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12 hours a day and five days a week in the office

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The co -founder of Google, Serguéi Brin, has made clear its position on the work culture that workers should adopt so that the company that founded does not lose the AI ​​development career: employees must work a minimum of 60 hours per week and forget about teleworking, as collected in an internal memorandum to which It has had access The New York Times. Brin Pisa the accelerator. According to what was published by the American newspaper, Serguéi Brin mentioned that Google’s current labor policy falls short for the expectations of development of AI. “I recommend being in the office at least every day of the week. 60 hours a week is the optimum productivity point,” Brin wrote to employees who work in the development of Gemini and others Google AI products. That leaves a working schedule 12 hours a day during the five days of the week, showing its preference for face -to -face From the office to do it. “Many people work less than 60 hours and a small amount makes the minimum to survive. This last group is not only unproductive, but can also be very demoralizing for everyone else,” Brin said in his statement to the template. Risk of being behind. The reason for this request from the founder of Google is that, in his opinion, “the competition has accelerated greatly and the final race towards the AGI (General Artificial Intelligence) It is underway. “I think we have all the ingredients to win this career, but we will have to intensify our efforts,” the founder wrote in his message to the template of AI. It is not the only company that has accelerated the step in the development of AI demanding more hours of work and greater commitment to its employees. Amazon did it a few months ago when he ordered the return to the offices of his employees from January 2025. More hours, it is no more productivity. If the experiments performed worldwide have served anything about the four -day work week It has been to demonstrate that extended days can increase Risks of exhaustion and errorswithout increasing productivity. However, Brin argues that, in critical stages of technical development, this rhythm allows exponential advances, although he acknowledges that working more hours is inefficient if better tools are not used. Specifically those that they have manufactured. “The most efficient programmers and scientists in the world are using our own AI,” Brin added. A strategic return. Serguéi Brin founded Google with Larry Page, but both managers They have yielded the reins of the company more than a decade ago. In 2023, after the presentation of Chatgpt, Brin returned to the front line with a more active role to reinforce the company’s leadership in the artificial intelligence career. Brin’s proposal goes in the line of hardening of the working day that Google has been applying since 2023. First a office policy For employees with teleworking, moving to a three -day hybrid model of face -to -face. Now, employees dedicated to the development of products with AI, see how their founder takes a twist more proposing that they spend 12 hours a day and five days a week in their offices. Some employees see Brin’s position Like a setback to the “World” culture of Google’s first years. In Xataka | The return to the office has had a devastating effect for the concentration of employees: not 30 minutes without distracted In Xataka | Google has updated its principles for AI, and the mention has disappeared not to develop weapons with this technology Image | Flickr (Ted Conference, Thomas Hawk)

More than 100 liters/m2 in a couple of days

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After a few days of peace and tranquility, the situation is complicated by the southwest. At the moment, an isolated cold storm It is heating engines And it will cause Aemet to start activating notices for rains in Cádiz, Malaga, Melilla and the rest of the east/southeast. In a matter of hours. What is an isolated cold storm? A BFA is, in reality, something very similar to a conventional Dana. It’s about An isolated mass of natural circulationbut what differently differentiates it is that they have a more direct reflection on the surface. It is basically as if they lived (superimposed) an isolated mass at high levels and a storm at low levels. That shows, above all, in surface winds. And what will happen? That the atmosphere (which had been very quiet for days in most of the Peninsula) will destabilize rapidly. The effects of Borrasca They will feel in almost the entire peninsula with a generalized decrease in temperatures; But the worst part is going to take Cádiz, part of Huelva, Malaga and, to a lesser extent, the rest of the southeast. The interesting thing about this BFA, like Sergio Escaama Sanchez explained in meteoredwe are going to see a kind of funnel, which is called “Obluid Front.” This type of phenomena arises when a warm mass is trapped between two cold fronts. But beyond the technical explanation, the result of all this is a greater virulence. A few days come. Only tomorrow and in a very short time space, accumulated around 20 liters per square meter on the coast of Huelva, Cádiz and Malaga. In the next few days, the entire penibetic massif The impact of storms will be carried out: According to the accumulated, 60 l/m2 could be exceeded. In 12 hours. From there, the rains are going to expand throughout the peninsular territory as an oil stain. Special attention to the winds and the snow level (which can give some surprise in Sierra Nevada) will have to be paid. In total, up to 100 liters per square meter are expected that will come well while the drought Start showing teeth. Bonus Track: Sunday can follow the party. In these circumstances, the uncertainties are great, but with the current outputs available it would not be uncommon for Sunday to arrive with water load. Although, as I say, it is still early to ensure it (and to know if this water respite will make a difference). Image | WXCHARTS

