call

The most complex nuclear reactor in the world is underway in the United Kingdom. His critics directly call him “a monster”

by

Two figures are enough to understand the scope of the British challenge: 38,000 million investment pounds and six million homes fed with nuclear electricity for sixty years. This presents Sizewell C, the center that Downing Street describes as a clean energy and employment engine. His detractors, on the other hand, see it as a financial well and the last attempt to give life to a nuclear design so complex that in France it already call it “the monster.” The crown jewel. The objective of the British government is to double the nuclear capacity of the country by 2050 and guarantee a stable supply of low carbon energy. Sizewell C, With two EPR type reactors (European pressurized reactor), is the key piece of that strategy. According to the BBCthe project is the successor of Hinkley Point C, in Somerset, which accumulates a decade of delays and a runaway cost: more than 18,000 million pounds planned in 2010 to about 46,000 million today. Minister Rachel Reeves declared The Guardian that investment is “a powerful support to the United Kingdom as the best place to do business and as a global center of nuclear energy.” Instead, Henri Proglio, former director of the French electric EDF – developmentator of the project -, assured the Financial Times that the reactor design is “scary” and “almost impossible to build.” Faced opinions. The detractors have it clear. Proglio describes it as “a machine with more reinforcement rods than concrete.” Another engineer, Also cited in the FThe spoke of a “colossal error.” And Greenpeace warned the BBC That this time will be taxpayers, not EDF, who pay the inevitable cost overruns. But there are also moderate voices. Tony Roulstone, Professor of Cambridge and exejecutive of Rolls-Royce, declared to FT That Sizewell could be ready “one or two years before Hinkley” and cost 20 % less. Thanks to the fact that much of the design is already tested since the supply chain was consolidated in Somerset. There are already works in Suffolk. The project is not just paper. In Suffolk, 1,700 operators are already working in preliminary works, According to the Financial Times. The first one: a perimeter wall 55 meters deep and 3 kilometers long to drain the marsh before placing the foundations. In addition, Hinkley errors will be avoided. This time the concrete structures will be pregnant in workshops and not in the work, which should accelerate the deadlines. Even so, the official calendar – entered into operation in the middle or end of the 2030s – raises doubts. Flamanville, in France, and Hinkley have shown that deadlines in projects of this type are usually wet paper, As Critica Nils Pratley in his column for The Guardian. It is very complex. It is more complex than it seems to the naked eye. EPR are nuclear reactors of generation III+, the result of Franco-German collaboration between EDF and Siemens. According to World Nuclear Associationare designed to offer a net electrical power of between 1,600 and 1,650 MW, although they can reach 1,770 MW. In addition, they incorporate advanced security measures: double containment, four independent cooling systems, a Core Catcher to catch the nucleus in case of merger, and structural capacity to resist impacts and earthquakes, in addition to diesel generators and backup batteries that guarantee operability to multiple failures. They also stand out for greater energy efficiencyconsuming up to 17% less fuel than old reactors and producing up to 14% more energy. All this with a projected life of 60 years. This technical complexity is, at the same time, a strength in terms of safety and efficiency, and a challenge for the delays and costs that it has shown in its construction. The invoice reaches the British pocket. The cost of the central already exceeds twice the first estimates, According to BBC. The majority (36.6 billion) will be covered with public debt through the National Fund of Wealth. While the financing is distributed among the State (the largest shareholder with 44.9%), followed by the Canadian Caisse (20%), Centrica (15%), EDF (12.5%) and Amber Infrastructure (7.6%). The great novelty is the “Regulated Assets Base” model (Rab) in which households will begin to pay £ 1 per month in their electrical invoices for at least a decade, Julia Pyke explained to the BBC. This scheme mainly protects investors, As Nils Pratley recalled in The GuardianCentrica ensures returns of more than 10% even if the costs reach 47.7 billion pounds; Any excess will be assumed by taxpayers. France already tried. Although with problems. The first French EPR reactor, Flamanville 3, in Normandy, connected to the network In December 2024 after 12 years of delays and with a final cost of € 13.2 billion, four times budgeted. As explained in Financial Timesthe French experience forced to redesign the concept, so EDF no longer prioritizes the EPR, but the EPR2, a simplified and cheaper version that hopes to build in six units here to 2038. Meanwhile, in China they have shown that its Taishan center that has operated for years with an EPR of 1.75 GW, is one of the most powerful reactors in the world. A continent that turns nuclear. The British bet arrives in a contradictory European context. Germany He closed his last central in 2023 and Spain plans to close them in 2027. France, on the contrary, Maintain nuclear as a pillar (70 % of its electricity) and accelerates new EPR2 projects. The board moves: under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Germany has stopped blocking France and accepts that the nuclear receives the same treatment as renewables in EU legislation. The agreement includes giving “green” status to pink hydrogen and opens the door to European financing, although Austria continues against and countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands reevaluate their policies. In the midst of this continental debate, the United Kingdom, outside the EU, advances alone with Sizewell C: an EPR that even EDF has relegated in favor of the EPR2, while in Europe the SMR and nuclear fusion gain space. … Read more

