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how to prevent society from collapsing because of AI

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Everyone seems to be clear that AI is going to have an impact on the labor market, the problem is that They do not agree on what that impact will be like.. While some say that will destroy many jobsothers predict that will create many more. In the midst of this discussion, a group of experts met to try to imagine what the world will be like in 2030. Spoiler: it doesn’t look good. The meeting. They tell it in the Wall Street Journal. Last week, 40 experts in areas such as technology, economics and public policy met in a building in Washington. At the meeting they analyzed scenarios on how AI will transform American society by 2030. Their objective was to propose strategies to minimize the negative impact on a social level, because they assume there will be one. The meeting was organized by Windfall Trustan independent organization that seeks to anticipate and manage the changes that AI will bring, designing policies and legal frameworks so that wealth is distributed fairly. Macro prosperity. The scenario that was proposed at the meeting was called ‘Prosperity on paper’. In it, these experts draw a flourishing economy in macro indicators, but that hides an important social problem. In this scenario, AI has almost doubled the US GDP, labor productivity is skyrocketing, and the S&P500 index is rising. Micro precariousness. On paper everything is perfect, but the reality is that society is going through a serious employment problem, not because of the rise in unemployment (which is also true) but because of what they call “underemployment”, which is expected to rise from 8 to 14%. Many people have casual, part-time jobs or are forced to accept jobs for which they are overqualified. Blue collar jobs. It seems clear that the impact of AI on employment will mainly affect white-collar workers, that is, office workers. Many see an opportunity in blue collar jobs such as plumbing, electricity or masonry. However, according to these experts, although there will be an increase in demand and salaries for these professions, it will be temporary. All those office workers will flock to learn traditional trades, which will cause an increase in supply and a drop in value. cso everything bad. Experts predict that this contrast between what the data says and the reality of the working class will cause political unrest to skyrocket, the generation gap to widen, and also a decrease in the birth rate due to the discontent of young people. But not everything will be bad, they also foresee that healthcare and education will be cheaper thanks to AI tools and that people will have more free time to do creative activities. So what. The objective of the meeting was to propose possible policies to prevent this scenario from occurring and attendees had several ideas. The proposals focus on two major fronts: on the one hand, an effort to requalify and train workers, and on the other, create mechanisms that allow the wealth generated by AI to be redistributed, such as the universal basic income that Elon Musk himself mentionedspecific taxes on AI companies and even creating a sovereign fund where part of the profits go. The attendees themselves admitted that political polarization will make it very difficult to approve reforms of this caliber, although they are clear that leaving things as they are will probably be much more expensive. Image | Xataka with Gemini In Xataka | It remains to be seen if AI will take your job one day. Until then, these are the best job search tools

“It is very important to mentally label tasks”

