We do not know if the AI ​​is going to eat your work, but the CEO of some startups are determined to convince you of it

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AI comes for your work. It is the message that does not stop arriving since Chatgpt reached the market. And even before. The impact of artificial intelligence on the world of employment It can be hugebut for the moment They have not been noticed Its effects too much. That, they say more and more frequently the CEOs of technological companies, it will change. First, Shopify. Less than a month ago the CEO of Shopify, Tobi Lütke, He sent a memorandum To its employees with a clear directive: “Using AI effectively is now a fundamental expectation for everyone in Shopify.” In fact, he indicated that before expanding a workforce or investing in other tools, project managers should have exhausted all the ways to do that task with AI already available tools. Then Fiverr. The last to adopt a decision and speech of this type is Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr, who in a memo to his employees emphasized the importance of protecting their careers in the face of the growing influence of AI. His message was overwhelming: “This is the unpleasant truth: AI comes for your work. Demons, it also comes for mine. This is a call of attention. It does not matter if you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer service representative, seller or financial: the AI ​​comes for you. You must understand that what were previously considered” easy tasks “will no longer exist; what were considered” difficult tasks “will be” difficult tasks ” Easy, and what was considered “impossible tasks” will be the difficult thing. Finally (for the moment), Duolingo. Luis von Ahn, CEO of Duolingo, announced its template A few days ago his intention to be “an Ai-first. Among the measures that the company will take is to “gradually stop hiring freelancers to do the work of which AI can be commissioned.” Of course, Von Ahn apostilled, “Duolingo will continue to be a company that deeply cares about its employees. This does not replace the DUOS (company employees) with AI. It is about eliminating bottlenecks so we can do more with the spectacular duos we have now.” Many said it before, many will say it later. The message is explicit, but of course it is not new. The appearance of Chatgpt caused this type of predictions to become increasingly frequent, and little by little we have seen how the CEOs of large companies have talked about the impact that AI will cause on work. Above all, in the world of programming: Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, was clear a year ago than No one should learn to programand they have also said Mark Garman (CEO of AWS) or Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. Mark Zuckerberg joined that prediction a few days ago and assured that in 12-18 months the majority of the code would be written by an AI. And I didn’t talk about the machines autocomplete code, but that they would write it completely. First it will help us, then (perhaps) it will replace us. Many experts believe that AI It will enhance our productivity And it will help us do more And better work than ever. It is what happened with the computer or internet, but with AI there is a clear fear that I end up going beyond and completely doing our work. The possibility is there, although with other technological revolutions, there will be more threatened jobs and others that will be less. Bill Gates, for example, believes that Doctors and human teachers do not have much future And Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, states that the impact of AI on employment “It is a huge, huge problem“. Perhaps 140 years of history point to a surprising future profession. Hairdressers. Between 1871 and 2011 Technology created more jobs than destroyed. The 2015 study published In The Guardian It focused specifically on data from the Census of England and Wales, and that allowed to assess the impact of technology on the world of employment. The most physical works clearly fell into a fee, but while or other professions were created, or professionals were added to which there were already. For example, surprise: the number of hairdressers grew prodigiously throughout those 140 years: just 0.1% of the workforce in 1871, this group went on to represent 0.6% in 2011. But the impact is inevitable. There are more studies and forecasts that occurred before the current “revolution” of AI. In 2018 the World Economic Forum (WEF) He published his report ‘Future of Jobs 2018’. In their conclusions they pointed out that automation would eliminate 75 million jobs by 2025, but would create 133 million new functions. The balance has changed five years later. In your 2023 reportthis agency pointed out that in the next five years it is estimated that 83 million works will be lost and 69 million will be created. The funny thing is that lately workers They seem to be somewhat more optimistic With his future. Image | Fiat Chrysler Automobiles In Xataka | Thousands of employees use AI in their work. More and more do not want their bosses to discover it

