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Sending to you WhatsApp messages yourself is an idea that works. But it has a great “but”

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A few years ago we began to detect that many people had a WhatsApp group of a single participant (themselves) and used it as a personal notes. The practice was extended so much that in 2022 WhatsApp allowed Send yourself to oneselfwithout the need for false groups. That has increased this practice, that of convert WhatsApp into a personal homework and manager. Comfort is undeniable: in countries like Spain, WhatsApp is religionand in a touch we can park a fleeting idea, that important link or that photo of the restaurant menu. The friction threshold is minimal, access is immediate. And that is why it works well as an emergency solution, as a content warehouse to consult in a short time and have very very hand. But We confuse convenience with productivity. This began as an informal solution, but for many people it has become an improvised personal management system. There are those who even have several groups with themselves, organized thematically: “ideas”, “purchases”, “work” (!!) … a productive architecture built on sand. WhatsApp is a good messaging tool, but it is not a management tool. It is a patch that gives us the illusion of control, not a real solution. How to try to get a career just used post-ps. The problem starts WhatsApp turns everything into flow. Information that passes, accumulates and is lost in the Scroll infinite. There is no structure, nor hierarchies or states. A “pending task” looks identical to a completed one already discarded. Or an urgent reminder. You can’t export anything – or yes you can, but not decently-, there are no limit dates, there are no Checklists. It is the triumph of immediacy over the organization, of the impulse on the method. Seduction is that We eliminate friction of the moment at the expense of multiplying it exponentially after. That note that you sent you a month ago between memes and irrelevant links. That brilliant idea that sounded important now is only a line of text without context in a sea of fragmented information. Using it as a sporadic notes of notes does make sense. Living in it and believing that it is a system is to cheat, and it is happening. We apply messaging logic to problems that require management. No surgeon operates in hammers. Systems exist For something. It can work to some extent, and in fact it works as quickly to accumulate post-psbut the consequences will be paid later, when we need to locate or structure that information. Comfort, when it becomes independence, ceases to be an advantage to become a limitation. In Xataka | Every time someone tells me that his mobile is slow, I know where to look: the “paper” of WhatsApp Outstanding image | Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio

Chema Alonso already has a new job after leaving Telefónica. He has passed to football

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Chema Alonso has a new destination after his departure from Telefónica. The well -known hacker joins the Technical Referees Committee as an advisor to technological innovation and artificial intelligenceas announced by President Francisco Javier Soto on Monday and collects Ace. Why is it important. The arrival of Alonso to Spanish arbitration marks a radical turn in his career. After more than a decade in Telefónica trying digitally to Teleco, it will now apply its technological experience to a historically conservative sector that is in transformation: arbitration. The context. Soto seeks to completely modernize Spanish arbitration after years of controversies. Its strategy is to incorporate technological talent to improve arbitration decision making through AI. “We are going to start from scratch,” said the new president of the CTA. Alonso definitively abandons the world of telecommunications after his gradual abandonment, crystallized in The dismantling of your team a few days ago. His passage through the operator was marked by ambitious projects such as “Fourth platform“, the aura assistant or Movistar Homewhich did not reach expected commercial expectations. Organization chart of CTA for season 25/26. Image: RFEF. Between bambalins. The signing reflects the new Spanish arbitration strategy: betting on external technical profiles to solve structural problems. Alonso joins a renewed dome that includes Fernández Borbalán as technical director and Prieto Iglesias as head of the VAR, both old acquaintances of Spanish arbitration. The incorporation of Alonso raises some questions about his ability to apply AI to arbitration in a practical way. In Telefónica he gave grandiloque ads that rarely transformed into successful products, although some like Open Gateway They are good advances. Deepen. Spanish football will be its new fire test to demonstrate that it can transform traditional sectors with technology. Your choice transmits the need that Spanish arbitration has to legitimize technologically. His media profile fits with the need to communicate modernization in a collective, that of arbitration; and an institution, the RFEF; questioned by both clubs and fans. In Xataka | Wearing a retro shirt of Betis on the street is no longer a “fifes” thing: how football fashion has left the stadium Outstanding image | RFEF, Telefónica

