While the population of Japan sinks irremediably, Tokyo grows. There is an explanation: Ikkyoku Shūchū

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Much of the world has a short and medium term problem, a problem called demography. The fertility rate from various countries It is poor and birth has plummeted in many of them. Asian countries as South Korea, China either Taiwan They suffer this problem, but we cannot talk about demographic winter without mentioning Japan. While the country struggles to achieve the rate that guarantees the generational relief, they are being seen and wishing so that companies have labor. Giants like McDonald’s have changed its contracting policiesthey are putting to work To robots And, due to the lack of childreneven diaper companies have started Look at the adult diapers sector. And, while dealing with that problem, another has been hitting the door for years: the Excessive centralization of the archipelago in a city: Tokyo. And this excessive centralization has a name: Ikkyoku Shūchū. Japan disassembles Ikkyoku Shūchū It is a Japanese term that refers to centralization of the country. This implies that there is an excessive concentration at a very specific point that is not only given because they are born more babies at that point or receive more immigration, but because other areas of the country are emptied because they move to the city that brings together … everything. In the Japanese case, that city is Tokyo, the great city that, for decades, has accumulated industry, administrative functions, political, tourism and, obviously, population. As they point in The Japan Timeswhile the rest of the country waning, Tokyo grew. This has caused a huge demographic imbalance because, obviously, the area around it lost population, but also other locations throughout the country. And the implications of this are huge. To begin with, an economic disparity is created because Everything is concentrated in the big cityso the gap in economic activities is increasing between the capital and the rest of the country. For the citizen, this translates into money and time, since everything is more expensive, transport services and public services are more saturated and teleworking is not always possible. Ichinono, a town with more dolls than neighbors It is also a problem for the rest of the region, since those municipalities that are running out of population cannot maintain essential services and either attract young people who want to work. In fact, what we have seen is that the way to attract couples to that “emptied Japan” is through incentives for you to form a family And have children. There are others cases successful, but also related to the entire world of promoting family creation. Plans against him Ikkyoku Shūchū This phenomenon is sad, since it ends with the smallest peoples and, precisely, in Japan we saw an example of a town in which there are More dolls than people. Due to the lack of services, there are locations that have gone to work. An example is Ina, what implement A telemedicine service that uses drones to facilitate medicines to the elderly. Another is Kamiyama, a town that lost 70% of its population and is achieving Attract companies thanks to the development of high -speed Internet. From the government they have also put themselves to Identify the needs to mitigate the phenomenon of the Ikkyoku Shūchū and promote Decentralization. In January of this year, El País presented a plan of action which will seek to promote economic and social growth through the redistribution of government functions throughout the country. In addition, there is the call ‘Regional Reform 2.0’ that seeks to promote a stronger economy of the different regions and reduce the excessive population concentration of the capital. The end is, according to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, help all people reach happiness. And it is a continuation of the 2016 Regional Revitalization Act that seeks to encourage the implementation of industry and services away from Tokyo to attract population to those other nuclei. It is a beautiful objective for a future that does not look too well if things continue as until now. The estimate is that, of the 124 million Japanese of 2023, in 2100 There will be 63 million and, in addition, very aging, making the entire social security system impracticable. Image | Timo Volz In Xataka | Demographers have been wondering for centuries when the human population will stop growing. It already has an answer: 2080

