make cities a good place to live

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When Daniel Knowles He began writing his book about the car industry, the world had been silent. Millions of people were locked at home, unemployment rates shot up, the streets cleared and wild animals returned to the desert center of the cities. The situation was so new that it could be dream that so much pain, death and uncertainty was going to open the door to a new world. It did not spend much time until we discovered that ‘dreaming’ was the key, which was nothing more than a ground. Two years later, while Knowles ended the book (‘Carmageddon‘, Captain Swing, 2025), “The world economy was booming, traffic had returned to the previous levels of pandemic and oil had prices (maximums) that were not seen in a decade. There were no other futures to fight for? A turning point. If two or three years ago, this correspondent of The Economist thought that we lived a turning point, it seems a good idea to return to their ideas to solve the cities crisis: that moment of change has only lengthened. But … what cities crisis? We can be living A world demographic crisisYeah; But the urban population is growing forced marches: in 2007, half of humanity already lived in cities for the first time. Now we are 55% and will reach 66% before 2050. What crisis is this? Well, As Rodríguez Seijo said right herea much more sibyline suris: than urban ecosystems “have become large centers of resource consumption, and in production areas and emission of potentially polluting substances.” And yes, it is true, “since 2000, one of the main pollutants in urban environments, the lead of gasoline, old housing paints or pipes” has been eliminated or reduced; However, “there are many organic and inorganic pollutants that continue to cause different health problems and that cause millions of deaths a year.” That is the true crisis. A crisis of at least seven million deaths a year. That was what the poor air quality, driven by the transport industry, caused In urban environments only in 2012. Hence, specialists like Knowles argue that “the expansion of the car has gone too far and must be stopped.” Freen it? Can we stop it? Rodríguez Seijo, Reflecting on the causes that “cities are killing us”he concluded that “the absence of planning” is one “of the great challenges facing urban populations.” That’s where Knowles ideas shine more. “I believe, without any doubt, that a largely populated city is the best place to live in most cases both for my own good and for that of the planet,” The journalist concluded After visiting more than half a dozen countries. Moreover, “there is no good reason for the sustainable option – living in an apartment or in a good -sized attached house in a neighborhood that can walk, bike and use public transport to move – it has to be so expensive and, on the contrary, live in a huge single -family house and use huge amounts of natural resources is the cheapest option.” This sounds a bit difficult to implement. And Knowles agree. In fact, as repeatedly defends, we do not have to reproduce Tokyo on each part of the planet. “Nor do we have to start to pieces the highways or impose draconian norms such as the Singapore enrollment lottery.” Even so, there is one thing that can be done to get cities Be healthier sites to live: Reorient the incentives towards the purpose they should have. There are hundreds of ideas. French taxes on cars according to weight, the Dutch reform to give priority to pedestrians or london congestion rates. It is definitely to realize that people take centuries Trying to go to live to the cities; that, in fact, they are doing it faster and faster; And that, surely the measure with a more transformative impact today would be to turn those cities into good places to live. Image | Chris Czermak | Yeh Xintong In Xataka | The cities with skyscrapers are not the panacea. They contaminate more than those of middle heights (such as Paris)

It seemed an impossible enemy, it was actually the brightest antipyretary system in a video game

