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The poison of the Cobras is one of the most feared and mortal in the world. AI is very close to neutralizing it forever

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After the mosquitoes and the man himself, snakes usually take third place in The list of more deadly animals for the human being. According to estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO), between 81,410 and 137,880 people die every year as a result of the bite of these reptiles. AI can help change this. AI to the rescue. A group of researchers has demonstrated the utility of deep learning tools (Deep Learning) In the design of proteins capable of neutralizing, at least partially, the effect of the venom of some the steps (Elapidae), The snake family that includes the cobras, coral snakes and mambas. Three fingers. The study focuses on the calls “Toxins of the three fingers”(3FTX), called by the form of tridents that have the proteins that make up this family. These compounds are potentially lethal neurotoxins, that is to say they have the ability to attack our nervous tissue and involve a risk to the lives of people who are poisoned. As the team explains, these toxins are responsible for the anti -speakers, the antidotes used to counteract the venom of snakes, are not effective. The reason is that these toxins are capable of “evading” To our immune system, reducing the effectiveness of some treatments. For now, in mice. The team responsible for the development of the new antitoxins put them to the test in mice. The team experienced with different types and doses of poison and different antitoxins, achieving survival rates of between 80% and 100%. The details of the study have been published In an article In the magazine Nature. Lowering costs. The new technique opens a new way to the creation of molecules aimed at counteracting the different toxins that affect people who receive the bite of a poisonous snake, offering new advantages. First, to reduce the time dedicated to the process of searching for new useful compounds in this field. Less time dedicated to research implies a lower cost, but it is not the only factor that would help reduce the “invoice” of antidotes. According to the equipment, the new compounds can be synthesized using microbes, which would avoid traditional production methods. “The antitoxins we have created are easy to discover using only computational methods. They are also cheap to produce and robust in laboratory tests,” stood out in a press release David Baker, study co -author. Better access.Under costs and higher production facilities imply better access to these antidotes, something key if we take into account that it is in developing countries where snake bites more problems cause. “I trust that protein design make treatments against snake bites more accessible to people in developing countries,” Susana Vazquez Torres addswho led the new job. The inheritance of a Nobel. David Baker’s name can be familiar: in 2024 He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “For the computational protein design”, a prize he shared with Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper. Baker’s prize recognized his work in the construction of proteins never observed in nature, all through the combination of amino acid sequences. In Xataka | Some engineers have simulated 500 million years of evolution with an AI. Now we have a fluorescent protein Image | Anil Sharma

Microsoft has never been so valuable throughout its history. And he has never been so close to the abyss

