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The residents of Madrid had been yearning for the Soterramiento of the A-5. Now he is making his life impossible

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Without water, without light and without internet. These are the inconveniences that some residents of the neighborhoods of Aluche or Batán have had, next to the supporting works of the A-5, the highway that will disappear under the feet at their entrance to Madrid. But also continuous traffic jams, a firm proof of SUVs and, in summary, inconveniences that promise to stay for years. And that affect far beyond the residents of the area. The last claim. Alcorcón, Móstoles, Arroyomolinos or Navalcarnero are just some of the municipalities directly affected by the Soterrament works of the A-5. Every day, about 80,000 vehicles, According to data from the Madrid City CouncilThey access the city in this way. Obviously, putting a plug in the entrance in the form of a mega -Obra has caused overflow. The overflow to roads and adjacent streets but, above all, has overflowed the patience of the residents of these municipalities who ask that Four winds military land are opened (without use) to take advantage of them as deterrent parking lots. Why four winds? This neighborhood with a subway stop and Cercanías has become the nerve point of the entrance to Madrid. If everything goes correctly, It has a connection with Atocha In about 20-25 minutes. Yes, as we said, everything works correctly. Currently, this area has been reserved as a hot point so that the buses that were as destination Principe Pío or elliptical square and entered through the A-5 left the travelers and cease their trips. A decision that, in the first days, caused huge chaos. Daily jams. The underground has evidently caused that the traffic jams multiply in the area. Of the three or four lanes (depending on the area) that had so far available in each direction, Only two are operational. And, while the underground works are carried out in a sense, the vehicles circulate through the opposite section. The initial plan He was going to maintain the works for at least 25 months. However, the project has ended up expanding to the connection with the M-40 which Expand the stretch of works in another 700 meters. It was a claim of the neighbors who were assured that this would take place at first and, nevertheless, The idea had been discarded When the machines began working in the area. But the condition goes far beyond the jams. Without light. May 12, 2025. Batán neighbors spend part of the morning in the dark. Some 4,600 subscribers to Iberdrola see the light of their homes and businesses cut due to a fault caused by the accidental cut of a cable that travels through the area affected by the underground. Without water. May 19, 2025. As soon as a week passes when Aluche’s neighbors have problems of light and water in their homes and businesses again. This time the condition was recorded at 11 at night. They distributed pallets with bottled water to pass the bad drink in what the fault lasted. The reason: a stoopy pipe. Without internet. July 7, 2025. The most recent condition. The error this time takes a fiber optic cable in the works which leaves Movistar subscribers without internet in Aluche and part of Pozuelo, a town located on the other side of the country house, with which they border the works. The fault was not solved until the next day. A little hell. Yes, in Xataka We know that some neighbors have suffered the plenary of breakdowns and have been found without light, without water and without internet in less than two months. To this we must add, as we say, the usual traffic jams in the area, the cut of some steps that lightened the paths (as the departure to Boadilla from Seseña Street) or a very deteriorated firm that is suffering the passage of heavy machinery. The promise of a better place should give some hope to neighbors. Similar works made reborn what is now known as Madrid Río, a huge park with which Madrid won 120 green hectares and 30 kilometers of cycling paths. In addition, the square meter was revalued at 500 euros. Of course, for those who live in the surrounding municipalities, the improvement will only enjoy it if they express stop in the area once it is finished. Photo | Madrid City Council In Xataka | Guide not to be lost in Madrid with the megaobra and underground of the A-5: deadlines, traffic cuts and public transportation

