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It is not a mobile phone, but a perfect mouse for professionals who travel frequently

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I usually work outside the home very frequently and I always have the mouse on me. And it’s not exactly a small one, because it’s the Logitech MX Vertical. But it seems that the brand has hit the nail on the head by offering an alternative dedicated to users like me who tend to travel frequently: a foldable mouse. The Logitech Mobi Fold is available in two versions: Logitech Mobi Fold by 79.99 euros. Logitech Mobi Fold For Business (with Logi Bolt) for 84.99 euros. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A foldable mouse with very fast charging He Mobi Fold It is Logitech’s first foldable mouse and it is quite interesting to save space when having to carry it in a pocket. Personally, I find it especially interesting as long as we are going to use it outside the home very frequently. It’s good for me for traveling, but it’s also practical to take to university, for example. What we have been seeing for years in folding mobile phones we now have, bridging the gap, in a mouse. The Mobi Fold has a shell formatand perhaps the displayed design is a little strange, but the posture we must have with our hand is very similar to that we have with a traditional mouse. In fact, the design displayed is not far from what we have seen other times, such as with the Microsoft Surface Arc. Of course, the functions that are activated or deactivated when opening or closing the mouse cannot be missing, and that is that When you deploy it, the mouse will be activated and when you fold it it will turn off. In case this is something that worries you, Logitech itself mentions that it can withstand 15 years of daily use. However, this must be taken with a grain of salt because the tests are carried out under controlled conditions. As far as the scroll wheel is concerned, there is no one: the mouse incorporates Touch Scrolling, which by touch allows you to use this function that is so necessary for everyday life. In addition, the brand also comments that its autonomy is approximately 30 days and with a charge of 1 minute it offers 22 hours of autonomy. To top it off, it is worth mentioning that, as we see in other Logitech models, the Mobi Fold supports the Simultaneous connection with up to three devices at the same timeand of course it is compatible with a good variety of devices: Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Android, iPadOS and Linux. ⚡ IN SUMMARY: Logitech Mobi Fold ✅ THE BEST Yesu format: The fact that it can be folded makes it smaller, something very interesting to use outside the home. Your battery: Beyond its autonomy of up to 30 hours, the most interesting thing is the fast charging that, with one minute of charging, offers up to 22 hours of use. ❌ THE WORST Your fold: Logitech mentions that it can last up to 15 years, but at the end of the day it is a fold that, depending on use, can last less. 💡 BUY IT IF… You usually study or work outside the home and want to take a very compact mouse with you. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You are going to study or work mostly at home, since there are cheaper, although less transportable, mice within the brand. You may also be interested Logitech Lift Ergonomic Vertical Mouse, Wireless, Bluetooth or Logi Bolt USB Receiver, Silent Clicks, 4 Buttons, Compatible with Windows/macOS/iPadOS, Laptop, PC – Sand The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Logitech MX Master 3S, High Performance Wireless Mouse with Ultra-Fast Scrolling, Ergo, 8000 dpi, Glass Tracking, Discreet Clicks, Bluetooth, Windows, Linux and Chrome – Graphite The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Logitech In Xataka | Best keyboards for writing and working: which one to buy and six recommended models In Xataka | Best gaming keyboards. Which one to buy and 11 recommended gaming keyboards for different users and budgets

Experts agree that “the quality of rest depends on whether you go to bed at the time when your body is ready to sleep”