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The first computer of Satya NadellaCEO of Microsoft, was a VAX manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (Dec) in the late 1970s. That machine excited him in such a way that Nadella was clear about her future: she wanted to devote himself to computer science. More than that: I wanted to devote yourself to computer science and work for DEC. That could not be. The concept of microordoring the company was based on its own architecture, called Virtual Address Extension (hence Vax), but that technology ended up being crushed by which it would succeed at that time: the RISC architecture. The company tried to survive, but ended up being acquired in 1998 by Compaq and, a few years later, disappearing. The lesson that Nadella learned with Dec By the time the debacle started, Nadella had moved. After a brief period in Sun Microsystems, he began working in Microsoft in 1992 and was climbing positions until it ended becoming the company’s CEO in 2014. The funny thing is that now That past with Dec pursues him. This was recently confirmed at a meeting with Microsoft employees in which it confessed something important: “Our sector is full of practical cases of companies that were in their day and that simply disappeared. There is one in particular that persecutes me, called Dec.” In fact, he explained how “some of the people who contributed to Windows NT came from a DEC laboratory that was closed.” The Microsoft CEO thus answered an employee’s question about the moral situation in the company, which according to indicate in The Verge It is in historical minimums. Not in vain Microsoft has just suffered a massive round of layoffs with 9,000 affected employees. The curious thing, Nadella admitted, is that after 51 years in the market some metrics indicate that Microsoft is at its best. This shows Its stock market capitalization is around four billion dollars and places the Redmond company like the second or third —Intercambia positions with Apple, Nvidia remains unstoppable – company of the world in relevance. “But at the same time, when I think of the degree of difficulty that awaits us, to be able to navigate a changing industry, a changing technological sector and a changing economy, we have a very hard job ahead.” And they certainly have it. What happens if the software doesn’t matter when you are the largest company in the software world The main external threat for Microsoft is not that IA improves existing software products. It is to make them irrelevant. Nadella himself admitted it to saying at that meeting with employees that “all the categories we could have loved for 40 years may not matter.” Days later he talked about all this in a post on the official Microsoft blog. He titled it “Recomproming us with our why, ours what and ours“. The implications of paradigm shift are colossal for world software giant: Office and Windows: Traditionally its great sources of income, the productivity suite and its operating system can end up having no place in our world. If an AI agent can end up managing all office tasks, creating documents, analyzing data and coordinating the work without the need for the Office suite or even a traditional operating system interface, the base of the Microsoft business would be eroded. We would no longer use an application to do the job. We would say to an AI to do it, how is it starting to happen. Competitors without ties: The new AI companies are not weighed by the legacy of an office suite or a 40 -year -old operating system. These startups can design lighter, fast and totally native solutions in the AI ​​era. For Nadella it makes no sense “to be in love with what we create in the past.” The situation for Microsoft is certainly disturbing. Despite its multimillionaire investment in OpenAi, The relationship has evolved To turn both companies into uncomfortable allies that are sought their own B plans Like softbank, Nvidia or Oracle. For Microsoft, things have not gone so well: it has injected billions to end depending on the technology of another company that is also becoming direct competitor. He has bazas in his favor as his gigantic Azure infrastructure, but not even that ensures survival. The Microsoft’s pressure to reinvent itself It is huge. He already achieved it after the failure in the segments of Internet search engines, social networks or finally mobile phones, but now the black clouds appear again with the AI ​​boom. The funny thing is that Microsoft was the Big Tech that adopted the AI ​​paradigm shift with the necessary intensity. His bet – especially, by OpenAi – was extraordinary, but for them the threat is not that of a company that ignores the change, but that of one that perhaps made the wrong bets. At the moment it does not have a competitive foundational model, and that co -driver overload has not just set in the market. What will Nadella and your company do to react? You move, Microsoft. In Xataka | The marriage between Openai and Microsoft is broken at times. The problem is that both are still needing

The agreement with the US seemed to pave the way to Nvidia in China. Now is the Asian giant who begins to close the door

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The agreement with Washington had allowed Nvidia sell again Your H20 chip In China. It was a door that opened after months of restrictions. Now, the Chinese authorities have begun to close it slowly: According to Financial Timesand Reutersthey have summoned Alibaba, Bytedance, Tencent and other companies to explain why they buy H20 instead of using local processors. The gesture is not symbolic, several of them are rethinking their orders, and the new scrutiny comes while Beijing encourages a prioritize domestic alternatives. Nvidia developed the H20 in direct response to the export limitations that the United States imposed at the end of 2023. For a time it was its star product for Chinese clients, until this year it was again blocked by a new Washington decision. In July 2025, the veto rose after an agreement with the Trump administration for Nvidia would transfer 15% of the income of some advanced chip sales in Chinaaccording to Reuters. That turn reopened the door, but also unleashed criticism in the United States for its supposed impact on China’s capabilities. A historical agreement that now faces resistance Authorities such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Mits, people aware of the situation, and the administration of the cyberspace of China, CAC, according to Reuters, have held meetings with companies such as Alibaba, Bytedance, Tencent and Baidu. They have asked them Why don’t they turn to national alternatives and have expressed their disapproval for the use of H20 in government or security areas. They have also raised doubts about the information that Nvidia asks to send to Washington for review. As a result, several companies have begun to reconsider their orders, according to Financial Times, although Reuters points out that it was not ordered to stop shopping. Concerns are not limited to preference for local chips. The Internet regulator asked NVIDIA to clarify whether H20 could involve risks for Chinese user data, including the possibility of “backdoors.” In this sense, Beijing has expressed concern for functions such as remote shutdown or location tracking. Nvidia, as we have seen before, He denies these capacities and argues that H20 is not a military product or for government infrastructure. According to Financial Times, Huawei, Cambricon and other Chinese manufacturers have increased their presence in the market since the H20 was subject to restrictions. Beijing has reinforced the message of technological self -sufficiency and encourage large platforms to opt for local suppliers. Now, it is no secret that the lack of access to advanced manufacturing equipment, Like the latest generation lithography, it is still an obstacle. Despite this, the demand for national chips grows thanks to political support and the need to reduce external dependence. But not everything plays in favor of the local giant Huawei. Great Chinese technology, such as Tencent, Alibaba or Bytedance, continue to prefer Nvidia GPUs For its greatest performance and, above all, by CUDA, the parallel programming platform of NVIDIA that allows the most of its GPU for artificial intelligence and other complex calculations. Replacing it with alternatives such as Cann implies overcoming technical and compatibility barriers. Li Guojie, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, warns that China needs its own tools that exceed Cuda to achieve self -sufficiency. The great Chinese technology, such as Tencent, Alibaba or Bytedance, continue to prefer Nvidia GPUs. Bernstein, collect ftestimates that the market share of Nvidia in China will go from 66% in 2024 to 55% this year. In parallel, Trump has suggested that he could authorize a Limited version of Blackwell -based processorsthe most advanced of the company. In any case, Nvidia generated 17,000 million dollars in sales in China in its last year13% of its total income. In this environment, each regulatory decision weighs as much as the technological road map itself. What in July was presented as an advance for Nvidia has become an uncertain scenario. Beijing’s pressure, added to the impulse to national manufacturers, redefines the company’s possibilities in a market that was strategic for years. According to the aforementioned means, the outcome will mark not only the future of Nvidia in China, but also the way in which both powers manage artificial intelligence when politics, security and trade intersect. Images | Nvidia In Xataka | China’s first avant -garde lithography machine is not the biggest US problem. They will be the other two that are on their way In Xataka | China is an essential market for Nvidia. Little by little it is becoming something else: a nightmare

