Month: February 2026

What is this network traffic analyzer and how to use it to detect Internet problems or security flaws

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Let’s explain to you what it is and how to take advantage wireshark from the point of view of an ordinary user. I say this because it is a very advanced tool that analyzes all the traffic on your network, and that of all the devices connected to it. When you run this appyou’ll see a series of lines of data that you may not understand. But by knowing a little about what information is going to appear, you can also find ways to diagnose failures in your connection or whether an application or device is spying on you by sending data when you are not using it, or to unknown servers. What is Wireshark Wireshark is a network protocol analyzerwhat in English is called packet sniffer. What it does is capture, isolate and transmit each of the packets that are sent and received through our Internet connection, whether we are connected via WiFi or Ethernet, and it does all this in real time. This is a free and open source programwhich means that any developer can look at how it works inside. This makes it reliable and safe, because if it did things that were not appropriate, users would have already reported it. It has versions for Windows, macOS and Ubuntubeing able to download them at wireshark.org. When it comes to giving you information about the traffic that passes through your network, shows you very important datasuch as the IP and Mac addresses of the person sending or receiving the data, the sending protocol, the content (showing text or images if they are not encrypted), and connection healthwith the exact time it takes to load each piece of information. The operation of this tool is based on three fundamental pillars. First the capture one, because it puts your network card in a mode where it can see all the traffic that reaches it. This includes both information that your operating system displays and information that it does not display. It also has a color code to help you distinguish the packages. As a general rule, green is usually standard TCP traffic, blue is DNS or UDP, and black and red usually indicate problems. That’s why, you can identify that you are having errors or problems quite visually, just by seeing that there are many red or black lines. The app also has a top bar where you can type commands to filter information. This is already quite advanced if you don’t know how networks work, but you can, for example, use “ip.addr == IP Address” changing the address to that of a specific device to see its movements, or type “http” to see only web traffic. In short, it is a fairly complex and advanced tool, so it is not for all users. It is more aimed at system administrators, to detect attacks or bottlenecks. However, If you know where to look you can also take advantage of it as a home user. How you can take advantage of it Although it is an advanced tool, it can be useful for normal users in some contexts as well. We are going to give you some ideas so that you know the type of information you can obtain: If your online games cause problems: A speed test may tell you that your Ping is good, but the experience is different when playing. Therefore, this application can tell you if packets are being lost along the way that are making everything slower. If you are concerned about privacy: You will be able to see what data your devices send to the cloud and the Internet, and if it is not encrypted you will see your content. This can help you be more aware of your privacy, and detect if a device is sending more data than it should. You will also be able to see if a device connects to servers of dubious origin. If you have technical problems: If a website does not load or a printer disappears from the network, this application can show you at what point communication is being cut off. If you want to do lag tests: If in this tool you filter by the appropriate protocol, such as UDP for games, you will be able to find if there are black lines that indicate that the information you send is “out of order” because it never arrived at the destination or did so late. With this you can see that if you have lag it is not a matter of your bandwidth, but perhaps of your network signal or a saturated node of your operator. If you want to know what the devices on your network are doing: As we have more and more connected devices at home, with this you can audit what each one does. You can even isolate the IP of a cell phone or a security camera to know if it is connecting, what data it is sending, or if, for example, it sends data to other servers from time to time. In any case, what you should know is that this tool is going to show you all the traffic that your home network has. It shows all the raw traffic, and doesn’t hide anything, meaning you can have a lot of fun looking at everything that’s happening on your network and learning how to take advantage of it to understand everything. In Xataka Basics | Internet does not work at home: five alternatives to connect without using your router