Only a few days after the MWC, at the Barcelona airport they have made a controversial decision: evict the synthes

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Airports are By definition places where they land and take off airplanes, where travelers pass and in which one hopes to meet suitcasespeople running, Farewell scenes (and reunions), screens full of numbers and Duty Frees. However, they are something else: the roof under which hundreds of homeless people are sheltered who find in the terminals covered and safe spaces where to spend the night. To a greater or lesser extent occurs or has occurred at the airports of Madrid, Malaga, Tenerife either Barcelonaalthough in the latter they have just move token For that to change. How he has done it and especially when, just a few days after the beginning of the Mobile World Congress and the arrival of thousands of visitors, It has generated controversy. Homeless people in Prat? Exactly, the figures dance depending on the source that is consul A hundred Syntch. There are those who raise the number of people who spend the night in the enclosure to 160 or who go further and talk about around 180 or even 200people who with greater or lesser frequency convert the terminal into their improvised home. Is it a unique case? At all. A quick search arrives on Google to verify that in other busy airports of the network managed by AENA, such as Madrid-Barajas, South Tenerife either Malaga-Costa del Solsomething similar happens or has happened in recent years. And it is not something exclusive to Spain. Similar cases are in United Kingdom, Argentina, USA either Italy. And that to cite some examples. Of all perhaps the most commented over the last weeks is that of the Madrid-Barajas airport. And the reason is basically An estimate: Little union alternative Aena Enaire (ASAE) calculated that among the four terminals that make up the airport there are around 500 people homeless, well above the handful of tens that added just a decade ago. And what happened in Barcelona? That the airport has just been the scene of An operation to evict the synthesch that sleep in their facilities. The avant -garde Explain that Tuesday night Aena deployed a device in which a dozen security guards participated and basically focused on the homeless people left the T1 terminal. In the operation, agents were also involved the Mossos d’esquadra, although they clarify That it was not his initiative and his task was to offer support, and emergency personnel and the social area of ​​El Prat and Barcelona. The eviction would have started the eleven and a half from the night and lasted until the early morning. The Catalan newspaper Precise That days ago there were already personnel who were in charge of informing the Sintecho that on Tuesday a device for the “disinfection” of the T1 would be deployed that would prevent them from following inside, an operation that has already been deployed before in the T2. Other media They pointwithout citing sources, that the objective was double: clean and send a message to the people who spend there. “Paso de Paso”. The phrase is Maurici LucenaPresident and CEO of Aena, who He has spoken of the theme: “Aena feels concerned with the people who spend the nights in our infrastructure. Airports are designed as a place of passage, not to structurally offer pernocentation solutions.” From the body has not come into details, but eldiario.es Precise that at least the initial plan was for the device to be repeated again. In its day the Generalitat de Cataluña, the municipalities of El Prat and Barcelona and Aena signed An agreement focused precisely on homeless people who live in the terminals, but that agreement expired on January 2024which affected the assistance they receive. In October police sources They already recognized to The country The complex thing that was becoming the situation: “We make social assistants and it is not our work.” At that time there was talk of a hundred synthesch. It matters where … And matters when. He AENA device In the Prat it arrives at a very specific moment, on the eve of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which starts on Monday and stands out as one of the great citations of the congressman and fair calendar of Catalonia. The appointment mobilizes tens of thousands of people and the first and last one that many of them see in Barcelona is precisely their airport. That coincidence has not gone unnoticed. Not even for Lucena himself, who assures that Tuesday’s operation is not related to the technological fair. “It has nothing to do with that, I guarantee that,” insists the director of the airport manager. The MWC is not the only factor that marks the context of the operation. In autumn Airport employees manifested in T1 to report that they feel “fear” for thieves and some syntch in the terminal. “Punitive and cosmetic device”. From CCOO already They have warned that the improvement of the safety of the workforce “cannot be an excuse to stigmatize the extremely vulnerable population” and insists that the security of the personnel “should be negotiated with the social agents”, “which is not done”, Apostille. CCOO also questions the motivation of the measure on Tuesday and speaks of a “punitive and cosmetic device for the Mobile World Congress.” “It is unacceptable”. CCOO has not been the only one to show its discomfort because of what happened at the airport. Taula d´entitats of the third social sector of Catalunya and Ecas have issued A statement Also in critical tone: “We consider that it is unacceptable to have normalized the situation of these homeless people and not have planned an accompaniment device with overnight alternative.” Social entities regret transferred to the press that the device was activated for “security” and “unhealthiness” reasons. “We suspend that (these) terms are not used when referring to these people because they contribute to stigma on the situations of poverty and exclusion,” ditch The collective. Images | Jorge Fraganillo (Flickr), Contliciun (Flickr) In Xataka | The Olympic Games are just around the corner, so Paris has … Read more

