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They have analyzed the coordinates of the rescue of the pilot in Iran. Not only do they not add up, they point to a very different mission from the US

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In the most complex military operations, it is not uncommon for open data (images, coordinates or videos) to allow reconstruct scenarios with a level of detail that was previously only available to the intelligence services. In recent years, independent analysts have come to identify locationsmovements and even operational failures crossing public information in a matter of hours. Because sometimes, the key is not in what is told, but in how they fit (or don’t) the visible pieces. The official version: Mission Impossible. It we count yesterday. The official narrative describes a rescue operation on a large scale to recover a crew member from an F-15E Strike Eagle shot down in Iran, with special forces deployed on the ground, multiple aircraft involved and direct confrontations with Iranian units. The pilot would have survived thanks to his training, emitting a signal from an elevated area while elite teams located and extracted him in a complex but successful mission. However, from the beginning it has attracted attention the enormous cost material, with aircraft destroyed or damaged worth hundreds of millions of dollars, something disproportionate for a conventional rescue operation. The first step: follow the coordinates. More than 48 hours after the rescue, the analyst of the popular Simplicius Substack has compiled all the information that has appeared about the operation. Its analysis begins by dismantling the official version based on a basic element: geolocation. The first information places the demolition in the southwest of Iran, near the coast (about 80 km), an area consistent with the type of operations that a combat fighter of this type would carry out. The problem? That the appearance of the subsequent videos and remains identified on the land that we commented yesterdaywith C-130 transport planes and destroyed American helicopters, appear at hundreds of kilometers awayin the vicinity of Isfahan, which introduces a contradiction that is difficult to ignore and forces us to rethink the entire sequence of events. One more thing. As clarified Also the analyst, the geolocation of the CSAR (rescue operation) only showed a group of search helicopters passing through that areathat is, it did not geolocate the remains of the downed F-15E. For all we know, those helicopters could have been passing from there to the place of the accident in Isfahan. However, it must be remembered that even official sources from the main US media outlets, all with direct contacts in the government, initially reported that the accident occurred precisely in the area where the CSAR helicopters were sighted and geolocated. That is, the inconsistency in the geolocation found is not based solely in a single test. Plus: it seems evident that it makes more sense for an F-15E to be operating in the coastal area and not hundreds of km deep in Isfahan dropping short-range bombs, a task that should correspond to stealthier aircraft. Even so, a subsequent geolocation supposedly located the F-15E accident just south of Isfahan. C-130 and MH-6 helicopters destroyed The pieces don’t fit. From there, the data has accumulated inconsistencies that further distort the official version. For example, the use of huge transport planes to rescue a single pilot, the alleged mechanical failures that forced to destroy aircraft on the ground despite evidence of impacts and shrapnel through images and videos. Not only that. The lack of coherence about how was he evacuated to the staff after these failures generate more than reasonable doubts. What real chance is there that the two MC-130s that flew some 100 US special forces members to Iran to rescue the last F-15 crew member, suffer at the same time mechanical failures and could not take off? But even if it were true,how they managed then remove that same number of people after both planes suffered those “mechanical failures”? The photo used for geolocation, which shows the crater, belongs to an original series of photos with remains of the F-15E The landing strip. Each detail, in isolation, could be explained, but together they draw a pattern that suggests something else was going on. In fact, the analyst explained that the geolocated remains of the C-130s, which apparently used a local “agricultural landing strip”, are located just on the other side of a mountain, about 35 km from the Isfahan nuclear facilitywhere Iranian near-military-grade enriched uranium is supposedly stored. This result comes from the previous image, that is, this would place the distance between the two places of the remains at about 25 km. The location to the northwest is the F-15E crash site, and the location to the southeast is the C-130 wreckage field. The geolocated remains of the C-130s, which apparently used the agricultural landing strip (32.223369, 51.897678), and which are located just on the other side of a mountain, about 35 km from the Isfahan nuclear facility, where Iran’s near-military-grade enriched uranium is supposedly stored Plot twist: the nuclear hypothesis. That proximity, just 35 km southeast of one of Iran’s main uranium deposits, it doesn’t seem casual and opens an alternative hypothesis: that the rescue operation was actually a cover for a mission much more ambitious. In fact, Trump I had already spoken to extract Iranian uranium, an operation that would require the construction of landing strips in the country. Therefore, it is plausible that the plan was already underway for some time, while the American president bought time by stating that it was only a theoretical “possibility” under consideration. Under this scenario, the presence of special forces, the volume of resources deployed and the risk assumed seem to fit better as part of a clandestine operation than as a simple rescue. A parallel narrative. With the official data taken together, the story evolves towards a different interpretation in which airstrikes, special forces activity and even the possible disinformation campaign attributed to the CIA They would be part of a coordinated operation to distract, confuse and execute deeply hidden objectives. Of course, the rescue would still be real, but it would cease to be the main objective and become the … Read more

