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Emirates financed a study to know if it can cause rain in the desert with solar farms. The answer is yes

February 16, 2025 by usatoday24

As water It becomes a more precious resource than oila group of scientists has analyzed if solar farms can have an even more beneficial effect than generating energy with sunlight: making it rain in the desert, offering the communities most affected by drought water and renewable energy at the same time . Climate engineering against drought. Given the drama of its waning water resources, the United Arab Emirates government financed a study published by German researchers in Earth System Dynamics. The researchers proposed to create artificial heat islands by installing large black surfaces (ideally, solar panel farms) to enhance precipitation in arid areas. A promising result. The scientists simulated the impact of these surfaces with advanced models and obtained surprising results. A heat island of 20 km² induces an increase in rains 571,616 m³ a day. This could be translated into water supplies for about 31,000 people. Only with an area of 20 km². But the interesting thing about study is not its quantitative results, but the possibility of implementing these surfaces taking advantage of existing infrastructure, such as photovoltaic solar panels. This solution would not only address water scarcity but also contribute to renewable energy production. How it works. That a farm of solar panels can induce rain is not a very intuitive concept, but it is something that He has been studying for a while, particularly in the Sahara. These facilities, by absorbing heat with their dark panels, could create ascending currents that, under the right conditions, would trigger rain storms. When these farms exceed a certain size (about 15 km²), the heat absorbed by the panels, in contrast to the most reflective sand, significantly increases the convection currents necessary for cloud formation. Areas where we know is viable. For this process to work, a source of atmospheric humidity is needed. The models showed that the wet winds of great height from the Persian Gulf are enough, to the joy of Emirates. The researchers also identified other areas of the world where it could work, such as Namibia and the Peninsula of Baja California in Mexico. Some limitations. The initiative requires darker surfaces than those commonly produced by solar panel manufacturers. Some panels are even reflective to improve your thermal performance. However, the Construction of increasingly large solar farmsespecially in China, they open the door to try the idea in the real world. It won’t be simple, of course. The implementation of gigantic heat islands raises logistic, but also ecological and social challenges. For example, how would these surfaces affect local biodiversity? What would be the visual and social impact on nearby communities? You need more research and pilot tests to discover it. The case of Emirates. The United Arab Emirates government, which financed the study, is facing the shortage of two ways, mainly: desalination and sowing of clouds. The program of Cloud sowing through airplanes Plan about 300 missions every year, but like desalination, it is an expensive method with limitations. In this context, large solar farm surfaces are a promising alternative. Image | Pixabay In Xataka | The regions of the world most threatened by drought, collected in a great interactive map In Xataka | The biggest problem of Perovskita’s solar panels was its durability. China has just resolved it *An earlier version of this article was published in February 2024

I have passed from the iPhone 16 Pro to Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. I don’t echo (almost) anything of less