A century of herbivores at ease was ending with Yellowstone. Salvation was logical: call the wolf

by

‘Jurassic Park‘He has memorable moments, but perhaps a phrase is the one that fell me the most in his day: “Life makes its way”The problem is that the hand of man exercises Too much influence on natureand the Yellowstone park It is an excellent example of how an ecosystem that was regulated perfectly was twisting due to a decision made 100 years ago: eradicate the wolves. Consequence? May the park run out of trees. And to turn to the tortilla, the researchers had an idea: return to repopble Yellowstone with wolves. Yellowstone in short. The arrival of European settlers to the North American west caused the expansion of the agriculture and, above all, livestock (With grazing and the Basques carrying the reins). The enemy of cattle was the wolf, since it was a direct threat and, due to its vital role for the local economy, extermination campaigns began to be carried out. The result was that, by 1930, the wolves (as well as other predators such as pumas, coyotes and bears) practically disappeared from some areas such as Yellowstone. Even the army is implied. If the predators disappear, those that were their prey have free field to reproduce without control, and that caused that alces and deer proliferate, creating a huge imbalance in the population of herbivores and, therefore, in the flora of the park. In the end, overparation and a overpopulation of wild herbivores caused the trees to disappear from Yellowstone. Lobos, to curra. The trees that worried were the scenes and it is not a matter of the alces to stay without food. How can we read in Oregon State UniversityThey are vital elements for birds that nest in them and for beavers, among other species. Thus, in 1995 the decision of V was madeOlver to incorporate those predators to the ecosystem. Lobos, Bears and Pumas, another predator practically removed from the area, returned to the place they should never abandon, and the results have not taken to appear. Results. Luke Painter, professor of ecology and conservation at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Oregon, comments that “The reintroduction of great carnivores has started a recovery process that had been paralyzed for decades. ” studyThey detail that the “price” is the sustained decrease in population of the Cervus canadensisallowing the quarrels to experience exceptional growth. This “trophic waterfall” examined 87 rhods of poplars in northern Yellowstone, finding that 43% of them presented a new population of small trees between five and ten centimeters in diameter, being the first positive count since the 1940s. They comment that the density of grazing remains the dominant factor for the regeneration of poplar, but that that Introduction of predators has relieved the load that herbivores exert in the ecosystem. In addition, the study rules out changes in the climate as the main cause of that recovery, once again influencing the importance of the reintroduction of the wolf as the element that has caused “changes in the distribution of the ALCE, giving rise to recovery”. The Wolf as a lever. Not everyone is on that ship. A previous study On the part of researchers at Utah State University and the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point put on the table that, although the role of the wolf had been important for the recovery of poplar, its role was exaggerated due to the way in which previous measurements were made. But what has happened in Yellowstone is not an isolated story. That persecution of the wolf has been lived in other areas and, in Europe, due to its impact on livestock, they are also promulgated laws for extermination. The ecological consequences are similar to the views in Yellowstone and, in Scotland, there is an overpopulation of red deer that are ending local forests. At a time when we need trees so that They catch co₂it is already being raised release more than 150 wolves in the ‘Highlands’ Scottish to control deer and save forests. While some release them… But as we are condemned to repeat the story, at the end of 2024, the Permanent Committee of the Bern agreement voted in favor of reduce wolf protection status. This makes it “strictly protected” to “protected”, which opens the door to A desire on the part of certain parliamentariansfarmers and hunters: that can bother the wolf. And not with paint ballsas in Netherlands. In Xataka | Russia has found a frozen wolf 44,000 years ago “in perfect condition.” First decision: open it

