. And that without counting that, in addition, we can enjoy a reimbursement of 100 euros Following very simple steps. This is the S85F OLED model, Specifically its 55 -inch version. This Samsung television will offer us a brutal image quality, as well as an image processor capable of climbing 4K content with very good ease. It is ideal if we have a console as PlayStation 5 Prosince it has HDMI 2.1. One of Samsung’s 2025 television line is the presence of 2025 is the presence of Vision aian artificial intelligence capable of much. Not only does it allow us to search the Internet things on screen or create automatic subtitles, but it can also Improve volume or image totally automatically. At this price And with the reimbursement, a great telelar that is worth it. Some TV devices that may interest you Xiaomi Mi TV Box S 3rd Gen, 2GB RAM + 32GB ROM, Wi-Fi 6, 4k Ultra HD streaming, Bluetooth, supports Google TV, black * Some price may have changed from the last review Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max (last generation), streaming device compatible with Wi-Fi 6e and Environmental Fund * 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 | Samsung In Xataka | Best home film projectors. Which to buy and five recommended models from 299 to 18,000 euros In Xataka | Mega-guide to ride a home cinema: projector, screen, sound system and more

a diamond industry in full existential crisis

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They do not run Good times for the former exclusive, powerful and milmillonaria diamond industry. The boom of the “cultivated gems” He has set up the market, stirring something even more important than prices: his identity. When changing the mines of Africa for China’s laboratories, the sector has seen how its image of exclusivity weakened, one of the pillars on which it settled its business decades ago. The request Taylor Swift has served to vivify him. Of the Queen of Pop Queen, all the details are not known, but a huge diamond is gathered that some analysts value already between $ 250,000 and $ 500,000. Beyond its value, the commitment has served to revitalize the message of sophistication and luxury that so well cultivated in its day Of Beers. A ‘yes I want’ that is worth millions. Taylor Swift is much more than the pop queen. It is a real walking industry capable of Alter the GDP of the US with his tour and a influencer to which, only on Instagram, they continue More than 280 million of people (add it 32.5 on Tiktok) In search of inspiration. That is why the photograph he shared yesterday with his hand request is much more than a news for the pink press. His commitment to Travis Kelce has put the trend hunters of everyonewhich already examine the pedida ring with magnifying glass. Beyond the jewelers and designers, the Swift fans legion or the pink press, there is a group that has probably followed the news of the request with almost the same beautification as the singer: the world diamond industry. And the reason is very simple. Plunged into one deep existential crisis (Perhaps the greatest of all its history) that affects both its prices and its public image, the swing that Kelce has just put on the left ring finger of Swift reinforces the value that has made diamonds into a Milmillonario business: exclusivity. Why’s that? Because they don’t run simple times for the diamond industry. De Beers, the Titan of the Sector, the company that convinced generations of love that a romance is only authentic if it is sealed with a Pedrusco, is not at your best; And diamond prices have experienced A deep fall In recent years until they are minimal that were not seen so far in centuries. Behind that deep crisis there are several factors. There are those who explain it for The ‘prick’ of the Chinese market. Others simply point to a Cultural change: We marry less and that amounts to less commitment and alliances rings, to which it adds that the sector already enjoyed A boom Between 2021 and 2022, when the US market grew thanks to all postponed weddings during the pandemic. However, there is another factor that greatly explains the drift of the sector in recent years, one that affects both prices and the identity of diamonds: Synthetic stones. A Serious dangerous competitor. Those also known as “laboratory diamonds” are not new. Its origins can go back to mid -last century. However in recent decades its elaboration It has been refined So much and above all they have reached such penetration in the market that have become a serious competitor for natural diamonds. Serious and dangerous. The last ones (the natural stones) leave mines after having formed for millions of years in extreme conditions. The first (synthetic) are created in laboratories in days. And the reality is that experts do not differentiate them with the naked eye. The result was the expected. Laboratory diamonds have gained space in jewelry stores, affecting market prices, guarding traditional companies and especially staggering the foundations on which the business was built. They compete with the minted gems but can be manufactured in series in record time and a speed made in the industry there are voices that already warn of the risk of Overproduction. Not just that. There are manufacturers that They have decided to bet For the “cultivated” diamonds when considering them more ethical. A percentage: 20%. The result is that synthetic diamonds have made a considerable hole in the market. In An article recent The Wall Street Journal He pointed, citing the analyst Paul Zimnisky, who already represents more than the fifth of the world sales of jewelry with landing. It is not bad if one takes into account that only a few years ago, in 2016, they were less than 1%. If we talk about commitment rings your market penetration is even greater. The website specialized in weddings The Knot show that more than half of the commitment rings sold last year in the US included at least one laboratory diamond. Again there are many, many more than before pandemic. Growth since 2019 is estimated at about 40%. Market quota … and prices. That panorama has been marked by a prices collapse. Both of the synthetic and the natural stones. Zimnisky Calculate that since 2016 the sale price of a diamond of a laboratory quilate has dropped about 86%. During the same period the mined stones have also lost value, although in much less value: a gem of the same size would now cost around 40% less than nine years ago. Not all studies and valuations coincide in the data, but what they do share in all cases is the drawing: clearly falling. And what does Swift have to see? Swift’s ring affects the pillar on which the traditional diamond market, one of its capital values: exclusivity. From the Queen of Pop’s ring it is known that it is the exclusive design of a New York jewelry, which looks Antique Cushion Cut of eight carats and a diamond Old Mine Brillant of historical cut rounded in the corners. It is said that only the diamond can cost between $ 250,000 and $ 500,000 and that the ring is around one million or 1.3 million dollars. The analysts of The New York Times even They believe that the jewel will mark the return of “vintage … Read more

