Month: November 2025

put UBTECH’s most advanced humanoid robots to work

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In Fangchenggang, where control windows and cargo trucks outline the routine of a border with Vietnam, an experiment is being prepared that will not take place among laboratory prototypes, but among travelers, agents and logistics workers. China has chosen this place to test humanoids in real situations, with deliveries scheduled from December and very specific functions: guiding movements of people, supporting logistical tasks, participating in certain commercial services and carrying out inspections both at border posts and at industrial facilities. An ambitious contract. The agreement signed between UBTech and a center specialized in robotics in this border city amounts to 264 million yuan, about 34 million euros, and establishes the deployment of the model Walker S2 in different types of scenarios: border crossing, logistics zones and industrial complexes. According to the company, the humanoids will be intended to guide flows of people, organize internal transportation operations and carry out structured inspections in facilities linked to steel, copper and aluminum. From prototypes to 800 million. UBTech arrived at Fangchenggang with a model that is no longer presented as a prototype, but as an industrial product. The Walker Series accumulate valued orders by 800 million yuan by 2025, not including educational and research models. UBTech assures that it has already begun to deliver the first industrial batches of the Walker S2 and that its objective is to accelerate production at scale, with a view to manufacturing thousands of units and reducing costs so that humanoids enter real environments. Robotic administrations. The rollout of UBTech fits into a broader trend within the Chinese public sector. The Zhejiang immigration office already uses robots for daily tasks, such as support in people flows and information services. At Hangzhou airport, one of these systems answers simple questions to passengers, while at the top of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, held in Tianjin, a multilingual robot developed by iBen Intelligence was used for protocol assistance. The Fangchenggang initiative is part of a coordinated strategy from the State to organize the humanoid sector in China. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology created a national committee specific for this type of robots, chaired by the organization itself and made up of companies, innovation centers and relevant technical figures. It includes executives from UBTech, Unitree, AgiBot and representatives of the Shanghai innovation center. The goal is to set standards and accelerate the transition from laboratory to commercial and administrative applications. What is relevant is not only that the humanoids have contracts and assigned functions, but also the place where they are going to test them. A border is a regulated space, with people in transit, goods, controls and tight times. If they work there, it will be easier to propose new applications in other public contexts. The Fangchenggang Pass serves as a laboratory, but also as a stage to observe what sharing tasks between machines and human workers entails. Images | UBTECH In Xataka | NVIDIA is the most valuable company in the world because it had no competition. Until Google started making chips

A 600 kilometer quantum network is one of its great strategic bets

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During the 90s the idea was established that Japan represented the future. Whoever traveled there found bullet trains, cities covered in neon, technological culture on every corner and a very visible contrast between tradition and innovation. In the early 2000s, cell phones with cameras and humanoid robots arrived, further reinforcing that image of a country ahead of its time. Three decades later, that perception is still alive in the collective imagination, but it no longer fully reflects the Japanese technological reality. Japan retains important capabilities, but has been losing ground for years. It controlled nearly 50% of global semiconductor production four decades ago and in 2019 it represented only 10%. In artificial intelligence fell from fourth to ninth place after the release of ChatGPT in 2022. According to the Global Innovation Index 2025 It occupies 12th place, and in digital competitiveness it falls to 31st, affected by a lack of specialized talent. Japan seems determined to return to the global technology board Japan is deploying several initiatives to reposition itself technologically, and one of the most relevant is its future national quantum network. The plan contemplates a 600 kilometer fiber optic infrastructure which will connect Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe, and will have an operational environment for testing in 2027. The National Institute of Information and Communications Technologies will lead the project together with Toshiba, NEC and telecommunications providers. The network will transmit quantum keys using photons, in states that allow attempts to intercept information to be detected. The quantum bet cannot be understood without considering the risk that comes. IBM and Xanadu They predict that quantum computers with bug fixes will be functional before 2030, which could render current encryption systems, including RSA and elliptic curve algorithms, obsolete. In 2024, researchers from Shanghai University breached SPN encryption using D-Wave technology, while Google warned that 2,048-bit RSA keys could be decrypted in less than a week with advanced quantum resources. That’s why NIST has begun publishing post-quantum cryptography standards to protect digital infrastructure. Building the network is just the first step. Japan has experience in quantum research, but lacks large-scale operating environments and will need to resolve issues such as signal stability, deployment costs and system governance. Equipment installed will be needed every so often to maintain the range and quality of the encryption, which makes the operation more expensive and requires specialized personnel. However, These challenges also represent opportunities to develop new capabilities, train talent and demonstrate that the country can compete again in advanced infrastructures. The international map shows that Japan is not starting from zero, but it is not leading either. China has a quantum network land of more than 10,000 kilometers that connects around 80 cities, and the European Union is working in its own infrastructure that covers several countries. The difference is in the approach: Japan aspires for its network to function as an operational national infrastructure, with the capacity to scale and become a strategic asset. The potential of this project goes beyond its technical scope. Japan seeks for this network to become a symbol of technological autonomy and a platform from which to build international agreements. With its own technology and operational experiencecould offer solutions to other countries and reinforce its role as a digital security provider. In a scenario where secure communications will be considered critical infrastructure, being prepared can be a way to regain relevance without competing in all sectors at the same time. Images | Chris Bahr | Jesus Esteban In Xataka | Japan’s great technological delay: how it went from being a pioneer in the sector to being frozen in time

