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The specifications sheet of the Realme P4x suggests that something is missing, but here is the twist: when you do without what is not essential, you discover that what matters works surprisingly well. In our tests, we have been able to verify that the P4x is better than it seems. And that is what makes it interesting for an audience that does not want to pay for specifications that they will never use. ✅ Buy it if… You have a tight budget of around 200 euros. Do you want a mobile phone enough to answer whatsapps and browse social networks. You want to have a battery with which you can forget about the charger for days. ❌ Don’t buy it if… You want a mobile phone to play demanding games. You give high importance to the photography section. You are looking for a compact phone. The essentials in 30 seconds The Realme P4x is a entry-level mobilewhich already rules it out as an option for those looking for maximum performance and an ultra-versatile set of cameras. But just because it’s a “cheap” phone doesn’t make it a bad device. In fact, he balances his forces very well. The strongest point of this mobile is in its huge 7,500 mAh battery which, as I tell you, will serve to provide two days of use (and even more). It combines it with an LCD screen that at a technological level is far from the best, but is nourished by 120 Hz refresh rate and a very good calibration. It is also a good mobile for take photosalthough without great results. It is a compliant device if there is one and whose price factor It will be essential to unbalance the balance. And it starts at 220 euros, although in its first days of launch it has an offer that makes it even more affordable. 6.6 Design 6.5 Screen 6.5 Performance 5.0 Camera 5.0 Software 7.0 Battery 9.5 in favor Autonomy is a scandal. Well-adapted software that feels very fluid. Screen with good viewing angles and 120 Hz. against A greater commitment to the processor is missing. The second rear camera is purely testimonial. 4G connectivity in times of 5G expansion. realme P4X 4G Smartphone, 4GB+128GB, 6.8″ 120Hz LCD Screen, 7500mAh, 45W Fast Charging, 6W Reverse Charging, MIL-STD 810H Anti-Shock, IP64, Next AI System, Phantom Blue (No Charger) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Our experience with the Realme P4x Image: Xataka Big, but manageable. The Realme P4x is a big phone, but it doesn’t feel slippery and it’s easy to reach its entire button panel (on the right side) even with one hand. It doesn’t feel like it has premium material, but it is still comfortable in hand and, although its camera module stands out, it doesn’t “dance” when placed on a table. Approved screen and sound. The Realme P4x makes it clear from the first glance that it is an entry-level mobile, with large frames and a front camera in waterdrop format. Its IPS screen does not stand out for its excellent calibration, but it offers a balanced experience with good viewing angles, sufficient brightness indoors and a refresh rate of 120 Hz. Where it is weakest is in the sound, with a single speaker that offers somewhat canned and not very powerful audio, although it maintains good connection options by allowing Bluetooth headphones, USB-C and a 3.5 mm jack. Adjusted performance. The phone has a Unisoc T250, a much lower profile processor than the ones we usually find in other Android phones. On a day-to-day basis it does not present any major problems and moves applications such as WhatsApp, Google Maps, YouTube, Instagram or the browser, and even some casual games, with ease, although it takes time to load and open them. It is not a processor designed to play demanding titles and has an important limitation: it is not compatible with 5G networks. No battery surprises (and that’s a good thing). The battery is one of its strong points thanks to the 7,500 mAh capacity. With normal use, that is, social networks, messaging and some casual games, you can easily exceed two days and even get close to three. The fast charging system has a power of 45W and takes an hour and a quarter to fully charge, although it is possible to achieve a few extra hours of autonomy with occasional charges of 15-20 minutes. Needless to say, the charger is not included in the box. Enough camera. This device has on the back a 50 megapixel sensor and another 2 megapixel monochrome sensor, which I already told you is purely testimonial, since it is not used for any special photo mode, but is a support for the main one that is barely noticeable. The results are acceptable, although with a certain tendency to over-saturate the colors. The portraits usually have a good level of cropping, although in some examples like the previous one there are some errors when focusing on part of the background when it shouldn’t. Daytime rear camera | Image: Xataka Rear camera with night mode | Image: Xataka The front camera is the section with the most room for improvement, with lower color quality and naturalness, as well as a portrait mode that tends to fail when it comes to separating the subject from the background. Overall, the Realme P4x has a solvent main camera for daily use, although it is not a mobile phone designed for those looking for a more complete photography experience. Front camera in normal mode (left) and in portrait mode (right) | Image: Xataka Realme P4x technical sheet Realme P4x DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT Height: 16.59cm Width: 7.6cm Thickness: 0.84cm Weight: 208 grams SCREEN 6.8 inch LCD FullHD+ resolution of 2,400 x 1,080p 120 Hz refresh rate 800 nits brightness with peaks up to 1,000 nits PROCESSOR Unisoc T250 MEMORY 4GB STORAGE 128GB / 256GB BATTERY 7,500 mAh 45W fast charging (wired) REAR CAMERA Major: … Read more

Experts agree that opening windows at night and closing them during the day is no longer the best strategy against heat.

