Month: July 2026

Now influencers created by AI choose to be sad or endearing

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A grandfather who teaches how to choose watermelons. A young man with Down syndrome who laments that no one buys the pots he makes with infinite love. Both are generated by AI, and have managed, using sensitivity, empathetic messages and technology that increasingly imitates reality, to make millions of people believe that they are authentic. And let them buy. Above all, let them buy. The wisdom of the old sensei. Paco del Campo He posted his first video a little over two weeks ago. He already has more than a million followers between Instagram and TikTok. Checkered shirt, knitted vest, home remedies to sleep better, to choose ripe melons or to distinguish normal apples from organically grown ones. And of course, it sells books with home remedies with prices between five and thirteen euros. As detected Delia Rodríguezin the fine print of its website it is recognized that “Paco del Campo” is a commercial name, not a person. I can’t stand it in this city, let’s go to the countryside. Paco del Campo is not the only profile of advice on natural dyes, almost with tone rural-xploitation. Sofia.saludencasa gives holistic remedies and sells a book on the subject. Eduardo.holisticovidapossibly by the same author, gives advice and presents a book with very similar characteristics. The use of AI is obvious as long as the visitor is familiar with the visual tics of generative artificial intelligences, but it is completely normal that they fool most people and that they receive interactions and comments from dozens of people who believe that these experts are real. The hook is no longer beauty. Three years ago we were talking about Aitana López, the virtual model from the Barcelona agency The Clueless: an AI with a declared advertising profiledesigned for brands with a tight budget. Its appeal was the visual appeal of the digital model. Paco belongs to another category: unlike Aitana López, no one warns that he is an AI, and the design opts for normality rather than physical perfection. The consequence is that it deceives much more easily: why would AI, when it can generate absolute beauty, replicate an old man’s face? Very simple: confidence in what is close sells more than physical perfection. Even more perverse. This pattern of trust in profiles that want to dazzle with innocence takes on a more sinister nuance with the case of the now-defunct Martinmimoplants profile, which had more than 14,500 followers and 140,000 likes, but which disappeared from the map when the racket was discovered. It showed a young man with Down syndrome with a handmade pot business, lamenting that it doesn’t work. The fourteen videos posted by the account were artificial, and eleven of them did not carry any warning of AI-generated content. The most viewed video exceeded 600,000 views. Martinmimoplants is not the first to resort to this technique: profiles of needy grandparents selling crafts have been seen, but the detail of Down Syndrome is new. This has generated an immediate response: Down Spain described the strategy as “false charity” and asked not to donate or buy without first checking the reliability of the seller. For its part, FACUA, which had already announced that it would take the case to the authorities, formalized the complaint to the General Directorate of Consumer Affairs on July 8, five days after the VerificaRTVE report that exposed it, for abusive clauses. Majestic profiles. This article documented dozens of TikTok Shop accounts that showed supposed entrepreneurs crying about how bad their craft businesses were doing in order to actually sell products purchased in batches in China. The emotional script is the same as Martinmimoplants, and there is also a certain trait of vulnerability: disability in the Spanish case, and in those that The Verge points out, all African-American creators, that is, the thing takes on a racial point. Social networks are, for the most part, a space for business and it is beginning to be treated as such. For example, there are companies like the startup Doublespeed, financed by Andreessen Horowitz, which offers packages influencers synthetics for between 1,500 and 7,500 dollars, depending on the number of publications. The regulatory response. Article 50 of the European Artificial Intelligence Regulation will require labeling of deepfakes and synthetic content that could be confused with real material from the August 2, 2026. Until then, Paco can continue publishing. For now, be careful with profiles that appeal to what is endearing and natural when the exact opposite abounds in their genesis. Or as the classic said, be careful out there. In Xataka | The problem is not that your favorite influencer sells you the motorcycle. The problem is that maybe it doesn’t even exist.

