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PlayStation has just come closer to the arcade game with its new hardware: this is Project Defiant

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Today is day of State of playbut the Japanese company has not reserved the event only for the games that will encourage the second half of the year. There has also been room for hardware, specifically to present what they have baptized as Project Defiant. A command with arcade spirit. The announcement of the next PlayStation command has arrived just after we saw what it will be ‘in the live’Mortal Kombat: Legacy Collection‘, a compilation that will arrive this year PS4 and PS5 with multiple games of the 90 and 2000. In those years, many played this type of titles in recreational halls, with their unmistakable physical controls. Now Sony wants to approach that experience, but with the power and capacities of its new generation console. That is where Project Defiant enters the scene, which is presented as “the first wireless fighting joystick designed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.” Its purpose is clear: to improve the experience in fighting games, but without cables in between. With PlayStation Link technology. Sony assures that its next command will feature PlayStation Link, which will offer ultrabaja latency. The good news is that it will also be compatible with PS5 and PC through cable connection. The key is in customization. The control includes interchangeable limiters without tools (square, circular and octagonal), buttons with mechanical switches and a tactile panel similar to that of the wireless control Dualsense. In terms of design, it presumes a robust construction and ergonomic lines that will touch to test when we have it in hand. The promise? Provide comfort even in the most demanding combat sessions. Bandolera type transport case included. The product will arrive with a case that will easily take it anywhere. The interior will include a dedicated space for the lever, designed to protect the Joystick Digital during transport. It is not yet for sale. Although PlayStation has already announced the device, we still do not know its price, its exact launch date or its final commercial name. Project Defiant, for now, is only the name in key. The positive part is that Sony has left some clues. He has confirmed that his launch is scheduled for 2026 and will share more details in the coming months. Now we just have to wait to check if this new command manages to make a hole in our living room. Images | Sony In Xataka | PC Soccer 8 is not just an eternally postponed video game: it is the chronicle of a legacy for the soils

brings us closer to a nuclear spatial war

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The antimisile shield that Donald Trump wants to put in the land orbit has triggered a forceful reaction of the Kim Jong-un regime. The word is Nuclar. The North Korean Foreign Ministry has described the Golden Dome project as “the height of arrogance and arrogance”, according to North Korean state media. The Pionyang cabinet accuses Washington of being “determined to militarize the outer space,” and warns that the initiative It could trigger “a global nuclear and spatial arms race”, turning the earth’s orbit into “a potential nuclear war field.” What is the Golden Dome. An antimile shield that, despite its name Inspired by Israel’s iron domewould use multiple layers of detection and interception “by land, sea and space”, including a network of sensors and interceptors deployed in orbit, such as a satellite constellation. So ambitious is the project that, as announced by Trump and its Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, would mean a “generational investment.” The White House has spoken of 175,000 million dollars over three years to be operational before 2029. The Congress Budget Office estimates that only space interceptors could cost up to 542,000 million dollarswith a two -decades deployment period. The promise is ambitious. A shield capable of demolishing hypersonic, ballistic and cruise missiles, even if they are thrown from the other side of the world or from space, in all phases of attack. Technology would be based on both existing systems and new developments. According to Reuters, a consortium led by Spacex, Palantir Technologies and Anduril Industries leads the race To display detection satellitesbased on the Starlink constellation. The hypothetical armed satellites for missile interception from space are the technologically most challenging and mysterious part of the project, among other things because they would have to be resilient to attacks with anti -attack weapons, that several powers have. An armed space. North Korean critic of the Golden Dome resonates with China’s, which Last week he expressed His “serious concern” for the “strong offensive implications” of the American antimile shield. Beijing accuses Washington of seeking “absolute security for itself” under a “United States first” policy, which “undermines global strategic balance and stability.” However, countries such as China and Russia have also advanced positions in the militarization of space, with satellites that pursue other satellites, secret deployments and spy spy airplanes. Image | White House Archives (2019) In Xataka | Russia, China and North Korea have hypersonic weapons. The US has decided to defend itself with its own iron dome

The psychological barrier of 100 euros per video game is closer than ever. And the owners of ‘GTA VI’ have opinions

