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500 people already live at the airport between travelers and coexistence problems

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From 11 at night, security personnel begin to verify documents and to evict those who do not have valid shipments (…) The airport design is simple but there are few private corners or remote spaces. If you need to go to bed on the floor, it brings an extra layer because the floor is mostly cold and hard tile You can read the description in Sleeping in the Airportsa web space where all tips and small tricks or recommendations to take into account are offered if what you want is to sleep in an airport. The description above speaks of Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport. It is just one of many. In it you can read details that make a difference if you need to spend the night at the airport. And the aid is so useful if you have passed security control or not. “The McDonald’s seats are padded” But also that “readers inform us that there are sources next to the bathrooms” or that “in the T4, next to the VIP room of Iberia, there is a small more private corner.” This web space is a reference but it is not the only one you will find on the Internet. Reddit is full of threads in which advice is requested to spend the best way in these spaces. In Quora It is also easy to find them. Here, a user explains his bad experience at the Shanghai airport for not being informed that he was committing a foul. In recent years, there are more those who sleep at airports. Well because their flight leaves too early or, on the contrary, they have arrived late enough to not be able to use public transport to the city and expect the dawn of the next day. Or, simply, because they have nowhere to go and the airport offers them a safe and hot place. Where to sleep if you have nowhere to sleep The latter is what has been happening at the Madrid airport. ASAE union (union alternative AENA ENAIRE) calculates that, every day, about 500 people sleep distributed by the four airport terminals. A number that has multiplied in a decade. They estimate that then there were no more than 40 people who took refuge in this space. The union denounces that workers are afraid to go to their jobs. They explain to The country that there are homeless people who sleep every night because they have no other place to go but those who drug themselves in the bathrooms or those who steal from tourists are also common. “Aena is all facade, an apparent good image, but in reality is contributing to this lack of control. Before it was a problem, now it is a problem. We need to press the Government to modify current legislation, ”explains one of the workers to the newspaper. The Madrid case is not unique in Spain. Last year the Generalitat, Aena and the municipalities of El Prat and Barcelona gathered to find a solution to the same problem. There, it is estimated that every night a hundred homeless sleeps. “It is a serious social problem, and it is inadmissible for no one to take over,” he said then a National Police agent to the medium. Two years before, the problem had stayed in a forgotten corner. In The avant -garde They collected in 2022 that Several people lived in one of the abandoned parking lots after the last reform of the airport despite being within its facilities. Although in Spain we have put the focus on homeless people, outside our borders, airports are also common where more people sleep or, at least, try. There are no conclusive data that meet the problem but it is easy to find the articles in which the theme is addressed from different angles. From positions that speak of their own experience, such as this article of The Washington Post to Tips for facing long delays that leave us alone before the night without a place to sleep. Of the man who was 14 years living in a Chinese airport at Unipersonal Cabinas that are distributed by their facilities to put a head or sleeping spaces more than $ 100 a night at Dubai airport. Aware of the problems they can represent, the airport managers themselves have been putting obstacles to prevent people from sleeping in their facilities. From a greater police presence to seat benches with armrests Each or two seats that prevent a person from lying in them. The other side of the currency is represented by airports where facilities are put to the rest of the passengers, with sun loungers even in common spaces. If you go to sleep at a European airport, you know that Sleeping in Airports I recommend doing it in Helsinki’s. Photo | Ray Sangga Kusuma In Xataka | The great challenge of the successor of the Concorde will be to dominate the sonic patterning: there are those who believe that we are close to getting it

My concentration ability takes a long time. Working in a laptop almost 15 years ago has saved me

