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Samsung already has its own smart glasses. The difficult thing will be to differentiate them from those of their competitors.

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During the Galaxy Unpacked event held these days in London, Samsung has presented your long-awaited smart glasses. We are looking at two different designs developed in collaboration with the international eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. The glasses combine a light frame and a thin but resistant profile. The goal: to be able to wear them without problems throughout the day. It is a proposal that, yes, will have to compete with an increasingly lively sector and in which differentiating is beginning to be problematic. Before continuing, we remind you that the members of Xataka Xtra can access discounts, benefits and exclusive opportunities in the Samsung online storein addition to exclusive raffles, a private Discord server and a growing catalog of discounts and advantages on digital services. You can join the community for only 30 euros per year. Smart glasses that hide their ability Won-Joon Choi, COO of Samsung Electronics’ Mobile eXperience (MX) business, explained in the presentation that AI is also transforming mobile experiences, adding that “smart glasses create a new point of interaction and bring more personalized AI assistance.” The smart glasses from Samsung’s Galaxy family boast a particularly light and comfortable design, but without compromising the battery. This has an autonomy of up to nine hours with a single charge. The charging case allows for up to seven additional full charges. In that frame, the glasses include an integrated camera that provides visual context to the AI ​​experience. An exterior and interior LED indicator inform when recording is active, while recording is automatically deactivated when the glasses are removed from the user’s face or when the exterior LED is covered. Additionally, users have additional controls over privacy and personalization, and their audio, screen sharing, and video data is not used to train artificial intelligence models. And as the center of that experience, a Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chip which is responsible for providing the necessary performance for all the functions offered. Among others, this SoC is responsible for solving touch interaction, connectivity, energy efficiency and thermal management. During Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung presented two different designs, developed together with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. The Gentle Monster edition features a slim black frame that combines a straight top line with gently rounded bottom edges. The Warby Parker design presents a slightly raised top line in brown, a proposal that until now had not been seen so much in this type of wearables. In the press presentation we saw a third model with an equally differential design in which the frame had more oval and narrower lenses. Gemini by flag The other main protagonist of the user experience on this device is GeminiGoogle’s generative AI model that thus provides an assistant with which to interact by voice in a natural, immediate and intuitive way. Not only can we ask for help and assistance about what we see at all times, but we can also use it as a voice assistant to chat and ask questions of all kinds. Some of these use cases stand out at Samsung. Some work in collaboration with our mobile, for example summarizing long messages, translating in real time or reading information aloud. It is also possible to use the location to find a route, and the camera can also be used as an interface for Gemini to explain how to complete a manual task. Price and variants of Samsung smart glasses At the moment, Samsung has not provided information on the price or availability of these smart glasses, but we will update this information as soon as it is available. More information | Samsung

The El Niño numbers are so strong that they are beginning to make half the world nervous. We have to be able to differentiate risk from hysteria

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“More than 1.80 degrees, 3.46 standard deviations“These two figures simply summarize the enormous El Niño problem that is upon us. And yet, they say much more than they seem. Because, while social networks are filled with phrases like «2026 will be the year when we look back and say: “there, that was when the relatively stable climate system that we have had for 10,000 years really broke down”», are just the data that two of the largest agencies in the world have just retired. Let’s start with what we are clear about. The El Niño of 2026 is real and is coming (very) strong. After an almost testimonial Niña and as we have been counting these months, the Pacific has stepped on the accelerator and on June 11 it made an appearance. The CPC The NOAA estimates that the event is “very strong” between November and January at 63%, the highest since 1950. So, anyway, the figures cannot surprise anyone either. The problem is that they are inflated. That +1.80 with which the text began is the traditional Niño 3.4 index, the absolute. In short: it is the index that measures how far the Central Pacific is from its historical average. And it’s the index we’ve been using all these years. The problem is that there was one small detail that clouded the data and that, sooner or later, we had to address: climate change. In an ocean that warms with each passing day, both La Niña and El Niño start from different places than in previous decades. We were inflating Los Niño and deflating Las Niñas without meaning to. For this reason, in 2026, NOAA adopted the RONI, a relative index that discounted the effect of climate change. And, in this sense, the data circulating on the internet is true and worrying, yes; but incomplete. And does the photo change much from the ONI to the RONI? Since we don’t have updated data, let’s go to April: according to NOAAthe ONI marked +0.23 °C, while the RONI was at −0.24 °C. That is to say, the difference is considerable, but the situation is much less critical. So… the system isn’t broken? The reaction to the runaway ONI hits the mark, but misses the mark. Evidently, El Niño has not gone crazy: it is a mechanism with thousands of years behind it that works on a relatively new world. We could see an obvious example this June: the warmest observed in the global ocean, one in which marine heat waves covered 82% of its surface. And now…. what? In the short term, an increasingly stronger El Niño. It is true that in Spain we are relatively safe from what happens in the Pacific; but, sooner or later, we are going to notice it. As half the world is already noticing. Image | BenBaso In Xataka | We are already seeing the first most destructive effect of El Niño in living memory: rising sea levels

