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Spain has fought the fight against gender violence. And it is translating into mortal failures

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A woman named Lina went to the police last January. His ex -part Viogén. This system, based on an algorithm, determined that Lina was a “medium” risk person. Three weeks later it was allegedly murdered For your partner. It is not the first time that something like this happens, and shows that we have a serious problem with our potential dependence on algorithms. The origin of Viogén. The Interior Ministry development In 2007 the Viogén system (integral monitoring in cases of gender violence). Among its objectives was to make a risk prediction and, depending on that prediction, monitoring and protection of the victims. How it works. The system is based on the collection and analysis from various sources such as police complaints, protection orders or criminal record. In the complaint, for example, a series of questions about the episode of the aggression, the situation of the victim, the children, the aggressor’s profile or the aggravating vulnerability, such as economic dependence are asked. Risk levels. From that evaluation one of the four levels of risk is assigned to each case (1 – low, 2 – medium, 3 – high, 4 – extreme). Each of them entails specific measures that may include from the allocation of telecare devices to remote orders. At the extreme risk, women have 24 -hour police surveillance. Viogén 2. The system has evolved since its creation and in recent months its second version has been implemented, Viogén 2. As explained in article 14the algorithm was updated with novelties such as eliminating the unreissented risk and hindering the inactivation of open cases. Thus, a new supervised inactivation modality appears that sets police control mechanisms for a period of six months extendable to one year. That makes it possible to monitor cases in which police experts have not appreciated the existence of risk for women or this is low. Zero protocol. There are also modifications that will allow the victim to request it in a “voluntary, manifest and repeated” way to inactivate cases of unattended risk, low or medium. Even so, the so -called “zero protocol” designed to minimize the risk of victims who express their desire not to denounce. According to the Macro -New Equalitythe vast majority of victims do not report, and therefore also protect them: institutions only have knowledge of 21.7% of cases according to said survey. Tragedies everywhere. The problem is that the system is not entirely effective. The alleged murder of Lina is the last example of the limited reliability of Viogén. In October 2024 a 56 -year -old woman She was killed Despite having asked for help even twice. Before, in 2024, another woman was killed by her partner and her It was also part of the Viogén system. The algorithm seems to minimize the risk. In the case of Lina, for example, the Viogén system allocated the “medium” risk for it, and that seems to happen on more occasions. In September 2024, 96,644 women were within the Viogén systembut only 12 of them were considered extreme risk, 0.01% of the total. Both the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, and the Minister of Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, They minimize errors Recognizing that “the model is not infallible, but saves many lives.” New alarm against AI and algorithms. In recent times we are seeing how there are more and more cases in which excessive confidence is granted to algorithms on especially sensitive issues used in administrations and public institutions. The AI ​​does not stop making mistake. It happened with the Veripol system using AI to detect false complaints: His real reliability was very debatable. Something before, in March, we lived the Ábalos Case scandal in which an AI used to transcribe the statements of witnesses and defendants made mistakes and ended up turning some paragraphs into a gallimatisms. The AI ​​system for facial recognition itself that is being used for example In video surveillance cameras in Madrid He has done too Jump alarms in privacy. In the United Kingdom an AI was used to predict crimes to the minority report, and Its results were unfortunate. Attempts to apply AI in judicial processes and police They have also generated worrying conclusions. Lack of transparency. These systems are usually also criticized for their lack of transparency. Veripol is a good example, but we had others. In 2024 we talked about the Bosco system, used by electricity companies to decide who and who cannot accept the social bonus for aid to the light invoice. The Government He refused to share the source code claiming reasons for public security and national defense. It is not a problem only from Spain: there is an algorithm that suggests to the US judges what convictions imposebut its code is a secret, for example. In such delicate issues, the lack of transparency on the functioning of these algorithms is especially worrying. There were no agencies for this? In 2021 the creation of A Spanish Agency for Artificial Intelligence Supervision (Aesia). It was apparently centered to monitor compliance with the Digital Services Law (DSA) on platforms such as great social networks, and in fact in 2022 Sevilla was chosen To house the first European Center for Algorithmic Transparency (Ecat). What about Aesia. More recently we have seen how AESIA finally wants to take shape with Its coruña headquarters and start operating in 2025 to theoretically focus on the application of the EU AI Law. Its objective is theoretically to carry out “measures for the minimization of significant risks on the safety and health of people, as well as their fundamental rights, which can be derived from the use of AI systems.” Both the case of Viogén and Veripol’s or what happened in the ‘Abalos Case’ are precisely likely to enter that area, and it remains to be seen if the activity of this agency manages to help both the algorithms used as well as its application are optimal. Image | James Harrison | National Police In Xataka | We live a concentration crisis. Experts … Read more

The electric car has an average age of just 3.5 years and does not stop falling. It is very good news

