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The Internet has made data the new digital gold. And that’s why we are more fragile than ever: Crossover 1×27

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The Internet is wonderful until it isn’t. We have made it such an integral part of our lives that we are doing something dangerous: telling it too much about who we are and what we do at any given moment. And that has its risks. To talk about all this in this Crossover 1×27 We have invited José, better known as Hackavisswho is an expert in cybersecurity and digital forensics. He explains to us how hackers can end up stealing our data or what dangers exist on the deep web. And there are many, both in the deep web of before (Tor) and now, because Telegram is a digital underworld in itself. That they are not alone, because dangers also lurk in the Internet that we all see and use daily. This is how Hackaviss tells us (or rather scares us) about disturbing cases in which, for example, hackers can request a loan in your name with just a photo of your ID. There are many more, but in all of them there is the same focus: The data. Because as this expert says, data is the new digital gold. Especially for cybercriminals, who obtain that personal information and then use it in all kinds of ways, both to impersonate identities and to exploit them and defraud people or entire organizations. The types of scams, as Hackaviss explains, are almost unlimited, and in fact reminds us of the famous case of Silk Roadthat of snowden or that of Pegasus and then link to modern cryptocurrency scams. There is a little bit of everything and for everyone, and the conclusion is always the same: be careful how you use the internetbecause we are increasingly fragile in the network of networks. On YouTube | Crossover

It seems obvious, but at this time it had never been such a round business: who has gold, has a treasure

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In the month of August we met A story which reflected as few the state of one of the most precious materials on the planet. It turns out that in Stilfontein, an ancient mining town in South Africa, neighbors no longer fear the void of abandoned tunnels, but to strangers who arrive in cars loaded with rifles. Yes, these armed bands arrive to take an increasingly valuable booty. A few weeks later, buying gold is again the Century business. Historical boom of the shelter. Yes, gold is going through its largest annual escalation since 1979, with a 39% jump that has taken it to historical maximums above the $ 3,649and it does not for a classical financial collapse, but by the search for coverage before a political and macroeconomic environment perceived as unstable. He told the WSJ that the best stamp Encana Kenneth Pack, a snowfall retiree who first entered April to shield in the face of the disorder associated with the new Trump administration and that, even after the stock market bourse after the confusion of the “day of liberation”, has decided Keep 17% of its portfolio in metals and linked values. In Xataka Russia and the most fearsome weapon for Ukraine: it is called orbit and does not shoot, but turns its soldiers into “invisible” A return in style. The phenomenon transcends the retail investor and is perceived from The Costco halls to shaped vaults in London, where the metal is stored and negotiated without abandoning the building, and where the dominant expectation is that the price will continue to rise. The starting point, in reality, was created almost three years ago with sustained purchases of central banks and Chinese demand, but the 2025 engine It is also western: a selective risk aversion that coexists with a Stock market (extra) euphoric for the AI, and used by gold As sure in front of a weakened dollar and economic policy decisions difficult to anticipate. Commercial policy and the dollar. Plus: the attempt to reorder global trade to tariffs Changes in a matter of hours has contaminated inflation and growth forecasts, while a federal reserve pressure campaign Question independence of a key institutional pillar. In parallel, the dollar has had its worse first semester in more than half a century according to some metrics, deterioration that Improves attractiveness of assets not called in the American currency. The lack of tangible advances to close conflicts that periodically shake the markets, such as Ukraine, adds a geopolitical layer that reinforces the perception of fragility of the economic order, and that in the mind Energy shocks And the erosion of purchasing power made gold an escape Faced with uncertainty. Investment channels. This ascent is not just a sociological story: you can actually follow the money trail. The American ETF backed by physical gold have seen their heritage grow a 43% since Januarywith monthly tickets among the largest of the last decade, while the Hedge Funds have concentrated almost half of their net exhibition to raw materials in metalamplifying short -term movements. He August message In Washington of Jerome Powell, when insinuating the start of type cuts, he acted as a double catalyst: in short, he is less expensive to maintain an asset without coupon against public debt. Halfway, yes Types are trimmed With full employment and inflation still above the objective, the risk is to sow more persistent price pressures that support the upward thesis. The sensitivity of gold to the opportunity cost It is immediatebut its vigor depends on the background narrative: if the cut of types lived with a weak dollar and tozudas inflation expectations, the marginal flow would continue to favor metal. Refuge Psychology. It is inherent to the human being. In this climate, the psychology of the shelter spreads beyond professionals. As summarized the journalin London, those private vaults report a constant drip of assets that prefer the Tangible Safety of the Lagoteto the point of planning the duplication of their box capacity, while the number of people who sell jewels upload for casting because “the value is in the material”, displacing crafts due to the weight of the metal. The narrative is also filtered by political and commercial channels, with public figures promoting conversion Gold retirement accounts, a symptom that has ceased to be an instrument of niche to consolidate as a transverse symbol of heritage protection. The significant detail is that this boom lives with maximum stock market: There is no general escape from risk, but explicit coverage against adverse scenarios that the market does not end up ruling out. {“Videid”: “X89W5U6”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “The most valuable mineral and thanks to which we have mobile phones we explain everything about the coltan”, “Tag”: “Webedia-prod”, “Duration”: “298”} Risks and counterweights. This week many US media They explained That the danger that golden fever feeds is a damn word of the seventies: stagflationthat is, the mixture of high inflation and weak growth that erodes benefits and makes financing more expensive. Several analysts They warn that its probability has increased and, if materialized, would offer an optimal macro -entry for gold. The counterweight: a restoration of confidence in the growth of the United States and in the role of the dollar as a reserve could puncture The impulse, but with live commercial tensions and a foreign policy perceived as more retracted, that hypothesis points fragile. Gold no Upload in a straight line and is sensitive to changes in real types and in risk appetite, but the Current forces balance (Structural purchases of central banks, financial flows towards ETF, geopolitical coverage and doubts about price discipline) explains why this 2025 remembers, in intensity, to the Last big shake of metal In Xataka Russia has launched its Zircon hypersonic missile at NATO doors. And he has accompanied him with a video so that there is no doubt SYo and not. If you want also, the gold boom works as a kind of silent referendum about three vectors: The credibility of … Read more

