Month: June 2026

Software engineers have become AI overseers. Another profession is going the same way: lawyers

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AI already writes faster than many professionals, making it a powerful ally in administrative and legal textsthus lightening the most tedious workload for humans. The problem is that it is an efficient tool, but not infallibleso supervision of its results is necessary. That is, it saves you only part of the work, but maintains the obligation to monitor the results. That is just what the TSXG has put on the table in one case which affects a Galician lawyer, against whom the Galician High Court has opened a case for procedural bad faith after detecting a written appeal with AI in which he had invented 24 legal quotes to argue it. The resource under suspicion. The Superior Court of Xustiza of Galicia maintains that the document presented “multiple spurious citations, non-existent resolutions, others that have nothing to do with what was discussed, or directly invented.” According to the Galician court, the appeal accumulated a series of errors that cannot be attributed to human error, but rather respond “to a notable lack of diligence in professional performance.” The resolution adds that the text followed a “curious structure in the way it was written”, something that the court relates to the use of free generative AI. Although, above all, the TSXG disgraces the lawyer for the lack of subsequent verification to stop the “constant ‘hallucinations’” of the system. Lack of review. As the Galician court’s brief highlights, the procedural bad faith of which the lawyer is accused does not lead to a malicious use of deception, but rather “evidence conduct revealing obvious negligence on the part of someone who, considered an expert in procedural rules and respectful of the deontological principles of his profession, entrusted his work – to what we believe -, without further review, to what the algorithm proposed, omitting the diligence of verifying the existence of what he cited, trusting perhaps in which the abundance of references would not only go unnoticed by this Court, but would also give authority to its assertions.” That is, it is a warning to navigators that AI can speed up writing, but it does not know if a sentence exists or if a decontextualized quote serves to support a legal argument. That process of screening and supervision is still human, and that role of supervising results will be a key piece in the future of the practice of law. Engineers have already changed. The process of changing roles that the legal profession will undergo in the very near future (in fact, as we see, it has already begun) with the arrival of AI is not something new. Software engineers and programmers were the first to experience it. AI is gaining prominence when writing the code of large technology companies like googleMicrosoft and even Anthropic already generates much of its AI with its AI But, at the same time, the engineer has not disappeared, but has gone from having a role as a producer to one of a supervisor who analyzes the results provided by the AI. By that same reasonthe technological have reduced the hiring of junior personnel, who until now were dedicated to those more tedious tasks, and have accelerated the hiring of seniors with the most trained eye for detect errors and inconsistencies in the code. From legal advisor to legal supervisor. The comparison between what is already evident in big technology companies and what is coming in law firms is quite evident. AI is not going to end the figure of the lawyer, but it will generate a shift in work roles towards the supervision of legal texts. In fact, as how I collected Reuterssome law firms are already requiring their junior associates to know how to use and supervise AI. We are only facing one of the cases derived from the improper use of AI in legal texts that have been occurring in recent months. According what was published by Iberley In February, the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands established a financial penalty for a lawyer who had used AI to generate an appeal that contained a total of 48 jurisprudential citations. invented by an AI. Regulate the use of AI for judges. In reality, the impact of AI in the legal field goes beyond its use in drafting routine legal resources and briefs. In Spain, judges have already been sanctioned for using ChatGPT in drafting something as compromised as a sentence. In April 2026, the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) opened a file to a magistrate for having “evaded his jurisdictional functions” by leaving the drafting of a sentence in the hands of an AI. As a result of this case and other controversies, the General Council of the Judiciary has had to approve a “guide” aimed at the use of AI in the judicial career, so that it is established how this tool should be used so as not to incur a neglect of one’s legal responsibilities. Who knows if one of those new professions to be created in the future it will be that of supervisor of sentences. In Xataka | “Unpresentable” and meaningless: the court declares a dismissal unfair due to a letter generated with an AI Image | Unsplash (Romain Dancre and Solen Feyissa)

