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The AI ​​had not getting excited or interested beyond the niche. That has changed the Miyazaki style

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We had been on the plateau for almost two years. After the initial explosion of Chatgpt At the end of 2022, AI had followed a predictable path: incremental improvements, grandiloquent ads and increasingly technical products that, paradoxically, moved the general public away from the conversation. We were momentarily impressed by some new function, such as The advanced voice of chatgptbut The AI ​​was becoming something dense. We were immersed in debates about reasoning models, hallucinations, generational differences. A universe of impenetrable jargon that was moving the conversation about AI from the initial astonishment to arid technicalism. The result has been a gradual disconnection: specialists discussing models architectures and general public passing page. Wake me up When there is something painted again. It is as if we had forgotten what captured our attention in the first place. It was not parameter optimization or performance evaluations in Benchmarks What fascinated us, but the ability of AI to surprise us, to do something that we intuitively recognized as “magical.” The AI ​​had become bored precisely when it became obsessed with becoming useful. And suddenly, Miyazaki style enters. Chatgpt’s new capacity to generate images of any style, including that of the Japanese anime teacher, has achieved what hundreds of technical advances could not: return the AI ​​to Zeitgeist culturalto everyday conversations, to WhatsApp groups. Seeing Jesús Gil in his jacuzzi as if he had come directly from Studio Ghibli is immediately understandable, shared and, above all, fun. It does not require a doctorate in automatic learning to appreciate it. Nor does he demand that we put the tie in front of Excel to enjoy it. The lesson is clear: so that technology really permeates beyond the niche, it must appeal to our game capacity, not only to our productivity. The ‘chanantes’ moments of Spanish history reimagined as anime remind us that the true mass technological adoption occurs when the tool allows us to express ourselves culturally, when it amplifies our shared creativity and our common references. In the meantime debate about How AI will transform work And if we should be retouting our LinkedIn, We had forgotten their ability to transform our cultural expressions. And perhaps that is what really determines its long -term relevance. In Xataka | Openai already plans hyperavanized agents with the capacities of a human doctorate. Baratitos will leave: 20,000 euros per month Outstanding image | Xataka with chatgpt

Thus has changed the way of working after the pandemic

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Five years have passed since the Covid-19 pandemic marked a before and after in the way we work, forcing companies and employees to quickly adapt to New work models. Five years later, studies like that of the Gallup consultant and WFH Research have documented how these transformations have impacted the work environment: from the Award and drop of teleworking to the challenges related to the Mental health and commitment of employees. Evolution of remote work to hybrid. According to Gallup data, in 2019 60% of employees with Ability to telework They went to the offices five days per week. 32% already made it alternating face -to -face and remote work days. A model that we now know as hybrid days. Before everything changed, only 8% worked in a way completely remote. At present, data on the working day point to greater more diversity. According to Gallup, 55% of the 400,000 employees consulted work in a hybrid modality, 26% teleworking full -time and 19% remain exclusively face -to -face without options to telework at all. WFH Research data is more conservative in their estimates, assigning 25.7% to hybrid models, 12.9% to full -time teleworking, and a crushing 61.4% for face -to -face work. Stagnant since 2023. According to data collected by WFH Research, the number of working days that have been held from home have been stable since the beginning of 2023, representing 27% of the total days worked. Instead of prioritizing the increase of these remote work days, both studies confirm that employees give priority to maintain time flexibility. At present, an average of 2.3 days per week is worked remote, being the most common day to work from home. However, WFH Research data revealed that on, many occasions, that remote work occurred to compensate that on Friday it had later entered or left before the time, adding that flexibility component. Rock makes love. Gallup data revealed that the levels of employee commitment They have suffered a notable fall since the beginning of the pandemic, reaching a historical minimum in 2024 that places the employee commitment At 2014 levels. According to this index, 31% of employees felt committed to the values ​​and objectives of their company, while 17% showed actively disconnectedwhich implies being in a Silent resignation situation. In 2019, 55% of employees consulted by Gallup knew exactly what was expected of them, while, in 2024, it is a percentage barely reached 44%. In the same proportion, the alignment of the values ​​and the culture of the company registered between the employees has fallen before the pandemic, which stood at 38%, while in the updated it barely records 30%, indicating the detachment of the employees and the Lack of template cohesion. It is more complicated to retain talent. One of the direct consequences of this detachment is the difficulty of companies To retain talent. According to Gallup, the percentage of employees who feel they are thriving in their company went from 60% in 2019 to 50% in 2024, accompanied by record levels of negative emotions such as the Stress and exhaustion. This impact has been more pronounced Among young workerswho tend to experience higher levels of burnout and pessimistic evaluations about Your quality of lifeplacing them in a situation of high probability of employment change. In 2024, 18% of employees claimed to be fully satisfied with their current job, while 51% were thinking of changing jobs or were in Active search for a new job. Exceeding the levels that were recorded at the end of 2019. Managers have made a difference. The data collected in five years of surveys by the Gallup consultancy have revealed the importance of communication management and Leadership of intermediate positions and managers. Those companies with effective leadership have managed to maintain the company’s work culture, evolving with the changes that have occurred in these years. On the other hand, those companies with managers who have not known how to adapt To the new tools and a changing environment, they have suffered to retain your templates for the deterioration of its employees’ commitment. In Xataka | “They are much more daring.” Image | Unspash (Jason Goodman)