Lenovo’s commitment to differentiate itself in a market saturated with chatbots

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Less than a year ago, Lenovo’s AI teams worked in silos, on islands independent of each other. The Motorola engineers did not talk to those of the ThinkPad. Those with the tablets were doing their thing. And the AI ​​experiences that were coming to market “They didn’t look the same, they didn’t communicate with each other, they didn’t use the same technologies“, acknowledges Jeff Snow, Head of AI Product of the company. It was the diagnosis of a company that had arrived late to realize something: having hardware in all segments is of no use if the software does not unite them. The answer was to create the AI ​​Ecosystem Group, a cross-functional organization that Snow describes as the missing piece: “Luca (Luca Rossi, head of the Intelligent Devices Group) said that everything had to be put together. “We took everyone working in AI, from phones to PCs to tablets, and brought them together.” The result has its own name: lenovo Qira, formerly known as Kira during internal development, a layer of intelligence which is beginning to be deployed on more than twenty company devices: ThinkPad, Yoga, Legion, IdeaPad…And that in 2026 it will make the leap to Motorola. The value proposition is seemingly simple, but difficult to execute: that the AI ​​knows who you are, what you are doing and where you are doing it, without that information leaving your devices. “If you use ChatGPT, any interaction you have with it is in the cloud, and that’s very risky. People sometimes don’t realize that if they share personal information with an LLM, that information is free and open in the cloud,” Snow says. Lenovo wants to play on the other side: small models, specific for specific tasks, executed locally. The practical demonstration has some understated magic. You drag a PDF to the Qira icon on your laptop, tell it to remember it, and the system vectorizes the document and indexes it locally. From that moment, you can ask questions about that document from your mobile. The file has never left the PC’s hard drive. “It’s like making a call and asking someone something,” explains Snow. “You only get the answers to what you ask. You haven’t asked him to tell you his entire life at once.” Example mentioned by dragging a file to the Qira icon, in the upper area of ​​the monitor, so that it is vectorized and retains its information so that it can be consulted from another device without leaving the computer disk. Image: Xataka. The document in the previous image being consulted indirectly (through a specific question) from a Motorola. Image: Xataka. This balance between personalization and privacy is the core of Lenovo’s differentiating argument against its competitors. At MWC there were many brands that added AI by pasting a layer of OpenAI or Gemini on top of their interface. Snow puts it forcefully: “We want to be the ones who make AI experiences feel native on devices, not just an app that has everything in the cloud.” The bet is that the most useful AI is not the most powerful, but the one that knows the most about you, and that to know about you without betraying you it needs to live where you live: on your hardware. The robot that Lenovo presented at the stand (the AI ​​Work Companion, a physical desktop device with presence and audio sensors) illustrates how far they want to take this concept of ‘ambient AI’. The AI ​​Work Companion robot can project an image, capture what we physically write down on it, outside the monitor; and then print both the image and the annotations. Among other things. Image: Xataka, Snow is the first to acknowledge that the device itself is a prototype. “The important thing is not the device, but the sensors and the proactive nature it has,” he clarifies. The robot detects when two people are talking and can offer to take notes without being asked. He sees that someone has taken a pen and is drawing something, and asks if he wants to save that sketch. It is an AI that observes the context instead of waiting for instructions. There is, in fact, the direction towards which the entire strategy points: agentic AI. Snow defines it as the state they want to reach with Qira: a system that not only answers questions, but understands a user’s patterns (what they research, what they buy, what they are interested in) and acts autonomously on their behalf. “If you are a student, you will have different issues than if you are a mother taking care of her family. Based on interactions, you understand the issues and build agents that help you in a more autonomous way.” It is a vision that sounds familiar because it is the one that is being sold, with different nuances, by practically all the players in the sector. The difference is that Lenovo comes into this race with an advantage that OpenAI and Anthropic don’t have: a gigantic installed base of heterogeneous hardware.. PCs, laptops, tablets, Motorola phones, wearables… If you get that Qira truly work seamlessly across all those devices (Windows and Android, x86 and ARM, on-premises and cloud) you will have built something that your pure software competitors can’t easily replicate. The risk, of course, is that “if he succeeds” is a very loaded conditional. The history of the sector is full of ecosystems promised and never delivered. For now, Qira is beginning to be deployed in six languages ​​and nine regions, with Spanish among them, and integration with Motorola is still a promise for the coming months. Snow talks about foundation, starting point, direction. Great AI stories always have that structure: we are building something that doesn’t quite exist yet, but in whose direction it is worth believing. What does already exist is competitive pressure. At MWC 2026, the framework of the interview with Snow, AI stopped being differential and became mandatory. 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what you should look at to differentiate them from the approved ones