Welcome to the first floating city on the planet

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A few years ago, French Polynesia signed an agreement to study the creation of the first semi-autonomous floating city of the world. The project was never built, but it showed that the idea of ​​living permanently in the ocean was no longer a simple science fiction fantasy. Now we are closer than ever. A floating city larger than many municipalities. Yes, the idea seems taken from a fantastic novel, but its promoters assure that it is still alive three decades after being conceived. He Freedom Ship has been presented as a gigantic floating city almost 1.6 kilometers long, about 240 meters wide and 30 decks high, designed to house about 80,000 people between permanent residents, visitors and crew. With an estimated cost of 12 billion poundswould be several times larger than the largest current cruise ships and would have the capacity to accommodate a population similar to that of a medium-sized city, becoming one of the most ambitious mobile structures ever imagined. Live in the sea without needing to touch land. The concept breaks with the traditional logic of cruises because it is not designed to take trips, but to become a place to live permanently. Some 50,000 residents could make their home there as the city slowly sails around the world, completing a circumnavigation of the planet approximately every two and a half years. Due to its size, the ship would not be able to dock in conventional ports, so it would remain in international waters and use ferries and auxiliary vessels to connect with the mainland. The inhabitants would have access to differentiated neighborhoodsinternal transportation systems through trams, kilometers of pedestrian walkways and large green areas distributed throughout the structure. A city on a single roof. There is much more, as the designers intend for its inhabitants to find practically everything they need without leaving the ship. He project includes homes, hotels, schools from primary education to higher education, hospitals, banks, offices, convention centers, museums, concert halls, sports facilities and a huge commercial offer. It is also they contemplate a stadium with capacity for 15,000 spectators, a water park, large restaurant spaces, aquariums for recreational activities, discos and multiple leisure areas. The intention is to reproduce the operation of a conventional city by transferring all its essential services to a floating platform capable of operating autonomously for years. Thirty years chasing the same dream. The history of the Freedom Ship It began in the nineties with the American engineer Norman Nixon. Although the project was presented publicly on several occasions, it never obtained the necessary financing to start. After years of inactivity, the initiative has regained momentum under the direction by Freedom Cruise Line Internationalwhose officials assure that there is enough interest to even justify the construction of several units. The current priority remains raising the enormous initial capital needed to begin work, a challenge that remains the main obstacle to transforming the spectacular illustrations into a tangible reality. Giant construction on the high seas. If funding is secured, the plan is to make the hull in sections in Indonesia and later assembled at sea. Those responsible believe that construction could be completed in three or four yearsalthough they maintain that the first residents could begin to settle before the work was completely finished. Unlike conventional cruise ships, maintenance would be performed continuously while the structure remains operational in the water. The economic model is also intended to resemble the of a traditional cityrenting or selling commercial spaces to companies and entrepreneurs instead of centralizing all businesses under a single management. Nuclear energy and ecological ambitions. One of the most striking aspects of the project is the possibility of using nuclear energy to boost the gigantic platform. Its promoters argue that this solution would drastically reduce emissions associated with maritime transport and keep a floating city of similar size in operation. Furthermore, they affirm that the vessel could participate in ocean cleanup initiatives during their journeys and become a laboratory for new forms of sustainable coexistence at sea. They also highlight that, by staying away from ports, it would avoid part of the tourist saturation problems that some current cruises generate in highly visited destinations. Between utopia and reality. The magnitude of the project explains why many observers continue to view it with skepticism. No floating city of such dimensions has ever been built and the investment required far exceeds that of the largest existing cruise ships. However, its promoters insist that the combination of permanent housing, commercial activity, tourism and specialized services could make the model viable. Meanwhile, the Freedom Ship continues to occupy a unique place among the great technological utopias contemporary: a vision of mobile cities navigating the planet that has been trying to abandon paper for thirty years to become a reality. Image | Harbor Rear In Xataka | If the question is what is the largest sailing superyacht in the world, the answer has a lot of history: the Orient Express In Xataka | We believed that cruises had already taken everything to the limit: with the ‘Hero of the Seas’, Royal Caribbean believes that they have not

Archaeologists have found the bodies of two women embracing in a medieval tomb. Now they are a huge mystery