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Barely a five years ago We asked ourselves If 80 euros for a PlayStation 5 game was a lot or little. Today the thing has gone to more. Because of the latest movements in the industry and although no company has decided to take the final step, the psychological barrier of 100 euros already has more than “psychological” than authentic barrier. Because we already have it on the horizon. The Take-Two CEO, of course. The last comment On the price of the games it has been from the Take-Two CEO (owner of Rockstar), Strauss Zelnick, who has spoken of “variable prices” when asked about ‘GTA VI‘. The game, he says, must be in proportion to the experience offered: “Our goal is to create The best entertainment in the world and take it to all consumers, wherever they are, and for that We must offer value“, he says, while defending the price of 50 euros for ‘Mafia: The Old Country’, also of the company. It makes sense, but it hurts the same. The variable price, on the table, has logic: if the game is a blockbuster that It has cost 200 million dollars It will have a more expensive price than an indie production with a team of five people. But before that logic we find more or less arbitrary increases, that have been much discussed and that actually have a lot of industry’s score to see how far the machine can be forced. For example, in the announcement of his imminent switch 2, Nintendo talked about games such as ‘Mario Kart World’, with a price close to 90 euros In its physical edition. The fallacy of entertainment. Meanwhile, we continue to see opinions such as Shuhei Yoshida, responsible for the PlayStation brand, today retired, and that said in an interview that “I think it remains a bargain (the price of 80-90 euros) considering the amount of entertainment that the highest quality games provide compared to other forms of entertainment.” It is a fallacy that has been widely refuted: The “Cost per hour” as a value measure and consequent excuse to raise prices blur the quality of experience in favor of the number of hours, and has taken us, over time, to A large amount of filling and superfluous material in video games. To 80 those of PS5. The last time we saw such an aggressive price increase was when PlayStation 5 imposed as a rule for its AAA games the 80 euros. At that time, We adjust prices to inflation From the video game industry until its beginnings and we conclude that they were not as expensive as they seemed: the current 80 euros of PS5 equals almost 120 that the Super Nintendo games cost or the almost 400 of the Neo Geo games in the nineties. Have we gone to better? Are games cheaper now? The numbers seem to secure it. Cheaper, but no. As Baitybait explained In a video about games pricesif we adjust to inflation today’s games are not so expensive. But the truth is that market circumstances have changed since the time of the Super Nintendo. They have changed, for example, certain sales strategies (before a game was a game and point; now there are special editions, microtransactions, DLCs and then launch complete editions …). The digital games market has also changed, now predominantand that has not brought with it a price decrease even though it is cheaper for companies. And it has changed, in short, the fact that the number of releases has multiplied by ten, so the expectations that the player handles with each new game are very different from those that were handled in the eighties or the nineties. Currently investing in a game is not an action as carefree as before: each game is required much more. Therefore, the games are comparatively the same or even cheaper than before, but the player’s psychology has changed greatly. Header | Rockstar In Xataka | People are completely obsessed with the ‘GTA VI’ trailer. And you are looking for clues and theories in every detail

We are getting closer to ahead of the arrival of Alzheimer’s. Knowing it can reassure us, but maybe too much

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Get ahead of the arrival of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s is today a chimera, but achieving it would be key when looking for treatments that manage to go beyond containing symptoms and are able to reverse the disease. What is already in our hand is to estimate our risk of suffering. The question is to what extent is a good idea. Pros and cons. This type of evidence that allows us to know our chances of suffering from Alzheimer’s impact on our psychological well -being and our motivation. A new study He has investigated In these effects and has observed that, although this knowledge does not have an effect on our emotional stress can reduce our motivation to maintain a healthy life. Even among people with a high risk of suffering from this disorder. Win the career to the disease. Get ahead of Alzheimer’s arrival It is key For professionals who treat it: the sooner the diagnosis is the greater the margin of maneuver to design the ideal therapeutic strategy that allows to slow down the appearance of symptoms and their progressive worsening. It also helps patients and their environment adapt to the arrival of the disease, psychologically but also more practical. Count plates. Although we do not know the mechanisms that operate after Alzheimer’s, we know that beta-amyloid plaques play a fundamental role. These clusters that are formed in the brain appear in people with this disease and are therefore an important diagnostic tool. The scanners Positron emission tomography offer a non -invasive technique that allows you to detect these clusters in the brain. From the identification of these clusters it is possible to estimate the risk that the disease begins to unleash a patient and allows health personnel and affected people to take the necessary preventive measures. 199 participants. The new study had 199 participantsall healthy adults who would go through this process to determine the presence or absence of plates in the brain. Before completing the scanner, the group completed surveys to find symptoms of anxiety, depression, memory and motivation problems; Surveys that repeated six months after the test. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Alzheimer’s & Dementia. Lights and shadows. As explained by the team responsible for the study, participants who did not present plaques experienced “emotional improvements”: lower depression, anxiety and even less memory problems. However, the team also observed a lower degree of motivation when taking measures to improve their lifestyle to make it healthier. Among the participants there were also cases in which plaques were detected. They also did not see an increase in depressive symptoms a memory problems, but their anxiety level was reduced. The problem is that, as in the case of the first group, its motivation to introduce changes in their day to day was also reduced. “The findings suggest that revealing the presence of amyloids does not negatively affect the participants, and simply knowing the results seems to decrease the negative feelings globally,” explained in a press release Schnaider Beeri, Ocautora of the study. The role of the psychological. Physiological diseases can affect our mental well -being, but our psychology can also play a determining role when facing body diseases. Motivation when introducing changes in our life is, in this sense, of difficult importance to estimate. In Xataka | If the question is how to hunt the Alzheimer Image | Daria Obymaha

