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He returned his rental car and found an extra bill of $ 400. The reason: the AI ​​hunted a tiny scratch

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During a trip, unforeseen events may arise. That is something relatively common, assumed and that must internalize anyone who considers making the bags to spend a few days away from home. Much less frequent is what happened to Patrick, a traveler who recently encountered a bill of More than 400 dollars When he returned his rental car at the Hertz branch of the International Airport Hartsfield-Jackson from Atlanta, in the US. The reason: A system with AI He analyzed the vehicle thoroughly and in just a few seconds he discovered that he had a scratch of several centimeters on a rear wheel. The story He has revealed it The Drive And more than one tourist who considers renting a car this vacation is probably removed. At least around Atlanta, in the US. Patrick recently, a client of Thriftya vehicle rental company linked to the international chain Hertz, found a surprise when he wanted to return the vehicle that had leased. Betrayed by algorithms The man did the usual one: he went to the company’s branch, delivered the vehicle (from the Volkswagen brand) and gave the procedure per setback. After a few minutes, however they told him that he had to pay a whopping $ 440. The reason? The company had identified a friction on the rear wheel on the driver’s side, a 2.5 cm scrape whose arrangement had to pay. Not just that. The company also broken down to him how he had calculated those $ 440. Of that amount almost half would be dedicated to repair. The rest corresponded to a series of expenses that made Patrick crawl the eyebrow. According to the company$ 125 responded to processing and 65 to administrative expenses. The man also found that the invoice came through a web application that contributed the damage test and allowed him to enjoy A small discountor as long as he paid at the same time. According to collect The Driveif it accepted the conditions and disbursed the money in 48 hours the company offered a bonus of 52 dollars. In case something else was delayed, but did not miss more than a week would be 32.5. The man chose not to pay. Moreover, when a few days ago He spoke with The Drive He had not yet paid the amount that the company claims for the wheel scrape. “Save 30 dollars to accept responsibility is not worth it,” says the driver, who after meeting the invoice first resorted to the Chatbot from Hertz (without too successful) and then sent an email to the company. So far the story is curious, but what makes the case of Patrick exceptional and has caught the media attention from other countries It is how the company detected the damage on the rear wheel of its Volkswagen. The merit was not of any operator or worker of the Branch of Atlanta International Airport especially diligent when examining the cars. No. The failure in the wheel was located by a New scanning system of cars that is based on AI. In April Hertz announced An alliance with Uveye, a firm specialized in the inspection of vehicles with AI, precisely to apply its technology in the US. “The camera systems with the Uveye and the algorithms of Machine Learning They allow automated inspections in real time of the body, the crystals, tires and low “, He claims Hertzwhich emphasizes that the new technology allows you to detect failures “with unprecedented speed and precision.” {“Videid”: “X91SZ26”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “This is the perfect shipment of an airplane and no airline does it ❌✈️”, “Tag”: “Webedia-prod”, “Duration”: “567”} Already then The company advanced That the system would be released in Hartsfield-Jackson, although its objective is to expand it in not much time to the main US airfields. The company also claims that by “complementing” traditional exams with Uveye technology, it can guarantee its customers “more efficient and transparent reviews”, the latter nuance that He stressed These days a The Drive. The app that informed Patrick in fact included A photo of the scrape and another of the same part of the car just when he rented. The service, yes, does not seem free to leave. Hertz He explained That the so -called processing rate, which at least in the case of Patrick represents a sensitive part of the invoice, corresponds to “the cost of detecting and estimating damage during rent.” As for the administrative rate that includes the invoice, “it covers part of the costs incurred by Hertz by processing the claim.” Images | Uveye Via | Motorpasion In Xataka | Car rental: what is important to look before hiring (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news He returned his rental car and found an extra bill of $ 400. The reason: the AI ​​hunted a tiny scratch It was originally posted in Xataka by Carlos Prego .

Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds had been rivals for 30 years. The funny thing is that they have just known and a selfie has been made

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Being fond of technology between the late 90s and the first years 2000 implied Be a witness of a fierce War of sides Among the supporters of Windows, Macos or being an alternative “outsider” that renegated both (and even Graphic environments) and hugged free software from the hand of GNU/Linux. As standards of each of those sides: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds. Between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs there has always been a certain Love -od relationship What He led to collaborate and throw yourself The hit to the head recurringly. However, after more than three decades dedicating expletives, we have had to wait until 2025 so that Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds are face to face and appear together (and well avenues) in a photo. A historical encounter between two legends Bill Gates has defended throughout his career the right of developers to license your programs I already charge for them who uses them. For its part, on the opposite side, Linus Torvalds bet on a Open and collaborative modelin which each user can adapt their tools to their measure freely. Bill Gates and Microsoft. Linus Torvalds and Linux. Both represent the different ways of understanding the evolution of computer science in the last three decades and, despite being the main protagonists and flag bearers of the most fierce dialectical battles In the technology blogs of the 90 and 2000, they did not know each other in person. The person responsible for facilitating the historical meeting has been Mark Russinovich, creator of the popular SysInternals softwarewhich currently acts as Director of Technology (CTO) of Microsoft Azure. Russinovich, always has been very supportive of the Open Source solutions and it was one The drivers of Azure support for Linux. That position has assured him a Good relationship with Torvaldswho accepted the invitation of the director for dinner with Bill Gates and Dave Cutler, one of the main Windows NT developers and Azure promoter. It has transcended very little about what was discussed during the unique dinner, but what has transcended has been the historic selfie that Russinovich did to immortalize the meeting and that he has published in Your LinkedIn profile. It is undoubtedly an unusual image of two staunch enemies for more than three decades, which They just met And they pose with relaxed and affable attitude. Touch the photo to go to the original message Next to the photo, the host could not hide his emotion for having achieved such a milestone: “I had the emotion of my life, organizing dinners for Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and David Cutler. Linus had never met Bill, and Dave had never met Linus. No important decisions were made about the kernel, but perhaps the next dinner.” Linux very touched and more integrative Microsoft The moment in which it occurs does not go unnoticed either. Linux has gained market share thanks to the proliferation of cloud infrastructure and is already installed in about 100 million equipment (mainly servers), achieving a 4.13% market share. In 2021 and 2022, the system had a 2% share, which has been growing since then. According to data Statcounter, the Windows fee remains in a loaf 70.21%. For its part, Microsoft left behind the times of Steve Ballmer describing “cancer” To Linux. Since the arrival of Satya Nadella to the Microsoft direction, they have been carried out different approach samples between Windows and Linux. One of the most important was the possibility of deploying a Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) that allows you to execute an environment Linux in Windows computers. Perhaps, as Russinovich said in his post “important decisions were made about the kernel” but, taking into account the attendees of that dinner, they may talk about greater Linux integration On the Azure Platform of Microsoft. Maybe they decide at the next dinner. In Xataka | Bill Gates’ fortune records an unprecedented fact in the last 33 years: Millionaires’ Top 10 ‘has been left out Image | Mark Russinovich

The AI ​​has no future without nuclear energy when even Nvidia has begun to pray to Bill Gates reactors