The 22 -year CEO of a Tech company that demands 80 hours a week to its workers

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In Silicon Valley, a new generation of technological entrepreneurs He is turning his back to the traditional workday of 40 hours. A case that has generated a heated debate is that of Daksh Gupta, founder and CEO of the STARTUP GREPTILwho has implemented an extreme day model that has raised a large dust in the Reddit threads. Gupta, only 22 years old, considers that working 80 hours per week is not only not excessive, but is necessary to survive in the current technology industry. An extreme workday. Daksh Gupta published in late 2024 in Your X profile That his company did not offer any type of conciliation between working and personal life, literally affirming: “Greptile does not offer balance between working and personal life.” As he said in that same message, the days in his company begin at 9:00 and end at 23:00 or even later. “We also work on Saturdays and sometimes on Sundays. I emphasize that the environment is very stressful and that poor work is not tolerated,” the CEO added without ambiguity. The work culture defended by Gupta shows An important change Among the managers and founders of Silicon Valley, who are erasing the boundaries between working and personal life. What was traditionally understood as labor exploitation, some see it now as An extreme form of commitment professional. In the case of Greptile, this commitment can mean days of 14 hours from Monday to Sunday. Competition as justification. In one Interview with Inc.comGupta argues that this time demand responds to the reality of technological startups. The CEO declared that “this is an extremely competitive space. Nobody cares about the third best company, not even the second best, in any software category. If you are going to strive 95%, it is the equivalent of striving to 0%.” His position generated an intense debate on networks and, as confirmed in Your X profilehe received numerous criticisms and even death threats for applying this policy. Gupta, however, insists that changing his work form would mean a competitive disadvantage that cannot be allowed. “We face very intense competition,” he said to justify the sacrifices required by his employees. Silicon Valley and the culture of hyperproductivity. What for many may seem an unsustainable work excess, in Silicon Valley begins to become a norm, such and as they publish in The confidential. The so -called “new culture of effort” to which Daksh Gupta gave visibility, is referring to figures such as Elon Musk, who has publicly defended The extreme days. “No one has changed the world working 40 hours a week,” said the millionaire CEO of Tesla in one of Your messages in x. At the same time, Tesla’s own investors They asked the tycoon Dedicate at least 40 hours a week to do your job as the CEO of the electric car manufacturer. Another outstanding name of this new culture of the eternal working days is Serguéi Brin, co -founder of Google, which also asked his employees a minimum of 60 working hours per week. The era of offices with ping-pong tables And free food has given way to marathon days where, literally, workers are expected to live for the company. As I said Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, work from 9 to 5 as we know it, is in danger of extinction. AI was going to end the eternal days. Beyond the regression in labor rights imposed on Silicon Valley, the most ironic thing is that these proposals for extreme days arrive precisely those companies that are developing AI models that promise reduce workload of workers. No less ironic it turns out that companies like Microsoft or Google ensure that between 25 and 30% of its code is already generated with AI agents, and at the same time they have hardened performance demands and commitment to carry out longer days, under the Shadow of mass layoffs. In Xataka | Lucy Guo, co -founder of Scale Ai, bets everything at 996: “If you want to leave at 5 you are not at the right work” Image | Unspash (Aluminum dissemboweler3000)

He wants to launch a ‘baby grok’

