Month: August 2025

a hypersonic weapon that hides in cities

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In a context of growing strategic rivalry with the United States, China has intensified their Naval operations long range as part of an explicit demonstration of its global ambition. If the domain of the Pacific becomes fundamental, the construction of the aircraft carriers that Beijin has never had are The best track of his efforts. Now, they have also added a powerful form of deterrence. Presentation of a strategic weapon. China He has spread An unusual two -minute footage showing the launch of its supersonic cruise missile DF-100considered one of the key pieces of deterrence against US carriers and bases in the Pacific. The video, part of a documentary for the 98th anniversary of the EPL, confirms for the first time Specifications already advanced in the Zhuhai Air Hall of 2024: range of 3,000 to 4,000 km, Mach 4 cruise speed, high precision, great penetration capacity and impact time of about 40 minutes. These characteristics place under direct threat Military facilities in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and American bases in Okinawa and Guam, opening the possibility of hitting even beyond the second island chain. He DF-100 It is dual platform, capable of launching from off -road vehicles or from H-6N bomberswhich expands its radius of action about 6,000 km. Technical characteristics. The footage, although blurred to protect sensitive data, shows A conical eye Designed for supersonic penetration, large rear fins for high maneuverability and wings Strake type For stability. The system uses a Three stages propulsion: Solid starting rocket, supersonic combustion stator for sustained flight in the stratosphere and a high altitude propeller for the terminal phase. This configuration allows you to keep speed Mach 4 throughout the journey and execute evasive attacks at low level. Its guided combines inertial navigation, correspondence of land or images, and positioning By Beidou satellite to achieve precision at the level of meters. It can attack both mobile and fixed objectives of high value, including command centers, logistics knots and key points to paralyze operations. Mobility and operational flexibility. Unlike the tests in common desert areas, the launch was shown in An urban environmentwhich, according to analysts, seeks to show that DF-100 can operate from unconventional locations such as cities, hindering its detection and destruction by adversary forces. Under that prism, this flexibility would allow to deploy it quickly and from unpredictable positions, reinforcing its value as a weapon to “hit and disappear.” Its ability to launch from multiple platforms and in varied environments increases the tactical options of the EPL and complicates the countermeasures enemy. Strategic context. We have Cash before: the public appearance of DF-100 It is part of a moment of growing global military competence and responds, according to experts, to the will of Beijing of Project strength and reaffirm its arms modernization. Although the EPL rocket force has recently been dotted with corruption scandalsthe demonstration emphasizes that their material abilities remain intact. The DF-100, the only land cruise missile capable of maintaining supersonic speed During the whole flight It reinforces the Chinese strategy to deny access and limit the projection of American naval power in the Western Pacific, positioning itself as one of the “master letters” of the Chinese arsenal in a possible confrontation scenario. Image | CCTV In Xataka | China has realized something: missiles are not necessary if you are able to monitor 1,500 km away In Xataka | China’s domain is spreading far beyond rare earths. Even where the US had no rival: the sea