become the biggest fortune in Europe

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Amancio Ortega has been the greatest fortune in Spain. However, the founder of Inditex is getting closer to regaining the throne as the richest European according to the list of Forbes. In recent years, the Leonese magnate’s assets have grown thanks to the good stock market performance of Inditex but, above all, due to the profitable real estate investments of his second billion-dollar empire: Pontegadea. ​Race for the European throne. According to Forbes data, Bernard Arnault is currently the richest person in Europe and ranks seventh in the world. global ranking with an approximate fortune of $158.3 billion thanks to LVMH, the luxury fashion and beverage empire he founded. For his part, Amancio Ortega occupies tenth place on the Forbes list with a net worth of $148.9 billion, which leaves a difference of about $9.4 billion between both magnates. An increasingly smaller difference. $9.4 billion may seem like an insurmountable difference to anyone, but in reality a bad afternoon in the stock market can make the surprise possible. Ortega controls almost 60% of Inditex, which multiplies the impact of its rises in the stock market. In 2024, the gap between both millionaires was enormous. Bernard Arnault came from being the richest person in the worldand between both millionaires there was a difference of 130,000 million dollars in favor of the French magnate. However, Inditex’s growth and good stock market results contrasted with LVMH’s successive declines in sales in Asia. Weakness in luxury compared to the solidity of Inditex. Precisely those opposite trends of LVMH and Inditex are what increase Ortega’s chances of becoming the biggest fortune in Europe. LVMH registered a decrease 13.3% in its profits and 5% in turnover in its latest annual results, which caused a drop of more than 8% in the stock market in the first session and 19.4% in the last month. This instability in luxurywith brands such as Louis Vuitton, Moët & Chandon or Tiffany & Co., has weakened the equity of the company’s shareholders. Louis Vuitton matrix. On the other hand, Inditex charted an upward trajectory, reaching 58 euros per share last week, its all-time high, registering a capitalization of 177.8 billion euros. This divergence in the stock market explains why Ortega’s fortune is only one step from Arnault’s. Pontegadea: the key to growth. Beyond the fluctuations in Inditex’s prices, Pontegadea, Amancio Ortega’s investment holding company, is positioned as the most solid pillar of the Spanish tycoon’s assets. Your real estate investments, energy networks and logistics are not subject to fluctuations in the stock market, which is why they contribute to making Ortega’s fortune much more stable than that of the French millionaire. Recently, Pontegadea bought the Australian group Qube for 6,895 million euros together with Macquarie, adding more than 9,000 million in logistics investments from 2022. These operations in ports as PD Ports and assets in Vancouver or Miami diversify the portfolio of Ortega’s investment arm with stable incomes in consolidated sectors or growing. In Xataka | How much money Amancio Ortega has: how the fortune of the richest man in Spain is distributed Image | GTRES, Flickr (Trump White House Archived)

A Chinese driver rigged his car to drive alone while he was drunk. It wasn’t the best idea

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The Supreme People’s Court of China has had to come out to clarify what may have already seemed obvious: a driver cannot delegate all of his actions to a car with level 2 autonomy. Much less if that driver is traveling drunk and in the passenger seat, leaving the driver’s seat completely empty. As? Yes, you read that right. To Justice. History brings it CarNewsChinawhere they cover the case of a driver who was arrested for drunk driving… more or less. Because, really, he wasn’t the one driving. He was traveling in the passenger seat, with the small detail that no one sat in the driver’s seat. Wang Mouqun, a resident of Linping (a suburb of Hangzhou, a city with almost 12 million inhabitants), has been tried by the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China, the most important court in the country, in the first case dealing with behavior related to road safety. The detainee has been punished with 45 days in jail for testing positive in the alcohol test. The decision comes after the driver had also received another sanction for the same reason in less than two years, which has aggravated the punishment. Nobody at the wheel. The truly curious thing about the case is that Mouqun had rigged the car so that the driving assistance system worked even if there was no one at the wheel. Thus, the owner of the car was able to sit in the passenger seat and sleep peacefully while the vehicle was driving without anyone at the wheel. In the Chinese media They talk about “an accessory installed to fool the system” but it is not clear exactly how it did it. What is clear is that the vehicle, a Aito M9drove with adaptive cruise control down the road without ever detecting that there was no human at the wheel. It is not the first case that has occurred in China either. of a driver who activates the driving assistance assistants to avoid driving under the influence of alcohol. What is new is that the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China is in charge of handling the case. Level 2 autonomy. Cars like this Aito M9, with a autonomy level 2can circulate without human intervention but require a person to remain attentive to what is happening around them to take the reins at any time. In addition, they require keeping your hands on the wheel. Level 3 autonomy cars can drive without human intervention but, in Europe, only Mercedes is allowed to do so and in very specific circumstances. In fact, the system is so useless at the moment that the company has stopped offering it in the new Mercedes S Class. Between both levels there is an intermediate step known as autonomy level 2+, which does allow for some license. These systems are those that equip cars that, in addition to maintaining the adaptive cruise control system, can overtake cars on their own, just by activating the turn signal or even looking to the sides like BMW. Ford is the only company in Europe with which You can drive without hands on the wheel although the system monitors that the driver keeps his eyes forward. Responsible. What the Chinese Justice has decreed is that in any case, the driver is responsible, even if he was traveling in the co-pilot system and with the driving assistance systems activated. And although no risk situations derived from this way of acting were detected. In fact, the vehicle was kept in operation between 1:15 in the morning and 1:37 when the vehicle detected the trick and stopped the car by itself on the shoulder of the road. It was then that other drivers detected that something was happening and called emergency services. They tested the driver, who tested 114.5 mg/100 ml of alcohol in his blood. in Chinaexceeding 0.80 mg/100 ml of blood alcohol is punishable by a fine and exceeding 150 mg/100 ml is an aggravating circumstance. Above 180 mg/100 ml of blood alcohol is punishable by a prison sentence without parole, with exceptions. The Chinese court considers that Mouqun was ultimately responsible for what happened behind the wheel and that, therefore, he is guilty of both hacking the car and “driving” under the influence of alcohol. Added to a previous withdrawal of his driving license in 2024, the driver has received the aforementioned penalty of 45 days in jail and a fine of 4,000 yuan (about 490 euros at direct exchange rate). Photo | XHBY.NET In Xataka | Fine of up to 1,000 euros for a beer: the DGT prepares the definitive attack against alcohol and it is called rate 0.2