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Grok is having a movidito summer. We already talk to you that X’s AI began to hallucinate to the point of believing that it was Musk itselfbut this was just the beginning. A few days later the level rose And, when asked who would be the best person to deal with “Anti-Blanco hatred” he replied: “Adolf Hitler, no doubt.” In the midst of this controversy, Elon Musk has not occurred anything other than announcing the creation of a Grok for Children. He called it ‘Baby Grok’. Bad moment. The news comes through the X account of the Musk itself, where it has reported that XAI will create an app dedicated to children’s content. We still do not know if it will be a chatbot or other type of app, but among the answers they are already seen Some criticism They say that “children do not need ‘Ai Slop‘, but go out to play. “What is clear is that the time chosen to announce it is a quite delicate for Grok, especially if we add children in the equation. Click on the image to access the publication in X. The controversy. Grok is known for having a more thug tone than other chatbots, but in recent weeks it has been especially incendiary. First he started talking about a Anti-Blancos conspiracy in Hollywood And published anti -Semitic cut messages. Far from stopping, in the following days Grok came to praise Hitler in several messages And he continued with more anti -Semitic messages like the one who said that people with Jewish surnames “are left -wing radical activists every damn time.” Apologies. X users criticized Grok’s behavior and the official response soon appeared. Grok’s official account in X confirmed that They were working to eliminate inappropriate messages And shortly after they published another Message apologizing “Because of the horrible behavior that many have experienced,” the chatbot deactivates for 16 hours. The fault is not from Grok. The problem would be a part of the obsolete code of the last update and the “abusive use” that some users were making the chatbot. This was his explanation: They directed the functionality @Grok to ignore their fundamental values in certain circumstances so that the answer was attractive to the user. Specifically, some user questions may end up generating answers with unusual or controversial opinions to attract the user. Grok educate your children. It is no secret that Grok is closely linked to Elon Musk in terms of ideological vision. Musk announced it as The first politically incorrect thing that always tells the truthalthough later it was learned that they had trained her to Avoid talking badly about Musk and Donald Trump. We will have to wait to see what he has thought for ‘Baby Grok’, but to judge the trajectory of the adult Grok, surely he leaves anyone indifferent. Image | DVIDS | XAI In Xataka | Elon Musk wants you to pay for your AI when you can use others for free. More for ideology than for any other reason

WhatsApp finally has a quick and light application in Windows. Joy will last little

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Meta launched WhatsApp for Windows and Macos In 2016. Since then, until 2022, the company had A slow and very little efficient customerfor a single reason: it was not a native application, but a web container based on WhatsApp Web, which implied slowness and enormous consumption of RAM. Better changes, changes worse. In 2022, WhatsApp on desktop made an praise leap forward, launching native messaging customers on both platforms and discarding the previous technology. According to Our own teststhe use of RAM in Windows went from 500 MB to 100 MB. The use of CPU making scroll, from 60 % to 20 %. Three years later, one step back, according to Windows Latest: WhatsApp beta (downloadable here) It is no longer native, it is a web container again that camouflages a browser. WhatsApp tricks and tips to hide you to the fullest and maintain your privacy Bad news. According to Windows Latest observations, made by analyzing the WhatsApp Beta processes in Windows Task Manager, Meta is using WebView2a technology that allows using the Microsoft engine within applications. Your own version of Framework Electrona standard in the industry. The bad news for the user in front of the application has nothing to do with using WebView2 in particular, but with abandoning the previous approach. This inefficient will be the new WhatsApp in Windows.Every time we open the new version, the application will have to load the web version internally, and in the background, an instance of the Microsoft Edge browser, on which Webview2 operates. Just as it happened with the version they developed from 2016 to 2022. It is very inefficient with respect to an application that uses Native Windows development platforms, such as UWP (Winui). In the absence of being able to prove it, Windows Delast tests demonstrate the step back, and are related to those made in Xataka in 2022. The new version of WhatsApp Web consumes 30% more of RAM than the version available until today in the Windows application store. It is a developing version that can be optimized more, but leaving the native approach has inevitable negative consequences. In Reddit Han accomplished that the new client consumes up to 1 GB of RAM. Goal explains why a native application is more efficient. When they launched the current client, goal created a website in which they explain the Benefits of a native application very clearly: “They provide greater performance and reliability, more ways of collaborating and functions that improve your productivity” “They are designed and optimized for your computer operating system” “They offer greater reliability and speed” Why use web apps instead of native. Being so clear the advantages of a native development, and even being defended by goal, why go back? The industry resorts to web -based applications for a very simple reason: unify developments and guarantee functions and compatibility parity between different operating systems. If a company builds a single website, you can easily adapt it to Windows, Macos, Windows, Linux and Android, as well as offer it in browsers. Optimization is sacrificed, but the deadlines are expedited and the size of the equipment required to move forward and maintain a project is reduced. Mark Zuckerberg himself said that IOS’s old Facebook app was bad because it was based on html. They went to native development and everything improved. The same In Android. Image | Antonio Sabán with Ia In Xataka | Every time someone tells me that his mobile is slow, I know where to look: the “paper” of WhatsApp

A man put an Airtag in his shoes and donated them to the Red Cross. And then discovered strange things

