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For some reason, evolution does not stop creating antiques. 12 times different around the world has emerged

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Like the Chavo del Ocho when he did for the umpteenth time the joke to continue criticizing Professor Jirafales once the others had silenced, nature can have somewhat repetitive scripts. The point is that they work. Trend to eat ants and termites. It doesn’t matter if we are in America, Africa or Asia. Again and again, throughout the history of the earth, different mammalian lineages have reached the same evolutionary conclusion, developing a similar body plan to exploit one of the most abundant banquets on the planet. A recent study Posted in Evolution magazine It reveals that the specialization in eating ants and termites (a feature known as Mirmecophage) has emerged independently at least 12 times different since the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Convergent evolution. When we think of an anthill, the iconic elongated snout animal of the Americas comes to mind. But the anthill is not alone. Pangolines and Aardvarks, who inhabit Africa and Asia, are distant relatives who have developed a surprisingly similar tools kit. Adaptations include long and sticky tongues, a reduced or non -existent teeth and powerful front legs armed with claws to dig in insect nests. This phenomenon, in which unrelated species They develop similar features To adapt to similar conditions, it is known as convergent evolution. The same strange design. “The specializations associated with Mirmecophage are among the strangest and most fascinating mammals,” says Laura Wilson, an evolutionary biologist, In Science magazine. “This study illuminates our understanding when, and how many times, these fascinating characteristics evolved and under what conditions.” To reach these conclusions, the also biologist Thomas Vida and his team collected and analyzed data on the diet of almost 4,100 species of mammals, mapping their eating habits in the great evolutionary tree. The resulting model left no doubt: the evolution has taken the path of mirmecophagy over and over again, and has done so in the three large branches of mammals, including marsupials and monretrems, which put eggs. The postdinosaurs world. There are several crustaceans that have evolved towards a body shape similar to that of a crab. This phenomenon has occurred at least five times, but over several hundred million years. Mirmecophagous mammals, on the other hand, have done it 12 times in just 66 million years. “For some reason, things continue to evolve until they become hormigueros,” says the author of the study. Why this rise of ants dining rooms just after the disappearance of dinosaurs? The answer, according to researchers, is in the history of social insects. After the great extinction of the Cretaceous-Paleogen, the ants and the termites experienced a demographic explosion. His presence in the fossil registry shot, and his biomass became an abundant ecological resource. A road without return. The study also reveals another fascinating fact: once a mammalian lineage specializes in eating ants and termites, it seems that there is no turning back. The researchers only found a reversal case: the musarañas elephant of short ears. Their ancestors were probably fed on ants and termites more than 13 million years ago, but today, these southern Africa creatures have a mixed diet that includes other insects and plant matter. This evolutionary dead end is probably due to the stability and abundance of the food source, or the difficulty of recovering the features of a generalist once the body has adapted to such a specific diet. The story, therefore, tells us that while there are ants and termites in abundance, the evolution will continue to threaten more mammals into relentless devouring machines of colonies. Image | Claudio Olivares Medina (CC BY-DC -nd 2.0) In Xataka | “This is not a penguin.”

For some reason, evolution does not stop creating antiques. 12 times different around the world has emerged