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Piracy and entertainment are two concepts that They go hand in. In video games, this has meant a kind of race between the cat and the mouse, with the video game companies pulling inventiveness to try to pay players paying for their products. At the moment, Denuo is a very safe tool – that not invulnerable -, but throughout history we have seen most imaginative antipyertería systems. And the most memorable case is that of ‘Serious Sam 3‘. The reason? A giant and implacable scorpion that was looking for you to end with you if it detected that your game was a pirate. And the players accepted the challenge. Aid! It ran 2011 when the Croatian Croteam team (their heads did not break a lot) launched the third installment of its hilarious shooting saga ‘Serious Sam’. At that time, the antipyertorous measures were so rudimentary that the game came out ‘cracking’ within a few hours of the official launch, so many users quickly made a copy. Except in some cases in which mouth to mouth causes peaks of players months or years after the launch of a title, it is usual for forums and social networks to fill out of comments on a newly released game. As a minority, there will always be players commenting on the levels, which seems to them the game and reporting problems. And shortly after the launch of ‘Serious Sam 3’, the players began to complain about something: a Red scorpion that appeared in his departure and prevented them from continuing with the game. Even recently They published Some complaints in Steam. Scorpion. These players described the scorpion as a huge, invincible, very fast entity, that shot incessantly, that it was a sponge of bullets and that did not leave you alone at any time and complained about what they believed was a bug or a programming failure in the game code. The enemy’s pint is quite terrifying, which added to his fire power and the fact that it is invincible … well, it was not a pleasant drink. The little girl is that it was not a bug, but a characteristic of the game. Croteam knew that it was impossible to put doors to the field and that his game was going to be pirated, so he scheduled the game with a special characteristic: if he detected that the copy was a pirate, the invincible scorpion appeared and it was not going to stop until he killed the player. It was impossible for the player to enjoy the game in those conditions. Praise. In the video we left for some paragraphs, we can see an example of how the community took this movement. “Simply, I adore Croteam. They are not the details that the study has added to the game. No, no, no. It is the introduction of an arachnid, immortal and very fast enemy that is part of its antipirable system. And it is the icing on the cake.” That was the description of the shared video just a month after the launch of the title, but in the comments we can see dozens of players who reacted in similar ways. Comments such as “It is the best antipirable system in history”, “The movement of the bug terrifies me”, “Do not annoy, have applied antipiría measures either for once. This is comedy in its purest form” or “This is how the DRM should be. It has no negative effects for legitimate players, but hilarious consequences for pirates” show that the system was not badly received, at all. And, among all praises, only a few commented things like “expect, that pirates have extra difficulty? That is not fair.” And there were those who accepted the challenge. And the ‘Commission’ arrived. Thekotti He is a player who has been going up for years Speedruns to your YouTube channel. It has some absolutely demential and a few years ago raised a video passing in just over half an hour ‘Serious Sam 3’. A time later, he assumed the challenge of Croteam and went up A new Speedrun of the game, this time with a brand of one hour and 14 minutes until the game is completed. Why 45 more minutes if he was already an experienced player? Because he played the version with…. Scorpion. The bug took little to appear, but Thekotti was so fast that the scorpion had to reappear in front of him every two by three. With what has been learned, he tried again, lowering his brand until the time and six minutes. Seeing the video is a show, especially because that terrifying measure is nothing: Mods to activate it in legal copies. Obviously, this is not how most players enjoy the game, but it must be said that this movement by the Croatian study liked it so much that it inspired the Creation of Mods so that players with legitimate copies of the game could introduce the relentless scorpion in their games. I have to comment that I was never interested in the saga, but when I learned about the existence of this, I downloaded the pirate game, I laughed for a while, I checked that the bug was superman and bought the game in the first Steam sales in which it was available. In this case, I can say without fear of being wrong that it is one of the best ideas to discourage piracy, unless a PROPLAYER He gets in his head play your game without care of these measures. In Xataka | ‘Don’t Copy That Floppy’: This was the most ridiculous anti-Co-Copy video of all time

There he learned everything he needed to build Microsoft’s empire

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Microsoft is, without a doubt, the greater professional success of Bill Gates. However, not many people know that the secret of their success was based on some failures that the millionaire committed Before founding the technological. In his autobiographical book, ‘Code Source: My beginnings’Gates reveals how this first business experience, when he was barely a teenager, was decisive to mold his vision about What Microsoft should be. This episode of Gates’s life shows that even the brightest and most successful businessmen have had to stumble learn from your mistakes. Traf-o-Data: Gates and Allen’s first attempt In the summer of 1972, Bill Gates was attended by his last year of high school, while Paul Allen was already in college. Both had met at the school computing club. They were inexperienced and have barely done a few programming projects for the school or to collaborate in projects with their teachers. However, they were presented with the opportunity to code and process telemetry data of the Alburquerque traffic using perforated paper ribbons, so both friends joined for efforts and founded Traf-O-Data. Gates himself is described in the book as a “spoiled know -allotodo” that often responded with sarcasm and disdain with a: “That is the most stupid thing I have heard.” A phrase that, who have worked with the tycoon At some point in his career at the head of Microsoft, he has surely heard on more than one occasion. Having that in mind, the experience provided by Traf-O-Data, although failed, served as learning For someone who has defined himself as self -taught. Both schoolmates created a machine equipped with a Intel 8008 microprocessor of 360 dollars that allowed to automate the reading of the paper tapes that contained the traffic data to digitize that information. Although the idea seemed promising, the company failed to be profitable. As Paul Allen remembered In an article De Newsweek, “Traf-O-Data was a good idea with a poor business model. We had not occurred to market studies and we did not know how difficult it would be to get financing from the municipalities.” In 1975, they managed to bill almost $ 17,000. Which was not bad in the case of an inexperienced young people. According to Paul Allen, he remained operational until 1980, when he already registered annual losses of $ 3,494. This first business failure, far from discouraging them, served as a test laboratory where They learned important lessons on the marketproject management and the importance of constant innovation. “Traf-o-Data is still my favorite mistake because it confirmed that each failure contains the seed of the next success,” Allen recalled. Gates assured in his book that he learned that it is not enough to have a good idea, but it is crucial to have a solid business model and a well -defined business objective. The experience with Traf-O-Data taught them to identify the real market needs (the digitalization of the data of the paper tapes) and to develop solutions that really made the difference (the machine that processed the information), skills that would forge the foundations on which Microsoft would be built. Learning to be the boss The adventure of Traf-O-Data, was also a personal level learning for Gates, somewhat awkward in terms of social skills. Before developing the machine with the processor, Gates and Allen They hired a group of students of lakeside younger than them to transcribe by hand the data of the tapes. They paid fifty cents for each tape. Then, Gates and Allen went to the Library of the University of Washington and used The university computer to process this data and generate the traffic patterns graphics that the tapes had been recorded. That He taught them to work as a teamto make quick decisions and adapt to the changes in the environment to stay in your target. Later, they created their own processing system, which allowed them to collect two dollars daily for the digitalization of the data, as well as expand their business area to other government agencies of the neighboring states to Seattle. Gates himself explained to young peoplethat they were going to graduate at the University of Arizona del Norte that errors are a fundamental part of the learning process and that you should not be afraid to commit them. Traf-o-data was the seed of What is Microsoft today. In Xataka | Bill Gates is clear about the habit of his childhood that has helped him succeed in his career: get bored In Xataka | Steve Ballmer has become a Milmillonario without founding a single company: some of his advice to achieve it Image | Flickr (World Economic Forum)

