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A Venezuelan invented a city without law in the middle of an island. Now the millionaires who followed him do not know how to escape

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In recent history there are several examples of projects of private for profit that sought to redifing the concept of governance and economic development combining libertarian, neoliberal and corporatist principles in the same cocktail shaker. ShenzhenIn China, it began as a special economic zone in 1980 and grew from being a fishing village to a metropolis with a GDP of 482 billion dollars. And there we have Neom in Saudi Arabiaalthough it is about to see that this future is confirmed. In any case, none as prosperous. A radical experiment. Located on the island of Roatán, Honduras, Prospera It was conceived as A libertarian citywith an independent fiscal and regulatory structure Designed to attract investorstechnological entrepreneurs and defenders of the free market. Created by the Venezuelan Erick Brime, a former manager of Investment Funds, the community operates under its own legal code, minimum tax rates and a digital judicial system administered by Arizona’s retired judges. With a 1% corporate tax rate And without capital gains taxes, the enclave was presented as an alternative to the Honduran system, seeking to demonstrate that the free market economy and the minimum government intervention can generate prosperity. Millionaires to the race. As we said, since its foundation in 2017, the city attracted the interest of Silicon Valley investors. There, people like Brian Armstrong (CEO of Coinbase) and Peter Thiel, who saw in prosperous space for technological and financial innovation. The community also became a meeting point for Biohackers and cryptocurrency, organizing conferences with the motto “Make Death Optional” and facilitating the installation of biotechnology and nuclear energy companies. However, the ambition of the project soon crashed with the political and social reality of Honduras, triggering a crisis that now threatens to dismantle its existence. Millionaires who look so happy do not know how to get out. The collapse of the legal framework. Prospera’s existence was possible thanks to the Employment and Economic Development Law (Zedes), approved during the mandate of former president Juan Orlando Hernández. What happened? That Hernández was arrested and convicted in the United States for drug trafficking, and her successor, President Xiomara Castro, went on to qualify the project as a creation of a “narco-regime.” In 2024, the Supreme Court of Honduras declared unconstitutional the law of the Zedesquestioning the legality of Prospera. Given this threat, Brime sue Honduras for 11,000 million of dollars before an international arbitration tribunal, claiming that the revocation of its special status constitutes an illegal expropriation. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent in Lobby in the United States Congress seeking to press the Government so that sanction Honduras if it does not protect investment Foreign in Prospera. The community is revealed. In addition, the problem for these “investors” was aggravated when the rejection of the central government of the “city” added local leaders and indigenous communities In Roatán. Moreover, the Crawfish Rock community, which borders Prospera, has denounced that the project represents A threat to its territory and way of life. Tensions about access to water and territorial expansion have resulted in clashes between prosperous employees and local residents. A regulatory paradise. If you wonder why so many millionaires came to Brime, the answer is in one of the most controversial prosperous aspects: Your self -regulation modelwhere companies can choose between regulations from 36 different countriesSo even create their own regulations, provided they hire civil liability insurance. Hence, it has become a refuge for high -tech and biomedicine sectors, including startups on extreme longevity and prohibited experimental therapies in the United States. Who is it? Bloomberg had A few days ago in a special about the city that among the companies that have established operations in Prospera Oklo stand outa startup backed by Sam Altman that develops small nuclear reactors, biotechnology companies, some dedicated to unregulated medical treatments, and a large amount of Investors in cryptocurrenciesattracted by the possibility of paying taxes with Bitcoin. In any case, and despite its success by attracting private capital, the lack of a clear tax framework has generated those Frictions with the local government. The mayor of Roatán, Ron McNab, has criticized that Prospera uses the island’s infrastructure Without paying municipal taxeswhich aggravates urban problems such as lack of roads, drainage and safety. Model expansion. As Prospera’s viability in Honduras has become more uncertain, Brime and businesswoman Magatte Wade have launched a new project: Africa prosperan attempt to replicate the model in African countries. Apparently, Sub -Saharan Africa is seen as a fertile land for this type of projects due to its rapid urban growth and high demand for private investment. Of course, Wade has emphasized that his intention is to avoid mistakes made in Honduras and work in collaboration with local governments. A libertarian utopia. Thus, which began as an experiment in self -government has evolved in A legal, political and social struggle With the Honduran government and the premises In “Weapons” against this invented city. While Brime and his allies press for the international recognition of Prospera, local resistance and government actions have turned their dream and that of investors into a nightmare with a figure to settle: 11,000 million dollars. The curious thing about this story is that, far from trying to put an end, Prospera’s fate could be replicated in other places and, if necessary, determine the future of other autonomous cities worldwide. If you manage to survive and give you the right, a precedent will sit for many other similar projects. If it fails, it will reinforce skepticism about The viability of these libertarian enclaves in countries with fragile political and economic contexts. What seems clear is that the confrontation between Prospera and Honduras is far from ending, exposing fundamental challenges of private cities: can a corporation replace a state? Or maybe the big question: how far does the right of a community come to self -govern? Image | Zaha Hadid In Xataka | How much money Elon Musk has: how the fortune of the man who plans … Read more