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Our care economy is broken. Completely. We are continuously bombarded by stimuli that come by many ways and the consequence is clear: We distracted ourselves with the flight of a fly. It is curious how this is causing a change not only in us, that we look for methods not to distract us, but in elements such as an entertainment industry that has changed its way of capturing our attention. There are two very clear examples of this. Music is one more or less obvious, with increasingly short songs (just a couple of minutes) and, some, with the chorus as the beginning of the theme. In addition, these choruses are also short to fit in the 15 seconds that you can share in an Instagram story. Another example is that of films, with trailers of a couple of minutes that begin with a trailer trailer itself. Here are an example of ‘TOP GUN MAVERICK‘, whose trailer starts with a five -second teaser with images that we will see below: Many more films make this, being a marketing resource that begs us to Let’s pay attention For two minutes. They seem to beg a “Please, pay attention to me, cool things come”. Due to that constant information bombardment, We seek to be productive when we are hyperstimulated And we read books, we learn from successful people, we put into practice supposedly infallible methods, we download applications and, sometimes, we spend more time looking for how to be productive That, really, being. I have to say that I have found a secret to Improve my productivity: Working on a computer that prevents me from opening more than three tabs at the same time. And – at least to me – it works. A hardware barrier If you are reading this it is because you have looked for ways to be more productive and not distract you. I have done it and I have installed everything on my computer, I have configured Ways not to bother the phone And even issues that restrict apps during work hours, but the meat is weak and the finger always tends to go open Bluesky or worse Instagram and Tiktok. One day it occurred to me that, if the software did not limit me, perhaps the hardware would. I went to the closet and took out of the box (I am one of those who keep the boxes of what he buys) My university laptop: a 2011 MacBook Pro. 16 GB of RAM A double -core i5 at a few 2.4 GHz and 13 inches of screen. Years ago I replaced his hard drive with a SSD and I was surprised to light after so many years. What did not work was the charger (nothing that does not solve Amazon and some 20 euros), so I configured it and came across the first problem: I was very outdated. Not only could he not update to a new operating system, but browsers such as Edge, Chrome or your own Safari They were insuffically slow. Nor could I install some applications that I use on a day -to -day basis, such as Notion, because they require a more recent version of the system, so I did with a Firefox Legacy and configured it so that Notion Be the default opening page. You will be wondering why I tell you this, and there I go: when I changed this laptop for a more recent one in 2017, something was already slow and having more than 4-5 tabs in a browser was unfeasible. Despite the 16 GB of RAM, the processor could not with so much without making the fan a turbine, without heating the chassis and without making the system on pull. Precisely, the reason that forced me to make the leap to Infame Macbook Pro with butterfly keyboardIt is the one that made me come back because I wanted, precisely, that. I explain: when I work on a website like Xataka, I do it with a lot of open eyelashes to search for sources. I have Telegram installed, YouTube Music, an image editor and Many times I open, almost by inertia, some social network Or youtube if I don’t feel inspired. With issues such as news or reports, having that overestimulation does not bother me because I know it is something that will take me for a while and then I will happen to something else, but the thing changes when I have an analysis or an opinion article. Does the screen divided there? Neither joke For this type of texts, the concentration is key. You have to turn your thoughts and structure them in a certain way. You cannot afford to get distracted because you lose your thread, and those distractions do not exist with a laptop from almost 15 years ago. If I have more than three tabs open at the same time, the Mac goes to the idle, so I only have notion, Perplexity (precisely to look for something and have many options in a single tab instead of many sources in many tabs) and YouTube Music. Web Telegram It is not an option, for example, and as soon as I have four tabs, the processor is already asking for rest. That with four Firefox tabs That technological barrier, almost physicalnot only does it exist because of how the Mac would go if I open more eyelashes: the screen also plays a paper. 13 inches are not bad and many current laptops have that diagonal, but here the resolution is 1280 x 800 pixels. Translation: scarce, much, so much that putting a game is not an option. Not having a high resolution, putting a split screen is unfeasible, which forces me to have a single screen I am writing, preventing you from having an eye in my text and another in a YouTube video, for example. As I said, it works for me and it is something that I have incorporated into my work routine. … Read more

In 2024 Nicolas Cage, in 2025 Stephen King. The revolutionary horror cinema returns with a new epic of humor and gore

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Osgood Perkins is one of the most stimulating horror film directors of today (in addition, consecrated to gender: fans are lucky that it is not one of those creators who roll two impact films and then retire to more prestigious genres or profitable). And above, it is wonderfully prolific: last year, ‘Longlegs‘It became the cult film par excellence; This year, already in February, his ‘The Monkey’ is on his way to running the same fate. Oz Perkins likes fear. As is well known, Perkins is the son of an authentic horror cinema icon, Anthony Perkins, but with his good work he has been distanced from the titanic shadow of his father: before his international revelation with ‘Longlegs’, Perkins He already signed small but tremendously disturbing films, in which he showed an incredible hand for gender. As in his debut, the very sick ‘The envoy of evil‘, his personal vision of fairy tales with’Gretel and Hansel‘, And the modest but very intense’I am the beautiful creature that lives in this house‘For Netflix. ‘Longlegs’, a murky descent to madness. Descent, but as one descends rolling down the stairs to the darkest corner of a flooded medium basement. ‘Longlegs’ left Patidifuso to everyone in 2024 thanks to one of the most extreme papers of Nicolas Cage (which is already), but also because of the unexpected of their script turns and for the few concessions that this story gave this story this story of an FBI agent with some extrasensory capacity, and that is embarked in the search for a murderer who soon acquires absolutely inexplicable dyes. And now, Stephen King. Here is all of icons of the disheveled gesture and the insomnia nights. Stephen King, Nicolas Cage and now, Stephen King. Because his is the story that inspires Perkins’s new movie, ‘The Monkey’, which arrives at theaters this week. The original story is the variant of a code that King has used on countless occasions (‘the store’, ‘animal cemetery’), that of the monkey leg: do not want something very strong, because the desire can meet with the same force and with devastating consequences. But Perkins has brought the original story completely to its land. The desire monkey. The film starts when two twin brothers find among their father’s objects, whom they did not get to know, an old toy monkey with a drum. Soon a series of truculent deaths begin to happen in their surroundings, and that blame the monkey. The brothers decide to get rid of him and continue with their lives, although they end up distancing over the years. But suddenly the strange deaths take place again and the brothers must meet to end the power of the monkey. Laugh until he died. We said that Perkins had taken his own way when adapting the original story, and that path is that of humor. The deaths, absolutely free, unexpected and very bloody, are the most grotesque that have been seen on the screen from the saga ‘final destination’, with which ‘The Monkey’ has more than one point in common. Blood acrobatics, creative gore and a feverish rhythm of demential deaths mark the rhythm of a hilarious film and that definitely consecrates Osgood Perkins as one of the greats of modern terror. In Xataka | About the new ‘Wolf Man’ weighs more than a curse: the shadow of the failed mcu of monsters that wanted to build universal