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Data centers will be responsible for 10% of the increase in energy demand until 2030, according to the International Energy Agency (IE). The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) What we are living has triggered the proliferation of these facilities In the US, China, Japan, Singapore, India, Germany, Netherlands or Ireland, among other nations. And for the moment there is no indication that invites us to anticipate that this trend will be exhausted in the medium term. A data center dedicated to large AI can exceed 150 MWand, precisely, these are the facilities that are proliferating the most. In fact, in 2024 its global consumption amounted to about 415 TWH, a figure that represents around the 1.5% of global electricity consumption. To solve this challenge and guarantee to data centers the delivery of energy that more and more companies need nuclear. The last one who has done is Nvidia. And is that the company led by Jensen Huang has participated in a financing round Of 650 million dollars to support Terrapower projects, the nuclear energy company founded by Bill Gates in 2006. With this decision NVIDIA adds to the strategy that defends the use of Compact modular reactors (known as SMR for its denomination in English) with the purpose of delivering to the data centers the electricity they need. And, incidentally, put one more leg in a sector with an indisputable growth potential. Terrapower is already building the first Natrium nuclear reactor The nuclear fission reactor that this company has designed is a modular and compact design refrigerated by sodium that uses a molten salts storage system. Because of its characteristics, it is about A fourth generation machine That, according to those responsible, it will be able to generate electricity in half of the cost that a conventional nuclear fission reactor. Whatever the interesting thing is that the first Natrium nuclear reactor in Terrapower is being built in a Wyoming Mining town (USA), and, according to Bill Gates, will be completed in 2030. Nvidia has participated in a financing round of 650 million dollars to support Terrapower projects It sounds good, but we must not overlook that it is a new generation design, so a priori the five years that Terrapower manages seem too optimistic. However, this reactor has an important asset in your favor: on paper Its tuning should be faster and cheaper than that of conventional reactors. In addition, a Spanish public company is participating in the construction of this machine. It is called Ensa (Nuclear Teams, SA), is Cantabrian and has more than five decades of experience in the field of design and manufacturing large components for the nuclear industry. There is no doubt that the fact that Terrapower has decided to ally with it is a boost that will surely reinforce its international image. And, perhaps, he opens the door of other latest generation nuclear energy projects. “This is the first reactor of these characteristics that is manufactured following the highest standards of safety and quality in accordance with the most demanding nuclear regulations,” has declared A Enso spokesman. Interestingly, this Spanish company will participate in The manufacture of the Natrium reactor lid. A last interesting note: currently also intervenes in the construction of ITER (International Thermonuclear Experctor reactor), The experimental reactor of nuclear fusion that an international consortium led by Europe is pointing in the French town of Cadarache. Image | Terrapower More information | The Register In Xataka | “We are already on the last step”: how Spain has done with the key to realize nuclear fusion

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have shared the same key to be successful: choose what to focus on

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Bill Gates’ father brought together several people, among whom He was Warren Buffett, and asked what it was, in a word, The secret of his success. Both Microsoft’s founding millionaire and his good friend Buffett responded exactly the same: focus “You must focus. Eliminate distractions. Commit with only one thing and become excellent in it. “These are some of the advice that insistently repeat many productivity experts, such as the author of ‘Atomic habits‘, James Clear. This idea sounds logical. However, the big question for those who read those advice is How to know what to focus your energies. Experience before choosing How to know what to dedicate your attention and energy if you don’t know what really interests you? That is one of the questions you must answer before asking yourself What to focus on. Before deciding on what to concentrate your energy, it is necessary to try different paths. As Clear tells In your personal experienceDuring his first year as an entrepreneur he made many mistakes: “I launched my first product without having an idea who would sell it (big surprise, nobody bought it).” Therefore, your recommendation is Do not get obsessed with a single idea will work. It is necessary to try between four and five different alternatives for a while and, if it does not convince you, go to the next. This approach to “try things until something is easy” is essential because, regardless of the objective, it must adapt to your nature and skills. If you are looking to be more productive, experience with several Organization techniques. However good they are and no matter how much they work To people in your environment, you may not adapt to your way of working, To your biorhythms or your way of processing the information. Simply stop committing you to work with you and try Another different technique. The same happens if your goal is to start exercising, prove different sports. Maybe the Running Don’t be yours And it seems bored, and what you really enjoy is yoga or paddle. As the author of the Best seller on productivitythe important thing is not to obtain that a single option must work at all costs. Leaving behind what does not fit with you will allow you to discover what best suits your personality and lifestyle. Choose and Persevear: Invisible work Once you have experienced enough to discover what fits you and what is not, it is time to decide What are you going to focus on. As Clear explains, there comes a time in the process in which you don’t need more information, you just need to make a decision. This is one of the most difficult moments, because it implies putting aside the constant search and commit yourself to a single option. It’s time to focus. From here, perseverance becomes fundamental. Real progress It is not usually visible at the beginning. For example, you must be aware that, if you start going to the gym, you will have to do thousands of repetitions before noticing physical changes. If you want to be a great chef, you will first have to cook many mediocre (or bad) dishes. As Ira Glass pointed outfounder of the podcast This American Life“Your taste is good enough to notice that what you do disappoints you.” That is, only through repetition and constant learning the basis of success for a project, regardless of its nature, begin to lay. It doesn’t matter if it’s about Study oppositionsimprove your productivity, read more either Acquire new habits healthy The practice and art of simplifying Excellence is achieved with constant practice. After going through the phases of experimentation and hard work, the time comes when you can start simplifying. James Clear summarize it like this: “Only after completing the repetitions you will understand which parts of the task are fundamental for success.” It is then, when You have created a solid systemWhen you can Cut processesbetter choose your tools and eliminate what does not provide value. Getting something simple is, paradoxically, the most difficult. As wrote Blaise Pascal: “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” True mastery consists in knowing exactly What is essential and what is accessorysomething that is only achieved after a lot of practice and learning. Each person has their own rhythm, but the path to simplicity and approach inevitably happens through experience and perseverance. In Xataka | Lack of motivation is a problem for productivity. The trick to avoid it is simple according to science: start Image | Unspash (Ioann-Mark Kuznietsov), Flickr (Fortune Live Media, World Bank Photo Collection)