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The first day of vacation arrives, the laptop is closed and work-related cell phone notifications are silenced. But the head is still going a mile an hour without being able to take focus off of workmentally reviewing emails that have not been sent and feeling a need to find out what is happening at work. All this leads to an inability to relax on vacation, and the explanation for this is not a lack of will, but a neurological block. Because? Science has a name for what’s happening to you: information overload syndrome. And what happens in your brain before you go on vacation is the result of a neural system that has been pushed to its limits by the “infoxication“. To understand why we cannot turn off the brain at will, we must look at our metabolic energy consumption, since as detailed in a exhaustive literature review published, attention is a limited cognitive function that requires a constant flow of energy in the brain. What happens. When we are exposed to a volume of information that exceeds our processing capacity, our brain enters a phase of overactivation. Under conditions of moderate overload, the prefrontal cortex, which is the area responsible for complex decision-making and planning, becomes hyperactive to try to manage the chaos. However, if digital multitasking and the deluge of data continue, a phenomenon known as ‘neural overload’ occurs. The result. The prefrontal cortex is deactivated as a protective mechanism, and what causes constant digital multitasking causes an accumulation of glutamate in this frontal region, which physically translates into that heavy “cognitive fatigue” that we drag to the beach. But the impact does not stop at simple fatigue. Neurobiological studies have documented that this overexposure alters dopamine pathways in a way similar to that of addictive substances, reducing gray matter in areas of impulsive control and disconnecting regions of the Default Neural Network, which is precisely the brain network that allows us to daydream, wander and, ultimately, rest. The digital epidemic. Although we are now talking about social networks and artificial intelligence, the problem has been brewing for decades. Already in 1996, psychologist David Lewis proposed the term “information fatigue syndrome” in a study for Reuters, and shortly after, in 1999the specialist Alfons Cornellá coined the term infoxication to describe the information contamination to which we were beginning to be subjected. Today the different sources paint a much harsher picture, since in 2024 a study demonstrated that information overload directly leads to fatigue, culminating in emotional stress and anxiety. Added to this is a 2025 meta-analysis that warns of how current digital environments saturate our working memory, diminishing our understanding and leading us to burnout. before vacation It is when this whole neurological cocktail that we have been building explodes. Here the expert Elena Gallardo, neuroscientist, he pointed out in statements to EFE which defines this state as “mental noise.” And the fact is that, before a period of rest, the brain perceives that it must leave everything tied up and closed, which generates a peak of cognitive demand in a system that is already saturated by the year’s chronic infoxication. You have to stop. If the origin is biological and behavioral, the solution must be too. To avoid carrying “mental noise” in our suitcase, neuroscience experts propose applying what they call cognitive ergonomics, which is nothing more than strategies designed to optimize and protect our mental effort. Among the tips that this expert offers is the possibility of labeling and verbalizing tasks to prevent pending tasks from “floating” in our brain. In this way we free up the prefrontal cortex so that, when it comes to vacation, it is not so exhausted and can better process the entire avalanche of data. Images | Image from freepik In Xataka | How many vacations do I have by law: this is how the days of rest are calculated

“The first forty years of our lives provide the text; the next thirty, the commentary”

