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Spaniards who make special effects for Hollywood tell us about AI

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We already had clear that Spain has become indisputable superpower of the comic mainstream United States. It is not only there that ours are triumphing internationally. By the Comic-with Malaga Many of those responsible for the VFX study were passed The ranch To break down its spectacular curriculum, and we had the opportunity to talk to two of its members, Isaac de la Pompa and Sofia Balestrini. With your help We take the pulse of the state of the special effects in Spain and review its trajectory: The Ranchito was founded in 2004 by Félix Bergés and since then has become a European and global leader in VFX, with more than 200 employees. Among the films and series in which they have participated are ‘The Snow Society’, ‘A monster comes to see me’, ‘Jurassic World: the fallen kingdom’, ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Stranger Things’, ‘The Mandalorian’ or ‘Westworld’. All success races have a turning point, and in the case of El Ranchito, it was ‘the impossible’ of Juan Antonio Bayona. We ask how your meeting was with the director of ‘The snow society‘: “Bayonne had already worked with Félix Bergés in’ The orphanage ‘and had him again. The effects became very Old School, With real water, and the result was so good that they came to call us no less than ilm (George Lucas’s effect company) to make a projection of the film. “ What impressed so much to the geniuses of the effects of Industrial Light & Magic? “It was shot in a Valencia pool. We bought a computer specialized in making water, waves and that type of fluids, but there is not a pixel on the screen. The only thing we retouched was the foam of the top of the waves, which is a mixture of real image and effects generated by computer.” When the film opens, it sweeps at the box office worldwide. “And above all, the Best Supporting Effects prize of the visual Effects Society in 2013 wins.” And from there, El Ranchito’s phone does not stop sounding. It is a before and after: “Before that, Felix had tried by all means to enter the American market, without getting it. An occasional interview, and nothing more. But the prize made the difference.” The prize and the price recognize: “Here we were more cheaper than those of Los Angeles. It was still a time when in Los Angeles there was labor (now everything is already democalized around the world), and it was much cheaper to take things to us.” For example, ‘Game of Thrones‘. “Chapter eight of season five, which we were not sure how to dobut we accepted because Felix had a lot of value, he accepted everything. I would not have dared. “Before, from HBO they made sure:” They made us a previous exam, they sent us a plan of season 4 in which some skeletons came out and told us ‘take, animated, compose it and others’ “. They had courage, but HBO too: “Suddenly they had to get out of their comfort zone, put aside all the American, Canadian and English companies, and have a Spanish company that had not done a project of that size.” When Ranchito had a good coil of international projects, important orders followed. ‘The Mandalorian’, without going any further: “There were effects that ILM did not give time to finish, and they called us. Above all we made ships of ships.” And he gave them chance to meet an idol: “And of course, we had call with John Knoll (Creative Director of ILM, responsible for the effects of innumerable films with the company since 1989), which is a very rare feeling, being in a videoconference with such a reference. “ The future of special effects The next question is inevitable: How do you see the future of the sector, especially with the arrival of artificial intelligence tools? “At the moment there is no total change, but tools have appeared that facilitate the work, in microtheses that simply make the artist’s life a little simpler. For example, making a mask is a laborious task that before had to make frame by frame, and now there are models that do it automatically.” Nor is the panacea at the moment, they warn: “Then you have to retouch, you have to refine, but the progress is there” “But in general,” they tell us, “there will be a paradigm shift, it is the absolute future. Some professions such as 3D modelers are going to die and they will have to convert to other things.” And yet, “there are limitations.” What kind of limitations? Techniques (“In some aspects that seem unimportant details when generating images, AI is still very green”), but above all legal and use: “Lionsgate has reached an agreement with Runway to feed with a 20,000 films of which they have rights and be able to generate new ‘legal’ productions with AI. It is insufficient, they need many more references to create something with meaning.” That is to say, The current IAS are so sophisticated because they “cheat” in that sense: “Google and other IAS are based on millions and millions of references that take without permission, and that is why the videos are so sophisticated. We cannot do that, and legally we are now in anyone’s land.” Technology exists, the intention exists, but the logical legal maze of power or not being able to use images without permission is such a caliber that we may take years to see how this tangle is faded. In Xataka | What is the work of an artist of visual effects, in the words of Carolina Jiménez (‘Marvel’, ‘El Hobbit’, ‘Cosmos’ …)

