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Renfe has its AVRIL trains ready to put them back on the tracks. You just have to show that they don’t split

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It seems that the soap opera of Renfe’s AVRIL trains is beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The company has already received the completely repaired trains from Talgo, according to The Economistwho claim that the company has confirmed this point to them. The first question is what will be the new destination of these trains. The second is whether they will pass the litmus test: proving that they do not split. Back. Renfe already has the S106 trains affected by the cracks suffered in the Madrid-Barcelona corridor while providing AVLO service. That is what the company itself has confirmed to us, which, when asked by Xataka has confirmed that the replacement of the bogies has now “been successfully completed”. The trains have returned three months after being sent for repairs to the railway company’s facilities. They have done so after having completely replaced the affected bogies. Instead of being repaired, they have been completely changed to avoid greater evils. What happened? At the end of July, Renfe began to receive signals that something was wrong with its AVRIL trains that provided the AVLO service (Renfe’s low cost line) on the Madrid-Barcelona route. Those signs were, directly, cracks in trains. Although first there was talk of one train, we finally know that there were five that ended up affected by cracks of different magnitudes. After a tug of war between The Economist (which advanced the news) and the company itselfRenfe ended up suspending the sale of AVLO tickets on the Madrid-Barcelona route and ended up redistributing the AVE service to customers. Now the company recovers those affected trains but it does not seem that Madrid-Barcelona will be their destination. Whose fault is it? It is one of the great unknowns. Renfe has pointed out Talgo as the culprit of the cracks, reminding him that the trains are under warranty and that, therefore, they were not going to pay for the repairs. Talgo, for its part, blames Adifensuring that the maintenance of the line is insufficient and that this has caused excessive vibrations that have led to the famous cracks. Everything indicates that the problem is in the section between Madrid and Calatayud. In fact, the company even considered that it would continue operating with its AVLO service in the corridor but at a reduced speed which, it is assumed, did not generate the vibrations and therefore should not have an impact on structural damage to the train. Ultimately, this option was discarded. Fire test. The return of the affected AVRIL trains is a litmus test for Renfe… but above all for Talgo. And it is that Renfe has already been looking for trains in Germany to look for an alternative to the S106, known as AVRIL, which only Talgo manufactures. Giving a good image with a unique train in the world is essential to a company that is in financial trouble. The S106 trains were to be a leap forward for the company. They are the only ones who, given the railway peculiarities of Spainthey can “jump” from Iberian gauge to international gauge. For Renfe they are key because this allows them to position themselves ahead of Ouigo and Iryo facing a future opening to competition in the Galician corridor. However, the S106 have arrived late and They have garnered numerous bad reviews. And where are they going? It is another of the doubts that remain to be cleared up. According to Alberto Puivecinoresponsible for infrastructure and mobility at CCOO in Catalonia, it is possible that these trains will be used for AVANT (medium distance high speed) services in the region. A line that joins Lleida, Tarragona, Barcelona, ​​Girona and Figueres. The information was made public after a meeting between CCOO and the Generalitat of Catalonia. In Xataka We have asked Renfe in this regard but they assure that “the service that the currently immobilized units 106 will provide has not yet been determined. In any case, wherever they are finally going to operate they will do so with full safety guarantees.” For now, the fate of these units remains to be revealed. What we do know is that it is a litmus test for Talgo that must demonstrate that its S106 trains are once again reliable and, above all, are safe enough. Photo | Miguel In Xataka | The countries with the most kilometers of high-speed train, displayed in a graph with a brutal dominator: China

A giant wave is sweeping across the Milky Way. Scientists currently don’t know why.

