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‘Eriksholm’ is a game with 93% of positive criticism in Steam and crazy graphics. And yet it has crashed

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Doing video games is not easy. Not only is it a complex development that does not end when the game arrives in Steam, but having an operational and functional video game is only part of the film. It is useless to have a good idea, good production values and eager if the title does not reach who has to get: the players. And if not, tell them to ‘Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream‘. Eriksholm. This is the first title of the Swedish study River End Games (although its creative director comes from says). Roughlyit is a narrative video game with isometric perspective and stealth as the main protagonist. There are no skill trees, level ups or such things to which current games have accustomed us. We control a character and we have to travel the city of Eriksholm without seeing us. Could it be said that it is a puzzle game that is resolved stealth? It could be said. Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream | Valve Altísimos production values. The Swedish study can boast of having done a sensational job in terms of graphics. ‘Eriksholm’ has some of the most spectacular kinematics and facial captures that we have seen for a long time, an outstanding visual quality and amazing animations. This, which is a delight for the eyes, surely plays against the title for a simple reason: the investment. The general norm is that having such powerful graphics is synonymous with having made a strong investment. Investment that in triple A games with great studies can be profitable at the same time, but ‘Erikslhom’ is not precisely that. It is the first game of a new studio and, in addition, it is very niche: it has an isometric perspective type RTS, it is based on stealth, it is short (like 12 hours, more or less), it is barely rejugable and costs 40 euros in Steam. Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream | Valve But I loved it. That is the worst drink. Despite its disastrous release in terms of figures, the game has reaped excellent criticism. In Steam, he has 363 reviews, the majority very positive, and the specialized press has put it through the clouds. That is something that many indies cannot say. The negative criticisms, on the other hand, agree that the narrative falls from the second section of the game, which can be repetitive and that, above all, it takes a long time to start. Be that as it may, despite the reception of the press and most users, ‘Eriksholm’ has not managed to overcome The 500 simultaneous players on the day of its launch. At the time these lines are written there are 106 people playing in Steam, to which the console and Epic Games players should be added. Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream | Valve In the background. Erikslhom’s case puts a very raw reality on the table: the world of video games is voracious. Video games are increasingly expensive to produce and Its price, therefore, is also higher. The budget to buy them, however, has not grown at the same rate and the amount that can be dedicated to experimenting and trying new things is very limited. And what does that translate? In which the player is sure, betting on the great franchises he knows and that, generally, propose games that are a well (‘Call of Duty’, ‘EA Sports FC’, etc.). Despite the overwhelming rhythm of video game launches, the reality is that Steam’s average player Just play four different video games a year. Cover image | Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream in Steam In Xataka | The milling of a programmer made a fateful mistake of this classic video game into a congratulation message

Nothing’s CEO wants to conquer the mobile market with crazy designs. He has told us his very complex plan to achieve it

