These are the ones who support it in 2026

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We all want our devices (whether a mobile phone, TV or PC) to have the fastest possible Internet connection, especially through WiFi. Beyond what we have contracted, the key to this is in the technology that the device uses. He Wi-Fi 6 and WiFi 6E They have already been consolidated, and little by little we are seeing how they are doing it WiFi 7. There is already several operators that offer compatible routersbut, Is it any use if our devices can’t take full advantage of them? The bottleneck has nothing to do with the router, but with the device that connects to it. It is necessary that it has a chip that can manage the new technologies introduced by WiFi 7. In simpler terms: if we have a premium mobile phone and it is not compatible with WiFi 7, We are not going to take advantage of this. For this reason, to clear your doubts, we bring you a list of all the mobile phones that are compatible with WiFi 7. OPPO Find The price could vary. We earn commission from these links What improvements does WiFi 7 bring compared to previous generations? WiFi 7, whose technical name is IEEE 802.11beit is not only a simple improvement in the maximum connection speed (although, of course, it does that too). Really, the main advantage of this new standard is how it manages bandwidth and traffic. It does this thanks to two new technologies: the so-called Multi-Link Operation (MLO) and the use of 320 MHz channels. The first of these allows a device connect to multiple frequencies simultaneously (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz) and use the one that is most optimal for each moment or even combine several of them. In this way, your mobile phone, for example, will be able to use two different “roads” at the same time, which allows the stability of the connection to be improved and download data faster. The 320 MHz channels, which are twice the size of WiFi 6E, offer much more space to transmit data. Theoretically, these are capable of offering orMaximum speed up to 46 Gbpsfigures that until not too long ago were unthinkable for a home WiFi network. List of mobile phones with WiFi 7 The vast majority of phones sold in stores usually rely on WiFi 6 (802.11ax) or, with luck, WiFi 6E. As we have said above, mobile phones need new modems and connectivity chips to be compatible with WiFi 7 and, currently, these are mostly present in high-end mobile phones with Qualcomm, MediaTek or Samsung processors. If you invest in a router with WiFi 7, it is ideal that you have devices that can take full advantage of this standard. For this reason, if you have one of them at home and are considering a new mobile, Ideally, you should invest in one that is compatible. Although this is something that you can check in the list of mobile specifications, we leave you below the list of mobile phones that have WiFi 7 and that are sold in Spain: Apple Apple iPhone Air 256 GB: The Thinnest iPhone Ever Created, 6.5 Inch Screen with Promotion up to 120 Hz, A19 Pro Chip, Center Stage Frontal Camera, Whole Day Autonomy; White Cloud The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Google Pixel 10 Pro XL – Free Android Smartphone with Gemini, Triple Rear Camera, Battery Life of More Than 24 Hours and 6.8″ Super Current Screen – Obsidian, 256GB The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Honor Honor Magic8 Pro (16GB + 1TB) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Huawei HUAWEI Pura 80 Ultra Mobile Smartphone 16 GB + 512 GB, Interchangeable Dual Telephoto Camera, 1 Inch Ultra-Light HDR Camera, AI Noise Cancellation, 5170 mAh, Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Motorola Motorola rarz 60 Ultra, 32GB (16GB+16GB RAM Boost)/512GB Scarab, 50MP camera system with Moto ai, 4500 mAh battery, 68W fast charge, Snapdragon 8 Elite, + Moto Tag The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Nothing Nothing Phone (3) – Mobile phone with 50 MP triple camera, 24-hour silicon carbon battery, 6.67-inch AMOLED display, 120 Hz, glyph matrix, 12 GB + 256 GB, black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links OnePlus OnePlus 15R 12GB RAM + 256GB Storage, Smartphone with AI Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, 6.83″ 165Hz AMOLED Screen, 7400mAh Battery, 50MP Triple Camera, Mint Breeze The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Oppo OPPO Find The price could vary. We earn commission from these links realme realme GT 8 Pro 5G Smartphone, 16+512 GB, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Processor, 6.79″ Screen, 2K QHD+ AMOLED 144Hz, 200 MP Camera, 7000 mAh, Mobile Phone with 120W Charger (EU Version) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra 5G 256GB Cobalt Violet Dynamic AMOLED Screen 2X 12GB RAM Snapdragon Processor The price could vary. We earn commission from these links sony Sony The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Vivo vivo The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi Xiaomi 14 (579 euros) Xiaomi 14T Pro (472.42 euros) Xiaomi 15 (659 euros) Xiaomi 15 Ultra (1,199.99 euros) Xiaomi 15T Pro (549.98 euros) Xiaomi 17 (770.29 euros) Xiaomi 17 Pro Xiaomi 17 Pro Max Xiaomi 17T Pro (899.99 euros) Bit F7 (296.99 euros) Poco F7 Pro (353.35 euros) Poco F7 Ultra (419.36 euros) Poco F8 Pro (408.84 euros) Poco F8 Ultra (565.69 euros) Poco X8 Pro Max (359.10 euros) Redmi K90 Redmi K90 Pro Max Redmi Turbo 4 Pro XIAOMI 17, Smartphone 12+256 GB, Leica Summilux optical lens, 6330 mAh battery (Type), HyperAI, Black, Manufacturer’s warranty 2 years + 1 Extra year, Charger not included The price could vary. We earn commission from these links ZTE (nubia) Nubia Z80 Ultra 5G 16GB/512GB The price could vary. We earn commission from … Read more