No one knew what happened for 12 years in a Volkswagen ranch in the Brazilian jungle. Until a priest made a call

by

During the darkest years of the Brazilian military dictatorshipwhen the regime promoted at all costs the colonization of the Amazon under the flag of development, one of the largest multinationals on the planet expanded its automobile empire in Latin America. At the same time, he directed an ambitious livestock project deep in the jungle. That multinational was Volkswagen, and in 2019 a priest He revealed a tragedy. Awakening from a forgotten memory. The story was told this week The Washington Post In an extensive report. When in 2019 the priest and academic Ricardo Rezende Figueira read that Volkswagen Brazil was willing to Recognize and repair His complicity with the Brazilian military dictatorship for the political persecution of workers in factories, felt something missing. There was no mention of Vale do rio crystallinethe huge livestock farm of the company in the Amazonian jungle. That land of more than 140,000 hectares, where hundreds of workers were recruited under deceptionisolated, indebted, mistreated, tortured and forced to work in degrading conditions for more than a decade, it seemed to have been History erased. There are evidence. But Rezende, who in the 80s documented those abuses as part of his work with the Pastoral Commission of the Earthstill It kept the evidence: More than a thousand pages of testimonies, notarial statements, police reports and press clippings accumulated in your personal archive. After reading the news, the priest telephone to prosecutor Rafael Garciaspecialist in slave work at the Ministry of Labor. That call would resurrect one of the darker chapters of corporate advance in the Amazon. A jungle turned into hell. The documents that he rebounded delivered to the authorities offered a devastating radiography. Between 1974 and 1986, in full military dictatorship, Volkswagen Brazil (then the largest automotive in Latin America) promoted a Titanic livestock project With regime support: disassemble the jungle in Pará To raise 100,000 cattle, as part of a corporate ideal that the world not only needed cars, but also meat. To do this hired a subsidiaryVale do rio crystalline SA, whose leaders included the president of Volkswagen Brazil himself, Wolfgang Sauer. The company turned to the sadly famous cats (Informal recruiters) who promised good salaries to poor peasants, advanced money and transferred them in trucks to the jungle’s heart. Images of the Brazilian parliamentary delegation during his visit to the farm in 1983 A prison. Once there, the workers were locked in camps remote, forced to work under threat of armswithout medical attention, drinking contaminated water, exposed to malaria, living under plastics and indebted by food and medicines. Not just that. His movements were constantly monitored by armed inspectors. Thus, trying to escape was to face punishment, the disappearance or death. The file that challenged oblivion. For years, Rezende collected Men’s testimonies They escaped from that hell. The records talked about beatings, broken teeth, bare men in the jungle, bodies thrown in cavernseven workers Burned alive. A young man, Valdeci Alves Fumeiro, story Having spent seven years caught in the hacienda, sewn without anesthesia after a fall and forced to continue working. Volkswagen’s announcement in 1977 in Brazil urged other companies to become “neighbors” of their farm in the Amazon Silence. But despite multiple complaints, intelligence reports and official statements that recognized the existence of slave work on the property, never presented A single position penal. I remembered the post that the structure of complicity between companies, state and repressive force guaranteed impunity for decades. Rezee, however, persisted in his conviction: the file had to survive time, because one day he would return to light. And so it was. The prosecutor Garcia, when reviewing the documents, recognized in them the basis for an unprecedented judicial action. A rebuilt truth. The Prosecutor’s Office initiated a national search to locate the workers mentioned by Rezende. The effort fell to the young researcher Matheus Faustinowho toured remote communities for months until he found 14 of the 69 identified. Some, such as Francisco Rezende de Souza, had been devastated by experience: alcoholism, isolation, inability to reintegrate into life. Others, such as the Batista de Souza brothers, were separated and sold by cats even after Volkswagen will leave the project. One of them, Juldemar, was silent for life. Testimonies When in 2023 The trial began in a Federal Labor Court in Redenção, several of these men testified for the first time. “They sold us”, One said. “We slept under plastics,” I commented another. “Everyone was armed, we had to work.” Rezende also went up to the podium. He recalled the complaints since 1977, Volkswagen’s complicity for omission, and the systematic inaction of the State. What does the company say. For its part, Volkswagen Brazil He has flatly denied The accusations. He alleges that his role was merely the shareholder of a company that subcontracted others, and that at the time It did not detect irregularities. In his judicial writings, he argues that it is the government who must hold recruiters and not hold the company. But prosecutors argue that Volkswagen’s subsidiary It was an integral part of the parent company, and that the abuses were systematic and known. Internal documents They show that Volkswagen even organized visits to deny the complaints, while avoiding allowing inspections in the camps. According to the postthe most cynical statement came from the Swiss director of the ranch, Friedrich Brüggerwho in one Interview in 2017 He blamed the workers of his debt and justified the violence of cats as necessary to maintain order: “The Brazilian is a bad person,” declared. The company in Germany has kept silence. Fight for memory. Today, The judicial casewhich requires compensation for 30 million dollarsmarks the first time that the Brazilian State tries to legally hold A multinational by slavery Modern in the Amazon. But for Rezende, which exceeds 70 years and coordinates a Chair of Human Rights in Rio de Janeiro, it is not just a remuneration justice. It is a battle against oblivion. He underlined In the newspaper That each folder in his office … Read more