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates seemed irreconcilable enemies. They were actually great allies: “We worked well together”

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In the field of technology, times of A fierce rivalry between large companies to master a certain market: Intel and AMD, Sony and Nintendo, Nvidia and AMD or, of course, Apple and Microsoftwith Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as representatives of that rivalry. However, beyond that business competitiveness to achieve The best products of the market with PC or Mac: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs cultivated a relationship of “intimate enemies” based on mutual respect and recognition. Complementary adversaries Microsoft and Apple’s story has been marked by rivalrybut on many occasions, both companies have collaborated hand in hand to develop products. However, despite those collaborations that, for example, took Office to the Macintosh, has maintained the image of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as eternal irreconcilable rivals. Nothing is further from reality. In An interview For the podcast ON PURPOUS From Jay Shetty, Bill Gates confessed that Jobs and he were complementary, and that allowed them to work together on different projects. “I had a fantastic relationship with Steve. At first I worked with Jobs and Wozniak with Basic for Apple 2, and later, as Steve had a small group inside Apple developing the Macintoshinvited Microsoft to make some software applications for him. We work very closely in that project. We loved both of the result and ended up being a key product for Apple, “Gates explained. The founder of Microsoft stressed that “although we were very competitive, we also admired each other.” Apparently, Steve Jobs thought the same as Bill Gates. In one historical interview in which journalists of The Wall Street Journal Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg sat on both on the stage of conference D5, Steve Jobs claimed citing the song Two of the Beatles: “‘You and I have longer memories than the path that extends ahead’ and that is clearly true in this case.” Gates assured that the secret of the long relationship of love/hate between Apple’s co -founder and he was that both were complementary. “We worked well together. He was very good in what I was not,” said the millionaire. Without Apple and Microsoft the computer science would be different The visions of how a Microsoft and Apple computer should be They were very differentand a faithful reflection of the strengths of their two leaders. While Apple put all the focus on design and efficiency, in Microsoft they focused on developing a platform for their software with the aim of taking a computer to each house. “They said we were out of reality, but we knew that computer science would be part of everyday life,” Gates recalled in his interview. “Steve had incredible skills. He appreciated the user design and interface and even for his intuition with people. It was simply a genius in a way that I cannot explain. I did not look at the code or write it. Instead, the programming is mine. Let’s make that faster and more efficient code.” This rivalry and concept differences caused computer science to advance to the mature industry that is currently, with two companies reaching capitalizations that range The 3 billion dollars. This success would probably have been impossible Without the incentive of the competition which was lived in the late 90s and early 2000s. Microsoft’s co -founder millionaire recognized that both had speeches about how computers would change education and improve it, although he also acknowledged that projects to improve the use of computers They were not always successful. “I think we were both satisfied with what we had done. We got a seat in the front row and helped build all this,” Gates said in reference to the last conversations he had with Steve Jobs before his death in 2011. In the joint intervention that both founders made in 2007, Steve Jobs defined how he saw the competition between Apple and Microsoft of the late 90s: “Many people believed that the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft was a zero -sum game in which for Apple Microsoft won had to lose. It was clear that it was not necessary to play that game because Apple was not going to beat Microsoft. Microsoft. In Xataka | Elon Musk got outstanding in computer science. Who designed the computers they used did not approve with the same ease Image | Flickr (Joi Ito, Kazuhiro Shiozawa)

20 years ago someone predicted that the iPod would end up being irrelevant to the arrival of smartphones: it was Bill Gates

