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Welcome to Loop Infinito, Xataka’s daily podcast about technology

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Infinite Loop changes house and focus. After six years as a daily podcast Applesphere focused on Apple, now move on to Xataka and expands its focus to technology in general. The format does not change: it is still a daily episode of analysis and technological context, published Monday to Friday at 7:00 a.m. (Spanish peninsular time). What changes is the thematic scope: Apple will continue to be common, but it will no longer be the only protagonist. What is Infinite Loop. It is a technological analysis podcast presented by yours truly, Javier Lacort. Each episode addresses a relevant topic: business decisions, product trends, technological geopolitics. The focus is on the context, not the news: what it means, why it matters, how it fits. Without hypewithout jeers, without noise. For six years I have applied that view to the Apple ecosystem. Now I apply it to the entire technology industry. The first two episodes of this stage: Why this change?. Technology doesn’t happen in silos. Apple does not exist in isolation from Google, Microsoft, chipmakers, Chinese regulations, or European Union decisions on AI. To really understand what is happening, a broader vision is needed. Loop Infinito had already explored topics beyond Apple. Now that movement is formalized: the podcast goes from Applesphere to Xataka and is completely open to any relevant technological topic. What changes for today’s listeners. Nothing in practice. He feed of the podcast does not change, there is no need to resubscribe. The format, duration, tone and structure remain identical. Just change the cover (from purple to black background) and the letterhead. Some technical adjustments will arrive in the next few days, but they will be invisible to the listener. What it means for Xataka readers. Loop Infinito is now part of the Xataka content ecosystem. A daily audio format that complements written analysis with a technology context piece each morning. If you are looking to follow current technological news clearly and without noise, Loop Infinito is available on all the usual podcast platforms: Featured image | Xataka with Mockuuups Studio In Xataka | I increasingly like technology that doesn’t want anything from me: the one that has a purpose and leaves you alone

“Who will pay the 30,000 euros of daily expenses?”

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In response to the Russian invasion in Ukraine, Europe and the US agreed to international blocking measures to the assets of Russian millionaires. That measure allowed states confiscate the mansions and yachts Of the Russian magnates who were in their respective territories, something that many cities and small states have not stopped repenting due to the high cost of maintenance of the Millionaire luxury superstars Russians The last to jump to fame for its high costs has been the Sailing Yacht aa latest generation That, with its 149 meters in length, it is considered the largest in the world, much ahead of the Koru of Jeff Bezos and its 127 meters. He Sailing Yacht a It was blocked In March 2022 when he anchored in the port of Trieste, for belonging to the Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko. Since then, the luxury superveler has been nothing more than a headache for the mayor of Trieste, who In an interview With the local news channel Telequattro expressed restlessness for municipal coffers due to the high cost of their maintenance: “Who will pay the 30,000 euros of daily expenses?”, The indignant Italian mayor requested. The superyate floats, but the municipal coffers sink In the port of Trieste, the megayate Sailing Yacht aowned by the Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko, has been retained for three years due to European sanctions against Russia. Far from being a source of pride or tourist curiosity, the presence of this giant of the sea has meant a huge disbursement for the city. In the words of the mayor of the town of just over 200,000 inhabitants, Roberto Dipiazza, keeping the ship docked in its port is a daily disbursement of about 30,000 euros, together adding an invoice higher than 11 million euros Since the European authorities decreed their embargo on the Russian millionaire. The Sailing Yacht A has 149 of length The superveler, whose estimated value is around 600 million dollars according to The specialized pressremains in custody of the municipal authorities waiting for a definitive resolution on their destination. However, the legal situation of Melnichenko’s sailboat is not that of a confiscated good, but An administrative block. This distinction is crucial since the Italian jurisprudence dictates that A blocked asset must be returned under the same conditions If the sanctions are raised or if the owner successfully challenges the inclusion in the list of sanctioned by Europe. That is, the Municipal Corporation, as responsible for its Navy, must ensure its conservation While European Justice Solve its auction or return to its owner. Maintenance only within reach of a millionaire The 30,000 euros daily mentioned by the mayor of Trieste only ensures the essential operation for the conservation of the luxurious yacht. During the more than a thousand days tied in the Marina de Trieste, the maintenance cost of the ship has shot over 11 million euros, although local media as Il piccolo Increase this estimate to 18 million euros. As the Mayor Dipiazza has stressed in his television statements, the city is not responsible for the blockade of the Sailing Yacht abut responds to a European Union decision against Russian magnates close to the government of Vladimir Putin, but his presence is causing an unassumable expense for his citizens. Sailing Yacht to anchored near the port of Trieste The problem is repeated: the case of the Alpha Nero and the eclipse Trieste’s case is not the only one in which the confiscation of a Russian yacht has put the local economy in check. On the Caribbean island of Antigua and Barbuda, El Superyate Alpha Nero He became In a similar nightmare. Only in fuel, the superyate owned by the Russian oligarch Andrey Guryev consumed 2,000 dollars of fuel daily only for keep the air conditioning in operation. This procedure is essential to prevent exclusive interior finishes in noble and metal woods deteriorating through the saltpeter of the sea and moisture. In that case, the weekly maintenance bill reached $ 28,000. The long judicial blockade for the ownership of the ship prevented the sale or auction of the yacht for monthswhich forced Antillean taxpayers to pay crew, fuel and maintenance expenses. When finally It was sold For 40 million dollars, the authorities recognized that this money would serve to cover “the huge hole that the superyte has left in the public coffers of the small Caribbean island,” in words of the Secretary of Cabinet of Antigua Lionel Hurst. He SUPERY Eclipseowned by the billionaire Roman Abramovich, is another example of the high cost of these superyates confiscations. He Eclipse He was docked for more than three years in Muğla, Türkiye. Your engines never turned offsince its generators had to stay at 24 hours to keep the air conditioning system into operation. In this case, the Eclipse registered a consumption of 1,000 liters of daily fuelwhich does not only imply an economic cost but also affects the environmental pollution of cities by CO2 that their engines, in permanent functioning, pour to the atmosphere. In the case of Sailing Yacht ahe High price of maintenance Not only is it given by fuel consumption, but also including the ship’s bearing expenses, the salary of the minimum crew on board to operate maintenance systems, safety patrols that monitor the superveler and The mandatory insurance that must cover all the boats. In Xataka | The sanctions against Russia sought to stop the Russian elite: they have ended up creating new fortunes in full war Image | Flickr (Paul Fenton, Adrianovero), Wikimedia Commons (Maximum marmur)