launch satellites to space without rocket

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Adak is a small island at the western end of Alaska. With a military past for its proximity to Russia, today it has less than 400 inhabitants. In this almost pospocalyptic scenario, A Californian startup called spinlaunch Plan to build a giant centrifugator for catapult satellites to space. The perfect place for a space catapult. Although the argument of a science fiction film seems like the company, the company has signed an alliance With The Aleut Corporation, owner of much of Adak Island, to build its orbital launch platform there. The choice of the island is not accidental. Its northern latitude and its location in the Pacific allow polar and high inclination launch trajectories without the need to fly over populated areas. Air and sea traffic are also minimal. Adak was an important air base of the United States until 1997, so it has an operating airport and a deep water port, which would greatly facilitate the logistics of building and operating the installation. In addition, the island has enormous wind, hydraulic and geothermal potential that would allow feeding the electric centrifuger with renewable sources. How the spinlaunch centrifuger works. The Californian startup He did a concept of concept in 2022. The system is essentially a kinetic accelerator sealed in vacuum. Inside, a carbon fiber arm rotates the projectile that the satellite contains at hypersonic speeds, reaching 7,500 km/h. At the precise moment, the projectile is released and triggered to heaven by a fireplace. Once it reaches an altitude of 60 km, where the atmosphere is very dim, a small engine turns on to give the final thrust that allows the orbital speed to reach. In one of its most spectacular tests, They placed a camera aboard To see it in the first person. The greatest technical challenge is the brutal acceleration that subjects the payload to forces of up to 10,000 g. Spinlaunch has collaborated with NASA to demonstrate that satellites specially designed for centrifuging can survive the extreme trip. But although Keep working In perfecting the system, it has had to diversify its business so as not to fail. Launches in rockets to finance the tyrachinas. After years of silence, Spinlaunch reappeared in April 2025 with a plan that left many of his perplexed followers: displaying his own constellation telecommunications satellites. The most surprising: the 280 satellites of the Meridian project would be put in orbit using traditional rockets. Although many thought it was a tacit form of leave the catapultthe project on Adak island shows that the intention is to move on. In the words of David Wrenn, CEO of Spinlaunch: “The launch market is relatively small compared to the economic potential of satellite communications, more focused on costs than benefits.” So, if Meridian is successful, the centrigurator in the most remote town in the United States could end up seeing the light in the most post -epocalyptic environment imaginable. Image | Paxson WoelberSpinlaunch In Xataka | What to use rockets when you can use kinetic energy: this is the spectacular Spinlaunch space release system

Threads is eating the toast to X. He is doing it without making noise and with some data that already starts to weigh

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Not all the mountain is oregano and not all text -based social networks are X. After the Elon Musk arrival at xthen Twitter, there were few users who fled from the bird’s social network in search of more green pastures. It was then that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, opened the doors of his: Threads. Two years They have passed Since then and the platform has grown to become a powerful X rival, one that already begins to stand up. The data. As confirmed yesterday Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri (Instagram CEO) In its official profiles, Threads has managed to reach 400 million monthly active users. It is a significant figure, especially considering that they closed 2024 with Something more than 275 million users that in April the amount amounted to 350 million. 23 Twitter tricks – This social network is completely dominated! Monthly active users (MAU) are a key indicator to quantify the performance, state and health of, in this case, a social network. This metric measures the number of unique users who have visited the platform at least once during the past month. That the Mau grow is a good sign. And what about X? The only information related to X we have in some of the latest statements by Linda Yaccarino, which until a few weeks ago was the CEO of X. According to YaccarinoAs of April 2025 x, it had 600 million monthly active users. The growth was, however, softer. In September 2024 X it had 570 million Mau that, in January, became 586 million. That is, in general terms X it has more monthly active users than Threads, but the growth of Threads is much higher. On the other hand, it is also evident that Threads has more growth capacity than X, a social network that Elon Musk apart, already showed signs of having touched the roof when it was Twitter. Anyway, they are data that must be taken with tweezers because in both cases the source are the ceos of the platforms and, therefore, interested parties. A matter of use. However, there are more third -party data that support the growth of Threads. According to SimilarWebThreads and X have a very similar amount of daily active users (Dau) in their mobile apps: as of June 2025, the X and Android apps had 132 million Dau (15.2% less than the previous year), while Threads added 115.1 million (127.8% more than the previous year). The photo is very different if we look at the use of the websites, with X adding 145.8 million daily visits and Threads only 6.9 million. On the other hand, and according to Apptopia data Shared by Sheel MohnotThreads wins X in another key metric: the engagement. Threads users enter the app 6.6 times a day and each session lasts 190 seconds, while those of X enter 7.3 times and 150 seconds pass. This, in other words, means that Threads users spend 21 minutes daily using the app, while X spends 18 minutes. Threads has fewer users, but those who have them retains them for longer. Threads has a large user tractor: integration with Instagram THE ALMENDRUCO trick. It is no secret that goal has made Threads grow based on integrating it with one of the great titans of the industry of the industry of the doom scrolling: Instagram. IG users see some THREADS posts in their feeds, they can interconnect both profiles and even receive Instagram Push notifications with Threads content. Goal has its weapons and is using them quite intelligence. And Bluesky? Another of the most popular alternatives is Bluesky. After growing greatly at the end of last yearthe platform currently adds 38.2 million registered users, although its real activity is much lower than that of X and Threads users. According to the data of your own API, you have between 600,000 and 700,000 users publishing content and around 1.2 million interacting with the posts. At the moment, it still does not shade the proposals of Meta and X. Cover image | Xataka In Xataka | Bluesky and Fediverso want to stand up to the goal. These are the alternatives to Instagram that are already on the table