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When you read the question “what time should you go to bed?” He usually waits for a number, a specific time, a recurring pattern to do as the day ends. Bad news. What research has discovered is that the ‘perfect time’ for going to bed is with parents. That is, genetics (chronotype) and a handful of other things. That’s why it’s time to see what the experts say. The time to go to sleep. These days, there are some statements from dr. Celia García Maloneurologist specializing in Sleep Medicine and co-director of the Madrid Clinic CISNe in which she explains that the quality of rest does not depend only on the number of hours. On the contrary, it often depends on sleeping at a time when the body is biologically ready for it. This is interesting because it shows a paradigm shift in global sleep science. That moment matters, yes (but not that much). In 2021, Nikbakhtian and his team reviewed sleep routines of more than 100,000 adults. The interesting thing about this study is that they did not use self-reported responses, but rather what a week of wrist accelerometer data said. Their conclusions were clear: going to bed between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. was associated with a lower cardiovascular incidence. It was bad news for Spain, the European country that takes the longest to go to bed. However, the details are important: it was not a question of ‘the earlier you go to bed the better’ (because going to bed before 10pm was also a problem); It was about finding the appropriate moment for each society, country or culture. And that’s where the surprises begin. Because what we are discovering is that regularity is the key. In this case, the Windred team reviewed data from six years of life of about 60,000 people. Their conclusions were that the most regular quartiles showed between 20% and 48% less mortality from all causes compared to the most irregular ones. This is because, we now believe, genetic variants are associated more with schedule than with duration and quality of the dream. The researchers’ thesis is that when we find a stable time to go to bed, the rest of the pieces begin to organize themselves. What does all this mean? For us mortals who just want to sleep, there are a handful of consequences: There is no magic hour. What we have to do is look for a stable window: if we find a time to go to bed, the rest of the system tends to adapt. However, chronotypes exist. It’s a good idea to find out which one is ours and “negotiate with it.” Take care of your dream. Although we sometimes insist on sleeping at a certain time, we often forget that sleep hygiene (and, above all, light) is one of the most important things to sleep well. Image | Annie Spratt In Xataka | You take some melatonin and fall asleep. It seems like a harmless practice for your health but it is not so.

with US weapons

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In the late 1950s, China bombed for weeks the Taiwanese islands of Kinmen and Matsu with hundreds of thousands of projectiles to test the resolve of Taiwan and the United States. That crisis turned the Taiwan Strait into one of the most dangerous points of the Cold War and left a mark that still conditions military planning on both sides. From drills to real preparations. China has been rehearsing scenarios of blockade, landing and invasion around Taiwan. Its ships and planes operate constantly around the island and Beijing has never renounced the use of force to achieve reunification. In the face of this growing pressure, Taiwan has given an unprecedented step: for the first time you have used your HIMARS rocket launcher in live fire from the western coast of the island, precisely in an area considered one of the most likely places for a Chinese landing. More than just a test, the exercise represented a shift in focus from training away from a potential battlefield to practicing how to stop an invasion right where it might occur. The directed message. The demonstration had an obvious strategic significance. HIMARS were deployed facing the strait from Taiwan and launched dozens of rockets from a position near a possible landing area. The implicit message is that any Chinese amphibious force attempting to cross the strait would have to face a volume of fire capable of destroying shipstroop concentrations and support points before even reaching the coast. For years, China has shown in your own exercises how it would attack Taiwanese defenses; now Taiwan is showing how it would try to scuttle an invasion before it can take hold. US weapons at the center of strategy. The HIMARS have become one of the pillars of the new Taiwanese defense. The system, popularized by his performance in Ukrainecombines mobility, precision and survivability. Taiwan already has missiles capable of hitting targets on the Chinese mainland coast and has received authorization to significantly expand its arsenal with new launchers and hundreds of ATACMS missiles. The acquisition is part of a strategy designed to compensate the enormous Chinese military superiority through relatively small, mobile and difficult-to-destroy weapons that can inflict disproportionate damage on a much larger invading force. Himars The “porcupine” doctrine. Taiwan’s military transformation seeks to turn the island into a extremely expensive target to conquer Instead of trying to match the size of the Chinese military, Taipei is betting on an asymmetric defense based on mobile, dispersed and difficult to locate systems. HIMARS fit perfectly into that philosophy. Their ability to fire and rapidly change position reduces the risk of being detected and destroyed by radar or retaliatory attacks, allowing them to continue operating even in the midst of a high-intensity conflict. The beaches where war could be decided. The exercises were carried out on the west coast because there are many of the beaches and plains coastal areas considered more suitable for a Chinese amphibious operation. For years, military strategists identify these areas as the points where an invasion would have the best chance of success. In fact, for this reason Taiwan no longer wants to limit itself to training in testing fields far from the potential front. The goal is to familiarize units with the actual terrain, rehearse rapid deployments and see how weapons systems would respond in the same areas they would have to defend under enemy fire. Washington watches. The demonstration was not only aimed at China. Taiwan also wanted to send a signal to the United States at a time when remains blocked a major military aid package worth billions of dollars. The Taiwanese authorities are trying to show that they are willing to take an active part of its own defense and that the weapons supplied by Washington are being integrated into concrete plans to resist aggression. In a context of debate about the American commitment to the island’s security, each exercise also serves to reinforce the argument that Taiwan is seriously preparing to fight if the worst-case scenario arrives. An increasingly visible war. The symbolic importance of these maneuvers It goes beyond the rockets launched. For years, Chinese exercises have revolved around how to isolate, surround and eventually invade Taiwan. The Taiwanese exercises are evolving in parallel toward a different question: how to destroy an invading force before it can establish itself on the ground. The appearance of HIMARS on western beaches reflects precisely that change. It is not just about showing a new weapon, but rather about rehearse an answer It specifies the military scenario that most worries the island and that increasingly determines the security of the entire Indo-Pacific region. Image | X, US Army In Xataka | China has resurrected the strangest concept of the Cold War: a plane, a ship and a missile launcher in one machine In Xataka | There are hundreds of Chinese fishing boats off Argentina and Taiwan. The disturbing thing is that none of them have thrown the nets into the sea