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Changing car is usually a reason for joy in a house. Unless you are forced by the circumstances of an unexpected breakdown or before what has been expected, acquiring a new vehicle is usually exciting for the buyer. And it is because, on average, it occurs every long. Whenever it is not electric, of course. A study. The average age of electric vehicles is 3.5 years. That is what the latest available report states S&P global in which this dynamic is studied. The figure is inferior to that of past years and remains down. In 2022, the Middle Ages was 3.7 years and in 2023 of 3.6 years. The figure contrasts with that registered for diesel and gasoline cars. Following the reverse road, the Middle Ages of the American Mobile Park has been growing over the years until it is 12.6 years. Taking into account that the electric car barely represents 3.2 million vehicles of the 286 million units in operation in the country, its impact on the Middle Ages is negligible. And in Europe? In Europe there are no data segmented by technologies. Acea, employer of manufacturers in Europe, only refers to the average age of cars in the continent and by countries. Points out that in Spain, According to the latest studiesIt is 13.9 years. A figure higher than the European average. In the continent, the average is 12.5 years. A figure that is lower because in Germany and France, the two largest car markets in Europe, the decade is barely exceeded. They are also the markets where more electric cars are bought. Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland or Sweden, countries that are located in the European average or in the upper part in the purchase of electric cars, also have lower figures in the Middle Ages of the mobile park compared to the rest of Europe. On the contrary, Spain, Italy and all the rest of Europe have the most aged mobile park. Although the almost 14 Spanish years are far from the more than 17 years of Greece, we share with those countries that the market share in the purchase of electric cars is very low, just a third of the European average. Why is the electric car important? The impact of the electric car on the Middle Ages of the mobile park is evident, especially the smaller the market. It is shown that where cars are growing are more modern. This is because the Middle Ages of the electric, as seen in the United States and is presupposed in Europe, is very low. It has all the meaning of the world. If electric car sales continue to grow, the Middle Ages has to go down. In the study of S&P global It is pointed out that in 2024 there were 50% more electric cars in American streets than in 2022. If sales are stopped, on the contrary, the age of the mobile park will increase in line. In the United States, where the sample is more than 286 million cars the impact is very low. In Europe, on the contrary, the impact is more evident because we can segment through countries. It is estimated that there is 256 million cars in circulation in Europe But Luxembourg, Germany, Sweden and Belgium are the countries where there is a higher percentage of cars with less than two years. Removing the peculiarities of Luxembourg, coincide (again) with electric sales. Two good news. That the electric car continues to expand its customer base are good news for the fleet of vehicles at European level. Confirms that every view more customers are trusting technology and that adequate incentives There are more drivers willing to jump into the electric car. It also means greater security. This is independent of the new car sold. With European obligationsa new car is always going to be safer than one with more than a decade behind it. Although they were systems that have already been seen ten years ago, now all cars (regardless of the price) have to have systems such as rear camera, emergency braking or lane output alert. And a regulate. Although with good prospects. And is that S&P globalin its report in this regard in 2023, it indicated that 6.6% of the electric cars that were in operation a decade before had been sent to recycle. The figure is higher than that of vehicles with combustion motor (5.5%). This means that the electric car becomes obsolete before, which has all the logic. We are talking about a technology that advances very quickly and, above all, has been widely improved in the autonomy offered by the vehicle. It’s easy to think about Many vehicle fleets They have gone to better life as better options have been offered. In addition, it must be taken into account that the same has been seen in the second -hand market. The depreciation of electric cars It is much faster and more accused than those of combustion. If the company interested in selling it cannot place the car, the most logical thing is to send it to destroy if you need space and replace its fleet. More and more cars. To all of the above we must add that the average age of the cars is expected to remain in the coming years since the electric car seems to have an ally between the fleets. Countries like Belgium or Germany They have discovered that the company car is an especially attractive means to boost sales of this type of car. While a individual aspires to have a car for many years in property, unless you opt for a rentiercompanies often use this formula since it allows them to renew the fleet every three or four years. If we take into account that the electric car has grown a lot among rentals And companies of all kinds, we have years ahead where its Middle Ages remains very low. 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Gemini should not be called Gemini. It should be called Google