Again a leakage of the second stage

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In what we have been, Spacex has completed nine releases, eight of them as part of its routine deployment of Starlink satellites. All were successful, but the non -reusable part of one of the rockets ended up resenting without control over Europe. At least one deposit fell into an industrial plant in Poland, without causing damage. Now Spacex has explained what happened. Complete chronology. On Saturday, February 1, a Falcon 9 rocket of Spacex took off from the base of the Vandenberg space force in California. The first stage of the rocket landed successfully for the tenth time, this time on the autonomous barge Of Course I Still Love Youin the Pacific Ocean. After completing the deployment of 22 Starlink satellites (Group 11-4), the second stage failed to redeem its Merlin engine to exorbitar and continued to spin to the earth until it disintegrate due to the effect of the atmospheric braking. He did it over northern Europe on Wednesday, February 19 between 4:46 and 4:48 in the morning. At 9:20, an employee of an industrial plant in Poland called the police to warn that they found “a tank that had fallen from heaven” in their facilities. It was identified as a helium tank coated with carbon fiber that came from the second stage of Falcon 9. Third failure in six months. Spacex ha updated your website to offer an explanation of the failure. During the coastal phase of the mission (that is, when the engine of the second stage is off and the rocket is moving by inertia in space before reaching an objective point), there was a “small leakage of liquid oxygen” . He Third failure of a second stage of Falcon 9 In six months, despite the fact that this part of the rocket is not reused, it is always new. “Ultimately,” explains Spacex, this leak “caused load rates in the vehicle higher than expected. As a result, after the exploration operations of the mission, no exorbitant ignition was carried out and the vehicle passed with orbit success to eliminate stored energy sources. ” In other words, they emptied him with fuel so that he did not explode, and remained orbit the earth for 18 days. One of lime and one of sand. On the one hand, it is powerfully attracting the third failure in the upper stage of a Falcon 9 produced by an oxygen leak, a problem that kept Spacex on land for 14 days last year, and then fly again without inconvenience . On the other, it is still a very uncommon failure for a company that launches rockets two or three times a week, and that always actively exorbit the second stage. 115 of the 116 propulsive exorbitations that Spacex tried in 2024 were successful. That the remains of the rocket can fall in populated places is precisely the reason why this maneuver is made to direct the redeemer to the ocean. Spacex says he has already implemented new mitigations for future flights while he continues to evaluate the root cause of the fugging source. Image | Spacex, Adam Borucki In Xataka | A Polish called the police for a fallen tank from heaven. It is from a spacex rocket that rented without control in Europe