In favor and against an increasingly international and ‘desestationalized’ diet

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Yesterday There were creeks in the supermarket. Round, orange and bittersweet, the fruits of the loquat of Japan are one of those little miracles that gives us May. And I know it is an anecdote: a handful of thousands of tons of an absurdly seasonal product distributed by the supermarkets of five or six Spanish provinces. But it made me smile, first; And frown, later. Because yesterday, looking at those two bars in the middle of the ocean of fruits and vegetables, I realize that we almost always eat the same. Yes, a varied and balanced diet: provided we do not get out of the same 20 or 30 fruit and vegetable references. There is a battle in the world of distribution forever, let’s eat the same; so that our diet is the most standardized the same; so that there are no media in the supermarket. It may seem exaggerated, but there are examples to thousands. If we think about it, the idea of ​​being able to go down to the store and find avocados whatever the time of the year is almost magical. Avocado flowering in Spain It occurs in April. Also in March and May, but especially in April. The collection and marketing, on the other hand, goes from October to March. What happens in the spring and summer months? Where do the avocados that fill the shelves of the supermarkets come from? The answer is that of Peru. Of other sites, but fundamentally from Peru. The market and globalization has achieved something incredibly difficult: to be able to have seasonal products throughout the year. Sometimes, bringing them from other areas of the world (as in the case of avocado); Other times, looking for macrovarities that allow their cultivation throughout the year. That is what happens with potatoes (extra -time, early, half -season and late) and tomatoes. The Jungle Law. In this sense, international trade and international coordination select products with the ability to generate sufficient demand to ensure its supply during the year is profitable. As not all products allow it, nor all consumer groups are large enough: the current result is that many traditional products can only be found at the local level and those of great consumption The shelves of the supermarkets fill half the world. In our pantry there is a fierce knife fight from which only the most suitable products for these plethoric market societies come out. Is such a standardized diet ‘a good idea? Without a doubt, it has positive things. For the love of God, we can eat avocados at any month of the yearHow are you not going to have positive things? For thousands of years humanity has had to eat what it touched, but now we are very close to simply eat what we feel like. And that, even in a subject so crossed by cultural, social and personal factors Like food, it limits the future of gastronomy: it unifies it little by little, it makes it less diverse and more insecure. But, without a doubt, more appealing: a breakfast buffet in a hotel of many stars: the best – the most popular – of each kitchen in the world. While science fiction writers imagined a future with astronaut food, A kind of Soylent with steroids. What we are discovering is that the diet is changing, yes; But towards the promise that in the end We will all eat more or less the same. Image | NRD In Xataka | How, when and why the tomatoes will know Tomato again?

In his second trailer, ‘Gta VI’ aims to exploit one of the great ideas so far absent in the franchise: love

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Although it sounds strange at this point, the Second trailer of ‘GTA VI‘points to something unexpected: Rockstar has matured. Or at least, he intends to continue with his purpose of making games more adults than those who gave him fame, an intention that started with ‘Red Dead Redemption 2‘. For the first time in the franchise, we see unthinkable maturity notes a few years ago. Hello to love. The plot core of ‘GTA VI’ will undoubtedly be the love story between Lucia and Jason, something unusual in a franchise full of promiscuity, prostitution, unsatisfactory marriages and lonely antiheroes and without time for love. This is what Rockstar tells us in the official synopsis: “Jason and Lucia always knew that the letters were against them, but when a blow that seemed easy to go wrong, they are trapped on the darkest side of the most sunny place in America, in the midst of a criminal conspiracy that extends throughout the state of Leonida, and forced to depend more than ever of each other if they want to go out alive.” Goodbye to the cartoon. If something puts on the table the new trailer of ‘GTA VI’ is A graphic realism never seen in the serieseven though we could be talking only about kinematics. And that realism has to bring hand in hand A change in the arguments that develop. Let us remember what the characters of ‘GTA III’, ‘Vice City’ or ‘Liberty City’ were: excessive, big heads, of schematic movements, almost cartoons. That has ended, and emotionally, the characters have to live up to it, in the same way, as we pointed out in their day, The demands of female representation have changed. A clear inspiration. Before we know more details about the argument (there are already rumors that Jason It could be an undercover policeman), the clearest reference of GTA VI are Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrowthe couple of robbers of banks who lived a bloody romance in the Chicago of the thirties. In this trailer we see Jason and wore a bank together, the first picking up the second when it comes out of jail, and sharing some beers, a sunset and some passionate scenes that perspire a certain unusual tenderness in the ‘GTA’ games. But a shadow looms on them. The thing may not end well: Rockstar games, especially the recent ones, usually deal with betrayal, one way or another. In ‘GTA v‘, where we were driving alternately to the three protagonists, in the end we were asked to choose between betraying our classmates or accepting a last mission with them. In ‘Red Dead Redemption’, betrayal when the protagonist seemed to have reached peace was inevitable. And in this ‘GTA VI’, if we alternately control the protagonists in the ‘GTA V’ style, the player could have to resort to a similar decision: loyalty to his partner or fulfill a mission. The model is ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’. It is the most sophisticated and deep game at the level of characters that has set rockstar to date. He left behind the grotesque composition of the protagonists of ‘GTA V’ and opted for emotion: in ‘RDR2’ we see Arthur Morgan learn with the player valuable lessons about betrayal, responsibility and – while he faces his own death, and as it is inevitable taking into account the title of the game – redemption. If Rockstar looks for a reference for maturity and adult characters, his own masterpiece is his model. A logical trajectory. From ‘Red Dead Redemption’, published fifteen years ago, the detour to more mature and adult arguments is indisputable. He was followed by the police key ‘La Noire’, the turn of ‘Max Payne’ in its third part towards personal hells and the second installment of ‘Red Dead Redemption’. Only ‘GTA V’ and, obviously, the verbenero ‘GTA online‘, to which you have to feed apart, they have left that line. But even recognizing that the fifth installment of the franchise is a look at more frivolous and caricaturescos times, posed unprecedented issues and approaches in the criminal saga. For now, noise and fury. For now, all this are conjectures, such as The brilliant idea that all we are seeing is the start of the game and Jason dies in the early hours of history. We cannot deduce from the second trailer what are going to be the key points of the argument, but the official information makes it clear that the relationship between Lucía and Jason (include or not deaths, betrayal or something else) will be openly romantic. And what is clear from the tone and visual style of the trailer is the potential of the game of giving an unprecedented impulse to the depth of the stories that are told in video games. And Rockstar is not known for letting this type of opportunities pass. Header | Rockstar In Xataka | The delay of ‘GTA VI’ goes far beyond a mere change in the calendar. It is an earthquake for industry

