Figure 02 has worked only for an hour. The disturbing thing is that your brain already remembers and your hands “feel”

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You can disagree. You may think that a lot is still missing. But it is difficult to ignore the direction in which we advance: one in which Humanoid robots They will be part of our daily lives. When technology is mature, when costs cease to be an obstacle, the decision will no longer be technical. It will be ethical. How far can the robots arrive? And who will put the limits? Imagine the scenarios. Robots turned into soldiers, deployed in conflicts, alone or next to human troops. Robots as emotional companions, not only for older people, but for anyone who lives alone. Robots that clean, cook, organize. Robots in factories, tireless, constant, replacing tasks that we did before. The surprising thing is that all this is already beginning to happen. Today, the robot Figure 02, that since last year he works in a BMW factorycan operate autonomously, classify objects and do it with precision thanks to what Its developers call “Touch” and “short -term memory”. In 2018, ‘Detroit: Become Human‘We thought about science fiction. Even then, not its creator, David CageI would have opted that in 2025 we would be seeing something like that in the real world. But it has happened. And the most fascinating thing is that Figure does not walk alone. Behind his gestures, there is something else. A neuronal network that, as we will see soon, is the true protagonist. Helix, the ‘brain’ behind Figure 02 That neuronal network has its own name: Helix. It is the brain behind the robot. The person responsible for their movements look more and more natural. And what has achieved In just three months In a logistics environment it is difficult to ignore. Helix has not only learned to manipulate objects with skill. Has learned to Understand the context. To adapt. To act as if remembered what he did before. And the most surprising: to make it better and better, faster and less mistakes. At first, Helix faced a simpler catalog. But little by little he has learned to work with a greater variety of packages: From rigid boxes to Soft envelopes or deformable plastic bags, which are much more difficult to hold and position. Some wrinkle, others bend, others slide easily. For a robot, that is a real challenge. And yet, Helix adapts. Adjust the way in which each object grabs, changes its strategy if the package is flatter or softer, even knows when it is convenient to take a small turn or use a more precise type of clamp. He does everything on the flight, without anyone telling him what kind of package he has in front. The robot knows when it is convenient to take a small turn or use a more precise type of clamp That behavior has not been programmed line per line. Has learned it by observing. In total, he was trained with 60 hours of human demonstrations. And with each new example, it was better understood what to do in each case. Thanks to that, the average time it takes to process a package has been down significantly. But Helix is ​​not just fast. It is also necessary. The labels, which were previously oriented before, now 94.4 % of the time are correctly positioned. As? Because the robot has learned, among other things, Small wrinkled envelopes Before trying to scan. A slight pressure on the plastic is enough for the barcode to be visible. It is a minimum gesture, but very revealing. That learning relies on something fundamental: memory. Helix has a vision system that not only analyzes what he sees at the time, but remembers what he saw a few seconds ago. It is as if I had a Short -term visual memory. Thanks to her, you can make smarter decisions. For example, if it detects that a package was already rotated at a certain angle, it does not turn it again. If you did not find the label at first, remember where it could be and prove in that direction. Another key change has been to incorporate the history of its own movements. Before, each action was an isolated fragment: see, act, see again. Now, Helix Remember in what position your arms werehis torso or his head makes a moment, which allows him to move more fluidly. If something leaves the plan, if the package slides or the grip is not perfect, it can correct in real time without starting from scratch. And the most recent: The sense of touch. Not a human touch, of course, but a way to detect how much pressure is exerting on an object. That strength feedback allows Helix Pause to feel resistance, or adjust it if the object weighs less than expected. Thanks to this, you can manipulate more carefully and adapt to differences in weight or rigidity. And this is not theory. Figure 02 has already been put to the test in real conditions. During an hour session, The robot operated without interruptions In a logistics environment, classifying packages autonomously while using all its new capacities: its sense of touch, its short -term visual memory, its ability to correct errors on the march. A continuous demonstration of fluid work, precise, without direct intervention. The images of that session, which we have included in the video that accompanies this article, show more than a robot running. They show a neuronal network facing the chaos of the physical world and leaving airy. They show Figure 02 making decisions, adapting, acting with a level of autonomy that until very recently would have seemed science fiction. Tesla has a OptimusBoston Dynamics to AtlasAgility Robotics A Digit. All compete to lead the career of the Humanoid robots. But in parallel, Figure 02 advances through a lane without events, without background music, but with results. With the passage of time we will see how all this evolves. Images | Figure ai In Xataka | Google does not want AI to stay on the screen: Gemini Robotics is its plan … Read more