make it so cheap that it is “invisible” to the user

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DeepSeek is the spearhead when we talk about artificial intelligence from China. Not only does it have a great performancebut the own Microsoft has raised the alarm by pointing out that its policy is allowing it to gain users in markets in which others such as OpenAI has it more difficult. Other companies like Tencent or Alibaba are taking giant steps in the fight for AI, and a few days ago ByteDance –TikTok– presented a Seedance 2.0 which is impressive… and now it’s giving you headaches. But the great ones are not the only ones, and with a China focused on the development of robotics and AIwe must talk about other smaller ‘players’. Zhipu AI and MiniMax are two of the “tigers“that, in just a few years, have raised hundreds of millions of dollars and that have models that have a radically different philosophy to that of OpenAI and other Western giants. Their models are sold as life companions, tools that people can use on a daily basis without worrying about the price. And, within that speech, MiniMax just launched the M2.5, a model that wants to become a “digital employee” and that its managers have classified as its first “frontier model” so cheap that it is not worth measuring the price. AI too cheap to worry about price M2.5 is now official and, as stated South China Morning PostMiniMax did not want to waste the opportunity to launch it in a hectic week for the AI ​​industry in China. Technically, M2.5 is an LLM – large language model – that can handle about 230 billion total parameters, but only uses 10 billion per token. Being a Mixture of Experts system, each call only involves the experts directly necessary to resolve the request. Bringing the figure down to earth, that means that it is a capable model, but by user request does not use its full potentialwhich implies low inference costs and very low prices for users. Those responsible for it claim that the price is just one dollar per hour of continuous operation, spending 100 tokens per second. This means that you can have an “agent” working continuously throughout that time at a price between 10 and 20 times lower than other models such as Opus, Gemini 3 Pro either GPT-5. Such an aggressive policy makes M2.5 a model “too cheap to quantify,” according to those responsible. facilitating that mass adoption because the user can stop optimizing each order he gives to the AI. That phrase “too cheap to put in” it’s a wink to the historic comment that electricity from nuclear energy would be too cheap to measure. Internal score in different tests | Image: MiniMax And something important is that M2.5 is not a simple chatbot. It is available on platforms such as Ollama, HuggingFace, ModelScope in China or GitHub, and MiniMax itself points out that 30% of the company’s internal tasks are already carried out by M2.5 itself. Furthermore, 80% of new code is generated by the model. That is, it is more optimized for working alone than for chatting. This code created by code thing is not unique to M2.5, and Codex and Opus is also in this boat. The model has already been put to the test and, although in some tasks it achieves notable results, especially compared to other models open-weightits score is far from that of the closed models. In the results internal from the company itself, managed to double the score of the previous model, the M2.1, but as SCMP points out, these internal benchmark scores are difficult to verify independently. Internal benchmark in coding | Image: MiniMax But, in the end, whether more or less capable compared to other models, MiniMax M2.5 is another example of the strategy that China is pushing with artificial intelligence. While the United States is striving to demonstrate that it has increasingly powerful and capable proprietary models, AI is in a narrative in which aims to promote cheaper and more useful models for the user. This implies not only that they have a good performance/price ratio, but also that they can run on everyday devices without enormous computing power. And now that, supposedly, certain Chinese companies You will be able to get your hands on some of the best GPUs of NVIDIA to train AI, the boost to that strategy may be notable. Images | MiniMax (edited) In Xataka | There is another race equally important as the one for chips to win AI and in that China takes the lead