In atomized times, the Spanish generation Z is finding a strange refuge in ‘Los Serrano’ and ‘No one here lives’

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“I’m looking forward to the long weekend and finishing the season. The Serranos“A 15-year-old student I recently taught recognized me. Yes, 15 years. Possibly the combination of that phrase and that idea gives us a short circuit: we are talking about a series that ended in 2008; when she hadn’t even started kindergarten. I couldn’t contain myself and as someone who did grow up with Diego Serrano, the brush and the boom for Fran Perea, I had to ask him where that passion had come from. It came through clips on TikTok. That content of a few minutes and loose decontextualized fragments were not enough, and they turned something that began as a simple curiosity into a true marathon to know in detail what happened to Eva and Marcos, the most famous stepbrothers on TV in the 2000s. A fiction as iconic as that, but for generation millennialhad found its new primary audience in Generation Z. I was surprised, of course, but the idea stayed in the back of my head, like a specific issue to which I should not give more importance. Like when your friend tells you that she is pregnant and suddenly you start noticing people on the street and you discover something that we could almost classify as a baby epidemic; Shortly after, another teenage student, whom we will call Victoria, shows me her pending homework on her tablet. Between irregular verbs and vocabulary to learn, I look at the wallpaper: nothing less than ‘Santa Justa Klan‘, the fictional (and not so fictional) group that was formed in ‘Los Serrano’. At this point, I was already ‘mode’Queen’s Gambit‘, projecting theories on the ceiling about something so strange to understand and that he was also seeing everywhere. Just a few weeks ago, at the next table in a restaurant, a group of university girls revealed in their talk that this is not just about ‘The Serranos‘. To a certain extent, declaring yourself a fan of ‘There is no one who lives here‘It is understandable with the common thread that it has with an already veteran series, but still in broadcast, like ‘The one that is coming‘. The thing is that they start quoting ‘The boarding school’, ‘Physics or Chemistry‘, ‘The ship’ or ‘Paco’s men‘, debating passionately about how the revival Prime Video of the first one does not have one bit of the quality of the original. Once again, I could not contain myself, and I assailed them with my doubts about how they had arrived at these fictions so typical of my generation and not so much of theirs. The same pattern: discovery on social networks, the possibility of watching all seasons on platforms or even through those fragments, and the echo chamber that is created in classes and groups of friends. That week-by-week phenomenon effect that we’ve barely seen since ‘Game of Thrones‘, is being achieved organically in the middle classes of Spain. Some actors are still relevant today, and although it is difficult to think that all the youth have come to ‘El Barco’ by looking at the IMDb of Mario Casas or ‘El Internado’ doing the same with Ana de Armascould make sense in certain cases. None of that: it is the series itself is what hooks you so many years later. This is how Catalina, one of these girls, recognizes it: “I’m finishing The Boarding School; When I do it I plan to tell my little sister to start it.” The generational contrast is more than evident, and the lapidary phrase that unsettles an entire generation millennial who, like me, has grown up with ‘Three meters above the sky‘ and ‘SMS without fear of dreaming‘ is pronounced by Sara, to whom her friends were highly recommending ‘El Barco’: “Ah, but Mario Casas went out there? I had no idea.” From meme to marathon The furor over the story of Lucas and Sara from ‘Paco’s Men’ or the crazy theories that ‘El Internado’ sparked now do not begin on television, waiting week after week for a new chapter. Rather the opposite occurs; Like almost everything in recent years, it all starts with the mobile. If before you watched a series and then it was when the meme festival began on the networks, now the journey is the other way around, from the meme it goes to television. And whoever says meme says fancams or fragments of interviews that awaken interest in those fictions dosmileras. “I started watching the story of Teté and Guille in parts on TikTok and I couldn’t stop,” one of my students reminded me. So, the clip opens the door and the series does the rest, becoming almost an involuntary trailer. And, really, this fragmented and instant format is very much in line with the current consumption model. Everything has to be quick, that captures your attention in the first seconds and encourages you to consume something, of whatever nature. So it is no coincidence that the algorithm works as a perfect cultural programmer for generation Z, a tool that prioritizes the high emotional or humorous charge it has in the love drama of Lucas and Sara or in the phrases from Bethlehem to his greatest ally. This resurgence poses a very curious paradox: in the era of rapid consumption, these young people return to long, choral series designed to be watched without any rush. We are also talking about fictions that achieved audience figures that were unthinkable on current television (‘There is no one who lives here‘ either’ The Serranos‘ reached 7,000,000 spectators), so all the merit of their revival It cannot fall on social networks or on the virality of certain clips. In a sea of ​​platforms and on-demand content, available at any time, something unique and special must have that 2000s television imagery. One of the keys is probably the ID with the characters. Even today, many university students from Generation Z find in Belén or Emilio from ‘No one lives here’ that reflection of work … Read more