We are drugping the salmon with cocaine and anxiolytics. And that is causing them to behave strangely

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Few animals have suffered both humans and a canine breed: The Pug (or Carlino). Deliberate breeding of this type of dog has given rise to all kinds of physical malformations, with a distorted anatomy (Extremely stoking skull, exposed eyes, compressed airways and dysfunctional jaws) as a result of systematic and cruel artificial manipulation. To the list of creatures to which we make life very complicated We must add another that is adapting to our taste for drugs: salmon. First it was cocaine. June 2020. The officials of the State Agency of the Environment of North-Westphaly (LANUV) ran into a disturbing scene In a German fish farming: Atlantic salmon they were agreed frantically, tried to jump out of the water and showed a chaotic behavior That, according to experts, it could only be explained by a strong feeling of discomfort. Loomed salmon. The situation arose within the framework of a species conservation project, and due to the unusual episode, it was documented in the annual report of the agency under the title of “Salmon with cocaine”. After analyzing the water from the streams that fed the tanks, they ruled out a long list of pesticides, herbicides and common drugs, until they detected two particularly striking substances: yes, cocaine and their metabolite Benzoylecgonine. A documented reality. The clear presence of cocaine in one of the nearby streams led researchers to conclude that a drug reaction could not be discarded, much less. The most plausible hypothesis pointed to a illegal discharge Wastewater in the stream channel, a practice common In Europe and the United States, where clandestine laboratories and drug trafficking networks eliminate their waste in water bodies. Far from being an isolated case, what happened in Germany joined a growing line of investigations that document how illegal drug waste present in rivers and streams directly affect aquatic fauna. In United Kingdom, SpainCentral Europe and other regions, Identified methamphetamineMDMA and other substances at levels that, although low, are enough to alter the fish behavior. A first job. A scientific study was even further: researchers intentionally exposed trout to Methaphetamine dose Similar to those detected in rivers, and observed how they developed signs of addiction, they modified their behavior and, when they were transferred to clean environments, they had symptoms of abstinence. The experiments revealed that many drugs designed to affect the human brain also interact with the neuronal systems of other speciesgenerating unpredictable consequences. And then the anxiolytics. The salmon were much more than the coca. In one unprecedented researcha team of scientists has confirmed that drug waste circulating in rivers not only reaches aquatic species, but are modifying their behavior In full nature. The study, Posted in Sciencefollowed the migration of 279 young salmon from the Atlantic on the Dal River, in Sweden, after implementing slow -release capsules with two medications commonly found in contaminated waters: CLOBAZAMan anxiolytic of the benzodiazepines family, and Tramadolan opioid analgesic. What did they find? The researchers discovered that those salmon exposed to clobazam reached the Baltic Sea in a greater proportion than those not medicated, and did it until three times faster When crossing hydroelectric dams, raffling turbines with an unusual audacity for their species. The result surprised scientists, who expected that excess of boldness to reduce the probabilities of survival. “Artificial” courage. Although in this context the reckless behavior It seemed to facilitate migration (by shortening the time of exposure to dangerous obstacles such as turbines), experts warn that this alteration of natural behavior could have deep ecological consequences. Clobazam caused fish to adopt more individualistic behavior, less gregarious, which could increase your vulnerability before the predators once in an open sea. Parallel experiments in laboratory support this idea: the medical salmon showed Less trend To form banks, an essential collective defense strategy. This tendency to separate from the group would make them more visible and easy to hunt, which raises doubts about their long -term survival capacity, something that the study could not track once the fish reached the Baltic. Silent contamination In the background, another problem. The investigation It provides a conclusive evidence that the effects observed in laboratory with psychiatric drugs (such as a lower response to fear, loss of social behavior and increased risk taking) are also produced in natural conditionsand with doses comparable to those found in real ecosystems. The finding reinforces the concern about the called “Pharmaceutical Soup” which flows through the rivers of the world: more than 900 active pharmacological ingredients have been detected in natural waters, from antibiotics to antidepressants and chemotherapeutics. Many of these drugs act on areas of the brain common to multiple speciesso that fish and other aquatic animals are exposed to non -expected side effects, dangerous combinations and interactions still very little studied. A global threat. The researcher Karen Kidd, a specialist in ecotoxicology, underlined these days that the real risk is in the Multiple substance accumulation with different effects, whose consequences together are unpredictable. For scientists, this is a problem of Planetary scope which demands a systemic response: it is urgent to develop more advanced wastewater treatment stations, capable of eliminating these compounds before they reach the rivers, as well as promoting the design of more biodegradable medications. The key, they warn, is to act before these subtle but constant changes undermine the Ecosystems balance built for millennia. Because, although technology can continue to detect alterations, only a determined action can stop the invisible deterioration of life under water. Meanwhile, among anxiolytics that make them reckless and streams contaminated with cocaine that alter their vital pulse, the millenary fight of salmon against currents and predators has added a new and unprecedented new enemy: the invisible waste of human addictions. Image | Csiro, Pexels In Xataka | Until the 90s nobody in Japan ate sushi with raw salmon. Until a marketing campaign changed everything In Xataka | A gigantic cage 110 meters in diameter designed solely and exclusively for raising salmon: Ocean Farm 1

