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There is a new and unsuspected investor in the Andalusian field: Pepsico

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Pepsico has launched Vivaoliva, a program of 300,000 euros that seeks to give an impulse to the olive grove in Jaén through regenerative agriculture, economic inclusion and generational relief, as stated ABC Sevilla. Why is it important. Jaén concentrates the greatest number of olive groves in the world but drags a structural fragility accentuated by the shortage of water, climate change and rural depopulation. The initiative raises a specific model of territorial transformation. The first phase starts in Bedmar, Sierra Magina, with 150 farmers from the Grupo Inteole Cooperative. The program will finance agricultural technologies and form in techniques such as compostingcoverage crops and infiltration ditches. The context. This is not a casual bet. Pepsico already has direct links with the territory: its brand Alvalle It is supplied exclusively with extra virgin olive oil from 2021. The economic connection is real and strategic. In figures. The 300,000 euros distributed among 150 farmers account for 2,000 euros per exploitation. It is an amount that can finance some specific improvements, but that will hardly transform on its own the structural reality of farms that need investments of tens of thousands of euros to completely modernize. Yes, but. The program faces the challenge of demonstrating real impact with limited resources. Andrea Pont, director of the Pepsico Foundation in Europe, Talk about “guaranteeing sustainable income”. Now it remains to see if the economic sustainability of the Jiennense olive groves goes through what can address a single business initiative, or if you need anything else. Between the lines. The commitment coincides with Pepsico’s need to ensure its olive oil supply chain in a context of climatic uncertainty. What is presented as corporate altruism also responds to a business logic: protect Alvalle’s supply sources. Deepen. The program must compete with adverse market dynamics: Volatile oil prices. High energy costs. And a property structure that favors large farms against the small producers it intends to boost. Vivaoliva has solid technical advice (Earthworm Foundation, The Sustainable Smallholder) and seeks to become a replicable model. Its success will be measured not only in regenerated hectares: also in itself it manages to retain rural population and create a demonstration effect that attracts more investment to the territory. In Xataka | Ten years ago, Jaén thought that the Andalusian Olivar deserved to be a World Heritage. They did not know the mess in which they got Outstanding image | Jaén oil

We have just found new tests of Ozempic’s benefits in another field: dementia

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Although drugs pass exhaustive controls dedicated to, among other things, detect side effects, their clinical use allows us to find out new details about their effects on the body. This includes associated risks, but also possible additional benefits we did not count on. Lower risk of dementia. Drugs destined to keep blood sugar levels under control in people with diabetes (such as Ozempic or Zepbound) They can have a positive effectreducing our risk of dementia. Several studies have deepened in this relationship, offering hopeful results in this regard. Diabetes and dementia. Diabetes is one of the Risk factors that we usually associate with the appearance of dementia, such as age, tobacco, certain genetic factors or cholesterol, among others. Diabetes It is also a risk factor in arterosclerosis and stroke or stroke, which are factors that also contribute to certain forms of dementia. Knowing this, it can be intuitive to think that drugs that help us keep diabetes at bay can have this type of effects. However, intuition is not enough, so several research groups take time to work to better understand the underlying interactions and be able to strengthen our knowledge about the issue. Two studies. A few weeks ago, the magazine Jama Neurology He published two independent studies on each other who tried to investigate this issue. Both focused on how drugs aimed at reducing the amount of blood sugar were associated with a lower risk of dementia and cognitive problems among people with type 2 diabetes. Reviewing the evidence. One of the studies It was based on the systematic review of scientific literature related to the subject, review accompanied by a meta -analysis, a quantitative study of the results compiled through the review. This analysis was carried out from 26 randomized essays among which were added about 165,000 participants. The team responsible for the study did not find a significant change in the risk of dementia when studying the set of treatments focused on glucose reduction. But he did find that agonists of the peptide receptors similar to type 1 glucagon (LPG-1), the family of compounds to which the semaglutida belongs and therefore Ozempic, were related to a risk of suffering from 45% lower. One more essay. The second of the studies mentioned focused on two drugs, the agonostas of the GLP-1 receptors (LPG-1st) and the sodium/glucose collection inhibitors 2 (SGLT2is). The team observed that both the LPG-1ras and the SGLT2is were linked to a lower risk of suffering some forms of dementia such as Alzheimer’s in contrast to other treatments destined for glycemic control. A key factor. Studying the link between diabetes and dementia can open the way to better understand a disorder as complex as dementia. There is still little that we know about cognitive deterioration associated with age and disorders such as Alzheimer’s, but in increasingly aging societies, finding ways to reduce their weight in the well -being of older people will become unavoidable. In Xataka | Ozempic is supposed to increase the risk of erectile dysfunction. Thousands of people think exactly the opposite Image | Chemist4u / Steven Hwg