only China stands up to BMW and Mercedes

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One by one, line up and see how far they go. Examiners from Norges Automobil-Forbund (NAF), the Norwegian automobile association, has been tested again to the most representative electric cars on the market. This time, the test was carried out in summer and the results, once again, leave us with interesting conclusions. Further. The electric car market has a new king when it comes to going further than anyone else. It is the BMW iX3 which has traveled a total of 781 kilometers before coming to a complete stop. The figure is even higher than that announced by the WLTP approval, which leaves it at 770 kilometers before stopping. The BMW iX3 bases its great result on a gigantic 108.7 kWh battery but its consumption has barely remained at 14.2 kWh/100 km, which is why it combines a huge battery with an enviable consumption for such a large, heavy car with so much frontal surface area. a surprise. If you have been aware of the latest launches in the electric car market, it is very likely that this first position of the German SUV has not surprised you. That honor probably goes to the XPeng X9, a Chinese electric minivan that, at the moment, is not sold in Spain. And this minivan is approved for 580 kilometers according to the WLTP cycle. However, in the Norwegian test it managed to cover 646 kilometers before stopping. That is, he was able to travel 66 kilometers more than expected and was the one who managed to put the most distance between driving in real circumstances and the homologation tests. Those who added. Far from those +66 kilometers, another 11 cars managed to obtain figures above what was expected. Except for the Mercedes GLB and GLC (+30 and +22, respectively), no other managed to travel 20 kilometers more than those stipulated by the WLTP cycle. Of those 11 cars, five are Chinese (taking into account that the Mazda 6e is, in reality, a Deepal car with a Japanese body). In addition to the latter and the Xpeng, the MG S6 EVhe Smart #5 and the Dongfeng Vigo (a huge Chinese SUV) were the Chinese cars that slipped into this category. Among the “traditionals”, in addition to Mercedes and BMW, Kia was the other brand with two cars that offered better than expected performance. Those who remained. On the other hand, there are those who remained. Of the 24 cars, another 12 cars provided lower performance than reflected in the WLTP cycle. If you’ve done the math, you’ll see that one is missing. The Toyota Bz4X nailed the test: it promised 506 kilometers of autonomy and stopped after 506 kilometers of travel. Of those that met the forecasts the worst, the MG IM6 recorded 59 kilometers less than expected, followed by the Hyundai Ioniq 9 (-34 km) and Mercedes CLA (-33 km). From here, all recorded deviations of less than 30 kilometers. More positive than negative If we continue at the bottom of the table, we have four other Chinese cars. In addition to the MG, the Polestar 3 (-24 km), the Deepal S05 (-14 km) and the BYD Atto 3 EVO (-10 km) also fell short of expectations. That is to say, there were more cars classified on the positive side of the comparison and the other half on the negative side, but this is well understood considering their battery type. All the Chinese cars that obtained better results than expected use NCM chemicals, except for the Dongfeng proposal, which is LFP and is the car that is closest to its homologation. On the contrary, almost all the proposals that lose kilometers among the Chinese models are cars that use LFP chemistries. This is not met with the Polestar 3, which does have NCM chemistry and which, unlike the Dongfeng, is the negative exception. And LFP chemistries tend to be more stable. They do not perform as well as an NCM in good weather but, in exchange, they perform better in cold conditions. And how is all this done? On the NAF website you can check all the details of when and how the exams are carried out. The Norwegians test cars twice a year to see how they perform when cold and how they perform when hot. The test is carried out uninterruptedly until the car comes to a complete stop and is used a route that is considered standard what Norwegian drivers are up to, including going up to a pass. Besides, They review the temperature and what the weather was like in every place. This time clouds and mild temperatures predominated. But, in addition, in the test they also note how many kilometers each car traveled before marking an energy reserve of 20% and 10%. They emphasize the importance of the latter because a driver almost always charges in this range, reducing the risk of being stranded before reaching the destination. If you are more curious, in this link leave all the data and Each car has its own technical sheet with the consumption at each moment, the expected kilometers and consumption and those finally reflected. Photo | NAF In Xataka | The big drawback to the electric car is that it takes a long time to charge. CATL has a solution of 6 minutes and 27 seconds