The United Kingdom has always been a country of pets, but fear has triggered a dangerous demand: dogs ready to attack

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The proverb says that the dog is man’s best friend. In United Kingdom more and more people He believes he can be something more: his best protector. At least that is the feeling conveyed by dog ​​training companies, which have found a curious increase in demand thanks to the visibility that networks and networks are giving them. celebrities. They are not cheap, they carry many more responsibilities than a ‘conventional’ pet and they operate within a complex legal framework, but that does not prevent the fact that on the other side of the English Channel it is increasingly easier to come across dogs ready to jump at the command of their owners. There are those who prediction even that personal defense dogs are a billion-dollar market that is rapidly expanding in the United Kingdom. What has happened? That the training of defense dogs is becoming an increasingly profitable business in the United Kingdom. We know it thanks to Guardianwhich a few days ago published an extensive report in which he explains that this type of pets, ready to obey the orders of their owners and defend them with hooves and teeth (in the most literal sense of the expression) if necessary, is experiencing considerable growth. There are not many statistics or official data that corroborate the trend (Guardian does not provide them at least), but of course the message from the sector is clear. “Demand has increased, without a doubt,” confirms Alaster Bly, founder of K9 Guarda company specializing in “highly trained security guard dogs.” There are even trainers who offer special courses to train pets that people already have in their homes. Has demand increased that much? A quick search Google shows a good number of British companies and blogs dedicated to the same thing: selling or informing about defense dogs. And that’s not the only clue. There are even market reports that assure that it is a business in full expansion. A recent study published by AdAstra Solution estimated the size of the British protection dog market at 1.2 billion dollars in 2024. Its forecast is that in just a decade it will rise to 2.5 billion, with a growth rate CAGR of 9.2%. The key is not only that these pets arouse more interest, but that they are expanding their demand base. What does that mean? That dogs trained to serve as bodyguards seem to be ‘becoming popular’ in the United Kingdom. They are far from being a mass phenomenon, but something has changed: they are no longer a ‘whim’ of the wealthiest families or professionals in the security field. According to confirm Guardian After interviewing professionals in the sector, the panorama is changing little by little, as demand increases. Bly acknowledges that the majority of his clients are still wealthy people, but he has also seen growing interest from families who are not wealthy and simply want to “invest in security.” The reasons for this change? There are two that seem key. The first is concern about crime. Although official statistics can be contradictoryStatista tables reflect that the number of violent crimes against people recorded by the police in England and Wales have increased in recent decades. And clearly. In fact, although they have decreased in recent years, they continue to remain well above the snow levels of the beginning of the 21st century. Are there more reasons? Yes. The networks. British reporter Elle Hunt remember that the increase in demand has gone hand in hand with greater media exposure of this type of dogs through various means. One is celebrities. In recent years, personalities such as Rochelle and Marvin Humes, Molly-Mae Hague, Katie Price, J.Terry…actors, singers, footballers and television personalities with well-identifiable faces in the United Kingdom. In the sector, there are those who remember that the increase in demand coincides with greater visibility through Instagram or TikTok of defense dog exhibitions and competitions. Schuzthunda canine agility sport. And how much do they cost? Much more than a ‘conventional’ dog. A trained dog requires considerable work that, sometimes, begins even before the dog is born. Bly works, for example, with hybrids of German and Belgian shepherds, a “very specific genetic mix” that allows it to adapt to its function. Hence they are not cheap. They cost (at least) £32,000. However, price is only one of the factors that the owner must take into account. ¿Is there anything else? Yes. Another factor, even more important, is the care and responsibility that comes with having a dog specially trained for defense. Guardian remember that these personal protection dogs have a complex legal framework, since they are not under the Guard Dogs Law, which does regulate animals in charge of protecting premises or professionals. “They receive the same treatment as any other dog,” explains a criminal lawyer. The problem is that standard home insurance policies can leave them out of your coverage. An important factor in a country that has seen how in recent years attacks increased of dogs recorded by the police. Images | Bignsmall Paws317 (Unsplash) and Wikipedia Via | Guardian In Xataka | Asturias has been fighting for years to have a decent train connection. And now he is also fighting to include his dogs

What they are, what types there are and how the automated ones work with or without artificial intelligence