Openai has just changed the chatgpt rules with Pulse. Stop waiting questions and start anticipating your daily life

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You get a notification to the mobile. It is not the calendar or mail: it is from Chatgpt. It’s called Pulse and, According to OpenAi“investigate proactively“To give you a personalized summary of the day with thematic cards that you can get quickly or open for more detail. The grace is that you stop waiting for your question and advance with ideas and next steps, learning from your chats and your feedback And, if you decide to connect them, of apps such as the calendar. The result is a Briefing Matinal that tries to fit with your routine before it starts. Pulse arrives as a view and, for now, is only available in the ChatgPT mobile application for payment users in THE PRO PLAN. It does not replace the usual model, but is presented as an addition: the assistant maintains the option to answer on demand questions, but adds a new functionality. With this movement, Openai takes the first step towards an assistant who aspires to be present before even the user invoices it. Of the chatbot that responds to the assistant who advances Every night, the system analyzes recent conversations and interactions history to prepare a set of cards with information selected These cards are presented the next day in the application as a daily summary that can be browsing in seconds or expanding to obtain more context. The content expires at the end of the day unless it is saved in the history of chats. In addition, each card can be opened to request clarifications or following steps, so that the experience is not limited to reading, but connects with the usual conversation. Personalization is built on simple signals. The user can give a thumb up or down, ask that the next summary include a specific topic or modify what is not useful. Pulse collects that information and applies it in the next night cycle. Openai points out that all adjustment history is accessible and reversible: it can be consulted or erased when desired. To reduce risks, each set of cards undergoes safety checks that block problematic recommendations or contents that violate the platform standards. One of the characteristics is in the possibility of COnectar Gmail and Google Calendar. In doing so, press can suggest an agenda scheme for a meeting, remember the purchase of a birthday gift or recommend restaurants based on a scheduled trip. These integrations are deactivated by default and are managed from the configuration. Openai insists that they improve the relevance of suggestions, although they also expand the surface of personal information that the assistant handles. The examples are varied and very everyday. Openai mentions from tips to prepare a quick dinner to reminders linked to a trip or training suggestions for a triathlon. In the Chatgpt Lab, several students commented that the utility of Pulse became evident when they began to guide it with concrete requests. One of them reported that, after talking about how to organize his calendar in Taiwan, the system offered him practical steps to optimize train journeys that would not have looked for himself. Openai has been working on the security of his chatbot for some time. Even so, cybersecurity experts warn that the risk never disappears completely. Radware documented a case in which an altered mail managed to The in -depth research function of chatgpt will filter sensitive data. Vulnerability was already corrected, but the example reminds that integrating personal information into such an assistant increases exposure and demands to keep caution. For now, Pulse is in a view phase and only those who have the Pro subscription in the mobile app. OpenAI warns that not always right: Reminders of already closed projects or little relevant suggestions may appear. The idea is to collect that early use to correct failures and refine the model. If everything progresses as planned, the function will open first to Plus clients and then to the rest, in a progressive deployment. It is a launch that fits a broader strategy: to make Chatgpt become a daily assistant and not only a specific tool. OpenAi seeks to increase the time of use and take a step towards the more personal relationship With the application. The movement also marks distance in front of competitors such as COPILOT of Microsoft or Claude of Anthropic, which until now have prioritized professional or productivity uses. According to Reutersthe company also works on a browser with AI that would reinforce this commitment to accompany the user in more facets of their digital life. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | Microsoft has never been so valuable throughout its history. And he has never been so close to the abyss

