We have just discovered that food can also affect the risk of developing lung cancer

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We know well that certain ways of life can affect our risk of suffering certain types of cancer. A clear case is that of the relationship between smoking and respiratory system tumors, especially lung. We also know that our diet It can affect to the probability that we develop cancers such as liver or colorectal. However, relationships can be somewhat more complex. Diet and lung cancer. A new study has linked The diet with the risk of lung cancer, a relationship that until now had remained, if it does not hide, at least in the shadow of other better known and explored connections. Adenocarcinoma and glycogen. The study focuses on the Pulmonary adenocarcinomaa tumor at the origin of 40% of cases of globally diagnosed lung cancer, explains the team responsible for the study. It is the cancer that causes more deaths in the United States, but it is also the most common lung cancer among people who have ever smoked. The new study focuses on glycogen accumulation. Glycogen is a polysaccharide, a sugar composed of simple sugars or monosaccharides, in this case a glucose chain. This sugar is used by our body as an energy reserve. The role of glycogen. The accumulations of Glycogen They had been observed in some types of cancers as well as in other diseases. Now, the team responsible for the new study, studied through computational and laboratory models how this complex sugar acts as “oncogenic metabolite.” As they explain, the greater the accumulation of the polysaccharide in cancer cells, greater and more dangerous will be tumor growth. In mice. The analysis in animal models (in mice) served to validate the theoretical results. The team found that, by feeding the mice with a diet that they catalog as “western”, capable of facilitating a greater presence of blood glycogen, cancer in the animals of the animals grew. In contrast, when glycogen levels fell, tumor growth was reduced. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nature Metabolism. Diet and cancer risk. The team responsible for the study emphasizes that, although it is one of the first times (if not the first time) that lung cancer is linked to the diet, there are already numerous occasions when the diet has been put in the center of the strategies for cancer prevention. The diet is also an important pillar in treatments against this disease. “In the long term, our approach to cancer prevention should reflect the success of the antitabaco campaign (putting a greater emphasis on public awareness and policy -based strategies that promote healthier dietary choices as a fundamental component for disease prevention,” explained in a press release Ramon Sun, who led the team responsible for the study. Route for treatment. The good news is that the finding can open a way to improve treatments against this type of cancer. And we count at our disposal of drugs capable of controlling the level of glycogen in our body. Without the need to resort to pharmacological treatments, the study also allows highlighting the importance of a balanced diet in our health. In Xataka | Quantum computers begin to make a difference in a crucial field: the development of cancer vaccines Image | ROD Long

It is not only economic issue, but of Chinese national pride

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The trajectory of ‘NE ZHA 2’ It is absolutely incredible. That it works in this way, like a real hurricane, a Chinese animation film, developed outside Hollywood and that has barely seen himself outside his country, leaves a good record of how weak the world box office is in front of the robust figures That China exhibits. This epic of mythological dyes is already The fifth highest grossing film in historyleaving behind the most successful ‘Star Wars’ movie of all time, ‘The Force Awakens’. Dizzy figures. Outside China, ‘Ne Zha 2’ has only raised about 31 million dollars, but within its country, it already has more than 2,054 million dollars. With bothAvatar‘ and ‘Titanic‘) And the historical’Endey me‘Marvel. The forecasts of the film producer, Maoyan, is to reach about 2.1 billion dollars after the premiere in Japan, Indonesia and most of Europe. It would be in that case still below ‘Titanic’ and its 2,257 million. A favorable context. This bombing occurs at a time when the world box office is showing worrying symptoms of exhaustion. In the United States, the box office has added This weekend Some scarce 54.7 million dollars, certifying the worst of the year. The most watched film of the week, ‘Novocaine’, has barely pocketed 8.7 million. And it is not a Hollywood thing: according to Comscore, in Spain we have had The worst weekend of March since 2021despite how very well the new Ruiz Caldera, ‘Wolfgang’ has gone. Even an enigma. The most amazing thing about this success, without a doubt, is that ‘Ne Zha 2’ is virtually unknown outside of China. Cinema fans and analysts attentive to the box office have heard of it, but it is very, far from the international fame of ‘Titanic’ or a movie of the Avengers. And yet, there is, rubbing with them. But it is that the Chinese population is sufficient to sustain a success as follows: in their country of origin, ‘Ne zha 2’ has sold more than 300 million tickets, a figure higher than the population of any country that is not India, the United States or China itself. It is 21% of the country’s population, a percentage already impressive. The reasons for a success. There are reasons for this success in China, completely alien to the rest of the world: it is the sequel to a 2019 film (which was already there the highest grossing animated film in history) and premiered the most important weekend of the year, the New Year. Of course, the box office increase, quickly overcoming international successes such as’Upside down 2‘Inflamed the film’s career, which accelerated the rate of income. Numerous companies came to buy tickets for their employees and give them the day off to see the movie. National pride. The film has become, for this reason, almost in a matter of patriotic responsibility: 138 Chinese animation studies collaborated in its creation, and in different media of international draft like ‘shine’ The film has been presented as a kind of culmination of the evolutionary tree of Chinese animated cinema. The expectation has made many spectators come to see it several times or are encouraged to repeat in IMAX format. The fact that this milestone serves to forget a Nefasta box office for China in 2024who lived a 25%drop, reinforces this feeling. Of course, the traditional Chinese legends that serve as the basis and the classic themes of the country’s family cinema have also helped that ‘NE ZHA 2’ reach the category of authentic milestone. In Xataka | Time trips and Peppa Pig are prohibited in China. Or at least, they cannot appear in their success series