In 1972 Italy wanted to put an entire city in a one kilometer building. Half a century later he is still paying the consequences

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The same year that construction of the Corviale complex began, US authorities began demolition by Pruitt–Igoea gigantic public housing complex that had been presented just two decades earlier as the future of the modern city. The coincidence was almost symbolic: while one country demolished one of its great urban utopias, another began to build a new one. A city within a building. During the 1970s, Italy believed it could solve several urban problems at once. Rome was growing rapidly, peripheral neighborhoods were multiplying and public housing was facing increasing demand. The answer It was the Corvialea gigantic residential structure almost a kilometer long designed to house around 8,500 people. Its architect, Mario Fiorentino, did not simply imagine a block of flats, but a authentic linear city where streets would be corridors, squares would emerge from common spaces and daily services would coexist with homes. That vision was intended to demonstrate that architecture could reorganize urban life from its foundations. A utopia that was never completed. The problem appeared before the project was even finished being built. The company in charge of the works went bankrupt in 1982 and many of the essential elements of the original design never came to fruition. The famous middle floor used for shops, offices, services and community spaces was left empty and ended up being occupied by families looking for a place to live. What was to become the social heart of the complex ended up becoming a housing labyrinth improvised. Many of the planned facilities were also never built, leaving the infrastructure that was to turn the building into a self-sufficient city incomplete. When architecture conditions everyday life. Over the years, Corviale began to demonstrate that buildings are not simple containers where people live. Its long corridors, its few entrances, the complex interior circulation and the enormous scale of the complex began to influence the way in which the residents they were related to each other. The elevators are They broke down constantlyforcing thousands of people to travel long distances to enter or leave their homes. The centralized heating system caused conflicts between residentsirregular occupants and administrations on who should bear the costs. Some researchers even described the building as a small town whose governance problems were directly linked to its physical characteristics. From the symbol of the future to the symbol of failure. As the deterioration progressed, Corviale began to accumulate a reputation increasingly negative. For many he became the perfect example of the excesses of urbanism postwar monumental. Its critics described it as a concrete monster, a residential prison or an example of how certain urban planning ideologies had ignored people’s real needs. Illegal occupations, maintenance problems, the presence of criminal activities and institutional abandonment reinforced this perception. for years proposals arose to tear it down completely and replace it with smaller-scale traditional neighborhoods, connected by streets, squares and buildings closer to human dimensions. Giuditto Miele at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Corviale complex The battle to decide your destiny. However, Corviale was never demolished. Unlike many other large post-war European housing estates, managed to survive to demolition attempts. Part of the explanation lies in its increasing symbolic value. What for some was an urban failure, for others represented an unrepeatable piece of Italian architectural history. The building ended up getting heritage protection and became part of the national debate about what to do with the great utopias of the 20th century. The discussion stopped focusing solely on whether the project had worked or not and became a more complex question: how to transform such a gigantic structure without destroying it. Half a century of reforms to correct an idea. The last decades have been marked by an almost constant succession of regeneration projects. International competitions, neighborhood associations, architects and public administrations have tried adapt the complex to current needs. Some interventions have regularized occupied spaces, others have rehabilitated common areas and several seek to recover the pedestrian scale through new public spaces and green areas. No other residential complex in Rome has received public investment so intense and prolonged. The paradox in this case is more than evident: the building that was born to simplify urban life has become one of the most complex regeneration operations in the city. Consequences of a big bet. The story del Corviale It continues to fascinate because it transcends architecture. It is the story of a time that believed that social problems could be solved through great physical solutions and a city that continues to deal with the consequences of that bet. The building, by the way, still standinginhabited by thousands of people and subjected to continuous transformations. For some it demonstrates the limits of grand urban visions, for others, the ability of a community to adapt to an unfinished project. The truth is that half a century later, Rome continues to dedicate resources, time and energy to managing a structure designed to function as a complete city. And perhaps that is the clearest proof that Corviale never stopped being exactly that: a city enclosed within a building. Image | Wikimedia, Umberto RotundoAlessandro Pace In Xataka | In 1970 Japan built homes of the future where each capsule would be replaceable. Half a century later he discovered that no one knew how to repair them In Xataka | The incredible story of the tallest building on the planet that ended up becoming the largest swimming pool in the Soviet Union