Opinions, first contact and photos

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More practical and more comfortable. Those are the main identity of the new electric renault 4, an alternative to the Renault 5 that clearly has a more youthful approach, more than a driver than this SUV version that is not so linked to its past but that is equally careful. The electric Renault 4 is one of those cars that one arrives with the promise of another car. It is very likely that the client will land at the concessionaire attracted by the electric Renault 5 and when he sees the rear seats and the trunk is decided by this option that is Much more practical For a family with children. It is easier to accommodate these in the rear seats. In fact, adults will travel more easily. And, above all, it has a trunk and a much wider load space. This is our first contact with this reinvention of Renault 4. Electric Renault 4 Technical Card Renault 4 Body type. B-SUV of five seats Measures and weight. 4.14 meters long, 1.77 meters wide, 1.50 meters high and 2.54 meters of wheelbase. From 1,410 kg of weight (no more details are specified) TRUNK. 420 liters Maximum power. 110 kW (150 hp) WLTP consumption. 14.7 kWh/100 km for 40 kWh battery version. 15.1 kWh/100 km for the 5 kWh battery version. Environmental Distinctive. Zero emissions Driving aids (ADAS). Confirmed the minimum required by the European Union. Front and rear emergency braking. Centering lane with adaptive cruise control. OTHERS. Open R link built on Android Automotive, compatible with Android Auto and Apple Carplay. Electric hybrid. No. Plug -in hybrid. No. electric Yes. 90 kW versions (122 hp) with 40 kWh battery and 110 kW (150 hp) with 52 kWh battery. price and launch Already available: 40 kWh battery: from 28,752 euros 52 kWh battery: from 31,632 euros A car that is bought with the head It should seem obvious when one is going to leave “thirty -many thousand euros” in a product. We try to look for rationality in objects such as a computer, hiring the fiber of the mobile, when choosing the supermarket we bought. But buying a car is still A point of irrationalityto buy with the heart. To assume that we aspire to have that car for at least a decade ahead. And that’s why aesthetics remains key. That is why brands continue to invest in aspirational products because they know they attract new customers. And that if these new customers do not buy that car will be made with another that is cheaper or more practical but they will already be in their networks. A formula that is only possible if certain identity signs are maintained. With the Renault 5 and 4 that happens. I have rarely felt as observed as in Our first contact of Renault 5. Beauty is that purely subjective element that, curiously, makes majority public to the same product. Some goal will have. Renault has managed to attract looks with his Renault 5. A beautiful car, careful, well topped but whose rear seats and their trunk can leave out many families. For them, the French have that electric Renault 4. A little wider inside, more space in the rear seats and a qualitative leap in the trunk that grows to 420 kilometers. It is not so striking like him Fivedoes not have that captivating but Renualt air has managed to remember the classic 4 cans with an aesthetic that trusts most of its links with the past to a front grill with two round headlights and two rear optical groups that modernize the original. To this is added that, as we say, Renault has made him care. The configuration is the same as in the Renault 5, 10 -inch screen for the central and 7 or 10.1 inches (depending on version) for the instrument frame, both supported in the same frame that takes advantage of Android Automotive to display a set of brilliant graphics and results that are especially striking for the can of the panels. The rest of the cabin shines where his brother model did. The splash furniture presents an illuminated infographic with the name of the model, has well -chosen padded and the seats are comfortable. The steering wheel feels of good quality. And all this is presented with an attractive and brave color palette that breaks with the anodinos (and almost standard in the market) white, black and the wide gray range in all its tones and saturated. If we talk about your system of Infoentrateas we said, there is no complaint. The menus are simple to control and everything is there where you expect. A strip of four direct accesses on the left side and direct access to multimedia systems and a second function in the right. Panel, the latter, which can be hidden. In the center we have the Google Maps map with real -time traffic information. Everything unfolds quickly and without suffering any LAG. It is appreciated that under the central panel the well -known physical controls of air conditioning are maintained. The information in the instrument frame is well distributed, with a configurable central panel to the driver’s taste (including the map) and a right side in which the information related to consumption is shown. Compatibility with Apple Carplay and its wide versatility, carrying Apple’s map to the instrument picture if you want. The button that deactivates adas aids to the driver with a simple touch (activates a personalized configuration) and physical controls in the steering wheel, well distributed and easy to handle is also maintained. What still seems uncomfortable is the arrangement of the controls of the right where the transmission lever, the watering wiper, multimedia control and, now, the cams are crowded. Because the electric renault 4 adds some cams that allow controlling the regenerative braking to the point of adding the One pedalthe function with which we can control the car only with the accelerator. Regeneration when lifting foot is strong enough … Read more

