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The United States is convinced that the Chinese army already uses its chips for ia. Nvidia has a different opinion

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The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, recently granted An interview to the CNN medium, where he could speak without capujos about the current context of his company, about Nvidia’s position in the AI racethe benefits of this technology, and other relevant topics of current affairs. In addition, he has also provided his opinion about The commercial war with China and restrictions, as well as the possible use of American technology in Chinese military terrain. Chips for the Chinese army. The United States has shown concerns in the past about whether advanced Nvidia chips would be used by the Chinese army. Those concerns gave rise to The restrictions of chips A100 and H100. Despite this, There are indications that the chips would also be reaching the Chinese army. Nvidia is not worried. Huang It has subtracted importance To Washington’s concerns about the military use of its artificial intelligence chips by China, arguing that the Chinese army cannot depend on American technology that can end up being restricted at any time. Their statements come while the company promises to resume sales of Its H20 processors to the Chinese market and days after meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House. Huang’s position against Washington. In the interview, the manager defended that “we do not have to worry” about the military use of American technology in China, since “they simply cannot trust it.” His argument is that Beijing will avoid depending on US components due to the risk of future limitations. Huang added that China already has “a lot of computing capacity” and does not need Nvidia chips to develop its military capabilities. The restriccions have hit Nvidia. US administrations have maintained export controls on the most advanced semiconductors for fear of strengthening Chinese military capacities. These measures, applied in a bipartisan manner, have cost Nvidia billions of dollars in potential revenues. According to the company, restrictions made them lose approximately about 15,000 million dollars in sales After the latest restrictions imposed by the Trump administration to prohibit their chips to China. The company affirms which also had to amortize 5,500 million in inventory. Between Washington and Beijing. It is clear that the company is making extraordinary efforts to maintain a balance between Washington and Beijing. His CEO openly criticizes control policies, arguing that They are counterproductive For American technological leadership. His thesis is that for the United States to maintain its dominant position in AI, American technology must be available globally, included in China, where half of the world’s developers are located. American senators They have warned him specifically that avoids meeting with companies linked to the Chinese army or intelligence organizations during your visit to Beijing. Meanwhile, Nvidia faces Huawei’s growing competition and other Chinese chip manufacturers, although the country’s technology companies continue to demand their processors due to their platform CUDA. And now what. Nvidia has announced that you will request licenses for Resume Sales of the H20 Chip to Chinawith the US government ensuring that it will grant them soon. The company has also developed a new processor specifically designed to comply with current regulations: the RTX Pro GPU, which is part of the architecture Blackwell and is completely adapted to export controls. China represents 13% of the total income of Nvidiaabout 17,000 million dollars, which explains why Huang maintains its favorable speech towards the Chinese market while sailing among the geopolitical pressures of both countries. The H20 chip had been developed specifically for the Chinese market after the restrictions of the late 2023, becoming the most powerful product legally available until its effective prohibition in April. Cover image | Nvidia In Xataka | The Nvidia’s supercomputer costs millions of dollars. And to work we use a switch with three kilometers of cable

“In five years we will be one of the three main manufacturers in the world, I am convinced”