A fine of 3,000 euros

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They are not exactly like agents under the orders Gil Grisson or HORATIO ‘H’ CAINEbut Alcalá de Henares has its own CSI, a body of experts that is responsible for traveling the city with latex gloves, isopos and test tubes. In the scenarios of the crime in which they work, yes, there are no corpses or blood, but cacas. Literally. Their work is to examine them, take DNA samples and facilitate that the weight of the law falls on the owners of uncivic pets. His work does not end murderers between bars, but in large fines. An “carelessness” that comes out expensive. That dogs are the best friend of man does not mean that men are always at their height. Sometimes he arrives with a walk in the park to verify it: although the municipal ordinances often force the owners of the dogs to collect their cacas, there are those who are a blind eye and disregard them. A few years ago in Alcalá de Henares (200,700 neighbors) They decided to avoid it in a peculiar way: with the help of DNA and a ‘CSI’. At the beginning of 2020 the plenary approved modify your ordinance to include a “census Through ‘DNA’ “genetic footprint on which all the dogs living in the municipality are included. The objective? Have a more precise idea of the total number of pets, identify abandoned or stolen dogs, have more information in cases of bites and … locate the ‘owners’ of abandoned cacas on sidewalks and parks, which can derive in fines of fines Between 300 and 3,000 euros. And how do they do it? The process explained in detail this weekend The Spanish newspaper in A report in which he speaks of “the detectives ‘Cazacacas’” by Alcalá de Henares. The system is actually quite simple and relies on two pillars. The first is the veterinary consultations, where saliva samples of the dogs are taken that is then analyzed in a specialized laboratory. When the process is completed, they end up registered in the census and the animal happens to have a “DNA identification card” and a sheet with a QR for the pet. The second leg of the system are Special controls made from time to time by the City Council to ‘hunt’ to offenders. From parks to the laboratory. That is when the game enters the ‘canine csi’. A specialized technician and the Local Police are responsible for looking for abandoned bugs in the street and taking samples with a baston and then sending them to a laboratory in Xàtiva, Valencia. There they have a database with more than 150,000 animals from all over the country that allows them to collate the sample. If there is Match Find out who is his ‘owner’ and (most importantly) the owner of his owner, who will face a mild infraction with fines of Between 300 and 3,000 euros. Have you put fines? Yes. The ordinance that forces dogs to censor DNA was activated just two years ago and since then the City Council has processed a few fines. In February 2024, 221 collected samples already resulted in 75 files Sanctioners Last year they were counted in total 206 fines. In 97 cases for abandoned bacons. In the remaining 109 the reason was a more common infraction: not censor the animal. At the beginning of the year the canine municipal register through DNA accounted for 9,099 dogsa figure that now is around 9,500, according to The data that manages The newspaper. The newspaper also states that since the measure was launched by the Complutense City Council collected more than 500 samples and opened 245 sanctioning files, 120 for not collecting the cacas and 125 for breaching the obligation to register the animal. In both cases the fine is the same: 300 to 3,000 euros. Beyond Alcalá de Henares. Alcalá de Henares is not the only one who has resorted to DNA so that its pedestrians stop being dog -cacas in the parks. Other municipalities such as Mislata, Malaga, Collado Villalba, Cornellà They have also set the possibilities of the genetic census to hunt the owners of uncivic dogs. Moreover, in December Pipper on Tour calculated that in Spain there are 81 municipalities that register the DNA of macotas to keep its streets clean. Images | Wikipedia and Jack Lucas Smith (UNSPLASH), M. hairstyle (Flickr) Via | EPE In Xataka | If the question is how to prevent people from throwing garbage outside the cubes, in Galicia they have had an idea: rummage into it

The scam of the son in trouble brings the police and the AI is getting worse

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“Hello, mom. My phone has broken” like this or with some similar message begins the known as Son scam in trouble. This scam modality has been circulating for a long time and brought to the head authorities for its High effectiveness. The National Police has dismantled an organization that was dedicated to this scam and that it cheated large amounts of money. It has not been (nor will it) the only one. 32 detainees. The investigation began nine months ago and has resulted in 32 arrests in the province of Valencia, of which four acted as “mule” captors. Were . Thanks to these arrests, 63 complaints filed throughout the country have been resolved, whose total amount amounts to no less than 320,000 euros. In addition, the police have managed to block several fraudulent transfers and return to the victims more than 10,000 euros. A recurring scam. Although it is a large operation, it is not the first organization that is disjointed that used this modality of fraud. A little over a year ago The Civil Guard arrested a hundred people that came to cheat 850,000 euros. In July of last year an operation was also carried out with 65 detainees who had scammed 410,000 euros. And there has been more. Just a few days ago A neighbor from A Coruña who cheated 5,000 euroshe denounced and thanks to this, those responsible were arrested. Too effective. Scams that come by WhatsApp There are many, but few who get so many victims and figures so high. This modality of fraud is very effective, which makes it the most dangerous. According to the Civil Guardscammers study the victims, who have a child emancipated by studies or travel. The scammers create “an instant emotional connection after which they move the urgency with messages of despair, causing the parental protection reaction.” We normally distrust when they write to us from unknown numbers, but in this case the pretext of having lost the main mobile is used, so the main doubt is resolved. If the scammers have chosen their victim well, it is very easy to create the story and end up sending a bizum to their supposed son or daughter. The next level: AI. Although they are not the most common, there are cases in which Voices generated by AI have been used to cheat To the victims. It was the case of an American citizen who received a call in which he listened to his daughter to shout that they were going to harm him if he did not pay. The National Police He has warned about what they call ‘Voice Hacking’ and gave a trick to protect us: Use a family password. And how do they clon the voice? With tools like Vall-e only Three seconds are necessarysomething very easy to get social networks. Protect yourself. Although the authorities are making efforts such as the operation that has taken place in Valencia, eradicating it completely seems quite complicated so the best is prevention. The first thing if you receive a message of this type is to try to write or call the original number to see if the person answers. You can also ask you to send you an audio, although it is much better to make a video call since you avoid a possible ‘voice hacking’. In short, if someone asks for money and also has a hurry, always distrust. In Xataka | After the Sonny Angel, the madness of Labubu arrives in Spain. They are exhausted everywhere and there are already scams and falsifications