Allow alcohol at Buddhist parties

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Tourism is one of the most powerful economic levers In many countries. In fact, some places receive so many visitors that cities and whole countries have already begun to take measures to limit massification. Venice is one of the most famous for the different decisions to stop mass tourism. AND Japan will copy that input rate For the foreign visitor. That influx of tourists is something that other countries seek and seem to not get. Thailand is one of them and, to attract that tourism, it is raising something curious: alcoholic tourism during the Buddhist holidays. Tourists, come. In Asia, it is curious to see the duality that cities and countries live with tourism. We have commented on the Japanese case, but one of Seoul’s most popular areas also implemented a curious measure a few months ago: Cale touch for tourists. On the other side of the currency, we have North Korea, which has opened to tourism after years of border closure. Hong Kong also wants to attract foreign money Thanks to multimillionaires influencers And Thailand is also desperate to recover tourism that lost After the Covid-19 pandemic. The impact was strong: a 90% drop in 2021 and an influx that increase gradually since then, but not to the desired rhythm. Closed bars. For this 2025, Thailand wait recover the Prepandymia figuresbut they have identified something that could hinder tourism and consumption: Buddhism. Specifically, the Buddhist festivities in which the bars close and the sale of alcohol is not allowed. The Government considers that this can stop the foreign tourist whom the religious festival cares little and has stated that alcohol can be sold without stopping. Spirits. Of course, this decision does not imply an lack of control in the sale of alcoholic beverages, since during the festivities there will only be a series of establishments in which alcohol can be purchased and consumed. Hotels, international airports, night bars and some tourist places seem to be the ideals to open their hands in the sale of spirits during those religious festivities. Details to clarify, since it is a measure that is in the public hearing phase and that will have to be officially approved by the Minister of Public Health and, obviously, by the Prime Minister, but is already on the table. Among those loose ends we must see what happens with bars at street level, also with restaurants and franchises in commercial and more tourist areas. Complex balance. As they point in Bloombergthis measure is complex because the government must maintain a balance between local traditions and that search for money from tourism in one of the most powerful countries in the region. From the government, initiatives such as entry without visa are also being implemented for certain tourists and programs that guarantee the medical security of the visitor. The ‘White Lotus’ effect. Beyond the sale of alcohol during religious parties, recently the country legalized same -sex marriage and has also proposed to attract tourists with greater purchasing power, taking advantage of the fact that it is the stage of the third season of the series ‘The White Lotus’. It is curious, but the series is so successful that people with a certain purchasing level that they want to emulate the experience in fiction. Part of the series was recorded at the expensive Four Seasons resort Koh Samui hotel, which has had 40% more reservations. Koh Samui has had more hotels, especially by American tourists, and there are companies that are launching Vacation packages inspired by the series about $ 8,000 per person. It will be interesting to see how the measure of the sale of alcohol will be resolved, since it is an important dilemma between the traditional Thailand and the one that seeks to revitalize its tourism. Images | Mark Fisher, Witwatarun In Xataka | If the alcohol industry no longer had enough problems, it has now encountered one more: Ozempic

This fly larva turned his ass into the head of a little one. The big question we have now is how it will be adult