February 16, 2025 by usatoday24

How well the Android high range works. It is something that I have been thinking for a couple of years but, especially, since the end of 2024. The last phone I have been able to analyze has been the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultraa clear aspiring best android mobile 2025. A mobile that, although not the best in practically anything (except for integration of AI), makes check in everything. And this is usually more important than shining for some specific aspects. Battery, performance, cameras, software. Everything works as it should work. Something that seems basic on a mobile of more than 1,000 euros, but not everyone fulfills. Having analyzed phones such as OPPO FIND X8 PRO or the Magic7 Pro Honorthe feeling is different from the one I had a few years ago. The iPhone is no longer clear, saving an appearance. Let’s talk about power. It is me, the heavy power. I am obsessed with her, and I have my reasons. I dedicate myself to deepen telephones and, as a collateral effect, to be the official recommender of all my friends and acquaintances. There is something that ever has never been an exception: every time I have recommended a little powerful mobile, in less than three years everything has been complaints and regrets. To the question “Why do I want such a powerful mobile if you only use WhatsApp, Mail and some apps”, the answer is “so that in three or four years WhatsApp, the mail and those apps continue to work well.” There will be exceptions, of course, but in general terms mobile phones Poquipotent They are not made to last. A while ago, Apple’s superiority in processors was brutal. It was simply impossible to reach them in Benchmarks, and this helped an iPhone of a few years ago be more powerful than the Android of New Horn that were coming out. That ended a few years ago, and with the Snapdragon 8 Elite and MEDATEK DIMENSITY 9400the competition is more equated than ever. Everyone has an absurd power today, and more than necessary in a few years. In the case of Samsung, it has the Qualcomm and, although it is not the mobile in which it is best optimized, it is simply impossible to say that it works worse (or better) than the iPhone. Simply, they fly. The software, that great barrier. One UI 7, as I counted in my impressions with the systemit is for me the best software that exists in Android. At least, in this Ultra S25 (a separate case is how it works in less powerful models). Six years of updates, the new live activities of iOS inheritance, and a really useful artificial intelligence burden. Historically I have been very Pixel Experience, but Samsung’s Rom provides added value that no other gets. I am a Mac user, Airpods and iPad, I don’t hide. The integration between Android and these devices remains simply terrible, without half inks. Nor (even if you try and say yes) there are real alternatives to Airdrop, nor are new system versions as fast as in iOS. The quality of some apps is lower and, if you care a lot about the quality of the contents when uploading them to social networks, this is not your operating system. Saving this, iOS and Android have been approaching over the years. I still defend that, objectively, iOS is more stable and is better refined than Android. Despite this, the evolution of the Google operating system in recent years, especially if we talk about what manufacturers have done with their personalized roms, has been spectacular. Let’s stop fighting for the camera. One of these two photos is taken with the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. The other is taken with the iPhone 16 Pro. One is clearly better than the other, but I am not going to tell you which, I will let you decide in comments. The key here is that, although I am clear that there is a phone that makes better photos than the other, the differences between high -end devices have been minimized over the years. Every year, in the great photographic comparison that I prepare in Xataka, I have to spend hours expanding the photographs and analyzing elements such as the reflexes that are generated in the lenses or other points to be able to determine a winner. Without expanding and without fixing in detail I am clear: practically no average user could objectively differentiate which photo is better than another. It would simply be in a position to choose which one likes the most. And this is excellent news. Buying a high Android range is no longer a bad idea. There was a time when buying a high -end mobile was to spend more than 1,000 euros on a phone that would be updated for two years and with a power about two years behind the iPhone. This is why, historically, it has been very difficult for me to recommend the purchase of Android mobiles in this price range. With the advances in hardware, things have changed a lot in recent years. To the point that what I look most is in the ROM and the user experience that the buyer will have, more than in the rest of details and differences between devices. And here, next to Google, Samsung is the one who is moving the baton. Image | Xataka In Xataka Android | After a decade with an Android mobile, three months ago I went to iPhone. I’m already clear with which platform I stay

The rare earth war has arrived in Spain. And it is in Ciudad Real where mining and ecology are confronted