Lead the box office in cinemas

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Taylor Swift has done it again: he is accustomed to Shake the ticket offices with premieres that They go for free and that move on the tightrope between the documentary for fans and the unpublished material, but the fact is that he has crowned the box office in a weekend without memorable premieres. But still Swift’s thing is a phenomenon and predicts a reorientation of the box office to a type of film other than the traditional. The launch of a star. The film is’ The Official Release Party of a Showgirl “, the film that accompanies the new star album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’, and has raised 33 million in the North American market and another 13 in the rest of the world. The film has been distributed independently as it already did with ‘The Eras Tour’, reaching an agreement with AMC and Variance (a distribution company for service), with which it has reached more of 3,700 rooms. More records. Any vazaña is Swift: never before any artist had placed in his first weekend an album and his accompaniment film in the number one of their respective lists. As Deadline remembersnor did he get it Prince With ‘Purple Rain’ (the soundtrack reached number 3), or Whitney Houston with ‘The bodyguard’ (the film stayed in 2). In addition, ‘The Life of A Showgirl’ has been the second best -selling album in history in its first weekend since digital sales are counted, with 2.7 million physical and digital copies added. No publi. The most curious thing about this success is that the film has barely had a promotion: there have been no trailers or signs in cinemas. Only street advertisements, website and social media machinery of Swift, the envy of many Majors: Direct access to the TLS of more than five hundred million users. One more example of the promotional muscle of the Fandom and the networks when turning a premiere into a success. Towards eventization. This success only confirms, beyond the overwhelming fame that Taylor Swift enjoys, that the cinema is eventizing, that is, that the great premieres are taking the form of events that go beyond the pure footage of the film, something that has almost reserved for the traditional films that circulate in streaming. The films event are premieres designed to live in the room: giant screens, immersive sound and special functions that justify a higher price and a social assistance ritual. Premium experience. While the assistance figures of film rooms are resent with continuous falls (the global collection figure 10% fell in 2024 With respect to 2023, and the change in consumption habits and the impact of strikes seem to be The great responsible), The phenomenon ‘Barbenheimer‘A couple of years ago it seems to have marked a way to consider the premieres that since then you want to repeat. Immersive experiences, films that “must be seen” in cinemas (the last phenomena in that sense were ‘WICKED‘ and ‘A Minecraft movie ‘), Sing-Along versions … The film industry crawls in search of new spectators. Paradoxically, artists completely outside Hollywood seem to have the keys to provide an oxygen ball. In Xataka | Taylor Swift has already released 34 editions from his latest album. OBJECTIVE: Never abandon success lists

This is your asset so as not to depend so much on Nvidia

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OpenAI has announced A multiannual agreement with AMD so that the chips company supplies artificial intelligence processors that will feed part of its AI infrastructure. The pact includes the hardware deployment equivalent to 6 gigawatts of power and gives the ChatgPT creators the option to acquire up to 10% of participation in AMD. A colossal dimensions agreement. The plan contemplates that Openai begins to use the AMD Instinct Mi450 chips in the second half of 2026, with a first installation of a gigavatio. The New York Times Compare The magnitude of the total deployment (6 gigawatts) with the equivalent of electric consumption of all Massachusetts households. AMD ensures that the agreement could generate tens of billions of dollars in annual income and more than 100,000 million in four years, telling the drag effect on other customers. Beyond the economic. As part of the pact, AMD has issued a purchase option (Warrant) that allows Openai to acquire up to 160 million shares from a cent. This option is unlocked by sections as specific objectives are met, which include the first sending of MI450 chips and AMD contribution objectives that scale up to $ 600 per share. AMD’s actions shot More than 20% In operations prior to the opening of the market after the news is known, adding 80,000 million dollars to its capitalization. OpenAI diversifies suppliers. The movement arrives just weeks after Openai closed An agreement of 100,000 million dollars With Nvidia, the technological giant who has the domain of the chips of AI. With Nvidia, Openai promised to deploy hardware equivalent to 10 gigawatts. According to ReutersSam Altman has set expectations of reaching 250 gigawatts of total computing capacity by 2033, which explains this multiple suppliers strategy. The company also works with Broadcom in The development of their own processors (Xpus). AMD looks for its hole in front of Nvidia. For AMD they are great news, since the agreement represents the validation of its chips and software in a market where Nvidia prevails almost completely, controlling approximately 90% of the quota in processors for AI. “We consider this agreement certainly transformative, not only for AMD, but for the dynamics of the industry,” declared Forrest Norrod, Executive Vice President of AMD. The company has been collaborating with Openai for years, contributing ideas in the design of previous generations such as MI300X chips. Hunger of AI infrastructure. OpenAI and other great technological plan to spend More than 325,000 million dollars in data centers only this year. Unlike giants such as Amazon, Microsoft or Google, which finance these projects With your available operational cashOpenai, which according to the latest reports It has generated about 4.3 billion dollars In revenue in the first half of 2025 while burning 2.5 billion in cash, it needs to look for creative financing formulas. The agreement with AMD, like Nvidia, allows Openai to ensure more supply while aligning its strategic interests with its suppliers. In Xataka | Everything you ask the goal AI on WhatsApp or Instagram will be used to sell you things: this is the new mandatory clause

