We prepare for the cold

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Beyond The controversy about whether the “eastern beast” It is really a beast or caniche, the models begin to clear many of the doubts we had about next weekend. And they are good news for Cold lovers U bad for everything else. What is the “Beast of the East”? In 2018, A huge temporary ice and snow frozen Much of continental Europe and the British islands. It was then when The name of “Eastern Beast” slipped among the terms used by the media to talk about phenomena similar to that (independently of its intensity). So are we going to a historical stage of cold and snow? No, the truth is that no. It is an “eastern beast” because the mechanism is, more or less, the same: an anticyclonic bridge that connects several areas of high pressures and blocks the casualty movement from the Atlantic to the continent. Basically, we talk about a wall that goes from Scandinavia to Africa following the coastline. That will cause a curious phenomenon: that a mass of polar air moves from the northeast European to the southwest; that is, towards Spain. And what will happen? This type of situation They are difficult to model And, therefore, there are doubts about what their real reach will finally. In fact, now it seems that the dough will not penetrate too much into the peninsular territory. However, that does not mean that you will not put the national meteorology upside down. What we can expect. At the level of rainfall, there are certain doubts: the mass of air comes from central Europe and is very dry. However, on your trip you can generate cold danas or storms that “Incebilize” the situation. The problem is that we will not know until the last moment: it depends on the final configuration, we will have more or less rain. What we have any doubt is that we are about to live a full -fledged winter episode. Nothing historical, not a cold wave: but yesterday nights. These days Let’s suffer some very cold nights in which the majority of the innerior capitals will have negative temperatures. Frost during the weekend They will be extended through the north and peninsular center and can be strong (or very strong) in high areas. What we should not expect. Despite the name, we must not expect a cold wave: neither for intensity, nor by extension, nor by duration. The cold that comes will be anomalous (because winters are getting warmer), but not exceptional. Image | ECMWFF In Xataka | There is something that joins the gigantic calima of 2022 with the nuclear trials of the twentieth century and is called France

Amazon lost the AI ​​train, but wants to recover it. The new Alexa with ia will arrive this month to try

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Something happens to Amazon. He has been delayed in the AI ​​segment for more than two years. At least that is what seems to the user: it does not have a chatgpt rival, and although it has developed some own models, they do not compete at the moment with those of OpenAi, Google or goal. However, it seems that it will finally try to catch up. There will be news on February 26. We will have to mark that date on the calendar, because it will be when Amazon will finally present its strategy in this area. The company led by Andy Jassy He has sent invitations To various means to notify them that he will celebrate an event with a single protagonist: Alexa. Hello, new Alexa. The event will be presented by Panos Panay, who directed the Microsoft hardware division and will now present the renewed Amazon voice assistant. According to Reuters On February 14, the company’s managers will go to a special meeting to finally decide whether that new version of Alexa is prepared to come to light. Project development It has been chaos according to sources close to it. Waiting for a “remarkable” assistant with a lot of AI. We have been talking about that new version for months that some point to the call “remarkable Alexa” (“Alexa”). The great jump will be provided by the generative AI that will be available in the product and that will theoretically enhance its conversational capacity. Anthropic as a partner? It will be interesting to know which model of AI will be behind the new Alexa. Amazon has invested Friolera of 8,000 million dollars In Anthropic, Claude developer, so it seems feasible to be based on that model. But be careful, because Google too Invested 1,000 million dollars In that company of AI and they also have their own model, Gemini, which could also be an option in the renewed Alexa. There are other possibilities, of course: it is known that Amazon was working In its colossal LLM, Olympusthat it is rumored that it would have two billion parameters, approximately twice as much as GPT-4 of OpenAi. An opportunity for echo. Amazon has a spectacular opportunity here to give a new life to its smart speakers, the Amazon Echo, who were the great excuse to try to take advantage of Alexa. Achieve it, of course, will depend a lot on the quality of the service and if it really represents a substantial improvement of its options. Alexa promised to get us to speak much more with our machines (specifically, with the Echo speakers), but the truth is that few users took advantage of them for something other than establish alarms or ask about time. And for Amazon. Achieving, for example, using Alexa in a “agricultural” way, would make them not only respond to things, but did them for us. They are already able to reproduce a song or a series on the Fire TV Stick, for example, but here the possibilities grow. For example, when combining those AI models with the immense catalog of Amazon products. Ask him to make the purchase or find a certain product and save us thus time (and perhaps money) are some obvious possibilities that could take advantage of this new version of Alexa. Subscribe to Alexa. Rumors suggest that Alexa’s renewed version will be available only through a subscription. That imposes clear doubts About its success, especially when so many other models are available for free and are already very powerful for certain scenarios. If we effectively have a “premium” payment, Amazon will have to have powerful arguments to convince us that it is worth paying for that service. In Xataka | “Telephone, come my life”: Anthropic’s agent wants to change our real lives