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Let’s explain to you what is a workflow or work flowan increasingly popular type of automation. This is something that has been possible for some time with specialized tools, but they have taken a new step with the inclusion of artificial intelligence. These workflows allow you to create quite interesting and advanced automations. We have already taught you some, such as when you receive an email in Gmail the AI ​​processes it and You will receive a summary by Telegram so you don’t need to open or read the email. What is a workflow or work flow? A workflow is the term we use to define a structured sequence of steps, tasks, or processes programmed to achieve a specific objective. This process may have more or fewer steps depending on the goal you want to achieve. In essence, it is like a chain of tasks that you can configure. That is why it is a workflow, because to reach the objective you have to carry out one task after another in the order that you have configured, using the results of each of the steps for the next. The term workflow or workflow can be used in various contexts. In the business world it can be something as simple as a sequence of actions that employees perform, such as me requesting vacation days, the boss reviewing and approving them, and then human resources being notified to record it in the system. But at Xataka Basics we are going to talk to you about them especially in a context of software and tools for automate the completion of tasks through several steps. With them, you can increase productivity and reduce the time it takes to do various tasks, whether focusing on domestic actions or for the business world. There are several types of workflow There are several types of workflow, such as the sequential oneswhich are a chain in which the task is completed in each of the steps before jumping to the next. They are also the parallelsin which multiple tasks run at the same time and then converge to save time. You also have the workflows conditionalsin which there are certain rules. If one thing happens, then this task is performed, and if it does not happen or something else happens, it goes to different steps. And then there are automated workflows that are carried out using software, and that serve to reduce human errors and improve the speed at which tasks are completed. These They can use or not use artificial intelligence depending on the task you want to perform. These automated workflows are typically performed with digital tools, such as Zapier either Make.com. Depending on the volume of actions and complexity, you will then be able to use free accounts or you will have to pay a subscription to use them. How automated workflows work The tools to create automated workflows are like blank canvases on which you build the steps of your automation, although They also have template systems to help you with the processes and give you ideas of things you can do. You can use these linking the tool to the online services you want to usewhich can be anything from your email service to an artificial intelligence system to process information. When linking these services, depending on the tool, you will need to simply log in and grant access, or configure access using the API key of this service. It all depends on the goal you want to achieve and the steps you want to take or the method you want to use. When you are going to create a workflow Using these tools, the service you use will allow you to choose what you want to do at each step. Depending on the linked services, you can decide how to manage the information and what type of information to process. If you add an AI you can customize the prompt, and then decide what happens at the end of the chain. The first step of a workflow is a trigger or “trigger”, is the action that launches the process. This can be manual, you click on the launch button and it does the tasks, or automatic, such as receiving an email or a message with certain characteristics. And then from there you build each of the steps until you reach the end, where you can make decisions such as sending yourself an email with the result, linking a service like Google Drive so that the result generates or edits a text document or data sheet, or setting up a bot in apps like Telegram to send you a message. Be careful with privacy When you are going to use automated workflows You should be aware that you may put your privacy at risk. For example, if you add Gmail you must keep in mind that all the emails that the workflow uses will be obtained by the website or service you are using, so be careful about using sensitive content. Additionally, if you are using an AI to process content or Telegram to notify you, please note that messages and content are They will also be stored on the companies’ servers who manage them. This is the same thing that will happen to you with AI or with many private tools that you use, and I am not saying this to discourage you from using them, but so that you are aware of it when choosing whether or not you need a workflow for that task. In Xataka Basics | What is Claude Cowork, how it works, and what things you can do with this AI assistant on your computer

5,000 Stanford students have given their love lives to what an algorithm decides. And it’s consuming the university