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The city doesn’t matter. Neither the country. Not even the time of year. In Europe it is difficult to visit a minimally large town and not be at least a handful of containers For the donation of clothing, especially at busy points, such as commercial areas, urbanizations or the surroundings of Iglesias. The idea is to make people easy to give a second solidarity life to those pants, that shirt, that dress or those shoes that no longer serve us, but … What happens to all those garments? Where do they end? Recently Moe.haaa German influencer, decided to answer those questions in an original way: with the help of an AIRTAG, some old sneakers and an international flight that has ended up generating a considerable controversy. Where does my clothes end? That is the question not much was asked Moe.haaan influencer that one day decided to approach a container of donations from the Red Cross of Germany and throw some sports shoes. The key is that Moe’s. Before the young man had made an incision in the rubber sole to insert An AIRTAG And then cover it with a template, so that the piece passed totally unnoticed. The Airtag, remember, are Location devices That thanks to Bluetooth and the vast network of Apple devices distributed around the world constantly report its location. They are not GPS locators as such, but they are very useful to find out where you have left the keys or portfolio, especially in areas where there are people with iPads, iPhones or Apple Watches. And that was precisely what Moe wanted. What did you find out? That those old shoes began to travel. Literally. On the influencer screen the device drew an itinerary of hundreds of kilometers that even crosses several borders. In Your video Moe.Haa shows how he leaves his shoes in a Starnberg container, Bavaria, and from there they travel first to Munich and then to Puch (Austria), Kranj (Slovenia) and Zagreb (Croatia). The route does not end there. Before stopping, the influencer verifies that the footwear still makes another jump until Cazinin Bosnia and Herzegovina. In total about 800 kilometers. The trip was fascinating in itself, but Moe. To clarify the mystery, the young man climbed an airplane, flew to Bosnia and Herzegovina and then led to the canton of a-Sana. There he located the store in a matter of Cazin and (Bingo!) He identified the shoes with the hidden Airtag on a shelf. And what did they do there? The first thing that the young man checked is that the place is not dedicated to distributing free clothes among people in need. His shoes were on sale. They cost 20 frames, about 10 euros. Intrigued, Moe.Haa approaches them to the box to buy them and there the employee clarifies that her boss is a Bosnium who lives in Germany. The influencer asks then if the money is related to donations and the response of the dependent is sharp: no. “How can it be sold here, 800 km away, without employees reporting that it is a donation to the Red Cross,” He wonders At the end of the video. What does Red Cruz say? Moe’s video has generated such a stir that German Red Cross (DRK) He ended up resorting Also to Tiktok to give explanations and solve doubts. On its website the NGO also contributes Some clues. According to its estimates, the DRK collects between 70,000 and 80,000 tons of used garments, an immense amount of textile that is mostly unusable. The organization estimates that only half can be used. The rest serves only “as raw material.” Of the half that is reusable between 4,000 and 5,000 T they are dedicated to the purpose that donors have in mind when they deliver their clothes: it is destined for needy people. That, Clarifies DRKit is only 10%. The rest of the usable clothing is dedicated to another different purpose. “It is sold”, Confirm The NGO. The garments end in the hands of specialized companies and DRK receives funds that, insistsallow you to pay for your work and finance initiatives in Germany and Bavaria. Why don’t those pieces be sent in good condition to other places, such as African countries with higher poverty rates. The reason is very simple: logistics costs are “prohibitive.” Images | In Xataka |