After weeks of concern, the Mediterranean is very close to normal. The heat wave threatens to throw everything into the fret

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Something has changed sharply in the Mediterranean Sea: its temperature. If a few weeks ago the sea that unites Europe, Africa and Asia burning, now the surface temperature of the sea has plummeted to almost normal values, only slightly above what we could expect during these summer dates A few tenth. The latest data on the surface temperature in the Mediterranean Sea have given us good news in the form of stabilization. According to the data Of the coastal observation and prediction system of the Balearic Islands (Socib), as of August 7, the Mediterranean surface is, on average, at 26.03º Celsius. This implies an anomaly was 0.54º Celsius, that is, the sea is more than half a hot than what would correspond at this time. As a contrast, in the middle of June We reported that this anomaly was 2.26º. East to the west. The sea temperature has decreased on average, but has also changed in its distribution. A few weeks ago the focus of the heat was in the Western Mediterranean, while to the east the temperatures were warm but more moderate. Now it happens just the other way around. According to the Socib datathe average west temperature of the Mediterranean is 25.01º, which implies a thermal anomaly of 0.29º. Meanwhile, the eastern side is at 27.06º, 0.81º more than what would be normal in that area and on these dates. A very diverse sea. The data allow us to analyze the change in different regions and, perhaps the area where this change is most palpable, the Northwest Mediterranean. Here, at the beginning of July the thermal anomaly was around four degrees. Now is the most “normal” area of the sea, with a positive anomaly of only 0.17º. Another of the spotlights a few weeks ago was in the surroundings of the Balearic Islands, especially in the waters of the National Park of the Cabrera Archipelago. In these areas, thermal anomaly on June 12 was 3rd and 3.18º respectively. Now, the environment of the Balearic archipelago is only 0.36º above the average, while the waters of the Cabrera archipelago have an anomaly of 0.35º. What happened? June was an extremely warm month in Spain, but it was also hotter than normal in other areas. The absence of section of section and high insolation made the Mediterranean a boiling pot, but the month of July was different. The arrival of a time less torrid in a month of July in which the storms took the prominence in the Mediterranean basin changed this. “Thanks to the dynamics of atmospheric circulation in recent weeks, with the passage of different troughs, the surface waters of the Mediterranean already draw a panorama with a more normal spatial variability,” explained on social networks The physicist, disseminator and researcher at Aemet JJ German. Without throwing the bells on the flight. The descent of temperatures is great news: a Mediterranean too warm increases the risk of storms and copious rainfall like the ones we see in Danas and in episodes of “cold drop”. The question now is to know if this stabilization will be lasting or if we will see a new thermal rebound in marine waters. August has started with a heat wave in Spain with reach beyond the peninsula. June’s thermal rest has ended and we do not know how this change to the waters of the Mediterranean will affect. The issue is relevant due to the environmental and meteorological problems that this overheating would imply. In Xataka | “The Mediterranean already has only three stations”: the European Observatory of the drought confirms that winter is dying Image | Valentin Perret / ECMWF

Airbus is about to close a new massive order in China, according to SCMP. The moment cannot be worse for Boeing