Some microbiologists have taken 10 years to solve a problem. The AI ​​has solved it in two days

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Professor José R. Penadés and his Imperial College team in London had been working on a way of demonstrating how certain superbacteria are immune to antibiotics. After all that time they had finally achieved a conclusion in this regard. They recently dedicated to give AI a chance to solve the same problem. They got a surprise. Ten years they, 48 hours the AI. The scientists used a new Google AI tool called co-scientist to provide a brief prompt asking him about the essential problem they had been investigating for ten years. The AI ​​reached the same conclusion as them, but it took only 48 hours to reach it. And the AI ​​did not know the response in advance. One of the important details here is that AI could not have found out the solution looking for it on the Internet. Penadés and her team had not published the study, so Co-Scientist could not find the answer because it was not public domain. “I need to digest it”. The Penadés Professor He indicated in BBC How he learned that AI had reached the same conclusion in just two days. “I was shopping with someone, and I said,” Please leave me only one hour, I need to digest this. ” no. I could have saved years. Even considering the AI ​​solution as a hypothesis when they started working on the problem, having it would have saved years of work, Penadés explained. But it was the AI ​​went further. In fact, Google tool had done more than replicating its research. “It was not only that the hypothesis he provided was correct. He provided another four, and all of them made sense. And in one of the cases, he never occurred to us, and now we are working on it.” A for superbacteria. The study tried to reveal how some superbacteria are created that are resistant to antibiotics. The hypothesis proposed that superbacterial can form a tail from different viruses, and that allows them to spread between species. It is as if they had the “keys” to move from one place to another and “enter” different guests. That is the same hypothesis that Co-Scientist arrived in 48 hours. “This will change science”. For the Penadés professor “this will change science, sure.” Tools like this, says, “give the opportunity to play a great game. I feel as if I was finally playing a Champions League match with this.” And there I don’t know the thing: Evo 2 arrives. This discovery binds to launch these days of Evo 2the most large biology -oriented model so far. A group of researchers from the universities of Berkeley, Stanford, the ARC Institute, the UCSF and NVIDIA have trained an AI model with 9.3 billion nucleotides (from which DNA chains are created) from 128,000 Complete genomes. Thanks to this model it is possible to precisely predict all types of genetic mutations. Image | Wikimedia In Xataka | Some engineers have simulated 500 million years of evolution with an AI. Now we have a fluorescent protein

“We had an architecture study two days stopped”