What is this app, add your DNIe, as valid as the physical DNI and what you can do or not do

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Starting April 2, 2026 Your DNIe in the MiDNI app is as valid as the physical one. This means that if they ask you for your ID from the Police to a hotel, they are obliged to accept if you show it to them through the app. That makes something that has always been in the background now become important, and that is why we are going to tell you everything you need to know about it. Let’s start with the concepts, telling you what the DNIe and the application MyDNI. We will also tell you how to link your DNI to your mobile with this application, how to change the DNI PIN if you do not remember it when registering it, and we will even remind you of our table on What you can do with MiDNI and what not. What is the digital DNI or DNIe The DNI is the National Identity Document, a card issued by the Spanish Police that serves to prove the identity of Spanish citizens. Our photo and our personal data appear on it. Over time, the DNI has evolved. In 2006, a chip was added, and this version was called Electronic DNI or DNIe, also known as digital DNI. Then, in 2015 came the DNI 3.0, which is the DNIe with NFC technology. Later came the current DNI 4.0, which has the particularity of being able to link the ID to the mobile with the app MyDNI. The DNIe is the name of the most modern versions of the DNIthose versions that already have an integrated chip. Currently, the DNIe is also the one that we can link to the mobile phone with the official application that we have mentioned, created by the Police for this. The DNIe chip allows you to carry out procedures online with a special reader capable of reading the chip. These procedures can range from the Income Tax return to Social Security applications, procedures with the city council or signing documents. It is an online identification method. The chip contains two certificates: Authentication certificate to identify you on websites and services Signature certificate to sign documents with legal validity What is MiDNI MyDNI is the name of the official application to carry your ID on your mobile. Its concept is the same as that of the app myDGTyou can carry an app that not only carries your ID identification, but also serves to carry out various procedures through it. This application allows you to identify yourself with the same validity as the physical document. Come on, it is an official substitute for the physical DNI, and it will help you in those cases where you can forget it. Because let’s be honest, nowadays it’s easier to forget your wallet at home than your cell phone. The app has been created by the Spanish National Policeand it is the only one that has legal validity as a substitute for the DNI. It works by linking the electronic DNI to it, so that you can carry it and show it to identify yourself wherever you want. When you use this application you will connect to the National Police servers to verify the data. With this, you can generate a QR code with which to identify yourself, and which will become invalid after a few minutes so that no one can use it for you. By scanning it, the Police will be able to verify that it is you. Of course, it is not perfect either, and will require you to have an internet connection to be able to function. Therefore, do not blindly trust it and try to also carry your physical ID with you. It is as valid as the physical ID Starting April 2, 2026, The MiDNI app is as valid as presenting the physical DNI. At least to do most of the procedures. Therefore, it doesn’t matter if you leave your wallet at home, if someone asks you for your ID to do a face-to-face transaction, you can show it through this application. However, you must remember that The DNI on your mobile is only equally valid if you use this app. If you show a photo of the document that you have on your cell phone or any other application other than that of the Police, it will not be valid. So be careful, because there are apps with similar names. What you can do with MiDNI What can you do with MiDNI? With this application you can prove your identity in person when you have an Internet connection to use it. It is exactly like identifying yourself with your ID, and not only if the Police ask you to, but also for other things. Here is a table with everything you can do and what you can’t do: What is the ID used for on the mobile? why the ID is not useful on the mobile Prove our identity in person when there is an internet connection. Prove identity in person when there is no internet connection. Establish any type of legal relationship in person. Prove our identity through the internet. Sign deeds before a notary in person. Use it for border crossing as an electronic travel document. Prove our identity in face-to-face procedures in the public administration. Prove our identity in other countries, with or without an internet connection. Carry out in-person administrative procedures in public or private Universities and Teaching Centers. Carry out telematic procedures that require authentication and/or electronic signature. Prove our majority in person. Exercise our right to vote. Open a bank account in person. Formalize insurance of any type in person. Check into a hotel in person. Rent a vehicle in person. Buy tickets or nominative tickets in person that require identification. In-person commercial transactions in which they ask us for a valid DNI or to prove our identity. Carry out access control to buildings in person. Access entertainment venues such as cinemas, theaters or concerts. Parcel collection. Withdrawal … Read more

