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The dozens of river channels about to overflow

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These days the keyword is Martinho. According to Aemethigh -impact storms will leave very strong wind gusts (which, in the northern peninsular they can exceed 100 km/h). But that is not the most problematic. The most problematic at this point in March is rain. According to the accumulatedMartinho will cause abundant rains in areas where Many weeks without stop raining: Above all, in the central system and Western Andalusia. That is, the most problematic are the river channels. But first of all, let’s talk about the ‘Fujiwhara effect’. And it is that one of Martinho’s peculiarities is that it comes from the hand of a relatively rare phenomenon in our country and that (most likely) ends up intensifying storm. In general terms, the ‘Fujiwhara effect’ occurs when two systems With low pressures they approach each other and begin to “curl” around a common point. Ultimately, they can get to merge, but (whatever) the phenomenon can introduce changes in the intensity or trajectory of Borrasca. That is just What seems to see: Some of Martinho’s secondary storms are going to start “orbit” around them and may be absorbed. Hydrographic conferences are preparing. The best example is that of Guadalquivir. Only on Monday, March 17, the reservoirs of the basin released 234,135 cubic hectometers. It is not only a very high figure compared to the previous days but also As they point out in the Diario de Sevillaequivalent to all the ability of the swamp of Melonares (221,710 cubic hectometers) and a little more. Although general figures may lead us to deception (the Guadalquivir basin, for example, is 50.35%), There are many swamps that are at the limit of their operational capacity. Ultimately, the figures are conditioned because the rains have concentrated in the northern part of the valley. The three largest reservoirs in the basin are in the southern part and are even more empty (Iznájar, 27.24% of its capacity; La Breña, at 29.22% of its capacity; and that of Negratín, to 31.74%). In the center of the country. In the central system, the situation is not better either. On Wednesday, traffic was interrupted in the M-30 and the M-40 of the city of Madrid and today The possibility has begun to be contemplated that the Manzanares overflows. But this is just an example. Right now, each valley in the northern zone of the Tajo basin is becoming a funnel that channels much more water than they are accustomed (and are surely able to handle). The clearest example is that there are reservoirs that They have unwanted for the first time. And they are over 50 years old. The worst can be to come. Because, as we saw in The case of the Dana de Valenciathe problem is not only the rain: the problem is that all that water has to go somewhere. I do not want to say that we will meet a problem of such magnitude, but what is certain is that many zoans inside the peninsula will receive a huge amount of water. And nobody is sure we know how to manage it well. ‘Prudence’, again, will be the keyword once ‘Martinho’ discharges all his strength. Image | ECMWF In Xataka | If the question is when the rain is going to end, Aemet has bad news. Especially for Andalusia

The European model will never be the same

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The European Commission has required Apple to open nine basic functions of iOS to developers and external manufacturers, transforming the iPhone experience in Europe. As we explain in Xatakathis decision represents the first great coup of authority of Commissioner Teresa Riberawho has also rebuked Google to favor their own services in the search results. Beyond the news, We are facing a turning point: The iPhone in Europe will never be the same. Why is it important. This intervention will directly affect the experience of millions of European users. Functions that have defined the exclusivity of the Apple ecosystem – as Airdrop, AirPlay or absolute synchronization with Apple Watch – will soon be available for competition products, altering the very essence of the iPhone as we know it. We are not facing a simple legal requirement, but before a forced redefinition of what an iPhone in Europe means. Between the lines. The European Commission has accurately identified where the opening hurts more. The selected functions are not casual: they are precisely those that create the “Blocking effect“That keeps users within the Apple ecosystem. When opening these characteristics, the EU not only seeks to encourage competition, but systematically dismantle the barriers that Apple has built for years to retain users. It is a direct attack on the company’s strategy. What is happening. For the first time, regulators are specifically dictating how IOS should function, with a detailed implementation calendar: Notifications should be shown in third -party watches by the end of 2025. The automatic device change will work with third -party headphones for June 2026. And the alternatives to AirPlay must be available by the end of 2026. This means that iOS 19 and 20 will include functions and APIS that Apple would never have voluntarily implemented, creating a very different operating system from that in the rest of the world. The big question. Is this “open” iPhone better or worse for European users? The answer depends on what we value the most. On the one hand, interoperability will allow greater freedom of choice and potentially more competitive prices. A user can buy third -party headphones that work as well with their iPhone as the AirPods, or a clock that access the same functions as the Apple Watch. On the other hand, Apple warns that forced opening compromises privacy and security. The non -encrypted transmission of notifications to external devices, for example, could expose sensitive information. In addition, the resulting fragmentation could degrade the integrated experience that many users value. However, in the past we have seen movements that seemed unthinkable ( options for sharing in iOS 8the recent arrival of emulators wave forced appearance of third -party stores) that they have not had the dire consequences that were raised. The threat. The greatest risk for European users is to become second -category digital citizens. Apple has already demonstrated its willingness to delay functions in Europe, as happened with Apple Intelligence in general or with iPhone Mirroring in particular, and could intensify this strategy. If the company considers that the EU requirements compromise its platform too much, it would not be surprising that future innovations arrive first – or exclusively – to less restrictive markets. Or to the rest of the world. European users could face a dilemma: more options but less innovation. In summary. The European iPhone will never be the same again. The question is whether that will be for better or for worse. What is clear is that we are witnessing a historical transformation in which regulators have decided to actively redesign the most influential product of what we have of the century. The result of this experiment will define not only the future of the iPhone, but possibly that of all technological regulation. In Xataka | Apple has been trying the idea of ​​an “without ports” for years. Right now is more a utopia than a reality Outstanding image | Wikimedia, Apple, Xataka