The amount of caffeine of the drinks we consume daily, exhibited in this graphic

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The caffeine It is one of the most consumed substances in the world. HE esteem that about 80% of the world’s population consumes caffeine daily and, although Coffee is an important sourceit is also present in tea, coffee, matte grass, cocoa pods or in Kola’s nut -Coca-Cola noticel-. However, it can also be produced synthetically to add it to soft drinks, energy drinks or supplements. And in this graph prepared by Visual Capitalistwe can see how much caffeine the drinks we constantly consume. The graph. Prepared with data from EFSA (The European Food Security Authority, in Spanish) After surveying To more than 66,500 people from 22 European countries, the graph is quite self -explanatory. In some publications of this type the brand is usually obvious, but the really useful thing about this graph is that, directly, the amount of caffeine in commercial drinks is indicated as Monster, Red Bull either Prime (A brand created by The controversial Logan Paul). It is also useful that both the milligrams of caffeine of drinks and the amount of liquid we consume are offered, since we can calculate more effectively “how many Red Bull I can take to have a safe dose.” A Monster It is what has the most caffeine, but also because the sample is half a liter. Prime, with less quantity (330 ml), is close to the caffeine of a monster with its 140 mg. And it is curious that the drink that gives us wings has on a boat the same amount as a double espresso: 80 mg. Not only caffeine. What happens with energy drinks is that, like EFSA itself detailsthe stimulant they contain is not limited to caffeine. Apart from that compound, they have other ingredients such as bullfighting or D-Gucorone-y-lactona. Bullfighting is an amino acid that participates in the control of cell calcium and cardiac function, associated with the improvement of sports resistance by allowing high efforts for longer, reducing fatigue. The D-Glucurono-Y-Lactona is a metabolite of the glucuronic that helps in the synthesis of vitamin C, and both are safe for their rapid metabolization, although they can have secondary effects such as some digestive discomfort in high consumption. And if caffeine, bullfighting and D-Glucurono-γ-lactone were little, something more harmful must be added to the cocktail: huge amounts of sugar in these energy drinks. Consumption by age. EFSA has created a table that indicates how many mg of caffeine we consume daily depending on our age: age range Daily consumption From 75 years 22-417 mg Between 65 and 75 years 23-362 mg between 18 and 65 years 37-319 mg between 10 and 18 years 0.4-1.4 mg/kg between 3 and 10 years 0.2-2.0 mg/kg between 12 and 36 months 0-2.1 mg/kg Among adults, the coffee It is the most important source of caffeine, representing between 40% and 94% of total daily intake. In Ireland and the United Kingdom, the thing changes, and that main source is tea, representing between 59% and 57% of the intake, respectively. Among teenagers, the main source of caffeine is chocolate (both in bar and cocoa drinks), followed by coffee, tail drinks and tea. And from 10 years down, coffee disappears and chocolate continues to reign, followed by tea and tail drinks. Safe consumption, but with asterisks. One of the issues that continues to worry who seeks to take care is how much caffeine is a lot of caffeine. The 400 mg a day have been taken as the universal measure to say that it is the “safe” amount, but it is something that depends on several factors. For example, unique doses of caffeine of up to 200 mg do not present security problems for the healthy adult population. But if you are a woman and you are pregnant, that safe figure goes down to 200 mg per day, distributed throughout the day. In addition, if unique doses of 100 mg are consumed before going to sleep, the sleep quality pattern can be altered, but it is something that does not happen in all adults. But of course, everything depends on a key term: healthy population, since there are studies that relate caffeine to negative effects on chronic sleep restriction phases and, although it is used as a stimulant in sports, Its effects will be more or less beneficial depending on the sport we practice or the decisions we should make. In Xataka | In 1985 Coca-Cola changed her formula when Pepsi was about to defeat her. It went wrong

