Month: August 2025

The most cool film producer of the moment faces a dilemma: either Milmillonaria or reject the AI

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A24, the producer who has turned the artistic horror (which for a time has been called detailed ‘high terror‘) and the experimental drama in box office phenomena is found in a Existential crossroads. Or accept the millions of risk capital companies or stay faithful to the principles that have made it a rarity within Hollywood: A producer with ethical and aesthetic principles. Humble origins. Daniel Katz, David Fenkel and John Hodges founded A24 in 2012 with just 20 million dollars. Twelve years later, they were Hollywood envy: they had a brand valued at 3.5 billion dollarsthat transcended production work to become almost a cultural movement. While Hollywood embarked on an exploitation of repetitive franchises, they opted for authors such as Ari Aster, the Sadfie or Barry Jenkins brothers, who gave them their first successes: ‘Hereditary’ and ‘Midsommar’, ‘Uncut Gems’ or ‘Moonlight’. The total turnaround. His first films made A24 prestige and money win, but the real bombing came with ‘All at once everywhere‘, an existential tragicomedy with time trips of 2022, with a modest budget of 15 million dollars and that raised 140 worldwide, and He took seven Oscarsmany of them of the main ones. A24 was in the spotlight, with a cult of the brand that was not born in a marketing agency, but completely organic. In Xataka A face washing for the academy: how A24 has made Aura cinema "Indi triumphs in the Oscars But with success (we talk about an ambitious multimedia plan that has led A24 to organize immersive experiences OA Relauncar classic exhibition rooms), the problems also arrived: those 3.5 billion value demand constant growth, international expansion, and of course, processes optimization. Money calls money (already problems). A24 did not want to become a Lionsgate, acquired by Warner. Or worse: a blumhouse, an indie terror icon that since it was acquired by Universal was immersed in The same dynamics of Majors of billing a franchise after another. It is inevitable: no matter how much production conglomerates guarantee creative independence to their studies, decisions go to the committees, obsessed with process optimization. And that is where capital funds enter and, hand in hand, the threat of AI. Enter Thrive Capital. Specifically, who appeared was Joshua Kushner with his Thrive Capital Fundoffering offering 75 million dollars without the creative limitations that the money from corporations usually brings. There would be no pressures to make franchises or any other obligation, and his history corroborated it: Thrive had financed Instagram before purchase of Facebook, for example. The small print, yes, is unnegotiable: Thrive Capital is One of the largest investors in OpenAIhundreds of millions have been left in chatgpt. And in that sense, Thrive does not hide their letters: they are an openly pro-one background and believe that this technology will transform the content of the coming years. And although Thrive at the moment does not press to A24, it seems clear that he will do so in the future if the producer resists incorporating the AI ​​into her processes. {“Videid”: “X86AO51”, “Autoplay”: True, “Title”: “‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’, Trailer”, “Tag”: “Eventhing Everywhere All at Once”, “Duration”: “162”} The controversy of ‘everything at once everywhere’. The arrival of tools that use artificial intelligence to Hollywood is absolutely unstoppable. And in fact, a pair of background within A24 raised flirting with AI who found themselves with some rejection of a sector of their audience. On the one hand, ‘everything at once everywhere’ He used Runway AI To create special effects: the use was minimal, but it caught the attention for the usually “artisanal” character of A24 cinema. The controversy was accentuated when it was learned that some ‘Civil War’ posters had been designed with AI. An essential dilemma. Before A24 several routes are now opened, which will undoubtedly determine something even more important than their income: Your identity. You can try to normalize the use of AI and gradually incorporate it into your processes as already do Majors that delegate issues as part of marketing, advances and others to AI. Or they can become the last resistance to AI if their investors allow it: they would align with some of the most prestigious directors of their team, such as Robert Eggers or Ari Aster, whose long and traditional documentation processes and creation of films such as ‘La Witch’ or ‘The Lighthouse’ become essential identity elements for A24. He Growth between unexpected and uncontrolled A24 She has turned the producer into a balancer between the indie, the traditional, and the hug to the latest Hollywood production trends. Perhaps the story you have left to live at A24 is the last bastion of a way of understanding cinema that is increasingly part of the past. In Xataka | An AI has created the script of a film that precisely speaks of creativity in the cinema. A room refuses to release it (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news The most cool film producer of the moment faces a dilemma: either Milmillonaria or reject the AI It was originally posted in Xataka by John Tones .