We believed that the end of Windows 10 support would be a nightmare for Microsoft. There are those who point out that it will be a gold mine

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Windows 10 He has already marked in red on October 14, 2025, day you will stop receiving updates If you don’t hire The ESU Plan. For Microsoft, what seemed like a problem is Also a business. An analysis firm estimates that the program could leave billions of dollars only in the corporate sector. Before the imminent end of Windows 10 support, the company insists that the best option is to update to Windows 11buy new equipment or use Windows 365 to access the cloud system. The change will affect both companies and individuals, who will have to decide how to continue. ESU: The proposal for Windows 10 and reinforces Microsoft accounts ESU is the official Microsoft offer for those who cannot leave Windows 10 in 2025. In exchange for an annual subscription, the teams receive only critical and important security updates. There is no standard technical support or new functions. The requirement is clear: to have version 22H2 installed. Microsoft describes it as a temporary continuity tool, not as a substitute for migration to Windows 11. The ESU business scheme is designed as a price ladder: $ 61 per device the first year, 122 the second and 244 the third, always with a three -year limit. Microsoft clarifies that The subscription is cumulative: Entering later does not reduce the cost. Access will be managed by volume licenses and activation keys will only be operational after October 14, 2025, the end of the free Windows 10 support. For private users, Microsoft has raised a different approach: a unique quota of 30 dollars to access security updates for 12 months, with alternative options for not paying. It will be possible to activate ESU by redeeming 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points or using the Windows Backup application to make a backupwhich will unlock access without cost. Microsoft indicates that it will be enabled soon. According to Windows Centralwhich cites a detailed analysis of Nexthink, Microsoft could enter until 7,300 million dollars Only in the business segment thanks to ESU. The consultant starts from the official Microsoft data, which in July 2025 estimated at more than 1.4 billion the PC World Park with Windows. Of that total, it is estimated that around 30% corresponds to public and private organizations, which is equivalent to about 420 million devices. The report also projects that, even with the impulse of Windows 11, about 121 million equipment will continue to run with Windows 10 after October 14, 2025. With the cumulative cost of the program, which doubles the price every year for a maximum of three periods, this user base would generate significant income. They are independent calculations that illustrate ESU’s economic potential, but Microsoft has not confirmed or commented on these figures. Nexthink figures draw a billionaire business, but reality is yet to be seen: we will have to wait to check how many companies and users pay for prolonging Windows 10. until you install Linuxchange Mac or move to a Chromebook. There is also the possibility of renewing equipment and moving on to Windows 11. Images | Windows | Arnav Singhal In Xataka | Send files among all my devices was a roll. Then I found this free application, Open Source and Multiplatform