People are fed up with Skincare’s thousand steps so the last Beauty trend is just one thing: exosomes

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A couple of years ago, beauty routines passed through multiple steps that combined tonic, essences, serums, acids and mists, among other things. Today, some extreme trends such as “Morning Sheds” – as viral routines involving masks and adhesive tapes to mold the face – they have shown that perhaps the issue of the Skincare too far. Faced with this exhaustion, social networks They are driving A new approach: do less, but better. And within this more minimalist beauty philosophy, a word begins to resonate: exosomes. More than a new trend. According to The Spanish Society of Aesthetic Medicine and some specialized publications such as Elleexosomes have become a revolution within the beauty sector. The hashtag #Exosomas on Instagram exceeds 51.5 thousand publications, and in English, #Exosome already accumulates more than 247,000. Also its popularity does not stop growing in Tiktok, where creators like @ROGERWHO has shared His experience: “It hurts, but the change in my face is unique.” But the boom has a name and surname. If something characterizes beauty products is that the boom is born with the Celebrities: Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, Sofía Vergara, Jennifer Aniston or Paris Hilton have already tried them. Here in Spain names such as Úrsula Corberó, Blanca Suárez, Jessica Goicoechea or Berta Vázquez have also declared fans. And finally, social networks have made the rest: Videos of the post-treatment “glow”, Real results (not sponsored), and A new narrative focused on taking care of the skin from its base. An aesthetic medicine revolution? Exosomes are small vesicles generated by stem cells (human, animals or vegetables) that act as cell messengers: they transport protein, lipids and genetic material with the mission of regenerating, repairing and improving the skin from within. Such as Glamor Spain has collectedthey function as “natural cellular activators”, capable of improving skin quality, stimulating collagen and elastin, and returning firmness, elasticity and light. Dr. Lidia Maroñas, dermatologist and Clinical Director of Ooneskinmed, has detailed Thus for Hola magazine: “They act as if they spoiled the cell. They are indicated how to behave to improve the skin. In our clinic we use E-50 Primacure exosomes, from salmon cells grown in bioactive media of dermis.” Where to perform the treatment? Although there are already products with exosomes to use at home, clinic treatments remain the most powerful. In medical and aesthetic centers, exosomes are vehicle with advanced apparatus (microneedling, fractional laser, radiofrequency with needles or morpheus 8), which allows them to penetrate in the deepest layers of the dermis and multiply their regenerative action. Besides, According to Elle SpainThey are integrated with other techniques such as LASH, especially useful for treating scripts, stretch marks or sensitized skins. A Hype more or a real change? Unlike other viral products, exosomes not only generate noise in networks, they also have clinical and dermatological support. Since the like They have explained that its use is consolidating within aesthetic medicine as one of the main collagen stimulators, even more promising than classic treatments such as polynucleotides or growth factors. In addition, they have an extra advantage and that they do not depend on the season to prepare or repair the skin against sun damage. In a world obsessed with doing more, we will see how this new beauty routine adapts where it is less, time will say it. Image | Tiktok Xataka |The contestants of ‘The island of temptations’ have made a new face after the program. It is a symptom of something else

