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Your dedicated button goes against the entire industry

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In Xataka we already have the CMF Phone 2 Pro between hands. The review will take a few days, but we are already testing some of its key points. This phone has a characteristic that, for the moment, no other Android smartphone has shown to date: a button dedicated to a space within the telephone software itself. The Essential Space. CMF is a nothing submarine, and shares software with the mobiles of this company. Essential Space It is one of the nothing mobile applications. It is a peculiar tool for saving ideas and reminders through audio notes, photographs and screenshots. To understand it better, imagine a super Google Keep of multimedia content instead of traditional notes. And now imagine that Keep is able to transcribe audios and analyze the multimedia content itself to establish reminders. The fast access button. Manufacturers are implementing two types of buttons, inspired by The steps that Apple is currently following. The first is a programmable button to be able to put the mobile in silence, launch applications or run any telephone function. The second is usually a camera trigger. CMF has not opted for one or another, its additional button functions as an integration in Essential Space. Its operation is as follows. Double pulsation from the desk: open the essential space A pulsation: screen capture + notes A long pulsation: screen capture + voice note. The integration of AI. The AI ​​in smartphones does not usually have a midpoint: either it works impeccably or is a disaster. In the case of CMF, I have to admit that I liked how this Essential Space works. Imagine you want to make a purchase list. You open the app of any supermarket. You give the Essential Key You add the note you want or the fast audio note Ready. When you go to the Essential Space, you will have a summary of the price, quantities and useful information about the food to buy, and the option to add reminders on it. This is applicable to any idea that you can think of. At least, in my particular case, I make enough screenshots and I have enough ideas too scattered (Instagram post, purchase lists, gift ideas, etc.). Being able to centralize everything in a single app that, in addition, is in charge of the reminders with the button, it seemed like a great idea. Image | Xataka In Xataka | CMF Phone 1, Analysis: To the “What mobile I buy me for 200 euros”? The answer is “this”

It turns out that in Spain there was a company dedicated to spy software and has closed after declaring in bankruptcy

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In Spain we can boast many things, but having known companies globally for the development of spy softwareNo. Although Barcelona is becoming An unexpected Startup Hub related to this sectorthe reality is that we do not have a great NSO GroupFor example. The closest thing was an unknown company called Mollitiam Industries. We talked in the past because it has broken. Where does Mollitiam Industries come from. According to The recordsthe company was founded in 2018 and its headquarters was in Toledo. As pray Your websiteactive at the time of writing these lines, was specialized in “offering a deep tracking capacity in highly specialized and complementary areas”, such as the “interception and surveillance of communications”, for “through invisible capabilities of capture, management and security active data in the context of cyberspace and encrypted telecommunications “, allow” those responsible for decision making identify, anticipate, degrade or neutralize possible attacks of connected objectives. “ In other words, he was specialized in cyberinteligence and espionage software. In Your LinkedIn profileThe company states to have “real experience in cyber operations, in coordination with state bodies and security forces. From planning and support to intelligence execution and production.” What happened. Which was declared in bankruptcy on January 23. This is reflected in public records and has transcended the media through the specialized magazine Online intelligence (via Techcrunch). The reasons are unknown, but the magazine argues that it has been due to economic problems. Techcrunch also feeds that it may be due to lack of international attention as it is a Spanish company since it has not been involved in too many controversial cases. From Xataka we have tried to contact the company through its networks (the web form gives error) and a phone that appears on its Google Maps card, but we have not received an answer in any of the cases. What has you participated in. Regarding Spain, Mollitian Industries has achieved three public contracts: In 2020a contract less than 14,950 to facilitate the Civil Guard a “social media monitoring tool.” In 2022worth 250,000 euros, a tender for the “acquisition of a remote monitoring system of mobile terminal communications to provide the Central Operational Unit of the Judicial Police Headquarters of the Civil Guard.” In 2023worth 330,578.51 euros, a tender for the “supply of a mobile device management platform to provide the Civil Guard units.” In the international arena, Mollitian Industries was a name sounded in Colombia. In 2020, Week magazine He reported that his journalists were being monitored by Colombian intelligence services through software called “Invisible Man” and “Night Crawler.” These spywares were able to access the archives, location, microphone and camera of the infected terminals, and even record the key pulsations. Week published images of a contract between the National Army of Colombia and Mollitian Industries. Apparently, the local army had paid 3,000 million pesos, around 860,000 euros to the current change, for accessing these software. The latest. The most recent information about this company is the report Adversarial threat report Meta, dated at the end of 2023. In said report, Meta warned of eight Spyware companies focused on iOS, Android and Windows. Those eight companies were Cy4gate/Elt Group, RCS Labs, IPS Intelligence, Veriston IT, Tuel IT, Protect Electronic Systems, Negg Group and the Spanish Mollitiam Industries. In this report, Meta said the following: “(…) We have eliminated a network of accounts on Facebook and Instagram linked to a Spanish company, Mollitiam Industries, which announces a data collection and spyware service aimed at Windows, Macos and Android. Mollitiam Industries and its customers handled accounts false they used to test malicious capabilities between their own accounts and scrape public information. IP registration links to track the IP addresses of their objectives. . Cover image | Pexels In Xataka | Google has revealed the techniques that Russia is using to violate Signal: it is the cyber warman against Ukraine