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In the last 25 years we have “google” things. If we wanted to find answers on the Internet, we were looking for them in Google. But Chatgpt is beginning to clearly threaten the future of that search engine, and a trend is growing slowly but sustained: we are increasingly looking for in Chatgpt or in one of its direct rivals, and every time we do less on Google. Will we “chatgpteand” things instead of “google them”? The solution: the king has died, live the king. If Google wants to prevent Chatgpt from becoming the tool to search and answer questions, it has a potential output: Make Gemini be Google’s central engine, turn the traditional search engine into an AI search engine. Hello, Google Classic. Gemini should be Google’s search engine, while Google’s search engine should become something like “Google Classic”, a relevant option but should end up going to the background. Google would continue to be called Google, but below the engine would not be the traditional search engine, but Gemini and its conversational search. OpenAI wins in users. Although Gemini has achieved (or overcome) to chatgpt in benefits and quality, today the general public associates with Chatgpt, not with Google. In Openai today they win in the most important battle: user. The danger is that chatgpt sweeps popularity. The US antitrust trial to Google He has revealed that Gemini has 350 million monthly users (at least they use it once a month). According to data from Google herself, Openai has about 600 million active monthly users. The data is not entirely conclusive and can be misleading. Perception – and some independent analysis They confirm it– It is that ChatgPT is for the moment much more popular than Gemini as chatbot. And Google’s search engine has broken. The feeling for a long time is that the drift of Google search engine is clear. There are divided opinions, of course, but what seems evident is that The search engine has broken And it is no longer what it was. That shows that those who seek human responses usually add “reddit” at the end to avoid artificial and useless search results. The “ai overViews” or “views created with AI” are increasingly frequent in the traditional Google search engine. The transformation, it seems, is underway. But Google is reacting. Here the company led by L actar Pichai is moving little by little, and we are seeing how its “AI overViews” begin to be increasingly frequent: when looking for something on Google it can often appear an answer generated by the which is located above the list of traditional links of the results page. Careful transition. Here the company is being clearly cautious because the reputational damage if they are wrong in the response can be huge, as they have already suffered Not one but twice. And yet, the transition seems to be underway, as shown by that recent behavior of the search engine. Google can be calm (for the moment). However, all this does not seem to be a problem for Google. The search engine market quota remains spectacular with almost 90% of the market According to Statcounter Globalstats data. A report by the sparkoro co -founder, Rand Fishkin showed That in searches the Google market share is 373 times that of Chatgpt, which in the best case would hardly have a 1% market share. Chatgpt is used to search, yes, but only three out of 10 times according to a recent Semrush report. People do much more to search in chatgpt. A Semrush report Analyzing 80 million Prompts shows that 70% of the requests of Chatgpt users were not to look for answers, but for other cases such as creating images, summarizing texts, writing code or doing their mates. But the antiponopoly trial stalks. These days Google lives one of the greatest threats in its history, if not the greatest. In the US they want to chop itand one of the consequences that are discussed would be to prohibit agreements Like Google and Apple To promote the use of your default search engine. Apple has already indicated that it does not rule out finishing using an AI search engine. And the rivals squeeze. And it is not only chatgpt or its search engine mode. Perplexity is a striking reference When looking for with AI, and Bing has been raising that transformation for some time. Microsoft had much less to lose in this market and bet everything for the search engine with AI. They and others are taking advantage (or will end up doing it) reality: these “response engines” are a powerful claim for users. They give you everything too massive, they take away work, and they conquer you with their conversational modes. Talking is more attractive (and natural) than looking for. Image | Markus Winkler In Xataka | Search on Google and you will find (almost) without leaving Google: the search engine contains you more and more, but there are promising alternatives

The last time all humans were on earth

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It sounds like the beginning of a science fiction work, but it is a silent milestone in the history of our species. On Tuesday, October 31, 2000 marked the last day in which every human being of the planet was on this side of the atmosphere. Since then, there has not been a single moment in which full humanity has been confined to our native planet. A historical launch. That October 31, 2000, A Soyuz ship took off from the Baikonur cosmodromein Kazakhstan, carrying on board the expedition 1 of the International Space Station: the American commander Bill Shepherd of the NASA and the Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko de Roscosmos. The crew reached an incipient ISS on November 2, 2000. It barely had a couple of modules (the Russian Zarya and the American Unity, assembled in 1998), But since then, the orbital laboratory has been occupied uninterruptedly. For 24 and a half years, there is always some human floating about 400 kilometers on our heads. A quarter of a century. The International Space Station is a collaborative project between five space agencies (the American Nasa, the Russian Roscosmos, the European ESA, the Japanese Jaxa and the Canadian CSA). It is not only an international cooperation symbol, but an unparalleled scientific laboratory, that orbits the land every 90 minutes at a speed of almost 28,000 km/h. In this quarter of a century, the orbital station has reached a habitable volume greater than that of a six -bedroom house, with A 109 meter wingspan and an average of seven people always on board. It can attach up to eight spacecraft simultaneously and has hosted almost 3,000 investigations of more than 108 countries, taking advantage of microgravity to study from particle physics to the effects of space trips on the human body. The ISS gives the witness. Aged and with age of agelike the air leaks that bring their operators head, the ISS members plan to leave it in 2030, before A ship developed by Spacex The towing to a safe place for its atmospheric reentry. NASA’s strategy is clear: ceasing to be the owner and main operator to become a key client, thus ensuring the continuous human presence in the low terrestrial orbit. This will allow to continue investigating in microgravity (which is crucial for future missions to the moon and Mars), maintain international collaboration and promote a commercial space economy. USA It has just reduced the budget for ISS hoping that there is a rapid transition to the new commercial stations. Companies such as Axiom Space (with their Axiom Sation project), Blue Origin (With your Reef orbital) or Voyager Space (With Starlab, in collaboration with Airbus) They are developing new private orbital platforms. What if they are not ready in time? If commercial stations do not arrive by 2030, humanity will continue to inhabit the orbit low thanks to China. Vetada de la ISS, China has expanded its presence in space With the Tiangong Space Stationcontinuously inhabited since 2022. China not only plans to double its size of three to six modules in the coming years, but is already opening its doors to international cooperation, as demonstrated by the recent agreement for Train and send Pakistani astronauts To the Chinese Space Station. With NASA focusing on a commercial model and the exploration of deep space, Beijing is strategically positioned as a central actor and a possible alternative in the low orbit, especially for nations that seek to collaborate outside the US frame. A changing environment. But there is another reason why the United States has focused on the moon and Mars. The low terrestrial orbit faces the increasingly critical challenge of space garbage. Millions of objects, from dead satellites and higher stages of rockets to small undetectable fragments generated by collisions or antisatellite missile tests. These waste travels at huge speeds and represents a risk of collision constantly and potentially catastrophic for astronauts. ISS itself has had to perform numerous evasive maneuvers in recent years. Manage this problem through better follow -up systems (especially for small objects), the active withdrawal of the most dangerous waste and, above all, prevention and mitigation in the generation of new space garbage (such as rapid exorbitation of rocket stages) will be essential to guarantee the safety of future long -term crew. For now, and for almost 25 years, we continue to live the space. On October 31, 2000, it was the last day of an era in which humanity was anchored exclusively to Earth. Since then we have been, uninterrupted, a species with extraterrestrial presence. Human permanence outside the earth seems assured, but its sustainability will require even more global effort and cooperation. Image | THAT In Xataka | Elon Musk has made public its latest recommendation for Trump: exorbiting the international space station in two years In Xataka | Boeing has lost: NASA will cancel the SLS rocket and look for a cheaper alternative to colonize the moon and Mars