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Airbus prepares to reinforce its presence in one of the most strategic markets on the planet: China. South China Morning Post says that the European manufacturer is at the gates of signing a new agreement with the Chinese authorities that would include Between 100 and 200 new airplanes. The firm could arrive this month, but what really attracts attention is not the magnitude of the order, but the moment in which it occurs. The operation would coincide with the summit between the European and China Union on July 24 and 25, As Politico has advanced. A high -level diplomatic encounter that seeks to reduce commercial tensions, redefine relationships between Brussels and Beijing, and manage an increasingly tense climate in their links with Washington. That Airbus manages to close a contract of this size just in that context is something that does not go unnoticed. A new order in Chinese heavens? China has not closed great agreements with Boeing for years. The last relevant request dates back to 2017and since then the American manufacturer has been losing ground in one of the most dynamic markets in commercial aviation. The reason is not only commercial: the cooling of relations between Washington and Beijing, The tariff war And regulatory doubts seem to be tilting the balance to the European side. As the Hongkonese medium points out, Airbus has gained weight as the main supplier. Time also plays in favor of Airbus. Many Chinese airlines are dealing with aged fleets, mostly composed of Boeing aircraft acquired more than a decade ago. In cases such as Shandong Airlines or China United Airlines, the bulk of the devices exceeds ten years of service. As the airplanes accumulate flight hours, in general, their maintenance becomes more expensive, their operational efficiency decreases and increases inactivity periods. At first glance, it may seem that an airline can compensate for the situation by combining manufacturers. However, operate A mixed fleet It implies logistics complexity and high costs. An Airinsight analysis concluded that the expenses derived from managing two types of fleet – parties, training, documentation, crew ratio – are amortized in just 12–15 months and then favor significant savings in the useful life of the fleet. Operating a mixed fleet implies logistics complexity and high costs The standardization – arrest by a single supplier such as Airbus or Boeing – reduces operational costs, simplifies the training of personnel and speeds up the management of spare parts. In contrast, changing manufacturer forces to reorganize supply chains, train pilots and technicians in new models and adapt maintenance infrastructure. The latter implies from updating the hangars and workshops to the physical requirements of the new plane, to acquire specific tools. For many airlines, that entrance barrier seems to explain why they continue to depend on boeing fleets even when Airbus gains ground. China is also betting on developing its own alternative. The three large state airlines – Air China, China Eastern and China Southern – have already committed the purchase of more than 100 units of the Comac C919the passenger plane developed by the Chinese aeronautical industry. Political support is evident, but so are its limits: Production is still reducedinternational certifications are in the initial phase and the technical support network does not have maturity or the Airbus or Boeing scale. For now, C919 is a medium -term promise, but not an immediate solution to meet the enormous demand of the domestic market. Nevertheless, Boeing is not totally out of the game. In April 2025, several 737 Max prepared for Chinese airlines They returned to the United States After Beijing ordered to suspend deliveries, as part of their response to new tariffs against US products. Although this measure points to a protective impulse of the national industry and the geopolitical strategy, Boeing could still regain land if commercial tension is reduced and access to the Chinese market is resumed. But, for now, Airbus is emerging as a favorite. Airbus knows well the potential of the Chinese market. According to their own forecaststhe country will need more than 9,500 new commercial airplanes in the next 20 years. Boeing handles a similar figure: Around 8,830 to 9,740 units, depending on the economic and regulatory scenario. In any case, we are talking about a gigantic demand. And at this time, with the orders to Boeing frozen and Comac still consolidating, Airbus has a clear advantage. If the new contract is confirmed, it will not be an isolated case: it will be the reflection of a trend that can mark the distribution of power in commercial aviation during the next decades. Images | FASYAH HALIM | Takashi Miyazaki In Xataka | The C919 Comac In Xataka | The United Kingdom was waiting for an invincible hunt. Today, the F-35 flies little and cannot shoot its own weapons

The almost instantaneous load batteries and a shelf life close to eternity are taking shape. Thanks to quantum physics