This Europe map is the test

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There is still almost a month ahead, but the summer of 2025 will already be remembered as The fire. You have to go back three decades ago, to 1994to find a year in which the flames will devour more forest area. The fire has devastated hectares, lives have been charged, He has calcined houses and Farms and has affected natural icons such as Las Médulasin the region of El Bierzo, now dyed black. Despite the strength of all these images there is one that even more resounding the scourge of fire in Spain: The map that compares the open surface this year in our country with the burned in other nations, such as France or Italy. What happened? If we talk about forest fires, the saying that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ is more true than ever, although the strongest images do not always show flames, calcined trees or smoke columns. Recently The World in Maps, a community with more than 700,000 followers on Instagram, published A map of Europe in which the surface razed in several countries of the continent. And the difference from Spain with respect to some of its closest neighbors, such as Portugal, Italy or France, is overwhelming. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Why’s that? Because it shows that on August 19 in Spain more than 348,000 hectares had been burned compared to 216,200 in Portugal, the 125,400 of Romania, 65,100 of Italy or 35,600 in France. Each nation has a different extension (only quintuplica peninsular The surface from Portugal), but still the comparison is eloquent. Spain is the one that has seen carbonized more hectares, surpassing other more extensive countries from afar, Like France. Where do the data come from? The World in Maps does not need it, but its estimates correspond more or less with those of Effisthe European Forest Fire Information System, included in the Copernicus program. The graph was prepared with data a week ago and EFFIS table It is constantly updated, so that the drawing has changed slightly since then, but the differences between nations remain more or less stable. What do they show? Right now Effis speaks of 415,300 hectares in Spain, 271,000 in Portugal, 126,000 in Romania, 72,100 in Italy and 35,600 in France. Eduardo Rojas, spokesman Official College of Engineers of MontesRemember that these figures should be handled with some caution. At the moment it is only “an advance”, an area estimation affected by the flames made with satellite data but that may not correspond exactly with reality. “Not everything has burned and not everything is forest terrain, there are reservoirs, roads …”, he warns. Effis also shows that, beyond the number of hectares razed, if we talk about the percentage of national surface affected Spain It is not the worst stop. In that case, the most tragic balance has it Portugal and Chipre. But … how is the difference explained? They are more or less precise, which reflects the map of The World in Maps (and The tables of EFFIS) is the clear difference of burned surface in Spain and other countries in Europe. So the question is obvious … What is the reason for that challenge? Rojas recalls that a key factor in the case of the Iberian Peninsula is climatology. Drought and heat waves like those suffered throughout July and August “exacerbate” fires. “Meteorological severity has a huge effect and causes hectares to vary.” Spain is not in fact the only one that has suffered fires more voracious of the usual. In early August, in full heat wavesouthern France saw them with its worse forest fire since the end of the 1940s. And it is not the only one. Portugal has also dealt with a Historical scourge In their mountains. The climatic, temperature and humidity differences in the different regions of the continent are an important factor that influences the voracity of the fires. Is it the only explanation? No. Rojas remembers that “the basic problem” is really another: progressive abandonment from rural and the accumulation of biomass and weeds that, at a given time, can feed the flames. The spokesman of the College of Engineers of Montes dimiates in fact to go beyond the data of each year and assess “the trend”. And in that case what is observed is a more or less stable number of fires and the effect of the effort to reduce landfills and control agricultural burning, although they are still present in Spain. Recently the Professional College itself He pointed out as a successful model the “ancestral forest management” of the Pinares regionbetween Soria and Burgos, where despite the enormous wooded surface there are no fires as devastating as those he has suffered The triangle formed by Ourense, León or Zamora. The reason? Partly the system of “Good luck of pines” That its inhabitants apply, a method that traces its roots to the Middle Ages and allows local communities to favor the care and management of forest masses, while also reinforcing their link and feeling of belonging. Is it something expected? The answer is affirming again. Javier MadrigalMontes engineer and researcher at the Institute of Forest Sciences of the CSIC, insists on the importance of meteorology but points to “structural reasons” in the background. “It is summarized in the abandonment of forest and agricultural management in Europe, which in a climate change scenario makes a year of adverse meteorology as this is being in the Iberian Peninsula we have broken surface records burned since 1994,” slides: “This trend was predicted by all models.” “The one in different parts of the Mediterranean is a cyclical process that depends on the meteorology,” abounds the ICF-CSIC expert, who remembers that already There are studies which show that the fire regime is not the same in different Mediterranean countries. “At country scale, the meteorological reasons more influence than socioeconomic, also seeing very aggressive fire regimes in Algeria, Greece and Türkiye, for example,” he concludes. Images | Ume … Read more