A critical component of current chips manufacturing machines

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The teams of extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE) that manufactures the Dutch company ASML are extraordinarily sophisticated. In fact, they are those currently using TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Sy Hynix and Micron Technology for produce integrated avant -garde circuits. They are so complex that during the first phases of their design in the early 90s of the last century, ASML engineers They believed it was impossible. However, everything changed in 1997. That year Jos Benschop, the leader of the research department, reassess whether UNVE technology was a viable option. After the first tests he realized that The German company Zeiss He was able to develop extraordinarily sophisticated mirrors that would be necessary to transport ultraviolet light. And he was not wrong. That was the real starting point of technology that has made it possible for our mobile phones and computers to have such advanced chips. Zeiss’s feat arrived in the 90s One of the most complex elements of UVE lithography machines is The ultraviolet light source. The company of American origin Cymer, although since 2013 it is not an independent company. That year ASML executives decided to buy it to accelerate the development of the technologies involved in UVE lithography. An interesting note: the ultraviolet light is responsible for transporting the geometric pattern described by the mask so that it can be transferred with a lot of precision to the surface of the silicon wafer. Understanding what is the mask is simple: it is nothing other than a physical template that contains the design of the integrated circuit that is necessary to transfer to the Silicon wafer. In any case, there is another component without whose intervention It is not possible to carry out this crucial task. Other components, in plural, in reality, although all of them are of the same type. It is precisely the mirrors that Jos Benschop suspected in 1997 that Zeiss could produce. The light of 11.4 nm was discarded because it forced to use beryllium in the mirrors and is a toxic chemical element The role of the optical elements of this company in these lithography equipment is crucial. And it is because they are responsible for moving the UVE light with a wavelength of 13.5 nm from the source that is responsible for its emission to the mask contained in the geometric pattern that is necessary to translate into the silicon wafer. If the mirrors involved in the propagation of the UVE light are not manufactured with enormous precision the geometric pattern defined by the mask will be altered, and the chips will be damaged. Interestingly, the choice of the wavelength of the UVE light used by these machines was a very delicate decision. Initially the engineers involved in their tuning had four possible options: 13.5 nm, 11.4 nm, 6.6 nm and 4.8 nm. These last two wavelengths were finally ruled out due to the limitations they imposed Organic photorestoning materials. The light of 11.4 Nm was also discarded because it forced to use beryllium in the mirrors, and is a toxic chemical element. The wavelength of 13.5 Nm required to introduce molybdenum and silicon mirrors, but these elements do not pose any problem. This is the reason why UVE machines work with this light. In any case, this data clearly reflects the extraordinary level of precision with which it is necessary to manufacture the mirrors: Zeiss uses argon ions and other elements to polish layer per layer at the atomic level the mirrors, and then identifies and corrects the defects using a subnustric analysis technique. This last tool is capable of detecting defects with a lower precision than a nanometer (less than a millmillonieth part of a meter). * Some price may have changed from the last review Image | Zeiss BIBLIOGRAPHY | ‘Focus: The Asml Way’by Marc Hijink More information | Zeiss | Asianometry In Xataka | 2024 has been a year full of uncertainty for chip designers. So much that the market has changed leader