that of 1755, the disaster that destroyed the city and changed science

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Earthquakes in Lisbon can be more or less intenseto have greater or lesser reach and unleash or not alarm, but since the mid -eighteenth century all (whether strong, medium or slight) have something in common: in addition to stirring the ground, they remove the memory. Ease in the Portuguese capital is synonymous with 1755. of disaster. Of destruction. Of Thousands of dead. And also, in its own way, of regeneration. It is so for a very simple reason: in Lisbon it is impossible for the soil to be stirred without the Lisbon remembers The drama that their great -grandparents lived (and perhaps some more tátara) on all the saints of 1755, when in a matter of a few hours the city trembled, burned and sank. Literally. The tremor recorded yesterday afternoon in the Lisbon Metropolitan Areaof Magnitude 4.7 And to which two other mild ones have happened today, 2.8 and 2.3they are no exception and (as has already happened with another similar In August of magnitude 5,3) dusting the memory of 1755. A November morning … The history of the earthquake that He swept Lisbon In 1755, there has been thousands of times and in almost all chronicles a circumstance is highlighted that continues to fascinate even today, 270 years after the disaster: its date. The ground trembled on the morning of November 1, All Saints’ Day, with the devotees Catholics praying in the temples and large amount of candles lit in honor of the deceased. Maybe it seems silly, but ultimately it turned out A key detail. Thanks to testimonies such as the English Reverend Charles Davywho remembered that autumal morning prior to the earthquake as the “most beautiful”, we know that Towards 9.30 a.m. The Lisbon gathered in the city’s temples felt a rumble. The noise was so intense, so loud, that Davy believed that it was a carriage march. “I soon disappointed myself, I discovered that it was due to a type of strange and frightening noise underground, similar to distant and hollow rumble of a thunder “, He recalled The British. It was right. That rumble was not caused by the wheels and horses of the horses as they moved on the cobblestone of Lisbon, but an earthquake that the researchers They still study today. In July 2021, without going any further, Nature public An article that deepened in Its causes and tectonic origin. What neither Davy nor the rest of the inhabitants of Lisbon could know in 1755 is that the city would not be shaken by a single earthquake. They happened two or three tremors Of which the second was, from afar, the most intense. Today it is estimated that it reached a magnitude of between 8.5 and 9 On the Richter scale, almost double that it shook yesterday the capital and superior to the one that hit Morocco in 2023. From the Institut de Ciènces del Mar They clarify In fact, one of the natural events is considered ” more destructive in history from Europe “. Temples fell. Palacios fell. Public buildings fell. And houses fell. Earthquakes and something else 1755 Maybe it is far behind in time, but the Lisbon of then reacted to the tremors in the same way that we would do today: they sought refuge. A good part of the survivors of the first earthquake, regardless of sex or rank ran to the great open square next to the Tajo River. There Mr. Braddick, an English merchant whose testimony He rescued years ago The BBC was found to swirled. There they cried mercy to heaven. And there they were surprised by the second shock of the ground, which like Braddick tells, “The ruin completed” of the buildings that had already been damaged. It is not necessary to imagine it. One of the forced stops for tourists visiting Lisbon is naked Gothic arcade of the church of Convent do carmoone of the architectural victims of that unfortunate day. Just as if a drama in three acts were, the earthquakes that shook Lisbon’s foundations were only the beginning. The earthquake generated a tsamot with waves of between six and nine meters(It was felt Also in Cádizleaving thousands of victims) that unloaded violently in the lower part of the city. In less than an hour The water crashed into the Paseo Marítimo, where it surprised not a few Lisbon who had sought refuge in La Ribera. There is even more. The disaster was accompanied by fires that were probably aggravated by the overturned stoves and the vote candles lit for the deceased. Years ago the National Geographic Institute published A monograph in which the devastation generated by the flames, which lasted for five or six days. “As soon as it obscured, the entire city It seemed to shinewith such a bright light that could be read. You could say without exaggeration that there were fires in at least one hundred places at the same time “, Reverend Davy recountswho confirms that the fires lasted almost a week, “without interruption.” A tragedy and a change The result? Just a few years later Voltaire I pointed critically in his work Naive that the disaster had taken “three quarters” of Lisbon. Other sources They go further And they suggest that the tremors, the tsunami and the fire “almost completely” the Portuguese capital and knocked down around 12,000 homes. The balance is in any case bleak, just like the balance of victims. Depending on the source that is handled, there is talk of 10,000 Deaths, 30,000, 60,000 or even 90,000. A barbarity if one takes into account that at that time Lisbon would have between 200,000 and 300,000 inhabitants. Such was the debacle that is told that Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marqués de Pombalhe advised King José I be pragmatic: he played “rescue the living and bury the dead.” The 1755 disaster was not only felt in the balance of deaths, injured, missing and buildings, squares, roads and crumbled temples. In its way … Read more