definitive solution even if you have restored yours

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In mid -March of this 2025, A generalized error He made many Chromecast leave to work, affecting the second generation and chromecast audio. Then came a partial solution, and Now we have the definitva solution To fix yours. The soap opera is over. The previous solution only fixed those chromecast that you had not touched, but if trying to solve it you had restored it to the factory settings, then it kept not working. This solution is worth everyone. How to return your chromecast to life To solve the problem of chromecast that have stopped working, Google has launched another firmware update which will begin to reach all devices. This is a definitive solution for those second generation chromects and Chromecast Audio that stopped working. This update is automatic. This means that the only thing you need is that your chromecast is connected to the house Wi -Fi network and is connected to the current. Even if you could not send content, your Chromecast had not ceased to be connected to the network, so there will be no problem to receive the update. If you had restored the chromecastthen you just need Update the app Google Home From your mobile to the latest version (3.30.1.6 for Android and 3.30.106 for iOS). This will implement the necessary changes to be able to configure it from scratch without those mistakes it gave before. In the event that the Google Home update does not arrive on Google Play, you can download it by hand through This apkmirror linkby handing the file and installing it on the mobile. In Xataka Basics | Seven unusual things for which you can use your chromecast with Google TV

Starliner astronauts made nine months of extra hours. The bonus they are going to receive from NASA is ridiculous