Instagram and Facebook are “addictive” by design. And Meta faces a fine of 12 billion dollars

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The European Commission has concludedpreliminarily, that Meta violates the Digital Services Act (DSA) due to the “addictive” design of Instagram and Facebook. The organization and Meta have been arguing for years over a multitude of aspects related to the security and privacy of their social networks but, this time, the move could be very expensive for Mark Zuckerberg’s company, as it could be forced to redesign both applications and face a fine of up to $12 billion. por that. The conclusion of the European Commission comes after an investigation of more than two years which, if confirmed, would force Meta to change the internal functioning of two of the most used social networks on the planet. And it comes at a time when regulatory pressure on big technology companies for the protection of minors it doesn’t stop growingboth in Europe and in the United States. In detail. According to has explained The European Commission itself in an official statement, Meta “did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design for the physical and mental well-being of users, including minors and vulnerable adults.” The European organization points directly to several specific functions: Personalized recommendations. Autoplay (automatic playback of content). The infinite scroll. Push notifications. Brussels maintains that these tools push the user to continue viewing content almost unconsciously, which the institution itself describes as going into “autopilot mode.” It also ensures that Meta ignored available data on the time that minors spend on Instagram and Facebook at night, as well as the role that formats such as reels or stories could play in excessive or compulsive use of the applications. Between the lines. What is striking is not only that Brussels points out the design of the apps, but also questions the tools that Meta already offers to limit their use. The Commission states that screen time controls, even those enabled by default for teenagers, “can be easily dismissed” and do not truly reduce use of the service. Regarding parental control, consider that it only works if parents have technical knowledge and dedicate time and effort to configure it, something that, according to the organization itself, limits its real effectiveness. Nor does he consider the mental health warnings that Meta offers in its “safety center” as sufficient. With these arguments, the Commission proposes that Meta should introduce specific design changes: deactivate functions such as autoplay and infinite scroll by default, incorporate effective screen pauses and adjust its recommendation system so that it depends less on keeping the user engaged, according to the institution’s own statement. How much money is at stake. If the conclusion is confirmed, Meta could be fined up to 6% of its annual worldwide turnover. Taking 2025 revenues as a reference, close to $201 billion, the penalty could be close to $12 billion. That can make goal. It should be noted that these are still preliminary conclusions and that there is still no firm sanction. Meta has the right to defend himself, review the documentation in the file and respond in writing before Brussels adopts a final decision. In parallel, the case will be consulted to the European Committee for Digital Services. The context does not play in favor of Meta. This research It has been open since May 2024and it has not been the only one. In parallel, the company faces another European investigation into its age verification systems for children under 13 years of age, whose preliminary conclusions were published in April, as detailed by the Commission itself. In addition, Brussels is preparing a report, scheduled for next Monday, on a possible ban on the use of social networks for minors under 16 years of age throughout the community bloc, according to they count from The Verge. Pressure also comes from the United States. In August, Meta will sit on trial over whether its applications are intentionally addictive, in a case in which several states are jointly demanding compensation that could reach $1.4 trillion. depending on the medium. And it would not be the first judicial defeat, since in March, a Los Angeles jury already declared Instagram and YouTube responsible for damaging the mental health of a 20-year-old girl, in a case that forced the companies to pay 6 million dollars jointly, according to share from Bloomberg. QEU says the Comywentn. “Protecting the physical and mental health of Europeans must be a priority for social media platforms,” ​​he said. declared Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice President of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy. Virkkunen added that the Digital Services Law “offers a clear framework to hold platforms accountable for the addictive design of their services and their effects”, and assured that Brussels is “fully committed” to enforcing European regulations. What Meta says. A spokesperson for the technology giant declared to the BBC that the company did not agree with the conclusions, “which do not properly take into account the important measures we have taken to protect teenagers.” “We share the European Commission’s commitment to providing adolescents with safe and positive online experiences, and we will continue to engage constructively with them,” it continued. And now what. The case enters a phase of allegations that may be prolonged. This is not the first time that the DSA has resulted in sanctions, since the norm itself has already been used to fine X 120 million eurosand with 200 million euros to the Chinese e-commerce giant Temu. We’ll see what happens with Meta. Cover image | Guillaume Perigois and Goal In Xataka | Anyone can tag you on Instagram to generate AI deepfakes with your photos. It’s Meta being Meta

Antena 3 does not have Pasapalabra’s El Rosco, but it continues to destroy its substitute. Telecinco wants to fix it in court