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Carl Pei is one of the CEO that gives off the most in the technology industry. You saw a cowboy and basic shirt, they warn me that it is shy and, after a few minutes of interview, we end up smiling, commenting that “the vibes” are the future, and remembering the old days of Cyanogenmod out of formalities. Those who have been in El Cotarro to know Carl from that Old OnePlus who only sold his phones by invitation. With Nothing, the approach is different. A London company with the focus on design and with a clear slogan: “Make Tech Fun Again”. Looking up Nothing began with a Phone (1) that attacked the mid -range. He continued with a Phone (2) that took a specifications and, in 2025, attacks the market with a mobile of 799 euros with a high range. I can’t help wanting to know why. Carl explains that for Nothing, both the Phone (1) like him Phone (2) They were flagships. It sounds like a statement Marketinianbut it is not: “For a company, a flagship is the best mobile you can do.” For the first time, they believe they are at an engineering point in which they can compete with the best in the market, a point where they are finally ready. Sailing a high range is risky, and throwing it being oriented to a concrete niche, it is even more. Nothing is not in volume, it is not desperate to launch product and points directly to “the most creative users.” All this sounds very good, but it is worth asking if A company can be profitable and sustainable living as “creative users”. “We are focused on new generations of consumption. We focus on people who are interested in technology, design and creativity. Our consumer is much younger than the average consumer, it is around 26 years.” Does the strategy work? Yes. Carl tells me that they have folded the volume of business, exceeding one billion dollars in the accumulated sales. He knows that they have been focusing on software for years, but they intend to double software investment to be even more attractive. They also have an important investment behind, in which investors take a direct role in the decisions made by the company. “Sometimes it is uncomfortable, because they give their opinion in front of the rest of the members of our table. But I think it is really important to find ways to keep us connected with this base, especially when the company grows. It is difficult to hear uncomfortable truths when you have that type of structure, we always know what people want us.” The present Carl Pei during the presentation of Nothing Phone (3) and the Nothing Earphone (1). Image | Xataka With Nothing Phone (3) comes the whopping seven years of security updates and five software. Maybe it’s time for Get out of stopping a mobile per year if mobiles are getting older and more. Or maybe not. “On average, people renew phone every three years. So there will always be someone thinking about the following. But we are also seeing a trend of people who want to keep their device for a longer time. That is why we want to give even longer support.” The phone also lands with an integration of quite discreet. Essential Search Essential Space Minor translation functions Is enough to compete, taking into account that There are already those who integrate the AI Even in the most basic apps of the system (telephone, keyboard, camera …)? Carl is clear that Nothing’s approach is cautious, because they see “a lot of hype” in the market. It drops that, even if they have launched these functions, “the Roadmap is long, there will be updates and updates.” But, beyond promising that in the future AI will be more complete, it is not afraid to admit that it agrees. “This is almost like a hygiene factor, right? We have to take care of that basic part, but that is not what excites us most. What really excites us is how we apply this new technology to redefine the way people use products, especially in the software part. But yes, that basic work is necessary. You have to do it. The market is doing it and I think we can do much more.” Image | Xataka To close the block, I ask Carl for something practically inevitable: How are geopolitical tensions between the United States and China livingand if your supply chain is being affected. The Nothing Phone box (3) shows a clear “Made in China”, so there is nothing to hide. Here he tells us that most of their products are manufactured in India, and some of them in China. Apart from this, he affirms that they are in the process to start producing in other parts of the world. It does not seem too worried, and the reason is simple. “Being a startup, we can be quite agile and reagents, whatever happens.” The future of smartphone Nothing Phone (3). Image | Xataka A question that I like to ask the main responsible for Tech companies is how they look in the future. And being, honest, the answers are usually little concrete. It is something completely normal: neither should get wet with compromised statements or, really, it is easy to predict with where today’s technology is going. But Carl is a Jugónand it is clear that the future of the smartphone goes through a single app capable of controlling everything. That agriculture that we have spent so much speaking throughout 2025. The key is that, When everything is … what will be the reason to decide between one device or another? It clarifies that it is still distant, and that no one would buy a phone without apps today. The key will be on the path that is to achieve it, a path to combine and melt all software and hardware. “I think Essential Search is a good example. … Read more

China has resurrected the most crazy plane of the USSR. The Ekranoplano returns to life, and the big question is why