The boom and fall of Blackberry, the status symbol that the iPhone turned into history

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Before the absolute domain of the format imposed by smartphones with any screen without space for the keys, in half the world who left the cod was nokia. In the other half was Blackberry. Its mobile phones, with a reliable QWERTY keyboard and technology to the last, were synonym for quality, even status. Not only public figures had a Blackberry, but their use in business environments was practically mandatory at certain levels, and the company got that His models were desired by the general public. In that area, they had a very special model: the Blackberry Pearl 8100. It was something similar to what is currently happening with the iPhone, but beyond ‘Fardar’, having a Blackberry allowed access to a free instant messaging service among its users. At a time when SMS kept costing money (unless they were included in the rate) and were not as immediate as a chat, Blackberry Messenger It was consolidated as a kind of Microsoft Messenger to talk to friends and family. In 2009, everyone wanted to have a Blackberry mobile and dominated the market with almost 21% share. However, nothing lasts forever and, as soon as the iPhone and the Android mobiles They began to popular, the company’s sales fell into dive. The reason for his success was that physical keyboard that had stopped making sense and to which the brand He wanted to cling without successeven testing hybrid alternatives and Systems like Blackberry 10 To compete against Android. Spoiler: They did not set. And that is only a tip of the Blackberry iceberg, a story that my partner Ana Boria tells perfectly in the video we leave to lead this article, with the perfect storm that led to the loud fall of the mythical Blackberry. And it is curious because, many years later and already in 2025, there are users who continue to remember the fantastic times of that innovative Blackberry and, especially its keyboard and touchpad with those who differentiated themselves from the competition. From outside, as someone who never had a Blackberry, I can only say that it is even sorry for the story of a company that, obviously, was buried by a progress that did not see coming and who did not know how to adapt. Although … well, it’s not like so many other companies that disappeared without a trace. Although their attempts to return to the mobile segment did not work, at least they managed to reinvent themselves in other fields. AND It seems that nothing is going to him. In Xataka | Commodore boom and fall, the giant of the 1980s who revolutionized computer science and fell into oblivion

We already knew that Spanish wine was on its way to collapse. What we didn’t know was that drought was going to accelerate it so much