Portugal has wanted to shield energy from Spain: the light bill has been the first to pay the price

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Spain and Portugal closed last year proclaiming themselves of the energy transition, since 82% of its electricity It came from clean sources. Within this energy harmony in which both countries were walking together, it seems that it has vanished after the blackout of April 28. Short. Still without An official explanation Clara of the causes of the mass blackout, both Spain and Portugal They have established a joint committee to investigate what happened. Meanwhile, Portugal has chosen to suspend electricity imports from Spain as a preventive measure, According to Financial Times. A fragmented energy island. The Iberian Peninsula is considered an “energy island” for its limited connections with Europe. For this reason, both countries have been forced to each other to balance their electrical systems. However, the blackout has evidenced the fragilities of this interdependence and has led Portugal to question the level of energy dependence it maintains with Spain. In Xataka If the question is "a country can hold only with renewable energy"the answer is here next: Portugal Immediate repercussions. Before the blackout, Portugal imported up to 35% of its electricity from Spain. This flow not only covered the Luso Energy Deficit, but also allowed the neighboring country to store the Spanish surplus in its hydroelectric plants, acting as water batteries, such as has detailed The Financial Times. However, the abrupt cut of that supply has left the country exposed to a much more expensive electric market. In data. According to OMIEwholesale electricity prices in Spain fell up to € 10.24/MWh, while in Portugal they shot € 47.92/MWh. This price difference has put in trouble to Portuguese companies and consumers, especially those without long -term contracts that protect them from sudden rise in rates. There is a shy openness. On Thursday after the blackout, imports began to reopen again, but limited capacity has maintained high prices in Portugal. According to the RENthe Portuguese electricity operator has indicated that the import capacity will be limited to 1,000 megawatts per day until May 12, a figure that represents less than a fifth of the usual import volume. {“Videid”: “X88TF3K”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Save on your light bill: the best options to know prices on your mobile”, “Tag”: “Webedia-prod”, “Duration”: “258”} Future implications. As He has collected The Financial Times, the Minister of Energy of Portugal, Maria Da Graça Carvalho, has pointed out a gradual restoration of imports from Spain. However, Armindo Monteiro, director of CIP, the main business group in Portugal, has warned that the country “does not live or should live in electrical isolation”, and has underlined the need to review the safety and dependence conditions in an uncertain energy context. Image | Pxhere Xataka | Spain has opted for the plot, but has left the network thrown: how micro -redes fit the energy puzzle (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Portugal has wanted to shield energy from Spain: the light bill has been the first to pay the price It was originally posted in Xataka by Alba Otero .