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In 2020 he went viral A video Through a drone that was recording images of a beach in the Caspian Sea. Suddenly, the clip showed one of the greatest fantasies of Soviet aviation: An ekranoplano Varado, a unique piece of the so -called Cold War as “marine monster” that never occurred in mass due to its costs (and benefits). Five years later, a nation has resurrected the idea of ​​the great hybrid between plane and ship: China. Emerging silhouette. Yes, because for the first time, they have emerged Complete images of the new soil effect vehicle (Wig) Chinese, an aircraft capable of flying at low altitude on aquatic surfaces using the so -called “air mattress efficiency.” The device was initially identified by the naval analyst Hi Suttonand its presence in the Bahai Sea, northwest of the Yellow Sea, has not gone unnoticed. In the first photographs, part of its structure remained hidden, but the new shots have revealed Your full silhouetteconfirming its configuration as a large ekranoplane with a hidravion helmet. Amazing design. Its development, unknown so far in the Chinese aeronautical inventory, keeps a certain resemblance to The AG600the amphibious hydroavion that China develops For rescue, refueling and logistics missions in the disputed sea of ​​southern China. The appearance of this vehicle feeds the growing global trend to revitalize the soil effect platforms, technology that, as we said at the beginning, the Soviet Union He thoroughly explored during The cold war but that never became popular outside its experimental margins. Between the shadow and the radar. The operational principle of these aircraft is simple and shocking: fly to a very low height On water it allows to take advantage of a dense layer of compressed air that increases support and reduces resistance. In addition, when staying below the terrestrial radar horizon, these vehicles are more difficult to detect and track. Unlike ships, they are not vulnerable to mines or submarines, and although they are not suitable for highly answered combat areas, they could effectively operate in coastal or semi-permissive scenarios. Its possible utility, let’s put the assumption of a war between China and the United States, would be significant, especially considering that China would fight in its own geographical environment immediate. The EkranoPlano would serve as a logistics platform to bring supplies to remote coastal areas, evacuate personnel or even fulfill anti -submarine war and limited maritime control functions, thanks to its ability to quickly insert itself into remote areas and return without the need for port infrastructure. Propulsion, design and doubts. One of the great unknowns posed by this new vehicle is its propulsion system. The available images, although of low resolution, show a kind of Large rear tobares that have raised speculations about whether it is an aircraft with reaction engines, with propellers not yet installed or, even, with an unpublished hybrid-electric system. The NACELLES They present air tickets at the top that could point towards a bimotor design With turboreactor propulsionbut the presence of possible axes or pointed structures on the front suggest that it could be equipped with great thrust propellers to install. Nothing is confirmed. The current versions of this device They could be prototypes Technological demonstration, subscales aimed at informing future developments, or operational models in a stealth test phase. The possibility of using latest generation composite materials to reduce weight, improve aerodynamics and decrease radar signature reinforces the hypothesis of a modern and highly specialized design. New mobility paradigm. Plus: The profile of the new Chinese EkranoPlano shows clear similarities with The Liberty Lifterthe great American project for a Heavy load wig. Both share a conception based on high efficiency platforms to operate on vast oceanic extensions without depending on aerodromes, tracks or ports. The Chinese apparatus presents a V -tail, a typical staging fuselage of hydroAvions, stabilizing floats at the ends of the wings and in the center of the helmet, and a large side door that makes it suitable for transport personnel or materials. Its nose, stylized and aerodynamically integrated, also suggests special attention to functional design. This set of characteristics reinforces the theory that China could be developing a versatile and tactical platform to operate in Coastal environments playedespecially in the context of a sea of ​​increasingly militarized southern China. What will come. The public appearance of Now called “Monster of the Bohai Sea”, as the first naval analysts have baptized it, opens the door to intensive monitoring by experts and Western agencies. As lighter images arise and possibly videos of their first tests in the open sea, the analysis will be refined and the evaluation of its potential will pass from the speculative to the doctrinal. For now, its single existence implies that China, like other powers, is seriously investing in asymmetric capacities that Challenge the limitations traditional logistics. This EkranoPlano is not yet a strategic threat by itself, but represents a clear symbol of Beijing’s technological and military ambition: fast, stealthy mobility, close to its coasts and out of the immediate reach of conventional western detection or deterrence tools. Image | Wikimedia Commons, x In Xataka | The EkranoPlano is the gigantic Russian plane that was designed to “float” on the sea and that precisely for that reason failed In Xataka | China has converted salmon breeding into a high seas into an engineering feat. This latest generation ship shows it

Salmon sperm is the new fashion ingredient in aesthetics. And no, it’s not as crazy as it sounds