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Our galaxy, Milky Wayis far from a quiet place. It spins, it wobbles and, as a new study just revealed, it also undulates. New ESA data have discovered a colossal wave, baptized as “the great wave” that propagates through the galactic disk in a very similar way to the waves that we have in a pond when we throw a stone. The study. This phenomenon, which has been identified by the team led by Eloisa Poggio of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy, is a “corrugation “large-scale vertical” that is superimposed on the already known deformation that our galaxy constantly suffers. In essence, we are facing a wave that causes entire stripes of stars to move “up” and “down.” Great proportions. It is nothing like the waves that we see on our beaches, of course, since we are talking about something on a galactic level. In this case, astronomers know since the 50’s that the disk of the Milky Way it’s not flatbut rather it is deformed (or “warped”) at its edges. Now this study adds an additional structure that no one knew was there. Thanks to Gaia’s incredibly precise measurements, which map the 3D position and 3D motion of stars, the team was able to analyze two populations of young stars: giant stars and classical Cepheids. These maps revealed a gigantic wave that is now coming to light. The figures. In order to understand the magnitude of this phenomenon, we can take into account the following parameters of this phenomenon: Height: the movement of the stars is about 150-200 parsecs, which is up to 650 light years above and below the galactic plane. Length: The structure spans at least 10,000 light years and possibly up to 20,000. Location: affects a vast section of the outer disk, in regions located tens of thousands of light years from the galactic center. The test. The most fascinating thing about the discovery is not just the shape of the wave, but the evidence that it is moving. “What makes this even more compelling is our ability, thanks to Gaia, to also measure the motions of stars within the galactic disk,” explains Poggio. To understand it, the team used a perfect analogue: the wave of a stadium. If we were to freeze the wave that is made in the stands of a stadium, we would see some people standing (the crest), others who have just sat down (the back part) and others who are about to get up (the front part). Something similar happens in the galaxy. The astronomers discovered that the stars with the highest vertical position (the crest) were not the same as the stars with the highest vertical velocity. The maximum speed point was displaced, with a 90º approach phase difference. This phase difference is irrefutable proof that it is a propagating wave. And not only that: the stars inside the corrugation also show a systematic radial motion of 10-15 km/s outward. The conclusion is clear: it is a wave that travels from the interior of the galaxy to its furthest reaches. There is a mystery. Researchers have measured the wave, but don’t know what caused it. The main hypothesis is that the Milky Way suffered an encounter or collision with a smaller dwarf galaxy, but it is not 100% certain. Previous simulations have shown that interaction with a satellite galaxy, such as Sagittarius, can excite exactly these types of vertical waves and corrugations in the galactic disk. This “big wave” is much larger and located much further away than the famous Radcliffe wavea filament of gas about 9,000 light years long located near our Sun. Although both are undulations, scientists believe that they are two different characteristics, although they do not rule out that they may be related in some way. Since the young stars studied (giants and Cepheids) were born from galactic gas, the team suspects that the wave not only carries the stars, but also the gas itself from the disk. The stars would have simply inherited the motion of the gas from which they formed, preserving a “memory” of the wave. Now the investigation must continue. Astronomers are looking forward to Gaia’s fourth data release, which will provide even more precise measurements and help create detailed maps to perhaps finally reveal the origin of our galaxy’s undulating heart. Images | Dns Dgn In Xataka | When stars formed has always been one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. And we are closer to solving it