Chinese researchers wanted to know if it was possible to block Starlink in Taiwan: now they have an awkward answer

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Communications have become the invisible thread that sustains any modern military operation. Troops, vehicles or missiles are no longer enough: without a stable and resilient network, the situation can become complicated. During the Ukrainian war, Starlink demonstrated be able to keep Ukrainian forces connected even under pressure, and has since been placed at the center of the debate over its role in military scenarios. According to South China Morning Posta group of Chinese researchers linked to defense institutions has examined to what extent that network could resist a large-scale interference attempt on a territory like Taiwan. Starlink is not a typical satellite network. Instead of relying on a few high-altitude satellites in fixed positions above the equator, it is made up of thousands of small satellites that orbit the Earth at low altitudes and on changing routes. This architecture allows a terminal on the ground to not always connect to the same satellite, but to jump between several in a matter of seconds, forming a flexible mesh that is difficult to interrupt. That dynamic behavior largely explains why it has become a key element in debates about electronic warfare. A laboratory experiment. The study that has put numbers to this scenario is titled “Simulation research of distributed jammers against mega-constellation downlink communication transmissions” and appeared on November 5 in the Chinese magazine Systems Engineering and Electronics. It is signed by a team from Zhejiang University and the Beijing Institute of Technology, an institution with a prominent presence in the country’s military research. It should be noted that it is not an operational document or an official proposal from the Chinese Army, but rather an academic simulation that explores, from a technical point of view, what it would take to interfere with a network like Starlink on a regional scale. {“videoId”:”x9ri2iu”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”How China, the biggest polluter on the planet, has also become the complete opposite”, “tag”:”webedia-prod”, “duration”:”740″} A constellation designed to avoid interference. The study does not limit itself to describing that the terminals change satellites, but analyzes how this change thwarts any attempt at sustained interference. When a hostile signal affects a link, the terminal automatically redirects traffic to another visible satellite, and the network adapts the channel and frequency in real time. That reaction, combined with highly directional antennas capable of concentrating the signal toward specific points, reduces the impact of interfering emitters. The researchers highlight that even if a connection is momentarily blocked, the network can restore communication from another angle or frequency almost immediately. A thousand drones in action? The simulation was based on real data from Starlink’s orbital positioning and modeled how the signal would behave for twelve hours over eastern China. The researchers placed a virtual network of jammers 20 kilometers high, spaced between five and nine kilometers apart, as if they formed a checkerboard in the sky. The study considers that these nodes could be installed on drones, balloons or similar aerial platforms, capable of supporting coordinated interference systems. Using 26 dBW power and narrow beam antennas, each node managed to block an average of 38.5 square kilometers. With that efficiency, at least 935 units would be needed to cover a territory the size of Taiwan, not counting redundancies, failures or geographical barriers such as mountains. In Xataka China is sending drones to an island 100 km from Taiwan. The problem is that Japan and the US are filling it with missiles The authors themselves acknowledge that their results are only an approximation. They explain that they do not have real data on the radiation patterns of the terminals or measured signal suppression coefficients, which limits the precision of the simulation. They also do not know Starlink’s internal adaptation mechanisms against coordinated interference. Even so, they consider that the model serves to estimate the scale of the necessary effort and opens a line of study that allows quantifying, although imperfectly, how a blocking strategy would work in a real scenario. Images | starlink In Xataka | Starlink satellites have transformed war: China and Russia work on “Starlink Killers” to deactivate them (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news Chinese researchers wanted to know if it was possible to block Starlink in Taiwan: now they have an awkward answer was originally published in Xataka by Javier Marquez .