9,000,000 dollars that prevented a major catastrophe in the great recession

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On October 28, 1929, the Down Jones index collapsed almost 13%. It was one of the most devastating days of Wall Street and the ‘Black Monday‘who marked the Great Depression of 1930. The consequences worldwide were devastating, but it is a cyclical that was repeated in 2008 and that He threatened just a month ago. The financial crisis of 2008 was one of the greatest economic shocks in recent history, and in it there was a history as chanante as representative of the operation of the banks. The 9,000 million dollars check. Collapse. He Origin of the recession was … United States. The banks spent years emitting massively high -risk mortgages (credits to individuals who were not going to be able to pay them) and packaged those operations as opaque products and poorly qualified by valuation agencies (they had more risk than it was said). They were the calls “Toxic assets“That banks and funds from all over the world had bought. It is what caused rampant speculation and an artificial real estate bubble. And all the elements led to the fall of several financial institutions as powerful as Lehman Brothers. The banks stopped lending money, affecting both the entities and companies themselves. There was no money, the stock market fell into chopped jobs and governments had to inject billions to avoid the collapse of the financial system. Aid! Between it was Morgan Stanleyone of the world’s largest investment banks (the US Big Four with Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sach and Merrill Lynch) who needed the same as the rest of the entities: a rescue. The great independent entities sought how to get billions to continue operating, and the state of Morgan Stanley It was critical. After flirting with some banks, including a Chinese controlled by the state, they put their hopes in Mitsubishi UFJ. It is one of Japan’s biggest banks and, after intense negotiations, agreed to inject a stratospheric amount. 9,000 million. It is said soon, but with that figure they would get 21% of Morgan Stanley and an annual dividend of 10%. They would be done with a good piece of the American banking cake and Morgan Stanley could continue to operate, but there was a problem: there was no way that the amount arrived in time to avoid collapse. In fact, everything pointed in one address: if that money did not arrive, the bank would disappear. Time ran against a Morgan Stanley who, in a matter of days, saw how his shares fell from 60 dollars to less than $ 10. Transfer and holidays. We were in 2008 and the methods were the same as today (that does not speak well of traditional banking, precisely). The negotiation between the entities was urgently held a weekend and if you are one of those who make transfers, you already know what that means: banks do not make transfers on the weekend or holidays. Due to Columbus dayIn addition, they were going to be closed until Tuesday and, in addition, a transfer took between two and three days. It may, by then, Morgan Stanley no longer existed. In addition, the entity needed to make the announcement of the fusion as soon as possible to relieve the load a bit and show the investors that there was light at the end of the tunnel. The solution was as archaic as effective: paper and boli. Of joke. In the negotiation, one of the members of the Morgan Stanley team commented a “what a pity that you cannot simply extend a check. account That attendees laughed, but it was a laugh followed by something like “a moment, it can work.” And what if it worked: if Mitsubishi could face extending a check of 9,000 million dollars, nothing prevented Morgan from depositing it at the bank before the markets opened on Tuesday morning. Thus, they could announce the fusion, they would have the money on the account, the investors would be happy and the end of the story. Round. Japanese negotiators called the central, they found that they did have the ability to extend that check and the result was as follows: A role that guaranteed that Morgan Stanley received an injection of 9,000,000 dollars and that caused an increase in the price of shares of $ 9.68 to $ 17.92 when the markets opened on Tuesday. The operation had gone well for both and today, Morgan Stanley has a capitalization of 190,000 million, while Mitsubishi’s investment today exceeds 40,000 million. A round business that, rather than for history itself, is curious for how a piece of paper (the most expensive in history, could be?) It was imposed on the limitations of the Banks computer system. In fact, in the documentary that the firm made About their history a few years ago, they recognize the most important of this matter: they were lucky. Images | Mortan Stanley In Xataka | “A hole we have never seen”: 25% tariff

In the middle of the cold war, the yoke had the honor of becoming “the worst car in history.” Threat with returning as electric