that they do not pay tolls. And (almost) all countries don’t care

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The European Union is determined that transport drastically reduces its emissions. In Xataka We have discussed at length the plan to jump to the electric car, with new emissions limits from 2030 that will force the pure gasoline car to be almost testimonial and the intention to ban combustion engines by 2035. And, hand in hand, we also want to drastically reduce emissions from heavy road transport. Here, the electric truck should be key. To promote it, the European Union wants them not to pay tolls. No tolls. It’s what has approved the European Union. Right now, countries that want to apply it can free electric trucks from tolls on their roads. Applying this possibility, which is decided by each Member State, expired on December 31, 2025 but has been extended until December 31, 2030. The European Commission’s proposal arrived in summer and a few days ago, with 458 votes in favor, 182 against and 11 abstentions, the European Parliament confirmed its expansion. Electric trucks will not have to pay tolls on European roads… if a Member State decides so. almost no one. The problem is that almost no one fully applies this rule. Right now, only Germany and Austria offer their roads completely free of charge to purely electric trucks. These vehicles do not have to pay to use their toll roads. In addition to Germany and Austria, 10 countries offer discounts for electric trucks when using their highways. And another 15 countries do not apply any type of discount. Among them, indeed, is Spain, which charges the same for a polluting truck as for a zero-emission truck. The plans. Although the countries that apply these exemptions completely are testimonial and more than half do not apply any type of discount, European enlargement reopens this possibility so that more States join in to favor the arrival of electric trucks on their roads. Europe’s ultimate intention is to drastically reduce its emissions from heavy transport. The objectives vary depending on the size of the vehicle but, for trucks, the intention is to reduce emissions by 45% by 2035 and that in 2040 the presence of combustion engines in the trucks sold will be almost negligible, with a 90% reduction in emissions. The comparison is made with data from 1990. These plans also include passenger transport buses, which will also not have to pay tolls as long as each State allows it. Viable? Given this measure, manufacturer associations such as ACEA have shown their enthusiasm for the decision but… to what extent is it viable to electrify heavy transport? Its impact is important (barely 2% of the vehicles that move but produce more than 25% of road transport emissions) so jumping to electric trucks is a priority for Europe. The problem is that the electric truck continues to require a really expensive purchase although, over time, the savings promises are consistent. According to the consulting firm Commercial Vehicle World, the savings when operating with this type of vehicle is between 10 and 20% compared to a diesel truck. One of the problems, of course, continues to be autonomy. For now, the most ambitious electric trucks They move in runs of between 500 and 600 kilometers but the key is in the recharging times, which with a 150 kW pole can take up to two hours to fill their batteries. Beyond the tolls. In. its objective to promote the jump to the electric truck, the European Union is forcing countries to Fill your roads with charging points. Of these, large charging islands are planned that should serve these enormous vehicles. The intention is to have very powerful plugs but, until now, they have focused on plugs of, at most, 350 kW, which is clearly insufficient. It must be taken into account that BYD has already given approval for the installation in Europe of its 1MW chargerswhich is clearly focused on this type of transportation. But electric trucks are also beginning to gain ground. While in Europe they are negligible, with less than 1% of sales, in China they already exceed 20%. Many of them have gained traction due to the possibility of changing batteries at appropriate stations, which guarantees that, in just a few minutes, the vehicle can continue its journey. Photo | In Xataka | BYD has shown us that charging 400 kilometers in five minutes is very real. And they have managed to change my mind

The latest trend among the rich is exclusive writing retreats. Experts don’t think anything too good will come of it.

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The bubble of the luxury retreats It continues to grow by pairing itself with all kinds of hobbies. Painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography or jewelry classes we already have increasingly wealthy clients with higher and higher goals. The phenomenon of wellness luxury It continues to expand and the last sphere to receive its corresponding practical courses for very well-off people has been that of writing. In other words: if you are starving as a writer it is because you want to, it is a waste of time to make a living from writing (as long as you already had a lot of money beforehand, of course). Luxury retreats for writers. Luxury retreats for writers come under scrutiny in articles like this one from Slatewhich although it guarantees that the cost of the experience it describes is very high, also makes it clear that strictly literary results are not guaranteed. They are exclusive experiences that combine writing with activities such as massages, yoga, horseback riding, gourmet gastronomy and cultural tours in destinations such as Guatemalaon board a luxury cruise with all kinds of classes and tutorials, France either Tuscany. The only thing you need to participate in them is to have sufficient financial resources and available free time, not talent or experience in the world of writing. ‘Call me Ismael’, version wellness luxury. That is, more than the writing workshop in your neighborhood bookstore, these retreats have to do with the trend of wellness luxury that we mentioned: retreats that combine popular hobbies with exclusive holistic practices such as guided meditations, pranayamaspecialized massages, spa with ancestral therapies and gourmet organic gastronomy (sic). This exists but if you haven’t heard of it, perhaps it is because it is outside your sphere of possibilities. Visit websites with these types of experiences, such as Sansara Resort on the Pacific coast, and you decide if it is designed for your pocket or continue taking your drafts to your neighborhood bookstore. Emotional scam. Richard Z. Santos, author of the article, speaks directly of an emotional and financial “scam”: in the last 15 years, the duration of his literary career, he has observed how this market of workshops, sessions, and retreats to improve writing has grown, but the recent wave of touristy and expensive destinations for writers does not guarantee anything. These luxury retreats are accessible with direct payment and without a quality filter, they are more of a luxury product and a tourist experience than a serious training space. What’s more, some writers have reported that these retreats can be emotionally draining or counterproductive if you are working on sensitive or traumatic material without adequate psychological support. The barriers. Santos talks about the fact that the participants in this type of retreat are mostly white women with good economic stability, which creates an important socioeconomic and racial diversity barrier. Quite the opposite of what happens with “real”, prestigious and traditional retreats, such as Yaddo either Bread Loafwhich work with rigorous selection processes based on literary merits and offer scholarships for those who cannot afford them, and thus add social and ethnic diversity. Pay and you will receive. The luxury tourism industry and wellness They try to cover themselves with experiences that sell skills or training, and thus stop transmitting an image of indolence or little commitment to other social levels. But the name “pay-to-play” that is usually given to these withdrawals is for a reason: the fact of paying does not guarantee anything. And much less in something that requires a certain commitment, like artistic creation. Photo of Darius Bashar in Unsplash