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There are eternal hugs, there are mysterious hugs, there are hugs with so much sentimental charge that only those who melt into them understand them and then there are hugs like that of the two corpses from the Middle Ages. located a few years ago next to Opole Cathedralin southern Poland, which add up to all these characteristics (and some more). When archaeologists discovered their intertwined bodies underground in 2023, they began to ask questions that they hoped to resolve by analyzing DNA samples. They have achieved it… halfway. Experts now better understand who the bodies belonged to, but are even more confused about how to interpret their eternal embrace. In a place in Poland… To understand the mystery you have to go back three years ago, between May 2022 and November 2023when a group of archaeologists began to excavate around the cathedral of Opolea small city in Upper Silesia (Poland) located on the banks of the Oder River. The origins of temple They date back to the 11th century (in the 13th it was expanded thanks to the support of the local nobility) and researchers hoped that their tombs would help them better understand the funerary rituals of the time. In total they discovered 46 burialsalthough there was one in particular that caught his attention: a grave that contained two skeletons, baptized ‘nº31′ and ’32’. What was so special about them? To begin with, his tomb was located in the northern area of ​​the cathedral, near the walls and foundations of the temple. That is relevant in itself because not everyone could hope to have their remains rest in a place like that. When both bodies were buried, in the Middle Ages, the burial areas so close to the consecrated temple and its relics were usually reserved for the most powerful and wealthy people. The bones fell apart 154cm deep and were very deteriorated by the passage of time, which greatly complicated their identification. The reason: they were once deposited in the ground, only with shrouds and on stretchers, so parts of the skeleton have been lost and others are fragmented. An enigmatic position. Although the above is interesting, there was another reason that made archaeologists interested in bodies numbers 31 and 32: their posture. The first skeleton (31) reveals that the body was buried face up, in the position in which the deceased were usually buried. The 32nd, however, was lying on his side, leaning on his side, with one leg half bent and his right arm stretched under his partner’s skull. The composition is as clear in 2026 as it probably was in the 13th century: both corpses they are hugged in a position that denotes intimacy. Add and continue. Those in Opole are not the first centuries-old burial sites in which we have found hugging bodies. In 2007 We saw something similar in Mantua, where archaeologists also discovered the remains of two bodies buried 5,000 years ago in an intertwined position. And that is just one of several examples. We located another one in 2015 in the Peloponnese, where a couple from 3,800 BC was found buried in a similar pose. And what does it mean? The big question. The most logical thing is to assume that the two people buried in Opole maintained such a close relationship that those who survived them believed that it was most appropriate to bury them together, in an intimate position, with their bodies intertwined. The key is… Why? Were they family? Did they have a romantic relationship? It is not a simple question because by asking it from the 21st century we run the risk of trying to answer it with a presentist approachbased on our own vision of the world. The DNA wild card. To clear up unknowns, a group of researchers turned to DNA analysis. Their goal was to subject the bones unearthed next to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Opole to an archaeogenetic examination in search of some answers: What age and sex were both deceased? Were they family? Maybe they were father and son, brothers, an uncle and his nephew? The results have just been published in an article published in the magazine Archaeological Science: Reports and they are surprising. Although the bones have degraded and do not allow tooth enamel to be analyzed, a study carried out by experts from the Kiel University Yes, it has revealed three clues. First, the bodies belonged to two people who were around 40 years old. Second, both correspond to women. And third, there was no relationship between them. There is a link, but… what? “Our DNA analysis shows that the two women were not closely related by blood, but genetics cannot tell us how they were socially or emotionally connected,” recognize to The Country Joanna Romeyer-Dherbey, one of the researchers who signed the paper and who highlights how “extraordinary” it is that centuries later archaeogenetics can reveal to us the secrets of two people buried together. If they were not direct relatives, and in view of how they have been found buried, does that mean that the two women from Opole were lovers? Are we looking at a homosexual couple buried together and embracing in the middle of the Middle Ages? Researchers cannot rule it out. Nor affirm it “with confidence”. Theorize yes, but with caution. What your article does insist on is the call for caution: “Archaeologists should avoid projecting modern cultural categories onto past practices when material evidence does not distinguish between multiple plausible explanations.” After all, both women could be lovers, but also friends, relatives without a biological link (through adoption, for example) or even members of the same religious community. To put it another way, what if they had tragically died at the same time and the community decided to bury them together? Are there more clues? Yes. One. and it is fundamental. The bodies have not only appeared in the same grave, in a position that denotes an embrace. … Read more

Orange has taken complete control of MasOrange. European consolidation is one step closer