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At this point of 2025, say that Spanish wine is on its way to disaster It cannot surprise Nobody. However, it is inevitable that, reading phrases like that, let’s think it is exaggerating. Soon we examine the data, we see that the coup can become huge. Two news that is better understood together. The first is from July 25, 2024: The earliest harvest Within Jerez’s framework since there are historical records. That is to say, For more than 130 years. As the winemakers themselves said, They saw that “In July the grape was already at its optimal point (the 10.5º Baumé demanded) and that if we expected more I was going to lose weight and deteriorate.” The second news is a couple of months later: the production of wine from the United Kingdom has doubled in a very short time and, in fact, the surface planted with vines has increased 75% in the last five years. This is very rare in a place where (despite have vineyards from Roman times and produce commercially since the 60s) the vines have never been good for cold and bad weather. Both news are the beam and the underside of a huge problem: the huge impact that climate change in the main wine regions of Europe has. And, especially, in Spain. A global problem that affects us especially. Traditionally, there are two planetary areas indicated for the cultivation of the vine: the one between the 30th and 50th parallels of the northern hemisphere and that located between the 30th and 40th in the south. The problem is that, like The National Institute for Agronomic Research predicted In France, around 2100 those areas will be completely blurred with the double “very warm” days of the historical average. According to a study published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment In March 2024up to 70% of the current wine -producing regions could face a substantial risk to lose their suitability for viticulture. In that drawer we are. In Spain, as defends happiness in Herralde, researcher at the Institute for Agrifood Research and Technology of Catalonia, towards the end of the century “the water deficit could reach 200 liters per square meter.” That is, in many wine areas “half of the rainwater that is now available in a year may be missing.” Things are changing. “I have gone from harvesting to do it in a short sleeve and always looking at the sky. My father does not remember in all his youth or a hail storm and now they come to us in September shattering the harvest and even in spring, sweeping that of that year And the next one, because it takes all the yolks “, explained in Rioja2 Berta Valgañónfarmer and producer of the denomination of qualified origin Rioja. And when we say that “time is crazy” we are not entirely aware of what it implies. As Olivia García pointed out “In winter it does not snow, (…) in February it is hot and the plants begin to sprout before but the risk of frosts extends to May (…). In spring it hardly rains and summer is totally dry.” The result is that, when “the harvest arrives so hot that the level of sugar and acidity becomes totally unbalanced.” It is not uncommon. “In a reference period from 1972 to 2005 we have found that, for example, in the Penedès region the increase in average annual temperatures has already reached two and a half degrees,” explained of Herralde in the country. Estimates are terrifying. At the end of 2022, the Reading University published a report where it was concluded that “a fifth of the United Kingdom could have adequate climatic conditions to cultivate Chardonnay grapes in 2050”. But instead, “according to A study conducted over 15 years In vineyards from different areas of the world, 90% of current cultivation areas will not be suitable within a few years. “ To this we must add the problem of water. Not only is water missing at very important specific moments, but As Jordi Pastor defendedmost winemakers already grow with an amount of water lower than optimal. As with the olive tree, the agricultural strategy is to migrate production towards irrigation and, in fact, while 20 years ago the percentages of irrigated vine Today I already touched 50%. And yet, the situation is very complicated … With the available data of the denominations of Catalan origin, we can say that sprouting and flowering are being advanced around 11 days compared to half a century ago. But in addition, “the main cycles of the vineyard (sprouting, flowering, curd, envre and harvest) are faster, those phases are shorter.” Is What we saw too Within the framework of Jerez and In the rest of wine areas from Spain, Greece, Italy or southern California. France, much less affected, too He has seen him The ears to the wolf. … that goes beyond the future. This April, Freixenet presented an ERTE for 615 workers for drought. As they explainedit was an “exercise of responsibility” to “guarantee the operability of the business” in the face of grapes due to the lack of rain. Regardless of the details of that specific case, the truth is that the labor, financial and industrial ramifications The problem is here. And he will not go anywhere. How do we do the wine? “Spain will be a little suitable place to make wine, which means that wine production will not become impossible, but it will be increasingly difficult according to the degree of global warming,” defended Sébastien Zitoresearcher at the Institute of Vineyard Sciences and Burgundy Wine. He is right. Therefore, the world of wine Work already in a hurry for looking for solutions. And the truth is that the struggle to maintain profitability is not the only problem. After all, this environmental pressure also attacks the personality itself of the wines. Can Spanish wines survive while being themselves on the way? Image | Trent Erwin | Climate Resanalyzer In … Read more

All their rivals offer free models that “reason” and Gemini 2.0 is the last example