We had been trying to know what neurostrogens served why they served. We have just discovered a clue: they regulate the appetite

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In recent years we have seen progress in the study of the hormones responsible for regulating our appetite and the feeling of satiety, hormones such as those that transmit from the stomach to the brain the information that we have already consumed our ration of food and we can stop. However, now we just found one of these hormones in an unexpected place, in hormones that until now we associated mainly with reproduction. From the stomach to the brain. A Japanese researchers team He has found A relationship between neurostrogens and appetite regulation. Neurostrogen. The Estrogens They are hormones that we usually associate mainly with female reproduction. In this context, aspects such as the development and maintenance of female sexual characteristics regulate. But this “family” of hormones has a diversity of members that cover other contexts. For example we can find the phytostrogen produced by plants or neurostrogens. The latter are produced by the brain, as their name suggests and until now they represented a mystery in our biochemistry since we do not know which or what their exact functions are. Looking for an answer. The team I investigated precisely The role of these brain hormones. For this they turned to mice in a laboratory. They compared several groups of mice, including some without the capacity to produce estrogen; and others to whom the production of neurostrogens had been inhibited. The latter was eliminated by aromatase, an enzyme used by the brain to synthesize these hormones. They thus verified that the group of mice that lacked ovaries and those without aromatase showed a greater body mass and greater food consumption compared to the mice of the control group. The team Then he reactivated The gene linked to aromatase, returning the enzyme to its brains. They saw that the mice went on to consume less food. MC4R. The team found that these mice to whom the ability to synthesize aromatase had been returned and with it neurostrogens showed a “marked increase” in the expression of the melanonortine 4 (MC4R) receptor, a receptor known for its role in the regulation of food consumption. This led the team to conclude that the neurostrogens produced through aromatase were involved in the expression of the receiver and that it was through it that were able to “suppress” the feeling of hunger. The role of leptin. The study, explains the responsible team, also indicated that neurostrogens could also increase the ability of the brain to leptin, one of the hormones whose function we already knew related to the regulation of appetite. “We observe that mice with restored neurostrogens responded more effectively to leptin treatment,” explained in a press release Takanori Hayashi, co -author of the study. “This may be due to the fact that neurostrogen increases the natural response of the body to the mechanisms that suppress appetite.” The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine The Febs Journal. The eye put into treatments. The team responsible for the study Mention the possibility that this discovery opens new therapeutic paths focused on development detracts for weight loss. They also point out that understanding the physiological function of neurostrogen could also help us find ways to regulate estrogen more precisely in our bodies, for example in contexts such as menopause or postpartum. In Xataka | We already know where the microplastics get the lettuce that you eat in the salad: from the air Image | Milad Fakurian / Sander Dalhuisen