The transforming potential of the AI ​​is right in what we do not see

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In 2017, while imparting an Aerospace Engineering course, Catherine Garland realized that their students did not know where they had kept their projects. Moreover, he realized that they didn’t even understand the question. He commented with his teammates and together they discovered that the problem was Much more widespread What they could imagine. “The concept of files of files and directories, essential for the understanding of computers by previous generations, was a gallimatism for modern students,” They explained. The students did not feel the need to organize anything, because they were enough to know the name of the file so that Windows Search either Spotlighth in macOS Locate the document they wanted to access. At that time we did not realize, but that small generational change is key to understanding that the impact of ‘Deep Research’ type tools goes far beyond intellectual work. The great disorder Adrian Sulyok Many years before all this, in a huge Las Vegas warehouse some operators tried to organize 1,500,000 boxes of shoes. Zappos technicians, which for years have been A reference of the Internet sale in the USThey experienced with several taxonomies and organizational systems, but none of them managed to satisfy them completely. Every day, “new shoes arrived and old shoes came out, the stations changed and with them the styles. When a supplier created a new line, you did not simply move everything down to make room next to the previous line. When a line was interrupted There was no way to recover everything to fill that space. ” They discovered that the only way to adapt To the market movements efficiently was to reorganize the warehouse every time there was one. And, of course, that was unsustainable. What they did was exactly the same as Garland’s students, randomly place their shoe boxes and use a database to determine where each aja was in case of needing: a chaotic warehouse and a search engine. As Chris Anderson said in his system analysis“random access (which) works best for bits in disc units, is also excellent for atoms in warehouses.” And this has implications. If we take into account that Now we create more data than ever And that, in modern economies, knowledge is the “main necessary input” for production, the really interesting question is why we do not hug the great disorder. Where is the knowledge? Gabriella Clare Marino The problem, as Luis Garicano explained A few months ago, “that knowledge (key in productive systems) is rooted in individuals who have limited time to work.” Although nobody often realized it, the big question we have asked ourselves again and again For more than 200 years it is: “How do we organize to better use that knowledge?” And, for these purposes, when we talk about knowledge we do not talk about anything theoretical; We refer to “the ability to solve the problems that arise naturally in any process”, of know-how, knowing how to do things. It doesn’t matter if it is a doctor in the face of a disease, a plumber in the face of a leak or an administrative in front of a form. So far we have solved it based on dividing the work, creating economies of scale and building stable production chains. That is: based on forming Hyperspecialists in specific processesto allow them to work as much as possible in their field of experience and to ensure that there is a structured (and simple) way that these processes are gathered with each other. If we think of abstract, it is a system very similar to that of folders and directories. If we think about the productive social structure of humanity as a huge machine to process information, transmit it and distribute it, we realize that everything is involved in boxes. Its structure is based on knowledge hierarchies (Engineers above operators), on access routes (long productive chains to move goods, services or people between departments), directories (platforms and logistics networks) and well -segmented transformation processes. When the model does not give more of itself In this way, a production chain is not only a succession of machines, companies and processes: it is a way to structure knowledge, that each person knows what they have to know at the time and the place that is needed to manufacture any product. That is A very good idea And with enormous potential: it is enough to see the productivity boom that lived in the last century. The problem is that, as in the shoes warehouse, it also has problems. Each new process, each technological innovation, each productive sector that ceases to be useful … Add complexity to the management of that thick knowledge tree which is the globalized society. The intuition that “great disorder” could make a lot of sense in the current context is on the table for years. The great “but” has always been that, to the extent that knowledge adhered to individuals, we could not extract it, process it and organize it as Zappos did. Or, rather, we couldn’t. And then the AI ​​arrived And, before her, the digitalization of knowledge and monitoring of the work of tens of millions of people. With all those data under your arm, New artificial intelligence functionalities “They suppose a shot to the flotation line of much of the current intellectual work.” And, as I said Our partner Javier LacortBeyond the incremental improvements, we talk about systems that “can navigate the web, analyze multiple sources, synthesize information and produce detailed reports on a matter. And with a level of sophistication that is dangerously approaching the work of many human analysts. In any field. “ In the end, we see an analogous process that occurred with the search engines. Where we used to need an encyclopedia and a series of “physical” bridges to get to knowledge (editorials, distributors, etc.) suddenly there was only one search box. This relational change with the knowledge that opened us to “great disorder” takes one step with the AI. 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Japan’s only hope to dominate the chips industry is an unknown: Rapidus