There is an open debate about sports motorcycles and the DGT has not been left out

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The motorcycles have become the last refuge of the maximum sportiness expression that we can see in the streets. Faced with increasingly heavy cars and monitored by the European Union, motorcycles continue to maintain low weight maximum (relatively), stratospheric acceleration and tip speeds that take away the hypo. And, of course, there is an open debate. “With head”. The statement is the renowned Italian pilot and journalist Nico Cereghini who pointed in the Italian media Moto.it That “as bikers, if we only thought with head, today we would all be with 20 or 30 hp of maximum power under the back.” Then he points out: “But every passion has little rational, as is known. Emotions are sought, they are chosen with the stomach and with the heart.” In his column, Cereghini says that it will not be the users who opt for rationality, so he wonders if manufacturers should not “take care of establishing limits, before the legislator does it in their place.” “They are very busy packaging dreams, deceiving the consumer that they can run very fast, it is not known where or when.” A debate that is not new. Cereghini’s reflection is striking for his weight in the public debate of motorcycling but is not new. In the 90ssports motorcycles were completely dismembered with maximum infarction speeds that exceeded 300 km/h. The most striking were Japanese motorcycles, excessive powers and an electronics that almost shone due to its absence. Aware that this could be a problem and that they began to enter a crazy race to reach 400 km/h on a street motorcycle, someone decided to put some sanity and A gentlemen’s pact was signed To limit power … at 299 km/h. The DGT has its opinion. And, of course, it is not very close to that of speed fans. Pere Navarro, director of the DGT, I already pointed out last year that “a 200 -horsepower motorcycle with 200 kilos is Made for the circuit and on the road it has a special danger, everyone has to be aware of it. “ From there, the bulles shot up. As usual with the DGT, social networks were filled with comments ensuring that traffic was going to ban this type of motorcycles but as they remembered in Motorpasion motorcyclethere was nothing on the table and, in fact, they cannot make this decision for themselves. Has any measure been taken? These motorcycles with a supercar power weight have always been in the spotlight but almost surprising that, seeing the efforts that have been taken by self -limiting cars in Europe with a Arsenal of ADAS systemsthe focus on this type of machines has been minimal. Already in 2008Pere Navarro made statements in which he was favorable to apply a limitation to 100 hp for motorcycles. This proposal was studied in the European Parliament at the request of France, which already applied the measure, but did not go ahead. The French exception. In France, Motorcycles have been limited to 100 hp between 1985 and 2016. In the 80s it was considered that this 100 hp barrier should not be overcome, establishing a red line that they considered too dangerous. Then the market was saturated with motorcycles between 50 and 70 hp and safety among motorists was minimal. In 1995, Europe decides that countries that want to take advantage of this limitation are in their right to do so but only France follows this path. After many debates and resources, the European Union established in 2012 a New regulation for motorcycles and eliminates the French exception that rises in 2016 by European mandate. An anachronistic situation. The world of yield represents something almost exceptional right now. We could say that it almost seems anachronistic that a motorist can reach infarction speeds when damage is usually much more serious in a motorcycle accident than in the car for obvious issues. Of course, the European Union has done everything possible to limit the latter. But it is not only a matter of regulations. Among cars manufacturers too They begin to be common Limitations at increasingly low speed. Good for technical reasons (electric car) or claiming security reasons (like Volvo) But it is evident that speed begins to see with bad eyes. With such bad eyes that even in Germany There are more and more favorable voices to the limitation of speed in the mythical autobahn. Photo | Sling In Xataka | If the question is how to get to 250 km/h in just 6 seconds, the answer is very simple: with a steam motorcycle

The iPhone of the lipsticks is from Louis Vuitton and hope to sell them as churros: “Customers are excited”