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In the era of the cult of perfect skin, the aesthetic industry seems to know limits. Masks with bee venom, sera with snail drool, injections that They promise to reprogram Aging … Any compound that promises youth, elasticity or luminosity is a good formula for even Celebrities Be behind it, even if we are talking about salmon sperm. A new anti -aging elixir? Although talking about salmon sperm captures attention (and lifts eyebrows), the truth is that it does not imply directly applying reproductive cells on the skin. In statements collected by the Spanish, Dr. Araceli González, specialist in aesthetic medicine, has clarified: “This product is popularly because it allows you to obtain polynucleotides, components with great qualities to restore the skin without leaving any residue.” In this way, it helps support reparation, regeneration and collagen production on the skin. For celebrities it is not new. Personalities such as Jennifer Aniston had already undergone this type of treatments in previous years, as reported in an interview to the Wall Street Journal, where he even joked asking his estheticist: “Really? How do you get the salmon sperm?” However, what was previously a luxury curiosity, today has become a booming aesthetic trend that adds more and more followers, from dermatological clinics to Influencers In social networks. The Telva medium It has included it Among the seven major skin care trends by 2025. And the big question. How do you get? Well, the answer is more technical than biological. The PDRN is obtained by processing and purifying the DNA of the gonads (sexual organs) of the salmon. Sperm is not used as such, but the genetic material is broken in polynucleotide fragments, which are then integrated into sera, masks, injections or combinations with techniques such as microaguja or laser, according to He explained Dermatologist Mansha Sethi Thacker A Vry Well Health. A curiosity is that in Asia they usually inject it directly, while in the US they are applied topically after treatments such as exosomes or laser. Does it really work? Treatment defenders ensure that it offers visible and progressive benefits. According to Dr. Adam Friedman, a dermatologist at the George Washington University, for the same medium, it has detailed that it stimulates collagen production, improves hydration, accelerates cell regeneration and healing, and decreases inflammation and better pigmentation. For its part, the aestheticist Adeela Crown, Interviewed by the Financial Timeshe has summarized it thus: “It is a slower process, but bioestimulants such as polynucleotides make skin cells work to produce and maintain the basic components of healthy skin.” Its use in medicine. Although the boom is recent, seeing the benefits gives notes that it was already used before. As He explained Dr. Araceli González to El Español, The use of polynucleotides were already used in medical contexts to treat burns, serious injuries or even ulcers. In addition, preliminary investigations, mentioned by Varywell Health, They have indicated that they can have anti -inflammatory effects and have begun to use to stop hair loss and strengthen the scalp, with repeated treatments every few weeks. Are there side effects? Like any aesthetic treatment, it is not exempt from precautions. Dr. Richard Westreich, plastic surgeon in New York, has pointed out in The Guardian that side effects are generally mild: bruises, swelling or redness may appear, especially if the product is injected. In addition, as in every medical process there may be a risk of allergic reaction. For its part, dermatologist Emma Craythorne has warned in FT that “no current study is of high quality”, and although the results are promising, more robust clinical research is still required. A new aesthetic revolution? For many specialists, polynucleotides treatment represents a paradigm shift. Not only does it seek to correct visible signs of aging, but preserve and stimulate the natural functions of the skin. “It is a bioestimulator that does not change the volume or the shape of the face,” He explained Araceli González. Therefore, it is suitable for both young skins that seek to prevent mature skin with marked sagging signs or elastosis. In addition, it is beginning to be used in areas where other treatments do not work well, such as the lower eyelid, where botulinum toxin has no good results. Dr. Elizabeth Hawkes, an Oculoplasty specialist in London, has affirmed at ft that “polynucleotides have transformed their practice” for the security they offer in sensitive areas such as eye contour. What are the forecasts? What began as an eccentricity worthy of headlines, salmon sperm on the face, has evolved towards a trend backed by clinics, dermatologists and public figures. But between the promises of cell regeneration and the media brightness, is the question: are we facing a real scientific revolution or before another cosmetic seasonal phenomenon, camouflaged under a disruptive name? For now, science advances slower than social networks, but if something teaches us the history of beauty is that, in the search for eternal youth, no ingredient – unlikely that seems – is out of play. Image | Angela George and Unspash Xataka | People are fed up with Skincare’s thousand steps so the last Beauty trend is just one thing: exosomes

China is attending a crazy race to demonstrate who has the safest battery. That’s why they crush them with tanks

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If I point to the volume, I am not sure if I learned a lot or little in the university. But I am clear about one thing: I learned what was news or, at least, the criteria to point out whether an event is news. When the issues that can be discussed are put on a wording, different aspects are valued. Truthfulness, current, proximity … and novelty. And if an event comes out in the media it is because it is usually “unique, unpublished, unlikely or out of the ordinary.” I don’t say it, University institutions say. That is why it makes little sense to affirm that electric cars are dangerous based exclusively on news. We could do it if we had relevant studies that pointed out that the number of electric cars is notoriously higher than those of combustion. But it is not the case. We do know that the fire of an electric car is more complicated to turn off and more virulent. That is why it is logical that take action on ships where they are transported or working on New protocols in fire bodies. That does not mean that the risks of this technology are greater. In spite of everything, it also enters within a certain logic that when a fire is given or any other risk situation, the alarm voices are multiplied. From municipalities where They consider whether to continue buying electric cars a parking lots that prohibit their step. In that case, companies only have to show that their batteries are as safe as any other component of a car. As if I could pass them a tank over them. The crazy idea of ​​a tank Although it seems nonsense, it makes sense that manufacturers refine ideas when demonstrating the safety of electric car batteries. Keep in mind that, for example, In South Korea, an intense debate has been lived on whether or not these cars may accumulate in garages after A Mercedes Eqe will explode last year. When Byd arrived in Spain he had a challenge ahead. I needed to make themselves known and, above all, demonstrate that it was a company in which you could trust. We already know the prejudices towards the Chinese product. As a journalist, I don’t know how many times I could visualize This video in which a nail is going through an LFP battery without anything happening. It was one of the classic images. The other was the pressure tests. When too much pressure is applied to a battery (electric car or any other device) runs the risk of experimenting A thermal leak. Heat grows inside, chemistry is released and the pressure increases to cause an explosion with the consequent fire. To avoid this, the housings are designed to release the accumulated pressure inside, with the aim that if we have an accident, the pressure exerted on the battery does not cause an explosion. And the company can already tell us about figures and data and everything we want. But nothing better than the visual. Click on the image to go to the original tweet That is why Geely, explain in Carnewschina He has taken his new “Aegis Gold Brick Battery” a 36 -ton tank and has passed it over. And what happened? Nothing. Nothing at all. The battery did not give any sign of damage despite receiving 1.8 times the minimum pressure required by Chinese institutions to standardize a new battery. You can see the video on this link. They point out that the tank not only He crushed the battery On one occasion. He passed over it, returned on his steps and continued to crush her repeatedly. And did the same going over individual cells. The battery package “maintained its structural integrity without bulges, leaks, fires or explosions,” they emphasize. To overcome the test, the aegis Gold Brick Battery has been designed with a double wet coating that facilitates the dispersion of heat and thermal leaks since it is especially heat resistant to heat generated by aluminum oxide. It also has liquid-electrical separation of the materials. Photo | Geely In Xataka | Samsung has just revolutionized batteries for electric cars. In autonomy, in load time and in useful life

