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Japan is so desperate for its bears that it will allow hunters to shoot them in cities. Problem: you run out of hunters

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Tuesday was not an easy day Numatain Gunma prefecture, north of Tokyo. Around seven thirty in the afternoon the police received the notice that a 1.4 meter bear He had sneaked into a supermarket with several dozen customers and destroyed the fish and sushi sections. He also injured two people, one in the parking lot and another inside the store. It is not an isolated case. Not anything exclusive to Numata. Japan has a serious problem of encounters with bears. To solve it, the authorities have decided to use their most experienced hunters, but they won’t make it easy either. There are less and less. What has happened? That Japan has a problem with encounters between bears and humans, episodes that in most cases result in scares or injuries, but that sometimes end with the worst outcomes. It’s not something newbut statistics show that the problem is far from being solved. CNS News assures that between April and September 108 people suffered injuries caused by bears, reflecting a similar rate to the year between March 2023 and 2024, when the Government recorded a record of 219 attacks. Is it that serious? Many of the encounters end in scares or injuries, but the Japanese media also talk about an all-time high number of deaths: seven, the highest number since records began in 2006. The people who have suffered attacks also include both locals and tourists from other countries. In fact, just a few days ago a Spaniard received the blow in the village of Shirakawa-goWorld Heritage Site. In Shiretokoanother place popular with tourists, the trails were closed after an attack in August. What is the reason? Better to talk about ‘reasons’, in plural. When analyzing the problem, a cocktail of causes is usually cited in which environmental issues are mixed with other social and demographic issues. At the end of the day the record of attacks arrives in full abandonment from rural areas and farmland and with a serious population decline that the country has been dragging on for several decades. There are those who include other causes in the equation, such as the effect of climate change on food availability or fluctuations in acorn and beechnut harvests, which cause food scarcity among the adult population. The truth is that Japan is losing inhabitantsis suffering a rural exodus, has seen the borders between populated centers and forests blur and the country has also seen a clear increase in the bear population. Yomiuri Shimbun ensures that the number of black bears has tripled since 2012, with tens of thousands of copies, to which are added the brown from Hokkaido. And how to solve it? The big question. A month ago the country took an important decision and not exempt from controversy: Amended its wildlife protection and management law to relax rules governing what hunters can and cannot do in densely populated neighborhoods. To be more precise, the new regulations allow municipalities to commission hunters to carry out “emergency hunts” for dangerous animals in inhabited areas. Until now, the general rule prohibited killing wild animals with weapons in public spaces. It could only be authorized (and exceptionally) by the police in cases of imminent danger. After the legislative changemunicipal governments may authorize hunts against brown or black bears in densely populated areas provided that certain requirements are met: first, it must be an emergency measure; second, there can be no room for other solutions; and third (and most importantly) it must be ensured that no stray bullet will end up harming a resident. The idea is that only authorized hunters intervene. End of the problem? Not quite. Japan has decided to rely on hunters to solve bear attacks, but the problem is that in the country (like in Spain) there are fewer and fewer hunters. The diary The Mainichi published on Thursday a extensive report in which he recalls that the number of licenses in force in Japan has been decreasing as the population has decreased, the fields have been abandoned and society has changed. If in 1976 there were 500,000 first-level permits approved, since 2012 the figure has always been below 100,000. Who will shoot the bears? In Japan, there is also debate about who will be able to kill bears in neighborhoods full of houses and people. The Government already has announced that the measure will be accompanied by training workshops to guarantee that the system works correctly, which also includes planning security measures, restricting access and evacuating residents. “Emergency shots” are not in any case the only solution that the country has on the table. On the trails of Fukushima, for example, they have installed devices with sensors that seek to scare away animals. The idea: that they emit an annoying buzzing sound that becomes more intense when the bears approach. Images | Suzi Kim (Unsplash) In Xataka | Wolf hunting throughout Spain depended on a red button that changes its status. And Europe has decided to press it