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The Taiwanese company TSMC and South Korean Samsung are the two semiconductor manufacturers that have the most advanced integration technologies in production. In fact, both manufacture Integrated 3 Nm circuits Since 2022. However, for many months The performance by wafer They obtained was very improvable, which transformed their nodes of 3 Nm into a bottleneck that perceptibly increased the cost of these chips. Three years later the 3 Nm nodes of these two companies are much finer. His performance by wafer has increased perceptibly and presumably is already exceeding 70% established by the semiconductor industry as a reference. Currently these two companies are in a relatively comfortable position, but there is a company that seems to be prepared to disturb them. To them already intel. His name is Rapidus corporation, he is Japanese and plans to manufacture 2 Nm semiconductors with an unpublished technology and unbeatable mate performance. Rapidus is the spearhead of Japan In 1988 NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Matsushita and other Japanese companies hoarded nothing less than 50% of the chips industry. However, today none of these companies is positioned among the leaders of a sector dominated with iron fist by Taiwanese, American, Dutch, South Korean and German companies. Whatever the government of Japan is determined to recover its ancient glory. The administration led by Shigeru ishiba claims the preeminent position he had in the semiconductor industry three decades ago. Its economy is at stake. But it has a plan. And it is already underway. In fact, he began to display his strategy to reinforce his integrated circuit industry more than two years ago, so the first results begin to see the light. Japan is currently investing more money in its integrated circuits sector than the US, Germany, France or the United Kingdom Japan is currently investing more money in its sector of integrated circuits than the US, Germany, France or the United Kingdom. Not in terms of net value, but its effort is greater if we weigh the investment of these countries on their gross domestic product (GDP). The US dedicates 0.21% of its GDP to its semiconductor industry, and Germany 0.41%. France, according to Nikkei Asia0.2%, and, finally, the United Kingdom 0.04%. The difference is very significant and puts on the table the effort that Japan is making with 0.71% of its GDP. As expected, Japanese companies have a leading role in the reconstruction plan of the Japanese chips industry. Tokyo Electron, Canon and Nikon are the main designers and manufacturers of integrated circuit production equipment. AND JSR Corporation leads the production of photorestoning materials. Curiously, it is necessary to pour these fluids on silicon wafers with the purpose of preparing them for the transfer of the geometric pattern that delimits the distribution of transistors, connections and other elements that make up an integrated circuit. The surprising thing is that, in reality, none of the companies I just mentioned is the best trick of Japan to catapult the competitiveness of its semiconductor industry. Not even JSR, which, as we have just seen, leads the manufacture of photorers. The company that is intended for compete from you to you With TSMC, Intel or Samsung in the chip production market is Rapidus corporation. In fact, it has been expressly created to replace Japan at the forefront of integrated circuits. This company’s website explains the background that has triggered its constitution and its purposes in The following six “commandments”: The importance of semiconductors has increased, and, at the same time, the growing concern for the decline of the chips industry in Japan has done so. The role of semiconductors in economic security has become an urgent matter. Many integrated circuit factories are located in Taiwan and Continental China. Given the increase in the use of semiconductors in cars and artificial intelligence, as well as the added value of the chips in the devices that will arrive during the next decade, it is necessary to guarantee manufacturing in Japan. After the summit between Japan and the US, both countries are developing next -generation semiconductors. It is necessary to establish 3D LSI technology (Large Scale Integration o large -scale integration) next -generation and Nanosheet Gaa (Gate-alall-around) in collaboration with the US and Europe, as well as build a cooperation framework with the manufacturers of materials and equipment in Japan and abroad. Our purpose is to establish an integrated circuit factory of 2 Nm avant -garde in Japan. The first four precepts recognize to what extent Japan has lost the relevance that had decades ago in the chips industry and support the need for rebuild a sector which currently has a strategic role. And the last two slogans outline the objective of Rapidus in the short and medium term, which goes through competing in The incipient market of 2 nm semiconductors in which this year TSMC, Intel and Samsung will enter. Rapidus is making a circuit manufacturing plant integrated in northern Japan in which it plans to produce 2 Nm chips Rapidus is a very young company. It was founded on August 10, 2022 by the Japanese government with an initial capital of 7,346 million yen (just under 46 million euros) contributed by, and here comes the interesting, Sony, Toyota, Nec, Softbank, Kioxia, dense , Nippon Telegraph and MUFG Bank. The initial capital invested in the constitution of this company is not very bulky, but there is no doubt that the companies that participate in it have an indisputable relevance in the sectors of technology, automotive and telecommunications. Rapidus is currently putting a circuit manufacturing plant integrated in northern Japan, in the city of Chitose (Hokkaido), in which it plans to produce semiconductors of 2 Nm. According to Nikkei Asia The first prototypes of these chips They will be ready in April 2025but large -scale manufacturing will not arrive at best until 2027. So far there is nothing really surprising because presumably at that time TSMC, Samsung and Intel will already be manufacturing integrated circuits with comparable lithographs. Rapidus’s competitiveness … Read more

This strategic and tiny island has been disputed for 200 years. And the US and Canada still are not clear to whom it belongs to