The conversation between geniuses that gave name to the greatest enigma of the universe

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It was the year 1950. In Los Alamos, New Mexico, the best cafeteria conversation of all time took place. The physicist Enrico Fermi, eating with his colleagues Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller and Herbert York, asked: “Where is everyone?” The Fermi paradox was born. What does Fermi’s paradox say If our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains between 100,000 and 400,000 million stars, many of them thousands of years older than the Sun. Yes, by extension, we are surrounded by a huge number of exoplanets. Yes, as we know today, The rocky planets are common in the habitable zone of other solar systems. Why have we not found any evidence of extraterrestrial life? That is the essence of one of the most disturbing problems of modern science: Fermi’s paradox. From the abundance of worlds, intelligence and technology should have emerged capable of colonizing the galaxy or at least sending detectable signals. A flagrant contradiction between the high probability that there is intelligent life in other places and the absolute lack of evidence: a cosmic silence that persists in our telescopes and explorations. Until today we have not seen a convincing proof of visits, or artificial signals from other civilizations. The Milky Way is old: it is 13,000 million years old. A species capable of making interstellar “slow” trips would suffice to colonize it in less than 100. But we still do not see its mega -structures. And what is worse, we still do not detect its radio transmissions. Or they are extraordinarily rare civilizations, or do not exist. What is the difference with Drake’s equation Fermi’s paradox is an empirical observation that was born from an informal conversation. To give it structure and mathematics, astronomer Frank Drake proposed in 1961 the Drake equation: a probabilistic formula that tries to estimate the number of technologically advanced civilizations and with the ability to communicate that there should be in our galaxy. The equation multiplies a series of factors, such as the rate of stars, the number of planets per star and the fraction of planets that could develop life. Statistics are overwhelmingly favorable. Drake’s formula serves to give meaning to the search for extraterrestrial lifefeeding our statistical hope. But while Drake’s equation tells us that there should be someone out there, Fermi’s paradox asks us why we haven’t found anyone. This contradiction is actually the heart of Fermi’s question. It is not a formal theory, but a line of argument that forces us to ask ourselves why the universe seems so empty. And perhaps the best possible tribute to Enrico Fermi, astronomers are still looking for answers to their question 75 years later. Who was Enrico Fermi Known as the “Architect of the Atomic Bomb”, it was an Italo-American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 for his works on induced radioactivity. Fermi was a key figure in the Manhattan project, the program that developed the first nuclear bomb during World War II. He directed the construction of the Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor. His team achieved the first self -sustained nuclear reaction in 1942. Born in 1901, he died of cancer at age 53, shortly after formulating Fermi’s paradox. The question “Where is everyone?” He emerged during a lunch with his colleagues in the National Laboratory of Los Alamos. Despite the informal nature of the conversation, the depth of the question and the authority of those who raised it gave it a weight that has endured 75 years, becoming a pillar of thought about extraterrestrial life. Responses to Fermi’s paradox Image | Jiang et al. (CC By-C-SA 4.0) Throughout these decades, scientists, philosophers and astronomers have proposed innumerable hypotheses to resolve Fermi’s paradox. These responses can be grouped into three great families of hypotheses. Smart life is extremely rare. Maybe the simplest and desolate solution. It suggests that there is a “great filter”, a barrier or a series of barriers extremely difficult to overcome so that living beings appear, evolve or come to expand through the galaxy. It may be the conditions for life to arise, they are so incredibly specific that they only occur once, here on earth. It may be to move from simple microorganisms to complex and multicellular life, it is the true bottleneck. Or intelligence like ours may not be an inevitable consequence of evolution. Or maybe, as the Apocalypse clock From the bulletin of atomic scientists, technological civilizations tend to self -destruct before being able to expand through the galaxy, either by a nuclear war, by climate changes or by pandemics. In any case, Humans do not usually succeed In our apocalyptic predictions. They exist, but we cannot detect them. There are many hypotheses to explain our lack of contact. A recent one NASA funded study I found the simplest. The space is so great and we have been observing it so little, that it is normal for us to continue without clues: “Fermi’s paradox is a very large extrapolation from a very local observation. You could look out the window and conclude that bears do not exist because you don’t see any.” Perhaps its technology is undetectable. They may not need to build mega -structures as Dyson spheres that would be visible to us. They could use energy sources that we don’t even understand. Maybe they have decided to enter hibernation and are asleep. As the summation hypothesis says, it is possible that are waiting for the cosmos to cool Within billions of years to maximize their computational capabilities. And his communications? As the astrophysician Amri Wandel postulates, our radio signs have only traveled about 100 light years. Any response would take the same to return. We might need between 400 and 50,000 years for a first contactassuming that someone who is listening to answer. But first they would have to find our needle in the haystack. They exist, but they deliberately avoid us. The most disturbing hypotheses propose that other more advanced civilizations know our existence, but have decided … Read more