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His status as a star philosophical pessimism and his most famous portraitin which we see him as an old man, disheveled, gray-haired, with a tired look and a severe rictus, has made us observe Arthur Schopenhauer with some suspicion. In an already difficult world, who would want to dedicate a few minutes to a 19th century Prussian who stood out for the crudeness with which he approached life? The reality is that in 2026 Schopenhauer is still a philosophical beacon that helps us understand issues as basic as the meaning of life. Even “the crisis of 40”. Life, like a book. Throughout his long life (he died at the age of 72) Schopenhauer dedicated himself to writing on issues as diverse as politics, aesthetics, morals, psychology, rhetoric or even about ‘the art of insulting’. Towards the end of his life, however, he published a monumental work, Parerga and Paraliomenain which he leaves a vital reflection that over the years has become one of his most famous aphorisms. And it’s normal. Ultimately, it sheds light on the meaning of life using a universal metaphor: books. What does it say exactly? That just as essays, novels or plays follow an internal structure without which they would be chaotic, life can be divided into parts that, in a certain way, explain each other. To be more precise, in his ‘Eudemonology’, Schopenhauer tells us: “In a broader sense, it can be said that the first forty years of existence provide the text and the next thirty the commentary, which then makes us understand well the true meaning, then the morality and all the subtleties (…). At the end of life there is something that reminds us of the end of a masked ball, when the masked men retire.” Is it the only quote on the subject? No. In his work, Schopenhauer, who was already over 60 years old when it was published Parerga and Paralipomenagives us many other phrases that point in a similar direction. For example: “In youth, contemplation dominates; in mature age, reflection. That is why the first is the age of poetry; the second, that of philosophy. In practice, likewise, one is determined by perception and its impression during youth; Later, by reflection.” “This comes partly from the fact that in middle age images have been presented and grouped around notions in sufficient numbers to give them importance, weight and value, as well as to moderate at the same time, for custom, the impression of perceptions.”. “Only he who reaches old age receives a complete and measured representation of life, since he encompasses it at a glance in its fullness and in its natural course, in a special way and not merely as others do, only from its beginning, but also from its end, through which he perfectly recognizes its vanity. What do you want to tell us? May your reflections have had so much success It’s not surprising at all. Faced with frustration, defeatism or even pessimism due to the passage of time, Schopenhauer basically reminds us that each period of life has its function in the story of life, just like the parts of a book. During the years of youth we ‘write’ the text, we make decisions, we accumulate experiences, we make mistakes and successes and, ultimately, we form our character and set a path for ourselves both at a professional and personal level. In the second half of life, as we mature, turning 40, it is time to look back and adopt a critical approach that gives us coherence. Beyond Schopenhauer. As remember in TrendsSchopenhauer’s theory connects with those of other actors, such as the psychiatrist Robert N. Butler, who in the 1960s described the tendency of people to review their own biography when they reach old age to make sense of it. After all, we are not just a concatenation of decisions and events, but the story that we ourselves shape and build with those pieces, a story that is in the process of being rewritten. Why at 40 years old? Schopenhauer wrote in the 19th century, the one in which he lived, and this is perceived in his essays. For example, he marks the turning point at 40 years old and outlines a life horizon of another 30 years ahead. The reality is that right now life expectancy in Spain is over 84 years old. That being true, it is undeniable that the Prussian had amazing aim. Today experts use a concept called reminiscence bump (reminiscence peak) that describes how when entering adulthood, at 30 or more years old, our autobiographical memory becomes especially active. The phenomenon connects in some way with Schopenhauer’s metaphor. “He reminiscence peak refers to the disproportionate amount of autobiographical memories dating from adolescence and early adulthood. It has often been attributed to the consolidation of the mature self in the period encompassed by that peak,” they explain researchers Jonathan Koppel and Dorthe Berntsen. Other authors they define it such as “the increase in the proportion of autobiographical memories of youth observed in those over 40 years of age.” Centering the focus. Does that mean that after 40 the past defeats us? Are we condemned to live chained to continuous memory? No. What Schopenhauer tells us is that when we reach adulthood the focus changes: beyond the experiences or decisions, the story matters. We discover the meaning of the path we have traveled and see things more clearly. We move from the age of poetry to the age of philosophy, paraphrasing Schopenhauer. The reflection of Qarerga and Paralipomena It helps us better understand Schopenhauer’s multifaceted and nuanced thought. To that and something more: understanding that, beyond the patina it may have, philosophical pessimism it’s not exactly the same than psychological pessimism. On the contrary, authors like Schopenhauer offer a path that can be followed with a positive attitude and helps to avoid the goodness that has made happiness an industry. Images | Wikipedia 1 and 2 Via | Trends In … Read more

something is wrong with the relationship between the sea and the atmosphere

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We are in the middle of June and it doesn’t seem like it, but the western Mediterranean is burning. And no, it is not an exaggeration: we are talking about a marine heat wave with peaks of surface anomaly greater than 5 degrees in specific areas. It is what experts call in technical jargon, a gigantic problem. Especially, facing autumn. A ticking time bomb. The great temptation when we see this type of data is to plot a direct line between sea temperature in June and DANAs in October. But it would be a mistake. The mechanism exists, of course. However, the matter is a little more complex than we might think. This is because the overheated sea is not a forecast of how much autumn rain we are going to suffer: it is a gauge of the ceiling of intensity that these rains can reach. The effect of an anomalously warm Mediterranean is to charge the atmosphere with water vapor and thus raise the amount of water that a DANA can precipitate. But, and this is crucial, the trigger is atmospheric. It is useless to have a charged atmosphere without a mass of cold air at altitude that is detached from the general circulation. What’s new? What is genuinely new is not that the Mediterranean is hot. It is, in fact, from 2022 on a sustained basis. What is new is that we have had a marine heat wave since May. That is, long before the historical calendar and still very far from the warmest moment (August). Furthermore, whether we want to see it or not, El Niño is just around the corner and, although we hope not to receive its wildest impacts, the heat it will bring to the world makes experts very worried. Why is it relevant? The data is clear. The Mediterranean basin heats up around 20% faster than the global ocean average and is trailing a streak of unprecedented records: 18 of the 20 highest daily values ​​since 1982 were recorded between 2023 and 2024 (with a maximum of 28.15 °C on August 10, 2024). The memory of the DANA of Valencia is still fresh and the certainty that the situation is getting worse It is a slab for the national climate conversation. Are we going to get worse? It’s pure physics: a warmer sea increases evaporation and the water vapor content of the atmosphere (at a rate of 7% more vapor for each degree). The best example is Storm Daniel which, as the researchers showedit would have been much more unlikely without climate change. That is why it is advisable to be precise and not take things out of context. The current scenario is problematic because if a DANA forms on the Mediterranean coast this autumn, it will have more fuel available to discharge more intense rains than with a cold sea. If it is not formed, nothing has to happen. Image | Copernicus In Xataka | We already know exactly how much climate change was to blame for DANA in Valencia (and the figures are devastating)