removing magnets from the fridge saves exactly zero euros on your bill, although there are other things that do work

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The magnetic decorations that decorate refrigerators in many homes have been the subject of a curious urban legendthat they make our appliance consume more. “Everything in this myth is false,” Endesa pointed out one of the last times the rumor resurfaced. Refrigerator magnets do not have an impact on the electrical consumption of these appliances since the magnetic fields of the magnets that we place in our refrigerators are very weak. So much so that “they don’t even go through the refrigerator door,” the electric company continues to explain on the company blog. And it is that some of the magnets we place on our refrigerator barely have the strength to keep themselves in place, but nor the most powerful magnets in this range they could do it. We would need a very powerful magnet, outside the range of refrigerator magnets to affect its operation. “Only (would consumption increase) if the magnets on your refrigerator were electromagnets” answered a forum user Physics Forums back in 2012 when another user raised this question. Endesa has not been the only company that has spoken out in recent years about this urban legend. When we asked LGthey told us that it was a “myth”: “fridge magnets have no effect on consumption, shelf life or food. The magnets located on the outside of the refrigerator do not influence the operation or the internal cooling capacity of the appliance.” In that same line he answered us another manufacturer, Bosch, which assured that the magnets were not going to affect the operation at all beyond causing scratches on the surface or, if someone feels especially inspired and fills the door with magnets, they could affect the useful life of the door hinge if its weight increases a lot. In any case, they were very emphatic about it: it will never affect the electrical consumption of the appliance. How to save with the refrigerator. The refrigerators can assume the largest source of energy consumption behind heating and hot water and can account for almost a fifth of electricity consumption. They must be plugged in and running all day, which limits possible strategies to save on expenses, although some exist. The option that most reduces electricity consumption is one that may not be available to everyone: obtaining a more efficient refrigerator. We may not have yet paid off the one we have or we may not yet have the budget to change it, but opting for more efficient models will imply less long-term savings. Other ways to save are well known: keeping the door open as little as possible or not putting hot food in it are well-known tricks. Maintain seal from the refrigerator, yes, it goes a little further. To achieve this we must always make sure that there are no foods that could make it difficult to close and that the sealing elements (the rubber) are in good condition. Where we place the refrigerator can also affect its performance. Embedding it, placing it in sunlight, or near a heat source such as a radiator or oven can cause it to require more energy to keep its interior cool. Finally, we must keep the freezer frost free as far as possible. The frost works as an insulator (as if we had an igloo inside the freezer. This causes the freezer to require more energy to cool the products inside. In the midst of a unique energy crisis in almost half a century, saving electricity has become an obsession for some and a necessity for many. That is why it is important focus on those strategies that do allow us to save energy and money. Image | Giulia Hetherington A version of this topic was originally published in 2023. Unfortunately for science, it is still fully valid in 2026…