Much of Spain dismisses its firefighters in low season and that is a problem

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Summer arrives, the fires arrive. Spain has become accustomed to the sad reality that July, August and September are more than months of sun and beach. They are also fire, like the one who hits Three songs, Las Médulas, Galicia either Andalusia. Only so far from 2025 the flames have already calculated more than 69,000 hectaresa figure that reopens an old debate: in what conditions do forest firefighters work? Does it make sense that much of them are operational only in summer and do not dedicate themselves to clean the rest of the year? After all there is Who thinks that the fires ‘go out’ in winter. A percentage: 40%. Mount is all year old. Forest Firefighters, not so much. Although the situation of the brigades is not the same in all regions and there may even be differences between operators (many do not work directly to the administration, but through companies subcontracted) A quick search arrives in the newspaper library to confirm that one of the great ballasts of the collective is temporality. And to show a button, or a few. In A chronicle published today in The world Javier Matinsa, one of the firefighters who is responsible for fighting the forest fires of Madrid, warns that the staff of the public company that assumes those tasks thinns drastically when autumn arrives. “40% of the personnel only work in summer, but the ideal would be for him to do it all year because the prevention work is vital,” Reflect. “They are missing about 40 effects per day and there are more than 30 places to meet.” Is there more data? Yes. On account drops and partials, but that help better understand the context in which many of the forest firefighters who these days are fighting the fires that expand through the Peninsula work. In Another analysis of 2023 on the same subject, The world He slipped that around 25,000 professionals who are responsible for prevention and extinction work in summer is passed to 10,000 in winter. The data is based on union sources, but agrees with others that have been developed from the collective. “They make you a contract in July, you work until September or October and then to the street until the following year,” He reported In 2022 in RTVE Carlos Martín, a firefighter from Castilla y León. The public chain estimated at that time that two thirds of the region agents worked only during summer campaigns. In general, instability is an extended problem in the forest sector. The state employment service calculates that 43% of all contracts They are temporary. Why is it important? Because although the fires They devastate hectares (and they monopolize headlines) in summer they are not really an exclusive problem of July, August and September. His management and prevention extends to the rest of the year, as he remembered and in 2021 Carlos Moreno, promoter of A petition On Change.org with a title that speaks on its own: “Forest fires go out in winter.” “Most forest firefighters work three or four months a year, in summer. And the rest of the year? Who cleans the mountains to prevent fires? Nobody,” CLAIN MORENO. His campaign already accumulates more than 206,000 signatures. “A polvorín ready to burn”. The debate is important because the Spanish mountain has been clearly transforming over the decades, influenced by changes in its use and population movements, especially in emptied Spain. In a recent interview with COPE, Miguel Arroyo, disseminator on forest issues, warned That although Spain has much of its territory classified as Forestry, it only manages a small portion. “This means that 80% is totally abandoned and is a polvorín ready to burn,” he says before warning that the problem is especially serious on the private mountain. “The strong depopulation and rural aging, the cessation of traditional agricultural activities, the absence of forest use and serious policies that manage the territory have drastically transformed the territory and contributed to the increase in forest area,” WWF warns. “(That change) does not translate into the increase in healthy, stable and diverse forests. Cultivated and grazing areas in the past are today covered with thickets, young pioneer or rodal forests that, without adequate management, are sentenced to burn sooner or later.” “It’s a shame”. Temporality is not the only problem denouncing forest firefighters. The photo changes From one autonomous community to another, but in the sector it is cried for the reinforcement of the templates, the coverage of vacancies or the increase of wages, among other demands. “When you live the things you live, it hurts a lot that we are not recognized”, Pablo Antón recognizesone of the troops of the public company Tragsa who works in the Community of Madrid. In A recent interview With RTVE, Jesús Molina, president of the Company Committee of the Forest Firefighters of the region, assured that there are 33 uncovered vacancies and the collective has more than a decade with the frozen salary, which has even led him to convene A strike. Guild complaints extend to other latitudes of the country, such as Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha either Galicia. The guild looks now with expectation THE NEW LAW OF THE SECTOR. The flames advance. As a backdrop are the fires that over the last days and weeks have been extended by Galicia, Madrid, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha or Navarra, leaving several dead and a calcined surface balance that, so far this year, overcomes the long 69,000 hectareswhich exceeds the average of the last 18 years. A time ago Civio published A map which shows that in the last decades that scourge has been felt unequally in the Spanish territory, priming mostly with Galicia, part of the Cantabrian and some points of Extremadura. Images | Ministry for ecological transition 1, 2 and 3 In Xataka | In the middle of the fire, there is something that Spanish firefighters are very aware: the 30-30 rule