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The luxury market is going through one of its worst Financial crisis due to Strong sales adjustment behind him boom of sales that luxury brands experienced after the pandemic. Bernard Arnault has devised a master play to try redirect the bassist situation of LVMH and attract the interest of the wealthiest clients: a new luxury makeup range in which a scented lipstick will cost about 160 dollars. They hope to sell it as churros. Landing in luxury cosmetics. Louis Vuitton gets fully into the world of high -end makeup with the launch of Beautéa range that includes 55 tones of lipstick, in addition to balms, eye shadow palettes and a series of skin accessories to wrap them with monogram design seal. It is no accident that Louis Vuitton has chosen that they are 55 tones: 55 in Roman numbers is LV. Beyond the tonal ranges and glamor of the packagingFrom the first range of makeup of Louis Vuitton, the most attracts attention are its prices. A single lipstick will cost $ 160, $ 250 for a palette of eye shadows. The most faithful to the brand, in addition, can Complete your accessories With a mini trunk to save the lipsticks, stamped with the monogram design for 2,500 euros or a bag to carry the lipstick for $ 390. A high price as a strategy. Not everyone can pay 160 dollars for a lipstick so LVMH’s strategy is hitting the table to, such and As I recognized Pauline Brown, president of LVMH for North America to Yahoo Finance, strengthening her leadership. “There is practically no market for a 160 -dollar lipstick. Therefore, I think this was a strategic play to try to strengthen its position and leadership in the luxury market.” If we compare it with the products offered by its main rivals. A Dior lipstick, for example, costs about 47 dollars, Hermès lipsticks about $ 80, while one of Peau Beauté Clé It is sold for $ 113. This approach seeks to strengthen exclusivity for the Ultralujo buyer, not for the aspirational client. It is the same strategy that the brand has used in its leather and fashion products, which they have achieved endure the generalized downward trendin the face of the results that presented luxury brands, Like Burberrythat they had opened their catalog to more affordable products. Debate about the unattainable strategy. The luxury products They are not based on a rational criterion, but on feelings and perceptions. So it is difficult to advance whether the new range of luxury products will be a success or not. According to The report “The State of Fashion: Beauty V.2 ” Prepared by The Business of Fashion and McKinsey, 63 % of consumers do not consider that premium brands have higher quality than the most affordable brands, and 24 % of those customers have opted for cheaper products in the last 12 months. However, such and as they highlight in The Business of Fashionin the face of this practical vision, there is the purchase decision based on brand perception. Marigay McKee, co -founder of the Incubator of Violet Lab Beauty brands and former sales of Harrods and Saks Fifth Avenue assured that: “Vuitton has waited so long to offer cosmetics that customers are excited … the legacy is there. But the quality has to be present, not just the aesthetics.” Louis Vuitton and Apple. Cécile Cabanis, Financial Director of LVMH, assuredIn one of his latest presentations that “Vuitton’s strategy focuses on always offering the most sophisticated and higher quality product to retain the most important customers and get some others in the upper segment. So the goal is to continue recruiting the youngest generationand that is not about selling at low prices or making cheap products, but also using the vuitton’s DNA, DNA and attractiveness and replicating it in more accessible categories. “ In that context, Louis Vuitton’s strategy with this new product line is very close to what historically He has offered Apple In technology: a product with high quality perception, at a high price that reinforces the concept of “products value” above its price. Quality must be demonstrated. The presence of Pat McGrathone of the most influential makeup artists in the world at the head of the cosmetics of Louis Vuitton, guarantees that the collection is relevant for both the industry and for the most demanding consumers. Marigay McKee rememberthat the success of the new line is conditioned to its quality. “Louis Vuitton faces the experience of the best makeup artists in the world. There are those who pay for the brand image, but it cannot only be exaggerated advertising. The product has to live up to expectations, or will only have good sales in the launch”, but will not be able to maintain those sales for a long time. The cosmetics sector is very lucrative. While it is true that LVMH already has cosmetics specialized marks as Sephora, the global makeup market is so lucrative that it is tempting not to enter it with a high -end proposal. According to data published by Fashionunitedthe cosmetics market reached 43.6 billion dollars in 2024 and could touch the 46,000 million at the end of 2025. The projections by 2034 are even better. That is why, in his search for new folders for the luxury sector, Louis Vuitton will not miss the opportunity to open a hole in This expanding market. Maybe it starts like a 160 -dollar lip bar and then present more competitive ranges. It is the same as Apple with its most top iPhone, and then present The iPhone se or the Recent iPhone 16E. In Xataka | The new whim for Millionaires of Louis Vuitton recovers a concept of the nineteenth century: carry a bed in a trunk Image | Louis Vuitton

China prepares one of the biggest military parades in history. It will be, above all, a warning to the world

