In full birth crisis, in the US there is a movement that aspires to turn its demography: pronatalism

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“I want more babies in the United States.” The phrase It’s JD Vance and matters especially for two reasons. The first, because although the Republican had shown before His obsession with birth rates, that specific comment released it in January, during His first public speech as vice president of the country. The second reason is that when Vance pronounced it, he did more than give his personal opinion: he connected with a movement that, although not new, seems to be gaining weight (and visibility) in Trump’s US: Pronatalism. And Vance is not the only media figure (not even in the Trump administration) in tune in with a speech that goes beyond the US and It arrives in Spain. What is pronatalism? Roughly, Pronatalism It is an ideology that advocates Increased birth rate of a country. This is defined by the Cambridge Dictionarywhich affects that its basic objective is to increase the population without having to rely on the arrival of immigrants. That, of course, is the definition with thick stroke. If we go down to detail, many more nuances and a mixture of ideologies that do not always coincide in the background or forms are appreciated. “It can be motivated by cultural, religious, geopolitical or economic imperatives,” comments on The conversation Céline Delacroix, professor at the University of Ottawa, adds: its policies “can manifest in various ways, covering from soft measures, such as stigmatizing those who decide not to have children, other hard, including restricting access to contraceptives.” An objective, several reasons While the pronatalist goal is clear, the argument that accompanies it (and justifies) is not always so much. Under his broad and diffuse umbrella conservatives are grouped with religious motivations that see a social pillar in the family, but also more coincident with Musk. In his case the key is not so much religious as the Fear of demographic collapse and its consequences at a social and economic level. The option to open the doors to migration It would be discarded For them for their fear that It ends up weakening The culture of the country that receives it. Perhaps the best known example of that last profile is the marriage formed by Simone and Malcolm Collinsthe drivers of the organization Pronatalist. Although neither of them arrives at 40, the couple already expects His fifth child and aspires to have at least two more. However, the most striking of their case is not the figures, but it is the ideology that has led them to embrace pronatalism. The Collins They are defined as Tecnopuritanosatheists, anti racist, defenders of LGBTQ+ rights and its vision of pronatalism contemplates the use of in vitro fertilization or genetic selection. Moreover, they themselves They have resorted to both, including the Preimplantational genetic test (PGT) to rule out embryos at risk of cancer or “mental health problems” for which there is no quality treatment. “” We obviously analyze the intellectual coefficient, “they add. Is it something new? No. Natalism or pronatalism exists For several decadesbut in the US it has gained remarkable visibility for several reasons, beyond the expectation that can awaken cases such as collins marriage. One of those reasons, fundamental to understanding its boom, is the Birth decline of the US. The other is the notoriety of certain figures in tune with the main objective of the natives: encourage the birth rate of the country. Vance is one of them. Another is Musk, who has At least 11 offspring and In 2022 came to tweet that “the collapse of the birth rate is, by far, The greatest threat that faces civilization. “Donald Trump himself He has recognized openly that he wants to boost a new “baby boom” in the US. The most revealing movement however has made another high position of Washington, the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy. Father of nine children, Duffy has gone from rhetoric to the facts when signing A memo which prioritizes projects aimed at communities with high marriage and birth rates. There are those He has interpreted it as a clear example of “pronatalist policy.” The decision of the Transport Department is interesting because, no matter how much Trump pursues a new baby boom or vance you share your desire to see more American babies, there is an issue that is still pending: How to achieve it? After all, the US is not the first country that intends to increase its birth rate and many others, such as Japan, China either South KoreaThey have proven how complicated it results. The jump from theory to facts is also relevant to the natives because it transparent their internal tensions and differences. The magazine The Atlantic reflects it well in An article entitled “The loneliness of the conservative pronatalist”. To encourage birth, there are conservative cutting formulas, such as promoting family values; But also other liberals, such as granting more subsidies to parents or betting on housing promotion policies, a solution that clashes a priori with the efforts of Donald Trump (and Musk) to achieve On the contrary: put the scissors in the administration. Another friction point is what the Collins represent: the use of in vitro fertilization and other practices that arouse misgivings among anti -abortion. The connection with Europe (and Spain) Pronatalism has supporters, but also detractors. And there are a few reasons that explain it. Although people like Collins try to mark distances with racism, even It is not so much The most active pronatals in the US were the white nationalists concerned that other communities surpass them in number. His recent boom is also closely linked to the speeches of figures on the right, such as Elon Musk or JD Vance, who pronounced his famous “I want more babies” during the Life marchan act against abortion. The result is that extreme right formations have capitalized the speech pronatalist as a reaction to feminism and the defense of sexual autonomy that It has been dominating for years In the public sphere. Also to immigration. Spain leaves … Read more