If you don’t know what to visit when you go through Zamora, Palencia or Ciudad Real, this map is the solution to your problems

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More than half a century after mass tourism began in Spain, the country is among the most visited of the world. Around of 80 million people They arrive in Spain annually, a figure only surpassed by France (+89,000,000). The number is impressive, especially if we compare the scale of its two immediate pursuers, the United States and China. And the reason is simple: 8,000 kilometers of coastline, a wonderful climate and years and years of tourist tradition behind it, with all that this implies in terms of infrastructure. The international nature of the average tourist has caused numerous breakdowns of heads to the authorities during the last years. Spain has tried to attract as many European, Asian or American travelers as possible in a context of tourism recession. During the pandemic parenthesis this was a complicated mission. It was then time to raise the flag of “national tourism”, one that has been flying for two consecutive summers. But what to see in Spain beyond the beaches once crowded by Germans or English? The question has crossed the minds of millions of Spaniards in recent seasons. To answer it, Musement has elaborated this map in which it analyzes the number and quality of scores received by more than 4,500 “points of interest“, that is, attractions and monuments, spread throughout the country. And from this data they have chosen one for each province. An advantage and a problem of this approach: it is useful to know what image the average Spaniard produces when he thinks of places like Palencia or Jaén; but at the same time it summarizes the many positive attributes of each province in a popularity contest. The attractions or monuments numbered here are not necessarily the most interesting, satisfying or beautiful in each place. They are the most famous. It is a personal matter to assess its degree of recommendability. (Musement) If we look at the palette of colors and categories, the north stands out for its large volume of “cathedrals, churches and basilicas.” From the ubiquitous Sagrada Familia of Barcelona to the Santiago de Compostela Cathedralvisiting other highlights of the Camino, be it the Cathedral of León, the Sanctuary of Covadonga, the Cathedral of Burgos, the Co-Cathedral of Santa María de la Redonda or the Basilica del Pilar. Other unique architectural elements sneak in through there, such as Gaudí’s Capricho (Comillas), the Royal Palace of Olite or the Seu Vella. There are also outstanding landscapes: from the La Florida Park in Vitoria to the imposing Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, surrounding the Sil Canyons, the Sanabria Lake or the Palentina Mountain Natural Park in between (some of them in the center of what has come to be called Empty Spain). The natural or national parks are the protagonists of Andalusia, starting with Doñana, continuing through Sierra Nevada and ending with Sierra de Cazorla (in Jaén). Otherwise, a little of everything. From urban monuments of very historical rank (the main squares of Salamanca, Trujillo, Seville or Teruel, although in this case “del Torico”; the Hanging Houses of Cuenca) to heritages of civilizations that thousands of years ago forged the present character of Spain (the Roman theater of Mérida, the wall of Ávila, the Aqueduct of Segovia, the New Bridge of Ronda). Also, not surprisingly, there are a lot of fortresses and palaces fortified: from the Peñarroya Castle in Ciudad Real to the famous Alhambra in Granada, passing through the Alcázar of the Christian Monarchs, a surprising winner in the province of Córdoba, also home to the mosque. There is even room for modernity: whether in the form of the City of Arts and Sciences, Dalí’s Theatre-Museum, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Portaventura or of Loro Parque in Tenerife. A little bit of everything. Not always the most notable thing about each province, but a good way to discover corners of the geography that are still hidden for the Spaniards themselves. In Xataka | The most beautiful towns in each province of Spain, gathered in this revealing map *An earlier version of this article was published in September 2021