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Antena 3 has been leading the audience in Spain for five consecutive seasons, and a good part of that dominance was built letter by letter, in the Rosco of ‘Pasapalabra’. In May, a court took away the iconic final test of his Access talisman. And three weeks after the channel replaced it with a very similar test, Mediaset intends to demonstrate that the change is not legal either. That’s why, will sue Atresmedia by AlaZ, the new final test of ‘Pasapalabra’. The judicial decision. Last May 21the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court confirmed that the Rosco format belongs to MC&F Broadcasting Production and Distribution, and not to ITV Studios or Atresmedia. The ruling ratified a previous ruling from the Provincial Court of Barcelona in 2022 and forced Antena 3 to stop broadcasting that specific test, although the rest of ‘Pasapalabra’ could continue on the air. It is a legal dispute that comes from afar. ‘Pasapalabra’ was born in 1996 as an adaptation of the British format ‘The Alphabet Game’, from ITV, although the final test grew on its own until it became an element with its own identity. In 2019, Telecinco already lost a similar legal battle against ITV for the global rights to the program and had to withdraw it from its schedule: ITV and MC&F have licensed it separately, and that has generated problems. Atresmedia recovered the competition in May 2020, but the judicial shadow over Rosco was never completely cleared, until this year’s ruling. The substitution. On June 19, Antena 3 replaced El Rosco with AlaZ, an adaptation of the Swiss contest ‘DallAZetA’. Mediaset, meanwhile, with the exploitation rights of Rosco finally under its belt, has begun to prepare its own contest built on that test, predictably for Telecinco. Its own ‘Pasapalabra’… which cannot be called ‘Pasapalabra’ or imitate the rest of the tests. The problem is that in Mediaset’s opinion, Antena 3 continues to culminate ‘Pasapalabra’ with a Rosco that cannot be Rosco. The resemblance. The company supports its claim on the Supreme’s own definition of Rosco: two or more contestants compete against the clock answering questions whose answers follow alphabetical order. Under this criterion, Mediaset maintains that AlaZ retains almost all the essential elements of the Rosco: two contestants, a tour of the 25 letters of the alphabet, accumulated time from previous tests during the program, a cumulative jackpot and visual signaling of successes, errors and pending questions almost identical to that of the Rosco, only in a line instead of a circle. The differences. However, there are also details that distinguish both tests: The AlaZ system is more closed and strategic and the contestant can no longer give probable answers, but must guess an exact word whose length is revealed by dashes, in the style of ‘The Hanged Man’. The stopwatch also changes, from the usual 85 seconds in the Rosco to 110, and a penalty is introduced for receiving clues that does not exist in the Rosco. Of course, for Mediaset none of these adjustments alter the essentials of the game. The company states that “only minor differences have been introduced to make something substantially the same.” The comparison it offers contrasts these changes with the real differences of the original Swiss format, where a single contestant competes, there is no accumulated jackpot and each program is independent of the previous one. For MC&F and Mediaset, AlaZ is more similar to Rosco than the Swiss contest from which Atresmedia bought the license. The hearings. Since Atresmedia recovered ‘Pasapalabra’ in May 2020, the chain went from an average share of 11.7% in 2019 to around 13.9% in the following years, consolidating a leadership which has been maintained for five consecutive seasons. The most important thing is the drag effect that ‘Pasapalabra’ generates on the network’s news programs and ‘El Hormiguero’. And things have not changed with the loss of Rosco. The premiere of AlaZ, on June 19, was already a hit: the program signed 21.9% of share and 1.6 million viewers on average, with the final test shooting up to a 28.3% share in its closing minute. The new mechanics improved the average that Rosco had been recording that same season by three points. The first full week confirmed the trend, averaging 17.1% share. And that sometimes competes with the World Cup, a sporting event that has devoured the Telecinco audiences (although in July, the only weak days for Antena 3 have coincided with free-to-air World Cup matches). Without that competition, the program continues to exceed the 18% quota, a level similar to what it already had. Antena 3 has no one to complain, with or without Rosco. In Xataka | Telecinco has ‘El Rosco’ but does not have ‘Pasapalabra’. Antena 3 has ‘Pasapalabra’ but does not have ‘El Rosco’

After the floods in China, the vice president of BYD has had to remember that their cars are not boats. Its owners have not cared