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In recent days, thousands of Spanish companies have been affected by a measure adopted by Movistar, at the request of LaLiga, to combat illegal broadcasts of football matches. The Teleco has begun to block Cloudflare IP addressesa fundamental service that provides security and optimization to a large number of websites. The problem is that these IPS are shared by many totally legal and legitimate services, which causes the blockade to affect business indiscriminately They have nothing to do with illegal football streaming. Not only online stores “We do not give credit. It seems that it was not Spain. It’s crazy,” says Nelson Domínguez, CEO of Docastixa small mobile application development company. Docastix was directly affected over the weekend when one of its customers, in full product launch with an important advertising campaign, discovered that Movistar users could not access their online store. The company was investing in advertising, paying for each click that took potential customers to its website, but Those clicks translated into error pages for Movistar users. “The launch was a disaster,” explains Domínguez. “We have not been able to count that specific impact yet, but it has been high. The campaigns were lost, the clicks and potential purchases were lost. And then our work to put a solution.” Cloudflare panel with the online store data that Docastix speaks. It is appreciated how the 8 (day indicated in the graph) begins the fall and does not begin to trace until 11. The advertising campaign had begun on the 7th (the traffic peak). Ceded image. Movistar’s response to the problem has been confusing. When Domínguez contacted the operator, they asked for his ID and A relationship of all the websites I had tried to access without success. Then they assured that the problem was solved. “We lost four hours of work again,” he says. “Today, what they have done is to implement blockades every 15 minutes. That is not a solution: perhaps a customer can enter to buy, but when he is going to pay he has already stopped working.” Cloudflare sent a hard statement to Xataka in which he accused LaLiga of acting deliberately, knowing the consequences of his blockade: «Although LaLiga perfectly understood that blocking Shared IP addresses would affect the rights of millions of consumers to access hundreds of thousands of websites that do not violate the law, LaLiga continued with said blockade. This seems to reflect the erroneous belief that their commercial interests must prevail over the rights of millions of consumers to access an open internet ». LaLiga, meanwhile, responded to Xataka With another statement in which he attributed cloudflare the responsibility of using his legal clients as “digital shield”: «Given the statements of Cloudflare to Xataka, LaLig legal as a digital shield to protect criminal organizations and mafias ». “LaLiga has repeatedly required Cloudflare to stop this complicit activity with criminal organizations, which threaten intellectual property and incur multiple criminal activities such as the violation of intellectual property, all kinds of scams and pornography, without a favorable response.” “Thus, LaLiga is not positioned against free access to the Internet, but requests measures and carries out controlled actions against companies or organizations that profit from illegal and criminal acts using legal companies as a digital shield.” LaLiga sources add that it is key to understand the role of Cloudflare not only in the illegal retransmission process of parties, but also of the process that follow to house domains. They explain that they are companies that trust Cloudflare, and deserve to know, according to their version, that they are used as a digital shield while it is profitable, hosting and protecting illegal and mafia activities next to the legal companies that are now affected. They speak of intentional complicity. And the impact goes far beyond online stores. Manuel Márquez, Systems Technician Cloudatarecounts serious cases that illustrate the breadth of the problem: “I had an architecture study two days stopped. They are not only websites and stores, but critical business applications for the daily functioning of companies. “Among their business clients have been affected from law firm, which could not access Lexneteven photography studies that depend on cloud services to share files with their customers. And he also affects the solution of fifteen minutes: “The architecture study has already told us that he will report, because they have left them two days,” he says. “We saw that the IPS were blocking every fifteen minutes. Not only do they do it wrong, but they do it wrong and are trying to mask it.” The situation has forced many companies to take drastic measures. Docastix, with only seven employees, has had to dedicate vital resources to move clients out of cloudflare. “Of those seven not everyone can attack the problem by the subject of knowledge, and of which yes, I can only at that time,” Domínguez explains. “We are a very recent small company, there are clients who do not understand this at all and sound a bit of an excuse. It seems that you blame Movistar from a mistake of yours.” The risk of deactivating cloudflare without a previous plan The background technical problem is complex. Cloudflare acts as a security intermediary for a large part of the Internetprotecting companies against computer attacks. As he explains Jaume PonsSystems Engineer in an automotive multinational, “for a small company, something else is unasumable. In the end, if you expose your website directly they lie down if they propose it. You have to use mastodontic suppliers such as Cloudflare, which will provide that first barrier of cybersecurity input. “ The paradox is that some companies, desperate to maintain their operational services, They are choosing to deactivate the protection of Cloudflare, exposing themselves to security risks. “They are actions that no longer end that someone cannot access a service,” Pons warns, “but that companies that have been forced to deactivate protections have been much more exposed to attacks without an adequate plan.” Economic damage multiplies in unexpected ways. Companies not … Read more