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The image of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally on earth It will be possibly one of the 2025 snapshots. To remember his HISTORY HISTORY in space after the multiple leaks and failures of the Boeing Starliner. If you are wondering if it is worth being an astronaut after such a case, the answer is given by the bonus that they will receive for that time “more” in orbit. It is not a matter of money. It goes for long. As We countAstronauts Williams and Wilmore finally returned to Earth after nine months have passed in space, a period much longer than initially planned. His mission aboard the Boeing Starliner began in June 2024 and had to last just over a week. However, a ruling in the capsule propellars prevented its correct coupling with the International Space Station (EEI), leaving astronauts stranded in orbit until the technical problems were solved. The delay generated Great anxiety in social networkswith many speculating about the safety and well -being of astronauts. However, Williams and Wilmore remained firm in their commitment to the mission and denied the statements that they were “abandoned” or “trapped.” In fact and according to Wilmore himself clarifiedthese types of unforeseen events are part of the work and are something for which they are prepared. The economic sacrifice. Despite the extreme challenges they face, the truth is that NASA astronauts do not receive additional compensation for the danger of their missions or for long hours of work in space. Williams and Wilmore earn a salary that is public: an upright annual 152,258 dollars based on updated NASA rates. However, and here is the Quid that differentiates it with other types of “ordinary” works, the salary does not include payment for extra hours, holidays or dangerous conditions, a notable difference with respect to many other well -paid professions on earth. According to Mike Massiminoformer NASA astronaut, “there is no extra pay due to danger, or compensation for working longer in space,” which means that, despite having spent nine months in orbit instead of a week, astronauts will not receive any additional remuneration. The closest thing to an “extra” pay you receive is a small daily stipendio of 5 dollars for being in space, a very small amount and we would say that ridiculous, adding just $ 1,430 for the 286 days that passed in the US. What does NASA say. For its part, the American space agency argues that astronauts They have all their expenses coveredincluding transport, accommodation and food during their stay in the US. Again, compared to other work of high salaries that do not imply physical risks, astronaut’s pay may seem disproportionate, especially if we take into account the danger they face. It is not a matter of money. This takes us to the other Quid of being an astronaut. While other professions with similar salaries, let’s put A bank workeror a notary, they allow working in comfortable environments without exposure to mortal hazards, space exploration implies isolation, uncertainty and constant risk. And, even so, many astronauts choose this race. The key seems clear: they do it by pure vocation and passion for space, rather than for economic reasons. Being Astronaut is still a dream of childhood for many. In fact, A 2019 study De Lego revealed that more than 10% of children in the United States and the United Kingdom continued to aspire to become astronauts, despite the rise of new professions such as digital content creators. For Williams and Wilmore, the possibility of contributing to space exploration and scientific research surely exceeds any financial sacrifice. It is not a wait, it is a mission. In addition, we must understand that, throughout their stay in the US, Williams and Wilmore not only expected their return home, but actively worked in the maintenance and improvement of the station. Nine months give a lot, and there they were with tasks such as inspection and repair of hardware, loading of loading and supplies, support of scientific experiments and technological demonstrations, configuration of a new air lock system or with physical activity tests in microgravity. In summary, his time in orbit contributed to NASA’s scientific knowledge and the maintenance of the EEI as a key center for space exploration. Resistance and commitment. No doubt, for many of us the simple idea of ​​being stranded in space may seem an unimaginable nightmare. But for astronauts like Williams and Wilmore, it is simply part of the work. According to Ken BowersoxNASA’s Head of Space Operations, astronauts are trained not to focus on when they will return, but in the success of the mission. Perhaps for this reason, and beyond the money they receive, what happened is a good reminder that, in space exploration, motivation and resilience are as important as technology itself. Image | POT In Xataka | “Stranded” astronauts in space say goodbye to the ISS with a script turn: supporting Elon Musk’s version In Xataka | The soap opera is over: the “stranded” astronauts in space have returned to Earth nine months later

There is greatness in small ambitions

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I am not a Pebble user. I was not at the time or I will be with Your relaunch: Before the Apple Watch and now I have passed to Garmin. But Few technological ads have been as stimulating as that of this historic watch under a new philosophy. “I am building a small company and focused on manufacturing these watches. I have not planned to raise money from investors or hire a great team. The emphasis is on sustainability,” he wrote Eric Migicovsky In his blog. This statement represents exactly What the technology industry desperately needs: projects that do not aspire to master the world, but simply exist with dignity. The current technological ecosystem operates The dictatorship of hypercrection. If you do not aspire to be a company valued in billions, Silicon Valley’s dominant culture considers you a failure. Walk or burst. This mentality has distorted technological development, transforming potential handicraft works into generic products designed to maximize investment returns. It is no accident that mobile telephony has been filled with indistinguishable terminals from each other. The result goes there: a homogenization of innovation and the gradual disappearance of proposals that do not fit the unicorn squad. Among the few alternatives we have seen, many were born miscariated (Rabbit R1) or directly malicious (Humane Ai Pin). But there are also happy stories. Projects such as Panic with its playdatethat of Analoguethe Keychron keyboards either The remarkable They demonstrate it: excellence does not require market domain, only a clear vision and impeccable execution. What Migicovsky is doing is A declaration of independence. By rejecting external capital and prioritizing sustainability over the scale, it is releasing its vision of the pressures that sank the original Pebble. Himself He told us a few years ago. The irony is very evident: what caused Pebble’s failure was not insufficient demand, but an unsustainable cost structure born of excessive expectations. Need A new business taxonomy in technology. Among the giants who aspire to dominate the world and the projects of amateurs There should be a large ecosystem of deliberately small but professional, sustainable and profitable companies. Every time I see a technological project that embraces their limitations instead of apologizing for them, which finds freedom in voluntary restrictionI remember why I fell in love with technology. Not because of his aspirations of omnipotence, but for his ability to express the unique vision of his creators. The new Pebble does not intend to compete with Apple Watch and even His CEO says explicitly “Keeping he condemned to undervalue him at the time,” but to exist as a conscious alternative for a niche, not for anyone. And that is what makes it potentially extraordinary. Or at least much more valuable than its conservative strategy seems to seem. Outstanding image | Core Devices In Xataka | Thus Pebble failed: “The biggest mistake was not to react when we knew that the Apple Watch was going to arrive”