that we end up talking to an AI

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Most of the time the keyboard is our way of using chatgpt. The same goes for Gemini, Claude, Llama or any other market model. And yet direct interaction with our voice He earns whole. Talking with the machines little by little is being less strange. And less than it will be. Call 4. In Financial Times They cite sources close to the development project of the new Meta Model. Call 4 – if it ends up calling himself – he will focus on improving voice interaction characteristics. There will also be options aimed at that future of AI agents, without a doubt, but the voice seems to be a special protagonist. This new model is expected to arrive “in the coming weeks.” Native voice. Chris Cox, one of the maximum managers in Meta, indicated that he calls 4 will be an “omnimodelo” in which “the voice will be native.” Until now, he explained, the process was cumbersome. You had to convert voice to text, send the text to the LLM, get the answer in text and turn it in a voice again. It is a revolution, they say in goal. That native conception of voice is an especially important option for interaction with chatbots but also with hardware. And here the target ra-ban can be the big beneficiaries. As Cox said, it is important “for the product interface, the idea that you can talk to the Internet and ask anything. I think we have not yet done to the idea of ​​how powerful it is.” All for the same. But it is that goal is far from being the only one who thinks that. Google has been offering for a long time Voice functions in Gemini In our mobile phones, and it has an advantage because we were already used to using Google Assistant. OpenAI We were amazed months ago with GPT-4o And that voice that even became professor of any discipline. Elon Musk and his startup, Xai, have raised a Grok 3 of the most Parlanchín and that can adopt personalized tones as a “deranged” and another “sexy” to talk to us. Claude seems more lagging here, but even Alexa+, the new Amazon model, has a very strong conversational component with AI, something logical coming from where it comes from. Almost human voices. And while the voice assistants of a few years ago offered adequate but somewhat flat voices, the current AI models achieve voices practically indistinguishable from human. Yesterday we talked about Sesame and of that synthesized voice that pauses and changes tone to adjust to the conversation as a human would. In that same career are others as Eleven Labs either What to type. Although the keyboard has always had the advantage of allowing us to “think before speaking”, direct interaction with AI models seems much more powerful in many scenarios in which this conversation in real time is a winning option. ID preparing you to talk to the machines. All these efforts are directed to the same place: talk to an AI. One that is probably at the moment in the cloud, but that can work immediately on our mobile, but also in connected glasses such as the finish line-very future there-some headphones or a smart watch. And as was the case with ‘Her’, we may see a lot of people who wear glasses or a headset and seem to talk alone. But that is actually talking with an AI. Image | Warner Bros Pictures In Xataka | Are we prepared to talk to the machines?

If ‘the substance’ captivated you, look at this visceral French horror piece in Netflix

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‘The substance’ finally did not take the deserved Oscar to those who was nominatedbut his single presence in the ceremony is poison for everything that is hollow in Hollywood with his radical proposal. In fact, his messages about the demands that the entertainment industry requires the female body anticipated, in fact, which ended up being the award for best actress (a mature Demi Moore defeated by a version of itself that was much better in front of the cameras). But We can celebrate his moral triumph with a good dose of marrano horror filmbloody and with a radical message thanks to this French gore classic of the nineties that dialogues perfectly with the movie of Coralie Fargeat. It’s about ‘Baby Blood‘, that He has just arrived in Netflix And that proposes a cheap, rude and direct festival of wild humor, dribs of blood at discretion and a message that touches the antisocial. Everything starts when a strange creature is introduced into a woman’s uterus. The brand new pregnant has no choice but to become a murderer to feed the being that lives in its bosom. Like life itself. The result drinks both of the fantastic cinema of the fifties but in a key completely out of mother (with forgiveness) and of the Frank Henenlotter ‘Basket Case’ and ‘Brain Damage’ classics, but in gala version, that is, even more scarf and dirty. Such an influences blender is The ideal bridge between the gore cinema more serve as eighties and what was to come both in the most extreme horror cinema and, years later, in ‘The substance’. Because if it is important for something capital ‘Baby Blood’ is to understand horror cinema from France that would arrive a few years later. Films like ‘Inside’, ‘Martyrs’ or ‘High Voltage’ find their visionary and very precedent in ‘Baby Blood’, as overflowing with violence, and with a corrosive message about motherhood. Not for all palates, but if the extreme is yours, you have an appointment with sandungueros babies who feed on blood. In Xataka | On his way to the Oscars, ‘The substance’ has added another milestone: the most watched premiere in the whole story of Filmin

Mediumkt begins its renewal campaign with discounts on Samsung mobiles, Sony headphones, Apple tablets and more