Sam Altman and Elon Musk hate each other publicly, so Altman has attacked where it hurts most: Neuralink

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Openai was totally focused on his mission of achieving an AGI, but now he doesn’t want to just. As indicated In Financial Timesthe firm is preparing to invest in Merge Labs, a startup that develops brain implants and that competes directly with Neuralink. Or what is the same: Altman has declared war on Musk. Again. A new startup against Neuralink. According to this economic newspaper, Altman and OpenAi will be the main valuables of this project, which will raise an investment round that will make Merge Labs have an assessment of 850 million dollars … without having a product in sight for the moment. Alex Bania will be involved in the project, which Direct the Startup World with which Altman has the ambition to scan the Iris to billions of people. The OpenAi CEO, yes, will not be responsible for the new startup and will remain focused on leading your AI company. Altman already showed interest in brain implants. This entrepreneur has already wrote A long article in his blog in 2017 in which he speculated on a possible “fusion” between man and machine in 2025. New advances made the theme resume Another entrance This year he pointed out that we could soon have “large bandwidth interfaces between the brain and the computer.” Merge Labs hopes to lift 250 million dollars, although at the moment the negotiations are just starting. Neuralink will have more competition. Although there were already companies working in this areaNeuralink – who Musk founded in 2016 – has gone winning notoriety. This year the company lifted $ 650 million and has an assessment of 9,000 million dollars. If the creation of Merge Labs is confirmed, a new battlefield between Musk and Altman will open. As if they didn’t have enough. Dialectical battle. In 2015 Musk and Altman, co -founders of OpenAi, were nail and meat. Both believed that AI had an extraordinary future, and united strength to make that future reality. Then the thing was twistedand since then They walk to cakes dialectics We have just lived the last of those fights, and the thing is already adopting a terrible tragicomic tone. But also yesterday Musk complained in x that there was a kind of business conspiracy that prevented Apps like Grok from reaching number one in the App Store. “Apple is the entrance door to the Internet for half America (USA). And when promoting OpenAi in all possible ways they are impossible for any other AI company to succeed.” It isn’t true. Like many other Musk statements, this era was false. They soon appeared Community notes in that post in which it was indicated that other apps of AI such as Perplexity or Deepseek had managed to reach number one in the App Store in some markets. But the thing began to be encouraged from that moment. Sam Altman enters the scene. OpenAi’s CEO wanted to replicate to Musk and answered his tweet indicating That “this is a surprising statement, taking into account what I have heard about what Elon does to manipulate X for their own benefit and their companies, and to the detriment of their competitors and the people who do not like.” Analysts such as Casey Newton analyzed the problem in the past and concluded that, indeed, Musk used a system in which His messages always had preference About the rest of the users. The fight returns. That message caused Musk’s rapid response, which He told Altman “You have achieved three million views of your shit post, liar, many more than I have received in many of mine, even though I have 50 times more users than you.” That was at that time: right now Altman’s post has 12.8 million visits. Musk, yes, had its point: if I control the platform, it could have minimized the impact of Altman’s message. Musk, confesses. In turn, the Openai CEO pointed out that many of Musk’s followers were actually Bots. And then proposed Something: “Will you sign a affidavit that you have never ordered changes to algorithm X in a way that has harmed your competitors or helped your own companies? I will apologize if so.” Grok betrays his musk. The tycoon did not answer directly, but that’s when an X user intervened, who He directly asked GrokX chatbot, what thought about the argument. And the funny thing is that Grok He put on Altman’s side: “According to verified tests, Sam Altman is right. Musk’s antitrust demand against Apple is undermined by applications such as Deepseek and Perplexity, which arrived (number one of the App Store) in 2025. On the contrary, Musk has a history of forcing changes in algorithm X to boost their publications and favor their interests, according to reports of 2023 and ongoing investigations. hypocrisy “. And chatgpt betray Altman. Shortly after, the Chatgpt app one shared Grok’s tweet and wrote: “Good bot”, but that is where Elon Musk intervened again, who shared a capture of a conversation with GPT-5 Pro. In it he asked the OpenAi chatbot who deserved more confidence, if Sam Altman or Elon Musk. After thinking a minute and 16 seconds, The answer was: “Elon Musk”. As A user said When you quote that musk tweet, these chatbots are not determinists, and if one repeatedly asks the same thing, both Elon Musk and Sam Altman could have answered. The problem is the media. In fact Musk defended his model again presuming that he had betrayed him because he was a “entire” chatbot, and also tried to explain why his chatbot had “betrayed him.” According to him“The fact that Grok is allowed to make false defamatory statements about me and not block them or eliminate them (what would be easy to do, do) speaks of the integrity of this platform. As you mention, Grok gives too much credibility to traditional media! This is a serious problem and we are working to solve it.” It is best not to believe anyone too much. This dialectical battle, the nth between … Read more