The price of gold is in the clouds so that has created a new criminal business: “narcomineros”

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In Stilfontein, an ancient mining town in South Africa, neighbors no longer fear the void of abandoned tunnels, but to strangers who arrive in cars loaded with rifles. “A few days come, they buy tools, they disappear,” said a local merchant. They are not traditional miners. They are armed bands that dispute, underground, an increasingly valuable booty: gold. Similar scenes are repeated in the Forests of the Amazon, in the Colombian Cauca rivers or in the tunnels of the Peruvian Andes. What was artisanal gold fever has become a silent war. The precious metal that in London or Dubai represents refuge and financial stability, in the field is stained by mercury, blood and organized crime. Goldery Fever of the 21st Century. According to Reuters estimatesthe price of gold has tripled in the last decade and rose more than 25% only so far this year. On August 21, the ounce, a historical record was quoted around $ 3.331. Amid inflation, commercial wars and geopolitical tensions, investors seek in gold which always represented: security. But that fever does not translate only into bullion in vaults. It has also unleashed a metal race in the most fragile areas of the planet. The SWISSAID NGO has counted in a report that 435 tons of gold – about 31,000 million dollars – came out of contraband of Africa in 2022, twice as much before. In Peru, the first producer of South America, the regulatory authority itself calculated that 40% of last year’s gold exports were illegal. For its part, the UN He has warned that organized crime is already embedded in global gold supply chains. “The mafias are earning more money with gold than with cocaine,” has summarized for Financial Times Sasha Lezhnev, Anntry analyst. From the subsoil to the global market. A report for Financial Times He has detailed it quite accurately, since the illegal scheme is repeated: the metal leaves an Amazonian garimpo, an abandoned mine in South Africa or a site controlled by paramilitaries in Sudan; Cross borders by smuggling or with false licenses; He arrives in Hubs like Dubai, Switzerland or India; and once molten in standard bullions, it is integrated without friction to the international financial system. In Dubai, indicated as a “washing machine” of the world gold, it is enough to pay in cash to obtain refined bars with Emiratí seal. From there they re -export to Switzerland, London or Hong Kong. A merchant He has admitted it Non -Rodeos: “We are not going to buy gold. We acquire it in the wholesale market, we give the money and receive it. No one asks where it comes from.” Modus Operandi Global. On the one hand, in Latin America, groups such as the Gulf clan in Colombia or the PCC in Brazil already operate mines and dredgers. In Peru, almost 40 workers have been killed in deposits. On the other hand, in South Africa, the calls Zama Zamas They work under the control of mafias in abandoned mines, where authentic underground wars are fought. In Sudan, gold finances the RSF militia, accused of atrocities in the civil war. Logistics remembers drug trafficking: clandestine flights, improvised clues, corruption networks. With a crucial difference: while cocaine is always illegal, gold is legalized at the moment it merges into a ingot. The consequences are devastating. According to FTMercury poisons Ríos del Amazonas, fauna disappears and communities such as Yanomami suffer hunger, malaria and violence. “When the Garimpo arrives, diseases and drugs arrive,” explained the indigenous leader Juarez Saw. In South Africa, entire villages survive around ghost mines, trapped between poverty and violence. And in Sudan, gold has become a fuel of a civil war that already adds more than 150,000 dead. Governments against the strings. States try to react, with partial achievements. In Brazil, the Lula Government destroyed camps In the Yanomami Earth and boasts a 98% drop in illegal mines there and 40% less in gold exports. But the miners return when the operation ends. In South Africa, the police cut access to tunnels, without stopping the power of the mafias. In Sudan, international pressure has forced Dubai to harden purchase controls, although in his gold of gold there are still ingots of uncertain origin. The pattern is repeated: local corruption, territories impossible to monitor and criminal networks better financed than the states themselves. The formal market, innocent? The legal circuit is not alien either. The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) sets global standards, but is a private club and traders club. Its liquidation system concentrates world trade without public supervision. The European Central Bank warns that the opacity and concentration of the gold market represent a risk for global financial stability. Bernhard Schnellmann, former director of the Swiss Refinery Argor Heraeus, He has synthesized it in his opinion column for FT: “Gold is too important to leave it in the hands of private clubs.” The new oil of the crime. The gold, eternal symbol of wealth and security, is today the new oil of the crime: a resource that feeds mafias, destroys jungles and finances wars. For investors in London or Dubai it is an active refuge. For clandestine miners in the Amazon or South Africa, it is a promise of escape that often ends in violence. In the vaults, a 400 -ounces ingot is identical regardless of its origin. But behind each bar can hide rifles, malaria, corruption and poisoned rivers. Image | Pexels and Africraigs Xataka | The price of copper reached maximum for a tariff that was not. The result: the biggest fall in almost 40 years