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When it comes to technological innovation, the real triumph It is not to get a supervent productbut be able to advance what will be the one that will be sold the most One and even two decades later. That talent is the one that has made many founders of large technology today are among the Greater fortunes in the world. In May 2005, with the iPod selling as churros and revolutionizing the way of listening to music, Bill Gates Auguró In an interview to a German medium that, a few years later, The iPod was going to be irrelevant. Although for those years, many interpreted His words like agoreras And the result of Microsoft’s inability to deal with the success of the iPod, Gates gave in the nail. The launch of the iPhone in 2007 and the arrival of the smartphones meant the First nail in your coffin. Bill Gates saw him come. Microsoft let him escape In your interview for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The technological millionaire refined his crystal ball from the technological sector. Two years before the launch of the first smartphone as we know it today, predict what the mobile Two decades later. “The mobile phones market is strategically fundamental. More and more functions will be integrated into a single device, and this requires software solutions. The perspective of having all relevant functions in a single device will be irresistible for consumers,” Gates said in 2005. With that statement, Microsoft’s founding millionaire gave in the nail with What was going to happen in the next decade with the development of the smartphones industry. However, in addition to seeing them coming, companies must be able to position in the right place for Take advantage of those predictions And that, with Steve Ballmer already in front of the company doubting success From the business model that the iPhone anticipated, it was the great pending subject for Microsoft. Despite the Windows Phone effortsthe huge mobile software market that Gates predicted was going to stay In Google’s hands and Apple with their respective operating systems, while Microsoft was relegated to a Minority market share with an operating system that did not convince. Ipod fall predicted, not the success of the iPhone “I do not believe that the success of the iPod can be sustained in the long term, however good Apple is. I think you can establish parallels with computers: here also Apple used to be extremely strong with its Macintosh and its graphical user interface (similar to the current iPod) and then lost their position. Consumers want more options and get them because there is a lot of innovation in this area,” Gates said in 2005. Again, he accounted for 100% in what consumers would require mobile devices in the next decade, and the iPod was going to fall short. However, again, and despite the adequate forecast of the millionaire, Microsoft He could not find his space neither Take advantage of your strengths. Instead, Apple not only responded to demands from your customers integrating the functions of the iPod into the iPhone for make it more versatilebut took advantage of the app store to Expand your functions opening a door to millions of applications. In this way, it was Apple who took advantage of the premise that, very rightly, had announced Bill Gates. In Xataka | Bill Gates’ first business was a failure: there he learned everything he needed to build the Microsoft empire Image | Flickr (World Bank Photo Collection), Xataka

They asked Bill Gates and Warren Buffett how they would define their success in one word. They did not hesitate: focus