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Mediamarkt has finished its Techmania campaign and hasn’t taken a new one. During the campaign “Get a renewal!”, Which will be available until March 21, we can find a good assortment of offers on many devices. Therefore, we wanted to facilitate the task by gathering the five best offers we can find currently. Samsung Galaxy A56 5g by 479 eurosthe new Samsung mid -range mobile that includes a good addition with respect to the previous generation. Sony Wh-1000xm5b by 299 eurosa preciazo for the excellent Sony Bluetooth headphones. Samsung Galaxy Book4 by 699 eurosa good laptop that has a good discount. Logitech pack by 149 eurosa combo of bluetooth headphones and wireless mouse. iPad (2022) by 324 eurosa minimum historical price for the economic tablet of the previous generation. Samsung Galaxy A56 5g Samsung announced only a few days ago the new generation of one of its most popular ranges, thus presenting the Samsung Galaxy A56 5ga mid -range phone that has an interesting addition with respect to the previous generation. You can currently be found in Mediamarkt by 479 euros in his 256 GB configurationand stands out mainly for its good design within the mid -range and by the arrival of the Artificial intelligence to the “A” range of the brand. Samsung Galaxy A56 5G (256 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review Sony Wh-1000xm5b The Sony Wh-1000xm5b They are currently one of the most popular brand headphones. From time to time we have been able to find them on the offer with the occasional discount, but this time in Mediamarkt we have them with a price of the most irresistible. By 299 euros We have some headphones with a very elegant design, Excellent audio qualitya very good comfort even if we use them for hours and One of the best noise cancellations (ANC) of the market. * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Galaxy Book4 If what we are looking for is a good price on a laptop, a lot of eye because Mediamarkt, during its renewal campaign, has the Samsung Galaxy Book4 for tight 699 euros. Mount a good 15.6-inch FullHD screen, its processor is the Intel Core i7-1355u, it has both RAM and 512 GB of SSD and comes with the operating system Windows 11 Home pre -installed. * Some price may have changed from the last review Logitech pack In Mediamarkt we can also find a good Logitech peripheral pack. In this case, for 149 euros we have a very good price a combo that includes Bluetooth headphones LOGITECH G PRO Xwhich offer an enveloping sound and that are compatible with the Blue Vo! CE software, and a mouse Logitech Pro X Superlight. Both are gaming peripherals and are compatible with Logitech G hub software. Pack Logitech: Logitech G Pro X + Logitech Pro X Superlight * Some price may have changed from the last review iPad (2022) After the announcement of the new iPad (2025)some stores have used to lower the price of the previous generation. In this sense, the iPad (2022) Now we have it at a minimum historical price in Mediamarkt. Can be found by 324 euros with the 64 GB wifi configuration and by 434 euros with the 256 GB wifi configuration. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Mediamarkt and Buyadicción (header), Samsung, Sony, Logitech, Apple In Xataka | The best price quality price. Your analysis and videos are here In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which to buy and 19 models from 20 euros to 450 euros