a lizard that digests for months

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It seems out of a horror movie: a poisonous, slow and scums, which passes most of his life hidden under the sand of the desert. But this reptile, far from being a threat has become one of the great protagonists of modern medicine. His name: Heloderma Suspectumbetter known as Gila’s monster, and his poison has inspired medications that lately resonate a tool to lose weight. An unexpected finding. In 1980, the gastroenterologist Jean-Pierre Raufman, intrigued by the therapeutic potential of natural substances, analyzed a series of animal poisons. In the most arid areas in the southern United States and northern Mexico, the specialist in the digestive system and other associated organs was fascinated by the Gila monster. According to BBCGila’s monster spends 98% of his life in underground burrows and can survive with just six meals a year, thanks to the fat accumulated in his tail, in the style of camels. As He has collected The National Geographic, the doctor wanted to study more thoroughly after receiving a sample facilitated by the chemist John Pisano, who was looking for new peptide type molecules. Later, the endocrinologist John Eng resumed that line of research and managed to isolate two molecules of the poison: Excendin-3 and Excendin-4. These behaved similar to a human hormone called LPG-1, essential to regulate insulin production. The finding opened the doors to a new kind of drugs. The science behind LPG-1. Because of course, how a poison has become the thinning star? Gila’s monster-4 monster imitated LPG-1, but had a crucial advantage: it remained longer in the human organism, prolonging its effects on metabolism. This allowed developing medications such as Byetta (exenatida) for type 2 diabetes. As has collected the BBClater, it gave rise to the famous drugs known as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro. They not only regulate blood sugar, but also reduce appetite and cause weight loss, acting directly on brain receptors that control the feeling of hunger. The trick was to make a small change in the molecule: they added some chains of fat that make it a protein in the blood. That allows the medicine to last longer in the body, so it is not necessary to take it so often and its effect is more constant. Now a major problem faces. And it is not shortage The drugs to lose weight. According to an Ecology and Evolution studyGila’s monster is seeing how its habitat is drastically reduced in the coming decades. Climate change, together with the fragmentation of the desert, limits its ability to adapt. By 2070, it is estimated that it could have disappeared from much of its current rank, especially in regions such as Mojave, without the possibility of recalling other more temperate areas. The poison as a research route. The use of toxic compounds in medicine is not something new. The captopril, widely prescribed to treat hypertension, is based on the poison of a Brazilian snake, the JARARACA Bothrops. Today, that same logic is being applied to the genetic scale. Hungarian researcher Zoltan Takacs works in cataloging animal toxins of different species to create a database that serves as a starting point for new pharmacological treatments. Hidden underground. The history of the Gila monster is a reminder that the best saved secrets of science are sometimes hidden under the sand. Today, its survival depends on human action. While in laboratories they are extracting wisdom from their poison, their habitat is reduced and its presence in nature becomes increasingly vulnerable. We do not know where the next advance of science will be. Image | Unspash and Unspash Xataka | “I lost 55 kilos, but I recovered 30 when leaving it”: we talked to the Spaniards who have tried the roller coaster of Ozempic