After years of Japanese, in Spain there is already a generation at the gates of an uncertain scenario: old age without children

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In 1960 each Spanish woman had throughout her life almost three children. Today They do not reach 1.2. The data is just that: data, demographic means, pure statistical mathematics, but they serve to understand better trends that are every time more present in homes of homes. As I know Birth sinkslife expectancy and Families changeSpain meets A new reality: The first “without children” generations look at old age with the challenge of facing that last vital stage without offspring. No children. Neither grandchildren. The big question is … why? And what does it imply? Figure issue. Spanish demography (like that of Other other countriesinside and out of the West) It is changing. A lot. And fast. In fact it has been doing it for a long time. If we review the fertility index we find that It has collapsed Throughout the last decades: of 2.94 children per woman in 1967 we have gone to 1.12. And going down. Translated into babies that supposes that today they are born in Spain less than half that in him Baby Boom. The trend has been the opposite among people who live alone. At least over the last years. If in 2014 the unipersonal households supposed 24% of the total From the census, six years later they were already 26%. Another reality is those who live in a couple but choose to do it without offspring. In 2020 the INE counted near four million of homes with that profile, two out of ten. Generations without children. A few months ago the CIS contributed an even more interesting approach. Its technicians They asked to people born over the last decades if they had children and found themselves with which the percentage of ‘Sies’ fell clearly as the age of the interviewees did. It is a predictable trend among younger respondents, under 34, but the study reflects something else: among cohorts with more advanced ages, which are already peeling retirement, there is also a considerable percentage of people without offspring. And to show a button. If 89% of people of 75 or more years had children, that percentage went to 81.5%Among the interviewees from 55 to 64 years. If we go to the fork from 35 to 44 years the proportion drops even more, to 62%, and if we descend even more, focusing on the population between 25 and 34 years, we find that only 32% of respondents have had at least one offspring. Why is it important? Because as I pointed out recently The Spanish newspaper (EPE) in An analysis On that same phenomenon, the data of the CIS show us that Spain is at the gates of a demographic milestone: the arrival in the old -generation old age in which a relevant percentage of people has chosen to have no offspring. According to the CISin the age strip from 55 to 64 years they represent 18.5%. “The ghost of old age without children”. Between that 18.5% of people without offspring, such as I confessed recently A couple in the fifty to EPE, there are those who already contemplate with concern to the “ghost of old age without children.” That is, the perspective of becoming greater or becoming dependent without children or grandchildren who, if necessary, can serve as a network. “It seems that you are always going to be autonomous, but the aging is noticeable year after year and seeing it in your elders causes restlessness because having children does not mean that no one will take care of you, but you can have support, at least someone to call,” Write The same couple. They now have octogenarian parents who need help and “someone for everything.” “What would they do without their children?” Marking the way. 18.5% may seem a reduced percentage yet, but THE STUDY OF THE CIS It is interesting for something else: it suggests that this scenario of ‘old age without children’ will be increasingly common. Among the interviewees of 45 to 54 years the percentage of those who claim to have no offspring represents 21.3% and between the people aged 25 and 44 touches 36-66%. Maternity It has been delaying With the passing of the decades and today it is located in almost 33 yearswith what the logical thing would be for these percentages to soften, but still the trend is clear. THE CIS Confirm In addition, another reality that institutions such as the INE have been drawing for a long time: many of the couples who have been parents have had a single descendant, so the support they can receive in their old age will depend on a single child. It comes to review two figures to understand it: among those over 75 years of age the percentage of people with children who claim to have had more than a offspring reaches 90.3%. Among the interviewees of 55 to 64 years that same proportion already collapses to 73.5%. A complex reality. The big question arriving at this point is … Why do the Spaniards have fewer children than a few decades ago or do we even opt for not having them? The answer is complex and adds multiple factors, including cultural, labor and social changes, but a few months ago the CIS reflected Another factor Same relevant: the economic one. According to your polls, 77.3% Of the Spaniards believe that people have no children “due to lack of economic means.” 44.1% indicate another cause that goes along the same lines: “Conciling problems” work and professional life. Moreover, the research center states that 59% of respondents who have not been parents recognize that they would have liked to be. “Create support networks”. The other question that remains by throwing is … What will this increase in people who reach old age without children or grandchildren? Will it translate into greater pressure for public coffers? The problem is not exclusive to Spain. Other countries (Even in Asia) They also face the challenge of seeing how their demographic pyramid is widened … Read more