Calling Gulf of America to the Gulf of Mexico was just an occurrence of Trump. Until Apple changed its maps

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The 1953 edition was the last one published in the volume Limits of Oceans and Seasthe text internationally accepted to name the seas and oceans of our planet. It is managed by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), But the curious thing is not that. The curious thing is why more than 70 years ago it has not been edited. The reason, they explain In The Conversationwe find it in the conflict between Japan and South Korea by the name of a sea. Specifically, by the Japan seaits best known and popular name. In South Korea they do not agree to call it that, and since then they try to change the name to “Mar del Este”. South Korea took the problem that created a East Sea Society 30 years ago, but the problem never solved. The IHO came to create a revised edition of its volume in 2002, but was never published. That is the clear demonstration of how difficult it is to change the name to any geographical element in our day. At least, to change it so that it is universally accepted. And that is what is happening these days with the controversy (another) created after Donald Trump’s decision, which He issued an executive order to call Gulf of MexicoGulf of America. That decision could have gone unnoticed, but it has become something especially significant. Not for the decision itself, but because to make it a standard de facto (no of iure) has forced Google Maps —which announced the change Monday— And above all Apple Maps Change the name on their maps. And if Google and Apple maps say it, the thing changes. He does it at least for the hundreds of millions of people who use these maps, who will end up seeing how that Gulf is no longer “from Mexico”, but “of America.” The popularity of these applications is exceptional, and if something changes its name in them, users They can end up accepting it as the official name. The problem is that it is not, because it is only in the US. But both Google and Apple have already introduced that change in their applications when they are used by US citizens there, and soon we will see all. That, of course, does not mean that the rest of the world accepts that new denomination and continues to use the name that that Gulf has always had. They will not probably do so in Mexico, where they responded with a sneer to the decision of the US president. His Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sherinbaum Pardo, did At a recent conference that maybe then we should Change the name to the United States to call it Mexican America. It was then that he showed a map of 1607 in which not only the Gulf of Mexico appeared as such: it is also the region now occupied by the United States was called Mexican America. The answer is absolutely valid. Sherinbaum probably does not propose that change in Google and Apple maps for Mexicans, and even if I did, Apple and Google are North American companies and would probably not accept the change. Be that as it may, the truth is that this change of names demonstrates how today changing the name to such important geographical areas is not easy, although Have Google and Apple from your side help. The question, of course, is what will happen within four years, when Trump’s mandate ends. Will the Gulf of Mexico return to be the Gulf of Mexico? Image | Daniel Torok In Xataka | When King Carlos III commissioned a map of South America and then prohibited it because it was too precise