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It’s Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. in Palo Alto and the silence of the Stanford dormitories is broken by a simultaneous notification: it’s Date Drop. In seconds, the hallways are filled with students who, according to The Wall Street Journalthey “huddle” on their screens with a mixture of anxiety and hope. Ben Rosenfeld, a residential assistant, describes the phenomenon as an “all-consuming force”: Students talk about nothing else while they figure out whether their destiny that night is a free drink date at the On Call Cafe or an anonymous complaint on the forum Fizz. What began as a simple class project has escalated into a massive sociological phenomenon that has hijacked campus social life. The numbers are compelling: in a university of approximately 7,500 undergraduate students, more than 5,000 have already surrendered their love lives to the decisions of this algorithm. From a class assignment to a startup millionaire. The architect of this obsession is Henry Weng, a computer science graduate student who coded the platform in just three weeks. As detailed TechCrunchwhat Weng started as a tool to help his colleagues has transformed into The Relationship Company, a startup that has already raised $2.1 million in venture capital. The list of investors includes Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga and of the first investors of Facebook), Elad Gil (of the first investors in AirbnbStripe and Pinterest) and Andy Chen (former partner of Coatue). Success. The premise has been so successful that it has transcended the walls of Stanford. The service has expanded to ten other elite universities, including Columbia, MIT, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. Weng, who curiously took a subject called “introduction to clowning” that taught him to “delight in failure,” seems to have found a winning formula far from failure. “Our matches turn into real dates at ten times the speed of Tinder,” assures TechCrunch. Optimizing love in the age of fatigue. The success of Date Drop It is not a coincidence; It is symptomatic of an exhausted generation and an environment obsessed with efficiency. As they point out in The Wall Street Journal, It’s a very Stanford solution to a very Stanford problem. On a campus where students are high achievers (high achievers) obsessively focused on academic and professional success, organic social interaction has atrophied. “People have difficulty starting conversations in general, and much more so for romantic interactions,” student Alena Zhang explains to the outlet. But the problem goes beyond Stanford. An analysis of Forbes reveals a general crisis In the world of digital dating: 78% of users report emotional or mental exhaustion from using traditional apps. He ghosting (suffered by 41% of those surveyed) and the feeling that the profiles are a catalog of lies have created chronic fatigue. Added to this is the “Paradox of Preparation” (Readiness Paradox). Generation Z wants to find love more than any generation before it, but they feel paralyzed by the fear of “public failure.” They have replaced asking for a face-to-face date with asking on Instagram, entering a cycle of infinite “testing.” Date Drop it seems to break that paralysis by externalizing the decision: you no longer have to choose and risk public rejection; the algorithm chooses for you. Goodbye to Swipehello to the data. The application is radically different from the mechanics of Tinder. There are no photos to compulsively swipe left or right. The process, detailed on the website itselfbegins with a 66-question questionnaire designed to capture the essence of the user. It’s not just about superficial tastes, but about deep values ​​and political stances: “Is having children essential for a fulfilling life?”, “What are your core values: ambition, curiosity, discipline?” Weng explains that the system uses standard economic “matching theory” combined with an Artificial Intelligence that is trained with feedback (feedback) of the appointments that occur. However, the most innovative—and Machiavellian—feature is the social component. The platform allows friends to play Cupid. Wilson Adkins, a freshman cited by him WSJdiscovered that his friends had “conspired” through the app to match him with a girl from his residence. The algorithm validated the conspiracy with a compatibility score of 99.7%. Not everything is perfect in data heaven. Despite the enthusiasm and millions of investment, the road is not without obstacles. Date Drop It’s not the first attempt to automate love at Stanford. In 2017 he was born The Marriage Pact, a similar project which has already generated 350,000 matches. According to the WSJthe creators of this original project sent a “cease and desist” letter to Weng in November, alleging that the marketing of Date Drop It seemed too familiar to them. Furthermore, technology has limits compared to logistical reality. Gabriel Berger, another student, says that, although he had a great connection with his matchestheir schedules were incompatible: he was vice president of his fraternity and she had dance rehearsals. “We are not interacting well,” they concluded. For her part, Mila Wagner-Sanchez, freshman interviewed by Business Insideradds a note of realism: the novelty fades. After a fun first date (with a friend), and a second matches who never wrote to him, the pressure of midterms caused the app to take a backseat. “I would be open to trying again,” she says, but academic life sometimes outweighs algorithmic curiosity. Optimizing loneliness. Henry Weng has ambitious plans. He sees his company as a “Public Benefit Corporation” intended to facilitate not only romance, but “all meaningful relationships,” including friendships and professional connections. Perhaps the best summary of this phenomenon comes from Madhav Abraham-Prakash, a junior who helped bring the app to campus. Although Date Drop He hasn’t gotten him a girlfriend, he has given him connections on LinkedIn. His justification for The Wall Street Journal sums up the spirit of a generation that doesn’t want to leave anything to chance, not even fate: “I would be sad if my soulmate was here and I couldn’t find it. Or if my co-founder was here and I couldn’t find it, or if my business partner was … Read more