The people who defend that the Internet is changing the brain forever

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Our brain is a constantly change organ. It changes throughout our life not only as a result of our growth and aging, also as a consequence of daily activities, from exercise to reading, through sleep and other diverse actions. Of course, the time we spend in front of the screens is that of a computer or that of our mobile, They also affect our brain. We associate these changes to problems such as the loss of our capacity for attention or the appearance of addictive behaviors associated for example to the use of social networks. Knowing how our brain interacts with the digital world in the era of social networks is a key step to improve our well -being in this new context, understanding the magnitude of problems as those mentioned above and also trying to find the positive side of these interactions. That is why this is a field of great interest for research. We said before our brain is an organ that does not stop changing. These changes represent the very essence of learning (and much more). To the ability of the brain to transform and reconfigure, even at the physiological level, in response to external stimuli we call it neuroplasticity. This is explained by Loles Villalobos Tornero, of the Department of Experimental Psychology Cognitive processes and speech therapy of the Complutense University of Madrid, In an article in The conversation. “We call neuroplasticity to the extraordinary capacity of our thinking body to transform and functionally and physically reconfigure its structure in response to environmental stimuli, behavioral experiences or cognitive demands. In short, to the situations we live. This is mainly possible thanks to the creation and control of the number of neurons, the migration of these nerve cells and the formation of new connections, ”says Villalobos Tornero In your piece. What our brain does is, to some extent, improve neuronal connections between neurons that tend to activate in unison, which Facilitate synapses Among these, that is, the act of transmitting activity from one neuron to another. These changes, as the expert points out, affect the structure of neural networks. There are two recurring examples when we talk about neuroplasticity: musicians and taxi drivers. Training markedly specialized in these unions translates into physiological changes in the brains of these people. In a case in rhythmic and harmonic learning, as well as in the skill required to touch an instrument; In the second, in the spatial aspect. In Your article in The conversationVillalobos Tornero also speaks of the importance of neuroplasticity in another context, that of brain lesions. When a brain injury prevents the brain from continuing to develop a task, the brain reconfigures its activity to be able to develop the same task by resorting to the whole areas of the organ. Such is the adaptive capacity of our brain. It is not to surprise that yes, that the use of current digital tools, Internet, smartphones and social networks have the ability to change our brain. The question of how and to what extent It is what has been intrigued by experts in brain and cognition for years. To understand how we must still introduce another concept. The ability of our brain to adapt to new amazing situations, we pointed out. More if we take into account that this organ did not evolve to follow hyperlinks but for tasks such as looking for food and escaping predators. If we want to understand how the brain adapts to something so far from the functions for which it evolved, we must also take into account the idea of ​​the Cortical co -optation. The Cortical co -optation Something like the “recycling of brain areas” can be seen, which in origin would have evolved to develop certain functions to be able to assimilate new skills, explains Lucia Amoruso, a researcher at the BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language). “A classic example is (The reading and writing). From an evolutionary point of view, human beings are not born with a specific brain module for these skills, ”explains the researcher. “However, throughout development, The “recycling” brain previously specialized in the recognition of objects and faces (…) to allow the acquisition of literacy. ” For Amoruso, the current brain transformation is similar, with our brain having to adapt to different stimuli, “fast, dynamic and fragmented.” Decades studying The year 2010, when social networks were in full explosion, saw the publication of two books on the subject. In a review For the magazine NatureDaphne Bavelier and Shawn Green paid attention to the fact that, despite being both books based on scientific knowledge in the field, their respective authors reached diametrically opposite conclusions. Studies such as those that have already been showing us, through magnetic resonances, which Our active brain when it sails Online a neuronal network greater than the one in operation when he simply reads. Something that is not at all surprising, after all navigate Internet requires greater activity than more passive reading. Greater neuronal networks are activated is indicative that the footprint in our brain of our virtual activity could be greater than the one left by the “conventional” reading. Interestingly, neuronal activation in Internet searches was also greater among people with some knowledge of the digital environment, in contrast to people less familiar with the digital environment. Nick Biltton and Nicholas Car, the authors of the books, interpret this same fact in different ways. If for Biltton this is a learning sign; Carr recalled that the use of a greater number of neurons does not necessarily imply an improvement in our brain processes. Drawing generalizable conclusions in this context is difficult. But more than two decades have passed since 2010 and the number of studies analyzing this topic has expanded. In 2019, a team of researchers published a review of the scientific literature that addressed the issue in order to summarize the “state of science” regarding this issue. The details of his analysis were Published as an article In the … Read more

Rate has more than 40,000 tons of algae and does not know what to do with them. So you will try to monetize them