The “chinification” of anime and video games

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2025 is confirming something that was intuited last year. Among the people who It arrives in Japan To stay, China carries the lead. First he was moving to do not return to the nationthen the phenomenon has been extended by areas, where the proliferation of “new chinatowns” was giving rise to neighborhoods with Chinese than Japanese. They are now replacing one of the national bastions: pop culture. “Chinification”. It Nikkei had A few days ago. Some of the most emblematic neighborhoods of contemporary Japan are living a silent but radical transformation, driven by the growing commercial, visual and demographic influence of China. Places like Akihabara in Tokyo, Ameyoko in Ueno either Dotonbori in Osakafor decades considered symbols of Japanese popular identity, they are adopting an aesthetic and a dynamic that they refer more and more in the Chinese style. The anime In Akihabara, a nerve center of the otaku universethe usual iconography of Kawaii characters The landscape continues to dominate, but many of those characters no longer come from Japanese studies. Companies like Yostar Games, based in Shanghai, have taken control of key spaces such as the main access of the train station, exhibiting campaigns starring their characters with anime aesthetics that have achieved resounding success among the local public. To this is added the constant presence of titles as Genshin Impactcreated by Mihoyowhich also occupies prominent advertising fences. These companies not only precisely reproduce the Japanese narrative and visual formulas, but also hire Japanese personnel and local voice actors to ensure An aesthetic fidelity almost absolute. Much of the Japanese creative talent has migrated to these studies due to its best salary conditions, which has generated concern in the national industry, where even veterans of video game development openly speak of a loss of competitiveness. Akihabara (Tokyo) Change in traditional markets. The transformation is not limited to digital culture. In Tokyo, the historic AMEYOKO MARKETknown for its sale of fish and products for New Year celebrations, has experienced an almost total replacement of its commercial fabric. According to estimates of local merchants, approximately 80% of business They are now in the hands of Chinese citizens. Chinese food. Restaurants, imported ingredients and supermarket stores focused on the consumption of Chinese visitors have replaced the old traditional establishments. In Osaka, Dotonbori has become the most frequented tourist destination by Chinese citizens in all Japaneven surpassing historical areas of Tokyo such as Ginza or Asakusa. With an influx of More than 13,000 visitors Chinese daily, the area has modified its visual, linguistic and gastronomic offer to adapt to its new users. Mandarin posters, menus with Dalian -native dishes and businesses operated by Chinese citizens have become an integral part of the urban landscape. In the neighborhood neighborhood of Shimanouchithe growing Chinese population has generated a own commercial ecosystemwith supermarkets, pharmacies, restaurants and tourist accommodations managed almost entirely by migrants. Boom in depressed areas. In the district of Nishinaritraditionally associated with urban poverty and population aging, the phenomenon has taken A different dimension. Over there, Nikkei had that Chinese businessman Lin Chuanlong has economically reactivated a dying area by opening more than 170 Karaoke type barsoperated by Chinese women known as “breasts.” These premises, of affordable prices and festive aesthetics have returned the nightlife to a quiet neighborhood. Nicknamed now like Karaoke Pub Townthe neighborhood has become a new reference of affordable nightlife in Osaka. Lin, who arrived from Fujian more than thirty years ago, has also founded a real estate and plans to build a Chinese neighborhood in the area that, in His own wordsbe more attractive than those of Yokohama or Kobe. Although some places admit their confusion in the face of the speed of change, many others recognize that the transformation has revitalized spaces condemned to abandonment. A blanket About Japan. In the background, an idea that already stretched weeks ago. This process does not respond to an invasion or abrupt substitution, but to a Paulatine reconfiguration in which Chinese investment, its power of commercial attraction and its Adaptation capacity They seem to be reformulating the forms, functions and senses of the urban in many parts of Japan. In these areas, the “Japanese” is no longer defined by its national origin, or not in its entirety, but by its ability to survive, live together or integrate into a New regional aesthetic Asian where the distinction between the own and the alien has become diffuse. The ongoing transformation not only affects facades, posters or languages, but the very memory of what these places meant. A “Chinification” silent of the Japanese culture that, far from disappearing, is being found unexpected ways of continuing to exist, although it does not do so exclusively. Image | Iqremix, Jpellgen (@1105 In Xataka | A phenomenon that has already happened in New York is spreading throughout Japan: neighborhoods with younger than Japanese In Xataka | 21 wonderful Japanese expressions that would need a whole phrase to be translated