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Orange has taken full control of MasOrange after closing the purchase of the 50% that was still in the hands of Lorca HoldCo, the company owned by the KKR, Providence and Cinven funds. With this operation, expected for monthsthe French company becomes the sole owner of the largest telecommunications operator in Spain. The movement represents a very important step towards a long-awaited market consolidation which the large operators have been behind for years. One in which the fewer intermediate operators, the better for the giant operators. what has happened. On Christmas Day, Orange, Bouygues Telecom and Iliad (Free) announced the joint purchase of SFR for 20.35 billion euros. Agreement through which the three groups will share the clients, assets and frequencies of the second largest operator in France. The transaction, which will be closed in 2027 after passing the necessary regulations, follows the line of what happened in Spain: Orange has acquired MasOrange. The other half. Orange has acquired the remaining 50% of the capital of MasOrange, to date in the hands of his co-sharer Lorca. The agreement, valued at 4.25 billion euros, already has the necessary authorizations in Europe. Following this move, Orange now controls 100% of the operator’s capital, completely diluting MásOrange. Why is it important. Spain becomes the second most important market in Europe for Orange. At the end of the first quarter of 2026, MasOrange had 26 million mobile telephone customers and 7.1 million fixed broadband customers. Those numbers now belong entirely to Orange. “The acquisition of all of MasOrange is a strategic step in our “Trust in the Future” plan and reinforces Orange’s position in Spain.” Secondly, the movement advocates the European consolidation of the telecommunications market. The large groups are closing the circle: Telefónica, Orange, and Deutsche Telekom. The photo. Europe is one of the regions with the most operators per region, a total of 34 compared to 3 in the United States and 4 in the Chinese market. The major European companies need to continue absorbing their small rivals. Reason? The following: Proportionally, Europe has eight times more operators than the US and China, something that ends up translating into much more compressed margins and a drop in 41% in the market capitalization of the sector between 2015 and 2023. Without consolidation, European telecoms have a difficult time not depending on foreign funds and capital.

It is the country where it has been best implemented

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When talking about countries with high productivity, all eyes tend to head to Germany or Ireland. However, the Netherlands has become a European benchmark when it comes to significantly reducing the volume of working hours in its days, naturally moving closer to the four-day week model. This trend draws attention both for its impact on daily life and for the country’s economic data, banishing alarmist theories. about economic ruin. According to an analysis of the Financial Timesthe Dutch enjoy a high quality of life, in part thanks to their system of Flexible, well-paid employmentwhich has evolved to prioritize personal well-being over the traditional model based on long hours. Netherlands and its reduced working hours. According what was published for the 4 Days Week FoundationThe Netherlands has structured its labor market in such a way that full-time is not the most widespread model and a large part of employees prefer to work fewer hours voluntarily. However, far from being conceived as a model of precariousness, it has become an example of balance between work and professional life. According to data According to Eurostat data from May 2026, the average working day in the Netherlands is the lowest in Europe with only 32.1 hours worked, compared to 36.6 hours per week in Spain or 35.6 hours in Ireland. According to data published by the Financial Timesaround 50% of Dutch people work part-time, and the proportion is even higher among women, who reach up to 75%. Not only do you work less during part-time hours. Beyond the obvious cutback that comes with working under a model of part timefull-time days are also among the shortest in Europe with 39.1 hours, only surpassed by Denmark with 38.7 hours per week. In Spain, the real full time It stands at 40.2 hours. Being shorter, the Dutch tend to compress it into four days instead of five. Bert Colijn, economist at ING bank, assured the Financial Times that “The four-day work week has become very, very common. I work five days, and sometimes I get criticized for working five days!” Higher productivity and better salaries. The Eurostat data highlight that the Netherlands is among the countries with higher productivity per hour worked, standing at 45.3 euros per hour, compared to 29.4 euros in Spain, but far from the productivity of Ireland, which far exceeds 76 euros per hour worked. This combination of high productivity and reduced working hours has meant that a situation of wage precariousness has not been generated; on the contrary, Holland has maintained salaries above the European average. According to Eurostat, The average gross salary in the Netherlands, adjusted by purchasing power (PPP), is 16.2 euros per hour, while in Spain it is 11.8 euros per hour. The European average is 14.9 euros per hour. The Netherlands does not have a four-day work week.. Strictly speaking, the Netherlands has not implemented any policy of reducing working hours (as Yes Spain tries to do it) or four-day work day. However, almost without intending to, the Dutch labor market has adjusted in such a way that, on a practical level, its companies have implemented the four-day working day without loss of pay after decades of conciliation policies. A version of this article was published in August 2025 In Xataka | Iceland has had a four-day work week since 2019. Seven years later, it delivers on all the promises of Gen Z Image | Unsplash (Isaac Maffeis, Isaac Burke)