the mathematics of the crisis no longer add up

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We have been in the Third Gulf War for a month and what everyone feared has happened: the WTI barrel has broken the $100 barrier. It is normal for panic to spread. Experts get tired of repeating that, if we add inflation, in previous crises things looked worse. Okay, they’re right. But the drama right now isn’t what’s ticking on the quote screen. The problem is that there is no raw physicality. The ships do not arrive, the inventories are emptied and, no matter how much we stretch the numbers, the mathematics of oil has been blown up. A chasm of 8 million. The reality of the current oil market is summarized in a subtraction that continues to produce negative balances. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led to the immediate loss of 20 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil and refined products. So far, the market has managed to absorb this blow, but the accounts are clear and terrifying: after exhausting the first defense shields, the world faces a net deficit of approximately 8 million barrels per day. To put it in perspective, that figure exceeds the combined consumption of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. The mirage of temporary patches. If the world has lost a fifth of its oil and gas supply, why haven’t we seen a total collapse from day one? The answer lies in a series of emergency “patches” that, although effective, have an expiration date. According to Bloombergthe market has been protected by several layers of cushioning. The first has been the diversion of routes: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been quickly redirected part of its exports through pipelines that bypass Hormuz to exit through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Oman. The second has been the record release of 400 million of barrels of the strategic reserves of the member countries of the International Energy Agency. Furthermore, the United States temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil that was stored in ships on the high seas, injecting more crude oil into the market. The efforts are finite. As energy analyst Javier Blas explainsthese joint measures have managed to absorb 60% of the loss of supply (about 12 million barrels per day). But the reserves are empty. As Paola Rodríguez-Masiu, chief analyst at Rystad Energy, warned: “The system has gone from being cushioned to being fragile.” The black hole is not going to stop, because the escalation does not let up. An Iranian drone recently attacked to the Kuwaiti supertanker Al-Salmi, fully loaded, in the same anchorage area of ​​the port of Dubai, showing that no vessel is safe. Besides, as reported exclusively The Wall Street JournalPresident Donald Trump has told his advisers that he is willing to end the US military campaign without reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The administration assesses that forcing the sea lane to open would extend the military mission beyond its planned time frame of four to six weeks. We enter “demand destruction.” For Washington, the strait is a bigger problem for Europe and Asia than for the United States. With no new supplies in sight and reserves running out, the market has only one way out, and it is the most painful of all: demand destruction. If there is no oil for everyone, someone has to stop consuming it. The impact will be brutally uneven. How to analyze Financial Timesdeveloping economies are the first to fall. Unlike advanced economies, which rely more on the service sector, the developing world depends on manufacturing that is highly energy intensive. When prices rise, rich countries simply pay more and hoard available cargoes on the spot market, leaving poorer nations in the dark. Rationing has already begun. On the Asian continent, the lack of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Middle East is forcing machinery to stop. In fact, the blockade has already exploded the myth of LNG as a “bridge fuel”, forcing Asia to burn coal in desperation and resurrect nuclear energy to avoid a large-scale blackout. Pakistan has closed schools to save energy, the Philippines has experimented with shorter work weeks, and across the region, fertilizer, steel and ceramics factories are shutting down their kilns. But the energy shock will not stay in that part of the world, but it is traveling towards the West. Europe faces an imminent shortage of diesel – the fuel that powers the global economy – in the coming weeks. If the Strait of Hormuz remains closed until the second quarter of the year, oil could skyrocket to $200 per barreltriggering a stagflation shock (high inflation with economic stagnation) not seen since the 1970s. The final verdict. A month into the crisis, the consensus in the energy industry is terrifying: the world has not yet understood the gravity of what is coming. Government tools to cushion the blow have been exhausted. As Mike Sommers confessedCEO of the American Petroleum Institute: “The playbook is pretty empty right now.” The crude oil does not flow and the mathematics is exact. There is a shortage of 8 million barrels a day in the world. As Jeff Currie crudely summarizedformer director of Goldman Sachs and current strategist of the Carlyle Group: “The main message is that the energy transition is going to be imposed on us in a very painful way and that it is going to happen very quickly.” That is to say, the leap towards a world without oil will not come in a planned and orderly manner, but rather through blackouts, inflation and the forced closure of industries. There are no longer valid patches; The global market is about to crash into a wall of physical scarcity. Image | Unsplash and Unsplash Xataka | That there are dozens of A-10s heading to Iran suggests something: the US has rescued its most “brute” plane for an impossible mission