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When we think of camouflage in nature, images of Octopos that melt with the seabed, of SEPIAS or chameleons. There are other tactics to confuse possible predators, such as Butterflies that mimic patterns in the wings to confuse birds or Palo insects. But there is an even more committed case to go unnoticed: that of a flip larva that has turned its butt into the head of a termite. And it works so well that the termites until they feed. Fluke. What seems an adorable creature in the main image is, in reality, the rear of a blue fly larva. It has false antennas, but also false eyes, an impressive morphology adopted with a single objective: to confuse the termites. And the finding has been made … by chance. Researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, the CSIC and the Pompeu Fabra University were studying butterflies and ants in the Anti-Atlas mountain range, south of Morocco. However, like They explain In the publication of the IBE, as the butterflies did not fly due to the heavy rains, they began to look for ants. “When we lift a stone, we found a termiter with three fly larvae that we had not seen before.” Shut mask. They themselves affirm that it was a “casual finding”, but really special because, after it, they made three more expeditions in the area and, “despite lifting hundreds of stones, we only find two others, together in another termitter.” In it study Published in Current Biology, researchers develop their surprise with these larvae that have developed “a unique costume”. Located on the back of the body, the bluefly larva shows a “termite mask” with a non -functional head that has an antennas, palps and eyes extremely similar to those with a great trine harvesting. Those eyes have a function, but very different from what we might think: they are the holes for which the larva simply breathes. Twin. As they explain, most termites live in extremely dark environments on termiters at meters deep, so they do not need eyes at all. The harvesting termites, however, go to the surface to collect grass and have functional eyes, something that these larvae mimic with their spiracles. 3D camouflage. The specimens are curious, but they would really have to define them as fascinating due to two extremely unique details. One is that they not only have antennas in that false head, but throughout their body, as if they were tentacles. Researchers estimate that it is something that facilitates simultaneous communication with several termites inside the termiter. As you don’t see there, the termite that rubs to the “narrow” larva the tentacle of the false termite and thinks “ok, is mine.” But … do they only use touch? The truth is that not because, apart from being felt, the termites have a unique aroma that allows them to identify themselves as the same colony in the galleries of their home. And here comes the other fascinating detail: the larvae imitate that aroma and smell exactly the same as the rest of the termites. Each colony has a distinctive aroma, something that these larvae also have and that researchers have described as a “chemical costume.” They even give it porridge. “The larva is not only tolerated, but constantly communicates with the termites,” says Roger Vila, one of those responsible for the finding. He also speculates the possibility that the termites themselves feed the larva (through their functional head, yes), but it is something they are testing. In one of his photographs you can see that possible mouth -to -mouth food. Accelerated evolution. Vila comments that it is not so weird that there are flies that are made by other insects to carry out forms of social parasitism. For example, humpback flies also imitate the termites, but in that case they are adults, and not the larvae, the protagonists. It also indicates that the common ancestor between both flies dates back to more than 150 million years ago, “much more than what separates human beings from mice, so we could affirm that we have discovered a new case of evolution of social integration,” he says. In addition, he points out that the blue fly larva would have evolved very quickly to adopt these forms. Complications. Vila emphasizes that discoveries like this help to be aware of everything we do not know about the diversity and specialization of insects, but also comments that studying these laboratory larvae is something that seems extremely complicated. The larvae studied ended up dying without reaching metamorphosis in the laboratory, which indicates that, either recreate the conditions they have in the termiter in the desert is crucial – something very difficult – or there is some other element of the nest and the symbiotic relationship between species that is crucial for the survival of the specimens. We will see what they end up discovering, since now the mystery is not only to know if it is a unique larva, but how it will be in its adult form. Images Ibe, Roger VilaCurrent Biology In Xataka | It turns out that there is another terrestrial species that cures its injured and performs surgical amputations: ants

The US is leaving a huge vacuum in its tariff replication. And China is taking care of filling it