February 15, 2025 by usatoday24

If there is an resource that dominates the geopolitical panorama of today, that is that of the Rare earth. Are essential for many technological fields among which are electric vehiclessystem elements renewable energies and the technological world in general, and China dominates both its mining and its production. The rest of the world seeks a new ‘El Dorado’ of Rare Earth to be able to exploit, and it turns out that In Spain there is a very sweet site. It is in Ciudad Real, but it will not be so easy to extract its resources. I have land (rare). In Spain it is estimated that there are several rare earth deposits. Mount Galiñeiro in Galicia is one of them, In Gran Canaria It is also estimated that there are large quantities, in Cádiz and Almería there are also deposits and more of the same Between Salamanca and Zamora. Another important site is in the field of Montiel, in Ciudad Real, and something that practically everyone has in common is that their extraction seems complicated. Not so much because of the technical issue (extracting rare earths is not a problem, neither does its production), but by the environmental counterpart. It is a potentially polluting activity that is very regular in Europe (that is why China was doing with all the control) and that meets an added inconvenience: Spanish deposits are usually close to environmental areas of interest. Matamulas. Although in recent years it has been evidenced that rare earths are a Throwing weapon on the world geopolitical stageit really has been looking for the independence of China for years. In 2015, the Spanish company Quantum Mining It started to study the land in the Manchega region of Campo de Montiel, where municipalities such as Valdepeñas or Torrenueva are located. In general, the area of mules, matamulas and auctione. It is Torrenueva the town that is right next to the great mining site that sought to exploit Quantum Mining And that, according to his studies, he is up to Monacita. Under this term we have elements and minerals such as Cerio, Neodimio, Torio or Lantano and is not very common in Europe. To the load. In a recent one video (Although, as we say, this comes from long), Quantum Mineria affirms that the production of Montiel’s Camp Build 350,000 electric cars or 10,000 wind generators. There is a problem: those rare earths are under large extensions of cultivation, mainly cereal. The company’s plan is to temporarily remove the half -meter vegetation layer that, they affirm, will carefully retain, once the mining process is over, restore it and leave it as it was. The backhoes remove the layer of land containing the monacite and all this takes to a plant in which the interesting thing is signed of what does not. This is done without using polluting chemicals and, once the monacite is on the one hand and the earth without interest on another, return it to the ground and place the previously removed crop. The machinery works by sectors of one hectare, without interrupting adjacent agriculture and claim that, once the land is restored, it can be re -cultivated “in better conditions than the originals.” Criticism. They complement their allegation by stating that they would create industry, help repopulate the area, attract jobs and encourage conditions for traditional agricultural and livestock activities. It is not something that has convinced neighbors or environmental organizations. In 2016, Ecologists in Action alleged that the environmental impact on the 27,500 hectares in which it was projected to work would be severe. Worry. Among other issues, water worried. From the organization, they affirmed that between 310,000 and 500,000 cubic meters of water a year, which would have to multiply for ten years of mining activity to cover all the estimated hectares. It was not logical in a region in which the problems of water supply in droughts are not rare, with overexploited aquifers and an intense agricultural activity of the economy in the area. Brake. To this we must add that in the area there are two Zepas (Areas of special protection for birds) and is a place of presence of the lynx. With all this in mind, and after two years of social struggle, the CLM government gave folder to the matter in 2017. Load return. In recent years, in different forums it has been followed defending The suitability of the area as a strategic enclave so that Spain – and Europe – stop depending both on the importation of strange earth elements of China, arguing that it is key to decarbonization and energy transition, but also defending the environmental respect of the activity. It was at the beginning of 2024 when Quantum Mining He returned To request permits to carry out a research project to quantify the amount of rare earths in the Montiel field, referring to the “high risk of supply interruptions” due to China’s strategic movements of the previous months. Quantum affirms that his process is respectful of existing crops Abandoned mines. Given this new attempt, environmentalist in action reacted again, but also proposed a solution. Joan Evans, responsible for mining in the organization, pointed out that the abandoned mines that are already in Spain could be exploited again, in whose dump there are “very important quantities” of rare earths. Before the resurgence of Quantum, both neighbors and the Diputación de Ciudad Real and the Platform ‘Yes to living earth‘They returned to oppose to the granting of permits. Given this new rejection, Javier Merino, president of Quantum Mining, affirmed that its activity would be “totally compatible with the traditional activities of the area” and that the rejection climate is due to the propagation of “false news with photographs of mining farms that have nothing to do with our project.” “The most ecological in the world”. As a support for the activities of Quantum, the Secretary General of Primigea -the Spanish Confederation of the Mineral Raw Materials Industries – affirmed Recently that “a … Read more