How to add AccuWeather to ChatGPT to request the best weather information

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Let’s tell you how to link AccuWeather to ChatGPTso that you can use all the information from one of the best weather apps for your queries. With this, the artificial intelligence OpenAI no longer searches the Internet when you ask about the weather or future forecasts, but will search directly in the information in the app. You will be able to do this because AccuWeather has been included in the list of applications ChatGPTwhich allow you to interact with them and their information. With this, you will be able to have hyperlocal weather informationforecasts, and even see any weather alerts there may be. You can even ask about the chances of rain and when it is most likely to occur. Add AccuWeather in ChatGPT The first thing you have to do is open ChatGPT and Click on the section Applications in the left column. This will take you to an index with a search engine. In it, you have to search the term AccuWeatherso that it appears as the only result. When you see it, click on the name of the application. You will enter the AccuWeather tab, where you will have all the information about what you will be able to do with this application. Within this tab, press the button Connect to proceed to add the application. When you go to connect, you will go to a screen where allows you to activate the consultation of memories and chats when using AccuWeather. This is optional. If you activate it, you will be sending AccuWeather information about everything you talk about with ChatGPT, but also other information such as the city where you live, so that you do not need to say it when you ask for weather information. Use AccuWeather on ChatGPT Once you have linked the application, you can use it. To do this, when you open a new chat with ChatGPT, before doing anything, click on the + button to open the options window, click on Furtherand Click on AccuWeather in the list that appears to activate it within this conversation. When you do, you’ll know the app is activated because it will stay still below the writing field. This means that whatever you are going to ask ChatGPT now, the AI ​​will look for it in this application. Now, with AccuWeather activated you can ask ChatGPT to tell you any weather information you want. The AI ​​will look for the answers in the application, and will give you the information it has collected. AccuWeather will remain activated in this ChatGPT conversation, so you can return to it when you want to ask a new question or continue asking about something you had asked before, even ask it to update the information. In Xataka Basics | How to create an image of yourself and a Pixar character with your face using artificial intelligence, with Gemini or ChatGPT

ended up sneaking in errors and references that didn’t add up

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Artificial intelligence has become an everyday tool for millions of people. Today many use it to write emails, summarize documents or translate texts in a matter of seconds. However, this speed has a less visible side: generative systems can also make mistakes, invent data or alter sources without the user immediately noticing. When these errors appear in one of the largest encyclopedias in the world, the situation changes completely. That is precisely what has happened on Wikipedia with a series of translations carried out with the help of AI. The opening episode. It all started within the Wikipedia community itself. Some editors began reviewing recent translations and noticed something strange: certain texts included phrases that did not appear in the cited sources or references that did not seem to fit with what the article stated. According to 404 Mediathese translations were part of a project promoted by an organization that sought to expand the presence of Wikipedia content in different languages ​​using language models to speed up the process. When translation invents. As editors began to examine these translations in more detail, the problems became more evident. One of the cases cited by 404 Media is that of a draft article about the French royal family La Bourdonnaye. The translated text included a reference to a book and a specific page to explain the origin of the family. However, when editor Ilyas Lebleu, known on Wikipedia as Chaotic Enby, reviewed that source, he discovered that the page cited was incorrect. Lebleu added that, when doing a quick review of several translations, he also found interchanged references, phrases without a source, and cases in which paragraphs were added based on material unrelated to what was being written. It was published or remained in draft. The case also raised a relevant question: whether these errors had appeared in already published articles or whether they were detected during the review process. At least one of the problematic examples was identified in a draft translation, allowing editors to revise it before it was finalized. With the material provided here, however, it cannot be stated how many translations with problems were published and how many remained under review. Who is behind these translations. Here appears the name of Open Knowledge Association (OKA), a non-profit organization that claims to work to improve Wikipedia and other open platforms. As the organization itself explains on its website, its model consists of offering monthly stipends to collaborators and translators who work full-time expanding the encyclopedia’s content, and “taking advantage of AI (large language models) to automate most of the work.” According to 404 Media, editors who investigated the project concluded that it relied on contractors. The editors’ response. As more problematic examples appeared, the Wikipedia community decided to intervene. The editors reviewed the operation of the translation project and ended up establishing new restrictions for those who participated in it. OKA-linked translators who accumulate four strikes for unverifiable content within a six-month period may be blocked without additional notice if a new case appears. Additionally, content added by a translator that ends up being blocked may be removed preventively, unless another reputable editor takes responsibility for reviewing it. OKA explains. The organization mentioned in the debate also offered its version of the events. Jonathan Zimmermann, founder and president of the Open Knowledge Association, explained to the aforementioned media that the project’s translators work on an hourly basis and that there is no fixed goal of articles per week. In addition, he admitted that “errors happen,” although he defended that the system includes human verification and review of sources. Following the discussion on Wikipedia, he added, the organization is introducing a second review with another AI model to detect possible errors before publishing, and is studying the possibility of adding peer review mechanisms if necessary. Images | Oberon Copeland @veryinformed.com | Luke Chesser In Xataka | Sam Altman says he’s terrified of a world where AI companies believe themselves to be more powerful than the government. It’s just what you’re building