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On September 3, Beijing will convert Tiananmen Square in the epicenter of an unprecedented demonstration of force. China will organize a military parade massive to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. In addition, it will also be the perfect time to show the military capacities acquired under the mandate of Xi Jinping. An event of magnitudes. More than 10,000 military personnel, a hundred aircraft and several hundred land vehicles will participate in A 70 -minute ceremony which promises to be the largest Chinese armament exhibition since 2019. The parade will include 45 troops formations and will present more than 100 different types of military equipment, all national production and active duty. We don’t know everything. Chinese authorities have confirmed that a great proportion of the weapons will be completely new. Among the novelties are hypersonic missiles capable of traveling five times the speed of sound, antimile defense systems, directed energy weapons, autonomous combat drones and electronic warfare systems. According to Major general Wu Zeke, deputy director in charge of the military parade, these weapons “will fully demonstrate the solid capacity of our army to adapt to technological advances and win future wars.” A message for another recipient. Although officially commemorates the victory over Japan, the parade has a strategic objective between the lines: show the United States and its allies in the Pacific The new Chinese military capacity. The analysts They expect See new anti-buque missile models such as YJ-15, YJ-17, YJ-19 E YJ-20, specifically designed to neutralize carriers and deny access to Western naval forces in the region. Taiwan in the spotlight. The arsenal that Beijing will also have direct implications for Taiwan’s future. The new tanks with unmanned turrets and active protection systems would significantly complicate the island’s defense strategy, which is based on mobile and cheap anti -tank weapons. As Point out Sheu Jyh-Shyang, from the Taiwan National Defense and Security Research Institute: “This is not good news for Taiwan.” Putin as guest star. The confirmed presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Xi Jinping during the ceremony sends another powerful geopolitical message. Putin already attended the great military parade of China in 2015, when the majority of Western leaders declined the invitation, so it is another step in The alliance between the two countries in front of the West. The backdrop. The military power deployment comes at a time of maximum tension in the Pacific. The popular liberation army has intensified your exercises Simulating blockages and attacks against Taiwan, while systematically denies the operation capacity of US forces in the region. Beijing has promised to reveal more details about the specific weapons that will be shown in the coming weeks. Cover image | Pang Xinglei/Xinhua In Xataka | Deepseek has suggested that Nvidia chips no longer needs. We believe to know who is buying them

build a solid network and be constant

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Before putting in front of OpenAi and lead the Chatgpt development To transform forever The world as we know itSam Altman spent his time to guide entrepreneurs and startups such as Reddit, Airbnb or Spotify on his way to success from the incubator and combinator he directed. During his stage as a mentor, Altman learned important lessons on how to cement a long -term successful professional career. The current CEO of Openai, wrote In your personal blog Some of those lessons to get a solid professional career. 1. Who does not risk, does not win Altman believes that most people tend to overestimate the risk and underestimate the reward. It is true that it is not always easy to assume risks, especially when you do not have enough experience or knowledge. However, the millionaire recommends Start taking calculated risksespecially at the beginning of the professional career, to learn to face them, and lose their fear of taking risky paths as progress is being made in the professional career. Especially at that initial stage of the races, Altman ensures that rewards tend to be much greater than losses. Successful entrepreneurs like Bernard Arnault They have assumed that mistakes are going to be madebut it is important to learn from them and not repeat them again in the future. Avoiding them is not always possible, so it is convenient to learn from veterans like Bill Gates and prepare for the worst and best scenario possible. 2. Constancy and optimism Sam Altman quotes Airbnb as a record reference. “They managed to survive enough time for luck to accompany them.” Maintain an optimistic attitude and determined to achieve the objectives setallows to stay in the line enough time to arise the necessary opportunities to achieve it. At the same time, having an optimistic mood allows not to decline in the face of the challenges that will surely be raised along the way. So MR.BASET also believes itone of the most popular youtubers (and Millionaires) of the Google service, with almost 300 million subscribers. Every time someone asks for advice on how to create a YouTube channel, the content creator Repeat the same: “Record 100 videos. And it improves something in each of them.” Authentic power that systematic constancy lies in the emphasis on the process, gradual learning and incremental improvement that is only obtained through constant practice. 3. Create and keep your pits It is not that Altman recommends burying himself on earth and digsing a ditch around. The theory of the tarry, widely used by Warren Buffettcreate an analogy between the strategic advantages that companies or people have surrounded by medieval strengths. The larger and deep the pits of these strengths, the more difficult the enemy turned out to reach the walls and knock them down. Based on professional or business, pits are your advantages, skills, knowledge, or any other difference that gives you some type of advantage over other employees, companies or competition in general. Creating and maintaining these pits in time makes the person or company more valuable and essential. “If you do the same as everyone else, it will not be difficult to compete with you,” says Sam Altman in his recommendations for success. 4. Build a solid network There is a popular said that he says: “You will only arrive faster, accompanied you will do it further.” Openai’s co -founder affirmed in his Podcast interview Unconfuse me Bill Gates, who is still surprised by the amount of help he currently receives from people he helped a decade ago. A solid contact network is not achieved by keeping someone’s number on the agenda to call him when something is needed, but on the contrary. According to Altman, “an effective way to build a network is to help people as much as you can. It will return to you multiplied by 1”. But the Openai manager makes a warning: “Remember to spend your time with positive people who support your goals.” In Xataka | Sam Altman does not bring good news about the impact of AI on employment: “It is a huge, huge problem” In Xataka | People did not stop hacking virtual work interviews with AI. Solution: We want to meet you in person *An earlier version of this article was published in August 2024