Is glass solid or liquid? A much more difficult question to answer what it seems

February 15, 2025 by usatoday24

There is an urban legend that attributes the irregularities in the glass decorated by the Gothic cathedrals to the fact that Glass is not a solid but an extremely viscous liquid that, over time ends up falling dragged by gravity. Well, according to experts, this story is a myth. And at the same time it really has a lot. Yeah, It is complicated. As we learned at school, matter can occur in three states: solid, liquid and gaseous. Then we would learn that the panorama is a bit more complex, with somewhat more unusual phases such as plasma, or the existence of a “Triple point”, A combination of temperature and pressure under which matter can be in three phases at the same time. In An article in The CovnersationPaddy Royall, a professor at the University of Bristol, explained a few years ago some details of this mystery and why the history of the windows of the cathedrals has some foundation Despite not describing a real cause of cause effect: the irregularities in these windows are due to the technique and not over time. For Royall, the key to the matter is in the transition. To understand where glass fits in all this we can think of water or, more specifically, what happens when the water changes its liquid phase to its solid phase. When the water freezes it does so more or less sudden. Small crystals arise from the liquid water, that is, regions where H2O molecules are structured in an orderly and invariable way. This crystallization occurs quickly, as a kind of infection that extends until the whole solidifies. In any case, the water will become ice in a discreet and not continuous process: it will pass from solid fluid without further proceduresso that their molecules will go from disorder to order. The problem is that not all matter seems to behave with that immediacy. And the glass, or rather, the glass are the best example of it. “The problem with the materials that form glass (which include plastics, alloys and ceramics, in addition to the daily ‘glass’) is that there is no obvious transformation. When cooling we cannot say the moment in which the glass becomes solid, ”he explains in Your article Royall And this is not simply due to a matter of temperature but in the same viscosity. So that a material crystallizes its atoms must “order” and structure. As explained to Livescience John Parker, from the University of Sheffield, “(the glass) cools quickly, but as it is so viscous, Atoms cannot be moved in a simple way to regroup in a more orderly solid structure, and are trapped in disorderly formations. ” “(Glass) is by mechanically solid, but with a messy structure like that of a liquid,” adds Parker. Something similar explains Royall In your article in The conversation. “The reason that (the transformation) is difficult to observe is that to do so we would have to wait an extraordinarily long time (much more than centuries),” he says. However, the teacher gives us some details of how atoms and molecules are structured in this solid that is not such. He explains that, if we look with a microscope, we can see how small groups of a few tens of molecules act differently: some are structured in orderly, as in a solid, while those around them remain unstructured, as in a liquid . A difficult experiment In 1927, the one that is considered “was launched”The slowest experiment in history” It is about Brea drop experimentan essay whose objective was to demonstrate that this substance was a liquid of enormous viscosity. Those responsible for the experiment placed an amount of break in a funnel, all protected in a glass bell. Under the funnel, another container to collect the fallen break. After three years letting the break, those responsible for the experiment opened their mouths and left the gravity to do their job. Ten years later the first drop fell. In the 95 years since the opening of the funnel, they have fallen A total of nine drops of break to the second container. This experiment remains active as curiosity and because it can still teach us things. For example, how environmental conditions alter the viscosity of this type of liquids. After the seventh drop (fallen in 1988), the University of Queensland installed air conditioning in the faculty that houses the experiment. The result: a remarkable slowdown of the speed at which the drops fall, that is, an increase in the viscosity of this fluid. So, glass is a liquid, right? The question remains without a definitive answer. In John Mauro’s words collected by Livescienceglass “is neither a true liquid nor a true solid: it has properties of both but has its own state of matter.” “The technical definition It is that glass is a state of non-echinibrated and non-cristaline matter that appears to be solid in the short temporary scale but that relaxes towards the liquid state, ”added Mauro, expert in material science of the Penn State University. The question of the time scale is important. The stained glass windows of the Gothic cathedrals are centuries behind. The temporal scale in which glass is located is much larger. That is why we know that, although there is something true in the legend of these stained glass windows, it would actually need more time so that we could observe changes in the structure of these materials. Much longer. In Xataka | We have discovered that diamonds can compact even more. The result is a much harder material Image | Antoine Pouligny / Jamieson Gordon

It is an authentic time museum

February 15, 2025 by usatoday24

Prehistoric caves have given us many archaeological joys in Spain. They keep giving them and They help us unravel mysteries. In this sense, Altamira’s are Peninsula archaeological crown jewelbut there is Many other caves that have served different purposes for millennia and that today They have become a tourist claim for its natural beauty forged over thousands of years. However, there are some that have not been at the mercy of nature and, until recently, they remained enclaves in which human activity was present. One of them is that of Eye Guareña, which is also the second karst complex bigger of the Iberian Peninsula, only behind the Mortillano system. Karst complexes. They are the result of a process of dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestones and dolomites, as well as minerals such as plaster, due to water action. Over the centuries, this process of chemical weathering generates caves and a drain that reduces the amount of surface water, so galleries are generated in which humanity has been able to enter. They are very characteristic caves due to the presence of formations such as stalactites and stalagmites, which also gives a mystical aura to these places. And, due to their own condition of caves, many of these karst complexes have served as a refuge in prehistory, so they have become valuable archaeological and paleontological sites. The aforementioned Altamira, without going any further. Guareña eye. To the north of the province of Burgos there is another of these formations, a very special for several reasons. One is that of its dimensions, since the Cuevas de Eye Guareña have more than 110 kilometers of galleries and it is estimated that they are composed of about 400 cavities. It has a few awards (natural monument, well of cultural interest and place of community importance), and it is not for less. It stands out for its biodiversity with 16 species of endemic invertebrates, their own dimensions and for the archaeological findings that have occurred. And it is fascinating that 14 caves are communicated among them in a complex equivalent to about six floors. Time Museum. My intention is not to remove merit from the archaeological remains found in the place, but it was still one more cave, a shelter, for the inhabitants of the Paleolithic. They were, therefore, cave paintings, weapons, bones, Neanderthal teeth, fossilized traces of barefoot and ceramics. When humanity evolved and began to found towns and cities, the caves were abandoned and used in cases counted as a sporadic warehouse or refuge (in a war situation, for example). However, in the case of Eye Guareña, it was not so much like that. These archaeological remains correspond to the different cultures that have been happening in the Peninsula, to the point that there are paintings of the Paleolithic, postpaleolithic, bronze and iron age. This report from Castilla y León Televisión is fantastic Sanctuary. One of the findings was relatively recent, in 2019. It was a skeleton of someone who, we estimate, was lost in the caves. He died there because the caves are labyrinthine and carried their trousseau, which allowed date To this person as an individual of the VI AC and it is also estimated that several of the caves did the functions of ‘sanctuaries’ or centers of cult for populations. And this function is not something that will be anchored in the past. Next to the main entrance of Eye Guareña, they built the San Bernabé hermitage. It is not known for sure when it occurred, driving dates between the 5th and XIII centuries. What is known is that, during a millennium, and until 1924the hermitage was the meeting point of the Council of Merindad -the Burgos Municipality Merindad de Sotoscueva. Apart from the building itself, integrated in the rock as if it were a decoration of ‘The Lord of the Rings’, something worth seeing are the frescoes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with scenes of Christianity. And tourism. It is a place where prehistoric art coexists with that of just 200 years ago, as if an encyclopedia of the artistic history of humanity was. And currently still has its importance. On Saturday, June 11, the pilgrimage is celebrated, with the hermitage as the protagonist. And, of course, the tourism It is also something present in such a area, with options ranging from three to six euros, depending on age. There are several types of excursions. The quietest is that of the hermitage, which includes a visit to 400 meters of galleries. For the most adventurers, and for a higher price, there are longer tours of Palomera and Sima Cueva ailments, a cave that is not conditioned and in which the entry to children under 12 years is not allowed. And if you have less than 18, you must also go with an adult. In the end, Eye Guareña is not only an imposing karst complex or an archaeological site, but a sample of the passage of time and how the same space has served as similar to humanity for thousands of years. Images | Televisión Castilla y León, Roberto Lumbreras, Eliana Alvoz In Xataka | Spanish tourism faces the real risk of dying of success. There are already guides that advise three of its great destinations