how difficult it is to protect copper in a 15,000 km network

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“You cannot monitor 24 hours 15,000 kilometers of network, but you will have to put more means.” The phrase left her yesterday during An interview In Antena3 the president of Renfe, Álvaro Fernández de Heredia, and is interesting for several reasons. First for what he says. Second, for how he says it. And third (and fundamental), when he says. The rail operator complaint comes after the bird line between Madrid and Sevilla lived chaotic hours on Sunday by the Cable theft of copper in several points of the layout. What happened is serious, but it reveals something more worrying: how difficult it is to shield a network thousands of kilometers. Collapse on the Madrid-Seville line. The bird line between Madrid and Seville (The dean of the Spanish high -speed network) did not go through its best moment on Sunday night and Monday morning. Delays Stakes arrested for hours. Collapsed stations. AND More than 16,000 passengers affected. Although the collapse coincided with An incident starring an Iryo train, both Adif as the Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puentethey did not take long to relate what happened to the theft of cable on the line. “A serious sabotage act”. Sunday night, with the bird line between Madrid and Seville still knocked out, Oscar Puente spoke already of a “serious sabotage act” and pointed specifically to the theft of cable at various points distributed within about 10 kilometers. The thefts were recorded in five different locations distributed among the PK 102+200 and 92+800in the province of Toledo. In total the thieves took 150 m of copper cable. Click on the image to go to Tweet. A booty of 300 euros. The big question that was bouncing on Sunday and has continued to do so yesterday and today is what is the reason behind what bridge closets “sabotage.” Copper It has been revalued coinciding With the tariff war unleashed by Trump, but a priori the metal stolen in the Toledo line is rather scarce. The Government delegation has made accounts and calculates that its value Barely reaches 300 eurosso it has suggested that the real objective was to “block the road.” “That cable, which has very little value, is optimal for primar service to the line,” ditch. Bridge insists on talking about “A coordinated action” perpetrated by someone who “knew what was going” while the issue of the political debate. The PP has even related to the “obvious deterioration” of public services and He has demanded an “audit of the entire network”. Beyond the political or research sand that It has already opened A court of Toledo, what happened in the bird line between Madrid and Seville raises a fundamental question: Is it so easy to steal on the network? It is not the first time that the rail network suffers a robbery or sabotage. In 2022 The Civil Guard stopped to a band that was dedicated to stealing copper in the bird line in Valladolid, Palencia and Burgos. In total it had been made with a boot of 185,000 euros. And years before, In 2015he had already arrested 28 people from a Madrid organization related to the theft of more than 30,000 m of rail cable in several communities. In that case it was estimated that their “blows” had cost about 840,000 euros. The Rodalies case. The above are only two examples that can be easily found in the newspaper library. There are moredistributed by different latitudes of the Spanish geography, and that not only affect the high speed network. Does Just a year Without going any further Catalonia suffered the theft of 40 meters of cable on the Rodalies network at 300 m from the Montcada-Bifurcació station. The incident in turn caused an over -teaching that ended up affecting the service. Yesterday Europa Press It echoed From a balance of the security forces that show that only in 2024 they registered 4,433 copper wiring and conductive materials, 87% more than a five years. In total, 987 people were arrested and investigated, double that in 2019. The balance is general and does not only relate the robberies that affect the rail network, but still gives an approximate idea of ​​how frequent these types of crimes and also how it has been able to affect them the price increase of copper. A great network, a great challenge. The key was given yesterday by Fernández de Heredia during Your interview In Antena3: Spain has a wide (very wide) railway network and that is at the same time a chance and a huge security challenge. The Adif and Adif Av enclos 15,519 kilometers of network, of which 9,984 are electrified and just over 3,700 high -speed connections of different types. And that is just the Railway Network owned by ADIF. To control them in 2021 the organism He tendered a contract of surveillance and security services for three years (from April 2022 to March 2025) that amounted to 210.8 million euros. But still the challenge of monitoring the entire network is considerable. The bridge itself He explained That the 150 meters of stolen cable over the weekend were taken out of difficult access areas, between forest and olive groves. “We will have to put more means”. “You cannot monitor 24 hours 15,000 kilometers of network, but more means will have to be put to avoid it because the disorder caused by these robberies to travelers is very high,” He insisted yesterday The president of Renfe. In the past and before terrorist threats the government came to use the army to monitor the lines, as happened In July 2005after the attacks suffered in London. Images | Nelso Silva (Flickr) and TRANSPORT MINISTRY (X) In Xataka | The US has been dreaming of its first high -speed train decades: the California project is being a real nightmare

The second trailer of ‘GTA VI’ looks crazy, and is a sample of how good it feels to go against the industry