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Dozens of BYD electric cars have circulated these days on completely flooded roads in the Chinese region of Guangxi, transporting food, water and emergency supplies to villages isolated by the rains. The striking thing is that it was not a decision organized by the brand, but those who left with their cars for the affected areas were volunteers, and they did so just when a senior executive of the company asked for caution regarding the risk of driving through floods. What has happened? Guangxi has suffered historic rains caused by Typhoon Mesaak, with roads and entire municipalities under water. According to collect According to Chinese media, 163, owners of vehicles from brands such as Denza and Fang Cheng Bao, both from the BYD group, organized themselves through networks of owners to form civil rescue convoys. These groups voluntarily entered the areas most affected by the flood, ignoring the recommendations for driving in extreme weather conditions. In detail. Chinese electric cars they usually boast of a construction designed to resist water, including batteries with a highly protective seal and reinforced chassis to cross flooded areas. In the case of Fang Cheng Bao, its independent chassis architecture allows, according to factory data, to cross up to 800 millimeters deep thanks to a specific structural sealing on the underside of the vehicle. And it is not the first time that we see this type of vehicle going out for a ride in extreme conditions. Last year we already saw vehicles like the Yangwang U8 and the Jetour Zongheng G700 do the goat crossing rivers or in flooded areas. There is certainly no better advertising. The notice that arrived late. While the owners were already circulating through the flooded areas, He Zhiqi, senior vice president of BYD, published a message on social networks reminding that an electric car “is not a boat”, according to his Weibo account. The manager explained that, although the Blade Battery of the brand has watertightness certifications IP67 and IP68and that from the factory it is guaranteed that the vehicle can withstand being submerged up to one meter deep for 24 hours without suffering electrical leaks or risk of fire in the battery, driving through deep water is still a real risk that should be avoided. Models on the ground. Among the vehicles that have been seen in the images, the Denza N9 stands out, the brand’s large luxury plug-in hybrid that, according to account CarNewsChina managed to move through areas of mud and water thanks to its all-wheel drive system with several independent motors. The Fang Cheng Bao Bao 8 has also been seen circulating, an all-terrain vehicle with a harder profile with a suspension designed to better distribute the load, in addition to the Denza B5 and B8, which incorporate active body control systems capable of adjusting the height on the fly to avoid obstacles. The money has also moved. In addition to help on the ground, several Chinese brands They have allocated funds to the reconstruction of the area. The BYD Charitable Foundation has donated 10 million yuan (about 1.47 million U.S. dollars) to fund emergency equipment and repair public infrastructure. Xiaomi has contributed the same amount in cash, and the Chery group has donated another 10 million yuan divided between financial aid and supplies. Cover image | CarNewsChina (Bilibili) In Xataka | Sky Nomad is a reality: Xiaomi’s second car brand aims at one of the jewels in BYD’s crown

“This is the first time China has proposed a new principle for the chip industry.” Not everyone is convinced

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Huawei’s path in recent years has been most curious. After being ostracized by the West and being the target of the trade war between the US of Trump’s first term and China, has become the company that thank the United States because of how vetoes have boosted Chinese technology. Because Huawei has become one of the pillars of all the technology companies in the country and they are not satisfied with making chips: they want to lead a new paradigm with a Tau Law that challenges the Moore’s Law. But behind the promises, there are those who can only see one thing: marketing. The Tau Law. My partner Laura exemplified it perfectly. If the chip is a city, the transistors are the buildings, and the cables are the roads, Moore’s Law says: “make buildings smaller to fit more into the same space.” What Huawei proposes, however, goes in another direction: “buildings can no longer be much smaller, so instead let’s make cars travel faster on the roads, and redesign the urban layout so that they travel less distance.” Huawei’s bet is that cars take much less time to go from one building to another, reducing times tremendously so that the chip, without the need to work on smaller lithographs, is much faster. Inside that Tau LawHuawei proposes the LogicFolding architecture, focused on shortening the wiring of the critical paths to increase the density of the transistors. Qionists. And the company is tremendously proud of this to the point that He Tingbo, Huawei’s chip director, affirms that “it is the first time that China proposes a new principle for the global chip industry.” Because, until now, Moore’s Law was the one that prevailed in lithography leaps, but if instead of concentrating on achieving the very complicated objective of making everything smaller, companies focus on shortening the “routes”, the density objective can be achieved in other ways. In fact, Huawei maintains that, before LogicFound, it took three years to go from 126 to 155 million transistors per mm2. In 2026, and with the new architecture, they jumped directly to 238 per mm2. Equivalence, not parity. And if the question is why Huawei is pushing this when there was already another viable way, the answer is that that proven way was not as viable for Chinese companies. Due to the technological veto, they cannot access the most sophisticated machines in Europe ASMLso they can’t “print” chips in advanced lithography as easily as TSMC can, for example. Thus, they have looked for another way to achieve that density, but something important is the terms. Because there is talk that Huawei would reach a transistor density “equivalent” to that of 1.4 nm processes, by 2031, and that is the key. They would be “equivalent” in density and there would be no lithographic parity. With raised eyebrow. In any case, Tingbo is proud of the logo and believes that it can benefit the entire Chinese technology ecosystem, but it makes an appeal. The directive states that “there remain many open questions that no organization can address alone. The tool chain, standards and economic models require contributions from more than one company.” For its part, and as we see in The Registerthere are those who do not see that revolution in the Tau Law. Although they see what the Chinese company is proposing as interesting, they affirm that it is more of a hybrid movement between reality and marketing because “Huawei had to get creative” to overcome the limitations and “they are going in the right direction, but this density is created through packaging and not by making smaller transistors“Indeed, this is what we already had, but they point out that the result will not be equivalent to a true 1.4 nm node from TSMC or Intel in issues such as energy efficiency and temperature. Future. In fact, as our colleagues point out Xataka Mobileit is in thermal management where Huawei is encountering some major problems. But well, the company’s intention is that the results of this Tau Law allow massive AI clusters that they behave as a single chip by 2035 and that the upcoming Kirin chips for consumption also benefit from it. Image | IBM (edited) In Xataka | While the industry obsesses over power, TSMC is clear about where the future of chips lies: in efficiency