How to use chatgpt or gemini by taking out the information only from Wikipedia as the only source

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Let’s explain the way you can do Chatgpt consultations using Wikipedia as the only source. Sometimes, when you ask for a thing to artificial intelligence you can make mistakes, and even when you want me to explain something obtaining internet information, you can use unreliable sources to generate the answer. Meanwhile, Wikipedia has been positioned for many years A great source of collective knowledge. Yes, it also has errors, but there are much less. Therefore, we are going to tell you and explain the prompt that you can use both in Chatgpt as in COPILOT, Deepseek either Gemini. Ask the AI ​​to use wikipedia What we want to get is that the artificial intelligence chat we use use wikipedia as the only source to obtain information. In this way, you will look for what you have asked there, you will get written information, and generate an answer based on it. We can meet two problems. The first is that in addition to Wikipedia also use other sources, so that everything will no longer come from a single site. It may also happen that the answer is too technical. We will solve both things with the prompt. This is the prompt that we recommend: Explain to me in a simple way what is XXXX taking the information only from Wikipedia. Here, what you have to do is change the XXXX for what you want me to explain. You can also ask you to explain who a person is, or adapt it in the way you need for the request you have in mind. What we have done in this prompt is to add the “in a simple way” so that the answer it generates is colloquial. Besides, We have added the term only To specify that only use Wikipedia as a source, and that you do not obtain data from any other web page. In Xataka Basics | How to improve chatgpt responses: 9 steps to guarantee higher quality and better sources

The price of eggs has shot and having an own chicken coop seems attractive. But there are fines of up to 3,000 euros