The Pentagon includes BYD, Unitree, Alibaba and other Chinese giants on its blacklist. It’s taking away competition with cannon shots

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The river already sounded at the end of 2025: the Pentagon agreed that Chinese giants like Alibaba, BYD and Baidu They were linked to the Chinese Army. It was unclear at the time whether the companies would be included on the Pentagon’s 1260H list, but it was clearly a warning and came just three weeks before Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to a trade truce. It seemed like things had calmed down, especially with more recent moves like the opening of the market for Nvidia can sell its GPUs H200 for AI or Donald Trump’s visit to China (accompanied by several CEOs of American companies) to ease tensions and maintain a fine balance in that trade truce. But it turns out not and, as they point in Reuters, Alibaba, BYD and Baidu are the new Chinese companies on the Pentagon’s list. And they are not the only ones. Many more Chinese companies on the Pentagon’s blacklist The update of the known list 1260H It had been expected for a long time. The November thing was a warning, but not a real update. It is now, one month after Donald Trump’s diplomatic visit to Beijing, that the Pentagon has launched the new version that reflects interesting changes. Because we have mentioned Alibaba, BYD and Baidu as companies that join that selector ‘club’ of companies for which there are still no direct sanctions, but there is a clear consequence: starting at the end of this month, the United States Department of Defense will have prohibited from contracting directly with any of these companies. And… what are they? Well, it turns out that there are a lot, and from all sectors. Alibaba and Baidu are two Internet giants (like putting Amazon and Google on the list respectively, wow), but there are also the aforementioned BYD -cars and batteries-, CXMT and YMTC -semiconductors and RAM memory-, Unitree and RoboSense -robotics- or WuXi AppTec -biotechnology-. It is a very curious list because they are companies that are competing, directly, against American or Taiwanese companies. For example, we have recently told how the technology industry is looking so much at CXMT like YMTC for get a RAM memory which they cannot access through traditional means due to the component crisis. The United States and China are immersed in the war over robotics and Unitree is one of the most advanced in both humanoid and quadruped robots (something China is exploring for military use). Precisely, Nvidia announced that it was going to work closely with Unitree for the development of robots. And then there is China BlueChemical Limited, a subsidiary of state oil company CNOOC, and Baicells, which makes telecommunications equipment. As we say, there are no consequences in the form of direct sanctions on these companies or with pressure like what happens with Huawei, but according to US law, the Department of Defense will not be able to make deals with these companies starting this month and, starting in 2027, it will not be able to buy their products or services through third parties. What do Chinese companies say? As we read so much in Reuters as in GuardianAlibaba considers that it is something that has no basis because “Alibaba is not a Chinese military company nor part of any military-civil fusion strategy”, ensuring that they will take “all available legal actions against attempts to tarnish the company”. Baidu, for its part, also rejection the measure, ensuring that “the suggestion that Baidu is a military company is completely unfounded”, noting that they will not hesitate to “use all immediate measures to be removed from the list.” This is something that WuXi AppTec has also responded to and it is possible to get off that list, but only if they withdraw from the United States or if they change the name of the entity. “These Chinese companies are working with the Chinese military against our national interests” – John Moolenaar From the Pentagon it is stated that publicly traded companies have ballots to be classified as “Chinese military companies”, although they can request their removal from the list, according to Pentagon representatives. House Select Committee Chairman Joihn Moolenaar was somewhat more direct, noting that updating the list “It’s a warning to American companiesall levels of government and for the American people themselves”, ensuring that “these Chinese companies are working with the Chinese military against our national interests.” In Reuters, Craig Singleton, an expert on relations with China, points out that Washington no longer treats Chinese companies as isolated entities, but as a strategic conglomerate that is part of an arm of the Chinese government. In Xataka | A Chinese company has been building AI for years to predict who is going to criticize the government before they do so