McDonald’s used a chatbot with AI to recruit new employees. Someone seemed to ‘123456’ was a safe password

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No one argues that AI The labor market will changeto begin with, it is already very present in the Recruitment processes of personnel McDonald’s franchisees in the US use a chatbot of recruitment based on AI which collects and manages the data of the millions of new candidates who want to work in one of the restaurants in the hamburger chain. However, such and as they publish in Wiredwho configured it forgot something as basic as changing the original password of the administrator of the entire platform. The selection chatbot. McDonald’s uses a platform called Mchire, developed by Paradox.AI, to manage the Personnel selection process through a chatbot known as Olivia. When a candidate shows interest in a job offer, the chatbot comes into play and requests candidates for personal data, shift preferences and directs them to perform a personality test to process their candidacy. The use of artificial intelligence intended Without human intervention. However, such and as they counted Ian Carroll and Sam Curry, the researchers who unintentionally discovered the ruling, were two things that caught their attention. The first one was a Reddit thread in which it was ensured that the McDonald’s hiring AI was giving Some funny failures Going crazy to the candidates who tried to leave their job application. The second thing that led them to investigate a little more about the McDonald’s hiring chatbot was that it seemed very strange that The replacement the curriculums For a personality test. “It seemed quite dystopic compared to a normal hiring process, right? And that was what encouraged me to investigate it more thoroughly,” Carroll said. The security failure: “123456”. Researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry have Much experience in cybersecurityso no one is surprising that they have managed to violate the security of a platform. However, as they report in their blog, they did not need any of their great technical knowledge to take control of the platform as administrators. They simply accessed the Mchire portal, which is the platform after the chatbot of employee hiring for the McDonald’s franchises, and used the password “123456” in the access and access password fields. “That allowed us, any other person, access to any entrance tray and recover the personal data of more than 64 million applicants,” said cybersecurity experts. This access not only allowed to see the data of the candidates, but also intervene in the conversations and ongoing selection processes. “It turned out that we had become administrators of a test restaurant within the Mchire system. We could see that all restaurant employees were simply employees of Paradox.AI, the company behind Mchire.” The data were not exposed. After confirming that it was really a real security vulnerability, the researchers immediately contacted Paradox.AI, which, which He published a statement explaining that “only a small part of the records accessed by the researchers contained personal information” and that “the account ‘123456’ that exposed this data had not been accessed by anyone but the researchers.” In addition, he explained that the compromised credential was a trial account that “had not been used since 2019 and, frankly, should have been deactivated“ McDonald’s responsible for his supplier ensuring that “we are disappointed by this unacceptable vulnerability of an external supplier, Paradox.AI. As soon as we knew the problem, we ordered Paradox. Paradox. The without surveillance. The work context makes the data presented especially Attractive for cybercriminalswhich shows the importance of providing additional security layers to Chatbots based on AI They manage such sensitive data. “If someone had exploited this, Phishing’s risk would have been really huge. It is not just identifiable personal information and curriculum. It is that information from people looking for work in McDonald’s, people who are waiting with anxious Electronic response emails“The researchers said. In Xatakto | Builder.AI promised to revolutionize the programming with its AI. There were actually 700 Indians behind it, picing code Image | Wikimedia Commons (Dirk Tussing)

For decades we rose to this skyscraper in New York without knowing that the screws that held it did not endure