The iPhone 17, closer than ever. Apple already has a date for your keynote and this is what we expect

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The countdown has already begun. If you are thinking of changing your iPhone or you simply want to follow closely the latest news of the Cupertino company, there is a date that deserves to be on your calendar. Apple has just sent the invitations for your next Keynote. It will be the September 9 at 10:00 in the morning In Pacific Hora (19:00 Spanish peninsular time) and, as every year, it can be followed live through streaming. What to wait at the Apple event on September 9 Everything indicates that we will see the traditional renewal of the iPhone family. The great unknown is what the protagonist of this year will be. According to rumors and leaksthe focus would be put on the expected iPhone 17 Air. We are talking about a device that, as its name suggests, would aim to become One of the lightest and most thin market. It would arrive with a premium topped as usual in aluminum and glass. As we said, the device would not arrive alone, but accompanied by the rest of the company’s proposals. Among them is the presentation of the new iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Max. Maybe the absence of the Plus model attracts attention. Everything points to what The iPhone 17 Air will take its placealthough with a different strategy that could serve to further boost sales. The autumn event could also bring news in the range of accessories of the US company, with special attention to new Apple Watch and a possible renewal of the AirPods. On the other hand, everything indicates that the day of the event will announce the Final versions of iOS 26iPados 26, Macos 26, Tvos 26 and Watchos 26. We are talking about Versions that are currently available in Beta. In development. Images | Apple In Xataka | Google Pixel 10: having a telephoto sensor without having to go to the pro models is happiness

It is no longer necessary to pay to transform our photos into what we want. The latest Google offers it for free for everyone

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Edit images has become routine: to surprise in networks, to Try a new style or to rescue old photographs They keep memories. In classic filter apps stores with bets for artificial intelligence. Many are paying, others pay below what was promised. Google can be about to change that balance And, this time, with a difficult argument to ignore. The novelty comes integrated into the app of Geminiboth on mobile and on web. According to Googleits engine, based on the latest Gemini models, not only generates from text: it also edits real photos with instructions in natural language and chained steps, from changing the background to replacing objects or merging two images into one. The company presents it as its highest quality image tool to date. The jump is not in new creations from scratch, but in the photos we already saved on the reel The focus is not so much to create posters from scratch and in Transform the everyday. Try a different haircut, carry a novel aesthetic, turn a selfie into a Gothic version or emo, add that backpack that you forgot in the shot, move to another landscape or combine two photos for a coherent composition. The promise is to maintain the recognizable features of the subject, a critical point in which Google claims to have improved against usual distortions. The experience is conversational. You upload a photo, write what you want and see the result; If you don’t convince, you ask for adjustments. Nothing to use traditional tools. Everything flows at a blow of textual requests. For the general user there are two keys. The first, availability: can be used in the Gemini app for iOS and Android and also in the web version. If you are creator or developer, the service appears on Google Ai Studio. The second, price: Free access to test and edit images without subscription. The same portrait, four different styles. The Gemini generator plays with color, texture and shape without leaving the app There are also limits. Although demonstrations teach convincing results, there are still scenarios that challenge any model: precise typefaces, very fine details or tiny faces in complex scenes. Fidelity to the original improves when concrete changes are requested, but not always right. The practice advises iterate, adjust and check the full size result. From neutral portrait to three different fashion decades. Gemini plays with aesthetics and time as if they were filters In security, Google insists on the safeguards. The images generated They incorporate visible water brand and a mark embedded by techniques such as Synthid to indicate its origin with Ia. They are measures aimed at stopping an obvious risk: the more realistic these tools are, the easier it will be to manufacture deception. Skater, two miller or classic. Gemini’s generator makes a common photo a parade of personalities The interesting thing about Gemini is how natural it is to try styles without touching a complicated editor. You can ask for “Make me Y2K version” and see how the selfie is transformed with silver chains and two milea fashion prints. Or write “convert this photo into look skater” to make caps, wide sweatshirts and that aesthetics of urban park. The same portrait can also become elegant with a “beam that this photo is preppy”, keeping your features but completely changing the air of the scene. The before and after the same image: Google’s AI repairs, color and rescue (or invents) the lost details Those who want to restore the family album, the option to recover old photosincluding collecting in a single instruction, provides utility and emotion. For creators, the possibility of mixing images, conserving faces and repeating styles offers a powerful advantage. The edition with AI moves to the day -to -day layer, and Google does not arrive alone. Competes with other proposals, such as Chatgpt, Grok, Midjourney, Qwen and even adobe. The good news is for users, which we have more and more options at our disposal to achieve our editing goals, and in a way, give free rein to our creativity. Images | Google In Xataka | Deepseek put China on the AI ​​map. The danger is that this revolution stays in a day flower