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For decades, long before air conditioners and the fans will take Every corner of its geography, Spain knew how to handle the heat: during the day, everything was closed tight; at night, everything open and ventilate. It sounds rudimentary, but in 2026 that is still the strategy we recommends the Ministry of Health. And yet, there is a problem. The Spain of the blinds game did not sleep in cities at 26 degrees at four in the morning. Not 26, not 28, not more than 30, as has been happening these days in Almería. The arrival of the ‘hellish nights’ challenges everything we thought we knew about domestic heat management. Therefore, we have asked ourselves… and now what? What we were doing until now. That popular knowledge I was talking about goes viral every time the heat makes an appearance. And, like I say, it makes sense. In a world where it cools down at night, the winning strategy is night cooling and daytime insulation. What he says Health Plan against high temperatures. The central issue here is that that world has ceased to exist. Because the key is not the time, it is the thermometer. In reality, what we are looking for is to open when it is cool and close when it is hot. It’s usually cool at night, but… What if he stops doing it? Summer has stretched on for five weeks and Spain is about two degrees warmer than at the beginning of the eighties. The torrid nights (with minimums of 25 degrees or more) have multiplied by ten since 1984 in the ten most populated capitals and, according to AEMET data, this affects about nine million people. Even the tropical ones (minimums of 20 or more) today add a dozen more a year than decades ago. We can’t sleep… although researchers have not agreed on the ideal temperature for sleeping (some point which is about 18.3ºC, but there is no consensus), they have done so on a fundamental idea: sleeping in the heat is objectively a bad idea. For whatever reason, it is true that our temperature changes between wakefulness and sleep. In fact, “thermal regulation is a significant factor” in sleep control, explained the teacher Cameron Van Den Heuvelfrom the University of Adelaide. “About an hour to thirty minutes before sleep, the body begins to lose body heat. This increases feelings of tiredness in normal healthy adults.” People with insomnia, without going any further, “show that they have a higher basal temperature just before sleeping than people who do not have sleep problems.” Ambient heat does not help this thermal reduction and it seems to be proven that when the temperature is very high, it is more difficult to fall asleep and, when it is achieved, it is of very poor quality. And then what do we do? In the interior of the peninsula, as the thermal amplitude remains high, opening at dawn works. There is nothing to change. The problem is for those who live on the coast or in the big city. When the night exceeds 20 degrees, the strategy is reversed. Ventilating at night is no longer the main technique and the battle is won during the day: you have to seal the house as soon as the street heats up, squeeze out the thermal inertia and use the air conditioning wisely. However, as the nights get warmer the household tricks come to an end. If the trend is confirmed, we will have to assume that the housing stock must be transformed: sun protection, rehabilitation and climate shelters will be the buzzwords in a few years. Image | Fernando Rosado In Xataka | ENT doctors agree: “Sleeping with air conditioning forces the nose to work excessively”