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The wait until May 26, 2026 will be made long. In a strange ad, Rockstar confirmed a few days ago that the release date of ‘GTA VI‘It was delayed from an indefinite moment of this 2025 At the end of May next year. It is something that It has several readingsbut one of them was that they would soon launch a new trailer that, finally, would set the final launch date and, announcing the delay in advance, would cushion the blow. This has been. The company has just launched the Second Trailer of ‘Grand Theft Aut VI’ And … he is overwhelming. If the first launched in 2013 already allowed us to theorize whether it was something moving in real time or was a pre-control scene, this second trailer points to tour the same path. And the reason is that there are scenes of ‘GTA VI’ that are a real madness. ‘GTA VI’ will squeeze a decaffeinated generation First of all, I have to clarify that we can only judge the visual quality of the game with the means that we have available so far. To perform deeper analysis, we will have to waitat least, at the moment we have GamePlay scenes itself, but I think we can start making illusions with what Rockstar is cooking. For three reasons, in addition. The first is that, as I said, the first game of the game has already allowed experts to discuss its nature. Digital Foundry is a British media specialized in the visual and technical analysis of video games and They debated Long and lay on whether the trailer was in real time (that is, the engine of the game and scenes extracted from it) or a scene rendered beforehand. Some visual errors as Jaggies -S. Sierra- allowed the pixel counting, and the washed image of the edges points to the use of some type of tool such as FSR or DLSS. The second reason is that Rockstar is not Ubisoft and it is not a company that has accustomed us to CGI videos before the launch of the game itself or to Visual Downgrades. The third reason to believe that the game will end up seeing as in these trailers is that we have ‘Red Dead Redemption 2‘As an example. The 2018 title, without having received a patch for the current generation, continues to be better than many games of this generation, and that was designed to function in 2013 consoles. Come on, what There are hopes in ‘GTA VI’ at the visual level. And, as we say, we have reasons (and not only for these precedents). Trailer screenshot The new video begins very, very high, with some characters modeling that seem spectacular, very realistic animations both bodily and facial, without falling into the exaggeration of features, and all this bathed for what, I think, is the element that makes the trailer look as well as it looks. Because the textured seems very good to me, but the lighting that bathes each scene is to not believe it. Among all the moments, the one who has left me speechless is one at the beginning, when we see Jason returning in his car, at night, and observes a police detention. Trailer screenshot The flashes, The position of light spotlights And elements such as that good textured, the most realistic color palette than in the previous installment of the saga and gestures make me create that scene completely. But it is not the only one: Trailer screenshot Trailer screenshot Trailer screenshot I am somewhat tired of the term “photorealism” we have been abusing from the launch of the first ‘Modern Warfare’, but it really is the only term that occurs to me to describe what I am seeing. Then there are the characters, with a certain caricaturized and stereotyped touch, but the physicists of elements and hairstyles, Reflexes on surfaces (The interior of the car is amazing) or the vegetation play to make the scenes … surprising. Perfect? No, of course, and we see distant elements such as the sand or water that have visual artifacts, as well as some textures such as Lucia’s hair at some time that seem flat, but the general level is so, so high that, for the first time from ‘Alan Wake 2‘ and ‘Warhammer Space Marine II‘, I feel that this generation of consoles is worth something. And with more merit if possible in the Rockstar title, since it is an open world, with the complexity that this implies. Rockstar promotional image Rockstar promotional image Rockstar promotional image It may be making many illusions, but it comforts me that people in Rockstar think that the game is going to see like this. Not current workers, something impossible in one of the most hermetic studies in the environment, but veterans of the company. One is Ryan Fuechliffe, member of Rockstar from 2009 to 2021 and who commented that ‘GTA VI’ will offer a “revolutionary” realism. Mike York, who worked as an animator in the company, also commented That the game will probably go to 30 frames per second because Rockstar was focusing on visual quality. But, although I seemed to me … wild, you have to have your feet on the floor. Obbe Vermeij, former technical director of ‘GTA 3’ to ‘GTA IV’ He pointed out That, although the first trailer was “incredible”, the technical jump may not be as large as the one seen in ‘GTA V’ and that could disappoint some players. As I have already said, you have to wait to see Gameplay because, obviously, these two videos that Rockstar has revealed play a lot with the rules of the visual language of cinema. Chamber tremors, paneos and angles that are typical of the kinematics of well -positioned virtual games and cameras and we will have to wait to watch the first video with gameplay. However, I return to my argument of ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’: Seven years later, the adventure of the … Read more

We have second to second the data on the great blackout in Spain. They complicate everything even more