Between franchises, action and superheroes Hollywood has found a surprising gold mine: horror movies

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14.4% of the American box office already belongs to horror movies. It is its historical maximum and a great leap from 9.8% of last year confirming what we already suspected: the damn genre has become an unexpected hero of Hollywood. ‘Weapons‘, the last success of director Zach Cregger, has debuted with $ 42.5 million collected and 100% critical approval in Rotten Tomatoes. The pattern is confirmed. Why is it important. The era of streaming has created the perfect conditions for this genre: Cheap productions, between 5 and 30 million compared to 200 of a Blockbuster. Viral by its very nature. Consumed in the intimacy of the home, where no one judges you for shouting (when they reach the platforms). Simple equation: Less investment, greater return. The contrast. In 2021, the best previous year for the genre, dominated the sequelae. ‘Halloween’, ‘A Quiet Place’. Now the original stories, new scares. Six horror films have exceeded 50 million worldwide this year. There are 29 horror launches scheduled for 2025. The average budget is a tenth of a Blockbuster traditional. Yes, but. The industry fears an early saturation. Variety I already talked in April of ‘Horror Glut’ (‘Terror Empacho’). The risk is to turn fear into routine and end up tireding the viewer too early. In perspective. Historically, terror is the Hollywood refuge genre in times of crisis. In the great depression it was when the classic monsters of Universal were born. In the seventies (Vietnam, Watergate), they arrived ‘The exorcist‘ and ‘The Matanza de Texas‘. There were also rebounds in Pandemia. Today, with the industry staggering between The strike hangoverthe change of model towards the streaming And the threat of AI, terror is the answer again. Cheap to produce, easy to sell, impossible to ignore. And now what. The generative AI can be the following revolution of the genre. Special effects at balance price, scripts generated by trained algorithms in our deepest fears. Terror, which has always been the most honest genre about the human condition, could be the first to hug the AI without complexes. Fear sells. He has always done it. But now, also saves balances. In Xataka | More ads for less money: the equation of success that Netflix has deciphered big Outstanding image | Warner Bros. Pictures

Novo Nordisk has been made gold with Ozempic but knows that it will not last forever. So you already have two substitutes