Juan the fishing monologues

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The jokes were, in Spain, the common minimum that linked to all types of humor that were made in Spain. But if we continue to divide and divide what makes us laugh in increasing existing. That is the essence of the last viral phenomenon that, in addition and honoring its nature, is spreading through channels that are not, of course, the most modern in the world: WhatsApp groups. Who is Juan the fishing. Juan Ortega Ramos, 33, Help your father in the family fish marketLocated in Bass of Guide (Sanlúcar de Barrameda), hence its nickname. In recent months it has become a viral phenomenon thanks to diffusion through WhatsApp of the audios that, in principle, He only sent his friends in a common group. From there, a viral success that has some cryptic and incomprehensible. I don’t count jokes. Because, unlike icons of Andalusian humor as who was perhaps the last great jokes of Spain, Chiquito de la CalzadaJuan the fishingman only makes spontaneous reflections and prepares very simple messages. “If you block someone on Instagram, can you keep seeing it on the street?” It is the type of audios that arrive at the innumerable WhatsApp groups that collect their sound messages, next to a “good morning” myriad, “yesterday what”, “good night” and all kinds of variants of the format, stated with unmistakable Gaditano accent. What makes Juan special the fishing is not the quality of his humor, but a format that returns us to past times. Social Protorships. WhatsApp was born as an instant and private messaging group, but functions such as groups They transformed the goal application into an equivalent, more manageable and controlled, of social networks. The increase in members per group, from 15 to 1024 users, has allowed the creation of more active communities. In this way, even with their limitations of size and use (or precisely thanks to that, facilitating access to users not so duchos in technology or who are not interested in communicating with those who do not know personally), WhatsApp groups make up a reality parallel to social networks, where phenomena like this sprout and live and live. You start with WhatsApp. Although it is not the first phenomenon linked to the humor that starts on the Internet, of course it is the first one that finds its main diffusion mattress in WhatsApp. Some others with whom we could relate the humor of Juan the fishingman, such as Martita de Graná either Commander Lara They have sprouted in networks like Tiktok, but their humor is more professionalized and use more conventional formats, from the monologue to traditional jokes. Significantly, this explosion of Juan the fishingman coincides with the turn that WhatsApp wants to give to its platform, going from being of Messaging app to content platform. The spontaneous triumphs. Although Juan the fishingman does not count jokes, his spontaneity drawn Virtually incomprehensible screams and outbursts It can be linked to this type of little elaborate joke (nothing to do with giants such as the aforementioned Chiquito, or teachers of telling stories of humor, such as Eugenio or Gila) who has always prevailed on our television, until I get to ‘Do not laugh that is worse’, perhaps his ultimate bulwark. It is a type of map erased joke for our late stand-up or the television humor of people like Buenafuente or ‘The revolt‘, turning those who cultivated it (Barragán, Arévalo, Marianico el short) into a vestige of a Spain that no longer exists. A little to which gives continuity, with his pure Spanishism, Juan the fishing. In Xataka | The videos of AI have broken the Instagram and Tiktok algorithms. Welcome to the new “AI landscape”

A giant armed has set for the Atlantic … from the US

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The first rumor jumped a few hours ago. Within the framework of the G7 Leaders Summit in Canada, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, He hinted that the president of the United States had left the meeting in advance to work in a high fire between Israel and Iran. Trump’s response It has been fast: The reason for his exit was “much more important” than a high fire. Now, a Recognition software He has made the alarms jump. An armed and a sea of ​​speculation. In an unexpectedly coordinated operation, more than 28 cistern aircraft KC-135R and KC-46A of the United States Air Force have taken off from different bases of the country to the Atlantic, in a massive migration detected by air tracking enthusiasts through a Follow -up software. Although the movement of cisterns to the east is not unusual in itself, the scale, synchrony and moment of the deployment (in full climax of tensions between Israel and Iran) has aroused Speculations on a possible strategic turn in American involvement in the conflict. The absence of clear indications about the accompaniment of fighters or bombers adds opacity, but one thing seems clear: the deployment is not linked to routine exercises, such as the multinational that is coming in Norway, whose logistics scope is much lower than the level observed. In that context, They outline four hypothesesall potentially interconnected, about the purpose of the maneuver. Offensive support. The most immediate and logical explanation would be for the United States to be preparing air logistics support to allow Israel to expand and accelerate its offensive about Iran. The limited Israeli refueling fleet, composed of just seven old Boeing 707drastically restricts the frequency, duration and scope of its incursions on Iranian territory. The presence of US cisterns would significantly increase the ability to Generate sustained outputseven allowing the use of penetrating pumps that require proximity to underground targets. That said, the most crucial impact would be strategic: allow Israeli fighters to patrol wide areas of Iranian airspace for prolonged periodshunting mobile ballistic missile pitchers before they can shoot. These types of missions, extremely difficult, gain efficacy only if aircraft do not have to withdraw continuously to recharge fuel. If Israeli and American interceptors are exhausting their stocks, As they suggest Various sources, the cisterns would allow to extend operations without compromising critical resources. A KC-135E refueling in flight to an F-16 Fighting Falcon Direct intervention. The second of the hypotheses is, no doubt, more disturbing: That the movement indicate preparations for a direct entry of the United States into the Air War. The cisterns They would be essential both to support Israel and to keep American fighters and bombers in the air in case kinetic operations are authorized. This intervention, although it would radically transform the Official position From Washington, it could be precipitated by an Iranian attack on US interests in the region or by a political decision in response to a critical escalation. The preposition of tank grants flexibility and speed of reaction, which reinforces this hypothesis, although, for the moment, there is no confirmation of such a drastic change in American doctrine. The software that captured the image that the alarms have jumped Close the Strait. A third plausible explanation is the preparation of the possibility that I will try to block he Ormuz narrowa play that would transform the conflict into an event of global impact immediate. Reopening the maritime step would require a large -scale sustained aerial operation: neutralizing radars, coastal defense systems, mobile anti -man -missing pitchers, and even patrols of small boats. They counted the The War Zone analysts that this requires continuous surveillance and attack missions, supported by constant refueling From, again, cisterns. Before a Strait blockThe United States would need to keep hundreds of aircraft operating without interruption in a hostile airspace, something unfeasible without a support chain like the one that seems to be forming now. Strait satellite view An air bridge. Finally, the most functional and less confrontational hypothesis would be the creation of a robust air bridge that facilitates the flow of military assets to the region. This bridge would allow not only the deployment of combat planes, but also global operations such as those of the b-2 bombersonly conventional assets capable of penetrate and destroy Nuclear facilities deeply buried in Iran. These aircraft, with an extremely heavy weaponry, need multiple refueling to cross the Atlantic, attack and return. The air bridge would also serve as evacuation route of the most vulnerable American bases in case of Iranian mass bombings, an increasingly contemplated option in contingency scenarios. Indications of something else. The maneuver does not happen alone. In addition to the movement of cisterns, other signals have signed up for a Military accumulation American in the theater of operations. Yes, apparently, the combat group headed by the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt It moves to the Indian Ocean from the South China Sea, increasing the naval projection against Iran. Although US authorities have not yet made official statements about the purpose of these movements, open sources and analysts agree that a deployment is being configured with multiple purposes: Dysmasion, logistical support, tactical flexibility and preparation for a possible direct escalation. And something much bigger. Plus: It also seems that the United States is sending to the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and your attack group (including four destroyers Arleight Burke class and a combat submarine) to reinforce its defensive and offensive abilities in full climb of the conflict. Although officially it is a programmed relief of the USS Carl VinsonAmerican sources indicate that the operation has beenFewest several monthsand both naval groups will live in the region for a while. Although at this time there is no official confirmation of a doctrine change, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, He has recognized That these maneuvers seek to strengthen regional defensive position and protect US personnel, in the midst of growing political pressures for Washington to get more actively involved in … Read more