How to do it and 11 profits for the function

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Let’s explain How and what can you send you WhatsApp messages yourself. This function It has been available since 2022, and is one of the great underestimates of the application, since it makes it grow in a very important way. We are going to start the article telling you how you can perform this function to have a conversation with your person. And then, we will go on to give you a list of suggestions of things with which you will be able to get the most out of it, where we will mention a function that still lacks and that makes the level of these messages with yourself are still below those of Telegram. How to send messages to yourself Sending to yourself on WhatsApp is very simple. The first thing you have to do is go to the main page of the chats, and there Press in the writing button a new chat. You can do this on both Android and your iPhone. Both on Android (left) and in iOS (right), when you enter the screen of starting a new chat, You will appear as an outstanding contact at all. This means that you are going to see your own profile image and your contact, and you just have to click on it to start the conversation. Just in case, It is advisable to have yourself or yourself on the agenda of your mobilethat you have added your own number in the event that the mobile does not do it for itself. And that’s it. With this you will start a conversation with your person, and everything you write in this chat You can only see itand from any device in which you log in to WhatsApp. What can you do when sending messages And what can you do with this function? Well, the truth is that there are several ways in which you can take advantage of it. Here we leave you a few to keep them into account. Save links you see online: If you don’t want to install a third -party app to save links, you can simply send them to WhatsApp. You will have them in the chat whenever you want. Send files and photos from one device to another: You can use WhatsApp on several devices at the same time, so you can send a file, or photos or videos in one of them and will reach other devices. It serves you for everything, including tickets, tickets, guards or other important documents. Sending photos with original quality: Do not forget that you can Send photos or videos as if they were filesso that you can take them from one device to another in their original quality. Is your notes: You can also write messages writing down things you have in mind at any time and then be able to read them when you want to put yourself with it. You can make reminders: Unfortunately, WhatsApp does not allow the messages to be programmed, so they will not be useful reminders. But if you write something, then when you open whatsapp you will see it there, in the message yourself, which can help you remember things. You can also create lists: If someone is recommending you films, series or books, you can create a list and you will have it there later. You can also store purchase lists if you are looking at online stores but you don’t want to buy what you like right now. Save jokes and memes to use later: If in a channel or chat someone sends you a joke or meme that you like, you can share yourself and save it to use it later in another chat. Remember passwords: Maybe you are registering on a website from a device where you don’t have access to your Password manager. In this case, you can write it down on WhatsApp, but I recommend that The stories as soon as you can and when you keep them in a safer manager. Do content and format tests: If you want to send a WhatsApp message to another person, you can first write it in this place sure they are the messages with your person. You can try the formats to use and create a draft to continue with it and send it when prepared. Create stickers: Can create stickers on whatsapp using photos That is in your chats. But if you want to do it from a specific photo that you do not want to spread or with which you do not want to disturb anyone, send it to you and generate the stick from the chat with yourself. Use it as your diary: You can also use these messages to write a newspaper. So simple, every day writes what you want. In Xataka Basics | Alternatives to whatsapp: the best messaging applications if you want to change the finish line for another

For years we were condemned to physical travel agencies. The English Court is investing millions in demonstrating otherwise

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The English Court has renewed 60 of its 430 travel officesand plans to reform another 44. The idea is to implement open spaces, sofas, digital screens, previous appointment and advisors with “emotional connection.” Why is it important. The message to be sent is that the physical store has not died, but only needed a new experience. In perspective. It is the classic play of retail Traditional: redesign the spaces to sell a transformation that between, especially, by the eyes. Along the same line as the changes applied to the low floors – the accesses – of some of its stores, modernizing the bookstore or giving more weight to the section Gourmet. EITHER The premiumization of its supermarkets. What is at stake is the role that a traditional physical agency can play in the Skyscanner era, Google flightsAirbnb and Booking. What is happening. Travel El Corte Inglés is more profitable (More than 100 million euros from Ebitda8% more than a year ago), but loses in volume against its great rival, Ávoris (Barceló Group). To renew your offices is a way to reaffirm as a premium brand and differentiate in a world in which the average customer has become accustomed to organizing their vacations from your mobile. The physical network is reduced to transform. Personalized attention is insisted as an advantage over the digital model. Between the lines. The reform is real estate, but first of all it is a way of sustaining the story: we are not a vestige, we are a luxury; We are not an agency, we are a space of inspiration. From store a Boutique. The passage of time will tell us if this is a real modernization or if it is rather an attempt to keep the physical channel alive. The company has not gone wrong: after years seeing how the environment rewarded its new competitors, the English Court is still alive despite insistent rumors of serious crisis. There is also the doubt of the long -term value of that “human contact” as a differential pillar. He is seductive, but difficult to climb. Yes, but. The new model has a very good press, but with the unknown of whether there is insufficient demand. There are still many clients who continue to go to a physical office, but they are increasingly minority. And those who do it, often look for something very concrete: custom trips, honey moons, large budgets. Can you sustain an entire model so capillary around those profiles? In addition, post-pandemic tourism has recovered, but It has also changed. The traveler has become accustomed to certain flexibility levels, price comparators, online opinions, immediate decisions. All of that has a difficult fit in an agency by appointment. The decision to invest in so many offices sends a message: trips El Corte Inglés remains convinced that there is a place for physical agencies if they become experiences. It is quite possible that it is right, although it is a commitment against the direction in which the future of the sector seems to go. In Xataka | Spain has become a country addicted to something that some years ago enjoyed little prestige: the white brand Outstanding image | El Corte Inglés trips