Samsung Galaxy mobile, laptops with OLED screen and more. The best offers of El Corte Inglés during the weekend

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As every week, the English Court has prepared a generous selection of offers in all types of devices. Until April 9 at 09:00 hours, we can take advantage of discounts on mobiles, computers, air conditioners and much more. Therefore, we have made a Selection with the five best store offers. Samsung Galaxy A56 5g by 479.90 eurosa good price considering that right now the configuration of 128 GB costs the same. ZTE NUBIA FLIP 5G by 399.90 eurosa super adjusted price if we seek to make the leap to folding mobiles. ASUS VIVOBOOK GO 15 by 549 eurosa laptop with interesting OLED screen if we look for a model to study or to see multimedia content. Samsung Q77D by 949 eurosa 75 -inch QLED TV that is at half price. Fujitsu air by 575.20 eurosa good model to make the summer at home something more bearable. Samsung Galaxy A56 5g He Samsung Galaxy A56 5g It has been launched very recently, and the brand has taken advantage of the launch to leave it with a good price in its 256 GB configuration. If we buy it right now (it is not necessary to be in the official store), we can have it for 479.90 eurosthe same price that the configuration of 128 GB has. Of course, at this time Amazon has even cheaper, since it has dropped its price to the 453.82 euros. Samsung Galaxy A56 5G (256 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review ZTE NUBIA FLIP 5G On the other hand, if what we are looking for is to make the leap to the folding mobileswe can do it without spending a fortune. He Nubia Flip 5g of ZTE has dropped to 399.90 eurosnothing wrong to be a folding. Among the most remarkable of this mobile we find its folding screen (for the price it has), The exterior screen is of good quality and its design is Premium. ZTE NUBIA FLIP 5G (256 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review ASUS VIVOBOOK GO 15 In El Corte Inglés we can also find some laptops at a very good price. One of the most interesting is the ASUS VIVOBOOK GO 15a laptop oriented to see and see multimedia content that we have for 549 euros. The most remarkable thing is that a 15.6 -inch OLED screenhas certification of military grade (US Mil-Std 810h), has 512 GB of storage and 16 GB of RAM and comes with Windows 11. * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Q77D Some televisions also have a good price in El Corte Inglés. One of the best examples in the Samsung Q77Da smart tv qled 75 inches which has dropped from 1,999 euros to 949 euros. The most remarkable, in addition to panel technology and inch size, is that it has a film director, it comes with multi-view mode and integrates the voice assistant Alexa. Samsung Q77D (QLED, 75 inches) * Some price may have changed from the last review Fujitsu air In some areas of Spain it is already beginning to make hot, so it is the ideal time to buy a good air conditioning. If we are looking for a good price, the English Court has this model of Fujitsu (ASY35-KL) by 575.20 euros instead of 829 euros. It has a compact format (770 mm width), offers a nominal refrigeration capacity of 3.010 Frig/Hy has a Energy classification in A ++ cooling. * 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. Image | Samsung, Zte, Asus, Fujitsu In Xataka | The best mobiles (2025), we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | Best laptops in quality price. Which to buy depending on the use and eight recommended models

Transform smartphones sensors into an antimatter chamber

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One of the reasons why Antimatter is so interesting Not only for particle physicists, but also for the people to whom we are passionate about science, is that the tools we have They still do not allow us to understand what role he played in The origin of the universe. However, the enigma does not end here; Nor do we know what laws govern the faint line that delimits the imbalance between matter and antimatter in the cosmos. Before moving forward, we are worth stopping for a time to briefly review what antimatter is and what makes it so peculiar. Actually, it is nothing more than a form of matter constituted by antiparticles, which are particles with the same mass and spin as the particles with which we are familiar, but with opposite electric charge. In this way the antiparticle of the electron is the positron or antielectron. And the proton antiparticle is the antiproton. The antimatter has a surprising property: when they come into direct contact with the matter, both are annihilated, releasing a large amount of energy in the form of high-energy photons, as well as other possible particle-antiparticle pairs. It is currently being studied in much of the research centers specialized in physics of most important particles in the world in the hope that knowing it better helps us understand some of the mysteries of the cosmos that remain out of our reach. The AEGIS experiment demonstrates how ingenious particles are physicists The sensors of the cameras of our mobile phones are very valuable when it comes to unraveling the mysteries of the antimatter. This a priori statement may seem strange, but it is reliable. And is that a team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (Germany) who works side by side with scientists from the Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Research) has designed an experiment that, precisely, resorts to this strategy. It’s called aegis (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy or ‘Antimatter experiment: gravity, interferometry, spectroscopy’) and is extraordinarily ingenious. AEGIS uses modified sensors of mobile phone photo camera to identify the points where antimatter and matter are annihilated In the cover photography of this article we can see what the device they have built. Broadly the purpose of this experiment is to study the interaction between gravity and antihydrogen, which is a form of antimatter, to verify if the latter behaves before gravity in the same way as ordinary matter. As we can deduce from its name, it resorts to interferometry and spectroscopy techniques to carry out its objective, but the most surprising thing is that the detector uses modified sensors of camera photo cameras to identify in real time the points in which the antimatter and the subject are annihilated. “For AEGIS to work properly we need a detector with an incredibly high spatial resolution. And the smartphones camera sensors have pixels of less than 1 micrometer,” Francesco Guatieri explainedmain investigator of the experiment. “We have integrated 60 camera sensors in our detector, which allows you to reach a resolution of 3,840 megapixels, the largest amount of pixels of any image detector to date.” It is spectacular. Let us trust that Aegis fulfills its mission and these scientists manage to understand a little better how the interaction between antimatter and gravity is. Image | Cern More information | Cern In Xataka | CERN physicists believed that symmetry between quarks up and down is broken. Is much more than they expected