The Benidorm of North Korea is about to open. Your problem is how to fill the crazy number of rooms

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In October 2024 confirmed the plan that had Pyonyang in hands. Benidorm is only one, but if tourism has become the Economic engine Of so many nations, they did not want to stay in the saga. Thus, North Korea announced that the ambitious project to turn Wonsan into a kind of Benidorm to the Korean There was a stern wind. The idea is now about to become a reality, it is called Wonsan-Kalma, and the number of rooms has gone hand in hand. An unparalleled resort. As we have gone countingKim Jong’s ambitious tourism project on the Kalma Peninsula, on the east coast of North Korea, seeks to position itself as one of the world’s greatest holiday complexes. A fact exposes the intentions: it has an estimated capacity between 7,000 and 20,000 rooms. Conceived as a tourist city from scratch, the resort Wonsan Kalma is described by analysts as the most huge tourism project ever driven by the regime. Announced Back in 2014the complex suffered multiple delays attributable to international sanctions and then at the closure of borders during the pandemic. However, its opening is already planned for June, and the regime has rehearsed a shy reopening to international tourism, although the economic viability of the resort remains deeply uncertain. Tourism as a strategy. Kim conceives the resort not only as a source of income in foreign currency, but as showcase of power and the modernity of your regime. However, the attractiveness of the enclave is in question: experts like Bruce W. Bennett and Marcus Noland They explained this week The doubts that foreign visitors attract in sufficient quantity to justify their huge investment. The logical basis of the project, which presumably aspired to capture South Korean tourists for its proximity and purchasing power, collides with the diplomatic impossibility of allowing them to enter. Meanwhile, and as We explain weeks agoRussian agencies have begun Offer tour packets for Citizens of Vladivostokbut even there the enthusiasm is doubtful. Russian travelers, According to the operators themselvesThey continue to prefer traditional destinations such as Thailand or Dubai. Oasis restricted to internal consumption. Thus, another plausible strategy of the regime would be to take advantage of the resort as an internal control and reward mechanism. They counted in Insider that the facilities could be used as an incentive for loyal citizens or exemplary workers, and the complex is designed with areas reserved for presidential delegations and suites. The problem? As Bennett points outaccess will be rigorously segregated, mainly to prevent North Korean citizens from entering foreign visitors. This structure reinforces the propaganda nature of the resort that, a priori, would serve more as a political showcase than as a real tourism center (something similar To “little manhattan” They raised recently). Structural limitations. Despite the monumental effort, the project drags many of the endemic problems of the regime. The Lack of experience North Korean in the hotel industry and the rigid state censorship are important obstacles to offer a credible tourist experience. In addition, recent history of the Ryugyong Hotel (That unfinished skyscraper for decades and symbol of North Korean failed excess) remains a latent warning. Plus: Kim’s fear of the free flow of information is incompatible with the logic of contemporary tourism. Therefore, although it is seen of modernity and luxury, it is likely to end up being Another monumental decorationwithout sufficient and useful tourists only as a propaganda tool. There is several examples similar A “diplomatic” letter. If you want, in parallel, the complex can be seen as a piece on the diplomatic board. In 2018, Trump had suggested Kim towill help your “big beaches” For economic development, and it is not ruled out that the resort is used precisely as a symbolic gesture in future negotiations, especially if Pyongyang seeks recognition as a nuclear power. Remember that the nation already has made “resort” For Russian soldiers. In that context, Kalma can always fluctuate, like promise or threat: It can be used to show openness or reinforce the cult of the leader. If so, Kim Jong Un, determined to differentiate himself from his predecessors, could see in “his Benidorm” not only a tourist destination, but a political statement to the world. Image | Diego Delso, Clay Gilliland In Xataka | Kalma is the first real effort of North Korea to become a holiday place. For now only for Russians In Xataka | North Korea has revealed a small manhattan of 10,000 apartments. The problem is what is behind the facade