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All the companies and startups of AI in the United States were so quiet going to their own. And suddenly Deepseek R1 arrived and became a true existential threat to Silicon Valley. The Chinese startup offered a model of reasoning as good as that of its competitors, but also offered it for free (and Open Source!). What has Silicon Valley did? Apply the story, of course. GEMINI 2.0 Razon Free for All. Enough that you visit the Official Gemini website and display the “Gemini” menu from the upper left to check it. You can already use 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (its reasoning model) both in normal mode and in “collaborative” mode with services such as YouTube or Maps. And it is totally free. Microsoft Copilot and Think Deper. Microsoft Copilot’s “Think Deper” mode is also available for free In this service of the company. As we explainThink Deper is actually OpenAi O1, but before Microsoft had to pay the subscription of Copilot Pro ($ 20 per month) to enjoy access to that option. The appearance of Deepseek R1 caused it to also offer it in a grauita way (although with a more limited number of consultations). OPENAI O1. The company led by Sam Altman didn’t want to be left behind and less than a week ago presented O3-minia reasoning model that in addition to being especially powerful is available in the Grauita version of chatgpt. We can activate the “Reason” button so that when we ask something, the O3 reasoning capabilities are put into operation. Deepseek R1 and perplexity. Perplexity’s search engine is gradually offering new options. In fact, a few days ago those responsible announced that On the perplexity website We could activate the Reasoning-R1 model based on Deepseek R1, but housed in the US (to avoid suspicions with possible data theft). They even give the option of opting for the Reasoning-O3-mini model, which is the same offered in Chatgpt. Again for free (although limited), but that stands out for being a comfortable way to try Deepseek R1 in its most powerful version. And the rest? This first batch of reasoning models seems to have taken on foot changed to the rest of the great contenders in the AI ​​segment. Anthropic, who is still a reference with Claude, has not launched a reasoning model at the moment. He has not done so Apple, who goes to his own pace. Meta has not launched anything in this regard despite offering a flame as a clear reference of the Ia Open Source model. And Elon Musk seems to be very busy, because Xai is still working In Grok And for the moment there is no news about a potential variant of reasoning. The only remarkable alternative for the moment is Doubao-1.5-Prothe reasoning model fresh by Bytedance, although it is not available as simple as its competitors. The competition benefits users. The impact of Deepseek R1 on the AI ​​segment has been spectacular as we see. When Openai launched O1 In September 2024 he did it by raising him as a very advanced option but also face: only the subscribers of his services could access it in a limited way. Four months later we are using models that rival O1 but that are totally free and that we can use with more and more options. They are great news for users, which at least for now are benefiting from all that rivalry between these companies. The AI ​​that reasons every time is better and cheaper (or free). A graph Created by Shawn Wang (@swyx) and published in his Newsletter, Latent Space, shows a clear evolution of AI models. In that graph you see how its capacity (measured at LMSYS points, a well -known ranking of AI models) is confronted with its cost per million tokens (ratio 3: 1 entry: exit). Here the right and the right is a model, the better, and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking seems to be especially well positioned, but this type of graph is changing very quickly. Again, more good news for us, users. In Xataka | Mistral AI is the French startup that opted for efficiency before Deepseek. His future is uncertain