Coffee has no cholesterol but does raise its levels. And someone has discovered the perfect elaboration to limit it

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We are increasingly clear that coffee is a food with Positive properties for our health. However, it has traditionally been surrounded by many myths. Many of them Caffeine relatedbut also some related to things as serious as supposed damage to the heart and its incidence in cholesterol levels. And the latter is half myth. Because coffee has no cholesterol, but compounds that, depending on how we prepare it, will influence more or less on LDL (“bad cholesterol”). Cafestol and Kahweol. Let’s see, if coffee has no cholesterol, how do some of its compounds do have an impact on cholesterol? The reason is that we do not drink coffee in grain, but we crush it to get a ‘dust’ from which to get an extraction and, therefore, the coffee cup. When we break down the coffee beans the oils of it are released, and in them we have fat -soluble diterpenes that are those that have an impact on blood cholesterol levels. Mixed effects. These compounds have some health benefits, since they have anti -inflammatory and anticancer properties. It has also been observed that it favors osteoblastic activity that helps bone health and can have antidiabetic effects. However, the contradictions are there. Although both have a similar effect, it is cafestol that acts as an enemy of FXR receptors, inhibiting the synthesis of bile acids in the liver and, therefore, reducing its effectiveness by eliminating the cholesterol from our body. When this occurs, cholesterol levels increase, with more notable increases in LDL cholesterol. The investigation. Does this mean that I must stop drinking coffee? Not much less, since although these diterpenes can influence cholesterol levels, lead It allows to maintain the cholesterol at bay. We are not talking about sugary drinks or alcohol, go. Now, in a investigation carried out by the University of Uppsala in collaboration with the Technological University of Chalmers have found the coffee preparation method that less Cafestol and Kahweol allows our body to reach. Processing. To do this, the team took two coffee samples from different offices resting machine machines every two or three weeks, with coffee varieties that included average and dark gall of five trademarks of ground coffee. Most machines use ground coffee, but a couple They grind before (the super -automatic). In total, eleven machines were analyzed, three that use coffee concentrate (mix with water). Compared the results with other preparation methods such as percolation, the French press, boiled coffee and samples of espresso. The goal is to see which one prepares coffee with the highest levels of both coffee and kahweol. And the result is overwhelming. Boiled coffee. In the upper graph we can see the concentration of coffee in the different elaborations and there is a clear winner, as well as an obvious “loser”. Previously, it had indicated that boiled coffee was the highest source of these diterpenes and was not as recommended on a regular basis. And it is logical because it does not filter coffee at all. On the contrary, the best elaboration to reduce coffee to the minimum possible is through filter coffee. Here there are variations depending on the filter material, but in the analyzes it is shown as the elaboration that, in a more consistent way, keeps the coffee levels in coffee. Interestingly, we can achieve the same effect by preparing boiled coffee if we like it more and then filtering it, which is the icon of the chart sock. Too many variables. A problem that researchers were found is that, although the concentrations of diterpenes in the machine of the machines was always inferior to the preparations of boiled coffee and other elaborations such as French pressthe concentrations vary significantly between machines and between the sampling intervals. Of the machines, those that use liquid concentrated coffee have lower levels of diterpenes, similar to those of the filtered coffee. Typologies. This may be due to the type of coffee that is placed in the machine or the temperature at which they heat the water, but there is a more disconcerting case: that of the espresso. The researchers comment that a “considerable and clear explanation variation is observed in the concentration of diterpenes among the four samples analyzed”, recognizing that it is something that requires an additional study because it could be relevant to the usual consumers of this preparation. “It can contain high levels of substances that raise cholesterol.” It is the warning of this machine in a Swedish office photographed by Uppsala University And limitations. The team has focused on measuring the concentration of diterpenes, ensuring that it is known that they negatively affect other lipoproteins such as triglycerides, but that it is an aspect that they have not taken into account for their research. In addition, they also recognize that, although the results are solid and there is a “better way to prepare coffee” to maximize coffee, the study has important limitations. On the one hand, the size of the sample, since these are several collection maintained over time, yes, but of eleven concrete machines when there are many, many more in the market. On the other hand, there are variables such as water pressure and temperature, contact time between ground coffee and hot water, grinding or grain gall. Next steps. Come on, too many things, something logical taking into account that there are not only many different coffee machines, but a huge fan in terms of water and coffee gut. It is something that, they point out, it would be interesting to analyze in the future, as well as studies that compare coffee consumers of companies with coffee machines in front of others in which they use paper filtered with paper. In whatever, there are many studies and they themselves comment that “long -term prospective studies on cardiovascular results that could help confirm the causality of the associations” must be carried out between the diterpenes and the increase in LDL cholesterol. At the moment, I will continue to have coffee regularly, but … Read more