The problem with Tesla Cybertruck is not its price, you don’t know if it comes direct from a field

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The story of Reza Sostani is the best summary of the Tesla disaster with his Cybertruck. A Texan client that took only one day to return it after buying it. The reason? He acquired the Tesla Cybertruck on April 25 and, just a few hours later, the vehicle was ready for collection. This immediacy in the delivery, despite what it might seem, is bad news. The Lostani case. Relatani says He is one of the buyers of the Cybertruck in Tesla. On April 25 he made the order of the car, surprising after the immediate allocation of Vin number (number of identification chassis of each vehicle) and notification on the same day that his car was prepared for the collection. Different, he decided to ask Tesla from where the vehicle came from and how it was possible that he was ready. The Tesla representative he consulted soon in giving him the news: his cybertruck had left the factory on January 8. The Cybertruck and their dates. Buying a vehicle that has been manufactured for a few months has an immediate translation: stock accumulation. In the case of Tesla this is especially relevant, since its models usually have high demand (Model 3) and it is common for stock units to have a few weeks old. If we take into account that it is an open secret that Tesla is accumulated outdoors thousands of cybertruck that He can’t sell for monthsthe rejection of the buyer to one with four months is more than understandable. Manufacture and park. That a vehicle spends four months stored in a campaign is not the best for your health. In the case of an electric vehicle, it is especially relevant, since the battery storage temperature, its load level, air ventilation to avoid moisture, possible oxides … Everything influences. One of the photographers of Tesla’s gigafactories published in X, without giving much more data about itthe image that shows dozens of cybertrucks freshly production. Some of them were ready to be delivered, others would remain waiting for owner. Tesla Model 3 highland that had not yet been sold, stranded in fields Hundreds of tesla not sold, stacked in another field. The problem with the fields. The problem is that, on more than one occasion, He has hunted Tesla accumulating in Campas Hundreds of without selling vehicles. And, yes, there will be some lucky owner who ends up sending one of the Tesla who has been outdoor months. It is not a car to play it. The maturity that Tesla has achieved by refining the manufacture of Model 3 or the Model and It is quite far from the Cybertruck historic. This electric truck has a terrible depreciation For their very high repair costs, their numerous call calls and the various problems associated with its manufacture. It is predictable that the potential customer of a Cybertruck is new, something that clashes frontally with the gigantic vehicle park without selling that Tesla has now in its factories. More manufacture than sales. This excess stock responds to a basic: Tesla has manufactured many more cybertrucks than its public demands. So much, that the company is starting to lower the price drastically and open to new markets, such as Saudi Arabia, to stabilize sales. Last April we had news about an inevitable response to this situation: Tesla is beginning to reduce the production of the Cybertruck and reducing up to half some of its production equipment, According to Business Insider sources. Image | Joe Tegtmeyer In Xataka | The owners of a Tesla Cybertruck “packed” it with solar panels for $ 10,000. They won 7 kilometers of autonomy

Humanity has been using the Earth’s magnetic field as a navigation guide. Some researchers want to retire it