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Like the Chavo del Ocho when he did for the umpteenth time the joke to continue criticizing Professor Jirafales once the others had silenced, nature can have somewhat repetitive scripts. The point is that they work. Trend to eat ants and termites. It doesn’t matter if we are in America, Africa or Asia. Again and again, throughout the history of the earth, different mammalian lineages have reached the same evolutionary conclusion, developing a similar body plan to exploit one of the most abundant banquets on the planet. A recent study Posted in Evolution magazine It reveals that the specialization in eating ants and termites (a feature known as Mirmecophage) has emerged independently at least 12 times different since the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Convergent evolution. When we think of an anthill, the iconic elongated snout animal of the Americas comes to mind. But the anthill is not alone. Pangolines and Aardvarks, who inhabit Africa and Asia, are distant relatives who have developed a surprisingly similar tools kit. Adaptations include long and sticky tongues, a reduced or non -existent teeth and powerful front legs armed with claws to dig in insect nests. This phenomenon, in which unrelated species They develop similar features To adapt to similar conditions, it is known as convergent evolution. The same strange design. “The specializations associated with Mirmecophage are among the strangest and most fascinating mammals,” says Laura Wilson, an evolutionary biologist, In Science magazine. “This study illuminates our understanding when, and how many times, these fascinating characteristics evolved and under what conditions.” To reach these conclusions, the also biologist Thomas Vida and his team collected and analyzed data on the diet of almost 4,100 species of mammals, mapping their eating habits in the great evolutionary tree. The resulting model left no doubt: the evolution has taken the path of mirmecophagy over and over again, and has done so in the three large branches of mammals, including marsupials and monretrems, which put eggs. The postdinosaurs world. There are several crustaceans that have evolved towards a body shape similar to that of a crab. This phenomenon has occurred at least five times, but over several hundred million years. Mirmecophagous mammals, on the other hand, have done it 12 times in just 66 million years. “For some reason, things continue to evolve until they become hormigueros,” says the author of the study. Why this rise of ants dining rooms just after the disappearance of dinosaurs? The answer, according to researchers, is in the history of social insects. After the great extinction of the Cretaceous-Paleogen, the ants and the termites experienced a demographic explosion. His presence in the fossil registry shot, and his biomass became an abundant ecological resource. A road without return. The study also reveals another fascinating fact: once a mammalian lineage specializes in eating ants and termites, it seems that there is no turning back. The researchers only found a reversal case: the musarañas elephant of short ears. Their ancestors were probably fed on ants and termites more than 13 million years ago, but today, these southern Africa creatures have a mixed diet that includes other insects and plant matter. This evolutionary dead end is probably due to the stability and abundance of the food source, or the difficulty of recovering the features of a generalist once the body has adapted to such a specific diet. The story, therefore, tells us that while there are ants and termites in abundance, the evolution will continue to threaten more mammals into relentless devouring machines of colonies. Image | Claudio Olivares Medina (CC BY-DC -nd 2.0) In Xataka | “This is not a penguin.”

The competition is starting to overcome

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Things are not going well for Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical Ozempic and Wegovythe popular Drugs to lose weight. The company fell up to 30% in the stock market After presenting (bad) results. In the last year, the shares have fallen double, 60%. Although it will continue to grow, it has trimmed its expectations: from a growth in predicted income between 13% and 21% for annual sales, the company has dropped its fork to 8% and 14%. It is just a consequence of what is already living in several markets. Sorpasso. Novo Nordisk had been in a vulnerable situation, and its stock market value, which came to rise 400% from the pandemic, is reflecting what is already happening in the recipe market: according to the Financial Timesthe IQVIA research company reports that the Danish company has been destroyed in market share in the United States by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, its great rival worldwide. A painful loss in the largest market. With 607,000 weekly recipes, Ozempic has fallen below 622,000 Mounjaro, Lilly’s drug. Ozempic has dropped from 50% of sales for the first time, despite the fact that a judge of the Texas district prohibited the country in the country Marketing of Copies of Novo Nordisk products. For Novo, it means losing the leadership in the market where more semaglutida sells Worldwide: in 2023, 71% of sales arrived from the United States. The news adds to another negative: Wegovy had already been overcome by another proposal by Lilly: Zepbound. It was seen coming: in the United Kingdom, Mounjaro already exceeded Wegovy At the end of the year. The CEO of Chemist4u, an online pharmacy, said that in the last three or four months of 2024, Mounjaro won Wegovy in a 70-30. What are Zepbound and Mounjaro. Zepbound was the second commercial name that Lilly put to the Tirzepatidathe compound with which Lilly threw himself to compete against type 2 diabetes, such as Ozempic. If Novo Nordisk launched Wegovy to focus on weight loss as an alternative for the diabetic ozempic approach using the semaglutida, Lilly did the same with Zepbound with respect to Mounjaro. The FDA approved Zepbound’s medical use at the end of 2023. In Spain, it has not been approved for now, but for a year Pharmacies market Mounjaro under prescription for diabetes and obesity. This is how Novo Nordisk lost his advantage. The arrival of Danish pharmaceutical drugs to the United States was marked by a production that failed to meet the spectacular demand. According to Financial Times, Evan Seigerman, BMO capitalist Markets, prognosis problems had to do with a previous medication from Novo, SaxendaIt was not so successful. The supply problems led to the approved the Sale of Ozempic copies. Although Novo Nordisk managed to increase production by acquiring factories, the under supply gave Lilly time, which Mounjaro launched for diabetes in 2022 and Zepbound in 2023. A matter of marketing. When the huge success of Ozempic began, Novo Nordisk went from being a company focused on the sale of insulin that had to convince doctors through research to have to aim at the weight loss market, a massive market focused on the final consumer, and highly influenced by advertising and celebrities. Novo left the door open to Lilly, and Bernie helped. The marketing of the American pharmaceutical He started selling his online drugs. Being also Aggressive with discounts and several price drops. In this sense, Senator Bernie Sanders also did not help will report price differences of Ozempic in the United States compared to other countries ($ 600 per month for 59 of Germany), claiming that generic versions could be sold for less than $ 100, and accusing Novo of using the US market of “dairy cow“ Lilly tests that show advantage over Novo. According to the study results Surmount-5 Posted by Lilly, at 72 weeks, patients who took Zepbound lost 22.8 kilos in front of 15 kilos of those who took Wegovy. A 20.2% weight loss using the lilly tirzepatida versus 13% of the Semaglutida of Novo. With regard to diabetes, the essay Surpass-3 He showed that Mounjaro produced a reduction in glucosylated hemoglobin (A1C) between 2 and 2.3%, compared to 1.9% of Ozempic. A new (and something frustrated) hope. Novo is developing New Generation Drugswith a drug called to be the successor of Wegovy: Cagrisema. The problem with this drug is that initially, the company announced that it hoped to help patients lose 25% of their weight. The result of his trial provided somewhat minor general figures, With 22.7% loss in 68 weeks. 40.4% of the patients who received the dose of Cagrisema did reach 25% loss in that period, but the market was relentless and fruit of the disappointment between investors. Outstanding image | HAVEREDAS in Unspash In Xataka | “I never say that I have thinned thanks to Ozempic”: the taboo of the ‘Ozempicazo’, the people who hide them consume it