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The measures that Donald Trump is taking are causing diverse consequences. The 25% tariffs for imports from Mexico and Canada that has just activated are a way to boost industry and employment in that country. Meanwhile, China is trying to take advantage of the moment to export more than ever, but there are many important elements in this commercial war. China is watering the world of exports. The Asian giant has been promoting trade agreements with countries around the world for years. The country’s ministry of trade shows it in its List of free trade agreementswhich includes countries such as Australia, South Korea, Switzerland or Chile. China already trades with almost everyone. There are agreements in negotiation with Norway, Israel or Panama, but new agreements with Colombia or Canada are also being investigated, precisely one of the great affected by the recent Trump tariffs. A well -known analyst, Balaji, He shared a graph in which the evolution of these agreements was appreciated from 2000 to 2024, when China has reached many more countries with its exports. But China needs to export. The problem is that China produces much more than it consumes, and that exports much more than matters. It occurs with steel, with cars or solar panels, and as indicated In CNN That drives her to increase her exports to revive her economy. And when it exports, it makes it benefiting that thanks to this overproduction it can compete in prices, throwing from the market to local businesses that cannot compete in that field. And consume much more. As we said, the imbalance between what is consumed and what is produced in China is remarkable. According to the World Bankin the world consumption represents 75% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but in China it only reaches 53-54%. That is due to various factors, as indicated In Carnegie Endowmentbut promoting that domestic consumption is really complicated, which makes exports even more critical. Care to import too much. If the countries that trade with China import too many merchandise and Chinese products, they are in danger of deindustrialized, as in fact it has happened in recent years in the West. We have delegated the production of technology to China, for example, and Trump’s measures are precisely aimed at recovering land in that market. The problem It also affects emerging economiesthat are flooded with Chinese products and without the ability to export their own. Example: the electric car. Byd has managed to become the Great protagonist of the electric cars segment in 2024, and has done so thanks to that strategy. Their cars are usually more assertible and that has managed to attract a large number of buyers. Compete with the Chinese electric car has become very difficult, so Europe Tariff appealed months ago To try to balance things. USA bet on the US. Trump’s measures are punishing imports And they are trying to get companies to manufacture there so that the country does not depend on those foreign products and materials. Recent ads Like those of TSMC either Apple They precisely try to avoid tariffs but force these companies to make strategic decisions that would probably not take. China’s exports to the US import, but not so much. The majority of China’s exports focus on other regions, and not so much on the US. In 2022 those regions They added About three billion dollars, compared to 637,000 million dedicated to the US. The business with that country is remarkable, yes (22% of the total), but not critical for Chinese exports that can be affected by tariffs. Canada (probably) will become more friend from China. The “punishment” tariff will affect trade between the US and countries such as Canada, but precisely this country has been increasing its trade quotas with China for years. Beijing has already shown his intention to reinforce those commercial ties with Canadaand Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, made clear the situation. When referring to Trump, he highlighted how what he is doing is something “very dumb. Two friends fighting is exactly what our opponents worldwide want to see.” Mexico also reacts. Claudia Sheinbaum, president in Mexico, also made it clear that “It is Mexico’s defense time“Faced with tariffs imposed by Trump. The president will reveal her plans soon, but she may also end up approaching the Chinese government as part of that response to Trump’s measures. Being a friend of China has its. That provision of China to reach commercial agreements with more and more countries is not exempt from problems, and in fact we have seen it with the example of European tariffs to the Chinese electric car. And meanwhile, collapse of the bags. Trump’s tariff policies have caused in recent days a collapse of the bags, and the great technological ones in the United States They have suffered especially that blow. Yesterday they managed to contain the losses a bit, but the falls have been significant in both traditional markets and in cryptodives. Image | Cage Skidmore | Paul Kagame In Xataka | ‘The Nvidia Way’: This book is the perfect tool to understand how Jensen Huang has taken Nvidia to the top of success

Eutelsat, the “European Starlink”, shot in the stock market. The reality is that no European company can match Starlink right now

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The actions of the Franco-British satellite operator Etelsat shot earlier this week in the Paris Stock Exchange due to the possibility of replacing Starlink in the Ukraine War and In the context of the European rearme. There is no doubt that Europe will seek to recover its autonomy in space, but there is no company capable of replicating Starlink in the short or medium term. Eutelsat takes advantage of the geopolitical pulse. Between Monday and Wednesday, the Eutelsat titles came to quintupply their value, adding 1,000 million euros to the stock market capitalization, which came from historical minimums and had even been degraded to “garbage bonus” by Moody’sdue to the slow performance of OneWeb and high investment needs. The sudden interest, mainly promoted by retail investors and positions in short, dates back to February 28, when a heated public dispute between Volodimir Zelenski and Donald Trump led the United States to pause military aid to kyiv, with cutting threats Starlink satellite Internet service if Ukraine did not granted access to their minerals. While European governments were looking for an alternative, Eutelsat’s executive director said They would need “months, no years” To provide Ukraine as many satellites as Starlink, which ended up firing the company’s action (over the days, Relajusted down). However, reality is always more complex than a headline. How Starlink became vital for Ukraine. When Russia left conventional satellite networks out of service (VIASAT, Iridium, Immarsat…), Starlink gave a crucial advantage to Ukraine. The company directed by Elon Musk not only had the capacity to send more terminals and antennas to the front, but was more resistant to cyber attacks and electronic interference, The famous “Jamming”. The explanation is that Starlink is a constellation of thousands of satellites in low orbit that turn the earth every 90 minutes, so different satellites are going through the sky to serve a certain area. Russian cyberbrains and Jamming were more effective with companies that have geostationary satellites and remain fixed at 36,000 km altitude. Oneweb, the European alternative to Starlink. Since Ooneweb acquired, Eutelsat controls approximately 630 satellites in low orbitbacked by 35 geostationary satellites. It is the only operational global constellation beyond Starlink, although China has begun to also display yours. Unlike Starlink, whose main business is final consumers, Oneweb It has focused on military, governmental, maritime, aviation, industrial, logistics and operators. The reason is the enormous scale difference: Spacex has a 10 -time density of satellites, which allows you to serve more simultaneous users with Starlink. Everything is reduced to rockets. Europe just recover your autonomous access to space With the definitive entry of the Vega-C rockets and Ariane 6. But these pitchers are not reusable: each mission requires a new one, which prevents its use to display large satellite constellations. Not only would it be profitable: it would be logistically impossible, since the rockets in low orbit They have to be spare parts every few years. On the other hand, the Falcon 9 of Spacex is partially reusable. The company routinely recovers the propeller and halves of the Cofia, and thanks to that competitive advantage can launch two Starlink missions every week. In total, Spacex has launched more than 8,000 Starlink satellites, of which more than 7,000 are still in orbit. Falcon 9 is also One of the rockets that have put in orbit the satellites of Oneweb/Eutelsat. This situation is not going to be resolved until the European private industry, with ESA investments, has its first reusable rockets ready. The best positioned company is the French Arianegroup, which for decades has had the Duopoolio de launchers from Europe next to the Italian Avio. But its subsidiary Maiaspace is developing a relatively small rocket: Maia, with the capacity to put between 500 and 2,500 kg in Heliosíncrona orbit. In that range will compete with Miura 5 From the Spanish PLD Space. Image | Oneweb In Xataka | It is not that Elon Musk has managed to introduce its influence on NASA. Is that he has entered sweeping