A tower of 2,000 tons of sand

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In a town in southern Finland, a gigantic silo stuffed with powdered rock keeps an unexpected promise: clean, cheap and stored heat for months. The world’s largest sand battery has been put into operation, which began as an idea of ​​two friends in 2018 today It has become In a pioneer installation that seeks to solve one of the greatest challenges of renewable energies: its large -scale storage. A sand battery. In a place where the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow, the storage for renewable energies becomes prevailing. The thermal battery of Polar Night Energy, built next to the Urban Heating Plant of Pornainen and managed by Loviisan Lämpö, ​​officially launched on June 11, According to Euronews. This battery has a thermal storage capacity of 100 MWh, with an efficiency that is around 85 and 90%. Ten times bigger. The new cylindrical structure has a height of 13 meters high and 15 wide, filled with about 2000 metric tons of crushed steatite – a byproduct of the manufacture of Finnish chimneys. That powdered rock, stored in an isolated silo, becomes a gigantic thermal energy accumulator, capable of supplying the demand for heating of one week in winter or a month in summer, According to TechCrunch. How can it be of sand? Although it may seem sophisticated, the principle is relatively simple. Electricity is used – preferably of solar or wind origin – to resistively heat the air, which in turn transfers heat to the sand into the silo. The sand, due to its high density and heat capacity, retains that heat for days or even months at temperatures up to 500 ° C. So, when needed, the system releases hot air, which heats water for the urban heating network. In the case of Pornainen, he supplies thermal energy to public buildings, homes and even the municipal pool, such as has pointed out Euronews. All control and prediction of energy performance is managed by an advanced heat transfer model, which calculates optimal load and discharge in real time. To reduce the use of splinters. With this new structure we want to reduce the use of splinters in urban heating by 60% and eliminate up to 160 tons of CO2 per year. In addition, it could be added that construction sand is not being used, but a stoatita recycled a local by -product. Polar Night Energy co -founder Markku Ylönen, has explained in Euronews that the material used must fulfill certain thermodynamic criteria, but it is not necessary to be sand as such. Any high density granular substance can work. This opens the door to circular economy models and avoids pressure on river ecosystems. Connected to the electricity market. The battery is within the energy reserve service, and from the company they continue working on a pilot to convert the heat stored in electricity, which could further transform the energy flexibility of the system. In addition, he counts with an estimated storage cost much lower than that of lithium batteries, According to TechCrunch. A new paradigm change. In times of climate crisis, perhaps the future of energy does not depend only on lithium, hydrogen or large solar parks, but also for forgotten materials such as sand. From the heart of Finland, a silent battery already heats houses, libraries and schools. Image | Taro Kam and Pxhere Xataka | While Europe desperately seeks alternative to Russian gas, a Spanish province has already found it: Burgos