It is so unusual that the government has created a commission for possible crises

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An exceptional cosmic carambola looms over Spain. Until Three solar eclipses will cross the Spanish territory In less than three years, starting with the most spectacular of all: the total solar eclipse of August 2026, which will obscure a third of the country. It is so unusual that the government has mobilized thirteen ministries to create a contingency commission. The eclipses trio. On August 12, 2026, a total solar eclipse will draw a 200 km line From the northwest to southwest Spainentering through Asturias and dating Castellón to cross the Balearic Islands just at sunset. The totality phase will last about two minutes on the central line. It will be the first eclipse of this type in the Peninsula since 1905. On August 2, 2027, the shadow of a total solar eclipse will enter through the Bay of Cádiz, crossing the strait and leaving Almeria. Ceuta, Tarifa, Cádiz Capital and part of Malaga will enjoy almost five minutes of dark in mid -morning. It will also be one of the longest eclipses of the century. On January 26, 2028, Spain will also live an annular solar eclipse. The “Fire Ring” will travel the country from Southwest to Northeast shortly before sunset. From Huelva, Sevilla and Córdoba to Valencia, Aragon and part of the Balearic Islands. The annularity will be around seven minutes and will be seen with the sun. Outside the strip it will be observed as partial. The government mobilizes. “The eclipses trio will be an unprecedented astronomical phenomenon, which can virtually only be seen in Spain between 2026 and 2028”, Minister Diana Morant affirmed. “In the Government we are already working to face the logistics and security challenges that this historical event will mean.” The magnitude of the event has led the Council of Ministers to Approve the creation of a special commission To organize and coordinate all actions. It will be formed by representatives of thirteen ministries. From science and transport to interior, defense or ecological transition, through the National Astronomical Observatory and the great astrophysical institutes of the country. The Secretary of State for Science, Juan Cruz Cigudosa, will preside over the Commission, which hopes to convene the first meeting at the end of August. The challenges of eclipses trio The chaotic experiences lived in the United States during the eclipses of 2017 and 2024 already put on the table the main open fronts: Congestions and accidents. The government expects an influx of hundreds of thousands or millions of people. The strip of totality of the eclipse of 2026 will only touch land in Greenland, Iceland and a much more populated and sunny country: Spain. The foreseeable result is the collapse of highways and secondary roads, with kilometer traffic jams that could block the passage to emergency vehicles. Oregon is the mirror in which nobody wants to look: he had Your overflowing access roads for three days in 2017. Infrastructure overload in emptied Spain. Many of the best observation points They are found in rural or coastal areas With limited resources. The sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of people could cause the exhaustion of basic services such as drinking water, food, fuel or bathrooms. Mobile coverage could also saturate, leaving those same incommunicado people. The government plans to enable “minimum services” at the observation points. Extreme fire risk. Total solar eclipses will coincide with summer: drought, high temperatures and thousands of cars parked in fields and gutters. It is the perfect recipe for a disaster. The risk of forest fire will shoot. The precedent is, again, A fire in Oregon in 2017 which forced to evacuate hundreds of households in the middle of the totality zone a few days before the eclipse. Pest of false eclipses glasses. Looking directly at a solar eclipse without adequate protection can cause retinopathy, Irreversible damage in the retina. To see an eclipse it is crucial to wear approved glasses with ISO 12312-2. The problem is that with each eclipse the falsifications between vendors that make their August proliferate. In 2017, Amazon had to withdraw thousands of units and reimburse money from buyers. The first big photovoltaic blackout. A challenge of the 21st century. Spain has 25% of installed solar power. A total eclipse will cause an abrupt fall of the photovoltaic generation of up to 20 GW in less than an hour, followed by an equally fast climb when the sun reappears. Managing this undercut and the peak that follows will be a major challenge for Red Electrica, which