A Chinese billionaire bought the most expensive house in London. What happened next is a real estate horror movie

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In 2021, the Evergrande collapse It erased more than $300 billion in liabilities and triggered a real estate crisis that shook all of China. Among his most extravagant assets was a record mansion in London that today remains trapped in lawsuits, divorces and frozen accounts: a financial ruin turned into an empty monument. The perfect purchase that went wrong. Year 2020, a Chinese billionaire buys for 210 million pounds number 2-8A Rutland Gate, then the most expensive home ever sold in the United Kingdom. On paper it was the definitive investment: a palace with 45 rooms, four elevators, an indoor pool, 24 marble bathrooms and privileged views of Hyde Park. But what seemed like a prestige move ended up leading to a chain of misfortunes so strange that it seems written like a thriller. Since then no one has lived inside, the real owner was caught in a financial collapse and the building became an empty shell with only one “tenant”. Palace with a cursed past. The history of the building was already coming loaded with symbolism. For decades it was the London palace of Rafik Haririwho transformed it by joining together several Victorian houses and decorating it with almost obscene luxury, from gold-plated trash cans to bathrooms encrusted with semi-precious stones. Hariri was assassinated in Beirut in 2005 and, after passing through the hands of the Saudi royal family, the interior was auctioned piece by piece in 2015. That left the mansion empty, as if it had been dismantled before its next owner arrived. The Evergrande turn. The official buyer of 2020 appeared to be the Hong Kong tycoon Cheung Chung-kiubut later was discovered that the real owner was Hui Ka Yanfounder from Evergrande and for years the richest man in China. And there the descent began. Just a year later, Evergrande began with non-payment of debtsbecame a symbol of the Chinese real estate collapse and ended up collapsing in 2024. Hui ended up declaring guilty of fraud and other financial crimes, while the mansion was trapped in a legal tangle: registered in the name of his ex-wife, with frozen assets and no possibility of sale. The most expensive house in the United Kingdom lost in limbo and a symbol of the real estate gap. Fernstedt at the entrance to the house The empty house and the Swede on the porch. And it is at this point in history where the image appears that changes everything to this day. While inside the mansion there are dozens of empty rooms and millions of pounds tied up, outside, on the same porch, lives Anders Fernstedta homeless Swede who has been living at the entrance for three years. Your “camp” It is made of umbrellas, flowers, broken bicycles and stuffed animals. The paradox could not be starker, because he sleeps inches from one of the most crazy expensive shelters in Europe, but separated by a door that never opens. Ironically, the only stable inhabitant of the house does not have access to it. The fall of Anders. As to the history of man Swedish, is almost as chaotic as the architecture on which it rests. Andres was a technology journalist, then he worked in horticulture, collaborated with people from the Silicon Valley environment and even worked for The Economist as a freelance fact-checker. However, a chain of failed jobs, evictions, attacks and personal losses dragged him onto the streets. He ended up landing in front of the palace purely by chance: He was looking for a covered shelter and found an empty porch. He has since converted that space into a kind of makeshift garden and permanent bedroom. The symbol of a broken city. It had an extensive Guardian report that the story of Rutland Gate sums up a huge contradiction in London. While more than 300,000 homes remain empty in England and hundreds of thousands are waiting for a house, one of the most luxurious properties in the country has been closed for years because it is, in reality, a frozen financial asset. From that perspective, it is no longer a home, it is a figure trapped in offshore companies, lawsuits and bankruptcies. And in front of that door, every night, a man sleeps what represents just the other end of the system: someone with nothing, living in the shadow of a palace that no one can use. Image | Gareth E. Kegg In Xataka | Now that the Pope is in Spain, he should visit this surgeon’s castle. Inside is the smallest church on the planet In Xataka | In 1972 Italy wanted to put an entire city in a one kilometer building. Half a century later he is still paying the consequences