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The situation was more or less like that. For two decades, hundreds of thousands of people entered and went through the doors of one of the larger skyscrapers in New York City. These people, many of them workers, went up and down in the elevator of others totally to the critical failure that the building had, terrifying in an architectural key, and that No one took into account. Rarely in the history of urbanism of the great cities occurred A similar situation. The story dates back to the early twentieth centurywhen the Lutheran Church of San Pedro was in a field of 53 streetbetween Lexington Avenue and the third avenue, in Midtown Manhattan. By 1960, the Church community went through serious economic problems, which led the City Council to sell the land. The negotiations were not easy and lasted years. Mainly, because the Church demanded the creation of a new separate building from the block of floors in which it could continue with its activities. In the end Green light was given to the project. The promoter accepted the conditions, and Citi Bank commissioned Hugh Stubbins & Associates the design of the skyscraper. The engineering will be in charge of William Lemessurier. The final project consisted of a skyscraper, a church, a public space under the level of the street and landscaping. The most important element was, of course, skyscrapers. The plane marked 46 plants that were going to distinguish from the rest of the city by the polished and anodized aluminum of the facade. In addition, among the panels there were window rows. It did not seem really complicated, at least not like the roof and the base of the building. The happy roof Thus, in 1977 the skyscraper ends up lifting. By then it had become bigger, with 59 plants and A total height of 279 meters. An architectural work that dazzled the city’s Skyline, a colossal tower where its inclined top of 45 degrees highlighted. The top of the roof It resembles an isosceles triangle. The original plan was to build terraces and apartments, but over time the architects decided to install huge solar panels. Lemessurier, a professor and graduate of the Massachusetts Institute, conducted a series of tests to check their efficiency. It turned out that the energy converted by the installation was insufficient. Finally, the idea of a small solar plant was abandoned. However, nothing like the base on which the building was supported. Some “stunches”, as Lemessurier himself described, among which he seemed to float for then seventh larger skyscraper on the planet. We refer, of course, those four gigantic pillars (34 meters each) that are located in the center of each side (instead of the corners) of the base. It also had a single column in the center, in this narrower case, which housed the building’s elevator banks and that provided additional force to the racks. With this design it was made room for the church under the corner of the northwest of the building, and gave the giant structure A brutal effectalmost as if he were levitating. In fact, it was exceptionally “light”, of only 25,000 tons (As a reference, Empire State Building was 60,000). The famous pillars The base became an icon of architecture, since it caused the space in the corners to be empty. Lemessurier caused the scratch weight to be distributed to the outer skeleton. Specifically, in a grid of Marcos in a triangular way hidden under the facade. Interestingly, this structure was visible from the inside. The elements were not completely welded, but only set with screwed joints. Apparently, the steel frame designed in this way was destined to support perpendicular winds. According to engineers, Other types of wind should not suppose a threat. In addition, municipal standards did not force other air bursts in design. The truth is that architecture hid an important mechanism in the upper floors. Citigroup Center had One of the first tuned mass shock absorbers (TDM). It is a 360 -ton concrete sphere embedded in oil. When the vibrations of the soil or the wind moved the building, the mechanism oscillated in the opposite direction to the inclination of the building. The problems begin Said balancing was in turn balanced by hydraulic arms that support the sphere. With this solution, the skyscraper was able to “maintain balance.” As Lemessurier explained in his day, this piece was key, since its function was to cut the balancing of the building by half by converting the kinetic energy of friction balancing. Once finished, the building was praised, but also The first doubts arrived. New York is not a state of great hurricanes, but it occasionally has them, what would happen if, once every 50 years, the winds will blow more than 100 km/h? These winds can blow from different directions. The Citigroup Center was inaugurated in 1977, and only one year later it became evident that it could have A very serious defect structural. A year later, Lemessurier receives the call that no architect expects in life. It was Diane Hartleyan engineering student from the prestigious Princeton University who had studied the construction of the skyscraper for his thesis. The first call was to ask several technical questions about the design. Hartley’s professor had expressed his doubts regarding the strength of an inclined skyscraper where the support columns were not in the corners. Hartley made some calculations of the building’s wind load. He then compared them to Lemessurier’s calculations and discovered that the figures of construction engineers were incorrect. The student asked to be sent the exact load calculations for different types of wind. Only received data related to perpendicular winds and guarantees On the solidity of the structure. Moreover, Lemessurier told him that the teacher had not even the most remote idea and that everything was in order. The geometry of the building frame worked perfectly with the pillars in such positions, allowing him to resist very strong winds, even from a diagonal angle. … Read more

Granada promised them very happy with their new degree of the university. Until his feet stopped