He is also leaving them without driving examiners

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In Balearic Islands get the card of driving requires more than mastering the circulation standards and having some expertise at the wheel. Patience is needed. A lot. For some time the self -schools in Mallorca They warn to the candidates for drivers who can take several months In presenting the practical exam, a bottleneck that the collective Explain largely due to the shortage of traffic examiners. Personal lack. And the prices of the archipelago do not make it easy for officials who are already there. Housing has increased so much in the islands that is unasumable and takes not a few examiners to Request the transfer to the peninsula as soon as they can. In summer and without examiners. The news I advanced it Sunday Diario de Mallorca: Although many students take advantage of the holidays to get the driving card, the Balearic archipelago has encountered the threat of a summer with hardly any traffic examiners. The reason is double. First, on the islands there are only 16 examiners. Second, a good part of them (ten) will stop working over the coming months for one reason or another. The president of the Balearico Autoescuelas association, Joana Ribasensures that of the 16 officials who are in charge of examining in the archipelago, eight plan to leave after requesting the transfer, another has approved oppositions to change position and there is one about to retire. “I had calculated that they could ask for four or five, but I did not expect me to tell me that we will lose ten.” A major problem. After warning of the situation in which the archipelago would stay without those professionals, the DGT would have committed to delay the transfer of the examiners several months, which will allow at least the summer months covered. According to Diario de Mallorcatraffic will also send relays to cover vacancies. That does not prevent the self -school from looking at the horizon: the collective It takes time warning of the shortage of traffic personnel and among those who have requested the transfer there are examiners that cover Ibiza and Menorca. A year ago the number of students pending to be examined already It was around 8,000 already early 2025 the waiting list It remained at 7,000. It is not strange that to present themselves to the practical exam, a requirement to get the driving card, the applicants must wait several months. “The problem is the continuous patches of the Ministry, which does not contemplate the expansion of examiners. About seven or eight in the Balearic Islands,” Ribas points out in the being. Something more than drivers. The problems of the archipelago to meet the demand are not explained only because of the greater or lesser availability of places for examiners. One of their challenges is that officials who arrive from outside to occupy those positions are not easy to settle in a region marked by the escalation of the cost of the house. Only over the last year its price has shot something more than 17%according to the data of the idealist portal. The result? The officials of other points in Spain for the archipelago end up resorting to the transfer contests to find positions in other regions, places where the M2 does not cost 6,625 eurosas in Ibiza. The problem is so entrenched that Ribas acknowledges that, although signings are now arriving to cover vacancies, the situation will be repeated in a few years. Is it a new problem? No. A year ago The confidential He warned Already from the complex scenario facing the students of the Balearic Schools and the difficulties for the archipelago to be “attractive” for the examiners from the Peninsula. The newspaper needed That the plus of insularity they charged was just 80 euros, far from the 400 of the Canary Islands, Ceuta or Melilla. The problem is not unknown to traffic, which Recognize That “one of the factors that most influences” the scarcity of examiners is “the high cost of life and housing, reaching the extreme if we refer to Ibiza.” The employers They claim more technical and suggest some solutions. Ribas raises For example, the creation of internal “bags” that facilitate examining vacancies in those areas with more problems to capture them are occupied by native personnel. The objective: avoid scenarios such as the one that has been found this year at the doors of summer or that students choose to get their card in other parts of Spain, where you are waiting much shorter. Something more than examiners. In Balearic Islands, not only are they difficult to have traffic examiners. The newspaper revealed A few days ago That the centers are also capturing teachers in the Peninsula or even in other countries in Europe to move to Mallorca to teach, offers that include accommodation. The archipelago is not the only one who has seen how his high cost of life, especially housing, complicates the signing of basic services. It occurs in Galicia with another profile especially demanded in summer: The lifeguards. Images | Circulates safe (Flickr) and Mike Swigenski (Unsplash) In Xataka | There are so many Germans in Mallorca that the island is already preparing for its great ‘sorpasso’: housing more expensive than in Germany