60 -minute matches, without South Koreans and without knowing who wins

February 15, 2025 by usatoday24

If finally Kim Yong’s dreams are fulfilled and North Korea becomes a kind of Asian Benidormthe first foreign tourists who arrive can take some surprise. For example, if they sit on a terrace to take something and expect to see an international football match, it will be difficult for them to see the Spanish or the Italian league. There you only see the Premier League, although in its own way. Devotion for the Premier. It The Guardian counted this week in a report. For a country so suspicious of external influences As is North Korea, the nation seems unable to resist the attractiveness of football, and expressly of the Premier League of England, the most watched sport (and one of the few) on the country’s television screens. The result, as we will see, is a “medium” and little legal access to the parties, a viewing marked by strong restrictions, censorship and a significant delay in the transmissions, as detailed in An analysis of site 38 North. Delays and modifications. To start, Premier League broadcasts on North Korean television They are not live and are usually transmitted with considerable delay. For example, the first broadcast of the 2024-25 season began on January 13, with a match between the Ipswich and the Liverpool that had been played … 150 days before. There are more. The footage of each party is edited and reduced from the original 90 minutes one houreliminating pauses and politically inconvenient moments, whether advertising or other signal that the regime does not approve. Besides, Any graphic in English is replaced by signs in Koreanand the logos of foreign chains are blurred to hide their origin. Yes indeed, The Guardian told That, although in the past censorship came to hide advertising in the stadiums, this practice seems to have been abandoned. Another peculiarity is that The full season is not broadcast. In the 2023-24 season, for example, only 21 games were issued, and these were repeated in a loop on multiple occasions. In other words, the lack of a complete calendar prevents North Korean viewers know who wins the leaguesince the parties are not transmitted in chronological order. They leave that to the imagination of the spectators. No trace of the neighbor. The ideological filter of the Kim Jong-un regime is also reflected in the selection of the matches that are issued. The teams where South Korean soccer players play, such as Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton), the super star are heung-min (Tottenham) or Kim Ji-Soo (Brentford), They do not appear in programming. Like the regime Consider South Korea its “hostile state number one”any reference to its athletes is excluded. And it is not new. This censorship has already been applied in previous tournaments. During the 2022 World Cup, KCTV transmitted all matches a few hours late, except the three matches of the group stage of South Korea and the confrontation between the United States and Wales. Of course, the regime did not hesitate to Show the elimination of South Korea at the hands of Brazil. And in the 2023 Asian Women’s Tournament, the North Korean TV graphics labeled South Korean players as “puppets.” And how do you access the North Korea signal? The nation It does not have the emission rights of the Premier League or the Champions, Which implies that the issuance of these parties should be a violation of international sanctions directed against the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The truth is that In the report it is not clear how KCTV obtains the recordingsbut it is presumed that it is material without license. In fact, in the past, North Korea also transmitted matches of the leagues of England, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, but Since 2023 he has reduced his approach to the Premier League, the Champions League and the World Cup. Soccer and propaganda. Although North Korean state television is dominated by News with revolutionary tone, war films and propaganda on the Kim dynastyfootball continues to represent one of the few moments of entertainment without an explicit ideological message. An obsession with football in the nation that is not new. North Korea reached the quarterfinals of the 1966 World Cup After beating Italy in a historic party, and His female team has won the U-20 World Cup up to three times. So, despite censorship and restrictions, football is still an escape valve for North Korean viewers. Even if they never get to know the Premier League champion. Image | (Stephan)38 North In Xataka | Kalma is the first real effort of North Korea to become a holiday place. For now only for Russians In Xataka | As the rent is crazy, a man devised a plan in a hotel in New York. He paid the first night and stayed for free five years