With AI, Microsoft has once again insisted that we talk to our computer: experience says that we don’t feel like it

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You get up in the morning, go to work and sit in front of the computer, but the first thing you do is not pick up the mouse and keyboard, but say “Hey, Copilot”. Can you imagine it? Me neither, completely, but that is Microsoft’s clear obsession: to get us to talk to our PC instead of using the usual peripherals. That futuristic vision is striking, but it faces several enormous challenges. what memories. The thing about Microsoft and other technology companies with their intention for us to talk to machines goes back a long way. The first generation of voice assistants precisely pursued that goal. There we saw how Alexa, Google Assistant and of course Cortana tried to make us talk much more with our devices. We were not prepared to talk to machines. Its success was rather limited, and even Nadella himself admitted in 2023 that, for example, those “smart” speakers They were “dumber than a stone”. In Xataka Voice assistants and the fight to gain our trust Cortana tried. The Redmond company certainly tried to make Cortana successful. It offered it on both Windows 10 and on Android and iOS…and even the sadly defunct Windows Phone. Over time the company realized that that assistant was not a good fit, and was killing him little by little. The launch of ChatGPT was used by Microsoft to raise your new assistant powered by AI and definitely kill to his first assistant: Copilot wants to be what Cortana could never be. Who asked for this? With that “Hey, Copilot” the same thing is happening as with Cortana: did someone ask Microsoft to integrate a voice assistant into Windows? The voice assistants of that first generation were relegated to residual use, and Amazon suffered this problem firsthand. He bet billions of dollars that Echos would become devices we wouldn’t stop talking about, but most people I just used them to set timers and music. AI promises to go much further. But in spring 2024 we live in a hopeful moment for this type of technology. OpenAI launched GPT-4o and demonstrated that natural conversations with a mobile phone were not only possible, but also They were very powerful. AI could be ours confidant and companion -with controversy included— or our private teacherand as others later wanted to demonstrate, it could also do things for us just by talking to her. Let them tell you to the vibe coders. But we still have a hard time talking to the PC. Since then it certainly seems that we have become a little more accustomed to talking with our smartphone, but things seem to be different on the PC. The statistics reflect that 77% of young people use their voice on their smartphone, while only 38% of them do so on the PC. “But everyone on the PC listens to me”. There is also a sociological component in this use of voice on the PC. The mobile phone is more intimate and personal, while the PC is often used in a static setting in which there are people around who can capture what we say. Furthermore, in the physical context, the unspoken rules of coexistence—do not disturb, do not invade others’ acoustic space—outweigh the promise of comfort. And then there is distrust. Microsoft is not helped by its recent history, especially with Recall, that option that seemed really striking and ingenious but ended up being delayed to generate a great controversy regarding privacy. The launch of the new Windows 11 options, with “Hey, Copilot” as the main protagonist, does not seem to have been received with too much enthusiasm, and the tone, for example, of the comments from this long thread It is skepticism. Rivals focus on mobile phones and speakers, not the PC. The truth is that the adoption of voice as a way to interact with our devices does not seem to be particularly viral. The erratic launch of Alexa+ does not seem to be providing great advantages, Apple continues to make itself wait with its renewed version of Siri, and only Google has taken a step forward with Geminialthough not clearly on the desktop. Talking to machines works, but not as much on the PC as on the mobile. {“videoId”:”x9jvzns”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”Project Astra Exploring the Capabilities of a Universal AI Assistant”, “tag”:”Project Astra”, “duration”:”116″} A triumph for accessibility. Where there is a clear use scenario for this technology is in the area of ​​accessibility. For users with reduced mobility, the ability to dictate or control the device with their voice can be transformative. This need is concrete and well defined, however: it does not justify a general redesign of the interaction or a marketing campaign that tries to get us all to talk to the computer. The voice should solve things, not be a fair trick. Microsoft’s real challenge is not technical — the technology is there — but human. The company must convince people that talking to the PC makes sense. To do this, it must address three fronts: privacy, the social context—that you don’t mind talking to your PC—and of course, that said interaction has practical use and works. For example, they come in there Copilot Actionswho will have to demonstrate – like everything else – that Microft is on the right path here. Otherwise, “Hey, Copilot” could become the new Cortana. In Xataka | Sundar Pichai (CEO of Google) believes that ‘Her’ is inevitable: “there will be people who fall in love with an AI and we should prepare ourselves” (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); } })(); – The news With AI, Microsoft has once again insisted that we talk to our computer: experience says that we don’t feel like it was originally published in Xataka by Javier Pastor .