How to configure a daily custom news summary in perplexity

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Let’s tell you How to configure a daily personalized news summary With your interests in Perplexitytaking advantage that they are offering a promotion to have a free year of perplexity pro. Thus, every day at the time you want you can receive a notification of news. This option will allow you Decide the issues you want the newsand configure it to be recent. You can also choose the time it comes to day, and you can configure more than one news, in case you want to have them at different times or of different topics separately. Set your daily news with perplexity The first thing you have to do is Enter the perplexity settings in your mobile app. This is something you can only do in mobile application. To go to the settings you have to click on your profile image, and in the lateral menu press on the fingered wheel icon. This will open the settings menu, where you can change several things and configure the application to your liking. Here, click on the section Tasks that will appear in the menu. This will take you to the screen of Taskswhere you are going to see all you have configured. Here, click on the button + to start the creation of a new personalized task. Now you just have to Write the Prompt in the section of Instructionswhich is where you set the news you want to see. You can use the following Promptand customize it as you want: What are the most important news that has happened today? Focus on: 1) Last news and important events in (your city). 2) Last news related to the technological world. 3) Last trends in viral applications that are receiving great attention 4) Notable events and current affairs related to artificial intelligence. Here, as you can see, you just have to make a list of the topics on which you want to receive the updated news today. You can change the issues and add different or more points depending on your needs. Below, you have a section to program How often you want to receive the news and the exact time you want to do it. You can also choose if you want to receive them in a notification of the mobile app or if you also want them by email to not forget. In addition, you can choose what search mode you want to use. You can use normal searches, which are the fastest, or The research mode to make more thorough searches and deep. And that’s it. Now, the days chosen at the determined hours you will receive A notification with your news summary updated on the issues you have asked. Remember that this system can also use it to program other types of tasks by choosing the prompt or instructions you want. In Xataka Basics | The best PROMPTS to save working hours and do your homework with Chatgpt, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

A study has investigated how many microplastics we inhale daily when breathing. And has an unpleasant surprise

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From a time to this part, microplastics seem to have sneaked into all areas of our life: From the lettuce that we eat In the salad, even In men’s testicles. This polymer is not only found in the earth where vegetables are grown, in the oceans where the fish are or in The springs where the water we drink comes out. And the idea that all these particles are in the environment that we breathe more and more consolidates. Already in the past ‘Nature’ magazine He published the first evidences that showed that microplastics are found in the air that surrounds us. But now A recent French study Published in the magazine ‘Plos One’ gives us more details about the concentration of these polymers that we are constantly breathing, and how the car is one of the biggest foci we face. The good news is that this gives rise to solutions to reduce your presence. The conclusion of this new study are very direct, but also alarming: we are inhaling a drastically greater microplastics than we believed. The previous estimates have fallen short, very short. The new figure suggests that an average adult inhales about 68,000 microplastic particles every day. One hundred times more than what was calculated so far for the range of more dangerous particles. An invisible enemy that attacks our lungs The problem of measurements that were done so far was a matter of view. The most common methods in this type of detection, such as infrared spectroscopy, are effective to detect particles up to 20 micrometers. However, they are completely ‘blind’ with the smallest particles, which are known as PM_10 (less than 10 micrometers), and that are the ones that can make the lungs the most damage when the different defense mechanisms that the body has. This new study, led by French researcher Nadiia Yakovenko, has used a much more precise technique called Raman spectroscopy, capable of ‘see’ particles of up to a micrometer, eliminating the limitation that the conventional spectrometer had. In this way, we have a new molecular zoom that has revealed that the situation of our environment is much more alarming than was thought. Taking advantage of this new technique, the investigation was conducted in the path of knowing the place where there is a greater concentration of microplastics. In the case of an apartment, the average measure measured was 528 particles per cubic meter. But the problem was when measuring in the car, where the figure shot up to 2,238 particles per cubic meter. Box chart showing the concentration analyzed with microplastics in cars and apartments. Seven apartments and five cars were analyzed. In this way, the simple fact of this in the car makes us exposed to a concentration of microplastics four times higher than that we expose ourselves in our own home. And this is not due to anything other than the amount of synthetic material that we have in a car, such as plastic splashing, carpets or upholstery. All this, added to a very small space and that can be without ventilating for many hours, makes it the ideal breeding ground for the cabin to be filled with microplastics that we breathe at the time of starting to drive. Because the reality is that we do not ventilate the cabin before driving, but that we enter the car, we start and go. The new and alarming daily account: 68,000 particles Here comes the data that changes everything. When combining its findings with those of the history of the bibliography, the team has recalculated the exposure we face on average. In total there are 68,000 particles small size (less than 10 micrometers) to which an adult is faced daily. These are the most worrying particles, since being so small They can reach the alveoli and cross the alveolocapilar barrier formed by pneumocytes and blood capillaries. This means that they can end in our blood. In a lower exposure range are the particles with a larger size ranging from 10 to 300 micrometers. These being larger do not reach the alveolocapillary barrier, but are ‘trapped’ in the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, although they are not harmless, since they crawl to the throat and end up in our stomach. It has important health consequences. This constant exposure to plastic fragments It is not harmless. The authors of the study remember that the inhalation of these particles can be associated with damage to lung tissue, inflammation, increased oxidative stress and also to the appearance of chronic diseases such as COPD. But microplastics do not ‘travel’ lonely. They can transport with them different heavy or polluting metals that adhere to their surface and that once within the body can be released and alter endocrine functions such as endocrine disruptors or increase the risk of other diseases. In this way, this new study demonstrates that there is still much to investigate microplastics and redipline as a complex a public health problem that occurs silently and ‘invisible’. Images | Flyd Brock Wegner In Xataka | More than 50,000 microplastic particles per year: that is what an average citizen ingests according to the first estimate we have