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At 94, Warren Buffett Ha “Hang” your investment notebook After more than six decades as one of the brightest and most accurate investors of Wall Street in front of Berkshire Hathaway. For his part, Bill Gates spent four decades directing Microsoft. Both became Milmillonarios with it and agree that they would never have achieved it if it is not for a key factor: to focus on achieving their goals. Focus on something and be constant. In one Interview for CNBCBuffett said that on one occasion Bill Gates gathered a group of 20 people – among which Bill Gates was – and asked them to write a word that explained their success on paper. “Bill and I had only seen each other twice and we didn’t know what the other was writing. We both wrote the same word: ‘Focus‘” Both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett attribute much of their fortune and legacy to their ability to avoid dispersion and keep the course for decades. For them, the approach and the ability to focus on a single objective is not only a skill, but the basis on which their empires built. While others played, Gates scheduled. As detailed in his autobiographical book ‘Code Source: My beginnings’Adolescent Gates discovered that programming was a creative way of structuring ideas that tests their logical thinking, which made it become obsessed with creating different programs when access to a computer was a scarce resource only reserved for universities and large companies. Gates and his companions of the “Computer Fourth” of high school managed to get free shared access time to one of those expensive computers and learn to program when very few knew how to do it. This obsession with the software has provided a fortune valued at 112.7 billion dollars, according to Forbes Start is an advantage. In An interview For Charlie Rose’s program in 2016, Gates said that “what you do obsessively between 13 and 18 years is what is most likely to take you to global success. The only thing I did obsessively between my 13 and 18 was to write software.” According to Buffett, in the same way as Gates He focused on learningHe did it to learn to invest. “He focused on software. I concentrated on investments. Starting very young gave me a great advantage. There is no doubt about it,” said the investor nonagenarian. According to Times of Indiaat 11 years the “Oracle of Omaha” was already beginning to make his steps in the investments with $ 114.75 that he had saved. With them he bought three actions from the CNIES Service oil and gas company (now called Citgo). Bill Gates became a millionaire at age 20 thanks to the software company he had founded with his secondary school friend Paul Allen. Warren Buffett had to wait until 32 years for his heritage to exceed six figures. Prioritize and avoid distractions. Having clear priorities has been essential for Gates and Buffet not to waste energies in projects that did not bring them closer to their goals. Bill Gates told to CNBC that He had focused all his life In a single project: Microsoft. During his first 20 years leading Microsoft, his routine revolved exclusively around software development, sacrificing weekends and vacations to achieve its goal: that each home had a personal computer. In An interview for Vanity FairPaul Allen, co -founder of Microsoft and Gates’s partner in its beginnings in programming, said that “Microsoft was an environment of great stress because Bill directed others as hard as he did with himself.” Warren Buffett’s strategy: focus and long term. From a young age, Warren Buffett, chose to specialize in long -term investmentsavoiding the temptation to search Quick earnings. Your strategy During all this time it has been based on identifying solid companies, investing in them and maintaining the actions for years or even decades letting the Time and compound interest They would grow their money. Buffett calls this investment style the “snowball effect”. In the Annual Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Board of 1999Buffett joked with his inverting precocity. “We started building this small snowball at the top of a very long hill. The key is to have a very long hill, either starting very young or living to very old.” The 94 -year -old veteran investor has met both conditions for Finish your career With the fifth greatest fortune in the world, with a “snowball” valued in 156.6 billion dollars. In Xataka | The two Warren Buffet lists: the millionaire investor technique to prioritize professional objectives Image | Flickr (Fortune Live Media), Wikimedia Commons (Jennifer Jacquemart)

Portugal has wanted to shield energy from Spain: the light bill has been the first to pay the price

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Spain and Portugal closed last year proclaiming themselves of the energy transition, since 82% of its electricity It came from clean sources. Within this energy harmony in which both countries were walking together, it seems that it has vanished after the blackout of April 28. Short. Still without An official explanation Clara of the causes of the mass blackout, both Spain and Portugal They have established a joint committee to investigate what happened. Meanwhile, Portugal has chosen to suspend electricity imports from Spain as a preventive measure, According to Financial Times. A fragmented energy island. The Iberian Peninsula is considered an “energy island” for its limited connections with Europe. For this reason, both countries have been forced to each other to balance their electrical systems. However, the blackout has evidenced the fragilities of this interdependence and has led Portugal to question the level of energy dependence it maintains with Spain. In Xataka If the question is "a country can hold only with renewable energy"the answer is here next: Portugal Immediate repercussions. Before the blackout, Portugal imported up to 35% of its electricity from Spain. This flow not only covered the Luso Energy Deficit, but also allowed the neighboring country to store the Spanish surplus in its hydroelectric plants, acting as water batteries, such as has detailed The Financial Times. However, the abrupt cut of that supply has left the country exposed to a much more expensive electric market. In data. According to OMIEwholesale electricity prices in Spain fell up to € 10.24/MWh, while in Portugal they shot € 47.92/MWh. This price difference has put in trouble to Portuguese companies and consumers, especially those without long -term contracts that protect them from sudden rise in rates. There is a shy openness. On Thursday after the blackout, imports began to reopen again, but limited capacity has maintained high prices in Portugal. According to the RENthe Portuguese electricity operator has indicated that the import capacity will be limited to 1,000 megawatts per day until May 12, a figure that represents less than a fifth of the usual import volume. {“Videid”: “X88TF3K”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Save on your light bill: the best options to know prices on your mobile”, “Tag”: “Webedia-prod”, “Duration”: “258”} Future implications. As He has collected The Financial Times, the Minister of Energy of Portugal, Maria Da Graça Carvalho, has pointed out a gradual restoration of imports from Spain. However, Armindo Monteiro, director of CIP, the main business group in Portugal, has warned that the country “does not live or should live in electrical isolation”, and has underlined the need to review the safety and dependence conditions in an uncertain energy context. Image | Pxhere Xataka | Spain has opted for the plot, but has left the network thrown: how micro -redes fit the energy puzzle (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Portugal has wanted to shield energy from Spain: the light bill has been the first to pay the price It was originally posted in Xataka by Alba Otero .