25% tariffs on cars are already translated into dismissals and plants at medium gas in Mexico

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One has a thousand ways of Spanish to search synonyms to talk about threats and continuing notices. That of “the wolf”, the pitcher and the fountain, to pull the rope … It will not be for stories, word games or metaphors. Exactly that is the risk that is run with the tariff war that Donald Trump has opened. Since he arrived at the White House, the new president of the United States does not stop launch threats of new tariffsincendiary messages against their own allies (or those that were considered allies until not so long) and more and more statements in which The same is attacked to Europeans than Mexicans and Canadians. And, along the way … little or nothing applicable. Because although the United States applies since April 2 A 25% tariff on cars that pass through their borders and the pieces that help manufacture them, as well as steel and aluminum (also Keys in the automotive industry). The caraded tariffs to these two neighboring countries They are suspended. On April 2 tariffs have been announced to almost the entire world. They should Enter into force on April 9. Yes, we talk about 20% of tariff to any European product and even the 10% tariff applied to an uninhabited island. Or at least Only inhabited by penguins and seals. But along the way, China has already sent a notice: if the tariffs continue, if there is no possible conversation, They will impose back 34% of tariffs to American products. It is the most forceful response that the United States has received so far. But it is not the only one. Because so much threat has consequences. Canada and Mexico already prove how their automotive industry can go through many problems. Some, in fact, are already specifying. The first consequences Until now, Canada and Mexico had been commercial partners. To the point that the Inflation reduction law promoted by the government of Joe Biden that prioritized tax incentives to companies that produced in the United States also contemplated that part of the production would take these two countries. In either of them it occurs A very high volume vehicular. Except Tesla (produces all its cars there) and Ford (77% of what it produces is manufactured in the United States). The rest import vehicles in a much higher amount. General Motors, for example, produces 30% in Canada and Mexico. Nissan 31% and Toyota 27%. With the aim of counteracting the coup, Canada has announced that it will also impose 25% of tariffs on US cars that do not comply with the T-MEC free trade agreement. Both countries, together with Mexico, had been subject to a reciprocal agreement for 60 years so as not to pay tariffs on the import and export of vehicles and promote a connected automotive industry. To understand to what extent the new relationship is complicated, in BBC They explain with a map the complex process since a piston of an engine is born until it is introduced into the cylinder. On the way, the piece crosses the United States to Canada, from Canada passes to Mexico and from Mexico returns to the United States where, it is finally mounted. Impose round trip tariffs It will make a product that has its consequences on employment and the volume of cars sold. Stellantis is one of the companies that has announced drastic measures. The first, the temporary retirement of 900 employees in the United States. They are people distributed by five floors that will cease their work assembling motor trains and trains for a decrease in production as a cause of tariffs. In addition, another 4,500 employees will be sent home in Ontario (Canada), where their factory will remain closed for two weeks. Mexico does not get rid because its Toluca plant (2,400 employees) will also be closed throughout the month of April. Despite being the least affected (taking into account exclusively the production of cars and not so much where the pieces they use), Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, already warned in February that “a 25% tariff at the borders with Mexico and Canada would open a hole in the US industry as we have never seen,” they collect in The New York Times. These pieces are, without a doubt, the part that most directly affects Spain. Our country had an important commercial partner in the United States when selling parts to produce cars. There 4% of them are exported but, above all, they take air to the paths that the trade war will take in Mexico where a good part of The largest Spanish companies are settled. The other way is to make the products more expensive, move there part of their production or, directly get them out. The latter is what they value in Mercedes that can Stop selling your Mercedes Gla. Small cars are more complicated to make profitable and would not be competitive if they face a 25%tariff. Volkswagen is in an extremely complicated position. 43% of their sales for the United States arrive from Canada and Mexico. Another 36% produce it in Europe, mainly. Only 21% of their sales there are produced within their borders. An option raised is to bring the most profitable vehicles to the plants they already have in the country. For the moment, Automotive News He assures that the German company has already ordered to stop its shipments from Mexico and Europe. And Toyota, who was already reducing its production, has also ordered to reduce the working hours at its Guanajuato (Mexico) plant, they point out in Bloomberg. The same path leads in Honda, where they also have conversations to reduce their production and, therefore, send workers home even if it is temporarily. Photo | Honda and Luis Ramirez In Xataka | The Spanish car will not suffer with 25% of the United States tariffs but with its consequences: a poorest Europe