The last link that Huawei was missing to do without the West in chip design has appeared

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There is an indispensable component to the semiconductor industry that often goes unnoticed: the software used to Design cutting-edge integrated circuitsknown as EDA by its English name (Electronic Design Automation or automation of electronic design). It is currently in the hands almost exclusively of US controlled companies and its allies, so China needs to have its own software tools specialized in chip design. And little by little he is having them. One of the Chinese companies that are already working in this area is SEIDAand, curiously, its leader knows the American idiosyncrasy very well. Liguo “Recoo” Zhang is Chinese, but he has lived in the US for several decades and has worked at Siemens EDA, the US subsidiary of this German company that dominates the chip design software market in China. SEIDA promised to have its OPC software ready (Optical Proximity Correction or optical proximity correction) by early 2024, but has since disappeared from the news radar. OPC software is very important because it corrects in advance the optical distortions that occur during the photolithography process. When ultraviolet light is shined onto a silicon wafer to “print” the chip design, the light diffracts and the resulting shapes are not exactly as designed. Edges are rounded, corners are deformed and fine lines are narrowed. OPC software anticipates and compensates for these distortions by modifying the original design before it reaches the lithography machine. In this way, the final result on the wafer conforms to the intended design. The EDA that changes the rules In October 2025 Qiyunfang, a subsidiary company of YesCarrier and Huawei, advertisement that your EDA tools They were already being used by more than 20,000 engineers in China. This data has not been independently verified, so it is most prudent to collect it with some reservations. In any case, SEIDA and Qiyunfang are not the only assets that China has in the field of integrated circuit design software. LogicFolding architecture folds transistor-level logic within a single chip into multiple vertical layers And a group of researchers from Peking University has presented a prototype of an EDA tool that is compatible with Huawei’s LogicFolding architecture. The goal of the latter company is to produce chips by 2031 capable of matching the performance of 1.4nm integration technology from TSMC, Intel or Samsung, but without depending at any time on Western chip manufacturing tools subject to US export restrictions. The LogicFolding architecture folds transistor-level logic within a single chip into multiple vertical layers. This optimization requires the use of location and routing tools capable of working on the entire vertical structure simultaneously, instead of working on separate layers. Peking University addresses this problem precisely because its prototype treats the multi-layer structure as a unified design space from the beginning, as opposed to conventional designs, in which each layer is optimized separately and then stacked. During initial testing with industrial-grade open source integrated circuits, this EDA tool has achieved, according to its designersreduce the total length of internal wiring by 30%. Besides, has introduced performance improvements and thermal management versus conventional EDA workflows. It doesn’t look bad, but we will have to wait until Huawei places its first commercial chips with LogicFolding architecture on the market to assess whether this technology is really up to the task. This company has anticipated that its next generation of Kirin chips, arriving this fall, will be the first to incorporate these innovations. Image | YesCarrier More information | SCMP In Xataka | The condemnation that afflicts China: after decades of manufacturing a competitive desktop processor, it is six years behind

It can save you a lot of time every day (and now it’s cheaper)

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When working in front of the computer, anything we can do or have to save time, the better. An example that we all have very internalized is having one ultrawide monitor or two monitors above the desktop, something that allows you to work with more windows open at the same time. But be careful how good a Stream Deck can be for us: you have this MK.2 model in white reduced to 129.99 euros. Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 White – Studio Controller, 15 Macro Keys, Activate Actions in Apps and Software like OBS, Twitch, YouTube and Others, Works on Mac and PC The price could vary. We earn commission from these links If this is out of your budget and you want a cheaper option, you also have the Stream Deck Mini available for 77.25 euros. It is true that it is not its lowest price, but it’s cheaper than the previous one. And the only difference is that, instead of having 15 keys, it only has 6. A very versatile and customizable gadget to work with This device has always been closely associated with the world of streaming, but it is useful in many other areas. It is a composite panel, in this model, by 15 keys that we can customize almost to the millimeter. There are thousands of possible options: from assigning an application to one of those buttons (for example, to open Spotify or the email manager) to much more complex actions. What do we mean by that? Let’s imagine that, to work, you need to have three or four programs open, such as the Internet browser or Photoshop. With Elgato software, you can customize one key to open everything at once, ideal when starting the work day. You can also customize the keys for certain specific functions of tools such as Excelso it will also help you once you get to work on your day. Furthermore, since they are LCD keys, they also you can customize the look they havewhich makes it very intuitive to use. It is true that it is not a cheap gadget, but it is very useful to improve daily ‘workflow’. And, although it is not at an all-time low (which is approximately 92 euros), it is a great price if we take into account that it was costing almost 170 euros a few weeks ago. 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 | Elgato In Xataka | DDR4 or DDR5? What RAM to choose so as not to pay even more than necessary in the middle of the price crisis In Xataka | This is the gaming tower that I would buy. The computers with the best quality-price ratio for gaming recommended by Xataka