will have to coordinate energy reserves to guarantee the stability of the system, as European operators did during the eclipse of 2015. Tourist saturation and its effects. Astronomical tourism is a blessing, but it can also be a problem. Airbnb talks about An 830% increase In rural accommodation searches by August 2026. prices fired in hotels and rentals, temporary gentrification and the possible displacement of the usual tourist are expected. In addition, there may be an impact on labor productivity: workers taking the day to see the phenomenon. The United States estimated losses of almost 700 million dollars during working hours. The unpredictable meteorology. The whole plan can jump through the air if clouds appear. A forecast of covered skies would cause massive displacement at the last minute to places with a better prognosis, multiplying chaos on roads. Astrophysico Alejandro Sánchez summed it up in The country: “Due to the unpredictable of the weather conditions, it is as if we did not know where the World Cup final will be celebrated until a few hours before.” The public cost and the environmental footprint. Deploying a device from this magnitude has a cost: traffic reinforcements, health, mass cleaning … to which the environmental footprint must be added: abandoned garbage, erosion of natural places and carbon emissions of millions of displacements. Problems that the contingency commission will have to value. A historical opportunity Despite the challenges, the Iberian trio of eclipses It will be a golden opportunity for science, education and … Read more

Russia is beginning to run out of the weapons inherited from the USSR. So he is pulling those of North Korea

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The vast Soviet arsenals that Russia used at the beginning of her invasion of Ukraine They are running out. According to An analysis From the Institute of the kyiv Economy School, shipments from the main Russian military stores have plummeted: from 242,000 tons in 2022 to about 119,000 tons planned by 2025, practically the levels prior to the conflict. The context of the problem. For decades, Russia maintained huge armament deposits Inherited from the Soviet Union. At the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Moscow handed off these stocks to quickly equip their forces. T-72 and T-80 tanks of the 70s were reconditioned and sent to the front. Even some T-54, who entered production in the late 40s, have seen fight in Ukrainian territory. The current reality. He analysis It reveals that the best quality equipment and easier restoration was the first to be mobilized. Pavlo Shkurenko, an institute analyst, explains that now “Russia is sending less material for reconditioning and repair than we know they can handle repair stations.” This fall would suggest that the reserves have dropped the level significantly. The desperate solution. To compensate for this shortage, the Kremlin He has massively resorted to his Asian allies. The data show that 52% of the shipments marked as “explosive materials” towards the Russian arsenales in 2024 came from Nakhodka, a port in the sea of Japan used by North Korea. These shipments went from zero before the war to 250,000 tons in 2024. According to Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov, 40% of all Russian ammunition now comes from Pyongyang. Beyond North Korea. He analysis It also identifies about 13,000 tons of explosive material that, due to its entrance point near the Caspian Sea, probably come from Iran. Meanwhile, China has become the key supplier of the Russian defense industry, even if it does not send direct military aid. Shipments from the Eastern Border Regions of Russia towards military production centers have almost doubled since 2021, exceeding 3 million tons. The strategic dilemma. A priori, it seems a lie that Russia depends both on its external partners, especially considering that they want to breastfeed their self -sufficient image. Franz-Stefan Gady, Viennese military analyst, suggests that Moscow is using North Korean ammunition to maintain the rhythm of fire on the front while reserving higher quality Russian ammunition for possible future conflicts with NATO. What is coming. Russia plans to invest huge sums In rearme futurebut its current situation exposes the limitations of its local military capacity. The war that Putin imagined as a demonstration of force has become a resistance test in which he has ended up depending on allies and an increasing economic cost. Cover image | Kremlin In Xataka | We already know what Russia’s trick is to multiply its drones: it is called “cooling units” and comes direct from China