I wanted to set up my own Google photos. I have achieved it thanks to a wonderful alternative Open Source

February 15, 2025 by usatoday24

I have a particular obsession to have my photos well organized. As I have been fighting with this for a few years, I have tried a good handful of solutions, and for example I enjoyed Picasa –Google killed him, like Reader– And I also tried solutions like Synology photos Following the steps From my partner Alejandro Nieto. The goal has always been the same: Google photos of Googlea service that is wonderful but that like other services in the cloud, it worries me because I don’t know what my photos can be used. They assure They are not used for advertising purposes, but can be used to improve their automatic learning algorithms in image recognition. A custom nas The cloud is fantastic in many things and for many users, but as I say, I preferred to mount it at my home. Recently I counted this whole search process and tests in more detail in my blogand now I wanted to take advantage of it also in Xataka. About a year ago looking for new alternatives, and to achieve a decision I rode a nas With 30 hard drive, 4 TB of SSD and a modest plate and processor because it sought more efficiency than power. My NAS, in a Jonsbo N2 box with hard drives bays. There was also detailed research process to choose the operating system with which to control everything. There are many and varied options for NAS, although I would say that among the most prominent are unraid, thunder (formerly Freenes), proxmox, OpenMediavault or Casaos. After documenting, reading and watching videos I ended up deciding on Unraida very veteran and respected project. The “Starter” license costs 49 dollars and is valid for machines with up to six disk units, and I thought it was very good option. Putting everything in motion took some time: this is not like installing Windows on a PC, and I also wanted to have a very specific configuration to use the ZFS file system for the three hard disk units configured in Raidz (Raidz1 ), Something that when I settled I had just started to be available in Unraid. Solved that, I migrated all the data of my old NAS, an old Synology DS-212J who gave me many joys but that began to fall short in many things. That also took time, because I wanted to take the opportunity to reorganize the small chaos in which some folders that had used almost as “digital storages” had become. Testing alternatives to Google photos Once that was resolved, I could start trying different alternatives to manage my photos. Here Unraid is especially wonderful, because it allows (like other systems for NAS, certainly) to assemble services separately and easily isolated, especially thanks to Docker. UNRAID’s “App Store” with the different types of autosted services that you can install on your server at click. That makes you become 5, 10 or 100 servers. Those you want and those that your hardware allows, of course. And the same with virtual machines, that I do not use just but that are an equally interesting option to get your server more. I have ended up installing about 15 servers in my nas, although the vast majority are usually deactivated. Be that as it may, Unraid has its own “App Store”and in it there are dozens and dozens of possible services that you can ride on your server to run them from there and have your own cloud essence with your local services. There are alternatives for almost everything that exists on the Internet: you can mount your email, music, your web server, download, databases, or, of course … photos. And this is where it was time to try alternatives that seemed interesting and on which I had already investigated. Others met them along the way, but thanks to Unraid and Docker’s magic starting these alternatives is a matter of minutes. Then, of course, there is an import process of the photos – if you have many, that can take to days – but I reduced the import to a small subset of photos for the tests. First of all, I must say that what is clear is that in this field there is everything, and for all. The options are very varied both in their reach and in their way of “attacking” the problem, but I had certain priorities. In essence I wanted a good alternative to Google photos that inherited its virtues (interface, chronological organization, favorite management, perhaps facial and object recognition). Photosyructure is an original, different and very powerful alternative. That made some projects quickly discard that they did not fit me but that can be great for many users. Among them were Piwigo, Photonix, Chevereto, Damselfly, Lycheeeither PhotoViewbut there are certainly more. The thing however interesting with Some really serious and very striking alternatives. I had already tried Photosyructure And I loved his interface with that first page of random photo team, but they did not fit their favorite management (subscription to enable that option) or its interface, which is not focused on the chronological order. LIBHOTOS I looked great, but it was not easily installed (I was not in the “App Store” of Unraid) and gave me many problems, probably because I did something wrong when riding it. I also tried NextCloud Photos, curious option if you are already users of NextCloud Photos and its improved version, Memoriesbut the interface and some options were not entirely fine. The one who really put things difficult was Photoprismone of the most popular options among those looking for alternatives to Google photos. His options are extraordinary, and the only thing that really backed down is that it seems to me an option that focuses more on organizing your photos (the power here is amazing) than to enjoy them. The interface did not fall in love either, but it always remained as a great candidate if other options did not convince me anymore. I finally discovered a candidate … Read more