Since the time of Aristotle, philosophers have never had it easy to do their thing. Until AI arrived

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Philosophy (thus, with a capital letter) promises to broaden our horizons, expand minds and illuminate the deepest recesses of the human condition, but there is something that always it has cost him a lot promise: employment. Before the pandemic the INE published unemployment rates of the main university degrees in Spain and it turned out that in Philosophy it was around 18.4%. It is not the worst data, but it is well above average. Ironies of life, now the same technology that threatens to destroy thousands and thousands of positions in other sectors is revaluing the figure of philosophers. Of course, we are talking about the AI. AI seeks philosopher. a month ago Henry Shevlinresearcher at the University of Cambridge, shared with his followers curious news on LinkedIn: his signing by one of the leading organizations in the field of AI, Google DeepMind. So far nothing surprising. An academic signing for a company that already employs thousands of people. The curious thing is that Shevlin is a philosopher and in his post he emphasizes that he joins the DeepMind staff as such. “Yes, royal title”, insist before specifying that he will be in charge of working in the field of artificial consciousness, artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the relationship between humans and AI. Is it a unique case? Not at all. And that’s the most interesting thing about it. The development of AI and the extensive (very extensive) list of challenges that accompanies it has made companies in the sector look with growing interest at a very specific profile: that of philosophers capable of helping them train their algorithms, anticipate the ethical and legal challenges (and risks) that may arise in the future and, in general, advance on a path so complex that it will require interdisciplinary teams. It no longer comes with technical profiles. At least 10… and counting. Recently Wired explored how the AI ​​industry is recruiting philosophers and collected an interesting piece of information. It is almost anecdotal and far from offering a global image of the sector, but it is still illustrative: according to its estimates, Google DeepMind already has at least 10 philosophers and Anthropic has four. These are not large figures, but in light of advertisements like Shevlin’s, the bet that universities they are doing for the interconnection between AI and philosophy and the growing interest of Silicon Valley by ethics experts, it is not unreasonable to think that both paths (artificial intelligence and critical thinking) will become increasingly intertwined. “There are many more”. That both fields look at each other with interest confirms this Iason Gabrielan ethicist and part of the team of Google DeepMind researchers responsible for analyzing the social impact of AI: “There are now many more philosophers in those areas,” explains to Wired. For reference, in 2013 only 1% of the jobs on PhilJobs (a leading job platform for philosophy professionals) were related to AI. In 2025 that percentage was already around 16%. Right now your search engine offers 11 vacancies if you do a quick search by entering the terms “artificial intelligence”. Are there more clues? Yes. Last year, during an interview with Tucker Carlson, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, revealed that in developing its models the company consulted with “hundreds of moral philosophers and people who have reflected on the ethics of technology and systems.” It may seem like an exaggeration, but the manager himself acknowledged that one of the issues that keeps him up most at night is the ethical drift of the tool. The focus he did not put it so much in “the big moral decisions” as in the “small decisions” related to the behavior of the chatbots. For example, what questions does ChatGPT answer and what questions does it not? How should you act when the user raises questions related to suicide? How to act in “delicate situations” and make the tool useful in them? How, if you take into account that as ChatGPT becomes popular, it faces users with increasingly disparate perspectives and approaches? These are not just theoretical questions. In 2025 a couple from California sued OpenAI when considering that his chatbot had encouraged his 16-year-old son to take his own life. What can a philosopher contribute? Silicon Valley’s interest in philosophers It’s not exactly newbut it is equally true that AI has reinforced its attractiveness. “This is probably the best time to be a philosopher since Aristotle was hired as tutor to Alexander the Great,” ironizes the philosopher Henry Ajder. It’s not surprising at all. Thinkers like him have been exploring key questions in the development, training and future of AI for years. Can there be an artificial consciousness? And one superintelligence associated with AI? If so, how to address it? Can we talk about ethics in AI? Is it enough for a machine to behave as if it understood or felt to be attributed intelligence? What if it is used for immoral purposes, such as undermining democracies, disinformation, or creating weapons? Is it always appropriate for AI to imitate human behavior? How to respond to “delicate situations” like the one Altman proposed? And the algorithmic biases that affect issues as delicate as diversity or equality? Influencing each other. As the philosopher Manu Collado pointed out in April an article of The Vanguard in which he analyzes the signing of Shevlin, Google hopes that the expert will provide “philosophical rigor when creating conceptual frameworks, clarifying terms such as consciousness, agency and intention and, perhaps most pragmatically in a business sense, anticipating ethical and regulatory dilemmas so that the company is prepared.” In short, achieve best chatbots and go one step ahead in the dilemmas and challenges that the development of AI may generate in the future. “Reason more ethically”. A philosopher expert in logic and metaphysics recently confessed to Atlantic that a company wanted to hire him as a consultant precisely to “train large language models so that they reason more rigorously about ethics.” The truth is that at this crossroads … Read more