Bill Gates has revealed how he will spend all his fortune. He has also made a very serious accusation about Elon Musk

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The Gates Foundation This week has celebrated its 25th anniversary. Founded in 2000 when Melinda French Gates was 35 years old and Bill Gates 44 (and was the richest man in the world), she quickly became one of the most important philanthropic organizations in history. Therefore, and because talking to Gates is always a “song”, The New York Times and The Financial Times They have had access to an extensive interview. He has rarely left such powerful headlines. Gates goes against Elon Musk and announces the plan to liquidate a fortune of 200 billion dollars. A transcendental decision. Yes, at 25 years of its foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation He has announced that he will definitely close its doors on December 31, 2045, after having allocated more than 100,000 million dollars to improve global health and human development and with the commitment to double that figure in the next 20 years. Gates, who will allocate almost all of his personal fortune to this final stage, argues that current scientific tools, including advances in AI, offer A unique opportunity to achieve radical changes that make its institutional continuity unnecessary. This strategy responds not only to an impulse of efficacy and urgency, but also to the finding of a worrying setback in international cooperation, aggravated by the dismantling of programs like Usaid Under the administration of Donald Trump, whose decisions They could be translated into millions of additional children’s deaths in the coming decades. Gates, although still optimistic, admits that global philanthropy is going through its most delicate moment since the beginning of the century. Elon Musk and moral terrain. The struggle between two of the most influential figures in the contemporary world, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, It was knownbut now it has reached a new and sour dimension with the very hard statements of the founder of Microsoft. Gates accused in the Financial Times Musk of being responsible, although indirectly, of “killing the poorest children in the world” after the dismantling of the USAID, a measure promoted by Doge, the entity created by Musk and backed by the US government. Not just that. Gates denounced that this decision, taken (according to him) since ignorance, has paralyzed the Distribution of essential medicines and food in vulnerable areas, in addition to putting fundamental programs for public health in countries such as Mozambique, where a hospital that avoided the transmission of HIV from mothers to children was affected by cuts that Musk He erroneously justified When confusing the African province of Gaza With the Palestinian region of the same name. An ideological and long enmity. As we said, the confrontation between Gates and Musk is not new. In 2012, both initially coincided in the GIVING PLEDGEa commitment to donate much of his fortune to philanthropic causes, but Musk soon described traditional philanthropy of “garbage”defending commercial solutions such as Tesla electric vehicles as more effective tools against challenges such as climate change. His distancing was aggravated in 2022, when Musk knew that Gates had Around short Against Tesla’s actions, which unleashed his anger and caused a public response out of tone in social networks. According to the biography written by Walter Isaacson, this revelation marked A point of no return between them. A moral and financial setback. Therefore, Gates’s announcement comes in the midst of unprecedented divestment in foreign aid. The drastic 80 % reduction In the USAID budget, cuts to key programs like Pepfar And the decline in international cooperation in countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany and France, illustrate what Gates Describe in the Times as a dangerous collective withdrawal of commitment to the poorest. The paradox, As explainedIt is that while science and health innovation offer viable solutions to eradicate diseases such as HIV, malaria or tuberculosis, moral and political impulse to finance these solutions seems to be disappearing. It emphasizes that instead of consolidating the achievements of the last two decades, the world is on the verge of reversenot due to lack of resources, but for a weakening of the “humanitarian impulse” that, until recently, defined rich democracies. A finite legacy. Gates He argues thatby establishing a closing date and not trying to perpetuate the legacy of its foundation, you can allocate many more resources immediately and decisively. This approach, which describes how A “BOLUS DOSE” philanthropic (a great power injection), will allow the annual expenditure of the foundation for about 9,000 million dollars and concentrate on key areas such as maternal child health, the eradication of infectious diseases and the fight against structural poverty. Gates believes that, thanks to innovation accumulated in recent years, it is possible achieve ambitious objectives How to half reduce infant mortality, eliminate endemic diseases in Africa and double agricultural productivity in the continent. All this while driving the use of AI in local contexts (from medical diagnoses to agronomist in regional dialects) as a motor to close historical gaps. Between optimism and urgency. In both talks, although he acknowledges that pandemic and debt crisis in the poorest countries have stopped decades of progress, insists that the panorama It is not irreversible. See in technology, in collaboration with new philanthropic actors and in the example of a foundation with expiration date, A realistic route to return strength to the global movement for equity. He also states that he does not want to build a monument to his fortune, but return it to the service of humanity at the time you can have more impact. In front of a new generation of more billionaires centered on space exploration Or in individual interests, the man claims the urgency of acting now to avoid millions of avoidable deaths and definitively transform the living conditions of the most disadvantaged. In his own words, if it is not achieved now, what alternative would he have? Give your money on ships? The answer, according to Gates, is morally obvious. Image | World Economic, Ted Conference In Xataka | Bill Gates and the autistic spectrum: a family revelation … Read more