Xbox Project Helix, information

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Several years have passed since Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S They landed in living rooms around the world, and Microsoft is beginning to show the cards for what comes next. Project Helix is the code name for the next generation of Xbox, a console that, judging by how little (and how much) is already known about it, is not going to be too similar to what the company has offered us so far. Under these lines we bring together everything we know about the next generation of Xbox to date. What is Project Helix? Project Helix is the official codename for the next-generation Xbox console. Microsoft confirmed it publicly in March 2026, when Asha Sharma, the new CEO of Xboxwho came to office after the Phil Spencer’s retirement At the end of February, he announced it through his X account. According to counted Sharma at the time, the console “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games.” As is common in the industry, this is not a definitive brand name. As happened with Project Scarlett and Lockhart, which eventually became Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S respectively, Project Helix will receive another name when Xbox confirms it. Until then, this is how we will refer to the device. What has been clear from the beginning is that Microsoft has ambitions that go well beyond a simple generational update. According to Jason Ronaldvice president of Xbox’s next-generation division, the team has been working hard on the hardware for some time and at GDC 2026 in March confirmed that they are “in full development” of the console. What type of console is it? This is perhaps the most striking feature of Project Helix, and the one that has generated the most stir in the industry. Unlike its predecessors, the console will not only run Xbox games, but It will also be able to run PC titles. And supposedly not only from the Microsoft store, but also from other digital platforms such as Steam or GOG natively. Microsoft has been moving towards the idea that “everything is an Xbox” for some time, erasing the boundaries between console and PC. Project Helix would be the most ambitious materialization of that philosophy. Ronald himself counted already at GDC that “the days when people defined themselves as console, PC or mobile gamers really don’t exist anymore.” Xbox Series X For developers, Microsoft is preparing a unified development kit (GDK) that will allow them to release a single version of a game and reach both console and PC users, something that would considerably reduce the effort of studios to adapt their games to multiple platforms. According to Wccftechthe user interface will be built around an evolved version of the Xbox Full Screen Experience, similar to what already exists on laptops ASUS ROG Xbox Ally. In addition, in April 2026, the so-called “Xbox Mode” began to be deployed in Windows 11, a full-screen, controller-optimized experience that acts as a preview of the Project Helix environment. It is only available on Windows 11 and serves both to mature the ecosystem and to familiarize PC players with what is to come. What are its technical specifications? Microsoft and AMD have been deliberately brief with specific numbers, preferring to talk about design philosophy rather than TFLOPS. But what has been officially confirmed, combined with what internal sources have revealed, already offers a fairly clear profile of the hardware. What is officially confirmed: AMD Custom SoC: Project Helix will be built on a custom chip designed jointly by Microsoft and AMD. AMD Senior Vice President Jack Huynh confirmed which uses the RDNA 5 GPU architecture and is manufactured in TSMC’s 3 nanometer process, which represents a huge leap in efficiency compared to the 7 nm of the Xbox Series X. New generation of DirectX and FSR Diamond: The console is co-designed for the next generation of DirectX. AMD has also confirmed that Project Helix will incorporate FSR Diamond, its new scaling and frame generation platform, which integrates a dedicated NPU for multi-frame generation, neural texture compression and neural rendering. dedicated NPU: The console includes a Neural Processing Unit integrated directly into the SoC, independent of the GPU and CPU, to handle all artificial intelligence-driven rendering tasks. Next level ray tracing:Microsoft has described Project Helix’s ray tracing performance as “an order of magnitude jump” over the current generation. This is supported in part by the new RDNA 5 architectures, which include so-called “Radiance Cores”, a specific hardware block for ray tracing, and “Neural Arrays”, a new approach to grouping GPU computing units as a unified artificial intelligence engine. What the leaks point out: Known leakers such as Moore’s Law Is Dead and KeplerL2 have stated on several occasions that the chip is internally called “Magnus” and would have: CPU: Hybrid design with up to 11 cores, with up to 3 high-performance Zen 6 cores and up to 8 efficiency Zen 6c cores. The frequencies of the performance cores are estimated to be in the range of 5.5-6 GHz. This would represent a huge generational leap over the Xbox Series X’s Zen 2 cores. GPU: 68 RDNA 5 compute units. Although only a 30% increase in units over the 52 Series Memory: GDDR7, according to industry analysts. According to Wccftech, if these leaks are correct, Project Helix could offer between 5 and 6 times the rasterization performance of Xbox Seriesand up to 20 times in ray tracing. However, we have no choice but to wait for official information to corroborate these data. When is Project Helix coming? There is no official date. What Microsoft has confirmed in the latest GDC is that the development units in the alpha phase will begin to arrive at the studios from 2027. From there, the calendar is speculative. The launch window that industry sources most point to is end of 2027although some analysts do not rule out 2028 either. In part, this will depend on when exactly the development kits arrive … Read more