If the question is how to prevent our car from being an oven, some German experts believe that we have been making mistakes all our lives.

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Beach in the morning, visit to the beach bar and nap in the rented house. It doesn’t sound bad. You leave the beach bar with your belly full and your soul intoxicated with the sweet feeling of carelessness that invades you when dessert arrives and you say “why wouldn’t I eat that three-scoop ice cream.” But when going to the car, the harsh reality. The sun beats like never before. Touching anything inside the car is risking a trip to the hospital with a second-degree burn, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to lower the temperature inside. “But I put the parasol on”you will say. But… oh, friend. What if you have put it wrong? What if you have done everything backwards? That is what the German experts from the ADAC defend, a kind of German RACE famous for its reliability studies but they put the focus on everything that revolves around our cars. And his last publication is a good example of this. More “fresh” The automobile club ADAC has published an article in which it explains what temperature a car reaches in the sun and what measures we can take to reduce the temperature we will find inside. It must be taken into account that the temperature of the cabin in a car is not only important to avoid burns when touching the steering wheel or gear lever. According to the DGTdriving indoors that exceeds 30 degrees can have effects on our body similar to driving under the influence of alcohol. Therefore, when we get to a car that is parked in the sun, it is important to try to lower the temperature as soon as possible. The best idea is to launch what went viral as “the japanese trick”: open the windows and fan the car with the door itself to move the air inside and try to get it out as soon as possible. If you turn on the air conditioning, you must play with it to throw it at the feet or the ceiling depending on whether or not we are driving and the windows are open or not. But to make the task easier, it is very important to take precautions beforehand. One of them is, of course, the parasol. From the RACC they assure that using the sunshade can reduce the interior temperature of the vehicle by up to 11 degrees. We arrive at our destination, we grab the sunshade in the upper area and make sure that it covers the entire surface of the windshield, we close the car and we leave. Sure? What the ADAC experts say, this is not the best way to act. To do this, they have put five exactly identical Dacia Sandero in the sun and have looked for the best way to ensure that the temperature in the cabin is as low as possible. In his study, the car that was unprotected reached an internal temperature of 53ºC (blessed 53ºC if we compare it with the temperatures that the interior of our car can reach in the sun in Spain) and the lowest temperature had been achieved by covering the car with a tarp that reflects the sun’s rays. Obviously, this option is the least practical due to the size of the tarp that must be moved in the trunk and the inconvenience of putting it on and taking it off. Of course, the 43ºC achieved inside made the difference. The second least useful option was to put a white cloth over the car. In this case, the temperature reached was 50ºC. And here comes the interesting thing because it is the option that we use the most. The experts tried putting the sunshade inside the car, under the windshield, and outside the car, over the windshield. And the result was that putting it on the windshield reduced the temperature by 4ºC compared to putting it under the glass. In fact, putting the sunshade over the windshield left the temperature at 45ºC, very close to the best option. On the contrary, installing the windshield in the traditional way left the interior temperature at 49ºC. “Semi-garage” is Google’s translation of putting a tarp on the car to cover it The truth is that it makes sense. When the sun acts directly on the glass of the car, it heats up and acts as a magnifying glass, so the temperature in the cabin rises even more. Besides, his own glass emits more heat inside when it is hot, which is why it is not entirely advisable to buy a car with a sunroof without a curtain if you live in especially hot climates. In this case, the heat from the glass is projected onto the heads of the passengers. By placing the windshield inside we prevent the rays from directly hitting the glass and, therefore, its capacity to retain heat and raise the temperature further is lower. In that case, what we should do before leaving is to “grab” some ribbons from the parasol when closing the doors so that the parasol does not fly away. Photo | Andrew Bone In Xataka | The best way to use air conditioning in the car: the keys to fighting the heat

great Wimbledon match between Sinner and Djokovic with the premiere of ‘Bitter Christmas’ afterwards. Everything in Movistar Plus