85 -inch and dolby vision

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More and more large televisions are dropped between store offers. This time, the English Court has a very good price the 75A6Qa quite large TV that is reduced by 849.15 eurosthe minimum historical price of the store. 75a6q (85 inches) * Some price may have changed from the last review An 85 -inch TV at a minimum price The 75a6q is a Smart TV which mainly stands out for its size, since the configuration that is offer on Amazon is that of 85 inches. Mount a panel that offers 178º vision angles, 4K resolution and compatibility with both HDR10 as with Dolby Vision. Regarding its audio section, the Smart TV Hisense 85a6q comes with speakers that offer a good 30W power (15W for each speaker) and its operating system, as we have seen in other models, is life, which allows, of course, to download the apps of streaming platforms. As for its connectivity section, the truth is that we talk about a quite complete television: it comes with three HDMI ports 2.1 (One of them is HDMI EARC), also incorporates a couple of USB-A ports, includes an Ethernet port, has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connection and comes with Alexa integrated. You may also interest you Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max (last generation), streaming device compatible with Wi-Fi 6e and Environmental Fund * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Sound Bar HW-S700D/ZF 2024-Ultra Slim Design, Dolby Atmos Wireless, Q-Symphony, 3.1 channels and Spacefit Sound * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Hisense In Xataka | Best home film projectors. Which to buy and five recommended models from 299 to 18,000 euros In Xataka | Mega-guide to ride a home cinema: projector, screen, sound system and more

We thought we were facing a “historical” oil harvest. Farmers now foresee a reality bath

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Olive oil is going through convulsive times. The drought lived some crops back put many crops against the strings and fired the prices of this cornerstone of our kitchen. Last year the arrival of the rains allowed some normalization, without moving from some modest results. And now, uncertainty does not disappear. Like the last, “in the best case.” The Olivar sector has issued a statement to lower expectations Regarding the following oil harvest. They did it after a meeting of members of the union of small farmers and ranchers (UPA) in which representatives of the olive grove of all the autonomous communities were able to discuss the situation of this harvest. Farmers estimate that oil production will give us between 1.2 and 1.4 million tons of the product. According to Indicates the UPAthese figures would imply a harvest similar to the last “at best.” According to Data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Foodlast year there were 855,577 tons of olive oil, which would have to add 112,973 tons of olive pomace oil and 407,400 tons of table olive. According to The most recent estimates From the Ministry for this year, the expected production for this year would be at 1,415 million tons of pomace oil, plus 126,000 tons of olive pomace oil and 533.012 tons of table olive. Different communities, different impacts. In the eye of this hurricane are the Andalusian producers. “The current situation in the main autonomous producer community, Andalusia, leads us to think that the euphoria that reigned among the great market operators about a historical harvest is collapsing,” They point in a press release From the UPA. According to the estimates of the organization, the Andalusian harvest could give between 950,000 and 1,150,000 tons, while the Castilian-Manchega would be around 125,000 tons and in Extremadura the production would be about 80,000 tons. The rest of CC.AA. would contribute around 12,000 tons to this year’s harvest. Heat, pests and productive capacity. The data seem to validate the fears that A few weeks ago He highlighted the sector. As indicated then, there were several factors that invited to reduce optimism regarding the coming harvest. The first of them, the meteorology: the premature arrival of heat at the end of May implied a problem for the olive grove in full flowering. Meteorological conditions have affected different olive groves differently, but intense and advanced summer could be a determining factor in this year’s harvest. To the meteorology we must add the appearance of certain pests, such as prays (Prays Oleae), also the so -called olive moth; or that of milkweed (Euphyllura Olivina). To this must be added the olive grove, the fact that the plant tends to not be able to produce in full performance for two consecutive years. Waiting for September. It is still soon to know reliably the evolution of the harvest since There is still one of the key points that the olive groves throughout the year. The first of these stages occurs in spring and is the flowering of the olive tree, which usually occurs between April and May; The second, which we still have ahead, is the maturation of the fruit. To know how the olive grove this stage, we still have to wait until September. For now we do not know what the meteorology will hold for a month seen, although The predictions Aemet does not invite optimism. Medium-term predictions indicate a warmer and more dry August than normal, while quarterly forecasts also indicate a trimester August-October by pulling warm and dry. There will be so much to wait to see the evolution of the crop. In Xataka | More and more giants get into the Andalusian field and in the olive oil industry. The last: Pepsico Image | Royber99