The MIT has just placed us closer to the great milestone in quantum computers: error correction

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The rapid development you are experiencing Quantum computing He is gradually dismantling the opinions that question the potential of this discipline. One of the biggest challenges to those who face is the need for quantum computers to be able to amend your own mistakesand three different studies defend how close we are to achieve. A Australian quantum research group, another Dutch and a third Japanese team published in Nature In January 2022 as many scientific articles in which they explain in detail the procedure they used to put superconductor cubits that have precision greater than 99%. When errors are so rare it is much easier to correct them. In the other saucer of the balance, Gil Kalai remains erect, an Israeli mathematician and teacher at Yale who He has predicted that quantum computers will never be able to amend their mistakes. According to this researcher, the increase in the number of states of quantum systems and their complexity will cause them to end up behaving like classical computers, so the superiority of the former will end up evaporating. The MIT has taken a firm step forward Before we investigate the achievement of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute (Mit) It is worth briefly reviewing what one of the companies that is contributing the most contributing to the development of quantum computers: IBM has achieved in the field of errors. The itinerary that published in December 2023 He anticipated that before the end of 2024, the Heron (5K) platform endowed with error mitigation would be ready. And this company He fulfilled his promise. The main problem facing quantum computers in the field of error correction is noise, understood as the disturbances that can alter the internal state of the cubits and introduce calculation errors. The strategy for which many of the research groups that are involved in the development of quantum computers are opting for monitoring the operations carried out by the cubits for Identify real -time errors and correct them. The problem is that from a practical point of view this strategy is very challenging. The mitigation of errors allows the cubits to carry out their calculations even if they have errors and only at the end of the process it is inferred what the correct result is However, there is an alternative path. It is known as ‘error mitigation’, and, very broadly speaking, instead of monitoring in real time what happens in the cubits allows them to carry out their calculations even if they have errors and only at the end of the process it is inferred what the correct result is. This technique is already delivering very promising results. In fact, this characteristic is what allows the quantum processor to argue the other quantum chips developed by IBM so far. What MIT researchers propose in the article in the article that they have published in Nature Communications It is a different approach to the correction of errors. In fact, in their text they describe how they have achieved Attach artificial atoms and photons with the purpose of using this mechanism to process quantum information at a higher speed than the prototypes of current quantum machines. This peculiar type of coupling between light and matter can be used to make very robust cubits and capable of processing information up to ten times faster than a quantum processor such as those currently available. Yufeng Ye, the main author of this article, He maintains that “This technology would eliminate one of the bottlenecks of quantum computers. It is usually necessary to measure the results of the calculations between error correction rounds.” In this statement this scientist has done something very important: he has established a relationship between the strong coupling of light and matter that can presumably be used to produce a new type of cubits and error correction. “This strategy could accelerate the moment in which we will reach quantum tolerant to failures and we can develop real applications with practical value,” says Ye. It sounds really good, although we should not overlook that what these scientists have done at the moment is a demonstration of fundamental physics. The challenge from now on is to bring this technology to practice. Image | IBM More information | Nature Communications In Xataka | We already touched the quantum internet with the tip of the fingers. This German experiment is a successful

We are one step closer to converting pancreatic islet transplants into a functional therapy against type 1 diabetes