We have studied the bones of some mice that passed 37 days in space. The results are not optimistic

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In November of this year, if there are no unforeseen events, in November of this year humanity will celebrate an anniversary. They will be fulfilled 25 years of human presence continued in space. The exploration of the last border has advanced significantly and humans spend more time in space and aspire to get further. But that has a price. The cost of microgravity. A team of researchers has analyzed The effects of a spatial mission on mice and the results do not invite optimism. They observed that the stay severely affected the bones of these rodents, who lost bone density in parts of their body. The femur, great victim. This loss of bone mass was not given in all areas equally. The team observed, for example, that the femur was one of the bones where the most extended bone cavities. In contrast, the lumbar zone of mammalian spine were the least affected. This makes the study responsible for the study suspect that the main trigger for this loss of bone density is in the microgravity. For example, the team indicates an alternative hypothesis, radiation. As they explain, the mice in the ISS were not exposed to large doses of radiation from space, but if this had been the loss of bone mass would have occurred from outside, that is, that the bones closest to the surface would have been more damaged, while the most surrounded by muscle bones would have been more protected. 37 days in orbit. The experiment used mice to explore how long rooms in space affect. They were used Two groups of micesome that were sent to the space station for a mission of 37 days and others that remained on Earth as a control group. The team responsible for the study simulated flight conditions in the control group to be able to make the conditions similar in everything except in the space stay. Similar, not identical. Those responsible for the study explain in a video how mice and humans keep important biological similarities that imply the changes we see in some are probably also giving in others. There are also differences to consider. For example, the fact that humans are bipeds implies that the bones of our lumbar zone have a more important role in supporting the weight of the upper part of our body. This implies that these bones are probably more affected in humans than in mice. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Plos One. If you don’t use it, you lose it. The body often tries to optimize resources. That is why a possible explanation to this phenomenon is there, in the idea that, since the bones in microgravity do not need to endure the weight of our body, they lose mass and density. Other risks. The study points to microgravity as the main suspect of the loss of bone density but this is not the only risk to take into account when we devise long -term space trips. Radiation is perhaps the most important in this sense, to the point that it was considered as a candidate to cause bone mass loss in mice. Radiation implies an additional problem and that, although in places like the moon and Mars the seriousness of the bodies could reduce the deterioration of the bones associated with the microgravity conditions, the same cannot be said of radiation. Moreover, the radiation in these environments is greater since the International Space Station even protected by the Earth’s magnetic shield. In Xataka | The 24 most spectacular videos and photos from the International Space Station Image | POT / Rukmani Cahill, et al. (2025)

We have been using sweeteners that provide zero calories. Now we understand why they don’t always help lose weight