We have dedicated six years to process images of a black hole to reach a conclusion: Einstein was right

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Several years have passed since the Telescope of the Event Horizon (EHT) published the famous first image of a black holetaken in 2017. The photo has yes doquestioned by some researchersbut the EHT last year published a second image of the black hole M87*, taken in 2018. The new photo not only validated the original, but once again corroborates the Einstein’s general relativity theory. The largest radio telescope. To obtain the image of the black hole in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy, we needed to build a radio telescope about 10,000 kilometers in diameter. Since the land has a diameter of 13,000, the EHT took a more reasonable path: Extract data from different receptors, telescopes and radio antennas from all over the world and combine them by interferometry. The EHT produced 250 Petabytes of information in a one -week interval. It took a couple of years to process all the information and publish an image. But first, he added a new telescope to the project (the GLT of Greenland) and took the second image of M87* that saw the light in 2024. Six years processing. The second image of the black hole M87*, taken a year and ten days after the original, in April 2018, took six to process and publish, but it was worth it. On the one hand, proves that 2017’s observations were fine. The Persistence of the size of the central shadow In both images confirms the original estimate of the dimensions of the black hole, dissipating the criticisms about the simulations dependence to calculate this data. On the other, comparing the two images shows that the ring of matter around the black hole is rotating as expected. The brightest part has moved 30 degrees, which is consistent with the models of the hole. We are seeing what Einstein predicted. Located 55 million light years from us, M87* is a supermassive black hole in the center of an elliptical galaxy that manipulates the subject with its magnetic fields and expels the one that does not consume at speeds close to that of light. The image of 2018, like its predecessor of 2017, reflects this tumultuous activity with a bright ring around it. This validates the theory that the diameter of the event horizon, and therefore that of the black hole itself, is intrinsically linked to its mass, framing a central shadow that Albert Einstein’s equations predicted more than a century ago. Why it looks like a donut. That brilliant donut called accretion disc should be very fine, but we get very dispersed and unemployed. Throughout the trip he has made through space, his light has dispersed by the dust in interstellar space, which leads us to see it in this way. Despite the dispersion, the image is clear enough to confirm not only Black hole rotation but also the alignment of its rotational axis with a powerful stream of material (“relativistic jet”) that moves away from M87. The importance of reproducing results. Although it will take six years to arrive, this vindic confirmation the findings of the EHT and is seen as a milestone for global scientific collaboration, in addition to a robust confirmation that we are facing the shadow of a black hole and the matter that orbit it. Future data analysis will help better understand how magnetic fields and plasma flows within the accretion disc interact. In the next decade, we could even have videos of the evolution of M87* in time thanks to the next generation program of the EHT (NGEHT), which promises images of greater resolution and a broader range of frequencies. All thanks to the collaboration of observatories from all over the world. Image | Event horizon telescope In Xataka | A group of astrophysics has knocked down Kerr’s hypothesis. Black holes are still a source of surprises In Xataka | There is water since the beginning of time: NASA has found 140 billion oceans to 12,000 million light years *An earlier version of this article was published in February 2024