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Integrated circuits containing all our electronic devices, Solar panelsmagnetic resonance machines, The lasers or the atomic watches that allow the human being to measure time with an unprecedented precision would not be possible without the knowledge he has given us Modern Quantum Theory. And, of course, without this model we would not have Quantum computers. Objectively, and it is not at all an exaggeration, quantum physics is present in much of modern technology. During the last five years several research groups, such as the PSL Research University (University of Recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres), which resides in Paris (France), or that of the University of Pisa, in Italy, have tried to use the basic principles of quantum mechanics to point A new generation of batteries. And the results are getting little by little. This is its starting point: they pursue to use overlap, entanglement and superabsorption to tear down the limitations that electrochemical batteries currently impose. The quantum storage of energy is an ideal that is increasingly closer The main difference between quantum batteries and conventional electrochemicals is that the latter depend on chemical reactions, while quantum devices seek to store energy in the quantum states of some particles, such as, for example, photons. It seems complicated, and it is, but the really important thing for users is that quantum batteries on paper can be loaded almost instantaneously, they will have a much higher energy density, and, in addition, their degradation will be minimal as the load cycles pass. Quantum batteries can store energy in a superposition of multiple energy states simultaneously It sounds wonderful. So much, in fact, that seems science fiction. However, it is very important that, as we have just seen, let’s not overlook that their principle of operation will be, if they finally come to fruition, very different from that of conventional electrochemical batteries. Existing theoretical proposals argue that quantum batteries They can store energy in an overlap of multiple energy states simultaneously, which should allow them to deliver a much greater energy density. In addition, your theory load will be much faster, even almost instantaneous, due to the collective quantum effects of the quantum units that make them up. The most amazing thing in this field is that the higher the capacity of the quantum battery, the faster it will load. It is an intuitive characteristic, it is true, but it is possible precisely thanks to the collective quantum effects I just talked about. However, this is not all. And it is that on paper the degradation that these batteries will experience during energy transfer will be minimal, so your useful life will be much greater than that of conventional batteries. Perhaps, even, almost eternal if we compare it with the longevity of the human being. So far all the work that researchers had carried out in this area had condensed in purely theoretical models, but this panorama has just changed. And it is that several scientists from the universities that I have mentioned in the second paragraph of this text have published an article very interesting in which they propose How to make a quantum battery. Your idea is to use superconductor circuits produced with materials that exhibit essentially zero resistance at low temperatures. They have not yet manufactured anything, so it is evident that the hardest work, the experimental, is still pending. But there is no doubt that this proposal invites us to tie the future of quantum batteries with reasonable optimism. Image | Generated by Xataka with Gemini More information | Phys.org In Xataka | We have created the most lasting battery in history: 5,700 years thanks to the diamond and carbon-14