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Turn the bus and face a huge industrial -looking door. Two inputs controlled by a garita under a gray structure topped in its upper area with three letters and their explanation with Hanzis (The Chinese characters that give it name). The bus takes various streets, turns left and right. Finally, take a last turn and leave us under a roofed space. To our left, a huge staircase guarded by two gigantic lions guarded by an immense and lonely esplanade. In the background five buildings are drawn that with its height, of no less than 30 floors, break with the plain of the square. To our right, the entrance door to an immense hall after the demonstrations of some of the more dotteras technologies of the Chinese car market. Yes, that one He is arriving in Europe and who aspires to become a reference. Will make it clear to us Stella Li, BYD Vice President. We ask what the company expects in the next five years, what will be after five years. Look with the decision he faces any as he asks to be done: “We will be one of the three main manufacturers in the world. I am convinced.” A meteoric career The image that projects the headquarters of Byd in Shenzhen (China) is the same as the one that gives off a good part of the city. The immensity of the plazas of Soviet reminiscences are mixed with gigantic skyscrapers of somewhat decadent appearance in their wrapping but that, without a doubt, welcome inside the gears that move the latest technology of the country. The gears are human that live in these buildings. More than 17 million people that push to make Shenzhen a megaciudad that drinks from a clearly communist appearance past and now lives from wild capitalism that permeates all corners. It is the city of shopping centers full of ultra -realistic falsification stores but also that of skyscrapers who play with breaking your neck, immense headquarters of Chinese banks, and dozens of skyscrapers that are thrown into an orgy of lights, colors and music three times a day to demonstrate the world that they have enough strength to wear their LED panel buildings and put them to dance to the rhythm they want to dance. The rhythm of the gears that hide under these last glazed moles are clear: money and technology. Crossing the huge glazed doors of the Byd headquarters already gives us an idea of ​​what we are going to find inside. Next to the marble and columns that never seem Byd manufactures in vertical integration, Much of its success. And it is that of the batteries that began to manufacture in 1994, the year in which the company was founded, it has passed to a giant that has already manufactured more than 10 million vehicles, which exceeded four million cars produced in just one year in 2024 and that is much more than that. It is a company that also manufactures luxury vehicles, subway cars, buses and an enormous amalgam of components for them, from the batteries to the semiconductors or heat pumps. “Our integral approach to production and batteries give us a unique competitive advantage. We hope to have a solid presence on all continents, with Europe as one of our priority markets”, Stella Li emphasizes us who knows where we want to go with that question where they will be in the next five years. That vertical integration is all that they want to teach us in our visit to the central headquarters. Start with a factory miniturization. The classic miniature trains game is made up of the rails through which vehicles that move the doors and other parts of the chassis move. We will see it with our own eyes the next day but we will get an idea of ​​how chassis and mechanical set marry to give way to the end of the line to a little Yangwang U8 in miniature, the huge SUV of more than five meters that is able to float on water. Later, at the end of the visit itself, we will have the opportunity to get on one and check The maximum luxury that proposes byd. Vehicles as excessive as well finished, topped with materials that fit the precision of the best models in the market. And with the eccentricities of the Chinese market claims, such as the drones parking that carries one of the vehicles parked at the entrance. We have entered for your past, we will go out for your future. Among others, the load of 1 MW for electric cars, a technology that Byd already has available in two carsbut that, Stella Li recognizes us, is thought above all for trucks and car fleets. Live, the system overwhelms, connecting to the same car two hoses that provide 500 kW each. The great advantage, in addition, is that if the car does not admit this type of load, the supplier can nurture two cars to a maximum of 500 kW, powers with which we do not dream in Spain for the moment. At the moment, they will put just over 4,000 points on the street. All byd patents We were notified The strategy is based on pillars of all kinds: a huge variety of products that seem to be cannibalized, its own technology sustained by an almost inconceivable variety of patents and a groundbreaking attitude towards the designs of the market in which enormous equipment and low prices are combined. That patent reaíla is proud throughout a wall that could well measure 20 meters. From top to bottom, talked with the certificates of each of them. They are, of course, those that allowed Byd to create LFP batteries that, they show us proud, They can be crossed by a nail and Do not burn in the process. The NCM facing the same test on your right does not run the same fate. A flash shakes the room and the heat of … Read more

A bank convinced the people of a poor town in the US to spend their savings. Now it’s full of millionaires