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Desperate and without knowing very well what to do, the Tarifa City Council began to transfer Asian algae (Rugulopterix Okamurae) that they were invading their beaches in a landfill near the deputy of the municipality. It was 2019. Since then, 40,000 tons have accumulated and, like They themselves recognized in October“They don’t know what to do.” The landfill begins to stay small and the cost of treating all that huge hill of algae exceeds five million euros. Something that the Cadiz Consistory cannot afford. Therefore, for months, they ask that some administration help them out of that dead end. Without much success, really. But what do so many algae do there? Is it normal? It depends on what we understand as normal: the Rugulopterix Okamurae It is an invasive plant And, therefore, it is not a traditional problem. However, in recent years, its impact has not stopped growing. That is an ecological problem (they reduce the biodiversity of each place they arrive), economic (prevents fishing) and aesthetic (produces damage to tourism). But it is also a waste management problem. Because, when they pile up on the beach, they become urban waste. And accumulate wildly. To put figures, “only in Ceut Antonio Vegara Jiménez said in Newtral. Now they have had an idea. And, tired of passing the ball from one another, the City Council has approved the installation of an experimental bioreactor of a Valencian company (Poplac Development) With the idea of ​​testing if it is viable to convert that mountain of waste into a mountain of money. Money? Well, if we want to be precise, it would be in a “mountain” of biogas, electricity and fertilizers. But yes, in general terms, it is about testing if the “public-private collaboration” can give an exit to all that biological material that accumulates near the Strait. As explained in the economistthe installation that PLACAC DEVELOPMENT prepares could generate a megavatio room for every 15,000 tons. And, in addition, produce fertilizers for agricultural use. And will it work? Well that is the big doubt. From what we know, there are already projects like this in Mexico and it seems that the results are good. But the sector is very incipient and regulation is very different in Europe. However, there is something clear: something must be done. The invasive species They are the order of the day And if we do not look for solutions, we will have many more problems than a landfill with 40,000 tons of algae rotting. Image | Geoff Dude In Xataka | Cultivating seaweed in the sea is one of the plans of Geoingenieria to get rid of climate change. Maybe it’s not a good idea

illegal gold mining

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2025 is being a disastrous year for coffee lovers And also of chocolate. The two products have lived a Price climbing almost unprecedented in recent months due to Common problems as the difficulties in the supply chain due to transport and bad harvests for weather. But if we put the magnifying glass on cocoa, we must talk about another problem that threatens the industry and that will cause huge increases in the price of chocolate. And that problem is illegal gold mining, a new “gold fever” that is being lived in the main cocoa producing countries. Galamsey. Ghana is the second country that produces the most cocoa. The first is Ivory Coast, but although cocoa continues to move millions, there is something that attracts attention: only the last year, Ghana lost 20% of its total cocoa production. As we say, this joined bad harvests for diseases in plants and climate change, but the result is the same: a crisis in the price of chocolate. The theory tells us that, if cocoa is worth more, farmers should be benefiting (especially with a cocoa that surpassed The $ 10,000 per ton in the New York Stock Exchange), right? Well, the truth is that it is not so simple and, in addition, these farmers have seen a more profitable business: underbound gold. So much that there are many that are going on to that practice that already has a name: Galamsey. Corruption. This is how farmers are spreading for a new gold fever that is much more lucrative than cocoa consumption. The motivation is that the price of gold is rising, but the big problem is that, as we said, it is an illegal mining, in which the land is exploited without regulation and without measure. In Financial Times We can see how there are dramatic cases of farmers who, after working for years in foreign lands, gathered enough money to rent their own land and start a cocoa plantation. When he arrived to start working the land, he realized that he had been invaded by illegal miners, leaving the land totally unusable. From the government it has promised to harden the fight against this galamsey, but there is a problem: a system in which institutional corruption is deeply Enquistada and that it will make it complicated that you fight against something so lucrative. ECOCIDIDE. The problem goes beyond crops, since professionals from other sectors are abandoning their jobs in search of gold. Kwabena Samuel was a carpenter until she became illegal miner, stating that it was not easy to leave her profession for this, but that it was “a matter of survival.” Apart from the social consequences, this illegal mining is damaging the earth. Different associations and organizations have denounced that the miners devastate extensive cultivation areas with heavy machinery and that once they reach a farm, both the earth and the water sources are useless due to the intensive use of chemical products. Last year, the state water supply company cut Up to 75% distribution in certain areas due to unsustainable levels of contamination. Illegal gold mining is not exclusive to Africa. So are some areas of Peru From Ghana to the chocolate tablet. And the production drop is already palpating. In the United States and during the last year, chocolate in retailers increase 10% its price. It is something that is being felt throughout the world (The Christmas nougat already experienced it). And manufacturers like Lindt (which had already increased its price more than 6.3% at the end of 2024) or Nestlé have already warned that the price will continue to rise for 2025. Ivory coast, heat that you go out. Something that makes this an even more serious problem than is already (both economic and pollution) is that it does not directly concern Ghana. Ivory coast is also threatened by this illegal gold mining and there are already estimates that suggest that, in the face of 2050, more than 50% of cocoa culture lands could be lost in the country due to that mining, diseases in plantations and climate change. Chrysistunity. And where there is a crisis, an opportunity also opens. In this case, who can get something good from the problem is Ecuador. The estimates They suggest that the Latin American country would advance Ghana on the right as the second largest cocoa producer. It would not be something in the long term, but in the future as immediate as 2027, causing Ecuador to become an even bigger player in the cocoa world and joining strength with its powerful coffee industry. Only time will say what to do, but, although it is true that fighting climate change is difficult If we do not agreefighting illegal gold mining should be easier. The problem is that it is tremendously lucrative and that, as these reports point out, at the time there are higher political interests, the task is complicated. And all that is going to translate into shortage, more expensive chocolate and land contaminated by decades. Images | Lady Castro, Das Morton, Planet Labs, inc In Xataka | A chocolate bar stuffed with pistachio has become the most desired viral in Tiktok: Dubai’s “chocolate”