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The incidence of Type 1 diabetes It is less than that of its “sister”, but the World Health Organization esteem that more than 64 million people suffer only in Europe. In Spain, the number of cases exceeds 166,000 according to estimates of the National Health System. A new path. A study led by researchers from the University of Leiden has presented a new production method of endocrine cell groupings for transplantation. This tool could help us advance in this type of treatments against type 1 diabetes. Pancreatic islets. The work focuses on the pancreatic islet transplant. These islets are “groupings” of endocrine cells, hormone producing cells. Type 1 diabetes is triggered when our own immune system attacks pancreatic beta cells, insulin producing cells. The problem of transplanting these islets is to obtain them. An option is to obtain them from deceased donors, but this limits their availability. Another option is to “cultivate them” in laboratory from induced pluripotent stem cells. Easier to say than to do. However, there is a problem to solve, and these stem cells can differentiate themselves in the endocrine cells we are looking for, but they can also differentiate in other cells. “This is a problem because if you want to generate a reliable and safe product we need to be very pure, and that it does not vary in composition or purity from one lot to another,” explained to Sinc Adrián Villalba, an immunologist who works precisely in the development of this type of islets. A new method. In the new work, the team raises a new mechanism that facilitates the process of purifying unwanted cells without harming the integrity of the islets to be transplanted. The mechanism is based on density gradient centrifugation, used to enrich endocrine cell clusters and reduce the number of unwanted cells. The team tested their method successfully in mice. They observed that the transplanted islets remained viable for a period of six months. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Translational Medicine Science. A future still distant. Animals in animals are a key step, but it remains to be determined to what extent we can replicate the success of these first experiments in human cells. The success achieved so much in alive as In vitrothey point to optimism for now, but there is still time until we can see this progress turned into therapy. The team stands out in your work that this is a “fast” and “scalable method to large volumes of cells.” A method that can also be applied to cellular “manufacturing.” They also indicate the possibility of applying this method to contribute to the creation of new and improved cells based on cells in regenerative medicine, “beyond the field of islets (stem cells).” In Xataka | The 42,000 punctures of Elizabeth Hughes and the miraculous discovery of insulin Image | ISENS USA / Jakob Suckale

China is getting closer to overcoming NASA in its Martian mission. And just invited other countries to join

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Mars Return’s drama. Since I arrived in Mars in 2021, NASA’s Perseverance Rover has been depositing Roca nuclei and Marciano Regolito in hermetic tubes dispersed by the red planet for your future collection. Mars Sample Return is NASA’s mission and the European Space Agency to recover those samples (38 tubes in total) and bring them to Earth. Last year, with a forecast of delays in sample return up to 2039 and an estimated budget of between 7,700 and 11,000 million dollars, NASA de facto canceled Mars Sample Return to control the cost overheads. The agency listened to alternative proposals and, at the beginning of 2025, delayed the decision for a year to Choose between two options: An internal architecture of the NASA JPL laboratory or a commercial ship of the private industry. China has taken the lead. With Mars Sample Return in suspense, China has many ballots to Become the first country to bring Martian soil samples. The launch of the Chinese mission Tianwen-3 is scheduled for 2028after Tianwen-2 launches up to an asteroid near Earth this year as proof of previous technological concept. Tianwen-3 is a simpler mission that Mars Sample Return because it would collect the samples of the landing place, instead of the carefully selected rock nuclei in different places by the Rover Perseverance. However, it has the same objectives as the NASA mission: analyze samples on Earth in search of organic substances and “biosignuras”, signs of past life. Tianwen-3 opens to other countries. The China Space Agency (CNSA) also announced that its sampling recovery mission will be open to international cooperation. Scientists and space agencies around the world can propose until June 30 scientific experiments or instruments to include in the Chinese mission. Tianwen-3 will carry 15 kg of foreign instruments on the ship that will return to the Earth with the samples and 5 kg of additional foreign instruments in the orbiter that will remain in Martian orbit. It could be the case that the European Space Agency, which already participated in Mars Sample Return with the return ship, made a proposal and ended up advancing NASA in this way. Multimillionaires to the rescue. Meanwhile, in the United States, Spacex and Blue Origin have proposed NASA to take advantage of the same ships they have in development for Artemis lunar missions (Starship and Blue Moon) with the aim of recovering Mars samples. However, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have already received numerous public contracts, and a third millionaire, Peter Beck, CEO of the Rocket Lab’s rocket company, It has a more concrete and simple proposal. A solution of 4,000 million dollars with simple technology to bring the samples in 2031, the same year as the Chinese nave Tianwen-3 would return to the earth. Rocket Lab architecture. Three launches in total for all ships of the mission. The orbiter Mars Telecommunications Orbiter would facilitate communication between Mars and Earth. The Lander Lander Lander lands would land on the surface of Mars to collect the samples with the same supersonic aerocies and parachutes that the Martian Rovers use. The Mars Ascent Vehicle, designed as a single rocket stage, would take off towards the Martian orbit with chemical propulsion Using Electron Rutherford engines from Rocket Lab. The Earth Return Orbiter ship would collect the samples in the Martian orbit to bring them back to the earth using similar engines. The three goals of the space race. Decide what NASA decides, China is determined to take advantage of the delays of Mars Sample Return to get the symbolic victory of bringing the first samples of Mars, as has already happened with the Chang’e-6 mission and the first samples of the hidden face of the moon. At the same time, there are two other goals in the space race. The United States announced to hype and saucer that would take the first woman to the moon with the Artemis III mission (planned by 2027), but its launch has been delayed and now the architecture of every Artemis program, as well as that of Mars Sampple Return, It is in question for the numerous cost overruns of the SLS rocket and Starship’s delays. China, meanwhile, plans to reach the moon in 2030. Then, both countries will try to take the first humans to Mars. Image | POT In Xataka | NASA had marked two major short -term objectives. China threatens to defeat her in both