It is a tiny Caribbean island with a unique asset

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The AI ​​is A bottomless well of burning money. There is Very few companies earning money With this technological boom and the fear that everything will be A bubble about to explode The atmosphere flies over. In the midst of this uncertain panorama, an unexpected winner has emerged, a small British island located in the Caribbean Sea. Your secret? It has control of the domain .AI .AI The domain was created in 1995 specifically for Isla de Anguila. Like the .es. With the AI ​​boom, the use of domains. The boom. Perplexity.ai, x.ai, Google.AI… They are some of the AI ​​services that these domains use, but there are many more. According to This report From the Domain Technik hosting service, in 2018 there were approximately 48,000 .AI registered domains. The figure was growing over the years, but in 2023 the thing is triggered and the 354,000 domains are reached, which meant 145% growth with respect to 2022. There are currently 870,000. Taking into account that up to date an average of 1,500 domains are being recorded. Income. As reflected in the Annual Income, Expenses and Capital Report of 2024 of the Anguilla government, in 2022 the income derived from the domain registry. In the world of AI, they are ridiculous figures, but on a small island like eel, it is an important part of its income. Caution. According to the local medium Anguilla FocusJose Vanterpol, Minister of Infrastructure and Communications said that “in the years prior to the true advance of AI, income from domains. However, they are cautious. In statements A AP News Last year, Prime Minister Ellis Webster said that “we cannot predict how long this will last (…) I do not want our economy, our country and all our programs to be based solely on this.” Other cases. Anguilla is not the only case of a domain that unexpectedly becomes a gold mine for a region. He passed with Tuvalu, an archipelago between Australia and Hawaii who saw how The .TV domains became their second source of income. There has also been similar cases With the domains .ly belonging to Libya and. Me de Montenegro. Cover image | Wikipedia In Xataka | There are such monstrously high skyscrapers in China that a new job has emerged: those who take lunch to the last plants

The greatest attack of Ukraine on Russian soil discovered a new threat with drones. China has just multiply it