The 10 most powerful air forces in the world, compared to a clarifying graphic

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From the Combat Aviation Large in the World War I and the improvement in the Second World Waraerial supremacy has been one of the objectives of the countries that most invest in the military arm. Air control is crucial, and in recent years we have seen that some of the most tense incidents among nations (Of those who have not finished at war, of course) have had heaven as protagonists. With the era of hypertecnological aircraft, those that have advanced furtive abilities and, Above all, dronesthe Air Force is a key strategic factor in the current geopolitics. And in this graph prepared by Visual Capitalist We can see what are the most powerful air forces in the world. Were there doubts? With base data of Global Firepowerwe can see how the United States, to anyone’s surprise, is the nation that has the most aircraft. A total of 13,209, far from a Russia with 4,255 ships and a China that holds about 3,304. The American domain is overwhelming, and outside the podium, we see that the rest of the countries maintain a balance in their air forces. Potpourri. Now, not all the ships shown in the graph are combat fighters. Of those 13,209 United States aircraft, 1,854 are combat aircraft (which is more than the complete fleet of most countries, on the other hand), 3,722 are support planes and 5,737 are helicopters. To compare, Russia has 609 support planes, 809 fighters and 1,554 helicopters, although the total amount can vary due to its losses from the beginning of the Ukraine War. Number vs. Equipment. Now, something important is that the air war would not be won by the one that has the most ships. In this issue, we must leave the United States out of the equation due not only to the number of vehicles, but also the country that invests the most money in its military arm. It is estimated that the North American country Invest More than 800,000 million dollars in defense, far from the 252,000 million of China, the 72,900 of India or, even, the 63,000 million annually that Japan planned to invest from 2023 to 2027 for Modernize your forces. Because this, as we say, is important. Returning to the Air Forces, the Japanese country is modernizing its fleet with advanced aircraft such as F-15 and F-2. South Korea or the United Kingdom are also in That modernization point And Russia, which invests 61,7 billion dollars in defense, has the second most numerous fleet, yes, but full of outdated equipment. China in Mach 3. And in this game of numbers and investment, it must also be taken into account that countries do not show all their letters. It is evident that the United States would have no problem in declaring the total number of aircraft due to the huge military muscle it has, but China has been investing a lot and in full military growth that makes it complicated to know, really, how many aircraft it has. The Asian giant is burning money on airplanes, specifically in Advanced fighters such as the J-20, the J-15T and the J-34a, but it is also known that it is developing nuclear submarines, Heavy helicopters, latest generation aircraft carriersadvanced furtive aircraft and other types of military assets. Not to mention the progress in development of nuclear headsan aggressive advance that seeks to close the military gap with other powers. In the end, it is a balance between the number of forces and their generation, but despite efforts of other powers, the United States still does not have a rival, since only its military expense represents 40% of world military spending. And, of course, he is also advancing by leaps and bounds in New generation aircraft. In Xataka | The countries that most and less money invest in NATO beyond the US, gathered in this graphic