The US pressure forces China to independent its chip industry. These two projects are their best cards

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China has no choice. Or develops its own manufacturing technology of avant -garde semiconductors or will lose its struggle for world supremacy With the US. No 100% Chinese advanced chips their military capacity, the development of their models of artificial intelligence (AI) and the competitiveness of their technology companies will resent in the medium term. Huawei and SMIC are manufacturing advanced integrated circuits, but use machines from the Dutch company ASML and a technology known as Multiple patterning that compromises its competitiveness. This scenario has caused the Chinese government support with very juicy subsidies to companies that have the ability to develop avant -garde photolithography equipment, such as SicarrierShanghai YuliangSheng, Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (Smee), Huawei or SMIC. Time plays against this Asian country. How much later in having their own machines of extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE), which are those used to make very high integration chips, more delayed will be in front of the US and its allies. 2026 will be a crucial year for China in the field of chips The Chinese Academy of Sciences is finishing what is undoubtedly The most ambitious project How many are developing the Chinese semiconductor industry. Thanks to this plan the nation led by Xi Jinping is about to reach a “Deepseek” in the field of integrated circuit industry. This simply means that it is preparing to reach a disruption that has the potential to place this Asian country at the same height as the US, Taiwan or South Korea. However, China’s strategy to produce avant -garde chips is very different from what their rivals have used until now. Each of ASML UVE machines incorporates its own ultraviolet light source, but the Chinese Academy of Sciences seeks to generate this important radiation to produce advanced chips using a syncrotronwhich is nothing other than a circular particle accelerator that is used to analyze atomic level the properties of matter, such as various types of materials, or even proteins. It’s called heps (High Energy Photon Source or high -energy photons source), it is in Beijing and we can see it in the cover photography of this article. Heps syncrotron has the ability to produce high power UVE light An important note before moving forward: the ultraviolet light (UV) is responsible for transferring the geometric pattern that contains the design of the chips to the Silicon wafer. This means, in broad strokes, that the UVE light has the ability to make possible the manufacture of integrated circuits with a greater resolution than the deep ultraviolet light (UVP) that use the previous generation lithography machines that China has in their hands. And a greater resolution in practice implies that it is possible to produce semiconductors with more transistors, and, therefore, more sophisticated and powerful. A priori we can think that a particle accelerator has nothing to do with the manufacture of integrated circuits, but we would be overlooking something very important: the Heps syncrotron has the ability to produce high power UVE light. In fact, it is a source designed to generate a large amount of radiation. China’s plan is to place around the particle accelerator Several semiconductor manufacturing plants to which the syncotron will deliver the UVE light in the same way that a power plant delivers electricity to its customers. That simple. The date on which China plans to start this megaphabrum of avant -garde semiconductors has not yet leaked, but it is already very advanced. However, China’s plans do not end here. In the middle of last March several Asian media collected a photograph taken at the Huawei Research Center in Dongguan, in the province of Canton, in which it appeared The prototype of a UVE lithography team Designed and manufactured entirely in China. Presumably this machine is similar to those produced by ASML, which invites us to anticipate that for 2026 the country led by Xi Jinping will have the ability to produce advanced chips on a large scale. This Chinese lithography equipment uses an LDP type ultraviolet source and not LPP class The leaks They assure That unlike the UVE machines produced by the Dutch company ASML, this Chinese lithography equipment uses an LDP ultraviolet light source (laser induced discharge), and not LPP class (plasma generated by laser). Presumably The development of this ultraviolet radiation emission source It is the milestone that has allowed Chinese engineers to develop a machine that Many experts did not see possible before five years in the best case. At the moment the most prudent is that we take this information with caution, but it seems solid enough to echo it. An interesting note is that on paper the LDP source is able to generate UVE light with a wavelength of 13.5 nm, so this Chinese prototype should be able to compete from you to you with ASML UVE photolithography machines. In addition, the leaks argue that China will begin the production of more test machines during the third quarter of this year with the purpose of launching the large -scale manufacture of these equipment during 2026. Image | Dr. Kim More information | Dr. Kim In Xataka | TSMC acknowledges that it has been considered taking its factories out of Taiwan. It is impossible for a good reason