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In recent decades, GPS has become part of our day to day. If it is a military technology, the global positioning system has been guided by roads, forests and seas, in the city and in the mountain, but always with an important limitation, access to satellites that place our navigation devices. That could change. Magnav. Thanks to magnetic navigation systems or Magnav, and more specifically to a new development that uses a quantum adjustment system that promises more precise navigation. A navigation, in addition, immune to interference, accidental or caused, which allows significantly reducing satellite navigation dependence. Magnav systems (Magnetic-Anomaly Navigation) o Navigation by magnetic anomaly are based on the fact that the Earth’s magnetic field It is not uniform. That is why it is possible to use a magnetometer that indicates our position by measuring small variations in the magnetic field of the planet. Use the Earth’s magnetic field as Navigation reference It is not something new but something we have been doing since the invention of the compass, but the new system promises to achieve unusual precision. That’s where the quantum dimension of the new system comes into play. Navigation “quantum”? The new technology, They explain their developersis based on the use of quantum magnetometers that combine a noise elimination system with a cartographic algorithm. The magnetometers are based on the optical detection of the precession of the atomic spin, for which they use a steam cell that contains rubidium atoms, They detail. This technology opens the door to measure the magnetic field of the Earth with greater precision, which translates into a better capacity to locate ourselves on the map. All this, they also highlight, in a device small enough to be used in autonomous vehicles or in fixed wing drones. Q-ctrl. Behind this system is an Australian company, Q-Ctrl (name that refers to “Quantum Control”) The company emerged in 2017 Like a Spin-off of the quantum science group of the University of Sydney. By land and air. RecieBy land and air. Recently, the team responsible for this system put it to the test. With satisfactory results: the device obtained errors in the measurements up to 46 times less than the inertial navigation systems usually used as a complement to the satellite. The measurements were made on flights at a height of 19,000 feet, in which it was also possible to fly with a total error in the 22 -meter trip, 0.006% of the distance traveled. The results were “consistently” at least 11 times better than those obtained with inertial systems. The team responsible for the development of the new tool has published some details in an article. The article has not passed the pairs review filter but can be found freely Through the repository Arxiv. Substitute or complement. Satellite navigation systems are central today and this is precisely its weak point: the emergence of GPS signals puts both commercial routes and passenger transport, but it could also put into check military operations in cases of armed conflict. The interception of these signals can therefore be used as well as a commercial and war weapon. We have various tools that allow satellite navigation to attend, but few systems can at the same time have the accuracy of these without depending on them. That is why having alternative mechanisms of high precision can be more precise than ever. In Xataka | The North Pole is moving very fast, and that has forced many airports to rename their clues Image | NOAA NCI / Q-ctrl

“If you have time to learn more about this field”

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The arrival of artificial intelligence To our life It is no longer a science fiction films. The young people of the Z generation will have to deal with the different forms of integration of this technology in the working world. One of the main councils of the Millionaire and investor Mark Cuban to the Z generation, which begins to join the labor marketis to understand that dominating this technology is not an option, It is a necessity. Mark Cuban’s advice. The millionaire investor Mark Cuban, co -founder of the Broadcast.com video portal and former owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, assured In the SXSW conference that had tried luck in all kinds of businesses throughout his life. However, the millionaire recognized that, if he was a young man with a whole race ahead, he would devote all his time to a single thing: “If he had 16, 18, 20 or 21 years as of today, he would dedicate every minute of the day to learn about ia. Even while he slept, he would hear podcasts about ia” AI is the future and should be prepared for it. In his speech, Cuban emphasized that the AI ​​not only will automate tasksbut it will also create new employment opportunities and transform existing industries. So young people who now join the labor market will have to deal with IA -based tools Or, what is even better, create them. According to Cuban, the key is not afraid of AI, but in hugging it and learn to work with her. This implies acquiring skills in areas such as automatic learning, data analysis and algorithms development. “Those who dedicated the necessary time, will achieve it,” insisted the businessman and investor, whose fortune It is estimated in about 5.7 billion dollars according to Forbes. Skills beyond AI. The millionaire stressed that the AI ​​domain is not limited to computer engineers or data scientists who train AI models. In fact, in an entrepreneur he considers that those who can combine skills in AI With knowledge in other fields, such as marketing, finance or design, they will be the more demanded in the future since the main task of generation Z will be to integrate AI in business processes. The businessman stressed that The works of the future They will require some kind of AI -related skill. Therefore, investing time and effort to learn about AI is an investment in your professional future. A base on which to undertake. Cuban is one of the protagonists of the television program Shark Tank of the American ABC, in which entrepreneurs must captivate investors to put their money in their ideas. That is why Cuban not only invites young people to learn everything they can about. a good job is guaranteed. The millionaire ensures that knowing how AI works can open new venture of entrepreneurship for young A decade ago. “The AI ​​is never the solution. It is a tool,” Cuban said in his speech during the Conference for Entrepreneurs. In Xataka | “Humans will not be necessary for most things”: Bill Gates does not believe that doctors and teachers have a future In Xataka | The AI ​​promises to shoot the productivity of companies: the problem is that we are not measuring it well Image | Wikimedia Commons (Gage Skidmore)