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Let’s tell you how to check that the V16 beacon is not a fake when you go to buy one. It’s good to know what to look for in a V16 beacon when you go to buy it, but we are going to try to focus above all on distinguishing the fakes that there is already beginning to be at much lower prices. Failure to carry one of these beacons after January 1, 2026 may result in a financial fine. And if you carry one of the old ones without eSIM connection or a counterfeit one, then it will be as if you were not carrying any, and you will be exposed to the same fine of 80 euros. Differentiate approved beacons from false ones The first thing you have to do is pay attention to where you buy. If you want to buy them in a physical store, try to go to one that offers you guarantees about their approval, because buying them at El Corte Inglés or Leroy Merlin is not the same as buying them at your neighborhood bazaar, for example. Better to go to a specialized store or large store where they have the knowledge to guarantee that what you buy is approved. And it will be even safer if they give you the option to return it in the event that when you open it and inspect it you realize that it is not what you are looking for. If you are going to buy in an online store You are going to have to take extreme precautions, and it is essential to go to one with a good return policy. Even in large stores like Amazon or AliExpress there are many beacons, and some of them are not approved. The price is also a good cluebecause the approved beacons have a price that ranges between 30 and 50 euros. Come on, if you see a V16 in a store for 15 or 20 euros, then you should be distrustful by default. One of the most important things is review the certification code that is printed on them. It must have an alphanumeric combination that begins with the letters LCOE or IDAE. If in doubt, you can review the DGT database where are all the approved models. In Xataka Basics | Check if your V16 beacon works well without alerting the DGT: how to do it and what time limit you have

What are they, how your mobile protect and how to differentiate the best at the best price

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Let’s explain What are USB blockersa very interesting security method when you are going to load your phones or PCs in public USB. These are adapters that should have when you travel outside to avoid unnecessary problems and dislikes, although they are still little known. We are going to start this article explaining what these devices and their concept are, as well as the way they work. And how No one will serve youwe will also tell you what things to look at and take into account when buying one of these digital shields. What are USB blockers There are two gold rules to take care of your computer or mobile when you are out of home: do not connect to a Public wifi and not connect your device to a public USB. The reason is that you never know when there may be a cybercriminal taking advantage of these resources to access your mobile through the very insecure Wi -Fi Public or collecting some malware In a USB. To protect yourself in a public wifi you can resort to a VPNwe have already told you the list of Better VPN. While, USB blockers are the ones that will protect you in public USB In the event that you have no choice but to connect to one. Because sometimes your mobile or portable runs out of battery, and the urgency of connecting to the USB that you see in a bar, restaurant or airport is greater than protecting you from a criminal who has put malware in it waiting for someone to connect to infect their device. And why is it dangerous to connect to a public USB? Because there are techniques such as “Juice Jacking” or “Choicejacking”, which are used to Transmit information through cable without your permission. Come on, that you start loading the mobile in a USB, and a program that was in it transfers a virus to your phone or extracts personal data from it. And this is where these blockers come into play, which are devices that make the connection to a public USB safe acting as an intermediary between the cable that connects to your mobile or computer and the USB port. Make use of a technology that does not allow data transferonly the energy. How USB blockers work USB blockers are small adapters that You connect between the cable and the USB port. It is something like a condom: you connect the cable of your device to the blocker, and then connect this blocker to the USB. Thus, the connection is made safely. This adapter has an internal technology that eliminates the USB flow data lines. Come on, for practical purposes Let the energy pass but block the dataso that you can use a USB to load your mobile or laptop, but they will never transfer data. If these adapters do not let the data pass They don’t have all internal pins They usually bring traditional adapters. Come on, when you connect a cable to a USB adapter, there are a series of pins that must coincide to transfer both data and energy. In these blockers, those responsible for transferring data will be missing. And it is basically that, as simple as effective. You are not going to have to do anything. The device has a USB input to connect the cable to it, and a connector to use in the public USB you want. How to choose the best blocker These types of USB blockers are not expensive, but it is convenient to take precautions. For a start, Be careful with the cheapestbecause they could not block all the data reliably, or could interfere with the fast charge. Specifically, you must look at the explicitly indicating that They have unlocked The lines USB-C Superspeed and USB2 D+/D-. These terms may not tell you anything, but they are the ones that ensure that data transfer is cut, but that has fast charging. Finally, keep in mind that USB blockers are not going to protect you from everything. They only serve to remove the connection lines, but there may be other dangers that use other techniques. Therefore, an external battery or a traditional plug will always be a better option than a public USB. It is also convenient Know some of the renowned brands of this type of devices. For example, In Xataka Android They make us recommendations such as This Startech model. In it, you can notice that it is physically seen that it does not have all the pins of the traditional USB adapters. Cover image | Noelia Hontoria In Xataka Basics | USB security key: what is and how to do your own