The Morgue of Paris organized “Open doors.” And caused tumults with thousands of daily visits

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The bodies in the Paris deposit lie, motionless, completely naked except for small leather shrouds. Each one has died for a different cause, and all impute the reasons. Some have been stabbed in the belly. Another has drowned, he is swollen and his skin exhibits a obscene violet color. Another has been crushed by a heavy machine in one of the factories of the French city, increasingly industrialized and implacable. They all have something in common. They lie in almost vertical tables, which allow them to contemplate, on the other side of large windows, the thousands of Parisians who spend every day through the morgue. All bodies in the deposit can be contemplated by citizens. And it has become the favorite show of the pedestrians. In the mid -nineteenth century, walk in Paris to pass in front of the deposit and See the bodies It was the entertainment of fashion among citizens. Of course, there was an excuse: to help identify those who still had no name. But the morbid seized the population and went to see the exposed corpses became an entertainment that went far beyond public service, to the point that appeared in The guides of the time of the Parisian shows that the visitor should not be lost. Under the name of ‘The Museum of Death’, it was organized an entire industry around the facade of the body depositand it was easy to find actors, juggers and street artists asking for money in the surroundings of the great windows. He French playwright Leon Gozlan He described it like this: “You will see the drowned just like you go to other places to see the latest fashion.” And the very Emile Zola wrote: “The morgue is a show within the reach of all the pockets and that poor and rich passers -by may see free. The door is open, whoever wants to enter” Paris Danger At that time, Paris was a dangerous city (like all the great cities of Europe): crimes followed and occupied the first flat of the newspapers. And not only that: at this time when Industrialization grew by leaps and boundsthe mortality in the factories was very high, often the injured did not even have family in the city, but they came from rural areas and had arrived in Paris in search of money to feed their families, so that the bodies remained days in the deposit until they were claimed. These exhibitions in the morgue was like an extension of the black chronicle: the Parisians read in the newspaper about a crime or an accident and immediately could Expand the information going to see the bodies to the windows of the deposit. 40,000 people came to go to the dead daily (for getting an idea: Before your fireNotre-Dame received 30,000 a day). A true morbid show without a paragon in the history of the city. An example of what people came to see: on November 8, 1876, two packages containing the dismembered body of a woman were found in the Seine. The body was rebuilt, covered with a canvas and placed its head on it. A grotesque and brutal aging … that four days later of the crimes came to see more than 30,000 visitors, 40,000 on the 13th and 14th, the morgue records reached 68,250 entries. Almost a week after crimes, which makes a state of considerable decomposition. Finally, the closing of the show arrived: the Morgue of Paris closed the doors to the public in March 1907, when Criticisms won the unstoppable increase in morbid. Many newspapers complained, because their chronicles of which bodies were going to be exposed were among the most read of the daily rotations. The new century had just been born, and they were to come much more terrible shows. Although a little more modest. Header | Jstor Daily In Xataka | € 1,200 per body: the funeral home that sold bodies of deaths to universities and charged for false incinerations