Mobile software has become so complex that Samsung has had to add an AI to explain it to you

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There’s a feature in One UI 8.5 that says more than it seems. It’s called, in Samsung’s internal nomenclature, ‘voice settings assistant’: you ask the phone why the screen doesn’t turn off, and it explains which setting is causing it. You ask it why the volume goes down on its own, and it tells you where the setting is that controls it. In it briefing of the Galaxy S26 They mentioned it almost in passing, as a nice detail among bigger and more important news such as the 3 AIs in 1, or the spectacular screen and its privacy mode. But this also deserves some attention. For years, learning to use a cell phone was part of the deal. You scanned the menus, memorized where things were, got used to their quirks, and cursed when you changed brands and couldn’t find anything. The instruction manual disappeared many years ago because it was assumed that phones were already intuitive enough not to need it. And for a while, they have been. The problem is that phones have not stopped growing. Every generation, and I’m looking at both iOS and Android, adds settings, modes, features, and layers of customization. One UI 8.5 brings, in the AI ​​section alone, more than a dozen new functions. The Christmas tree effect: We accumulate things without getting rid of the previous ones and we end up with an unruly mammoth. The operating system of a modern mobile phone has thousands of options spread out in menus that are sometimes where you would expect and sometimes not. And when something behaves unexpectedly, finding the reason can take several minutes of searching or a simple query to Google. Or ChatGPT. Samsung has decided that the solution to this complexity is not to simplify, but add a layer to help you navigate it. The mobile phone no longer expects you to understand it: it explains how it works if you ask it. It is a pragmatic move. Manufacturers have been in a race for years to add functions that justify the annual update, and retracing that path would mean cutting features that some users do use. So the solution is not to remove, but to translate. An AI that acts as a guide within the device itself. Google already has similar functions in pure Android and the Siri that the prophets promised maybe one day it will come. What Samsung does with One UI 8.5 is go a step further: it not only takes you to the setting, but explains why that setting is affecting the behavior that misses you. It’s the difference between giving you directions and explaining the map to you. The question that remains is how far this goes. If the phone needs an AI to explain itself, The next logical step is for that AI to start making decisions for you.: not only explain why the screen does not turn off, but also turn it off when it detects that you are not using it. Some of the agentic upgrades that Samsung has presented in the S26 are already going in that direction. The cell phone that asks you what you want to do and the cell phone that deduces what you want to do are closer than they seem. In Xataka | Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, S26+ and S26, first impressions: a broken heart in an unprecedented commitment to AI Featured image | Xataka

How to create an excel with artificial intelligence where you can add the expenses of your digital purchase receipts