The US studied what would happen if it enters war with China. Now he has started a career desperate to double missiles

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When China raised the curtain of your military parade staged much more than arms power which has. It was a clear and direct message that had its reaction a few days later, when the United States moved its new platform from missiles to Japan. It was then discovered that, if missiles, there are 3,500 pointing In the same direction. Since then, the United States has started a desperate race: to double its own missile manufacturing for what may happen. The strategic awakening. I told it in an exclusive The Wall Street Journal. The Pentagon has turned on all alarms in the face of the evidence that its missile arsenals would not reach to sustain a prolonged conflict With China. Russian Ukraine invasion and mass consumption of interceptors In Europe the fragility of the American industrial base had already made clear. However, He counted the medium What was the twelve between Israel and Iran, in which Washington launched Hundreds of high -end missiles to support their ally, which finished emptying the deposits and precipitated a shock plan. The message that circulates in the pentagon’s offices is clear: the current arsenal is not enough to defend Taiwan or the allied bases in the Pacific if a direct confrontation with Beijing explodes. The new creation. To face that reality, the Department of Defense has created an extraordinary body, the Munits Acceleration Councilpersonally directed by Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg, who calls the main executives of the industry every week to demand immediate increases. The strategy seeks to duplicate, and even quadruplethe production of the twelve missiles considered critical: from the Patriot interceptorsto him Standard Missile-6the Long Range Anti-Ship Missilesthe Precision Strike and the Joint Air-Surface Standoff Missiles. The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, and the Chief of the General Staff, General Dan Caine, They have presided Meetings with giants such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon or Boeing, but also with new actors such as Anduril Industries and with key component suppliers, from solid propellants to batteries. The destroyer of guided missiles USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) of the United States Navy launches an RIM-174 Standard Eram (Standard Missile-6, SM-6) The industrial bottleneck. The challenge is monumental. The complete manufacture of a missile can take up to two years. The production lines have cooled after decades of divestment, secondary suppliers have disappeared and critical pieces such as Boeing front search engines have become true bottlenecks. Expanding shifts, add square meters and form specialized personnel require billions of investment and firm purchase commitments. As Experts remembercompanies do not produce without contract: they need guarantees that the pentagon will not withdraw financing in the middle of the effort. Even so, some suppliers have taken steps in advance. Northrop Grumman, for example, has invested More than 1 billion in expanding its rocket engines capacity, with the expectation of doubling production in four years. Patriot Priority: Patriot. The most urgent case is the Patriot PAC-3whose global demand has shot himself. In September, the army gave Lockheed a contract of almost 10,000 million of dollars to manufacture 2,000 missiles in three years, but the objective of the pentagon is to reach that same figure Every twelve monthswhich means quadruple the current rhythm. To do this, Boeing has been seen forced to expand Thousands of square meters of its plant to assemble more search engines, while Lockheed studies new investments in assembly lines. The spokesmen insist that they can deliver above their declared capacity, but all claim more money and multiannual commitments that give stability to the productive jump. Precision Strike Missile New acquisition model. The pressure is such that The army announces “Massively substantive changes” in the way of buying weapons. Formulas such as licenseing technologies to third parties are explored, attract private capital or guarantee registration programs to give demand visibility to the entire supply chain. Trump administration already It allocated 25,000 million extra in five years through Big, Beautiful Billbut analysts agree that it will be necessary to multiply For several orders that figure to meet the objectives. The effort, in addition, is part of a greater debate: how to maintain an industrial base capable of sustaining high intensity wars in a world where arsenals are consumed in weeks. Background: China. The ultimate reason for this acceleration is the perspective of a War in the Pacific. A confrontation By Taiwan I would demand simultaneously American and Allied Bases, guarantee maritime runners and face a Chinese Navy increasingly equipped with hypersonic missiles and drons swarms. American superiority will depend not only on the quality of its systems, but on their ability to replace them quickly in case of prolonged conflict. Pentagon fears Discover too late that does not have the necessary volume to hold the pulse. Hence the race against clock to turn the industry into a large -scale war arsenal. The risk of the gap. The acceleration effort reveals the structural contradiction of the West: weapons every time more sophisticated and faces which are consumed at an industrial rate, in front of adversaries willing to flood the battlefield with solutions of low cost and mass production. In that sense, Ukraine’s lesson seems clear: millions of millions of dollars They can be exhausted In a matter of months, and rebuild reserves it has been. If the United States wants to maintain its deterrence against China, it must demonstrate that it can sustain not only technological innovation, but also the mass production on which the survival of its network of alliances depends. Image | Lockheed Martin, Mapn, Us Navy In Xataka | Satellite images have revealed that China has turned its oriental coast into a war zone: 3,500 missiles point to Taiwan In Xataka | After the demonstration of China’s force, the US moves a card sending its new missile platform to Japan