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Sugar is one of the most daily foods and one on which food controversies do not scarce. Excessive sugar consumption can be linked to various problems, from the oral to diabetes. The artificial sweeteners that we sometimes use to reduce the consumption of conventional sugars can be healthier, but no less controversial. Less sugar, more hungry. A recent study He has found that some artificial sweeteners could be affecting the signals that manage our appetite at the brain level. The team responsible for the study observed that the Sucralosa had a less satiating effect than sucrose, conventional or table sugar. The Sucralosa. Sucralosa is a artificial sweetenera disaccharide or compound sugar such as the union of two simple sugars. Its sweetest capacity is up to 600 times higher than that of sucrose, but our body does not absorb it in the same way. This implies that this sweetener has no caloric contribution to our body. This could explain the observed phenomenon: our body would perceive the sweet taste and prepare for calorie ingestion. The body would simply be responding to the absence of energy received. 75 participants. In the study, 75 participants who worked as both of the experimental group and control group in two sessions separate days or weeks from each other took part. Participants, men and women, some with “healthy” weight, others overweight or obesity, consumed three drinks prepared in the experimental sessions to which they underwent. These preparations were a sweetened drink with sucralose, another with conventional sugar (sucrose), and another simple water. The order in which they assigned each drink was random. The team later studied the participants’ response to each drink. Before and after the test they carried out functional magnetic resonances, they took blood samples and asked the participants for their feeling of hunger. They observed that the sucralose increased appetite and activity in the hypothalamus and that it did it to a greater extent among the participants with obesity. The team also detected changes in how the hypothalamus communicated with other brain regions. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nature Metabolism. Old acquaintances. The key can be in the hormones that our body produces when eating, hormones such as insulin and LPG-1 (Glucagon -like peptide 1). This last hormone is produced in the stomach when we eat and fulfills a double function: on the one hand warns the pancreas that we will need insulin to manage digerida glucose; and by transmits to our brain the message that we have fed and satiated. “The body uses these hormones to tell the brain that you have consumed calories, to reduce hunger,” Explain in a press release Kathleen Alanna Page, co -author of the study. “The Sucralosa did not have that effect, and the differences in hormonal responses to the sugar compared to sugar were even more pronounced in participants with obesity.” Much to investigate. According to the team itself, there are still some unknowns to solve in this context. One question, for example, is how this sweetener affects our brain activity in the long term. To do this, they explain, longitudinal studies will be necessary that also analyze the weight and food behaviors of the patients. Another issue to solve is how other factors affect, such as sex, this relationship. The team indicated that during the experiment, the brain activity of women showed greater variability than that of men, which implies the possibility of differences to study. In Xataka | Some researchers have analyzed the impact of sugary drinks on world health. They have taken their hands to the head Image | Faran Raufi

Taking product photos is an odyssey. Dreamshot has an AI to make it much easier

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I don’t know if anyone has, has had or knows someone who Have an online storebut if so, a big hug. Mounting a store is not precisely easy and much less when your products have to look. If you sell, say, sweatshirts, the only way to teach how they look is photographing a model that has been put. And each model is a world: they have an eye color, a hair, skin color, etc. You have to take into account locations, make content for networks, in short. It is a really complex and, of course, an issue that can solve. That is what he proposes Dreamshota generative artificial intelligence tool Made in Spain who won the hackaton of AI2030 (event that Xataka was Media Partner) And that we will know today better. And attention, because perhaps it can be useful to some Xatakero who wants to undertake with his own fashion brand and does not know where to start. Fashion AI Image | Tamara Bellis How does a generative artificial intelligence work? Grosso (Very Grosso) Modeif we want an AI to learn to generate images of a horse you have to give a lot of images of a horse. Thousands, tens of thousands. If we do that with fashion images with different styles, funds, contexts, postures and models we will obtain an AI capable of generating images of models that integrate the elements we want. That is exactly what they did in Dreamshot, train a personalized model (Dreamshot v2) with More than 10,000 fashion images. Javier Jiménez, founder and CEO of the company, explains in conversation with Xataka that Dreamshot is based on Flux. Dreamshot is not a founding model as such, but a Fine Tunning Flux for which fashion images have been used both licensed and own. The first model, Dreamshot V1 Aka Lookbook is Open Source and can be used from Prompthero. Behind each product photo there are hours and hours of work and a huge investment | Image: Khaled Ghareeb Javier states that the photos are both own and ceded by the brands, ergo with permission. “We have not scrape anything from the Internet (…) It is an ethical training, we have all the rights of the photos we have trained with,” he says. How does it work? Although it does not completely eliminate the need to make a photo shoot, it does significantly reduce the amount of photos we have to do and the work and time invested. Because? Because if we want to squeeze the tool to the maximum we will have to upload photos of our productsideally varied photos, from different angles, with different perspectives and in different places. Minimum five. The thing is that once these photos have been made, the possibilities are huge. Dreamshot interface | Image: Xataka On the left the reference image of the green jacket. To the right, the result generated by the AI ​​using the prompt “60 Years Old Man Wearing Bottle Green Overshirt. He is in A Forest Full of Trees During Sunny Day” | Image: Xataka Great here to better appreciate the detail | Image: Xataka Once we have the photos, we can upload them to Dreamshot and ask the AI ​​to generate images of said product in other contexts or in models that do not exist. Or take stock photos that in another context would require mounting a complete set. It is a way to reuse photos to infinity. You don’t have to take photos of the product again, but ask the AI ​​to generate them for us. On the left the original image, on the right the one generated with the changing the model for a person with dark skin, with beard and dark green eyes | Image: Xataka Another option that works surprisingly well is that of change models. If we have a photo of a light skin model and light eyes and we want one of a model with dark skin and dark eyes, in another context two models should be counted. With Dreamshot we just have to upload the photo and ask the AI ​​to change it by entering a prompt. The result is quite striking, although a trained eye will quickly distinguish that the image is generated with AI. However, things as they are, the substitution of faces is spectacular. On the left the original image, on the right the generated with the changing the model for a blonde woman with blue eyes | Image: Xataka So is the Background changesomething that in normal conditions would mean displacements and time. This, more than for the store, it is interesting to use it to generate content for social networks. If we have a timeless garment or accessory, we may be interested that the networks in networks go in tune with the season of the year, for example. Well, it will be enough for us to select the photo of our model in the mountain and ask you to put it in the city, on the beach, in a forest or in front of the Roman Colosseum. On the left the original image, on the right the generated with the bottom of the Roman Colosseum | Image: Xataka It should be noted that Dreamshot divides the photo into three parts: model, clothing and background. We can change any of all three, but not alter the image itself. It is not possible to take the photo of a person and undress her. We could change the shirt or change the model, but not wear a photo of a dress dressed and undress or put it in swimsuit or interior. It is a dangerous matter, but Dreamshot has covered himself well and with success in this sense. Why Dreamshot? How does this idea arise? Javier Jiménez tells us that his first company It was a jewelry ecommerce“I was 10 years and every month we had photo sessions and there were thousands of euros, a month of preparation for each photo shoot … Then … Read more