The return of the blue dragon after three centuries

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In recent days, several bathers have been paralyzed in front of a strange finding: a tiny be blue, floating mouth on the foam of the sea. His silhouette seems a cross between a marine jewel and a character out of a pokeball. It shines in electric tones, displays appendages in the form of wings and moves with the lightness of an acrobat. It is the blue dragon (glaucus atlanticus), a nudibranchium that barely measures four centimeters, but has caused the closure of whole beaches. In Guardamar del Segura (Alicante), the council of beaches defined it to the information With humor as an army of “Pokemons doing pirouettes.” The comparison may sound sympathetic, but behind its lovely appearance there is a warning: this animal can chop and cause painful reactions. Minipokémon on the beach. In recent days, the people of Guardamar del Segura in Alicante has become an epicenter of the phenomenon. On beaches such as Vivers, Centro and Ortigues, the City Council has been forced to raise red flag after the detection of specimens by lifeguards. Although it has not been the only place, because very close to there, on the beach of La Mata (Torrevieja), dozens of blue dragons have also been located, which has confirmed that it was not an isolated case, as they have indicated In local media. A visitor that expands. The blue dragon is not limited to Vega Baja. According to the countryspecimens have been recorded in Mallorca, where they have not documented for more than three centuries. Also in Santa Barbara in Cádiz and on several beaches of the Campo de Gibraltar, such as Sotogrande and the line, which had to close by caution. To this list are added Canet d’e Berenguer (Valencia) and Famara (Lanzarote), where bathers and authorities also notified their presence. As experts have explained National Geographicthese animals reach the shore dragged by currents and winds of lift from the high seas, their natural habitat. Behind these dragons. The glaucus atlanticus floats mouth and wears a striking electric blue with silver tones that make it look like a fantastic creature. His deployed appendices inevitably remember characters such as Vaporaeon or even gyarados of the Pokémon saga. However, its appearance hides a sophisticated defense mechanism: when feeding on jellyfish and hydrozoos, the blue dragon accumulates its urticating cells at the ends of its appendices, becoming an animal capable of causing cutaneous reactions. According to National Geographictheir bites are not lethal, but painful: they can cause a sensation of intense burning, nausea and vomiting. Is there a real danger? The scientific community asks for calm. “Close beaches for three or four specimens is an overreaction because there is no scientific evidence of its danger,” says Juan Lucas Cervera, Professor of Biology at the University of Cádiz In statements to El País. The Municipal Biologist of Torrevieja, Juan Antonio Pujol, agrees that documented lesions are slight and that they often confuse with jellyfish bites. Opportunity for science. Beyond the tourist alarm, the appearance of the blue dragon opens a window of knowledge. The University of Valencia and the Oceanogràfic, together with the University of Alicante, have received living specimens to study their genetics, origin and behavior, as the information has detailed. In this way, researchers will be able to confirm whether these individuals come from the Atlantic and arrive at the Strait of Gibraltar or if they begin to consolidate in the Mediterranean. Pujol has remembered in chain to be That is not an invasive species: it was already described in the Balearic Islands in 1705, although its presence has been extraordinarily rare. Security recommendations. The authorities and experts insist on four basic guidelines: Do not touch it under any circumstances, even with gloves. Do not capture it or take it to lifeguards; It must remain in the sea. Notify surveillance services to register the sighting. In case of bite, go to the health center and avoid home remedies. A fascinating case. The blue dragon has generated a stir in full tourist season, thanks to its rarity and beauty. Some point to climate change as a possible cause, but experts ask for prudence: although the Mediterranean has reached record temperatures Of more than 28 degrees, there are no conclusive evidence to directly relate its proliferation to global warming. Beyond theories, science celebrates a unique opportunity to study a species as striking as unknown. With unique behaviors – found on his back to camouflage himself, he is a hermaphrodite and can put 10 to 30 eggs in his prey – the blue dragon symbolizes how much remains to be discovered in the seas that surrounds Spain. Image | Poyt448, Peter Woodard Xataka | The sea is 30 degrees in the Balearic Islands and that worries meteorologists: the Mediterranean is a pressure cooker