Cosmologists are increasingly clear where the most energy particles in the universe come from

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Cosmic radiation bathes our solar system, and therefore also our planet, from the moment in which it was formed from A gigantic cloud of gas and dust does more than 4.5 billion years. During most of our history we have not been aware of its existence, so to find the first scientist who told us about the presence of a form of radiation that had to proceed from the outer space we must go back to 1912. The Austrian physicist Victor Franz HESS was the first to identify the origin of a form of radiation whose intensity increases with altitude and its abundance varies with latitude. To carry out his experiments he used probe balloons inside whose measurement devices expressly designed to measure the radiation present in the atmosphere. His valuable scientific findings were rewarded with several awards, among which is the Nobel Prize in Physics, which he shared with the American physicist Carl David Anderson in 1936. Many other scientists continued HESS’s research, and thanks to all of them we know today a little better A radiation form that transports to our planet very valuable information about the universe to which we belong. Kilonovas seem to be responsible for the most energy radiation Cosmic radiation is constituted by high -energy ionized atomic nuclei that move through space at a speed very close to that of light (which is approximately 300,000 km/s). That they are ionized indicates that they have acquired electric charge because they have been stripped of their electrons, but these atomic nuclei are made of the same matter that constitutes us and everything that surrounds us, a quality that reveals to some extent their origin. One of the most important characteristics of cosmic radiation is its essentially perfect isotropy. This parameter reflects that the rays arrive from all directions with the same frequency, which indicates that they must coexist simultaneously numerous sources capable of generating them. And this invites us to ask ourselves one more question: where cosmic radiation comes from. A good part of the cosmic rays we receive comes from outside our solar system. Of other stars An important part of the radiation that permeates the atmosphere of our planet comes from the sun, which, as we all know, is the closest star. However, it is not at all the only source of external radiation that reaches the earth. A good part of the cosmic rays we receive comes from outside our solar system. Of other stars. And travel through space with enormous energy until impacting with the atoms present in the upper layers of the atmosphere of our planet. What astrophysics did not know with certainty until very recently was the nature of the source that originates the most energy particles that we can find in the universe. But researchers from the University of New York have published a scientific study in Physical Review Letters in which they argue that this form of radiation proceeds with a high probability of kilonovaswhich are nothing other than the clash and fusion of two neutron stars to give rise to the formation of a black hole. “After six decades of effort it is likely that we have identified the origin of the mysterious most energy particles in the universe. This discovery provides a new tool to understand the most aggressive events of the universe: the fusion of two neutron stars to form a black hole, the process responsible for the creation of many precious and exotic elements, such as, for example, gold, platinum, uranium, iodine or xenon. Gennys R. Farrar points outPhysics professor and one of the people who sign the study. When they are close enough, gravity takes control and the two neutron stars are condemned to collide Neutron stars are not always lonely. Sometimes one of them is part of a binary system next to a “living” star, and if the appropriate conditions are given, the latter can also become a neutron star. In this scenario the binary system ends up being constituted by Two neutron stars that turn around the other. As time goes by, angular momentum is being lost, which causes their orbits to narrow and approach more and more. And when they are close enough, gravity takes control and the two neutron stars are condemned to collide. The main contribution made by Farrar and their research partners is their defense of the existence of a very close relationship between the energy of the most intense cosmic rays and their electric charge. Their conclusions have to be experimentally endorsed, but they represent a breath of fresh air in a field in which it is not easy to elaborate new knowledge. Image | Generated by Xataka with Dall-e More information | Physical Review Letters In Xataka | The great challenge of cosmology: what happened to the universe in its first moments to expand so fast