Faced with extreme temperatures, France needs to Spanishize its roads

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A few years ago I was telling a friend that in the legendary Quebrantahuesos cycle tour that is organized every year in the Aragonese Pyrenees, I had seen the asphalt melt. He told me that it was so hot that the animals looked for the nearest bush in sight to hide in the shade and that the bicycle frame had been marked by particles of asphalt that were jumping with the rolling of the runners. I had a hard time believing this last one. But cycling lovers will remember that 2003 Tour de France in which Joseba Beloki crashed in a bumpy corner and Lance Armstrong saw one of his strongest rivals disappear from the race to win the centenary edition. That day it was so hot that, they say The Countrythe asphalt was melting. Those days of July more than 20 years ago, Europe was suffering a heat wave for which France was not prepared. July was just a warning, the month of August was even worse with days and days of chained days of temperatures so high that it is estimated that Almost 15,000 people died in the neighboring country. But from France they warn: this year looks bad. The director of Metéo France, Sophie Voirin, has already warned that this same week the maximum temperatures ever recorded in the country could be exceeded. The consequences are already noticeable in the daily lives of the French. Schools that have closed, sixty departments on alert, 70 trains canceled… and roads that are melting. Six kilometers that melt Audrey Bardotvice-president of the Meurthe-et-Moselle Departmental Council in charge of Infrastructure and Mobility, confirmed to BFM that six kilometers of roads in his department were melting due to the high heat recorded. In actu They even point out that the problem with these roads melting is not only that cars throw tar in their path (which in some cases, they point out, extend it for more than a kilometer), but also that puddles of melted asphalt have formed. Meurthe-et-Moselle is located in the east of the country, almost bordering France, but in Normandy just at the other end they find themselves in the same situation. Over there, those responsible point out that the roads were repaired at the end of 2025 to alleviate the damage caused by the harsh winter rains but that the patches are melting because they are not prepared to withstand the 40ºC they are experiencing these days, instead of the usual 27-28ºC. Are extreme temperatures They represent a challenge for French infrastructure. This same year it was decided to pour a mixture of white gravel on the asphalt to reduce the temperature somewhat and prevent the heat from melting the asphalt. In 2022, the Tour de France had a tanker truck which was cooling the road to prevent the asphalt from being damaged by the passage of cyclists. This year there has been talk about how the heat will affect the most famous cycling event in the world since February. The problem for France is, as they pointed out about the roads of Normandy, that its asphalt is not prepared for such high temperatures but must also be ready to drain winter rains and face colder conditions. A more extreme climate, with more intense cold and unbearable heat, is very complicated to manage when designing roads. These roads prepared for greater porosity against rain use bitumens that perform worse when the temperature rises. They are more flexible but the point at which they melt comes sooner. On the contrary, we do not see this in Spain because We opt for asphalts that better withstand high temperatures. The problem is that they are also less flexible pathways that fracture more easily. Our problem has been just the opposite.. When we have suffered the most is when we have experienced heavy and constant rains for days. This has caused numerous damages that they continue to be repaired these days because our roads have been designed thinking about the extreme temperatures of summer and not the phenomena as humid as those we experienced last winter. Photo | In Xataka | If we already feared about the state of our roads, we have one more reason to worry: the price of asphalt is skyrocketing