At the moment it has been undone of 35% of its intermediate positions

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In the last twelve months, Google has applied a severe treatment of volume reduction to its template. According to the statements of a company manager publishedby CNBCthe company has reduced by up to 35% the number of managers and intermediate charges In the last year. “Currently, we have 35% less managers and less direct subordinates than a year ago. So we are quickly progressing,” said Brian Welle, vice president of personnel analysis and performance, in a filtered audio to which CNBC has had access. Less intermediaries, less bureaucracy. This Reduction in the number of charges Intermediates is linked to a company strategy to improve efficiency in a sector that has stomped the accelerator in the AI ​​race. This reorganization seeks to accelerate decision making and eliminate internal barriers that hinder innovation. In an internal meeting with other employees, Welle claimed that not only the number was being reduced of intermediate charges to balance it to the number of subordinates, but also the amount of equipment had also been reduced under the direct supervision of those managers that they stayed in their positions. “When we look at our population of leaders, which includes managers, directors and vice presidents, we want time to be a lower percentage of our workforce,” Welle declared in the audios of the filtration. Smaller and flexible equipment. The 35% reduction to which Welle refers to its meeting is limited to those managers who supervise teams of less than three people. However, that reduction does not necessarily imply its dismissal. According to the sources consulted by CNBCthese managers have went on to perform tasks as external collaborators taking advantage of their talent in new roles and promoting the Team flexibility. SUCTAL PICHAI, who was also present at the leaked meeting, reiterated the need to impose a “more efficient model as we grow so as not to solve everything with the template.” A restructuring that has been giving for years. The transformation of Google’s internal structure began after mass layoffs of 6% of its workforce and voluntary departure programs of 2023 and 2024. Alphabet’s new financial director, Anat Ashkenazi, saidIn October 2024 that the company was going to intensify the efforts to “advance a little more” in that Reduction of its structure. Company managers, such as Pichai and Fiona Cicconi, staff director, have remarked that “we must be more efficient as the company grows.” Pichai assuredthat only a few weeks ago that Alphabet should be more efficient with its resources: “We are going to cross a period of a lot of investment and I think we have to be frugal with our resources, and I will strive to be more efficient and productive as a company.” The reduction does not stop at 35%. According to the audio filtered by CNBC, the executives present at that meeting assured that a total of 10 departments of the company had offered their employees out of exit in the framework of the “Voluntary output program“From the company that previously They had already offered to search, marketing, hardware and human resources teams. Fiona Cicconi, Google Human Resources Director, said last week that this program “has really been successful” in those departments, in which between 3% and 5% of her staff had accepted compensation for leaving her position. In Xataka | We believed that AI was going to take our jobs. At the moment it has begun to whisper your boss who should say goodbye Image | Wikimedia Commons (Lukasz Kobus), Unspash (Greg Bulla)