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The slimming drug market does not stop enlarging but the competition for taking the largest portion in this growing “cake” It is fierce. The American pharmaceutical Ozempic. Now the European company tries to recover its advantage. And he does it with a double ad. Roadmap. Little by little Let’s get to know more details About the drugs that Danish pharmaceuticals Novo Nordisk wants to give relief to Ozempic and Wegovy, their star treatments based on semaglutida. Different compounds, different analogues. Semaglutida is the active compound on which medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy are based. This formula, initially devised as diabetes treatment, works by serving as analogous to the GLP-1 hormone (peptide similar to type 1 glucagon), it is what is known as an agonist of hormone receptors. LPG-1 is a hormone that fulfills two functions in our body by transmitting the message that we have fed on the pancreas, activating insulin production; and to the brain, unleashing the feeling of satiety. This second function is the one that has led to the success of Ozempic and similar drugs transforming into weight loss treatments and thus achieving its present success. The new Danish pharmaceutical formulas are based on compounds that act similarly to the semaglutida, but with characteristics that make them own and, at least in principle, superior. Cagrisema Of the formulas proposed by Novo Nordis, Cagrisema is perhaps the one in a more advanced state of development. The drug is based on the semaglutida and the Cagrilintidaa compound that serves as an analogue of amiline And also of the Calcitoninacting as agonist of some of the receptors of these hormones. Amiline is a hormone similar to insulin, also segregated by the pancreas and also used for glycemic control in our body. Cagrisema therefore works as a double (or triple) analogous, however The first results They were not as positive as some expected. New data. Now we have the remaining data of the essays by the company to derter the efficacy of the drug. According to Explain Reutersthe study data showed a weight reduction of about 23% in overweight adults after 68 weeks; and 16% weight loss among people with diabetes. Those responsible for the company gave data on moderate adverse effects, which affected 79.6% of the participants; and serious, which affected 9.8% (with 6% of patients abandoning the trial). Those responsible expect the arrival of Cagrisema to the market towards the beginning of 2027. Amicretin. Last week Novo Nordisk He also announced The implementation of phase 3 tests of amicretin, one of the compounds designed to contain the legacy of the semaglutida. According to the company itself, this compound is a unimolecular agonist of prolonged action of the GLP-1 receptors and those of the amiline. One of the great novelties is that this formula is being tested not only to evaluate its subcutaneous administration but also its consumption orally. Phase 3 of clinical trials usually seeks to complete and complement the information obtained in previous trials in addition to studying additional issues such as dosage or efficiency compared to other formulas. The other novelty of Novo. In addition to the new formulas, Ozempic has also monopolized attention in the last week. He did it since the European Medicines Agency (EMA) I went on to recommend this drug as treatment for peripheral arterial disease, In Xataka | Generic medications have been trying to site Ozempic for years. And now they have found a shortcut in Canada Image | Chemist4u / News Oresund