right now it has the best prices of the year

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If we think about what we use to study or work at home, it is normal for our minds to go first to technology (computer, monitors or peripherals, among other things). But, And the furniture? Choosing the table or chair well is key if we want to be as comfortable as possible throughout the day. To give a new look to what we use at home, we have a very good option with Sihoo Black Fridayespecially if we are looking for a new chair. We are going to see two very specific offers that right now present one of the best prices of the year. Sihoo Doro C300 Choosing a Sihoo chair will allow us to have something comfortable and with a very elegant design at home, which makes it fit into any type of setup. This Sihoo Doro C300 is one of the brand’s most popular models and, as we will see a little later, it currently has a huge discount. It is a model that stands out for offering a lumbar support with body tracking. Simply put: this piece moves with us, so without configuring anything we will have our lumbar well supported at all times. Although that is your key point, there is more. Its backrest is flexible and, although it has a rigid structure, we will have good support regardless of whether we are placed in a normal position or with the backrest reclined. The cable rest can be adjusted in height, inclination and depth, something ideal for the neck area. Another important factor is that it has mesh fabric. This material, in addition to giving a more elegant touch to the chair, It is more resistant to the passage of time and stains. All without forgetting that, in addition, it is more suitable when it starts to get hot in a few months. We also can’t forget its 4D armrests, which can be adjusted both up and down and forward and back (and in or out). In addition, they synchronize with the backrest if we recline it, so we will always have them supported. The RRP of the chair outside of the promotion is 309.99 euros, but right now it is reduced to 259.99 euros (there is a version with footrest, also reduced to 299.99 euros). Now if we use the code ‘SihooT6‘, the price of it will remain at 244.39 eurosthe lowest this model has had in recent months. Golden opportunity to renew a chair. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Sihoo Doro S100 We have an alternative to the previous one with the Doro S100. It is a versatile chair that is ideal for all types of users, thanks to its double dynamic lumbar support. This, with a larger support surface, It is totally independent of the backup. If we are looking for maximum lumbar support, this model is ideal for us. The fact that the backrest is independent of the lumbar area also allows us to adjust it at various levels to be able to customize support for the shoulder and neck areasomething essential to be seated with a comfortable posture. It can recline up to 135 degrees and also has a quality elastic mesh fabric, plus its armrests are also 4D. The RRP of this model is exactly the same as that of the previous Sihoo chair: 309.99 euros. Now, if we take advantage of Black Friday, we can get it at a much more attractive price. As a base, we have it reduced to 249.99 euros. Now using the same discount code ‘SihooT6‘, its price remains only 234.99 euros. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | sihoo In Xataka Selection | Which chair to work and play to buy: recommendations for ergonomics, comfort and 13 gaming and office chairs from 80 euros In Xataka | How to set up your home office: buying guide for stands, monitors and other peripherals, cables, headphones and more