launch a super hubble dedicated to looking for extraterrestrial life

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Last summer, NASA opened a new office at the Goddard Space Flight Center dedicated exclusively to design the most ambitious telescope in history. The habitable Worlds Observatory. With an investment of 17.5 million dollars only to explore the necessary technologies to materialize it, the HWO is described as a super hubblea new generation space telescope designed to look for extraterrestrial life on other planets. And we are not talking about planets of the Solar System. This observatory of habitable worlds will be dedicated to looking for biofirms on extra -land planets similar to the earth, the exoplanets that are discovered at a habitable distance of its star. A huge space telescope. If there is a clear thing is that The HWO will have imposing dimensions. NASA is considering mirrors that could measure between 4 and 15 meters in diameter. A savage compared to 2.4 meters of Hubble and 6.5 meters from James Webb. A greater magnitude would increase its ability to capture light and details of the exoplanets, but it would also complicate their deployment, taking into account that, like the webb, it will be located 1.5 million kilometers from the earth, in the second point of equilibrium Lagrange gravitational. Starship, heats you. Bringing such a large telescope to L2 will necessarily require any of the most powerful rockets in the world. Taking into account the SLS cancellation rumorsThere are two options left: New Glenn: The new Blue Origin rocket has a 7 -meter wide cofa, much larger than the standard of 5.4. I could launch the HWO if NASA opted for a compact version of the telescope Starship: The highest and most powerful rocket in the world has a 9 -meter load bay. By the time the HWO is ready, Spacex will have the completely operational ship, even with the ability to refuel in orbit to compensate for the enormous use of propellants in takeoff If the HWO ends up being larger than the James Webb space telescope (which was launched folded in the European rocket Ariane 5), Then Starship will be virtually the best option for deployment. What can we expect from HWO. Among the instruments planned for the telescope, there will be a very high sensitivity coronographer. It will allow to block the light of the stars to focus on the planets that orbit them. In addition, it will integrate high -resolution cameras, an advanced spectroscope and a fourth instrument yet to be defined. Unlike the Webb, which focuses on infrared, the HWO will operate on the visible spectrum and cover some ultraviolet and infrared bands, hence it is seen as the spiritual successor of the Hubble telescope. When will it be ready. According to the most optimistic calculations, around 2034. But taking into account that manufacturing its mirrors will require a precision at the scale of itchometers, we can expect a slow and complex process that perhaps approaches the release date to 2040. However, the lessons learned from James Webb (which cost 10,000 million dollars and launched after numerous delays) could help reduce cost overruns and postponements of this type of scientific missions. The HWO is not, in fact, a project that just put on the table. It arises from the convergence of previous initiatives such as Habex and Luvoir, and drinks from years of experience in previous missions. Image | NASA-GODDARD In Xataka | NASA has such a simple explanation that it scares about our inability to find extraterrestrial signs

Someone has asked video game developers what they are being dedicated and the answer has been Unani: A PC

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The PC is the most complete platform to play. While a console binds us to pre -installed hardware, a PC admits the constant update of the components, allows us to access more gross power, all kinds of settings in the games and well, it allows us to do many other things that are not playing. The PC, ultimately, is important and is increasinglysomething that is demonstrated in the State of the Industry Report 2025 That the game developers conference has just published. The data. According to the report, 80% of the more than 3,000 developers who have completed the survey sent by the GDC are developing PC games. The figure contrasts with the consoles. Only 38% of developers are working on games for PlayStation 5 And something less, 34%, work in games for Xbox Series x|S. GDC survey results | Image: GDC Brutal growth. The percentage of developers making games for PC has not stopped increasing. In 2020 it was 56%. In 2021 it went to 58%. In 2022 the figure grew to 22%. In 2023 it was 65% and last year, 66%. The jump has been huge for a year so far and is proof that PC gaming is more alive than ever. Only last year 19,000 games were published only in Steamwhich says a lot. Another thing is that all those games end, indeed, playing. Spoiler: No. 80% barely played. The reason? From the GDC they are not clear, but they believe that it could be related to “the growing popularity of the Steam Deck De Valve “. According to the report,” this year’s survey has not highlighted Steam (or Valve’s laptop) as its own platform, because it is a PC and Mac game center. But it seems that some developers do They consider it a unique platform. For example, when they were asked to name other platforms that interest them, almost half (44%) wrote Steam Deck. “ If something has taught us Nintendo with his Nintendo Switch is that the portable format works and likes. Valve has done it greatly with the Steam Deck and the alternatives are increasingly complete and powerful. It is normal for developers to look at this format with interest, to the point that Microsoft works on their own console. As a curious fact, only 20% of the devs work in games for Nintendo Switch and only 12% for Linux, which is the basis of We are. On the other hand, it is no secret that publishing games on PC is much simpler than publishing them on consoles, so it makes sense that the PC is the first great option. Image | Unspash The bias. The GDC survey is quite revealing, but it has a problem. 58% of respondents are from the United States and 16% are from the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. The rest of the world has a rather reduced presence and that means one thing: that the interest of one of the most important markets in the world is not reflected. We speak, of course, about China, a country in which mobile gaming is religion. Although the GDC survey shows that 28-29% of developers work in mobile games, the truth is that, if there is a greater presence of Chinese, Japanese and Korean respondents, the photo would be very different. The mobile would probably be one of the big platforms for two reasons: scope and income. The Middle Gaming PC. According to Steam datathe average PC player has a Windows 11, 16 GB of RAM, a processor between 2.3 and 2.69 GHz, a GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA, a FullHD monitor and a storage tea installed. Cover image | Unspash In Xataka | Switch 2 appears to be more of the same. But that is exactly the strategy that Nintendo needs right now

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