that of a gold toilet of six million dollars

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The history of latrocinio is almost? as old as that of humanity itself, but few chapters have left as delusional, unexpected and embarrassing as the one that was lived more than five years ago in Blenheim Palacethe luxurious residence of Oxfordshire (United Kingdom) in which in 1874 the Premier Winston Churchill. The reason is very simple: in September 2019 a band of thieves took from there neither more nor less than a heavy toilet of almost one hundred kilos. Of course, it was not any toilet. The toilet in question was a work of art elaborated with solid gold of 18 carats and valued in six million dollars. To understand what happened in Oxfordshire in 2019, it is necessary to go back a few years ago and look to the other side of the Atlantic, to New York. There, in 2016, the controversial artist Maurizio Cattelan He decided to elaborate a piece with which he intended to offer a satire about the excesses of the American art and sleep market. He called her ‘America’ and the work itself (exact!) consisted of A gold toilet. Something more than a sculpture The most striking thing is that Cattelan not only manufactured his famous gower with 18 carat gold, which explains that the piece coasts the whopping of six million of dollars. That was provocative, but not enough for Maurizio Cattelan, author of Performance as controversial as ‘La Nona Ora’a sculpture that shows John Paul II hit by a meteorite, or the most recent ‘comedian’, a banana attached to the wall with adhesive tape that in 2024 was auctioned by 6.2 million. No. The most curious of ‘America’ is that it was a toilet Fully functionalthought so that people could use it just like the toilet of their home or any bar. Hence, the piece ended up installed in one of the sinks of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where about 100,000 people They queued to see it … and experiment how it was to relieve solid gold. The performance liked it so much that in 2019 it ended up crossing the Atlantic to expose itself as a loan in the Blenheim Palaceone of the most solemn places in Oxfordshire County and throughout England. After all, it is one of the best examples of baroque architecture in Great Britain, is considered a World Heritage for UNESCO since the late 80s and is the place where Prime Minister Winston Churchill was born in November 1874. If in New York the work had caused sensation, in Oxfordshire things were not different. Between both place there was a crucial difference: those responsible for Blenheim They underestimated the risks that someone could take the toilet. “It won’t be easy to steal,” assured In 2019 Edward Spencer-Churchill, of the Blenheim Art Foundation. “It is connected to the network. And a potential thief would have no idea who used it for the last time or what he ate.” In summary, the toilet was connected to the piping and drains of the palace, weighed almost one hundred kilos and also people used it to leave their debris there. In addition, it was an avant -garde work of art, which eclipsed in some way its strictly material value. So … who would want to steal it? In Blenheim the idea sounded so far -fetched that surveillance had a weak point at night. When the palace closed its doors, the bathroom cubicle was left without supervision, outside the closed circuit of cameras. Crassus error. ‘America’ was art, but also gold, kilos and more kilos of 18 carat gold. It is said that only metal cost about those dates some 3.6 million of dollars. And that represented a caramel too appetizing for thieves. Result? It happened that it was expected. On the night of September 14, 2019, shortly before five o’clockA, a band of criminals broke into the farm of the palace, raided the building, the toilet started, loaded it in the trunk of a car and came out whistling. All in just five minutes. The ajar and close with an eye that left the security of the enclosure or the police without margin to react. ‘America’ has only two days on exhibition in Oxfordshire. Almost six years later, the recordings of the cameras and the investigations of the agents themselves allow us to better understand how the famous blow of the Váter of the six million dollars was given. The band, composed of five peopleused two stolen vehicles To sneak in the farm hours after the last guests left, then they broke a window and used decks and levers to start the lyric of the toilet and separate it from the palace pipe system. Once the task was completed, they loaded the piece in one of the cars and escaped. Recently Eleanor Paice, employee of the palace and slept that night in an apartment for Blenheim staff, related to the BBC How he lived that night more than five years ago: he woke up startled when he heard the noise of broken crystals and ran to the main courtyard when he felt the alarm. Once there I just gave him time to see the outcome of the robbery. “There were shadows and quick movements. I saw them approach the vehicle, get on … and go shot,” he recalls. At first the team did not know what thieves had taken. The first thing Paice thought for example was in a churchill relic. Only when examining the stays they realized what had happened and that the thieves had caused a small flood. “If the golden toilet that was there was beautiful, perfect, majestic and immaculate, this was the opposite. It was shattered,” confesses The executive director of the Palace, Dominic Hare. The institution knew how to react after the disaster. The staff covered the burst with police tape and decided that, in the absence of the famous solid gold toilet, that crime scene became part of the exhibition. The claim attracted the … Read more