The problem of buying a house in Spain is no longer just its price. Is that you have less than 73 days to decide

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Two and a half months. Something less even. In a real estate market marked by the mismatch between supply and demand and in which Operations increase of sale that is what lasts on a home in available: two and a half months, 73 days To be more precise. A few years ago that data exceeded the 90 days. They are just that, figures, raw data, but they act as a thermometer of the sector. In fact there are cities, especially those that have tension markets, in which the deadline is even lower. A market for fast. In Spain the real estate market has its peculiaritiestrends and Factors susceptible to interpreting in different ways, but of course something is clear: they buy the fastest. He last report Prepared by Technocasa and UPF, it shows that, on average, in 2024 only 73 days were needed to sell a home. The data is interesting for several reasons. First because it is two days less than in 2023. Second, he delves into a trend that dates back to the beginning of the decade, when the properties took average for more than three months to find a buyer. In 2020 the average was 94 days. Beyond the average. 73 is a statistical indicator, the average of sale for the whole of Spain. If we go down to detail and consult the segregated data at the territorial level we verify that there are locations in which the period in which sales are closed is considerably shorter. In Barcelona that average was only 68 days, in Valencia of 67, 66 in Malaga, 62 in Seville and 61 in Bilbao. The market in which the properties last The Madridwhere the brand is in just 60 days. A market, two realities. The report of Tecnocasa Group and UPF Also verify that not all properties run the same fate in the market. According to their data, 55% of homes have been selling less than half a year. Moreover, almost 37% is announced on online platforms and real estate agencies for just three months. In the opposite pole, almost a quarter of the properties (23.6%) have been available for a year or longer. One of the keys could be its overvaluation. The report estimates that in the most ‘veteran’ homes it exceeds 18%. Why is it important? From what he tells us about the market. The authors of the report verify a clear mismatch between the demand, upwards, and an offer that thinns. Two data arrive to check. While 2024 closed above the 266,000 active purchase applications, which is 80,000 more than during the same period of 2023, and the number of potential buyers grew by 39% in December, the housing offer has moved in the direction opposite The Technocasa and UPF report estimates that it fell 9.3%. City Necessary days for sale Saragossa 76 Barcelona 68 Valencia 67 Malaga 66 Seville 62 Bilbao 61 Madrid 60 “A boiling market”. The study calculates that if in an area with a 5,000 -homes real estate park there was an average of 70.9 properties for sale in the late 2023, a year later that data was significantly lower: it was already around 64.3. The result, points to The country José García Montalvo, Professor of Economics, is “a boiling market”. “What we are seeing is that demand is squeezing much more than the supply, which is still insufficient,” emphasize The UPF expert. Another of the keys that help to understand the market is access to financing. The study detects an interannual increase in the average amount of mortgages, which is added to other indicators on credit. For example, registrars of Spain It carries several months verifying a sensitive increase in mortgages. “It’s a real casting”. The phrase is again from García Montalvo and summarizes the reality of the Spanish real estate market, at least as drawn by the Technocasa and UPF report. “The properties have hardly time to appear in the listings before multiple offers compete for them in an authentic casting,” Comment The expert. In a similar line, the director of Analysis of the Tecnocasa Group, Lázaro Cubero, Explain that last year there was “a very important demand increase.” “A 39% increase in a single year is not usual,” duckin reference to the increase of potential buyers that the report detected with respect to December 2023. The other indicator: prices. The time it takes for a home to find a buyer is not the only clue that tells us about demand and supply. There is another even more eloquent indicator: prices. After calculating the measure of a selection of cities, the Technocasa report indicates that in the second semester of 2024 the M2 stood at 2,802 euros, 12.13% more than during the same period of 2023. The report is also interesting for another reason. Its technicians estimate that the price in the second semester of 2024 was more or less at levels of mid -2005, but still far from the dimensions that were reached during the real estate bubble, between 2006 and 2007. In recent weeks Some experts They have pointed out that the M2 would have already exceeded the 2007 values, although everything indicates that the Sorpasso It focuses only on nominal prices, not real. That is, this calculation obviates the effect of inflation. Does it happen only in sales? No. The sales rate will be increasingly agile in the sale market (at least among the properties not excessively overvalued by its vendors), but pales compared to the tempos of the residential rental market. At the beginning of 2024 idealista calculated that 18% of homes They were leaving in their portal did not last 24 hours free. Moreover, in some cities the percentage of homes with a fleeting step by real estate was even greater: in Tarragona they were 31% and in San Sebastián 29%. Images | ZHIYUAN SUN (UNSPLASH) and Jonas Denil (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | Spain urgently needs to build thousands of homes. In the Basque Country they have … Read more