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The University of Granada (UGR) closed the month of June with An important varapalo: Your commitment to the degree in AI It was completely paralyzed. A temporal defeat that is a blow to the city, but not a definitive goodbye to a key degree for its curriculum. Granada wanted to join the wave. In September 2024, the University of Granada proposed the application for verification of the degree in Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence. One shared with the city of Melilla, and in which students were sought to form one of the most demanded fields of today From this 2026 course. The answer has been a no. For now. What happened. The UGR faced an unfavorable report by the Agency for the Scientific and University Quality of Andalusia (ACCUA). The most immediate translation: Pedro Mercado, rector of the university institution, declared on Monday, June 30 that The beginning of the titles for the month of September would not be reached. The more than 1,100 pre-registered students In the degree they were in Limbo, forced to bet on other UGR formative alternatives. The degree was paralyzed, but not definitively. The University of Granada must make the modifications required by the organization to obtain green light from September. Juanma Moreno, president of the Junta de Andalucía, has assured that The administration will have “everything ready” to start the course in September In case of the issuance of a favorable report. Why acua. Accua It is the main quality evaluation agency in Andalusian universities. Without a favorable emission, the necessary filter is not passed to give the green light to the degree. This is the first time that the entity issues an unfavorable report for a degree of the UGR and, without it, there is no free way. In summary accounts: The university approves the application for degree verification. ACCUA (in the case of Andalusia) Check if the degree meets the quality standards required by the European Higher Education Area (EEES). The Junta de Andalucía analyzes the economic viability and planning of resources of the degree, once approved. The Council of Universities, at the hands of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, reviews whether the title of adjustment to the general framework of the university system. With all previous checks, the degree is officially recorded Why is it important. Spain is trying create a quarry of experts in the counterrelojto cover the current offers without covering in AI and data science. The country needs cover more than 4,000 positions Deserts in these territories, waiting for 2025 for both training offer and professionals with the necessary skills to start covering them. Universities are trying to integrate AI and modify the stem curriculum Not to be left behind and face an inevitable problem: who enrolls from a degree in 2025 will be in … 2029. And there the labor market will be completely different. Amparo Alonso, president of the Spanish Artificial Intelligence Association Between 2013 and 2021, he collected for Xataka that the key will be to “explain the scientific foundation behind”, and not so much programming languages or current technologies. Spain and AI at University. In this acceleration for integrating AI as a university competence, The Community of Madridthe Valencia Polytechnic Universitythe University of Leónthe University of Malaga and the University of Jaénare some of the few who have dared with public degrees focused on data science, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. In their programs, basic pillars such as: Data structures Learning systems GENERATIVE AND COMPUTATION IN THE CLOUD Programming techniques Regulation and legal framework The experts themselves suggest that the key to learning will be to know their pillars and be clear that there is not a single path: The university is a good alternative, but not the only. Key to Andalusia. The degree in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence responds to a key academic strategy for the technological development plans of the Andalusian Board in cities such as Malaga and Granada. The community led by Juanma Moreno has been trying to become a key technological hub in Spain, with great initiatives such as the Andalusian Technology Park in Malaga, capture of large companies (Vodafone, Salesforce) Chips manufacturing centersand degrees in artificial intelligence in Jaén either Almería. Clear victories, as Google’s first cybersecurity center in Spain In the center of Malaga, they place the community in a competitive and ambitious position. And Granada, on a smaller scale, is willing to follow its steps. Image | How to practice languages using artificial intelligence

A giant is ready to get into the market of chips manufacturing machines: LG Electronics

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The HBM memories market (High Bandwidth Memory) that work side by side with the GPUs for artificial intelligence (IA) Three companies lead it clearly: Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron Technology. Interestingly, memory chips are The South Korean economy engine Trade dependent. And Samsung and Sk Hynix are Companies that support this industry In this Asian country. In fact, these two South Korean companies compete with each other to master the lucrative HBM memory chips. AND They do not supply when it comes to manufacturing as many integrated circuits as their customers demand. The most important of all of them is, as we can intuit, Nvidia. The export of semiconductors in South Korea increases, but its chips stocks 33.7% fell in April of 2024 compared to the same period of 2023 according to the National Statistics Office. In any case, another South Korean company is ready to enter the market for integrated HBM memory circuits, although it will not compete with SK Hynix and Samsung. LG is preparing a unique machine to produce HBM memories Manufacturing integrated VAGUARD HBM circuits is not simple. The processes involved in the production of these chips are complex, and in them very advanced technologies are involved. SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron are manufacturing on a large scale, although with different success12 -layer HBM3E memories. The two South Korean firms will produce large -scale HBM4 chips during the second semester of 2025, and Micron will do so in 2026. However, CXMT (Changxin Memory Technologies), one of the Chinese companies specialized in the production of memoirs, will launch Your first HBM3E chips in 2027. The main quality of this equipment will be its ability to allow the stack of integrated circuits in a much more efficient way China has several memories manufacturers Important, but they currently do not have solutions capable of competing with the best of SK Hynix or Micron. This circumstance reminds us of how complex it is to manufacture latest generation HBM chips. LG Electronics is going to enter this marketbut you will not compete from you to you with memory chips manufacturers. The opposite; aspires to be your customers. Koo Kwang-Mo, the president of this company, has confirmed That its strategy is to participate in the hardware industry for AI, but it will make it marketing its own chips manufacturing equipment. In fact, LG is developing a machine that will be specifically designed to produce avant -garde HBM memories. According to this company, the main quality of this equipment will be its ability to allow the stack of integrated circuits in a much more efficient way than with the technologies currently available. In theory, the innovation in which LG engineers are working will contribute to the tuning of HBM memories of more capacity and with a lower heat dissipation index. LG plans go to make their HBM memories production team in 2028. The main manufacturers of these machines are the American company Applied Materials and the Dutch Besi, so these are The companies with which LG will compete If finally its memory semiconductor production machine comes to fruition. If so, it is likely that Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron are interested in their team, although it is also possible to apply materials or kiss forward to LG. In fact, SK Hynix and Samsung plan to introduce this technology this year. More information | Economic Seoul In Xataka | Chinese memory chips manufacturers are a nightmare for the US and South Korea. There is a lot at play