Someone ran over a dog in Brazil. The analyzes revealed that the creature was neither a dog nor should it have existed

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The story took place in 2021 and could be the beginning of a film. That year occurs An outrage in an area of southern Brazil. It is not a human, it is a dog to which they move to a rehabilitation center to treat it urgently. The first analysis of the animal attracts the attention of the veterinarians. Subsequent tests left no doubt: he barking and had the appearance of a canine, but they have never seen anything Not remotely similar. Dogxim, hybrid. Yes, that strange dog showed unusual behaviors: he refused to eat croquettes, preferred to hunt rats and climbed shrubs like a fox of the pampas. What at first seemed an individual rarity proved to be A scientific scoop: After months of genetic analysis, a team of Brazilian researchers confirmed that it was the first documented hybrid between a domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) and a fox of the pampas (Lycalopex gymnocercus), two species separated by about 6.7 million years of evolution. The animal, a baptized female as “dogx” (Combining “Dog” and “Graxaim do Campo”, local name of the fox), surprised the scientific community for its mere genetic viability, an extremely rare phenomenon between different genres within the family of canids. The proof of the improbable. To certify the hybrid origin of Dogxim, the researchers began by count your chromosomes: It was 76, an intermediate number between the 78 of the dog and the 74 of the Pampas fox. Mitochondrial DNA analysis revealed that his mother was a fox female, and nuclear DNA confirmed a genetic mixture Between dog and fox. The combination was possible because both belong to the Canidae familyalthough NO TO THE SAME GENDERwhich makes your cross even more unusual. In nature, hybrids tend to emerge among evolutionarily near species, such as coyotes and wolves. However, this case is more similar to a hypothetical viable crossing Between humans and chimpanzeessomething considered biologically unfeasible. In other words, the fact that Dogxim existed, and was functional for at least two years, represented an anomaly of high evolutionary and conservationist interest. Dogxim Human influence. There is much more, since the researchers stressed that the existence of Dogxim seemed to have been facilitated by human pressure About ecosystems. The natural habitat of the fox of the pampas, characterized by extensive plains from the Brazilian southhas been increasingly reduced by livestock and urban expansion. The phenomenon, apparently, has forced greater contact between foxes and dogs, particularly those abandoned by their owners in wild areas. This territorial overlap, added to the abandonment of pets, increases the probability of Reproductive meetings between both species. Although foxes are not in danger of extinction, such interaction raises risks, both for the genetic integrity of the species and for their population health, for example, by exposing it to new diseases or harmful genes. A creature and its limits. While some scientists believe that this type of hybrid will continue to be extremely rare, the Dogxim case put on the table the debate on the Effects of hybridization in accelerated environmental change contexts. Although the creature seemed healthy and was transferred to a state center, He died in 2023 For causes still unknown. Its black color, canine inheritance, contrasted with the light fur of the foxes of its species, which probably did it less suitable for surviving In its natural environment. Plus: the interspecific hybrids They usually present genetic, fertility or behavior problems, which makes them more vulnerable. In spite of this, its only existence suggests that the limits of natural hybridization could be more flexible than what was thought, especially in a world where ecological changes are formed between species that did not interact before. Implications It is the last of the legs to analyze. Beyond its anecdotal value, Dogxim poses crucial questions about the conservation of species and the alteration of its evolutionary dynamics by human influence. While there is no evidence that these hybrids can form stable populations, their appearance can have indirect effects, from the introduction of pathogens to the genetic dilution of wild populations. Perhaps for this reason, the researchers urge deepen the study of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of this phenomenon. The hybrid creature, after all, was not simply a genetic curiosity, was a reminder of diffuse limits between species in a world increasingly alteredwhere the unlikely is no longer impossible. Image | Errazking, Thales Renato Ochotorena de Freitas In Xataka | The cloning of dogs is a reality, but it is only the beginning In Xataka | Large dogs live much less than the little ones. Researchers believe they found the answer to mystery

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