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The great blackout of April 28 left us all with more questions than answers. Now, with the “black box” of the electrical system in the hands of the researchers, the preliminary data, far from offering a simple explanation, have added a level of complexity to an unprecedented energy crisis. To begin with, what seemed like an abrupt power fall was rather a sequence of three impacts. We knew of two disconnectionsbut as confirmed by Vice President Third Sara Aagesen, there was a third incident exactly 19 seconds Before the blackout, at 12:33. This first shake, located south of the Peninsula, adds to the two already known in the southwest, which triggered the cascade of the network. Although the system was able to absorb this first alteration, its existence adds a new layer of intrigues to an intricate technical autopsy. Researchers face the forensic analysis of about 70,000 critical points that show data every 20 milliseconds. Unraveling the exact sequence in those five fateful seconds between 12:33:16 and 12:33:21, and now also in the previous 19 seconds, is what light will shed on the questions that Red Electrica still does not answer. What was the first domino card to fall? How did the rest of the system react? Were the backs failed? The volume and granularity of information They predict months of workas happened after the Texas blackout in 2021 or that of Italy in 2003, where the final responses took months to arrive. Fortunately, there is a deadline, imposed by the European Commission: Spain has three months to deliver its conclusions about the blackout and A resilience plan that, predictably, will have implications at the paneuropeo level. Collapse anatomy 12:32:57 on Monday, April 28. First blow. The frequency of the peninsular network experienced a slight fall, a few hundredths below 50 Hz. The system absorbed the oscillation in milliseconds, as in normal circumstances. But it was a first warning: a first loss of generation in the south of the registered peninsula 19 seconds before energy zero. The Investigation Committee has already baptized it as the “third event”, although chronologically it was the first. Has been discovered after scrutinizing in detail the log of Eléctrica Red, which monitors those 70,000 critical points by turning data every 20 milliseconds. 12:33:16. Second blow. A new and powerful oscillation in the southwest dynamite the available operational reserve. The frequency sinks this time below critics 49.85 Hz. Given this fall, converters of an important part of the photovoltaic generation begin to disconnect automatically to protect the equipment. 12: 33: 17-12: 33: 21. KO Technical. In just four seconds, the frequency fall is accelerated unrecoverable. The interconnection with France jumps, and then that of Morocco. The network loses 15 GW of power, the equivalent of 60% of the peninsular generation at that time. Then go black. Spain and Portugal sign their first energy zero. 03:30 on Tuesday, April 29. To restore service from black, network operators carry out a Black-Start unprecedented, first starting the pumping hydraulics, followed by combined gas cycles. Red Eléctrica announced that 99.95% of the supply It had been restored 15 hours after the blackout. No one in Europe had risen from scratch a network of this size with such a high proportion of renewable energy. Renewables in the epicenter of debate While technical research progresses with stealth, the public debate is a Theories Polvorín Waiting for answers. The hypothesis of a cyber attack He has flown the crisis from the first moment, despite the fact that Eduardo Prieto, director of Operations of Electric, will discard it sharply. Beyond that, the growing weight of renewables in the energy mix (More than 50% of production in 2024) has placed solar and wind energies in the eye of the hurricane. Its intermittent nature and its lack of synchronous inertia (the ability of conventional plants to stabilize the network thanks to its great rotating masses) They make the most vulnerable system to frequency imbalances. The electricity grid must maintain a constant balance between generation and consumption, operating at a frequency of 50 Hz. An important mismatch can compromise the entire infrastructure. Renewable sources, depending on the sun or wind, and connecting through power electronics (famous investors), do not have that mechanical inertia. Since there are solutions such as energy storage (batteries or pumping centrals) and “Grid Formers” (investors designed to stabilize the network), the question is whether the system is sufficiently adapted to renewables. A May 2024 Report Published by the Electric Red itself, not suspect. Entitled ‘General Criteria for the Protection of the Spanish Electrical System’, warned of the need for Adapt protection criteria before “the change in the generation mix of the current electrical system due to the massive entry of renewable energy sources.” The text recognized that, in areas with high generation penetration based on power electronics, “situations could occur in which the behavior of some of the current protection functions was not expected”, being able to lead to the “disconnection of large amounts of renewable generation”, causing possible serious imbalances. American analyst Russ Schussler It has been warning for years that replacing synchronous generators with investor -based resources (wind, solar) increases the risk of blackouts, and that the lack of inertia is a key factor. Jordi Sevillaformer president of Electrica, believes that the National Integrated Plan for Energy and Climate Peque of “Too Renewable Messianism” without sufficiently attending to these technical problems and the lack of investment. Images | Endesa, Fernando Rodríguez (RTE data) In Xataka | The total blackout of Spain has a suspicious number 1: a stabilization of the poor electricity grid

Microsoft Surface LapTop 13 “and Surface Pro 12” (2025), characteristics, price and technical file