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2025 is the year of Trump’s return to the White House, that of the negotiations on Ukraine, the Rearm of Europe, The tariffs and the distancing from Brussels and Washington. And against all prognosis 2025 it is also being the year of the Egg crisis. Literally. Good The US knowsplunged into a deep “ovoflation”but also Spainwhere in a short time the eggs have increased more than 20%. Thus, many households, especially in the rural, can think of mount To self -abuse. It is not new or that has been done before in Spain. Of course, since 2024 more than chickens, grain and desire to have a domestic chicken coop is needed. If we want to save a fine, it is also necessary to fulfill certain procedures. Issue of laws (and fines). That we lead all our lives seeing homemade pens in the villages, mounted on farms or courtyards with a few laying chickens, it does not mean that there is no law that regulates them. In July 2021 it was approved A Royal Decree which establishes certain “basic standards” to “order” poultry farms. And although it does not focus exclusively on “self -consumption” farms, it includes certain guidelines that its owners must respect. If you have a chicken coop or even a small homemade corral you should know the decree. Especially because, although The text It is 2021, part of its rules on safety, hygiene and equipment did not begin to apply until relatively recently: on January 1, 2024, when the moratorium enjoyed by the farms that already existed. And what does the decree say? One of the most relevant points for domestic farms is the one collected in article 16.5, which Specifies: “The holders of self -consumption farms will be obliged to carry out prior communication so that they are included in the General Registry of Livestock Explodes.” The “self -consumption” nuance is important because The law also define clearly what requirements they must meet to be: not exceed a maximum number of birds or selling anything they produce. Neither young nor meat nor eggs. In case they would go to the category of “reduced exploitation”. The requirement for home pens is less strict than the one applied to the rest of the farms, which before registering is required an authorization that accredits that they meet all the norms; But that does not mean that chickens for self -supply can do whatever they want. They must register. And among other issues are obliged to identify a reference veterinarian. Question of eggs euros. Laws usually carry sanctions for those who break them. AND The 2021 decree About poultry farms is no exception. In the norm, no sanctions are specified in euros, but the corpus of laws to which the authorities will resort to an infraction does refer. In the case at hand, that of not registering a corral, the reference is the Animal Health Law of 2003in which it is identified as a mild infraction not to communicate to the authorities the births or entries of animals of an exploitation. And how much does that mean? A good pinch. The sanction can go from 600 to 3,000 euros, everything depends on the circumstances of each case and aggravating as recidivism. The law also allows infractions to settle with a simple “warning”, although exceptionally. “It will only be imposed if there was no intent and in the last two years the person in charge would not have been sanctioned (…) for the commission of any other violation of the planned,” Clarify. But … Is it a new standard? Not quite. In fact it has been feeling its effect in different regions of Spain for a few months. A year ago for example The voice of Galicia explained that the new requirement had left “an avalanche” of applications in the offices of the Department of Rural Environment, where they already accounted for 40,700 self -consumption chickens. The high ones do not respond only to the fear of fines. Without the process, Corrales owners were already They couldn’t buy New offspring for its farms. In other regions the norm had a scope much more limited. The eggs, under the focus. That the Royal Decree of 2021 is news is now explained for a simple reason: the eggs have become considerably more expensive in recent weeks. In a scenario marked by the increase in demand and the costs and ghost of the avian flu that hits the United States, the Ministry of Agriculture calculates that its price at origin has risen 30% In just one year. So far from 2025 the increases have been, depending on the type of product, between 11 and 18%, with increases especially pronounced in the last month. The OCU estimates that “a dozen medium eggs now costs 25% more than a month ago.” Specifically, it calculates that the price of M Eggs M have risen 25.2% if they are compared to the data of April 2024. It also agrees that the rise has been more marked the last two weeks. Looking for the causes. OCU is not limited only to Identify ups Price, which move between 25% of the M Eggs and 15.4% year -on -year of the L. have also investigated the causes of that increase, a sum of “several factors” among which includes the rise in prices at origin, the US crisis by avian flu, an increase in production controls and “collective psychosis.” “The videos, information in networks … of individuals talking about the price increase and comparing what the eggs cost the eggs creates an environment in which we all expect that ‘crisis’”, Reason the organization of consumers, which warns about the possible “speculation.” With that backdrop in the US there are even those who have opted for rent chickens and self -abuse. In Spain, having its own domestic corral is not such a strange option, especially in the rural, but that: to avoid scares (and fines) it is convenient to know the law and … Read more

Huawei has just said goodbye to Android by Deepseek. And this strange folding is the first step