The lowest birth rate forced South Korea to a desperate measure: hire foreign nanny

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Of all the problems in South Korea, one was certainly shocking in September last year (things have changed a little Since then): they had the lowest birth rate in the world, of 0.72 children per woman. In recent years, governments and administrations have been passing, but no one managed to stop the descent, nor the super checksnor the rocambolesque idea that Girls begin the school before. The next measure was a symptom of the crisis: they are being forced to Hire foreign nanny. Nannies and visas. As part of the Government’s strategy, the hiring of 100 Philippine nannies that could work in the country since then. The measure was just the beginning, since approximately 1,200 foreign nannies for the first half of 2025and a “more affordable” program Last March. A problem without solution. Despite government efforts during the last 17 years, including An expense of 380 billion wones (Around 284,000 million dollars) In various incentives to increase fertility, the birth rate has continued to plumn. The desperate situation that in Seoul was warned that the country could be the first of the world to disappear due to this demographic decline is such. Moreover, the administration of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol recognized that drastic measures are needed to reverse this trend, and that was the first of the ideas: the introduction of foreign nannies with the aim of relieving the load of the care of children of parents who work, especially in households with double income, and ultimately increase the birth rate. The new policy. As The Government reportedthe entrance was formed between 24 and 38 years old who have the national level II certificate of care certification of the Filipino Government and who have received wide training. Their skills, according to the government, include the care of children, domestic tasks and the basic domain of the Korean language. In addition, the workers do it with an E-9 visa, which allows employment in non-professional sectors in the country, and will be part of a pilot program restricted to Seoul residents. This six -month program aims to provide affordable child care services with homes with children under 12, single -parent families and those with several children. Who pays the party. The lack of affordable nurseries is one of the main concerns among the parents who work, hence the question is more pertinent than ever, who paid the babysitters? According to the Seoul government, hire a foreign nanny for eight hours a day I could cost households around 2.38 million wones per monthalmost half of the average monthly income of Korean households. This generated many doubts about the affordability of the program for average Korean families. “We are seeing complaints about the cost burden of foreign domestic employees,” You Hye-Mi saidmain secretary of the president, in an interview. “Therefore, we are trying to explore ways to mitigate the burden it supposes for an individual home to hire them.” The controversy of the minimum wage. In addition, the program also faced criticism from work activists and immigrant rights groups. It happened in 2023, when the mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-Hoon, proposed to hire foreign nanny to A monthly cost of approximately 1 million woneswhich is significantly lower than the minimum wage in South Korea. Not just that. Deputy Cho Jung-Hun also proposed a bill that would exclude immigrant domestic employees from the requirement of the minimum wage law, arguing that the salaries of these workers should be in line with those of their countries of origin, a proposal highly criticized by human rights organizations, which argue that it violates the rights of foreign workers and violates the norms of the International Labor Organization (ILO). And birth rate? As we said at the beginning, the introduction of foreign nannies is part of a broader government effort to boost female participation in the workforce, which is considered essential to improve the country’s birth rate. The number of households with double income in South Korea has increased constantly, reaching 5.82 million in 2021. The problem is that many women end up abandoning the workforce due to the responsibilities of child care. Therefore, by offering more affordable child care options, the government expects to create a more conducive environment for young couples to have children, thus addressing, in theory, the worrying birth rate in descent. A version of this article is PUblicó in 2024 Image | Pexels, Pexels In Xataka | South Korea has taken the rivalry in the classrooms to the extreme: 84% of its children go to academies to be even more competitive In Xataka | Seoul lives an unprecedented birth crisis. The idea of ​​its mayor: set up a municipal dating program