This game worked at 10 fps in PlayStation 3 and its creator believes that any company that was not Sony would have canceled it

February 15, 2025 by usatoday24

Any game has beta versions that work with a much lower performance than they reach in its final version, but … 10-15 fps? Under that ridiculous frequency it moved ‘The Last Guardian‘In PS3, game that ended up appearing in PS4 after eleven years. Its person in charge was the Team Ico, signer of masterpieces for PlayStation as ‘ICO’ or ‘Shadow of the Colossus’. Do not underestimate the evocative power of those Team Ico games. Possibly their fame and prestige are the ones that led Sony to persecute with the project despite their weak technical results. Shuhei Yoshida, Sony manager for almost 40 years, who worked at the first playstation and was president of Sie Worldwide Studios, He told Taipei Game Show That a company that was not Sony I would have abandoned the game. Yoshida explained that years passed since they announced it, and began receiving questions about the game from Sony. The truth was that they were having problems Derived from the vision of fumito Ueda, responsible for the team, which wanted the protagonist creature of the game, the immense trico rodent, to move realistically. But PS3 could not manage the huge character on the stage and stuck at 10-15 fps. Finally, it was decided to pass the project to PS4 and schedule it from scratch. “A normal developer would possibly have abandoned it,” says Yoshida, but trusted Ueda’s vision and thought of ‘Ico’ and ‘Shadow of the Colossus’ fans, and decided that “whatever happens we have to launch it.” Finally, the game was announced in the E3 of 2015, when everyone already thought that the Ueda project was sentenced to cancellation. Header | Sony In Xataka | Why the creator of ‘The Last Guardian’ is a reference with only 2 published games (and an eternal third)

Nikola had everything to revolutionize the world of hydrogen trucks. Now is on the verge of bankruptcy

February 15, 2025 by usatoday24

In 2014, and just over a decade after the appearance of Tesla, Nikola arrived. It was another automotive company, another that honored the electrical engineer and inventor And that he also wanted to mark the way in the world of electric vehicles. However, his incursion was not in the cars segment, but of trucks, which earned him the nickname ‘THE TESLA OF TRUCKS‘. He immediately caught attention, with promises such as electric and hydrogen trucks with autonomies of 2,000 kilometers. Today, its trucks are a mere memory and the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. On the edge of the abyss. That is what sources point in both Bloomberg as of The Washington Postwho claim that anonymous representatives of the company have told them that the company is evaluating their financial and liquidity needs to carry out a financial restructuring. And within the options, the sale of the company, the aforementioned restructuring and bankruptcy are included. The question is how a company that became valued -during a very brief period of time, yes- above a giant like Fordit has ended in this situation. And the full photo is quite eloquent. Chulo was, really, but it was just an idea Nikola Tesla. It was in 2016 when we met the company’s first truck, a six -wheeled beast, a power of 2,000 hp and the ability to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 30 seconds to maximum load. It could also maintain a speed of 100 km/h rising a 6% slope and, thanks to a pile of hydrogen, it had an autonomy of almost 2,000 kilometers. Your name? Nikola One. 375,000 dollars was what they were going to ask once to production, something that would begin in 2020. However, that 2020 and without having sold a single truck, Nikola became a public company. It was a strange movement because the only thing that existed were promises. Already We said In its presentation: very nice on paper, but although the truck could be reserved paying a tank of $ 1,500, there was no product. Two. Tre. Even so, Nikola continued to present trucks. The TWO was the following in 2017, a truck of which they did show a prototype that moved with electric motors and autonomies more restrained than those of the first: between 800 and 1,200 kilometers. It also has hydrogen battery, cameras instead of mirrors. And then the Tre In 2018, repeating hydrogen formula, up to 1,200 kilometers and a design more adapted to European roadswhere long morro trucks do not have so much place due to their maneuverability. They had three trucks on their way, but none produced and the promise was still to start deliver LO TESLA AND THE COMPANY affirmed that I already had customers with reservations of even 800 trucks in the US. Controversial. They did not wait and, in 2018, Nikola sued Tesla. It’s funny, really, but beyond the word game, it is because Nikola asked the Musk company due to alleged patent infractions for the Tesla Semithe proposal of electric truck of Tesla. According to them, Tesla had copied three key points of the Nikola One, such as the fiselogue design, the enveloping windshield and the entrance door. They looked, yes (and, for tastes, colors, but the semi looks like a van split in half and the One a more futuristic vehicle). But the main course arrived in 2020: due to accusations of fraud, The CEO and founder of Nikola, Trevor Milton, resigned. It was after a devastating report that Nikola described as a “ocean of lies” and pointed to Milton as responsible for mulminating shareholders to bet on the company. “There was no stack of fuel in the truck. We never affirmed that it existed,” Milton defended himself, who also boasted of having a lot of development technologies that turned out to be from third parties. Cancellations. Since 2020, the waters have been calmer, but that there would be no controversy does not mean that things were good for doors inside. The Badger, His rival against the Cybertruck de Teslait was canceled along with other prototypes and the number of hydrogen trucks does not give to sustain the company. In Bloomberg they point out that, during the first nine months of 2024, only 200 were sold and in October the company said they had effective to finance their operations until the first quarter of 2025, But not beyond. In December They offered Up to 100 million dollars in shares, but it seems that things have failed to take off. We will see what happens with ‘The Tesla of the trucks’, but its situation does not look good. In Xataka | Toyota wanted to make the star technology and the alternative to the electric car. They already doubt that it is possible