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In 2024, Ukraine managed to enter trucks disguised as mobile houses in Russian terrain. It was the origin of what happened in June 2025, when The Spiderweb operation It was activated giving rise to kyiv’s greatest attack on Moscow since the beginning of the invasion in Ukraine. The offensive also staged the Future of the contests. China has taken another step in that threat marked by drones. Show converted into threat. They told them Analysts at The War Zone. China, through the company Damodahas presented a containerized system designed in principle for light shows with drones, but whose concept reveals deep military implications. The Automated Drone Swarm Container System is capable to display and recover Hundreds (potentially thousands) of small grid drones automatically, in a matter of minutes and with a single operator. Although the declared objective is entertainment, the system encapsulates the logic of how a simple container can be transformed into a portable swarm launcher with capacity of saturating skies and objectives at will. What today is a viral show on social networks, tomorrow can be a devastating weapon on the battlefield. From Guinness to War. Damoda already holds the world record with More than 11,000 drones in simultaneous flight in a coordinated show. Now, with this modular system of extensible racks, each container can accommodate At least 648 dronesready to take off and land synchronized. Drones automatically return to their positions and recover in the system itself, which It allows constant repetition With minimal human intervention. The promise for the civil market is speed, portability and cost reduction, but from the military perspective what is shown is the ability to convert a truck or a container into a force multiplier, camouflaged in an innocuous appearance. The precedents. The most immediate parallelism is found in the Ukraine War. As we said at the beginning, in mid -2024, kyiv carried out the call Spiderweb Operationwhere hidden containers as sheds or mobile houses were used as undercover kamikaze drones. Those attacks against aerodromes inside Russia They damaged or destroyed dozens of aircraft, including strategic long -range bombers. The blow was so serious that the Pentagon estimates the loss of at least ten of these devices. Something similar It happened in the Middle Eastwhen Israeli commands used covert structures to launch drones and missiles against goals in Iran during the beginning of the twelve -day war. Both operations show that the container, the most banal and ubiquitous infrastructure of global trade can become A lethal vector of power projection. The military potential. If civil design is extrapolated to the war, the concept is transformed into A swarm weapon low cost with saturation effects. Several trucks equipped with these containers could simultaneously launch hundreds or thousands of drones with diverse missions: from exploration and recognition to electronic warfare, interference of radars or kinetic attacks with small explosive loads. It would be enough Reduced number of systems To sweep an air base, disable radars or cover an urban front with lethal swarm. Its deployment in scenarios where the control lines are diffuse, such as cities in war, would allow devastating and almost impossible to stop with traditional defenses. The defense challenge. The difficulty in repelling a massive attack of swarms is multiplied with each advance in Autonomy and artificial intelligence. A swarm with the ability to Autonomous search and destruction It could penetrate shegars, hangars or buildings in search of objectives, exceeding the limitations of preprogrammed attacks. Let’s think that conventional anti -aircraft systems, designed to intercept specific threats, are overwhelmed in front of hundreds of simultaneous drones. The directed energy weapons, like lasers or microwaveThey offer partial but limited solutions by scope, direction and power. One of the few effective alternatives is to respond with another defensive swarm of interceptor drones, capable of creating a mobile barrier in the sky. Even so, cost-efficacy asymmetry plays in favor of the attacker: while an interceptor missile It can cost millionseach suicide drone barely reaches some thousands of dollars. Representation of a container launch system for the Merodeo ammunition of the Hero family of the German contractor Rheinmetall, as another example of a relevant concept that has previously been shown A show in the contest. The great risk is that what is now deployed as a cultural or tourist show can be transformed With hardly modifications In a gun of war. The camouflage, a priori, is perfect: a load container standard, transported by train, truck or ship, does not raise suspicions until, in minutes, it becomes A lethal swarm. This multiplies the strategic challenge for air bases, ports and cities close to the front, where a single infiltrated container could inflict damage comparable to that of a cruise missile sap. In wars where surprise and saturation are key, this kind of “drone box” emerges as the contemporary equivalent of an unpublished intelligent cluster bomb and precision. Global threat in buds. The truth is that China is not the only country in Explore this land. Defense companies and contractors In the United States And Europe also work in similar conceptssome even thought for naval pitchers. The debate in the US Navy already proposes to install containerized swarms In ships for defense and attack, which shows the inevitability of this transition. The Chinese precedent and the war in Ukraine indicate that the next future of the Air War is not only in the great seasons of sixth generation or in hypersonic missiles, but in low -cost swarms capable of overflowing any defense. The paradox. The Automated Drone Swarm Container System of Damoda It is officially a civil product to illuminate the skies in celebrations. But what projects, beyond its luminous choreographies, is a disturbing mirror of the future of war. Each viral show is at the same time, An essay From what can happen on the battlefield: the replacement of the power concentrated by distributed saturation, the replacement of the missile of millions with hundreds of low -cost drones, the transit of the technological war to … Read more

Mediamarkt celebrates the day without VAT in its outlet and is liquidating iPhone mobiles from 174 euros