What are distilled artificial intelligence models and LLM distillation

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We will try to explain in a simple and understandable way What are distilled models When we talk about artificial intelligence. When we talk to you about Install Depseek on the computer We mentioned that there were distilled versions, and other AIs are also being created that are distilled versions of other specific models. We also usually refer to it as LLM distillationto specify that we refer to Large linguistic models either Large Language Modelwhich are those capable of processing the text, understanding what we write and responding to text. Come on, like Chatgpt , Deepseek, COPILOT, Gemini either Grok. What is LLM distillation The distillation of artificial intelligence models is A technique to reduce the size of the modelsreplicating the results and performance you can get with them. Although we are used to using them through applications and web pages, LLM models They consume a lot of space and resources. We do not usually notice because when you use an AI from a website or app, you connect to the servers of large companies where this model is running. But if you wanted to have a complete model installed on your computer, you would need a very powerful processor and a lot of space. The solution to this problem is to create a distilled model, A model trained to occupy less space. This model can replicate most of the performance, but it will be smaller and fast, you will need less resources to work. The way to do it is similar to a teacher and a student. The complete model is a teacher who shares his experience and knowledge with a student, transmitting complex concepts and knowledge. Meanwhile, the student model learns to imitate what is being taught in a simpler and more effective way. With that, lighter models are achieved. Your results will never be so good like those of the teacher, but the main and performance characteristics will remain. Come on, which comes to be a Lite version, a small but light and versatile version. There are different techniques To create distilled models, such as knowledge distillation with final results for the student model to know the decision -making process or use the teacher to generate additional training data. It is also distilled in intermediate layer so as not to transfer only final results but intermediate layers, or use several teacher models to train the student. In general, private companies that create artificial intelligence models are also responsible for creating distilled versions. The normal thing is that a specific name is added to the distilled version, such as the “flash” of Google Gemini or “Mini” of OpenAi. In other cases, especially In open source modelsThey can use the name of the master model for the distillate but adding as a last name the models that have been used as a student. Come on, you can take a smaller model like Qwen and use it to create a distilled version of Deepseek that is called Deepseek qwen, or Deepseek distill qwen, to indicate that it is distilled. Pros and cons of distilled models A complete artificial intelligence model has billions of parameters, and the quantity of space and computer power To execute them it is huge. In a domestic computer you will need technology and tip power, in addition to a lot of space, already level of a companies such as OpenAi or Google that offer their AI by web or app, you need many resources on their servers. Therefore, creating distilled models helps reduce size and occupy less space. But it also allows them to work faster, and that less computational costs are necessary. That makes Google or OpenAi offering you Free “small” versions Of its main models, leaving the most complete for payment users. Because keeping the complete requires money and investment. And if we are talking about an open source model, have distilled versions allows you and I can install them and use them on our computer without having to spend thousands of euros on a new processor, on graphics cards or internal storage. These techniques can also be used to create artificial intelligence models at a lower cost than would involve complete training. For that, you take already created models and train to a new one from their data and their knowledge, and you do not have to perform the process from scratch. However, distilled models do not have the same amount of data and parameters, they are often lower in resources, and More failures and hallucinations may arise. I will give you an example. If you follow our guide to Install Depseek on the computeryou will see that at a certain point you have several versions. You have versions 8bversions 14bor the full version of 671b. This number refers to its characters, and the lower the less resources you need, but more distilled and small will be the model. Therefore, in this example, if you install an Deepseek 8b and a 14B, you will see that The lower model has more hallucinations And it gives you less precise answers. Therefore, the better you have the greater the model will have to be the model, and less distilled it will have to be. The same goes for commercial models. If you are using a 2.0 flash gemini, the results will be worse than the full Gemini 2.0, and the same with the OPENAI O3 and O3 mini. However, the Flash or Mini version is the one offered to all free users, while the complete is for payment users, in order to assume the cost of maintaining these models in operation. In Xataka Basics | Prompts pages: 16 free websites and communities to find ideas for your prompts and find advice to improve them