“We don’t see a real demand”

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BMW Motorrad director Markus Flasch, It has been quite resounding When asked about the development of electric motorcycles by the company. And it is that the manager has ruled out that the firm will be in charge of the manufacture of large -cylinder electric motorcycles in an immediate future. In An interview granted to the American media Common Treat during an event in the Austin, Texas circuit, Flash made it clear that the electrification strategy of the motorcycle division will follow a very different path from the brand’s cars. Without demand. “At the moment we do not see a real demand for electric motorcycles”, assured Flasch in the middle. The manager, who previously directed the M Performance division on the automobile side of BMW, explains that the motorcycle client is fundamentally different from that of cars, and the global regulations are not the same either. Where do they bet on the electricity. BMW does not completely abandon the electric terrain, but concentrates its efforts on urban mobility. The company currently leads the electric scooters market above 11 kW and has recently launched the CE 02an electric cyclomotor of urban design that has been well received. According to Flaschit is precisely in this segment where they see the tendency towards total electrification. “We see an emerging trend in urban mobility, which we believe will finally be totally electric,” said the manager. A more affordable sports on the way. Although Flasch was prudent with the details about future releases, yes dropped a track Interesting about the sports segment. When asked if BMW would develop a middle displacement sports motorcycle, similar to what other brands are doing to capture customers with more affordable and less intimidating products, the Austrian replied: “You can expect to see something smaller than the 1000 RR of 1,000 cc, but it is a bit soon to talk about it.” The track points to a possible sport equipped with the parallel bicylinder of 895 cc that already use models such as F 900 XR. There will be no motocross motorcycles. While brands like Triumph and Ducati have decided to enter the world of motocross and enduro, BMW has made the decision not to follow that route. Flasch Explain That, although the brand is famous for the GS and organizes demanding competitions such as the GS Trophy, the type of off-road looking for its clients is different. “We have analyzed entering this segment and we made a conscious decision of not following this path,” he said, adding that both clients and the dealership network support this decision. The future of six online cylinders. One of Flasch’s most interesting statements was his commitment to the online six -cylinder engine that equips the models K 1600. “The six online will have a brilliant future if you ask me,” assured The manager, who sees this engine as a single hall of BMW’s unique identity along with the boxer. The fans base of these models is solid and stable, which has convinced the brand of making more focus on this platform. It is an interesting bet at a time when other brands are simplifying their ranges and abandoning complex motor settings. The challenges of the sector. Flasch also talked about the challenges facing the motorcycle industry. For the manager, the biggest problem is that these vehicles, at least the type that BMW manufactures, are “lifestyle products” and not mainly mobility. “What goes against this, and what probably makes the global industry go down a little this year, is uncertainty and economic barriers,” he explained. And is that The tariffsexchange rates and technical barriers between markets can be great threats for a global manufacturer like BMW. Cover image | BMW Motorrad In Xataka | Xiaomi bought three Tesla Model and with a single objective: shred them to understand why they were the best. And they have learned