The 16E iPhone is the proof of the opportunity cost facing the mobile manufacturers: each millimeter is crucial

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The renewal of the iPhone economic line has been waiting. The last entrance model that Apple launched was the iPhone Se 2022 And, after 2024 with rumors about a iPhone Se 4Apple launched a few days ago iPhone 16E. Finally names the rest of the range and, in addition, we finally have a design that does not have generations behind it. There are things that do not change, such as maintaining a single camera, and others that yes, such as New Apple C1 Modem. And something interesting is that the iPhone 16E have already undressed and we have been able to discover something that, obviously, is still curious: the enormous amount of space that the cameras steal to the battery. Naked. Apple is usually quite unclear when it talks about some data from its phones. One of the most elusive is the real size of the battery because they usually tell you about “it lasts more than x telephone of the previous generation”, and they remain so wide. That is why it is interesting to see the first ‘Teradown’ or ‘disassembly’ of the iPhone when they reach the market. The protagonist this time has been the Rewa Technology channel, since his work not only allows the drums to be taken, but to other details of the internal composition of the 16E iPhone that allow us to extract very interesting details. Before continuing, here we leave the video: C1. It is not the direct protagonist of our article, but it is evident that the component that can get the most attention of the iPhone 16E is … the modem. The reason is that Apple bought in 2019 the Intel Modems Division for the whopping of 1,000 million dollars. The goal was to break with a Qualcomm that is the one that provided (and continues to do so in the iPhone 16 and 16 pro) The iPhone modems And with which he has maintained a relationship, say, tense. After years waiting to see what the first iPhone with modem made from home was, the premiere has arrived with this 16E iPhone. This chip combines lithography in 4 and 7 nanometers and facilitates somewhat the encapsulation of the modem, leaving free space in the part of the sandwich type motherboard in which it is enclaustrated. The theory. Apart from being able to design its size and benefits, have your own modem It is a license savings for Apple (something that we do not have to notice in the final price of the device) and, above all, a better integration with the rest of the chips. This implies, theoretically, a lower consumption and, therefore, greater autonomy. Apple itself on its website Comment The following: “It reaches 26 hours of video reproduction thanks to the efficiency of iOS and our chip, which includes the modem C1.” And that is very good, but what they do not say is … that the battery has risen from level. On the left, the 16e. On the right, the iPhone 15 Huge battery. In the Rewa video we can compare the 16E iPhone with the iPhone 15 to appreciate the substantial change in the battery size only by eliminating one thing from the equation: the wide angle camera. The main chamber module also seems to have been redesigned, but beyond an interior redesign work, which allows between a larger battery is to have lost a component. Specifically, 4,005 mAh, 444 mAh larger than that of the iPhone 16. According to Apple estimates, while the iPhone 16 could play video for 22 hours, the iPhone 16E endures four more hours. Recycling, which is gerund. For the rest, Apple shows that she is a teacher when it comes to recycling components and Rewa’s video states that, in many ways, the iPhone 16E is a mixture between a iPhone 14 of which he takes screen, part of the plate, notch and the Face ID system, and an iPhone 16 with which he shares the main camera, processor, RAM. In the end, the C1 chip may help achieve greater autonomy, but having a substantially larger battery than that of its direct brothers, definitely, cannot be set aside. These ‘Teardown’ also serve to check details such as that the 16E iPhone battery has the same disassembled technology as their brothers, making it more easy to repair And, as we said, it is curious to see the amount of space that any component takes inside the smartphones, making manufacturers constantly playing the game of commitment between functions to maintain a balance. Images | Rewa Technology In Xataka | My iPhone’s battery is 90% of its capacity after ten months. It is completely normal

AI is already our best ally to solve the mathematical problems that seem impossible