discounts of up to 70%

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If there is an online store that we usually go to when buying something, it is, without a doubt, amazon. The e-commerce giant has positioned itself as one of the favorite options when making online purchases. If you are looking for bargains in technology, we want to show you what the best deals on technology that we found today. Pack of four locators Ugreen FineTrack G Smart by 28.39 euros: only compatible with Android phones. Wireless headphones Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 by 149 euros: with Artificial Intelligence and very comfortable. Notebook computer ASUS Vivobook 15 M1502YA-BQ881 by 419 euros: FreeDOS and 15.6 inches. Microwave with grill Samsung MG23K3614AK/E1 by 79.99 euros: 23 liters and with non-stick surface. Robot vacuum cleaner Lefant M330 Pro by 135.99 euros: with laser navigation and autonomy of up to 150 minutes. Pack of four Ugreen FineTrack G Smart locators Are you tired of losing your keys and wallet? Don’t worry, today, there is a very effective solution to prevent this from happening. It deals with Bluetooth locators and if you have an Android device, this pack of four from Ugreen is perfect for you. Its previous price was 45.99 euros, but now they have a 38% discount and you can buy them for 28.39 euros. As we have already indicated, this pack of four Bluetooth locators It is only compatible with Android (so if you have an iPhone, you’ll have to go for a AirTag or any other compatible type). Its battery is charged via USB-C and lasts up to a year. Plus, it comes with a built-in buzzer and alarm of up to 80 dB, so you can hear it from afar. UGREEN FineTrack G Smart Finder Android Only, 4-Pack The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 wireless headphones Google’s Pixel phones have been a success for some time now (especially among those looking to enjoy a pure Android experience). If you want the best accessory for your ears, these wireless headphones Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 They are a good option. On Amazon, they have a 40% discount (which translates into a saving of 100 euros) and you can take them for 149 euros. These Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 are some headphones very comfortable button. They have Artificial intelligence and its brain is the Tensor A1 chip, which will allow you to enjoy much more effective noise cancellation than even some more expensive headphones. Its connection is very simple and its battery lasts up to 30 hours. Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 – Wireless Earbuds with Active Noise Cancellation The price could vary. We earn commission from these links ASUS Vivobook 15 M1502YA-BQ881 Laptop If you are looking for a notebook computer Good, pretty and cheap, this one from ASUS is one of the worthwhile offers on Amazon today. It has gone from costing 499 euros to 419 euros in these moments. Furthermore, it is the best selling laptop model in this online store and reasons for success are not lacking.+ This is a laptop FreeDOSwhich means that it comes without a pre-installed operating system, so you can put whatever you want. Its screen is 15.6 inches with Full HD resolution And from its design you can highlight its blue color, which is very elegant. Internally, it comes with AMD Ryzen 7 5825U, 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD internal storage. ASUS Vivobook 15 M1502YA-BQ881 – 15.6″ Full HD Laptop The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Microwave with grill Samsung MG23K3614AK/E1 Samsung not only sells cell phones, headphones and TVs, it also has small appliances for the home with very good features. One of them is this microwave with grill that is now half price on Amazon. It cost almost 160 euros and now you can take it for 79.99 euros. This microwave has a 23 liter capacity and its interior surface is non-stick. This makes it a small appliance that is very easy to clean and resistant to daily wear and tear. It also stands out for the TDS system (Triple Wave Distribution System), which provides efficient heat distribution so that food is cooked completely homogeneously. Samsung Microwave with Grill 23L 800W TDS System Black MG23K3614AK/E1 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Lefant M330 Pro Robot Vacuum Cleaner Robot vacuum cleaners are the ideal type of device to clean your home in a completely comfortable and effortless way. This Lefant M330 Pro now has a brutal 73% discount on Amazon and you can take it for 135.99 euros. This is a robot vacuum cleaner with advanced laser navigation system. Its battery gives us a autonomy of up to 150 minutes and comes with a brush with anti-tangle technology. You can control it through the app and it is compatible with Alexa. In addition, it stands out for mopping the floor, since it incorporates a removable and washable mop. LEFANT M330 Pro Robot Vacuum Cleaner and Floor Mop with 3-in-1 Mapping, 5000Pa, 150 min, 190° PSD Obstacle Avoidance, dToF Navigation, 2.4GHz and 5GHz WiFi/Alexa/App 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 | Freepik, Samsung, Ugreen, Lefant, Google and ASUS In Xataka | Home alone: ​​buying guide for smart devices to take care of your home when you go on vacation In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes

Gemini and Siri were monopolizing modern cars. So Musk has brought Grok to European Teslas