The SEPE will automatically process your IMV

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According to October data From the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, 773,272 households have received the Minimum Vital Income (IMV), providing coverage to 2,363,554 people. This represents an increase of 19.25% in the number of households that receive this benefit. Until now, for receive the IMV It was necessary to make an application and provide the necessary documentation. As announced in your X profile the ministry headed by Elma Saiz, the gateway has been activated that will allow those people who have run out of unemployment benefits without having found a jobthey are automatically granted the IMV without having to carry out the ordinary procedures. Expansion of coverage to vulnerable people. The Government has launched a system so that people who finish collecting unemployment and they are still unemployedbegin to collect the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) automatically, as long as they meet the requirements of the benefit. The Ministry’s statement emphasizes that the objective is that those who are in a situation of vulnerability They do not run out of income while trying to find work and they do not have to face more bureaucracy at a difficult time. “With the launch of this gateway, we eliminate administrative barriers and make it easier for citizens in vulnerable situations to receive the help they need automatically, without cumbersome procedures or unnecessary delays,” said Minister Elma Saiz in the statement. Official processing. The IMV granting gateway connects the end of the unemployment benefit with the start of the IMV to avoid an interruption in income in economically dependent households. As explained by the ministry, during the quarter prior to the exhaustion of the unemployment benefit, the SEPE will notify the beneficiary that their aid is about to end and will inform them that they can authorize the sending of their data and that of their family unit to Social Security to process the IMV, as established in the simplification of IMV applications that regulated the Royal Decree-Law 2/2024. Concession of office. If the person gives their consent, and meets the requirements, the SEPE has a maximum period of 10 days from the end of the unemployment benefit to send the application to the INSS to process the benefit. When the right is recognizedthe Minimum Living Income comes into force on the same day it is unemployment benefit runs outso the first payment of the IMV occurs on the first day of the following month so that people in vulnerable situations “receive the help they need automatically, without cumbersome procedures or unnecessary delays.” Tap on the image to go to the original message Automated management. The most important change is that the unemployed person does not have to submit a new application or provide additional documentation to access the IMV through this route. The transmission of data is carried out ex officio by the SEPE, which eliminates “administrative burdens” and avoids in-person or telematic procedures that could previously delay the collection of aid. Who is the measure aimed at?. As and as I pointed out The Newspaperthe measure is thought for people between 23 and 65 years old who exhaust their unemployment benefit and whose income does not exceed the limits set for each type of cohabitation unit. As a reference, the annual income limit for a single person is 7,250 euros and for a family of four this limit rises to 13,775 euros. According to data provided by the Ministry, the average amount of the IMV is 473.41 euros per month per household, although this amount varies depending on the nature of each household. This aid is complemented with 115 euros per household per month in the case of children from 0 to 3 years old; 80.5 euros per month for each child between 3 and 6 years old; and 57.5 euros per month for each minor between 6 and 18 years old. What happens if you cannot use the automatic route. If for any reason this automatic gateway cannot be used (because the unemployed person does not give consent or because data is missing), the option still exists. traditional application route. In these cases, the IMV can be requested through the Social Security benefits portal, by mail or in person at the Social Security Assistance and Information Centers (CAISS). In addition, along with the new automatic processing platform, the 020 telephone number for assistance and information has also been enabled for the Minimum Living Income procedures. In Xataka | Job insecurity prevails among young people and the salary does not reach them: the “B salary” is gaining more and more followers Image | Wikimedia Commons (Lojwe), Unsplash (Huyen Pham)

We thought this bug was a pig. Now we know that it was two meters tall, weighed a thousand kilos and was a killing machine related to whales.

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Almost 200 years ago, a paleontologist found some completely improbable bones. They thought about it a thousand times, tried to find some sense in it; but everything ended in the same delirious image: that of a huge pig with the capacity to destroy everything in front of it. And that’s what we called him for decades: the ‘pig from hell’. What we have just discovered, two centuries later, is that we know almost nothing about them. Now they are even more terrible. But what really is a ‘hell pig’? It is the popular nickname by which entelodonts are known; an extinct family of large prehistoric mammals that lived about 30 million years ago. The bug was described for the first time in the 1840sbut it was in the early 20th century that paleontologists assumed it was closely related to pigs or peccaries. It was not something irrational: on a strictly physical level, entelodonts looked very similar to modern-day pigs. Two meters tall, weighing more than a thousand kilos and jaws capable of crushing bones, but pigs nonetheless. With “crushing bones” we are falling short. Recently, a team from Vanderbilt University could examine in detail the teeth of these animals and, thanks to three-dimensional models of dental microwear, they have managed to turn around everything we thought we knew about the role of these animals in North American ecosystems 30 million years ago. Your conclusions they leave no room for doubt: “the largest specimens were capable of crushing bones with an efficiency similar to or even greater than that of lions and hyenas.” Luckily, they weren’t very smart; And, according to the researchers, “it has a brain-body relationship similar to that of reptiles, so they were very unintelligent creatures.” A complex story. At first, experts thought that this monstrous animal was a born hunter. Then, partly because of this familiarity with pigs, they came to the conclusion that they were omnivorous animals, capable of eating small animals and carrion. Now, thanks to this team, we know that they were most likely at the top of the food chain of their ecosystems. This, in fact, raises the possibility that different species (or subspecies) occupied different ecological niches. However, there are curious things. To begin with, entelodonts have nothing to do with pigs. In fact, they are closer to whales and hippos than anything else. But, above all, it shows us the difficulties we continue to have in understanding our past. Little by little, we are understanding that if our way of looking at the past conditions the futureour ability to understand what the world was like 30 million years ago will radically change many things we think we are. And the best thing is that, even though I get melancholic and retrospective, everything we know makes it clear that the “pig from hell” is more infernal than ever. Image | Carnegie Museum of Natural History In Xataka | The deaths of cows, reindeer or rhinos are not a mystery: they are the consequences of a curse, that of “large animals”