Xiaomi reached your life through the mobile. Now he wants to conquer it with all the other pots you use daily

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Xiaomi is celebrating today. Lei Jun’s company has just turned 15 and has celebrated it with an event up to it, of those that are full of ads and in which there has been room for everything, literally. The firm has presented its own processor (A milestone in its trajectory) and the first two devices that will mount it, but If Xiaomi knows something of ecosystem and this has been extremely present. In fact, it gives us clues where the company is directed. Because continuing to grow in the world of technology goes, and it must go, far beyond mobile. Xiaomi is clear and that is why today he has taken the opportunity to show off his success in other segments. Segments, a priori, totally mundane and of the day to day who may not pay so much attention: The appliances. And if Xiaomi, in his most important event of the year, in which they have announced Your first SUVhe has dedicated a part to announce a tap, it is because his most immediate future is more than determined. This is how Xiaomi money earns – they attract you and catch you The xiaomi of mobiles is a thing of the past Xiaomi year -on -year growth in different types of appliances | Image: Xataka The image you can find on these lines speaks for itself. If you speak Chinese, of course. If this is not the case, we translate it: Airs Mijia Conditions. Fourth place by sales volume in China: year -on -year growth of 102.7% Mijia refrigerators. Fourth place by sales volume in China: year -on -year growth of 144.9% Mijia washing machines. Fourth place by sales volume in China: year -on -year growth of 184.4% Mijia Water Purifier. First place by sales volume in China: year -on -year growth of 78% Xiaomi TVs. Third place by sales volume in China: year -on -year growth of 7%. This same comparison does not contemplate mobile phones, land in which the firm is also strong. According CounterpointXiaomi is the fourth company for shipments with a 16% market share. The difference with Huawei and Apple, which hold the third and second position, is 1% And the distance with Vivo, which is the first brand, is 2%. That is, the growth of Xiaomi in mobiles cannot go to much more in a perfectly distributed market among six brands (Honor and Oppo share fifth and sixth position with 14% quota each). There is only one way to continue growing and is putting head into other categories of products. He Xiaomi Su7 It is the best example. It is not a car that the company has launched for pleasure, but is another device of the Xiaomi ecosystem. It is, in fact, a pillar of this human strategy X Car x Home with which Xiaomi, basically, wants to offer our own alternative for each gadget that we have at home. Talking about Xiaomi in China is talking about this. This is its website translated into Spanish and in it we can see all the categories of appliances they have | Image: Xataka The firm has already given a push to mobile phones, eating markets like Spanish. He did the same with the tablets, with the televisions, and it is a titan if we talk about home automation. So much that not only has its own brand, but A brand ecosystem thirds integrated from each other. The next big step was logical: appliances. Those products that the user renews each much and that, although it does not seem so, are central to the experience of people with technology. Connect everything, Hyperos Through, it has all the meaning of the world. That is why it should not surprise us that the company, in its most important day of the year, takes advantage of Remove muscle and show off in this segment. The company today presented products such as An air conditioning, A double door refrigerator and 508 liters, A washing machine and even A fan that sends the air to the proper position by artificial intelligence. Has presented Until a tap And the important thing is not tap, it is its technification. The new tap with Xiaomi filter | Image: Xataka It is to present it as something technological, desirable, premium, which is part of something else (although in this case it does not, the tap is not intelligent, although the filter does connect to the wifi). How important is it for Xiaomi to make it clear that it is no longer the mobile brand of quality/price, of cheap connected bulbs and electric scooters, which have dedicated a few minutes of their annual presentation to announce that their new tap is capable of throwing up to eight liters of water per minute. That is the direction to which Xiaomi is directed. Premium and global Or what is the same, A large -scale Samsung (With Samsung’s permission in South Korea, whose tentacles expand to sectors such as construction, shipyards, hotels or financial services). Until now, Xiaomi’s global face -to -face has consisted of mobile phones, tablets, televisions, home devices, televisions and small appliances, but we know that their appliances also prepare to make the leap. William Lu, president of Xiaomi, confirms the arrival of appliances to the global market | Image: Xataka We know since March, when William Lu, president of Xiaomi, confirmed at the Mobile World Congress that in 2025 they were going to launch refrigerators, washing machines, dryers and air conditioners (Or is what was intuited about the slide that accompanied the presentation). There are still no details from countries or know what exact products will come out of China, but the mere fact that they are going to do it is a declaration of intentions. There are, however, questions in the air. On the one hand, what Xiaomi is what we will see in appliances? The Xiaomi quality/price ratio or the most premium Xiaomi? On the other hand, how will Xiaomi convince the user … Read more