Valencia’s TSJ does not agree

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Return to work after having suffered a heart attack and being intervened urgently is very hard. But that, when leaving the hospital, you have to drive a 674 km truck And it takes more than ten days to return home because the company has not organized the transfer to Spain is much worse. The cherry cherry is to make all that journey making cast stops and that, when you reach your destination, the company has prepared The dismissal letter. The story you have collected Genbeta It may seem surreal, but it is what happened in 2021 to a truck driver from Elche who, while he was making a long distance route through Europe, suffered a myocardial infarction and had to be treated in Germany. Now, the Superior Court of Justice of Valencia He has failed in his favor declaring the nullity of dismissal and setting compensation for the treatment received during his return to Spain. The truck driver incident As detailed The sentence From the Superior Court of Justice of Valencia, a truck driver of Elche lived a dramatic experience when on December 12, 2021, while driving on Germany on a long distance route to Norway, suffered a myocardial infarction and had to be hospitalized for three days to practice a catheterization. This incident occurred only three months after the driver was hired as a temporary worker with the aim of covering a new route. After being discharged in the German hospital, the truck driver found himself in a difficult situation that justice has described as “negligent actions” and “uncontending.” Despite having a work decline due to the surgical intervention they had undergone, the company demanded that it lead more than 674 kilometers to Strasbourg, where a partner who was on a route back to Spain picked him up and returned together. However, this return trip, far from being direct, included multiple stops and additional distribution tasks assigned to the partner he had collected. Finally, the return was an odyssey that lasted until eleven days later of the medical incident. Welcome home: You are fired The truck driver’s adventure did not end with his return to Spain. Upon arriving at Elche on December 23, He notified him the dismissed Without prior notice. The company did not officially communicate the dismissal until a week later, under the pretext of needing its presence to “sign documentation.” This dismissal was considered by the truck driver as zero for violation of fundamental rightsspecifically the right to physical and moral integrity. In addition, it was argued that dismissal occurred as a result of the worker’s state of health, which could be considered Disability discrimination. The company, meanwhile, tried to justify its actions. They argued that dismissal was not such, but a “valid extinction of a temporary employment contract due to the circumstances of production.” According to the company, temporary hiring responded to specific market needs, such as covering a new route to Norway and Sweden during the winter and Christmas campaign, and that service had concluded. The company insisted that, for the return, the instructions of the mutual for the worker’s medical assistance had been followed and denied any discrimination or violation of fundamental rights. However, these justifications were not enough to convince the court. The court ruling The Superior Court of Justice of Valencia issued a Judgment in favor of the truck driver. The High Court supported that the company had acted contrary to the protection of the worker’s physical integrity by forcing him to drive in precarious health conditions after having suffered a heart intervention. The sentence declared the nullity of dismissal forcing the company to readmit itand ordered compensation of 30,000 euros for the truck driver for moral damage derived from the management of his return home. The court rejected the company’s allegations on the legality of the TEMPORARY CONTRACT EXTINCTIONconsidering that the cause of temporality had not been properly justified. This judicial decision sends a clear message to companies about the need to prioritize the welfare and safety of their employees collected by article 19 of the Workers Statuteabove the operational demands. In Xataka | 40,000 euros for a croquette: Mercadona dismissed an employee for eating a croquette and must now compensate him Image | Wikimedia Commons (19Tarrestnom65), Unspash (Gabriel Santos)