It’s going so well that Mediaset is already preparing another season

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In a Telecinco hit by a crisis that has lasted for years and where not even hitherto safe tricks like ‘Big Brother’ work, it is advisable to desperately cling to any success that emerges on the grid. This season’s (and a few previous ones) is ‘The island of temptations‘, he reality which, despite being increasingly exaggerated and less credible, conquers audiences. Mediaset, faced with this triumph, can only do one thing: step on the accelerator. The island returns (it never left). Mediaset has confirmed that ‘The Island of Temptations’ will have a tenth season, whose recordings will begin in January 2026 with Sandra Barneda again at the helm of the program. The announcement came just 24 hours after the reality will reach his best record of the current edition: 17% screen share and 1.4 million viewers, last Monday, November 25. The speed of the move reveals the urgency of the chain to ensure its only consistent success in the midst of a unprecedented audience crisis: The tenth edition could arrive, apparently, sooner than the usual cycle of the program would dictate. The numbers that explain it. In addition to this maximum quota of last November 25, emissions in access prime time (Tuesday and Wednesday) average 11.5% with about 1.46 million viewerseven competing with rivals like ‘El hormiguero’ and ‘La revuelta’. The previous season closed with an average share of 16.5% and 1.529 million viewers, becoming the most successful edition since 2021. That eighth installment swept the young audience: it achieved 36% in the 13 to 24 year-old segment and 28.5% among 25 to 44 year-olds. A new strategy. With this new season Alberto Carullo, general director of content at Mediaset, has scheduled three weekly broadcasts because, as stated at a press conferencethey detected that “the public consumes this program almost like a series.” This repetition confronts reality directly with heavyweights such as ‘MasterChef Celebrity’ and competes on social networks with the phenomenon of ‘Operación Triunfo 2025’ on Prime Video, where it generates viral trends without stopping. And he maintains his form against such popular rivals, something that has undoubtedly encouraged Mediaset to renew. Historical debacle. The success of ‘The Island of Temptations’ contrasts brutally with the historic drop in audiences that Telecinco is experiencing. Mediaset’s main network closed 2024 with a 9.8% audience share, its worst annual record since it began broadcasting in 1990 and the first time it fell below the psychological threshold of 10%. From the departure of Paolo Vasile in 2022when the network averaged 12.3%, the loss has been 20% in audience in just two years. The situation has become so critical that Telecinco was overwhelmed even through the set of paid thematic channels. The network has fallen to third place in the national ranking, far behind Antena 3 and La 1, which They starred in the duel for leadership in 2024. In this catastrophic context, the realities They have become the only lifeline that Mediaset has to cling to. In fact, for a Telecinco at historic lows, ‘The Island of Temptations’ It’s not just a successful program.: It’s literally the only content that works consistently for you. History of a format. ‘Temptation Island’ landed in Spain in January 2020 with an ambitious bet: simultaneous broadcast on Telecinco (13.7%) and Cuatro (9.5%). The immediate impact led Mediaset to prepare a second installment that same year, incorporating crucial changes: Sandra Barneda replaced the original duo of Mónica Naranjo and Carlos Sobera, and the Dominican Republic became the permanent location of the reality. The format has already generated nine regular seasons plus a special spin-off, ‘The Last Temptation’ in 2021, where ex-couples from previous editions returned to test their new relationships. A consistent success. The casting of the ninth season broke records: More than 1,000 couples registered to participateshowing that the format maintains its appeal even after almost five years on the air. And now it’s time to get back to it: after the end of ‘Survivientes All Stars 2’, Telecinco has taken over with ‘Big Brother 20’ (that hasn’t worked) and this ‘Temptation Island 9’ that is doing it, which forces the calendar to accelerate. They counted our colleagues from SensaCineTherefore, “the tenth edition will begin filming as soon as it begins in 2026: in January”, breaking the tradition of summer recordings. At full speed. In Xataka | The end of ‘Caiga Quia Caiga’ is more than a blow to the audience: it illustrates that Telecinco can only trust reality shows