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Stories of Lucky blows and Millionaires There are manybut they almost always have a common denominator: We speak in singular. Therefore, what happened in a small town in Florida whose families were going through serious difficulties to get ahead is so special. Even today, the enclave continues to look like a bland and inhospitable town. But do not deceive you, there is still a large number of millionaires among people. And all Thanks to Coca-Cola. Quincy and the banker. This is the name of the people of one of the most fascinating stories of the United States economy. There, in the midst of the great depression of the 20s and 30s and with part of the census in serious difficulties, a figure appears that was going to change everyone’s life. His name: Pat munroea cunning banker, a businessman who noticed a key detail to convince all citizens. It didn’t matter how impoverished they were in Quincy or how serious the financial situation of families was, the man observed that almost religiously, people spent until the last penny in a good glass of icy coca-cool. What if that devotion made it a blow of luck? Coca-Cola in the stock market. The sugary giant began to quote in stock market in 1919 to $ 40 the actionbut a conflict with the sugar industry and its bottlers caused a 50% drop soon, when it reached 19 dollars per share. In other words, there was a time in the story in which Coca-Cola quoted for less than the cash in the bank and its actions were extremely cheap. And among others, Munroe was at the right time. The bargain of the century. What did he do? Invest. The man He began acquiring Coca-Cola actions As if there were no tomorrow. However, he did not do it alone. He encouraged all his acquaintances and friends of acquaintances in the town to buy a participation in the company. Focusing on the final profits and the power of the brand, Pat Munroe continued and continued buying. And while doing it, he kept telling everyone who were willing to listen to him in Quincy who also bought. He took advantage of the confidence and respect that the community had towards him and undertook a crusade to get anyone who could go up to the Coca-Cola train. Loans for shares. The man was so sure of his success that every time a person went to his bank to ask for a loan, I encouraged him to accept another in exchange for actions. Farmers, shopkeepers, teachers: absolutely anyone who could spend money was tempted by Munroe. For the banker, that Coca-Cola’s action was at $ 19 each was an opportunity that no one in the city should escape. That is why he did not get tired of buying and, almost equally important, to stand firm in the decision regardless of the market fluctuations that occurred in the short term. The ball. Finally, the banker’s observations were a historical success. Quincy, an eminently agricultural city, not only remained afloat in difficult times thanks to Coca-Cola dividends, brought a wealth that is still studied in universities. In fact, the enclave became the richest city per capita in the United States for a while, and dozens of its inhabitants were nicknamed “the millionaire secrets of Coca-Cola”. People who trusted the good eye of Munroe and invested all their money (and the one they did not have), and who kneaded huge fortunes with those first actions, which then transmitted from generation to generation, making them the millionaire eponyms of Coca-Cola, some who, effectively, established whole dynasties of financial prosperity that transcended generations. How much we are talking. It is difficult to speak in total terms, but for us to get an idea of ​​money, in 2013 it was made An assessment study of what happened in Quincy. The results found that a single action with reinvested dividends were worth 10,000,000 dollars. $ 270,000 in cash dividends would be sent before taxes to the owner by sending a check worth $ 67,500 in March, June, September and November of each year. In this way, if the great -grandmother and great -grandfather on duty had acquired a round lot of 100 shares for between $ 1,900 and $ 4,000, depending on the purchase price, they would now have more than one billion dollars, excluding the effects of taxes on assets. Money for crisis. That investment has meant a lifeguard every time a hard time is approaching. When the local economy was supported by coca and the crisis arrived, tail dividends. In fact, these assets have supported the city in all recessions since then. When the crops failed, it was the money of the Coca-Cola that kept the people used. When the national economy collapsed, it was Coca-Cola’s cash that allowed people to remain in their homes. When the times were good and Coca-Cola was cheap, they bought more actions. Quincy today. It is a unique story, by unusual. All families that kneaded a fortune then passed it to their children and grandchildren, in some cases through direct donations and in others through the use of fiduciary funds. Even the bank where everything started has a Coca-Cola on exhibition And, until a few years ago, an amazing 65% of the fiduciary assets under administration were still invested in Coca-Cola shares. Quincy’s appearance today does not differ much from the era of great depression. It is still a quiet and eminently agricultural city with a population of less than 10,000 inhabitants. But do not fool your sight, some of the grandchildren whose families raised an empire, that of the secret millionaires of Coca-Cola. Image | Pxhere, Ebyabe, Pxhere In Xataka | The 100,000 million club: the exclusive group of 14 millionaires that has doubled its members in 2024 In Xataka | There are rich and ultra -ups: countries with more millionaires, centimillionaires and milmonarios of the world counted in a graphic *An earlier version of this article … Read more

Murcia is convinced that she has a special smell. So he has decided bottling him and turning him into a perfume