The battle for the Arctic has ceased to be a two thing. China has “planted” with five breaks against Russia and the US

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In March there was one of that news that rumbles in the geopolitical scene. Russia announced its decision to put its flag in the Arctic with a floating nuclear plant. And if any nation, call the United States, I wanted to say something, I was very delayed. In the background a strictly numerical theme: the Moscow fleet had eight “nuclear” break. And, suddenly, China has appeared. Unpublished deployment. United States, through the North Command (Northcom) and the NORAD, Watch The simultaneous presence of Five Chinese breaks operating in Arctic International Waters, in front of Alaska, a number that multiply by two and a half The current capacity of the US coastal guard in the region. The units, mostly research ships Like the Xue Long 2, the Ji Di and the Zhong Shan da Xue Ji Di, have been intercepted or survived by US media within the framework of the Frontier Sentinel operationdestined to counteract hostile activities, protect sovereign interests and promote respect for international maritime law. The deployment is part of a three -year trend of growing Chinese activity in the Arctic, facilitated by the thaw that opens routes such as The “Route del Norte”axis of the Chinese strategy of the “Polar silk route” To shorten in about 4,600 km The maritime journey to Europe. Arctic capacities and gap. Yes, despite not being an Arctic State, China already operates at least Five Rompehielos And it projects to build more tens, while Russia has dozens of units and the United Polar Stary and the Healy), to which the Storis on August 10 as provisional reinforcement. The rest of the 20 American breakwoods are domestic and They lack polar capacity. The Coast Guard warns which must expand and modernize its fleet to safeguard national security and maritime trade, aligning with the presidential guideline to acquire 40 new breaks. However, a new one is not built in the United States for half a century and current programs They suffer delayswith the first Polar Security Cutter postponed from 2024 A, possibly, 2029. The USCGC Healy helps to release an oil tanker with Russian ice flag near Alaska in 2012 Industrial response. Before the gap, the Trump government has assigned 4.3 billion of dollars for up to three new heavy breaks and 3.5 billion for medium units, in addition to promoting the ICE Trilateral Pact With Canada and Finland to meet the planned demand for 90 Rompehielos In the next decade. This agreement seeks Share informationform personnel and allow the joint acquisition of ships built in allied shipyards. In July, shipyards of the United States, Canada and Finland announced an alliance to produce Arctic Security Cutters, with a mature design and delivery capacity in 36 months after the award of the contract. Strategic competition. No doubt, the increase in Chinese and Russian activity in the Arctic reflects its growing interest in natural resources and strategic advantages of the region. Russia has massively reinforced its military infrastructureas in the Nagurskoye Air Base and the Trefoil Arctic Complexwhile the United States performs multinational exercise Arctic Edge 25 With own forces, from the United Kingdom, Denmark and local partners, although its ice operability remains limited by the shortage of breaking. The simultaneous presence of five Chinese ships in this sensitive area underlines the urgency for Washington to close the capacities gap if you want to maintain influence and access at the north end. Geopolitical importance. Plus: the thaw of the Arctic not only opens shorter trade routes between Asia and Europe, but It exposes reservations of