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I had announcing the movement For a few months, and it has finally materialized on a phone. Huawei He just said goodbye to Android in his native countryand he has done it with a curious phone with an never seen aspect relationship. This is the first phone that lands on the market with Harmonyos Nextthe operating system completely developed by Huawei with its own kernel and without a trace of Android. In addition to premiere operating system, it is the first Huawei device to release Harmony Intelligence, its AI in collaboration with Deepseek. Goodbye to Android. The day came. Huawei has presented its first phone without a trace of Android, the Huawei pure x flip. To date, the company’s mobiles were marketed in China with Harmonyos. An operating system that, although the company wanted to completely disconnect from Android, was based on its nucleus. With Harmonyos Next things are different. This is an operating system developed from scratch, does not use Android code, is not compatible with its apps (at least, not if these are not modified) and uses its own core (HMS or Huawei Mobile Services) instead of the Google Application Service. This is the first 100% Harmony mobile. The first step for AI. Harmony Intelligence It is your alternative to Apple Intelligence and Samsung Galaxy AIpromising to go beyond an assistant for AI. This AI has trained both the Pangu model, developed by Huawei, and in Depseek, a model that is permeating quickly in Chinese mobiles. “We have trained our AI assistant for millions of hours with our large -scale language models and we have taken that intelligence to the device for the first time, so that it looks like a human and interact naturally, with conversations with different emotions and detecting the user’s mood.” As Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei promises, the focus is that the person-one interaction is as natural as possible, coming to promise that the assistant will be able to detect user’s emotions (it has not been detailed how). In a more landed plane, it will be able to eliminate photographs objects, generate and modify them, convert voice, and even describe the objects that the telephone camera sees, so that people with accessibility problems can “see” through the mobile. Another especially curious function is to be able to read books without touching the phone: we can pass pages only with our eyes. Huawei wants a 100% own ecosystem. The key here is not that a Huawei mobile releases its AI, is that Huawei is already prepared, in agreement with Deepseekto compete with the greats of the industry. Harmonyos Next is a platform oriented to all types of devices, from home to the connected car, and this first jump presenting Harmony Intelligence is key to the Chinese manufacturer. The company has advanced that its first platform for PC (Harmonyos Next brought to desk) will land in May, and it is expected that throughout the year we will start to see this operating system in virtually all new products that launch the market. The pure huawei. The lucky one who has released Harmonyos Next is the pure x, a folding phone in appearance ratio 16.10 when it is deployed. It is a telephone that, being folded, has a 3.5 -inch screen with 980 x 980 resolution, 2,500 peak shine nits, LTPO technology and appearance ratio 1.1: completely square. Upon opening, a curious 6.3 -inch panel is displayed with resolution 2,120 x 1,320, a completely different format than we are used to. The camera system is triple, with 50 MP for the main camera, 40 MP for ultra wide angle and 8 MP for 3.5X teleobjective. It has a 4.720MAH battery with a fast charging of 60W and will be sold in China at a price that starts from 7,499 yuan (just over $ 1,000) in its 12 + 256 GB version. At the moment, far from Europe. If the question is whether Huawei’s plan to completely end its Android dependence, the answer is no … for now. In Europe, the company is looking for alliances with developers after projects such as Aurora Store to facilitate the installation of Google services in its terminals (something that is easier than ever), and betting on EMUI based on ancient Android versions. The key to Harmonyos Next ends up being global is in the Chinese manufacturer alliance with the rest of the developers and technological. In China, Google apps or giants as a goal (Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook) have hardly any presence, in our territory they are an essential for a good part of the users. Currently, they can be installed in EMUI thanks to the microg Google Services framework. Without it, the matter is complicated. Image | Huawei In Xataka | China has a possibility to unseat Android forever. One called Harmonyos

We review the predecessors of the iPod in crossover

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Marty McFly appears on stage with an anti -the -active suit. The goal, terrorizing his father in the past. He puts some headphones, puts a Van Halen tape on his Walkman, and puts it at full volume. That mythical scene of ‘Return to the future‘I had that technological product as a singular cast actor, and what if it deserved it. And it is that the Walkman was defining a whole generation of users who had never been able to hear their music easily when they went down the street. To be able to hear the songs that you liked the most? That was miraculous. Sony revolutionized the world with Walkman, but that product was only the beginning of a paradigm shift in the world of music. Then the Discman would arrive, and with the massive adoption of MP3 we discovered that music in digital format offered even more comforts. There, the first MP3 players based on flash memories, Discman MP3 and something after the first MP3 players based on small hard drives. Until Apple raised its first disruption with the iPod, of course. That product did nothing especially different, but it did better and in a spectacular design. Then the smartphones and the iPhone would arrive, and the iPod became irrelevant. In that review we escaped other great products such as the Minidisc, but we did not want the list to become too long and we prefer to review the ones we consider more relevant. In any case everyone had their own magic, and In the fourth crossover episodein which Xataka collaborates with range caps, we do A review of all those devices. And by the way we order them from better to worse because we love to order things from better to worse, although you already know, each one has their own ranking and that is the fun of these of these Tier Lists of crossover. The episode, as always, It covers much more. The polarizing section ‘A Popular Opinion’ is released, there is an interview with an expert from the world of formula 1 and the formula-e, and to the review of the most important news of the week is added the cherry cherry: a look at the scrambled Lamborghini and Urus se. Enjoy Crossover! On YouTube | Crossover

The National Police had been using ia for six years to detect false complaints. His real reliability was very debatable