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Although the iPhone se It is a discontinued model and that Apple no longer manufactures or sells on its website, you can still buy it in a store. If you want to have an Apple terminal that keeps the Touch ID button, Mediamarkt is celebrating the Day without VAT Also in your outlet on eBay and you can buy it for 174 euros. Apple iPhone SE (3rd Gen.), 64 GB, 5G, 4.7 “Retina HD, Chip A15 Bionic The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Although this is the great bargain in the Mediamarkt outlet on eBay During the day without VAT for those who want an Apple terminal, we can find Other iPhone on offer that may interest you, as are the following: A good, beautiful and cheap iPhone He iPhone Se 2022 It is a bargain today without VAT of Mediamarkt in its outlet on eBay. This mobile rides a 4.7 -inch HD Retina With Truetone technology. In addition, it is an exhibition terminal, so it is in a new state. Your brain is the Apple A15 Bionic Chip and has a single 12 MP rear camera and another 7 MP front. Its battery offers up to 15 hours of video And it comes with a wide connectivity section, with Wi -Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0 and 5g. In addition, it only weighs 144 grams, so it is a very light mobile. Some accessories to protect this mobile Oretech Transparent case for iPhone Se 2022/Se 2020/7/8, with (2x screen protector) The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Yisica compatible with iPhone SE 2022 The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links 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 | Webedia and Apple In Xataka |The best mobiles quality price: your analysis and videos are here In Xataka | Best wireless headphones: which buy and 19 models from 20 euros to 450 euros

has made it a tourist show

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On September 28, China sumo a new one megaconstruction to his increasingly unbarkable list. After less than four years of work, THE BRIDGE OF THE GRAND CANYON OF HUAJIANG It became the highest bridge in the world. It is a weight argument for the project to capture worldwide, but beyond its engineering records, the bridge has become an example for other reasons: His tourist ambition. It has a fantasy waterfall and a restaurant at the top of one of its columns. Another megaestructure in Guizhou. The works began in January 2022. Far from being a whim, a bridge of these characteristics in A region like Guizhou It is essential if you want to meet the objective of the country to interconnect all corners as much as possible. Approximately 90% of Guizhou are mountains and throatswhich makes a trip that could take minutes. That is why the area is known as the “Bridge Museum” due to both their number and their complexity. In the case of the Huajiang Grand Canyon bridge, we are talking about a construction with a length of 2,890 meters, a main section of 1,420 meters (among the towers) that is 625 meters above the Beipan River. The towers rise to 776 meters and the set is what dethroned the Junge bridge over the Beipan River itself as the highest in the world. Balance between investment and return. Just before their inauguration, the authorities tested their resistance by causing almost 100 trucks will travel at the same time through the vain For five days. A total of 3,000 tons that the huge cables, the 439,000 m³ of concrete and 49,000 tons of steel passed without problem. It is estimated that the bridge has cost about 280 million dollars and allows you to spend in a couple of minutes on the other side of the mountain, something for which you had to invest more than an hour. The doubt was to what extent China would recover the investment with this megaconstruction that does not stop joining rural areas. Yes, the country wants to create a series of arteries to foster trade And tourism, but recovering the money was something that was in the air. But, precisely, the key may be in tourism not from one side of the bridge to another: but turning the structure into the protagonist. Interstellar coffee. Almost literally. Located in one of the towers, already 775 meters high, we have the ‘Interestle Coffee‘. It is a restaurant to take something while enjoying a privileged view. The trip to coffee itself must be impressive thanks to a elevator panoramic that amounts to 207 meters at a speed of four meters per second to arrive in less than a minute. Only for its location, you already have the interest of being one of the restaurants at more height in the world. From Turisteo to the bridge. But not only have the bridge built with that technical stop for coffee in mind: they wanted to turn it into a tourist destination for their own merits. To start, it has a waterfall that can ‘shoot’ water to the river forming different patterns, but it is also a destination for those who want to hiking 625 meters with a glass floor or for those who want to practice something more extreme. In this video of ‘El Paseo de Kai’ we can see different activities On Bridge: 2×1. It is a way to take advantage of this exceptional height for more than to connect two points and the truth is that it is nothing new. Bridges like Balinghe or that of Pingtang They already exceeded that traditional concept of “bridge as a mere passage facilitator” to become tourist destinations. It is something we have also seen in constructions such as the three throats that not only can Move the Earth’s rotation axisbut it has a museum that documes the construction, an example of operation of the dam itself and Multiple observation points. Therefore, the new highest bridge in the world is not only an achievement in civil engineering, but an innovation in that integrated tourism development that can be the one that helps recover what is invested in infrastructure. Images | Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism of Guizhou

Once again, goal does not have the best AI, but it is clearer than anyone the best business plan to make it profitable