hydrocarbons, critical minerals and new fishing grounds, all of high strategic value. For China, increase your footprint in the region gives you ability to influence In a space historically dominated by NATO Arctic States and members, in addition to reinforcing its global naval projection. For the United States, on the other hand, the Chinese advance and Russian supremacy In polar abilities they show the urgent need to invest in media that ensure the defense of their maritime routes, resources and presence in a scenario where geopolitical competence intensifies rapidly. Image | Us Coast Guard, USCG In Xataka | Eight Rompehielos have turned Russia into the power of the Arctic. Your secret: Nuclear force to operate all year In Xataka | The future of energy is floating in the Arctic: the ace under Russia’s sleeve is a nuclear plant

that their old photos delete

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The United Kingdom is dealing with one of the worst droughts of the last decades. In fact, the last six months have been The driest since 1976. Five regions have been officially declared in drought, and six more could join them over the next weeks If the shortage of rainfall is extended. Paint badly. August has begun in this country with The fourth summer heat wavewhich has led the government to declare this drought “an incident of national importance.” In Spain Some regions are also suffering An aggressive drought, but there is no doubt that the Spaniards are much more accustomed to dealing with this climate event than the British. Anyway, the United Kingdom has decided to take action on the matter. And what he has done is Publish a guide in which, among other things, he explains to citizens what they can do to save water at home. This is one of his tips: “Delete emails and old photos because data centers require large amounts of water to cool their systems.” The effectiveness of some solutions of the British government is very debatable Helen Wakeham, Water Management Director at the United Kingdom Environment Agency, has made this statement: “The current situation is of national importance, so we call all citizens to put on their part and help reduce pressure on our water environment.” Nothing to object to here. There is no doubt that the most prudent is that citizens get the shoulder to save water when this very scarce resource. Most of the measures proposed by administration to citizens is well brought, but there is a particular advice whose effectiveness is very doubtful. This is What he proposes in his guide The National Group of the United Kingdom: Install a tank to collect rainwater and use it in the garden Repair your toilet if you have leaks. The toilets that drip can waste between 200 and 400 liters of water a day Use the kitchen water to water your plants Avoid watering the grass. The grass will grow healthy again Close the taps by brushing your teeth or shaving Take shorter showers Delete emails and old photos because data centers require large amounts of water to refrigerate their systems The first six tips are very reasonable. However, the impact that the last one on water consumption can have is at least anecdotal. Data centers use a lot of water to Refrigerate your servers by evaporationit is true, but the fact that citizens eliminate their emails and older photographs It will hardly have a perceptible impact in the cooling needs of these facilities. In fact, the search and elimination process of these files on servers probably consumes more energy and water than to leave them where they are. Image | Nadas Photography More information | United Kingdom Government In Xataka | The time of truth of the Spanish reservoirs: how are they going to endure the heat after rains that has left them overflowing