We have found a plant capable of producing 40 cannabinoids. A closer plant evolutionarily to lettuce that to hemp

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Cannabinoid compounds are closely related to gender plants Cannabishemp. A relationship that is manifested in the same name of these compounds, among which perhaps the most recognizable are THC (Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol) and the CBD (Cannabidiol). However, this link is not exclusive. The Lanudo umbrella. The Lanudo Umbed (Helichrysum Umbraculigerum) is a plant originally from South Africa that stands out for containing 40 compounds of the cannabinoid familymany of them disconodful so far. This plant belongs to the genre known as paper or helicriso flower, a genus very raised from cannabis, and closer to plants such as sunflowers or lettuce. Beyond the striking of this fact (as contrast, in the plants of the genre Cannabis More than 100 cannabinoid compounds can be found), the team responsible for the analysis indicates that the finding can help us in the development of new therapies linked to these compounds. “We have found an important new source of cannabinoids and developed tools for sustained production, which can help explore its enormous therapeutic potential,” pointed in a press release Shirley (Paula) Berman, member of the team responsible for the finding. Diverse therapies. Although in some contexts we do not have solid evidence of its effectiveness, the therapeutic use of Cannabinoids It has been extending as long as the study of its biochemical and therapeutic properties progresses. A context in which these compounds do highlight is that of the relief of nausea in people in aggressive treatments such as chemotherapy. Other potential uses are in the treatment of pain, anxiety and epilepsy. As explained by the team responsible for the new study, the fact that molecular receptors capable of interacting with these compounds are common in humans and extending beyond our brain throughout the body makes their potential huge. This also explains that your study is so extensive, covering from neurodegenerative diseases to cancer. Synthesizing compounds. If we want to develop treatments through these compounds, understand how they are naturally synthesized in plants is vital. That is why it is relevant to the fact that the team managed to reveal the biochemical process used by the plant in the production of these compounds. In his study, the team used high -resolution mass spectroscopy, with which he identified the Cannabinoids contained in the plant. He combined with nuclear magnetic resonance with the aim of finding the structure of some of the compounds found. From there, the team could reveal the biochemical “path” followed by the plant when it comes to synthesizing these cannabinoids. The details of the process were published In an article In the magazine Nature Plants. CBG. Of the 40 compounds found in the plant, only half a dozen are present in marijuana. In fact, the team points out, neither the THC nor the CBD are present in the Lanudo umbrella. The compound that is common to both plants is the CBG (cannabigerol). From the ritual to the laboratory. The discovery of cannabinoids in this plant is not entirely new. The clues that pointed to this fact date back decades. As explained by the team responsible for the new study, the Lanudo umbrella used to be used in rituals in which he burned to generate “intoxicating” fumes, which encourages us that the tracks were already there. In Xataka | The marijuana paradox: in full legalizing fever, we are increasingly clear than smoking it is harmful Image | Sagit Meir / United States Fish and Wildlife Service

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