There is nothing extraordinary about Hong Kong opening a store 24 hours a day, except that it is run by a humanoid robot.

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China has a particular way of understanding and integrating AI into daily life. While in the US it is committed to leading the large language models, in China the strategy involves creating what they call ’embodied AI’, which we can translate as ‘Personified AI’. China wants to export its strategy and wants to start in Hong Kong, where they will open a store run by a robot. What is happening. It was announced by the Chinese Secretary of Finance, Paul Chan Mo-po, in his weekly blog. In the post, he talks about Hong Kong’s strategy to boost AI and make it an everyday benefit for its citizens. As part of this plan, a convenience store will be opened on the Hung Hom seafront, which will be open 24 hours a day and will be run by a humanoid robot that will be able to offer service in multiple languages. The text does not clarify which company is behind this initiative and simply states that it is a company from mainland China; Among the most prominent robotics companies in China are Unitree and Deep Robotics, although there are many more. According to the announcement, the opening of this store will be their first outside of mainland China and they have chosen Hong Kong as “the first stop in the global expansion of their retail store concept.” Robots working in front of the public. Although it is not clear which company it is, we suspect it may be Galbot. Because? Because at the end of last year my colleague Alex was in Beijing and already He encountered a robot from this company in front of a small beverage store in a shopping center. Alex bought a bottle of water and says the experience was similar to that of a vending machine, but much more expensive and slower. Drones and autonomous cars. During my last trip to China I also came across a similar store run by a robot, but at that time I couldn’t stop to put it to the test. What I was able to experience is what it is like to ride in a Pony.ai brand autonomous taxi and then order a bubble tea to be brought to me by a drone. Both experiences are available in Shenzhen, of course. Taxis are much more integrated into daily life, while the delivery with drones is still a rarity reserved for a few points in the city. The goal behind personified AI. All these examples are part of the push for what the Chinese government calls ’embodied AI’. It is an AI that has a physical presence, that is, it interacts with the environment through sensors and actuators and can take the form of a robot, autonomous car or drone. The government mentions it in its 2025 jobs report and has made it a national priority for a reason: it is the next phase in boosting its robotics industry. In this sense, the fact that more and more robots are seen on the streets of Chinese cities is not a simple technological extravagance, but is part of a more ambitious plan. Robots are the way to sustain industrial growth despite factors such as rising wages or the population aging. Image | Blog of the financial secretariat, China In Xataka | China is preparing a hotel where robots will act as receptionists, waiters, cleaners and security guards: it aims to automate almost everything

It’s about making a movie for a non-existent audience.