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The applications of the artificial intelligence (AI) are presumably unlimited. Beyond the daily uses with which many of us are already familiar with the design of drugs, Disease diagnosisthe OPTIMIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES or the Analysis of physical or chemical mechanisms complexes, among other options. It is even being used to solve mathematical problems of enormous difficulty. In addition, algorithms that use deep neuronal networks and Automatic learning They are designed to identify complex patterns in large volumes of information, which allows them to recognize images, voice or process natural language greatly. AI has reached our lives, and it is clear that it will stay, but the most surprising thing is that it is consolidating as an extremely valuable tool in relatively exotic fields. It is possible that AI helps us solve the mathematical problems of the millennium In October 2024 Goal AIMeta’s artificial intelligence, managed to generalize Lyapunov’s function. The Russian mathematician Aleksander Lyapunov proposed the concept of the function that bears his name in 1892. His work is a very important tool in the study of dynamic systems, but mathematicians have since struggled to find a general method that allows identifying the functions of Lyapunov. And they have not been successful. However, goal has had it. Our mathematical knowledge will no longer be limited by intuition and human capacity The strategy used by the company led by Mark Zuckerberg to solve the challenge of Lyapunov’s functions has consisted of training an AI model to recognize patterns and relationships between certain dynamic systems and its corresponding functions of Lyapunov. This is precisely what is good for AI. And it is a huge success because our mathematical knowledge will no longer be limited for intuition and human capacity. The AI ​​puts in our hands a new way of addressing complex mathematical problems, identifying patterns that a priori remain hidden for the human being. However, in the field of mathematics AI still has to improve to help us solve the great challenges that the human being has ahead. Sergei Gukov, professor of theoretical physics and mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), leads a team of researchers who is looking for ways to use AI to solve advanced mathematical problems that require thousands, millions, or even billions of steps. These scientists are currently working on The conjecture of Andrews-Curtisa group combinatorial theory proposed 60 years ago. They have not yet managed to solve the main conjecture, but with the help of AI they have achieved something important: they have refuted several families of problems related to the conjecture of Andrews-Curtis and known as counterexamples that have remained open for more than 25 years. Gukov acknowledges that Current AI models have important limitations When facing very complex mathematical problems, but you hope that in the future this technology allows the human being to solve Mathematical Millennium Problems. According to this mathematician, the best asset that researchers have to face this challenge is to instruct AI by resorting to Reinforcement learning. Image | Generated by Xataka with Dall-e More information | IEEE Spectrum In Xataka | These two problems have baffled mathematicians for decades. A genius has solved them with a stroke

Embute a V8 to a Toyota IQ. And you can buy it

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Intelligence quotient. A classification that helps establish whether you are inside or not (for better or worse) of the average of the rest of the population in terms of your cognitive performance. Or, in flat words: intelligence. IQ exams are used to establish whether people have any cognitive problems or, for example, if you are well above the average. For the latter, the acronym IQ are usually related to the level of intelligence. That relationship was used by Toyota when presenting one of its urban cars. When presenting the Toyota IQ, the Japanese wanted to make clear one thing: it was an intelligent option. An urban car, of very restrained size and spent little to be used in the city. The association was as clear as Smart (intelligent and elegant in English) to a company that presented a car with very similar features. In Km77 They explained in their Toyota IQ test that it was a relatively spacious car for passengers and that, above all, it moved very well in city, with a very content radius but that, at the same time, its capabilities were not excessively sacrificed when it went on open road. Was, in summary, a Extremely intelligent decision for those who will look for a car in a city that would not spend much and who did not want to spend much more than 10,000 euros. All that intelligence that was diluted when a luxury brand was able to ask for almost 40,000 euros for that same car. Elon Musk vs Jeff Bezos: The Galaxies War One of the most rare astron Martin in history Because that’s what Aston Martin did with Cygnet. The English company took advantage of a collaboration with Toyota to give the IQ some touch -ups and put it on the market at a price of 40,000 euros. The idea of ​​the company was clear: enjoy a Aston Martin in your day to day without the need to get into the street The typical DB9 that you keep in the garage. It was something like a tuned Toyota. The front hood received two air inputs or the front grill took the image of the English company. Aston Martin barely tried to hide that in front of us we had a Toyota IQ But there was a problem: it was the same car. Literally, Aston Martin Cygnet and Toyota IQ was the same car. Aston Martin did not even bother to put a much more powerful engine to attract potential customers and, at least, make you believe you were before the sports version of the Japanese model. They lost the opportunity to make him something anthological, one of those small sportsmen who go down in history. Something that broke everything reasonable. Use the 1.3 VVT-I 98 CV It was also available at the Toyota was to kill the potential of the car. A decision that came because of the imperative need to have to reduce the company’s average emissions and thus avoid fines. That ballast became evident with its sales. Especially if we take into account that the Cygnet could add a few thousand to the final invoice if it was chosen with automatic change (1,435 euros) or leather upholstery (another 3,988 euros). Although the owner of a Aston Martin did not have many problems to leave 40,000 euros in a utility … it was difficult to think that they were going to sell it simply by changing the grill. To have an idea of ​​its commercial failure, the company planned to sell about 4,000 units a year of the Cygnet. Sold at a rhythm of 150 units annually. The failure was such that it squandered the little economic effort that the company had made and killed the possibility of entering a new market if it had offered an attractive product. But there was a very special Aston Cygnet In spite of everything, we can forget some of the things I wrote above. Because, indeed, there was a really special Aston Cygnet they called Aston Martin V8 Super Cygnet. The English company struck a tremendous V8 in one of the units manufactured and created the ONE OFF That every lover of tiny sportsmen would like to have seen in series. The car appeared for the first time in Goodwood in 2018 And, this time, I did have a body at height. It seems that the Toyota IQ had been atibored to steroids, with widened wheel steps of carbon fiber, the new company of the company (more gross and less elegant), specific disc brakes for this unit, anti -collide cage with competition recharging seats, new transmission tunnel … an engineering exercise that was resolved with the jewel of the crown. That jewel was a huge ATMOSPHERIC V8 LITER MOTOR that delivered a power of 436 hp (inherited directly from the Aston Martin Vantage S) that launched the cygnet to the 100 km/h in 4.2 seconds. It should be a feeling to reach 272 km/h that marked peak speed in a chassis that measured less than three meters. And now, that ONE OFF It is for sale. Specifically in the portal of Nicholas Meeknown for the spectacular models that you have available among your offer. At the moment, who looks for a Aston Martin Cygnet will find them around 40,000 euros but, obviously, this unit should be much more expensive. In the purchase portal they have not published its price but it is expected that it reaches an extraordinarily high figure since the base model has already sold very few units and this version with V8 motor is what every fan would have asked when we knew that Aston Martin would have his own urban model. Photo | Aston Martin In Xataka | Aston Martin was about to declare himself in bankruptcy. 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If the question is how much money it exists in the world per person, this graphic developer has the answer