make Grok relevant

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The operation, which SpaceX already announced two months ago, looked like a win-win of book. Now it seems even more so, because SpaceX has had an absolutely extraordinary debut on the stock market, and because Cursor has become in its own right one of the reference AI agents for programmers. It is the opportunity for SpaceX and its xAI division to sneak into the company, but they need one more element to win that race. SpaceX buys Cursor. Or rather Anysphere, the company behind the popular AI agent for programming Cursor. SpaceX just announced itwhich completes the purchase for the previously agreed figure, $60 billion in shares, and as expected everything depended on how successful the recent IPO of Elon Musk’s company was. This exit has been absolutely triumphant, and that has given him complete room for maneuver to complete the acquisition. Cursor needed computing power. Although this AI agent had become one of the favorites of programmers, the company did not have direct access to computing capacityand as was the case with OpenAI or Anthropic, it had to “rent” the infrastructure from companies like xAI. By being an integral part of SpaceX, it automatically stops having that problem, and that gives it a lot – a lot – room for maneuver to be able to satisfy demand and, above all, to polish the native models that are supported in Cursor, like Composer 2.5. Rapid growth. Cursor’s business has grown furiously since the company was founded in 2022. According to Reutersits annualized revenue is currently $2.6 billion, a figure that makes it clear that the size of the startup is notable. xAI’s partners are piling up. The only problem with the operation is that xAI is little by little becoming another hyperscaler, like Amazon, Microsoft or Google already are. Elon Musk’s company has two of the most important clusters in the world, Colossus and Colossus 2but since Musk himself did not take advantage of this computing capacity, he began to offer it to other companies. Anthropic and Google have reached agreements with xAI precisely to be able to use its computing power, and it remains to be seen if that can be problematic for Cursor. What are you doing, Grok? This is undoubtedly a wise move for SpaceX and especially for its xAI division, which has not yet managed to catch on in the market. The Grok AI model has a performance that is currently not only far from the frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google, but even from Chinese models such as DeepSeek v4 or Kimi 2.6. According to the Artificial Analysis index in programming tasks, Grok 4.3 is very far from the best models: it has 41 points compared to Claude Fable 5’s 62. Source: Artificial Intelligence. A golden opportunity. Cursor had already developed its own model with the aforementioned Composer 2.5, a version derived from Kimi 2.5. Now this AI agent has a unique opportunity to put all the focus on Grok if this model manages to advance as expected, especially in the field of programming that is managing to generate income for AI companies. Tell Anthropic. In Xataka | Elon Musk knows that TSMC is overwhelmed: Terafab is his idea to completely change the global chip industry