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Let’s explain to you how to create a spreadsheet with your expenses using artificial intelligence. Specifically, what we are going to do is put all your purchase receipts in a folder, and have the AI ​​read them, extract the totals, write them down in the spreadsheet and then add the total. It seems complex, but it is easier than it seems. For our example we are going to use the PDF tickets that are sent to you by email when you configure the Mercadona digital ticketalthough you can also use photographs of tickets. For the spreadsheet we are going to use LibreOffice, as it is a free and open source alternative to Office. To carry out the actions we will use Claude Coworkthe AI ​​assistant of Claude that can do actions on your computer. The negative part is that To use this tool you must have a paid account in this artificial intelligence chat, but the positive part is how much you can later do with it. There are workflow tools that allow you to automate this and do it online, but we are going to start by explaining this simpler method because it is all local, within your computer, and sharing less data with third parties. Make preparations first It is important to be organized when carrying out this task. Therefore, what we are going to do is go to the file explorer on our computer and create a folder. In my case I have called it Tickets. Inside, we will create a subfolder where you can put the digital tickets which we will call “Ticket PDFs”, and then the spreadsheet file which we will call “Total Purchases”. We will also create the basic structure of the spreadsheetso that it will then be easier for us to describe to the AI ​​what we want. On this sheet I have included the date, the total of the ticket, and then a column to add the link to the PDF file for each one. Here, you will be able to customize this as you need. Now simply Put the tickets in PDF inside the folder that we have created to store the tickets. You can do this by hand with the ones you have, and then update it with the ones that arrive later, because we will also tell you how to ask the AI ​​to update everything. This technique has many variants. For example, adding a specific column in the spreadsheet you can also add the name of the supermarket in order to manage the expenses of several of them, or make a different sheet for each one within the same file. You can make things as complex as you want. Now ask AI to do the work for you Now it’s time to get to work. Let’s open the Claude application on the computer and choose the option cowork. Here, the first thing will be click on the option Work in a folder. When you do this, you will have to choose the folder where you have included the subfolder with the PDFs and where you have created the spreadsheet file. This way the AI ​​will work only within this space without touching the rest of the files on the computer. Once you have done this, tap write a prompt asking it what you want it to dowhich in this case is asking it to read the PDFs with the tickets, extract the information and put it in the place you want within your spreadsheet. I have used this prompt, where I also specify the columns where each content goes: I want you to analyze the content of all the PDFs in the “Ticket PDFs” folder. These are purchase tickets. In all of them, I want you to extract both the date of the ticket and the total you have spent and put them in the “Date” and “Total (€)” columns of the “Total purchases.ods” file. Within this file, I also want you to create a link in the PDF Link column that, when clicked, opens the PDF file it belongs to. This prompt You can modify it depending on what your spreadsheet is like.but always specifying in which column each item goes, or on which page of the spreadsheet if you have created one for each supermarket. You can even make a sheet for the totals, and ultimately ask them to use any of Excel functions or the program you are going to use. Now, you have to wait a few minutes for Claude to process your request and complete the task. When you do, you will be able to enter the file you created before, and you will see that it has updated it. You can make changes to the file for font size or whatever you want, and Claude will then take that into account. You can also tell the AI ​​if it has done something wrong, such as not including links, so it can correct and add it. Now, you can ask him to do extra work like adding a column below with the total. And then, When you add more files you can ask it to update the file reviewing the new PDFs that you have added and adding the missing ones to the list. And that’s it. With all this you will have a spreadsheet that you can update every time you add more tickets. You can also ask him to do it by reading the content of photos, and other tickets that you also have in PDF. In Xataka Basics | Claude: 23 functions and some tricks to get the most out of this artificial intelligence