The requirement to install bathrooms in the field

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To Toledo farmers who are dedicated to the cultivation of olive there are something that these days worry so much or more than the drift of oil pricethe threat of hail and The drought either The pests: Portable toilets. And the reason is simple. Not having them has already translated into sanctioning files In the fields of the province, according to complaint Union of Unions of Castilla-La Mancha. “It is the drop that fills the glass”, regrets The union. Where is the restroom? The case denounced it on its website On January 16, the Union of Unions of Castilla-La Mancha and since then has jumped to Regional media and of the rest of the country. Basically and always according to the version of the union, recently, in full campaign of the olive, Some farmers Toledos found sanctioning files for not having toilets in their olive groves. “These days inspections are taking place during the olive campaign in the province of Toledo. Although it may seem incredible, some of the reasons for sanction are the absence of services to shit and piss in the field.” @encarnitamoramarin ♬ Original sound – Encarnita Mora Marin A ‘Caro’ mistake. In Your statement The Agrarian Union does not contribute many more details of what happened, beyond the reference to Toledo and denounce that the sanctions started from two work officials. During An interview With 20 minutes, Anastasio Yébenes, part of the union executive, provides some more clues and details that the episode occurred in the region of The Sacred. “There were two inspectors and when there were no public toilets in the countryside, they were opened sanctioning files,” He recounts. The problem is that these minutes are more than a call for attention to the owners of the fields. “They can carry large fines of more than 2,000 euros.” Furious complaint. That did not like union farmers. Nothing. In fact they launched A furious statement. “The situation exceeds absurd censorship The organization, which acknowledges not understanding how during the inspections one of the reasons for sanction was “the absence of services to shit and piss in the field.” “What the Labor Inspection asks is something like demanding to the brigade that fixes the high voltage line that carries a service or the high mountain group of the Civil Guard or the Seprona that in each and every one of its Outputs transport a mobile bath. They regretwithout hiding their anger: “The farmers have come to the conclusion that both the inspectors and the Civil Guard carry diapers.” @Pedropintoelloco Shit on squats is very good for colon cancer, you can better clean the rectum and maintain balance ♬ Original sound – Pedro Pinto. The madman “Is it hygienic?” Yébenes goes further and questions the bottom of the demand. “They talk about environmental issues, but do you think it is hygienic ! Underline. “The law says that any workplace has to have bathrooms, and of course they must have them, but the problem is what we understand by work center. If we apply that rule to Rajatabla, a traveler, a patrol of the civil guard or the own Inspectors who came to open the files would also have to wear a portable bath in the car, “he reflects on statements to 20 minutes. With the WC in tow. The spokesman remembers that it is not strange to meet toilets in agricultural farms, but they are not in the field, among the olive trees. They are located in “Warehouses or ships where machinery is saved”, Razon Yébenes Before clarifying that within the sector there are very different facilities: little has to do for example a greenhouse where the worker barely moves a few meters that an olive grove of 50 hectares, he argues. “By God! How do you do it? If one day you work in one hectare, then in another … Do you take the toilet by car?” Adding (more) pressure. The agrarian union also recalls that the episode of the toilets arrives at a particularly delicate time for the sector, which last year He starred Several tractors To claim “Just prices”the review of the common agrarian policy or an improvement of its conditions. The union itself cried out recently for “Speculation” which detects specifically around the price of oil and directly affects farmers. “If we join this new mess to the unjustified drop in the price of oil, speculation, the increase in production costs, bad weather and juggling games to meet the environmental and bureaucratic regulations of the new PAC, the desperate situation is understood of the olive and agricultural sector “. How did the case end? The union statement ended up begging for labor inspection that “Reconcited” and insisted that inspections such as Toledo’s, “in addition to ridiculous are generating uneasiness and animosity.” The petition seems to have had an effect. At least so believes yébenes, which assures that your complaint has reached the ministry and speaks of a “specific case.” “Common sense has been imposed and have paralyzed. The files are going to archive.” Images | Grand Teton (Flickr) and Junta de Andalucía In Xataka | A town in León wanted to force its farmers to collect the mouthpieces of their cows. Ranchers (and cows) had other plans