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The recent one Donald Trump’s insistence on Annexar Canada as the 51st state He has given for reflections in the American political sphere. While the idea does not seem taken seriously in Washington and the Canadian government has made it clear that it has no interest in joining the United States, The New York Times performed an electoral code analysis of such a scenario revealing an unexpected consequence: the incorporation of Canada would guarantee a political advantage for the Democratic Party in future elections. Be that as it may, the only certain thing in this whole story is the eternal dispute over an islet between both nations. An island and its importance. WE TALK ABOUT MACHIAS SEAL ISLANDa small islet of 18 hectares located at the point of confluence between the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine, which represents the last territorial dispute between Canada and the United States. Although its rock size and geography are little or rather liable, its strategic value and the wealth of its waters They have maintained the latent conflict for more than two centuries. A lighthouse as a symbol of sovereignty. The history of the dispute goes back to the war of 1812when both the United States and Great Britain claimed the island and its surrounding waters due to their location on an important navigation route. In 1832, Great Britain built a lighthouse on the island To consolidate its control, and since then, Canada has maintained a permanent presence in the place through Farros that, in addition to its maritime signaling work, act as symbolic guardians of Canadian sovereignty. In this regard, Russell and Anthony Ross, Farros brothers, turn every 28 days to keep the lighthouse in operation. Isolated on the island, their work goes beyond surveillance: they receive visitors who arrive in summer and, in winter, they support the extreme climate of the Atlantic without the possibility of returning to the continent until its allocation ends. For them, the island is more than a territory in dispute: it is their temporary home and a symbol of a tradition that few still keep alive. Frailecillos on the island A sanctuary for wildlife. Despite its uncertain geopolitical status, Machias Seal Island is recognized as a sanctuary of sea birds. The reason? Thousands of Atlantic Frailecillos, Common Mergles, Arctic Charranes and Common Alcas nest there every summer, making it a reference point for scientists and bird observers. In fact, the Canadian Wild Life Service protects access to the island, allowing only the arrival of two daily tourist boats, One from Maine and Another from New Brunswickwith a limited quota of visitors. Scientists like Tony Diamonddirector of Atlantic Laboratory for Avian Research, have studied these colonies since 1995, highlighting the importance of the island’s ecosystem as a thermometer of the state of the ocean. Tourism under surveillance. To avoid major evils, the experience of tourists is rigorously controlled. So much so, that to avoid damage to nests, They must remain in wood cattleway and use small observation structures camouflaged in the landscape. Although getting to the island is not easy, most of Visitors consider the effort to be worth itsince it is one of the few places where you can see these frailecillos in their natural environment without disturbances. The dispute: Waters of the gray zone. Beyond the small islet, the true conflict between Canada and the United States is not on earth, but rather in the sea. The waters around Machias Seal Island They are known as the “Gray Zone”an area of ​​approximately 700 square kilometers where both countries claim fishing rights. Moreover, in the last decades, The growing lobster demand has turned the area into a crucial economic resource. The price of crustacean has tripled, reaching values ​​of up to 4 Canadian dollars for 400 grams, which has promoted the prosperity of fishing communities Like Grand Manan, in Canada. Live in the conflict. For many fishermen, The gray zone represents a constant income opportunityand although there are no formal agreements, they have developed a coexistence system based on mutual respect. Of course, not everything is harmony. As the lobster demand has continued to increase, The pressure on marine resources is increasing. Sector veterans warn that The overfishing could exhaust the lobster populationfollowing the same collapse pattern that affected the herring industry, background fish and scallops in the past. Uncertain future. Be that as it may, and despite the territorial dispute, so far Canada and the United States have avoided an open conflict about Machias Seal Island and the gray areamaintaining that fragile balance between the symbolic presence of Canada on the island and the joint fishing exploitation in its waters. Yet, The recent political and commercial tensions between the two countries They have generated uncertainty about the future of this enclave. In that sense, Trump’s latest statements have not helped. The inhabitants of the island, whether beareros, scientists or fishermen, continue with their lives at the same time that international policy follows its course. While the frailecillos continue to nest in the cliffs and lobster ships they slaughter in the gray area, the islet is maintained as a tiny point on the map, although not any one: one with a geopolitical, economic and ecological influence much larger than its size suggests. .Imagen | Melissa McMasters, Melissa McMasters In Xataka | The longest dispute is a 500 -year -old mystery. Spain still knows if tiny lands belong to Tenerife In Xataka | China has been claiming as its islands from Japan 130 years. So he has made a decision: surround them with buoys