77 are missing their heads

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It is not strange that when archaeologists begin to excavate a site, they take some other surprise. What is exceptional (fortunately) is that these surprises are like the one that Dr. Martin Furholt and his team they have taken in Vráble, western Slovakia. In 2012, researchers began exploring an inhabited Neolithic settlement there. between 5250 and 4950 BC which has turned out to hide a macabre ‘treasure’: a grave with dozens and dozens of corpses whose heads were torn off. The big question is… Why? In a place in Nitra… Vráble is a small town in Slovakia. Just over 8,000 inhabitants, a supported economy in the industrial sector and about 70 minutes by car from the capital, Bratislava. Nothing particularly noteworthy. For a few years, however, this discreet village in the Nitra region has been a headache for archaeologists who are in charge of investigating the first agricultural communities in central Europe. The reason: not far from Vráble they have found a Neolithic site with dozens of buildings and a ditch in which they don’t stop appearing decapitated skeletons. One word: Linearbandkeramik. When they began to investigate the Vráble site, around 2012archaeologists from the University of Kiel and the Slovak Academy in Nitra rubbed their hands. And it is logical. It is believed that the area was populated between 5250 and 4950 BC, an extensive period during which They built more than 300 homes spread throughout three neighborhoods and in which 80 buildings were inhabited simultaneously. Due to its characteristics and age, experts believe that it is one of the most important archaeological sites in the region. Linearbandkeramik (also known as ‘linear ceramic culture’ or LBK), label that identifies the agricultural settlements that inhabited central Europe between 5400 and 4900 BC Hence they were not surprised when in 2017 they unearthed four skeletons headless hidden in a wheat field. The problem is that in 2022 they discovered that those corpses were the first on a long (very long) list. What happened that year? That Dr. Martin Furholt, from the University of Kiel, and the rest of his colleagues verified that in the perimeter strip surrounding the Vrábel site there were not just a handful of skeletons. In the summer of 2022 they recovered the remains of 34 peoplestacked on top of each other. And as they advanced in their excavations, they found more and more corpses: dozens and dozens of ancient bodies buried “in various positions and in no discernible order,” clarify. The most surprising thing, however, was another detail: practically all of them were missing their heads. 78 bodies, one head. To be more precise, Dr. Furholt and his colleagues discovered the remains of 78 bodies. And all but one had been decapitated. The only exception was the corpse of a child. As the researchers analyzed the bones they also came to two conclusions: first, that the skeletons belong to people who were buried shortly after they died; second, that the vertebrae show cut marks, clues that archaeologists are investigating in search of answers. What the hell happened here? That is the question that archaeologists are now asking. Especially since there is no trace of the skulls. What the hell happened in the Vráble settlement? Do those 77 decapitated corpses tell us about an unknown Neolithic massacre? The most curious thing is that, in principle, the hypotheses used at the University of Kiel point in another direction. “The findings show intentional manipulation of the bodies,” explains Katharina Fuchsanthropologist, who confirms that “the analyzes suggest that violent ‘decapitations’ were not carried out, but skillful extractions.” With perspective. “We have evidence that burials were part of social practices that shaped local and regional relations and are only limited indications of conflict and crisis,” Furholt adds.. The expert also recalls that the Vráble beheadings occurred thousands of years ago, in “contexts of meaning totally different from those of modern societies”, which is why he warns of the risk of analyzing it from a current perspective. “The deposits of bodies or fragments could have been part of more complex, significant and recurring practices,” agrees Nils-Müller-Scheeßel, another of the researchers participating in the excavation. Beyond Slovakia. The truth, as remember Scienceis that the Vráble site is not the only one from the LBK period with bone remains that intrigue archaeologists. In the 80s they discovered a tomb from 5000 BC in southern Germany that housed the skeletons of 34 peopleespecially children. In that case, what stood out was not the absence of skulls, but what they showed: fractures that reveal that many of them died from blows. In Kilianstädten, Germany, a pit with 26 victims has also been discovered, many of them with shattered skulls and broken legs. The first… In everything? The question that hovers over these deposits and the Vráble burial site is the same: What happened to the first farmers of Central Europe? Why did linear ceramic culture settlements that had prospered for long periods disappear? These are relevant questions because, as remember Christian Meyer to Science“the LBK were the first farmers, the first great pan-European culture and the first time also that we find these repeated findings of violence.” And now what? For now, Dr. Furholt and his colleagues have collected their first conclusions in a paper which have just been published in ‘Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society’. Now his goal is to continue revealing the mystery. For example, one of the theories the team has on the table is that the missing skulls were removed to be stored separately, a phenomenon documented in other cases but which has not yet been confirmed in Vráble. “Similar interventions involving corpses have been documented in numerous prehistoric societies, also in the LBK period. However, the details of these practices differ. Furthermore, the depositing of corpses or parts in ditches is not an isolated phenomenon,” remember the University of Kiel. “An exceptional site”. At the moment, researchers are classifying the bones recovered in Vráble in search of clues about the age of … Read more