WhatsApp will allow companies to call you directly. The question is whether it will become another spam nest

by

WhatsApp has announced An important update for its business platform that will allow large companies to make direct voice calls to users. The novelty also includes video calls and business voice messages, all enhanced by artificial intelligence in order to automate commercial interactions. What includes the update. Companies that use the WhatsApp Business platform can both receive customer calls and perform them directly in the future. This function adds to video calling capabilities, useful for telesalud consultations, and to send voice messages. Meta is also expanding its business functions, which include personalized recommendations of products and automated customer monitoring through Chat. Why is it relevant. WhatsApp Business already has more than 200 million monthly users and has become an important source of goal income. The company generates money through its click ads to WhatsApp and charges merchants for messaging functions. This expansion towards direct calls seeks to make WhatsApp a more complete business communication channel, especially in markets such as Brazil and India where it is already very popular for customer service. However, it also raises doubts in terms of safety and privacy for the user. We must also bear in mind that, over the last years, WhatsApp has become A very attractive focus on cybercriminals in order to cheat their victims with increasingly sophisticated techniques of Phishing. Of course, it is convenient to be cautious in a context in which the scams proliferate more than ever through the messaging app and in Spain, with traditional calls, where The Robinson list Try to limit unplayed commercial calls, it offers disparate results. Although goal seems to have everything under control over this new function. What does goal say about it. The company ensures that companies can only call users who have previously requested to be contacted and will work with certified partners for the deployment of these functionalities. Meta is also integrating WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram marketing tools on a single platform, which will allow companies to manage their campaigns centrally and optimize their advertising budgets. And now what. Although the function seeks to facilitate customer service and automate the answers Through the (Something that does not usually like the user), the success of this functionality will depend largely on how target implements the controls to avoid abuse. If the verification of companies is rigorous and the complaint mechanisms work correctly as the company indicates, it could become a useful tool for customer service. However, it does not hurt to stay alert to possible unplayed calls and be cautious with any request for personal or financial data that they receive through this route. Cover image | Goal In Xataka | Finally WhatsApp will use AI in something that will make many happy: to end the chaos of the messages without reading