an AI that predicts trends

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In the competitive fashion industrysucceeding with trends is crucial and supposes the difference between a sales success and a batch of unreasonable clothing. They count on SCMP As a Chinese startup is helping brands like Nike and GAP to make more successful decisions thanks to artificial intelligence. Analyzing social media data, online stores and consumption patterns, its technology is able to predict what will be fashionable before you see it on Tiktok. The company. Zhiyi Tech was founded in 2018 in Hangzhouone of the most powerful technological centers in the country and where it also has its headquarters The giant Alibaba. The company focuses on offering artificial intelligence -based solutions that help clothing brands to predict what the upcoming supervent trends will be. In 2022 they got 100 million dollars in several financing rounds And today among its most notable clients are Nike and Gap. Technology. Zhiyi’s flagship software (simply called Zhiyi) has been working since its inception and uses artificial intelligence to analyze large amounts of data. They presume that in their database they have more than 1,000 million images of materials or 100,000 million patterns of garments. They also analyze the designs that are best selling in stores, trends in social networks and monitor the sales of the rivals. With all this and through Deep-Learning and recognition algorithms with AI, they claim to be able to detect changes in the fashion industry and predict trends so that companies can design and plan more efficiently. Local success case. The Chinese fashion chain Urban Revivo He is one of Zhiyi Technology clients and with which they have been working since 2020. According to Zheng ZeyuCEO of Zhiyi, in the first three years Urban Revivo managed to improve its Sell-Through rate (stock proportion sold compared to that received) from 60 to 80%, as well as improving its opportunity to create very successful products by 5%. The brand launches more than 100,000 designs per year, so we would be talking about 5,000 exceptionally successful designs. From China to the world. In the beginning, the startup was focused on the domestic market. Almost all the sources he drank were sales and social networks of the country such as Taobao, Tmall or Rednote. In its opening to other markets, three years ago Overseas Exploration launched, a tool that was also aimed at Chinese companies, but already explored trends from the rest of the world. Trendscopes It is one of Zhiyi’s first products with an focus on international customers. It was launched last year and with it trackean global sales platforms such as Amazon, Temu or Shein (China’s Great Baza in Fast-Fashion), In addition to networks such as Instagram and Tiktok. Among its most important international clients are GAP and Nike, which they help in decisions such as choice of color for sportswear or if exterior footwear must have a high cane. A chatgpt that designs clothes. In addition to its analysis and prediction tools, Zhiyi also has a generative -called AI Fashion diffusion+ which allows to create “high quality designs and images from moodboards or sketches.” The tool offers a free test if you register so we have tried it, specifically the option of turning a sketch into a render, although it offers more like adding a garment to a photo of a model. When generating the image, it allows us to choose if we want it in color, the similarity with the sketch and add a descriptive prompt. Test with Fasion Diffusion+. The result is good in that it represents very well all the details of the pockets and zippers, but the improvable quality and remembers what Dall-e did in his first versions. We have asked Chatgpt and the result has been infinitely better, especially representing the photorealistic effect we had asked. From left to right: sketch, fashion diffusion+ and chatgpt. The company wants to turn this tool into a kind of chatgpt with which to create designs from Prompts With natural language, without having to start from more detailed images or drawings. They hope to launch it this month and promote it especially among its international clients. There are still no images of the new version, but seen the performance of the current one, there is work to be done. Other fashion chains also bet on AI. The AI ​​is reaching everywhere and this Chinese startup is not the only one that has occurred to the textile industry. Already In 2018 Inditex began investing in Big Data, AI and Analytics solutions For his businesses, he specifically associated with the Startup Jetlore that offers a prediction of the behavior of buyers. Uniqlo also integrates AI in your business And they do it in an integral way, from the design process to the supply chain. Similar to Zhiyi, they use data analysis and collection technologies that allow them to detect new trends in order to advance to the market. They also apply it to their stores registering the movement of customers to define “hot areas” and thus better configure the space. AI as a predictor. The generative AI is the most talk, but its uses go much further and more and more are the sectors in which it is acting as a prediction system. The most obvious example we have In advertisingwhere the algorithms have been wanting to guess what we will buy. The financial sector is also using AI to predict credit risk and for detect and prevent fraud. In science we have also seen how they use it to try predict the next epidemic. Perhaps the biggest challenge of the predictive AI is in health, where tools are already appearing predict diseases and customize treatments. Here ethical challenges are raised and the need for constant supervision and update of algorithms. Cover image | Pixabay In Xataka | Openai is going better than expected thanks to payment users. And that marks an evident direction

We have been believing that Iran is “five years” from the nuclear bomb. In reality we only know how much uranium enriches