Starliner astronauts will return home 287 days later. Another ship change has forced to modify the plans

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NASA has decided to advance the return of the CREW-9 mission and, with it, that of the Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams astronauts, who left for the International Space Station on June 5, 2024 in the Boeing Starliner ship. Despite Elon Musk and Donald Trump messagesreason is not political, but operational. A few days of advance. If new delays on their trip, Butch and Suni will not return will return home on March 19. Taking into account that they were launched to space for a week, it is nine months after planned. But if we stick to The last date that NASA managedastronauts will return with a few days of advance. Context. In June 2024, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left towards the ISS aboard the Starliner space capsule, Boeing’s alternative to the Crew Dragon ship of Spacex. It was the first manned trip of the Boeing spacecraft, and it was assumed that the last certification test before starting to transport astronauts regularly to the International Space Station. However, shortly after its launch, The Starliner experienced serious problems in its propulsion systemwhich forced to suspend his return. The situation lasted several months until NASA decided that the ship returned empty. This accident left astronauts at the space station and forced NASA to find a different solution for its return. What they are waiting for. Once the destiny of the Starliner, Wilmore and Williams decided, they became part of the permanent crew of the ISS. They work in the experiments in orbit and the maintenance of the station. They have even made space walks: Wilmore has two on this mission, and has become The woman with more hours of extravehicular activity. So that they could return, NASA He booked two empty seats on the Crew-9 mission of Spacex. The Crew Dragon ship in which they will return to Earth has been coupled to the ISS since September Station maintenance. And the CREW-10 mission is not yet ready. Another change of ship. The CREW-10 mission was supposed to take off in a new Crew Dragon ship, called C213, which has not yet flown to space. However, a technical incidence, apparently related to the ship’s batteries, forced to delay its first flight at least until the end of April. Instead of continuing to delay the calendar (and with it, the return of Wilmore and Williams), NASA has opted for a logistics maneuver: Reassign to the CREW-10 mission an already tested shipthe C210 ‘Endurance’, which was preparing to fly with the private axiom-4 mission in spring. Thanks to this ship change, Crew-9’s return not only is not delayed, but is ahead of a few days. New dates. NASA plans to launch the CREW-10 mission on March 12, 2025, which would allow the CREW-9 to return on March 19 with Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board, along with their companions Nick Hague (NASA) and Aleksandr Gorbunov (from the Russian agency Roscosmos). This change of dates responds, as we have seen, to a technical and operational issue, but explains why Elon Musk and Donald Trump published on social networks that Spacex would rescue the two astronauts “abandoned in the ISS” as soon as possible. A propaganda narrative of what was really happening after the curtain. Image | Suni Williams during a space walk (NASA) In Xataka | It is not that Elon Musk has managed to introduce its influence on NASA. Is that he has entered sweeping

Years ago Mexico opted to offer longer school days for children. Caused an increase in divorces