The calls spam from numbers 600 and 700 will be prohibited from tomorrow. The question is where you will call you now

by

Saturday, June 7. It is the date on which the normative reform through which the realization of commercial calls from numbers assigned to mobile lines comes into force It is prohibited. The Minister for Digital and Public Transformation advanced in mid -May two amendments to achieve it. From that date, the operators cannot call you from a 6xx number, they will have to do it from an 800 or 900. The question now is what number we can call. The change. Until now, companies had free way to Call you from phone numbers with prefix 6 or 7the same ones that have any individual on your mobile phone. It was a tactic that prevented the user from recognizing a first glance whether or not they were calling him from an advertising department, and one with which the Government will end immediately. From June 7, any call for commercial purposes must be made from a number with prefix 800 or 900. It will be the way we will have the Spaniards to recognize when they are calling us for advertising purposes. Additional to this measure, companies They can’t call you from foreign numbersnor formalize the closure of a contract by phone. The reactions. Digi, one of the operators that grows the most in Spain and aspires to occupy the national top 3 in the short term, It has been the first to move file. Until now, the company could contact the number 642 642 642 and 1200. With the new change, the new customer service is 919 120 120. All calls received from customer service will be from that 900, a practice that the rest of the operators will have to follow immediately to comply with the new regulation. At the moment, giants like Vodafone Where will you have to call you. As a consumer, when calling, change will affect you in cases where the company completely eliminates the number 600 for customer service. The law forces them to call you from 900, but does not prohibit that you call a 600. It will be necessary to inform themselves on the website of each of the companies to know how the changes have applied. Companies are obliged to replace this prefix for a 900 or 800 for their outgoing calls, but Digi has shown that “The easy number” (1200, 1004, 1444) which we always call will remain alive. It is a logical movement, since the legislation does not modify the numbers to those we call Consumers only affect numbers From those who call us. The problem. Although the government wants to reduce the impact of the so -called spam in Spain, the underlying problem remains alive: The consent. Even if you are in the Robinson list, you may receive calls from companies that you think you have not given permission. Sometimes, we have been able to give consent without even knowing it (having formalized a contract, giving a “yes” during a call, etc.). The foundations of “Legitimate interest” They are also diffuse. If the company calls to improve our service and offer discounts, It can be considered as a desired communication. Image | Digi In Xataka | I’m still receiving commercial calls: Why can you and what can you do to avoid telephone spam

An urbanization was deserted in Valencia after the real estate bubble. Some geniuses have made it ‘Call of Duty’

by

The real estate bubble It has had, at least, a positive effect: abandoned residential areas are born to be born a sudden and sporadic new life when they are assaulted by groups of Airsoft fans, a kind of ‘Call of Duty’ in real life that could not aspire to more colorful and appropriate scenarios than those of site as seven waters. What is Airsoft? An activity that Simulates tactical fighting using reprisons of firearms that trigger small plastic balines. These weapons are Real -scale replicas but they do not entail danger (they cannot even be manipulated to become real weapons). The objective is to meet missions or eliminate the opposite team, and over time this hobby has diversified in different styles, ranging from the Recreation of historical battles to modern war clashes that remind it of ‘Call of Duty’. The unusual clash between the Airsoft and the real estate bubble. Airsoft is played in closed environments, which can range from areas specially designed to it to more open but security controls. For example, abandoned industrial areas or empty peoples are used. On many occasions the associations that organize Airsoft games run into legal requirements that require the delimitation of the pitch so that the balls do not exceed their limits or the express permit of the land owner and the corresponding licenses. Therefore, an area like seven waters is especially appreciated by fans. What is seven waters? Seven waters is A municipality in the province of Valencia54 kilometers from the capital and surrounded by a mountain natural environment. It has 1279 inhabitants and a remarkable story with vestiges of the Muslim era, but the most interesting for Airsoft practitioners is an unfinished urbanization where only the streets and about 50 homes were built. The constructions (whose future plans included 684 villas, a shopping center, a hotel and a golf course, all with US financing) They were paralyzed in 2007 for the outbreak of the real estate bubble, and although it is not the only area around seven waters that are abandoned (there are An empty village very close, the reatillo), is the only one that has been recycled for Airsoft practice. Legal Airsoft. The treatment that has reached the Airsoft Plairsoft association and the owner of the urbanizations It is simple and benefits all those involved: the area is rented as a space for sports use, which prevents cases of occupation and vandalism; The owner puts the basic elements of security and surveillance, and the nearby seven waters receive a thrust in its economy and dynamization of other activities (in the area It is practiced mountaineering, riding, Mountain Bikeparagliding and hiking), which take advantage of the natural environment. Zombi attraction park. In 3Dguegosour partner Rubén Márquez compared the reuse of this space to what a few years ago He could see in Detroit: a city with neighborhoods so abandoned that in its day the possibility of recycling them was raised as Zombi theme attraction park. That did not set to curdle, but it is inevitable to think of projects like that when we see men disguised as soldiers with plastic guns, in environments that could have been very close to habitability, with villas that on the outside seem almost functional. A zombie amusement park, but where the guns do not kill. Header | Plairsoft In Xataka | A new movement has emerged in the US: Current people with AR-15 rifles preparing for a social collapse