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If Seville has a special color, as those of the river sang, Murcia can boast another identity equally striking: its smell. At least he considers his City Council, that He has opted by a fragrance inspired by the aromas of the city, such as orange blossom or myrtle, to use it as an institutional gift. In fact so convinced is the town hall that has dedicated more than 11,000 euros to launch it in the framework of the celebration of the 1,200 years from the town. Of course the perfume has a name: “Fire ritual”. A perfume inspired by Murcia? That’s how it is. At the moment there are not many details that have transcended the Murcian Olfative Initiative, but they allow us to get an idea of ​​what is their approach. The news emerged on Sunday as a result of A tweet Posted by Ginés Ruiz, local spokesman of the PSOE. In him, pulling a sneer, he threw a polish to the local government headed by the popular José Ballesta. “Dear neighbors of Murcia: do not forget that July 7 is the last day to pay the IBI, that the mayor has to pay things like the ‘aromatic mist commemorating the #Murcia12’ to 11,325.60 euros,” Ironizaba Ruiz. The message was accompanied by The photo of a document in which, indeed, a budget item of 11,300 euros is collected for something called “aromatic mist.” Click on the image to go to Tweet. And what is it? Ruiz’s tweet led several media, basically RRNEWS, Murcia’s opinion and Murcia Economyto pull the thread and contact the City Council to learn more about that mysterious “aromatic mist.” Thanks to them we know that their real name is ‘Fire ritual’ and consists neither more nor less than a fragrance with the smell of Murcia “elaborated by Iberchem and that will be presented shortly. What exactly does it mean to smell Murcia? “It smells like the color of the flames”, replyenigmatic, the Consistory. Because? The opinion reveals that the City Council took the first leg of an unsuspected place: its tourism officia. Visitors who come there in search of information often speak the smell of orange blossom, so … why not capture that olfactory essence in a perfume? The idea, insist from the municipal government, is that “a part of Murcia always travels with visitors” and encouraged them to return. “The idea is that this initiative arising from the ‘Murcia 1200’ project lasts and extends as a gift beyond this year, being able to take this aroma everywhere where entities and groups of civil society be named Murcia with their talent,” They clarify. For now, the fragrance will become gift for those who visit Murcia in official acts or during relevant quotes. The important thing: What does it smell like? The City Council advances that it is “a unique fragrance inspired by Murcia and its history”, with “representative” aromas such as orange blossom or myrtle. “It’s a fragrance Niche Inspired by oriental, wood, smoke touches, spicy points … When you smell it, it transports you to that warm fire, with a sweet touch and Ambarado“, They clarify. The idea is that people can spray perfume and use it to set rooms. The name, ‘Fire ritual’, is inspired by one of the large celebrations of the town: the spring parties, and more specifically in its climax, The burning of the catafalco of the sardine. The news has jumped with the fragrance and ready to appear. The person responsible for forming it has been the Iberchem company and in the project a member of the Royal Perfume Academy would have participated. Images | Esteban Palacios Blanco (Flickr) and Laura Chouette (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | Vitoria has been the greatest city in Spain for years. Now he has turned against him for a gardener strike

China has broken the dependence of the GPS in two decades. His proposal has already convinced 140 countries

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China has just published The data of your satellite navigation system (Beidou) for 2024. After the figures a geopolitical transformation is read that has not made much noise but that is full of meaning. Why is it important. The United States controlled global satellite navigation through GPS. China has created a viable alternative in just twenty years, breaking its own agency and also offering options to other countries. Beidou began as a Chinese military project in the 1990s. Today it is recognized by the United Nations as a global satellite navigation provider, integrated into eleven international organizations. In figures: The Chinese satellite navigation sector invoiced 79.9 billion dollars in 2024. That is 7.4% more than in 2023. Beidou processes more than one billion daily location requests (it is not a False Friend: one billion). And guide 4,000 million kilometers of navigation every day. Besides… 288 million Chinese mobile phones already integrate Beidou. The system covers 99% of urban and rural roads in the country lane precision. Yes, but. Beidou has not displaced GPS as a dominant global standard. Most current devices use several satellite constellations (GPS, Beidou, Galileo, Glonass) to improve precision and reliability. The 140 countries that use Beidou do it mainly as a complement to GPS, not as a total substitute. And they adopt it differently: More than 30 African nations They have installed continuous reference stations for high precision services in agriculture, water management and weather monitoring. In Latin America, ports like Chancay’s in Peru They integrate Beidou In smart navigation systems. In Asia and the Middle East, several countries use Chinese constellation to complement transport and logistics services. The majority does not completely replace GPS, but adds Beidou as a second option to reduce dependencies or improve coverage in regions where US signals are weaker. One of Beidou’s strengths is his best coverage in the southern hemisphere. In 2020 he completed his global scope. Between the lines. China has not defeated GPS, but has achieved something equally valuable: reduce its critical technological dependence. The United States can no longer cut access to satellite navigation as a diplomatic weapon against China. And now what. Beidou marks the Chinese patron: not completely replace Western systems, but to create viable alternatives that reduce strategic dependencies. Not to compete, but build your own parallel reality. As Huawei has doneamong others. Satellite navigation is only the beginning. China replicates this strategy in 5g, AI and renewable energies. In Xataka | China is turning its roofs into power plants. He has achieved in three months what in Europe costs three years Outstanding image | Xataka