Europe has a shitty plan (sorry) to end the fertilizer crisis: manure

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He blockade of the Strait of Hormuz After the attacks by the US and Israel on Iran, it has had consequences that we have noticed from day one, such as the rise in fuel prices. There are others that threaten on the horizon and that are even more fearsome: according to United Nations dataApproximately a third of the world’s fertilizer trade and 20% of global LNG, an essential ingredient for manufacturing nitrogen fertilizers, pass through there. And fertilizer is providential so that food from the garden and farm reaches our table. Europe, which manufactures most of its fertilizers by burning imported natural gas, found itself overnight with skyrocketing prices and a very dark horizon. With prices 70% higher than in 2024the farmers don’t get the bills. For consumers, it seems clear that filling the shopping basket is going to be more expensive. So the European Commission has a contingency plan: the Fertilizer Action Plan. A literal shitty alternative. The central proposal from Brussels is to expand the recycling of slurry and agricultural waste to convert them into fertilizer following the program RENURE. The idea is not new: already in 2024 the Commission proposed to modify the Nitrates Directive to allow certain fertilizer materials derived from livestock manure to function as an alternative to chemical fertilizers under certain conditions. In fact, it is neither new nor sufficient. As MEP Herbert Dorfmann bluntly summarized: “manure can contribute, but it can never replace fertilizers based on urea and nitrogen.” From a technical point of view, this is an incontestable reality: synthetic fertilizers produced through the process of Haber-Bosch They have much higher available nitrogen densities than digestate or processed slurry. Why it is important. Because the Nitrogen fertilizers are the basis of modern industrial agriculture. Without them, having the supply and quantity of products that we have and at that price would be simply impossible. According to Mosaic Crop Nutrition data For agricultural production in the US, average corn yields would fall by 40% without nitrogen fertilizers. For wheat, long-term studies point to similar drops of 40%. In short, it is the pillar on which the ability to feed the planet’s population is supported. The fertilizer crisis once again puts Europe’s strategic dependence on the table, in this case on its agriculture, on fossil fuels (from third parties) and everything that its use entails: water, soil and air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and public health risks. Every time there are geopolitical tensions in a gas-producing region, Europe trembles faced with the possibility of being cold or go hungry. Context. We mentioned being cold because not too long ago Europe looked into the abyss: the start of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in 2022 brought with it an increase in the price of gas and fertilizers, which caused farmers on the old continent to reduce the use of fertilizer (and therefore, lower their yields). At that time the EU put a patch on it and now, four years later, seen in the same scenario and with the same structural problems. The current plan mentions necessary solutions such as improving nutrient management or promoting organic farming (environmental MEP Thomas Waitz also has said loud and clear that Europe is addicted to fertilizers derived from fossil fuels), but there are no concrete actions or obligations. We insist: RENURE is not something new, when the Commission proposed it a couple of years ago it already had the support of Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Romania, among others. Of course, its application was at a standstill due to regulatory issues. How do they want to do it?. The mechanism consists of modifying the EU Nitrates Directive to allow more digestate to be applied to agricultural fields, putting it on a par with mineral fertilizers. The digestate is what remains after fermenting the slurry in biogas plants: it contains nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, although in concentrations and forms of assimilation significantly lower than those of the synthetic fertilizer. In parallel, the plan mentions measures such as improving integrated nutrient management and promoting a transition towards organic agriculture, although without specific commitments or binding calendars. Yes, but. The big underlying problem is that Europe does not lack nitrogen, quite the opposite. In fact, the EU already has more nitrogen than their soils can safely absorb, which promotes the eutrophication and deterioration of rivers and lakes, in addition to ammonia emissions and contamination of drinking water. Adding more slurry to soils that are already saturated is neither a solution to shortages (and prices) nor is it good for the environment. A recent UNECE report estimates that Europe wastes between €20 billion and €60 billion in nitrogen resources each year, while the environmental and health costs of excess nitrogen pollution reach, according to the European Commission itselfbetween 70,000 and 320,000 million euros annually. The real solution is to get rid of fossil gas in the long term (and have plans similar to those with oil, with long contracts, diversification and strategic reserves) and bet on alternative technologies such as green ammonia. In this scenario, slurry can play a role in a circular economy, but it is certainly not an emergency patch. In Xataka | We are wasting a valuable resource: urine is helping solve the fertilizer crisis In Xataka | The Iran war has disrupted the global fertilizer trade. And that’s bad news for the shopping cart. 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What is memory in AI and how to make the most of it and use it correctly