Adif has in his hands the great “obrón” of Valencia. Now it also has a gas leak and desperate neighbors

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With two years behind him and others three years projected aheadValencia is living one of his great works in the surroundings of its central parc, next to the Joaquín Sorolla station to convert the most important mobility node in the city. It is, in words that They are read on the project website“The project of greatest urban impact in the city.” The reforms are large and very draft. Form summarya New high -speed rail access To connect Madrid-Valencia with the Mediterranean corridor, both north and south of the city. The conventional and high -speed rail lines are buried (up to 9 kilometers of tunnels are created) and will result in a new central station that maintains the exterior facade but that changes completely inside, becoming a large intermodal step of high -speed trains, conventional lines, subway and bus. There will also be space to reform the lines dedicated to merchandise transport. In numbers, Valencia hopes to recover with the work a total of 230,000 square meters, largely dedicated to green areas and to join the adjoining neighborhoods, now separated by the train tracks. It is estimated that only the rail transformation will cost 665 million eurosassuming Adif and Renfe more than 50% of the cost of it. The work is currently in one of its phases with more activity. The known as “Playa de Roads”, the enormous space used by trains that reach the station and that right now is the great border that separates both sides from the work, will begin to be buried from the excavation of a tunnel of 1.2 kilometers long. This new stage, however, has arrived with an unpleasant surprise. A gas leak and various problems Two years after the works began, the neighbors are beginning to suffer the consequences of them. Beyond the usual inconveniences of this type of projects, the alarm jumped when the Excavations Adif caused a gas leak located on Olta Street, perpendicular to the García Lorca boulevard. The leak has been “controlled” and has been because during the excavations a gas pipe has been damaged to the point that has been drilled. Adif sources have explained to the newspaper Levant that there has been no risk for people and that the emergency protocol has been activated, with immediate notice to firefighters, police and emergencies. During the day of the incident He has worked to restore the service and forced to confine a community of neighbors adjacent to the works for security. However, the gas leak is “the drop that has filled the glass”, in the words of the neighbors who They have offered their testimonies to the local newspaper. They ensure that in addition to the transfer of vehicles and the impossibility of opening sales because “the land house” is filled with activities, the inconvenience is being recurring. Those affected that the cuts of light and water are usual but that, in addition, some homes have crazy. The latter is a serious problem and Valencian works are not the first that cause cracking problems in homes as a result of excavations. In Madrid, for example, the residents of the A-5 They know the cuts of light and water well as a consequence of the underground of the road but in San Fernando de Henares, next to the capital, The neighbors have denounced years ago That the expansion works of the Metro line are cracking their homes. To the point that 73 homes have been demolished and another 600 have presented cracks and serious structural problems. Photo | Valencia Central Park In Xataka | Madrid faces a capital challenge with the underground of the A-5: living with a hell in the face of the promise of future success

The US tried to the desperate strangular the Chinese chip industry. It has taken two months to back down