LaLiga wants your biometric data to enter the field. Europe has something to say

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The Spanish soccer employer returns to the load with its intention of implementing systems of facial recognition and fingerprints in the accesses to the stadiums, despite the fact that European regulations prevent it, so they continue to work on the way of achieving it. The current situation. Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, reiterated on Tuesday in Congress his desire to apply biometric identification in the stadiums. “Within the stadiums there are people who are prohibited from entry, but the data protection agency has told us that it goes against the European regulations,” he said according to Brand. This battle is not new. In January 2024, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) already launched a warning to LaLiga for teaching a contract to develop a facial recognition system in access to fields. Between the lines. LaLiga’s motivation is clear: reinforcing her fight against violence and racism in stadiums. The organization has filed more than 40 criminal complaints and reported more than 560 intolerant chants since 2013. Ensure that those sanctioned with the prohibition of access to the stadiums can go to the matches with the payment of another person or with a free admission is what LaLiga would seek implementing biometry. The obstacle. The General European Data Protection Regulation expressly prohibits the processing of biometric data except for very specific exceptions, such as the explicit consent of the interested party or a need for essential public interest. There are some precedents in Spain, but with many nuances. This is the case of Osasuna, which already implemented facial recognition in 2022 in the Sadar, but as a voluntary and complementary system to the traditional fertilizer. The key is precisely in their optional character: partners can choose to register their face to access the stadium or maintain their usual method. However, that did not help him to avoid a recent fine of 200,000 euros. The technology, developed by the Pamplonesa company, converts facial images into numerical codes that cannot be converted into images, thus complying with privacy requirements. Consulted by XatakaLaLiga refers to an October statement already the therabas of Thebes in Congress. In that press release, the employer stressed that “biometry would be a crucial tool for the detection and eradication of violent and racist behaviors in the stadiums.” In fact, Miguel Ángel Aguilar, prosecutor for hate crimes, supported this idea by suggesting “the reform of the data protection law to allow biometric identification, obtain evidence and condemn the people who perform the insults in the stadiums “. Deepen. The AEPD has been blunt: when there are less intrusive alternatives to verify the identity, such as showing the access title next to the ID, “it is hardly justifiable” to implement biometric systems. In addition, the agency warns that there must first be a legal basis that justifies data processing, not vice versa. For now, LaLiga continues to work with the Interior Ministry to try to find a route that allows these systems to be implemented, although the current regulatory framework seems to leave it in a difficult aspiration to materialize. Outstanding image | Gregorio Cavana in Unspash In Xataka | I have run for weeks with glasses that project data in my field of vision. The future of running will have to wait

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