He put him to take the phone in customer service

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Bill Gates has said On numerous occasions (The last one in a recent interview) to their children who should not have Inherit your enormous fortuneand that they should be able to generate their own income. However, what a father could never deny his little daughter (not even Bill Gates) is to help her with her knowledge about technology. For that reason, and in the purest style of Robert De Niro in ‘The fellow‘, the millionaire has returned from his philanthropic retirement To work next to his daughter. A surprising turn in your career. Bill Gates, founder of one of the world’s largest technology companies and one of the most influential figures in technology, announced through of your LinkedIn profile His return (for a day) to the world of startups. However, he was not going to return as an investor or manager, but as a member of the customer service team of Phiathe New Technology Company of his youngest daughter, Phoebe Gates. As Gates himself told in his publication: “I have returned to the world of startups. When your daughter asks you if you would be willing to work in a customer service shift in your startup, the only correct answer is yes.” It will not be inheritance, but it has a good teacher. Phoebe Gates has associated with his Stanford Sophia Kianni partner to develop Phia, a price comparator that uses artificial intelligence to find the best offers in fashion products and new and second -hand accessories in more than 40,000 online stores. According to The published by the economic environment BenzingaPhia has been possible thanks to obtaining an initial investment of $ 250,000 from one of his Stanford teachers, highlighting the self -sufficiency of its founders. According to Fortuneneither Bill Gates nor Melinda French Gates have invested directly in the company, aspect underlines the will of the Gates family to promote the autonomy and professional growth of their children. The support of the millionaire as a startup consultant of his daughter goes beyond the familiar, calling attention to the potential of the new project. The idea is useful and fashionable, but it certainly deserved a prominent place and, without a doubt, with this “star collaboration”, Bill Gates has provided the visibility that any new company needs to start billing. Listen to users. With this initiative, Gates has not only promoted his younger daughter’s company, he has also sent a valuable message to all entrepreneurs about the importance of be close to users of its products. “I have learned throughout the years that the best way to understand how something works, or where it breaks, is to go directly to the people who use it,” Gates shared after his day in Phia customer service. Gates insisted that “the best way to understand how something works, or where it breaks, is to go directly to the people who use it,” therefore, customer service is a strategic place to know what works and what not in a service. It doesn’t matter if it is a price comparator with just a couple of months of life or a technological giant. “I hope not to break anything,” Microsoft’s founder apostilled. The infiltrated boss. While it is not usual to find great managers and founders to go down to the day -to -day trench in treatment with the client, the case of Gates is not unique. Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, puts the distributor helmet from time to time and delivers himself Some of the food orders made from its Uber Eats platform. It is even likely to Camouflara as a driver from any of their cars to take a client to the airport to check in the first person the working conditions of their employees. According to Gates in its publication De LinkedIn, the experience of helping and advising his daughter in his startup has been very positive. “It has been inspiring to see them face a huge challenge, rethink the way we buy, knowing the users where they are.” In Xataka | Bill Gates has a fortune of 107,000 million dollars and a collection of cheap watches: all Casio Image | Phia

NASA ignores Harvard’s study on an alleged extraterrestrial ship: “It is an interstellar kite”