We have convinced ourselves all these years that OLED was the most. Sony Sony with LED RGBs promise to change everything

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Although OLED technology has advanced considerably in the Smart TVS industry, with technologies as impressive as the latest generation of panels QD-OED of Samsung or the Primary RGB OLED of LG in its new line of televisions, there are manufacturers that are betting even more for the Miniladsince it offers benefits that, in combination with the innovation that is yet to come, could put in a good squeeze those pure blacks and colors of the OLED. Sony is one of those manufacturers. And it already made it very clear to us in 2024 with its commitment to Minned technology with its Bravia 9being the type of panel chosen for its most premium televisions range after that excellent A95L of 2023. Recently, we have seen that this movement still makes more sense, since they have just presented The new technology in which they will bet in 2026: RGB LED. This is how a minied panel could behave like an oled The company has just revealed that they are working to integrate this new type of technology into their future televisions. His intention is to incorporate An RGB LED matrix to backlit the panels of its televisions (Currently, the LEDs of the retroiluminated matrix are all blue). This, unlike the most leading minied panel panel system, means that, in addition to brightness control through local attenuation zones, it could also be reached control one’s color and luminosity of LEDs of the unit that backs the panel. Conventional LED backlight system by zones. Image: Sony This would translate into a better management and control of the brightness and color of each scene, which in broad strokes could Simulate the behavior of organic and self -emissive LEDs of the OLED, but with the advantage of the greatest brightness of the Minned panels. The system allows Sony to adjust the luminance in line to the gradation of the color itself The RGB retroiluminated panel (Red, Green, Blue) would offer high density backight with the ability to Individually control the three primary colorsas indicated from Sony. The company ensures that the panel allows each RGB color to emit light independently, promising great purity in color and the possibility of reproducing a range of broader and brighter colors. It is not the first time that Sony embarks on this technology. In fact, in 2004 he showed the first LCD TV in the world with Full Array LED RGB backlit. From that moment, the company has been following this system very closely, and now that current technology allows great brightness control through local attenuation zones, it was time to boost this technology again. RGB LED system, eliminating the quantum points layer and offering control of the color and brightness of each LED in the backlit matrix. Image: Sony Sony promises a coverage of the 99% DCI-P3 color space and approximately 90% in the ITU-R BT.2020 standard. Combining independent RGB LED control with the control of the attenuation zones of its televisions, Sony promises Scenes with much more contrast and colorin combination with the already excellent brightness offered by their panels, touching the 4,000 peak nits. Color volume of each technology. Image: Sony The system allows Sony to adjust the luminance in line to the gradation of the color itself. In this way, the company promises reach much more living and bright details. In addition, the system would process the signal at high speed, with rates of up to 96 bits. That LEDs allow us to reproduce primary colors means that The panel would not need aggressive color filters in pixels such as quantum points panels. This causes less light to be absorbed during the process, which allows the panel to work more efficiently. Sony will start producing them this year, but it is not the only Sony is collaborating with Mediatek for the development of chips that will be in charge of controlling each of the individual backlit leds. According to the company, The system will begin to produce in series this yearwith the aim of integrating technology into consumer televisions and screens for content creation in 2026. The company has not been the first to announce the arrival of this technology on its televisions. In fact, signatures like Samsung, Hisense and TCl have already been encouragedwith a view to seeing the first in the market to include this technology during the second half of 2025. For Sony, entering this technology makes a lot of sense in its strategy, as the company went from considering its QD-Osed model as its most premium range to the Bravia 9 with Minned technology and its performance very close to its reference monitor. The company, with its motto ‘Cinema Is Coming Home’, aims to give priority to color reproduction as masterful in recording studios, bringing that experience home. And the combination of its already excellent Minned technology, management of local attenuation zones, and now its backlit matrix with RGB LEDs, allows you to easily facilitate that task. Cover image | Sony In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K

They have convinced us that thin mobiles have to sacrifice drums. It is half truth