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In October 2018, the National Police published a press release in which everything sounded great. There was talk of A new artificial intelligence tool called Veripol that promised an accuracy of 90% when detecting false complaints. Six years later we have discovered that this promise was very debatable. The Technical Cabinet of the General Police Directorate He confirmed Civio that this tool ceased to be operational in October 2024, six years later. This decision, as this media points out, was not accidental. Three months before BOE was published with the new artificial intelligence regulation. In section (59) it is indicated to the polygraphs of AI as high -risk AI tools and the following is precisely indicated: “(…) It is appropriate to classify several systems of AI destined to be used for the purpose of guaranteeing the law when their precision, reliability and transparency are especially important to avoid adverse consequences, conserve the confidence of the population and guarantee accountability and effective resource roads. the risk of a natural person being a victim of crimes, Like polygraphs and other similar tools. “ Not only that: a group of law and mathematics experts from the University of Valencia highlighted In a study How Veripol was a tool that information was barely available, which made an especially complicated audit. Even indicating that this made them conjecture their conclusions, they stressed the situation was “very poor in terms of compliance with the minimum standards of transparency” necessary for the use of tools of this type. Do certain specific words are enough to detect lies? Civio conducted a study of the reliability of the tool. After analyzing 1,122 allegations of theft in Spain of 2015, Veripol’s behavior was singular: if a complaint contains the words “day”, “lawyer”, “safe” or “back” it is more likely to be false, but that probability increases If words like “two hundred” are used several times or “barely.” Veripol began to be evaluated in a pilot program in June 2017, and He won an award Investigation of the Spanish Police Foundation. There was talk of its success even In Scientific American. Little by little, its use was extended until officially activated in the aforementioned October 2018 nationwide. Its use was notable until October 2020 (about 84,000 complaints), while apparently in 2022 it was used only in 3,752 complaints, of which 511 were detected as false. In the development of said project The Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), the Carlos III University of Madrid, the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and the Interior Ministry of the Government of Spain. A UCM advertisement Point out How the initiative began in 2014, and began to be tested with apparent success in 2017. Preliminary tests, yes, were executed with a sample that The experts described as scarce. In this statement, it was highlighted how “it is the first time worldwide that a tool of these characteristics is developed” and that Veripol performed an “automatic analysis of the statements of complainants using natural language processing techniques and automatic learning, with a success rate of 91%, fifteen points higher than that of expert agents.” In the description of its operation the following was pointed out: “For example, it is known that in cases of theft, true statements are presented more details, descriptions and personal information, in the face of the exclusive insistence on the extracted object and the omission of details about the attacker or how the incident of the false happened. From this linguistic analysis, Veripol is able to create an effective pattern.” “In just one week, 31 and 49 false theft cases were detected and closed, while between 2008 and 2016 they were 3.33 and 12.14 in Murcia and Malaga, respectively. The effectiveness of the pilot study was 83%.” A doubtful reliability He Complete study of the University of Valencia reflects a debatable functioning of the tool. They indicate how Veripol designers claimed that false complaints in relation to theft are “extremely common” and the crime is “generally carried out by citizens who have no criminal record.” They have no clear figures, but even unable to estimate the real figure of false complaints “they suggest that it could be around 57%”, a figure that It rests interestingly in non -solving cases. In Damn.es They carried out in 2020 an analysis of the evolution of the use of veripol and indicated how “the fact that the total registered crimes remains constant as the veripol use figures decrease, can be an indicative that the algorithm It is not used so much among the police officers. “For some agents, they pointed out,” the program is not very precise “, and that although in theory it could work well, its application in police stations was complex because training was needed to do so. Algorithmwatch, a non -governmental and non -profit agency based in Berlin and Zurich, often performs algorithms analysis and AI systems to try to evaluate their reliability and validity. In October 2020 They evaluated Veripol’s behavior And his conclusion was already overwhelming: “It is not clear if it works as it is intended”. They also explained that lies detectors – which is in essence what Veripol is – have a long trajectory of bad operations. In this concrete algorithm, he worried for example how some specific words had too much weight in the decision. One of the agents interviewed at that time indicated how it was enough that the word “knife” was in the report to be considered true. We are therefore before a technological tool, in this case theoretically supported by AI, which raised doubts from the beginning for transparency about its true functioning and development, and that it began to be used without preliminary evidence being completely conclusive by the size of the samples. In recent times We have seen for example how the Ábalos ‘case’ served to demonstrate that There are many risks here and that it is necessary to evaluate well the application of algorithms before applying them in public bodies of … Read more

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