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Let’s explain to you what is AI memory and how to use it well to get the most out of it. This is a feature that is already included in practically all the main chatbots with artificial intelligence, and it helps you give them context about you and apply it in their responses. If you often use bots like ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude, you may have noticed that there are things that are not remembered from one chat to the next. Or it may be the other way around, you may be surprised that he remembers a specific detail that you didn’t expect him to remember. This is precisely due to the way in which the two types of memory that AI has work. What is AI memory When we talk about memory in artificial intelligence, we are referring to an internal system that these chatbots have to save information about you between conversations. Not only within the conversations themselves where the context is maintained, but also between different conversations. For example, ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude may remember details such as the city where you live, your profession, or even your personal tastes. They can also remember if you have pets, what pets you have, your projects, the topics you usually write about, your style, and many other preferences. This memory is used to contextualize the answers that the AI ​​gives you based on your data that may make you prefer one type of response or another. So, even if you start a conversation from scratch in each chat, there will be some specific information that continues to be remembered so that you don’t have to write it over and over again. What types of memory does AI have? Artificial intelligence does not treat all the memories it has about you the same, and we can distinguish between two different types of memory. Each of them has its specific use. They are the following: Saved or explicit memory: This memory is like a kind of personal file about you that the AI ​​generates by saving specific data about you. It can do this automatically when you mention something from your context, like your job, but you can also ask it to remember something about you with a command like “remember that I’m a vegetarian.” History-based memory: Instead of saving specific data, some AIs can also consult the log of your previous conversations. This does not generate a profile of you, but rather they analyze the content of everything you have said before to give you more coherent answers. In practice, the difference is that the saved memory is that in which the AI ​​saves the elements that you ask for or those that it considers appropriate, and from them it generates a file about you that it updates. So, you then use that knowledge to generate the answer. Meanwhile, history-based memory is as if the AI ​​could reread its notes from previous conversations before responding to you. If you don’t want the AI ​​to remember a conversationAI systems also have an incognito mode, like in browsers. With it, chatbots will neither save data about you that you write in it nor will they remember the chat in the future. This conversation will not be saved in your history either, although the data you write does end up on the company’s servers. Why AI “forgets” by default An artificial intelligence language model like the one behind ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, only processes what is within the active conversation. When you ask something, it will take into account everything you have asked it during this conversation, and once you close the conversation or open a new one, the previous one is forgotten or not taken into account. This is not a mistake, but a deliberate decision. On the one hand, it allows you to maintain the context of everything you are asking within the same conversation, while in each new one you can start from scratch without taking into account everything written in another chat. Beyond the practical reasons there are also the technical ones. Maintaining the context of millions of simultaneous chats permanently would require a large consumption of data and energy. Additionally, in the event of a security breach, if the AI ​​has already forgotten past conversations there will be fewer risks to users’ privacy. AI chatbots usually allow you to manage memory that they have stored. On the one hand, you will be able to edit or delete the explicit memory with the file they have made about your data, and on the other hand, you will also be able to configure how the history memory is managed. There is an important detail that should be remembered: Deleting a chat does not delete the saved memories that were created in it. They are two different types of memory. If you delete a conversation in which you have told ChatGPT that your hair is blue, the AI ​​will not refer to what you have talked about with it and will have forgotten it, but if it has saved in its explicit memory that your hair is blue, this is something it will always know in all the chats you start with it. Additionally, many AIs have a system to import memory from other competing AIs. so that you can pass from ChatGPT to Claude either from Claude to Gemini taking you from one to another explicit memory with everything an AI knows. How to make the most of AI memory AI memory can save you a lot of time when you use it well, but if you leave it to its own devices it can also accumulate incorrect, outdated or useless information, and cause frustration or incorrect answers. For example, I once asked ChatGPT to add a cumquat to an image, and until I removed it from memory, for months it was adding cumquats to all the images I asked it to. 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Microscopes had been dependent on human operators for almost a century. China wants to change that with AI

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A team of Chinese researchers has presented in Beijing which they claim is the first transmission electron microscopy system in the world capable of operating completely autonomously. Dubbed “Aeye-1”, the device has demonstrated in tests its ability to replace a human operator in all phases of the process thanks to AI. What exactly is it. A transmission electron microscope (TEM) is a tool that has been essential for decades to observe matter at the atomic scale. It is used to develop new materials, energy technologies, industrial chemistry, and has been a key instrument for evolution in science. For almost a century, these devices have always depended on manual handling by a technician, something that in the end ends up giving subjective results and entails certain difficulties in performing quantitative analyses. Why it is important. Aeye-1 makes the leap from “manual operation” to “AI-led autonomous operation”. According to they count its researchers, the system carries out the entire work chain by itself, from transferring the sample to capturing the images and analyzing the data without the intervention of any person. According to Deng Dehuiprofessor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and leader of the project, the system works “like an ‘intelligent eye’ that visualizes the atomic world.” In detail. The development was carried out by the team of Deng Dehui and Professor Liu Wei, in collaboration with researchers from the Shenyang Institute of Automation. Together they have designed the algorithms that allow the microscope to perceive, analyze and control the process independently. To achieve this, they had to overcome many technical challenges, including the intelligent transfer of samples in high vacuum, the autonomous optical adjustment of the image, the precise localization of objects at the nanometer scale, the capture and analysis of images in real time and the coordination of all subsystems at the same time. The figures. According to Deng, image analysis It is more than 300 times faster than manual. To understand the magnitude, two weeks of Aeye-1 operation are equivalent to one year of work of a conventional microscope. In tests with molecular sieve catalysts, the system analyzed an average of 168 samples per day, captured more than 4,000 images per day and automatically generated professional reports with detailed statistics on particle size, dispersion or crystal structure. Who supports it. The system surpassed last Sunday an evaluation of scientific and technological achievements held in Beijing and organized by the Chinese Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation. The evaluation committee unanimously concluded that it is a “highly innovative technology, the first of its kind in the world and an international leader.” And now what. Those responsible for it expect that Aeye-1 will be able to continuously provide large volumes of high-quality structural data in fields such as energy, industrial chemistry, advanced materials and life sciences. The long-term goal is for this new team to drive a paradigm shift in AI-supported scientific research. It really is a process in which automation through AI can be highly beneficial. We will have to wait to find out if it ends up setting a trend in the scientific world. Cover image | China Daily and National Cancer Institute In Xataka | South Korea has just entered the most exclusive club on the planet. And China and North Korea are not exactly calm

“People don’t appreciate how unique it is”