close parks to lime and song

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Madrid. July. The thermometer Nourish with the 38ºC. The heat is so suffocating, so sticky, that you just feel like sitting in front of a fan with a soda to the side and wait for the hours to spend. ESO or seek refuge under a tree of El Retiro or any other of the parks of the capital, vast green, leafy areas, full of vegetation and that after all are designed for that, right? The problem is that when you get to El Retiro you find that it is closed. Its closure in the middle of the extreme heat wave seems absurd, a “common sense” measure, like They denounce Some neighbors and politicians. The City Council alleges however that allows it to avoid misfortunes derived precisely from high temperatures. The big question is … Is that true? And compensates? When the heat comes … Madrid needs shadows. So much, in fact, that has invested 1.5 million In euros to install Quita and Put at Puerta del Sol to prevent the square from becoming a roast. When heat really arrives and mercury goes from 35º, what many neighbors do, however it is to seek refuge in the parks of the municipality, such as Whim, THE ROSALEDA OF THE PARK OF THE WEST, Juan Carlos i, Arias Torre, Watercress source And of course the good retreat, 125 hectares with leafy trees and a vividifying shadow. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Refreshing Park, Closed Park. The problem is that these parks are not always open. It happened yesterday, July 7when in some points of the community 35ºC were exceeded. Despite that heat, the risks that suppose and the need for shadow, the City Council announced The closure of El Retiro and other parks already in the afternoon due to “adverse weather conditions”. A quick review of the official account of the Consistory in X arrives to verify that it is not something exceptional: today nine green areas of the city (the withdrawal included) maintain some restricted parts, just like Sunday. Saturday Several grove directly closed their gates from three in the afternoon, just when the sun squeezes. Something similar had already happened on Wednesday. Some time ago The Spanish newspaper He made accounts and calculated that between May 21, 2021 and May 25, 2022 the parks were totally or partially closed 161 daysthat is, 44% of the days. Almost one in two. Europa Press esteem that since May the parks have closed about 10 times. But … why? By “adverse weather conditions”, emphasizes the City Council, which usually accompanies each notice of a link to The web in which it details the protocol that follows to close the parks of the city. Its logic is quite simple: the City Council uses a ‘traffic light’ of four colors (green, yellow, orange and red) that identify the conditions of the parks and to what extent they are suitable for the enjoyment of citizens if the risks are taken into account. To assign one or the other it is based on data provided by the AEMET. The technicians make the forecasts setting specifically in the situation of El Retiro and according to such different issues, the temperature, the water in the soil or the risk of storms. Hence The City Council emphasizesthat its calculations do not always coincide with the forecasts of other areas of the city. The most serious situation, the “red alert”, implies that all the planned activities are suspended, the enclosure is evicted and the park closes. And when is it declared? A priori when The technicians foresee wind gusts equal to or greater than 65 km/h with maximum temperatures below 35ºC and a percentage of water available in the soil of less than 75%. Another possibility (which is applied in summer) is that the streaks pass 55 km/h, but with high temperatures, in which the maximums are above 35º. When this alert is activated in the retirement, it is transferred to other large green areas of the municipality and the whim, Jardines de Sabatini, the Rosebed of the West Park, Juan Carlos I, Juan Pablo II, Quinta de Fuente del Berro, fifth of the mills and fifth Torre Torre Arias, green hectares, green. Reviewing the newspaper library. It may seem excessive, but the Consistory remembers that the retreat is full of large and old trees, “so they can suffer damage or fractures in branches and trunks.” In fact the protocol applied by the City Council Refers to that risk in your name. Your goal? Basically manage “incidents caused by trees.” It is not a minor issue. In March 2018 A four -year -old boy died due to the impact of a pine who collapsed in retirement, May 30 A 25 -year -old was critical of the fall of a branch in a Carabanchel park and does alone A few weeks A woman was seriously injured after a tree fell on her when she left home. Rain or snowfall involves a risk. The mixture of wind and extreme heat, also. “Against common sense”. That the closure of the parks respond to a protocol does not prevent the measure from generating criticism. Both neighbors (they are easily in networks) as of opposition parties. A frequent complaint and that I recently remembered The Europa Press agency is that the municipal protocol goes “against common sense”: if the heat waves are a threat and the parks serve among other things to mitigate it, why do they close just when they do the most missing? No other alternatives in the middle of the cannula? The issue has unleashed an intense debate at a social and political level. More Madrid He has insisted in which “a reflection on the review of the protocol” must be opened and update the inventory of the trees. And the Socialists have advocated “risk maps” that takes into account the type of woodland and avoid the complete closures of parks, in addition to direct access to the Eugenio Trías … Read more

25 years ago, Europe was close to panic at the barbarism of Japanese motorcycles. So Japan limited them to 299 km/h

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The 90s were one of the golden times of motorcycling. A time when there was no Electronic controls, Anticontamination regulations No concern for security. Where now we see chaos and lack of control, a few years ago motorcycle manufacturers saw a test field to launch the fastest vehicles in the world. So much so, that the brands themselves had to put a limit to stop competing fiercely between them. What was happening. The motorcycle market has changed. Currently what is sold the most They are scooters and comfortable motorcyclesl, the SUV made motorcycle. In the 90s, the icons were the Japanese sports of Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki. There came a point where virtually great street sports car reached vertigo speeds. In the early 90s, Honda launched her CBR900RR Firebladeone of the fastest production motorcycles in the world. It soon being overcome by the kawasaki ZZR1100 and later by the Hayabusa. A race to step on the grass of the neighbor that ended up uncontrolled. The 300 km/h. Motorcycles like Hayabusa ranly passed the 330 km/h, and in fear that governments imposed new regulations and prohibitions against such powerful vehicles, the industry decided to self -control with A gentlemen pact. The industry wanted to continue selling supercardives, but I did not want to intimidate the regulatory agencies with motorcycles that began to get closer to the barrier of the 400 km/h than to that of the 300. A secret pact. The gentlemen’s pact among motorcycle manufacturers is an open secret, although given the nature of the agreement there were never official statements. It is rumored that BMW began conversations with both Japanese and Italian manufacturers. Interestingly, when BMW did not have a single motorcycle capable of competing for being the fastest. Be that as it may, in the early 2000s the pact began to be fulfilled: the motorcycles launched by manufacturers, such as the Kawasaki ZZR1200 Or Honda’s proposals, did not exceed 299 km/h. But the sports market demanded speed and muscle, flying through the air the pact. It didn’t last long. Just seven years later, Italian as MV Agusta They left the pact in the air, with models such as the F4 R exceeding 300 km/h. It is something that BMW itself also did with its S1000R And, again, the fastest sports race began. Honda CBR1000RR-R-SP, much more than 299 km/h, although the scoreway says otherwise. What remains of the pact. Although there are numerous street motorcycles that exceed 300 km/h, the Japanese keep the pact alive. Manufacturers like Honda do not mark speed beyond 299 km/h, although the motorcycle is really running beyond her. The same happens with Yamaha. Versions such as the New Hayabusa or the Kawasaki H2, motorcycles that could touch the 400 km/h, remain electronically limited to 299 km/h. The Japanese respect and tradition keep the pact almost intact, maintaining the exceptions for circuit such as the Kawasaki H2R and its 400 km/h … with the house motorcycle. There are also those who dedicate themselves to prepare motorcycles to pass from 440 km/h. Luckily, they can’t step on the street. Not only in motorcycles. The pact among Japanese giants was not the only one decades ago. In the 80s and until well entered the 2000, manufacturers such as Nissan, Honda, Subaru and Toyota They signed a pact so that their cars had no more than 280 hp nor exceed 180 km/h. It is especially striking to upload a Japanese of almost 300 hp, and see that Your marker is tarado in those 180. The measure arose in response to the growing concerns for road safety in the country, an agreement not formalized before the public, but evident when analyzing car after car. This is still the limitations at 250 km/h in large part of current sports. Image | Austin Hervias In Xataka | Chinese motorcycles are sweeping in Spain: who is who in this brand puzzle