Younger millionaires have found a more profitable investment than the S&P500: Pokémon’s letters

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Some years ago, YouTuber Logan Paul hit the nail With a formula for financial success: nostalgia + business = the new art. Take an element of your childhood, add a collecting component and the Business is assured. Ask Nintendo with their Pokémon cards. More and more young millionaires are betting on Pokémon cards as a form of investment away from the whims of bags and values that, to date They were considered refuge. It is a trend that we already saw with the Hermès bagsand now he is also emerging with the letters Pokémon collectibles. The power of nostalgia. The attractiveness of these letters not only lies in nostalgia, but also in their ability to generate benefits that exceed those of large stock market rates. Pokémon card fever is sweeping and leaving record figures in its path, such and As publishes Fortune. Collectible articles have always been likely to achieve surprising quotes, especially when they evoke memories of childhood. Pokémon’s letters, which are already approaching their thirtieth anniversary, have conquered young investors looking for more than investing in traditional actions. According to Cardder data, collectible card assessment portal published by Fortunethe annual average profitability of Pokémon letters is increasing almost 46%, exceeding the profitability of very powerful actions such as Nvidia or the average annual profitability of the S&P 500 stock market index, which is 12%. A consolidated and booming market. Since its launch in 1999, They have been manufactured more than 75,000 million pokémon cards. After a first decade of settlement, the market began to value these cards as authentic collectible assets, comparable to classic comics. According to Cardder data, the Japanese animation series cards have been revalued at 3,261% in the last 20 years. Only during the pandemic, the boredom of collectors caused the profitability of the letters to increase by 500%, as published by what was published by Business Insider. AND, according to The AthleticPokémon and Magic letters would have displaced part of the business of collectible sports cards. Almost three decades later, this business model continues to generate about 1,000 million dollars a year. Shortage increases the price. The success of Pokémon letters has generated unusual situations in retail trade. Great chains like Walmart and Target were forced toimitate the number of units By user due to high demand and violent incidents related to the purchase of cards. Pokémon’s letters have reached be the objective of theftwith thieves sneaking in stores and floors in the purest mission style impossible to get a booty of letters valued at several thousand dollars. The last one, without going any further, happened on July 12 at a Massachusetts store, where A thief took pokémon letters valued at $ 100,000. Celebrities and the attractiveness of investment. The fever for investment in Pokémon cards between millennials and the Z generation has grown even more thanks to the interest of celebrities Like elrubius either Justin Bieberwho have paid thousands of dollars for some of them. Famous youtubers such as Logan Paul have brought this passion to the extreme. In 2022, Paul He got the Guinness record When buying the most expensive Pokémon letter in history, for which paid 5.27 million dollars. “This card cost me more than my ranch. My 84 acres ranch,” Paul said. Capital and organized crime The value of Pokémon letters has reached such magnitude that even organized crime groups in Japan have used them To bleach capitalssimilar to what happens with works of art. The ease of transporting and selling these letters abroad makes them an attractive instrument for illegal activities, confirming that the phenomenon of Pokémon cards transcends Simple collecting And it has become A financial asset With global impact. In Xataka | Millionaires found in the luxury watches a refuge value. Now the bubble has exploded Image | Wikimedia Commons (Romer Jed Medina), Unspash (Omid Armin)

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