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There is a key to be able to manufacture the best processors in the world: have access to software that allows you to design them. And there, at least currently, the leadership still has the United States through three companies: Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence. The Trump administration has been since May trying to pull the rope with China To use this software as a throwing weapon. And the play has not finished doing well. The context. On May 29, the Office of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce He gave the order: EDA software is ended up to Chinese groups. A movement that sought to stop China’s incessant advance in semiconductors, at a key moment in which the country led by Xi Jiping is achieving milestones in its lithographic, current and future processes. The answer. China, which has been looking for technological self -sufficiency for decades and reduce its dependence with the United States, saw in these new restrictions “the greatest opportunity for history growth”, according to some of the main figures after Chinese EDA software companies. Triggered action, national commitment to a product that has been refining years, and even publication in Github of some of the advances they were achieving in this matter. What happened. The restrictions imposed on the sale of software by Siemens, Cadence and Synopsys have been terminated with immediate effect, According to SCMP. The three giants of this industry can resume their commercial ties with China, so their supply chain can resume the use of these crucial tools. What will happen now. That the United States has unlocked (at least, for now) the use of EDA software is an oxygen ball for the Chinese semiconductor industry. The country is close to achieving capacity to make 5nm chipsalthough It is still choking progress in this lithographic process Before the prohibitions of the US and the Netherlands that prevent Asml extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE). Access to American Eda will be key, but not the key to the future of the country. Empyrean Technology, Primarius Technologies and Semitronix are the names to remember. Three Chinese giants who want to stand up to the three American giants, a task that will not be easy. The American Eda Empire. Together, Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence are around 80% of the global in this industry. They monopolize almost all of the EDA market and are one of the main strategic pillars in the semiconductor design industry. Figures that will not allow China to approach in the short term, but that will not move her away from her inevitable destiny: Lead the semiconductor industry, sooner or later. Image | TSMC In Xataka | We already know what the chips that will arrive until 2039 will be. The machine that will manufacture them is close

In a desperate attempt to avoid the blackout, Ree tried to start a gas center seven minutes before the disaster

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The Official reports on the blackout They reveal the maneuvers to counterreloj that the network operator did to try to stabilize the system while rushing into the collapse. T-7 minutes. In the moments of maximum tension (never better) prior to the historic blackout that left the Iberian Peninsula without light on April 28, Red Electric took a desperate measure: he ordered the start of a combined gas cycle center to try to stabilize an electrical system that crumbled at times. The call to the owner of the plant, registered in official reportsthere was just seven minutes before the system collapsed completely at 12:33 at noon. However, the thermal power plant never coupled then The zero of tension It occurred first. It was not a typical morning. That April 28 were the perfect conditions to test the network: a relatively low energy demand, and a very high solar radiation that caused a massive predominance of photovoltaic generation. With a network dominated by the electronics of investors instead of the heavy turbines of the conventional generation, the tension already issued warning signals. At 11:00 in the morning, after a voltage climb, the transformers of two Adif substations in Zaragoza were fired. But the situation became critical from 12:00, with the appearance of strong frequency oscillations that put the stability of the entire network in check. The oscillations. At 12:03, a first 0.6 Hz oscillation was detected, an unusual phenomenon that lasted for almost five minutes, forcing Red Eléctrica to take emergency measures. Among them, reduce electricity exchanges with France and Portugal. It didn’t help much. At 12:19, a new 0.2 Hz oscillation shook the system. Given the seriousness of the situation and the need to “attach more conventional generation” to control the tension, Red Electrico contacted at 12:26 with the head of a combined cycle center in Andalusia to start urgently. The choice was not accidental. The group that could be attached faster in the southern zone was sought, one of the most affected by instability. The chosen central, which had decoupled at 9:00 in the morning, was “hot”, which allowed it a shorter start time: an hour and a half. The goal was to be fully operational at 2:00 p.m. Unfortunately, the system did not have that time. Just seven minutes after the starter order was given, at 12:33, a succession of waterfall generation, mainly due to surgeens, caused the total collapse of the peninsular electrical system. The measure, a last resort to avoid the greatest blackout in the recent history of Spain, “never consummated by the zero of tension.” Image | HRAD (CC by-SA 3.0) In Xataka | Many plants disconnected from the network when the blackout began. The problem is that some renewable did it before

Goal is so desperate that it is beginning to offer up to $ 100 million to investigators of OpenAi and Google