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It’s so hot that it’s difficult to make plans outside the home at certain times of the day. Today, Friday is one of those days when you want to be cool at home and, to spend the afternoon, today we have several interesting options. In sport, today it is played one of the best tennis matches that can be seen today: you can see it on Movistar Plus for 9.99 euros per month. But there is more to see. Monthly subscription to Movistar Plus The price could vary. We earn commission from these links You can download whatever you want and watch it offline this summer As we always tell you, Movistar Plus is a platform that does not have any type of permanence. That’s great if, for example, you want to see something specific or you just feel like taking a look at their catalog. In addition, you can contract it regardless of the operator and you have to choose two modalities: the Free Plan that includes sports (which is the one that costs 9.99 euros per month) and one with only series, movies and documentaries by 4.99 euros per month. Both can be shared with a friend or family member without problems.. Now, let’s talk about today’s plan. Today, Friday, July 10 at 4:30 p.m., the Wimbledon semifinal is played between Sinner and Djokovic, two of the best tennis players on the circuit. This match will be the prelude to a final that Movistar Plus will also broadcast next Sunday the 12thas well as the women’s final tomorrow Saturday. Now leaving sports aside, it’s time to talk a little about cinema. Today it arrives in the Movistar Plus catalog Pedro Almodóvar’s last film‘Bitter Christmas‘. This joins other films that the platform has and that have won awards of all kinds, such as ‘Sundays‘, ‘Weapons‘, ‘F1: The Movie‘ either ‘One battle after another‘, among many others. Whether you choose the plan with sports or the Free Plan for movies, series and documentaries per 4.99 euros you will have the option of Download whatever you want and watch it offline. This can be great for you this vacation if, for example, you are going to take a plane. One more reason to try the platform this July. 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 | Movistar Plus In Xataka | Movistar Plus activates its Free Plan with complete programs and a lot of content, regardless of which operator you are In Xataka | Less than five euros per month and without permanence: this is the new Movistar Plus plan that you can even share with a friend