The earth’s core has a “escape.” And it’s gold

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Our planet hides, thousands of kilometers under our feet, a mainly composed nucleus ironwith an important nickel concentration, and also with other intermingled elements. And among these latest elements, there is gold. Gold leak. Gold that, according to a recent study, It is leaked towards upper layers, in the direction of the surface and through the land mantle. A gold, in addition, that would have “escaped” of the earth’s core along with other precious metals. A tiny portion. Gold has been considered, since time immemorial, a precious metal and its “rarity” has been related to the value we have given to this element throughout the history of mankind. “Rareness”, quoted, since it is a contextual rarity. Gold is rare on the surface of our planet and in the most accessible areas of the cortex through mining. But this element is not universe in the universe, and it is not scarce on our planet Earth. So much that the “superficial” gold represents less than 0.001% of the total of this gold. Before and after. Someone might wonder why the gold of our planet has been distributed so capricious. It is because this cast has little or nothing capricious, and the reason is in the geological history of our own planet. When the land was still in the process of formation, about 4.5 billion years ago, gold and other metals ended up trapped in the planet’s core, due to gravity. Until now we believed that these metals would have been separated from the surface by the terrestrial mantle. The origin of surface gold, following this logic, could be for example in spacethanks to the infinity of meteorites that have reached the surface of our planet throughout its geological history. After the track of Ruthenium. This, we pointed out, not only with gold, also with other similar metals such as The Ruthenium (RU). The recent study was based precisely on this metal and a significant fact: that the Ruthenium typical of the Earth’s core presents a significant abundance of a concrete isotope, Ruthenium-10 (100ru), which distinguishes it from superficial root. The team responsible for the new study analyzed Ruthenium traces found in the volcanic rocks of the Hawaii archipelago to determine the presence of the 100ru isotope. Something that would have been impossible a few years ago, The team stands outit has now been possible thanks to new tools developed for analysis. Analysis that allowed linking the ruthenium found in these rocks with the earth’s core, which implies that this metal from the border region between the nucleus and the mantle would have risen until it sneaks into the volcanic magma. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nature. Aboard the convective magma. Investigating what happens under the surface of the Earth has been over the years a task on the verge of the impossible. The propagation of the seismic waves revealed at the time very valuable information about the mantle and the nucleus, but increasingly precise measurement techniques have gone Opening new doors Over the years. In Xataka | We take centuries without understanding how gold nuggets formed in quartz. The answer was in electricity and tremors Image | Göttingen University (Openai)

has detected the transformation of lead into gold

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Isaac Newton has gone down in history One of the most talented physicists and mathematicians that have existed. In fact, for many scholars it is The most relevant scientist who has existedand it is a very respectable statement if we ponder their contributions to science and the modest means that were available to the end of the 17th century. However, Newton did not dedicate his life only to physics, mathematics or theology; He also consecrated to the study of alchemy. The Royal Spanish Academy defines it in its first meaning as “the set of speculation and experiences, generally of a esoteric nature, related to the transmutations of the subject, which influenced the origin of chemistry.” The second meaning is also a bit disturbing: “wonderful and incredible transmutation.” Alchemy as Isaac Newton and other explorers saw it, for identifying them in some way, does not have a scientific support. However, serious science has identified mechanisms that explain under what circumstances a chemical element can be transformed into another. Newton would have loved to participate in this CERN experiment The stars are The authentic chemical elements factories of the universe. Inside the reactions of nuclear fusion They trigger the production of the chemical elements that we can find in the periodic table until reaching iron. From the latter it is not possible Extremely energy cosmic events. As it is, nature has taught us that there are mechanisms capable of carrying out the transmutation with which the ancient alchemists dreamed. In fact, Radioactivity It is one of these phenomena. We can define it as the process of natural origin that explains how an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy in the attempt to achieve a more stable state. And to achieve this emits radiation. A stable atom is “comfortable” with its current structure and does not need to do anything, but an unstable precise detach from a part of its energy to achieve a state of less energy and greater stability. On the way to a completely stable configuration, it will continue to detach itself from a part of its energy and will be transformed into other chemical elements. Despite its mass each lead core travels inside the LHC to 99,99993% of the light of light Since nuclear physics arose at one time halfway between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century scientists have achieved transform some chemical elements into others In his laboratories. CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) has done it recently. And he has succeeded causing the frontal collision of lead nuclei in its main particle accelerator, the LHC (large hadron collider). When these nuclei collide with a very high energy there is a plasma of quarks and gluones, which is nothing other than a state of extremely dense and hot matter. Each lead core has a considerable mass because it contains a large number of nucleons: 82 protons and 126 neutrons If we stick to the isotope of this most abundant and stable chemical element. Despite their mass each of them travels inside the LHC to 99,99993% of the speed of light, which triggers the production of a photon pulse. Under these conditions, the most interesting thing is that a process known as electromagnetic dissociation takes place. It consists of when a photon interacts with a lead core has the ability to trigger oscillations of its internal structure that can cause the expulsion of a small amount of neutrons and protons. A golden core contains 79 protons, so the expulsion of 3 protons from a lead core causes it to become gold. The physicists of the Alice of CERN experiment have observed, in addition to the conversion of lead to gold, Talium and Mercury production in these experimentation conditions. It is exciting that the human being has been able to design and build the machines that are necessary to carry out an experiment like this. Image | Cern More information | Physical Review c In Xataka | CERN has achieved something unprecedented: transform smartphones sensors into an antimatter chamber