They are a caramel for hackers

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Use headphones With cable as a retransmission antenna. Sounds crazy, but it’s the New practice whereby the attackers can listen at a distance everything you are saying. Periscope is the new espionage system by electromagnetic radiation developed in the laboratory, in order to prove that the devices that are connected to this type of headset are vulnerable. New research has deepened this method by which the sound can be intercepted that is being broadcast through laptops and mobile computers (both Android and iPhone). The authors discovered that both phones and computers generate electromagnetic radiation When they process the sound signals. The funny thing is that, intercepting this signal, the original sound can be recovered. Cable headphones They act as antennas, so they amplify this signalinterceptable up to 15 meters. These signals are imperfect, but can be cleaned with noise and distortion by computer. A complete reconstruction of the audio was achieved with 7.44% error, making audio intelligible both by humans and artificial intelligence. What scenarios can this vulnerability be exploited? In anyone in which your device is broadcasting audio. For example, if you were in a meeting and say any confidential data, a laptop located in a range of 15 meters could intercept the signal and rebuild it later. The researchers reported the problem to Apple, Lenovo, Huawei, Vivo, Oppo and Dell, ensuring that Huawei has been one of the first to get to work to develop a solution. This vulnerability has been discovered in the laboratory, so, for the moment, it does not seem to have been tested in real scenarios at the hands of hackers. Image | Xataka mobile In Xataka | I have wireless headphones of all types. None works as well as cable

Elon Musk shared a message that apologized to Stalin, Hitler and Mao. Then closed an office that nobody had heard