These are the 10 things you shouldn’t miss when watching it

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If this August 12, 2026 you are going to see a solar eclipse for the first timemaybe, when the time comes, you don’t know very well where to look. It’s normal. The show is in heaven, so it is logical that we get our approved glasses and let’s fix our eyes on the Sun during the partiality. Later, when totality arrives, we know that structures of the star that we normally do not see will appear, so the impulse is to take off our glasses, which at that moment are no longer necessary, and continue looking at the Sun. Once totality ends, you put your glasses back on and continue looking at the Sun. Great, you have seen the center of the eclipse, but you have not observed everything that is happening around you. In reality, a solar eclipse is a unique phenomenon because of everything it entails on a global level. The Sun looks like we have never seen it before, but there is also changes in light, shadows, colors, temperature, animal behavior… It is important that we also look at all this, but of course, we do not have all the time in the world. Therefore, it is essential that we keep an action plan in mind, with all the checks What we want to do during the time the eclipse lasts. This is actually a matter of taste. You may enjoy the Sun more, the shadows, the behavior of animals or everything at the same time. Look wherever you want, but it’s good that you know everything the eclipse can offer you. Here is a list of ideas to choose your ideal observation protocol. What is in the Sun A solar eclipse occurs when what is known as first contact occurs. At that moment, the Moon begins to hide the Sun, as if it had taken a small bite. It is the beginning of partiality and it is important to see it with approved glasses on. Little by little, the Moon engulfs the Sun and we no longer see just a small bite, but an increasingly larger bite. When there is hardly any sunlight left, the Baily beadsa series of circles that surround the Sun as if it had been adorned with a pearl necklace. This is because sunlight filters through the Moon’s irregularities, so you see a lot of little balls. However, when there is hardly any light left, only a bright, somewhat larger ball known as diamond ring Immediately afterwards totality begins. As long as we are within the range in which the Moon will completely hide the Sun, of course. At the beginning of this, you can see the chromospherean area of ​​the solar atmosphere that looks like a red arc. This lasts very few seconds and is not always visible. The ideal is to have your eyes well adapted to the darkness, for example by wearing sunglasses before the eclipse, as eclipse hunter Leo Hernández did in the last total solar eclipse he has seen so far. He told us recently in an interview. Once the chromosphere is no longer visible, the solar corona appears. You can detect it as a white, filamentous halo that surrounds the black ball of the Moon, covering the Sun. Totality can last between a few seconds and a few minutes and, then, everything we have seen begins to happen, but in the opposite order. diamond ring The solar eclipse beyond the Sun In addition to everything we have seen, there are many details that we can observe in a solar eclipse if we look around us. It is not necessary to keep your eyes fixed on the Sun all the time. The temperature When totality occurs, the temperature drops sharply. There is nothing to “see” there, it is only necessary to feel. But it’s good to be prepared for that feeling. This way it won’t come as news to us and we can pay more attention to it. nature During a solar eclipse, many animals change their behavior. There have been cases of turtles mating, cattle returning to their stables, crickets beginning to chirp, owls hooting, or giraffes fleeing for fear of becoming prey to a nocturnal predator. There are also plants that open or close when it is not yet touching. All due to the fact that light is essential in the circadian rhythms of living beings, so that its absence during the day becomes an abnormality and a source of physiological conflict. The sky beyond the sun It is logical that we look at the sky during a solar eclipse, but the ideal is not to focus our gaze only on the Sun. If everything goes well and there is no light pollution, some stars may appear and bright planets in the sky. It is curious how the firmament makes an appearance during the day, so it is also worth extending your gaze due to its immensity. The shadows The shadows are different during a solar eclipse, especially in the last moments of the partiality. To begin with, although they are usually seen with more blurred edges, at this time They look much clearer. This is because, if sunlight normally arrives in many directions, as it comes from a large round disk, during a very advanced partial solar eclipse there is only a very thin strip of light, like a kind of crescent. As a result, under normal conditions, when an object blocks the light and a shadow is formed, there may be many fragments of the solar disk blocked, so that a diffuse transition between the sun and the shadow is formed. In an eclipse, on the other hand, the light comes from a much more specific point, so that transition does not occur. On the other hand, during an advanced partial solar eclipse they are seen under the leaves of the trees. a kind of shadows in the shape of small crescents. These are due to pinhole effectwhich occurs when light passes … Read more

We have been believing for decades that the Great Pyramid was built at one time. The latest analysis places it more than 20,000 years earlier