The main alternatives of 2025 for your TV

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Let’s tell you what are The main streaming devices That you can buy for your TV. These are devices that connect to TV to improve the power of its entertainment system, and in which you can install all types of apps, including streaming services. This is a sector that has been dominated by specific models and manufacturers for several years, although there have been some name changes. Therefore, we bring you this updated list with the best alternatives. And if you think we have left an important one, we invite you to say it in the comments section. Chromecast The Chromecast assumed a real revolution, and although Google killed this device Recently, it is still on sale in Your official store and in many other online stores. And it is still One of the best alternatives As for the quality price you are going to find. There are two types of chromecast. The old ones only served to send content, but the new ones have a complete operating system and can make any TV in intelligent. For just 70 euros you have one with 4K quality, HDR, 60 FPS and a remote control, with the Google TV operating system capable of installing a large number of applications. Today it is still unbeatable. Google TV Streamer This device is the successor of Chromecastwith the same functions and the same Google TV operating system, but with more advanced and a little more expensive functions. It is 4K, and has Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos technologies, in addition to more power in its processor and your home automation controls. These devices aspire to be the successors of Chromecast, although changing their factor of form to be desktop. This allows you to add an Ethernet port to optimize the Internet connection, add functions such as finding, improving storage and having a Matter control center. All for 120 euros. Xiaomi TV Box The Mi Box has been the main alternative to Chromecast for years, and although it is now called otherwise, Xiaomi still has devices to do this function. It has two formats of form, a stick TV that is like a skewer connected by HDMI, or a TV box that is an external box that connects the TV. At the moment, The main model is the Xiaomi TV Box Swhich costs about 70 euros and has 4K resolution, Google TV operating system, good processor, Doby Vision, HDR, Dolby Atmos and good Bluetooth and Wifi connections. It is still one of the best alternatives in the market. Fire TV Amazon also has been positioned with a great alternative such as the Fire TV, especially The Fire TV Stick skewers. They may not be so powerful, but they have the latest connectivity technologies, so they are rapid and efficient. The most powerful model is the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4k Maxwhich has 4K resolution, Wi-Fi 6E and Environmental Fund. It also has Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos and HDR. Its great point against it is that the operating system has always been a bit more limited in available apps, but almost all streaming platforms are there. Apple TV These devices are The best if you are inside Apple’s ecosystemsince you have classic interactions of the products of this brand as the possibility of sending things by Airdrop. You also have the same application store, where you will find apps of practically all the streaming services you need. The index is somewhat higher than many devices of the company, but if you have an iPhone and/or a MAC, it is one of the classic options if you are looking for the same detail with the finishes and the compatibility with its own applications of the company, such as Fitness+, photos or Apple Arcade, in addition to making calls by Facetime. The current model costs 169 euros and has 4K, HDR and Dolby Vision quality. Thomsom Streaming Box In large surfaces you can find other streaming devices, most of them manufactured by brands that you have never heard. In this varied market, other classic brands of the world of electronic devices such as Thomsom are also trying to put the leg. With excellent and quality finishes, good designs, and HDML stick formats for television or TV box, this manufacturer offers quite economical products, with The versatility of the Google TV operating systemand 4K image quality with HDR. PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X If you have a state -of -the -art game console, You will also be able to use them as streaming devices. It has applications of the main streaming platforms, including some like plex. There may be some absences, but most of the big names try to be available in these entertainment devices that are in almost all homes. The devices is that, although they are adapted, Using apps with the control of the console is not so comfortable How to do it with a remote control. But at least you have a device that you know is able to take out 4K, HDR resolutions and everything you need. Roku Roku is another of the world’s most popular streaming devices, although unfortunately You still can’t take advantage of it in Spainsince many functionalities are missing. If you enter its official website Roku.comyou will see a message that tells you that the service is not yet available in our country. However, Roku is available in Latin America and some European countries such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Therefore, if you read us from any of these countries you should know that you have several models of devices available, including with 4K and being able to be an expert TV device or a skewer to connect directly to your TV’s HDMI. In the countries where it is available, you also have the possibility and install virtually all apps of the main streaming services, having a command with direct access to several of them, voice control functions, ignition adjustments and volume control that can be Use with … Read more

constancy, notes and a bag of books

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Bill Gates, in addition to being known for being one of the most influential technological magnates of the last four decades, so it is because they are An avid reader. Researchers at the University of Emory de Atlanta They demonstrated that reading is a habit that exercises the ability to concentrate and cognitive development. Microsoft’s founder has shared Some of his tricks to begin to adopt this healthy habit and read the 50 books that Gates read on each year. In addition to being an excellent way to acquire knowledgeread also contributes to Reduce stress levels by up to 68%. 1- Take notes on the margins Gates considers that take notes while reading It is essential to ensure a deep understanding of the material. As explained by the millionaire, this is especially relevant when it comes to non -fiction books. This habit helps you concentrate already connect the new information with previous knowledge. Gates explained that, when he disagrees with the content he is reading, he spends a lot of time writing his ideas on the margins. “He is actually frustrating and I think: ‘Oh, please, say something I agree with to end this book’” joked the millionaire. Gates recognizes that taking notes on the margins of the books can slow down his reading, but allows him brain related to Memory and learning concepts. 2- Do not start anything you are not going to end Bill Gates has a strict rule: a book does not start unless you are sure to finish it. This approach helps you maintain the Commitment to your reading and avoid leaving half books. However, this rule sometimes raises dilemmas when choosing what books read. For example, he mentions his indecision about whether to start or not ‘The infinite joke’ by David Foster Wallace. Gates was interested in the author after watching the movie “The End of the Tour“In which the interview of a reporter from Rolling Stone magazine is told to the author of the book, just after the publication of that book. Although the film loved it, the extension of the book (about 1,200 pages) and its complexity They made him doubt if he could fulfill his rule to finish it. “If the book had two hundred or three hundred pages I would not hesitate. But it is quite long and complicated and I don’t want to make any exception, “said the technological tycoon. 3- On paper or ebooks, but always with you Despite being the founder of one of the world’s main technology companies, Gates admitted that prefer paper books About electronic. This preference for Gates became known in the Docuserie “Bill Gates: Under the magnifying glass“From Netflix, in which his assistant prepared a bag carries full of books that accompanies him everywhere and on his trips. Reading is an excellent way to kill the time while you fly, you rest from work or relax your way to the way home. Gates describes this preference as “bulky and outdated”, but feels comfortable with a paper book in the hands than with An electronic bookalthough he admits that over time probably It will make the change. 4- Book an hour a day to read The practice and constancy are the keys to consolidate habits so, reserve an hour a day In your calendar to read, it helps to integrate that habit by dedicating uninterrupted time. Gates says that this advice is especially useful when you have a especially long book or a complicated theme. While it is true that establishing Short reading sessions Of five or ten minutes it is effective to start in the habit of reading, the millionaire argues that it is not effective for complex books, since it is lost time remembering the context. Therefore, Gates Book more than an hour every night To read. This daily habit allows you to constantly advance in your reading rate. In Xataka | The productivity books that have helped me the most: the recommendations of the Xataka editors Image | Gates Notes