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Elon Musk’s role in Donald Trump’s administration, at least the public nature, is to face To the cuts and expenses within the US government. In the last 48 hours there have been two circumstances that reflect The climate of a certain chaos that is breathed at the passage of the richest man on the planet. It all started when he shared a controversial message in X. Excuse Hitler. Last Friday morning, Musk shared in X a publication that claimed that Stalin, Hitler and Mao They were not directly responsible Of the millions of deaths that occurred under their regimes, but the guilt fell to public sector workers. Obviously, the post was received with an immediate reaction and generalized criticisms, being seen as a trivialization of genocides and an anti -Semitic narrative. Given the growing pressure, Musk eliminated the publication, but the damage already seemed done: historians, human rights organizations and thousands of users They condemned him for giving visibility to historical distortion. Political ties and affinity. The truth is that it was not the first time that Musk faced accusations for sharing or supporting controversial content on his network. Also, for example, supported an anti -Semitic postwhich led to a massive leakage of advertisers of the platform. In another case he generated controversy by suggesting that it was “strange” that no one would have tried Killer the former president Biden Oa Kamala Harris, shortly after the trump murder attempt in the elections. In addition, Musk has openly shown sympathy for Right and extreme right leaders worldwide. He has praised and backed figures such as Javier Milei (Argentina), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil) and Narendra Modi (India), all leaders in countries where he has commercial interests. Recently, he even offered A platform to the ultra -rightist Alternative for Germany (AFD), organizing A Town Hall Online With your chancellor candidate. Unions and organizations in arms. No doubt, the apology message was perceived as an attack on public sector workers in the United States aligning with Musk’s rhetoric against the federal government. In recent months, he has accused public employees of hiding fraud and waste resources, encouraging that give up their positions. The Public Employee Union (AFSCME) strongly rejected the publicationarguing that public servants such as nurses, firefighters, teachers and librarians cannot be compared to genocides. In turn, the Anti -Diffamation League (ADL) described Musk’s action as “Disturbing and irresponsible”since it contributes to minimizing historical crimes and encouraging dangerous narratives. Musk defended himself alleging that his critics were the true allies of Nazism and suggested that there was a conspiracy against him. A strange dismissal. Shortly after, it was made public The last “cut” that has taken the firm of Musk. It all started last February 3When Musk published in X a message stating that 18F, an unknown office of the US government dedicated to technological services, it had “eliminated.” His tweet was an answer to A publication by Alex Lorussoa right -wing activist and producer of conservative influencer Benny Johnson, who falsely said that 18F was a group of extreme left in charge of making bureaucrats prepare the tax statements of citizens. What seemed like a harmless comment on social networks unleashed confusion and alarm within 18F, as we said, an unknown agency that works on technological projects to improve government efficiency and, paradoxically, to reduce costs. The employees did not know if the office had really been dissolved, what would happen to their ongoing projects and/or how to respond to other agencies that depended on their work. The definitive closure. As The Guardian told This weekend, already in March, weeks after Musk’s controversial tweet, 18F employees received an email at 1:00 am notifying them that they would be fired and that the office would close. The order came from the high levels of government and the administration of general services (GSA), the agency that supervised 18F. The official motive given by the government was that employee’s time costs They were too high and that hiring external consultants would be cheaper. However, 18F ex -women and GSA current employees pointed out that this explanation was false, since the office saved money by avoiding unnecessary contracts with private companies. Obvious, many suspect that the closure was A political decision promoted by Musk and its anti -government ideology. Disinformation. As in the case of the publication of the Defense to dictators18F is Another example of what seems like a recurring pattern in the way Musk handles X. Since he acquired the platform, he has used his influence to amplify messages from the radical right and attack government institutions. His tweet on 18F was an example of how misinformation in social networks can translate into real and harmful actions within the government. Lorusso, activist whose tweet Musk amplified, was A nearby collaborator of his political campaign and has worked as Consultant paid for your Super Pac. His post over 18F was denied by X itself, which clarified that the agency did not prepare taxes, but had developed a free platform in the shadow for citizens to They will present their statements without paying third parties. Hence, the disappearance of 18F seems to fit with the objective of Musk to dismantle state structures in favor of private solutions, even when the data shows that the agency saved money to taxpayersas he pointed out The Guardian. In addition, the danger of misinformation in media figures networks, where one day the story is modified by spreading dangerous narratives, and others end up closing offices with all their workers. Image | Heinrich Hoffmann, Ministrium of communication In Xataka | In his efforts to cut and fire workers in the US, Elon Musk has gone one step further: Italy In Xataka | Murphy’s law conspires against Elon Musk: if something has been able to happen to their companies this week, it has happened

Some Amazon made in the US hid a fantastic option for privacy. Alexa +’s arrival will disappear

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In recent times Amazon launched three models of his family with an interesting option that yes, was only available in the US and in English: local processing of voice recordings. That prevented users from They had to send those recordings to the Amazon cloud and supposed an interesting improvement in privacy. That option will soon stop being available. Less privacy. The products that allowed this feature, explain In The Vergeit was the Echo Dot (4th generation), echo show 10, and echo show 15. As of March 28, those devices of the Amazon Echo family will stop being able to process the audio locally on the device itself. Thus, all audio clips will end up transferred to their servers to be processed in their cloud infrastructure. AI as an excuse. In Ars Technica They indicate how Amazon has explained in an email to this publication that the change is due to the new use of AI models in Alexa+. Specifically, they assure, By continuing to expand Alexa’s capabilities with generative functions that depend on the processing power of the safe cloud of Amazon, we have decided to stop supporting this function. Alexa+ in sight. After this decision is the launch of Alexa+the new version of this voice assistant that will now be enhanced by AI models. To process these models, however, the power of the Amazon cloud is needed, which according to the company makes it impossible for requests to be processed at home as happened so far. Voice recognition. The new AI system that will govern these devices will also have more advanced options to recognize the voice of who is using it and thus be able to respond more precisely and contextually, something that the company calls Voice ID. This characteristic forces Amazon to eliminate the privacy function that was present before, although very limitedly: it is likely that many users of these models did not even know that such privacy characteristic was available. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to in your echo. Users of these devices will not be able to avoid this sending of audio clips even if Alexa+will not use: Amazon will also send those audios even if they do not use said service with ia. The Alexa+ service based on AI models will be included in the Amazon Prime subscription. Another condemnation for privacy. Apart from that special option, the Amazon Echo family devices allow to control certain privacy options like him time that the recordings were stored If they reach their servers. Controversies of the past. In April 2019 it was revealed how Amazon employees listened recordings with the excuse of improving the service. That made The controversy will jump And in fact they already had problems with the suspicion about privacy When Alexa began to be available in Spanish. Amazon promises to protect that data. In that email to Ars Technica Amazon also assured that “Alexa’s voice requests are always sent to the Amazon security cloud, which was designed with security protection layers to keep customer information safe.” They also point out that there will still be various controls to refine that way of managing user data. In Xataka | The announcement of the new Alexa hides an awkward truth: the silent sunset of the Solo-Voz interface