The second trailer of ‘GTA VI’ looks crazy, and is a sample of how good it feels to go against the industry

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The wait until May 26, 2026 will be made long. In a strange ad, Rockstar confirmed a few days ago that the release date of ‘GTA VI‘It was delayed from an indefinite moment of this 2025 At the end of May next year. It is something that It has several readingsbut one of them was that they would soon launch a new trailer that, finally, would set the final launch date and, announcing the delay in advance, would cushion the blow. This has been. The company has just launched the Second Trailer of ‘Grand Theft Aut VI’ And … he is overwhelming. If the first launched in 2013 already allowed us to theorize whether it was something moving in real time or was a pre-control scene, this second trailer points to tour the same path. And the reason is that there are scenes of ‘GTA VI’ that are a real madness. ‘GTA VI’ will squeeze a decaffeinated generation First of all, I have to clarify that we can only judge the visual quality of the game with the means that we have available so far. To perform deeper analysis, we will have to waitat least, at the moment we have GamePlay scenes itself, but I think we can start making illusions with what Rockstar is cooking. For three reasons, in addition. The first is that, as I said, the first game of the game has already allowed experts to discuss its nature. Digital Foundry is a British media specialized in the visual and technical analysis of video games and They debated Long and lay on whether the trailer was in real time (that is, the engine of the game and scenes extracted from it) or a scene rendered beforehand. Some visual errors as Jaggies -S. Sierra- allowed the pixel counting, and the washed image of the edges points to the use of some type of tool such as FSR or DLSS. The second reason is that Rockstar is not Ubisoft and it is not a company that has accustomed us to CGI videos before the launch of the game itself or to Visual Downgrades. The third reason to believe that the game will end up seeing as in these trailers is that we have ‘Red Dead Redemption 2‘As an example. The 2018 title, without having received a patch for the current generation, continues to be better than many games of this generation, and that was designed to function in 2013 consoles. Come on, what There are hopes in ‘GTA VI’ at the visual level. And, as we say, we have reasons (and not only for these precedents). Trailer screenshot The new video begins very, very high, with some characters modeling that seem spectacular, very realistic animations both bodily and facial, without falling into the exaggeration of features, and all this bathed for what, I think, is the element that makes the trailer look as well as it looks. Because the textured seems very good to me, but the lighting that bathes each scene is to not believe it. Among all the moments, the one who has left me speechless is one at the beginning, when we see Jason returning in his car, at night, and observes a police detention. Trailer screenshot The flashes, The position of light spotlights And elements such as that good textured, the most realistic color palette than in the previous installment of the saga and gestures make me create that scene completely. But it is not the only one: Trailer screenshot Trailer screenshot Trailer screenshot I am somewhat tired of the term “photorealism” we have been abusing from the launch of the first ‘Modern Warfare’, but it really is the only term that occurs to me to describe what I am seeing. Then there are the characters, with a certain caricaturized and stereotyped touch, but the physicists of elements and hairstyles, Reflexes on surfaces (The interior of the car is amazing) or the vegetation play to make the scenes … surprising. Perfect? No, of course, and we see distant elements such as the sand or water that have visual artifacts, as well as some textures such as Lucia’s hair at some time that seem flat, but the general level is so, so high that, for the first time from ‘Alan Wake 2‘ and ‘Warhammer Space Marine II‘, I feel that this generation of consoles is worth something. And with more merit if possible in the Rockstar title, since it is an open world, with the complexity that this implies. Rockstar promotional image Rockstar promotional image Rockstar promotional image It may be making many illusions, but it comforts me that people in Rockstar think that the game is going to see like this. Not current workers, something impossible in one of the most hermetic studies in the environment, but veterans of the company. One is Ryan Fuechliffe, member of Rockstar from 2009 to 2021 and who commented that ‘GTA VI’ will offer a “revolutionary” realism. Mike York, who worked as an animator in the company, also commented That the game will probably go to 30 frames per second because Rockstar was focusing on visual quality. But, although I seemed to me … wild, you have to have your feet on the floor. Obbe Vermeij, former technical director of ‘GTA 3’ to ‘GTA IV’ He pointed out That, although the first trailer was “incredible”, the technical jump may not be as large as the one seen in ‘GTA V’ and that could disappoint some players. As I have already said, you have to wait to see Gameplay because, obviously, these two videos that Rockstar has revealed play a lot with the rules of the visual language of cinema. Chamber tremors, paneos and angles that are typical of the kinematics of well -positioned virtual games and cameras and we will have to wait to watch the first video with gameplay. However, I return to my argument of ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’: Seven years later, the adventure of the … Read more