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Few phrases have been as repeated in the geopolitics of the West as “Iran is five years from the nuclear bomb.” For more than three decades, we have heard predictions that place the Iranian regime on the verge of crossing the atomic threshold, a stopwatch that restarts again and again without the prophecy becoming fulfilled. The real problem is not so much what we know about Iran’s nuclear program, as the immensity of what we do not know. And it is in that fog of uncertainty where the most dangerous decisions are cooked. A diffuse red line like Casus Belli. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has initiated a war against Iran framed in which the regime is “close to finishing the construction of a nuclear bomb.” This language transforms an old threat into an immediate danger, turning the rhetorical red line into a justification for war. Although the United States initially denies direct participation in the attack, political and military support has gone in crescendo. A Message of President Donald Trump In capital letters, “Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon!”, It works as a blank check for Israel. Thirty years of breached predictions. When a suspicion, and not an evidence, they are a reason for war, it is worth reviewing the newspaper library to put rhetoric in perspective. The feeling of “imminent nuclear bomb” in Iran is not new. It is a political construction that has been managing for decades, with Benjamin Netanyahu as its main architect. In 1992, Netanyahu already warned that Iran was “three or five years” to obtain nuclear weapons. In 2012, he starred in one of his most iconic moments at the UN, drawing a red line with a marker In a cartoon scheme of a pumpand ensuring that they would cross the line in the summer of 2013. Each period has been fulfilled without the weapon becoming materialized. What do intelligence agencies say. Although Israel had in the United States its main political ally, US intelligence agencies did not buy their rhetoric about Iran. In 2007, the National Intelligence Estimate De la CIA concluded with “high confidence” that Iran had stopped its nuclear militarization program, the AMAD Plan. The verification of this break came in 2015 with the Comprehensive Comprehensive Plan Joint (JCPOA), an agreement by which Iran limited uranium enrichment to 3.67% in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. The break that caught the fuse. Paradoxically, the withdrawal of the United States of the JCPOA in 2018, driven by the same rhetoric of the “imminent bomb”, caused the response that was intended to avoid. Iran began to enrich uranium at unprecedented levels: first 20% and then 60%, drastically shortening the theoretical deadlines for the pump and triggering the current crisis. Despite this, there are no evidence, beyond the expansion of enrichment plants, that Iran have the necessary technology or develop those weapons. Although, in honor of the truth, it is logical that there are no, since most of the activity is underground. Faith jump between enrichment and nuclear bomb. To understand how “near” Iran of the nuclear bomb is, you have to differentiate two key processes. The first is the fuel: the enrichment of uranium, the visible part of the process. It is about increasing the concentration of the fistible isotope 2 35 of the uranium from the 0.7% natural to 90% (the arms degree). Thanks to the withdrawal of the JCPOA, Iran accumulates a large amount of 60%enriched uranium. And moving from 60 to 90% is a technically feasible leap within a few weeks. However, Having the fuel is not having the enginewhat Anglo -Saxons call “weaponization.” A set of incredibly complex steps to convert the fistible material into a functional eye that can be mounted on a missile. They have to convert the uranium of arms degree, which is a gas, into a metal sphere. They have to surround that sphere with high precision explosives that have to detonate simultaneously in microseconds to compress the nucleus and start the chain reaction. And all this, in a package small and light enough to fit in the eyes of a missile and survive the launch. This is where we enter the field of almost total uncertainty. We know that this will investigated with the AMAD Plan, but its current progress is unknown. However, nobody knows it with certainty because intelligence on underground activities is very difficult to obtain. What we know with certainty. Despite decades of sanctions, sabotage, selective murders of its scientists and cyberbrains (like the famous Stuxnet, which destroyed uranium centrifuges), the Iranian nuclear program has not only survived, but has become stronger and more self -sufficient. Iran designs and produces its own advanced centrifuging. In fact, Israel’s main objective is to destroy the Fordow plant, that Iran built under a mountain to make it invulnerable to air attacks. In parallel, Iran has developed the largest and diverse ballistic missile program in the Middle East, and a fleet of trucks ready to shoot them. This resilience demonstrates that technical knowledge is deeply institutionalized in the regime, which is why Israel has eliminated those responsible for the nuclear program, as well as Iranian launches. At the same time, each Israeli attack can reinforce the conviction in Tehran that the pump is the only guarantee of survival, a fish that bites the tail, accelerated by Netanyahu’s rhetoric. They will go in the North Korean mirror or Pakistan. Beyond the rhetoric of the West, two countries offer key lessons about Iran. North Korea built its nuclear program to ensure the survival of the regime. Isolated and economically devastated, He saw the bomb as his only insurance policy against a overthrow imposed by the United States. The sanctions and pressure only reinforced their determination. Pakistan followed a strategic imperative. It sought to neutralize the military superiority of India. When India tried her bomb in 1974, the Pakistani bomb became a matter of national survival. Iran is a hybrid and more complex case. Share the survival … Read more

Aliexpress’s summer promo starts with very powerful discounts on mobile phones, tablets and more devices

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There are many users who, when they seek to renew one of their devices, usually expect very specific dates, such as Black Friday. These promos usually bring chollos and offers of all kinds, although the negative part is that they are only held at specific times of the year. The good news is that the different stores also launch promos the rest of the year And now he has touched Aliexpress. From yesterday until June 25 at 23:59 we have available your Summer promoan event loaded with very good offers in technology. In addition to these, we also have at our disposal A series of discount coupons To save even more in our carts: code discount Minimum purchase ES02 2 euros 15 euros ES04 4 euros 29 euros ES10 10 euros 69 euros ES20 20 euros 139 euros SSES30 30 euros 199 euros ES40 40 euros 279 euros SSES45 45 euros 309 euros ES50 50 euros 349 euros ES60 60 euros 439 euros All these discount coupons cannot be used combined nor are they valid for virtual products or other promotions. In addition to the above, we have others available that, in this case, can only be used with products that Miravia sells through Aliexpress: Code discount Minimum purchase Master153 3 euros 15 euros Master5910 10 euros 59 euros MES400 80 euros 599 euros An event loaded with chollos in technology As we say, there are few offers that we have available right now in this summer promo. To facilitate the work, we leave you down a selection of the most prominent that are still available. Little x7 proa smartphone with a great value for money, by 219.99 euros. Bose Quietcomfort SC headphonesof headband and with good autonomy, by 124.29 euros With the ES20 code. OnePlus Watch 3with 1.5 -inch screen and an elegant design, by 183.49 euros With the SSES30 code. Galaxy Tab A9+a very economical tablet to study or work, for 119.99 euros With the ES20 code. Nintendo Switch Pro commandcompatible with Nintendo Switch 2, by 49.66 euros with the ES04 code. Little x7 pro We start with him Little x7 proa telephone that stands out for a very high money ratio (and more, with this offer). 6.67 inches AMOLED screen with 3,200 nits peak shineinsured power with the dimensity 8400 ultra of MediaTak and a considerable battery of 6,000 mAh. In addition, it has a good double camera photographic system. It is available by 219.99 euros. * Some price may have changed from the last review Bose Quietcomfort SC If we are looking for headband headphones, these Bose quietcomfort scs perfect us. They stand out for being light, for offering a sound at brand height And for having a good noise cancellation. In addition, we can also configure them in their ‘Aware’ mode to be aware of what happens around us. Available by 124.29 euros With the ES20 code. * Some price may have changed from the last review OnePlus Watch 3 He One Plus Watch 3 It is a smartwatch with a classic cut design, but has enough characteristics to get our attention. Its 1.5 -inch screen is protected by sapphire crystal and has a peak shine of 2,200 nits, so we will be able to see it out of problems without problems. We cannot forget that it also has a good number of sensors to be able to control our health and our training to the millimeter. It comes out by 183.49 euros With the SSES30 code. * Some price may have changed from the last review Galaxy Tab A9+ You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a tablet at home and this Galaxy Tab A9+ It is the test. It is a manageable and comfortable device to use, both for work and leisure. It has a 11 -inch screen (with 90 Hz) and a 7,040 mAh battery to offer us good autonomy. Besides, It is compatible with Dolby Atmos soundideal to watch series or movies. We can acquire it for 119.99 euros With the ES20 code. Galaxy Tab A9 + (4 + 64 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review Nintendo Switch Pro command We close with the Pro Nintendo Switch Uno command, which It is compatible with Nintendo Switch 2. It is a wireless and very comfortable command to use, ideal if we seek to have a traditional experience in the Nintendo console. The best thing is that the summer promo leaves it at a price that is not easy to find: it goes out for 49.66 euros with the ES04 code. Pro Nintendo Switch command * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Aliexpress, little, Bose, OnePlus, Samsung, Nintendo In Xataka | The best smartwatch: their analysis and videos are here In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which to buy and 19 models from 20 euros to 450 euros