They already add 30,000 in just three months and at a time of record profits

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Amazon has confirmed the layoff of 16,000 workers worldwide, just three months after announcing the elimination of 14,000 positions. The company communicate the cuts as part of a plan to “eliminate bureaucracy” and streamline its organizational structure. The interesting thing is that the announcement comes at a time of record profits. Why it is important. This is the second large wave of layoffs at Amazon in just one quarter, bringing the positions eliminated to around 30,000. The figure becomes more relevant if we consider that next week Amazon will present its financial report, where Wall Street analysts expect revenues of more than $211 billion and profits of more than $21 billion, according to inform The New York Times. Cuts especially in the United States. The layoffs primarily affect Amazon corporate employees, who make up about 350,000 of the company’s 1.5 million total global workers. According to account BBC, most of the cuts will be concentrated in the United States, although some positions in the United Kingdom could also be affected. In the October wave, more than 1,500 positions were eliminated in California alone, most of them software engineers. How to the workers have found out. He official announcement It has arrived after an error. According to explains BBC, On Tuesday night, Amazon Web Services (AWS) workers received a calendar invite to a meeting the next day. A draft message signed by Colleen Aubrey, senior vice president of applied AI solutions at AWS, mistakenly appeared in that invitation, detailing the layoffs under the codename “Project Dawn” (Dawn is the name Amazon uses internally to refer to the layoffs). The message was quickly deleted, but the media had already covered it. It was hours later when Amazon published the official statement. Restructuring. Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, wrote in the official post that the changes seek to “strengthen the organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership and eliminating bureaucracy.” He added that they do not plan to establish “a new pace” of reductions every few months, although he left the door open, adding that each team will continue to evaluate its structure “as appropriate,” especially “in a world that changes faster than ever.” Where the money goes. As Amazon cuts tens of thousands of corporate jobs, it is investing massive amounts in another direction: artificial intelligence. According to the NYTthe company spent $125 billion on new data centers and other capital investments last year, primarily to compete in the AI ​​race. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy already warned last summer to corporate employees that artificial intelligence would mean that, over time, the company would operate with fewer such workers. Contradictions. In autumn, Jassy told investors that the layoffs had less to do with AI or finance and more to do with reducing bureaucratic layers. However, according to point NYT, reductions in several divisions were based on specific goals to cut operating costs. All this while in the quarter from July to September, sales reached 180,000 million dollars and profits exceeded 21,000 million. Yocollateral impact. On the other hand, just before Amazon’s announcement, UPS also has communicated which plans to eliminate up to 30,000 jobs this year. Guardian share that UPS has been working to reduce the millions of low-value deliveries it makes for Amazon, since although it is its main customer, this large volume of shipments provides “little benefit”, referring to the fact that they are cheap packages that represent a high operating cost for the company. What happens to those affected? Just like share company, laid-off employees in the United States will have 90 days to look for an internal position at Amazon before permanently leaving the company, although the period varies by country. Those who do not find or seek a new position will receive compensation, outplacement services, and health insurance benefits. Cover image | Israel Andrade In Xataka | Something has broken between Europe and the US: France leaving Zoom behind and Teams in its administration points to something bigger

How to add the Three Wise Men to any photo of your street using artificial intelligence

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Let’s tell you how to add the Three Wise Men to your photographsso that you can create images full of illusion. The idea is that if you have a photo of your street or a place you usually walk through, you can add these characters to it without altering anything else. We are going to tell you two ways to do this, both with artificial intelligence. First we will go to a website designed exclusively for this, which is the easiest alternative to use. And then we will tell you how to use the most popular artificial intelligence chatbots, such as ChatGPT either Gemini. Use a third party page If you want to do things as easily as possiblethere are pages like fotoalosreyesmagos.comcreated especially to add the Three Wise Men to your photos, and which allows you to see the photos shared by other users from all over Spain. The website offers consistency in designs, although the results are a little less refined. To use it, go to fotoalosreyesmagos.com and click on Upload your photo. Now you will go to a screen where you have to upload the photo you want to use to insert the Three Wise Men. Click on the box or drag the photo to it if you are on the computer. Remember that they must be photos of a street or landscape so that the AI ​​can insert the characters into it. Now you’ll have to choose how to customize your resulting photo. To do this, you just have to decide if you want to include the camels or only to the Kings. Additionally, you have to choose if you want the photo to be public indicating your location or if you want to keep it private and not publish it in the gallery. Now, after deciding whether or not to accept or not give the website a donation of one euro, the photo will be generated. When the photo is generated you can download or share itin addition to publishing it if you want in the public gallery. Add the Three Wise Men with ChatGPT or Gemini The other option is use ChatGPT or Geminiin both cases you will be able to use the same prompt, although today ChatGPT Images offers better results. But you can try both options and stick with the one that suits you best. What you have to do in both options is upload a photograph of your neighborhood, and add the following prompt: I want you to add the three Wise Men in this photo. They should be walking down the street, and you should make them realistic, make them look like real people. Look at the proportions so that they have a realistic size within the photograph, that they have the size of a real person. Don’t touch anything else in the photo, just add to the characters. That’s it, with this the AI ​​will generate a fairly realistic image of these characters. The advantage of this option is that you can add and specify things at the prompt you use, adding objects, specifying sizes, and similar. In Xataka Basics | How to create a character in ChatGPT and Gemini to use it in all the images you make with artificial intelligence

In case Spain did not have enough problems with sun and beach tourism, add a new business: wedding tourism