A call was enough

by

While in Spain we tried to heat the food obtaining heat with shapes Alternatives to electricitythe bosom of the Oval Office between Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos were more than warm, as they counted in Fox News. The filtration of an internal Amazon report in which the possibility that the giant of the Jeff Bezos online trade Draw the impact of tariffs on the price of each product. White House reactions soon arrived and the own Trump off the phone To talk to Bezos. An internal Amazon report. The political fire began after the Publication of an internal report by the American environment PunchBowl News. In this internal Amazon document, the possibility of detailing in the final price of the products was considered the additional cost derived from tariffs, as is done with taxes or with the shipping cost. With this movement, the company founded by Jeff Bezos approached the strategy of rivals as Shein and Temuwhich are planned to increase the prices of products that are sent to the US as a result of tariffs to China and break up your cost. The White House draws the artillery. Such and As you collect the BBCthe White House response soon arrived. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt found Trump’s discomfort in a press conference for the content of the report and described the intentions of the Jeff Bezos company as “a hostile and political act by Amazon.” White House spokeswoman added: “Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration raised inflation at its highest level in 40 years? This is another reason why Americans should buy American products.” Leavitt went a little further in the valuations of the Amazon report, flying A publication of 2021 Reuters in which Amazon was accused of aligning with “the Chinese propaganda arm” to censor the reviews of the users of a book with the speeches of Chinese president Xi Jinping. In An interview With the CNBC, Howard Lutnick, US Secretary of Commerce, described Amazon’s decision as “absurd”. “A 10% tariff will not change virtually any price,” said the universal tariff percentage for all countries. “The only price that would change would be that of a product that we did not produce here, such as the mango,” the person in charge of trade slid that, According to data Statista, 71% of the products that Amazon sells They are manufactured in China and support tariffs up to 145%. Trump picks up the phone. The alarms for the measure planned to apply Amazon reached the oval office, where Trump He picked up the phone To speak personally with Jeff Bezos and make him give up his intention, despite the fact that the millionaire is no longer the official CEO of the company. According to subsequent statements by Donald Trump, Bezos would have agreed not to move on with that average. “Jeff Bezos was very friendly. He was fantastic. He solved the problem very fast. He did the right thing. He is a good person,” the US president praised, as he collected he Washington Post. The rapid rectification of Jeff Bezos does not surprise anyone, especially taking into account the Millionaire’s efforts to entertain Trump, with millionaire donations For your investiture and dictating the your newspaper editorial line. Amazon reculates. Just after that call between Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos, Amazon defended himself From your social networks ensuring that the information published were only ideas and considerations of a working document of the team that manages the Amazon Haul store in which they are sold low -cost products manufactured in China. That makes your products especially tariff susceptible. However, the company emphasizes that “this was never considered for the main page of Amazon and nothing has been implemented in any of its properties.” Subsequently to the call, the White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, reduced the intensity of her words to Jeff Bezos and Amazon, stating that “I will not talk about the president’s relationships with Jeff Bezos.” Relationships that, on the other hand, have been maintained with a certain degree of tension since Trump’s first mandate for the Amazon postal rates. Amazon actions down. After the government’s reaction before the Amazon report, the response of investors It was dropping In 2.3% the shares of the company due to the fear of reprisals against the company by the Trump administration. Once the spirits were calmed, the company’s actions regained confidence returning to its previous market price to continue normally. In Xataka | Luxury brands hoped to land in the US after their fall in China: tariffs have cut their wings before taking off Image | Flickr (IAFASTRO, Gage Skidmore)