The difficult thing has not been to build a yacht of 80 meters and 200 million dollars. It has been to take it to the sea without destroying it

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Imagine living in a quiet town near Rotterdam, and when you look at your window you see a colossus for you, 14 meters wide and with the height of a three -storey building. It is what has happened (once again) to the inhabitants of the quiet town of Alphan (Netherlands). According to published the local media AD Those who have approached one of the channels that are going through the population have seen how A 200 million superyate of dollars Lawrence Strollowner of the Aston Martin Formula 1 team 1 and head of Fernando Alonso, juggled to reach the sea sailing through narrow channels and raffling bridges and all kinds of obstacles in his odyssey. The megayate odyssey Feadship is one of the world’s main manufacturers in the world. From their shipyards in Aalsmeer they have left colossi like the Launchpad by Mark Zuckerbergwith 118 meters of length. All of them have had to go through that intricate journey of narrow channels, curves that test the expertise of the engineers involved in the transfer and several traffic cuts in the populations through which they pass. This type of operations are not simple. They require millimeter planning and the perfect execution of each step. Any calculation or maneuver error could have ended up damaging the helmet of a vessel valued at more than 200 million dollars or, worse, putting people’s safety at risk. The epic odyssey of PROJECT 714production name that the Stroll Yate has received, was recorded on video for the Dutch Yachting Channel. Some sections of the transfer were especially tense, such as the pass There were hardly a few centimeters of margin so that the superyate helmet scratches its pillars. The tight turns in the channels, as a chicane in an F1 circuit as in which their owner competes, also contributed their touch of tension during the hypnotic transfer to high seas. Project 714 Leaving the shipyards When even money can pave the way PROJECT 714 is neither the first nor the last supereyate that makes this journey, but its complexity reaches the extreme when it comes to large vessels such as the commission of the owner of the Aston Martin Formula 1 team 1, with an estimated heritage in 3.8 billion dollars, according to Forbes. The journey of Koru de Jeff Bezos From the Oceanco shipyards in Alblasserdam, it was a challenge the exit to the high seas through some channels similar to those that has had to travel the Spery of Stroll. On that occasion, the Dutch builder had to face A serious problem: A historical drawbridge built in 1927 was not high enough for the 70 -meter masts of the Koru to pass under its structure, so the construction company proposed to temporarily dismantle the bridge so that the sailboat could cross it. According to The published by the local medium Truuwthe refusal of the neighbors forced the refusal of the City Council, so the builder had no choice but make the journey without masts to complete the construction of the Koru in the shipyards that the company has in Greenport. A floating mansion Ad picked up some of the reactions of Alphan’s neighbors who came to see how Project 714 slid over the waters of their narrow channels. “This is quite impressive,” “is not normal”, “the closer, more impressive” or “we are in first class” are some of the comments that raised in its path the impressive mole of steel and aluminum. The luxurious yacht is designed to be A floating mansion destined for leisure and It has five covers, A beach club with pool in the stern, an sharp bow cover that could well host a helipad and wooden floors in all covers. When being in manufacturing phase, Feadship does not give many details about his Interior equipment and finishessomething that will be addressed after overcoming the navigation tests that it now faces. Which He has shared It is that the yacht has a more efficient diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system that reduces vibration and improve comfort on board. In Xataka | Ultrararicos change the ground for a superyte during the summer: so are some of these floating mansions In Xataka | Keeping a mooring supereate comes out very expensive. Some researchers have a proposal for the rich: donate them to science Image | Feadship, Aston Martin F1