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(Fortunately) the world is full of monuments as ancient as they are impressive, but few, very few, are comparable to the Great Pyramid of Giza. Almost 140 meters high, thousands of years old and an immortal testimony to the power of Ancient Egypt. It has such magnetism that every year they visit it millions of people arrivals from all over the world. But… What if we have been wrong about its origins for decades? What if instead of becoming 2,500 BCas we have always believed, rose up ago more than 20,000 years? What if Pharaoh Cheops was not its true promoter, but simply renewed it? All those questions have been left by launching a new (and controversial) study. What has happened? That Egyptology has just been shaken by unusual news in modern archaeology: a study that has turned upside down the dating (and origins) of the Great Pyramid of Gizaone of the most iconic monuments not only in Egypt or Africa but on the entire planet. Until now, experts agreed that the monument was built in the time of Khufu, around 2589-2566 BCbecoming one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the tallest structure in the world for 3,800 years. For Alberto Doninian Italian engineer from the University of Bologna, that estimate falls short. Very short. In fact, he has published a study in which he traces the origins of the pyramid back to more than 20,000 years. What dates do you handle? After analyzing several points of the pyramid, Donini has come to the conclusion that the reference date to talk about its origins should be another: 22941 BC That is, their calculations indicate that the structure is around 24,900 years old. Before continuing, it is important to clarify one detail: its analysis does not seek to set specific dates, but rather to establish a time frame for the construction of the monument. What does that mean? That, in reality, what Donini has done is calculate that there are 68.2% probability that the period of construction of the pyramid is framed in a window that extends between 38,903 and 10,979 years ago. The calculation of 24,941 years would therefore be a simple arithmetic mean that serves as a reference. If instead of talking about antiquity we talk about calendars, this means that, according to the estimates of the Italian engineer, the most famous structure in Giza was probably built between 36878 and 8954 BC What is it based on? Donini’s work is not controversial only because of its conclusions. It is also because of its methodology, the calculation system it has used. Its main tool is Relative Erosion Method (REM), a formula that dispenses with documentary sources to be based fundamentally on what the rocks say. Literally. What the REM does is analyze the erosion of the pyramid blocks to, based on their level of wear, date them. Said like this, it sounds simple, but what the engineer has done is somewhat more complex: he selected 12 different points spread across the base of the Great Pyramid and then compared their different levels of erosion, looking at aspects such as the holes and cavities opened in the rock by rain or the roots of plants and the natural wear and tear caused by wind, sand and the constant passage of people. And has that been of any use? Yes. The analysis has yielded a disparate range of dates. At one of those twelve points, the REM suggested an estimated age of 5,708 years. In others the estimate was 17,955, 30,375 or even more than 50,000 years. It may sound strange considering that we are talking about a single monument and it is logical to think that all its blocks have been there for the same amount of time, but many factors influence erosion: from the position of each stone, which determines its exposure to wind and rain, to its mineral composition. It’s still a strange thing, isn’t it? Yes. And no. It is true that the engineer obtained very different dates, but this is explained by another peculiarity of the Great Pyramid. The monument did not always have the appearance we see today. In it 1303 AD The area suffered an earthquake that affected the white limestone blocks that originally covered the structure. That material was later reused in buildings in Cairo. Although it may sound like an archaeological tragedy, it offers experts like Donini a real opportunity. The reason? They now have blocks that have been exposed to erosion almost since the construction of the Great Pyramid and others that have only been exposed to erosion for 675 years, when the earthquake left them bare. This contrast partly explains why when applying the REM method Donini obtained such a broad time frame, the same one that later led him to propose an antiquity of 24,941 years. Issue settled, then? No. The study has only served to stir up the debate. And it is more than understandable if we take into account several keys. First, the dating turns upside down everything we thought we knew about one of Egypt’s most famous monuments. Among other things, he questions whether Pharaoh Cheops was its main architect and slips that he could have limited himself to reforming it. Furthermore, Donini’s study has another handicap: it is preliminary and has not been peer-reviewed, which heats up the debate (even) more. He himself has admitted that REM calculations are influenced by factors that must be handled with caution, such as the variability of erosion processes or the wear and tear that mass tourism may have had on certain parts of the base of the pyramid, altering the calculations. Images | Wikipedia, Alessandro Zanini (Unsplash) and 2H Media (Unsplash) Via | 3D Games In Xataka | Egypt is creating a new tourist mega-destination. There are those who see it as a threat to the oldest monastery in the world

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Meta AI has released a new function with which Any user can create images with other people’s faces without permission. This opens the door to all kinds of abuse and unethical uses, since the function allows you to use your profile image or photos of yourself that you have published as a reference. We are going to briefly explain how this function is used and how these images are generated. Then, we will tell you the two methods with which you can prevent others from creating images with your face. Giving permission is enabled by default, but can be disabled. Meta AI takes photos with Instagram users’ faces Whoever uses the Meta AI website or app Now you can ask it to generate photos of other people. You simply have to use a prompt where it is requested to do so, mentioning the user by their account name. For example, if Xataka were a person, we can ask them to take photos of @Xataka doing whatever we want. By default Meta AI will use this user’s profile image as a reference for its composition. But you will be able to ask him to use the photos in his feed as a reference, and also any scenario or action. Come on, you can create images of a person doing whatever you want without them having control over what you do. Prevent them from taking images of you without your permission There are two ways you can prevent Meta AI from accessing your photos to create images. The first is deactivate the permissions that Instagram has activated by default. Come on, if you don’t touch anything, the Instagram settings mean that you have given Meta AI permission to use your photos for whatever other users want. To deactivate this function you have to enter Instagram settings, and click on the section Share and reuse. Once inside, go down to the section Allow people to reuse your content on Instagram with AI Features at Metaa new option that when translated into Spanish should be something like Let users repurpose your content on Instagram with Meta’s AI features. In this section, you have to disable options Publications and Reels. With this, you will prevent all your public photos and your reels from being used to generate any type of content in Meta AI. The second method is to make your account privatebecause Meta AI does not have access to the content of these types of accounts. In other words, if you already have a private account, it is not necessary to touch anything, although it is advisable to deactivate the permissions anyway in case this changes in the future. In Xataka Basics | No, WhatsApp Meta AI cannot be deactivated, but this way you can make it bother you as little as possible

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