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Mark Zuckerberg He was not happy with the advances in his companyso spent the whole summer signing the best talents for millionaire figures with the aim of creating a superintelligence. We do not know if you will get it, what we do know is that, although the goal is lagging in the AI ​​career, it is advanced in something more important: How to make it profitable. Zuckerberg’s last play is that all chats and interactions with goal AI will use to offer us personalized ads. December 16. It is the date on which Meta will start using the conversations that its users have with goal AI to customize ads and the content that will appear on its different platforms. This includes, not only conversations with your chatbot inside apps such as Instagram or WhatsApp, if you have a target Ray-Ban, all the interactions you have with the voice assistant will also be used. If, for example, we ask Meta AI a question about how to take care of a plant, it will show us advertisements of related items and suggest plants publications. Mandatory. In This article on your blogMeta states that the user still has control and that he can adjust the content and ads that he sees from the ‘advertisement preferences’ section. What they do not say is that there will be no way to prevent chats from being used to customize the ads and content that we will see in the feed. The only way to avoid it is not to use the finish line. Of course, the company states that it will not use sensitive information such as religious beliefs, sexual orientation, political, health or racial issues. Another approach. While other chatbots like chatgpt, claude or gemini They use conversations as training data For their AI, in the finish line they bet on an approach aimed at business. The great technology, They are dilapidating billions in AI. Google, Amazon and Microsoft are amortizing investment with their cloud services, while Meta relies on their strongest business: advertising. In the second quarter of the year Your income increased by 22%largely thanks to its advertising services. Risks. In statements a FortuneEmily Bender, co -author of I study the dangers of “stochastic parrots” On language models, he affirms that Meta is crossing a dangerous line: “It is customization disguise (…) The following obvious concern is whether Chatbot himself will begin to incite us to reveal information.” In addition, alert about the illusion of privacy that we feel when talking to a chatbot and that can lead us to reveal sensitive information that we would never say in public. Image | Goal In Xataka | Zuckerberg is willing to lose “hundreds of billions” of dollars in AI: not investing them would be worse for finishing

Data centers for AI are an energy hole. Jeff Bezos’s solution: Build them in space

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In the next two decades we will see data centers at Gigavatio scale orbiting the Earth. Or at least that is the prediction that has launched The founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos. He said it during his speech at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, where he was able to establish conversation with John Elkann, president of Ferrari and Stellantis. Bezos’s proposal. Space data centers would take advantage of solar energy 24 hours a day, cloudless, rain or night cycles that interrupt the supply. According to Bezosthese “giant training clusters” of artificial intelligence would be more efficient and, eventually, more economical than terrestrial facilities. “We can exceed the cost of land data centers in space in the coming decades,” he said. Why now talks about this. The infrastructure demand for AI is becoming a large hole for the planet. Current data centers consume massive amounts of electricity and water to cool its servers, a problem that is aggravated with each new artificial intelligence model. Given this pressure, large technology explore alternatives: from Locate them in ships o Nordic countries until sink into the ocean. And of course, if we have capacity problems on Earth, some technological ones already think about taking the letter to send them to space. The technical advantages. In space, temperatures range between -120 ° C under direct sunlight and -270 ° C in shadow, which would greatly simplify equipment cooling. Constant solar energy would eliminate dependence on land electrical networks. Bezos places this development as’Natural evolution‘of a process that has already begun with weather and communications satellites. “The next step will be the data centers and then other types of manufacturing,” he explained. The real challenges. As they point out from Tom’s hardwarebuilding a spatial data center of a Gigavatio would require solar panels that would cover between 2.4 and 3.3 million square meters, with an estimated weight of 9,000 to 11,250 metric tons only in photovoltaic material. Transporting all that equipment to space would cost between $ 13,700 and 25,000 million with current technology, needing more than 150 launches. To this is added the difficulty of maintenance, updates and the inherent risk of space releases. Parallelism with AI. Bezos compared The current moment of artificial intelligence With the bubble Puntocom of the early 2000s. “We should be extremely optimistic about the social and beneficial consequences of AI,” he said, although he warned of the possibility of speculative bubbles. His message: Do not confuse possible excesses of the market with the reality of technological advances, whose benefits consider that “they will spread widely and reach everywhere.” When It will be done reality?. Bezos places the temporary horizon “in more than 10 years, but no more than 20”. Today, the project is commercially unfeasible, but its vision starts from the premise that the launch costs will continue to go down and the technology will mature. It remains to be seen, after two decades, part of our digital infrastructure is in orbit, beyond the existing one. In Xataka | Nvidia has control of the most powerful chips of AI: OpenAi, Broadcom and TSMC want to end their XPUS