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Goal is offering salaries between 10 and 100 million dollars to Openai star researchers, Google and other companies to hire 50 experts who lead their new superintelligence laboratory, for which Zuckerberg has entered ‘FOUNDER MODE ‘, as published by The New York Times. Why is it important. The Zuckerberg company has lost ground in the AI ​​race after Some stumbling blocks With her models she calls and the key talent escape, including the director of Research of IA Joelle Pineau, whom we could interview a year ago. Now try to recover based on a talonario. In figures. Meta offers reach nine digits per investigator, that is, 100 million dollars. Although they are not structured as a check for that amount. The packages go “seven to nine figures” according to Own sources of The New York Times. Following the typical goal model, it is likely that most be in actions (RSUS) that are distributed for four years. The actions are distributed quarterly for four years. In any case, it is a conjecture based on what was seen above. And these are unpublished amounts, well above the 2 million annually that were already considered exceptional offers. In addition, the company plans to invest 15,000 million dollars to buy approximately half of Scale AI and bring to its CEO, Alexandr Wang, 28. The context. Meta created his first AI laboratory in 2013, but since the launch of Chatgpt in 2022 there has been somewhat lagging behind. His latest models have had performance problems, and the company was discovered after manipulating Benchmarks to make their products seem better than they really were. A practice that We saw in the past on smartphones and that also reached AI. Between the lines. Wang’s choice is not accidental: he is Zuckerberg’s personal friend and a billionaire who made his fortune with Scale AI, a company specialized in labeling data To train AI systems. Its closeness to political power could also be an aid at a complicated regulatory moment for the goal. Google, Openai and Anthropic continue to launch increasingly powerful models while finishing struggle to stay relevant. Sam Altman continues to insist that we are close to the AGI. Even more pressure. Yes, but. Money does not guarantee success. Goal is reputable to be A complicated environmentwith constant internal struggles. In addition, many of the best researchers already have millionaire offers of their current employers and may prefer to stay where they are. Deepen. This movement is part of an upward trend: large technological ones are buying promising startup parts to get talent without having to get the complete company. Microsoft He did it with inflection ai and Google with Character.AI. It is a way to save a few dollars, but above all, to dodge compromising questions by regulators. The big question is if Zuckerberg, who already burned a lot of money with a metaverso that remains far from the expectations raised (and the return of investment), this time can be successful with its most expensive bet to date. In Xataka | Goal has fired 35,000 workers in five years. And many of them fear having entered their “black lists” Outstanding image | Goal

Zuckerberg is desperate with the advance of AI in goal. So entered “Founder Mode”