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Elon Musk is a polarizing figure opinions: for some he is a visionary genius; for others, a businessman with controversial practices. However, those who have worked closely with him describe a unique leadership style that challenges traditional norms of large corporations. Andrej Karpathyformer head of AI and computer vision at Tesla, spent five years working directly with him. “It’s hard to describe how unique it is”says Karpathy. But he tries: in his own words, Musk represents a leadership style that does not fit traditional molds, but is precisely what has allowed Tesla to redefine sectors such as automotive and aerospace. In some statements 2024, this former collaborator explained what makes Musk so different and how his personal style shapes the dynamics within Tesla. Against bureaucracy One of Karpathy’s main observations revolves around Musk’s emphasis on maintain small and highly specialized teamss. According to Karpathy, while many companies tend to grow in size and bureaucracy, Musk acts as a constant counterweight to that trend. “At Tesla, I practically had to beg him every time someone had to be hired“says Karpathy. In addition, Musk does not hesitate to fire employees who do not meet his standards, a policy that may seem harsh, but which in his opinion is essential to maintain agility and efficiency in a company that seeks to constantly innovate. The rejection of bureaucracy is also manifested in his aversion to non-technical middle managers: Musk prefers that engineers, and not managers, be the primary source of information and decision-making. This philosophy ensures that the company’s priorities remain aligned with its technical objectives. The importance of the work environment “He doesn’t like stagnation”. Another distinctive aspect of Musk’s leadership is his insistence on a dynamic work environment, in which employees are engaged in problem solving, which has led him to eliminate large and unnecessary meetings and to encourage employees to leave those in which they are not actively contributing. This contrasts with common practices in large Silicon Valley companies which, according to Karpathy, tend to “pamper” their employees with superficial comforts that do not always translate into greater productivity. An involved CEO Unlike many executives who delegate most decisions to senior managers, Musk has direct and constant contact with engineers and technical teams. According to Karpathy, Musk spends about 50% of his time interacting with engineering teamssomething unusual for a CEO. Your proximity allows you to deeply understand technical challenges and address bottlenecks immediately Karpathy goes so far as to give the example that if a team faces a lack of GPUs, Musk does not hesitate to contact key suppliers directly to solve the problem… even if that means calling the CEO of Nvidia directly. This level of involvement ensures that strategic decisions are based on accurate technical information, rather than going through multiple layers of management. Ambitious promises and complex realities The style of Musk also has his criticsclear. Above all because of his extreme optimism… or, rather, their tendency to promise overly ambitious goalsas fully autonomous vehicles capable of crossing the United States without human intervention, has generated skepticism. Despite having achieved significant advances, such as the arrival of robotaxis not without controversyTesla has not managed to meet these goals within the established deadlines. However, he claims that Musk’s obsession with continuous improvement is what allows Tesla to remain a leader in advanced assisted driving technologies. Image | Marcos Merino through AI In Xataka | Elon Musk’s word is not reliable: the failure of Tesla’s “solar roofs” exposes him again This topic was originally published on Genbeta in December 2024.

There are millions of squash players in the world. Unknowingly, they owe a debt to an 18th-century London prison