Nvidia has a very strong and not quite unexpected ally against Depseek: TSMC

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Deepseek has convulsed the industry of the artificial intelligence (AI). The irruption of this free and open source Chinese model has questioned the need to use in training and inference processes Chips for very powerful and expensive. Like those designed by Nvidia, which leads with an unappealable roundness the hardware market for Ia. Even so, just ten days ago Deepseek caused Its market value fell abruptly. Since then the hardware used by this Chinese company has generated a lot of distrust. The Deepseek responsible argue that the infrastructure they have used to train their agglutin model 2,048 chips H800 of Nvidia. And that this process with 671,000 million parameters has cost 5.6 million dollars. However, some analysts defend that these figures do not reflect reality. The very juicy report prepared by SEMIANALYSIS He maintains that, in reality, the infrastructure used by Deepseek to train his AI model approximately 50,000 NVIDIA GPU with Hopper MicroAritecture. According to Dylan Patel, AJ Kourabi, Doug O’Laughlin and Reyk Knuhttsen, at least 10,000 of these chips are GPU H100 of Nvidia, and at least another 10,000 are GPU H800. The remaining chips, according to these analysts, are the cuts cut H20. The TSMC cowos packaging is a very strong support for Nvidia As we have just seen, at the current situation it is reasonable to have doubts about the hardware that Deepseek has used in the training of its model (in inference seems to be using the GPUs Ascend 910c of Huawei). And also about the real cost of this process, which could be much higher than the officially announced by this Chinese company. In any case, Depseek has poured uncertainty about the AI ​​market, and this is the reason why so many US technology companies have lost value. Whatever Nvidia has just received a very strong support from TSMC, which is the semiconductor manufacturer that produces its GPU. And is that, according to Digitimes Asiathis Taiwanese company has decided launch an expansion plan five years long for integrated circuit manufacturing capacity using its advanced cowos packaging technology (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate). According to Beth Kindigof the I/O Fund consultant, this technology will monopolize between 50 and 60% of the market in 2025 compared to 15% it supported during 2024. In 2024 TSMC he officially announced that he was building two cowos packaging plants in the town of Chiayi, housed in southern Taiwan The high demand for GPUs for AI with Blackwell MicroAritectura de Nvidia is largely responsible for the implementation of this plan. The company led by Jensen Huang can respond better to the needs of its customers and will see how its competitiveness is increased in a phase in which Depseek and other Chinese companies represent a challenge. In March 2024 TSMC officially announced which was building two cowos packaging plants in the town of Chiayi, housed in southern Taiwan. However, this is not all. He also shuffled the option to put a plant more specialized in this advanced packaging technology in Japan, presumably on the island of Kyushu, in which This company is building at the moment two semiconductor production plants of avant -garde. In any case, there is something else. And it is that Chiayi plants will be trained to work, in addition to the packaging cowos, with advanced Info and Soic technologies (System on Integrated Chips). It is evident that TSMC wants to cover your back well and look to the future to prevent its production capacity from being threatened by a bottleneck. An interesting note: currently the Cowos packaging is being used with the AMD Instinct Mi250 chips and with the A100, H100, H200, B100 and B200 NVIDIA GPUs, as well as in its derivatives. The review used in these last two chips, the B100 and B200, is known as Cowos-L. In 2025 TSMC will be able to process no less than 60,000 wafers per month using its advanced packaging technology. Image | TSMC More information | Digitimes Asia | Yahoo! Finance In Xataka | Samsung is preparing to give TSMC a bars where it hurts most: the manufacture of the chips for ia