one thousand people trapped by a storm

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As much as we have touristifiedas much as we have accustomed to see their camps and slopes full of mountaineersEverest still is a resort. Today the planet’s summit is much more busy than in times of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (The pioneers who crowned the top in 1953), but the mountain is still a dangerous space full of challenges. And if we had forgotten Everest himself, he has just remembered us big. What happened? That Everest has just remembered own and strangers that it is not a tourist attraction, but a mountain with extreme climatic conditions that can be twisted at the most unexpected moment. That is at least what just learned the hundreds of mountaineers who were surprised on their slopes this weekend for an intense and copious snow. Snow was expected, but the intensity of the storm surprised even the most experienced, which forced the authorities to be launched to rescue the trapped groups. “The weather this year is not normal. The guide said he had never faced such a climate in October,” Explain a mountaineer affected. Where did it happen? On the eastern slope, where the blizzard caught hundreds of people in the camps. Chinese media talk about about a thousand Of affected, hundreds of hikers who were stranded by the storm that started on Friday at the last minute and lasted throughout Saturday. Other sources They point out that temporary surprised more than 500 people in the TINGRI region. And how are they now? According to The latest information Shared by Laura Bicker, a correspondent for the BBC, rescuers have already guided 350 people to a safe place located in the municipality of Qudang, on the Tibetan side. They have also managed to contact another 200 hikers. The British chain Precise That hundreds of villagers and rescuers have been deployed through the area to clear the access roads, blocked by snow, at an altitude of more than 4,900 m. It is not clear if the snowfall has affected hikers of the north face. How strong was it? “When we woke up, the snow already had about a meter deep,” Geshuang Chen recountswho on Friday had left Qudang with a group of more than ten mountaineers heading to the Base camp of Cho Oyu. On Saturday, however the storm frustrated its plans. “We are all experienced hikers, but even so this blizzard was extremely difficult.” Another mountaineer, Eric wen, has counted To the Reuters agency that his group could barely sleep because the snow fell so copious that they had to remove it from the covers of their stores every ten minutes. “If not, they would have collapsed.” Despite their care and equipment, three colleagues suffered hypothermia. How was it possible? For a sum of factors. The main is the meteorology. They have not been easy days in the region. To the south of Tibet, in Nepal, heavy rains have caused landslides and floods that, in addition to blocking roads, have left several deaths. In the last hours Europa Press He spoke Already 52 dead and 53 injured, in addition to a long dozen of missing. The other key factor is the festive calendar. China is in full Golden Weeka high season period for local tourism. “Many people come to do hiking, but this year snow is exceptional,” Chen points out. That coincidence of dates and climate explains that this week they arrive at the Karma Valley, which leads to the Eastern Kangshung face of Everest, hundreds of people. Why is it important? What happened this weekend at Everest is not important just because of the event itself. It is also (and above all) for what it reveals about the mountain and tourist saturation of Himalaya, a problem that experts They have been warning and of which the authorities They are aware. Some calculations estimate that every year they visit the Sagarmatha National Parkdominated by Everest, some tens of thousands of people that generate in turn 20 tons of garbage. In the mountain the challenge is so serious that the authorities They have already raised Forcing mountaineers to bring bags to collect their feces. Does so many people go to Everest? Yes. The problem of Everest Massification became especially palpable a few years ago, in May 2019when a Nepalese mountaineer took a photo in which more than 200 people are seen in a row in full rise to the roof of the world. A human traffic jam like the one we would expect to find ourselves in a commercial street in Madrid in full discounts … only in one of the most inhospitable places on the planet. Statista calculates that only in 2023 they were recorded 656 successful promotionsstill from the more than 800 from before pandemic. What happened this weekend reminds us that despite this enormous popularity and the growing massification of the mountain, even has increased ratesEverest is far (very far) from being a place for sports tourism to use. You don’t have to go very far to confirm it. In 2023 they disappeared Three Sherpas experienced in the Khumbu ice cascade, swelling the extensive list Dead and missing in the mountain. Images | Guillaume Baviere (Flickr), EMIFAULK (Flickr) and Statista In Xataka | To decongest Everest, Nepal allows you to access another 97 free peaks. The problem is that nobody wants to upload them

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