Meta has a very long history by replicating rival applications to become gold. Edits is the most recent case

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If you have opened Instagram throughout the day, you are likely to find reels or stories talking about Editsthe new finish line focused on short video edition. It was an expected response to Capcutmore than welcome to offer an alternative to an application that barely had rivals in the market. Beyond the app, which is still a free Capcut clone with less functions (at least in this initial easy), the key point of this launch attends to a strategy that has been running for years: copying to kill. Edits arrives at the right time. Instagram has had a lot of time to launch a video editing application. But, as usual, he has done it with him Timming more precise possible. In mid -January the government of Donald Trump Baneaba Tiktok And, next to her, Capcut. Just a few hours after the baneo, Tiktok He returned to apps stores with an extension that is still in force. But little or nothing was discussed that Capcut was never available again. It has been right now, in full uncertainty what will happen to the apps of Bytedance (company behind Tiktok and Capcut), when Meta has decided to launch edits. The goal only cares about creators. Content creators are the pillar that supports apps such as Instagram and Tiktok. And there is quite curious data in this regard, according to data from Sefici. The Nanoinfluencers (less than 10,000 followers), have a 5%participation rate, the highest. The microinfluencers (from 10,000 to 100,000 followers), 4%. The macroinfluencers, with more than 100,000 followers, are 7% in participation. Why is it important to understand this? Because in the business model of this social network there are many users consuming content (and advertising), but few creating. And it cannot be consumed if there is nothing created. And want to take them to your land. Capcut is the third more downloaded application in iOS worldwide (nine million downloads) and the ninth on Android (18 million downloads). In combined, 27 million users and the seventh application worldwide, above Telegram, Snapchat and Threads. They are barbarian figures for a video editing app. Instagram has especially optimized edits so that the videos uploaded from this app have the highest quality. Additionally, it has integrated creator statistics into the app itself so that creators have access to the panel from edits. Something very similar to what Tiktok does with Tiktok Studio. It is a shout to heaven so that creators stop using the bytedance tools (payment in the case of Capcut Pro) and begin to move towards the finish lines. Copy to kill. There is something that Meta knows how to do very well: copy functions. He did it in 2016 by launching Instagram Stories, A frontal blow (an almost accurate copy) of Snapchatbut integrated into an app with many more functions. Instagram Stories did not take Snapchat in superior active users, becoming one of the main monetization tools of the platform. Today, an ad is displayed every three stories. Next to nothing. In the case of Tiktok, Reels He has not managed to steal user base. But, again, Meta took the opportunity to copy a winning and emerging idea (the videos in short format), to get a new monetization tool. A golden opportunity. Today, Instagram is still the only real competition for Tiktok. If the app fails to survive in the United States, victory will be overwhelming (it is its second market outside of China). And there, as usual, goal will be prepared to bring all the functions and tools that were already present on the rival platform. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Instagram Reels: 21 tricks and functions to get the entire game to this alternative to Tiktok

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