Within the most advanced chips manufacturing machines there is something incredible: small supernovae

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Identifying a Supernova is an event that astronomers usually celebrate with enthusiasm. And it is not for less if we consider that they are One of the most violent events with which we can run into the cosmos. Knowing them better is very important because it can help us understand more precision How are the latest stages of The life of mass starsand also the mechanisms that explain how the material caused by stellar synthesis can lead to new star systems. The mathematical tools handled by astrophysics current nuclear fusion that take place in the nucleus of mass stars. During the stage known as the main sequence, stars obtain their energy from the fusion of hydrogen nuclei. As this chemical element is consumed, the star begins to produce helium nuclei, and, of course, its composition begins to evolve. During this process a huge amount of energy is released and the star is forced to continuously readjust to maintain hydrostatic balance, a phenomenon that is the result of the coexistence of two opposite forces capable of compensating. One of them is the gravitational contraction, which compresses the subject of the star, pressing it without rest. And the other is the radiation and gase pressure, which is the fruit of the ignition of the nuclear oven and tries to expand the star. The small supernovae of the extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment As we have anticipated from the holder, this article does not go only from Supernovas; It is also starred by the semiconductors. A priori we can intuit that these cosmic events and integrated circuits have nothing to do, but, curiously, they do have something in common. This is the reason why I found a good idea to start this text reviewing what a supernova is and why they occur. Otherwise we could not understand in all its extension the idea in which we are about to investigate. The ultraviolet radiation generation process used by UVE lithography equipment is very similar to what happens during a Supernova In the teams of extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE) that manufactures the Dutch company ASML, high power lasers instantly heat tens of thousands of tiny tin drops in a single second until they reach a temperature of half a million Celsius degrees. This interaction produces An extremely hot plasma that emits ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 13.5 nm. This light must later be transported to the wafer thanks to a very precise mirrors and lenses system with the purpose of capturing the patterns that define the integrated circuits on a layer of photorers. Very broadly this is the strategy used by the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing machines that currently exist. And, as we have just seen, high -power lasers interpret an unquestionably protagonist role. As Jays Stewart, Chief of Research at ASML, explains in the very interesting article he has published in IEEE Spectrumthe ultraviolet radiation generation process used by UVE lithography equipment to produce avant -garde chips is very similar to what happens during a supernova. When a massive star exhausts its fuel and stops nuclear fusion processes, radiation pressure and gases is no longer able to counteract gravitational contraction. This phenomenon causes the star iron core It suddenly contracts under the enormous pressure that all layers of material that it has above. The star has lost the hydrostatic balance. At this moment all this matter loses the support that the nucleus exercised, which is now much more compact, and falls on it with enormous speed. When all that star material touches the surface of the nucleus there is a rebound effect that causes it to be fired with a huge energy towards the stellar medium, being disseminated. A supernova has just been produced. Some of them are so energetic that for a few seconds they emit more light than the entire galaxy that contains them. The tiny explosions that take place inside the UVE lithography equipment when a laser affects a tin drop produce a shock wave similar to that originating in the stellar medium, although much smaller scale. Surprisingly the mathematical equations that describe the evolution of these two types of explosions are the same. ASML engineers use them to calculate very precisely how the evolution of the shock wave that triggers plasma balls within the UVE equipment will be. And astrophysicians use them to describe the remains of the supernovas and deduce the properties of the star explosion that originated them. A Supernova has 10⁴⁵ times more energy That an explosion of tin, but thanks to this parallel, ASML engineers have been able to solve the complex problem derived from tin residues inside their most advanced lithography equipment. Image | ASML More information | IEEE Spectrum In Xataka | ‘Focus: The Asml Way’: The book that reveals the secrets of the most powerful European company in the chips industry