Apple does not know how to meet their environmental goals, so they have started planting trees crazy

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The Big Tech are in the middle of a change. Not that of artificial intelligence –that too-but that of Achieve carbon neutrality. On this path to decarbonization with Objectives for 2030 and 2050Apple is one of the companies that have the most interest in users to know that they care about the environment. In fact, in the presentation event of the iPhone 15 and of Apple Watch Series 9being one of the most important technological events of the year, the company shared a Fun video. In it, their mandamases met with the representation of the Earth to inform about their progress in reducing emissions, the installation of Solar panels in California and the increase in recycled materials on its devices. But renewables are not enough to achieve those objectives, and Apple has made the decision to plant tens of thousands of trees. He is doing it in Brazil with the aim of reconverting grasslands in forests that catch carbon, but everything that shines is not gold. A two times bigger forest than Manhattan There is a trend among companies that we are seeing in recent years. To reduce carbon emissions, it is not enough to install more renewable, reduce the consumption in your data centers and optimize transport. In Fast Company We read that these actions are not enough to reach the objectives and that the secret is in the direct capture of CO₂ (and there are controversy about it about its effectiveness). We are seeing how there are companies that are investigating the creation of buildings that capture carbon dioxide, but also experiments to discover What kind of trees They are the ones who catch the most. Apple ha reduced Emissions in 60% compared to 2015 and expect to reach 75% of a 2030. The problem is to exceed that figure and reach 100% in the face of 2050. Chris Busch is the Director of Environmental Initiatives of Apple and comments that they do not have “a clear line of vision of how to avoid these broadcasts today.” It seems that they have reached a point where the use of renewables is not enough and you have to move on to a new approach. “And that’s where nature comes to play a role,” says Busch. In 2021, Apple destination 200 million dollars to a fund to help in the creation of environmental and carbon elimination projects, something for which it promised additional 200 million dollars in 2023. During these last two years, different associations with the support of this member of the Big Tech have replanted more than 10,000 hectares in an area southwest of Brazil. The idea is to reconvert areas for grazing and livestock in forests that not only recover trees to capture CO₂, but also the return of local fauna such as rabbits and pumas to an ecosystem that had been very damaged by other types of activities. It is an effort part of a major program that seeks to restore almost 300,000 hectares of degraded land in Brazil, Uruguay and Chile. Apple is not only helping financially, but also at the technological level. And, obviously, this is not selfless. “What we intend is to generate financial performance as a investor in these projects,” says Busch. This yield will be in the form of lower payments for their CO₂ emissions and the manager also comments that the global objective is shared. “We have to reduce emissions as soon as possible, but also put an end to deforestation and increase carbon elimination to maintain within 1.5 degrees”He said. And this is not just about planting trees. The Cupertino are technologically supporting project monitoring, such as the measurement of the trees’s trunk diameter, but they are not the only ones. Google, goal or Microsoft have also created coalitions To plant trees and compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions, and companies that are not within that select group also have reforestation initiatives. It is not planting by planting Now, you have to be careful with the type of trees that are planted in these reforestation programs. And with other factors. In Fast Company they point to a controversy in this concrete reforestation because they are planting eucalyptus. They are trees with potential to evolve in punished terrain, such as ancient animals for animals, and grow rapidly absorbing large amounts of co₂. The problem is that reforestation reduces rainfall and eucalyptus, precisely, need water, so critics point out that these plantations will do will end underground water reserves. Also Questionable actions have been produced. In Pakistan, mass reforestation programs came into conflict with the practices of nomadic communities, something that has also occurred in places in China or Brazil itself. We must not go so far: in Europe we are reforesting huge areas with trees that are suitable for that reforestation, but that They may not reach 2100. The reason? They are species that or are not native or, even if they are planting without taking into account possible future pests or the effects of climate change. Research has also been carried out that the effectiveness of these projects is limited. As they comment on The Guardianmost of these projects do not generate real climatic benefits and there are areas that are being reforested in which there was no real risk of deforestation. The point by which some actions have been undertaken is due to the overestimation of the emissions avoided. And the study does not point to 10 or 20% of these reforestation actions, but 90% of them. As much as it may be, planting trees is positive whenever it is done with the head, but as Forrest Fleishman, an expert in mass plantation of trees, rather than planting trees, must be made. Images | Apple In Xataka | A study from satellite images has indicated the areas where the jungle could recover. Without human help