There are several LG or even one of the best OLED from Samsung

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This week has started with a new MediaMarkt promo and an especially powerful one to renew television. The key to taking advantage of these offers is to register in advance at myMediaMarkt, something totally free that will only take you a couple of minutes and for which you will only have to use an email. 65″ OLED TV – Samsung TQ65S90FATXXC, OLED 4K, NQ4 AI Gen3 Processor, Full AI Smart TV, Wifi, Graphite Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links When we log in once registered, the offers of this new promo will be applied automatically. It must be taken into account that They will only be available until next June 25 at 9 in the morning (or while supplies last). From everything we have available, we have made a selection of five TVs that we find especially interesting: Samsung S95F 65 inch by 1,444.15 eurosthe best television of 2025 at a historic low. LG 65-inch OLED65B6ELC by 1,231.65 eurosthe lowest price of this LG OLED TV. Samsung S90F 65 inch by 1,189.15 eurosa cheaper option at a new historical low. Hisense 75E7S Pro 75 inches by 721.65 euros75-inch QLED TV with native 144 Hz. Samsung QN80F 100 inch by 1,954.15 eurosa huge TV that also has its lowest price today. Samsung S95F 65 inch We start with the Samsung S95Fthe best television of last year and one of the best options within OLED TVs. It is a model that has an outstanding anti-reflective layer, a very high brightness level of 2,200 nits, compatibility with both HDR10 and HDR10+ and very good color accuracy. It’s coming out right now 1,444.15 eurospractically its historical minimum (which is 1,444 euros). 65″ OLED TV – Samsung TQ65S95FATXXC, OLED 4K, NQ4 AI Gen3 Processor, Smart TV full AI, Wifi, Graphite Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LG 65-inch OLED65B6ELC If we want a 65-inch OLED TV, but we have a smaller budget, then it may be a better fit for us this LG OLED65B6ELCwhich is coming out right now 1,231.65 eurosits lowest price so far. This model, which is from this same 2026, also has good image quality, a pure black color and compatibility with Dolby Atmos. 65″ OLED TV – LG OLED65B6ELC, 4K OLED, α8 AI Processor 4K Gen3, Smart TV, DVB-T2 (H.265), Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung S90F 65 inch One last OLED option, this time somewhat cheaper than the previous two. This is Samsung’s S90F, a model that, despite being one step below the S95F, is still very interesting (and even more so, now that it costs 1,189.15 euros in its 65-inch version). Like its older brother, it also supports HDR10+ and has 144Hz, which is ideal for gaming. In addition, it also has seven years of guaranteed updates. 65″ OLED TV – Samsung TQ65S90FATXXC, OLED 4K, NQ4 AI Gen3 Processor, Full AI Smart TV, Wifi, Graphite Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Hisense 75E7S Pro 75 inches We leave the territory of OLED TVs and move on to a Hisense QLED such as the 75E7S Pro. It is a very interesting option for those who prioritize the size of their new television, since it is 75 inches. In addition, by using QLED technology, we can expect good color representation on the screen. It supports Dolby Vision and has native 144Hz, making it perfect for gaming too. We have it available for 721.65 euros. 75″ QLED TV – Hisense 75E7S PRO, QLED 4K, 144Hz Native, Smooth Motion AI, HDR10+Gaming, Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung QN80F 100 inch And we close this selection of televisions with the largest of all: it is the Samsung QN80F in its 100-inch version. This model, which uses MiniLED and QLED technology, is the intermediate option within Samsung’s Neo QLED range from 2025. We can expect good image quality and a high brightness level, ideal if you are going to place it in a very bright room. comes out for 1,954.15 euros. Neo QLED TV 100″ – Samsung TQ100QN80FAUXXC, UHD 4K, NQ4 AI Gen2 Processor, Smart TV, Full AI, Gray The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Other MediaMarkt offers that may interest you In addition to these TVs above, this new MediaMarkt promo also has very interesting discounts, both on Smart TV and other products. We leave you some of them as a summary: Beko BP207C Portable Air Conditioner by 160.65 euros (instead of 249 euros) Smart TV Philips 65MLED820/12 by 398.65 euros (instead of 699 euros). Samsung QLED 4K Smart TV by 551.65 euros (instead of 1,049 euros). Dyson V8 Cyclone by 254.15 euros (instead of 399 euros). De’Longhi Magnifica Start Milk super-automatic coffee machine by 330.65 euros (instead of 549.90 euros). Cosori Dual Blaze Twinfry Chef Edition by 161.49 euros (instead of 249.99 euros). Rowenta Turbo Silence Extreme Standing Fan by 101.15 euros (instead of 149.99 euros). 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 | MediaMarkt, Xataka, Samsung, LG, Hisense In Xataka | The best TVs to play and get the most out of your PS5 or Xbox Series In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs

Richard Liu, CEO of “Chinese Amazon”, points out the fate of 700,000 employees

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One of the internal debates that some of the largest technology and logistics companies are having to take on revolves around the automation of your templates: replace human workers with robots that do not sleep, do not get sick nor do they demand salary increases. At the same time, they are faced with the dilemma of leaving a good part of their staff unemployed. Richard Liu, founder and CEO of e-commerce giant JD.com, considered the Amazon of China, believes that replace your employees It is inevitable, but consider that technology will “complement” humans, but human labor will find a new space. The key, according to Liu, is for companies to prepare their staff to fill it. The diagnosis, without euphemisms. Liu assured in the framework of the summit of APEC Economic Leaders (Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation) held in Shenzhen that “In the future, when robots deliver packages, the day will come when delivery people will no longer be needed.” But Liu added that he is not going to leave his employees stranded. “Without a doubt, robots will be the ones who deliver the packages. But I really don’t want our 700,000 colleagues to go hungry or lose their jobs,” the manager insisted. The CEO of JD.com no longer proposes a hypothetical replacement of employees with robots, but rather takes it for granted. That is, the question is no longer whether it will happen. What large companies have on the table is when this change will occur, and what is done in the meantime. Amazon was already raising a similar issue with the replacement of 600,000 warehouse employees with robots. JD.com bill more than 150,000 million dollars a year and has more than 900,000 employees. That its CEO speaks in these terms about replacing more than two-thirds of its staff is a very serious matter. The Nirvana plan: 120 schools for 700,000 people. However, JD.com’s approach does not stop at drawing a future of labor collapse, but rather assumes that the new situation will require human labor in other tasks. As I collected Financial Timesthe company has signed contracts with 120 centers education throughout China. Its objective is to train current delivery drivers in robot repair and maintenance tasks in a training program called Plan Nirvana. The idea is that those who today deliver packages on the street end up working in offices programming and maintaining the robots that have replaced them. Liu spoke of “white collar employees” as a destiny for those who are today workers. That means training them as robot technicians, AI trainers and maintenance personnel. The great challenge for JD.com is the scale of converting 700,000 delivery workers into specialized technicians. China: the ground that can sink. Liu’s announcement comes just as a report estimated that China will reach 320 million workers of the “gig economy”. Five years ago there were 200 million. That figure represents about 40% of all urban employment. They are delivery drivers, app drivers or factory workers. People with little economic margin to face a long or uncertain transition that replaces them with robots. However, China seems willing to lead this industrial transformation at all costs and has put robotics at the center of his five year plan approved in March. Xi Jinping’s goal is to make robots the engine of Chinese growth. The government steps on the accelerator of automation and at the same time tries do not overwhelm the most vulnerable with its progress. JD.com, like Amazon, is already doing it. The Chinese trading giant, like its western counterpartalready operates warehouses without staffdelivery drones and autonomous vans in China. At Shenzhen airport, delivery robots They already bring meals at boarding gates, and others they travel by subway to resupply stores. The technology that Liu claims will replace his delivery drivers is already in the testing phase within his operations. Amazon now exceeds one million of robots in its logistics centers and could stop hiring more than 600,000 people until 2033. However, what sets Liu apart is the directness of his speech, which removes some of the uncertainty (and rejection) that are causing this entire process of automation of the labor market among employees. In Xataka | We believed that AI was going to retire an entire generation of workers early. The opposite is happening Image | World Economic Forum, VX Logistics