Hundreds of years ago, no one saw a beaver in the Tagus. That has just changed and is not even the strangest of all

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The saddest thing that can be said of an animal can be said of the Iberian Castor: No one is very clear when it was extinguished. For years the researchers have discussed whether the last specimens disappeared in the seventeenth century, in the eighteenth or, even, in the nineteenth century to realize that all this was wet paper. But the only available evidence They place them in the second century BC. After that moment, nobody knows what happened to them. But something happened in 2003. In the spring of 2003 and illegally, someone introduced 18 European beavers from Bavaria. No one knows for sure who was or why he did it. In fact, They were discovered by surprise Thanks to “the existence of a series of indications, very conspicuous, that reveal the establishment of a small population of beavers in northern Spain.” What we do know is that, although it was tried to eradicate, it was not achieved. And now, he has overflowed the Bajo del Río Aragón course where he found himself and is now considered all the purposes An native animal subject to environmental protections. Beyond the Ebro. If the Pyrenees had worked as an effective barrier to the beaver, once the situation has entered the situation again. A few years later, we had found Castores in the Duero Basin and in the Guadalquivir. What we hadn’t found were still beavers in the Tagus. And in June 2024, two researchers They found themselves With them in Zorita de los Canes, province of Guadalajara. That is, more than one hundred kilometers in a straight line of the closest place where they had previously reported. What is happening here? Because if we stop to think for a moment, we will discover that this expansion of the beavers It is not natural. In 2023, Teresa Calderón biologist calculation that the beavers of Tormes would have taken 40 years to get there by their own means from the closest documented population. In the Andalusian case, or there is a way for these specimens to travel alone the 365 kilometers of southern submeta that are between the stretch of the Guadalquivir where they were found in 2023 and the closest point where we had previously found them. The only rational explanation is that Someone is putting them there. “Beaver Bombing”. Thus (“Bombing of Castores”) is what is called a little rare practice for years: to release groups of illegally managers in areas where they had supposedly lived. And they not only do it without permission: they do it without previous studies, or guarantees, or planning. “As the IUCN establishes, to make a reintroduction of any extinct animal in a territory it is necessary to carry out a series of studies that are almost common sense,” Francisco José García rememberedBiologist and expert in mammals from the climate semm, “we have to know why they were extinguished at the time, under what conditions the animals lived then and if these conditions are maintained. And we must work on the social perception of the species, You can’t do your back things to society. And then? The problem, as happened with The reintroduction of the wolfgetting that “social and political support” is complicated and some groups have decided not to wait. The story gives for A rural thrillerbut he raises many doubts about what will happen in the future. Not only if Castor’s communities will grow in Spain, but this practice will be extended to more species. Image | Svetozar Cenisev In Xataka | Franco introduced an exotic sheep in the Teide to content the hunters. Now it is ending its ecosystem FacebookTwitterFlipboardE-mail

2024 has been a year full of uncertainty for chip designers. So much that the market has changed leader