There is still stock of all these bargains

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November is coming to an end and, although we already have Christmas on the horizon, we still have a few more days to take advantage of the offers of Black Friday. It is true that many bargains have disappeared from the main stores, but that does not mean that we do not still have some powerful discounts on technology. In fact, a store that still has several very attractive ones is, without a doubt, PcComponents. This store, immersed right now in its final Black Friday fireworkshas several deals that can suit us very well if we are thinking of renewing our old computer for a new one or if we want to change some of its parts in case we already have a PC assembled. There is a lot to choose from, but below we leave you some very powerful offers that are still available. MacBook Air M4 by 849 eurosa very interesting laptop for those looking for outstanding performance and Apple ecosystem. AOC Q27G4ZR Monitor by 159 eurosgaming monitor with Fast IPS panel and a refresh rate that can reach 260 Hz. AMD Ryzen 5 5500 processor by 70.90 eurosan economical CPU option with good performance. AOC CU34G4 Monitor by 229 eurosideal if you are looking for an ultrawide monitor to play. Forgeon Solum Liquid Cooling by 54.99 euroswith two powerful fans and RGB lighting. Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card by 649.90 eurosa minimalist assembly ideal for playing at 1440p or even 4K. MacBook Air M4 If we want an Apple laptop and we are looking for something current, we will find few better options right now than this one. MacBook Air M4. This is the 13.6-inch version with 256 GB of storage, available right now for 849 euros when placing the equipment in the cart. A compact and very manageable device, but that does not give up offering a large dose of power and autonomy. Ideal for working, studying or watching multimedia content. Apple Macbook Air Apple M4 Laptop 10 Cores/16 GB/256GB SSD/GPU 8 Cores/13.6″ Silver The price could vary. We earn commission from these links AOC Q27G4ZR Monitor If we are looking for a new gaming monitor, this AOC Q27G4ZE could be a great fit for us. It is a model with 27 inches, QHD resolution and 240 Hz refresh rate, although it supports overclock to raise the rate to 260 Hz. It uses a Fast IPS panel and barely has 1 ms GtG response. It has support for HDR 400 and has speakers, which is a plus for single player games where we don’t want to use headphones. It is available for 159 euros. AOC Q27G4ZR Gaming Monitor 27″ QHD Fast IPS 240Hz Overclockable 260Hz 1ms HDR400 Speakers The price could vary. We earn commission from these links AMD Ryzen 5 5500 processor Not all users want to have the most powerful or the latest of the latest on their PC. If you are just looking for an affordable gaming device to play at 1080p without too many complications and without spending too much, this Ryzen 5 5500 may be ideal for you. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, more than enough also for simple and undemanding tasks. By 70.90 eurosa CPU with very good quality-price ratio. AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6GHz Box Processor The price could vary. We earn commission from these links AOC CU34G4 Monitor Another monitor option, also from AOC, although in this case significantly different from the previous one. In this case, we have a 34-inch ultrawide screen with 1500R curvature, which is ideal for gaining immersion while we play. Its resolution is WQHD (3,440 x 1,440 pixels) and it has a refresh rate of 180 Hz. It is very adjustable, so we can place it as it best fits our setup. It is at a minimum price: 229 euros. AOC Monitor CU34G4 34″ Curved WQHD 3440×1440 180Hz HDR10 Fast VA 1ms Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Forgeon Solum Liquid Cooling Accompanying our CPU with good liquid cooling will allow us to have sustained performance without temperatures rising excessively. This one from the Forgeon brand is ideal if we take into account that it also barely costs anything right now. 54.99 euros. It has two 120 millimeter fans and a square pump. In addition, the system has RGB lighting that will allow us to give a different touch to our tower. Forgeon Solum Liquid Cooling 240 ARGB Liquid Cooler Kit Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card We close this selection of offers with a graphics card, this time an RX 9070 XT. This assembly, from XFX, has an arrangement of three fans and a fairly sober and minimalist appearance, ideal if we are not concerned about having lighting or flashy details on the PC. At the performance level, it is a graphics card capable of offering outstanding performance at 1440p, as well as in 4K, relying on technologies such as AMD’s FSR. comes out for 649.90 euros. XFX SWIFT AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Triple Fan 16GB GDDR6 FSR 4 Graphics Card The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | PcComponentes, Apple, AOC, AMD, XFX In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which one to buy and 21 models from 15 euros to 470 euros In Xataka | Best gaming keyboards. Which one to buy and 11 recommended gaming keyboards for different users and budgets