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The start of the new LaLiga season has brought A new wave of IPS blockages. However, it has not been the only thing that has raised ampoules to fans and users on social networks. And it is that beyond the usual blockages that also affect legitimate websites, LaLiga seems to have opened a new front: Send legal notifications directly to users of Cloudflare that are not related to the unauthorized emissions of the parties. A new pressure strategy. As many users They have been sharing In networks, LaLiga is using ICANN regulations to reach Cloudflare private clients. And when the agency detects that an IP address houses unauthorized content during the parties, not only requests the blockade of that IP, but also requires Cloudflare to notify all customers that share that same address. The solution that LaLiga suggests is that customers ask Cloudflare to avoid sharing their IP with sites that broadcast football without permission. If not, the agency could take legal actions. Image: Lázaro’s blog Collateral victims in the spotlight. The case that has given the most in the last hours has been The ‘Lázaro’s blog’a personal site dedicated to GNU/Linux that received one of these notifications. In the mail, dated August 25, LaLiga warns that its website was housed on IP 104.21.16.1, from which it was supposedly facilitated access to matches during the first day. “If the previous circumstance continues, we will understand that for its part, a deliberate omission of its obligations against the crime commission is developed.” The operation of shared IP. Cloudflare operates with a shared IP address system where hundreds or thousands of websites can use the same address. This architecture allows optimizing resources and improving protection against DDOS attacks. However, when LaLiga detects that an IP address has been used to share a retransmission of a party without authorization, all the sites that share it They are indicatedregardless of its content or activity. What LaLiga says. We have contacted the body to know more about this type of notifications. According to the company, “this type of communications were already sent to users since last season, due to the inaction of Cloudflare and the lack of protection towards their own users.” For LaLiga, these blockages are “dynamic and provided, since these measures apply only to those IP addresses in which pirate emission activity is detected.” From LaLiga they also warn that “those clouds of Cloudflare who may suffer blockages on their websites, can go to email affectedcloudflare@laliga.es In order to send cloudflare that the illegal content housed on the IP of its website does not have its authorization. “ Threats with echoes from the past. This aggressive persecution reminds many other cases in Spain where they have tried to chase private users for downloading content without authorization such as the Euskaltel casewhere users were sent letters for having downloaded films through P2P, pressing the user with having to pay or go to trial. In the case of Lázaro’s blog, Cloudflare did not attach screen catches What LaLiga says to have as proof. “It is an automatic email, I imagine that all those domains that at the time of soccer are in the range of IPS that they detect that piracy occurs.” A problem of effectiveness. While LaLiga intensifies their offensive against those who see soccer matches from unauthorized broadcasts, the most affected are precisely users who have nothing to do with it. Blocks and threats are demonstrating to be more effective in harming small personal websites and blogs than to stop illegal distribution networks of sports content. Resources that remain in the air. The case is currently in the Constitutional Courtwhere so much Rootedcon As Cloudflare they have presented resources against blockages. While the bureaucracy continues its course and Internet suppliers continue to adopt restrictive measures Based on the sentence in favor of LaLiga, more and more users are affected by using legitimate services that casually share IP address with those who are not. And for the moment everything is paralyzed. In Xataka | LaLiga can no longer monetize her matches in Spain. So start playing them where: USA

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