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The thinness of the smarpthone begins to be an issue. We don’t know why, but it is. Samsung has as your family’s star Samsung Galaxy S25 A mysterious Galaxy S25 Edge Ultradelgado. Oppo has obsessed with this data to improve the design of your Find N5and the strongest rumor on mobile technology by 2025 is the next iPhone 17 Aira model that will supposedly stand out for its data of thinness. Manufacturing a specially thin mobile usually comes from the hand of a usual problem: the battery is usually quite just. The Chinese manufacturer Tecno has shown that this does not have to be so and that, technically, it is possible to manufacture an extremely thin phone with a level battery. Tecno Spark Slim. Do not look for this phone on the Tecno website, because it is not on sale. The Spark Slim is the thinnest mobile in the world (at least, right now), with a thickness of only 5.75mm. It is almost half of what the most top phones usually have (which are around 8mm) and, all this, without sacrificing battery. Its battery is 5,200mah, a battery even larger than we find on much thicker phones. In addition, the weight is also a record: Tecno has been achieved by a figure of only 140 grams. We do not know its processor, although the company tells us that it has not yet been presented. The screen is of no less than 6.78 inches, amoled and with a 4,500 nits peak shine, so we are not facing a reduced SPECS phone. The key… and the sacrifices. Tecno has not relieved images of the internal construction of his Spark Slim, but it does give a curious fact: his battery has a thickness of only 4mm. A record has been achieved, introducing a much larger battery than usual is an extremely thin phone. Although we have not been able to try it thoroughly, achieving something like this always has costs. Otherwise, all manufacturers would follow this path. If we look at the camera module, it can be seen that the sensors seem quite small. It is inevitable: if the vast majority of the body is drums, there is not too much space for large sensors. To achieve this thickness, it is also difficult to add elements such as steam cameras, large speakers, or other elements that enrich hardware. Despite this, it seems clear that any user needs: a great battery, a processor, and a couple of cameras. An inevitable trend. Achieving extreme thinness is a trend. The great manufacturers (OPPO, Samsung and expected Apple) begin to a race whose purpose we do not know, and whose future sales will reveal the unknown: whether to fight for thinness really revives demand, or if it is a race without too much sense. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Perhaps the time has come to sacrifice some thinness in mobile phones in exchange for winning in autonomy

There are people convinced that in 2030 we will achieve immortality. These are your arguments

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Live more and live better, but above all live more. Longevity is the obsession of many, including some “futurologists” who believe that eternal life (understood as the end of deaths due to natural cause) is close. Objective 2029. As close as This same decade. Before even its end, to be exact. That is the forecast of Google and “futuristic” Ray Kurzweil’s exingender. This was what I pointed out a few months ago In an interview For the company Bessemer Venture Partners. This raises some doubts, as this arguments based on this notion and if we are close to getting out of death indefinitely. In the interview, Kurzweil expressed it as follows: “Science advances and is healing several diseases. You are receiving on average about four months a year (…) however, scientific research is also in an exponential curve. By 2029, you will have received a whole year account. So you lose a year, but you receive a year back. ” “Exhaust speed ”. Kurzweil’s idea revolves around Longevity escape speed concept. In physics, the exhaust speed is a speed that allows us to counteract the gravitational pull of a body and boost away from it thanks to the simple inertia. In this context, the escape speed means something different, which does not lead us to escape something physical but to get away from death from death. The idea is simple, and that is that the increase in life expectancy grows exponentially until it reaches a point where this life expectancy increases in more than a year. Thanks to advances in medicine and other fields, life expectancy has been significantly increasing throughout the world, but, at least for now, indefinitely prolong our life expectancy looks like a simple chimera. Arguments For a short time, if we trust the Kurzweil arguments. The main argument is the rapid advance of contemporary medicine. Medical advances have allowed us to overcome numerous infectious diseases through treatments and vaccines. Kurzweil himself puts as an example the speed with which the Covid vaccine (obviating perhaps the titanic development effort, which was also based on previous works in immunization and genetic). However, it is also true that we continue advancing a lot in the fight against diseases such as cancers. We are even close to Replicate technology which gave us the Covid vaccine in the fight against some tumors. On the other hand, diseases closely linked to age such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson continue to be a challenge for scientists who still seek to understand the causes of these disorders to combat them effectively. Not just health. The increase in life expectancy is not only limited to the health field. Our world is safer than it was in the past. Transport is safer than a few decades ago, less frequent wars, and violent crimes occur to a lesser extent. These factors have also contributed to the increase in life expectancy and is likely (not sure) to continue doing it in the future. Not so fast. There are those who believe that we will reach the exhaust speed soon without reaching Kurzweil’s optimism. For example, George Church, a genetic expert at Harvard University that indicated that, perhaps throughout our lives, we can reach this evolutionary point. A little more optimistic than Church, Aubrey de Gray, president of the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation, proposes that it will be throughout the 2030s when we reach it. Will it arrive? There are many reasons to be skeptics, not only with the ambitious Kurzweil agenda, but with the very concept of escape speed of longevity. As we indicated above, there are reasons for some skepticism. For example, the fact that advances in a disease do not imply advances in others. Even cancer is so varied that it implies that, while some are perfectly treatable, others still represent a huge threat to our life. Infectious diseases represent another stumbling block: although we had advanced a lot in the creation of vaccines and antibiotics, the latter are losing efficacy by leaps and bounds before the arrival of the “superbacteria.” Neurodegenerative diseases also remind us that not only just dodge death, while we do not improve our quality of life in the last stages of our life, these improvements will be little. In Xataka | We have been looking for the secrets of longevity. We have found one in the RNA of some worms Image | Harli Marten