Bill Gates does not believe that doctors and teachers have a future

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Bill Gates has led the technological scene for enough time to know see a disruptive change When you have it in front: AI is one of those changes. In an interview on the occasion of the launch of his new book ‘Sources Code: My beginnings‘, the millionaire has assured that the AI ​​of the future will no longer need human intervention in certain tasks such as the Disease diagnosis or education. It will not be in the short term, but it will be Bill Gates has repeatedly shared his vision of artificial intelligence in different interviews, the last in a recent interview during the program The Tonight Show presented by Jimmy Fallon. During the interview, in addition to remembering the anecdote in which Steve Jobs incredp LSD to improve your productsGates said that AI will have such a significant impact on people’s lives, that humans “will not be necessary for most things.” Although this statement could sound somewhat dystopian and alarming, Gates emphasized that the key is how we use AI to improve our lives instead of fearing it, something that He had already explainedin one of the entries in his personal blog. The millionaire recognized that, at present, the use of AI is still “rare and very expensive”, pointing to those fields, such as medicine or teaching, where assistance It is still closely linked to human specialists In those fields. “With AI, during the next decade, that will become free and usual. It is a very deep change because it solves all those specific problems, such as we do not have enough doctors, mental health professionals. But it brings many changes,” said the founder of Microsoft. Something that already advanced in 2023 in an interview with Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, For your podcast ‘Unconfuse Me ‘. Gates clarified that there will be certain activities that humans are going to want to continue doing, such as playing (and seeing) football or humans matches, but there will be other activities in which AI will end up being more efficient than humans and, therefore, they will be abandoned, explained to Jimmy Fallon. The general will be the great transformative leap In the interview that Bill Gates keptWith Arthur Brooks at Harvard University, the millionaire stressed How AI can expand human capacities in areas such as education, health and work. According to Gates, those best human capabilities assisted by AIthey will contribute to accelerate technological advances causing their development curve to be faster and, therefore, reach the majority of users at a very low price. “It is something very deep and even a little scary, because it is happening very fast and there is no upper limit,” Gates explained to Brooks during his interview. Gates believes thatin the first instance, it will be the agents of AI who will change the way in which we interact with AI, becoming specialists in very specific tasks. This was told to Aria Finger and Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn in An interview for your podcast ‘Possible ‘. For example, a duly trained AI agent could help students and workers to develop skills more quickly through personalized learning tools to each student. However, Gates considers that AI, as we know it today, has the days counted. The next great jump is the General Artificial Intelligencethat is closer to Concept of human intelligence. Mustafa Suleyman, Executive Director of Artificial Intelligence of Microsoft and, according to Bill Gates, One of the most vision voices On the future of AI, it aligns with the prediction of Gates in that the current AI and the AI ​​agents are only one Intermediate step towards the great revolution which will mean the arrival of the general AI. “These tools will only temporarily increase human intelligence. They will make us smarter and more efficient for a while, and will generate enormous economic growth, but they are mainly replacing labor,” said Suleyman in his book ‘The coming wave: technology, power and the great dilemma of the 21st century. Gates assured in his interview with Fallon that “there will be some things that we reserve (to make humans). But in terms of producing, transporting and Cultivate foodover time those problems will be practically solved, “Gates said. In Xataka | Bill Gates believes that the future goes through the three -day work week. The problem is that we don’t have so much money Image | Flickr (Government Tom Wolf)

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