fried eggs with blue yolks

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It all started, as things always begin on the Internet, with a user on social networks flying an unasquible flag for the rest, an unattainable top: an AI does something better and faster than the rest. Only this time bone touched: the hordes of Speedrunners of Photoshop They were willing to claim human talent, even if it were something as apparently useless as the yolk of an egg. Blue eggs: Origins. The phenomenon began on August 11, 2025, when the X @Multimodalart user promoted the image generator by Alibaba Qwen-image Highlighting that very few models could, for example, create a fried egg with blue yolk. The reason: the models of AI learn patterns of real images (that is, eggs with always yellow or orange yolk), which presents difficulties for this type of generators by not starting from a real model. First answerwhich summarizes the future of events and that we save translate: “You can do in photoshop you retard”. World records begin. The first viral response response came quickly: user @isthisa3dmodel tweeted that That could be done in Photoshop in 30 seconds. And then the demonstrations began to arrive: @c_over_d_eq_pi He did it in just five seconds and he continued to purify the technique until he reached some fulminants 0.12 seconds of time. But the competition had only begun, and like every good meme of “Doom in places“The tests in tools much simpler than Photosop began arriving. Egg avalanche. When the X user @ceee asked for participation in the challenge of users who did not strengthen experts, began to arrive Speedrunners that used much more elementary and accessible tools than Photoshop. For example, @Pantoya It achieved very competent results with an image editing tool on the mobile. AND @v2tism He did it with Clip Studio Paint, revealing the secret: it can literally be done with any tool that allows layer edition. What’s behind. The challenge of the yellow yolk is more than a kind tangan (the blood did not reach the river at any time): it is the perfect thermometer of the current vision we have on the Internet of the amazing advances of the image editing tools with AI. The clash raised, thanks to the ironic and carefree tone of the responses, that perhaps the artificial intelligences enthusiasts were overvaluing the abilities of AI: as one of the contestants said, perhaps the interesting thing is not that they can now paint a yolk in blue, but until now they could not and sold us as the panacea. What gives us lessons about their abilities of the present. A debate from the past. The absolutely spectacular capabilities of new tools, Like Google Banana Nanocapable of making very advanced editions from Prompts Very simple (and yes, we have tried it: simply with “paint the yolk of this egg” blue ” The result is impeccable) They keep the background of the debate. It is no longer about whether the AI ​​understands the blue yolk or not: it is about whether it is necessary that we replace all manual, artisanal and traditional works with automatic equivalents. It is a debate that is far from finishing. Image | Know Your Meme In Xataka | 14 tools to create free images

Improve your GEMINI 6 OFFICIAL TRICKS TO IMPROVE THE BEST IMAGE WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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We are going to give you some Turks and tips for Improve your created images in Geminiso that you can improve them and have better results. They are tricks that you can also apply to photo editing in the artificial intelligence from Google, and that in fact They are official and recommended by the company. Most tricks try compose an image with two or three promptsso that instead of trying to do everything at once you can divide the process into several steps. All this is worth it, because you can improve the results and combine them. Make precise transformations Gemini now allows you to edit photosand this It also applies to creations generated by AI. You can, for example, create a realistic image or in the way you want, and then ask you to change very specific elements leaving the rest the same. Prompt 1: Create high quality photography of a living room with a new dark wood color where there is a musical team. Next to it there is a very high shelf with many CDs. Above the furniture you have a silver gray musical chain. Prompt 2: Change the color of the musical chain for metallic black. Reuse the appearance of a character First, a good trick is that before creating a composition you first design the character. Come on, first write a prompt where you describe how you want the character to be and make the appropriate changes, and then ask that show that same character in another situationcomposing the scene you want. Prompt 1: Create an illustration of a gray kitten baby with white rallas that has very large eyes and a big smile. Prompt 2: Now show me this same cat up on a bicycle and pedaling on a sand beach Fuse several ideas in an image In addition to reusing elements of an image to put them in others, you can create two different images and then a third that combines them. Thus, for example, you can first create a character and then a scenario, and when these two elements are already to your liking then you merge them. Prompt 1: Create a realistic image but cartoon of a gray kitten baby with white rallas that has very large eyes and a big smile. Prompt 2: Create a realistic image but cartoon of a cat hall full of toys. Prompt 3: Now make the cat in the previous image be playing inside the game room of the last image. Although it is not necessary to do so, it is recommended that define the same visual style in the first two images so that then they combine better. Although of course, we have already told you that it is not necessary. Change the image style This is something very classic that you can do when editing your photos in Gemini, and also applies to the images generated by AI. You can create a composition with a certain style, but then You decide what you want to change it. The image will be the same, but with a different style: Prompt 1: A photorealist image of a plane taking off at the airport Prompt 2: Applies the image style drawn to pencil in this image Make what happens in an image evolve You can also make The image evolves to a differentlet’s be the same scene but apply the logic to generate a more complex. For example, you can make a scene, and then ask him to draw what would happen if elements of it interact in a different way. Prompt 1: Draw the grated gray cat before walking down the street with a Chinese vase in arms that carries with both hands on the head. Prompt 2: It generates an image that shows what would happen if this character trips. Here, you can see that in the initial prompt we have reused a design that we have already mentioned before, that of the cat. This is so that you know that within the same chat, and even having created several images, you can mention a concrete to reuse it. In Xataka Basics | How to use Gemini to summarize YouTube videos or ask questions about its Android content

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