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A time ago a group of economists from the University of Tennessee It was done A peculiar questionfor the concepts and ideas that combines and also its implications: does the school’s school day influence The divorce rate parental? If the time children spend at school clearly affects To the dynamics of the families, conditioning as basic aspects as the hours of adults for other tasks, does that factor interfere with the couple’s breakdown? And if so, how? And why? After crossing school data and separations recorded for several years in Mexico, the experts reached A curious conclusion: The expansion of school days or have greater access to schools with extended schedules does seem to affect divorce rates. It increases them. School Conference (and something else). Over the years articles (many) have been published on how the different school day models They affect To students, their performancehe school abandonment or the “Child Wellness”. The debate It is old and root in a dilemma on which they have run ink rivers: Continuous school day or departure? There are those who ensure that this response has implications that go far beyond the classrooms, such as The gender gapthe Differences of opportunities or family poverty. Click on the image to go to Tweet. A new factor: divorces. María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo and Marian Its derivatives: The separations. And they have done it based on a very specific question: how does the expansion of the schooling work affect divorce rates? To find out they basically handle two sources, the statistical records of marriage ruptures and school data on the expansion of the school day in the public primary schools. In Mexico they found databases for both fronts, so the country ended up becoming its particular (and huge) laboratory. The data they obtained and interpretation have just reflected them in An essay Posted in Journal of Public Economics. But what did they analyze? The researchers took advantage of a phenomenon that played in their favor: the “Large -scale expansion” of the model of Full -time school (Full-Time Schools, or etc, with a “Extended Day” of Between six and eight hours) In Mexican municipalities from 2007 to 2016. To be more precise, economists resorted to census data from the monitoring of the monitoring Program etc. of the Secretary of Public Education that corresponded to the 2007/2008 academic year, in which It began to applyand 2015/2016. Then they compared the degree of implementation of that program of school day expanded by municipalities and were fixed in women in divorce procedures in each of those locations. In short, they crossed data. The information on marriage ruptures was obtained from the National Institute of Mexican Statistics and Geography (INEGI), where the cases processed between 2000 and 2016 consulted. And the surprise came. After working with the different records, the researchers discovered that there seems to be A marked relationship between the extension of the school day in the primary centers and the ruptures. At least in Mexico. “We found that the expansion of the school day in 3.5 hours causes a significant increase in divorce rates,” explain economists in Your article. “In addition, the effect is increased with each year of exposure from municipalities to full -time schooling.” A well calibrated trend. The experts They go further and share their calculations on the relationship between both factors, broad teaching days and ruptures. “We found that, as a result of an average increase in the availability of etc. of 24 percentage points, the divorce rate increased by 0.041 divorces per 1,000 individuals (an increase of 12.6 in relation to divorces in the municipalities treated in the year prior to the opening of the first etc) “. Moreover, researchers even appreciate that “the effect increases over time” and the increase in the divorce rate is higher when families enjoy the longest teaching days for seven years. “Our main estimates suggest that the availability of ETC It gave rise to 23,119 additional divorces between 2009 and 2016, or approximately 4.7% of the total number of divorces presented during that period of time, ” The study abounds. Its authors also detected another key trend: the longest school days gave rise to greater divorce rates in areas where less traditional social norms overwhelmed on marriage, divorces and female work. Click on the image to go to Tweet. The question: Why? Extend a few hours the time that primary school The article From Padilla-Romo and his companions suggests that it is not. Maybe it’s a few hours, but influence classrooms. And the reason is that this extension of school days is in its own way “an implicit subsidy for children’s care.” Having their children during a broad period in schools – on its website the Mexican government points out that in etc From 8.00 to 16.00 h– Parents have more time. Especially women, in which It regularly falls The care of the offspring. And those hours can use them in working outside their homes, in exchange for a salary that reinforces their economic independence. Although the researchers recognize that the greatest job among women can have other consequences, such as generating “conflicts”, that mothers with an “abusive couple” remain less exposed to it or simply increase the flow of money that enters home, what That facilitates to face the expenses involved in divorce and separation, the researchers suggest that the economic factor is essential to understand the phenomenon. “A disproportionate fraction”. “Mothers and other female members of the family dedicate a disproportionate fraction of their time to the care of children. The longest school days provide them with an increase in their effective time provision, which translates in better opportunities to acquire individual income “, Zanjan The three authors of the study. “As a result, the negotiation positions at home are probable.” “Our results show that the extension of the school day gave rise to higher divorce rates in areas with less traditional social norms on marriage, divorce and the priority of women in jobs, … Read more