what has he achieved and at what price

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SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp) is the semiconductor manufacturer most important in China. It currently has a slightly greater than 5%which puts it close to Samsung, which has a share of 7.2%and in third overall position ahead of Intel, GlobalFoundries or UMC. In September 2023, this company was placed in the spotlight by making official that it had been able to make a 7nm chipthe Kirin 9000S SoC for Huawei, using ASML’s deep ultraviolet (UVP) lithography equipment. This milestone, as could be expected, put SMIC in the crosshairs of the US Government. And it did so because the US Administration did not expect that a Chinese integrated circuit manufacturer would be able to produce advanced chips without having access to manufacturing machines. extreme ultraviolet photolithography (VVE) of ASML. US and Netherlands sanctions They prevent this Dutch company from delivering its most sophisticated equipment to its Chinese clients, so SMIC has been forced to use ingenuity to produce its semiconductors. Its 7nm integrated circuits are the result of a technique well known to chip manufacturers: multiple patterning. Its strategy consists, broadly speaking, of transferring the pattern to the wafer in several passes with the purpose of increasing the resolution of the lithographic process. It has an upward impact on the cost of chips and a downward impact on production capacity, but it works. In fact, SMIC already has China’s most advanced integration technology, the N+3 node, ready and is using it to manufacture the SoC HiSilicon Kirin 9030 for Huawei. SMIC has reached the logical density of TSMC’s N6 node SMIC has gone further than we could have anticipated in 2023, when it began manufacturing the Kirin 9000S SoC. SemiAnalysis has published the first public report prepared by its new reverse engineering laboratory STEEL, based in Oregon (USA), after having dismantled the HiSilicon Kirin 9030 SoC integrated into the smartphone Mate 80 Pro from Huawei. Their conclusions are very interesting because they clearly reflect how far the SMIC N+3 node has come, and also what its limitations are. This Chinese company has achieved something that seemed unlikely just three years ago: reaching the logical density of TSMC’s N6 node without access to EUV lithography. He has achieved this thanks to the combination of a multiple patterning Extremely aggressive UVP and design and technology optimization taken to the limit. That combination allows N+3 technology to achieve a transistor density of 113.4 MTr/mm², slightly above the 107.7 MTr/mm² of TSMC’s N6 node, which does use UVE lithography. It’s a genuine engineering achievement achieved with tools from a previous generation. N+3 technology has reached a transistor density of 113.4 MTr/mm², slightly above the 107.7 MTr/mm² of TSMC’s N6 node The cross-section images (they are microscopic cuts of the chip that allow its internal structures to be measured) reveal how far SMIC has come in squeezing UVP lithography. The N+3 node’s transistors have taller, narrower ends than those in TSMC’s N6 node: an aspect ratio of 9.5:1 versus 7.8:1, with sharper and less rounded top edges. And, in addition, the logic cells are also 5% lower. The ends (endsin English) are the vertical, ultra-thin sheets of silicon that constitute the body of the transistor in FinFET designs. To achieve this, SMIC has applied three optimization techniques: it has eliminated the excess ends where they are not necessary, it has directly connected the contacts on the active gate, and, finally, it has cut the diffusions in a surgical way. Combined with the quadruple patterning UVP, these techniques allow SMIC get closer to what achieve UVE lithography with fewer steps and a greater margin of process, but through a much more laborious path. Export controls have not stopped China; They have changed the problem you have to solve. SMIC has reached the density of the N6 node without UVE lithography, but at higher cost, lower process maturity and lower energy efficiency. And Huawei, for its part, has managed to compensate with architecture, advanced packaging and optimizations for the inability to access cutting-edge lithographic nodes. As a consequence of everything we have just seen, knowledge is being distributed. And the Chinese Government is forcing SMIC to license its N+2 and N+3 processes to Hua Hong Semiconductor, which transforms an advantage concentrated in a single manufacturer into an asset of the semiconductor ecosystem. Sanctions designed to isolate SMIC have become less effective as knowledge about manufacturing processes has spread to other chipmakers and semiconductor designers. Image | SMIC More information | SemiAnalysis In Xataka | TSMC is on the ropes and its biggest problem is not competition: it is water

After marathons and combats, humanoid robots already have their next challenge: climbing Everest