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Mark Zuckerberg is very frustrated with the advances of his company in artificial intelligence, so much that he is personally hiring a new team of AI experts and researchers to correct the current course of the company. His last launch was Call 4 and, as Bloomberg reportshe has not lived up to expectations. This has caused that the CEO is being implemented to the maximum in the creation of this new team with which it intends to turn to lead the competition and achieve its great goal: to create a AGI (general artificial intelligence). Absolute priority. Zuckerberg has entered “Founder Mode”, this means that he is not delegating the creation of the superintelligence team, as they refer to him internally, but is participating in each step of the process. Fuenter nearby, say that the CEO created a WhatsApp group with other executives to discuss possible candidates and is the first to contact them. He has even met with them in their houses of Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto and has reorganized the offices of its headquarters in Melo Park so that the team feels close to their office and that everything is as private as possible. The team will be made up of around 50 people and will have researchers and infrastructure engineers among others. What is not clear is how it will be integrated with the rest of the AI ​​teams in the finish line or if there will be possible dismissals. Discontent with the advances of the finish line in AI. In April, Meta announced Call 4its great language model that competes with others such as GPT-4. The truth is that it is difficult to unseat Chatgpt, which just in April was also proclaimed as The most downloaded app of the world. The people of the Meta team worked nights and weekends, but the result has been disappointing. This also caused a delay in launching Call 4 Behemothits biggest model to date, because the current one is not at the level they want. Given this, frustrated, Zuckerberg has decided that he wants a new team. Objective: General artificial intelligence. In early 2024, Zuckerberg revealed his great long -term goal: reach general artificial intelligence and “open it to the Open Source so that everyone can benefit.” General artificial intelligence is an even more ambitious concept; an AI that is able to perform any intellectual task, to carry out judgments and reason even with a greater capacity than human beings. There are many companies wanting to lead the next great jump in AI and goal does not want to be left behind. Zuckerberg would be determined to achieve it, although it seems an unrealistic objective considering that it has been launched so far, he has not lived up to his expectations. A Milmillionaire investment. In parallel to the formation of the new team, Zuckerberg would be planning a large investment in Scale AI, a company that offers services to train AI models and also develops applications for companies and governments. With this they would make a leap in quality by having a better data labeling. Although it is not confirmed, bells sound like The agreement is in a very advanced phase and could get to no less than 15,000 million dollarsthe largest external goal investment to date. But Zuckerberg doesn’t seem to worry these millionaire investments. According to Bloomberg, he told possible candidates for his team that the target advertising business is strong and have plenty of liquidity to finance their career in the AI ​​sector. One of these investments would have to do with the Creation of a gigantic data center that could leave for 200,000 million dollars. At its target moment he denied it, but if confirmed it would end up being the most expensive to date, followed by Amazon that will cost $ 100,000 million. In Xataka | What is calls, how we work and what do we know about the artificial intelligence of Meta

The mobile industry has been desperate for years to improve its cameras. Honor believes having found the key

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A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to try the Honor 400 Pro. It is a mid-high-end phone with the focus on mobile photography. So far, there is nothing especially surprising. But if I tell you that this phone sets the bases of a Honor who does not believe that the future of photography is in the hardwarebut in cloud computing, things may change. In Xataka we have been able to talk to Luo Wei, Chief Imaging Architect of Honor. He is the one in charge of leading the photography part, applied to it and super zoom in honor, and ex-huawei. And someone who is clear that to win the smartphone career you have to win the AI ​​race. If marketing sounds like you can be calm. It is not, it is the vision of the future of a giant who aspires to conquer Europe. Honor wants to lead in Europe, and wants to do it with ia To understand why AI for honor in phones is so important and not misunderstand it as a marketing exercise, it is necessary to know the relevance that the company has with its Alpha plan. In March 2025, the company revealed a investment of 10,000 million dollars In five years to promote artificial intelligence on their devices and display your first AI agent, in association with Qualcomm and Google. The objective is clear: lead the AI ​​agents in the mobile ecosystem and be the main reference in this race. At the moment, he will do it hand in hand with these two partners in Europe. Honor has different strategies for China and Europe. In our territory, Google Cloud is the main partner It is also relevant to understand that this plan has a lot to do with The position of honor in Europe and how it aspires to conquer our market, more than a proposal centered purely on your native country. With counterpoint data in your hand, Honor is the brand that grows most in shipments in Europe in an interannual wayand wants to continue pushing leading the functions of AI. In China, its AI approach is different, deeper and more local. There the partner is not Google Cloud, they are national giants like Alibaba (Qwen + Wanxiang), Baidu and Tencent Clouddeepening much more in your Yoyo assistant and hand with Depseek. All of AI One of the pillars of this plan, in addition to the creation of the first agriculture for smartphones, is Aimage. Landing the term to the tangible: the high -end phones of honor process the photographs in the cloud to “improve them”. And about this there are many questions. The first is why. Here Luo Wei states that, historically, Mobile photography has been limited by hardware. A limitation that according to Honor can only be overcome using cloud computing, especially for tasks such as image restoration, provide movement (turn into short video) static images or improvements in the zoom. Being more concrete, 12,500 million processable parameters for its cloud model vs. 3,000 million parameters with which current hardware can deal. Adding to this point the possibility that stresses honor of updating its algorithms via Ota. It’s something we have talked about in Xataka: We have been watching a stagnant industry at the photographic level and with a clear physical limit when improving your hardware. Currently, there are no larger sensors. The second point is in the democratization of functions such as Super Zoom (Zoom improved with AI) on devices beyond its flagship. Creating a cloud platform from which you can drink lower ranges models allows you to honor an experience similar to that of a high range in cheaper models. “The algorithms have been increasingly improving since December last year, when this function had just left. And if you compare the future with what is now, five months later, you can see that the cloud -based algorithm is updated every two weeks is becoming remarkably more real.” For honor it is also especially important The improvement margin through updates that allows AI. Honor takes it seriously: they update it every two weeks. The key here is not alone in time, it is in how. System updates can be installed or not, depend on storage space and hardware requirements. Luo says that, using the cloud, they could update the algorithm daily if they wanted and access to it would be immediate. The second great unknown has to do with profitability. Using Google’s cloud sounds good, But someone has to pay it. Here is surprising the transparency of Luo, who explains that honor is still debating what the business model will be and if they will end up charging users or not to use these services in the cloud. Here, Luo explains that honor does not pay for users or requests, but for QPS (consultations per second). In other words, for the ability of users to access the cloud service, and thus their costs do not depend on user behavior. It is, currently, its way of making this business sustainable, although it makes it clear that it is something that is being worked on and discussing internally. Betting everything to the cloud brings an inevitable question, What happens to the privacy of users. Honor explains that its AI cannot be used without prior consent of the user (it appears from the configuration assistant), and secondly, that all photographs that are uploaded to the cloud to be processed are eliminated after being treated. On the future of photography, Luo closes with a metaphor. At the beginning of the history of automotive, the gearbox was manual. Subsequently, it went to automatic changes and, today, We are already talking about autonomous driving. And yet, we still need drivers. For honor, the AI ​​will allow any user, regardless of their degree of skill, obtain the best photograph in any scenario. For expert users, it will be a co-pilot in editing functions, elimination of elements and post-foto work. Image | Honor In Xataka | … Read more