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On July 1, 2025 he will go down in history as the day that astronomers confirmed the presence of an interstellar third object In the Solar System. 3i/Atlas is, according to NASA, a kite from another star. But for Harvard Avi Loeb teacher, it could be something much more disturbing: a piece of extraterrestrial technology, possibly hostile. Wait, what? In a series of articles and a Paper scientist Not yet reviewed by pairs, Avi Loeb and its collaborators pose a hypothesis that touches science fiction. Known for his controversial position on ‘oumuamua, The first interstellar object ever discoveredwhich also described as possible alien technology, Loeb bases his new theory on a series of characteristics that he considers “anomalous” on the path and nature of 3i/Atlas. The anomalies of 3i/Atlas. Loeb Point out in your blog that the retrograde path of 3i/Atlas is inclined only about five degrees with respect to the plane in which the earth orbit. The director of the Harvard Astronomy Department estimates that the probability that this occurs by chance is only 0.2%. His career about Venus, Mars and Jupiter unusually. An orbit like this, it argues, would be ideal for a probe that would like to observe the planets of the interior solar system. On the other hand, Loeb highlights its huge size, initially estimated at 20 kilometers in diameter. According to his article, we should have seen a million objects of the size of ‘oumuamua (about 100 meters) for each object of the 3I/Atlas caliber. To top it off, the new interstellar visitor will reach its closest point to the sun (its perihelium) on October 29, 2025, at which time it will have been hidden from our view by the sun itself. The dark forest hypothesis. Loeb suggests that becoming invisible from our point of view is intentionally, since the perihelium is the optimal point to perform an inverse Oberth maneuver: a high efficiency braking to be gravitationally trapped by the solar system without being detected from the earth. To round his hypothesis, Loeb is part of this idea in the dark forest hypothesis, popularized by the author of “The problem of the three bodies”, Cixin Liu. The hypothesis, One of the explanations of the Fermi paradoxsuggests that advanced civilizations remain silent to avoid being detected by other potentially predatory civilizations. In this scenario, 3i/Atlas would be a recognition probe exploring the solar system. NASA does not believe it is an alien ship. Although Loeb’s arguments are intriguing, they face Ockham’s Navaja, who says that the simplest explanation is usually correct. In this case, the simplest explanation is that 3i/Atlas is a kite, As NASA says. And the astronomical community has more and more evidence to support this conclusion, refuting, point by point, alleged anomalies. Telescope images such as North Gemini or the Vera C. Rubin Observatory They show what a coma looks like, A diffuse gas and dust cloud surrounding the kite ice cream When heated by the sun. This should invalidate the argument of the size of 20 km, since the real core is much smaller. Loeb himself He later recognized That the elongated appearance is due to the movement of the object during the photographic exposure, not to its shape. Disassembling the Avi Loeb hypothesis. Loeb said that no specific gases were detected. However, as explained by astronomer Darryl Seligman, the object was still far from the sun when those statements were made. It is normal for comime activity (basically, sublimation of ice) is weak to those distances. It is expected that as he approaches the sun, The spectral firms of gases They become visible. Loeb’s hypothesis has been received with strong skepticism. Chris Lentott, Astronomo of Oxford, described the suggestion In Live Science as “a nonsense about stilts and an insult to the exciting work that is being done to understand this object.” This reaction is not by closure, but because the overwhelming evidence available points in another direction. The reality is that 3i/Atlas is a fascinating object, a piece of another solar system that visits us very far, and that has probably more years than the Sun. Studying its composition and trajectory will give us very valuable information about how the planets are formed in other places of the galaxy. In Xataka | These real images were unthinkable before the Webb Telescope: they are planets orbiting other stars to 130 light years Image | Gemini Observatory/Noirlab/NSF/Aura/K. Meech (Ifa/U. Hawaii); Processing: Jen Miller, Mahdi Zamani (NSF/Noirlab)