They are experts in apps, but they don’t know how to use a printer

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The Z generation is changing Many labor dynamics With its incorporation into the labor market, but they are also breaking high expectations. The most visible is the technological preparation that was assumed to a generation that has had to finish its remote training and started its work career in a remote work and fenced by AI. That Lack of preparation technological has been made known as Tech Shame or technological shame: Not knowing how to use elementary devices in an office such as printer or scan a document. Technological pressure for digital natives. Unlike boomers, The members of the Z generation have been born and grown immersed in technology for any aspect of their life. However, they experience unexpected difficulties when they face basic offices such as printers or scanners. Despite his technological skill in personal life, A study De lasalle Network reveals that 48% of young graduates in 2022 do not feel technologically prepared in their jobs. According to the report ‘Hybrid Work: Are We There Yet?‘ From HP to 10,000 office employees around the world, 20% of young people felt judged for not knowing how to use the electronic devices of the office, while the proportion of their counterparts from other generations was only 4%. “We were surprised to discover that young workers are feeling more ‘technological shame’ than their older colleagues, and this could be due to a series of problems,” He pointed out Debbie Irish, Head of Human Resources in the United Kingdom and Ireland of HP to Worklife. Unfair expectations for “technological shame”. Although the fact of not knowing how a certain device works has affected to a greater or lesser extent to all generations that currently live in the labor market, it seems to be an unforgivable sin for generation Z given the expectations that they should Dominate any technology. However, we must not lose sight of the fact that your experience is limited to technologies with which they grew up. Printers, photocopiers or scanners are already an obsolete technology for that generation. It would be like asking Boomers either Millennials make purchase orders in MORSE CODE. Printers are less and less common at home. There was a time when having a printer at home was as common as having a computer. However, the data indicate that this trend has been stagnating in recent years and is increasingly printed at home in response to the Nightmare to face a printer. A good sample is that, according to data HP sales published by The RegisterDuring the pandemic its income in hardware for consumption printing (non -professional) grew 21% to 77 million dollars. That means that all those people who had to start working remotely did not have that printer at home previously. It is normal that they know how to use them. Not being used to using printers or scanners during their training period has made, no matter how much Digital natives Let them be, do not have that previous technological experience. On the other hand, as pointed out An article in The Guardianthe Z generation has grown using apps such as Instagram or Tiktok, very oriented to the ease of use, so they expect the rest of the technology in their surroundings Be just as easy to use. Maybe this is one of the reasons why young people are more prone to scams online That his grandparents. What lifts the hand the Millennials They would know how to send a fax, without looking in Google what a fax is. In Xataka | Three out of four young people in the US are clear: they prefer to work in a hospital than in a great technological Image | Pexels (Andrea Piacquadio) *An earlier version of this article was published in September 2024

“Young people don’t want to work here.” The solution to the problem was there since 1914

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Henry Ford was not only A bold businessman which founded an automobile empire, was also the cornerstone that Revolutionized cars manufacturing and a strategist of the economy. For this reason, it is not strange that Jim Farley, the current CEO of Ford, found in the founder of his company the inspiration to solve a serious labor problem. As Farley himself told during An interview With the writer Walter Isaacson, Biographer of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, who during the 2019 union negotiationshe visited some brand factories to directly ask his employees. The CEO confessed to Isaacson that the most veteran told him: “Young people do not want to work here. Jim, you pay 17 dollars an hour, and they are very stressed.” As Farley explained during their interview, the workers told their boss that the new workers, most of them temporary workers, worked for eight hours at Amazon or other works, and then making their turn in Ford sleeping just three or four hours to be able to come to the end of the month due to precarious salaries. A decision inspired in 1914 The Ford template was in a complicated situation since the low wages were moving the youngest, who preferred other ways to obtain a sufficient salary to livewhile the average age of Ford’s fixed personnel was increasing and the vacancies that were leaving They were not covered. In this critical context, Farley decided to pull internal newspaper library and look at what Henry Ford himself did more than a century earlier. The legendary founder of Ford doubled in 1914 the daily salary of the operators at $ 5 per day, much more than average at that time. Ford did not upload the salaries of its employees for a sudden goodnessbut with a very clear logic: “I do this because I want my factory workers to buy my cars. If they earn enough money, they will buy my own product,” Henry Ford confessed. According to Farley, applying this measure “was not easy. It was expensive. But I think that is the type of changes we need to implement in our country.” As a result, the company made temporary workers full timewhich allowed them to access higher wages, participation in profits and better medical coverage. In addition, temporary workers managed to reduce the time they should be working for Ford before opting for fixed job. The objective of the measure implemented by the current CEO of Ford is exactly the same as Henry Ford’s in 1914: ensure a stable, well formed template and be able to retain the best talent to improve the productivity of its assembly lines. Not only is money, it’s also training Despite the salary improvements that were signed in Ford, Farley was convinced of the need to have a good professional education for young people. According to published Fortunein the next decade about four million operators will be needed for the manufacturing industry as the current operators are retired. This scenario is not exclusive to the US. In Spain the demand for qualified labor He shoots In sectors like construction or the renewable energies And there is not even enough young people to cover itnor have they necessary training. “In Germany, all the operators of our factories have an apprentice from high school and each position requires about eight years of practical training,” said Farley, who was convinced that this model ensures the generational relief and quality of the staff. In Xataka | If the question is whether having a university degree improves the employment situation, the data leaves us a figure: 5.7% unemployment Images | FordUnspash (THISISENGINEING)