Desperate to find his stolen motorcycle, he ended up locating a container with another 25 about to sail. It wasn’t thanks to GPS

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In Spain a motorcycle is steal every six minutes. It is enough with a van and two or three people willing to make it disappear. It is not the only country that this scourge suffers. In the United Kingdom Motorcycles are stolen worth three million each monthsomething that leads to a curious story. One in which the London police could find much more than he was looking for. Biketrac It is a company specialized in GPS tracking devices based in the United Kingdom. Next to the police, and after investigating the theft of a client, he has been able to locate many more motorcycles than he had planned. One of the company’s clients called those responsible for the service, desperate after the theft of their BMW R 1200 GSone of the stars in the German house. Biketrac, which offers a tracking service by combining both GPS and radiofrequency, located the motorcycle at a point of Essexa small county that may sound to you if you like Viking history. They soon realized that the motorcycle was still moving, getting closer and more to a load spring near the port. They were quite clear that thieves wanted to send the motorcycle abroad, and that time ran against him. According to the company, the authorities could be indicated to the exact container that contained them thanks to the radio frequency, and not to the GPS. Within a container, GPS ceases to be a precise technologyand that is where the radiofrequency You can emit small radio pulses that, tracked with appropriate portable receptors, can determine locations exactly. Simply approach the container and check the signal intensity. When it reaches its maximum, you are facing it. With the police authorization, readings were taken in the area to triangular the exact position of the container, identifying its corresponding number to subsequently inform the authorities. Location and number in hand, the police requested permission from the port to access the container. Bingo. Inside it was not alone the BMW R 1200 GS, there were a total of 25 motorcycles stacked in the container, ready to leave the country. This was how, in the task of finding a single motorcycle, almost thirty of them, thanks to radio frequency technology. An unusual in most trackers sold in Spain. Image | BMW In Xataka | Electronics has started a war to kill the most sacred piece of motorcycles: the traditional clutch

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