Those who spoke Spanish in their troops were not soldiers, they were druglets

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Officially, since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 there were three armies fighting in the front. To the most obvious in the first bars of the contest, Russia and Ukrainethe troops of North Korea, an alliance with Moscow that It was confirmed several months ago by both parties. No one could also miss that all kinds of flags were found among the armies. But this is something else: Ukraine has just discovered with surprise some legionaries that They come from Mexico. Posters in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has become a Innovation laboratory military, and one of its most influential developments has been the massive and devastating use of FPV dronescheap, agile and ability to carry explosives to hit vehicles, fortified positions or even penetrate windows and directly attack enemy combatants. These devices, which have transformed Mobility and logistics In the European Eastern Front, they now begin to attract the attention of non -state actors with very different agendas to those of a national army. According to an investigation of intelligence onlinemembers of Mexican posters have infiltrated the International Legion of Ukraine not only to fight against Russia, but also to acquire first -hand the techniques of use and maintenance of FPV drones that could later apply in His intestine wars In Latin America. The Legion as a gateway. From the first months of Russian invasion, Ukraine created the International Legion to receive foreign combatants willing to join their forces. In this framework, intelligence services from both Mexico and Ukraine have detected indications that some Spanish -speaking volunteers, linked to drug cartels, have enlisted with the intention of absorbing technical knowledge that they could hardly obtain in another place. The reports point to that Even the Mexican CNI He sent a memorandum to the Ukrainian SBU alerting about this phenomenon, while kyiv’s counterintelligence has initiated research On several recruits associated with semi-clandestine units, such as the ethos tactical group, which operates in Donbás and Járkov. The presence of former FARC guerrillas, equally interested in these tactics is not ruled out either. Cartel’s arms evolution. Concern is logical if observed The trajectory Of the large Mexican criminal groups, which in the last decade have traveled to improvise homemade explosives to deploy arsenals almost military. About five years ago they began experimenting With quadricopters They carried small explosive loads. Then they perfected Air bombing techniques rudimentary against enemies or security forces. Learning. In recent times it has been documented The use of FPV in direct confrontations between the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) and factions of the Sinaloa Cartel in states such as Nayarit. Videos and Drones remains recovered confirm that they are already testing suicidal attacksalthough They pointed on TWZtheir tactics still seem incipient and plagued with failures. However, the entry of operators with Ukrainian training could radically accelerate that learning curve. The FPV and its criminal application. Unlike a commercial drone like the DJI, whose operation is simple, flying an armed FPV is more similar to pilot a plane: Requires vision immersive with glassesfine control and exhaustive training to achieve precision maneuvers. In Ukraine, they have established themselves Authentic Academies for Train pilots In the offensive use of these weapons, courses that posters and other non -state groups try to take advantage of clandestine. Intelligence experts on posters foresee that, if their domain of this technology will be consolidated, FPV could be used against armored vehicles improvised (calls monsters or narco-tanques), fortified ranches of rival bosses or directly against human objectives of high value, through surprise and lethal attacks. The Ukrainian experience has shown that a drone of just $ 400, well managed, can defeat and generate positions A disproportionate impact. Concern and consequences. No doubt, for kyiv, the discovery of this phenomenon has been reason for indignation. SBU authorities admit that, although the international legion was born to channel foreign solidarity in defense of the country, they now face the reality that Ukraine has become a platform for Global dissemination of asymmetric war tactics. The risk is that knowledge designed to stop a state invader is exported to criminal conflictswhere they will be used to magnify the violence of posters that already have of heavy weaponsorganized hitmen and all kinds of corruption networks. That the CJNG or Sinaloa integrate FPV in its arsenals not only raises the level of its clashes, but also introduces a micro-war dimension Technological in Latin America, with unpredictable consequences for public safety. Global Violence School. He episode illustrates a major phenomenon: contemporary conflicts have become incubators of tactics and technologies that then migrate to other scenarios. As well as Syria popularized the improvised drones In the hands of jihadist militias, Ukraine is exporting The FPV drone as a reference weapon for non -state actors. The fact that the drugs in Mexico travel thousands of kilometers To train on the battlefield more technologically innovative of the present reflects not only the interconnection of conflicts, but also the rapid democratization of access to advanced war tools. If you want also, in a world where the cost of lethal violence is low and its knowledge is globalized, the border between state wars and organized criminal violence is It blurs dangerously. Image | SGT Williams In Xataka | For months Ukraine turned a strategic city into impregnable. Until Russia added a lethal partner to his drones In Xataka | It is not that the US has warned Russia about Ukraine, is that it has just sent nuclear bombs up to 50 kilotons to Europe

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