You can make money with your GPU when you don’t use it. It is enough that you lend it to those who train AI models

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To execute and offer tools based on generative artificial intelligence, a lot of calculation power is needed (and that leads to a lot of energy). Therefore, the most powerful market cards and specific processors for Datacenters They are so quoted today, hence companies such as Nvidia, which specializes in this market, are reaping such an overwhelming success. And since not everyone can afford a powerful graphics card to experiment with AI, there is a service that we see more and more common: to rent a graphics card to remove an extra money. There are several platforms to get it and under these lines we tell you everything you need to know. How the business works. The model consists of acting as a host in a Marketplace where clients are looking for GPU instances for their AI projects. You set the price per hour, the platform manages payments and the client executes their work in an isolated container on your machine. You could say that it is like an Airbnb, but focused on computer hardware. Instances with an rtx 4090 in vast ai Numbers that we must take into account. An RTX 4090 is usually Between about 0.20 and 0.60 dollars per hour in these marketplaces, depending on the demand. In the best theoretical scenario, operating 24 hours a day for a full month, a high -end GPU could invoice around 240 gross dollars monthly (considering that we put it for rent 24 hours a day). But reality is usually more modest, since we have to discount what we pay on our electrical bill, the platform commissions (which can reach 24% in Platforms like Runpod) and, above all, that real occupation is rarely 100%. Expanding market. The price difference between traditional cloud giants (AWS, Google Cloud) and these P2P marketplaces is considerable. While renting a GPU on AWS can cost three or six times more, platforms such as Runpod or Vast AI offer access to very powerful graphics cards, as is the case of RTX 4090, for a few cents the time. And of course, these prices are really attractive to developers who want to experiment with artificial intelligence but do not have means to have a team comparable to the projects they work on. What you should know before starting. Turning your PC into a rental server is not plug-and-play. In most cases you need Install Linuxconfigure updated NVIDIA drivers, open network ports And keep your team working for the hours for which you have committed to offer it, together with adequate refrigeration, which will be necessary if your GPU is going to start working much more and for much longer. In addition, your customers expect the machine to be available when they hire it, which means that you will not be able to use it for gaming or personal work. It should also be noted that the income generated is also subject to taxation and it is possible that it is required to register as an economic activity in cases where income exceeds a certain threshold. There are certain risks. Beyond the wear that the hardware can receive for being constantly working, there are maximum performance, there are some security concerns. Although platforms use containers to isolate workloads, some experts warn about possible Vulnerabilities in multi-tean environments (those environments that serve several users) that could compromise our data or use the GPU to improper purposes. Is it worth it? For most users with a single GPU, the benefits are modest once all expenses and others are discounted. Now, the business makes more sense if you already have the amortized hardware, do not pay too much on your electrical bill and accounts with certain technical knowledge to maintain the stable system. Even more if you have a potential graphics card or level for datacentes. As an experiment or complementary income experiment it can be interesting, but do not expect it to make you rich. First steps. If you want to try it, start with offers “interruptibles“, that is, cheaper but that can be canceled, in order to know the real demand. Vast.ai and Runpod They offer detailed documentation to become host, including step -by -step guides and preconfigured templates. Of course, it is advisable to always control real electrical consumption and establish operation limits to prevent your equipment from becoming a slave to the background processes. Cover image | She Don In Xataka | Nvidia, TSMC and SK Hynix are the most powerful chip companies on the planet. None can allow any of the others to fall

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