robots capable of intercepting any close object

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Short. During a public talk at the University of Nankín, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) He explained that they are designing A “fast response system” for the Tiangong Space Station. The active defense system, which has no precedents in the context of a space station, would deploy small propelled robots capable of grabbing and pushing any artifact that invades the station exclusion zone. How it works. The objective declared by the National Space Science Center is not to destroy, but to take away the intruder to protect the crew and its own infrastructure. Each tugboat would carry an autonomous propulsion system and an arm or fastening ring. Before launching a robot, the system would consider less aggressive options, such as an evasive maneuver or an altitude adjustment of the station. Only if the risk persisted, the device would be sent. After evaluating the path of the unauthorized visitor, a tugboat robot would anchor him and displace him a few kilometers outside the tiangong orbit. This does not go from space war. On July 1 and October 21, 2021, China had to perform emergency maneuvers to prevent the Tiangong Space Station collide with two satellites of the Starlink constellationwhich descended from an orbit of 550 km to 400 km, the usual altitude of Tiangong. Although SpaceX states that their satellites have automatic evasion protocols, China explained to the UN that the proliferation of large constellations “reduces the operational security margin” and makes real -time coordination difficult to protect its astronauts. Or yes? A Reuters analysis He described the Chinese initiative as a “first step towards possible orbital battles”, although he acknowledges that, if the non -lethal nature of the robots is confirmed, it would be physical deterrence rather than a weapon in its classic sense. Other countries already develop similar coupling and trailer systems to withdraw Large pieces of space garbagesuch as dead satellites, old rocket stages or damaged ships. The difference would lie in when and against whom these systems are used, taking into account The military escalation of space and The proliferation of spy ship. Does not violate space law. Although mass details, fuel or number of robots are confidential (such as the date of planned deployment), the outdoor space treaty only prohibits to place weapons of mass destruction in orbit: it does not veto conventional kinetic devices, or towing systems. If the robots limit themselves to pushing without damaging, they would fit into the principle of use for peaceful purposes. However, the potential to force the trajectory of the ship of another state can raise disputes on “harmful interference”, a concept collected in the same treaty. For now, we can leave it that China is preparing an active “orbital escort” system. Image | CSA In Xataka | Two years ago, the China Space Station did not exist. Now we have your first panoramic images

AMD’s problem is not that it does not make good gpus for ia. Is that it is not even close to Nvidia