How to scan a product and check with these apps if it is European and what country comes from

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Let’s tell you How to scan a product to know if it is European or what concrete country is coming. You can also know the relations that this country has with Spain, the description of the product, and if it is a foreigner you can even know the European alternatives. Due to the geopolitical context, many initiatives of this nature are emerging. In this case it is Several mobile applications They analyze the barcode or the product logo, and they tell you if they are European. We will tell you both the main apps to do this and the way to use them. Apps to know if a product is European Let’s start with a small list with Some applications for scanning products and know if they are European or not. At the moment, there is no multiplatform unified app, but we have several independent apps available for Android or iOS. BUY European for Android: A quite new app that analyzes the products for its barcode, and tells you the company to which they belong and the country they are. Is on Google Play. BUY European for iOS: It is not the same app as for Android, but does the same. You analyze the product barcode and tell you if they are European. It is in the App Store. Buyfromeu for Android and iOS: It allows you to know if a product is really made in Europe, and gives you alternatives. It also allows you to look for alternative for online services. Do not escape anything, you only use a search engine, and this is multiplatform. Is on Google Playand In the App Store. Buyeuropean for iOS: An app that does not analyze the barcode, but the face or cover of the product. Then look for that product and tells you its origin, and it is not European even gives you alternatives. It is in the App Store. How these apps are used In most cases, all you have to do is install the app and give permission to access the camera of your mobile. This permit is necessary to take photos of the barcode or the front of the product you want to analyze. Once you have done this, simply take a picture of the product or bar code, it depends on the app. Sometimes it is not even necessary to take the picture, you just have to point towards it. In any case, When reading the application, it will show you the product data And he will tell you if it is European or not. What this app does when detecting if the product is not European depends on each one, in some cases an alternative can be offered. What you can know with certainty is when one of these products is from some country on the continent. In Xataka Basics | 61 European alternatives to Google, X, Gmail, Chrome, Maps, Dropbox, Google Drive, WhatsApp and other popular services

Google is going to kill a mythical app in all Android. The AI ​​is to blame

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He debuted almost ten years ago, and Google has made official the announcement of his death. He Google assistant He was born in 2016 with a simple purpose: to become a simple assistant for basic and automatic day -to -day basis. Put alarms, establish reminders, draw quick routes with Google Maps. Functions that are performed in a few steps in the apps, and that the assistant could solve with a single voice command. But this is not enough for Google, which wants me to Gemini be everywhere. The company’s new artificial intelligence will be the official replacement of Google Assistant, which will cease to be available on phones at the end of this year. It is not good news. Helping for almost a decade. Google Assistant has been with us since 2016already level of functionality was extremely polished. It allowed to interact with both native and compatible applications (Spotify, YouTube, etc.) to perform simple tasks in seconds. Since Gemini was launched for Android, this became the native assistant of the system, but we could always go to the settings to make Google Assistant again the native option. At the end of this year, it will cease to be possible. Gemini is natural evolution, but it has a way ahead. Gemini will be better and more complete than the Google assistant, but worries that at this point he will keep it hard to perform the simplest tasks. In Xataka We deepen how Gemini behaves in front of Assistant in simple tasks As what to do on the weekend, what can we eat today, its limitations when interacting with native system functions (panel shine, telephone sound, etc.). It is a great assistant, but it is not yet polished. Ia, we want or not. In the new Gemini era, we want or not (unless we disable the app and we stay without assistant), all the phones will have the integrated Google AI. This is great news at the level of possibilities: we can generate images, access Gemini Live advanced voice, and have an assistant that will end up being much more complete and useful than Assistant. For those who are not too comfortable with Google’s AI, comment that OpenAi already works For ChatgPPT, it can be used as a native voice assistant on Android, a great option to have the advanced voice mode in a few seconds (although it will be difficult to access other apps). The future of the industry. Google’s pass is the logical, even more so if you manage to integrate (as you are already doing) Gemini on all telephone with its operating system. Apple wants to battle with Siri’s advanced mode, But he is choking And there is no defined date for an AI that should already be present on the iPhone. What seems clear is that, if technological ones want to conquer us, they have to do so by introducing it natively in the system, not as an APP available more. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Gemini Advance functions that become free in March 2025

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