14 Functions, tricks and ideas to squeeze the analysis of chatgpt images

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Let’s tell you the best ways of Take advantage of image analysis of Chatgpt. Because there are some that have become popular, but there are other hidden or less known that can help you with some concrete tasks. And that’s why we will mention them to know them. Many of these functions are available in the free version of Chatgpt, although some may need the payment version to work, or to improve their quality and reliability. And as we always say in Xataka Basics, these are our proposals. However, we invite you to leave us in the comments any other that you can think of. Thus, all readers can benefit from the knowledge of our xatakers. Recognize plants and animals Have you found a rare plant or an animal that you do not identify? If you take a picture of that plant or animal And you go up to Chatgpt accompanied by a question where you want to know what it is, artificial intelligence can get you out of doubt. But the AI ​​is not going to limit Recognize the plant or the animal whose photo you send him, but It will also tell you some of its characteristics. In the case of plants you can even give you rapid advice for their care. Make drawings from a photo The function of Reimagine a photo It is the most popular of Chatgpt in recent times. Can edit your photos with Ghibli’s styleas An action dolland In many other ways. The only limit is your imagination and your ability to ask for an original style. All you have to do is upload a photo of a person and ask him to reimagine her with the style you want. Of course, in the photos where many people come out they can have problems and several of them will disappear, that is, for the moment it is better to do it only with a few. Analyze historical or current images You can upload a photo and ask the artificial intelligence that Identify what is in it. If it is a famous picture you can identify and tell you the author, but it can also recognize styles or even places. You can also recognize uniforms, symbols, shields and tell you the meaning of everything. You can also convert an image into a descriptive textasking him to describe what appears in it. In addition, you may give you advice to improve the drawings in the event that they are yours. Translate posters or signal texts Imagine that you are traveling and that signals or informative posters appear in another language. In this case, You can ask Chatgpt to translate them. You just have to take a picture and upload it asking you to translate the text that appears in it to the language you want. This too can serve you for difficult manuscripts to read or that are deteriorated. You take a picture, and Chatgpt can try to interpret them for you even if they don’t seem to read well. And summaries of the text of a photo Imagine that you are in a public park with large posters and a lot of text, or in a museum where the wide explanation of the works is in another language. Here, you can Bring the translation to a new level so that it is not limited only to telling you what it puts. For example, if the text is very wide you can ask Chatgpt directly to summarize it. And if the translation is very complex you can say that it explains it or summarizes as a high school child, that should make things much easier. Detects errors in technical diagrams If you have doubts about a Network diagram, circuits or workflowsyou can also upload it to Chatgpt and ask you to analyze it to find errors or inconsistencies in them. Check your website or app designs In the event that you are designing an application or a web page, You can upload a screenshot To show how design is. When you do, you can ask you questions that help you improve it. For example, you will be able to ask Chatgpt to make suggestions to improve the usability of your website or app. You can also help you improve aesthetics and accessibility after analyzing the content of the capture you have uploaded. It also helps you with posters and other designs You can also ask for help with other types of designs, such as posters, posters, or whatever you want. Can Ask about typography or designthe composition, the choice of colors or any questions you have. Analyze graphics for you Another of the things you can do with this artificial intelligence is to upload Graphics photoswhether of bars, lines or cake. Then, you can ask Chargpt to analyze them and tell you the information of what he puts in them. You can also analyze tables in the same way. Gives you advice to edit photos Chatgpt cannot edit photos for you, as much can reimagine them by drawing from them. However, when you go up you can ask for Tips to help you edit them somehow determined. For example, you can ask you to help you have a more vintage or professional appearance, and chatgpt will give you several tips to guide you in the editing process and tell you what things you can change to get that specific look you want. Correct your manuscript notes Imagine that you have a notebook where you have been scoring the notes of a class, but you are not sure if you have written everything correctly. You can take a picture and send it to chatgpt to check them and tell you if there is any erroror even help you summarize key concepts or other things. Can help you with purchases Chatgpt can also help you with purchases. For example, if you do not understand very well the composition or label of a product, you can take … Read more