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If you are one of the 20 million of people who practice squash in the world you owe a debt to the bankrupt British of the 18th century. The reason is very simple: several centuries ago those held in the fleet prison (London) because of their debts, they devised a game to kill time that was played with a ball, racket and wall. Over time that hobby, “rackets”became popular and led to a somewhat more sophisticated (and prestigious) version among the students of Harrow School that laid the foundations for what we know today as squash. All thanks to bill-stifled Londoners. The pleasure of hitting a ball. Maybe they didn’t do it like Alcaraz, but our ancestors they already enjoyed of the pleasure of hitting balls with spin. In fact they did it even before the Dutch invented the racket. in the 15th century. We know that almost a millennium ago French children entertained themselves with he game of paumea game that consisted of throwing leather or cloth balls filled with sawdust against the walls, and the monks also entertained themselves in a similar way in the cloisters, sometimes hitting the ball with branches. Over time the game was refined until it became tennis, a sport that caught on in Great Britain and soon fascinated the Tudors. It is said that Henry VIII (1481-1547) had courts built in all his palaces. Also that around 1600 in Paris there could be at least 250 courts. The success of the game was not only measured by its popularity at court or the number of clues. The old one game of paume It also led to different games, with their own styles and rules, such as he fivesor much later racquetball. Athletes behind bars. At the beginning of the 18th century, the love for tennis took root even in fleeta former London prison. Perhaps fed up with seeing hours pass by between walls and bars, its inmates created their own version of the fivesa fairly simplified one that was played they had it on hand in prison: a small ball (similar to those used in golf) of rolled cloth and a racket. The game ended up being known as ‘racquets’ or “rackets” and its dynamics were simple. The players were dedicated to hitting the ball against a wall. A special prison. It may sound strange, but the truth is that Fleet was not any prison. And not only because of its age, which can date back to 12th century. Murderers, rapists and thieves did not sleep in their cells. Not at least in the 18th century, when prison was reserved for people convicted of debt or having committed contempt before certain courts. In the 1770s John Howarda philanthropist who wrote the treatise ‘State of Prisons in England and Wales’, visited Fleet and left us this snapshot about life within its walls: “The prisoners play bowling in the yard, the mississippihe fivestennis… And not just the prisoners. I saw among them several butchers and others from the market, who are admitted as in another tavern.” Why is it so important? Because the ‘racquet’the game that had worked so well in Fleet or King Bench, soon spread throughout Great Britain. Far from being seen as a stigmatized sport, typical of prisoners and ruined men, it began to be practiced in the courtyards of taverns and alleys. Special fields were even built. The hobby spread so much that we know that in 1830 The Royal Artillery built a covered track in Woolwich so that its soldiers could play games even on stormy days. And then came Harrow School. One of the places where the racquet and fives was Harrow Schoola prestigious boarding school founded in the 16th century in the London borough of Harrow, northwest of the city. It was there that what we know today as squash would come to fruition. His students used to play in the courtyard outside the main building, a corner with side walls and a front wall, although they soon adapted the rules to their tastes. For example, they replaced the rigid balls that were used until then with rubber ones. It was not a minor detail. The new balls, hollow and larger, influenced the dynamics of the game, its rhythm… and opened the doors to squash. A sport with hook. “At first squash was a sport exclusive to Harrow. Like other private schools with their particular sports, it only existed in their school,” they explain from the International Squash Federation. That didn’t take long to change. As they went on holiday, with their balls and rackets, or simply graduated and left boarding school, Harrow students spread their love of squash to the rest of the country. Over time, other British schools and organizations ended up adopting that game devised between the walls of Harrow and the courtyard of an old prison. What was Fleet’s actual role? Some authors, such as JR Atkins, consider that in reality racquets and tennis are so similar that “it is impossible to separate them historically”, which would reduce the weight of Feels’ role. In any case, most accounts agree that the British prison played a relevant role in the development of the game and helped it become popular in taverns and other venues in the country. The final development of the game (and its respectability) was the merit of Harrow School, but even so the contribution of the Feel convicts is recognized for example World Squashthe Oxford University or the IOC. “At some point in the early 19th century the obsession with rackets and balls gave rise to another variant of this sport in a place as unusual as Fleet Prison,” explains Ted Wallbutton of the World Squash Federation (WSF). “The Fleet prisoners, mostly debtors, exercised by hitting a ball against the walls, of which there were many, with rackets. Thus began the game of ‘Rackets’. By some strange path they led to Harrow and other select English schools around 1820, and it … Read more

China can’t buy the best Nvidia chips. So Alibaba has decided to connect theirs and sell them as if they were one

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Alibaba does not want its infrastructure artificial intelligence (AI) continues to depend on Nvidia technologies. Little by little, the largest technology companies in China are assuming the request that Xi Jinping’s government made them at the beginning of October 2024: as far as possible They had to use chips produced in China. Ten months later this recommendation became a requirement. And the data centers that belong to the State throughout the country had to use at least 50% Chinese integrated circuits on their servers. This scenario especially favors Huawei, Moore Threads and Cambricon Technologies because they are Top AI GPU Manufacturers from China, but it also works great for Alibaba. In fact, Alibaba Cloud, its cloud computing subsidiary, has taken a very important step forward. A few days ago it presented a new chip for AI, the Zhenwu M890, and made official a very ambitious itinerary that describes what solutions it will develop over the next three years. This GPU has been designed by T-Head, the semiconductor division that Alibaba founded in 2018. It incorporates 144 GB of HBM3 memory and achieves an interconnection transfer speed between chips of up to 800 GB/s. As we are about to discover, this last feature is essential in the strategy that Alibaba has developed to compete in the AI ​​hardware market. Alibaba is going to spend $53 billion on its infrastructure According to Alibaba, the performance of its Zhenwu M890 chip is triple that of its predecessor. Additionally, it has been designed to perform well both during training of cutting-edge AI models and during inference. An important note: inference is broadly the computational process carried out by language models with the purpose of generating responses that correspond to the requests they receive. Alibaba wants to compete face to face with Nvidia in the deployment of infrastructure for data centers However, there is another relevant fact that is worth not overlooking: in medium precision operations (FP16) the Zhenwu M890 chip reaches 0.6 petaflops, a performance comparable to that of Nvidia’s A100 GPU and three times higher than that of the H20 chip. On the other hand, the ICN Switch interconnection chip allows link up to 128 GPUs M890 so that they work in unison. Alibaba assures that this architecture makes these GPUs work as a single chip, which, on paper, will allow it to compete head-to-head with Nvidia in the deployment of infrastructure for data centers. Regarding the itinerary that will follow until 2028, this Chinese company has anticipated that it plans to launch the Zhenwu V900 during the third quarter of 2027. According to Alibaba, it will implement its own significantly improved parallel computing architecture, will have three times the performance of the M890 chip, will be supported by 216 GB of memory and will reach an interconnection transfer speed of 1,200 GB/s. The Zhenwu J900 will arrive during the third quarter of 2028 with another major architectural leap. This roadmap It reflects that Alibaba goes all out. In fact, it has also announced that it will support this plan with an investment in 380 billion yuan (about $53 billion) over the next three years. Is the largest engagement of its kind in history of the company. Additionally, T-Head is planning its IPO to fund a more aggressive infrastructure investment program, which would put it in direct competition with Cambricon Technologies and Huawei’s Ascend line in the domestic AI chip market. Image | Alibaba More information | Alibaba | ChinaDaily In Xataka | Nvidia has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. Your plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end Chinese AI chips sold abroad. And China knows how to defend itself