We already have so many “humanoid” robots that it costs to differentiate some of the tros. This chart fixes it

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We are determined to create robots that look like us. It all started in 1980 with a original Boston Dynamics that already had prototypes of robots capable of Give mortal jumps and walk to Pata Cojawith designs that would later be recovered for wonders such as Spot. The industry has advanced a lot in these 30 years and of those robots almost from the science fiction of the 80s, we have moved to humanoid robots with amazing abilities. And in this graph prepared by Visual Capitalist We can see some of the most representative in recent months: Police photo. The Boston Dynamics HD Atlas was the one that began this fever for humanoid robots. We have seen it do everything, but life is hard and The time for retirement arrived. A new generation, the new Atlas, stronger and capable of its joints, reached the company’s testing field now owned by Hyundaibut as can be seen in the graph, it is not very different from the rest of the competitors. Chinese models are missing. In this kind of police file, we have a majority presence of American robots, being the PHOENIX of Sanctuary AI and the H1 of Unitree the only ones who are not Americans. And yes, it is true that US companies are very focused on the creation of these devices, but many China models are missing. The Asian giant is immersed in a technological revolution (despite the severe western restrictions) and has within its borders companies that They are competing Not only to create robots to integrate into your society, but do it on a large scale. One of the maximum exponents, apart from the UNITREE H1, is the Agibot company with the models A2 and A2 Max. Like Americans, they have a IA processor that allows you to collect data from abroad and act accordingly. In addition, these models are multimodal, so they also understand information provided through text or audio. There are also the Robothera Star1 (considered the fastest in the world), the Ubtech Walker S1 or the GR-1 of Fourier Intelligence. China wants to work. Despite all those absences, it is clear that we have been seeing demonstrations of these robots for years, but few examples of them performing the work for which they have been programmed in the real world (with exceptions like BMW’s figure). It is precisely China where the accelerator are most treading at the moment due to the need. The GR-1, for example, was programmed to exercise as a nurse with the aim of responding to a need: The country is increasingly old And there is no generational relief capable of taking care of their elders, or who wants work in some industries. The intention of the country It is to create a National Network of Services for the Elderly in 2029 with the aim that all older citizens have access to basic services. Among the tasks of these robots, are domestic services, health monitoring or emotional company. But we can not only talk about humanoid robots, since China too He is testing robots ‘Lazarillos’ And it has its own spot working as a mobile paper. 2025 looks like the year. The interesting thing is that, beyond the tests in some scenarios in China and the United States, the main players in this segment are clear that 2025 should be the year in which the explosion of robots begins. At the end of 2024, Agibot said they were ready for their robots to take the streets thanks to 1,000 models produced; Tesla wants to produce in mass Optimus gen 2 This 2025, with between 50,000 and 100,000 units Facing 2026 And the Chinese government itself marked 2025 as a target year so that the robots of their companies are available to buy. I, robot. There are many other companies, such as the Norwegian 1x with their Neo Beta and Neo Gamma whose objective will be to clean the house that are also in this wave of robotics, but beyond the companies that aspire to create mass robots this 2025, there are others that want to get into the car in one way or another. An example is goal, Mark Zuckerberg’s company that is betting strongly to the development of artificial intelligence and that, precisely, wants Its AI is the brain of some of these robots. And, speaking of great technological ones, We have Apple’s examplewhich also seems to be looking for the way to put the leg in the home robot segment, with a device similar to An iPad with robotic arm First and humanoid robots as a final objective. In the end, as we say, after years of demonstrations, it seems that 2025 will be the year in which robots will cease to be simple fair attractions to integrate into our day to day. In the day to who can and want pay themclear. In Xataka | You don’t need to blow your coffee too hot. This little “pet robot” does it for you

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