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we have seen robots doing kickboxing, skiing, dancing with astonishing precision and have even participated in their own robotic olympics. The new feat starring a humanoid robot has been to become a mountaineer. He has already climbed to the top of the Chimborazo volcano in Chile, 6,263 meters high, and already has his next goal: Everest. The climbing robot. The robot in question is a Unitree G1 and is part of the ‘Pemba’ initiativeled by a French engineer named Pablo Berlanga. The robot reached the top of the Chimborazo volcano on June 5 and already has its next climbs scheduled; In June he will climb Mauna Kea in Hawaii and in October he will summit Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Yes, but. Equipped with special boots and a jacket that protects it from extreme conditions, the Unitree G1 managed to complete a journey of about 16 hours and reach the summit at more than 6,200 meters of altitude. However, as they say in Futurismhe didn’t do it all by himself. The robot is not capable of climbing slopes of more than 30% inclination, so it had to be transported on those sections. A noble goal. Most shows with robots are just that, shows. However, in this case there is a reason beyond that. This engineer says that the idea of ​​taking a humanoid robot to the highest mountains on the planet came from his experience in conservation projects in remote jungles such as the Amazon or the Congo. In these natural parks, being able to record and broadcast live is not only important to investigate and protect the environment, it also represents an important source of income. A camera with legs. Berlanga built cameras that connected to Starlink and were capable of live streaming. The problem is that since they are fixed, their field of vision is limited and the fauna is constantly moving, so I had to place many cameras. From here the idea of ​​”putting legs on them” was born. Obviously, the robot does not need to be able to climb Everest to do this work, but it is the way to publicize this initiative and obtain support to make it a reality. He has created a “tokenization” project in order to finance the project. Image | Pablo Berlanga in X, edited In Xataka | Soon we will all have humanoid robots at home, or at least that is what these companies want

MediaMarkt has on its Day without VAT one of the best offers that the Google Pixel 10 Pro has received. And it comes with a gift

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MediaMarkt usually offers very varied offers that not only focus on price reductions, but also on additions through gifts. Now we have the best example in the Google Pixel 10 Pro that, for 742.97 eurosincludes a totally free 4K Google TV Streamer. And be very careful because it is a device valued in the store for 98.34 euros. Of course, the offer will only be available today at MediaMarkt, during its VAT-Free Day. Google Pixel 10 Pro (128 GB) + Google TV Streamer 4K The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A Google Pixel that comes with a gift He Google Pixel 10 Pro is, together with the Google Pixel 10 Pro XLthe best mobile within the brand. It is perfect for those people looking for compact mobile phones, since it has a screen that has a diagonal of 6.3 inches. In addition, this screen shines because of how good it looks both indoors and outdoors and its LTPO panel offers very good fluidity at all times. The Google Tensor G5 may not be the best processor in Android phones, but it is sufficient for regular use. In addition, this mobile comes with 16GB RAM and will receive software updates for many years (six years specifically). Now, one of the most notable points of the Google Pixel 10 Pro is the photographic section, especially because it has a 5x telephoto which allows you to capture photographs taken at distant distances with a very good level of detail. In addition, the camera software is very well polished, something that we noticed especially with the main sensor that is capable of achieving very good results. ⚡ IN SUMMARY: iPhone 14 offer today ✅ THE BEST ANDl pack: Not only does it come with the mobile, which in itself has a good price, but it also includes a Google TV Streamer 4K completely free. Your photographic sectionespecially in relation to the 5x telephoto. ❌ THE WORST Storage: We are talking about an offer that has fallen in the 128 GB configuration, a very small figure if we usually save photos and videos locally. Fast charging is only 30Wa very small figure if we take into account that the competition offers much higher figures in cheaper mobile phones. 💡 BUY IT IF… You want a good phone to take photos and videos, as long as you have a cloud service to save them. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You will save the photos and videos locally. In that case, at least it is essential that we have 256 GB. You may also be interested Pixelsnap Case for Google Pixel 10 & Pixel 10 Pro – Durable Protection – Stylish Protection – Obsidian (Created by Google) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 – Wireless Earbuds with Active Noise Cancellation – Bluetooth Headphones – Obsidian The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Alejandro AlcoleaGoogle In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which one to buy and 21 models from 15 euros to 470 euros

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