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There are those who travel to disconnect, to learn about new landscapes, cultures or traditions, to whom he guides his appetite or simply who wants to enjoy relaxing days on a distant beach with a soda in his hand. To all of them is now added a type of tourist difficult to classify and seeks something totally different: marry. Your trips feed the flourishing (and millionaire) Industry of Rinning Weddings And they are already The pillar of some balearic farms. The ‘yes I want’ as a new rising tourist asset. Two words: Rinning Weddings. The concept is not new, but a quick search on Google is enough to verify that little by little gains strength in Spain. The Rinning Weddings or ‘destination weddings’ are neither more nor less than what the term suggests: couples who, instead of getting married in the city in which they live or in which some of the bride and groom are sought, choose to give the ‘yes I want’ far away. In another city or region. It may even that in another country, including destinations as exotic as Las Vegas or some Greek island. The idea is very simple: that the wedding is more than a wedding for boyfriends and guests, that is also a getaway. A juicy business. It is not easy to provide precise (and updated) data on how many Spanish partners travel to other countries to marry and how many foreigners Spain choose as the scenario for their bodies. In any case something is clear: with Spanish tourism Breaking records and approaching the barrier of 100 million Of visitors, it is a juicy business. And clearly on the rise. In February, Future Marketin Sights consultant published A broad study that estimates that The global market The wedding tourism will be around 36,800 million dollars, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.4% throughout the next decade. They are high values, but above all they exceed those who handled only a few years ago. His Calculation for 2022for example, pointed to a business volume of ‘Solo’ 23,000 million. “The Rinning Weddings They are one of the most popular and most dynamic segments in the global wedding industry, in which couples opt for personalized experiences in exotic places around the world, ” The authors collect of the study. “More and more boyfriends choose to exchange their votes in picturesque and culturally rich places, often with a group of friends and family. The market covers a wide variety of services and destinations offers.” How does Spain affect? As Spain sits top of the world ranking of tourist destinations and even dreams of crowning it (something feasible already in 2040according to the estimates of Google and Deloitte), our country is also reinforced on the map of the Rinning Weddings. On the Internet they can be found A good number of websites in English dedicated to Organize weddings In Spain or what They promote the peninsula and the islands as “An ideal destination” so that the bride and groom exchange alliances. The Canary Islands, Malaga, Marbella or Mallorca usually appear on their list, although in reality the market is very wide. A few years ago Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca) launched a baptized initiative ‘Ciudad Rodrigo Wedding Friendly’ I was looking for precisely position the town on the map of wedding celebrations. As the main asset he used his rich historical heritage. A quick search in The Wedding Travel Company It shows in any case that couples determined to marry their city have an extensive list of alternatives in Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Portugal or the United States, to quote only some countries on their vast list. “We specialize”. To understand the phenomenon The confidential He has spoken With some representatives of the Mallorca sector, one of the hot points of national tourism. And their data and statements are striking. Finca is Cabàslocated just over 20 kilometers from the urban center of Palma, explains that practically 100% of the weddings they do are tourists. And the director of the farm They are brownlocated not much further from there, it agrees that about 98% of the links that host them also lead. “There is a lot of American, a lot of German, a lot of British,” Confirm Yesssi Morel, Wedding Plannerfor whom, beyond the attractiveness of Spain or the costs, the key of the island pull in the destination wedding market is the approach that the sector has adopted. “I think we put everything very easy to foreigners. We are specializing a lot. Every time weddings are perfected more.” As for costs, statista data Before the pandemic show that Spain is one of the countries where the most expensive weddings are celebrated ($ 23,400 on average in 2019), although in reality the data is not much higher than that of Italy and is below the $ 29,000 that were reached that same year in the US. “They seek to save and in Mallorca they have the same wedding with the same quality they could have in the US, but at a lower cost,” Morel clarifies. And how does Mallorquines affect? That is the other big question. In a market that looks at the foreign client and the American couples with a wide budget, what options do they have left? The topic is interesting because, as remember the Wedding Plannerforeigners who plan to marry their home usually follow certain patterns: they reserve well in advance and have no problem in celebrating their ceremonies any day of the week. That (of course) forces the locals to adapt. “The Mallorcan marries only on Saturday and usually prefer certain months, such as September. If they do not escape, they run out of dates,” Confirm The wedding organizer. “Farm owners believe they have a treasure in their hands. They have seen a reef.” Images | Carlo Buttinoni (UNSPLASH) and Camila Cordeiro (UNSPLASH) Via | The confidential In Xataka | The end of the open bar: how weddings are leaving behind their only ‘collective … Read more

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