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It was manufactured for almost thirty years and those who remember it do so with that half smile that only brings you the nostalgia and paternalism of those who love a child knowing that his brother is much smarter. It will return in 2027 in electrical format and retain some of its hallmarks. Hopefully, for the good of all, that it does not retain all its hallmarks. We talk about the yoke, a car that became famous in the Soviet Yugoslavia and that will return to life in 2027 in purely electric format. At least That is what Serbian businessman Aleksandar Bjelić wants. Congratulations, has created the worst car in history Small, simple, affordable … Soviet. The yoke was one of those cars that went down in history on the other side of the steel curtain for its proposal to motorize the masses. Like the Riva Lada in Russia or the Trabant in the Berlin and Communist Germany, the Yugo was part of the history of Yugoslavia during the 80s. In fact the car survived the country itself as eThe yoke remained in production until 2008. His secret resided in the simple of the proposal. Fiat 128 shortened variant, the car was a small utility that was manufactured in Serbia. A three doors that set everything to sit the passengers on top of four wheels and in front of a steering wheel. Its origin must be sought in Kragujevac, Serbia. Over there, Zastava Automobili He assembled cars that exploded a Fiat license. That is, the same as I was doing Seat before Volkswagen passed. Among those licensed cars was the Fiat 128 that the company exploded in Yugoslavia with the novel name of Zastava 128. Jokes apart, the car was a success that added 1.5 million units sold by adding its different bodies between 1971 and 2008 when the car stopped selling. In the 80s, Zastava He decides that he has to offer a cheaper version and puts on the market the Zastava Yugo or Zastava Koral, a cut version derived from Fiat 127. The car is a success in Eastern Europe in part because of its iconic image. It has logic taking into account that the car looks like Volkswagen Golf. In fact, if we observe the first generations of both, it looks a lot at Volkswagen Golf. As much as to affirm that Giorgetto Giugiaro He should not have given the concept many turns when he was commissioned to look for a form to the yoke. Thus, with the firm of Giugiaro and the promise to put on the market a simple car the Zastava Yugo began to make a name. Under his hood he set up a simple Fiat engine of 908 cc and 45 hp. A power that gave the last name to the car when it was exported out of Serbia as a yoke 45. Later a slightly more powerful version of 1.1 liters and 55 hp would arrive. A 1.3 -liter and 65 hp option was even put on the market. As we see, it didn’t seem The car you would buy to travel large kilometers. In spite of everything, you have to understand the time and that, of course, neither Yugoslavia first nor Serbia later had to invite those kilometers. That was what Malcolm Bricklin should not have understood, the businessman who in 1985 wanted to introduce the yoke into the US market. Let’s review, a small, simplistic car and with a dwarf engine on a highway in the United States. It didn’t seem the best of ideas. And it wasn’t. “Cheap to buy. Terrible to drive”. With these words they define Hagerty from the United Kingdom to the healthy yoke that was sold in the United States as a Florida yoke. And that was a version above the aforementioned yoke 45. A car, the healthy one, which mounted a more powerful engine, in versions of 1.4 and 1.6 liters to get a better performance on the road. The lower version, that yoke 45 was sold in the United States with the name of Yugo GV. It was, by far, the cheapest car on the market. But the rolling quality was as bad that it was considered the worst car in the world. The criticisms were so bad that it quickly became a joke, it would have been a meme with wheels if at that time The word “meme” would have existed. Almost immediately, the car was made a hole in the hearts of the fans. In fact, you can find a book written by Jason Vuic entitled exactly like this: Yoke. Boom and fall of the worst car in history. The fascination was huge by a car that simply accounted for breakdowns due to pairs and offered poor results in security tests. So bad was the experience that was the car with the worst note of customer satisfaction in the prestigious JD Power in 1986. Precisely In JD Power they explain that in the Consumer Reports analysis it was specified that “the car dragged up to 100 km/h” and that in the best case the peak speed reached 86 mph (about 138 km/h). But those criticisms arrived after many buyers had already done with the car. A yoke giving everything Its price was so low that they sold more than 1,000 units on the first day. Then, the nightmare of the owners began. The spark plugs collapsed Because the United States gasoline was not adequate, the distribution strap had to be repaired at 30,000 miles (about 48,000 kilometers). Little by little, the ear mouth extended and the lawsuit plummeted. So plumme that according to the American portal they were sold with 2×1 offers despite its low price, with the idea of ​​the concessionaire to take them off as soon as possible. The performance was so bad that in 1992 the American subsidiary of the company broke. However, the car continued its performance in Serbia. The company came to 2008 When it … Read more