how “existential tired” has become the great industry of the West

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In season 9, the twelfth doctor and clear They arrive at a space station In orbit around Neptune. It is the 38th century, on Tuesday. The ship is deserted and only encounter a small rescue mission, but none of that interests us today. We are interested in ‘Morpheus‘, strange machines that allow rest in record time without sleep. A magnificent way of not losing hours with closed eyes, of using our time in little useful things. And “with all the chemical advantages of rest.” “Congratulations, professor. He has revolutionized the labor market, has conquered nature, has created an aberration,” Capaldi says When they explain how the machine works. An “aberration” is true. But one with which many have often fantasized. One that many have ever used. Because, after all, what are the energy drinkshe Recreational methylphenidate or the techniques for Learn to sleep just four hours but small ‘morpheus’ machines? What are they but Symptoms of an increasingly tired society? When the body asks to stop V2osk The problem is that the tiredness we are talking about is much more than not sleeping. Chronic stress, lack of sleep, the increasingly accelerated and hyperactive life rhythms, digital overload, anxiety, burnout … the idea that we live in an increasingly exhausting society has become not only A common place of contemporary discourse, but in An identity feature of our time. That is why there is no lack of theories that try to find the key that allows us to explain what is happening. Some are well documented and add up To chronic lack of lack of sleep: This is the case of nutrition. Some specialists They have proposed The hypothesis that part of the generalized fatigue that affects us is due to minor vitamin or mineral deficits. The best known example is vitamin B12. A deficit of this vitamin can cause anemiaweakness and persistent fatigue. In severe cases, It can cause problems To breathe, dizziness or neurological problems. And, although marked nutritional deficiencies are not very common in healthy young adults, they do increase with age and, in an increasingly worse food contextthey can go unnoticed for months. In this sense, a B12 supplement can help us be less tired and, on a certain level, it can be an explanation, yes. But When we talk about exhaustion We talk about something that “You cannot easily explain in physical terms“, something that” resides on the border between the mind and the body. “ Hyperproductivity, multitasking and digital overload It is enough to review the data to coincide in that fatigue has become an ubiquitous phenomenon, an epidemic, a conviction: from the worker Burnout to the student saturated with information, through those who live in permanent anxiety … everyone has in common that rare feeling of fatigue, tiredness and exhaustion. According to eThe report State of the Global Workplace from Gallup to 44% of the professionals surveyed said they felt high levels of stress daily. And it is something that can be seen in other similar work reports, like this from Adecco in which he pointed out that 40% of workers Spanish and global They had suffered Burnout during the last year. The data has dropped slightly from the posterior peak to the pandemic, but They are still very high. Too high. Being direct: everything seems to indicate that, to purely organic causes, we must add the constant impact of a lifestyle focused on hyperproductivity (Toxic productivity), multitasking and permanent overload. As explained Harvard’s psychologist Natalie Dattilo, “feeling the pressure of being productive at every moment of the day – always a list of slopes and guilt for not fulfilling it – is a sign of this phenomenon that leads to anxiety, insomnia and extreme exhaustion.” In the 90, David Lewis coined The expression of “informative fatigue” to talk about mental exhaustion due to excess information. Today, with smartphones constitiously claiming our attention, That phenomenon has been globalized: Constant notifications, dozens of open eyelashes, a permanent stream of emails, chats and social networks. Is the story of A very expensive way of life at the cognitive level, of loss of efficiency and generalized fatigue. Interior fatigue Gabriel Benois Because, as Schaffner pointed very wellwhen we talk about exhaustion we talk about something that “cannot be easily explained in physical terms”, something that “resides on the border between the mind and the body.” To the malfunction of psychophysiological machinery and excesses of the social environment, something else must be added: the deep emotional, cultural and even philosophical roots of contemporary fatigue. That is, the idea that exhaustion is still a ‘cultural symptom’ of our time. In “The Society of Tiredness“, To look for one of the introductions most accessible to these ideas, the philosopher Byung-Chul have stated that we have ceased to be a” disciplinary society “(as Foucault defined us) and we have become a bizarre evolution of it: incommunicado masses of ‘businessmen’s businessmen’. It is what Almost a decade has denounced Jose César Peralesprofessor at the University of Granada, that “positive thought” is problematic “because it responds to An ideology and concrete economic motivationsbecause it makes the unique people who are good for feeling good, under the threat of being tildos de Toxicbecause hides the true causes of psychological well -being or discomfort, and because it interferes with serious interventions aimed at promoting mental and physical health. “ The self -exploitation that Han complaint either The ideological frames that Jonathan Crary examines They would be the mechanisms that promote a “society of exhausted, depressed and isolated individuals,” a world where “emblematic diseases of our century are no longer viral infections, but neural disorders such as depression, burnout syndrome or attention deficit disorder.” Are we more stressed than ever? With all this on the table it is difficult not to repeat that “We are more stressed than ever“. And yet, something does not fit. Little after we fell, we realize that the history of fatigue is somewhat more complicated. “Many ages tend to present … Read more

We do not need more productivity methods. We need to have a purpose again

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“Your goal is not productivity, it is control. Do less things, with more intention, until everything you do is exactly what you want.” I walked the other day Scrolleando In x dodging memes from Studio Ghibli When I found this phrase from Justin Welsh. It is one of the many reflections that this entrepreneur throws as if it were a pedrazo in the water, but this concrete fell like in a pond and generated concentric waves of nods. Also mine. Productivity has become our particular Trojan horse. It seduces us by promising release when in fact installs a constant highway regime. Mea guilt. We have internalized that maximizing efficiency is a quality, without questioning a basic premise: efficient for what? Who? The personal optimization industry in general and productivity enthusiasts in particular operate on a mirage: We pursue systems and tools with the promise that they will make us more productivebut what we really want is autonomy and control over our time. Optimization has a somewhat early stop, but intentional restrictions have much more development. In other words, freedom arises from The discipline of saying “no”. To understand what is really important and digs trenches around you. Welsh proposes that we stop understanding productivity as an end and let’s assume it as a byproduct of personal autonomy. To return to the owners of our agenda and not slaves of the calendar as long as being wage earner allows us. “Productivity”, then, It is another word for “control.” Not the obsessive they sell in self -help books with a tie, but another deeper: to recover the ability to decide and not limit ourselves to measuring our success for our production capacity. That is why Welsh’s phrase is so powerful. It is not the nth technical To squeeze the daybut a reminder of what we already knew but that we usually forget: that life is not measured in completed tasks, but in decisions made consciously. In Xataka | How do I take full time and I have improved my productivity teleworking: ‘Time blocking’ Outstanding image | Xataka

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