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2023 was a bad year for companies that are dedicated to the design of integrated circuits. The report published by the consultant Gartner in early 2024 collected that the joint revenues of companies that are dedicated to direct or indirect sales of chips They fell for 2023 11% compared to 2022. The panorama did not paint well by 2024, but there is no doubt about one thing: the year we just left behind has been better for the chips industry as a whole than 2023. According to Gartner During 2024 the income of the semiconductor designers grew 18%. Not bad if we are in mind where they come from. However, this is not at all the only interesting fact that the detailed report that this consultant has prepared. And it foresees that 2025 will also be a very good year thanks to the push of the artificial intelligence (AI). In fact, global revenues will grow, again according to Gartner, of the 626 billion dollars from 2024 to 705,000 million in 2025. Samsung has traced and has been placed again in front of Intel Samsung re -leads the world classification that includes all companies that are dedicated to direct or indirect sale of integrated circuits. Presumably Gartner has not included TSMC in his report, and yes to Intel and Samsung, because the Taiwanese company only manufactures semiconductors for third parties. It does not design or market them directly or indirectly, something that both Intel and Samsung do. In any case, this last company has entered for 2024 66,524 million dollars compared to 40,942 million of 2023. These figures entail a growth of 62.5%. 2024 has been a hard year for Intel greatly due to its difficulties in competing in the hardware market for AI Intel, meanwhile, entered during the year we had just left behind 49,189 million dollars, while in 2023 their income amounted to 49,117 million. It is evident that 2024 has been a hard year For this American company greatly due to its difficulties in compete in the hardware market for AI. The figures that we have just reviewed describe a growth of only 0.1% for 2024 compared to 2023. In fact, this bad economic result led to The company’s departure from the company. If we stick to the gross income Nvidia already steps on Intel’s heels, which has placed it in the third position of the classification. The company led by Jensen Huang entered for 2024 45,988 million dollars, which represents an increase of no less than 83.6% compared to 2023. Behind it has positioned SK Hynix, Qualcomm, Micron Technology, Broadcom, AMD, Apple and Infineon Technologies. Anyway, the most obvious conclusion we can get is that for 2024 the semiconductor market has been promoted above all by the GPUs for AI, and surely this trend is not going to be altered in 2025. Image | TSMC More information | Gartner In Xataka | The virtuous circle: China has become the greatest added value of the planet thanks to feedback

Samsung Galaxy S25 vs Galaxy S24. Everything that has changed (and what has not) between the two generations