If you talk to your plants even if everyone thinks you are crazy, science has something to tell you: you’re not so crazy

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When in January 2012, Risto Mejide said that of “You sing like a diva, but you move like a plant“I did not know that I was completely wrong. And not only for Natalia, the contestant of ‘You do vouchers’ to which he directed those pearls, but because, under that static appearance, the plants do not stop doing things. And not by chance, no. Plants are not only able to detect threats, but activate a whole series of defensive reactions that have intrigued scientists for decades. Everything starts with a bite. Heidi Appel and Rex Cocroft met at a seminar at the University of Missouri and, quickly, saw that His interests fit. Cocroft was one of the great experts in biotremology (the branch of biology that studies the role of vibrations and sound in life) and had been analyzing how insects use the stem of plants to communicate. Do you listen? Apple was an expert in ecological chemistry and listening to those recordings (specifically how the caterpillars of the butterflies of the Col bit tiny mustard plants) had an idea: what if the plants could listen to them? And if that explained that, suddenly, plants activated a whole series of physiological reactions to “attack” the caterpillars? Answering that question was not easy. We had to measure laser vibrations and try to understand what plants could really hear. On the other hand, we had to quantify “how plants care and how.” However, it was enough to measure in real time what happened to the first bite of an caterpillar to verify that, indeed, the plants listened. And not just that. “What is surprising and great is that these plants only create defense responses to feeding vibrations and not to wind or other vibrations in the same frequency as the chewing caterpillar,” Appel explained. They discovered that, in fact, it was enough to expose plants to the sound of chewing so that glucosinolate levels (that defensive response) triggered. Does this mean that putting music to plants is a good idea? No, it doesn’t mean that. “This field is somewhat obsessed with its history of putting music to plants. That kind of stimulus is so far from the natural ecology of plants that it is very difficult to interpret their answers,” Cocroft explained. What it really means is that what we usually think about plants is often wrong. A mistake that, little by little, we are waking up. Image | Annie Spratt In Xataka | We have found a plant capable of producing 40 cannabinoids. A closer plant evolutionarily to lettuce that to hemp

Media Spain has gone crazy with the question of whether olives fattening or not. But its biggest problem is not calories

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“Do olives fattening?” In recent days, this question has run like gunpowder online and should not surprise us. It is one of those things that becomes viral from time to time: it is a typical case of very common product at the gastronomic level, but deeply unknown at the nutritional level. Let’s see what the science of olives and the rest of the pickles say. An urban myth. As the nutritionist Pablo Ojeda pointed out a few days ago, the idea that “the olives fattening” is close to the urban myth. And not only because, in short, food does not fattening or thinning for themselves (that is something that has to do with the general caloric deficit and not a specific product). It is an urban myth because it arises from a truth: that, According to the Spanish Food Composition Database92% of the energy provided by an olive It is fat. It is the nutrient that they contribute most with a lot of distance on carbohydrates or proteins. And that (even if that fat is “good”) destroys the nutritional profile of any product. However, if we look at other parameters we will see that, for example, the caloric density of these products is not very high. That is, you have to eat many olives so that that contribution is really noticed. Is the same thing with the rest of the pickles? In fact, olives are surely the most caloric pickles. In general, these types of products have very few calories. Classic pepinillos have about 12 calories per 100 grams, onions about 30. In comparison, it is true that olives have a greater caloric contribution: 120 green and up to 289 blacks. The real problem is salt. Because seen that, it may seem that pipinillos are a nutritional jewel. And, although they do not have many calories, what is certain is that they are very uploaded. To get an idea, WHO advises that salt consumption Do not exceed 5 grams a day. Well, only pipinillos are 2.3 grams per 100. In a context in which salt consumption does not cease to rise (promoted, above all, by the ultra -processed), care must be taken because it is a very important risk factor of cardiovascular diseases. And the probiotics? Here is some confusion because, although it is one of the fashion themes, still We know very little about the microbiota of our digestive system. On the one hand, yes: there are traditional products that are fermented in brine and, indeed, these They can have microorganisms to help us with the microbiota (although either much). However, “pickles” comes to mean ‘conserving in vinegar’ and in that environment it is difficult for interesting probiotics to remain. Most of what is sold in the market, in fact, has none. Beyond, this is, we must remember that the evidence that sustains probiotics is still scarce. It is not worth obsessing with them because, in most times, Its impact on health is zero. What matters As we often rememberIt is wanting to eat better. Everything else is literature. Image | Marius Haakestad In Xataka | In Belgium the authorities have asked their citizens not to eat the Christmas tree. And they have good reasons

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