We have been mapping Antarctica for decades. We have just discovered that its largest basins form a single tectonic “fan”

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For decades, researchers have mapped the frozen continent, finding huge depressions and subglacial lakes that have left us in awe. Until now, these formations were studied as isolated pieces of a geological puzzle; However, a new study has turned this view on its head. The demonstration. This study has been published in Nature Geoscience and has just demonstrated that the great basins of East Antarctica are not independent accidents, but form part of a single, gigantic fan-shaped tectonic province. The tectonic fan. The research team, using a combination of subglacial topography, gravity and magnetism data, proposes that this entire vast region is the result of a distributed rotational extension process. To understand it, we can imagine the Earth’s crust in this area opening and stretching asymmetrically, unfolding as if it were a fan. This colossal tectonic movement makes East Antarctica one of the largest known examples of rotational extension in continental crust on the entire planet. The beginning. The origin of this continental scar is closely linked to the history of our planet, specifically to the tectonic phases linked to the fragmentation of the supercontinent Gondwana and the dramatic separation between Antarctica and Australia. As the land masses separated, the crust stretched and fractured, leaving this “bounced topography” that today lies hidden under miles of ice. Its importance. Beyond the undoubted geological and historical value, understanding this structure has a practical and urgent application, since Antarctica is the great thermostat of the Earth and its stability is key in the face of climate change. The topography beneath the Antarctic ice sheet acts as a mold that conditions absolutely everything that happens on the surface. This is seen, for example, in how the shape of bedrock controls the flow of today’s glaciers and determines how subglacial lake and basin systems are distributed. That is why, if we want to predict with mathematical precision how the Antarctic ice will respond to global warming and how it will flow towards the ocean, we need to know the tectonic “pipe” on which it rests to the millimeter. Its mystery. Although the article Nature Geoscience manages to unify structures as massive as the Wilkes and Aurora basins under the same theoretical framework, the authors maintain scientific caution. The exact age at which this fan province formed and the fine geodynamic mechanism that triggered it remain, to a large extent, open questions, and this means that work still needs to be done to find out exactly when the movements of the Antarctic crust will occur. Images | Tam Minton Nature In Xataka | Antarctica was practically the last corner of the Earth immune to touristification. That’s ending

the trick to find the best pack and what to do if it doesn’t appear

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We are going to tell you a trick to be able to see the entire 2026 World Cup in the cheapest way possible. And we are going to explain it to you clearly and without deceiving you, because although it is about paying a pack of 7.99 euros, then you have to activate an additional pack. In short, we are going to guide you so that ALL the matches of the ENTIRE World Cup they cost you 56 euros. It is expensive, but it is the cheapest offer you will find. Of course, it is a trick that you have to pay attention to, because If you make a mistake you can end up paying an additional 28 euros for not canceling it on time. Where can you watch the world cup? As we have explained to you when we told you where you can watch the 2026 World Cupyou could see that you basically only have four alternatives to watch the championship. On RTVE you will only be able to see part of the matches, although all of the Spanish National Team matches are included. But if you want to see them all, you will have to go to Movistar Plus+ with its football or Orange packages. These two payment alternatives are very expensive, and require either extra packages or phone rates with them… or even both. The fourth alternative is DAZN, a service that you can contract without belonging to any operator. But this service has several plans, and here comes the mess where you have to clarify. The cheapest option you can opt for The cheapest alternative to watch the World Cup It costs 28 euros per month. To do so, you will have to resort to a specific plan and include the World Cup package. DAZN has a series of 5 subscriptions with different content, and you can include the World Cup in any of them for 20 euros per month, except for its premium plan with practically everything for 26 euros per month, which is really 45 euros if you want to pay month by month and only use it for the World Cup. The trick is in hire the Made in USA pack and add the World Cup package. By contracting the plan individually month by month you only have to pay 7.99 euros. To this you will have to add the 19.99 euros for the World Cup. This pack has very little content, you will only be able to watch the NBA, NFL, NASCAR races and other American competitions. But if you are only interested in the World Cup, you can manually add this pack with the 104 matches. The World Cup lasts 39 days, from June 11 to July 19, 2026, so the total price will be 56 euros to be able to see ALL the games. To access the Made in USA pack you can enter in this link. But here comes the important thing, because you have to remember to cancel the pack in time so that you are not charged for an extra month. DAZN requires a 30-day notice to unsubscribemeaning that you will have to cancel as soon as you pay the second month so that they do not charge you for the next one. ‘Made in USA’ plan without permanence The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Be very careful, because there are pages that tell you about watching the World Cup for 7.99 euros per month, when the truth is that watching the World Cup matches requires adding the extra pack. What to do if you can’t find the Made in USA pack The fact that many of us are talking about this pack can mean that sometimes you click on the link and it does not appear, and you do not see it on the DAZN website either. If this happens to you, try entering with the browser’s incognito modeand subscribe from it.