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Tesla is starting to roll out Grok in Europe for free. The electricians of Elon Musk’s company have been betting on their own software from the beginning, leaving hardly any room for third parties. No trace of Android Auto, CarPlayor the best-known assistants, Grok arrives as that intelligent “co-pilot” aboard the Tesla. The problem is that… still very Musk. the arrival. Grok arrives as a free update on European Teslas. We can choose their voice and personality, like in the smartphone application. To start it, all you have to do is activate it from the application launcher itself or press the voice button on the steering wheel. If we have logged in to Grok, from that moment on, it will become the device’s default voice assistant. What can you do. Grok’s list of possibilities is extensive, from guiding us to a destination to locating a nearby supercharger or simply maintaining an informal dialogue with us and recommending options from our Tesla’s digital manual. In addition to this, it has quite curious functions. You can be our language teacher Has special modes for kids, like “Story Time” and trivia games It has a mode for adults (+18), controversial, “sexy”, “extravagant”. In which Teslas it will be available. Currently, this is the list of Tesla cars compatible with Grok. The requirement is that our car has an AMD processor, that the software is updated to version 2025.26 or later, and that we have a WiFi connection or the premium connectivity pack. To find out if your Tesla has an AMD processor, you must go to ‘Controls’ > ‘Software’ > ‘Additional vehicle information’. Careful. Grok, despite its potential as an AI modelis involved in recent controversies. The app has become a focus of misuse, an infinite well of content related to the naked women. Countries like France and India have already denounced itand the Government of Spain has asked the prosecutor’s office to investigate X for the possible dissemination of child pornography through the app. In this context, perhaps it is worth debating whether bringing Grok with an “adult mode” to Tesla vehicles is the most appropriate. In Xataka | Elon Musk thought that Tesla would live outside politics. Germany has shown him the hard way that he was wrong

The few video game magazines that remain in print have retro content. That’s why ‘Micromanía’ returns in sheet format

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In times when the traditional video game press, on paper and sold in kiosks, has practically disappeared from the map (only with some glorious exception that barely resists), products aimed at the nostalgic waterline of the most veteran players are, however, in very good health. They know it well in Made with Pixelswho publish not only a magazine dedicated to retro (‘Pixels‘), but also official continuations of kiosk icons such as ‘microhobby‘ and now, ‘Micromania‘… in sheet format! Two-year hiatus. In January 2024, just over 24 months ago, the veteran ‘Micromania‘, the magazine of microcomputers first, PC later, which would accompany several generations of gamers. Its first issues, in traditional format, covered current 8-bit machines such as Spectrum 48K, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. They revolutionized newsstands with their second stage, the most iconic, in a tabloid format that multiplied the content and served as a bridge to 16 bits. A third stage, again in a traditional format, would focus on the PC world. A mixed return. In this new incarnation the format will be somewhat smaller: 25cm x 35cm, that is, larger than any other magazine, but without reaching the brutal excess of the original. The magazine will be bimonthly, and can be purchased in digital format in PDF (5.99 euros), in paper (11.99) or both (13.99). The layout and design are inevitably reminiscent of the original style and the contents will be comparable: analysis in the classic style of Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Game Boy, NES, Master System, Mega Drive, SNESm, etc., arcade games, news on the current retro scene, solutions and maps… What’s in number one. For now, the contents of the first issue that we know are: Cover dedicated to Monkey Island, with report on Ron Gilbert and the complete saga Two gift posters on the central pages of each issue in giant size Damned Castile Requiem– Exclusive review and downloadable demos for Mega Drive and Dreamcast Interviews with original editors of Hobby Press (Microhobby, Micromanía, Hobby Consolas) Reunion with Turbo Girlset of the first cover in sheet format, 38 years ago Who is behind. Without a doubt, this is the most interesting detail of this proposal: behind the writing of the magazine there are a good number of names from the classic age of video game journalism in Spain, which guarantee that the style of the reviews and articles will be in line with what was done then. It is directed by José Luis Sanz, who was already in charge of ‘Hobby Consolas’, and he is accompanied by Marcos García, who directed magazines, paradoxically, in the competition: ‘Superjuegos’ and ‘Revista Oficial Playstation’, among others. They are joined by editors such as Jesús Martínez del Vas, José Luis Rodríguez, J. Luis Molina and Juanjo Muñoz, among others. Bet on the past. As it could not be otherwise, the magazines that survive on paper, with few exceptions, rely on retro content, or at least retro has a strong presence in their pages. In addition to the aforementioned Hecho con Pixels titles, publications such as the Spanish edition of ‘Retro Gamer’, also by Axel Springer, are added. The new incarnation of ‘Micromanía’ is aimed, obviously, at those who bought it at the time: a juicy market of forty-somethings looking to return to even the most spectacularly uncomfortable format in the history of our newsstands. In Xataka | A programmer’s ingenuity turned a fatal error in this classic video game into a congratulatory message

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