Art of Vengeance ‘has convinced me that the new Ninja fashion is the best recent resurrection in the industry

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We are not going to fool ourselves: I have a weakness for the ‘Shinobi’ saga. The first installment came to obsess me in the times of the recreational, and its relatively quiet rhythm and its clear and easy mechanics to dominate them became one of the few arcades that I managed to end in its day, not without a considerable investment of time and money . Since then, ‘Shinobi’ has been one of my untouchable absolute video games of the eighties. The best thing was yet to come. And that we still had to see the best incarnations of ‘Shinobi’. After taste practically all the domestic ports of the recreational (special kudos for the crazy version of Master System), I had the opportunity to immerse myself in the magnificent ‘Shinobi’ for Mega Drive: ‘Shinobi II’ and ‘Shadow Dancer’. Absolute 2D wonders that multiplied the possibilities of the original recreational. Ninja avalanche. I was never too interested in the lazy 3D adventures of the ‘Shinobi’ franchise in PlayStation 2 or portable, but his spirit I think they picked up and amplified the ‘Ninja Gaiden’ in 3D, especially the first two, under the direction of Tomonobu Itagaki: Brutal and ruthless, of the most difficult and satisfactory games in history. Laugh from the ‘souls’. I have always been excited about the original trilogy of NES, a kind of accelerated and insane version of the ‘Shinobi’ themselves, and even the original arcade ‘Shadow Warriors’, but in my diet ninja the thing has always worked like this: in 2D,’ Shinobi ‘; In 3D, ‘Ninja Gaiden’. And between them, Cannon’s films. The return of the Ninja. The point is that, riding the nostalgic fever that ravages the entertainment industry, both franchises have allowed themselves to return with new versions and sequelae that we can enjoy in the coming months. On the one hand, we have a new sequel to the main saga of Ninja Gaiden, A fourth installment (Perhaps the project that interests the least, despite the fact that the participation of Plantinum Games always attracts attention); ‘Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound‘, on the other hand, it is a 2D and pixelated reformulation at the hands of the’ Blasphemous’ team, and which seems to guarantee a deep and demanding game; And finally, ‘Ninja Gaiden II Black‘, a total and already available remake of the original 360 game and demonstrates why we continue to contemplate it as a masterpiece. The art of revenge. But it is that ‘Shinobi’ also returns with ‘SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance‘, And as’ Ragebound ‘, with a team of bells expert in retro mechanics behind: Lizardcube, responsible for the superb and recent’Streets of Rage 4‘. It will arrive in August and in addition to a mechanic that pays tribute to the 16 -bit originals, we have an absolutely magnificent graphic finish, which honors not only the first games, but also the anime and the European comic. Ninjas for a resurrection. Here you are not going to see us launch alive to the eternal cyclical returns of the industry and their retail constant of success franchises. But ‘Shinobi’ and ‘Ninja Gaiden’ seem to me differently: a taste is seen in these new versions that goes beyond the exploitation of nostalgic corpses. In addition, neither of the two franchises has abandoned certain principles (demanding, violent and visually very polished games), which gives them at least the benefit of the doubt: until now, after all, they have not disappointed us. Header | SEGA In Xataka | You do not need Windows to play ‘doom’: someone has managed to work on the bios of a PC

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