At the beginning of the 20th century European roads were a dust hell

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We complain a lot about them, but the asphalt is that Gray web that joins towns and cities around the world. Today are something we take for granted, but the roads we know Today they have just a century behind them. Beyond allowing the “soft” passage of vehicles, it was the element that allowed the car expansion At the beginning of the 20th century. And we owe everything to an accident in a town in England and dust hateors. John Loudon McAdam He was a Scottish engineer who had a vocation: build roads. He dedicated his life to perfecting these routes because he realized one thing: the traditional stone and earth were easily embodied and the maintenance was constant. In other parts of Europe the roads were also being perfected, but their method, baptized as ‘Macadán’ was the one who imposed. His idea was to raise the roads a bit and give them some inclination so that the water was stored on the sides. To make them more “waterproof”, stone and gravel were crushed and compacted. That was covered with a layer of sand and seems simple, but it was a revolution. Macadán road Macadan’s roads were smoother than stone, it was more resistant and drained better. In addition, it was cheap, so it seemed like a Win-Win For governments and passersby, right? Well … not so much. The main problem was the dust that constantly rose due to that outer sand layer, but soon the natural enemy of the macadan came: the self -propelled vehicle. The first cars were many things, but of course they were not popular. Not everyone could afford a car, but who did one had to spend some time shaking the dust after a trip along Macadán’s roads. The dust is not a friend of speed, since it is impregnated in the mechanical components, in the clothes and enters through the nasal and mouthpieces of the drivers and passengers. The chance that gave rise to modern roads Mcadam’s contribution was great, but also hit by the new century. This is how Edgar Purnell Hooley enters this story. This Welsh inventor was walking a good day of 1901 along a Derbyshire County road when he realized that part of the road was covered with something black. When he asked what had happened, he was told that a carriage had lost a barrel of tar, spilling on the road and, to try to cover it, someone poured a scum of nearby furnaces. The mixture had solidified and, without pretending, had created a section of smooth road, no dust or potholes. Hooley was lit the bulb and, neither short nor lazy, patented in 1902 the process of heating tar, mixing it with sand, crushed stone and other elements and compacting it. It was baptized as ‘Tarmacadam’ and it is the element that revolutionized the roads for that new ‘animal’: motorized horses. It seemed the ideal solution by reducing dust, having much lower maintenance than the macadan and maintaining those resistance properties to the inclement weather. Besides, Little by little it was improved adding resins and portland cement to the mixture. They soon wanted to try that ‘miracle’ and the Radcliffe Road de Nottingham converted on the first paved road in the world. The Babylonians already used the asphalt to perform some processes, but Hooley’s technique to mix scum and tar was the real revolution on the roads Launching tar in the London of the IGM Those eight kilometers showed that Tarmacadam was the mobility solution of the new century, but the car revolution was not only occurring in England. At the same time that Hooley patented his idea, Alberto I of Monaco confessed that he was fed up with the dust raised by the cars. Dust covered tourism was not attractive, so he asked a Swiss doctor named Ernest Guglielminetti to do something. “We only breathe dust, the flowers suffer and it is absolutely necessary to do something. Would you have any idea?” That was his Challenge/Prayer For Guglielminetti, who had an idea. He recalled that, during his work in Indonesia, part of the hospital floor was composed of wooden planks covered with tar to facilitate cleaning. So, he proposed to spread a mixture of hot tar, sand and records along forty meters in part of the land road surrounding the oceanographic museum. It was a success and they began to asphalt other roads. In addition, tar was abundant because it was a residue of gas plants for municipal lighting that, until it began to take advantage of roads, was thrown … into the sea. Guglielminetti and his machine to heat the tar Unlike Hoolyy, Guglielminetti did not patent absolutely anything, but remained very active perfecting the tar mixture, even participating in the First International Road Congress held in 1908 in Paris. It was there when He explained that dreamed with a network of thousands of kilometers of paved roads connecting all the countries of the world. The conclusion of that congress was that tar was the ideal solution, but before it, there was already a League against dust that promoted the benefits of the asphalting. Everything developed quite fast, something logical if we take into account that the car also began to popularize. Putting Spain as examplein 1900 there were three cars enrolled. In 1905 there were already 275, but in 1910 the figure was almost 4,000. That rapid evolution and adoption of the car required a renovation of roads. With the passage of time, the tar stopped used Due to its adverse health effects, being replaced by oil derivatives, but maintaining the basis of what Hoolyy and Guglielminetti devised. And, returning to the Welsh inventor, the story did not end too well. Tarmac registered as a brand and founded the TAR Macadam Syndicate Ltd, but he was not a businessman and sold Sir Alfred Hickman. In addition to Wolverhampton parliamentarian, he had a siderurgy, so the scorus for the asphalting came out for free. He … Read more