AMD’s problem is not that it does not make good gpus for ia. Is that it is not even close to Nvidia

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AMD is doing things well, but even doing them still unable to compete with Nvidia. The company has just raised its renewed road map with promising models, but that is not a guarantee of anything to a NVIDIA that will not let its absolute leadership position escape. The problem for AMD is not to be, but get others to take note. IDC consultancy data indicate that Nvidia dominates the AI ​​chips market with 85.2% market dick, for 14.3% AMD. Other analysts like Jon Pedie Research go beyond and According to your data The NVIDIA quota in this segment is 92%. AMD instinct mi350 are just the beginning. The GPUS for IA, which AMD calls “accelerators”, follow its evolution. During the event they presented their family or Instinct Mi350 series with two variants, MI350X and MI355X. According to the manufacturer, these chips are four times higher in general performance with respect to the previous generation, but are up to 35 times more powerful in the field of inference AI (that is, in the practical use of models such as Chatgpt, which “infers” “their responses from our prompts). They have 288 GB of HBM3E memory and a memory bandwidth of 8 TB/s. Its yield is 18.45 pflops in FP4 precision and 9.2 pflops in precision FP8. Instinct Mi400 in 2026. Next year the new family of AMD’s accelerators will arrive. It’s about future MI400 instinctwhich will arrive with up to 432 GB of HBM4 memory, 19.6 TB/s of bandwidth of that memory, and a performance of 40 pflops in precision FP4 and 20 Pflops in precision FP8. These monsters will be sold in future racks with infrastructure “Helios“, that You can house Up to 72 Mi400 with up to 260 TB/s total bandwidth thanks to its interconnection technology, Ultra Accelerator Link. EPYC VENICE. AMD not only talked about GPUS: it also has its future processors for servers in data centers in full development. The Epyc Venice will arrive in 2026 and will be based on Zen 6 architecture. Among the variants, an especially spectacular with 256 cores that will offer up to 70% more performance compared to the previous generation. These processors will be built with future MI400 instinct. They are expected to be manufactured with the N2P (2 Nm) node of TSMC. Helios against Oberon. The aforementioned Rack Helios will compete with not already with the current Nvidia AI server, the GB200 NVL72 which connects 36 CPUS Grace and 72 Gpus Blackwell. He is destined to compete with his successor, which has Oberon’s code name and will use IA B300 GPUS with Vera Rubin architecture. The yields and benefits of these future racks are absolutely dizzy, and for example their Precision Power FP8 is 1.4 Exaflops. The same in some things, better in others. AMD promises to match NVIDIA in several sections, but also ensures that it will exceed it remarkably (50% more) in memory quantity and width, something crucial for training and inference AI. Be careful, because at the end of 2027 NVIDIA prepares the Rubin Ultra architecture, which promises racks with up to 5 Exaflops in FP8 precision, three times more than Helios or Oberon. In 2027 we will have another “summer”. The AMD roadmap goes further, and they have already prepared the development of their new generation of chips for summer Epyc servers, which will replace the Epyc Venice. These CPUS will be paired with the future MI500X instinct, and it is expected – although it is not safe – that both types of chip take advantage of the one already announced TSMC A16 node (1.6 Nm), which will begin to be used at the end of 2026. There are no specifications for these developments, surely because they will depend on the manufacturing node that AMD ends up using to produce them. Frantic race. All these ads show that AMD does not want to be left behind in that race to place their solutions in data centers worldwide. The Crusoe company, which is dedicated to the construction of large AI data centers, advertisement A few days ago I would spend 400 million dollars in AMD’s chips, and even Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAi, made a surprise appearance During the inaugural talk of the Lisa Su, CEO of AMD event. Altman said they will also use AMD chips in the data centers they use, and highlighted that the new AMD ia gpus “will be somewhat amazing.” AMD presumes to be more efficient (and cheap). AMD’s message was clear during the event: its MI355 offer much more efficiency and are cheaper than NVIDIA B200 and GB200 with comparable yields. The sales prices of those GPUS are not known, but we do know that at the beginning of 2024 the MI300x of AMD They cost a maximum of $ 15,000 for the more than $ 40,000 that cost The NVIDIA H100. The biggest challenge is still CUDA. The benefits of AMD AI chips are not in fact the problem of this company. Detailed studies revealed months ago that MI300X are clearly higher than NVIDIA H100 and H200 on performance and power. However, Nvidia has a Cudathe de facto standard in the industry for services of services and applications of AI. Using AMD native software is feasible, yes, but software experience, They assured in SEMIANALYSIS“Software is full of errors that make training (AI models) with AMD it is impossible.” AMD’s hope is Rocm. In that AMD event also presented Rocm 7, the latest version from your own Open Source programming platform for your GPUS. In AMD they indicated that this version is 3.5 times more powerful than Rocm 6, and even claim that it is 30% more powerful than CUDA in the B200 when serving the model Deepseek R1. Even so, they indicate In another report of semi -health, it is still lower in some sections. Getting that component allows developers to take advantage of all the potential of AMD’s chips is precisely key to the future of those efforts. Even … Read more