A startup claims to have the weapon to end China’s monopoly on rare earths: hard drives

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In the technological era and Energy transition to renewables and the electric car In which we are, the Rare earth They have become the most valuable currency. This set of elements has become essential for many industries, but there is a problem: China dominates both mining and, above all, Rare Earth Metals Productionand he does not hesitate to use them as a throwing weapon in the Technological and Commercial War in which we are. While west Decide which are the next steps In the search for the gold of the 21st century, there are already those who work to obtain rare earth elements from wherever it is thanks to recycling. And that hard drive that has been in the drawer for years is a treasure. ‘Chrysistunity’. “Rare earth” is the name with which we call a group of 17 minerals that are used to manufacture components of electric car batteries, precision medical instruments, speakers or elements of wind turbines, among many other applications in virtually all sectors. Taking them out of the earth is not as much problem as their refining, since it is a process that does not get along with Western pollution restrictions. That is why we were delegating this task to China and, now, the Asian giant dominates practically 90% of production. So important are that the country usually uses the export of rare earth metals when it receives a new western commercial blow and even in the Ukraine War we have seen Trump condition US support to the supply of rare earth. But before each crisis, there is an opportunity. Old hard drives. In the absence of being able to produce them, why not get those elements through recycling? With the plastic we do not do it very well, but with other elements, and in the case of rare earths, it is something that can work. That is precisely what the company has proposed Hypromaga startup founded by personnel from the Metallurgy and Materials School of the University of Birmingham that, as we read in Financial Timeshas focused on the recycling of hard drives. These components once dominated our PCs and, although they remain of great value as external discs and, above all, as components for NAS systems, they have gradually been separated by much faster SSDs and that have been lowering price. And these hard drives have some components that are manufactured thanks to rare earth elements, such as magnets that allow their operation. Recycling. Gavin MUDD is the director of the Critical Mineral Intelligence Center of the United Kingdom and comments that the country imports between 5,000 and 10,000 tons of rare earth magnets every year in the form of finished products and components, but only 1% of that figure Recycle. He affirms that it is not an isolated case and that it is an amount similar to that of other industrialized nations. “We need to consider future domestic production, and that leads us to consider recycling,” he says. And that is where Hypromag technology comes into play. They claim that their technique allows them to extract the magnets that contain rare earths, which weigh between 10% and 15% of the hard disk itself, and obtain the elements sought. To do this, they have a great drum that they fill with even a ton of waste at the same time and, after closing the hermetic doors, introduce pure hydrogen inside. Then, hydrogen unstals enter the fissures of the magnets, causing them to break and separate them from the surrounding material. After this process, which lasts between four and eight hours, a powder composed mainly of the ingredients of the magnet – the neodymium – falls to the bottom of the container, while other elements such as steel, nickel and aluminum are separated and also can also be recycle. Subsequently, they grind the sifted material and an alloy occurs that can become a magnet again. Different approaches. There is another company that is in garlic and that has also spoken with Financial Times with a tone of competition that, in the end, is the one that can advance the industry of rare earth recycling. This company is called Material Cyclic And he affirms that his method is better than that of “magnet to magnet” because he allowed to crumble each component of the elements instead of separating magnets, on the one hand, iron and steel on the other. Ahmad Ghahreman is the executive director of this company and affirms that its approach allows companies to use the rare lands as they want, not only as magnets. And he compared the two approaches with the recycling metaphor of a pizza: “When recycles pizza with our technology, raisins from flour pizza, salt, pepper and all other ingredients. With the other, pass from pizza to the dough. ” An ambitious patch. Despite competitiveness in his words, Ghahreman considers that both methods are valid and “profitable.” In 2024 they produced 100 tons of rare earth oxides, but they hope to reach 600 tons for the end of this year. In addition, they have plans to open another plant in the United States with a capacity of 1,200 tons per year and have plans to open facilities in Canada and Europe in 2028. Hypromag, on the other hand, hopes to produce between 25 and 30 tons per year in its first phase, but with extension plans to 350 tons thanks to a new plant in Germany and another 1,000 tons of annual alloys with a projected plant in Texas. They are less concrete plans, but the objective of both companies is the same. Clue. Allan Walton, the founder of Hypromag, comments that this technology “is a way of extracting large amounts of rare earths and creating a domestic supply,” and the truth is that the recycling of rare earths is something that has been speaking for years, but It was always a challenge. And it is something that is being sought in various parts of the world. For example, … Read more

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