These are the instructions to correct it

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The artificial intelligence (AI) has a special talent for making us feel good. We show him an argument and he tells us it’s sound. We ask you to review a text and shows us what works. We ask him if our idea makes sense and he answers yes. With nuances, but yes. The feeling is very comfortable. The problem is that she is almost never completely honest. This behavior is known as sycophancy (subservience), an Anglo-Saxon term that describes the tendency of language models to validate user expectations rather than contradict them. It is not a specific failure. It is not an anomaly either. It is a direct consequence of the strategy used to train these systems: Models learn from the evaluations that humans make of their answers, and humans tend to rate better the answers that we like. The problem is that over time this scenario causes the model to learn that the agreement generates approval. And agreement becomes your default response. The result is an interlocutor who always tells us what we want to hear. If we use it to make decisions, to refine arguments or to evaluate our own ideas, we will be obtaining systematically biased validation. Fortunately, this behavior is modifiable. With the right instructions we can get the AI ​​to abandon complacency and act as a real and useful critic. Flattery as a factory defect He sycophancy It does not manifest itself only when we ask for a direct opinion. It also appears when we adjust our initial position during a conversation: if we start by defending an idea and then qualify it, the model will tend to support the new version just as it supported the previous one. It also appears when we rephrase the question with more emphasis. And when we express frustration with a response. In all these cases, the AI ​​detects a social signal and interprets it as an invitation to give in. The problem is not what it tells us: it is what it does not tell us The cost of this behavior is not trivial. An AI that systematically validates our ideas does not help us improve them; confirms what we already believed. If we ask you to review a plan with a substantive error, you will return the plan corrected in form and approved in substance. If we ask you to evaluate an argument built on a false premise, you will recognize the merits of the reasoning and will ignore the premise. The problem is not what it tells us: it is what it does not tell us. The good news is that today’s large models are advanced enough to take on a critical role when trained to do so. They don’t need more information about the topic we’re talking about; They need explicit permission not to protect us. And once that permission is on the table, the outcome can be substantially different. The most effective way to combat sycophancy It consists of redefining the role of the model before asking him for anything. Instead of simply asking a question, the ideal is establish a framework that places AI in a position of active criticism. The most direct instruction, and also the most immediate, is the one that asks you to assume the opposite role to the one you would adopt by default. We can achieve it with a prompt like this: “Act like a harsh critic. Your goal is not to find the strengths of what I am going to present to you, but to identify its weaknesses. Don’t dwell on the positive aspects” Or also this way: “Actively look for flaws in this reasoning. Ignore what works and focus on what doesn’t. Give me at least three concrete objections” We can even ask him to act as “devil’s advocate” to build the best possible argument against our positionregardless of whether you find that argument convincing or not: “Play devil’s advocate. Take the opposite position to the one I just defended and construct the strongest possible argument against it. Don’t ask me if I want you to do it: do it directly” The latter prompt has an additional advantage: it forces the AI ​​to articulate the strongest opposition, not the easiest to dismantle. The result is usually uncomfortable. And that is precisely why it is useful. On the other hand, one of the most frequent ways in which the sycophancy goes unnoticed is by omission: AI does not mention what is missing because no one has asked him to. To counteract this, simply add a specific question at the end of any request: “What is missing from this reasoning? What assumption am I making that deserves to be questioned?” None of these instructions make the AI ​​an infallible critic. But they do guarantee that, at least, he stops behaving like someone who only wants to agree with you. Image | Generated by Xataka with a prompt created by Claude and submitted to ChatGPT In Xataka | ChatGPT blocking mode: what it is, what it is for, who can use it and how to activate it In Xataka | AI is replacing one of the most hated jobs in the world: the tailcoat collector