A study has simulated what would happen on Earth if Asteroid Bennu ends up impacting in 2182. The climate we know would not exist

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The chances of crashing an asteroid of “large” category on our planet They are, on average, 0.001%. Therefore, everything that begins to raise that figure begins to be “less” normal. Hence Let’s talk about 2024 YR4 and its 1.6%. That said, and although there are less possibilities that it will occur, due to its size, The Bennu Asteroid It would be one of the most dangerous of the solar system. How much? That is precisely what they wanted to find out in South Korea. Potentially dangerous. The Bennu Asteroid, an object close to the land of approximately 0.5 kilometers in diameter, has been identified as one of the greatest known space threats. His orbit brings him closer to our planet every six years, and although the risk of impact is extremely low (right now it is 0.037%), the possibility of colliding with the Earth on September 24, 2182 has led the scientific community to the scientific community analyze in depth its possible effects. An unprecedented recent study, Posted in Science Advances By researchers at the IBS Institute of Climate Physics of the National University of Pusan ​​in South Korea, it has modeled for the first time the climatic and ecological consequences of an impact of a medium -sized asteroid such as Bennu. The results, of course, are not the best. The legacy of an ancient asteroid. Scientists believe that Bennu detached himself from a larger asteroid, rich in carbon, between 700 million and two billion years ago, progressively approaching the Earth’s orbit. Its composition is of great scientific interest for a simple and fascinating reason: contains key elements for lifewhat motivated NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission to explore it in 2020 and bring samples to Earth in 2023. However, and beyond its scientific value, Bennu represents a real risk that, although unlikely, cannot be ignored. Impact simulation. As explained in the study, South Korean researchers designed Detailed models to analyze how that possible impact of Bennu would affect climate, biodiversity and food security. What did they find? The most extreme scenario revealed that the impact would inject into the atmosphere between 100 and 400 million tons of dust. In other words, more graphic: it would block sunlight and plunge the planet in abrupt cooling. As for the effects, the simulation showed a certainty: They would be global and devastating. Namely: reduction in the average planet temperature in up to 4 ° C, a decrease comparable to the eras glaciers, 15% drop in rainfall, affecting the water supply and agriculture, loss of 32% of the ozone layer , exposing life on Earth to dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation, and the decrease in photosynthesis by 20-30%, both in terrestrial and sailor ecosystems, which would cause a serious crisis in food production. In short, these combined effects would trigger, according to the study, A winter of impact that would last between three and four yearscausing global famine and an ecological crisis of enormous proportions. Comparison with past events. While a Bennu impact would be devastating, the truth is that the earth has faced major threats. The best known event occurred 66 million years ago, When an asteroid of 10 kilometers in diameter hit what is now Chicxulub, Mexicocausing the extinction of dinosaurs and climatic alterations that endured thousands of years. In comparison, Bennu is significantly smaller, but large enough to cause mass destruction and deeply alter the biosphere. Not just that. Other studies suggest that medium -sized asteroids such as bennu collide with the earth approximately every 100,000 to 200,000 years, indicating that Our prehistoric ancestors could have experienced similar events with impact on human evolution and global biodiversity. Impact on the oceans. Despite the catastrophic effects, Bennu’s impact could generate an unexpected reaction on the oceans. The iron released in the stratosphere would be deposited in the sea, stimulating the proliferation of phytoplankton and zooplanktonessential organisms for the marine food chain. According to the study, while land ecosystems would take two to three years to recover, Marine life could recover in just six monthsand even exceed their levels prior to the impact due to the increase in nutrients. Planetary Defense Strategies. Despite the low impact risk, NASA and other space agencies work on the development of planetary defense technologies. For example, the Dart mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)carried out in 2022, he successfully demonstrated the human ability to divert the trajectory of an asteroid, opening the door to future mitigation strategies. And besides Bennu, there are other more immediate threats. For example and as we have explained these days, Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1.6% probability of impacting the Earth in 2032which reinforces the need to continue with research and develop effective prevention systems. What does seem clear to this last study is that not only reveals the vulnerability of our planet to cosmic events, but also highlights that need to advance surveillance and planetary defense technology. While the possibility that Bennu or any other asteroid impact the earth is minimal, geological history demonstrates that events of this type have shaped the evolution of life and could happen again in the future. Image | Ghost presentNASA In Xataka | All DNA bases and 14 of 20 amino acids: NASA has found molecules linked to life in Bennu samples In Xataka | Physicists have been looking for a fundamental “fifth strength.” Bennu may have approached us to find her