Carrefour leaves this 55 -inch LG TV at outlet price with gaming functions

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Carrefour is one of the stores that best launches on televisions, since we can normally find models of enough brands at very competitive prices. Now, in its discounts catalog has TV LG 55UR78006LK For alone 369 euros instead of 509 euros. LG 55ur78006LK (55 inches) * Some price may have changed from the last review A TV with an excellent value for money The LG 55ur78006LK is a Smart TV or intelligent television that is accompanied by a 55 -inch screen with direct LED backight. The panel offers a 60 Hz soda rate and a 4K resolution, but it is also compatible with the image format HDR10 and has nine image modes. It is also worth mentioning that this TV includes a Menu dedicated to gaming With the different configurations that allow you to adjust in order to have a good video game experience: according to the brand, it includes video game optimizer for various game genres and has Direct access to GeForce Nowamong many other options. On the other hand, in its audio section we are facing speakers that offer a 20W power together with the compatibility of Dolby Digital. In addition, it includes AI Sound technologies and clear dialogues, it comes with a filmmaker mode and the TV works with Apple AirPlay 2. You may also interest you Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K (last generation), streaming device compatible with Wi-Fi 6, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos and HDR10+ * Some price may have changed from the last review LG S40T – Smart Sound Bar, 300W, 2.1 channels, Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound, wide connectivity, HDMI, Bluetooth, USB, optical input, black * 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 | LG 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

Kodak revolutionized the world of photography. His last message sounds more like farewell than reinvention

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Your first camera may be a Small yellow or black box, plastic, with a metallic click and a reel that you carried to reveal to discover photos of bright colors. Before there were mobile phones and Instagram filters, Kodak was the entrance door to photography for millions of people. Yesterday, that same company warned in its quarterly report (Form 10-Q that presents before the SEC) that its continuity is in doubt. The market responded to the announcement with a fall close to 26% of the shares in the subsequent moments. According to the aforementioned document, Kodak closed the last quarter with a net loss of 26 million dollars, compared to 25 million benefit a year earlier, and 155 million box to June 30. The problem is that in less than a year obligations over around 500 million and today it has no compromised financing to cover them, which activated the notice of ‘Going concerns‘. To gain margin, the company has launched extraordinary measures, but has indicated that “these conditions raise serious doubts about the company’s ability to continue operating.” To invent the easy photo to existential doubt Far from their domain days in cameras and reels, Kodak operates today in commercial printing, chemicals and advanced materials, and film for cinema. Its brand is licensed for consumer products, while reinforcing businesses where it retains industrial technology and capillarity. Besides, It already has a regulated installation in Rochesterregistered by the FDA, which will start with PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE (A buffered saline solution with phosphates that is usually used in laboratories and biomedical processes) and aspires to produce intravenous sera later. His footprint in consumer photography is, today, more symbolic than real. As we mentioned above, the pressure of that short-term debt is combined with loose income and limited liquidity, according to 10-Q and the results note. To win oxygen, Kodak has decided to close his Company Pension Plan in the United Statesa corporate system that guarantees retirement payments to former employees. The company plans to clarify on August 15 how it will serve all participants and complete reversal in December 2025, with the idea of amortizing part of the term loan and renegotiating or refinancing the rest. Kodak camera In 1975, Steven SassonKodak engineer, presented a digital camera prototype who captured images with a CCD sensor and kept them on tape. It was rudimentary, but marked the beginning of a technological revolution that would end up imposing. The company decided not to market it then for fear of cannibalizing the road business and for the immaturity of the product. This caution delayed its entry into the digital market, allowed rivals to consolidate positions and weakened the model that had made it unbeatable for decades. In 2020, Kodak tried to reconvert the pharmaceutical ingredients with a letter of interest from the United States Development Bank for a loan of 765 million dollars. The stock market reaction was glowing, but the process was paralyzed between research and criticismand the loan was not formalized. That ambition survives today on a smaller scale: Rochester’s CGMP installation, already registered by the FDA, will begin with PBS as the first product and will serve as a basis for exploring materials of greater regulatory value. What happens in the coming months will be decisive for Kodak. The company argues that it may pay a significant part of the loan and expand or refinance the rest, while executing the closure of the pension plan and Light your new pharmaceutical line. The market, for now, observes skepticism. For a brand that defined photography for more than a century, the challenge is no longer to innovate, but simply survive. Images | KODAK | Bady Abbas In Xataka | The agreement with the US seemed to pave the way to Nvidia in China. Now is the Asian giant who begins to close the door