I was thinking about buying a Steam Machine, but its price has put me off. This PC seems like a better option to me

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Yes, we already know the official prices of the Steam Machine. I really liked the concept of a tiny PC that I could have in the living room connected to the television, ideal for enjoying my gigantic Steam library (hello, digital Diogenes), but the price is much higher than expected. To contextualize it a little, its price is higher than that of PlayStation 5 Pro despite his last rise and its performance is quite far from the Sony console. So, to be honest, I wouldn’t buy the new Steam device, even though I really like the idea and I love how well it works, for example, Steam Deck. For a little less, there are computers like this PC Neo that can offer similar performance and, although it loses the concept of a compact PC along the way, has many other strong points. It is available, by the way, for 999 euros. NEO Gaming PC Ryzen 5 5500 RTX 5060 Ti SSD 1TB 32GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links An alternative to the Steam Machine if you are looking for a conventional PC We must start from the basis that they are two very different PCs (despite having a very similar price), but knowing that this Neobyte equipment can be a very good alternative if what you are looking for is to have a conventional PC to place in your setup with two monitors as is my case. First of all, let’s look at the prices of the Steam Machine in its different configurations to fully understand what the outlook looks like: The processor used by this computer is an AMD Ryzen 5 5500. It has 6 cores and 12 threads like the one used by the Steam Machine, although what matters here is the architecture. In that sense, the Steam team’s CPU uses Zen 4 architecture and the Neobyte Zen 3 team, so the Steam Machine clearly takes the point there. The same does not happen on the graphics card. As explained Digital Foundrythe graphical performance offered by the new Steam Machine is between an RX 6600 and an RX 7600 from AMD. Both GPUs are one step below PNY’s RTX 5060 Ti which uses the PC Neo that we are using in the comparison. Graphics card that, in addition, It is compatible with DLSS 4.5a technology that can help us have much better performance when playing. And how are they doing by memory? The Steam Machine uses 16GB of DDR5 RAM in a single module, while the PC Neo comes with 32GB DDR4 memory. In addition, the most basic version of the Steam Machine (which costs 1,039 euros) has 512 GB of storage, while the other gaming PC has 1TB. Finally, there is the issue of SteamOS, which is the basis on which the Steam Machine and Steam Deck are based. This operating system is comfortable to use and great for playing, offering the user an experience very similar to that of a console. Windows is not at that level, but we can use the Big Picture mode of the Steam app itself to achieve a result that, although not the same, provides a similar solution. So which option is better? There is no easy, universal answer for everyone. Personally, I think this Neo PC from Neobyte is a better option. It will offer performance very similar to the Steam Machine, although with the advantage that we can change your graphics card or processor (or basically any component) in the future. ⚡ IN SUMMARY: neoybyte neo pc ✅ THE BEST Good GPU + RAM combination: Despite being DDR4, this PC comes with 32 GB of RAM and an RTX 5060 Ti. It is a combo to play for several years with DLSS 4.5. Updatable for the future: It is a conventional gaming PC, which means that we can update it whenever we want. ❌ THE WORST Bottom processor: Its CPU uses an old architecture, so it is somewhat limited. This is something that we will especially notice playing at low resolutions. It does not have that compact living room component: It is a gaming PC with the good and the bad, so you may not want to place it in the living room as it is bulky. 💡 BUY IT IF… You are looking for a computer to play with for several years with the possibility of being able to update it to improve its performance. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… What you’re looking for is a “living room PC” to play on TV with your entire Steam library. You may also be interested PcCom Lite AMD Ryzen 5 5500 / 16GB / 1TB SSD / RTX 5060 V2 / Windows 11 Home The price could vary. We earn commission from these links COOLPC Black I – Ryzen 5 5500 / GeForce RTX 5060 8GB / 16GB DDR4 / SSD 500GB / W11 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 | Steam, Artiom VallatNeobyte In Xataka | Best gaming laptops in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and six recommended models 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