call nintendo by phone

by

Something that surprised me when I went to work in Xataka is the community. Not only that of comments, where you can discuss the subject in the article, but specific issues that, if we can, we try to solve. No one was born, and if we move that to video game worldthat’s why there are guides. What would never occur to me is that the company that develops a game could be called on the phone to help me with that impossible phase. But, precisely, that is what Nintendo did in the early 90s: I had a group of video game experts that helped you when you needed it. Were the ‘Nintendo games counselors‘, And it seems to me something as magical as unrepeatable in the current video game sector. Nintendo Power. In the summer of 1988, two heavyweights of Nintendo of America founded Nintendo Power. It was a magazine that focused on games analysis, advances of new titles and ‘fan’ content of some of its most popular sagas. And one of its pillars were video game guides. Complicated. The titles of the time They were difficultwith unfair mechanics in some cases (I’m looking at you, game of ‘The Lion King’) and with extremely obtuse designs in others, which made it difficult for many users to advance. The vast majority of games lasted a sigh, so that difficulty was a way that they were not completed in a couple of hours, but in the case of games of SNESmore complex than those of previous consoles, the guides were essential in some cases. The hot nintendo line. If you were a juggon in the Time of Spanish magazines Preinternetyou will remember that you could write and, if you were lucky, their editors would give you a hand. However, Nintendo Power came up with a masterful (and demential) idea: to train experts in certain Nintendo games to help players who need it. They were the ‘Nintendo Games Directors’ and their work material is as you are imagining it: desktop with a TV, a console, files with the maps and tips of the most important games of their consoles and a cable -free hands to be able to play or manipulate the documents while solving the ballot. ‘Powerline to the pros’. A few years ago, the medium Nintendolife He interviewed Erich Waas, a heavyweight of Zenimax online Studios, but in his youth he needed part -time job and took him to be one of these directors. Basically, it seems that the work was a “fans for fans”, since the interview consisted of questions about three specific games: ‘Metroid’, ‘Zelda’ and ‘Dragon Quest’. They gave him a week to prepare the three games (very little time, the truth) and in the interview they asked him about issues related to how to level up. Popularity. When he joined the team in 1990, Game boy I was already on sale and Snes was falling, so the most popular games they asked were the ‘Zelda’ (logical), ‘Dragon Quest’ and the Point & Click ‘Shadowgate’ adventure. And, at that time, there were 250 people among game counselors and customer service. The brain of the beast. Thus the Super Nintendo was known, but I would say rather than the beast’s brain was the file that these game counselors had. Waas commented in the interview that, during the first month, all they did was play popular games at that time and receive training to help those who called looking for answers. That training was not only technical, but also communication. “We could not say” kill “, but” win “when we talked to the players,” he says. Nintendo is a company with an ‘Family Friendly’ approach, and that has been so for decades. They also had to show enthusiasm for the game they were talking about. Get asking. With the games that passed they gained experience to reply Questions, but also, they had a huge file with folders in which there were screenshots, maps of frequent levels and questions. That allowed, although the counselor in question would not have ended ‘Final Fantasy VI‘, for example, as there were certain recurring questions of the players whose answer was noted, I simply went for the corresponding folder when I received the call and … ready. Happy player. Beyond video games. This Reddit thread It is very fun because we can see testimonies of people who called this service. And there are anecdotes of all kinds: who called to get the invisibility layer of ‘A link to the past‘, who did it to pass to the King Dede de’Kirby’s Dream Land‘, who said that the friends called him to tell them how to complete a phase, who states that they responded reluctantly and who says they burst one of the best moments of the aforementioned’ Final Fantasy VI ‘. And it is possible that this line was more than an aid to pass levels. Waas says that “there were some different calls sometimes, especially on Fridays and Saturday nights. Also during Christmas holidays, with lonely players with whom I stayed to talk most of the time. And something curious is that, sometimes, they did not give him the answer directly.” They trained us to take the player on the right track thanks to different tracks until they discovered the answer for themselves. “ Subtleties. Because there are times that, for example, we do not know that we have to use a mechanic to defeat an enemy and, in that case, the directors would tell us things like “hey, why you think you have a skill that allows you to eat enemies and then expel them…” so that we get to the answer. Other times … Well, you had to help directly. Waas comments a funny anecdote: “Once, someone called for ‘The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past’. The player asked what he had to do when the uncle who tells you at the beginning of the game that” you wait “leaves … Read more