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Microsoft has two new laptops in the showcase, and they do not come to repeat formula. 13 -inch laptop surface and 12 -inch Surface Pro They land with Arm chip, they bet strongly on artificial intelligence (AI) and join the family COPILOT+ PC With the promise of more autonomy, more lightness and, above all, integration with AI. The surface range has not been burst, but if it continues to evolve. Technical sheet of the Surface LapTop 13 “and Surface Pro 12” Surface laptop 13 “ Surface Pro 12 “ screen 13 inches 1920 x 1280 pixels 60 Hz 12 inches 2196 x 1464 pixels 90 Hz PROCESSOR Snapdragon X Plus of 8 cores (45 tops NPU) Snapdragon X Plus of 8 cores (45 tops NPU) RAM 16 GB 16 GB storage 256 GB 512 GB 256 GB 512 GB battery Up to 23 hours Up to 16 hours Operating system Windows 11 Windows 11 price From 1,099 euros From 979 euros The same heart, two computer ideas Both models assemble the processor Snapdragon X Plus Of 8 cores, the Qualcomm weapon to compete seriously in the field of laptops with Windows. It is accompanied by a 45 tops NPU that allows you to execute the tasks of the device, without pulling the cloud. This enables functions such as Recall, the visual memory tool of Windows 11 that has been wrapped in some controversies, But that continues on its way. 13 -inch laptop surface From here, the roads separate. Surface laptop 13 ”is committed to portability: 15.6 mm thick, 1.22 kg of weight and up to 23 hours of video playback. It is the surface With more autonomy To date, according to Microsoft. In return, it stays with a 1920 x 1280 pixels tactile screen at 60 Hz, without HDR. Part of the 16 GB of RAM and 256 GB of SSD, although there are versions with more capacity. And eye: the surface port disappears. Now everything goes through USB -C. 12 -inch Surface Pro The Surface Pro 12 ”continues to play in the convertible league. Detachable keyboard (it is sold separately), compatible pencil and 680 grams of weight without accessories. The screen rises to 2196 x 1464 pixels with 90 Hz of refresh rounded. The keyboard is also renewed: now it includes backight, mate rests and a Improved touchpad With adaptive tactile mode. The Slim Pen can be magicized to the rear of the device. Microsoft continues to push AI functions in Windows 11, and these teams are prepared to take advantage of them. Recall that the most interesting novelties in the field of Microsoft AI will arrive only in those devices with the Copilot+ PC label. Price and availability of 13 -inch laptop surface and 12 -inch Pro Surface Both models can already be reserved from the Microsoft Store. The laptop surface 13 ”part of the 1,099 eurosand the surface pro 12 ”, of the 979 euros. They will be available As of June 10. Images | Microsoft In Xataka | Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Fe+, Analysis: The great contribution of the S-PEN in a large and more affordable format

China has rescued Santana from his sunset

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As is Lamborghinithe story of Santana is that of a agricultural manufacturer evolved to car producer. A giant who lived his golden age in collaboration with brands such as Land Rover and Suzuki, and who ended up closing in 2011. But Chinese conglomerates have a plan for Spanish brands. Chery He resurrected Ebro. And Zhengzhou Nissan Automobile, along with Anhui Coronet, will be responsible for returning to life to Santana. Made in Jaen. Santana Motors has closed an alliance with Zhengzhou Nissan Automobile, Joint Venture formed by Dongfeng Motor and Nissan, and Anhui Coronet. On the names we will deepen soon, but the key in the resurgence of Santana is in the return to its origins: Jaén. The new cars of Santana will be manufactured in the Andalusian city, with an initial investment of five million euros and the promise of creating up to 200 jobs. Chinese manufacturers begin to see in Spain a good destination in which to establish themselves to avoid tariffs on vehicle imports, and the strategy of rescuing traditional brands begins to be a trend. A BRIEF HISTORICAL REVIEW. Santana was born in 1956 as Metallurgical Santa Ana, initially focused on manufacturing tractors and agricultural machinery. Years later, in 1961, he closed an important alliance with Land Rover to produce vehicles under his license, giving rise to the mythical Land Rover Santana. After his foray into the automobile world, Santana changes his name to Santana Motor, and begins to make own vehicles derived from Land Rover. Entering the 80s, they close a new alliance with Suzuki, to produce models as popular as the samurai and create own models such as Santana 3000, with the base of the classic Suzuki Vitara. After the decline of Land Rover in 2000, the end of the alliance with Suzuki in 2009 and the lack of commercial success in its own vehicles, Santana ended up declaring bankruptcy in 2011. The dance of Chinese names. In 1993, Nissan Motor (the classic Nissan you know) and the Chinese companies Zhengzhou Light Vehicle Co. and Citic Group created a joint company: Zhengzhou Nissan Automobile Co., Ltd. (ZNA). Nissan needed a local alliance to manufacture, sell and expand through China, and ended up finding it. In 2017, another Chinese giant, Dongfeng (one of the great manufacturers in China with Byd, Saic Motor and Chery), acquired majority participation in ZNA. The summary of this name dance is that Nissan has a way to manufacture and launch product in China thanks to the support of Chinese groups, with electric such as Your recent N7. What will Santana manufacture. Although it is in new hands, Santana will maintain its essence. One in which the 4×4 robust vehicle was its main pilar. Jaén will produce plug -in hybrid cars (PHEV) and diesel versions, without transcending more concrete details about possible models. The Santana Motors, Zhengzhou Nissan Automobile and Anhui Coronet teams will resurface the Spanish whole-all, with the aim of selling it in Europe, Africa and America. Following the steps of Ebro. The resurgence of Santana remembers, and much, that of the Spanish manufacturer Ebro. Chery Motor has returned to life a company that will manufacture in the plants that Nissan will leave in Barcelona. One that was born in 1954, had its golden age in the 70s, and ended up breaking in the late 80s. China pressed that Spain does not support the tariff punishment to China by Europeand the country is beginning to reward by bringing part of its local production to our territory. Image | Jwvein In Xataka | Ebro S700, first impressions: Ebro reborn with a simple (and Chinese) car full of equipment to fight for price

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