The most viral success of AI is at the same time a symptom of its problems as a daily product

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The AI ​​had ceased to surprise us. And then the “ghiblation” of images and the Internet arrived He went crazy. In recent days we have lived a fever for converting all kinds of images –And even videos– To imitate the style of Miyazaki teacher and the mythical creations of his Studio Ghibli. The phenomenon has served to make AI at least for a few days again. And that is precisely the problem. Saturated from AI. The appearance of Chatgpt in November 2022 has unleashed an explosion of AI, but after the initial earthquake things have relaxed. Although there have been notable advances, we have “accustomed” to AI, and technology seems relegated to the background for most users. As my partner Javier Lacort said in his reflection of a few days ago, we have seen ourselves immersed in “an universe of impenetrable jargon that was moving the conversation about AI from the initial astonishment to arid technicism.” AI lives from “magical” moments. We saw it with Deepseek A few months ago, and we see it again with the Studio Ghibli style images. Until those “magical” moments occur, the AI ​​does not just set among the general public. There is certainly a moderate use among the population and there are also niches that use it intensively –The program of programmersfor example – but people lack something crucial: an App. What do you use AI? The current options are undoubtedly striking in the creative field and also as assistance for professional tasks, but for now the chatbots have not infiltrated our lives as they did for example internet search engines. They solved a more pressing problem – finding what one was looking for on the Internet – but for the moment AI does not have just replaced them and is not used massively. Looking for an AI that is a google for daily use. The search engine revolution is probably one of the inevitable conquests of the future for AI. We are seeing it with perplexity And the search engines that OpenAi so much Like Google itself They are offering users. These platforms will not totally move to the traditional search engine, but one thing is evident: every time we look more with Chatgpt ” – or any other chatbot – and the growth of that trend seems unstoppable. At the moment Gartner’s cycle of expectations is very well reflected the AI ​​phenomenon. It seems that we have reached the peak of oversized expectations, and we now fall into disappointment avism. Source: Wikimedia. Beware of disappointment abyss. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) published these days these days A study conducted by 24 researchers from AI. It included a section entitled “Perception of the AI ​​VS reality”, and in it there was talk of the well -known cycle of expectations of Gartner. The consultant itself estimated that expectations and Hype For the generative AI had already exceeded its highest peak. AI is not so much (for the moment). 79% of the experts surveyed in that study indicated that the current public perception of AI capacities do not correspond to the Reality of research and development in this field. In fact, 90% claimed that this is conditioning the investigation, and of that figure 74% revealed that the areas in which they are being investigated are areas where there are still many expectations. So we are not going to get to the AGI. The most important companies in this area have a common goal: to achieve a AGIthe Holy Grail of Artificial Intelligence. However, these same experts do not have too much hope that we will develop it. 76% of the 475 respondents indicated how to climb (more data, more GPUS to train models) will not be enough to reach an AGI. We need a different approach, and those experts advocate prioritizing issues such as security, ethical governance and a gradual and more responsible innovation instead of this apparent frantic career that does not think about the consequences. Waiting for the next Bombazo of the AI. The fever for “ghibliization” seems to have relaxed significantly and surely in a few days or weeks it is blurred as a striking option more than one AI that excites us to pull – before the Grok 3 censorship imagesfor example – but do not conquer permanently. At the moment it seems that this will continue to be the norm, and now we are waiting for that next pull and perhaps that Killer App that can mark a turning point in the adoption of AI. OpenAI and his rivals need Hype. Meanwhile one thing is evident: what companies sell us (“we are close to the AGI” or “with AI you can do everything Better and faster“) is away from reality. They sell expectations and Hype. TOI remove the best example is OpenAi, which needs that message to continue raising Gigantic investment rounds that allow you to continue burning money As if there were no tomorrow. In Xataka | “In a year or two code editors will not exist”: four programmers explain the Vibe Coding revolution

Six gadgets that I never thought I would need and have improved my daily life in 1000%