Humanoid robots impress at first glance. Sony is clear what reality is: they still do not know how to move well

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Humanoid robots are generating a lot of expectation for their futuristic component. Right now, Boston Dynamics’s new totally electric atlas It moves in almost aliens, and The humanoids of figure They already learn to handle coffee makers and washing machines. The feeling is that the Robots revolution is just around the corner, but in its design they hide a problem that is slowing its true potential. And the solution does not go through adding more calculation power. The ‘silly’ body of robots. A recent study From Sony’s own robotics division, he points out that the root problem that limits his own machines is the “limited number of joints”, which creates a “disparity between their movements and those of the subjects they imitate.” That in this case are humans. As explained by the director of the Mechanical Intelligence Research Group at the London South Bank University, the current approach to the robotic industry is “the first brain.” Incredibly complex software is designed that has to centralized a body that is, in essence, a metal knead and engines connected by slightly flexible joints. An attempt to resemble the human that fails. If we move as we moveS In day to day, it is not for ‘magic’, but because we are an almost perfect machine that has about 360 joints, 206 bones and numerous ligaments. This makes the column flexible or the joints adapt to any movement. But humanoid robots are simple rigid structures that constantly fight against their own weight and inertia. In order not to fall, they need to perform millions of microcorrections per second, also consuming a lot of energy. According to the data, a Tesla Optimus robot to make a simple walk Consume about 500 wattswhile a human being for a more demanding walk Consume 310 watts. The clumsy that they are is increasingly evident. The famous Optimus video folding a shirt It is, in reality, a demonstration of its great physical weakness. A human can fold the shirt almost without looking, using the touch to feel the key and guide their movements. Optimus with his rigid hands depends on his powerful vision and his brain to meticulously plan every tiny movement. The same goes for Atlasthat although it makes spectacular acrobatics, I could not walk safely on a rock covered in moss because the feet cannot feel the surface to adapt to it. {“Videid”: “X83kba5”, “Autoplay”: True, “Title”: “Tesla Bot: This is the humanoid robot that is creating Elon Musk”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “135”} The solution is already explored: mechanical intelligence. This It is a concept that nature perfected millions of years ago and that researchers around the world are beginning to apply in robotics. The idea is simple: design the physical structure of a machine to perform ‘calculations’ and passively adaptations without the need for a central brain or extra sensors. In nature there are many examples of this. For example, the tendons of a hare act as intelligent docks that absorb the impact by landing and release that energy to boost the next stride. The human hand is also able to passively adapt to any object and the yolks of our fingers conform to moisture to achieve the perfect friction level. The investigation is already demonstrating the value of this approach. For example, there are robots with legs inspired by the tendons of a cheey that can run with notable energy efficiency. In Xataka We do not need necessarily humanoid robots. We need machines that do what we can’t even imagine The efforts are put to increase their presence. Companies are clear that humanoid robots are the future. Some like figure They have already created a system to make large -scale robotsor even China is doing exhibition of your best models To make it clear that they have gone from theory to practice, and even They put them on sale. And such is the number of companies that have been launched towards this market, which It costs to differentiate each other. But they already do very common tasks such as Play football or participate in Kickboxing tournaments between robots. And even work for an hour remembering exactly what their hands ‘feel’. Images | Julien Tromeur In Xataka | “I can’t stop”: addiction to talk to AI is already here and there are even help groups to leave 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 Humanoid robots impress at first glance. Sony is clear what reality is: they still do not know how to move well It was originally posted in Xataka by José A. Lizana .

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