Science wants to put ‘microrobots’ into our bodies to medicate us. They have already given good results

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One of the great problems of modern medicine in the treatment of different human ailments is the “killing flies with cannon” approach. This means that when we have a headache and we take paracetamol, this medicine is distributed throughout the body and not only where it needs to take effect. But this is something that may end up changing thanks to microrobots. The importance. That the medication ‘walks’ throughout the body seems completely irrelevant as long as it has its analgesic effect, but the reality is that it is the responsible for many side effects that are generated. For example, taking a simple ibuprofen to relieve pain or reduce inflammation seems like a wonderful thing. But the fact that it has a general effect on the body also causes the blocking of mucus production in the stomach, which can lead to one of its most ‘famous’ side effects, such as the generation of stomach ulcers when abused. And when we talk about the much more serious side effects, it can cause many clinical trials of new drugs to have to be stopped because of this. But simply with a system that makes the medication act in a specific place in the body, this problem could be alleviated (in part). A new advance. A team of researchers from ETH Zurich has published in the magazine Science a solution that brings us a little closer to the setting of the movie Amazing Journey: a platform of magnetic microrobots ready for clinical use that are capable of traveling through blood vessels and releasing their cargo into the affected tissue. Bradley J. Nelson, co-author of the study and professor of robotics at ETH Zurich, says this is just the beginning: “We’re just the tip of the iceberg. I think surgeons are going to look at this and I’m sure they’ll have a lot of ideas about how to use it.” A simple grain of sand. In this case we are not talking about a metal robot with gears, but rather a capsule of approximately 1.69 mm in diameter that is designed to dissolve inside the body. We can rest assured that we will not have thousands of grains of metal sand in our bloodstream. But to get here, the engineering behind it is not at all simple. One of the challenges, logically, is that its application would be viable within the human body. To do this, the team had to balance three key factors such as: biocompatibility, drug loading capacity and magnetic control. The result was a spherical gelatin matrix that has three components: Iron oxide nanoparticles to respond to magnetic fields. Tantalum: a dense metal that can be ‘seen’ through radiology techniques in order to follow its path through the body. The medication you want to apply. How it moves. In addition to the capsule, what is important is how it moves until it reaches the target where it must act. For this, an electromagnetic navigation system called Navion is used. To do this, coils are placed around the patient’s head to generate a magnetic field around it that allows the capsule to move. In this way, a surgeon, for example, will be able to control the capsule almost as if it were a remote-controlled car to be able to reach the desired action point. To do this, there are different ways of moving through the vessels: by rolling, by dragging or by navigating the blood flow itself. A suicide mission. Once this microrobot reaches its destination, the doctor will be able to activate the final phase. Using high-frequency alternating magnetic fields, the iron nanoparticles inside will heat up, which will cause the gelatin matrix to melt in a matter of 40 seconds, releasing the drug at once. In their tests, they managed to transport rtPA (a powerful drug to dissolve thrombi) to a clot in a vascular model, managing to restore blood flow in less than 20 minutes. When will it reach the hospitals? Although the system is quite promising, it will take time to reach patients. The researcher himself points out that clinical trials could begin within three to five years. In addition to thrombi, applications are being considered to treat aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations and very aggressive types of brain cancer. It’s not the first time. The medicine every time tends more towards personalization of treatments. In cancer we already see it with use of therapies such as CAR-T which focuses on training the immune system to specifically attack a person’s tumor cells and not healthy cells. A completely targeted therapy like the one proposed in this system, but in this case it is applied in the daily clinic (although it has a very high cost). The same happens with the immunotherapy with the use of antibodies. In this case, science looks for those particles that are unique to tumor cells and that are not present in healthy cells. In this way, drug weapons can be created that directly attack cancer cells. In Xataka | The rarest element on Earth aims to cure cancer. And Europe is already accelerating its production

Ultra-rich tourism has found an oasis in Kenya. A Safari at $3,500 a night that blocks animal migration