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During these last years I have bought a good amount of Gadgets or accessories. I am not going to lie to you, some have not liked anything and I expected much more of them. But there are others who I liked much more than I thought, and I have come to give them even daily utility. Therefore, I have gathered the six accessories that I liked the most than I bought in recent years. Logitech MX Vertical by 69.94 eurosa mouse with ergonomic design that offers a very pleasant comfort in hand. Logitech G Pro x Tkl Lightspeed by 181.22 eurosa spectacular mechanical keyboard with macros configuration and quite silent and pleasant keys. Huawei Watch Fit 3 by 113 eurosone of the best activity bracelets I have had so far. Tomoc backpack by 69.99 eurosa travel backpack with a lot of ability to avoid always traveling with a suitcase. TP-LINK TAPO P100 by 10.90 eurosan intelligent plug that I am taking a lot. Soundcore Space Q45 by 94.99 eurossome bluetooth headphones that I love. I use them to work and for personal use. Logitech MX Vertical When I started having more and more discomfort in the elbow and the arm when using the mouse, I decided to prove how the work worked Ergonomic mice “Conconcreously the vertical ones,” of which so many good opinions had read and heard. I tried luck with the Logitech MX Vertical And I can’t be more delighted. Although the inconvenience has disappeared completely, I still use it practically daily, alternating it with the Logitech G502 Hero. Right now it is found by 69.94 euros. I paid something more for him and it is worth every penny. What I like most is that it is very comfortable in hand, I do not miss anything other mice (as a greater number of buttons), The battery lasts a barbarity And I use it on several computers simultaneously, since it has multidispositive connection. The only “paste” I could put is that it is not compatible with the Logitech G hub software, but with logi options+. * Some price may have changed from the last review Logitech G Pro x Tkl Lightspeed I never thought I would spend more than 50 euros on a keyboard, but I made the leap to mechanical keyboards with the Logitech G Pro x Tkl Lightspeed. Is very expensive (181.22 euros), But I am very delighted with him. I was looking for a mechanical keyboard that did not make too much noise By pressing the keys, and I chose quite well – not before seeing several dozen videos about certain models. The most useful of this keyboard is that It has macros —The “F” keys become macros when pressing the “FN” key – and I have it both for certain shortcuts and for text writing (text can be added so that by pressing the key it is written automatically). The battery also lasts a barbarityyou can customize the lighting key per key and includes a multimedia wheel at the top. As added, I have placed a resting so that writing on the keyboard is more comfortable. Specifically I bought Razer for TKL keyboards, although it is already discontinued. This, also of Razer, is practically the same and costs 33.46 euros. Logitech G Pro x Tkl Lightspeed * Some price may have changed from the last review Huawei Watch Fit 3 Throughout these years I have had several activity bracelets, and although at the time I liked it enough I was fed up that the straps were broken within a few months. Therefore, I decided to buy the Huawei Watch Fit 3 In its version Velcro strap And it is a pass. It is, from afar, the best activity bracelet that I have had so far and can be found by 113 euros in Amazon and for 109 euros in the official huawei store; The latter also includes a gift strap. The rotating crown is a success; It is super useful and vibration feels very good. It includes several sensors to monitor physical activity, but what I like most is that it includes many sports modes and some training. It even comes with Heating and stretching routines. It can be found slightly cheaper in other strap configurations, but I already tell you that it is Velcro’s a thousand laps that I have had so far. * Some price may have changed from the last review Tomoc backpack I usually travel a lot, so a year ago I was looking for backpacks of great capacity not to always take my suitcase. After shuffling many options, I finally opted for the 40 -liter Tomoc. Its price is 69.99 euros (I paid much more) and fits everything. It does not come with as many pockets as other alternatives, but it does not need. In the inside we have two large compartments: one that I use for clothes and another that I use for the laptop, the tablet and the loaders. It also has other smaller pockets for documentation and little else. The most interesting is the construction: It feels like a very rigid and resistant backpack and the rear is paddedso it is a very comfortable backpack to carry, even if we carry a lot of weight. In addition to the backpack, I also bought the compact bandolera Tomoc Compact X-Pac that I always use on my trips (and for when I leave home). There I always carry my Ereader Kobo Clara 2E, the Nintendo Switch, headphones, keys and much more. In this case, we can find it for 47.19 euros. Although he says it is a bandit, its compact design is closer to what is a fannyry, but with enough space to carry many things. 40 -liter Tomoc Backpack * Some price may have changed from the last review TP-LINK TAPO P100 Another accessories I use every day are my two smart plugs TP-LINK TAPO P100. Certain appliances, loaders and the work team turn it off during … Read more

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