How to tell the goal to call you the way you want and choose the name or nickname you want to use

by

Let’s tell you How to tell you how you want me to call you to Goal AIso that the artificial intelligence of WhatsApp or Instagram uses this name as long as it refers to you. You can also do this for the first time to establish your name. This is something that you will be able to do in a very simple way, You just have to use a prompt Naturally asking you to call you the way you want. Goal AI in WhatsApp Or Instagram will do it and remember it. Change what a goal is called ai You do not need to change anything in the configuration for me to call you differently, all you have to do is ask with a natural languageas if you asked another person. I have used the prompt From now on, call me XXXXchanging the XXXX by the name you want to use. From then on, every time I have to refer to you, you will mention the name you have asked. In Xataka Basics | Expand an image by artificial intelligence: 11 pages to do it for free

Openai’s new voice models already speak as customer service agents. His next destination: the call centers

by

Since the beginning of the year, the objective of great technological ones has been clear: that we talk to artificial intelligence (ia). Openai, Microsoft, Google and Meta have added voice functions to their assistants. But this seems to be just the beginning. The industry advances at a frantic pace and the way we interact with these tools continues to evolve. Tell the voice agents ‘hello’. Sam Altman’s company has been betting on text agents with tools such as Operator either Computer-Useing agents. However, Openai already has it ready if next great movement to continue highlighting in the race for the development of AI: to promote a new and powerful generation of voice agents. New models on stage. OpenAI has announced The launch of new audio models to turn voice into text and vice versa. They are not in chatgpt, but in the APIwhere developers can use them to create voice agents. The important thing? They aim to be much more precise and to bring customization to the next level. The new OpenAI models, built on GPT-4O and GPT-4O-minipromise to improve Whisper Already its previous text to voice tools, which will also remain active through the API. But it is not just a matter of performance: now they can also modulate their tone to sound, for example, “as an empathic customer service agent.” Destination: the call centers. Openai makes it clear where they point with this launch. He assures that “for the first time, developers can tell the model not only to say, but also how to say it, which allows more personalized experiences for use cases ranging from customer service to creative narrative.” According to Openai, this technology will allow creating much richer “conversational experiences.” If we take into account that Chatgptpowered by GPT-3.5arrived in November 2022, it is evident that the progress has been vertiginous. And everything indicates that these models will end up arriving at the call centers. We might think that at first the interactions will be somewhat limited, but well above the current voice systems. They will move away from traditional automated assistants and will be much more natural. Over time, the line between a conversation with a person and an AI could become almost imperceptible. Images | Charanjeet Dhiman | OpenAI In Xataka | We have tried Sesame’s conversational. It is the experience closest to a “human voice” that we have seen In Xataka | China has found an unusual strategy to avoid US mosquadillas with AI: bet on the Open Source

Log In

Forgot password?

Forgot password?

Enter your account data and we will send you a link to reset your password.

Your password reset link appears to be invalid or expired.

Log in

Privacy Policy

Add to Collection

No Collections

Here you'll find all collections you've created before.