comes from the depths of Antarctica

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On earth have always given enigmas to those who do not find an answer. In some cases yes, such as when we decipher the strange television signal that came from the sky, but In othersas in the story that concerns us, the mystery continues. In one of the most remote and extreme environments of the planet, a great altitude scientific globe flying over Antarctica has captured radio signals that seem to come from the depths of the earth. It all started 20 years ago. A signal from ice. As we said, for almost two decades, a series of scientific balloons has overwhelmed the vast Antarctic desolation to more than 40 kilometers of altitudecarrying with him instruments designed to capture distant echoes from the universe. We talk about Anita experimentpromoted by an international consortium of physicists trying detect neutrinosthose particles without load, practically without mass, that cross the matter without a trace. Billions of them constantly cross our bodies without us noticing them and, nevertheless, their detection is an extraordinary achievement: when one of them interacts with an ice molecule, it can trigger a rain of secondary particles that emit brief pulses of radio waves. Anita was created for that. But since its deployment, ha captured something else. Inexplicable signals. In it year 2006and then again In 2014Anita detected radio pulses that seemed to come not from above (as expected with cosmic rays) but From belowfrom inside the ice. The waves arose at very inclined angles, up to 30 degrees under the surface, and showed no reflex signs. The problem? That, according to the laws of physics known, that It shouldn’t be possible: To emerge from those depths, a particle should have crossed thousands of kilometers of solid rock before releasing a detectable signal, something that neutrinos usually usually achieves. And yet the data were there. The comparison with other neutrinic detection projects did not yield coincidences. What Anita was capturing was real … But inexplicable. Anita The border of the known. Scientists initially thought they could be facing Tau neutrinosa variant that, crossing Antarctic ice, can generate tau leptons and trigger the so -called “air rains”, emissions that Anita is specially designed to detect. But the angles, the intensities and the frequency of the signals They did not match with the predictions of the standard model. Stephanie Wissel, Astrophysics of Penn State and one of the authors of the new studyrecognized that, although these signs could be confused with neutrinic events, everything points They are not. If they were conventional neutrinos, they should have gone through the entire planet without interacting with anything, which, although technically possible, would be statistically miraculous. Beyond the standard. And here comes the most fascinating. The most disconcerting hypothesis is also the More suggestive: That these signs come from particles that do not appear in current theories. Some experts have proposed that they could be related to The dark matter or with interactions not yet described. Other theories They point to possible unknown effects of propagation of radio waves In polar ice, perhaps influenced by atmospheric, topographic or electromagnetic conditions of the Antarctic environment. That said, and so far, none of these ideas has been able to reproduce experimentally or find parallel evidence. The silence of the other detectors and the absence of compatible patterns reinforce the anomalous nature of these pulses. The promise of the successor. With Anita retired since 2016, the scientific community now deposited its hopes In Pueo (Payload for Ultrahight Energy Observations), a new more sensitive and robust aerial experiment than its predecessor. Designed by the same team, Pueo will have a Best angular resolution And he will be able to capture weaker or subtle signals, which could confirm whether the abnormalities detected are recurring events or simple fortuitous errors. Wissel and his team hope that Pueo can not only capture new similar events, but also elucidate its nature And, in the best case, expand the limits of what we understand today by particle physics. A persistent enigma. One thing is clear: the Mystery remains. The signs detected By Anita They do not fit neutrinos, they do not correspond to known phenomena and have not been able to reproduce. In other words: what is there is an explanatory vacuum, a series of data that challenges our more solid theories. As I said Wissel herselfmaybe we are facing a phenomenon of propagation of unknown radio, or maybe not. Anita’s case represents one of those unique moments in science: when observation is ahead of the theory, and the instruments detect something that the mind cannot still understand. Thus, in the vast cold silence of Antarctica, something seems to be talking. And we have no idea what he is telling us. Image | Penn State In Xataka | In 1960 a strange sound was detected under the waters of Antarctica. Not only do we still have no response: it is multiplying In Xataka | Why the appearance of thousands of lakes in Antarctica is another disastrous sign for our future

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