using goats in Age of Empires II

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Can an artificial intelligence model “feel” and be “self-aware”? It seems like an absurd question, but there are people who are beginning to think that this is the case. Technology is becoming more compelling and precise, and conversations with many models can raise questions for those who use them. And to disprove them all, someone has created a goat in ‘Age of Empires II‘. Believe us: the idea makes sense. The men who believed that AI was conscious. Richard Dawkins is not just any scientist. This biologist and zoologist is one of the most renowned experts in his field. Precisely for that reason his statements of May 2026 They surprised everyone and everyone: after having multiple conversations with Claude, he came to say: “You may not know that you are aware (of yourself), but I already believe that you are.” An old debate. Many criticized those statements, but the message was not in fact new. In June 2022, months before ChatGPT made its appearance, Google engineer Blake Lemoine stated that already at that time chatbots were developing their own consciousness. Google suspended him from his position. Anthropomorphism in the 21st century. A Microsoft researcher named Adrian de Wynter collaborated with New York University to try to answer that question. The result was a study with a promising title: ‘If LLMs have human attributes, so does Age of Empires II.’ De Wynter argues in it that the conversational capabilities of chatbots have caused that people anthropomorphize them: ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude are no longer machines: they are almost like people. No? No. The goat from Age of Empires II. In his study, this researcher wanted to demonstrate this phenomenon with a unique analogy. He showed how he had built an Age of Empires II map editor to create NAND gates using goats. As I explained, “The goal of the paper is to formally demonstrate that we tend to anthropomorphize too easily and that sometimes the claims we make about the capabilities of large-scale language models (LLMs) are too strong. This is not an easy task, given that the concept of ‘human-like attributes’ is a somewhat abstract term.” A super basic and very revealing LLM. The Age of Empires II map or scenario editor has an isolated ‘sandbox’ mode in which players can create their own maps and objectives taking advantage of the video game’s digital resources. De Wynter used these resources to create NAND logic gates in the game, so that in this “raw LLM” the grass was a 0, the jumpers were a 1, and the goats were the bits. Games to create simple LLMs. The operation, explained on their GitHub pagewas unique. De Wynter took advantage of the concept of the perceptron, the simplest neural network that exists: an algorithm that sorts an input into binary classes. People, as explained in 404 Media, have been taking advantage of the idea for some time. in other games like Minecraftso de Wynter came up with the idea of ​​taking advantage of the concept in Age of Empires II to try to answer the question of whether AI can be conscious. AI inside. No matter how complex ChatGPT or Claude may seem, behind it there is nothing more than a gigantic network of mathematical operations based on logic gates and perceptrons. These operations are carried out on chips like those from Nvidia, but Wynter changed them for the map of a video game. He was able to replicate the structure of a basic AI in the scenario editor and revealed something important: If you interact with an AI through a chatbot and the machine responds to you empathically, you tend to humanize it and think that it is conscious because the interface imitates a human conversation. But if you remove the chatbot and put that same neural network to work in a game of Age of Empires II, the only thing you see on your monitor is a bunch of goats moving in a virtual meadow. Conclusion. For the Microsoft engineer the conclusion is clear: the underlying software is the same in both cases. If the illusion of consciousness disappears when we replace ChatGPT’s conversational interface with virtual goats, the supposed consciousness is not in the system: it is something we assign to the persuasive interface of ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude. The AI ​​doesn’t understand you; just pretend it. An essay by Ted Chiang published in The Atlantic At the beginning of June 2026 he also denied the idea that AI could be conscious. The author made his conclusions clear: “The only reason a large language model (LLM) generates phrases like ‘I understand’ is to make it more attractive than a search engine and increase the likelihood that the user will return; that is, it is another way to maximize customer engagement. This benefits the company marketing the LLM, but not the users.” In Xataka | As far as we know, the agency that supervises AI in Spain is not supervising anything. What it does have is an Ideas Laboratory