7,000 earthquakes in recent days, 11,000 evacuated and the possibility that the worst is to come

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After evacuating more than 11,000 people, half of the island’s population, Greece has had to declare the state of emergency on the island of Santorini. For two weeks, the island has suffered thousands of earthquakes. Only on January 4, there were 1,300 with magnitudes greater than 1. Only yesterday, smoke more than 200 and 28 of magnitude equal to or greater than 4. What is happening exactly in Santorini? A swarm. That is, a succession of thousands of earthquakes in a very concrete space and in a short space of time. As explained the geologist Nahúm Méndezis the direct consequence of the complex geology in the area. It is plaque tectonics, live and live. Nevertheless, As you recognize The volcanologist of the National Geographic Institute, Stavros Meletlidis, what is happening is not normal: “It is the first time that such an activity is recorded.” Are the prelude to something greater? It can be, but it doesn’t have to. In general terms, what we are seeing in Santorini is the accumulated product of the tensions that arise from the collision of the European plaque with the African. In the Santorini area, those pressures accumulate until the rocks “can no longer and break”, releasing large amounts of energy. As we have a good record of the seismic history of the island, we know that it is possible that a great earthquake is being prepared. Not so much of the last one: the Amorgos in 1956 reached 7.7caused more than 50 dead and waves up to 30 meters high. A great earthquake is not the only possibility. In This interferogram created from the Sentinel 1 datayou can see “a slight deformation in the northwest sector of the island after the seismic swarm that is happening on the island.” That, As experts point outit could be indicative of a deformation “due to the rise and location of the magma.” However, that does not mean that we are going to see an eruption. Volcanoes are extremely complex systems and “They can return to a state of ‘quiescence’ without erupting“We have seen it many times. And that is the big problem. When we talk about geology, our prelective capacity is very limited. After the eruption of La Palma, there were many information that indicated that seismic swarms ‘They warned’ for years What was going to happen. Unfortunately, the reality is that this can only be concluded to Toro Last. What can we do? As Méndez sayswe can only prepare for the different options that are forth from the table. One of the most exasperating things in geologies is that we still know too little and it is precisely in ignorance and uncertainty where monsters grow. Image | Tânia Mousinho | INSN In Xataka |

Apple plans to present the iPhone is 4 in the next few days, according to Gurman. The arrival of the expected mobile is approaching

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Apple last updated the iPhone se Three years ago. In March 2022 A new device appeared that retained the lines, the LCD visualization panel and the Touch ID of The previous generation. It was a continuous bet that did not risk too much. This may be about to change, At least according to what Mark Gurman says. Bloomberg analyst points out that Apple plans to present the iPhone se 4 next week. Shipments, according to the sources consulted, would begin at the end of the month. We are facing a rumor that does not go unnoticed because it is one of the most anticipated phones of the Cupertino company, mainly for what its review promises. What to expect from the iPhone se 4? Rumors about the device have been accumulating for a long time, all before the silence that Apple usually. Recall that the apple signature does not usually provide No track about your products until the day of your presentation. However, Gurman’s reputation allows us to carefully contemplate the following unofficial information. It will have a bigger screen with Face ID Will release design without the classic starting button Will equip an A18 chip like the one that has the iPhone 16 Will stop using the modem made by Qualcomm How could it be anticipated, the iPhone will be compatible with Apple Intelligence. Gurman does not need the amount of RAM that the phone will have, but we could assume that it will arrive with 8 GB to support this feature that has become central for the firm led by Tim Cook. What has been confirmed that it is that It will arrive with USB-C port. Nor are there details about the price, data that we will know if it finally occurs within a few days. As a reference, the iPhone 3 reached the market in 2022 at a price of 529 euros. This year also promises to be interesting for the rest of the family’s products, with the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro receiving important updates. Images | AB In Xataka | Samsung Galaxy S25+, Analysis: When you are really great, continuity is the right decision … but with extra with

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