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Imagine there was a form of distribute all money in cash of the world equitably between Each inhabitant of the planet. Thus, a Wisconsin farmer would have the same cash That a potter in New Delhi, a goat shepherd in Namibia or a dentist in Sydney. How much money You think it would correspond to each inhabitant? The short answer: everyone could Buy a Sandero Dacia. The world money supply is not the same as world wealth The modern economic system encompasses many financial and monetary elements that define the term of wealth. So one of the ways in which the exercise of imagination distribution of wealth that would allow mitigating world poverty can be distribute all money in cash that exists in monetary markets around the world. This “cash” money is known as M2 Prenss supply And it is an intermediate monetary aggregate that includes money in circulation from around the world and certain bank deposits with high liquidity and with a period of up to 2 years, savings and money market accounts, as well as deposits with availability with notice of up to three months. In other words, the monetary supply M2 is all that money you could have in your pocket in a relatively immediate way. The concept of monetary supply m2 differs from the Global wealth or heritage in which this includes assets and real estate properties or mercantile that, although they can have a lot of value, are not easily redeemable for Count and sound money. According to data collected by CEICM2’s money supply amounts to 123.3 billion (Europeans) of dollars In 2024. That is, joining all the effective of all the economies of the world, we would add that money. According to the report ‘Global Wealth Report 2024‘Prepared by UBS, the world’s private net richness in 2024 was encrypted in 487.9 billion dollars in total. To help us see that information in a more graphic way, in Visualcapitalist have created an infographic in which the M2 MONITORY OFFER DATA obtained by CEIC, and divides between the world population data registered by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Distributing all world cash As we said, the world M2 money supply registered by the CEIC economic body in 2024 is 123,313 billion dollars (with the Anglo -Saxon system they would be trillion), while the data of the world population in 2024 reveal that we are currently 8,161,973,000 inhabitants In this little blue marble that we call planet Earth. The result of the equitable cast is that, each inhabitant of the planet would correspond 15,108 dollars Or, what is the same, about 13,944.28 euros to change. According to the Virtualcapitalist calculationsthat would be equivalent to the expenditure generated by the list of the purchase of an average home for two years, a second -hand car, or also reaches to buy a Sandero dacia. Without extras, yes. Spain is better for accounts If we repeat the same exercise, but circumscribing the data to the scope of Spain, the amount that each Spaniard would receive would be somewhat higher. According to CEIC’s records for Spain in December 2024the supply of monetary m2 available was 1,647,611,114 million dollars (or 1,648 billion dollars). On the other hand, the data of INE population count January 2025 left a total of 49,077,984 inhabitants in Spain. That lets us, by distributing the total of the money supply among the inhabitants of Spain, each would receive 33,571.29 dollars or some 30,967.97 euros to change. In Xataka | How much money you need to be among the richest 1% in Spain Image | Visualcapitalist.com

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