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The Masters of the Universe movie It has good reviews, a seemingly infallible fan base and an 87% audience rating. on Rotten Tomatoes. And after its first weekend it is already one of the biggest box office failures of 2026: it seems that the inhabitants of Eternia cannot escape the curse of their audiovisual adaptations, which has followed them since that distant version of the Cannon of 1987. Although more prosaic issues come into play here than an old and endearing evil eye. The figures. On the weekend of June 5 to 7, ‘He-Man and the Masters of the Universe’ raised 29.3 million dollars in the United States and 25 million in the 86 countries where it was released simultaneously, adding a global total of 54.3 million. It is calculated that Amazon MGM invested between 170 and 200 million dollars in production, which would make it necessary for the film, adding marketing expenses, to earn about 425 million just to recover what was invested. For now, Amazon denies the biggest one: Kevin Wilson, head of domestic distribution at Amazon MGM, stated in a statement that the weekend represented “a very solid start” and that the audience response had been “fantastic.” The sights are set, very clearly, on Prime Video. The eighties. The Masters of the Universe have been starring in the same story for about forty years. In August 1987, Cannon Films, the Israeli-American production company known for its films with Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson and other B-movie action stars, released the first live-action adaptation of the franchise, with Dolph Lundgren in the lead role. The budget was 22 million dollars. The final collection, 17.3 million. The failure, added to that of the tremendous ‘Superman IV’, contributed directly to the bankruptcy of Cannon Films. What is the difference. However, the budget differences between the 1987 version and the 2026 version are very noticeable. In the Cannon Wager, for example, budget constraints prevented Orko or Battle Cat from appearing on screen, and most of the story took place in California, rather than Eternia, which was reduced to a couple of wastelands. The 2026 film has a better billing (although if you ask us, the cast of that one is unbeatable: Lundgren was joined by Frank Langella and Meg Foster) and, in fact, this one recovers sequences that were left out in the eighties, such as Beast Man’s attack on Earth. But it has been of no use. Not understanding. What both versions do share is a commercial logic that has failed: a successful toy should produce a successful movie. When ‘Barbie’ raised 1.4 billion dollars globally in 2023Mattel drew a clear lesson: its toy franchises have economic potential on the big screen. The company launched the development of more than 14 films based on their catalog: ‘Hot Wheels’ produced by JJ Abrams, ‘Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots’ with Vin Diesel, ‘Polly Pocket’, ‘Barney’, ‘Magic 8 Ball’… ‘Masters of the Universe’ is the first big bet of this new era. But that reading of ‘Barbie’ ignores why ‘Barbie’ worked. The box office of Greta Gerwig’s film had nothing to do with nostalgia for the original toys, but rather with turning that starting point into a commentary on gender roles that worked even for an audience that had not held a Barbie in their hands in decades, or even that despised the toy for considering that it conveyed a toxic message, precisely the opposite of that of the film. ‘He-Man’, however, appeals to the nostalgia of a very specific segment of the public, adult men who grew up with the animated series in the eighties, without offering anything to those outside that perimeter. Liminals and parodies. A look at last weekend’s box office shows a panorama that Amazon has not been able to interpret. On the one hand there is the success of ‘Backrooms’. The A24 film, directed by Kane Parsons, cost 10 million dollars and has already been 212 million raised in less than two weeks. His film starts from a internet mythology about liminal spaceswithout a franchise to respect by heart, without decades of commercial history to sell. On the other hand, we have ‘Scary Movie’. The sixth installment of the Wayans brothers’ parody franchise, absent from theaters since 2013, grossed 55 million domestics and 105.5 million global with a budget of only 30 million. The first works because Parsons has an organic connection to the material (twenty years old, YouTuber) and an audience that has followed him from the internet to the living room. ‘Scary Movie’ presents a direct proposal, and although it refers to past hits, it does not appeal to nostalgia and its audience knows exactly what they are going to see. Both films, in different ways, respond to a real demand. And ‘Masters of the Universe’, despite its indisputable virtues, seems designed to respond to a non-existent demand. In Xataka | Something is changing in cinema: films by directors trained on YouTube are eating up Disney films

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