‘Gambling Man’ is the portrait of the man capable of betting billions after a 12 -minute conversation. And lose

February 15, 2025 by usatoday24

Technological capitalism continuously disappoints its investors regarding what continually promises them. In 2022, when Masayoshi are announced losses of 23,000 million dollars in softbankthe market pretended to surprise what was inevitable: the collapse of a bubble inflated by the megalomania of its architects itself. It was not the first time they were seeing a fortune evaporate. He had already lost 99% of his wealth in the Crash of the ‘Puntocom’. The pattern is repeated because it should be repeated: the eternal reproduction of the same, where each cycle of boom and Bust Technological needs its own prophets and martyrs. They are represents both roles with particular dedication. Lionel Barber’s new biography about Masayhoshi are‘Gambling Man‘, portrays a man who has turned the extreme risk into a show. The book aims to unravel the genius after seemingly irrational decisions, but ends up revealing something more important: how modern technological capitalism has normalized recklessness as business virtue. They are, who like to compare with Napoleon and Genghis Khan, embodies the violence of a system that has made the disruption its mantra. Invest 4,400 million dollars in Wework After a 12 -minute conversation because it can do it – as well portrayed the phenomenal Wecrashedfrom Apple Tv+ – because el System rewards the grandiloquent gesture about rigorous analysis. Economic rationality is subordinated to the imperative of the show. The mechanism needs, of course, a distortion of the objectives it says. SoftBank does not really seek to identify the best technological companies in the future, seeks to feed the narrative that you can do it. The reality is that the Vision Fund It operates as a validation machine: Validation for Son, which found in money and success a way to overcome discrimination suffered in postwar Japan; validation for founders who receive their investments; Validation for a market that needs to believe that someone, somewhere, can see the future. “If you are intelligent you do not need leverage, and if you are silly you should not use it,” said Warren Buffett, who in addition to being the best investor in history is a great representative of a more sober and methodical capitalism. Perhaps the first is not understood without the second. They are represents the antithesis of buffet: a system where the mass leverage –SoftBank came to accumulate more than 150,000 million in debt– It is not a means but an end in itself. Debt as a show, as a demonstration of power. What surprises is not that they are survived their failures, but that the system needs them. Each multimillionaire loss reinforces its misunderstanding image, willing to bet against consensus. “At some point, everyone will tell you that you are crazy,” he proclaims. The line between vision and reckless has become deliberately diffuse. Today, while driving A new multimillionaire bet in chips for AIThey are still playing their role in this work. The public applauds because it must applaud: the fiction that after each new technological bubble there is a visionary genius is too comforting to abandon it. He show It must continue, although we all know how it ends. The Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi are Outstanding image | Wikipedia CommonsXataka In Xataka | Who are the largest millionaires in Spain: the list of the ten richest people in the country

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