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For some time now, conflicts between large tourism projects and fragile ecosystems have multiplied: from the megaresorts built next to mangroves in the Caribbean that destroy natural barriers, even the hotels built in areas turtle nesting or unregulated cabins that have degraded reserves in Nepal and Sri Lanka. Each case shows the same pattern: the promise of immediate economic development versus the risk of damaging landscapes that cannot be recovered. The last one: a safari that short the wings of many animals. A camp in the worst place. The story was told these days the new york times. The opening of Ritz-Carlton Masai Mara Safari Campwith its $3,500-a-night suites, private plunge pool and privileged views of the Sand River, has ignited a controversy that goes far beyond elite tourism: for Maasai leaders, local guides and ecologists, the resort has been built on one of the last areas free of construction and in the middle of the corridor through which millions of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles move every year between the Serengeti and the Mara. What Marriott presented as a “historic” raid in the high-end safari, many perceive it as the most serious threat to a natural corridor that supports one of the most important ecological spectacles on the planet. The complaint filed by the Maasai scholar Meitamei Olol Dapash It maintains precisely that: that it has been built in a critical space where decades of monitoring data confirm a continuous and irreplaceable migratory flow. Overwhelmed tourism. The Ritz-Carlton is not an isolated casebut the most recent symbol of a growth that has become explosive: from 95 camps in 2012 to 175 in 2024an increase that experts consider incompatible with the ecological capacity of the Mara. The rise of tourism has multiplied the number of vehicles that chase animals off-road, deteriorate vegetation and corner predators, as in the viral video of 2023 in which dozens of cars closed a circle around two cheetahs while they hunted. Added to this are the discharged wastewater to the rivers, the light pollution of the camps and the noise that alters the nocturnal routes of the fauna. Various species have already disappeared from the Mara (such as the african wild dog or the oryx) in a process that researchers describe as an inversely proportional relationship: when the tourism industry grows exponentially, fauna decreases in the same way. Ritz-Carlton An exceptional permit. Outrage grew when it was learned that the construction of the Ritz-Carlton was authorized despite the moratorium of 2023 that prohibited building new lodges within the reserve. The approval was based on a “one-time exemption” signed by President William Ruto’s leadership, a gesture that activists they interpret as the porch for an avalanche of uncontrolled luxury projects. Even more disconcerting, according to the Timesis the controversy over the supposed community consultation: signatures of Maasai who claim not to have participated in any meeting, questioned documents and a climate of vulnerability that makes many think that the most powerful took it for granted that no one would protest. For the inhabitants of the Mara, the feeling is that the process is deliberately jumped essential steps of environmental assessment and local participation. Ritz-Carlton A wall to block animals. The camp, it seems, is surrounded by an improvised wall of earth and grass that prevents seeing the interior and that, according to local guidesalready shows marks of animals trying to cross or climb it. It is, if you still stand still, an uncomfortable symbol: a luxurious refuge shielded from the rest of the environment and the communities that live a few meters away. For many Maasai guides, the barrier embodies a dangerous idea: that visitors can enjoy the ecosystem without having to face its real problems, isolated from the pressure that the camps exert on the territory. African conservationists have been calling for years for accommodation models with a minimal footprint (fewer rooms, removable structures, reversible impact) and a transition towards smaller, more sustainable conservancies, but the presence of large chains threatens to reverse that trend. The line that should not be crossed. The paradox is profound: the Maasai communities know that tourism is their main source of income and they don’t want to stop it. Hospitals, schools and scholarships exist thanks to visitors. What they demand is a model that does not destroy that which gives them life. For many, the problem is not Marriott itself, but its exact location: placing a permanent complex in a migration corridor sets a dangerous precedent that could open the door to future construction in equally sensitive areas. Young activists like Emmanuel Sananka they insist in which the fight is not against tourism, but against a model that ignores the local voice and prioritizes profitability over conservation. Faced with this, Marriott He defends that his camp generates employment (90% of the staff is Kenyan, and 40% local) and that it complies with environmental regulations, but mistrust persists. Ecosystem to the limit. In short, the conflict reveals a clash between two visions of the Mara: that of global luxury that sees it as an exclusive setting and that of the communities and scientists who consider it a living and fragile system where every square meter matters. The Ritz-Carlton embodies that stress point: a project that is too big, too fixed and located in the worst possible place. The court decision What is done will not only determine whether the camp remains or is removed, but also the direction of the entire Masai Mara tourism model in the next decade. It depends on what is decided the Great Migration It continues to flow as it has for millions of years… or it begins to fragment due to the same human pressure that claims to come to admire it. Image | Vencha, Ritzcarlton In Xataka | Someone wants to build a 144 meter high skyscraper in the middle of the port of Malaga. The reason: luxury tourism In Xataka | A robot called “Sardinator” circulated through the streets of Malaga promoting a … Read more

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