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At last! The wait has been worth it: we already know what the new Samsung Galaxy S25 and how they remain compared to the previous generation. It’s been a journey of rumors, leaks and expectations, but they’re here. In this article we are going to break down the specifications of the base model, the Samsung Galaxy S25and we are going to compare it with its equal from the last generation, the Samsung Galaxy S24. Will it be worth taking the generational leap? samsung galaxy s24 samsung galaxy s25 Dimensions and weight 147 x 70.6 x 7.6mm 167g 146.9 x 70.5 x 7.2mm 162g screen 6.2 inches FHD+ (2,340 x 1,080p) Dynamic AMOLED 120Hz Vision Booster 6.2 inches FHD+ (2,340 x 1,080p) Dynamic AMOLED 120Hz Vision Booster processor Samsung Exynos 2400 4nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 3nm memory 8GB 12GB storage 128 | 256 | 512GB 128 | 256 | 512GB battery 4,000 mAh Charge 25W 15W wireless charging Reversible charging 4,000 mAh Charge 25W 15W wireless charging Reversible charging operating system Android 14 OneUI 6.1 Android 15 OneUI 7 front camera 12MP (f/2.2, 80º) 12MP (f/2.2, 80º) rear cameras Main: 50MP (f/1.8, 85º, OIS) Wide angle: 12MP (f/2.2, 120º) Telephoto lens: 10MP (f/2.4, OIS, 3x) Main: 50MP (f/1.8, 85º, OIS) Wide angle: 12MP (f/2.2, 120º) Telephoto lens: 10MP (f/2.4, OIS, 3x) connectivity 5G LTE WiFi 6E Bluetooth 5.3 eSIM 5G LTE Wi-Fi 7 Bluetooth 5.4 eSIM resistors IP68 certification Gorilla Glass IP68 certification Gorilla Glass others USB C (USB 3.2) NFC Ultra Wide Band GPS/Glonass/Beidou/Galileo/GZSS USB C (USB 3.2) NFC Ultra Wide Band GPS/Glonass/Beidou/Galileo/GZSS price From 639 euros From 909 euros Samsung Galaxy S24 (128GB) *Some prices may have changed since the last review Samsung Galaxy S25 (128GB) *Some prices may have changed since the last review What changes The biggest leap at the hardware level is found in the processors: Samsung Exynos 2400 versus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite More RAM and a good freedom when choosing storage Mobile phones with a capacity of 128 GB can fall very short in a matter of a short time, especially at a time when apps and games increasingly take up more storage. With the change of generation, Samsung has maintained the options to buy the versions of 128GB, 256GB and 512GB. Although we do see a change, in this case, in the RAM memory. In the same way that we have been seeing this year in other brands, the Samsung Galaxy S25 comes with a good extra in terms of RAM memory. The Samsung Galaxy S24 has 8 GB, while the new generation has opted to offer 12 GBsomething logical taking into account the rest of the terminal’s specifications, as well as the arrival of various functions such as Galaxy AI. A notable change in processors The biggest change between the two generations is seen in the processor. The Samsung Galaxy S24 features the Samsung Exynos 2400, a processor that, far from being the most powerful, offers good performance in the terminal; On the other hand, the Samsung Galaxy S25 arrives with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite, the most powerful processor that we can find in Android phones. This change makes sense considering everything that will arrive with the Samsung Galaxy S25. There are many brands that have made it clear on paper that Artificial Intelligence is an important point when launching their phones, but this requires a set of hardware to be able to offer good performance. In this case, the Qualcomm SoC promises a 40% performance increase on NPU, 37% on CPU and 30% on GPU with respect to the Exynos 2400. A newer version of the operating system, but… A year has passed between the two generations, so the Samsung Galaxy S25 arrives as standard with a more current version of the operating system; Android 15 facing Android 14which is what the Samsung Galaxy S24 is based on. Although, obviously, Both phones have (and will have) the latest version of the software. But this should not be a reason to change or choose one model or another. Let us remember that both phones are based on the idea of ​​offering up to seven years of updatessix for the Galaxy S24 considering that it was launched a year ago. They still have many years to update, so in this sense, beyond the presence of Galaxy AI and what each specific terminal can offer, we are talking about two devices that comply perfectly. What doesn’t change A continuous screen Being continuous does not necessarily have to be something negative; When something works, why change it? Within the price range in which both terminals are found, the screens, which are practically identical, comply perfectly. Both phones integrate a panel 6.2 inch AMOLED which offers both Full HD+ resolution and a refresh rate of 1 to 120 Hz. Without seeing how the Samsung Galaxy S25 screen behaves, we can move on to our analysis of the Samsung Galaxy S24. He already mentioned it Ivan Linares“the screen is outstanding“. Samsung did its homework very well during the previous generation. The battery stays together with its charging, wireless charging and reversible charging At a time when brands have begun to launch their phones with batteries of up to 7,000 mAh, it is somewhat surprising that Samsung has been consistent with the 4,000 mAh battery that we can see in the Samsung Galaxy S25, and that we could also see in the Samsung Galaxy S24. But beyond the numbers, the key is in the efficiency of the processor. In the previous generation, autonomy was very good, so we hope it will be maintained (or improved) with the Galaxy S25. What is missing is an extra in other aspects related to the battery. The 25W fast charging It may be somewhat fair if we take into account that it is a figure that we no longer usually see in other brands. Fortunately, with the arrival of a new generation, both wireless charging and reversible charging have … Read more

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