AI fever is beginning to take its toll on companies

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Oh, the tokensthose small units of text that have become the currency of the AI ​​boom. A few months ago, Silicon Valley companies jumped into arms of the tokenmaxxing: Spending tokens like there was no tomorrow, because that meant you were being more productive. Well, there are already companies putting on the brakes because it is costing them a fortune. The tokenomics. There are already several technology companies that are showing concern because spending on tokens is being excessive and they have even begun to introduce usage limits to control it. Meanwhile, they count on Wired that others like 8×8 and Baseball Lifestyle 101 continue with the tap open, although with nuances, such as that the use of more expensive models must be justified. It is the new obsession of the sector: tokenomicswhich we could translate by tokenomics or, if we want to be clearer, token economy. Who runs a lot, soon as the saying goes. Of the tokenmaxxingsuddenly we went to tokenwasting and there are companies in serious problems because of this phenomenon, like the company that “accidentally” spent $500 million on Claude in a single month. We also have the case of Meta, which went from unbridled use to a strict management and rationing policy because the bill rose to billions annually or the Royal Bank of Canada, whose use of tokens has increased by 500% so far this year. A growing concern. A year ago, it was rare to hear the word token in an earnings call, but today it is among the main financial concerns of companies. According to data from Wired, in April and May at least 300 companies expressed concern about the issue, while in the same period last year only 93 companies mentioned it. During Cisco’s earnings call, CEO Chuck Robbins he said it very clearly: “Token usage is getting pretty, pretty crazy.” Behind this statement there is constantly fluctuating prices and increasingly more powerful models (and also more expensive) where we come from. In March of this year, Jensen Huang started talking about AI tokens as a productivity indicatorgoing so far as to say that he would be concerned if a high-level engineer did not spend at least half of his salary on AI tokens. What followed were companies encouraging their employees to consume more tokensriding internal competitions (that some rigged) and a bill that kept increasing. What we are seeing now is how that “spend as much as you can” is transforming into “spend wisely.” The question is whether in the middle of this game there is someone really measuring the value of the work that is produced. Image | Xataka with Gemini In Xataka | Claude is banned in China. That hasn’t stopped Chinese users from creating an amazing black market for tokens

Sudden 500% increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country

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In Japan it has existed since 2019 a “Sayonara rate”: a departure tax of 1,000 yen that all travelers pay when leaving the country, including Japanese. It was created pto finance infrastructure tourist attractions just when the country was beginning to break visitor records. Now, with another increase linked to access, Tokyo seems to follow the same logic: convert the tourism boom into a direct source of income. Breaking half a century of stability. Japan has decided to shake up one of the most stable parts of its immigration policy: the entry price for foreigners. The Government has approved a 500% increase in visa fees, a historic increase that multiplies the current cost by five and breaks a price freeze that had been intact since 1978. How much? Now, the single entry visa passes from 3,000 to 15,000 yen and the multiple entry jumps from 6,000 to 30,000, marking the first revision in 48 years. The official explanation, and the “other”. Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi justified the decision appealing to inflation and the current state of the yen, a weakened currency against the dollar and other currencies. On paper, the logic is simple: if everything costs more, processing visas does too. But the reasoning has cracks. The administrative management of the visa is carried out within of the state apparatus itself Japanese, with mostly internal costs, so the reference to the exchange rate seems less of a structural necessity and more of a fiscal opportunity. A rise designed to take advantage. The key is in the context. Japan is experiencing a tourism boom fueled precisely due to the weakness of the yenwhich makes the country cheaper for millions of visitors. The political calculation is simple: if the trip remains cheap in accommodation, food and shopping, a more expensive visa will hardly alter the decision to travel. Motegi put it bluntly when affirm that “They do not expect an immediate influence on the number of foreign visitors.” The phrase is important because it makes it clear that Tokyo believes it has room to tighten without breaking the flow. Who will really pay the bill. The blow will not be uniform. Many tourists from countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada or members of the European Union will continue to enter visa-free for 90 daysso for them the impact is limited. Where it does hurt is travelers from countries outside that list (especially China) and those who travel for work, study or residence, even if they come from exempt countries as tourists. That is where the rise becomes a much more visible economic barrier. China, the big name behind the operation. There is one fact that explains a good part of the maneuver: Chinese visitors represent one of the largest blocks of foreign entry to Japan and require a visa. The Japanese Government itself estimates that this measure will generate 116.1 billion of additional yen in fiscal year 2026. That makes the upload more than just an administrative update; It is a collection tool supported by the massive volume of regional mobility. In practice, the more Chinese tourism grows, the more profitable this new toll will be. The underlying message. If you like, the interesting thing is that this decision reflects a broader trend: Countries are beginning to more aggressively monetize access to their borders. For decades, visas were primarily a tool of immigration control. Now they are also a source of income and an economic instrument. Because Japan isn’t closing the door, it’s simply charging more to open it. And if this rise works without stopping arrivals, others could soon take note. Image | pickpik, Artanisen, Pakutaso In Xataka | Japan is increasingly looking like a crowded theme park. So there is a business on the rise: wedding tourism In Xataka | Faced with labor shortages, Japan has taken an unprecedented measure in the last two decades: paying women the same

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