The best applications to make calls and group video calls

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Let’s tell you the better video call applications for 2025alternatives to the eternal Skype who has died this week. These are apps that you will be able to make video calls for free, and that are the main references of the sector. Instead of making a very long list, we are going to focus on the main alternatives, telling you their own characteristics. We are going to focus on important data such as User limits In group video calls, and in each one we will give you a link. Microsoft Teams This is Skype’s natural substituteand it is the alternative that Microsoft will replace it. In fact, if you log in now with the same account you used in Skype, all your chats, your contacts and your files will be migrated. So just one disappears to maintain the other. Free Teams offers a messaging chat with profiles that you can share with your phone or email. And you also have the possibility of making video call meetings free up to 60 minutesin addition to creating communities to work as a team, being able to share the screen, change the background, record meetings, everything essential. Zoom Zoom broke into the scene of the video calls for years during the pandemic, and remains consolidated as one of the best alternatives to Skype. In addition to a very good video and audio quality, it has support for calls of up to 100 people Free, although there are free plans for 300 or 500. It allows you to share screens with videos or audio, share slides to make presentations or change the background. You can also make dynamic presentations and demonstrations, all on a very optimized platform. There is also a payment version with more advanced functions such as recording screen or transcripts. Google Meet Google also has its own alternative to Skype and Zoom, which allows you to create Meetings of up to 100 participants With Google’s personal accounts. As is evident, if you have a company or teaching account, these limits can be expanded. You will also be able to program these meetings or video calls, and perform or share your Google Drive documents. Free meetings can be up to 60 minutes, you have wallpapers to change, share documents, and a system of reactions. WhatsApp Beyond the most professional solutions, WhatsApp also allows you to make group video calls. Because in the end almost all we have WhatsApp and some group in the app, and in these groups that we already have created there are options to start the calls You can make calls in group chats of Up to 32 people. It is a smaller limit than other applications, but for most cases it should serve, and is completely free. In addition, you will be able to access these video calls from any device, both mobile and computer. Telegram And if WhatsApp allows group calls, Telegram too. These can be up to 30 people in Videpalthough audio are unlimited. In the calls you can share screen or reduce the background noise, and there is support for tablets and calls from the browser. Discord Discord is a platform to create metacomunities, in which you can make different conversation rooms. It is a good free tool for work or leisure communities around specific topics, and has enormous compatibility With other systems, including consoles. This platform allows you to have real -time communications of what you want, and it has Audio or video call chats function. Currently, Discord allows people of up to 25 people on your server. Facetime Apple users have facetimeyour own video call application. Although you can have already enter a facetime call from Android or Windowsit is still a fairly minority option, although it is advisable to remember that it is still there. This alternative allows audio or video calls with Up to 32 participants. To start them you will need to use an Apple device, and then share the link to access from an Android or Windows using the Internet browser. Signal Signal is an alternative to WhatsApp and Telegram Based on privacyand like the other apps also allows individual and group video calling. These video calls are encrypted and with the maximum safety guarantees. To make these calls you first have to make a group chat with the members, and then click on the camera icon. The call opposes up to 50 participantsalthough all of them must have the updated application. You can share screen and talk with these people normally. Jami This is one of the best open source alternatives To make calls among users. It is available in almost all systems, and stands out because calls between users are direct and among them, without using any server where data can be saved. Like all, it has a free version and one for payment companies. They have all the basics, with text messages, video and voice calls, send files, and all the essentials, although perhaps without so many advanced options, although some as silenced participants or hand of raised hands. Talky This is a free web service for those who do not need so much. You do not need to bealar anything, the call is made with the browser, although it has A limit of 15 people In videoconference. You also have options such as collaboration or sharing screen, mobile application, and even put a password to the group call. Wechat Wechat is another popular Asian chats application, and also allows group calls to be made. Less used, but you can do it both from your mobile apps and in your web version. It becomes like WhatsApp or Telegram, with similar functions, including group chats. You also have the option to see people around and use other local functions. As for group video calls, you have A limit of 15 people In each of them. Instagram or Facebook Messenger Both Instagram and Facebook Messenger are option to perform group video call from their applications, with limits … Read more

A young computer scientist was looking for work. So “hacked” LinkedIn to always receive offers first

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The youth of generation Z face serious difficulties in starting their work career in a labor market so competitivein which for Each job offer hundreds or thousands of candidates are presented. Find The slightest advantage To highlight in job requests it is fundamental. Michael Yan, a 25 -year -old founder and CEO from Simplify, has shared A trick on LinkedIn which allowed him to receive job offers from large companies such as Meta, Microsoft and Google. This method allowed him to access before the rest of vacancies candidates, thus increasing the possibilities of being hired Faced with other candidates. Yan’s trick. Like Yan told to Business InsiderIn 2018, the young manager was in his first year of computer science at Stanford University and was looking for companies to do his first practices. Given its technological training, Yan warned that the URL address of the LinkedIn Employment Section showed an “86400”. That number is not accidental: it is the number of seconds that have 24 hours a day. Therefore, when Yan asked LinkedIn the job offers of “the last 24 hours”, he always showed him those that had been published the day before, not in the last hours. A simple change to be the first. From that discovery, Yan accessed LinkedI’s employment tab and made a search for the professional profile that demanded and applied the filter “publication date” to “last 24 hours”. Then, the number “86400” of the URL address in the browser bar for “3600” changed, which is the seconds that have an hour. In this simple way, the young candidate “hacked” LinkedIn’s job search obtaining the offers published in the last hour, so that always He was one of the first candidates in postulating for vacancies. “I got job offers in Meta and Google because I postulated offers a few hours after they were published,” said the young manager in his publication. Access to better opportunities. Yan discovered that manually modifying these URLs could access the newest offers before other users, which placed their curriculum among the first in the list, causing their hiring options to improve considerably. Although this trick does not guarantee that a company hires someone for a position for which It is not preparedit does offer an important advantage in the selection process. Many companies establish an order of arrival to review the candidacies, so being among the first to apply will place you among the first to do your job interview. That served him to do your practices In the best technological companies. Any advantage is welcome. According to a report of Handshake of 2024, 57 % of the Z generation that will be incorporated into the labor market in 2025 is pessimistic about the start of its careers. 63% ensure that pessimism comes from an extremely competitive labor market. The data suggests that these newly graduated young people have already sent 24 % more employment requests than last year students of the previous year. Although skills and experience remain crucial, response time can be decisive to advance the selection. According The published by Business InsiderAndrew McCashill, expert in professional racing in LinkedIn, said that “being one of the first to run, especially for jobs you really want or for those who are super qualified, should undoubtedly be part of a job search strategy.” In Xataka | A LinkedIn function opens a debate that divides recruiters: the #Pentowork label Image | Unspash (Sign Pratama)

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