We talk to young Spaniards who reject consciously using AI

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While the AI is increasingly integrated into studies, work and daily life, a parallel and still minority phenomenon is brewing in the subsoil of public opinion and professional environments: that of a current of young people who view this technology with skepticism, fatigue or rejection. Some try to limit its use; others directly reject it. Although young generations have quickly embraced and integrated these tools into their daily lives, there are studies that point to the growth of a certain reluctance. A survey conducted in 2026 by the Walton Family Foundation, GSV Ventures and Gallup reveals how despite the fact that 51% of American Generation Z say they use AI weekly, “negative emotions towards it have intensified in the last year.” The study reflects concern about the “cost” that the continued use of this technology may have on “creativity or critical thinking.” Diego Castilla, member of the History Student Association of the Carlos III University of Madrid, is one of them. In his opinion, “AI stupidifies the mind.” Understand that the use of this technology is driven by increasingly academic and work rhythms. harder to hold. He tries to stay out of it and assures that he only uses it in a “very specific and specific” way, because he is convinced that “it creates bad habits.” For him, in addition, there is something easily recognizable in the content generated by AI: “It is noticeable. What is made by AI lacks soul.” Along these lines, Marcos, a 26-year-old graphic designer, believes that young people lead the “resistance” or “rejection” of AI. While he observes how the older generations feel a genuine fascination with this technology – “they love making songs, videos and images” – and accept its use without questioning it, he perceives a much more critical view among young people. Faced with the “devotion” that he detects in some older people, Marcos observes in youth a growing need to “escape from AI.” In fact, he considers that interest in “the physical” is gaining more and more strength: “I see more young people interested in having books, attending craft workshops or dancing…”. Activities that, in his opinion, respond to the desire to get away from digital, “rest” and “connect” again. “There are many valid reasons to reject AI” The ecological impact, the possible loss of autonomy, the potential risk for certain professionals, the power accumulated by large technology companies behind these tools… The reasons for distancing ourselves from AI are multiple. Marcos Escudero-Viñolo, professor at the Higher Polytechnic School of the Autonomous University of Madrid, knows several profiles that show a total rejection of AI: “Some for neo-Luddite reasons, that is, they reject AI for its social impacts; others for degrowth reasons, that is, they reject it based on its enormous ecological impacts; others practice resistance or active boycott of this technology, for example, as a criticism of heteronomy “Some combine these and other factors.” Although these positions seem to be a minority, they are present especially among young profiles linked to groups environmentalists either degrowth —as Ecologists in Action, beyondGrowth either Your cloud dries up my river—, but, according to Escudero-Viñolo, also among students, researchers or some professionals. (Unsplash) For Francisco José Estupiñá Puig, a contract professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the Complutense University of Madrid and co-director of the addictive behavior research group Controlab, “there are many valid reasons to reject AI,” and these can be framed in “ethical, political or ecological positions.” In some sectors, skepticism—which often does not reach rejection— is perceived with more intensity. “It is more common that from the artistic field they can feel threatened and even generate very strong rejection,” says César Poyatos Dorado, professor of educational technology at the UAM. This is corroborated by Marcos, a graphic designer, who finds in his professional environment a growing reluctance towards works generated entirely with AI.ç Paula Jimenez, content creator in a 27-year-old communications agency, he feels that “AI is making us idiots.” She is concerned about the widespread use of these tools to carry out “creative and human tasks,” and believes that this concern is becoming more and more evident among young people: “In fact, I consider myself one of those young people who claim not to do things with artificial intelligence.” Along these lines, Marcos, a 19-year-old History and Politics student, observes among his group of friends “a great rejection of AI,” and although he believes that this position is not the majority among young people, he does consider it to be increasingly common. Between rejection and critical use “It’s the same as when a smoker admits that tobacco is bad but continues smoking. Young people use AI because it is a very practical resource but they are afraid that AI can replace people in their jobs, they criticize that what is created by AI is not as creative or interesting…” This is how María Ángeles Gutiérrez García, teacher, explains the ambivalent relationship that many of her students have with this technology; They are “capable of making many arguments against artificial intelligence despite the fact that they use it.” Manuel Armayones, professor of Behavioral Design at the Open University of Catalonia, believes that this tension between use and rejection responds to a growing sense of discomfort. “They use AI, but at the same time they are not clear to what extent doing so is legitimate or harms them in the long term (…) We are facing a technology that not only changes how we do things, but also how we think, decide and perceive ourselves as professionals,” he explains. (Unslpash) According to Armayones, many young people feel that integrating AI is almost mandatory in order not to be left behind, but at the same time they fear being the ones who stop making decisions and taking on a supervisory role: “For this reason, rather than frontal rejection, many times what we see is a need to set limits and understand what role we want to have in that system.” This … Read more

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