We usually think that all pirates used the same flag. Actually, it was a personalized presentation letter

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“The old Truhan, captain of a ship that had a pair of warm and a skull,” Sabina sang in his ‘a lame pirate’. Surely there is large countries flags that we do not recognize the first, but one that we have in mind is the pirate flag. But there is something interesting in the world of these finding: each captain had their flag. And although the black background inspires terror, the really infernal in the seas was the pirate flag of red background. Jolly Roger. This is what the pirate flag is called because, obviously, they did not call it “pirate flag.” It is not clear where the term came from and there are theories that relate it to the Templar flag and to this order, but also that it comes from the Frenchman “Joli Rouge”, Which comes to mean“ beautiful red ”reference to a variant of red flag that was used in combat. It loses strength when there was a first flag called ‘Old Roger’ that would refer to the devil, but well. It is also theorized with the copy of Spanish icons. What seems something more settled is that it appeared for the first time in 1724 in the book ‘General History of the Pirates’ that, supposedly, wrote one Captain Johnson. Again, it is not very clear how the flag arose and has its logic, since it would not be what most worried the first pirates who used it. Personal brand. The skull and the two crossed bones is the most iconic design. It is not since we have seen it in innumerable fiction worksbut also adapted to anime as’ mainstream ‘as’One Piece‘, video gamesbooks, musical bands … whatever. It is a powerful design of which there are variants with low bones or behind the skull, but also other designs that replace those bones with saber. However, although it is the most representative of piracy, it is not the only design that was used by these sailors. In fact, each captain had their flag. The most iconic belonged to Edward Seegar, an Irish sailor who was on a ship that the pirates took, decided to join his crew and then became independent as a captain. His flag was associated with all the pirates of history and at all times, but as we say, this is false. Another Edward, but Teach in this case, was the immortal ‘Barbanegra’. A flag is attributed with a skeleton that supported a sand watch and a spear pointing to a bleeding heart, but other sources say that its design was much simpler: a single skull. Bartholomew Roberts had several flags with skulls and complete bodies that represented different enemies. Henry Every had another iconic design: the profile skull with a handkerchief and crossed bones (although there are doubts about their authenticity). And Stede Bonnet was in his air, as a good pirate, with a design composed of a skull, a horizontal bone, a dagger and a heart. When designing it, it is seen that they asked “how many elements you want in the flag”, and he replied “yes”, although there is also doubts about his authenticity. Flags without evidence Historical errors. In some designs there are contradictions Historical, being a good example. Popularly, this skeleton design with horns, the clock and the bleeding heart has been attributed. The own Smithsonian has contributed to popular thinking to associate this flag into the pirate, but this design appeared for the first time in a 1912 magazine and there is no evidence that it was used by the pirate. The bearding flag on the left and the erroneously attributed to it to the right Not so deep symbology. Beyond these errors, what is clear is that pirates chose with care what elements to carry on their flag. It was still his visiting card and presentation letter, so the icons were not randomly there. The cross swords represented the skill in combat and ferocity. The sand watches could represent the E of death. The bleeding heart and skeletons, more of the same. There were some that customized the skull, such as Every, showing personal variations of a classic design, and others, such as Roberts, included letters that alluded to personal revenge against specific people. Barry Skeates Photo Psychological warfare. The flag was ‘branding’, but also something fundamental in the struggle in the high seas: an element of deterrence. A very powerful one, in addition, since the black color and the design of skeletons and swords sought to infuse psychological terror in the adversaries. When the pirates were in sight of another ship that interested them, they raised the black flag seeking to persuade their victims and to give up without resistance. The objective of the vandals was to take the loot, and that included the ship. The repairs were expensive and required time and a friend port in which to perform them, so the ideal was to take the target ship without any damage. But … what if the other ship did not give up? There was an alternative plan: the flag with red background. If the pirates raised this flag, what they transmitted to the goal is that they would not have compassion with the crew. Contemporary use. In the end, the pirates had their ego, but we can think that these designs died when piracy is over (that of that idealized time, of course, since Pirates continue to exist). And, although they no longer had a patch in the eye or stick leg, there were ships that They raised The flag during the last century. The British raised her in the submarines HMS UTMOST during the Second World War and in him HMS conqueror After sinking the Argentine General Beldrano cruise in the Falklands War. The Poles of the Submarine ORP Sokol They also raised it with two captured Nazi flags. Images | Barry Skeates, Malene Thyssen In Xataka | 22 years later, ‘Master and Commander’ is still obsessed with men. And it has … Read more

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