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AMD is doing things well, but even doing them still unable to compete with Nvidia. The company has just raised its renewed road map with promising models, but that is not a guarantee of anything to a NVIDIA that will not let its absolute leadership position escape. The problem for AMD is not to be, but get others to take note. IDC consultancy data indicate that Nvidia dominates the AI ​​chips market with 85.2% market dick, for 14.3% AMD. Other analysts like Jon Pedie Research go beyond and According to your data The NVIDIA quota in this segment is 92%. AMD instinct mi350 are just the beginning. The GPUS for IA, which AMD calls “accelerators”, follow its evolution. During the event they presented their family or Instinct Mi350 series with two variants, MI350X and MI355X. According to the manufacturer, these chips are four times higher in general performance with respect to the previous generation, but are up to 35 times more powerful in the field of inference AI (that is, in the practical use of models such as Chatgpt, which “infers” “their responses from our prompts). They have 288 GB of HBM3E memory and a memory bandwidth of 8 TB/s. Its yield is 18.45 pflops in FP4 precision and 9.2 pflops in precision FP8. Instinct Mi400 in 2026. Next year the new family of AMD’s accelerators will arrive. It’s about future MI400 instinctwhich will arrive with up to 432 GB of HBM4 memory, 19.6 TB/s of bandwidth of that memory, and a performance of 40 pflops in precision FP4 and 20 Pflops in precision FP8. These monsters will be sold in future racks with infrastructure “Helios“, that You can house Up to 72 Mi400 with up to 260 TB/s total bandwidth thanks to its interconnection technology, Ultra Accelerator Link. EPYC VENICE. AMD not only talked about GPUS: it also has its future processors for servers in data centers in full development. The Epyc Venice will arrive in 2026 and will be based on Zen 6 architecture. Among the variants, an especially spectacular with 256 cores that will offer up to 70% more performance compared to the previous generation. These processors will be built with future MI400 instinct. They are expected to be manufactured with the N2P (2 Nm) node of TSMC. Helios against Oberon. The aforementioned Rack Helios will compete with not already with the current Nvidia AI server, the GB200 NVL72 which connects 36 CPUS Grace and 72 Gpus Blackwell. He is destined to compete with his successor, which has Oberon’s code name and will use IA B300 GPUS with Vera Rubin architecture. The yields and benefits of these future racks are absolutely dizzy, and for example their Precision Power FP8 is 1.4 Exaflops. The same in some things, better in others. AMD promises to match NVIDIA in several sections, but also ensures that it will exceed it remarkably (50% more) in memory quantity and width, something crucial for training and inference AI. Be careful, because at the end of 2027 NVIDIA prepares the Rubin Ultra architecture, which promises racks with up to 5 Exaflops in FP8 precision, three times more than Helios or Oberon. In 2027 we will have another “summer”. The AMD roadmap goes further, and they have already prepared the development of their new generation of chips for summer Epyc servers, which will replace the Epyc Venice. These CPUS will be paired with the future MI500X instinct, and it is expected – although it is not safe – that both types of chip take advantage of the one already announced TSMC A16 node (1.6 Nm), which will begin to be used at the end of 2026. There are no specifications for these developments, surely because they will depend on the manufacturing node that AMD ends up using to produce them. Frantic race. All these ads show that AMD does not want to be left behind in that race to place their solutions in data centers worldwide. The Crusoe company, which is dedicated to the construction of large AI data centers, advertisement A few days ago I would spend 400 million dollars in AMD’s chips, and even Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAi, made a surprise appearance During the inaugural talk of the Lisa Su, CEO of AMD event. Altman said they will also use AMD chips in the data centers they use, and highlighted that the new AMD ia gpus “will be somewhat amazing.” AMD presumes to be more efficient (and cheap). AMD’s message was clear during the event: its MI355 offer much more efficiency and are cheaper than NVIDIA B200 and GB200 with comparable yields. The sales prices of those GPUS are not known, but we do know that at the beginning of 2024 the MI300x of AMD They cost a maximum of $ 15,000 for the more than $ 40,000 that cost The NVIDIA H100. The biggest challenge is still CUDA. The benefits of AMD AI chips are not in fact the problem of this company. Detailed studies revealed months ago that MI300X are clearly higher than NVIDIA H100 and H200 on performance and power. However, Nvidia has a Cudathe de facto standard in the industry for services of services and applications of AI. Using AMD native software is feasible, yes, but software experience, They assured in SEMIANALYSIS“Software is full of errors that make training (AI models) with AMD it is impossible.” AMD’s hope is Rocm. In that AMD event also presented Rocm 7, the latest version from your own Open Source programming platform for your GPUS. In AMD they indicated that this version is 3.5 times more powerful than Rocm 6, and even claim that it is 30% more powerful than CUDA in the B200 when serving the model Deepseek R1. Even so, they indicate In another report of semi -health, it is still lower in some sections. Getting that component allows developers to take advantage of all the potential of AMD’s chips is precisely key to the future of those efforts. Even … Read more

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