A Renfe train was left without air conditioning at 40ºC. 1,056 days later, an affected person has just collected her money

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How much would you fight for the refund of 31.90 euros? Macarena LE, a resident of a town in Teruel, is clear: three years, if necessary. And that is how long it has been behind Renfe for it to refund the price of a ticket between Zaragoza and Barcelona. The reason? The car’s air conditioning. Evident, due to the non-existent air conditioning of the car. What has happened? A Renfe user named Macarena LE, a member of Facua, has gotten the money back for a train ticket she took three years ago. The company had promised that it would do so with each and every one of the people who took that train, but the money never appeared in the user’s bank account. a little odyssey. Despite telling them that they would return the money to the passengers, the amount never arrived so after a few weeks, the affected person filed a claim, they explain in Facua. With no news about it after three months, he decided to put himself in the hands of the legal service of the consumer defense association. Once reaching this point, the association filed a new claim. To this complaint, Renfe responded that it gave the order to return the money but it still did not arrive. After another four months, Facua files a new complaint and Renfe assures him that it has tried to refund the money but that the procedure has been rejected on two occasions. At that moment, Renfe instructs Macarena LE to receive the money through a payment platform. This method also being impossible and the months accumulating, Facua sends a third claim to Renfe in which they simply ask it to deposit the money into the bank account of the affected person, attaching the document that proves its ownership. Three years after taking that train, the associate has ended up receiving her 31.90 euros. A trip… complicated. And, once seated, they assure in Facua that the conductor informed the passengers that the air conditioning was broken and that their travel money would be refunded in compensation for the inconvenience caused. But the journey between Zaragoza and Barcelona had an added problem: July 18 with departure at 3:52 p.m. and arrival at 5:20 p.m. That day maximum temperatures of 44 degrees were reported. Obviously, the heat must have been oppressive inside and the affected person claims that they had to drink water constantly to get through the trip in the best possible way. The expected quality. Due to the numerous claims filed by Facua, and beyond the fact that the money was not returned until three years later, Renfe never fought not to return the money. Instead they admitted that they would send the money back for “not having offered the service with the quality levels” expected. However, the fulfillment of the procedure itself does not seem to have had the expected quality either. And Facua pointed out to Renfe that they were failing to comply with article 21.3 of the Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007, of November 16according to which: “Employers must respond to the claims received in the shortest possible time and, in any case, within a maximum period of one month from the presentation of the claim.”. When Facua presented this second claim in which this regulatory text was recalled, Renfe had not given a response or paid the corresponding money for four months. What if it happens to me? That Renfe has returned the money to a passenger sets a precedent but does not automatically lead the company to return the money in the event of an air conditioning breakdown. In its rules, Renfe states that the traveler has the right to receive compensation for the cancellation of the trip, for its interruption, for a lack or deficiency in the service provided on board or for delay, but it makes it clear that such compensation will not be carried out if: The reason is an extraordinary circumstance unrelated to railway operation, such as extreme weather events (a storm that leaves a train without heating in winter, for example) or natural disasters. Nor if the breakdown or problem was caused by the behavior of the traveler. Nor if it is the damage caused by a third party outside the railway company that causes the incident (people on the track, copper theft, sabotage… etc.) That is to say, the mere absence of air conditioning does not automatically imply that the passenger’s money will be returned. What has happened will have to be taken into account to decide whether the company is obliged to act in this way. Photo | Nelson Silva In Xataka | The Madrid Cercanías have become a nest of problems and delays: their solution is new “megatrains”

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