IMU have arrived to change everything

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Electronics has become an essential in the automobile world. THE ADAS are mandatory And, for better or worse, driving is increasingly intrusive. In the world of motorcycle, things are different. Today, it is only mandatory that they have ABS. It is not even necessary that they incorporate traction control. However, there is an inherited technology of aeronautics and space exploration. If you are thinking of buying a new motorcycle you may have heard of the “Imu”. A solution that is everywhere and whose operation may not be clear. What is an Imu. The IMU or inertial measurement unit (IMU) is one of the key components in the security and electronic control systems of a motorcycle. Its main function is to measure and monitor the movement and position of the vehicle in real time. Being even more concrete, it measures the acceleration in the addresses forward -atrás, above-down and right-left and the angular velocity in the headdresses, balancing and brunette of the motorcycle. Subsequently, This information is calculated and transmitted In real time to the rest of the motorcycle systems to control both the engine and the behavior of the chassis to help the driver. It consists of several elements, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers or even magnetometers- this allows the rest of the elements (Traction control, ABS, inclination sensors), act accordingly. How the IMU works. We already know that IMU is an electronic system that allows you to measure each movement and position of the motorcycle. And now what? After sending this data to the switchboard, the security systems act based on them. One of the main historical problems of motorcycles is the difficulty of managing curve aids. ABS and traction control, acting to a greater extent than desired, are a perfect combination to go to the ground. Thanks to IMUs, ABS can manage braking pressure avoiding curve blockages. The same goes for traction control. The “Antiwheelie” has also brought us, a perfect option to be able to make quick exits without worrying that the motorcycle is shot. If the system detects that the motorcycle is raising the rear wheel, intervenes to regulate the power. Where do Imu come from. The origin of the IMU is most curious. The inertial measurement unit systems began to be implemented in aircraft, spacecraft, and even guided missiles. Knowing the orientation, speed and forces that affected them has always been key, and it is something that takes implementing since the 40s. Although in the 2,000 decade they began to implement on motorcycles, it has not been until the past five years when they have begun to be practically an essential in any motorcycle that wants to lead in technology. From the aircraft to motorcycles. The principles on stability in inertial navigation systems develop more than 100 years ago, and it was not until World War II when they began to be used in military aviation. 20 years later, between 50 and 60, NASA and the aerospace industry began to use them. Despite the changes to adapt it to street vehicles, the origin remains the same: the need for a plane or missile to know where it is and where it goes in real time. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The terror of European motorcycle manufacturers is not electrification, it is China

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