Online trade was supposed to end the shopping centers. Reality has been just the opposite

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The combination of online trade boom and the Platforms of Ecommerceadded to The misgivings that came from the US and THE MAZAZO The pandemic made the shopping centers face a particular (and threatening) ‘storm’. There was even talk of “Apocalypse of retail“. That is left behind. Or at least this is suggested by the figures that handle the commercial areas of Spain. In addition to grow in sales and activitythey have become an appetizing candy in the eyes of investors, one that moves hundreds of millions of euros in transactions. And there is a round data that demonstrates it: 1,000 million. Complicated years. Pandemia hit enough sectors and business models. And shopping centers They were no exception. Between health restrictions and changes in consumption habits, during the worst years of COVID-19 its managers suffered a Influence collapse of customers and a collapse in Sales. As in other industries, although in the case of large surfaces that scenario was added to another more structural cariz threat: the competition of the Ecommerce and platforms such as Aliexpress. Was who wondered If the shopping centers would have a future in a world in which trade and entertainment changed driven by Amazon or Netflix. In the US they even coined the term “Apocalypse of retail“. From there a fear expanded that He arrived in Europe (and Spain) despite some experts They warned Already at that time that the sector was different here from the American, with an average density of commercial areas lower than that of the US market. From ugly duckling to swan. That scenario seems to be behind. The salmon press carry months suggesting itbut the most forceful test left it a few days ago A chronicle of Five days in which a significant fact is provided: 2025 has started with five operations of sale of shopping centers from Spain to the point of caramel and adding, together, around one billion euros. The data is interesting for its volume. But also because it shows that, despite the catastrophic scenario that was painted years ago, when there was talk of the “apocalypse of the retail“And the threat of electronic commerce, shopping centers continue to interest investors. As suggests The chronicle of Five days, The data suggests that the old “real estate duckling” will become swan. What operations are? These five operations on track and in which relevant news is expected during the first half of the year are starred in centers distributed by the country. The Economic newspaper speaks of Mediterranean space (Cartagena), Corridor Park (Torrejón de Ardoz), the 50% of the capital from Madrid Xanadú (Aroyomolinos), Bonaire (Aldaya) and Alcalá Magna (Alcalá de Henares). Each case has its peculiar, route and actors, but share a common denominator that says a lot from the sector: they all point to draft operations, for high amounts, nine digits. Its sum would in fact around the one billion. And the most curious thing is that the figure does not seem to respond to a specific interest in shopping centers. The AECC data They show that in 2024 there was already progress in relevant transfer and investments for more than 900 million. The key: profitability. It is not surprising that 2025 start with such a scenario. The operations of the shopping centers are moving investmentthe sector It has managed to grow both in billing and in traffic throughout the last year and appraisals – after the scenario that was lived in 2022 and 2023 – are attractive enough to awaken the appetite of investors. The economic return they aspire is also tempting. Five days Precisethat transactions are closing to a profitability between 7 and 8%, which exceeds other assets, such as offices Prime or the house for rent. “The commercial centers market is at an optimal time. Investors are aware that assets offer a ratio between very attractive risk and profitability and we are facing a window of limited opportunity to benefit from these conditions,” He pointed in 2024 Augusto Lobo, Capital Director Markets Retail de Jll Spain. “Again at the radar”. In July the financial firm BNP Paribas Real Estate launched A similar message When talking about Spain. “The shopping centers are again in the radar of investors,” he summed up in Your balance July after remembering that during “a long period” the activity in the sector retail He had focused on other types of premises, such as commercial miles (High Street) or food. The keys to change: good sales and influx figures and “profitability that begin to be attractive.” Throughout the last months they have been published Several balances that They reflectIn fact, shopping centers have thrown out of the sector retailagglutinating a good part of your investment. “In the years before the pandemic it seemed that the segment of physical stores was falling and that the Ecommerce I was going to monopolize the sector as a whole. However, it has been shown that the sector retailIt is very resilient and still has a lot to offer “, Cristina Macarrón commentsfrom Castilana Properties, to Five days. In 2025, with good mouth taste. The shopping centers have started 2025 with a good foot for another reason, beyond the millionaire transactions in the trees: despite the most pessimistic predictions of the “apocalypse of the retail“, In Spain, large surfaces are gaining traffic and billing, a trend that probably also influences investors’ prospects. The last Cushman & Wakefield data They show that sales on these surfaces grew 3.5% in 2024, an increase very similar to that registered in the influx of customers, which was 3.4%. Another positive percentage for the sector is the occupation of commercial spaces, which has reached 95.4% of the GLA, the gross alleged surface. They are good data, especially if one takes into account that in 2023 the sector (commercial centers and parks) had already raised its sales by 9.6% year -on -year, with 52,051 million eurosachieving its historical maximum. Images | Intu xanadú and Welovebarcelona.de (Unsplash) In Xataka | A 109 -meter … Read more

The NFC takes its first big step in Spanish football. Atlético has adopted it to access its stadium

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Atlético de Madrid has just become the first LaLiga club to implement technology NFC To access the stadium. It is good news that in turn uncovers the delay that this technology has had in Spanish football, who has opted much more for the codes QR as an alternative to entries and physical fertilizers. Why is it important. The NFC has been demonstrating more than a decade to be an efficient and safe system in payments and accesses, but Spanish football has remained anchored to the QRs, which have their advantages but slow down the process. The context. Asia or the United States normalized the NFC for a long time for all types of transactions, including access to enclosures and events. In Europe, and especially in Spain, we have maintained a certain resistance to adopt it. The NFC surpasses QR in three fundamental aspects: Speed: Transmission is immediate, without the need for focus or scan. Security: requires physical proximity and a biometric or PIN validation prior to the device. Reliability: It works in low luminosity conditions and does not depend on the brightness of the screen or the print quality. Between the lines. This Atletico movement tells us about the change in Spanish football mentality: technology is no longer just something to use in the field or in the locker room, nor a simple marketing tool: it is an element with which to improve the experience of the fan. The Atlético, in fact, is the first LaLiga club that has all the input and fertilizer formats: physical and digital card with QR, physical entrance or in PDF for mobile, and Wallet both of the fertilizer and the entrance. In Xataka | LaLiga wants your biometric data to enter the field. Europe has something to say Outstanding image | Atlético de Madrid

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